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| Some woman keeps telling me I have won 1.2 million Euros, but I really don't see
how. If it is true, although I am somewhat sceptical, the drinks are all on me
down at the floating bar. I admit that I got fed up of receiving her emails so I
answered and asked how much it is gonna cost me to claim my "winnings". I'll let
you know what she replies. Should be good for a laugh.
Firebird
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| <SPLASH> (the sound of Firebird hitting the water after getting tossed
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| In article <25146-4394386D-1642@storefull-3258.bay.webtv.net>,
BigDaddysDead@webtv.net (Scar Face) wrote:
> <SPLASH> (the sound of Firebird hitting the water after getting tossed
> from Big Daddy's floating bar)
http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtbl...ounterintel.php
I sometimes learn the most interesting things about the US government by keeping
track of what sites visit Uncommon Thought. One of the more interesting to date
has been the US Space Command (USSPACECOM). Who would have thunk that we have
such a thing? But today I got a hit from yet another government office I didn't
know existed - the Department of Defense Counterintelligence Field Activity
(CIFA).
CIFA apparently has no publicly accessible website, but that doesn't mean there
is no information. While I can't find a direct link, I suspect that CIFA
operates out of the Defense Security Service under its Counterintelligence Unit
- but I could be wrong. According to a September 2003Report to Congress on The
Role of the Department of Defense in Supporting Homeland Security, one of the
restructurings of the Department of Defense was to add an Under Secretary of
Defense for Intelligence. According to the report:
*splash*
The Sound of American Freedom as it goes right over Niagra Falls.
http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/...an-freedom.html
Alan
"Can't you see we're still here,
Can't you see we're still here,
Singing loud; Singing clear,
We shall not go under,
We're still here."
Nemesis Peace Centre
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Abuse of Women and Children
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Nemesis News
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Absolute Anarchy
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http://www.john-lennon.com/
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| In article <memo.20051205133027.612L@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk>,
alan@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk (Alan) wrote:
> In article <25146-4394386D-1642@storefull-3258.bay.webtv.net>,
> BigDaddysDead@webtv.net (Scar Face) wrote:
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> http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtbl...ounterintel.php
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> *splash*
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> The Sound of American Freedom as it goes right over Niagara Falls.
>
> http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/...an-freedom.html
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=4637
The Emergence of the Homeland Security State
by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt
Since ancient Rome, imperial republics have invariably felt a tension between
cherished republican practices at home and distinctly unrepublican ones abroad;
or put another way, if imperial practices spread far enough beyond the
republic's borders and gain enough traction out there in the imperium, sooner or
later they also make the reverse journey home, and then you have a crisis in –
or simply the destruction of – the republic itself. The urge of the Bush
administration to bring versions of the methods it's applying abroad back home
is already palpable; the urge to free the President, as "commander-in-chief" in
the "war on terror," from all the old fetters, those boring, restraining checks
and balances, those inconvenient liberties won by Americans – so constraining,
so troublesome to deal with – is equally palpable.
Back in the Watergate era, we had a would-be imperial president, Richard M.
Nixon, who provoked a constitutional crisis. Actually, it amounted to a near
constitutional coup d'état – and if you don't believe me, check out The Time of
Illusion, Jonathan Schell's classic work on the subject. Now, it seems, we're in
Watergate II, but without a Democratic Congress, a critical media, or a powerful
antiwar movement (yet). All we have at the moment is the constitutional crisis
part of the equation, various simmering scandals, a catastrophic war abroad, and
an ever more powerful military-industrial-security complex at home. And we're
not just talking urges here, we're talking acts. We're talking programs. We're
talking the continual blurring of distinctions between the domestic and the
foreign, the civilian and the military, between liberties at home and "securing
the Homeland." The problem is, we can only guess at the extent of that
"securing" process because so much is clearly happening just beyond our sight
(or oversight).
Below, in the first of a two-part series, Nick Turse, who follows the
military-corporate complex regularly for Tomdispatch, offers as solid a sense as
we are likely to get right now of the outlines of the new Homeland Security
State being created within the bounds of the old republic. Let's face it, this
is frightening stuff, but too important not to read.
Bringing It All Back Home:
The Emergence of the Homeland Security State
By Nick Turse
Part I: The Military Half
If you're reading this on the Internet, the FBI may be spying on you at this
very moment.
