The Sinister Corporate Agenda of the FDA

There was a time when "FDA Approved" was a vote of credibility.  We could purchase a product and feel safe because the government watchdogs had checked it out thoroughly before allowing it to be sold.

Now, "FDA Approved" means "The company that produced this product has enough money and clout to allow it to be sold."

Recent research on a variety of topics has led me to note some astonishing facts about the GMO Food and Drug Pushers Administration. Like a bad penny, it seems whatever topic I’m looking into, the FDA keeps turning up. The FDA has a central role in the increasing tyranny in the United States and we, as taxpayers, are funding them to do this.

The FDA’s Perpetual Conflicts of Interest

First of all, it would be nice to believe that the group who decides whether foods and medicines are safe for our consumption is unbiased and benevolent.  Unfortunately, that is not the case. Let’s take a look at the leadership – the head of the snake – and the ties of those leaders to Big Agri and Big Pharma.  Some previous tsars/commissioners are:

·         Present:  Michael Taylor

o   Taylor’s most recent resume entry: VP and attorney for Satan Monsanto. One of Taylor’s “accomplishments” for Monsanto was writing the rules that allowed recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone into the American food and milk supply, and forcing dairies who labelled their milk as rBGH-free to also state that there was “no difference between their hormone free milk and the chemically enhanced milk.”

·         2009: Margaret Hamburg

o   Hamburg served on the board of directors of Henry Schien, Inc. previous to her appointment to the throne of the FDA.  Henry Schien, Inc. produces amalgam dental products – products that contain toxic mercury.  Hamburg spearheaded the legislation that allowed mercury to be allowed in dental products (without a required warning for the consumers) during her time at the FDA.

·         2006: Andrew von Eschenbach

o   A Bush family friend, von Eshchenbach has a background as a drug peddler for Big Pharma and as the head of the National Cancer Society.   Some highlights of his reign over the FDA were the speedy approval of Avandia, a medication for diabetes that had the unfortunate side effect of a 43% increase in heart attacks among those taking it; and accusations of corruption and intimidation by the FDA’s own scientists.

The FDA Promotes the Death of the Family Farm

The FDA seems to be busily striving to regulate the family farm right out of business. 

·         The FDA has gone “SWAT Team” on producers of raw milk and cheese, performing armed raids on small farms, seizing and destroying inventory and handcuffing farmers to haul them off to jail.

·         The FDA keeps adding “food safety” requirements to small organic farms while doing nothing about the factory farms’ abundant use of pesticides and toxins.

·         The FDA pushed the Food Safety Modernization Act which could eventually shut down farmer’s markets across the country. According to the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), “The regulations could erect new barriers to these important markets for small and mid-scale farmers unable to bear the expense of compliance.”  

With all of these new (time-consuming and pricey) legislations that farmers must adhere to, the price of local organic produce is skyrocketing, making the product unaffordable for most Americans.  This, in turn, reduces competition for the huge factory farms and their GMO-tainted, chemical-sprayed products, allowing a huge profit at the end of the day for Big Agri.

The FDAs War on Supplements and Natural Remedies

The FDA crackdown on health food stores and promoters of natural remedies is reminiscent of cops raiding a meth lab full of junkies. Since 1987, facilities such as the Life Extension Foundation, vitamin manufacturers, health food stores, natural pet food stores and naturopathic medical clinics have been raided by agents waving assault rifles.  Owners and employees have been arrested and convicted of crimes.  Countless merchandise and literature has been confiscated.

What was the crime committed by these natural healing companies?  They don’t tithe to the Church of Big Pharma.  People taking vitamin C and Echinacea might be less likely to get a toxic flu shot, and that doesn’t put money in the pocket of the puppet masters.

The FDA and the New World Order

The FDA is busily “harmonizing” the United States policies with Codex Alimentarius.  Codex is the United Nations’ sinister plot to be in control of the food consumption of the world, as per Agenda 21.  Codex actually outlaws the sale of vitamins of beneficial dosages, as well as natural remedies.  Codex promotes chemical agriculture, heavily medicated livestock and genetically modified produce.  It’s all done under a do-gooder disguise - the CA Commission states its goals as “protecting the health of consumers, ensuring fair trade practices and promoting coordination of food standards.”

According to Mike Adams, the founder of Natural News, “the FDA will "harmonize" the U.S. food and dietary supplement industries with global Codex requirements which outlaw virtually all healthy doses of vitamins and minerals. Under full Codex "harmonization," America will be left with a dead food supply and the health food stores will be virtually stripped bare of dietary supplements. Selling vitamin D at a reasonable dose such as 4,000 IU per capsule will be criminalized and products will be seized and destroyed by FDA agents who recruit local law enforcement to bring in the firepower.”

The “harmonization” process, in which the US complies with all Codex Alimentarius policies, will make the current corruption look like child’s play. We will be starved of nutrients while gorging without satisfaction at a table that appears to be laden with bounty.

The FDA and the Cult of Big Business

The FDA wants to be in control of ALL things ingested by the American people. The FDA is simply an enforcing tentacle of the big business organized crime syndicate that actually runs the United States, and is thus complicit in the plans of the New World Order. 

The FDA can overlook the horrible side effects and suicides caused by anti-depressant pharmaceuticals while attempting to ban the sale of St. John’s Wort, a remedy that has been used successfully for hundreds of years. 

