CO-OP Radio- Leuren Moret: On Depleted Uranium: Mon. Aug 23 noon PDT

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> Bea Bernhausen <beabernhausen

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> CO-OP Radio- Leuren

> Moret: On Depleted Uranium: Mon. Aug 23 noon PDT

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> CO-OP Radio host Alfred Webre J.D.,M.Ed. interviews

> Leuren Moret (full bio

>

http://www.zi-activism.net/downloads/nonZi/leurenbio.htm

> ) on the very crucial subject of depleted uranium,

> an issue which refuses to go away---and

> unfortunately is not likely to for a very long time.

> Learn the true facts that are now finally surfacing

> about this monstrous assault on the planet, the

> inhabitants of the nations where it has been used,

> and continues to be used, and upon the lives of the

> men and women who have been duped into literally

> laying down their lives, not for their country as

> they had thought, but for the ambitions of a few

> power-crazed men in charge of the US Military and

> 'Corporate Government'.

>

> It is time the rest of the world collectively stood

> up and said " THAT'S ENOUGH! "

>

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> Coop Radio- Leuren Moret: “Depleted Uranium: Dirty

> Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets”

 

> Monday, August 23, 2004 - Noon-1 PM PT

> COOP RADIO – CFRO – 102.7 FM Vancouver, B.C.

 

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> Leuren Moret:

> http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/082304W.shtml

>

>

> GUEST: Leuren Moret was an Expert Witness at the

> International Criminal Tribunal For Afghanistan At

> Tokyo. She is an independent scientist and

> international expert on radiation and public health

> issues. She is on the organizing committee of the

> World Committee on Radiation Risk, an organization

> of independent radiation specialists, including

> members of the Radiation Committee in the EU

> parliament, the European Committee on Radiation

> Risk. She is an environmental commissioner for the

> City of Berkeley. Ms. Moret earned her BS in

> geology at U.C. Davis in 1968 and her MA in Near

> Eastern studies from U.C. Berkeley in 1978. She has

> completed all but her dissertation for a PhD in the

> geosciences at U.C. Davis. She has traveled and

> conducted scientific research in 42 countries. She

> wrote a scientific report on depleted uranium for

> the United Nations sub commission investigating the

> illegality of depleted uranium munitions. Marian

> Falk, a former Manhattan Project scientist and

> retired

> insider at the Livermore Lab, who is an expert on

> radioactive fallout and rainout, has trained her on

> radiation issues.

 

> International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan

> written opinion of Judge N. Bhagwa t : also at

>

http://www.traprockpeace.org/tokyo_trial_13march04.doc

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>

> HOST: Alfred Webre, JD, MEd

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> Full Article at:

> http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/082304W.shtml

> Depleted Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty

> Bullets

> by Leuren Moret

> SF Bay View

> Original Article at:

>

http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml

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>

> A death sentence here and abroad

> “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be

> used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger,

> quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United

> States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”

>

>

> Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently

> contaminating large regions and countries downriver

> with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most

> devastating war in world history. But since 1991,

> the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted

> uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets

> the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass

> Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and

> Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with

> radiation.

> And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of

> the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this

> week to the American Free Press that “Gulf- era

> veterans” now on medical disability since 1991

> number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in

> Iraq in that same 14-year period.

> This week the American Free Press dropped a

> “dirty bomb” on the Pentagon by reporting that eight

> out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003

> U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have

> malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the

> soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in

> just 16 months.

> Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines

> and depleted uranium (DU) only, this is strong

> evidence for researchers and scientists working on

> this issue, that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf

> War Syndrome. Vaccines are not known to cause

> cancer. One of the first published researchers on

> Gulf War Syndrome, who also served in 1991 in Iraq,

> Dr. Andras Korényi-Both, is in agreement with

> Barbara Goodno from the Department of Defense’s

> Deployment Health Support Directorate, that in this

> war soldiers were not exposed to chemicals,

> pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this

> time to confuse the issue.

> This powerful new evidence is blowing holes in

> the cover-up perpetrated by the Pentagon and three

> presidential administrations ever since DU was first

> used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War. Fourteen years

> after the introduction of DU on the battlefield in

> 1991, the long-term effects have revealed that DU is

> a death sentence and very nasty stuff.

> Scientists studying the biological effects of

> uranium in the 1960s reported that it targets the

> DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired

> from the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and formerly

> involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets the

> new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003

> war as “spectacular … and a matter of concern.”

> This evidence shows that of the three effects

> which DU has on biological systems - radiation,

> chemical and particulate – the particulate effect

> from nano-size particles is the most dominant one

> immediately after exposure and targets the Master

> Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains

> why DU causes a myriad of diseases which are

> difficult to define.

> In simple words, DU “trashes the body.” When

> asked if the main purpose for using it was for

> destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more

> specific: “I would say that it is the perfect weapon

> for killing lots of people.”

> Soldiers developing malignancies so quickly

> since 2003 can be expected to develop multiple

> cancers from independent causes. This phenomenon has

> been reported by doctors in hospitals treating

> civilians following NATO bombing with DU in

> Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the U.S. military

> invasion of Iraq using DU for the first time in

> 1991. Medical experts report that this phenomenon of

> multiple malignancies from unrelated causes has been

> unknown until now and is a new syndrome associated

> with internal DU exposure.

> Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the

> three-week Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of

> 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000

> are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on

> permanent medical disability. This astounding number

> of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56

> percent of those soldiers who served now have

> medical problems.

> The number of disabled vets reported up to 2000

> has been increasing by 43,000 every year. Brad Flohr

> of the Department of Veterans Affairs told American

> Free Press that he believes there are more disabled

> vets now than even after World War II.

> They brought it home

> Not only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off

> the battlefields, but they brought it home. DU in

> the semen of soldiers internally contaminated their

> wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some

> women in their 20s and 30s who were sexual partners

> of exposed soldiers developed endometriosis and were

> forced to have hysterectomies because of health

> problems.

> In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in

> Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the

> Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war babies were

> born with severe birth defects. They were born with

> missing legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune

> system and blood diseases. In some veterans’

> families now, the only normal or healthy members of

> the family are the children born before the war.

> The Department of Veterans Affairs has stated

> that they do not keep records of birth defects

> occurring in families of veterans.

> How did they hide it?

> Before a new weapons system can be used, it must

> be fully tested. The blueprint for depleted uranium

> weapons is a 1943 declassified document from the

> Manhattan Project.

> Harvard President and physicist James B. Conant,

> who developed poison gas in World War I, was brought

> into the Manhattan Project by the father of

> presidential candidate John Kerry. Kerry’s father

> served at a high level in the Manhattan Project and

> was a CIA agent.

> Conant was chair of the S-1 Poison Gas

> Committee, which recommended developing poison gas

> weapons from the radioactive trash of the atomic

> bomb project in World War II. At that time, it was

> known that radioactive materials dispersed in bombs

> from the air, from land vehicles or on the

> battlefield produced very fine radioactive dust

> which would penetrate all protective clothing, any

> gas mask or filter or the skin. By contaminating the

> lungs and blood, it could kill or cause illness very

> quickly.

> They also recommended it as a permanent terrain

> contaminant, which could be used to destroy

> populations by contaminating water supplies and

> agricultural land with the radioactive dust.

> The first DU weapons system was developed for

> the Navy in 1968, and DU weapons were given to and

> used by Israel in 1973 under U.S. supervision in the

> Yom Kippur war against the Arabs.

> The Phalanx weapons system, using DU, was tested

> on the USS Bigelow out of Hunters Point Naval

> Shipyard in 1977, and DU weapons have been sold by

> the U.S. to 29 countries.

> Military research report summaries detail the

> testing of DU from 1974- 1999 at military testing

> grounds, bombing and gunnery ranges and at civilian

> labs under contract. Today 42 states are

> contaminated with DU from manufacture, testing and

> deployment.

> Women living around these facilities have

> reported increases in endometriosis, birth defects

> in babies, leukemia in children and cancers and

> other diseases in adults. Thousands of tons of DU

> weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four

> bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is

> no doubt the cause of the fastest growing leukemia

> cluster in the U.S. over the past decade. The

> military denies that DU is the cause.

> The medical profession has been active in the

> cover-up - just as they were in hiding the effects

> from the American public - of low level radiation

> from atmospheric testing and nuclear power plants. A

> medical doctor in Northern California reported being

> trained by the Pentagon with other doctors, months

> before the 2003 war started, to diagnose and treat

> soldiers returning from the 2003 war for mental

> problems only.

> Medical professionals in hospitals and

> facilities treating returning soldiers were

> threatened with $10,000 fines if they talked about

> the soldiers or their medical problems. They were

> also threatened with jail.

> Reporters have also been prevented access to

> more than 14,000 medically evacuated soldiers flown

> nightly since the 2003 war in C-150s from Germany

> who are brought to Walter Reed Hospital near

> Washington, D.C.

> Dr. Robert Gould, former president of the Bay

> Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility

> (PSR), has contacted three medical doctors since

> February 2004, after I had been invited to speak

> about DU. Dr. Katharine Thomasson, president of the

> Oregon chapter of the PSR, informed me that Dr.

> Gould had contacted her and tried to convince her to

> cancel her invitation for me to speak about DU at

> Portland State University on April 12. Although I

> was able to do a presentation, Dr. Thomasson told me

> I could only talk about DU in Oregon “and nothing

> overseas … nothing political.”

> Dr. Gould also contacted and discouraged Dr.

> Ross Wilcox in Toronto, Canada, from inviting me to

> speak to Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), the

> Canadian equivalent of PSR, several months later.

> When that didn’t work, he contacted Dr. Allan

> Connoly, the Canadian national president of PGS, who

> was able to cancel my invitation and nearly

> succeeded in preventing Dr. Wilcox, his own member,

> from showing photos and presenting details on

> civilians suffering from DU exposure and cancer

> provided to him by doctors in southern Iraq.

> Dr. Janette Sherman, a former and long-standing

> member of PSR, reported that she finally quit some

> time after being invited to lunch by a new PSR

> executive administrator. After the woman had pumped

> Dr. Sherman for information all through lunch about

> her position on key issues, the woman informed Dr.

> Sherman that her last job had been with the CIA.

> How was the truth about DU hidden from military

> personnel serving in successive DU wars? Before his

> tragic death, Sen. Paul Wellstone informed Joyce

> Riley, R.N., B.S.N., executive director of the

> American Gulf War Veterans Association, that 95

> percent of Gulf War veterans had been recycled out

> of the military by 1995. Any of those continuing in

> military service were isolated from each other,

> preventing critical information being transferred to

> new troops. The “next DU war” had already been

> planned, and those planning it wanted “no skunk at

> the garden party.”

> The US has a dirty (DU) little (CIA) secret

> A new book just published at the American Free

> Press by Michael Collins Piper, “The High Priests of

> War: The Secret History of How America’s

> Neo-Conservative Trotskyites Came to Power and

> Orchestrated the War Against Iraq as the First Step

> in Their Drive for Global Empire,” details the early

> plans for a war against the Arab world by Henry

> Kissinger and the neo-cons in the late 1960s and

> early 1970s. That just happens to coincide with

> getting the DU “show on the road” and the oil crisis

> in the Middle East, which caused concern not only to

> President Nixon. The British had been plotting and

> scheming for control of the oil in Iraq for decades

> since first using poison gas on the Iraqis and Kurds

> in 1912.

> The book details the creation of the neo-cons by

> their “godfather” and Trotsky lover Irving Kristol,

> who pushed for a “war against terrorism” long before

> 9/11 and was lavishly funded for years by the CIA.

> His son, William Kristol, is one of the most

> influential men in the United States.

> Both are public relations men for the Israeli

> lobby’s neo-conservative network, with strong ties

> to Rupert Murdoch. Kissinger also has ties to this

> network and the Carlyle Group, who, one could say,

> have facilitated these omnicidal wars beginning from

> the time former President Bush took office. It would

> be easy to say that we are recycling World Wars I

> and II, with the same faces.

> When I asked Vietnam Special Ops Green Beret

> Capt. John McCarthy, who could have devised this

> omnicidal plan to use DU to destroy the genetic code

> and genetic future of large populations of Arabs and

> Moslems in the Middle East and Central Asia - just

> coincidentally the areas where most of the world’s

> oil deposits are located - he replied: “It has all

> the handprints of Henry Kissinger.”

> In Zbignew Brzezinski’s book “The Grand

> Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic

> Imperatives,” the map of the Eurasian chessboard

> includes four regions strategic to U.S. foreign

> policy. The “South” region corresponds precisely to

> the regions now contaminated permanently with

> radiation from U.S. bombs, missiles and bullets made

> with thousands of tons of DU.

> A Japanese professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has

> calculated that 800 tons of DU is the atomicity

> equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The U.S. has

> used more DU since 1991 than the atomicity

> equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs. Four nuclear

> wars indeed, and 10 times the amount of radiation

> released into the atmosphere from atmospheric

> testing!

> No wonder our soldiers, their families and the

> people of the Middle East, Yugoslavia and Central

> Asia are sick. But as Henry Kissinger said after

> Vietnam when our soldiers came home ill from Agent

> Orange, “Military men are just dumb stupid animals

> to be used for foreign policy.”

> Unfortunately, more and more of those soldiers

> are men and women with brown skin. And

> unfortunately, the DU radioactive dust will be

> carried around the world and deposited in our

> environments just as the “smog of war” from the 1991

> Gulf War was found in deposits in South America, the

> Himalayas and Hawaii.

> In June 2003, the World Health Organization

> announced in a press release that global cancer

> rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do

> they know that they aren’t telling us? I know that

> depleted uranium is a death sentence … for all of

> us. We will all die in silent ways.

> To learn more:

> Sources used in this story that readers are

> encouraged to consult:

> American Free Press four-part series on DU by

> Christopher Bollyn. Part I: “Depleted Uranium: U.S.

> Commits War Crime Against Iraq, Humanity,” ; Part

> II: “Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says

> Depleted Uranium Definitively Linked,”

> August 2004 World Affairs Journal. Leuren Moret:

> “Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,”

>

> August 2004 Coastal Post Online. Carol Sterrit:

> “Marin Depleted Uranium Resolution Heats Up – GI’s

> Will Come Home To A Slow Death,”

>

World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference,

> Hamburg, Germany, October 16-19, 2004

 

> International Criminal Tribunal for

> Afghanistan. Written opinion of Judge Niloufer

> Baghwat

 

> “Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of

> Nuclear War” by Akira Tashiro, foreword by Leuren

> Moret

> ----------

> Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who has worked

> around the world on radiation issues, educating

> citizens, the media, members of parliaments and

> Congress and other officials. She became a

> whistleblower in 1991 at the Livermore Nuclear

> Weapons Lab after experiencing major science fraud

> on the Yucca Mountain Project. An environmental

> commissioner in the City of Berkeley

>

>

> Websites Of Interest:

>

> International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan

> written opinion of Judge N. Bhagwa t : also at

>

http://www.traprockpeace.org/tokyo_trial_13march04.doc

>

>

> Question 11: What does the US Government know

> about depleted uranium:

> http://traprockpeace.org/moret_25nov03.pdf

 

> World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference:

> http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de

 

> Radiation and Public Health Project:

> http://www.radiation.org

 

> " A comparison of delayed radiobiological effects

> of depleted-uranium munitions versus

> fourth-generation nuclear weapons " by A. Gsponer,

> J.-P. Hurni, and B. Vitale, 4th International

> Conference of the Yugoslav Nuclear Society,

> Belgrade, September 30-October 4, 2002.

> http://arXiv.org/abs/physics/0210071

 

> " Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons: The Physical

> Principles Of Thermonuclear Explosives, Inertial

> Confinement Fusion, And The Quest For Fourth

> Generation Nuclear Weapons " by Andre Gsponer and

> Jean-Pierre Hurni

> http://www.inesap.org/publ_tech01.htm

 

> 54 minute VPRO Dutch TV " Carlyle Group "

> documentary on internet:

>

http://www.vpro.nl/info/tegenlicht/index.shtml?7738514+7738518+7738520+11838857

>

> Real Player Video Documentary on the Carlyle

> Group, by VPRO Dutch television [500 kbps real

> video]

> Real Player Video Documentary on the Carlyle

> Group, by VPRO Dutch television [100 kbps real

> video]

> Overview of documentary - Interactive Flash

> Animation - with links to biographies and articles

> (Dutch) and specific sections of video.

 

> English translation of Dutch introduction

> Translation of the first one minute forty seven

> seconds of this program.

>

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