Under provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the Department of Justice has been
collecting e-mail and IP (a computer's unique numeric identifier) addresses,
without a warrant, using trap-and-trace surveillance devices ("pen-traps"). Now,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Justice's principal investigative arm, may
be monitoring the web-surfacing habits of Internet users – also without a search
warrant – that is, spying on you with no probable cause whatsoever.
In the wake of September 11, 2001, with the announcement of a potentially
never-ending "war on terror" and in the name of "national security," the Bush
administration embarked on a global campaign that left in its wake two
war-ravaged states (with up to one hundred thousand civilian dead in just one of
them); an offshore "archipelago of injustice" replete with "ghost jails" and a
seemingly endless series of cases of torture, abuse, and the cold-blooded murder
of prisoners. That was abroad. In the U.S., too, things have changed as America
became "the Homeland" and an already powerful and bloated national security
state developed a civilian corollary fed by fear-mongering, partisan politics,
and an insatiable desire for governmental power, turf, and budget.
A host of disturbing and mutually-reinforcing patterns have emerged in the
resulting new Homeland Security State – among them: a virtually unopposed
increase in the intrusion of military, intelligence, and "security" agencies
into the civilian sector of American society; federal abridgment of basic
rights; denials of civil liberties on flimsy or previously illegal premises;
warrantless sneak-and-peak searches; the wholesale undermining of privacy
safeguards (including government access to library circulation records, bank
records, and records of internet activity); the greater empowerment of secret
intelligence courts (like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court) that
threaten civil liberties; and heavy-handed federal and local law enforcement
tactics designed to chill, squelch, or silence dissent.
While it's true that most Americans have yet to feel the brunt of such policies,
select groups, including Muslims, Arab immigrants, Arab-Americans, and antiwar
protesters, have served as test subjects for a potential Homeland Security
juggernaut that, if not stopped, will only expand.
The Military Brings It All Back Home
Over the past few years we've become familiar with General John Abizaid's
Central Command (CENTCOM) whose "areas of responsibility" (AORs) stretch from
the Horn of Africa to Central Asia, including, of course, the Iraq war zone.
Like CENTCOM, the U.S. has other commands that blanket the rest of the world,
including the Pacific Command (PACCOM, established in 1947) and the European
Command (EURCOM, established in 1952). In 2002, however, the Pentagon broke new
command ground by deciding, after a fashion, to bring war to the Homeland. It
established the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) whose AOR is "America's
homefront."
NORTHCOM is much more forthright about what it supposedly doesn't do than what
it actually does. Its website repeatedly, in many forms, notes that NORTHCOM is
not a police auxiliary and that the Reconstruction-era Posse Comitatus Act
prevents the military from meddling much in domestic affairs. Despite this,
NORTHCOM readily, if somewhat vaguely, admits to "a cooperative relationship
with federal agencies" and "information-sharing" among organizations. NORTHCOM's
commander General Ralph "Ed" Eberhart, who, the Wall Street Journal notes, is
the "first general since the Civil War with operational authority exclusively
over military forces within the U.S," was even more blunt when he told PBS's
Newshour "[W]e are not going to be out there spying on people[, but] we get
information from people who do."
Even putting NORTHCOM aside, the military has recently been creeping into
civilian life in all sorts of ways. Back in 2003, for instance, Torch Concepts,
an Army sub-contractor, was given JetBlue's entire 5.1 million passenger
database, without the knowledge or consent of those on the list, for data-mining
– a blatant breach of civilian privacy that the Army nonetheless judged not to
violate the federal Privacy Act. Then, in 2004, Army intelligence agents were
caught illegally investigating civilians at a conference on Islam at the
University of Texas law school in Austin.
And just recently, on the very same day the Washington Post reported that "the
Pentagon… [has] created a new espionage arm and is reinterpreting U.S. law to
give Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broad authority over clandestine
operations abroad," the New York Times reported that, as part of the
"extraordinary army of 13,000 troops, police officers and federal agents
marshaled to secure the [Presidential] inauguration," the Pentagon had deployed
"super-secret commandos… with state-of-the-art weaponry" in the nation's
capitol. This was done under government directives that undercut the Posse
Comitatus Act of 1878. According to the Times, the black-ops cadre, based out at
the ultra-secretive Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North
Carolina, is operating under "a secret counterterrorism program code-named Power
Geyser," a program just recently brought to light in Code Names, a new book by a
former intelligence analyst for the Army, William M. Arkin, who says that the
"special-mission units [are being used] in extra-legal missions…in the United
States" on the authority of the Department of Defense's Joint Staff and with the
support of the DoD's Special Operations Command and NORTHCOM.
