Depleted Uranium In India, Spreading Worldwide

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Depleted Uranium In India, Spreading Worldwide

 

 

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http://forpressfound.blogspot.com/2006/03/they-kill-us-for-sport-depleted.html

 

 

Depleted Uranium In India, Spreading Worldwide

 

From Karl W B Schwarz

kwbschwarz2

3-20-6

 

The following was sent to me

by one of the email list members and the author of the article below

granted me (and you) permission to spread this far and wide.

They are working in India to document the extent of DU pollution

that has come out of Afghanistan and fallen upon the people of India.

 

They are working along the same lines we are here in the

United States to first prove it, and then put a stop to it

and get medical care for the abandoned and neglected.

 

This recent ­ Urgent Deal ­ between Bush and India might be

a Pre-emptive Strike to shut down the efforts in India

to prove that DU has bit them in the butt, too.

 

We are still waiting to see if any of the nations in Europe wake up

to the fact that they got " peppered " with DU too, since the

Aldermaston DU would have to have come across them to have made it to

the UK.

 

This is the article from India and then I'll return at the end with

comments and additional information. It is interesting to see how

people of other nations view the United States and the Bush-Cheney

cabal's use of DU weapons.

 

Begin article:

They Kill Us For Sport

By Arun Shrivastava CMC

 

Depleted uranium is a deadly toy in the hands of the ruling bloodlines.

A particle of DU ingested or inhaled can cause one or more of the

90+ seriously debilitating diseases, fatal or temporarily non-fatal.

[1] [see list of 91 diseases, Annex 1] The half life of DU is 4.5

billion years, and it can destroy living things and the environment;

most importantly it can destroy perfectly healthy lives. [2]

 

Depleted uranium has been used in at least the last four wars

by the United States and its allies:

Gulf War 1, Bosnia and Kosovo in the Balkans,

Afghanistan and Gulf War 2. The last two of the four wars,

all illegal, took place in 2001 (Afghanistan) and 2003 (Iraq).

Effects of the contamination can manifest from within a few hours to

5 years.

 

Evidences clearly indicate that depleted uranium is blowing in the

wind all over the world. [3] Its effects on health are showing up in

distant lands.

Earlier, gulf war veterans and local civilians were affected;

— now, of all the places, the US is showing

— 6 - fold increase in just lung cancer cases.[4]

 

The Emerging Ratio

 

The population of the USA was 298, 298,906 on March 14, 2006,

say 298 million.[5] The recorded 172,000 lung cancer cases

for January and February 2006 equates to 34 cases per 10,000 persons

-men, women and children- up from the previously normal trend line

of 5.8 per 10,000 persons per annum, implying that additional 28.2

cases per 10,000 persons have been added and recorded in a short time.

 

It certainly can't be due to more Americans smoking cigarettes and

certainly not due to " other unexplained factors " such as lifestyle

changes, which do change but over decades, not a few years.

The most plausible one is that the air we breathe is contaminated

with depleted uranium and it is killing healthy people all over the world.

 

If the population of the United States of America shows such an

explosive growth of lung cancer what does it imply for the rest of the

world?

The world population on the same day and time was 6,503,376,192.

Assuming the same ratio as that of the United States, i.e. additional

28.2 cases per 10,000 persons, the world would see,

or is probably already facing, an additional 18.34 million cases

of untreatable cancer per year, or 1.52 million cases per month.

Do they know it?

 

Tobacco And Lung Cancer

 

" In the 20th century, approximately 100 million people died world-wide

from tobacco-associated diseases (cancer, chronic lung disease,

cardiovascular disease and stroke), " says a WHO report. [6]

This means about one million deaths per year, although it is

understandable that there were fewer cases early on in the 20th

century as compared to later when the numbers reached nearly 1.5

million. In 2001, there were 1.5 million lung cancer deaths worldwide,

or 125,000 per month.[7]

 

Now, if the US data shows 172,000 new cases in January-February 2006,

an average of 86,000 cases per month, something terrible has happened.

Nuclear radiation induced cancers are peculiar: with right facility

and correct testing protocol, the murderers can't hide.

With care, all the 91 radiation induced illnesses, identified by

Leuren, can be traced to depleted radiation poisoning.

 

The Map Says Something

 

The worst contamination would of course occur at

and around the theatres of war, but region within 1000 mile radius

would face serious depleted uranium contamination. [1]

 

1000-mile radius means a total area of 3.14 million square mile.

The two circles in the map represent an area

of 6.28 million square miles and,

deducting say 20% for the overlapping area,

the net affected area is just over 5 million square mile.

