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Thomas Paine

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

12 January - Morning Surfing

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M&M hopes to develop solar-powered charging station for electric cars 

Israeli Mossad training Iranian exiles in Kurdistan: French newspaper

 ( Kurds live in Turkey and were in Iraq - before it was effectively broken up. Saddam repressed their drive for an independent homeland - and Turkey suffers from fighting because of its large and central Kurdish population. Assyrian Independent News - aina - has a static column of articles which includes stories of Kurdish genocide campaigns against Iraqi Christian pacifists

The Genocide of Assyrians -- Then and Now )

Denial Flows All the Way to the Turkish Embassy in Canberra

Why do we ignore the civilians killed in American wars?

The major wars the United States has fought since the surrender of Japan in 1945 — in Korea, Indochina, Iraq and Afghanistan — have produced colossal carnage. For most of them, we do not have an accurate sense of how many people died, but a conservative estimate is at least 6 millioncivilians and soldiers.

The wars in Korea and Indochina were extremely deadly. While estimates of Korean War deaths are mainly guesswork, the three-year conflict is widely believed to have taken 3 million lives, about half of them civilians. The sizable civilian toll was partly due to the fact that the country’s population is among the world’s densest and the war’s front lines were often moving.
The war in Vietnam and the spillover conflicts in Laos and Cambodia were even more lethal. These numbers are also hard to pin down, although by several scholarly estimates, Vietnamese military and civilian deaths ranged from 1.5 million to 3.8 million, with the U.S.-led campaign in Cambodia resulting in 600,000 to 800,000 deaths, and Laotian war mortality estimated at about 1 million.

(Actually, that stat in the sidebar doesn't seem to have moved for a long while.
From 'Lost Topical Lists'

Deaths from military actions

Panetta admits Iran not developing nukes

Nuclear fuel enrichment is much different from enrichment for weapons. Most commercial nuclear reactors use lightly enriched uranium, which is between 3-5 percent enriched. Weapons-grade uranium must be enriched to approximately 85 percent or more of a key radioactive isotope for it to be usable in an atomic bomb.
Iran added on Monday that it had also enriched uranium up to 20 percent in an underground facility, explaining that the isotopes were to be used to help cancer patients.
( Canada supplied the world with such for decades - until the old facility virtually disintegrated from age, unreplaced to fill a demand for isotopes for nuclear imaging diagnostics. Nor could one fairly place blame solely on either Lie-berals or Con-serve-a-cliques : it took both.

  Chalk River makes 1st isotopes in 15 months". CBC.ca. August 18, 2010.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk_River_Laboratories
Enriching uranium to 95% is hard. There is zero evidence Iran can do it.
Some can )

Whoever Killed the Scientist Was Aiming at Much More

January 11th, 2012 | Printable version |

Jim Lobe

Jim Lobe
I haven’t read all the commentary — or nearly all the commentary — on the assassination of the Iranian chemist today, but I have the distinct impression that whoever targeted him had a much broader agenda than simply killing yet another scientist working on Iran’s nuclear program. I think the prospect of renewed negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran was the bigger target.
( When I submitted a comment to a wonderful thread knocking the very Devil out of lies obscuring subterfuge and black ops against Iran...they were gone on return !

opit

January 12, 2012 @ 1:32 pm
There seems a fairly clear assessment of the policies which are being carried out against Iran, although I would never suggest one underestimate carried out as a pogrom against a number of nations in the region to rape them of ‘natural resources’ while lying supine for the “colonizers’” convenience in the best tradition of the East India Company…except it isn’t.
Iran will be completely familiar with the destruction of academia in Iraq, not only the wrecking of infrastructure but prevention of repairs or training of technicians or access to technology. That was partly accomplished by the ‘rebuilding’ of Iraq -where ‘no bid’ contracts were squandered and resources that might have gone to rebuilding deliberately pilfered.
So Clinton or other officials might be conveniently unaware that private company operatives outnumber the military and are so uncontrolled as to rape their own employees – but we should not be so naive.
Nor do you generally find reporting about U.S. forces guarding Chinese mining operations in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile Agent Orange has been replaced by Depleted Uranium or an analogue – which is also reported – and the mass suicides of returning troops are attributed to PTSD.
Dead men tell no tales. Some blogs written by returnees are horrors of their health situation, destitution and social isolation.
That info can be hard to come by. I made some notes to spur research.
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/08/uranium-mining-and-depleted.html

Another Iranian Scientist Assassinated

@opit · 1 day ago
It really sells well, positioning the people who host conferences promoting nuclear disarmament - who signed on to a verification program to assure this which was fiscally strangled - as the 'real danger'....as opposed to those ( like Russia ) who have lots of weapons systems....and supply such.)