Courtesy of the New Yorker's Seymour Hersh, we've known for some time of the
creation of "a secret unit that was given advance approval to kill or capture
and interrogate 'high-value' suspects…" in the name of the War on Terror. Some
of us may have even known that since 1989, in the name of the War on Drugs,
there has been a multi-service command, (comprised of approximately 160
soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen and Department of Defense operatives) known
as Joint Task Force Six (JTF-6), providing "support to federal, regional, state
and local law enforcement agencies throughout the continental United States."
Now, we know as well that there are an unknown number of commando squads
operating in the U.S. – in the name of the war at home. Just how many and
exactly what they may up to we cannot know for sure since spokespersons for the
relevant Army commands refuse to offer comment and Pentagon spokesman Bryan
Whitman will only say that "At any given time, there are a number of classified
programs across the government" and that Power Geyser "may or may not exist."
The emergence of an American Homeland Security State has allowed the Army to
fundamentally alter its historic role, transforming what was once illegal and
then exceptional – deploying Federal troops in support of (or acting as)
civilian law enforcement agencies – into standard operating procedure. But the
Army is not alone in its homefront meddling. While the Army was thwarted in its
attempt to strong-arm university of Texas officials into releasing a videotape
of their conference on Islam, the Navy used arm-twisting to greater effect on a
domestic government agency. The Wall Street Journal reports that, in 2003, the
Office of Naval Intelligence badgered the U.S. Customs Service to hand over its
database on maritime trade. At first, the Customs Service resisted the Navy's
efforts, but in the post-9/11 atmosphere, like other agencies on the civil side
of the ledger, it soon caved to military pressure. In an ingenuous message sent
to the Wall Street Journal, the commissioner of the Department of Homeland
Security's Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, Robert C. Bonner, excused
handing over the civilian database by stating that he had received "Navy
assurances that the information won't be abused."
While the Army, Navy, and NORTHCOM naturally profess to having no nefarious
intent in their recent civil-side forays, history suggests wariness on the
subject. After all, the pre-Homeland-Security military already had a long
history of illegal activity and illegal domestic spying (much of which came to
light in the late 1960s and early 1970s) – and never suffered social stigma, let
alone effectual legal or institutional consequences for its repeated
transgressions.
NORTHCOM now proudly claims that it has "a cooperative relationship with federal
agencies working to prevent terrorism." So you might wonder: Just which other
"federal agencies" does NORTHCOM – which shouldn't be sharing information about
American civilians with anyone – share information with? The problem is, the
range of choices in the world of American intelligence alone is staggering. If
you've read (or read about) the 9/11 Commission Report, you may have seen the
now almost iconic figure of 15 military and civilian intelligence agencies
bandied about. That in itself may seem a startling total for the nation's
intelligence operations, but, in addition to the CIA, DIA, NSA, FBI and others
in the "big 15" of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), there exist a whole
host of shadowy, half-known, and little understood, if well-acronymed,
intelligence/military/security-related offices, agencies, advisory
organizations, and committees such as the Counterintelligence Field Activity
(CIFA), the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO), the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) and the President's Intelligence
Oversight Board (IOB); the Department of Defense's own domestic cop corps, the
Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA); and the Intelligence's Community's
internal watchdog, the Defense Security Service (DSS).
Think of these various arms of intelligence and the military as the essential
cast of characters in our bureaucratically proliferating Homeland Security State
where everybody, it seems, is eager to get in on the act. Nowhere is this more
apparent than in the operations center of the Department of Homeland Security.
In its horse-shoe shaped war-room, the "FBI, the CIA, the Secret Service, and 33
other federal agencies each has its own workstation. And so do the police
departments of New York, Los Angeles, Washington and six other major cities." In
the operations center, large signs on walls and doors command: "Our Mission: To
Share Information"; and, to facilitate this, in its offices local police
officers sit just "a step or two away from the CIA and FBI operatives who are
downloading the latest intelligence coming into those agencies." With all
previous lines between domestic and foreign, local and federal spying, policing,
and governmental oversight now blurring, this (according to outgoing Homeland
Security Secretary Tom Ridge) is "the new model of federalism" in action.
