I think his idea that the monetary system is going bankrupt is quite possibly true, especially in Europe. I don't see how Obama is pulling the strings of a big nuclear, pardon me, thermonuclear war conspiracy. His influence on any meaningful policy changes has been stunted by the ineffectiveness of congress.

[edit - After watching past 32:00:00] OMFG, this guy is nuts. Colonizing Mars? Galactic radiation threats? This is cult logic on a epic, Branch Davidian/Scientology scale. Crazy like a fox, perhaps. A retarded fox.

didn't know who this guy was... I watched the first 15 minutes before stopping.. this guy is nuts.

... then I looked him up on ye old wikipedia.. yep, he's nuts.

Not that a WW3 isn't in the realm of possibility. An open conflict with Iran involving Israel may very well devolve in a nuclear clusterfuck, there are crazy people with their fingers on the button.

That said.. saying the impeachment of Obama is the only way to avert an otherwise unavoidable thermonuclear war is just stupid. I'm not Obama's biggest fan, but *IF* there is to be such a war, I don't think we'd be safer with a republican president...

>> ^Hybrid:

This is only in the happy channel as the pilot forgot to release his thermonuclear warhead.


Hehe, I was going to ask, but I'll take it from you...

This is only in the happy channel as the pilot forgot to release his thermonuclear warhead.

Susan Lindauer:
...
I got indicted for protesting the War in Iraq. My crime was delivering a warm-hearted letter to my second cousin White House Chief of Staff, Andy Card, which correctly outlined the consequences of War. Suspiciously, I had been one of the very few Assets covering the Iraqi Embassy at the United Nations for seven years. Thus, I was personally acquainted with the truth about Pre-War Intelligence, which differs remarkably from the story invented by GOP leaders on Capitol Hill.

More dangerously still, my team gave advance warnings about the 9/11 attack and solicited Iraq’s cooperation after 9/11. In August 2001, at the urging of my CIA handler, I phoned Attorney General John Ashcroft’s private staff and the Office of Counter-Terrorism to ask for an “emergency broadcast alert” across all federal agencies, seeking any fragment of intelligence on airplane hijackings. My warning cited the World Trade Center as the identified target. Highly credible independent sources have confirmed that in August, 2001 I described the strike on the World Trade Center as “imminent,” with the potential for “mass casualties, possibly using a miniature thermonuclear device.”

Thanks to the Patriot Act, Americans have zero knowledge of those truths, though the 9/11 Community has zoomed close for years. Republican leaders invoked the Patriot Act to take me down 30 days after I approached the offices of Senator John McCain and Trent Lott, requesting to testify about Iraq’s cooperation with the 9/11 investigation and a comprehensive peace framework that would have achieved every U.S. and British objective without firing a shot. Ironically, because of the Patriot Act, my conversations with Senator Trent Lott’s staff got captured on wire taps, proving my story.

You see, contrary to rhetoric on Capitol Hill, the Patriot Act is first and foremost a weapon to bludgeon whistleblowers and political dissidents. Indeed, it has been singularly crafted for that purpose.

The American people are not nearly as frightened as they should be. Many Americans expect the Patriot Act to limit its surveillance to overseas communications. Yet while I was under indictment, Maryland State Police invoked the Patriot Act to wire tap activists tied to the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, an environmental group dedicated to wind power, solar energy and recycling. The DC Anti-War Network was targeted as a “white supremacist group.” Amnesty International and anti-death penalty activists got targeted for alleged “civil rights violations.”
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I cannot forget. I cannot forget how I was subjected to secret charges, secret evidence and secret grand jury testimony that denied my right to face my accusers or their accusations in open court, throughout five years of indictment. I cannot forget my imprisonment on a Texas military base for a year without a trial or evidentiary hearing.

I cannot forget how the FBI, the US Attorneys Office, the Bureau of Prisons and the main Justice office in Washington — independently and collectively verified my story— then falsified testimony to Chief Justice Michael Mukasey, denying our 9/11 warnings and my long-time status as a U.S. intelligence Asset, though my witnesses had aggressively confronted them. Apparently the Patriot Act allows the Justice Department to withhold corroborating evidence and testimony from the Court, if it is deemed “classified.”

I cannot forget threats of forcible drugging and indefinite detention up to 10 years, until I could be “cured” of believing what everybody wanted to deny— because it was damn inconvenient to politicians in Washington anxious to hold onto power.
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I always wondered why to my mother that we couldn't just throw all the nuclear waste into a volcano like Kīlauea?? Could we? Have they!?
I think this is a good explanation. FROM INTERNET

Dumping all our nuclear waste in a volcano does seem like a neat solution for destroying the roughly 29,000 tons of spent uranium fuel rods stockpiled around the world. But there’s a critical standard that a volcano would have to meet to properly dispose of the stuff, explains Charlotte Rowe, a volcano geophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. And that standard is heat. The lava would have to not only melt the fuel rods but also strip the uranium of its radioactivity. “Unfortunately,” Rowe says, “volcanoes just aren’t very hot.”

Lava in the hottest volcanoes tops out at around 2,400˚F. (These tend to be shield volcanoes, so named for their relatively flat, broad profile. The Hawaiian Islands continue to be formed by this type of volcano.) It takes temperatures that are tens of thousands of degrees hotter than that to split uranium’s atomic nuclei and alter its radioactivity to make it inert, Rowe says. What you need is a thermonuclear reaction, like an atomic bomb—not a great way to dispose of nuclear waste.

Volcanoes aren’t hot enough to melt the zirconium (melting point 3,371˚) that encases the fuel, let alone the fuel itself: The melting point of uranium oxide, the fuel used at most nuclear power plants, is 5,189˚. The liquid lava in a shield volcano pushes upward, so the rods probably wouldn’t even sink very deep, Rowe says. They wouldn’t sink at all in a stratovolcano, the most explosive type, exemplified by Washington’s Mount St. Helens. Instead, the waste would just sit on top of the volcano’s hard lava dome—at least until the pressure from upsurging magma became so great that the dome cracked and the volcano erupted. And that’s the real problem.

A regular lava flow is hazardous enough, but the lava pouring out of a volcano used as a nuclear storage facility would be extremely radioactive. Eventually it would harden, turning that mountain’s slopes into a nuclear wasteland for decades to come. And the danger would extend much farther. “All volcanoes do is spew stuff upward,” Rowe says. “During a big eruption, ash and gas can shoot six miles into the air and afterward circle the globe several times. We’d all be in serious trouble.”

>> ^notarobot:

I'd like to play tic tac toe please.


Okay, Global Thermonuclear War it is!

Global Thermonuclear War!
M.A.D. - The Mad Doctrine is based on the principal that if both sides have the capability to annihilate the other, Neither will act!

Stephen Falken: The whole point was to find a way to practice nuclear war without destroying ourselves. To get the computers to learn from mistakes we couldn't afford to make. Except, I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson.
David Lightman: What's that?
Stephen Falken: Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.
Jennifer: What kind of a lesson is that?
Stephen Falken: Did you ever play tic-tac-toe?
Jennifer: Yeah, of course.
Stephen Falken: But you don't anymore.
Jennifer: No.
Stephen Falken: Why?
Jennifer: Because it's a boring game. It's always a tie.
Stephen Falken: Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless! But back at the war room, they believe you can win a nuclear war. That there can be "acceptable losses."
WAR GAMES

Related to my video on Project ORION:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Secret-Government-Project-For-Thermonuclear-Spacecraft

Done, thanks. I don't think I could get the TED embed to work at the time I submitted.

In reply to this comment by calvados:
Bro (?), you want to switch out your feed for Project Orion? -- http://www.videosift.com/video/Secret-Government-Project-For-Thermonuclear-Spacecraft -- The original TED source is more better: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/george_dyson_on_project_orion.html

Bro (?), you want to switch out your feed for Project Orion? -- http://www.videosift.com/video/Secret-Government-Project-For-Thermonuclear-Spacecraft -- The original TED source is more better: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/george_dyson_on_project_orion.html

I thought the prank war was through after #5, which seemed to end with a lot of misery and resentment. Man, with this level of escalation, Prank War #12 or #13 is going to be global thermonuclear war.

Title's a little off...Ivy mike was the first hydrogen or thermonuclear detonation but it wasn't the first nuclear bomb.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'TED, Dyson, Thermonuclear, Saturn, Space, Orion' to 'TED, George Dyson, Dyson, Thermonuclear, Saturn, Space, Orion' - edited by kulpims

William Stromberg and Moscow Symphony Orchestra.
That clip is from Visual Concept Entertainment's documentary Trinity and Beyond, aka The Atomic Bomb Movie. They have also couple other documentaries around same subject.
http://www.vce.com/about.html

Here's some more clips from those documentaries.
Cannikin with resulting "6.8 Richter shaking":
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OCb34tmX4UI
Redwing Cherokee:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvzpqecuB-M
Operation Dominic shots:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=joupmq4e2eM
Ivy Mike, first real two stage thermonuclear bomb:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xEFXfMQ-vzQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=asAkcbI2nt4
Castle Bravo, "little miscalculation". Non-inert Lithium-7 rised yield to 2.5 times greater than estimated making it largest nuclear device ever detonated by US:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fd1IFjBNNVo
Sedan excavation test:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VplPn52Lbm4
Nuclear artillery shell, Upshot-Knothole Grable:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oBIYLG8XMOc