Calling all activists and people of kind heart! Help is at hand!
States failing in duty to prevent intimidation and reprisals against human rights defenders
“…‘ISHR calls on the Human Rights Council – the UN’s peak human rights body – to show leadership in this regard by authorising the appointment of a high-level, UN-wide focal point to coordinate the international response to reprisals and intervene in alleged cases. Working together, the Council and high-level focal point could play a critical role in ensuring that States properly investigate cases of reprisals, prosecute and punish perpetrators, and provide appropriate remedies to victims.’,,,,”
“,,,Reprisals range from State-sponsored smear campaigns, to the de-registration or closure of NGOs, to arbitrary arrest and detention, to torture, ill-treatment and even death.’,,,”
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Heres an earlier plea for help from one oppressed blogger… I shall be giving her a call! What about you?
Image source ; http://vernacularcurate.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-death-of-hope.html (Geneva, 9 September 2013) – States are failing in their duty to protect human rights defenders from acts of intimidation and reprisal, according to a major new report to be launched tomorrow by the International Service for Human Rights.
The report focuses on reprisals against human rights defenders in retaliation for their efforts to promote human rights, expose and ensure accountability for violations, and obtain redress and justice for victims at the United Nations.
‘Human rights defenders from all regions of the world continue to face intimidation, harassment, attacks and reprisals for their work to promote and protect human rights at the UN,’ said ISHR Legal Counsel Madeleine Sinclair.
‘Reprisals range from State-sponsored smear campaigns, to the de-registration or closure of NGOs, to arbitrary arrest and detention, to torture, ill-treatment and even death.’
The report calls on States to enact national laws and policies that protect human rights defenders, provide people with a right of unhindered access to UN human rights bodies, and prohibit all forms of intimidation or reprisal against people for their work to promote human rights or ensure accountability for violations at the international level.
‘Our research demonstrates that only a small minority of countries have enacted laws which are clearly directed at protecting human rights defenders and prohibiting and penalising reprisals,’ said Ms Sinclair.
‘Such laws would not only contribute to reducing reprisals, but also to building an enabling environment in which human rights and their defenders are recognised as essential contributors to peace, security and development.’
The report will be launched at an event to be held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva where the UN Human Rights Council is holding its 24th session. Event speakers include UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Flavia Pansieri, Bahraini human rights activist Maryam Al-Khawaja, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission chief Professor Michael O’Flaherty, and ISHR Legal Counsel Madeleine Sinclair.
In addition to discussing the role of States in addressing reprisals, the panel will also discuss the responsibilities of the United Nations itself in this regard. |
Fukushima cover up special – Science Media Centre UK DOES the BBC, in fact, DOES the whole country!!
FIONA FOX`S BOAT RACE
( Means FACE for non english speaking non cockney rhyming slang types)
Posted by Arclight2011part2
posted on nuclear-news.net
26 September 2013
The title says it all
But heres some of my research into these blighters .. its cluttered and unsorted but it will give you an idea of just how big a con this organisation is.. A registered charity working for the corporate PR machine.. Stunning! more to come in the next few days..
i have put a few things in the comments section of this article as well… there is a big problem with ME groups who resent what the SMC has done to their cause as well.. you can google that stuff or wait for me to get to that section of SMC science suppression campaign..
Science media: Centre of attention USA
Fiona Fox and her Science Media Centre are determined to improve Britain’s press. Now the model is spreading around the world.
Ewen Callaway
10 July 2013
“..Regardless, the SMC model is now spreading around the world, with the latest franchise slated to open in the United States around 2016. The centres are all run independently, but they abide by a unified charter crafted by Fox.
This means that Fox is about to take her message to a much wider audience. “I think there are problems with her reach,” says Connie St Louis, director of the science-journalism course at City University London and one of Fox’s loudest critics. “She’s becoming one of the most powerful people in science.”…”
“…That is a message that Fox has honed well since establishing the SMC in London in 2002. The centre’s aim is to get scientific voices into media coverage and policy debates …”
“… “Our philosophy is we’ll get the media to DO science better when scientists DO the media better,” says Fox. …”
http://www.nature.com/news/science-media-centre-of-attention-1.13362
Nature also funded the SMC UK :0
22.97 microSv/h, Koriyama city, Sakabuta Park- residential housing area
Published on 8 Sep 2013
On 7th of Sept 2013 , I measured radiation around Sakabuta Park, Koriyama city, Fukushima pref. Japan
I monitored 0.47 to 0.65 micro Sv/h at my chest height in air.
22.97 on road side sand, on gurter cover on a foot of a slope road.
The monitorinig place is 55 or 60 km from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant.
Housing area of Koriyama city. Koriyama city: popolation approx 330,000.
Measuring instrument ECOTEST MKS-05, Ukraine made and Air counter of ST Corp., Japan.
