One evening almost sixty years ago, a Tufts University researcher named Roger Payne was working in his lab when he heard a radio report about a whale that had washed up on a beach nearby. Although it was a cold, wet March night, he decided to drive to the shore. When he arrived, he discovered that the animal had been mutilated. Two passersby had carved their initials in its flanks. Someone had hacked off its flukes, and another person, or perhaps the same one, had stuck a cigar butt in its blowhole. Payne stood in the rain for a long time, gazing at…
Japan was urged to face up to the legitimate concerns of the international community on dumping nuclear-contaminated water into ocean at the 53rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday.
Japan’s moves are passing on the risk of nuclear pollution to all mankind that are seriously endangering the right to health of people of all countries, the Chinese representative to the council said..
The Chinese representative said that Japan’s dumping of nuclear-contaminated water into the sea violated its obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Japan has so far failed to prove that the dumping of nuclear-contaminated water into the sea is safe and sound.
The data released by Japan itself also shows that nearly 70 percent of the treated nuclear-contaminated water still fail to meet the standards.
The dumping plan is not the only way to deal with the Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water, nor is it the safest and most optimal means of disposal.
However, the Japanese side chose to discharge the nuclear-contaminated water into the ocean based on economic cost, and in doing so is passing on the risk of nuclear pollution to all mankind, and is seriously endangering the right to health of people of all countries.
The Chinese representative pointed out that Japan has not followed the principle of consultation on the dumping plan of nuclear-contaminated water, and has repeatedly tried to mislead the international community, trying to cover up the uncertain risks of nuclear-contaminated water dumped into the sea under the disguise of “treated water.”
A few days ago, regardless of strong opposition at home and abroad, Japan forcibly started trial operation of nuclear-contaminated water discharge equipment, which is another step toward unilaterally forcibly dumping the nuclear-contaminated water into the ocean, the Chinese representative noted.
If Japan really has the sincerity to negotiate, it should announce the suspension of sea dumping plan, allow stakeholders such as Japan’s neighboring countries and Pacific Islands countries to conduct independent sampling and analysis of the nuclear-contaminated water, and agree to explore all possible disposal options other than sea discharge.
If the nuclear-contaminated water is as safe as Japan claims, Japan should choose to dispose of it domestically instead of passing on the risk to Pacific countries, according to the Chinese representative.
The Chinese representative emphasized that the Japanese government’s decision to dump the water polluted by the Fukushima nuclear accident into the ocean is related to the safety of the global ecological environment and the right to health of the people of all countries.
This is not a matter for Japan alone.
The Japanese side must face up to the strong opposition voices at home and abroad and the reasonable concerns of the international community, honestly fulfill its international obligations, and dispose of the nuclear-contaminated water in an open, transparent, and safest way, so as not to cause irreversible consequence, the representative noted.
If before we suspected with high confidence, now it is plain fact. They intend to destroy the ZNPP plant as a last ditch attempt to ‘activate NATO’ by blaming Russia.
A last ditch attempt to ‘activate NATO’ by blaming Russia.
A completely coordinated campaign over the last few days has affirmed this. Not only was Budanov’s maiden speech after reappearing from his Kalibrated cranial trepanation centered on Russia’s alleged ‘mining of the ZNPP’ basement, but now several new instances of highly coordinated messaging have been released by Ukraine and its Western controllers.
(I re-post Budanov’s video just to have them all here in one place for easy reference)
In fact, since that video from days ago, he’s released a new, even more urgently threatening message:
🇺🇦🤡 “The 4th and 6th power units of the Zaporozhye NPP were mined by Russia,” – Kyrylo Budanov
“The situation has never been as serious as it is now.
The plan of the terrorist attack at the ZNPP has been fully developed and approved. To accelerate the catastrophe, they can use technical means,” Budanov stated
Now, Zelensky has made two separate videos where he plainly states that Russia is preparing a massive terrorist attack at the ZNPP plant “just like they did at the Kakhovka dam”.
He goes on to sternly warn the world and charge them with the responsibility to act with utmost severity in response to this upcoming Russian attack.
He specifically invokes the threat of radiation crossing the borders into other NATO countries for obvious effect.
And a day later, in coordinated fashion, Lindsay Graham threatened Russia with massive NATO retaliation should Russia use any type of “nuclear” aggravation:
He even put forth a new resolution which specifically quotes the ‘destruction of a nuclear facility’ and ‘dispersing radioactive contaminants’ as an attack on NATO itself:
Obviously, this is quite ironic and hypocritical given that it was the U.S. and UK that just announced the supply of radioactive DU ammunition, which does exactly what Graham here describes in spreading radioactive contaminants.
