Definition of a “terrorist” -USA (Audio)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8SeGGnUfE&feature=player_embedded
Published on Sep 28, 2012 by EndtheLie
Duration 2.00 hrs
Tonight on End the Lie Radio, Madison Ruppert and guest Brandon Turbeville of Activist Post discuss the definition of a “terrorist” and how almost everyone in America today could absurdly be considered suspicious per the DHS’s ever-expanding definition, as well as who are the local Councils of Governments (COGs) and how are they supporting the Agenda 21 initiative across small-town America in this information-packed, educational episode. End the Lie Radio is live from 10:00 PM – 12:00 AM EST/7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PST every Monday evening at http://EndtheLie.com/Radio.
Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Mullins, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of three books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, and Five Sense Solutions. Turbeville has published over one hundred articles dealing with a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties.
Review -Peace activists close nuclear facility, cause historic security breach -Ploughshares USA
The Transform Now Three with their signs, via http://transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com.
In the early morning on Saturday, July 28, three gray-haired trespassers made their way into a nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee. They were armed with human blood, hammers, candles, flowers, crime-scene tape and a Bible. In the process of their break-in and after, they managed to close down operations at the facility for days on end and raise searching questions about how secure — and how justified — the United States’ vast nuclear stockpiles really are.
Bahrain Shiite activist Rajab on hunger strike
“According to Amnesty International, since the protests first began in February 2011, at least 60 people have been killed.”
06 OCTOBER 2012
AFP – Bahraini Shiite rights activist Nabeel Rajab has gone on hunger strike, a local rights group said Saturday, just two days after he was briefly released from jail to attend his mother’s funeral.
Rajab, 48, who is serving a three-year sentence for participating in illegal demonstrations, was allowed out of jail for one day to bury his mother.
After the funeral, Rajab was taken back into custody and barred from attending the three-day condolence gathering where friends and relatives pay their respects.
“In protest against this unjustified punishment, (Rajab) started a full hunger strike (on Friday),” said the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR).
In a comment posted on Twitter, Bahraini rights lawyerMohammed al-Jishi said “Rajab’s hunger strike is an expected reaction since he’s being denied his lawful and humane right to attend his mum’s funeral.”
Bahrain authorities say Rajab was barred from attending the condolence gathering because he “committed violations” at the funeral.
“Rajab was released briefly to attend his mother’s funeral on humanitarian grounds,” the authorities said in a statement, but he “violated the terms of his release and delivered a speech inciting mourners to stage illegal protests”.
“Because of his actions, Rajab has had the privilege to attend further mourning gatherings revoked,” the authorities said.
The BCHR said that Rajab called on mourners to “continue their struggle for rights and democracy,” and argued his speech was a “peaceful expression of opinion.”
India: ‘Nuclear energy is not a national issue – it is a global issue’ — anti-nuclear movement gains momentum
“The people protesting in Koodankulam are not only fighting for their health and livelihoods; they are not only fighting for the peoples’ of India; they are fighting for the right to life of the peoples’ of the entire world, and for the healthy lives of our unborn generations. It is the duty of all conscious human beings, wherever they are, to join the struggle against nuclear energy.”
Neeraj Jain interviewed by B. Skanthakumar
October 5, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — The anti-nuclear peoples’ movement in India has been gathering momentum in recent years. The courageous struggle of women, men and children of Idinthakarai village in South India, who are resisting the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, and are under siege by state security forces – with more than 56,000 of whom have been falsely charged, including 6000 for the offence of “sedition”, and 53 imprisoned – has highlighted the people’s movement against nuclear energy.
Neeraj Jain is the convenor of Lokayat, a social activist group in Pune, Maharashtra, that is part of the all-India National Alliance of Anti-Nuclear Movements (NAAM). Jain, who trained in electrical engineering, is the author of Nuclear Energy: Technology from Hell (Aakar Books, Delhi 2012). He was interviewed by B. Skanthakumar in Bangkok on September 5, 2012, before the confrontation a few days later during fuel-loading of the Koodankulam nuclear reactor, in which one fisher was shot dead and dozens were injured, sparking strikes and agitations across Tamil Nadu, including in Chennai, Coimbatore, Erode and Thootukudi.
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What is the background to the upsurge of peoples’ movements against nuclear energy in India today?
The Indian National Congress-led government is going for nuclear energy in a big way, claiming that it is cheap, clean and safe, and the solution to the country’s energy needs.
This expansion of nuclear energy is a follow-up to the Indo-US nuclear deal [in 2008]. The Indian government agreed to buy US$150 billion worth of nuclear reactors, equipment and other materials from the United States of America in return for the US inking the agreement. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s special envoy, Shyam Saran, also promised that US companies would benefit for decades from Indian orders for military equipment. The quid pro quowas for the US to modify its laws and allow India to engage in nuclear commerce, from which it had been blocked after its nuclear tests in 1974.
