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State Of Mind Film Full Version HD – Alex Jones

 

State Of Mind delves into the abyss to expose the true agendas at work. This film reveals the secret manipulations at work and provides shocking and suppressed historical and current examples. From the ancient roots of the control of human behavior to its maturity in the mind control experiments of intelligence agencies and other organs of manipulation, State Of Mind reveals a plan for the future that drives home the dreadful price of our ignorance.

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Published on 17 Jul 2013

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State Of Mind: The Psychology Of Control, from the creators of A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995, reveals that much of what we believe to be truth is actually deliberate deception. The global elites are systematically implanting lies into our consciousness to erect a “tyranny over the minds of men.” This film exposes the mind control methods being used to turn our once vibrant society into a land of obedient sheeple.
Are we controlled?
To what extent and by whom?
What does it mean for humanity’s future?
From cradle to grave our parents, peers, institutions and society inform our values and behaviors but this process has been hijacked. State Of Mind examines the science of control that has evolved over generations to keep us firmly in place so that dictators, power brokers and corporate puppeteers may profit from our ignorance and slavery. From the anvil of compulsory schooling to media and entertainment, we are kept in perpetual bondage to the ideas that shape our actions.

State Of Mind delves into the abyss to expose the true agendas at work. This film reveals the secret manipulations at work and provides shocking and suppressed historical and current examples. From the ancient roots of the control of human behavior to its maturity in the mind control experiments of intelligence agencies and other organs of manipulation, State Of Mind reveals a plan for the future that drives home the dreadful price of our ignorance.

We are prepared for a new paradigm. Will we choose our own paths or have one selected for us? State Of Mind unveils the answers that may decide whether humankind will fulfill its destiny or be forever shackled to its own creation.

July 20, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The U.S. nuclear power Industry has a dim future says Buisness Week

Says Rowe, the former Exelon chief: “I think there’s still a chance you could see a nuclear recovery a couple decades out, but I wouldn’t bet on it.”

The bottom line: Of 24 applications submitted in 2008 to build nuclear power facilities, only four have resulted in new construction.

July 18, 2013

 

Five years ago the nuclear energy industry looked set for its first run of serious growth since the late 1970s, when the Three Mile Island disaster put the brakes on reactor expansion in the U.S. In 2008, Congress authorized $18 billion in federal loan guarantees for plant construction. Utilities submitted 24 applications by the end of that year, anticipating that lawmakers would eventually put a price on carbon with a cap-and-trade bill that would make coal-fired plants less profitable. In 2007 and 2008, the price of the nuclear industry’s two biggest competing sources of power, coal and natural gas, skyrocketed as part of a global rally in commodity prices.

That optimism has given way to despair. Four reactors have closed so far in 2013—a record for the industry. Because of the shale energy boom, natural gas prices crashed, followed by coal. Electricity demand fell during the recession and has yet to regain its 2007 peak. Bolstered by billions of dollars in green energy subsidies in the 2009 stimulus package, renewables, especially wind, have come on faster than many anticipated. Cap and trade never happened. And Japan’s Fukushima disaster in 2011 reminded the world just how dangerous nuclear power can be.

The industry hasn’t done itself any favors. A radioactive steam leak and a botched repair job have led to the permanent closure of three reactors in the last several months, two in California operated by Southern California Edison (EIX), and another in Florida run by Duke Energy (DUK). Faced with growing political opposition, billions of dollars of estimated repair costs, and cheaper alternatives, utility executives in both cases decided to pull the plug rather than fix the plants.

More troubling for the industry is the decision that Dominion Generation (D) made in May to close its Kewaunee reactor in Wisconsin. Squeezed by cheap coal and natural gas and unable to find a buyer after looking for more than a year, Dominion shut down the facility rather than keep operating it at a loss.

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July 20, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

New Zealand – Nuclear test vets mark 40th anniversary

A reunion is being held in Tauranga to mark the 40th anniversary of Kiwi servicemen being sent to Mururoa Atoll.

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20 July 2013

Kiwi servicemen who looked on as France conducted nuclear testing are marking 40 years since they were sent to Mururoa Atoll as part of a protest by the New Zealand government.

Then-Prime Minister Norman Kirk sent two navy frigates, HMNZS Otago and Canterbury, to the tiny atoll in 1973 to protest against nuclear testing in the Pacific.

