Now that we are well into March it is getting light at six…and this is shifting rapidly and becoming earlier by several minutes each day. Vemara is moored on the south bank of Rock Channel a few hundred yards downstream from the confluence of the Brede and Tillingham rivers. The mooring has an East End and a West End separated by an engineering workshop and the boat-owners’ washing facilities. The West End is closer to town…about ten minutes by foot and five by boat. There are six ‘alongside berths’ and twelve ‘nose-to berths’ in both the East- and West End. Vemara lies east to west like a church in an alongside berth in the East End with its pointy end facing west into the setting sun and the blunt end looking out over the rising sun. A few days from now the sun will rise in the east and shine straight though the cockpit into the cabin. Very magical and megalithic…like living in an Irish barrow.
The most important work of the day was to make sure my English script for NCAB’s website went across the German Sea to Stockholm. Target state achieved at 1600 hours. Looks like being a £ 5 000 job with a quarter profit although this is not a simple term and perhaps is better referred to as operating profit. NCAB make Printed Circuit Boards…although ‘outsources the manufacturing of’ would be closer to the truth. Their website tells the world that the PCB market is developing at an explosive pace and that their customers…Ericsson, Siemens etc…need NCAB to guide them through the maze. The widgets themselves are made in China of course.
William Engdahl’s A Century of War finally found its way to my post-box today. As I suspected it is the LaRouche Conspiracy Theory without some of the crazier way-out add-ons that turn most people off. One of the quirks about Lyndon LaRouche and his Economic Intelligence Review is his love affair with nuclear fusion. Engdahl incorporates this into his analysis by portraying nuclear power as a prime target for the Anglo-American oil-and dollar-controlled New World Order. One place this comes out is in his discussion of the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster that stopped the nuclear business dead in its tracks just before the Berlin Wall came down. Here is William Engdahl.
Unprecedented diplomatic and legal pressures from the White House since 1977 had not succeeded in significantly blunting the attraction of nuclear power. But on March 28, 1979, in a town in the center of Pennsylvania, a bizarre event occurred which was then portrayed to the world press in fictitious terms as though it were a Hollywood movie script or a remake of Orson Welles’ 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast. Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear power reactor complex in Harrisburg underwent an improbable sequence of ‘accidents’.
Later investigation revealed that critical valves had been manually closed before the event preventing emergency cooling water from entering the reactor’s steam generator system. Within 15 seconds emergency back-up systems had brought the nuclear fission process to a stop. But a plant operator then intervened to shut off cooling water into the reactor core. In a word - sabotage. Engdahl continues.
On August 3, 1979 in its official report on the event the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission posed sabotage or criminal negligence as one of six possible causes for the Three Mile Island event. But even after eliminating the other five possible causes the government refused to consider the possibility of sabotage seriously. News to the world’s media during the Harrisburg drama was strictly controlled by the White House Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Only suitably FEMA screened government or nuclear plant officials were allowed near the press.
The appearance of FEMA in a cameo role is intriguing as they were centre stage thirty years later when Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans. According to Engdahl the blueprint for FEMA came from the Trilateral Commission…another LaRoucherian bogey-man. Engdahl claims that FEMA was under the direction of Zbigniew Brzezinski…another LaRoucherian bad guy. The World of Lyndon LaRouche is chock-full with good guys and bad guys with dupes and fellow travellers thrown in for good measure.
Apparently FEMA ordered the evacuation of the surrounding population despite there being no indication of radiation danger and refused to brief the media for days thereby permitting panic stories to fill the headlines. Curiously the agency went into operation on March 27 five days before its stated date of operation…and the day before the Three Mile Island incident. Mind you at the time I had quite a different conspiracy theory. Hollywood was my prime suspect because The China Syndrome starring Jane Fonda went on general release in the States the same month as Harrisburg…a little too much of a coincidence.
Now for today’s horrorscopes. Pisces (Feb 23 - Mar 22): You are a pioneer type and think most people are dickheads. You are quick to reprimand, impatient and full of advice. You do nothing but piss off everyone you come in contact with. You are a prick. Aries (Mar 23 - Apr 22): You have a wild imagination and often think you are being followed by the FBI or CIA. You have minor influence on your friends and people resent you for flaunting your power. You lack confidence and are a general dip-shit.