Kids have been endangered with external & internal radiation exposure risk
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A map shown in the video is “Radiation counter map of the FUKUSHIMA Daiich nuclear accident” by frofessor Yukio HAYAKAWA of GUNMA university.
群馬大学の早川由紀夫教授による『福島第一原発事故の放射能汚染地図・７訂版』をビデオの中で使用しました。
22.97μSv/h 郡山市酒蓋公園近く 側溝の蓋の上に溜まった砂 2013年9月
Published 2nd February 2013
WorldNetworkChildren
The Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team
http://fukushima-evacuation-e.blogspo/…
World Network for Saving Children from Radiation
http://www.save-children-from-radiati/…
Gregory Jaczko: The Ongoing Fukushima Daiichi Crisis
Published on 23 Sep 2013
Gregory Jaczko: The Ongoing Fukushima Daiichi Crisis; Ongoing Radioactive Discharges and Other Current Issues
The radioactive discharge problem at Tepco’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is bringing worldwide attention to Japan’s ability to deal with the continuing crisis at Fukushima.
PRESS CONFERENCE 9/24 Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan
Gregory Jaczko, Former Chairman,US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Torgen Johnson,Citizens’ Representative, San Diego Forum
Tetsuro Tsutsui,Member, Nuclear Regulation Sub-committee,
Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy (CCNE) /
Nuclear Power Plant Technical Experts’ Group
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iwj6
外国特派員協会FCCJ記者会見
グレゴリー・ヤツコGregory Jaczko:元米国合衆国原子力規制委員会NRC委員長
米サンオノフレ原子力発電所を廃炉にしたトーガン・ジョンソン (カルフォルニア在住)
筒井哲郎:(推進派と紙一重の実態も)原子力市民委員会 以下参照
良い原発ならOKの意見も ビックリの原子力市民委員会9/12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzSab6…
モンゴルなど論外と思っていたが モンゴル議論 9/12第五回 原子力市民委員会
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afaaif…
参考 9/23 グレゴリー・ヤツコ元米原子力規制委員長が講演
「福島第一原発事故はスリーマイル島事故の重要な教訓を学ばなかった結果」 | IWJ
http://iwj.co.jp/wj/open/archives/102941 掲載期間終了後は、会員限定記事
Fukushima: Nuclear Safety Myth~Anti-Nuclear Mayor Tatsuya Murakami Q&A (English Only)
Published on 24 Sep 2013
This was a really good interview, in my opinion.
I edited the following 52 minute video to include Only English Translation. View the full length video here:
Tatsuya Murakami,anti-nuclear Mayor of Tokai-mura Q&A Includes Japanese Translation.
http://youtu.be/TxPkxdCUzFY
What was discussed in the video posted here?
Ground water is a Big Problem with Fukushima.
Shelf life on the tanks outside Fukushima Daiichi are only designed for three years!
Tokai Daini #2 must be decomissioned ASAP, however, there must be a storage place underground to house the fuel rods, and NO PLACE is safe enough to put the fuel rods, so they will just sit where they are for now.
Should TEPCO be held Criminally Responsible?
Security at Nuclear power plants is IMPOSSIBLE, even with armed guards.
approx: 9:20 Nuclear Plants are Dangerous and we must get rid of ALL NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS.
approx 10:00 Abe Promoting exportation of Nuclear power plants overseas is seen as Japan being immoral and unethical.
approx 12:30 The national government Must step in to take over TEPCO and dissolve Tepco. A new electric supply system must be installed. Lies and mistrust from around the world at Japan, as it promotes nuclear power across the world.
approx 16:00 Status of Tokai Daini is a PROBLEM for a variety of reasons mentioned above
approx 18:30 the Pacific Ocean contamination of Ibaraki prefecture is discussed
approx 19:00 Fukushima fish now not caught but specific species have been more effected than others… but that is a bunch of bullshit. More fish are being caught in Ibaraki, but remember fish know no “exclusion zone” boundaries…
approx 20:00 The LDP grants money to the economy of a region based on nuclear power generation. The JAEA (Japan Atomic Energy Assoc) income comprises one Third of the Budget.
Regulator Authorities is what is wrong and itnernational aid is needed
Fundamental problems with nuclear energy and remember that Japan IMPORTED the nuclear energy technology form the United States. Not enough attention was given to safety and regulation. Remember these people who regulate nuclear energy are ALSO the ones who Promote it.
There is a Myth of Safety that “Nuclear Energy Can Be Controlled”, and it is Clear it CANNOT be controlled, especially in a “promote nuclear” environment without safety measures.
PRESS CONFERENCE Tatsuya Murakami, Mayor of Tokai-mura (Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture)
http://tinyurl.com/m6ub6ve
PRESS CONFERENCE
Tatsuya Murakami
Mayor of Tokai-mura (Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture)
September 5, 2013
(The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation)
Had the tsunami been one meter higher, Japan would have had one more Fukushima catastrophe at a site much nearer to the Tokyo metropolitan area in Tokai Village, Ibaragi prefecture.
