Australia’s former conservatve Prime Minister warns on danger of USA militarism
An Australian General, Major General Richard Burr, has become a deputy commander of United States Army Pacific. He will be responsible for planning and advising on the further expansion of American armed forces throughout the Western Pacific.
Australia hostage to the politics of the US in the Asian Century, The Drum, MALCOLM FRASER, 27 Sept 12, This week Malcolm Fraser delivered a speech on Australia-US relations in the Asian Century. In this edited extract, the former prime minister says our Government has made us hostage to the politics of the United States. Australia has, under this Labor Government and with apparent consent of the Coalition, become the southern bastion of America’s re-arming in the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia. This is an extraordinary consequence of Australian Government ineptitude and of military planning, which might recognise America’s interest, but pays little account of our own.
It makes us complicit in any military activity that the Americans might undertake. Continue reading
Julian Assange speaks out on Obama’s hypocrisy about freedom of speech
Assange Mocks Obama In Video At UN Event HUFFINGTON POST, (includes video (stupid advertisements interrupt this video) Reuters |
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking via a choppy video feed from his virtual house arrest in London, lashed out at U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday for supporting freedom of speech in the Middle East while simultaneously “persecuting” his organization for leaking diplomatic cables. Continue reading
The nuclear company Exelon’s ties to Obama
Ties to Obama Aided in Access for Big Utility, NYT By ERIC LIPTON August 22, 2012 WASHINGTON — Early in the Obama administration, a lobbyist for the Illinois-based energy producer Exelon Corporation proudly called it “the president’s utility.” And it was not just because it delivers power to Barack Obama’s Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago.
Exelon’s top executives were early and frequent supporters of Mr. Obama as he rose from the Illinois State Senate to the White House. John W. Rogers Jr., a friend of the president’s and one of his top fund-raisers, is an Exelon board member. David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s longtime political strategist, once worked as an Exelon consultant, and Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayor and Mr. Obama’s former chief of staff, helped create the company through a corporate merger in 2000 while working as an investment banker. Continue reading
Green party’s Jill Stein spells out he facts on drone warfare
Stein says report shows urgent need to end drone warfare BY JILL STEIN FOR PRESIDENT 1364.80PC ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 Speaking before an audience of nearly 400 last night at a campaign stop at Humboldt State University in Eureka, California, Green Party candidate Jill Stein cited a report on drone warfare published today from Stanford and NYU researchers as evidence that her intention to stop drone warfare was the right course for America. Continue reading
UK military chiefs lack confidence in expensive Trident nuclear missiles
Top military chiefs go cold on nuclear deterrent, The Independent, OLIVER WRIGHT , KIM SENGUPTA 26 SEPTEMBER 2012 Senior military commanders have privately questioned whether Britain needs to maintain its current level of nuclear deterrence when the country’s ageing Trident submarines are decommissioned. Continue reading
Increasing worry over the piling up of nuclear wastes
Nuclear industry slowed by its own waste By Kristi Swartz The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 23 Sept 12, “…..NO MAGIC BULLET’ Utilities store a total of 2,000-2,300 metric tons of used nuclear fuel a year, according to industry figures. That adds up to about 65,000 metric tons of radioactive waste currently sitting at nuclear plants.
“If we reject long-term storage, we’re left with dry casking, and that’s it,” said Cham Dallas, a professor and director at the University of Georgia’s Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense. “Yes, it’s probably safe, but can we continue this policy for an infinite number of years?”
The concerns over safely handling nuclear waste are many. Continue reading
Rebound in uranium prices just not happening
Cameco hit with downgrade as hopes for uranium rebound fade
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/market-blog/cameco-downgraded-amid-relentless-decline-in-uranium-price/article4570023/ DARCY KEITH The Globe and Mail , Sep. 26 2012, The rebound in the uranium market some speculated would surely follow the big-time drubbing the sector experienced in the aftermath of the Japanese Fukushima nuclear disaster isn’t exactly materializing. Continue reading
Uranium price slump for the long term
Short-term dip in uranium prices now a long-term slump Peter Koven | Sep 26, 2012“……..Eighteen months after the incident, uranium prices continue to hit new lows. The spot price sunk US50¢ to US$46.50 a pound this week, which is the lowest level since 2010, according to Ux Consulting. Investors briefly drove the spot price above US$135 in 2007.
The long-term price has also declined, though it is higher at US$60, reflecting the fact buyers will pay more for material delivered mid-decade or later.
TD Securities analyst Greg Barnes noted that September is usually buying season in the uranium market, so the current weakness is not a good sign.
Although sales volumes in the spot market have been very weak, there is more than enough uranium around to supply utilities, so any investing bet on the commodity is really a bet that nuclear power demand will substantially grow in the years to come….
.. questions about the future of nuclear continue to linger. Japan recently pushed reactor re-starts further into the future, while maintaining plans to phase out all nuclear power by the 2030s. And French President François Hollande reaffirmed his campaign promise to reduce the share of nuclear power in France’s energy mix to 50% from 75% currently.
