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“A historic marker has been placed in Port Gibson, Mississippi, by the Mississippi Blues Commission, as part of the Mississippi Blues Trail. This commemorates the enormous contribution the Rabbit’s Foot Company made to the development of the blues in Mississippi.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rabbit%27s_Foot_Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Blues_Trail
Grand Gulf Nuclear Reactor near Port Gibson, Mississippi
“Why is Mississippi the “Cradle of the Blues?” I wish I knew. I read [that] most of the blues people, like myself, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and many, many blues singers, all were born within a hundred miles of each other.” B.B. King oral History: http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_oralh_bbking.html
When a man was recently found hung near Port Gibson Mississippi, it made news around the world. When the late, great, King of Blues, B. B. King passed away, it made international news, as well it should. (The King of Rock and Roll, Elvis, was also a Mississippian, 10 years younger than B.B. King. B.B. King discusses Elvis here: http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_oralh_bbking.html )
When accusations were made that B.B. King was poisoned, once again it made news. His visitation in Mississippi on Friday and his funeral in Mississippi today have made international news, as well. He is lucky to have gone on to his heavenly reward and miss what’s to come, however.
When the US NRC-Entergy are already legally, and illegally, poisoning land, air and water with deadly radionuclides, and courting a major nuclear disaster in B.B. King’s home state of Mississippi, not a peep is heard.
The fact that the neighboring Jefferson county, just downriver from Grand Gulf is the fattest county in the fattest country has made world headlines.[1] However, no discussion has been heard about if this may be due to thyroid damage from radioiodine coming out of Grand Gulf – said to be the largest single nuclear reactor in the US.
When the US NRC-Entergy are playing statistical games which may, at any moment, lead to reactor pressure vessel failure and major nuclear disaster in Mississippi, it doesn’t make news at all, even though it will probably impact much of North America, depending on the luck of the wind direction and rain (or lack thereof). There is no room for the 20 to 40% error allowed by the NRC, when it comes to a potential major nuclear disaster.
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/us-nrc-sneak-through-alert-comment-deadline-today-at-11-59-et-request-hearing-by-1-june/
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/us-nrc-safety-abuses-alert-comment-deadline-april-30-at-11-59-eastern-time-request-hearing-by-1-june/
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/dangerous-maximum-extended-load-line-limit-plus-for-largest-us-nuclear-reactor-urgent-comment-demand-hearing-now/
The request for a public hearing deadline is Monday, June 1st. Hopefully someone will put in a request. The odds for the US NRC allowing a public hearing are greater if the request is from within 50 miles of the reactors. (See if you are within 50 miles of this or any other US nuclear reactor here; you may be unpleasantly surprised: http://www.psr.org/resources/evacuation-zone-nuclear-reactors.html) However, unlike Charlemagne who held court throughout Europe, the US NRC dictators generally can’t be bothered with the people. But, it’s important to try for the record.
Obama was happy to have B.B. King at the White House, but does nothing to protect Mississippians or other Americans from imminent danger – perhaps because of the funding Obama received from nuclear utility Exelon? Obama’s “push for more nuclear energy came after the nation’s biggest nuclear power company strongly backed his candidacy. Illinois-based Exelon was one of the biggest corporate backers of then-Sen. Obama’s 2008 presidential run. The company’s director, John W. Rogers, served on Obama’s finance committee and bundled $193,598 to the Illinois senator’s campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Rogers also sat on the president’s Inaugural Committee and donated $50,000 to the 2009 Inauguration. ComEd CEO Frank Clark bundled $75,100 in contributions to the Obama presidential campaign. (ComEd is a subsidiary of Exelon.) Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel made millions when he joined an investment bank in Chicago and shepherded through the merger deal between PECO Energy and Unicom that created Exelon.” https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/03/23/nuclear-industry-lobbyists-battle-fallout-from-japan-reactor-crisis
He does nothing to stop the poisoning of Tennessee either, probably so Exelon can decommission its nuclear reactors on the cheap by sending the waste to landfills. https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/what-makes-tennessee-so-popular-as-a-nuclear-waste-dump-not-its-great-singers/
To Obama’s statement after B.B. King’s death that “there’s going to be one killer blues session in heaven tonight.” one can but reply that there’s going to be a killer of a nuclear accident in Mississippi or somewhere else soon, and that will be a reason for a killer blues session in heaven alright. Obama apparently intends to evac to his paternal homeland of Kenya, or he wouldn’t be running around the world begging to dump nuclear waste on the US, under the guise of “non-proliferation” anyway.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/05/15/bb-king-blues-has-lost-its-king-and-america-has-lost-legend
“BB King performs “Merry Christmas Baby” at the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. December 9, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)”
The Japanese are neat, orderly, and think of everything. If you think that Fukushima is bad, a nuclear disaster in the US is going to be a never-ending radioactive Katrina, where people are just left to die, as they were in New Orleans. A disaster in the UK will be worse than their massive flu epidemic, 15 years ago, where they had no room for the bodies. History tells us that the French will probably try to pretend it never happened. Of course, the US will probably try this as well, but the truth will slowly ooze out – too late for people to take shelter, as with the plutonium flying out from WIPP.
