Anonymous promises to disrupt Obama’s State of the Union
Anonymous promises to disrupt Obama’s State of the Union
Published: 13 February, 2013, 00:57
RT
A call to arms has been issued by Anonymous, the shadowy underground collective of hackers and activists, and the group says they hope to disrupt select online broadcasts of the annual address in protest of President Obama and his administration’s assaults on the civil liberties and constitutional rights of Americans, as well as the world’s Internet.
“Operation SOTU,” or “OpSOTU,” is latest mission from Anonymous, and members involved in the initiative say it will serve as a decisive factor in the “battle royale for the future of the Internet.”
In a statement drafted by members of Anonymous and circulated on the Web early Tuesday, the group recalls a series of recent victories for Internet activists who waged battles and won against proposed legislation that would have drastically changed the modern landscape of computer and technology law.
“Last year we faced our greatest threat from lawmakers. We faced down SOPA, PIPA, CISPA and ACTA,” the message begins. “But that victory did not come easily. Nor did it come without a price.”
http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-state-union-internet-050/
Citizens of the world,
Anonymous has observed for some time now the trajectory of justice in the United States with growing concern. We have marked the departure of this system from the noble ideals in which it was born and enshrined. We have seen the erosion of due process, the dilution of constitutional rights, the usurpation of the rightful authority of courts by the “discretion” of prosecutors. We have seen how the law is wielded less and less to uphold justice, and more and more to exercise control, authority and power in the interests of oppression or personal gain.
We have been watching, and waiting.
Two weeks ago today, a line was crossed. Two weeks ago today, Aaron Swartz was killed. Killed because he faced an impossible choice. Killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win — a twisted and distorted perversion of justice — a game where the only winning move was not to play.
Anonymous immediately convened an emergency council to discuss our response to this tragedy. After much heavy-hearted discussion, the decision was upheld to engage the United States Department of Justice and its associated executive branches in a game of a similar nature, a game in which the only winning move is not to play.
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Iran urges to destroy all atomic weapons after N.Korea nuclear test
Published: 12 February, 2013
RT
A handout picture released by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s official website shows him (R) listening to an expert during a tour of Tehran’s research reactor center on February 15, 2012 (AFP Photo/PRESIDENT.IR)
Iran has confirmed that its higher-grade enriched uranium is being converted into reactor fuel, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced. He also called for destruction of all nuclear arms following N. Korea’s third nuclear test.
“We need to come to the point where no country has any nuclear weapons and at the same time all weapons of mass destruction and nuclear arms need to be destroyed,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast told state news agency IRNA.
However, countries should have the right to “make use of nuclear activities for peaceful purposes,” he added.
Speaking in Moscow, Iran’s foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi also said that North Korea as a sovereign state had its right to carry out a nuclear test.
“North Korea, as far as I know, is not signatory to Non-Proliferation Treaty, so it can afford acting according to its own interests,” Salehi told journalists.
Pyongyang withdrew from the NPT in 2003 to protest accusations of launching an enriched uranium weapons program. Salehi added that Iran is not considering quitting the treaty.
‘Iran converting 20 percent enriched uranium into reactor fuel’
Referring to recent media reports that Iran had already converted some of its 20-percent-enriched uranium into fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor, Mehmanparast said that “this work is being done and all its reports have been sent to the International Atomic Energy Agency in a complete manner.”
Two Thirds of All Scientific Publications and Research Retracted Found to Be Fraudulent and Prof C Busby on academic dishonesty (Video)
“However, all of these peer-reviewed publications can exert great influence on decisions and the attitudes of many people, therefore the public should in no way tolerate such an epidemic.”
And
“Chris Busby calls for the development in Society of legal mechanisms to investigate issues of scientific dishonesty like those in Denmark. Such issues, he argues, can be seen in the same category as perjury in criminal court cases for which serious sanctions exist.”
Written by Andrew Puhanic
2 October 2012
N astonishing two-thirds of all biomedical and life-science research publications and research articles that have been retracted from the public domain have been retracted because of fraud.
