74% of the studies examined showed a significant relationship between an ASD diagnosis and toxic metal exposure. These investigators concluded that the balance of studies support a link between ASD diagnoses and toxic metal exposure.
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Note further down that they also link heavy metals such as cadmium, arsenic and lead (from coal dust).
Okay, can we now stop drugging up our children with psychotropic drugs to help control symptoms and start addressing the real problem–our toxic environment and toxic amalgams?? It’s truly heartbreaking how many children have been misdiagnosed as autistic when they are displaying symptoms of heavy metal toxicity and acting out because they’re toxic…
More on mercury causing brain damage:
How many times do they have to find a correlation between mercury and neurological damage? When do they stop “studying” and start putting solutions in action?
They ought to take this three-story, one-block long pile of coke and dump it on the Koch’s front lawn. And for every shipment afterward, dumped on every Tea Party supporter’s front lawn who denies the pollution coming from oil and its byproducts.
More here on the residents’ concerns. Same stonewalling over health concerns for residents living around this poison. They say they’re sending in samples to find out if it’s hazardous. Here’s the Material Data Safety Sheet (MSDS) on Petroleum Coke. It’s pretty evident from this that it IS a serious health concern. One of the warnings is not to breathe the dust. Wonder how many residents breathe in particulate every single freaking day?
From the sheet:
Inhalation of excessive dust concentrations may be irritating to the upper respiratory
system. Repeated chronic inhalation exposure may cause impaired lung function.
There is no evidence that such exposures cause pneumoconiosis, carcinogenicity,
or other chronic health effects.
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I would question the last sentence–anything that can cause impaired lung function is causing inflammation…inflammation kills cells over a period of time.
Note that is is a combustible dust….just laying around….which the MSDS specifically states this is not proper storage–it states it should be in containers. (Not that I personally believe containers are any better. The stuff is toxic, toxic,toxic, creating problems of disposal…in somebody’s neighborhood.)
Anybody wanna bet this is located in a poor neighborhood in Detroit?
So…now BP wants to start operations for processing this filthy sludge in Whiting, Indiana, which is near Gary and Hammond and Chicago….right on Lake Michigan. Um-hmmm…Anybody wanna guess if the toxic environment is a factor in Gary Indiana being the murder capital of the United States. Note the article stating this area is one of the worst in air quality in the U.S.
And here we have the latest in *cough* BP cares….about our profits over your health and safety…
A video of yet another explosion in Whiting, Indiana:
Indiana has a sad history of putting business over its environment. Just look at the lack of trees compared to, say, Ohio. You can actually tell the air quality difference once you leave Indiana and venture into Ohio. Nevermind the beauty of all the trees, but the air is breathable. Anyway, Indiana’s own Dept. of Environmental Management *cough* has told manufacturers several years ago that once they were given a good report, they could slack off, er I mean, they could continue their good environmental practices until the IDEM inspected them three years later.
The Indiana Dunes, which we used to go to nearly every summer, have been polluted by the lack of concern of the environment. Lake Michigan was once reasonably clean. I took my kids up there after many years and was depressed to see the condition of the water. It was no longer clear and had that polluted look to it. I saw nuclear cooling towers off to my left. At least, I thought they were nuclear cooling towers…turns out they were from another power plant–the one thing Indiana has going for it is that we don’t have nuclear power plants here. I don’t hold my breath that they won’t eventually appear, especially with Mike Pence and the ALEC team now in charge here. Besides, there are nuclear plants in Illinois and Ohio bordering our state, so…yeah…we’re still susceptible to nuclear radiation or the China Syndrome. All it would take is one of the reactors melting down and we’re done.
And then there’s the curious case of radiation in Delaware, Indiana that is mentioned in this blog.
Has this at the New York Times on having a double mastectomy. First, I want to say that I hope she is doing well and on her way to healing and recovery. It must have been a difficult decision to make.
My grandmother died of breast cancer. There is a lot of cancer in my family. But I would not make the same choice as Angelina has done, even if I knew that I had the “breast cancer gene”. There are too many unknowns about genes and their impact on disease. As I have posted about before, there are factors about genes and the expression of their purpose that is *still* not understood by scientists.
More here on genes and the nutrition of the mother. Very interesting. The usual focus is treating the problem after it occurs (or in Angelina’s case, before it occurs, but with drastic measures)…instead of turning the focus to the toxic soup we’re living in that is the root cause of the disease. Also, it does not focus on the understanding that diet of organic fruits and vegetables are key to good health and allowing the body to do what it miraculously does: fight disease.
Why is that so hard to do?
Why can’t we be more proactive in trying to eliminate the causes instead of allowing it?
Really, the repub party should go from the “party of NO’ to the “party of whine”. Good God, can they play the victim…
They were seeking approval to operate under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. This would require them to be “social welfare,” not political, operations. There are significant advantages to being a 501(c)(4). These groups don’t pay taxes; they don’t have to disclose their donors—unlike traditional political organizations, such as political-action committees. In return for the tax advantage and the secrecy, the 501(c)(4) organizations must refrain from traditional partisan political activity, like endorsing candidates.
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Since when is asking questions “singling-out” someone? Asking questions is the IRS’s job. And the last line of the above quote is enough to revoke their tax exempt status.
George Will is trying to compare this to Watergate. Seriously?? How lame.
If Republicans had controlled both houses of Congress in 1973, Nixon would have completed his term. If Democrats controlled both today, the Obama administration’s lawlessness would go uninvestigated.
On CSPAN this morning, they had Jenny Martin, the CEO of Tea Party Patriots. She was playing the victim well–without really offering any hard evidence of the accusations of the IRS…even when asked for specifics by a caller. I listened carefully to her mini-speeches, and once when she began to divulge what actually occurred, she caught herself and went back to “safe mode” without giving the details. Hmmm….
Meanwhile, when the point was made that the IRS has been inundated by groups applying for tax exempt status, so there was possibly a backlog AND good reason to scrutinize these groups that don’t want to pay taxes. (The irony here is that the Tea Party is all about reducing government workers, but it would appear that the backlog is created because of a lack of skilled workers to process them…)
It is clear that Tea Party Patriots is a political group and they promote their political causes aggressively…so why shouldn’t the IRS ask them pointed questions about their fundraising and their activities?? If you want to avoid taxes, you’d better be prepared to answer some questions.
(Gah, I never in a million years thought I’d be sticking up for the IRS. Lord knows they’ve used their strong arm tactics on me–when I lost my house, they actually wanted to charge me for taking a profit(!!) and then when I owed a measily $200 (and didn’t have the money to pay them) they threatened to take what was left after the crash and burn. I did eventually pay it off in installments. but it was difficult at that point in time. )
This Mother’s Day was a tough one. Tears as we listened to “You’ll Never Walk Alone”….
So…I thought instead of the usual syrupy “Happy Mother’s Day” stuff, I’d do things a little differently~~
In Honor of the Mothers of the kidnapping victims of Cleveland….the two mothers who never gave up…God Bless. I can’t wrap my brain around this case–clearly, there were people sounding the alarm about something going on at that house. The police even showed up once–only to knock and then walk away when no one answered. The message this case is sending: women don’t matter–or worse, they wanted to be there. I’m just waiting for them to start pointing the finger at the victims–some already have started the “if they hadn’t done this, that wouldn’t have happened…” While ignoring that domestic violence happens every day in the U.S. in blue collar households and professional households. People with money. People without money. Those with college educations, and those with high school diplomas. Makes no difference.
In this case and I suspect the Boston Bombers’ case, domestic violence played a key role. …and yet, it’s never singled out as the cause of violence. And I also caution against making broad generalizations that the psychiatric profession is noted for–just because one comes from a home of domestic violence does not mean they will repeat it. Another mystery to be solved is why some go on to perpetuate the violence, and others rise above it.
Related to this, I’ve been reading blog after blog of mothers who have lost custody of their children. It is heartbreaking. And it’s damning of the U.S. court system that use Guardian Ad Litem’s testimony as golden, without ever examining their motives nor the actual qualifications, personal biases, and time spent with the children whose lives they are about to destroy. On top of all of this, parents are now charged a fee to see their children!! This is outrageous.
