France waged Mali war to plunder Africa’s Natural resources: Ayssar Midani
“…I also want to say that it’s not only the French army who’s intervening in Mali; it’s also very heavy help from the United Kingdom, from Britain, and also from the United States. In fact, the same coalition going into Mali is the same who destroyed Iraq, the same who destroyed Libya and the same who are against Syria.
The problem is not to have any independent and strong country in these parts of planet earth where there are interestingly important resources of gas, oil, uranium, gold and everything. I think this is the main purpose….”
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Press TV
Mon Jan 28, 2013 1:25PM GMT
Transcript..
In the background to this, France has also imposed media restrictions on the developments on the ground with the help of the Malian army, which human rights groups say has committed ‘serious abuses.’
Press TV has conducted an interview with Ayssar Midani, an activist against the War in Mali, from Paris. Midani is joined by Lawrence J. Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, from Washington, and Michael Burns, a political and military analyst from New York. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: What is France exactly doing in Mali, according to your perspective, Ms. Midani?
Midani: I think France is also going to invade Mali because they have a special agenda for the uranium in Mali and in Nigeria, for the oil and gas, for gold.
Unfortunately, the French policy is also going from aggressive invasion to aggressive invasion. They have been in Syria, for example. France is arming the so-called opposition but they are only mercenaries sent to Syria, first.
Now, for me, I think they have been sent to Mali just to create the pretext for a military intervention for this exploitation agenda about the resources of Mali.
Press TV: Why are you skeptical about the intentions of France? Of course, Paris is saying a different reason for being there and stopping terrorism. Why are you skeptical about the reasons Paris is saying they’re there?
Midani: Because I think they started before, several years before against Algeria in the 90s, I remember, just to stabilize Algeria and take profit from the gas and oil in Algeria. Algeria kept very well their country but they paid very hard. I mean, it was a lot of victims. It was very hard for the Algerian people.
Actually, these mercenaries, we are told today that they have their weapons from Libya. We remember very recently how Libya has been destroyed by the NATO intervention.
The first who agreed, who was fighting to make this aggression – agreed by NATO, by the EU – was France, the French administration.
Dr Caldicott Interview in Byron Bay -Childrens thyroids cover up in japan – video
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An interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott in Byron Bay, NSW, Australia in August 2012. This interview was focused on the issues related with the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011.
Sign the Petition: Fukushima Mom calls for the Fukushima Local Government to Continue Housing Support
Click here to Sign the Petition calling for the Governor of Fukushima to Continue housing support for Fukushima refugees!
I’m a mom who lives in Fukushima, Japan. I have a daughter in middle school and a son with disabilities. When my daughter moved up to high school, my family had planned to move out of Fukushima because we were worried about the effect of radiation on my kids’ health.
Since 3.11, the state government has provided housing support to refugees displaced by the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. But the government recently announced that it will end rent assistance to families who move outside of Fukushima – while keeping it for anyone who stays.
On the same day that I learned Fukushima had decided to stop support for people moving away, I received notice that my son’s exam for thyroid cancer had revealed small tumors. (An A2 rating for the thyroid cancer test indicates growths or tumors from 5.0 to 20 mm in size.) I’m shocked and scared — and I worry about how the radiation is affecting my kids.
Many families in Fukushima are juggling difficult decisions, made worse by fears about radiation — whether to keep their kids in a school with classmates they know, or leave behind their homeland of generations and move away. The state’s housing support is what enables many families who couldn’t otherwise afford it, the chance to move away.
In a recent poll conducted by the city of Fukushima, 90% of Fukushima residents said they were “somewhat worried” or “very worried” about the impact of radiation on the health of their family members. And nearly half of families with young kids said that “even now, they would like to move away” due to fears about radiation.
Save Hospital №31 in St-Petersburg: do not reform it into a VIP medical facility for Russian judges
Petition
Грачева Елена
Санкт-Петербург, Russian Federation
A unique Saint-Petersburg hospital #31, where many critically ill children are treated every year, is falling prey to the top Russian officials – federal judges.The hospital is to be transformed from a public clinic to the exclusive medical center serving only the needs of judges of the Supreme and Higher Arbitration Courts of Russia.
A typical bunch of Russian judges circa 2002.. [Arclight]
Just a few months ago the hospital was renovated and re-equipped.
Hospital #31 is not only famous for its exceptionally qualified team, but also for its strong ties with charitable foundations. Private foundations are financing a major part of the patients’ expenses on high-cost treatment, helping those who would otherwise be unable to afford it. Additionally, the hospital treats adult patients.
