To talk of sin

Ian Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, was quoted as saying today that it was a "sin" that people failed to take up available jobs as he prepared to announce a tougher-than-expected squeeze on the unemployed.So the subject of religon and sinning was brought forth as a means of compleling us to back these changes. Very emotitive language?
“Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” John 8:7
So the lie told, pledged, and judged on by voters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0f7PjgF-yo

They lied to get in to power. Nick Clegg is not fit to be in power. They talk of sin. I remember when lying was a sin!

Green Peace on ConDem nuclear fallout

"Lib Dem voters backed a party that supported renewable energy, opposed taxpayer handouts to the nuclear industry and supported full democratic engagement in the planning process," said Jim Footner, head of its climate and energy campaign.

"And local democracy is being kicked out of the door when it comes to nuclear sites. Lib Dem supporters must be furious that local communities will have little say about nuclear power stations in their area, other than choosing the colour of the gates.

"The Liberal Democrats need to stay true to their supporters by dropping the costly distraction of nuclear power and start investing in the clean, renewable and efficient technologies that will tackle climate change and provide tens of thousands of new British jobs."

Green lies

David Cameron said back in May 2010 "I want this coalition to be the greenest government ever" -14th May 2010

The Promise: Lib Dems and Tories promised before the election to extend the green subsidy for energy from small-scale solar panel installations to around 6,000 people who had put up panels before the launch of the government subsidy scheme.

The Truth: Last week Chris Huhne, the climate and energy secretary, made clear that the coalition would not extend the scheme and such early adopters would have to be content with the "warm glow of being pioneers." - The Guardian today.

The Promise: Lib Dems and Tories promised before the election to make it a criminal offence to possess, or bring into the country, illegal timber. Campaigners say such legal measures are necessary to help curb the 350m-650m square meters of forest that is illegally logged every year – possibly as much as 40% of the total market.

The Truth: The coalition government makes clear it will not honor a pledge! - In correspondence from a government minister to the Green MP Caroline Lucas.

Don't ConDem the Public Sector !!!!

Don't ConDem the Public Sector!

The government does not "relish" planning for spending cuts, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says.

James says then get rid of Trident and implement a one off tax on the super 10% of the rich and Robin hood tax the banks! It is the Public Sector who fuel the Private and pay their taxes!

Robbing Hoods

So Prince John of No.10 seems more in love with his own face in the papers than helping the needy, and the Sheriff of Nottingham. A wolf in LibDem clothing telling the world he's not stealing from the poor and that it is a partnership.

Today in the UK Political and Business forest saw Stephen Green step down from HSBC to become a Tory government trade minister and Bob Diamond to become chief executive of Barclays both from the riches of the UK bank sector (remember the UK Banking sector that the Public Tax Payer bailed out!) while HM Revenue & Customs is simultaneously trying to recover £2bn that was underpaid in the past two tax years from the 6 million loyal subjects of the UK.(The same Public Tax Payers!)

At the same time we have Eric Pickles the Public services executioner has been ending the local government spending watchdog. All this happening with the Tobin (Robin Hood) tax no where in sight on the banks. Robbing the poor and the public sector services to fund the phone hacker\Sir Hiss and ex-banker MPS seems to be the future!

Heavy Metal Sleaze

Once again we see a political party swayed by a donor. The pressure that Andrew Cook the chairman of the engineering firm William Cook Holdings placed on the Conservative business minister Mark Prisk in May to warn that an £80m state loan to Sheffield Forgemasters might be illegal under EU law. Andrew Cook – the Tories' largest donor in Yorkshire, who subsidised David Cameron's flights in opposition to the tune of £54,000. In an email to Prisk on 25 May, three weeks before the loan was cancelled, Cook, chairman of the engineering firm William Cook Holdings, said: "I stress that Sheffield Forgemasters is not a competitor of my business." But in a statement issued today in response to the release of his email, he admitted that he had tried to establish a direct link with the company. "It is no surprise that I am strongly opposed to the previous government's handout to Forgemasters, particularly when I had already offered as a local businessman to help supply the funding they needed," he said. "My only intention was to highlight the illegal use of taxpayers' money by the previous Labour government."

When will the political sleaze end!

The Cracks are starting to show over fairness

Budget will hit poor harder than rich, according to IFS report

Thinktank challenges claim of 'tough but fair' measures and predicts poorer families will suffer in second half of parliament

The Tories do not care about the vunrable of society and the LibDems are finding it hard to share the bed! It's simple Tory policy is to subdue the lowest on the ladder, trim back the middle and extend the top rungs further! Tory ideolgy is that the rich desreve and poor should know their place and beg!