“With two of the world’s most important nuclear markets questioning the longer-term outlook for nuclear power, we expect [the] uranium price to be in for another 12 months of lacklustre performance,” Mr. Barnes wrote in a note.
That view is widely shared by investors .
Nuclear energy capacity growth slowing after Fukushima: IAEA (Reuters)
26 Sept 12- The U.N. atomic agency cut its forecast for nuclear energy
growth for a second year as the industry continued to feel the effect
of the Fukushima disaster in Japan and said most of the expansion
would be in Asia.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said its projection for
global nuclear generating capacity by 2030 was down between one and
nine percent compared with last year.
Against expectations before the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in
Japan, the projections are between eight and 16 percent lower.
Bill to slow relicensing of aged nuclear reactors
the NRC too frequently rubber-stamps 20-year extensions to licenses that are supposed to last 40 years. They said that could endanger people living near nuclear power plants.
like allowing a doctor to assure a twenty year-old smoker they will never get lung cancer,”
Bill would add nuclear relicensing rule The Hill, By Zack Colman – 09/27/12 A House bill introduced Wednesday would delay the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) ability to renew licenses for aging nuclear reactors. Continue reading
Poorly paid, dangerous, work of nuclear sub-contracted workers
Desirability of nuclear power is the real question, THE HINDU, 28 Sept 12
MADHUMITA DUTTA“……In France, over 20,000-30,000 workers dubbed as “nuclear nomads” are subcontracted annually in the 58 nuclear reactors operated by Électricité de France S.A. (EDF) located in 20 sites which contribute 78 per cent of the electricity produced in the country.
EDF subcontracts over 1,000 companies, who employ the “nuclear nomads,” sometimes of foreign origin, to do the dangerous maintenance, repair and clean-up work in these plants, exposing them to ionising radiations. In her book “Nuclear Servitude: Subcontracting and Health in the French Civil Nuclear Industry,” French social scientist Annie Thébaud-Mony has highlighted this division of labour and “risk” by subcontracting dangerous work in the French nuclear power industry.
In the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, over 18,000 workers were hired to clean-up the power plant, who were all subcontracted to do dangerous radioactive clean-up work. These men, hailed as “national heroes” by many, were actually local residents rendered unemployed by the disaster or were daily wagers from city slums.
Since the 1970s, Japan has had a dubious track record of subcontracting maintenance
work of reactors to outside companies which hire workers on a short-term basis who remain employed till they reach their radiation exposure limit (Nuclear Nomads: A look at the Sub-contracted Heroes by Gabrielle Hecht in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 9, 2012)…. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/desirability-of-nuclear-power-is-the-real-question/article3939373.ece
Prestige, but not real usefulness, from UK and France’s costly nuclear deterrents
France and Britain Weigh the Price of Nuclear Deterrence International Herald Tribune By HARVEY MORRIS , 27 sept 12 LONDON — There were reports on Thursday of stirrings within the British military about the need to scale back the country’s nuclear deterrent in order to spend the money on confronting more conventional threats. Continue reading
UK Renewable Energy Capacity has Grown by 42.4% Oil Price.com By Joao Peixe | Thu, 27 September 2012 The government has just released its latest quarterly energy statistics and the results are mixed.
Renewable energy has enjoyed a bountiful year, whereas coal power has also seen an increase in popularity. Continue reading
Margaret Chan VERSUS World Health Organisation http://tekknorg.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/margaret-chan-versus-world-health-organisation/ May 27, 2012 by Mikkai “it is recognized by the World Health Organization that the International Atomic Energy Agency has the primary responsibility for encouraging, assisting and coordinating research and development and practical application of atomic energy for peaceful uses throughout the world without prejudice to the right of the World Health Organization to concern itself with promoting, developing, assisting and coordinating international health work, including research, in all its aspects. ”http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/Others/inf20.shtml#note_c
VERSUS:
Radiation Is Always Dangerous, Says World Health Organization Director-General: http://concernforhealth.org/radiation-is-always-dangerous-says-world-health-organization-director-general/
“INTERNAL radionuclides are 10 to 100 times more damaging than the equivalent EXTERNALdose” Dr. Michel Fernex, former WHO employee
FROM W.H.O.:http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2012/wha65_closes_20120526/en/index.html“Dr Margaret Chan appointed to a second term as Director-General of the World Health Organization by the 65th World Health Assembly” Continue reading
Supreme Court might halt Kudankulam nuclear power project
Kudankulam nuclear plant can be stopped if not found safe: Supreme
Court http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/kudankulam-nuclear-plant-can-be-stopped-if-not-found-safe-supreme-court/articleshow/16576138.cms
27 Sept 12, NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today made it clear that it can stop
commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant if it finds that the mandatory safety requirements for it have not been put in place.
A bench of justices K S Radhakrishanan and Deepak Misra said the safety of plant and the people living in its vicinity is its prime concern and issued notices to the Centre and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board on a plea challenging the environmental clearance given
to the controversial project. Continue reading
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