IMPORTANT FOLLOW-UP TO PREVIOUS “NUCLEAR WINTER” POST

Not long after I put up the previous post on Nuclear Winter, the email below arrived in my inbox. As you may have noticed in my blog margin, I am a supporter of Dr. Steven Greer’s Orion Project, and his plan to develop and disseminate much-needed green energy technology. Dr. Greer has been working to raise the necessary 3 million (what a paltry sum that sounds like, now!) to develop prototypes, and present his green energy solutions to the world.

I’ve pasted the entire email here, but am also including a link you can click on (you can also click on the one in the margin) that will take you to the ORION PROJECT WEBSITE, where you can access the “click-ready” fax to send President Obama and Congress. I hope you are able to take time to check this out, and if you feel so moved, you might mention this project and include a link on your own blogs. We finally have a White House that backs science, understands the ramifications of global climate instability, and wants to act on putting green energy in place, so the time has never been better to act! Don't forget - si se puede!
Thanks, and Peace out-
Deb


Dear Friends and Supporters,

With a new Administration in Washington that has pledged transparency and a new energy economy, it is time for each of us to make our voices heard. Please take the time to send President Obama and your Senators and representative in Congress a fax letter expressing your desire to see the end of secrecy and full disclosure on new energy solutions. A new energy briefing is available on our website. You can also print out this Briefing and give it directly to your member of Congress when they are in your home office.

We believe that President Obama and many members of Congress are receptive to the idea of change and Disclosure. I have been specifically told by Washington insiders that they need to urgently hear from YOU the people to make this happen. Right now, billions of dollars are going into old-thinking energy solutions while the new energy solutions that have been suppressed or ignored for nearly 100 years languish. We must refocus the debate away from old solutions like clean coal and bio-fuels and towards genuine new energy solutions like zero point energy and other advances in energy generation.

We have set up a free fax system that permits you to send the letter as it exists or modify it to your own words, and fax it directly to the President and Congress. Please do this immediately and ask that all those on your email list, family, friends and colleagues do the same.

It is time for decisive action and we need to all pull together at this time in history to make REAL change happen!

Thank you for your help and support!

Steven M. Greer MD
Founder and Director
The Orion Project

THE INAUGURAL POEM

As someone who reads, writes, and loves poetry, I was pleased to learn that President Obama had commissioned a poem for his Inauguration today. The poet, Elizabeth Alexander, is one I had not previously been aware of, but I think she wrote a wonderful inclusive, celebratory piece. Only four times has there been poetry read at a Presidential inauguration. Most cherished to me is my beloved Robert Frost reading for John F. Kennedy. Bill Clinton had poets read at both his inaugurations, at the first was the memorable Maya Angelou, and at the second, Arkansas poet Miller Williams. I hope this is a tradition that has been revived and will continue. Here's is the full text of Alexander's poem.


Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others’ eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on our tongues. Someone is stitching up a hem, darning a hole in a uniform, patching a tire, repairing the things in need of repair.

Someone is trying to make music somewhere with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.

A woman and her son wait for the bus.

A farmer consider the changing sky; A teacher says, “Take out your pencils. Begin.”

We encounter each other in words, Words spiny or smooth, whispered or declaimed; Words to consider, reconsider.

We cross dirt roads and highways that mark the will of someone and then others who said, “I need to see what’s on the other side; I know there’s something better down the road.”

We need to find a place where we are safe; We walk into that which we cannot yet see.

Say it plain, that many have died for this day. Sing the names of the dead who brought us here, who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges, picked the cotton and the lettuce, built brick by brick the glittering edifices they would then keep clean and work inside of.

Praise song for struggle; praise song for the day. Praise song for every hand-lettered sign; The figuring it out at kitchen tables.

Some live by “Love thy neighbor as thy self.”

Others by first do no harm, or take no more than you need.

What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance.

In today’s sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun.

On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp -- praise song for walking forward in that light.





Poem text at http://www.nowpublic.com/world/barack-obamas-inaugural-poem-praise-song-day-full-text
Photo from Wikimedia Commons