Nuclear news – Australia, France and more
Nuclear. The interesting thing right now is France’s struggle to get Europe to agree that nuclear power is ”clean” and ”green”. The background to this is that France’s nuclear industry is in a pretty bad state. Debts, scandals and safety problems. Most reactors getting near their use-by date. Strangely, the prestigious and independent Court of Audits has reported that nuclear power has a dubious future, but President Macron is ignoring that report, and promising a global nuclear revival, led by France.
Coronavirus – it’s all still happening.
Climate: COP 26 is over – but global heating is all still happening, too.
Some bits of good news: The EU drafted legislation to tackle deforestation. The UK’s largest urban rewilding project was approved. Refugees in Cameroon Have Turned aTreeless Desert Camp Into a Thriving Forest.
AUSTRALIA.
New files expose Australian govt’s betrayal of Julian Assange and detail his prison torment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I185pwCWNo8
- Australian TV blatantly advertises weapons sales, in absurd claims about China invading Australia. Morrison’s tactless belligerence towards China, while USA moves to mend relationship to China. Australian Parliament should urgently review the potentially dangerous AUKUS deal.
- The endless civil war among conservatives over nuclear power. Renewable technology is highly suitable for Australia – compared to the severe wastes problem of nuclear power.
- Australia needs independent Inquiry on nuclear production and wastes. Kimba nuclear dump plan is not supported by facts. Kimba, South Australia, as a nuclear ”sacrifice zone”. Kimba Consultative Committee draft Minutes reveal what a mess the Federal Radioactive Waste dump project is in.
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The consumerism that destroys life is also the cause of the environmental emergency.
The 2015 Paris climate agreement – a weak ‘treaty’, but it is working up to a point. Nuclear energy: a distraction on the road to climate solutions.
Global agreements against the dumping of nuclear waste into the world’s oceans.
America’s relentless pursuit of Australian Julian Assange is a threat to any journalist who might expose a USA massacre of civilians.
Gorbachev: claims that nuclear weapons guarantee peace are a delusion. The elimination of nuclear weapons a moral imperative – Vatican. New film: The ‘Mothers of the Revolution’ Who Stared Down Nuclear Weapons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWirc-uWGgQ Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons Takes a New Approach With Informative Videos for Children and Young Adults.
Low dose radiation has its medical benefits, but has harmful effects on the immune system.
Use Less Stuff Day-Thursday November 18th
ANTARCTIC. Antarctic ice sheet changed alarmingly quickly in past – and may be happening again now.
News -nuclear and climate- Australia and beyond
It’s all about COP26 this week, but the pandemic persists.And- the media’s gone quiet on nuclear issues, – but at COP26 and elsewhere, the nuclear lobby is working away relentlessly.
AUSTRALIA
Nuclear power for Australia? A crazy fantasy that would surely lose the election for the Liberals.
Submarines. Large hurdles to Australia getting nuclear submarines. Former Prime Minister Paul Keating scathing about Australia’s planned nuclear submarine deal. Australian-UK-US nuclear submarine deal makes the connection clear between civilian and military nuclear activities. US Ex military man says nuclear submarines could arrive sooner, wants USA to get tough on China, re Taiwan.
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) must be required to fully inform the Kimba community of the safety and financial risks of the nuclear dump. Unanswered questions and problems in secretive Kimba Consultative Committee about the proposed nuclear waste dump.
Issue for The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA): IS ANSTO’s NUCLEAR REACTOR VIABLE?
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The greenest energy is the energy we don’t use
COP26 – while some progress has been made, a current policy world of 2.6C or 2.7C warming is still one with potentially catastrophic impacts on human and natural systems. COP 26 waters down the prospects of world action to stop coal pollution.
COP26 – Why Nuclear is NOT a Solution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjSMd1pmsqQ EU states split on classifying nuclear energy as ‘green’. Is nuclear power the way forward to combat the climate crisis? – Allison Macfarlane cautions.
Action on global heating? Inadequate COP26 kept this possibility alive, by just a thread. Experts alarmed at the weakening of climate targets at COP26. “Cover decision” – a draft outcome of COP26 climate talks – planet still headed for 2.4C of warming above pre-industrial levels. New draft of climate deal of COP26 weakens plans to get rid of fossil fuels.
The People’s Summit for Climate Justice plans ambitious pressure on governments for real action. At People’s Summit for Climate Justice, campaigners accuse COP26 of failing the climate. Greta Thunberg and youth activists filing legal petition to UN, urging for a declaration of “system-wide climate emergency”.
Study shows that the biggest delegation of all at COP26 is that of fossil fuel lobbyists. Unfair restrictions on observers at COP26 climate talks. Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050 .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FqXTCvDLeo Carbon capture and storage – not all that it’s cracked up to be. China and Saudi Arabia blocking progress towards a deal at COP26.
A cross-continental electricity interconnector grid system may be a practical option for renewable energy.
Nuclear weapons. The environmental dimension of the use of nuclear weapons. Nuclear War and Climate Change: The Urgency for Action .
ICAN and PAX show how despite $billions still going to nuclear weapons, – $63 billion has moved away from this funding. “Perilous Profiteering: The companies building nuclear arsenals and their financial backers”
Escalation of nuclear tensions between USA and China as a result of the AUKUS deal. Winning and losing the nuclear peace.
Over time, radiation causes damage to the structure of nuclear reactors.
Wind and solar can supply most of world’s energy needs, most of the time, says study.
Bitcoin could be nuclear power’s last hope of salvation?
Climate news, nuclear news – Australia and more
Realistically, COP26 could never be a great success, because each nation represented there has the top priority of ”winning” – furthering its own interest. Such a summit can never succeed until the prevailing view is for the general good – for the planet and all its peoples.
Also realistically, the world has made extraordinary progress over recent years, in recognising the integral connections between climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation. At COP26, some significant steps have been taken. Not a success, perhaps, but not a complete failure, either.
Honest Australian Government Ad | COP26 Climate Summit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIyKmqEdgR4
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CLIMATE Extreme weather events now the new normal – State of the Climate report 2021. Global emissions to surge past pre-Covid, as world fails to grasp ‘green recovery’.
COP26. Progress report on Glasgow climate talks. Positive announcements at COP26 do give some hope. Glasgow will not get close to pledges to halve emissions by 2030 – warming will shoot past 2°C. Prospects of limiting global heating to 1.8C on the basis of commitmentsmade at the Cop26 climate summit are, though good, only “a hypothesis”. Despite all the criticism, the COP climate process has made historic steps forward. Cop26 week one: the impression of progress – but not nearly enough. Nation after nation at Glasgow pledges to abandon use of coal. Rallies in Glasgow and Sydney call for ‘survival of humanity’ in face of climate change .
Few willing to change lifestyle to save the planet, climate survey finds. What the most affected regions need from COP26 — The Earthbound Report The role of efficiency and smart grids in conserving energy. Positive developments: rise in electric cars, ever cheaper renewables, moves towards energy efficiency. Solar and wind keep getting cheaper, and crush coal, gas and nuclear on costs: Lazard.
Entering the Absurdicene as the Anthropocene loses its relevance — Sustainability Bites
Nuclear at COP26. Nuclear power, fossil fuel companies represented at COP26 climate talks. Nuclear industry pushing its spin and doing deals on the sidelines at COP26/ Nuclear workers’ unions want nuclear energy included as clean and sustain able. ‘No One Died From Radiation At Fukushima’: IAEA Boss Statement Met With Laughter At COP26 .
Billionaires Not Morally Qualified to Shape Civilization. The need to stop population growth,and the way to go about this.
USA and UK’s transparent persecution of Australian Julian Assange. Chris Hedges: The Assange case is the most important battle for press freedom in our time.
A supporter of nuclear power has second thoughts. You don’t need nuclear to get to net zero,’ says climate professor Jeffrey Sachs.
Pandora Papers: is the world’s biggest leak the world’s biggest cover-up?
”Deep fakes”: corruption of data has worrying implications for nuclear policy.
Entering the Absurdicene as the Anthropocene loses its relevance — Sustainability Bites
UN ”Code of Conduct” towards preventing arms race in space, but no treaty banning weapons in space.
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AUSTRALIA.
Australia at COP26 – a damaging presence. Australia’s credibility at a low point, with Scott Morrison’s lying and appalling performance at COP26.
Nuclear submarines. Australia’s very awkward nuclear embrace. Lies, lies and nuclear submarines. UK Astute class nuclear submarine visits Perth. Australia’s Foreign Minister off to South East Asian countries to try to soothe their worries about nuclear submarines. China reprimands Australia on AUKUS and submarines that risk nuclear weapons proliferation, and make Australia target. US and UK must stop’: Chinese diplomat warns New Zealand audience of Australia’s nuclear ambitions. Foreign Minister Marise Payne to visit South-East Asia to ease fears over AUKUS, submarine plan. Few realistic options for Defence to fill its submarine ‘capability gap’ before new nuclear fleet. Tony Abbott wants Australia to buy second-hand ”retired” nuclear-powered submarines, for training purposes.
Russian deputy UN envoy supports China’s concern on AUKUS’ nuclear threat.
This week’s nuclear news – Australia
Well. it’s all about climate this week. Not much mention of reducing energy use, energy conservation etc – even though this would be the cheapest, quickest and most effective measure to slow down global heating.
My pick: top stories of the week : Too expensive, too slow: Even the baseload argument doesn’t work for nuclear. The push for nuclear power in space. Hidden agenda: Will COP26 let nuclear power in the door and, if so, why?
Another example of climate change damaging the nuclear industry –jellyfish increase clogging up cooling systems of reactors
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CLIMATE. Farmers fear that Australian climate inaction could jeopardise future export potential Australia has a ‘suicidal’ climate policy, says former UN climate chief UK says Australia must do more to tackle climate change as G20 leaders gatherUK’s top climate adviser launches scathing attack on Australia on eve of Cop26 Angus Taylor refuses to detail cost to taxpayers of 2050 climate plan Honest Government Ad | COP26 Climate Summit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIyKmqEdgR4
NUCLEAR. Scott Morrison’s ‘net zero plan’ includes small nuclear reactors. Scott Morrison is impressed by Bill Gates – of course – it’s about small nuclear reactors solving climate change. Tony Abbott, (highly unpopular former PM) on the pro nuclear bandwagon.
Too expensive, too slow: Even the baseload argument doesn’t work for nuclear.
Submarines. $6000 a day to one US advisor to Australia on getting nuclear submarines. How much to the 3 new ones? Half-baked plan to build half of each nuclear submarine in Australia, and conflicts of interest in the planners. Australia looking at existing design to ‘accelerate’ delivery of nuclear-powered submarines. No likelihood of Australian jobs in nuclear submarine construction, nor in big Pacific vessel, Indonesia wants non-peaceful nuclear submarines to be subject to nuclear non-proliferation treaty (surprise, surprise, Australia doesn’t agree). France’s President Macron quite clear that Scott Morrison lied to him.
There must be a Conservation Plan before uranium mining operations are permitted at the fragile ecosystem of Mulga Rock, Western Australia. Australians should remember our past and continuing uranium/nuclear environmental disasters.
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CLIMATE. World is failing to make changes needed to avoid climate breakdown, report finds. The myth of “newer, safer, less expensive” nuclear power to fix the climate. Hidden agenda: Will COP26 let nuclear power in the door and, if so, why?
‘We have left it too late’: COP26 unlikely to limit warming to 1.5C, scientists warn . UN warns world ‘way off track’ as greenhouse gases grow . The world is nowhere near to kicking its dirtiest habit. World heading for catastrophe without bolder climate plans, UN warns. 35 official events at Cop26 put on by polluting companies. If COP26 fails, it could mean mass migrations and food shortages – Boris Johnson. From the climate crisis to nuclear war and technological disruption: The future of security reassessed.‘Illusion’ of climate action by big emitters clouds outlook for COP26 talks Cop26 will be whitest and most privileged ever, warn campaigners ‘It’s the protests which are giving me hope’: activists descend on Glasgow
NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Even the mind of Dante could not imagine the inferno a nuclear war will plunge us in. Fear of ‘devastating’ nuclear war as world’s major powers enter a new arms race. A nuclear arms race is unavoidable without serious intervention.
IPPNW statement on how WHO could advance the planetary health imperative to eradicate nuclear weapons. Reinforcing security through prohibition of nuclear weapons. The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb.
Another example of climate change damaging the nuclear industry –jellyfish increase clogging up cooling systems of reactors
Correcting Alan Finkel’s nuclear fallacies.
