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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:teal'>No</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <span style='color:blue'>Nukes</span> <span style='color:red'>News</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>August 4</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Pass this onto a friend! - a<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Solartopia, he says, "is the wonderful, positive way of approaching the problem" of a polluted planet. "Don't just say `don't, don't, don't.' Say `DO! DO! DO!'" <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"Wind power, solar power," Pete says. "This is the most exciting time in the world to be living.... There has never been such an exciting time."<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Pete Seeger, American folk musician<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'>Ontario: quarrels over </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>green </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'>energy value<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Now, prominent fiscal conservatives are complaining that recent green energy contracts are poised to ignite steep power price hikes, and are an affront to market pricing principles. This belies a deep disdain for the actual facts, and a woeful lack of fiscal literacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>In fact, the most enduring value of the landmark feed-in-tariff (FIT) model Ontario has adopted is that it will finally impel the province toward realistic (ie accurate) pricing, ignite electricity sector innovation which has been stultified for decades, and replace a command-and-control edifice which acted against both the economic and ecological interests of the province.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.straightgoods.ca/2010/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=687&Cookies=yes">http://www.straightgoods.ca/2010/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=687&Cookies=yes</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0'>New report disputes the economic case for nuclear power in Saskatchewan<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>HIGHLIGHTS</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>- Nuclear power could triple the electricity rate for Sask. consumers.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>- Nuclear power causes little to no reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>- Nuclear power has the highest capital costs compared to other forms of energy.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>- The export market for surplus power has been greatly exaggerated.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-releases/new-report-disputes-economic-case-nuclear-power-saskatchewan">http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-releases/new-report-disputes-economic-case-nuclear-power-saskatchewan</a> </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Feds to pay extra refit costs</span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>In letter to prime minister, Premier Shawn Graham says he's pleased province won't be on hook for unforeseen costs</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/actualites/article/1150839">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/actualites/article/1150839</a> <br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Note: Great, taxpayers across the country will be paying for New Brunswick’s ill-thought-out foray into nuclear refurbishment. – a <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Nuke plan to ship waste on our lakes</span></b></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'> – <span class=apple-style-span><b>The Ontario government has a responsibility to protect our drinking water</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>by Andrea Horwath, NDP Leader, Ontario</span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0in'><a href="http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/2010/07/28/14858291.html">http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/2010/07/28/14858291.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#4BACC6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#4BACC6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000;letter-spacing:-.75pt'>Chernobyl zone shows decline in biodiversity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'>The largest wildlife census of its kind conducted in Chernobyl has revealed that mammals are declining in the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt'><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10819027">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10819027</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#990000'>Floating Chernobyls </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Russia has embarked on a scheme to building floating nuclear power plants to be moored off its coasts—especially off northern and eastern Russia—and sold to nations around the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/grossman07272010.html">http://www.counterpunch.org/grossman07272010.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:14.25pt'><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#7030A0'>U.S. Wary of South Korea’s Plan to Reuse Nuclear Fuel</span></b></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#7030A0'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Overshadowed by the continuing tension over </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/northkorea/nuclear_program/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:#004277;text-decoration:none'>North Korea’s nuclear program</span></span></a><span class=apple-style-span>, another nuclear dispute is emerging on the Korean Peninsula — this one between the United States and </span><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/southkorea/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:#004277;text-decoration:none'>South Korea</span></span></a><span class=apple-style-span>. </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>South Korea, which has no oil reserves, </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.khnp.co.kr/index_en.jsp"><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:#004277;text-decoration:none'>derives 40 percent of its electricity</span></span></a><span class=apple-style-span> from nuclear reactors and is running out of space to store the highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel.</span><span style='color:black'> </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:7.5pt'><span class=apple-style-span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/world/asia/14seoul.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/world/asia/14seoul.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:14.25pt'><span class=apple-style-span><b><i>Background: </i></b></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>Every nuclear reactor fueled with uranium produces plutonium</i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>as a byproduct, and "all plutonium is good plutonium" when</i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>it comes to making atomic bombs or more sophisticated nuclear</i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>weapons. (See <a href="http://ccnr.org/plute_sandia.html">http://ccnr.org/plute_sandia.html</a>)</i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:14.25pt'><span class=apple-style-span><i>The process of extracting plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel</i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>is called "reprocessing". (Nuclear proponents now refer to it as</i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>"recycling", but in fact less than one percent of the irradiated</i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>fuel is plutonium, and the high level radioactive waste left</i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>behind remains an unsolved problem. The term "recycling" </i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>is therefore quite misleading.) </i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:14.25pt'><span class=apple-style-span><i>Once extracted, plutonium can be used to make atomic bombs at</i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>all levels of technical sophistication. Plutonium can also be used</i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>to fabricate fuel for nuclear reactors, but if that fuel is stolen the plutonium can be easily recovered as a nuclear-weapons-usable material by any well-equipped criminal or terrorist organization.