An article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America reviewed more than 2000 scientific articles for reasons why they were retracted from public scrutiny and discovered that67.4% of retractions were attributed to misconduct, of which includes fraud or suspected fraud (43.4%), duplicate publication (14.2%) and plagiarism (9.8%)
“Also, the number of articles retracted from circulation has increased 10 times since 1975.”
The top three publications that had the most retracted entries were:
Japan Soil Measurements Surprisingly High – Science Insider -March 2011
The hot spot is similar to levels found in some areas affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident in the former Soviet Union. Assuming the radiation is no more than 2 centimeters deep, Chen calculates that 163,000 Bq/kg is roughly equivalent to 8 million Bq/m2. The highest cesium-137 levels in some villages near Chernobyl were 5 million Bq/m2.
by Jocelyn Kaiser on 25 March 2011
Concerns about radiation in Japan have now spread to the soil surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor. One level that was reported this week was high enough to suggest people in that area should be evacuated, an expert says. But he cautions that it’s hard to draw conclusions about these spot measurements without more data.
Today, Japanese officials told the population living up to 30 kilometers from the plant that they should consider leaving the area, expanding the previous 20-kilometer radius evacuation zone. But according to news reports, the advice stems from difficulties in supplying the region with food and water, not radiation levels.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday the Japanese science ministry began to report measurements of cesium-137 in upland soil around the plant. The levels are highest from two points northeast of the plant, ranging from 8690 becquerels/kilogram to a high of 163,000 Bq/kg measured on 20 March from a point in Iitate about 40 kilometers northwest of the Fukushima plant.
The soil measurements are more significant for evacuation purposes than radioactivity in the air, says nuclear engineer Shih-Yew Chen of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, because cesium dust stays underfoot while air is transient. Levels of cesium-137 are also more important than soil readings of iodine-131, which is short-lived and more of a concern in milk and vegetables. “It’s the cesium that would prompt an evacuation,” says Chen.
Based on a rough estimate, a person standing on soil with 163,000 Bq/kg of cesium-137 would receive about 150 millisieverts per year of radiation, says Chen. This is well above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standard of 50 millisieverts per year for an evacuation. (Per day, it’s 0.41 millisieverts, which is equivalent to four chest x-rays.) But Chen adds, “one point [of data] doesn’t mean that much.”
The hot spot is similar to levels found in some areas affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident in the former Soviet Union. Assuming the radiation is no more than 2 centimeters deep, Chen calculates that 163,000 Bq/kg is roughly equivalent to 8 million Bq/m2. The highest cesium-137 levels in some villages near Chernobyl were 5 million Bq/m2.
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/japan-soil-measurements-surprisingly.html
Health Canada proposes lower limit for acceptable radon levels (2007)
But Bergeron said the decrease from 800 to 200 Bq is merely a recommendation, and Health Canada does not have authority to enforce the limits.
July 12, 2007
ROBERT WALKER
staff writer
A Health Canada proposal is underway to dramatically strengthen standards for radon in Canada.
According to Renée Bergeron, media relations officer with Health Canada, the department’s guidelines for what is considered safe amounts of radon have been dramatically downsized.
“The current guideline is 200 Becquerels (Bq) per cubic metre; it used to be 800. They did a four-fold decrease,” she said.
A Becquerel is a measure of radioactive decay that gauges the concentration of radon, which is a clear, odourless gas that exists naturally in soil, but can become dangerous if highly concentrated, such as in a basement or poorly ventilated area.
But Bergeron said the decrease from 800 to 200 Bq is merely a recommendation, and Health Canada does not have authority to enforce the limits.
“It is a non-binding instrument that defines a base line or target for action and is not enforceable, in and of itself, by Health Canada or others,” Bergeron said.
“The guideline, however, could be used as a basis for federal, provincial and municipal legislation concerning building and workplace safety.”
Last year, the head of a major organization that promotes radiation safety said Canada’s then-guideline of 800 Bq was dangerously high.
