Thursday, March 23, 2006

The New Iron Curtain - What do Columbus, Jean Paul Sartre, Margaret Mead and John Kaminski have in common?

The New Iron Curtain - What do Columbus, Jean Paul Sartre, Margaret Mead and John Kaminski have in common?

Prologue to John Kaminski's interesting analysis - link below*

''It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the state of Israel.'' - US Secretary Colin Powell’s Remarks at 'The Conference on Anti-Semitism of The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe' - April 28, 2004 - German Ministry of Foreign Affairs Berlin, Germany - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/22p6c

About people and continents bled like a kosher slaughtered sheep.

The Netherlands - March 23d - 2006 - The problem with this analysis, is the raw reality that 'USA' also stands for the names of all other PNAC* colonies, like Germany, France, England or The Netherlands for instance. In Europe it is principally a treacherous trio that fits as a hand in a glove, and now when ''the gloves are off' as they proclaimed, the iron fist can be seen that Kaminski describes. The 'PNAC-motors' Israel, 'The Group' with it's 'Board of Directors' in England, and since August 1492, The Netherlands.

When forced to leave Spain - [http://tinyurl.com/3wlmw ] - part of 'The Group' financed Christopher Columbus and conquered among others America, while many bankers went to Holland and later on to England. The Jewish Virtual Library has the following on this medieval 'Project for a New America': ''Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress'' - Columbus Sets Sail - The Exodus August 3,1492 - [http://tinyurl.com/l7dha]

Most people in the world hardly know anything about The Netherlands - #5 on the list of 'richest' countries on the globe (for 'The Group' and it's collaborators) and 'Holland' for short - apart from the name of football player Johan Cruyff, the tulips, windmills or Gouda cheese. And even the ill informed, nearly brainwashed 16 million people inhabiting Holland, hardly know about the American nuclear bombs at Dutch bases - making Holland a target in an armed conflict - or who runs their lives while robbing them.

Like in most PNAC colonies they've now also been robbed of their health service, with today criminal collaborator minister Hoogervorst saying that the ambulance services should be 'privatized' - another word for 'profitable'. The extra thousands of lives this heist is going to result in, does not matter to him nor 'The Group': it's just some more profit to them. In their global factory people - like you and me - are not human beings: we are just throw-away sources of income to them. Just look around you.

BLED LIKE A KOSHER SLAUGHTERED SHEEP

For instance: after Sweden now the Dutch sheeple pay the highest taxes in the world, and on average work six months a year for 'the managers'. At present sixty-one percent of the workers has sleepless nights they said in a poll, because they do not know how to pay the bills. And the number five richest country in the world has eleven percent of the people living in poverty, according to their own - always faked - figures. So the shame is probably bigger. A shame too on all who don't react against it and let the crimes go on.

The introduction of the Euro currency measured two years ago - has made life 49.1 % (fourty-nine-dot-one percent) more expensive. They had been told and 'warned' beforehand that half a percent might be possible... And the wages keep going down. The workers are bled like a kosher slaughtered sheep, having ninety percent lobotomized by the mass propaganda media, especially NOS state radio and TV. With very few exceptions still alive, saying what's really happening, as done by The Group's 'Jackals' killing for profit as explained by ex-IMF/World Bank-man Perkins - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4p5yo

ONE OF 'THE GROUP'S BIGGEST AIRPORTS IN EUROPE

Most people do not know that The Netherlands is one of the biggest US-NATO centers for the PNAC, and also one of the biggest PNAC airports. Amsterdam as the European Gateway and London a half hour flight away. It's an El Al / Mossad airport which never ever is controlled by the Dutch 'authorities'. Nobody would dare to. Dutch Attorney General Vrakking testified on Jan. 29, 1999, that the El Al security detachment at the main dutch airport Schiphol was a branch of Mossad. All and every form of goods, including whatever kind of contraband for the making of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons too, fell on Amsterdam when an El Al plane crashed. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yurk6

What Kaminski much better formulated describes, is the malignant influence of what I call 'The Group' - this racket of cruel inhuman figures not knowing any decency, compassion, civilization, limits, country, god nor law - 'running' the global horror show at the expense of the rest: we, their victims. I have looked and compared all over the world, and based on my life long experiences I can not see any other conclusion: this 'Group' that should have been stopped a long, long time ago. By any and all means.

