Site 300 is a contaminated Toxic site on the Superfund National Priorities List due to contamination of groundwater and tonnage of materials deposited there, such as Depleted Uranium, beryllium, and tritium. Some of these radioactive substances sit in unlined pits. There are extensive plumes of various substances with fifty-seven separate contaminant release areas that exist including soil and water both above and below the ground.
According to Bob Sarvey, the Tracy City Council voted in April to have Livermore Laboratory remove the piles of highly enriched uranium as well as plutonium and tritium that are sitting in unlined pits, but Livermore Lab has failed to do so. And to add insult to injury? Livermore Lab, which is run and staffed by the University of California, also applied to increase the amount of toxic waste it can store at Site 300 from 3,300 gallons to 5,500 gallons, according to Department of Toxic Substances Control permit project manager Andrew Berna-Hicks.
Last but certainly not least, Site 300 is one of the sites that the Department of Homeland Security is considering to run a Bio-Safety Level 4, anti-biological laboratory. Level 4 labs test and store incurable fatal diseases such as the Ebola virus and mad cow disease.
Again, the question must be asked, why in the world would anyone want to even consider doing work on fatal and incurable diseases so close to seven million people?
As far as health affects caused by DU radiation "testing" goes, anecdotal reports from Tracy citizens suggest an inordinately high number of cancers in their area including cancerous brain tumors and mysterious illnesses. Journalist Chris Bollyn interviewed Marion Fulk, former Livermore Laboratory scientist and skin cancer survivor, who told him that as a result of tritium pollution from the National Lab, children born in Livermore are 6 times more likely to have skin cancer than other children.
Not surprisingly, looking at the health of the overall San Francisco Greater Bay area, one notes that the incidences of cancer are higher when compared to the state average. From the years 1988 to 2002, the Greater San Francisco Bay area experienced an annual rate of 468.9 cancers per 100,000 people, which is substantially higher than the state of California's 2003 cancer incidence rate of 425.1 per 100,000 residents.
Here in the US, cancer is the leading cause of disease-related deaths in children. The fetus and infant are particularly sensitive to radioactive toxins. Every year, about 12,400 children and teens under the age of 20 are diagnosed with cancer each year, and approximately 2,300 of those children will die. Will our children be next? Only time will tell as many medical reports document a 5-10 year lag between radiation exposure and the onset of childhood cancer.
Another disorder linked to Depleted Uranium poisoning in soldiers from both Gulf Wars is asthma. A chronic lung disease characterized by persistent cough and wheeze, incidences of asthma have been steadily increasing. The most common serious chronic disease of America's children, more than 5 percent of the U.S. population or nearly five million children younger than 18 years - are affected by this disorder. Asthma is the cause of nearly three million doctor's visits and 200,000 hospitalizations each year. In children ages 5-14 years, the rate of death from asthma almost doubled between 1980 and 1993.
If you are not living in California and don't love anyone who is, by now you may be thinking, Well that really is too bad (and thank God I don't live anywhere near there)! Even for those of us who don't live on the west coast, however, it's still a good idea to think twice before we take our next breath. This past year there was news out of the UK that suggest that the radioactivity from Site 300 and the poison dust of other radioactive" test" sites throughout the US is far closer to home than we may realize.
According to research released in February, 2006 out of England, nine days after the March, 2003 "Shock and Awe" bombing of Baghdad in which bombs containing Depleted Uranium were exploded, radioactivity was found in air filters within the United Kingdom, up to 2,500 miles away.
This was proof positive that this radioactive poison travels great distances. In other words, the explosive fire of tanks, guns, missiles launched and bombs dropped does not stay in a contained little cloud over the so-called "enemy" target borders. According to Moret, "After forming microscopic and submicroscopic insoluble Uranium oxide particles on the battlefield, they remain suspended in air and travel around the earth as a radioactive component of atmospheric dust, contaminating the environment, indiscriminately killing, maiming and causing disease in all living things where rain, snow and moisture remove it from the atmosphere."
Who would have ever thought that radioactive weaponry that we believed was intended for use on the battlefield upon America's "enemies" would ever be used in our own country, for so many years? How many Americans realize that their very next breath - or that of their children's - may very well contain invisible, microscopic-sized toxic radioactive particles so minute as to be considered a gas? Sadly, people do not know this when they inhale or ingest these invisible particles - as the effects of one tiny Uranium-238 particle can take years to manifest symptoms inside our bodies.
In testimony provided to the UN, International Humanitarian Lawyer Karen Parker, J.D., stated, "there is evidence that the ceramic form of uranium dioxide, made during weapons explosions or fires, could stay in the body as long as 20 years. Depleted uranium was detected eight years after the end of the war in the urine of US, UK and Canadian Gulf War veterans and in that of Iraqi civilians."