Happy Birthday King Rupert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct2F6uvWhRw
Nuclear news – week to 25 October
Miles too long this week. But, in the lead-up to Cop26 I think it’s important to note climate policies , and to recognise the movements towards energy conservation and genuinely clean energy. The nuclear spotlight is on Britain this week, with much brouhaha about small nuclear reactors, (though they’re not actually small, and not much government investment is actually going in to them, – nor are they attracting private investors)
Pandemic news around the world.
The climate disaster is here. Earth is already becoming unlivable. Will governments act to stop this disaster from getting worse? The Kids Are Not Alright.
It’s hard to find ”good” news, but a lot of good work is being done, in climate activism. And also in genuinely clean energy. seehttps://reneweconomy.com.au/
AUSTRALIA.
Nuclear. Australian Labor Party has no intention of developing nuclear power. David Littleproud, Minister for Agriculture – a National Party enthusiast for the nuclear industry. On economics, nuclear power just doesn’t stack up – Labor’s Shadow Minister for Climate Change.
Nuclear and climate. Nuclear power? It’s of zero use to Australia’s emissions plan. National Party may demand that nuclear power be part of Scott Morrison’s ”net zero by 2050” aim. Australia set to disappoint key allies on 2030 emissions target.
Submarines. Concern in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN ) about Australia’s nuclear submarines. No safety assessment for nuclear submarines in Adelaide
Australia’s pro nuclear lobby revs up its propaganda, with News Corpse, but it’s short on facts. The nuclear industry’s new spin is the same old outdated propaganda. Nuclear propagandist Kevin Scarce back on the bandwagon. Kevin Scarce again shows his nuclear ignorance and misinformation.
Nuclear waste shipment to come from UK to Lucas Heights. Kimba agricultural group supports nuclear waste stored at Lucas Heights, rejects dump on farming land.
Greenland to reinstate its ban on uranium mining.
Coalition avoids meltdown over emissions target – but at what price? National Party did a secret climate deal with Morrison, but nuclear power was not included.
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Impact of the pandemic – women, and people of colour now losing their jobs in the area of Nuclear Policy .
UK High Court Should Deny Extradition Because CIA Planned to Assassinate Assange. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Assange
There are no real climate leaders yet – who will step up at Cop26? – Greta Thunberg. Cop26: ‘World conflict and chaos’ could be the result of a summit failure. ICLEI launches its 100% Renewables Cities and Regions Energy Compact.
Renewable not radioactive – Joint organizational statement prior to the COP26 Climate Summit. Nuclear power has no place in a green energy future-because of – time delay, success of renewables, huge costs, dangers, weapons connection, and wastes.
Nuclear power has no place in a healthy, sustainable future- IPPNW. Research shows that a rapid truly green energy transformation will quickly achieve a near-net-zero emissions energy system. Insurance industry not convinced that nuclear power is ”green”, and is wary of nuclear as an investment risk.
James Hansen says nuclear power is answer to climate. Is he right?
Simulated space radiation causes ill effects on central nervous system of male mice. More evidence that space radiation may be harmful to the male brain.
OSPAR Convention for the Protection of the North-East Atlantic discreetly postpones its commitment to reduce radioactive discharges at sea .
The week in nuclear news, Australia and more
Keeping up with the pandemic – it’s all still happening.
The nuclear submarines and AUKUS have continued in the news, and re likely to keep going – problems about who’ll supply them, about their HEU fuel, about obsolescence, about anxieties in South East Asia, about revving up tensions between USA and China.
However, as this week develops, the news focus is shifting to the coming Cop26 climate conference. The nuclear lobby is now salivating about the possibility of it having a role in this international.summit
AUSTRALIA
Australians for Assange call for help – save our failing democracy, as USA continues, by despicable means, their case against him.
Nuclear submarines. Can the Australian government ignore this powerful letter exposing the foolish decision to ”go nuclear” with submarines and AUKUS? Morrison’s decision on AUKUS and nuclear submarines was made with no debate in Parliament. Growing pressure for Australia to scrap the plan for nuclear submarines fuelled by Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU). It’s unfortunate that the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal looks like weakening global nuclear non proliferation. Nuclear submarine deal needlessly raises tensions — Highly Enriched Fuel a particular danger. Nuclear submarines – A step towards nuclear power and nuclear weapons?
US and UK begin jostling to supply Australia with nuclear submarine fleet. Taiwan endorses AUKUS pact, asks Australia for help in war with China.
Minerals Council pushes for the nuclear industry, despite its failing record compared to renewables. The facts contradict the pro nuclear spin of the Minerals Council of Australia‘s report, written by Ben Heard.
Radioactive waste dump and ANSTO. Kimba Consultative Committee living in la la land over the prospect of stranded nuclear wastes. Danger in transporting nuclear wastes from Lucas Heights, and ANSTO’s conflict of interest. Questions for Ministers Taylor, Birmingham and Hunt, on their extravagant claims about ANSTO’s ”great commercial future”.
‘Do more’: COP26 president urges Morrison to make climate top priority
Scott Morrison’s bromance with Boris Johnson is being tested, because Morrison might not attend Glasgow climate conference. Scott Morrison gets a mention on global summary of climate change leaders – and it’s not good!. Prince Charles urges Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and other leaders to attend COP26
Australia could ‘green’ its degraded landscapes for just 6% of what we spend on defence.
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Pandora Papers reveal world’s Tax Avoidance B-Team. Where’s the A-Team? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4kN2MeJg6c
The CIA Plot to Kidnap or Kill Julian Assange in London is a Story that is Being Mistakenly Ignored. Deathly Silence: Journalists Who Mocked Assange Have Nothing to Say About CIA Plans to Kill Him.
Chris Busby on the truth about black rain, radiation and cancer. Nuclear Radiation – Incompatible with Life. Low dose radiation and cancer – the Linear No Threshold model holds good.
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Developing countries demand action on climate from the polluting rich countries
The stagnating landscape of the nuclear industry -no chance of competing with renewables.
Why Greta Thunberg’s speech was the best – blah none
What is Cop26 and why does it matter? The complete guide
Who’s who at Cop26: the leaders who hold the world’s future in their hands
Will all submarines, even nuclear ones, be obsolete and ‘visible’ by 2040? Nuclear submarine deal needlessly raises tensions.
