ANTINUKE = ANTIPEOPLE

ANTINUKE = ANTIPEOPLE

How easily those misled by "movement angst" misconstrue reality. A merchant plant operator entered the Lohud in 2000, intending to take NYPA's & Con Ed's unwanted, neglected, outliers, their atypical nuclear assets, and make them a winning proposition. Entergy's will, its vision, its avowed intention, was to reshape the assets, make them a single united service benefit for the region, and apply all the best methods to aid the customer base, the northeast region consumer, in continuing to prosper, expand horizons, and never suffer any return to former levels of less wealth, less freedom, less hope, less empowerment, or their ultimate ramifications, want , disenfranchisement, and/or deprivation.

This is a very people-centric vision. The assets are here, written in concrete and steel, but corrupt Con Ed myopia, along with NYPA state-agency myopia, did not choose to see any bright future. It took the naivete' of Entergy, to think of us all, the regional rate payer, as worthy of rescue.

However, the society at large hereabouts, is not done with its amazing self hate. It is not done flirting with doomism, defeatism, less-ism, choking NIMBYism, and the intellectual detritus of a long leftist opposition history, here near Peekskill.

Answer me this.

If Paul Robeson strode the streets of Peekskill in 2007, as he once did in the riot days, would he tell his people: "Fear your future"? Would he say to them (and to us): "Let these wealthy folks have their pristine condo landscape, free of us blue collar trash"? Would he say: "Forget moving up. What you got now, is good enough".? Is that what he would say?

Or would he say: "These folks from New Orleans want to serve YOU!" Wouldn't he say: "Take what they offer you!" Take prosperity. Take jobs. Take low taxes. Take Low electric bills. Take development, and new places of work. Take a land in which people not endowed with trust funds can hold their heads up and say "I work"..... "I pay my taxes"..... "I'm as equal as any man.".....and make it stick, by not hunkering down to wealthist myths of white-water-rafting as a life endeavor. Because I truly believe the great man would see through the charades, and reach out his hands, and tear down their tissue paper lies and sing out: "Let my (working class) people go"

Anybody see it any different?

If so, we are gonna have a talk, I guarantee it!

tag: Indian Point

UBERDOG AND THE WATCHPUPPIES

UBERDOG AND THE WATCHPUPPIES

How absolutely deceptive, in its very conception. A small cozy meet-up, no different from 100 other meetups done every day for party politics, or cigar smoking, or charity. A simple meetup NOT sponsored by any official agency, or governmental department, ....AND YET ... the deceptive PR copy distributed in announcements & blogs promised "High Level Scientific Seminar---- Major Figures From The Govermental, Environmental, and Scientific World to appear"..... but read a bit further and we begin to see the disclaimers: "John Hall (invited)"...... "Charles Schumer (invited)"..... That little bracket, with the word "invited" says more than volumes of spin from me.

I once invited Paul McCartney up to my recording studio to jam. My wife had a bake sale once, and invited Martha Stewart. Did they show up? I'm not gonna tell ya, folks, but Hall & Schumer didn't show at Pace last Friday. Nor did NRC, nor did Entergy. Why? Because they had correctly identified the event as a highly spun smalltime anti-Indian Point worry-fest, tricked out to seem like something it was not.

I'm not going to rail on about the meeting's content in this blog. Read my old posts for that. All I wish to point out is the blowfish-type self puffery indulged , seemingly in every breath in, and every breath out, by the tiny hard core "Lets be afraid of Indian Point, regardless" clique. Who was it said "If her lips are moving, she's lying"?

If we listen to a single sentence from this arrogant, deceptive, self-inflating anti-people, anti-work, anti-blue collar, anti-normalcy crowd, we are forced to go home, get deep into Wikipedia for an hour or two, and take notes in a stenographer's notepad, to separate the exaggeration from the known fact, the pretense from the actuality. And it is always so, so, prophetically knowing! So, so dire, so, so urgent, so concerned, serious, so frowning and so, so precious. It's kind of a "Me-as-Potential-Mass-Victim" passion play, for the electric rate payer.

But answer me this--- What if it's 100% histrionics?

What if the few "concerned" souls who showed up to hear about how long it takes a thimble full of water to sink into the Ramapo fault are not representative of anything real? What if their entire area of focus is trivial , even neurotic---- self importance gone wild? A fantasy club? Why do our media outlets have to play along, and announce "High Level Scientific Inquiry at Pace next Friday", when in fact it was 5 local activists, one paid antinuke harrassment agent from Washington DC, and a doctor from NYS DEC-- a doctor who, by the way, disagreed with the other panelists, and said not to worry?

I agree with their right to meet up. I even agree with their right to try to seem much more authoritative than they actually are.


I do not agree that their attempts to speak for the populace are ethical, and I insist absolutely on MY right to debunk their endless charade, in public forums such as this.

I also promise them, and you, that I will be watching these autoinfatuated watchpuppies, as a kind of Uberdog commentor, conscience, and debunking machine.

It ought to be real fun.

PAID ANTINUKE PUPPET SHOW ?

Inept Quislings, and Contempt for John Q

What,... a day without Indian Point to talk about?

Whatever will Manna Jo Greene and Paul Gunter do with themselves? Will they go back to their homes lighted by Indian Point, and rest secure under the local emergency services upheld by Indian Point ? Will they perhaps notice the new arrivals whose upward aspirations will be prevented by closing Indian Point? Will they return to the Washington DC area (Gunter) knowing he has once more misrepresented local realities to unsuspecting local people, in one more agent provocateur action in a decades long subversion of the local American political process, by an agency (WISE/NIRS) spawned in Europe, and supported by "Big Oil" (Rockefeller) money? Will Phil Musegaas own up to his connection with the Tamarind foundation, the recently renamed private social engineering experiment of billionairess Helaine Heilbrunn Lerner? Or will he try to pass himself off as "just one more Riverkeeper activist", even though Ms. Heilbrunn pays his salary to sit within Riverkeeper and uphold her personal antinuclear campaign at all cost, even after Robert F Kennedy jr has realized the duplicity, and moved on (along with Kyle Rabin?) Do Hinchey, Lowey, Spano, Hall , and Clinton know they are inept Quislings dancing to the agitprop tune of antinuke Tamarind Fund choreographer Alice Slater? Do all of the self-serving manipulators of fact above care a whit about the common man, in this area?

You instinctively know the answer.
Need I say it for you?
Ok, allow me then...... NO THEY DO NOT!!

People!! Beware!!

Fact is being spun, by well-heeled and deeply entrenched oligarchs. They aim to make you uneasy. They wish you to doubt your own civilization. Why? Simple......... vanity, and a pre-arranged agenda, where they end up manipulating the populace via paid (albeit earnest) middlemen, to make you tear down the system in which you live, so that their experimental greenist paradise can take its place. Please note: Ginsburg development is seeking to buy the Hudson itself, from Haverstraw to Tompkins cove, even as I speak! (Yes... Its all a real estate thing).

And what is your place, or my place, in this new Armageddon, this Millennial antinuke paradise? EASY: to huddle in our houses without heat, whilst Heilbrunn, & Slater travel first class to Geneva confabs. To watch illegal immigrants starve in shacks along the Mamaroneck river, whilst Mr. Kennedy spends roughly $2500 per day flying from $20,000 speaking engagement to $20,000 speaking engagement. To give up our TV sets, and our entertainments, whilst Al Gore spends $6000 per month to light up just ONE of his five houses. AND.... on top of it all..... to be told that WE are guilty, for wanting to have what our parents had, a job, a house, a car, security, stability, and love for our country. You see, these simple pleasures are NOW FORBIDDEN!! We must be satisfied with less ! You, me , Kennedy, Al Gore, Clinton, Heilbrunn, and Slater. For THEM,...." less" means a carbon footprint conveniently offset by diverting foundation contributions to a green fund (it does NOT mean traveling in coach). To them,.... "less" means giving up the fifth white water vacation in Peru this year, poor dears, the other four white water vacations HAVE JUST WORN THEM OUT! For us, everything is to be different! We must now suspect everything that helps us, embrace everything that impedes us, and hate each other!..only this one way will we be allowed as peons, into the great celebractivist religion of antinuclear anarchy. (And oh yes, we must send in contributions!)

But I ask you---- ARE YOUR LIGHTS ON?
Yes they are.
That simple fact might just mean that I am right, and they are wrong.
their "conclave" was a crock. Their agenda is a crock.
They are careerist troublemakers with contempt for our local lives.

