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L'Autre Monde 18 mars 2013 :
La réalité de Fukushima prend place et actualité mondiale
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Monnaie complémentaire se cherche un nom
En mars 2012, un collectif s’est
créé à Val-David dont l’objectif est de mettre en service au début de l’été
2013 une monnaie complémentaire pour la région des Laurentides. Ce
collectif, composé de six bénévoles de la région, se réunit deux heures minimum
toutes les semaines depuis maintenant neuf mois. Il est fréquent que plusieurs
membres travaillent sur certains aspects du projets en dehors de ces réunions
hebdomadaires. Dans le processus de lancement de cette future monnaie locale,
le collectif en est arrivé à chercher un nom pour cette monnaie et a décidé de
se tourner vers vous, les habitants des Laurentides, pour faire appel à votre
créativité et votre cœur. La question centrale est : quel nom voudriez-vous
donner à cette monnaie locale complémentaire ?
Mais avant d’y répondre, vous
vous demandez peut-être : « Qu’est-ce qu’une monnaie locale ? » La
réponse est simple : il s’agit d’un moyen de paiement créé, mis en service et
administré par les citoyens eux-mêmes au sein d’un réseau.
Mais pourquoi donc une monnaie
locale, direz-vous ? N’avons nous pas une monnaie nationale, le dollar
? Oui, bien sûr ! Mais il y a des avantages indéniables à cela…
Après avoir étudié ce qui se fait
un peu partout dans le monde, voici les avantages que le collectif veut mettre
en avant :
- Une monnaie locale, par définition, est locale
! Elle est donc circonscrite dans une région géographique déterminée
parce qu’acceptée uniquement par les commerçants, artisans et producteurs
de cette région qui le désirent. Elle agit donc localement et
pas ailleurs. Ce point prend toute sa dimension si on sait
qu’actuellement 95% des flux financiers mondiaux sont absorbés par
la spéculation. Oui, 5% seulement servent à la vie des gens !
Le reste part dans le jeu du grand casino avec les ravages économiques,
écologiques et humains que l’on connaît. Elle dynamise donc
l’économie de la région en passant de main en main, sans risque de nourrir
malgré nous les bulles spéculatives qui se retournent contre nous.
- Mais la monnaie est bien autre chose qu’un simple
outil économique. C’est fondamentalement l’expression de la
richesse. Si la financiarisation de l’économie nous a conduit à
considérer la monnaie comme la première richesse, n’est-il pas temps de
revenir à la sagesse qu’exprime la maxime indienne : «Quand le
dernier arbre aura été abattu, quand la dernière rivière aura été
empoisonnée, quand le dernier poisson aura été pêché, alors on saura que
l’argent ne se mange pas.» Une monnaie locale représente une
opportunité pour les citoyens que nous sommes de nous ré approprier cet
outil qu’est l’argent en lui donnant le sens et l’usage que nous voulons.
C’est ainsi que les objectifs du
collectif sont :
- de donner un sens éthique à la monnaie pour qu’elle
serve l’expression du potentiel humain et qu’elle permette à chacun de
faire ce qu’il aime faire ;
- de passer de la monnaie d’épargne à la monnaie
circulante afin qu’elle affranchisse au lieu d’asservir ;
- de reconnaître et manifester l’abondance en donnant
un sens nouveau au mot richesse ;
- de susciter un réseau naturel d’entraide qui
permette de développer la confiance entre individus au sein de la
communauté et de retisser des liens ;
- de nourrir la solidarité en favorisant des projets
collectifs; produire et acheter de manière respectueuse et durable en
développant une conscience du local.
The business of war is profitable. In 2011, the 100 largest contractors sold
$410 billion in arms and military services. Just 10 of those companies sold
over $208 billion. Based on a list of the top 100 arms-producing and military
services companies in 2011 compiled by the Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute (SIPRI), 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 10 companies with the
most military sales worldwide.
These companies have benefited tremendously from the growth in military
spending in the U.S., which by far has the largest military budget in the
world. In 2000, the U.S. defense budget was approximately $312 billion. By
2011, the figure had grown to $712 billion. Arm sales grew alongside general
defense spending growth. SIPRI noted that between 2002 and 2011, arms sales
among the top 100 companies grew by 51%.
10. United Technologies (UTX) -- aircraft, electronics, engines
Arm sales: $11.6 billion, total sales: $58.2 billion
Gross profit: $5.3 billion, total workforce: 199,900
9. L-3 Communications (LLL) -- electronics
Arm sales: $12.5 billion, total sales: $15.2 billion
Gross profit: $956 million, total workforce: 61,000
8. Finmeccanica -- aircraft, artillery, engines, electronics,
vehicles and missiles
Arms sales, $14.6 billion, total sales: $24.1 billion
Gross profit: $ -3.2 billion, total workforce: 70,470
7. EADS -- aircraft, electronics, missiles and space
Arm sales: $16.4 billion, total sales: $68.3 billion
Gross profit: $1.4 billion, total workforce: 133,120
6. Northrop Grumman (NOC) -- aircraft, electronics, missiles, ships,
space
Arm sales: $21.4 billion, total sales: $26.4 billion
Gross profit: $2.1 billion, total workforce: 72,500
5. Raytheon (RTN) -- electronics, missiles
Arm sales: $22.5 billion, total sales: $24.9 billion
Gross profit: $1.9 billion, total workforce: 71,000
Raytheon, based in Waltham, Mass., is one of the largest defense contractors in
the U.S.
