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October 10, 2016
Wind power fast beating nuclear
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Nuclear power is rapidly losing the race with renewable energy sources in the U.S., according to the SUN DAY Campaign, which cites two new reports from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Reports Show U.S. Renewables Rapidly Beating Out Nuclear, NA Windpower, Betsy Lillian on October 05, 2016 Nuclear power is rapidly losing the race with renewable energy sources in the U.S., according to the SUN DAY Campaign, which cites two new reports from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
EIA’s latest Monthly Energy Review (with data for the first half of this year) notes that during the first six months of 2016, renewable sources – e.g., biofuels, biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar and wind – accounted for 5.242 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) of domestic energy production, according to the nonprofit group.
This includes thermal, liquid and electrical forms of energy. By comparison, nuclear power provided only 4.188 quads – that is, renewables outpaced nuclear by more than 25%, says SUN DAY.
Meanwhile, FERC’s latest Energy Infrastructure Update (with data through the end…
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October 9, 2016
Solar buries the India-US nuclear deal
Fellow, Energy & Environment Studies
Solar power developers have offered to sell electricity in India at less than Rs 5/unit. This makes solar competitive with traditional forms of energy, and makes new nuclear power plants financially unviable. India must register the changed reality, and discard the idea of expensive Western reactors. Time to scrap the India-U.S. nuclear deal?
Hard on the heels of falling oil prices and affordable shale, comes another dramatic energy change for the industry: The falling cost of solar energy. This has many implications, but the most immediate impact is on the nuclear power industry, large parts of which may have just become obsolete. This means that the new nuclear power plants being planned by India, especially those with foreign collaboration, must be reconsidered and scrapped if they are financially unviable.
Source: Solar buries the India-US nuclear deal
Remembering Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara
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Che Guevara’s journey from doctor-in-training to international revolutionary.
teleSUR looks back at Guevara’s journey from doctor-in-training to international revolutionary.
Telesur | 07 October, 2016
Born on June 14, 1928, Ernesto “Che” Guevara did not come into the world a revolutionary. He grew up in a middle-class Argentine family and trained to be a doctor, preparing to live a bourgeois life. But unlike others in his class, he was unable to shut his eyes to the injustices upon which material wealth was based: generational poverty and state-imposed policies designed to keep the poor ignorant and exploited. Life blessed him with the opportunity to live out his days in comfort, but instead he died age 39, fighting for revolution, murdered by CIA agents on Oct. 9, 1967, in the jungles of Bolivia.
Guevara’s eyes were famously opened to the harsh realities of capitalism for those born less privileged than him when, as a medical student in his early 20s, he hopped on a motorcycle and went…
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An Insider’s View of Drug Smuggling
Smuggler: Roger Reaves a Memoir
by Roger Reaves
Marrie J Reaves Publishing (2016)
Book Review
Smuggler is an extremely unusual memoir by a 73 year old American who is currently serving a life sentence in Australia for drug smuggling. Written over fifteen years, it’s a highly detailed, journal-like memoir painting the author’s journey from excruciating rural poverty to high rolling international drug smuggler.
The reader comes away with the clear sense that despite government efforts to portray Reaves as a dangerous blood thirsty king pin, he was actually a lowly middleman who was regularly cheated and manipulated by the real king pins who engaged his services. While Reeves was highly successful (bringing in millions a month) during the first decade and a half of his career, a pattern emerged in which his clients routinely weasled out of paying him, shortchanged him on the quanity and/or quality of drugs they asked him to traffic, and/or provided him with mechanically faulty and dangerous aircraft and boats. Towards the end of his career, some were actively colluding with the DEA and FBI to entrap him.
Owing to the illegal nature of marijuana and cocaine trafficking a person has no comeback – except murder or serious physical injury – if a colleague cheats them. As the highly personal memoir makes clear, it wasn’t in Reaves’s nature to engage in lethal retaliation. This, perhaps, explains his failure to rise to the ranks of vicious psychopaths like Pablo Escobar.
For me the most interesting part of the book is the section where Reaves talks about his relationship with Barry Seal and the guaranteed “no-interception” cocaine delivery operation he had going at the Mena Airport – with the active approval and support of Arkansas governor Bill Clinton and Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush.
According to Reaves, there were only two delivery points in the US where traffickers could unload a shipment with absolute guarantee that neither Customs nor the DEA would bust them. Mena was one of them.
Reaves believes strongly that the War on Drugs is a racket perpetuated mainly for the benefit of Wall Street and illegal CIA military interventions. He advocates for the US and its allies to follow the example of Portugal, which has decriminalized all drugs. In Portugal, where possession of three grams of any drug is treated as a spot fine, crime rates have plummeted since the policy was implement in 2001 (see The Cato Institute and the Drug War).
October 8, 2016
Your Radiation This Week No 75 and 76 – Continue to Dodge The Rads
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41 Cities Reporting Radiation Above 1,000 CPM – Normal Radiation is 5 to 20 CPM
“.. Undeclared Nuclear War Continues” …… Continue to Dodge The Rads!