The 6.1 meter high breakwater almost completed just shortly before March 11, 2011, barely protected the Tokai Daini Nuclear Plant from becoming fully flooded. Just by a razor thin margin, the plant escaped the doom of total blackout and thus a resulting reactor core meltdown.
Tokai Village is known as the birth place of Japan’s nuclear business. Japan’s first nuclear reactor started operation here in Tokai in 1957. The village also has experienced numerous accidents, including the worst civilian radiation accident in Japan prior to the Fukushima disaster. The accident took place in 1999 and resulted in two deaths.
Tatsuya Murakami was elected mayor of Tokai Village in 1997. He took a bold initiative in the crisis management of the 1999 accident. In the wake of Fukushima catastrophe, he has made his anti-nuclear stance clear. He has been opposing the resumption of the Tokai Plant operation, saying “Japan is not qualified to have nuclear plants.”
Amid the trend for nuclear resumption, Murakami decided not to run during the next mayoral election scheduled for September. Let’s listen to the message he will deliver at the FCCJ press conference on September 5th.
Murakami was born in 1943. He is a graduate of Hitotsubashi University and worked as a banker for 31 years before he was elected Mayor.
here’s a BONUS LINK FOR YOU!
Gregory Jaczko: The Ongoing Fukushima Daiichi Crisis 9/24/2013
http://youtu.be/6TxqAGZOX7s
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Fat Geezer, Iain Dale beats up elderly and puny anti-nuclear protester and scares the crap out of a dog live and recommends it to others!!
Former Conservative Party election candidate and blogger Iain Dale grabbed an anti-nuclear protester and wrestled him to the ground after he tried to interrupt a live television interview with one of his authors.
Mr Dale grabbed the man on the seafront at Brighton as Damian McBride was talking to ITV’s Daybreak programme about his memoir Power Trip, which details his dirty tricks while working as a Labour spin doctor.
The radio presenter and political commentator said he was waiting in his car waiting to drive Mr McBride to his next interview when he noticed protester Stuart Holmes.
The pair wrestled during the interview off-camera with the sound of Mr Holmes’s dog heard barking as Mr McBride talked to host Lorraine Kelly.
More discussion from this dog in a demonstration earlier this year.. notice the elderly gentleman’s extremely violent behaviour/sarc
from this event
So, the elderly gentleman was at the demo in March 2013 to support the children of Fukushima and later gets beaten up by a Conservative party dude pontificating about his years of lies.. Who is the thug here?
Common assault at least, an arrestable offence..
UPDATE FROM IAIN DALES BLOG
It Shouldn’t Happen to a Publisher: Protecting An Author During a Live Interview
24 Sep 2013 at 09:40
I knew I shouldn’t have had three weetabix this morning…
OK, so here’s what happened. Damian McBride was doing a live interview on Daybreak on the Brighton seafront. I was waiting in my car to drive him to do his next interview with Nick Ferrari on LBC when I noticed that a protester was holding a placard behind Damian which was filling a lot of the screen and totally distracting from the interview. I assumed someone from Daybreak would intervene to stop him, but no one did. So I did what any self respecting publisher would do, got out of the car, ran across and pulled him out of the shot. He started resisting and we ended up in an unseemly tumble on the ground. I was conscious of the photographers and other cameramen who were present filming the whole thing, but I was determined this idiot shouldn’t disrupt what was an important interview for my author.
I am someone who runs a mile from any form of physical confrontation normally, but I never understand why broadcasters seem to accept without question that someone with a placard or a loud voice should disrupt this sort of interview. Anyone who has seen the pictures and video can see that there was no real violence. I certainly didn’t hurt the guy. He threw a punch at me but missed, and the only injury was when the man’s dog bit him on the bum.
Anyway, now you can see why my publishing company is called Biteback.
In some ways I have committed the cardinal sin of becoming the story myself, rather than my author, and I regret that. But do I regret that I stepped in to protect my author? No I do not. One of the snappers afterwards said to me that I did what they had all been dying to do for years, as he regularly interferes with their professional work. Everyone has an inalienable right to protest, but no one has a right to make a continual nuisance of themselves and interrupt interviews like that.