“We’re in the backwoods here in radon in homes. We’re at least 20 years behind the United States and the European Union,” Fergal Nolan, president of the Radiation Safety Institute of Canada told CBC in August, 2006.
Now, Bergeron says, Canada is no longer lagging in radiation and radon safety compared to the rest of the developed world. “This makes Canada better than, or at least equal to, other industrialized countries,” she said.
Radiation scans unearth first Dounreay particles of 2013
Published: 18/01/2013 11:00 – Updated: 18/01/2013 12:15
A TEAM of Dounreay monitors have recovered the first radioactive particles of 2013 to turn up on Caithness shores.
Site licence company DSRL reported a particle was found on the enclosed foreshore at the site on Wednesday of last week and a further one on Sandside Beach the following day. A spokeswoman yesterday confirmed these were the first particles to be found this year.
The latest particle to wash ashore at Sandside was found during the monthly radiation sweep of the beauty spot. It was found 10 centimetres below the surface and had an activity of 36,000 becquerels (Bq). This places it in the minor (lowest) category in terms of its radioactivity and potential health risks.
It takes to 221 the number of tiny shards of reprocessed reactor fuel recovered since monitoring began at Sandside in 1983.
The Dounreay foreshore particle was detected 11 centimetres below the surface and had an estimated reading of 2,600,000 Bq, putting it in the highest category in terms of activity and potential health risk.
It was the 285th particle found on the foreshore, which is close to the site’s one-time sea discharge outlet — the suspected source of the historic contamination. Much of the foreshore is beyond the perimeter of the licensed nuclear site but is generally inaccessible to the public due to the surrounding terrain.
DSRL has applied to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) to reduce the frequency of monitoring at Sandside from monthly to quarterly. In 2011, 45 particles were detected on the beach with just 12 found last year.
SEPA is currently consulting on whether to sanction the move, given the activity of fuel fragments found to date and the probability of encountering a particle. The proposal comes despite a fuel fragment with an unusual radionuclide composition being detected and recovered from Sandside Bay 11 months ago.
Japan -Shinjuku Demo on Feb 23; Evacuate the Children Now!
01-10February2013 · Fukushima Chernobyl
Feb 1989; Civil Protest in Belarus
The Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team is planning to have a demonstration on February 23, 2013 in Shinjuku Tokyo. We claim that the direct action taken by ordinary citizens is a very important factor for the court to consider evacuation of the children.
Historically speaking, as the Chernobyl disaster contaminated a vast areas of Belarus, the civil protests in 1989 by the ordinary parents pushed the Belarusian government to undertake the Recuperation Projects on a national basis.
Even thought our government is not willing to reflect the voices of the citizens on their policies, citizens still must shape the public’s opinion by showing the authority what democracy ought to deliver. No matter what they do or do not offer us, we cannot fall into the siilent majority because the future of the children is in our hands.
Toshio Yanagihara The Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team
Demonstration in Koriyama Fukushima in October 11, 2011
“Evacuate Children!” Rally & Demo in Koriyama City, Fukushima
The first speaker at the rally in this video is Mr. Toshio Yanagihara, attorney of the plaintiff.
The second speaker is Mr. Taro Yamada, an actor, but recently more well-known as an anti-nuke activist.
The third speaker is Ms. Chie Ito, an evacuee from Koriyama City to Tokyo.
The fourth speaker is Ms. Sadami Watabe, from Independent Living Center in Tamura City.
The original video by OurPlanet-TV (http://www.ourplanet-tv.org/?q=node/287).
Translation and captioning by tokyobrowntabby.
Fukushima facts with Noam Chomsky and the Fukushima Trial Team -New!
It is most disturbing — in fact shocking — to learn that hundreds of thousands of children remain in areas heavily affected by the Fukushima disaster, and doubtless at serious risk. There can surely be no justification for the failure to evacuate them to safety, without delay. I hope that their actions will bring an end to this cruel policy, which needlessly compounds a terrible catastrophe.
