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TODAY. Rewriting history in the interest of hating Russia.

Russians are no saints. The Russian army is no saint. I’m sure there’ve been atrocities by Russia, especially in Stalin’s time, and during World War 2, and now , in Ukraine.

BUT – now we are all, especially in the anglophone media, being systematically taught to hate Russia.

Today we learn that Poland  is shutting down the Russian exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum. This doesn’t matter – OR DOES IT?

It’s pretty easy to wipe out the history of the Russian soldiers liberating Auschwitz. You see, that happened on January 27 1945, well before the war ended in May. There was very little publicity about the liberation. In later months, as the war was ending liberation of other camps by the British was widely publicised.

In fierce fighting on the outskirts of Auschwitz, 231 Russian soldiers died. In the main camp, and a subsidiary camp, the soldiers found 12000 prisoners alive. One Russian soldier spoke Yiddish to the prisoners, eliciting a response from the terrified prisoners. Russian soldiers worked with Polish Red Cross to help the prisoners – setting up a hospital onsite. Russians first heard the stories from the surviving prisoners.

Denialism of history is a curse that is helping to bring the human species closer to self-annihilation. To add to a current wave of denialism of the holocaust, we now have denialism of the heroic role of many Russians in World War 2, and of their co-operative role with Polish citizens in caring for the sick and emaciated Auschwitz prisoners.

August 6, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes, history, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

TODAY. All the fuss about Taiwan doesn’t make sense. Has anyone noticed?

Since 1979, USA, and its minions like Australia, have recognised that Taiwan is part of the Republic of China, and is NOT an independent nation.

Since 1997 USA and its minions have recognised that Hong Kong is part of the Republic of China and is NOT an independent nation. When China cracked down on the Hong Kong administration, USA, Australia tut-tutted, and there was no suggestion of doing anything about it – let alone go to war.

Now, we’ve got Nancy Pelosi, the Congress Speaker, leading the push to provoke the Chinese government to a militaristic response.

Now you might wonder why on Earth countries so far way, USA, Australia would want to invite nuclear war and destruction if China cracks down on the Taiwan administration.

I can’t see China wanting to invite nuclear war and destruction if USA cracked down on Hawaii, or Australia on Tasmania.

But of course, I forgot – American authorities are in the grip of Pentagon war hawks, and of Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Boeing – and all the rest of the weapons corporation. And they just gotta have a war – or at least – an enemy to get to the brink – and keep the profitable business going.

The whole apparently unstoppable procession towards war makes no sense. But that doesn’t matter – the mindless corporate media loves it. Roll on – Ukraine catastrophe – and then we’ll move on to Taiwan catastrophe!

August 4, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes | 2 Comments

Nuclear news this week

I had trouble finding “good news” for today. So, I’ll put in a thought of my own. My own country, Australia, today gives some hope, For the first time, we have a government really trying to include our First Nations people in decision-making. Not only is Australia headed for a referendum to bring indigenous voices into our Parliament – with hope to redress the wrongs of 200 years, but also the hope that indigenous knowledge and culture will advise and further the mighty task of healing our damaged environment.

Coronavirus and Climate –  it’s all drastically bad- the mind boggles –  best for readers to do their homework on these.

Nuclear.  Ironically, as nations ramp up their nuclear weaponry – comes the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZSENcK-en4      At some commemorations. survivors like Setsuko Thurlow will be speaking.  Like the survivors of Auschwitz, these first witnesses may not be with us much longer. It is all-important that their message is remembered, and that denialism of these truly awful horrors does not prevail.

The World Does Not Want a Global NATO.

Deterrencelessness: Nuclear threats neither credible nor viable.

UN Nuclear Review: a prime time to stop the new arms race. Ukraine War Hangs Over UN Meeting on Nuclear Treaty’s Legacy.  U.N. nuclear conference to start Monday as Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya plant in “alarming” state, watchdog says.

For Warmongers It’s Always 1938.      US airman who rescued film of A-bomb horrors is honoured at last.

Small nuclear reactors will bleed us dry and won’t solve climate change – unfounded promises.

The future of global catastrophic risk events from climate change.

