Sunday, November 29, 2009

WMD - Bravo- equivalent to 1,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs dropped on Pacific Islands

"On March 1, 1954, U.S. bomb-makers caught up by unleashing from Bikini Atoll a deliverable hydrogen weapon, code-named Bravo, its 15 megatonnage making it nearly one and a half times the yield of the Mike shot. Bravo was the most powerful U.S. bomb ever detonated and one equivalent to 1,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs, according to U.S. government documents released in 1994. Weisgall observes, "Hiroshima paled in comparison to Bravo, which represented as revolutionary an advance in explosive power over the atomic bomb as the atomic bomb had over the conventional weapons of World War II." . . .

The Runit Island entombment is of special interest because a nuclear-waste crypt is now being finished 800 miles from Honolulu to bury plutonium-laced materials under a cap of coral soil at Johnston Island, where four failed nuclear-tipped missile shots in 1962 showered the atoll and waters with radioactive debris. "

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Military Jargon - Misleading, Doublespeak

When the military uses a term like collateral damage - you hardly blink an eye, sounds like a building or some object was destroyed. NO

collateral damage: the killing of innocent bystanders, ecological destruction and environmental contamination.
aerial ordnance (military): bombs and missiles.
dehousing: (WWII) allied bombing of German civilian homes.
alleged: actually perpetrated
enhanced interrogation: torture
freedom fighter
: A terrorist furthering American interests
asymmetric warfare: suicide bombing attacks, local violent unrest, almost anything that one does not wish to call war or terrorism. Military scientists define asymmetry in warfare as circumstances in which one side continues to fight regardless the disproportionate military capacity of an opponent.
American interests: 1. Corporate interests; keeping share prices up. 2. For the benefit of the rich
irregularities: 1. corporate accounting fraud 2. evidence of election fraud
manifest destiny
: imperialism
From SourceWatch encyclopedia

Doublespeak (sometimes called doubletalk) is language constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often resulting in a communication bypass. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs) or deliberate ambiguity.

Words "deliberately constructed for political purposes: words, that is to say, which not only had in every case a political implication, but were intended to impose a desirable mental attitude upon the person using them."

This is an interesting mind-expanding intro.

Language of War

Produced July 29, 1990

Welcome to "AMERICA'S DEFENSE MONITOR."


. . . Bill Lutz is a professor of English at Rutgers University. He has written a number of revealing books on mis-leading language in the military and elsewhere. His latest is called "Doublespeak: From Revenue Enhancement to Terminal Living."


Saturday, November 21, 2009

Depleted Uranium and the Medical Mismanagement of Gulf War Veterans

Friday 20 November 2009

by: Paul Zimmerman, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed


(Photo: US Marines)

The United States insists that weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) pose no health hazards to exposed populations. This charade persists because an artful propaganda matrix has infiltrated and corrupted certain aspects of the radiation and biological sciences. The facts which follow will introduce how our debilitated veterans are being misinformed of the possible role played by uranium in their illnesses.

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

How to Detox Your Body of Depleted Uranium Residues, the Effects of Radiation, and Radioactive Contamination


. . . . Modifilin, perhaps the best seaweed chelator (containing anti-cancer properties, too) than anything else out there. . .

. . . At the time of the atomic bombing, Tatsuichiro Akizuki, M.D. was Director of the Department of Internal Medicine at St. Francis's Hospital in Nagasaki and he fed his staff and patients a strict diet of brown rice, miso and tamari soy soup, wakame, kombu and other seaweed, Hokkaido pumpkin, and sea salt. He also prohibited the consumption of sugar and sweets since they suppress the immune system.

By imposing this diet on his staff and patients, no one succumbed to radiation poisoning whereas the occupants of hospitals located much further away from the blast incident suffered severe radiation fatalities.

Much of this positive result has to do with the fact that the sea vegetables contain substances that bind radioactive particles and escort them out of the body. This is why seaweed sales usually skyrocket after radiation disasters, and why various seaweeds and algae are typically used to treat radiation victims.

