…disaster waiting to happen: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/26-1
Disease clusters around nuclear power plants (PDF) here: http://www.radiation.org/reading/pubs/091116Thyroidcancer.pdf
Map on disease clusters here: http://clusteralliance.org/clusters/
More posts on nuclear here: https://sunlightonthewater.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/theres-no-climate-change/
And here: https://sunlightonthewater.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/nuclear-disaster/
Pictures say a thousand words….this one speaks as no words can: http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/04/28
PR Watch has a report up on the growing gaps between CEO pay and worker pay: http://www.prwatch.org/NODE/12060
This is just wrong. They’re closing factories and moving them overseas because, as they claim, American workers want too much –safe work conditions and a living wage…
…while CEO’s are making astounding salaries…
I have no words.
PR Watch has this up on Bayer and Syngenta’s trying to stop efforts to save the bees : HTTP://WWW.PRWATCH.ORG/NODE/12066
(for some reason, my “link” feature is not working on my blog. Also–I clicked on one of my links yesterday, and now they have ads–I have nothing to do with them, and I’m certainly not being compensated for them advertising with my blog. FYI.)
From the article:
The response of Bayer and Syngenta was to unleash a barrage of letters to the food safety agency and the European Commission, followed later by threatened lawsuits.
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This is the heart of the matter—Too Big To Fails can quash efforts against them or their interests just by simply litigating their way out of it., a la Monsanto. They don’t even have to win, but keep their opponents fighting in courts to bankrupt them. Empty what little they may have in their bank accounts, and voila! no more opposition….
More here from Purdue University confirming the neonicotinoids were causing bee deaths: http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?263169-Purdue-university-study-confirms-neonicotinoids-on-maize-killing-honeybees
I swear that I did not see this before making my previous comment on the connection between domestic violence and war. Wow, what a timely article.
From the article:
Some 3,073 people were killed in the terrorist attacks on the United States on 9/11. Between that day and June 6, 2012, 6,488 US soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for America’s war on terror at home and abroad to 9,561. During the same period, 11,766 women were murdered in the United States by their husbands or boyfriends, both military and civilian. The greater number of women killed here at home is a measure of the scope and the furious intensity of the war against women, a war that threatens to continue long after the misconceived war on terror is history.
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On the photos taken of the violence at home:
The photos are remarkable because the photographer is very good and the subject of her attention is so rarely caught on camera. Unlike warfare covered in Iraq and Afghanistan by embedded combat photographers, wife torture takes place mostly behind closed doors, unannounced and unrecorded.
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An excellent point–because in Communications, the Vietnam War is known as the media war —a war that was lost because of the diligence of the press–they brought the war home every night on the nightly news. People could see with their own eyes what was happening–politicians in Washington could not whitewash it. The violence we were doing to others could not be denied. The thought of a photographer taking photos while someone commits domestic violence makes my stomach turn…and at the same time, I’m thinking “is this what it takes to make it *real*….???” Do the people have to see photos of women beaten to a pulp on the nightly news, every night to grasp how horrible this is?
Here’s another report on domestic violence in Africa following war. Does the war cause domestic violence or is it a cycle repeating itself?
A poster on the mercury poisoning support group had posted an alarming letter–s/he was talking about being depressed and not seeing beyond the depression fog that goes with this horrible poison’s effects.
That was April 6th. I first replied that what the poster was experiencing was typical of heavy metal poisoning and that most of us have been *there*. I begged her/him not to give up.
When the poster did not reply to any of us (several of us replied trying to help the poster see beyond the immediate feelings of despair), I tried again and asked the poster to let us know that s/he was okay.
No reply. No response at all. I’m afraid that this horrible poison has taken another life. Shit.
(I’m hoping that they’re still there, but not able to post at this time.)
I’m watching Kathleen Sharp on BookTV (yay, Book TV) that has written a book called Blood Medicine about a cancer drug, Epo, that did a great job of helping red blood cells to grow….
….unfortunately, it also helps cancer cells to grow.
