Bill Gates, while motivated to help fight climate change, has also long been trying to make a success of his nuclear technology company Terra Power. The climate emergency presents him with the perfect opportunity to promote this, and especially, to get tax–payer funding to do it, as he suggests in his new book.
Elon Musk and Bill Gates: beware of gurus toting solutions to climate change
Elon Musk has grand plans to save the world. Bill Gates has just published his book ”How To Avoid a Climate Disaster”. They both envisage tax-payer funding for their solutions. But beware of gurus toting the solution to the planet’s crisis.
Friday, 15 January 2021, 11:25 am
Celebrations in Aotearoa New Zealand to mark the entry
into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons (TPNW) will begin on Thursday 21 January with ICAN
Aotearoa New Zealand’s Wellington and online event, and
continue on Friday 22 January.
The TPNW bans the
development, testing, production, manufacture, possession,
transfer, use or threat of use, deployment, installation or
stationing of nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive
devices, as well as assistance, encouragement or inducement
of any of these prohibited activities. It provides a pathway
for nuclear-armed states to join and to destroy their
nuclear weapons in a time-bound, verifiable and irreversible
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Mainstream, VOL LIX No 5, New Delhi, January 16, 2021
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will come into force in January 2021 | Siby K. Joseph
Friday 15 January 2021
by Siby K. Joseph
It is an irony of history that a person who invented dynamite in 1867 and other terribly dangerous explosives later became a champion for promoting peace. It is the story of the Swedish scientist, Alfred Nobel, a scientist turned arms dealer who owned more than 90 factories manufacturing explosives and ammunition, when he passed away in 1896 in San Remo, Italy. [1] If he had not instituted in his will the idea of Nobel Prize and decided to use his dynamite fortune for the cause of peace, his label in history would be different. It remains as a fact that he had kept a long distance from the ideas of peace maintained by international peace activists. It is evident from the letter he wrote to Bertha von Suttner, authoress of the famous anti-war novel
Opinion: Yes, a U.S. president can start a nuclear war at any time By Stanley Heller
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley
In the wake of the Jan. 6 attempted insurrection, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi took the unprecedented step of speaking by phone with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley to discuss preventing President Trump from using a nuclear weapon. She said she talked with him to explore ways to stop “an unhinged president from using the nuclear codes.” The fear is that a desperate president would start a war and use nuclear weapons with the idea that somehow that would allow him to declare martial law to stay in power. It sounds like a plot in a suspense novel like “Seven Days in May,” but unfortunately it might be cold hard reality.
On Jan. 22, take a stand against nuclear weapons | Opinion
Updated Jan 13, 2021;
Posted Jan 13, 2021
The Atomic Bomb Dome is pictured on Aug. 4, 2020, in Hiroshima, Japan. Last year marked the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, in which 90,000 to 146,000 people were killed and the entire city was destroyed in the first use of a nuclear weapon in armed conflict. Getty Images
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By Mimi Lang
On Jan. 22, the “Ban the Bomb” movement is coming to a town, city, state or country near you. This is a momentous occasion in relation to protecting the world from the disaster of nuclear weapons. Since the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago, countries throughout the world have been advocating for a ban on nuclear weapons. It has been 51 years since the United Nations General Assembly passed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. 191 countries signed it. The treaty is reviewed and renewed every five years.