Beyond Treason - Gulf War Syndrome

[DougWhite]

Did anyone see the Beyond Treason documentary on Dish Network last night? The following is a snippet:

 

What causes Gulf War Illness?

(a.k.a. Gulf War Syndrome; Persian Gulf Illness)

 

Some believe these illnesses are caused by exposure to depleted uranium munitions used on the battlefield. Others believe chemical and biological exposures are the prime suspect. While yet an even larger group argue that experimental vaccines given to our troops, without their knowledge or consent, may have lead to the demise of many of these soldiers.

 

Is it a combination of overlapping exposures?

 

DEPLETED URANIUM EXPOSURES

CHEMICAL & BIOLOGICAL EXPOSURES

VACCINATIONS & EXPERIMENTAL DRUGS

 

A growing number of scientists and respected experts in their fields have been coming forward to share their research and first-hand knowledge of official betrayal.

 

As ailing Gulf War Heroes from all 27 coalition countries slowly die of “unknown causes,” they wait for answers from their respective governments… but no satisfying or even credible answers have come forth from the military establishment. Records that span over a decade point to negligence and even culpability on the part of the U.S. Department of Defense and their “disposable army” mentality.

 

The VA has determined that 250,000 troops are now permanently disabled, 15,000 troops are dead and over 425,000 are ill and slowly dying from what the Department of Defense still calls a “mystery disease.” How many more will have to die before action is taken?

 

visit www.BeyondTreason.com and research Dr. Doug Rokke, Director of the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Project, Captain Joyce Riley, Sgt. Dennis Kyne, or Dr. Leuren Moret for more information.

Edited October 18, 2007 by Doug White

[Guest freedom_*]

The Beyond Treason movie will be aired again tonight at 10:pm. Check for the FSTV channel and goto www.freespeachtv.org. If you are a US veteran, you can receive a free copy of the DVD at beyondtreason.com (see the bottom of the page).

[Luke_Wilbur]

Thanks Doug and Freedom. Unfortunetely, I fell asleep. But I do know that in 2001, a study was published in Military Medicine that found DU in the urine of Gulf War veterans .

 

Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, 8901 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20889-5603, USA.

 

During the Persian Gulf War, soldiers may have inhaled, ingested, and/or experienced wound contamination by depleted uranium (DU), which is used in military projectiles and armor. DU is produced by depleting natural uranium of 234U and 235U during the uranium-enrichment process. Although the long-term effects of significant DU exposures require investigation, many veterans express fears about its impact on health. An assay by which DU exposure can be assessed would not only be a useful research tool, but the information could help mitigate the concerns of exposed individuals. In this study, urine samples from individuals enrolled in the Depleted Uranium Follow-Up Program at the Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center were examined for uranium content. Isotopic composition of urine uranium was determined by measuring the 235U/238U ratio, using an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer. Using this method, natural and depleted uranium could be readily differentiated. By demonstrating the absence of DU in soldiers who suspect exposure by inhalation or ingestion, the assay should reduce psychological stress in these individuals.

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?c...t_uids=11778443

[DougWhite]

You can view the full length Beyond Treason video right here!

 

see part 1 - 50 miniutes

 

see part 2 - 38 miniutes

 

Edited October 17, 2007 by Doug White

[DougWhite]

U.S. WEAPONS POISON EUROPE

 

RADIATION FROM IRAQ WAR DETECTED IN UK ATMOSPHERE

 

 

By Leuren Moret

 

A shocking new scientific study by British scientists Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan asks: “Did the use of uranium weapons in Gulf War II result

in the contamination of Europe?”

 

High levels of depleted uranium (DU) have been measured in the atmosphere in Britain, transported on air currents from the Middle East and Central Asia. Scientists cited the U.S. bombing of Tora Bora, Afghanistan in 2001 and the “Shock and Awe” bombing during Gulf War II in Iraq in 2003 as one of the main reasons.

 

 

In the 1950s the British government had established an air monitoring facility at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Aldermaston to measure radioactive emissions from British nuclear power plants and atomic weapons facilities.

 

Ironically, AWE was taken over three years ago by Halliburton, which at first refused to release key data as required by law to Busby.

