Depleted Uranium 3 Hour Update on The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show
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Depleted Uranium 3 Hour Update on The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show, Wednesday, May 10
Rob McConnell, host and executive producer of The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show wants the world to know about the horrors of Depleted Uranium - and he’s one broadcast journalist who wants to make a difference.
In this yet, another Depleted Uranium Special, Rob once again brings on DU experts and activists, who want you, the word, to know the truth of what DU has done, is doing and will do.
BRITISH and American coalition forces are using depleted uranium (DU) shells in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a United Nations resolution which classifies the munitions as illegal weapons of mass destruction.
DU contaminates land, causes ill-health and cancers among the soldiers using the weapons, the armies they target and civilians, leading to birth defects in children.
According to a August 2002 report by the UN subcommission, laws which are breached by the use of DU shells include: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Charter of the United Nations; the Genocide Convention; the Convention Against Torture; the four Geneva Conventions of 1949; the Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980; and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, which expressly forbid employing 'poison or poisoned weapons' and 'arms, projectiles or materials calculated to cause unnecessary suffering'. All of these laws are designed to spare civilians from unwarranted suffering in armed conflicts.
DU has been blamed for the effects of Gulf war syndrome -- typified by chronic muscle and joint pain, fatigue and memory loss -- among 200,000 US soldiers after the 1991 conflict.
It is also cited as the most likely cause of the "increased number of birth deformities and cancer in Iraq" following the first Gulf war.
"Cancer appears to have increased between seven and 10 times and deformities between four and six times", according to the UN subcommission.
The Pentagon has admitted that 320 metric tons of DU were left on the battlefield after the first Gulf war, although Russian military experts say 1000 metric tons is a more accurate figure.
In 1991, the Allies fired 944,000 DU rounds or some 2700 tons of DU tipped bombs. A UK Atomic Energy Authority report said that some 500,000 people would die before the end of this century, due to radioactive debris left in the desert.
Wednesday's broadcast schedule is as follows:
DEPLETED URANIUM 3 HOUR SPECIAL;
11:00 pm - 11:30 pm DOUG ROKKE
Doug Rokke has a PhD in health physics and was originally trained as a forensic scientist. When the Gulf War started, he was assigned to prepare soldiers to respond to nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare, and sent to the Gulf. What he experienced has made him a passionate voice for peace, travelling the country to speak out. Professor Doug Rokke, ex-director of the Pentagon's depleted uranium project -- a former professor of environmental science at Jacksonville University and onetime US army colonel who was tasked by the US department of defence with the post-first Gulf war depleted uranium desert clean-up -- said use of DU was a 'war crime'. Rokke said: "There is a moral point to be made here. This war was about Iraq possessing illegal weapons of mass destruction -- yet we are using weapons of mass destruction ourselves." He added: "Such double-standards are repellent."
11:30 pm - 12:00 am LEUREN MORET
Leuren is an independent international radiation specialist and works around the world on radiation issues related to atmospheric testing, nuclear power plants, and depleted uranium. She has a background in the geosciences, specifically atmospheric dust, and is an Environmental Commissioner in the City of Berkeley. She writes and travels widely. Recently she has appeared in three documentary films about depleted uranium - BEYOND TREASON, BAGDAD RAP, and BLOWIN' IN THE WIND.
12:00 am - 12:30 am TOM TREFTS
(Jet engine mechanic with 2nd hand exposure & hosts a Bulletin Board for 300+ vets who are victims of DU.)
VA says: 100% Non Service Connected Disabled USAF Veteran
10th Component Repair Squadron, RAF Alconbury 1989-1991
Jet Engine Mechanic / Hot Pit Refueling Specialist / Test Cell Parts and Plane Washing Details. Washed Planes that came back from the 1st Gulf War by hand.
Caren (my wife) and I started a veterans group called the Unified Veterans Coalition in early 2005 with the guidance of JJ Jenson, a knowledgeable Vietnam Veteran friend who I had met online. Our website address is :
http://xsorbit27.com/users5/unifiedveteranscoalition/index.php
12:30 am - 01:00 am HERBERT REED (VET)
Herbert R. Reed, 52 years Old, Retired SSG U.S. Army Received Medical Retirement after injured in Iraq in 2003, (Neck, Titanium Plate and four screws in C spine., Nerve damage in Left leg, left arm, lower back Herniated Disc, Rotator Cuff injury, PTSD, Because I only had nineteen years nine months twenty day and not the full twenty years I don't receive any monetary retirement from the Army, just a medical release. All that time and no pension, like it was my fault. Served in Iraq 2003 with the 442 Military Police Company, out of Orangeburg New York National Guard. Upon first notifying Military of our DU exposure we were told that it was all in our head and was sent to see a doctor. Contaminated by DU while serving in Iraq in 2003, Tested Positive for exposure. Doctor Assaf Durakovic collected specimens to be Analyzed in Germany by Doctor Axel Gerdes, in Frankfurt. ( NY Daily News paid for testing because the Military would not test us at the time. ) Upon receiving our written results from Germany the Military then tested us but said we were not contaminated. We later found out that there testing method was not able to pick up small particles in our system like the test conducted in Germany. We were then told that the testing conducted in Germany was not conducted in a clean environment so the results were no good. Prior to serving in Iraq, I was an Assistant Deputy Warden for the New York City Correction Department, working on Rikers Island. (upon returning I could not return to work because of my injuries.) February 28th 206, had surgery to remove tumor from around thyroid, awaiting test results. I presently on numerous narcotics twenty four hours a day seven days a week.( Methadone, Morphine, Tizanidine, Citalopram, Bisacodyl, Docusate, Sildenafil, Diazepam.)
01:00 am - 01:30 am JOAN WALKER
Joan Walker, a recently retired Kindergarten teacher from the most famous small town in the world, Woodstock, is the "point person" for passage of the New York National Guard Testing/Registry/Task Force Bill. She is with New Yorkers in Support of the NY National Guard Testing/Task Force Bill, a coalition of veterans, families of veterans and activists in depleted uranium education. The NY Bill, similar to the Connecticut Bill passed last June, was introduced in the NY Assembly by Assemblyman Jeffry Dinowitz, Democrat, and in the NY Senate by Senator Thomas Morahan, a Republican. The bill is now being analyzed by the Veterans' Committees in both houses. Joan Walker quote, "There is a lot of support and commitment in this Legislature to our soldiers, newly returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with troubling illnesses. The analogy of Agent Orange is not lost on these middle aged law makers."
01:30 am - 02:00 am BOB NICHOLS
Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award Winner. He is a correspondent for the San Francisco Bay View newspaper and a frequent contributor to various on line publications. Nichols is completing a book based on 15 years of nuclear war in Central Asia. Nichols is a former employee of the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant. Nichols can be reached by email.. You are encouraged to write at DUweapons@gmail.com
Visit our website and sign the online Petition - make a difference in the world that you live in.
Visit http://www.xzone-radio.com/petition.htm and be part of the solution.
Rob McConnell,
Executive Producer,
The 'X' Zone Radio Show,
A Division of REL-MAR McConnell Media Company,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Satellite Teleport - White Springs, Florida.
Contact Information:
Office Tel: 1 (905) 575-5916
Studio Tel: 1 (877) 528-8255
E-mail: xzone@xzone-radio.com
Website: http://www.xzone-radio.com
Video-Casting on Yahoo IM - xzonestudio
MSN Messenger: talkstarradio@hotmail.com
AOL IM: xzonestudio
Yahoo IM: xzonestudio
ICQ: 6272860
Monday – Friday, Broadcast LIVE 10 PM – 2 AM Eastern, Network Re-feed 2 AM – 6 AM Eastern.
The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show is heard throughout North America, Central America. The Caribbean, South America and the Pacific Rim on Galaxy 4R (C-Band Satellite) and Intelsat Americas 7 (KU Band Satellite) and the rest of the world on http://www.xzone-radio.com streaming audio.
"Working together as one, we can solve the mysteries of life." Rob McConnell, 2005
Please also see:
Weapons to die for:
from that Pentagon Death Star and the University that poisoned the world
by Leuren Moret
http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=2445
McDermott Presses Amendment to Study Possible DU Health Impacts on U.S. Soldiers, notes Ken Kadlec
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2335&blz=1
and related articles in our Environment and International Law sections.
http://www.xzone-radio.com
Please go to the xzone-radio.com archives and listen for 30 days - free of charge. http://www.xzone-radio.com/archives.htm ,
specifically,
http://www.xzone-radio.com/may2006.htm
Depleted Uranium 3 Hour Update on The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show, Wednesday, May 10
Rob McConnell, host and executive producer of The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show wants the world to know about the horrors of Depleted Uranium - and he’s one broadcast journalist who wants to make a difference.
In this yet, another Depleted Uranium Special, Rob once again brings on DU experts and activists, who want you, the word, to know the truth of what DU has done, is doing and will do.
BRITISH and American coalition forces are using depleted uranium (DU) shells in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a United Nations resolution which classifies the munitions as illegal weapons of mass destruction.
DU contaminates land, causes ill-health and cancers among the soldiers using the weapons, the armies they target and civilians, leading to birth defects in children.
According to a August 2002 report by the UN subcommission, laws which are breached by the use of DU shells include: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Charter of the United Nations; the Genocide Convention; the Convention Against Torture; the four Geneva Conventions of 1949; the Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980; and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, which expressly forbid employing 'poison or poisoned weapons' and 'arms, projectiles or materials calculated to cause unnecessary suffering'. All of these laws are designed to spare civilians from unwarranted suffering in armed conflicts.
DU has been blamed for the effects of Gulf war syndrome -- typified by chronic muscle and joint pain, fatigue and memory loss -- among 200,000 US soldiers after the 1991 conflict.
It is also cited as the most likely cause of the "increased number of birth deformities and cancer in Iraq" following the first Gulf war.
"Cancer appears to have increased between seven and 10 times and deformities between four and six times", according to the UN subcommission.
The Pentagon has admitted that 320 metric tons of DU were left on the battlefield after the first Gulf war, although Russian military experts say 1000 metric tons is a more accurate figure.
In 1991, the Allies fired 944,000 DU rounds or some 2700 tons of DU tipped bombs. A UK Atomic Energy Authority report said that some 500,000 people would die before the end of this century, due to radioactive debris left in the desert.
Wednesday's broadcast schedule is as follows:
DEPLETED URANIUM 3 HOUR SPECIAL;
11:00 pm - 11:30 pm DOUG ROKKE
Doug Rokke has a PhD in health physics and was originally trained as a forensic scientist. When the Gulf War started, he was assigned to prepare soldiers to respond to nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare, and sent to the Gulf. What he experienced has made him a passionate voice for peace, travelling the country to speak out. Professor Doug Rokke, ex-director of the Pentagon's depleted uranium project -- a former professor of environmental science at Jacksonville University and onetime US army colonel who was tasked by the US department of defence with the post-first Gulf war depleted uranium desert clean-up -- said use of DU was a 'war crime'. Rokke said: "There is a moral point to be made here. This war was about Iraq possessing illegal weapons of mass destruction -- yet we are using weapons of mass destruction ourselves." He added: "Such double-standards are repellent."
11:30 pm - 12:00 am LEUREN MORET
Leuren is an independent international radiation specialist and works around the world on radiation issues related to atmospheric testing, nuclear power plants, and depleted uranium. She has a background in the geosciences, specifically atmospheric dust, and is an Environmental Commissioner in the City of Berkeley. She writes and travels widely. Recently she has appeared in three documentary films about depleted uranium - BEYOND TREASON, BAGDAD RAP, and BLOWIN' IN THE WIND.
12:00 am - 12:30 am TOM TREFTS
(Jet engine mechanic with 2nd hand exposure & hosts a Bulletin Board for 300+ vets who are victims of DU.)
VA says: 100% Non Service Connected Disabled USAF Veteran
10th Component Repair Squadron, RAF Alconbury 1989-1991
Jet Engine Mechanic / Hot Pit Refueling Specialist / Test Cell Parts and Plane Washing Details. Washed Planes that came back from the 1st Gulf War by hand.
