tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61976741685495390342024-03-14T01:35:03.914-07:00Natural Health Home RemediesBack to the basics of natural, unadulterated, real food as our Creator intended. Other subjects that interest us are respect of the natural world, indigenous populations and the truth. No topic too hot to handle. We present you with information to make your own decisions based on your research.
If the purchasing power of $50 billion in advertising spent yearly in the US by the food and drug companies can't influence your decisions, then they intend to prevent your options. Vote With Your $$Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197674168549539034.post-91420414942650295142013-08-01T10:33:00.001-07:002013-08-01T10:33:26.391-07:00Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network<span style="color: green;"><b><i><span style="font-size: small;">“We
are alarmed at the lack of testing currently in place to meet the
present-and-growing threat of Cesium 134 and 137 contamination in our
food supply.</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: green;"><b><i><span style="font-size: small;">The time is past-due for a comprehensive response to
radiation present in our food supply from the Fukushima disaster. ” </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: small;">Alexis Lynn Baden-Mayer, </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: small;">Political Director, Organic Consumers Association</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>ACTION ALERT!! </b>Click on the <b><a href="http://ffan.us/?page_id=24"><span style="color: black;">‘Take Action’</span></a> </b>page
to sign the Bye Bye Becquerel petition to keep harmful radioactive
waste out of our food, be it conventionally grown or organic!! <b>ACTION ALERT!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: black;">NEXT, <b><i>add your comments</i> to the</b> FDA
CITIZEN PETITION filed on March 12, 2013 by FFAN coalition members
Beyond Nuclear, Citizens for Health, and Ecological Options Network to
significantly lower cancer causing Cesium 134 and 137 in the U.S. food,
nutritional supplement and pharmaceutical supply, including imports from
Japan. <i>(The U.S. currently has the highest allowable levels in the world, twelve times higher than Japan.)</i> The simple action of adding your comments will encourage FDA to accept
the petition and important supporting documentation into their process,
otherwise it could be denied altogether. CLICK ON BLUE OR YELLOW BUTTON
TO COMMENT NOW. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: green;">“FFAN is the only group
working toward safe food policy in the U.S. due to the ongoing Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear catastrophe. Please support their work and comment on
the FDA Citizen Petition today!” ~ Dr. Peter Montague, Founder and
Director of Environmental Research Foundation</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: green;"><span style="color: red;">NOTE:</span> </span></i></b><i><span style="color: green;"><span style="color: black;">If you thought Fukushima was long over with, that's because it's very inconvenient for you to know the truth.</span></span></i><b><i><span style="color: green;"> </span></i></b><i><span style="color: green;"> <span style="color: black;">Truth is that Fukushima has been spewing it's deadly brew over the entire Northern Hemisphere 24/7 for more than 2 years.</span></span></i><b><i><span style="color: green;"> </span></i></b><i><span style="color: green;"><span style="color: black;">
If you are curious how radiation travels, how long it lasts and the
cellular destruction it delivers to your body, please read my <b><span style="color: red;">Radiation Page </span></b></span></span></i><b><i><span style="color: green;"> <a href="http://www.natural-health-home-remedies.com/radiation.html">http://www.natural-health-home-remedies.com/radiation.html </a></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><i>You
can learn about my 50 favorite herbs & remedies to help minimize
the impact of continual low levels of radiation, also how to detox</i></span></div>
<b><i><span style="color: green;"> <a href="http://www.magneticclay.com/143-3-3-20.html">http://www.magneticclay.com/143-3-3-20.html</a></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><i> Ionizing radiation can break molecules, at a cellular level, causing unpredictable chemical reactions.<br /><br />Think of vibrations breaking glass, that is what happens at a cellular level, in your body, from ionizing radiation.<br /><br />Ionizing radiation is insidious, these large subatomic particles travel until they are stopped.<br /><br />Your skin can easily stop them.<br /><br />Once
they are ingested, inhaled, or enter your body through a cut, their
grotesque potent force cuts through your body like knife through butter,
into the cells, blood or other organs, impacting other organs and
leaving behind hideous, shocking damage.<br /><br />A single alpha particle
from Plutonium, Uranium, Americium or Radon can deliver a huge blast of
radiation inside your body. This radiation energy can destroy your
genetic material at a cellular level.<br /><br />Once radionuclides are
released into the environment they circulate and are carried with the
winds until they become part of the soil and food chain. They land in
our drinking water, are on the pastures that our livestock graze on, are
on our vegetables and in our fruit trees.<br /><br />This is particularly
dangerous for humans because we are at the top of the food chain, where
the higher concentrations of radionuclides are.<br /><br />Most Common Diseases From Ionizing Radiation:<br /><br /> * leukemia<br /> * lymphoma<br /> * solid tumors or any organ<br /> * bone & blood disorders<br /> * heart disorders<br /> * lung cancer<br /> * breast cancer<br /> * endocrine disruption<br /> * reproductive abnormalities<br /> * accelerated aging process<br /> * birth defects<br /> * congenital malformations<br /> * kidney, liver damage<br /><br />I
don't believe that we can avoid radiation in our food, including
organic, in the Northern Hemisphere, instead I work daily, and have
since Fukushima to enhance my immune system, detox to remove heavy metal
contaminants and boost antioxidants to kill free radicals... of course,
nothing from the Pacific, no mushrooms as they are hyper accumulators
of radiation etc. I assume my organic food is contaminated and will
continue my easy daily program for the rest of my life. </i></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: green;"><span style="color: black;">What about you?</span></span></i><b><i><span style="color: green;"><br /></span></i></b><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to make any medical claims, diagnose, treat, cure, prevent or mitigate any physical or mental condition, nor to prescribe any substance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197674168549539034.post-55109260735092443822013-07-21T10:44:00.002-07:002013-07-21T10:44:29.940-07:00GMO Lawsuit Settles For $750M<div class="entry-content">
<strong>ST. LOUIS</strong> • Bayer CropScience agreed here late
Friday to pay up to $750 million to farmers in Missouri and four
other states to settle lawsuits over contamination of the U.S. rice
supply by LibertyLink genetically modified rice in 2006.<br />
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"It was a devastating blow to a lot of rice farmers, and I'm
tickled to death that we've finally reached a settlement where
Bayer for the first time has offered to make it right to these
farmers," said St. Louis lawyer Don Downing, who was co-lead
counsel for the plaintiffs.<br />
"I think it sends a signal to those who develop genetically
modified seeds that they need to keep those seeds very carefully
contained until they're approved for human consumption," Downing
said.<br />
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But, he added, "We were very careful all along … not to say that
these lawsuits are anti-GMO (genetically-modified organisms)
because many of our farmers use GM crops."<br />
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Bayer, based in Germany, released a statement that read, in
part, "Although Bayer CropScience believes it acted responsibly in
the handling of its biotech rice, the company considers it
important to resolve the litigation so that it can move forward
focused on its fundamental mission of providing innovative
solutions to modern agriculture."<br />
When it was discovered in the rice supply, LibertyLink had not
yet been approved for sale for human consumption. Rice futures
plunged, and Japan and European countries banned the import of U.S.
rice.<br />
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The first of what would eventually grow to more than 400
lawsuits representing 11,000 plaintiffs were filed within weeks.
Many were eventually consolidated in federal court here.<br />
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LibertyLink rice has since been approved but has not been
commercially marketed.<br />
LibertyLink corn, soybeans and canola are on the market, Bayer
spokesman Greg Coffey said.<br />
All farmers in Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and
Mississippi who planted long grain rice in 2006-10 — not just those
who sued in state or federal court — can participate in the
settlement, said Downing and co-lead counsel Adam J. Levitt. It
also includes landowners who allow others to farm their land, but
does not include importers, exporters, rice mills and others.<br />
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Under terms of the settlement, farmers who planted at least 85
percent of the roughly 2.2 million acres of rice during those years
must sign up or Bayer can walk away from the deal.<br />
Bayer said it has already "established appropriate provisions"
for the settlement.<br />
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The settlement is broken down into three "pots" of money. The
first, and the easiest to get, offers $310 an acre to compensate
farmers for market losses and is available to those who had long
grain rice planted in 2006-10, with lesser amounts for farmers who
only planted in some of those years.<br />
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The second pot is for farmers who planted either of two rice
varieties in 2006, Clearfield 131 or Cheniere, that were most
affected by the contamination. Many of those farmers had to leave
fields fallow, plant lower-value crops or spend money cleaning
equipment of contaminated rice, plaintiffs' lawyers said. Farmers
will have to show receipts documenting their planting of those
varieties.<br />
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The third pot is for those who feel that they lost more, and
requires more documentation, lawyers said.<br />
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Friday's settlement comes after a series of so-called
"bellwether" trials set up to allow representative cases to proceed
to trial and to give all sides a signal of what could come in
pending cases.<br />
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Asked about compensation, Levitt said that lawyers had private
fee agreements with the clients who sued. A "leadership team" of
lawyers like Levitt and Downing and others who took on additional
duties and expenses will receive additional money, he said.<br />
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In December 2009, a federal jury in St. Louis awarded $2 million
to farmers. A different jury awarded $1.5 million in February 2010.
Neither of those juries awarded punitive damages.<br />
Last July, a federal jury in St. Louis awarded a Louisiana
farmer, Denny Deshotels, $500,000 in one suit. Jurors were not
given the option of punitive damages because of Louisiana law.<br />
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Two other bellwether cases settled, one a week into the trial
and one the week before, Downing said.<br />
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In three state trials in Arkansas, jurors also found in favor of
farmers, awarding $1 million in one trial, roughly $1 million or
less in another and $6 million in actual damages and $42 million in
punitive damages in the third, Downing said..<br />
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At trial, company lawyers argued that farmers who waited out the
brief price hit suffered no losses and that Bayer was not
negligent.<br />
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Friday's settlement had not yet been filed in federal court in
St. Louis, but plaintiffs' lawyers announced the deal at 4:35 p.m.
and Bayer released its own statement a short time later.<br />
Asked to explain the timing of the settlement, Levitt declined
to comment.<br />
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Coffey said, "We did release (the announcement) as soon as we
could," noting it was shortly after the agreement was signed.<br />
<br />
Downing would only say: "I can't tell you why it ended up late
in the afternoon on a holiday weekend. You can perhaps speculate
about that yourself."<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to make any medical claims, diagnose, treat, cure, prevent or mitigate any physical or mental condition, nor to prescribe any substance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197674168549539034.post-80981074501368565052013-07-21T10:31:00.003-07:002013-08-02T12:07:12.411-07:00Fukushima Veggies Deformed<dl id="at_photo"><div class="img" style="width: 500px;">
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<dd class="t1">Fukushima vegetables, seen in these photos
uploaded to Imgur, are gnarled and have strange deformities. Are these
mutant vegies the result of the 2011 nuclear power plant disaster?
(Photo: Imgur)</dd>
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<dd class="t1">Four peaches for the price of two. (Photo: Imgur)</dd>
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<dd class="t1">Two heads are better than one, right? </dd>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photos of what look like malformed vegetables from Fukushima, Japan, have surfaced on Imgur. The </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">strange produce</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
has deformities, bumps and lumps all over it, and looks like mutant
cabbage patch kids beamed to Earth after having been harvested on an
alien planet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
Is the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, a
result of the disastrous 2011 earthquake and tsunami, to blame for the
freaky produces' appearance?<br />
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melt down occurred after an
8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated Japan's
coastal region in Fukushima in March 2011. It is the largest nuclear
disaster since the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986.<br />
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The catastrophe caused the deaths of some 18.500 people. However,
none of these were the result of radiation exposure from the meltdown at
the power plant.<br />
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Still, high levels of radiation have been detected in groundwater
near the plant. CBC News reported in June of this year that officials
discovered strontium-90, a byproduct of the fission of uranium and
plutonium in nuclear reactors, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/19/japan-nuclear-fukushima-safety-requirements.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">in the groundwater</a> at levels 30 times higher than the government's safety standard.<br />
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"High levels of tritium, a less harmful substance, had also been
found, Toshihiko Fukuda, a general manager at Tokyo Electric Power Co.
(TEPCO), told a news conference," CBC reports. "They suspect the
radioactive material was released amid the meltdowns that rocked the
plant following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and has been
circulating in groundwater."<br />
<br />
In Feb. 2013, the World Health Organization, or WHO, released a report detailing the <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/fukushima_report_20130228/en/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">risk of radiation poisoning</a>
in the Fukushima region. They looked specifically at the increase in
cancer incidence throughout the area. But, little correlation was found.<br />
<br />
"For the general population inside and outside of Japan, the
predicted risks are low and no observable increases in cancer rates
above baseline rates are anticipated," WHO reported.<br />
This isn't the first time the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster
has sparked fears that radiation was causing deformities in nature. In
August 2012, researchers in Japan discovered evidence of <a href="http://www.isciencetimes.com/articles/3665/20120814/fukushima-meltdown-create-mothra-japan-nuclear-disaster.htm">mutant butterflies</a>.
IScience Times reported that researchers collected 144 specimens of the
pale grass blue butterfly, a common species in Japan, two months after
the disaster.<br />
<br />
They found that 12 percent of the butterflies showed signs
of mutation and abnormalities, including antennae disfigurement, small
wings and a change in color patterns.<br />
So are the apparent Fukushima vegetables the result of radiation? What do you think?<br />
To see more photos of the Fukushima vegetables, click <a href="http://imgur.com/a/Ne2bP/all" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to make any medical claims, diagnose, treat, cure, prevent or mitigate any physical or mental condition, nor to prescribe any substance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197674168549539034.post-50364158323947711622013-07-21T10:09:00.000-07:002013-07-21T10:09:01.870-07:00Striking Back At Police State Amerika<br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Every day a granny is goosed by TSA, a federal swat team raids the <a href="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/07/20/striking-back-at-police-state-amerika/tsa-goosing-granny-4/" rel="attachment wp-att-4158"><img alt="tsa goosing granny" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4158" height="204" src="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2013/07/tsa-goosing-granny-300x204.jpg" width="300" /></a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">wrong
house, a citizen acquitted of a crime still has their property
confiscated by authorities, even the dumbed down public is aware that
their every communication is monitored by the NSA and Obama has set his
administration up to violate every constitutional right of every citizen
in America under the NDAA and Executive Order 13603. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyone
who possess an IQ above room temperature is aware that our federal
government is totally out of control and is wreaking tyranny upon the
American people. As a people, we have seemingly grown numb to the
constitutional violations perpetrated by our government against the
citizens of this country. However, the abuse of citizens does not begin
and end with the federal government.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Trickle Down Tyranny</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With
ever increasing frequency, the alternative media reports countless
numbers of stories of citizen abuse at the hands of their local police
and city officials. The local police departments have been federalized
by DHS. They are provided millions of federal dollars for equipment and
the new breed of police view the people as their enemy as opposed to the
old cops walking a beat who previously viewed the majority of the
people as their ally against crime. Through the influence of DHS, your
local police department is looking to pounce on your every mistake with
excessive force and brutality and they do so frequently while ignoring
and violating any number of constitutional protections. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When Is An Arrest Is Not Really An Arrest?</span></h2>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Portland police officer Dean Halley must have failed his American Government class in high school. A reasonable<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>person
would also have to wonder if Portland Deputy City Attorney William
Manlove got his law degree from Walmart. what am I referring to? Well,
if the Scott Miller jaywalking case is any indication, the Portland
legal system is one big fascist entity that is totally out of control. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/07/20/striking-back-at-police-state-amerika/jaywalking-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-4160"><img alt="jaywalking" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4160" height="212" src="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2013/07/jaywalking1.png" width="176" /></a> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: blue;">Scott Miller</span></span> was running late to work. In an effort to catch his bus, he diagonally jaywalked in the crosswalk to catch his rid.</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Portland
police officer Dean Halley was on patrol and was able to intervene just
in the nick of time and arrest this menace to society. Halley
approached Miller and told him to produce identification.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Miller was
subsequently fumbling around on his person looking for his ID when
Halley immediately pounced on Miller, knocked him to the ground,
informed Miller that he was under arrest and placed him in <a href="http://yorktowntradingpost.com/?s=Scott+Miller+">handcuffs</a>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Halley subsequently confined Miller in the back of his police cruiser
and then proceeded to drive the criminal jaywalker a block away. The
total ordeal lasted 30 minutes, but while in the police cruiser, Miller
experienced a panic attack and paramedics were dispatched to the scene
to administer aid.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Miller was subsequently convicted in court of failure
to obey a traffic signal.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Miller
has obtained an attorney, Leonard Berman, and Miller is attempting to
sue the Portland Police Department for an illegal arrest because
jaywalking is not an offense that one can be arrested for. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Halley, a 20 year police veteran, <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://yorktowntradingpost.com/?s=Scott+Miller+"><span style="color: blue;">admits</span></a> </span>he told Miller that he was under arrest. However, Deputy City Attorney<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://yorktowntradingpost.com/?s=Scott+Miller+"><span style="color: blue;"> William Manlove</span></a></span>
is arguing that citizens cannot sue under these circumstances because
such acts do not constitute an actual arrest. Manlove stated that the
encounter between Halley and Miller amounted to no more than a “chat.”