The week in nuclear news – Australia and more
This month, my websites are focussing on ionising radiation. Not that this is a topic in the news media. Far from it. Yet it is strange that the world media is preoccupied with tiny invisible viruses that quickly can bring about illness and death, yet ignores tiny invisible radioactive particles that slowly can bring about illness and death.
Well, the global nuclear lobby has done a darn good job in convincing the world that low level nuclear nuclear radiation is OK, perhaps indeed good for you. Now they’re gearing up for an even bigger push about nuclear being good for the climate.
AUSTRALIA. Ionising radiation – the forgotten health disaster.
AUKUS and nuclear submarines. Australia’s nuclear submarine deal a distraction from climate action? Australia the sucker for cash-strapped U.S, and U.K submarine companies General Dynamics and BAE Systems. Australia’s nuclear submarines – a grand announcement leading to a grand shambles. No solution to submarine nuclear waste. Australia would be crazy to take on this mess. Australia’s nuclear submarines likely to be obsolete and useless.
IAEA concerned that AUKUS could weaken non-proliferation system . Malcolm Turnbull on nuclear submarines – nothing is agreed. There is no design, no costing, no contract. Australian govt will take 18 months at least to find out if we’re leasing nuclear submarines. The giant question: is Australia able to deal with submarine nuclear wastes? Russia warns that AUKUS is a ” a great challenge to the international nuclear non-proliferation regime.” Vatican not happy with Australia getting nuclear submarines (that’s except for George Pell, who backs them). Unknowns about Australia’s proposed nuclear submarines, especially weapons proliferation risks.
Trevor St Baker and the latest push for nuclear energy.
Kimba nuclear waste dump plan. Kimba nuclear waste dump is absolutely not a foregone conclusion. ARPANSA may not give licence for Kimba nuclear waste dump: Nuclear wastes best managed at Lucas Heights. When talking about nuclear waste and radioactivity, blurring the figures is a good pro nuclear strategy! To be internationally credible, ARPANSA (Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency) needs to include detail on radionuclides in Intermediate Level nuclear waste.
Climate. Liberal Coalition prepares for greenwashing at the Glasgow climate summit. Scott Morrison confirms he’s unlikely to attend UN climate summit in Glasgow. Australia should not be a climate laggard at Glasgow- Matt Kean (Liberal) – Cheaper renewables make Narrabri gas project obsolete .
Scott Morrison’s ‘net zero by 2050’ emissions reduction plan will be filled with tricks and rorts
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World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021. Global nuclear agencies get together to launch the big propaganda show ”Group of Vienna” ahead of COP26.
Climate solutions must be assessed on cost and speed of operation – nuclear fails on both, while reduced demand is a winner. The most important factor in the nuclear-power debate: Cost.
Nuclear for climate? – DON’T MENTION RADIATION!
Greta Thunberg mocks world leaders’ words at Youth4Climate.
No, a nuclear-powered superyacht won’t save the world.
Unknowns about Australia’s proposed nuclear submarines, especially weapons proliferation risks.
Nuclear submarines and more – this week’s news
Well, this is something of an overdose on nuclear submarines. Sorry, because, important though they are , especially for Australia, they are not the only issue for this week. It’s getting closer to the COP26 climate summit (31 October – 12 November 2021). Research shows that children will face more climate disasters than their grandparents did. Lord Stern and Mary Robinson are among the key people warning that Cop26 climate talks will not fulfil the aims of the Paris agreement, but they still offer hope. The nuclear issue is a huge threat, but the world is awakening – too late, really, to global heating, and struggling to find ways to address it.. Of course, the pandemic is still there too.
AUSTRALIA.
Nuclear submarines. – what it’s aboutWhy America is ecstatic about Morrison’s AUKUS pact. Much posturing, but little content, on how AUKUS, and the nuclear submarines, will work. An incompetent threesome – Morrison, Biden; Johnson – out of their depth on nuclear submarine decision.
International ramifications. Talk of war with China reveals Australia’s delusions of grandeur. What is the Quad?. AUKUS and talk of conflict with China could torpedo COP26 climate summit. AUKUS and confronting China throws fuel on the fire of Indo-Pacific tensions – an accelerating arms race will follow. France and other NATO members perturbed at the AUKUS agreement. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the defensive as Europe and South-East Asian countries react badly to AUKUS and the nuclear submarines. “Rolling amateur hour”: Kevin Rudd lashes Scott Morrison’s handling of nuclear subs deal.
Deception and politics. Morrison and cronies have really botched this nuclear submarine deal. Deceived’: France says it had assurances from Australia on day subs deal cancelled. The Federal government’s nuclear submarine promotion masks a huge mess of its own making. Former Labor PM Paul Keating castigates Labor for supporting the Liberals’ AUKUS and submarine deal.
Highly Enriched Fuel (HEF) and related problems. AUKUS, nuclear submarines, Highly Enriched Uranium and weapons proliferation. . Nuclear submarines – a step towards full nuclear chain, importing wastes, and joining in USA nuclear brinkmanship. . Nuclear submarines must be ‘subject to rigorous parliamentary review’: Senator Rex Patrick.
Financial aspects. USA has conned Australia into paying for its super-costly nuclear submarine project. The massive subsidy to nuclear submarines must not be used to justify subsidy to nuclear power.
Opposition to programme Former subs boss blasts ‘hocus pocus’ nuclear deal. Maritime and electrical trades unions stand against nuclear submarines. Australia’s Nuclear-Sub Shakeup Hits Shipbuilding Supply Chain. Submarine shift puts thousands of jobs at risk: unions. No nuclear submarines, say protesters.
Maralinga – ushered in Australia’s nuclear age.
Sutherland Shire doesn’t want any more nuclear waste stored at Lucas Heights in their Shire.
CLIMATE. As Frydenberg peddles net-zero, it’s still all about… coal . ‘We’re faffing about here in Australia’: Calls for further climate action ahead of Glasgow conference. Australia will be represented at Glasgow climate conference, it’s just not clear if Scott Morrison will go Scott Morrison is yet to make a decision on whether he will fly to Glasgow later this year to attend major climate change talks.