UKRAINE. Russia accused of waging war out of working nuclear power plant in Ukraine. How professional lobbyists have worked to generate enthusiasm in Washington for a long proxy military conflict in Ukraine. High risks at Chornobyl.

FRANCE. French finance minister and MPs clash over future of nuclear power.  France should “rethink the temperature thresholds of rivers”.    Nuclear giant EDF and waste company Veolia continue to do business with Russia – the nuclear industry gets uranium from Russia, and sends wastes there.  Protest against radioactivity-contaminated water, at French nuclear site.

ASIA. Nuclear Weapons Policies of Japan and South Korea Challenged.

JAPAN. Backlash over dumping of nuclear waste-water to the ocean . Japan to push for nuclear arms reduction at NPT review conference. Kishida to call for nuke-free world in historic address at U.N. treaty conference.

UK. 

USA. 

CANADA. Pickering nuclear station is closing as planned, despite calls for refurbishment.

IRAN Iran will keep IAEA cameras turned off until nuclear deal is restored. Lawmaker Says Iran Nuclear Talks Will Resume In Coming Days.

AUSTRALIA. Australia urged to prove it is a safe nuclear custodian as Aukus comes under scrutiny at UN. Fleet of nuclear submarines will be sent by Britain to Australia as a warning to China. Indonesia warns of perils of nuclear-powered submarines in submission to the UN. 

August 1, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes | 3 Comments

TODAY. From France – a statement that symbolises the primacy of the nuclear industry over the environment

The plants, insects, the fish, the frogs, crabs, …… they don’t get a say in these decisions.

 “we should rethink the temperature thresholds of rivers” – says the chief inspector of France’s nuclear safety authority.

In these simple, seemingly innocuous words, we get a clear look at what the powers that be in our modern world think is important, and what is not..

If the big boys decide to let hotter water into the rivers, and ruin the habitat of so many plants and animals – well, the people aren’t going to get a vote on this, and the other species sure don’t get a say.

Western culture has evolved from a world-view that Man is superior to all creation. And we’re still well and truly in that world view. Indigenous cultures might have a different view – but hell – they don’t matter, do they? After all, they’ve never invented anything really clever – like nuclear technology, with the power to kill us all.

July 30, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes | 2 Comments

Busting the poorly informed pro-nuclear hype of Spectator Australia.

Today I encountered, for the first time the magazine “Spectator Australia”. I was drawn to it by the tantalising title of its article (25/7/22) “Politicians destroy nuclear when the world needs it most.”, by Alan Moran. The main message of the article seems to be that the stringent safety regulations are an unnecessary handicap to the nuclear industry, and cause unnecessary costs.

I was tempted to check on what sort of a magazine ”Spectator Australia” is. Crikey reported that :

”The Spectator presents a stridently — often rabidly — ideological conservative perspective on Australian politics and society. ”

Much earlier, The Guardian reported on its British parent:

”The magazine cleaves to a purple-faced, right-wing, pro-fox-hunting, climate-change-denying, insidiously Islamophobic worldview” 

Ah well – that helps to explain this article. Here are just a few of my reflections on the article:

“Nuclear power is reliable and safe” – as long as you don’t count Mayak, Santa Susanna, Church Rock, Chornobyl, submarine accidents, Windscale. Three Mile Island, Tokaimura, Fukushima …

“Deaths related to the industry are small” – yeah, when you don’t count the deaths caused by persuisten exposure to radiation – especially amongst nuclear workers. Later-developing cancers are not as newsworthy as sudden accidental deaths.
”Demonisation”, presumably by fanatic anti-nuclear people , has caused the downfall of the nuclear industry? Well, well – I had no idea that we were so effective. I thought that it was caused by the unaffordable costs. the intractaible waste problem, the nuclear weapons proliferation problem.

“risk aversiveness to whatever safety problems there may be” – that phrase speaks volumes – this mansplaining macho author isn’t even interested in knowing about risks!

Costs? Well the Fin Review and CSIRO don’t agree with this author https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/nuclear-energy-too-expensive-to-replace-fossil-fuels-20220711-p5b0pd 

He quotes France – does he not know that France is in one hell of a pickle – nationalising the industry, shutting down reactors because of the heat, and the corrosion?

UK – he quotes Rishi Sunak – as Chancellor Sunak advised Boris against the big nuclear spend ! This article is a load of ignorant poppycock!

