How USA’s Argonne National Laboratory abused a small Australian boy, with...
Paul Langley, https://www.facebook.com/paul.langley.9822/posts/10213752429593121CAL-2, 14 Aug 17, 5 yr-old Simon Shaw and his mum. Simon was flown from Australia to the US on the pretext of medical...
View ArticleA pre-emptive nuclear strike on North Korea? – catastrophic, and illegal
A Preemptive Strike on North Korea Would Be Catastrophic and Illegal TruthOut , August 12, 2017, By Marjorie Cohn, As Special Counsel Robert Mueller impanels two grand juries to investigate Donald...
View ArticleHomeowners will find themselves underwater literally and figuratively –...
Stoddard believes flood insurance rates — which have been subsidized for years by governments — will be the so-called tipping point for homeowners in the U.S. When rates are allowed to rise to a level...
View ArticleShould Florida residents still be paying for defunct, and planned new,...
Florida PSC looks at paying for nuclear projects today, Tampa Bay Times, By Malena Carollo, Times Staff Writer, August 15, 2017 TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Public Service Commission is holding its annual...
View ArticlePennsylvania to give out potassium tablets to communities near nuclear power...
State Asks Residents Close to Nuclear Plants to Have Pills https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/pennsylvania/articles/2017-08-15/state-asks-residents-close-to-nuclear-plants-to-have-pills...
View ArticleIncrease in harmful algal blooms in US freshwaters due to climate chnage
Climate change projected to significantly increase harmful algal blooms in US freshwaters, Phys Org, August 15, 2017, Harmful algal blooms known to pose risks to human and environmental health in...
View ArticleTrump uses executive order to reverse Obama-era order aimed at planning for...
Trump to reverse Obama-era order aimed at planning for climate change, WP, By Darryl Fears and Steven Mufson August 15 President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that he said would streamline...
View ArticleVogtle’s two new nuclear reactors: will they be economically viable?
Questions remain about viability of building new nuclear reactors, Augusta Chronicle, Tom Corwin, August 12, 2017, Five years ago, a study from the Union of Concerned Scientists correctly predicted a...
View ArticleSouth Carolina nuclear power backers push for tax-payer aid
After failure of SC nuke plant, backers seek federal aid, By MATTHEW DALY, 14 Aug 17, WASHINGTON (AP) — Proponents of nuclear power are pushing to revive a failed project to build two reactors in...
View ArticleClimate denial in America and Australia
The Madhouse Effect: this is how climate denial in Australia and the US compares, The Conversation August 14, 2017 Michael Mann is well known for his classic “hockey stick” work on global warming, for...
View ArticleWhat would be the process, if Trump decides to launch anuclear attack?
President Trump holds the ‘nuclear football’ but what is the process to launch an attack? 9 News, Aug 15, 2017 On January 20 Donald Trump was inaugurated as President, giving the former reality star...
View ArticleAmericans all too easily to accept the idea of a pre=emptive nuclear strike?
The Real Nuclear Option, Americans are disturbingly unbothered by the idea of striking first with nuclear weapons, Slate ,By Fred Kaplan, 15 Aug 17, As President Trump rails against North Korea,...
View ArticleAmerica’s lack of morality – expressed in Donald Trump’s nuclear threats
Trump’s apocalyptic threats demand a moral case for disarmament,Guardian, Daniel José Camacho, 14 Aug 16, It’s easy to understand why Trump is potentially one of the worst people to be in charge of...
View ArticleThe weapons industry is polluting our environment – Potomac River as an example
How War Pollutes the Potomac River, DAVID SWANSON AND PAT ELDER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT, 17 AUG 17, The Pentagon’s impact on the river on whose bank it sits is not simply the diffuse impact of...
View ArticleFederal judge rules that USA govt could be liable for uranium cleanup on...
Gov’t Is Owner In Navajo Land Uranium Cleanup Suit: Judge, By Kat Sieniuc. Law360, New York (August 16, 2017, ) — An Arizona federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the federal government qualifies under...
View ArticleFlorida ratepayers could be up for $millions for two nuclear reactors that...
FPL nuclear project uncertain, but charges could grow by $90 million, Susan Salisbury, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer, Aug. 16, 2017 Florida Power & Light Co. ratepayers must wait two months before...
View ArticleUSA power utilities have a long history of abandoning nuclear projects
US POWER COMPANIES HAVE A HISTORY OF WALKING AWAY FROM NUCLEAR PROJECTS, Platts Snapshot. William Freebairn, senior managing editor, Platts Nuclear Publications, August 17, 2017 After spending close...
View ArticleThorium nuclear reactors? a very risky enterprise for Utah
crucially the technology, regulation, and business structures necessary to support a thorium reactor may not yet exist. A coalition of South Carolina utilities developing what would have been the...
View ArticlePre-emptive attack on North Korea is not an option: get used to N Korea...
North Korea’s nuclear weapons ‘aren’t going away’, says former US intelligence boss, ABC News Breakfast, 17 Aug 17, The world will need to get used to North Korea having nuclear weapons for now,...
View ArticleRisky venture for Utah counties? will they gamble on speculative thorium...
Will Utah counties fund thorium reactor? Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug 17, “….Now a Utah startup is developing a thorium reactor, perhaps the first in the U.S. in half a century, and a consortium of...
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