Video – Iraq worse than ever! Effects of Depleted Uranium are more widespread than Fallujah
” 600 percent infant mortality rates increase”
“2000 tons of microscopic uranium in Iraq”
“1 in 3 children in Fallujah are born with deformities, unprecedented !”
“half life of uranium is 4 and a half billion years”
” they eat it in the food and water”
“high levels of lead and mercury found”
“effects to last for generations”
“birth defects being found in many major cities that were targeted by USA forces”
Abby Martin
RT – Breaking the Set
On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks to Iraqi-American activist and editor of Liberatethis.com Dahlia Wasfi and director of the Justice for Fallujah Project Ross Caputi about the state of Iraq and the US military’s use of depleted uranium (2 minutes 3 seconds). Abby then talks to Trevor Timm, co-founder and executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, about the importance of his organization and the need to protect net neutrality. BTS wraps up the show by highlighting @dronestream founder Josh Begley for his Twitter account that reports on US drone strikes, and Abby calls out the members of the Westboro Baptist Church for calling for an anti-gay rally at the funeral of the principle of Sandy Hook elementary after the tragic school
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http://rt.com/programs/breaking-set-summary/iraq-church-sandy-hook/
December 31, 2011
Happy New Year to one and all! I had planned on finishing the book by the end of 2011. I had not planned on meeting and marrying my husband this year. I’m still writing. 🙂 Bonfire destruction of the manuscript on hold for now.
Sincerely, Dahlia
“We declare our right on this earth…to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.”
–El Hajj Malik Al Shabazz (Malcolm X)
National Rifle Association puts gun industry profits ahead of children’s lives
There are more than twenty mass shootings every year in America and over a hundred people are shot every day…but the NRA tells us that we can’t do something about guns?….
Increasingly, Americans are recognizing the blood-soaked gun lobby as the pariahs they are, who have done far more damage to America than Osama bin Laden ever dreamed of.
NRA Has More Blood on Its Hands Than al-Qaeda: What Do We Do?, TruthOut,, 18 December 2012 By Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, In the coming weeks, we’ll find out just how far our elected lawmakers are willing to go to protect our children from future gun massacres.
But we already know how far our lawmakers are willing to go to protect us from Middle Eastern terrorists – a group that has killed nothing close to the number of Americans who die every day because of the NRA.
If al-Qaeda were to strike the United States in the last remaining weeks of 2012 and kill as many Americans as three 9/11s, the carnage still wouldn’t compare to what guns do to Americans every single year.
So far in 2012, more than 9,000 Americans have died by way of the gun; almost a hundred thousand were shot. Just this last Saturday alone, 190 people were shot in America. And in Newtown, Connecticut, twenty first graders are dead – gunned down by an assault rifle borrowed from a gun-nut mom. Continue reading
USA’s nuclear waste problem more acute, with probable reactor close-downs
with the current glut of natural gas, more [nuclear reactor] closings seem possible, which means leaving the wastes behind — “stranded,” as Mr. Wyden put it — at the sites of defunct reactors………...
Come January, Another Try on Nuclear Waste By MATTHEW L. WALD , NYT, 18 Dec 12, The incoming chairman of the Senate Energy Committee suggests that the Energy Department should stop billing utilities more in waste disposal fees than the department is actually spending on addressing nuclear wastes. And he wants the department to pay for moving some of the wastes out of spent fuel pools at the
nation’s highest-risk reactors and into dry casks. Continue reading
Japan’s new government, bad for the environment, and for women
activists are concerned about two areas they fear will slip beneath the radar of the incoming administration: the country’s nuclear policy in the aftermath of the disastrous accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor following the earthquake and tsunami last March; and job stability for youth and women, both grappling with badly paid or part-time work.
Only 38 female candidates, from a total of 225, won seats in the parliament during this election, a major dip from the 54 women who won seats at the last poll in 2009.
