Cantwell on D.U., D.U & Type II Diabetes Pandemic

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Depleted Uranium Conspiracy:Diabetes, Cancer & You (continued)

by ALAN CANTWELL, MD

There was a definite increase of birth defects in the offspring of persons

exposed to DU; and Gulf War vets who inhaled DU were still excreting abnormal

amounts of uranium in the urine 10 years later.

 

Why was there so little written about DU and its effects on the human body?

Having written extensively on the man-made epidemic of AIDS and its cover-up for

two decades, I was not surprised. I strongly suspected research into the health

effects of DU on Gulf War veterans was " politically incorrect. "

 

On the other hand, a quick Google Internet search of - " side effects " +

" depleted uranium " - referred me to 71,000 English pages on the web. When I

added the key word " diabetes " there were 22,000 pages.

 

I also discovered that articles about the health dangers of DU rarely, if ever,

appear in the major media. In a January 2001 press release FAIR (Fairness &

Accuracy in Reporting) accused the media of " depleted coverage of depleted

uranium weapons. " Nevertheless, a great deal of information on DU can be found

on the Internet.

 

DU was first used by the US in the 1991 Gulf War, then in the Balkans in the

late 1990s, in Kosovo in 2000, in the war against Afghanistan, in Iraq in 2003,

and also by the Israelis in the 2006 war with Lebanon. Needless to say, US

military and government officials totally deny any health danger from DU. A

reassuring New York Times article of 9 January 2001 entitled " 1999 U.S. document

warned of depleted uranium in Kosovo " by Marlise Simons, noted " while

acknowledging the hazards, both the Pentagon and NATO, pointing to medical

experts, have denied any links could exist between exposure to depleted uranium

and the illness and deaths of veterans. "

 

DU weapons were developed by the US Navy in 1968, and were first given to Israel

by the US in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Since then, the US has tested,

manufactured and sold DU weapons systems to 29 countries. Vieques Island, a

testing site in Puerto Rico, was repeatedly bombarded with DU in 1999 prior to

its use in Kosovo.

 

DU is a byproduct of the enriching of natural uranium for use in nuclear

reactors.

 

As nuclear waste, DU is costly to keep but relatively inexpensive to obtain. Due

to their tank armour-piercing capabilities, DU weapons are extremely effective

and the reason why the military is so enthralled with them.

 

Depleted Uranium Whistleblowers

 

Major Doug Rokke is a leading DU expert who has become a whistleblower against

its use. He claims each tank round is composed of 10 pounds of solid uranium-238

contaminated with plutonium, neptunium, and americium. The round is pyrophoric,

meaning it generates intense heat on impact, easily penetrating a tank because

of the heavy weight of the metal. When DU munitions hit, they produce a

firestorm inside any vehicle or structure, resulting in devastating burns and

injuries to those who escape immediate death and incineration.

 

On impact, DU produces uranium oxide dust and pieces of uranium explode all over

the place. Once inside the body the tiny nanoparticles enter the lungs and blood

stream and are carried throughout the body. When Rokke and his team were

assigned to " clean up " the DU after the first Gulf War, all his men got ill

within 72 hours with respiratory problems, rashes, bleeding, and open sores.

 

In an Australian interview with Gay Alcorn in 2003, Rokke admitted: " After

everything I've seen, everything I've done, it became very clear to me that you

can't take radioactive wastes from one nation and just throw it into another

nation. It's wrong. It's simply wrong. "

 

According to Asaf Durakovic MD of the Uranium Medical Research Centre in

Washington DC, the term " depleted uranium " is a misnomer. Both " depleted " and

" natural " uranium are over 99% composed of uranium 238. DU is almost as highly

concentrated as pure uranium and may contain plutonium (a deadly element) in

trace amounts.

 

Leuren Moret is an independent American scientist who works on radiation and

health issues with communities around the world. At age 61, she is the leading

activist against the use of DU, having worked in two nuclear weapons labs,

including the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Berkeley, California,

run by the US Department of Energy. She is the ultimate antigovernment

whistleblower on DU, along with Rokke and Durakovic, and all three have

personally suffered (including death threats) for their anti-DU views.

