http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/war_crimes.htm en-us sepp@lastrega.com Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:42:51 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/09/28/depleted_uranium_doubled_diabetes_rate_leuren_moret.htm Depleted Uranium has been used in bombs and armour piercing munitions by the US-led war machine for about two decades, with great increases in the Iraq wars, in Afghanistan and the Balkans, and more recently also in Lebanon. But the uranium spread around the battle fields as a fine dust does not stay where it was released. It spreads around the planet and causes - says Leuren Moret - a veritable epidemic of ... diabetes around the world, quite apart from making wide swaths of country in the bombed nations too dangerous to live in. Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who worked at the Livermore nuclear weapons lab where she became a whistleblower in 1991. She has... Environment Sepp Hasslberger Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:42:51 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/07/31/health_supreme_daily_newsgrabs_31_july_2006.htm Daily NewsGrabs, the alternative health news, continue on schedule. Here is the fourth installment of the links I find interesting and want to share with you, the readers of my site... Almost didn't make it today, as I was exploring an enchanted lake on the wonderful island of Terceira - called "a lagoinha" and then came back to intermittent trouble with the internet connection... Cuba: The Accidental Revolution are two one-hour documentaries celebrating the country's success in providing for itself in the face of a massive economic crisis, and how it's latest revolutions, an agricultural revolution and a revolution in science and medicine are having repercussions around the world. Part 1 examines Cuba's response to the food... NewsGrabs Sepp Hasslberger Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:23:12 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/07/21/palestine_israel_defuse_the_middle_east_powder_keg.htm The crisis in the Middle East and its current escalation over the taking of Israeli military prisoners and the resultant bombing of targets in Gaza and Lebanon almost has a mathematical certainty to lead to a wider conflict. Perhaps that is intended - to provide an excuse for a great massacre that involves not only Israel and Palestine but ultimately Syria, Iran and much of the Arab world as well. Both sides of the fight know they are right, and both are backed in their conviction by international players who do not have a direct stake in the land that is being contested, but see the conflict as an opportunity to gain a foothold in that cradle... Society Sepp Hasslberger Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:49:39 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/01/25/dirty_depleted_uranium_far_worse_than_bird_flu.htm 'Depleted' uranium consists largely of uranium 238, the prevalent isotope in mined uranium ore. Reactors and bombs can only use uranium 235, which makes up less than 1 per cent of the natural mix. U-238 is a throwaway, a toxic by-product of the purification necessary to obtain bomb-grade and reactor-grade material. U-238 is highly radioactive (there is really nothing 'depleted' about it) and is more than a hundred times as abundant as its "precious" cousin, uranium 235. A real problem. To solve the impasse of having to store thousands of tons of useless radioactive material, some bright military mind found that since uranium spontaneously burns in the presence of heat and oxygen, it could be used as... War Crimes Sepp Hasslberger Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:55:15 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/11/27/what_if_everything_you_thought_you_knew_about_911_was_a_big_fat_lie.htm Is there still anyone who DOESN'T know that the 911 twin-towers disaster was a manufactured event designed to justify "perpetual war"? Certainly if instead of watching CNN, ABC, CBS and other so-called mainstream media you looked around for the real news that populates the 'net, there is hardly room for doubt, and there wasn't, even back in 2001. Perhaps whatreallyhappened.com was and still is one of the best sites that pulls together stories that do not receive the deserved attention because of suppression of the real news by corporate-owned media. No wonder the feeling that the press cannot be trusted to give us the straight dope is getting kind of ubiquitous. Probably the greatest mystery to people... The Media Sepp Hasslberger Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:28:48 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/08/25/federal_police_raid_open_air_party_in_utah.htm In what appears to be a taste of things to come, about 90 law enforcement officers from multiple agencies broke up what they said was a rave party on public and private property in the Diamond Fork area of Spanish Fork canyon, an hour outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, 20 August 2005. A first report is here. "Security" and the "war on drugs" seem to be the excuse. The frenzy is fueled by the fear instilled by Bush's "war on terrorism", which unfortunately has been filling our days and changing our lives since the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, and which threatens to spiral out of control... Society Sepp Hasslberger Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:01:14 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/03/12/do_antidepressants_cause_violence.htm I just read an article about a US marine who refused to go on killing in Iraq and who is now talking. He describes the horrors of his mission from the viewpoint of a soldier and a human being. What shook him was the voice of a kid: Why did you kill my brother. The standard treatment: Antidepressants and psychotropic drugs. They did not work, in this case. Jimmy Massey was sent back home with a diagnosis of "stress syndrome". Wait a minute - antidepressants? Could those be the drugs kids are prescribed by psychiatrists in school? The same drugs we're told to take when we feel "down in the dumps"? There seems to be too much... Pharma Sepp Hasslberger Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:07:16 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/02/13/depleted_uranium_coming_home_to_roost_dillon_bill_in_conn_legislature.htm Depleted uranium is the "less rich" uranium that remains as waste in the uranium enrichment process. The metal is radioactive and stays so for billions of years. According to the Sierra Club's Nuclear Waste information, there are massive quantities that need to be either stored or re-cycled. Could it be that the need to re-cycle the dangerous material plays a part in the U.S. military's decision to use thousands of tons of the dangerous metal in munitions and missiles, in tank armor and bunker-busting bombs? Problems with depleted uranium were reported after the war in Bosnia, but US officials say "not to worry". Afghanistan has been contaminated and horrifying deformities are seen in children born to people... War Crimes Sepp Hasslberger Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:15:18 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/09/17/uranium_munitions_are_weapons_of_mass_destruction_use_is_a_war_crime_experts.htm The US and their allies in the war against Iraq have used thousands of tons of radioactive 'depleted' uranium in munitions and missiles, endangering the lives of both civilians and US troops, and leaving a legacy of contamination on the ground that certainly classifies them as illegal weapons of mass destruction, charge international experts. Cancer, respiratory diseases and horrible birth defects have been widespread in Iraq even after Gulf War I and are bound to increase. While officially, only 467 soldiers were wounded during the first Gulf War, according to Terry Jemison at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), of the more than 592,560 discharged personnel who served there, at least 179,310 - one third -... Health Sepp Hasslberger Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:12:02 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/03/05/world_health_organisation_blocked_depleted_uranium_study.htm Depleted but nevertheless radioactive and potentially deadly uranium has been used in genocidal weapons by the US led coalition of "freedom loving" nations in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. A scientific report warning of the dangers to health of the fine uranium dust which remains after explosion has been blocked from publication by the World Health Organisation, according to Keith Baverstock, a senior radiation adviser of the international organisation. The story broke in the Sunday Herald and has found echo on the Axis of Logic site, but not in the US press. According to the study, the tiny particles of DU which remain after the explosion of shells and warheads fashioned out of the heavy metal, are likely... Health Sepp Hasslberger Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:11:57 GMT