Category Archives: four-leggeds

GMO monsters; Nanoparticles and Karl Rove…

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Jill Richardson has this up at PR Watch.  Can anyone make sense of this?  The chemical/bioengineering industry is a monster running amok—make more toxic food that makes people, animals sick and poisons the atmosphere…

…so they can grow more food per acre.

I have a question:  if people are dying from the poison food and poison atmosphere, who is this serving?  Not us.

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More from PR Watch on the propaganda of Monsanto, et al…

Good Grief. Nanoparticles are nothing to worry about??  Just a little benzene (one of the most toxic chemicals out there)  isn’t going to hurt…/snark

And the debate on sunscreens also questions their validity and necessity.

CDC link here: http://www.ewg.org/analysis/toxicsunscreen

Natural News has a story here.

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Finally there’s this story on Rove controlling the purse strings…the behind the scenes and under the radar guy.

“Baffling new disease…”

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AP has this up on a yet another disease that implicates a destroyed immune system.

Let’s break this down, shall we?

She was from Vietnam, and came here after the war, in 1975.  Although the article doesn’t state that, she most likely was exposed to Agent Orange–exposure to Agent Orange can cause immune system deficiency.

I also wonder about Celiac.  When doing my research on it, I had read that Asians don’t get it–it’s just unheard of in that population…but knowing how the medical profession likes to make pronouncements of entire classes of people with a small sampling, I’m suspicious that she might have it and not be diagnosed nor tested.  I didn’t have any overt symptoms–it was only because of my Irish-German heritage that I put the puzzle together.  And it’s interesting that I have become more sensitive as I have adopted the GAPS diet–allowing my gut to heal.

There isn’t any mention of her diet, nor of the doctor asking her about diet….so one is left to wonder if she’s adopted the Western diet and is suffering because of it.  I think the age thing is a big clue–our bodies are miracles that can take a lot of abuse before the cells break down and start to wreak havoc.  This is something I’ve noticed on the mercury poisoning support group–some folks will have good health up ’til the time they reach 40, and then things start happening.

There’s also no discussion on toxin exposure.  She lives in Tennessee, ranked 11th in toxic exposure.  (What? Indiana is *only* ranked 4th? …we must be slipping in polluting our environment./snark)   Note the assertion of the article that the EPA is right on top of things… the reporter apparently didn’t get the memo of the corporate polluters who worked to get those regulations repealed.

From the article:

The NRDC also framed its report in a political context, indicating that Sen. Lamar Alexander voted against an attempt by Sen. James Inhofe, R.-Okla., to repeal the Mercury and Air Toxics standard. Sen. Bob Corker supported it.“For too long, Americans have had no choice but to breathe toxic air pollution. Thanks to the EPA, the air is getting cleaner,” said Franz Matzner, NRDC associate director of Government Affairs. “But we need lawmakers who will help clean up the air we all breathe — not lawmakers who do the bidding of big polluters trying to repeal safeguards that protect children’s health. This and future Congresses should let the EPA do its job so all Americans can breathe easier.”

Here’s another article on the toxic junk in Tennessee by Kelly Hearn ( The Nation).  Pay attention to the date–I think it could be significant to this woman because she began getting ill in 2009.  Holy Crap.  Mysterious disease…my arse.

Here’s another discussion on it (same blog).  A good discussion on Celiac reaching across several populations that the medical profession has refused to acknowledge. Good Grief.  The misery and diseases they have caused by their ignorance.

 

 

Boiling Fish

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commondreams has this up on Illinois nuke plants dumping 100 degree water into the rivers and waterways…in essence, boiling the fish.  The cavalier attitude is typical–it’s just a couple of fish, what are you so keyed up about?

The comments section has some thoughtful comments–forcing them to reuse the heated water, forcing them to power down.  And as stated, they’re not in the business to power down–that’s cutting into their profits.  And we all know that utility companies will not do the conscientious thing like actually taking into account the environmental damage they may be causing.

Good Grief.

Owner abandoned dog while others rescued it

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Link here.  The first question I have:  Why in the hell would you take a dog up on that kind of terrain?  Second question is why didn’t you mount the same efforts to save her as the complete strangers did?

Of course, I’m for the people who saved her to get to keep her.  The original owner lost is claim on her when he abandoned her.  You’re done.

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The local case here of the soulless creep who allegedly threw a kitten in a fire was back in the news–he is claiming that he *might have bumped* the kitten into the fire while he burned pictures of his now ex-girlfriend….um-hmmm.

And when the reporters told the story, it led one to believe that the kitten perished.  It’s still alive and people have called in wanting to adopt it.  If they don’t get this particular kitten, they should get their butts over to the humane society shelter and adopt a pet from there.  Two of the best pets I’ve ever had came from animal shelters.

…and if one goes to a shelter (or anywhere to get a pet)  let the animal *choose* you…you’ll know what I mean with their body language–they’ll move in towards you, their eyes will brighten up, their tails will be wagging (dogs), or if it’s a cat, it will make its feelings known like my kitty Sammy did–she rubbed up against the cage as if she were rubbing against my leg….these two were the best pets because they chose.  I didn’t know what it meant at the time, as I wasn’t where I’m at now in understanding, but now I get it.

