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Is Alleged Iranian Plot a `Provocation by an Outside Agency`

Media in the UK takes a closer look at this suspicious new excuse to target Iran.

(OSAKA, Japan) - “It has the ring of a far-fetched Hollywood thriller and even the senior law enforcement official involved in the investigation admitted to journalists that the alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US did not fit with what was known about the methods and practices of the supposed perpetrators, the Quds force of the Revolutionary Guards,” Julian Borger writes in the Guardian.

Ask your Congressman Who is Waging Class Warfare?

And while you’re at it, also ask your Congressman for a list of individuals, corporations, and foreign nations who own a million dollars or more of your national debt.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - Most people assume the Republican Party is opposed to welfare and other forms of social spending. Various reasons are given including social programs being a form of class warfare redistributing wealth downward from the hardworking rich to the lazy poor.

Are Republicans and their Dixiecrat/Blue Dog/DLC Democrat brethren really opposed to welfare? The facts are in the Federal Budget.

Warmongers Fabricate the `Big One`

One must ask why are these warmongers so desperate for war with Iran?

(Jamestown, RI) - The war mongers are at it once again in their attempt to bring the US to war with Iran, this time with a laughable exotic plot, blaming Iran for an alleged attack on a Saudi Ambassador.

Naturally the warmongers immediately call for war, which is just what this country needs, another endless war.

Reactor Reax Top Stories - Why Go Nuclear When Efficiency, Renewables Fit the Bill?

Latest new from about our nuclear powered world.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In this latest roundup of stories by the group Physicians for Social Responsibility, we learn the startling news that U.S. Labs Not Equipped to Handle Radiation Disasters, and the question is posed: Why go nuclear when efficiency, renewables fit the bill?

One story examines whether a Japan-level nuclear crisis is possible at the San Onofre nuclear plant in Southern California, and we discover that cleaning up a DIY repair on Crystal River nuclear plant could cost $2.5 billion.

Nuclear Reactor Loan Guarantee 15 Times Riskier Than Solyndra? DOE Stonewalling on Possible Taxpayer Hit on $8.3 Billion Vogtle

Is DOE Hiding Minuscule Credit Subsidy Fee of 1.5 Percent … Or Even Less …for New Vogtle Reactors?

(ATLANTA, Ga.) - Ignoring the need for transparency after the collapse of a recent loan guarantee, the DOE continues to refuse to operate in an open, taxpayer-friendly way.

U.S. taxpayers may soon learn the full extent of the risks to which they are exposed in the massive commitment of $8.33 billion in conditional federal loan guarantees to Southern Company and their utility partners for two proposed new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle in Georgia.

Facebook Birthday Dedication to Israeli Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu: Captive in Tel Aviv

Honor the Nuclear Whistle Blower’s birthday by mailing a card to the three judges in Israel and your political representatives to FREE VANUNU NOW!

(TEL AVIV) - Salem-News.com’s Eileen Fleming says three Israeli Supreme Court Justices denied Israeli Mordechai Vanunu’s latest appeal to lift the restrictions that hold him captive in Israel.

On August 13th the Court was to render decision on Vanunu’s other appeal to have his citizenship revoked but no decision has been made public.

Fmr. Secretary of State George Shultz - `Let`s Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons so We Can Win One More for the Gipper`

Global Zero calls on nuclear countries to negotiate – for the first time in history – the multilateral elimination of nuclear weapons.

(LOS ANGELES) - Global Zero has called on nuclear nations for the first time in history to begin negotiations on multilateral nuclear arms reductions.

The group is meeting at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on the 25th anniversary of the historic Reykjavik Summit when Presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev nearly agreed to eliminate all nuclear weapons.

GAO Pushes to Share Incapacity
Declarations of Veterans and Disabled

…but no one can say why.

(LOS ANGELES) - A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the heated topic of adult guardianships advocates for removing certain long- established privacy protections and has caused a temblor in the guardianship reform movement.

The GAO report in question, entitled “Incapacitated Adults: Oversight of Federal Fiduciaries and Court Appointed Guardians Needs Improvement” (GAO 11-678), made two recommendations which would in essence violate existing privacy laws.

Are Kaiser Employees in Downey working on top of a Nuclear Reactor?

There is no documentation of the SRE underground at Downey ever being decommissioned and disposed of and there may even be, more than one.

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) - Many in Southern California are aware of those that became sickened while working at the former Downey NASA Boeing Industrial Plant.

When these illnesses were reported to all federal and local agencies, those reports went unanswered and/or flat out denied. The Property transfer was pushed through faster than an avalanche rolling down a mountain.

The Only Way To Oppose and End Nuclear Power, Is By Unifying Our Global Community

Beyond the UN Special meeting on Fukushima - All out effort now to help our Japanese activist friends thwart this latest high stakes play to usurp their abilities to end nuclear power in their country.

(ARCATA, Calif.) - What has just occurred at the UN always happens when ingrained power faces 'showdowns' over any loss of their domain.

Fukushima has exposed the worst of nuclear radiations to mankind, including overwhelming evidences of gross malpractices by the industry, government and its regulatory agencies, enough to bring repudiation by a huge majority of our worlds citizenry.