Nuclear news to 2nd July
Some bits of good news –Nature restoration, rewilding and battery innovations: Positive environmental stories from 2024 A Living Seed Bank Is Preserving the Amazon’s Incredible Plants.
UK activists won a ‘stunning’ victory against big oil.
TOP STORIES
Julian Assange Is Finally Free, But Let’s Not Forget the War Crimes He Exposed. Julian Assange: Free at last, but guilty of practicing journalism. ‘Julian Assange Is Free’: WikiLeaks Founder Strikes Plea Deal With US. https://www.youtube.com/embed/4DF_Ag8NWeI?si=O-gRYvFVhtIaWfrG Assange Is Free, But US Spite Will Chill Reporting for Years.
Most important issue facing US, world, largely absent from presidential debate.
Save Ukraine from American meddling.
The Suspect Body Count: The Death Toll in Gaza is Much Higher Than We’re Being Told
From the archives. The persecution of Wilfred Burchett and Julian Assange.
Climate. Wildfires ravaging Arctic Circle – EU monitor. Deaths mount as Pakistan swelters in heatwave. Newly identified tipping point for ice sheets could mean greater sea level rise.
Noel’s notes. Australia’s Liberal-National Party really communist – wants a NATIONALISED NUCLEAR industry! The Assange case – a win for journalism? Sort of. Time to abandon the hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons – they are now a perilous target.
AUSTRALIA. Heaps of media about Peter Dutton’s plan to set up government-run-and funded nuclear industry – see all the article links at FROM 25 JUNE THE MOST RECENT AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR NEWS.
The Coalition’s nuclear fantasy serves short-term political objectives – and its fossil fuel backers. Hidden costs? Cheaper energy? ‘Farcical’ locations? Debunking the hype around nuclear. How the media facilitates Dutton’s nuclear lies.
LABOR AGAINST WAR says nuclear power and nuclear submarines and their wastes should have no part in Australia. Nuclear option ‘not enough’ to avoid rush for more wind and solar. Nuclear more costly and could ‘sound the death knell’ for Australia’s decarbonisation efforts, report says.
Defence Minister Richard Marles takes on reality, comes off second-best in growing Thales scandal.
More news about Julian Assange – at Julian Assange News.
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NUCLEAR ISSUES
| CLIMATE. Climate-Nuclear Nexus. | CIVIL LIBERTIES. The State Failed to Break Assange |
ECONOMICS.
- Australian Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan could cost as much as $600bn and supply just 3.7% of Australia’s energy by 2050, experts say.
- Nuclear power’s financial problems exposed in new report. Very late and over budget:
- Why newest large nuclear plant in US is likely to be the last.
- UK’s nuclear plant will cost nearly three times what was estimated.
| More ECONOMICS. CEO, staff suddenly depart New Brunswick reactor developer ARC Clean Technology. | EDUCATION. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors cost concerns challenge industry optimism. | ENERGY. “They just fit in with what we do:” Australian farmers reap rewards as they play host to wind and solar. Big Tech is turning to nuclear power because it needs more energy for AI. |
| ENVIRONMENT. The $91 billion wasted on nuclear weapons last year could transform ecosystem restoration. | EVENTS. Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington – 6 July | HISTORY. How Israel Became a Nuclear Power. |
| LEGAL. Why cost should not be an obstacle to compensating nuclear survivors Why WikiLeaks founder will plead guilty – and what happens next. | MEDIA. The Release of Julian Assange: Plea Deals and Dark Legacies. Webinar # 7 June 20, 2024 – What’s the harm? Julian Assange is finally free, but no thanks to the media. Radiation, Radioactive Emissions and Health. | OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . A vigil behind bars: pair who protested US nuclear bombs in Germany serving time. Greenpeace activist climbs on top of Conservative election campaign bus. Uranium and the Grand Canyon – A Call to Close and Cleanup the Pinyon Plains Uranium Mine. |
| POLITICS. Congress’s Nuclear Addiction. U.S. Congress Votes To Bar State Department From Citing Gazan Health Ministry. Australia: Peter Dutton’s nuclear power plans are an ironic backflip to nationalisation for the Liberal Party. UK Election: A Different Kind of Nuclear Bomb. Nuclear weapons spending report reveals corporate intervention in UK nuclear policy – CND. Labour plans for nuclear expansion in Scotland are flying under the radar ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/06/30/2-b1-labour-plans-for-nuclear-expansion-in-scotland-are-flying-under-radar/ | POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Iran Says Cooperation With UN Nuclear Watchdog Limited to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The Australian Opposition party’s nuclear strategy relies on Trump winning the USA election, and tearing up global climate politics. |
| SAFETY. What does Chevron mean for nuclear? The USA courts can now supercede the safety role of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Scary truths on civilian nuclear power are coming to the fore. UK’s Nuclear weapons pose a risk to proposed new homes. | SECRETS and LIES. UK government hires scandal-ridden Fujitsu company to account and track its nuclear waste!. | SPINBUSTER. Complete BS from the IAEA about the non-existent “global consensus” on nuclear power. |
| TECHNOLOGY. Do thorium reactors prevent nuclear weapons proliferation risks? | WASTES. Japan starts 7th discharge of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated wastewater despite opposition. |
| WAR and CONFLICT. Unable to back down, Israel and Hezbollah move closer to all-out war. Israeli Defense Minister Vows to Return Lebanon to ‘Stone Age’. Israel’s main goal is the extermination of Palestinians – retired NATO colonel . Ukraine hit Russia’s space communications and early warning center. IDF Report Found Multiple Cases of Friendly Fire Deaths on Oct 7. The Nordic region from peace zone to war zone – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LahVN_wmftU Ukraine hit Russia’s space communications and early warning center. IDF Report Found Multiple Cases of Friendly Fire Deaths on Oct 7. WAR OR PEACE: Towards a Ukrainian Peace or a Direct NATO-Russian War. How far can American money push the Kiev regime’s suicidal war with Russia? | WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Test site activity sparks fears of more nuclear blasts. The US nuclear arms control community needs a strategic plan. US can’t trace $62 million of military aid sent to Ukraine – watchdog.. |
Australia’s Liberal-National Party really communist – wants a NATIONALISED NUCLEAR industry!
