[ RadSafe ] New Mexico Testing for DU

[Roger Helbig]

This was posted by Linda Modica, one of the recent speakers at Jonesboro, Tennessee to the blog that Wes Rehberg, one of the Christian Peacemaker Team members who has become obsessed with DU now hosts -- he used to allow unmoderated postings, but lately, I have not seen him approve any of mine like an expose of Douglas Lind Rokke's non-existent expertise in veterans health including the titles of both of "Doctor Rokke's" theses

Does anyone on the list know Modica or anyone at Sierra Club who can confirm that Modica is in fact National Chair because if you listen to Modica, you will find that she spreads considerable disinformation.  She is on video of the East Tennessee State University anti-DU conference sponsored by the Christian Peacemaker Teams of the Church of the Brotherhood.

Masters'

The necessity and educational acquisition of selected vocational skills by Food Science graduates
by Douglas Lind Rokke, 1986

Doctoral
 
Perceived physics concepts needed to teach secondary technology education as general education
by Douglas Lind Rokke, 1992 


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NEW MEXICO VETERANS AND THOSE ON ACTIVE DUTY TO BE TESTED FOR PRESENCE OF DEPLETED URANIUM


The following article was forwarded by Linda Modica, national chair of Sierra Club's radiation committee, and co-founder of First Tennessee Progressives. 

 Thursday November 8, 2007   
                   
New Mexico veterans to be tested for presence of depleted uranium

By Kathy Helms, Diné Bureau
Gallup Independent

WINDOW ROCK ‹ The New Mexico Department of Health will be testing New Mexico
veterans and active duty military personnel beginning next week to determine
whether they have high concentrations of natural uranium and/or depleted
uranium in their urine.

The department¹s Environmental Health Epidemiology Bureau is offering the
tests free of charge at its Scientific Laboratory in Albuquerque for
military personnel and veterans who may have been exposed to depleted
uranium in the Persian Gulf War, the Afghanistan conflict or the current war
in Iraq. 

The Department of Health will make appointments to test individuals in every
county of the state from Nov. 13 to the week of Dec. 10. Tests will be
conducted the week of Dec. 10 for individuals from San Juan, McKinley,
Cibola, Sandoval and Los Alamos counties.

"The New Mexico Legislature gave us funding to test veterans and active duty
military who may have been exposed to depleted uranium," said Health
Secretary Dr. Alfredo Vigil. "We encourage military personnel to take
advantage of these free tests."

At the appointment, a Department of Health staff member will give a brief
questionnaire and take a tap water sample, which will also be tested for
total uranium. The water is tested for uranium because New Mexico, on
average, has a higher concentration of uranium in drinking water than the
rest of the country.

If the urine sample tests high for uranium, the department will offer a
follow-up test to determine if this uranium is depleted or natural uranium.

Depleted uranium is used for bullets, tank armor and explosives. One of the
possible side effects of having high levels of depleted uranium is kidney
damage.

Another possible consequence of exposure to depleted uranium is diabetes,
according to Leuren Moret, a geoscientist and international radiation
specialist who formerly worked as a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley and
Lawrence Livermore laboratories.

In an article published in 2006, Moret said data from Japan, the United
States, India and Europe confirms her discovery of  a global epidemic of
diabetes which began with Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and has continued
to increase during atmospheric testing, nuclear power plant operations, and
very sharply since depleted uranium was introduced in 1991.

"The major radioactive pollutant from atmospheric testing was uranium. There
is an established link in the scientific literature between uranium and
diabetes. Diabetes has also been linked to radiation exposure in Hiroshima,
Nagasaki, and Chernobyl survivors," Moret said.

Her theory has been corroborated by Dr. Ernest Sternglass, professor
emeritus of Radiological Physics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical
School, a pioneer in the study of the health effects of low-level radiation,
and other health experts.

In an article first published from last December through Valentine¹s Day
2007 in the San Francisco Bay View, "From Hiroshima to Iraq, 61 Years of
Uranium Wars," Moret wrote that the conduct of secret nuclear wars since
1991, through the use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States and
Great Britain with their allies, has taken place in the Middle East, the
former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Lebanon.

"It has been carried out for the express purpose of destroying the public
health and mutilating the genetic future of vast populations in oil rich
and/or pipeline regions," she said.

"Carpet and grid bombing with depleted uranium weaponry in Iraq, Yugoslavia
and Afghanistan has guaranteed permanent radioactive terrain contamination.
The recent discovery that U.S. depleted uranium bombs dropped by Israel on
Lebanon in 2006 contained enriched uranium suggests covert testing of fourth
generation nuclear weapons, in violation of the Geneva and Hague
Conventions and the 1925 Geneva Poison Gas Protocol.

"For populations that must continue to live in contaminated areas, the
long-term effects are lingering illnesses and mutilation of their DNA. Š
Mutations induced in the DNA of a single egg or sperm which form a
fertilized egg are expressed and repeated in every cell of the developing
organism, and defects are passed on to all future generations.

"Global atmospheric pollution from depleted uranium particulates will result
in massive depopulation on a global scale. By increasing death rates and
decreasing birth rates globally, more than 2 billion people will be
eliminated," Moret predicts.

"Not only are U.S. and allied soldiers exposed and civilian populations
genocidally targeted, but the depleted uranium pollution is now global. In
reality, we are all Gulf War veterans."

Information: To volunteer or find out more, contact the Department¹s
Environmental Health Epidemiology Bureau at: DOH-EHEB at state.nm.us or call
toll-free, 888-878-8992.