Amano dangerous to world peace' 'Amano dangerous to world peace' Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano An Iranian lawmaker says the Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is endangering global peace through his biased approach towards Iran's nuclear program. “It appears that [Yukiya] Amano has become an anti-peace element who is dangerous to global peace,” Member of the Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Javad Jahangirzadeh said. The lawmaker advised the IAEA to reconsider its communiques and statements and to speak based on accurate information, Mehr News Agency reported on Monday. “Naturally, if the Agency continues on the current path, [if it still] releases political reports which do not conform to realities and [if] the agency [continues to] act as a [US] State Department think tank, we will definitely see new decisions with regards to [our] relationship with the IAEA,” he added.
Meet the Mainstream Press By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Nothing is more emblematic of the mainstream media (MSM) than NBC’s “Meet the Press.” I wonder if it should be renamed “Meet the Corporate Mainstream Press” because that is exactly what it was on Sunday. Before the first vote was cast, Sunday’s panel anointed Mitt Romney as the Republican candidate to face Barack Obama this fall. I really wonder why we have caucuses or primaries at all. The MSM doesn’t tell reporters or guests what to say; they just pick the people who will say what they want. You could not have gotten a more Romney biased panel on “Meet the Press” if you would have gone to Mitt’s campaign headquarters. I think the Democrats and President Obama would like nothing more than to run against the man who thinks “corporations are people too.” Paul, on the other hand, would be unpredictable and difficult to corner. If you would have said Ron Paul would be a close third in Iowa a year ago, I am sure you would have been laughed out of the room.
Iran crushed US intelligence hegemony Iran crushed US intelligence hegemony Spokesman for the Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Kazem Jalali A senior Iranian lawmaker has praised the country's intelligence achievement in apprehending a CIA agent as a major blow to US intelligence domination in the world. “The intelligence supremacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in controlling and steering the US spy drone and the detention of a CIA agent have seriously damaged US intelligence hegemony,” Kazem Jalali said on Tuesday. He added that the US can no longer portray its political and intelligence apparatus as being all powerful. The spokesman for the Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee pointed to the attempts made by Western media outlets to downplay Iran's intelligence achievements as a natural effort to reduce the mounting psychological pressure on the US and its allies.
Fukushima Forever | Charles Perrow Recent disclosures of tons of radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima reactors spilling into the ocean are just the latest evidence of the continuing incompetence of the Japanese utility, TEPCO. The announcement that the Japanese government will step in is also not reassuring since it was the Japanese government that failed to regulate the utility for decades. But, bad as it is, the current contamination of the ocean should be the least of our worries. The radioactive poisons are expected to form a plume that will be carried by currents to coast of North America. But the effects will be small, adding an unfortunate bit to our background radiation. Much more serious is the danger that the spent fuel rod pool at the top of the nuclear plant number four will collapse in a storm or an earthquake, or in a failed attempt to carefully remove each of the 1,535 rods and safely transport them to the common storage pool 50 meters away. Initially the U.S.
La « Prison » atomique vue par Paolo Scampa -- Santé et Bien-être Le professeur Paolo Scampa, président de l'Association Internationale pour la Protection contre la Rayons Ionisants (AIPRI), vient de publier un ouvrage sur les conséquences environnementales dramatiques des « essais atomiques » aériens intitulé "La chambre à gaz atomique". C'est un traité de physique sur la contribution des essais nucléaires à la contamination finale de l'atmosphère. Extrait : Au commencement était le chaos... puis les physiciens et les mathématiciens vinrent tout mettre en ordre... munis de modèles parfaits et d'axiomes idéaux pour décrire la composition de la matière et écrire la table définitive des lois de la nature... stigmatisant au passage comme « pseudo-science » tout doute méthodique, toute explication alternative ou toute théorie concurrente qui ose venir heurter leurs convictions, leurs préjugés. Nous pourrions débattre des semaines durant sur cet état de fait... si actuel et si pressant. Conclusion : Cette science n'est pas au service de l'humanité.
