Category Archives: chemical

Indiana and the West Virginia spill

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Update:  Indiana actually noticed that there was a chemical spill upriver!  /just a little sarcasm, folks

Reading this, though, Indiana just seems….passive.  Cincinnati is taking a proactive stance in shutting off the water intake.

And, I have to wonder as I’m reading this, how will they separate the West Virginia chemicals from the toxins already in the Ohio River?  Will they be able to tell which are our chemicals and which are Freedom Industries?  /just a little snarky

Meanwhile, Louisville, Kentucky  is business as usual.  I just shake my head at the laissez-faire attitude  “we will treat the water and make it smell and taste good.”  WTH?

I want water that is free of chemicals, not just “taste good”.  Charcoal is fine for removing impurities, but it doesn’t remove everything.

I found a couple of websites advocating bamboo charcoal for water filtration here and here.  I haven’t tried these, but they do look promising…and since bamboo is sustainable, all the better.  Finally, there this site on a primitive charcoal filter.

Reverse osmosis is supposed to remove much more–but it also removes needed minerals.  Some sites suggest putting a high quality salt (that hasn’t had the minerals removed as they do with sodium chloride, or table salt) back in as a way to counteract it.

I had a tough time finding much information that wasn’t a company website, but this was the best one to explain what reverse osmosis removes.

 

Mercury and Autism

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(Most of you have read this stuff before, so it will be boring to you.  I’m posting for folks who are new to this info.)

Dr. Andrew Hall Cutler, whose protocol I follow, spoke out on the deliberate act of confusing the public (and even the medical profession) about mercury and autism.

He referred to this paper, by M. Catherine Desoto, PhD, and Robert Hitlan, PhD. , that appeared in the Journal on Child Neurology, Nov. 2007.

I know that when I was really sick, I did not want to leave my home.  I wanted no contact with people at all.  As I started to get better with chelation, I wanted to be around people–I just didn’t want to talk to anyone—this was more pronounced in new situations or with people I was unfamiliar with (that kind of goes with learning new things–if I learned something before being mercury poisoned, I’ve had an easier time learning a new aspect of it.  If, however, it was totally new, my eyes would glaze over from being overwhelmed.)

I still have autistic symptoms when I’m chelating–don’t want to talk (or write a blog).    This proves me beyond a doubt that there is a connection between mercury and autism.

As the authors of this paper explore, mercury exposure does not necessarily correlate with presence of mercury in the hair.  Dr. Cutler had said that the ability to excrete mercury is an individual thing, with some of us being poor at mercury/heavy metal elimination.  Again, the Irish are particularly susceptible to this as we lack the gene to excrete mercury properly.  Gluten intolerance also allows more mercury to enter the blood stream via “leaky gut” (holes in the gut caused by inflammation from the inability to digest the gluten)—a double whammy.

Dr. Cutler also mentioned something that happened in 1972 in Iraq:  many were poisoned by ethylmercury in grain (reports that it is methylmercury are wrong, according to Dr. Cutler).  Boy, there’s a study to end all studies of how these folks who survived and reproduced, passing mercury damaged DNA on to their offspring and how that affected their personalities/level of tolerance.

As I read about the seed sown in millions of acres, I’m wondering about the contamination of the soil?

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In other health news, the FDA has come out with a lame warning on acetominophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol.  An Eli Lilly researcher once told me that acetominophen damages liver cells.  Ibuprofen damages kidney cells.  I don’t think there is a *safe* amount to take.  You have to weigh the options–how bad do you really feel?  Bad enough to kill off some liver or kidney cells?  This is why people need to be given the information and let them make up their own minds how much they are willing to risk their health…

 

Geoengineering: Insane and Delusional

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A report here on Al Gore speaking out on geoengineering.  I totally agree.  The Earth is a magnificent living, breathing, organism that can take care of herself quite well, thank you, without any *help* from us.