The FDA can bypass the deadly e-coli outbreaks occurring in massive factory farms where the animals are squeezed in so compactly that they can’t turn around, but they want to prosecute an organic farmer for using manure as compost. 

The FDA can cheerfully tell the American people, “Don’t worry, there’s nothing to see here”  with regard to the ever-rising radiation levels in milk but they want to raid the dairies of an Amish man who sells milk right from the cow, as it has been consumed for centuries.

The FDA wholeheartedly supports genetic modification of our crops and livestock.  The FDA endorses additives and preservatives.  The FDA promotes chemical pharmaceuticals over gentle natural remedies.

The FDA is completely and irrevocably corrupted.  The mission of the FDA was to protect the citizenry from the greed of the big corporations, but now the department is nothing more than arm of business. Not only do FDA bigwigs benefit from the corporations whose agendas they push, we pay them to do it - as taxpayers, we are paying for the FDA to sell our health to the highest bidder, regardless of the consequences.  We can safely add FDA board members to the list of traitors to the American people who should be prosecuted and harshly punished for their crimes against us.

There is no bottom line but the bottom line of the balance sheet. 

Pardon Me, Your Food is Glowing

If the one-gallon jugs of milk in the dairy case seem to be glowing, it may not be just from the fluorescent lights  You won’t hear about this from the mainstream media, but the world’s food supply is becoming increasingly tainted by radiation emitted from the Fukushima disaster.

Recently, on the West Coast of the United States, radiation levels were found to be unsafe.  Thankfully, the Environmental Deception Protection Agency has responded quickly:  they’ve closed down 8 of their 18 radiation-testing facilities in California and upped the “safe amounts” of radiation that we can absorb.   I’m sure we can all now breathe a deep sigh of relief.

Just in case you don’t find the EPA’s response to the crisis to be reassuring, there are some things you can do to protect your family from radiation in the food and water supply.

First, it’s important to understand how food becomes tainted by radiation.

Produce can become tainted in two different ways.  First, radioactive particles can settle on the plant while it’s growing.  Secondly, when the soil becomes contaminated by “hot” rain, it can be taken up through the root system.   Broadleaf vegetables like spinach, arugula, cabbage, lettuce and kale are more susceptible to contamination from fallout.  If the soil is okay, then root vegetables like potatoes and carrots are safer than leafy vegetables.

Dairy products and meat become contaminated when the animals graze on radioactive grass or plants.  Samples of milk taken across the United States have shown radiation at levels 2000 percent higher than previous EPA maximums.  The reason that milk is so significant is that it is representative of the entire food supply.  According to an article published on Natural News, "Cows consume grass and are exposed to the same elements as food crops and water supplies. In other words, when cows' milk starts testing positive for high levels of radioactive elements, this is indicative of radioactive contamination of the entire food supply."

When a person consumes radioactive food, the radioactive substances are digested and absorbed into the bloodstream.  Different types of particles affect different tissues.  For example, radioactive iodine attaches itself to the thyroid gland, and cesium is stored in the bone marrow.

The tissues affected by the radioactive materials are at increased risk for cancer as time passes.  Children and pregnant women face the highest risks from radioactive food because of constant cellular growth and division.

According to the U.S.-based group of medical doctors Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), “There is no safe level of radionuclide exposure, whether from food, water or other sources, period,” said Jeff Patterson, DO, immediate past president of PSR, in late March.

Without a lot of very expensive equipment, there is not a lot you can do to test your food for radiation. There are a few steps you can take to limit your exposure, however.

WATER

First, you need access to pure drinking water.  Water that comes from an underground source, like a spring or a covered well, is likely to be safe.  Water can also be filtered for radioactive particles. The most effective way to remove the particles from water is a double process.  First, water should go through a “reverse osmosis” filter, and then, a deionization resin filter. This double process removes 95% or more of radioactive particles.

If levels of radiation are high, this double-filtered water should be used for drinking, cooking, bathing and washing dishes. This purified water would also be the water you would use to wash your produce.

PRODUCE

Despite arguments to the contrary, you CAN wash radioactive particles off of produce.  Clearly if the plant has taken in the radiation through the roots, it is irrevocably tainted.  Fallout, however, can be dealt with.

Calcium Bentonite clay is a natural substance that actually absorbs radiation.  According to the website, About Clay, “Calcium Bentonite Clay has a uniquely strong negative ionic charge. When activated with water it works like a strong magnet, adsorbing and absorbing anything
with a positive ionic charge (i.e., toxins, pesticides, radiation). The clay captures these substances and removes them as it is eliminated or washed off.”

To wash produce with Bentonite Clay:  Mix 1 part Calcium Bentonite Clay to 8 parts of purified water in a large non-metallic bowl. Toss your produce in this clay water, making certain the produce is completely covered, and let it sit for 10 minutes.  Rinse well with more purified water.

For additional protection, peel thin-skinned fruits like peaches and apples after washing them.

Growing Your Own Food

According to “Health Ranger” Mike Adams, even growing your own organic produce is no longer enough to guarantee food safety.  “Your own gardens are just as susceptible to radiation fallout as commercial crop lands,” states Adams. “Only those who grow food in greenhouses will be largely protected from the fallout. Maybe it's a good time to buy some sprouting seeds, too, because you can sprout seeds in your own kitchen and grow them free of radiation.”