July 25, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes, media, spinbuster | Leave a comment

Nuclear news – week to 25 July

So much news, so overwhelming – the pandemic, climate extremes in China. South Asia, USA, Europe, UK.   In the middle of all the gloom, quite an inspiring article from science writer Julian Cribb,   with a method to save the world. He argues, passionately and persuasively for putting the ”weaker” sex in charge. In The Age of Women, Cribb says that If humanity is to survive the vast and growing threats it faces, women must assume the leadership of government, business, religion and social institutions around the world.

Some bits of good news –   Overwhelmed by environmental disaster? Here’s a scorecard to inspire optimism.     The bright spots in the State of the Environment report.  

State of the Environment report shows our growing cities are under pressure – but we’re seeing positive signs too

The Age of Women.

War wins the ‘big bucks’ while climate gets the ‘change’

Calling Putin ‘Hitler’ to Smear Diplomacy as ‘Appeasement’.

NATO: The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet.     Phil Wilayto column: The provocations behind the ‘unprovoked’ war.      The Biggest Lie The Hawks Ever Sold. In Ukraine, a proxy war on the planet.       US Military Analyst: West Can’t Afford Ukraine Spending, Will Run Out of Ammo to Send to Kiev.          Global action urged to block AUKUS plan on transfer of nuclear materials.

Nuclear Power Plants Are Struggling to Stay Cool.

Baseload nuclear power not needed in an all-renewable future – Claverton Energy Research Group.

Death toll rises above 1,500 as temperatures soar across Europe.

As Europe burns, the world’s climate plan, such as it is, unravels.

UKRAINE.  

FRANCE. Evacuation of site , as wildfires rage near nuclear power plant being decommissioned.      La Hague is still threatened by wildfires Monday afternoon: firefighters mobilized on July 18 not far from the Orano nuclear site.  Macron facing NUCLEAR nightmare as scorching heatwave cripples SIX reactors. 4 French nuclear reactors authorized to discharge hotter water during heatwave, as 29 others remain offline, (nuclear the cure for global heating?)

 Nationalisation of EDF seen as ‘inevitable’ to carry out France’s nuclear plans. France’s costly nationalisation of the nuclear industry. Employee shareholders to sue EDF over France nationalising nuclear industry .          New failure on the Flamanville EPR, the reactor control system’s malfunction. EDF to change design of EPR nuclear reactors following troubles of the China one – (making it up as they go?)  Protest against radioactivity-contaminated water, at French nuclear site.

SWITZERLAND. Swiss nuclear power plant reduces output to protect fish during heatwave.

USA. Was Obama right about Russia-Ukraine? Biden Rebuked for ‘Openly Praising War Profiteering’ at Lockheed Martin. The Great American Military Rebrand.         Leaked documents – Facebook ‘Bot’ adviser secretly in the pay of USA regime change agency.    President Biden’s $6 billion effort to save distressed” nuclear power plants is misguided. No operational need, and no climate case for the nuclear power industry -The Electricity Journal . MidAmerican shouldn’t waste money studying small nuclear reactors. The lingering horror of thorium radioactive poisoning in West Chicago .

Extreme heat warnings in effect in 28 states across US.

CANADA. Nuclear industry veteran to lead nuclear waste group’s board – ( the revolving industry-govt door)

IRAN. Iran critical of President Biden telling Israelis that USA is ready to use force against Iran . ‘Israeli cell planted explosives at nuclear facility,’ Iran media says.

JAPAN. Japan halts shipment of black rockfish caught off Fukushima over radiation. Japan’s nuclear regulator formally approves release of Fukushima wastewater to the Pacific. Japan approves nuclear-contaminated water discharge plan, may turn Japanese people into ‘sick men of Asia,’ seafood consumption and export nosedive. Stiff resistance by fishing unions to Japan’s move to dump Fukushima nuclear wastewater into the ocean.        Fukushima bosses ordered to pay billions for failing to prevent nuclear disaster.    Shinzo Abe Failed to Rearm Japan. Let’s Keep It That Way.

UK. 

RUSSIA. Russia’s Rosatom to take legal action against Finland company, over terminated €7 billion nuclear power plant project.