Noam Chomsky
Mothers in Fukushima talks about their living condition referring to the safety standards for the food contamination
01-10February2013
Testimonies of the mothers in Fukushima filmed by the Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team. In the video, one of the mothers highlights the fact that regulatory standard for the food in the school meals at the primary schools in Koriyama City, Fukushima is 10 Bq/kg while the standard at the cafeteria of the offices of the Fukushima local government is 1 Bq/kg, suggesting that the government could sacrifice the health of children by lifting the safety standard higher than normal levels. In so doing, The government officials seem to believe that the promotion of the local consumption of food at the primary schools would make the impact of radioactive contamination in the community look smaller.
Also, the way in which this video presents the statements of the mothers by changing their voices and hiding their faces implies the mothers’ fears of being blamed by their neighbours or other members of their community when they speak out the truth in the public.
Source
Fukushima Children Enjoys Koto Performance on Recuperation Nursery Day
01-10February2013 · Tangara
Takenoko Nursury Schoo in Fukushima have long undertaken Recuperation Nursury Day twice in a month, which provides the children with an opportunity to play in the low radiation field by taking them to the Yamagata Prececture, next to Fukushima, with an hour and half bus trip. The school bus was donated by Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation.
On a day in February, the children and staff of Takenoko cooked potetos with skin. We ate them with Miso paste. The special event for the day was a Koto performance. The tutor of Koto joins our Recuperation Nursury Day every year as a volunteer. After listening to the music played by the tutor, children also had a chance to play Koto. Some children learnt how to play Sakura, which is a Japanese traditional tune. The children seem to have had a briliant experience then. Before we left, we shared the vegetables with the parents. These vegetables are donated from the farmers in the West part of Japan and deliverd to us regularly.
Taeko Henmi
Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation
Rest and Recuperation Department
Fukushima Children Enjoys Playing with the Snow on Recuperation Nursery Day
On February 7, the children of Takenoko Nursury School took part in the Recuperation Nursury Day in Yamagata Prefecture, next to Fukushima. This day, children had an opportunity to play outside in the piled snow. The children seemed to be excited more than usual because it had been a long time since the last time they played in the snow. Some kids were already excited on the way to Yamagata.The bus was donated by Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation.
During the playtime, children played with snow in various different ways. Some rode in a sledge, some built a snow house and others made a snow statue. The mothers who came with their children also helped them to make a gorgeous tiny room of snow. The older children from high schools were making an elaborate snow statue. They were all excellent!
At the lunch time, we had a miso soup made with the vegetables donated by the farmers who regularly support us with their products delivered from the West Japan. At last, we felt the time passing really quickly and it was already the time to go home. On the way home, children were sleeping on the bus.
All day long, I was thinking that these children did not seem to be used to play with the snow. They do not tend to play actively, but rather behave quietly. It may be because they are too used to play inside quietly due to the health concerns of radioactive exposure. It is a difficult moment for us to acknowledge that these children do not like creating their own way to play with the snow. We instead would like children to learn more from the wild nature of winter when they take part in Recuperation Nursury Day.
Taeko Henmi
Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation
Rest and Recuperation Department
SourceFukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team Recieves a Message from Noam Chomsky
11-20February2013
As the Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team is going to have a demonstration on February 23 in Shinjuku Tokyo, the team recieved a message from Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author.
The following is the Chomsky’s message given to the Trial Team:
It is most disturbing — in fact shocking — to learn that hundreds of thousands of children remain in areas heavily affected by the Fukushima disaster, and doubtless at serious risk. There can surely be no justification for the failure to evacuate them to safety, without delay. I hope that their actions will bring an end to this cruel policy, which needlessly compounds a terrible catastrophe.
Noam Chomsky
Source
Icelandic MP planning Bradley Manning support trip despite US legal threats
Published: 12 February, 2013
RT
Despite potential legal retribution from American authorities, the Icelandic MP and WikiLeaks member who released the infamous ‘Collateral Murder’ video showing US war crimes in Iraq has announced plans to visit the land of the free.
