Academic ex-diplomat: Time [for Australia] to sell uranium to [nuke-armed, non-NPT] India
Article Source: The AgeSensible article. However all nuclear weapons should be banned.
I sent the following comment to The Age which hopefully will publish it uncensored:
"Sensible article but part calls for critique, specifically "The theory is that exempting India might lead Pakistan, Israel, Iran or North Korea to conclude that one day they too can have both the bomb and respectable nuclear commerce with the world".
Iran has zero (0) nuclear weapons, is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and repeatedly states that it does not want nuclear weapons, is not making nuclear weapons and wants a nuclear weapons-free Middle East (the latter being repeatedly opposed by NPT-violating US and NPT-non-signatory Israel).
In contrast, total nuclear weapons are about 9,600 (US), 12,000 (Russia), 1,979 (Israel), 225 (UK), 300 (France), 240 (China), 60-80 (India), 70-90 (Pakistan), <10 (North Korea) ("List of states with nuclear weapons", Wikipedia).
Australia's current position is highly hypocritical in (a) selectively excluding uranium sales to non-belligerent India (and no doubt to Iran), (b) selling to genocidally belligerent US Alliance countries, (UK, US, France, Germany) (c) indirectly supporting Israel's nuclear weapons program (leakage of nuclear-related materials from the US and UK; tax deductability of donations to Israel; partisan diplomatic support for Israel; and unacceptable military-related dealings with Israel).
Re nuclear weapons-free Iran one must also note that about 4,000 Iranian soldiers and police have died trying to stem the flow of opiates from US-, NATO- and Australia-occupied Afghanistan (UNODC).
About 3,000 Australians have died since 2001 linked to US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry to over 90% of world market share. With the US facing ultimate debt-based collapse (Professor Niall Ferguson, Harvard) Australia should re-assess its dealings with all belligerent nuclear weapons states."
I sent the following comment to The Age which hopefully will publish it uncensored:
"Sensible article but part calls for critique, specifically "The theory is that exempting India might lead Pakistan, Israel, Iran or North Korea to conclude that one day they too can have both the bomb and respectable nuclear commerce with the world".
Iran has zero (0) nuclear weapons, is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and repeatedly states that it does not want nuclear weapons, is not making nuclear weapons and wants a nuclear weapons-free Middle East (the latter being repeatedly opposed by NPT-violating US and NPT-non-signatory Israel).
In contrast, total nuclear weapons are about 9,600 (US), 12,000 (Russia), 1,979 (Israel), 225 (UK), 300 (France), 240 (China), 60-80 (India), 70-90 (Pakistan), <10 (North Korea) ("List of states with nuclear weapons", Wikipedia).
Australia's current position is highly hypocritical in (a) selectively excluding uranium sales to non-belligerent India (and no doubt to Iran), (b) selling to genocidally belligerent US Alliance countries, (UK, US, France, Germany) (c) indirectly supporting Israel's nuclear weapons program (leakage of nuclear-related materials from the US and UK; tax deductability of donations to Israel; partisan diplomatic support for Israel; and unacceptable military-related dealings with Israel).
Re nuclear weapons-free Iran one must also note that about 4,000 Iranian soldiers and police have died trying to stem the flow of opiates from US-, NATO- and Australia-occupied Afghanistan (UNODC).
About 3,000 Australians have died since 2001 linked to US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry to over 90% of world market share. With the US facing ultimate debt-based collapse (Professor Niall Ferguson, Harvard) Australia should re-assess its dealings with all belligerent nuclear weapons states."
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#1 - Thu Jan 20, 2011 4:45 PM EST" Australian Mainstream media (MSM, like MSM in the other Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies), variously continue to censor out information critically required for sensible public discussion of these key issues."
Correct. The public is encouraged to believe such a forum exists. In fact, it is much more likely that paid controllers delete unwanted content and rebut, mock and censor views deviating from desired Echo Chamber effects. Editorial control is a subtle tool for propaganda and subterfuge.
This is one reason for the proliferation of private forums online. They too are harassed with smut, DDoS messages and trolls.
Energy is a focus of foreign policy and strategic interest. Accordingly false frames of reference, appeals to authority, and pseudo scientific mumbo jumbo proliferate to pervert conversation into futile racecourses which exclude reasonable informed dialogue.
I have expanded an interest in Orwell to include various military political corporate views.Check the Topical Index at Opit's LinkFest! on Blogger > Perception Alteration, and Search for The NPT TRAP. Also see Uranium and check Dr. Helen Caldicott's notes on non lineararity of damages from exposure to radiation.
Interestingly, an old cached article at LaRouche started me on a voyage of exploration by asserting a connection between an Anthropogenic Global Warming hoax ( promoted by the IPCC as a basis for Carbon Taxation > Climate in Contention ) as being part and parcel of the game of playing nuclear disarmament proponents as 'the Real Danger'.
I suspect that idea is a decades old ploy of the Rand Corporation. Regardless; Commonwealth, U.S.,French, etc. media all have played the same game for decades, with Iraq being the most notable loser and North Korea kicking hardest against the pricks.
Correct. The public is encouraged to believe such a forum exists. In fact, it is much more likely that paid controllers delete unwanted content and rebut, mock and censor views deviating from desired Echo Chamber effects. Editorial control is a subtle tool for propaganda and subterfuge.
This is one reason for the proliferation of private forums online. They too are harassed with smut, DDoS messages and trolls.
