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Don't read this unless your intention is to act on one or more of these. We
don't need spectators, we need activists!
There comes a time when you've
made your choice, you've made your decision... you don't have the patience to
suffer fools lightly anymore, the time spent on trying to educate, debate, is
simply wasted, pearls before swine.
You don't want to discuss the pros
and cons, which is just another excuse for the pro-nuclear campers to perpetuate
the agony, drag on their rhetoric to keep their plants running. You simply want
to create strong coalitions, safety in numbers, blocks of power and influence
which are going to tip the scales of what's left of our democratic process to
force elected officials to put so much undo pressure on the mechanism of the
nuclear power organized thug machinery to pack up, leave, stop spreading their
radiation and waste and lies.
It becomes about strategy, logistic, it's
like warfare... negotiations have broken down, there can't be compromise between
an on or off decision, it's either one or the other, like you can't be a little
pregnant!
In the New York area because so many in Manhattan control
media, fashion, the arts, entertainment, they also have the final say on what
goes in and around city limits, in its affluent suburbs, in its semi-secret
institutions, in its schools and universities. Once they've made up their minds
that they can no longer justify the kind of risk a nuclear power plant looms
over them, the only viable solution is for all of them to band together in such
a way, during an event, to demonstrate their displeasure at a company like
Entergy for perpetuating a situation no longer acceptable to the elite majority
ruling.
This is what is happening, now, as we speak, but it still needs
the momentum of the grassroots to cement and yield all of its available force.
Because of the crushing class structure distancing have and have nots, it's
become increasingly difficult to approach and enlist support of populist
movements to the final decisions made by the ruling autocracy of the New York
social scene. To achieve this desired result it was necessary to pit everyone
into situations where these differences wouldn't matter to the outcome.
In a sense that was the aim of Occupy Wall Street, if only symbolically,
to break down barriers between student activists, homelessness, left leaning
liberal elites, in an accusatory fashion pointing at the greed and abuses of
mindless capitalist exploitators who never understood what the 7th generation
means. Nuclear power is the quintessential example of the concentration of power
into the hands of a few, made possible only by the corruption of union
bosses.
So this is where we are on the banks of the Hudson... if
everything hangs tight, without a restored water permit from the DEC, the NRC
cannot legally award Entergy a renewed operating license for Indian Point, and
so, reactor 2 will have to start decommissioning in 2013, and reactor 3 in 2015.
Decommissioning will in fact start providing twice the number of unionized jobs
than are currently employed by the plant, for at least the next ten years, as
the reactors cool, and the waste needs to be safely stored, safe distance from
any potential terrorist attempt at abusing the circumstances.
The Hudson
Valley will breathe easier, and tourism will be restored to the Peekskill area,
exploding opportunities for an economic boom, freeing the now isolated and
terrified to speak out immigrant population which has used Peekskill as a cheap
place to settle, a place made cheap by the existence of the perpetual risk of
Indian Point.
We've all been much too complacent, allowing Entergy and
the NRC to string us along for years, and years, and years, while we keep
ducking bullets! Until Fukushima, the progressive community in Manhattan was not
committing enough time and resources to getting the job done. Those in high
positions of media influence in a City that never sleeps have started to put
their foot down with elected representatives to yank the plug on that relic from
the spooky 50s.
We should be going up and down Madison avenue kicking
people up the ass until they finally come to realize they have to use the tools
of their trade to remove this incessant threat to the greening of our lives. If
we can transform something like the High Line into a phenomenal park, what's
keeping New Yorkers from putting the kibosh on IP? Nothing
really.
Nuclear accidents have spurred a massive global experiment in
another round of survival of the fittest evolutionary spectacle. Humans can be
resilient, but only certain metabolisms, born through years of selective
breeding. So as a huge portion of our species will probably succumb to genome
deterioration caused by ionizing radiation, a small segment of individuals, who
have generated the necessary biomorphic forcefields to shield themselves from
the toxicity, the same way certain genealogical lines are less susceptible to
hereditary cancers, will learn to strive in this heightened energetic
environment.
It's going to be just like the X-Men, giving a whole new
meaning to the have and the have nots, and to class structures. Welcome to the
world of Grant Morrisson.
When Indian Point saw its first reactor it was
fueled by thorium, which was quickly replaced by enriched uranium because they
couldn't generate enough power. The thorium gang today is trying to revive the
idea that thorium fission could be a lot safer, and they are right, but that's
like saying jumping off a third story window is safer than jumping off the roof.
In Japan they are flying kites during anti-nuclear demonstrations, I
like that idea. Anti-nuclear activist from Ohio, Michael Leonardi, suggested a
super-sized Blinky, the three-eyed fish from the Simpsons, be made into a Macy's
day parade inflatable float. Who makes these things and who can afford to make
us one?
Rolf Maurer wants insurance companies to cover homeowner's
coverage in the event of a nuclear disaster, as a gesture of good faith that
such plants are safe, as policies have an exemption clause for such events.
That's a good idea. We need to draft a uniform document we could provide
homeowners to send their insurance companies, also walk into real estate
agencies and suggest realtors take an active role in this approach.
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