The BBC and EDF corrupts nuclear science with the help of the USA
“….In 2011, as their share value continued to plummet[Because of fukushima Arclight2011], EDF formed a stakeholder advisory panel, employing Chris Patten, chair of the BBC Trust, as chair of the panel and Diane Coyle, vice chair of the BBC Trust, as a member the panel. She is married to BBC News Technology Correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones. Other members of the panel include Will Hutton, former editor of the Observer and a leading commentator on social and political affairs, and Sir Richard Lambert, former director of the CBI and former editor of the Financial Times. Chris Patten is linked to David Cameron through Patten’s former chief of staff, who is now chief of staff to Cameron….[Also, The UK SMC and the USA senseaboutscience began its promotion of the “right” science. Arclight2011]”
18 Sep 2013
The Nuclear Industry, Government and the Media
http://ruscombegreen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-nuclear-industry-government-and.html
Have you ever wondered why we receive so little information about the ill-fated nuclear reactors at Fukushima? Or the massive, year-long protests against proposed new nuclear reactors on the East and West coasts of India? Or even about Scotland’s decision to be nuclear-free? Why do we hear so little about the ill-effects of nuclear power, its enormous cost and legacy of dangerous radioactive waste?
Both talks will take place in the Old Town Hall in Stroud, from 7.30 till 9.30pm.
Risk Perceptions about Nuclear Power and the UK’s Energy Infrastructure
30 Jan 2013
Ms. Fox added that focus shifted away from panels of science experts set up by the Science Media Center to brief government officials and the media on the real risks associated with the crisis. The pressure to sensationalize headlines is real, according to Ms. Fox. “Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.” She described instances where journalists she knew were taken off stories for presenting a more “measured, balanced, accurate narrative” instead of the “scare stories” that their editors wanted.
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A second source of risk misperception at Fukushima, according to Ms. Brown, is overly conservative national safety regulations. As an example, she cited Japanese officials who reported that tap water in the areas around Fukushima showed 210 becquerels per liter of iodine-131 – more than twice the Japanese recommended limit of 100 becquerels per liter for infants. Media picked up this statement, headlining that the water was not safe to drink. (Becquerels is a measure of radioactivity). However, the recommended limit for adults in Japan is 300 becquerels per liter. Further, IAEA international guidelines set the safety limit ten times higher, at 3,000 becquerels per liter, for major events like Fukushima. “What was set out to be a precautionary measure to protect the public,” stressed Ms. Brown, “actually became a source of concern and a source of alarming stories.”
USA Science Media centre
http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/about-us.html
UK Science media centre (Formed in 2001 and running by 2002)
Major NGOs speak out about the Fukushima disaster! Unanswered questions!
Repost..
Below is a list of the organisations that spoke out in defence of the children of Fukushima.No individual countries made any statement concerning the Fukushima disaster and the plight of local residence at the UN meeting.
Save the Children International appreciated the acceptance by Japan of recommendations relating to the ratification of the third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and to the adoption of measures to protect the right to health of Fukushima residents. Japan should facilitate and encourage democratic deliberations to implement the act on the protection and support for the children and other victims of the TEPCO disaster.
Reporters Without Borders International said that Japan, which could be proud about the freedom of press, had experienced a free fall in the ranking compiled by Reporters Without Borders, due to lack of information available about the accident at Fukushima. It was hoped that Japan would respect the right of its citizens to information.
Human Rights Now urged Japan to implement the recommendation concerning the protection of the right to life and health of the people affected by the nuclear accident in Fukushima. The response of the Government was not sufficient and Japan should provide sufficient compensation and support for the relocation of people living in contaminated areas.
Japanese Association for the Right to Freedom of Speech said that during the consideration of its Universal Periodic Review report in October 2012, Japan had made a deceptive reply regarding the issue of political tract distribution. This type of detention violated the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
TAKASHI OKADA, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said
With regard to the Fukushima disaster, the Government had provided financial and medical support to Fukushima residents. Japan would spare no effort in making further improvements in its situation of human rights.
The Council then adopted the outcome of the Universal Periodic Review of Japan.
http://www.ohchr.org/CH/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13142&LangID=E
[Editors note] The Japanese delegation had made this statement on the 14 March 2013. This document of the summary of that meeting was placed on a Chinese speaking part of the UN website.
In this document we find this statement;
[…]Takashi Okada, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said that out of the 174 recommendations it had received, Japan had agreed to follow up or partially follow up on 125 of them, including those promoting the protection of the rights of women, children, and persons with disabilities, but was unable to accept 26 of the recommendations. Regarding the remaining 23 recommendations, Japan already had sufficient measures in place to address the issues raised by those.
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http://www.ohchr.org/CH/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13142&LangID=E
Japan imprisons professor who opposes radiation management
Radioactive contamination has not been properly dealt with at all, and the contamination is being spread through the circulation of food and other goods. In the midst of this situation, the government lies about “insufficient electricity” to try to continue using nuclear power plants. This is nothing but insanity.
Every day I look at my students and wonder what sort of world they will live in when these 20-year-olds turn forty like me
https://nuclear-news.net/2012/12/17/japan-imprisons-professor-who-opposes-radiation-management/
Letter From Hiroshi Hoshi the Japanese man arrested for helping animals from radiation!