Already, Japan has been ranked as low as 110th on the World Economic Forum’s latest gender gap survey, which rates countries based on gender equality in political representation.
Women and Activists Lament Japan’s Election Outcome By Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO, Dec 18 2012 (IPS) – The return to power of Japan’s conservative and hard-line Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Sunday indicates that voters traded urgently needed social and environmental reforms for traditional male-led leadership, according to analysts here.
Youth and feminist organisations who had campaigned vigorously for better environmental protections, labour equality and the upholding of regional peace ahead of the elections, expressed frustration about Sunday’s outcome, lamenting that the victorious LDP is yet to present concrete policies to tackle Japan’s most pressing problems……
LDP leader Shinzo Abe, whose brief term as Prime Minister ended abruptly in 2007, is now set to take back the reins.
A hawkish politician, he has raised his profile by promising to usher in a militarily stronger Japan – Continue reading
Fukushima nuclear situation still critical, with “makeshift” cooling system
Fukushima plant situation ‘volatile,’ a year after cold shutdown declared, Asahi Shimbun December 18, 2012 By NAOYA KON/ Staff Writer Workers are nowhere close to determining the state of melted fuel at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, a year after the government declared the damaged reactors were in a “cold shutdown” state.
Storage tanks at the site are nearing capacity for radioactive water. A makeshift system is still being used to cool the nuclear fuel. And leaks of contaminated water and quake-induced collapses of plant facilities remain a threat. Continue reading
Fallujah: the forgotten scandal of babies affected by depleted uranium
FallujahIraq: Crimes against Humanity. The Babies Will Haunt Us By Kelley B. Vlahos Global Research, December 18, 2012 antiwar.com It was like walking through a nightmare: drifting in an out of hospital rooms, down the long hallways, her contact with shock-ravaged Iraqi parents interrupted only by glimpses of their physically deformed and terminally sick babies who in many cases, would never see the outside of Fallujah’s main hospital, ever.
Then, the more than vague sense that she must apologize. The words thick like molasses were hard to form. “I felt inadequate,” said Donna Mulhearn. “What was so hard was, what do you say to these people other than saying sorry, which I said over and over again. You just wanted to offer more.”
Donna Mulhearn is a name we need to remember, as she is one of a small but dedicated group of citizen activists who, after most of us have said the long goodbye to Iraq in the rear-view mirror, are taking on the environmental and humanitarian legacy of the Iraq War as a personal cause. Right now, she is doing what the western mainstream has so far failed to do, which is report on the horrifying number of miscarriages, deaths, birth defects and congenital illnesses among babies in urban Fallujah, the site of some of the most intense U.S bombing (2004) during the war. Continue reading
A ticking time bomb – Fukushima nuclear reactors
Kaku: Fukushima reactors “a ticking time bomb” — “Catastrophe beyond comprehension” if major pipe break or quake (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/kaku-fukushima-reactors-like-ticking-time-bomb-catastrophe-beyond-comprehension-major-pipe-break-quake-video
December 17th, 2012 at
Full broadcast here
Title: Radioactively Hot Show (Re-broadcast with Dr. Michio Kaku)
Source: SOAPBOX #106
Date: December 7, 2012
The reactor is still like a ticking time bomb. If you have a secondary earthquake, another pipe break, evacuation of workers, the accident starts up all over again.
Realize that we have 5 reactors in various states of degradation in the area. The accident is not over by any means. The accident could start up all over again if there’s a secondary earthquake or another pipe break. In a worst case scenario, if there is a major pipe break or secondary earthquake, they would have to evacuate the workers and because the pumps are not working at the site, it means that you have to manually, manually, insert the water over the reactors and without the workers you would be in free fall. At that point with an evacuation of all the workers, water levels would begin to drop, the reactors would then start to melt again and we would breach containment — that is the release of uncontrolled amounts of radiation in to the environment. And that is a catastrophe beyond comprehension.
