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36 Diabetes and Depleted Uranium 36 Diabetes and Depleted Uranium Italian Embassy Cover Italian Embassy Cover up Continues up Continues by Bob Nichols by Bob Nichols Project Censored Award Winner Project Censored Award Winner (San Francisco Bay View) Dr Mishra described invitation to the Consul, his reservation and Flying Plague Plunders Nine June 29th to June 6 as "A week from Hell." stated "I am going to meet with a scientific Flying Plague Plunders Nine tates International radiation expert Leuren Moret colleague, Leuren Moret, an old family friend S States talked to Dr Mishra, a famous surgeon from who works for the good of humanity, about India, the afternoon of July 7, 2006. Dr. matters of interest to international public The grasshoppers that children catch in jars Mishra's report was grim. I had tried to reach health." today, are relatives of the locust, but thankfully, him by phone and email for a week. I was Mishra continued his statement "I am a don’t exist in nearly the numbers that devastated concerned about his safety. On July 10 Dr scientist and a medical doctor. I have an interest nine states in the 1870s. From 1874-1877, residents of Kansas, Mishra stated "I will not be cowed down." in diabetes and public health links to depleted Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, the Dakotas, Colorado, Mishra reported "Threats at the hospital, uranium. There are big unexplained increases in Wyoming and Montana would wage a losing battle three weird phone calls claiming 'we have you diabetes in India, China and Jakarta since 1990. against clouds of Rocky Mountain Locusts, which under surveillance,' one each in American, I am participating in a meeting about these sometimes exceeded areas twice the size of Texas. Italian and Indian accents." issues." When the vegetation was gone, the locusts Dr. Mishra said he was advised by The US, Italian and Indian governments went on to eat almost anything else they landed on, someone in the [Indian] government to "leave had no way of knowing about the planned including laundry hung out on lines, leather saddles, town for three days because of the danger." international meeting about the diabetes and and the wool right off the back of sheep in the Mishra said he did and "unidentified depleted uranium cause and effect link. pasture. They crunched underfoot, often six inches Government agents blocked my computer, The suspicion is that the University of deep or more. The noise of their approach was blocked my phone and email and harassed my California's Nuclear Weapons Labs and described in terms of thunder, an intense hailstorm, or a driving snowstorm. So great were their family." factories tapped Leuren Moret's calls; then, numbers, and so heavy their weight, tree limbs Dr. Mishra said it started on his visit to went through the US State Department or the broke under their bodies and tumbled them onto the the Consul at the Italian Consulate on June 29th Defense Department to the Italian government nearly barren land. regarding his earlier request for an Italian Visa. and the Indian government. Bizarre and desperate measures were taken, AVisa is an entry and travel permit and can only That is the most probable way the words and rewards were offered, including a $5 bounty for be issued in Bombay by Italian Consul "diabetes and the link to depleted uranium and a bushel basket of the dead pests. One of the few Baeceloni. Mishra was called back without an Leuren Moret" came out of the Italian Consul's effective methods used, originated in Colorado, explanation. mouth in Bombay, India. Scientist Leuren where a field-wide length of wire was wrapped in The Consul asked Dr. Mishra 1) Who is Moret formerly worked at two Nuclear oil-soaked rags then set alight and dragged over the your sponsor in Italy, 2) What is your hotel in Weapons Labs run by the University of field. How many locusts were involved in the Italy and 3) what is your interest in Leuren California. swarming? A Nebraska physician telegraphed to Moret, in diabetes and depleted uranium? Dr. Moret and Mishra concluded with this points around him, to determine the edges of the Mishra had said nothing about diabetes, statement "Denial of Dr. Mishra's Visa is an mass, then calculated their depth, and the rate of depleted uranium or Leuren Moret. academic, scientific, political and social issue. movement. His figures are the basis for the Guinness Depleted uranium is a genocidal We are not against any government. We would Book of Word Records entry on the greatest radioactive metal used for bullets, bombs and like the Italian government to understand the concentration of animals: "`A swarm of Rocky missiles by the United States and Great Britain importance of this issue of global public health Mountain locusts that flew over Nebraska on July as munitions in Iraq, Afghanistan and the as an indicator and result of depleted uranium 20-30, 1874, covered an area estimated at 198,000 former Yugoslavia. Millions of pounds of pollution. This position is stifling scientific square miles. The swarm must have contained at weaponized radioactive uranium gas and dust investigation and is censorship." least 12.5 trillion insects with a total weight of 27.5 have been dispersed by US/UK military forces million tons.'' And yet, 25 years later, they would in Iraq and Central Asia. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: be extinct. Scientists working with 100-year old ABOUT THE AUTHOR: records, studied the life cycle and habitats of the The use of uranium weapons has caused locusts, and concluded that the pests had not been a global diabetes epidemic since 1991, victim to a sudden environmental disaster, but rather according to scientist Leuren Moret. It is Bob Nichols is a Project Censored the encroachment of man. For when the Rocky enough uranium dust to cause an estimated Award Winner. He is a correspondent for the Mountain Locusts entered the reproductive phase of twenty five million additional cancers in Iraq in San Francisco Bay View newspaper and a its life cycle, which follows swarming activity, they the next decade. The US and UK military still frequent contributor to various on line laid eggs in the very ground that beleaguered use uranium munitions. There are only 24 publications. Nichols is completing a book farmers ploughed up to re-plant. With the growth million Iraqis. Many Iraqis now have multiple based on 15 years of nuclear war in Central of farms in the areas hardest hit, a section that cancers. Asia. Nichols is a former employee of the ran north-south in the central U.S., the locusts On his visit to to the Consul at the Italian McAlester Army Ammunition Plant. Nichols were gradually wiped out. The last known pair Embassy Dr Mishra answered the three can be reached by email. You are encouraged to was collected on July 19, 1902 and are now part questions by stating he would bring the email write bob.bobnichols@gmail.com. of the Smithstonian Collection. []