I am sorry there have been so few posts lately. I am terrifically busy. Yesterday I was up before dawn and back after midnight, having spent the day in Wales. Regular readers will realise that I am working on something I shan’t be able to blog about until it has come to fruition. I was most amused recently by a commenter who called me an “armchair critic.” I shall be in Germany, Brazil, Afghanistan and Ghana in the next two months.
Also I continue to dig into the extraordinary case of Adam Werritty and just why he was holding all those meetings with Matthew Gould, while Gould was Private Secretary to Miliband and then while he was Private Secretary to Hague, and then while he was UK Ambassador to Israel. I have new information, but as I am working on it with someone else quasi-mainstream I shan’t break it before they do. It is a story that really ought to be a television documentary, but given the mainstream media blackout, I was considering whether a podcast format might be a good way to get it further out there. But I need someone who can film it in a reasonably professional way, cutting in pictures, document extracts and interviews in a manner that looks good.
Any ideas or volunteers out there?
Clark,
You are far too occupied by the bonding, and you are overlooking the moderation control, and moderator composition, as well as fuel rod material design and construction.
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Use of differing working fluids, can achieve no more than the high pressure water (broadly speaking). Further considering the enrichment levels of two to seven percent and burn up rate of approx four percent, yield low level radiation waste. that can be recycled.
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Nuclear energy has a real bad wrap, in fact I will never forget the NASA Mars Explorer teams’ interview during which one of the panel referenced to the nuclear battery on board, only for him to be slapped down and corrected by his boss; “high energy battery”.
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We cannot let paranoia stop the progress of humanity. Further without active investigations and research no improvements can be expected or gained. Therefore, proliferation of nuclear energy and its improvements ought to be the priority of all governments, James Lovelock was the very first to forward this notion, and he is the environmentalist 1, is he not?
Fedup, we’re well off-topic here; you can e-mail me from the link under my avatar if you wish, but just briefly…
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I’m not opposed to nuclear power in principle, but I don’t like the current power reactors. Remember, at Fukushima, all three operational reactors suffered meltdowns. I’ve never heard of high burnup in the conventional fuel cycle, and the 100,000 or so tonnes of spent fuel would seem to contradict that.
“Never argue with a fool,they will lower you to their level then beat you with experience.”
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Just in and catching up on the thread.Interesting reading.For some strange reason i can always tell the posters that are paid to attend this site.
Don’t forget that Jan 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day when we must feel solemn about the billions of Israeli casualties in World War Two. Make sure you don’t smile, or Israel might get the ‘ump and start World War Three.
The legacy of Bush and Bliar lives on.
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U.N. rights chief shocked at numerous Iraq executions
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The top United Nations human rights official criticised Iraq on Tuesday for carrying out a large number of executions, including 34 on a single day last week, and voiced concern about due process and the fairness of trials.
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“Even if the most scrupulous fair trial standards were observed, this would be a terrifying number of executions to take place in a single day,” U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said, in a statement referring to executions carried out on January 19.
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“Given the lack of transparency in court proceedings, major concerns about due process and fairness of trials, and the very wide range of offences for which the death penalty can be imposed in Iraq, it is a truly shocking figure,” she added.
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At least 63 people are believed to have been executed since mid-November in Iraq, where the death penalty can be imposed for some 48 crimes including a number related to non-fatal crimes such as damage to public property, Pillay said.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/24/us-un-iraq-rights-idUSTRE80N17820120124
Fisk –
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Let’s take the Israeli version which, despite constant proof that Israel’s intelligence services are about as efficient as Syria’s, goes on being trumpeted by its friends in the West, none more subservient than Western journalists. The Israeli President warns us now that Iran is on the cusp of producing a nuclear weapon. Heaven preserve us. Yet we reporters do not mention that Shimon Peres, as Israeli Prime Minister, said exactly the same thing in 1996. That was 16 years ago. And we do not recall that the current Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, said in 1992 that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 1999. That would be 13 years ago. Same old story.
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In fact, we don’t know that Iran really is building a nuclear weapon. And after Iraq, it’s amazing that the old weapons of mass destruction details are popping with the same frequency as all the poppycock about Saddam’s titanic arsenal. Not to mention the date problem. When did all this start? The Shah. The old boy wanted nuclear power. He even said he wanted a bomb because “the US and the Soviet Union had nuclear bombs” and no one objected. Europeans rushed to supply the dictator’s wish. Siemens – not Russia – built the Bushehr nuclear facility.
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And when Ayatollah Khomeini, Scourge of the West, Apostle of Shia Revolution, etc, took over Iran in 1979, he ordered the entire nuclear project to be closed down because it was “the work of the Devil”. Only when Saddam invaded Iran – with our Western encouragement – and started using poison gas against the Iranians (chemical components arriving from the West, of course) was Khomeini persuaded to reopen it.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-weve-been-here-before–and-it-suits-israel-that-we-never-forget-nuclear-iran-6294111.html
This may sound silly but I will just put the idea out there, I am a big fan of the documentary works of Adam Curtis, this topic sounds like something that would be right up his alley, however, I wouldn’t want to take anything away from the opportunities offered by others, also, have you heard of Max Keiser’s little website called ‘Pirate my Film’? It allows you to post a film idea and then get it crowd funded based just on the idea, its a really interesting way to harness the power of ideas and make films with no large financial backing… i’m pretty sure it would be worth setting up, I will contribute to the costs of the film getting made if you put it on there!
Good luck Craig and keep up the good work
The BBC ‘s today programme has won the bisquit for best propaganda today. By giving possible traitor Liam Fox the opportunity to first call Iran a Nuclear weapons state and then a future nuclear weapons state, without even questioning the liar,they have levelled off with RT and any other mouthpiece that promotes violence and war.
