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PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/51892949Our Superdelegate patrons have made a selection, and they couldn't have picked a spikier topic if they'd tried! AMERICAN RADICAL: THE TRIALS OF NORMAN FINKELSTEIN (2009) captures Finkelstein -- academic, writer, and outspoken critic of Israel -- while he's in the midst of a war with Alan Dershowitz. The documentary gives us opportunity to discuss Finkelstein's incendiary rhetorical style and to wade into the fraught issue of "cancel culture." PLUS: we discuss two of the key films of our time (Paul Schrader's The Canyons and Christopher Nolan's Tenet), eroding voting rights in the United States, and a recent rebuttal to Luke from no less than David Frum!

PATREON EPISODE - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/51892949" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/posts/51892949</a> Our Superdelegate patrons have made a selection, and they couldn't have picked a spikier topic if they'd tried! AMERICAN RADICAL: THE TRIALS OF NORMAN FINKELSTEIN (2009) captures Finkelstein -- academic, writer, and outspoken critic of Israel -- while he's in the midst of a war with Alan Dershowitz. The documentary gives us opportunity to discuss Finkelstein's incendiary rhetorical style and to wade into the fraught issue of "cancel culture." PLUS: we discuss two of the key films of our time (Paul Schrader's The Canyons and Christopher Nolan's Tenet), eroding voting rights in the United States, and a recent rebuttal to Luke from no less than David Frum!

PREVIEW - #239 - Beyond Chutzpah

Isuru Seneviratne

On May 1st at 11am in a matter of minutes New York State lost more clean energy than all of it’s solar and wind energy fleet combined. This act of climate vandalism occurred in the context of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act which mandates 100% carbon free electricity by 2040 and a massive increase in electrification of the heating and transportation sectors. On the sidelines environmental organizations like the National Resource Defense Counsel chearled the closure.The premeditated shutdown of Indian point led to the building of several large methane gas fired plants to fill in the gap of electricity generation. 1000 intergenerational high paying jobs were lost and the Village of Buchanan will be devastated by the loss of work, taxes and revenue. To add insult to injury as it stands up to 50% of the 15 million dollar community fund set aside by the plant operator may be claimed by River Keeper the NGO that was so instrumental in the premature closure of the plant.The volunteer activists of Nuclear New York worked tirelessly to save Indian Point and put nuclear onto the political and media agenda as a keystone climate solution. They were up against environmental NGO’s with budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars. Despite their best efforts the plant has been shuttered, 81% of New York’s downstate clean electricity has been lost and marginalized communities will have to endure the burden of the air pollution resulting from increased methane gas generation.Their struggle was not in vain. Many lessons were learned and new strategies and tactics developed which might yet be employed to save furhter nuclear plants at risk of political closures across the USA. I am joined by Dietmar Detering and Isuru Seneviratne for an in depth discussion.

On May 1st at 11am in a matter of minutes New York State lost more clean energy than all of it’s solar and wind energy fleet combined. This act of climate vandalism occurred in the context of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act which mandates 100% carbon free electricity by 2040 and a massive increase in electrification of the heating and transportation sectors. On the sidelines environmental organizations like the National Resource Defense Counsel chearled the closure. The premeditated shutdown of Indian point led to the building of several large methane gas fired plants to fill in the gap of electricity generation. 1000 intergenerational high paying jobs were lost and the Village of Buchanan will be devastated by the loss of work, taxes and revenue. To add insult to injury as it stands up to 50% of the 15 million dollar community fund set aside by the plant operator may be claimed by River Keeper the NGO that was so instrumental in the premature closure of the plant. The volunteer activists of Nuclear New York worked tirelessly to save Indian Point and put nuclear onto the political and media agenda as a keystone climate solution. They were up against environmental NGO’s with budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars. Despite their best efforts the plant has been shuttered, 81% of New York’s downstate clean electricity has been lost and marginalized communities will have to endure the burden of the air pollution resulting from increased methane gas generation. Their struggle was not in vain. Many lessons were learned and new strategies and tactics developed which might yet be employed to save furhter nuclear plants at risk of political closures across the USA. I am joined by Dietmar Detering and Isuru Seneviratne for an in depth discussion.

Beyond Chutzpah NGO led Climate Vandalism & Indian Point. feat Dietmar Detering and Isuru Seneviratne