 

An international expert on low-level radiation, Busby serves as an official advisor on several British government committees. He recently co-authored an independent report on low-level radiation with 45 scientists with the European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR) for the European Parliament.

 

Busby was eventually able to get Aldermaston’s air monitoring data from Halliburton by filing a freedom of information request using a new British law that became effective Jan. 1, 2005. Critical data from 2003 was missing, however, so he had to obtain the information from the Defence Procurement

Agency.

 

Aldermaston is one of many nuclear facilities throughout Europe that regularly monitor atmospheric radiation levels transported by sand, dust storms and air currents from radiation sources in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

 

After the “Shock and Awe” campaign in Iraq in 2003, very fine particles of depleted uranium were captured along with larger sand and dust particles in filters in Britain. These particles traveled in seven to nine days from Iraqi battlefields as far away as 2,400 miles.

 

The radiation measured in the atmosphere quadrupled within a few weeks after the beginning of the 2003 campaign, and at one of the five monitoring locations, the levels twice required an official alert to the British Environment Agency.

 

In addition, according to Busby, the Aldermaston air monitoring data provided a continuous record of depleted uranium levels in Britain from other recent wars.

 

Extensive video news footage of the 2003 Iraq war, including Fallujah in 2004, provided evidence that the United States has illegally used depleted uranium munitions on civilian populations. These military actions are in direct violation of not only international conventions but also violate U.S. military law because the United States is a signatory to The Hague and Geneva conventions and the 1925 Geneva Gas Protocol.

 

Depleted uranium weaponry meets the definition of a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) in two out of three categories under U.S. Code Title 50, Chapter 40 Sec. 2302. After action mandates have also been violated such as U.S. Army Regulation AR 700-48 and TB 9-1300-278, which requires treatment of radiation poisoning for all casualties, including enemy soldiers and civilians.

 

In the mainstream press, British officials have attempted to counter the study by blaming the elevated uranium levels on “local sources.” Anonymous statements by government scientists used by the media thus far, however, have been contradicted by evidence disclosed in the report.

 

Naturally occurring uranium in the crust of the Earth is only 2.4 parts per million and could not become concentrated to the high levels measured in Britain. As far as nuclear power plants are concerned, the lowest levels of uranium measured at monitoring stations around Aldermaston were actually taken at the facility, which designs and tests nuclear weapons—meaning this could not possibly be a source.

 

Atomic weapons facilities would be more likely to produce plutonium contamination, which was not reported as a contaminant.

 

This wasn’t the first time a noted scientist has discussed global pollution from the use of DU.

 

Dr. Keith Baverstock, an expert on radiation, exposed a World Health Organization (WHO) cover-up on depleted uranium. Baverstock leaked an official WHO report that he had written for the organization but was never published. He warned in the report about the environmental contamination from tiny DU particles formed from U.S. munitions.

 

In addition, Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki, a Japanese physicist at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, estimated that the atomic equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs has been released into the global atmosphere since 1991 from the use of DU munitions. He said it is mixed in the atmosphere in one year.

 

DU PROFITS

 

As if Busby’s report is not bad enough, a new book by a leading scientist notes who is making billions from nightmare armaments.

 

Dr. Jay Gould revealed in his book The Enemy Within that the British royal family privately owns investments in uranium holdings worth over $6 billion through Rio Tinto Mines in Australia. The mining company was formed for the British royal family in the late 1950s by Roland Walter “Tiny” Rowland, who was known as the queen’s banker and the master financial manipulator behind billionaire Robert Maxwell’s fortune.*

 

The Rothschilds are also profiting enormously from their control of the price and supply of uranium globally.

 

The ubiquitous Halliburton just recently finished construction of a 1,000-mile railway from the mining area to a port on the north coast of Australia to transport the ore.

 

The queen’s favorite American buccaneers, Dick Cheney and the Bush family, are tied to her through uranium mining and the shared use of DU munitions in the Middle East, Central Asia and Kosovo.

 

The role that such diverse groups and individuals as the Carlyle Group, George H.W. Bush, former Carlyle CEO Frank Carlucci, Los Alamos and Livermore labs, and U.S. and international pension fund investments have played in proliferating depleted uranium weapons is not well known. God save the queen from her complicity in turning planet Earth into a death star.