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Many of the men who served on the two ships are attending a 40th anniversary reunion in Tauranga on Saturday.

The Mururoa Veterans Society has raised concerns about the long-term health consequences for veterans of radiation exposure.

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http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=170569&fm=newsmain%2cnrhl

From the Mururoa Vets website…

In 1973, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Norman Kirk, stated that the French where disobeying the World Court by continuing to test Nuclear bombs in the Pacific, namely at Mururoa Atoll. He sent a Government Representative the right honourable Fraser Colman, and the frigate HMNZS Otago, and then the frigate HMNZS Canterbury to stimulate world opinion against nuclear testing.

This site is intended to keep crew members of HMNZS Otago and HMNZS Canterbury that went to Mururoa Atoll (sometimes spelt Moruroa Atoll) in June, July and August 1973, the news media personel, the Government representative, and a representative from the National Laboratory, informed of medical, and other developments as they effect us.

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July 20, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

AREVA – French police investigate anti nuclear sabotage at site of nuclear train crash

July. 20 2013

http://euvoice.eu/2013/07/france-french-police-investigate-sabotage-in-nuclear-train-crash/

Areva is planning a UK factory for its 5MW Multibrid turbine

Mostly unrelated Image source ; http://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1136506/areva-looking-scotland-england-uk-factory

The state-owned rail company, SNCF, has made a legal complaint and police have opened an inquiry into the incident, which took place on 12 July, the same day as the crash that cost six lives at Brétigny-sur-Orge.

A previously unknown anti-nuclear group claimed responsibility for it in a statement sent to the regional newspaper, the Populaire du Centre.

The crash took place in the morning on a stretch of track used exclusively by nuclear giant Areva to transport nuclear waste near Bessines-sur-Gartempe, in central France.

Image source from unrelated Normandy protest 2011 concerning nuclear waste transfers from France back to Germany ; http://radioactivechat.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/french-nuclear-waste-train-leaves-for.html

An Areva convoy came of the rails and carried on for 100 metres, reportedly because a fishplate joining two rails had been removed and a rail disconnected.

Two railworkers aboard were not hurt but have filed a complaint for endangering their safety and wilful damage.

A fishplate also came loose at Brétigny-sur-Orge, causing a train to career off the track in the evening of the same day.

French Secret Service Richard Deacon

Although investigators are unclear how all the bolts holding it in place came loose at the same moment, they have found no evidence of sabotage and the site is clearly visible from a signal box opposite.

Source Article from http://www.english.rfi.fr/europe/20130719-french-police-investigate-sabotage-nuclear-train-crash

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And more on how the French Secret Services react when nuclear hegemony is threatened. In the article below is an interview with an engineer who lost his family home and his life in France due to the interference of the French Secret Services.

When Trevor Jackson got back to the UK, things didnt improve much for the development of this viable energy source.

The title of this Article should be

“Why did the governments of the UK, Japan and France block this unique solution to high cost and dirty, “big project”  technologies that are preferred by the corporations?”

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An Aluminium Fuel Cell – Why Is UK government Blocking It?

Update: at the end of the video where the video audio becomes mysteriously corrupted as the conversation turned to the advice from the business advisor’s that he went to see.

The statement that he got from these financiers was that the UK government will only support “electrically rechargeable” batteries. Meaning, only that can be charged with nuclear power.

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/05/03/an-aluminium-fuel-cell-why-is-uk-government-blocking-it/

July 20, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

World Bank to fund renewables, energy efficiency, in fight against poverty

World-BankWorld Bank fights poverty with renewable energy, EcoSeed 19 Jul 2013  The World Bank is now promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy, limiting its financial support for coal-fired power plants so as to reduce poverty and build shared prosperity.

The World Bank released a paper back on July 16, titled “The Energy Sector Directions Paper,” which sets a principles-based course for the Bank Group’s work in the energy sector that will focus on expanding energy access and sustainable energy.

Based on the new course of the bank, the institution aims to expand access to energy, along with accelerating energy efficiency and renewable energy,  Continue reading

July 20, 2013 Posted by | 2 WORLD, renewable | Leave a comment

According to TEPCO, 2000 Fukushima workers at higher risk of thyroid cancer

thyroid-cancer-papillaryflag-japanWorkers at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant see raised cancer risk http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/international/workers-at-japans-fukushima-nuclear-plant-see-raised-cancer-risk/article4931822.ece   TOKYO, JULY 19:   Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Friday that 1,973 employees who were at the nuclear power plant damaged after a 2011 tsunami are facing a higher risk of thyroid cancer.

