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Thursday, October 31, 2013

NRC rubber stamped building a 3rd Unsafe “Economic” Nuke Plant in Detroit

Updated: 2013 November 07

Source Video: Fairewinds Energy Education

http://fairewinds.org/podcast/let-games-begin

The Games Began in Monroe Michigan as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (NRC ASLB) started hearings on Detroit Edison’s “Fermi 3 Licensing Project”. Outgunned? Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen and the seven expert witnesses retained by the NRC staff and Detroit Edison agree that there was no Quality Assurance (QA) program in place for two years as required by federal law, but the seven industry experts say build it anyway! Damn the safety regulations; full speed ahead to the pork-barrel federal loan guarantees to build a one of a kind Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor. Listen as Maggie, Arnie, and host Nathaniel White-Joyal discuss the stacked deck on this week’s Fairewinds Energy Education Podcast.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Strips Whistleblower Protection

Video Podcast Source
http://fairewinds.org/media/nrc-strips-whistleblower-protections

In sworn testimony in Monroe, Michigan, the NRC admitted that it has stripped whistleblower protection from the licensing of new nuclear power plants. By flip-flopping on what it means to be an applicant, the whistleblowers who are truly looking to protect the public health and safety are having their lives and livelihoods jeopardized. Fairewinds Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen discusses what this means as utilities look for short cuts and cheaper ways to build new nukes.

Visit Fairewinds website to stay on top of all future developments.
http://fairewinds.org/

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Canada Under Siege – Part 2 - The Economy

Source: World United News - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2K3x-Ci8O8

Watching the World descend into economic tyranny due to the IMF and Private for Profit only Banks, really angers the hell out of me, but being Canadian, it especially angers me for what is going on here in Canada…because our government is a party to the theft taking place right here…and that is regardless of what brand of politic sits in governance of our nation.

I was brought up believing that the Banking system in Canada was sound and far superior than the rest of the World simply because we had our own National Bank to issue our own money...and from 1935 to 1974 that was certainly true. But it has not been true since.

Born in Montreal Quebec, Canada in 1960, I’ve seen a lot of things happen to this great country of ours over the years, but I was extremely puzzled why, despite the abundance of our natural resources and government imposed high taxation that we had no money to function or healthy economy. One day I decided to find out why.

What I discovered was that there was a massive theft taking place right under our noses by the IMF and all the other private banks that secretly had embedded themselves into the fabric of our Canadian economy & community…What makes the massive banking crimes so maddening is that I also discovered that all the past and present, Federal & Provincial governments in Canada have had full knowledge of the theft and have been a party to it.

This theft has been going on since 1974 through Federal Conservative, & Liberal governments, and through the Provincial governments of the Conservative, Liberal, NDP, and Parti Quebecois parties. They ALL knew what was going on, and by their knowledge of these banking crimes, they have all committed treason against the people of this nation for doing nothing about it. Maybe the Chamber of Commerce has something to do with it…since all political parties feast there.

By giving the power to create money to the IMF & its ring of Private Banks, and also by giving our natural resources to foreign business cartels, The Federal & Provincial governments have sold out the Canadian people!…est les Quebec libre aussi. We’re not so libre as we might like so we are all in this mess together.

The debt we owe today, with the National and Provincial debt combined, comes to around 1 Trillion dollars. The interest payment on 1 Trillion dollars if it was at 4% is 40 billion dollars. That works out to about 110 million dollars every day just to pay the interest on a loan that should never have been made in the first place!

The Bank of Canada:

The Bank of Canada was created in 1935 to restart the Canadian economy and regain the peoples trust through a Canadian centralized banking system. The issuance of our own currency, by our own National Bank came without interest or compound interest added, thus allowing Canada to prosper and not go into debt despite the huge work projects and social programs that were created to elevate society back from the trash heap.

Huge government programs were created to put people back to work and thus created some of the most important National Corporations between those thriving years of 1935 to 1974. These corporations were owned by Canadians under a banking system that used an interest free currency…everything belonged to us during that time, including the right to make our own budget.

