The Wrong Answer: Nuclear Power

The Lean Economy Connection (LEC) is a research group looking for solutions to climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels.

According to the center's Web site, it developed the carbon trading model that polluting corporations, governments and air travelers are taking advantage of. Its research shows that wind power is better than nuclear power, especially for the environment. Click here to see a list of issues related to nuclear energy.

Today, nuclear power plants have been compromised by groups trying to show the public security vulnerablilities of nuclear plants. This is just one of the short term security threats. One long-term problem of nuclear power is what to do with the waste it eneviatably produces.

The LEC says that wind power is much safer to humans and the environment than nuclear energy.

Getting to the core issues

I've been off topic for long enough. It's time to revisit why I started this blog in the first place: awareness about nuclear "energy," the use of its byproducts for weapons, its storage, disposal and contamination of earth's resources on which our survival depends.
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is working toward eliminating these threats to our survival let alone security. Their website is appealing to the next U.S. president for a "nuclear weapons-free world.

From their site:

"Think outside the bomb:
Washington, DC - April 12, 2008

The Think Outside the Bomb network will host its next youth regional conference on Saturday, April 12th, 2008 at American University. This one-day conference brings youth and students together with experts in the fields of nuclear disarmament, nuclear power, and nuclear waste in order to build an atmosphere of education and resistance towards the nuclear weapons complex."

Yay. Getting RIGHT down to the point, down to the core issues. I like it.

Earth Hour 2008 -- Doing it for Mother Earth

On March 29th at 8:00 P.M. TURN OUT YOUR LIGHTS. This simple act will have a huge effect that will continue to grow when the lights are turned back on.

The movement is sponsored by the World Wildlife Federation. Check out the Web site at www.earthhour.org.

Obama is America

Thanks Sen. Obama for standing up for US. Your words shine through the darkness that's been over us for too long. Lack of education leads to intolerance.

Who Killed John O'Neil?

I'm currently watching "Who Killed John O'Neil." If you have a couple of hours, I recommend watching it. Good to know people are asking questions. I haven't watched it all yet, but I expect to see something about PNAC and its desire for a Pearl Harbor-like attack to get the military machine up and running to feed trillions of dollars to private interests.

John O'Neill was a former FBI agent who quit his job to become head of security at the World Trade Center.

"The main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests, and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it," O'Neill reportedly told the authors of an explosive new book, Hidden Truth (Forbidden Truth in the US), by intelligence analysts Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie. (credit: Here In Reality)


Other sources of information on this subject include, Crossing the Rubicon, a book by Michael Ruppert, the From the Wilderness web site, PBS Frontline video "The Man Who Knew," and The Man Who Warned America, by Murray Weiss. Of course there are plenty of other sources, but there's only so much time in one day!


What do you think?

Props to Sam Seder for providing us a glimpse into the insane reasoning of so-called conservatives like Dick Black on homosexuality.

If you haven't read F.U.B.A.R. America's Right Wing Nightmare, get a copy and have yourself a few belly laughs about the sad state of affairs we're in.

During World War II, farmers were encouraged to grow hemp for cordage to replace manila hemp previously obtained from Japanese-controlled areas. The US government produced a film explaining the uses of hemp called, "Hemp for Victory."

In America we can't grow hemp without obtaining a government permit; however, all the rules and regulations make it cost prohibitive for most people so it remains cheaper to import.

The argument that people could conceal marijuana plants within a field of hemp doesn't hold water because hemp would croud the marijuana and compete for nutrients and sunlight. The more believable reason hemp remains illegal is because it would cut into the profits of other industries, like energy, timber and paper.

More of us should advocate for the legalization of hemp if we truly want to end our dependence on foreign oil and wars to guarantee our access to it.

Votehemp.org has a wealth of information on the topic, and I recommend the site to anyone who doesn't understand the difference between marijuana and hemp.