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ALLENDE brought about his peaceful government in Chile by ballot, not bullet. But, you see, both Marx and Lenin taught that you'll never get the rich to give up their riches and share their wealth willingly, therefore you cannot legislate it. You cannot just pass laws to get them to do it, because they won't stand for it.

But the rich will nearly always fight and die for their riches. The rich would rather die than lose their wealth. That's why they fight their wars and send their own sons to die for them! So anyone trying to bring about a peaceful, nonviolent communist or socialist revolution is just wishfully thinking! They allow the socialists to merely pass laws and vote their riches out of existence! They will use their power and wealth to buy the military and pay them to defend them. This is why so many Fascist takeovers happen. This is why Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and many others came to power.

Ted Rudow III,MA Menlo Park

Thursday, April 29, 2010

The European money boys

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The European money boys
by Ted Rudow IIII,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Apr 29th, 2010



Unstable global financial markets, waves of bankruptcy, deepening unemployment, economic busts, markets plunging, collapsing consumer confidence, banking systems crashing—it does not seem that there is any place on earth immune from the financial crisis. Can someone save the world from a global economic meltdown? Who has the wisdom to deal with the crisis?

As economies crumble, poverty soars, and financial gloom spreads like wildfire, one thing is certain: Never before has there been such a need for someone to step up to the world's economic helm.The repercussions of economic globalization are bigger than anyone ever imagined. The effect that one nation's financial woes has on others and ultimately the rest of the world is unprecedented. There's a need for someone to man the controls, someone who can rescue the world from further turmoil.Who will be able to rescue the world from this mess? Where have all the leaders gone? Who is capable?

But the Capitalistic Financiers of Europe: They're all like a whole bunch of panders. They've got a whole lot invested in this America, and they don't want to lose it. The European money boys are left holding her bagful of worstless dollars. If they keep trying to support her, they're going to go bankrupt!
The infamous global financial system cryptically spoken of in the Bible's book of Revelation as the "Mark of the Beast"—without which no one will be able to buy or sell—is coming closer to inception every day.

Crises like this current one make people yearn for the economic stability that the framers of this new system will proclaim as their aim. The value of the new digital money will be guaranteed, but will come with a price, and that is your allegiance to the global regime that backs it. That coming regime will be the most sinister and tyrannical one that the world has ever seen. Your money may seem safe, but it will cost you as much as your soul.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Dear Editor: It turns out that not quite 20 percent of Americans are tea party supporters. Those who are tend to be white, Republican, male, older than 45 and wealthier than the rest of us. Fifty-seven percent hold a favorable opinion of George W. Bush. And where most Republicans describe themselves as "dissatisfied" with Washington, tea partiers are apt to use a different term.

They say they're angry. It is a telling word, especially in light of another survey, this one from the University of Washington's Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race & Sexuality. That poll offers strong evidence that, contrary to the denials of tea party enthusiasts, President Barack Obama's race plays a big role in their outrage.

After all, if the tea partiers were truly only concerned about so-called "tyranny," they'd have started howling when Bush claimed he need not be bound by laws with which he disagreed.

Ted Rudow III,MA

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Monday, April 26, 2010

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Letter: Drugs more spiritual than physical
April 26, 2010,
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It is drugs’ connection to the spiritual realm. Psychotropic or mind-altering substances are viewed by sorcerers and others involved in the occult as a gateway, or guide, into the Spirit World. Over the years, the Grateful Dead have become almost synonymous with marijuana and LSD use. The Washington Times described the uncanny fascination they inspire in their devoted fans, “For many of the camp followers, the Dead are a religion and their lyrics a bible. It is generally accepted that the Dead are tapped into some profound LSD-inspired truth. Not surprisingly, some hallucinating ‘Deadheads’ have weaved weird and elaborate theories about God and the Universe from strands of Grateful Dead lyrics.”


It’s not surprising because the Dead themselves have acknowledged this drug-induced demonic deception. As Captain Trip, Jerry Garcia, said in their biography “Playing in the Band.” “I can’t deny that there is a moment when I’m transformed, when all of a sudden God is speaking through my strings,” (“Playing in the Band,” David Gans and Peter Simon).


