Countering the nuclear lobby’s spin – and more, this week
Some bits of good news – Incredible global progress on water, sanitation, and hygiene. The incredible comeback of Britain’s Barn Owls.
TOP STORIES The Military-Industrial Complex Is Killing Us All.
The omnicidal and unnecessary Nuclear Triad.
Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check.
Stockpiling nuclear weapons? That will do nothing for national security, Keir Starmer.
From the archives. Jeremy Corbyn was smeared for rejecting the use of nuclear weapons – but he was right.
Climate. Global warming happening at fastest speed in history. Climate crisis made May heatwaves 1.5C hotter in India, study says.
Noel’s notes. Time to get real about anti-semitism – the renewed danger. A voice of sanity in the UK– Jeremy Corbyn is back! Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War -Episode 5 – War Games – and then Glasnost, a welcome thaw.
AUSTRALIA. Opposition’s nuclear-energy policy would increase defence risk .Dutton to ditch Paris Agreement: analysis reveals nuclear impact on emissions.
Dutton’s nuclear policy a disaster for Australia. Dutton spruiks gas and nuclear to win back Victoria. Experts unite to condemn Coalition nuclear policy meltdown. Peter Dutton proposes decades of delay on climate: Federal Liberals still with no climate plan.
If regional communities don’t want a windfarm, why would they accept a nuclear power station? Resources Minister Madeleine King challenges Peter Dutton to name Western Australia nuclear power station sites.
The network of conservative think-tanks out to kill the switch to renewables.
Eraring deal signals death of baseload power in Australia, and Dutton’s nuclear fantasy.
Submarine boss refuses to answer questions over multi-billion-dollar AUKUS payments, A Detectable Subservience – Australia’s ill-fated nuclear submarine deal? Will Port Adelaide, Fremantle or Port Kembla be the Australian Chernobyl? Lockheed Martin deletes Australian F-35 ties.
Was ABC’s firing of Antoinette Lattouf influenced by a pro-Israel group? | Real Talk – Online.
NUCLEAR ISSUES
| ATROCITIES. Report: Vast Majority of Children Under 5 in Gaza Going Full Days Without Food. | CIVIL LIBERTIES. Journalist, critic of U.S. Ukraine policy, pulled off plane, U.S. seizes his passport. | CULTURE. How Nato seduced the European Left. The anti-war movement has fallen for a progressive circus. |
| ECONOMICS. Should USS Investment Builder invest in nuclear power? | EDUCATION. University of Ghent to cease all collaboration with Israeli institutions. | EMPLOYMENT. Allegations managing director of Scotland nuclear complex was ‘shipped out‘ over long-running pay dispute. |
| ENERGY. The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates. | HEALTH. Radiation Exposure Compensation for impacted downwind communities is expiring Friday. Speaker Johnson, bring it to a vote.Samsung workers treated for exposure to radiation in South Korea |
| HISTORY. “In Ukraine, a war for memory.”. | LEGAL. ‘We Want Peace’: Spain Applies to Join ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel. | MEDIA. CNN’s Israel bias has been laid bare. But CNN is the norm, not the exception. |
| POLITICS Keir Starmer’s Trident triple lock: how Britain’s obsession with nuclear weapons has become part of election campaigns. Labour pledges to launch Great British Energy ‘within months’ of general election victory: it includes nuclear power. UK Labour talks up nuclear weapons to banish Corbyn’s shadow. UK’s nuclear deterrent key to Starmer’s plans to keep Britain safe.Scots urged to vote in anti-nuclear MPs to ‘take target off our backs’ We should aim for nuclear disarmament – Plaid leader, UK.Corporate lobbying heats up around governments’ nuclear power plans despite concerns from anti-nuclear advocates….ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/06/06/1-b1-corporate-lobbying-heats-up-around-governments-nuclear-power-plans-despite-concerns-from-anti-nuclear-advocates/. 42 House Democrats Help GOP Pass Bill Targeting ICC Officials Over Israel. Dutch government is socialist when it comes to funding nuclear power. | POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Senior U.S. Diplomats, Journalists, Academics and Secretaries of Defense Say: the U.S. Provoked Russia in Ukraine. Peace talks without Russia ‘laughable’ – John Mearsheimer.Putin warns West over Ukraine armaments, nuclear arsenal in news conference. UN offers nuclear inspection deal to Iran’s new leadership. Nuclear watchdog votes to censure Iran for non-cooperation with inspectors. Why a substantive and verifiable no-first-use treaty for nuclear weapons is possible. |
| SAFETY. Restarting Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ‘difficult to envisage’ during war, says IAEA chief. | SECRETS and LIES. President Biden’s subliminal D Day speech in France |
TECHNOLOGY. U.S. Micro Nuclear Reactors happy to join with NATO military.
URANIUM. The weapons potential of high-assay low-enriched uranium.
| WASTES. No nuke waste down under: Nuclear Free Local Authorities spokesperson receives assurance MOD still committed to decommissioning British nuclear subs at home. China urges long-term supervision over Japan’s radioactive water discharge. | WAR and CONFLICT. NATO plans Europe-wide escalation of war against Russia. Russia doesn’t need nuclear weapons to succeed: Putin. Ralph Nader -on Joe Biden: Pushing America Deeper into the Russian/Ukrainian War. Guterres warns humanity on ‘knife’s edge’ as AI raises nuclear war threat. Israel kills over 200 Palestinians to rescue 4 captives; U.S. allegedly involved in operation- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJnF2CLbibw |
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
- US Bombs Used in Israeli Massacre of 40 in Gaza Refugee Camp. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2hjy3e1i2o
- U.S. Considers Expanded Nuclear Arsenal, a Reversal of Decades of Cuts – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2024/06/09/2-a-u-s-considers-expanded-nuclear-arsenal-a-reversal-of-decades-of-cuts/ US issues major nuclear weapons alert amid fears of all-out war: ‘If that day comes…’
- A Nuclear-Armed European Union? A Proposal Under Fire. European Nuclear Deterrent a Harebrained Illegal Proposal.
- Blinken Confirms Biden Change On Policy Toward Ukraine Using U.S. Weapons Inside Russia. France to give fighter jets to Ukraine – Macron.
- What’s Next for Battlefield America? Israel’s High-Tech Military Tactics Point the Way.
- China: US nuclear weapons in South Korea would undermine its security.
- Russia nuclear-powered submarine to visit Cuba amid rising tensions with US.
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