The Gods That Failed
Today is Saturday, 8 July 2006.
“President Bush has decided to permit extensive U.S. civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia for the first time, administration officials said yesterday, reversing decades of bipartisan policy in a move that would be worth billions of dollars to Moscow but could provoke an uproar in Congress. … A nuclear cooperation agreement would clear the way for Russia to import and store thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel from U.S.-supplied reactors around the world, a lucrative business so far blocked by Washington. … Bush has an interest in taking the agreement all the way as well. His new Global Nuclear Energy Partnership envisions promoting civilian nuclear power around the world and eventually finding a way to reprocess spent fuel without the danger of leaving behind material that could be used for bombs. Until such technology is developed, Bush needs someplace to store the spent fuel from overseas, and Russia is the only volunteer.” (Peter Baker, Washington Post, 8 July 2006)
The Russian Federation is ruled by a clique of former-KGB gangsters headed by Vladimir Putin. The autocrats of the Russian Federation have a dismal record, to say the least, in providing security for radioactive materials and safeguarding the environment.
Why is the Bush-Cheney regime recklessly choosing to endanger world security and the environment by pouring gasoline on a fire scene?
This latest move is of one piece with the delusional thinking epitomized by the failing conquest of Iraq. It appears the Bush-Cheney regime really believes it has a free hand to forcibly re-create the world in its own degraded and warped image.
Should not the creatures of this regime have long since learned that they are not gods?
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On this day in history:
1680 – First confirmed death of a European from a tornado (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
1695 - Christiaan Huygens dies (b. 1629), Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer; invented pendulum clock
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns in Italy (b. 1792)
1885 – Ernst Bloch born (d. 1977), German Marxist philosopher and theologian
1932 – Dow Jones Industrial Average, hits 41.22, lowest point during the Great Depression (DJIA closed yesterday at 11,090.67, down 134.63)
1943 - French Resistance leader Jean Moulin dies after Gestapo torture (b.1899)
2002 - Ward W. Kimball dies (b. 1914), Academy Award winning Disney Studios animator; created The Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, and Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio
“President Bush has decided to permit extensive U.S. civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia for the first time, administration officials said yesterday, reversing decades of bipartisan policy in a move that would be worth billions of dollars to Moscow but could provoke an uproar in Congress. … A nuclear cooperation agreement would clear the way for Russia to import and store thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel from U.S.-supplied reactors around the world, a lucrative business so far blocked by Washington. … Bush has an interest in taking the agreement all the way as well. His new Global Nuclear Energy Partnership envisions promoting civilian nuclear power around the world and eventually finding a way to reprocess spent fuel without the danger of leaving behind material that could be used for bombs. Until such technology is developed, Bush needs someplace to store the spent fuel from overseas, and Russia is the only volunteer.” (Peter Baker, Washington Post, 8 July 2006)
The Russian Federation is ruled by a clique of former-KGB gangsters headed by Vladimir Putin. The autocrats of the Russian Federation have a dismal record, to say the least, in providing security for radioactive materials and safeguarding the environment.
Why is the Bush-Cheney regime recklessly choosing to endanger world security and the environment by pouring gasoline on a fire scene?
This latest move is of one piece with the delusional thinking epitomized by the failing conquest of Iraq. It appears the Bush-Cheney regime really believes it has a free hand to forcibly re-create the world in its own degraded and warped image.
Should not the creatures of this regime have long since learned that they are not gods?
_______________________________
On this day in history:
1680 – First confirmed death of a European from a tornado (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
1695 - Christiaan Huygens dies (b. 1629), Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer; invented pendulum clock
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns in Italy (b. 1792)
1885 – Ernst Bloch born (d. 1977), German Marxist philosopher and theologian
1932 – Dow Jones Industrial Average, hits 41.22, lowest point during the Great Depression (DJIA closed yesterday at 11,090.67, down 134.63)
1943 - French Resistance leader Jean Moulin dies after Gestapo torture (b.1899)
2002 - Ward W. Kimball dies (b. 1914), Academy Award winning Disney Studios animator; created The Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, and Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio
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