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Vanunu and Pollard: Time for Compassion and Common Sense

Information Pollard sold a quarter of a century ago is old news now, as is everything Vanunu knew about Israel’s Dimona plant.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Jonathan Jay Pollard was born in 1954 in Texas and grew up in an affluent family in Indiana. Until 1998 Israel publicly denied that Pollard was an Israeli spy, although it granted him citizenship in 1995.

Last week the relentless campaign to release Pollard was reignited with a letter signed by more than 30 Democratic members of the House calling on the president to grant clemency to the confessed spy.

Cosmic Irony and Vanunu Mordechai

“I am not harming Israel. I am not interested in Israel. I want to tell you something very important. I suffered here 18 years because I am a Christian, because I was baptized into Christianity...” - Mordechai Vanunu

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Cosmic Irony is the idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations.

It also encompass’s the belief that the universe is so large and man so small that the universe is indifferent to the plight of man.

Enduring Nuclear Commitments and Persistent Dissent

65 years after Little Boy and Fat Man, we all suffer from the continuous ionizing radiation pollution and contamination in the US and other locations.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Today, Obama released plans to invest more than $85 billion over the next decade to "modernize the U.S. nuclear weapons complex that supports our deterrent."

This represents a $4.1 billion increase over the next five years relative to the plan provided to Congress in May. This level of funding is unprecedented since the end of the Cold War.

Open Letter: Please Grant Mordechai Vanunu Free Departure Out of Israel

Vanunu is a former Israeli nuclear technician who was imprisoned for 18 years after revealing details of Israel's nuclear weapons program in 1986.

(BERLIN) - In this letter the signatories ask the two ministers to give Mordechai Vanunu free departure to enable him to participate in the ceremonial act for the bestowal of the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medal next month in Berlin.

Mordechai Vanunu is the laureate of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal 2010.

Group Wants Nuclear Loan Guarantees Blocked if France Refuses Support for U.S. Nonproliferation Standards

Nonproliferation/U.S. Nuclear Loan Guarantees - Bipartisan Group to Obama: Block Edf-Areva Nuclear LGs If France Refuses to Support America’s Global Nonproliferation Standards

(NEW YORK) - Leading US nuclear control experts from both the Right and the Left - called on President Obama today to condition the provision of any US federal energy loan guarantees to foreign nuclear suppliers.

Specifically, this would require countries wishing to expand their nuclear business in the US to support strong US nonproliferation standards for nuclear exports globally.

May Aung San Suu Kyi`s Light Shine on Tel Aviv and onto Berlin

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Hours before her anticipated release scores of supporters gathered near the home of Nobel Peace Prize laureate pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, hoping to see her in her first few minutes of freedom after seven years of house detention under Myanmar's ruling generals.

Aung San Suu Kyi swept to victory in the 1990 election by a landslide on top of the National League for Democracy party, but the military refused to hand over power and clamped down on opponents.

Wake up and Dream

(LONDON) - Our latest poetry by Mamoon Alabbasi is a thoughtful look at this life and the world around us; life and death intermingled with technological advancement so intense that it threatens the world's very existence.

Mamoon grew up in Iraq and he knows what it is like to feat what the next moment will bring, yet it isn't generally the feared Dictator that men like this fear, all too often it is the deathly threat of the U.S. military...

All Things Nuclear Must Pass: US, Israel and Iran

"Is any government qualified and authorized to produce such weapons." - Mordechai Vanunu

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Dr. Avner Cohen, is an Israeli-born philosopher, historical researcher and a leading expert in Israel's nuclear policy of deception, which is spun as 'Ambiguity' and his latest release is The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb.

In an interview with Haaretz, Cohen stated, "There was a secret even before there was anything to hide.

Another False Flag

What will be the final fib before the next preemptive attack on Iran?

(LOS ANGELES) - The Xmas Crotch Bomber, the Shoe Bomber of ten years ago and the NY Times Square Bomber have one thing in common with the packages of "explosives" located on UPS Planes in Europe yesterday:

NONE had blasting caps present which would be required for initiate the blast for each explosive

An IDEA Before It`s Time But There`s Something in the Air!

"Revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having..." —from V for Vendetta

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - In May of 2005, just prior to my first trip to Israel/Palestine, I phoned Mother Agapia Stephanopolous, a Russian Orthodox nun with the Orthodox School of Bethany in Jerusalem, for Spiritual Direction and to discuss our mutual feelings about The Wall.

Mother Agapia is the sister of ABC News commentator, George Stephanopolous, and she had recently and passionately informed Congress about the fact that, “Israel is destroying the local Christian community.”