The US also lobbied with the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) – which is an association of 45 countries that export uranium and nuclear technology – to grant India the waiver to engage in civilian nuclear trade, despite not having signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In return, the Indian government promised the NSG countries that their companies would receive lucrative contracts in India. This was candidly admitted in an article in a leading newspaper of Maharashtra by the former chief of India’s Department of Atomic Energy, Anil Kakodkar.
This is the real reason behind the Indian government opening its doors to Western nuclear energy companies. After putting the country on sale, it is now strutting about claiming that it has become a “nuclear superpower”, in addition to its claim to having become an “economic superpower”.
The government of India is setting up two kinds of nuclear plants.
Breaking! China in secret talks on UK nuclear plant stake -UK ignores other options
Coalition backs investment as fears grow of power cuts, with the Chinese considering a 20 per cent share in the venture
China in secret multi-billion pound talks on UK nuclear plant stake
By TOM MCGHIE
PUBLISHED: 00:35, 7 October 2012
China is poised to take a multi-billion pound stake in the building of a nuclear power plant in Somerset with French energy giant EDF.
Secret talks are understood to have been taking place for weeks between the two, with the Chinese considering a 20 per cent share in the venture.
SPECIAL REPORT / Mistrust puts pharmaceutical industry in the spotlight -Europe
Published 05 October 2012
“North Korea would be proud of you!” said workshop moderator John Bowis, a former MEP and president of stakeholder group Health First Europe, after conducting the straw poll in a session addressing transparency between the public, health professionals and industry in the Austrian resort.
The European healthcare system is struggling to cope with low levels of transparency and trust in the pharmaceutical sector, according to 97% of doctors, industry professionals and policymakers attending a workshop at the Gastein Health Forum yesterday (4 October).
“North Korea would be proud of you!” said workshop moderator John Bowis, a former MEP and president of stakeholder group Health First Europe, after conducting the straw poll in a session addressing transparency between the public, health professionals and industry in the Austrian resort.
Toshiba-Westinghouse – A sinking ship? or sly manipulation?
“If Toshiba curtails or ends their nuclear division and Westinghouse both the US and UK lose one of their approved reactor designs. They would also lose ANY support services for existing Westinghouse units”
October 5th, 2012
This quietly began in July as Toshiba hired JP Morgan to find a buyer for the Westinghouse nuclear company they now own. The Times UK is reporting they do not have any potential buyers.
According to the Times Toshiba wants to quit the nuclear industry. “Toshiba-Westinghouse wants to quit the nuclear industry altogether and is struggling to raise finance for the joint venture.”
UK -Report says power shortages could happen as early as 2015
But Greenpeace policy director Doug Parr said the report “sends out a clear warning that we need to reduce demand” rather than build new power stations.
Published 5 October 2012
Britain is facing the rising risk of an energy shortfall within three years, a watchdog warned.
Energy regulator Ofgem said energy supplies were being hit by tough European Union environmental laws and the closure of ageing coal- and oil-fired power stations.
It predicts the amount of spare capacity in the UK could plunge from current historic high levels of 14% to 4% in 2015/16, leaving the UK at risk of significant shortfalls.
The government welcomed today’s report and said it hoped reforms as part of its forthcoming Energy Bill would ensure supply was secured.
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Today’s report reveals the UK could be left with a shortage equivalent to 1,000 households in 2015/16, or 9,000 households in extreme circumstances.
It estimates the chance of network operator National Grid having to cut power to customers would stand at one in 12 years in 2015/16.
But National Grid would cut power to businesses and industrial customers before households, which significantly reduces the risk of families being left in the dark, according to Ofgem.
It also has contingency plans in place to avoid interrupting supply to customers, by asking power stations to maximise generation and also by importing more power from Europe.
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Closure of Canadian Gentilly-2 Nuclear Generating Station
OCTOBER 6, 2012
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Hydro-Québec has confirmed the Gentilly-2 nuclear power plant which has been operating safely and reliably since 1983, will stop producing electricity on December 28, 2012. This follows the September 20 announcement by the Government of Québec on its decision to shut down Gentilly-2 rather than proceeding with a refurbishment.
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The increase in project costs, combined with falling market prices prompted Hydro-Québec to recommend to the Québec government that the generating station be closed. In light of the feedback it has obtained on the complete refurbishment cycle, the company has reassessed the cost of the project to $4.3 billion.
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The Canadian nuclear industry provides a broad spectrum of products and services that benefit Canadians, generating approximately $6.6 billion per year and contributing $1.5 billion in tax revenue and $1.2 billion in export revenues, and supports over 71,000 direct and indirect jobs.
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Nuclear industry invests in a viable future propaganda campaign -PONI
The Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) aims to build and sustain a networked community of young nuclear experts from the military, national laboratories, industry, academia, and policy communities.