(Source)
https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-hachiko-coalition-page/letter-from-hiroshi-hoshi/542703292441060
Friday, 29 March 2013
http://www.change.org/petitions/free-hiroshi-hoshi-and-leo-hoshi-fukushima-animal-rescuers
This letter is from Hiroshi Hoshi who wanted to share it on Facebook.
Image source ; http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article2946282.ece
“….We were transferred from Nihonmatsu police station to the Fukushima prison custody section on March 21, 2013. Our trial will start on March 27th.
It is involuntary for us but we will admit what we have done but we will also defend the legitimacy of our activities.
We heard that there was somebody, who had worked with Hoshi family before, who said that “the Hoshi’s were arrested because of their own fault”.
I am shocked by this person’s comment who had worked with the Hoshi family. It is something comparable to abandoning a comrade. It is not only about Fukushima, but I feel many Japanese people are in a fog about many issues.
Eric Schlosser: ‘The people who are most anti-nuclear are the ones who know most about it’
The American author tells Ed Pilkington about his six-year all-out immersion in the terrifying and surreal world of nuclear weapons for his latest book, Command and Contro
21 September 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/21/eric-schlosser-books-interview
In the autumn of 1999 Eric Schlosser was invited to Vandenberg Air Force base in California to witness the launch of a Titan II missile, the largest intercontinental ballistic missile America has ever built. At the time, he was a moderately well-known magazine writer, and Fast Food Nation, the book that would act as his personal rocket launcher propelling him into the literary stratosphere, was still two years away from publication.
“They let me go up into the tower and I found myself standing next to the missile. It was right there,” he says, stretching out his hand as though to touch the missile’s cool metal shell. “It was a deeply impressive thing.”
Schlosser was a child of the 70s and grew up with dire warnings of nuclear Armageddon ringing in his ears, largely dismissing them in his mind as fear-mongering and make-believe. “But my God! Watching that missile take off, seeing it soar over the coast of Mexico – it was visceral. These are real! They work! That ICBM was more powerful than any cold war story I’d heard.”
That shattering experience set Schlosser on a journey that has resulted, 14 years later, in Command and Control, his take on the terrifying and surreal world of nuclear weapons. The past six of those years have been spent in what he describes as “all-out immersion” in the subject. The writer is notoriously meticulous about his research, wearing out more shoe leather per book than most journalists do in a lifetime.
For Fast Food Nation, his expose of what he called the “dark side of the all-American meal”, he interviewed scores of labourers, meatpackers and ranchers, and visited countless abattoirs and factory farms. In a similar vein, he spent time with more than 100 bomber pilots, nuclear scientists and weapons designers for Command and Control, as well as reviewing thousands of pages of newly released official documents. “I really went down the rabbit hole into the nuclear madness,” he says when we meet in a coffee bar in Soho, New York. He speaks languidly, elongating his vowels like a West Coast hippie, even though he was born in Manhattan and spent part of his youth here.
Shoe-leather aside, there’s no instantly apparent theme that connects Schlosser’s disparate subjects. From fast food he turned to the war on drugs in Reefer Madness (2003). His next book after Command and Control will be on America’s prison system. Food-dope-nukes-slammers: where’s the logic?
“Powerful systems of control that aren’t being discussed and that work very hard to disguise how they operate,” he answers. “It’s not like I have a megalomaniacal ‘I’m going to save the world’ mentality, but what my work is designed to do is to provoke discussion. I want to produce not a diatribe or a rant but writing that is factually based and footnoted.” (Command and Control certainly is footnoted – the notes and bibliography run to more than 100 pages.)
N-deal: Violation of liability Act will amount to corruption: BJP
22 September 2013
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley Sunday said the violation of the provisions of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Act in any contract between Indian nuclear power operator — Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) — and a US firm would amount to corruption under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
“Any attempt now to permit the NPCIL to abdicate the right given to an operator — a government company — would be compromising with state revenue. It would be a contract contrary to the provisions of section 17(b) of the Act. If a public sector company wilfully enters into an agreement with a foreign vendor and abdicates its right to recourse which section 17(b) otherwise provides for its benefit, it would not only be violating the provisions of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Act but also section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act wherein a wrongful loss would be caused to the revenue of a public sector company,” Jaitley wrote in a signed article.
The Leader of Opposition, in this backdrop, reminded that he was privy to the discussions between the government and the Opposition on the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Act in 2010 to stress Parliament ensured that the nuclear plant operator’s right of recourse with the supplier was made independent of an agreement in writing if there was a patent or latent defect in equipment because section 17(b) of the Act “operates independent of the agreement in writing” under section 17(a) of the same Act.
Jaitley alleged that the Congress-led UPA government has the “intention to dilute the right of recourse” provision through the Rules under the Act and claimed that the government has tried to achieve this through Rule 24 of the Act.
