INITIALLY THE U.S. ARMY DENIED USING DU AND OTHER TOXINS HAZARDOUS THAT'S EVEN LETHAL TO OUR HEALTH. WHEN INOUYE STATED THAT DU WAS USED; ONLY THEN DID THE ARMY ADMIT TO USING IT BUT SAID IT WAS HARMLESS. NOW THEY MAKE YOU SIGN A WAIVER WHEN ENTERING THE AREA BECAUSE IT IS DEADLY TO HUMAN LIFE.
THEY WANT A LICENSE TO CONTINUE USING AND STORING DU IN HAWAI'I. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE. THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WE DIDN'T WANT THE STRYKER BRIGADE IN HAWAI'I BECAUSE DU IS USED BY IT EVEN FOR TRAINING MANEUVERS. THIS IMPEDES OUR GATHERING RIGHTS IN NEARBY AREAS.
THE LARGE AREAS THE MILITARY USES; THEY DON'T CLEAN UP BECAUSE IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE AND DIFFICULT TO CLEAN THE TERRAIN. AFTER THEY'RE DONE THEY WILL PUSH FOR THOSE AREAS TO BE A RESERVE THAT FORBIDS ENTRY BECAUSE OF THE DANGERS TO HUMAN LIFE.
THE U.S AND ITS MILITARY MUST DE-OCCUPY HAWAI'I AND CLEAN UP ALL THEIR TOXIC, HAZARDOUS MESS. WHAT THEY LEAVE BEHIND IS PART OF THE COVENANT THEY'VE MADE WITH SOME OF THE HAWAIIAN ORGANIZATIONS.
IN THE AKAKA BILL IT STRICTLY STATES THAT THE MILITARY WILL NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ANYTHING AND WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SUE THEM OR ASK FOR REPARATIONS AND RESTITUTION. IN OTHER WORDS, THE MILITARY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT AND NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
READ THIS ARTICLE AND WEEP; YOU'VE BEEN SOLD OUT BY THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN COALITION THAT SIGNED A COVENANT WITH THE U.S. ARMY. THE PEOPLE OF HAWAII JUST HAVE BEEN HAD BY THE U.S. AND IT'S MILITARY. NOW YOU CAN REALLY JOIN HANDS WITH THE MARSHALL ISLANDERS, THE IRAQIS, AND THE HIROSHIMA VICTIMS. JOIN THE CLUB!
LOOK FORWARD TO GROSSLY DEFORMED BABIES AND DEATHS BY LEUKEMIA AND OTHER CANCERS; ESPECIALLY THOSE LIVING IN MAKUA, WAIANAE AND NANAKULI WHO ARE DOWNWINDERS OF DU NANO-DUSTS. AS IT IS, THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN A RISE OF LEUKEMIA AND OTHER CANCERS IN THAT AREA DUE TO DU WHICH THE U.S. ARMY CLAIMS THEY NEVER USED AND IT IS HARMLESS. DON'T SAY WE NEVER ALERTED YOU ABOUT THIS; BECAUSE WE HAVE AND SOME EVEN SCOFFED US ABOUT IT. AGAIN, READ IT AND WEEP.
R.I.P.
Tane
THEY WANT A LICENSE TO CONTINUE USING AND STORING DU IN HAWAI'I. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE. THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WE DIDN'T WANT THE STRYKER BRIGADE IN HAWAI'I BECAUSE DU IS USED BY IT EVEN FOR TRAINING MANEUVERS. THIS IMPEDES OUR GATHERING RIGHTS IN NEARBY AREAS.
THE LARGE AREAS THE MILITARY USES; THEY DON'T CLEAN UP BECAUSE IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE AND DIFFICULT TO CLEAN THE TERRAIN. AFTER THEY'RE DONE THEY WILL PUSH FOR THOSE AREAS TO BE A RESERVE THAT FORBIDS ENTRY BECAUSE OF THE DANGERS TO HUMAN LIFE.
THE U.S AND ITS MILITARY MUST DE-OCCUPY HAWAI'I AND CLEAN UP ALL THEIR TOXIC, HAZARDOUS MESS. WHAT THEY LEAVE BEHIND IS PART OF THE COVENANT THEY'VE MADE WITH SOME OF THE HAWAIIAN ORGANIZATIONS.
