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Guest: Helen Caldicott
MD Researcher "The Nuclear Debate & Remediation"
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Guest: Helen Caldicott MD Researcher "The
Nuclear Debate & Remediation"
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Streaming Broadcast: January 24, 2012
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Panel Helen Caldicott MD Researcher & Dr. Brian O'Leary Scientist, Author & Astronaut
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Streaming Broadcast: October 24, 2011 (Originally Broadcast May 9, 2011)
Helen Caldicott
Biography
The single most articulate
and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott, has devoted
the last 38 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the
necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction.
Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1938, Dr Caldicott received her
medical degree from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 1961. She founded the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at
the Adelaide Children's Hospital in 1975 and subsequently was an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical
School and on the staff of the Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Mass., until 1980 when she resigned to
work full time on the prevention of nuclear war.
In 1971, Dr Caldicott played a major role in Australia's opposition
to French atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific; in 1975 she worked with the Australian trade unions to educate their
members about the medical dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle, with particular reference to uranium mining.
While living in the United States from 1977
to 1986, she co-founded thePhysicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating
their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war. On trips abroad she helped start similar
medical organizations in many other countries. The international umbrella group (International Physicians for the Prevention
of Nuclear War) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. She also founded the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND)
in the US in 1980.
Returning to Australia in 1987, Dr Caldicott ran for Federal Parliament as an independent.
Defeating Charles Blunt, leader of the National Party, through preferential voting she ultimately lost the election by
600 votes out of 70,000 cast.
She moved back to the United States
in 1995, lecturing at the New School for Social Research on the Media, Global Politics and the Environment, hosting
a weekly radio talk show on WBAI (Pacifica), and becoming the Founding President of the STAR (Standing for Truth
About Radiation) Foundation.
Dr Caldicott has received many prizes and awards for her work, including the Lannan Foundation's
2003 Prize for Cultural Freedom and 21 honorary doctoral degrees, and she was personally nominated for the Nobel Peace
Prize by Linus Pauling - himself a Nobel Laureate. TheSmithsonian Institute has named Dr Caldicott as one of
the most influential women of the 20th Century. She has written for numerous publications and has authored seven books, Nuclear
Madness, Missile Envy, If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth (1992, W.W. Norton) and A Desperate
Passion: An Autobiography (1996, W.W. Norton; published as A Passionate Life in Australia by Random
House),The New Nuclear Danger: George Bush’s Military Industrial Complex(2001, The New Press in the US, UK
and UK; Scribe Publishing in Australia and New Zealand; Lemniscaat Publishers in The Netherlands; and Hugendubel
Verlag in Germany), Nuclear Power is Not the Answer(2006, The New Press in the US, UK and UK; Melbourne
University Pressin Australia) and War In Heaven (March 2007). Dr. Caldicott’s most recent book is the revised
and updated If You Love This Planet (March 2009).
She
also has been the subject of several films, including Eight Minutes to Midnight, nominated for an Academy Award in
1981, If You Love This Planet, which won the Academy Award for best documentary in 1982, andHelen’s War:
portrait of a dissident, recipient of the Australian Film Institute Awards for Best Direction (Documentary) 2004,
and the Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award for Best Documentary in 2004.
Dr Caldicott currently divides her
time between Australia and the US where she lectures widely. She founded the US-based Nuclear Policy Research Institute (NPRI),
which evolved into Beyond Nuclear, of which Dr Caldicott is Founding President. Beyond Nuclear aims to educate and activate
the public about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the need to abandon both to safeguard our future.
Dr
Caldicott can be heard discussing urgent planetary survival issues on her weekly radio show If You Love This Planet,
and is the Founder and Spokesperson for People for a Nuclear-Free Australia, established to represent the millions of
Australians who uphold the strong belief that there should be no uranium mining, nuclear power plants or foreign nuclear waste
in Australia.
Dr Caldicott is also a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board advising José
Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain.
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Helen Caldicott Official Website (click on image)
Guest:Dr. Brian O'Leary
Biography
Dr. O’Leary, Ph.D., is a scientist-philosopher
with fifty years of experience in academic research, teaching and government service in frontier science and energy policy.
He was a NASA scientist-astronaut during the Apollo program, the first to be selected for a planned Mars mission, and participated
in unmanned planetary missions as an Ivy League professor.
Over the past four decades, Dr. O’Leary has been an international
author, speaker, peace activist, founder of non-profits, and advisor to progressive U.S. Congress members and presidential
candidates.
Brian’s latest book, “The Energy Solution Revolution”,
describes the enormous potential of breakthrough clean energy technologies, their suppression and their logical necessity
for our survival. Zero-point (vacuum) energy, cold fusion, and advanced hydrogen and water chemistry could provide us
all an abundant future for all of humanity.
In 2004, he and his wife, the
artist Meredith Miller, moved to the Andes in Ecuador, where they co-created Montesuenos – an eco-retreat and educational
center dedicated to creativity and the rights of nature.
A
passionate environmentalist open to innovative solutions, Dr. O'Leary was special consultant to the U.S. House of Representatives
Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, wrote speeches and was senior advisor to environmental presidential candidate
Morris Udall. He also helped presidential candidates George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Jesse Jackson on economic policies
to convert from polluting and military activities to green initiatives.He is currently on the faculty of the University of
Philosophical Research in Los Angeles, teaching in the Masters program in Transformational Psychology. He is co-founder of
the New Energy Movement (no longer President). He has recently completed the Sivananda Yoga Teachers Training Course and lectures
widely at their ashrams and centers throughout the world. He is co-founder of the International Association of New Science
and advisor to Dennis Weaver's Institute of Ecolonomics.
Over the past decade, Dr. Oleary has spoken or led workshops
at the Esalen Insitute, the Findhorn Foundation, Oxford University, St. James Picadilly, State of the World Forum, the United
Nations Youth Assembly, the International Conferences on Science and Consciouness, the International Forums on New Science,
the Philosophical Research Society, the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences, Unity churches, Chuches of Religious
Science, the Yuba Seminars and dozens of other venues worldwide. With his artist-wife Meredith, Brian is founding Montesueños, a retreat center and botanical garden in the Ecuadorian Andes dedicated
to finding deep peaceful and sustainable solutions to humankind's war on nature and to implement these at local, regional
and global levels of action. They also plan to have many workshops and residences in the arts. Many international
groups will be coming during 2008 to launch this unique new facility, known for its great natural beauty.
During these times of global political change and fiscal
austerity, it seems that only one class of clean, renewable and sustainable energy sources can get us through these times:
new, breakthrough "free" energy. If properly understood and developed, these previously suppressed technologies
are the only path towards having affordable clean energy. The sources include vacuum energy, cold fusion and advanced hydrogen
chemistries.
The capital investment and environmental impact required to deploy free energy to replace hydrocarbons
and nuclear energy would be miniscule compared to the trillions needed to implement a pervasive economy of any other source,
even including conventional renewables such as solar, wind and biofuels. The Energy Solution Revolution is a social and political
mandate to create an awareness and a movement to develop these sources as soon as possible for the sake of all humanity and
the Earth.
Dr. O’Leary is passionate
about bringing new energy solutions into mainstream consciousness. "Embracing the possibility of a breakthrough energy
solution revolution should be our mandate, not an idle speculation to be ignored, ridiculed or feared. To thread the needle
of free energy, a critical mass of us will need to muster the courage to take this fire walk together. New energy offers the
world clean and abundant sources of power and represents a conscious choice we must make if humanity is to survive and prosper.”