 

Leuren Moret is an international expert on the environmental

effects of depleted uranium and has worked at two U.S. nuclear

weapons laboratories.

 

(Issue #10/11, March 6 & 13, 2006)

 

 

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Edited October 17, 2007 by Doug White

[DougWhite]

DU Death Toll Tops 11,000

 

Nationwide Media Blackout Keeps U.S. Public Ignorant About This Important Story

 

By James P Tucker Jr

 

 

The death toll from the highly toxic weapons component known as depleted

uranium (DU) has reached 11,000 soldiers and the growing scandal may be the reason behind Anthony Principi’s departure as secretary of the Veterans

Affairs Department.

 

 

This view was expressed by Arthur Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter.

 

“The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given,” Bernklau said. “However, a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as the definitive cause of ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ has fed a growing scandal about the continued use of uranium

munitions by the U.S. military.”

 

The “malady [from DU] that thousands of our military have suffered and died from has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. . . . The terrible truth is now being revealed,” Bernklau said.

 

Of the 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are now dead, he said. By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. More than a decade later, more than half (56 percent) who served in Gulf War I have permanent medical problems. The disability rate for veterans of the world wars of the last century was 5 percent, rising to 10 percent in Vietnam.

 

“The VA secretary was aware of this fact as far back as 2000,” Bernklau said. “He and the Bush administration have been hiding these facts, but now, thanks to Moret’s report, it is far too big to hide or to cover up.”

 

Terry Johnson, public affairs specialist at the VA, recently reported that veterans of both Persian Gulf wars now on disability total 518,739, Bernklau said.

 

“The long-term effect of DU is a virtual death sentence,” Bernklau said. “Marion Fulk, a nuclear chemist, who retired from the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, and was also involved in the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in the soldiers [from the second war] as ‘spectacular’—and a matter of concern.’ ”

 

 

While this important story appeared in a Washington newspaper and the wire services, it did not receive national exposure—a compelling sign that the American public is being kept in the dark about the terrible effects of this toxic weapon. (Veterans for Constitutional Law can be reached at (516) 474-4261.)

 

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[Guest human_*]

Maybe it's just not on the National Media's radar screen. I read several articles on depleted uranium, but I assumed that the army was addressing this issue.

 

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DU Death Toll Tops 11,000

 

Nationwide Media Blackout Keeps U.S. Public Ignorant About This Important Story

 

By James P Tucker Jr

The death toll from the highly toxic weapons component known as depleted

uranium (DU) has reached 11,000 soldiers and the growing scandal may be the reason behind Anthony Principi’s departure as secretary of the Veterans

Affairs Department.

 

 

This view was expressed by Arthur Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter.

 

“The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given,” Bernklau said. “However, a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as the definitive cause of ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ has fed a growing scandal about the continued use of uranium

munitions by the U.S. military.”

 

The “malady [from DU] that thousands of our military have suffered and died from has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. . . . The terrible truth is now being revealed,” Bernklau said.

 

Of the 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are now dead, he said. By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. More than a decade later, more than half (56 percent) who served in Gulf War I have permanent medical problems. The disability rate for veterans of the world wars of the last century was 5 percent, rising to 10 percent in Vietnam.

 

“The VA secretary was aware of this fact as far back as 2000,” Bernklau said. “He and the Bush administration have been hiding these facts, but now, thanks to Moret’s report, it is far too big to hide or to cover up.”

 

Terry Johnson, public affairs specialist at the VA, recently reported that veterans of both Persian Gulf wars now on disability total 518,739, Bernklau said.

 

“The long-term effect of DU is a virtual death sentence,” Bernklau said. “Marion Fulk, a nuclear chemist, who retired from the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, and was also involved in the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in the soldiers [from the second war] as ‘spectacular’—and a matter of concern.’ ”

 

 

While this important story appeared in a Washington newspaper and the wire services, it did not receive national exposure—a compelling sign that the American public is being kept in the dark about the terrible effects of this toxic weapon. (Veterans for Constitutional Law can be reached at (516) 474-4261.)

 

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[Guest Travler]

Expansion of presidential powers under Bush and Cheney - by Bill Moyers and PBS

 

If you missed this show on MPT last Friday, you ought to watch (or just listen to) it by clicking on the link below.

 

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10262007/watch.html