By: Sierra Club Canada | Press Release: On Wednesday, May 15, the Sierra Club Niagara Group joined the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Women’s Indigenous Initiatives, and the International Institute of Concern for Public Health at a press conference on Main Street in front of the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Buffalo. This event
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: Americans Now Primed for WWIII
(Gallup: Staggering 99 Percent of Americans See Iran’s Nuclear Program as ‘Threat’ Americans See Civilian Program as a Bigger Threat Than North Korea’s Actual Nukes by Jason Ditz, February 20, 2013) ”A grim new poll from Gallup shows an overwhelming majority of Americans, indeed 99 percent of them, believe
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Whatever foresight is, it’s not 20/20…
(originally written Jan 3, 2012. Part of my Great Upload of 2013.) Come December’s end, the nervy among us like to review what they got right in the past year. The nervier like to predict what’ll happen in the New Year. Ever the blithe contrarian, I figured I’d visit the
Continue readingFive of Five: Mr. Fish Netanyahu Cartoon
Mr. Fish Cartoon:
Benjamin Netanyahu at the U.N. General Assembly explaining how easy it used to be to beat the absolute shit out of cookie monster back before he obtained a cookie recipe from 1945, which immediately turned him int…
Continue readingFive of Five: Mr. Fish Netanyahu Cartoon
Mr. Fish Cartoon: Benjamin Netanyahu at the U.N. General Assembly explaining how easy it used to be to beat the absolute shit out of cookie monster back before he obtained a cookie recipe from 1945, which immediately turned him into a fucking lunatic sugar junkie prone to crazy outbursts and
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Drought, Fracking, Coal and Nukes Wreak Havoc on Fresh Water Supplies
nukeplant.jpg This is a guest post by EcoWatch, republished with permission. For the last few months EcoWatch has been covering what's become the worst drought in the U.S. in more than half a century. More than 3,200 daily high temperature records were set or tied in June, and July is in
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: New Poll: American Voters Very Concerned About Global Warming Pollution, Support Taxing Dirty Energy
global climate change.jpg A new poll released today shows that American voters take global warming pollution very seriously and want to see action from government and the private sector to curb emissions and support clean energy solutions. The new Yale-GMU survey found that 76% of Americans believe that regulating CO2 emissions
Continue readingPolygonic: The emperor’s new clothes: North Korea keeps on marching
Sometimes, you just want to give them a hug. Pyongyang put on this earnest show of transparency around its rocket launch, inviting foreign journalists into the heart of their futuristic Space Control Centres (SCCs). Witness the marvels of our microcomputers and our, umm, extraordinarily large antennae! It was one part
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: North Korea is no Iran
Iran has an elected President. Iran allows for protests against the government. Iran does not have nuclear weapons and is years away from having the capability to build them.Iran has not declared war with any country. North Korea has a dictator who doesn’t hold elections. North Korea does not allow
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Iran’s 2nd Amendment Right To Nuclear Weapons
If countries are like people and people, regardless of intelligence, have the right to bear arms, even though they can and have killed others, why can’t every country bear nuclear weapons? Either every individual actor, be they person or country, has the right to bear arms or they don’t. Guns
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Edging Closer to a Nuclear Nightmare
When I think of a nuclear nightmare I think of the ghost towns of Chernobyl. Twenty-five years after the reactor exploded…I think of the deformed children, the cancers, and the poisoned earth.Or I think about the continuing horror of Fukushima.W…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Are Israel and the U.S. About to Attack Iran?
The Guardian seems to think so.The Ministry of Defence believes the US may decide to fast-forward plans for targeted missile strikes at some key Iranian facilities. British officials say that if Washington presses ahead it will seek, and receive, UK mi…
Continue readingAdo in Saskatoon
Some Senators at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon want the Chair of the Board of Governors to resign. She serves on the Board of the nuclear giant, Cameco. The senators also say lawyer Nancy Hopkins’s position as a board member for Cam…
Continue readingPoliTeching: A New Innovation Center for Progress; Nuclear Debate
I’ve been following the nuclear debate online. I have not blogged anything about Japan’s nuclear plant crisis because there is not enough information coming out (as far as the plant’s condition is concern). Some people on both sides of the nuclear debate have wasted no time in using the crisis to express their nuclear sentiments. […]
Successful Slovakian No-Nukes Campaign (& More)
The Slovakian Parliament responded favourably to a petition from the people of Slovakia. Environmentalists organized a petition drive to give local citizens a stronger voice. This week the campaign was victorious when, in a momentous decision, the Sl…
Continue readingMore Nuke News
Not a lot of people liking President O’s greenwashing of nukes. This most excellent article in the Guardian dispels the myth that nukes are green. The argument that nuclear is “carbon-free” conveniently omits the entire process of m…
Continue readingA stream of nuke news
Grab a coffee or tea. Find a snack. Lots of linky news today so this could take a while! First up: A Calgary nuke company, Kirrin Resources, is not going to expand its exploration for uranium in Quebec. That’s good news for Quebec’s…
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