December 13, 2011
Australia has continued a slide to total subservience to warmongers like Obama for some time. But the most recent behaviour under Gillard is the most remarkable for the tin pot toadies she commands in her unelected role as Prime Minister. We are witnessing the final stages of crawling to the US and then [...]
Tags: Asia, Asia-Pacific, Australia, Australian Labor Party, China, Landing Helicopter Dock, United States, White Paper
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December 6, 2011
The Australian government wants to sell uranium to India, but significant hurdles to the deal remain [GALLO/GETTY] This is a post-script for the two-part essay that discussed the debate currently taking place in Australia concerning the sale of uranium to India, in particular the consideration given to the Labour Party’s longstanding ban on uranium sales to countries which have [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, Government of Australia, India, Julia Gillard, Labour, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Prime Minister of Australia
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December 4, 2011
The Labor Party endorsment regarding the sale of uranium to India show just how much this so called ”progressive party” is and has always been nothing more than a capitalist workers party. From its inception what was supposed to be a party for workers was simply a party dedicated to the national interest. That interest was [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, Gillard, India, Julia Gillard, Labor, Liberal-National, United States
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December 4, 2011
Australia approves uranium exports to India Labour Party conference approves PM’s plan, despite Delhi not being signatory of nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Australia possesses nearly 40 per cent of the world’s known uranium reserves [Reuters] Australia’s ruling Labour Party has approved plans to open up uranium sales to India, clearing the way for talks on a [...]
Tags: Anthony Albanese, Australia, Gillard, India, Julia Gillard, Labour, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, United States
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November 17, 2011
Cluster munition or parts of the munition often do not explode on impact, causing great harm to the envrionment [EPA] Brisbane, Australia: A US military “base” in Darwin, Australia (spun as a “rotational deployment” for China, I suspect), will necessitate foreign weapons systems and armaments being stockpiled, retained and transited on and in Australian [...]
Tags: Australia, China, Cluster bomb, Convention on Cluster Munitions, David Hurley, Non-governmental organization, Scott Ludlam, United States
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October 20, 2011
I, along with many others was warning readers about the awful killing machines, the Drones. They are a weapon with nothing more than a continually updated capacity to kill and destroy while using highly suspect forms of surveillance. What they really do is to simply be employed against a site where there is some suspicion or advantage attaching [...]
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October 15, 2011
India has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but is one of few countries willing to discuss disarmament [GALLO/GETTY] When the Commonwealth heads of government meet in Australia later this month, one prominent leader is almost certain to be conspicuously absent: India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. India is a strong backer of the association of [...]
Tags: Australia, China, India, Manmohan Singh, NPT, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Pakistan, United States
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August 29, 2011
Australia has unveiled one of the world’s most ambitious schemes to tackle climate change. From July 2012, Australia’s biggest polluting companies will pay $25 a tonne for their carbon emissions, increasing 2.5 per cent a year until moving to a market-set price in 2015. The plan will create the largest emissions trading scheme after the [...]
Tags: Australia, Carbon Cycle, Climate change, Emissions trading, environment, European Union, European Union Emission Trading Scheme, Greenhouse gas
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August 16, 2011
Anti-carbon tax rally hits Australian parliament Thousands of people gather in Canberra to protest at Prime Minister Julia Gillard‘s plans for the unpopular tax Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 August 2011 08.43 BST Article history Australia’s opposition has called on Gillard to apologise for winning the election on a falsehood that her government would [...]
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August 7, 2011
Australia is blessed with rugged beauty and a wealth of natural resources – including coal, iron, natural gas and gold. Such minerals are powering Australia’s economy to record highs. And as demand from China for more resources grows, new mines continue to open across the country. But critics say there is a dark side to [...]
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July 30, 2011
EPBC referral highlights critical environmental issues with Mt Penny site 10 Jul, 2011 The presence of endangered and vulnerable plant and animal species has seen the referral of the proposed Mt Penny mine development to Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke. The referral was made at the beginning of last week by Mt Penny Coal under [...]
Tags: Barry O'Farrell, BHP Billiton, Biodiversity, Business, environment, Katrina Hodgkinson, Mining, Regent Honeyeater, Tony Burke
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July 30, 2011
The Intervention Examining the impact of the Australian government‘s so-called ‘intervention’ policy on aboriginal communities. (The video can be seen at http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/witness/2011/07/2011729121416628187.html) Filmmaker: Julie Nimmo Recorded over eight months in the community of Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia, The Interventionreveals the federal government’s implementation of its so-called ‘intervention’. JOIN THE DEBATE Send us your views [...]