“But a leopard never changes its spots. The government’s intention to dilute the right of recourse and make it dependent on an agreement continued. When the Rules under the Act were notified such an intention as apparent in the language of Rule 24… creating an ambiguity that clauses 17(a) and 17(b) would be read in conjunction with each other and not dis-conjunctively,” Jaitley said in his article pointing out that Rule 24, which deals with section 17(a) of the Act and permits the contract to specify the duration of initial licence, has defined the ‘product liability period’.
‘Rest’ in one piece for the coming Armageddon
By Donald Bradley
http://www.gulf-times.com/culture/238/details/366513/%E2%80%98rest%E2%80%99-in-one-piece
22 September 2013
Through the darkness and past massive pillars in this old limestone mine, you come upon lights shining down on several brand-new recreational vehicles.
Sort of a Flintstones-like RV showroom, more than 130 feet deep below thousands of tonnes of solid rock.
Welcome to the doomsday world of Robert Vicino.
Give the man credit. He’s come up with selling points to get someone to pay thousands of dollars to spend a year in a travel trailer in a Kansas mine sealed shut by 2-foot-thick steel and concrete doors.
For a reason that may never occur.
We should all hope it’s blown money.
Vicino’s plan is to turn the mines on the bluffs of this old river town into what he calls the world’s biggest private survival shelter. His vision is that 5,000 paying members will make a beeline for the shelter in their recreational vehicles when nuclear war, a killer asteroid or global pandemic appear imminent.
Beyond the doomsday event itself, he strongly pitches the resulting anarchy’s roving packs of predators.
“The lights go out and there is no food,” Vicino, 59, said last week. “It will happen quickly. You have to decide which side of the door you want to be on.”
That door, he says, will withstand a nuclear blast as close as five miles.
Inside his shelter, where work is just beginning, are more than 2 million square feet of RV park. Vicino promises enough food, water and generator fuel to last a year. Plans also call for a fitness centre, a clinic, a theater, a school and, of course, a place to get a cold drink. The average family can secure space for $25,000 or so.
After a year, according to Vicino’s business model, the survivors will climb to the top as the next Genesis generation to repopulate the Earth.
Sound good so far? Not to Ken Rose, a history professor at California State University-Chico. He told The Associated Press recently that although interest in underground shelters is on the rise, the Atchison project is a “colossal waste of time and money.” The Cold War, which ended with the Soviet Union more than 20 years ago, presented the threat. “At least then, anxiety was based on a realistic scenario,” Rose said.
But look around, Vicino says. Syria, Iran, North Korea. Satellites passing over carrying who knows what. Rogue nukes. Chemical war gases. Biological terrorism.
Don’t think him a gloomy Gus. This is a guy who got his start in large inflatables. In 1983, he mounted a 90-foot King Kon Through the darkness and past massive pillars in this old limestone mine, you come upon lights shining down on several brand-new recreational vehicles.
Sort of a Flintstones-like RV showroom, more than 130 feet deep below thousands of tonnes of solid rock.
Welcome to the doomsday world of Robert Vicino.
Give the man credit. He’s come up with selling points to get someone to pay thousands of dollars to spend a year in a travel trailer in a Kansas mine sealed shut by 2-foot-thick steel and concrete doors.
For a reason that may never occur.
We should all hope it’s blown money.
Vicino’s plan is to turn the mines on the bluffs of this old river town into what he calls the world’s biggest private survival shelter. His vision is that 5,000 paying members will make a beeline for the shelter in their recreational vehicles when nuclear war, a killer asteroid or global pandemic appear imminent.
Beyond the doomsday event itself, he strongly pitches the resulting anarchy’s roving packs of predators.
“The lights go out and there is no food,” Vicino, 59, said last week. “It will happen quickly. You have to decide which side of the door you want to be on.”
WHO Lies Refuted: Physicians’ Group Predicts 100,000+ Fukushima Cancer Incidences/Deaths
Posted on September 22, 2013
References on link
http://thehealthcoach1.com/?p=3307
By Richard Wilcox, PhD
3-14-13
“All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.” – I. F. Stone
In this new age of instant information, navigating the pitfalls of overload (too much); uncertainty (lack of); misinformation (poor quality); disinformation (intentional distortion, lies); is key in determining the scope of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and assessing immediate and long-term impacts on the international and Japanese public health. Fortunately we have one of the first attempts from researchers to set the record straight and calculate the death toll from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The report comes from the courageous men and women of International Physicians for Preventing Nuclear War (IPPNW) who expose the Big Lie being perpetrated by the World Health Organization (WHO) that few ill health effects will occur.
Consider that it is standard operating procedure for governments and industry to obfuscate, cover-up and lie about a nuclear disaster as soon as it occurs. The chaos that unfolds during a nuclear disaster such as Fukushima is used in a carefully orchestrated Big Lie process whereby damage control and perception management allow the perpetrators of the Big Crime – Tokyo Electric Power Company, the Japanese government and the international nuclear apologists and nuclear industry – to eventually get off scot free (1).
