I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks

Someone e-mailed me today that David Tennant has done--or will do--a pilot episode for an NBC televison dramedy (drama-comedy), about a Chicago lawyer (Tennant) whom advises people on how to defend themselves in court.

I don't know anything other than that, so if you want to know more, you'll have to do a Google search yourselves.

I just finished watching a programme about how the Navajo and Hopi tribes in the southwest, are trying to change their way of life on the reservation, by pursuing renewable resources.

You see, the tribes in the 1960's, signed away chunks of their land to coal and power companies. The result, after 35 years, is that the coal companies have polluted the air and desert water supplies, and, used up valuable life-giving water, draining the pure water of underground aquifers dry or nearly so.

The Navajo and Hopi's succeeded in shutting down one of the power plants and coal mining operation--which supplied much of the power to Los Angles. Unfortunately, this also meant the virtually irreplaceable loss of over 200 jobs. And, the loss of multi-million dollar royalty checks from the power company.

There are huge power lines running through the Navajo reservation, and yet many Navajo have no electrity or running water.

There are still two working power plants on the reservation. Many Indians have suffered from cancer clusters, as a direct result of power plant and coal mining pollution. Water for their crops, livestock and homes is also becoming more and more limited.

Now, the Navajo nation is divided; one faction wishes to build a new "clean" coal plant on the reservation--which the tribe will own a percentage of, the other faction wants to pursue renewable energy as a way of providing jobs and more earth and human friendly energy.

Renewable energy--such as solar and/or wind power--are very viable and very easy to do, on the reservation, which being largely open desert, sees a lot of sunshine and wind.

The Navajos are interested, California is showing interest...the money is there, the technology is there, it should be easy---except, that the politicians in Washington D. C., are the chattels and prostitutes of the energy companies.

The have sold, not only themselves, but the future health of the Hopi and Navajo and the limited resource of water in the southwestern states.

The politicians in Washington D. C. and elsewhere in the USA, have bared their deliberate stupidity, moral laziness and evil greed to the entire world, making a mockery of global warming concerns.

America could be the world's largest producer of renewable energy--but, the energy companies have fought against things like tax credits, and allowing renewable producers to come on to the energy grid.

We could be a world leader, but instead, we're slaves, peons, arse lickers. Washington politicians are nothing more than whores and johns to the powerful energy lobby.

We aren't the most powerful nation in the world, while we are pimping ourselves to big business. We are most certinly not a true democracy, when corporate lawyers, CEO's and lobbyists, are allowed to dictate the future---the very lives, of millions of Americans...and the rest of the world.

The name of the film is "Power Paths," and it appeared on Independent Lens on PBS (Public Broadcasting Corporation).