From the military to local governments, from ostensibly civilian federal
agencies to obscure counter-intelligence organizations, they're all on the make,
creating interagency alliances, setting up new programs, expanding their powers,
gearing up operations and/or creating "Big Brother" technologies to more
effectively monitor civilians, chill dissent, and bring the war back home. Right
now, nothing is closer to the heart of Homeland Security State officials (and to
their budgetary plans) than that old standby of dictatorships and oppressive
regimes worldwide, surveillance – by and of the Homeland population. In fact,
almost every day, new examples of ever-hopeful surveillance programs pop up. Of
course, as yet, we only have clues to the well-classified larger Homeland
surveillance picture, but even what we do know of the growing public face of
surveillance in America should cause some eyes to roll. Here's a brief overview
of just a few of the less publicized, but mostly public, attempts to ramp up the
eye-power of the Homeland Security State.
Saying NCIX
A little known member of the alphabet soup of federal agencies is the Office of
the National Counterintelligence Executive (more familiarly known by the
unpronounceable acronym NCIX) – an organization whose main goal is "to improve
the performance of the counterintelligence (CI) community in identifying,
assessing, prioritizing and countering intelligence threats to the United
States." To accomplish this task, NCIX now offers that ultimate necessity for
Homeland security, downloadable "counterintelligence and security awareness
posters." One features the text of the First Amendment to the Constitution
("…Congress shall make no law… prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech…") and the likeness of Thomas Jefferson, but
with a new addendum which reads: "American freedom includes a responsibility to
protect U.S. security – leaking sensitive information erodes this freedom."
Another NCIX poster might come straight out of the old Soviet East Germany:
"America's Security is Your Responsibility. Observe and Report." While NCIX is
an obscure agency, its decision to improve on the First Amendment and a
fundamental American freedom is indicative of where our Homeland Security State
is heading; and the admonition to "Observe and Report" catches its spirit
exactly.
Every Wo/Man a G-Man
Prior to the Republican National Convention in New York City, the Federal Bureau
of Investigation sent agents across the country in what was widely seen as a
blatant attempt to harass, intimidate, and frighten potential protesters. The
FBI, however, countered by professing that "we have always followed the rules,
sensitive to Americans' constitutional rights to free speech and assembly,
always drawing the line between lawfully protected speech and illegal activity."
By the fall of 2004, however, FBI spokespeople had moved on from such anodyne
reassurances and, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security, the
bureau was launching its "October Plan." According to a CBS news report, this
program consisted of "aggressive – even obvious – surveillance techniques to be
used on… people suspected of being terrorist sympathizers, but who have not
committed a crime" while "[o]ther 'persons of interest,' including their family
members, m[ight] also be brought in for questioning…"
While harassing citizens at home, the FBI, which can't set up a successful
internal computer system of its own (despite squandering at least $170 million
on the project), began dabbling in overseas e-censorship, by confiscating
servers in the United Kingdom from Indymedia, the activist media network website
"with apparently no explanation." As Ward Harkavy reported in the Village Voice,
"The network of activists has not been accused of breaking any laws. But all of
the material actually on some of its key servers and hard disks was seized."
More recently, the creator of an open-source tool designed to help internet
security experts scan networks, services, and applications says he's been
"pressured" by the FBI for copies of the web server log that hosts his website.
In addition to intimidation tactics and tech-centric activities, the FBI has
apparently been using Joint Terrorism Task Forces (teams of state and local law
enforcement officers, FBI and other federal agents) as well as local police to
conduct "political surveillance" of environmental activists as well as anti-war
and religious-based protest groups. The bureau is also eager to farm out such
work to ordinary Americans and has been calling on the public to do some
old-fashioned peeping through the blinds, just in case the neighbors are up to
"certain kinds of activities [that] indicate terrorist plans that are in the
works."
