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A CEO, a union member, and a teabagger are sitting at a table with a dozen cookies. The CEO takes 11 cookies for himself. The CEO then turns to the teabagger and says,”Watch out for that union guy, he wants part of your cookie.”
Yeah, the "emergency managers bill" would allow an army of political appointees, elected by nobody, sweeping power.
They could go to any Democratic area, claim they were there to balance the books, and shove the local Mayor out of power.
Void any contract. Seize any public asset, like power plants, land, resources. And sell the asset with no-bid contracts to their friends.
Want to be these "emergency managers" will only appear in Democratic areas with something to steal?
Payroll solutions will present you lots of nice options conserning payroll here.
Here’s what happens if we do something stupid:
From http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/2011/Q1/view665.html#Saturday
“If the consequences of the tsunami include ending nuclear power world wide, the cost in blood and treasure of the earthquake and tsunami may literally be very high indeed. Energy is the main ingredient of our modern economy, and without plentiful supplies economic progress comes to an end or even reverses. Oil becomes more vital. So does coal. If AGW has any truth to it, there’s that, too.”
In other words, if this is allowed to stop nuclear power, we will become even more dependent on oil and there will be more wars over energy than you can imagine.
Think long and hard before going down that road. If you want to see what happens if that road is taken, contemplate my sig:
Atlas Shrugged was supposed to be a warning, NOT a newspaper!
Nuclear power has been on trial by John W. Gofman, M.D ph.D Co-discoverer of Uranium-233 and Ernest J. Sternglass, ph.D Director of Radiological Physis University of Pittsburgh. Murder Trial of the Century. Government and science agencies have charts of how many deaths have we of leukemia or cancer living near these plants. Ages from 1 to 9-14 and up will come down with leukemia or cancer. The book is called Shut Down, Experts Testify in Federal Court , Radiation is causing cancer and birth Defects. . Transcript of proceedings October 2, 1978
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Highways deaths are truly disgraceful and not enough is ever done to increase safety or better mass transit options like high speed rail, etc. But radiation can kill not only in this lifetime but potentially for generations to come. It can affect the gene pool and cause birth defects in generation after generation. It can affect all life and not just humans. It is the pro-nuclear industry downplaying the risks that is the greatest risk of lulling us all into oblivion!!
Please check out the latest research on the Chernobyl death toll, below:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20908
New Book Concludes - Chernobyl death toll: 985,000, mostly from cancerby Prof. Karl Grossman
This past April 26th marked the 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident. It came as the nuclear industry and pro-nuclear government officials in the United States and other nations were trying to "revive" nuclear power. And it followed the publication of a book, the most comprehensive study ever made, on the impacts of the Chernobyl disaster.
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment was published by the New York Academy of Sciences.
It is authored by three noted scientists:
Russian biologist Dr. Alexey Yablokov, former environmental advisor to the Russian president;
Dr. Alexey Nesterenko, a biologist and ecologist in Belarus; and
Dr.Vassili Nesterenko, a physicist and at the time of the accident director of the Institute of Nuclear Energy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Its editor is Dr. Janette Sherman, a physician and toxicologist long involved in studying the health impacts of radioactivity.
The book is solidly based -- on health data, radiological surveys and scientific reports -- some 5,000 in all.
It concludes that based on records now available, some 985,000 people died, mainly of cancer, as a result of the Chernobyl accident. That is between when the accident occurred in 1986 and 2004. More deaths, it projects, will follow.
The book explodes the claim of the International Atomic Energy Agency-- still on its website that the expected death toll from the Chernobyl accident will be 4,000. The IAEA, the new book shows, is under-estimating, to the extreme, the casualties of Chernobyl.
Alice Slater, representative in New York of the Nuclear Age Peace
Foundation, comments: "The tragic news uncovered by the comprehensive
new research that almost one million people died in the toxic aftermath of Chernobyl should be a wake-up call to people all over the world to petition their governments to put a halt to the current industry-driven
"nuclear renaissance.' Aided by a corrupt IAEA, the world has been subjected to a massive cover-up and deception about the true damages caused by Chernobyl."
Further worsening the situation, she said, has been "the collusive agreement between the IAEA and the World Health Organization in which the WHO is precluded from publishing any research on radiation effects without consultation with the IAEA." WHO, the public health arm of the UN, has supported the IAEA's claim that 4,000 will die as a result of the accident.
"How fortunate," said Ms. Slater, "that independent scientists have now revealed the horrific costs of the Chernobyl accident."
book review continues..
