Secret toll of uranium weapons (Heres the Proof)

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10477996&ref=rss

It is 50 years since Tony Ciarfello and his friends used the yard of a depleted uranium weapons factory as their playground in Colonie, a suburb of Albany in upstate New York.

"Inside was a big open ground, and nobody would chase us away," remembers Ciarfello.

"We used to play baseball and hang by the stream running through it. We even used to fish in it - though we noticed the fish had big pink lumps on them."

Now Ciarfello has lumps on his chest - strange, round tumours that protrude 2 cm.
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The US Government and the firm that ran the factory, National Lead (NL) Industries, have for decades been assuring former workers and residents around the 7 ha site that, although it is true that the plant used to produce unacceptable levels of radioactive pollution, it was not a serious health hazard.
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Now, in a development with potentially devastating implications not only for Colonie but also for the future use of some of the West's most powerful weapon systems, that claim is being challenged. In a paper to be published in the scientific journal Science of the Total Environment, a team led by Professor Randall Parrish of Leicester University in northern England reports the results of a three-year study of Colonie, paid for by Britain's Ministry of Defence.

Parrish's team has found that depleted uranium (DU) contamination, which remains radioactive for millions of years, is, in effect, impossible to eradicate from the environment or from the bodies of humans.

Twenty-three years after production ceased, they tested the urine of five former workers. All were still contaminated with DU. So were 20 per cent of people tested, including Ciarfello, who had spent at least 10 years living near the factory when it was still working.
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There are some posters on DU saying show the Proof well in Scientific Journal Total Environment its all there

"The researchers discovered dust in and around buildings emitting up to 10 times as much. DU, inhaled in the form of tiny motes of oxide that lodge inside the lungs, emits alpha radiation, nuclei of helium. Unlike the gamma radiation produced by enriched, weapons-grade uranium, alpha particles will not penetrate the skin.

But inside the body, DU travels around the bloodstream, accumulating in the lungs and in other soft tissues such as the brain and bone marrow. There, each mote becomes an alpha particle hotspot, bombarding its locality and damaging cell DNA. Research has shown that DU has the potential to cause a wide range of cancers, kidney and thyroid problems, birth defects and disorders of the immune system.


When DU "penetrators" - armour-piercing shells that form the standard armament of some of the Wests's most commonly used military aircraft and vehicles - strike their targets, 10 per cent or more of the heavy DU metal burns at high temperatures, producing oxide particles very similar to those at Colonie."


I wonder what happens to the military when this is printed is it still status quo? Does Congress just ignore it like Agent Orange?
How many countries who have bought weapons from us have DU in them? We have spread the most toxic poison weapon in the world
It really brings home the words "He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword"
Peace is our salvation

They would still use napalm or agent orange or clusterbombs. They would use nukes if they thought the 'people' could stomach it.

these tests ... I wonder what they are going to do? It could be a reason why they pulled their troops out of Iraq

Brown must have known

than we here in America IMO.

I can't believe Lebanon got bombed with it too
they are finding increased Luekemia and Diabetes in Israel children since Lebanon war

"Napalm" has been upgraded, given a new name (Mark77), and has been used on civilian populations in Iraq. (Google: Fallujah Napalm)

"Cluster Bombs" were used commonly on civilian populations in Iraq, and by Israel in their last incursion into Lebanon a couple of years ago.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-12-10-cluster-bomb-cover_x.htm

Horrible.

be going through in the future?

they have all used DU too

I can't freakin imagine...
The whole Mideast is toxic DU dump

of mass destruction. It has also been agreed upon by the world bodies that it is an illegal weapon to use because the effects are very long term and there is no way to clean this up... But because USA is so large and influential, no one stops us from using it... It is an offense that could put you in the Hague... But again, we are the USA and no one stops us.

thats madness
thats like Patton watching a Nazis tank runnover its own foot soldier

Patton said it the most valuable weapon is the foot soldier

UNFREAKING MADNESS

After all, one only need to look at the mountain of paperwork that goes into just machining DU. Now why would they need to be so careful?

Dr. Helen Coldicott has been lecturing for many years on this subject.

The problem is, we're out of control. The people are just little specks of dust that get in the way of the big machine. There is a scheme. A bigger plan. One that transcends happiness, health, welfare. The Bush family, the Cheneys of the world, the big corporations. Each is part of a bigger picture. One that is a monster. A big clockwork monster. And if you dissect it, you see that it all actually comes back to us. We really are in control. But we don't see it. And even if we did, we wouldn't change it. It's the same for global warming. We actually did prevent the ozone hole from killing us all. And I suppose we may pull out of the global warming situation. But the military is one that we just can't seem to break.

Even though we're all humans, we fear there isn't enough to go around. And things will only get worse, the more people there are on the planet. War only makes it worse.

DU is just part of it. But it's a very serious problem. I don't think smallpox is as dangerous. We can control that. But DU is here forever. Basically forever.

look at the hundred of thousand disabled vetereans of Desert Storm and now the poisoning of our own troops in Iraq plus those Iraqi troops we were going to use to defend our oil are all going to die of this poisoning

Our Army can't get recruits
we have to empty the prisons now I see why they want prisoners to go in there

All I can say for Blackwater is they got paid the most and had the least danger

Unfreakinbelievable but they too will pay in the long run

Its beaten

This is going to keep on poisoning forever. As long as it's in the dust, and in the air, these people will have the same diseases our soldiers have. This is horrible.

It's a story that must be told. Billions made on war profiteering while our soldiers and veterans are denied medical treatment. Not to mention that Iraq, Lebanon, and elsewhere are poisoned forever. Cancers, Birth defects, Leukemia.

What has our country done? I'm ashamed to be an American.

and dying from this stuff for years, now.

Some of the most prominent websites still claim that depleted uranium is harmless. This from the current wikipedia site, which comes up first in Google:


From the UN's World Health Organization site:


Many of the sites that Google hits are corporate boosters that downplay the environmental and health effects of depleted uranium. It is also a major byproduct in the creation of nuclear energy plants, and is ignored by nuclear energy proponents.



--IMM :scared:

Translation: the huge increases in birth defects, and cancers in children rising at epidemiological rates in Iraq must be ignored by us because we have a war to sell.

Some of the birth defects are appalling - babies that are only huge pieces of raw meat, having no skin or detectable faces.

...of VFP Chapter 54 has been underway for several years. The following is from their website.

Hekate

http://www.vfpsb.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98&Itemid=102

Depleted Uranium Quest
Dr. Al Holtz
VETERANS EXPOSED TO DEPLETED URANIUM: CHAPTER 54 OF THE VETERANS FOR PEACE NEEDS YOU

We are offering to help represent veterans who have been exposed to depleted uranium radiation and are suffering from cancer or other side effects. Our chapter has expertise in medical, legal and administrative law.

We as a chapter of the VFP have started a program and done research to develop a brief for presentation to the VA rating board to obtain service connection disability for the affected veteran. Gulf war I and II vets are encouraged to get in touch with us for information on this project.

A. I. Holtz, MD, FAAP has had seven years experience on the rating board in the Los Angeles office.

PLEASE CONTACT US WITH ANY QUESTIONS: vfpsb@vfpsb.org

SEE ALSO THESE WEBSITES:

http://www.veteransforpeaceny.org/vfpduvets.htm

Apparently this is due to it being a heavy metal and is independent of whatever damage it causes due to radioactivity.