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<b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#222222">Nobel Peace Prize winner and global peace activist Helen Caldicott told Sputnik.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#222222">Yes well Helen did win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work against the nuclear power industry and radiation. There
has been ample documentation already on this list and elsewhere that the nuclear power industry has given enormous sums to the Dems. In any event, WAND is the Brainchild of Helen Caldicott and here the Dems are bringing in a Pimp for the Nuclear Power Industry
under the cover of Helen’s good name and reputation in order to promote nuclear power. Truly perverse and disgusting! But what else do you expect from the Dems? He who pays the Piper calls the tune.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Brussel, Morton K
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 7, 2018 4:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Boyle, Francis A <fboyle@illinois.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Peace-discuss List (peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net) <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] FW: From Sputnik, quoting Helen Caldecott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On the issue here given, she's to be commended, on the dangers of radioactivity—off the wall. As for “Dems” and nuclear power, Boyle ’s claims need evidence. <o:p></o:p></p>
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at their conference on Saturday. In fact the Democrats on Saturday will be perverting the good name and reputation of Helen by using her as a pretext and a cover in order to promote the nuclear power industry. How much did the nuclear power industry pay
the Dems?</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[Peace-discuss] From Sputnik, quoting Helen Caldecott</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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aggression. This came a day after Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson testified that the <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sputniknews.com_military_201701111049493692-2Dtillerson-2Dnato-2Drussia_&d=DwMGaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=aCimAhyh5Q_G0iAEOqwu8Q&m=plfEPz1I-ZNL0eauAVOjKq-EJzH4N_pwlqrdkxax5hw&s=Q0hYgKO5-EPSokJ11St-D7ncnZi4fRSTIQMR6yk-t2U&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:#F7961D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">United
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">"There is little or no evidence that Russia is being aggressive towards the NATO countries," Caldicott, co-winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, told Sputnik. “That is a lie that the United States
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">Caldicott pointed out, however, that it was the United States and NATO, not Russia, that was building up its armed forces to unprecedented levels in central and eastern Europe and exacerbating tensions
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">"The severely provocative buildup of military forces, ABM [anti-ballistic missile] systems and equipment on the Russian border is at the least unnecessary and at the most could lead to a nuclear
war with Russia," Caldicott warned.</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">Far from threatening nuclear war, the Russian government and media were warning their people about the dangers of the NATO military buildup, Caldicott claimed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">"Indeed, the Russian press and leading politicians in the Duma are now postulating that this could well be a future reality, and they are encouraging the Russian population to practice drills to shelter
themselves from nuclear war," she said.</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">The American public and US policymakers also need to take the threat of nuclear war and the nightmarish consequences that would flow from it far more seriously, Caldicott explained.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">In the event of any thermonuclear conflict breaking out between Russia and the United States and NATO "we are all doomed to die a dreadful death of vaporization, severe burns, acute radiation sickness,
or freezing and starving to death in the nuclear winter that will ensue," Caldicott admonished.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">Although US Vice President Joe Biden praised the record of outgoing President Barack Obama on reducing the threat of nuclear war during his eight years in office, Caldicott said Obama’s anti-Russian policies
had made the danger far worse.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">"What on earth Obama, the once-peace-maker, and [US Secretary of Defense] Ashton Carter think they are doing, God only knows unless they are obeying the dictates of their military industrial masters,
who need war or the risk of such to survive economically," Caldicott added.</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">Caldicott expressed the hope that President-elect Donald Trump would reverse the US force build-up in Eastern Europe after he took office on January 20.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">"Once Trump is inaugurated one hopes that his close relationship with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin will lead to rapid withdrawal of these forces and a refashioning of the relationship between Russia
and the United States which may ensure our survival," she said.</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">Caldicott is the author of many books, including "The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush’s Military Industrial Complex" and "War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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