From the Redwood Progressive:
25 Years and Nearly One Million Deaths Later, North Coast Residents Remember Chernobyl Catastrophe
Rally at Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant
Tuesday April 26th ~ 12:noon
101 off ramp at King Salmon Ave.
to the bay, south of the power plant
To Draw Concerned Residents To Nuclear Power Teach-In/Organizing
Revitalize Local Anti-Nuke Organizing
Shut Down Diablo Canyon and Indian Point Reactors Now! – R.I.P. USA Nuclear Reactors
Humboldt County, CA: In light of the corporate nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan, and the blindness of President Obama to the impossibility of running a safe nuclear power industry, local North Coast residents will gather at one of the oldest nuclear power reactor sites in the U.S.A., the Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant, from noon to 4 P.M. this Tuesday, April 26, 2011, the 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Catastrophe in Ukraine. Rally in support of the people of Japan and in solidarity with the current campaigns to immediately shut down reactors at Diablo Canyon, CA and Indian Point Nuclear Plant, N.Y.
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Also, please sign this petition:
Tell your Representative to co-sponsor HR 1242 To ensure that nuclear power plants that are built can withstand and adequately respond to earthquakes, tsunamis, strong storms, or other events that threaten a major impact.
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6535
Addendum: Didn’t realize until I heard Democracy Now this morning that the demo is to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl.
Did you know that Chernobyl translates as “Wormwood” and that Wormwood is mentioned in Revelations in which it is described as a star which will poison the water?
“And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.”
Revelation 8:10-11
A star is kind of like a nuclear power plant, right?
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April 26, 2011 at 10:54 am
Anonymous
Found this response to the Bible thing on another forum.
that’s a myth.
The city is named after the chornobyl’ grass, or mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris). The word itself is a combination of chornyi (??????, black) and byllia (?????, grass blades or stalks), hence it literally means black grass or black stalks.
Sometimes chornobyl is erroneously translated as simply “wormwood” (which most commonly refers to Artemisia absinthium), with consequent apocalyptic associations, probably originating from a New York Times article by Serge Schmemann, Chernobyl Fallout: Apocalyptic Tale, July 25, 1986. There, an unnamed “prominent Russian writer” was quoted as claiming the Ukrainian word for wormwood was chernobyl.
It fact, there are over 160 kinds of Artemisia, and the terminology is not generally accepted. Some sources refer to Artemisia vulgaris as “common wormwood”, while other claim that “common wormwood” is Artemisia absinthium.
Wormwood is a different (but related) plant, Artemisia absinthium, ????? (Polyn). “Polyn” has no English equivalent, but corresponds to the botanical genus Artemisia. Botanically, mugwort is “Common Polyn” (Ukr. ????? ?????????); while wormwood is “Bitter Polyn” (Ukr. ????? ?????).
Still more confusion comes from the fact that the word “wormwood” is used in the English text of the Apocalypsis, whose usage as the name of a plant not necessarily matches to that of the orginal.
April 26, 2011 at 11:11 am
Eric Kirk
Well, I found a site which pulls Fukishima in as well, but unless Fukishima translates to Wormwood, I’m confused.
http://sttwm.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/japan-chernobyl-wormwood-and-revelation/
Re 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
Is John telling us that the one third of the oceans will become radioactive? Is the wormwood of this verse a connection to the Ukranian word for Chernobyl? I don’t know. I get the feeling that TEPCO @ Fukushima will be forced to dump more radioactive water into the ocean after its initial dump tomorrow of 11,500 tons. Could I be wrong? Absolutely. I will not blind my eyes though, and dismiss and downplay all warning signs as “things that just happen”. The book of Revelations, is unfolding itself before our eyes. Keeping a healthy balance of God in our daily events is most important, since all comes from Him, goes through Him, and at the end of time, will go back to Him.
I find the connection between Revelations 8:11, Fukushima, mugwort, wormwood and Chernobyl thought-provoking , to say the least. This is something that I will watch.
Now more than ever as sin increases, and darkness with it, and as man gropes in its blindness, we need to turn back to God. Only He, is our source of bright light and protection. If we are entering into Revelations 8:11, may I suggest to you that your remedy is found in Psalms 91.
Psa 91:1 You can go to God Most High to hide. You can go to God All-Powerful for protection.
Psa 91:2 I say to the LORD, “You are my place of safety, my fortress. My God, I trust in you.”
Psa 91:3 God will save you from hidden dangers and from deadly diseases.
Psa 91:4 You can go to him for protection. He will cover you like a bird spreading its wings over its babies. You can trust him to surround and protect you like a shield.
Psa 91:5 You will have nothing to fear at night and no need to be afraid of enemy arrows during the day.
Psa 91:6 You will have no fear of diseases that come in the dark or terrible suffering that comes at noon.
Psa 91:7 A thousand people may fall dead at your side or ten thousand right beside you, but nothing bad will happen to you!
Psa 91:8 All you will have to do is watch, and you will see that the wicked are punished.
Psa 91:9 You trust in the LORD for protection. You have made God Most High your place of safety.
Psa 91:10 So nothing bad will happen to you. No diseases will come near your home.
Psa 91:11 He will command his angels to protect you wherever you go.
Psa 91:12 Their hands will catch you so that you will not hit your foot on a rock.
Psa 91:13 You will have power to trample on lions and poisonous snakes.
Psa 91:14 The Lord says, “If someone trusts me, I will save them. I will protect my followers who call to me for help.
Psa 91:15 When my followers call to me, I will answer them. I will be with them when they are in trouble. I will rescue them and honor them.
Psa 91:16 I will give my followers a long life and show them my power to save.”
April 26, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Eric Kirk
I haven’t received any reports from today’s demo. Here’s a photo-study of “green technology.” When you get to photo 16 be ready to boo and hiss!
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/2011/04/1with-the-price-of-gasoline.php?img=1
I have been told over the years that Humboldt Bay has a plaque from the Sierra Club installed back at the 1958 opening. Does anybody have any hard information to verify this, or is it an urban legend?
April 28, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Revelations
Here is footage of a tornado in the southland which killed about 200 people. Still believe the end isn’t near?
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7364072n
April 28, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Mitch
Well, Revelations, you got us. Big, big tornados. The end must be near.
Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with climate change.
April 28, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Plain Jane
Mother nature has a terrible temper.
April 28, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Plain Jane
One of the massive tornadoes in Alabama traveled over 218 miles on the ground, a record surpassing one in the 1920′s that traveled 173 miles.
April 28, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Eric Kirk
Well, maybe climate change itself is the result of original sin.
Just saying.
April 29, 2011 at 6:10 am
Plain Jane
You might have a point, Eric. According to the bible, eating from the tree of knowledge caused Adam and Eve to clothe themselves, the first step on the road to the conspicuous consumption which is causing climate change, so….
April 29, 2011 at 11:02 pm
Eric Kirk
I heard that there’s a video being distributed of last Tuesday’s local protest. If anybody has any leads, please let me know.