GERMANY. Germany criminalizes journalist for exposing Ukrainian war crimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4-1qhGvbu4

AUSTRIA. Visit of the Slovak Prime Minister to Vienna: Disagreement on Nuclear Technology Issues.

RUSSIA. Russia to Scrap World’s Largest Nuclear Submarine.

ISRAEL. ISRAEL AND THE NUCLEAR NORM

AUSTRALIA.  Documents show Australian Labor government supports Assange’s extradition to the US. INSIDE LABOR’S ASSANGE GAME PLAN.

Militarism and submarines:   The tragic obsession with the Chinese threat. 

July 25, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes | Leave a comment

TODAY. In France, Global Heating is killing Nuclear Power – but wasn’t this supposed to be the other way around?

Oh dear! Macron’s dream of the mighty French global nuclear empire is looking a bit dodgy, as extreme heat is causing nuclear reactors to cut energy production, (as well as the fact that the aging fleet is corroded and unsafe)

But wait! it’s only the pesky world of nature that is causing this hiccup to the nuclear dream. It’s only the fish, and frogs, and plant life that are damaged by the release of hot nuclear cooling water. That is easily solved by just weakening, better still, scrapping the regulations that forbid the release of hot water.

Of course, there are wildfires too, with one already threatening the old Brennilis nuclear site.

But – Vive la France! Cool weather will come again. I mean – it’s all been a ”once in a hundred years” heat-wave. Won’t happen again. will it?

July 21, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes | 1 Comment

Nuclear news in this Global Heating week

A bit of god news  – On the Hudson River, a New Model of Environmental Stewardship 

How social media is censored by algorithms to effectively throttle dissent.

‘Big guns’ keep the world on nuclear high alert. Atomic Lies: New York’s bizarre Nuclear Preparedness PSA

This proxy war has no exit strategy – the West’s desired outcome – a long and gruelling war?

World population to peak and decline sooner than previously thought . 8 billion morons on an orbiting sewer – World population rises as quality of life crashes.

Humanity is on track to cause one million species to go extinct, according to UN report. Fed up with net-zero climate goals, activists call for ‘real zero’. Radioactive portents on a burning earth.

The Nuclear Ban Treaty Had a Conference. Now it Has a Plan. The prohibition of nuclear weapons: a public health priority.

NATO’S 2022 PLAN DECLARES SECOND COLD WAR ON RUSSIA AND CHINA. NASA and Roscosmos Russian space agency sign deal to share space station flights.

Nuclear power is racist, sexist and ageist.

Uranium is losing the new energy market battle. Uranium, conflict and Indigenous lives .

No need for miracle technologies to rapidly decarbonise energy

UKRAINE. Danger intensifies around Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine. Unconfirmed reports that Russian forces at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station might drain the cooling ponds .   There Is No ‘Magic Bullet’ That Can Turn The Tide For Ukraine.   How To End the War in Ukraine?     Ukraine reveals negotiation ‘end point‘.

RUSSIA. Russia’s will to win in Ukraine.

USA.

UK. 

FRANCE. 

JAPAN. Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster: Court slaps 94 billion dollar fine on ex-Tepco bosses. Push towards nuclear power in Japan, but delays, hurdles, opposition make it an unlikely development.  Persistent impact of Fukushima decontamination on soil erosion and suspended sediment.    The Pacific faces a radioactive future.

GERMANY. Nuclear would do little to solve gas issue in Germany .

CHINA. China Reaffirms Support for ASEAN’s Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone.

SOUTH KOREA. Increasingly economical renewables mean now’s no time for South Korea to cling to nuclear power.

SOUTH ASIA. Climate change and water scarcity will increase risk of nuclear catastrophe in South Asia.

SPAIN. Developer dismisses B-52 crash radiation fears at proposed site of Spanish resort.

BELGIUM. Nuclear: Doel 3 and Tihange 2 cannot be extended for safety reasons.  

AUSTRALIA. Australia ‘Punctures’ US-UK Nuclear Submarine Proposal Under AUKUS; Says Hi-Tech Arms Better Than Nuke Subs.     Michael West busts the spin of Murdoch media’s nuclear marketing.