4. General Dynamics (GD) -- artillery, electronics, vehicles, small
arms, ships
Arm sales: $23.8 billion, total sales: $32.7 billion
Gross profit: $2.5 billion, total workforce: 95,100
3. BAE Systems -- aircraft, artillery, electronics, vehicles,
missiles, ships
Arm sales: $29.2 billion, total sales: $30.7 billion
Gross profit: $2.3 billion, total workforce: 93,500
2. Boeing (BA) -- aircraft, electronics, missiles, space
Arm sales: $31.8 billion, total sales: $68.7 billion
Gross profit: $4 billion, total workforce: 171,700
1.
Lockheed Martin
(LMT) -- aircraft, electronics, missiles, space
Arm sales:$36.3 billion, total sales: $46.5 billion
Gross profit: $2.7 billion, total workforce, 123,000
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a group who regularly attacks patriotic
Americans by masquerading as a civil rights group, is compiling lists and
conducting surveillance on what it calls “patriots”, “survivalists”, and
“conspiracy theorists”. Even more disturbing, is the access this group has to
the Obama administration’s Department of Justice.
In a report prepared for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is
asking the Federal Government to create a new inter-agency task force which
will be dedicated to tracking and taking down conspiracy theorists,
survivalists, “Patriot groups” and the “American radical right”.
The Government Supported Attack Group, who is actively creating lists and
conducting surveillance on Americans, says the following people need to be
tracked by the Federal Government.
Those who talk about, or believe in Conspiracy Theories.
Just days after announcing a 5-year, $4.5 million contract with Heckler
& Koch, the Department of Homeland Security has released details of an
identical agreement with weapons manufacturer Sig Sauer, as Forbes publishes an
article calling for a “national conversation” about the DHS arms build-up that
has been dismissed by the media as a conspiracy theory.
A solicitation for a no bid contract posted on the Federal Business
Opportunities website contains details of a DHS agreement with Sig Sauer to
provide weapons parts under the remit of a $900,000 dollar a year contract set
to run for five years.
Bernie Suarez
Activist Post
Contrary to those who prefer to demonize anyone taking a strong stand
against the globalist one world government's plans, fascism, and tyranny; it is
one of the most important ways to fight what is being scientifically proven to
be one of the greatest mental afflictions humanity faces.
Neuro-imagining studies demonstrate the effects words can have on the brain...
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory research physicists and engineers from the
Plasma Physics Division, working at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research
Program (HAARP) transmitter facility, Gakona, Alaska, successfully produced a
sustained high density plasma cloud in Earth's upper atmosphere.
Using the 3.6-megawatt high-frequency (HF) HAARP transmitter, the plasma
clouds, or balls of plasma, are being studied for use as artificial mirrors at
altitudes 50 kilometers below the natural ionosphere and are to be used for
reflection of HF radar and communications signals.
Researchers at Brown University have succeeded in creating the first
wireless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface. The
wireless BCIs have been implanted in pigs and monkeys for over 13 months
without issue, and human subjects are next.
A Montana Republican state legislator has introduced a bill that would give
corporations the right to vote in municipal elections. According to Think
Progress, Rep. Steve Lavin (R-Kalispell) has introduced Montana House Bill No.
486, which would grant to “a firm, partnership, company or corporation” that
owns property within a district the right to vote as a citizen of that
district.
Corporations
are not sentient creatures. They are legal fictions. All this bill does is
grant the owner of the corporation two votes to the ordinary citizen's one.
A video exposing a flawed claim often abused in the sales pitch for
promoting shale gas development across the world:
Last November, US output was estimated at 11 million barrels per day,
putting it in second place for the year.
Kyle Bass, addressing Chicago Booth’s Initiative on Global Markets last
week, clarified his thesis on Japan in great detail, but it was the Q&A
that has roused great concern. “The AIG of the world is back - I have 27 year
old kids selling me one-year jump risk on Japan for less than 1bp – $5bn at a
time…
ViaMat, a Swiss logistics company that has been safeguarding precious metals
since 1945, is literally the gold standard in secure storage. They have
vaults from Switzerland to Hong Kong to Dubai, and they count among their
clients some of the largest mining companies in the world. They know what
they’re doing.
And now they’re dumping U.S. citizens.
This is huge. I can’t possibly overstate the potential
ramifications.
For one, the big gold depositories like Gold Money and Bullion Vault ALL use
ViaMat as a primary secure storage provider. So it’s only a matter of
time before ViaMat’s decision cascades across these other firms.
This matter-of-fact letter from ViaMat management explains their decision:
“We are currently experiencing rapid and
substantial changes in the general regulations within this business. The
changes mainly relate to the tax structures and taxation systems of various
countries. As a consequence of these changes VIA MAT INTERNATIONAL has taken
the decision to stop offering this service at its vault [sic] outside of the US
to private customers with potential US-tax liability.”
The election of Pope Francis, previously Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has
resurfaced a decades-old controversy surrounding the kidnappings of two Jesuit
priests.
Bergoglio was a high-ranking official in the Society of Jesus of Argentina
when a military junta was installed in the South American country in 1976.
