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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States, defying all international treaties, will slowly annihilate all species on earth including the human species, and yet this country continues to do so with full knowledge of its destructive potential. |
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Amelia,
tonight I watched Dr. Gupa and citizens discuss American toxicity as having no boundaries and no measurements of safety. I watched the EPA dance to the tune of I don't care. In my mind that is exactly what had happen between EPA and Superfund. The citizens are jubilent in the clean up and testing, which is what EPA said they owe it to the citizens to give them the data. But what was so striking was that every persons that live in that town are dying of toxic chemicals as the cause--no linking to the disease of toxicity.
Similar to what is happening here, and no compensation to the what if's of the future.
hi Kaohi,
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aloha.
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note that the author of the article, retired person, little known researcher appears to be like Hellbent, a disinformer........ also note that he's part of ICRP from England.......and Leuren Moret found that the Queen of England owns the bulk of the stocks in the Uranium mines...........true colors showing for the disinformers:
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Okay,
Back on track, I finally called Pono so things are all good too, feeling a lot better. I also wrote to Albertini too and gave him a little bit of what's going on in Waianae. that whole part of being together on our positions still hasn't been resolved yet.
"clean up is like a dog eating it's ass"
At the playground park we have a construction going on and an exciting one for the community to. But the Pentagon and procurments are still using local boys for their dirty filty work.
The NRC, also part of the 'dog naturally licking it's own butt hole' Rules and Regulations on clean up of DU never too got resolved.
The EPA and AEC never really resolved the 'Health and Risk' to society either. Forget 'local state'
and their fakery Department of Health. Everything boils down to the Have's and the Have not's (nut's) because the military toxicity impacts are brains. It get's even nuttier when all entities and their acitivist show up on the scene and most don't have the human condition experience because they don't live in a have-not-community. They don't even have Na Kanaka neighbors to speak of, let alone have even visited a native Hawaiian community where a thousand more or less families live. These families that are native Hawaiian live in this reservation style communities that was concocted by Prince Kuhio during the early 1900's
Back to my yada yada, after January 13, 2010 an registered Docket argument with the Pentagon before the AEC and NRC, I decided to come home and try my best to educate our people on why 'military toxicty' is dangerous to health as well as "it's downright genocidal to our people". When I am talking 'people' I am talking about all people of Hawaii and the surrounding Pacific Islanders in all of the Pacific Ocean.
The military toxicity in it's entire form from Nuclear Isotopes, to their child bearing wives are the broad spectrum of this almost impossible to phantom 'genocide'
Back to my yada yada, the construction workers (will give much more details later) and because I haven't really paid attention to the project only simple drive by look-see and simple talk with surrounding residence near the site small kine history talk first.
Historically, Kamehameha hung out in our Waianae Valley (poorly narrating) he and his warriors did training here. They were headed over to the Island of Kauai to conquer the island and it was a failed attempt. And...
The area of training is an area I am talking about. What the Pentagon just did was send their 'lolo' local boys to carry out their contention with NRC and Hawaii's civilians and their docket. In my park, near my house and I live in a have not community with Native Hawaiians 'downwinders' that have been impacted with DU. And this is happening again, but not sure. Just being honest here.
The Pentagon (Army call) have been moving contaminated military toxic soil from military bases and bringing it here to Waianae as a means to hurtlocker native Hawaiian's and their ancestral pristene lands.
And they Pentagon lolo heads too in their place of smarts are using locol 'lolo' mentality to do their dirty job in a far off place.
The construction has stopped for what reason don't know. The dust is flying everywhere, and the children in the area are getting sick not from the pristine dust, but the construction material they got from military bases and other construction sites.
They undid the pristine soil and took it to the 'have' community. And they the construction workers brought the contaminated soil (construction debrie) that the Pentagon labeled as being safe, weak, and low military toxic contaminates--before the Judges of the AEC (Jan 13, 2010).
Is this confusing you bet your bottom okole! It is meant to confuse! The Pentagon, AEC, and the NRC--this is called CYA on the details of their rules and regulations. This is also for the Superfund monies. As we all know Hawaii is codependent uponthe 'federal' monies (high class welfare) per Hanabusa and other politicians.
