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In Australia, the gloom for uranium miners continues, with the spot price uranium market "at a standstill" , and no improvement in sight. Martin Ferguson pushes for tenders for his pet project, a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty, in NT, even though that plan is still under court action. Electricity generation future prospects - not so much will be needed. Photovoltaic solar panels are one factor in this, and the solar panel revolution is taking politicians by surprise.

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UNESCO World Heritage Committee allows boundary change

Elephants, rhinos and the environment under threat from 60 million tons of radioactive waste

Freiburg, Germany - A foreign uranium mining conglomerate will be allowed to exploit the precious Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania after the World Heritage Committee (WHC) decided, at its July 2012 session in Russia, to accept what was described as a "minor boundary change" of the site.

 
 

'I shall write peace upon your wings, and you shall fly around the world so that children will no longer have to die this way.'Haiku attributed to Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, on Hiroshima. Sadako is remembered through the story of a thousand origami cranes before her death, and is to this day a symbol of innocent victims of war. She died in 1955, aged 12.

A Kurdish refugee in his mid-30s attempted suicide at approximately
6.00am at the Melbourne Immigration Transit accomofdation centre. He
was unsuccessful as he was stopped by his friends and SERCO guards.
Fearing for his mental health, SERCO and police officers sent him to
a hospital at approximately 6.30am.

This attempted suicide is the result of SERCO and immigration
detention policies leaving him in limbo. He has been in detention for
14 months and was given refugee status after 7 months.

He remains detained after Serco branded him a "person of interest".

In the 1970's most cars were built in Australia, we also used to build alot of other machinery here as well, however the now high Australian dollar makes it hard for Australia to compete in engineering with other countries, especially when other countries have a much higher population than Australia & a lower dollar value than Australia, thus these days alot of machinery is imported into Australia from overseas ports.

Newsletter date: 6 August 2012

Contents:
* NIT: Damien Hooper, strikes trouble for wearing T-shirt with the Aboriginal flag to his Olympic Games debut
* AHRC: International Olympic Committee rules need review
* Background to Damien Hooper wearing the Aboriginal flag
* Misha Schubert: NT poll a judgment on intervention from the people most affected
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* ABC: Council implored to oppose Muckaty nuclear dump

Where all is competitiveness
To be aggressive is completely encouraged
It is even a strict normality
And to want to refuse any aggressiveness
Is regarded as perfect abnormality
Aggressiveness with its staphylococcus aureus
This spiral logarithmic curve of a Zeus
That more no antibiotic can stop
Through everywhere, to have misused it
Thus let us go to the attack of all the chokes
In order to more make us have
All that is in a standard
Return within a framework of normality
All that is of another form
Is in the dustbin of the abnormality
One perhaps large