Hiroshima Day push against nuclear power and nuclear weapons
Kan Vows to Push for Nuclear-Free Society at Hiroshima Ceremony,Bloomberg, By Sachiko Sakamaki and Yuriy Humber, August 06, 2011, (Bloomberg) –– Prime Minister Naoto Kan vowed in Hiroshima to cut nuclear-power use, speaking at the atomic- bombed city’s first commemorative ceremony since meltdowns in Fukushima reactors led to widespread radioactive contamination.
“The human race shouldn’t forget the horror that fell on Hiroshima 66 years ago, and it should never be repeated,” Kan said today at the Peace Memorial. “I will take sweeping measures to secure safety, reduce reliance on atomic power, and seek a society that doesn’t depend on nuclear energy.”…..Hiroshima Mayor – Speaking before Kan, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui urged Japan to take concrete steps toward changing its energy policy to focus on renewable sources of electricity “as quickly as possible.”
How the mainstream media influences public opinion against renewable energy
press coverage is important because it can influence not only “what people perceive and believe” but also “what politicians think they believe”. Indeed, politicians take the temperature of public opinion partly through the barometer of the press, and consistently negative coverage of renewables will doubtless “limit the perception of political space and impetus for political action”
How UK newspaper coverage is skewed against renewables, More than half of the coverage of renewable energy solutions in the mainstream British press is negative...The Guardian, by Duncan Clark 5 August 2011 “….. previously unpublishedanalysis of British newspaper coverage of renewable energy. Carried out by the Public Interest Research Centre (Pirc), the research confirms the Mail’s unusually anti-green stance, though it also highlights the remarkable degree of negativity that renewable energy receives in the UK press more broadly – including in the Sun. Continue reading
Japan replaces 3 pro nuclear officials with 3 more pro nuclear officials
“The three successors are people who will not promote reforms nor override objections from the energy industry,”
Kaieda picks bureaucrats from pro-nuclear faction to lead METI, Asahi.com. 6 Aug 11, Banri Kaieda’s “reborn” industry ministry is looking quite similar to highly criticized one that was heavily armed to thwart the energy reforms pushed by Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
The industry minister on Aug. 4 decided on the replacements for three leading ministry officials who will be dismissed over the series of accidents at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and the manipulation of public opinion at state-sponsored symposiums on nuclear energy. Continue reading
Japan seeking new, independent, nuclear safety authority
Japan Nuclear Agency May Fall Under New Authority, WSJ, By TOKO SEKIGUCHI, 6 Aug 11, TOKYO—Japan’s minister in charge of nuclear safety said Friday that the country’s planned nuclear safety agency may come under the jurisdiction of a different government department from its predecessors, in a move to accelerate its separation from an industry ministry mired in scandals. Continue reading
Isle of Man wants full closedown of Sellafield nuclear plant
Closure of nuclear plant is welcomed, Isle of man Examiner, 4 August 2011 GREEN campaigners and the island’s Environment Minister have welcomed news that a part of the reprocessing operation at Sellafield nuclear plant is to close…
Japan was the only customer for the MOX plant,
Environment Minister John Shimmin welcomed the news but pointed out the MOX plant was only a small part of the operation at Sellafield. The Manx government’s long-held policy is to call for the full closure of all operations at Sellafield. Continue reading
Atomic bombing did not cause Japan to surrender in 1945
compelling evidence that it was the Soviet entry into the Pacific conflict, not Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that forced Japan’s surrender….
If killing large numbers of civilians does not have a military impact, then what, Wilson asks, is the purpose of keeping nuclear weapons? We know they are dangerous. If they turn out not to be strategically effective, then nuclear weapons are not trump cards, but time bombs beneath our feet..
Why did Japan surrender? Sixty-six years ago, we dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Now, some historians say that’s not what ended the war.What ended World War II?, Boston Globe, By Gareth Cook, August 7, 2011 For nearly seven decades, the American public has accepted one version of the events that led to Japan’s surrender. Continue reading
British nuclear boss admits public don’t trust nuclear industry
Hutton fears nuclear industry has lost confidence of the public, The Independent (UK) By Oliver Wright, Whitehall Editor, 5 Aug 11, Britain’s nuclear operators face the gravest challenge for years to persuade the public that new power plants will be safe in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the new head of the industry admitted yesterday….
Israel tried to drag USA into a war with Iran
How Iran defeated Obama. By Patrick Seale, The Diplomat 5 Aug 11“……..What is less well understood is that Obama was also defeated in another major area of foreign policy – relations with Iran. When he came to office he vowed to ‘engage’ with the Islamic Republic, but this admirable objective was soon supplanted by a policy of threats, sanctions and intimidation aimed at isolating Iran, subverting its economy and overthrowing its regime.
Israel and its friends led the campaign against Iran, demonizing it as a threat to all mankind, and forcing the United States to follow suit. Israel has repeatedly, and very publicly, threatened to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities, and has done its best to drag the United States into war against it, in much the same way as pro-Israeli neo-conservatives at the Pentagon were alleged to have manipulated intelligence to push the United States into war against Iraq in 2003, with catastrophic consequences.
