Noam Chomsky- Julian Assange deserves applause rather than denunciation and punishment (video)
AUG. 25, 2012
What’s at stake here?
“…At stake is the question of whether the citizens of a country have a right to know what their elected officials are doing. Those who have a lingering affection for an odd notion called “democracy” believe that this is important. To be sure, a state has the right to keep some matters secret. I haven’t read all the WikiLeaks exposures, but I have read quite a few, and I have not seen an example of anything that could legitimately be kept secret, nor, to my knowledge, have the horde of angry critics presented an example. I should say that this is not unusual. Anyone who has spent time studying declassified documents is well aware that overwhelmingly, they are kept secret to protect elected officials from the scrutiny of citizens, not for defense or some other legitimate purpose.
Someone who courageously carries out actions in defense of democratic rights deserves applause, not hysterical denunciation and punishment. We understand that very well with regard to official enemies. Since you bring up the matter of “hypocrisy,” it is the extreme of hypocrisy to refuse to apply the same standards to ourselves…..”
And this is the julian assange show with Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali discussing activism
http://assange.rt.com/chomsky-ali-episode-ten/
DID YOU HAVE AVE ANY IDEA? with Noam CHOMSKY (video)
“Julian Assange should be congratulated for carrying out the responsibilities of a citizen in democratic societies, where the population should be aware of what their selected representatives are doing and planning.
The Wikileaks revelations have surely advanced such awareness and understanding, and are a valuable contribution for that reason”.
Noam CHOMSKY
December 2011
VIDEO Cesium levels increasing in soil in Chernobyl area
Physician: We don’t know what’s happening — Cesium levels in soil not going down after Chernobyl, some areas have gotten even higher (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/physician-cesium-levels-soil-going-down-areas-gotten-higher-dont-whats-happening-around-chernobyl-video August 23rd, 2012 at 3 By ENENews
Atomic Age Symposium II: Fukushima, May 5, 2012 – Session II
Published: August 22, 2012
Published by: University of Chicago
At 1:44:15 in
Jeffrey Patterson, MD, Physicians for Social Responsibility board member: Chernobyl today is still a mess […] The levels of cesium in the soil have stayed the same, and in some areas gotten higher. We don’t know why — what’s happening.
VIDEO – Melted nuclear fuel in ground under Fukushima?
Japan Nuclear Expert: Melted fuel may have gone through cement floor and into ground under Fukushima reactors — I don’t believe Tepco’s claim for one second — Where in the world is it? (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/japan-nuclear-expert-melted-fuel-gone-cement-floor-leaked-ground-fukushima-reactors-dont-believe-tepcos-calculations-one-second-world-video
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:09 pm ET
By ENENews Atomic Age Symposium II: Fukushima, May 5, 2012 – Session III Roundtable
Published: August 22, 2012
Published by: University of Chicago
Transcript Excerpt
Hiroaki Koide, nuclear reactor specialist and Assistant Professor at Kyoto University’s Nuclear Research Institute:
The problem right now is not figuring out what the cause of the explosion [at Unit 3] is, but where in the world is the melted nuclear material that is in the plant right now?
Unfortunately we have no way of figuring this out…
We can’t go in and look… there’s nothing we can do at this point…
Like I said we have no idea where the melted nuclear core is at this point…
100 tons [was in reactor]…
Fell through steel reactor…
So where did the melted material go from there? It fell into the containment vessel and what is that made of? Also steel.
But what Tepco has been telling us is that underneath that steel is a floor of cement and that cement hasn’t melted yet.
But it’s not as if Tepco has gone there and seen if this is the case or anything like that. It’s based on calculations that they claimed to have worked out that way.
But I don’t believe it for one second.
There’s at least a possibility that it’s gone through all of it and leaked into the ground…
If something like that happens, there’s a strong possibility that it leaks into the environment and the ocean is right there.
I’ve been advocating since last May that a wall be built underground…
That’s really all I know at this point. I really hope something is done so the material doesn’t spread to the greater environment and I’m going to do all I can do to prevent that from happening.