Hydroponic and aquaponic systems, greenhouses, hoop houses and kitchen gardens watered with radiation-free water will provide the safest food. Sadly, free-range meats will soon be less safe than factory-farmed meats because of the potential for radiation exposure.

Country of Origin

Another step to avoiding radiation in your food is to note the origin of the food.  Anything produced or harvested south of the equator is safer than foods that originate in the Northern hemisphere.  Along the same lines, items procured from the Eastern half of the United States are safer than items from the West Coast (at this time).  As the fallout increases, the entire Northern hemisphere may become irrevocably tainted for generations. 

Be alert to the meager amount of news coming from Japan: the damaged reactors are NOT under control and further disastrous output could occur at any point in time. Be aware that the media and the world’s governments are NOT looking out for our best interests.  The lives of hundreds of thousands of future cancer victims could be saved if the agencies in charge of food testing, environmental disasters and public safety were issuing truthful warnings and disseminating accurate information.

Instead the party line has been to “avoid panic” through false benevolence, patronizing public statements, sleight-of-hand safety level changes, and other outright LIES. Much-needed food safety testing is not being done, or, if it is, the information is not being released to the public.  Without access to the necessary equipment to test foods for ourselves, we must locate own solutions and resources.

I urge you to do your own research in order to protect yourself and your family.  Don’t trust the mass media or government officials regarding this issue.  They are complicit in the most deadly deceit ever perpetrated on the American people.

Sources

Q&A About Radiation and Food Safety

Could Radioactive Fallout From Japan Affect the US Water Supply?

Remove Radiation from Your Produce with Calcium Bentonite Clay

CISPA: Congress Takes Another Run at the Internet

Once upon a time there was a bill called SOPA.  Some evil trolls who worked and conducted meetings in a big domed building in Washington DC tried to make a wicked law to allow them to close people's internet-based businesses and websites whenever they wanted, for the silliest of reasons, much to the delight of the head ogre who lived in a big White House. The people of the land all stood up angrily and complained to fight against the law, and through their efforts, defeated the trolls and the head ogre.  The laws of the internet remained fair, the trolls were duly chastened, the ogre pretended benevolence and the people lived happily ever after, internet freedoms intact.....

Well.....until the dragon CISPA reared it's ugly head. 

As we predicted here, the government has been busily creating a law to "protect" us from cyber-attacks like the one recently threatened by Anonymous.

The stated purpose of CISPA is "To provide for the sharing of certain cyber threat intelligence and cyber threat information between the intelligence community and cybersecurity entities, and for other purposes."

(Personally, my favorite line in that statement is "and for other purposes." It sets the ambiguous tone for the rest of the bill.)

The outrages that are blatantly laid out in CISPA (The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) are bad enough, but the vagueness of the language takes the intrusion to a level previously unheard of in a country born of the blood of Patriots and allegedly protected by the Constitution.

CISPA allows "cyber entities"  (internet service providers, social networks and cell phone companies, to name a few examples) to circumvent internet privacy laws.  In an interview with Russia Today, Kendall Burman of the Center for Democracy and Technology stated that, "the bill, as written, allows the US government to involve itself into any online correspondence... if it believes there is reason to suspect cyber crime.

As with other authoritarian attempts at censorship that have come through Congress in recent times, of course, the wording within the CISPA allows for the government to interpret the law in such a number of degrees that any online communication or interaction could be suspect and thus unknowingly monitored."


The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocacy group, states, "It effectively creates a ‘cybersecurity'’ exemption to all existing laws...There are almost no restrictions on what can be collected and how it can be used, provided a company can claim it was motivated by ‘cybersecurity purposes."

In the spirit of making things clear, the bill contains several definitions that only add to the general air of vagueness.

CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE ~ "information pertaining to protecting a system or network from—(A) efforts to degrade, disrupt, or destroy such system or network; or (B) theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information."

SELF-PROTECTED ENTITY ~ "an entity, other than an individual, that provides goods or services for cyber security purposes to itself."

PROTECTED ENTITY ~ "‘protected entity’ means an entity, other than an individual, that contracts with a cybersecurity provider for goods or services to be used for cybersecurity purposes."

"Cybersecurity" is not defined in the document.

So it's clear, CISPA will allow for the surveillance and interception of your personal correspondence by the government, email providers, cell phone providers, internet service providers and social networks, to name just a few of the allowable snoopers.

Despite the fact that the bill specifically states that entities cannot use the powers granted "to gain an unfair competitive advantage" one must wonder how a profit can be made via CISPA, especially after the corporate outcry against SOPA, which would have greatly restricted the activities of computer and communications companies.  Companies like Facebook, AT&T and Verizon have jumped on the CISPA bandwagon with both feet.

In a letter to Congress, Facebook VP Joel Kaplan wrote, "Your thoughtful bipartisan approach will enhance the ability of companies like Facebook to address cyberthreats.....Your legislation removes burdensome rules that can currently inhibit protection of the cyber-ecosystem."

Fred Humphries, a Microsoft VP commended Congress in a statement.  "The legislation would seek to eliminate barriers and disincentives that currently prevent effective information-sharing to guard against cyber-attacks."

The United States Chamber of Commerce VP Bruce Josten stated the group's support of CISPA as "an important step in assisting the nation’s public and private sectors to prevent, deter, and mitigate the array of cyber threats from illicit actors without imposing burdensome regulations on industry."

The following companies have all written letters of support for CISPA (you can read the letters by clicking on the name of each company).