According to the Los Angeles Times, priests Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics
were kidnapped in May of that year by the navy. "They surfaced five months
later, drugged and seminude, in a field," the Times reported. A 2005
lawsuit accused Bergoglio of unspecified involvement in the abductions. Reuters
explains that "the military government secretly jailed [Yorio and Jalics]
for their work in poor neighborhoods."
Québec : Mythes
répandus sur la centrale nucléaire Gentilly-2
Le MSQN appelle les libéraux et les opposants au calme et
à la responsabilité
Global Research,
septembre 27, 2012
Trois-Rivières, le
26 septembre 2012 —
Le mouvement Sortons le Québec du
nucléaire appelle les opposants
au démantèlement de la centrale nucléaire Gentilly-2 au calme et à la
modération. « Par leurs ultimatums, leurs images déconnectées de la réalité et
par la présentation caricaturale des conséquences de la fermeture les notables
locaux, le syndicat, le lobby nucléaire et le Parti libéral tentent
d’exercer une pression indue sur le gouvernement Marois et de manipuler
l’opinion publique. Le gouvernement a pris une bonne décision, qui va dans
l’intérêt de tous les Québécois », a déclaré Christian Simard, de Nature
Québec. « Le fait demeure que la centrale Gentilly-2 est coûteuse, inutile et
sa gestion risquée. Cette centrale a déjà produit plus de 2 500 tonnes de
déchets hautement radioactifs, que nous léguons aux générations futures. Il
faut mettre fin à cette situation », ajoute-t-il.
Mythe 1 La sécurité de Gentilly-2: « Pas plus
dangereux que de conduire une voiture » (Yves Lévesque, maire de
Trois-Rivières) - « Plus sécuritaire ouvert que fermé » (SCFP)
Le maire de
Trois-Rivières, Yves Lévesque, a déclaré cette semaine que faire fonctionner
une centrale nucléaire « n’était pas plus dangereux que de conduire une
voiture » et, du même souffle, a appelé « au renversement du gouvernement
». Ce genre de déclaration, dans la lignée des « On va s’éclairer à la
chandelle » (Michel Arsenault, FTQ) ou « C’est impossible qu’une
centrale nucléaire explose » (ancien maire de Bécancour), rabaisse le
débat. « On doit rappeler que la catastrophe de Fukushima (où il y a eu
explosion)…) a provoqué la création d’une zone d’exclusion totale de 20
kilomètres et qu’il est faux de prétendre qu’au Québec nous sommes à l’abri
d’une telle éventualité. De plus, une centrale en opération émet
quotidiennement dans l’environnement une quantité importante de radionucléides
qui ne sont pas sans effets pour les humains et les habitats essentiels à leur existence », rappelle Michel
Duguay, physicien nucléaire. « Et que dire de la déclaration du SCFP, qui juge
que la centrale Gentilly-2 serait plus sécuritaire ouverte que fermée ? Sinon
qu’elle heurte le sens commun », ajoute Pierre Jasmin des Artistes pour la
Paix.
Mythe 2 : « Le démantèlement sera plus cher que la
réfection»
Sans aucun document à l’appui, les
opposants déclarent que la fermeture et le démantèlement de Gentilly-2
coûteront plus cher que sa réfection. On veut simplement rappeler ici qu’à la
note 13 de ses états financiers 2011, Hydro-Québec évalue à 729 millions le
démantèlement et la disposition du combustible de Gentilly-2, alors que le coût
de la réfection ne se ferait pas en bas de 3 milliards $ (http://www.lapresse.ca/le-nouvelliste/gentilly-2/201204/20/01-4517217-pas-moins-de-3-milliards-pour-gentilly-2.php). De plus, on ne peut pas vraiment opposer les coûts de
démantèlement aux coûts de réfection, car il faudra un jour ou l’autre
déclasser Gentilly-2 et que ces coûts ne pourront être évités. Les repousser
d’une vingtaine d’années, advenant une réfection, n’aurait pour effet que de
les accroître.
Un autre
épouvantail économique vient de surgir : Hydro-Québec devra inscrire
immédiatement une perte à ses états financiers advenant la fermeture de
Gentilly-2 ce qui affectera le dividende versé au gouvernement. En créant une
Société Québécoise de démantèlement de Gentilly-2, cette situation pourra
être évitée. Pour André Bélisle de l’AQLPA « Il faut voir le démantèlement de
Gentilly-2 comme une occasion magnifique de
développement d’expertise, non seulement dans le démantèlement de centrales,
mais également en conservation et en efficacité énergétique, en nouveaux modes
de production d’énergie et en robotique. Au lieu de développer une énergie
chère et toxique, dont le prix s’élève en Amérique du Nord entre 15 et 20 sous
le kilowatt/heure, pourquoi ne pas s’orienter vers des choix d’avenir ? ».
Mythe 3 : Une catastrophe pour l’économie locale et
l’emploi
Au lieu de
pronostiquer une catastrophe économique pour la région, les chambres de
commerce devraient s’informer et lire l’étude commandée par Hydro-Québec sur
les impacts d’une fermeture de Gentilly-2 qui dit qu’une « perte annuelle de
près de 13 millions est prévue pour les fournisseurs régionaux de Gentilly-2 »
(http://www.bape.gouv.qc.ca/sections/mandats/gentilly-2/documents/DA8.pdf, page i). Ces pertes seront largement compensées par le
fonds de diversification de 200 millions $ annoncé par le gouvernement. Il en
va de même pour les pertes d’emploi directes, quand on sait que plus de 90 %
des employés de la centrale ont la sécurité d’emploi et pourront en bonne
partie être réaffectés au démantèlement.