What more can I say? I am astounded. The Liberal party – champion of free enterprise – long opponent of our taxes being used to support wasteful public projects like health, education, welfare, environment, – now makes a dramatic exception to its private enterprise philosophy.
They want a fully tax-payer built and run nuclear power industry.
I mean – I’m not here arguing that nuclear power is dirty, unhealthy, or will be too late to combat climate change, or any of those nasty, Lefty allegations. Good heavens, I’m not a communist!
But I’m wondering if Peter Dutton, esteemed Leader of this Opposition Party IS in fact a communist? He wants to set up a nuclear power industry in Australia, and has designated several sites each to host several nuclear reactors – I think Large Nuclear Reactors – but I’m not sure on this. He does want little ones, too.
What other explanation?
In my paranoia, one explanation comes to mind.
Little Australia – population under 27 million, is not well informed on nuclear issues. Many of those 27 million get their information from Murdoch media, and from Trumpian-type posts on social media. Last year, guided by the Atlas Network, those outlets just pushed a simplistic promotion – and quite miraculously changed public opinion on Aboriginal rights.
Could they do it again – converting the Australian public to wanting to have their taxes pay for the nuclear industry?
And if the nuclear lobby and its close mates the mining giants can pull this off in Australia – why not in more of the Western world?
Is Australia the nuclear lobby’s guinea pig, with Peter Dutton its glorious and well-funded hero?
The Assange case – a win for journalism? Sort of.
Sort of – because his guilty plea leaves all journalists at risk. Because this freedom at last for Julian Assange means that the U.S. government can now claim that they’ve secured a conviction against a journalist under the Espionage Act. Assange’s impending legal case appealing against extradition did not take place – then what happens if another non-USA journalist reveals U.S. military atrocities?
The mainstream media can be relied on to snidely smear Julian Assange from now on.
However, 17 federal charges against Assange were dropped. He pled guilty to a felony charge of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information. It could have been a lot worse. And Julian Assange, after all these years, now gets the opportunity for a decent life in Australia. with his family.
We’ve been here before. A courageous Australian journalist – a man of integrity reveals the horrors of American military atrocities. Wilfred Burchett was the first journalist to expose the truth about the devastating after-effects of the atom bomb -going to Hiroshima and defying the USA military’s ban on journalists going to Hiroshima.
The USA made sure that Burchett was smeared as a traitor, and the Australian government comfortably complied with that view – conservative Prime Minister Robert Menzies banned Burchett, and his children, from Australia – a ban that lasted 17 years.
A different case was that of Christopher Boyce, an American, who with a friend in 1977 was sentenced to 40 years in prison, mostly solitary confinement , for acquiring classified U.S. documents and selling them to Russia. Boyce claimed that the CIA was planning to remove Australia’s Prime Minister Whitlam from office, because Whitlam opposed the huge USA secret military base Pine Gap, in central Australia. Boyce seemed to care about Australia’s loss of sovereignty to the USA military. However, unlike Burchett and Assange – Boyce went on to a colourful career in a prison escape and bank robberies. Finally released from prison in 2002, Boyce settled down, but will never speak about his revelations of CIA intrigue in the 1970s.
Well, the USA government didn’t agree to Assange’s plea deal out of the goodness of their hearts. In this tense election year for the U.S. Democratic administration – Assange’s cruel incarceration in the U.K. Belmore prison was becoming an embarrassment. And what if Assange were to win his legal appeal against extradition to he USA? A damaging precedent?
And, above all – there was the unified pressure, from Assange’s wife, his family, his legal team, and thousands of people in the UK, Europe, USA, and Australia. The Australian government was no help, early on – but Australian politicians, and dignitaries like Kevin Rudd, gradually came on board. The whole thing was becoming awkward for the USA and the UK governments.
To some extent, this legal plea deal from an innocent journalist has been a success – for people power.
The persecution of Wilfred Burchett and Julian Assange.
Julian Assange’s “crime” was, in 2010, to expose military abuses committed by the USA .
Assange is not a USA citizen – he’s Australian. Yet his own national government is apparently abandoning him to the cruel vindictive revenge of a foreign government – the USA.
But hey – this is nothing new! While the world remembers the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it conveniently forgets that other Australian journalist, Wilfred Burchett, who, in 1945 revealed the horrors of that bombing.
In the 1930s, Burchett took many personal risks to help rescue Jews from Hitler’s Germany.
In August 1945, in defiance of the US army’s ban on journalists, he made his way to the devastated Japanese city of Hiroshima . He was the first journalist to expose the truth about the devastating after-effects of the atom bomb.The US military had wanted to keep radioactive contamination an official secret, concealing the death and suffering it caused for hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians.
US officials accused Burchett of being under the sway of Japanese propaganda.[Burchett lost his press accreditation and he was ordered to leave Japan. His camera, containing photos of Hiroshima, was confiscated while he was documenting persistent illness at a Tokyo hospital. The film was sent to Washington and classified secret .
For daring to out these and later, many other important truths, Burchett was marked by Western intelligence services.
Burchett dedicated the rest of his life to exposing the lies told by Western governments.