Manlove characterized the encounter as being something “between a chat
and custody, but not an arrest for purposes of legal action.” Are you
kidding me?<br />
</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Real Crime Committed by Officer Halley</span></h2>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Let’s
take Manlove’s twisted version of the encounter between Halley and
Miller, and blindly conclude that Halley did not arrest Miller, despite
knocking him down, telling him he was under arrest, handcuffing him,
placing him in the police car and drove him a block away.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> For the sake
of argument let’s be in agreement with Manlove that this was just a
friendly chat. Under these circumstances that both sides agree upon, was
there a crime committed by Halley? You bet there was. The first crime
committed by Halley is called aggravated assault. Halley was presumably
armed and attacked Miller knocking him to the ground.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> When Halley
handcuffed Miller, he committed the offense of unlawful imprisonment
just the same when one abusing spouse will not let their partner leave
the premises. And the biggest crime committed by Halley is that this
officer is guilty of kidnapping which is what it is called when someone
forcibly detains a person and removes them to another location.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Please
keep in mind that jaywalking is an offense for which a person cannot be
arrested for committing. In the upside down world of the Portland legal
system, Miller gets convicted in court and Halley is not in jail for
aggravated assault, unlawful detention and kidnapping.<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">What Is Wrong With Portland Is a Microcosm of the US</span></h2>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Who
among has never jaywalked? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">All of us are risk to be the next victim of
this tyranny. Unfortunately, the behavior of officer Halley and City
Attorney Manlove is typical of most police departments and their
prosecutors.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> They get off on the rush of lording power over others.
Prosecutors think that they will move ahead in their careers with high
conviction rates and many of the police think the same by looking to
arrest as many people as possible and going so far as to even inventing
crimes for which to arrest the public for. This is why the United States
contains 25% of the world’s prison population despite only having 5% of
the world’s population.The US is number one in the world in people who
are incarcerated.</span></div>
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<a href="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/07/20/striking-back-at-police-state-amerika/plan-9/" rel="attachment wp-att-4161"><img alt="Portland's plan to erase their crushing debt." class="size-full wp-image-4161" height="267" src="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2013/07/plan-9.jpg" width="188" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">
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Portland’s plan to erase their crushing debt.</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Portland, like almost every other city is broke and has been under an <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.solidarityagainstausterity.org/"><span style="color: blue;">austerity plan</span></a></span>
for the past couple of years. This encourages the cops to hide behind
the bushes and catch as many speeders as possible. Cops, in short, are
mandated to be mobile tax collectors and they are looking for any excuse
to make arrests for the most minor of offenses. These behaviors are not
compatible with a supposedly free society. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In preparation for this article, I have been watching some episodes from the TV show, <em><strong>Cops</strong>,</em>
in order to assess the quality of interactions with the public. In one
episode I viewed, a cop pulls over a cyclist for coasting through a stop
sign in a quiet residential neighborhood. Just like officer Halley, the
Sacramento cop thinks this provides him with the right to violate the
man’s Fourth Amendment rights. With no probable cause to search the
man’s backpack and person, the cop does just that. The man had a
marijuana pipe in his backpack and off to jail he goes in another
stunning example of your tax dollars at work.Before you tell me that the
man got his just desserts, please read the Fourth Amendment.<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In
another episode, the Tampa police were conducting undercover marijuana
sales to motorists. As part of the bust, an unmarked cop car speeds out
of a hiding place and rams the front end of the drug buyers car. When a
couple of the arrested individuals protested the ramming of their cars, a
Tampa cop repeatedly states that “this is no longer your car, we own it
and you will have to buy it back from us.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I
don’t use drugs and I have not smoked marijuana, but you have to be
kidding me when we asked to believe that the cops have the right seize
anyone’s car for a small amount of marijuana. What if the buyers had
purchased their marijuana on foot, would their shoes or possibly their
clothes been stolen by the Tampa Police Department? These thugs with a
badge will also take your house for having small amounts of marijuana in
their house. Whose interests are these cops serving?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The TV show that takes the case is <strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bait Car</i>.</strong>
As an aside, I have had my car stolen twice and I wanted the
perpetrators arrested and prosecuted. I want gangster drug dealers
busted and sent to prison. However, do we really want to send marijuana
users to prison? When is it good law enforcement to bait people into
committing a crime they might not otherwise commit? This is true of
undercover drug sales of personal use quantities of drugs and it is
definitely true when the cops bait people into stealing their bait car
by making it inviting. Isn’t there enough crime that should occupy law
enforcement without entrapping the public? However, one should remember
that the prisons are being transitioned into for profit ventures and the
cops and prosecutors are all too happy to cooperate with the Bush
family et al in this venture. Who really thinks that this represents
good law enforcement? Yet, the show <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bait Car</i>, is all about entrapping people who might not otherwise commit a crime. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Small Town of Deer Trail, CO. Is Leading the Way In the Fight Against Tyranny</span></h2>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">T</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">he town board Deer Trail, CO., is <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23676390/deer-trail-considers-hunting-licenses-drones"><span style="color: blue;">considering an ordinance</span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in
which residents may soon be allowed to shoot down drones. The ordinance
would permit people with hunting licenses to fire bullets at the hated
drones. Also, the town would also pay these drone hunters $100 for each
“mechanical hide” with federal markings. Is there anyone reading this
that is not smiling from ear to ear?</span></div>
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<a href="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/07/20/striking-back-at-police-state-amerika/drones-shooting-down/" rel="attachment wp-att-4162"><img alt="The Mayor of Deer Trail demonstrating how he will shoot down a drone." class="size-medium wp-image-4162" height="225" src="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2013/07/drones-shooting-down-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
do not really think it is a good idea to be shooting bullets up in the
air because they can return to earth with devastating consequences. But
in this small town, someone is finally showing the intestinal fortitude
that is needed in this country in order to fight back against federal
and local tyranny. The proposed ordinance is certainly more symbolic
than real. However, it is a start and you know that somewhere in the
DOD, they just discovered where Deer Trail, CO. is located on a map. We
need more Deer Trails. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What Can Be Done in Cities Like Portland</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Although
we don’t want to be shooting bullets in the air at drones, there are
things we can do to fight against an out of control government and its
increasing level of criminality. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Portland
citizens should consider conducting a mass jaywalking night and do so
in front of the police headquarters. Portland should also sponsor a
“film the police” night. People armed with their cell phones should
video tape every police action that they witness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> If the cops know that
they are under increased surveillance, then they might behave and the
officer Halley’s of the law enforcement world will find their next job
at Walmart conducting parking lot security as their transgressions are
caught on tape and they rightfully lose their jobs. </span></div>
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<a href="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/07/20/striking-back-at-police-state-amerika/bad-cop-no-donut/" rel="attachment wp-att-4163"><img alt="This graphic needs to be displayed in Portland until Halley and Manlove find employment befitting their thuggery" class="size-full wp-image-4163" height="225" src="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2013/07/bad-cop-no-donut.png" width="225" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">
This graphic needs to be displayed in Portland’s businesses until Halley and Manlove find employment befitting their thuggery</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes
I know, that people have been arrested for filming the police. When
that happens the people of that community need to recall their mayor for
facilitating state sponsored terrorism against their citizens. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is
what should already be happening in Portland. I say that if the police
want to put the people under such undue surveillance, we the people need
to return the favor. In places like Portland, businesses should not be
serving law enforcement personnel and prosecutors. Prosecutors such as
Portland Deputy City Attorney, Manlove and officer Halley, should not be
able to find a place to do their laundry. Apartment owners should
refuse to rent to these “types”. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Don’t
let your children play with their children. After filming cops and
their transgressions, show up at city council meetings with still
photographs and present them at the public comment period. Start Youtube
channels which features public officials and their wrongdoings. Take
pictures of the weeds in their yards and send the photos and a request
for action to their local HOA’s. Embarrass any government and law
enforcement official with public exposure when they break the law and
violate the civil liberties of their citizens. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All Politics Is Not Local</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Local
boycotts and protests are certainly easier to implement on a local
level. However, the same principles need to be employed against federal
officials. Treat them and their families like they have the plague. IRS
and NSA officials should be treated like the colonists did the Stamp Tax
collectors in pre-Revolutionary War period. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If
you own a mid-size business, go to video conferencing strategies in
order to conduct long distance activities. Send the airlines a letter
telling them that you are not subjecting your employees to the tyranny
of the TSA and your people will not be flying.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> If enough of us did that,
the TSA would fade away instead of expanding to trains, bus depots and
highways. The entire country needs to be sending such a letter to the
airlines. For when US Airways, Southwest and the other virtual airline
monopolies are financially hurting, they will be screaming at the
federal government to change their corrupt system.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
To strike back at the criminal IRS, shop at garage sales. Trade and
barter as much as you can. Refuse to use one of the five megabanks as a
lender to buy a house in response to the MERS robo-signer mortgage
fraud.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Use your local credit union for all loans. Follow the same advice
for buying a car. In fact, you should not buy a car until you can pay
cash for it. Take the debt advantage away from the banksters that have
hijacked our government. Refuse to shop at a corporate chain store such
as Kmart, Walmart or any other slavemart store and shop locally. Unlike
the failed LA riots of 1992, we do not have to burn down our own
neighborhoods to make a statement. We just need to withdraw our support
and our money.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Educate Your Children Outside the System</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">American
families need to ban together and educate their children outside the
system as much as possible. Someone just brought to my attention that
some fully accredited foreign universities are having discussions abo</span>ut <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">offering
online classes to American college students at a fraction of the cost
in response to the tyrannical post-secondary education system that is
running the show in the US. These foreign entrepreneurs are looking to
profit from the predatory practices being exhibited our post-secondary
institutions. The student loan debacle in this country is highly
criminal and is extremely predatory and should be avoided at all costs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/07/20/striking-back-at-police-state-amerika/homeschooling-6/" rel="attachment wp-att-4166"><img alt="homeschooling" class="alignright size-full wp-image-4166" height="195" src="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2013/07/homeschooling1.jpg" width="258" /></a>Homeschooling
will soon be outlawed in the US for the same reasons it was outlawed in
Germany. The establishment wants people smart enough to do their job,
but not so smart that they can question authority. This does not change
the responsibility factor of parents who need to redouble their efforts
to not let their children believe that the constitutional violations
happening in our country are acceptable. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Parents
need to focus on raising their children to respect the rule of law
(i.e. the Constitution), not the thuggery that has replaced the rule of
law. The globalists need to know that no generation of Americans will
ever accept and fully submit to their tyranny and eventually the
banksters day of justice will come.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Explore alternatives. Non-participation is the ultimate blow to any corrupt organization. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/07/20/striking-back-at-police-state-amerika/police-state-america4/" rel="attachment wp-att-4169"></a>You
must attend your Congressman’s next Town Hall Meeting. Show up and tell
them that you will work to unelect them unless they subject themselves
to the same substandard and dangerous Obamacare system that they have
sentenced us to. Unelect all incumbents until they repeal this
genocidal, death panel ridden form of health care. And the same standard
of political retention needs to be applied to the repeal of the Stasi
inspired NDAA.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
do not have the space to present all of my ideas on striking back at
what I dub “Police State Amerika,” but I am sure my point is not lost on
those who have a backbone and a pulse. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/07/20/striking-back-at-police-state-amerika/police-state-5-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-4168"><img alt="police state 5" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4168" height="201" src="http://thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2013/07/police-state-51.jpg" width="251" /></a><br /> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Did I mention to store and grow your own food, store water and hide your
guns and ammo? Do these three things now in preparation for the
possible time that you may need them when the Russian/NATO/UN troops
come knocking at your door. Don’t make the mistake of believing that
when the Russians show up at your door to seize your guns, that officer
Halley will respond to save the day. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nonviolence Does Not Imply Compliance<br />
</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
is time people for the spirit of civil disobedience to rear its head.
Short of not complying with any form of gun confiscation. The type of
peaceful revolution that I am proposing can be effective without ever
firing a shot. Those that know me, know that I am nonviolent. However,
that does not mean that I will not become non compliant against this
encroaching tyrannical police state. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If we are going down as a country, I am not submitting without a fight. Will you join me?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
time to fight back is now! What is your idea on how to fight back
against this tyranny? Please leave a comment with your
suggestion.Writing your suggestions is the first step towards action. If
you care about your country and your children’s future, let your voice
be heard.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to make any medical claims, diagnose, treat, cure, prevent or mitigate any physical or mental condition, nor to prescribe any substance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197674168549539034.post-35792741000430474582013-07-21T09:56:00.001-07:002013-07-21T09:56:37.607-07:00Did Gates Know Polio Vaccine Would Paralyze Children?<br />
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation created the GAVI alliance to push
vaccinations on the poorest parts of the developing world in the name of
“saving lives” and stopping disease.<br />
<br />
In particular, Bill Gates expects to take credit for wiping out polio
worldwide by making it one of his primary issues. But at what cost?<br />
<br />
In April 2012, <a href="http://www.infowars.com/paralysis-cases-spike-in-wake-of-bill-gates-polio-vaccination-effort-in-india/" target="_blank">I reported on a disturbing claim</a>
in the Indian medical press that some 47,500 children had been
paralyzed as a direct result of the polio vaccination campaign that had
swept through their populous country. <a href="http://pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=68352&sid=1" target="_blank">India’s National Polio Surveillance Project found that a sharp rise in the cases of non-polio paralysis</a> correlated with areas where doses of oral polio vaccine were also increased.<br />
<br />
Worse, children afflicted with polio vaccine-derived non-polio paralysis
“were at more than twice the risk of dying than those with wild polio
infection,” according to Indian officials.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>Bill Gates has publicly denied that his vaccination campaign harmed anyone after being <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4tXbRL2jXM" target="_blank">confronted by Truthstream Media’s Melissa Melton</a>.<br />
<br />
<br />
n June 2013, a <a href="http://truthstreammedia.com/indian-baby-contracts-vaccine-derived-polio-virus/" target="_blank">ten-month old baby in India made headlines</a>
after it was paralyzed from receiving a polio vaccine, all while
Bollywood celebrities, reportedly hired by the Gates Foundation, were
used to urge the public to accept the vaccinations.<br />
<br />
Perhaps the worst part of this tragic backlash in what is meant to be a
campaign to improve public health is that the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation and the UN’s World Health Organization knew that oral polio
vaccines caused paralysis – but they thought the trade-off was worth it.
