How multinational uranium companies diddled Tanzania out of its tax revenue
the transfer of Mantra Resources Limited to ARMZ enables its former shareholders to pocket $1.04 billion without paying capital gains to the Tanzanian government…. Mantra Resources Limited of Australia was supposed to have paid capital gains tax to Tanzania.
Sh320bn loss looming over uranium project , 29 September 2012 By Felix Lazaro, The Citizen Dar es Salaam. Tanzania risks losing about Sh320 billion in mining taxes because of weak legal checks, particularly when it comes to uranium.
Local mining experts said yesterday that the country must go back to the drawing board and put in place a watertight policy and regulations before it allows uranium mining.Earnings from the mineral are believed to have the potential to turn around the lives of thousands of poor Tanzanians.
The chief concern right now, though, is that some subsidiaries of multinational firms licensed to explore uranium in Tanzania are capitalising on a weak legal and institutional framework to transfer ownership to affiliated companies. Continue reading
Ahmadinejad reacts to Obama’s militant statements at UN
Ahmadinejad slams West’s ‘nuclear intimidation’ Mmegionline, 28 Sept 12 TEHRAN: Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the West and Israel of nuclear “intimidation”, after United States President, Barack Obama vowed to halt Tehran’s alleged weapon programme.
US and Israeli officials boycotted the Iranian’s eighth annual address to the UN General Assembly, and there was no repeat of the walk-outs of previous years, but Ahmadinejad still had some harsh words for Tehran’s foes.”
Arms race and intimidation by nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction by the hegemonic powers have become prevalent,” he declared in a 35-minute speech that ended with a smattering of applause…..
On Tuesday, Obama reiterated the United States’ stance in robust terms, declaring that American will “do what we must” to prevent Iran from passing the nuclear threshold – increasing the chances of confrontation.
Foreign ministers from the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany will meet in New York on yesterday on the sidelines of the United Nations to discuss the increasingly tense nuclear showdown…..
Diplomats from Britain, France and Germany sat through Ahmadinejad’s address, but found nothing in his theological lecture to justify a repeat of the walkouts of previous years….. http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=11&aid=19&dir=2012/September/Friday28
France to develop tidal wave energy
Wind energy production in Europe, for example, just reached the 100 gigawatt mark, the equivalent of 39 nuclear power plants
French dive into tidal energy as nuclear plants bid adieu Smart Planet, By Bryan Pirolli | September 28, 2012,PARIS – French conglomerate Alstom is finalizing the purchase of Tidal Generation Ltd from Rolls Royce in the UK. Alstom , one of the largest energy-producing groups in the world, purchased the small company in an effort to expand its every-growing array of renewable energy.
The sale of TGL to Alstom comes just as the new French president, Francois Hollande, announced his commitment to renewable energy and decreasing France’s dependence on nuclear power.
Tidal Generation Ltd (TGL), formed in 2005, specializes in designing turbines for generating electricity from ocean tides. Continue reading
In this age of ionising radiation – need to know where our food comes from!
CORPORATE GREED FOR CHEAP INGREDIENTS OR YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW?
http://www.newsforyourfamily.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/corporate-responses.html
Currently food and other big manufactures like Colgate-Palmolive hide behind “Made in USA or Manufactured in USA” whereas the actual ingredients are coming from cheap places like China and cancer causing nuclear contaminated Japan……
Interview with Tozen Union Activist in Tokyo Japan | Labor Issues in Japan
The Ghost Writers Report
Published on Sep 28, 2012 by freedomwv
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“Short time contract workers issues a major concern”
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6 million of these workers find themselves on the edge due to firing practises
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“Lack of compliance of workers rights causes disruption of health benefits and pensions benefits, government doesnt oversea working of pension guidlines causing workers to pay full rates”
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“disability pension system faulty as companies fail to ensure a company enrolment, thereby, only lower payment scheme available”
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“Tozen had a sucess recently with helping to organise for workers rights”
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“Apathy amongst temporary foriegn workers needs to be overcome. they are asked for commitment if only temporary”
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“A small union sued was for millions of Dollars for radical strike methods but courts found in thier favour. Corporations forced to accept Labour Rights. American style legal intimidation did not work in Japan”
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Recently I had the chance to sit down with key members of the Tozen General Union. They are a activist union which stand for all workers. In this interview you will hear the harsh reality of being a worker in Japan. This interview is jam packed with hard hitting information about labor issues in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL8rILbgGkY
and here is the web site for the union
http://www.tokyogeneralunion.org/
and this is the message i got trying to access it
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/tozenit/public_html/wp-config.php:1) in /home/tozenit/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 866
(arclight2011) I believe this and other Japanese websites are under some sort of mild to heavy cyber attack. . i hope you have better luck with the link than i did..