Tags: Australia, Community, Government of Australia, Human rights, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous People, Katherine, Katherine Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Northern Territory National Emergency Response
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July 17, 2011
Please do not think this means support for Abbott or any of the proven disastrous Liberal policies. Disastrous to the very many but a godsend the the very few both the ALP and the Liberals and whoever attaches themselves limpet like to either are simply factions of the one party system we have. In that system the only party is [...]
Tags: ALP, Australia, Australian Labor Party, Carbon tax, Gillard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, United State
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July 14, 2011
The invasion of Australia – official at last 1 July 2011 The City of Sydney has voted to replace the words “European arrival” in the official record with “invasion”. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff, says it is intellectually dishonest to use any other word in describing how Aboriginal Australia was dispossessed by the British. [...]
Tags: Australia, City of Sydney, Indigenous Australians, Jews, Northern Territory, South Africa under apartheid, Stolen Generation, White Australia Policy
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July 14, 2011
If you read Ted Rall‘s article next to this one a few important factors emerge for Australia. If the US is in deeper and darker waters than anyone is prepared to let on then where does a lackey lappdog nation like Australia fir if it all goes pear shaped. The first thing you probably need to do [...]
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July 12, 2011
Gillard is simply an extension of the still birth of the ALP in 1891. All that needs to be sorted out is how the party is able to give a continuing appearance of still being alive. What happened back then has continued to this day. The aspirations of working people were sacrificed at the alter [...]
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July 11, 2011
Just because the environment is an important issue and the future really does need to be a major concern, do not think that is what motivates the politicians. No it certainly does not. Their only concern is re-election and the ultimate safe retirement free from any financial concerns, social liability and judgment. All that just adds to [...]
Tags: Australian Greens, Carbon tax, Christine Milne, Emissions trading, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott
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July 10, 2011
For those of you who have time for a little reflection there is an interesting fact that emerges from the Carbon Tax in Australia. Whether it works, is partially successful or leads to other means as a matter of absolute certainty it is at least a start. Despite the one party system we have, that is [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, Carbon tax, Emissions trading, Government of Australia, Greenhouse gas, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Noam Chomsky, Tony Abbott
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July 5, 2011
Corporate Power? No Thanks Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th July 2011 Power corrupts; nuclear power corrupts absolutely. The industry developed as a by-product of nuclear weapons research. Its deployment was [...]
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July 5, 2011
Corporate Power? No Thanks Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th July 2011 Power corrupts; nuclear power corrupts absolutely. The industry developed as a by-product of nuclear weapons research. Its deployment was [...]
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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July 5, 2011
The blockade is the problem The economic pressure of the blockade has not brought about moderation in Hamas‘ positions, and stopping protesters en route to Gaza will not change the military balance. Haaretz Editorial All signs indicate that the government of Israel has taken steps to receive the present Gaza flotilla in a manner much [...]
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July 5, 2011
Israeli DM Withholds Palestinian Corpses Says Move Aimed at Keeping ‘Bargaining Chips’ by Jason Ditz, July 04, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Shortly after the Israeli military confirmed the plans, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced he is ordering a halt of the transfers of some 84 Palestinian corpsesto the Palestinian Authority. [...]
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July 5, 2011
US Eyes ‘Mini-Surge’ in Afghanistan Despite Talks of Drawdowns, Military Eyes More Special Forces Deployments by Jason Ditz, July 04, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum President Obama’s announcement of a “drawdown” in Afghanistan was treated as a major watershed. Despite the ultimately trivial size of the move, it has sparked a [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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July 4, 2011
Geneva Conventions From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Geneva Convention: The signature-and-seals page of the First Geneva Convention (1864), establishing humane rules of war. The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatment of the victims of war. The singular term Geneva Convention denotes the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the [...]
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July 4, 2011
The Use of Torture in the War on Terror Reflections on the Afghanistan (2002) and Abu Ghraib (2004) experiences. Australian Defence Force perspectives. Conducted at CDSS in April 2005. This entry comes from the following front page of this document About Mission and Function Course Development Case Studies Research Article Reviews [...]
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July 4, 2011
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 04/07/2011 Reporter: Geoff Thompson Recently uncovered documents have linked an Australian soldier with the abuse of prisoners in Iraq‘s notorious Abu Ghraib jail. The ABC’s Geoff Thompson investigates. Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: These notorious pictures helped change the course of the Iraq War. The graphic photos of Iraqi detainees being mistreated [...]