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station have estimated thyroid radiation doses exceeding 100 millisieverts, the widely accepted level for an increase in the risk of cancer, the company said.

They are to undergo annual ultrasonic thyroid examinations, it said.

Health tests were given to 19,592 workers — 3,290 Tokyo Electric employees and 16,302 employees of its affiliated companies.

They were involved in the struggle to bring the plant under control after the world’s worst nuclear crisis since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

The Fukushima plant suffered meltdowns at three of its six reactors after the earthquake and tsunami two years ago.

July 20, 2013 Posted by | Fukushima 2013, health, Japan | Leave a comment

Germany opposes EU plan to subsidise nuclear industry

logo-NO-nuclear-Smflag_germanyGermany rebuffs European nuclear power subsidy proposal  By Charlie Dunmore and Henning Gloystein BRUSSELS/LONDON, July 19  (Reuters) – Germany on Friday rebuffed draft plans by the European Commission to allow European Union member states to directly subsidise nuclear power.

Several European governments, such as Britain and France, plan to build new nuclear power stations, but many companies  are shying away from investing in the expensive technology without the safeguard of government support. The Commission’s draft, seen by Reuters and titled “Paper of the Commission Services containing draft guidelines on environmental and energy aid for 2O14-2O20”, proposes to allow governments to provide direct state aid for nuclear power……..

“This document was not endorsed by the Commission, but is a preparation document for a public consultation,” European Commission spokesman for competition policy Antoine Colombani said in Brussels.

“The European Commission does not wish in any way to encourage subsidies to nuclear power… However, it appears that some member states do wish to subsidise nuclear power, and the Commission is in charge of state aid control, so whenever a member state notifies a measure we are obliged to examine it,” he added.http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/19/europe-nuclear-energy-idUSL6N0FP2P820130719

July 20, 2013 Posted by | EUROPE, Germany, politics international | Leave a comment

Leaked documents reveal EU plan for nuclear power subsidies

nuclear-costsflag-EUNuclear power: leaks show new EU push  http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/19/nuclear-power-leaks-new-eu-push     The Guardian, Saturday 20 July 2013 Draft documents show EU weighing radical change in rules on state aid in move that would make it easier to build new reactors in Britain The European Commission is considering a radical change in rules on state aid to nuclear power in a move that would make it easier to build new reactors in Britain.

Draft documents show the proposals along with negative reactions from ministers in Berlin, who have abandoned nuclear in favour of renewables.

The proposals, drawn up by the EU’s Competition Commission after pressure from the UK and France and leaked in a German newspaper, are regarded as a work in progress and could yet be opposed by the influential German energy commissioner, Günther Oettinger.

But Rebecca Harms, co-chair of the Green parties in the European parliament, alleged a pro-nuclear camp around Oettinger and competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia were “leading the charge” for a U-turn on energy policy.

“The planned subsidy rules will supposedly make the construction of new nuclear power stations worthwhile again. Ailing nuclear groups are to be set back on the rails thanks to high state subsidies.” Continue reading

July 20, 2013 Posted by | EUROPE, France, secrets,lies and civil liberties, UK | 1 Comment

European plan for taxpayer subsidy to nuclear power industry

nukes-hungryflag-EUEU draws up plans to allow state aid for nuclear power FT.com By Jim Pickard in London and  Joshua Chaffin in Brussels 19 July 13  The EU has drawn up plans to change state aid rules to make it easier for member countries to subsidise nuclear power, in a move that looks set to trigger a political row across the continent.

By exempting all nuclear projects from the general restrictions on state aid – subject to certain conditions – the EU’s competition commission will prompt relief in UK and France but fury in Germany and Austria.

The commission had planned to delay unveiling its proposal to wait until after the autumn elections in Germany, where there is huge political resistance to nuclear. But a leaked copy of the draft guidelines on energy aid, obtained by the Financial Times, shows the criteria that would allow member states to offer state aid for nuclear power as a matter of course. Continue reading

July 20, 2013 Posted by | EUROPE, politics | 1 Comment

See Nuclear Doomsday in 3D at the click of a mouse

see-this.wayEnter NUKEMAP 3D, what Wellerstein is billing as “The Next Generation of Do-It-Yourself Nuclear War.”