The claim rings as hollow as when former Secretary of State Madeline
Albright claimed that some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0WDCYcUJ4o" target="_blank">half a million Iraqis killed by sanctions was also “worth it.”</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://activistpost.net/vaccineexempt.html" rel="nofollow" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"></a>After years of controversy in the United States, the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20041103121651/http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=161297" target="_blank">use of oral polio vaccine (OPV) was discontinued in 2000</a> due to its proven <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Iatrogenic_.28vaccine-induced.29_polio" target="_blank">link with vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV)</a>, and in the UK circa 2004.<br />
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The use of an injected and inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) replaced its
usage in the Western world, while oral polio vaccine continues to be
used in the developing world.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Iatrogenic_.28vaccine-induced.29_polio" target="_blank">Wikipedia notes</a> that the WHO “considers the benefits of vaccination to far outweigh the risk of vaccine derived polio.” A <a href="http://www.who.int/features/qa/64/en/index.html" target="_blank">statement on the World Health Organization</a>
addressing the issue of vaccine-derived polio updated in April 2013
claims, “The small risk of cVDPVs pales in significance to the
tremendous public health benefits associated with OPV.”<br />
<br />
While that risk may be statistically negligible from the bureaucratic
point of view of the United Nations and agenda-driven philanthropy, the
vaccine-derived paralysis has ruined at least 47,500 real human lives in
India, in children who would have likely never contracted paralyzing
polio but instead were paralyzed and permanently harmed by the so-called
“cure” – all while an alternate vaccine not linked with paralysis has
long been available.<br />
<br />
Who carries the burden for those wrecked lives, and why does no one in
the mainstream corporate media address this issue or attempt to hold
anyone accountable? I guess there are no political points to be scored,
so it won’t be appearing on your TV screen.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In
years past ginger ale was the tonic of choice if you had an upset
stomach or the flu. Today’s ginger ale is little more than a
ginger-flavored soda laden with high fructose corn syrup.
To make the authentic brew our great grandmothers knew all you need are
few basic supplies and a little patience. Bottle your ginger ale in
airtight beverage bottles while it is still actively fermenting so it
retains some fizz. Just be sure to store it in the refrigerator within a
day or two after bottling it or it may create too much carbonation and
burst your bottle.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Ingredients:</b></span></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">1 gallon filtered water</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">1-1/2 cups organic cane sugar</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">4 inches (approximately) of ginger root, peeled and grated</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">1/2 cup prepared vegetable starter culture (like <a href="http://www.culturesforhealth.com/caldwell-starter-culture-for-fresh-vegetables.html" target="_blank" title="Caldwell's Vegetable Starter">Caldwell’s</a> or <a href="http://www.culturesforhealth.com/body-ecology-starter-culture.html" target="_blank" title="Body Ecology Starter Culture">Body Ecology</a>) or 1/2 to 1 cup whey<b> </b></span></span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Instructions:</b></span></span><br />
<ol>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Place
water in a large non-aluminum kettle. Stir in grated ginger root. Place
over high heat and bring to a boil. Allow ginger water to boil for 3
minutes. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Remove
from heat and stir in sugar until dissolved. Let cool to room
temperature. When sufficiently cool, around 80°F or less, stir in
starter culture or whey.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pour
into airlock jars or plain mason jars with lids. If using plain mason
jars release the pressure from the jar at least once a day by loosening
the lid. You should hear a little gas being released. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Keep
at room temperature for 2 to 6 days, until the ginger ale is fizzy. You
can strain out the pieces of ginger root at this time or leave them in
if you like ginger pieces. Bottle in tightly capped beverage bottles and
let sit at room temperature for 1 to 2 days before refrigerating.</span></span></li>
</ol>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Note: Lacto-fermented ginger ale mixed with kombucha is a great thirst quencher. Check out the other delicious ideas that are super easy, healthy and offer a pleasant change from the supermarket toxins.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.culturesforhealth.com/?a_aid=4f249ab58dcb2">http://www.culturesforhealth.com?a_aid=4f249ab58dcb2</a></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
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allow children to decide for themselves whether they should be
euthanized ("killed") by medical personnel. Currently, Belgian law
limits euthanasia to persons 18 and older, but with the rise of autistic
children thanks to biopesticides, GMOs and vaccines, nations are
increasingly trying to figure out what to do with all these children who
have been permanently damaged by the medical and biotech industries.<br />
<br />
The
answer, of course, is to simply kill them. It's difficult to kill
children off under current law without being charged with murder,
however. So this proposed new law would allow doctors to decide whether
children of any age (yes, even a five-year-old) can, themselves,
"consent" to being euthanized without parental consent.<br />
<br />
The mercy killing of autistic children has already begun in the UK, by the way. As the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2340710/Alex-Spourdalakis-Autistic-boy-14-killed-mother-godmother-removed-hospital.html">Daily Mail reports</a>:
"Desperate mother and godmother 'killed severely autistic boy, 14, by
stabbing him multiple times in the chest' when they became overwhelmed
caring for him 24/7 after demanding he be removed from the hospital and
in put in their care."<br />
<br />
Not surprisingly, this "mercy killing" bill was introduced by <b>the socialist party</b>,
since socialists tend to hate humanity no matter what country they live
in. The proposed legislation calls for, "the law to be extended to
minors if they are capable of discernment or affected by an incurable
illness or suffering that we cannot alleviate," <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jLPl9K4BFQIdHPAhZwzLruOyt2CQ">reports AFP</a>.<br />
<br />
That
story goes on to report, "Socialist Senator Philippe Mahoux, who helped
draft the proposed changes, said there had been cases of adolescents
who 'had the capacity to decide' their future."<br />
<br />
Because, of
course, a six-year-old isn't old enough to drive a car or buy a beer,
but they can certainly consent to being killed by the state...
especially if they're already a burden on health care costs.<br />
<br />
As
the law proponents claim, it "marks a turning point in the nation's
approach to the rights of young people, some of whom would be able to
choose to die if the law were to pass, even while still being legally
barred from driving, marrying, voting or drinking liquor until they
turned 18," reports <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/belgian-parliament-posed-approve-child-euthanasia-law-1301825">IBtimes.com</a><br />
<br />
(Story continues below...)<br />
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<br />
<h1>
Alzheimer's patients to also face euthanization under proposed law</h1>
But
wait, there's more! It's not just children who will be euthanized under
this new law, it's also scores of Alzheimer's patients.<br />
<br />
"Parliamentarians
would also consider extended mercy-killing to people suffering from
Alzheimer's-type illnesses," said the socialist senator.<br />
<br />
Euthanasia
is, of course, the most convenient way for any government to get rid of
people it doesn't want to care for. Instead of teaching the public how
to prevent and reverse Alzheimer's disease, the government simply passes
a new law to murder them all while calling it "compassionate medicine."<br />
<br />
The
age of mass murder by government is upon us. It won't be long before
such laws spread to other nations and are expanded to people with
"mental health problems" or even cancer. While in theory the idea of
euthanasia may have merit in a strictly limited scope, the truth is that
governments are now jumping on the euthanasia bandwagon to provide
attempted legal justification for the mass murder of children and senior
citizens whom they no longer wish to support with health care
expenditures. Save the government from bankruptcy! Have grandma
euthanized! (Right alongside little autistic Johnny, too...)<br />
<br />
Governments, after all, are ultimately <b>political machines of death and destruction</b>,
which explains why all the wars fought in the 20th century were started
by governments, not the People. War is simply another way to accomplish
the mass killing that the twisted, demented people at the top of every
government truly enjoy.<br />
<br />
And there's nothing more delicious to
these power freaks than killing little children. If you can take a
five-year-old into a doctor's office and pump his veins full of deadly
chemicals while calling it a "mercy killing," it's almost <i>erotic</i> to these power-hungry control freaks. Too bad the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/06/01/152-New-Sex-Abuse-Allegations-in-BBC-Jimmy-Savile-Scandal">BBC's Jimmy Savile</a> isn't still around, or he might even find something else to do with the children's corpses afterward.<br />
<br />
Sick?
You bet it is. We're talking about the state-sponsored murder of
children here. There's nothing polite about it. You can also bet this
will become the new way that governments dispose of autistic children
and then claim rates of autism are "going down" because not as many
children have it anymore. (Yeah, after they've all been euthanized.)<br />
<br />
Governments,
you see, will even resort to the mass murder of children to protect the
vaccine industry. And what is the vaccine industry other than a
child-killing monstrosity to begin with? That's why the industry loves
to run dangerous vaccine experiments on little children, too. There's
nothing quite as rewarding to these vaccine pushers as seeing a high-IQ
child turned into a drooling, screaming, zombified autism case in the
hours after receiving a vaccine injection.<br />
<br />
God help us all. We
are all being mass murdered by the fascist global state, and most of the
population is too dumbed-down to realize what's happening.
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cockroaches avoiding a dab of jelly, which contains glucose, and
favoring the peanut butter<br />
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For 30 years, people have been getting rid
of cockroaches by setting out sweet-tasting bait mixed with poison. But
in the early 1990s, a formerly effective product stopped working. Some
cockroaches had lost their sweet tooth, rejecting the corn syrup meant
to attract them.<br />
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Later studies showed they were specifically turned off
by the sugar glucose in the syrup. Scientists reported Thursday, May 23,
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head of a male German cockroach, showing the four major external
chemosensory paired appendages pointed towards a flavored test substance
dyed blue by researchers. For 30 years, people have been getting rid of
cockroaches by setting out sweet-tasting bait mixed with poison. But in
the early 1990s, a formerly effective product stopped working.<br><br><br />
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cockroaches had lost their sweet tooth, rejecting the corn syrup meant
to attract them. Later studies showed they were specifically turned off
by the sugar glucose in the syrup. Scientists reported Thursday, May 23,
2013 that the key is an altered behavior of certain nerves that signal
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YORK (AP) — For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by
setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an
apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong.<br><br><br />
<br />
A killer product stopped working. Cockroach populations there kept
rising. Mystified researchers tested and discarded theory after theory
until they finally hit on the explanation: In a remarkably rapid display
of evolution at work, many of the cockroaches had lost their sweet
tooth, rejecting the corn syrup meant to attract them.<br><br><br />
<br />
In as little as five years, the sugar-rejecting trait had become so widespread that the bait had been rendered useless.<br />
<br><br><br />
"Cockroaches are highly adaptive, and they're doing pretty well in
the arms race with us," said North Carolina State University
entomologist Jules Silverman, discoverer of the glucose aversion in that
Florida kitchen during a bait test.<br><br><br />
<br />
The findings illustrate the evolutionary prowess that has helped make
cockroaches so hard to stamp out that it is jokingly suggested they
could survive nuclear war.<br><br><br />
<br />
In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, Silverman and
other researchers explain the workings of the genetic mutation that gave
some roaches a competitive advantage that enabled them to survive and
multiply.<br><br><br />
<br />
The key is certain neurons that signal the brain about foods.<br><br><br />
<br />
In normal cockroaches, glucose excites neurons that tell the brain
"Sweet!" In the mutant insects, glucose activates neurons that say
"Sweet!" and ones that say "Yuck!" The "Yuck!" neurons dampen the signal
from the others, so the brain gets the message the taste is awful. This
unusual nerve activity appeared in glucose-hating cockroaches collected
from Puerto Rico as well as descendants of the Florida insects.<br><br><br />
<br />
The research focused on the German cockroach, a small kind that can
hitch a ride into your home in a grocery bag, not that big lunk known as
the American cockroach. Such finicky eating habits have also been seen
in these smaller roaches in Southern California, Cincinnati, Indiana,
South Korea and Russia. Scientists are now looking to see if other kinds
of cockroaches show aversion to glucose.<br><br><br />
<br />
The new work is nifty science. But does it explain why you can't get rid of the little buggers in your kitchen?<br><br><br />
<br />
Probably not, said Coby Schal, another study author at North Carolina State.<br />
Tests show that the glucose-hating cockroaches are happy to eat most
types of bait these days, suggesting that manufacturers have removed the
glucose or masked it, he said. (Bait ingredients are a trade secret.) <br><br><br />
<br />
What's more, the researchers found glucose-hating cockroaches in only
seven of 19 populations they sampled from various locations.<br><br><br />
<br />
Frankly, if the bait you put out isn't working, it's probably because
you're using it incorrectly, suggested Schal, who said he consults to
the pesticide industry free of charge.<br><br><br />
<br />
Still, he said, the new work has potential to help many consumers. By
studying how cockroaches evolve to evade our poisons, scientists may
find clues to designing bait that the pests cannot resist.<br />
<br><br><br />
It's not clear when the Florida cockroaches first encountered bait
with glucose or how quickly they ditched their taste for the sugar, he
said. But he said it's reasonable to estimate that it took maybe only
five years for that glucose aversion to spread to so many cockroaches
that the bait was no longer effective. That's about 25 generations of
German cockroaches, which can reproduce about one to three months after
they're born, Schal said.<br><br><br />
<br />
The glucose aversion may have arisen in an individual cockroach in
response to bait. Or it may have already been present in just a few
individuals when the arrival of the bait suddenly gave them an advantage
for surviving and reproducing. Their offspring would inherit the trait
and increasingly replace other cockroaches.<br><br><br />
<br />
Michael Scharf, an entomologist at Purdue University who studies
urban pests but wasn't involved in the new work, noted that since the
1950s, cockroaches have shown they can also evolve resistance to
insecticides. He agreed the latest results should help scientists
develop better products to control roaches.<br><br><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The radioactive
particles billowing out of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant caught
the officers and crew of the USS Ronald Reagan unawares. The gargantuan
vessel is equipped with radiation sensors that can identify the spectrum
of isotopes from civilian accidents up to all-out nuclear warfare. Although
the vessel was cruising at a presumably safe 80 nautical miles from the
meltdowns, the shipboard alarms started to buzz wildly. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Carrier
Row, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, where <br />
the Fukushima-contaminated USS Ronald Reagan <br />
was refitted over an 18-month period. </strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Reconnaissance
helicopters roared back to the mother ship, which then carved an arc through
the chill waters of the Liman Current. The pride of the U.S. Navy was
fleeing the coast of Japan like a wounded whale from a shiver of hungry
sharks. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The USS Reagan’s
support role for Operation Tomodachi sustained far more injuries than
any of the 9<sup>th</sup> Carrier Group’s exercises off the Korean Peninsula.
The crews of three helicopter suffered high exposure levels, and sailors
operating the ventilation controls have since come down with severe radiation-related
symptoms. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>A
railroad bridge crossing the Columbia River was traversed by <br />
the train that transported radioactive waste from the <br />
USS Ronald Reagan to the Hanford Site. </strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Fukushima radiation
seeped beyond soft tissue into hard steel. Below the flight deck, nuclear
isotopes in the air flowed into the air vents and below-deck ducts, while
radioactive seawater surged through its turbine pumps and tubes that suck
in seawater for the desalination system and to cool the vessel’s twin
nuclear-power reactors. The artificially produced freshwater for washing
and drinking aboard ship was soon toxic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The detection
of war-grade plutonium residues sparked rumors of a nuclear strike on
Fukushima in undeclared war by an unidentified power. Meanwhile a blanket
of censorship was imposed over the condition and whereabouts of the USS
Ronald Reagan, which at that moment could have possibly been the first
casualty of World War III. Not until months later did confidential leaks
emerge from U.S. nonproliferation experts disclosing secret transfers
of highly enriched plutonium from Texas blended into mixed-oxide fuel
rods for Fukushima Reactors 3 and 4. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Wanapum
Hydropower Dam, 30 miles upstream from Hanford, <br />
was mysteriously dusted with radioactive isotopes</strong></span>
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</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Over the two
years since the March 2011 meltdowns, the radiation-stricken carrier vanished
from the sailing schedule, leaving other naval behemoths to take over
its missions in the South China Sea, Gulf of Aden, the Persian Gulf and
Red Sea. Then this spring, the vessel reappeared in San Diego as if nothing
had happened. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Casey
Jones, Watch Your Speed </span></strong></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<strong><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></strong>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">The story behind
the USS Ronald Reagan’s long absence from active duty was revealed by
a Navy long-timer perched at a bar outside the Bremerton Naval Shipyard
in Seattle. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<img height="269" src="http://rense.com/general96/4.%20Guardpost.JPG" width="639" />
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>A
guard post at Hanford Site keeps out uninvited visitors. </strong></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">After flushing
its pipes while transporting sailors’ cars to Alaska, the carrier was
docked for decontamination and refitting along Bremerton’s “Carrier Row”.