L’ultimatum des libéraux : une position
irresponsable
Au lieu de poser
des ultimatums, comme de sommer le gouvernement de rencontrer le comité
stratégique régional, et de rouler des mécaniques dans un contexte de
gouvernement minoritaire, le Parti libéral devrait tenir compte du fait que le
Québec est en période de surplus énergétique et placer le bien commun avant les
petites stratégies partisanes . « Dans ce contexte et en regard des
risques liés au nucléaire, la seule solution sensée demeure le déclassement de
Gentilly-2 et la diversification de l’économie régionale », mentionne Karel
Mayrand de la Fondation David-Suzuki.
La CAQ semble opérer un virage salutaire mais
connaît peu le dossier
Après voir qualifié
d’« irresponsable » la non réfection de Gentilly-2, la Coalition avenir Québec
semble se repositionner et veut maintenant attendre les chiffres avant de se
prononcer. Toutefois, Monsieur Bonnardel semble souhaiter que la centrale
continue de fonctionner pendant l’exercice de réflexion, ignorant sans doute
qu’elle est présentement en arrêt et que son permis ne lui permet pas d’être en
fonction après le 31 décembre 2012… Sortons le Québec du nucléaire
note avec intérêt que l’économiste Claude Garcia, près de certains éléments de
la CAQ, s’oppose fortement au projet de réfection.
En terminant, le
mouvement Sortons le Québec du nucléaire réitère son appui à la
décision du gouvernement Marois et demande aux intervenants économiques de
cesser de semer la peur par des affirmations non fondées et de fausses
informations..
Le mouvement Sortons le Québec du nucléaire a été
créé en août 2008 à la suite de l’annonce du projet de réfection de la centrale
nucléaire Gentilly-2. Le mouvement a pour objectifs de sensibiliser et de
mobiliser les citoyens et les décideurs politiques concernant l’ensemble des
enjeux sociaux, économiques et environnementaux touchant la réfection de la
centrale nucléaire Gentilly-2.
Moyen-Orient:
The United States has warned Islamabad that Pak-Iran gas pipeline project,
if finalised, would raise serious concerns under the US Iran Sanctions Act,
saying that has been made ‘absolutely clear’ to Pakistan.
The $7.5 billion pipeline, designed to carry 21.5 million cubic meters of
natural gas a day from Iran’s giant South Pars gas field, will cross the
international border and continue into Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan
province. President Asif Ali Zardari returned to Pakistan on Thursday after a
two-day visit to Iran for finalising the pipeline deal and sorting out
financing and technical issues. Work on the project is due to start on March
11. “Of course, Washington will look at it,” Ventrell said in response to a
question about Pakistan's decision to go ahead with the project despite US
opposition.
The US government's options are severely limited
here. It could either bomb the area where the pipeline is to be constructed, or
bomb the actual pipeline after it is completed (which would be tantamount to an
act of war) or severely limit the amount of aid it is giving the Pakistani
government, which would cripple its desperately needed land routes into
Afghanistan.
Anyway you slice this, the options are very
limited here.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali
Zardari have officially inaugurated the final construction phase of the
multi-billion-dollar Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project.
The Afghan government has demanded the withdrawal of all US Special Forces
on Sunday from the Wardak and Logar provinces within two weeks, accusing them
of “harassing, torturing and murdering innocent civilians.”
Presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi said that President Hamid Karzai had
ordered the ministry of defense to kick out the US Special Forces, which he
accused of fueling “insecurity and instability” in the volatile provinces,
which are close to the capital Kabul.
“The US Special Forces and illegal armed groups created by them are causing
insecurity, instability, and harass local people in these provinces,” Faizi
told a press conference.
A further statement released by the Afghan president’s office said that the
decision to expel them was made by the National Security Council.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday accused the Taliban and the United
States of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if
most foreign troops leave — an allegation the top American commander in
Afghanistan rejected as “categorically false.”
Mr. Karzai said two suicide bombings that killed 19 people on Saturday — one
outside the AfghanDefense Ministry and the other near a police checkpoint in
eastern Khost province — show the insurgent group is conducting attacks to help
show that international forces will still be needed to keep the peace after
their current combat mission ends in 2014.
The United States military is helping fund both sides of the war in Afghanistan,
knowingly financing a mafia-like collection of warlords and some of the very
insurgents American troops are battling, according to Afghan and American
officials and a new Congressional study released today.
The British army has been relocating Taliban insurgents from southern Afghanistan
to the north by providing transportation means, diplomats say.
One
of the major metrics for the decade-long Afghanistan war is seriously flawed.
Rather than fix the problem, the U.S.-NATO military command in Kabul has
decided that you simply shouldn’t see the data.
Late last month, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) conceded
that it misreported the 2012 statistics on Taliban attacks. Its explanation was
that a data-entry error had discounted attacks reported by Afghan forces — so
much so that a statistically insignificant change in the level of so-called
“enemy initiated attacks” became a seven percent decline from 2011 levels.
UNFLIPPING BELIEVABLE!!
If the American people are paying for this
immoral, and illegal war, they should be able to see documentation about the
results, period, end of discussion.