July 18, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes | 1 Comment

TODAY. The social media is the massage

Social media is making sweeping and dangerous changes to public information and politics. It’s not as if the effect of new media is a new phenomenon in Western culture.

For centuries, the Catholic church held grip on information – everything was in Latin, in hand-writing, and accessible only to a few – almost all monks and religious officials.

In the16th Century, the arrival of the printing press brought about drastic changes – the Bible in national languages, more widely accessible, and the spread of literacy – the rise of Protestant religions and of nationalism,

In the 1930s, the Nazis had a great time with new technology – radio.

Under Goebbels’s direction the Volksempfänger, or “people’s receiver,” was born.

Under Goebbels’s direction the cheap Volksempfänger, or “people’s receiver,” was developed . The Nazis took control of all radio organizations and programming. While many Germans did not read newspapers, radio was quickly taken up by the majority of households, and was also transmitted by loudspeakers in town squares. The nation was effectively blanketed by Nazi radio propaganda 11 hours a day, was to a certain extent brainwashed into acquiescence.

So – now we have the joys of Facebook. Twitter, Youtube and others, effectively controlled to a large degree by algorithms devised for such information authorities as the CIA, National Security Agency (NSA), and The Atlantic Council.

As we head towards World War 3, with the West against Russia-China, and the nuclear industry and weapons corporations salivating over the current and future profits, we are allowed (as Caitlin Johnstone has pointed out) – to freely express our dissent. It’s just that other people won’t actually get to read it or hear it.

July 16, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes | 1 Comment

Nuclear news – week to 11 July

I had a hard time finding good news this week  – I’m sure that it’s happening, and very many good people are doing good things  – just not seen as newsworthy.  Here is one little bit of good news –  India outlawed scores of plastic products.

I had a hard time finding good news this week  – I’m sure that it’s happening, and very many good people are doing good things  – just not seen as newsworthy.  Here is one little bit of good news –  India outlawed scores of plastic products.

Coronavirus numbers, and deaths, continue to increase  worldwide – and the scary thing is that many cases are nor reported and recorded.

Climate – also a whole nother story – of extreme weather events in many countries – check out Radio Ecoshock  and also latest news on heat, wildfires, floods……..

There’s so much going  on – I didn’t know where to start on things nuclear this week. I got a bit fed up with all the space colonisation fervour going on, so – I wrote my own little bit about it.

Nuclear war would turn oceans upside down, crash food web.

Russia and other nuclear-armed parties must be held to account for violations of non-proliferation treaty.

NO TO NATO IN MADRID.

Following Turkish blackmail, 30 NATO states sign accession protocols for Finland, Sweden .

Nuclear myopia — Promoting nuclear power as a solution to climate change is short-sighted

Enthusiastic space travel publicity avoids mentioning radiation danger. The Corporatisation of Space.

UKRAINE. Ukrainians have sold two French-donated 155mm Caesar howitzers to Russia. Not only Russian: Ukrainian forces also are killing children.   U.N. report on crimes, human rights violations in Ukraine-Russia war includes abuses done by the Ukrainian side.  Ukraine Reform Conference – name changed to Ukraine Recovery Conference – to hide the reality of Ukraine’s endemic corruption.

JAPAN. Nuclear plant cooling system stops working for 8 hours. Nuclear power in Japan may be a mistake we are doomed to repeat. Fukushima nuclear plant compensation burden was secretly reduced. Where to in 2045? Contaminated Soil from the Nuclear Power Plant Accident: The Present Location of Interim Storage Facilities, Fukushima. Decadal trends in 137Cs concentrations in the bark and wood of trees contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear accident.

Criminal assassination of Shinzo Abe. But let us not forget Shinzo Abe’s full record as PM. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pretending that all is well at Fukushima, using this lie to promote Olympics. Japan could change pacifist constitution after Shinzo Abe victory. Japan’s Constitution Allows Nuclear Weapons, Says Shinzo Abe.

EUROPE. EU Votes to Label Gas and Nuclear Power Investments as ‘Green’. European parliamentarians vote nuclear and gas as ”green” – another step in the sinister lobbying process of the desperate nuclear industry. Is nuclear sustainable? Read the label.

