|  Jossey | Apr 23, 10:50am | Campaign: International Petition to Ban Uranium Weapons
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MSPs and CADU Condemn Renewed Solway Firth Depleted Uranium Tests
Last December the United Nations General Assembly voted by 136 states to five to request that states submit reports on the health impacts of uranium weapons.
The UK was just one of only five states to vote against the resolution, along with the US, Israel, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands.
Green Co-convener Robin Harper MSP said: "Depleted uranium shells leave behind the kind of pollution normally associated with dirty bombs, radioactive material that damages the environment and risks future health problems. There is no safe place to test these shells, and there is no appropriate battlefield to use them on either. The MoD should be ashamed of going back to Dundrennan with this discredited technology, and should instead commit to the ban requested by the European Parliament."
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AS PROTESTERS DIG FOR VICTORY TO SAVE THE HILL OF TARA
For Whom The Toll Sells
This part of the M3 route is where Halliburton (Dick `the Puppetmaster' Cheney's warmongering company) are planning to build the tolls for the motorway. The construction workers are using compulsory purchase orders to access the area, where they've already started to cut into the esker foundations of the hill (an esker being a not-so-solid sounding ridge made of small rocks, silt and sand left behind by a ancient glacial river).This will result in lowering the water table, preventing water reaching the roots of the forest situated on top of the monument, gradually destroying hundreds of ancient oak and beech trees.
The National Roads Authority and the Irish Government are choosing to ignore the fact that Rath Lugh is protected under the National Monuments Act 2004 and are continuing to break EU Laws left, right and centre.
Further along the route, concrete flyovers are going up and tarmac is being laid at Soldiers Hill for the massive three acre interchange. Developers have plans for the surrounding area which will include shopping centres, hotel complexes and the usual Starbuckery and McShite everywhere!!
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Who are EDO?
Brighton-based EDO MBM are a wholly owned subsidiary of EDO Corp, a US-based arms multinational that is currently number 10 on the Forbes 100 list of fastest growing companies.
EDO's military products include bomb racks, release clips and arming mechanisms for warplanes. They have contracts with the UK Ministry of 'Defence' and US arms giant Raytheon relating to the release mechanisms of the Paveway bomb system.
EDO MBM's supply of weapons systems for the illegal aggression and subesquent war crimes committed in Iraq makes their directors war criminals. International law is very clear on this point, in the 1947 trial of Bruno Tesch, a German industrialist, the court acted
"on the principle that any civilian who is an accessory to a violation of the laws and customs of war is himself also liable as a war criminal".
Tesch was convicted even though he did not supply products for specifically criminal purpose, because he carried on supplying them when he became aware they were being used to commit atrocities. Release mechanisms may not be as 'glamourous' as warheads, but they are just as crucial to the committing of the atrocities in Iraq. Dave Jones, EDO MBM's Managing Director has said under oath that he is "fully aware" of what his products are used for.
We have read out testimonies from the survivors of the Fallujah massacre over a megaphone outside EDO. We have shown pictures of those killed or wounded by the bombing campaign. We have directed their attention to the report in the Lancet which estimates over 100,000 civilians have been killed, mostly by the Coalition bombing which EDO's products make possible. Yet EDO continues its complicity...
All pictures of weapons systems on this page are taken unedited from EDO MBM's website. They claim they are not involved in bombing, but they seem happy to boast about it to would-be customers. Have a look and decide for yourself. The pictures beneath EDO's products are all from post-invasion Iraq, from various reliable sources.
smashedo.org.uk/whoareedo.htm [smashedo.org.uk/whoareedo.htm]
Due for release on DVD in April 2008, On The Verge tells the story of one of the most persistent and imaginative direct action campaigns to emerge out of the UK's anti-war movement.
Trailer.
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