Sleep well at night? I don't.
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From:
Crimes Against Nature
How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are
Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 2004
robertfkennedyjr.com/books.html
page 164-168
...Of course, toxic chemical plants aren't the only potential dirty bombs on American soil. The nation's nuclear power plants pose an equally devastating threat...Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant...24 miles north of New York City.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 175 passed within a few thousand feet of Indian Point...Had it banked left and crashed into the plant instead, it could have triggered a large release of radiation. The surrounding area, including New York City, might have been rendered uninhabitable for years..."...the biggest threat is Indian Point...they're only open 'cause they've got pals in Washington."...
Contrary to the public perception aggressively promoted by the industry, terrorists would not have to puncture the containment dome to cause a serious accident or meltdown. Nuclear plants like Indian Point are vulnerable at half a dozen points, some of them virtually impossible to shield from determined attackers. Terrorists could provoke a meltdown by coordinating attacks against the reactor's cooling system or the plant's control room, by cutting electric lines going into or out of the plant, or, more alarmingly, by disabling the cooling-water pumps and intake structures, which are easily approached from the river's channel.
Worst of all, in a catastrophe that would rival or exceed the impact of a meltdown, terrorists could attack the plant's spent fuel pools, which house 30 years of accumulated high-level radioactive waste and are shielded only by a series of flimsy annex buildings, so-called butler shacks that have the structural integrity of a Kmart. Indian Point's irradiated spent-fuel pools contain more than 1,500 tons of high-level radioactive waste...a significant loss of water within the spent-fuel pools could provoke a fuel-assembly fire that could potentially release a pool's store of cesium 137 - up to 20 times the amount released at Chernobyl, which made an area approximately 1, miles around the plant uninhabitable, 100 miles of it permanently.
Imagine a world without New York City...nuclear power plants as potential U.S. targets...
With this in mind, you would think, and most people do, that in a country as civilized and technologically advanced as ours, nuclear plants would be among our most secure facilities. Amazingly, the opposite is true. Indian Point and other plants near Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C., are virtually unprotected against terrorist attack on the scale of September 11. If you think this sounds like an exaggeration, consider this astounding fact: Federal law absolves nuclear power plant operators from any legal duty to protect their plants from attacks "by enemies of the United States." So who does shoulder this heavy burden? Governor George Pataki of New York tells us that it is the federal government. But try to find a federal agency that will take responsibility. Not the NRC, not the Department of Homeland Security, and not the Pentagon...
...no protection from air attacks at Indian Point. The FAA has refused to declare a no-fly zone over the plant, which lies in the approach path of Westchester County Airport. The FAA has given this protection to Disneyland, Disney World, and Crawford, Texas. They even provided it for my cousin Caroline Kennedy's wedding on Cape Cod! In 2002, my brother Douglas, a reporter for Fox News, chartered a small airplane at Westchester Airport and flew over the plant with a film crew and circled it for 20 minutes, waiting in vain for someone to signal him off...a small private jet...packed with explosives...could crash into the right building and precipitate a spent-fuel fire - releasing all the plant's stored radiation...
...the GAO...report...found that the dereliction at Indian Point is in fact the rule at nuclear plants across the United States. According to the report, the NRC deliberately stages softball mock attacks to give the impression of plant security, and has often shielded the industry by burying significant security violations. NRC inspection reports routinely omit security violations such as a guard sleeping on duty or falsified security logs...
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Allegation that the UN helped with Bush's coup d-etat of Haiti:
The Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization
2004 by Jean-Bertrand Aristide
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/513.html
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Bacteria Make Better Alcohol Fuels
Modified E. coli produce long-chain alcohol fuels that have advantages over ethanol and butanol.
by Prachi Patel-Predd 12/9/8
technologyreview.com/energy/21783/?a=f
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Claim that all government books are cooked
cafr1.com
taxretirement.com
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Activists Clamor for organic farm at White House
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98613372
eattheview.org
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The White House Organic Farm Project
thewhofarm.org
twitter.com/TheWhoFarm
facebook.com/group.php?gid=31664663448
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kitchengardeners.org
From:
Crimes Against Nature
How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are
Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 2004
robertfkennedyjr.com/books.html
page 164-168
...Of course, toxic chemical plants aren't the only potential dirty bombs on American soil. The nation's nuclear power plants pose an equally devastating threat...Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant...24 miles north of New York City.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 175 passed within a few thousand feet of Indian Point...Had it banked left and crashed into the plant instead, it could have triggered a large release of radiation. The surrounding area, including New York City, might have been rendered uninhabitable for years..."...the biggest threat is Indian Point...they're only open 'cause they've got pals in Washington."...
