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  • LIBAN:Global Diabetes Epidemic Caused By Depleted Uranium
    24 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LIBAN:Global Diabetes Epidemic Caused By Depleted Uranium From Leuren Moret
    Here are two maps of Lebanon indicating the amount of munitions used on targets, and what parts of the infrastructure were destroyed in Lebanon, by Israeli military attacks. These are from an Italian journalist, Liliana Bourgana, who sent them to me - the maps are official Lebanese govt.
    You can go to the Lebanese govt. website listed on the maps for updates. The journalist will be interviewing me on Aug. 28 (…)

  • US threatens Iran sanctions next week
    23 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US threatens Iran sanctions next week
    New York (dpa) - While the United Nations and European Union promised to study Iran’s reply, the United States said Tuesday it would begin discussion of economic sanctions if Iran continued to defy a UN Security Council demand to suspend all its uranium conversion activities by August 31.
    The European Union in Brussels confirmed Tuesday that it had received Iran’s formal reply to the package of economic incentives offered by Western nations in (…)

  • Nuclear war starting in 10 days?
    19 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nuclear war starting in 10 days?
    11.08.2006 Such was the conclusion reached in the U.S. Russian generals and political scientists disagree only about its exact starting date.
    Our world is on the brink of another world war. It will originate August 22nd in the Middle East. The prediction was presented not by Vagna or Nostradamus but by an American political scientist Bernard Lewis in the acclaimed publication of Wall Street Journal. He is a man with close ties to the Bush administration (…)

  • Iran threatens to withdraw from IAEA
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iran threatens to withdraw from IAEA
    Iran warned on Sunday that it would withdraw from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if its "inalienable rights" are deprived of, the official IRNA news agency reported.
    "If depriving Iran of its inalienable rights is the result of its membership in international organizations, including the IAEA, our withdrawal from such bodies is well justified," parliamentary speaker Gholam-Ali Hadad-Adel was quoted as saying.
    He reiterated Iran’s (…)

  • Pentagon stopped Bush, Cheney nuking Iran
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pentagon stopped Bush, Cheney nuking Iran Sherwood Ross Middle East Times August 10, 2006
    WASHINGTON — US President George W. Bush and his vice president abandoned a plan to include "the possible use of a nuclear device" to destroy Iran’s uranium-enrichment plant at Natanz over Pentagon opposition, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has said.
    "Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney were dead serious about the nuclear planning," a former senior intelligence official told Hersh. But Joint (…)

  • Nuclear plants fined £2m each for leaks
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The operators of two nuclear facilities have each been fined £2 million over radioactive spillages.
    The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority was penalised over an incident at Dounreay in Caithness.
    And BNG Sellafield was fined for a radioactive leak at its Thorp reprocessing plant in Cumbria.
    The fines were imposed by the Nuclear Decommission Authority (NDA) and will be deducted from the fee the quango pays to the operators.
    In September last year 266 litres of hazardous, dissolved (…)

  • Comments on Helen Caldicott’s New Book Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
    7 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Comments on Helen Caldicott’s New Book: Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer - by Stephen Lendman
    No one writes with more passion, commitment and knowledge about the immense dangers of nuclear technology in all its forms than Australian physician and nuclear expert Helen Caldicott. Since writing her first book (must reading for everyone), Nuclear Madness, in 1978, Dr. Caldicott has worked tirelessly to expose the real threat this technology from hell poses to human survival. In her first (…)

  • Nuclear Plant Faced Possible Meltdown In Sweden
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Staff Writers Forsmark, Sweden (UPI) Aug 01, 2006 Last week’s shutdown of the Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden, north of Stockholm, reportedly could have resulted in a meltdown. The emergency — called by some the most dangerous international nuclear incident since the destruction of the Russian Chernobyl plant 20 year ago — occurred when two of four generators shut down, officials said.
    "It was pure luck that there was not a meltdown," nuclear expert and former Forsmark director (…)

  • Israel using Depleted Uranium in Lebanon - Melbourne Stop the War Hiroshima Day media statement
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Melbourne Stop the War media statement
    Israel is using depleted uranium in its brutal war on Lebanon. The time to act against war and nuclear madness is NOW!*
    Thousands of people will be marching in Melbourne, on ’Hiroshima Day", Sunday August 6 against war and for a nuclear free future. *On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the historic Japanese city of Hiroshima and three days later on Nagasaki. While this was a military triumph for the United States, for humanity it (…)

  • Chavez calls on developing countries to support Iran’s nuclear program
    2 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    TEHRAN -– Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on third world countries to support Iran’s inalienable right to develop and make peaceful use of nuclear energy on Sunday.
    “Now that the world is faced with the reduction of oil output and the growth of consumerism, it is better to seek alternative energy resources that can be substituted for the fossil fuel,†he told a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Mahmud Ahmadinejad before leaving Iran for Vietnam.
    He added (…)