Our Tribute to the late B.B. King and Mississippi:
Grand Gulf Nuclear Reactor Blues – How Radioactive can you get?
(I’ve) been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built.
I say I’ve been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built.
Tritium in the water – How Radioactive can you Get?
(I’ve) been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built;
I say I’ve been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built.
Statistical games by the government.
How Radioactive can you Get?
(I’ve) been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built;
I say I’ve been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built.
Reactor Pressure Vessel fracture in the making.
How Radioactive Can you Get?
(I’ve) been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built;
I say I’ve been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built.
Nuclear accident in the making.
How Radioactive Can you Get?
(I’ve) been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built;
I say I’ve been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built.
Nuclear fallout in the making.
How Radioactive Can you Get?
(I’ve) been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built;
I say I’ve been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built.
Radioactive land and water.
How Radioactive Can you Get?
(I’ve) been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built;
I say I’ve been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built.
Radioactive food and water.
How Radioactive Can you Get?
The NRC is doing evil everyday
They’ve been killing us from the start.
I say the NRC is doing evil everyday
and they’ve been killing us from the start.
How radioactive can you get?
The answer has been right there from the start.
I’ve been so frightened everyday, since Grand Gulf was built
Radioactive land, air, food and water
How radioactive can you get?
Song Creative Commons, BY, Non-Commercial – CC-BY-NC In true blues tradition we encourage modification for anti-nuclear activism (only) to fit your local nuclear reactor.
BB King Museum Indianola Mississippi, where he is being laid to rest
The Nuclear Industry – Coming to Destroy my home
I looked outside and what did I see?
Coming to destroy my home?
A radioactive plume, coming after me,
coming to destroy my home.
Shut down the nuclear industry
who wants to give us radioactive homes
Shut down the nuclear industry
who wants to give us radioactive homes
(Song Creative Commons, BY, Non-Commercial – CC-BY-NC, To the tune of “Swing Low Sweet Chariot”)
Of course you cannot SEE the radioactive plume. Therein lies a major problem.
“EXCESS INFANT MORTALITY AFTER NUCLEAR PLANT STARTUP IN RURAL MISSISSIPPI” International Journal of Health Services, Volume 38, Number 2–Spring 2008 Joseph J. Mangano, MPH, MBA, Executive Director, Radiation and Public Health Project
“… In 1983-1984, the first two years in which the existing Grand Gulf reactor operated, significant rises were observed in local rates of infant deaths (+35.3%) and fetal deaths (+57.8%). Local infant mortality remained elevated for the next two decades. These changes match those experienced in the same five local counties during atomic bomb testing in the 1950s and 1960s. This report examines potential reasons why an indigent, largely African-American community may be at higher risk than other populations from exposure to an environmental toxin such as radiation. It also considers potential health risks posed by new reactors at Grand Gulf.” Read the article here: http://www.radiation.org/reading/08spring_ijhs_mississippi.html
[1] Claiborne County, home to the Grand Gulf nuclear reactor is 84% African American. Just down river is Jefferson County, the county with “the highest percentage of African Americans of any county in the United States, as well as being the most obese in the nation statistically.” Both are among the poorest counties in the United States.” Jefferson is 85.7% Black. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claiborne_County,_Mississippi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_County,_Mississippi
Report about tritium at incomplete Grand Gulf Nuclear Reactor next to the operating reactor. It was flushed to the Mississippi River, where people still fish and many communities, including New Orleans, get their drinking water. No one has clarified where this tritium came from and why they believe there won’t be more! The 106,400 picocuries flushed is 3,936.8 becquerels per liter. This is over 5 times the amount of tritium allowed in drinking water in the US and over 50 times the California Public Health goal. How the tritium was in the incomplete building apparently remains a mystery. http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1215/ML12157A182.pdf
More information on Grand Gulf, which hasn’t made it into the mainstream news either
http://www.stuarthsmith.com/nuclear-plant-workers-dump-large-amount-of-radioactive-tritium-directly-into-mississippi-river/
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/us-nrc-impact-of-environmental-conditions-on-nuclear-waste-dry-storage-comment-deadline-may-4-2015/
https://robertsingleton.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/event-reports-fire-at-mississippi-nuke-a-supervisor-on-drugs-at-florida-facility-and-a-mistaken-alert-and-an-arkansas-tv-station-issues-an-inaccurate-emergency-alert/
https://robertsingleton.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/event-reports-fires-in-south-carolina-and-florida-a-lightning-strike-in-mississippi-and-a-reactor-shutdown-in-illinois/
https://robertsingleton.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/event-report-grand-gulf-worker-fired-for-drug-use/
https://robertsingleton.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/drunk-supervisor-at-mississippi-nuke/
A tritium report from Grand Gulf: http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1407/ML14071A249.pdf
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