FRANCE. France to Nationalize Debt-Laden EDF as Energy Crisis Mounts. France’s parliament could block Macron’s plan to nationalise EDF. EDF’s nuclear security shortfalls. Nationalising EDF is no cure-all for France’s nuclear industry troubles. France’s EDF says hot summer could hit nuclear output, shares fall . France’s government working out how to take full control of indebted nuclear company EDF. Drought and hot weather are adding to France’s nuclear power generation problems at the worst possible moment.       Macron says he doesn’t want to ‘annihilate’ Russia.

UK. .

US nukes in UK ‘would provoke Putin and put Britons on front line in any nuclear war’.

Fears environment bills could be sidelined in Tory leadership race.   Ranked: how green are the Tory leadership candidates?

Nationalisation of French energy giant EDF means it is unlikely to spearhead future nuclear power projects in UK, according to top industry insider. 

Sizewell C – just the latest nuclear scam.With EDF’s parlous finances and France nationalising EDF – decision on Britain’s planned Sizewell C nuclear station has been delayed. Why would anybody invest in Sizewell C nuclear plant? – An unlikely proposition? 

Rolls Royce lacking investment for its planned small nuclear reactors. Seventy years after first UK atom bomb, time to right this ‘criminal wrong’, says NFLA. 

”Allerdale Community Partnership” now looking very much like a nuclear front group, – Nuclear Free Local Authorities reveal. 

ITALY. Italian Airport Workers Stop Arms Shipment to Ukraine Under Guise of “Humanitarian Aid”.

FINLAND. Finland grooms Georgia to follow it into NATO .

USA. 

IRAN. US imposes new Iran sanctions amid efforts to revive nuclear deal.

GERMANY. Renewables supply nearly half of German power demand in first half 2022. German MPs demand release of Julian Assange.

PHILIPPINES. Church stands against nuclear power in the Philippines.

AUSTRALIA. Why Australia’s Labor government refuses to defend Julian Assange.

Labor must reverse Morrison’s nuclear submarine bungle to protect the nation.     AUKUS submarines: Beasts of nuclear proliferation.

July 11, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes | 1 Comment

TODAY. Space colonisation is a completely unscientific plan – in fact, just a gimmick to market the nuclear industry.

Today, I read some exciting stuff on Busines Insider – NASA has a plan for mini nuclear reactors on the moon which could one day power a lunar colony on Mars.

Wow! How wonderful! And what a great use for tax-payers money – in this time of pandemic, climate extremes, poverty and injustices – NOT!

As Caitlin Johnstone pointed out – “ Space colonization would be like being in permanent lockdown with no windows, no Uber Eats, no birdsong or rain on the roof and no chance of ever going home.

 Science is nowhere near finished learning about all the countless ways the human organism is inseparably intertwined with Earth. The belief that we can solve our problems with space colonization is unscientific. “

It’s understandable that the nuclear technocrats would latch on to space travel etc, as the way to market their silly little ”small” nuclear reactors – which are being shown to be unaffordable and useless here on Earth.

The billionaire technocrats are helped along by the media – with all the entertaining fictional presentations of space travel, aimed at kids, and at adults with juvenile tastes.

It is all marketed with the careful exclusion or downgrading of radiation and other health hazards. The integral connection with nuclear weapons development is not mentioned, in all this joyous propaganda.

July 9, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes | 1 Comment

TODAY. The world’s ”democratic”pro nuclear leaders are a dodgy lot, and not to be trusted

Well – even Britain’s Tories have now had enough of Boris Johnson’s lies and blunders.

Johnson repeatedly promised building nuclear reactors “one a year for eight years”. Anyone who knew a little about nuclear reactors (current designs 10 years late and £10bn over budget) or about the prime minister’s other mega-projects – was confident that this could not happen.

France’s President Macron keeps on touting nuclear power – now he’s nationalising the nuclear industry, apparently oblivious of the fact that climate change is killing the industry in France – as nuclear reactors can’t cope with extreme summers and water shortages.

And Joe Biden? Well, it’s pretty clear that no President in the United States gets to be President without the support of the nuclear lobby, and the whole military-industrial-corporate -complex

Biden has made some nice motherhood statements about cutting nuclear weapons. They mean nothing, as he is under the control of the Pentagon hawks and their allied nuclear corporations

One is tempted to think that in the case of the UK, the voters just chose a blundering ignoramus in order to get some amusement. Macron got captured by the nuclear lobby. And in the sad case of supposed democracy America – well a nuclear-captured President is a foregone conclusion.