In Chernobyl, for instance, spirulina was used to help save many children from radiation poisoning. By taking 5 grams of spirulina a day for 45 days, the Institute of Radiation Medicine in Minsk even proved that children on this protocol experienced enhanced immune systems, T-cell counts and reduced radioactivity. Israeli scientists have since treated Chernobyl children with doses of natural beta carotene from Dunaliella algae and proved that it helped normalize their blood chemistry. Chlorella algae, a known immune system builder and heavy metal detoxifier, has also shown radioprotective effects. Because they bind heavy metals, algae should therefore be consumed after exposure to any type of radioactive contamination. . . .

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Ocean Medicine


Legacy of Treason Depleted Uranium and the Poisoning of Humanity


By Alok O'Brien
In recent years I have become aware of the issue of depleted uranium (DU) and its use by the US Military in Iraq in 1991 and again in the current Iraq war. The photos of birth deformities and stories of suffering resulting from DU shocked me, reminding me of the Agent Orange victims of America's Vietnam war. Then I watched David Bradbury and Peter Scott's new film, "Blowin' in the Wind ". Its content shocked and appalled me, and spurred me into researching and writing this article. It is undoubtedly by far the most significant issue on the planet today, and yet the mainstream media stays quiet.

Depleted uranium (DU) is what is left after raw uranium has been enriched to the highly radioactive isotope U-235 used for weapons and power generation. For every ton of U-235 produced, there are seven tons of DU. Estimates vary, but it seems that currently the US alone has in excess of five million tons of stockpiles of DU. This has no commercial use beyond its use as a radiation shield in medical devices, and for adding to concrete to form radiation containing bunkers. However, this requires an insignificant quantity of the DU produced each year.

The half-life of DU is 4.5 billion years, so storing it safely and indefinitely is cost prohibitive. To remedy the situation, the US Department of Energy has made it freely available to the Pentagon and US armaments and armour manufacturers, and it has been used in weapons exported to 29 countries. It is simply cheaper to make it into weapons than store it.

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T R E A S O N

1 betrayal of one's sovereign or country.

2 any treachery or betrayal.

treasonable, treasonous


Depleted Uranium: Nuclear Holocaust and The Politics of Radiation


Doug Rokke, a Vietnam and Gulf War I Veteran and the Army's expert on depleted uranium; Leuren Moret, a whistle-blower from Livermore National Laboratory, expert lecturer on the health effects of depleted uranium; and Veteran Staff Sergeant Dennis Kyne who served as an Army medic during Gulf War I shared their expertise at the Women's Solidarity Movement in California April of 2003.

Because they speak out about depleted uranium (DU), all three of these people are constantly harassed by the US government and its agents. Both Rokke and Kyne are in extremely serious medical condition because of their exposure to depleted uranium and other toxicants that the military tells our valiant warriors are safe.

Huge Rise in Birth Defects in Falluja

Iraqi former battle zone sees abnormal clusters of infant tumours and deformities.

Fallujah - Doctors in Iraq's war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials left over from the fighting.

The extraordinary rise in birth defects has crystallised over recent months as specialists working in Falluja's over-stretched health system have started compiling detailed clinical records of all babies born.

Neurologists and obstetricians in the city interviewed by the Guardian say the rise in birth defects – which include a baby born with two heads, babies with multiple tumours, and others with nervous system problems - are unprecedented and at present unexplainable.
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"D.U. doesn't dissolve in water, meaning it is never excreted from an animal's body. It is passed on into any offspring and into their offspring."

Friday, November 13, 2009

White phosphorus called Shake and Bake


Exclusive: Classified Pentagon Document Described White Phosphorus As ‘Chemical Weapon’-


To downplay the political impact of revelations that U.S. forces used deadly white phosphorus rounds against Iraqi insurgents in Falluja last year, Pentagon officials have insisted that phosphorus munitions are legal since they aren’t technically “chemical weapons.”


Napalm was used in Viet Nam - then the U.S. modified it to make it even Worse - White Phosphorus.

a MUST READ. I won't put up any photos I've seen as to the effects of WHITE PHOSPHORUS - they're too too awful. You can do a search and find them yourself. It's beyond atrocious!

Used by U.S. in Fallujah

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Depleted Uranium in Hawaii - by Doug Rokke


Doug Rokke; Ph.D.; Major, retired/disabled; U.S. Army
former Director, U.S. Army Depleted Uranium project

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I recently was asked to provide technical guidance to Hilo Hawaii residents regarding the participation of military vehicles and equipment that had returned from Iraq. The extensive radiological, chemical, and biological contamination in Iraq once transported back to and consequently released into Hawaii's pristine environment poses both unacceptable medical and environmental risks. Consequently based on U.S. Army regulations I wrote that:

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Joyce Riley, Important Health Info for Veterans and Everyone!


