Anyone who prefers highland Scotland to remain a place of (relatively) remote lochs, unspoilt moorlands, and wild mountains, rather than become an industrial junkheap littered with useless metal-and-plastic wind turbines should visit the stopcorriemoillie website (stopcorriemoillienow.co.uk) and register their objection to the Highland Council (it's easy through the website). A rubbish heap of flailing windsticks has already been approved in the area: now Eon, the energy-and-government-subsidy company, wants to build another one immediately adjacent. Together, these two industrial sites will create a mass of industrial sprawl at one of the major gateways to the deep north-west Highlands of Scotland, clearly visible to all who enter. They are part of Chief Reptilian emissary Salmond's grand plan to make Scotland into the 'Saudi Arabia of renewables.' This is clearly his main desperate grasp at fame on the world stage. More likely, he will go down in history as the man who destroyed the Highlands, even outdoing notorious characters such as the Duke of Cumberland. Write to Highland Council by November 22nd; not long to go. But every objection makes a difference.
Apart from this, Pale Green Vortex points its distinguished readers in the direction of two recommended pieces of listening. For a taste of the fine work of Neil Kramer, you could do worse than go to his 'Cleaver' site through the link on the right, and his interview on Vantage Point Radio, September 27th. And for a (very) personal and impassioned blast about another major theme on Pale Green Vortex, drug laws, listen to Opaque Lens, aka Niall Murphy, in the 'DMT roamcast' , the October 27th presentation on Shamanic Freedom Radio. A special treat awaits those who listen to the beginning of the following episode: Mr Lens reads out a letter written to him in response to his own travails by yours truly.....
Sometimes I think the Control System and its emissaries are getting increasingly desperate. Busts and general harassment of headshops and online vendors of mimosa hostilis - perfectly legal, even within our current restrictive framework - are pathetic, and laughable apart from the fact that it is real people whose lives are intimidated. Similarly, thanks in part to the tireless work of James Delingpole, Christopher Booker, et al, the huge scam surrounding the proliferation of wind farms, and the dodgy foundations of human-made global warming theory in general, are coming more into the limelight. The Control System continues with its extremely unenvironmental policies regardless, hurrying along until general opinion makes them inoperable. Our softly softly totalitarians won't give up without a fight, but their actions suggest that they are up against it, and they know it.
