The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Road Show
Radioactive Nuclear Waste is being transported around the United States as if it were a hot potato. Maybe not a potato but it also contains PFAS, PFOS, PCB's and other radioactive materials.
It was secretly being moved from Lewiston, New York on the Niagara River to the Charter Township of Van Buren in Michigan on the Huron River. It took one hundred years to get to Michigan. It started out in Hanford, Washington where it was created during World War 2 as part of the project that would build the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb and kill one quarter of a million people outright and so many more from complications and poisoning.
Apparently some of the material in New York might have been used to pave roads, parking lots and driveways in public places and even at homes.
The materials are being piled away in gigantic bags into a toxic waste landfill that has been built on a previous landfill that was not permitted for such work. The builders, which include Republic Services, have described this landfill to be much like a gigantic bathtub.
Recently there are allegations that certain documents, contracts and agreements were made with local politicians in the quasi-governmental agency of the Van Buren Charter Township that would allow the company to use the property in any way it saw fit for a period of time that looks like eternity, which is fine for them because they are storing materials with a half-life of billions of years.
Questions not being answered include :
Are there ongoing charges?
How did this material get to be shuffled around across the United States again and again?
What else is being driven around?
One very interesting aspect of all this happens to be this paragraph :
"For more than a decade - beginning around the time the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor - Harshaw served in a supply chain producing feedstock for the production of nuclear weapons."
Who knew they were working on an atomic bomb just at the time the Japanese decided to attack Pearl Harbor?
Finally - before our poem and song -
What are the origins of the radioactive waste from Cuyahoga, Ohio?
Well- the materials in Cuyahoga, Ohio are from the bomb manufacturing that went into the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
So they are mixing the radioactive nuclear waste from the Nagasaki Bomb with the radioactive nuclear waste from the Hiroshima Bomb.
Besides the fact that the materials represent the remnants of very horrible wartime events, setting aside the symbolism, no one seems to realize that they are mixing Plutonium waste from the Nagasaki Bomb with the Uranium waste from the Hiroshima bomb.
Could it get any worse for this heavily populated area in Michigan?
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Rules are meant to be broken
Laws are meant to be bent
That’s the rule taken by a criminal token
You’ll hear when the robber is sent
To make the deal and seal the seal
Concerning matters in question
Whether or not the wounds will heal
From their criminal corrupt suggestion
How is that the further you get
From the ones who’ve committed the sin
You find every thing set
So only one side will win
?
One hundred years ago under a different star
Men and women gathered to commit war
They built up bombers in wheat fields and corn
Manufactured tanks with metal they’d shorn
From mountainside brittle now broken
Exploding them in actions unspoken
How is that the further you get
From the ones who’ve committed the sin
You find every thing set
So only one side will win
To finish the deed
They planted the seed
The enemy might get there faster
So a brilliant mind said Master
Now is the time to manufacture disaster
With hungry children shivering at home
Money was spent to feed the Swiss Gnome
Bombs were created
But hunger was not sated
As the prepared to launch it from air
They knew it wasn’t very fair
How is that the further you get
From the ones who’ve committed the sin
You find every thing set
So only one side will win
They gave each other medals
Patted themselves on their backs
Put others on metal pedestals
Cities they conquered were sacked
Their work was so unclean
They hid it sight unseen
Walking away as if to new day
Pretending what they had done
Had not been
How is that the further you get
From the ones who’ve committed the sin
You find every thing set
So only one side will win
The burning metals they made
They buried under the shade
Creeping then to the Columbia River
They dug it up with a shiver
Fools that they were they shipped it away
To Lewiston, New York by the bay
Poisoning then the Niagara River
For fifty years or more
When they dup up the sore again
Shipped off to who knows where
Who knows when
It showed up in Van Buren Charter Township
Along the banks of the Huron River
Certainly had more arrows in their quiver
Quietly then they laid it down
Next to a sleepy and quiet town
Not unlike the one they blew away
On that fiery and unforgettable day
August nine in nineteen forty five
Quarter million people failed to survive
For what cost they would ask in wonder
As their poisonous explosives began to wander
Slower now than that deadly blast
These materials kill at once and at last
Secret contracts kept on a shelf
People pretend they didn’t do it for self
‘This stuff has to go somewhere’
Said the Fat Man from his stool
‘Who cares if it is fair?’
He’s nobody’s fool
Maybe not but its clear
He is the Devil’s tool