And if your lights stay on tonight, I advise you, in all sincerity:
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS, PEOPLE,
AND FIND OUT JUST WHO YOUR SUPPOSED "SAVIORS" REALLY ARE!
Note: I am well prepared to help you in this area. Just stay tuned!


Tags: Indian Point Hudson River Antinuclear Agents Provocateur WISE NIRS

THE KNOLLSFISH THEOREM

The Knollsfish Theorem

Four Hudson River fish testing strontium-positive were caught 30 miles north of Indian Point. What's up there, to make fish contaminated ? A man named Jack Shannon has a lot to say about corruption at the Navy's Knolls Atomic Power Lab, directly on the Erie Canal at West Milton New York. Check out http://www.mindspring.com/~kapl/index.html. He even gives a telephone number 518-587-3245. Another Knolls website is: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/knolls_k.htm.

One surmise I make is that work done under military aegis, can legally omit safeguards, under the rubric of national security. Shannon says much about this. Apparently Knolls dumped a lot of stuff, willy-nilly. Shannon was pursued, and fired from the Knolls Kesselring installation for blowing the whistle on it. Most likely, compared to Knolls, Indian Point is a virgin, pure as the driven snow. Most likely, estuarian damage from Kesselring far outstrips any imagined damage from the beseiged and minutely-watched Indian Point.

Very possibly, Entergy's mysterious fish test has outed the Hudson's covert radioactive polluter, Bechtel, operators of Knolls/Kesselring. The location of the 4 "hot" fish would strongly suggest this. If true, the green community would owe a strong debt of gratitude to the proactive Entergy corporation, instigators of the fish test, for bringing this abuse to light.

It is interesting to note that Knolls is not mentioned by congress people stridently demanding various concessions from Indian Point. Knolls is well upstream of Indian Point, and if Mr. Shannon's very detailed laundry list of dumped carcinogens, actinides, and radioactive junk at Knolls is even remotely accurate, Knolls and its leach fields are non-point-sourcing a heady weapons-of-mass-destruction cocktail directly into America's first river in full view of a silent John Hall, Maurice Hinchey, Nita Lowey, and Hillary Clinton.

What gives, honorable representatives?

How about an Independent Safety Assessment of Kesselring?

WHY RIDE THE ROCKET?

WHY FLY THE NUCLEAR ROCKET?


I recall in 2001, doing a quickie, informal internet count to see who was big, and who was not. When I googled the words "Indian Point" I got about 89,000 hits. When I googled the word "Riverkeeper" I got only about 150 hits.Likewise, googling the monikers "Alex Matthiessen" and "Robert F Kennedy jr" got each only about 80 hits. But that condition was not to last.

You see, throughout late 2001 and all of 2002 we had the big press agent's foodfight, lasting roughly three years, resulting in the hit count I got this morning: Check it out:

Indian Point............461,000
RFK jr......................260,000
Riverkeeper.............202,000
A. Matthiessen..............1,250
Rep. John Hall.................314

Wrestling with the huge attention-grabber Indian Point, has been extremely beneficial for both Kennedy, and Riverkeeper. Although environmental purists might consider their struggle to close Indian Point to have been a failure, that is not exactly true. The old Riverkeeper pre- 2001, with a tiny mailing list, just six volunteers, and a mission many people considered over and done with, only pulled 150 internet hits.

Riverkeeper of 2007, with 23+ workers, 202,000 internet hits, and a specially created office of institutional collections, geared to pulling in the big moneys available from foundations, colleges, and trust funds, is firmly nestled in the pantheon of big charities, along with United Way and the Sierra Club. Congratulations, Riverkeeper! Talk about using nuclear power !! It seems like your organization found out just how to utilize the "nuclear rocket" that the Air Force never got the hang of, to orbit yourselves into a permanent cushy gig, being mildly offended and accepting checks (in between charity balls).

Since the middle aged Riverkeeper no longer depends completely on Indian Point, I've included the next Greenworlder to discover the star power of Indian Point's nuclear rocketry, Representative John Hall, as harbinger of the next generation of press-hungry wannabe's "Mounting The Nuke-Rocket", for the wonderful ride to stardom, and fat retirement. Although he just garners 314 hits currently, I'm sure that if he sticks with Indian Point as his ride, his numbers will balloon. Besides, doesn't he look GREAT in that silver suit?

