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DEPLETED URANIUM 
Wall Street Czars depopulating the World Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:48:55
linked article By Afsaneh Ostovar, Press TV, Tehran  - Q & A with Loren Moret
Leuren Moret is an American independent scientist and international expert on radiation and public health issues. She has devoted her life to awakening the public to the destructive consequences of depleted uranium munitions that are used by the US military. She has made relentless efforts to stop the US from continuing to pollute the environment.

Q. The US is using DU weapons in violation of international treaties. Why is not the international community forcing the US to put an end to the use or production of such weaponry?

A. I've asked that question many times myself.
With the demonstrated total and complete failure of international judicial remedies - by the International Criminal Court and the world court - to enforce the 1925 Geneva poison gas protocol, the Geneva and Hague conventions, international agreements and other treaties, and the failure of depleted uranium weapons to meet the standards (in four out of four categories) of legality under international law, it is clear that the international judicial system is morally and procedurally bankrupt. In other words, international laws and treaties are meaningless and/or selectively enforced. Just like the US nuclear weapons labs where I have worked, they selectively enforce the rules only when they want to 'get someone', in other words, they unfairly target and enforce laws that may be on the books, but are ignored.  read on


linked article DIVINE STRAKE BACK IN NEVADA The fight is on, again. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., a member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, says the Defense Threat Reduction Agency told him the Divine Strake test explosion of 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil will take place at the Nevada Test Site.
  After public outcry and legal machinations, the test, which was to have taken place last summer at the NTS, was rerouted first to a gravel quarry in Indiana, then to White Sands, N.M. and now it's back in southern Nevada.
  Take off the gloves, it's time to go bare knuckles against this project and flush it once and for all.
  This test is likely to kick up settled radioactivity from the desert floor and spew it into the atmosphere, only to be dumped at the will of the jet stream who knows where.
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linked article KHIAM SOUTHERN LEBANON - A BOMB’S ANATOMY - November 11, 2006
The special report was triggered by the radioactivity measurements reported on a crater probably created by an Israeli Bunker Buster bomb in the village of Khiam, in southern Lebanon. The measurements were carried out by two Lebanese professors of physics.. read on
 

TEDD WEYMAN: THE NUCLEAR WAR ON IRAQ Deputy Director of the Uranium Medical Research Centre, working with Dr. Asaf Durakovic, Tedd Weyman organized and led field studies in Afghanistan and Iraq to measure and analyze uranium contamination of radiotoxic and chemotoxic heavy metals ('depleted uranium,' etc.) from battlefield weapons. The use of uranium in non fissile-penetrating weapons and bunker busters are effectively nuclear weapons, Weyman reports. It is known world wide, he says, that DU weapons have long-term implications that, right now corporations and governments are hiding. But Weyman cautions, "If you don’t have a moral objection [to using DU on another nation], you might have a pragmatic objection which might be the liabilities that a nation faces for permanently contaminating another nation’s environment...Uranium contamination in Iraq will last for millions of years. So the liabilities are very significant when you have every nation that was on the receiving end and every soldier on the sending end contaminated." Weyman spoke in Rochester, June 26, 2005 at an event hosted by a coalition of Rochester peace groups. transcript Special thanks to Jim Barlow. (part 1: interview 22 min.)22 minutes, 17meg quicktime file 13meg winmedia file - thanks to Archive.org
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 RECENT NEWS OF DEPLETED URANIUM -11JAN06
CONTINUED STUDY PROJECT ON DU  PORT HOPE RADIOBIOLOGICAL STUDIES PROJECT 2005
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Squeezed To Death: John Pilger Dec 11, 2005
Wherever you go in Iraq's southern city of Basra, there is dust. It gets in your eyes and nose and throat. It swirls in school playgrounds and consumes children kicking a plastic ball. "It carries death," said Dr Jawad Al-Ali, a cancer specialist and member of Britain's Royal College of Physicians. "Our own studies indicate that more than 40 per cent of the population in this area will get cancer... read on
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NANO-PARTICLES PINPOINTED:
Christopher Bollyn – American Free Press January 7, 2005
Depleted uranium weapons and the untold misery they wreak on mankind are taboo subjects in the mainstream media. There are indications, however, that the media embargo is about to be breached.
  Despite being a grossly under-reported subject in the mainstream media, there is intense public interest in depleted uranium (DU) and the damage it inflicts on humankind and the environment.
  While American Free Press is actively investigating DU weapons and how they contribute to Gulf War Syndrome, the corporate-controlled press virtually ignores the illegal use of DU and its long-lasting effects on the health of veterans and the public. read full article here
 

DEPLETED URANIUM: We did it to ourselves
Series Intro: Dr. Doug Rokke,  science teacher and 30-year Army vet, continues to expose one of the most egregious crimes against humanity, the US corporate creation and military use and sale of uranium waste (DU) in Desert Storm and elsewhere. Part One. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2946715.stm  

Part One: WE DID IT TO OURSELVES  if the video pauses, please be patient.. it will play
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Part Two: WHAT'S D.U.? I DON'T KNOW.
Bush Sr.'s war on Iraq in 1991 showcased a new SECRET WEAPON, U-238. Over 310 TONS of "depleted uranium" was fired into Iraq. The Army's Desert Storm battlefield science officer exposes the indifference the Pentagon had and has toward its own troops, let alone Iraqi civilians.
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Part Three: THEY TOLD ME TO LIE: Major Doug Rokke, D.U. expert
Maj. Doug Rokke blows the whistle on the Pentagon, exposing the "willful neglect, dereliction of duty and abandonment of the warrior" and crimes "against God and humanity" posed to all life by the use of depleted uranium by the US. 160,000 Gulf War vets are classified permanently disabled; 8000 have died-VA documents.
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Part Four: IF YOU WANT TO GO TO WAR, YOU'RE CRAZY: US ARMY MAJ. DOUG ROKKE On Jan. 21, 2003, the White House (a “senior administration official”) responded to the charges made about DU by Rokke and other critics by dismissing them as “Iraqi propaganda and disinformation.” Rokke, the Army’s own expert on DU, exposes the criminal use and cover-up of deadly depleted uranium (4.5 billion years half-life) and the criminal treatment of those exposed to DU. www.traprockpeace.org  The White House documents: http://www.usembassy.it/file2003_01/alia/A3012110.htm 
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Related Article:
Death By Slow Burn -  How America Nukes Its Own Troops  What 'Support Our Troops' Really Means  By Amy Worthington 

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