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By-Products of Manufacturing – costly disposal or profitable sale? (Well, that depends how stupid your government is.)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- The best way to dispose of unwanted by-products, from a business bottom-line point of view, is to get some idiot who doesn’t 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 children’s 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 shouldn’t 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 isn’t 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 haven’t. 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, let’s chop government off at the knees by, say, abolishing income tax.
But, a caution: let’s not create a dangerous vacuum. We don’t want to get rid of one government only to find a self-appointed surrogate government has come in and taken its place. Let’s 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
>>from http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=269783
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