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Friday, January 21, 2011

21 - Some Korean Links

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Pyongyang November 2010

The North Korean Website List 

 North Korea 'enriching weapons-grade uranium at a number of sites'

North Korea has been enriching potentially weapons-grade uranium at up to four sites outside its main nuclear complex, South Korean intelligence has claimed.
The report of the secret additional enrichment facilities outside its Yongbon complex, first published by a South Korean newspaper, was confirmed by Seoul's foreign minister Kim Sung-hwan on Tuesday.
"It is a report based on what is still intelligence and let me just say that we have been following this issue for some time," Mr Kim said.
Earlier this month a U.S. nuclear scientist, Seigfried Hecker, said he was "stunned" by the sophistication of North Korea's uranium enrichment facilities at Yongbon where he saw hundreds of centrifuges linked to each other.
Mr Hecker later said the plant was most likely for civilian use, but warned in an article in Foreign Affairs magazine that it was "highly likely that a parallel covert facility capable of HEU [highly enriched uranium] production exists elsewhere in the country." North Korea has already tested two plutonium-based nuclear devices, but U.S. defence analysts fear that Pyongyang is racing to build a uranium-based bomb that would further buttress its international negotiating position.
( What I always say. Search 'The U.S. Suspects' and get an eyeful of Framing Arguments designed to cast suspicion on the innocent : a convenient ploy for the Guilty )
Pyongyang has claimed that its new program is peaceful, with an article in the ruling communist party's Rodong Sinmun newspaper saying the country was developing nuclear energy like other countries, adding: "Peaceful nuclear activity is a sovereign right of all nations."


Corporations, Unions and the Value of Opposition


http://www.truth-out.org/corporations-unions-and-value-opposition67023



( Why is this here ? The principle is the same between nations.  
Unlimited corporate power requires an effective counterbalance.
Corporation law had allowed individuals who were employers to collectively amass unchecked power. Employees, on the other hand, were mere individuals who lacked the power to bargain as equals with their employers. The result was depressed wages and working conditions that led to economic collapse and then economic unrest.
Today, we are reliving the dynamics of unchecked corporate power that led to the Great Depression. The Great Recession could not have been a surprise to anyone who was paying attention to the erosion of pay and working conditions and to the steady increase in poverty and unemployment.
North Korea has been living under Sanctions for decades ; as has Cuba, Iran and Iraq...which now has the 'Defenders of Freedom' as permanent murders and rapists in residence. Afghanistan has starved for decades : while the 'border' between it and Pakistan is a foreign invention - the Durand Line. )


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Friday, November 27, 2009

27 Nov - Morning News

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UK Recession 'worse than estimated'  

Lawyers target thousands of 'illegal' file-sharers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8381097.stm
ACS:Law plans to send notes to the accused in the new year offering a chance to settle out of court for "several hundreds of pounds".

A lawyer who has defended people who have received similar letters described it as a "scattergun approach" that would catch "innocent people".
But consumer group Which? said that it had heard from around 150 consumers who had been "wrongly accused" in similar cases.
"A lot are accused of downloading pornography," Jaclyn Clarabut of Which? told BBC News. "People find it distressing or embarrassing and pay up."
Others, she said, "don't want the threat of court action" hanging over them or cannot afford to pay for a lawyer and settle the claim for the lower figure.
( A 'Protection Racket'  for the New Millenium illustrating speculation which would load up the court system if allowed. )

Social media 'could transform public services'
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Social media could transform the NHS and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference has heard.

Past climate anomalies explained
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Unusually warm and cold periods in Earth's pre-industrial climate history are linked to how the oceans responded to temperature changes.
( And we are poisoning and polluting them )

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