Cliches are, because they are SO. In the minds of each and every one of us, for untold generations, have been the true answers which, when practiced, would immediately begin returning a world of ignorance, separation, fear, materialism, defense/offense, INSANITY, back into its original and ever-present sublime heavenly state of Reality, wholeness.

For the ground of Earth is the same ground of heavenly reality itself; we have merely obliterated on its surface the natural eternal glory and splendor with rampant, wanton, and widespread projections of our own unacknowledged ignorance, fear, selfishness, and greed in this third dimension of time/space.

1. One Potently Pithy Primary Perennial Principle Persistently Practiced Prevents Perpetual Proliferation of Painful Particular Personal and Planetary Predicaments.

2. Innate consciousness, a.k.a. God/Sublime Self, is the crux of all creation, all manifestation. This is the ‘kingdom of heaven, within.’ The ‘answer’, dear friend, is echoing within—the answer is echoing within.

3. This crucial seed-point of pure consciousness rests within each individual, in the innermost core, or ‘heart’ of each. This inviolate, un-tainted, subtle pure non-material core, is our own true identity, though it may be temporarily obscured by the surface precepts, perceptions and experiences of the earthly human ego/persona in incarnation.

4. A return to fully conscious integrated awareness with innate core identity requires no doing, but rather the ceasing of surface will-based doing. Our doing-ness is our destruction, our predicament. Our non-doing is our salvation, as we cease interfering with the innate balancing systems of earth and life.

5. ‘Will-based’ in this sense means arising from a false surface sense of limited ego/self/identity. All aspects of the societal-material infrastructure of ‘mammonomics’—i.e., of economics/finance, politics, religionism, nationalism, militarism, insular group identification and separations—all these arise from ignorant identification with a false surface ego, and are operated and perpetuated from a basic ongoing dynamic of fear. All these separative surface ideologies & institutions are the symptoms of the choice to live by feardom rather than freedom. The innate markers of fear’s dynamic are heaviness, density, tension, friction, contraction, all of which relate to blocked flow of energy. And the innate markers of freedom are lightness, relaxation, openness, fluidity.

6. Awakening to the true pure core awareness—free of surface identifications, as a little child is thereof free—is the cure and prevention of all humanity’s ills. Where there’s no ego/I/self identity around which to form an energy-blocking and fear-and-defense-inducing ego boundary, there’s no problem!

7. There are a million hacking at the external branches of darkness (ignorance) in endless frustrated futility for every *one* who has exposed the inner roots of darkness to the Light of Truth.

8. Whosoever awakens to this pure perennial inner presence is thereby reunited directly with one’s own true life authority…and need never again be mis-led by any external alleged “authority”, or fascist authoritarian ignoramus, i.e., the blind who are ever leading flocks of blind sheeple into death’s ditch. To the fool for whom a gun is the only tool, everything begins to look like a target.

9. A lesson is repeated until it is learned: we cannot serve/worship both the God of eternal Pure Reality Life-Light-Love-Truth-Peace-
Wholeness…AND simultaneously serve the temporal and divisive ‘gods’ of mammon, of worldly identity, fleeting status, dreams, and values…for it would be like trying to ride on the backs of two burros heading in different directions. While the former leads us to Innate Supernal Wholeness Reality, the latter leads merely to all manner of degradation, deterioration, division, destruction, death (all illusory, transitory).

10. The ‘American Dream’ is so named because you have to be asleep, in a dream-world, to believe in it; and it is no simple dream, but a convoluted nightmare of our own ignorant, selfish, fear-drenched creation & projections.

11. Friends, family, lovers, relations, neighbors, enemies, etc…these are all like people we meet on a bus journey, and in a dream—every one gets ON at a different stop, and every one gets OFF at a different stop; the only one who is always with you, the only one who never leaves you, is your own true innate sublime pure awareness…the one screen-writer, producer, & director of the movie of your life.

12. Energy flows and ‘reality’ grows where attention goes. Remember to focus upon that which is Real, in the deep stillness within—that which you most love, trust, cherish, adore…ignoring all else that is rumored to have any real existence.

13. Whatever we focus upon—whether in love, or in fear—we thereby create more of. Intelligence/Wisdom chooses to focus upon Light(truth)-Love-Life, Inner Tranquility. Only a flawed darkness of the inner lens could result in choosing to focus otherwise.