From early autumn 2011 until mid-March 2013, a period of 18 months, shipyard
workers replaced irradiated air ducts, pumps, pipes, gaskets, hoses and
electronic controls sensitive to radiation. The work gangs were ordered
to prevent release of any contaminated liquid into Puget Sound in compliance
with a prior Environmental Agency pollution complaint issued in 2010. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>(My dosimeter
readings at Bremerton and at several points in Puget Sound confirmed the
absence of radiation leakage from the USS Reagan. Frequent sightings of
dead Dungeness crabs with floppy legs, however, suggested mortality caused
by chemical toxins, probably surfactants used for cleaning the carrier
and possibly heavy-metal compounds, possibly chrome, to deter barnacles
from the hull.)</i> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<img height="253" src="http://rense.com/general96/5.%20Truck.JPG" width="618" />
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>A
backhoe and steel ring are hauled to Hanford’s leaking 200 storage tank
area. </strong></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">The vast pile
of radioactive scrap and barrels of liquid waste were then loaded onto
a freight train that rumbled out of the shipyard to a final resting place.
Its destination was and still is undisclosed to the news media, the public
and state officials. The terminus of that old rail track, say the shipyard
workers, is Hanford Site. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Mapping
the Terrain </strong></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong> </strong></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Moral outrage
at the disposal of the military’s radioactive hardware in a Department
of Energy (DOE) facility supposedly under decommissioning was pushed to
the back of my mind by the astonishing natural beauty of the Cascade Range.
The four-hour drive from Seattle to Hanford offers a first-hand study
in ecology. The lacework of inlets and rocky islands of Puget Sound was
carved by glaciers during the Ice Age, when the sea was much lower. Those
rivers of ice originated in the Cascades, a sawtooth chain of basalt pillars,
remnants of ancient volcanoes. Its ridgeline divides Washington State
into two major eco-zones, the temperate rainforest of the Pacific coast
and, on the leeward side, arid lands stretching toward the Rockies. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<img height="277" src="http://rense.com/general96/6.%20Burial.JPG" width="639" />
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>A
bulldozer starts to excavate a trench for the military’s nuclear <br />
waste. Earlier burial sites can be seen in the background. </strong></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">The eastern
slope of the watershed creates hundreds of streams that merge into the
Columbia River, which quenches apple orchards and the green pastures for
Angus cattle, dairy cows and bison. The mighty current is slowed by a
series of hydropower dams before hitting its lower reaches at Portland,
Oregon. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Under a high
bluff at Wanapum Dam, about 30 miles northwest of Hanford, my dosimeter
readings climbed to 0.16 microsieverts. Downstream, the findings were
much lower. When the air is bone-dry, how can evaporated wastewater from
leaking tanks at Hanford move so far upstream against the prevailing wind?
Why are there no traces of its passage up the gorge? I take mental note
of this baffling riddle before moving on. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Nuclear
Boneyard </span></strong>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<img height="289" src="http://rense.com/general96/7.%20Nuclear.JPG" width="636" />
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>A
plutonium processing reactor </strong></span>
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Endless flows
of water and hydropower are the necessary utilities for the production
of nuclear weapons, and the Columbia provides these in abundance to Hanford
Site, founded in 1943 under the Manhattan Project. Ringed by rosy red
hills peppered with fingers of black basalt and clumps of sage, the first
impression of Hanford basin is one of awe at Nature’s raw power rather
than fear of a grim manmade Mordor. Technology’s supreme force shrinks
against such grandeur; its fabrications scattered like the Mad Hatter’s
overturned teacups and sugar cubes alongside the Columbia. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Yet one of
those fly specks down there, inside the facility’s 586 square miles (1,517
sq. km) area, is the world’s first plutonium-production reactor. Hanford
100B provided the implosive force for the Trinity test blast and for Fat
Man, the hydrogen bomb that annihilated Nagasaki in August 1945. Nagasaki,
so much like Puget Sound, with its cathedral, shipyards, parks, saloons
and Victorian era facades . . . vanished like dream in a flash of blinding
light. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<img height="480" src="http://rense.com/general96/8.%20Nuke%20distance.JPG" width="640" />
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>To
the right of the power line is a 100 series reactor. </strong></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">After passing
under its rusty bridges in the hills, here on dry pale ground, I spot
the railroad track pointing toward the 200 West Area. On lonesome roads
outside and inside the vast facility, long-bed trucks haul yellow bulldozers
and back hoes, the grave diggers for dead machines. The earth-movers are
fitted with glass-enclosed air-filtered cabins, the thinnest of protective
shields for the drivers. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">In rows of
trenches inside that dusty tract are the guts of the USS Ronald Reagan
along with the nuclear reactors from 117 decommissioned submarines. The
reactor cores are left uncovered so that Russian satellites can verify
reductions in America’s strategic arsenal. A retired nuclear-plant operator
explains how those reactor cores, too heavy and bulky for the train, are
instead transported by barge up the Columbia River. At Port Benson, adjoining
Hanford Site, the load is rolled aboard a land carrier with 16-wheel axles
and hauled at 5 miles per hour to the nuclear graveyard. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<img height="230" src="http://rense.com/general96/9.%20Fire.JPG" width="637" />
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">The Puget Sound
Naval Shipyard at Bremerton is the only facility that dismantles America’s
fleet of aging nuclear submarines. The fuel from the scrapped reactors
is sent by rail to a federal storage facility near Idaho Falls. Little
is known about the movements of naval cargo because several maritime lanes
in Puget Sound are protected by armed guards on speed boats, Navy SEAL
divers prowling underwater and surveillance dolphins equipped with electronic
sensors and GPS tracking devices. Fishermen, clam diggers and recreational
sailors know better than to mess with this security force. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">There is no
legal mandate to inform Washington State communities of passing reactor-toting
barges because the Navy designates the cargo as “low level” waste. Local
residents who are curious about these shipments will not find the route
map posted at their docks or bridges, so here it is, courtesy of the Washington
Physicians for Social Responsibility: </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">“<i>The route
begins at the (Bremerton) Shipyard and goes though Rich Passage, past
Restoration Point, and northerly though Puget Sound. The barge will then
move west through the Strait of Juan De Fuca, past Cape Flattery, before
turning south and going along the Washington Coast. As the barge makes
its way to the mouth of the Columbia River it will not enter the area
near the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary known as the Area to
Be Avoided. </i></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The barge will then go up the Columbia River following the
regular shipping channel that is used for commercial cargo. The ocean
tugs turn over the barge to river tugs on the lower Columbia. The river
route passes through the navigation locks at the Bonneville, Dalles, John
Day, and McCanry dams, until finally reaching the Port of Benton. “</i>
</span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Portlanders
are hereby informed that radiation is coming and going, upstream and downstream.
It’s been happening since 1986 and will continue indefinitely. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Hearts
Afire </span></strong>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">A point of
light is flickering from inside one of the older thermal power plants.
Next to a No Entry sign, my travel party passes a pair of binoculars for
a closer look. It is not sunlight reflected off a window pane. Incredibly,
there’s a massive fire blazing inside the nuclear plant. Flames are blowing
out of the open door, which is at least two stories tall and wide enough
for several trucks. No black smoke is being emitted, nor do the flames
diminish in intensity. Alarms are not blaring and there are no firefighting
sirens. Therefore, it must be a gas fire, deliberately set. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">The sight of
a structure’s innards on fire is dumbfounding. Nothing about this sort
of incident has ever been reported in Hanford press releases. What could
DOE be up to? Surfacing in my mind’s eye is a flashback of the dosimeter
reading at the Wanapum hydropower dam. Hanford is being decommissioned,
and the fastest way to clean out a thermal power plant used in the past
to incinerate nuclear waste is to torch it. The invisible hot fumes lift
the radioactive particles hundreds of meters into the desert sky, and
then at nighttime an updraft carries the airborne waste up the Columbia
gorge to Wanapum and beyond. Thus, the radioactive residues disappear
as if by magic, and the monitors, inspectors and visitors remain none
the wiser. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Atmospheric
releases blowing out of Hanford are swirling up and down the Columbia
gorge, unbeknownst to ranchers, apple growers, restaurant operators, school
teachers and truckers along the riverbanks. Nobody on the outside is being
warned of the threat. This is still the Wild West, where an outlaw gang
like the DOE can kill everyone and anything that stands in their way. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Above
the Aquifer </span></strong>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<img height="415" src="http://rense.com/general96/10.%20Skies.JPG" width="637" />
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">For plant workers,
the most fearsome piece of equipment inside plutonium-processing and warhead-production
facilities is the glove-box. Since the more delicate operations must be
done by hand, glove-boxes have a window and fitted with a pair of holes
for insertion from fingers to elbow. In both Fukushima and Hanford, the
best way to test exposure levels in nuclear workers is to measure castoff
gloves. At a roadside spot convenient for quick relief, a black work glove
was lying on the gravel. It registered 0.28 microsieverts, meaning whoever
urinated is a dead man walking. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">By the 1960s,
waste disposal became a major problem at Hanford due to the expanding
number of 100 series reactors, along with plutonium processing centers
and a power generation plant. Initially, the DOE planned to drill long-term
storage caverns into Gable Mountain, a saddle-shaped mound of basalt on
the plant’s north side between the Columbia River reactors and the plutonium-enrichment
facilities. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<img height="416" src="http://rense.com/general96/11.%20Hazardous.JPG" width="638" />
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>The
warning sign is posted at a waste disposal site adjoining a fast-flowing
drainage ditch. </strong></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Geologists,
working on the environmental feasibility report, found that Hanford Site
sits atop the Pasco Aquifer, the source of well water for towns, ranches
and fruit farms inside the big bulge of the Columbia. This discovery prompted
the 1978 DOE study of Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a permanent repository
of nuclear waste, but the proposed site was later abandoned due to political
opposition from nearby Las Vegas interests. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">The termination
of Yucca Mountain led to an untenable situation at the 200 East Tank Farm.
There, 177 rusted-out single- and double-shelled tanks “are far gone,
past their 20-year lifetime,” said the plant operator. Tritium has been
leaking onto the ground and in the air. A greater problem is that solid
particles of plutonium and other radioactive elements are settling to
the bottom of the wastewater tanks. When atoms are in close proximity,
the release of neutrons from radioactive decay can result in a chain reaction. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">DOE engineers
are anxious about the possibility of an explosive chain reaction at the
tank farm similar to the tritium blast that wrecking Fukushima’s Reactor
3. Tritium and deuterium, also known as heavy water, along with hydrogen
gas, could blow the tanks apart, sending radioactive steam into the clouds.
A much greater threat, said the plant insider, is a downward blast into
the Pasco Aquifer, sending ripples of death through hundreds of miles
of drinking water for local residents. Leakage from ruptured tanks into
the Columbia would doom downstream communities, including Portland and
its Silicon Forest industrial parks, anchored by Intel. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<img height="341" src="http://rense.com/general96/12.%20Glove.JPG" width="640" />
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Grape
vines are planted across the river from Hanford’s nuclear power complex.
</strong></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">To prevent
this doomsday scenario, the DOE contracted the Bechtel engineering company
to design as unmanned mixing system to prevent the precipitation of plutonium
from the wastewater. The controversial design for the vitrification plant
uses jet pulses through tubes, called turkey basters, to repeatedly remix
the radioactive soup, keeping the radioactive particles in permanent suspension.
The design is fraught with weak points that could easily burst under corrosion
and high pressure. Cost overruns and construction delays have postponed
completion from 2007 to 2022, which is probably much too late to head
off a catastrophe. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">DOE, the Pentagon
and nuclear industry should admit the obvious: Hanford is broken and cannot
be fixed. A radical alternative to storage at Hanford needs to be developed
rapidly and a crash program will require vast sums of money and the political
will to stop all nuclear operations from coast to coast. Permissiveness
toward the nuclear industry is suicidal. A new energy policy must begin
with zero tolerance for nuclear. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<img height="313" src="http://rense.com/general96/13.%20grapevine.JPG" width="640" />
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">
<strong>Grape vines are planted across the river from Hanford’s nuclear
power complex. </strong></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Turn
Out the Lights </span></strong>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">The music’s
over for the nuclear industry. Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima
have savaged the myth of cheap and safe power from atom-splitting. Hanford
takes this fiasco a step further by implicating the military in nuclear
skullduggery. Despite its bloated defense budget, the Pentagon is misappropriating
the fiscal resources of the DOE, which must dispose of nuclear-contaminated
military hardware. Funds that could otherwise be allocated to replacing
the storage tanks at Hanford are being spent on burying submarine reactors.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is facing a radioactive mess
of waste, fraud and mismanagement. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<img height="377" src="http://rense.com/general96/14.%20housing.JPG" width="634" />
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>A
housing development reflects fatal problems in local zoning ordinances.
</strong></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">The ominous
situation at the Hanford rust belt is the result of a false sense of national
security. Nuclear weapons have been ineffective as an instrument for global
stability since their inception. Nuclear deterrence has failed to prevent
outbreaks of war and terrorism, and the Cold War would have ended sooner
without warheads. Instead of preserving the peace, the nuclear arsenals
of the major powers have only spurred on proliferation by minor regional
players. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">However fast
or slow the pace of future nuclear drawdown, the problem of long-term
storage remains a formidable challenge, now that Yucca Mountain is nixed.
The search for a safe site for a nuclear-waste repository should have
started yesterday. The federal government controls millions of acres in
sites that have outlived their usefulness, for example, military zones
like Fallon test range or Area 51. The Pentagon should use its own turf
to store its waste instead of dumping on the hard-pressed DOE. The cost
of the relocating naval reactors should be deducted from the inflated
military budget and not from the shrinking pockets of taxpayers. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Ozone
Loss Led to Climate Chaos </span></strong></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<strong><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></strong>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">If the threat
from Fukushima isn’t enough to bear, lethal radioactive releases from
Hanford and San Onofre, along with Indian Point and the Napoleonville
sinkhole, should motivate Americans to political action against the nuclear
lobby and its sycophants. National security and, much more, the very existence
of American society and the continent’s natural environment, are coming
apart from the effects of high-energy particles in the jet stream, which
cause ozone depletion over the Northern Hemisphere. The consequences include
the recent tornadoes in Texas and Oklahoma, and an epidemic of winter
twisters, derecho storms, flooding and drought. </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<img height="415" src="http://rense.com/general96/15.%20ribs.JPG" width="640" />
</div>
<div align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>The
ribs of a wild faun indicate dangerous radiation levels in coyotes. </strong></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">The harmful
influence of carbon dioxide on global weather, as exaggerated by supporters
of TEPCO and the Tennessee Valley Authority, is a convenient ruse to divert
attention and funding from the immediate task of shutting down nuclear
power. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">An end to nuclear
tyranny is directly linked to the revival of genuine democracy. A sinister
and cynical force within America’s political establishment, economic elite
and scientific elect is desperately trying to prevent Americans from recovering
this nation’s foundational values of civic duty, ethical responsibility
and common sense.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Any physicist,
engineer, bureaucrat, president or monarch who persists in uttering ultra-absurd
nonsense in defense of nuclear power should be hauled away to a padded
cell for deprogramming and decommissioning. If anything is going to be
buried, it should be that deceiving pack of con artists and scoundrels. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">With so many
burned-out reactors and morally warped scoundrels to deal with, let’s
hear what Nick Santoro (Joe Pesci) of <i>Casino</i> has to say: “A lot
of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried there. You gotta
have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk.