As scrutiny and debate over the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by
the American military increased last month, the Air Force reversed a policy of
sharing the number of airstrikes launched from RPAs in Afghanistan and quietly
scrubbed those statistics from previous releases kept on their website.
Last October, Air Force Central Command started tallying weapons releases
from RPAs, broken down into monthly updates. At the time, AFCENT spokeswoman
Capt. Kim Bender said the numbers would be put out every month as part of a
service effort to “provide more detailed information on RPA ops in
Afghanistan.”
The Air Force maintained that policy for the statistics reports for
November, December and January. But the February numbers, released March 7,
contained empty space where the box of RPA statistics had previously been.
Unflipping believable, but perfectly predictable!!
The Arab League said today that Arabic countries will be free to arm the
Syrian Rebels if they so choose. This pretty much makes “official” what has
been occurring for a while now as it’s a known fact that Saudi Arabia and Qatar
have been arming the Rebels for quite some time.
According to Reuters via VOA.:
Arab states are free to offer military support to rebels fighting the forces
of Syrian President Bashar AL-Assad if they wish, a final statement of Arab
League ministers said on Wednesday.
Israel warned the UN Security Council on Monday that it could not be
expected to "stand idle" as Syria's civil war spills over its
border...
Translation:
With Assad distracted fighting the hired mercenaries (which Israel is now proven to be
supporting) Israel will grab a bigger chunk of
Syria.
Israel’s military chief of staff warned that some of the rebel forces trying
to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad may soon turn their attention southward
and attack Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights.
Syria has enough problems without picking a fight with Israel. This is
Israel setting the stage for a grab of Syrian land.
Syrian authorities say they have discovered advanced Israeli spying devices,
which further proves Tel Aviv’s involvement in the foreign-backed militancy in
the Arab country.
Syrian rebels have seized twenty UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights on the
border between Syria and Israel. The United Nations Security Council demands
the convoy’s immediate release.
From Monday Palestinians travelling to day jobs into central Israel from the
West Bank will be urged to board special buses at a checkpoint instead of the
regular services used by Israelis.
The scheme was drawn up by the Israeli transport ministry after residents in
two Jewish settlements complained that Palestinians travellers on the
Trans-Samaria road – also known as Highway 5 – between the West Bank and Tel
Aviv were a potential threat.
There were also reports of overcrowding and fights between Israeli and
Palestinian passengers.
The transport ministry insisted the move was “designed to improve the
service for Palestinians entering Israel”.
Not that the Israelis are being apartheidistic or
xenophobic in any way, of course!!
A leaked report commissioned by the European Union (EU) has
concluded that Israeli settlement construction “remains the single biggest threat”
to peace in the Middle East.
The ill-treatment of
Palestinian minors held within the Israeli military detention system is
“widespread, systematic and institutionalised,” a report Wednesday by the UN
children’s fund found.
UNICEF in the 22-page report that examined the Israeli military court system
for holding Palestinian children found evidence of practices it said were
“cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment.”
“Ill-treatment of Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention
system appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalised,” it
concluded, outlining 38 recommendations to improve the protection of children
in custody.
Over the past decade, Israeli forces have arrested, interrogated and
prosecuted around 7,000 Palestinian children aged between between 12 and 17,
most of them boys, the report said, noting the rate was equivalent to “an
average of two children each day.
The Israeli government and IDF will simply throw
this report into the garbage, and
nothing will be done to improve the lot of these imprisoned children.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/06/youll-face-consequences-from-canada-if-you-take-israel-to-international-criminal-court-baird-to-palestinians/
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has told a powerful pro-Israel lobby
that Palestinians will feel “consequences” from Canada if they pursue the
Jewish state at the International Criminal Court.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has told a powerful pro-Israel lobby
that Palestinians will feel "consequences" from Canada if they pursue
the Jewish state at the International Criminal Court.
Another thug for Israel!
A special investigation by The Guardian newspaper and BBC Arabic that took
place over 15 months claims to reveal a shocking, but substantial connection
between the murderous tactics of US-backed Latin American ‘death squads’ in the
1980s and the rise of a similar tactics—including secret detention centers,
torture, disappearances, and mass killings—that helped spark a sectarian civil
war between Shia and Sunni rivals in the violent days triggered by the US
invasion of Iraq in 2003.
And the connection, according to the investigation, lives in a gated golf
community in Texas and has a name: (Ret.) Colonel James Steele.
The United States and Saudi Arabia have presented a united front to Iran and
Syria, alerting Iran's leadership that patience over its alleged nuclear
ambitions is wearing thin and warning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that
they will boost support to rebels unless he steps down.
John Kerry, the US secretary of state, was in Saudi Arabia on Monday on the
latest leg of a nine-nation tour through Europe and the Middle East on his
first overseas trip as Washington's top diplomat
In Riyadh on Monday, Kerry reminded Iran that US President Barack Obama has
vowed not to allow Iran to get a
nuclear weapon and that he has kept all options, including military options,on
the table to prevent that from happening.
The window of opportunity for a diplomatic solution "cannot by
definition remain open indefinitely", Kerry said. "There is time to
resolve this issue providing the Iranians are prepared to engage seriously on
the P5+1 proposal.
What is happening in Syria is the absolute
antithesis of a grass-roots revolution; it is bands of foreign trained and paid
mercs, placed on the ground to accomplish "regime change" in Syria as
a prelude to regime change in Iran.
