Govt leaves field clear for fear to fish in troubled waters
The government has not spared even the youths who had applied for passports to join commercial shipping or jobs in the Gulf. Savio Nasren, Francis Reginald and R. Vignesh were among the youths who said they were denied a positive and timely verification report by the police to “teach them a lesson for joining the protest”.
A letter from the Madurai-based regional passport office to one of them mentioned an “adverse police verification report” that said he was “involved in criminal cases”.
Friday , February 8 , 2013
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130208/jsp/nation/story_16537357.jsp#.UStDgnbbBok
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Safety concern is not the solitary factor troubling fisherfolks living near the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. They complain of loss of livelihood, too. Many are bracing for a deeper impact on marine biology and their incomes once the plant becomes fully operational. Francis Shanti, a 53-year-old woman, spoke of the underwater rock formation close to the plant that used to be home to an army of lobsters, the most prized catch for generations. The export-quality lobsters had brought some prosperity to the lives of the fishermen, unlike their mostly impoverished brethren in eastern India. “Earlier, our men used to catch around 10,000 lobsters in one trip in the sea close to the plant. Now police threaten to fire upon them if we venture there. The catch has come down to 4,000 pieces as the lobster habitat is disturbed. It’s difficult to repay loans that we took for fibreglass boats and nets,” Shanti said. Septuagenarian M. Lourdeswamy is worried about misgivings among buyers on the catch from Kudankulam. “Earlier, our catch was sold in (neighbouring) Kerala and other parts of Tamil Nadu. Wholesalers are now avoiding the fish we netted. They fear that fish from our area are either poisoned or would rot fast because of contamination from the plant,” he said. Others pointed out that fishermen in the entire Kanyakumari-Tuticorin belt as well as a large section of the marine food exporters near the Tuticorin port have been supporting the anti-nuclear protests out of the same fear. “With the Uvari-Kollam zone being the breeding ground for all types of fish, they fear that buyers in the US and Europe will stop taking the catch on the ground of radioactive contamination,” an exporter said. G. Sundarrajan, an environmental engineer and member of the Friends of Earth, a green group supportive of the agitation, termed the fears as justified. “Kudankulam has India’s first two light-water reactors installed to produce 1000MW each. The government itself admitted that the plant would release huge amount of hot water at 37 degrees Celsius into the sea. In view of the official admission of the eventuality of releasing small amount of radioactivity also, the marine population, including fish and offshore ecology, will be devastated gradually,” he said. According to him, following the government’s decision to dump the nuclear waste at Kudankulam itself after having shelved the initial plan to dump it in the abandoned mines in Karnataka’s Kolar, radiation hazards will affect ground water and agriculture. |
The messy history of the Hanford Reservation radioactive mess
.At The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, A Steady Drip Of Toxic Trouble by Eric Nusbaum Feb 24, 2013 Eric Nusbaum tours the largest environmental cleanup operation the United States government has ever undertaken.”,,,,,,,,Late in 2010, crews with the contractor Washington Closure Hanford were set to begin demolition on what had once been the most radioactive structure on the site: Building 324. Located less than half a mile from both the city of Richland and the Columbia River, Building 324 housed a pair of “hot cells,” which are three-story enclosures that scientists use to perform remotely-operated tests of highly unstable materials. One of those cells, B-Cell, was so radioactive in the 1990s that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that “an unprotected person standing inside could have received a fatal dose in less than two seconds.” By 2010, the building’s worst radioactive material had been removed. But when Washington Closure Hanford tested the ground under the site, it found radiation levels significantly higher than surrounding soil, which itself was already contaminated. Needless to say, demolition on Building 324 has not resumed. The site is “currently being deactivated,” says the Hanford website.