 

In her article " Depleted uranium: The Trojan Horse of nuclear war, " which

appeared in the June 2004 World Affairs Journal, Moret claims: " The use of DU

weaponry by the US, defying all international treaties, will slowly annihilate

all species on Earth including the human species, and yet this country continues

to do so with full knowledge of its destructive potential. "

 

DU travels. DU radioactive particles are picked up by the atmosphere and are

transferred by wind storms and air currents. They permanently contaminate vast

regions and slowly destroy the genetic future of populations living in those

areas. As the Trojan Horse of nuclear war, Moret calls DU " the weapon that keeps

on killing. " There is no way to turn it off - and no way to clean it up. It

meets the US government's own definition of " weapons of mass destruction. "

 

Depleted Uranium over the United Kingdom

 

DU has a very high affinity for cellular DNA and permanently damages it. DU is

the " fourth generation " of nuclear weapons. First came the atomic bomb, then the

hydrogen bomb, then neutron bombs, and now DU. Moret claims the contaminated

DU-dust from the Middle East gets absorbed into the atmosphere. Via dust storms

and air currents it ends up in Europe and Britain. Eventually it spreads and get

absorbed into the atmosphere globally. There is no safe place; no possible way

to escape it.

 

Moret's concerns are confirmed by a 2006 report from England by Chris Busby and

Saoirse Morgan, appearing in European Biology and Bioelectromagnetics and titled

" Did the use of Uranium weapons in Gulf War 2 result in contamination of

Europe? " Data (obtained with the help of the Freedom of Information Act) from

the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire, UK, revealed that

after nine days of the " shock and awe " start of the Iraq war on 19 March 2003,

much higher levels of uranium were picked up on five sites in Berkshire. On two

occasions, levels exceeded the threshold at which the Environment Agency must be

informed, though still within safety limits. These levels were the highest

levels of depleted uranium ever measured in the atmosphere in Britain. The

report also confirmed weather conditions over this war period, which showed a

consistent flow of air from Iraq northwards.

 

Not surprisingly this research was vigorously denied as " uranium of natural

origin " by various government officials. However, Busby and Morgan insist the

findings are the first evidence that DU particles were able to travel thousands

of miles from Baghdad to England. Their report can be found on the Internet.

 

Gulf War Syndrome

 

About 300 tons of DU were dispersed over Iraq in 1991. Yet the US Department of

Defense (DoD) has found little health risk to soldiers who inhaled DU and

continues to claim exposure to DU is safe. Nearly 580,000 soldiers were deployed

in the war. 294 soldiers died and 400 were wounded or became ill. As of year

2000, there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability, and over 11,000 have

died. Obviously something serious happened to the health of these men and women

who served in the Gulf.

 

DU is known to be neurotoxic. Gulf War vets are twice as likely to come down

with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) than vets who did not serve in Iraq. ALS, a

fatal neuromuscular disease, is now considered a " service-connected " disease and

vets can get disability. Gulf War vets have nearly twice the prevalence of

" chronic multi-system disease " than soldiers who served elsewhere at the same

time. But so called " Gulf War Syndrome " continues to be denied as a specific

illness. The Department of Defense's evaluation does not consider GWS as a

unique syndrome, unique illness, or unique symptom complex in deployed Gulf War

vets.

 

The Worldwide Diabetes Epidemic

 

A half century ago, during the early years of the Cold War when I went to

medical school, diabetes was not a common disease. Now in the 21st century it is

common to hear of diabetes as an impending epidemic. Certainly the statistics

bear this out.

 

Currently, 7% of Americans have diabetes (17 million). In addition, a Los

Angeles Times front-page report on 16 September 2006, claims that there are more

than 41 million Americans with abnormal blood glucose abnormalities, " that

indicate they may soon develop diabetes. " In Puerto Rico (where DU was tested)

10% of the population has diabetes.

 

The Centres of Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta declares that " unless Americans

change their ways, " 33% of the babies born this year will be diabetic by the

year 2050. Also by 2050 there are expected to be 45 million diabetics in the US.

A vet support group, Veterans with Diabetes International, says there are 143

million people worldwide with the disease, and 300 million people are expected

to have diabetes in 2025.

 

Type 1 diabetes, most often seen in children and young adults, comprises 5-10%

of the cases. Type 2, a metabolic disorder resulting from the body's inability

to make enough or properly use insulin, frequently strikes adults, especially

obese adults. This group comprises 90% or more of diabetics. The CDC predicts

that Type 2 diabetes will increase 165% by 2050. People with Type 2 diabetes are

also twice as likely to get pancreatic cancer.

 

Thirty-four years after the Vietnam war ended, the DoD finally presented the

" strongest evidence " that Type 2 diabetes can be connected to Agent Orange.

 

Eighteen million gallons of this plant defoliant and poison was sprayed over

Vietnam by the US military. It is now known to cause cancer and birth defects.

Starting in the year 2002 diabetes is now recognised as a " service-connected "

disease for all Vietnam vets. At present, diabetes is not service-connected for

Gulf War vets.

 

Nine percent of Vietnam vets have Type 2 diabetes. There is no current evidence

that Gulf War vets have a heightened incidence of diabetes, but I could find no

solid research to confirm or deny this. Perhaps in one or two more decades

government scientists will discover a connection to DU.

 

The common causes of diabetes are thought to be obesity, poor diet and lack of

exercise. Leuren Moret believes the cause of the new epidemic is more sinister:

namely the increasing levels worldwide of depleted uranium in the atmosphere,

combined with emissions from the proliferation of nuclear power plants.

 

Unlike government scientists, Moret says DU is very, very, very nasty stuff; and

that diabetes is an immediate response to DU, in contrast to the decades it can

take for uranium to produce radiation-induced cancer. Although she cannot prove

it, she is the first scientist to strongly suggest a connection between the new

worldwide diabetes epidemic and DU.

 

Moret insists the medical profession has been active in the cover-up of low

level radiation from atmospheric testing and nuclear power plants. I have been

unable to verify this, but it is consistent with the passive role the health

profession took during the Cold War nuclear testing in the US (more later). She

has also spoken about medical professionals in hospitals who were threatened by

government officials with $10,000 fines and jail time if they talked openly

about the returning Iraq war soldiers and their medical problems. This could

explain the paucity of reports in the scientific literature regarding vets

exposed to DU and their war-associated illnesses.

 

Moret also says reporters have been prevented access to more than 14,000

medically evacuated soldiers from the current Iraq War, brought back to Walter

Reed Hospital near Washington, DC. To learn more about Leuren Moret and her

research, Google: Leuren Moret + videos. In addition, she appears in the recent

documentary film Beyond Treason, detailing the horrific effects of depleted

uranium exposure on American troops and Iraqi civilians in the Gulf region in

1991.

 

Is Depleted Uranium Safe?

 

Ronald L. Kathren is Professor Emeritus at Washington State University and a

leading authority vouching for the safety of DU. Unlike Major Rokke, he does not

appear to have ever served in the military or to have come in contact with DU on

a battlefield. Nevertheless, his opinions carry a lot of weight in the

scientific world.

 

Kathren does not dispute the fact that military personnel who may have had

contact with DU are suffering from various illnesses, but he believes that

exposure to uranium is very unlikely to be the cause.

 

Writing for the Portland Independent Media Centre on 3 July 2005, he declares:

" Health physicists are deeply concerned with the public health and welfare, and

as experts in radiation and its effects on people and the environment, are quite

aware that something other than exposure to uranium is the cause of the

illnesses suffered by those who have had contact with depleted uranium from

munitions. A truly enormous body of scientific data shows that it is virtually

impossible for uranium to be the cause of their illnesses. Despite this body of

scientific data to the contrary, misguided or unknowing people continue to

allege that the depleted uranium, and specifically the radioactivity associated

with the depleted uranium is the cause of these illness. This is indeed

unfortunate, for health physicists and other scientists and physicians already

know that depleted uranium is not the cause of these illnesses and thus any

investigations into the cause of these illnesses should

focus on other possible causes. If we are to offer any measure of relief or

solace to these suffering people, and to gain some important additional

knowledge of the cause of their illness, we should not waste our valuable and

limited energies, resources and time attempting to point the finger at depleted

uranium as the culprit, when it is already known that uranium is almost

certainly not the cause of the problem. "

(http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/320739.shtml)

 

" No Level of Radiation is Safe for Humans "

 

As a physician it is inconceivable to me that government-approved experts like

Kathren can so quickly dismiss DU as safe and harmless, particularly when on 29

June 2005, a National Academy of Sciences panel in Washington DC has found that

no level of radiation is safe for humans.

 

The panel concluded that " any dose of radiation, no matter how small, can induce

cancer. Exposure to radiation is becoming more and more likely for most people

because of the growing use of radiation in medicine. The new findings could lead

to changes in medical practices and the levels of radiation allowed at former

nuclear sites. " The panel also contradicted the often heard dictum of some

government pro-nuclear scientists that " a little radiation is good for you. "

 

The idea that low doses of radiation are safe is the myth that allowed extensive

nuclear testing during the Cold War without a huge protest from every member of

the human race. It is this myth that still allows DU weapons to be used on

battlefields against " terrorists. "

 

Historically, the proof of the danger of nuclear warfare was provided a decade

ago by the publication of a US Congressional committee report authorised by

President Bill Clinton and entitled, The Human Radiation Experiments. The report

showed clearly that government scientists and physicians could not be trusted in

their pronouncements regarding the safety of nuclear weapons. Even worse was the

documentation of countless covert and secret radiation experiments conducted on

unsuspecting citizens during the Cold War " in the name of science. "

 

Unfortunately, this horrific 1996 report did not deter Clinton from allowing DU

weapons in Kosovo in 1999, nor did it deter President George W. Bush, who

authorised their use again in Afghanistan and Iraq.

 

Anyone with Internet access can simply Google " the human radiation experiments "

for details of the shameful science surrounding nuclear testing and the

disastrous health effects on unsuspecting American citizens.

 

In 2001, a half century after extensive nuclear weapons testing in the American

West, the US National Cancer Institute was finally forced to reveal its finding

that bomb testing in Nevada, which spread radioactive fallout across every state

of the Union, has caused at least 15,000 cancer deaths and up to 212,000

non-fatal thyroid cancers. John LaForge of Nukewatch.com reminds us that " the 67

bomb tests blown off between 1946 and 1958 were said at the time to be safe. "

 

Money, Power and Depleted Uranium

 

Who is profiting from this global uranium nightmare?

 

In The Enemy Within (1996) Jay Gould reveals that the British Royal family

privately owns investments in uranium holdings worth over $6 billion through Rio

Tinto Mines, an Anglo-Australian company, which is the world's largest mining

company with more than 60 operations in 40 countries.

 

Africa and Australia are two of the main sources of uranium in the world; and

the Rothschilds control uranium supplies and prices globally.

 

Gould notes that nuclear radiation has brought dramatic increases in breast

cancer mortality, especially in communities 50 to 100 miles downwind from

nuclear reactors.

 

Book reviewer Donna Lee writes: " The Enemy Within has enough scientific data to

address those bureaucrats who deny that living near a nuclear reactor is a

hazard to one's health. It also includes enough direct, clear prose to convince

me, a breast cancer survivor, that I grew up during the Cold War as an unknowing

guinea pig, further victimised by the politics of suppression and denial. "

 

Lee continues: " After reading the book, however, I am bothered by one persistent

question. I was born and raised and continue to live in San Francisco,

California, which has the highest incidence of breast cancer in the world. The

Enemy Within concerns itself with breast cancer mortality rates, which are

highest in the communities around New York City. San Francisco isn't within 100

miles of a nuclear reactor and it isn't even mentioned in the book. If low level

radiation explains clusters of breast cancer throughout the US, what explains

us? "

 

Actually there was a nuclear power plant located in Sacramento, less than 100

miles from San Francisco, which became active in 1975. Gould probably did not

include this in his 1996 book because the Rancho Seco Nuclear Power Plant was

forced to shut down its operations in 1989, due to a public outcry and a

referendum.

 

David Bradbury says child cancer rates on Vieques Island have soared 250% above

the Puerto Rican national average in the last thirty years. In his 2005

documentary film, Blowin' in the Wind, the provocative Australian filmmaker and

two-time Academy Award nominee also provides some answers regarding the huge

financial interests involved in uranium production and DU weapons.

 

Australia provides one-third of the world's uranium supply, and Bradbury reveals

a secret treaty that allows the US military to train and test its DU weaponry on

Australian soil. He exposes plans to extract over $36 billion from uranium mines

over the next six years, and shows the finished construction of a 1,000 mile

railway from the mining area to a port on the north coast of Australia to

transport the ore.

