[ RadSafe ] Russia can turn U.S. to radioactive ash: Kremlin-backed journalist

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

As they say in the Wiki-world, "Citation Needed".  While there may well be some faculty in some universities that teach Communism, at least as an idealized system, is good, there are also faculty in universities who teach the virtues of Laissez Faire Capitalism (there were a couple teaching in my MBA program).  Heck there are universities that teach Young Earth Creationism.  

To the extent you believe that the Free Market should extend to intellectual fields you have to accept that there will be people teaching at universities who teach things that you disagree with.  I contend that the best, or at least intellectually most honest,  way of countering them is to use data that is as good as you can get at a reasonable price and apply logic and reason as sharp as you can handle.  

As for the Crimea, there is a fair amount of legitimate complexity, because the history of that area is longer and more complex than most Americans can, or at least want, to grasp.  That being said, I believe that most of the problem traces back to Putin, both his current actions and his earlier interference in Ukrainian politics to put in place people who worked more for Russia's interests than their own people's.  It is distressing that Putin's propaganda apparatus is already bringing up the possibility of nuclear war.   

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Riely
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 6:43 PM
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Russia can turn U.S. to radioactive ash: Kremlin-backed journalist

In US Universities they are teaching that Communism is not bad and Feudalism is better than Capitalism.




On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:11 PM, <edmond0033 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Those who voted (Crimea) to be annexed by Russia will soon feel the 
> heavy boot on their neck!!  They obviously forgot the rule of the 
> former USSR and now Russia.  Why have so many Russians left Russia?
>
> Ed Baratta
>
> edmond0033 at comcast.net
>
> -----Original Message----- From: KARAM, PHILIP
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:36 AM
> To: 'ROY HERREN' ; 'The International RadiationProtection (Health 
> Physics) Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Russia can turn U.S. to radioactive ash:
> Kremlin-backed journalist
>
>
> But then, with a nuclear winter, global warming goes away....
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces@ 
> health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of ROY HERREN
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 11:28 PM
> To: Radsafe
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Russia can turn U.S. to radioactive ash:
> Kremlin-backed journalist
>
> I read the following title, see below, and then the full article and I 
> have to say that I found it all quite disturbing.  Have those issuing 
> such threats as "Russia can turn U.S. to radioactive ash" already 
> forgotten about the Cold War concept of Mutually Assured Destruction 
> (MAD).  No one will win if two of the world's super powers engage in 
> Global Thermonuclear warfare. If western Europe thought the fallout 
> from Chernobyl was a bad thing, then how much worse do they think it 
> would be if they were to be plunged into a Nuclear winter from the global fallout of a MAD exchange?
>  These heavy handed and hopefully idle threats should give western 
> Europe pause to reconsider their reliance on foreign natural gas.
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/russia-turn-u-radioactive-ash-
> kremlin-backed-journalist-223608042--sector.html
>
> Russia can turn U.S. to radioactive ash: Kremlin-backed journalist
>
> By Lidia Kelly March 16, 2014 6:36 PM
>
> Roy Herren
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