There are similar stories to tell about buildings all over the site, messy stories about government bureaucracy and highly radioactive equipment and the troublesome permanence of nuclear waste. The process of producing plutonium at Hanford required the constant transport of highly unstable materials from one facility to another to another, which made containing the mess basically impossible. Continue reading
How Radiation Affects Life
Powerful Lies – The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster And The Radioactive Effects On Human Health By Richard Wilcox PhD 2-22-13 Rense.com,
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“…….The nuclear establishment would prefer the general public believe that nuclear radiation is essentially nothing to be concerned with. However, their own science and words belie the rhetoric. The Cult of Nuclearists have billions of dollars to devote to propaganda whereas the Nuclear Truth Tellers (NTTers) are marginalized by a whole host of economic and political tricks. One of the trump cards that the Nuclearists hold is that understanding the science of radiation effects when presented in an intentionally confusing way to mislead is beyond the capabilities of the average person to grasp, and that they have no other choice than to trust the experts. Fortunately there is a large body of literature that debunks the nuclear industry’s powerful lies. Continue reading
Danger to Sri Lanka from Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
Lanka seeks protection from Indian radiation http://www.emirates247.com/news/sri-lanka/lanka-seeks-protection-from-indian-radiation-2013-02-23-1.496099, February 23, 2013 Even before being commissioned, Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant had developed leaks and leading environmentalists have urged the Indian government to protect Sri Lanka from the nuclear power plant, ‘The Island’ reported. Continue reading
Inadequate assessment for planned Saurashtra’s Bhavnagar nuclear plant
‘Cancel public hearing for Mithi Virdi nuclear project’
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/cancel-public-hearing-for-mithi-virdi-nuclear-project/article4449713.ece
THE HINDU, 24 Feb 13, Environmentalists in Gujarat have claimed that
the March 5 environmental public hearing (EPH) for the 6,000-MWe
nuclear power plant in Saurashtra’s Bhavnagar district will be on the
basis of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) by Engineers India
Limited, which did not have the necessary accreditation. Continue reading
BBC Persian: A history of lies and plots
Following the arrests and the hearing into the detainees’ cases, director of the BBC World Service Peter Horrocks claimed earlier this month that Iran is following a security plot against the BBC staff, by which he meant the BBC Persian.
Now a question mark hangs over Horrocks comment, that is exactly who is hatching plots against whom, especially against the colourful background of BBC anti-Iranian conspiracies.
Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:58AM GMT
Press TV
Image source : http://bpc-world.co.uk/2011/07/bbc-bombast-%E2%80%93-propaganda-complaints-and-black-holes-of-silence/
BBC stayed on radio waves in the Middle Eastern country for 50 years before it started its BBC Persian TV broadcasts in 2008.
BBC Persian radio, known in Iran as Radio London, was one of the first foreign-language services of the British state broadcaster and began its work to counter Radio Berlin, which aired Persian broadcasts for Iranians, during the First World War.
The objective was clear: to blacken the name of Germans, who were fighting Allies (Britain, France and Russia), in Iran to occupy the country and gain access to its strategic resources as well as its railway and road transport during the war, through pretending that the Iranian government is inclined toward London’s enemy, i.e. Germany.
BBC did its part of the plot and Britons and Russians invaded Iran from the South and the North, respectively, occupying the country under the pretext of hindering Germany.
BBC hatched a similar plot in the early 1950’s after the then Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized Iranian oil industry, which was formerly dominated by Britain.
Deprived of Iranian oil and outraged by Mosaddegh marginalizing the then Iranian despot Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and in turn the British who were his main backer, the British planned a coup d’état in Iran.
Once more, the broadcaster had a key role to play in the execution of the 1953 coup, dubbed Operation Ajax, which overthrew the democratically-elected government of Mosaddegh and brought back the now-deposed Iranian dictator to power.
In addition to broadcasts that pretended Mosaddegh was linked to communists in Iran, a BBC Radio 4 documentary in 2005 revealed that there is evidence showing a radio newsreader inserted the word “exactly” into a midnight time check one summer night in 1953, that was a code word to the toppled Iranian ruler to go ahead with his coup plan, executed by the CIA at the request of British spy agency MI6.
However, BBC’s damaging role did not stop at helping Allied Forces occupy Iran, nor at helping return a despot to office in the country. It continued to the very present day.
After the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, BBC Persian turned to unprecedentedly distorted news about the Iraqi-imposed war on Iran trying to persuade Iranians that the Islamic Republic was unable to tackle its problems.
The British state broadcaster’s enmity toward Iran once more took forms reminiscent of the 1953 coup in 2009 after the corporation turned to unconfirmed news sources to cover the presidential election in Iran in direct contravention of its own code of ethics.
The corporation had indeed made important preparations before sowing sedition in Iran that year.
The British Foreign Office proposed the creation of BBC Persian TV news channel three years earlier and it was launched less than six months before Iran’s 2009 presidential vote. The channel effectively replaced BBC Persian Radio as London’s propaganda apparatus against Iran.
(Updated with Word Cloud of Speech) PM Abe Goes to Washington DC, Declares “I Am Back, So Japan Shall Be”, Hardly Anyone Cares in the US
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Image source ; http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre91l10p-us-usa-japan-abe-islands/
Article by EXSKF
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/pm-abe-goes-to-washington-dc-declares-i.html
The Japanese media has made a big deal out of Abe’s visit, telling us how the prime minister negotiated the shale gas deal and TPP (Transpacific Partnership free trade scheme) and how he gave an English speech at a prestigious institution (Center for Strategic and International Studies, or CSIS).
