BELLACIAO - DIABETES AND DEPLETED URANIUM: IF ITS AN EPIDEMIC, ITS NOT GENETIC - Leuren Moret - Collective Bellaciao

BELLACIAO - DIABETES AND DEPLETED URANIUM: IF ITS AN EPIDEMIC, ITS NOT GENETIC - Leuren Moret - Collective Bellaciao: "October Wednesday 4th 2006 (03h21) :
DIABETES AND DEPLETED URANIUM: IF ITS AN EPIDEMIC, ITS NOT GENETIC
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By Leuren Moret

The global pandemic of diabetes which is increasing each year, began with the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The resulting global atmospheric pollution has resulted in a diabetes pandemic caused by hundreds of thousands of pounds of vaporized depleted uranium used in atomic and hydrogen bombs as "tamping", fission products from nuclear power plants, and the illegal use of depleted uranium radioactive poison gas weapons introduced to the battlefield by the US in 1991. Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and now Lebanon are now uninhabitable. Israel soon will be.

Depleted uranium is being used to carry out an illegal nuclear war against countries with mineral resources the British Economic Empire and US Economic Empire must control. The huge global increase in diabetes between 1996-97 is indicative of a global environmental event. Now we know why Rhodes Scholar President Clinton was grid bombing and carpet bombing in Iraq in the NO-FLY-ZONES for ten years. Grid bombing and carpet bombing is carried out for the sole purpose of terrain contamination.

Unfortunately, we the citizens of the world are now sitting together in the Auschwitz radioactive poison gas chamber which our atmosphere has been converted into by the "GLOBAL 2000" National Security Council policy paper written in 1979 for (David Rockefeller’s protege) President Jimmy Carter by (David Rockefeller’s protege) Henry Kissinger, (David Rockefeller’s protege) Zbiegnew Brzezinski, General Alexander Haig, and Ed Muskie.

The Queen’s favorite American buccaneers, Cheney, Halliburton, and the Bush family, are tied to her through uranium mining and the shared use of illegal depleted uranium munitions in the Middle East, Central Asia and Kosovo/Bosnia.

Thank you Queen Elizabeth, the Rothschilds, and David Rockefeller for carrying out the depopulation plans of Sir Cecil Rhodes, the sponsor of the Rhodes Scholarship and mid-1800s explorer of Africa.

GLOBAL DEPOPULATION HAS BEGUN: http://www.berkeleycitizen.org/diab...

THE QUEEN’S DEATH STAR: http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2006/...

By : Leuren Moret
October Wednesday 4th 2006"

El Defensor Chieftain: Veteran speaks on his battles since returning from Gulf War

El Defensor Chieftain: Veteran speaks on his battles since returning from Gulf War: "Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Veteran speaks on his battles since returning from Gulf War

Evelyn Cronce El Defensor Chieftain Reporter

Veteran Jerry Wheat spoke to audiences at the Disable American Veterans Hall and at the Socorro Public Library about his experiences in the first Gulf War in 1991.

He especially spoke on the physical and bureaucratic problems he continues to battle from wounds received when his Bradley armored personnel carrier was accidentally hit twice by "friendly fire" with American shells made from depleted uranium.

Wheat was deployed in Saudi Arabia in late December 1990 with the 3rd Armored Division of the 47th Cavalry. On Feb. 27, 1991, on a reconnaissance mission in Iraq, Wheat found himself in a sandstorm facing the enemy's Republican Guard.

The Bradley he was driving pulled back to reload and was hit by an armor-piercing round. When he came to, he was on fire and removed most of his clothing, including his bulletproof vest. When he discovered that the Bradley would still run, he attempted to head back to his unit and was hit a second time. This time, without his protective gear, the shrapnel penetrated his body and became embedded.

Wheat was evacuated to the field hospital where the shrapnel was removed. He said the pieces were small, the largest being only about three-quarters of an inch. His commanding officer told Wheat that he was lucky to be alive after having been hit by two T-72 Russian tank rounds.

"He didn't tell me I had been hit by 'friendly fire,'" Wheat said.

For the next couple of weeks, until the ceasefire, Wheat continued to drive the Bradley until the engine finally quit and had no access to shower facilities.

"I was just happy to be alive. The Bradley, my clothes and my sleeping bag were all covered in a fine dust, not sand," he said. "There were still pieces of shrapnel in my sleeping bag and my gear. The fine dust got over everything, including the MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat) I ate. There was no place to wash up."

Then the ceasefire was declared and Wheat returned to his family at the base in Germany, but he started having health problems. He had still not had an opportunity to shower or clean up when he arrived home still dusty. His 3-year -old son, who had never had respiratory problems, was rushed to the hospital that night and spent the next week in the hospital with breathing problems.

