Mary Robinson has by now made clear that she will not be available for nomination to the post as the President of the European Council. This probably means that the possibility to have her as the first President of the EU is gone. The reason, The Irish Times reports , is that she had become focused on climate change and its negative impacts on the developing world.

Anyway, let's hope that Mrs. Robinson helps to mobilize the opinion for the denuclearisation of Europe, and a Europe which defends human rights, because these goals should not be incompatible with her fight against the negative impact of the climate change. Take, for instance, the story of the lost ships with radioactive waste in the Mediterranean, and the findings of UNEP on the cost of Somalia in their report about the effects of the tsunami 2006. These crimes of the Italian and European (?) 'ecomafia' remain upublished by the main media, and, what is more, unpunished.

Or, consider the recent news about the 8-39 kilograms (!) of plutonium, which was found at Cadarache (France). In 2005, it should be remembered, Cadarache was chosen, in 2005, to become "the home for an experimental $13 billion nuclear fusion project scientists say will produce a boundless source of clean and cheap energy".

Well, Don't Nuke the Climate!

Quotation of the day:

"When the United States adopted torture as a weapon in its 'war on terror,' it was a turn to methods that shock the conscience, and when discovered, officials and their media surrogates went to great lengths to gain public acquiescence for their policies, It was not the first time the country betrayed its highest ideals, nor the first time U.S. citizens were led to deny that any betrayal had occurred. The United States had gone down the same road in 1945, when it used nuclear weapons to destroy two Japanese cities. One case involved the product of intensive scientific research, the other methods dating back hundreds of years, if not to prehistory. But in the way the U.S. government made and justified these fateful decisions, the two stories contain many disturbing parallels." -- Jon Reinsch