We are only just a little over 90 days out from
the Iranian election and Ahmedinejad cannot run for a 3rd term. The truly
logical thing to do would be to wait for the elections, and see how they play
out.
However, unfortunately, logic...has not appeared
to be the US government's strong suit for quite some time now, and the
financial situation in this country is dire. Historically, the US government
has gotten itself out of financial messes through a world war, as happened with
World War 1 and World War II.
This was, however, before Russia and China became
nuclear armed countries.
Obama is scheduled to go to Israel just two
weeks from today, where I am sure, Netanyahu is going to use every strong-arm
tactic he can conjure to get Obama to sign off on an invasion of Iran, whether
or not the Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad has been deposed, which was the
original plan, to isolate Iran and make it a "softer target" for an
attack.
Thinking Americans understand that there has
already been too much blood and money sacrificed upon the altar of potential
Israeli hegemony in the Middle East, and that while some Israeli geopolitical
objectives do mesh with, and have resonance with, those of the American people,
this is not one of those
times. In fact, the very converse
is true, regarding a potential US attack against Iran.
An attack against Iran would galvanize its
people around the most ideologically extreme, anti-Western leaders.
Such a war may well not be the short, sharp,
shock "surgical strike", so blithely talked about by the talking heads
in the US and Israel, many of whom have absolutely no comprehension of the real
horrors of war.
If such a war goes long, you can expect a
massive counter-attack by both Iran, then in Israel, from Hezbullah from the
north, with a horrific number of Israeli casualties. Every single American
asset, military or civilian, will be in grave peril, not only in the Middle
East, but also, around the world.
Such a war may well go very badly for the US
government, because, to be painfully honest, it does not have the troop strength, the money, or the
manufacturing to insure a successful outcome.
And I would like to remind our readers of the
following: to date, NO IAEA INSPECTORS HAVE
FOUND ANY EVIDENCE, WHATSOEVER, THAT ANY OF THE NUCLEAR MATERIAL BEING USED BY IRAN'S
NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAM HAS BEEN DIVERTED TO A NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM.
So, should the US attack Iran, it will be over
an alleged nuclear weapons program which cannot, to date, be proven to exist.
But from the US perspective, that is only the
"cover story"; the real reason for a US invasion of Iran is because
Iran refuses to sell all their oil for US dollars.
Let me get back to Russia and China for a
moment. In the last year, officials of both nuclear armed countries have gone
on record, stating very bluntly, that should Iran be attacked, they will come to its aid militarily.
So what we have here is the potential for a
global nuclear confrontation over an alleged nuclear weapons program which
cannot be proven to exist, and over a badly failing US petrodollar, which
appears to be on its last legs as the premier world currency.
And to those in the bowels of power in DC and
Tel Aviv, who absolutely believe that such an attack would be a good thing, I
would strongly caution you to be very, very careful what you wish for as the
outcome of such an attack; the
unintended consequences could be both horrific...and irreversible.
Speaking to Congress today, Central Command leader Gen. James Mattis
insisted sanctions are not successful against Iran, and suggested that
diplomacy had been all but useless, insisting that Iran’s “history of deceit”
meant they could never be trusted at any rate.
Mattis conceded that he is “paid to take a rather dim view of the Iranians,”
which is putting it mildly, and sought to stop short of criticizing the
administration’s current tack, saying he “basically” supports the current
direction vis-a-vis Iran.
Rather he said the goal was for Iran to be
“brought to its knees” and that “open” warfare was just one of a few different
options that he is considering to that end, though he insisted there was a plan
ready to go on attacking Iran.
I am hearing, seeing, and feeling a ramp-up of
anti-Iran propaganda right now, which is something you get from the corporate
media in the run-up to any kind of military confrontation this country starts.
And believe me, it will not be Iran which will
fire the first shot; the country of Iran hasn't started a war in over 200
years.
And Congress will not have the "male
attributes" to openly declare war against Iran; it will simply pass
legislation to give Obama the authority to order any military strikes he feels
appropriate to the situation, for as long as he feels he needs to, and the War
Powers Act be dammed.
In an interview with Mehr News, Mohsen Khojastehmehr provided details on the
latest situation of oil and natural gas discoveries and said “the liquid
hydrocarbon reserves have increased more than 800 billion barrels with some new
discoveries.”
INVADE! INVADE! AL QAEDA! NUCLEAR WEAPONS! THEY
HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOMS! THEY WANT TO WIPE ISREAL OFF OF THE MAP INVADE!"
-- Official White Horse Souse
Fukushima:
Just great!!!
(AP) RICHLAND, Wash. - Federal officials are looking to ship some 3 million
gallons of radioactive waste from Washington state to New Mexico, giving the
government more flexibility to deal with leaking tanks at Hanford Nuclear
Reservation, officials said Wednesday.
The Department of
Energy said its preferred plan would ultimately dispose of the waste in a
massive repository _ called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant _ near Carlsbad,
N.M, where radioactive materials are buried in rooms excavated in vast salt
beds nearly a half-mile underground.
Title: Sunday Spin: Helping to understand
Hanford – Spin Control
Source: Spokesman-Review
Date: March 2, 2013
[...] Thursday morning [...] legislators got a
briefing [...]
Jane Hedges of the state Department of Ecology
explained the
intricacies of nuclear waste tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation,
doing her best to calm the uproar over recent news that six of the
supposedly stable tanks are, in fact, leaking. [...]
