A “Lib Dem” minister just told Sky News he was approving new nuclear power stations to promote green jobs. If anybody ever votes for these lying bastards again I shall be disconsolate.
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Dave; How much can you reveal about your project? I recall a similar exchange twixt yourself and Clark as occurred yesterday with you and Jemand. Crab and Jemand find your posts a little thin on the evidentiary side. Heuristics is my specialty, not engineering or even applied science. My ‘brain-storming’ is often derided as a quackery because it is composed of mental gymnastics which can’t be cast in concrete, and observed in a vacuum. I make leaps of logic in a carefree, and sort of irresponsible way, as some see. That’s what heuristics is; tricking the mind out of well-trodden nerve-pathways to gain new insight. Your skills and theories must stand the test of fire, because of the ordered and documented nature of provable science. Can you show us some magic?
The situation in N Korea reminds me of Iraq (AQ, WMD’s). Remember how the West castigated Saddam throughout UN inspections. Why would he be so reticent to allow unfettered inspections if he isn’t hiding anything.
What he was hiding was that he didn’t have anything. He feared regional enemies more than the West. If they knew he was not holding, it could go badly for him.
The new emperor is trying to maintain the support and respect of his military leaders. He is seeing defections and wants to rally his militant power base that he is going to be tough on the West. He is being defiant and rattling sabers because he fears the internal threat more than he does the West.
http://www.businessinsider.com/kim-jong-un-could-be-losing-control–and-thats-a-bad-thing-2013-4
A senior judge from Sweden’s supreme court, Justice Stefan Lindskog, has told an Australian audience that Julian Assange’s argument he cannot stand trial in Sweden without being extradited to the USA is not as black and white as the wikileaker would have us believe.
Lindskog yesterday told an audience at the University of Adelaide that unless Assange is charged with a crime that directly correlates to a law on the books of both Sweden and the USA, the Scandinavian nation won’t be able to hand him over.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/04/assange_extradition_unlikely/
“Lindskog also says “extradition may not be granted for military or political offences” and explains that Swedish law won’t permit extradition if the subject of such a request is likely to experience persecution or “is serious in any other respects” or “is contrary to fundamental humanitarian principles”.
Then there’s this…http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-ban-cia-rendition
“The committee found that diplomatic promises did nothing to protect al-Zari from torture,” said Cartner. “Western governments need to wake up to the fact that they can’t trust promises of humane treatment from countries that routinely practice torture.”
Exexpat; The Supreme Court has 16 which means, I believe Assange would need 9 on his side. Even if assurances from other justices are forthcoming, their promises seem to be worth little.
Someone,
The GLOBAL INVESTIGATION: Inside the Offshore Global Money Maze is ICIJ fraudulent spin according to my own sources – in much the same way as accredited banksters move vast sums around making capital on low interest rates (Cyprus).
Now it is pay-back time and/or escalation of the North Korean hot air into another Western alliance aggressive encroachment.
@ Ben Franklin , who says :
“The situation in N Korea reminds me of Iraq (AQ, WMD’s). Remember how the West castigated Saddam throughout UN inspections. Why would he be so reticent to allow unfettered inspections if he isn’t hiding anything.
What he was hiding was that he didn’t have anything. He feared regional enemies more than the West. If they knew he was not holding, it could go badly for him.
The new emperor is trying to maintain the support and respect of his military leaders. He is seeing defections and wants to rally his militant power base that he is going to be tough on the West. He is being defiant and rattling sabers because he fears the internal threat more than he does the West.”
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So no-one has anything to worry about?
Your comparison with Iraq omits to mention one crucial fact : whereas it turned out that Iraq had no nuclear weapons, it is clear that North Korea has (they have tested some). A not insignificant difference, you might agree.
I ask again : why the silence from those on this blog who leap into “action” with the speed of light when the “villain of the piece” happens to be called Israel/USA/UK/FRance…?
US nuke board warns of explosion risk
“Underground tanks that hold a stew of toxic, radioactive waste at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site pose a possible risk of explosion, a nuclear safety board said in advance of confirmation hearings for the next leader of the Energy Department.”
