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Garen Yegparian

Garen Yegparian

Asbarez Columnist
Garen Yegparian is a fat, bald guy who has too much to say and do for his own good. So, you know he loves mouthing off weekly about anything he damn well pleases to write about that he can remotely tie in to things Armenian. He's got a checkered past: principal of an Armenian school, project manager on a housing development, ANC-WR Executive Director, AYF Field worker (again on the left coast), Operations Director for a telecom startup, and a City of LA employee most recently (in three different departments so far). Plus, he's got delusions of breaking into electoral politics, meanwhile participating in other aspects of it and making sure to stay in trouble. His is a weekly column that appears originally in Asbarez, but has been republished to the Armenian Weekly for many years.
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  1. Armenia should strongly support and encourage the development of electricity from solar, wind, and small hydro. Generating electricity from renewables cost less. Renewables do not emit pollutants, and they are safe in areas where earthquakes do occur.

  2. You are completely missing the point of a Nuclear power plant.

    1. It maintains the nuclear know of engineers and scientists to quickly build a nuclear weapon in a very short amount of time.
    2. It gives access to materials to build at minimum a “dirty” device.
    3. Contarary to this articles point, it acts as “suicide” pill against Turkey, since if it was ever attacked by them, it will not only take down Armenia, but half of Turkey and the Middle East.

    For the above reasons, Turkey and Azerbaijan have spent millions of dollars in lobbying to shut down our nuclear program.

    Renewable is great, but giving up a nuclear program tolerated by the world is one of the worst possible mistakes.

  3. Any talk of shutting down Armenia’s nuclear plant, especially from within the borders of the USA, and especially in light of Turkey’s plans for several of them and their deafening silence, is typical of American Leftist Liberalism ideology which has infected a sizeable part of our diaspora as well unfortunately.

    “global warming”, “white male privilege”, “misogynistic society”, “dangers of capitalism”, “joys of feminism”, “black lives matter”, “LGBXYZ rights”, “indigenous people’s day (instead of Columbus day)”, “take down statues of America’s founding “racists””, “remove crosses from public”, etc etc are all part of the same hydra. These above are all pseudo-issues disguised as “rights”, meant to create division in a society for the ultimate nefarious aim of creating a drone-like, identity-less, unarmed, easily manipulated society of half-wits. This is how the “international rulers” solidify their grip on societies to insure their future tyrannical rule in the guise of “democracy”. We proud and patriotic Armenians everywhere must work diligently to make sure that such an insidious and cancerous infestation does not take hold in our Armenia, we are under direct attack, but some of us gullible (and comfortable) Armenians in America don’t know it. A book was published in the USA titled “Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder”. The more I hear Leftists/Liberals talk, the more I’m convinced the title is a fact.

  4. Regarding the notion that “Turks and Azeris will attack Armenia’s Nuke plant” – they’re welcomed to try, but they wouldn’t dare even if they could, unless they want their own territories contaminated with nuclear fallout, which is the real danger of a nuclear explosion. The blast itself would be limited in damage. What comes after is the real problem. In addition, the new plant could strategically be designed and placed so as to inflict maximum damage to Turkey or Azerbaijan in case of such an incident. Anyway, to me an irradiated and empty Western Armenia is much more preferable than an “East Anatolia” full of Turks and Kurds benefiting from their previous acts of Genocide.

    Armenia is a signatory of the “nuclear non proliferation treaty”, a tentative promise not to build nuclear weapons, but as Harut pointed out above, this can and must change in case of a real danger from our two enemies. Another reason why Armenia having the Russian Iskander missiles was a great achievement in Armenia’s security. Now I wish that Armenia would start its own missile program. Our two “neighbors” deserve nothing less.

  5. I read somewhere s long time ago that electricity producrd by metsamor was being sold to iran and turkey. Can anyone veify that with direct knowledge? If so, why selling if it is not even meeting armenias needs?

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