Australian conservatives branded him a traitor and communist. the Australian Robert Menzies government illegally refused to replace his passport. He was barred from re-entering Australia, despite his citizenship. His children were also denied Australian passports. The Australian national security department, which became ASIO in 1949, opened a file on the whole Burchett family in the 1940s.
the Australian government investigated the possibility of charging Burchett with treason. ASIO agents were despatched to Japan and Korea to collect evidence, but their investigations uncovered little. Burchett was subjected to government-backed smear campaigns and barred from Australia.
In 1969, Australian authorities refused Burchett entry to attend his father’s funeral. Only in 1972 — after 17 years of exile — was Burchett finally given an Australian passport by the incoming Whitlam government.
I guess that Australia will never again be allowed by the USA to have a government like that of Gough Whltlam. Liberal or Labor, the Australian government is determined to toe the USA line – which is to persecute any journalist who tells the truth about USA war atrocities.
This week’s countering the nuclear spin
Some bits of good news. Solar Power’s Giants Are Providing More Energy Than Big Oil. Clean-Energy Investment This Year To Be Twice That of Fossil Fuels, IEA Says. A River’s Rights: Indigenous Kukama Women Lead the Way with Landmark Legal Victory.
TOP STORIES. Blinken made secret weapons promise to Israel – Netanyahu. The US, Russia, and Ukraine: 75 Years of Hate Propaganda. Nuclear-armed countries spent $2,898 per second last year on nuclear weapons. We’ve barely scratched the surface of how energy efficiency can help the energy transition.
Climate. Extreme heat and flash floods: Scientists warn of hazardous summer weather in Europe. Climate Emergency strikes Islam’s Holy Ritual, with nearly 600 dead of Heat stroke at 124.24° F. in Mecca. Saudi Arabia shuts pilgrims out of air-conditioned areas as more than 1,000 die in extreme heat.
Nuclear. Overwhelmed with Australian stuff this week!
Noel’s notes. Nuclear culture wars – especially in Australia. What a disaster, if the anti-war movement brings Donald Trump back to the White House!
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AUSTRALIA Keep up to date at this site:
Australia’s media quagmire on nuclear power.
Lockheed Martin, Australian Government: joined at the hip. Australian Futures:
Bringing AUKUS Out of Stealth Mode, and the true financial costs.
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NUCLEAR ISSUES
ECONOMICS. Big Tech Wants Nuclear Power But
Doesn’t See Role as Investor. Australian Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan could cost as much as $600bn and supply just 3.7% of Australia’s energy by 2050, experts say. Nuclear power’s financial problems exposed in new report. Very late and over budget: Why newest large nuclear plant in US is likely to be the last. UK’s nuclear plant will cost nearly three times what was estimated.
| ENERGY. Why we are heading for a globally connected electricity system based on renewable energy. | EVENTS. Veterans for Peace Golden Rule Project 2024: the Pacific Northwest. | ETHICS and RELIGION. Ten Holocaust survivors condemn Israel’s Gaza genocide. |
| HEALTH. Nuclear industry workers face significant, inevitable and unavoidable radiation health risks. | LEGAL. Sellafield operators plead guilty to criminal charges over security breaches. Veterans for Peace Golden Rule Project 2024: the Pacific Northwest. | MEDIA. Comments to The Times: Nuclear won’t fix our energy crisis |
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR .
Kenya’s first nuclear plant: why plans face fierce opposition in country’s coastal paradise.
POLITICS.
- Senate Nuclear Fetishists Take Lid Off of Pandora’s Box.
- No more ‘endless’ payments to Zelensky – Trump.
- Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reinforced his party’s commitment to nuclear energy UK nuclear power plants rollout may be hit by planning hurdles. ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/06/22/1-b1-uk-nuclear-power-plants-rollout-may-be-hit-by-planning-hurdles/ Nuclear black hole could deal a knock-out blow to UK Labour’s renewable targets.
- Over budget and plagued with delays: UK nuclear lessons for Australia.
- Scotland’s First Minister Swinney hits back at ‘hopelessly ideological’ attack from nuclear industry.
- U.S. Congress passes bill to jumpstart new nuclear power tech, but it may be too little, too late.
- Gavin Newsom’s $12 Billion Radioactive Diablo Scam Could Soon Be Twisting In The Wind.
- Norway To Consider Developing Nuclear Energy.
| POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.Why ‘no’ to NATO? U.S. and China hold first informal nuclear talks in five years, France’s Orano loses operating licence at major uranium mine in Niger. | SAFETY. ‘Lax’ nuclear security leaving UK at risk of cyber attacks from hostile nations. | SECRETS and LIES. Leaked doc reveals Israeli military KNEW of Hamas plan to raid and take hostages 2 weeks before Oct 7, Israeli news reports. |
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS The United Nations Security Council takes up Space Security – it might have been best if it had not.
| SPINBUSTER. Australia’s Nuclear debate is getting heated, but whose energy plan stacks up? | WASTES. Specialised device tried to recover highly radioactive melted fuel at Fukushima plant. |
TECHNOLOGY. Researchers have doubts, but Bill Gates is hyping his new liquid-sodium nuclear reactor.URANIUM.
Iran’s Nuclear Point Man : We Won’t Bow to Pressure.
WAR and CONFLICT. Can Israel defeat Hamas? Its own military doesn’t seem to think so, clashing with Netanyahu. Delusional Netanyahu joins delusional Zelensky in seeking total victory when none possible. Israeli ‘extremist’ tells Australian audience Gaza should have been reduced to ashes.
Ukraine, Continued Aid, and the Prevailing Logic of Slaughter.
What nuclear annihilation could look like.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
- Corporations are influencing government policy on nuclear weapons, a damning report shows.