There have also been studies on the numbers of excessive deaths predicted as a result of the nuclear industry worldwide as well. Truly staggering--
PLEASE bring BACK the gentleman you had on tonite (March 15/16th) who FOCUSED on TEXAS Nuclear plants----we MUST CONNECT Japanese TEPCO to HOUSTON:::Texas.... these were the basics we have to HAMMER over & over :::TEPCO, well known for been busted 3 or 4 times for ethics/lying re: their plants built-in Japan in LAST DECADE---YEP, they're the company TEXAS is looking to HIRE to build it's Nuclear plants?!--oh it's WORSE---HOUSTON's engergy company couldn't do it cause THEY have tons of similar illegal/busts/unethical crap in their recent history??
AND our pals--the banks who screwed the economy---are pushing for these Texas plants. THOM,,,, PLEASE bring back your GUEST who is the expert on all those facts & KEEP pushing his points!
I just saw a great movie on what we can do if we work together on energy. It's called Carbon Nation.
I think we should immediately stop all loan guarantees and give-a-ways to conventional nuclear energy. However, we should have a crash program to research and develop Thorium energy like China and India are doing.
Again - look up in the sky every day - that is CONSTANT radiation, every day, 365 days a year, and if you are into the bible, it has been radiating now for 6000 of those years also, ever since the Great One planted it there on day one (or 2)! For all us others it has been doing so now for 4 Billion Years.
And we are all still here, radiation free I hope, unless you suntan too much!
If you really want the end of the world, find a way to destroy out atmosphere. We'll all then die a pretty horrible death in no time at all!!
Perhaps this is how suns are created from Atomic power plants. It happens when the container is broken.
Perhaps this is how suns are created from Atomic power plants. It happens when the container is broken.
One has to wonder just how many deaths are happing from radiation poisoning? Bone cancer, thyroid, lung, Specitic Genetic defects, has in birth defects, leukemia, other cancers that are yet to be born. In Dr Russel book, Atomic Suicide ~ The Cosmic knowledge given herein , there is a very interesting quote ~ The Second Epistle of Peter ~ Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved. and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.
Just how long does this Atomic Garbage hang around, and is it slowly seeping into lakes and water supplies food etc. Where do you dump this waste safely and from who? Iron Drums break down eventually yes! Between wars power plants microwaves from out of space satellites. Why Atomic garbage is just piling up around us decaying: "decaying what? It takes 3-4 thousands years atomic garbage to break down. In the mean time the heat is up!
All nuclear power around the
This is an easy one - fly directly into our SUN! It's only about 1million degreees on the surface with plenty of Radiation!.
And by the way, that is what heats our planet. And the source of LIFE! Without it we'd all be popsicles!
It's how it's used - without the constant 'Radiation" from the Sun LIFE would not be possble on this planet.
And that sun - IT's a HUGH NUCLEAR BALL of radiating RADIATION!
We ALL should be supremely 'fearful" of destroying our atmosphere, as that is what shields us all from that killing radiation.
A few nuclear power plants is nothing compared to that sun of ours, and the shielding used in those nuclear power plants is nothing compared to what would happen to all of us if we lost or destroyed our atmosphere!!
Does someone have the number I heard on the ratio of white radical murderous attacks to (attempted) radical muslim conspiracies? I think it's five or ten-to-one? And that's just the published stuff.
...unfortunately, it seems the *bozo nuclear energy show* must go on — and judging by a co-worker's comments today — it probably will — if this direct quote is the average line of thinking: "Nuclear energy is a *necessary* evil."
(I'm thinking, ummmm...no...and if given the choice, I'd rather try my luck and *risk* running out of energy options as a preferable "necessary evil" instead of risking a global disaster — or even a local melt-down...*heavy-sigh*
All nuclear power around the world need to be shut down, before the sea salt is eaten away by the heat. I believe Radiation is part of the cause of climate warmimg. Radiation is a high form of hot electricity and affects all living organisms in a destructive manner. Some injuries are not irreversible including the earth. Don't forget about all the dumb atomic bomb tests going on for years without our consent. Its amazing!
Radiation is the normal death principle. Radioactivity is man's discovery of how the human race can die quickly in many ways. There is a beautiful book written on this subject called ~ Atomic Suicide by Dr. Walter and Lao Russell 1957. It a oldie but a amazing book of spiritually on all levels. What humanity it has to offer "" For the preservation of humanity in it threatened hour of total extinction, This book is humbly dedicated ~ Dr. Walker Russel.. The book maybe hard to find not sure. The best!
