Excerpt: "Four days after conducting a press conference to warn that 180 tons of dangerous chemical and radioactive industrial waste had arrived at the city of Kryvyi Rih (in the Dnipropetrovsk area of Ukraine), which was likely to be 'recycled' into the consumer product stream, 57 year old Volodymyr Goncharenko was brutally beaten to death."
Chairman of the Social Movement of Ukraine 'For the Right of Citizens to Environmental Safety,' was beaten to death on August 1. (photo: most-dnepr.info)
Ukrainian Environmentalist Brutally Beaten to Death
20 August 12
JOLT (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade) reports the horrific news that, four days after conducting a press conference to warn that 180 tons of dangerous chemical and radioactive industrial waste had arrived at the city of Kryvyi Rih (in the Dnipropetrovsk area of Ukraine), which was likely to be "recycled" into the consumer product stream, 57 year old Volodymyr Goncharenko (photo, left) was brutally beaten to death. He was the Chairman of Social Movement of Ukraine: For the Rights of Citizens to Environmental Security.
As reported by EJOLT, "According to Goncharenko, during the past several years, scavengers have removed from the Chernobyl exclusion zone 6 million metric tons of scrap metal that was subsequently smelted at metallurgical combines and reprocessed into new metal. While in theory each metallurgical combine should be equipped with radiation-monitoring equipment to check all incoming scrap, financial shortfalls have meant this was rarely the case. In 2007 Ukraine ranked eighth in global steel production and steel is Ukraine's leading export. One can only guess how much radioactive scrap metal has ended up in exported steel."
Pavlo Khazan of the Ukrainian Green Party stated: "We collaborated with Volodymyr for 15 years in professional and public areas. The Ukrainian Green Party has no doubt that the murder was linked to his professional activities." Although the Ukrainian police have opened an investigation into Goncharenko's murder, Khazan feels that to deliver justice in this case, international attention and pressure will be needed.
Please contact the Embassy of Ukraine, urging a thorough investigation of Goncharenko's murder, as well as for an end to the "recycling" of radioactive metals and other materials into the consumer product stream. In the U.S., the Embassy of Ukraine can be written at 3350 M Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007, faxed at (202) 333-0817, or phoned at (202) 349-2920. Embassies and Consulates of Ukraine elsewhere in the U.S., or in other countries, can also be contacted.
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Commit a crime as a corporation and no jail, but possibly a fine and rebuke--naughty , naughty!
So goes America.
"Some people rob you with a gun...some rob you with a fountain pen..."
You don't get to the point of total tilt in September 2008 just because of a new administration. .. this was going on long before - several administrations.
We all MUST get over the partisan political views here - as long as derivatives are allowed to run amok and no regulations - ALL of them are equal scum.
Nobody is doing anything to bring your property value up or pension plans back - except taxing and slashing your Medicare and attacking social security; and even if you aren't old enough to receive it and don't care - you may end up taking care of someone who is. Fight the crime at the political levels - its truly the one thing that is non-partisan.
Has NO ONE caught on that this isn't partisan, but that those with the money have the power. They care not for the American people, and turning us into a third world nations is happening under our eyes. Hitler started the same way, propaganda making an enemy of the proletarian poor until it was so ingrained he could manipulate even those being subjected with abject cruelty that they "deserved it." We are no longer Democrats and Republicans, but the dupes of those manipulating us out of our homes, health care,self paid for Social Security, and education -which they find subversive because if you are educated you just might see through them.
Start thinking beyond hurling insults and get your facts straight before showing how narrowly your intellect lies.pj
Try factcheck.com and seek the truth. There
is a whole world of truth out there.
You are easily described in one or more (or a series of abbreviated) words, as followed:
I(incompetent) D(delirious) I(inept) O(obstinate) T(teabagger). So, can you comprehend who you are?
because if they were the miscarriage of justice and the corruption of the system would be too obvious
Oh and that small government has banned abortions in 26 states (last count) and still bans openness of being gay in the military.
And taking money from the Social Security file to pay for wars in Iraq/Afghanista n (Friday the House approved several hundred more $$ for the military budget to fix their roads/schools while our kids will go to a 4 day school week in some areas)
Love this GOP small government idea -- do you?
The next step is to incorporate myself, the rob as many banks as I can. I pay back the ones I get caught, and save the rest as profit.
Good thing the banksters and the money lenders haven't figured out that angle.
You have to wonder what the million or so people rotting in prison now for getting caught with a little weed or coke are thinking. No prosecutor said to them, "we can work it out if you investigate yourself."
The American justice system is the laughing stock of the world. We have 25% of the world's prisoners and still we don't have any of the real criminals. In Florida, the prosecutors spent millions trying to put Casey Anthony to death when they did not have a shred of evidence against her. They have dump truck loads of evidence against the executives of Goldman Sachs but have not filed a single indictment. What a joke. These assholes at the justice department are a complete joke.
Limited investigative resources? But the resources are seemingly UNLIMITED when it comes to harassing, arresting, and prosecuting medical marijuana patients and distributors! There is apparently no limit to their war against the "demon weed" - a plant that has been used for thousands of years and has killed NO ONE.
So let me get this straight: Someone can lie, cheat, steal, and defraud thousands on an international scale, leaving countless people's lives in ruin - and that person doesn't get arrested or do time. That person keeps their job. That person collects their bonuses.
But use marijuana (a non-lethal plant) because it helps you, and you're off to jail and your assets are seized. Is that about it?
That we have not regulated is not because business has been over-regulated. God knows it hasn't been to save money on regulators either--with lost billions due to lack of regulation. People have been thrown out of their homes due to laxity in the regulation of banks. The middle class is disappearing as a consequence of lack of regulation. People are poor and jobless from this lack of regulation.
Some of these jobless are even now still crying: "Get government off our backs!" They at least deserve the misery they suffer. The reason we don't regulate is because the corporations don't like regulation. Going along with the corporations, our Supreme Court has become the protector of the unregulated status quo. Justice and honesty are passe--"real politik" is the new game.
I talk to homeless unemployed alcoholics down at the river - and hear the same sentiment - they have to pull their own teeth because of the government taxes.
Murdoch mass propaganda works.
Court Justices conveniently used the constitution. Funny how it is always used for those on the wrong side of the Laws.
Time that Lobbying was outlawed, but they would still be able to do it.
Madoff went to Jail for what reason? Didn't pay off enough Justices or Politicians.
The American people are the Cats and the Rats!
The Republican Party and Wall Street are running this scheme with the approval of our Supreme Court!
I know you can see the logic! And it is unregulated and Tax Free!
Steal the well-being of the nation and get a bonus check supplied by that very nation. These fines or settlements are just a cost of doing high stakes (crime) business. Fines less than the billion dollar bonuses.
We have become totally nuts.
We not only don't prosecute, we delay so they can cover their tracks, come up with a "presentation", then pat ourselves for being so clever not spending government money on prosecution.
We should be in the streets. But the corporations will charge us for that use. This is seriously wrong and will only get more wrong.
Anyone ready to act? Elliot H
http://zcommunications.org/zspace/Dale%20Johnson
No one was injured, justice was served.
They just stole all your money so......what are you going to do about it? Write to your local Representative? These are all professional folks who make movies of their affairs to show others. Until we decide to jump on stage with them, we'll just be the screaming fans in the stadium. They don't see a difference between the cheers & the boos. They need to be shown how you feel, up close, & personal. Even now most liberal protest go uncovered. It has to be massive. Something that can't be brushed aside.
Wall Street controls/pays Obama team ...