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Agents of USA and Israel targeting Iran’s military and nuclear programs

Although the US Embassy in Beirut initially said there was no substance to the accusations, the Associated Press reports that American officials later conceded that Nasrallah had been telling the truth.
Iran arrests 12 ‘CIA spies’ for targeting nuclear plans BBC News, 24 November 2011 Iran has arrested 12 spies of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the official IRNA news agency reports. Parviz Sorouri, an influential lawmaker, said the agents were targeting Iran’s military and its nuclear programme.

He said they were operating in co-ordination with Israel’s Mossad and other regional agencies…… Mr Sorouri, a member of the powerful National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, did not give the nationality of the alleged agents, nor when they were arrested. Continue reading →

November 25, 2011 Posted by | Iran, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Nuclear waste safety problems, retaliation against whistleblowers

The agency “seems to be more interested in paying contractor fees than in paying attention to safety concerns or to those who are disciplined for raising them,”

Hanford Nuclear-Waste Safety May Not Be Assured, Markey Says,  By Brian Wingfield Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) –– The U.S. Energy Department may not have adequately responded to safety questions and allegations of retaliation against whistle-blowers at a nuclear-waste treatment plant in Washington state, Representative Edward Markey said. Continue reading →

November 23, 2011 Posted by | civil liberties, USA | Leave a comment

Australians kept in the dark on USA new military base in Darwin

We need more details of US build-up: Brown, SMH, 17 Nov 11,  Australian Greens leader Bob Brown fears nuclear submarines could be stationed off the coast of Australia as part of a US military build-up in the Top End……

The expansion of the existing collaboration between the Australian Defence Force and the US Marine Corps and US Air Force will allow America to enhance its presence in the Asia-Pacific region

Senator Brown wants to see more details of the deal, announced jointly by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and US President Barack Obama on Wednesday. He also wants a parliamentary debate on the deal. ”I object to Australian people and parliament not knowing what the details are,” Senator Brown told ABC radio on Thursday. Continue reading →

November 17, 2011 Posted by | AUSTRALIA, politics international, secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | Leave a comment

Cheating among U.S, nuclear submarine personnel – it doesn’t inspire confidence!

Navy probes cheating on submarine nuclear exams, CBS News, 16 Nov 11(AP), HARTFORD, Conn. – The Navy’s inspector general for the Atlantic submarine force is investigating claims that pervasive cheating has tainted exams administered to enlisted sailors and officers as part oftheir nuclear training…. Continue reading →

November 17, 2011 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | Leave a comment

Doubts and inconsistencies in IAEA report on Iran’s nukes

Careful examination of the “alleged studies” documents has revealed inconsistencies and other anomalies that give evidence of fraud. But the IAEA, the United States and its allies in the IAEA continue to treat the documents as though there were no question about their authenticity.

IAEA report on Iran contains falsified information allegedly supplied by Israel, Moral Outrage, 11 Nov 11 The Hindu reports that the latest report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran appears to have falsified information about a Russian scientist who allegedly helped Tehran advance its nuclear weapons program. The IAEA report published by a Washington think tank Tuesday included a sensational claim that a former Soviet nuclear weapons scientist had helped Iran construct a detonation system that could be used for a nuclear weapon.

However, the Russian media has found out that the scientist, Vyacheslav Danilenko, had never worked in nuclear physics but their field of expertise was instead the production of nanodiamonds by explosion. Nanodiamonds are used in the manufacture of lubricants and rubber.

Contacted by the Russian daily newspaper Kommersant, the 76-year-old scientist, now retired, refused to discuss his work in Iran, saying only: “I’m not a nuclear physicist and I’m not a father of Iran’s nuclear programme.” Continue reading →

November 14, 2011 Posted by | Iran, secrets,lies and civil liberties | 1 Comment

UK’s cover-up of the size of its nuclear bomb tests in Australia

A spokesman for Rosenblatt solicitors, which is representing veterans from the UK, New Zealand and Fiji since taking up the case six years ago, said: “This is potentially very significant information for the progress of the case.”…      

 RAF veteran says government covered up scale of nuclear tests, Ex-airman’s evidence could prove crucial in court case against Ministry of Defence, THE INDEPENDENT, OMAR OAKES, PAUL CAHALAN  14 NOVEMBER 2011  A former RAF navigator has claimed the size of a nuclear bomb detonated during tests in the 1950s could have been three times bigger than the Government officially stated, in evidence which could that prove crucial for more than 1,000 service veterans suing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for upwards of £100m. Continue reading →

November 14, 2011 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, UK | Leave a comment

USA’s under cover terrorism against Iran

VIDEO US confesses to covert ops against Iran Press TV 13 Nov 11 Washington is seeking to stop Iran’s nuclear program by means of maximum covert operations including the assassination of Iranian scientists.

