Diary Entries on Will Brady's website

     Enter Attorney and anti-nuclear activist Nancy Burton | She has been fighting diligently, at considerable expense, to work at countering the efforts made by CY/Northeast Utilities to control what happens with the closing of the aging nuclear facility on the Connecticut River |
     This week, attorney Burton is seeking help, especially from Connecticut Residents, to get State Attorney General Blumenthal's support | For this Friday, 22 November, the deadline for her own filing in the combined matters of both the Town of Haddam and of local property owners against the Utility giant | What is being argued is the position that a municipal board of selectmen lacks authority under Connecticut law to usurp the zoning function where a municipal zoning commission has properly been established |
     While Assistant Attorney General Robert Snook filed an amicus curiae brief on March 15, 2002 in the above-referenced actions, getting the Attorney General to be present in Judge Nevas' court on 22 November would, it is believed, provide subsantial support for the cause | Attorney Burton is asking people to contact Attorney General Blumenthal at 55 Elm Street, Hartford Ct 06141-0120 and ask for his extra attention in the matter |

Leonid Meteor Shower ~ tonight! | One of the most anticipated meteor storms of modern times is about to send two flurries of comet debris raining down through Earth's atmosphere | Peak activity for the Leonid meteor shower is due to arrive between now and when the Sun comes up Tuesday | If the weather holds up, then folks in Europe and eastern North America will get a great view of this phenomenon | Space.com provides some in-depth details as well as other intriguing bits about the vastness beyond our planet's fragile atmosphere |
The ideal time to see this display is early in the morning, perhaps 0530 hours [Greenwich Mean's 5th time zone] in an open field out in the country and flat on your back looking up | Given the temps predicted across North America tomorrow morning, bring something hot to drink | The display this year may be (according to astronomers) the last as spectacular in the next century |

corporate nations & their citizens | Perhaps one thing that ain't exactly clear, when considering the idea of economic treason is that those who would commit such crimes, while nominally citizens of some land-based nation, aren't the least bit interested in the sanctity nor sovereign authority of that nation |
     Lacking any clear way of recognizing who are ersatz citizens to land-based nations (such as passports or other identifiers) it is by the actions and consistent behaviors of the corporate nationalists which must be used to ferret these interlopers out |
     To be sure, some folks may have genuine beliefs that they are only citizens by their landed-nation birthright | Others, more canny, cling to flags of convenience when in reality they pledge loyalty to the nations who support them, and whose aims they attempt to pursue |
     The irony here is that, particularly in the United States, corporate nation politicos have increasingly taken over the polity of the people | Pledging fealty (as spoken by their actions) to more fluid nations like ENRON, General Electric, Capitol Cities, and the like, these individuals (Phoil Gramm, fer instance) have pushed their own ideological/national agendae at the expense of the safety and security of the US of A | The costs of this are only now surfacing, in the guise of corporate greed |
     Greed, indeed, was a factor, but not the only one | Plundering the conquered nation's treasures ("privatizing" for instance) was ~ and continues to be ~ considered fair game for the foreign agents hiding behind Old Glory | Rewriting the laws of the nation ~ as was done during the Newt Gingrich led Contract On America period in the 1990s ~ so as to hold themselves apart from being responsible for their rapicious acts is another motivation | And all of this done with the well promoted effort toward "market globalization" |
     What we really need now, in order to begin to correct this, is for corporations to be held accountable as global citizens themselves | They ought to be entered into the United Nations as distinct entities and their citizens should be required to register as aliens in whatever land-based nations wherein they reside | I'm not sure how to accomplish this, mind you, but it would be a start |

weather: rain, strong and steady for the past two days, but we missed the ice storm that hit western ct | today, the weather is brisk, sunny and windy

e-mail | due to circumstances beyond my control, I have had to change one or two of my old e-mail addresses | New mail can continue to come to the @rondak.org address | A completely new address is now will-b@earthlink.net | Regrets for this inconvenience |

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