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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Depleted
Uranium: Cause and Effect 4 Hour Special on The ‘X’
Zone Radio Show and TalkStar Radio Network
http://www.talkstarradio.com
http://www.xzone-radio.com
Monday,
March 21, 2005:
Hamilton,
Ontario: On Thursday evening, March 24 at 10 PM, Rob McConnell,
host and executive producer of the TalkStar Radio Network’s
‘The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show” will be dedicating
his 4 hour show to the horrors and world-wide effect of Depleted
Uranium.
McConnell’s
show, The ‘X’ Zone, which is produced from his studio
in Hamilton, Ontario and syndicated internationally by the
US-based TalkStar Radio
Network, beams around the world on two satellites (Galaxy
4R and AMC-4) and the Internet via audio streaming (http://www.talkstarradio.com)
Monday through Friday from 10 PM – 2 AM Eastern.
The
‘X’ Zone Radio Show, now in its 10th year, deals
in the world of the paranormal and the science of parapsychology,
government conspiracies and cover-ups. Just prior to the 2004
US Presidential elections, McConnell asked US Presidential
and US Congressional candidates that if elected, “would
they see to the release of all government presently being
held on UFOs?”
All
candidates said yes, but none of them were elected.
The
show’s interest in Depleted Uranium started a few short
weeks ago when a listener sent McConnell internet images of
what the listener believed was an “alien baby.”
The alien baby turned out to be a child suffering from the
effects of Depleted Uranium.
McConnell’s
subsequent investigation into Depleted Uranium and the effects
that these weapons of mass destruction are having on the world
today, including the long term effects on the world and her
inhabitants were shocking and are a crime against humanity.
“I
knew that as a broadcaster and a member of the media, that
this is a story that has to be told,” said McConnell.
“The stories and the efforts of the people who are desperately
trying to make a difference … doing their part to save
the world and humanity, and bring the parties responsible
for this atrocity to justice, deserve our time, attention
and support.”
McConnell’s
guest list for his DU (Depleted Uranium) Special includes
international experts and speakers:
Bob
Nichols - Writer, Project Censored Award Winner.
Uranium Weapons material in hundreds of newspapers, magazines,
Internet, radio and TV shows.
Leuren
Moret - Famous former Nuclear Weapons Lab scientist.
Spoken in 42 countries on dangers of US Uranium Weapons.
Dennis
Kyne -Support the Truth. After 15 years in the
US Army, Dennis Kyne knows the story of war. He has worked
on the inside of the world's largest, strongest, and most
dangerous military force. He learned the hard way how to Support
the Truth.
Major
Doug Rokke, Ph.D. Ret - A Warrior. The Pentagon's
man in charge of Depleted Uranium Project and clean up. Till
he said "Oh my God, we can't use uranium weapons. It
kills our own troops."
Karen
Parker, JD - A veteran American lawyer at the UN,
she wrote the book on uranium weapons law. Lead attorney on
international lawsuits on use of uranium weapons.
Joyce
Riley - Famous film makers of uranium weapons documentary.
Susan
Riordan - Famous Canadian uranium weapons celebrity.
Her husband, Captain Terry Riordan, was internally contaminated
by ceramic uranium oxide gas and dust in the First Gulf War.
Terry died in 1996. 12,000,000 pounds of Uranium weapons [Ramsey
Clark number.] later Susan asks the American Generals "Why
are you doing this? It is insane!"
British
and American coalition forces were using depleted uranium
(DU) shells in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting
a United Nations resolution which classifies the munitions
as illegal weapons of mass destruction.
DU
contaminates land, causes ill-health and cancers among the
soldiers using the weapons, the armies they target and civilians,
leading to birth defects in children.
Professor
Doug Rokke, ex-director of the Pentagon's depleted uranium
project -- a former professor of environmental science at
Jacksonville University and onetime US army colonel who was
tasked by the US department of defence with the post-first
Gulf war depleted uranium desert clean-up -- said use of DU
was a 'war crime'.
According
to a August 2002 report by the UN subcommission, laws which
are breached by the use of DU shells include: the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights; the Charter of the United Nations;
the Genocide Convention; the Convention Against Torture; the
four Geneva Conventions of 1949; the Conventional Weapons
Convention of 1980; and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and
1907, which expressly forbid employing 'poison or poisoned
weapons' and 'arms, projectiles or materials calculated to
cause unnecessary suffering'. All of these laws are designed
to spare civilians from unwarranted suffering in armed conflicts.
DU
has been blamed for the effects of Gulf war syndrome -- typified
by chronic muscle and joint pain, fatigue and memory loss
-- among 200,000 US soldiers after the 1991 conflict.
It
is also cited as the most likely cause of the 'increased number
of birth deformities and cancer in Iraq' following the first
Gulf war.
'Cancer
appears to have increased between seven and 10 times and deformities
between four and six times,' according to the UN subcommission.
The
Pentagon has admitted that 320 metric tons of DU were left
on the battlefield after the first Gulf war, although Russian
military experts say 1000 metric tons is a more accurate figure.
In
1991, the Allies fired 944,000 DU rounds or some 2700 tons
of DU tipped bombs. A UK Atomic Energy Authority report said
that some 500,000 people would die before the end of this
century, due to radioactive debris left in the desert.
The
use of DU has also led to birth defects in the children of
Allied veterans and is believed to be the cause of the 'worrying
number of anophthalmos cases -- babies born without eyes'
in Iraq. Only one in 50 million births should be anophthalmic,
yet one Baghdad hospital had eight cases in just two years.
Seven of the fathers had been exposed to American DU anti-tank
rounds in 1991. There have also been cases of Iraqi babies
born without the crowns of their skulls, a deformity also
linked to DU shelling.
A
study of Gulf war veterans showed that 67% had children with
severe illnesses, missing eyes, blood infections, respiratory
problems and fused fingers.
For
more information on Rob McConnell and The ‘X’ Zone
Radio Show, please visit http://www.xzone-radio.com
or call, (905) 575-5916 or by e-mail to xzone@talkstarradio.com.
The
‘X’ Zone Radio Show is a division of REL-MAR
McConnell Media Company, Inc. of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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