IN THE AKAKA BILL IT STRICTLY STATES THAT THE MILITARY WILL NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ANYTHING AND WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SUE THEM OR ASK FOR REPARATIONS AND RESTITUTION. IN OTHER WORDS, THE MILITARY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT AND NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
READ THIS ARTICLE AND WEEP; YOU'VE BEEN SOLD OUT BY THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN COALITION THAT SIGNED A COVENANT WITH THE U.S. ARMY. THE PEOPLE OF HAWAII JUST HAVE BEEN HAD BY THE U.S. AND IT'S MILITARY. NOW YOU CAN REALLY JOIN HANDS WITH THE MARSHALL ISLANDERS, THE IRAQIS, AND THE HIROSHIMA VICTIMS. JOIN THE CLUB!
LOOK FORWARD TO GROSSLY DEFORMED BABIES AND DEATHS BY LEUKEMIA AND OTHER CANCERS; ESPECIALLY THOSE LIVING IN MAKUA, WAIANAE AND NANAKULI WHO ARE DOWNWINDERS OF DU NANO-DUSTS. AS IT IS, THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN A RISE OF LEUKEMIA AND OTHER CANCERS IN THAT AREA DUE TO DU WHICH THE U.S. ARMY CLAIMS THEY NEVER USED AND IT IS HARMLESS. DON'T SAY WE NEVER ALERTED YOU ABOUT THIS; BECAUSE WE HAVE AND SOME EVEN SCOFFED US ABOUT IT. AGAIN, READ IT AND WEEP.
R.I.P.
Tane
“Area Unsafe”: Depleted Uranium in Hawai’i ranges
August 11, 2010 by kyle
Report: Area unsafe
PTA visitors speak up about having to sign a safety waiver
By Alan D. Mcnarie
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:38 AM HST
U. S. Army sources have often contended that the depleted uranium left by
spent
shells on its firing ranges at O’ahu’s Schofield Barracks and Hawai’i
Island’s
Pohakuloa Training Area pose no danger to the public.
In 2008, Army officials told the Hawaii County Council that DU did not pose
a
health risk to the public, even though the Saddle Road passes through
Pohakuloa
Training Area, where DU shell fragments had been found.
In a recent letter to Rep. Mazie Hirono, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Army
Addison Davis, IV, wrote that
“Many independent scientific studies of uranium in the environment show that
DU
presents no significant ‘environmental health or safety hazard,’
especially at
soil concentration of the DU on Hawaii’s ranges.”
“Based on data gathered and careful analysis of the current situation, there is
no
immediate or imminent health risk to people who work at Schofield
Barracks or
Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA)
or live in communities adjacent to these military facilities from the DU
present in
the impact areas… Studies conducted by numerous non-military agencies,
including
the World Health Organization and the Department of Health and Human
Services,
have not found credible evidence linking DU to radiation-induced illnesses
Studies
conducted by numerous non-military agencies, including the World Health
Organization and the Department of Health and Human Services, have not
found
credible evidence linking DU to radiation-induced illnesses,” claims the
Army’s
DU information website, http://www.imcom.pac.army.mil/du.
But the Army took a different position when representatives from several
Native
Hawaiian groups requested access to the West Range at Schofield Barracks
on
O’ahu on May 27.
Before being allowed into Schofield, all were asked to sign a waiver of
responsibility
acknowledging, among other things,
that they knew DU was potentially hazardous to their health.”
“I fully understand and by my signature acknowledge that I understand, West
Range
at Schofield Barracks is currently constructing the Battle Area Complex
(BAX)
which includes clean up of unexploded ordnance (UXO) including potential
chemical warfare munitions (CWM) and depleted uranium (DU)…,” the waiver
read,
in part. “I understand that the ENTIRE RESERVATION IS DANGEROUS AND
UNSAFE due
to the presence of surface and subsurface UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE and
DEPLETED
URANIUM; that there may be hazardous conditions and ordnance on or under
the
surface of the Reservation; and that unexploded ordnance may explode
nearby
causing serious bodily harm, injury and death and that depleted uranium
particles can be ingested from the soil or inhaled by airborne dust that
may
cause adverse health effects.” [Words capitalized as in original.]