The problem that the LibDems have is that if they pull out they will be seen to have failed again.



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United for Action - Day of Dissent on 21 June Joint FE and HE Protest

United for Action - Day of Dissent on 21 June Joint FE and HE Protest
Date: Monday, 21 June 2010
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: Victoria Gardens (Out side the Art Gallery
Street: The Headrow
Town/City: Leeds, United Kingdom


Description
Stop the cuts: join the coalition to defend education
Day of action: 21 June 2010
Education is under attack.

* Over £1bn has been cut from higher education budgets over the next three years.
* Thousands of jobs already gone.
* Thousands more at risk.
* For the first time in decades our education system is shrinking and the barriers to access are rising.
* Current and future generations are at risk of being locked out of our education system.

Staff and students have united in an unprecedented sector-wide coalition
to oppose the cuts.

ATL, GMB, EIS, NUS, UCU, UNITE and UNISON have joined forces to defend education.

ConDems lastest lies!

ConDems lastest lies to let the Private sector banks off the hook and drain the Public Sector to sustain the greed of the few at the expense of the many roll on the Prince Cameron and the Nick the Sheriff of Sheffield. Time for the Robin Hood Tax the lot of them!!!

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi

DEMOCRACY FOR BURMA

EPR reactor prone to major nuclear accident risk

Réseau "Sortir du nucléaire"
French Nuclear Phaseout Network

Press release - Urgent

Revelations from an EDF insider : EPR reactor prone to major nuclear accident risk!

The French Network for Nuclear Phase-out (Réseau "Sortir du nucléaire") reveals confidential documents disclosed by an anonymous insider from EDF (Electricité de France, the main French power utility). These documents show that the design of the EPR presents a serious risk of a major nuclear accident - a risk deliberately taken by EDF to increase its profitability. Because it is potentially vulnerable to a situation which could have uncontrollable consequences, the EPR reactor is extremely dangerous.

Download the confidential documents (in French) from :
http://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/index.php?menu=actualites&sousmenu=dossiers&soussousmenu=EPRrevelations&page=index

"Sortir du nucléaire" has set up a group of experts to analyse these recently received documents thoroughly. Here are the first lessons we can learn from them, which are of the utmost importance.

Some operating modes could cause the EPR reactor to explode because of a control rod cluster ejection accident (these control rod clusters moderate the nuclear reaction). These operating modes are mainly related to an objective of economic efficiency, requiring the power of the reactor to adapt to electricity demand. Thus, in order to find a hypothetical economic justification for the EPR, its designers chose to take the very real risk of a major nuclear accident. Moreover, most of the arguments given in favour of the EPR (power, efficiency, waste reduction and safety) have been proved to be false.

EDF and Areva (the leader of the French nuclear industry) have tried to find a solution to the problems related to the operating mode of the reactor: these efforts have failed preventing those kinds of accidents. The French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) has apparently been kept in the dark about these issues.

So the EPR reactor design seems to increase the risk of a Chernobyl-type accident, which would lead to the destruction of the confinement and mass dispersion of radionuclides in the atmosphere.

On March 8th and 9th, Paris hosts an international meeting to encourage 65 countries to acquire nuclear technology. This meeting will be opened by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and chaired by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano. It is outrageous that France keeps on promoting nuclear power in general and the EPR reactor in particular, as the danger of this reactor has now been demonstrated. The construction of the EPR in Finland, France and China must be stopped immediately, and the planned project in Penly (France) cancelled. The best way to prevent nuclear accidents is indeed to phase out nuclear power and go for renewable energies.


The accident scenario in detail:

According to calculations by EDF and Areva, the reactor’s RIP (Instant Return to Power) control mode and the control rod cluster configuration can induce a rod ejection accident during low-power operation, and lead to the rupture of the control rod drive casing (i). This rupture would cause the coolant to leak outside the nuclear reactor vessel. Such a loss of coolant accident (LOCA - a very serious type of nuclear accident) would damage a large number of fuel rods by heating fuel pellets and claddings (ii), and thus cause the release of highly radioactive steam into the containment. So there is a great risk of a criticality accident resulting in an explosion (iii), the reactor power being increased in an extremely brutal way. Following the ejection of control rod clusters during low-power operation, the reactor emergency shutdown may fail (iv). Whatever the configuration of the control rod clusters, a rod ejection accident induces a high rate of broken fuel rods and therefore a high risk of a criticality accident (v).