Into the Wild Blue Yonder
Strange as it may seem, the Air Force has also gotten into the local
surveillance act with an "Eagle Eyes" anti-terrorism initiative which "enlists"
average citizens in the "war on terror." The Eagle Eyes' website tells viewers:
"You and your family are encouraged to learn the categories of suspicious
behavior" and it exhorts the public to drop a dime to "a network of local,
24-hour phone numbers… whenever a suspicious activity is observed." Just what,
then, constitutes "suspicious activity"? Well, among activities worth alerting
the flying eagles to, there's the use of cameras (either still or video), note
taking of any sort, making annotations on maps, or using binoculars
(birdwatchers beware!). And what other patterns of behavior does the Air Force
think should send you running to the phone? A surefire indicator of terrorists
afoot: "Suspicious persons out of place…. People who don't seem to belong in the
workplace, neighborhood, business establishment, or anywhere else." Just ponder
that one for a moment – and, if you ever get lost, be afraid, very afraid…
While the Air Force does grudgingly admit that "this category is hard to
define," it offers a classic you-know-it-when-you-see-it definition for calling
your local eagle: "The point is that people know what looks right and what
doesn't look right in their neighborhoods, office spaces, commutes [sic], etc,
and if a person just doesn't seem like he or she belongs…" An… ahem… urban
looking youth in a suburban white community? Call it in! A crusty punk near Wall
Street? Drop a dime! A woman near the White House wearing an anti-war t-shirt.
Well, that's an out-of-category no-brainer!
And, in fact, much of this has already begun to come true. After all,
"suspicious persons out of place" now do get arrested in the new Homeland
Security State for such offenses as wearing anti-Bush t-shirts, carrying
anti-Bush signs or just heckling the president. Today, even displaying an
anti-Bush sticker is, in the words of the Secret Service, apparently "borderline
terrorism." Holding a sign that reads, "This war is Bushit," warrants a citation
from the cops and, as an eleven year old boy found out, the sheriff might come
calling on you if you utter "anti-American" statements – while parents may be
questioned by law enforcement officials to ascertain if they're teaching
"anti-American values" at home.
Nick Turse is a doctoral candidate at the Center for the History & Ethics of
Public Health in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He
writes for the Village Voice and regularly for Tomdispatch on the
military-corporate complex.
Copyright 2005 Nick Turse
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=4637
Yaknow Big Daddy, I somehow think that both me and Spidey will be giving that
drink a raincheck for at least the next four years.
*snigger*
Lord Cerne Abbas
Humpty Dumpty Bush fell off the Iraq wall.
Humpty Dumpty Bush had a big fall.
All his spin doctors and all the President's men
couldn't put Humpty Dumpty Bush together again.
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| In article <25146-4394386D-1642@storefull-3258.bay.webtv.net>,
BigDaddysDead@webtv.net (Scar Face) wrote:
> <SPLASH> (the sound of Firebird hitting the water after getting tossed
> from Big Daddy's floating bar)
http://www.coastalpost.com/06/01/03.html
At an April press conference, a group of New York Army National Guard vets
raised their hands when asked if they have health problems. The soldiers, all
from the 442nd Military Police Company, are complaining of headaches and fatigue
after what they think is exposure to depleted uranium during their recent tour
in Iraq.
"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign
policy." - Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United
States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam"
Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and
countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating
war in world history. But since 1991, the US has staged four nuclear wars using
depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the US government
definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and
Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.
And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs
reported this week to the American Free Press that "Gulf-era veterans" now on
medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded
in Iraq in that same 14-year period.
This week the American Free Press dropped a "dirty bomb" on the Pentagon by
reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 US
military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of
the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.
Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines and depleted uranium (DU) only,
this is strong evidence for researchers and scientists working on this issue,
that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Vaccines are not known to
cause cancer. One of the first published researchers on Gulf War Syndrome, who
also served in 1991 in Iraq, Dr. Andras KorŽnyi-Both, is in agreement with
Barbara Goodno from the Department of Defense's Deployment Health Support
Directorate, that in this war soldiers were not exposed to chemicals,
pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this time to confuse the issue.
This powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the cover-up perpetrated by the
Pentagon and three presidential administrations ever since DU was first used in
1991 in the Persian Gulf War. Fourteen years after the introduction of DU on the
battlefield in 1991, the long-term effects have revealed that DU is a death
sentence and very nasty stuff.
Scientists studying the biological effects of uranium in the 1960s reported that
it targets the DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired from the
Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project,
interprets the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war as
"spectacular" and a matter of concern."
This evidence shows that of the three effects which DU has on biological systems
- radiation, chemical and particulate - the particulate effect from nano-size
particles is the most dominant one immediately after exposure and targets the
Master Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains why DU causes a myriad
of diseases which are difficult to define.
In simple words, DU "trashes the body." When asked if the main purpose for using
it was for destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more specific: "I
would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people."
Soldiers developing malignancies so quickly since 2003 can be expected to
develop multiple cancers from independent causes. This phenomenon has been
reported by doctors in hospitals treating civilians following NATO bombing with
DU in Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the US military invasion of Iraq using DU for
the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that this phenomenon of multiple
malignancies from unrelated causes has been unknown until now and is a new
syndrome associated with internal DU exposure.
Just 467 US personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War in
1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead,
and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. This astounding
number of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of those soldiers
who served now have medical problems.
The number of disabled vets reported up to 2000 has been increasing by 43,000
every year. Brad Flohr of the Department of Veterans Affairs told American Free
Press that he believes there are more disabled vets now than even after World
War II.
They brought it home
Not only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off the battlefields, but they
brought it home. DU in the semen of soldiers internally contaminated their
wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some women in their 20s and 30s who
were sexual partners of exposed soldiers developed endometriosis and were forced
to have hysterectomies because of health problems.
In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had all had
normal babies before the Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war babies were born
with severe birth defects. They were born with missing legs, arms, organs or
eyes or had immune system and blood diseases. In some veterans' families now,
the only normal or healthy members of the family are the children born before
the war.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has stated that they do not keep records of
birth defects occurring in families of veterans.
How did they hide it?
Before a new weapons system can be used, it must be fully tested. The blueprint
for depleted uranium weapons is a 1943 declassified document from the Manhattan
Project.
Harvard President and physicist James B. Conant, who developed poison gas in
World War I, was brought into the Manhattan Project by the father of
presidential candidate John Kerry. Kerry's father served at a high level in the
Manhattan Project and was a CIA agent.
Conant was chair of the S-1 Poison Gas Committee, which recommended developing
poison gas weapons from the radioactive trash of the atomic bomb project in
World War II. At that time, it was known that radioactive materials dispersed in
bombs from the air, from land vehicles or on the battlefield produced very fine
radioactive dust which would penetrate all protective clothing, any gas mask or
filter or the skin. By contaminating the lungs and blood, it could kill or cause
illness very quickly.
They also recommended it as a permanent terrain contaminant, which could be used
to destroy populations by contaminating water supplies and agricultural land
with the radioactive dust.
The first DU weapons system was developed for the Navy in 1968, and DU weapons
were given to and used by Israel in 1973 under US supervision in the Yom Kippur
war against the Arabs.
The Phalanx weapons system, using DU, was tested on the USS Bigelow out of
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in 1977, and DU weapons have been sold by the US to
29 countries.
Military research report summaries detail the testing of DU from 1974-1999 at
military testing grounds, bombing and gunnery ranges and at civilian labs under
contract. Today 42 states are contaminated with DU from manufacture, testing and
deployment.
Women living around these facilities have reported increases in endometriosis,
birth defects in babies, leukemia in children and cancers and other diseases in
adults. Thousands of tons of DU weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four
bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the
fastest growing leukemia cluster in the US over the past decade. The military
denies that DU is the cause.
The medical profession has been active in the cover-up - just as they were in
hiding the effects from the American public - of low level radiation from
atmospheric testing and nuclear power plants. A medical doctor in Northern
California reported being trained by the Pentagon with other doctors, months
before the 2003 war started, to diagnose and treat soldiers returning from the
2003 war for mental problems only. Medical professionals in hospitals and
facilities treating returning soldiers were threatened with $10,000 fines if
they talked about the soldiers or their medical problems. They were also
threatened with jail.
Reporters have also been prevented access to more than 14,000 medically
evacuated soldiers flown nightly since the 2003 war in C-150s from Germany who
are brought to Walter Reed Hospital near Washington, DC
Dr. Robert Gould, former president of the Bay Area chapter of Physicians for
Social Responsibility (PSR), has contacted three medical doctors since February
2004, after I had been invited to speak about DU. Dr. Katharine Thomasson,
president of the Oregon chapter of the PSR, informed me that Dr. Gould had
contacted her and tried to convince her to cancel her invitation for me to speak
about DU at Portland State university on April 12. Although I was able to do a
presentation, Dr. Thomasson told me I could only talk about DU in Oregon "and
nothing overseas. nothing political."
Dr. Gould also contacted and discouraged Dr. Ross Wilcox in Toronto, Canada,
from inviting me to speak to Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), the Canadian
equivalent of PSR, several months later. When that didn't work, he contacted Dr.
