Rights Advocate Lyudmila Alekseyeva Reminisces VIDEO)
Published 24 July 2012
Human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseyeva turned 85 on July 20. She spoke to Kristina Gorelik of RFE/RL’s Russian Service about her long career as a dissident and rights campaigner.
Duration 4.37 min (worth a view -arclight)
http://www.rferl.org/media/video/24655341.html
Alekseyeva: “We will remain without funding because we don’t receive Russian financing. The state won’t finance us because we defend citizens whose rights are violated by Russian bureaucrats. Our state won’t fund that kind of organization. Business here won’t finance us either because every businessman understands that if he finances an organization that is not useful to the authorities, then he puts his own business under threat.”
Interview: Helsinki Group Head Says USAID Ban Means Return To ‘Soviet’ Way
September 19, 2012
The move will be a serious blow to the many nongovernment organizations and rights groups that relied on USAID for a significant part of their funding.
RFE/RL correspondent Tom Balmforth spoke to human rights veteran Lyudmila Alekseyeva about the likely impact of the cessation of USAID’sfinancing on the Moscow Helsinki Group she heads and Russia’s human rights sphere as a whole.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange describes life in embassy like a ‘space station’
<>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called on the United States to move from words to actions, and put an end to its persecution of WikiLeaks, its people and its sources. He made the statement during an address to a panel of UN delegates.<>
Addressing the representatives of the United Nations’ member countries, the WikiLeaks founder spoke of the difference between words and actions, praising US President Barack Obama for his words.
“We commend and agree with the words that peace can be achieved… But the time for words has run out. It is time for the US to cease its persecution of WikiLeaks, our people and our sources.”
RT see link below
- From:AP
- October 01, 2012 8:13AM
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange is certain he will one day go to Ecuador, but described his life in the Ecuadoran embassy in London as “like being in a space station”.
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Mr Assange – who denies the allegations and fears Sweden would extradite him to the United States – told Britain’s Mail on Sunday he was keeping busy by working 17 hours a day on the whistleblowing website.
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Mr Assange’s supporters claim he could receive harsh treatment if sent to the US and possibly even face the death penalty.
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“From Ecuador, me and my staff could safely travel to and from a number of friendly countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Russia, Brazil, India, Venezuela, Chile and Argentina.”…………
Ecuador granted Mr Assange asylum on August 16 but Britain has denied him safe passage out of the country, and police are guarding the embassy in case he tries to escape.
The WikiLeaks founder said he had spent some of his early days in the embassy “training to use emergency equipment”.
The Mail said was not permitted to disclose “the precise nature of the safety equipment he keeps close to his bed, nor of the contents of the documents and diagrams pinned to his wall”
[…].
Mr Assange complained that his health was “slowly deteriorating”, adding that he had “a racking cough”.
More on link
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-describes-life-in-embassy-like-a-space-station/story-fn775xjq-1226485698972
Meanwhile 4 days before…….
RT with video
Green Party calls for a national Climate Action Plan USA
“The Climate Action fund would help with investments in clean renewable energy (wind, solar, geothermal, tidal), mass transit and organic agriculture. The Greens would transfer funds from roads to mass transit, bicycles and pedestrian access.The Green Party would also shut down all coal, fossil fuels and nuclear plants with the 2025. It opposes the hydrofracking of natural gas not only due to the water problems in create but because it is just another fossil fuel that contributes to global warming. Rather than find new fossil fuels, it believes the 80% of the present supplies must not be converted to greenhouse gases.The Green Party would prevent oil drilling off shore and in the Artic and halt the Keystone natural gas pipeline. It would speed up the implementation of the new fuel mileage standards recently announced by EPA, and amend environmental review laws to focus on the impact on climate change”
30 SEP 2012
CHINESE COURT IMPOSES $2.4 MILLION FINE ON ACTIVIST AI WEIWEI
September 27th, 2012
By Irving Feng
Impunity Watch Reporter, Asia
BEIJING, China – A Chinese court upheld the decision to impose a 15 million yuan, roughly $2.4 million, tax fine against Ai Weiwei in an alleged attempt to silence the activist’s dissidence.
Ai has experienced a host of troubles with the Chinese government due to his activism including a three month detention last year. He was held without cause for 81 days, sparking international opposition to his detention because of the implications of a possible human rights violation.
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Ai’s passport was also confiscated during his three month detainment, and it has yet to be returned to him. The passport was supposedly set to be returned after Ai’s three month detainment in addition to a probationary period which ended in June.