</i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:14.25pt'><span class=apple-style-span><i>Any country that has stockpiles of separated plutonium can</i></span> <span class=apple-style-span><i>quickly put together an arsenal of atomic bombs or more sophisticated nuclear weapons with little chance of detectionand little time for diplomacy or sanctions to work.</i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:14.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><span class=apple-style-span><i>Gordon Edwards.</i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>Nuclear Power:</span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'> <b>Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In this 45 min. program, Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear explodes the myths now being promulgated by those promoting nuclear power. He tells of the insoluble problems of nuclear waste, how nuclear power plants routinely emit radioactive poisons, how catastrophic accidents can happen, how nuclear power plants are pre-deployed weapons of mass destruction for terrorists, and the enormously high costs of nuclear power. He exposes the falsehood that the French nuclear program has been a success and that nuclear power does not contribute to global warming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>View it here: <a href="http://www.blip.tv/file/3946822">http://www.blip.tv/file/3946822</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'><a href="http://theenergycollective.com/oshadavidson/40559/study-solar-power-cheaper-nuclear" title="Study: Solar power is cheaper than nuclear"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><span style='color:windowtext'>Study: Solar po<span style='color:windowtext'>wer is cheaper than nuclear</span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.25pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The Holy Grail of the solar industry — reaching grid parity — may no longer be a distant dream. Solar may have already reached that point, at least when compared to nuclear power, </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#484848'><a href="http://www.ncwarn.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/NCW-SolarReport_final1.pdf">according to a new study by two researchers at Duke University.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.25pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>It’s no secret that the cost of producing photovoltaic cells (PV) has been dropping for years. A PV system today costs just 50 percent of what it did in 1998. Breakthroughs in technology and manufacturing combined with an increase in demand and production have caused the price of solar power to decline steadily. At the same time, estimated costs for building new nuclear power plants have ballooned.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://theenergycollective.com/oshadavidson/40559/study-solar-power-cheaper-nuclear">http://theenergycollective.com/oshadavidson/40559/study-solar-power-cheaper-nuclear</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'>Nuclear Energy Loses Cost Advantage<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>New York Times – Solar photovoltaic systems have long been painted as a clean way to generate electricity, but expensive compared with other alternatives to oil, like nuclear power. No longer. In a “historic crossover,” the costs of solar photovoltaic systems have declined to the point where they are lower than the rising projected costs of new nuclear plants<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/business/global/27iht-renuke.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/business/global/27iht-renuke.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#0070C0'>It's a cloudy day for solar investors<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>Landowners feel blindsided after OPA wants to cut 80.2 cents a kilowatt hour first proposed<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.thestar.com/business/article/842030--no-ray-of-sunshine-for-solar-power-investors">http://www.thestar.com/business/article/842030--no-ray-of-sunshine-for-solar-power-investors</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h3 style='background:white'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'><span style='color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>Green </span></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0'>firms see </span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000'>red </span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070C0'>over Ontario rule changes for power producers <o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='background:white' id=deck><span lang=EN-CA style='color:black'>Province accused of creating instability by cutting rate for input to electricity grid<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/green-firms-see-red-over-ontario-rule-changes-for-power-producers/article1659943/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/green-firms-see-red-over-ontario-rule-changes-for-power-producers/article1659943/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt'><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>A </span></b></span><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#EEECE1;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#EEECE1;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=10000'>dark </span></b></span><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>ideology is driving those who deny climate change</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#C0504D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:23.25pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>People who claim that climate science is a conspiracy or the work of charlatans are talking rubbish <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:23.25pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#666666'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/01/climate-change-robin-mckie">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/01/climate-change-robin-mckie</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#F79646;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Climate Change Summit 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Aug. 13 – 15, at Hart House, U of T<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Three days of climate science and solutions -- no sugar coating.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>With Bill McKibbon, Andrew Weaver, Elizabeth May and more<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Presented by U of T Greens and Toronto-Danforth Federal Green Party. It is a non-partisan event open to everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>For more info and to register: <a href="http://ccc-2010.ca/">http://ccc-2010.ca/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000'>Countdown to Zero <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>In Toronto it’s playing at the Cumberland Theatre (near Bloor and Bay) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.toronto.com/documentary/movie/648313">http://www.toronto.com/documentary/movie/648313</a> <b><span style='color:#C00000'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000'>Documentary probes a new generation of nuclear dangers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p>Dr. Strangelove isn’t dead, he’s just moved to a city near you, says “Countdown to Zero,” a film that means to put a new generation of anti-nuclear campaigners back on the peace path their grandparents pioneered as Cold War protesters.