Energy is a focus of foreign policy and strategic interest. Accordingly false frames of reference, appeals to authority, and pseudo scientific mumbo jumbo proliferate to pervert conversation into futile racecourses which exclude reasonable informed dialogue.
I have expanded an interest in Orwell to include various military political corporate views.Check the Topical Index at Opit's LinkFest! on Blogger > Perception Alteration, and Search for The NPT TRAP. Also see Uranium and check Dr. Helen Caldicott's notes on non lineararity of damages from exposure to radiation.
Interestingly, an old cached article at LaRouche started me on a voyage of exploration by asserting a connection between an Anthropogenic Global Warming hoax ( promoted by the IPCC as a basis for Carbon Taxation > Climate in Contention ) as being part and parcel of the game of playing nuclear disarmament proponents as 'the Real Danger'.
I suspect that idea is a decades old ploy of the Rand Corporation. Regardless; Commonwealth, U.S.,French, etc. media all have played the same game for decades, with Iraq being the most notable loser and North Korea kicking hardest against the pricks.
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#2 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 2:25 PM EDTI just noted this article. I find it interesting it automatically falls into an 'anti Semitic' rather than anti Zionist frame. BTW Many Jews and Israelis are anti Zionist.
It is a lie to conflate the suffering of European Jewry under Hitler with Israel the state per se. Ahmadinejad of Iran exposes that most eloquently by noting the fate of Semitic Palestinians...and is mocked for his efforts to the point Western nations clear the UN before his speeches. They are then mistranslated for the benefit of the mindwashed. Meanwhile his rhetoric garners standing ovations.
Check YouTube under 'Holocaust' for staged interviews using the same questions...and he eventually exposes the sham.
Political Correctness: A Talmudic plot against Christendom
posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 1 hour ago
Political Correctness was created in the wake of the Talmudic takeover of Russia, as an export ideology to destabilise Germany and spread Communism westwards. When the Germans rejected the liberal menace...
It is a lie to conflate the suffering of European Jewry under Hitler with Israel the state per se. Ahmadinejad of Iran exposes that most eloquently by noting the fate of Semitic Palestinians...and is mocked for his efforts to the point Western nations clear the UN before his speeches. They are then mistranslated for the benefit of the mindwashed. Meanwhile his rhetoric garners standing ovations.
Check YouTube under 'Holocaust' for staged interviews using the same questions...and he eventually exposes the sham.
Political Correctness: A Talmudic plot against Christendom
posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 1 hour ago
Political Correctness was created in the wake of the Talmudic takeover of Russia, as an export ideology to destabilise Germany and spread Communism westwards. When the Germans rejected the liberal menace...
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#3 - Mon Jun 4, 2012 2:43 PM EDT JulianBurnside AO QC (born 9 June 1949) is an Australian barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author. He is known for his staunch opposition to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and has provided legal counsel in a wide array of high-profile and notably human rights cases (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Burnside ).
Julian Burnside on free speech in Australia (2009): “Freedom of thought and freedom of speech are closely related. Thought without information is pointless. The right to form and hold opinions depends crucially on access to information. Access to information is impracticable unless those with information or opinions are free to speak. Since it is difficult to monitor a person’s thoughts, it is more effective to inhibit the act of communicating information… In our tightly held media, only a limited range of views can ever be heard in the mainstream… In his book {David] Hicks quotes a US interrogator at Guantanamo Bay who said: “There is nothing against you. But there is no innocent person here. So, you should confess to something so you can be charged and sentenced and serve your sentence and then go back to your country, because you will not leave this place innocent” That is the attitude which informed [PM] Howard’s response to Hicks on [ABC TV] Q and A; it is the attitude which informed Australia’s response to Hicks’ incarceration in Guantanamo Bay. It is the attitude which makes it possible to shut down debate about terrorism, by imprisoning writers who express dissident views. It is the attitude which makes it possible to abandon David Hicks to American torture, and to ignore him when he speaks about it. In this supposed new age of terror, it is more important than ever to remember that freedom of thought and expression are fundamental to every other freedom we seek to protect.” [1].
Julian Burnside on free speech in Australia (2009): “Freedom of thought and freedom of speech are closely related. Thought without information is pointless. The right to form and hold opinions depends crucially on access to information. Access to information is impracticable unless those with information or opinions are free to speak. Since it is difficult to monitor a person’s thoughts, it is more effective to inhibit the act of communicating information… In our tightly held media, only a limited range of views can ever be heard in the mainstream… In his book {David] Hicks quotes a US interrogator at Guantanamo Bay who said: “There is nothing against you. But there is no innocent person here. So, you should confess to something so you can be charged and sentenced and serve your sentence and then go back to your country, because you will not leave this place innocent” That is the attitude which informed [PM] Howard’s response to Hicks on [ABC TV] Q and A; it is the attitude which informed Australia’s response to Hicks’ incarceration in Guantanamo Bay. It is the attitude which makes it possible to shut down debate about terrorism, by imprisoning writers who express dissident views. It is the attitude which makes it possible to abandon David Hicks to American torture, and to ignore him when he speaks about it. In this supposed new age of terror, it is more important than ever to remember that freedom of thought and expression are fundamental to every other freedom we seek to protect.” [1].
[1]. Julian Burmside, “Freedom of speech is fundamental to every other freedom”, Alternative Media Group of Australia, 2 December 2010: http://www.altmedia.net.au/julianburnside/28271#comment-3188 .
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