Belarus Activist Freed After Clemency Request
Last updated (GMT/UTC): 27.09.2012 16:07
Relatives told RFE/RL that Kavalenka and his wife arrived in their native city of Vitsebsk overnight.
Kavalenka’s mother says her son was freed after he had to ask for clemency.
She said Kavalenka had asked for a pardon under increasing pressure from prison authorities, who put him in solitary confinement and blackmailed him.
Kavalenka, 37, was sentenced in February to 25 months in jail for violating the terms of his parole for a conviction on charges of “illegally displaying the banned Belarusian national flag.”
Kavalenka has denied committing the offense.
Officials force-fed him before, during, and after the trial because of his lengthy hunger strike.
Japan Autumn Festival and the typhoon
This blog started on 11 March 2011, the day of the Tohoku Earthquake,with a brief e-mail entitled ‘I’m OK’ dispatched to close friends and family. The e-mail became a ’round robin’ and after a week it started a new life as a blog.I’m an English woman living in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture, a place no one had ever heard of, but which was suddenly being mentioned in the same breath as Chernobyl. Initially, this blog was a record of those first weeks, a record of how ordinary people, me and the 100 staff who work in the corrugated box factory I inherited, coped in the aftermath of the earthquake.Sunday, 30 September 2012
Autumn Festival
HiKoriyama has a summer festival but it’s a relatively recent introduction. The autumn festival, Aki Matsuri 秋祭り is the one that’s in people’s blood. The festivities went on for four days. Last year the children didn’t get to participate as radiation was still high. But they made up for it this year. The festivities culminated last night when 33 mikoshishrines from different neighbourhoods were carried up and down the main street and finally made it to the main shrine, Hachiman-sama. They were lucky with the weather. Tonight, Sunday, as I write, a typhoon has hit the Nagoya area and here the rain is lashing down.The excitement of the Matsuri is the sound of the drums, the pipes and the shouting. Photos are a poor substitute. But here goes ..
USA Nuke outages averaging above last year since June
The number of outages in 2012 has remained higher than 2011 since June, and also above the five-year average since May.
Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:29pm EDT
* Nuke outages averaging above last year since June
* Outages seen dropping below last year next month
* Four reactors down for long-term work
By Scott DiSavino
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Sept 28 (Reuters) – U.S. nuclear power outages over the last few months have been averaging well above last year and the five-year average primarily due to the continued shutdown of four reactors for major, long-term maintenance, according to Reuters data.
Just in: Long-time UK anti-nuclear activist Crispin Aubrey has died
LONG STANDING ANTI NUCLEAR CAMPAIGNER DIES
29 September 2012
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It is with huge sadness that Stop Hinkley announces the untimely death of Crispin Aubrey.
The Stop Hinkley campaign is coming to terms with the news that spokesperson Crispin Aubrey suffered a fatal heart attack on Friday afternoon in the midst of the preparations for the planned protest against Hinkley C next weekend.
Crispin played a key role in the preparations and was due to speak at the rally next Saturday. Crispin’s wife Sue, also part of the Stop Hinkley campaign, has bravelyrequested that the ‘show must go on because it’s what Crispin would have wanted’.
The Aubreys were involved in the original protest against Hinkley C over twenty years ago. Crispin took a lead role in the public enquiry and coordinated the campaign which was heralded a success as the reactor was never built.
Crispin was a life-long campaigner and had been a journalist all his working life, starting at the Hampshire Chronicle and London’s Time Out magazine. He wrote widely on environmental issues and was committed to the promotion of renewable energy.
Crispin was well respected contributor to the Stop Hinkley campaign and to the fight against new nuclear in the UK.
[…]
http://stophinkley.org/PressReleases/pr120929.htm
Crispin Aubrey obituary
Journalist and environmental campaigner who was a defendant in the ABC secrecy case
- guardian.co.uk, Sunday 30 September
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Crispin Aubrey, the journalist, author and campaigner, who has died of a heart attack aged 66, came to national prominence when he was arrested under the Official Secrets Act in 1977. His subsequent trial and the campaign around it led to a re-examination of secrecy legislation and shone a light into some of the darker corners of the intelligence services. Continue reading
Poet Gunter Grass hails Israeli nuclear spy in new poem
Grass hails Israeli nuclear spy in new poem
In one of a collection of 87 new pieces, Grass hails whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu, who served 18 years in jail for leaking Israeli nuclear secrets to a British newspaper, in a poem entitled “A Hero in Our Time”.
He describes former nuclear technician Vanunu as a “hero” and a “role model”, according to extracts published by the German news agency DPA.
