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Thursday, April 7, 2011

7 April - Some environmental concerns about uranium use

View from Jebel Akhdar in Libya near Benghazi ...Image via Wikipedia
 US denies depleted uranium use in Libya, but refuses to rule out future use
http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/a/402.html

A US Airforce Spokeswoman has told a Scottish journalist that, as of 2nd April, A-10s fighting in Libya have not been firing DU ammunition. However, she refused to give any assurances about the future use of DU, stating that she didn't want "to speculate on what may or may not be used in the future".

International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons
http://web.bandepleteduranium.org/campaign/person.php?id=1&id_topic=1
Mounting Alarm Over US Use of Depleted Uranium Arms in Libya
Suppliers http://nucnews.net/2000/du/99du/990704du.mfr.htm  

Discussing this on Care 2 http://www.care2.com/news/member/497847928/2768253 I threw in

I've been trying to push this practice into the public consciousness for years. There is such a pile of lies around WMD from all the Security Council - made up of nations that have it, of course - that scarcely anyone is sane on the topic. You'd have to research foreign policy on nonproliferation and the fate of the 'Axis of Evil' - who all signed the Nonproliferation Treaty ! - to start to understand what a cluster of deception and mass murder is in play.

In Global Research.ca
America's Planned Nuclear Attack on Libya
- by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky - 2011-03-30
Thinking the Unthinkable. The Pentagon's Plan to Nuke Libya
Nuclear Apocalypse in Japan
- by Keith Harmon Snow - 2011-03-18
Humanity now faces a deadly serious challenge coming out of Japan -- the epicenter of radiation.
VIDEO: Fidel’s Message against Nuclear War: "In a Nuclear War the 'Collateral Damage' would be the Life of All Humanity."
- by Fidel Castro Ruz - 2010-10-21
A forceful message calling for World peace and the survival of humankind.
Missing Nukes: Treason of the Highest Order
- by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - 2007-10-29
Unauthorized removal of nuclear weapons would be virtually impossible to accomplish unless the chain of command were bypassed.


Certainly a target for hydraulic warfare would be Libya

Strategic supply in Libya



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Posted By: Rayelan [Send E-Mail]
Date: Monday, 21-Mar-2011 21:22:13
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 2001, page 56
Libya: Looking Toward a Post-Lockerbie Future
Libya’s Great Man-Made River Project
http://washington-report.org/archives/march01/0103056.html
Thanks to the American Zionist media’s myth machine portrayal of a “demonized Libya”—in stark contrast to mythological Israel—the GMR, with its 400,000 irrigated acres and over 6 million cubic meters of fresh water delivered daily to Libya’s five million people, has been transformed into the grandiose, harebrained scheme of an eccentric leader, Col. Muammar Al-Qaddafi, that wastes billions and will soon run out of ground water.
The GMR, the English-language acronym Libyans use for the giant water project, is not grandiose. Rather it is grand in vision, in concept and in execution. In fact, given the difference in size and resources between Libya and the U.S., the GMR more properly can be compared to President John F. Kennedy’s call in 1962 to land a man on the moon before that decade expired. The United States succeeded in realizing its vision—and so has Libya.
The physical scale of the GMR is staggeringly large: enough aggregate to build 20 structures the size of Egypt’s great Khufu pyramid at Giza; 1,300 water wells drilled; 7,000,000 miles of pre-stressed steel wire used to strengthen the 12-foot diameter water pipes; 3,500 kilometers of pipeline covering an area equal to West Europe; four pipelines—two toward the west, or Tunisian side of Libya, and two toward the east, or Egyptian, side of the country—with connecting links in the north; and thousands of miles of roads between and connecting the project’s various lines and infrastructure.
As impressive as the physical statistics are, however, the real story of the Great Man-Made River is that it is Libya’s and Colonel Qaddafi’s declaration of independence, an assertion that Libya is determined to stand on its own two feet. The fact is that Libya, populated mainly in a not very thick belt along the Mediterranean Sea with vast deserts to the south, has been treated harshly by nature and by stronger external powers.
In their literature as well as in their personal conversations, Libyans see the desert as a relentless, always-encroaching enemy. At the same time, salt water seeping in from the Mediterranean poisons fresh-water supplies. Rock drawings in Libya’s southern Fezzan province depict large animals, betokening an era of rainfall and prosperity some 14,000 to 38,000 years ago, when it is believed the giant underground reservoirs of water now feeding the GMR were filled.
The government has calculated that one Libyan dinar would bring in more cubic meters of fresh water via the GMR than could be realized from alternative sources such as desalination plants or fresh water brought in by ship or pipeline from Europe or Turkey.While this indeed may be correct, the enthusiasm for the GMR encountered everywhere in Libya suggests that, when he decided in 1983 to go ahead with the project, Colonel Qaddafi tapped into a deep-seated and historic aspiration of Libyans: to defeat the always-threatening desert and rid their country of dependence on uncertain or selfish outsiders. 

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call4.org aims to provide information about pressing social and environmental issues. Importantly, it enables UK citizens to not only read about these issues but to actually do something about them.
Help Protect Bristol Bay, Alaska
Mining giant Anglo American is headquartered in London. 4,500 miles away lies Alaska’s Bristol Bay: a place of pristine waters, which support a thriving commercial – and sustainable – salmon fishery. Yet this renewable resource is under threat from a proposed open-pit, gold and copper mine.
The ‘Pebble Mine’ would be the largest open-pit mine in all of north America: up to 2 miles wide and 500 metres deep; generating up to 9 billion tonnes of waste.  This waste would be stored in ‘tailing ponds’ (essentially earthen dams), measuring up to 3 miles wide, and 200 metres high. Perhaps of biggest concern is the fact that the mine would be located on top of salmon spawning grounds (where salmon return to, to lay their eggs).
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Comment: Religious fund isn't corrupting science
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726475.500-comment-religious-fund-isnt-corrupting-science.html

German soldiers' confessions reveal how they killed civilians for fun
Historians Soenke Neitzel and Harald Welzer have used the interrogations of 13,000 German military prisoners as the basis of Soldiers: Diaries Of Fighting, Killing and Dying – or Soldaten in German.

The exchanges were covertly recorded by British intelligence at a Trent Park detention centre north of London in an attempt to find out whether they held strategic information useful to the Allies.

The 150,000 sides of transcripts, dating from 1940 to 1945, reveal how the Wehrmacht was little better than the S.S. 

U.S. backed regime in Yemen carries out new slaughter of protesters

US Centcom targets online violent propaganda
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/20113308530388366.html
Not only does the department of state employ paid commenters, but a new $2.75 million initiative led by US Central Command would allow for the creation of sock puppets in order to combat online extremism.
AIPAC's newest strategy
Middle East was 'born in crisis'
The rise of citizen photojournalism
Little idealism on post-Castro Cuba
Pvt Manning proves 'slippery slope' 
Deadly school shooting in Brazil
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Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits Japan coast
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Libyan rebels hit by NATO air attack
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Gambling with the planet
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Libya: Making something out of nothing
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Violence erupts across Gaza border
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Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits Japan coast
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Time is not Israel's partner in crime
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Obama's Libyan folly
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'No safe levels' of radiation in Japan 
Mike Adams: Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan — a Dirty Bomb Waiting to Go Off 1/3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp65RwmgQns&feature=related 
Worse yet - radiation dangers not as reported elsewhere
BBC Journalist Greg Palast: Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants!! 1/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SZC61oMglw&feature=related 
 
Koch Bros. exposed

House Explodes in Quitman Arkansas. Natural Gas In Water Well Nearby!
http://a4gda.blogspot.com/2011/04/house-explodes-in-quitman-arkansas.html

Personal Development for Smart People
http://www.stevepavlina.com
The purpose of this website is to help you grow as a conscious human being. This includes guiding you to discover and accept your life purpose; inspiring you to feel more motivated, energized, and passionate; helping you shed disempowering relationships and build a network of loving support; teaching you how to achieve stable financial abundance doing what you love; and encouraging you to make a genuine contribution to humanity -- so you can finally experience the kind of life that deep down, you always knew you were meant to live

Military Intelligence Officer Interview
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2011/02/military-intelligence-officer-interview

Chevron Runs from Judgment in Ecuador
http://www.gregpalast.com
Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit.
I've been there, in Ecuador.
Cofan Leader CriolloI met the victims.  They didn't lose their shrimp boats; they lost their kids.  Emergildo Criollo, Chief of the Cofan Natives of the Amazon, told me about his three-year-old.  "He went swimming, then began vomiting blood." Then he died.

10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job

 

The 50 Best Blogs for French Majors & Francophiles
http://www.onlineclasses.org/2011/04/04/the-50-best-blogs-for-french-majors-francophiles

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