Westport Electric Car Club EV Road Rally - April 27

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Westport Electric Car Club EV Road Rally will take place on Saturday, April 27th, 10 am to 3 pm.

Press Conference and Winner Circle held at 1:30pm, outside Blu Parrot restaurant.

www.westportelectriccarclub.com

The rally will start 10 am at the eastbound side of the Saugatuck Railroad Station (charging stations) with coffee to be provided for all who come.

The entrants must be plug-in hybrid or all electric vehicles and will leave for a designated 40 mile course.  

It will be a Time, Speed, Distance (TSD) rally. This video on YouTube explains.

The 3-hour rally tour will have several stopping points with a half-hour pit stop during the Fairfield Earth Day Celebration at Fairfield Warde High School. (11h15 am - 11h45 am)

The cars will complete their rally run at the Westbound side of the Saugatuck Railroad parking lot at which time awards will be presented to the winners.

To complete the festivities, a barbecue will be hosted by the Blu Parrot Restaurant with music and free sliders for all, from 1pm to 3 pm.

Auto dealers will have their electric vehicles for all to see.

Come join in for an exciting electric car event in Westport.

RSVP via Facebook.

Thanks to Dragone Classic Motorcars, Green Drinks, Robin Tauck Partners, Electrifying Times, Miggs B. Design, E magazine, Silver of Westport, Whole Foods Westport, The Whelk, Cell-Nique, Friezo Family Foundation, Toyota of Stamford, EVSE, Encon Solar, Karl Chevrolet, Sustainable America and many others...

Read more about the rally from Jim Motavalli's Green Wheels.

Print out Press Release (PDF)

Electric Car EV Rally Entrants - to date:

1 Barry Kresch ~ Chevy Volt
2 Aaron Schildkraut ~ Tesla Model S
3 Jack Mendelbaum ~ Chevy Volt
4 Nick Wiener ~ Chevy Volt
5 Bruce Becker ~ BMW ActiveE
6 Colleen Leth/Robin Tauck ~ Tesla Roadster
7 Robin Tauck ~ Tesla Model S
8 Richard Hanley ~ Chevy Volt
9 Demetrois Spantidos ~ Tesla Model S
10 Kathryn Koslow ~ Tesla Model S
11 Scott Thompson ~ Nissan Leaf
12 John Henessey ~ Tesla Model S
13 Sean Cina ~ Prius Plug-In
14 Ed Czizik ~ Prius Plug-In
15 Robert Smith ~ Tesla Model S
16 Frank Perkins ~ Prius Plug-In
17 Hamid Sami MD ~ Tesla Model S
18 Etta Kantor ~ Nissan Leaf
19 Jeremy Kranowitz ~ Fisker Karma
20 Nick Tiller ~ Tesla Model S
21 John Canning ~ Ford C-Max Energi
22 Michael Schlecter ~ Tesla Model S
23 Sam Vail ~ Smart EV
24 Gabriel Shenhar ~ Tesla Model S
25 Jackie Eskin ~ Nissan Leaf
26 Gary La Chance ~ Tesla Model S
27 Dan Ratner ~ Ford C-Max Energi
28 Leo Karl ~ Chevy Volt
29 Alex Marquin ~ Chevy Volt
30 Kyle Smith ~ Smart EV
31 Howard Kaplan ~ Tesla Model S
32 Joe Booth ~ Nissan Leaf
33 Emanual Logiadis ~ Chevy Volt

Photos from the rally posted in the Electrifying Times website.

Next day, April 28, attend the Bedford 2020 Car Show!

Romancing The Atom

Romancing the Atom: Nuclear Infatuation from the Radium Girls to Fukushima

Robert R. Johnson (Author)

The book consists of ten nonfiction historical vignettes, including the women radium dial painters of the 1920s, the expulsion of the Bikini Island residents to create a massive "petri dish" for post-World War II bomb and radiation testing, the government-subsidized uranium rush of the 1950s and its effects on Native American communities, and the secret radioactive material development facilities in residential neighborhoods. In addition, the book includes original interviews of prominent historians, writers, and private citizens involved with these poignant stories.

Go to www.romancingtheatom.com

Levitator

We've known how to build UFO's since the 50's, check out this awesome movie house newsreel. One can only assume the technology has been deep black for over half a century, which would explain a lot of sightings.

The physics are such that it would probably take less electricity to levitate a platform off the ground and move it around without much resistance, than the electricity it takes to move a vehicle around on four wheels.

The trick, something it seems Nikola Tesla had already figured out at the turn of the last century, is high voltage, at very low amperage, in other words, not much power is required. This amount of high voltage is what is stored in a taser battery. 

Scaling it up would seem rather easy, so I'm sure it's being done somewhere at one or more of the hundreds of secret military bases our Pentagon spends billions on building and maintaining every year. Question is, when will we be allowed to develop civilian industries?

One way is to open a military technology transfer office in Fairfield County and follow the trail of bread crumbs. Eventually it will lead to all the components necessary to make ion lifters a commercial reality.

You can purchase affordable ion lifter building kits from Information Unlimited in Amherst, NH.

If we don't it, do it now, and do it quicky, we'll soon be buying UFOs from China and Korea. Do we want that? Watch Michio Kaku get into the act...

Where's Fashion?

