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Obama's NUCLEAR Family
Since 2003, executives and employees of Exelon, which is based in Illinois, have contributed at least $227,000 to Mr. Obama’s campaigns for the United States Senate and for president. Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, are among his largest fund-raisers.
Another Obama donor, John W. Rowe, chairman of Exelon, is also chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear power industry’s lobbying group, based in Washington. Exelon’s support for Mr. Obama far exceeds its support for any other presidential candidate.
In addition, Mr. Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, has worked as a consultant to Exelon. A spokeswoman for Exelon said Mr. Axelrod’s company had helped an Exelon subsidiary, Commonwealth Edison, with communications strategy periodically since 2002, but had no involvement in the leak controversy or other nuclear issues.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/09/399/
So ironic, since Obama wants to eliminate nuclear weapons, so he says.
I miss John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich. Am I over reacting to this news, or are we screwed? Since 2003, executives and employees of Exelon, which is based in Illinois, have contributed at least $227,000 to Mr. Obama’s campaign... more -
Goodbye Sun, Hello Nukes
WASHINGTON -- Pared-down energy legislation cleared the Senate on Thursday by a wide margin after the oil industry and utilities succeeded in stripping out provisions that would have cost them billions of dollars.
The tax measure and the renewable electricity mandate were included in an energy bill that easily passed the House last week. But industry lobbyists focused their attention on Republican members of the Senate and on the White House, which repeatedly threatened to veto the bill if the offending sections were not removed.
Separately, Congress reached a tentative agreement on a major energy package that it plans to enact outside the energy bill, according to a Senate Democratic staff member. The agreement, to be included in a broad government spending bill, would authorize the Energy Department to guarantee loans for various energy projects, making financing far easier.
The agreement would guarantee loans of up to $25 billion for new nuclear plants and $2 billion for a uranium enrichment plant, something those industries had been avidly seeking. It would also provide guarantees of up to $10 billion for renewable energy projects, $10 billion for plants to turn coal into liquid vehicle fuel and $2 billion to turn coal into natural gas.
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In other news, as hand basket sales sky rocket, scientists are feverishly working on a family sized hand basket that would allow as many as 20 people to make the journey to hell together. O.k., I made that up, but if you can't afford a bomb shelter and you don't know Tom Cruise, you may want to buy a hand basket before you spend all your money on Christmas presents. WASHINGTON -- Pared-down energy legislation cleared the Senate on Thursday by a wide margin after the oil industry and utilities succe... more -
Nothing good about it!
When Chernobyl's Number Four reactor blew up in April 1986, spewing radioactive fallout across Belarus, workers quickly slapped a giant concrete sarcophagus over the site to contain the hazard. It was supposed to be a temporary fix.
Is Wired magazine totally pro nuke, or what?
"Sounds like a blast." Peter Savodnik
WTF? When Chernobyl's Number Four reactor blew up in April 1986, spewing radioactive fallout across Belarus, workers quickly slapped a... more -
OUTCRY! Stop NuclearWar!
The world is facing a possible nuclear war! Considering the
worldwide stockpile of nuclear, biological and chemical
weapons of mass destruction, such a war bears an incalculable
risk and is a threat to all of mankind.
The death of millions of people and the contamination of our
entire planet for generations have become real threats. In
this situation, we, the people of the world, are putting
everything aside that separates us, in order to commit to one
common goal: the prevention of a nuclear war and the
survival of mankind. We, the people of different countries,
religions and races, are raising our voices together.
We call on the nuclear powers and all other governments to
immediately, publicly and clearly distance themselves from
any nuclear attack or any other war of aggression! The world is facing a possible nuclear war! Considering the worldwide stockpile of nuclear, biological and chemical ... more -
This is an official civil defense film
Selected for the 2004 National Film Registry of "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" motion pictures.
Famous Civil Defense film for children in which Bert the Turtle shows what to do in case of atomic attack.
As long as we have people that think we can survive a nuclear winter, we're F#!%&#. Spend your money on building peace, not bomb shelters.
Although, come to think of it, Bush and Cheney have a shelter..................Or maybe they truly believe all they have to do is duck and cover. Selected for the 2004 National Film Registry of "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" motion pictures. ... more -
HELEN'S WAR
The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last 35 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction. The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicot... more
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Nuclear war continues to be the most acute threat to human life and the global bio...
Physicians for Social Responsibility is a non-profit advocacy organization that is the medical and public health voice for policies to stop nuclear war and proliferation and to slow, stop and reverse global warming and toxic degradation of the environment. Physicians for Social Responsibility is a non-profit advocacy organization that is the medical and public health voice for policies to... more
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365 Reasons to Oppose Nuclear Power
"In the beginning was the will to destroy. The main motive in
developing nuclear technology was to optimise a bomb with a
destructive potential which put everything known before it in the
shade. Death and destruction have been accompanying not only the
nuclear bomb since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also the commercial
use of nuclear power. This technology cannot be controlled, and dozens
of accidents have again and again proven its destructive nature. Every
fire from a cable, every burst pipe, can within minutes make a nuclear
power plant into a nuclear nightmare. It was only a question of time
before this would actually happen. It finally did, at 1.23 a.m. on
26 April 1986"
Excerpt from Greenpeace's 365 Reasons to oppose nuclear Power "In the beginning was the will to destroy. The main motive in developing nuclear technology was to optimise a bomb with a ... more -
Duck & Cover
Brochure for a range of pre-fabricated fallout shelters, 1963.
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