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The Fire of Resistance VS Nuclear Weapons

The fire of resistance against nuclear weapons has been smoldering for three decades.

(KANSAS CITY) - On Monday morning, August 16th, 14 nonviolent peace activists were arrested after blocking a Caterpillar truck on the site of a proposed WMD Facility in Kansas City, Missouri.

While choruses of "we shall not be moved" rose up and sunflower seeds were scattered down, citizens of all ages and shades of diversity, gathered to protest continued production of U.S. nuclear weapons, to demand a clean up of the old KC facility and they also exposed another collaboration of corporations and politicians who collude while the tax payer pays for it all.

Nuclear Loan Guarantee/FOIA Lawsuit Filed - Obama Administration Sued for Hiding Details of $8.3 Billion Taxpayer-Backed Reactor

Illustrating the Validity of GAO Report Criticisms, U.S. Energy Department Stonewalls FOIA Request For Months After White House Announcement; One of Few Documents Released Was Censored 244 Times.

(ATLANTA, Ga.) - U.S. taxpayers are being denied timely access to information that could be used to assess the risk to their pocketbooks posed by the controversial $8.33 billion federal loan guarantee for two proposed nuclear reactors at Southern Company’s Plant Vogtle in Georgia.

This information, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE).

Vanunu Released from Solitary Confinement But Still Not Free

Israel's nuclear weapons whistleblower freed.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - What Vanunu will say about his 76 days in solitary that ended on August 8, 2010, with a whimper from a spokesman for the prisons authority:

"Mordecai Vanunu was freed from prison on Sunday morning" remains to be heard, but what Vanunu wrote after his first 8 years in prison was:

International Petition for Full Freedom for Mordechai Vanunu

All Vanunu has wanted since he emerged from 18 years in a tomb sized windowless cell on April 21, 2004, has been the right to leave Israel and fade into the world, to have a job, a home and family.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - During my first of seven trips to Israel Palestine in 2005, I was in the midst of writing my first book, KEEP HOPE ALIVE.

If all goes as planned I will be in Iran this November researching for my fourth book, What YOU were doing when my gods were Beatles and Dylan.

War with Iran - MEMORANDUM FOR: President Obama

FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: War With Iran.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war.

Israel’s leaders would calculate that once the battle is joined, it will be politically untenable for you to give anything less than unstinting support to Israel, no matter how the war started, and that U.S. troops and weaponry would flow freely. Wider war could eventually result in destruction of the state of Israel.

`Atomic Veterans` to be Remembered

Oregon Atomic Veterans Day Celebration is July 16‏.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Members of the Oregon Association of Atomic Veterans will host a ceremony and celebration in Lebanon, Friday, July 16, to remember Atomic Veterans Day.

All military veterans and their families are invited to attend the celebration being held at Lebanon's American Legion Post 51, 480 Main St., at 10:00 a.m.

Israeli Nukes 101

Deception clouds the air when it comes to the critical subject of Israel and nuclear weapons.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Ha'aretz published an article 7 July 2010 titled "Secret document affirms U.S.-Israel nuclear partnership" explaining that the U.S. has reportedly pledged to sell Israel materials used to produce electricity, as well as nuclear technology and other supplies.

The publication is Israel's most progressive daily newspaper, known for exercising more fairness with regard to the occupation of Palestine and subsequent oppression of Arab people, than most other Israeli media.

What`s Good for the Goose Does Not Apply

Obama Maintains Israel is the Exception to Middle East Disarmament.

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - President Obama has reaffirmed that Israel remains the exception to the rules each and every other Middle Eastern country would be expected to play by in pursuit of a “nuclear free” Middle East.

Far too many writers use the term “ambiguous” when writing about Israel’s response to questions regarding its program and nuclear capabilities. The appropriate term is “deceptive”.

Declaration of Independence from Nuclear Weapons

36 arrested at Y-12 National Security Complex.

(OAK RIDGE, Tenn.) - Priests and nuns, atheists, anarchist and one clown were among the 23 arrested by the State and 13 by the Federal Government for nonviolently resisting Nuclear Weapons at Y-12 on 5 July 2010.

Those facing State charges were arrested for obstructing the road way, one for failing to obey a police officer and Federal charges are for trespassing.

Making Plans from Tennessee to Iran

When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor had no food, they called me a communist - Dom Helder Comara

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - John Lennon said, "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." I make my plans anyway but always stay flexible for change.

Next week at this time, I plan to be in Tennessee among the participants celebrating 30 years of NONVIOLENT civil disobedient actions in pursuit of a Nuclear Free Future