I began taking drugs and reading from mystical books at University of California at Berkeley but they never satisfied my soul. I realize that it was more a spiritual thing rather than a physical things. It lead me to pursue a degree in Education counseling at San Jose State University with classes in Drug and Alcohol counseling. I work as a Music Therapist at the VA Hospital in Menlo Park for 17 years and three years at James Ranch in Morgan Hill.



Ted Rudow III,MA
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The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and other political protests often refer to it. The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773.
The Tea party today, it turns out that not quite 20 percent of Americans are tea party supporters. They tend to be white, Republican, male, over 45 and wealthier than the rest of us. Fifty-seven percent hold a favorable opinion of George W. Bush. And where most Republicans describe themselves as "dissatisfied" with Washington, tea partiers are apt to use a different term. They say they're angry. It is a telling word, especially in light of another survey, this one from the University of Washington's Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race & Sexuality. That poll offers strong evidence that, contrary to the denials of tea party enthusiasts, President Barack Obama's race plays a big role in their outrage.
After all, if the tea partiers were truly only concerned about so-called "tyranny," they'd have started howling when Bush claimed he need not be bound by laws with which he disagreed. These same whites exploited, enslaved, suppressed, oppressed, tortured, and built massive, rich, and warring empires upon the bruised and bloody bodies of these down-trodden masses of so-called under-developed peoples! Under developed in what? Under-developed in war, weapons, brutality, cruelty, selfishness, and the desire to dominate others. Actually they were over- developed in some of the world's most beautiful and peaceful cultures -- religions, art, sciences, philosophies, and beautiful, peaceful, pastoral ways of life, which the white came to destroy, and to makes slaves of them.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Sorceries and megabanks

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Sorceries and megabanks

Dear Editor: This oligarchy consists of six megabanks — Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. They have assets equivalent to 60 percent of our gross national product.

And to put this in perspective, in the mid-1990s these six banks or their predecessors, since there have been a lot of mergers, had less than 20 percent. Their assets were less than 20 percent of the gross national product.

They did sorceries to take a lot of these loans and package them up into very complex "collateralized debt obligations" and other risky "financial derivatives" and then sell them to others as investments in the hopes the loans would one day be repaid. Banks and other investors all over the world bought and sold these things that they knew probably had no real value. Does this sound mad to you? It did to many at first, but somehow — like the old tale of the emperor's new clothes — enough investors and financiers thought they were exquisite, and eventually nearly everyone began to think it was economic wisdom.

"For thy merchants were the great men of the Earth, and by thy sorceries (the deceitfulness of riches and the witchcraft of wealth) were all nations deceived," says the Book of Revelation, 18,23b. American affluence is the dream of every country the world over, and her luxuries, sins and violence, from her music to her crimes, are imitated by nations around the world.

Ted Rudow III,MA

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4/22/10 This oligarchy consists of six megabanks, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. They have assets equivalent to 60 percent of our gross national product. And to put this in perspective, in the mid-1990s, these six banks or their predecessors, since there have been a lot of mergers, had less than 20 percent. Their assets were less than 20 percent of the gross national product.
They did sorceries to take a lot of these loans and package them up into very complex "collateralized debt obligations" and other risky "financial derivatives" and then sell them to others as investments in the hopes the loans would one day be repaid. Banks and other investors all over the world bought and sold these things that they knew probably had no real value. Does this sound mad to you? It did to many at first, but somehow, like the old tale of the emperor's new clothes, enough investors and financiers thought they were exquisite, and eventually nearly everyone began to think it was economic wisdom.
"For thy merchants were the great men of the Earth, and by thy sorceries (the deceitfulness of riches and the witchcraft of wealth!) were all nations deceived!(Rev. 18:23b) (American affluence is the dream of every country the world over, and her luxuries, sins and violence, from her music to her crimes, are imitated by nations around the world!)
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Spiritual realm