“State and federal officials have long known that hydrogen gas could build up inside the tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, leading to an explosion that would release radioactive material.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/02/hanford-nuclear-waste-could-explode_n_3001134.html?ir=Green
“The Department of Energy (DoE) said on Wednesday its “preferred alternative” is to retrieve up to 3.1 million gallons (11.7 million liters) of radioactive waste sludge in up to 20 of Hanford’s 177 tanks, stabilize it and truck it to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico, for disposal.”
“The plan is likely to face opposition from New Mexico.” [I bet it is!]
“The state of New Mexico’s permit for WIPP specifically prohibits waste from Hanford, so any proposal to change that would need strong justification and public input,” said Democratic Senator Tom Udall from New Mexico.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279848/Hanford-Nuclear-Reservation-Tank-storing-radioactive-waste-leaking-300-gallons-toxic-stew-year.html
Some in the media are saying that the waste stored at Hanford, Washington state, is low level material while others are saying it is high-level waste and extremely toxic.
Does anyone here know?
Is it the same sort of waste from nuclear power stations when they are decommissioned?
North Korea can’t even afford fuel for its tanks, why else do we see two tanks depicted as a manoeuvre every time a news snippet appears.
What has to be said is that peace talks should now commence, between the two parties, not six, North korea has been asking for this for close to two decades now, but they want to talk to the South, not some arms swinging US military complex.
Agree with Ben this missiles possibly hitting Europe claim sounds like the 45 minute claim/lie to Parliament before they attacked Iraq.
Any US war planners contemplating a conventional/ nuclear confrontation next door to China, with Pentagon first strike plans on Chinas nuclear arsenals mooted some time back, must have been not right in the head. This is a short cut to a global confrontation and Cameron, adding Iran into the mele with his statement today, is nudging up the warheads, an ominous development by a bunch of no good warmongers.
Think you are dead wrong, Ben Franklin, about what motivated Saddam Hussein, and motivates the new North Korean leader.
The Iraqi leader feared the West, and believed that he would be safe if he gave up what was left of his WMD, only to learn that left him a helpless target when Washington thought to beef up its aims in the Middle East after the CIA’s cockup on 9/11.
The North Korean leader decided to back his military after Washington caused an earthquake at one of its former test sites on February 11 with its latest Misty laser satellite, helped in the targeting by the Boeing X-39B sigint shuttle, and when it got the West behind its false claim that it was a test of a miniature nuclear bomb – what Danny Stillman and Thomas Reed claimed in The Nuclear Express that the wily communists would unleash on NYC with far greater devastation than on 9/11 – its military establishment demanded a strong military confrontation. Seeing that it was a build-up of what had happened to China’s nuclear establishment in Sichuan in May 2008, North Korea decided, with covert Beijing approval, to take the US bull by the horns – what it currently developing, as Washington is already backing away from disarming the North of its nuclear weapons.
having visited the carlsbad caves in New mexico, I have only one thing to say,
its a long long way from Washington state to carlsbad New mexico and the transport of this waste would be as complicated as it is to store. To say that campaigners would oppose such a move and ask Washington to get rid of it up there, in their own state, must be something of an understatement.
53 million gallons is how many litres?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
Expat, 4.36pm
And here is that very law…
Sveriges Advokatsamfund: Details of new “foreign espionage” law introduced at the beginning of February 2013 (not mentioned by Lindskop though)
http://www.advokatsamfundet.se/Nyhetsarkiv/2013/Februari/Forstarkt-straffrattsligt-skydd-mot-spioneri/
Here’s some more details from Sweden’s Espressen newspaper (use Google translate):
http://www.expressen.se/debatt/krigsjournalistik-maste-fa-vara-fri/
Sounds very dangerous to any journalists engaged in ‘war reporting’ to me, and seemly purpose-designed to transfer Assange from Sweden to the US as ‘dual criminality’ is written all the way through it like a stick of rock.
A kind person posted my questions about this new law to the internet:
http://www.marthamitchelleffect.org/#/questions-for-stefan-lindskop/4575275914
Now Ecuador is reiterating its offer to facilitate Assange’s questioning in their embassy, in light of Lindskop’s “significant speech”:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/389283/Ecuador-repeats-Assange-quiz-offer
Trowbridge; I didn’t say it was a perfect analogy. The circumstances around the propaganda sound similar. Yes the saber-rattling has been East/West. But the NK’s don’t seem to have the capability to carry out threats. The West seems intent, as in Iraq, on alerting the Public to the potentials.