Yes, yes, it is freaking amazing that this drug is on the market with serious issues such as suspected of killing people.
The operation was a success. But the patient died.
Sharp describes a cancer patient was helped by the drug with his cancer fight, but died because he began bleeding out the nose and mouth.
Sharp is adamant against pharmaceutical companies being able to advertise on Tv. I believe she said that we and perhaps another country are the only developed countries that allow these commercials.
In Communications, they go to great lengths in order to sell the product. Advertising agencies will do a study of the targeted audience to see how to construct the message for the best impact — i.e., to get the target audience to request it from their doctors. or perhaps I should say demand it from their doctors. They are convinced by slick advertising that *this* drug will help them get healthy again. As someone who has been *there*, it really doesn’t take much in convincing if you’re so ill that you would do almost anything to regain your health. Sharp didn’t even touch on the fact that these doctors who are prescribing these drugs, may be invested in these companies, and therefore, have a financial interest to prescribe these drugs. I’ve seen how pharma works –they are not legally supposed to buy doctors lunches and other gifts….so they have “information sessions” and just happen to have it during the lunch hour….and have lunch brought in. Ahem.
A sunshine law is part of the Obama health plan. We’ll see if it does any good. I’m pessimistic because the whole culture surrounding the FDA and the pharm industry and the billion dollar lobbying by Big Pharma…
More history here.
And here. How can we forget Bush appointment, Dr. Hager, and his ex-wife’s allegations of marital rape?
Sharp mentions the revolving door between the pharm industry and the FDA.
A man calling himself John calls in and is identifying himself as a neonatalogist whom immediately states that Sharp has “poorly researched” her book. (red flag that this guy is perhaps an industry exec or someone tied to the billion dollar industry). She states that there are some uses for the drug, but the consumers are not aware of the dangers and that needs to change.
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While researching this, I found this link. People were protesting Monsanto back in 1994….but Bill Clinton was busy in the Oval Office….something about an intern with a blue dress…
I came across this book that links meniere’s disease with heavy metal poisoning. It’s a known fact among us in the support group that heavy metal poisoning affects all your senses–sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. Ringing in the ears is common, as are earaches. I have had both along with dminished hearing at times (although is pretty good now–just rare occasions where I’m affected.) With the recent migraine, the left side of my face swelled, and it seem to be affected my ear as well. I turned over in bed to a wave of dizziness–which is also a marker of heavy metal poisoning. The swelling went down a day after the migraine, and the dizziness went, too. It’s just fascinating how this poison affects one’s body.
This site mentions low zinc as a factor. Since heavy metal poisoning interferes with zinc absorption, it goes that a person would have low zinc. Since folks are more able to absorb liquid zinc, I would recommend it. I personally take Now Brand’s Zinc Glycinate. And no, I don’t get paid to say that, nor do I have an investment in their company. The site also mentions low B12 (methylcobalamin is best because it’s the active form of B12), and a gluten free diet as a factor. Spot on–these are all connected to heavy metal poisoning. I don’t know about the homeopathic remedies being recommended—I personally haven’t had much luck with them.
I thought I’d pass this along for the info.
After reading this, I wanted to come back and comment on the fact that she had dementia. Reagan did, too.
Does anyone else wonder at this? What about heavy metal poisoning for the cause? Could the meanness of the world be caused by toxicity? We know it’s a known fact of mercury poisoning that anger and rage come with it. The Mayo Clinic’s site on dementia–note that heavy metal poisoning is way down on the list. It mentions low thyroid, which is good, but depressingly doesn’t mention diet.
More here from someone who recovered from dementia after adopting a gluten-free diet.
Finally, here’s a report on the connection between criminal behavior and high levels of heavy metals. So much grief caused by toxins…and yet, it’s ignored by the medical profession, the corrections system, the public, etc….
Protests at her funeral here.
On the Mirror site, someone commented that they should put her in a black bag and put her out with the rest of the trash. Okay, that’s a little harsh. But spending 10 million is too, too much, especially for someone who promoted austerity.
Funny how people who advocate austerity measures never include themselves as recipients.
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