14. Better a “horrible” end than horrors without end. That which is Real and valuable is eternal; it is birthless, deathless; it is not of the relative realms. Anything which dissolves/dies, is not Real, has no Real existence, has no Real value. As the forms/creations of past ignorance/darkness steadily dissolve and fall away, this is a great blessing, frightful only to those who have yet forgotten their true universal identity, and who ignorantly believe that money provides any real life. Actually, money—being an externalization of the darker impulses of ignorance, separation, fear of lack, desire to control—is a construct which has led us away from real life, light, liberty, wholeness, truth.

15. Why pay the hand/fist that would smite you? Why feed the jaws that would bite you, or the police or jailer who would restrain you? Why would you support a transitory outer-worldly system that enforces the degradation and oppression of all life, lives, and living systems?

16. ‘Love’ is the answer…but it is NOT the answer until we come to KNOW and BE what Love really eternally is, and it is far beyond merely a four-letter word symbol, or an emotion. We will not know what Love is until we know who we really eternally are. And we will not know this until we are completely free of socially conditioned illusions. And we will not be completely free of illusions until we are completely aware, open. And we will not be completely aware & open until we are completely honest, relaxed, trusting, lightness itself…

17. The political/legal/nationalist/military mindset which informs the infrastructure of mammon represents the choice to put darkness before light, fear before honesty’s inner courage-trust-surrender, falsehood before truth, a closed heart before an open heart, division before wholeness, death before eternal life.

18. The choice of a path/way of falsehood & folly is antithetical to the path/way of Eternal Real Life-Light-Wholeness. That false choice is what brings us to this critical juncture on the human stage. Both the underlying dynamic and the ultimate destination of politics is war; war is designed and played out of, by, and for basically suicidal psychopathic egos having lost (temporarily) their sense of decency, sanity, divinity, unity, humanity. Politics is the main avenue of recruiting for Satan, while the second most popular avenue for hell’s recruits being that of sectarian authoritarian hierarchical patriarchal religious institutions.

19. No one, not even God, can change this ungodly political structure from within this political structure. The only way to be autonomous, true, peaceful, and free is to be…autonomous, true, peaceful, and free…

20. If one loves Love, then one must love freedom, for what is love but completely allowing, rather than controlling? And if one loves freedom, then one must love truth, for only truth sets everyone free…

21. And if you’re still not convinced, if you’re still worshiping the premises and princes of darkness, ignorance, fear, lies, nationalism, secrecy, violence, control…at least get your head far enough out of your ass to honestly recall that your earlier stated and sworn oath of duty and responsibility is but to protect and defend your homeland only. And when you are so deluded by intense falsehood, fear, hatred, and greed to extend your empire of fear, control and death to countries and lands not your own, you thereby announce the onset of your own demise…for you cannot even hold the home/center, and yet you drain your resources by attempting to extend your circumference of false power and death in all directions. And you have lied, claiming your military forces’ purpose to be the defense of this country, but instead your corruption has caused you to extend it to foment situations of offensive combat actions across the earthly globe.
You who yet serve the inrastructure of mammon/materialism/worldly status are children who have yet to learn the primary lessons of intelligent life: Love and (at least) let live. Do unto others what you would have done unto you, for it *will* be done just as you have done—if not in this life, then in subsequent life. As you give, so shall you receive; as you plant, so shall you harvest. These are the lessons/guides of utmost basic simplicity, logic, sanity, reality—and yet you have attempted to live in utter denial of these seed principles of real life.

Attempt to live by the sword/gun/bomb/jet/laser and so thereby determine and deliver your own demise likewise. Every ‘murder’—even a military murder—is actually a murder-suicide. Had you graduated from the kindergarten of the universe in your own consciousness, you would have known and begun acting upon this primary perennial principle long ago. The biggest lies of this infrastructure of mammon are that these fearsome impositions could in any way, shape, or form, serve life, truth, liberty, peace, sanity. Everywhere the infrastructure of mammon goes, it serves falsehood, oppression, enslavement, imprisonment, death. Saddest of all ironies, or perhaps most befitting, is that the beings most enslaved by mammon’s materialist/militaristic infrastructure are the very ones who serve in, and ‘profit’ by it. Some profit—the destruction of an entire living planet. Who profits by the crime is accomplice to the crime, and thereof held accountable.

