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Revealed: Japan’s secret nuclear arms deals with USA

Japan ‘lied’ on secret US nuclear deal  Peter Alford, Tokyo correspondent , The Australian  March 10, 2010 JAPANESE governments lied to their people for more than 30 years about a “tacit” secret agreement allowing nuclear-armed US vessels to use their ports, a special Foreign Ministry panel reported yesterday. Continue reading →

March 10, 2010 Posted by | Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Crooked dealings in uranium-rich Kazakhstan

Kazakhs accuse ex-uranium boss of money laundering

Mining Weekly, -2010-03-04By: Reuters
4th March 2010 , ASTANA – Kazakhstan on Thursday accused a former uranium tycoon of money laundering and said its security service had launched a new criminal probe into his affairs in a case that has shaken confidence in the Central Asian state.

One of Kazakhstan’s most prominent business figures, Mukhtar Dzhakishev was arrested last year on accusations of corruption, theft and illegal sales of uranium assets to foreign companies…..

Kazakhstan, hit hard by global economic slowdown, wants to attract fresh foreign investment as well as bolster the role of the state in strategic industries such as uranium and oil.

It has also alarmed human rights groups who have questioned Kazakhstan’s methods of fighting corruption in a country where President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in power for two decades, tolerates little political dissent.http://www.miningweekly.com/article/kazakhs-accuse-ex-uranium-boss-of-money-laundering-2010-03-04

March 5, 2010 Posted by | Kazakhstan, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Request for criminal probe into U.S. nuclear power company

Trouble mounts for Louisiana’s Entergy following radioactive leaks at Vermont nuclear plant. Facing South 3 March 2010, New Orleans-based power giant Entergy is in hot water following revelations that its Vermont Yankee nuclear plant has leaked radioactive contamination to the environment — and its trouble isn’t limited to Vermont. Continue reading →

March 3, 2010 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | Leave a comment

Radiation safety standards decided on by nuclear industry

providing the oversight on themselves–policing their own industry just like the banking and financial industry did before their massive taxpayer bailout.

People Power Trumps Corporate Power:R.I.P Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Counter Currents, Kathleen Krevetski Interviewed By Carolyn Baker01 March, 2010 “…. Kathleen Krevetski – “In the United States, the NRC’s technical and safety regulations governing nuclear power plants are developed by the private nuclear industry using voluntary consensus standards. Continue reading →

March 2, 2010 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Depleted uranium causing cancers in U.S. soldiers in Iraq

I believe in my heart that the cancer is a by-product of when my daughter was exposed to depleted Uranium in Iraq.”

Iraq: An Environmental Cesspool, THE HUFFINGTON POST, R. B. Stuart, 1 March 2010, While the war in Iraq winds down, the cases of soldiers being diagnosed with rare, aggressive forms of cancer post deployment heats up. Not only do soldiers have to contend with side stepping roadside bombs during their tour, but radiological dust from depleted Uranium, Continue reading →

March 2, 2010 Posted by | Iraq, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Concerted bullying campaign against climate scientists

Bullying, Lies And The Rise Of Right-Wing Climate Denial Counter Currents, By Prof. Clive Hamilton, 22 Feb 2010, Australia’s most distinguished climate scientists have become the target of a new form of cyber-bullying aimed at driving them out of the public debate.In recent months, each time they enter the public debate through a newspaper article or radio interview these scientists are immediately subjected to a torrent of aggressive, abusive and, at times, threatening emails. Continue reading →

February 24, 2010 Posted by | climate change, secrets,lies and civil liberties | | Leave a comment

Nuclear workers afraid to speak out on safety issues

Workers at San Onofre nuclear plant fear retaliation for reporting problems, memo says | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times 19 Feb 2010 –Shelby Grad Workers at the San Onofre nuclear power plant fear retaliation if they report problems at the facility operated by Southern California Edison, according to an internal memo released by an Orange County environmental group.The memo, written by a plant engineer, said 25 workers who reported problems at the plant said they feared retaliation from management after they made complaints…..

San Onofre has been the subject of several investigations by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the last few years for various safety issues

Workers at San Onofre nuclear plant fear retaliation for reporting problems, memo says | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

February 20, 2010 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear scientist missing in Canada

Police give up search for missing nuclear scientist thestar.com Adrian Morrow
On January 18, Lachlan Cranswick left the Chalk River nuclear reactor, where he worked, and took a bus to Deep River, the small town on the Ottawa River where he lived.

The 41-year-old physicist, whose job entailed running experiments for the National Research Council, had just finished some work for a researcher overseas…..Then, he vanished without a trace

Police give up search for missing nuclear scientist – thestar.com

February 20, 2010 Posted by | Canada, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , | Leave a comment

France deliberately exposed soldiers to nuclear radiation

French soldiers used as ‘nuclear guinea pigs’ The Age MICHEL MOUTOT February 17, 2010 – France used soldiers as guinea pigs in nuclear tests in the 1960s, deliberately exposing them to radiation from atomic blasts to test the effects, according to a report revealed on Tuesday.

