After years of denial, NSW govt quietly demolishing radioactive home
Radioactive waterfront home to be razed Sydney Morning Herald BEN CUBBY ENVIRONMENTDecember 28, 2009 NEW plans to clean up the site of a former uranium smelter in Hunters Hill mean a four-storey waterfront mansion the NSW Government has repeatedly declared safe will be demolished. Continue reading
Radiation scan urged, for air travel safety
It’s unclear how much radiation this would subject people to..
Full Body Scans Only Way To Stop Flight 253-Type Attempts: Expert Huliq News by Michael Santo 29 Dec 09 As the world continues to reel in the aftermath of the flight 253 incident, in which Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, attempted to set off PETN explosive on a Northwest Airlines flight (Delta Airlines is NWA’s parent company), a security expert says there is an answer. The backscatter machine, which provides a full body scan, could have prevented the incident, but at the cost of privacy for many……………It’s unclear how much radiation this would subject people to, however, and the potential for harm from that, for frequent travelers. There is still a loophole, however, as the backscatter machine would not detect anything hidden in a body cavity. Unfortunately, a full body X-ray would subject passengers to too much radiation, and cost millions more to implement (a backscatter machine would only cost $200,000, Laird said).
Full Body Scans Only Way To Stop Flight 253-Type Attempts: Expert | HULIQ
Aboriginal people the undisputed owners of their land
Noel Pearson and Indigenous Australia A Review of the Essay Collection Up From the Mission Suite 101 Dec 16, 2009 Chris Saliba “…………When the High Court of Australia overturned the idea of terra nullius, it also stood Australia’s previously understood land title system on its head. It established that the Aboriginal people had been the undisputed owners of the land before white settlement. While this ruling would cause enormous controversy in Australia, freehold and pastoral titles would not be adversely affected in any way………………Here Pearson explains the challenges for native land title claimants:
“Non-indigenous parties to land claims can never lose any of their rights or titles, because these are indefeasible under the common law – and if they were ever invalid, the Native Title Act has now cured any invalidities. The only party that can truly lose in a native title claim is the Indigenous claimant. The non-indigenous parties – including the Crown – have nothing to lose, other than an argument to the effect that the Indigenous people have no entitlement.”
Noel Pearson and Indigenous Australia: A Review of the Essay Collection Up From the Mission
Russia keeping its policy of nuclear first strike
Weak Russian Military Suggestive of Nuclear First Strike Doctrine The Market Oracle by Pravda, 27 Dec 09 In October 2009, Nicolai Patrushev, Russia’s Security Council Secretary, announced that the new military doctrine was on its way. The old one was dated back in 2000 and written even earlier, under Yeltsin. Patrushev named the announcement of Russia’s right for a preventive nuclear strike the key provision of the new doctrine. He kept his word, and this provision does exist in the text of the doctrine approved by the Security Council. Continue reading
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