REPUBLICANS SHOVE DANGEROUS NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TO THE WORLD, AT THE BEHEST OF AN IMMORAL NUCLEAR INDUSTRY
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who pushed these 2 very dangerous pieces of technology to the world:
nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons.
It's important to remember that America invented the whole concept of
nuclear technology in the first place (nuclear power and nuclear
weapons), and it's also important to remember that it was Republican
President Dwight Eisenhower who was so very enthralled by this
nauseatingly dangerous technology that he proceeded to spread as much
of it as he could to the world at large. And Iran was one of the
first countries that Eisenhower decided to spread this nuclear
technology to.
* On January 20, 1953, Eisenhower is sworn in as President:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower
* On August 19, 1953, Eisenhower orders our CIA to overthrow a
democracy in Iran:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
* On December 8, 1953, Eisenhower gives his "Atoms for Peace" speech
at the UN:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atoms_for_peace
Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" program supplied the most dangerous
nuclear equipment imaginable and the most dangerous nuclear
information that our government had available, and he gave it away to
all the other governments thru out the world, to all their schools,
and to all their research institutions, e.t.c. The first nuclear
reactors in Iran and Pakistan were built by the American Machine and
Foundry corporation. In the aftermath of the horrors of World War 2,
and with the introduction of nuclear warfare as official policy,
Eisenhower's speech was designed to turn the world's attention away
from those dangers and shift the focus to the peaceful benefits of
atomic energy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shah-nukeIran.jpg
Continuing this nuclear relationship, Republican President Gerald Ford
signed a directive in 1976 offering the Shah of Iran a chance to buy
and operate American built reprocessing facilities for extracting
plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel. The deal was for a complete
'nuclear fuel cycle'. At the time, Richard Cheney was the White House
Chief of Staff, and Donald Rumsfeld was the Secretary of Defense. The
Ford strategy paper said that the "introduction of nuclear power will
both provide for the growing needs of Iran's economy and free
remaining oil reserves for export or conversion to petrochemicals"
Most of the uproar over Iran's nuclear program comes from the
Republicans, yet there's been very little attention paid to the fact
that the country which first provided Tehran with nuclear equipment
was the United States, and it was ONLY the Republicans who were
pushing for the transfer of this dangerous nuclear technology,
Republicans pushed this dangerous technology not only to Iran, but to
the rest of the world.
In 1967, under Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" program, America sold
Iran a 5-megawatt, light-water type research reactor, located in the
Tehran suburbs, this would end up being the foundation of Iran's
nuclear program, and it remains at the center of controversy, even
today.
Iran says it needs more fuel for the reactor, which it insists is for
basic research, and to produce medical isotopes. And the Tehran
Research Reactor runs on uranium that is some 20 percent U-235.
On a related issue, as per the Rachel Maddow show (first link below),
presently, there are more than 11,000 spent fuel rods being exposed
right now in Japan, which adds up to more than 4 and a half million
pounds of dangerously hot and radioactive uranium in danger of either
blowing up or spewing out into the atmosphere and contaminating the
whole world with it. The amount of radiation which is being exposed
to danger here in Japan is actually far in excess of what was exposed
in Chernobyl on April 26 of 1986. Chernobyl, we are told, is the
worst nuclear accident/catastrophe in history. But the presently
unfolding Japan nuclear catastrophe is actually quite capable, and
quite close to being even worse than Chernobyl. But not to worry,
because we are also being told that the Japanese are much more
technologically advanced and much more capable of handling this
catastrophe than the communist neanderthals who gave us the Chernobyl
catastrophe of 1986.
This is great, the corporate neanderthals of today, we are being led
to believe, are better than the communist neanderthals of yesterday.
Japan is, for all practical purposes, not really a democracy, it is a
corporatacracy. Here is a country, with half the population of the
United States, yet just about as productive as the United States, if
not more so. You do the math, America has twice the population of
Japan, but is just as productive as Japan, which means that the
average Japanese citizen is twice as productive as the average
American citizen, yet the standard of living of the average Japanese
is no where near the standard of living of the average American. The
Japanese people live as virtual slaves, they are the hardest workers
in the world, and definitely the most productive people on earth, by
far, yet they are still barely surviving, despite all that hard work.
That's because, for the most part, it's not the people of Japan who
are profiting from all this productivity, it's the corporations who
are, i.e. a CORPORATOCRACY.
Never mind "Separation of Church and State", what Japan, and America,
and every other democracy in the world needs is "Separation of
Business and State". Think about it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#42142166
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2009/1002/p04s01-usfp.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat