tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8059583388671362146.post3488346179035876844..comments2023-10-22T04:11:55.213-07:00Comments on Muslamics: Muslamicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17008333338402474706noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8059583388671362146.post-66945603339785547652007-11-25T07:09:00.000-08:002007-11-25T07:09:00.000-08:00Here is what the US government has to say about "D...Here is what the US government has to say about "Depleted" Uranium. This is taken from the website for the National Institutes of Health:<BR/><BR/>As a projectile, a DU penetrator ignites on impact under high temperature; it has a low melting point. Further, DU sharpens as it melts making it easier to pierce heavy armor. As the projectile pierces, it leaves behind its jacket dispersing DU dust into the environment during impact. The quantity of aerosol production is directly proportional to the hardness of the armor. Normally 10–35% and up to 70% of the DU is estimated to be aerosolized on impact or when DU catches fire [2]. Most of the dust particles are reported to be smaller than 5 μm in size, i.e., of a size to be inhaled or ingested by humans [3,4]. They usually remain windborne for an extended time. There is empirical documentation that DU aerosols can travel up to 26 miles and theoretical documentation that they can travel further [5]. Once deposited on the ground the aerosols settle as partially oxidized DU dust. Potential contamination of ground water is another possibility – weathering could mobilize the metal into additional media.<BR/><BR/>U238 decays primarily by alpha emission. Alpha particles rapidly lose their kinetic energy and have little penetrating power. In the decay process beta and gamma particles are emitted which are more penetrating. Alpha radiation is only hazardous when internalized in the body, but once deposited in living tissue it releases its energy in a concentrated area causing greater damage than beta or gamma radiation.<BR/><BR/>Still, large quantities of DU and/or radioactive decay products and other radioactive impurities can lead to substantial external exposure. A Geiger counter measurement by a correspondent in the recent Iraq war show that radiation emitting from a DU bullet fragment registered nearly 1000 – 1900 times the normal background radiation level. A three-foot long DU fragment from a 12 mm tank shell registered radiation 1300 times the background level. A DU tank found by the U.S Army radiological team emitted 260 – 270 millirads of radiation per hour compared to the safety limit of 100 millirads per year. A pile of jet-black dust registered a count of 9839 emissions in one minute, a level more than 300 times the average background level [6].<BR/><BR/>www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1242351Ex-Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15142752195859057805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8059583388671362146.post-7068260060123264082007-11-25T06:57:00.000-08:002007-11-25T06:57:00.000-08:00Actually, I have respect for both Leuren Moret and...Actually, I have respect for both Leuren Moret and Bob Nichols, but I do not get much information from them as I do my own reading and research.<BR/><BR/>I am not a scientist, but do hold a B.S. with a 3.9 GPA from the University of Maryland. I do study all I can about the effects of radiation on the human body.<BR/><BR/>I read the works of Epidemiologist Sister (a nun)Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D. and she has something to tell us about Uranium oxides. Yes, DU does disperse a radioactive aerosol when burned or exploded or is fired from a cannon or tank.<BR/><BR/>Here is what Dr. Bertell says about weaponized Uranium:<BR/><BR/>THE HAZARD: <BR/><BR/>When a depleted uranium penetrator hits a hardened target, there is an extreme temperature increase, in the range of 5000 degrees Centigrade. The melting points of uranium metal, 1132 degrees Centigrade and uranium oxide, which is 2865 degrees Centigrade, are exceeded. At this extreme heat, a ceramic (glass) form of uranium oxide is created, which is highly insoluble in human body tissue.<BR/><BR/>Therefore exposure to DUM (depleted uranium munition) is likely to include uranium oxide dust as well as ceramic uranium oxide aerosol in unknown proportions.<BR/><BR/>Any aerosol of this ceramic DUM which is smaller than 10 micron can be inhaled, and it can damage the respiratory system. The very small particles, less than 2.5 micron, can penetrate to the lower lung area, while the larger particles will affect the nose and trachea-bronchial tissue.. The particles can be rough, and the mechanical body motion will tend to knock off the protrusions first. These particles may be small enough to pass the lung-blood barrier and be scavenged by blood cells and deposited (permanently) in the thoracic lymph nodes. While this will be a very small amount, uranium is an alpha particle emitter and can damage the lymph tissue which travels throughout the body. <BR/><BR/>Gradually, with a probable half life of two years in the lung, these ceramic aerosol particles will be washed through the lung into the blood stream. (After two years 50% remains; after 4 years 25% remains; after 6 years 12.5% remains, after 8 years 6.25% remains in the lungs).<BR/><BR/><BR/>PROBABLE ORGANS AFFECTED BY THIS INTERNAL CONTAMINATION WITH DUM:<BR/><BR/>According to the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, in Bethesda Maryland, the uranium oxide which moves into the blood from the lungs will accumulate in the kidney, tibia bone (the inner and larger bone of the leg below the knee) and the skull. They add that there will also be significant concentration in muscle, spleen, liver, heart, lung and brain.<BR/><BR/><BR/>WHAT DAMAGE CAN BE CAUSED BY THIS INTERNAL CONTAMINATION WITH DUM:<BR/><BR/>DUM contains a mixture of four radioisotopes: U 238, Th 234, Pa 234 and U234. The predominant isotope is U 238, but the two decay products, Th 234 and Pa 234 are more radioactive than uranium. This means they are subject to more frequent atomic level "explosions" or nuclear transformations than uranium. The sphere of greatest influence around an internal particle of DUM about 2 microns in size, is about 30 microns in radius. The energy released by U 238 (half life of 4.51X10E9 years) in each transformation is a 4.2 MeV (million electron volts) alpha particle; that released by Th 234 (half life of 24.1 days) is 0.191 MeV beta particles; that released by Pa 234 (half life 6.75 hours) is 0.568 MeV beta particles and some 0.31 gamma rays; U 234 (half life of 2.47 X 10E5 years) releases 4.82 MeV alpha particles. It is not likely that any other radionuclides will be present. However, it should be noted that the diameter of the average human living cell is about 5 microns, and it only requires 6 to 10 eV to b reak the DNA. Therefore there is no level of DUM contamination which one could consider "safe" or "harmless".<BR/><BR/>The practice of averaging this damage over the whole body, and then declaring it "trivial" would like averaging the force of a bullet over a whole company of soldiers, and declaring that there was not enough energy to do damage to the company!<BR/><BR/>The picture one needs to form is that the human body has trillions of cells, and perhaps a few hundred are affected in the immediate vicinity of wherever these particles happen to be lodged. When a cell is damaged, is may die (which causes no further problem), be repaired, or continue to live and reproduce itself in the damaged state. It is this latter case which causes chronic illness, premature aging effects and can ultimately cause cancer.<BR/><BR/>www.iicph.org/docs/Annual_Gulf_War_Illness_Conference.htmEx-Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15142752195859057805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8059583388671362146.post-67815265159762623542007-11-25T04:43:00.000-08:002007-11-25T04:43:00.000-08:00Garger gets her information from Bob Nichols who i...Garger gets her information from Bob Nichols who is her co-moderator of AmericanDUST. Want to see how fast you get bounced from AmericanDUST, just ask them a question of disagree with their poison gas theory. To be a poison gas, first you must be a gas - uranium is gaseous at something like 3000 degrees Centigrade. Now, that means it is a solid at even the 100 plus degrees Fahrenheit that it gets to be in Iraq. Now, does that mean that there is a uranium gas?<BR/><BR/>radioactive Uranium aerosols - a true poison gas that harms all forms of life for an eternity - is morally and legally wrong.Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04855892384323493219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8059583388671362146.post-37634840720500262792007-11-25T04:39:00.000-08:002007-11-25T04:39:00.000-08:00Roger Helbig Says:November 25th, 2007 at 8:31 amCa...Roger Helbig Says:<BR/>November 25th, 2007 at 8:31 am<BR/><BR/>Cathy Garger is another know nothing publicist whose number one subject to publicize is herself. Read about the other one that Sherwood Ross quoted in his first article. Don't let these know nothings inflame the Arab world about nothing.<BR/> <BR/>Isn’t it about time that people began questioning Leuren Moret? She has made a fool of you because she is a con artist. Nothing that she says about DU or radiation has much basis in truth. She is an accomplished publicist and the number one thing that she publicizes is herself. She claims to be a nuclear scientist who has seen the light — well, first, you actually have to be a scientist. Does a Bachelor’s degree in Geology with no real work (or academic) experience count? Then you actually have to have some expertise in radiation and nuclear physics - does being a lab tech in the computer lab of a place that employs nuclear physicists count? Can you learn nuclear physics by osmosis? If not, then the real Leuren Moret as opposed to the one who enjoys living off the largess of those who believe in her changing politics (her current thing is that she is an expert about 9/11 — they apparently pay their lecturers better. Maybe the chicken is less rubber. Go to DUStory (see the website link) and see the letter I got from Livermore, read about how she pulled off a total hoax in Hawaii, learn about the con artist Leuren Moret. She is charming, but is she believable. Don’t believe me, go to your local diabetes association or your doctor and ask if DU has caused a world-wide epidemic of diabetes. Moret has made that claim among others in her disease of the week approach to misinforming the world about DU.Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04855892384323493219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8059583388671362146.post-35753365772311366772007-11-24T08:12:00.000-08:002007-11-24T08:12:00.000-08:00There are many, many Americans - of Muslim spiritu...There are many, many Americans - of Muslim spirituality and otherwise, who believe that the use of toxic and radioactive Uranium aerosols - a true poison gas that harms all forms of life for an eternity - is morally and legally wrong.<BR/><BR/>We can not simply sit by, in good conscience, and allow such massive devastation to continue without standing up in opposition to it.<BR/><BR/>The United Nations Sub-Commission on Human Rights agrees with us on the illegality of the use of "Depleted" (misnomer) Uranium in combat: See<BR/>http://tinyurl.com/25jy73<BR/>or<BR/>http://prop1.org/2000/du/resource/000310un.htm <BR/><BR/>Many Americans believe that our fellow citizens will be more likely to demand that the US Military stop using these genocidal weapons overseas (such as in the Middle East, Somalia, etc.) if Americans first come to realize that Depleted Uranium is being used on *them* - inside their *own* country, the US(!)at: national nuclear weapons laboratories sites, military proving grounds, and "training" and "test" sites throughout the United States.<BR/><BR/>To learn more, please visit our web group, American DUST.<BR/>http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AmericanDUST/<BR/><BR/>Cathy Garger<BR/>www.mytown.ca/gargerEx-Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15142752195859057805noreply@blogger.com