The abuse of all and everything which is valuable to human beings, is incredible when one sees it. In my four decades as a foreign correspondent, I have covered and honestly as an independent journalist described some of their wars, coups, killings and globally the unbelievable misery of which 'The Group' mostly is the origin.

JUST LOOK WHO PROFITS. FOLLOW THE MONEY AND YOU'LL FIND THE CROOKS

And I've followed the advice offered to me by Jean Paul Sartre, who - like me - in May 1967 was at the Russell Vietnam Tribunal in Sweden thirty years ago, where I was based as correspondent for Scandinavia. Sartre's was the same advice as given to me in Stockholm by anthropologist Margaret Mead; both with their life long experiences saying: ''Just look who profits. Follow the money and you'll find the crooks.''

Which I did. Remembering always what 'Grand Old Lady' Margaret Mead also said: "Never doubt that a small group of dedicated individuals can change the world, indeed, it's the only thing that ever has" - She definitely did not mean 'The Group' however, which proofs again and again to be the root of most evil. Hence the saying; "Money is the root of all evil."

I've been brought up in a classical catholic family, and as a child I've initially been stuffed with the same propaganda and lies about the world as many of us, until I went to see for myself what, where, why, what for and who was the origin, and what was the clear result. That's why I like to forward Kaminski's analysis, expecting the readers of the FPF to think, understand, and not to be victims of the new 'Electronic Iron Curtain' in thinking, as spread by The Group's 'messmedia'. - (Pun intended).

The openly advertised Animal Farm plans - as described in the PNAC text, in reality unveil the global nightmare called the "Project for a Nefarious America'. An 'empire' and colossus on clay feet.

A nightmare that will not end before the creatures doing this to mankind are 'neutralized'...

Henk Ruyssenaars

FPF-fwd.:KAMINSKI’S LATEST ESSAY:

The New Iron Curtain

WHAT’S THAT SHADOW IN YOUR MIND, AND HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN THERE?

* Find the whole story at - Url.: http://warfolly.vzz.net/newironcurtain.html

FPF: STRONGLY RELATED REFERENCES:

* Former U.S. PNAC-Secr. of State Madeleine Albright-Korbel, in her comment on the at least HALF A MILLION dead children in Iraq: "WE THINK IT'S WORTH IT" - On CBS '60 Minutes' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8

* Remember the small Vietnamese girl running? The 'US democracy'-napalm burning her back? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/o3gm7

* PNAC HOLOCAUST: UNICEF reports that the under-5 infant mortality for 2003 was 110,000 in occupied Iraq, 292,000 in occupied Afghanistan. Gideon Polya: 'Non-reportage of US-linked infant mass mortality' - December 23, 2004 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/rb3rx

* NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST for you too - Depleted Uranium for Dummies - Url.: http://www.notinkansas.us

* The despicable war criminal and the US/PNAC's agent at the UN: 'Bulldozer BOLTON's way of working, bringing deadly 'democracy' everywhere. A very short soundbite - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5u98v

* ANOTHER HOLOCAUST: THIS IS ONE OF MANY BY THEIR CIA: John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. ''How 6 million People Were killed in CIA secret wars against Third World countries'' - Before 1986! - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gpcg

* Who - for centuries already - has been doing this to the rest of us, the world's population? - The Global Elite: Who are they? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c5xv5

* Who's financing and profiting from all the wars and the killing of millions of people in wars based on lies and greed? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992. - And here's why: 'George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography' - by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin - Chapter - II - The Hitler Project - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/57qxk

* Global Predators - ‘Frauds-R-Us’ - The Bush Family Saga - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/elarx

* YANKEES GO HOME! - Tomdispatch Interview with Chalmers Johnson - The Empire: "Iraq before we invaded had a GDP the size of the state of Louisiana and Afghanistan was certainly one of the poorest places on the planet. And yet these two places have stopped us." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/nshjd

* This is a running total of the U.S. taxpayer cost of the Iraq War. The through taxes extorted $billions, squandered on the sick dreams of 'world power' - killing millions of people and filling the PNAC pack's pockets - The number is based on US Congressional appropriations. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cfsrc

* The 9/11 drama was the 'trigger' used by the PNAC Group, killing Americans to further their inhuman goals: Anybody who after seeing this video - '9/11 revisited' - still believes the version from the 'PNAC pack' - the Washington cabal - is beyond all professional help - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/r5sx4

* Nebraska Republican Hagel sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and supported the October 2002 resolution authorizing military action against Iraq. He helped Bush on the bloodied PNAC throne in the White 'Haus': "If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/xd0f

* Anti-propaganda: On the Net - Reporters Committee - Url.: http://www.rcfp.org/

* US War & Propaganda machine: Rumsfeld Declares War on Bad Press - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/loxqy

* Bush interview. ABC: No WMD's but many killed: "It was worth it". - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6bal9

* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* The 9/11 WTC drama was by the PNAC criminals planned 'false flag' terror, to 'trigger' their own global war of terror now ravaging the world - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b7ygk - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d

* Nobel Literature Prize Laureate and 'Gulag Holocaust' survivor Alexander Solzjenitsyn investigated the origin of the 'Russian Revolution' and the concentration camps: he published and was damned - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qth6z

* MSNBC - Live Vote - Concerning the "Project for a Nefarious American Century" (PNAC) - ''Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?'' - YES: 86% - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

*Read the Fightin' Cock Flyer - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

* THE ONLY SOLUTION? - Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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The globe's nuclear Holocaust: Depleted Uranium For Dummies

FPF-fwd. from Irving Hall

Over the Rainbow Blog Part 3 - 'link' below

Everything you need to know about depleted uranium to counter military recruiters and to convince remaining supporters of the Iraq War that every day our troops remain in Iraq increases the chances that they will come home sick, produce children with birth defects, and die prematurely. Deadly uranium permeates the air, water, and soil. Baghdad's Green Zone is as contaminated as any battlefield.

Depleted Uranium For Dummies

Irving Wesley Hall

Under the direction of Secretary of Defense Cheney, the 1991 Gulf War began with a "shock and awe" bombing campaign that destroyed large biological laboratories, chemical plants, and nuclear enrichment facilities, most of them around Baghdad. Many sites were illegally supplied by the Reagan-Bush administration, in which both Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld served, so the United States government knew their locations.

Biological, chemical and nuclear weapons damage the bodies of soldiers in distinct ways. The first employs deadly bacteria and viruses to cause known illnesses. The second uses poisonous, or toxic, substances to attack the body's chemistry. Nuclear weapons, such as depleted uranium (D.U.), were unimaginable before World War II. They attack the body with invisible radioactive energy that, as you will soon read, produces a wider variety of symptoms that develop over a longer period of time. Radioactive heavy metal particles embedded in the body are both radioactive and toxic.

Biological, chemical and nuclear weapons can potentially "blow back." Once they are released, they can kill and maim civilians as well as enemy soldiers. Hence all three have been banned by international treaties which the United States signed.

They also blow back on the army that uses them. The practical danger to America's own troops prevented the widespread use of WMD's until the atomic bombs in World War II and the chemical herbicide Agent Orange in Vietnam. Hundreds of thousands of American troops suffered and died because of the testing and use of these weapons.

When George Bush Sr., Cheney, and Rumsfeld supplied brutal tyrant Saddam Hussein with these substances in the 1980's they showed disregard for the lives of folks living in the Middle East. When they ordered the 1991 aerial destruction of stockpiles of these weapons, they showed a deadly contempt for their own citizen-soldiers.

Those early bombing attacks sent clouds of miniscule toxic and radioactive particles into the air that floated over the future battlefield and bivouac camps where hundreds of thousands of American troops were awaiting the invasion.

Bush Sr.'s February 1991 ground war was even shorter than Bush Jr.'s 2003 "Mission Accomplished" operation. The former lasted only 100 hours. Afterwards 105 sites stockpiling dangerous chemical and biological weapons were destroyed, contaminating everything around them. In March, a huge weapons storage dump in Khamisiyah was blown up by American engineers, sending a second huge toxic cloud over troops preparing to depart for home.

HIDE THE UNITED STATES ORIGIN OF THAT WEAPONRY

Sgt. Dan Topolski, of the 87th Engineer Battalion, participated in the Khamisiyah demolition. He speculates in the excellent DVD Beyond Treason that the hasty action, without prior inspection, inventory, or proper safety precautions, was political. Topolski suggests this stupid order was motivated by Bush Sr.'s desperate desire to hide the United States origin of that weaponry from United Nations inspectors and the American people.

