Mozilla rallies for opposition against secret Internet treaty – And how to fight it
““A lot of concerns I’ve heard from people have been that, in fact, countries that want to be able to block the Internet and give people within their country a ‘secure’ view of what’s out there would use a treaty at the ITU as a mechanism to do that, and force other countries to fall into line with the blockages that they wanted to put in place,” Berners-Lee said.”
“Leaked documents from the WCIT meeting suggest that shot-callers from across the globe have floated the idea of adopting a new standard for the Internet that will implement deep packet inspection, or DPI, essentially allowing all traffic sent across the Web to be reviewed by a governing body.”
Published: 11 December, 2012, 23:23
Add another name to the list of critics concerned with attempts to rewrite the International Telecommunication Union to give governments control of the Internet: Silicon Valley’s Mozilla now officially opposes the ITU.
Mozilla, the makers of the highly successful Firefox Web browser for Macs, PCs and smart phones, have come out to condemn a top-secret meeting in Dubai this week that could lead to changes with how the world is wired to the Internet.
The details of the closed-door discussions being held between members of the United Nation’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) this week in the United Arab Emirates remains a secret, and that’s exactly why Mozilla is speaking up. In a plea posted on Mozilla.org, the developers write, “The issue isn’t whether our governments, the UN or even the ITU should play a role in shaping the Web. The problem is that they are trying to do it behind closed doors, in secret, without us.”
“The Web lets us speak out, share and connect around the things that matter. It creates new opportunities, holds governments to account, breaks through barriers and makes cats famous. This isn’t a coincidence. It’s because the Web belongs to all of us,” insists Mozilla. “We all get a say in how it’s built.”
Now in order to raise awareness of what the WCIT can do by rewriting the ITU, Mozilla has released an “Engagement Kit” in order to get people around the globe talking about what could happen to the Web without their input ever being considered.
“Mozilla has made it our mission to keep the power of the web in people’s hands,” the developers say.
Mozilla now joins a list of major Internet names opposed to the ITU talks, which in recent days has added both Vint Cerf and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, two computer scientists widely regarded as instrumental figures as far as getting the world online goes.
Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, spoke openly against the ITU just recently while attending the WCIT, warning that rewriting the international treaty to put Internet regulation in the hands of government is not just unnecessary, but would cause a “disruptive threat to the stability” of the Internet as we know it.
Clyde-based Trident nuclear submarine stranded in US despite £300m overhaul
“Rather than rushing to patch up the rudder, the MoD should follow the Liberal Democrats’ advice and end continuous at-sea deterrence. Then they can take as long as they like to fix this problem.”
Published on 16 December 2012
EXCLUSIVE by Rob Edwards Environment Editor
Herald Scotland
A Trident submarine has been forced to limp back to port in the US after its rudder broke, upsetting Britain’s nuclear weapons patrols and undermining the effectiveness of a £300 million overhaul.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that HMS Vigilant, a nuclear-powered submarine capable of carrying nuclear warheads, was disabled while on the way home to the Faslane naval base on the Clyde after test-firing a Trident missile in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida on October 23.
The submarine is understood to have turned around and returned to the US naval base at Kings Bay in Georgia, near Florida, where the damage is now being investigated and repaired. The base is home to the US fleet of Trident submarines.
A submariner on Vigilant revealed that the boat’s planned schedule had been disrupted when he complained on Twitter that he was “stuck in the USA for Christmas”. Vigilant was due to return to Scotland to recommence continuous patrols of the oceans after a three-year overhaul.
The MoD has released few details of what happened because the operations of Trident submarines have the highest security classification. The ministry never usually says where the boats are, or whether they are carrying nuclear weapons.
“While returning to the UK after the successful firing of an unarmed Trident II D5 missile, HMS Vigilant suffered a defect to her rudder,” an MoD spokesman said. “This is not nuclear-related and the crew and boat have safely returned to port where the defect is being assessed.”