Phyllis Chesler has written a book, Mothers on Trial that blows away the myth that mothers *always* get custody of children. This is only true, she says, if the father doesn’t fight for custody. If he does take the mother to court, he will win custody in most of the cases. (I think I read 70% of the cases). It’s especially true if the woman is uppity. In five cases I had reviewed, the Guardian Ad Litem had awarded custody to the father in all five cases….even though there was undisputed abuse in two of the cases and as far as I could tell, no abuse nor neglect of care of the children on the mother’s part. As with the blogs I read…even in cases of a father molesting the kids, the mother was treated as the criminal and the father was awarded custody.
…even if your voice shakes.” (quote by Maggie Kuhn.) ( Oh, those uppity Presbyterian women… :p –I was raised Presbyterian.)
The story isn’t clear on what exactly was happening, other than the teacher handed him a packet as educational instruction. I’ll presume, then, it is the brainless edumucation of No Child Left A Mind that he is actually protesting….a mindless program that takes away the teacher’s creativity and ability to teach intuitively…rather, she/he must teach to the test. If they don’t…the child doesn’t do well on the test…their school loses funding…and the teacher loses his/her job. The child, though, is the one that loses the most–their most creative years for exploring their world are lost—all based on a false premise that the testing is a true assessment of the child’s aptitude and abilities.
They put into words what a celiac goes through with the *cough* medical profession….clueless doctors who charge $$ to tell you that it’s all in your head.
I like the one who told the patient she couldn’t feel pain in the gut…say what??
I’d like to see the Wisconsin Tea Party legislators tangle with these gals. Pass the popcorn. (Ooh, wait, what was I thinking??…Um, pass the gluten free snack. 🙂 Still not used to the idea of not having some things…<sigh> )
I’m just stunned at the thought that someone could try to label organic food as “junk food”. As the article points out, this would eliminate the right to choose organic, free range eggs, or gluten-free bread for Celiacs…it’s just mindboggling the ignorance and outright endangerment. So…I suppose if someone is Celiac and buys food they are not supposed to have in order to have something to eat…if their gut disintegrates from inflammation and they either end up in the hospital for surgically fixing the problem, or dead from a ruptured abdomen.
I really love the fact that the Tea Party members conveniently ignore that people on food stamps and other welfare were once taxpayers that paid into the system. Same with Social Security and Medicare.
This up from PR Watch on ALEC’s latest: asserting that its communications with public legislators is private….
Isn’t it amazing how the folks who insist on the Patriot Act and having the right to examine your private phone conversations, emails, library records, bank records, etc., are the same ones insisting that they have a right to privacy….?? The story states that there are cases where the communications can be private–in some states they don’t have to make their communications public knowledge…but it stops there and doesn’t explore that point further.
So…I went on a quick search and found this resource to each state’s open door laws. As with any law, though, it’s only as good as the people behind it. That is, if you have a group of people bent on keeping things secret with financial resources to keep their secrets, while those that try to find information lacking in financial resources…well, the law isn’t worth much…
Did Walworth really ask if they were growing cultures that would become human beings? OMG….these are the people deciding educational standards? ::holds head from spinning::
Even more alarming (if anything could be more alarming) is this passage from Louisiana Voice:
Where others within the Department of Education (DOE) have alluded privately to data suppression and manipulation of school performance scores that artificially inflated graduation rates, Bassett, a band director who said he was “highly qualified” to teach math, publicly charged White, BESE and DOE of misrepresenting test scores and then covering up the lie by removing the data from the Louisiana Believes website. “This is data suppression,” Bassett said.
He said he was asked by his principal last October to look into his school’s score so that it could be improved in the future. “My subsequent research revealed deceit, distortion, manipulation of scores and data suppression,” he said.
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Further down, it goes into specifics about VAM and how the data was missing or manipulated. Good God, these people have no conscience nor credibility…
Eagle 
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