I need help answering this question:

[Amy6627]

What is the connection between the use of depleted uranium and corporate civil rights or corporate power over our government. I understand how war benefits those who benefit from corporate power over government, I just don't know what is the specific articulate-able connection between depleted uranium and corporate power. Do any of you?

[tubbacheez]

1. How many other industries can sell their waste at a profit....

... AND have the U.S. military bear the cost of transporting it overseas...

... AND dispose it as a fine dust over wide swaths of foreign soil?





Compared to the cost of hazardous waste containment and disposal here in the U.S., despite our weakened environmental laws, this is a massive financial windfall.

[Amy6627]

2. Excellent! Thanks. n/t

[MadHound]

5. Actually DU has other uses than as a bunker buster

It is used to shield other, more radioactive material. It is used as balast and to provide stability for both ships and planes, and is used to shield radioactive elements that are in medical instruments such as MRI machines. In such forms that it is used for industry, it isn't very dangerous at all. The danger comes from attaching it to a missle and blowing it into dust.

[tubbacheez]

6. Granted, but the profit margin on usage in munitions is the biggest. n/t

[MadHound]

8. Not really, once you take in the milling and machining costs

You can't just slap a chunk of DU on a missle and shoot it off. It has to be milled or molded into a specific shape, just like any other application it is put to. Specs have to be met, heat treating has to occurr.

And actually, our throwing away of DU on munitions is rather short sighted. It has valid industrial uses, and blowing large quantities of it to dust not only makes poor long range economic sense, it is a crime against humanity.

[tubbacheez]

9. Hmm, interesting stuff. Thanks! n/t

[rman]

3. War profiteers could not get away with using depleted uranium if

they'd be held accountable. They can't be held accountable because they have power over the institution by which they'd be held accountable: the government, and by extension, us the people.

[sam sarrha]

4. Uranium the gift the keeps on killing and killing and killing and killing

our kind of weapon.!!!

[sam sarrha]

7. Coal Combustion, released 801 tons of Uranium ash into the USA in 1982

background free neutrons produced 2.2 milligrams of Plutonium239, which alone doubled the ReadioToxcisity estimated to have been released into the biosphere that year, the total that year also included 11,371 pounds of U-235 and 12.8 tons of thorium. world wide out of 2,800 million tons of burned coal was 3640 tons of Uranium, including 51,700 pounds of Uranium-235 <20 lbs makes a Hiroshima bomb>, and 8960 tons of Thorium. which included 9.5 milligrams of plutonium, apparently as deadly as the rest combined.

and guess why there is an epidemic of CANCER !! and immune related problems. during the big power outage on the east coast it was said the emergency wards were emptied out of respiratory patients.

LINK: http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: or 25X U235 Hiroshima bombs

and no one is pissed about letting them regulate themselves..

send a copy to your congressmen and senators and ask who they work for...??