Good ideas, good work and good luck’: Australian grassroots campaigners on how they got it done
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Women to bring a wake-up call to a world facing nuclear annihilation. 2030 . Jane Goodall launches effort in support of planting 1 trillion trees by 2030 . Young global climate strikers vow change is coming – from the streets
‘Humanity remains unacceptably close to nuclear annihilation, says UN chief on International Day. Security Council marks 25th anniversary of Test Ban Treaty with call for nuclear weapons-free worldThe Record-Breaking Failures and Costs of Nuclear Power.
Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare..
Going nuclear: the secret submarine deal to challenge China, PODCAST Vatican concerned over deal for Australian nuclear-powered subs.
Interaction of Nuclear Waste With the Environment More Complicated Than Previously Thought.
Bitcoin miners strike deals with nuclear industry [on the ”clean energy” lie].
Novel chemical entities: Are we sleepwalking through a planetary boundary?
CIA Reportedly Considered Kidnapping, Assassinating Julian Assange,
This week – nuclear submarines overwhelm the news
Well, Australia’s top marketing specialist, Scott Morrison, this week excelled himself, marketing his favourite product, himself for re-election in Australia’s coming khaki Liberal Coalition campaign. World-wide fame – to play with the big toys of the big boys, even if President Biden couldn’t remember his name. I did find the coverage of nuclear submarines and AUKUS quite overwhelming – hence this too-long news summary.
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TODAY’S NUCLEAR SUBMARINE NEWSUS nuclear submarines: a dangerous nonsense. One white elephant submarine deal replaced with a worse one. French ambassador says Scott Morrison gave no warning on the nuclear submarine deal. Maritime Union of Australia calls for government spending on health, not nuclear submarines. Transparency needed so nuclear-powered subs don’t turn into nuclear power subsidies What is Scott Morrison doing in New York? Nothing on climate, it seems.
NUCLEAR SUBMARINE AND AUKUS NEWS OVER PAST FEW DAYS
What does the nuclear submarines announcement mean for Australia?
Politics. Scott Morrison’s AUKUS deal designed to win election, not make Australia safe. We need a full and transparent Inquiry in the nuclear submarine deal. Nuclear good, batteries bad: Morrison’s subs deal is thin edge of wedge . Nuclear submarines may never eventuate; it’s just Scott Morrison’s giant new election ploy. Nuclear submarine deal – the start of Morrison’s election campaign. Minerals Council quick to see nuclear submarines as step to nuclear Australia. #ScottyFromMarketing’s propaganda triumph -nuclear submarines – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuP4jOc4ibo
Opposition to submarines and AUKUS. Australia’s anti-nuclear movement ready for a big battle. Greens pick anti-nuclear candidate to challenge Treasurer Josh Fraudenberg. Australian Greens blast nuclear submarine deal. Nuclear powered submarines for Australia. Nuclear by stealth? Senator Rex Patrick calls for Inquiry before Australia moves to buy USA nuclear submarines. anger grows over Australia’s submarine deal . Australia’s nuclear-powered submarine deal is fuelling anger in the country. Concerns grow over nuclear submarine plan. Too slow, too expensive: Why nuclear power makes no sense for Australia
Safety. Nuclear-powered submarines a ‘terrible decision’ which will make Australia ‘less safe – Australian Greens. Doubts about the nuclear submarines, do they make Australia less safe? Hugh White wonders. Australia’s new nuclear submarines will have dangerous Highly Enriched Uranium, not the Low Enriched Uranium of the French ones. The AUKUS deal and nuclear submarine plan ties Australia in to any American engagement against China.
Cost Big questions remain about Australia’s nuclear submarines, but it’s a massive financial gain for nuclear corporations. How much will Australia’s nuclear submarines cost the taxpayer? Australia to lease nuclear submarines from USA, UK?.A nuclear explosionof taxpayers’ money in the new nuclear submarine plan.
(Earlier) Morrison to tear up the submarine deal with France. Too late to pull out of Australia’s botched super-expensive submarines purchase?
On a lighter note $90 Billion Nuclear Powered Subs To Bring Australia Out Of Lockdown In Time For Christmas.
Napandee radioactive waste dump plan – a nuclear waste of money.
Ballarat Council considers supporting the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Review of book: Long Half-life – The Nuclear Industry in Australia
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New Australia, Britain, and U.S. military alliance—AUKUS— a serious escalation of the new Cold War on China. Nuclear-powered submarines have ‘long history of accidents.
New research shows drastic climate effects of even a ”limited” nuclear war.
Nuclear submarines and their disadvantages,
A bit of good news – Animal Doctor: Good news from Europe for farmed animals.
ANTARCTICA. Scientists still don’t know how far melting in Antarctica will go – or the sea level rise it will unleash.
JAPAN. TEPCO not informing the Regulation Agency for 2 years about the 25 damaged filters at Fukushima Daiichi NPP. Tepco technicians ignored Fukushima filters leaking radioactive water. Lethal radiation levels detected in Fukushima nuke plant reactor lid. New radiation scrubber begins cleaning water at Fukushima plant.
FRANCE. France angry about nuclear submarine cancelleation – recalls ambassadors to Australia, Aukus: France pulls out of UK defence talks amid row. USA. questionable rush to start Flamanville nuclear reactor despite its defects . Nuclear submarine deal planned for 18 months – French ambassador says this is treasonous
CHINA. China fears that the nuclear-powered submarines could be armed with nuclear weapons at short notice.
INDIA. Is AUKUS pact a signal to India to go for nuclear attack submarines? Aukus fallout: for years, US told India it couldn’t share nuclear submarine technology. ‘And now this.
USA.
Tragically, Biden continues same nuclear weapons ”modernization” budget as Trump’s . China still way behind USA in nuclear weaponry: time for diplomacy and negotiations on arms control. Top U.S. general feared that Trump might start a nuclear war. . Generals Should Not Have to Break the Rules to Prevent Nuclear War. Don’t Let Presidents Start Nuclear Wars on Their Own. Nuclear Modernization Casts Budget Shadow Over Air Force Plans.USA developing space-based electromagnetic warfare. U.S. generals planning for a space war they see as all but inevitable. Latest on America’s plutonium ”pits” costly fiasco Illinois nuclear stations kept alive as Senate approves Bill to subsidise Exelon. Illinois approves $700 million in subsidies to Exelon, prevents nuclear plant closures. Turkey Point nuclear station vulnerable to hurricanes, sea level rise, as climate change continues.Bipartisan House group asks Biden to stop Canada’s Great Lakes nuclear storage plans. NRC issues license to store’spent nuclear fuel‘ in Andrews . Texas to fight on against dumping of spent nuclear fuel in Andrews County. New Mexico backs Texas in opposing nuclear fuel storage. Samuel Lawrence Foundation loses court case to keep spent fuel pools as safety backup at San Onofre nuclear station. Push for nuclear power in Pueblo unlikely to succeed: renewables win favour.