heres a mirrored video if the above video jams at it did to me, i had to download it to play it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=212rGlRvadw
Zapatistas under attack in Mexico- Transnational Corporations culpable?
Zapatista communities in the Chiapas region of Mexico have been under sustained attack from paramilitary groups since September 6th, one year after the previous invasion of their lands last September. The attackers, from the groups Pas Y Justicia (‘Peace and Justice…’) and Union Hidalgo, have been shooting at farmers on land of the autonomous municipality of La Dignitad as they attempted to peacefully resist without arms, forcing residents to flee their land. Around 70 people are said to be displaced while 14 remain missing.
Campasino leader Hugo Blanco says: ‘Lately the attacks on Zapatista communities are intensifying, the principal and strongest attack is the one that the autonomous Zapatista community of San Marcos Avilés is suffering… These attacks and the continued detention of Francisco Sántiz López and Alberto Patishtán Gómez, are the spearhead of the attack to crush the zone liberated from neoliberalism, where the people govern themselves through the Good Government Juntas. [The Juntas] are seen as the great enemy by the transnational corporations as they are a living example of the fact that “Another World is Possible.. A World where Many Worlds Fit”’.
The paramilitaries are said to be financed by the ex-PRI candidate Carlos Cleber González Cabello. Paz Y Justicia emerged in 1995 after a failed military assault on the EZLN (the Zapatista National Liberation Army).
The violence has led to an outcry from solidarity groups around the world, along with active movements in the country known as the ‘Other Campaign’. Meanwhile, Zapatista spokespeople have called on the newly formed Yo Soy 132 movement to unite behind the resistance. Yo Sol 132 is a mass protest movement for ‘real democracy’ which sprung up in opposition to the biased election coverage earlier this year.
For more on the Zaptistas and U.K based solidarity work www.kiptik.org
Article from here
http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/Zapatistas-under-attack-in-Mexico/
Soviet military man prevented Third World War in 1983
http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/28-09-2012/122299-third_world_war-0/
28.09.2012
Andrey Mikhailov
Pravda.Ru
“Just in 90 seconds it would have been over international waters. But the command to kill was made, and a military pilot Gennady Osipovich pulled the trigger. “The target is destroyed”, the report of the Russia pilot recorded by the American interceptors was broadcasted around the world. The government of the USSR kept silent. “The case of KAL-007″ was classified by the Soviet secret service and their U.S. counterparts in the CIA for 50 years.”
On the night of September 26, 1983, a duty officer at the command post of early warning air defense “Serpukhov-15,” Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov decided to ignore the warning of the automatic launch from the U.S. territory of five intercontinental ballistic missiles “Minuteman” with ten nuclear warheads each directed at the USSR. Relying on common sense (five missiles is not enough for the first strike in the war), he declared a false alarm and was right: there was a failure in the notification system. The third world war did not break out. It is hard to imagine what would have happened if the USSR reciprocated.
USSR’s first-ever nuclear sub was destroyed by “beer bottle cap”!
Publisher Pravda- Andrey Mikhailov
Date published 11.09.2012
http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/11-09-2012/122128-ussr_nuclear_submarine-0/
[…]
“A non-standard gasket from…a beer bottle was installed in the ballast tank. Naturally it was displaced, the hydraulic fluid leaked under the pressure of 100 atmospheres and got sprayed onto the lamp, which had a broken protective cap. Inflammation occurred immediately,” former assistant commander of the K-3 said.