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Spiritual realm
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Thursday Apr 22nd, 2010
It is drugs' connection to the spiritual realm. Psychotropic or mind-altering substances are viewed by sorcerers and others involved in the occult as a gateway, or guide, into the Spirit World.
Over the years, the Grateful Dead have become almost synonymous with marijuana and LSD use. A national newspaper described the uncanny fascination they inspire in their devoted fans, "For many of the camp followers, the Dead are a religion and their lyrics a bible. It is generally accepted that the Dead are tapped into some profound LSD-inspired truth. Not surprisingly, some hallucinating `Deadheads' have weaved weird and elaborate theories about God and the Universe from strands of Grateful Dead lyrics" (The Washington Times)
It's not surprising because the Dead themselves have acknowledged this drug-induced demonic deception. As Captain Trip, Jerry Garcia, said in their biography Playing in the Band, "I can't deny that there is a moment when I'm transformed, when all of a sudden God is speaking through my strings" (Playing in the Band, David Gans and Peter Simon).
I began taking drugs and reading from mystical books at University of California at Berkeley but they never satisfied my soul. I realize that it was more a spiritual thing rather than a physical things. It lead me to pursue a degree in Education counseling at San Jose State University with classes in Drug and Alcohol counseling. I work as a Music Therapy at the VA Hospital in Menlo Park for 17 years and 3 years at James Ranch in Morgan Hill.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Sunday, April 18, 2010

America

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Amerika the whore
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Sunday Apr 18th, 2010
"Oligarchy is just- it's a very simple, straightforward idea from Aristotle. It's political power based on economic power." Simon Johnson


This oligarchy consists of six megabanks. What are the six Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. They have assets equivalent to 60 percent of our gross national product. And to put this in perspective, in the mid-1990s, these six banks or their predecessors, since there have been a lot of mergers, had less than 20 percent. Their assets were less than 20 percent of the gross national product.
America has been involved and to blame for nearly every major war of this century, as well as a good many of the past, and has wreaked more destruction of war on the world than any other nation in history. She is the greatest warmonger the world has ever known, and the greatest destroyer they will ever see.-- "For thy merchants were the great men of the Earth, and by thy sorceries (the deceitfulness of riches and the witchcraft of wealth!) were all nations deceived!(Rev. 18:23b) (American affluence is the dream of every country the world over, and her luxuries, sins and violence, from her music to her crimes, are imitated by nations around the world!)
Ted Rudow III

Friday, April 16, 2010

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“Israeli ‘apartheid’ targets two-state deal – Erakat”
April 15, 2010

The amendment to a previous order broadens the definition of infiltrators who can be expelled from the West Bank to include anyone who does not hold a permit, without specifying what type of document is needed. Seven Israeli rights groups said earlier that the military order was worded so broadly such as theoretically allowing the military to empty the West Bank of almost all its Palestinian inhabitants.
Israel vows it will never give back the Old City of Jerusalem, which it conquered in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Palestinians, the 1.2 billion-strong Muslim world, the Vatican, Europe, and the UN insist the Old City return to Muslim-Christian rule as capital of Palestine.
Israel refuses any right of return to Palestinian refugees expelled from their homes in 1948 and 1967, though it welcomed 1 million Russians and still keeps its doors open for new immigrants. Israel also says it will never force 180,000 Jewish settlers on the West Bank, Gaza, and Golan to leave.
End of story? Not necessarily. The president of the United States has the power to break this impasse. In 1956, Israel, in collusion with France and Britain, invaded Egypt and seized Sinai. When Israel refused to withdraw at war end, President Dwight Eisenhower ordered Israel to vacate Sinai or face the cut-off of all US aid and an end to the tax-deductible status of contributions to Israel. Israel vacated Sinai.
Israel has received $180 billion in aid from the US since 1948. Every year, US taxpayers give Israel $5 billion in open and hidden aid. Egypt is paid $2 billion annually not to confront Israel. Israel’s military is dependent on US equipment and technology. Only the oft-used US veto prevents Israel from facing UN sanctions over its refusal to pull out from the West Bank and the Old City.
Please remember the plight of the poor Palestinian people in your daily prayers.

Ted Rudow III, MA
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Only a country that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on Earth! Majority rule, or a democracy, is the worst and most inefficient kind of government you can possibly have.
Jesus Himself taught that the majority is always wrong: "Broad is the way and wide is the gate that leadeth unto destruction, and many there be that go in thereat!"
Democracy is ridiculous comic opera!--The most inefficient muddled confusion that was ever created by man! Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.--Harry S. Truman.
The cleverest form of dictatorship: They tell you you're free when you're really a slave without even a slave's security!--Like in the U.S.
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The attention of America from the well-worn fact that her ruling Republican party have always been the robbers of the poor and the protectors of the rich. Furious that the courageous exposure of there criminal hypocrisy and traitorous deception of the American people, and enraged by the humiliation of there scandalous Administration being the continuous major subject of daily worldwide headlines.
Tough times can also lead to tough government actions and tyranny. It's a time of upheaval, flux and change for the world, just as the 1930s were, the Great Depression period before World War II. History doesn't always repeat itself, of course, but it can sometimes. Yes, all the makings for a police state are there, and not just in the U.S., but in any number of countries.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010

