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/
These links are from the Enenews posters
crowd sourced news.. Thanks to Jebus, Anne and Maidhaven
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
Audio: It’s the reality that Northern Japan is contaminated and radioactive material is constantly being spread elsewhere — “A really creepy, macabre feeling”
Published: February 11th, 2013 at 3:57 pm ET
By ENENews
Title: NOT RETURNING TO NORMAL
Source: Fairewinds Energy Education
Date: Feb. 11, 2013
At 12:45 in
Fairewinds board member Chiho Kaneko from Iwate Prefecture discussing her recent trip to northeastern Japan: It’s the reality that Northern Japan, not just in Fukushima, Northern Japan is contaminated. That’s the reality, and people are transporting the contaminants whenever they travel elsewhere. They’re bringing with them. […]
So what’s happening is there’s a gradual and constant dispersing and spreading of radioactive materials, inadvertently. Nobody wants to do it, but we are doing it. That’s a really creepy, macabre feeling I had when I was in Japan.
Full program here
Breaking!! Vicky Pryce and the upcoming cancer epidemic caused by radioactive dust!!
“That, coupled with Mr Collins’ ambition over equality, would mark two significant triumphs for senior figures at the Big Four accountant. The timing couldn’t be better: another former highly regarded KPMG star is Vicky Pryce, whose last marriage to the former cabinet minister responsible for nuclear, Chris Huhne, is currently being so publicly picked apart in court.”
Published on Feb 5, 2013
Former energy secretary, Chris Huhne was clocked speeding in March 2003 and persuaded his then wife, Vicky Pryce to take his points so he could avoid losing his licence. Huhne and Pryce were both charged last year with perverting the course of justice over the offence and were due to stand trial together. But the former Cabinet minister dramatically changed his plea yesterday, admitting the offence and resigning as an MP. His ex-wife still denies the charge, saying she was coerced into taking the points and is standing trial alone.
Notice the placard behind Vicky Price… No Nukes, Radioactive dust, cancer epidemic. (does that explain the 300 percent increase in cancer funding last year??? you decide!!)
MUST WATCH!!
Thursday 07 February 2013
Nuclear job done for KPMG luminary Stone
Outlook Rumours suggest that Tim Stone, KPMG’s former global head of infrastructure, has not renewed his contract as the Government’s expert adviser on new nuclear.
The timing will fascinate nuclear’s many critics, given that the new build programme suffered a blow earlier this week when Centrica finally confirmed that it would not join EDF in pouring billions into building and operating a station at Hinkley Point. There was even an emergency debate held in the Commons, which looked to scupper the Government’s talks with EDF over the guaranteed minimum price the French giant will be paid for the electricity it will generate there.
There are two ways of looking at this: either Mr Stone is leaving because he knows the programme is doomed, or he has achieved what he set out to do. The latter would mean that the Government and EDF have all but agreed what is known as a “strike price”, which means the French group gets the guaranteed return it needs to persuade shareholders that UK nuclear is worth investing in.
I understand that is indeed the case, and that the strike price will be announced before Mr Stone leaves at the end of next month. A number of £95 to £99.50-odd per megawatt hour has been virtually signed, sealed and delivered, which nuclear’s supporters will claim makes it the cheapest form of clean energy available on any scale to the country.
That, coupled with Mr Collins’ ambition over equality, would mark two significant triumphs for senior figures at the Big Four accountant. The timing couldn’t be better: another former highly regarded KPMG star is Vicky Pryce, whose last marriage to the former cabinet minister responsible for nuclear, Chris Huhne, is currently being so publicly picked apart in court.
AND SOME MORE GOOD WORKS BY VICKY HERE
Poverty Project – Vicky Pryce on the cuts
Published on Feb 7, 2013
“We may see things happening here as they are in Europe, particularly in Greece..where Poverty levels have increased so substaintially there are soup kitchens for Greeks…and there are people that live in sheds and garages” Vicky Pryce, Economist.
Vicky Pryce is a woman of clear integrity, says former spy chief
Vicky Pryce was described as “a person of clear integrity” by a former head of MI6, in a statement read out on Monday at her trial for taking speeding points for her former husband, Chris Huhne.
By Sam Marsden
8:07PM GMT 11 Feb 2013
N.Korea nuclear test may cause volcano eruption near Chinese border – report
Another test will certainly affect the volcanic activity at Mt. Baekdu and may even lead to a massive eruption, said Shin Young-soo, a member of South Korean Parliament’s Construction and Transportation Committee. He added that in 2010 underground magma was detected near Punggye-ri test site according to the information by China’s earthquake monitoring office.
Published: 09 February, 2013
RT
The anticipated North Korean third nuclear test may trigger an eruption of Mt. Baekdu, a dormant volcano, which is located not far from the North Korean Punggye-ri nuclear site, claims a South Korean geologist.
