Powerful video here. I just don’t understand why he didn’t want to talk to them nor drink the water…/snarky to the extreme
What price for food that is edible or water that does not contain heavy metals? What price for healthy bodies from unpolluted air, water, and soil?
What price for life?
I am forever in awe of our bodies and how they perform every day miracles of protecting itself from toxins.
Today, I learned another term from the wonderful mercury support group: glucuronidation. It’s apparently another chemical reaction in the body that helps the detox pathways to work properly. Isn’t this fascinating?
Note how your everyday drugs can interfere with the body’s own design to take care of itself.
I’ve recently started taking ibuprofen to head off a migraine. It worked a couple of times last month, and I took some this morning because I felt another one coming on. It’s the only time I will take it anymore–because it can cause damage to the intestines, and it damages kidney cells. So I have to really feel that migraine is coming on in order to risk the harm to my body. I figure that a migraine is much, much more harmful and devastating. I feel so weak afterwards, it has to be doing some damage…especially when I lose five pounds with them (and then gain it back).
I cringe at the thought that I used to take ibuprofen almost on a daily basis, back in the day. With being exposed to mercury via coal dust, and amalgam in baby teeth, and being gluten intolerant, I had been taking ibuprofen for symptoms that would go away with proper detox. It’s that slippery slope–where the body is damaged, resulting in pain, and the man-made drugs help for a time, but with interfering with detox pathways, make everything worse–and the person takes more of the drugs to relieve the increasing symptoms…and on…
Now, with the glucuronidation knowledge, there is even more reason not to take these FDA approved drugs unless there is an overwhelming reason to do so.
And Big Pharma thinks it’s quite all right for you to get worse on their drugs…more profits for them.
Hope my dear readers find this as fascinating as I do. Isn’t the body wonderful?
…or selling our destiny…depending on your point of view. Naomi Klein was on DN! today, talking about climate change and our need to change the things we value in order to save the planet.
Perhaps it would be better stated to save ourselves…the planet will survive, i.e., after the humans and animals and plant life are dead from toxicity, the planet will re-emerge clean…like a phoenix rising up from the ashes.
Klein makes a point that the Green movement has been co-opted by the very targets they were fighting against. Sadly, she states that The Nature Conservancy has been drilling. Incredible! Back in the day, it was one of the organizations I donated to. That and Sierra Club, but when I found that Sierra was “partnering” with Clorox bleach…yeah, I stopped supporting them even before my life took its downturn.
She mentions the indigenous taking on the big corporations –asserting land rights. You might recall about a year ago, with the natives of Canada protesting fracking exploration on their lands–
My posts on the events:
October 20th. October 22nd. November 4. November 8. November 24. December 1. December 15.
Klein asserts that those who stand to lose the most from the change in what we value–solar over oil, coal, and nuclear energy–are fighting a dirty war with the help of politicians and others who are bought and paid for.
They don’t care what ill health effects are created by the toxic environment. It’s just mindboggling how they think that their pollution is not going to affect them–do they think they live in a bubble, immune from what happens around them?
An example–the pollen counts have been high here lately, so I haven’t been outside to jog. I went yesterday morning, and then had problems with deep coughing. I haven’t really had that deep coughing in awhile. There has to be a connection. Not only to the “normal” pollution, but from chemtrails, aka bioengineering–as I saw several trails in the sky to the East of me. They have been spraying them above the clouds so it’s harder to see them, but they’re there.
I saw these from twenty miles away, Sunday:
Just recently, Joe Donnelly, Dan Coats, and Jackie Walorski, Indiana politicians, have come out against EPA regulations. The local radio station is airing commercials (surely paid for by those in the industry) stating that the EPA is a threat. I kid you not.
Dan Coats here–from an “EPA abuse” website, most likely being supported by the coal industry; and here and here–this extension period was needed so they could flood the airwaves with the commercials I’m now hearing….
Notice the “job-killing” tactic–classic playbook. Why doesn’t Sen. Coats tout renewable energy jobs that would be created if we stopped supporting the dirty coal industry?
Jackie Walorski here: jackiewalorski.com/walorski-farm-bureau-take-aim-epa/
And here–a big thank you from the Farm Bureau. Pfft.
Note the scare tactics of “big government” and “regulating every faucet”….
Farmers need to realize their part in polluting the water. And they need to be given some incentive for going organic, and not using chemicals in food production. Where is the money for that?
Our water flows into the Ohio, which flows into the Mississippi, which flows into the Gulf. It has been noted that Indiana is one of the biggest polluters (17 million pounds of toxins into our waterways EVERY YEAR), and the coral and sea life are dying because of it.
All the while, mercury in Indiana waterways is ABOVE the standards set from the USGS website.
| Mercury contamination in water and fish throughout Indiana has routinely exceeded levels recommended to protect people and wildlife. About 1 in 8 fish samples tested statewide had mercury that exceeded the recommended safety limit for human consumption. The causes include mercury in the rain and mercury going down the drain, according to a recently released federal study.The most significant source of mercury to Indiana watersheds is fallout from the air. Much of the mercury in the air comes from human activity. In Indiana, coal-burning power plants emit more mercury to the air each year than any other human activity. In urban areas, wastewater discharge contributes a substantial portion of mercury to waterways. |
Gene Logsdon has put up a post on his thoughts on population growth and food availability.
It’s a touchy and uncomfortable subject….to say the least.
It brings up eugenics–there are stories out there of people like Bill Gates and the Rockefellers advocating for population control via eugenics and even through genetically modified food. There is a video out there of Bill Gates advocating vaccines for this purpose. I don’t know what to make of the video, so I’m not posting it– you’ll have to go find it yourself.
I think advocating de-population is morally and ethically wrong. We get into the self-righteous, superiority of those who think they are *more special* than the rest, therefore, they should live while others die.
The comments are as interesting as the blog–with one suggesting that the population growth perhaps was a spiritual one of bringing more light into the world….
…with that, I would disagree. There is so much negative energy on Earth that I would happily volunteer to go right now if God would take me. Just give me enough morphine to stop my heart, and I’m good to go…
Speaking of negative energy, I was just thinking last night how much I missed teaching. I enjoyed it and the kids’ earnest quest for knowledge. I also liked that I didn’t have to put up with office politics nor office gossip. When I was teaching, I would stay in the room and eat my lunch so I didn’t have to hear the teachers gossip (yes, they gossiped…mostly about stupid substitutes…). I went in, did my job, and went home while avoiding all of that negative energy. I didn’t have to put up with the tired questioning of my single status–there is definitely a prejudice against single people in this country. The downside, of course, is the pay and the work-on-demand instead of a steady schedule.
And if you try to avoid the gossip and cut people off…as some suggest you do…you’re still screwed because the gossips then turn on you as a target. I’ve actually had that happen to me. I ended up leaving a good job because of it.
I suppose the questioning of population growth is related to our bad economy…not enough jobs that pay living wages….while jobs are shipped to other countries for even lower wages…and Burger King and their ilk go to other countries so they don’t have to pay their fair share of taxes….while war hawks push us towards another war again…while not taxing the rich….
Yeah, I’m in a negative mood…how could you tell? 😦
If I am reading between the lines correctly, Israel is now seeking to cash in on the destruction it caused to Gaza. My mind is just reeling. Disaster capitalism at the very worst. Holy crap.
Yair Lapid announced a “diplomatic initiative” to increase efforts to “demilitarise Gaza and the transfer of authority in the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority (PA) while maintaining Israel’s strategic security interest.”
He called for Egypt to host a conference to be attended by the US, EU, Russia, Jordan, the PA and the Gulf States that would discuss Gaza reconstruction and establish “economic ties between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab world.”
“The initiative also calls for the involvement of states which will provide economic support for the rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip and the creation of projects which will lead to long term economic cooperation in the region,” the statement from Lapid’s media advisor said –
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So…we have a bully that bombs the hell out of a place, destroying homes, schools, hospitals…killing women, children, innocents sitting in a cafe listening to the World Cup…who now wants to greedily make a profit off of rebuilding that which they destroyed.
…I know that nothing stays the same, and yet…
I went to Fort Wayne Sunday. I had the thought of giving some food to the food pantry that our building had. It was there to help with the gaps between what the gov’t thinks people need in order to eat and what they actually had at the end of the month.
So…I bought about $80 worth of food and called the manager to see if she was available to get in the building and chat awhile. She didn’t pick up her cell, and I found out why when I arrived at the building–
I had tried the disabled gal that used to run the food pantry. She would have had the key to get in. I couldn’t for the life of me remember her apartment number, so I guessed. A man answered, so yeah, no luck. He didn’t even know the name so either he was new, or the gal has moved to another place. She had been there quite a few years, so I was surprised that she wasn’t there.