Petition about radiation, and VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbto7xNypS0&feature=youtu.be Nuclear Catastrophy Review & how YOU can Help Link to the petion here:
http://nuclearjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Petition-ANY-Environment…
http://nuclearjustice.org/?p=50 It follows that if new evidence has appeared about the potential consequences of the EURATOM Basic Safety Directive, Under Article 20 (in the original 1996 version Article 6) all practices involving radiation exposure have to be re-justified. It is a legal requirement. What is proposed, therefore, is that all individuals resident in or citizens of a EU member state country, and all NGOs based in such countries, petition the European Parliament to require a re-justification of all radiation producing practices covered by the Euratom Basic Safety Standards Directive in any of its forms in the light of the new scientific evidence of health risks.
This new evidence is appended to the Petition as an Appendix and petitioners may ask for the evidence to be presented in any scientific discussion by members of the European Committee on Radiation Risk www.euradcom.org , or the International Committee on Nuclear Justice www.nuclearjustice.org .
Chris Busby on radioactivity displacing supplements http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iutbbfduAQBusby talks here from a playground in Stockholm about the cover-up of the Fukushima contamination and the failure of the Japanese government to act for the children who are suffering the same health problems as those exposed to the Chernobyl contamination. Continue reading
Award winners from the Uranium Film Festival
Special achievement awards Uranium Film Festival, by Robert del Tredici , 23 Aug 12, Special achievement awards of the 2nd International Uranium Film Festival go to “Chernobyl, the Invisible Thief”, by Christoph Boekel (Germany), “Buried in Earthskin”, by Helena Kingwill (South Africa), ”Australian Atomic Confessions”, by Katherine Aigner (Australia),
“Radioactive Wolves”, by Klaus Feichtenberger (Austria), “The Secret and the Sacred: Two Worlds at Los Alamos” by Claus Biegert, (Germany) and “Rokkasho Rhapsody” by Hitomi Kamanaka (Japan) and to Peter Greenaway’s outstanding experimental documentary “Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth”.
“Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth”
Peter Greenaway and Irma de Vries (Video design), United Kingdom/The Netherlands
Special Achievement Award “Hors Concours” for reminding us of something we have tended to forget, or maybe even not to know: that 2,201 atomic bombs have been exploded on, within, or over our own home planet – which, from Earth’s point of view, are not atomic tests at all but preemptive nuclear strikes. Greenaway creates an infernal cinematic aesthetic to convey this truth.
Using 25 screens at once, Atomic Bombs on Planet Earth overwhelms the viewer’s field of vision with dazzling cascades of poison fire punctuated by percussive sounds and eerie sonics to convey the reckless enormity of the many Bombs
humans exploded not all that long ago. The grid of screens gives rise to multiples of every blast a dozen times or more and staggers clips to make them tumble downscreen, slantwise, in coruscating tides. By the time the razzle-dazzle’s over, Greenaway has delivered more fireballs than any viewer will be able to absorb — and more than any living planet may be able to sustain. The first Trinity blast appears several times as Robert Oppenheimer provides the film’s voice-over
with words repeated like a mantra: “Some laughed – Some cried – Most remained silent.”
These are hardly words of wisdom from the father of the Bomb… and half a century on, in the absence of anything like sage words on nuclear weapons, we get what’s coming to us: an experimental documentary impossible to forget that triggers in our collective brain an atomic migraine of criminally insane proportions whose energies go deeper and are destined to last longer than our own DNA. http://www.uraniofestival.org/index.php/en/home-en/73-en/frontpage-en/162-special-achievement-awards
VIDEO Aruna Roy speaks out for India’s thousands of anti nuclear people
“Place for dissent is shrinking in our country which is evident here (in Kudankulam) where non-violent protests being seen as intolerable by the Indian government.”
Ms Roy said she was very distressed about the action being taken on the non-violent protests against the establishment of a nuclear plant in Kudankulam.