(Oh, by the way,...Indian Point gets no bonus from the quintupling of their fame, you buy their electricity regardless)

Addicted to Life Itself, I'm Afraid!

Poor nUkeSLaYer... can't even spell his own moniker! Perhaps that's 'cause he's been addicted to alcohol, paranoia, and hemp powder for 30 years. It makes him see existence itself , as a long series of addictions. If that is true ,(even in just HIS life), perhaps he ought to ponder this:


Addicted to the Sky Again

In the beginning was no element, just pregnant vacuum. No life, but potential for every life ever to be lived. It arose. Hurtling across eons like a god of old, vacuum energy unleashing elemental ash, until the planets formed and deep within, a heart. A beating white hot heart, alive as you and me, alive for you and me, and holding up the life sphere of our birth, the goddess Gaia in her elemental form, the goddess uranium, source of all volcanoes, source of earth-fire, source of nourishing warmth, the goddess Kali in her robes of blood and fire, unbounded, swirling ,making death and life together so that all might live--Uranium--the planet fire. Uranium--the one living metal--Uranium, the heart of living Gaia.Beautiful, and white, and giving.Addicted as we were to living, addicted as we were to breath, to life, to feeding at a mother's breast, addicted as we were to destinies like god-men all on high, the future, the human race exalted all on science and the craving deep within to know the all--- the all that stirs the fire in the heart of planets underneath our feet today. Addict me more to sky, to heaven, to spirit and the cosmic all, ennoble me o cosmic mother of my race, and make us soar like gods--addict me to uranium, my gaian fire deep within!

When monkeys crawled, and no addiction loomed , it was so simple. When man arose from monkey, addicted to thought, addicted to gold, to iron, to houses, to cities, to art, to music , to history, o the addictions that came then. For those not addicted never rose, and lie there waiting for the headsman's axe, mere food, a meal for Gaia's children, man addicted to mankind, all ennobled by the rising, and the future's heady ride! Addict for the tools, addict for the song, addict for the mathematics, addicts for the flying, and the dreaming, addicts for the pieta, the ninth symphony, the hajj, addicts for the meccan prayers, addicts for the christ-on-cross, addicts for the wooden ships, and mayan gold, addicts to the astrolabe, the telescope , to enniac, and univac, and cadillac, and common hope of better times. Addicted to the chisel, and the painter's brush, to cell phone, and the heady rush of flying with a parachute all unknown, unheard, unseen, uncontemplated till the great addiction came, and now we stand, the planet--ours. The heavens--ours. The future-- ours, because addiction moves the monkey men and makes them gods again.


Written with a clear head, Buchanan , 2007
tags: indian point uranium Gaia humankind evolution science paradise

POOR OLD CALDICOTT IS BACK, FLOGGING BOOKS

PEPE LA GAI REBUTS HELEN CALDICOTT


Dear ex-Doctor Caldicott.

Congratulations on a long profitable career overexaggerating these issues. May you have success with each new book, and its associated flogging tour. It is your right to maintain yourself in upper middle class fashion, tossing non-facts around, that is true---BUT--- since the earth's core itself is heated by U235 decay, the simple realization of ways to use this natural Gaian gift-power cannot be evil, and certainly not in an anti-Gaian sense. Perhaps if you were to ponder how many farmers have been gored, keeping cattle, how many goldsmiths have been burned, smelting ore, perhaps you will begin to see that we never approach Gaia without danger. (The Hindu goddess Kali, is also the goddess of destruction & blood). The price mankind pays to live in a manner superior to a grazing animal (or a plant) is fraught with danger. Houses are invented, they do not grow. Trees must be cut, to fashion them. In just such a way, the use of terran core-power, the natural gifted planet-heat, U235 decay, can be dangerous.

Thanks for reminding the cooks not to stick their hands into the fire while using that power.

As far as NOT using it?

What alternative universe do YOU propose we live in, Narnia perhaps?

A word, dear ex-doctor. Narnia is a fiction, as are all your desperate evasions, in all your books.

Have a nice rest-of-your-life

Pepe la Gai




Tags: nuclear indian point entergy helen caldicott Pepe La Gai