The secret military report, obtained by AFP, said that between 1960 and 1966 France sent troops onto Algerian desert test sites “to study the physiological and psychological effects caused on humans by an atomic weapon.” Continue reading →

February 17, 2010 Posted by | France, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

New Zealand P.M uranium mining shareholder despite NZ’s anti-nuclear policy

Key’s uranium mining interests The Standard  By: Marty G  February 16th, 2010 –  There’s a few things about Key’s story regarding his shares in Jackson Mining that don’t stack up. First, he says Jackson Mining was just an Aussie gold mining company when he bought them and that they didn’t get involved in uranium until a merger that saw become part of a company with uranium mines in South America. But Jackson mining was already involved in uranium exploration in South America before that merger when Key listed his interest in the company last year. Second,
………..Jackson Company has significant interests in mining uranium in Australia and Argentina, in the new guise of the company which is called Cauldron. ……..

Key’s government continues with its moves to open up the conversation estate to Australian mining interests.

Key’s uranium mining interests « The Standard

February 16, 2010 Posted by | New Zealand, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , | Leave a comment

Baltic sea: a Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump?

Sweden wants explanation on Baltic nuclear ‘dumping’ By Damien McGuinness BBC News, Riga 5 Feb 2010
The Russian military allegedly dumped nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s, according to a report on Swedish television. Continue reading →

February 6, 2010 Posted by | EUROPE, secrets,lies and civil liberties | , , , , | Leave a comment

Obama beholden to nuclear industry’s donations and backing?

Obama’s Nuclear Giveaway, Mother Jones 4 Feb 2010  By Kate Sheppard

“………..nuclear interests have been keen boosters of his political career: Executives and employees of Exelon, the Illinois-based utility that produces approximately 20 percent of the country’s nuclear power, donated nearly $210,000 to Obama’s presidential campaign, according to CQ Moneyline.

In fact, Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, helped broker the merger of two utiltilies to form Exelon in 2000 when working as an investment banker at Wasserstein Perella & Co. Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, consulted for an Exelon subsidiary periodically between 2002 until he started working on the Obama campaign. Exelon officials Frank M. Clark and John W. Rogers Jr. have been among his biggest fundraisers, and Obama has also received donations from John Rowe, Exelon’s chairman. Rowe also heads NEI, is a key player in a business-environmental coalition pushing for climate legislation, and has been selected to serve on the DOE’s panel on nuclear waste. Continue reading →

February 5, 2010 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | | Leave a comment

Truth being withheld about depleted uranium and cancer

It is abhorrent that the DoD and mainstream media has stood shoulder to shoulder with locked arms blocking this information from the masses — military and civilian –

“Depleted uranium from sea to shining sea”: Cancer kills U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians.  THE HUFFINGTON POST R.B. Stuart 29 Jan 2010 As early as 2007, four years after the war in Iraq, the medical journal Lancet Oncology observed a trend: that several cancer registries were being locked out of Veteran’s Administration [VA] data beginning late 2004 (a year after the war in Iraq). For decades the VA had voluntarily shared its data, allowing access to cancer patients. A Centers for Disease Control spokesman said that as a result of the lock out, “Potentially, 40 000 to 70 000 cases were missed nationally each year.” With the national estimate of cases askew, the spike in cancer rates of soldiers being diagnosed with cancer post 2003 deployment — remains unreported. Continue reading →

January 29, 2010 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Bribery pushing along nuclear industry comeback in Illinois

Nuclear industry bribes its way to a comeback Corrente, Lambert 26 Jan 2010 * Exelon Corp. * Illinois * McClatchy * Other * player * President Sun,  Hey, guess who the biggest player is and where they’re from? That’s right: More recently, the industry has been reaching out to newly empowered Democrats, among them Clyburn, whose state is among the nation’s leading nuclear-power producers. (The president’s home state of Illinois is the biggest, and Obama and some of his closest political allies have long relationships with Exelon Corp., the country’s biggest nuclear power company.)Well, heck. Corporations are people, too! If only the Republicans were no longer in power! Oh, wait…

Nuclear industry bribes its way to a comeback | Corrente

January 26, 2010 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | , , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear power company misled legislature

Nuclear Engineer Says He Alerted State About Yankee Pipes Last Summer  VPR  01/22/10 John Dillon – Montpelier, Vt. State officials reacted strongly last week when Vermont Yankee admitted it had underground pipes that could leak radioactivity.But the news should not have come as a complete surprise. A nuclear engineer who advises the legislature says he alerted the state last sutmmer and fall about the potential problems with the underground pipes…… Continue reading →

January 24, 2010 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

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