Speaking at the Republican presidential debate in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on Saturday former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich openly advocated increased covert terrorism against Iran.He suggested employing “maximum covert operations to block and disrupt the Iranian program including taking out their scientists, including breaking up their systems. All of it covertly, all of it deniable.”  Continue reading →

November 14, 2011 Posted by | Iran, Resources -audiovicual, secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | Leave a comment

Swiss men smuggled nuclear weapons technology while working for CIA

 3 Swiss to avoid trial in politically sensitive nuclear smuggling case, Washington Post, By Associated Press, November 13 BERN, Switzerland — Swiss prosecutors will opt to avoid a public trial for three Swiss men suspected of giving nuclear weapons technology and supplies to a rogue network in Pakistan, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The case is politically sensitive for Switzerland and the United States because of alleged national security implications, the men’s alleged CIA ties, and repeated instances of evidence being destroyed.It involves charges of violating Swiss nonproliferation laws. Continue reading →

November 14, 2011 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, Switzerland | Leave a comment

France’s spy court case shows up dirty tactics of nuclear lobby

This spying scandal and verdict against EDF couldn’t have come at a worse time for the global nuclear industry

 Nuclear giant EDF found guilty of spying on Greenpeace, Greenpeace,  by JustinMcKeating – November 10, 2011, As the great Mahatma Gandhi (nearly) said, ”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they spy on you, then you win”.

That’s pretty much the chain of events that lead to today’s conviction by a French court of French state electricity company, Electricité de France SA (EDF) for spying on us. The court fined the company 1.5 million Euros and ordered it to pay €500,000 in damages to Greenpeace France. In addition, the court sent the four men involved, two of them senior EDF executives, to jail as well – and fined three of them. Continue reading →

November 11, 2011 Posted by | France, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

India’s nuclear propagandist, Abdul Kalam is a fake

 From our Antinuclear correspondent in India, 9 Nov 11  I was reading Kalam’s report on how Koodankalam was safe and why nuclear is the future for India when I had a suspicion about his educational background. All his rantings seemed very unscientific to me so I did some research and found out that HE IS A TOTAL FAKE! He has only a degree (bachelor’s in science) BSc and the prefix Dr. has been conveniently been added by him in front of his name to promote himself as a doctor of science. In fact he has not received even an honorary doctorate degree from any institution or group as they sometimes arbitrarily give someone a doctorate even if they have just a fifth standard education in India (as in the case of Kurananidhi, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu who according to a report in Facebook apparently  has stashed away 3500 crores of indian rupees in Swiss Banks (an astounding amount).
 Abdul Kalam and  his missile tests were actually a botched job covered up by the BJP govt to save their face. Kalam is probably under threat that he will be revealed if he takes a anti nuke stand on Koodankalam so I’m sure if We bring the truth out about him and make it public, this would help the Koodankalam movement a great deal.
‘What is so sacrosanct about A.P.J. Abdul Kalam?’
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from Madras: The larger-than-life, conversation-stopping image of the former President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is the fruit of assiduous self-promotion, audacious political opportunism and pumped-up nationalism, combined with the gee-whiz ignorance of an uncritical media.
# A missile technologist who is routinely confused for a “nuclear physicist”.
# A scientist without a formal PhD—who was turned away from the Indian Institute of
Science (IISc) because he didn’t have the “requisite scientific credentials”—who happily uses
the appendage “Dr”. Continue reading →

November 10, 2011 Posted by | India, secrets,lies and civil liberties | 8 Comments

falsifying nuclear safety documents

Ex-supervisor for Tucker firm admits falsifying nuclear plant docs, AJC 9 Nov 11 “….John E. Delk, 40, a former crew supervisor for Williams Specialty Services, changed his not guilty plea at a hearing where he told a U.S. magistrate he certified work that he knew had not been completed at the nation’s only current reactor construction project…..

Records show that in August, 2010 a completed form falsely purported to state micrometer readings of cables installed to provide energy to equipment, including safety equipment inside the containment structure at Unit 2 of the Watts Bar nuclear plant in Spring City.