Why isn't fashion openly, publicly, officially endorsing anti-nuclear actions around the country? In one word "Unions"!

In private, hush hush, quietly, at VIP parties, professionals in the New York fashion industry, from designers, to models, makeup artists, photographers will tell you how much they would love to see Indian Point closed. But when it comes to putting their money where their mouth is, actually do something about it, they scurry like little scared animals.

Yes, there's a few like Kenneth Cole and Donna Karan, who behind the scenes support Riverkeeper events at ABC Home on Broadway. But ask them to go on the record, and they run the other way, don't return phone calls, ignore anti-nuclear activists like the plague. So why is that?

The reason is the unions. The entire garment district in New York walks to the beat of unionists, who drive the trucks, load the dresses, wire the lights, build the sets on the catwalk, load and unload the ships at the dock, deliver the goods. Upset the apple cart, and your fashion house could easily go belly up, with unexplained delays, mysteriously damaged or lost shipments, the works!

Threaten the jobs of unionists at Indian Point, and you threaten the jobs of all unionists, who work in cahoot like an ant hill, supporting each other like legs of the same table. So fashion stars who easily lend their name to Sean & Yoko's Artists Against Fracking, stay away from Indian Point, and No Nukes, because of the possible repercussions.

In New York, fashion trumps politics. Influential fashion houses have more leverage with elected officials than any other group of professionals. New York is the fashion and media capital of the world. But that relationship is fragile, precarious, and there are taboo subjects. While Riverkeeper and the Governor tirelessly advocate the immediate shut down of Indian Point, New York's number one most powerful industry, keeps silent, for fear their entire delivery system gets disrupted, costing them millions.

A strong coalition of top fashion professionals in Manhattan could shut down Indian Point tomorrow, it would be a slam dunk, but they lack the courage. Anna Wintour doesn't dare for it might jeopardize Fashion Week or Fashion Night Out. Presidents of modeling agencies like Faith Kates, who raise millions for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, ignore what is probably the number one cause of soft tissue cancer in New York's 19th congressional district, Indian Point!

Make a point next time you walk into a fashion boutique, a beauty supply store, write a letter to the editor of ELLE or Vogue. Ask them why they ignore the issue of nuclear power, why they skim over the horrors of Fukushima, why they won't use their resources and visuals to support anti-nuclear activists? Ask them why they side with the Unions who are only protecting 1200 jobs that threaten the lives of 20 million people?

Support Rock The Reactors!

(image: Fashion Poland magazine)

Palace in South Norwalk

Why would this multi-million dollar production facility, for over a decade now, keep its marquee looking like their theater was abandoned? That really looks good for the community! Sigh...

CAN Documentary Films Screening at the Letelier Theater in Washington DC. Friday, Sept. 21 6:30pm

Facebook is how most of the Coalition Against Nukes (CAN) organizers communicate, and how the DC Rally For A Nuclear Free Future is coming together, for the most part. I can understand the aversion to facebook, many people can’t stomach it. I for one, think none of what CAN, or the rest of the anti-nuclear community has accomplished since the Fukushima accident, without a dime in its pockets, would have materialized without it.

I don’t care if the CIA reads everything I post, let them see it all, bring it on. There’s so much information out there now, they couldn’t make heads or tails out of it, reach a productive analysis, if they had all the NSA computers tied together in a bundle, they still won’t understand what’s going on! You know what they say about hiding something in plain sight? Well that’s what this is.

Most of the CAN community has met via facebook, friends introducing friends, activists from all over the country, the world, creating the CAN facebook network. There’s nothing else like it… and if tomorrow, facebook yanked the plug, no doubt we’d be scrambling for alternatives. But right now, this is the best tool we have to beat them at their own game, their multi-million dollars video conference calls, their lavish convention center resorts symposiums, their sales and marketing motivational seminars… which is how the nuclear industry thrives.

This documentary film screening event at the Letelier Theater in the heart of Georgetown in DC, just a few blocks from the University, the Center For Strategic Studies, think tank of the Trilateral Commission, showing the Atomic States of America and the Radioactivists, promotes the CAN rally as much as the CAN rally promotes the screenings.

We know how these DC media and socialite types can be… they look down on “activism” and “protest” like it’s beneath them, but they are there with bells on when it comes to eco-chic and green stuff… something they consider a “positive force” for change. They'll read about it on Huffington Green, but will dismiss it coming from a less well traveled blog.

But we know better, nothing really changes until and unless we can work all these fronts together. So while the rally promotes the screenings, with much of DC media, the screenings will now promote the rally, because that’s how it works in that community, don’t forget Washington is Hollywood for ugly people! ;o)

There’s so many places around DC and Georgetown who will now promote the Letelier event, who otherwise would not have paid any attention to a grassroots protest rally… in turn, the DC political scene will come to learn about the nuclear briefing sponsored by Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the rally, and all the other events taking place around it for three days, between September 20th and 22nd, that CAN has been organizing, struggling to get just an ounce of mainstream press.

With the DC media types feeling obligated to list the Letelier screenings in their event sections, because it’s at the “Letelier”… pronounce that with a thick French snobbish accent… we can sneak awareness of the CAN DC Rally for a Nuclear Free Future through the back door, like a Trojan horse.

Greendrinks on Wall Street!