VIDEO Social activist Aruna Roy slams nuclear energy http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/social-activist-aruna-roy-slams-nuclear-energy-258453 by Pallava Bagla, Edited by Shamik Ghosh August 23, 2012 New Delhi: Nuclear energy is bad for development and India should not adopt it – this was the key outcome of a people’s hearing on nuclear energy projects in India held on August 22-23 where concerns of the local communities regarding safety, viability and impacts of these projects on the lives and livelihoods of the surrounding
population and their environment were discussed.
Jury members included social activist Aruna Roy, member of the National Advisory Committee, former Navy chief Admiral L Ramdas, and KS Subrahmaniam, who heard testimonies of people part of the grassroots movements at sites where nuclear plants were coming up like in Kudankulam (Tamil Nadu), Jaitapur (Maharashta), Chutka (Madhya
Pradesh), Gorakhpur (Haryana), Banswada (Rajasthan), and Rawatbhata (Rajasthan), where strong agitations against upcoming and existing nuclear facilities are underway. Continue reading
VIDEO: Lessons not learned from the Fukushima catastrophe
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/cctv-live-five-margaret-harrington-and-arnie-gundersen CCTV Host Margaret Harrington and Fairewinds Energy Education’s Arnie Gundersen discuss the urgent need to empty spent fuel pools into dry cask storage to prevent a serious but avoidable accident. They also discuss the economic cost to nuclear plants if they where forced to withstand natural calamities, the future of Yucca Mountain, and the radiological contamination caused by depleted uranium weapons….
VIDEO Save the Children of Fukushima!
by ChrisNolandTV Artist: Madonna Save the Children of Fukushima! There is enough information out now, the children are being sacrificed so the cities will stay in business, if the kids leave so does the family and that means no money for the officials…… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZGlO71Ag3c&feature=related
Youtube – Assange granted asylum by Ecuador
Aug 16, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch v=0Zs0sNyrZ7s&feature=youtu.be by TheYoungTurks “WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange was granted political asylum by Ecuador on Thursday, setting up a standoff with the British government, which has vowed to block his exit from the country. The announcement was made by the Ecuadorian foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño. He said that Ecuador was granting Assange political asylum because it believed he was being persecuted for his actions as the head of WikiLeaks…”.* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down….
Video: New NBC TV show trivialises war
Nobel Peace laureates vs NBC scandalous reality show http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=IYIiW4VvRBw&feature=share Aug 14, 2012 by RTAmerica NBC has come up with a new show, which the critics say ‘glorifies war.’ It debuted last night and is called “Stars and Stripes” but has a cast of people you can barely call stars. It can be sold as way to honor US troops but many don’t see it that way. Jody Williams, a long time peace activist and 1997 Nobel Peace Prize winner, joins RT’s Liz Wahl for more.
VIDEO Arnie Gundersen speaking about San Onofre Nuclear Plant
http://solarimg.org/shows/SolarIMG_Podcast_Arnie_Gundersen_100812.mp3
Gundersen: At this point my mind is changing — Perhaps best to entomb reactors and come back in 300 years (AUDIO) – on NRC San Onofre August 15th, 2012 By ENENews
Follow-up to: Gundersen: “I think people are beginning to think maybe we can never dismantle these plants, maybe we just fill them with concrete and walk away” (VIDEO)
Title: Interview with Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds
Source: SolarIMG
Date: August 12, 2012
At 25:45 in
Gundersen: At this point my mind is changing, and I think perhaps on Units 1, 2, 3, and 4 the best thing to do is to keep them cool for a couple more years and then entomb them for 300 and come back. Unit 4 is a different story, we’ve got to get the fuel out…
Secrecy and injustice regarding nuclear tests in Marshall Islands
Marshalls anger over nuclear reports and compensation http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/marshalls-anger-over-nuclear-reports-and-compensation/999420
15 August 2012, The announcement was made by US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell during his visit to the Marshall Islands.
