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A week of hypocrisy – Japan, USA, Australia

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 Japan is very quiet on the health effects of Fukushima radiation.  Nuclear lobby writers are out in force – attempting to discredit ionising radiation “low levl” as a cause of cancers and genetic malformations. Indeed they’re still pushing the “hormesis” idea – (“low level” radiation is good for you)   meanwhile scientific findings on butterflies in Japan reveal the harmful effects of low level radiation, that are passed down through generations.

In USA the mainstream media are putting a calm face on the decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to halt licensing of nuclear reactors, because – well, a court has ruled that there’s no confidence in the NRC’s Waste Confidence Rule.  That rule has allowed nuclear reactors to be licensed, even though nobody knows what to do with the radioactive wastes.   There is also a calm face on the USA’s current extreme heat wave, which is causing one nuclear reactor after another to slow down , or shut down –   due to problems of hot cooling water.

The Australian government is pretty disgustingly hypocritical over the fate of Australian citizen Julian Assange.  Their two-faced Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, pretends that USA has no intention of extraditing Assange from Sweden, to be tried for espionage. Prime Minister Julia Gillard is now shutting up about it, bust has previously backed USA’s view that Assange (of Wikileaks fame) has been some sort of traitor.

The Australian uranium industry – very much in the doldrums, is to embark on  a “community education” campaign.  Not likely to persuade investors, with Paladin Uranium losing $39 billion in 9 months, recently.

August 16, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes