The horror of the Hiroshima atomic bombing – nuclear effects, theme for June 19

Who Will Drop the Next Nuclear Bomb? We ignore the ever-growing global arsenal of nuclear weapons at our peril. The Nation, Nick Turse May 13, 2013 “……..Nuclear Horror: Then and Now The first nuclear attack on a civilian population center, the U.S. strike on Hiroshima, left that city “uniformly and extensively devastated,” according to astudy carried out in the wake of the attacks by the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. “Practically the entire densely or moderately built-up portion of the city was leveled by blast and swept by fire… The surprise, the collapse of many buildings, and the conflagration contributed to an unprecedented casualty rate.” At the time, local health authorities reported that 60% of immediate deaths were due to flash or flame burns and medical investigators estimated that 15%-20% of the deaths were caused by radiation.

Witnesses “stated that people who were in the open directly under the explosion of the bomb were so severely burned that the skin was charred dark brown or black and that they died within a few minutes or hours,” according to the 1946 report. “Among the survivors, the burned areas of the skin showed evidence of burns almost immediately after the explosion. At first there was marked redness, and other evidence of thermal burns appeared within the next few minutes or hours.”

Many victims kept their arms outstretched because it was too painful to allow them to hang at their sides and rub against their bodies. One survivor recalled seeing victims “with both arms so severely burned that all the skin was hanging from their arms down to their nails, and others having faces swollen like bread, losing their eyesight. It was like ghosts walking in procession… Some jumped into a river because of their serious burns. The river was filled with the wounded and blood.”…… http://www.thenation.com/article/174295/who-will-drop-next-nuclear-bomb#

May 14, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, history, Reference

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There were enlightenment humanists like John Locke, that detested the subjugation and cruely of the imperial state. Please do not confuse them with ayn rand and ron paul.

Ayn Rand fascists are not really part of that. They are the ultimate corporatists like all facists are. Ayn Rand preached social darwinism, extreme hate of anything good or altruistic, worshiped a psychpathic murderer and was a racist.

Same for good old boy ronnie paul, who goes around the country preaching for the destruction of public education public libraries and the goodness of nuclear power. He also hates those cultural marxists lol. He is steve bannons idol. Ron paul is a climate denialist, who could not care less if they turned what is left of the world into a parking lot as long as it benefits, those deservent , John Galt, captains of industry, ayn rand fawns about and worships in her third rate , heavy-propaganda fascist-porn novels that are cloaked as sermons for liberty. Mire insidious and vile than jimmy swaggert.

Adolf Hitler, head of the German Nazi party (that is the party with the mis-leading name, sort of like Trump will make America great again, when he really means “white” again), was appointed Chancellor (Prime Minister) of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg on January 30, 1933. The Nazis, although powerful, were still not the dominant political party in Germany of the time. In fact, there was no dominant political party at that time.

In elections to the Reichstag (the German Parliament) after they became an important national party in the late 1920s, they regularly ran some somewhere between 32 and 37 percent of the vote (sound familiar?) But they were loud, and they had a large private army, the Sturmabteilung (SA), behind them. They also had significant ruling class support, from the likes of the steel baron Fritz Thyssen (who as readers of my columns know well raised money for the Nazis abroad from such folks as the US George Herbert Walker , Grandfather of George Bush [sound familiar?]).

https://www.opednews.com/articles/Trumpite-Fascism-From-Jan-by-Steven-Jonas-Abortion_Democrats_Fascism_Fascist-190604-512.html

Pipe Protesters Could Face 20-Year Sentence Under Trump Plan
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I know they would do this to large groups of nuclear protesters too, because they send provacateurs to the nuclear protests i go too

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dwforestation in the amazon surges to all time high under ayn-rand acolyte Jair Bolsonaro

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/04/deforestation-of-brazilian-amazon-surges-to-record-high-bolsonaro?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

Comment by hammy | June 4, 2019 | Reply
THE BIG BRAINCHILD OF FUKO AND RONNIE PAUL
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Jeremy Corbyn
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Theresa May stood next to
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as he said the NHS will be “on the table” in a US trade deal. And that’s what Tory leadership contenders and Farage are lining up for the No Deal disaster capitalism plans they have.

They all need to understand: our NHS is not for sale.

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https://www.opednews.com/articles/2/WWII–Holocaust-COULD-NOT-by-Jay-Janson-Capitalism-Over-Humanity_Hitler_War-Of-Deception-190606-1.html

Major American Corporations , ROBBER BARONS, Wall Street are the ones who truly financed Hitler’s Germany

“Synthetic gasoline and explosives (two of the very basic elements of modern warfare), the control of German World War II output was in the hands of two German combines created by Wall Street loans under the Dawes Plan.

The two largest tank producers in Hitler’s Germany were Opel, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors (controlled by the J.P. Morgan firm), and the Ford A. G. subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company of Detroit. The Nazis granted tax-exempt status to Opel in 1936, to enable General Motors to expand its production facilities. Alcoa and Dow Chemical worked closely with Nazi industry.

General Motors supplied Siemens & Halske A. G. in Germany with data on automatic pilots and aircraft instruments. As late as 1940, Bendix Aviation supplied complete technical data to Robert Bosch for aircraft and diesel engine starters and received royalty payments in return.

In brief, American companies associated with the Morgan-Rockefeller international investment bankers were intimately related to the growth of Nazi industry. It is important to note ” that General Motors, Ford, General Electric, DuPont and the handful of U.S. companies intimately involved with the development of Nazi Germany were — except for the Ford Motor Company — controlled by the Wall Street elite — the J.P. Morgan firm, the Rockefeller Chase Bank and to a lesser extent the Warburg Manhattan Bank.”

No one will regret the time spent in reading Anthony Sutton’s ‘Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler,’ 1976, available gratis on the Internet (PDF). Sutton was economics professor at California State University, Los Angeles and a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute from 1968 to 1973″

Comment by hammy | June 7, 2019 | Reply
Watch “Leadbelly Bourgeoise Blues” on YouTube

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