Getting the liquid out of the tanks is a problem.
First, there’s no good place to put it right now, because the more secure
double-shelled tanks are also pretty full. Second, there’s the danger of
triggering evaporation of the liquid, which would cause a tank to heat up and
create a deflagration.
“In our common words, a ‘Boom,’” Hedges said. Hanford
was responsible for making things that could create the world’s biggest booms,
but a boom in a tank is to be greatly avoided. [...]
Title: Japan’s cleanup lags from tsunami, nuke
accident
Source: AP
Author: MARI YAMAGUCHI and ELAINE KURTENBACH
Date: Mar. 10, 2013
[...] It will leave Fukushima, whose huge farm
and fisheries industry has been walloped by radiation fears, with 31 million
tons of nuclear waste or more. Around Naraha, huge temporary dumps of radioactive waste, many football
fields in size and stacked two huge bags deep, are scattered around the
disaster zone
The cleanups extend beyond Fukushima, to Iwate in
the north and Chiba, which neighbors Tokyo, in the south. And the concerns are
not limited to radiation. A walk through areas in Miyagi and Iwate that already
were cleared of debris finds plenty of toxic detritus, such as batteries from
cell phones, electrical wiring, plastic piping and gas canisters.
Japan has the technology to safely burn up most
toxins at very high temperatures, with minimal emissions of PCBs, mercury and
other poisons. But mounds of wood chips in a seaside processing area near
Kesennuma were emitting smoke into the air one recent winter afternoon,
possibly from spontaneous combustion.
Workers at that site had high-grade gas masks, an
improvement from the early days, when many working in the disaster zone had
only surgical masks, at most, to protect them from contaminated dust and smoke.
[...]
Title: Greenpeace: Fukushima victims are victims
once again
Source: DW
Author: Gui Hao
Date: March 7, 2013
[...] Heinz Smital, of Greenpeace,
believes residents are being kept in the dark over the dangers.
You recently measured the radioactivity
in and around Fukushima for Greenpeace Germany. What were your findings?
The radioactivity there is still very high. In
the city of Fukushima, which has some 300,000 inhabitants, there are still
children’s playgrounds that are highly contaminated. The values we measured
there on the ground were 200 times higher than before the nuclear accident. In
the evacuated ghost towns where there has been a great effort to clean things
up, we have found that the radiation has not declined. It simply isn’t going
away. [...]
Have people been given enough information
by the authorities about how great the risk is?
The health risks are played down, in part because
it is something that can’t be dealt with. It’s not possible to decontaminate
whole swathes of land, mountains, rivers and riverbanks. You can’t get rid of
that contamination. Now there is an effort underway to get people to accept the
higher radiation levels. They say it doesn’t have any effects, to stop people
from worrying. In this respect, the victims of the disaster are becoming
victims once again in that they are being encouraged to accept living in areas
where the radiation levels are too high. [...]
Title: Health consequences resulting from
Fukushima
Source: International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War
Author: Henrik Paulitz, Winfrid Eisenberg, and Reinhold Thiel
Date: March 6, 2013
h/t Anonymous tip
Summary
On 11 March 2011, a nuclear catastrophe occurred
at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan in the wake of an
earthquake and due to serious safety deficiencies. This resulted in a massive and prolonged release
of radioactive fission and decay products. Approximately 20% of the radioactive
substances released into the atmosphere have led to the contamination of the
landmass of Japan with 17,000 becquerels per square metre of cesium-137 and a
comparable quantity of cesium-134.
The initial health consequences of the nuclear catastrophe are now, two
years after the incident, scientifically verifiable. Similar to the case of
Chernobyl, a decline in the birth rate was documented in the nine months
following the nuclear catastrophe. Throughout the whole of Japan, the total
drop in number of births in December 2011 was 4362, with the Fukushima
Prefecture registering a decline of 209 births. [...]
Title: Fukushima Radioactive Aerosol Dispersion
Source: NOAA
h/t NibiruMagick2012,
EXSKF
April 12, 2011
The maximum cesium
emissions on March 15th are shown by the red color and represent a particle
activity of 5E+12 Bq
[...] The 2011 Tohuku East Japan earthquake and
resulting tsunami caused a variety of failures at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear
Power Plant which resulted in radioactive emissions to the atmosphere. The
earthquake occurred on March 11th at 14:26 Japan Standard Time (JST), the tsunami
about one hour later at 15:41, and by 16:36 a nuclear emergency was reported.
By the early morning hours of March 12th, radioactive emissions were occurring
from the plant.
In this dataset, the simulation from NOAA’s
HYSPLIT model shows a continuous release of tracer particles from 12-31 March
at a rate of 100 per hour representing the Cesium-137 emitted from Fukushima
Daiichi. Each change in particle color represents a decrease in radioactivity
by a factor of 10. Radioactivity decreases due to removal by rainfall and
gravitational settling. Decay is not a factor for Cesium in this short duration
simulation compared to its 30 year long-half life. The air concentration would
be computed from the particle density so it is only partially related to the color
scale. The released particles are followed through the end of April using
meteorological data from the 1-degree resolution NOAA global analyses. [...]
Title: Does the Fukushima NPP disaster affect
the caesium activity of North Atlantic Ocean fish?