Wheat feared some kind of heavy metal poisoning. Wheat discovered that he had been hit by depleted uranium when his father, working at Los Alamos, took samples of the shrapnel from Wheat's sleeping bag and had them tested.

Wheat brought the shrapnel from his gear and the shrapnel that had worked its way out of his body since the incident to the lecture. Damacio Lopez tested it with a Geiger counter and demonstrated that it registered 1,200 counts per minute.

Wheat has had numerous health problems since the incident, but the Veterans Administration has not said that any of his problems, including the cancerous tumor in the bone of his shoulder, were caused by depleted uranium. He said the V.A. blames his problems on post-traumatic stress.

Wheat's lecture was followed by a showing of the video documentary "Invisible War: The Politics of Radiation."

Much audience discussion followed both the presentation and the video. There was a great deal of concern expressed about effects of depleted uranium as used by the military. Concern was expressed as well about historic testing of depleted uranium weapons, and whether or not it is still being tested, for the military at New Mexico Tech and at White Sands Missile Range.

Tom Delahante, Disabled American Veterans president, suggested everyone who has been exposed to shrapnel from any of the Middle East conflicts or from Bosnia, either during the fighting or from souvenirs brought back by soldiers, or from the testing of depleted uranium done locally should contact the DAV.

"You don't want to deal with the VA alone," said Delahante. "Jerry's story is typical."

ecronce@dchieftain.com"

North Korea to test nuclear warhead | The Register

North Korea to test nuclear warhead | The Register: "North Korea to test nuclear warhead
Radioactive sabre-rattling

Published Tuesday 3rd October 2006 10:54 GMT

North Korea has announced it will test one of its nuclear warheads, the BBC reports. North Korea's foreign ministry declared: '[North Korea] will in the future conduct a nuclear test under the condition where safety is firmly guaranteed.'

It added provocatively: 'The US daily increasing threat of a nuclear war and its vicious sanctions and pressure have caused a grave situation on the Korean Peninsula.'

The ministry said North Korea 'can no longer remain an on-looker to the developments' - a reference to 'vicious' US sanctions which have caused a situation where 'the US moves to isolate and stifle' the country.

The Pyongyang regime is under considerable US-led pressure to cease and desist its nuclear weapons programme. In 1994, it signed an agreement to 'freeze all nuclear-related activities', but in December 2002 restarted its Yongbyon reactor and booted two UN nuclear monitors out of the country.

A fully-operational Yongbyon reactor could, the BBC notes, 'produce enough plutonium to build approximately one weapon per year'.
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KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA | EPA chooses plan for cleaning up uranium mine

KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA | EPA chooses plan for cleaning up uranium mine: "EPA chooses plan for cleaning up uranium mine

SPOKANE, Wash. The U-S Environmental Protection Agency has approved a final plan for cleaning up radioactive wastes at a defunct Cold War uranium mine on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
In its 'Record of Decision,' the E-P-A says contaminated water from the Midnite Mine near Wellpinit will be treated and two open pits will be filled and capped.

The Midnite Mine, about 45 miles northwest of Spokane, is a Superfund cleanup site which operated from 1955-to-1981. The 350-acre area now is a series of open pits filled with mildly radioactive heavy metals and water that can enter nearby streams.

Spokane tribal officials reacted favorably to the cleanup plan. Shannon Work, the tribe's special environmental counsel, says the selection of a preferred cleanup alternative is 'a big step forward.

The E-P-A estimates the cleanup will cost about 152 (m) million dollars.

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KOBTV.com - LANL workers may get compensated for radiation exposure

KOBTV.com - LANL workers may get compensated for radiation exposure: "LANL workers may get compensated for radiation exposure
Last Update: 10/03/2006 10:14:28 AM
By: Associated Press

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Los Alamos National Laboratory workers who developed cancer after being exposed to a radioactive substance during two decades of nuclear weapons experiments may soon qualify for automatic payments from the government.

A staffer for Representative Tom Dual says it�s not clear how many workers will be eligible. The New Mexico Democrat has been working to make sure the group is a broad as possible.

Between September 1st, 1944, and July 18th, 1963, lab employees set off about 250 tests of atomic bomb components using a substance called radioactive lanthanum.

Officials now say that substance endangered the health of workers who were exposed to it.

The Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health, which helps determine whether to compensate sick Cold War-era workers, last month recommended the radioactive lanthanum workers be included in a group eligible for automatic compensation.

Their recommendation ultimately will be sent to Congress.



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