4 HOUR DU SPECIAL--X-ZONE RADIO---10PM EASTERN--7PM PACIFIC TIME

[Guest guest]

Subj: Official Release

3/23/05 3:29:22 PM Mountain Standard Time

xzone

 

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.

 

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 and Dave 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.

 

The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show is a division of REL-MAR McConnell Media Company, Inc.

of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

 

 

__________

SIGN OUR U.N. PETITION TO BAN WEAPONS AND WARFARE IN SPACE

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/832338563

Campaign for Cooperation in Space

http://www.peaceinspace.org

 

 

 

http://www.blueaction.org

" Better to have one freedom too many than to have one freedom too few. "

http://babyseals.care2.com/