I tried a few more apartments, but no one was home. On a final try, I got one of the residents. Ironically, he was the same one that gave me such grief over there by setting off the fire alarms all the time. Heh.
He let me in and then said they didn’t have the food pantry anymore. I was shocked.
He said that everything had changed and that the manager was no longer there. There had been a big shake up, I guess. No wonder she didn’t reply to my call.
So…I ended up just putting the food on a table in the main lobby for people to pick up.
It was just surreal. There used to be folks outside chatting on the benches. No one. No one inside where a couch and tables are located.
It just felt like the world got a little colder. Makes me sad. Really sad leaving the building. What once was a small community, where we looked out for one another, has become a place to exist.
Once our former manager left, it just seemed to take the warmth and light out of the place. The new maintenance guy did not like the “free” table we had in our rec room…he was somewhat anal and didn’t like the clutter of it…but that table was a life saver for us with little money to buy things. If someone didn’t want something, but another resident could use it, that just saved it from ending up in the landfill, didn’t it? But the maintenance guy insisted there were fights over the stuff…and I can say that I never witnessed it nor heard about any such fights. He just didn’t like it, is my guess….and if there were any fights, he probably blew them out of proportion.
Anyway, what should have been a happy day of giving back was one of sadness.
I had heard this report was out but hadn’t seen it until now–about our toxic waterways. Indiana, unfortunately, heads the list for toxic load. It’s worse than I first read about–the number now is 17 million pounds of toxins into our waterways. 43 million pounds released into the Ohio river, THE most toxic river. Good Grief.
And Joe Donnelly, Dan Coats, and Jackie Walorski, paid by their bosses (in the form of campaign $$, and God knows what else), are fighting for the industries’ right to poison us. Some of them are so bold to say they’re fighting for us and our families….seriously. 17 million pounds of toxins. Whom is irresponsible, Mr. Coats?
NY Times has a page up on fines and violations…and how nobody takes responsibility.
The Sierra Club’s take on the Indiana Dept. of Environmental Mis-Management, including a dog boiled alive by hot water discharge, and a coal industry lobbyist being appointed to…wait for it…the IDEM–for prosecuting the polluters. If this wasn’t so serious, I would be laughing my arse off.
So…you all might recall I blogged about the vulnerability of the Irish to heavy metal poisoning due to a genetic factor…
…my other sister dropped a bombshell last week at the funeral dinner–she had her daughter tested because of health issues…and….drum roll please….she has the double gene responsible for the inability to detox heavy metals.
I knew it….but I couldn’t convince my siblings that because we were Irish, we were more susceptible.
They had a hard time believing that my stupid amalgams had made me so ill. My sis was a dental hygienist in another life, so she was brainwashed into believing that stuff was perfectly safe. She was exposed to it eight hours a day, five days a week. I won’t go into her health issues, but there’s plenty to point towards mercury poisoning.
And yet, it’s still hard for her to wrap her brain around–because she just noticed the red spots on my arms–that have been there for over ten years–probably closer to fifteen years. She thinks that’s a sign of allergies. Yes and no. Allergies are worse with mercury poisoning and many on the support group have some sort of skin issue like mine.
I explained to my sister (she lives out of state, so I don’t get to see her that often), that my red spots got much worse when I worked at the state mental hospital that was located near a cement plant that burns hazardous waste. I found out a couple years ago that it was spewing mercury into the air. This just clicked for me that my red spots got worse when I worked there, and then started to disappear when I moved out of town after losing my house. The thing is–when I chelate, the red spots itch like crazy and become an angry red. And when they do go away, there is a pink scar left on my forearm.
I’ve passed another milestone that indicates I am progressing, however slowly–my long time readers might recall I mentioned warts on my thumb and middle finger. The warts on my thumb began to disappear a year or two into chelation. The middle finger, however, was still there. Until now.
It was getting itchy and red during chelation, but still remained until this week–where the body finally dealt with it and tada! I no longer have the wart. Incredible how the body is such a miracle. I knew that viruses cause warts, so I was waiting for the immune system to take care of it. Doctors, of course, want to just remove the warts without thinking about why the wart is there and if there is something gone wrong with the immune system…?
So…yeah…a little progress, but a giant leap as far as I’m concerned.
And knowing that I was right all along about the Irish genetics is just wonderful. Validated.