The head of the hospital’s Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Department, Margarita Belogurova says:
«Every year about a hundred children are diagnosed with Cancer in Saint-Petersburg, and half of them are treated here. In ten years we decreased the mortality rate in our department from 75% to 25%, We have some absolutely unique departments, highly qualified doctors and a well-developed system of charity support. I think people who decided to tear our hospital apart, imagine it as a simple process: like moving a bed from one corner to another. But it is absolutely not true! If the hospital is to be disbanded, this decision will destroy a unique environment in which the kids are treated, we’ll lose many excellent doctors and valuable ties between our departments will be destroyed. I hope that the federal government will change its decision».
The patients’ parents refuse to believe that Russian officials can simply take it all away from young patients on just a foolish whim.
«I can hardly comprehend that such cynicism is at all possible. Federal judges are rich people, well provided with social services in the country. They have everything. Why are they taking away from our children the last thing they have left? Do these judges need our hospital that much? Many parents want to act somehow, but we all know that when we try to protest peacefully to draw attention to this issue, we will just get arrested for the unsanctioned action. We will protest anyway, though, because you can’t take away the only hope for these children. And this hospital is the last hope for many kids, including my son, Kirill. If this hospital is closed, I will have to sell my apartment to pay for my son’s treatment, and I have two other kids. So, where are we supposed to live then? The government provides almost no help, and now it even puts my child’s life in danger», – says the outraged Oleg Kostin, an engineer from Saint-Petersburg and a father of a 14-year old Kirill.
We demand to stop the hospital’s transfer to the judges. We demand complete adandonment of such plans. Tearing the hospital apart, which means transferring its departments to multiple locations around Saint-Petersburg, is unacceptable, because it will destroy most important things: integrity, the hospital team and fine-tuned cooperation mechanisms established in the facility. These things are necessary to provide quality medical care in a timely fashion.
We are appealing to the humanity of the Head of the Department of Presidential Affairs, Mr. Kozhin and St-Petersburg governor, G. Poltavchenko.
Please sign the petition here..
PLEASE SORT IT OUT MR PUTIN!!
VIDEO: 55% of Fukushima girls aged 11 to 15 have thyroid abnormalities
Lawyer: Thyroid abnormalities in 55% of Fukushima girls tested age 11 to 15 (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/lawyer-thyroid-abnormalities-55-fukushima-girls-tested-age-11-15-video (English subtitles)
Title: The Reality of Fukushima- A Japanese Lawer Speaks at UN
January 25th, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnk5mPAGCZI (French subtitles)
Source: WorldNetworkChildren (World Network for Saving Children from Radiation)
Filmed by: Independent Web Journal
Edited by: The Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial
Date Jan 25, 2013
Toshio Yanagihara at the United Nations Human Rights Council, NGO Information Meeting: Let me now talk about the actual health condition of the children of Fukushima. On September 11, the thyroid examinations found abnormalities such as nodules or cysts in 43% out of the 42,000 children tested. The numbers for girls are worse. 54% of girls from age 6 to 10 had these abnormalities, and 55% for age 11 to 15.
See also: Gundersen: 20 percent of young girls living in some areas around Fukushima Daiichi will get cancer from radiation over their lifetimes (AUDIO
Why spread an unlikely story of explosion at Iran nuclear plant??
Not for nothing have the major news organizations ignored Kahlili’s Fordow report. Beyond his questionable credibility, there is no supporting evidence. If a large explosion did occur at Fordow a week ago, why have no satellite photos appeared of dozens of vehicles on the site involved in rescue operations? And if there are 240 workers trapped underground, how come no worried relatives have expressed concern on one of the social networks? Iran may have a repressive regime, but tens of millions of citizens are connected to the Internet and are experts at evading the regime’s attempts to monitor and filter their communications. Something would have come out by now.
Who spread reports of an ‘explosion’ at Iran’s Fordow nuclear plant and why?
According to the report, the explosion in Fordow seriously damaged many of the centrifuges in the plant and trapped underground 240 employees who have yet to be rescued. But if this is true, why have the major news networks dismissed it?
Haaretz, By Anshel Pfeffer | Jan.27, 2013 The Internet has been abuzz over the last couple of days with an uncorroborated report regarding a huge explosion in the underground uranium enrichment plant at Fordow in Iran. According to the report, the explosion seriously damaged many of the centrifuges in the plant and trapped underground 240 employees who have yet to be rescued.
If this is true, it will be the most serious sabotage caused yet to the Iranian nuclear program. If this is true.
The main problem with the report is that no supporting evidence has appeared so far from any reliable sources to corroborate it, nor has a statements been released from an official source in Iran or any other country. All the main Western news organizations with contacts and sources in the intelligence community have steered well away from the story. (In Israel, only the tabloid Yedioth Ahronoth, which splashed the story on the front page of its Sunday edition, took notice of the story.)
