Is adding more vaccines a good idea.  ALL vaccines are bad, STOP splitting hairs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As they have many practical applications, phthalates are produced in huge volumes. In fact, as of 2006, over 470 million pounds of phthalates were produced per year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you remember when it was learned a few months ago that Pfizer’s animal trials involved giving COVID vaccines to 44 French rats? But then they killed all the rats and declared their vaccine was safe and effective for pregnant and nursing human mothers, because nothing bad had happened to the rats (which they killed before studying the vaccine’s effects). As bad as Pfizer’s vaccine testing was, Moderna’s rat trials were even worse. Check this out.

Government watchdog group, Judicial Watch, finally received about 700 pages of Moderna documents through a Freedom of Information Act request to the government. While Moderna’s internal documents are still being kept secret, they had to file a Biological Licensing Application with the FDA. That document, Judicial Watch correctly argued, is a public record. We still haven’t seen any of Moderna’s internal vaccine documentation yet, as we have with Pfizer, but this is a significant first step.

Among the documents are the reproductive toxicology tests that Moderna conducted on a group of female rats. The rats were injected with the Moderna vaccine and then impregnated. Unlike Pfizer, Moderna didn’t immediately kill all of its rats. To Moderna’s credit, they saw the experiment through; they aborted some of the baby rats to see if their shot affected fetal development and allowed others to give birth to their babies to see the results.

Here’s what the Moderna documentation says:

“mRNA-1273-related variations in skeletal examination included statistically significant increases in the number of F1 rats with 1 or more wavy ribs and 1 or more rib nodules. Wavy ribs appeared in 6 fetuses and 4 litters with a fetal prevalence of 4.03% and a litter prevalence of 18.2%. Rib nodules appeared in 5 of those 6 fetuses.”

Let’s define a couple of terms that get tossed around when it comes to vaccines or any other medications: “Rare” and “very rare.” A rare side effect is considered one that occurs in between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 10,000 patients. A very rare side effect is considered one that occurs even less often than 1 in 10,000.

If 4% of the baby rats born to vaccinated mothers had rib malformities and rib nodules, that’s a rate of 1 in 20. That’s not very rare. That’s not rare. That’s dangerously common.

The documentation doesn’t say whether the “nodules” on the babies’ ribs were fibrous dysplasia, enchondroma or osteochondroma (three types of benign rib cancers) or if the nodules were simple fatty tissue lumps. That would be nice to know, but either way, it’s not normal in babies.

The FDA approval label for Moderna’s Spikevax, which is the vaccine in question, states:

“No vaccine-related fetal malformations or variations and no adverse effect on postnatal development were observed in the study.”

That is a flat-out lie from the Food and Drug Administration. And it’s not the first time, obviously.

Among the documents are the reproductive toxicology tests that Moderna conducted on a group of female rats. The rats were injected with the Moderna vaccine and then impregnated. Unlike Pfizer, Moderna didn’t immediately kill all of its rats. To Moderna’s credit, they saw the experiment through; they aborted some of the baby rats to see if their shot affected fetal development and allowed others to give birth to their babies to see the results.

Let’s not forget that Pfizer’s documents showed that 44% of pregnant women in their trials LOST THEIR BABIES. Out of 50 pregnant women that they gave the vaccine to, 22 of them had miscarriages and their babies died.

Dr. Naomi Wolf described the tragedy like this:

“Pfizer took those deaths of babies—those spontaneous abortions and miscarriages—and recategorized them as recovered/resolved adverse effects. In other words, if you lost your baby, it was categorized by Pfizer as resolved adverse event, like a headache that got better.”

The FDA received that documentation from Pfizer in April of 2021 – a year and a half ago! And yet both the FDA and the CDC remain adamant to this day that all pregnant and expecting and breastfeeding mothers should get the vaccine. It appears that the FDA and the CDC are just as corrupt as the FBI, and that’s saying a lot these days! And these ghouls described a miscarried baby as a “resolved adverse event?” That is disgusting.

Pfizer and Moderna’s own documents state that these vaccines can cause catastrophic miscarriage rates and can cause malformations and some type of lump – maybe cancerous, maybe not – in unborn babies. Does that sound like a “safe and effective” medicine that women of childbearing age should be getting injected with?

 

Children in war

Child Victims of Armed Conflicts

During the last 10 years, around 10 million children are estimated to have been killed as a result of war. The situations resulting from armed conflicts affect primarily children because of their vulnerability, and do so in many different ways. Often alone and helpless because of the reigning chaos, some become child soldiers, others are forced into exploitation. The fundamental rights of these children are shamelessly flouted for the benefit of barbarous and cruel acts. Many of them remain deeply traumatized, wounded, or even disabled.

Categories of child war victims

Armed conflicts create and inflict a great deal of suffering on populations. Often, children are the primary victims. Their situation can be classified into the following different categories:

– Civilian victims: During armed conflicts, it often happens that schools or even hospitals are targets of armed forces. Because of this, civilians in these places become victims of these attacks through no fault of their own. It should also be noted that after the end of a conflict, antipersonnel mines, cluster bombs, or other explosive remnants of war are instruments of death that continue to strike civilians. As a result of all these conflicts, many people, most particularly children, die each year.

– Child Soldiers: A child soldier is defined as any person less than eighteen years old who is a member of armed governmental forces or of a regular or irregular armed group or associated with these forces, whether or not there is an armed conflict (1).

– Displaced Children: During armed conflicts, a large number of children find themselves separated from their parents or those who have them in their care. There exist different categories for displaced children.

– Orphans: Because of war, many children find themselves orphans after the death of their parents.

 

 

– Wounded or Handicapped Children: Because of war, children are wounded, mutilated, or become handicapped as a result of the atrocities that they have had to live through.

– Imprisoned Children: In times of conflict, children are frequently imprisoned. The reasons for this imprisonment are diverse, but in most cases, it results from the association of the children with the armed forces of a State.

– Exploited Children (sexual exploitation or even forced labor): Often children are victims of sexual abuse. Most of the time, sexual violence increases considerably during times of conflict. Children are also subjected to forced labor and participate in hostilities through no fault of their own.

Why do the situations created by armed conflicts have repercussions on children in particular?

Confronted with the chaos caused by armed conflicts, children are the most wronged. In fact, most of the time they are still too young to understand what is happening or do not have any way to defend themselves against the danger. They are, therefore, vulnerable and become easy targets that armed forces have no qualms exploiting.

If they are not killed, mutilated, imprisoned, or raped as a result of barbarism, they are sexually exploited or reduced to slavery. Moreover, rape is sometimes used as a tactic of war against children and women in order to torture, wound, obtain information, intimidate, or punish.

Additionally, because of armed conflicts, children are separated from their families and find themselves alone, panicked, lost, and in need. Left to fend for themselves, they suffer from an inability to take care of themselves. In order to survive, they are often forced to flee their country.

Concerning the recruitment of child soldiers, the main reason why armed forces choose children over adults is explained by the ease in convincing them to join these groups and in manipulating them afterward. Children are naive, innocent, unconscious of danger and “are much cheaper”. They also tend to obey and do not challenge authority. Finally, children living in a difficult situation often see this recruitment as a way to resolve their                                                                                              problems.

Consequences of war on children

“At least two million children have died in the last 10 years as a result of wars started by adults, whether they were civilian targets or whether they were killed in combat as child soldiers. The number of children wounded or disabled is three times larger, and there are even more suffering from sicknesses, malnutrition, sexual violence, and the hardships of flight. Countless children have been confronted with the anguish of losing their home, their belongings, and those close to them. In such conditions, practically all the necessary constants for child development are seriously disrupted, and the psychological damages of armed conflicts are incalculable. (1)”

Direct consequences

In spite of the fact that wars also affect adults, children are unfortunately too often the direct but powerless victims of the horrors committed against their family.

In each conflict, numerous children are killed, wounded, or even exploited. Others are imprisoned, forced to leave their country to survive, or join the armed forces becoming “child soldiers”. Many find themselves orphans with no protection.

Other consequences can be added to this list. Confronting the horrors of war, children are subjected to profound emotional trauma which marks and changes them forever. These moral wounds are difficult to heal and have serious repercussions on their future life.

These children, unable to grow up in an atmosphere of trust and having had to face atrocities from a very young age, often develop the conviction that violence is a way like any other to solve disputes, and so it is difficult for them to send a message of peace and international security to future generations.

Indirect consequences

Children are also affected by war in a more indirect way. Armed conflicts also result in the destruction of infrastructure and basic services (hospitals, schools), which prevents children from having access to education and care. Most of the time, children find themselves without protection.

Solution : prevent conflicts

The prevention of armed conflicts is the only way to manage to improve the lives of child war victims. By collaborating with governments, many actors (the United Nations (UN) or other international organizations) can contribute to the implementation of preventative action.

The UN uses different techniques to prevent or manage conflicts between two countries in conflict, in order to create conditions for a return to a lasting peace. As an example, peacekeeping operations have a goal of establishing a United Nations presence in countries of conflict (with their agreement). The UN then has the possibility of deploying and maintaining on site troops, police, and civilian personnel. These people have the mission of assuring security and bringing the necessary political support for the consolidation of peace.

The protections of international law

In international humanitarian law, a child is protected not only in a general way as a person not participating in hostilities, but also benefits from a special protection by reason of the quality of being particularly vulnerable. A child who participates in hostilities is equally protected as well.

General Protections

• The Geneva Convention relating to the protection of individual civilians in times of war (art 27 to 34): the fundamental guarantees granted by these texts, such as the right to the respect of life, physical and moral integrity, the ban of forced bodily services, torture, collective punishment, and reprisals are applicable to children.

A child has the right to these protections both in cases of armed international conflict or in its absence, in reason of principle of the 2nd additional protocol, according to which “neither the civilian population neither individual civilians shall be the object of attack”

Specific Protections

• First additional protocol relating to the conduct of hostilities: this sets out the principle of special protection intended for children, according to which “children shall be the object of a special respect and shall be protected against any form of indecent assault (art 77). The Parties to the conflict shall provide them with the care and aid they require, whether because of their age or for any other reason.” This principle also applies to cases of non-international armed conflict.

This protocol compels States to take all possible measures in order to prevent children less than 15 years old from directly taking part in hostilities. It forbids their recruitment into armed forces.

“More than 25 articles of the Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols specifically concern children.They include rules on death penalty, access

 

IRAQ

The Children of Fallujah: The Medical Mystery at the Heart of the Iraq War

Depleted Uranium, White Phosphorous and The Deformed Children of Fallujah – Know nothing. See nothing. Say nothing.

Back story: The evidence was clear, but no one cared – except you.

It’s the same old story. Know nothing. See nothing. Say nothing. When children died in a plague of cancers in southern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War, the Americans and the Brits didn’t want to know about it. Nor, of course, did Saddam Hussein. If children had been poisoned by our depleted uranium munitions, then Saddam would lose face, wouldn’t he? Independent readers contributed $250,000 for medicines for the children we met in Iraq who were suffering from cancers and leukaemia after that war.

Margaret Hassan of Care – later murdered by unknown killers months after her kidnapping, following the “liberation” of Iraq – helped us distribute the medicines from our readers across the country. No thanks from Saddam, of course. And all the children died. And not a word from our masters, armaments manufacturers and jolly generals.

It’s the same again in Fallujah today. The doctors talk of a massive increase in child birth deformities. The Americans used phosphorous munitions – possibly also depleted uranium (DU) – in the 2004 battles of Fallujah. Everyone in Fallujah knows about these deformities. Reporters have seen these children and reported on them. But it’s know nothing, see nothing, say nothing. Neither the Iraqi government nor the US government nor the British will utter a squeak about Fallujah. Even when I found in the Balkans a 12-year-old Serb girl with internal bleeding, constant vomiting and nails that repeatedly fell out of her hands and feet – she had handled the shrapnel of depleted uranium munitions after a Nato air strike near Sarajevo in 1995 – Nato refused to respond to my offer to take a military doctor to see her.

Already, I had discovered that up to 300 Serb men, women and children who had lived close to the Nato target in the Sarajevo suburb of Hadjici, had died of cancers and leukaemias over the five years that followed the bombing. As for southern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War, the less said, the better.

I met Ali Hillal in 1998, when he was just eight, in Baghdad’s Mansour hospital. He lived next to factories and a television station in Diyala, the repeated targets of US and British aircraft in 1991, the fifth child in a family with no history of cancer. Now he had a brain tumour. Latif Abdul Sattar had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Youssef Abdul Raouf Mohamed from Kerbala had gastro-intestinal bleeding. There was Cherou Jassem in her party dress – she wanted her picture taken – who had acute myloblastic leukaemia.

And so it went on as I met each child 14 years ago. Dhamia Qassem, 13, suffered heart failure during treatment for acute leukaemia. Ahmed Walid, a baby during the 1991 Iraq bombings, developed chronic myeloid leukaemia in 1995. Many of the parents were with their children during the raids and some spoke of strange smells, of insecticide and flowers. Western diplomats – who otherwise chose to remain silent – wondered if the children might have been stricken by the smoke from Saddam’s bombed chemical warfare factories.

In Basra, I found Dr Jawad Khadim al-Ali who had drawn maps of the clusters of the new child and adult cancer cases across southern Iraq, some of the children from the very battlefields in which US tanks fired DU munitions at Saddam’s armoured forces. Even when I visited these sites I found farming families with new cancers. This, the doctors attributed to DU, of course, not phosphorous, although some researchers have suggested DU was also used at Fallujah in 2004.

What was astonishing, however, was the response. While The Independent‘s readers gave generously for medicines for the children, the British government’s reaction was pitiful. Lord Gilbert at the Ministry of Defence, in a letter dripping with sarcasm, said that my account of a possible link between DU ammunition and children’s cancer – “coming from anyone other than Robert Fisk” – would be “a wilful perversion of reality”. Particles from DU warheads became difficult to detect, he wrote, “even with the most sophisticated monitoring equipment”.

Yet when an Atomic Energy Agency official wrote to the Royal Ordnance in London in 1998, he said that the spread of radioactivity and toxic contamination would be “a risk to both the military and the civilian population” if not dealt with in peacetime.

 

In December 1998, Doug Henderson, then the British minister for the armed forces, wrote – in a letter that may soon have to be repeated over Fallujah – that while the government was aware of reports linking DU with “alleged [sic] deformities, cancers and birth defects, the government has not seen any peer-reviewed epidemiological research data on this population to support these claims and it would therefore be premature to comment on this matter”.

And so it went on. The authorities had nothing to say since there had been no “peer-reviewed epidemiological data” – which there would not be, because no such research would be carried out. Now, too, the same is happening in Fallujah where DU ammunition may also have been used in 2004, and where white phosphorous certainly was used. But there has been no “peer-reviewed epidemiological data”. So goodbye to the children of Fallujah, their brave parents and any chance of finding out the truth.

Unless, of course, some worthy NGO steps forward with the money and resources and training to do what neither the Iraqi government nor the Americans have shown any interest in doing: cataloguing the increase in birth deformities in a city where US forces fought their toughest battles since the Tet offensive in Vietnam. Phosphorous can be used to identify targets – but if used as a weapon in civilian areas, it would breach the 1980 Convention on conventional weapons. Which is probably why no one outside Iraq wants to hear the name of Fallujah.

 

New Study Documents Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq

September 20, 2019

 

 

 

Were babies born deformed from Chernobyl?

There has been a 200 percent increase in birth defects and a 250 percent increase in congenital birth deformities in children born in the Chernobyl fallout area since 1986.

The “Children of Chernobyl,” a catch-all term for kids who suffered from the effects of the accident, attracted particular attention, as their bodies absorbed more radiation than adults’.1 The most common form of foreign aid involved health trips, in which children traveled abroad for rest, recovery, and medical treatment.

What happened to the baby in Chernobyl?

Lyudmilla said she didn’t know radiation could hurt her child. … Two months later, Lyudmilla gave birth to a daughter, who died after four hours from congenital heart malformations and cirrhosis of the liver (both of which have been linked to radiation exposure).

Does nuclear radiation cause deformities?

A 2010 study by the American Academy of Pediatrics found a correlation between the presence of hazardous levels of strontium-90 — a radioactive element produced by nuclear fission — and dramatically high rates of certain congenital birth defects.

How did Chernobyl affect pregnancy?

Studies regarding the reproductive health of women in the contaminated regions immediately after the Chernobyl accident showed a decrease in birth rates, an increase in anemia during pregnancy, and an increase in perinatal mortality.

How many children did Chernobyl affect?

To date, the group has helped organize stays for around 25,000 children, though it estimates that around 1 million children live in zones affected by the disaster.

What birth defects did Chernobyl Cause?

Much of the fetal damage caused by the Chernobyl disaster involved neural tube defects. In the fetus, the neural tube is an embryonic precursor to the central nervous system. In other words, the baby’s brain, and spinal cord— two of the most important parts of the human body—are formed from the neural tube.

Is the Chernobyl reactor still burning?

The team estimates half of the reactor’s original fuel is still locked up inside 305/2, so it’s not great news that neutron levels have doubled in the past four years. Reactor 4 several months after the disaster.

When Will Chernobyl be safe?

The first waste canister containing highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has been successfully processed and will now be safely stored for at least a 100 years.

Are there people still alive from Chernobyl?

and most were young men at the time. Perhaps 10 percent of them are still alive today. Thirty-one people died as a direct result of the accident, according the official Soviet death toll.

 

 

 

The Children of Agent Orange

For decades, Vietnam veterans have suspected that the defoliant harmed their children. But the VA hasn’t studied its own data for clues.

A new ProPublica analysis has found that the odds of having a child born with birth defects were more than a third higher for veterans exposed to Agent Orange than for those who weren’t.

Concerns that Agent Orange was not just sickening vets but also causing birth defects in their children surfaced after troops returned from war four decades ago. Veterans reported that some of their children had unusual defects — missing limbs, extra limbs and other diseases — that didn’t run in their families. Some government studies were done, including Michalek’s, but they generally dismissed an association.

 

Since then, those findings have guided the government position on disability benefits for children of Vietnam vets. The VA makes payments only to those who have spina bifida, in which the spinal cord doesn’t develop properly, and the children of a small number of female Vietnam vets with 18 other diseases.

 

That leaves out the vast majority of vets’ ailing children.

 

Last week, after repeated recommendations by federal scientific advisory panels, Congress passed a bill that requires the VA to pay for an analysis of all research done thus far on the “descendents of veterans with toxic exposure.” It also requires the agency to determine the feasibility of future research and, if such studies are possible, to pursue them.

In its written response, the VA said it has already requested a related report from the National Academy of Medicine.

Recent advances in science, especially in the burgeoning field of epigenetics, have shown that chemical exposure can affect multiple generations. Changes in gene expression — whether a gene for a trait is turned on or off — can be passed from one generation to the next, research shows. A 2012 study, for example, showed that gestating female rats exposed to dioxin, a byproduct found in Agent Orange, passed mutations to future generations.

“I think there’s kind of a paradigm shift that’s been going on,” said Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health. “While I used to be pretty skeptical about reports, especially related to Agent Orange exposures of predominantly male soldiers we had at the time, I’m not as skeptical as I was.”

If researchers conclude that troops’ wartime exposures can affect future generations, the implications go well beyond Vietnam veterans and their descendants. Vets from subsequent conflicts have similar concerns that their proximity to burn pits, depleted uranium and other toxins might be affecting their children.

Vietnam vets and their advocates believe a brutal calculation may lie at the heart of why their claims have gone unexamined. Caring for and compensating veterans themselves already costs tens of billions of dollars a year. If a link to their children is proven, it could add billions more.

Many Vietnam veterans, reaching the ends of their lives, are increasingly haunted by thoughts of the full cost of their service.

Blackledge, who fathered a healthy child before the war and two sick ones after, believes the government that exposed troops to Agent Orange should care for those it harmed — including their children.

“I probably wouldn’t have had kids,” he said, “had I known that there would be an impact on them.”

 

 

 

Children of the Apocalypse – Vietnam.
The US army dumped Agent Orange on a third of Vietnam during the war.
Fifty years on there are 800,000 third generation victims of the spray.The patients at Friendship Village (seen in the above video) suffer from constant sickness and physical defects. And there’s no cure. “It saddens me…I can’t do anything about it”. A Vietnamese war Veteran adds, “The Americans don’t want to acknowledge the damage!”. And now a fourth generation of Agent Orange victims is about to endure the consequences of the terrible disfigurements imprinted in their genetic material.

 

Historical Events of Dioxin Exposure

 

..”First let’s rewind a bit: to the days when Monsanto Corporation started out as the maker of killer poisons like DDT, PCBs, and Agent Orange.

From 1961 to 1971, the US dropped 21 million gallons of defoliants over large swathes of Vietnam, of which 12 million gallons were Agent Orange – a herbicide manufactured for the US Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical.

Its name derives from the colour of the orange-striped barrels in which it was shipped. There were other colours in the ‘rainbow herbicides’, but Agent Orange was by far the most widely used.

The use of Agent Orange was an experimental form of chemical and biological warfare, designed to strip foliage and deny the enemy jungle cover – and to deprive enemy forces of their food supply (directly spraying rice-fields, for instance). Experimental in this instance meaning no idea of the long-term effects of this deadly herbicide, which can release dioxin – one of the most potent toxins known to mankind.

According to the post-war Vietnamese government, 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400,000 deaths and disabilities, and 500,000 children born with birth defects.

And now, five decades later, with the cooperation of the US government, Monsanto is knocking on Vietnam’s door with another potentially carcinogenic herbicide: Roundup. GMO seeds are considered dangerous not only because they are modified, but also because they are designed to work with the chemical herbicide Roundup, Monsanto’s market-leading glyphosate brand.

The build-up of glyphosate in crops is suspected as a leading cause of a spike in cases of autism, cancer, and long-term illnesses in America. Not to mention a possible link with bee colony die-offs. The use of Roundup is highly controversial and it has already been banned in a number of countries around the globe”.

AGENT ORANGE: THE CONTINUING APOCALYPSE, 3rd GENERATION

 

Agent Orange is one of the dioxin-contaminated herbicides that were sprayed during the Vietnam War and used in different industrial and agricultural activities.

Their use has resulted in hotspots of dioxin contamination, with concentrations of the chemical two to five-fold higher in affected areas in southern Vietnam than in non-contaminated regions.

 

Health Effects of Dioxin Exposure

A number of conditions like chloracne, cardiovascular diseases and damage to the reproductive system, hormonal system and normal development have been associated with dioxin exposure.

 

Dioxin or Agent orange – A Vietnam war herbicide can still be responsible for hormonal imbalances in mother and their breastfeeding children decades later, found a study conducted by Kanazawa University in Japan.

Previous research has shown a link between exposure to herbicides that contain chemicals called dioxins (Agent Orange) and prostate cancer in men.

This young child, Nguyen Thanh Nhan, aged four suffers from hydrocephalus, or water on the brain, a disease associated with Agent Orange

 

Four decades after Agent Orange – heartbreaking pictures show even now babies in Vietnam are being born with horrific defects

• Babies in Vietnam still being born with birth defects due to Agent Orange, despite 40 years since conflict with U.S.
• Chemical was sprayed on crops, plants and trees by U.S. military to destroy cover for guerrilla fighters
• The dioxin can cause a range of birth defects as well as cancer and reproductive abnormalities
• Heartbreaking pictures were captured by British-born photographer Francis Wade on trip to Vietnam

 

Many of the children end up in the care of the orphanages as their families cannot afford the burden of a disabled child and they are abandoned there.

Mr. Wade, a freelance journalist now based in Bangkok, explained: ‘The very sad subtext to this all, and the reason why I visited the orphanages, is that many families in Vietnam, particularly in the rural areas that were sprayed with Agent Orange are too poor to carry the burden of a disabled child, and so abandon them at orphanages.

US approves $170 million grant for Vietnam

Herbicides, including dioxin, sprayed by US forces during the past war have had long-term effects on generations of Vietnamese people.

Part of the US$169,739,000 aid will be used to deal with the legacy of the Vietnam War, including the consequences of Agent Orange/dioxin.

Accordingly, approximately US$14.5 million shall be made available for health and disability programs in areas sprayed with Agent Orange and contaminated with dioxin, to assist individuals with severe upper or lower body mobility impairment or cognitive or developmental disabilities.

About US$19 million shall be allocated for activities related to the remediation of dioxin contaminated sites in Vietnam. And about US$2.5 million shall be made available for a war legacy reconciliation program.

Once passed by Congress, the budget bill needs to be signed by President Donald Trump to take effect.

Between 1961and 1971, the US military launched a chemical warfare codenamed Operation Ranch Hand in Vietnam. In total they sprayed a range of herbicides, including Agent Orange/dioxin, across more than 4.5 million acres of Vietnam. As Agent Orange contains dioxin, it has immediate and long-term effects.

 

 

The Tragic Story of the Semipalatinsk Test Site Tugs at Your Soul

Semipalatinsk, also known as “The Polygon”, was a nuclear testing site for the former Soviet Union. The site was actively used for a period of 20 years, during which multiple nuclear bombs were detonated.

Nuclear weapons were first developed by the United States of America, and used during World War II in an attack on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The long-lasting devastation that ensued has left an indelible mark in history, since it not only caused territorial damage and loss of lives, but it also contaminated the area with radioactive fallout, which had an impact not only on the surviving population but also on their subsequent generations in the form of health disorders, birth defects, deformities, etc. More than 60 years after the nuclear detonation, the area is still uninhabitable, and the descendants of the people from those cities continue to exhibit health disorders. But these cities are not the first and last example of nuclear destructiveness.

Regrettably, yet another city has suffered a worse fate. It is the city of Semey, formerly known as Semipalatinsk, and also known as “The Polygon”. This city was formerly part of the Soviet Union, and currently is a part of Kazakhstan. In a bid to compete with the United States and successfully develop their own nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union carried out extensive testing of nuclear bombs

The extensiveness of the testing is evident in the fact that in just a period of 40 years (1949-1989), the Soviet Union managed to detonate and test around 456 nuclear warheads and missiles. Also, the collapse of the Soviet Union caused Kazakhstan to inherit over 1,410 nuclear warheads (fourth-largest nuclear arsenal in the world). In the later years, Kazakhstan returned the arsenal of warheads back to Russia, and signed anti-nuclear treaties like the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, the comprehensive test ban treaty, and also helped establish the central Asia nuclear weapon free zone.

Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site

Immediately after World War II, the cold war began between the Soviet Union and the allied forces, mainly the United States. This instigated the Soviets to develop nuclear weaponry to rival and even surpass that possessed by the U.S. With such a view in mind, the Semipalatinsk site was selected by Lavrentiy Beria, head of the Soviet atomic bomb project, who claimed that the vast steppe region was ideal for testing as it was completely uninhabited. But as is now obvious, his claims were false.

To develop the testing site, the area was isolated and the entry into and out of the site was restricted to high ranking government and military officials (politburo). Workers from Gulag camps (Russian camp for prisoners of war) were employed and charged with constructing the various buildings and facilities that included laboratories as well as underground bunkers and testing arenas.

On 29th August 1949, the first Russian nuclear bomb was detonated at the testing site. It was called “First Lightning” or “RDS-1” by the Russians, but the Americans refer to it as Joe-1, a reference to Joseph Stalin. The success of this test made the Soviet Union the second nation (after the US) to successfully develop and detonate a nuclear bomb. This success inspired better research, which ultimately culminated in the manufacture of Joe-4, a thermonuclear weapon produced by the Soviet Union.

This was tested successfully on 12th August 1953. Its detonation released an energy of 1,700TJ, which is equivalent to the detonation of 400 kilotons of TNT. Over the course of the next 4 decades (1949-1989), many more such tests were carried out, above ground as well as underground. Of the total 456 detonations, approximately 340 were underground explosions, while 116 were atmospheric explosions that resulted in the formation of the characteristic mushroom clouds.

This extensive testing caused the area to be highly saturated with nuclear radiation, causing it to become the world’s worst radiation hotspot. What makes this worse, is that the area was never completely inhabited, but possessed populations of rural citizens. Also, according to some recently declassified documents, the site was purposefully used as a site for not only testing nuclear weapons, but also testing the effect of the detonations on buildings, infrastructure, and people. Due to the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Russian researchers were interested to investigate the effects of radiation exposure on humans. In addition to this inhuman research, if the citizens sought treatment, they were merely subjected to biological tests, and prescribed mild medications that could offer some relief but would not treat the actual condition. Meticulous reports were made of each individual and used for analysis.

Impact of Nuclear Testing

On the Environment

The soil, air, and land of the area remain highly radioactive, and experience radiation that is 10-20 times higher than normal. The accumulation of radioactive polonium over the 40 years of testing has rendered the top-soil of the area completely contaminated. The atmospheric explosions (specially those followed by rainfall) acted to spread the radioactivity over a vast distance. All flora and fauna in this region was affected, and hence led to the desertification of the area.

Similar effects were observed due to underground detonations. The underground blasts irradiated all ecological microfauna and helped in accelerating desertification, causing the area to be a vast barren expanse of contaminated soil and air.

The most prominent effect was seen in the form of the lake created due to the underground nuclear explosion on 15th January 1965. The bomb was equivalent to 140,000 tons of TNT, and caused the formation of a crater that was 408 m wide and 100 m deep. The radioactivity was so intense that it could be detected as far as Japan. The crater that was formed led to the creation of lake Chagan, also known as the “Atomic Lake”.

Its water source is the Chagan river, and it has a volume of 100,000 m³. It is highly radioactive and has an extremely high concentration of tritium and other radionuclides. The intense radioactivity causes the lake water to be non-viable, and hence, no living organism can be seen living in this water body.

On the Inhabitants

The radiation has induced a variety of genetic defects, skeletal deformities, and medical conditions in the inhabitants of the area. According to surveys, approximately 1.5 million people have been affected by the testing at Semipalatinsk. The health defects range from cancers to birth defects and congenital deformities. Along with these, the children born to these individuals, are born with a wide array of neurological and developmental defects.

The children exhibit absence of arms, skeletal deformities, organ failures, neurological damage, cancers, and also hematological disorders. It is estimated that during the four decades of testing, the individuals were exposed to as much as 2000 mSv of radiation per year. To put this into perspective, the average U.S. citizen is exposed to only 6.2 mSv of radiation per year. The exorbitantly high levels of radiation have exhibited dire consequences for the health of the people of the area. The gravity of the issue does not lie in the observable health conditions of the people, but in the genetic errors that have been introduced in their genome.

This is severely devastating, since not only is the current generation suffering, but the future generations will also suffer radiation damage due to these heritable genetic errors in their genome. It is impossible to provide any sort of restorative treatment for this issue. In many cases, deformed and damaged children that are born to seemingly healthy individuals are left at orphanages to be cared for by the charity of others. The overall effect of these health conditions has had an impact on the basic quality of life, concept of family, and humanity. In an attempt to stop the proliferation and spread of these defective genes, some researchers have proposed the issuing of certain documents, called “genetic passports”, to the affected people. These documents would identify the people exposed to and affected by nuclear radiation, such that they may be discouraged from the proliferation of their genetic material (have children), or at least be aware that if they do reproduce, their progeny would suffer from numerous health disorders.

Most authorities and people oppose this notion due to its deterministic nature. The issuing of these genetic passports would be tantamount to giving a free rein to eugenics (improvement of human genome via selective breeding). But on the other hand, these documents will help in reducing the prevalence of radiation-based genetic errors in the population; and if the individuals do not reproduce, the effects of the radiation would not be transferred to younger generations. This dilemma remains unsolved due to its highly controversial nature.

The observation of all these alarmingly atrocious effects of nuclear weaponry has instilled an anti-nuclear sentiment in the people of Kazakhstan. So much so that, the Kazakh citizens initiated an anti-nuclear movement called “Nevada Semipalatinsk” in 1989, which culminated in the closure of the testing site in 1991.

According to UNESCO, this movement played a vital role in presenting the need to fight against nuclear threats, globally. Kazakhstan has also played an important role in the formation and signing of various nuclear disarmament treaties among the nations of the world. The destructiveness of nuclear weapons is aptly captured in the following quote.

 

 

 

 

 The “Baker” underwater nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll in 1946. Dozens of World War II vessels were used as targets for this weapons test, and now lie on the atoll’s lagoon floor. Photo: US Navy

 

Congressmen angry that Bikini islanders’ trust fund may have been ‘squandered’

30 Jun 2023

Displaced Bikini Islanders marched on the US Embassy in Majuro in early June to voice their anger over what they say is misuse of the Bikini Resettlement Trust Fund by island leaders. Photo: Hilary Hosia

Following widespread media coverage of the collapse of what was an over $US70 million trust fund for Bikini islanders displaced by American nuclear weapons testing, the United States Congress has demanded answers from the Interior Department about the status of the trust fund.

Four leading members of the US Congress put the Interior Department on notice last Friday that Congress is focused on accountability of Interior’s decision to discontinue oversight of the Bikini Resettlement Trust Fund.

In their three-page letter, the chairmen and the ranking members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Natural Resources – which both have oversight on US funding to the Marshall Islands – wrote to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland with questions about what has happened to the Bikinians’ trust fund.

It was initially capitalised by the US Congress in 1982 and again in 1988 for a total investment of just under $US110m.

Protests in Majuro

The Congressional letter is the first official US action on the Bikini Resettlement Trust Fund and follows several demonstrations in Majuro over the past six weeks by members of the Bikini community angered by the current lack of money to support their community.

The letter notes that on November 16, 2017, Interior accepted Kili/Bikini/Ejit Mayor Anderson Jibas and the local council’s request for a “rescript” or change in the system of oversight of the Resettlement Trust Fund. As of September 30, 2016, the fund had $71m in it, the last audit available of the fund.

“Since then (2017), local officials have purportedly depleted the Fund,” the four Senate and House leaders wrote to Haaland.

“Indeed, media reports suggest that the Fund may have been squandered in ways that not only lack transparency and accountability, but also lack fidelity to the Fund’s original intent. If true, that is a major breach of public trust not only for the people of Bikini Atoll, for whom the Fund was established, but also for the American taxpayers whose dollars established and endowed the Fund.”

They refer to multiple media reports about the demise of the Resettlement Trust Fund, including in the Marshall Islands Journal, the New York Times, Marianas Variety and Honolulu Civil Beat.

The Resettlement Trust Fund was audited annually since inception in the 1980s. But there have been no audits released since 2016 during the tenure of current Mayor Jibas.

The lack of funds in the Resettlement Trust Fund only became evident in January when the local government was unable to pay workers and provide other benefits routinely provided for the displaced islanders.

Since January, no salaries or quarterly nuclear compensation payments have been made, leaving Bikinians largely destitute and now facing dozens of collection lawsuits from local banks due to delinquent loan payments.

Bikini women load their belongings onto a waiting Navy vessel in March 1946 as they prepare to depart to Rongerik, an uninhabited atoll where they spent two years. Photo:

Bikini women load their belongings onto a waiting Navy vessel in March 1946 as they prepare to depart to Rongerik, an uninhabited atoll where they spent two years. 

‘Fund is in jeopardy’

The letter from Energy Chairman Senator Joe Manchin and ranking member Senator John Barrasso, and Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman and ranking member Raul Grijalva says American lawmakers “have a duty to oversee the management of taxpayer dollars appropriated for the resettlement and rehabilitation of Bikini Atoll.”

The letter also repeatedly makes the point that the money in the trust fund was only to rehabilitate and resettle Bikini Atoll, with projects on Kili or Ejit islands limited to only $2m per year, subject to the Interior Secretary’s prior approval.

“Regrettably, the continued viability of the Fund to serve its express purpose now appears to be in jeopardy,” the US elected leaders said.

The US leaders are demanding that Haaland explain why the Interior Department walked away from its long-standing oversight role with the trust fund in late 2017.

Specifically they want to know if the Office of the Solicitor approved the decision by then-Assistant Secretary Doug Domenech to accept the KBE Local Government’s rescript “as a valid amendment to the 1988 amended resettlement trust fund agreement.’

They also suggest Interior’s 2017 decision has ramifications for US legal liability.

“Does the Department believe that the 2017 rescript supersedes the 1988 amended resettlement trust fund agreement in its entirety?” they ask.

“If so, does the Department disclaim that Congress’s 1988 appropriation to the Fund fully satisfied the obligation of the United States to provide funds to assist in the resettlement and rehabilitation of Bikini Atoll by the people of Bikini Atoll? And does that waive any rights or reopen any potential legal liabilities for nuclear claims that were previously settled?”

They also want to know if KBE Local Government provided a copy of its annual budget, as promised, since 2017.

The letter winds up wanting to know what Interior is “doing to ensure that trust funds related to the Marshall Islands are managed transparently and accountably moving forward?”

 

RADIOACTIVE WASTELAND

North Korea’s nuclear tests ‘are creating DEFORMED BABIES’ as locals near bomb site live in fear of ‘phantom disease’ ravaging lives

More than 80 per cent of all trees that are planted die and essential underground wells have also run dry near the top secret Punggye-ri weapons test site.

KIM Jong-un’s leaky underground bomb site has turned the surrounding area into  a nuclear wasteland sparking a spate of babies born with horrific deformities, defectors have reported.

Locals have been struck down with mystery illnesses, more than 80 per cent of all trees have died and essential underground wells have run dry near the top secret Punggye-ri weapons test site, they told the Research Association of Vision of North Korea.

These before-and-after images show a closer view of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North KoreaCredit: AFP

More than 200 people died and at least 100 people were trapped at the complex, which is carved deep into the side of Mount Mantap, on October 10.

The accident is believed to have been caused by Kim’s sixth nuclear test, which some officials believe was an H-bomb.

Now those who used to live near the site have revealed other horrors.

“I heard from a relative in Kilju that deformed babies were born in hospitals there,” one defector claimed, according to the Chosun Ilbo newspaper.

“I spoke on the phone with family members I left behind there and they told me that all of the underground wells dried up after the sixth nuclear test,” said another.

One defector – who lived through two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 –  revealed that most of those living near the weapons testing area are not warned ahead of bomb blasts.

“Only family members of soldiers were evacuated to underground shafts. Ordinary people were completely unaware of the tests,” he said.

Experts have warned that North Korea risks further radiation leaks if it continues its nuke testsCredit: EPA

 

 

 

The Punggye-ri test site in North Korea is carved deep into Mount MantapCredit: The Sun

North Korean people also drink the water that runs down from Mount Mantap, under which North Korea’s military conducts its nuclear tests.

There are reportedly complaints in the area of a “phantom disease” that appeared after Kim’s cronies began conducting regular blasts.

Defectors have revealed that residents suffer from unexplained fatigue, headaches and shocking weight loss.

Others have reported an unusually high mortality rate and nervous system disorders, such as the loss of certain senses, including smell and taste.

Kim’s underground bomb tests have been lambasted by world leaders

 

Nuclear war ‘may break out any moment’ North Korean Deputy Ambassador delivers warning at United Nations

However, those who fall ill after a radioactive test are BANNED from seeing top medical experts in the capital of Pyongyang to stop the spread of panic.

Anyone caught boarding trains with samples of soil, water or leaves, face being arrested and sent to one of despot Kim’s state prison camps.

Meanwhile, 38 North, a North Korea monitoring site operated out of Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, reported at the weekend that commercial satellite imagery of Punggye-ri had shown significant movements near the West Portal, a yet-unused tunnel complex.

 

 

Infant deformities in Yemen linked to Saudi-led bombardment.

Doctors in Yemen have reported an increase in children born with deformities as a result of the two-year war that has left the country on the brink of famine.

The al-Sabeen Maternity and Child Hospital in the capital, Sana’a, has seen an increase in babies being born prematurely and with deformities, which doctors say is a result of the war and the Saudi-led coalition’s bombs.

“These cases of deformities have drastically increased over the past two years, due to the assault on Yemen, the rockets and the cluster bombs,” Doctor Abdulkarim al-Najjar said Wednesday.

Video footage taken from al-Sabeen hospital shows babies brought in from Al-Hudaydah coastal area, which has been targeted by airstrikes. The children have abnormally large skulls and painful-looking swollen heads covered in veins.

Al-Najjar described seeing “unprecedented” deformities in “brains, backbones, throats, digestive and nervous systems,” in babies born in Yemen.

Parents are struggling to get their children the treatment they need. “We urge the organizations and the good-doers assisting us with this case, since we have not found anyone to treat him [his son] in al-Sabeen Hospital due to the lack of means and the wars and the full blockade,” one father said.

Doctors in Yemen have been warning about the rise in stillbirths and deformities as a result of the war for some time.

“Fetal malformations could occur due to several reasons, including mothers’ diseases and subsequent viral infection of the faction and/or poor nutrition,” Wafa al-Mamari, an obstetrician at al-Rahma Hospital in northern Sana’a, told Press TV in July.

“The strange thing is that the rate of fetal abnormalities is growing and doctors cannot explain the causes, meaning that the phenomenon could be attributed to war and ordinances, given the fact that a great proportion of women with deformed fetuses hailed from bombarded areas in the provinces of Sa’adah, Sana’a, Ta’izz and Hudaydah,” she said.

Yemen is suffering a humanitarian crisis as the two-year conflict continues between a Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi rebels. The people of Yemen are at the brink of famine, with food and aid supplies cut off and almost seven million being pushed towards starvation, Oxfam warned in its latest release.

The UN estimates at least 10,000 civilian casualties have occurred since March 2015, when Saudi Arabia began bombing the country in support of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, who fled Yemen in 2015. The bombardment began to remove the Houthi rebels from the capital, which they had captured in 2014.

On Thursday, Amnesty International again condemned both the US and the UK for supplying arms to Saudi Arabia which have been used to kill civilians. Both countries provide intelligence and logistic support to Saudi Arabia and have, according to Amnesty, sold more than $5 billion in weapons to the kingdom in the last two years.

 

 

 

‘Rats of Shah Dola’: How hundreds of children in the Islamic State of Pakistan are forcefully deformed and exploited as beggars

The historical background of the shrine sheds light on the practice of child abuse that continues to this day. As per reports, Shah Daula who was supposedly fond of animals would put helmets on the heads of children for decorative purposes.

 

Where Is Outcry Over Children Killed by U.S.-Led Forces?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Kids are not

little adults’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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