Jeremy Hammond Legal Update | The other Bradley Manning
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Published on Feb 22, 2013
Abby Martintalks to RT Web Producer, Andrew Blake, about the case of political activist, Jeremy Hammond, convicted over the hacking of Strategic Forecasting Inc, and the leaking of the now infamous Stratfor emails.
““The tragic death of Internet freedom fighter Aaron Swartz reveals the government’s flawed ‘cyber security strategy’ as well as its systematic corruption involving computer crime investigations, intellectual property law, and government/corporate transparency,” Hammond writes. “The United States Attorney’s aggressive prosecution, riddled with abuse and misconduct, is what led to the death of this hero. This sad and angering chapter should serve as a wake-up call for all of us to acknowledge the danger inherent in our criminal justice system.””
Hacker Jeremy Hammond attacks US cyberwars from behind bars
February 22, 2013 15:35
Only hours before a federal judge dismissed concerns over a possible conflict of interest and refused to step down in the case against hacker Jeremy Hammond, the defendant issued a strong-worded assault critiquing the government that’s prosecuting him.
On Thursday, US Federal Judge Loretta Preska denied a motion for disqualification entered in the court two months earlier by attorneys for Hammond, a 27-year-old political activist awaiting trial for his alleged role in a high-profile series of hacks. And although the judge acknowledged this week that her husband of over 30 years was victimized in one of those hacks, Preska said the defense’s request for recuse was based off of insubstantial and insufficient speculation.
“Upon review of the record, Defendant has fail to carry his substantial burden of showing that a reasonable observer, with knowledge and understanding of the relevant facts, would ‘entertain significant doubt that justice would be done absent recusal,’” Judge Preska told the court [.pdf].
The federal government has accused Hammond of participating with the shadowy hacktivist movement Anonymous and two offshoots — LulzSec and AntiSec — in a laundry list of cyber escapades that have targeted, among others, the Arizona Department of Public Safety, security firm HBGary Federal and Strategic Forecasting Inc., or Stratfor — a private intelligence company that has been called a “Shadow CIA” by some. With regards to the Stratfor hack, Hammond and others are attributed with swiping data from the company’s servers in December 2011 and then publically releasing internal emails, client lists and subscriber credit card information. Two months ago, it was discovered that the name and email address of Judge Preska’s husband, attorney Thomas Kavaler, were included in the files pilfered from Stratfor and then circulated by members of Anonymous and the media. The internal correspondence, some of which has led to significant news breaks in their own right, has also been continuously published by the WikiLeaks whistleblower site.
Mr. Kavaler’s information was indeed released through the hack, the judge admitted, but no other sensitive information of his had been compromised. Further, Judge Preska dismissed concerns that both she and her husband maintained professional relationships with others who were victimized, vaguely or otherwise, in the hack.
“The reasonable observer would conclude that any appearance of this court’s interest in Mr. Kavaler as a victim of the crime is too insubstantial to require disqualification,” the judge wrote.
In regards to other possible connections between the court and the Stratfor victims, Judge Preska wrote, “[the] Defendant’s attempt to draw such a link is futile.”
Syrian rebels seize nuclear facility, says report
- Saturday, February 23, 2013
- Adar 13, 5773
- 9:45 am IST
Al-Kibar site, destroyed in 2007 in a reported Israeli strike, was being used for research
Syrian rebels claimed Saturday that they had taken control of a nuclear facility that was reportedly bombed by Israel in 2007.
The al-Kibar site, located in the Deir ez-Zor region of eastern Syria, is believed to have housed a nuclear reactor, which according to foreign reports, was destroyed by the Israeli Air Force.
Israel has never admitted to carrying out the airstrike, and Syria denied that the facility was military in purpose.
In messages posted online, rebel sources described the site on Saturday as a “nuclear research facility.”
Some 165 people died Friday in clashes between President Bashar Assad’s forces and rebel fighters, reported Al Jazeera. In reported scud missile attacks in Aleppo, at least 29 people were killed, according to activists, and dozens more were feared to be trapped under rubble.
The UN estimates that nearly 70,000 people have died in the nearly two-year-old Syrian civil war.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/syrian-rebels-seize-nuclear-facility/
Public prosecutors won’t prosecute Katsumata of Tepco, Fukushima citizens demanded Tepco to surrender to justice
Posted by Mochizuki on February 22nd, 2013
According to freelance journalist Tanaka, Tepco’s former chairman Katsumata will not be prosecuted due to the lack of evidence.
Plaintiffs from Fukushima surrounded public prosecutors office and Tepco and demanded Tepco to surrender.