Once up and running late this week at NuclearSecrecy.com, the new version will introduce three-dimensional city modeling, radioactive fall-out patterns that can be shifted with virtual winds and — get this — casualty estimates for the dead and injured, all at the click of a mouse.

atomic-bomb-lNuclear Doomsday is Coming Today. You’ll Want to See Thishttp://www.nationaljournal.com/global-security-newswire/nuclear-doomsday-is-coming-today-you-ll-want-to-see-this-20130718 By Elaine M. Grossman, Global Security Newswire July 18, 2013 WASHINGTON — It’s Thursday, July 18, and nuclear Armageddon is upon us. Or at least you might be excused for thinking so when you glimpse on your colleague’s computer monitor a compelling simulation of a mushroom cloud rising over your home town.

That’s the 2.0 version of NUKEMAP — now in three dimensions! — expected for launch by late Thursday, the brainchild of a guy named Alex Wellerstein.

A historian with the American Institute of Physics, Wellerstein has had 3 million visitors to the original two-dimensional edition of his website, who have virtually detonated a whopping 17.4 million nuclear warheads over their choice of locations virtually anywhere around the world. Continue reading

July 20, 2013 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual, weapons and war | Leave a comment

FILM: HOT WATER exposes scandal of uranium mining and cancer

FilmHOT WATER    http://www.zerohotwater.com/ When you were growing up, how many people  did you know who had cancer? How many do you know today? Filmmakers Liz Rogers and Kevin Flint go to South Dakota following a story about Uranium contamination only to discover that the problem flows much farther, and runs deeper than they could have imagined. Three years and thousands of miles later, “Hot Water” tells of those impacted by Uranium mining, atomic testing, nuclear energy and the contamination that runs through our air, soil and even more dramatically, our water.nuke-indigenous

From ‘Fat Man’ and ‘Little Boy’ to ‘Duck and Cover’ we believed it was safe to eat, drink and breathe in the shadow of the Atomic Bomb. “Hot Water” begs the question, are the 38 million people in the American southwest aware that their water supply is filtered through millions of tons of radioactive waste lying on the banks of the Colorado River?

Our ground water, air and soil are contaminated with some of the most toxic heavy metals known to man – the subsequent health and environmental damage will take generations and in some cases, thousands of years to heal.

Follow Liz, Kevin and their team as they travel the American west and expose uranium mining and our atomic legacy for what it is, and for what it’s left behind.

Great interview on this link..

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Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, his wife Elizabeth Kucinich and filmmaker Liz Rogers discussed their new documentary “Hot Water” about uranium mining and the nuclear industry with POLITICO’s Patrick Gavin.

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July 20, 2013 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | 3 Comments

The Amazing foolishness of nuclear weapons and nuclear power building

Book-nuclear-follyBook Review: A Short History Of Nuclear Folly http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/07/19/a-short-history-of-nuclear-folly/ by Bookmarked and Andrew Stobo Sniderman on Friday, July 19, 2013      A Short History Of Nuclear Folly    By Rudolph Herzog

Reading about human courtship of nuclear destruction is like watching the wobbles of an amateur tightrope walker: one gawks in terror and amazement. Herzog, son of the eminent filmmaker, offers a snapshot tour of the “frivolity, naïveté, and unscrupulousness” with which nuclear devices have been used since physicists figured out how to get a big bang out of a wee atom. This is not a scholarly or particularly well-structured book, and it reads more like a collection of cool stuff the author found while reading around the subject of nuclear madness. Yet Herzog will make your jaw drop with regularity.

For examples: Cold-Warring Soviets forced 40,000 soldiers to march into the site of a nuclear test explosion immediately after the ascension of its mushroom cloud, just to see what happened to the poor fellows; an influential American physicist sought to blast an alternative international shipping route to the Panama and Suez canals using nuclear bombs as convenient excavation devices; and, my favourite, plutonium-powered pacemakers enraptured doctors with their long-lasting convenience, except that no one bothered to keep track of them once the patients eventually died. Woe to the cremators.