Jeffry
Maui, Hawaii USA

People let’s look what’s really going down
In old Suvanna-bhumi there are gems in the ground
No rice on the table — oldest story in the book
Mercedes in a new city of generals and crooks
The Lady’s under lock and key, she says: “Freedom from fear!”
Monks and nuns are on the streets, shine their light through clouds of tears…

Chorus: Arise! Arise!

We’re standing side by side
And if you raise your weapons
We will look you in the eye
until the hate subsides
The eyes of the world
will look you in the eye….

Half a world away I’ve got a healthy pension planned
on slave labor and helicopters — and even heroin
Everything is normal here, everything is clean
Till I turn from 9 to 5 to that shining little screen
The Lady’s under lock and key, she says: “Freedom from fear!”
Monks and nuns out on the streets shine their light through clouds of tears…

Chorus : Arise! Arise!

We’re standing side by side
And if you raise your weapons
We will look you in the eye
until the fear subsides
The eyes of the world
will look you in the eye….

Everyone has the ears to hear the sound when people cry
Everyone’s a choice to make as we walk our own fine lines
So if I call you brother now, how will you reply?
No longer can we just abide in the “eye for an eye”!
The Lady’s under lock and key, she says: “Freedom from fear!”
Monks and nuns are on the street, shine that light through clouds of tears…

Chorus: Arise! Arise!

We’re standing side by side
And if you raise your weapons
We will look you in the eye
until the hate subsides
The eyes of the world
until the fear subsides
until those fires die…

The eyes of the world
The eyes of the world
The eyes of the world

by Martin Adam

Don’t take a minute to realize,
don’t take a moment to run,
don’t take a genius to understand that we prefer education over the gun.

Stop funding the Chinese for splendor of our Nations lost democratic dream. The veto of the powerhouse can seam hurtful at the seams. We’ll walk a thousand miles if it help’s our brothers and sisters even a foot. Four years have gone by now, and 3000 villages perish in soot.

Now it is our Monks that burned. How dare they take the holy men? First rape was the season, now it’s fire over them. Clubs don’t seem like torture, when black dogs of darkness bark our disease. We’d do anything to stop them as we fade with our immune disease.

Please take that moment to veto, or oven our children’s fire, hey everyone has a hobby, for Than Shwe, freedom is his desire.

by Jeffrey Karl Hellman
Film, Photography, and Visual Arts
Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College
www.JeffreyHellman.com
www.HonoringHome.com
www.ICFAB.org

“(Nuclear power) is a very important part of our energy policy today in the US.. America’s electricity is already being provided through the nuclear industry efficiently, safely, and with no discharge of greenhouse gases or emissions.”

~Vice President Cheney in a speech to the
Nuclear Energy Institute, May 22, 2001

It is now apparent that when Vice President Dick Cheney utters his words of direction and policy to the American people he is not always accurate and sometimes speaks with a forked tongue, as in “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq. It seems clear that the present Bush administration believes that if it lies frequently and with conviction, the general public will be lulled into believing that their oft repeated dictums are true.

On June 22, 2005 President Bush gave a speech before a group of nuclear power plant workers at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear reactor saying “the 103 nuclear power plants in America produce 20% of the nation’s electricity without producing a single pound of air pollution or greenhouse gases”.

Let us now examine these claims made with such confidence by President Bush and Vice President Cheney. As [my book “Nuclear Power is Not the Answer” shows] no part of the “efficiently, safely and with no discharge of greenhouse gases or emissions” is true.

Large amounts of fossil fuel are used and will be used to mine, refine and to enrich uranium fuel for nuclear power reactors, to construct the massive concrete reactor buildings and to transport and store toxic radioactive waste for 250,000 years. Burning of this fossil fuel emits significant quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere which contribute to global warming. As well as the production of CO2, large amounts of the now‑banned chloroflurocarbon gas (CFC) are also emitted during the enrichment of uranium. CFC gas not only is 10,000 to 20,000 times more efficient as an atmospheric heat trapper than CO2 but it is also a potent destroyer of the ozone layer.

Currently the generation of nuclear electricity produces one third the amount of CO2 emitted from a similar sized gas‑fired electrical generator, but this is a transitory statistic because over several decades as the concentration of available uranium ore declines, nuclear reactors will produce no net energy because of the massive amounts of fossil fuel that will be necessary to mine and to enrich the remaining poor grades of
uranium.