July 7, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes | 1 Comment

The week’s nuclear news

A bit of good news – Marc Jacobson: No miracle tech needed: How to switch to renewables now and lower costs doing it.

In my newsletters and on my websites, there are a lot of articles critical of, indeed condemning, NATO and the USA.  There are also articles critical of Ukraine, and some revealing the Russian point of view.   This isn’t because I’m a Putin supporter. I’m not, and certainly don’t support his illegal invasion of Ukraine. I have publicised some atrocities by the Ukrainians –   but I don’t doubt that there have been some atrocities by the Russian side.

The pro-Ukraine, pro NATO/USA side is fulsomely covered by the mainstream media. My reason is simply that the mainstream media is blanketing us with a very biased coverage of the Ukraine war – we are being brainwashed to believe that Ukraine is winning this war,  – there’s no case for a negotiated settlement, and that the might of NATO/USA is the solution to this problem, and to pretty much every other problem on the planet. China is evil, but NATO will fix everything. The message is, as a notoriously corrupt Australian Premier used to answer questions , –   ” Don’t you worry about THAT” – (ie. ”don’t think. just cheer us on.”)

Assange’s wife sounds alarm over his treatment. Julian Assange files new appeal fighting extradition to US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRNpsNCPXvA    Extradition of Julian Assange – a travesty of justice.

Atoms and Ashes—lessons from six of the world’s worst nuclear disasters. (this is a terrific article – covers every aspect about nuclear safety).         Is Nuclear Power Just Too Dangerous?

ABOUT NATO and WAR.   NATO and a War Foretold . While Biden Gives Ukrainian Army “The Most Lethal Weapon,” War Profiteer BAE Systems Stock Soars.

Empire To Expand NATO In Response To War Caused By NATO Expansion.

NATO has completed its post-Cold War transformation from Europe’s guard dog into America’s attack dog.    If you want to be accepted as ”Western” – best to be white.      NATO to add Finland, Sweden, prepare Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea .

NATO pressures Finland, Sweden to back “Türkiye’s” war against Kurds as price of admission.     Finland, Sweden join Turkey’s war against Kurds to get NATO pass.      New, aspiring NATO members must adhere to Anglo-American pieties, dogmas, articles of faith .         NATO summit: Pentagon to establish permanent military bases in Central, Eastern Europe.       Military social media campaigns promote the war in Ukraine, and attack any ”wrongthink” that dares criticise role of USA and NATO.


Nuclear warheads expected to increase in next 10 years.

Small modular nukes fall short on climate promises, new study suggests.

Lost in space: Astronauts struggle to regain bone density.

Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis — IPPNW peace and health blog

Put women’s rights ‘front and centre’ of climate policies: Bachelet.

CLIMATE.  Greta Thunberg has warned that the world faces “total natural catastrophe” unless citizens take urgent action. World is not going to avoid 1.5C global warming ‘tipping point’, researchers warn. The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Expansion Plans Will Be the Death of Us! — Mother Jones


UN Ocean Conference ends with call for greater ambition and global commitment to address dire state of Ocean

UKRAINE. Biden officials privately doubt that Ukraine can win back all of its territory . The IAEA Needs Access to Ukraine’s Nuclear Power Plant. Biden Can Help.   Ukraine says link restored to Zaporizhzhia nuclear station.   As West blames Moscow for ‘food crisis’, ships sail from Mariupol with Moscow’s help while Ukraine holds vessels in its ports. ‘Russian-speakers will be second-class citizens unless they give up their language’: A view on Ukraine’s future from Donbass.

EUROPE. International groups mobilise to demand that the European Parliament end plan to greenwash nuclear power.

RUSSIA. Russia to Bolster Border With Nuclear Weapons, Missiles if Sweden, Finland Join NATO. Russia open to nuclear weapon talks

HUNGARY. NATO Summit – Facing the New Reality – a view from Hungary

SWEDEN. Will Sweden throw the Kurds under a bus, in order to get Turkey to agree to Sweden joining NATO? Swedish and Finnish NATO deal with Turkey triggers fears over Kurdish deportations.