Otherwise, you’re talking about a half-hour to 45 minutes of digging.
And who knows who’s gonna come along at that time? Pretty soon you gotta
dig a few more holes. You could be there all fricking night.” </span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Quick
Reads of the Technical Details </span></strong>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Cattle
manure along the Hanford fence show extreme levels of radiation ingestion.
</strong></span>
</div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">The Columbia
River, once a life-giver for the Pacific Northwest, has become the bringer
of death on an unimaginable scale. Testing of radiation levels in its
waters is not being done by any government agency. My dosimeter readings
at the Hanford and on the mid-reaches of the Columbia cannot be a substitute
for a wider monitoring program, but they do point to the rising threat
of nuclear contamination. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Even with scientific
Geiger counters, the testing of water remains an elusive task.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Gamma rays
are reflected in water, throwing off readings by as much as 20 times lower
than the actual level of contamination. Thus, the only way for a layman
to make estimates in the field is by measuring biological accumulation
in plants and animals. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Dosimeter readings
on the bluffs northwest of Hanford showed low levels, due to the prevailing
wind and lack of airborne moisture. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">At a riverine
chokepoint on the north bend between Reactors D and H, a wide variation
in readings, from 0.08 to 0.28 microsieverts, with the highest in sage,
indicated different rates of water absorption by various species of flora.
</span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>A
reactor of the 100 series is on the horizon behind the sign. </strong></span>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">At points downriver,
near the southern tip of Hanford, the measurements on different plant
species ran consistently in the 0.28 range, equivalent to coastal areas
inside the Fukushima exclusion area (9 km from the meltdowns). A ribcage
from a faun devoured by coyotes showed remarkably high contamination,
suggesting higher levels inside predators. </span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">The high water
from the spring snowmelt prevented access to underwater vegetation. The
readings along the outer bank of the Columbia, however, indicate levels
dangerous to downstream communities and coastal populations in northern
Oregon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Author:
Yoichi Shimatsu is a Hong Kong-based science writer and environmental
health consultant who provides herbal therapy to Fukushima residents.</i></span><br />
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This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to make any medical claims, diagnose, treat, cure, prevent or mitigate any physical or mental condition, nor to prescribe any substance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197674168549539034.post-74612674523602305552013-05-21T09:41:00.002-07:002013-05-21T09:41:33.299-07:00The Reality Of Chemical Terrorism In our Food<div class="fb-like fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget" data-action="like" data-font="" data-href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/05/20/the-reality-of-chemical-terrorism-in-our-food/" data-layout="standard" data-send="false" data-width="450" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;">
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Marco Torres, <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/05/20/the-reality-of-chemical-terrorism-in-our-food/%3Ca%20href=%22http://preventdisease.com/news/12/042012_The-Reality-of-Chemical-Terrorism-In-Our-Food.shtml%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3E" target="_blank"><em>Prevent Disease</em></a><br />
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Is it really that hard for most people to believe that we are being
assaulted on a daily basis by chemical terrorism?<br />
<br />
Genetically modified
foods, artificial flavours, colors, preservatives, emulsifiers, and
sweeteners all made with toxic chemicals, all of which are proven toxic
to human health. We are being bombarded on a daily basis by an
astronomical level of toxicity, all controlled by these chemical
terrorists on behalf of the food industry. Worse is we let them.<br />
<br />
How many more toxins will we permit in our food supply before we
stand united and simply say “we’ve had enough?” How long will it take
until we assertively proclaim that we will not allow any more chemicals
or toxins in our foods?<br />
<br />
Since food and health regulators cannot properly do their job to
protect the public, there will come a tipping point when the people will
have to do it for them. We discuss toxic chemicals almost every day,
but what percentage of the population is interested enough, curious
enough or most of all disciplined enough to actually make the dietary
changes necessary to rid all the toxins from the foods they eat?<br />
<br />
How
many people can avoid all processed foods every single day? I would
estimate that percentage to be extremely small. Barriers are typically
societal pressure, convenience and income. The reality is that we could
all have a safe and healthy food industry if we truly wanted it. There
are just not enough of us that want it that badly….yet.<br />
<br />
Every year or two we have a new chemical terrorist making its way
into the food supply almost like clock work. Once the public becomes
savvy to the harmful nature of the new toxin, it is then renamed,
rebranded and often modified into a deadlier form than its predecessor. <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/10/040810_aminosweet_the_new_aspartame.shtml" target="_blank">Aspartame and aminosweet</a>, and <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/10/091510_hfcs_rename_corn_sugar.shtml" target="_blank">high fructose corn syrup and corn sugar</a> are two excellent examples.<br />
Let’s take a look at some of the biggest offenders that are in more than 80% of the foods we eat.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>Artificial Flavors and Colors</strong><br />
Artificial flavors and colors means it is derived from a chemical made
in a laboratory and has no nutritional value. Every single artificial
flavor and color in the food industry has some kind of detrimental
health effect. These include neurotoxicity, organ, developmental,
reproductive toxicity and cancer.<br />
<br />
* Examples<br />
<br />
- Glutamates<br />
- <a href="http://preventdisease.com/home/tips100.shtml">Monosodium Glutamate</a> (MSG)<br />
- Maltodextrin<br />
- Autolyzed Yeast Extract<br />
- Disodium Guanylate<br />
- Disodium Inosinate<br />
- Blue 1, Blue 2<br />
- Yellow 5, Yellow 6<br />
- Red 3, Red 40<br />
<br />
<strong>Genetically Modified Foods</strong><br />
GM Foods causes allergies, organ damage, cancer, immunotoxicty, and
damaging transgenes which affect future generations. Many fruits and
vegetables for sale in the U.S. are already genetically modified. The
most commercialized GM fruit is papaya from Hawaii—about half of
Hawaii’s papayas are GM.<br />
<br />
* Examples<br />
- Corn flour, meal, oil, starch, gluten, and syrup<br />
- Corn Sweeteners such as fructose, dextrose, and glucose<br />
- Modified food starch<br />
- Soy flour, lecithin, protein, isolate, and isoflavone<br />
- Most vegetable oils and vegetable proteins<br />
- Canola oil (also called rapeseed oil)<br />
- Cottonseed oil<br />
- Anything not listed as 100% cane sugar<br />
<br />
<strong>Toxic Preservatives </strong><br />
Artificial preservatives are responsible for causing a host of health
problems pertaining to respiratory tract, heart, blood and other. Some
are very neurotoxic especially when combined with specific nutrients.<br />
<br />
* Examples<br />
<br />
<a href="http://wakingtimes.com/ads/superfoods.html"></a>- Antimicrobials<br />
- Nitrites (i.e. Sodium Nitrite)<br />
- Nitrates (i.e. Sodium Nitrate)<br />
- Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)<br />
- Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)<br />
- Sulfites (i.e. Sodium Sulfite)<br />
- Potassium Sorbate<br />
- Benzoic Acid<br />
- Propyl Gallate<br />
- Sodium Benzoate<br />
<br />
<strong>Toxic Emulsifiers </strong><br />
An emulsifier replaces surface proteins and aids in forming the network
in specific food recipes. There are no healthy non-organic emulsifiers.
They are all toxic causing everything from infertility, digestive
disorders and migraines.<br />
<br />
* Examples <strong><br />
</strong>- Polysorbate 80<br />
- Mono-diglycerides<br />
- Carrageenan<br />
- Xanthan Gum (non-organic)<br />
- Guar Gum<br />
- <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/09/073009_soy_lecithin.shtml">Soy Lecithin</a> or Soya Lecithin<br />
<br />
<strong>Toxic Sweeteners</strong><br />
Sweeteners such as Neotame are thousands of times sweeter than sugar.
They are all very potent, neurotoxic, immunotoxic and excitotoxic.<br />
<br />
* Examples<br />
- <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/10/031810_aspartame_deadly.shtml" target="_blank">Aspartame</a><br />
- <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/articles/082407_hfcs.shtml">High Fructose Corn Syrup</a><br />
- <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/12/031212_Neotame-13000-Times-Sweeter-Than-Sugar-And-Even-More-Toxic-Than-Aspartame.shtml">Neotame</a><br />
- <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/09/012609_splenda.shtml" target="_blank">Sucralose</a><br />
- <a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/12/040412_Canadians-Beware-This-Toxic-Sweetener-Is-Banned-In-The-US-Yet-Approved-in-Canada.shtml" target="_blank">Sodium cyclamate</a><br />
- Acesulfame-K<br />
<br />
<a href="http://wakingtimes.com/ads/organics.html" target="_blank"></a><strong>Toxic Adulterants </strong><br />
Food fraud and economically motivated food adulteration is highlighted
by some very toxic substances which cause cancer, glaucoma, digestive
and liver disorders. These are added to foods to increase their color,
volume or weight.<br />
<br />
* Examples<br />
<br />
- Metanil Yellow<br />
- Potassium bromate<br />
- Malachite Green<br />
- Tamarind seeds<br />
- Washing powder<br />
- Argemone seeds<br />
<br />
This list is by no means extensive. There are now hundreds of toxic
additives in our food supply. Chemical terrorism in our food supply must
end and it starts with you.<br />
<br />
Please look at the ingredient lists before you purchase any processed
foods. If you see any of these, don’t buy the product. Continue to
educate yourself on the influx of new toxins introduced every year.
Eventually, if we investigate enough the answers come. Rule of thumb, if
the ingredient list has one chemical or more…it’s one too many.<br />
<h6>
About the Author</h6>
<em><strong><a href="http://preventdisease.com/" target="_blank">Marco Torres</a></strong> is
a research specialist, writer and consumer advocate for healthy
lifestyles. He holds degrees in Public Health and Environmental Science
and is a professional speaker on topics such as disease prevention,
environmental toxins and health policy.</em><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to make any medical claims, diagnose, treat, cure, prevent or mitigate any physical or mental condition, nor to prescribe any substance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197674168549539034.post-54680589796158263932013-05-18T20:18:00.000-07:002013-05-18T20:18:23.382-07:0053 Colorado Sheriffs Sue State Over Gun Control Laws<b class="ra1-pw-count"><span></span></b>
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In a deliberate move to catch gun control activists off guard, an
organization representing Colorado sheriffs in a lawsuit over a series
of recently passed gun control laws abruptly announced the filing of the
suit in federal court today.<br />
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“We did that deliberately,” David Kopel, an attorney with the
Independence Institute, which is handling the case, said. “We wanted to
catch our opponents who support gun control off guard.”<br />
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As recently as Wednesday, the Independence Institute was suggesting
the filing was still a few weeks off. Appearing at a rally against
another bill, Amy Oliver Cooke, wife of Weld County Sheriff John Cooke,
said they were planning to file the suit in the next couple of weeks.<br />
The suit, which was filed in federal district court, lists 54 out of the state’s 64 sheriffs as plaintiffs in the case.<br />
<br />
Kopel says what is significant to note is that while not all sheriffs
are party to the suit, not a single sheriff has come out in opposition
to it.<br />
<br />
Cooke had harsh words for critics in the media and others who
questioned whether a government official should sue another government
official.<br />
<br />
“Some in the media … asked me if I think it’s a good idea or if it’s
appropriate for [a] government official to sue another government
official. My response is unequivocally yes. It is our duty and
responsibility as sheriffs to protect the people who elected us and whom
we serve.”<br />
<br />
At a recent event in Fort Collins by the Independence Institute
providing updates on the case, Cooke said he was proud that gun control
supporters are nervous over the lawsuit.<br />
“When we announced our opposition to these gun control laws, the
Greeley Tribune ran a story titled, ’48 Sheriffs going Rogue on Guns,’”
Cooke said. “They should be fearing us. What right does the state have
dictating how many rounds of ammunition [a woman] can have to defend
herself?”<br />
<br />
The lawsuit isn’t just limited to law enforcement officials, but
lists a variety of organizations including the Colorado Farm Bureau,
which has expressed concerns about rural farmers and ranchers having to
deal with predators, Women for Concealed Carry, and the Colorado
Outfitters Association.<br />
<br />
“We have a diverse number of plaintiffs in this case. We are
celebrating diversity,” Kopel said. “The difference is we actually
believe in genuine diversity.”<br />
Cooke noted that the lawsuit was not a partisan issue, with Republican and Democratic sheriffs both taking part in the lawsuit.<br />
<br />
“This is not about urban versus rural as the governor likes to
portray it,” Cooke said. “We have rural and urban plaintiffs in this
case. It is about the Constitution. It is about the 2nd and 14th
amendments. The suit is about our way of life, our freedoms, our rights,
our liberties which transcend political affiliation and place of
residence.”<br />
<br />
Within minutes following the announcement of the filing of the suit,
Republican Atty. Gen. John Suthers, who will be defending the state in
the lawsuit, finally issued a statement providing guidance to law
enforcement on how they are supposed to enforce the new laws.<br />
<br />
Under the existing laws, any magazine that holds greater than 15
rounds, or can be modified to hold greater than 15 rounds, is now
illegal to purchase in the state. The problem is nearly all magazines
are designed with features that make them readily expandable to hold
more than 15 rounds. The law’s wording effectively bans all magazines in
Colorado.<br />
<br />
Suthers said in the guidelines that magazines “must be judged
objectively” and that a magazine holding 15 rounds or fewer cannot be
defined as “large capacity” just because it can be modified to hold
more.<br />
<br />
While those currently possessing magazines greater than 15 rounds,
the law prevents the transfer of any of these magazines. The wording
states the grandfather clause only applies as long as the holder
“maintains continuous possession” of it. Cooke and other sheriffs have
pointed out that based on this wording, anyone who gives their magazine
to a gunsmith or asks for help on a shooting range with a jammed
magazine is now violating the law.<br />
<br />
Suthers said “an owner should not be considered to have transferred a
large capacity magazine or lost continuous possession of it simply by
handing it to a gunsmith, hunting partner, or an acquaintance at a
shooting range.”<br />
<br />
However, the problem is Suther’s statement is just what it says,
guidance, and it does not hold the force of law. Any officer can choose
to disregard Suther’s recommendations anytime he chooses in favor of the
plain text of the law.<br />
<br />
The lawsuit also claims the gun control measures violate the Americans with Disabilities Act as well as individual civil rights.<br />
<br />
Dylan Harrell, one of the disabled plaintiffs in the case, said his
disability, which confines him to a wheelchair often makes it more
difficult for him to defend himself or his family. He also noted that as
an outdoorsman, when exiting his vehicle he needs help.<br />
<br />
“I often request the assistance for the safe handling of my firearms
anytime I am transferring from a wheelchair to an ATV or another
vehicle,” Harrell explained. “It is now against the law for me to even
seek assistance anytime I am transferring my firearms for my wheelchair
to another vehicle. I am filing this lawsuit on the half of all
Coloradans with disabilities such as my own.”<br />
The suit noted that disabled citizens often find it difficult to
change magazines quickly, which could be a serious threat to their life
if their weapon is needed for self-defense.<br />
<br />
Colorado’s far left government this year is controlled by Democrats
in the governor’s office, in the House and the Senate. They rammed
through a number of gun restrictions and limits – at the behest of the
White House.<br />
<br />
During debate over the gun control measures, the vast majority of
citizens testifying before the legislature were opposed to any new gun
control laws. However, frequently their testimony was dismissed and
treated with disdain by Democratic lawmakers who seemed to have already
made up their minds about passing the laws.<br />
<br />
State Sen. Evie Hudak, D-Westminster, scolded a witness opposing one of the gun restrictions.<br />
<br />
Amanda Collins, 27, of Reno, Nev., was telling her story of being
assaulted and explained that had she been carrying a concealed weapon,
the incident might have ended differently.<br />
“I just want to say that, actually statistics are not on your side
even if you had a gun,” Hudak scolded. “And, chances are that if you
would have had a gun, then he would have been able to get that from you
and possibly use it against you.”<br />
<br />
Hudak continued, speaking over the committee witness, “The Colorado
Coalition Against Gun Violence says that every one woman who used a
handgun in self-defense, 83 here are killed by them.”<br />
Finally able to resume her testimony, Collins said, “Senator, you
weren’t there. I know without a doubt [the outcome would have been
different with a gun].<br />
“He already had a weapon,” she told the meeting of the Senate State,
Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. “He didn’t need mine.”<br />
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A similar attitude was displayed by state Rep. Joe Salazar.<br />
He said that a woman who feels threatened by rape on a college campus
doesn’t need to be armed because she can use a call box to get help.<br />
<br />
Salazar’s statement came in a debate over a proposal to ban citizens
possessing a concealed-carry permit from being armed on university
campuses.<br />
<br />
“It’s why we have call boxes,” said Salazar, “It’s why we have safe
zones, it’s why we have the whistles. Because you just don’t know who
you’re gonna be shooting at.<br />
<br />
“And you don’t know if you feel like you’re gonna be raped, or if you
feel like someone’s been following you around, or if you feel like
you’re in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that
gun and you pop … pop a round at somebody.”<br />
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Perhaps the most surprising statement came from U.S. Rep. Diane
DeGette, a Denver Democrat who displayed her perspective on gun
magazines.<br />
<br />
“I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people
who have those now they’re going to shoot them; so if you ban them in
the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to
decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot,
and there won’t be any more available,” she said.<br />
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The Denver Post said DeGette didn’t appear to understand that a firearm magazine can be reloaded with more bullets.<br />
<br />
State officials admitted they were doing the bidding of the White
House. In February, Vice President Joe Biden flew to the state to
strong-arm Democratic lawmakers who were feeling pressure from their
constituents to vote against the bills.<br />
<br />
