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Fukushima

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Dolores Park, San Francisco. April, 10, 2011 Today - SIXTY-SIX years after the atomic bombing of JAPAN - that country faces another nuclear crisis. A total of SIX nuclear reactors threaten the lives of many thousands of people in JAPAN and around the world. The long-term effects of radiation are hard to measure but we know radiation kills.  Japan's 54 reactors provide some 30 percent of that country's electricity, and this is expected to increase to at least 40 percent by 2017, and 50 percent by 2030. Japan has a full fuel cycle set-up, including enrichment and reprocessing of used-fuel for recycling.  Nuclear power has become a significant factor in the industrial world’s central planning. It has become essential for the continuance of what some  describe as disaster capitalism. Disaster capitalism is prepared to risk many thousands of lives and our planet so the few can make more and more money.  Enough is enough! After World War Two, the Japanese Const...
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Second Time Around Revisited

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It's four-thirty and eighteen degrees when I awaken. Today I’m leaving snow covered Hancock in the western Catskills and the frozen headwaters of the Delaware River, for sunny California for a new job. My bag packed and ready to go rests by the front door downstairs. My neighbor Stanley is driving me to the Greater Binghamton Airport for a six AM flight. It’s still dark outside and I see the yellow light shining dimly in the window of his house next door. I dump my bag in his truck and walk carefully up the gravel path. It’s a sheet of black ice. It’s no joke this black ice. One slip and there goes a hip. "Stanley!” "Yeah".  He's sitting at the head of his dinning room table where he always sits sipping his coffee and smoking a cigarette. The house is warm and the wood stove glows. He's wearing a tee shirt. I'm dressed in layers – tee shirt, black roll-neck under my green wool sweater clasped at the neck, scarf and my black Calvin Kline woolen pea coat...
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