Not just the media but Japanese citizens in Japan have been making a big deal out of it. Some support him, others criticize him for committing too much in favor of the US.
So I searched if there was any major coverage of the visit in the US mainstream media. After all, with the 20% fall of yen in a short span of time and with accusation of currency manipulation, you would think the visit generated some media interest. North Korea did the nuclear test, China continues its rhetoric over the Senkaku Islands.
Image source ; http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/18/us-japan-usa-idUSBRE90H1AX20130118
Wrong. Of the major papers, all I found was an article in Wall Street Journal on February 22, and it was written by a Japanese reporter.
I went to the CSIS site, and found the video and the transcript of the speech and the Q&A session that followed.
The speech is devoid of substance, meaningless in a literal sense to the English-speaking audience (I can just see through the original Japanese). What’s even sadder is that there was only one question from the media. The other questions were from the CEO of CSIS, a college student, and a CSIS staff.
I searched for the video of the press conference after the meeting with President Obama. Well, it was not even a press conference but just an extremely brief chit-chat with the press in the Oval Office with the president and the prime minister sitting on their chairs with legs crossed.
All questions were directed to President Obama, except one. And that only one question was asked by a Japanese reporter in Japanese.
Here’s from Abe’s speech at the CSIS. He starts off by talking about himself. According to his narrative, his quitting the prime minister’s job was to reflect on the future of Japan, not because of his chronic diarrhea:
…I am back and so shall Japan be.
…The time I’ve spent, five long years, since leaving office as prime minister was my time for reflections. First and foremost, I reflected upon where Japan should stand in the future. I didn’t think whether Japan could do this or that. I thought more often what Japan must continue to do.
He also says he looked at the globe. (Huh?)
I also looked at the globe. It tells me that as your long-standing ally and partner, Japan is a country that has benefited from and contributed to peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific for well over half a century. The bedrock for that, needless to say, has been our alliance.
It is high time in this age of Asian resurgence for Japan to bear even more responsibilities to promote our shared rules and values, preserve commons and grow side by side with all the high achievers in the region. No luxury is allowed for Japan to be self-absorbed in its struggle against economic malaise.
My mental globe also told me that Japan must remain a robust partner in fight against terrorism. My resolve is even stronger now after what happened in Algeria, the killing of 10 Japanese and three American engineers.
The world still awaits Japan, I thought, in promoting human rights in the fight against poverty, illness and global warming, and the list goes on. That’s why, ladies and gentlemen, I stood for office again. That’s why I’m resolute to turn around Japanese economy.
“In this age of Asian resurgence”? He said this to the US audience? Oh boy. Hubris is back.
I have no doubt that the original Japanese speech was written by the prime minister himself who is, basically, full of himself.
Quite a contrast to the speech that DPJ’s Seiji Maehara gave to the former Congress members back in September 2012. Maehara’s speech had substance, and was interesting – so much so that I ended up watching the entire 1 hour video.
George Galloway debates the Syrian revolution in Lebanon (Video)
British MP George Galloway in debate with rebel spokesman. He points out the Syrian revolution is supported by Britian, USA, Isreal, Saudi Arabia etc..
” ..You say that you dont care, but they bought you!”
Must see!
George Galloway owns an anti-Syrian propagandist
Published on Sep 3, 2012 by Ry Dawson
recorded 28 August 2012
The ending is the best
And here is George kicking the senates butt!
George Galloway Vs The US Senate (Full Video)
George Galloway takes on the US Senate and wins
British MP George Galloway has told US senators who accused him of profiting from Iraq oil dealings their claims were the “mother of all smokescreens”.
How is mass ignorance created? Article on nuclear venting published 2 years late?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-axwSX3yAnw
aristoman007
Published on Feb 22, 2013
Fukushima radiation spread to residential areas hours before venting (original article in Japanese below)
Radioactive material from the damaged Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant spread to residential areas hours before workers vented the containment vessel of the plant’s No. 1 reactor on March 12, 2011, to release pressure, it has emerged.
In one area, the level of radiation had surged to more than 700 times the normal level, indicating that many local residents were exposed to high levels of radiation before they evacuated.