“He (Biden) said it would send a strong message to the rest of the
country that a Western state had passed gun-control bills,” Tony Exhum, a
Democratic lawmaker from Colorado Springs, told the Denver Post.<br />
<br />
House Majority Leader Mark Ferrandino, an open homosexual who also
pursued a “civil unions” agenda this year, admitted the gun-control
bills introduced by fellow Democrats had national implications.<br />
<br />
“I was shocked that he called. He said he thought the bills could help them on a national level,” Ferrandino said.<br />
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<span class="no-topborder"><a href="http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=14646196" target="_blank"><img alt="Stop Toxic Sludge" class="floatright" height="131" src="http://www.organicconsumers.org/Sludge/images/stopsludge140.jpg" width="140" /></a></span>San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and the San
Francisco Public Utilities Commission, along with municipal governments across
the US, want farmers, school, and backyard gardeners to grow their veggies
using toxic sludge, spreading the outrageous lie that municipal wastewater
sewage plants can somehow magically transform hazardous materials into "organic
fertilizer." <br />
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Toxic sludge is poison.</h3>
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John Mayer and John Stauber of Organic
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<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/PBC_20100414p124.mov">Listen on the Peter Collins Show. </a><br />
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Scientific evidence has confirmed that
municipal sewage sludge contains hundreds of dangerous pathogens, toxic heavy
metals, flame-retardants, endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, pharmaceutical
drugs and other hazardous chemicals coming from residential drains, storm water
runoff, hospitals, and industrial plants.<br />
<br />
Sewage sludge contains everything
the sewage treatment plant was able to remove from the sewage - plus every
new chemical and pathogen formed in the mad synergy of this chemical soup,
including virulent, antibiotic-resistant bacteria created through horizontal
gene transfer.<br />
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San
Francisco public officials have helped the toxic sludge industry score a major
victory in the Bay Area, where they've been able to convince hundreds of regional
(non-organic) farmers to spread the hazardous material on farm land and pasture,
and have actually been able to get city residents to take hundreds of thousands
of pounds of toxic sludge and spread it over their backyard and community gardens.<br />
<br />
San Francisco is a strategic battleground to stop the
sludge industry from poisoning more farms and communities. In 1998 the organic
community rose up and banned the use of sewage sludge in organic farming. Now
it's time to ban its use on farms, gardens, lawns, and land in general. <br />
<img alt="Protesting Toxic Sludge in San Francisco" class="floatright" height="165" src="http://www.organicconsumers.org/Sludge/images/sludgeprotest220.jpg" width="220" />
<h4 class="redtext">
Sewage
sludge is a form of hazardous waste and needs to be contained and isolated
as such.</h4>
California proposition 65 (P65) requires the listing of chemicals known to
cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. Chemicals known to the SFPUC that are
in San Francisco sewage sludge that are also found on the California P65 list
include:<br />
<div class="redtext">
Mercury - Molybdenum - Cobalt - Antimony Chromium - Dibenzofurans - Naphthalene
- 1,2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane (Dbcp) - Di (2-Ethylhexyl) Phthalate (Dehp) -
Tcdd Equivalents (Dioxins) Such As Octachlorodibenzo-P-Dioxins (Ocdd)</div>
<h2>
Stop Sludge!</h2>
<h4>
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/documents/OCA-Sludge-Leaflet-final.pdf" target="_blank">Click
here to download OCA's Sludge Leaflet (PDF)</a></h4>
<h6>
Organizations that have signed onto the letter asking Mayor Newsom to stop
spreading toxic sludge on the city include: </h6>
Organic Consumers Association - Consumers Union - Arc Ecology - California
Communities Against Toxics - California Food & Justice Coalition
- Center for Food Safety - Center for Health,
Environment & Justice
- Earth Share California - East Bay Green Tours - Food First
(Institute for Food and Development Policy) - GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator
Alternatives) - Green Cafe Network - Help for Sewage Victims - Lessing/Sears
Community Garden - Local Harvest - MOMAS (Mothers of Marin Against the Spray)
- North Berkeley Harvest - Our City - People's Grocery - Planting Justice
- Raising Sand Radio/Motherspeak - Safe Food and Fertilizer - San Francisco Green Party - Teamsters Union -
United Sludge -Free Alliance<br />
<br />
<a href="http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=14646196" target="_blank"><img alt="Stop toxic Sludge Banner" height="92" src="http://www.organicconsumers.org/Sludge/images/sludgebanner460.gif" width="460" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to make any medical claims, diagnose, treat, cure, prevent or mitigate any physical or mental condition, nor to prescribe any substance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197674168549539034.post-36486699837877669642013-05-17T08:37:00.000-07:002013-05-17T08:37:04.356-07:00New Study Shows GMO Causes Leukemia<br />
Last September, the causal link between cancer and genetically modified
food was confirmed in a French study, the first independent long-term
animal feeding study not commissioned by the biotech corporations
themselves. The disturbing details can be found here: <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/alert-gmo-corn-and-roundup-caused-cancer-and-killed-rats">New Study Finds GM Corn and Roundup Causes Cancer In Rats</a><br />
<br />
Now, a new study published in the <a href="http://gmoevidence.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/JHTD-1-104.pdf">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Journal of Hematology & Thromboembolic Diseases</span></a>
indicates that the biopesticides engineered into GM crops known as
Bacillus Thuringensis (Bt) or Cry-toxins, may also contribute to blood
abnormalities from anemia to hematological malignancies (blood cancers)
such as leukemia.[i]<br />
<br />
A group of scientists from the Department of Genetics and Morphology,
Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasilia/DF,
Brazil set out to test the purported human and environmental biosafety
of GM crops, looking particularly at the role that the Bt toxin found
within virtually all GM food crops plays on non-target or non-insect
animal species. <br />
<br />
The research was spurred by the Brazilian Collegiate Board of Directors
of the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), who advocated in
2005 for evaluations of toxicity and pathogenicity of microbiological
control agents such as Bt toxins, given that little is known about their
toxicological potential in non-target organisms, including humans.<br />
<br />
While Bacillus Thurigensis spore-crystals have been used since the late
1960's in agriculture as a foliar insecticide, it was only after the
advent of recombinant DNA biotechnology that these toxin-producing genes
(known as delta endotoxins) were first inserted into the plants
themselves and released into commercial production in the mid-90's,
making their presence in the US food supply and the bodies of exposed
populations ubiquitous. <br />
<br />
What the new study revealed is that various binary combinations and
doses of Bt toxins are capable of targeting mammalian cells,
particularly the erythroid (red blood cell) lineage, resulting in red
blood cell changes indicative of significant damage, <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/new-study-proves-bt-toxins-gmos-toxic-mammalian-blood">such as anemia</a>.
In addition, the study found that Bt toxins suppressed bone marrow
proliferation creating abnormal lymphocyte patterns consistent with some
types of leukemia. <br />
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to make any medical claims, diagnose, treat, cure, prevent or mitigate any physical or mental condition, nor to prescribe any substance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197674168549539034.post-33211996754383928992013-05-17T08:29:00.001-07:002013-05-17T08:29:43.362-07:00EPA Approves HIGHER Levels Of Monsanto's Roundup Glyphosate<iframe width="440" height="260" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zS_8OJa0vUM?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
When does one plus one not equal two? When mounting evidence says glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup pesticide, does more damage to our health and environment than we thought. And the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) responds by approving higher, not lower, allowable limits of the pesticide residue.<br><br>
Please sign the letter below. Tell the EPA you want lower, not higher, limits on Monsanto’s glyphosate and Roundup!<br><br>
This month (May 2013) the EPA announced a final ruling to increase, yet again, the allowed residue limits in food and animal feed of glyphosate, the key active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. Under the ruling, the allowed glyphosate level in animal feed will rise to 100 parts per million (ppm) and 40 ppm in oilseed crops.<br><br>
There is precedence for final rulings to be revisited, even reversed, if enough people voice their opposition. The EPA will take comments on the ruling until July 1, 2013.<br><br>
The EPA ruling defies sound science and undermines public health. Peer reviewed studies show rats fed diets as low as 2ppm of glyphosate were 70 percent to 80 percent more likely to develop tumors. Infertility, affecting both the sperm and the egg, was documented in animals subjected to glyphosate residue levels as low as .05 ppm. Birth defects in frog and chicken embryos resulted after being subjected to glyphosate residues of just 2.03 ppm.<br><br>
Yet the EPA claims glyphosate is only “minimally toxic” to humans, and 40 ppm is nothing to worry about?<br><br>
The EPA’s decision is all the more unjustifiable in light of two recently published, peer reviewed studies revealing glyphosate to be a far greater threat to human health than previously determined.<br><br>
According to a study published in the journal Entropy in April 2013, glyphosate is related to debilitating diseases like gastrointestinal disorders, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, autism, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. The study says the negative impact on the human body is “insidious and manifests slowly over time, as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout the body… it may in fact be the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment.”<br><br>
A 2012 study published in the journal Archives of Toxicology showed Roundup is toxic to human DNA even when diluted to concentrations 450-fold lower than used in agricultural applications. Industry regulators and long-term studies look at glyphosate in isolation, instead of looking at Roundup’s full formulation, which includes secret added ingredients. These “confidential” and unlabeled ingredients, when measured as a whole, affect all living cells, including human cells.<br><br>
Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the world. According to the EPA, at least 208 million tons of Roundup were sprayed on GE crops, lawns and roadsides in the years 2006 and 2007. In 2007, as much as 185 million pounds of glyphosate was used by U.S. farmers, double the amount used just six years ago.<br><br>
A 2009 study found that Americans use about 100 million pounds of glyphosate annually on their lawns and gardens. It’s safe to assume all these number are much higher now. Why? Because GE crops are now being invaded by new strains of herbicide-resistant “superweeds” requiring higher and higher doses of poison.<br><br>
Beyond Pesticides has assembled extensive documentation of past research linking glyphosate to increased cancer risk, neurotoxicity and birth defects, as well as eye, skin, respiratory irritation, lung congestion, increased breathing rate, damage to the pancreas, kidney and testes.
<br><br>
Glyphosate also endangers the environment, destroys soil and plants, and is linked to a host of health hazards. The EPA’s decision to increase the allowed residue limits of glyphosate is out of date, dangerous to the health of people and the environment and scientifically unsupportable.<br><br>
Please sign the letter below. Tell the EPA you want lower, not higher, limits on Monsanto’s glyphosate and Roundup!
I am very concerned about the increase in glyphosate residue limits proposed for food and commodity crops. Mounting evidence points to the need to lower, not raise, the allowable limits of glyphosate residue.<br><br>
Peer reviewed studies show rats fed diets as low as 2ppm of glyphosate were 70 percent to 80 percent more likely to develop tumors. Infertility, affecting both the sperm and the egg, was documented in animals subjected to glyphosate residue levels as low as .05 ppm. Birth defects in frog and chicken embryos resulted after being subjected to glyphosate residues of just 2.03 ppm.<br><br>
One recent study, http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416 published in the journal Entropy in April 2013, revealed glyphosate to be a far greater threat to human health than previously determined. According to the study, glyphosate is related to debilitating diseases like gastrointestinal disorders, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, autism, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. The study says the negative impact on the human body is “insidious and manifests slowly over time, as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout the body… it may in fact be the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment.”<br><br>
The EPA’s science on glyphosate is outdated. I urge you to do a complete review of the toxicity of glyphosate and adjust the tolerance levels allowed in the U.S. feed and food supply downward, not upward. Thank you. <br><br><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to make any medical claims, diagnose, treat, cure, prevent or mitigate any physical or mental condition, nor to prescribe any substance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197674168549539034.post-3656323989902330902013-05-17T08:12:00.000-07:002013-05-17T08:12:05.435-07:00Genetically Modified Democracy: Monsanto and Congress Move to Stomp on States' Rights<b><br />
<br />
</b>
<br />
<div class="story">
<img src="http://www.organicconsumers.org/images/bytes/stomp1.jpg" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 10px;" />Reliable
sources in Washington D.C. have informed the Organic Consumers
Association (OCA) that Monsanto has begun secretly lobbying its
Congressional allies to attach one or more “Monsanto Riders” or
amendments to the 2013 Farm Bill that would preempt or prohibit states
from requiring labels on genetically engineered (GE) foods. <br />
<br />
In response to this blatant violation of states’ rights to legislate,
and consumers’ right to know, the OCA and a nationwide alliance have
launched a <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-dont-pass-a?source=c.url&r_by=5382364" target="_blank">petition</a>
to put every member of Congress on notice: If you support any Farm Bill
amendment that would nullify states’ rights to label genetically
modified organisms (GMOs), we’ll vote – or throw – you out of office.<br />
<br />
On Wednesday, May 15, an amendment to the House version of the Farm
Bill, inserted under the guise of protecting interstate commerce, passed
out of the House Agricultural Committee. If the King Amendment makes it
into the final Farm Bill, it would take away states’ rights to pass
laws governing the production or manufacture of any agricultural
product, including food and animals raised for food, that is involved in
interstate commerce. The amendment was proposed by Rep. Steve King
(R-Iowa), largely in response to a California law stating that by 2015,
California will allow only eggs to be sold from hens housed in cages
specified by California. But policy analysts emphasize that the
amendment, broadly and ambiguously written, could be used to prohibit or
preempt any state GMO labeling or food safety law. <br />
<br />
Will the King Amendment survive the Senate? No one can be sure, say
analysts. However few doubt that Monsanto will give up. We can expect
that more amendments and riders will be introduced into the Farm
Bill--even if the King Amendment fails—over the next month in an attempt
to stop the wave of state GMO labeling laws and initiatives moving
forward in states like Washington, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut and
others.<br />
<br />
Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) have admitted
privately that they’ve “lost the battle” to stop GE food labeling at the
state level, now that states are aggressively moving forward on
labeling laws. On May 14, Maine’s House Ag Committee passed a GMO
labeling law. On May 10, the Vermont House passed a labeling bill,
99-42, despite massive lobbying by Monsanto and threats to sue the
state. And though Monsanto won a razor-thin victory (51 percent to 49
percent) in a costly, hard fought California GMO labeling ballot
initiative last November, biotech and Big Food now realize that
Washington State voters will likely pass I-522, an upcoming ballot
initiative to label GE foods, on November 5. <br />
<br />
If Monsanto can’t stop states from passing laws, then the next step is a
national preemptive measure. And all signs point to just such a power
grab. Earlier this year, Monsanto slipped its extremely unpopular
“Monsanto Protection Act,” an act that gives biotech immunity from
federal prosecution for planting illegally approved GE crops, into the
2013 Federal Appropriations Bill. During the June 2012 Farm Bill
debate, 73 U.S. Senators voted against the right of states to pass
mandatory GE food labeling laws. Emboldened by these votes, and now the
House Ag Committee’s vote on the King Amendment, Monsanto has every
reason to believe Congress would support a potential nullification of
states’ rights to label.<br />
<br />
The million-strong OCA and its allies in the organic and natural health
movement are warning incumbent Senators and House members, Democrats and
Republicans alike, that thousands of health and environmental-minded
constituents in their Congressional districts or states will work to
recall them or drive them out of office if they fail to heed the will of
the people and to respect the time-honored traditions of shared state
sovereignty over food labels, food safety laws, and consumers’ right to
know.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Trouble in Monsanto Nation.</span><br />
Over the past 20 years Monsanto and the biotech industry, aided and
abetted by indentured politicians and corporate agribusiness, have begun
seizing control over the global food and farming system, including the
legislative, patent, trade, judicial and regulatory bodies that are
supposed to safeguard the public interest. <br />
<br />
In the U.S., despite mounting <a href="http://www.earthopensource.org/" target="_blank">evidence</a>
of the damage GE crops inflict on human health and the environment,
approximately 170 million acres of GE crops, including corn, soybeans,
cotton, canola, sugar beets, alfalfa, papaya, and squash, are currently
under cultivation. These crops, untested and unlabeled, comprise 41
percent of all cultivated cropland, or 17 percent of all cropland and
pastureland combined. According to the GMA, at least 70 percent of
non-organic grocery store processed foods contain GMOs. And GE grains
and mill byproducts now supply the overwhelming majority of animal feed
on the factory farms that supply 90 percent to 95 percent of the meat,
eggs and dairy products that Americans consume.<br />
<br />
Yet despite their marketplace dominance, record profits and enormous
political clout in Washington D.C., Monsanto and the biotech industry
are in deep trouble. Evidence is mounting that Monsanto’s top-selling
herbicide, Roundup, is a deadly poison, destroying important human gut
bacteria and likely contributing to the rapid increase of food allergies
and serious human diseases including cancer, autism, neurological
disorders , Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), dementia,
Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Those <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/05/14/glyphosate.aspx?e_cid=20130514RRG_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130514RRG" target="_blank">most susceptible</a> to poisoning by Monsanto’s Roundup are children and the elderly. <br />
<br />
Scientists aren’t the only ones raising new questions about Roundup.