Contrary to the nuclear industry claims, nuclear power is not emission free. Government regulations also allow atomic power plants to “routinely” emit hundreds of thousands of curies of radioactive gases and other radioactive elements into the environment every year. Thousands of tons of solid radioactive waste which is presently accumulating in the cooling pools beside the 103 operating nuclear plants in the US and hundreds of others throughout the world contain extremely toxic elements that will inevitably pollute the environment and human food chains for the rest of recorded time, a legacy which will lead to epidemics of cancer, leukemia and genetic disease in all future generations.

Nuclear power is exorbitantly expensive, and notoriously unreliable. As will be noted in chapter two, Wall Street and Standard and Poors are deeply reluctant to re‑involve themselves in any nuclear investment despite the fact that in the 2005 Energy Bill the US Congress allocated $13 billion in subsidies to revive a moribund nuclear power industry. To compound this problem the global supplies of usable uranium fuel are finite ‑ if the world’s electricity production was replaced today by nuclear electricity
there would be less than nine more years of accessible uranium. But even if certain corporate interests are convinced that nuclear power at the moment might be a beneficial investment, one major accident at a nuclear reactor which induced a meltdown would destroy all such investments and signal the end of nuclear power for ever.

In this day and age, nuclear power plants are obvious targets for terrorists, inviting assault by plane, truck bombs, armed attack or covert intrusion into the reactor’s control room. The subsequent meltdown could induce the death of hundreds of thousands of people in heavily populated areas, and they would expire slowly and painfully, some over days and others over years from acute radiation illness, cancer, leukemia, congenital deformities or genetic disease.

Such an attack at the Indian Point reactors, 35 miles from Manhattan would effectively incapacitate the world’s main financial center for the rest of time. An attack on one of the 13 reactors which surround Chicago would wreak similar catastrophic medical consequences. Amazingly security at US nuclear power plants has virtually not been upgraded since the 9/11 attacks.

Nuclear power plants are essentially atomic bomb factories because a 1000 megawatt nuclear reactor manufactures 500 pounds of plutonium a year. Normally ten pounds of plutonium is fuel for an atomic bomb. A crude atomic bomb sufficient to devastate a city could certainly be crafted from reactor grade plutonium.

Therefore any non nuclear weapons country that acquires a nuclear power plant will be provided with the ability to make atomic bombs. However the global nuclear industry is actively pushing its nefarious wares upon developing countries to “prevent global warming”, a patent lie that will inevitably lead to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, a situation that will further destabilize an already unstable world.

At the time of writing, eight countries possess nuclear arsenals including Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, the US and Russia. The US and Russia jointly own 95% of the 30,000 nuclear weapons in the global arsenal. North Korea may have some 2 to 8 nuclear weapons.

Apart from these alarming facts and statistics, every dollar spent on the fallacious attempt to revivify the enormously expensive nuclear industry is a theft from the production of cheap renewable electricity ‑ wind power, solar power, cogeneration, geothermal energy, biomass, tidal and wave power, let alone conservation which itself could save the US 20% of the electricity it currently consumes.

Terrifying predictions now abound about the destructive ramifications of global warming yet the answers to this global dilemma are simple, amenable and relatively cheap. Chapters nine and ten will outline many of these readily obtainable goals ‑ a prescription for survival for this precious planet of ours.

When nuclear proponents say that nuclear power can be used to reduce the US’s insatiable reliance on foreign oil they are wrong. Oil and its by‑product gasoline are used to fuel the internal combustion engine in automobiles and trucks. Oil is also used to heat buildings. Oil does generate an infinitesimal amount of electricity ‑ 2% in the US. But have no fear, the nuclear industry is currently inventing a way to generate hydrogen as a by‑product of nuclear power to fuel automobiles.

The solution to the oil shortage? Nuclear propelled cars!

On the other hand, electricity is used to power electric lighting, to drive computers, VCRs, fans, hair dryers, stoves, refrigerators, air conditioners, for industrial needs and the like.

How then is electricity generated? Hydropower converts the momentum of falling water into electricity while coal, natural gas and nuclear power produce immense amounts of heat to boil water converting it to steam which then turns a turbine generating electricity. So in essence all a nuclear reactor is designed to do is to boil water, a very sophisticated and dangerous way to boil water ‑ analogous to cutting a pound of butter with a chain saw.