Even though the Japanese government was fully aware that three reactors had melted down and another one severely damaged, and that people should have been evacuated in a much more bold and expedient manner, the phrase that will live in infamy, “there is no immediate danger,” was repeated during the worst days of the nuclear crisis by the government. In Orwellian fashion they might as well have announced over loudspeakers across the entire country that “The Moon Is Made Of Green Cheese, The Moon Is Made Of Green Cheese,” in order to prove that whatever the government says is true and no one should question it.
The extent and quantity of radiation released from the accident has intentionally been suppressed, and unless the public can gain access to the highest echelons of governmental secrets, we will never know the full truth of how much radiation was released, where it was deposited and whose health was or will be affected.
WHO Do You Trust?
The WHO published their Fukushima report just before the two-year anniversary of the March 11, 2011 nuclear disaster, and – incredibly – announced that there will be practically no ill health effects to the public despite documented evidence to the contrary. A typical “mainstream media” headline reads that thyroid radiation doses in Fukushima infants are well within safe limits (2). Imagine that, the world’s “premiere” health organization and supposedly top medical “watchdog” stating for the record that the most vulnerable population within the most radiated zone is somehow magically “within safe limits.”
The continuing and endlessly repeated message from the media based on WHO’s report is that health damage from the Fukushima nuclear disaster is more psychological than actual (3). If you are worried about radiation you are probably paranoid, and that victims “should smile often” to reduce the negative health impacts of radiation. These depraved assertions are indicative of the specious and insidious lengths WHO and their media lackeys are prepared to go in order to obfuscate and cover-up what is one of the most severe threats to human health in modern history.
Even though the global media is controlled by just a handful of mega-corporations (4; 5), some people (perhaps too few of them) – to their credit – do not instantly accept the WHO’s findings and are now becoming more vocal in their demands for accurate information.
The results of an investigation are only as good as the effort put into it. Many observers have criticized the WHO for ignoring relevant data and basing their conclusions on theoretical assumptions, a biased selection process and insufficient empirical data. According to Simply Info:
The methodology used for the WHO cancer projection risk report fails in a number of ways. Instead of attempting to build a few sample detailed profiles of exposure, they used highly generalized on paper estimates then applied them to entire populations. The WHO study is not based off of real world recorded exposure data in humans. It is instead very rough on paper estimates based off of government environmental radiation readings and food testing. The WHO study also threw out all data from the evacuation zone, where most people were actually exposed. Their study completely lacks this important data in their calculations (6).
The WHO threw out or otherwise selectively omitted data from the very areas where people were most affected. This is fraudulent science at best if not flatly criminal in intent. As nuclear critic Paul Zimmerman has found in his lengthy investigation of the radiation industry, “a clever campaign of misinformation has succeeded in making malignant deeds appear benign.” It is typical of governments that “[f]ollowing a radiation release, [they] avoid adequate radiation monitoring” because it is costly and might alarm the public (p. 23; pp. 209 – 211) (7). There is little concern for the number of people contaminated as the Japanese government’s mishandling of the Fukushima tragedy has clearly shown (8).
Physicians Who Do No Harm
In contrast to WHO disinformation and what may only be described as pro-nuclear propaganda, a report from the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) has analyzed some of the available data from Japan and found “[t]he initial health consequences of the nuclear catastrophe are now, two years after the incident, scientifically verifiable” (9).
Depending on which demographic group is included in the survey and the radiation level that is considered a risk, the IPPNW estimated that upwards to 136,872 cancer cases or serious illnesses, apparently not including precancerous tumors on children, could occur. Bear in mind that the IPPNW findings are conservative compared to some general estimates that put potential cancer incidences as high as a million (10; 11; 12).
Differences in risk models tells the story. The IPPNW derive their estimate model from the European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR). The WHO derives their estimates from such agencies as the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). One of the ECRR’s founding members, Dr. Chris Busby, has offered an extensive and convincing critique as to why the WHO and their establishment methodology for radiation risk is outdated and inaccurate (13).
Doctors For The People And Planet
The IPPNW was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 and “is a non-partisan federation of national medical groups in 63 countries, representing tens of thousands of doctors, medical students, other health workers, and concerned citizens who share the common goal of creating a more peaceful and secure world freed from the threat of nuclear annihilation…” (14).
Obviously, this group consists of highly professional, courageous and conscientious individuals, most of whom have medical backgrounds and all of whom uphold the Hippocratic Oath admonition “first, do no harm.” IPPNW are opposed to the “nuclear annihilation” of life on planet Earth, which is being threatened on a daily basis by the psychopaths in criminal-controlled governments and militaries around the world.
With a cool 100 trillion dollars in their pocket, we know that it is not only the powers-that-be that are behind our perpetual wars for perpetual peace, but a particular group of supremely evil individuals who employ the threat of the ultimate form of violence in order to maintain their wealth, power, enslavement of humanity and ongoing destruction of the biosphere (15; 16; 17).