“A nuclear test will probably exert a direct or indirect impact on volcanic activity at the mountain, and this is worrisome,” said Yoon Sung-ho as cited by Yonhap News agency. Yoon is a geological scientist at Pusan National University, who is considered to be the South Korean leading expert on Mt. Baekdu.
In the past he’s commented on the increased emission of sulphur dioxide from the volcano. This is interpreted as a sign of magma expanding, as volcanic gases undergo a tremendous increase in volume when magma rises to the Earth’s surface and erupts.
Backing the scenario of the growing eruption threat is the changing height of Mt. Baekdu. It has risen nearly 10 centimeters since 2002 due to the expanding magma pool. Also in 2006 a satellite detected an increase of the surfaces temperature just days after North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test in its northern territory, which may have been a catalyst reactivating magma flows, says the South Korea-based newspaper The Korea Times.
At 2,744 meters, Baekdu Mountain is the highest mountain in the Korean peninsula. It is a volcanic mountain located on the border between North Korea and China. There is large crater lake, called Heaven Lake, in the caldera atop the mountain. The Baekdu Mountain has been worshipped by the surrounding peoples throughout history. Both the Koreans and Manchus consider it the place of their ancestral origin. Mt. Baekdu is a tourist destination for foreigners. Koreans argue that recent activities conducted by the Chinese on their side of the mountain, such as promotion of the tourism and attempts at registration as a World Heritage Site, are an attempt to claim the mountain as Chinese territory.
North Korea watchers speculated that the third test may lead to the detonation of a boosted fission weapon with the yield around 20 kilotons, Yonhap News agency reports. If true, this can be compared to the Nagasaki bomb estimated yield of 21 kilotons dropped by the United States on Japan in 1945 during World War II.
Location of the Mount Baekdu and the Punggye-ri test siteMeanwhile, Japanese scientists connected previous eruptions of Mt. Baekdu with major subterranean stresses in the region. According to Hiromitsu Taniguchi a volcano expert from Tohoku University,Mt. Baekdu erupted at least six times between the 14th and 20th centuries,and every time it followed an earthquake in Japan.
North Korean volcanologists observed abnormal activity at a lake atop the mountain after the March 2011 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan, The Korea Times reports.The lake’s water was shaking and splashing, causing a 60 centimeters rise. An eruption is likely to cause severe flooding of the neighboring area within a 30-kilometer radius, causing devastating damage of infrastructure and endangering people’s lives. The volcanic ash spreading 10 kilometers into the atmosphere will affect air traffic in the Koreas, China, Russia and Japan disrupting business activities, Yonhap News agency says.
viscious legal rebuff from roger helbig to freedom of speech issues
redacted because of complicated legal crap!!
From: Roger Helbig
Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:12 AM
Subject: Re: [New post] Christopher Busby libeled by military-industrial lobby and Roger W Helbig
To: Christina Macpherson
Cc: S===================
I note that Swiss Law makes defamation a criminal offense. I will
contact the appropriate prosecutor. Unlike you, I have truth on my
side.
Defamation Laws In Switzerland
blah blah blah etc
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Roger Helbig <> wrote:
> I suggest that you immediately consult with an attorney because you
> have just widely libeled me. =========== needs to consult one as
> well. Your first immediate action is to take my name out of your
> e-mail subject line. I have already advised WordPress and I will make
> every possible effort to take down your WordPress blog and eliminate
> your ability to ever have another WordPress blog. ——– I have
> contacted the Swiss Medical Board regarding your status and will
> vigorously pursue all possible options. I am a private person. I am
> not a public personality. I am not employed by the Pentagon or anyone
> else. The only time that I ever was in the Pentagon I was a tourist
> in the summer of 1978. I detest Busby because he misuses his limited
> scientific knowledge and the PhD that he somehow obtained to
> deliberately misinform the world and both of you fools believe him.
> I am a very determined individual and I will use every possible means
> to right this immense wrong that you have done to me.
>
> Roger W Helbig
> ========
>
> Refer to the extensive Canadian report on depleted uranium that has
> just been issued –
blah blah blah bullshit BIASED link
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:51 AM, nuclear-news
> <===================== wrote:
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>> arclight2011 posted: ” Nuclear scientist Prof. Dr. Chris Busby is under relentless attack by disinformation agents hired by the military industrial complex’ nuclear lobby and perhaps even the mobile phone industry.Large multinational corporations increasingly employ “online re”
>> Respond to this post by replying above this line
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more redaction here
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Thank heavens for icelandic servers and the protection to freedom of speech that is lacking elsewhere!!
saikado hantai!!
all nicely redacted and still licking wounds!!