Dr. Doug Rokke states, "General Powell, General Schwarzkopf, General Horner, and Secretary Cheney. . .made a conscience decision. . . to blow up Iraq’s chemical-biological stockpiles in place. [They] also decided to blow up their nuclear reactors in place. This is all confirmed in Schwarzkopf’s autobiography. . .We warned everybody that these exposures – downwind exposures – were going to have a disastrous effect on U.S. military personnel, on coalition personnel, on Iraqi personnel, and on the civilians and non-combatants in the region. That warning was ignored."

Years later, ailing vets would force the government to admit that CIA satellites had tracked the movement of the mass of Khamisiyah contaminants in real time. The size and path of the cloud explains the otherwise inexplicable incidences of Gulf War illness among Navy personnel and pilots on battleships in the Persian Gulf downwind.

During the early aerial bombardment and later tank war, President Bush and Secretary Cheney authorized the use of massive amounts of depleted uranium armaments for the first time in the history of warfare. This material is produced only by the United States and had been used experimentally in Vietnam and the 1973 Israel-Arab War. Internal Department of Defense reports had warned since 1943 about its use, and accurately predicted its poison gas effects on our troops.

THE MOST TOXIC BATTLE IN WESTERN MILITARY HISTORY

In his article, "The Gulf War Was The Most Toxic Battle In Western Military History," Dr. Malcolm Hooper, emeritus professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Sunderland UK, attributes the symptoms of mysterious "Gulf War Illness" among American and coalition troops to a combination of toxic substances to which they were subjected.

These included, in addition to weapons of mass destruction, experimental vaccines, anti-nerve gas tablets, aerosolized pesticides, and smoke from hundreds of burning oil wells. Some of the vaccines were not approved by the FDA and had never been used on human subjects. No one had studied the interactive effects of as many as seventeen vaccines administered at the same time. Many soldiers became violently ill immediately after receiving the battery of shots and others developed a variety of symptoms later. Strangely, the normally bureaucratic military kept no records of who received what shots and when.

However, most researchers cite radioactive poisoning from depleted uranium shells as the deadliest element in the Gulf War Illness "cocktail." In the 1991 war the Pentagon fired more than 340 tons of D.U. projectiles at targets in Iraq and Kuwait. More than a half million Gulf era veterans are on medical disability.
At last count, more than 1,000 tons have been used in Afghanistan and more than 3,000 tons in Iraq. Significantly, most Gulf War tours of duty were short. Three quarters of today's troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have served multiple tours: 26% are on their first tour of duty, 45% are on their second tour, and 29% are in Iraq for a third time or more. Some are now being ordered to a fourth tour of duty.

Simple math suggests that depleted uranium may eventually prove a hundred times more deadly to our forces than all the Iraqi resistance fighters' improvised explosive devices (I.E.D.s) and rocket propelled grenades (R.P.G.'s) combined.

Leonard Dietz is a retired physicist from the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in upstate New York. Dietz, who pioneered the technology to measure uranium isotopes, is quoted as saying, "Anybody, civilian or soldier, who breathes these particles has a permanent dose, and it's not going to decrease very much over time. . .In the long run. . .veterans exposed to ceramic uranium oxide have a major problem."

THE DOUBLE WHAMMY COCKTAIL

A D.U shell bursts into flames as soon as it leaves the delivery device. When it hits a target, as much as 70 percent burns on impact at a high temperature, releasing into the air billions of invisible radioactive particles. This infinitesimally fine dust of aerosolized uranium oxide consists of metallic micro-particles that are smaller than viruses or bacteria.

All of our bodies contain tiny amounts of natural uranium because it is found in water and in the food supply. But natural uranium is quickly and harmlessly excreted by the body. However the velocity and heat of the impact of D.U munitions convert the poisonous uranium oxide from a heavy metal into a ceramic heavy metal that makes it insoluble and therefore difficult to excrete.

Where does depleted uranium come from? It doesn't occur in nature. Natural uranium has to be “processed' to remove less than one half of one percent of a special kind of uranium called U-235. Bomb makers use U-235 to make thermonuclear bombs that can explode with a force equivalent to 100 million tons of TNT.

U-235 is also used to make fuel rods for nuclear reactors. Used fuel rods are extremely radioactive for many years and will kill any person near them in ten seconds. No one on earth knows what to do with used fuel rods. Tons of deadly, radioactive used fuel rods have been in temporary storage for more than 50 years.

D.U. is "depleted" only in the sense that more highly radioactive forms of uranium have been partially removed. What's left, depleted uranium, mainly U-238, is still highly radioactive and dangerous. It is used to make military bullets, shells, land mines, armor plating, missiles and bombs.

As we are all taught in elementary school, radioactivity is dangerous because it causes cancer. That's why your dentist covers your body with a lead apron before your X-ray.

ACCORDING TO A JUNE 2002 NATIONAL RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION BOARD REPORT

"All uranium, whether natural, depleted or enriched, is a toxic radiological element. Each differs from the other in atomic structure by less than one percent. D.U. emits three types of ionizing radiation: alpha and beta particles and photons. Alpha particles are blocked by objects as light as a sheet of paper and humans exposed to them are naturally protected by their skin. Beta particles (high speed electrons) can penetrate human skin to a depth of one centimeter while photons (x-rays and gamma rays) are more penetrating and can pass completely through a human body."

Although blocked by the skin, alpha radiation can be inhaled, ingested, and absorbed into the blood stream through scratches and wounds. It is highly dangerous internally. In addition to being physically radioactive it is also chemically toxic. This explains the "double whammy" effect. Soldiers who are exposed can become immediately ill from the toxicity, recover, and then suffer severe additional symptoms from the radioactivity years or decades later.

A study in the April 2003 New Scientist magazine suggested that D.U. toxicity combines synergistically with its radioactivity to produce more serious effects.

Dr Keith Baverstock, a senior radiation advisor to the World Health Organization, is quoted as saying, “The radiation and the chemical toxicity of D.U. could also act together to create a ‘cocktail effect’ that further increases the risk of cancer.”

HENCE GULF WAR VETS WERE SERVED A COCKTAIL INSIDE A COCKTAIL.

More troubling still is another study of the materials inside the D.U. weapons used in Iraq and Afghanistan. That report found that in addition to U-238, today's munitions contain plutonium, neptunium, and the highly radioactive uranium isotope U-236. An isotope is one of several slightly different atomic structures within the same element, in this case uranium. According to a 1991 study by the UK Atomic Energy Authority, these elements are 100,000 times more dangerous than the U-238 in so-called depleted uranium.

U-236 is another man-made metal. It is created inside operating nuclear reactors and is intensely radioactive. U-236 has been found in the urine of sick Afghan and Iraqi villagers and on the ground next to bomb craters.

Geologist Leuren Moret is an independent scientist and internationally recognized expert on radiation, D.U., and public health. She estimates that "one millionth of a gram [of depleted uranium] accumulating in a person's body would be fatal. There are no known methods of treatment."

QUIET AND INVISIBLE GUESTS THAT NEVER LEAVE

WHY THE WIDE VARIETY OF ILLNESSES?

Depleted uranium contamination causes virtually every known illness from acute skin rashes, severe headaches, muscle and joint pain, and general fatigue, to major birth defects, infection, depression, cardiovascular disease, brain tumors, and every other type of cancer. Uranium replaces calcium, destroying teeth and bones.

D.U. is causing permanent disability and death for hundreds of thousands of American veterans who served in the Middle East.

For more information, every military family should watch Beyond Treason, and every high school should play the DVD for students subjected to military recruitment. According to experts interviewed on the DVD, some soldiers return home contaminated with billions of radioactive ceramic particles.

Leuren Moret states, "In a cubic meter of air there are one billion particles a tenth of a micron in diameter. An ordinary man breathes twenty-eight cubic meters of air a day and for that reason our soldiers internally contaminated to depleted uranium have billions of particles of depleted uranium distributed throughout their bodies."

Let's follow the journey of these microscopic invaders after they are inhaled. They attach first to the trachea and stick to lung tissue. The heavy metal ceramic specks are practically insoluble; so they so don’t easily dissolve into the bloodstream. They cling to the respiratory system for years, even decades, and irradiate the surrounding tissues, damaging neighboring organs. Gradually they pass through the lung-blood membranes into the bloodstream and lymphatic system, causing illnesses and damage to the entire body. Radiation mutates cells, causing cancers, leukemia, lymphoma, congenital disorders, and birth defects.

Here's what happens when these microscopic radioactive particles are ingested through the mouth or penetrate the body through buried D.U. shrapnel or open wounds. They enter the bloodstream and circulate freely throughout the body, emitting radiation as they travel. Some concentrate in the lymph nodes and cause lymphatic cancer. D.U. also damages the immune system by hastening the death of white blood cells, and impairing their ability to attack bacteria.