UKRAINE. Chernobyl nuclear zone is becoming more radioactive: they don’t know why..
CANADA. Nuclear power: Why molten salt reactors are problematic and Canada investing in them is a waste. Responses to Candidate Questionnaire: Radioactive Waste in the Ottawa Valley.
UK.
- AUKUS military agreement – bad timing ahead of Glascow Climate Summit.
- UK’s nuclear industry decline is a permanent process.
- Climate change, sea level rise – real and present danger to UK’s Bradwell and Sizewell nuclear sites
- Earthquakes Stopped Fracking – So Why the Monstrous Silence On “Likely” Induced Seismicity Five Miles From Sellafield? Exactly Who is Protecting Who?
- Time to rethink Hinkley C nuclear plan – EDF’s biased research minimises harm to fish Protests against nuclear storage plans that could kill the tourist industry.
- The Cold War near disasters at RAF Lakenheath could have left Suffolk as a nuclear wasteland.
- A site once earmarked for nuclear power will now assemble wind turbines.
- Rolls-Royce’s grandiose plan to mine the moon and Mars.
MALAYSIA. Malaysia and Indonesia warn Australia’s Indo-Pacific pact could trigger nuclear arms race.
IRAN. The new AUKUS pact may have paved the way for Iran to move to a nuclear weapon. Iran appoints harsh critic of the nuclear deal to the Foreign Ministry. Iranian Guards Physically Harassed Female U.N. Nuclear Inspectors, Diplomats Say .
NORTH KOREA. North Korea says Australia’s submarine deal could trigger ‘nuclear arms race. N.Korea tests first ‘strategic’ cruise missile with possible nuclear capability . North Korea, nuclear proliferation and why the ‘madman theory’ is wrong about Kim Jong-ung.
RUSSIA. Russia urges IAEA monitoring, ‘transparency’ on US-Australia nuclear sub pact, Nuclear ballistic missile submarine meltdown, 1961. Russia developing more floating nuclear power plants.
ITALY. Italy launches national debate on nuclear waste disposal.
SPAIN. Nuclear power companies threaten to shut down plants if Spanish government takes action on soaring bills.
ISRAEL. Nuclear reactor worker wins NIS one million cancer compensation. Mossad assassinated Iran’s top nuclear scientist using an artificial-Intelligence-powered, remote-controlled machine gun.
CZECH REPUBLIC.. Czech government will subsidise nuclear power.
POLAND. Poland’s nuclear folly
This week – nuclear news, Australia and beyond
NUCLEAR. While the pandemic goes on, not much physically is happening. But on the lobbying scene, it’s at fever pitch. The target is the European Commission. The goal is to get the Commission to declare nuclear power as clean, green and sustainable in the European Taxonomy. And then on to inclusion in the COP 26 Climate Summit in November, so that the nuclear industry can get the money that goes with that acceptance. Even more beneficial- by saving this failing industry, they’ll be able to keep old reactors going for longer, thus avoiding the huge costs of demolishing them, and thus kicking that problem down the road, for our grandchildren to solve.Delay in climate change action helps, too, as nuclear power is depicted as ”transitional” from fossil fuels.
Coronavirus: What’s happening in Canada and around the world .
Climate change: Fossil fuels must stay underground, scientists say
A bit of good news – New data shows vaccines are cutting the risk of serious COVID-19.
AUSTRALIA.
- Australia is part of Asia, and is unwise and unsafe in parroting the USA agression about China.
- Senator Matt Canavan – a chameleon of contradictions on coal and nuclear power. Sloppy and unconvincing pro nuclear propaganda from the Australian Nationals and the Murdochracy.
- News Corpse’s climate change shame. News Corpse’s new snide approach on climate change – to help Morrison win next election?
- Planned UK-Australia trade deal – a dangerous precedent for climate change policy.
- Environmentalists want independent review on plans for rocket launch from Eyre Peninsula.
- Small nuclear reactors – thin end of the nuclear wedge for Australia, as Australian Strategic Policy Institute pushes for submarines.
INTERNATIONAL
We need global action on climate, just like global action on pandemic – Jane Goodall. Jane Goodall still has hope for humanity. Here’s why.
Vested interests — controlling the news about nuclear safety.
UN General Assembly President calls for halt to nuclear tests.
BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) reaffirmed commitment to preventing an arms race in space.
Nuclear ”ethics” – fatally ill man kept alive against his will, in the cause of nuclear research. Irradiated man kept alive .
British Scientist discovers the cause of cancer in the Hiroshima Black Rain survivors -2021.
Thorium nuclear fuel has risks.
‘‘Fossil Free Media’‘ aims to redress the balance of well-funded press that opposes action on climate change.
USA Bill to protect journalists – EXCEPT FOR JULIAN ASSANGE
The week in nuclear news -Australia and beyond
While Afghanistan, and Covid-19 continue to be the main focus of news, climate change is getting a new kind of attention. I find it a worrying kind. When Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, News Corps etc, were busily spouting climate change denialism, at least you knew what they were up to. Now, I fear that the world is going to be subjected to propaganda that is much more subtle. Just as Big Media and Big Business now ”support” action on climate change, I think that they will be spruiking technological fixes, ”clean coal” ”carbon capture and storage, ( perhaps even Big Renewables). On the coat-tails of this Big Fix movement rides the nuclear lobby. Nuclear is so far banned from participating in the COP26 Climate Summit in November. I wouldn’t be surprised if it wriggles its way in. World leaders like Biden, Johnson, Putin – all depend for their jobs, on the backing of big corporations. So – COP26 is already under threat.
On the positive side, quiet and thoughtful voices speak up for a more holistic approach to climate action, and a measured study on the world’s energy needs.
Covid-19 – Coronavirus worldwide, despite nearly 65,000 deaths and nearly 4.3 million cases in the past week, is leveling off with 8% declines for each category, with every continent dropping except Europe in fatalities.
NUCLEAR. While not much is actually happening, the activity is – under the radar – the ever-increasing push to convince the world that nuclear is ”clean and green and the way to go.”