An electrical current consists of electrons which pulse down a conducting wire. When an electric bulb is plugged into a socket, the electrons from the wire are converted to heat and to light. But the production and use of electricity is extremely inefficient. The average efficiency of electric lighting systems is approximately 1%, meaning that only 1% of the energy in the fuel used to generate electricity produces visible light energy. All the rest is wasted as heat at the power plant or in the light bulb. Even high‑efficiency light bulbs are only 3% efficient.

Tragically more and more people are believing the myths propagated by the nuclear industry about nuclear power ‑ that it is emission free and produces no greenhouse gases and it therefore is the answer to global warming. In England, nuclear power has risen to the top of the political agenda as government ministers and public officials rush to address an impending energy crisis driven recently by the January 2006 scare when Russia cut off its natural gas supplies to the Ukraine and hence to much of Europe.

This scare helped to convince an already compliant Prime Minister Blair and senior people at the UK Department of Trade and Industry that new nuclear power stations are needed. Dr James Lovelock, the man who developed the Gaia theory wrongly advocates the use of nuclear power as one solution to the global warming crisis, while Sir David King, chief government science advisor says that nuclear power plants are the only realistic way to satisfy growing energy demands while meeting global warming targets.

In the United States, other leading environmentalists who seem to have been swayed by the Bush.Cheney/nuclear industry rhetoric include Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalogue; and Gus Speth, the dean of Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

It is critical that the record be set straight right now as the international battles for oil threaten to morph into world wars and leading NASA scientists are taken to task by the Bush administration for daring to tell the truth about global warming.

It is interesting to speculate why President Bush and Vice President Cheney are so beholden and enamored by the nuclear power industry. As neither can boast a scientific education, they would be hard pressed to understand the scientific and medical problems associated with this arcane industry, particularly as the President has publicly stated that he does not read newspaper but relies upon his staff to give him the information that he needs.

Obviously Cheney readily accepts the propaganda that the nuclear executives whisper in his ear. Both are oil men who have made a great deal of money directly or indirectly through that industry, they are deeply indebted to big business for political contributions, and they overtly seem not to be interested in the health and well being of the American people, let alone the dire situation which faces the planet in the form of global warming, and threat of nuclear meltdowns and nuclear pollution.

Fewer than ten days after taking office, Cheney promised to “restore decency and integrity to the oval office,” while he simultaneously took charge of the administration’s energy task force, which is called the National Energy Policy Development Group.

On April 17 2001, Cheney met with Kenneth Lay, the CEO of Enron to discuss “energy policy matters” and the “energy crisis in California.” Following that meeting, Lay gave Cheney a three‑page wish list of corporate recommendations. A subsequent comparison of that memo against the final report of the National Energy Policy Development Group
showed that the task force had adopted all or significant portions of the Lay memo in seven of eight policy areas. In total, seventeen policies sought by Enron were adopted.

Cheney and his aids met at least six times with Lay and other Enron officials while preparing the task force report, which is now the basis of the administration’s energy proposals. Cheney’s staff also met with an Enron sponsored lobbying organization, the “Clean Power Group.” Cheney, his aids and cabinet departments have repeatedly refused requests for the records of these meetings, despite the fact that the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 says that task forces like Cheney’s must conduct public meetings and must keep publicly available records.

Enron had significantly contributed to the Bush/Cheney campaign, the Florida recount fight fund, and to the inauguration, a situation that calls into question whether legal and ethical guidelines were crossed. This obviously is one of the reasons that Cheney is blocking congressional requests and refuses to disclose details of his now disgraced Enron contacts to the Congress.

It is unclear what Lay said in his memo to Cheney about the nation’s energy policy but one must assume that there was some advice about nuclear power and its contribution to the future. As stated above, Dick Cheney is not a scientist, a physician, a geneticist, nor a meteorologist and he is therefore not in a solid position to trumpet the wonders of nuclear power.

Where did he obtain the data and information to declare that nuclear power is efficient and safe and that it produces no greenhouse gases deftly summed up in the Energy Bill of 2005 which concludes that “nuclear power is a clean, reliable and affordable source of energy and is therefore a key to the economic and environmental underpinnings of the US?

Ironically while the Bush administration is reluctant to admit that global warming is really happening and that it could be caused by deleterious human activities, it is using the issue of global warming to justify the increased production of nuclear power, which it claims, is the answer to global warming. Global warming has been a great gift to the nuclear industry.