From the i today:
“Israel pressed Hamas yesterday to rein in rocket-firing militants”
Was it not Israel that murdered Ahmed Jabari, a senior Hamas figure, who was working hard at preventing rocket attacks on Israel from those very militants?
Yes it was.
“Hours before Hamas strongman Ahmed Jabari was assassinated, he received the draft of a permanent truce agreement with Israel, which included mechanisms for maintaining the cease-fire in the case of a flare-up between Israel and the factions in the Gaza Strip.”
“[Israeli peace activist Gershon] Baskin told Haaretz on Thursday that senior officials in Israel knew about his contacts with Hamas and Egyptian intelligence aimed at formulating the permanent truce, but nevertheless approved the assassination.”
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-peace-activist-hamas-leader-jabari-killed-amid-talks-on-long-term-truce.premium-1.478085
Doug scorgie, 5:44 pm
It’s radioactive, so it probably contains uranium. Uranium is highly toxic chemically, whether it’s highly radioactive or not.
“3.1 million gallons (11.7 million liters)” – That’s enough to fill 50 to 100 railway tank cars, or over 250 road tanker trucks. The risk of moving it must be enormous.
“David Cameron warns North Korea could launch devastating nuclear strike against UK”
“THE PRIME Minister has warned North Korea has the capability to launch nuclear weapons that could reach Britain.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/389343/David-Cameron-warns-North-Korea-could-launch-devastating-nuclear-strike-against-UK
Same scaremongering used by Blair
Doug scorgie, 5:44 pm,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
nevermind
4 Apr, 2013 – 6:04 pm
“Having visited the carlsbad caves in New mexico, I have only one thing to say, its a long long way from Washington state to carlsbad New mexico and the transport of this waste would be as complicated as it is to store.”
Approximate road distance from Hanford Nuclear Reservation to Carlsbad, New Mexico is about 1,400 miles.
What an opportunity for a terrorist attack! (or false flag?).
Al Jazeera TV are airing a series of four 1-hour documentaries about the oil indusrty, starting tonight. Whilst I take Al Jazeera with all the pinches of salt appropriate to a TV company staffed by ex-BBC employees whose opening day was marked by David Frost interviewing Tony Blair, it’s focus on a 90 year-old cartel sounds interesting.
Tonight: Desert Storms
First of a 4-part series. This episode charts the cartel’s growth, and its role in the Middle East
Al Jazeera English 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Thu 4 Apr
http://www.aljazeera.com/pressoffice/2013/03/201332813313307740.html
Villager to English Knight
4 Apr, 2013 – 7:06 am
DANGER AHEAD !!
Very plausible PSYOPS!
Too subtle for the stunted myopic mainstream to spot.
EK to Villager-its exactly that, proof? thanks to Craig’s wisdom we still have in house “resident canaries” that can smell the gas, and immediately try to bury the truth, dead give away. Check habbakyk posts thereafter.
@Trowbridge 5:53pm
Trowbridge, interesting comment ,I presume the Misty laser satellite was employing a Gamma ray laser.
It certainly has been a while since Craig’s last post, and this latest one was lamentably brief. It’s not as if there’s nothing going on that might be worth commenting upon. Given no trips were announced, I’m a bit concerned about his health.
Yes I share your concern Glen. Is anyone on this blog able to contact Craig?
“Venezuelan Government Announces Transition to US Style Democracy”
“In a public broadcast yesterday the Venezuelan government announced the transition to democracy. Measures include the sale of community media to business giant Rupert Murdoch, and the privatisation of the health sector.”
“Further, the government announced it will be bringing Monsanto into the country to advise on food reform.”
“The government will also sell its Barrio Adentro health system to Richard Branson.”
“We hope that within a few years our democracy will be just as good as it is in the US.”
“Hugo Chaves’ down to earth rhetoric and appealing personality tricked many Venezuelans into supporting dictatorial policies such as investment in health and education.”
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/8434
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Thanks, Dave, for the interesting response.