Full broadcast here
Petition to USA’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission, on nuclear wastes
We’ve prepared the brief petition with four key points–including consideration of a permanent end to radioactive waste generation. And you can also add your own comments to this petition. We will get the petition in to the NRC on January 2nd. Everyone can participate in this action….. Petition at http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12372
Sign on to four principles on radioactive waste, including no more generation http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12372 December 18, 2012 Earlier this year, a federal court threw out the fundamental underpinning of the NRC’s radioactive waste policy–the agency’s Waste Confidence rule.
In a nutshell, that rule stated that the NRC had confidence that highly radioactive irradiated fuel from nuclear reactors would be stored and managed safely forever. That confidence
gave the NRC the ability to license and re-license nuclear reactors.
The court ruled that the NRC had no basis to make that assertion.
Sweden: 2 aging nuclear reactors shutdown after failing safety tests
Backup power problems put two Swedish reactors on ice – and cast an unpleasant light on age, Bellona, 18 Dec 12 Safety concerns over backup diesel power generators have forced the closure of two of the three reactors in operation at Sweden’s Oskarshamn nuclear power plant after safety tests revealed problems with one of the generators, which failed to start within specified time parameters. Charles Digges, 17/12-2012
Diesel generators are a critical failsafe against loss of coolant during a catastrophic reactor accident, as bitterly illustrated by Fukushima, where a tsunami knocked out back-up and diesel generators, resulting in a triple meltdown.
The shutdown of the reactors comes as unwelcome news to OKG, the utility that runs the plant as Sweden marshals its energy resources with the onset of the Scandinavian country’s coldest months yet to come.
Bellona general manager and nuclear physicist Nils Bøhmer said the discoveries “show that Sweden’s ageing nuclear industry is coming to a point where it can no longer reliably supply power.”….. http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2012/oskar_1_2
Germany moving ahead with 88 kilometers power line for renewable energy
Germany’s $123 Million Power Line Aids Nuclear Exit, Merkel Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-18/germany-s-123-million-power-line-aids-nuclear-exit-merkel-says.html By Stefan 
Nicola – Dec 18, 2012 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said a $123 million electricity line that took a decade to develop will improve supply security, transmitting renewable energy from north to south and helping the
nation phase out nuclear power.
The line, stretching 88 kilometers (55 miles) across two states from Kruemmel near Hamburg to Schwerin, will ensure more efficient distribution of power from wind farms in the north, Erwin Sellering, governor of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state, said today at the
line’s opening in Schwerin. “On windy days, turbines won’t have to be shut off any more,” he said. Continue reading
Doctoring photographs to cover up faults at many USA nuclear reactors
http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6651
Report: Photographs “doctored” at multiple US nuclear power plants (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/report-photographs-doctored-multiple-nuclear-power-plants-video December 17th, 2012Title: Marion Pack on the many safety risks at the San Onofre nuclear power plant and how a Fukushima-type meltdown would contaminate Southern California Download the broadcast here Source: IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6651
:: A Weekly Radio Program with Dr. Helen Caldicott Date: December 7, 2012
Marion Pack: I also had a friend that worked out there at the Perry power plant and he was a welder. And he was telling me what I considered real horror stories in that he said all the wells had to be photographed and documented. But when they found flaws in the well they were doctoring the photographs. […]
Host Helen Caldicott, MD: That’s what happened with Karen Silkwood you know, she was a whistleblower […] they were making fuel rods with plutonium in them and photographing them and the abnormalities in the fuel rods they were doctoring the photographs, not the rods. And she was driving with the documentation in the backseat of the car to meet a NY Times reporter when she was killed on the way. When they got to the car the documents were missing.
Watch the clip here
Costs are killing American nuclear power plants
A pattern is developing. It may take a few years, but it appears small nuclear plants will face increasing pressure to retire early. They cannot compete, particularly in soft markets. Some plants will find their costs consistently exceed any benefits they earn and their owners will be forced to retire and dismember plants.