“I signed that form twice,” said Hawaiian activist Terri Mullins, who has
made two
trips to Schofield because ancient Hawaiian remains had been uncovered
during
construction of a new training area for the army’s new Stryker attack
force —
the same force for which rangeland has been purchased for a new training
area at
Pohakuloa, whose firing range has also been contaminated by DU spotting
rounds
fired by the so-called ‘Davy Crockett,” a Cold-War-era nuclear artillery
piece.
Mullins, who represents a Hawaiian group called Kipuka said that on the May 27
trip, she
was accompanied by members from the O’ahu Island Burial Council, Hui
Malama I Na
Kupuna, the Wahiawa Hawaiian Civic Club, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs,
the
American Friends Service Committee, Aha Kukuniloko and Hui Pu.
All, she said, were asked to sign waivers. Big Island Weekly confirmed that
at least
one other activist who had been on that trip had signed an identical
waiver.
The reference to the hazards of “inhaled by airborne dust” containing DU
appears to
echo concerns expressed by opponents who think fine airborne particles
of DU,
called “aerosols,” could cause cancer and other diseases.
The Army in the past has scoffed at such risks.
Its application to the NRC to legally possess the DU at Pohakuloa, for
instance,
states that “available information indicates that depleted uranium metal
generally remains in the immediate vicinity where initially deposited,
with
limited migration over the period that the materials are present.
But critics such as Dr. Mike Reimer, a geologist and radiation expert who
lives in
Kona, disagree.
“It is an alloy and a study by the U.S. Air Force revealed that various DU
alloys,
not quite the same as claimed to have been used at Pohakuloa, are 100
percent
effective in producing tumors in mice that then metastasize the lungs,”
wrote
Reimer, in an e-mail to Sierra Club researcher Cory Harden. “Solid (or
alloyed)
U[ranium] as a respirable absorbed particle in your lung will produce a
radiation dose much greater than the same size particle of oceanic
basaltic rock
containing 0.t par per million [of] uranium [In other words, naturally
occurring
uranium found in Hawai'i's rocks].”
The most probable vector for exposure to DU on the Big Island, maintained
Reimer,
was the inhalation of tiny, windborne particles, or “aerosols”:
“As long as bombs drop and winds blow in the spotting round test area, there
will be
aerosol production and transport of DU. Aerosols may form and drop
nearby, but
they can be remobilized by constant bombing.
“Any DU residue present is limited to impact areas well within the perimeter
of
operational ranges,” the Army’s DU website maintains.
“These areas are not publicly accessible. Very few range and safety personnel
access
the impact areas of our operational ranges. Those people that work in
these
areas are trained to recognize potential hazards associated with
military
munitions.”
Why, if the danger of DU is limited to impact areas, Native Hawaiians
visiting a
construction site would be warned about it or told that
“THE ENTIRE RESERVATION IS DANGEROUS AND UNSAFE,” remains an interesting
question.
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At our recent Neighborhood Board meeting, I asked the fire chief from fed if they used any type of measuring instruments, he said no. The next comment over phrosphate, they used their 'Hawaiian eye' to detect if any contaminats existed. I asked HFD if they used Hazmath, more concern with who I was than answering, answer no.
Mike was not there on Jan 13, 2010, however, being a geologist I suspected he was looking for a job. However, through lot's of email, he was encouraging and shed a light between Oct and Jan 2010.
The whole thing in the end turned into PG's, Republicans, Civic $$$$, activist stiking at windmills etc...
The worst of the worst was the heavy overlay of my postings with garbage..so at least we are on record. But, thanks for sending letters to the White House on this issue. I realized that Maoliworld was being read by the White Houe and kept the challenge up.
But, time has past and it's too little too late.
It is now an exceptible way of life that DU exist in Makua and that our community environment in Waianae is contaminated with DU.
There is an assumption that we are too stupid to care, speak up, and be a leader. I believe the ugly talk 'we are laying flat on our backs like a whore" by stupid Mahu's that insist on the lime light instead of being concern for our Na Kanaka people.