Earlier this year, Grass, 84, angered Israel after publishing a piece entitled “What Must Be Said”, in which he voiced fears that a nuclear-armed Israel “could wipe out the Iranian people” with a “first strike.”
Israel has since barred him from visiting the country.
Vanunu himself said that he was pleased to be mentioned by a writer of Grass’s stature.
“I am very happy to be in the league of Gunter Grass,” he told AFP, speaking in English. He compared Israel’s ban on a Grass visit to its refusal to let Vanunu leave the country.
“Vanunu would be happy to get from the interior ministry of Israel the title ‘persona non grata’ and they can send me out of Israel,” he said, speaking of himself with his customary use of the third person.
Belarusian anti-nuclear activists ‘blacklisted’ by Lithuanian government
http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2012/novikova_blacklist
Nokikova’s only arrest tied to her activist activities occurred in her home country of Belarus in July, when she and four other activists attempted to pass an open statement protesting the construction of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Minsk.
She was detained on administrative charged for five days, and denied medicines she has to take for a thyroid condition.
Arrested with her was Andrei Ozharovsky, another Bellona contributor and a nuclear physicist, who was held in a Minsk jail on administrative charges for 10 days. Upon his release, he was told he could not renter Belarus for 10 years.
Belarusian anti-nuclear campaigners Tatyana Novikova, a Bellona contributor, and Nikolai Ulasevich were on Wednesday refused entry to neighboring Lithuania on the grounds that the Baltic country’s government had declared them “personae non grata” and potential threats to the national security of that and other European Union nations.Bellona, 28/09-2012
UNSURVIVABLE (Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8kXQb8MkIk
Published on Sep 3, 2012 by laroucheyouth
A dark, gruesome, but wholly true depiction of the threat of thermonuclear war, the consequences, and Obama’s deployment of a major portion of the U.S. thermonuclear capabilities in multiple theaters threatening both Russia and China.
Unsurvivable is available in several languages:
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Toshiro Kitamura-My feelings as a disaster victim who had supported nuclear power
From the Global Energy Policy Research website
http://www.gepr.org/en/contents/20120709-01/
My feelings as a disaster victim who had supported nuclear power — It is necessary to continue to think about the reality of the disaster and its true causes
What I came to see was a precarious nuclear policy that had continually put off dealing with the root issues, the excessive leniency of those involved who simply went through the motions, the remoteness of the existence of the power plant to both the central government agencies and the company headquarters, and local governments and residents who were eager to profit yet totally unprepared for a state of emergency.
Toshiro KitamuraFormer Senior Specialist of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, Former Board Member of Japan Atomic Power View PDFA proponent of nuclear power who became a victim of the disaster.
For nearly half of a century, I had made it my job to promote nuclear power, but no sooner had I retired than I myself was forced to evacuate by the nuclear incident. It is quite the ironic story.
It was in 1967 that I joined Japan Atomic Power, a power company which specializes in nuclear power. Later, I alternated between working on site and at the headquarters, mainly focused on the fields of safety administration andtraining, and I also had experience with negotiations of local governments and residents, and public relations.
I had become a member of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum a few years ago, and my professional life was truly focused entirely on the promotion of nuclear power. I built a house in Tomioka in the eastern part of Fukushima Prefecture called Hamadori 13 years ago, and there I intended to spend the rest of my days.
Experts: Strike may speed up nuclear plan
Ynet
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In article titled, ‘How to help Iran build a bomb,’ New York Times quotes scholars and military experts who argue that airstrike on Iran’s nuclear facilities could actually lead Tehran to ensure realization of bomb
On the backdrop of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s “red lines” address at the United Nations General Assembly this week, leading American media outlets continue to engage in the Iranian nuclear issue.
In a New York Times article titled, “How to help Iran build a bomb,” writer William J. Broad says a surprising number of experts argue that an airstrike on Iran’s nuclear facilities could actually lead to Iran’s speeding up its efforts, ensuring the realization of a bomb and hastening its arrival.
A new arms race? 2 billion dollars spent in 10 years USA just on missile technology.
http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/25-09-2012/122266-hypersonic_weapons-0/
Pravda
Russia tries to catch up with USA’s level of hypersonic weapons
25.09.2012
Last week, the U.S. tested X-51 WaveRider hypersonic missile, which, as reported by the media, was unsuccessful. However, the missile is capable of reaching the speed of nearly 7,000 kilometersper hour, which is six times the speed of sound. The appearance of such systems in the modern army may considerably change the existing missile parity.Russia officially returned to this topic in 2009, when the Defense Ministry ordered to resume research works to develop hypersonic arms systems. Now, according to Rogozin, the Russian defense industry must “cut corners” to reach the technological level the USA has already achieved.