President Obama and his Republican buddys would be committed to something as ignorant as building nuclear plants on the Gulf Coast of Texas. My suggestion would be to build them in Washington DC and fly in a big group of Japanese to build it since everyone here in America is busy living our fabulous dreams and raking in all of this money from our jobs. WTF? Let's hope Obama won't be around after 2012 to finish destroying the rest of America.
Unless we can figure a way to exile most all Republicans to Lybia, regretably we will be building Nukes shortly.
Facts First - America has not had an serious accident at a nuclear power plant since 1979. (stuck valve and then human error). Chernobyl was 1986 ( testing experiment gone wrong and human error). France gets 78% of its power by nuclear power plants (the most of any country). The USA about 20% Some nuclear power plants are over 40 years old.
Now how many oil disasters do you know of ? Exxon Valdez, Gulf of Mexico, etc.... Serious impact on marine life, polluting the air worldwide on a constant and increasing basis. We pump millions of gallons of oil out of the ground every day and every bit of it ends up in the air... Think about that. Then think about burning coal and how detrimental to health that is.
In most of the nucler accidents and the ones going on in Japan are/were caused by not keeping the core cool. From what I understand in the Japanese situation 13 backup generators failed to function at keeping the core(s) cool. As humans we need to concentrate more on backup systems and more redundancy in ways to cool a nuclear reactor in case of failure.
Of course we could use solar power and wind turbines for backup systems for nuclear power plants..... right... Frightening thought isn't it?
But you would never trust either one of these as a backup system for let's say a hospital would you... But you probably trust the nuclear power plant if you were the patient in the middle of a heart operation. B
ut that's what everyone wants to believe that somehow solar and wind are going to save our ever demanding use for power. These are the same people that want electric cars everywhere.... Wow how much electric power will we consume then?
The Japanese are dealing with a catastrophic situation created by an unusually powerful earthquake. But when you think about all of these situations none of these power plants blew up immediately. There was time, if it was in place or had been thought out correctly that cooling any of these nuclear power plants (past and present) in a more efficient and reliable manner may have prevented their demise.
The Japanese are supposed to build a nuclear power plant in Texas..... I would doubt they would ever have to deal with a huge earthquake there but but I would hope they would concentrate on how to "stop" the power plant more efficiently with more backup systems and more computer checkpoints.... Just like Japanese cars sometimes they run great but sometimes they are just hard to stop.
This is a serious issue so I will not downgrade it. But....!
I am amazed at all the fear-mongering going on about these nuclear reactors and melt-downs. Yes they are dangerous and they do kill people. But...!
In America on a YEARLY basis, maybe 25-30,000 people die due to GUNS! 50-60,000 die on our highways! In ONE YEAR! Do any of these 2 get the attention that the meltdown in Japan has gotten in the last week? 24/7 this is being broadcasted and yet more people has died on our highways and guns here during that time period than will ever die due to Radiation in Japan! Or anywhere else for that a matter!
And where is the COVERAGE on that? Where is the Outrage? Eliminate guns? No, we are actually going to add more! Close our highways? No, we will build more highways and add more vehicles!
We are a Fearful people and fear makes us dig our holes ever deeper and keeps the fear merchants so ever busy lulling us all into oblivion!!
yankeerebel64 John from Toronto if you areCouldn't of said it better myself!! Yes, duck, because all of you RICH tax sucking stealing degenerates are all going to join the unemployment lines in America! And yes we will re-distribute your wealth BACK to the very people who created it - THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!And to all you Obama hating Americans - get over it! If you have a better plan or idea then RUN FOR PRESIDENT next time and stop al the un-godly whining!!! You'd think you just entered a nursery of 2 month olds!
They didn't "get it" after Three Mile Island. They didn't "get it" after Chernobyl. They won't "get it" this time, either.
We are outsourcing this to Japan ?
My guess about the outsourcing Johnnyamazing is - it would be so the Japanese company would bring in their own Non-Union people for the work, and then you can imagine where the quaity controll will go. Any infrastructure projects using American $$ should go to American companies and should be using American made steel and products. How else are we going to get the American Skilled labor force back to work ? If a Jap company gets the contract they will most likely be importing Communist Chinese steel products and componants - What a bunch of crap, plain and simple.
Put American skilled labor back to work ! Its not protectionism - its Patriotism !
Longer story made short - I agree with you - Wake up America, and speek up !