But, the argument is that the haves get the good soil and the have nots get the contaminated soil and this was set by the Pentagon in front the AEC judges on Jan 13 2010.
And this is Obama's residence?
So, I asked for an exit plan because we are downwinders and death by DU is almost unmanageble within toxic communities. Where is the Risk Assessment the last time I talked to her at Nanakuli secret meeting with the Waianae Neighborhood Board--she was dancing on the arms of the Pentagon. Friendly relationships are the only thing that was being done that night-friendly!
Amelia,
I took Joshua home and as I drove back I was thinking about what you said that everyone are not on teh same page.
One is correct, this de-occupation took a lot of time and energy to cross over and away from colonization. I was too concern with what if.
I believe still hesitant by natural instinct, however, in my reasoning--I believe that Keanu and the two excutive agreements are evidence to the fact that the Hawaiian Kingdom exist.
Antoher aspect to this are geneology research and just hammering it in helps.
I believe that everyone will arrive after Keanu makes his case. As for the colonialism stuff, I had to divorce myself from that entity. I just didn't or couldn't continue twirling around in circles, race, rape, and Clarence Darrows case eventhough this hurt and pain belongs to my family.
My point is I had made this long trek across vast amounts of time and space--I don't know if people can make a conscious decision just off the top of their heads (okole). Keep making that argument of not being on the same page and having to make a distinction and for some taking a stand too. I did and yes I feel yucky about it. Now I have to work harder to support Keanu and just note that it's a judgment in a court. Some times I get of the purpose line with gah gah too.
So thanks for being there!
One more fun thing, I was listening to youtube and all who sang "His eyes is on the sparrow" that was my grandmothers favorite song and my daughter sings it to me all the time. thanks a bunch for a wonder day of listening to Marvin and remembering my mom and grandmother.
hi Kaohi,
everyone, kanaka maoli that is, are not on the same page yet........did you see the posting from Leon who's with Spinney's group........complementing someone who got her name in the newspaper.......she's just saying what they want to hear.........
Leon and that person fails to see the evidence that President Cleveland did give Hawaii back to the Queen, therefore, the Presidents since ran as genocide activists along with Congress, the conspirators in Hawaii since 1895.
The positive part of this is that the facts have been found and disregarding all that's said over time, the Hawaiian Kingdom is here, whether they like it or not..................additionally, the Royal families are here, whether they like it or not...........what part of "keep them in the wrong" does many not understand.......and, the Hawaiian Kingdom continues on........whether they like it or not............the Royal families continue on, whether they like it or not...........
Funny how some people move and fail to do their homework...........which is why everyone's Not on the same page!
Time to question the legal backgrounds of some people, their education, etc. which includes their genealogies..........haven't found many of the "leaders" of various groups/governments to be Kamehameha's, et. als. descendants.....................as cousin said, the Kamehameha's lines, King Kalakaua's lines, and Queen Liliuokalani's lines - the bloodlines/descendants of her documented hanai daughter especially needs to move together.......all others may just be contributing to helping those in the wrong....and that's what they(criminal deviants) want......................get to the truth......... then,
rights can happen...........which also shows how/why the U.S. military needs to leave, vacate, because they were given an Eviction Notice.
Hauoli Makahiki Hou! Malama Pono, Malama Ko Kino, Aloha.
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Amelia,
I had to go back to the Sister Act and listen to the song. I cracked up and laughed too when I read God is Love, and Jesus is Truth....
Sorry, only because on our church wall arching over the pulpit at Gospel of Salvation, it says GOD IS LOVE and I put by mistake 'Jesus is love' on my mom's head stone. On the Dec 30th which is my mom's birthday, I took my grandchildren with me to put flowers on her grave and had to explain my mistake to my grandchildren. I also pour water on my mother's head stone to wash it--again I am laughing. This is so very funny, I hope you enjoy the humor as much as I am in the moment.
I have Leon's works so I spent some time reading it and really, I support what he is doing..but find a littel problem with clarification. Only because it was my fault that I switched far away as I can from colonialisim. My stance on the bloodquantum pretty much sucks and de-occupation works for me. I basically don't feel too hyprocritical when talking the walk.
Happy Holidays and may we be much smarter during the year of 2011. I was a bit emotional with so much to do and no money to do it with but finding it along the way. Luckily I had Pono to partner up with, it helped out a lot to get over the critical mass. Actually the betrayal!
Happy note: Joshua wants to listen to Michael Jackson "Heal the World' So thanks a bunch for posting the song. I always have to maintain the healing with Joshua cause he is always on the frontline with me. And his tiny body plays a big part on the front line.
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Depleted Uranium:
The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War
LEUREN MORET / World Affairs –The Journal of International Issues 1jul04
[More by LeurenMoret]
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singeyourself.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States,defying all international treaties, will slowly annihilate all species
on earth
including the human species, and yet this country continues to do so
with full
knowledge of its destructive potential.
LEUREN MORET
Since 1991, the United States has staged four wars usingdepleted uranium weaponry, illegal under all international treaties,
conventions
and agreements, as well as under the US military law. The continued use
of this
illegal radioactive weaponry, which has already contaminated vast
regions with
low level radiation and will contaminate other parts of the world over
time, is
indeed a world affair and an international issue. The deeper purpose is
revealed
by comparing regions now contaminated with depleted uranium — from
Egypt, the
Middle East, Central Asia and the northern half of India — to the US
geostrategic imperatives described in Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book The
Grand
Chessboard.
Fig. 1: Brzezinski’s map of the Eurasian Chessboard
SOUTH REGION: “This huge region, torn by volatile hatreds andsurrounded by
competing powerful neighbors, is likely to be a major
battlefield, both
for wars among nation-states and, more likely, for protracted
ethnic and
religious violence. Whether
India acts as a restraint or whether it takes advantage of some
opportunity to impose its will on Pakistan will greatly affect
the
regional scope of the likely conflicts.
The internal strains within Turkey and Iran are likely
not only
to get worse but to greatly reduce the stabilizing role these
states are
capable of playing within this volcanic region.
Such developments will in turn make it more difficult to
assimilate the new Central Asian states into the international
community, while also adversely affecting the American-dominated
security of the Persian Gulf region.
In any case, both America and the international community
may be
faced here with a challenge that will dwarf the recent crisis in
the
former Yugoslavia.” Brzezinski
The fact is that the United States and its military partnershave staged four nuclear wars, "slipping nukes under the wire" by
using dirty bombs and dirty weapons in countries the US needs to
control.
Depleted uranium aerosols will permanently contaminate vast regions and
slowly
destroy the genetic future of populations living in those regions, where
there
are resources which the US must control, in order to establish and
maintain
American primacy.
Described as the Trojan Horse of nuclear war, depleted uraniumis the weapon that keeps killing. The half-life of Uranium-238 is 4.5
billion
years, the age of the earth. And, as Uranium-238 decays into daughter
radioactive products, in four steps before turning into lead, it
continues to
release more radiation at each step. There is no way to turn it off, and
there
is no way to clean it up. It meets the US Government’s own definition of
Weapons of Mass Destruction.
After forming microscopic and submicroscopic insolubleUranium oxide particles on the battlefield, they remain suspended in air
and
travel around the earth as a radioactive component of atmospheric dust,
contaminating the environment, indiscriminately killing, maiming and
causing
disease in all living things where rain, snow and moisture remove it
from the
atmosphere. Global radioactive contamination from atmospheric testing
was the
equivalent of 40,000 Hiroshima bombs, and still contaminates the
atmosphere and
lower orbital space today. The amount of low level radioactive pollution
from
depleted uranium released since 1991, is many times more (deposited
internally
in the body), than was released from atmospheric testing fallout.
A 2003 independent report for the European Parliament by theEuropean Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR), reports that based on
Chernobyl studies, low level radiation risk is 100 to 1000 times greater
than the
International Committee for Radiation Protection models estimate which
are based
on the flawed Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb Studies conducted by the US
Government. Referring
to the extreme killing effects of radiation on biological systems, Dr.
Rosalie
Bertell, one of the 46 international radiation expert authors of the
ECRR
report, describes it as:
1943 MANHATTAN PROJECT BLUEPRINT FOR DEPLETED URANIUM
In a declassified memo to General Leslie R. Groves, datedOctober 30, 1943, three of the top physicists in the Manhattan Project,
Dr James
B Conant, A H Compton, and H C Urey, made their recommendation, as
members of
the Subcommittee of the S-1 Executive Committee, on the ‘Use of
Radioactive
Materials as a Military Weapon’:
As a Terrain Contaminant:
Internal Exposure:
Both the fission products and depleted uranium waste from theAtomic Bomb Project were to be utilised under this plan. The pyrophoric
nature
of depleted uranium, which causes it to begin to burn at very low
temperatures
from friction in the gun barrel, made it an ideal radioactive gas weapon
then
and now. Also it was more available because the amount of depleted
uranium
produced was much greater than the amount of fission products produced
in 1943.
Britain had thoughts of using poisoned gas on Iraq longbefore 1991:
GUIDED WEAPONS SYSTEMS
Depleted uranium weapons were first given by the US to Israelfor use under US supervision in the 1973 Sinai war against the Arabs.
Since then
the US has tested, manufactured, and sold depleted uranium weapons
systems to 29
countries. An international taboo prevented their use until 1991, when
the US
broke the taboo and used them for the first time, on the battlefields of
Iraq
and Kuwait.
The US military admitted using depleted uranium projectilesin tanks and planes, but warheads in missiles and bombs are classified
or
referred to as a ‘dense’ or ‘mystery metal’. Dai Williams, a researcher
at the 2003 World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, reported finding
11 US
patents for guided weapons systems with the term ‘depleted uranium’ or
‘dense
metal’, which from the density can only be depleted uranium or tungsten,
in
order to fit the dimensions of the warhead.
Figure 2 - Hard target guided weapons in 2002: smart bombs & cruise missiles with "dense metal" warheads (updatedSeptember 2002)
Warhead weight
Warhead weightsinclude explosives (~20%) and casing. Dense metal ballast or liners
(suspected to be DU) estimated to be 50-75% of warhead weight -
necessary to
double the density of previous versions. AUP = Advanced
penetrators. S/CH
= Shaped Charge. BR = BROACH Multiple Warhead System (S/CH+AUP). P
= older 'heavy metal' penetrators. © Dai Williams 2002
source: Depleted Uranium weapons in2001-2002: Occupational, public and environmental health
issues - Mystery Metal Nightmare in Afghanistan? Collected studies and
public domain sources compiled by Dai Williams, first edition 31 January
2002
Extensive carpet bombing, grid bombing, and the frequent useof missiles and depleted uranium bullets on buildings in densely
populated areas
has occurred in Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan. The discovery that
bomb
craters in Yugoslavia in 1999 were radioactive, and that an unexploded
missile
in 1999 contained a depleted uranium warhead, implies that the total
amount of
depleted uranium used since 1991 has been greatly underestimated. Of
even
greater concern, is that 100 per cent of the depleted uranium in bombs
and
missiles is aerosolized upon impact and immediately released into the
atmosphere. This amount can be as much as 1.5 tons in the large bombs.
In
bullets and cannon shells, the amount aerosolized is 40-70 per cent,
leaving
pieces and unexploded shells in the environment, to provide new sources
of
radioactive dust and contamination of the groundwater from dissolved
depleted
uranium metal long after the battles are over, as reported in a 2003
report by
the UN Environmental Program on Yugoslavia. Considering that the US has
admitted
using 34 tons of depleted uranium from bullets and cannon shells in
Yugoslavia,
and the fact that 35,000 NATO bombing missions occurred there in 1999,
potentially the amount of depleted uranium contaminating Yugoslavia and
transboundary drift into surrounding countries is staggering.
Because of mysterious illnesses and post-war birth defectsreported among Gulf War veterans and civilians in southern Iraq, and
radiation
related illnesses in UN Peacekeepers serving in Yugoslavia, growing
concerns
about radiation effects and environmental damage has stirred up
international
outrage about the use of radioactive weapons by the US after 1991. At
the 2003
meeting of parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, discussing
the U.S.
desire to maintain its nuclear weapons stockpile, the Hiroshima Mayor
Tadatoshi
AKIBA stated,
ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW
Four reasons why using depleted uranium weapons violates theUN Convention on Human Rights:
International Human Rights and humanitarian lawyer, KarenParker, determined that depleted uranium weaponry fails the four tests
for legal
weapons under international law, and that it is also illegal under the
definition of a ‘poison’ weapon. Through Karen Parker’s continued
efforts,
a sub-commission of the UN Human Rights Commission determined in 1996
that
depleted uranium is a weapon of mass destruction that should not be
used:
FOUR NUCLEAR WARS
"Military Men Are Just Dumb,
Stupid, Animals To Be Used
As Pawns In Foreign Policy"
— Henry Kissinger
Although restricted to battlefields in Iraq and Kuwait, the 1991Gulf War was one of the most toxic and environmentally devastating wars
in world
history. Oil well fires, the bombing of oil tankers and oil wells which
released
millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Arabia and desert, and the
devastation from tanks and heavy equipment destroyed the desert
ecosystem. The
long term and far reaching effects, and dispersal of at least 340 tons
of
depleted uranium weapons, had a global environmental effect. Smoke from
the oil
fires was later found in deposits in South America, the Himalayas and
Hawaii.
Large annual dust storms originating in North Africa, the Middle East,
and
Central Asia will quickly spread the radioactive contamination around
the world,
and weathering of old depleted uranium munitions on battlefields and
other areas
will provide new sources of radioactive contamination in future years.
Downwind
from the radioactive devastation in Iraq, Israel is also suffering from
large
increases in breast cancer, leukemia and childhood diabetes.
RADIATION RESPECTS NO BORDERS, NO SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS, AND NORELIGION
The expendability of the sanctity of life to achieve USpolitical ends was described by US soldiers on the ground, and from the
air,
along the Highway of Death in Iraq in 1991:
American pilots bombing and strafing, with depleted uraniumweapons, helpless retreating Iraqi soldiers who had already surrendered,
exclaimed:
Nearly 700,000 American Gulf War Veterans returned to the USfrom a war that lasted just a few weeks. Today more than 240,000 of
those
soldiers are on permanent medical disability, and over 11,000 are dead.
In a US
Government study on post-Gulf War babies born to 251 veterans, 67 per
cent of
the babies were reported to have serious illnesses or serious birth
defects.
They were born without eyes, ears, had missing organs, fused fingers,
thyroid or
other malfunctions. Depleted uranium in the semen of the soldiers
internally
contaminated their wives. Severe birth defects have been reported in
babies born
to contaminated civilians in Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan and the
incidence
and severity of defects is increasing over time. Women in Yugoslavia,
Afghanistan and Iraq are afraid now to have babies, and when they do
give birth,
instead of asking if it is a girl or a boy, they ask ‘is it normal?’.
KNOWN ILLNESSES INFLICTED BY INTERNALIZATION OF DEPLETEDURANIUM PARTICLES
Table 1: Compiled by Leuren Moret from Interviews with GulfWar Vets and their families
GENERAL
abnormal births and birth defects
abnormal metabolism of semen: contains
amine & ammonium alkaline
acute autoimmune symptoms
(lung-, liver-, kidney failure)
acute myeloid leukemia
(deadly within days or weeks)
acute immune depression
acute respiratory failure
asthma
auto-immune deficiencies
Balkan-syndrome
blood in stools and urine
body function control loss
bone cancer
brain damage
brain tumors
burning semen
burning sensations
calcium loss in body
cardiovascular signs or symptoms
chemical sensitivities
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
chronic kidney and liver disorders
chronic myeloid leukemia
chronic respiratory infections
colon cancer
confusion
diarrhea
digestive problems
dizziness
Epstein Barr Syndrome
fluid buildup
fibromyalgia
gastrointestinal signs/symptoms
general fatigue
genetic alterations
glandular carcinoma
Gulf war-syndrome
headaches (severe)
heart attack/disease
high blood pressure
high frequency of micturition
Hodgkin lymphoma
immune system deficiency
infections
insomnia
involuntary movements
joint/muscle/leg pain
kidney failure/damage
leukemia
liver carcinoma
loss of feeling in fingers
Lou Gehrigs Disease -ALS
low blood oxygen saturation
( low HbO2)
low lung volume
lung damage
lung cancer
lymph cancer
lymphoma
melanoma
memory loss
metallic taste
Microplasma fermentans/
incognitis infections
mood swings – violence
homicide/suicide
multiple cancers
multiple myeloma
myeloma
muscle pain
nerve damage
neuro-muscular degenerative
disease
non-Hodgkin lymphoma
other malignancies
pancreas carcinoma
Parkinsons disease
petit & grand mal fits
rashes
reactive airway disease
reduced IQ
respiratory ailments
shortness of breath
sinus diseases
skin cancer
skin damage: sweat glands
with trapped du-particles
skin infections
skin spotting
smell, loss of
sleep disturbances
stiffening of fingers
teeth crumbling
thyroid cancer
thyroid disease
unable to walk
unusual fevers/night sweats
unusual hair loss
vision problems
weight loss
CHILDREN
alimentary disorders
asthma
bladder & sphincter paralysis
blindness
complete range of known and
unknown Congenital Defects
deafness
dyspraxia
headache
kidney disease
leukemia
lymphoma
malformations of legs, arms,
toes & fingers
respiratory disorders
stillbirth
neural tube defects
FEMALE
abdominal pain
breast cancer
breast cancer at very young
age (20)
cervix cancer
endometriosis
headaches
incontinence
joint pain
lung cancer at age 20 and
non-smoker
menstrual problems
miscarriages
nausea
ovarian cancer
paralysis of digestive system
thyroid problems
uterine cancer
MALE
(acute) headache
acute myeloid leukemia
arthritis
avoiding people
breathing problems
(stridor)
chemical sensitivity
chronic myeloid leukemia
endometriosis in partners
gastrointestinal disorder
hip and leg pain
joint pain
lung cancer at young age
lymphoma
skin cancer
skin eruptions
stomach pain
suicide
testicular cancer
unable to walk
Soldiers who served in Bradley fighting vehicles, where itwas common to sit on ammunition boxes where depleted uranium ammunition
was
stored, are now reporting that many have rectal cancer.
For the first time, medical doctors in Yugoslavia and Iraqhave reported multiple in situ unrelated cancers developing in patients,
and
even in families who are living in highly contaminated areas. Even
stranger,
they report that cancer was unknown in previous generations. Very rare
and
unusual cancers and birth defects have also been reported to be
increasing above
normal levels prior to 1991, not only in war torn countries, but in
neighbouring
countries from transboundary contamination.
Dr. Keith Baverstock, a senior radiation advisor who was onthe staff of the World Health Organization, co-authored a report
in November
2001, warning that the long-term health effects of depleted uranium
would
endanger Iraq’s civilian population, and that the dry climate would
increase
exposure from the tiny particles blowing around and be inhaled for years
to
come. The WHO refused to give him permission to publish the study,
bowing to
pressure from the IAEA. Dr. Baverstock released the damning report to
the media
in February 2004. Pekka Haavisto, Chairman of the UN Environment
Program’s
Post-Conflict Assessment Unit in Geneva, shares Baverstock’s anxiety
about
depleted uranium but UNEP experts have not been allowed into Iraq to
assess the
pollution.
"DEPLETED URANIUM SCARE" - Claimed by President George W. Bush on the official White House website:
The US war in Afghanistan made it clear that this was not awar IN the third world, but a war AGAINST the third world. In
Afghanistan where
800 to 1000 tons of depleted uranium was estimated to have been used in
2001,
even uneducated Afghanis understand the impact these weapons have had on
their
children and on future generations:
In 1990, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)wrote a report warning about the potential health and environmental
catastrophe
from the use of depleted uranium weapons. The health effects had been
known for
a long time. The report sent to the UK government warned "in their
estimation, if 50 tonnes of residual DU dust remained ‘in the region’
there
could be half a million extra cancers by the end of the century [2000]."
Estimates of depleted uranium weapons used in 1991, now range from the
Pentagon’s
admitted 325 tons, to other scientific bodies who put the figure as high
as 900
tons. That would make the number of estimated cancers as high as
9,000,000,
depending on the amount used in the 1991 Gulf War. In the 2003 Gulf War,
estimates of 2200 tons have been given — causing about 22,000,000 new
cancer
cases. Altogether the total number of cancer patients estimated using
the UKAEA
data would be 25,250,000. In July of 1998, the CIA estimated the
population of
Iraq to be approximately 24,683,313.
Ironically, the UN Resolution 661 calling for sanctionsagainst Iraq, was signed on Hiroshima Day, August 6, 1990.
THE PARALLELS
The parallels between Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan arestartlingly similar. The weapons used, the unfair treaties offered by
the US,
and the bombing and destruction of the environment and entire
infrastructure. In
every city of Iraq and Yugoslavia, the television and radio stations
were
bombed.
Educational centres were targeted, and stores where educational materials were sold were destroyed on nearly the same day.Under UN
sanctions, Iraq was not even allowed pencils for schoolchildren.
Cultural
antiquities and historical treasures were targeted and destroyed in all
three
countries, a kind of cultural and historical cleansing, a collective
national
psychic trauma.
The permanent radioactive contamination and environmentaldevastation of all three countries is unprecedented, resulting in huge
increases
in cancer and birth defects following the attacks. These will increase
over time
from unknown effects due to chronic exposure, increasing internal levels
of
radiation from depleted uranium dust, and permanent genetic effects
passed on to
future generations. Clearly, this has been a genocidal plan from the
start.
What has happened to Human Rights, to the Rights of theChild, to civil society, and to common humanity?
It is up to the citizens of the world to stop the depleteduranium wars, and future nuclear wars, causing irreversible devastation.
There
are just a few generations left before the collapse of our environment,
and then
it will be too late. We can be no healthier than the health of the
environment
— we breathe the same air, drink the same water, eat food from the same
soil.
THE DEEPER PURPOSE: G*O*D* [Gold, Oil, and Drugs]
Millions of years ago, before India crashed into the Eurasiancontinent and uplifted the Himalayas, the ancient shallow Tethys sea
stretched
from the Atlantic across what is now the Mediterranean, Black, Caspian
and Aral
seas. Rich oil deposits are now located where ancient life accumulated
and ‘cooked’
under just the right conditions to form large oil deposits in the
ancient
sediments. Long before 1991, Unocal in Afghanistan, Amoco in Yugoslavia,
and
various oil companies interested in Iraq oil deposits, had conducted
extensive
exploration and characterisation of oil deposits in the Middle East and
Central
Asian regions, including the northern half of India.
Britain has maintained an interest in Middle Eastern oil deposits for a century, and has been the staunchest military partner ofthe US
since the first depleted uranium war in 1991 in Iraq. Germany, another
military
partner in Yugoslavia with forces now in Afghanistan, was one of the
major
economic beneficiaries of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the colonisation
of the
Balkans. US interest in Yugoslavia had much to do with building
pipelines from
Central Asia to the Mediterranean warm water ports in Yugoslavia. A
silent and
hidden partnership between the US and Japan provided large amounts of
cash from
Japan to finance the 1991 Iraq and 1995/1999 Yugoslavian wars, with
additional
help in Afghanistan by providing not only cash, but fuel for the war,
from Aegis
warships of the Japanese Self Defense Forces in the Indian Ocean. Nippon
Steel,
Mitsubishi, and Halliburton are now partners in a Central Asian oil
pipeline
project. In 2004, despite much citizen opposition in Japan, the Japanese
government has sent Self Defense Forces to Iraq for ‘reconstruction’.
This
action taken by the Japanese government, of placing troops on the ground
in a
war zone, will lead to rescinding Article 9 of the Japanese
Constitution, which
forever prohibits military aggression by Japan.
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