TURKEY. NATO summit “great diplomatic success for Turkey,” escalation of war in Mideast.

SOUTH KOREA. NATO summit: South Korea joins NATO’s anti-China campaign.

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MARSHALL ISLANDS. World’s most nuclear contaminated island left uninhabitable for 77 years.

JAPAN. Japan’s Nuclear Power Plants in 2022.  Britain to lift restrictions on food from Fukushima. Japan has approved restarts of 10 nuclear reactors, but only 4 actually in operation.   Disaster-hit Tohoku residents unimpressed by ‘recovery Olympics,’ survey shows.  New Chairman of All Fishermen’s Federation “firmly opposed” to discharge of treated water, The person who agreed to an interview at METI was… a retired counselor, not a minister.

FRANCE. Macron facing ‘Fukushima-style’ accident, as EDF reactor cracks force shutdown. Drought, and multiple problems in nuclear power plants add energy crisis to the climate crisis. Corrosion problem shutters half of France’s nuclear reactors. France to build nuclear reactors in Poland, and is supplying finance.

SOUTH AFRICA. Nuclear energy is off the table, says Ramaphosa.

PAKISTAN. Pakistan Reaffirms Pledge To Nuclear Non-Proliferation Goals.

IRAN. ‘Effort and patience’ required to restore Iran nuclear agreement.

NORTH KOREA. North Korea warns of nuclear war risk as Japan, US and South Korea increase military ties.

CHINA. Amid Iran nuclear impasse, China calls out US for AUKUS ‘double standards‘.

AUSTRALIA. Oh, for a Prime Minister honest about Australia’s security! Mr Albanese goes to Madrid: Australia on the alliance path to Global Nato

July 4, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes | Leave a comment

TODAY. NATO-USA militarily encircling Russia, China. – the world?

Uncannily like the buildup to World War 1, European nations are enthusiastically arming themselves and amassing troops, like the new permanent U.S. bases for Poland. And, of course, the big winners, the only winners, are the weapons corporations. The goal is to encircle Russia.

NATO leads the pack, becoming more bloated and belligerent as it draws in Finland and Sweden. The G7 now becomes NATO’s lackey.

We feared the impulsive and blustering President Trump. But President Biden is being just as tactlessly war-mongering – only a little more polite in manner. Australia got rid of its ignorant and bullying Prime Minister Morrison. But his replacement, PM Albanese, is effectively joining in with USA’s militarism, just more politely in manner.

But now the goal is to militarily encircle not only Russia, but China, too . Forget just the ”North Atlantic” – now it’s the Pacific too, and South Pacific. And NATO ls now creating this new enemy – joint Russia-China.

As with WW1 – the only winners are the weapons corporations, happily amassing $billions, including for nuclear weapons – the boys getting lots of those shiny new toys – and just the hope that they don’t actually use them

July 2, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes | Leave a comment

TODAY. NATO keen to get everybody against Russia and China

Yeah – Putin’s been bragging about being the new Peter the Great. Xi’s made himself President for life. Biden’s there for only a limited period – but then you have to have the backing and the funding of the wealthy war-mongerers to get to be U.S. President.

NATO used to be the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. But now it’s the Global everywhere war preparation organisation. To read the mainstream media, you really would think that the whole world was gearing up to fight Russia and China.

And yet….. in Europe Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Cyprus Finland (not yet) Ireland Kosovo Malta Moldova Monaco San Marino Serbia Sweden (not yet) Switzerland are not NATO members.

Meanwhile The countries of the Non-Aligned Movement represent nearly two-thirds of the United Nations’ members and contain 55% of the world population.  (pale blue on map indicates observer status)

Currently every one of the 53African countries (except South Sudan and Western Sahara) is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement. 36 Asian countries are members. In the Pacific, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu are members. 20 other countries have observer status

Then there are the BRICS countries  Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

No – everybody doesn’t have to join NATO, or be aligned with NATO. And it’s possible that some of the countries that have signed up are not to keen to keep on buying costly weaponry from USA, UK, Germany . and might be having second thoughts about getting stuck in endless warfare.

June 30, 2022 Posted by | Christina's notes | 1 Comment

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