Perhaps it’s the identity of the report’s author which leads to the disbelief: Reza Kahlili, an Iranian exile with an interesting past who is well known to many reporters covering intelligence and Iranian affairs. He published the report on the explosion, which apparently took place on Monday, the eve of the Israeli elections, on World News Daily, a veteran website with close contacts to the far-right in the United States. Kahlili himself is a frequent speaker at events organized by right-wing organizations and those that support the right in Israel. It’s not hard to realize why. In an interview he gave Haaretz two years ago, upon the publication of his book “A Time To Betray”, Kalili set out a worldview on Iran that was surprisingly similar to that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He also compared the regime in Tehran to that of the Nazis, and called upon Israel to bomb Iran’s nuclear installations…… Continue reading
Future deaths from Fukushima radiation – new research shows
“Serious concern” over long term health consequences from Fukushima disaster — New Study: 8 times more cancer deaths than predicted http://enenews.com/new-study-serious-concern-over-long-term-health-consequences-from-fukushima-disaster-8-times-more-cancer-deaths-than-predicted
January 25th, 2013
Title: Reassessing the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident
Source: Chemistry World
Author: Rebecca Brodie
Date: 25 January 2013
While the Japanese tsunami of March 2011 was devastating in its own right, the long term health consequences because of the damage to the nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi are also of serious concern. […]
Jan Beyea, from the US expert consulting service Consulting in the Public Interest, together with fellow colleagues has been analysing previous calculations of the subsequent nuclear accident in Japan, and believes that the number of predicted future mortalities from cancer is higher than originally predicted. […] the mid-range, predicted number of future mortalities from cancer is closer to 1000 than the 125 figure calculated without considering long-term groundshine [gamma radiation emitted from radioactive materials deposited on the ground].’ […]
Lynn Anspaugh, from the University of Utah, US, who works in the field of radiology and reconstructing radiation doses and who analysed the Chernobyl accident, agrees that Beyea’s research points out several inaccuracies in the previous work. However, he feels that the real question this work raises regards the future of nuclear power itself. […]
Read the study’s abstract here
Thorium – an irrelevant distraction from the gloomy facts about nuclear power
— time. It is going to take many decades to get the thorium fuel cycle happening. The global nuclear industry has the twin goals of prolonging the life of currently operating nuclear reactors, and of building new ones. Their rationale for this is often that, eventually, the energy solution will be nuclear fusion. So in the meantime, the world needs nuclear power — or so they argue.
The thorium advocates usually promote thorium reactors as a solution to both climate change and energy needs. But in reality, thorium nuclear energy is irrelevant to both.
Again, the first reason is time. Although there are current designs that could be established in 10 to 15 years, the most favoured design – the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) – is estimated to have, for a significant deployment, a lead time of 40 to 70 years.
Don’t believe thorium nuclear reactor hype, Independent Austtralia 28 Jan 13, Thorium reactors are the latest big thing in nuclear spin. Noel Wauchope says: don’t believe the hype.
The explanation becomes clearer, when you consider that the nuclear industry has sunk $billions into new (uranium or plutonium fuelled) large nuclear technologies, as well as into lobbying governments and media. Would big corporations like Hitachi, EDF Westinghouse, Toshiba, Areva, Rosatom be willing, or indeed able, to withdraw from the giant international operations that they already have underway? Would they, could they, tolerate a mass uptake of the new thorium nuclear reactors — which is what would be needed, to make the thorium market economical?…. Continue reading
Demand No Radioactive Metals in commercial products
USA’s Dept of Energy’s plan for radioactive scrap metal into consumer goods 28/01/2013 · by travellerev You can rest assured that the products made with this crap will be sold to countries who ask the least questions such as New Zealand.……You can tell the DOE to continue to keep its radioactive metal out of the commercial metal supply, commerce, and our personal items. You can demand a full environmental impact statement. Comment deadline is Feb. 9, 2013. Email to: scrap_PEAcomments@hq.doe.gov (with an underscore after “scrap_”). Snail mail to: Jane Summerson / DOE NNSA / PO Box 5400, Bldg. 401K. AFB http://aotearoaawiderperspective.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/usas-dept-of-energys-plan-for-radioactive-scrap-metal-into-consumer-goods/
Koch brothers secretly undermine climate science
“How the ‘Kochtopus’ Stifled Green Debate” Society for Environmental
Journalists, 27 Jan 13,
It’s not just that the billionaire Koch brothers have spent tens of
millions to undermine science and stifle debate on climate change.
It’s that they do it in secret.
“Even by the standards of the super-rich, Charles and David Koch are
extraordinarily wealthy. …The two brothers share a similar political
outlook. They are right-wing libertarians who believe in minimal
regulation of industry, smaller government, lower corporate taxes and
less generous social services. They are also closet ‘sceptics’ when it
comes to climate science. …
Together, the two brothers have given millions of dollars to
non-profit organisations that criticise environmental legislation and
support lower taxes for industry.