Large-scale social programs such as Medicare, and social benefits for families…old age pensions all emerged out of this economic model…and it was a model that worked for everyone while it was in place.

The Personal Income Tax collected from individuals became the government’s biggest source of income to keep our own sovereign system in place. In essence, We worked and invested in our country at the same time. The nation prospered and provided us with a higher standard of living while not going into to debt.

All was well and fine until 1974 when the Government of Canada gave the IMF and private banks the power to create the Canadian dollar and to charge us compound interest on loaning us our own money. The result of this giveaway is that we no longer have control of our currency or our governing budget. It belongs to private banks and their centralized private I.M.F.

Since 1974, Federal and Provincial government budgets are borrowed from Private Banks with Compound interest attached. That means we lose large amounts of our wealth and hard earned money to pay back the compound interest that came with the loans…and since the money has to come from somewhere, Canadians became tax targets while at the same time we lose our social programs by government spending cuts directed and ordered by the IMF through banking blackmail. The international economic system is completely rigged…in other words, if you don’t do what the IMF tells you, your bond rating will be lowered and the interest on the loans will be increased…

Compound interest, by practice, steals all the money slated to maintain our infrastructure and social programs…as the interest on the loan builds, the debt increases, which then gives the governments the ok to increase our taxes, or borrow more money from the private banks. The whole charade sends the economy into perpetual inflation mode. This cycle has drastically lowered our standard of living since 1974 and All past & present governments are responsible and should be questioned on their knowledge of the theft taking place, or their incompetence of what was taking place….a thorough PUBLIC investigation into this is required at the very LEAST!

Shortly after the IMF took control of our monetary system, our National Corporations such as the Canadian National Railway, Air Canada, and Petro Canada, were sold by the Canadian government at the behest of those that control and loan us our money. Have a look into the Chamber of Commerce…there you’ll see where government business decisions come from. The Chamber of Commerce is a Private Club made up of Banks and Big Business Owners. Needless to say, National Corporations were sold to international private interests, And now they want to sell off programs by privatizing things like health care.

It is very important to note, that what disappeared with National Corporations such as Petro Canada, was the control of our natural resources and the profits they would have brought directly into the country’s coffers if we were not enslaved to the IMF and their scheme of compound debt. Instead, all profits from our natural resources go into the private pockets of the Corporate Share Holders while the rest of us pay increased taxes and allow them to steal it.

Corruption:

International Corporations pay rental fees to the Provincial & Federal Governments on the Canadian land they are raping…of course anyone in government that is pushing for corporate interests is on a committee that receives special compensation. To me this is nothing short of bribery…this type of behavior is shady, dishonest, and amounts to high treason against the people of Canada and should be publicly investigated with prison sentences for those found guilty. In light of these accusations I am making here, I find that the government is nothing more than a crime syndicate for big business, and it is time for these criminals to GO!

Now that the pillars of economic stability have been removed, Canadians find themselves at the mercy of the International banks that are TELLING us what to keep, what to sell and where to cut the budget. Our government not only sold us out, they refuse to change the economic climate for the betterment of its people…that means they do not work for the people of Canada but the private owners of the International Banks!

The next Canadian Federal election is in 2015 so we have time to organize the people of this country to take back our nation. To know which politician to vote for, make sure they are decidedly for removing the Private banks from issuing our money and to nationalize ALL our resources. It’s time to take our country back and this is the way to do it.

LINKS:

Canada Under Siege – Part 1 – The Tar Sands, Free Trade & Govt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpfOsf1f26I

Crime of the Canadian Banking System

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Israel orders destruction of 2 mosques

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/139907.html

Israel has ordered the destruction of two newly built Palestinian mosques in the West Bank amid plans of resuming peace talks next month.

The civil administration issued the orders under the pretext of lack of construction permits, Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Monday.

One of the mosques is located near Burin village and the other one near Jalazoun village.

