While #nuclearenergy is not #fossil it not #green at all - but #colonial , #deadly & totally unfair because, like in AI, the #profits are being privatised, the costs are hitting the whole #society & the #planet

But from the point of view of someone believing in #cybernetics or one of its #TESCREAL grandchildren it is great - because in cybernetics EVERY problem will be solved in "the future" by "technology"

'There Is No Intel': #Trump's Attacks on #Iran Were Based on Vibes, Sources Say

Following Trump's attacks on Iran, an admin official tells Rolling Stone, "The intelligence assessments have not really changed"

After Trump's decision to strike 3 Iranian #nuclear facilities on Sat, admin ofcls are barely bothering to pretend the unprecedented—& potentially calamitous—attacks were motivated by new #intelligence suggesting Iran was on the brink of having nuclear weapons.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-iran-attack-no-intel-nuclear-1235369641/

#MiddleEast #war

The second #Trump admin skipped the pretense, opting to speed-run the #US into conflict, at a time when public polling shows that the idea of #war with #Iran is spectacularly unpopular with the American people.

In his address to the nation Saturday evening, Trump said, "Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity & a stop to the #nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror."

Just months ago, Trump's Director of National Intelligence #TulsiGabbard testified to #Congress, in her opening statement, that the US intel community "continues to assess that #Iran is not building a #nuclear weapon" & had not reauthorized its nuclear weapons program.

While #Trump recently publicly disputed Gabbard's testimony, acc/to 2 admin ofcls with knowledge of internal deliberations in recent weeks, Trump's decision to strike was not driven by any new US #intelligence on Iran.

A #MiddleEast-based maritime center overseen by the #US #military warned Sunday that there’s a “high” risk to US associated ships after the American strikes on #Iran #nuclear sites.

“The threat to US associated commercial shipping in the Red Sea & Gulf of Aden is currently assessed as HIGH,” the Joint Maritime Information Center, which is overseen by the US #Navy, wrote in an advisory to shippers.

The #Trump admin said that its attack on 3 #Iran #nuclear facilities was not about toppling the country’s government.

“This mission was not and has not been about regime change,” #Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth said at a Sunday news briefing.

Air Force Gen. #DanCaine, the chairman of the #JointChiefs of Staff, stressed that the goal of “Operation Midnight Hammer” had destroyed the nuclear sites in #Fordow, #Natanz & #Isfahan.

He added that the #US used other methods of deception as well, deploying fighters to protect the B-2 bombers that dropped 14 #BunkerBuster bombs on Iran’s most powerful #nuclear site. He said that all of these tactics helped the U.S. drop the bombs without tipping off Iran’s fighter jets or its air missile systems.

#Trump#MiddleEast #war

#Hegseth said it was important to note that #US strikes did not target Iranian troops or the Iranian people, a veiled effort to indicate to #Iran that they don’t want retaliation on American targets in the region.

#MiddleEast #war

The #US #military struck 3 sites in #Iran early Sunday, inserting itself into #Israel’s effort to decapitate Iran’s #nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals could spark a wider regional conflict.

#Trump says Iran’s key nuclear sites were “completely & fully obliterated” by US strikes. Speaking hours after the attacks, he threatened more strikes & said Iran faced a choice between “peace or tragedy.”

#MiddleEast #war
https://apnews.com/live/israel-iran-war-updates?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-22-Live+updates

Personally, l have a belief that if #Israel \ #America & #Iran, generally had populations that held the same, or no religious belief, they'd be trade, etc, allies, not competitors. A different God belief, generally, causes far more social ills, than a no God belief would (in general)

Global #News Podcast: #US targets Iran's #nuclear sites - extra edition

Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0lkr2f9

Media file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss-low/proto/http/vpid/p0lkr1sw.mp3

#politics #religiousity#BBC

On the off chance that the U.S. Government removes it from the web, this is the March 25, 2025 testimony of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that Iran is not currently developing nuclear weapons and it is at least 2 to 3 years from having a bomb ("breakout").

source: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/congressional-testimonies/congressional-testimonies-2025/4059-ata-opening-statement-as-prepared

#USpol #iran #nuclear #war #intelligence

Don't believe the hype. Thorium MSRs (Molten Salt Reactors) are less dangerous than standard uranium reactors, because they can't melt down, and they can't produce weapons grade nuclear materials. But still dangerous, producing radioactive wastes with half-lives in the hundreds of thousands of years;

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jun/23/thorium-nuclear-uranium

We can scale up proven renewable tech, and probably develop new ones, far faster for the same investment, without the waste issues.

#nuclear#NuclearPower#Thorium#MSR

Humanity needs to stop wasting public money on nuclear investment, and invest it in renewables. Especially decarbonizing proven renewable tech. Figuring out how to build and maintain renewable generation without energy and byproducts (plastics, etc) from fossil fuels is an important area of experimentation in itself.

#energy #nuclear #RenewableEnergy #decarbonization