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There is a stubborn and unrepresentative cabal of perhaps 150 authors and journalists, each honchoing a small but substantial email mobilization list, muddying the waters in the issue of domestic use of self-warming minerals for electric generation. In a time when the entire society needs to choose green or gone, the careers of these few self-elected lobbyists loom as a disproportionate stumbling block to human survival, and the democratic process. Armed mainly with bias, but also marshalling deceit, exaggeration, fear mongering, mischaracterization, elitist posturing and celebrity toadying to their arsenal of yellow PR delinquencies, these preventors like to see themselves as watchdogs. But do they protect? Or do they only prevent? Facts are emerging now, despite their best efforts at suppression. Two polls, a year apart, by Richard Berman's Manhattanville pollsters (unpaid, unbiased, unconnected) show public sentiment spontaneously moving towards the use of self-heating minerals as a general public power source, 67% favoring the continued operation of Indian Point in 2007, and 70+% favoring it in 2008. (Another poll... the Bisconti poll.... gives 80%). Minus the microphone-hogging and celebrity posturing, such an indication of and by itself would ordinarily glare out as a mandate for public use of a non-polluting, 100% carbon-free solution, already in place, functioning, and actually improving year by year under new owner Entergy, however nobody owns the mediaways but the preventors, and there's the rub. Dis-connected demi-celebrity political hacks, such as Andrew Cuomo , floating in a sea of ambition, anger, and dearth of talent, find it all too easy to ride those email lists to a moment's vid-byte, opposing the obvious, castigating straw men, spouting fear, hate, and general vitriol as if it contained the seeds of some redemptive policy (it does not). If society needs more at this juncture, than concocted fear, intentionally instigated hate, and loathing of the very solutions society must now use, Cuomo-the-lesser and his ilk seem blissfully unconcerned, as they lemmingize their listeners, and urge the most expeditious possible herding, running, and dashing off the cliffs to the ocean. That Lemming run, looms up to Cuomo lesser, as his main chance, his destiny. And it may be. But it is not our destiny. The natural processes which placed warm minerals in the eternal scheme of physical reality, do not heed the Cuomos. It is there, and, if there, it needs to be used. People are dying now. More people will be dying soon. Not in fantastical and flamboyant industrial mishaps, but in mundane, proletarian everyday lacks.... no work in Pakistan... no fish in Namibia...no civil peace in Central America.....no affordability or sustainability in the USA. Vast numbers of ordinary, voiceless people who will be catastrophically impacted by the lack of this resource within our lifetimes, stand bound and gagged, by the microphone hounds, the smug media hoggers, and the svelte pompadoured political poseurs, bound and gagged as prelude to their mass annihilation, in the service of a few good careers. Such a crime will certainly not escape public notice. Word is already out, here on this page.

There is a difference between something "organized" as a PAC like MoveOn, and a lobbyist for a mega corporation. The former represents the interests of many average citizens where the latter represents the interests of a huge corporation AGAINST the average person. Besides, the former is just about people becoming politically expediant and playing the game the way the current rules are set up. If the power of special intersts were diminished, we may not need PACS.