A super holding will be established on the basis of the group of companies Tactical Missiles and Military-Industrial Corporation (NPO Mashinostroyenia). The new organization will operate in the field of hypersonic technologies and their development, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said. Russia thus tries to keep up with the West, where supersonic missiles will form the basis of strike and missile defense systems.
As the official said, this issue had been discussed for almost six months. “In the first stage, it goes about the creation of a big superholding on the base of Tactical Missiles and the Military-Industrial Corporation,” said Rogozin.
Tactical Missiles Corporation was created in 2002 on the basis of Zvezda-Strela federal state unitary enterprise. The corporation includes a number of companies that produce highly efficient missiles, guided bombs and air, land and sea-based arms systems.
“We found an acceptable solution, as to how the superholding will be created. “The project of the decision contains the basic idea – the hypersonic technology,” said the official.
Russia is inferior to America in the field of the development of hypersonic technologies. The Pentagon generously spends money on the program of the development of hypersonic aircraft. During the past ten years, the Pentagon has spent about $2 billion on the program.
Last week, the U.S. tested X-51 WaveRider hypersonic missile, which, as reported by the media, was unsuccessful. However, the missile is capable of reaching the speed of nearly 7,000 kilometersper hour, which is six times the speed of sound. The appearance of such systems in the modern army may considerably change the existing missile parity.Russia officially returned to this topic in 2009, when the Defense Ministry ordered to resume research works to develop hypersonic arms systems. Now, according to Rogozin, the Russian defense industry must “cut corners” to reach the technological level the USA has already achieved.
A super holding will be established on the basis of the group of companies Tactical Missiles and Military-Industrial Corporation (NPO Mashinostroyenia). The new organization will operate in the field of hypersonic technologies and their development, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said. Russia thus tries to keep up with the West, where supersonic missiles will form the basis of strike and missile defense systems.
As the official said, this issue had been discussed for almost six months. “In the first stage, it goes about the creation of a big superholding on the base of Tactical Missiles and the Military-Industrial Corporation,” said Rogozin.
Tactical Missiles Corporation was created in 2002 on the basis of Zvezda-Strela federal state unitary enterprise. The corporation includes a number of companies that produce highly efficient missiles, guided bombs and air, land and sea-based arms systems.
“We found an acceptable solution, as to how the superholding will be created. “The project of the decision contains the basic idea – the hypersonic technology,” said the official.
Russia is inferior to America in the field of the development of hypersonic technologies. The Pentagon generously spends money on the program of the development of hypersonic aircraft. During the past ten years, the Pentagon has spent about $2 billion on the program.
UPDATE: Interview with Tozen Union Activist in Tokyo Japan | Labor Issues in Japan
Update:
There seems to be some internet intermittent blocking on this video (below). It is currently working. The Labour Unions site is not available.
“Which leads me to the second part. I try not to be too conspiracy-minded, and I really dislike those who see black hands behind every move, but I cannot help but wonder if the abolishment of the personal scheme is not in some way linked to the fact that the national scheme is losing its ass in the markets. Could it be possible that the Japanese Govenrment is using its power to govern to legalize a massive capital grab?”
Graham (JT poster)
And the obvious reason might be found here (please read the comments as well)
Labor ministry to scrap employee pension insurance system
POLITICS SEP. 29, 2012
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After a scandal in which pension funds placed in the hands of AIJ Investment Advisors Co vanished, the ministry set up a task force to deal with the financial problems faced by Japan’s pension system. The task force proposed scrapping the employees’ pension insurance system. Financial analysts say many employees’ pension insurance system funds were AIJ customers.
At a press conference this week, senior vice welfare minister Yasuhiro Tsuji, who leads the task force, said the system is scheduled to be scrapped after a transitional period, Sankei Shimbun reported. Continue reading
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26 April – Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown airs on National Geographic on Sunday 26th April from 4pm
29 April – Nuclear Expert Webinar #1 – Radiation Impacts on Families with Mary Olson and Cindy Folkers
- 12:15 PM MT – 1:45 PM MT
- Location: Virtual – REGISTER TODAY
4 May -West Suburban Peace Coalition to discuss Iran war at May Educational Forum
Monday, May 4, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Central Standard Time
Title: : How Trump’s Narrative Tries to Shape the Reality of the War on Iran.
Contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com 630 442 3045 for further information
14 May – online event From Bombs to Data Centres: the Face of Nuclear Colonialism
Pine Ridge Uranium is the real threat, not Tehran- Tell Burgum: Stop the Extraction.
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
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