Uraniums
Effect On DNA Established
7 April
2006
The use of
depleted uranium in munitions and weaponry is likely to
come under intense scrutiny now that new research that
found that uranium can bind to human DNA. The finding
will likely have far-reaching implications for returned
soldiers, civilians living in what were once war-zones
and people who might live near uranium mines or
processing facilities.
Uranium - when
manifested as a radioactive metal - has profound and
debilitating effects on human DNA. These radioactive
effects have been well understood for decades, but there
has been considerable debate and little agreement
concerning the possible health risks associated with
low-grade uranium ore (yellowcake) and depleted uranium.
Now however,
Northern Arizona University biochemist Diane Stearns has
established that when cells are exposed to uranium, the
uranium binds to DNA and the cells acquire mutations,
triggering a whole slew of protein replication errors,
some of which can lead to various cancers. Stearns'
research, published in the journals Mutagenesis
and Molecular Carcinogenesis, confirms what many
have suspected for some time - that uranium can damage
DNA as a heavy metal, independently of its radioactive
properties. "Essentially, if you get a heavy metal
stuck on DNA, you can get a mutation," Stearns
explained. While other heavy metals are known to bind to
DNA, Stearns and her team were the first to identify this
characteristic with uranium.
Depleted
uranium - what is left over when the highly radioactive
isotopes of uranium are removed - is widely used by the
military. Anti-tank weapons, tank armor and ammunition
rounds are just some of the applications. "The
health effects of uranium really haven't been studied
since the Manhattan Project (the development of the
atomic bomb in the early 1940s). But now there is more
interest in the health effects of depleted uranium.
People are asking questions now," Stearns said.
Her research
may shed light on the possible connection between
exposure to depleted uranium and Gulf War Syndrome, or to
increased cancers and birth defects in the Middle East
and Balkans. And closer to home, questions continue to be
asked about environmental exposure to uranium from mine
tailings; heavily concentrated around Native American
communities. "When the uranium mining boom crashed
in the '80s, there wasn't much cleanup," Stearns
said. Estimates put the number of abandoned mines on the
Navajo Nation in Arizona at more than 1,100.
Source:
Northern Arizona University
Depleted Uranium - US
Lung Cancer Rates Soar
From
Karl W B Schwarz
kwbschwarz2@snet.net
3-9-6
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- So,
what is the plan?
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- On
the March 8, 2006 edition of the
CNN American Morning program with
Miles O'Brien and Soledad
O'Brien, they made a startling
announcement. On average
there are 175,000 new cases of
lung cancer each year in the
United States. For just the
months of January and February
2006 there are 172,000 confirmed,
newly diagnosed cases of lung
cancer. This is not just a
little spike on the charts and
much worse news is coming.
That is already averaging this
year about 6 times the normal
incidence of new lung cancer
cases in a year.
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- They
tried to attribute it to second
hand smoke, but second hand smoke
and cigarettes are nothing
compared to being exposed to
Depleted Uranium ("DU")
and particulates created by DU
explosions. You can smoke
for 30 years and not do the
damage that DU can do to you in
30 days.
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- How
long does it take to get lung
cancer after being exposed to DU
and nano-particulates? On
average 2-5 years is the correct
answer. We started bombing
Afghanistan in October 2001 or
four and a half years ago.
We started bombing Iraq
again in March 2003, or just shy
of three years ago.
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- The
effects of those bombing attacks
were registered as far away as
the UK according to the
Aldermaston Report we and others
released February 19, 2006.
We do not know yet what was
registered in the U.S. because
the U.S. government is not saying
and they definitely do not want
you to know.
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- The
link between DU exposure and lung
cancer has been known for many
years. The correlation
between DU and lung cancer versus
cigarettes and lung cancer is
even stronger for DU.
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- They
are making plans right now to
bomb Iran, even knowing full well
that they will be spreading more
nuclear pollution.
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- Here
are the action items that need to
happen:
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- 1.
MEDICAL INTERVENTION INSTEAD OF
MEDICAL NEGLECT. We (Patmos
Nanotechnologies, LLC) are in
discussions with multiple parties
to quickly address the medical
treatment needs of the veterans
that have been exposed to DU and
derivative nano-particulates.
That will require a lab
unlike any medical lab in the
United States due to what it is
testing for and developing
treatment regimens.
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- We
will be putting out a call to
raise funds to provide the needed
travel, lodging and treatment for
the veterans. Since Patmos
is already aligned with a
hospital and a group of doctors,
and several key players in the
heavy metal detoxification area,
our emphasis on biotech will be
re-shifted to be one of
addressing the sheer medical
needs of the veterans including
treatment for heavy metal
toxicity, DU detoxification and
developing a wide range of
options to deal with the many
problems the troops are having.
If the US government will
not do it, we shall and we shall
be asking Americans to do the
right thing and help out.