Birgitta Jonsdottir is an Icelandic Member of Parliament who nearly three years ago released a classified video of a US Apache helicopter killing civilians in Iraq. Known as ‘Collateral Murder,’ Jonsdottir made the footage public in a bid to express her support for Bradley Manning, the video’s alleged source, who now stands trial for treason. The video was also instrumental in unleashing the witchhunt on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
Jonsdottir is planning to arrive in the US on April 5, despite a strong warning from Reykjavík of possible legal repurcussions. The politician says her trip, which coincides with the third anniversary of the video’s release, is her way of saying she refuses to live in fear.
“I don’t want to live in the shadows. I don’t think I’ve done anything illegal or that I’m an enemy of the US state, but if they think I’ve committed a crime, I want to know,” she told The Guardian.
Jónsdóttir also plans to exhibit photographs drawn from the ‘Collateral Murder’ on her itinerary in New York and Los Angeles. In June, the MP hopes to take the exhibition across the US ahead of Manning’s trial.
“It’s deeply troubling to me that he is the only one suffering the consequences – none of the people responsible for the war crimes in the video have been held accountable,” Jonsdottir says.
Following the release of the video, Washington has tried repeatedly to gain access to Jónsdóttir’s private information. In 2011, Twitter was forced to release her user data after a subpoena from Washington demanded personal data from her feed dating back to 2009.
Jonsdottir became the subject of US attention in 2010 when she helped Assange prepare the footage of the Apache attack allegedly leaked by Manning, who was deployed in Iraq at that time. She was responsible for organizing the volunteers, researched details of the footage of a US airstrike in Baghdad on July 12, 2007, and selected stills for distribution to the media. Eight men were killed in the attack, including two Reuters correspondents.
After the video’s release, Manning was arrested as the suspected source of the video and a large cache of diplomatic cables that he’d allegedly leaked to Assange. Manning now faces 22 counts of breaching national security, charges punishable with up to life in prison with no chance of parole.
Earlier in February, it was revealed that Iceland refused to cooperate with an FBI investigation into WikiLeaks back in August 2011, with the Icelandic interior minister having “made it clear that people interviewed or interrogated in Iceland should be interrogated by Icelandic police.”
http://rt.com/news/iceland-mp-us-visit-collateral-murder-968/
Did Norwegian Folk music cause North Korea to detonate a nuclear device?
KCNA (Korea-Norway Joint Concert Held in Pyongyang) (The final straw concert? 🙂 )
Published on May 18, 2012
Korean Central News Agency Copyright © 2000-2012 DPR of Korea
And here is the video of all the nuclear detonations in the world to 1998.. 2,053 of them for some perspective on this under 10 kiloton underground explosion… near a volcano??
North Korea’s third nuclear test could test China’s patience
“If confirmed, the latest test may not be enough to push the new leadership into casting North Korea adrift, but China may employ tougher measures, given that it has already upped the ante by agreeing to the tightened UN sanctions. If it does, North Korea can’t say it wasn’t warned.”
Associated Press in Dandong, China
South China Morning PostNorth Korea’s nuclear test on Tuesday could bring China’s growing frustration with Pyongyang to a head.
Beijing signalled its unhappiness earlier by agreeing to tightened UN sanctions after North Korea launched a rocket in December, surprising China watchers with its unusually tough line, which prompted harsh criticism from Pyongyang.
And while China isn’t expected to abandon its communist neighbour, it appears to be reassessing ties a year after new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un took office. The question is for how long China, itself under new leader Xi Jinping, will continue to back North Korea’s nettlesome policies.
“Perhaps Kim Jong-un thinks Xi Jinping will indulge him. Perhaps he’s in for a surprise,” said Richard Bush, director of the Centre for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to faxed requests for comment on Tuesday, a public holiday in China marking the Lunar New Year.
China’s state broadcaster reported on the earthquake that was the first indication that North Korea might have conducted a test. CCTV quoted residents living along the North Korean border in Jilin province as saying they felt the ground shaking for about one minute around the time the quake hit. North Korea later confirmed carrying out the test.