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July 4, 2011
ADF knew of abuses at Abu Ghraib Anne Davies, Deborah Snow, Debra Jopson July 5, 2011 Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/adf-knew-of-abuses-at-abu-ghraib-20110704-1gz95.html#ixzz1R9uMIOrL Related articles Because we killed the bad guy, I guess that’s what makes it alright. Words, lyrics and dance routines by various US, Allied and Australian psychopaths (ikners.com) From Abu Ghraib to the [...]
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July 4, 2011
ADF knew of abuses at Abu Ghraib Anne Davies, Deborah Snow, Debra Jopson July 5, 2011 Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/adf-knew-of-abuses-at-abu-ghraib-20110704-1gz95.html#ixzz1R9p7NE8U Related articles (There are many more at ikners.com) Because we killed the bad guy, I guess that’s what makes it alright. Words, lyrics and dance routines by various US, Allied and Australian psychopaths (ikners.com) They must [...]
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July 4, 2011
Greece says its ban on all Gaza-bound ships leaving port was to protect pro-Palestinian activists [Reuters] Most of the nine vessels that pro-Palestinian activists planned to sail on as part of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in defiance of an Israeli blockade remain stranded in Greece ports, after Greek authorities forbade them from embarking on the journey. Two [...]
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July 4, 2011
Years of violence in Iraq has left a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and the most basic medicines. Areas outside Baghdad particularly suffer from the frail state of the country’s healthcare system. And, as Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf reports, children are often the most vulnerable There is a video available at the [...]
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July 4, 2011
Even the Clintons can tell the truth….but not often. apparently Hillary told our esteemed and boy wonder Foreign Affairs Supremo that it was hard to argue with your banker. Probably that means that sooner or later she would /might need to know the answer. But in true Clinton style what don’t go ’round don’t go ’round. China [...]
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July 4, 2011
When you are down and out or that’s what the elites are telling you , what you need is a good friend. But beware the fangs of the viper. It was only a day ago I posted an article and asked if Greece had started paying the interest yet on the loans. It [...]
Tags: Athens, Gaza, Gaza flotilla raid, Greece, Israel, Mike Hanna, Politics of Greece, Turkey, United States
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July 3, 2011
Time and bailouts do not cushion anemic post-crisis recoveries from the inevitable next shock [GALLO/GETTY] The global economy is in the midst of its second growth scare in less than two years. Get used to it. In a post-crisis world, these are the footprints of a failed recovery. The reason is simple. The typical business [...]
Tags: Federal Reserve System, Gross world product, International Monetary Fund, Recession shapes, Stephen S. Roach, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, United States, World economy
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July 3, 2011
Prince Charles has held private meetings with several coalition ministers, including George Osborne, Michael Gove and Caroline Spelman. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP Following the revelation that Tony Blair believed the Prince of Wales meddled in sensitive policy areas during the last Labour government, it has emerged that the prince has had private meetings with at least seven [...]
Tags: Caroline Spelman, Clarence House, Crispin Blunt, George Osborne, Iain Duncan Smith, Michael Gove, Prince Charles of Wales, Tony Blair
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July 3, 2011
A sense of excitement emerged as a result of the Flotilla. (Noor Harazeen) Only the most heartless of supporters of the Jewish State of Israel could even begin to think of Palestinians especially the children being deprived of some of the most basic of human rights as the Jewish State of Israel [...]
Tags: Ban Ki-moon, Gaza, Gaza flotilla raid, Hellenic Coast Guard, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Jews, middle east, Palestinian people, Politics of Greece, United States, Warfare and Conflict
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July 3, 2011
Graveyard of Empires by Eric Margolis Recently by Eric Margolis: Turkey: The Mother of Revolutions In his majestic poem “Recessional,” Rudyard Kipling was writing of the fading British Empire, but his words are as vivid and pertinent today as a century ago: Far-called our navies melt away – On dune and headland sinks the fire – Lo, [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, British Empire, ERIC MARGOLIS, Osama bin Laden, Recessional, Rudyard Kipling, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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July 3, 2011
LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) – Britain will announce this week that it is to withdraw up to 800 troops by the end of next year, according to a report in the Sunday Times newspaper. The move comes after last month’s announcement that thousands of U.S. troops would start being withdrawn later this year as part [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Australia, Barack Obama, David Cameron, Julia Gillard, United States, United States Armed Forces
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July 3, 2011
U.S. turns to other routes to supply Afghan war as relations with Pakistan fray By Craig Whitlock, Sunday, July 3, 9:54 AM The U.S. military is rapidly expanding its aerial and Central Asian supply routes to the war in Afghanistan, fearing that Pakistan could cut off the main means of providing American and NATO forces with fuel, food and equipment. Although Pakistan [...]
