Imagine - if you can - not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken.
And pretend that the concept of responsibility is unknown to you, except as a burden others seem to accept without question, like gullible fools.
From THE PSYCHOPATH - The Mask of Sanity www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath.htm
Almost any American over 5 years of age is aware that the United States is involved in war. Most, if asked the exact number of wars in which we are currently engaged, will say that two wars are underway. But how many Americans actually realize that greater than two nations are being bombarded by the United States with uranium weapons, illegal under international law?
Sometimes subtle wars are waged that go unreported and hidden from public view. These operations can even be domestic - that is, they do not always necessarily involve foreign enemies. Furthermore, such activities can go on indefinitely, and may be covered up under various project names, often with hidden agendas, carried out just under the radar, thus keeping the public in the dark for many years.
The two wars that most Americans can tell you about involve the use of radioactive uranium in weapons overseas in the Middle East. It is, in fact, common knowledge throughout the world that the United States military has been using uranium munitions in Iraq ever since 1991 www.brusselstribunal.org/DU-Azzawi.htm and in Afghanistan since 2001 www.eoslifework.co.uk/du2012.htm .
With regard to weapons containing Depleted Uranium (DU), in 1996 the United Nations called for the "need for their complete elimination". http://tinyurl.com/yp9nyd
Apparently, the UN position on the use of these weapons is of little concern to those who run the US federal government. It is abundantly clear that those in power do not concern themselves with such seemingly trifling, "quaint" and antiquated notions of what's legal - and what's not - with regard to international human rights and humanitarian law.
What many Americans - anti-war activists and war supporters alike - fail to realize is that Uncle Sam's widespread use of Depleted Uranium has not been merely limited to America's so-called "enemies" overseas. What does not yet appear to be common knowledge is the absolute fact that a radiological campaign is being waged in the more domestic, local "theatre"- the very place 300 million of us call "home".
Depleted Uranium (DU) is currently being used inside our own country, right outside in the very air where America's men, women, and children are trying hard to breathe. Those who previously had no clue about these "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" with this plentiful and inexpensive nuclear waste product are now starting to write and ask just how could it be that our own government shoots and explodes radioactive poison inside their own country - the very air that they and their families also breathe?
It is precisely at times like these when we, the sane, take a great big sigh and scratch our heads, look up into the polluted skies in the proximity of what many consider to be the heavens, and ask if someone - anyone - can please tell us exactly, precisely when did the good people of America become our nation's own enemy?
While recently writing about the serious matter of California's radioactive open air explosions, I reported http://tinyurl.com/32op2g that there are dozens of US military "test" firing ranges and National Laboratories where Depleted Uranium has been fired, exploded, and burned within the United States, right out into the open air. Some government "test" sites, in fact, such as the one in Livermore, California, near San Francisco, have been at it for over fifty years. www.llnl.gov/str/pdfs/3_99.1.pdf
How many of us knew that we were using the same poison on the Middle Eastern "enemy" that we have been using right here, on our own people at home? Certainly this was a story I must have missed out of the mouths of Katie & Matt and Charlie & Joan all those years of watching what I thought was the morning "news" on TV.
At the Livermore National Laboratory, the radioactive, microscopic aerosolized particles from mock bomb blasts are photographed emanating from these explosive "shots." This term, however, serves to minimize what are actually colossal detonations of hundreds of pounds of radioactive materials. Examine this picture carefully, if you will, and see if this photograph taken way back in 1961 looks like a "shot" to you? www.rense.com/general75/hyd.htm
At other military "test" firing ranges and proving grounds, soldiers practice using these radioactive weapons in preparation for combat. Meanwhile, collective human "dose" information is meticulously captured through the use of sensitive special filters positioned at various distances from detonation sites. All of this data is carefully recorded and preserved so as to prove to those who might happen to be paying attention that the levels of radiation do not exceed "permissible" limits.