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- We
are also establishing a DU
Detoxification Center in the
Atlanta area and will be
expediting the treatment to
veterans that our military is
trying to avoid. Lives are
at stake as well as quality of
life. What got my attention
focused on this matter is how
many of our young healthy
soldiers come home and are
fundamentally fully disabled and
the government ignoring that for
to do otherwise would be an
admission of guilt and creating a
paper trail of evidence that
leads up to and includes criminal
conduct. This is not just a
civil matter.
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- We
might have to create an ADOPT A
VETERAN program where families
with means are helping to pay for
the medical needs of these
soldiers. The Red Cross
raised over $1 billion for the
tsunami victims and their plight
pales in comparison to this DU
contamination catastrophe.
Americans sent hundreds of
millions for the tsunami relief
fund and it is now time to make
some of that American giving
count here at home for Americans.
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- Many
of our troops need our
help. If they do not
receive help, many will spend the
rest of their lives disabled or
will die much sooner than God had
intended.
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- Where
they do not have the financial
means, we are going to ask
Americans to make it happen.
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- If
you can provide funds in general
or sponsor a specific veteran for
the treatments, you may be saving
their life and ultimately your
own.
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- We
already have contingency plans
that if the U.S. government tries
to bar us from treating the
soldiers they are intentionally
neglecting, for fear of creating
an evidence trail, there are
several places offshore where the
treatments will be offered and
the logistics to get it done.
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- The
team we are assembling includes a
hospital, specialist doctors, a
new biotech center Patmos will
build, firms that have
detoxification treatments already
that are proving to be very
effective, and a lab that can
detect not only molecules but
nano-particulates too. This
DU problem will require the
services of laboratories, the
medical specialties of
endocrinology, internal medicine,
neurology, urology,
gastroenterology, oncology, and
others.
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- Most
of all, Patmos has already
developed several technologies
that may prove to be very useful
in addressing what has been done
to our soldiers and all of us. We
are tired of talking about it and
waiting in vain for Washington,
DC to do something right for a
change. It is time for
action.
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- As
some say, it is lead, follow or
get the Hell out of the way time.
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- 2.
LEGAL ACTION. Our
government knows DU is deadly and
harmful to the troops and other
populations, but they do it any
way and they keep right on doing
it any time they see fit.
They knew it in 1989 and
have continued to deploy troops
four times in major engagements
and have continued to fire these
weapons on US bases around
general civilian populations.
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- The
answer to that is a Class Action
Lawsuit aimed right at the
problem. We are soliciting
attorneys at this time to
assemble a team and address this
matter in the courts. It
would sort of be The Citizens of
the United States, Active Duty
and Veterans of the US Armed
Services v. The United States
Government, certain Defense
Contractors, Certain
Individuals. My guess is
the true price tag for their
criminal negligence could easily
top $1 trillion in damages the
Plaintiffs should be entitled to.
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- When
the whole truth, nothing but the
truth is known about this matter
America is in for a very rude
awakening. You will not
want to watch Shock and Awe on TV
when you find out to what extent
it has been delivered into your
life.
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- This
DU issue makes asbestos pale in
comparison.
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- The
figure does not even scratch the
surface on what it will cost to
even attempt to clean up the mess
they have made in targeted
countries like Iraq, Bosnia,
Afghanistan and the collateral
damage of harming general
populations many miles
away. Turning another
nation and this nation into a
nuclear waste dump is not a no
harm, no foul situation.
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- Army
Regulation 700-48 requires
mitigation of nuclear waste from
these weapons when used, and they
just conveniently ignore that and
keep right on polluting. In
short, they are required to put
into effect environmental
remediation and medical treatment
for those parties exposed and
they just never seem to find time
to obey the law.
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- The
nations of Italy, Bulgaria,
Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Canada,
and many others are seeing the
health problems in their soldiers
and civilian workers that entered
into these nuclear waste zones.
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- Bahrain
is about 500 miles from Iraq at
its closest point and recent
information from there shows that
a high percentage of Bahraini
citizens and US soldiers
stationed there are highly
exposed to DU. The UK
towers at Aldermaston reported DU
spikes shortly after the bombing
was done many miles away in
Afghanistan and Iraq.
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- The
harmed parties within this nation
alone are our soldiers and US
citizens. The defendants
have tried for years to cover
this up or ignore it. We
are going to put out a call and a
website to collect donations for
the war chest that will be needed
to fight this lawsuit through to
completion. It will take
many millions of dollars to wage
what might be the most important
legal battle of our time and the
defendants have billions of
dollars to defend themselves.
They will spend whatever it
takes to win because a defeat
would be the ruin of them.
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- What
they cannot hide is the truth but
they will resist the truth from
ever becoming generally
known. The truth will not
set them free nor will the truth
do anything but deliver back to
them the same impunity with which
they have treated millions of
people.
