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In Australia, the gloom for uranium miners continues, with the spot price uranium market "at a standstill" , and no improvement in sight. Martin Ferguson pushes for tenders for his pet project, a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty, in NT, even though that plan is still under court action. Electricity generation future prospects - not so much will be needed. Photovoltaic solar panels are one factor in this, and the solar panel revolution is taking politicians by surprise.
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC, Australia’s equivalent of the UK BBC) has built up an appalling record of Anglocentric censorship and malreportage by omission and commission. However in recent weeks it has exceeded itself in terms of hubris and insistence on publishing the absurdly incorrect. Ashoka is one of India’s most famous rulers but the ABC Late Night Live (LNL) radio program insists that he has been “lost” to the world for 2,000 years and has deleted 6 successive (…)

No Place to Go
“Necessitous men are not free men. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I am a child of history; I was a kid who sat in the corner listening to the stories of the garrulous old men reflecting on life, after having too much to drink. My parents both grew up poor during the last Great Depression and occasionally, something will occur which strikes one of those old memory chords. This morning as I (…)

21.000 Lbs of Plutonium Was Sent to Japan. Where is it?
By Bob Nichols
(San Francisco) President Obama asked Duke Power Corporation in the States to test run some plutonium fuel rods (MOX) in three of their reactors. The physicists said No; but, the head boss of Duke Power said “Yes.” Obama’s test run failed miserably.
See this clip from the American TV Series “Newsroom” from Gordon Duff’s YouTube site.
[Clip at VeteransToday]
As a result, the country very nearly lost the state of (…)

As markets continue to yo-yo and commentators deliver mixed forecasts, investors are faced with some tough decisions and have a number of important questions that need answering. On a daily basis we are asked what’s happening with oil prices alongside questions on China’s slowdown, which commodities or instruments will provide safety in the current environment, will the Euro-zone split in the future and what impact the presidential election is going to have on the economy and markets?
To (…)

Is America the World’s Largest Sponsor of Terrorism?
Posted on August 6, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog
American Officials Admit that the U.S. Is a Huge Sponsor of Terrorism
The director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan – Lt. General William Odom - noted:
Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today’s war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world. (…)

None of insurgents were Syrian: UK journalist
Mon Aug 6, 2012 4:32AM GMT
Not a Syrian in sight. This wasn’t what I had expected…Two of them were so Anglicised they couldn’t speak Arabic.”
John Cantile, British journalist freed from capture in Syria
A British photographer who was captured by insurgents in Syria has said that his captors were foreign extremists including several Britons with “not a Syrian in sight”.
On July 19, freelance photographer John Cantile, alongside his Dutch (…)

Syrian blood etches a new line in the sand
by Pepe Escobar
A new line is being drawn in the Middle East sand by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, marked by Syrian blood sent gushing with the help of NATO mujahideen/jihadi death squads pursuing expansion of Sunni domination in the region. There’s no endgame yet in Syria - but, according to author and journalist Pepe Escobar, the sectarian game is just beginning.
4 AUGUST 2012
Once upon a time, early in the previous century, a line in the sand (…)

This week has seen the passing of Gore Vidal, a brilliant American writer and resolute opponent of the interconnected evils of lying and war.
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ( October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was a very famous American writer of essays, novels, screenplays and Broadway plays. His numerous books included Myra Breckinridge, the historical novels Julian, Burr and Lincoln and The City and the Pillar that was notable for featuring explicit homosexuality. He was anti-war and (…)

End the Israeli Apartheid State
“BISHOP DESMOND TUTU, the South African Nobel Prize winner, described how he saw on his visit to Israel “much like what happened to us black people in South Africa. I have seen the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about” (1)….”
AN OCCUPATION THAT CREATES CHILDREN WILLING TO DIE Israel: an apartheid state?
by Leila Farsakh | Le Monde Diplomatique (…)