WRONG!
"Chile gives weapons-grade uranium to US; other countries urged to follow" by Michael Warren and Meg Kinnard, Associated Press | April 9, 2010
SANTIAGO, Chile — With President Obama shifting his nuclear nonproliferation strategy to rogue states and terrorists, Chile has become an example of how small countries can play a big part in making the world safer.
Vast amounts of highly enriched uranium, or HEU, is being stored in relatively insecure locations around the world. Just 55 pounds of it, the size of a grapefruit, could create a mushroom cloud of radioactivity and devastate an entire city if detonated.
Related: Obama's Nuclear Nonsense
Yeah, that seems to be the most important thing going right now.
At a nonproliferation summit Monday in Washington, Obama will encourage leaders from 47 countries to work with the United States to secure and remove this weapons-grade HEU from reactors, as Chile did last month.
“We are happy to see it go,’’ Fernando Lopez of the Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission told the Associated Press, which exclusively witnessed the secret transfer of the material from reactors near Santiago to the United States. “Countries normally don’t want to be loaded with waste from other countries,’’ Lopez said. “To put it in a safe place is valuable for everybody.’’
Yeah, YOU take this RADIOACTIVE HOT POTATO, America!!!
See: Around AmeriKa: Utah's Uranium
HOT, HOT!!
The new US strategy considers a nuclear attack by terrorists or the spread of nuclear weapons technology to rogue nations to be greater threats than the Cold War fear of a communist enemy initiating a nuclear Armageddon....
So WHEN is the FALSE FLAG?!!
Even as aftershocks from last month’s magnitude-8.8 earthquake shook their equipment, US and Chilean engineers worked together to carefully extract Chile’s last HEU....
Oh, I SEE!!
Can't get aid into Haiti, but can get the uranium out of Chile!!
What is WRONG with THAT PICTURE, America!?
After 2 1/2 weeks at sea, including passage through the Panama Canal, a specially outfitted double-hulled ship arrived under Coast Guard escort at the Charleston Weapons Station in South Carolina last month. Customs agents and nuclear inspectors made radiation checks as the containers were loaded onto flatbed trucks and then driven to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where much of it will be converted to safer fuel and resold for nuclear power.
Oh, I'M SURE that makes the people in Georgia and Tennessee pleased as punch.
Of course, the government isn't worried about radiation in the water and soil around here.
A year ago, Obama made a promise to lead a global effort to recover all of this material within four years — ambitious because it not only requires years of planning and diplomacy, but also highly specific technology and expertise.
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And look at what gets hidden under a domestic political brief here at home, readers:
WASHINGTON --As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed by Chilean agents on Washington's Embassy Row in 1976, a newly released State Department cable shows.
Whether Kissinger played a role in blocking the delivery of the warning against assassination to the governments of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay has long been a topic of controversy.
Discovered in recent weeks by the National Security Archive, a non-profit research organization, the Sept. 16, 1976 cable is among tens of thousands of declassified State Department documents recently made available to the public.
In 1976, the South American nations of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay were engaged in a program of repression code-named Operation Condor that targeted those governments' political opponents throughout Latin America, Europe and even the United States.
A CIA PROGRAM, readers!!
Based on information from the CIA, the U.S. State Department became concerned that Condor included plans for political assassination around the world....
This article doesn't really tell you anything, dear readers.
Same with any government release.
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What do you mean the WEB VERSION CHOPPED IT, dear readers?
Related: Another 9/11 Anniversary
Yeah, U.S. brought it to them, too!
Oh, yeah, about that earthquake:
"Suddenly, the Chileans needed actual houses and fast, before the bitter winter rains start later this month.
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Related: Cleaning Up in Chile
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
The MSM sure dropped the Chile quake coverage quick, 'eh?
