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Raytheon rooftop protest continues. day 3

paster | 12.12.2008 16:49 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Palestine

Call-out for Carnival against the Arms Trade This weekend in Bristol

Raytheon rooftop protest continues.

Carnival protest against the arms trade THIS Saturday 1-3pm
Transport available from central Bristol
12.00 prompt outside the Magpie Centre, off Stokes Croft
12.15 pm outside the Red Factory, Portland Square, St Pauls
12.30 pm outside Kebele, Robertson Road, Easton.

Or make your own way to:-
The Raytheon office is at Argentum House,
Bristol Business Park Frenchay
Turn off the roundabout on Coldharbour Road
in front of UWE Frenchay Campus
(see map below)

The rooftop protest at Raytheon is continuing, despite rain and sub-zero temperatures. Cops and Security are playing it really cool. Food and supplies are getting up to the protesters -they even have a tent now! They plan to stay indefinitely to protest Bristol’s involvement in the arms trade, exposing dealers-in-death like Raytheon and the many other companies like them.





Are you fed up with the War?
Are you against the Arms Trade?
Now is the time for Bristol to show support!

Come and joint the protest in carnival mood – cyclists, skaters, jugglers, musicians, peace-protesters, zombies, fairies, anarchists, punks, young, old, everyone welcome.

If you have a practical head we need this too. Bring you camera, video, placards, leaflets, and campaigning skills to build this into an on-going campaign.

Come to have fun because Raytheon is deadly serious.

"Day turned to Night, and Night turned to Day"
Eye-witness account of the bombing of Fallujah.

RAYTHEON
Raytheon are 4th largest arms company in the world with a $20 billion turnover per year. They are involved massively in the manufacture or delivery systems of WMD. They are the biggest cruise missile maker (Patriot and tomahawk). Their range of both cruise-missiles and plane-dropped bombs can be loaded with cluster bombs. Cluster bombs are indiscriminate weapons killing civilians and soldiers alike. During the 2006 War on Southern Lebanon, Raytheon were supplying the Israeli military who were using the weaponry on civilian targets and deliberately sprayed millions of bomblets throughout the country. They also manufacture DU depleted-Uranium tipped Bunker Busters bombs, such as the ones that killed hundreds of civilians in the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. DU has had devastating health effects on civilian population of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as on British soldiers. Raytheon munitions were used extensively in the destruction of the city of Fallujah during the second Iraq war. Have the UK contract with MOD for UK inland security and the Olympics, plus are involved with the new military training academy being built at St Athens in South Wales. They are also researching military technology for civilian control, such as a sinister crowd-dispersal microwave beam called “The Silent Guardian” which causes intense burning effects on the recipients.

Background notes:
Videos and info on previous demonstrations at Raytheon in Bristol see www.RaytheonOut.wordpress.com
Previous protest  http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/689068
Raytheon cluster-bomb systems see  http://thisworldisnotforsale.com/dawc/myReportOnCluster....html
Raytheon Bunker Busters bombs see  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiriyah_shelter

In August 2006 Anti-War protesters in Derry organized a non-violent occupation of Raytheon's plant in the Ulster Science and Technology Park and were acquitted recently. See  http://www.thisworldisnotforsale.com/



Related Link:  http://www.RaytheonOut.wordpress.com

paster

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There is NO SUCH THING as a DU-Tipped anything

13.12.2008 03:39

The claim that Raytheon manufactures DU-tipped bunker buster bombs is flat out false - there is no such thing as a DU-tipped bunker buster bomb. There never has been such a thing. There is nothing that is DU-tipped. DU, which is not manufactured by Raytheon, is used in kinetic energy penetrators that were used to kill tanks during the Gulf War, in the Balkans, and in Iraq in 2003. A kinetic energy penetrator is a metal rod, fired at very high velocity from a tank or aircraft mounted cannon that turns that velocity into heat when it hits the armor plate of its target. That heat then explodes the ammunition of the target tank and has often blown the turret off. DU has never been used in a bunker buster bomb. To learn what an actual buster bomb is, go to the Federation of American Scientists, one of the oldest anti-nuclear war groups of scientists, and read for yourself at

Guided Bomb Unit-28 (GBU-28) Bunker Buster - Smart Weapons Bunker Buster Bomb - Federation of American Scientists - Note that there is NO DU in this bomb
 http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/gbu-28.htm

This link and many others to scientific and other factual reports about uranium, radiation, etc. is found at  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/DUStory/message/88 and you are encouraged to join the group if only as a visitor and read even more recently posted links and the File Section as well. This is the most recently posted link

Video of Harlequin Ichthyosis
Photos of rare genetic diseases are often used to illustrate anti-DU sites and videos - here is a video of Harlequin Ichthyosis
 http://www.thefetus.net/page.php?id=1448

You will see a video of an infant with Harlequin Ichthyosis - a photo of that rare recessive gene carried disease leads of a recent false article by a German writer who claims to know all about depleted uranium in Afghanistan. Instead, he just trots out all the lies and liars and makes a big splash. If you join the group, you can view more about some of those liars like Douglas Lind Rokke and Asaf Durakovic who are cited as being experts in the article. Message 87 gives

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