Rising radiation at South Carolina nuclear dump prompts cleanup talk but no action
“It’s not likely you would dig into that because you would be exposing individuals to radiation,”
Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012
By Sammy Fretwell
COLUMBIA — Radioactive pollution is getting worse on parts of South Carolina’s nuclear-waste dump near Barnwell, but state regulators say cleaning up the contaminated groundwater isn’t in their plan.
Tritium continues to exceed federal safe drinking-water standards in and around the 41-year-old burial ground that has come to symbolize South Carolina’s historic willingness to accept the nation’s garbage. In some spots tritium levels are higher today than they were five years ago.
But the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control says the site is stable overall and no one is drinking the polluted water. So for now, the agency has no plan for a tritium cleanup. The dump’s operator,Energy Solutions, agrees.
Pumping tritium out of groundwater or from a radiation-tinged creek would possibly contribute to air pollution as the tritium was expelled, state regulators said. At the same time, excavating waste from the dump could be more dangerous than leaving it in place, state regulators said during the Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council meeting last week.
“It’s not likely you would dig into that because you would be exposing individuals to radiation,” said Susan Jenkins, who heads DHEC’s infectious and radioactive waste division. “That is not something we would probably want to do.”
Nuclear Free Now protest Japan- Lai Wei-Chieh (Taiwan)
Nuclear Free Now is a series of international, participatory events that is being held simultaneously in Tokyo (Hibiya Park and surroundings) and Fukushima (Koriyama City). See below link for details including the background, programme and how to participate in and support this series of events.
Published on Dec 15, 2012
Taiwan:Building a Nuclear Free Society
People who stopped Nuclear Power Plants
Lai Wei-Chieh (Green Citizens Action Alliance, Taiwan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxAJkxZh1Ag
Thanks to IWJ for the video footage
Nuclear Free Now protest Japan- Andrey Ozharovskiy (Bellona, Lithuania)
Nuclear Free Now is a series of international, participatory events that is being held simultaneously in Tokyo (Hibiya Park and surroundings) and Fukushima (Koriyama City). See below link for details including the background, programme and how to participate in and support this series of events.
Lithuania:Building a Nuclear Free Society
Published on Dec 15, 2012
Lithuania:Building a Nuclear Free Society
People who stopped Nuclear Power Plants
Andrey Ozharovskiy(Bellona, Lithuania)
Nuclear Free Now protest Japan- Monica ZoppÈ (Italy)
Nuclear Free Now is a series of international, participatory events that is being held simultaneously in Tokyo (Hibiya Park and surroundings) and Fukushima (Koriyama City). See below link for details including the background, programme and how to participate in and support this series of events.
Published on Dec 15, 2012
Building a Nuclear Free Society
People who stopped Nuclear Power Plants
Monica ZoppÈ (Legambiente, Italy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T8SLtscD_g
Nuclear Free Now protest Japan- Suh Hyung Lim (South Korea)
Nuclear Free Now is a series of international, participatory events that is being held simultaneously in Tokyo (Hibiya Park and surroundings) and Fukushima (Koriyama City). See below link for details including the background, programme and how to participate in and support this series of events.
Suh Hyung Lim 1 of 2: Problems with Current Nuclear Power Regulation
Published on Dec 14, 2012
The Problems with Current Nuclear Power Regulation
Nuclear Power Free World 2
SUH Hyung Lim (Greenpeace Korea)
Suh Hyung Lim 2of2: Problems with Current Nuclear Power Regulation
Published on Dec 14, 2012
The Problems with Current Nuclear Power Regulation
Nuclear Power Free World 2
SUH Hyung Lim (Greenpeace Korea)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoeULbhstBA
Thanks to IWJ for the video footage http://iwj.co.jp/
Nuclear Free Now protest Japan- Christoph Pistner
Nuclear Free Now is a series of international, participatory events that is being held simultaneously in Tokyo (Hibiya Park and surroundings) and Fukushima (Koriyama City). See below link for details including the background, programme and how to participate in and support this series of events.