AT&T
Boeing
BSA
Business Roundtable
CSC
COMPTEL
CTIA - The Wireless Association
Cyber, Space & Intelligence Association
Edison Electric
EMC
Exelon
Facebook
The Financial Services Roundtable
IBM
Independent Telephone & Telecommunications Alliance
Information Technology Industry Council
Intel
Internet Security Alliance
Lockheed Martin
Microsoft
National Cable & Telecommunications Association
NDIA
Oracle
Symantec
TechAmerica
US Chamber of Commerce
US Telecom - The Broadband Association
Verizon

 

We managed to keep SOPA off the desk of Barack Obama (who we can reliably predict will sign CISPA into law with the glee of a tyrannical zealot.)  Let's keep the momentum going by stepping up to the plate as activists again.

You can find email and mailing addresses for the companies above on their letterhead when you read their glowing commendations for CISPA.  Write to them and let them know that your dollars will not be spent with them, either now or in the future, unless they publicly withdraw their support for this bill.

You can find the email addresses of your members of Congress HERE. 

Sources:

Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011

US House of Representatives Information on CISPA

New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Will Censor the Web

Know Thine Enemy: Crowd Control Tactics of the Regime

A new type of police and military training makes you, the citizen, the target.
With a blaze of chest-thumping glory, the current Regime is making plans to crush the Resistance.

New weapons are being trotted out, soldiers are being asked if they would be willing to fire on citizens and police are being trained not to serve and protect, but to crush and dominate.

In a psychologically threatening move, the propaganda machine has been allowed to report on these things to send us a message.  The Regime wants us to believe that resistance is futile.

So exactly what are we up against?

Brutal New Training with Israeli Forces

New training for American police forces is targeting "crowd control".  Evidence of this can be seen in the increasing violence against protesters in the Occupy movement.  Across the nation, bones are being broken, medical attention is being denied and photos of handcuffed people covered in blood are appearing.  Immediately previous to this outbreak of violence, police departments from all over the nation trained and competed with the Yamam, an Israeli quasi-military police force known for extreme brutality,  in a training exercise called Urban Shield. Israel's national human rights abuses security prowess has led to a veritable hiring frenzy of Israeli military officers in American airports and shopping malls in what one journalist calls "The Israelification of America's security apparatus".

National Guardsmen Trained in Urban Warfare 

However, it isn't just the police that we need to be worried about.  The next threat to Resistance in the United States is the National Guard. The National Guard, in essence, is a group of civilians with once-monthly military training. 

During the Hurricane Katrina aftermath in New Orleans, the US National Guard went house to house disarming citizens in violation of their Second Amendment rights. The National Guard has a "a full-immersion contemporary urban training environment," the Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex in  Jennings County, Indiana, " a 180 acre reservoir and urban infrastructure consisting of 68 major buildings including a school, hospital, dormitories, light industrial structures, single family type dwellings, a dining facility and administrative buildings."  Practice makes perfect and drills occur continuously at this location to prepare the Guard for "close quarter battles" and dealing with "non-compliant OP-FOR" (opposing forces).

New Sci-Fi Crowd Dispersal Weapons 

A weapon recently developed for crowd control is a microwave heat gun called an Active Denial System.  The media, replete with military voice-overs, has assured people that this is a completely non-lethal way to disperse "mobs".  The weapon the sensation of extreme heat and immense pain by zapping the top layer of skin via dielectric heating.  According to military spokespeople, the worst injury inflicted was second-degree burns on 2 people out of over 11,000 people tested.  But what happens when they turn up the dial?

Our Own Military with an Action Plan to Quell Unrest
Last year the Pentagon announced plans to deploy troops within the United States to quell civil unrest in the event of a catastrophic event. Many have suggested this is merely the first step towards implementing Rex 84, a governmental readiness plan to implement martial law in a quick and brutal fashion. 

The plan has a subsection called Operation Garden Plot, which states,"If any civil disturbance by a resistance group, religious organization, or other persons considered to be non-conformist takes place, under Appendix 3 to Annex B of Plan 55-2 hereby gives all Federal forces total power over the situation if local and state authorities cannot put down said dissenters."  Who, exactly, are the threats, according to Garden Plot?  "Disruptive Elements" include "tax protesters, militia groups, religious cults, and general anti-government dissenters" according to Annex A, Section B.

UN "Peacekeepers"
Operation Garden Plot also opens the door for another potential enemy to the Resistance, the United Nations Peacekeepers.  "TAB A APPENDIX 1 TO ANNEX S USAF CIVIL DISTURBANCE PLAN 55-2 EXHIBIT POR:SGH, JCS Pub 6, Vol 5, AFR 160-5 hereby provides for America's military and the National Guard State Partnership Program to join with United Nations personal in said operations. This links selected U.S. National Guard units with the Defense Ministries of "Partnership For Peace."

Nearly 10 years ago, US Marines stationed in 29 Palms, California were given a survey.  One portion of the survey that has been getting a lot of press lately was "Consider the following statement:“I would fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the United States government.""  Equally chilling, however, are these "true/false" statements: 

• I would swear to the following code:“I am a United Nations fighting person. I serve in the forces which maintain world peace and every nation’s way of life. I swear and affirm to support and defend the Charter of the United Nations and I am prepared to give my life in its defense.”
• I feel there is no conflict between my oath of office and serving as a U.N. soldier. 
• It would make no difference to me to take orders from a U.N. company or squadron commander.
• I feel the President of the U.S. has the authority to pass his responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief to the U.N. Secretary General.

