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I happened to think of a Canadian blogger who had insights about uranium mining and native rights that you seldom see covered. And yesterday I found an Indian ( from India ) blogger who had dynamite appraisals of the feasibility of nuclear power.
All topical around the Japanese reactors that design engineers quit GE over 35 years ago - seeing them as time bombs.
I was surfing around this and some wild stories I had been reading when I decided to link hop.
All this and wrapping it up to find it looks like the Lie-berals ( Canada's Natural Governing Party ) are going to lower the boom on the 'Progressive' ( build jails and torture Afghans) Cons - ervative minority government.
( How did they get in there ? We recognized them as so dangerous in '93 we destroyed that party : 2 seats nationally ! The joke - after their platform supporting it - was the GST wasn't Goods and Services Tax...but God Save the Tories ).
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Report: Iran now nuclear self-sufficient
Report: Iran now able to process its own raw uranium
December 5th, 2010
04:56 AM ET
Iran now produces everything it needs for the nuclear fuel cycle, making its nuclear program self-sufficient, the head of the country's Atomic Energy Organization told state media Sunday.
The Islamic republic has begun producing yellowcake, Ali Akbar Salehi told Press TV.
Yellowcake is an intermediate stage in producing uranium ores, Press TV said.
The United States and its allies fear that Iran is trying to produce a nuclear bomb, but Iran has denied the allegations.- CNN Breaking News...
Report: Iran now nuclear self-sufficient
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By Russ Wellen on Focal Points
One sure route for a state to be slapped with the label "rogue " is to develop nuclear weapons but shun the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Pakistan refused to sign while North Korea signed but withdrew. Israel dodged the NPT by refusing to acknowledge it even developed nuclear weapons. We'll leave Iran out of the equation because, despite constantly testing the International Atomic Energy Agency's limits, it doesn't seem to have completed the process.
But, like Israel, another state developed nuclear weapons before the NPT (though without refusing to acknowledging them), and refrained from signing the treaty. In fact, the case could be made that it's more of a rogue than any of the other states. Oddly, it's the state with a reputation for being the most spiritual in the world since it's the birthplace of both Hinduism and Buddhism -- India, of course. Yet it (or its rulers and policymakers at the time) were seemingly out of touch with said spiritualism to such an extent that in 1974 they code-named India's first nuclear test the Smiling Buddha. They even scheduled it for the day on which the Buddha's birth is celebrated in India. This was only the start.
The founder of the Military Space Transparency Project, Matthew Hoey writes:
In 1998 U.S. sanctions were placed upon the country in response to more nuclear tests. When the Bush Administration lifted the aforementioned sanctions against India in the wake of . . . September 11, 2001, and then progressively loosened export and commerce laws against India, it ignored [India's refusal to sign not only the NPT, but] the Proliferation Security Initiative . . . the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty . . . or the Missile Technology Control Regime.
[In 2008] the United States approached the Nuclear Suppliers Group . . . to grant a waiver to India to commence civilian nuclear trade. … The implementation of this waiver makes India the only known country with nuclear weapons which is not a party to the Non Proliferation Treaty . . . but is still allowed to carry out nuclear commerce with the rest of the world. [Emphasis added.]
It's bad enough that the United States and the Nuclear Suppliers Group made India their pet rogue. But, Hoey writes, "It is also highly unlikely that India will subscribe to the treaty to Prevent an Arms Race in Outer Space." Even worse, "Indian military officials have set a target date to deploy an ambitious anti-satellite system. … for electronic or physical destruction of satellites . . . by 2015."
In conclusion, Hoey writes, "At a time when the international spotlight seems trained on North Korea and Iran, a growing tolerance for India's belligerence in building its nuclear and missile capabilities appears to shield it from similar scrutiny."
Why the tolerance? As Andrew Lichterman and M.V. Ramana write in Beyond Arms Control (2010, Critical Will), ". . . the nuclear deal is part of a broader set of [U.S.-Indian] agreements [which] US-based multinationals are . . . hoping to use . . . as a wedge to further open India to foreign investment and sales."