Contrary to the public perception aggressively promoted by the industry, terrorists would not have to puncture the containment dome to cause a serious accident or meltdown. Nuclear plants like Indian Point are vulnerable at half a dozen points, some of them virtually impossible to shield from determined attackers. Terrorists could provoke a meltdown by coordinating attacks against the reactor's cooling system or the plant's control room, by cutting electric lines going into or out of the plant, or, more alarmingly, by disabling the cooling-water pumps and intake structures, which are easily approached from the river's channel.
Worst of all, in a catastrophe that would rival or exceed the impact of a meltdown, terrorists could attack the plant's spent fuel pools, which house 30 years of accumulated high-level radioactive waste and are shielded only by a series of flimsy annex buildings, so-called butler shacks that have the structural integrity of a Kmart. Indian Point's irradiated spent-fuel pools contain more than 1,500 tons of high-level radioactive waste...a significant loss of water within the spent-fuel pools could provoke a fuel-assembly fire that could potentially release a pool's store of cesium 137 - up to 20 times the amount released at Chernobyl, which made an area approximately 1, miles around the plant uninhabitable, 100 miles of it permanently.
Imagine a world without New York City...nuclear power plants as potential U.S. targets...
With this in mind, you would think, and most people do, that in a country as civilized and technologically advanced as ours, nuclear plants would be among our most secure facilities. Amazingly, the opposite is true. Indian Point and other plants near Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C., are virtually unprotected against terrorist attack on the scale of September 11. If you think this sounds like an exaggeration, consider this astounding fact: Federal law absolves nuclear power plant operators from any legal duty to protect their plants from attacks "by enemies of the United States." So who does shoulder this heavy burden? Governor George Pataki of New York tells us that it is the federal government. But try to find a federal agency that will take responsibility. Not the NRC, not the Department of Homeland Security, and not the Pentagon...
...no protection from air attacks at Indian Point. The FAA has refused to declare a no-fly zone over the plant, which lies in the approach path of Westchester County Airport. The FAA has given this protection to Disneyland, Disney World, and Crawford, Texas. They even provided it for my cousin Caroline Kennedy's wedding on Cape Cod! In 2002, my brother Douglas, a reporter for Fox News, chartered a small airplane at Westchester Airport and flew over the plant with a film crew and circled it for 20 minutes, waiting in vain for someone to signal him off...a small private jet...packed with explosives...could crash into the right building and precipitate a spent-fuel fire - releasing all the plant's stored radiation...
...the GAO...report...found that the dereliction at Indian Point is in fact the rule at nuclear plants across the United States. According to the report, the NRC deliberately stages softball mock attacks to give the impression of plant security, and has often shielded the industry by burying significant security violations. NRC inspection reports routinely omit security violations such as a guard sleeping on duty or falsified security logs...
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Allegation that the UN helped with Bush's coup d-etat of Haiti:
The Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization
2004 by Jean-Bertrand Aristide
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/513.html
======
Bacteria Make Better Alcohol Fuels
Modified E. coli produce long-chain alcohol fuels that have advantages over ethanol and butanol.
by Prachi Patel-Predd 12/9/8
technologyreview.com/energy/21783/?a=f
======
Claim that all government books are cooked
cafr1.com
taxretirement.com
======
Activists Clamor for organic farm at White House
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98613372
eattheview.org
======
The White House Organic Farm Project
thewhofarm.org
twitter.com/TheWhoFarm
facebook.com/group.php?gid=31664663448
======
kitchengardeners.org
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