Like I said too little too late, so sad.
My steps:
Eventhough Isaac and his wife were chastized (on good Friday), he is the leader because he is responsible for what ever happens in the future.
All of my contentions with the AEC and the NRC came out of my pocket, therefore no one owns what I say or do. At least that integrity is in check. Secondly, I do no mix apples with oranges and cloud up the works for the sake of just wanting the lime light. Thirdly, I have been sharing Akira's work so that the future generations have something to work with that is world and nationally spread--should they get out of the two sentence syndrom of dumming down their thinking.
Like I said too little too late.
Tad Davis did martial law in Waianae under the AEC and NRC Waste definition and created a US 'little army' truckers that wouldn't hesitate to create genocide as in ethnic cleansing in Waianae for cheap pennies on a dollar.
Dr. Mike Reimer is a geologist and Cory Hayden is a disabled hobbiest that did 53 pages of research.
May 27, super ceeded Jan 13, 2010.
It was as if it didn't happen Jan 13, 2010 that is where Hawaii also too, was considered 'Downwinders' whereas Pele fan's across the entire Hawaii Islands, thus, the training in Pohakuloa is a legitimate cause of future cancer in Hawaii.
But we will never know because it is time honored.
too little too late. It's at the end of the year and I doubt if Maoliworld could have an intelligent conversation about DU in Hawaii.
Why? I read through Alan D. Mcnarie article and was shocked but not surprised:
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With closer look at this article this was typical of Big Island: Addison Davis IV is Tad Davis
Addison D. Davis, IV
Deputy Assistant Secretary of
the Army for Environment,
Safety and Occupational
Health, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of the Army
(Installations and Environment)
Addison D. Davis, IV (Tad) was appointed by the President of the United States to serve as the
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety and Occupational Health. He
was sworn in and assumed duties on October 17, 2005. Mr. Davis provides executive leadership
for all Army environment, safety and occupational health programs including Army National
Guard and Reserve activities. His responsibilities span a global organization that includes over a
$1 billion annual environmental program and oversight for the safety and occupational health of
over 1.2 million soldiers and Army civilian employees worldwide. Mr. Davis works with key
personnel in the Army, the Department of Defense (DOD), and other Federal and state agencies in
developing and advocating Army policies for environment, safety and occupational health
programs in accordance with Presidential Executive orders, public laws, state and local standards,
DOD directives and the Army mission.
Prior to assuming his current duties, Mr. Davis served from April 2004 until October 2005 as the
Acting Deputy Director for Demand Reduction at the White House Office of National Drug
Control Policy (ONDCP). He was the principal advisor to ONDCP Director John P. Walters on
issues of substance abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment. Mr. Davis provided executive
leadership for the Office of Demand Reduction and was responsible for the demand reduction
aspects of the Presidentís National Drug Control Strategy.
Mr. Davis entered the Senior Executive Service following a distinguished 26-year career in the
United States Army. From 2000 to 2003, he served as the Garrison Commander for Fort Bragg,
North Carolina, managing the military's most populous installation located on over 160,000 acres
of real estate. He partnered with numerous state, local and federal environmental officials on a
host of environmental initiatives and led the Armyís initial efforts to establish the framework for
an Installation Environmental Sustainability Program. Additionally, he partnered with DuPont in
leading the Armyís pilot program to develop a comprehensive Installation Safety Program.
Mr. Davis earned a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an M.P.A.
from Harvard University. He was a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and served as an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Democratic Defense Management at the George C.
Marshall European Center for Security Studies.
He received the Defense Superior Service Medal and the Legion of Merit from the Department of
Defense for exemplary service to the Nation the Order of the Long Leaf Pine from the Governor
of North Carolina for exceptional public service. Other recognitions include The Nature
Conservancy's Environmental Leadership Award, the Fort Bragg Lifetime Achievement Award,
and a commendation from the North Carolina Coalition on Domestic Violence.
Given that cloud over, one would miss Tad Davis's sustainable plus plan: Whereas trucking contaminated soil with low, weak, safe defined DUout of Schofield and onto Makua since 2009 October. And Disregarding the process of poisioning our children with nano particles of DU.