Some bits of good news – India Today Group launches Good News Today, India’s first and only positive news channel. ”Good news” – as usual – very much individualistic stuff. I guess that the overall small drop in coronavirus cases is a small plus.
AUSTRALIA.
Australia’s business leaders want stronger climate policy, but nuclear lobby stooge Senator Matt Canavan wants Australia to boycott COP 26. Landmark FOI ruling could shed new light on Energy Minister Taylor’s big energy market ploy. THEN – Morrison government moves to strengthen secrecy around energy ministers meetings.
The ANZUS treaty does not make Australia safer. Rather, it fuels a fear of perpetual military threat . Macedon Ranges joins 36 local councils to call on Australian government to sign and ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Scrutiny on possible fraud in the process of the government bribery grants for South Australian communities to accept a nuclear waste dump. Napandee nuclear waste site is in fact on farming land, and all too close to the town of Kimba. Agricultural land deserves protection from radioactive pollution. Radioactive waste dump plan lacks genuine community consent.
Wollemi Mine? Experts label John Barilaro’s plan for new coal “corrupt”, unviable.
New Australian law allows security agencies to spy on, and manipulate your data – mainstream media ignores this.
Murdoch’s News Corpse hasn’t seen the light on climate – they’re just updating their tactics.
INTERNATIONAL.
A New Online Youth Platform Promotes Nuclear Disarmament. After the Afghanistan war, the time for change is now. Oblivion and 9 Other Best Dystopian Films About Nuclear War.
How much energy do we need to achieve a decent life for all? Does technology really matter more than the natural landscape?
Greta Thunberg, critical of governments, may not attend COP26. COP26 – the need to scrutinise hidden climate agendas.
Formidable radiation dangers in travel to Mars. Radiation could restrict crewed Mars missions to less than four years . Cosmic radiation will probably prevent growing crops on Mars, Virgin Galactic ‘ignored red warning light’ in Branson’s race against Bezos to be first billionaire to space.
New Nuclear: What’s At Stake For Wildlife? – Webinar October 7.
International Uranium Film Festival free online screenings September 13 – 19.
The week in nuclear news – to 31 August
The tragic situation in Afghanistan dominated the news.
In the USA, Hurricane Ida reminds of the effects of global heating – increasing the intensity of extreme weather.
The mainstream media carefully avoids discussion of the dangers to Louisiana’s nuclear power stations.
Coronavirus. For most of the world, the pandemic is not over – devastation in countries such as Uganda, Indonesia, India, Nepal, Peru and Brazil.
Climate. Even 1.5C warming will still leave world’s coasts exposed to extremes. Radio Ecoshock re-examines the facts on the new megafires.
Hard to find good news – mostly very individualistic stories, like these ones about bees: A friend bumblebee. Saving the bees. A bit of good news (sort of) University of Michigan reports that CO2 can be stored away in concrete,
AUSTRALIA.
Federal nuclear waste dump plan. Australia’s nuclear waste is best managed in interim storage at Lucas Heights, with an independent review on permanent disposal. The status of two current federal processes related to radioactive waste and the Kimba plan. Farmer Jeff Baldock is excited at prospect of nuclear waste dump on his land. Other nearby farmers not impressed, (Stock Journal).. Also, Stock Journal inaccurate on Baldock’s land area. Kimba nuclear waste dump consultation? WHAT CONSULTATION?
Need to investigate ANSTO’s tax-payer funded, loss-making, unnecessary nuclear medicine production
Climate activists raided by anti-terrorist police. Their crime? chalking a sign on pavement. Canberra Extinction Rebellion members convicted by ACT Magistrates Court for crimes during protests.
Australia’s biggest climate poll shows support for action in every seat
Tasmania Liberals vote down Greens climate emergency motion with Premier claiming it ‘frightens’ children. Political bribes beat the planet as gas fracking gets public hand-outs.
White Man’s Media: Rupert Murdoch and the US Imperium– Australia is its tool.
Development of ‘zombie’ gasfield areas would create waste, water issues: opponents
Nationals v CSIRO: why a party of government attacks its own scientific agency
Australian Labor Party backs bills to de-register most political parties.
INTERNATIONAL.
29 August 2021 International Day Against Nuclear Tests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5PRZh_C0e4 Reaffirm commitment to ban nuclear tests, UN chief says in message for International Day.
How to remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Sign the nuclear weapons treaty. Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons. Shadow World reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade – the only business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives
Weaponising space -the high road to World War 3, but profitable for weapons and space companies. Exposure to radiation can affect DNA: Astronauts on long-duration missions in space at risk . Rocket launches may be damaging the ozone layer
Military Contractor CACI Says Afghanistan Withdrawal Is Hurting Its Profits. It’s Funding a Pro-War Think Tank.
Nuclear energy is anything but clean, despite the media hype.
This week’s news – Australia and more
As the Afghanistan crisis continues, many writers consider the underlying causes of the USA’s prolonged wars, and reveal the staggering profits made by the weapons-making corporations. From the corporate point of view, the 20 year war has been a great success.
Coronavirus:more than 212.1 million cases of COVID-19 The reported global death toll stood at more than 4.4 million. The Delta variant puts a strain on health systems. Several countries struggle, with lockdowns needed – e.g.in Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand. Case numbers rise in France. Debates go on about child vaccination, mandatory vaccination, and booster doses of vaccine.
Climate. Global heating and its effects, extreme weather events keep on. The IPCC Report finds we will cross the 1.5C warming danger line in the 2030’s, pretty well no matter what we do.
NUCLEAR, Very quietly indeed – you could easily miss this, – come two positive events for the nuclear-free movement; exclusion of nuclear from the Green Zone at COP26, and USA’s nuclear regulator rejecting the push to weaken radiation safety standards.
Some bits of good news: What went right this week: how we saved Earth before, plus more positive news, Australia’s ‘healing journey’.
AUSTRALIA.
Australia’s participation in America’s wars. Was it worth it? Little chance for genuine community consultation on Napandee nuclear waste dump decision.
Kimberley Land Council: New heritage bill is skewed to the mining industry.. Young people rebel on climate. Australian government moves to limit charities’ ability to campaign during election period
INTERNATIONAL
USA’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission affirms that a little ionising radiation may be bad for health.