Christoph Pistner:Problems with Current Nuclear Power Regulation
Published on Dec 14, 2012
The Problems with Current Nuclear Power Regulation
Nuclear Power Free World 2
Christoph PISTNER (Öko-Institut, Germany)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPGsCd0sHyg
Nuclear Free Now protest Japan- Paul Gunters speech
Nuclear Free Now is a series of international, participatory events that is being held simultaneously in Tokyo (Hibiya Park and surroundings) and Fukushima (Koriyama City). See below link for details including the background, programme and how to participate in and support this series of events.
Paul Gunter 1 of 2:Problems with Current Nuclear Power Regulation
Published on Dec 14, 2012
The Problems with Current Nuclear Power Regulation
Nuclear Power Free World 2
Paul GUNTER (Beyond Nuclear, USA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBakS9lhGCM
Paul Gunter 2 of 2:Problems with Current Nuclear Power Regulation
Published on Dec 14, 2012
The Problems with Current Nuclear Power Regulation
Nuclear Power Free World 2
Paul GUNTER (Beyond Nuclear, USA)
Japanese protesters march against nuclear energy (Video) -Reuters
An anti-nuclear protest Japanese style as campaigners take to the streets ahead of the country’s first national election since the Fukushima disaster. The protest included the leader of the newly-formed Tomorrow Party, Yukiko Kada, a governor in Western Japan and a former environmental sociology professor.
Her party wants to shut down all nuclear reactors within 10 years – much sooner than the ruling Democratic Party’s goal to phase out nuclear power by the 2030s. With polls showing the pro-nuclear energy Liberal Democratic Party on track for victory in Sunday’s election, Kada urged protesters not to forget the double disaster that hit Japan in 2011.
“Let’s get angry”, she says. “We have to have the LDP reflect on what they’ve done and apologize to the children, forest, and land of Fukushima. Who’s taken responsibility?” Protesters also marched in front of the headquarters of the Fukushima Daichi plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company – who many blame for the disaster.
Three reactors melted down at the plant following the devastating tsunami of March, 2011, causing the worst radiological disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
Dec. 15 – Protesters march against nuclear power ahead of Japan’s first national election since the Fukushima disaster. Sunita Rappai reports (Video) (1:25)
Nuclear Fukushima reinforces the need for transparency and cooperation
“Meanwhile, anti-nuclear activists have organized against international conference “phase out nuclear power” to Tokyo, as well as demonstrations in the capital and Koriyama.
A thousand people have demonstrated Saturday in the main shopping area of Ginza to say “No to restart the reactors in Japan!” (Where 48 of the 50 units are stopped) and “no need for nuclear power plants.”
“The IAEA is a tool of nuclear energy which does not protect people but the interests of the industry,” Monica denounced Zoppe, Italian activist.”
15.12.12 | 5:32
Together in the region of Fukushima, ministers and experts on Saturday called for greater multilateral cooperation and improved transparency to enhance the security of facilities and nuclear deal with any future disasters.
“An accident of nature that occurred at Fukushima should not happen again, “insisted the Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba.
At the invitation of Japan and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), dozens of ministers and representatives of presented the actions of their country and called for an extension of cooperation.
behalf of Japan, Mr. Gemba, born a few kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi plant and elected the eponymous province, promised a continuation of work on the ground and strengthening of nuclear safety in connection with international bodies.
“one year and nine months have passed since the accident. I wish this conference will be an opportunity to strengthen ties with the international community for cooperation in tasks dismantling, decontamination, waste management and health monitoring, “he said.
Tokyo wants to respond to a concern expressed abroad to see the Japanese monopolize these interventions.
“People are worried about the Fukushima radiation effects. It is important to gather all the scientific expertise of the international community to appease, “said Mr Gemba.
announce And: “Japan will ask the IAEA to consider the establishment of a group International Council on dismantling. ”
Japan is also committed to host an IAEA mission to review the rules and safety standards that must decide the new Japanese nuclear regulatory body.