Other ceramic particles cause "low-level" cell irradiation in the bone marrow and the stem cells that the body creates there. Stem cells are the progenitors of all the other cells that the body manufactures in order to renew itself.

Dr. Asaf Durakovic, formerly in charge of Nuclear Medicine Service at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, was ailing veteran Terry Riordan's doctor whom we cite in "Dick and Hillary's Dirty Little Secret," on www.notinkansas.us . Dr. Durakovic is now the Director of the Uranium Medical Research Institute.

"STEM CELLS ARE VERY VULNERABLE," HE SAYS. "BOMBARDED WITH ALPHA PARTICLES, THEIR DNA WILL FALL APART, POTENTIALLY AFFECTING EVERY ORGAN."

The process is similar to building a house with defective materials or cooking a meal with spoiled ingredients. If malfunctioning stem cells become new liver cells, then the liver will malfunction. Hence defective stem cells cause many veterans to suffer kidney failure, brain damage, and poorly functioning joints and muscles.

D.U. may transform semen into a caustic alkali, which explains Terry and Susan Reardon's experiences during lovemaking that we described on March 8. This explains the severe urinary problems among veterans just back from Iraq to be described in the April 4 installment of We're Not in Kansas Anymore. Dr. Malcolm Hooper, at the University of Sunderland, is familiar with 4,000 such cases among UK Gulf War veterans.

THE TROJAN HORSE OF NUCLEAR WAR

Radiation expert Leuren Moret calls D.U, "The Trojan Horse of nuclear war. . .There's no way to clean it up, and no way to turn it off because it continues to decay into other radioactive isotopes. . ."

As far back as 1979, Leonard Dietz, the retired New York State physicist, discovered that aerosolized D.U. particles less than a millionth of a meter in diameter can travel long distances. Some months ago, Leuren Moret told Dr. Elias Akleh, an Arab-American writer, “D.U. dust is now everywhere. A minimum of 500 – 600 tons now litter Afghanistan, and several times that amount are spread across Iraq." As you will read on April 4, a serious level of depleted uranium particles reached the UK nine hours after the United States 2003 "Shock and Awe" bombing of Iraq. It's likely that I am inhaling them as I peck on my keyboard, and so are you as you read my words.

Compare the latest tonnage to the 340 tons used in the Gulf War. Dr. Doug Rokke, the health physicist for the US Army, who oversaw the partial clean up of depleted uranium bomb fragments in Kuwait in 1991, reminded Alliance of Atomic Veterans writer Vincent L. Guarisco that, in Bush and Cheney's new war, the massive radioactive arsenal has been used mainly in Iraqi urban centers and civilian neighborhoods, rather than in desert battlefields.

Over time, the health of all foreign troops will be affected. The health effects on the natives of Iraq and Afghanistan will be catastrophic. Based on the increase in cancer rates in the aftermath of the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island nuclear meltdowns, many Iranians, Saudis, Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians, and Israelis will die prematurely thanks to our government's unprovoked nuclear attack on Iraq.

As you will read on April 18, because of their more rapid cellular development, children are the most vulnerable to depleted uranium poisoning.

RADIOACTIVE SHOWERS AND CHOW

In Iraq’s arid climate, sandstorms blow tiny particles of D.U. away from the blast epicenter, impacting the surrounding environment without geographical limitations. It enters the soil, polluting the water table, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and infecting the food chain. Fertile, D.U.-contaminated grasslands west of Basra in southern Iraq produce vegetables and grains for livestock that are consumed by American troops as well as Iraqis.

The New York State National Guard Rainbow Division just returned from six months stationed in Camp Forward Danger on the Tigris River near Tikrit, north of Baghdad. Saddam Hussein's rebellious hometown was the site of major combat using D.U. munitions during the initial invasion and for months afterward.

An official June 2005 United States Central Command communiqué reported that soldiers of the 62nd Quartermaster Company from Fort Hood, Texas were supplying Camp Forward Danger's water from the Tigris River. The engineers ran it through a reverse osmosis water purification unit that dissolved the solids. The water is purified again and chlorinated. However it seems that it is not tested for radioactivity.