Proof abounds, however, dating back all the way back from 1943 that shows our military leaders knew about the "advantages" - and their capability - of conducting radioactive gas warfare upon citizens.
In a memo declassified in 1974 written to James B. Conant and Brigadier General L. R. Groves from: Drs. Conant, Compton, and Urey, War Department United States Engineer Office Manhattan District, Oak Ridge Tennessee on October 30, 1943, that proves that they knew that uranium could be used "As a gas warfare instrument the material would be ground into particles of microscopic size to form dust and smoke and distributed by a ground-fired projectile, land vehicles, or aerial bombs. In this form it would be inhaled by personnel. The amount necessary to cause death to a person inhaling the material is extremely small. It has been estimated that one millionth of a gram accumulating in a person's body would be fatal. There are no known methods of treatment for such a casualty."
The report states that two factors appear to increase the effectiveness of radioactive dust or smoke as a weapon. These are: (1) It cannot be detected by the senses; (2) It can be distributed in a dust or smoke form so finely powdered that it will permeate a standard gas mask filter in quantities large enough to be extremely damaging.
Cathy Garger is a freelance writer, public speaker, activist, and a certified personal coach who specializes in Uranium weapons. Living in the shadow of the national District of Crime, Cathy is constantly nauseated by the stench emanating from the nation's capital during the Washington, DC, federal work week.
Follow the links at the top of the article (www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_23826.shtml and tinyurl) to find even more links to take action against this barbarity. Current activities include lawsuits to stop testing, lobbying of the Tracy City Council which meets on February 6th, 2007 and other actions planned by TriValley CARES posted at http://haltdutesting.blogspot.com.
We need to outlaw the use of weaponized depleted uranium. Use of this substance should constitute a felony crime against humanity and all living things!
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Tim Riley (7 articles, 5 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 134 comments)
on Friday, February 2, 2007 at 3:57:54 PM
Rense.con the Jeff Rense Show has a picture I supplied for a show of a deadly DU Bomb going off way back in 1961. The Rense address is: http://rense.com/general75/hyd.htm
Those "people" at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab really have been detonating these radioactive bombs for about 50 years. I suspect that is why the San Francisco Bay Area has such bad health statistics among 7 Million people. San Francisco needs everybody's help, those people at Livermore really are trying to kill us.
http://rense.com/general75/hyd.htm http://rense.com/general75/lvermore.htm
This is an overwhelming indictment of the genocidal (or rather, omnicidal) nature and intent of our government. The people who can direct the commission of such atrocities are the most evil psychopaths in history!
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Hajja Romi (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments)
on Friday, February 2, 2007 at 9:05:37 PM
What is it going to take before the people of this country get off of their hamster wheels and DO SOMETHING!!
DO something to stop the insane puppet governmental system hijacked by psychotic multinational elites who don't give a rat's behind if we live or die.
Did you hear that America?
The government that you trust and defend doesn't care about your life or your children's lives. ALL they care about is their profit margins that allow them to sit in their penthouse offices and look down on the rest of us slaves while we run around making them richer.
They call the shots, send our children to die for their corporate foreign policy, so that they can control countries and natural resources, and play with their toys that go BOOM, and kill people!
They order the manufacturing of nuclear weaponry such as Depleted Uranium, a misnomer, because it isn't depleted at all. These weapons are DEADLY!! They kill by eating your body up from the inside out, and they are not only manufacturing them here in the US, they are testing them...EXPLODING THEM RIGHT HERE IN OUR BACK YARD!!
All of this...while they go to their dinners and luncheons and laugh about the death and destruction, and the fact that they are getting away with it while a nation of citizens sit paralyzed, brainwashed, and too fearful to hold them accountable. They just have to claim God talks to them, say a prayer or two, hug a couple of babies, and call it christianity...ahhh...then they are forgiven for all, and now you can sleep at night. Just don't go outside and breathe the air, drink or swim in the water, eat the food grown from the earth contaminated by it, play in the grass covered by it, play in the sand at the beach, etc..
This is happening to ALL of us...NOT just in the Middle East, where millions of innocent men, women, and children have lost their lives, and many more will live with the horrors and deformities that will continue destroying and mutating DNA for a very long time!
It's happening to the people in Tracy, SanFrancisco, Berkley, California, Nevada, and ALL of the rest of us, everywhere, because it does not just stay in one place.
If you needed a reason to act, well, this is it!
The time is NOW!!
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Elaine Nichols (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments)
on Friday, February 2, 2007 at 10:01:28 PM
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