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2008-12-14 International-UN-NGOs

This is Obama's chance to leave the world a lasting legacy

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Posted by john frum 2008-12-14 12:18|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Dr Helen Caldicott is president of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute in Washington. Tim Wright is president of the Peace Organisation of Australia.

Have they approached the Russians or Chinese with this idea?

Both are idiots.

Posted by Hellfish 2008-12-14 13:26|| 2008-12-14 13:26|| Front Page Top

#2 The man isn't even inaugurated but they are talking about his legacy.

It is fascinating to see the amount of emotional capital these people have invested in the Obamessiah. The levels of expectation are mind boggling. He is now to bring peace on earth?

What will they do when reality hits? The backlash, like the wrath of a spurned lover, will be breathtaking.

Posted by john frum 2008-12-14 14:28|| 2008-12-14 14:28|| Front Page Top

#3 No doubt Barack Obama will find it more than a tad discomforting when, come January, he's granted this incredible power.

I'd wager he's not as nearly "discomforted" as I and many others are about it.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-12-14 14:49|| 2008-12-14 14:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Helen Caldicott is the definition of alarmist moonbat and the butt of many of Tim Blair's jokes. Wikipedia:
While touring with that book, she founded the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, headquartered in Washington, DC. Another basement-based vanity "Research Intitute". Must be DC's largest home-based industry.

Her media presence sparked in 1982, when she was featured in the Canadian Oscar-winning documentary If You Love This Planet. Caldicott claimed that the Hershey Foods Corporation produced chocolate carrying strontium 90 because of the proximity of the Three Mile Island accident to Hershey's Pennsylvania factory. According to Caldicott, strontium 90 that fell on the Pennsylvania grass found its way into the milk of the local dairy cows. Contrary to this claim, official reports[1] conclude that Strontium 90 was not one of the radionuclides released during the Three Mile Island disaster. Caldicott disputes these reports in her book, Nuclear Power is Not the Answer. So instead of having 200 clean nuclear plants generating 50% of US ePower, we have 50% of power from burning coal, including the radioactive elements that were concentrated by prehistoric plant life. Thanks Helen!

Citing the research of Soviet scientists Valery Burdakov and Vyacheslav Fiin, Caldicott argued that NASAs Space Shuttle program was destroying the Earths ozone and that 300 total shuttle flights would be enough to "completely destroy the Earth's protective ozone shield," although there is no scientific evidence to back up this claim.

Evidence? Who needs any steenking evidence or science when you have voices on your head? Pity the children under here care.

Posted by ed 2008-12-14 14:55|| 2008-12-14 14:55|| Front Page Top

#5 We don't have tension because we have nuclear weapons. We have nuclear weapons because we have tension.

Yep, Dr. Steve. But it is a distinction lost on so many.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-12-14 16:04|| 2008-12-14 16:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Helen Caldicott and Tim Wright: "Tools R Us"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-12-14 17:13|| 2008-12-14 17:13|| Front Page Top

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