Roger did actually win this one!! well done roger!! the best man one!! arclight2011 😦
free and open internet with freedom of expression and sharing of knowledge.. not any more folks.. !!!!
You know you’re having anti nuclear success when – Roger Helbig comes after you
Christina Macpherson’s websites & blogs
Here’s what Roger Helbig sent me today: “ Your first immediate action is to take my name out of your
e-mail subject line. I have already advised WordPress and I will make
every possible effort to take down your WordPress blog and eliminate
your ability to ever have another WordPress blog.” along with a lot of other threats of legal action.
This humble little website is now in the company of some much more illustrious sites. For example – “It has come to our attention that an 
individual by the name of Roger Helbig, has been going to great effort to damage our reputation” http://www.salem-news.com/
There are dozens more .. you see, Roger Helbig makes a profession of harrassing and preferably shutting down, any voices that criticise the use of depleted uranium.
Also
Belarusian Report Blasts West For Rights Violations
February 04, 2013
It covers 23 European countries, the United States, and Canada, and is based on what the ministry says is information gleaned from Belarusian diplomatic missions, media reports, and other “reliable sources.”
The document appears to be retaliation for the West’s persistent criticism of rights violations in Belarus under President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, once famously dubbed “Europe’s last dictator” by Washington.
Belarusian Foreign Minister Uladzimer Makei said the report intends to draw attention to rights violations in “countries that traditionally represent themselves as ‘developed democracies'” and to illustrate “their failure to comply with international legal obligations.”
In a foreword to the report, Makei said its aim is to highlight “the deterioration of the human-rights record” in the West and challenge the notion that developing countries are the chief human-rights offenders.
Belarusian Foreign Minister Uladzimer Makei
A significant section of the study is devoted to the United States, one of Lukashenka’s most vocal critics. The U.S. State Department, in its latest report on global human-rights practices, described Belarus as “an authoritarian state” that routinely rigs elections and jails dissidents.
Minsk’s own report accuses U.S. police of forcefully dispersing a number of peaceful protests, including a rally by the Occupy Wall Street movement in Oakland in January 2012. It claims about 400 people were detained and several injured, including a pregnant woman.
Belarus Activists Fined After Posting Protest Photo Online
To get arrested at a demonstration, you normally have to be there. Not, however, in Belarus.
A court in the western city of Hrodna this week convicted three human rights activists — Uladzimer Khilmanovich, Viktar Sazonau, and Raman Yurhel — for participating in an unauthorized demonstration on December 10 on International Human Rights Day. They were each fined 1.5 million rubles ($173).
But the men weren’t arrested at the time of their demonstration, but after a photo of them protesting was published online. In the photo, they are holding a portrait of Ales Byalyatski, a human rights leader who in 2011 was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison on charges of tax evasion. His supporters say those charges are politically motivated.
The photo appeared on the website of the Vyasna (Spring) human rights center, which Byalyatski heads.
Yurhel told RFE/RL’s Belarus Service that the four police officers who testified against him and the other activists in court were not present at the demonstration. He says no witnesses were brought forward in the trial.
“In truth, I understood, I was convicted for what I advocate, for having engaged in activities not prohibited by law,” said Sazonau, another one of those convicted. “I was convicted for what I had done: cooperation with Ales Byalyatski.”
Byalyatski has been declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International; Western leaders have called for his release. His wife says she has been denied visiting rights and Byalyatski is not allowed to receive food packages in jail. In November, officials took away equipment and furniture from Vyasna’s offices.
Reporter Warns Of Dangers Of Covering Azerbaijani Protests
February 05, 2013
An Azerbaijani journalist says the authorities have attempted to curb his reporting of protests by offering him bribes and arresting his brother.
Elchin Ismayilli, a correspondent for the opposition “Azadliq” newspaper, was one of the few journalists covering the protests and riots in Ismayilli, a town 150 kilometers northwest of the capital, Baku, which took place on January 23-24.
After taking and uploading pictures and videos of the protests, Ismayilli says he was targeted by the Azerbaijani authorities and was only a step away from being arrested.
“I was offered bribes, told not to cover the protests, to stand aside and only observe. I was told not to spread information on social networks,” Ismayilli told RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service.
The protests erupted in Ismayilli after the authorities refused to shut down a local motel, which was allegedly functioning as a brothel. Rioters torched the motel, which was reportedly owned by the son of an Azerbaijani minister.
In a tightly controlled media environment, Ismayilli was one of the few journalists taking footage of the protests.
Ismayilli says that the threats and offers continued until February 4, when he said the authorities decided to switch tactics and arrest his brother.
“My detention could attract attention because I’m a journalist so they arrested my brother [Elshan] instead. I think this is connected with my activities. Now the threats and pressure on me have cooled down. They think they have made me silent,” he says.
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