U.S. Deaths Increasing Due To Japanese Radiation
Leuren Moret
FUKUSHIMA, Japan – A drastic increase in cancer is being reported in the United States which coincides with the date range following the Japanese tsunami and radiation traveling from nuclear power plants in Fukushima, information which the federal government is reluctant to expose to the public.
In a recent interview, Dr. James Fetzer on his The Real Deal radio broadcast asked independent geoscientist Loren Moret, who has done expert studies on the Fukushima disaster and has reported about major radiation problems caused by the military using depleted uranium in its weaponry, said that the Centers for Disease Control, a federal agency, has reported 34,129 excess deaths in the United States compared to a year ago for the time period March 13 to Sept. 3, 2011.
“There is no reasonable explanation for such a large and very alarming increase in death rates, which in some regions, for instance the mountain region from Montana to the border of Mexico … had a 9.1% increase in death rates as of September 3rd since the Fukushima disaster.
“The radiation levels in the environment, and the increase in death rates and diseases from the radiation exposure are based on weather and on geography. So in areas that are mountainous, they will have very high rainfall and rainout of radiation into the environment, so in this mountain region the death rate has increased 9.1 percent, or it is actually a total of 7,723 deaths in eight states. That is almost a 1,000 deaths per state.”
Moret explained that the result of the disaster in Japan and Fukushima “is the same thing as releasing 300 times more radiation than Chernobyl, or a 1,000 times more than atmospheric testing.
“In an acute exposure like this we are inhaling it. The worst exposure of all is inhaling nanoparticles of radioactive material, because 70% of those very tiny particles go right through the blood-lung barrier into the blood, and cholesterol and lipids in the blood pick up those radioactive particles and hide them. They mask them from the body’s defenses and they are carried by the lipids and cholesterol right through the cell walls into the most intimate parts of the cell, and that has to function properly in order for life to go on normally.
“And when that radiation gets into the cells and is filtered out in the tissues of the body, the muscles and everything, it just completely destroys a person’s health. It may be slowly, it may be very rapidly, but people today, many of these people who died in that total death count of 34,129 people are people whose health was already marginalized and compromised by previous disease, or what they had inherited as their health future and their health history from their own parents and grandparents and families.
“So the weaker people are the ones who die first. They die almost immediately. And winter is coming now, so there is always a big die-off of elderly or people in the winter time who just do not have a strong enough immune system to fight off flu or colds or pneumonia, so they die especially in the winter period.
“But this radiation can cause them to die in low death rate periods like the summer or a warm spring or a warm fall. So we are seeing what basically is the effects of nuclear war on a civilian population without anyone in America hardly even knowing it.”
Moret expressed concern that the United States food supply is at dire risk. “It is going right into our food supply,” she said. “So the Pacific fishing catch is not edible. People should not be eating fish out of the north Pacific at all. And that is really a tragedy because most of the salmon for the world, much of it comes from the Alaska salmon fisheries, which is absolutely huge.”
“Politicians and the government officials and even academics are complicit in this,” she said. “In May, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed an agreement with the Prime Minister of Japan to continue importing food untested from Japan for American consumption.”
On the issue of depleted uranium, Moret blamed its use on the power of corporations.
“You have to realize that the politicians and the government agencies that are allowing these nuclear technologies to be promoted and used and the effects hidden are complicit in this whole thing and the politicians are very, very involved in making profits on promoting the use of certain illegal weapons like depleted uranium or basically nuclear power,” said the radiation expert.
“It is really an illegal weapon being used against the public.
“They take bribes and they have ties to the nuclear industry. They own stock or they are on the board of directors of the Carlisle Group, or the United Technologies, or companies that are making illegal weapons. And then they also own the pharmaceutical companies.
“I am referring specifically to George W. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, who own the pharmaceutical companies, peddling the medicines to sick people, sick citizens, who are the victims of the weapons that these same people have a vested interest in promoting.
“The Carlisle Group, which was started by George Herbert Walker Bush and others, made their first big pile of money on the depleted uranium weapons that were introduced by President George H. W. Bush to the battlefield in 1990 in Iraq, and as a result, we have two million soldiers today, medically disabled since 1990 because of depleted uranium.
“They are so sick they can’t even drive. They were — many of them have called me and told me they wanted to commit suicide. Two months after they got to Iraq for the 2003 Iraq War, they were already mentally ill from the effects of radiation. It has huge, huge — uranium has a tremendous impact on the heart and the brain and also the neuromuscular system. So we have a 55% medical disability rate in our soldiers. It may be even higher now since 1990 when DU was introduced to the battlefield.
“After World War II it was a 5% medical disability rate — that’s with conventional weapons except for the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — after Vietnam because of Agent Orange, the medical disability rate went up 10%, but since 1990 with these uranium weapons the medical disability rate is over 55%.
“It is in the soldier’s bodies, in their semen, in their blood, in their sweat, and they come back sick from Iraq or Afghanistan or Yugoslavia and they internally contaminate their wives and partners, the babies born after the men are exposed are born with horrific birth defects with no legs or no arms. With one eye in the middle of the forehead, that is called cyclopia. All these rare birth defects are occurring not only in our soldiers, but in Fallujah, in the Iraqi population the rate is much higher.”