China is feeling spurned by Kim. Although China welcomed his ascension after his father died in December 2011 and maintained flows of aid and investment, Kim has ignored China’s interests in a stable neighbourhood with his two rocket launches and nuclear test plan. North Korea announced last month it would conduct a test to protest the toughened UN sanctions.
“At the start, China gave him a warm welcome and, I think, some aid. But we got no gratitude. They take us for granted,” said Jin Canrong, an international affairs expert at Renmin University in Beijing. “China tried to get closer to him, but it was not successful. China has become very disappointed.”
Yet Beijing also sees Pyongyang as a crucial buffer against US troops based in South Korea and Japan. It also deeply fears a regime collapse could send swarms of refugees across its border. For those reasons, Beijing is unlikely to cut Pyongyang adrift, even if it pushes North Korea harder to end its nuclear provocations and reform its broken-down economy.
“China’s not ready to turn the support to North Korea switch to ‘off’ at this stage,” said Roger Cavazos, a North Korea watcher at the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability.
North Korea’s apparent reluctance to reform its economy ranks among Beijing’s biggest frustrations, and the thorny nature of the bilateral relationship is on show along the frigid Yalu River, which forms part of the border Chinese troops crossed to rescue North Korean forces during the 1950-53 Korean War.
North Korean men work on the banks of Yalu River, across from Dadong, China. Photo: AFP
Last week, ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, dozens of North Korean trucks lined up at a customs checkpoint in the northeastern Chinese border city of Dandong, loaded with bags of rice, cooking oil, cheap electronics and other daily items that their country’s collapsed industry cannot produce enough of for its 24 million people.
Canada police arrest 36 at protest against mining projects
Canadian police arrested 36 in protest against new mining projects on February 9, 2013 in Montreal.
The rally was staged on Saturday in solidarity to the Idle No More movement, outside a job fair at Montreal’s convention centre, where businesses and workers were holding a meeting to discuss prospects within the natural resources sector.
Officials said a majority of the 36 arrested at the Saturday demonstration were charged with unlawful assembly, since the activists had not handed in a protest route in advance to authorities.
“We want to keep our resources and protect the environment and the resources that we have belong first and foremost to aboriginal people,” said one activist.
Politicians have been faced with criticism from environmental groups for the new mining plans for northern Quebec, which officials said is an attempt to maintain development for the area.
The Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal organized the job fair and it featured top politicians and business leaders.
CAH/JR
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/11/288438/canada-police-arrest-36-at-protest/
Breaking! North Korea detonated a nuclear device?
Type: Earthquake
26 minutes ago
Magnitude: 4.9
DateTime: Tuesday February 12 2013, 02:57:51 UTC
Region: North Korea
Depth: 1 km
Source: USGS Feed
http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/
EMSC, USGS & GEOFON
http://earthquake-report.com/2013/02/11/earthquakes-in-the-world-on-february-12-2013-m4-5-or-more/
USGS: Earthquake Detected in North Korea
(SEOUL, South Korea)
“ The U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday it had detected a magnitude 4.9 earthquake in North Korea, but neither Pyongyang nor Seoul confirmed whether North Korea had conducted its widely anticipated third nuclear test.
“The South Korean Defense Ministry said it was trying to determine whether North Korea had conducted a nuclear test. Nuclear blasts can create tremors but they are distinct from those caused by natural earthquakes….”
Read more: http://world.time.com/2013/02/11/magnitude-4-9-earthquake-detected-in-north-korea/#ixzz2KeYhSNtz
‘Artificial’ earthquake detected in North Korea – reports
Apparently man-made seismic activity has been detected in North Korea, South Korean Yonhap news agency reported. The United States Geological Survey confirms a 4.9 magnitude earthquake at a depth of exactly one kilometer in North Korea’s northeast.
