Smiling Buddha

Great article about what is really going own, behind the scenes.

Litsen up or don't, at your own peril.

Smiling Buddha:

'Everyone in Utah can tell you a story - or take you to a cemetery and show you where loved ones are buried . . .'

Alyson Heyrend, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, was talking about the experience of being a 'downwinder,' and she could have been speaking for residents of Nevada, Idaho, Montana and other places as well, where large segments of the population were exposed to fallout from U.S. nuclear testing over the years; suffered dire health consequences and the premture deaths of loved ones despite glib assurances from the government that they were in no danger; who have finally cried, loudly enough to disrupt, at least temporily, the government's oblivious, WMD-smitten agenda, 'No more!'

'We have stood down the experiment site and the workforce that was preparing the site for the experiment,' read the dry, tersely worded statement issued by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency last week, referring to the 'subnuclear' blast known as Divine Strake, initially slated to go off in early June at the Nevada Test Site and twice-postponed because of local uproar and environmental challenges.

Divine Strake would have ignited 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, sending up a 10,000-foot mushroom cloud, possibly stirring up radioactive dust at the Test Site and spewing an array of pollutants into the atmosphere: 'two tons of cyanide compounds, 25 tons of particulates, a ton of hexachloroethane, a ton each of tetrachloroethylene and tetrachloromethane, a ton and a half of phosgene, nearly a ton of sulfur dioxide, more than 31 tons of carbon monoxide, seven tons of nitrogen oxides, nearly two tons of chloroform, and many other noxious compounds,' according to environmental writer Valerie Brown, in an article published recently in the St. George.