LLAW’s “ALL THINGS NUCLEAR” #487 (12/21/2023)
”End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
LLAW’s THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS TONIGHT:
How it is that pawns will never rule the world(s) of humanity — as they should . . .
What to say about my thoughts tonight? I have no words that really fit. I spent several hours today contemplating discontinuing this nightly post because it is not moving forward as I once expected it to do. But when I learned tonight that the social security increase was just a miserable 3% for next year, I laughed and threw my personal notification into file 13. But then I got to thinking about all the aging people (and younger ones, too) who rely only on Social Security to live an actual reasonably livable lifestyle. And then I thought about all the other nations’ people on planet Earth who can’t or don’t support their citizens to the degree that we in America pretend to do, and wondered how anyone, including millions of Americans, can continue to survive if they are intentionally cut off from the ability to survive from a decent capitalistic money-driven life-style with no additional financial help from anywhere.
The simple answer that came to mind was, “They can’t.” And then I began to register the on-going, never-ending, latest news stories about street people living all over America in tents near downtown rivers and streams in order to even have the basic pretenses of life that no longer exists, and how local police departments are instructed to tear down their camps and force them to move on to somewhere else. Following those thoughts, I have been reading recently about residents of poor foreign countries, such as Bangladesh, where they are housed as captives by the millions in huge highly populated controlled communities, where they are fed and sheltered (I thought of cattle on a ranch), but never allowed to leave unless they escape.
It was then that I realized that planet Earth’s Mother Nature has lost Her capability to provide humanity with a way of life that forever in past ages has been gradually removed from Her help to a man-made controlling human way of help that is provided by the haves to administer to the have-nots, herding them together like cattle or other domestic animals, and allowing them to survive with only the necessary essentials. And that made me wonder, “For what reason?” These people are not prisoners for committing crimes against other humans, but they are controlled like they are. I thought of slavery, and even slavery, as horrifying as it is, does not fit. And finally I thought of what mankind has done to ourselves by rejecting nature’s way in favor of the ‘human way’, and when I felt the meaning of that emotion sweep over me I knew all the answers to my question.
They are the same answers that I have been writing about for months: We think we are smarter, more intelligent and ingenuous, and that Mother Nature has nothing left to offer us, the elite, in today’s world(s). So my fears of nuclear war or nuclear power plants or fossil fuel plants or the roundups of homeless people or imprisonment of common everyday law abiding citizens and our failing lifestyles for all in favor of the few awakened me with a realization that we are not all in this together, and that humanity is going to fail for failing to respect what nature’s world(s) have to offer . . . And that my pleas for “oneness” may well never happen because humanity has nothing to do with the meaning of humanity.
It all brought me back to my own sense of reality that I have been denying within even myself (but always recognizing), but only capturing that reality in many stories over the years that I have written about man’s inhumanity to man, mainly for just myself. Soon, though, I will be publishing a novel in two parts that provides an analogy on a small, but important, scale that demonstrates how mankind has greedily dismissed humanity for something one might call “superiority”, or “imperialism”, or maybe even “supremacy”, meaning that the poor pathetic ‘pawns’ of us should remain, always, the “useless, downtrodden, and underprivileged”.
So it is, that when I laughed about my annualized 3% increase in my social security compared to cost of living indices for housing and food as much as ten times that, and growing, that it occurred to me that if I had only my social security to live on, I could not live. And what about those who have no social security at all? There is no way that they can spend their days worrying about the cause of the coming 6th Extinction. In fact many of our species may very well welcome it. So, in my depression tonight, I have to say that my heartfelt wish for the ‘world(s) of humanity to join as ‘one’ will never happen.
