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War with Iran - MEMORANDUM FOR: President Obama

FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: War With Iran.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war.

Israel’s leaders would calculate that once the battle is joined, it will be politically untenable for you to give anything less than unstinting support to Israel, no matter how the war started, and that U.S. troops and weaponry would flow freely. Wider war could eventually result in destruction of the state of Israel.

`Atomic Veterans` to be Remembered

Oregon Atomic Veterans Day Celebration is July 16‏.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Members of the Oregon Association of Atomic Veterans will host a ceremony and celebration in Lebanon, Friday, July 16, to remember Atomic Veterans Day.

All military veterans and their families are invited to attend the celebration being held at Lebanon's American Legion Post 51, 480 Main St., at 10:00 a.m.

Israeli Nukes 101

Deception clouds the air when it comes to the critical subject of Israel and nuclear weapons.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Ha'aretz published an article 7 July 2010 titled "Secret document affirms U.S.-Israel nuclear partnership" explaining that the U.S. has reportedly pledged to sell Israel materials used to produce electricity, as well as nuclear technology and other supplies.

The publication is Israel's most progressive daily newspaper, known for exercising more fairness with regard to the occupation of Palestine and subsequent oppression of Arab people, than most other Israeli media.

What`s Good for the Goose Does Not Apply

Obama Maintains Israel is the Exception to Middle East Disarmament.

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - President Obama has reaffirmed that Israel remains the exception to the rules each and every other Middle Eastern country would be expected to play by in pursuit of a “nuclear free” Middle East.

Far too many writers use the term “ambiguous” when writing about Israel’s response to questions regarding its program and nuclear capabilities. The appropriate term is “deceptive”.

Declaration of Independence from Nuclear Weapons

36 arrested at Y-12 National Security Complex.

(OAK RIDGE, Tenn.) - Priests and nuns, atheists, anarchist and one clown were among the 23 arrested by the State and 13 by the Federal Government for nonviolently resisting Nuclear Weapons at Y-12 on 5 July 2010.

Those facing State charges were arrested for obstructing the road way, one for failing to obey a police officer and Federal charges are for trespassing.

Making Plans from Tennessee to Iran

When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor had no food, they called me a communist - Dom Helder Comara

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - John Lennon said, "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." I make my plans anyway but always stay flexible for change.

Next week at this time, I plan to be in Tennessee among the participants celebrating 30 years of NONVIOLENT civil disobedient actions in pursuit of a Nuclear Free Future

EXCLUSIVE: Beyond the Nuclear Mordechai Vanunu: Part One in a Series

"If you shut up the truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way." - Emile Zola

(CLERMONT, Fla. ) - In June 2005, I was just a few days before my first of seven journeys to Israel Palestine.

A Palestinian American friend warned me, “Don’t visit Mordechai Vanunu, if you see him; don’t speak to him. He’s not allowed to speak to foreigners and you could cause him trouble.”

Experts: U.S. Agrees to Store Enough Nuclear Waste to Fill Two Yucca Mountains - or Face Billions in Penalties

“Under the Radar”: Outgoing Bush White House Hiked Likely Penalties Borne by Taxpayers By Inking Deals With Over a Dozen Utilities; 170 Groups in All 50 States Release Principles Urging an Upgrade in Spent Reactor Fuel Storage Safety to Withstand Equivalent of “9/11 Attacks.”

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The U.S. already agreed to store enough spent reactor fuel to fill the equivalent of two Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste repositories.

U.S. taxpayers would be on the hook for potentially tens of billions of dollars in penalties that would have to be paid to utilities if the 21 proposed reactor projects proceed.

Nuclear Waste/`Fast Breeder` Reactor - Study: Problem-Plagued Reactor No Solution to Long-Term Nuclear Waste Problem

The rationale for breeder reactors is no longer sound.

(PRINCETON, N.J. ) - A major new study dashes hopes that the “fast breeder”– might serve as a major part of the long-term nuclear waste disposal solution.

The findings lend credibility to a 1956 summation that the reactors are ‘expensive to build, complex to operate, susceptible to prolonged shutdown as a result of even minor malfunctions, and difficult and time-consuming to repair.’

Nuclear Waste Problem: Study to Show if Fast Reactor Is Solution to Long-Term Waste Storage Headaches

Fast Breeder Reactor/ - Major Implications Seen for Obama Blue-Ribbon Waste Panel, New Interest in “Generation IV” Reactors; U.S., Russia, UK, France, India and Japan Programs are Evaluated in the Study.

(PRINCETON, N.J.) - Do concerns about inadequate options for long-term nuclear reactor waste disposal now mean that it is time to make a new commitment to the development of fast reactors?

How about cost, reliability, safety and proliferation issues?