- Congress will hold a hearing about the Sentinel missile’s exploding budget, but is it too little, too late?.
- NATO chief says members considering deployment of more nuclear weapons, Kremlin warns it’s an ‘escalation of tension’
- Top lawmakers sign off on massive US arms sale to Israel. Chutzpah: Netanyahu demands Biden give him more genocide weapons “to finish the job a lot faster.” Former Official: Biden State Department Bending US Law to Send Israel Weapons.
- Sweden opens doors to possible US nukes deployment.
- US greenlights new arms sale to Taiwan.
- Vandenberg Conducts Test Launch for Development of New Weapon System.
TODAY. Time to abandon the hypocrisy about Israel’s nuclear weapons – they are now a perilous target
For many decades, the world, led by the USA, has swallowed the lie that nuclear weapons keep us safe.
“Deterrence” – what a hollow, hypocritical notion that is!
Along with that huge deception, there has been the deception that Israel does not have nuclear weapons -(it has 90 nuclear warheads, with fissile material stockpiles for about 200 weapons.)
Greedy, unethical, leaders of weapons manufacturers have continued to ply their wares – especially in the USA, but also among other Western powers, and Russia, and China, India, Pakistan, and Middle Eastern powers. And public and politicians have bought the lie, as clever lobbying preys on emotions of fear and patriotism.
Suddenly, the lie is all too apparent.
Why did Israel evacuate 91,000 citizens recently?
They feared an attack by Hezbollah.
Now that fear is starkly real – as Israel perpetrates atrocities on the Muslim people of Gaza, other Muslims are enraged and seek revenge.
What better target than Israel’s supposedly non-existent stash of nuclear weapons?
Apart from this current very real anxiety about Israel, this situation demonstrates the reality that nuclear weapons sites – (and indeed all nuclear sites) are the very opposite of public safety facilities.
It is almost comic, that politicians, and communities, seem comfortable with the idea of being incinerated, as long as the other side is incinerated too!
If by some magic, a nuclear conflagration in the Middle East is now avoided, perhaps the world will wake up to the peril of our safety deterrents being really our suicidal threats.
TODAY What a disaster, if the anti-war movement brings Donald Trump back to the White House!
If there ever was a time for clear thinking, that time is now! There is a real danger that good , caring Americans might decide to vote for Donald Trump, because he promises to prevent World War 3.
Donald Trump is promising to bring peace to Ukraine. And he’s promising to stop the massive haemorrhaging of tax-payers’ money to Ukraine’s suicidal fight against Russia.
” Trump has repeatedly argued that US President Joe Biden’s policy of open-ended military support for Ukraine is leading the US toward a “third world war,” and has promised that he would end the conflict “in 24 hours” if he defeats Biden in this November’s presidential election“-https://www.sott.net/article/492394-No-more-endless-payments-to-Zelensky-Trump“
Sounds good, doesn’t it?
The only problem is – you can’t believe a word that Donald Trump says.
Yes, Trump accidentally tells the truth sometimes. He sure is right about the endless gravy train of money to the sainted Zelensky – and that it should be stopped.
But note – “Trump did not lobby his Congressional allies to block the $61 billion aid package in April, and said at the time that he would support lending, rather than gifting, money to Zelensky in future.“
Donald Trump’s history of lies and deception would fill a book- and indeed, it has filled several – and documentaries, too.
And do you think for one moment, that the ruthless money machine of the big corporations that fund Trump, would let him stop the weapons buying, even if he wanted to?
No USA President can stop the funding of weapons for USA’s permanent overseas wars – because no man or woman can ever get into political office without the financial backing of big corporations – and there are none bigger than the weapons-makers
This week: countering the nuclear spin, and more
Some bits of good news: Humanity is making progress on reproductive rights. Scotland’s rainforest revival got a boost. Stork That Went Extinct in the UK 600 Years Ago is Spotted
in the English Skies: ‘It was a great sign’.
TOP STORIES
- Gaza has become a humanitarian catastrophe and Israel will have to answer tough questions – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVfJnZAR5P4
- ‘I heard all of my friends’ last breath’: Testimonies from the Nuseirat massacre . When Israel Burned Refugees Alive, Establishment Media Called It a ‘Tragic Accident’.
- (This next one – Long but excellent! -) Putin Offers Reasonable Peace Terms to Ukraine; Zelenskiy Instantly Rejects Them; West Prepares for War.
- Are the prospects for Small Modular Reactors being exaggerated? Five key characteristics examined.
- Surging Renewables Push French Energy Prices Negative, Shutting Down Nuclear Plants.
From the archives. Nuclear power: molten salt reactors and sodium-cooled fast reactors make the radioactive waste problem WORSE
Climate. The ‘extraordinary’ record-breaking data that has climate experts baffled.
Noel’s notes. G7 – and the juggernaut to the destruction of Ukraine rolls on – to the delight of weapons companies. Atrocities upon atrocities – the Israelis have excelled themselves this time. UK and other mainstream media –oblivious of the suicidal danger of attacking Russia.
NUCLEAR ISSUES
| ATROCITIES. Israel committed crime of ‘extermination’ in Gaza, says UN investigation. GAZA HORROR: UN FINDS ISRAELI FORCES GUILTY OF SEXUAL ABUSE AND TORTURE. | ECONOMICS. Building Nuclear Power Is a Bridge Too Far for World’s Private Investors – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/06/06/1-b1-corporate-lobbying-heats-up-around-governments-nuclear-power-plans-despite-concerns-from-anti-nuclear-advocates/ EDUCATION. Nuclearisation of universities. |
| ENERGY. Nuclear power is ‘overblown’ as an energy source for data centers, power company CEO says. Farmers who graze sheep under solar panels say it improves productivity. So why don’t we do it more? | ENVIRONMENT. Radioactive Tritium from Monticello Reactor Leaked to the Mississippi River. Oceans. French-Chinese power plant could put 200m UK fish at risk. |
| ETHICS and RELIGION. U.S. Jewish Army Intel Officer Quits over Gaza, Says “Impossible” Not to See Echoes of Holocaust. Saving Gaza Is About More Than Saving Gaza. It’s Also About Saving Ourselves. | HEALTH. Radiation. LANL plans to release highly radioactive tritium to prevent explosions. Will it just release danger in the air? Guam’s fight for radiation exposure compensation ‘far from over’. |
| HISTORY. USING UKRAINE SINCE 1948 | INDIGENOUS. Chief Akagi requests public hearing to review any new governance arrangement for the Point Lepreau nuclear reactor on Peskotomuhkati homeland. Tensions with First Nations threaten to delay nuclear waste facility– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/06/17/1-a-tensions-with-first-nations-threaten-to-delay-nuclear-waste-facility/ |
| LEGAL. ‘Immense’ scale of Gaza killings amount to crime against humanity, UN inquiry says. Judges Named for Assange Appeal. | MEDIA. The day the West defined ‘success’ as a massacre of 270 Palestinians. | OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . MSP’s claim of support for nuclear power in Highlands challenged, |
| POLITICS.Thousands Protest Gaza Genocide in ‘Red Line’ White House Rally. UK Labour and Conservatives commit to nuclear power in manifesto, Scottish Greens brand Labour’s commitment to nuclear weapons ‘obscene and immoral’. Keir Starmer’s policy on nuclear weapons. MP’s claim of support for nuclear power in Highlands challenged. California legislators break with Gov. Newsom over loan to keep state’s last nuclear plant running. Australia’s opposition leader Dutton’s nuclear plan wouldn’t even meet net zero by 2050 target, report finds. | POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.Ukraine is a ‘gold mine’ – US senator. UN Security Council. Biden makes 10-year security pact with Zelensky that includes sending F-16s to Ukraine. World leaders to gather in Swiss resort in attempt to forge Ukraine peace plan. Adopts Gaza Ceasefire Resolution. Biden’s Saudi Arabia Deal. The West has a 15-month opportunity for a new nuclear deal with Iran that precludes an Iranian Bomb. Why bet on a loser? Australia’s dangerous gamble on the USA. |
| PUBLIC OPINION. 94% of Americans want to end Ukraine war, but US rejects China peace deal, opposes talks with Russia. | SAFETY. Alarm over 174 security breaches at Clyde nuclear bases. | SECRETS and LIES. Top civil servant joins EDF after running department that struck nuclear deal. Ukrainian officials stole $490 million meant for military – MP. Uncle Sam cool with arming, training Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade in Ukraine |
| SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. Radiation could pose challenge to putting people on Mars. SPACEX’S STARLINK MAY BE KEEPING THE OZONE FROM HEALING, RESEARCH FINDS. Unveiling Cosmic Secrets: Black Budget Tech and UFOs with Aerospace Expert Michael Schratt – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOT0tPeQwzI | TECHNOLOGY. Nuclear Power Is Hard. Billionaire Bill Gates Wants to Make It Easier. Great British Nuclear Small Reactors competition timeline delayed for General Election, amid doubts on their viability- ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/06/14/2-b1-great-british-nuclear-small-reactors-competition-timeline-delayed-for-general-election-amid-doubts-on-their-viability/ |
| URANIUM. Proliferation warnings over enriched nuclear fuel for advanced reactors. Gates-backed nuclear plant breaks ground without guarantee it’ll have fuel. From the Hiroshima bomb to Israel’s nuclear weapons, the path leads back to Congo’s uranium. | WASTES. Two small communities are competing to receive Canada’s inventory of nuclear waste: they can’t be sure what they’ll get |
WAR and CONFLICT.
- US Drone Flights Over Gaza Supported Israeli Operation That Killed Over 200 Palestinians in Nuseirat. Active-Duty US Service Members Issue Appeal to Congress to Stop Funding Genocide.
- Dennis Kucinich America Prepares for Global War and Restarts the Draft for 18-26 year olds.
- Propaganda vs. Pra Ukraine confirms deep strikes into Russia with Western weapons. NATO threats ignore ‘red lines’ in Ukraine. Macron Says France Working To ‘Finalize’ Plan To Send Troops to Ukraine. Russia broadens tactical nuclear weapons drills. Biden hits ‘new low’ in arming ‘pro-Nazi’ Azov.
- Will NATO member states individually or collectively go to war against Russia? Russia broadens tactical nuclear weapons drills. Biden hits ‘new low’ in arming ‘pro-Nazi’ Azov: US Congressman. Putin details Ukraine peace proposal. Why the West should take Russia’s nuclear threats more seriously..
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
Global spending on nuclear weapons up 13% in record rise. G7 Leaders Agree To Provide Ukraine With $50 Billion Using Frozen Russian Assets.
A majority of Iranians now favor possessing nuclear weapons. Their leaders take note.
TODAY. G7 – and the juggernaut to the destruction of Ukraine rolls on – to the delight of weapons companies.
Cartoon from Sunday Telegraph
Well, well, ain’t it grand? The G7 will lend Ukraine $50 billion to help it buy weapons . Not that Ukraine will be expected to pay it back – it’s supposed to be repaid with profits earned from Russian assets in Europe. European companies want a share, especially European arms manufacturers. Some of the money will go to establishing weapons manufacture in Ukraine.
US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement on 13 June aimed at strengthening Kyiv’s defence capabilities – a step towards “Ukraine’s eventual membership in the NATO alliance”
Is everyone swallowing this nonsense?