Beyond the shocking “indifference to the fate of individuals” of the superpowers as they tinkered with their nuclear toys, Herzog identifies one central problem with the nuclear fixation: persistent failures of imagination. “No one was able to picture the worst-case scenario.” So it was typical that the Soviet Union gleefully built nuclear-powered satellites, but didn’t prepare for the possibility of them crashing back to Earth. As it happened, in 1977 a malfunctioning Soviet satellite with 45 kilograms of radioactive uranium on board crashed in the Yukon. American radiation detectors didn’t work in the Canadian winter cold, but thankfully some random mushers stumbled upon the wreckage. It could have been worse. Indeed, though there was plenty of folly, often fatal, we somehow avoided Armageddon.

July 20, 2013 Posted by | resources - print, weapons and war | Leave a comment

Now double – the cost of upgrading Monticello nuclear plant

nuclear-costsCost of upgrading Monticello nuclear plant doubles http://www.kare11.com/news/article/1032273/391/Cost-of-upgrading-Monticello-nuclear-plant-doubles  Jul 18, 2013 ST. PAUL, Minn. – Xcel Energy says the costs of upgrading its Monticello nuclear plant have doubled to $640 million.

The utility revealed the cost in a filing Wednesday with the state Public Utilities Commission, after previously saying the figure was a trade secret.

The project was originally expected to cost $320 million. The recently completed five-year project included replacement of aging equipment and boosting electricity output by 12 percent. The upgrades are intended to extend the life of the 43-year-old reactor another two decades.

Xcel expects to restart the plant this month after a four-month shutdown.

The utility has asked the PUC for a rate hike for 1.2 million Minnesota customers because of the cost overruns, which it blames on the complexity of the project. The commission is expected to decide this fall.

July 20, 2013 Posted by | business and costs, USA | Leave a comment

UK better off without nuclear missiles, says Archbishop

Archbishop of Wales Barry Morgan Calls on UK to Abandon Nuclear Missiles By David Williamson Global Research, July 19, 2013 Archbishop of Wales Barry Morgan and other faith leaders have urged the UK Government to abandon nuclear missiles on moral, strategic and economic grounds.

The calls come in the same week that the findings of a Government report led the Lib Dems to argue that Britain could cease to have a continuous-at-sea deterrent, cut the submarine fleet from four boats to three and save £4bn on the estimated £20bn to £25bn cost of renewing the Trident missile system…… Dr Morgan called for the Government to go further and argued that Britain would now be better off without nuclear weapons. Continue reading

July 20, 2013 Posted by | Religion and ethics, UK | Leave a comment

Now for the legal wrangles over the costs of San Onofre nuclear plant

Fallout Over Nuclear Energy Debacle Underway Forbes, Ken Silverstein,  19 July 13 It’s not a bombshell. But it is the fallout from the retirement of two nuclear units dotting Southern California’s coastline. Southern California Edison has just filed a so-called Notice of Dispute on its former vendor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. It is the first step toward gaining a settlement in what has become a huge blemish on the nuclear energy sector — the leakage of radiation at one of the units and the subsequent revelation that both companies had known about the underlying causes years before the incident. If the two are unable to reconcile, the case would then go to mandatory arbitration before it could get tried before a judge and jury. Judicial systems, though, are not prepared to resolve complex nuclear energy questions.

“Our action is about making sure that Mitsubishi takes responsibility for providing the defective steam generators that led to the closing of SONGS,” says Ron Litzinger, president of SCE, in a formal declaration.

SONGS refers to the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station owned by Southern California Edison. …. Edison is alleging that Mitsubishi, as designer and manufacturer of the steam generators, is responsible for the economic damages. …..

The price tag associated with all the woes: Estimated to be at least $700 million and as much as $2 billion. Just how will that be paid? Chairman Ted Craver explained on an earlier conference call that there are potentially four pools of money: ratepayers, shareholders, insurance companies and Mitsubishi Heavy………

Friends of the Earth which had led the attack on the utility since the leak, has said that Southern California Edison has been “untruthful.” The environmental organization has also said that while Mitsubishi does not have “clean hands” here, it merely designed the steam generators to meet the utility’s specifications.

The environmental organization added that the utility downplayed the design changes it had made so as to avoid public hearings, and scrutiny. In addition, it is highly critical that Edison denied any knowledge of issues with excessive vibrations — until the leaks surfaced in 2012. As a result of all this, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the California Public Utility Commission and, perhaps, the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating. It’s a huge legal morass — and one that court system is unaccustomed to hearing. That’s why the two sides should amicably resolve their dispute. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2013/07/19/fallout-over-nuclear-energy-debacle-underway/2/

July 20, 2013 Posted by | Legal, USA | Leave a comment