[getsmart-l] Leuren Moret, Depleted Uranium, and Strykers In Hawaii

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Leuren Moret, Depleted Uranium, and Strykers In Hawaii 


By Cathy Garger 


Oct 26, 2007, 17:26 


How do we cultivate the 'aina (land), these magnificent island 
ecosystems, while maintaining their inherent natural wealth in 
perpetuity? Hopefully we will make righteous choices. 


Alternative-Hawaii 


With the widespread public knowledge of the history of US nuclear 
bomb testing in Americas relatively recent past, the fact that 
radioactive munitions have been used on military bases and nuclear 
test sites throughout the nation since the 1940s may come as no 
surprise to most Americans. What has been kept hidden, however, is 
the use of dangerous, lethal biological, chemical and radioactive 
materials, in the open air, on the tropical islands of Hawaiian 
Paradise. 


As any fifth grader knows, the Japanese bombed the US Naval Pacific 
Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. What the public 
did not know about the Hawaiian Islands - until recently - is that 
formerly-classified, clandestine, and illegal Depleted Uranium has 
been used there. These are the same munitions that the US uses on 
the enemy in the Middle East  and that the United Nations considers 
a weapon of indiscriminate effect. 


Radiation Levels and Leuren Moret 


In April, 2007, internationally reknown radiation expert, 
environmentalist, and geoscientist, Leuren Moret, was invited by 
activists in Hawaii to come and bring her expertise - and Geiger 
counter - with her. During her stay, Ms. Moret spoke with Hawaiians, 
educating around the issue of uranium munitions as a lethal, toxic, 
and radioactive poison. The elevated radiation readings Moret and 
citizen activists recorded were carried by ABC-TV news on April 29 
and 30, 2007. 


Moret brought international attention to the militarys use of 
Depleted Uranium in Hawaii when she exposed high environmental 
radiation readings levels there. Use of radioactive materials  even 
in weapons training and testing- and are prohibited in the U.S. 
without Nuclear Regulatory Commission involvement. 


In a recent interview, I asked Ms. Moret how it felt to discover 
high radiation readings in Hawaii? 


STORY CONTINUED: 


http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_25396.shtml

Help the US become Radiation Free by 2033! 


www.radiation.org 


Cathy Garger www.mytown.ca/garger 

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