What's Going On In The Air? Yes, We Are Being Sprayed. by carole pellatt

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After I returned from Italy at the end of July, I began photographing the Phoenix sky with

the intention that when there was a break in the action, I could post this article.

Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened yet. We have been inundated unceasingly with aerial

chemical assaults. On most days I look outside and I don’t want to venture out because

I’m tired of exposing my immune system to unknown pathogens. When it rains, I don’t

want to walk in it anymore because I know how volatile barium is in water. But…

everything seems to be fine with the world. The priorities of sports teams, TV shows,

paying bills, and being entertained overshadow the things that truly affect the quality of

our lives, and those of future generations. Life spins around us at a reckless pace,

obscuring the living elements that guide us on a path of harmonic existence with nature

and with one another. I find this displacement of natural rhythms to be very

disconcerting.

No connection ever seems to be made between profound events that our governments

expose us to, and the future consequences that we suffer. In trying to understand how

people could be oblivious to overhead aerial assaults on a daily basis and be completely

nonchalant upon the arrival of huge shiny chemical plumes trying to pass themselves off

as clouds, I had to consider other exasperating dislocations that court me daily. I had to

ponder other historical feats of ignorance, indifference and reckless endangerment.

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Why is it that in conversations about cancer and cancer research, no one ever mentions

nuclear testing, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, uranium mining, or depleted uranium

as even the SLIGHTEST possible link between humans and cancer? When a loved one is

stricken, people don’t seem to discuss the thousands of nuclear bombs that the U.S. and

other nations have exploded worldwide since the 40’s, and their relationship to cancer.

The USA alone has exploded hundreds of nuclear bombs. In his book “They Never Knew:

Victims of Atomic Testing”, Glenn Alan Chaney says, “One hundred and forty-nine atomic

bombs have exploded over American soil. No one knows how many people, if any, these

bombs have killed. The initial heat and shock of the explosions probably killed no one.

Open-air atomic explosions, however, have more lasting and distant effects. They create

and release tremendous amounts of highly dangerous radioactive materials. Radiation

causes cancer, leukemia, cardiovascular problems, cataracts, immunological weakness,

genetic defects, pre-natal problems, mental retardation, and many other problems. Any

deaths caused by radiation normally occur only years or decades later. Estimates of deaths

worldwide from American, Soviet, British, French and Chinese nuclear tests range from

something near zero to several million.”

“In the name of democracy and self-defense, the United States tested bomb after bomb at

a test site in Nevada. Each "shot" sent tons of radioactive particles boiling into the sky and

drifting across the United States. The isotopes of plutonium, cesium, strontium, iodine-131

and other deadly elements gradually came to earth as "fallout." A lot of it settled in

Nevada and Utah, killing cattle, burning ranchers, sickening residents, causing leukemia

in children, cancer in adults, deformities in the unborn. It contaminated milk in North

Dakota. It ruined photographic film in New York. It settled into the soil of every state

except Alaska and Hawaii.”

The American government has historically ignored or denied the dangers of radioactive

fallout from testing. They have been caught in a web of lawsuits from soldiers to ranchers,

uranium miners to Native Americans. According to a Reuters article dated 4/12/2000:

“The U.S. government reversed decades of denial on Wednesday and proposed paying at

least $400 million to thousands of ailing workers who were exposed to radiation while

building the nation's nuclear arsenal." We are talking about decades of denial. That’s

more than a lifetime when you have cancer. Especially when you have cancer in a country

that has high costs and does not encourage health care for those who can’t afford it.

In 1949, the commissioner of the AEC (Atomic Energy Commission), Sumner Pike

declared that, "only a national emergency could justify testing in the United States."

Testing in Nevada began in 1951.

The National Cancer Institute was initiated July 1st, 1944, seven years before the first

nuclear test on American soil. It took the NCI 46 years to come out with a study in 1997

linking nuclear testing in Nevada to Cancer of the Thyroid. And just that, no more. The

CDC (Centers for Disease Control) has gone one step further with a study in 2001 - fifty

years after the fact. As quoted by the New York Times in an article appearing Wednesday

August 8, 2007: “In a preliminary study that takes into account not only nuclear tests in

Nevada but also nearly all American and Soviet nuclear tests conducted overseas until

they were banned in 1963, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that

virtually every person who has lived in the United States since 1951 has been exposed to

radioactive fallout.”

“These new findings expand on those from five years ago by the National Cancer Institute

that showed that people living in a long, plume-shaped region stretching from Idaho and

Montana to the Mississippi River and beyond had a slightly higher risk of developing

thyroid cancer because of the Nevada tests..............................

 

 

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