Not a question as to ‘where is werritty’, for all I care it could be a new board game par excellence, not a question as to evidence to this outrageous claim, no questions as to Werritty’s unhindered, unofficial travel with ‘his man’.
Today and PM are progressively ensuring that the BBC will be totally remoulded, that its lies and cannivance will eventually be found out and the tax paying public, suckering this fascist behaviour in a tribal political adherence to the main parties, will realise that they have been impoverished and sucked dry by these triffids.
Clark, would it be feasible that the best place for used cracked fuel rods is the backside of some of these errant hasbara’s here?
@ alaric, listen sonny, Craig wants to finish the work, not make it a millenium project that might be done one day if enough can be bothered to like it, there is some urgency to what Craig is planning.
I am told that Liam Fox’s contribution was particularly revolting on Radio 4 Today this morning.
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Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said yesterday in the Commons that an escalation of a dispute with Iran could see Britain sending military reinforcements to the Gulf. Former Defence Secretary Liam Fox gives his thoughts on relations with the Middle East country.
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The live link is not there yet but normally comes up quite quickly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/default.stm
Sellafield – http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/01/the-ceo-who-chained-himself-to-a-bridge/
As the author says, can’t see Gates (Clinton crony) doing the same. Gates is all over the media this morning hyping up his foundation and the need for more aid. He never mentioned the cost of the US military, top spender at $687 billion and probably an inaccurate guesstimate. {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures}
Mary – thank you for linking to Robert Fisk’s story, which deserves a wider audience than it is likely to get.
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I wish that some of the other commentators would stop trying to make this thread a substitute House of Commons – there are many excellent points being made but the yah-boo personal assaults don’t fit with a blog like Craig’s, which is scholarly and truthful.
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Jeni
I see that WWIII conspiracy has waded off. Is it still on table?
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Russian web portals reported that Julian Assange is to work for Russia Today. Well, good for him.
@ Boniface Goncourt
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Are you saying that Holocaust was not made up? By Soviets? US? British?
Wow, this thread is busy 🙂
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Since there’s not really an on-topic here, here’s an off-topic. On Press TV, for those following that story:
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/24/suppressing-press-tv-ofcom-licence
Ingo, I would not attempt to store spent nuclear fuel in any backside that wasn’t lined with plenty of lead. Plumbum?
Ingo Deliberate obfuscation and confusion on the BBC today website. When you clink on the link below to the Fox segment, you get up the same link for the segment before it about the brain ie
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New research into how the brain works examines why some people may have a mediocre IQ but might be very good at certain subjects, like maths for example. Professor Nancy Kanwisher, of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is leading the research and outlines her findings.
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What bastards are lurking within the BBC.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9686000/9686131.stm
Memo to BBC Today webpage sent 10.58
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The live link to the Liam Fox interview this morning takes one to the interview with the American professor discussing the workings of the brain! Please rectify as the matter is important.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9686000/9686131.stm
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Havantaclu Thanks for that. I did miss these outrageous words IRAN IS NOT A NICE PLACE in the opening paras of Fisk’s piece which thus diminish the rest of what he says. I copied the third and fourth paragraphs.
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Thread on medialens
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http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/thread/1327477768.html
“Deliberate obfuscation and confusion on the BBC today website. When you clink on the link below to the Fox segment, you get up the same link for the segment before it about the brain … What bastards are lurking within the BBC.”
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Calm down a little … Webmasters make errors, just like everyone else.
Jives: ‘For some strange reason i can always tell the posters that are paid to attend this site.’
Jives I would echo your sentiment. its such a shame that a proper registration system couldn’t be used on this otherwise brilliant web forum to deter the sockpuppetry professionals and amateur trolls.
Another fantastic article by Dr Roberts : USA is drowning in hypocrisy
Well worth reading
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/01/25/u-s-drowning-in-hypocrisy/
The BBC have responded by correcting the link to the interview with Fox who sounds just as cocksure as before his outing as an Israeli collaborator.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9686000/9686132.stm
Nuid You don’t know all that goes on at ZBC. Are you Dreoilin btw?
“I see that WWIII conspiracy has waded off. Is it still on table?”
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Conspiracy? What desperation belies such a statement?
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Does it mean that US ought to be appeased, regardless of its crazy expansionist policies destabilising the world?
I am ex-Dreoilin, Mary, yes.
Then welcome back Nuid.
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ZBC are glorifying this psychopath who is the US top sniper, ie killer of Muslims.
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What goes on in the mind of a sniper?
By Stephanie Hegarty
BBC World Service
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16544490
Mary : Robert Fisk and others who have not lived in Iran make the unfortunate assumption that Iran is not a Nice Place. last year was talking to someone who used to live in Holland many years and moved back to Iran 3 years ago. He said something sobering :
” people in here want to find a way to move out, they think the grass is greener the other side, yet and we who are out, are trying to find away to move back in”.
No doubt Iran has its problem, but most of those I blame the foriegn interference and the western government for.
meant, “find ways to move back in”
Thanks, Mary.
I just read an excerpt from your link about that sniper: “Married with two children, he has now retired from the military and has published a book in which he claims to have no regrets, referring to the people he killed as “savages”.”
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Anyone anywhere who tries to defend their country from assault by the USA is labelled a ‘savage’ by (many of) the US military. Makes me shudder.
And then there’s this in the Telegraph:
‘Haditha residents outraged as Marine avoids jail’
Haditha residents and relatives of the 24 Iraqi civilians killed in 2005 in the town by US troops voiced disgust and shock over the light sentence meted out to a soldier involved in the massacre.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/9037595/Haditha-residents-outraged-as-Marine-avoids-jail.html
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He’s not even doing three months in jail, because of a “pretrial agreement”. He has walked free.