In the end, just more reasons that the Non-Aligned Nation movement (to which India supposedly belongs) can't take the nuclear powers seriously about disarmament.
http://www.fpif.org/blog/smiling_buddhaBy Russ Wellen on Focal Points
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By Russ Wellen
"The United States has made new concessions as part of its civilian nuclear agreement with India," Nicholas Kravlev reported for the Washington Times back in April, "while New Delhi has yet to make it possible for U.S. companies to benefit from the unprecedented deal. … Washington agreed to Indian demands to increase the number of plants allowed to reprocess U.S.-supplied nuclear fuel from one to two [in order to] avoid long-distance transportation of dangerous materials. Arms control experts denounced the new deal saying it adds to the "damage" done by the original agreement."
For those unfamiliar with how damaging that was, Kralev reminds us that "the Bush administration went against established norms and allowed a country that has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to use U.S.-supplied fuel to make plutonium, though for strictly civilian purposes."
Continue Reading....
http://www.fpif.org/blog/us-india_nuke_transactions_go_from_bad_to_worseBy Russ Wellen
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In a not-so-subtle attempt to attend the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) conference in the US next Monday, the president of Iran has applied for a visa to enter the country.
Good luck Mahmoud!
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Centre for Research on Globalization : Political concensus vs. real science
Stories of alternatives and views omitted in the newsCentre for Research on Globalization : Political concensus vs. real science
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"In 1957, my mentor, second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda, issued a historic call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. His speech, which denounced nuclear weapons as an absolute evil, contains three themes of particular relevance for today: the need for a transformation in the consciousness of political leaders; the need for a clearly shared vision toward the outlawing of nuclear weapons; and the need to establish “human security” on a global scale.
I believe it is possible to lay the foundations for a world without nuclear weapons during the next five years, and to this end would suggest a five-part plan. I call on:
1. The five declared nuclear-weapon states to announce their commitment to a shared vision of a world without nuclear weapons at next year’s NPT Review Conference and to promptly initiate concrete steps toward its achievement.
2. The United Nations to establish a panel of experts on nuclear abolition, strengthening collaborative relations with civil society regarding the disarmament process.
3. The states parties to the NPT to strengthen nonproliferation mechanisms and remove obstacles to the elimination of nuclear weapons by the year 2015.
4. All states to actively cooperate to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in national security and to advance on a global scale toward the establishment of security arrangements that are not dependent on nuclear weapons by the year 2015.
5. The world’s people to clearly manifest their will for the outlawing of nuclear weapons and to establish, by the year 2015, the international norm that will serve as the foundation for a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC)."
Click For Full Proposal"In 1957, my mentor, second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda, issued a historic... more
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Israel Navy prepares to attack Iran with consent from the West.
The only surprise that the Obama Administration is launching a proxy war by giving Israel the nod to strike Iran is that this could be a surprise.Israel Navy prepares to attack Iran with consent from the West.
The only surprise... more
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IAEA's Gustavo Zlauvinen: Israel must join the NPT and get rid of their alleged nuclear weapons.
In the latest video, TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay asked Gustavo Zlauvinen about the apparent hypocrisy of the IAEA's pursuit in limiting Iranian nuclear armament. Jay asks that if the major nuclear powers were not disarming, and not signing the NPT, by what standard should countries like Iran limit their own nuclear programs. The international pressure to prevent Iranian nuclear weaponization has drawn attention to the nuclear arsenals of other Middle Eastern countries like Israel, a country with allegedly extensive nuclear capabilities. Zlauvinen says that "there are number of resolutions" from the IAEA and other organizations "calling on Israel to join the NPT, calling on Israel to place all their nuclear facilities under inspection of the IAEA, and obviously by getting rid of their nuclear weapons, as allegedly they are."
See Part 1 at:
http://current.com/items/90171611_nuclear-threats-and-double-standards-part-1.htm
See Part 2 at:
http://current.com/items/90171627_nuclear-threats-and-double-standards-part-2.htmIAEA's Gustavo Zlauvinen: Israel must join the NPT and get rid of their alleged... more
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A plan, brokered by the U.S., to allow India to trade nuclear supplies was stopped by a group of nations who supply nuclear materials.A plan, brokered by the U.S., to allow India to trade nuclear supplies was stopped by... more
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