Farmers are complaining that they’re being forced to spray more and more
chemicals on crops increasingly under siege from a growing army of
herbicide-resistant weeds. The situation is so bad that the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27491.cfm" target="_blank">raised</a>
the limits of Roundup residue allowed on grains and vegetables to even
more dangerous levels. But just in case the EPA someday stops raising
the limits, Monsanto, Dow and the biotech industry are working on a new
“solution” to the onslaught of herbicide-resistant Superweeds: They’ve
applied for approval of a new and highly controversial generation of
super toxic herbicide-resistant GE crops, including “Agent Orange”
(2,4-D and dicamba-resistant) corn, soybeans and cotton. <br />
<br />
As a recent widely-circulated <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/05/14/glyphosate.aspx?e_cid=20130514RRG_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130514RRG" target="_blank">article</a> points out,
<span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
<br />
</span>
<ul>
<li>
<span style="font-style: italic;">“The use of 2,4-D is not new; it’s actually one of the most widely used herbicides in the world. What</span> is
<span style="font-style: italic;">new is that farmers will now ‘carpet
bomb’ staple food crops like soy and corn with this chemical at a
previously unprecedented scale—just the way glyphosate has been
indiscriminately applied as a result of Roundup Ready crops. In fact, if
2,4-D resistant crops receive approval and eventually come to replace
Monsanto's failing Roundup-resistant crops as Dow intends, it is likely
that billions of pounds will be needed, on top of the already insane
levels of Roundup being used (1.6 billion lbs were used in 2007 in the
US alone).” </span></li>
</ul>
<br />
In addition to these Agent Orange crops, an expanded menu of genetically
engineered organisms are awaiting approval. Next on the menu? GE
apples, trees, and salmon. <br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">State Labeling Laws: The ‘skull and crossbones’ that terrify Monsanto</span><br />
Monsanto’s greatest fear isn’t a federal government charged with
protecting the health and safety of its citizens. Congress and the
White House seem only too happy to oblige the biotech industry’s
unquenchable thirst for growth, power and dominance. No, it’s the
massive, unstoppable (so far) grassroots movement of Millions Against
Monsanto that strikes fear in the heart of the Biotech Bully. U.S.
citizens are waking up. They’re demanding labels on genetically
engineered foods, similar to those already required in the European
Union. They’re calling for serious independent safety-testing of GE
crops and animals, both those already approved (especially Monsanto’s
Roundup-resistant crops) and those awaiting approval. <br />
<br />
The anti-GMO movement has finally figured out, after 20 years of
fruitlessly lobbying Congress, the FDA and the White House, that the
federal government is not going to require labels on GE foods. Instead
the movement has shifted the battleground on GMO labeling from Monsanto
and Big Food’s turf in Washington D.C. to the more favorable terrain of
state ballot initiatives and state legislative action—publicizing the
fact that a state GMO labeling law will have the same marketplace impact
as a national labeling law. <br />
<br />
State laws spell doom for Monsanto. Companies like Kellogg’s, General
Mills, Coca-Cola, Pepsi/Frito-Lay, Dean Foods, Unilever, Con-Agra,
Safeway, Wal-Mart and Smuckers are not going to label in just one or two
states. Monsanto knows that U.S. food companies will go GMO-free in
the entire U.S., rather than admit to consumers that their products
contain GMOs.<br />
<br />
As Monsanto itself has pointed out, labels on genetically engineered
foods are like putting a “skull and crossbones” on food packages. This
is why Monsanto and their allies poured $46 million into defeating a
California ballot initiative last year that would have required labels
on GMO foods. This is why Monsanto has lobbied strenuously in 30 states
this year to prevent, or at least delay, state mandatory labeling laws
from being passed. This is why Monsanto has threatened to file federal
lawsuits against Vermont, Connecticut, Maine and Washington if they dare
grant citizens the right to know whether or not their food has been
genetically engineered or not.<br />
<br />
And this is why Monsanto’s minions are trying to insert amendments or
riders into the Farm Bill that will make it nearly impossible, even
illegal, for states to pass GMO labeling laws. And there’s nothing to
stop them when Congress is filled with pro-biotech cheerleaders who
could care less that 90 percent of U.S. consumers want mandatory labels
and proper safety testing of genetically engineered crops and foods.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Countering Monsanto’s Final Offensive: Throw the Bums Out!</span><br />
Only a massive grassroots resistance will deter the U.S. Senate and
House from stomping on our rights. Only an unprecedented campaign of
public education, petition-gathering and grassroots pressure will be
able to convince the ever-more corrupt and indentured politicians in
Washington D.C. to back off. <br />
<br />
Eighteen state constitutions have century-old provisions for state
registered voters to collect petitions and recall state and local
officials, forcing them to either resign or stand for reelection. But
what very few Americans, and even members of Congress, realize is that
11 states have constitutional provisions to recall U.S. Senators and
House of Representative members, as well as state elected officials. <br />
<br />
It’s time we exercise the full power of direct democracy, not just state
and municipal ballot initiatives. We must continue to support efforts
like the current state ballot initiative to label GMOs in Washington
state, and county ballot initiatives to ban GMOs, factory farms and
other corporate crimes, in the 24 states and hundreds of counties and
municipalities where these are allowed. But we also need to use the
power we have to recall and throw out of office our out-of-control
Congressional Senators and Representatives as well. <br />
<br />
If our elected officials in Congress continue to represent Monsanto and
big corporations, rather than their constituents, then let’s throw the
bums out! If the Washington political Establishment, both Democrats and
Republicans, continue to trample on our inalienable constitutional
rights and contemptuously disregard the 225-year principle of a shared
balance of power between the federal government, the states and local
government, then we have no choice but to recall them or throw them out
of office. <br />
<br />
Please join the nation’s organic consumers and natural health advocates
in this strategic battle, the Food Fight of Our Lives. Please join this
campaign to save, not only our right to choose what’s in our food, but
our basic right to democratic representation and self-determination as
well. <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-dont-pass-a?source=c.url&r_by=5382364" target="_blank">Sign the petition.</a>
Tell your Congressmen and women, especially the 73 incumbents who voted
last year to eliminate states rights’ to legislate on GMO labels, and
those in the House this week who voted to support the King Amendment
that “enough is enough,” “
<span style="font-style: italic;">basta ya.</span>” Power to the People!</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to make any medical claims, diagnose, treat, cure, prevent or mitigate any physical or mental condition, nor to prescribe any substance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197674168549539034.post-16164736275256289092013-05-17T07:53:00.002-07:002013-05-17T07:53:45.862-07:00US Breaks 12,793 Snow & Cold Records In Less Than 2 Months<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">“From March 12 to April 22 (6 weeks) there were 9,664 snow and cold records broken,” <span id="more-11180"></span>says reader Ralph Fato.</span><br />
<br />
<a href="http://iceagenow.info/2013/05/12793-snow-cold-records-broken-2-months/recordevents-12mar13-to-26apr-13/" rel="attachment wp-att-11181"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-11181" height="211" src="http://iceagenow.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Recordevents-12Mar13-to-26Apr-13-1024x406.png" title="Recordevents-12Mar13 to 26Apr 13" width="533" /></a><br />
“From April 22 to May 5<sup>th</sup> there were 3,129 snow and cold records broken.”<br />
<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">“That’s 12,793 Snow and Cold records broken in less than 2 months.”</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to make any medical claims, diagnose, treat, cure, prevent or mitigate any physical or mental condition, nor to prescribe any substance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197674168549539034.post-65048165868920576382013-05-16T10:22:00.000-07:002013-05-16T10:22:02.077-07:00Chong Beats Prostate Cancer With Hemp Oil<strong><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Tommy-Chong.jpg"><img alt="Tommy-Chong" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-23750" height="168" src="http://www.wakingtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Tommy-Chong-300x168.jpg" width="300" /></a><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/05/15/tommy-chong-beats-prostate-cancer-with-diet-and-hemp-oil/">Waking Times</a></strong><br />
<br />
Last June, the famous comedian, actor and pro-marijuana legalization advocate, Tommy Chong, <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/06/13/tommy-chong-reveals-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-treating-with-hemp-oil/">reported to the world</a> that he had been diagnosed with stage 1 prostate cancer and that he was seeking unconventional treatment using <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/02/13/run-from-the-cure-video/" title="Run From the Cure (Video)">Cannabis Oil</a>. Almost one year later, Tommy is feeling better than ever and is cancer free.<br />
<br />
Tommy’s recent announcement, in a blog post, about his successful
battle with cancer is a huge boon to those battling this illness and
many others, and also for those fighting for the common-sensical
liberation of this promising natural medicine:<br />
<blockquote>
<em>“After I came out with the news last June that a
cancer doctor told me I had prostrate cancer and suggested a high
frequency treatment that is not approved in America and could only be
done in Mexico at the cost of $25,000, I immediately looked at
alternatives. I contacted my nephew in Vancouver, who was about to
become a doctor, and he suggested I meet with a Dr. McKinnon in
Victoria, BC. </em></blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote>
<em>That doctor changed my diet and put me on supplements, and
within a year I brought my PSA numbers down drastically and eliminated
the cancer threat. I also treated the condition with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=aps&keywords=Cannabis%20Oil&linkCode=as2&tag=wakitime09-20" target="_blank">hemp oil</a>
(hash oil). With the diet, the supplements and the hash oil, plus a
session with a world-renowned healer, Adam Dreamhealer, I’m cancer-free.