Claiming, as Cheney does that atomic electricity produces no carbon dioxide, the culprit responsible for 50% of atmospheric heating, the US nuclear propaganda apparatus has been shifted into high gear to convince politicians and public alike that there can be and will be no other reasonable solution apart from nuclear power to answer this catastrophic global problem that now threatens many life forms with extinction.

The American Nuclear Society recently held a meeting in San Diego that drew scientists and industry professional from all around the world. The prevailing mantra was simple ‑ surprise the opponent, plan ahead, coordinate, be pro‑active not reactive and engage and communicate with antinuclear groups.

This extensive propaganda campaign is global. A formally chartered organization composed of the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, The European Union, France, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, called the Generation 1V International Forum (GIF), is collaborating with the US Nuclear Energy research Advisory Committee to elucidate the benefits, technical and institutional barriers, and research needs for the most promising nuclear energy system concepts.

Other countries engaged in the possible construction of nuclear power plants include China, which already has 9 nuclear reactors and plans to build another 30 nuclear power plants. However, even if it builds its 30 plants, nuclear power will still only provide 5% of its energy mix, while the percentage of China’s electrical generation capacity by natural gas is expected to increase from 1% today to over 6% according to the International Energy Agency.

New nuclear power capacity is under consideration or construction in India, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey, Belarus, Vietnam, Poland and South Korea. Russia as well as Finland have several plants under construction.

Before the British election in May 2005, the nuclear industry slowly and surely fashioned a classy public relations campaign targeting politicians, media, and the British public. That campaign, coordinated by the Nuclear Industry Association, cleverly did not address the dubious benefits of nuclear power but focused instead upon the current shortcomings of wind generated electricity and alternative power sources.

The British Department of Trade and Industry (DIT), also viewed the 2005 election as an opportunity to promote nuclear power. Adrian Gault, director of DIT’s strategy group, made a wild and uniformed prediction that nuclear power would be supplying half of Britain’s electricity by 2050 while cutting greenhouse emissions.

Meanwhile, in 2001, DIT’s Nuclear Industries Directorate had already agreed to participate in an international consortium to build the next generation of nuclear reactors (Constructed by a British or American company). So their real agenda had been established four years earlier. And the propaganda campaign in May 2005 was merely an attempt to bring the British public around to seeing the wisdom of preordained policy.

In fact the British nuclear industry’s real agenda is to persuade members of parliament about the benefits of nuclear power and to ultimately ensure that a new system of government subsidies would be made available to nuclear power, so that this economically failed energy industry would never again be exposed to the chill winds of the free market. This government subsidy program for the nuclear industry is called the “Security of Supply Obligation”, amounting in essence, to the socialization of nuclear power ensconced within a “free market” economy.

The American nuclear industry, likewise, has always been and still is a socialized industry, and is continually at work to ensure that government subsidies come their way.

This fetish with nuclear power and the immense amount of money currently being allocated to the revivification of the nuclear industry is stealing desperately needed funds from the development of renewable energy sources which could and should solve the current global dilemma of greenhouse warming. The possibilities are endless.

For instance, a Greenpeace report issued in October 2005 predicted that solar power could be available to 100 million people by the year 2025, supplying clean electricity to people living in the sunniest parts of the world. Such an enterprise could create 54,000 jobs and be worth 16.4 billion Euros.

In just two decades, the amount of solar electricity could be equivalent to the power generated by 72 coal fired stations supplying enough electricity to Israel, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia combined. Egypt is currently one of the few countries in the world that hosts a government department solely devoted to the development of renewable energy sources.

The Carbon Trust, an independent company established by the British Government estimates that marine energy ‑ tidal and wave power, could provide up to 20% of the UK’s current electrical needs with the correct amount of investment. This is a very exciting notion and as Marcus Rand, chief executive of the British Wind Energy Association said “The report provides impetus behind the vision that Britain can rule the waves and the tides making a significant dent in our carbon emissions alongside creating new world‑class industries for the UK”.

According to Amory Lovins, CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, in 2004 the amount of electricity supplied by renewable energy sources ‑ wind, co‑generation, biomass, geothermal, solar, hydro (excluding electricity generated from large hydro dams), added 509 times the total capacity world‑wide that nuclear power contributed, and raised the global electricity production 2.9 times more than nuclear power contributed. These “minor” electricity sources already dwarf the annual growth of nuclear power generation and experts predict that they will add 177 times more capacity in 2010 as will nuclear power.