For more details, see the documents disclosed by an anonymous EDF source (especially document No. 1) on our website:
http://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/index.php?menu=actualites&sousmenu=dossiers&soussousmenu=EPRrevelations&page=index

Press Contacts:
English-speaking Media: Steven Mitchell, + 33 (0) 9 52 49 50 22
German-speaking Media: Jean-Yvon Landrac, + 33 (0) 6 87 30 41 10
Marc Saint-Aroman, +33 (0) 5 61 35 11 06
Charlotte Mijeon, +33 (0) 6 75 36 20 20
Nuclear physicists: Monique and Raymond Sené, +33 (0) 1 60 10 03 49

Documents to download:
1 - Summary - “Une technologie explosive : l'EPR” (anonymous and undated)
2 - “Bilan de la phase préliminaire de l'étude d'EDG FA3 et perspectives”(EDF SEPTEN May 2009)
3 - “EPR – Gestion combustible – Lot 1 – Revue de conception du schéma de grappes FA3 du 25/10/2007”
4 –“EPR FA3 – Synthèse de l'étude de faisabilité de l'accident d'éjection de grappe” (EDF SEPTEN September 2007)
5 - “EPR FA3- Synthèse des voies de sortie de la problématique éjection de grappe” (EDF SEPTEN July 2007)
6 – Working paper: “Présentation synthétique de l'EPR” (EDF SEPTEN April 2004)
7 - “Note de présentation de la deuxième revue de projet radioprotection EPR” (EDF, Spring 2004)
8 - “Marges disponibles pour les activités d'exploitation du REP par rapport aux risques de criticité” (EDF SEPTEN April 2009)

Notes :
i See. paragraph 6.1.6 Document No. 4
ii Cf. Table 3, Document No. 4
iii See Document n°4, Document n°5 Part 2, « Rapport Préliminaire de Sûreté EPR 15.2.4.e »
iv See Document n°2, note 9
v See Document n°2, note 8.2.1

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Charlotte Mijeon
International Relations Representative
+ 33 6 75 36 20 20

Réseau "Sortir du nucléaire" / French Nuclear Phaseout Network
Federation gathering 872 NGOs and organizations
www.sortirdunucleaire.org
www.dont-nuke-the-climate.org
www.chernobyl-day.org

Infant leukaemias near nuclear power stations

Although the government is apparently committed to
building new nuclear reactors, a recent powerful study
has indicated a serious health problem, in fact a
possible show-stopper, over its nuclear proposals.

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Why the Government should be talking crap for once!

Why the Government should be talking crap for once!

Thames Water has successfully been using human toilet waste to make electricity for the past decade.

The question is why are we not investing in this technology instead of nuclear power stations?

It is the same answer the big corporate companies have a strangle hold on the government and other big parties. Their party funding is controlled!

"Human waste has long been seen as a by-product, but Thames Water claims it saved £15m last year, and generated 14% of its power, from either burning sludge or methane derived from its 13 million customers' toilets." - BBC article Click Here for link

My first blog on this site Monday, July 27, 2009 "Green Wash by UK MPs and EDF" a cut down version made star letter in the UNISON Yorkshire & Humberside Winter 09 magazine Click Here to view site
and Click Here to download the PDF version of the magazine.

Caroline Lucas MEP on nuclear power from Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament on Vimeo.

CND - The Nuclear power facts Click Here

Another year and what have we done?

Well pretty much nothing from the so called world leaders. The Copenhagen deal flopped and all the participators left to fire up their think tanks to come up with an excuse! The BBC did an eight reasons why it floundered Click Here.

Denmark went heavy handed into protesters some of which are still behind bars as I write this. The feeling I got was that none of the so called big players wanted to rock the boat during a time of recession and the small players where omitted a voice by a strange and rather rude Denmark government - "Even before the summit began, his office put forward a draft political declaration to a select group of "important countries" - thereby annoying every country not on the list, including most of the ones that feel seriously threatened by climate impacts."

Barack Obama seemed out of his depth on this one and played only a cameo role at the end which diluted the impact of a world congess.

I can not help feeling that until Mother Nature herself turns up and causes a disaster on a scale that wipes out half of the western world people will still go on thinking we have all the time in the world!

We don't!