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/839693--documentary-probes-a-new-generation-of-nuclear-dangers">http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/839693--documentary-probes-a-new-generation-of-nuclear-dangers</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#C00000'>Disarmament for Some - Co-opting the Anti-Nuclear Movement <o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=style2><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Countdown to Zero is one component of a larger and coherent foundation campaign to stoke up public fears about nuclear weapons for the purpose of extending a near-monopoly on nuclear weapons, and legitimating a more aggressive foreign policy aimed at regime change in Iran and elsewhere. The consensus behind those who funded and produced the film has little to do with disarmament, and a lot to do with stabilizing the American empire.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/graham07222010.html">http://www.counterpunch.org/graham07222010.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F497D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:"lumm=60000 lumo=40000"'>The Ninth of August<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>On the 9<sup>th</sup> of August, 1945,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> an all-Christian B-29 bomber crew took off from Tinian Island in the South Pacific, with the blessings of its Catholic and Protestant chaplains. In the plane’s hold was the second of the only two nuclear bombs to ever be used against human targets in wartime. The primary target, Kokura, Japan, was clouded over, so the plane, named Bock’s Car, headed for the secondary target, Nagasaki.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Every summer, to call the Christian community to repent and to return to the truth that violence is not the way of Christ, Father McCarthy leads a fast from solid foods for 40 days, breaking it on August 9. It is suggested that fellow peacemakers remember <u>all</u> the victims of past August Ninths in their prayers on the upcoming 60<sup>th</sup> anniversary commemoration. It is hoped that conscientious Christians consider a day-long fast in remembrance of the hundreds of millions of war dead, the hundreds of millions of physically and psychologically traumatized survivors of war violence, and the billions of spiritually dead victims, both soldier-perpetrators and their civilian victims, innocents who continue to suffer from the starvation, homelessness, poverty, sickness and hopelessness that follows every war.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/kohls6.html">http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/kohls6.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=title1><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030A0'>Message for Hiroshima Day 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=title1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We must choose: nuclear weapons or a human future. The choice should not be difficult. Humanity should shout out with a single voice that we choose a world free of the overarching nuclear threat, a world free of nuclear weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=title1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/db_article.php?article_id=123">http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/db_article.php?article_id=123</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>Annual Hiroshima Day Peace Commemoration & Reflecting Light Lantern Ceremony<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'>65 Years -Time to Retire the Bomb!</span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#9BBB59;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>August 6, 2010 marks 65 years since the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Join the Hiroshima Day Coalition in Toronto to commemorate it.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><strong>Friday, August 6<sup>th</sup> </strong><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><strong> </strong>5:30 PM – Origami Paper Crane & Lantern Making<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'> 6:30 PM – Peace Commemorations Begin<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'> 8:45 PM – Reflective Light Lantern Ceremony<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><strong>Toronto Peace Garden, Nathan Phillips Square</strong>, 100 Queen Street West (corner Queen and Bay)<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><strong>Performances include: </strong><strong><span style='font-weight:normal'>3-time Juno Nominated Artist, Tom Barlow</span></strong><b>,</b> The Raging Grannies, young violinist<span style='color:black'> Evelyn Liu</span>, 40 member SGI Youth Choir, Flautist Scott Kusano, Yakuodo Japanese Drummers<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><strong>Keynotes include</strong><strong><span style='font-weight:normal'>: Joe Ohori, Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor</span></strong><b>, </b><strong><span style='font-weight:normal'>Hon. Bob Rae, Liberal Party Foreign Affairs Critic</span></strong><b>,</b> Murray Thomson, Pearson Peace Medal recipient, Dr. Adele Buckley, Pugwash Canada on Arctic Nuclear Weapons Free-Zone, <span style='color:black'>High School Student </span>Sophie Feltes on abolishing nuclear weapons, University Global Zero students on importance of civil participation, <span style='color:black'>With MC </span>Phyllis Creighton, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms and Science for Peace<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'><strong>PLUS: Hiroshima, Nagasaki Exhibit & Survivors Artwork</strong><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'>August 4 to 6th, Toronto City Hall, Rotunda. Daily.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%'>All events are free and open to the public: <a href="http://www.hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/">http://www.hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------------- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#4BACC6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#4BACC6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000'>Pete Seeger Speaks and Sings for Solartopia!</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br>At age 91, Pete is American folk activism's truest bard. It's no accident that Pete's new CD is Tomorrow's Children and that his new music video is for Solartopia! a holistic, socially just, post-corporate vision of a green-powered Earth. <br><br>Solartopia, he says, "is the wonderful, positive way of approaching the problem" of a polluted planet. "Don't just say `don't, don't, don't.' Say `DO! DO! DO!'" <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>"Wind power, solar power," Pete says. "This is the most exciting time in the world to be living.... There has never been such an exciting time."<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Watch Pete’s 4 minute video Solartopia here: <a href="http://www.solartopia.org/">http://www.solartopia.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Read the article here: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/02-1" target="_blank">http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/02-1</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-CA 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x 246<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>625 Church Street, #402<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Toronto, ON M4Y 2G1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org"><span style='color:blue'>angela@cleanairalliance.org</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/"><span style='color:blue'>www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a 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