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The project has three primary objectives. First, PONI aims to build and sustain a networked community of young nuclear experts from across the nuclear enterprise, including in the laboratories, military, industry, academia, and policy world.
Second, the project seeks to help develop the next generation of leaders with both the necessary subject matter expertise and the professional skills to be effective in shaping and implementing policy.
Third, PONI works to mobilize the wide-ranging nuclear expertise within its membership ranks to generate new ideas and advance the public debate on all issues concerning nuclear weapons.
There are over 1,100 PONI members and affiliated programs in the UK and France. Membership is open to anyone working in the nuclear field or studying nuclear weapons issues
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China’s Ralls Corp. Sues Obama over Wind Farm cancellation
Saturday, 6 October 2012
U.S. Treasury Department spokeswoman Natalie Wyeth Earnest has said pursuing litigation could be an exercise in futility for the Chinese company.
“The CFIUS statute clearly states that the President’s actions are not subject to judicial review,” she said.
China’s Ralls Corporation has sued U.S. President Barack Obama for blocking its wind farm deal, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.
In an amended lawsuit filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, Ralls claims Obama exceeded his constitutional rights and acted in “an unlawful and unauthorized manner.”
Don’t let Atos near nuclear, Greens warn -UK
“To trust them with the nuclear operation is foolhardy in the extreme.”
The Green Party attacked the appointment of controversial “fit for work” firm Atos to run nuclear industry IT systems today as “foolhardy in the extreme.”
Atos has been criticised repeatedly for its controversial role policing the government’s back-to-work scheme, with people wrongly having their benefits slashed and being forced into employment despite being too ill to work.
The firm also has a chequered history regarding previous government contracts.
In 2008 Atos was subject to a government inquiry after it lost sensitive data along with passwords and user names for the Department of Work and Pensions computersystems.
And earlier this year the head of the UK Borders Agency said that Atos was responsible for major disruptions in the Agency’s IT systems, causing “significant delays and hardship” for those applying for in-country visas.
But in a press statement the firm announced today that it had secured responsibility for the delivery of “significant aspects of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA’s) IT services.”
The five-year, £140 million contract covers Sellafield, Magnox, National Nuclear Laboratories and Low Level Waste Repository.
Responding to the announcement Green Party environment spokeswoman Penny Kemp told the Star: “We are astounded at this government’s ability to employ companies which have been shown to be incompetant.
“This is the very company which assessed terminally ill people as fit to work and has happily helped the government slash benefits from the most vulnerable in our society.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/content/view/full/124710
Group: Ministry may have manipulated Fukushima radiation readings
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 06, 2012
The Association for Citizens and Scientists Concerned About Internal Radiation Exposures said on Oct. 5 that its survey this year of airborne dose levels found an average 10-30 percent higher than the ministry’s numbers, and in certain areas, the discrepancy was even greater.
The group measured radiation levels at about 100 monitoring posts set up by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology throughout the prefecture, which is home to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. It then measured radiation levels about 10 meters away from each of the posts.
The group’s readings at those locations averaged 40-50 percent higher than the figures reported by the ministry at the posts themselves.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201210060041
Mass trespass!! Anti-nuclear campaigners gather for Hinkley Point protest -UK
It will be addressed by ex-nuclear workers, local residents, band Seize The Day, and guests from Fukushima and the anti-nuclear movement in India.
Theo Simon will read a statement prepared from the notes of Crispin Aubrey, the local Stop Hinkley campaign founder who died last week while organising the event.
On Monday, the new leader of the Green party, Natalie Bennett will be joining the mass trespass when protesters aim to scale the fence surrounding the land designated for the new power station to plant seeds to symbolise their hope that a third nuclear plant will not be built on the site and the land revert to nature.
Campaigners say they expect arrests.
Anti-nuclear campaigners from all over Britain are converging on Somerset today for a mass rally to be followed on Monday by a ‘mass trespass’ at the proposed site of the Hinkley C nuclear power station.
Today hundreds of protesters are due to help to wheel symbolic barrels of radioactive waste through the streets of nearby Bridgwater.
Asahi Shimbun demands Tepco release ALL footage related to Fukushima disaster (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/asahi-shimbun-demands-tepco-release-all-footage-related-to-fukushima-disaster
Published: October 6th, 2012 at 3:53 am ET
By ENENews
Source: THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Date: October 06, 2012
Video of how Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant staff responded to the unfolding disaster is now available for public viewing after the operator posted selected footage on its website.
The six hours of video shows teleconference conversations between staff at the site and their supervisors at Tokyo Electric Power Co. headquarters, and gives a first-hand account of the problems and delays they encountered as three reactors overheated and fuel inside melted.
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But The Asahi Shimbun is demanding that TEPCO do more than that and release all video footage related to the accident.
1 This Month
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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