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Julian Assange

651 weeks of deprivation of liberty for telling the truth

Paul Lannoye

Président du Grappe asbl
Député européen honoraire
Docteur en sciences physiques.

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Finally learning the lessons of nuclear disasters

It has been more than a year since the Japanese power company TEPCO lost control of four of its reactors at Fukushima Daichi. The earthquake of March 11, 2011, whose epicenter was located 145 km off the coast of Japan,...

It is urgent: Europe must be re-founded

Four years after the beginning of the financial crisis, it is clear that the measures decided at the European Union level are totally ineffective. Prisoner of the ultra-liberal logic enshrined in the treaties since...

AND IF WE STOP THE REGRESS?

Each of us knows, having heard it many times, that progress cannot be stopped. This adage reflects, without a doubt, popular common sense. Either it expresses an amused admiration for an unexpected discovery, or...

The 4G network, progress and the death of bees

The general press has widely reported during these few weeks of vacations, the fourth generation mobile telephony is taking root in Belgium This decisive step in our race for progress is being taken thanks to the...

The indispensable demondisalization

On May 15, the new WWF report on the state of the living world (Living Planet 2012) confirms trends that have been evident for many years: an alarming decline in animal biodiversity and an increasingly unsustainable...

Wireless radiation protection standards protect the industry, not human beings.

While the communication industry is pushing for the introduction of 4G in Brussels, the state of the electromagnetic environment in the capital is already a cause for concern. Not all of them apparently... Living...

You don’t like GMOs? We’ll give you a taste of AGM!

The debate on the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture continues to rage. The activists, the transgenic potato diggers of Wetteren, judicially qualified as vandals, have the great merit of having...

Why so much hate?

The terrorist attacks in Paris at the beginning of this year, like the one on the Jewish Museum in Brussels a year ago, have rightly aroused a unanimous wave of empathy for the victims and indignation at the acts...

Nuclear: the debacle has begun

That was in 1958. The 6 founding States of the European Community signed the Euratom Treaty which committed them "to create the conditions for the development of a powerful nuclear industry, a source of vast energy...

Shale gas: a dangerous mirage

The International Energy Agency announced last year that in 2015 the United States would become the world's largest gas producer, dethroning Russia. They owe this position to the entry into the energy market of shale...

Parties against democracy

The hustle and bustle of the 2013 holiday season and the prevailing good mood overshadowed a political event that would determine our future. It was on December 20 and 21, the days when the Walloon, Brussels and...

The impossible accident happened three times

1. A LOOK BACK AT A FORGOTTEN ACCIDENT: THREE MILE ISLAND, MARCH 28, 1979 Before the Fukushima disaster, there was Chernobyl, 25 years before. But the first catastrophic accident in the history of civil nuclear...

Nuclear energy: a political choice from the 1950s… still operational

On December 8, 1953, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a historic speech to the United Nations General Assembly. He proposes to launch the program: "Atoms for Peace". His objective is clear: to convince his...

I REFUSE TO HAVE A « SMART » METER INSTALLED IN MY HOME

On January 11, Minister Crucke, in charge of energy, announced the filing of a draft decree that will regulate the deployment of "smart" meters in Wallonia. Presented as an essential tool for the energy transition,...

The never-ending war against terrorism

Ln June 9, Edward Snowden, a former employee of the United States intelligence services, admitted to being the source of the revelations about the secret surveillance program of the NSA (United States Security Agency)....

FOR A NEW PROTECTIONISM

Meat stories, or rather meat trade stories, have been in the news again lately. Last February, it was the case of the beef lasagne marketed by Findus. In fact, it was horse meat that was fraudulently introduced into...

The race to the bottom: all losers!

Since the 1960s and the joint explosion of productivism and consumerism, the sales argument that has become the determining factor is price. Buy smart, get a good deal, take advantage of our low prices, don't pay...

Climate change: the real debate has not yet taken place.

The recent publication of the new IPCC report has confirmed, not surprisingly, the conclusions of the scientific community as to the nature and extent of the consequences to be expected from global warming. Even...

SMART CITIES … DOMESTICATED CITIZENS

We already had smartphones. Smart meters and smart grids are being prepared for us. But the end of the line will be the intel Smart cities are emerging for our well-being. Namur, the regional capital, is proud to...

WITH THE 5G… ALL GUINEA PIGS?

On September 14, 2016, the European Commission launched its strategic plan for the deployment of fifth generation (5G) mobile telecommunications infrastructure and networks. The ambition was, thanks to a partnership...

OPEN LETTER TO THE SUPERIOR COUNCIL OF HEALTH

Mr. Chairman, For a long time, I have been concerned by the problem of electromagnetic pollution and its consequences on living beings, in particular on human beings. As early as 1994, I was the initiator of the...

AND IF WE STOPPED BELIEVING IN REASSURING FABLES?