At the present time 20% of America’s electricity is generated from nuclear power plants, 50% comes from burning coal, natural gas produces 20%, hydropower 7% and oil 2%. At the moment unfortunately wind and hydro together provide only 2% of the total mix while solar is less than 1%. Globally, coal supplies about 64% of the world’s electricity, hydro and nuclear together provide 17% and renewable sources again make up 2%.

Nuclear power is often referred to behind closed doors in the US Department of Energy as “hard” energy whereas wind power, solar power, hydropower and geothermal energy are referred to as “soft” energy pathways. Clearly the psychosexual language used by the Pentagon generals to describe various aspects of nuclear weapons and nuclear war has been translocated into the nuclear power vocabulary of some very powerful and influential men in the electricity generating field.

As a physician I contend that unless the root cause of a problem can be ascertained there can be no cure. So too the pathology intrinsic in the nuclear powered mafia needs to be dissected out and revealed to the cold light of day.

The potential for growth in the renewable non‑CO2 producing sectors is enormous.

All that is required is a commitment by government leaders and by corporations to end the greenhouse saga, to urgently enact laws mandating energy conservation on a massive scale, to provide subsidies for alternative and renewable electricity generation on a massive scale and for corporations to take a leap of faith and courage to invest massively in exciting and diverse non polluting energy technologies.

In truth, the earth is in the intensive care unit, and the prognosis is poor indeed unless courageous measures are taken by committed and ultimately responsible people who decide to take the Hippocratic Oath for the earth.

by Helen Caldicott
Pediatrician and
President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute,
Dedicated to global preventive medicine.
Website

I’m in you

You’re in me

we don’t stick around lousy town

we don’t practice the old

sloggy routines

we create our own Paths

even if they’re

other way around

this planet is owned by bastards

who come and go as they please

and rub our face in

our inability to come and go at ease

that these All Time stealers do

they have a lot of Little Folk

down on their Economic

Esteem

Emotional

Social

Psycholoegoical

Future Dream

Knees

if ya haven’t noticed for half your life

they’ve been wantin’

to keep ya

DOWN

DOWN

DOWN

endlessly running to the malls

and shop

Uptown

the Aulde Salvy

These bastards Live Off

and seek

to suck

Your Spirit ENERGY

Dry

that’s EXACTLY

how they FLY

and run All Round

Yer Home Ground

All over Your FACE

and yer HOME Place

while you

can’t even

motivate

and MOVE

in your deep

DARK

depression

This IS

their Secret

GAME

on YOU

Hey You

there ain’t any even fair minded rules

on this Playing Field

of the Killer

and Stealer of Dreams

You are the Puck

you schmuck

They’ve lorded it All Over You

and created In You

only a Pathetic

Pitiful

Little Half Life

to be bemoaned

and carted off to the Psychologists

and Psychiatrists

to be Prescribed Quantum pills

for your Little

Half induced stupor You call Life

with daily dosed

Psycho-Chemical Straight Jackets

for Your Choke Chain

That you WILLINGLY

Swallow and induce

on a daily

well timed

well dosed regimen

What SWILL this

Yeah you’re labeled

Your Brain is scrambled

and You’re CONTROLLED

so you can FUNCTION

in their prescribed and DEFINED

precisely

Lead by a DOG chain they call

“A NORMAL Life

and Existence”

So that you can FUNCTION

in THEIR carefully prescribed

“daily reality”

Hey Joe

Whaddya Know

Ya don’t know THIS

The GAME’S UP

on this CREEPY Paralysis

and post humous

cultural trance

you dance in your (Their) daily life

called Reality

THROW OFF THE MASTERS OF WAR!!!!!!

and the DEFINERS of YOUR LIFE

Say to Yourself NOW

and for the Rest of the NewBorne Year

This is my LIFE!

This is MY LIFE!!

This IS MY LIFE!!!

THIS IS MY LIFE!!!!

Over and Over

Til You Get It

INSIDE

and it LIVES inside your HEART

and Steers YOUR LIFE

On the StarBoarde Side

Now Partner

What Galaxy

and Universe

Are We Headin For

WELCOME HOME!

AHO!

by John Shumaker
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
eco~poet, peace activist, subversive and Bioregionalist