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Illegal dumping of radioactive material in Fukushima

wastesContaminated soil might have been illegally dumped in Fukushima
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130104p2g00m0dm068000c.html
TOKYO (Kyodo), 4 Jan 13,  — Some Japanese contractors are suspected of flag-japanhaving
illegally dumped radioactively contaminated soil, vegetation and water
into rivers or other places close to the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant, the Environment Ministry said Friday. Continue reading →

January 5, 2013 Posted by | Fukushima 2013, Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties, wastes | 2 Comments

Halliburton, GE and Conoco quietly traded with Iran

 the subsidiaries of several American
companies have been quietly trading with Iran for years. These
companies include Halliburton, GE and Conoco.

Trading With the “Enemy”: Halliburton & GE Make Millions Trading With
Iran  Democracy Now  JULY 16, 2003 As head of Halliburton and as U.S.
Vice President, Dick Cheney lobbied to remove sanctions against Iran
to allow his business to profit off the Iranian dictatorship. Continue reading →

January 5, 2013 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | Leave a comment

Mysterious evacuation of Isfahan’s 1.5 million residents near Iran nuclear site

questionEvacuation of large Iranian city near nuclear site raises eyebrows, legalinsurrection,  by     , January 4, 2013  An edict was  An edict was issued on Wednesday by Iranian authorities ordering Isfahan’s 1.5 million residents to leave the city because pollution in the area “has reached emergency levels.”

Skeptical of Iran’s explanation for the evacuation, some believe it to have been prompted by more than just your average pollution. (h/t flag-IranUncle Samuel)… “Mass evacuations suggest a far more serious problem,” Rubin explained. “There are two possibilities here: There is a radiation leak and the regime is lying or there is really bad pollution and no one believes the regime’s explanations.”….. http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/01/evacuation-of-large-iranian-city-near-nuclear-site-raises-eyebrows/

January 5, 2013 Posted by | Iran, secrets,lies and civil liberties | 3 Comments

Fukushima government’s efforts to stop study of baby teeth for radiation checks.

exclamation-Fukushima gov’t tried to kill proposal to store baby teeth for future
radiation checks
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20121219p2a00m0na016000c.html
FUKUSHIMA — The Fukushima Prefectural Government has tried to kill a
proposal by a local assemblyperson to store local children’s milk
teeth to examine their internal radiation exposure stemming from the
Fukushima nuclear disaster, it has been learned. Continue reading →

January 4, 2013 Posted by | Fukushima 2013, Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Lucrative jobs for former nuclear officials, and “benefit” money keeps Japan’s “nuclear village” operating

Foundation filled with ‘nuclear village’ officials monopolizes nuclear
benefit program
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201301030065
 THE ASAHI SHIMBUN, 3 Jan 13 A foundation that provides high-paying
jobs for retired industry ministry officials has held a two-decade
monopoly on the program that pays benefits to residents living near
nuclear power plants, The Asahi Shimbun has found. Continue reading →

January 4, 2013 Posted by | Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Investigation of secret nuclear deals between France’s EDF and China

secret-deals

The Inspector General of Finance (IGF) is intensely interested in the first agreement between EDF and CGNPC that defined a partnership whose goal it was to build nuclear power plants together. The plants would be equipped with a new reactor type, the latest and greatest alternative to the catastrophically over-budget and now stalled European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) that Areva had been pushing for years.

That EDF, which was mostly government-owned, could even envision a deal that would hurt Areva, which was wholly government-owned, was simply too galling..

Blowing Up Now: The Transfer Of French Nuclear Technology To China Zero Hedge,  12/28/2012  Wolf Richter  

Technology transfers, whether on a contractual basis or through theft, have long bedeviled companies that want to benefit from China’s cheap labor and 1.3 billion consumers. Automakers, aerospace companies, technology outfits…. it’s the price they have to pay.

flag-franceBut when it seeped out that the largely state-owned nuclear industry in France was trying to sell its secrets to China to make a deal, oh là là!…..

flag-ChinaNuclear energy—where France has also been proudly on the forefront—was going to be next. Until the scandal of massive nuclear-technology transfers broke into the open. The central figure, Henri Proglio, CEO of mega-utility EDF that owns France’s 58 active nuclear reactors but derives almost half of its revenues from outside France, has come under investigation by the Inspector General of Finance (IGF). Of particular interest: the agreement to sell nuclear and industrial secrets and knowhow to China in order to conclude a deal that had been “aborted.”…. Continue reading →

