U.S. DU Deaths: Arun Shrivastava: DU contamination spreading

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UPDATE, U.S. DU Deaths: " Arun Shrivastava: DU contamination

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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 five 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 six-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]

 

 

 

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(My comment: I wonder if the people of Israel are aware that the

desired policy of their government 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

million (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.

 

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Governments Will Continue 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 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,

ww.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;

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

 

 

 

 

NOTE BY SUBMITTER, JOHN ERVIN:

 

TOM: One of the reasons lung cancers have increased six fold is due to

DU, but not always from the stuff in Iraq, etc. It's from cigarettes.

I was at my dentist a few months ago and saw his pie chart on the

wall, breaking down what's in tobacco: and for some time now, don't

know the starting date, tobacco companies have been putting DU and

Plutonium 210 in tobacco !!

 

Can't imagine why, except that it's a toxic waste and they've got to

do something with it, so why not poison us. That seems, rather

oddly, to be more and more their SOP. Doesn't make much sense from a

market forces point of view, but then what does these days.

 

But, if DU is in this stuff and it's inhaled and ingested, it would

account, all on its own, for the six-fold increase in lung cancers,

since the particles, of any size, radiate at 4.1 million electron

volts, compared to our body's 10 electron volts. That'll produce

mutations and metastasizing, every day.

 

But, I imagine people would like to know just how deadly tobacco now

has become ~these aren't your Daddy's Chesterfields, anymore. I try

to tell smokers, and, when they can listen, the info blows their mind.

Better that, than burning out their lungs in a seriously premature

death. Gives lots of credence to the growing suspicion that the

certain forces within the FDA and other affiliates are often more or

less branch offices of Mafia.

 

Absent the premeditated murderous intent of agents within our own

agencies, it's hard to imagine how these things can happen.

 

But then, no sane person can even begin to imagine how a whole lot of

things are allowed, these days .........!! ~JE