Caren (my wife) and I started a veterans group called the Unified Veterans Coalition in early 2005 with the guidance of JJ Jenson, a knowledgeable Vietnam Veteran friend who I had met online. Our website address is :
http://xsorbit27.com/users5/unifiedveteranscoalition/index.php
12:30 am - 01:00 am HERBERT REED (VET)
Herbert R. Reed, 52 years Old, Retired SSG U.S. Army Received Medical Retirement after injured in Iraq in 2003, (Neck, Titanium Plate and four screws in C spine., Nerve damage in Left leg, left arm, lower back Herniated Disc, Rotator Cuff injury, PTSD, Because I only had nineteen years nine months twenty day and not the full twenty years I don't receive any monetary retirement from the Army, just a medical release. All that time and no pension, like it was my fault. Served in Iraq 2003 with the 442 Military Police Company, out of Orangeburg New York National Guard. Upon first notifying Military of our DU exposure we were told that it was all in our head and was sent to see a doctor. Contaminated by DU while serving in Iraq in 2003, Tested Positive for exposure. Doctor Assaf Durakovic collected specimens to be Analyzed in Germany by Doctor Axel Gerdes, in Frankfurt. ( NY Daily News paid for testing because the Military would not test us at the time. ) Upon receiving our written results from Germany the Military then tested us but said we were not contaminated. We later found out that there testing method was not able to pick up small particles in our system like the test conducted in Germany. We were then told that the testing conducted in Germany was not conducted in a clean environment so the results were no good. Prior to serving in Iraq, I was an Assistant Deputy Warden for the New York City Correction Department, working on Rikers Island. (upon returning I could not return to work because of my injuries.) February 28th 206, had surgery to remove tumor from around thyroid, awaiting test results. I presently on numerous narcotics twenty four hours a day seven days a week.( Methadone, Morphine, Tizanidine, Citalopram, Bisacodyl, Docusate, Sildenafil, Diazepam.)
01:00 am - 01:30 am JOAN WALKER
Joan Walker, a recently retired Kindergarten teacher from the most famous small town in the world, Woodstock, is the "point person" for passage of the New York National Guard Testing/Registry/Task Force Bill. She is with New Yorkers in Support of the NY National Guard Testing/Task Force Bill, a coalition of veterans, families of veterans and activists in depleted uranium education. The NY Bill, similar to the Connecticut Bill passed last June, was introduced in the NY Assembly by Assemblyman Jeffry Dinowitz, Democrat, and in the NY Senate by Senator Thomas Morahan, a Republican. The bill is now being analyzed by the Veterans' Committees in both houses. Joan Walker quote, "There is a lot of support and commitment in this Legislature to our soldiers, newly returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with troubling illnesses. The analogy of Agent Orange is not lost on these middle aged law makers."
01:30 am - 02:00 am BOB NICHOLS
Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award Winner. He is a correspondent for the San Francisco Bay View newspaper and a frequent contributor to various on line publications. Nichols is completing a book based on 15 years of nuclear war in Central Asia. Nichols is a former employee of the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant. Nichols can be reached by email.. You are encouraged to write at DUweapons@gmail.com
Visit our website and sign the online Petition - make a difference in the world that you live in.
Visit http://www.xzone-radio.com/petition.htm and be part of the solution.
Rob McConnell,
Executive Producer,
The 'X' Zone Radio Show,
A Division of REL-MAR McConnell Media Company,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Satellite Teleport - White Springs, Florida.
Contact Information:
Office Tel: 1 (905) 575-5916
Studio Tel: 1 (877) 528-8255
E-mail: xzone@xzone-radio.com
Website: http://www.xzone-radio.com
Video-Casting on Yahoo IM - xzonestudio
MSN Messenger: talkstarradio@hotmail.com
AOL IM: xzonestudio
Yahoo IM: xzonestudio
ICQ: 6272860
Monday – Friday, Broadcast LIVE 10 PM – 2 AM Eastern, Network Re-feed 2 AM – 6 AM Eastern.
The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show is heard throughout North America, Central America. The Caribbean, South America and the Pacific Rim on Galaxy 4R (C-Band Satellite) and Intelsat Americas 7 (KU Band Satellite) and the rest of the world on http://www.xzone-radio.com streaming audio.
"Working together as one, we can solve the mysteries of life." Rob McConnell, 2005
Please also see:
Weapons to die for:
from that Pentagon Death Star and the University that poisoned the world
by Leuren Moret
http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=2445
McDermott Presses Amendment to Study Possible DU Health Impacts on U.S. Soldiers, notes Ken Kadlec
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2335&blz=1
and related articles in our Environment and International Law sections.