I have attempted to verify the degree of radioactive poisoning to which the New York National Guard members were subjected. I had contacts with officers at the base before this series went on line. However, Pentagon public relations officers, Capt. Bill Roberts and 1st Lt. Tawny M. Dotson, have ignored several requests for email access to Camp Forward Danger. I've appealed to Maj. Richard J. McNorton, the CENTCOM's special officer in charge of helping bloggers obtain accurate information, but he hasn't responded either. We'll keep you posted on We're Not in Kansas Anymore.

Even if the water were monitored, there is no way, outside a sophisticated nuclear laboratory, to remove carcinogenic depleted uranium from water, air or food—as you can understand from the discussion above.

According to a recent interview with Dr, Doug Rokke, formerly the military's top expert in this field, the only way to monitor bacteria-sized D.U. particles would be to send samples to a specialized laboratory.

Depleted uranium is nasty stuff. Think about this as you read news reports of the current massive aerial bombing campaign the U.S. is waging around Samarra, north of Baghdad. You might have thought "insurgents" would be the only casualties before you read "Depleted Uranium For Dummies." But you're not a "dummie" anymore.

THE TIGRIS: A RIVER OF DEATH

Our men and women of the New York State National Guard have just spent six months taking radioactive showers and washing small open wounds in a depleted uranium broth. They've eaten over 500 meals with food, plates and silverware washed with hot water, in two senses of the word. Thanks to George Bush Sr. and Dick Cheney's decision to use depleted uranium munitions in 1991, the Tigris river, the Bible's Edenic river of life, has become a modern river of death. And our brothers and sisters are drinking the forbidden water, with knowing it—despite informational videotapes produced for them by Major Doug Rokke and his team. The tapes, pamphlets, and bulletin board posters are mandatory, but how many of our men and woman serving in radioactive areas have seen them?

Our (all) troops inhale depleted uranium with every single breath. Radioactive particles the size of a virus cannot be filtered outside a laboratory. Even the 800,000 gas masks provided Gulf War troops were useless because the charcoal filters became inert within days. The only protection is airtight MOPP suits connected to oxygen tanks.

No place in Iraq is free from radioactive contamination, including today's supposedly "safe" Green Zone in Baghdad where top military officers, civilian occupation authorities, international journalists, and the Iraqi government leaders live and work.

Saddam Hussein's former palace is now the middle of the Green Zone. It was bombarded with D.U. munitions before and during the invasion. So has greater Baghdad ever since. So Green Zone residents inhale and ingest depleted uranium every day. Perhaps that's why, during President Bush's Thanksgiving visit, he was served a plastic turkey.

UPI reported last December that Wilder Gutierrez Rubio, 38, had died a few hours after returning home to Lima, Peru. He had been diagnosed by doctors at Ibn Sina Hospital in Baghdad with severe leukemia, which they attributed to depleted uranium exposure, even though he had served in Baghdad only a short time. Gutierrez was part of a contingent of Latin Americans recruited by a U.S. company to provide security for Baghdad's Green Zone.

Tragically, our celebrated comrades of the New York State National Guard Rainbow Division are home from Camp Forward Danger, but not home free from danger.

After Dick Cheney sprayed the entire Army, Army Reserves, and National Guard with God-zillions of time-release miniscule radioactive ceramic buckshot, why should he feel guilty about shooting a few dozen ordinary pellets into one Texas lawyer?

Is Poisoning Your Entire Army an Impeachable Offence?

A majority of Americans, recently polled agree that Bush and Cheney should be impeached if they lied to Congress and the American people in order to launch this war. According to the latest poll, a plurality of Americans say that it's time for impeachment, period.

THE TROOPS WANT TO COME HOME.

Last month's Zogby poll of troops on the ground in Iraq reported that 29% of the respondents, serving in various branches of the armed forces, said the U.S. should leave Iraq “immediately.” And 89% of the reserves and 82% of those in the National Guard said the U.S. should leave Iraq within a year.

And most of these folks have yet to read about the depleted uranium lodged throughout their bodies.

The 2006 election is nine months away. Are you registered to vote? Have you called your congressperson, senator, or local opposition candidates?

We did—earlier this month. We emailed all five candidates for New York's 24th Congressional district. We also reached both Democratic contenders for New York's 20th district.

WE URGED THAT THEY CHECK OUT THIS WEBSITE AND OUR SOURCES.