 

The railway project was built by Texas-based Halliburton Company. In 1995 US

Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO of that company.

 

The film maker says, " The Queen's favourite 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.

 

" The major roles that such diverse individuals and groups as the Carlyle Group,

George Herbert Walker Bush, former Carlyle CEO Frank Calucci, the University of

California managed nuclear weapons labs at Los Alamos and Livermore, and US and

international pension fund investments have played in proliferating depleted

uranium weapons is not well known or in most instances even recognised, inside

or outside Australia.

 

" God Save The Queen from the guilt of her complicity in turning Planet Earth

into a 'Death Star'. "

 

Depleted Uranium and the War on Terror

 

There is nothing more terrifying than the thought of exposing all life forms on

the planet to DNA-altering radiation in order to provide us with " safety " and

" democracy. " It is truly diabolic to think that the destruction of the planet is

now occurring with so few people comprehending what is going on - and still

fewer people taking an active stand against this tragedy.

 

It is apparent that most of the world's political and spiritual leaders, as well

as scientists, physicians, lawyers, and health professionals do not care about

the dangers of DU weapons and other forms of nuclear energy. If they cared we

would certainly be hearing and reading about it on television and in the major

media.

 

As a researcher and writer over the part few decades, I have focused on the

man-made origin of AIDS and the little-known bacterial cause of cancer, paying

little attention to nuclear radiation.

 

However, in 2001 I wrote an article entitled " The Human Radiation Experiments:

How Scientists Secretly Used US Citizens as Guinea Pigs During the Cold War " ,

which was published in the September-October 2001 issue of New Dawn, and is

posted on several websites.

 

But I must admit I was unaware of the serious planetary problems posed by DU. I

simply assumed that no civilised and peace-loving country would ever be reckless

and heartless enough to use these radioactive weapons. How wrong I was!

 

What I find most pathetic and inconceivable is that we have learned nothing from

the detrimental health effects unleashed by the atomic bombing of Japan - and

nothing from the nuclear testing horrors of the last half of the 20th century.

Instead we continue to contaminate vast areas of the world with radiation we

don't know how to get rid of.

 

I remember as an eleven year-old boy how jubilant everyone was by the atomic

attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which brought the war to a

rapid end. A half century later my Caucasian niece married a Japanese-American

man. Shortly after the wedding she noticed a lump in his neck, which proved to

be thyroid cancer. His mother was a child when she lived 50 miles outside of

Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. Decades later, in her forties, she was

diagnosed with thyroid cancer, undoubtedly due to the radiation fallout. The

doctors considered the possibility that my niece's husband might have developed

thyroid cancer because of radiation-altered and thyroid cancer-causing genes

passed on to him by his mother. Of course the family wonders if their two young

children will eventually also get thyroid cancer. Who would have thought that

the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945 would have a cancerous effect five decades

later on my family living in California?

 

A few years ago I developed a thyroid nodule, which was biopsied and proved

non-cancerous.

 

As a teenager in the 1950s I received " superficial " radiation treatments for

acne at the recommendation of a well-known New York dermatologist, a treatment

that was later banned because of its potential to cause thyroid cancer.

 

It is almost a cliché to remind people that " all of us are connected. " The

fallout from DU and nuclear energy now binds us all together in an increasingly

radioactive planet. No one is immune from the deleterious effects of radiation,

and no one knows how to clean it up.

 

What can we do about it? The only thing we can do is to stop the madness

immediately. However, power and greed and politics and religion make that highly

unlikely.

 

We have met the perpetrators of the new radiation-induced " war on terror. "

 

And, sadly, it is us.

 

*** Dr. Alan Cantwell is a retired dermatologist and the author of five books on

the man-made origin of AIDS and the infectious origin of cancer, all published

by Aries Rising Press, PO Box 29532, Los Angeles, CA 90029, USA

(www.ariesrisingpress.com). His book, Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide

Plot, is available in Australia through New Dawn Book Service for $24.95 plus $8

p & h. Many of his personal writings can be found on www.google.com by typing in

key words " alan cantwell " + articles. His latest book is Four Women Against

Cancer: Bacteria, Cancer and the Origin of Life. His books are also available on

www.amazon.com and in the US through Book Clearing House @ 1-800-431-1579.

Email: alancantwell.

 

 

Alan Cantwell M.D.

 

 

 

 

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