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BP Gulf Leak, Egg Recall. Green Party Leader Eizabeth May views

What are the views of the Green Party and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May on such huge issues as the BP Gulf Leak, Egg Recall, and the Martha Vineyard tainted water?

Why are we asking about these seemingly unrelated issues? And why are we asking about issues seemingly unrelated to our blog here about the problems of nuclear power?

Our thought: these issues are some of the biggest environmental issues right now, today, August 20, 2010. These issues are issues that people understand. These issues are issues that affect all peoples: water and food contamination!

These are issues that the Green Party and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May have been ahead of the curve on for years! These are the issues that the Green Party and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and Green Party supporters have cared about for years! These are the issues that are touching the hearts and minds of people today!

YET, where is the Green Party and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May on these issues? Their views are on the BP Gulf Leak, Egg Recall, and the Martha Vineyard tainted water, are not in the media.

This can be attributed to the suppression of media coverage about the upstart, "fringe" Green Party and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. BUT the views, public policies of the Green Party and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May on the issues of the BP Gulf Leak, Egg Recall, and the Martha Vineyard tainted water are NOT even on front page, the opening page, of the Green Party of Canada's website.

To influence public opinion and thus public policy, we need to reach the public, the people, the media and the politicians. Of course, getting "mainstream media" is an important part of this effort.

Whether we are trying to promote public awareness about nuclear power or climate change, we should remember, that we are ultimately trying to touch hearts and minds. Whether it is traditional media, reaching the mainstream media; or reaching out to the people by the new social media, direct action, special events; we need to be very current, very alert, to the trends, the thoughts, the concerns of the people!

And the irony is that the "mainstream media" and the "mainstream political parties" seem to be completely missing in action in these huge issues that touch the lives of EVERY person, every voter, in North America, if not the world. Global ocean, water and food contamination!

There are messages floated about that the BP Gulf Oil Leak is killing the environment as it travels across the ocean and air currents, across America, Canada and the world. The implications of contaminated eggs and water is mind-boogling --whether you are in Toronto, Tokyo, New York, New Delhi, Paris, Perth, Bahar Dar, Berlin, Beijing! One of the most basic, fundamental food items, eggs. One of the essentials of life, water. Both in unprecedented stories about contamination! Yet where is dialogue? The concerns? The outrage?

This is an opportuntiy being lost to the environmental movement?!

Yet where are the views of Canada's and the world's most environmental political parties. Where is Green Party and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May on such huge issues as the BP Gulf Leak, Egg Recall, and the Martha Vineyard tainted water?

Activists in Canada have had some successs in the campaign of getting the word out to the public about the dangers of nuclear power. But again, here too, it has been a struggle. We need to keep up the struggle, expand the solidarity. Touch the hearts and minds of the people.

Hackers breach FAA air traffic control systems! Are nuclear reactor control systems really safer?!

Are we taking it for granted that the computers that control nuclear reactors are safe from hackers?! Other major infrastructure computer systems have PROVEN penetration of their computer systems; resulting in stolen passwords; the planting of malicious codes...

The new proposed nuclear ramp-up in Ontario, Canada and the world, would result in thousands of new nuclear plants around the world. Nuclear plants with computer control centres that could be full of technical problems, and software holes that hackers could exploit. And who is guarding against that?

Below are excerpts from Wall Street Journal report about a USA Transportation Department's inspector general report released on May 9, 2009! that suggests that hackers have penetrated government systems throughout 2008! And given that we are pointing out the danger of such hackers to nuclear reactor control systems, it is ironic that the Wall Street Journal article even notes that electrical grid control systems have dangerous links between administrative and operational computer links, that could result in hackers getting into operational functions of the power grid?!!

Excerpt from Wall Street Journal

Last year, hackers of unspecified origin "took over FAA computers in Alaska" to effectively become agency insiders, and traveled the agency networks to Oklahoma, where they stole the network administrator's password and used it to install malicious codes, the report said. These hackers also gained the ability to obtain 40,000 FAA passwords and other information used to control the administrative network, it said.

In February, another cyber break-in yielded the personal information of 48,000 current and former agency employees.

"The threat of hackers interfering with our air-traffic control systems is not just theoretical; it has already happened," said Republican Rep. Tom Petri of Wisconsin, one of the lawmakers who requested the report. "We must regard the strengthening of our air-traffic control security as an urgent matter."

Tom Kellermann, a vice president at Core Security Technologies, a cybersecurity company, likened the threats cited by the report to the television show "24" in which terrorists hack into and commandeer the FAA's air-traffic control system to crash planes. "The integrity of the data on which ground control is relying can be manipulated, much as seen in '24,'" he said.

Most critical infrastructure, such as the electric grid, have developed links between administrative and operational control systems that indirectly link the control systems to the public Internet, intelligence officials said.