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The information that Tepco’s former chairman Katsumata had a cognitive interview leaked to mass media. It seems like Tokyo district public prosecutors office is not to prosecute him for the lack of evidence. This evening, the plaintiffs from Fukushima will surround the public prosecutors- “side with the strong and crush the weak”
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「勝俣元東電会長、聴取」のリーク情報がマスコミを駆け巡る。 地検は証拠不十分などの理由で不起訴にする方針のようだ。 強きを助け、弱きをくじく検察庁をきょう夕方、福島の原告団たちが包囲する。
— 田中龍作さん (@tanakaryusaku) 2013年2月22日
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The plaintiffs surrounded Tokyo district public prosecutors office to demand investigation for Tepco, and then moved to Tepco, the principal offender. It’s been a while since last time over 500 Fukushima citizens protested in front of Tepco.
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捜査を進めるよう東京地検を包囲し、要請していた福島の告訴団は、主犯格の東電に移動した。500人を超す住民たちが東電前で抗議の声を上げるのは久々だ。
— 田中龍作さん (@tanakaryusaku) 2013年2月22日
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The situation is imminent in front of Tepco. Fukushima citizens submit the written request to demand Tepco to surrender to justice for causing Fukushima accident.
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緊迫する東電前なう。福島住民が、原発事故を起こした罪を認め自首するよう求める要請書を東電に手渡した。
— 田中龍作さん (@tanakaryusaku) 2013年2月22日
Iori Mochizuki http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/02/public-prosecutors-wont-prosecute-katsumata-of-tepco-fukushima-citizens-demanded-tepco-to-surrender-to-justice/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29
Tepco Chairman’s Power Poses Test for Tokyo
March 21, 2012, 1:48 p.m. ET
WSJ
Tsunehisa Katsumata, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., 9501.TO -0.49% is among the most powerful and well-connected businessmen in Japan. A former Tepco president, he essentially took control of the company last March, after dealing with the crisis at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant proved too much for then-President Masataka Shimizu.
Now, as Tepco and the government hammer out a proposal—due by month’s end—on how to rebuild the utility amid staggering costs from the nuclear accident, Mr. Katsumata is the most formidable and effective champion for keeping the company out of Tokyo’s control, government officials and others familiar with the negotiations say….”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303863404577283073123016712.html
China admits to ‘cancer villages’ in official report and big increase in thyroid cancers
Updated Sat Feb 23, 2013 1:30am AEDT
The Chinese Government has acknowledged so-called “cancer villages” for the first time in an official report on pollution and public health.
The term is used to describe towns with higher incidences of cancer due to air and water pollution.
China’s Environment Ministry has also acknowledged local industry habitually uses poisonous and harmful chemicals banned elsewhere in the world, which pose a risk to human health and the environment.
The government faces growing discontent over hazardous smog and industrial waste problems in China’s big cities.
Environmental lawyer Wang Canfa, who runs an aid centre in Beijing for victims of pollution, says this is the first time the “cancer village” phrase has appeared in a ministry document.
“It shows that the Environment Ministry has acknowledged that pollution has led to people getting cancer,” he said.
“It shows that this issue, of environmental pollution leading to health damages, has drawn attention.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-22/china-admit-to-cancer-villages/4535470
China -Thyroid cancer cases continue to increase at double-digit rate
Updated: 2013-01-26 03:47
Chen Wanqing, deputy director of the National Central Cancer Registry, added: “The reasons for the increases aren’t exactly clear, but factors like increasing exposure to radiation, mounting workload and mental pressure, and irregular lifestyles could be significant.” Qoute from Chinese article,,
Let the Kids Play!! Help us send the kids in Fukushima to camp.
Because of the Nuclear Plant Disaster, the lives of the children in Fukushima have been turned upside down. We want to let them play!
Update:Because of your amazing support we have exceeded our goal! Thank you so much.Knowing there’s all these wonderful people supporting us, we want to take this to the next level and keep on campaigning!Please help us create an amazing experience for these children and spread the word about the project. Let the kids play!! Love TA
The TA project is a group of young Japanese professionals living in Osaka. We’re not captain planet and we’re not perfect. But we are united with the passion of wanting to help these children in Fukushima and to make a difference.
The Story
Did you know children in Kori-machi Fukushima are only allowed to play outside for 1 hour because of the risk of radiation?
And this is only one of the many side effects caused by the Nuclear Plant Melt Down in Fukushima. Well and truly the lives of people in Fukushima have been turned upside down.
Not only have children lost their homes, family and friends. Everyday they have to stress about radiation levels in the food they eat, the water they drink and the environment they play in.
No child should ever have to go through this!!
Let’s do something for these kids!!
The Impact
The TA project is inviting children from Fukushima for a 4day camp in Osaka from August 17th to 20th.
This is how we’re going to help…….
