No Green Coronation for McKinney?

Yet more "my way or the highway" in Green politics?  Time for Greens to wake up on the non-Green celebrity fetish?  Anyone want to bet that McKinney will be back after the Greens become appropriately apologetic?  Just a few random thoughts here.  How about yours?

The Google search output: http://tinyurl.com/37x8yb

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Cynthia McKinney Drops the Green Party - Atlanta Constitution - 12 Sept 07

"She does not say specifically why she is withdrawing from consideration, only that she made the decision after 'careful consideration' of the political conditions in the country, the 'level of development' within the party, and her own 'readiness to take on such a daunting tasks and my own long postponed personal priorities.'

Susan King, a spokesperson for the California Green party, which held a convention last weekend, said party officials believe McKinney was unhappy with the group's decision to add all the Green Party candidates to the ballot for the California presidential primary.

'Instead of picking or choosing a Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney, there are a whole lot of names in the running,' said King."

No Green Coronation for McKinney?

Yet more "my way or the highway" in Green politics?  Time for Greens to wake up on the non-Green celebrity fetish?  Anyone want to bet that McKinney will be back after the Greens become appropriately apologetic?  Just a few random thoughts here.  How about yours?

The Google search output: http://tinyurl.com/37x8yb

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Cynthia McKinney Drops the Green Party - Atlanta Constitution - 12 Sept 07

"She does not say specifically why she is withdrawing from consideration, only that she made the decision after 'careful consideration' of the political conditions in the country, the 'level of development' within the party, and her own 'readiness to take on such a daunting tasks and my own long postponed personal priorities.'

Susan King, a spokesperson for the California Green party, which held a convention last weekend, said party officials believe McKinney was unhappy with the group's decision to add all the Green Party candidates to the ballot for the California presidential primary.

'Instead of picking or choosing a Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney, there are a whole lot of names in the running,' said King."

Why I Nuke Nuclear Energy

Things that might have been, and now, really need to be....

Partisan Power Loss - Mother Jones - 19 Nov 03

"Toward the end of his stay in the White House, Harry Truman realized that energy would be a defining issue for decades to come. He commissioned a Blue Ribbon panel to come up with a plan. Headed by William Paley, Chairman of the Columbia Broadcasting System, the 1952 "Material Resources Policy Commission" reported out with a revolutionary conclusion: the future of America's energy was in the sun.  The massive, highly regarded tome argued that fossil fuels were a tenuous, polluting choice on which to build an industrial economy. The alternative was to capture clean, renewable solar power. By 1975, said the Commission, there would be 15 million American homes heated by the sun. And that would be just the start.

Amazingly, the Commission's solar optimism came before the invention of photovoltaic cells (PV), which convert sunlight directly to electricity. Though the theories behind such cells had been discussed for decades, it wasn't until 1954 that the Bell Labs produced the first usable prototypes. They were a stunning success. By 1957 they were powering satellites in space. A half-century later, those original PV panels still produce electricity, with no clear theoretical limit to how long they might last.

Unfortunately, their potential for placing the world's electric supply on a clean, inexhaustible basis was chopped short in December, 1953. After Dwight Eisenhower took the White House, he aligned with the Atomic Energy Commission, whose main business was building the bombs that threatened the world with extinction. But the AEC wanted to branch out into civilian enterprise and buy itself a more pacific image. So Ike told the United Nations that the future of the world's electric supply would rest with the "Peaceful Atom." The Paley Report was lost in the shuffle.

A trillion dollars later, the US gets less than a fifth of its electricity---less than a tenth of its total energy---from atomic power."

Why I Nuke Nuclear Energy

Things that might have been, and now, really need to be....

Partisan Power Loss - Mother Jones - 19 Nov 03

"Toward the end of his stay in the White House, Harry Truman realized that energy would be a defining issue for decades to come. He commissioned a Blue Ribbon panel to come up with a plan. Headed by William Paley, Chairman of the Columbia Broadcasting System, the 1952 "Material Resources Policy Commission" reported out with a revolutionary conclusion: the future of America's energy was in the sun.  The massive, highly regarded tome argued that fossil fuels were a tenuous, polluting choice on which to build an industrial economy. The alternative was to capture clean, renewable solar power. By 1975, said the Commission, there would be 15 million American homes heated by the sun. And that would be just the start.

Amazingly, the Commission's solar optimism came before the invention of photovoltaic cells (PV), which convert sunlight directly to electricity. Though the theories behind such cells had been discussed for decades, it wasn't until 1954 that the Bell Labs produced the first usable prototypes. They were a stunning success. By 1957 they were powering satellites in space. A half-century later, those original PV panels still produce electricity, with no clear theoretical limit to how long they might last.

Unfortunately, their potential for placing the world's electric supply on a clean, inexhaustible basis was chopped short in December, 1953. After Dwight Eisenhower took the White House, he aligned with the Atomic Energy Commission, whose main business was building the bombs that threatened the world with extinction. But the AEC wanted to branch out into civilian enterprise and buy itself a more pacific image. So Ike told the United Nations that the future of the world's electric supply would rest with the "Peaceful Atom." The Paley Report was lost in the shuffle.

A trillion dollars later, the US gets less than a fifth of its electricity---less than a tenth of its total energy---from atomic power."