I would have to know much more about the site, and the evidence of the destruction before I would make even a guess about the type of laser used.
The NRO has had the capability to cause earthquakes for about a quarter century – what its Keyhole satellite accomplished in northwestern Iran in 1990 to make sure that the mullahs didn’t help out Saddam during the first Gulf War.
It was the result of a suggestion that Stillman made after the end of the Cold War. It had been designed to destroy any Soviet ICBMs in preparation for launch after Oliver North et al. had seen to the surprise assassination of Sweden’s Olof Palme.
The Soviets had been made to look like the fallguy assassins, and it was expected that Moscow might panic into throwing all its land- and sea-based nukes at the West. The Keyhole one would take care of the former while Navy Secretary John Lehman, Jr.’s attack subs would take care of all the Soviet boomers going hastily on station for launching them.
It was only prevented by all that spying by all those spies who hated Moscow, and are still rotting away in prison for saving our skins.
Since then, the Lacrosse and Misty ones have taken the Keyhole’s place, and there could now well be gamma-ray lasers, though the former have caused earthquakes in Turkey, Iran again, Pakistan, and China.
Can you tell me more about the February 11 one – its exact location, its seismic autograph and those of annihilating gamma rays, the radiation resulting, etc.?
And the West only considers the North Korean leaders, and a few others hopeless madmen!
Arbed, the changes to foreign espionage laws in Sweden show its closer relationship to other NATO countries, especially the US. Thanks for the link.
What Sweden should be doing is what it used to do before Reinfeldt and other Rove-puppets came to power. Can you believe that this is the same country that gave us SIPRI? I feel even with SIPRI (Stockholm Independent Peace Research Institute) the institute also falling prey to Americanisation. If you’ve read ‘Animal Farm’ you know when the bad pigs under Napoleon take over they change the notices established by the good pig (Old Major) so that instead of reading “No animal can walk on two legs” the notice reads “No animal can walk on two legs, except pigs” and so on with sleeping in beds, sitting on chairs &C. Likewise SIPRI now bills itself “the independent resource on global security” and the downhill slide has started from peace to war.
Here it is again, Sweden’s future in a nutshell.
http://www.advokatsamfundet.se/Nyhetsarkiv/2013/Februari/Forstarkt-straffrattsligt-skydd-mot-spioneri/
Oh, I forgot to mention that a Keyhole satellite was on the hastily launched Space Shuttle Challenger in January 1986, but that didn’t phase our madmen who believed that the cargo container that Toshiba was sending across the USSR at the time of the shooting would tell the West if Moscow was gearing for a land-based ICBM launch, but they did realize that Alexandr Litvinenko was leading a GRU railway squad to spot and stop such eavesdropping, etc.
I just couldn’t imagine such crazy nonsense which gives plotters such a difficult time, and most conspiracy theorists such a bad name.
Don’t forget what happened to Anna Lindh, John Goss. She was killed by an assassin who was hearing voices telling him to do so. Need I say more?
I should correct what I just wrote – i. e., the Iran-Contra plotters didn’t know about Litvinenko, making him everyone’s target when he threatened to tell what he knew about the Palme assassination, and other KGB secrets.
USS McCain…OOO Rah ! Hagel says the have nuclear capability, now. Deja-Vu, all over again. (shall we wait for the mushroom cloud, Condi Rice?)
“The Pentagon has placed its national missile defense shield on heightened alert amid reports that North Korea is preparing a missile flight test, according to defense officials.”
http://freebeacon.com/shield-up/
The Media is on board. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/evacuation-plans-for-7000-australians-living-in-south-korea/story-fncynkc6-1226612720574
“”The moment of explosion is approaching fast,” the Korean People’s Army general staff said, responding to what it called the provocative US use of nuclear-capable B-52 and B-2 stealth bombers in ongoing war games with South Korea.”
I thought this was interesting….
“The US aggression would be “smashed by … cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike means,” the statement said.”
What did Sun Tzu say about attacking a superior enemy at the point of his strength? A cornered animal is a desperate foe.
They may have no long-range missiles of import, but they do have the means to lop their noses off in spite of their faces. It’s a dangerous game the US is playing. Responding with ever-escalating rhetoric is not a game to play with a starving and paranoid psychology.