U.S., China, Russia make Iran pledge | POLITICO 44 HONOLULU -- President Obama said Saturday that he and the leaders of two other key nuclear powers -- Russia and China -- will work together to combat the development of nuclear weapons by Iran. Meeting at the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit here, he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev "reaffirmed our intention to work and shape a common response so we can move Iran to follow its international obligations when it comes to its nuclear program,"” Obama said. After a second meeting, with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Obama said that the United States and China both want to ensure that Iran sticks to "international rules and norms" about its alleged secret work to build nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency warned in a report released this week that Iranian scientists have made significant progress toward developing nuclear weapons, though the government in Tehran has countered that its nuclear program is exclusively for energy production and research.
Michele Bachmann Drops Out of Presidential Race Jan 4, 2012 10:58am Chris Carlson/AP Photo Rep. Michele Bachmann suspended her presidential campaign after placing sixth in Tuesday’s Iowa Republican caucuses, she announced today. “Last night, the people of Iowa spoke with a very clear voice, so I have decided to stand aside,” Bachmann said at a news conference, flanked by her parents, husband and five children. Bachmann said she will continue to fight the policies of President Obama, particularly his health care legislation, calling the 2012 election “the last chance to turn our country around, before we go down the road of socialism.” She said she was motivated to stop Obama and not by a thirst for power. Bachmann had staked her candidacy on Iowa, the state in which she was born and raised. Bachmann placed last out of the six candidates competing here in Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, receiving only 5 percent of the vote and losing in Waterloo, the town where she was born. She claimed that Texas Gov.
Senator Kruger pleads guilty to taking $1m in bribes Senator Kruger pleads guilty to taking $1m in bribes Former New York State Senator Carl Kruger arrives at Manhattan Federal Court to plead guilty to corruption charges. State Senator Carl Kruger who for months had insisted on his innocence, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal corruption charges, admitting that he conspired to accept at least $1 million in bribes, which prosecutors have said supported a lavish lifestyle. Kruger, an influential Democrat and 16-year legislator, stood before Judge Jed S. Before his plea, Kruger submitted a letter of resignation to the Senate, saying, "I hereby resign my office as state senator for the 27th District, , effective immediately." The broad corruption investigation, which also resulted in the arrests of Assemblyman William F. One of the brothers, Michael Turano, was also charged with all five counts, but pleaded guilty to a single bribery conspiracy count, for which he would face a maximum of five years in prison. nytimes.com
PN La cartographie de Greenpeace sur le réseau du nucléaire crée la polémique C'est presque devenu un axiome. Tout article, propos ou point de vue sur l'énergie nucléaire déclenche irrémédiablement une volée de réactions tant passionnées qu'inconciliables et définitives. La France, avec ses 58 réacteurs nucléaires, son EPR en construction et sa casquette de VRP de l'atome à l'étranger, a ça de particulier que parler du nucléaire est sensible et polémique. Si cette réalité n'est pas nouvelle, elle a pris un tour particulier ces derniers jours, avec la publication par Greenpeace d'une cartographie du réseau de l'industrie énergétique et nucléaire française. Mis en ligne vendredi, Facenuke se veut comme un outil interactif permettant de visualiser l'ampleur du "lobby nucléaire", et de naviguer à travers les connexions entre les hommes et les femmes qui œuvrent à la promotion de l'atome, au sein de l'industrie, des associations et des centres de recherche ou de formation. "On se demande comment les personnalités distinguées par Greenpeace ont été choisies.
Iran nuclear work will survive sanctions' 'Iran nuclear work will survive sanctions' Iran's Ambassador to Italy Seyyed Mohammad-Ali Hosseini The Iranian envoy to Rome says threats and sanctions will not affect Iran's peaceful nuclear activities and Tehran will not give up its legitimate right to nuclear energy. “The technical reports [submitted after] thousands of [International Atomic Energy] Agency inspections confirm that Iran's nuclear activities have never diverted towards military [objectives],” IRIB quoted Seyyed Mohammad-Ali Hosseini as saying. He added that Iran will continue its nuclear activities within the framework of the IAEA and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) safeguards. Hosseini said that the political pressure exerted by the US and a number of other Western countries is apparent in IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano's latest report on Iran. Hosseini advised countries calling for more sanctions against Iran to try and resolve their own financial and economic crises which stems from their mismanagement.