Allan Connoly, the Canadian national president of PGS, who was able to cancel my
invitation and nearly succeeded in preventing Dr. Wilcox, his own member, from
showing photos and presenting details on civilians suffering from DU exposure
and cancer provided to him by doctors in southern Iraq.
Dr. Janette Sherman, a former and long-standing member of PSR, reported that she
finally quit some time after being invited to lunch by a new PSR executive
administrator. After the woman had pumped Dr. Sherman for information all
through lunch about her position on key issues, the woman informed Dr. Sherman
that her last job had been with the CIA.
How was the truth about DU hidden from military personnel serving in successive
DU wars? Before his tragic death, Sen. Paul Wellstone informed Joyce Riley,
R.N., B.S.N., executive director of the American Gulf War Veterans Association,
that 95 percent of Gulf War veterans had been recycled out of the military by
1995. Any of those continuing in military service were isolated from each other,
preventing critical information being transferred to new troops. The "next DU
war" had already been planned, and those planning it wanted "no skunk at the
garden party."
The US has a dirty (DU) little (CIA) secret
A new book just published at the American Free Press by Michael Collins Piper,
"The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How America's Neo-Conservative
Trotskyites Came to Power and Orchestrated the War Against Iraq as the First
Step in Their Drive for Global Empire," details the early plans for a war
against the Arab world by Henry Kissinger and the neo-cons in the late 1960s and
early 1970s. That just happens to coincide with getting the DU "show on the
road" and the oil crisis in the Middle East, which caused concern not only to
President Nixon. The British had been plotting and scheming for control of the
oil in Iraq for decades since first using poison gas on the Iraqis and Kurds in
1912.
The book details the creation of the neo-cons by their "godfather" and Trotsky
lover Irving Kristol, who pushed for a "war against terrorism" long before 9/11
and was lavishly funded for years by the CIA. His son, William Kristol, is one
of the most influential men in the United States.
Both are public relations men for the Israeli lobby's neo-conservative network,
with strong ties to Rupert Murdoch. Kissinger also has ties to this network and
the Carlyle Group, who, one could say, have facilitated these homicidal wars
beginning from the time former President Bush took office. It would be easy to
say that we are recycling World Wars I and II, with the same faces.
When I asked Vietnam Special Ops Green Beret Capt. John McCarthy, who could have
devised this omnicidal plan to use DU to destroy the genetic code and genetic
future of large populations of Arabs and Moslems in the Middle East and Central
Asia - just coincidentally the areas where most of the world's oil deposits are
located - he replied: "It has all the handprints of Henry Kissinger."
In Zbignew Brzezinski's book "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its
Geostrategic Imperatives," the map of the Eurasian chessboard includes four
regions strategic to US foreign policy. The "South" region corresponds precisely
to the regions now contaminated permanently with radiation from US bombs,
missiles and bullets made with thousands of tons of DU.
A Japanese professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has calculated that 800 tons of DU is the
atomicity equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The US has used more DU since
1991 than the atomicity equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs. Four nuclear wars
indeed, and 10 times the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere from
atmospheric testing!
No wonder our soldiers, their families and the people of the Middle East,
Yugoslavia and Central Asia are sick. But as Henry Kissinger said after Vietnam
when our soldiers came home ill from Agent Orange, "Military men are just dumb
stupid animals to be used for foreign policy."
Unfortunately, more and more of those soldiers are men and women with brown
skin. And unfortunately, the DU radioactive dust will be carried around the
world and deposited in our environments just as the "smog of war" from the 1991
Gulf War was found in deposits in South America, the Himalayas and Hawaii.
In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release that
global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do they know
that they aren't telling us? I know that depleted uranium is a death sentence.
For all of us. We will all die in silent ways.
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Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who has worked around the world on radiation
issues, educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments and Congress and
other officials. She became a whistleblower in 1991 at the Livermore Nuclear
Weapons Lab after experiencing major science fraud on the Yucca Mountain
Project. An environmental commissioner in the City of Berkeley, she can be
reached at leurenmoret@yahoo.com.
http://www.coastalpost.com/06/01/03.html
Fascinating how geoscientists all seem to know what is going on, don't you
think?
Alan
"Can't you see we're still here,
Can't you see we're still here,
Singing loud; Singing clear,
We shall not go under,
We're still here."
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