Putin is suggesting an immediate ceasefire, with Ukraine withdrawing its troops from the predominantly Russian-speaking four former oblasts of Ukraine that Russia currently occupies, and which Russia has integrated into the Russian Federation, and publicly abandons its quest to join NATO. Russia would retain Crimea. Numerous surveys have confirmed that the people of Crimea are content with their 2014 choice to join Russia. Ukraine, Russia, and the European powers previously agreed to a similar plan in 2014
Zelensky originally came to power on a campaign of peace, ensuring the autonomy of those four regions. His term of office has expired. He’s now operating on behalf of the USA, and running a regime that suppresses political parties, free speech and religious affiliation. It’s almost comical how Zelensky struts the world stage demanding more weapons, as Ukraine’s military suffers huge death toll, and draft-dodging abounds. Ukraine’s economy, agriculture, wrecked, – millions have emigrated, and many are hungry. And it’s becoming clear that Russia is winning.
The Peace Conference in Switzerland a farce – designed to bolster Zelensky as the great world “freedom leader?
The hypocrisy of the “Peace Conference” now going on in Switzerland – not attended by leaders of USA, China, Brazil. India – and of course, Russia not invited. The peace terms are limited to nuclear safety, food security (i.e. Ukraine’s ability to export its food by sea) and the return of Ukrainian children transferred to Russia. But Volodymr Zelensky insists on matters not included on the agenda – a complete Russian withdrawal to 1991 borders, payment of reparations, and punishment for what he says are Russian war crimes.
Not on Ukraine’s, NATO nations’, USA’s, radar is any question of considering Putin’s terms, or even talking to Putin.
It looks as if U.S. President Joe Biden is leading NATO by the nose, -with U.S weapons companies rejoicing, with the saintly Zelensky as glowing lead Field Marshal – pressing on to the complete destruction of Ukraine.
TODAY. UK and other mainstream media -oblivious of the suicidal danger of attacking Russia
Once again, I am grateful to the extraordinary Dominic Cummings, for expressing this so eloquently:
“If you want to see the rot of the old system consider this.
A week ago (5/6/24), Putin called in the international media. He told them: NATO has given Ukraine long range missiles to strike deep in Russia, why don’t we have the right to give weapons to other regimes to do the same to NATO, we are considering such options…
And what media coverage do you see?
The old UK media almost entirely censored the event. Although widely discussed globally, it is a non-event in the UK. I’d bet >95% of MPs don’t know it happened.
Not only is our Idiocracy escalating a disastrous war they’ve blundered into they’re censoring statements from the world’s biggest nuclear power directly threatening us with reprisals for our actions, shoving celebrity gossip onto the BBC website rather than translating Putin’s words (then they claim ‘trust the BBC not disinformation’!). And funding Ukraine which is drone-striking Russian early-warning radars for nuclear weapons, of no relevance to the UKR war.
The gap between the self-perception of our elite media and the reality has not been starker since I started watching them.”
Strange – in 1963 U.S. President John F Kennedy gave a similar warning his American University speech:
“Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy–or of a collective death-wish for the world.”
TODAY. Atrocities upon atrocities – the Israelis have excelled themselves this time.
Who has the words to describe this? To express this horror?
Some of the victims have:
“Before our eyes, we saw bodies being torn apart and scattered on the roads, and we saw soldiers hidden in civilian clothes and in people’s cars running and killing everyone they met on their way without distinguishing between a child, a woman, a young person, or an old person. We saw the bodies of our brothers cut up, without heads, lying on the ground,” Abu Laban told Mondoweiss.
“I tried to stand up, but I couldn’t. I was covered in blood. I looked at my leg and it was cut off. I looked at my best friend next to me, and I found him taking his last breath.” – ” I cannot sleep. I cannot forget anything I witnessed and saw. I cannot forget the people who were running in panic and fear, searching for their relatives and families amidst the destruction and dismembered bodies.” -Al-Hawar
Do you think that I’m making this up – because I’m “anti-semitic”, because I “hate the Jews”?
I don’t hate the jews, but I hate what they are doing in Gaza – and I hate the way some other Jews are rejoicing in these atrocities. And I hate the way that some Gentiles are pretending that it’s all OK – because 80 years ago atrocities were done to Jews – so we can’t blame the poor things, really – can we?
Yes we can.
The International Criminal Court is investigating Israel’s alleged war crimes in Palestine.
Israel’s latest effort – the rescue of four hostages. This was planned well in advance, and was done in at 11 a.m. , as a complete surprise in a highly populated area. Israeli special forces had numerous men disguised as refugees, installed in the area. The attacking Israeli military wore civilian clothes, rode in Palestinian cars, and moved among the people in disguise. There were no warnings to evacuate, or orders from the army to move elsewhere, and people were surprised by the Israeli special forces and tanks. Helicopters, fighter planes, artillery, and tanks descended. Reconnaissance aircraft and foot solders then began committing massacres against the civilian population.
As reported by Robin Anderson – “When Israel Burned Refugees Alive, Establishment Media Called It a ‘Tragic Accident’. Anderson details the verbal gymnastics used by the corporate media, to obscure the truth about what happened, in this atrocity, and others. Words like words like “genocide,” “massacre” and “starvation.” are not used. Journalists from respected media like NBC were embedded with Israeli forces. The dead are as much as possible described as Hamas, not as Palestinian civilians. For the New York Times, Time magazine, Forbes and the AP, mass killings are “a mistake” or a “tragic accident”. A death toll of 274, and injuries to 696 – are reported as “figures from Hamas” – with the inference that you can’t really rely on them.
Well – it’s not working this time. People have had a gutful of corporate media toeing the USA line, as it toes the Israeli line.