The total land area of earth is about 57.3 million square mile,

which implies that roughly 8% of total land area of the earth

is now severely contaminated.

And I am not including Bosnia and Kosovo theatres of war,

which has seriously affected the Balkans as well as the NATO troops.[8]

 

(My comment:

I wonder if the people of Israel are aware that the desired policy of

their Govt.

to have the US attacking Arab nations has polluted their nation with DU?

Also, you can draw the same such circles around US target ranges,

test ranges and military bases where US citizens have been exposed.

Additionally, the air flow from Iraq to the UK would have taken

the DU contamination across much of Europe. -KS)

 

Referring to the map, with Afghanistan's capital Kabul as the centre,

depleted uranium affected region includes Pakistan,

entire northwest India, parts of Nepal, parts of China,

major regions of Central Asian Republics, Iran, and the Gulf

countries, including Dubai and Abu Dhabi, two major financial and

trading centres.

 

Taking Baghdad as the centre, the regions affected includes the entire

West Asia, parts of Egypt, parts of Greece, Cyprus, regions around

the Caspian Sea and islands in the eastern Mediterranean.

 

It should be noted that Iran and some littoral states of Caspian Sea

have been hit twice (see the overlapping area of the two circles)

within two years: in 2001 and again in 2003. Thus the severest effect

would be felt in Iran, a few gulf countries, and a few Central Asian

states.

 

Population Affected

 

The total estimated population within the two circles was about

857 Mill. (See Table) in July 2005. If the US is showing

a sharp six-fold rise in incidence of lung cancer alone,

what will be the fate of these 857 million + people in the core zones?

Washington is exactly 6193.94 miles from radioactive Baghdad;

and Kabul is just a bit further, about 6922.93 miles away,

also highly radioactive.[9]

 

The capitals of 19 countries are within 1000 mile radius

and include New Delhi (621 miles), Islamabad (232), Bishkek

(651), Beirut (515), Cairo (806), Ankara (785), Jerusalem (546),

Damascus (468), Kuwait City (347), Nikosia (643), Teheran (429),

Abu Dabi (856), Aman (503), Riyadh (615), Ashqabat (645) and so on.

And Americans are catching lung cancer by the thousands?

 

Countries like India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Iraq, and some

Central Asian States do not even have well established, dependable

cancer screening facilities, let alone determining

whether the illness is due to depleted uranium contamination

or careless handling of toxic pesticides in the farms.

 

Governments Will Contineu To Mislead

 

There are studies that clearly establish correlation between cancer

and exposure to a decoction of pesticides used in India's farmlands

and in some of these regions (especially Punjab)

the incidences of cancer (of blood, lymphatic systems, esophagus,

bone, cervical, etc) ranges from 5.12 to 10.3 per 10,000 persons.

 

In the US itself, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),

analysis of pesticide residue data on 9282 people nationwide

revealed that among those who had blood and urine sample tested,

100% showed pesticide residue.[10] Now, this is a global phenomenon

and has definitely caused serious health problems (immune disorder,

low birth weight of babies, and a host of other degenerative diseases.

 

But a spike is missing.

 

" We can expect to see multiple cancers in one person.

These multiple unrelated cancers in the same individual have been

reported in Yugoslavia and Iraq in families that had no history of any

cancer.

This is unknown in the previous studies of cancer, " " a new

phenomenon, " says Leuren Moret.

 

But weakness in data management, investigative techniques,

and training of medical and paramedical personnel will be used

to the hilt by governments in the affected countries, bribed by the

US administration and corporate interests and lulled by the lullaby

of the mainstream media, to whitewash the population that DU poisoning

is one of the many benign environmental hazards that we must live

with, as was done by analysts with " depleted grey matter " in four

US government (directly or indirectly) supported studies.[11, 12, 13, 14]

 

Long Term Consequences

 

In our living memory we have the instance of Chernobyl.

Scientists say that Chernobyl was not a nuclear explosion;

it was just a huge, hot fire in the nuclear fuel.

Yet, the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl contaminated farmlands

and livestock around Europe and Scandinavia for a long time,

and the radiation is still traceable in the earth and some living things.

 

The regions surrounding Chernobyl shall remain uninhabitable

for an estimated three to six hundred years! [15]

Depleted uranium is bit nastier; a fact that did occur

to the omnicidal maniacs controlling the US administration.

 

Now, project this scientific fact over just one country, India.

The entire north-western region, including the Himalayas is affected.

All perennial rivers flowing from the Himalayas into the Gangetic

plains (the Ganga and Yamuna with hundreds of tributaries) and into

Pakistan (the five rivers: Indus, Satluj, Jhelum, Ravi and Chenab),

will contaminate the largest and oldest food growing area in the world.

This region has a high livestock population that supports India's

and Pakistan's fuel, food, and farming needs.

They will die or will have to be destroyed because of contamination.

 

The Northwestern region is also economically the fastest growing

region in India, predicted to catch up with Europe in 2020.

Migration from slower growing eastern region has swelled

the transient population in western Indiaand we are talking about

seasonal migration of millions of surplus farm/landless labourers,

roughly 5 million live in Delhi alone eking out a living.

 

Poor, physically weak because of inadequate nutrition, without access

to proper medical facilities, these people will be severely affected.

When they contract one of the 90 odd radiation induced illnesses,

they wouldn't even know what destroyed them,

what destroyed their families, and what eventually killed them?

 

I am talking about numbers running into millions, every month,

in the identified regions.

 

Destruction Of The World's Oldest Civilizations

 

Getting back to the two regions as a whole, let us not forget

that this region gave the world all the modern religions:

— Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam,

— Sikhism, the Baha'i faith, and hundreds of lesser faiths.

People from all over the world throng these regions to pay respects

to their messiahs and their Gods, excluding the Pope, of course.

 

And despite all odds, these regions sustained life, created wealth,

sustained a large population until the European colonialists

arrived in the early 18th Century. They destroyed the sustainability

of this region, plundered the people and their natural resources, year

after year.

 

And when their empire failed, they passed the control of these

regions to the US. And what has the US government done? It has

destroyed not only some of the greatest civilization the world has

ever known; — they are destroying their own people.

 

Dr Rosalie Bertell says,

" Veterans and civilians (in these wars) WERE exposed to DU;

and this inhaled DU represents a seriously enhanced risk

of damaged immune systems and fatal cancers. "

" Those immediately downwind (will) die quickly, in hours or days.

Those further downwind will take longer. " [15] Those around the world

will eventually suffer an unimaginably painful premature death.

 

What Can People Do?

 

There is no time to wring one's hands.

The people of this global village need to join hands in a global

peaceful, non-violent, non-cooperation with governments that lie and kill.

 

— Let us all form small local committees and ask(DEMAND)

our governments to come clean on DU. Mobilize support

to help veterans and civilians who are suffering

without differentiating between race, caste, creed or religion.

 

Tell every person connected with government, civil society, the

police, and members of the armed forces that they are all in it up to

their neck.

Finally, inform yourself, educate your family and neighbourhood;

read the hundreds of authoritative papers written by scientists.

 

Is there any reason to fear when all of us are under

death sentence for a crime none of us committed?

 

If we continue to cooperate with a few homicidal maniacs

it'd make them more arrogant. The power is in your hand.

 

Arun Shrivastava is an accredited management consultant.

He can be contacted at: arun1951

 

References

 

[1] Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War, LEUREN

MORET / World Affairs ­ The Journal of International Issues; 1July,

2004. http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm

[2] " Blowing in the wind " , produced by xxxx, a must see documentary

[3] Dr. Rosali Bertell papers: (i) Depleted Uranium as a Weapon of

War, August 1999 and (ii) Update on Depleted Uranium

and Gulf War Syndrome, Parts 1 to 3; Human Studies; 1 January 2005

[4] " This is not just a little spike on the charts

and much worse is coming, " says Karl WB Schwarz,

http://www.rense.com/general69soar.htm

[5] http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

[6] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2003/pr27/en/

[7] Khuri FR, Herbst RS, Fossella FV; Emerging therapy

in non-small call lung cancer; Ann Oncol; 12:739-44; 2001.

[8] (i) " Military Toxics Project: Information Sheet ­ June 2003;

(ii) Heads roll at Veterans Administration: Mushrooming depleted uranium

(DU) scandal blamed " ; Bob Nichols; Project Censored Award Winner;

http://www.sfbayview.com/012605/headsroll012605.shtml

(iii) See also

" It Turns out Depleted Uranium Is Bad for NATO Troops in Kosovo;

[What About Everyone Else?] " ; by Felicity Arbuthnot; 26 October, 2000.

[9] http://www.wcrl.ars.usda.gov/cec/java/capitals.htm

[10] Analysis of pesticide residues in blood samples from villages in

Punjab; CSE/PML/PR-21/2005; jointly conducted by Centre for Science

and Environment and Pollution Monitoring Laboratory, New Delhi;

2005. This paper refers to the said CDC report.

The following four articles #11 to #14, to say the least, understate

the problems of DU. At worse, they are misleading. You, are therefore,

warned.