 It appears that the plan has been for our own military to fight side by side with soldiers from other countries ....against Americans who have the courage to stand up for their rights and protest, on American soil.  Our land could be legally infiltrated by soldiers in blue helmets who have taken no oath to defend our country from all threats, foreign and domestic.

UN troops bring with them an entirely different batch of weapons for subduing an insurrection. 

"The "non-lethal" anti-personnel weapons described in the USN article fit into three categories, the first being a laser type of weapon designed to disable an adversary with temporary blindness. Other weapons fit into the acoustic or "sonic" category. Acoustic weapons, set to resonate at certain frequencies, can vibrate the internal organs of targeted personnel, stun them and induce nausea or even "liquefy their bowels and reduce them to quivering diarrheic messes", according to the Pentagon. A third type of weapon is electromagnetic which emits radio frequencies that heat a target like a microwave oven, the effects ranging from discomfort, fever, or death, depending on the distance. Very low frequency electromagnetic radiation has been used to put test animals into a stupor or cause their brain cells to release histamine that would cause flu-like symptoms in a human."

                                                                                         (Source: APFN) 

A former U.S. Representative to the UN, Charles Lichenstein, commented on the UN's agenda: "The UN is reinventing what used to be called "peace keeping". In the last several years, that do-good concept has been stretched to encompass a range of UN operations that typically involve the use of force, even the waging of war. 'UN peace keeping' is a dangerously misleading misnomer."

The North American Homeland Law Enforcement Collaboration

The United States and Canada recently signed  The North American Homeland Security Perimeter agreement, which effectively allows the military and police forces of either country to legally operate in the other country. The Declaration on a Shared Vision for Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness states "We intend to work together to uncover and disrupt threats that endanger the security of both Canada and the United States and to establish those agreements or policies necessary to ensure timely sharing of information for combined efforts to counter the threats. We intend to ensure we have the ability to support one another as we prepare for, withstand, and rapidly recover from disruptions."

Recent meetings between the leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico have sparked more discussion of the creation of a North American Union , with the purported immediate agenda of disarming the American people.

Foreign Troops on American Soil with the Permission of the De Facto Government

Finally, members of the Resistance should be aware that foreign troops already have their boots on US soil - actually they have for years.  Troops from Mexico, Russia, and China have all made appearances, en masse, in a move to desensitize us to the sight of armed foreign soldiers.

The threats against the Resistance are many, but knowledge is power. 

We can collectively resist the overthrow of the American Republic when we have properly identified the threats. We can learn about the weapons to be used against dissenters and by understanding the plans outlined in Rex 84, Urban Shield and Garden Plot, we can predict the moves of the opposition.

Our eventual victory over the attack on our Constitutional Republic lies in our strategy and our passion.

"Scheme so as to discover his plans and the likelihood of their success...Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots...Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient."

~  Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"

Sources

The Israelification of American Domestic Security

Peacekeeping or Civilian Control?

"Peacekeeping" Armies Train for Global Control

Operation Garden Plot

Armed US Police Officers to work with RCMP in Canada

Thank you to NinaO

 

Radioactive Danger: It's Not Just Coming from Japan

by Daisy and NinaO

Fukushima is not the only source of the deadly radiation threatening Americans.  The danger is much closer to home than you might think, and it's endorsed, subsidized and cloaked in secrecy by our own government.

The United States is being poisoned by the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, to name two of the culprits.  Depleted uranium, a dangerous material prohibited by the United Nations General assembly, is seeping into our soil, water and air.  It is being transported by ship, truck and train.  Across the country, depleted uranium is being used, stored, processed or buried. 

This map shows the locations of depleted uranium facilities in the United States.. If you are unfortunate enough to be downwind of any of these places, radioactive "hot rain" could be in your future.  If you are in the continental United States, then you are likely to be in the proximity of one or more sources of DU.  Not pictured on this map are Honolulu, Hawaii and Vieques, Puerto Rico.  This map is from 1995 - since then we've spent 10 years at war using unlimited DU ammunition and weapons.

Source:  US Army Environmental Policy Institute

1	Aerojet Ordnance Company	Chino, California
2	Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee	Jonesboro, Tennessee
3	Detroit Army Tank Plant	Warren, Michigan
4	Lima Army Tank Plant	Lima, Ohio
5	Martin Marrietta Energy Systems Milan Army Ammunition Plant	Milan, Tennessee
6	Mason and Hanger at Iowa Army Ammunition Plant	Middletown, Iowa
7	National Manufacturing Corporation	St. Louis, Missouri
8	Starmet Corporation, formerly known as Nuclear Metals, Inc.	Concord, Massachusetts
9	Olin Ordnance Corporation	Red Lion, Pennsylvania
10	Specific Manufacturing Capability Facility Idaho National Engineering Laboratory	Idaho Falls, Idaho
11	Tank Automotive Command	Warren, Michigan
12	Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant, Alliant Tech Systems	New Brighton, Minnesota
13	White Sands Missile Range	Green River, Utah
14	White Sands Missile Range	White Sands, New Mexico
R & D and Test Firing Sitesback to map
15	Army Research Laboratory	APG, Maryland
16	Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs	Richland, Washington
17	Energetic Materials Research and Technology Center, formerly known as the Terminal Effects Research and Analysis(TERA) facility	Socorro, New Mexico
18	Ethan Allen Firing Range (General Electric)	Burlington, Vermont
19	Jefferson Proving Ground	Madison, Indiana
20	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Los Alamos, New Mexico
21	Manufacturing Sciences Corp.	Oak Ridge, Tennessee
22	Nevada Test Site	Mercury, Nevada
23	Picatinny Arsenal	Dover, New Jersey
24	Sandia National Laboratories	Albuquerque, New Mexico
25	Tonopah Test Range	Tonopah, Nevada
26	US Army Combat Systems Test Activity	APG, Maryland
27	Yuma Proving Ground	Yuma, Arizona
Storage and Storage/Demilitarization Sitesback to map
28	Defense Consolidation Facility	Snelling, South Carolina
29	Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant	Hawthorne, Nevada
30	Hunter Army Airfield	Savanna, Georgia
31	Letterkenny Army Depot	Chambersberg, Pennsylvania
32	McAlester Army Ammunition Plant	McAlester, Oklahoma
33	Savanna Army Depot	Savanna, Illinois
34	Seneca Army Depot Activity	Romulus, New York
35	Sierra Army Depot	Herlong, California
36	Tooele Army Depot	Tooele, Utah
37	US Army Armament Munitions and Chemical Command	Rock Island, Illinois
38	Watervliet Arsenal	Albany, New York
Processing Sitesback to map
39	Carolina Metals	Barnwell, South Carolina
40	Sequoyah Fuels Corporation	Gore, Oklahoma
Waste Disposal Sitesback to map
41	Chem-Nuclear Systems Waste Management Facility	Barnwell, South Carolina
42	Envirocare of Utah, Inc.	Clive, Utah
43	US Ecology	Hanford, Washington
Former DU Use or Storage Sites, and Sites Being Decommissionedback to map
44	Alliant Tech Systems, Inc.	Elk river, Minnesota
45	Army Research Laboratory	Watertown, Massachusetts
46	Camp Roberts Military Reservation	Bradley, California
47	Chamberlain Manufacturing	Waterloo, Iowa
48	China Lake Naval Weapons Center Alliant Tech Systems	Ridgecrest, California
49	Ford Aerospace and Communications Corp.	San Juan Capistrano, California
50	Fort Hood	Killeen, Texas
51	Fort Riley	Junction City, Kansas
52	Fort Stewart	Hinesville, Georgia
53	Lake City Army Ammunition Plant	Independence, Missouri
54	National Lead Industries	Colonie, New York
Otherback to map
55	Nellis Air Force Firing Range *Not mentioned in the Army Technical Report, but still in use	Nevada

Another processing facility is being built in Hobbs, New Mexico. This will be the first commercially owned processing facility.

"Idaho Falls-based International Isotopes Inc. is in the licensing and design phase of an environmentally friendly, green technology, uranium de-conversion and fluorine extraction processing facility near Hobbs, N.M."

                                                                          ~ Idaho Statesman

(Well, of course, if it's an environmentally friendly plant to process deadly toxic waste, then that's a different story.)

So, what is depleted uranium and why is it so bad?

Depleted Uranium 101

Depleted Uranium (DU) is nuclear waste. Uranium naturally occurs as three different isotopes: U234, U235 and U238. U235 is fissionable, which means that U235 is so unstable that firing neutrons at it can produce a self-sustaining series of nuclear reactions, releasing huge amounts of energy. This is the basis of nuclear weapons and nuclear power.

Before U235 can be used, it must be concentrated as it only makes up a small proportion of naturally occurring uranium - around 0.7%.  After natural uranium has had most of the U235 removed from it, it is called ‘depleted uranium’.

Depleted Uranium is both chemically toxic and radioactive.  When DU burns it becomes a dust made of two oxides.  The distribution of particle sizes includes sub-micron particles that are readily inhaled into and retained by the lungs. From the lungs, uranium compounds are deposited in the lymph nodes, bones, brain and testes. Hard targets hit by DU penetrators are surrounded by this dust and surveys suggest that it can travel many kilometres when re-suspended, as is likely in arid climates. The dust can then be inhaled or ingested by civilians and the military alike.

Source:  International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons

Complicit with the United States government, local leaders are allowing the FOR-PROFIT storage, use and processing of these deadly toxins.

Depleted uranium processing is a big business.  A toxic waste product, due to it's extreme density (twice that of lead) it can be processed to be used in many ways:

munitions
defense armor plating
armour penetrating military ordnance
material for the nuclear fuel industry
aircraft ballast
shielding
oil well drilling equipment
radiation shields in medical radiation therapy machines

The DOE has also proposed using DU to reinforce concrete and other building materials. 

Not only do we need to worry about the high levels of radiation from the Fukushima disaster - we must also worry about the radiation being quietly emitted from our own soil.  We must worry about radioactive rain that has originated from within our borders.  Our water is being poisoned, our crops are growing in tainted soil and the very air we breathe contains radioactive particles.

Radiation poisoning can have a wide variety of effects on the human body.  According to the ICBUW, "In one day, one microgram, (one millionth of a gram), of pure DU can release 1000 alpha particles. Each particle is charged with more than four million electron volts of energy; this goes directly into whichever organ or tissue it is lodged in. It only requires 6 to 10 electron volts to break a DNA strand in a cell....radiation damaged cells show increased rates of mutations: the precursor to cancer growth. Ionizing radiation is a human carcinogen at every dose-level, not just at high doses; there is no threshold dose and any alpha particle can cause irreparable genetic damage."  Loosely translated, if it doesn't kill you with cancer before you reproduce, the children you conceive may be born with either serious genetic mutations or cancer.