The Nation’s Nuclear Plants Are Nuked, AOL Energy By Glenn S. K. Williams December 18, 2012 While the nation has been focused on new sources of natural gas and shale oil, few noticed the slow decline of an older energy source, nuclear power. Today, commercial nuclear power is struggling to stay in the game. Continue reading
A Town of Nuclear Power Plants, Haeundae -South Korea
“Environmental groups in the Ulsan area conducted a simulation, which showed that 400,000 people would die if the wind blew toward Ulsan after an accident at Kori 1. If the numbers for Ulsan is that big, than if the wind blows toward Busan, the number of casualties will easily surpass a million.”
Posted on : 2012-12-18 15:36
Kyunghyang Shinmun.
What kind of a nuclear power plant is Kori? Kori Unit 1 is Korea’s first nuclear power plant. At the time Kori 1 was constructed, we lacked technology, so the reactor was built by welding three pieces together.
Although its 30-year lifetime expired in 2007, the Lee Myung-bak government approved its operation for another 10 years. Thus it is still in operation. So Korea continues to tinker and operate a “junk” reactor, closer to a junk car rather than a used car. Kori 1 is not only the star of the most accidents at nuclear power plants, but is also “the nuclear power plant of horror,” where a complete black out had occurred recently.
Kori Nuclear Power Plant is a town of nuclear power plants. At present, 6 reactors are in operation and 6 more units will be constructed. Twelve nuclear reactors will be huddled together.
To make matters worse, a population of 3.4 million lives within a 30-kilometer radius of Kori. Greenpeace said, “There is no place like this anywhere else in the world,” and warned that an accident at Kori would be a global catastrophe far surpassing the Fukushima accident.
Environmental groups in the Ulsan area conducted a simulation, which showed that 400,000 people would die if the wind blew toward Ulsan after an accident at Kori 1. If the numbers for Ulsan is that big, than if the wind blows toward Busan, the number of casualties will easily surpass a million.
These figures are not an exaggeration. In the past 25 years, 200,000 people have died from the 1986 Chernobyl accident. The Independent (UK) reported that the number of deaths caused by the Fukushima accident will reach 1 million.
The answer is simple. All we need to do is suspend the operation of nuclear power plants that have reached the end of their lifespan. Kori 1 is only responsible for 1% of our nation’s electricity, so there’s no need to argue about power supply.
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SUPPORT COURT INJUNCTION TO STOP IMPLEMENTATION OF CAMECO AREVA PINEHOUSE AGREEMENT
Update: The Collaboration Agreement was signed in Pinehouse on December 12, 2012. Later that day,the full text of the agreement was made available online. The group of northerners is now working on an injunction to stop its implementation. Ongoing support and resources are still needed.
A group of northerners from Pinehouse (5), Beauval (1), English River First Nation (1) and Canoe Lake First Nation (1) has just secured a lawyer that is working on a court injunction to stop the implementation of this agreement. The lawyer informed the group today that “Anyone can add their name, including organizations and groups.”
The group is appealing to all human rights and environmental groups and organizations to demonstrate unity in protecting our right to free speech by signing on to this court injunction.
Details: Support Court Injunction to Stop Signing of Cameco Areva Pinehouse Agreement
VIDEO: USA’s harmful overuse of medical radiation
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/775659 Topol: Runaway Use of Radiation Harming Patients Eric J. Topol, MD Hello. I’m Dr. Eric Topol, Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and Editor-in-Chief of Medscape Genomic Medicine and theheart.org. In this series, The Creative Destruction of Medicine, named for the book I wrote, I’m trying to zoom in on critical aspects of how the digital world can create better healthcare.
The topic here is radiation and how we’re not doing the right things for patients. We have a serious problem with overcooking radiation in the United States. It’s by far worse here than anywhere else in the world. We have runaway uses of nuclear scans, CT scans, and PET
scanning, and we don’t even warn our patients; we don’t give patients any data on the dangers. Continue reading
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