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Old 03-14-2014, 09:27 PM
John Galt John Galt is offline
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Yeah it is -- if a (poorly designed) nuclear power plant runs out of fuel for its backup generators and loses cooling, it could potentially concern us all. Radiation doesn't discriminate. On-grid, off-grid, smart, stupid, young, old. You're just as ill or dead.

Paranoia is many American's favorite hobby. The media and government both fuel it.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
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