[…]
“By falsifying documents, investigation allegedly found that a submariner climbed into one of the compartments and lit a cigarette, but it was not true!” Leskov told a news conference
[…]
The first and one of the major accidents at the Navy of the USSR took place 45 years ago. On September 8, 1967, an accident on board the first Soviet nuclear submarine K-3 Leninsky Komsomol killed 39 people. The causes of the accident had been classified for 20 years. It is only now, in September 2012, when a special commission is going to finish the investigation.
Before we go directly to the accident, let us remember the heroic and long-suffering history of the submarine. Leninsky Komsomol, originally K-3, was the very first Soviet (and the third in the world) nuclear submarine, the head one of the series.
It was the only sub of Project 627. All subsequent subs in the series were based on the finalized project 627A. The sub inherited the honorary title Leninsky Komsomol from the diesel submarine M-106 of the Northern Fleet, which was destroyed in one of the combat missions in 1943. During the last years of service, the K-3 was reclassified from cruise to large submarine.
Fukushima Radioactive Waste heads to National Forest
Other news on NHK and other stories from around the web.
Published on Sep 27, 2012 by MsMilkytheclown
Qoute;
“..Yep, you read that correctly. Radioactive debris (ash and mud) headed for the hills in a National Forest in Japan… Don’t worry, that forest can withstand earthquakes and rain, no radioactive ash or mud will slide down into the water table or blow away…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsHE8BW7ug0
TV: Did army spray radioactive particles over St. Louis? — “Strong indication” it happened says researcher — Senator wants answers (VIDEOS)
Published: September 28th, 2012 at 12:05 am ET
By ENENews
[…]
The I-Team independently verified that the spraying of zinc cadmium sulfide did take place in St. Louis on thousands of unsuspecting citizens. What is unclear is whether the Army added a radioactive material to the compoundas [sociologist Lisa]Martino-Taylor’s research implies.
“The study was secretive for reason. They didn’t have volunteers stepping up and saying yeah, I’ll breathe zinc cadmium sulfide with radioactive particles,” said Martino-Taylor.
Army archive pictures show how the tests were done in Corpus Christi, Texas in the 1960s. In Texas, planes were used to drop the chemical. But in St. Louis, the Army placed chemical sprayers on buildings and station wagons.
[…]
“There is a lot of evidence that shows people in St. Louis and the city, in particular minority communities, were subjected to military testing that was connected to a larger radiological weapons testing project,” she said.
For the first time, she links the St. Louis testing to a company called US Radium, a company notorious for lawsuits involving radioactive contamination of its workers.
“US radium had this reputation where they had been found legally liable for producing a radioactive powdered paint that killed many young women who painted fluorescent watch tiles,” said Martino-Taylor.
While the Army admits it added a florescent substance to the zinc cadmium compound, details of whether it was radioactive remains secret.
[…]
Radiation Fukushima Report, Sept. 27, 2012 – Enenews and Monticelllo NPP shutdown USA
A clear concise review of the latest Enenews headlines by;
Published on Sep 27, 2012 by pinksapphiret
Duration 3.45 minutes
Radiation Fukushima Report and Sinkhole updates… Sept. 27, 2012
and an earlier broadcast here
Duration 7.45 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea7FKomy-dE&feature=plcp
WEBSITE: ENENEWS
http://enenews.com/category/location/japan
http://enenews.com/officials-report-new-bubble-site-about-3-miles-sinkhole-3-…
http://enenews.com/revealing-new-flyover-footage-giant-sinkhole-shows-signs-f…
and this video
Monticello NPP reactor Shutdown
Professor Yukio Hayakawa’s Radiation Contour Map of the Fukushima I Nuke Plant Accident, Ver 7:
Translated by EXSKF Blog
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
“The dates and times of contamination that I have just explained above do not coincide with the dates and times of explosions that took place at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. Unit 1 exploded at 3:36PM on March 12, and Unit 3 exploded at 11:01AM on March 14. However, it wasn’t at these moments when a large amount of radioactive materials leaked from the plant.Instead, the release of radioactive materials into the atmosphere seems to coincide well with the drop in the reactor pressure.”
He made this observation in the latest version (7th) of his Radiation Contour Map released in July, before the Fukushima prefectural government sheepishlypublished the data from the monitoring posts in Fukushima taken in March last year, which does show the spikes in radiation in locations in Fukushima Prefecture not after the explosions but after the change in the reactor pressure after the vent.