Now if they’ll only listen to me about Dr. Cutler’s protocol and start chelation before things get really bad…
…and following a grain free organic diet…but yeah, that’s probably not going to happen–lots of resistance, but I can hope, can’t I?
Just wanted to give you a head’s up on something the mercury group has posted~
Vitamin Research Products (vrp.com) is no longer stocking DMSA, one of the chelators of mercury and lead. They just suddenly stopped stocking it and have even removed the page from their website.
This is not good news. They were the main supplier of DMSA. Theories are abound that Big Pharma is behind this–buying out the competition. And if they can buy out natural cures, they can force sick people to buy their side-effect-laden crap.
There are also allegations that Obamacare is limiting natural methods of healing, such as chelation supplements, making it harder for folks to get well. I don’t know this for fact, but it is one of the reasons I have not signed up for the health care. Another reason is the link to the insurance industry instead of single-payer, which would have been more palatable, being like Medicare for All.
I can tell you that many of us on the group lost jobs as a result of mercury–therefore, we had lost the ability to pay for medical insurance and the ability to pay for supplements that insurance didn’t cover. But at least the supplements were available…and cheap. I would have not gotten well without that. So once again, the poor take a hit for the uber wealthy to make even more profits….
I suspected that Big Pharma would try to grab this part of the market again, because they had in the past and continually try to get some twerp in Congress to do their bidding with making supplements illegal.
With billions of dollars and high-priced lawyers, they have gotten away with trying to take credit for natural healing herbs and methods, such as those used in India. These were used for thousands of years…and Big Pharma comes along and tries to claim a patent. Utterly mindboggling. More here on Big Pharma’s battle to get a share of the market in India. An even better explanation of it here.
Big Pharma tries to claim that compulsory licenses aren’t available for cancer drugs – a lie; or that they are only available for national emergencies – another lie; or that India is establishing a general exception to patents for pharmaceuticals – an even bigger lie. Sovereigns retain the right under TRIPS to issue compulsory licenses or to allow public, non-commercial use of patented products or processes. As long as the correct procedures are followed and adequate remuneration is paid, the patent holder has nothing legitimate to complain about – unless, of course, it is a U.S. multinational who doesn’t want an emerging country like India to get in its way.
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…or for a group of U.S. citizens who want natural methods to heal their bodies to get their way….
And unfortunately, that’s not all that the greedy are trying to patent.
Lastly, here is a good segment on DN! with Vandana and Mira Shiva–two “uppity” women I admire for fighting the good fight~~
Vandana brings up the point of liability. It would seem that none of the chemical companies — be it Dow/Union Carbide or any Big Pharma — want to take responsibility for the harm that they cause. All the profits. None of the guilt.
She also highlights the attitudes towards the poor–they don’t matter so let’s poison them or use them as guinea pigs.
It was great to hear of them speak of their strong mother in the end~~no junk food in the house. My father, too, did not allow junk food in the house when I was growing up–a parent who cares is not going to feed their child junk. I heard the other day of parents of my children’s generation feeding their kids nothing but junk…and they don’t see anything wrong with that. Very unsettling. Regretfully, I didn’t appreciate my Dad’s wisdom until recently. I always felt deprived because other kids got to have a “treat” of junk food on Friday night. Just before the divorce, my sister would make Chef Boy-ar-dee pizzas on Friday night. I felt happy at getting that “treat”. Pfft. The “treat” that kills.
Food is medicine. Weeds are medicine. When will we learn to value that which is not valuable by profit-making and make that available to all, not just those with cash in hand??
Have these people completely lost their minds?
One New York state study found radioactivity in fracking waste water at 267 times the level considered safe for human consumption. Other studies found several cancer-causing contaminants in fracking waste water. The report cites arsenic, lead, hexavalent chromium, barium, chloride, sodium, sulfates, boron, benzene and radioactive agents.
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You might remember hexavalent chromium…it was the stuff used by PG & E featured in the movie, Erin Brockovich.
It, as well as benzene, are known cancer causing agents. Arsenic and lead, of course, are heavy metals that cause neurological damage and in enough amounts–death.
It is just mindboggling that the fracking proponents look the other way at the damage caused by the fracking process. All that matters to them is getting the gas out of the ground, no matter the consequences. Well, it has a way of coming back on you…quality of life goes down…healthcare costs go up…and each generation suffers more DNA damage.
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