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French Shun Nuclear Energy, Choose Conservation

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - The overwhelming majority of people in France agree there is a need to conserve energy and favour renewable sources, according to a poll by CSA. 96 per cent of respondents think conserving energy should be a priority, and 94 per cent think the European country should focus on developing solar and wind power.

The overwhelming majority of people in France agree there is a need to conserve energy and favour renewable sources, according to a poll by CSA. 96 per cent of respondents think conserving energy should be a priority, and 94 per cent think the European country should focus on developing solar and wind power.

Only 35 per cent of respondents think developing nuclear power should be a priority for France, and 61 per cent think this should not be the focus of the country’s energy policy.

France generates 79 per cent of its electricity from nuclear reactors—the highest percentage of any country in the world. There are currently 59 nuclear power plants in France.

On Oct. 25, French president Nicolas Sarkozy presented his "ecological new deal", a national plan to combat pollution which includes 12 specific measures. The proposals include abolishing incandescent light bulbs by 2010, replacing all single-panel windows with thicker two-paned windows, and banning old home appliances "as soon as an alternative exists at a reasonable price."

Sarkozy said he wants to make France a leader in renewable energy but also ratified his support for nuclear power, saying, "The truth is that it is illusory in France to want to meet the climate challenge, our primary challenge, without nuclear energy. Today, we have no other choice, without renouncing growth." The legislature will have to either approve or reject the "ecological new deal" in a vote next year.

Polling Data
On the topic of energy, do you think (the following) should be a priority?

Yes No Not sure

Conserving energy
96% 4% --

Developing renewable energy
94% 5% 1%

Developing nuclear energy
35% 61% 4%

Source: CSA Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,003 French adults, conducted on Oct. 10, 2007. No margin of error was provided.

Alec Baldwin Goes Through a PHASE...

Alec Baldwin in New York Monday to present medical evidence claiming nuclear power plants cause cancer.

As soon as the announcement of the PHASE press conference on Monday in New York staring Alec Baldwin appeared on list servs, did members of the Know_Nuke Yahoo Group quickly remind us of Alec's tirade (YouTube) to his daughther a few months ago, where Alec, screaming over the phone, called her a "rude, thoughtless little pig."

Alec has done some good work on behalf the anti-nuclear community, but like a few people we know, his short fuse has gotten the better of him on quite a few occasions.

Unfortunately, the spat with his daughter via cell phone happened only just a few days after a clinic symposium Alec co-hosted on behalf the effort to shut down the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in New Jersey.

So here at GNB, we wonder what Alec has in store for PHASE, a new group founded by ex-FUSE USA president Susan Shapiro, in guise of unforseen future media scandals. Not that it wouldn't get Indian Point in the headlines some more, Lord knows we need to land the cover of the New York Post!

Such outbursts, and here's another good one, in 1995 Alec caught celebrity photographer Alan Zanger videotaping him - proceeded to break his nose, then covered his truck with shaving cream, only gives the pro-nuclear camp amunition to discredit our spokespeoples as unbalanced and untrustworthy.

Alec now stars in the TV show 30 Rock on NBC, a comedy series about a fictitious TV show at NBC, at Rockefeller Center, poking fun at itself. This week's episode of 30 Rock was part of NBC's Green Week done in association with GE's Ecomagination campaign, transforming all NBC shows into giant GE green product placements, at times so sirupy, it's enough to make millions of Americans run the other direction.

Al Gore Saves The Whales! Funny, yes, for three seconds... how befitting the last image of the show was a happy face earth caught on fire! The mass media is now doing to the green movement, exactly what they did to the hippies in the 60's... defusing it by making light, keeping the true leaders of the movement far away from the mainstream, playing politics.

Interesting that on one hand Alec and GE are using NBC TV shows as promotional vehicles to hype energy efficient appliances, while on the other hand, GE is working to install hundreds of nuclear reactors in a whole new generation of Navy ships, a bill signed and passed into law by no less that our own Hudson Valley anti-nuclear MUSE co-founder Congressman John Hall!

No wonder Kelly Osbourne ran out of a green benefit in Hollywood screaming: "Who gives a f*** about the environment!" She's expressing a cry of desperation at the lip service celebrities, corporations and politicians have paid the movement. She wants her dad to get back in the saddle, finish the job he started with his bandmates in the late 60's... Which is exactly what the Black Sabbath Resurrection tour will be all about, it's about freakin' time the metal hordes come riding back!

Heavy Metal Songs About Nuclear War

(First in a long series of posts about the deep relationship between Heavy Metal & the anti-nuclear movement. RemyC.)

From:
Scopecreep

We all know that heavy metal has an obsession with death and destruction. It’s just part of the genre’s mystique. And there’s no man-made weapon capable of more destruction than nuclear weapons. This playlist examines the subject of nuclear war through the window of heavy metal songs.

Although there are metal songs that revel in the pain, death and destruction of nuclear annihilation, most of the songs are really a protest against nuclear weaponry.

This playlist kicks off with a band whose image and sound oozed evil, and paved the way for the genre, but whose lyrics could be very socially conscious; Black Sabbath. In all, the playlist contains 19 metal songs, and spans many sub-genres. You’ll find classic metal by the previously mentioned Black Sabbath as well as Iron Maiden and Deep Purple, but also pop metal by the likes of Dokken and Def Leppard, hardcore stuff by Slayer and Sepultura, and alt metal by System of a Down and Rage Against The Machine. They’ve all used the powerful imagery of nuclear war to get their points across and this playlist is a good example.

Heavy Metal Songs About Nuclear War Playlist

Electric Funeral - Black Sabbath
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From the album ReunionLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Rust In Peace…Polaris - Megadeth
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From the album Rust In PeaceLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

2 Minutes To Midnight - Iron Maiden
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From the album PowerslaveLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

South Of Heaven - Slayer
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From the album Soundtrack To The Apocalypse (Parental Advisory)Last.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Beneath The Remains - Sepultura
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From the album Beneath The RemainsLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Aftershock - Anthrax
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From the album Spreading The DiseaseLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Surgical Strike - Queensrÿche
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From the album Rage For OrderLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Child In Time - Deep Purple
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From the album Knocking At Your Back DoorLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Thank God For The Bomb - Ozzy Osbourne
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From the album The Ultimate SinLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Gods Of War - Def Leppard
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From the album HysteriaLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Children Of The Grave - Black Sabbath
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From the album Live EvilLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Will The Sun Rise - Dokken
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From the album Under Lock And KeyLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Thermonuclear Warrior - Carnivore
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From the album Carnivore (Parental Advisory)Last.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Boom! - System Of A Down
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From the album Steal This Album!Last.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Born As Ghosts - Rage Against The Machine
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From the album The Battle Of Los AngelesLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

After The Bomb - Doom
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From the album Total DoomLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Nuclear Winter - Dawn Of Oblivion
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From the album Mephisto’s AppealingLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Set The World Afire - Megadeth
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From the album So Far, So Good… So What? (Remixed & Remastered)Last.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

Blackened - Metallica
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From the album …And Justice For AllLast.fm page / Search for lyricsSongBlogger V1.31

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 13th, 2006