Professor Hayakawa of Gunma University first put up his hastily charted map on the Internet on April 8, 2011, after the Fukushima prefectural government announced the result of the radiation measurement in schools and kindergartens inside Fukushima. The first version of the map was released on the net on April 21, 2011. I remember seeing it, and also remember he was attacked for “fear-mongering”. It was around that time that Iitate-mura was officially designated as “planned evacuation zone”.
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Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update – Greenpeace
Extract…” TEPCO officials announced that as of October 3, they will begin accepting claims from victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, including evacuees and those suffering psychological damage, for the period beginning June 1 and after. Those eligible may request up to five years’ worth of compensation in one lump sum. Payments will begin at the end of October.”
Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Newly Established Nuclear Regulation Authority
The head of Japan’s newly-created Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), Shunichi Tanaka, announced this week that the NRA plans to completely rewrite nuclear safety guidelines. He emphasized that controversial so-called “stress tests,” computer simulations conducted by nuclear power operators themselves, will be discarded and the new regulations drawn from scratch. Tanaka hopes to submit a draft outline by the end of the fiscal year in March; by law, the new regulations must be completed by July. “Such tasks as drawing up countermeasures against severe nuclear accidents and determining how to deal with possible active faults beneath nuclear facilities will take a lot of time. I think the timeline is very tight.”
Tanaka has not said when some of the nation’s 48 idled reactors might be restarted, although he clarified it would not be before next summer at the earliest. And, he pointed out that if reactors do not meet new guidelines, technical upgrades and retrofitting might mean that it could be years before they are approved for restart. Two reactors at the Oi power plant in Fukui Prefecture–#3 and #4—were restarted under the direction of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, and Tanaka said he has no plans to reverse that decision, in spite of the fact that they are sitting on a seismic fault that scientists believe may be active. If so, operating those reactors would be a violation of Japanese law.
The new standards will reportedly include guidance on evacuating areas surrounding nuclear reactors in the event of a major nuclear disaster. Evacuation areas called “urgent protective action planning zones” (UPZ) will be increased from an 8-10 km radius around a reactor to 30 km; those within a 5 km radius will be forced to evacuate immediately. Municipal officials, who will need to create new evacuation and disaster management plans by March for up to three times as many people as before have complained that the central government is not providing nearly enough guidance or technical support. In some areas, there are not enough roads and vehicles to perform such a wide-scale evacuation if a nuclear crisis occurs. Tanaka said that if surrounding areas do not submit appropriate evacuation and emergency plans, reactors will not be restarted.
Nuclear news highlights of the week
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Uranium industry – keeps getting hyped by lobbyists, but the gloomy future market outlook remains.
Oil companies plan to drill in the Arctic Kara sea – exactly where the Soviet Union dumped 25 years’ worth of radioactive wastes, including a nuclear reactor.
Japan. Under pressure from nuclear lobby, Japan contemplates reviving their very dangerous Monju nuclear reprocessing plant.
USA‘s new nuclear industry grinds to a halt, as there’s nowhere to put their accumulating piles of nuclear wastes.
UK. Military chiefs not happy with super expensive, but useless Trident nuclear missile ‘deterrent’
India; Kudankulam nuclear plant project before the Supreme Court – it could halt the project.
Critical data is missing for two-thirds of children tested for thyroid problems in Fukushima Prefecture
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 28, 2012
Critical data is missing for two-thirds of children tested for thyroid problems in Fukushima Prefecture, because their families have failed to declare the children’s hour-by-hour whereabouts during the immediate post-disaster period.
Investigators need residence records for the four months following March 11, 2011, when radioactive fallout was high from a nuclear disaster and ingested iodine isotopes could have damaged the thyroid glands of growing children.
The records are arduous to complete, but are needed in order to estimate a possible dose. Absence of a dose estimate could make people ineligible for compensation if they later develop serious problems such as thyroid cancer, because of an inability to establish a cause.
By late September, about 100,000 children had their thyroid glands tested because of their relative proximity to the melted-down reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, following the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
The tests targeted those living in districts such as the 13 municipalities near the crippled nuclear plant, and Fukushima city, the prefectural capital. Results for 80,000 tests are now available.
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