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- Many
have already died; many more will
die while this problem continues
to be ignored by Washington,
DC. It is time to make them
stop ignoring it.
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- If
you can donate to the Lawsuit
Fund, please send me an email
with contact information.
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- 3.
ALL DEFENDANTS WILL BE NAMED.
It is quite apparent that
the governments of the US and UK,
their militaries, the elected
officials and the defense
contractors have a long list of
target countries and they all
share one thing in common they
either have oil and natural gas
or they have the land for oil and
gas pipelines to get the oil to
ocean ports and distributed
around the world.
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- These
policies that have so many
Americans concerned are driven by
Big Defense and Big Oil so Big
Oil and its influence in making
these idiotic policies would be
targeted too. Even 9-11 was
a staged show for Americans so
they would support these war
policies.
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- There
is no Global War on Terror except
this nation being the world's
greatest terrorist for oil,
military supremacy and
petrodollar supremacy. Gore
Vidal said it best in an
interview I saw and I am
paraphrasing here "there
is no Global War on Terror.
That is nonsense, it is
just rhetoric. They might
as well declare a Global War on
Dandruff".
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- 4.
ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING. We
are going to deploy our own army
to take soil, water, plant life
and air samples around all US
facilities where these weapons
are made, fired, stored, and
generally used. We will
also be putting teams in place to
take soil and water samples, as
well as meeting with affected
parties in Bosnia, Afghanistan
and Iraq.
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- One
of our affiliates has just
uncovered a massive amount of DU
exposure and confirmed human
cases in Bahrain. The
Aldermaston Report is confirmed
at least for Bahrain in that this
deadly stuff does in fact spread
out to large areas. It has
been detected in the UK and it
has been confirmed in Bahrain.
How confirmed? A very
high percentage of the people
tested in Bahrain are floating in
DU contamination and it is being
detected in their urine samples
so it is internal, not just
laying around on the sand.
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- We
have preliminary indications that
deaths as far away as Denmark
might have happened while this
dirty little secret is being
hidden from the world. It
is not hard to find US or UK or
coalition troops that went and
became so sick they no longer
have a quality of life. It
is also not hard to find many
that have died while being
neglected by the governments that
did it.
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- We
have contacted many of the
purported environmentally
concerned groups and none of them
have responded. It is
growing more apparent that they
have an agenda that is not
totally about clean air, clean
water, and healthy environment.
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- This
environmental testing will
include randomly buying food
around the US and having it put
under very exacting testing
regimens to determine to what
extent this toxicity is in our
food chain. We have a
pretty good idea of what will be
found and it is not a pretty
picture.
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- Over
the coming months our medical
affiliates and our company will
be announcing some things that
are nanotechnology based (or
combine nanotechnology with
existing treatments) and will be
directed at addressing this DU
and nano-particulate
contamination problem. Due
to the wall of harassment we have
received we will be making these
products outside of the United
States as well as an entire new
generation of medical machines.
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- The
DU contamination is present, it
is real and people need to start
working in unison to address the
problem. This DU issue is a
nuclear contamination calamity
and DC intends to do nothing
about it.
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- 5.
STATE LEVEL
ACTION
Every state that has had either
National Guard or citizens called
up as Reserves or sent as active
duty troops should be moving to
implement mandatory DU testing
laws. If nothing else,
either be a squeaky wheel or
build an eight foot fire under
those bureaucratic butts.
The states of Connecticut and
Louisiana have implemented such
laws. New York has a bill
in motion as well as about 11 or
12 other states. Bottom
line is all 50 states need to do
what is right for the citizens of
their states and put such
mandatory DU testing laws in
place.
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- I
think we have provided you with
enough information to establish
why they are covering this up.
Most criminals do cover up
their conduct if possible.
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- Every
US soldier or soldier of a
foreign nation that we treat is
yet another piece of evidence.
That chain of evidence will
not only prove what was done to
them, it will prove what has been
done to many Americans that have
never left the United States yet
have been exposed enough to ruin
their health or kill them.
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- If
you know veterans in your area,
or if you know some of the state
level elected officials, please
contact them and urge them to
start the process of putting
mandatory DU testing in place.
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- 6.
FEDERAL LEVEL
ACTION
There is a move in the US House
to make the US government take
care of the veterans. Watch
them make this go away as fast as
the Republican majority can and
even many of the Democrats since
the full expose on this would
implicate Clinton, Gore and many
Democrats in Congress.