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More animal stuff–

Remember that cool picture I linked to recently with the lion and porcupine? I thought that the porcupines were holding their ground….

…yeah, well, things weren’t quite as they appeared.

My kids used to have a subscription to National Geographic for Kids.  I saved a few issues and found this same picture in it.  The caption had three questions of what was happening.  One of them asked if the lion flipped the porcupine over and pounced.  With a feeling of dread, I looked at the answer…yep…the lion flipped the porcupine over….<sigh>

 

 

 

 

Numbers of importance

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(Okay, feeling a little more lucid today…back to business…)

People who starve in America per given year.

More statistics on the world here.

More debate about the *cough* non-issue here.  Repeat after me:  “If you don’t acknowledge there’s a problem, then there’s no problem.”

Deaths from prescription drugs here--a whopping 100,000 people die every year from prescription drugs and 2 million are seriously injured…but you wouldn’t know that by the lack of attention it receives.  I’m sure that the drug companies buying advertising on the TV networks has *nothing* to do with the lack of sunlight on the issue.  /snark

But those same TV nooz stations will begin (if they haven’t already, since I’m cable-less, I don’t know and I don’t have time to search the web to find out) their onslaught of dire warnings to the American public on the upcoming flu season and how they better get on the stick and get those poisonous vaccines shot into their already beleaguered bodies.  The radio stations here are doing their best to get the hype going on West Nile again…today they announced that horses have died of West Nile, so owners are being urged to get their horses vaccinated.  Wanna know how many horses have died?  Three.  Yep.  I wonder if those horses die from the vaccine if it will be duly noted and reported to authorities? Nah, we can’t have that.  That would be responsible and accurate.

Other deaths by pharmaceutical companies here.  Keep the kleenex handy.  A story of a mother’s heartbreak over the belief she was doing what a good mother does…

More on vaccine deaths here.    Note the similar blanket excuse of SIDS. Here’s a site that blames the parents (mother) for SIDS…oldest trick in the book–that way, she’ll feel guilty for being a poor parent instead of questioning the vaccines the child received. More blaming here…by National Polite Republican.

More parents’ stories here.  But the public is going to be urged to put this poison into their children…and then be blamed if their child dies as a result.  This is criminal.  I can’t even read them all because it’s just too hard.

I’m struggling with this issue with my own kids now–they’ve been brainwashed to believe vaccines are okay and I’m being an alarmist.  I’ve seen how they have affected a sibling’s grandkids and how the child changed dramatically after receiving these horrible shots.  I can’t convince my kids that there is a connection.  I don’t have grandchildren yet, but I’m trying to prevent a tragedy.

And thanks to Senator Frist, you can’t touch Big Pharma.   Profit$ without penalty nor accountability. More here.

…let’s not forget Frist killing kittens for “medical research”.   Paragraph here:  http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/bill-frist/

And more here.

And speaking of cruelty to animals, the FW radio stations were reporting this morning that allegedly a man had tied a firecracker to a kitten’s tail, and it appears that he allegedly threw the kitten into a fire.  The story went on to say that the man’s girlfriend owned the cat and she was quoted as saying that the boyfriend was complaining that the “cat was always around.”    Sounds like a great guy. /snark

 

They’re buying air, land, water…

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Good God, it’s come to fruition…

…how in the hell does one, in good conscience, try to make a profit off of something one had no hand in creating…?  What kind of soulless being thinks it’s okay to do such a thing?

From the story:

Like other aspects of neoliberalism, the commodification of nature forestalls democratic choice. No longer will we be able to argue that an ecosystem or a landscape should be protected because it affords us wonder and delight; we’ll be told that its intrinsic value has already been calculated and, doubtless, that it turns out to be worth less than the other uses to which the land could be put. The market has spoken: end of debate.

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Exactly.  Once the price tag has been set, the $$$ will trump all other values…because one cannot put a price tag on beauty, on value to other beings besides two-leggeds (because all the rest don’t matter, according to these folks), nor can a value be assigned when the benefits are unknown, as most of the natural world’s benefits aren’t known until they’re lost…

Ag in Indiana

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We’ve apparently been noticed by Washington–the Ag Undersecretary is here seeing the amount of crop damage due to the drought. Link here:  http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/indiana/usda-undersecretary-to-visit-allen-county-farm

I was listening to the rightwing radio station this morning (It took me so long to find a nooz station that actually has a live reporter because it was with the same station that broadcasts Limbaugh, Hannity, and whatshisname.  Unfortunately, it also means that the nooz is slanted towards the rightwing mindset…so, yeah…) and they had the Undersecretary on.  The guy was talking in farm terms that the public is not familiar with–anyone with any public speaking training knows that you have to keep the terms to common everyday terms so everyone will understand it.  Even the rightwing morning host said he didn’t understand what was just said—and the undersecretary didn’t try to clarify–I can’t figure out if he doesn’t have a clue (not likely) or if it was deliberate.