Joyce Riley is an outspoken, upholder of American ideals and traditions with seemingly limitless charisma. She is fueled by her desire to keep Americans informed of the challenges this country is faced with everyday.

In the spirit of democracy Joyce welcomes callers to speak their minds and share their knowledge. As we all know knowledge is power, that's why we call this The Power Hour!

Help us restore the Constitution to its rightful place of importance in the United States.

www.thepowerhour.com

http://gcnlive.com/podcast/power_hr/pcast.php

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Depleted Uranium Alert! by Doug Rokke

The extent of adverse health and environmental effects of uranium weapons contamination is not limited to combat zones in the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan but includes facilities and sites where uranium weapons were manufactured or tested including Vieques; Puerto Rico; Colonie, New York; Concord, MA; Jefferson Proving Grounds, Indiana; and Schofield Barracks**, Hawaii. (excerpt from Dr. Rokke's article below)

**MORE evidence of DU contamination in the Hawaiian Islands coming soon
Dr. Doug Rokke, PhD. Dlind49@aol.com wrote:

please distribute this world wide...

Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens Requiring Immediate Action By President Bush, Prime Minister Brown, and Prime Minister Olmert

Dr. Doug Rokke, PhD. Dlind49@aol.com
former Director, U.S. Army Depleted Uranium project
June 11, 2008

During the summer of 1991, the United States military had collected artillery, tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, conventional and unconventional munitions, trucks, etc. at Camp Doha in Kuwait. As result of carelessness this weapons depot caught fire with consequent catastrophic explosion resulting in death, injury, illness and extensive environmental contamination from depleted uranium and conventional explosives. Recently the emirate of Kuwait required the United States Department of Defense to remove the contamination. Consequently, over 6,700 tons of contaminated soil sand and other residue was collected and has been shipped back to the United States for burial by American Ecology at Boise Idaho. . . .

Depleted Uranium: Ethics of the Silver Bullet








White Paper on Depleted Uranium: Ethics of the Silver Bullet
By Iliya Pesic

“All the soldiers there were wearing NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical warfare) protective clothing. We said: ‘What’s going on here?’ And their answer was: ‘Didn’t you know? This ammunition is a bit dodgy.’” – Tim Pubrick, Gulf War veteran, British Royal Army tank commander." . . . continue

Depleted Uranium: Pentagon Poison


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Pentagon Poison: The Great Radioactive Ammo Cover-Up

Author: By Bill Mesler
Publication: The Nation
Document Dated: May 13, 1997
Date Posted: May 13, 1997
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Rounds made of depleted uranium have exposed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of G.I.s to radiation without warning -- here's evidence the army knew the danger.

There were five of them. Small, BB-shaped pellets, shrapnel from wounds Jerry Wheat suffered in the Gulf War in 1991. They were lodged in the back of his neck and in his right shoulder. It took six months for them to worm their way close enough to the surface of his skin to be squeezed out. Wheat never paid much attention to the little pellets. Not until his father, an industrial hygienist at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, took them to work, measured them with a Geiger counter and discovered they were pieces of uranium-238, a radioactive and toxic byproduct of the process used to make fuel for nuclear weapons and reactors. For the first time in battle, the United States had used radioactive ammunition -- poisoning an unknown number of our own soldiers in addition to the Kuwaiti and Iraqi environment, a story the Pentagon is doing its best to keep quiet but for which a Nation investigation has found abundant evidence.

In fact, extensive interviews with exposed soldiers and veterans' doctors, government documents obtained by The Nation and results of emerging medical research show that the Pentagon knew as early as 1990 of the dangers of its new antitank ammunition made of uranium-238, or depleted uranium (D.U.), but was mainly worried about bad P.R.; that soldiers in the Gulf War were not warned of its toxicity; that hundreds and perhaps thousands of G.I.s were exposed; that the Pentagon at least once rephrased description of this ammunition to hide its radioactivity; that researchers are on the verge of publishing a study documenting a strong connection to cancer; that at least one former Veterans Affairs doctor accuses the V.A. of engaging in a "conspiracy of silence"; and that, six years after the last rounds were fired in the Gulf, concern among veterans has convinced Congressional investigators exploring the causes of Gulf War Syndrome to begin calling for testimony on D.U. next month.

U.S. forces quietly began introducing D.U. rounds into their arsenals in the late seventies but never fired a round in combat before the Gulf War. It turned out to be the most devastating tank-killing ammunition ever used on a battlefield, accounting for about one-third of all Iraqi tank kills. "By using these D.U. weapon systems, the Army gave its soldiers better protection from enemy action and greater confidence in their ability to engage in and survive combat," Department of Defense spokesman Bryan Whitman told The Nation. But the use of D.U. weapons also left behind a host of problems the Pentagon did not foresee. What do you do with the tons of radioactive waste left behind? What do you tell soldiers exposed to burning D.U. rounds? And what do you tell at least thirty-three U.S. veterans who, like Wheat, were left with D.U. shrapnel wounds?

The last question is the one researchers at the Defense Department's Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) in Bethesda, Maryland, are trying to answer. AFRRI scientists have been trying to determine the effects of embedded D.U. by inserting shrapnel-like pellets of the substance into the legs of rats. According to abstracts of preliminary results of the studies obtained by The Nation, AFRRI scientists have discovered that D.U. leads to the occurrence of oncogenes, tumorous growths believed to be the precursors to cancerous growth in cells, and that it kills suppressor genes. They also found that embedded D.U., unlike most metals, dissolves and is spread through the body, depositing itself in organs like the spleen and the brain; and that a pregnant female rat will pass depleted uranium along to a developing fetus.

Some of the results have been presented to the American Association for Cancer Research and the Society of Toxicology; more is being submitted to the scientific journal Nature this month. Researchers stress that their work is only preliminary. But Dr. David Livengood, the chairman of the department of cellular radiobiology at AFRRI, said, "We were particularly surprised at how quickly we found oncogenes."

Despite the significance of their discoveries, the research has so far drawn scant attention. Money for the studies will run out later this year, and no new appropriations are on the horizon, although scientists are trying to find out more about the interrelationship between uranium's radioactivity and its toxicity (uranium is both a toxic heavy metal and radioactive) and to develop new ways to test for uranium in the human body.

"Even if we would never use it [D.U.] again, other potential enemies will," said Livengood. "And we have to be prepared to know what to do with injured individuals. What do we say, for instance, to a woman with D.U. fragments in her who wants to know if she can safely have children? Nobody knows." He speaks urgently of the need for further study.

So does Jerry Wheat. During the Gulf War, Wheat drove a Bradley armored personnel carrier for the Third Armored Division and won a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Twice Wheat was knocked unconscious when his vehicle was hit by Iraqi rounds. The Iraqi fire caused the Bradley's own ammunition to explode, leaving him with D.U. shrapnel. Wheat came home from the Persian Gulf a hero, but also sick. "I had these stomach cramps that went on real severe for about six weeks," says Wheat, who used to weigh 220 pounds and now weighs 160. "I couldn't hold anything in me, couldn't eat any food. I still have stomach trouble. And now I have joint pains, fatigue. My bones won't heal right. I broke my collarbone last year and it still hasn't healed."

Wheat believes his ailments are related to the unexplained symptoms reported by other veterans, which have come to be known as Gulf War Syndrome. Since his father's discovery in 1993 that his shrapnel wounds were from D.U., Wheat has been part of a D.U. monitoring program run by the Veterans Affairs Department. Doctors at the V.A. hospital in Baltimore are following closely the health of Wheat and nearly three dozen other veterans known to have suffered D.U. shrapnel wounds.

Nobody at the V.A. told Wheat about the preliminary results of the animal studies at AFRRI, even though he and other vets in the D.U. program were recently flown to Baltimore for a round of testing. "They have a real good way of covering stuff up," said Wheat, who never would have learned his shrapnel was D.U. if his father hadn't taken the initiative to check it with a Geiger counter. "I never even heard of depleted uranium until 1993. They've never warned me about anything at all."

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Depleted Uranium: Poisoning Our Planet


Soldier Health Scare Back in News

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Lori Brim has joined other parents, hundreds of other sick soldiers, legislators, research scientists and environmental activists who say the cause of their problems results from exposure to depleted uranium, a radioactive metal used in the manufacture of U.S. tank armor and weapon casings . . . . continue

Friday, November 6, 2009

Sickened Iraq Vets Cite Depleted Uranium








. . . . . Reed believes depleted uranium has contaminated him and his life. He now walks point in a vitriolic war over the Pentagon's arsenal of it - thousands of shells and hundreds of tanks coated with the metal that is radioactive, chemically toxic, and nearly twice as dense as lead. . . .

His Story

Why have so many Iraqi Academics been Assassinated


How can research be done on DU effects in Iraq if there has been assassinations of an estimated 300 Iraqi scientists since the invasion of Iraq - Brussels Tribunal (as of 2005)

There are WMD in Iraq - ours


Depleted uranium (DU) is the waste product from the process of enriching uranium ore for use in nuclear weapons and reactors. It is a very heavy substance, 1.7 times denser than lead, it is highly valued by armies for its ability to punch through armored vehicles. When a weapon made with a DU tip or core strikes a solid object, like the side of a tank, it goes straight through it and then erupts in a burning cloud of vapor. The vapor settles as dust, which is both chemically poisonous and also radioactive. (BBC News, 4 January 2001)

As an alpha particle emitter, DU has a half life of 4.5 billion years. DU materials are in the warheads of 23 weapon systems, including cruise missiles, bunker busting bombs and cluster bombs. DU munitions were central to the "shock and awe‚" attack on Iraq in 2003 and the continued military conflict since.

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The War Against Ourselves, an interview with Doug Rokke

An interview with Major Doug Rokke by Sunny Miller
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Doug Rokke has a PhD in health physics and was originally trained as a forensic scientist. When the Gulf War started, he was assigned to prepare soldiers to respond to nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare, and sent to the Gulf. What he experienced has made him a passionate voice for peace, travelling the country to speak out. The following interview was conducted by the director of the Traprock Peace Center, Sunny Miller, supplemented with questions from YES! editors - Read the Interview here

"DU is a crime against God and humanity. It has to be stopped"
Major Doug Rokke, Health Physicist assigned to US Army DU Assessment Team, 1991. US Army DU Project Director, 1994-1995

Uranium Toxicity known since 1896

Depleted Uranium is a Waste Product of the nuclear industry




Depleted Uranium (DU) is the byproduct of uranium enrichment or, as described by the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW),"DU is a waste product of the nuclear industry." The ICBUW adds: "Depleted Uranium itself is a chemically toxic and radioactive compound, which is used in armor piercing munitions because of its very high density. It is 1.7 times denser than lead. This allows it to easily penetrate the steel armor of tanks and other vehicles when fired at high velocity."
read more at the Green Glossary

Depleted Uranium & Gulf War Syndrome

Thursday, November 5, 2009





Depleted Uranium Blamed for Cancer Clusters Among Iraq War Vets

The Real Dirty Bombs: Depleted Uranium

Critical Analysis ... Depleted Uranium


Dissident Voice, DU issues
There Are No Words . . Radiation in Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs
by Bob Nichols, March 27, 2004, revised July 12, 2004

. . . This story is about American weapons built with Uranium components for the business end of things. Just about all American bullets, tank shells, missiles, dumb bombs, smart bombs, 500 and 2,000 pound bombs, cruise missiles, and anything else engineered to help our side in the war of us against them has Uranium in it. Lots of Uranium.

In the case of a cruise missile, as much as 800 pounds of the stuff. This article is about how much radioactive uranium our guys, representing us, the citizens of the United States, let fly in Iraq. Turns out they used about 4,000,000 pounds of the stuff, give or take, according to the Pentagon and the United Nations. That is a bunch.

Now, most people have no idea how much Four Million Pounds of anything is, much less of Uranium Oxide Dust (UOD), which this stuff turns into when it is shot or exploded. Suffice it to say it is about equal to 1,333 cars that weigh three thousand pounds apiece. That is a lot of cars; but, we can imagine what a parking lot with one thousand three hundred and thirty three cars is like. The point is: this was and is an industrial strength operation. It is still going on, too. . .read more on Radioactive Uranium Dust