Tags: Craig Whitlock, Northern Distribution Network, Osama BinLaden, Pakistan, Pakistan – United States relations, Pentagon, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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July 3, 2011
KABUL, Afghanistan – Despite U.S. reports of progress on the battlefield, American troops were killed in the first half of this year at the same pace as in 2010 — an indication that the war’s toll on U.S. forces has not eased as the Obama administration moves to shift the burden to the Afghans. While [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Associated Press, Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai, Helmand Province, Taliban, United State, United States Armed Forces
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July 1, 2011
Preface: Despite the present Australian unelected Government’s completely undying love and support for Zionism there are some who think first and pledge their allegiance later. As a convict country Australian politicians have grown up on diet rich in a homily on obedience trotted out at all available times to support the lies, deceit and [...]
Tags: Audacity of Hope, Australia, Boat, Gaza, Gaza flotilla raid, Gaza Strip, Government, Israel, Palestinian people, United States, Zionism
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July 1, 2011
Well the British are now taking part in what should end up being a major and world wide awakening at least by some as to how the elites are killing them and their children with boundless avarice. Here in Australia revelations that a walking talking capital crisis like Clive Palmer can reap the rewards of [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian dollar, Barnaby Joyce, BHP Billiton, Clive Palmer, Oceania, Rio Tinto Group, Wilgie Mia
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July 1, 2011
The TV reporter who conducted Thursday’s bizarre interview with Ed Miliband, in which the Labour leader responded to every question with the same statement about his position on public sector strikes, has said he felt ashamed at the “professional discourtesy” in being used as a “recording device for a scripted soundbite”. Damon Green, the ITV News correspondent [...]
Tags: BBC, David Miliband, Ed Miliband, ITV News, Labour Party, Sky News, Twitter, YouTube
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July 1, 2011
Preface: It would be far too much for the popularity starved failure of unelected leader of this country to make a statement but has she ever considered what the effect of the loss will be? Not just death and collateral damage to the ignorant savages called Afghans but future voters will have marched off to [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Justin Raimondo, NATO, Obama administration, Politics of Afghanistan, Taliban, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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June 30, 2011
It was mildly interesting to read a report in the SMH today concerning Gillard being a chorus of one as far as Afghanistan is concerned. Why it has taken so long for such material to reach the hallowed halls of the fourth estate is a mystery. The local population expressed views on Iraq and Afghanistan [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, ALP, Australia, Australian Labor Party, Canberra, Iraq, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd
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June 28, 2011
Politics can be amusing and still be serious. On some occasions you can get some insight into the nature of the beast from the beastly parts- like the politicians and the media who make up the travelling zoo that comes in the package you vote for. Here in Australia we have a completely unelected Prime Minister [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, Barack Obama, Election, Government, Happy Days, middle east, Oceania, Politics, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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June 27, 2011
Arab activists say liberalisation of trade, investment and deregulation advocated by the US and the EU as part of their aid packages had contributed to the unrest in the first place. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-Zuma/Rex Features Arab activists warned on Monday that conditions attached to western aidthreatened to undercut the goals of economic and social justice at the [...]
Tags: African Development Bank, egypt, European Investment Bank, Hosni Mubarak, International Monetary Fund, Non-governmental organization, United States, World Bank
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June 27, 2011
Google reveals US government leads way in private data requests Google has received a record number of requests from 26 developed countries to reveal private information about internet users Share99 reddit this Josh Halliday guardian.co.uk, Monday 27 June 2011 19.16 BST Article history Google has released figures showing the number of requests for private [...]
Tags: Bhumibol Adulyadej, Brazil, France, Google, India, Kazakhstan, Search, search engine, Search Engines, Searching, Spain, United States, YouTube
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June 27, 2011
Google reveals US government leads way in private data requests Google has received a record number of requests from 26 developed countries to reveal private information about internet users Share99 reddit this Josh Halliday guardian.co.uk, Monday 27 June 2011 19.16 BST Article history Google has released figures showing the number of requests for private information [...]
Tags: Bhumibol Adulyadej, Google, India, Kazakhstan, Search, search engine, United States, YouTube
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
Tags: British government, Centre for Alternative Technology, Germany, Government of the United Kingdom, International Atomic Energy Agency, Japan, Nuclear, nuclearpower
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