[11] Toxicological Profile for Uranium. Washington, DC: ATSDR, US Public

Health Service, US Department of Health & Human Services, September 1999.

[12] Harley N, Foulkes E., Hilbourne L, Anthony R, Hudson A., A Review

of the Scientific Literature As It Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses,

Volume 7: Depleted Uranium, RAND Corporation, National Defense

Research Institute, Santa Monica, CA, 1999.

[13] Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science.

Committee on Health Effects Associated with Exposures

During the Gulf War, Gulf War and Health, Volume 1.

Depleted Uranium, Sarin, Pyridostigmine Bromide, Vaccines, 2000.

[14] Office Of The Special Assistant To The Deputy Secretary

Of Defense For Gulf War Illnesses. Environmental Exposure Report:

Depleted Uranium, December 13, 2000.

[15] Nuclear Bunker Buster Bombs against Iran: This Way Lies

Madness; Stephen M. Osborn, 14 March, GlobalResearch.ca

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle & code=OSB20060314 & arti\

cleId=2093

 

 

Annex 1

 

Known general illnesses inflicted by internalization of depleted uranium

particles; compiled by Ms Leuren Moret from Interviews

with Gulf War Vets and their families (partial list)

1. abnormal births and birth defects

2. abnormal metabolism of semen:

contains amine & ammonium alkaline;

3. acute autoimmune symptoms (lung-, liver-, kidney failure);

acute myeloid leukemia (deadly within days or weeks)

acute immune system depression

acute respiratory failure

4. asthma

5. auto-immune deficiencies

6. Balkan-syndrome - blood in stools and urine

7. body function control loss

8. bone cancer

9. brain damage

10 brain tumors

11. burning semen

12. burning sensations

13. calcium loss in body

14. cardiovascular signs or symptoms

15. chemical sensitivities

16. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

17. chronic kidney and liver disorders

18. chronic myeloid leukemia

19. chronic respiratory infections

20. colon cancer

21. confusion

22. diarrhea

23. digestive problems

24. dizziness

25. Epstein Barr Syndrome

26. fluid buildup

27. fibromyalgia

28. gastrointestinal signs/symptoms

29. general fatigue

30. genetic alterations

31. glandular carcinoma

32. Gulf war-syndrome

33. headaches (severe)

34. heart attack/disease

35. high blood pressure

36. high frequency of micturition

37. Hodgkin lymphoma

38. immune system deficiency

39. infections

40. insomnia

41. involuntary movements

42. joint/muscle/leg pain

43. kidney failure/damage

44. leukemia

45. liver carcinoma

46. loss of feeling in fingers

47. Lou Gehrigs Disease -ALS

48. low blood oxygen saturation

( low HbO2)

49. low lung volume

50. lung damage

51. lung cancer

52. lymph cancer

53. lymphoma

54. melanoma

55. memory loss

56. metallic taste

57. Microplasma fermentans/ incognitis infections

58. mood swings ­ violence

59. homicide/suicide

60. multiple cancers

61. multiple myeloma

62. myeloma

63. muscle pain

64. nerve damage

65. neuro-muscular degenerative disease

66. non-Hodgkin lymphoma

67. other malignancies

68. pancreas carcinoma

69. Parkinsons disease

70. petit & grand mal fits

71. rashes

72. reactive airway disease

73. reduced IQ

74. respiratory ailments

75. shortness of breath

76. sinus diseases

77. skin cancer

78. skin damage: sweat glands with trapped du-particles

79. skin infections

80. skin spotting

81. smell, loss of

82. sleep disturbances

83. stiffening of fingers

84. teeth crumbling

85. thyroid cancer

86. thyroid disease

87. unable to walk

88. unusual fevers/night sweats

89. unusual hair loss

90. vision problems

91. weight loss

(End of article)

 

Our DU detoxification affiliate recently tested persons in Bahrain

and they are indeed exposed to DU. They have not been able

to establish a large enough group to project what percentage

of the Bahrain population is DU positive but it will be high enough.

Additionally, it is a DU exposure that should have never happened.

Bahrain falls within the map above and you can see in the table

how many citizens are potentially affected just in that one nation.

 

In the sample population that was tested, about 80% of them were DU

positive.

 

The implications are far greater however when you consider the

Aldermaston Report that detected DU spikes as far away as the

UK after the bombing of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.

