Australian and more -Nuclear news – week to 7 November
Some bits of good news, Here are all the positive environmental stories from 2022 so far.
Coronavirus: Long Covid’s astounding impact, explained in numbers and charts – video.
Global Heating: UN weather report: Climate woes bad and getting worse faster.
Nuclear. Where to start? Today, I am taken with the significance, and danger, of that word “Ambiguity“. It is the means by which we are kept in the dark, by which our governments can start a war, a nuclear war, at any time, without the bother of consulting parliament or people. Why are we letting ourselves put up with this farcical state of affairs – put across by the American government, and repeated by the Australian, (and no doubt other) government?
There’s the ambiguity about Taiwan . Governments of both USA and Australia recognise Taiwan as part of China, legally a province of China. Yet apparently we’re happy to go to war against China on behalf of Taiwan.
There’s America’s ambiguity about being the first to attack with a nuclear weapon. President Biden approved a version of the policy from the Obama administration that permits the use of nuclear weapons not only in retaliation to a nuclear attack, but also to respond to non-nuclear threats.
AUSTRALIA.
Australia is addicted to fighting other people’s wars. As Australia gets American nuclear-capable bombers, it risks becoming a dangerous military mess and target – like Guam. ‘Target Oz’: Defence Strategic Review must address nuclear risks. Australia’s $multibillion submarine madness and the phoney China threat. Australia’s ongoing nuclear submarine debacle – ‘A tangle of overlapping interests’, Why does Australia still sell uranium to China?
This is what Australia needs to bring to Egypt for COP27
Read more: Australian and more -Nuclear news – week to 7 NovemberCLIMATE. The climate crisis and the danger of nuclear war are deeply intertwined. COP27 in Egypt. Will rich nations fulfil their promises to help poor countries to fight global heating? Environmentalists slam corporate influence at U.N. climate talks
ECONOMICS. French nuclear corporation EDF – facing huge debts, but cosily enmeshed with UK government . Failure of the “nuclear renaissance” leaves Britain with super-costly closures of reactors, and electricity shortage. U.S. company Westinghouse wants to build a fleet of nuclear reactors in Europe, starting with Poland.
EMPLOYMENT. Nice work if you can get it: £750 a day for leading Lincolnshire’s nuclear dump bid.
ENERGY. Does the UK need new nuclear plants like Sizewell C to reach net zero? EDF Warns of Lower Output Across Its Nuclear Reactors in France. France, depending on nuclear power, now imports more electricity than it exports.
ENVIRONMENT. Councillor wants to know why there has been an increase in radioactive particles found on Dounreay foreshore.
HEALTH. Carbon-14: Another underestimated danger from nuclear power reactors. Studies on nuclear radiation’s impact on people necessary (Indonesia).
MEDIA. Ukrainian First Lady Zelenska ordered The Grayzone’s Web Summit cancellation.
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. America’s Abandoned Nuclear Power Projects (includes Interactive Map)
POLITICS. UK government might scrap Sizewell nuclear plan. Will they, won’t they – great uncertainty over government go ahead for Sizewell C. Japanese government seeks to allow nuclear reactors to operate for 80 years. The new Jewish state in the Levant: A fanatics-led nuclear power. Poland picks nuclear power that the International Energy Agency says is “stagnating or in decline”.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. The U.S. President’s Dismissal Of Diplomacy Undermines His Own Party, Prolongs The Destruction Of Ukraine And Threatens Nuclear War. In America Pro-war hawks have progressive Democrats on their Squad. USA’s deliberate ambiguity on use of nuclear weapons really means “don’t mess with us or we’ll nuke you”. Biden lost temper with Zelenskyy in June phone call when Ukrainian leader asked for more aid.
Poland, South Korea sign outline accords on nuclear power project. When it comes to a nuclear industry project – Europe puts no sanctions on Russia.
Europe can’t cut economic ties with Russia unless it cuts nuclear power use as well. World Nuclear Industry Status Report delivers all the empirical data we need to know about nuclear power’s decline.
SAFETY. Attacks on Ukrainian nuclear-power plants challenge treaties, and raise other safety concerns. Nuclear Free Local Authorities ask when will the Olkiluoto farce ever Finnish?
SECRETS and LIES. Israeli finance minister added to Kiev’s ‘kill list’.
WAR and CONFLICT. War and Regrets in Ukraine. The nuclear threats that hang over the world. Doomsday Clock Reveals How Nuclear War Would Decimate Civilization. US troops on the ground in Ukraine – media. Six Reasons Why Americans Should Care That US Troops Are In Ukraine. U.S. troops on the ground in Ukraine: this is bad! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXSEhwbZhAc How Close are We to Nuclear War? Will Biden Gamble on a Ukraine Coalition? ‘Sloppy’ US Talk on China’s Threat Worries Some Skeptical Experts. North Korea fired intercontinental ballistic missile – Seoul.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Nuclear gravity bomb more powerful than Hiroshima blast to be added to NATO’s arsenal. Finland hints at allowing NATO to station nuclear weapons (?targets) on its soil. U.S., NATO ready array of missiles for war in Ukraine. Pentagon to provide $400 million more for Ukraine war effort
Loosening the Nuclear Knot – ARMS CONTROL TODAY, Pentagon Scraps Submarine Nuclear Cruise Missile Program.3
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The Road to War brings a sharp focus to why it is not in Australia’s best interest to be dragged into a war with China which will almost inevitably go nuclear very quickly. The filmmaker has interviewed some of Australia’s senior foreign policy analysts who have vast experience behind them in analysing what really is going on here as the United States rattles its sabres with China. And sets us up to be its proxy, like the poor Ukranians have been fed into the Meatgrinder. So America can remain the Top Dog. The Road to War reveals how the United States through its spy base at Pine Gap and by stationing six nuclear capable B52 bombers in the Top End (without permission from the traditional owners) is making Australia a prime nuclear target if the current war of words suddenly melts down into full scale war.
The Road to War shows the implicit connection between Carbon emissions (the US military uses a whopping 70% of America’s annual petroleum to move its armies and vast War Machine around the globe to its 800+ military bases..but under a loophole wangled at Kyoto, the US military does not have to report its C02 annual emissions). The Road to War starts screening at selected cities and regional centres in March. See the trailer end for details.
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