Using legislation to fight nuclear energy proliferation

NoNuclearNow.blogpspot.com

We at NoNuclearNow, want to ask you, the people of the world, for your thoughts and ideas on what legislative pressure we can bring to oppose the looming unchecked nuclear energy proliferation in Ontario, Canada and the world. Some examples --some successful, at that, so take heart, everyone!

1 In the USA, some recent proposed nuclear energy reactor projects have been stopped, because legislation has banned taxpayer bailouts of any overruns by new nuclear energy reactor constructions... The nuclear companies themselves suspended their projects! What does that say about the nuclear industry's claims of being efficient, cost-effective, safe...

2 In Canada, anti-nuclear activists are seeking similar legislation amendments to the provincial Ontario Government's Green Act.

3 In Scotland, we were provided with the following comment from Utility Week; a quote that suggests another avenue that the public may use to bring pressure to bear on nuclear energy proliferation: planning and zoning.

"Mike Weir, the Scottish National Party MP for Angus, insisted: "The Scottish Government are entitled to exercise their power under the electricity and planning legislation"."

Scottish MP, Honourable Mike Weir (SNP) catches British

Posted: 2009 May 4. Original material dated April 15, 2009
Source citation: http://www.snp.org/node/15137

MP Mike Weir catches British nuclear executive, admitting that nuclear is dangerous?!

We are not quite sure of the source of the quote by Scottish MP, the Honourable Mike Weir, below; but we shall post our followup. AND maybe, we'll see if we can an interview with MP Mike Weir. Here's the piece:

Scottish MP cites senior British Nuclear Fuels executive, admitting to dangers of nuclear energy, on BBC Radio!

Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, David Bonser said … "the Government have decided to go ahead with nuclear power here in the UK. Now, of course, there’s lots of risks around that…"

Mr Weir said:
"David Bonser’s assessment underlines exactly why Scotland is right to reject the development of dangerous, unnecessary and costly new nuclear power stations."Nuclear is unreliable as well as unnecessary. Installed capacity of renewables in Scotland already exceeds installed capacity of nuclear power. We can achieve secure, clean, low carbon energy by harnessing Scotland's vast green potential, tackling climate change without adding to the burden of toxic radioactive waste.
"The risks and uncertainties of nuclear power, in terms of waste disposal, decommissioning, security and health concerns, or cost, are far too great.

Our event also inspired by the new social network of dailychallenge.org

Funny enough, we can't tell you exactly why yet, but we wanted to thank also Afshin and Darius, founders of dailychallenge.org, in their unknowing inspiration of our upcoming April 2, 2009 public rally event too!


We can't reveal yet, how exactly they inspired us, as that might give away our event's special "twist" that makes our event another "first" in city, and maybe in the world!



So stay tuned --or better yet, come out to our rally on April 2, 2009, downtown Toronto, meeting at Dundas Square, 12 noon-- as we hope to help bring publicity to the important cause of community activists and citizens concerned by a possible unprecedented proliferation of dangerous, deadly, unnecessary nuclear energy!



Thanks again to Afshin, Darius and the members at dailychallenge, who are trying to help people and better our world too! P.S. They have great upcoming event too. See their website.



We need to outreach and stand together, the good people of Toronto, Canada and the world!

Redwire's unique twitter event helped inspire us on our rally

A quick word of thanks and appreciation to RedWire's Sarah Prevette, Founder. Without knowing it, her enthusiasm, creativity, and knowledge of social networking, helped inspire us in creating our upcoming April 2, 2009 public rally! Her network got media attention to their good society cause, by organizing their whole event in Feb 2009, by the Twitter, the social network! They got great local and national media coverage!

Well, as you know, we're pretty good at getting local, national and international media coverage too --by the conventional communications route of flyers and emails. So we're stirring the creativity pot, in hopes of drawing badly needed public and media attention to the important cause of the dangers of nuclear power! Nuclear power is NOT green, NOT clean, NOT economical, and NOT safe!! Yet our Ontario Government wants to spend $26 Billion on it; and is trying to shutdown the media and public debate on this issue!



Please support this important cause, and attend our "public rally with a twist," on April 2, 2009, 12 noon to 1pm, meeting at Dundas Square, downtown Toronto.

Evette writes:

I am going to your April 2nd rally, because I am very surprised and angry, by the information, that I see, here, about nuclear energy. The government tells us that nuclear is safe, clean, reliable! Now I see on your blog, that nuclear is still very dangerous!

I did not buy a house in Pickering, for the very reason, that it was too close to Pickering. When I was looking for a house, I remember thinking, who would want to live so close to a nuclear power plant? Now you tell me that my family and I, and Toronto is in the danger zone still!

You're right. The radiation would carry in the air for miles!

Thank you for your efforts, and information! See you Thursday.