The Desert Storm matter never ended because during the 12 years

of sanctions and No-Fly Zone, both the Clinton ­ Gore Administration

and Bush ­ Cheney Administration continued to bomb with DU weapons

and even hitting non-military targets like water treatment plants,

waste sewage plants, etc to " bomb Iraq into the Stone Age " ,

to quote Zionist Neocon Edward Luttwak.

 

That list above of known negative health effects of being exposed

to DU can be replicated almost anywhere in the United States

by interviewing veterans of any given US Army or Marine group

and conducting the proper medical tests. These are the same types

of tests that VA either does not want to run or they do not

accurately report to the veteran patient their true medical condition.

Why?

Because that would become prima facia evidence

against the United States government.

 

If the US government admits to this and starts providing the appropriate

treatment they are admitting to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

 

A single DU atom can upend the health of a human body

and it is even uglier if that particular person is also exposed

to Strontium 90, U-236, Plutonium 239 or Neptunium 239

that decays back into Plutonium.

All of those are man-made and only come from

the inside of nuclear core reactions in nuclear power plants.

Each of those isotopes are known to be extremely deadly and

harmful to the health of anyone that comes into contact with them.

 

Medical and scientific experts have known for years that radon

is dangerous to your health, concentrates in basements,

and causes lung cancer and other types of malignancies.

The US government does not even pretend that radon is not harmful.

 

So, what is Radon?

 

http://www.epa.gov/RadonPubs/physic.html

2. What is Radon?

Radon-222 is a radioactive gas released during the natural decay

of thorium and uranium, which are common, naturally occurring elements

found in varying amounts in rock and soil. Odorless, invisible,

and without taste, radon cannot be detected with the human senses.

 

Radon-222 decays into radioactive elements, two of which -

- polonium-218 and polonium-214 -- emit alpha particles,

which are highly effective in damaging lung tissues.

These alpha-emitting radon decay products have been implicated

in a causal relationship with lung cancer in humans.

 

Radon is created during the slow breakdown of uranium that is naturally

occurring in the environment. It is an odorless, colorless, deadly gas.

 

http://www.epa.gov/radon/

 

" We know that radon is a carcinogen. This research confirms

that breathing low levels of radon can lead to lung cancer. "

 

Now, if it is deadly as a gas in your basement, how much more

dangerous and deadly is it if the decaying is happening in your body?

 

As disclosed in the Depleted Uranium, Twenty-First Edition,

uranium is a metal in the actinide class of metals and can seek out

to bond with other elements to create hydrides, fluorides,

chlorides, hydrides, oxides, uranates, a water-soluble form

known as uranyl, and organometallics.

It is also known to have an affinity for phosphates

and can emit alpha particles within the human body

— that can break both chains of the DNA

— because it is " point blank " so to speak and inside of the human body.

 

I was stunned and infuriated when doctors and nurses at Landstuhl,

Germany confirmed that they were finding DU positive soldiers

and were ordered to make no written record, take blood, freeze it

and the Pentagon would check back in two or three years.

That folks is nothing short of criminal negligence in its sheerest

definition..

 

You have to stop and ponder that the leaders

of the land of the free and the home of the brave

— are merely a bunch of cowards and war criminals

that refuse to face the consequences of their own actions

 

Our military soldiers go into service as some of the most

physically fit people on this planet and come home chronically ill.

 

That is a fact and that is something

the U.S. government does not want you to know.

They would rather ignore the problem, but we say enough is enough

in the ignoring the problem to death, figuratively and literally.

 

We are moving to use an arsenal of detoxification methodologies,

internal medicine and nanotechnology at the human body level

and in a new generation of medical devices.

 

In a way, it will be a different type of war but this one is to save

those neglected and abandoned by our own government.

 

Next time you see one of the D.C. twits smiling for the camera

with the troops, remember all that you have learned about DU recently.

They are not great leaders; they are callous and inhumane people

on both sides of the aisle. They are war criminals,

guilty of genocide and should be viewed and treated as such.

 

The DU, Strontium 90, U-236, Plutonium 239 and Neptunium 239

that decays back into Plutonium cause the types of medical

abnormalities listed above and some that are not on that list.

Even the anthrax vaccine is known to cause early onset of amyloidosis

at far greater percentages than the normal adult population

and that alone is known to cause melanoma, a deadly form of cancer.

 

They (Democrats, Republicans, defense contractors) are wrecking

the lives and health of tens of millions of people and therefore

are not fit for leadership of this Republic. The only thing they deserve

is a court, a jury, and justice handed down to them for their actions.

 

Best regards,

Karl