And while these elevated levels of radioactive poisons such as Tritium are captured in filters and measured in the wines grown from local vineyards in the valleys surrounding the Livermore Laboratory, so-called "acceptable" collective radiation doses are met with ho-hum blasé. What comes to mind are the words of the man called "the father of Health Physics", long-term Director of Health Physics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, who admitted, "There is no safe level of exposure and there is no dose of radiation so low that the risk of a malignancy is zero". www.acereport.org/safe.pdf
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.
The question of sanity in our government leaders and their actions is not as important, frankly, as are discussions of exactly how do we remove these leaders from power and how do we turn our government to the correct ( or sane) course.
I do not seek to minimise or even question the facts you cite above, in fact, I support the validity of every case you note. As I live fairly close to Lawrence Livermore labs Ive even more reason for concern.
We can post article after article, volumes in fact, extolling the horrific decisions of our leadership, domestically, overseas, wherever, yet what have we accomplished, other than scaring ourselves, frustrating ourselves and depressing ourselves? Almost every passing day brings new disclosures of the impeachable offenses of Dick and Georgie, yet in office they remain still.
I am no political pundit, nor do I have the answers I seek to find. I write and email my elected representatives and even get responses from time to time. Barbara Boxer and I are old friends, correspondence wise, Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Pete Stark have each received volumes from me.
I have cast my ballot for those who spoke to the issues I felt important, or declared that they would work to achieve the goals I felt were necesary, and have done so for decade after decade. Anyone see any change for the better?
PS This is not a paeon to frustration but a call for outside the box suggestions.
by
ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments)
on Monday, February 26, 2007 at 4:34:31 PM
Well, some Psychopaths are Fiends and some Fiends are Psychopaths. Then their are Psychopaths who may be Fiends, but they have little or no opportunity to express their feelings towards us.
There is another variety of a Fiend who is also a Psychopath, and has the means and methods to hurt us. This is the variety that we have now temporarily installed in Washington, London and their Fiend partners in Tel Aviv.
Our Fiends have colluded together and may comprise about 10% of the human species. Only Some of them are certified Physcopaths, yet all of them are certified Fiends.
Their time has ended, it actually ended when their Fiend ancestors made the decision to genocidally exterminate the mass of the human race with the use of nuclear weapons.
The International Fiend class has waged atrocity against the human race, and to them, America is nothing more than an old crown colony for their Anglo-Zionist Terrorist Network to ply it's Fiendish trade.
Their impoverished Fiends, that is those who do the hands on killing, are in a terrible situation at this time.
Many are being slain by their Fiend employers, The Bank of England, to prevent them from giving us all a little History lesson on life as a Death squad member.
The Fiends have of course pulled the nuclear trigger on us several times over the decades, all to no effect.
The ET have requested that we not have an all out nuclear war. Our Fiends can not accept a world at Peace.
So the ET apparently prefer that the human race survive, and the Fiends find some way to fit themselves into a world at Peace. The higher level powers, "ET," have decided that if one or the other is going, humanity or the Fiends of humanity, they prefer to to see that it is the Fiends that are put away and humanity to survive.
The current Fiends ancestors decided long ago that if the world needed to change course and head in the direction of being at Peace, then they would rather "Fight than Switch."
As we are now the "Living Dead," consider that our Fiends when they are taken into custody for their trials, may claim at their trials, that they are crazy and indeed not only Fiends, but also "Psychopaths." Then they can claim that they are really innocent; by reason of "Insanity."