Presenter: Geraldine Coutts
Speaker: Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal
JOHNSON: “….. more than 50 years after the last nuclear test was conducted in the Marshall Islands, that the US government has still not released fallout dose data for about 75% of those nuclear tests. So it’s extremely difficult for the Marshall Islands to have an understanding of what the actual exposure and impact of the test was and this relates to a lot of very big picture questions, such as the adequacy of US nuclear test compensation. Continue reading
Fresh Currents: Japan’s flow from a nuclear past to a renewable future
To concerned individuals everywhere:
We now stand at a critical watershed for Japan and the world – will we choose to revert to the dangerous, costly and centrally-controlled industry of nuclear power, rely on the CO2-producing fuels of oil and coal, or embrace the exciting new possibilities of decentralized renewable energy technologies?
Living only 60 kilometers from the Oi nuclear power plant (reopened in June amidst growing protests across the country), we felt compelled to add something positive to the 
growing movement towards a sustainable energy future. *Fresh Currents* was put together from a network of writers associated with *Kyoto Journal,* an NPO based in Kyoto that has been publishing in print and digitally for over 25 years. This book would not have been possible without the kind donations of people who visited our Indiegogo campaign or the incredibly hard work of all the volunteer writers, translators, photographers, designers and illustrators. We deeply thank everyone who has been or who will be a part of our project!
Please download your complimentary digital copy of *Fresh Currents,*
our book on Fukushima and Japan’s energy future, HERE….
http://download.freshcurrents.org/
A print edition will be available at the end of September (¥2000).
Join us! You can do four things to help move our project forward:
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* Please send this PDF of *Fresh Currents *to any educational,
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interest in our energy future. May this publication multiply and spread!
* We are looking for a Japanese publisher and appreciate any
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* We wish to produce a screening of films in Kyoto related to
nuclear power, Fukushima, and renewable energy technologies. Do you
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Thank you!
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VIDEO: Norway cops radioactive water waste from UK’s Sellafield nuclear site
Norway’s Nuclear Problem http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/thalassa/ Radioactive material from the Sellafield nuclear plant in the UK has been detected in Norwegian waters.In the early 1990s in Norway, scientists discovered the presence of radioactive material in the seawater, seaweed and lobster. But Norway has no nuclear facilities, and no nuclear weapons, so it had to be coming from another country.
Russia was a prime suspect, but it is in fact in southern Scotland on the edge of the Irish Sea that the problem originated. Over fifty years ago the British government built the Sellafield plant to produce electricity and plutonium for the making of atomic bombs. Now it has reconverted into a nuclear waste processing plant, but security is still not guaranteed and fires, leakage and accidental toxic discharge have occurred over the years.
Some speak of negligence. Environmental activists around the world are on the case, demanding the closure of the site once and for all. In 1997, a huge rock concert was organised by U2 to raise the alarm.
VIDEO: Albuquerque rain radiation fallout test
ABQ NM rain fallout test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2zkf4C6tpc&feature=share Aug 9, 2012 Tested an overnight rain shower around 1am 8-7-2012 In Albuquerque NM, west of the Airport. This is normal monsoon moisture. 11:05 1st 10 min test ends with a reading of 567.0 12:30 2nd test begins with a quick spot average of 715 cpm 2nd ten min
test concludes with a Whopping 671.7 !
Comments ( mrjoeman )
Wow ! those readings are insane ! I live in Vancouver BC just across
the Pacific from Japan and my daily readings have been only 270 – 300
CPM (10 min) of background the last four months. My rainwater readings
have been only slightly higher than background with a few spikes 3X
background back in May. Does NM have much Radon gas? Are you
downstream of Nuclear Plants. Thanks for posting your vid.
If it was from the granite it wouldn’t be coming down in the rain.
This has to be fallout from a nuke plant nearby or Fukushima coming
in on the jet stream.
Redawgy in reply to mrjoeman (Show the comment) 6 hours ago
holy smokes that is HOT, as in nuclear waste.
Redawgy 6 hours ago
stupid tablet…..
Is there any way you can post what the numbers mean?
jrruper1 23 hours ago
Any way you that you can link what the numbers mean?
Thanks for stepping up and posting your results.
jrruper1 23 hours ago
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