Four out of seven responded promptly--with thanks. These were Michael A. Arcuri, Kirsten Gillibrand, Leon Koziol, and Les Roberts, all Democrats. Like the overwhelming majority of citizens, they were not fully informed about depleted uranium. Their positions on eliminating D.U. and promptly withdrawing the troops will be announced on www.notinkansas.us .

Now that you understand D.U., you can oppose the position of many "Bush-lite" Democrats who want to withdraw some troops but to increase the tonnage of D.U. bombs dropped in civilian areas. Only ignorance prevents them from realizing this policy will kill more American troops than Iraqi resistance fighters. Imagine the long-range effects on 26 million Iraqi civilians. Do you want that on your conscience?

Contact your representative about We're Not in Kansas Anymore. Let us know their responses. Call your current representative in Washington, D.C. at 1-800-426-8073. It's toll free. Warn them about the devastating effects on our troops, and the residents of the Middle East if Bush and Cheney launch a nuclear attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. Such an action is a death warrant for most of our loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Please don’t just sit in your chair while a million men and women--who volunteered to defend your freedoms--are exposed to a triple whammy of deadly radiation and condemned to a slow and agonizing death like a half million Gulf War vets before them.

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This is an abridged version of the third in a comprehensive series on depleted uranium, Over the Rainbow, dedicated to the New York National Guard to appear on the website We're Not in Kansas Anymore, where you will find sources and a bibliography. - Url.: www.notinkansas.us - Url.: http://www.notinkansas.us/
Copyright 2006 Irving Wesley Hall.


Fwd. in agreement by the FPF + Strongly related references:


* Former U.S. PNAC-Secr. of State Madeleine Albright-Korbel, in her comment 10 YEARS AGO on the at least HALF A MILLION dead children in Iraq: "WE THINK THE PRICE IS WORTH IT" - On CBS '60 Minutes' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8

* PNAC HOLOCAUST: UNICEF reports that the under-5 infant mortality for 2003 was 110,000 in occupied Iraq, 292,000 in occupied Afghanistan. Gideon Polya: 'Non-reportage of US-linked infant mass mortality' - December 23, 2004 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/rb3rx

* ANOTHER HOLOCAUST: ONE OF MANY BY THEIR CIA: John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. ''How 6 million People Were killed in CIA secret wars against Third World countries'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gpcg

* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992. - And here's why: 'George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography' - by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin - Chapter - II - The Hitler Project - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/57qxk

* Global Predators - ‘Frauds-R-Us’ - The Bush Family Saga - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/elarx

* YANKEES GO HOME! - Tomdispatch Interview with Chalmers Johnson - The Empire: "Iraq before we invaded had a GDP the size of the state of Louisiana and Afghanistan was certainly one of the poorest places on the planet. And yet these two places have stopped us." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/nshjd

* This is a running total of the U.S. taxpayer $cost of the Iraq War. The through taxes extorted $billions, squandered on the sick dreams of 'world power' - killing millions of people and filling the PNAC pack's pockets - The number is based on US Congressional appropriations. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cfsrc

* The 9/11 drama was the 'trigger' used by the PNAC Group, killing Americans to further their inhuman goals: Anybody who after seeing this video - '9/11 revisited' - still believes the version from the 'PNAC pack' - the Washington cabal - is beyond all professional help - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/r5sx4

* White Haus drive to cover-up leaks concerning their crimes: one of the PNAC Group's propaganda sheets, the stenographers at the war mongering Washington Post: ''White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks Sources, Reporters Could Be Prosecuted'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/e7t6o

* Anti-propaganda: On the Net - Reporters Committee - Url.: http://www.rcfp.org/

* US War & Propaganda machine: Rumsfeld Declares War on Bad Press - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/loxqy

* Bush interview. ABC: No WMD's but many killed: "It was worth it". - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6bal9

* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* The 9/11 WTC drama was by the PNAC criminals planned 'false flag' terror, to 'trigger' their own global war of terror now ravaging the world - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b7ygk - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d

* Nobel Literature Prize Laureate and 'Gulag Holocaust' survivor Alexander Solzjenitsyn investigated the origin of the 'Russian Revolution' and the concentration camps: he published and was damned - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qth6z

* MSNBC - Live Vote - Concerning the "Project for a Nefarious American Century" (PNAC) - ''Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?'' - YES: 86% - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

*Read the Fightin' Cock Flyer - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

* THE ONLY SOLUTION? - Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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