Alleged American contractor torture victims can’t sue Rumsfeld: Court -Wider implications
Press TV
Sat Nov 10, 2012
A federal appeals court has ruled that two American contractors who were imprisoned and tortured by the U.S. military in Iraq cannot proceed with a lawsuit against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The Associated Press reports that the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled 8-3 that Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel cannot proceed with their lawsuit against Rumsfeld. Vance and Ertel, both Americans, were private contractors for Shield Security Group, an Iraqi firm that was illegally selling weapons that ended up in the hands of militant groups and death squads.
Vance and Ertel then turned whistleblower, becoming FBI informants as the case against Shield Group was built. But things went terribly wrong and the two men found themselves detained and imprisoned in Camp Cropper, a U.S. military prison near Baghdad airport. They were held there and interrogated by officials from multiple U.S. agencies for weeks.
The two Americans allege that they were tortured while in U.S. custody. They say they were subjected to extreme temperatures, solitary confinement, slammed into walls, deprived of sleep and bombarded with ear-splitting heavy metal music. digitaljournal.com
U.S. not competent to be reelected to UN Human Rights Council: Iran
Mehmanparast stated, “The United States, by the admission of many international organizations, is itself one of the violators of human rights on its territory and beyond its borders and is not competent to be a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council.”The U.S. candidacy has been announced while the UN Human Rights Council only allows those countries that have a transparent and positive human rights record to be elected as members, he added.
Sunday 11 November 2012
Tehran Times
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Saturday that the United States is not competent enough to be reelected as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
India’s first nuclear submarine will miss December deadline start -reactor broken?
“At the moment, the N-submarine has 125 K-15 short range ballistic missiles with a one-tonne nuclear warhead, which can hit the target at a distance of 700 km. Eventually they will be replaced by 3500 km range submarine launched ballistic missiles, which are currently under development.”
SOURCE: DHNS
The INS Arihant, India’s first nuclear-powered submarine, will not go for its much-awaited sea trial by December—the deadline set by the Navy.The 80 Mwe nuclear reactor on-board the submarine is yet to be functional more than three years after the submarine was launched in water. The reactor is yet to produce the energy required to propel the 6000-tonne submarine.
The non-functioning of the Arihant nuclear reactor has more to do with the completion of a large number of other systems and components inside the submarine vessel rather than any problem with the nuclear reactor.
“At the earliest, Arihant can go for sea-trial only in 2013,” sources in the department of atomic energy told Deccan Herald.
Former Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma had stated that the Arihant will be on sea patrol by December 31, 2012.
Asked to comment on whether the Navy still stood by that deadline, a defence ministry official declined to make any comment on Saturday.
USA -Local nuclear power station neighbors to be studied for cancer risk
“Westerly and Charlestown would easily fall within the danger zone based on prior studies as well as the actual experience at the Fukushima nuclear disaster caused by Japan’s earthquake and tsunami. However, only the communities adjacent to the power plants will be studied.”“Concentric circles show relative risk and identify areas where residents have little or no time to close windows or evacuate…circular vulnerability zones are entirely hypothetical.”
Fukushima Fire Festival – remembering the victims of the tragedy
Now we in Japan have a fire festival in Fukushima. Yes THAT place! This photo is from our news. Enjoy the sparkles!pic.twitter.com/0wBknsvQ
Japan Today
NOV. 11, 2012
Giant torches blaze away at the Taimatsu Akashi festival in Sukagawa City, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday night. Taimatsu Akashi is one of Japan’s three big fire festivals. It began in 1589, and is held to mourn and express gratitude to those lost in the battle brought to the town by feudal lord Masamune Date. Following the Great East Japan Earthquake in March last year, the festival now remembers those lost on that day as well.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/picture-of-the-day/view/fukushima-fire-festival
New! Dr Helen Caldicott – Fukushima Nuclear Disaster -Slams Australian Government for supporting Uranium mining (Video)
Published on Nov 10, 2012 by David Condon
Dr Helen Caldicott talks about the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Australia’s role in the worldwide nuclear scenario.
Dr Helen Caldicott is the founder of Nuclear Free Planet. Author and public speaker about the dangers associated with nuclear power from mining to generating electricity.
Video link here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWFPFapmo5o
And Helen Caldicotts link to nuclear Free Planet website
Fukushima has turned Australians off nukes
November 11, 2012 – 1:10PM
AAP
The Fukushima disaster has set back Australia’s willingness to embrace nuclear power, physicist Ziggy Switkowski says.
Dr Switkowski, who in 2006 chaired a commonwealth government inquiry that recommended Australia start using nuclear energy, said on Sunday that Australians were now less likely than they were then to accept nuclear energy due to problems at reactors.
Referring to Japan’s March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, Dr Switkowski said the momentum in favour of nuclear power had been steadily building but had been set back several years.
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