December 31, 2012 Posted by | France, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Canadian film “If You Love This Planet” censored in USA

censorshipNuclear dangers real and widespread
BY HELEN CALDICOTT, THE STARPHOENIX NOVEMBER 9, 2012 “….  it is true that the Canadian film If You Love This Planet
along with two other films on acid rain are classified as “foreign
Flag-USApropaganda,” and one must register with the U.S. Justice Department to
show these films. This extraordinary issue was taken to the U.S.
Supreme Court, but the ruling prevailed. As a result, Terri Nash who
made the original, made another called, If You Love Free Speech.
http://limitlesslife.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/nuclear-dangers-real-and-widespread/

December 29, 2012 Posted by | civil liberties, USA | Leave a comment

Julian Assange’s Christmas speech

Assnage,JulianThe WikiLeaks boss also mentioned his plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate, indicating confidence that he would win in next year’s federal election. “In Australia, an unelected senator will be replaced by one that is elected,” he stated.

‘We continue to stand up to bullies’  ’ every day ordinary people teach us that democracy is free speech.’

see-this.way(includes video )Assange: WikiLeaks to release over a million new docs in 2013  

http://rt.com/news/assange-wikileaks-christmas-speech-511/  20 December, 2012, Despite all the difficulties the WikiLeaks faced in 2012, Julian Assange vowed to publish some 1,000,000 new documents in the coming year. In his Christmas speech he called for people to continue fighting for democracy “from Tahrir to London.” Continue reading →

December 22, 2012 Posted by | AUSTRALIA, civil liberties | Leave a comment

Shutting down the critics of Lynas rare earths Malaysain project

Lynas’ waste plans a toxic pipe dream  Aliran,   19 December 2012 Scientists and community leaders are concerned about radioactive waste from Lynas’ Malaysian plant but the company representative who took Wendy Bacon’s questions brushed off the criticism. This is the second of two articles about Lynas by Wendy Bacon “………Shutting down the critics

New Matilda asked to interview Lynas Executive Chairperson Nick Curtis but he was not available. Instead we interviewed a Lynas spokesperson who insists that the waste products of the Lamp project are “not hazardous in any way”. He refers to the safety record of Lynas which in “all of its constructions … has been achieved with zero lost time injury”.

When New Matilda suggested that problems are more likely to arise in the long term, even 20 or 30 years away, he replied: “I would be lying if I categorically tell you there is no risk in 20 or 30 years time from anything. What I can tell you is that the unanimous conclusion of all of the scientific experts from all of the different organisations that have investigated this material and everything else is that there will be no discernible risk for the public or anyone else from this facility.”

But this is far from true.

For example, in April this year, the National Toxic Network (NTN), a community-based network “working to ensure a toxic-free future for all”, published a preliminary assessment of the waste steam of Lynas’s Lamp project. It was prepared by Lee Bell, a qualified environmental scientist with 20 years experience in analysis of industrial process plants, groundwater monitoring and contaminated sites. He co-chaired the Core Consultative Committee on Waste under the former Labor government in Western Australia, which reformed the state’s hazardous waste sector. Readers of his 29 page NTN report (pdf), which was reviewed by another scientist, are likely to be concerned about the company’s environmental plans.

I asked Lynas’ spokesperson about the NTN report: “Whatever you think of it, it [the report] is a solid document. It appears to be academically referenced and it also appears to have had some form of review. If you read it, on a number of scores, you would be concerned?”…..

The Lynas spokesman rejected an NTN claim that Lamp’s location on a reclaimed swamp with a high rainfall is relevant to disposal of low level radioactive waste. Asked if he was aware it was a “marshy site”, he said, “I have no idea”. He explained that although there is a pristine fishing village and beach at Kuantan three and a half kilometres away on the coast, “if there is a risk there, it is much wider than just Lynas because the Lamp is in a petrochemical zone”. In fact, the site is on a reclaimed peat swamp……..http://aliran.com/11018.html

December 22, 2012 Posted by | Malaysia, RARE EARTHS, Reference, secrets,lies and civil liberties, Uranium | Leave a comment

Youtube: deception in radioactive food use

YouTubeFull presentation here         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_NjEaUmQHQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=4264s

Professor: Japan’s radioactive crops being shipped to cleaner areas and mixed into food supply? (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/highly-recommendedprofessor-japans-radioactive-crops-shipped-clean-areas-mixed-food-supply-video December 18th, 2012 
 Title: Where are the People?
Source: A Mountian of Waste 70 Years High; NEIS
Date: Dec 1, 2012
Dr. Jeffrey Patterson, President, Physicians for Social Responsibility: How can they plant crops here [near Russia’s Kyshtym disaster], its too radioactive? [The man replied] “Oh we take the crops from this area, we ship them to areas where there is no radiation then we mix the crops together.” […]

And I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that’s happening in Japan today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_NjEaUmQHQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=4264s

 

December 20, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual, Russia, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Shutting down the critics of Lynas rare earths project in Malaysia

” there will be no discernible risk for the public or anyone else from this facility.”