“IAEA will continue to the resolution of the Fukushima accident her most important priority “for his part, promised the director general of the agency, Yukiya Amano.
instance The UN should have in 2014 a comprehensive new report on the disaster occurred March 11, 2011 after a terrible earthquake and tsunami in the northeast of the archipelago.
Like others, the French Minister of Ecology and Energy, Delphine Batho, said that his country considered “greater transparency and strengthening international exams are with the strict independence of the safety fundamentals needed to improve continuously safety. ”
“The peer review Security is necessary for each of us as an outsider is always a factor of progress, “she said.
Under the auspices of the IAEA, several ministerial meetings have already been held since the disaster Fukushima, resulting in particular the adoption of an action plan for strengthening the safety of atomic sites, improving crisis management and protection of populations.
States were again encouraged Saturday to take full participate in these programs.
“It is important to improve communication with the public in case of nuclear or radiological emergency so that appropriate responses can be made on the basis of scientific and objective information, “it is also written in the communiqué issued at the end of the day Saturday.
This conference will continue until Monday plenary sessions and panel discussions.
Meanwhile, anti-nuclear activists have organized against international conference “phase out nuclear power” to Tokyo, as well as demonstrations in the capital and Koriyama.
A thousand people have demonstrated Saturday in the main shopping area of Ginza to say “No to restart the reactors in Japan!” (Where 48 of the 50 units are stopped) and “no need for nuclear power plants.”
“The IAEA is a tool of nuclear energy which does not protect people but the interests of the industry,” Monica denounced Zoppe, Italian activist.
Nature lovers and anti-nuclear Berlin: Belarus! Stop NPP construction!
Published on Dec 15, 2012
Беларусь! Останови строительство АЭС!
Belarus! Stop NPP construction! At a joint action against the Embassy of Belarus met on 14.11.2012 Members of the Friends of Nature and of Germany’s anti-nuclear Berlin to protest against the nuclear plans of the government.
With the decision to build Belarus nuclear reactors have, the government decided on an energy policy is not responsible in forming path, said the activists. are against the construction of the Belarusian reactor it basic security concerns: Thus the work on the foundation of the reactor present without a general project plan started. .
The nuclear power plant will be built near the Lithuanian border one . transboundary environmental impact assessment has not been carried out, which the government deliberately violated international agreements such as the Espoo and Aarhus Convention also the type of reactor for the nuclear power plant in Ostrovetskaya itself is extremely dangerous: water -water energy reactor (VVER) of the Russian nuclear plant builder Rosatom is the same type as “Leningradskaya NPP 2”, a pressurized water reactor Soviet model, which today more refined shape is produced.
The reactors have massive security lapses and are to earthquakes or plane crashes in by no means assured. Construction is supervised by the Russian state company Atomstroiexport and will be completed in 2020.
Activists send fake email to Shell workers
Posted on October 02, 2012
Source Bloomberg
Oct 3rd, 2012 by John Donovan. (Anti shell activist)
HOUSTON (AP) — Two activist groups said Tuesday they sent an email to more than 71,000 Shell Oil employees that pretended to be from a fake company division and provided information about a U.S. Supreme Court case involving the company.
The groups, People Against Legalizing Murder and the Yes Lab, said that on Monday they sent the email that purported to be from Shell’s “Grassroots Employee Empowerment Division,” which doesn’t exist.
Business interests argue they are being subjected to claims over the bad behavior of foreign regimes, which are shielded from lawsuits here under U.S. law.
Sean Dagohoy, with People Against Legalizing Murder, said the email was sent as a way to let Shell employees know about the lawsuit.
“As many people as possible need to know about what is happening in this case,” Dagohoy said in a phone interview from Vancouver.
Kayla Macke, a Shell spokeswoman in Houston, confirmedemployees got the email and were told it was fake.