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- HOUSE
DEMS CALL FOR VETS CARE TO BE
INCLUDED IN IRAQ SUPPLEMENTAL
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- "Providing
for Veterans Is Continuing Cost
of War"
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- Tuesday
March 7, 2006
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- Contact:
Nayyera Haq (Salazar)
202.225.3319
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-
Geoffrey Collver (Evans)
202.225.9756
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- WASHINGTON,
DC Led by their most junior
and senior Members on the House
Veterans' Affairs Committee,
Congressman John Salazar (D-CO)
and Congressman Lane Evans
(D-IL), House Democrats today
moved to prevent a repeat of last
year's shameful shortfall in
funding for the Department of
Veterans' Affairs. In a letter
sent to Speaker Hastert this
morning, more than 120 House
Democrats called for the
inclusion of $630 million in
veterans' health care funds as
part of the President's $72.4
billion Iraq War Supplemental
request:
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- "We
believe that providing for our
military veterans and their
families is a continuing cost of
war and an important component of
our national defense. We are
concerned that the Administration
may have once again
underestimated the total number
of veterans that will seek
services at the VA, including new
veterans of the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars. Mr.
Speaker, we strongly urge you to
correct the Administration's
oversight and recognize that
caring for our veterans is an
ongoing cost of war."
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- Said
Salazar: "With the war in
Iraq and Afghanistan, we've
created a whole new generation of
veterans who need our care.
We cannot have a repeat of last
year's shameful budget shortfall.
It is time for us to be honest in
our budgeting and recognize the
urgency of providing full funding
for veterans health care. Our
troops bravely put their lives on
the line and it is our moral duty
to provide them with the care and
benefits they were
promised."
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- The
complete text of the letter and
the full list of signatories
follows:
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- Honorable
Dennis Hastert
- Speaker
- U.S.
House of Representatives
- Washington,
DC 20515
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- Dear
Mr. Speaker:
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We believe that providing for our
military veterans and their
families is a continuing cost of
war and an important component of
our national defense. We
simply have no excuse for not
meeting their needs. For
some, it easy to forget that
budgets and numbers ultimately
reflect our priorities and affect
real people. Indeed, by
failing to include any money for
veterans' health care and
readjustment services in the
$72.4 billion emergency war
supplemental request, the
Administration again has failed
to acknowledge the added stress
and resource demands the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan are placing
on the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA). Accordingly,
we respectfully request that you
work with the Appropriations
Committee to provide additional
resources for the VA within the
emergency war supplemental.
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We believe that at least $630
million is urgently needed to
care for troops returning from
Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as
the heroes from prior conflicts
who rely upon the VA for their
health care. Specifically,
we are seeking $250 million to
support increased demand for
mental health services for
returning troops; $200 million
for direct medical services,
including treating traumatic
brain injury and other complex
blast injuries, and additional
resources for the VA's Polytrauma
Rehabilitation Centers; $110
million for increased demand for
VA prosthetics; $15 million for
medical and vocational
rehabilitation services; and $55
million for increased staff to
process the growing disability
claims backlog of more than
370,000, including claims
homeless disabled veterans of the
Iraq and Afghanistan wars who are
waiting months for
decisions.
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Mr. Speaker, last year, we saw
the VA face disgraceful
shortfalls in its health care
budget, shortfalls that had a
direct impact upon the care
received by veterans.
Ultimately, the Administration
begrudgingly admitted these
shortfalls and was forced to
request additional
resources. We are concerned
that the Administration may have
once again underestimated the
total number of veterans that
will seek services at the VA,
including new veterans of the
Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Mr. Speaker, we strongly urge you
to correct the Administration's
oversight and recognize that
caring for our veterans is an
ongoing cost of war.
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- Sincerely,
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- John
Salazar
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- Now
that you have read this
information about VA funding and
Democrats' concern, note that
there is not a single word about
addressing the Depleted Uranium
calamity. They know and
they are terrified on both sides
of the aisle of a paper trail of
evidence being created.
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- Remember,
this is an election year and they
are more concerned about votes
and breaking up the Republican
monopoly than they are the
veterans suffering. It is
all about power and money and
greed, not about lives and
quality of life.
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- You
see, I wonder at times why
Washington, DC is so callous
about the elderly, Medicare,
Social Security, the veterans and
their health needs, which would
not be necessary if this nation
had not put them into nuclear
waste dumps. The answer is
growing clearer to me every day
they know and if we die their
problems go away.
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- They
really could not care less in
Washington, DC if you live or
die. You are a constituent
and that makes you a present and
long term liability to our
leaders, not an asset. They
constantly wrestle with the
quandary of how to feign doing
right for you and how they have
to do right for their wealthy
contributors and direct the
wealth to them. It is a
very steady shift of federal
funds from those that do not need
it and away from those that need
it the most.
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- Illegal
aliens are flooding into this
country and getting better
treatment than our veterans.
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- That
is their version of
Problem-Reaction-Solution.
I trust you find mine more
to your liking.
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- Best
regards,
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- Karl
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- "A
patriot is mocked, scorned and
hated; yet when his cause
succeeds, all men will join him,
for then it costs nothing to be a
patriot." -- Mark
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