What we need to do is put on our big adult pants and scale down the polluting.  It means stop giving industry the right to pollute what belongs to all of us.  Well, that’s not accurate, either, because it doesn’t really *belong* to us, but rather, we are borrowing it while we are here.

It’s not ours to do with as we please, but a gift to be cherished and given back….what  a wonderful humble idea…

…meanwhile, that 15 MILLION pounds of toxins into Indiana waterways keeps flashing in my head….

AIPAC influencing Senators on Iran

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AIPAC is behind the new bill to put new sanctions on Iran–a list of those willing to risk peace with Iran and the Middle East here.

Netanyahu is always flailing his arms about Iran’s nuclear capabilities…so why would he and the bankers want to destroy an agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear capabilities?

(hat tip to commondreams.org)

 

 

 

Young speaking out on Canadian Tar Sands

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Neil Young is trading pointed remarks with the Canadian government over the tar sands oil.

Good for him.   I’m glad someone with some media attention is speaking out for the indigenous.

 

Update: Mother Agnes and Syria

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In this post, I came upon a link someone provided in the comments section about Mother Agnes Mariam and her assertions on stuff going on in Syria.

Someone pointed me towards this piece in the Guardian and how Human Rights Watch disputed Mother Agnes’ assertions.

Human Rights Watch carries more weight with me than Mother Agnes, because I don’t know enough about her.  I think she is probably scared.

Stay tuned…

Moving the pet coke

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Well, of course….they’re dumping pet coke in Chicago…and Whiting, Indiana….

“Petcoke tends to have higher metal content than coal – like nickel, vanadium and selenium,” added Geertsma. “Coal can have higher mercury content, so they’re both bad in terms of toxic heavy metals content.”

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The report says that Canadian exports of petcoke to the U.S. more than doubled between 2010 and 2012, and BP Whiting’s expansion will triple its petcoke production to 6,000 tons per day.

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And I got my answer to where the petcoke piles were moved to–Ohio.

 

More on Fukushima **edited

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The comments on the last blog have some good links:

Nearly a third of all babies born after 3/11/11 are more likely to have thyroid issues.  If you recall, radiation interferes with the thyroid.  A good page here on what happens to the body.

More here.

Another link to a comments page about nuclear fallout and its affects on those in the military:

We think there are 150,000 more Atomic Veterans across the U.S. who do not know that their oath of secrecy has been recended, since 1963, and who also may not know that they may be entitled to VA benefits. The National Association of Atomic Veterans ( NAAV ) was formed in 1979 to assist Atomic Vet’s in accessing the VA system, for the purposes of getting treatment and compensation for a host of health issues precipitated by their exposure to ionizing radiation particles while proudly serving their country, as Mr. Beatty did, at Operation Crossroads… We continue to get phone calls, weekly, from A-vets who have recently been made aware of our organization, and who are in need of assistance in these areas. We look forward to hearing from anyone who may read this article…… Our website is: http://www.naav.com

R J Ritter – Nat. Commander
NAAV, Inc.
Member: Veteran’s Advisory Board on (radiation) Dose Reconstruction.

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Pass the word–perhaps this will help someone affected and not knowing where to go for help.

~~A side story on the chemical spill in West Virginia…criminy, if this isn’t nature slapping us in the face, warning us that we’re inept in dealing with this stuff, I don’t know what is…nature can only endure so much.

The attitude that the river will “take care of it” is utter bullshit.  It’s just going to go somewhere else and cause health issues for the unfortunate ones.

Meanwhile, the Koch brothers have a pile of petcoke right next to the river in Detroit…**edited:  I stand corrected. It has been removed….but the report fails to tell us where the pile was moved to..?  Wanna bet it was to some poor neighborhood?

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Fukushima lawsuit

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The tragedy of Fukushima continues to reveal more illness.  Navy first responders have come forward with radiation related sickness.

Nuclear energy will never, ever be safe.  This accident proves that beyond a doubt.  Holy crap, I don’t think we’ve even begun to see all of the devastation.