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Patrick (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 401 comments)
on Monday, February 26, 2007 at 6:40:48 PM
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Reason: Ad hominem
Garger is fascinated by any prognostication by Douglas Lind Rokke. She should not be because Rokke never was who he claims to be. He is a fraud. He claims to be a disabled combat veteran, but never saw combat, certainly not in Desert Storm where he sat the war out in Riyadh and he never was shot at in Vietnam either because the Viet Cong did not have the SAM-2 missile and Rokke may have flown on at least one B-52 mission bombing them. Rokke also never was the Director of the Army DU program - those of you who have some military experience know that Captains (O-3) are not directors of any Army-wide program. Rokke's official military record from his enlistment in the Air Force right out of high school in 1967 through 1998 is available in the files section of DUStory at Yahoogroups dot com. All are welcome to join; you might learn something about depleted uranium, which, for some unexplained reason has become an obsession in Garger's writing. The fact is that depleted uranium is used to destroy enemy tanks before they destroy you and there have been no enemy tanks to destroy since the run to Baghdad in 2003. That doesn't stop Garger or Rokke, both of whom claim that "uranium weapons" as they love to term them are practically everywhere and most assuredly poisoned the entire Mideast during the Israeli war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The funny thing, though, is that Hezbollah had no tanks either and if you go to the Federation of American Scientists, a fairly peace loving group, you will find that bunker buster bombs are not made of depleted uranium. Come to DUStory at Yahoogroups and you will find the links to some of these facts that Garger and Rokke would prefer you not know because they impede the sales of Rokke's DVD or make no one want to pay him to come talk to them. He makes money off of you and Garger probably does too.
Roger
by
RH (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 2 comments)
on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 1:40:29 AM
4.5 billion years of toxicity and RH blames the messenger
What quantity of DU is safe for DNA based life forms? None!
As a rebuttal to the stupid argument questioning whether DU was used if there were no tanks around, the following is excerpted from the Axis of Logic posting: click here one of the many source citations made by Cathy's excellent article:
HOW IS DU USED BY THE MILITARY?
DU is used to manufacture kinetic energy penetrators- giant pencils or rods. Each kinetic penetrator consists of almost entirely uranium 238. The United States munitions industry produces the following DU munitions with the corresponding mass of uranium 238:
7.62 mm with unspecified mass
50 caliber with unspecified mass
20 mm with a mass of approximately 180 grams.
25 mm with a mass of approximately 200 grams.
30 mm with a mass of approximately 280 grams.
105 mm with a mass of approximately 3500 grams.
120 mm with a mass of approximately 4500 grams.
Sub-munitions / land mines such as the PDM and ADAM whose structural body contain a small proportion of DU.
Cruise missiles with unknown quantity of DU
Bunker buster bombs with unknown quantity of DU
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By other estimates, I have read from other sources that I don't remember off the top of my head, hundreds of tons of Uranium munitions of all sizes have been used in Iraq.
Nobody here is accusing the soldier on the ground for specific war crimes, but everybody who knows better should be working to permanently ban uranium from use in any weapon. Whatever advantage they may seem to give on the battlefield is not worth billions of years of cancer and birth defects. Think about the collective, accumulated pain and suffering and if you argue for their use, you should get a happy star sticker for being part of the Bush Neo-Con 4% solution and a ticket to the nearest insane asylum.
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Tim Riley (7 articles, 5 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 130 comments)
on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 3:52:55 PM
One might also point out that one of the important meanings of "story" is "a
fictitious tale." Go look it up, Roger, and then tell that to your crew at DU
Story, if you dare.
Oh, by the way, "fictitious" means it isn't true.
Hajja Romi
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Hajja Romi (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments)
on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 12:05:28 AM
One might also point out that one of the important meanings of "story" is "a
fictitious tale." Go look it up, Roger, and then tell that to your crew at DU
Story, if you dare.
Oh, by the way, "fictitious" means it isn't true.
Hajja Romi
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Hajja Romi (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments)
on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 12:05:30 AM
There was one thing missed out of this, and that is that there is OpTalisman Sabre in Australia from the end of May to start of July this year. It is widely reported that the US are to use DU ammo during the exercise. There are expected to be in excess of 20,000 troops involved
This exercise is to be carried out in an area called Shoalwater Bay in Queensland. Shoalwater bay is inside the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Park, and it is a crime under the nations law to carry out such exercises inside the reef, but the Australian Govt does not care for its people.
Also of note is the fact that Australia is a signitory to the The Rarotonga Treaty of 1985 that forbids the use of nuclear weapons within the Pacific Region. But again the govt choose to ignore this fact
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Mike Smith (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 3 comments)
on Friday, March 23, 2007 at 12:44:09 AM
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