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The attention of America from the well-worn fact that her ruling Republican party have always been the robbers of the poor and the protectors of the rich. Furious that the courageous exposure of his criminal hypocrisy and traitorous deception of the American people, and enraged by the humiliation of there scandalous Administration being the continuous major subject of daily worldwide headlines.
Tough times can also lead to tough government actions and tyranny. It's a time of upheaval, flux and change for the world, just as the 1930s were, the Great Depression period before World War II. First came the Roaring '20s, then came the Depression '30s, and then came the years of war of the '40s. History doesn't always repeat itself, of course, but it can sometimes. Yes, all the makings for a police state are there, and not just in the U.S., but in any number of countries.
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Friday, April 09, 2010

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Israel on Friday threatened wide-scale military action against the Gaza Strip after launching a string of air strikes in response to rocket fire from the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave. Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom warned of a new offensive on the coastal territory unless the attacks were halted. In 1956, Israel went to war without American consent. Ben-Gurion thought that his collusion with the UK and France was enough. He was vastly mistaken. A hundred hours after telling us the Third Kingdom of Israel had come into being; he announced with a broken voice he was going to evacuate all the territories just conquered. President Dwight Eisenhower, together with his Soviet colleague, had submitted an ultimatum, and that was the end of the adventure. Since then, Israel has not started a single war without securing the agreement of Washington. Obama has promised to get tough about Israel, not for the sake of the Jews or Israel itself, but for the sake of Israel as a military base.

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On April 4, 1967, exactly one year to the day before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech titled "Beyond Vietnam," and called the U.S. government "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

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America is built on violence! Violence is its religion. From the time the kids get to school and beat each other up till the time they go to war to kill each other, that's America's religion.
Americans are the worst warmongers! America, ex-Christian America, was supposedly the most Christian nation in the World, but it is no longer! They have become the most pro-selfish, pro-capitalist, really pro-fascist, anti-socialist country in the World!
It was the American police and government agents who taught the Latin American police how to torture, and did the same thing in Iran. The CIA was over there teaching them how to torture! Think of it!--America, the World's greatest instructor in scientific torture!--And she backs these big dictatorial fascist regimes throughout Latin America, and in fact throughout the World! To the Americans, violence is always the final answer, war is always the final answer, "If we don't get what we want we'll fight for it!" That's how America was built, on violence, absolute violence!
The Russians didn't invent the ballistic missiles, the Russian didn't invent the atomic bombs, the Russians haven't fought many wars and killed the millions of people the Americans have!
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Ted Rudow III, MA, On e-mail
According to an American Cancer Society article, marijuana impairs the immune system. Smoking marijuana regularly (a joint a day) can damage the cells in the bronchial passages which protect the body against inhaled microorganisms and decrease the ability of the immune cells in the lungs to fight off fungi, bacteria, and tumour cells. For patients with already weakened immune systems which often proves fatal in AIDS patients.

People who have learned from hard experience with drugs will tell you that it's a steppingstone to drugs that are much more powerful and harmful, and that if you want to be safe and not go down that road of sorrow, you will not even take the first step.

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Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Grabbed

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Grabbed Jerusalem
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Tuesday Apr 6th, 2010
As so often happens in international settlementsand peace treaties, etc., they usually settle on about whatever they've conquered, so in the final days of the war the Jews made a big drive to get in and get Jerusalem, and they did.
As you can see, they drove like a dagger into the heart of the Palestinian area and grabbed Jerusalem, and it's been a point of argument ever since. Jerusalem was an all-Arab city, almost entirely Palestinian, including Bethlehem and all the surrounding area, but the Jews grabbed it, first the Western half, then the rest in the 1967 War.