The Fukushima Prefectural Government operated 25 monitoring posts around the nuclear power plant before it was crippled by the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. Five monitoring posts were swept away by the tsunami, and 20 couldn’t send data because the quake caused power cuts. Accordingly, officials were unable to put the data to use when evacuating residents.
Over the period up until September last year, the prefectural government collected and analyzed data from the 20 monitoring posts that survived the disaster. Results of its analysis were published on the prefectural government’s website and the prefecture notified local bodies. However, it was not revealed that radiation had spread before the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), commenced venting operations — and neither the Diet nor the government’s nuclear accident investigation committees were aware of the fact.
Workers are believed to have first tried opening a vent at the plant at 10:17 a.m. on March 12, 2011. TEPCO reported success after a fourth venting operation at about 2:30 p.m. the same day.
However, data at four monitoring posts in the Koriyama, Yamada, Kamihatori and Shinzan districts in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Futaba indicated that radiation levels had risen hours before TEPCO starting opening the vents.
Radiation dosages in the four areas before the disaster ranged between 0.04 and 0.05 microsieverts per hour, but as of 5 a.m. the level in the Koriyama district, located about 2.5 kilometers north of the plant, had swelled to 0.48 microsieverts per hour and at 6 a.m. it stood at 2.94 microsieverts per hour. By 9 a.m., roughly one hour before officials started opening the vent, the hourly radiation level had surged to 7.8 microsieverts. In the Yamada district 5.5 kilometers west of the power plant, the radiation level at 10 a.m. had increased to 32.47 microsieverts per hour — roughly 720 times the normal figure.
The average radiation dosage permitted by the government under normal conditions works out at 0.23 microsieverts per hour. The data obtained from the monitoring posts shows that radiation levels shot up rapidly over a short period of time. Officials believe that the radiation levels were affected by changes in the wind direction.
Gundersen: We’re getting reports from Japan of deformed children, troubled pregnancies after Fukushima (AUDIO)
Published: February 25th, 2013 at 12:29 am ET
By ENENews
Title: Forgotten Fukushima-Japan Two Years After the Daiichi Accident
Source: Fairewinds Energy Education
Date: Feb. 24, 2013
At 5:30 in
Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: The Fairewinds site has been getting a lot of anecdotal evidence from people all over northern Japan. We just got an email last week from a woman, whose two sisters were pregnant, and one child was born deformed and the other died in the womb. And they’re pregnant during the accident and they could tell a metallic taste on their tongues and all that kind of stuff so I just am concerned that the Japanese government isn’t properly counting for that. […]
At 14:30 in
Gundersen: Your symposium* is just one more opportunity to let people know in Japan that the experience they’re feeling — the metallic taste on your tongue, the illnesses, the bloody noses, etc. — are not something that’s in your brain, and in fact these are real physiological issues that your government ‘s not addressing.
So I’m glad you’re doing it, the Japanese have to know that this is not a psychological issue, that these are real physiological issues based on real physiological exposures.
(*For details of the symposium sponsored by the Helen Caldicott Foundation on March 11-12 in New York City, please visit http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org/symposium.html)
Full program here
In these articles we see some evidence of censorship in Japan.
Fukushima, the hidden disaster – Politicians in Japan that spoke out!
21st February 2013
Arclight2011
One of the situations that developed after the earthquake and the resulting Meltdowns of three nuclear reactor cores and a mysterious explosion in the number four reactor building, was that the Japanese government and local officials did not appear to be open and transparent in their dealing of the crisis,….Issues of Radioactive Exposure are Considered Taboo on Japanese Media
WorldNetworkChildren
Published on Feb 13, 2013
On December 20, 2012, a multi-professional symposium was held in Tokyo. The specialty of the speakers ranged from freelance journalist, politician to comedian. The symposium was organised by Free Press Association of Japan, a non-profit organisation.‘A2′ (TRAILER予告編) documentary about Fukushima children with thyroid cysts and nodules
SYNOPSIS: Many children in Fukushima were never evacuated after the nuclear meltdown on March 11, 2011. Now the number of Fukushima children found to have thyroid cysts and nodules is increasing. What will this mean for their future?
