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Radioactive sheep boost claims of secret Israeli nuke test
https://www.rt.com/news/435968-israel-nuclear-test-sheep-australia/
Radioactive isotopes discovered by scientists in Australian sheep have added gravity to longstanding claims that a mysterious flash above the Indian Ocean 39 years ago was actually an illegal Israeli nuclear weapon test.
On September 22, 1979, US satellite Vela 6911 detected a ‘double flash’ near the Marion and Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. Ever since, there has been speculation that it was actually a nuclear weapon test carried out by Israel. According to the memoirs of then-US President Jimmy Carter, this was also the assumption of American generals who briefed him on the incident. The official position of the Israeli state is to neither confirm nor deny having a homegrown military nuclear program.
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Now a new paper, published in the Science & Global Security journal, says radioactive isotope iodine-131 had been discovered in the thyroids of Australian sheep in the month following the so-called ‘Vela incident.’
Christopher Wright of the Australian Defense Force Academy and nuclear physicist Lars-Erik De Geer, who used to work for the Swedish Defense Research Agency, have analyzed thyroid samples that were sent monthly to the US in 1979. The information on test results was only recently made available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act.
The isotope levels found in the sheep affected by rain four days after the incident, “would be consistent with them having grazed in the path of a potential radioactive fallout plume from a 22 September low-yield nuclear test in the Southern Indian Ocean,” the paper states.
The researchers said that the analysis of weather patterns suggests the fallout plume from a nuclear explosion would have carried over from the test site in the Indian Ocean to parts of Australian territory.
The assumption that a nuclear test took place in 1979 is also backed by the analysis of the declassified “hydroacoustic signal” from US underwater listening devices, the study added.
The research “removes virtually all doubt that the 'flash' was a nuclear explosion,” Leonard Weiss, nuclear weapons expert from the Stanford University, wrote in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
He pinpointed Israel as the responsible party because it was “the only country that had the technical ability and policy motivation to carry out such a clandestine test.” According to Weiss, it was just one of several aerial nuclear explosions performed by the Jewish state, which was detected by the US satellite due to an unexpected change in the cloud cover.
Researchers say the Israeli test was carried out in violation of the Limited Test Ban Treaty from 1963, and urge a large-scale international probe of the incident.
Israeli Ambassador to New Zealand Itzhak Gerberg denied the findings of the research in a comment to the New Zealand Herald, calling them “simply a ridiculous assumption that does not hold water.”
Christmas Island detention: why is Australia deporting so many people?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/nov/13/christmas-island-detention-why-is-australia-deporting-so-many-people
Who is being held on Christmas Island?
The island – a tiny rock in the Indian Ocean far closer to Jakarta than any Australian city – has been used as an immigration detention centre for asylum seekers since 2001. But the complexion of the population has changed in recent months, with the addition of a new cohort, the so-called 501s, migrants whose visas have been cancelled and who face imminent deportation.
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Christmas Island is currently home to 199 detainees, 113 of whom, according to the Australian government, have criminal convictions.
The 501s, facing only an indefinite incarceration without charge, or forcible deportation, now outnumber asylum seekers in many immigration detention centres across Australia, including on Christmas Island.
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Illinois sues Trump Tower over Chicago River water use
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45191465
llinois' attorney general is suing Chicago's Trump International Hotel & Tower for allegedly breaking environmental laws.
Lisa Madigan's suit claims the property draws and releases millions of gallons of water from the Chicago River without necessary permits.
Moreover, the property has not studied the effects of this on the river's fish population as required by law, it says.
A Trump Organisation spokesperson said the suit was political.
In an email reported by Reuters news agency, spokesperson Janet Isabelli said the organisation was "disappointed" Ms Madison filed the suit, "considering such items are generally handled at the administrative level".
"One can only conclude that this decision was motivated by politics."
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
She is a member of the Democratic Party and has been the state's attorney general since 2003.
Her suit alleges the hotel draws in nearly 20 million gallons (75m litres) of water a day for its air conditioning and ventilation system.
Thirty men charged with sexually abusing girls in West Yorkshire
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/15/thirty-men-charged-sexually-abusing-girls-west-yorkshire
Allegations of rape and trafficking of five girls date from between 2005 and 2012
Kirklees magistrates court in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
The 30 men and one woman will appear at Kirklees magistrates court on 5-6 September. Photograph: Alamy
Thirty men have been charged with raping and trafficking five girls in West Yorkshire.
The allegations against the defendants are non-recent sexual offences dating back to between 2005 and 2012. They relate to five women who say they were abused as children in the Huddersfield area between the ages of 12 and 18.
One woman, 38-year-old Fehreen Rafiq from Huddersfield, is charged with two counts of facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.
The 31 accused will appear at Kirklees magistrates court on 5-6 September 2018. They are:
Banaras Hussain, 37, of Shipley, charged with one count of rape of a female over 16.
Banaris Hussain, 35, of Huddersfield, charged with one count of rape of a girl aged 13-15.
Mohammed Suhail Arif, 30, of Huddersfield, charged with rape of a girl aged 13-15.
Iftikar Ali, 37, of Huddersfield, charged with attempted rape of a girl aged 13-15 and three counts of rape of a girl aged 13-15.
Mohammed Sajjad, 31, of Huddersfield, charged with four counts of rape of a female aged 13-15, one rape of a girl under 13 and facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.
Fehreen Rafiq, 38, of Huddersfield, charged with two counts of facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.
Umar Zaman, 30, of Huddersfield, charged with two counts of rape of a female aged 13-15.
Basharat Hussain, 31, of Huddersfield, charged with two counts of rape of a female aged 13-15.
Amin Ali Choli, 36, of Huddersfield, charged with two counts of rape of a female over 16 years old.
Shaqeel Hussain, 35, of Dewsbury, charged with rape of a female aged 13-15 and two counts of trafficking.
Mubasher Hussain, 35, of Huddersfield, charged with rape of a female aged 13-15 and sexual assault.
Abdul Majid, 34, of Huddersfield, charged with two counts of rape of a female aged 13-15.
Mohammed Dogar, 35, of Huddersfield, charged with two counts of facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.
Usman Ali, 32, of Huddersfield, charged with two counts of rape of a female aged 13-15.
Mohammed Waqas Anwar, 29, of Huddersfield, charged with five counts of rape of a female aged 13-15.
Gul Riaz, 42, of Huddersfield, charged with rape of a female aged 13-15.
Mohammed Akram, 41, of Huddersfield, charged with two counts of trafficking with a view to sexual exploitation of a female and rape of a female aged 14-15.
Manzoor Akhtar, 29, of Huddersfield, charged with trafficking and three counts of rape of a female aged 13-15.
Samuel Fikru, 30, of Camden, charged with two counts of rape of a female aged 13-15.
Twelve other men, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have also been charged with numerous offences in connection with the same investigation, West Yorkshire police said.
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