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WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW
#YRTW Your #Radiation This Week No 75 and 76 http://tinyurl.com/YourRads75-76
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“Good Day, this is “Your Radiation This Week” for the past 2 weeks. These are the Recorded Beta and Gamma Combined Radiation Highs that affected people around the United States. YRTW is published every two weeks on Saturday. …”
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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/10/08/your-radiation-this-week-no-75-and-76/
Count – 41 Cities Reporting Radiation Above 1,000 CPM
Normal Radiation is 5 to 20 CPM [4]
Changes
“New Item – Effective this issue “Rad Cities in Alphabetical Order” is an addition to the Rad List. It includes the exact cities as the first list that is Ordered by the Rad CPM number. The only difference is the way they are Sorted.”
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“The Combined Beta and Gamma Radiation numbers publication dates are…
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Russian UK Ambassador Yakovenko–Terrorist Occupation of Hospitals Makes Them Legitimate Targets
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Russian ambassador Yakovenko says that the targeting is justified since Syrian rebels are using the hospitals and resident civilians as human shields. “Most hospitals are unmarked rebel field facilities. Keeping civilians as a human shield is a well-known terrorist tactic.
Hospitals legitimate target for Assad and Moscow: Russian ambassador
ARA News
AMSTERDAM – The Russian Ambassador to the UK, Alexander Yakovenko, confirmed that Syrian and Russian governments intentionally bomb hospitals.
Activists reported on Wednesday that while the Russian and Syrian governments claim to target extremists, “airstrikes in Aleppo destroy homes, hospitals and schools.”
However, the Russian ambassador said that the targeting is justified since Syrian rebels are using the hospitals and resident civilians as human shields.
“Most hospitals are unmarked rebel field facilities. Keeping civilians as a human shield is a well-known terrorist tactic,” Ambassador Yakovenko said.
Syrian and Russian jets have resumed their bombing of rebel-held districts, reinforcing Shia militias and the Syrian Army as they lay siege to eastern Aleppo. Violence has intensified in Aleppo since a Russian-American ceasefire deal broke down last month.
Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child…
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Enough of CIA’s ‘Enough Project’ in Africa!
The “Enough Project” claims it’s mission is to prevent genocide in Africa, but has been conspicuously silent when it comes to the genocidal famine in Somalia.
Enough of the CIA’s “Enough Project” in Africa!
EP, as it is known, was founded by senior U.S. Intel “spook” Gayle Smith, former Senior Director of the National Security Council under President Obama and now head of the USAID/CIA.
Today EP is headed by Ms. Smith’s protégé John Prendergast whose history as head of EP is one of subterfuge and lies in service to Pax Americana.
EP claims it’s mission is to prevent genocide in Africa, as in the name “Enough Project”, yet has been conspicuously silent when it comes to the genocidal famine in Somalia during the Great Horn of Africa Drought in 2011-12 where 250,000 Somali children starved to death.
Recently George Clooney was enjoying 15 minutes of fame as a humanitarian claiming to have exposed massive corruption in South Sudan when he should have been warning the world of the U.N.’s next genocide in Somalia as in 300,000 starving children. Soon the genocide in Somalia will hit its peak with hundreds, up to 1,000 children a day dying from hunger with only a deafening silence emanating from the CIA’s Enough Project.
Source: Enough of CIA’s ‘Enough Project’ in Africa!
Shipments of Nuclear Waste Through Hurricane Prone Atlantic to Charleston SC Almost Monthly? | Mining Awareness +
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The German government wants to send 30 shipments of spent nuclear fuel from its Ahaus storage facility as well as lesser amounts from Juelich over the course of 3.5 years (42 months), i.e. approximately every month and a half, to Charleston, South Carolina.
The German government wants to send 30 shipments of spent nuclear fuel from its Ahaus storage facility as well as lesser amounts from Juelich over the course of 3.5 years (42 months), i.e. approximately every month and a half, to Charleston, South Carolina. Unlike airplanes which hug the coastlines, shipping routes appear to go through the English Channel, straight across the Atlantic to North Carolina and then slide down the coast to Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston was just evacuated for Hurricane Matthew.Shipments of radioactive waste from other countries may also be continuing as per the Obama administration policy of spending almost $2 billion per year of US taxpayer money to dump foreign nuclear waste on America – in short fleecing the US taxpayer to better kill them and/or their descendants. Under Hillary this will most likely continue. And, it sounds like Trump will be too busy looking at women to…
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October 7, 2016
Marijuana Arrests by the Numbers | American Civil Liberties Union
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Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were for simply having marijuana.
According to the ACLU’s original analysis, marijuana arrests now account for over half of all drug arrests in the United States. Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were for simply having marijuana. Nationwide, the arrest data revealed one consistent trend: significant racial bias. Despite roughly equal usage rates, Blacks are 3.73 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana.
Source: Marijuana Arrests by the Numbers | American Civil Liberties Union
New York coalition of community groups aim to scrap nuclear subsidies
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Coalition seeks to end $8 billion in subsidies for 3 New York nuclear plants
Green groups call on state to scrap upstate nuclear subsidies,
Times Union
By Casey Seiler, Capitol bureau chief on October 5, 2016
A coalition of environmental groups including Food & Water Watch and the New York Public Interest Research Group have united to oppose what they estimate as an almost $8 billion effort to subsidize three upstate nuclear power plants: the James A. Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant and Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station outside Oswego and the R.E. Ginna plant east of Rochester.
The state Public Service Commission voted in early August to approve a rate increase for the power generated by the plants to pay for the subsidies. Since then, a group of downstate lawmakers have called for the PSC to reconsider that action and be more transparent in its analysis, noting that the majority of the cost of keeping the plants on line will be…
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