The official Russian embassy account, quoting Russian envoy to the U.S., fired back, stating that in the event of a conflict between Russia and NATO, the U.S. would not be able to “hide behind the ocean”, clearly referencing nuclear strikes:
Western press is already running with the narrative:
What can one say, the West’s leaders are clearly psychopathic. They have already destroyed a major pipeline in the Nordstream in an obvious terrorist attack and now they are planning one on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
Ukrainian presidential advisor Podolyak added to the orchestrated release with his own statement, slowly conditioning the narrative that Russia is losing its grip on Energodar and will blow the plant to “stop the Ukrainian counter-offensive”.
Intrinsic to his statement is the clear threat to Europe, contributing to the theory that this ploy is in fact a part of Ukraine’s nuclear blackmail.
By the way, it should be mentioned that the IAEA reportedly released a statement denying Budanov’s claims, so that will be interesting to watch. Despite the agency’s corruption perhaps they’re not entirely suicidal and psychopathic:
But I’ll post this again to show the corrupt IAEA has already been exposed as a surveillance arm of the AFU:
However, to begin building the groundswell of the narrative, the Ukrainian health ministry even released these preparatory safety alerts for citizens to stay safe during a nuclear radiation accident:
Russia even arrested saboteurs with Cesium-137 on them:
🇷🇺The FSB detained five people who were trying to smuggle 1 kg of radioactive Cesium-137 worth $3.5 million abroad.
It’s reported that it was intended for use in the SMO zone in order to discredit Russia.
The suspects have been arrested and are making confessions. A case has been initiated on the illegal handling of radioactive substances and preparations for their smuggling.
/Izvestia/
I’d say sooner or later we can expect some sort of Nuclear incident in Ukraine
Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies (ADCS) is an international peer reviewed and open access journal to the study of new and emerging perpsectives in anarchist thought.
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Anarchist forms of organising and bayanihan (solidarity) in the face of a Philippine state of calamities Journal Manager; Karin Louise Hermes 35-58 pdf https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/adcs/article
The facts indicate that Zelensky’s Ukraine is guilty of Eichmann-like crimes, Declan Hayeswrites.
This article addresses the claims of Russian Foreign Ministry spokespersonMaria Zakharova et althat Zelensky’sUkraine is a major criminal hubin the global trafficking of human body parts, and with children into the white slave trade, as well as recent European Union claims that all such “Russian”assertions are mis-information.
Because of the seriousness of such allegations and denials, this preliminary exploration is written in a quasi-academic style and is divided into a number of sections to help interested authorities bring the culprits, from whatever side of the lines they may be on, to account.
Thus, section 1 surveys theglobal trafficking tradein human organs and child prostitutes to establish that such lucrative industries do exist and, ergo, that, as with Jeffrey Epstein’s Orgy Island…
Round the cycle turns. As millions are driven from their homes by climate disasters, the extreme right exploits their misery to extend its reach.
Thriving on Catastrophe
As the extreme right gains power, climate programmes are shut down, heating accelerates and more people are driven from their homes.
If we don’t break this cycle soon, it will become the dominant story of our times.
A recent paper in Nature identifies the “human climate niche”: the range of temperatures and rainfall within which human societies thrive.
We have clustered in the parts of the world with a climate that supports our flourishing, but in many of these places the niche is shrinking.
Already, around 600 million people have been stranded in inhospitable conditions by global heating. Current global policies are likely to result in about 2.7C of heating by 2100. On this trajectory, some 2 billion people may be left outside the niche by 2030, and 3.7 billion by 2090.
If governments limited heating to their agreed goal of 1.5C, the numbers exposed to extreme heat would be reduced fivefold.
But if they abandon their climate policies, this would lead to around 4.4C of heating. In this case, by the end of the century around 5.3 billion people would face conditions that ranged from dangerous to impossible.
These conditions include extreme disruption, morbidity and death through heat-shock, water stress, crop failure and the spread of infectious disease. The figures do not take into account the effect of rising sea levels, which could displace hundreds of millions more.
António Guterres calls for urgent action as climate-driven rise brings ‘torrent of trouble’ to almost a billion people
Already, weather stations in the Persian Gulf have recorded wetbulb measurements – a combination of heat and humidity – beyond the point (35C at 100% humidity) at which most human beings can survive. At other stations, on the shores of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Oman, the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of California and the western side of south Asia, measurements have come close.
In large parts of Africa there is almost no monitoring of extreme heat events. People are likely to have been dying of heat stress in high numbers already, but their cause of death has not been registered.
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Revising the Future: M[ike] Gilliland’s _The Free_, 1986-2014 Jesse Cohn’s presentation to the 2015 North American Anarchist Studies Network conference (via Skype)
The Free image 2. classic Barcelona Occupied Social center. 2011
The Free 