-Caveat Lector-
By-Products of Manufacturing costly disposal or profitable sale?
(Well, that depends how stupid your government is.)
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The best way to dispose of unwanted by-products, from a business bottom-line
point of view, is to get some idiot who doesnt realise you have a
disposal problem to pay good money for them.
In bauxite-aluminium manufacturing, apparently the unwelcome by-product
fluoride no longer has to be dumped, as a nuisance and expense to the
manufacturer.
It can now be sold to government for use as a dental caries
preventative, making added profits for the aluminium business. Though
useful only while childrens second teeth are growing, fluoride is often administered
to all age groups in drinking water. Some opponents say fluoride in
drinking water also has the tendency to make a population more docile, said to
have been discovered during Nazi WW2 research.
Similarly, in natural uranium refining, the metal remainder by-product depleted
uranium can be sold to government.
As mentioned in the Japan Today story submitted (below) it is sold for
use in artillery shells and bombs designed to penetrate tanks and other armoured
vehicles. Some doctors blame increased birth defects and increased leukaemic
type cancers on the use of depleted uranium shells in Bosnia and Iraq.
In Iraq the increase in birth defects since 1988, before Gulf War One, has been
tenfold in some areas, and the rise in leukaemic cancers is equally
dramatic.
It should be noted however that such medical conditions can result from
other factors which might similarly have been increased during war, such as non-ionising
radiation such as altered electro-magnetic fields, inhalation of other
chemicals, or ingestion of other chemicals.
There is good recent British evidence for example (H Dolk et al) showing
that birth defects increase by about 33% within a 2-3 kilometre vicinity of typical
European landfills, though such landfills are not believed to contain items
emitting ionising radiation.
Leukaemic disorders have been found to occur in suspicious clusters
around certain types of electromagnetic fields, as shown in research in Sydney,
NSW, Australia, or downwind of some metal smelters such as in Port Kembla, NSW,
Australia. How do we know these same sorts of effects were not
what caused the increased incidence after Gulf War One?
Business is good, especially small and medium-sized business.
Attention to profits is good. Recycling of wastes is
good.
But all these things can be used to create bad ends as well, especially
when the scale is huge because government gets involved.
We shouldnt let a small handful of idiot public servants have
the power to dose us all with something in our drinking water. Or,
for that matter, in our health systems, armies, welfare agencies or schools.
Governments do a rotten job in health, only a fair job in education
(with lots of hurts, failures and injuries to self-esteem), a just plain
anti-social job in welfare, and they always make a mess of things when they touch
business. They destroy small business, confuse medium business, and
are completely outwitted by big business.
Governments should be starved of money and kept very small.
Perhaps they should be administering only Police, Justice and Foreign
Affairs; nothing else. Individuals, families and local communities
should be allowed to fill in the social, business, educative and health gaps in
the ways they find best for themselves. It would force them to get
together, discuss, and co-operate and can that be a bad thing?
When it comes to disposing of unwelcome by-products, the best idiot of
all is usually Government. Government isnt really an idiot, of
course, but it only takes a few bribed or mind-controlled (e.g. hypnotised with
social and technical aids see www.datafilter.com/mc/ ) or outside-loyalties
public servants to make it one. I think democracy is great
or would be, if we had ever had it. We havent.
What we have had is vested interests exploiting government to suit themselves,
while putting up a camouflage of democracy. Maybe, if we are
careful about protecting the integrity of our greatest asset, the internet, we
will one day achieve it. Meanwhile, lets chop government off
at the knees by, say, abolishing income tax.
But, a caution: lets not create a dangerous
vacuum. We dont want to get rid of one government only to
find a self-appointed surrogate government has come in and taken its
place. Lets not allow big media or big business or big
religion to make themselves into some new government. That would be
worse than what we have now.
Lyn Milnes
in New Zealand
On
Behalf Of Eric Hoffsten
Sent: 19
August 2003 17:08
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CTRL] Iraqi doctors
blame cancer rise on depleted uranium shells
from
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=newscat=8id=269783