After a long period of denial, global ecological imbalances are becoming more and more evident and scientifically confirmed. Climatic accidents have exploded in recent years; confirming the impression that each of...

THE DRONE, A WEAPON OF MASS INTRUSION

March 14th was the international day of the drone. It was a celebration of the benefits to be expected from these flying robots to which designers, robotics researchers and industrialists predict a bright future...

CONTROL CLIMATE CHANGE BY EATING LESS MEAT

The year 2015 didn't exactly start off well. The deadly attack of January 7 against the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo has stunned the whole of Europe and created a climate of insecurity that is hardly conducive...

The war against coronavirus cannot be won

On March 16, in a televised address that will have left its mark on people's minds, the French President announced that his country was going to war against an unknown enemy, a coronavirus, officially named SARS-CoV-2....

Views on dismantling

Nuclear decommissioning: who pays the bill and how? The operator of a wind farm will not be issued an environmental permit if it cannot demonstrate how it will convert the site back to a green field after the permit...

Radioactive pollution: Did you say « LOW DOSES »?

Since 1950, an international commission of experts, the ICRP (International Commission on Radiation Protection), has published its recommendations on radiation protection based on the knowledge of the public and...

THE COP 21 IN PARIS OR THE SUMMIT OF PRETENSE

In 2009, in Copenhagen, the Danes did not succeed in making a success of the resounding failure of the COP 15. The French are much better at pretending. The December 12 agreement, expected once moreover as the...

THE NEW GMO HAS ARRIVED

In 2015, a new technique for manipulating life was developed at Harvard University. This technique, which creates new DNA using particularly efficient molecular scissors (CRISPR-Cas9), cuts a DNA sequence deemed...

EXCESS VERSUS THE COMMON GOOD

Reference to the virtues of small and medium-sized enterprises appears more and more often in the speeches of decision-makers in view of the advantages they offer in terms of employment and territorial roots. The...

About the Covid-19 vaccine. Neither conspiracy nor blind belief

In Belgium, as in all European countries that have adopted containment measures that are difficult for everyone to live with, the end of the tunnel is announced for the very near future thanks to the Covid vaccines....

LIVING WITH ROBOTS?

We have entered the age of robots. In any case, this is the message that is abundantly served to us by the media: a message that invites us to rejoice in the multiple services that will make these new companions,...

NUCLEAR WEAPONS OUTLAWED?

The question may seem trivial in our country, which is preparing to renew its fleet of military aircraft carrying nuclear weapons. It is, however, of real topicality, in spite of the deafening media silence that...

INDUSTRIAL FOOD: THE SCANDAL IS PERMANENT

The summer that has just ended has seen a new food scandal. The scenario is classic. At the beginning, an obvious scam: the fraudulent use of a product forbidden by the sanitary and commercial regulations. The product...

TO PUT AN END TO SYNTHETIC PESTICIDES

Since the beginning of industrial agriculture, the use of pesticides has gradually become commonplace in the world. While they are presented as phytosanitary products, i.e. responsible for the protection of plants,...

PESTICIDES: DISINFORMATION AND STATE LIES

Fake news or misinformation aimed at manipulating public opinion are increasingly denounced by politicians, journalists and intellectuals concerned with the proper functioning of democratic institutions. Social...

A LIGHTNING IN A VERY DARK SKY

While the chorus of do-gooders who govern us try to convince us that we are fortunate to be living longer and longer and that it is therefore perfectly justified to work longer in order to be entitled to a pension,...

TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTIONS: WHAT IF FAILURE WAS THE NORM?

Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat the mistakes of the past. The adage, so often repeated but just as often ignored, has a relevance that should encourage more humility and caution among decision-makers...

FAKE NEWS ARE NOT THE PREROGATIVE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS

The following text was proposed for publication to La Libre Belgique, which refused it, for reasons of editorial balance . It was then proposed to Le Soir who did not bother to respond. I therefore take advantage...

In the name of science … what science?

For many months now, the SARS-Cov19 coronavirus has been making its way into our lives. Today, we can say that we are living a real upheaval of the living together in the name of a health imperative hammered without...

LIGHT POLLUTION CANNOT BE IGNORED

For a little over a century, artificial lighting has been an integral part of our lifestyle. Over the past few decades, both indoor and street lighting have developed at an accelerated pace. Human activities are...

Open letter to the National Council of the Belgian Medical Association

-March 23, 2021 Ladies and Gentlemen, At its meeting on January 23, 2021, the National Council of the Order of Physicians examined the ethical aspects of the Covid-19 vaccination program. The statement issued...

Manipulate the planet! When the experts prepare us for it

Louis Trouveroy Very few people have heard of the LOHAFEX or SPICE projects. And that's normal. There has been very little, if any, press coverage, probably to avoid provoking a much-needed reflection on geoengineering...