I found this website that informs the public of the toxins in their area and who is doing the polluting. A good resource to see what’s happening in your area and the pollution around you that is likely responsible for health issues. (hat tip to Rodale website).
…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/
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….
common dreams has this up on an unapologetic George W. Bush . The cartoon says it in ways that words could never come close.
From Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary:
/ˈsoʊsijəˌpæθ/ nounplural so·cio·paths
/ˌsoʊsijəˈpæθɪk/ adjectiveAt the same time, representatives from ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Halliburton, among others, met with Cheney’s staff in January 2003 to discuss plans for Iraq’s postwar industry. For the next decade, former and current executives of western oil companies acted first as administrators of Iraq’s oil ministry and then as “advisers” to the Iraqi government.
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Note further down the word privatization. Sound familiar??
I tried to search for Afghanistan profiteering, but coming up empty. I’ll wager that it’s the same, since there is an oil pipeline there.
I found this on the companies that profit the most from war.
Feeding the dark side.
I heard about this on the local rightwing radio. They stated that the protest in Fort Wayne was a bust because they don’t manufacture drones. And the union workers mounted a counter-protest.
Common dreams has this up on fracking and all the hazards it entails. Hey, just as long as Dick Cheney gets his cut, all is well…
More here.
And here.
And the best Congress money can buy….
Let’s not forget the other consequences of fracking– earthquakes.
Common Dreams has this up on NASA scientist James Hansen leaving the agency to work actively against climate change.
What’s really depressing about this article is that Hansen has been telling Congress since 1988 that climate change was real and a growing problem.
1988….twenty-five freaking years ago….and we’re still dragging our feet? It is so depressing at all that has happened since then and how much better off we would be now if action had been taken at that time!
(hat tip to common dreams)
Paul Krugman has a few thoughts on Cyprus: Leave the euro now.
The only issue with Krugman’s column is that he should get a little more detailed and put it into context. Most folks are not literate in the financial world (which I think they bank on (pun intended)), so a little “lesson” on the history of economics and why we continually bail out banks and financial institutions and anyone else they deemed “worthy”…just as long as they don’t give those sleazy poor people food stamps!!
…is the first step towards correcting the problem….Washington Post hasn’t quite gotten *there* yet. The media was absolutely culpable for instilling fear into the public and credibility into the Bush Administration where no credibility existed.
What’s worse is that they are still giving air time to Cheney, et al, as if this guy has any credibility at all.
From the New York Times:
Most notably, Mr. Cheney defends his position on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, the Iraq war and the use of waterboarding with his usual aplomb and deft obfuscation. Other key players, including George W. Bush, have acknowledged mistakes and expressed dismay over decisions that proved misguided. Mr. Cheney says he did nothing wrong and has no regrets.
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One incident is almost chilling. Barton Gellman, a journalist and the author of a Cheney biography, recounts how in 2004 Mr. Cheney fought Justice Department lawyers who had determined that the top-secret, warrantless surveillance program that he had pushed for was illegal. Mr. Cheney was so insistent on keeping the wiretaps going that he kept Mr. Bush, then in his re-election campaign, out of the loop until the 11th hour, when two dozen Justice Department lawyers and the F.B.I. director threatened to resign
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And let’s not forget the profit factor for Cheney. More here. Blood on your hands, Dick.
Here’s a good article on those that were promoting the Iraq War through the media. They use powerful words and the “if you’re not with us, you’re against us…or a fool….” Hard to go against the grain when put in that context…I tried talking with a friend about it, but she was military and absolutely refused to believe that there was any doubt there were WMD’s. They wouldn’t lie to her….
The media is very powerful in influencing people. And the fact that Ronnie Reagan removed the Fairness Doctrine has had huge impacts in our ability to get both sides of a story in order to flush out the truth. The press is no longer obligated by law to present the whole picture instead of something that suits them. The fact that in my community there are nothing but rightwing radio announcers is testament to how unfair and unbalanced our media is…
Not only Reagan, but Clinton allowed media consolidation. The media owners get to promote their own political views and world views without having to air the opposing side’s views.
From the article:
(This is my beef, also, about what happened in Fort Wayne last June–save for one station on Friday night, there was no live broadcast talking about the super storm. NO ONE was live on the air on the next day, Saturday, telling people where they could go for cooling stations, when the power would be back on, how many people were affected (so folks would know that it was going to be awhile to get power and to plan accordingly.))
| January 18, 2002 | A train carrying hazardous materials derails at 1:30 a.m. in Minot, North Dakota, spilling 210,000 gallons of anhydrous ammonia in an incident federal regulators call “catastrophic”. Clear Channel Communications owns six out the seven commercial stations in Minot. Minot authorities say when they called with the warning about the toxic cloud, there was no one on the air who could’ve made the announcement. Clear Channel says someone was there who could have activated an emergency broadcast. But Minot police say nobody answered the phones. |
…have a new pipeline going in…
Monday’s ceremony comes just days before the Pakistani government’s term is set to expire and could be designed to win votes by making the ruling Pakistan People’s Party look like it’s addressing the energy crisis. It also allows the government to thumb its nose at the United States, which is widely unpopular in Pakistan despite billions of dollars in U.S. military and civilian aid.
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And then there’s this.
…my “antenna” is going up on these two stories. Perhaps not related, but I’m just wondering at the timing of the story? Why now? Or is this a case of making an accusation in order to get the U.S. to placate Afghanistan? Is he perhaps fishing for more $$$ in aid? Does this have anything to do with the pipeline being built in Afghanistan and now this new pipeline threatens the profits they hoped to make on it—and they see the U.S. as not doing enough to block the new pipeline?
Time will tell…
…meanwhile, the innocent bystanders will continue to pay the price…
Eagle 
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