A court filing in Correll’s case said inspection records were falsified on the spur of the moment when Correll was told to “hurry up and get it done.” Delk was Correll’s supervisor…. http://www.ajc.com/business/ex-supervisor-for-tucker-1221283.html

November 10, 2011 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | Leave a comment

Radiation airport scanners – US govt backs corporate profit rather than public health

Incredibly, the government has continued to dismiss the medical and scientific community’s concerns about these X-ray machines, relying instead on safety assurances from profit-driven corporations such as Rapiscan.

The ProPublica/PBS NewsHour report, which is available at propublica.org, traces the history of the scanners, details exactly how the decision to deploy these scanners came about, and documents the gaps in regulation that allowed them to avoid rigorous safety evaluation. This report is a damning indictment of the extent to which the American people have been sold to the highest corporate bidder by government leaders……

Cancer-Causing Airport Scanners? Enough Is Enough, NJ TODAY , November 7, 2011, By John W. Whitehead Just when you started to think it might be safe to fly again…  Remember those whole-body, X-ray scanners the government installed in airports across the country and kept insisting were so safe? It turns out that they’re not so safe, after all. According to an investigative report by ProPublica/PBS NewsHour, anywhere from six to 100 U.S. airline passengers each year could get cancer from the machines. Continue reading →

November 8, 2011 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | 1 Comment

Kudankulam activists withstand pressure to drop their anti nuclear protest

the activists have also alleged that a person who was in no way connected with the ongoing protests was included in the expert panel formed by the state government to represent the protestors. PMANE had suggested M Pushparayan, convener of Coastal People’s Federation and M P Jesuraj as members of the panel. But Udayakumar alleged that another person was inducted into the panel as people’s representative

Safety of nuclear plant ‘old wine in new bottle’ : Activists – Times of India TNN | Nov 7, 2011, KUDANKULAM : Activists protesting against thenuclear plant at Kudankulam brushed aside the justifications by former president Abdul Kalam on the safety of the nuclear plant and termed them as ‘old wine in a new bottle.’ They also and stated that they would not hold talks with him.

Protestors also maintained that their agitation against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) would continue till the plant is shut down. Continue reading →

November 8, 2011 Posted by | India, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Researchers show that Syria’s supposed nuclear site is a textile factory

That secret nuclear facility in Syria? It’s a textile factory, researchers say in new report, Washington Post By   4 Nov After a four-year search for hidden atomic facilities in Syria, U.N. officials appeared this week to have finally struck gold: News reports linked a large factory in eastern Syria to a suspected clandestine effort to spin uranium gas into fuel for nuclear bombs.

But after further probing by private researchers, Syria’s mystery plant is looking far less mysterious. A new reportconcludes that the facility and its thousands of fast-spinning machines were intended to make not uranium, but cloth — a very ordinary cotton-polyester.

“It is, and always has been, a textile factory,” said one of the researchers, Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear policy expert at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and publisher of the blog Arms Control Wonk…..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/that-secret-syrian-nuclear-facility-its-a-textile-factory-researchers-say/2011/11/04/gIQA0MV7mM_blog.html

November 5, 2011 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, Syria, weapons and war | Leave a comment

Will Australia afford civil rights to Julian Assange, or kow tow to USA?

Assange’s extradition will have broad implications, not only for the exercise of free speech, but also for all Australians — as it will bring into stark relief our own government’s commitment to our rights as citizens…

If he is sent to Sweden, Assange’s extradition must be conditional on him not being subject to the “temporary surrender” clauses in the bilateral treaty between the USA and Sweden….

[ Former Prime Minister]Kevin Rudd.., unlike the Prime Minister [Julia Gillard]  and Attorney General, knew he was obliged to presume Julian Assange innocent
before proven guilty. Instead of threatening to cancel this Australian passport, the Foreign Minister said publicly that his responsibility was to attend to his legal and consular rights.

While the world watches events unfold in London, we have a singular responsibility here in Australia for the protection the citizenship entitlements of one of our own. The next move is squarely in the court of the Australian Government.

Why Julian Assange Could Be You, New Matilda.com, By Scott Ludlam, 3 Nov  Australians should watch closely how the Gillard Government responds to Julian Assange’s extradition . It will test Labor’s commitment to all of our rights as citizens Continue reading →

November 3, 2011 Posted by | AUSTRALIA, civil liberties | Leave a comment

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