The Kochs have also contributed vast sums to promote scepticism
towards climate change, more even than the oil industry according to
some estimates. Greenpeace, for instance, has calculated that
ExxonMobil spent $8.9m on climate-sceptic groups between 2005 and
2008; over the same period the Koch brothers backed such groups to the
tune of nearly $25m.”…..
http://www.sej.org/headlines/how-kochtopus-stifled-green-debate
CNN’s media coverage promoted climate change denialsim
“After Failed Climate Coverage, CNN Reports Americans Don’t Understand
Climate Change” Society of Environmental Journalists, 27 Jan 13
“Promoting a recent poll, CNN is treating climate change as a matter
of opinion, saying Americans are divided over whether or not it is
real. But the network itself has fueled such confusion, often failing
to report that manmade emissions are driving climate change or giving
credence to those who deny the science behind it.” Continue reading
A realistic plan for negotiations with Iran
Devil Is in the Details for Iran Nuclear Deal Anti War.com by Jasmin Ramsey, January 26,2013 After a year of fruitless negotiations that are expected to resume soon, Iranian and U.S. experts are urging both sides to show more flexibility and make more concessions on its nuclear programme.
A letter written this month by seven former Iranian parliamentarians now living in exile urges Iran and the P5+1 – the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany – to pursue a “win-win outcome” by incorporating four points into an agreement.
The letter states that Iran should be able to enrich uranium up to five percent for peaceful purposes; Iran should be given fuel for its medical and scientific research reactors if it halts its enrichment of 20 percent uranium and allows the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to control its existing stockpile; Iran should implement the Additional Protocol as a “confidence-building measure”; and Iran should be provided with a timetable for the lifting of sanctions if it halts its 20 percent uranium enrichment.
“The proposal reminds us that there is in fact a reasonable solution to this confrontation, one that satisfies each side’s core interests and removes any need for war,” Stephen Walt, a Harvard international relations professor, told IPS. “The only question is whether leaders in Washington and Tehran will be smart and far-sighted enough to seize it.”…… http://original.antiwar.com/ramsey/2013/01/25/devil-is-in-the-details-for-iran-nuclear-deal/
Another nuclear capable missile test by India
India tests nuclear-capable missile
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/india-tests-nuclear-capable-missile/story-fn3dxix6-1226563126908
AAP January 28, 2013 AN Indian news report says India has
successfully tested a medium-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile
fired from an underwater platform in the Bay of Bengal.
The Press Trust of India news agency says the missile would soon be
ready for deployment on platforms, including a nuclear submarine.
India’s Defence Ministry spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
Pallava Bagla, a defence expert, said Sunday’s test off the east coast
was 14th in the series with a range of 700 kilometres. It would
complete India’s nuclear triad – the capability to launch missiles
from land, air and below the sea.
India and its nuclear-armed rival Pakistan routinely test different
versions of their missiles. The countries have fought three wars since
they gained independence from Britain in 1947.
Low turnout in Bulgaria’s nuclear referendum – invalidates result
Bulgaria nuclear vote ‘invalidated by low turnout’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21217882 27 Jan 13, A
controversial referendum on whether to build a new nuclear power plant
in Bulgaria appears to have been invalidated by low turnout.
An exit poll put turnout at around 20% – far below the 60% required
for the poll, which was called on the basis of an opposition petition.
The opposition Socialists want the centre-right government to reverse
its decision not to build the plant.
The poll has been seen as a barometer for elections later this year. Continue reading
Australia has lost its moral compass on nuclear disarmament and non proliferation
despite the window of opportunity that Australia has open to it as chair of a number of relevant committees on the UN Security Council, Carr’s recent statements are devoid of any talk of global disarmament, or of a just dialogue between Iran, Israel and the West. The Australian government instead seems intent on reforging the policy bonds of the “Coalition of the Willing” which proved so morally, politically and economically disastrous in 2003.
Julia Gillard must not continue to take Australia further down the path of moral decay in the area of non-proliferation and disarmament as I’ve elsewhere argued she has done. Now on the Security Council, Australia must use its role to push for what Prime Minster Gillard herself promised in the candidate brochure:
… a lead role in advancing disarmament and non-proliferation efforts and continuing our longstanding efforts to promote respect for international law.
The decay of Australia’s nuclear ethic, Aljazeera, NAJ Taylor, 26 Jan 13, Australia must use its new position in the UN Security Council to push for conciliation with Iran. Within three days of Australia taking the chair of the UN Security Council committees overseeing “Iran’s WMD proliferation activities”, Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced that Australia is to adopt severe economic sanctions against Iran that are “broadly aligned” with those already actioned by the US, Britain and European Union.
Thursday’s announcement is bitterly disappointing, for it draws to the fore a deep moral inconsistency in Australia’s recent nuclear dealings.
Simply put, Iran is alleged to have an active nuclear weapons programme, despite it having undertaken a number of international obligations – including the primary instrument of the nuclear regime, the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Continue reading
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