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"Unlike chimpanzees or gorillas, and unlike any other creature on Earth, human beings wear clothes, grow food, paint pictures, sing songs, dig wells, mine coal, read books, go to school, get married, remember anniversaries, earn money, go to discotheques, hoard gold, hold elections, employ lawyers, belong to unions, take vacations, follow fashion, join fan clubs, collect stamps, give parties, fly planes, build highways, spray insecticides, stockpile nuclear weapons, and worship God. Man is nothing but evolution become conscious of itself." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "Who in 1900 would have predicted the solar cell, genetic engineering, nuclear weapons, radar, microchips, the personal computer, satellite navigation, lasers, television, videocassettes, pocket stereos, or many of the other breakthroughs that we accept so easily today? They were all beyond the thinking of the time. Most of them were still beyond our thinking half a century later. Even twenty years ago, no one foresaw the impact that personal computers would have on our lives. Even science fiction writers got it woefully wrong." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "There are also possible allusions to nuclear weapons: "a gourd of ashes" that would fall from the sky, boiling the oceans and burning the land so that nothing would grow for many years. This would be the signal that the final stage was approaching. Man would travel to the moon and build a city in the sky, but then go no farther. However, the Hopi prophecy also says that at the height of the white man's foolishness great wisdom returns, coming from the East." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "So too is the impact of war: napalm, land mines, anthrax, and nuclear weapons inflict far more damage on communities and on the environment than did bows and arrows and spears. Famines hit with increasing severity, exacerbated by the population explosion and the depletion of the soil. And the possibility of new pestilences strikes fear deep into the hearts of individuals and insurance companies alike. These correlations are often seen as a sign that the "Day of Judgment" is indeed nigh." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Stewart's findings also upset those advocating the continued use of nuclear weapons and testing. The year 1956 was the peak year for above-ground nuclear testing and radioactive fallout. Obstetricians and nuclear weapons advocates alike maintained that small doses of radiation were harmless. In fact, Stewart's findings showed that a single dose of diagnostic x-rays early in pregnancy more than doubled the child's risk of leukemia." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Uranium miners and those living in areas close to nuclear weapons tests are exposed to higher levels of radiation. Ironically, some cancer treatments include radiation therapy to help kill cancer cells. Yet the radiation itself increases the risk of cancer. Historically, radiation was used to monitor patients with tuberculosis. The high amount of radiation in the targeted area caused a drastic increase in breast cancer rates 10 years after this method of monitoring began. History has many examples of how radiation use is strongly linked to an increase in cancer rates." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"As Jane Plant, PhD, remarks in The No Dairy Breast Cancer Prevention Program: The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have similar rates of breast cancer: and remember, both cities were attacked with nuclear weapons, so in addition to the usual pollution-related cancers, one would also expect to find some radiation-related cases. If, as a North American woman, one was living a Japanese lifestyle in industrialized, irradiated Hiroshima, you would slash your risk of contracting breast cancer by a half to a third. The conclusion is inescapable." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Rocky Flats, a former nuclear weapons plant near Denver, Colorado, was shut down in 1989 because a slew of environmental violations—leaking storage drums, tanks, and pipelines; on-site landfills; unlined disposal trenches—had thoroughly contaminated the soil and groundwater. Today the site contains what might be the largest remaining tallgrass prairie in North America, as well as several endangered or threatened species, including peregrine falcons. The most iconic nuclear wasteland of our time, Chernobyl, is also turning into an immense wildlife preserve." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Wolfowitz has been one of Washington's biggest hawks, ever since the days when he argued for the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. To this day, he likes to praise Indonesia's Suharto, who in his 32-year reign looted $30 billion from the public treasury and turned his country into one of the most corrupt in the world. Of course, on second thought, that might be the perfect resume for the Bank.20 After all, the World Bank has a bit of a track record when it comes to getting and spending, not to mention laying waste. We put before you two countries: Both are Asian." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"And he's working on nuclear weapons. The message is very clear—we have no time to lose, Saddam must be removed from office. Every day that goes by is a day in which we are exposed to dangers on a far larger scale than the tragedy of September 11.... I think we're moving not nearly fast enough, but clearly in the right direction. Bureaucracies are sluggish. And, we had an administration that wasn't prepared to contemplate military action to remove Saddam. So it was a standing start. Then you had September 11 and the preoccupation in dealing with the immediate crisis." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Negotiate and ratify an internarional rreary to eliminate nuclear weapons. • Prevent proliferation and use of conventional weapons, including light weapons, small arms, and guns, and safeguard personal security. • Ratify and implement the land-mine ban treaty. • Prevent the development and use of new weapons and new military technologies, including a ban on depleted uranium and the deployment of weapons in space. • Encourage universal adherence to and implementation of the biological weapons convention and the chemical weapons convention." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"The Iranians have agreed to participate in the global disarmament and elimination of nuclear weapons, as have the North Koreans. Al Quaeda has laid down its guns in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and the terrorist group has agreed to peaceful disarmament in exchange for its members partaking in the building up of those nations. Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds have created autonomous regions in Iraq with all of them peacefully sharing in the oil bounty. The country is healing the anger and madness of the last fifty years as organizations peopled by participants from each sector rebuild the country." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"Hollywood notwithstanding, nuclear weapons don't work. Many asteroids are not very dense, and would be more likely to absorb the energy of a nuke than to be torn apart by one. Our best bet might be to push the asteroid. Given enough warning—about a decade—we could nudge asteroids far enough off-course to miss us. Groups like the B61 z Foundation, led by Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, are coming up with plans to design and test the necessary gear. The best defense currently within our grasp is to crank up the search for asteroids that have Earth's name on them." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Envision Pakistan, India, and China—all armed with nuclear weapons, and other countries going nuclear so that anyone can rule the world?skirmishing at their borders over refugees, access to shared rivers, and arable land. . . . With over 200 river basins touching multiple nations, we can expect conflict over access to water for drinking, irrigation, and transportation. The Danube touches twelve nations, the Nile runs through nine, and the Amazon through seven. Most ominously, "In this world of warring states, nuclear arms proliferation is inevitable." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The first big change is that state-versus-state warfare is on the way out, made obsolete by nuclear weapons and global economic interdependence. Don't be confused by the invasion of Iraq, it was an outlier. One-on-one wars between states in the twenty-first century will be exceedingly rare. That's good, but as interstate warfare has been declining, state-versus-nonstate warfare has surged. It started with 9/11, and it continues in Iraq, Nigeria, southern Russia, Thailand, and many other places." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Obstetricians and nuclear weapons advocates alike maintained that small doses of radiation were harmless. In fact, Stewart's findings showed that a single dose of diagnostic x-rays early in pregnancy more than doubled the child's risk of leukemia.28 In 1960, Richard Doll and William Court-Brown published a study of patients who had been treated with x-rays for ankylosing spondylitis (a spinal deformity) and concluded that medical radiation had been harmless." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "Uranium and chromate are critical to the production of nuclear weapons. Hueper learned the hard way that inquiries into their dangers were not welcomed. "One nice day when I submitted that manuscript for clearance, I was called later on in to the office of my director. He said, 'Now the high medical officials of the Atomic Energy Commission object against that. They said there are quite other reasons why the uranium miners develop cancer; it's not the radioactivity. You shall omit that from your presentation.' I said to the director, 'I will tell you something." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "What did nicotine withdrawal have to do with the NAS—an institution that most American presidents routinely tap for advice on nuclear weapons and global warming? The motto written on the gold-leafed dome of the academy's Great Hall is an ode to the powers of science: "To science, pilot of industry, conqueror of disease, multiplier of the harvest, explorer of the universe, revealer of nature's laws, eternal guide to truth." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Any armed conflict, particularly involving the widespread use of nuclear weapons, would of course have the by-product of further increasing the planetary surface area considered uninhabitable for humans. As mentioned in previous chapters, recently glaciated soils tend to be thin, rocky and poor, with little in the way of nutrients or organic matter. However, when compared to Africa and Asia - which lose a third of their food supply in the study mentioned above - the higher latitudes would escape relatively lightly." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Conflicts which were once fought with spears and swords, however, will now be fought with guns, grenades or nuclear weapons. So how might one go about planning to survive? Most people's natural response would probably be to stake themselves out an isolated patch of mountain where they and their loved ones might lay low until the crisis passes. This could indeed be an option in regions with large landmasses and sparsely populated highlands, like the western United States." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Probably the most controversial is nuclear power, which raises dangers of nuclear weapons proliferation and deadly accidents, as well as the still unsolved question of what to do with highly radioactive wastes. Carbon capture and storage is an unproven technology which could result in unexpected releases of C02 from faulty or leaky reservoirs below ground, although the IPCC ranks this risk as very low.29 Pouring investment into quadrupling the numbers of gas-fuelled power stations to achieve a wedge would be unwise if gas supplies are close to peaking." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Studies of those exposed occupationally, such as chloralkali and nuclear weapons workers, dentists, and dental technicians, indicate that exposure to low levels of mercury may increase the risk of lung, kidney, and brain tumors.™ Better studies on these groups of high-risk individuals need to be done. No one has specifically examined the relationship between dental amalgams and brain tumors, but there is suggestive evidence that they are related.77 The effect of mercury on the immune system should be of major concern to both cancer patients and their doctors." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Terrorists employing biological or nuclear weapons will vie with conventional forces using jets, cruise missiles, and bunker-busting bombs to cause widespread destruction. Many will interpret stepped-up conflicts between Muslims and Western societies as the beginnings of a new world war. As events unfold, unsettling geopolitical tensions and the continuing economic collapse will weigh heavily on the familiar routines of everyday life, forcing many Americans to wonder when, or if, it will ever end. Part Four DEFENSES I C h a p t e r PLANNING "A man should learn to sail in all winds. " - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"Nations seek nuclear power as a hedge against fossil fuels, and nuclear weapons proliferate. These skirmishes place increasing stress upon the world, with less-resilient developing nations reacting most acutely, since their economic systems haven't the capacity to absorb change. Each of these local disasters could be handled, but the cumulative effect on the global community could plunge the United States into an environmental abyss fueled by declining resources, including oil. According to the Pentagon report, here's what to expect: First Decade ?" - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Department of Energy and is engaged in nuclear weapons research as well as experimenting with various forms of energy This is big-time physics and chemistry, so as you might imagine, there are potential exposures to all sorts of radiation and toxic substances. In the mid-1970s a number of Livermore employees were diagnosed with melanoma. Although no known occupational exposures were associated with melanoma, California health officials—and presumably laboratory employees—were worried. They found that the incidence among Livermore employees was three times that of the surrounding community." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.)

"Some irradiation plants may begin using caesium 137 which was left over from the production of nuclear weapons. This radioactive material is dangerous and unstable. In 1988 a leak of caesium 137 near Atlanta cost thirty million dollars to clean up. Radiation does increase the shelf life of food which will enable the large food conglomerates to gain even more control over the production, distribution and selling of foods. Learn to recognize the label for radiated products and refuse to buy them." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"It follows closely the ideas Russell had outlined in his first letter to Einstein of February 11,1955: If a great war occurs, nuclear weapons will certainly be employed. A great war with nuclear weapons means, at the lowest estimate, appalling disaster and, not improbably, extinction of all life on our planet. A great war must, therefore, be prevented. Neither bloc in the East-West tension can be the first to renounce war, since this would give a diplomatic advantage to the opposing bloc. Only uncommitted governments can approach both blocs without incurring the odium of appeasement." - Otto Nathan and Heinz Norden, Einstein on Peace (Get the book.)

"Of course, the Panamanians knew why we were there and were quick to ask how many canals the United States was planning to dig in the 50 states using nuclear weapons. They were always gracious, but their point was quite clear, and after my more than two-year stay in Panama, Uncle Sam decided that it was not feasible—biologically, geologically and politically—to build this canal with nuclear weapons. Plants Yield Tkeir Healing Secrets The bomb business may have been the reason I was in Panama, but actually, it didn't intrude much on what I did from day to day." - James A. Duke, Ph.D., The Green Pharmacy: New Discoveries in Herbal Remedies for Common Diseases and Conditions from the World's Foremost Authority on Healing Herbs (Get the book.)

"Japan gave up the gun, therefore the world can give up nuclear weapons. 4. The Jesuits—the Society of Jesus, founded in 1539 in Spain by (Saint) Ignatius Loyola—had spread all over the then known world within a generation. They were educatots, propagandists, and, in Europe, warriors of the Counter-Reformation. In the non-European world they established a missionary standard which few could later achieve and none excel. They arrived in China about 1570, and were much more acceptable there than in Japan, which provided the Society with saints and martyrs from about 1600 onward. 5." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"Seventy percent of the pilots in the US strategic air force flying planes with nuclear weapons have been found to suffer from moderate to severe emotional disturbances. Most professional athletes display signs of both physical and emotional stress during preparation and participation in important competitions. The New York Stock Exchange has oxygen dispensers installed on the premises for brokers suffering form ischemic heart attacks." - Anatoly Antoshechkin, Adaptogens and Health Care (Get the book.)

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