Chemical toxicity occurs when depleted uranium is exposed to moisture in the air.  It reacts to create hydrogen fluoride and uranyl fluoride gas. Uranium is a heavy metal that can be toxic to the kidneys when taken internally. Hydrogen fluoride is a corrosive acid that can be very dangerous if inhaled.

Radiation sickness can either be acute or chronic.  Acute radiation sickness occurs after a large one-time exposure.  Chronic radiation sickness occurs from a build-up of low-level radiation that accumulates in the body.

According to the Mayo Clinic website:

"The absorbed dose of radiation is measured in a unit called a gray (Gy). Diagnostic tests that use radiation, such as an X-ray, result in a small dose of radiation — typically well below 0.1 Gy, focused on a few organs or small amount of tissue.

Signs and symptoms of radiation sickness usually appear when the entire body receives an absorbed dose of at least 1 Gy. Doses greater than 6 Gy to the whole body are generally not treatable and usually lead to death within two days to two weeks, depending on the dose and duration of the exposure.

The initial signs and symptoms of treatable radiation sickness are usually nausea and vomiting. The amount of time between exposure and when these symptoms develop is an indicator of how much radiation a person has absorbed.

After the first round of signs and symptoms, a person with radiation sickness may have a brief period with no apparent illness, followed by the onset of new, more serious symptoms."

Early symptoms of radiation sickness
	Mild exposure (1-2 Gy)	Moderate exposure (2-6 Gy)	Severe exposure (6-8 Gy)	Very severe exposure (8-10 Gy or higher)
Nausea and vomiting	Within 6 hours	Within 2 hours	Within 1 hour	Within 10 minutes
Diarrhea	--	Within 8 hours	Within 3 hours	Within 1 hour
Headache	--	Within 24 hours	Within 4 hours	Within 2 hours
Fever	--	Within 3 hours	Within 1 hour	Within 1 hour
Later symptoms of radiation sickness
Dizziness and disorientation	--	--	Within 1 week	Immediate
Weakness, fatigue	Within 4 weeks	Within 1-4 weeks	Within 1 week	Immediate
Hair loss, bloody vomit and stools, infections, poor wound healing, low blood pressure	--	Within 1-4 weeks	Within 1 week	Immediate

Source: Adapted from "Bushberg JT. Radiation exposure and contamination. The Merck Manuals: The Merck Manual for Healthcare Professionals" and "Upton AC. Radiation injury. In: Goldman L, et al., eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders Elsevier; 2007."

Treatment for radiation sickness depends upon the exposure.

For acute exposure, the initial treatment is "decontamination".  According to the Mayo Clinic website, removing your clothing and shoes reduces your exposure by up to 90%.  The skin is then washed with soap and water. The length of time between exposure and decontamination is directly proportionate to the amount of radiation exposure. 

When seeking medical care, preventative treatment will focus on reducing the damage to blood-producing bone marrow.

Internal contamination is caused by particles being inhaled or eaten.  Treatments include medication to shield the thyroid as well as medications that "bind" to the radioactive particles to help remove them from the body.

Even after death, the human body retains "hot particles" - ionized particles of radiation.  Cremation of the body leads to a high risk of environmental contamination.  Remains should be decontaminated and then buried in a sealed metal casket, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services.

It was very difficult to find information when researching depleted uranium on US soil.  If Google (allegedly allied with the NSA) could be trusted, we would be led to believe that no one, in any of the locations above, has ever protested the location of these facilities near their homes or their children's schools.  We'd also believe that no viable studies have been performed in areas around these facilities and toxic waste dumps.

This leaves us with only hypotheses and a lot of question marks.  We, as concerned citizens, can summarize the following information:

1. There are numerous facilities across the United States that possess depleted uranium.
2. Depleted uranium is both chemically toxic and radioactive.
3. Radioactive isotopes cause genetic mutations and cancer when inhaled, consumed or absorbed through the skin.
4. There is big money being made from the processing and storage of depleted uranium.
5. The mainstream media is not talking about depleted uranium (another media blackout)
6. The use of depleted uranium in weapons is prohibited by Draft Convention on the prohibition of development, production, stockpiling, transfer and use of uranium weapons and on their destruction. It is considered a violation of the UN Convention on Human Rights. 

There must be an awakening of the social conscience.  A toxin that is recognized as deadly, environmentally disastrous and inhumane in use as a weapon by the vast majority of the world has no place being produced, used and stored in our country. We must hold our politicians and captains of industry accountable for the poisons they pour into our environment.   We must hold them responsible for harming the ecosystem and quite literally mutating the DNA structures of humans, plants and animals.

We must look closer to home than Fukushima for the sources of deadly radiation in the United States.  The danger is within our own borders, stamped with a seal of approval and heartily endorsed by our own government.

Co-author:  NinaO

sources and information:

Depleted Uranium: Uses and Hazards

6700 Tons of Radioactive Material Shipped from Kuwait to Idaho

International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons

Depleted Uranium and the Poisoning of Humanity

Radiation Sickness

Depleted Uranium Storage and Processing Facilities

Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War

The Radiation Warnings You Won't Get from the Mainstream Propaganda Machine

by Daisy and NinaO

The mainstream media and the federal government will soon have the blood of the world on its hands.

Radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster in Japan is now actively in the ecosystem all along the North American west coast... even the sea weed is now radiated.  The Vancouver Sun reported one year ago that the seaweed tested from waters off the coast of British Columbia were 4 times the amount considered safe.  No further test results were released after the initial report. 

The governments of the United States and Canada are not conducting tests for radioactivity - at least not to the knowledge of the public.  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has agreed to continue purchasing seafood from Japan, despite the fact that the food is not being tested for radioactive contamination.  Last November, independent testing in Japan showed 65 per cent of the catches tested positive for cesium (a radioactive material).  Instead of refusing to purchase the poisoned fish, food safety agencies in both the United States and Canada have simply raised the "acceptable level of radiation."  We can't go offending the Japanese after promising to buy their tainted goods, now can we?

After the North American governments refused to fund testing, oceanographer Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the non-profit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass, along with Nicholas Fisher, a marine sciences professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and other concerned scientists, managed to secure private funding for a Pacific research voyage.  The results?

Cesium levels in the Pacific had initially gone up an astonishing 45 million times above pre-accident levels. The levels then declined rapidly for a while, but after that, they unexpectedly levelled off.

In July, cesium levels stopped declining and remained stuck at 10,000 times above pre-accident levels.

This means the ocean isn’t diluting the radiation as expected. If it had been, cesium levels would have kept falling.

The finding suggests that radiation is still being released into the ocean long after the accident in March, 2011.

Less than two weeks after the tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster, Michael Kane, an investigative journalist, reported, "In the wake of the continuing nuclear tragedy in Japan, the United States government is still moving quickly to increase the amounts of radiation the population can “safely” absorb by raising the safe zone for exposure to levels designed to protect the government and nuclear industry more than human life."

The radiation has absolutely reached the shores of North America.  Water samples from across the continent have tested positive for unsafe levels of radioactivity.  The levels exceeded federal drinking water thresholds, known as maximum contaminant levels, or MCL, by as much as 181 times."This means that the complete ecosystem of the Pacific Ocean is now poisoned with radiation and we aren't being warned. 

Samples of milk taken across the United States have shown radiation at levels 2000 percent higher than EPA maximums.  The reason that milk is so significant is that it it representative of the entire food supply.  According to an article published on Natural News, "Cows consume grass and are exposed to the same elements as food crops and water supplies. In other words, when cows' milk starts testing positive for high levels of radioactive elements, this is indicative of radioactive contamination of the entire food supply."

The GMO Food and Drug Pushers Administration and the Environmental Deception Protection Agency, instead of refusing to prohibit the sale of tainted foods and mandatory testing of foods produced and harvested from the Pacific Coast, have simply raised the "acceptable levels"  of radioactive material in foods.

Clearly, the "it's-all-for-your-own-good" government will not protect us, or even inform us of the dangers so we can protect ourselves, because it might dip into the pockets of the global elite, the nuclear energy industry, and the food industries.  There is big money behind this cover-up. Refusing to purchase and consume their tainted goods is the best way to fight back, while keeping our families safe and healthy.

How can we protect ourselves? First, be aware of what items are likely to be highly tainted.

1.)  SEAFOOD:  Question the origin of ALL seafood.  Fish and crustaceans from the Pacific Ocean should all be considered to be poisoned with radiation. 

2.)  WATER:  The rainfall and snowfall are all radiated.  Do not drink any water that has not been filtered.   The tap water that flows from your faucet has NOT been treated to rid it of radioactive particles. A recent report from the NY Times stated, "A rooftop water monitoring program managed by UC Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering detected substantial spikes in rain-borne iodine-131 during torrential downpours …

3.) DAIRY PRODUCTS:  Milk and milk products from the West Coast states currently have the highest levels of radiation in North America.

4.)  PRODUCE:  Leafy Vegetables, Wines, Tomatoes, Strawberries....all produce from California or any other West Coast State are also likely to be tainted.

5.)  MEAT:  If a animal eats any leafy vegetable all along the West Coast, that animal has consumed radiation, and is poisoned.  This is any animal from cows, pigs, goats, sheep to wild deer and other game.

If you eat the above foods from areas with high radiation levels, you are eating radiation and feeding it to your children. Slowly the radiation levels within your body will build up.  This is PERMANENT.

Infant mortality rates across the United States have increased by more than 35% since the nuclear disaster, according to a court statement by Dr. with independent scientist Leuren Moret, MA, PhD.  A study published in The International Journal of Medicine indicates that more than 20,000 deaths right here in North America can be directly attributed to the release of radioactive material from Fukushima.  

Radioactive isotopes of the type released from Fukushima have a half life of 30,000 years.  This means that we must permanently change the way we prepare our food. 

• Wash your food with soap and rinse it in filtered water. 
• Be aware of the origins of your vegetables, fish, game and seafood.
• Keep abreast of radiation levels to help monitor where your food is acquired.
• Use only filtered water for drinking, cooking and ice.        

Co-author: NinaO 

Sources:

"Fallout" - CollapseNet

Fukushima Radiation Spreads Worldwide - Washington Blog

Nuclear Genocide of Babies and Children in Japan, the US and Canada

 Check in tomorrow to read more about our increasingly toxic land and the intentional poisoning of the United States.