Meanwhile the Japanese Meteorological Agency reported that the activity’s epicenter was located at exactly the same place and depth as that of the quake caused by North Korea’s last known underground nuclear test, on May 25, 2009
http://rt.com/news/north-korea-artificial-earthquake-981/
Seismic activity reported in area of previous North Korea nuclear tests
The seismic disturbance took place at a time when several East Asian countries, including China, North Korea’s major ally, are observing public holidays for the Lunar New Year. It also took place less than 24 hours before President Barack Obama was due to make his State of the Union address.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/11/world/asia/north-korea-seismic-disturbance/
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Statement by CTBTO Executive Secretary Tibor Tóth on the seismic event detected in North Korea as a response to media questions
Vienna, 12 February 2013
“Today our monitoring stations picked up evidence of an unusual seismic event in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The event shows explosion-like characteristics and its location is roughly congruent with the 2006 and 2009 DPRK nuclear tests. For now, further data and analysis are necessary to establish what kind of event this is. If confirmed as a nuclear test, this act would constitute a clear threat to international peace and security, and challenges efforts made to strengthen global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, in particular by ending nuclear testing.”
Background:
A total of 183 States, the vast majority of the international community, have signed the CTBT, underscoring their support for a definitive ban on nuclear explosions. Of these, 159 countries have also ratified the Treaty. To enter into force, however, the CTBT must be signed and ratified by 44 specific States. These States participated in the negotiations of the Treaty in 1996 and possessed nuclear power or research reactors at the time. Thirty-six of these States have ratified the Treaty, including the three nuclear weapon States – France, Russia and the United Kingdom. Of the eight remaining States, China, Egypt, Iran, Israel and the United States have signed the Treaty, whereas the DPRK, India and Pakistan have not yet signed it.
A verification regime is being built to monitor compliance with the Treaty. Over 85 percent of the 337 facilities in the International Monitoring System are already in place, see interactive map. The Member States are provided with data collected by the monitoring stations, as well as data analyses prepared by the International Data Centre in Vienna, Austria. Once the Treaty has entered into force, an on-site inspection can be invoked in case of a suspicious event.
The North Korean nuclear tests on 9 October 2006 and 25 May 2009 were detected immediately by the CTBTO’s monitoring stations.
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TV: Officials outside Fukushima told not to accept voluntary evacuees from Fukushima? “Oh, finally, they confessed and gone this far” (VIDEO)
Published: February 11th, 2013 at 1:51 am ET
By ENENews
Title: FUKUSHIMA:What Can We Do Now? [part1]
Source: dekiru.or.jp
Uploaded by: imawatachitachi
Date Broadcast: February 28, 2012
Upload Date: February 9, 2013
In the wake of the Great East Earthquake and nuclear power plant accident on March 11th, 2011, a number of citizen groups developed detailed reconstruction plan through discussions from their standpoints and set up a program to send the news report and transmit information. The public access program, which broadcast voices of citizens, started on April 5th, with the cooperation from BS11, one of the commercial satellite broadcast channels. […]
At 11:15 in
Mother: I’ve heard that Fukushima governor told the other prefectures (which would be ready to accept evacuees from Fukushima) not to accept voluntary evacuees. […]
Host: The comment at the end of VTR said that Fukushima prefecture has requested to other prefectures not to accept voluntary evacuees from Fukushima. Here is the article at that time, on Dec. 2 last year in Mainichi Newspaper Evening issue. The media reported that Fukushima prefecture announced to the other prefectures to stop the system of establishing temporary housings for evacuees, especially for voluntary evacuees. When I heard the news, to tell the truth, I thought ‘Oh, finally, they confessed and gone this far.’ How do you think of the situation as a resident?
Resident: Actually to my shame, I didn’t know the news. Come to think of it, we are facing the severe situation. However, the governor even said something like that. I think it is not acceptable. It is their responsibility to protect the citizens’ lives. I feel that they have done something they are not supposed to do, actually. Yes. We, the citizens in Fukushima have developed a feeling of distrust towards the government after learning the fact.
Watch the broadcast here
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