Tuesday, March 31, 2015

OMUC! Israel has nuclear weapons!!

Oh my universal consciousness! The US government finally has released to Americans its evidence that Israel has nuclear weapons.  

Grant Smith of the Institute for Research:Middle East Policy tells the story of how Smith's Freedom of Information Act request finally produced the evidence. Antiwar.com has a good update article about it End of Israeli ‘Nuclear Ambiguity’ Good For Peace: Can also benefit reporting, public policy debate and taxpayers” The mainstream media seem to have largely ignored the story, but what do you expect of state controlled media? The US government and Israel's agents in the US. Ugh....

How long before Israel attacks Iran and starts war with Russia? Will Israel use its Samson Option and bomb Moscow so Moscow bombs the US?  I wonder if there's a betting pool on that - and how to collect the money if you win.  Or maybe a place in a good bomb shelter - if you can get there on time...
Update: Congress dancing to Netanyaha's nuclear tune...

Or as JustIn Raimondo at Antiwar.com says: "When War Comes We Know Who To Blame". He also wants to prosecute members of congress who sabotage a deal with Iran for treason. And don't forget all those Israeli lobbyists and Netanyahu apologists.

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Post-nuclear war: horrific diseases and genetic deformities

The video doesn't mention that these horrible disease, now experienced by millions in the world's poorest countries, will become far more prevalent in the after math of nuclear war. Even a war with only 100 nuclear explosion could lead to mass famine worldwide. In a larger war, nuclear destruction of large cities will kill at least half of all physicians and destroy most medical facilities and suppliers in the affected nations.  Radiation will lead to an explosion of genetic mutations worldwide. Horrific deformities in newborns will become even more prevalent and horrific than those seen here. Of course, most such children, and even those with more minor deformities, will be quietly allowed to die or put to death soon after birth, as they were before medical advances.  See relevant articles on the latter here and here. Lots more online.


Here are just a few mostly mainstream articles about the rising threat of world nuclear war, most published over the last year... Remember 2015 is the 70th anniversary of the use of relatively tiny nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
* Five Ways Nuclear Armageddon Was Almost Unleashed
* Chance of nuclear war is greater than we think
* Two Billion At Risk: The Threat of Limited Nuclear War
* Remembering Hiroshima: Nuclear abolition and the will of the people
* As Hiroshima Day dawns, why are we still tempting nuclear fate?
* Life after a nuclear war revealed: Computer models reveal Earth would suffer a 20-year-long winter and worldwide famine; Their research looked at the detonation of 100 'small' nuclear warheads
* Nuclear doom lurks in U.S. faceoff with Russia over Ukraine
* Vladimir Putin says Russia was preparing to use nuclear weapons 'if necessary' and blames US for Ukraine crisis
* Briefing: The world is facing a growing threat of nuclear war
* The new nuclear age A quarter of a century after the end of the cold war, the world faces a growing threat of nuclear conflict

Update: And let's not forget that in even a small nuclear exchange a lot of nuclear power plants will melt down, either because of direct damage or damage to the energy supplies keeping the nuclear reactor core cooled.  And while a hydrogen bomb may produce a massive explosion, it contains only 10 - 20 pounds of radioactive material. Nuclear power plant facilities often contain tons of active, used and stored nuclear materials. Once there is a relatively small power plant explosion affecting the surrounding facilities, the materials will burn for years, releasing their poisonous radioactivity for decades or longer. Thousands of square miles of land surrounding and downwind from the hundreds of plants will be contaminated. Wind and water will circulate radioactivity around the planet. More information on the number of plants worldwide here and here.
Just one particularly graphic scenario is below, for when power is out all over the world (in the fantasy scenario where all humans just disappear). At least National Geographic had the sense to portray what would really happen without humans maintaining sensitive and dangerous infrastructure. Geomagnet storms knocking out power over wide swaths of the planet could have a similar effect. So could worldwide economic catastrophe, energy shortages, pandemic disease killing off nuclear technicians, widely dispersed earthquakes and tsunamis, asteroid strikes, and all manner of "apocalypse".  For real life meltdowns that already happened see youtube videos on Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters.

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

"Rising of the Moon" - worldwide...

It's never too late for a woman of 50+ percent Irish descent to catch up on her Irish history (or be reminded of what she's forgotten). Several Turner Classic movies on "Irish Day" (as I call it, having abandoned the Pope 51 years ago) reminded me of the fight against British oppression in Ireland. My grand-mothers on both sides being pure Irish, I certainly got a feeling for rebellion, and a negative opinion of the British in Ireland. It wasn't til my twenties I read deeply of the subject, factoids mostly forgotten in my sixties. (Wikipedia does have it's uses as a review. Of course, some biographies are lyrical poems to the fallen rebels. But what the hey...) I won't dwell on the fact that most of them were violent patriarchs, of course. Or that an updated version of the song below really must get rid of those pikes... Plus one of my own rebellious songs below it. Haven't quite written the theme song for nonviolent radical decentralist libertarian secessionists worldwide - or have I?


Monday, March 09, 2015

Women rising up against sexism...

I'm a few hours late with an "International Women's Day" posting.  Women really have been rising up worldwide the last year or so, as I may detail later. (Meanwhile see this Wikipedia article which some mean guys wanted to delete.)

Some of this year's women's day themes were "Make it happen", "We're Not There Yet", "Lean In" and lots of others spread over social media.  Below are some graphics from various programs worldwide. So many voluntary endeavors I've been involved with turned bad because of rampant patriarchal duels for power and accompanying sexism that drove out so many women and the more sensible men. Anti-sexism work seems to be the number one effort I keep coming back to. But more on that in future days.