The company is investigating how the email was sent.
http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2012/10/03/activists-send-fake-email-to-shell-workers/
UN sounds alarm on unsecured uranium waste in Tajikistan
UNECE praised the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for trying to set up projects to help the country manage its radioactive waste, but stressed that “due to the magnitude of the problem, it is hard to envisage that this issue will be solved in the foreseeable future.”
14 December 2012
AFP
The United Nations warned Friday that nearly 55 million tonnes of radioactive waste from old Soviet-era uranian mines remain in unsecured sites in northern Tajikistan.
The former Soviet republic, where Stalin’s empire once mined uranium to create its first nuclear bomb, is still stuck with about 54.8 million tonnes of unsecured waste from the now mainly abandoned mines, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) said.
The waste is “not treated, not confined, not secured,” agency spokesman Jean Rodriguez told reporters in Geneva.
In its second environmental performance report for the country, the UN agency lamented the lack of progress made to clean up the radioactive waste, which it said appeared to remain at the same level as in 1990.
“The state of radioactive waste storage is one of the main problems in Tajikistan,” it said, noting that a number of the unsecured sites are near Khujand, Tajikistan’s second largest city.
ACRO: The Fukushima disaster from day to day
Translated from french
Posted on December 14, 2012
Thursday, December 13:
• While an international conference organized by the IAEA is expected this weekend in Koriyama, Fukushima province. Against a conference in Tokyo organized by associations that require the permanent cessation of the nuclear industry. Another is in Koriyama organized by mayors opposed to nuclear power. A manifestion is also planned in Tokyo in Hibiya Park and the next in Koriyama. On Sunday 16th, the Japanese are also eligible to vote.
• The Ministry of Science and Technology is still hoping to save the Monju breeder when he does not, it is proliferating, it is probably an active fault, the safety culture is absent … In short, it is very dangerous, but it can produce weapons-grade plutonium … The Department has attempted to establish a research program to justify the continuation of the program.
The NRA has intimate Monju operators to improve security and resolve serious maintenance problems that have been identified.
• At a hearing by the Ministry of Industry about its desire to increase its rates, Kyushu Electric has claimed that it will sell its electricity 35.64% more expensive on average (admire the precision!) If no nuclear reactor restarts. Currently, the company requests an average increase of 8.51% to 14.22% for households and companies capitalizing on the fact that four of its six reactors will be restarted.
Kansai Electric (KEPCO) is not left table and also four nuclear reactors restarted its application to estimate average increase of 11.88% for households.
• After Oi and Tsuruga, it was the turn of faults in the central province of Higashidori in Aomori be oscultées by the group of experts set up by the NRA. Along the fault s-19, there was a shift of 90 cm. The operator, Tohoku Electric Power Company, says that this is not due to seismic activity but swelling layers due to water absorption.Experts have serious doubts about this explanation. After the inspection, they think rather that the movement is due to an active fault near. The inspection continues Friday and the verdict is expected within a week.
• After repeatedly deceived and its corrections, the NRA has issued new cards to predict the impact of radioactive fallout in the event of a major accident in the 17 nuclear power plants in the country. The biggest changes are for the central Genkai (Saga province) and Sendai (Kagoshima), both on the island of Kyushu and the Tomari plant in Hokkaido. A Kyushu is the compass that was false and Hokkaido precipitation.
These maps are based on the standard exhaust IAEA is 100 mSv in the first week. But the NRA wants to set a threshold twice as low as the criterion, which corresponds to a dose rate of 500 microsieverts per hour at which the evacuation is ordered.
Wednesday, December 12:
• TEPCO has posted videos after the investigation carried out in the reactor building No. 2 with the quadruped robot. She found no leak. However, the reactor No. 2 is leaking and TEPCO still do not know where.
• Always leaks in the turbine building # 3. Contaminated water that has leaked is 11 600 Bq / L for both cesium.
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffukushima-informations.fr%2F%3Fp%3D5036&anno=2
See www.acro.eu.org
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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
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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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