シノプシス: 福島の子供達の多くは、メルトダウン後も避難させてもらえなかった。嚢胞としこりを持つ福島の子供達の数が増加してきている。このことが彼らの未来に対して意味するものは？
Fukushima: BBC Debunked – Chernobyl: BBC Debunked
“A range of other evidence assessed by the ESC (UK press complaints dept.) included a report showing there have been 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer reported in children and adolescents as of 2005 – with many more expected over the coming decades.‘”
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/02/15/fukushima-bbc-debunked-chernobyl-bbc-debunked/
Powerful Lies – The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster And The Radioactive Effects On Human Health By Richard Wilcox PhD 2-22-13 Rense.com, “………. How many people will die from Fukushima nuclear meltdown radiation? Two years have passed since Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster. Every day we learn of more evidence of the dangers of low-level radiation from a variety of natural and man-made causes, including medical x-rays and scans (11; 12). Our health, and particularly the health of people in Fukushima, is under increasing distress.
We now see evidence of children with thyroid cancer from the Fukushima area (13). It has also been revealed that the mass media in Japan is unofficially BANNED from discussing radiation issues. Journalists who write about radiation dangers will be fired whereas they are permitted to debate whether Japan should use nuclear energy or not (14).
The latter debate is permissible because it is long-term and changeable depending…
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Eutelsat Israeli chief behind attack on Iran channels
“….On May 25th, 2009 48 editors-in-chief and leading journalists from 19 countries adopted and signed the “European Charter on Freedom of the Press” in Hamburg.In ten articles, the charter formulates principles for the freedom of the press from government interference – in particular for their right to safety from surveillance, electronic eavesdropping and searches of editorial departments and computers, and to unimpeded access for journalists and citizens to all domestic and foreign sources of information .
The goal is to assert the charter’s validity across Europe and to make its adoption a condition in EU accession negotiations. The charta was handed over to the European Commission in Brussels on June 9th 2009 and to the Council of Europe in Luxembourg on October 26th 2009….” http://www.pressfreedom.eu/en/index.php
“…This measure was welcomed by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) which is one of the main members of the Zionist lobby. The committee described the measures taken by Eutelsat and Hispasat against Iranian media outlets the result of months of consultation with European satellite authorities and described it as a step towards countering the ever-growing Iranian influence on Western public opinion….”
In a letter to Asian and European satellite companies, de Rosen has threatened the companies to drop Iranian entertainment and news channels.
In the letter obtained by Press TV, the Franco-Israeli Eutelsat chief has warned satellite companies to remove Iranian channels or prepare to face the consequences of defying his order. He stated the sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU) and the United States against the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) chief, Ezzatollah Zarqami, as the reason for the push to stop broadcasting Iranian channels.
De Rosen has threatened satellite companies that failing to comply with his orders will result in their assets being frozen, according to the new sanctions imposed against Iran by Washington, and their executives will no longer be allowed to travel to the US.
He has also warned satellite companies that failing to comply with his orders will also have consequences for them in the EU.
However, after examining the claims made by the Franco-Israeli Eutelsat chief and reviewing EU and US laws, Press TV found that de Rosen was attempting to manipulate satellite service providers and pressure them into dropping Iranian channels from the prominent satellites of the world.
Michael Mann, the EU foreign policy spokesman, sent an email to Press TV in which he stated that the EU sanctions have no relation to the attacks against Iranian media outlets by Eutelsat and this company has arbitrarily adopted such measures.
It should also be noted that the new sanctions imposed by the US against Iran do not foresee any executive mechanism to restrict the activities of Iranian media or punitive measures against individuals and organizations working with Iranian media.
Iran nuclear explosion Jan 21 – radiation now leaking
RADIATION LEAKING FROM IRAN’S NUKE EXPLOSION, WND, by REZA KAHLILI, 25 FEB 13, Islamic regime fears poisonous fallout clouds could hit cities Radiation is leaking from Iran’s nuclear facility at Fordow, which suffered devastating explosions on Jan. 21, WND has learned, and the regime has ordered millions of antidote iodine pills from Russia and Ukraine amid fears the radioactivity will spread.
Many of the personnel, who arrived after the explosion to assist with the cleanup at the site, have been taken to a military hospital suffering from headache, nausea and vomiting, according to a source in the security forces protecting Fordow.
A special team of nuclear experts was ordered to the site days ago, the source said, and detected high levels of radiation. The number of confirmed dead from the explosions has risen to 76, said the source, who provided exclusively to WND the names of 14 Iranian scientists and one North Korean who died in the blasts.
Security forces have arrested 17 high-ranking officers, including majors and colonels, over the incident and summarily executed Maj. Ali Montazernia, a member of the security forces in charge at Fordow.
The Islamic regime has put up a wall of silence surrounding the explosions, but with the possibility of radioactive fallout creating grave health and environmental disasters in the nearby holy city of Qom and other surrounding cities, it may not be able to maintain the secret, the source suggested. Continue reading
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