Fwd: [fightback] The Free Market and Depleted Uranium

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--- Hank Roth <socrates wrote:

 

> Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:33:12 -0400 (EDT)

> Hank Roth <socrates

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> [fightback] The Free Market and Depleted Uranium

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> The Free Market and Depleted Uranium

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> Depleted Uranium (DU) now working its way into the free marketplace

> where

> profits are more important than people..

>

> Akira Tashiro, senior staff writer for The Chugoku Shimbun

> Newspaper in

> Hiroshima, Japan; where they know well the consequences of nuclear

> weaponsm, calls the human cost of depleted uranium discounted

> casualties,

> where those who were exposed to DU, not just soldiers but the

> people of

> Iraq also are now tormented by leukemia.

>

> There were other risks and exposures besides DU during the wars to

> acquire

> their oil which have caused serious health problems for those

> exposed to

> them. Troops were exposed to intense pollution from burning oil

> fields and

> from the destruction of weapons as well as other toxic substances

> which

> find itself onto the battlefield in addition to the antidotes the

> soldiers

> where ordered to take, which are now thought to have caused health

> problems.

>

> Vast numbers of veterans in both countries are ill. Thousands

> have

> already died. It may be wrong to blame all that on DU alone. There

> are

> other factors, such as pyridostigmine bromide (PB) taken as an

> antidote to

> chemical weapons before being adequately tested. However, that

> possibility

> does not eliminate the dangers of DU. With the passage of time, it

> becomes

> increasingly obvious that people do take particles of uranium oxide

> into

> their bodies, which expose them to internal radiation and the

> chemical

> toxicity of this extremely heavy metal. (Tashira)

>

> DU is still found in Gulf War veterans urine nine years after

> exposure. The affects can be passed on to wives through

> intercourse, and

> to the unborn in the form of miscarriages and congenital defects.

> If they

> had just been informed of the dangers, they could have avoided

> passing

> their afflictions on to their families. (Tashira)

>

> The Gulf War effects are most conspicuous among American and

> British

> veterans, but health problems continue to spread through the rest

> of the

> multinational forces, including those from Canada, France, and the

> former

> Czechoslovakia. (Tashira)

>

> Mysteriously (or not) DU exposure is not just limited to the

> battlefield

> and environs, it is also turning up in unexpected places. There was

> a DU

> release after a Canadian plan crash which raised the question of DU

> being

> used in other manufacturing processes.

>

> Christopher Bollyn (American Free Press in 2004) wrote that The

> recent

> crash of a Boeing 747 in Halifax, Canada, raises a number of

> questions

> about the use of depleted uranium (DU) in airplanes, public health

> concerns and the 9-11 attacks. When a Boeing 747 crashed and burned

> on

> takeoff at Halifax International Airport in Nova Scotia, Canada, on

> Oct.

> 14, an official accident investigator said the aircraft probably

> contained

> radioactive depleted uranium.Bill Fowler, an investigator with the

> Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said the plane was likely

> equipped

> with DU as counterweights in its wings and rudder.

>

> What is going on? The Canadian press reported after this incident

> that a

> 747 may contain as much as 1,500 kilograms [3,300 lbs.] depleted

> uranium.

> It was further reported that it took 60 firefighters and 20

> firetructs

> about 3 hours to get control of the fire. So what is happening to

> us?

> Profits before people and risk to our health be damned?

>

> Christopher Bollyn also writes, Now, some researchers are turning

> to the

> large number of sick firefighters and workers from the World Trade

> Center

> site and reports of elevated radiation levels around the Pentagon

> after

> 9-11. They contend that the Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft involved in

> the

> attacks may have also contained depleted uranium counterweights.

>

> Radiation levels were higher in the area of the crash site

> according to

> the report in the American Free Press.

>

> Bill Bellinger, then head of the EPAs Radiation Program for

> Region

> III, which includes Virginia, told AFP that he had received

> information of

> elevated radiation levels and contacted EPA officials at the

> Pentagon.

> (Bollyn)

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> Hank Roth

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