Nuclear lobby miserable, but Friends of the Earth relieved, that nuclear industry is excluded from the Green Zone at COP26 Climate Summit.
The tie between climate change and nuclear weapons.
Action on climate change is stalled by unwise spending on small nuclear reactors.
Frozen conflicts and forever wars. WikiLeaks and the Crimes of the West in Afghanistan.
Renewables are beating nuclear,
Bill Gates and the corporates behind the fake solutions to climate change. Arnie Gundersen writes to Bill Gates – about public funding for Gates’ false Natrium nuclear solution to climate change.
Australian nuclear news this week
News – oh dear – it’s all too much. And a kind of lethargy sets in, in this uncertain time of pandemic. I’ve started to type in green bold just those items that I selected as particularly interesting.
The big news this week is the Afghanistan story.This USA -led futile military adventure comes to an end. We now prepare for the next one, as weapons industry leaders salivate in anticipation – will it be against Iran, North Korea, China …?
With the delta variant – the pandemic rages on.Climate change news and views continue, with fires and floods, and following the IPCC Report. I’m finding that only Radio Ecoshock and climate scientist Paol Beckwith seem to put this all together, clearly. And someone raised the heretical suggestion that we should give up the system of endless economic growth via consumption.
Some bits of good news – Rainforest agriculture brings a climate-friendly system to Honduras and other South American nations. English moor transformed into ‘giant sponge’ to absorb CO2.
AUSTRALIA. Climate change has already hit Australia. Unless we act now, a hotter, drier and more dangerous future awaits, IPCC warns.
- . Seven vital questions about Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) and its nuclear wastes. Resources Minister Keith Pitt to declare Napandee farm, South Australia, as nuclear waste dump site. Resource Minister Pitt’s intention to declare site for the National Radioactive Waste Management Facility. Minister Pitt – an expert in ”weasel words”, obscuring the truth about nuclear waste . Labor Party – State and National opinions on the plan for nuclear waste dump at Kimba, South Australia. Radioactive Dump ~ call for submissions ~ open until October 22nd 2021
- ”Long Half-Life’‘ – Professor Ian Lowe on Australia’s nuclear dilemma.
- The new push for a nuclear Australia. Despite Australia’s laws prohibiting nuclear development, Angus Taylor signs up for development of small nuclear reactors with UK. National Party renews its push for nuclear energy, wants to change the Environment Protection Act. Senator Matt Canavan all for nuclear energy; economists are not so sure. Senator Matt Canavan, and MP Ken O’Dowd ”happy to have a nuclear power station” in their backyard – (Gladstone Queensland)..
- . Uranium mining and high cancer rates in Aboriginals around Ranger mine.
- Defence hides Australia’s weapon sales to Israel amid war crimes investigation into Palestine,
INTERNATIONAL.
The War On Afghanistan Was A $2 Trillion Scam. U.S, costs to date for the war in Afghanistan in $ billions, 2001-2021. How War Profiteers Manufacture Consent.
NO SUPPORT for NUCLEAR in the new report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Urgency of the IPCC climate report makes it clear that new nuclear is not the answer. If nuclear power is adopted as the way ahead, the climate fight will be lost.
World careering towards irreversible climate impacts, top scientists warn.
A Day in the Death of British Justice – the case of Julian Assange.
The real photos of the Hiroshima bombing tell the story – no need for fictionalised ones.JAPAN. Nagasaki remembers the atomic bomb, Olympic officials refuse to allow a minute’s silence. UN pledges full support to Nagasaki voices fuelling ‘powerful global movement’ against nuclear arms. Japanese teenager calls for nuke-free world at U.N. disarmament confab .
(Sorry not the Olympics) Nuclear and Climate News
I’m thinking of changing my name to ”Cassandra”.(Greek goddess of gloom and doom) The media in my country, and elsewhere, has been ecstatic about Olympic Games medals. I guess that’s a relief from the virus/vaccine focus. But it seems that nobody knows that this week has been the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that Fukushima ”recovery” has not really happened. That the Japanese government, despite the pandemic, in fact did not have the power to cancel the Games – under the contract, only the IOC can do that. That vast sums were spent, and will leave the Japanese people with vast debt, right when they have a crippling health crisis. . That the extravagant arenas and buildings will become white elephants.That 430 athletes and others in the Olympic Village got Covid-19.
Similarly, in the news we heard some whispers about wildfires around the world, and catastrophic floods, too. You really need alternative media to put all this together. A leader in this is Radio Ecoshock – ”I’ve Seen Fire and I’ve Seen Rain”.
BUT – just as I write this – up comes the UN Climate report 2021 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDSySmJChXgSurely this will wake up the mainstream media, even in Australia.Coronavirus – there’s still a surge in cases, worldwide, with a clear trend to the pandemic affecting the un-vaccinated.
Some bits of good news. Hard to find – but here’s a place – Empathy in the English Channel and A bird recovery programme, and Africa’s largest forest reserve in recovery.
AUSTRALIA
On the brink of a new nuclear arms race. On Hiroshima Day, the City of Newcastle reaffirms its commitment as a Nuclear Free Zone, supporting United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
People of the Pacific condemn Talisman Sabre Military Exercises.
Conservation Council of South Australia supports ANSTO’s proposal for a new Intermediate Level Solid Waste Storage Facility at Lucas Heights. Thousands of litres of sulphuric acid leaks from tanker as it travels through South Australia froma uranium mine.
INTERNATIONAL.
Global average temperature rise of 1.5c likely to be reached 10 years early. The world is getting “dangerously close” to running out of time to avert catastrophic climate change.
Towards a clean and sustainable energy system: 26 criteria nuclear power does not meet .
Nuclear weapons cannot be used, but their danger persists. Now, in the times of the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty, nuclear deterrence continues, but becomes increasingly discredited. Renounce the use and further development of nuclear weapons. The hard fought campaign continues – to ban nuclear weapons.
The myth that the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified.
Complicit – The countries, companies and think tanks that support the deadly nuclear arms trade.
JAPAN.Hiroshima City remembers the sudden cruelty of the atomic bombing . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWP3GWFI7nk Tokyo Olympics part of propaganda strategy to downplay Fukushima nuclear disaster, as Olympics have been previously used to downplay Hiroshima bombing. Tokyo Olympics were touted as a showcase for Fukushima nuclear recovery. That didn’t work.
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