But this is far from true.

flag-MalaysiaLynas’ waste plans a toxic pipe dream  Aliran,   19 December 2012 Scientists and community leaders are concerned about radioactive waste from Lynas’ Malaysian plant but the company representative who took Wendy Bacon’s questions brushed off the criticism. “…….

New Matilda asked to interview Lynas Executive Chairperson Nick Curtis but he was not available. Instead we interviewed a Lynas spokesperson who insists that the waste products of the Lamp project are “not hazardous in any way”. Continue reading →

December 20, 2012 Posted by | Malaysia, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Health effects of Fukushima radiation were minimised by World Health Organisation

Chan,-MargaretLast month, the German branch of the international physicians’ group sent a letter to WHO Director General Margaret Chan, calling for a substantial expansion of medical research on the health effects of the Fukushima disaster. The branch also sought the early establishment of a comprehensive registry of residents in Fukushima who are estimated to have been exposed to radiation of more than 1 millisievert following the triple meltdowns.

WHO downplayed health effects of nuclear crisis on Fukushima residents : German physician

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121216a4.html?utm source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes+%28The+Japan+Times%3A+All+Stories%29 Jiji BERLIN — A German doctor and member of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicians’ group has criticized a World Health Organization report on the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe for underestimating its impact on human health.

In a research paper, Alex Rosen said the WHO report, published in May this year on estimated radiation doses received by residents near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, was compiled mainly by officials related to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which promotes the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes.

IAEA-and-WHO

Rosen, a member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, called for an independent assessment based on solid scientific methodology that would examine the health impacts from radioactive fallout released after the Fukushima No. 1 complex suffered three core meltdowns in March 2011. Continue reading →

December 17, 2012 Posted by | Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | 1 Comment

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

civil-liberty-2smUnjust Arrest of a Professor Opposing Debris Incineration in Osaka http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/unjust-arrest-of-professor-opposing.html   Below this background information is a letter from Masaki Shimoji, a university associate professor who has been unfairly detained since his sudden arrest on December 9, 2012. The arrest occurred flag-japanbecause he walked through the Japan Railways Osaka station on October 17, 2012.

 “……On December 9, 2012, Masaki Shimoji, an associate professor of economics at Hannan University was arrested by the Osaka Prefectural Police.  This arrest is extremely unjust in form and content.  It is clearly a crackdown on citizens’ movement.

Professor Shimoji and others are opposing the “areawide management of the disaster debris” measure, which intended to spread, incinerate and bury harmful substances in the disaster debris all over Japan that should not be incinerated, such as radioactive material and asbestos.  Osaka-city is trying to begin regular incineration and burial beginning in February 2013.

The following is the timeline for the arrest: Continue reading →

December 17, 2012 Posted by | civil liberties, Japan | 1 Comment

Nuclear Japan’s love affair with the criminal Yakuza

CriminalHow the Yakuza and Japan’s Nuclear Industry Learned to Love Each Other JAKE  ADELSTEIN  MAY 24, 2012 After  arrest of a yakuza boss for his alleged role in supplying workers to TEPCO’s Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant, we are learning the details of how Japan’s nuclear industry relied on organized crime. Since July of last year, a few months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami resulted in a triple meltdown at the Fukushima plant, investigators have been probing possible  yakuza links to TEPCO and the nuclear industry under the guidance of the National Police Agency.

“Yakuza involvement in the nuclear industry is believed to go back to 2007 or earlier,” said a police source, “and the gangs involved were dispatching yakuza to nuclear sites all over Japan.” Continue reading →

December 15, 2012 Posted by | Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Malawi protest against uranium mining company called off. Why?

Malawi group gets Paladin’s K0.9 million to publicize aborted protest … The Maravi Post-14/11/2012 Malawi group gets Paladin’s K0.9 million to publicize aborted … MZUZU–Paladin (Africa) Limited has provided funds amounting to K900, 000 … subscribers only

Paladin accuser recants threat allegation; Kyungu’s point man ... The Maravi Post-26/11/2012 MZUZU–Karonga Youth for Justice and Development (KYJD) has recanted the allegation made against Paladin (Africa) Limited, owners of … subscribers only  http://www.maravipost.com/malawi-news/society/2331-paladin-accuser-recants-threat-allegation-kyungu%E2%80%99s-point-man-praises-mining-firm.html

December 14, 2012 Posted by | Malawi, secrets,lies and civil liberties, Uranium | Leave a comment

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