In the original settlement, even Jerusalem and all this part was given to the Palestinian, in fact more than what is now the West Bank. Just about half of what is now Israel was given to the Palestinianin a very fair settlement, what they call the Partition--the Partition Settlement of that war between the Jews and the Palestinian. The Jews were given about half of present-day Israel, and the Palestinian or Palestinians were given the other half.
It was a very fair settlement and everyone agreed on it except guess who?--the Israeli! They just paid no attention to it, like it never had even been agreed on! The Palestinian agreed to it, the U.S. agreed to it, all the major World nations agreed to it, about the only ones who didn't were the Jews! And they just kept right on fighting and arguing and held their line that they had captured during the War. That's about all it did was stop'm from going any further, they just held the line, including Jerusalem.

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April 06, 2010,

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According to an American Cancer Society article, marijuana impairs the immune system. Smoking marijuana regularly (a joint a day) can damage the cells in the bronchial passages which protect the body against inhaled microorganisms and decrease the ability of the immune cells in the lungs to fight off fungi, bacteria and tumor cells. "I would probably legalize it, but I don't think that will happen. The smugglers will then shift gears. Many years ago, I met with the head of Egyptian narcotics where users of pot and harder drugs would be monitored and given the best drugs in Egypt. When the border was closed by the Israeli war, it was also closed to the special cannabis coming in from Lebanon. Guess what? Cannabis users were now switching to heroin," said Dr. Richard Lyon, noted urological expert. People who have learned from hard experience with drugs will tell you that it's a stepping stone to drugs that are much more powerful and harmful, and that if you want to be safe and not go down that road of sorrow, you will not even take the first step.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Nuclear Arms

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Nuclear Arms
by Ted Rudow III,MA
Saturday Apr 3rd, 2010

Since World War II, “the war to end all wars,” the explosive power of the combined nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia has grown to the equivalent of 300,000 Hiroshima’s. The 8,500 warheads and bombs in the US arsenal alone have a combined explosive power of more than 3 billion tons of TNT – about 1,500 pounds of explosive for every man, woman and child on this planet.

Dr. James Muller, a Harvard heart specialist and secretary of the Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, Inc., brought this out when he said: “At some point deep down inside, people know the world could explode tomorrow.”
Yet some people are just talking about it calmly as though it is the natural thing to expect – that we are going to destroy each other and the world! In an article entitled “The End of the World, US Senator George McGovrn wrote: “Even the smallest of today’s strategic nuclear weapons has several times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb. If one were to explode at midday in Manhattan, the shock wave would kill 5,000,000 unprotected people within 4 or 5 miles and would demolish buildings almost as far away as the Connecticut border. And that would be just the beginning of the end: only 20 percent of the fatalities at Hiroshima were caused by the blast.
“A nuclear explosion over Manhattan would generate temperatures of tens of millions of degrees centigrade, radiating out like the sun’s rays. The heat and the fire storm would be deadlier than the shock. So would the short and long-term radiation effects. The familiar mushroom cloud would draw up and contaminate tons of earth and debris, to settle back and kill millions of people hundreds of miles away.”

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Matt Spetalnick
“Obama, Medvedev seal deal on nuclear
arms-control pact”
March 27, 2010

Since World War II, “the war to end all wars,” the explosive power of the combined nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia has grown to the equivalent of 300,000 Hiroshima’s. The 8,500 warheads and bombs in the US arsenal alone have a combined explosive power of more than 3 billion tons of TNT – about 1,500 pounds of explosive for every man, woman and child on this planet.
Dr. James Muller, a Harvard heart specialist and secretary of the Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, Inc., brought this out when he said: “At some point deep down inside, people know the world could explode tomorrow.”
Yet some people are just talking about it calmly as though it is the natural thing to expect – that we are going to destroy each other and the world! In an article entitled “The End of the World, US Senator George McGovrn wrote: “Even the smallest of today’s strategic nuclear weapons has several times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb. If one were to explode at midday in Manhattan, the shock wave would kill 5,000,000 unprotected people within 4 or 5 miles and would demolish buildings almost as far away as the Connecticut border. And that would be just the beginning of the end: only 20 percent of the fatalities at Hiroshima were caused by the blast.
“A nuclear explosion over Manhattan would generate temperatures of tens of millions of degrees centigrade, radiating out like the sun’s rays. The heat and the fire storm would be deadlier than the shock. So would the short and long-term radiation effects. The familiar mushroom cloud would draw up and contaminate tons of earth and debris, to settle back and kill millions of people hundreds of miles away.”

Ted Rudow III, MA
Menlo Park, California, United States

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