But, even so, I am not giving up — only regressing to the messages from my heartfelt stories —and the first one you will be able to see and read tells you quite a lot about American human life in the late 1800s, and the one following that will tell you about what an overly optimistic post-nuclear world might look like from, say, 2005, on into the future. And, if there is still a future after that, there are six or seven other stories, within the historical reality of human nature, about man’s all-inclusive inhumanity to man, and how it all has to end someday whether for the better or for the worse . . . ~llaw
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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD’S NEWS (12/21/2023):
All Things Nuclear
NEW
Communicating with North Korea through faxes and phone calls | Michael Bosack – Ep. 321
YouTube
... all things DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts ... Korea, U.S. hold nuclear talks to deter threats. Arirang News New 18K ...
Nuclear energy makes a huge showing at worldwide climate summit - Deseret News
Deseret News
Again, if everything was to break simultaneously in this reactor, it would passively cool. It is very, very safe and gives you 15 years of power and ...
In Response to Surging Prices, Supportive Government Policies, and a Domestic Focus on ...
PR Newswire
Nuclear enjoys strong bipartisan support across the U.S. government. The current fleet of U.S. nuclear plants provides about 20% of all electricity in ...
Nuclear Power
NEWS
France and Swedish plan nuclear cooperation
World Nuclear News
France and Sweden have signed a declaration of intent to develop long-term cooperation in the field of nuclear energy.
Nuclear energy makes a huge showing at worldwide climate summit - Deseret News
Deseret News
In the United States, nuclear power represents 18% of the country's energy portfolio. Fossil fuels, which include natural gas, coal, petroleum and ...
The DOE is set on “building bridges” to a fusion energy future - American Nuclear Society - American Nuclear Society
Nuclear plant near Richland begins new 20-year operation | Tacoma News Tribune
The News Tribune
Columbia Generating Station, Northwest's only nuclear power plant, completes initial 40-year operation, starts a new 20-year phase Thursday.
Nuclear War
NEWS
Explainer: How could North Korea use its nuclear weapons? - Reuters
Reuters
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said a missile test this week shows his country would not hesitate to launch a nuclear attack if an enemy provokes ...
North Korea's Kim warns of 'nuclear attack' if provoked with nukes -KCNA | Reuters
Reuters
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Pyongyang would not hesitate to launch a nuclear attack if an enemy provokes it with nuclear weapons, ...
Ex-CIA Analyst Says Putin Could Use a Nuclear Weapon on NATO - Business Insider
Business Insider
An ex-CIA analyst says Russia might risk nuclear war with NATO to prevail in their war with Ukraine. · Peter Schroeder says Putin has been "remarkably ...
Nuclear Power Emergencies
NEWS
One fifth of councils oppose clean energy projects despite declaring a climate emergency
Daily Express
A fifth of councils have opposed clean energy projects despite having declared a climate emergency. ... Mammoth £20bn UK nuclear power station huge step ...
Nuclear War Threats
NEWS
N. Korea's Kim warns of 'nuclear attack' if 'provoked' with nukes - France 24
France 24
... nuclear war provocative moves of the US". Pyongyang sees drills by the ... threats from someone," she said, according to KCNA. "And the frequent ...
Kim Jong Un warns of nuclear attack if provoked, despite warnings from US, South Korea
YouTube
Comments11 · Kim Jong Un reacts to Trump's UN speech · India Deploys Warships to Red Sea Amid Houthi Threat | Vantage with Palki Sharma · North Korea's ...
N. Korea's Kim warns of 'nuclear attack' if 'provoked' with nukes - Yahoo News
Yahoo News
The two Koreas are at a "peak of escalating rhetoric and pre-emptive strike threats," Yang Moo-jin, president of the University of North Korean ...
Yellowstone Caldera
NEWS
These Are the 10 Oldest National Parks in America - A-Z Animals
A-Z Animals
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. View of the caldera of the Kilauea volcano, the most active of the five volcanoes ... Yellowstone National Park.
Krakatau Volcano (Sunda Strait) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for ...
Volcano Discovery
Yellowstone quakes · Latest earthquakes under Yellowstone volcano. List and interactive map of current and past earthquakes near Yellowstone volcano.