The order comes at the time the Muslim people of the Palestinian territories are in the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted to revive direct talks in Washington on September 2.

Israel's latest order to destroy the mosques and carrying out settlement activities in the occupied territories, especially in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), may hinder the peace talks.

The Palestinian Authority says that Israel's ongoing settlement activities, home demolitions, evictions, land confiscations and ID revocations would undermine talks.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Baltic life at risk as algae grow

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=135918&sectionid=3510212

A blue-green algae mass at about the size of Germany now covers huge parts of the Baltic Sea, putting the marine habitat at risk, a satellite view of the sea shows.

The huge carpet of foul-smelling algae has grown rapidly due to record summer heat, the dumping of farm fertilizers and calm sea, threatening tourism and the marine habitat in the process.

The size of the blue-green algae is so huge that it can be compared with the size of Germany. It is estimated that the weed covers an area as large as 377,000 sq km. In fact, the affected area extends from Finland to the southern coast of Sweden, surrounding the Danish island of Bornholm.

As an affected country, scientists from the German division the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature located in Hamburg are warning about the damaging effects of the algae.

"These huge algae carpets hit the marine environment most…They kill plants and encourage the spread of dead zones on the sea bed which have no oxygen left in them," WWF project spokesman Jochen Lamp said.

The foul weed often smells like rotten eggs. They are not only dangerous to the sea habitat as they deprive them off oxygen, but also are harmful to humans because they spread cynano-bacteria which can generate skin rashes as well as other allergic symptoms eventually damaging people's liver.

According to doctors, drinking water contaminated by the weed 'can cause severe diarrhea,' the Independent reported.

Considered the harshest expansion of algae in the Baltic Sea since 2005, the weed explosion has been being rapidly expanding in size.

The cause of the expansion varies from record temperatures of up to 38 C, to a lack of strong winds and also a no wave in the sea as they all help to break up algae carpets.

Experts believe that the blue-green algae is helped by over-fertilization of farmland that leads to the wash up of large quantities of phosphorous and nitrogen off the soil and later dumped into the Baltic Sea via rivers.

"Over-fertilization is the biggest environmental problem facing the Baltic; it is the driving force behind the spread of dead zones on the sea bed," Lamp said.

Germany, which had to close its many Baltic beaches in 2001, has already warned swimmers not to go into the water due to its contaminated water.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

'US nuke threat is state terrorism'

Source: PressTV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123170§ionid=351020101

Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Mohammad Khazaee describes the US threat of using nuclear weapons against other countries as state terrorism.

"Threats of using nuclear weapons against a nation are a clear sample of the state terrorism," Khazaee said at the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC).

He called for a frank fight against terrorism, saying, "Certain countries should not use the case as a political instrument to promote their expansionist goals and dispatch troops to remote parts of the world and to the Middle East in particular."

The Iranian envoy slammed such practices as adopting double standards and taking political advantage of the issue as well as making moves, which will actually serve to expand terrorism. He said, "Iran is a victim of terrorism and has always condemned acts of terror and the instrumental use of this phenomenon."

He urged all UN member countries to remain committed to legal and international regulations.

Khazaee said that state terrorism and the use of military force against poor nations under the pretext of a war on terror is a "serious danger" to global security and a clear breach of international rights and the Geneva Convention.

He noted that recent threats made by US officials about resorting to the use of nuclear arms against the Islamic Republic were a clear example of state terrorism and a violation of international rights.

The Iranian diplomat called on the international community to denounce the posing of threats against a country which is a member of the United Nations and a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Threats of any kind are against article two of the U-N charter. Tehran says it plans to submit a formal complaint to the United Nations.

Sincerity of US summit, 'questionable'

Source: PressTV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123176§ionid=351020101

Iran says the US cannot preach about nuclear disarmament while it threatens to use its nuclear weapons against other nations.

The US on Monday opened a two-day nuclear summit which is being attended by leaders of 46 other countries.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast cast doubt on the Washington's intention behind its nuclear summit.