Countering the nuclear lobby’s spin – and more, this week
Some bits of good news – Incredible global progress on water, sanitation, and hygiene. The incredible comeback of Britain’s Barn Owls.
TOP STORIES The Military-Industrial Complex Is Killing Us All.
The omnicidal and unnecessary Nuclear Triad.
Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check.
Stockpiling nuclear weapons? That will do nothing for national security, Keir Starmer.
From the archives. Jeremy Corbyn was smeared for rejecting the use of nuclear weapons – but he was right.
Climate. Global warming happening at fastest speed in history. Climate crisis made May heatwaves 1.5C hotter in India, study says.
Noel’s notes. Time to get real about anti-semitism – the renewed danger. A voice of sanity in the UK– Jeremy Corbyn is back! Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War -Episode 5 – War Games – and then Glasnost, a welcome thaw.
NUCLEAR ISSUES
| ATROCITIES. Report: Vast Majority of Children Under 5 in Gaza Going Full Days Without Food. | CIVIL LIBERTIES. Journalist, critic of U.S. Ukraine policy, pulled off plane, U.S. seizes his passport. | CULTURE. How Nato seduced the European Left. The anti-war movement has fallen for a progressive circus. |
| ECONOMICS. Should USS Investment Builder invest in nuclear power? | EDUCATION. University of Ghent to cease all collaboration with Israeli institutions. | EMPLOYMENT. Allegations managing director of Scotland nuclear complex was ‘shipped out‘ over long-running pay dispute. |
| ENERGY. The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates. | HEALTH. Radiation Exposure Compensation for impacted downwind communities is expiring Friday. Speaker Johnson, bring it to a vote.Samsung workers treated for exposure to radiation in South Korea |
| HISTORY. “In Ukraine, a war for memory.”. | LEGAL. ‘We Want Peace’: Spain Applies to Join ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel. | MEDIA. CNN’s Israel bias has been laid bare. But CNN is the norm, not the exception. |
| POLITICS Keir Starmer’s Trident triple lock: how Britain’s obsession with nuclear weapons has become part of election campaigns. Labour pledges to launch Great British Energy ‘within months’ of general election victory: it includes nuclear power. UK Labour talks up nuclear weapons to banish Corbyn’s shadow. UK’s nuclear deterrent key to Starmer’s plans to keep Britain safe. Scots urged to vote in anti-nuclear MPs to ‘take target off our backs’ We should aim for nuclear disarmament – Plaid leader, UK.Corporate lobbying heats up around governments’ nuclear power plans despite concerns from anti-nuclear advocates….ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/06/06/1-b1-corporate-lobbying-heats-up-around-governments-nuclear-power-plans-despite-concerns-from-anti-nuclear-advocates/. 42 House Democrats Help GOP Pass Bill Targeting ICC Officials Over Israel. Dutch government is socialist when it comes to funding nuclear power. AUSTRALIA. Opposition’s nuclear-energy policy would increase defence risk .Dutton to ditch Paris Agreement: analysis reveals nuclear impact on emissions. | POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Senior U.S. Diplomats, Journalists, Academics and Secretaries of Defense Say: the U.S. Provoked Russia in Ukraine. Peace talks without Russia ‘laughable’ – John Mearsheimer.Putin warns West over Ukraine armaments, nuclear arsenal in news conference. UN offers nuclear inspection deal to Iran’s new leadership. Nuclear watchdog votes to censure Iran for non-cooperation with inspectors. Why a substantive and verifiable no-first-use treaty for nuclear weapons is possible. |
| SAFETY. Restarting Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ‘difficult to envisage’ during war, says IAEA chief. | SECRETS and LIES. President Biden’s subliminal D Day speech in France |
TECHNOLOGY. U.S. Micro Nuclear Reactors happy to join with NATO military.
URANIUM. The weapons potential of high-assay low-enriched uranium.
| WASTES. No nuke waste down under: Nuclear Free Local Authorities spokesperson receives assurance MOD still committed to decommissioning British nuclear subs at home. China urges long-term supervision over Japan’s radioactive water discharge. | WAR and CONFLICT. NATO plans Europe-wide escalation of war against Russia. Russia doesn’t need nuclear weapons to succeed: Putin. Ralph Nader -on Joe Biden: Pushing America Deeper into the Russian/Ukrainian War. Guterres warns humanity on ‘knife’s edge’ as AI raises nuclear war threat. Israel kills over 200 Palestinians to rescue 4 captives; U.S. allegedly involved in operation- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJnF2CLbibw |
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
- US Bombs Used in Israeli Massacre of 40 in Gaza Refugee Camp. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2hjy3e1i2o
- U.S. Considers Expanded Nuclear Arsenal, a Reversal of Decades of Cuts – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/06/09/2-a-u-s-considers-expanded-nuclear-arsenal-a-reversal-of-decades-of-cuts/ US issues major nuclear weapons alert amid fears of all-out war: ‘If that day comes…’
- A Nuclear-Armed European Union? A Proposal Under Fire. European Nuclear Deterrent a Harebrained Illegal Proposal.
- Blinken Confirms Biden Change On Policy Toward Ukraine Using U.S. Weapons Inside Russia. France to give fighter jets to Ukraine – Macron.
- What’s Next for Battlefield America? Israel’s High-Tech Military Tactics Point the Way.
- China: US nuclear weapons in South Korea would undermine its security.
- Russia nuclear-powered submarine to visit Cuba amid rising tensions with US.
