Fw: WTC Syndrome

[Jim Baldauf]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jerry Chamkis <jchamkis@bga.com>
Cc: <texgreen@envirolink.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: WTC Syndrome


> Sad but true.  The (El Al?) '747 that plunged in to the low-rent housing
> district in Amsterdam some years ago when the fuze pins were failing and
> engines dropping out like unwelcome bird droppings caused a huge incident
> of the bizarre persistent health problems we've come to associate with
> 'D'U.  There was also some conjecture (evidence?  Don't remember.) there
> was exotic Israeli military cargo aboard.
>
> Today's story is from Democracy Now! which was completely off the scale.
> There was something like 200x the aircraft's quantity of fuel oil stored
> under the towers including (simply beyond belief!!!) PCB contaminated oil.
> This is -serious- bad news for people in New York.  Heavily contaminated
> steel girders were immediately chopped to manageable sized pieces and
> shipped off to Korean (and other) steel mills to be turned into food cans
> among other things.  This despite members of the engineering community's
> strong desire to study the beams for failure mode investigation.
>
> * * * Start of rant * * *
>
> Democracy Now! is far and away the most powerful and relevant news
> reportage available in our lives.  If you listen to this on a daily basis
> you will have a significantly enhanced perspective on the meanings and
> consequences of world events we are living through.  If you watch TV one
> hour a day and don't listen to this one hour a day, you are doing yourself
> a serious disservice.
>
> * * *  End of rant * * *
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
> Jim Baldauf wrote:
>
> > Til wrote:
> > >the possibility that depleted Uranium is used as
> > ballast in the 757 as was done in 747s.<
> >
> > This is a new one on me! Did they really
> > use DU as ballast on 747s?
> > jb
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Til Chamkis <tacham@realtime.net>
> > To: <texgreen@envirolink.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:29 AM
> > Subject: WTC Syndrome
> >
> > > There have been an extraordinary number of health problems associated
> > > with the WTC, especially respiratory difficulties. In addition to
> > > asbestos and other building materials, what materials may there have
> > > been in the aircraft?
> > > Certainly the jet fuel is a hazard, but there have been other crashes
> > > and they do not seem to have resulted in so many health problems.
> > > The two possibilities I would suggest would be clandestine materials
> > > loaded as baggage and the possibility that depleted Uranium is used as
> > > ballast in the 757 as was done in 747s. Seems like it would be easy
> > > enough to detect the Uranium?
> > > /t
> > >
>