Fukushima : Nuclear Waste Curse and Reactor 4 Fuel Not Visible
Rad News 2/22/13
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Published on Feb 22, 2013
Local communities oppose Ohma plant construction
Municipalities on the northernmost island of Hokkaido have asked the Japanese government to halt indefinitely the construction of a nuclear plant in neighboring Aomori Prefecture. NHK
Update Hedges Vs. Obama and NDAA
Published on Feb 22, 2013
Manuel Rapalo talks to Alexa O’Brien, journalist and plaintiff in the lawsuit against the NDAA’s indefinite detention clause, about the latest in the case and why the issue has yet to permeate the mainstream media.
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Thinking after Fukushima. Epistemic shift in social sciences
“….The presuppositions and limitations of its three components, a theory of risk, a conception of trust and the idea of “knowledge
society” are now exposed to public scrutiny. The apparent rationality, efficiency and legitimacy of this complex failed to anticipate, prevent and respond to this disaster. Its real
function was to dissimulate the power structure behind. To analyze these networks of mutual interests and supports is an exercise in democracy…”
Abstract
The Fukushima catastrophe is a turning point in the conception, role and management of technology in industrial societies. As did Hiroshima (on another dimension) after 1945, the Fukushima nuclear accident questions and transforms established conceptions and values concerning the relations between technology, politics, industry, society and the environment. It has become impossible to think after Fukushima as we did before. This catastrophe initiates a major epistemic and conceptual shift with long-term consequences. This paper focuses on a powerful conceptual complex associating the notions of risk, trust and knowledge society. This complex associates discourses, theories and policies. The objective is to criticize this conceptual complex in order to explore how to rethink, after Fukushima, the relations between technology, politics, industry and society.
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Rieu_KS_after_Fukushima_14-3-12.pdf (214.9 KB) |
Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Sediment Sample Collected from Flooded Torus Room of Reactor 1
Uh… They put the sediment sample in a plastic bottle?
According to TEPCO, the plastic bottle is emitting 4 millisieverts/hour radiation with the sediment in it.
From TEPCO’s Photos and Videos Library, 2/22/2013:
Workers in full gear collecting samples through the hole on the first floor of the Reactor 1 building, where the air radiation dose ranges from 2 to 10 millisieverts/hour. It took 20 workers 2 hours and 35 minutes to complete the task, for which they received 1.46 millisievert (maximum) of radiation exposure.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-sediment-sample.html
From the comments:
A polyethylene bottle is an appropriate container for reducing α, β, and neutron emission. E.g., from “Neutron Interactions with Matter”, P. Rinard:
“Figure 12.8 shows that a cylinder of polyethylene is more effective in preventing the transmission of neutrons than a cylinder of heavy metal. A neutron loses most of its energy by colliding with the light elements in polyethylene and then the mean-free-path length becomes small as the cross sections increase.”
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/lib-www/la-pubs/00326407.pdf
Six, Not One, Rad Waste Tanks Are Leaking at Hanford, Washington Governor Says
The leaking tanks were missed because graphs that monitor the waste levels were evaluated only over a short period, rather than a longer period that might have shown the levels changing, Inslee said.
Friday, February 22, 2013
EXSKF
Tanks as they were being installed, (from Wikipedia on Hanford):
Governor Jay Inslee had said a week ago that one tank was found leaking (see my 2/16/2013 post).
Now it turns out there are six tanks leaking extremely toxic liquid, but they don’t know which six, out of 177 tanks.
From Fox News quoting AP (2/22/2013; emphasis is mine):
6 underground Hanford nuclear tanks leaking, Washington governor says
Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Friday.
The leaking tanks strike another blow to federal efforts to clean up south-central Washington’s Hanford nuclear reservation, where any successes often are overshadowed by delays, budget overruns and technological challenges.
State officials just last week announced that one of Hanford’s 177 underground tanks was leaking in the range of 150 to 300 gallons a year, posing a risk to groundwater and rivers. So far, nearby wells haven’t detected higher radioactivity levels.
Inslee traveled to Washington, D.C., this week to discuss the problem with federal officials. He said Friday he learned during meetings that six tanks are leaking waste.
“We received very disturbing news today,” the governor said. “I think that we are going to have a course of new action and that will be vigorously pursued in the next several weeks.”
Inslee noted there are legal and ethical considerations to cleaning up the Hanford site, both at the state and national level. He also stressed the state would impose a “zero-tolerance” policy on leaking radioactive waste into the soil and insisted that the Department of Energy fully clean up the site.
TV on U.S. Nuclear Waste Leak: Feds “just trying to figure out exactly what’s going on here” — “This has a lot of people saying, ‘What is going on out at Hanford?’” (VIDEOS)
Published: February 22nd, 2013 at 10:48 pm ET
By ENENews
Follow-up to: Governor: “We received very disturbing news today” — Radioactive leak at U.S. nuclear site much larger than first reported — No ‘immediate’ health risks
KING5 Seattle: This has a lot of people saying, “What is going on out at Hanford?” […] I just got off the phone with the Department of Energy’s people at Hanford who say they’re just trying to figure out exactly what’s going on here.
Watch more video on today’s Hanford revelations here
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