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War -Episode 5 – War Games – and then Glasnost, a welcome thaw
Introduction. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Russian forces have taken it over. Zelensky is quoted “Six Chernobyls – The biggest danger in Europe. ” Russia also taken over Chernobyl. Garret Graff comments – a warning that Russia could militarise these places., creating a “dirty bomb” (But no mention that fire from Ukrainian forces could do the same)
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In 1980. U.S. National Security Advisor Brzezinski was alerted that there were 2000 Soviet missiles headed to America. This turned out to be a false alarm – a computer error. USA could have launched a full-scale nuclear war. We have got close to nuclear catastrophe numerous times – we’ve been lucky.
In the 1980s, renewed fear of Russia, with Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. President Ronald Reagan built his campaign on harsh criticism of “detente” – the politics of fear of Russia. Nuclear arsenals were enormous, but no real communication between USA and Soviet leaders. Reagan pushed for more and greater nuclear weapons. Meanwhile The Soviets believed that the USA was plotting a nuclear first strike and world domination.
KGP conducted a new intelligence operation. USA deploys nuclear weapons to Germany. USSR has nuclear missiles near its Western border. (all this very well illustrated). 1983 a most dangerous period. Ronald Reagan gave his famous speech about “the evil empire”- the “struggle between right and wrong, and good and evil”. Then he announces The Strategic Defense Initiative aimed at rendering the Soviet missile force useless- to destroy nuclear missiles in flight. Edward Teller suggests space lasers on satellites. (again, very well visually displayed) – a plan that came to be known as “Star Wars”
Tensions along the Soviet coast -1in 1983, the Russian shooting down of a civilian aircraft that mistakenly flew over Soviet nuclear submarine base. Then in September, the crisis in which the Soviet Missile Defence Centre gets intelligence of an incoming attack of 5 nuclear missiles headed to Russia. The officer on duty – Stanislov Petrov felt it was wrong, refused to set off the nuclear retaliation – and it turned out to have been a computer error – there was no U.S. attack. Soviet and U.S nuclear weapons procedures were ramped up – U.S “War Games” exercises alerted the Soviets, their military very nervous.
The series attributed the highly-watched movie “The Day After” to alerting Ronald Reagan to the awful danger of nuclear war. The film producers avoided using this as propaganda. 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev took over as Soviet leader. Excellent coverage of the Gorbachev-Reagan talks.
1986 – the Chernobyl nuclear accident – good visuals – uncontrolled release of radiation – first picked up in Sweden – Soviet’s tradition reluctance to reveal the facts, but did announce them 2 weeks later. Children the most medically affected; Gorbachev saw the need to end the Russian secrecy on its nuclear industry, and increased his wish to reduce nuclear weapons. Glasnost – a move to make government more open and accountable – begun by Gorbachev – leading to the end of the Cold War
TODAY. Time to get real about anti-semitism – the renewed danger
If there’s one group of people to weep for now – it’s the Palestinians, and their terrible sufferings at the hands of Israel.
Another group to weep for is the good, intelligent, Jews.
Who is a Jew, anyway? Judaism is a strong vibrant culture, which includes several strands of religious belief, and even secularism. It’s definitely not an ethnicicity – Jews being found all over the world in shapes and sizes and colours, and nationalities, and not having any distinctive gene.
There’s a strong strand of Jewish culture that is universalist and humanistic – we see its expression today in Jewish Voice for Peace. And these are the Jews to weep for, as they try to bring sanity and humanity into what is going on today.
And what about anti-semitism? What is anti-semitism, anyway? Well, really Semites are peoples of the Middle East, including Jews, Arabs and other historic groups.
But the term is used now to mean prejudice against Jews. And this has a very long history, culminating in the Nazi holocaust.
And now we come to Zionism – the belief Judaism is a nationality as well as a religion, and that Jews have the right to their own State in their ancestral homeland. And that’s Zionist-controlled Israel – and like those other theocracies – Iran and Saudi Arabia – it’s a religious and intolerant State.
What is less well known is that way back in 1933, and later – Zionists collaborated with the Nazis. Rather than defend against the oppressor, they co-operated with them, -(much of this is revealed in newly-released transcripts in the Israel State Archive)
The very real danger now, is that people worldwide are so fed up with the cruelty of Netanyahu’s barbaric regime, that they starting to blame the innocent Jews in their own neighbourhood.
It would seem that the Israeli government doesn’t care at all about this.
TODAY. Nuclear weapons? I am so tired of the silly little boys inside the “important” men who risk all our lives.
I can’t see any difference. It’s all the same preoccupation – “Mine Is Bigger Than Yours”. We wouldn’t think of letting small boys with undeveloped frontal lobes take silly risks with our lives.
But, when those mentally and morally undeveloped brains are now inside important-looking big men in suits, it is not really apparent – how silly they actually are.
It is well and truly time to “take the toys from the boys”.
What prompted me today, was the proud claim from UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.
He claimed “his party has left behind Jeremy Corbyn’s opposition to the Trident nuclear weapons system. If elected, Sir Keir said he would increase defence spending and update the UK’s nuclear arsenal………….. and push for the UK to assume a “leading” role in Nato.”
So UK Labour has expelled that wimp previous Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn. I mean – Jeremy Corbyn-
supported the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,
criticised Israel for its treatment of Palestinians,
was a strong advocate for environmentalism,
campaigned for animal rights,
campaigner against apartheid in South Africa………….
Obviously a sissy little wimp. With a properly developed frontal lobe
Obviously a sissy little wimp. With a properly developed frontal lobe
But wait a minute. If we can’t have the “weaker sex” really in charge of anything (they’re not to be trusted) – then maybe it’s time to give these wimpy-frontal-lobe men a go.
Before it’s too late.
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of the week – Shut Down Drone Warfare!
Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
Petition to revoke the licensing of the Near Surface Nuclear Disposal Facility (NSDF) at Chalk River. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7247
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