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Strategies Against Indian Point

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Remy Chevalier
On many occasions I have told folks at Entergy when they give away t-shirts promoting themselves as clean and green, it doesn't help their cause that their t-shirts are not printed on organic cotton. Anti-nuclear sentiment in Buchanan and Peekskill has been repressed. I've spoken to many people there who if they had a choice, would pick closing the plant, but are not comfortable voicing their opinion. The community needs organizers, and it doesn't have any. Nobody from Clearwater, IPSEC, Riverkeeper has actually gone inside the community to organize. Couple of years ago, we tried to get everyone behind opening a shut down IP office in Peekskill, where the rents are dirt cheap, but nobody wanted to make the effort.

Peekskill has a town square... This is the public gazebo located in the heart of downtown Peekskill. I would think this could be a perfect location for a Occupy Peekskill/Shut Down Indian Point rally. Just a few yards away, there is a toy store with a giant Lionel train set. Neil Young owns Lionel now. Neil has a melted down nuclear power plant in his son's train set! Doesn't take a marketing PR genius to understand the possibilities!!!

If you look carefully at the recent evolution of humanity, the population explosion, the growing gap between rich and poor, educated and illiterate, it's become insurmountable. The haves are huddling to save what they have and the have nots are repressed by non-lethal weapons in developed nations, and outright military oppression everywhere else.

Once upon a time you could walk off the street into a university library and teach yourself a few things... grow in stature and intellect... now you can't get past the front gate, and even if you could, only tuition paid students have access to the information since it's all gone Wi-Fi digital. The stacks are empty of printed journals.

Without the cultural input of self-thought inventors and thinkers, mankind will slowly degenerate into a mindless insect like society incapable of enlightenment. Cancer is just the result of our molecular and electromagnetic disintegration. Cancer is a disease of the emotions, caused by reversed polarizations of the cells. Radiation and other environmental exposures are just triggers, which is how the weak and sensitive are much more susceptible.

We're constantly downgrading our genome, which brings us to precarious territory. Nature is violent in the way it deals with ecological balance. The choice between empathy and ruthlessness depends on available resources. There's no solution other than order out of chaos, when in doubt just reshuffle the cards and start again, which is what nature on this planet has done over and over again over the millennia.

My concern is the creation of pockets of survival, where fauna is sufficiently plentiful to support communities, which is why the New York area is ideal, and why so much attention has been paid to redress the relationship between the city and its immediate suburban surroundings, nurturing access to fresh water. The only thing that keeps the tri-state region from being secure for immediate future generations, is the existence of old and dangerous nuclear power plants, which need to be shut down and decommissioned at our earliest convenience, otherwise all the green things we do won't amount to a hill of beans, our future no brighter than the people of Fukushima.

On the more practical side, that's why it's so important to bring organizations such as the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund into the fight against nuclear power. This can't be done without actively soliciting the participation of its members.

We have entered an era when the super wealthy want to protect themselves, and their immediate environment, which you see unfold in rich neighborhoods where eco-luxury has taken hold, with gourmet health food stores, hybrid cars, organic spas and farmers markets. This extends to a police force using the latest non-lethal weapon technology to control the rising tide of discontent coming from surrounding communities living in poverty.

The way to deal with this situation is to use drugs as a pretext to incarcerate as many high testosterone individuals as possible in defacto work camps, defusing the pool of potential leadership organizing the lower classes. This would have been a recipe for disaster a century ago, but today, with flat screen TV, and active denial microwave systems, it's a cinch to protect the status quo. Which means the only way to save the planet is to work through the system and become best bud with the military-industrial complex, in the hope they will allow us to build civilian UFOs, which is really just a metaphor for clean and limitless energy systems.

Stefanie Iris Weiss feels that if we follow the model of Gene Sharp's How to Start a Revolution, we will get somewhere. With SOPA and the NDAA and the new weapons that can be used against civilians, our only option is MILLIONS of us in the streets. So she still feels that OWS can shift the downward spiral. Our world does not have to be the world of 1984. She thinks it will seem dark over the coming months, but hope will return in the spring. They can't arrest/pepper spray/fire bomb an idea. It's out there, and it's not getting put back in the box.

I would like to believe OWS will have the effect aspired to, and it surely is a part of the change taking place. But again, this goes much deeper, and until the leadership, and there is a leadership, incorporates the discoveries of the conspiracy culture, to fine tune the message into a populist pill, it won't reach these millions we hope will rise in opposition to the global corporate state.

Take Fairfield County, Westchester, the Hamptons for example... these communities are made up of millions of individuals, families, who feed at the troff of internationalism, who give billions to charities, who live a green life style at the expense of dollar a day wages. They go to yoga to seek peace of mind. How do you connect all the dots so they start to genuinely empathize with the needs of the rest of their fellow men? It's been the question of the ages, except now you have 7 billion people on this planet, dwindling resources, no more fish in the sea, food prices doubling in a year, and a military-industrial complex holding on to the secret of unlimited clean energy as an ace in the hole for fear it would destabilize the world economy.

All this has to be assembled into a package that makes sense to the masses, and so the guy they're grooming to do that is Ron Paul evidently, because I don't see anyone else in sight. They're going to use him to cover the bases. The left is preoccupying itself with radical feminist issues, when it's the truck drivers, bikers and rockers we need to appeal to if we're really going to get this show on the road. The anger is there, it's just not directed at anything political, because the political institutions intentionally do not reflect the fashion of the culture.

It will change once candidates stop wearing red ties and blue polyester suits to conform to this red, white and blue ideal of what a political candidate needs to look like. We need guys like Nikki Sixx to run for office. That's how we shake things up! Tattoos are like war paint, they're not just ornamental, they reflect an inner state of mind that needs to rise to the surface.

With the National Defense Authorization Act in place, I don't know that we have another four years. As conspiracy culture rises to the surface, "The Truth Is Out There" rumble of urban legends that fuel our psyche. The same polarized debate of lesser of two evil has permeated the presidential election for decades. The liberal elite is subservient to the Skull & Bones graduates who meet at the Bohemian Grove every year, 2000 of them. They want a system in place that preserves their right to own a yacht and keeps the seas relatively clean.

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