Source: Biogeosciences Discussions
Authors: G. Kanisch and M.-O. Aust; Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology,
Hamburg, Germany
Date Published: March 5, 2013
Emphasis Added
[...] On 11 March 2011, a Tsunami hit the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear
power plant (FDNPP), which caused the loss of cooling capacity in four of its
six nuclear reactors and 25 led to the release a radionuclides into the
environment. It is expected that between 6 and 47 PBq
(1 PBq= 1015 Bq) of 137Cs (half-live
30.17 yr) was directly discharged into the Pacific
Ocean (e.g. Bailly du Bois et al., 2012) in the aftermath of
the tragedy. Due to the determined 134Cs : 137Cs ratio of around one, about the
same amount of 134Cs (half-live 2.07 yr) was discharged into the Pacific.
Initially, discharge was assumed to represent the larger fraction of total
Cs-releases. Therefore, many researchers and TEPCO focussed [sic] on the
determination and estimation of the behaviour of Cs in Pacific waters and its
behaviour in the environment, especially the uptake by biota (e.g. Buesseler et
al., 2011, 2012; Honda et al., 2012; Madigan et al., 2012; Behrens et al.,
2012).
The explosions of units 1 to 4 of FD-NPP also
released radionuclides into the atmosphere which were detectable around the
world (e.g. Hsu et al., 2012; Stohl et al., 2012; Jakobs, 2011). From these
investigations the wet and dry deposition of caesium isotopes in marine areas
where German monitoring was carried out after the accident at FD-NPP occurred,
which are the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, and the coastal West and East
Greenland currents, were estimated to be between 0.1 and 100 Bqm−2. [...]
Nearly all reports on
this matter to date have used the 27.1 PBq (quadrillion) figure as the maximum
direct cesium-137 release into ocean. Even yesterday’s informative report from
Enformable
comparing Chernobyl’s releases to Fukushima used the 27.1 PBq figure, rather
than the 47 PBq mentioned above.
Title: Two years have passed since Japan nuked
the rest of the world
Source: Enformable
Date: March 11, 2013
Emphasis Added
This year, on the second anniversary of the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the author would like to pose the following
questions, and invite the reader to do the same.
[...]
Fukushima is no Chernobyl…right?
[...]
To date, all attempts to model or accurately
measure the core damage and radiation releases from the crippled Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant in the wake of the March 11th earthquake and
tsunami have proved incomplete, unreliable, and admittedly unable to accurately
replicate the sequence of events, largely due to the lack of information
available [...]
Still, much has been said about the radioactive
releases from Fukushima Daiichi, but one thing remains certain; anyone who
attempts to make definitive statements as to minimize the size or scale of the
release can do no better than to offer some rudimentary stab at the issue, as
the data released to date is woefully insufficient. What little recorded data
has been published and peer reviewed has yielded some startling results, which
may infer some insight into why so many pro-nuclear voices have been so quick
and adamant in their downplaying of the disaster. [...]
More recent studies have estimated that some 27.1 PBq of Cs-137 was
released at Fukushima Daiichi into the ocean just during the first four months
of the disaster. Additionally, studies have placed the aerial release between 36.6 PBq and 66 PBq for the
first week of the disaster. Conservatively adding the 27.1 PBq aqueous release with the 36.6 PBq aerial release
yields a 63.7 PBq combined Cs 137 release. [...]
It has also been popular for pro-nuclear
lobbyists to promote the idea that the release at Fukushima Daiichi was not
equal to or greater than Chernobyl, and even more, that the potential source
release was never on a scale comparable to the 1986 Soviet nuclear disaster.
[...]
Chernobyl Cesium 137 Inventory and Release [...]
85 PBq [...]
Note: Using Fukushima’s high end estimate for aerial releases of 66* PBq
cesium-137 (only includes the first week), plus the 27.1 PBq of aqueous
release, totals 93.1 PBq of cesium-137 released from
Fukushima Daiichi — Chernobyl is 85 PBq.
*The
estimate used for aerial releases of 66 PBq cesium-137 from Fukushima Daiichi
only includes the releases “for the first week of the disaster”.
Définition
Le
becquerel est défini comme le nombre de désintégrations radioactives par seconde au sein d'une
certaine quantité de matière. Elle a été nommée ainsi en hommage à Henri Becquerel.
Le becquerel (sans autre
unité) caractérise l'activité d'une source globale :
·
Source de 60Co
utilisée pour la stérilisation gamma : entre 109 Bq et 1015
Bq ;
·
Activité d'un cœur d'uranium
dégageant 1 MW thermique : 3,2 x 1016 Bq ;
Like any SI unit, Bq can be prefixed; commonly used multiples are kBq (kilobecquerel, 103
Bq), MBq (megabecquerel, 106 Bq), GBq (gigabecquerel, 109
Bq), TBq (terabecquerel, 1012 Bq), and PBq (petabecquerel, 1015
Bq). For
practical application, 1 Bq is a small unit; therefore, the prefixes are
common. For example, natural potassium (40K)
in a typical human body produces 4,000 disintegrations per second, 4 kBq of
activity.[4] The global
inventory of carbon-14 is estimated to
be 8.5×1018 Bq (8.5 EBq, 8.5 exabecquerel).[5] The nuclear explosion in Hiroshima (14 kt or 59 TJ)
is estimated to have produced 8×1024 Bq (8 YBq, 8
yottabecquerel).[6]
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