He did say that they have planted more corn this year than previous years, so the crop was not going to be that devastated.  The morning host said something like “You mean that even though we’re looking at a lot of crop loss here, that there isn’t going to be that much of an impact?”  To which the ag secretary said “no.”  Then the host asked about the prices.  The ag secretary said that prices were going up.  Um-hmmm…I smell a rat.  If the corn crop hasn’t been impacted in a severe way, then why the hell are the prices going up?

Can you say “speculation”?  I knew that you could.

As a side note, I found this with Michael Pollan on the cows being fed corn/grain instead of letting them feed on grass.  (Warning: parts are very graphic).

It’s very simply explained that they have systems that allow them to digest grass, not corn.  And the really disturbing aspect is how they used to allow them to mature to 4 to 5 years, but now have it down to 14 months, going to 11 months.  Mo money Mo money Mo money.

Another disturbing aspect is when the calf is separated from its mother–the mother bellows for days and days he says.

From the page:

There are] 35,000, 50,000, 100,000 animals in the space of a couple of hundred acres. And in the middle of the city is rising the single landmark, which is the feedmill. It’s several stories high. It’s silvery. It’s sort of this cathedral in the midst of this, and everything rotates around it. …

But they really are medieval cities in many respects, I realized, because they are cities in the days before modern sanitation. They’re from the time when cities really were stinky. When they were teeming and filthy and pestilential and liable to be ridden with plague, because you had people coming from many, many different places, bringing many, many different microbes into a concentrated area where they could spread them around.

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The problem with this is that the antibiotics are affecting the people eating them:  resistance, and encouragement of candida and other nasty bugs in the gut, cause such grief. And of course, doctors are not taking this into account any more than they’re taking diet into account when a patient presents with a problem.

So…even though we don’t have 14th century disease right now, with the destruction of a person’s immune system through their gut, it’s setting up a bad set of circumstances that have that potential.  We already have super bugs that are not treatable by even the most strongest antibiotics.

And I can’t even begin to understand the mindset that says that cows don’t care if they’re sick from not having their proper food, or being crammed in together standing in their manure, or  the mother cow losing her calf before its time (the fact that she bellows is your first clue) …

It is curious how Michael Pollan says it’s dangerous to say that an animal is impacted by the way humans treat it–I’ve heard old farmers call cows “bossy” because of their personality…so how is it dangerous to state observations that confirm the animals are more than machines?

Pollan states he bought a cow and raised it to market, but was not allowed to go into the kill floor.  A red flag.

Animals give us life and deserve to be treated with respect.  Stuffing them with corn that ferments in their insides, packing them in lots too small to move around freely with piles of manure, injecting them with drugs to counteract all of that doesn’t ring of respect.

At the end of the article, Pollan is asked about irradiation. Says it’s probably fine.  Yeah, radiating food would be just what is needed after all of the above…Good Grief.

Dept of the Interior Not Releasing Data

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Indian Country has this up on the Dept of the Interior refusing to release data on a survey of employment and poverty of the Native Americans.

Okay, if there’s a problem with the methodology, why not release the information and point out those problems to the reader?

Or is this a case of they didn’t like the answers they got and want to rephrase the questions? A red flag is the statement in the story that they want to revise survey questions.

I took a statistics class (political science class, no less) and the point that was stressed was that you could phrase questions to get the answers you were looking for–if your goal was to skew something to your viewpoint. When the data was entered into the computer program that tallies the answers, it will show a skewed view.   Never trust a “survey” or “poll” that is more than 2 percentage points + or –  because it means the questions have been phrased to obtain a desired result.

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More from Indian Country.  This makes no sense to me…the wolf population has recovered, so let’s shoot them??  They say the reason that the deer population has swelled so much is because the wolf was nearly hunted into extinction.

I’ve been back and forth with the hunting thing–I’ve never really liked it, but when I became vegetarian, I despised hunters–mainly because the ones that I knew seem to get off on killing living things.

But then I read of the American Indian’s view of reverence for animals and how they took only what they needed and thanked the animal for its sacrifice.  That made a huge difference to me.  It especially helped me when I was told that I needed to start eating meat again because of severe anemia.   I could live with it as long as I gave thanks to the animal for its sacrifice.

What’s needed here is balance–and humans to stop messing with the populations and their habitats for their own gain.

Natural Shampoo

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I’ve been searching for a natural shampoo, without chemicals, as most of the chemicals they put in shampoos have been shown to be carcinogenic or endocrine disruptors.  Here’s a list of the stuff they put in personal care products.  I found propylene glycol on the label of a package of shredded coconut!  Good Grief.

I found a recipe for no-poo shampoo, where you put baking soda on your scalp and then rinse with vinegar.

Yeah…that didn’t work out too well…although it did help remove some of the buildup of the shampoo product I now use, leaving my hair bouncier.  But it’s not something you can use instead of commercial shampoo–your hair starts to look like it does when you’re sick for three days with the flu.  Not a pretty sight.

I found this helpful site on yucca as a shampoo.  Another site said you could also use it for a natural laundry soap.  Interesting.

It’s good for you, the wildlife, and the environment.  Woot.