The Cult of Nuclearists is comprised of people of a common mentality. They embrace nuclear and radiological weapons as a reasonable element of warfare and statecraft and are responsible for maintaining these weapons in our midst. They have never made a serious effort to forge an international consensus to banish nuclear weapons. They venerate the power they wield, the threat they project, the advantage they possess over the less powerful. They have created a world that 99.999% of humanity abhor…. Our well-being is at the mercy of those with a genocidal mentality. In violation of our sensibilities and sense of decency, we have been forced to live our lives inextricably entangled in the intrigues of petty potentates who derive their right to dictate affairs from the brutality of the weapons they wield. The people of the earth have unfinished business with the Cult of Nuclearists (Op. cit., “Paul Zimmerman,” pp. 29 – 30).
As laudable as the IPPNW’s work is, unfortunately their report, “Health consequences from Fukushima,” which relies considerably on Japanese Ministry of Health data, is very technical, translated from German, not very well written and disappointing in some respects. It is a very short report (four pages) and some important information is not clearly explained (Op. cit.).
For example, why did they not consider the number of people who were doused with radiation from the initial accident but may have moved out of the Fukushima region? Also, they present figures for radiation in food that do not seem logical given food in Western Japan, where almost no radioactive fallout occurred is listed as radioactive.
Call to store nuclear waste in Australia, to sustain uranium industry
“Storage is the Achilles heel . . . it highlights the political, social and technical difficulty of doing this.”
Claire Stewart
Australia will need to start enriching uranium and storing the nuclear waste if it is going to sustain a competitive uranium industry in the future, says senior finance and resources figure Mark Johnson.
Mr Johnson, a former deputy chair of Macquarie Bank and former chairman of AGL, said Australia had a “great opportunity” to become a participant in a “free world nuclear fuel cycle”, if it produces uranium.
“But the consequence of that is we would also have to store spent uranium,” he told Financial Review Sunday.
Federal government laws explicitly prohibit the building of nuclear fabrication, enrichment or power plants and the return of nuclear waste to Australia for storage.
“Nobody wants spent nuclear fuel in their backyard, even if it would be right in the centre of the outback of Australia, [with] very stable geological conditions,” Mr Johnson said.
The price of uranium has halved since governments around the world promised to cut their reliance on nuclear power following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Energy Resources Australia chief executive Rob Atkinson said the market will turn, particularly given expected demand from China.
For other democracies, nuclear power is “off the table for generations”, Mr Johnson said, prompting suggestions that enrichment and storage of waste will be a key part of expanding the industry.
Australia currently processes uranium to the “yellow cake” stage, which is then exported for further processing and concentration, and in some cases turned into fuel rods.
Uranium as a fuel source can only be used for about three years before it becomes too unstable, said Australian Conservation Foundation nuclear campaigner Dave Sweeny.
He said making Australia part of the global fuel cycle was about opening the country up for return of that spent material. “Industry returns are meagre and the risks are significant and continuing,” he said.
“Storage is the Achilles heel . . . it highlights the political, social and technical difficulty of doing this.”
The Australian Financial Review
France to tax nuclear to fund clean energy – is the UK nuclear program going to pay the french too?
France is to tax its huge nuclear fuel programme to help pay for the transition to clean energy. Fossil fuels will also be taxed in an effort to cut down on carbon emissions and reduce global warming.
Closing a two-day conference on the environment in Paris on Saturday, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault gave details of proposed timeframes to reach previous pledges to cut France’s emissions of greenhouse gases.
The tax on fossil fuels will be replace existing taxes and is expected to bring in four billion euros in 2016.
But Ayrault said the government will not rush the transition.
“Part of the tax on the consumption of fossil fuels will be calculated according to the carbon emissions arising from their use, and that applies to gasoline, diesel fuel, coal and natural gases,” he told the conference.
“I hope this reform is very gradual. It will respect our commitment to stable taxation. In 2014, the first year of implementation, the impact of the carbon component on fuel and heating oil will be zero. Afterwards this measure will amount to 2.5 billion euros in 2015 and four billion in 2016.”
There has been growing tensions between Ayrault’s Socialists and their coalition partners in the Green party (EELV) in the run-up to the conference.
But Housing Minister Cécile Duflot made it clear that her party will not quit the government.
“Now there are targets that the whole government must work for,” she said. “Ecological transition is useful for the whole country – it’s as simple as that.”
But MEP Noël Mamère was less enthusiastic.
“The only concrete measure is the decision to reduce VAT on insulation to 5.0 per cent,” he said. “As for the rest, all that’s being offered is nice speeches whose only purpose is to allow some of my ecologist friends to say ‘We’ll stay in the government’.”
What the proposals will mean in practice should become clearer when the government unveils its 2014 budget on Wednesday.
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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