Why did they do it? Because they feared that, having survived the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq might just possibly pose a threat to Israel. It had to be destroyed. Tony Blair, Britain’s prime minister at the time, was foolish enough to tag along. The war totally discredited him…..”http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/05/how-iran-defeated-obama/
USA’s Price Anderson Act – a scam to prop up nuclear industry
Musicians United for Safe Energy Launch Mega-Concert in San Francisco This Sunday, Huffington Post, Joan Brunwasser, 6 Aug 11, “……Price-Anderson was passed because the administration wanted to build commercial reactors as a happy face for the nuclear weapons industry. But no utility company or builder would take on the liability. So the industry asked for the liability shield until the reactors were safe enough to attract private insurers. That was more than a half-century ago. The current deal stretches it out until at least 2020. It’s a terrible and unique scam. We can “just say no” except for the billions in funny money certain dark forces have invested in this failed technology. At this point, a free market in energy, with no subsidies for ANY technology, would bring us a green-powered Solartopian planet very quickly, and King CONG — coal, oil, nukes and gas — would fade away very quickly. All the dirty energies are totally reliant on ripping of the tax/rate-payer, as well as destroying the planet…..”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joan-brunwasser/musicians-united-for-safe_b_919042.html
Nuclear crisis continues in japan: UN chief to visit
UN chief heads to Japan as nuclear crisis simmers, Times of India, AFP | Aug 7, 2011, TOKYO: UN chief Ban Ki-moon arrives in Japan on Sunday, where he plans to visit the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone, as the crippled atomic power plant simmers and a food safety scare deepens Continue reading
Pakistan alarm at USA plan for seizing Pakistan’s nuclear weapons
Cat is out of bag, Pakistan Observer, 6 Aug 11, THE fear that were being expressed in the wake of American unilateral action in Abbottabad that Washington could also one day carry out similar operation against Pakistan’s nuclear assets have heightened after disclosure by the NBC News that the US military and intelligence operatives are debating, strategizing, gaming and potentially even conducting drills on entering Pakistan and seizing the nation’s nuclear weapons during a crisis. This is not a mere conjecture as former White House Deputy Counter-Terrorism Director Roger Cressey has also confirmed that the plan is highest priority of the US intelligence and White House. Continue reading
Denison uranium miner loses, with falling uranium sales
UPDATE 1-Denison Mines falls to loss on soft uranium sales, TORONTO Aug 4 (Reuters) – Denison Mines reported a second-quarter loss on Thursday as uranium sales fell sharply in the aftermath of the nuclear crisis in Japan.
The uranium producer said it had a net loss of $13.7 million, ….
It sold 116,000 pounds of uranium at an average price of $65.94 a pound, compared with 417,000 pounds at an average price of $45.56 in the second quarter of 2010.
Denison said that uranium demand has decreased in the aftermath of the nuclear accident in Japan and that it has deferred sales to the second half of the year, with some 570,000 pounds available in inventory…http://af.reuters.com/article/metalsNews/idAFN1E7731YV20110804
At Hiroshima, radiation victims will call for an end to nuclear industry
Fukushima Clouds Hiroshima Anniversary – IPS ipsnews.netBy Suvendrini KakuchiTOKYO, Aug 4, 2011 (IPS) – Matashichi Oishi, 78, a radiation victim from Bikini Atoll, the site of a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in 1954, will make his annual lone visit this week to commemorate the Aug. 6 anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima 66 years ago.
This year, says the former sailor, battling lung cancer from exposure to high levels of radiation at Bikini Atoll, his message at Hiroshima will go beyond a routine call to end nuclear weapons.”Against the backdrop of the disastrous Fukushima nuclear plant accident, I will speak of the absolute need for Japan to not only work to ban nuclear weapons but also to completely eradicate dependence on nuclear energy,” he told IPS. Continue reading
Jesus does not love nukes – Christians and Atheists agree on this
The Christians Bryan Cones at U.S. Catholic was elated by the news. “We can be grateful today that the U.S. Air Force will no longer include biblical or Christian justifications for the use of nuclear weapons in its ethics training for officers,”
Atheists, Christians Agree: Jesus Wouldn’t Launch Nukes – – The Atlantic Wire, John Hudson,4 Aug 11, A curious mix of vigilant atheists and devout Christians are celebrating the Air Force’s decision to suspend a Christian-themed course taught to nuclear missile launch officers at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
For almost 20 years, military chaplains presented these officers with slides filled with biblical references such as “Revelation 19:11 Jesus Christ is the mighty warrior” and Christian literature, such as St. Augustine’s Just War Theory, in an attempt to dismantle the moral and ethical qualms of annihilating human beings with nuclear weapons. Surprise! Not everyone liked it. Continue reading
Canada’s public health risk due to nuclear radiation from Fukushima
radiation from Fukushima will lead to higher rates of cancer and other diseases among Canadians….“It’s not the risk to an individual that’s the problem but how much society is at risk. When you are exposing millions of people to an insult, even if the average dose is quite small, we are going to see fatal health effects,” …..
“The authorities don’t want people to have an understanding of this. The government of Canada tends to pooh-pooh the dangers of nuclear power because it is a promoter of nuclear energy and uranium sales.”
Japan’s Fukushima catastrophe brings big radiation spikes to B.C. | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com, By Alex Roslin, August 4, 2011 Nuclear impact Monitoring stations catch a fraction of Fukushima fallout
After Japan’s Fukushima catastrophe, Canadian government officials reassured jittery Canadians that the radioactive plume billowing from the destroyed nuclear reactors posed zero health risks in this country. Continue reading
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