"Countries that possess nuclear weapons, have used them against hundreds of thousands of innocent people and now insist on keeping their nuclear arsenals and even threaten nations with such weapons cannot hold such conferences," Mehmanparast said, adding that there was serious doubt about the US "real intention" behind the summit.

He said the summit was a "show" aimed to "invoke an unreal threat" while seeking to draw the global community's attention away from the main source of concern, which he said were nuclear weapons stockpiled in Western countries.

US Nuclear Policy Review

On the Obama Administration's newly released "Nuclear Posture Review" (NPR), Mehmanparast said that threatening nations with nuclear weapons pose the "grossest human rights violation" and a "breach of the UN Charter".

He said that Iran has already begun legal action against the US and has sought to document its complaint at the UN.

The new NPR by the Obama Administration restricts the use of US nuclear arms against some non-nuclear countries but excludes Iran under the allegation that it does not comply with non-proliferation treaties.

Iraqi Election

Mehmanparast said that the Iraqi election was a "major step toward the establishment of security and peace" in the country and warned against any foreign interference in Iraq's domestic affairs.

Israel's Threats of Attack

He called Israel's repeated threat of military action against Iran "psychological warfare" and said that Iran's response to any possible attack would be "severe".

Tehran's Research Reactor Fuel

On the required fuel for Tehran's research reactor, Mehmanparast said that the IAEA was "obliged" to meet Iran's "legal" demand.

He added that Iran still welcomes a fuel swap with the West but has started enriching uranium up to 20 percent to meet its demands after potential suppliers failed to help with the issue.

Iran's Arrested Journalist in Italy

Mehmanparast called Hamid Masouminejad's arrest a "political game" by Western countries and rejected allegations against him as "sheer lies".

He went on to say that Iran would take the necessary steps to secure the release of Masouminejad, a senior correspondent for Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) arrested in March for alleged arms trafficking to Iran contrary to the sanctions imposed by the West and the UN against the country.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Israel to raze 200 Palestinian homes in E Jerusalem

Source: PressTV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=117846§ionid=351020202

Israeli authorities plan to seal 200 Palestinians homes in East Jerusalem Al-Quds to counter what they call "discriminatory enforcement" against Israeli settlers.

The East Jerusalem Al-Quds Mayor Nir Barkat announced the decision after the State Prosecutor Moshe Lador criticized the municipality's refusal to carry out a Supreme Court order to seal the Jewish-owned Beit Yehonatan building in East Jerusalem Al-Quds.

The building, which houses Israeli settlers, was illegally built in the city's neighborhood of Silwan in 2004.

In a letter written to the prosecutor on Wednesday, Barkat agreed to implement the sealing order but added that he would also act to tear down 200 "illegal" Palestinian homes in the area.

"Although the sealing order, in light of the dozens of demolition orders which are not being enforced, constitutes, in my eyes, a selective and discriminatory enforcement, Jerusalem (Al-Quds) Municipality will act according to court orders and implement the sealing orders on Beit Yehonatan as well as other standing orders," Barkat wrote to Lador.

"The municipality will seal Beit Yehonatan and raze all of the illegal structures - more than 200 structures on which the court has issued demolition orders."

The mayor charged the court order came under the influence of "wrongful political intervention" which he said "may cause publicly elected officials to refrain from expressing an opinion on issues that have dire consequences."

The decision to raze Palestinian houses received condemnation from civil rights organizations and human rights groups in Israel.

The Ir Amim (City of Nations) organization denounced the move, saying Barkat was adopting a policy similar to the settlers' "price tag policy", by which settlers seek revenge by attacking Palestinians for every illegal outpost that is evacuated.

"We hope Barkat is considering the local and international significance of such an extreme act," the organization said in a statement.

The Peace Now Movement said that "the Jerusalem (Al-Quds) mayor has turned into a collaborator with Israel's most extreme right-wing organizations."