That’s right, I kicked cancer’s ass! So the magic plant does cure
cancer with the right diet and supplements. I’m due for another blood
test, MRI, etc., but I feel the best I’ve felt in years. And now for a
celebration joint of the finest Kush…”</em> [<a href="http://cstx4.celebstoner.modxcloud.com/blogs/tommy-chong/2013/05/06/tommy-chong-im-cancer-free%21/" target="_blank">CelebStoner</a>]</blockquote>
<a href="http://wakingtimes.com/ads/superfoods.html"></a> This case, and Tommy’s choice to seek this alternative, but, viable and
natural treatment, highlight how important the battle for legalization
is for many people sick with ailments that can be treated effectively
without damaging invasive procedures or expensive and debilitating
regiments of <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/05/09/chemo-and-radiation-actually-make-cancer-more-malignant/" target="_blank" title="Chemo and Radiation Actually Make Cancer More Malignant">chemotherapy, radiation</a> and pharmaceuticals. There is much more to legalization than people just wanting to get ‘high’. As Tommy stated in 2012:<br />
<blockquote>
<em>“I’ve got prostate cancer, and I’m treating it with
hemp oil, with cannabis,” Chong said. “So [legalizing marijuana] means a
lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without
being arrested.”</em></blockquote>
For someone in Tommy’s position, seeking alternative treatments
outside of the Unites States was an open option, yet for many of the
over 12 million Americans who are fighting cancer, leaving the US for
treatment is simply not an option, even though the costs of one month of
conventional cancer treatments can reach an absurd $10,000 or more, for
a single month.<br />
<br />
Advocate and healer <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/02/13/run-from-the-cure-video/">Rick Simpson</a> explains how <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=aps&keywords=Cannabis%20Oil&linkCode=as2&tag=wakitime09-20" target="_blank">Cannabis Oil</a> can cure cancer and other serious illnesses in his important documentary, <em>Race for the Cure</em>:<br />
<br />
This case, and Tommy’s choice to seek this alternative, but, viable
and natural treatment, highlight how important the battle for
legalization is for many people sick with ailments that can be treated
effectively without damaging invasive procedures or expensive and
debilitating regiments of <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/05/09/chemo-and-radiation-actually-make-cancer-more-malignant/" target="_blank" title="Chemo and Radiation Actually Make Cancer More Malignant">chemotherapy, radiation</a> and pharmaceuticals. There is much more to legalization than people just wanting to get ‘high’. As Tommy stated in 2012:
<br />
<blockquote>
<em>“I’ve got prostate cancer, and I’m treating it with
hemp oil, with cannabis,” Chong said. “So [legalizing marijuana] means a
lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without
being arrested.”</em></blockquote>
For someone in Tommy’s position, seeking alternative treatments
outside of the Unites States was an open option, yet for many of the
over 12 million Americans who are fighting cancer, leaving the US for
treatment is simply not an option, even though the costs of one month of
conventional cancer treatments can reach an absurd $10,000 or more, for
a single month.<br />
<br />
In addition to the powerful medicine Cannabis, a proper diet is also
critical to beating cancer. Many cancer patients in the US are
prescribed dangerous procedures and chemo/radiation, but doctors rarely
mention the importance of an <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/07/25/simple-cancer-remedies-can-give-fighting-chance-learn-more-httpwww-naturalnews-com036458_cancer_remedies_blood_root_vitamin_d-htmlixzz210fymd9f/" target="_blank" title="Simple Cancer Remedies That Can Give You a Fighting Chance">alkaline diet</a>, and will often recommend eating regular, processed and inorganic foods while undergoing treatment.<br />
<br />
The cat is out of the bag that Cannabis and good food cure cancer,
and the race is on to see who can bring access to medical marijuana to
the public. Already, pharmaceutical companies are rushing to <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/04/23/who-is-trying-to-patent-marijuana/" target="_blank" title="Who Is Trying To Patent Marijuana?">patent various chemical components of the plant</a>, so it is already clear that the future of modern medicine will have to include this humble plant<br />
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<em><strong><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="A Huaorani man armed with traditional spears and his wife and children welcome a group of tourists to the community of Tigüino, located within Yasuní National Park. Credit: Eduardo Valenzuela/IPS" border="0" src="http://upsidedownworld.org/main/images/stories/ecuadorfpic.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 7px;" title="A Huaorani man armed with traditional spears and his wife and children welcome a group of tourists to the community of Tigüino, located within Yasuní National Park. Credit: Eduardo Valenzuela/IPS" />A
bill addressing prior consultation with indigenous peoples on
legislative measures remains tied up in Ecuador’s National Assembly.</span></span></strong></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">(IPS)
- The Constitution of Ecuador adopted in 2008 establishes a broad
range of rights for indigenous peoples and nationalities, including the
right to prior consultation, which gives them the opportunity to
influence decisions that affect their lives. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
this right has yet to be fully translated into legislation, as the
bill for a Law on Consultation with Indigenous Communities, Peoples and
Nationalities is still being studied by the National Assembly.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Article
57, section 7 of the constitution guarantees “free, prior and informed
consultation, within a reasonable period of time, on plans and
programmes for exploration, exploitation and sale of non-renewable
resources located on their lands which could have environmental or
cultural impacts on them.”</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
constitution also stipulates the right of indigenous peoples “to share
in the profits earned from these projects and to receive compensation
for social, cultural and environmental damages caused to them. The
consultation that must be conducted by the competent authorities shall
be mandatory and timely.”</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">“If
the consent of the consulted community is not obtained, steps provided
for by the Constitution and the law shall be taken,” it adds.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Legal
grounds for consultation are also established in Convention 169 of the
International Labour Organization (ILO), which Ecuador ratified in
1998, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, adopted in 2007.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nevertheless,
recent mining and oil drilling projects have put the government’s
commitment to respecting the right to consultation to the test, and
spurred indigenous organisations to take action.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
Nov. 28, 2012, hundreds of indigenous representatives converged in
Quito to protest the lack of consultation prior to the 11th oil auction
round, in which exploration blocks containing an estimated total of 1.6
billion barrels of crude oil would be put up for bids from private
companies.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
the time, Domingo Peas, a leader of the Achuar indigenous ethnic
group, declared that “the government says it has carried out prior
consultation, but this is not true.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">“The
consultations carried out among the peoples and nationalities in the
areas of influence are invalid, because there was no participation by
indigenous peoples and nationalities in determining the way they were
conducted, they did not respect their traditional methods of
decision-making, and cultural aspects, such as language, were not
adequately taken into account,” he stressed.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Overall, said Peas, the consultations “were neither prior, nor free, nor informed, and were conducted in bad faith.”</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">The president of the influential <a href="http://www.conaie.org/" target="_blank">Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador</a> (CONAIE), Humberto Cholango, believes that the authorities have not done enough.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Prior
consultation is still pending, we have still not seen the results we
would like to see. We need the law to be approved; that would be a
major advance,” he told Tierramérica*.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
draft law, comprising 29 articles, refers to consultation on
legislative measures and establishes four stages: preparation; a public
call for participation and registration; the actual holding of the
consultation; and analysis of the results and conclusion.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
accordance with the law, the government will determine if a proposed
bill affects the rights of certain communities, in which case the
National Assembly will convene a prior consultation that will be
conducted through the National Electoral Council.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lourdes
Tibán, an indigenous National Assembly member from the leftist
opposition movement Pachakutik, told Tierramérica that adoption of this
law is crucial, because “it will guarantee the participation of
indigenous nationalities in decisions on future laws that directly
affect them, and will therefore prevent a lack of consensus.”</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once
this legislation is in force, other major bills can be addressed, such
as the proposed law on water resources, on which debate has been
postponed since 2010 precisely due to the resistance posed by
indigenous peoples. One of their key concerns is that the proposals made
during a prior consultation process will not be included in the final
text of the law that was submitted to consultation.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">A number of other bills, such as those for laws on culture and land, are also on hold for the same reason.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the heart of the conflict.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
year ago, President Rafael Correa stated in one of his regular
Saturday broadcasts that non-governmental organisations “want prior
consultations to be popular consultations and to be binding; that means
that for every step we want to take, we will need to ask the community
for permission.”</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">“This
is extremely serious. This is not what the international agreements
say. This would not mean acting in the interests of the majorities, but
rather in the interest of unanimity. It would be impossible to govern
that way,” he declared.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
response to these statements, indigenous organisations sought
reinforcement, calling on agencies such as the Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights and the ILO to supervise the implementation of prior
consultation.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
fact, indigenous communities in Ecuador have already turned to some of
these mechanisms in the past. In 2003, the Quechua community of
Sarayaku filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights against the state for authorising oil exploration in their
territory, without prior consultation.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
community, located in the province of Pastaza, in Ecuador’s Amazon
rainforest region, denounced damages to their territory, culture and
economy. In June 2012, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights <a href="http://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_245_esp.pdf" target="_blank">ruled in favour of the community</a> and against the state.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
government is still studying how to pay the required compensation – a
total of 1,398,000 dollars for material and moral damages and legal
costs – and how to finish repairing the physical damage caused.</span></span></td></tr>
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This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to make any medical claims, diagnose, treat, cure, prevent or mitigate any physical or mental condition, nor to prescribe any substance.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6197674168549539034.post-15101091393526279862013-05-15T20:45:00.000-07:002013-05-15T20:45:12.016-07:00Uruguay: Birth of a Movement Against Mining and Extractivism <span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
March 7 one of Uruguay’s strongest myths was broken: trust in state
enterprises. That day those who turned on their faucets were met with a
foul smell and those who were drinking coffee or maté found a strange
taste. The company in charge of the water supply, the State Sanitary
Works (OSE), had to confess that there was “an episode” of algae
contamination in the Santa Lucia River Basin, which supplies six out of
ten Uruguayans. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Despite
this, the state company said that the water was potable. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">A statement
released days later said: “In relation to the event of the taste and
odor perceived several days ago by the population of the metropolitan
area, OSE informs that it was entirely due to a substance released by a
type of microscopic algae in the Santa Lucia River. This substance,
called Geosmin, has no bearing on the health of the population “[1].</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
authorities closed ranks and denied emphatically the contamination of
water sources, which had always been of high quality. However, much of
the population did not believe the State’s arguments, buying bottled
water and depleting stocks.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
event wouldn’t have had much significance if it were not for a
movement that has grown in recent years against the installation of an
Indian owned, open pit, iron mine called Aratirí. The movement has also
been protesting the extensive use of pesticides and fertilizers that
have polluted the soy crop and recently re-forested areas. In fact,
environmental consciousness has grown widely due to a debate following
the installation of a massive pulp mill on the Uruguay River.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
that time (approximately 2003 – 2008), amid the euphoria of to the
rise to power of the Fente Amplio (2004) and an atmosphere of
nationalism exacerbated by disputes between environmentalists and the
Argentine government, the majority of the population supported the
Uruguayan government. Now things have changed. The rural population
(only 5% of the total) began to feel the harmful effects of agricultural
development and small-scale traditional farmers (including livestock
herders) began to mobilize.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>A Contaminated Country</strong></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s
difficult to accept that Uruguay’s rivers are polluted. The country
was always a natural paradise, with few cars and light industry, with
extensive ranches and grain farming. But in the last decade, with
agricultural and mineral speculation, things have changed drastically.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
main changes that have been occurring over the last ten years have
been concentrated in rural production. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">The price of land has increased
six fold ($500 to $3,000 per hectare on average). Thirty-eight percent
of agricultural land has been sold, and 41% has been leased [2].
Between 2000 and 2008 Uruguayan owners lost 1.8 million hectares that
went to corporations that acquired a similar surface quantity.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a strong concentration of land owned by multinational corporations
with one million hectares belonging to just 14 groups. Montes del Plata
(Chilean-Swedish-Finnish) has 234,000 hectares followed by Forestal
Oriental (Finnish) with 200,000 hectares. The U.S. company, Weyerheuser
has 140,000 hectares and the Argentine owned El Tejar and Agronegocios
de Plata (ADP) have 140,000 and 100,000 hectares respectively,
completing the list of the largest foreign investments.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
the 2001-2002 season there were only 29,000 hectares of soybeans
planted. In 2012 it exceeded 1 million hectares. Another million
hectares of land was forested. This represents an exponential increase
in the use of pesticides and fertilizers that have been washed by rain
into rivers. This has initiated a drama that the people are beginning to
feel.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
study of the Santa Lucia River (which provides 60% of the drinking
water) conducted by the National Direction of the Environment (DINAMA)
resulted in scandal. Internationally accepted phosphorus levels in water
are 25 micrograms per liter, but the count detected in the river
ranged between 70 and 12,900 micrograms per liter. [3] Scientists and
environmentalists have been ringing alarm bells about the pollution, but
the state has done little.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Biologist
Luis Aubriot of the Sciences Department told reporters that “if there
is no reduction of nitrogen and phosphorus” then the water problems
will not be solved [4]. Another biologist, Mario Calcagno, recalled
that in addition to the pesticides and fertilizers used for soybeans,
the Santa Lucia River is polluted by refrigerator effluents, food
industries and urban centers, and that native forest on its banks have
been disappearing. “It’s a disaster,” he said [5].</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Diego
Martino, who represented Uruguay at the United Nations Program for the
Environment, presented one of the strongest arguments: “In 2010,
levels of atrazine were detected in the water. It is one of the
components of glyphosate. There is no nationwide study that says what
the consequences of very low levels of atrazine could be when consumed
over ten years “[6].</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
his opinion the main problem is the inability of the State to make and
regulate decisions. He gave an example: How long did it take for the
DINAMA to change the distance of 50 meters to 500 meters for spraying
[pesticides] around a rural school? Years”. It’s not known how many
children were made ill by this delay.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">One
of the main problems are [agricultural] reservoirs, which are used
mostly for irrigation and rice cultivation. In a small country like
Uruguay there are over a thousand dams that with the summer heat become
incubators for algae growth because of the concentration of
agrochemicals. Rain the water in the reservoirs overflows into rivers.
All the rivers of Uruguay, including the extremely wide Río de la Plata,
are green with pollution.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Livestock
is also being affected. A rancher from the central part of the
country, whose sheep drink in the large Rincón del Bonete dam, suffered
the loss of 56 sheep in one year, all intoxicated [7]. The Director of
Renewable Resources of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and
Fisheries acknowledged, “Uruguay does not have a diagnosis of the state
of its water”. The same official affirms that soy is grown only four
meters from lakes, rivers and streams, even though there is legislation
that establishes a distance of [at least] eight meters, which is also
insufficient. [8]</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
director of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the
Sciences department, Daniel Panario, received in 2012 the National
Award for Citizen Excellence. He is the country’s most distinguished
and combative scientist that has been denouncing pollution for over 20
years. In his opinion, the best example [of pollution] linked to water
is lead.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">“In
the 1940s in England it was concluded that the poor performance of
children in schools was due to lead and immediately all the water pipes
were changed. In Uruguay this conclusion was made in the 1970s. We are
now in 2013 and they have still yet to finish changing out the lead
pipes in Montevideo. They say they have other priorities and that it’s
expensive”[9].</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
addition to the State, the university is an obstacle in allowing the
population in knowing the truth. “One does not have complete freedom to
investigate issues of national interest. When one goes to talk they
risk having to deal with the authorities. A few days ago the
[university] president said that I did not speak representing the
university and that I was damaging the [image] of the department”[10].</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here
appear two problems: academics prioritize research that can be
published in journals, usually in English, to which ordinary people do
not have access. On the other hand, universities depend on conventions
and funds from various international organizations and private companies
that have no interest in making public criticisms of the products they
sell.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Universities
themselves often boycott researchers like Panario, despite their
national and international recognition. He applied twice for the
national research fund and was rejected both times. He had to appeal to
higher authorities for admission. He now seems happy with the growth
of the movement against open-pit mining.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>A Different Movement</strong></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Iron
ore prices were stable for twenty years. In 1985 a dry metric ton was
worth $26. In 2004 it had reached $38 and climbed to $140 in 2008. In
2009 the price dropped to $101 per ton, but now it’s rising once again.
Iron ore is not just any other metal, as it represents 95 percent of
all metals used in the industry.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aratirí
Mining belongs to Zamin Ferrous, an Indian company based in London. It
has seven projects in South America, five in Brazil, one in Peru and
one in Uruguay, and expects to produce about 50 million tons of iron
ore across the continent in 2013. But the company’s potential in the
region amounts to 10 billion tons.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> In Uruguay they were licensed to
mine about 110 thousand hectares in areas devoted to cattle ranching
and forestry, where exploratory drilling had been performed to detect
areas of greater density of iron ore. The mining project has three
parts: the area where the mining will be conducted, about 220
kilometers of pipeline to the Rocha coast and finally a freight
terminal. The total investment is estimated to be $2 billion.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
late 2010, when Parliament passed the Mining Code, small-scale rural
producers of Valentines and Cerro Chato (180 and 3,000 inhabitants
each), the areas where Aratirí installed [it’s project], began to
mobilize. In January 2011 neighborhood commissions from the coast, where
a port will be installed to export the iron, started a petition
against the project.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">From
there [opposition] activity intensified. First they attended a session
of parliament to explain the reasons for opposing the project.
Small-scale livestock ranchers would see disruptions in their production
because they will either face land expropriations and thus be forced
to emigrate or they will be forced to migrate because of air and water
pollution. The coastal villagers would suffer a loss to their fisheries
and tourism will become scarce.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Later
they held dozens of informational events in different places, such as
small towns of 50 to 100 people. Finally in May 2011 they convened the
first national march in Montevideo with the slogan “No to mining, yes
to natural resources”. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">The [mining] company held its own march in Cerro
Chato mobilizing merchants and workers. The next day the [small-scale,
opposition] producers doubled the number of people mobilized,
challenging the multinational [company] that had also began conducting
its own informational events that were boycotted by those opposed to
mining.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
July 2011 the Confederation of Coastal villages was created with
representatives from seven communities of the Rocha Department: La
Paloma (pop. 3,500), Aguas Dulces (400), Punta del Diablo (800), Valizas
(330), La Pedrera (200), La Esmeralda (57) and Cabo Polonio. These
communities oppose the construction of a port in La Paloma designated
for the export of wood to be sent to paper factories, and another port
designated to export iron.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">On
October 12 the second national march was held with a confluence of
collectives from the north, central region, south and coastal zone,
made up of small-scale producers and rural workers. Several celebrities
participated in a video against mega-mine projects. Since then each
region now focuses on local activities and the Permanent National
Assembly in Defense of the Land and Natural Assets was created with
about 36 grassroots collectives [11].<br /> In mid-2012 the government
confirmed the construction of a deepwater port for the export of iron,
wood and other products near La Paloma. In August the movement against
mining held its first national assembly in Tacuarembó (North) attended
by 300 people from 35 collectives.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
attendance were three unions, indigenous groups, community radios,
small-scale producers and rural workers. Members of the coastal towns
opted for direct action to prevent the construction of the port near La
Paloma. On October 12 the third national march was held in Montevideo
with 10 thousand people participating, dozens of <em>gauchos</em> on horseback, tractors, flags of indigenous peoples, environmentalists and unions.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
movement against mining in Uruguay has three unprecedented features.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The first is that it was born in the rural central region, in villages
of about 50 to 3,000 people, and then it appeared in the departmental
capitals and later in Montevideo, where the first groups are still
being organized. This is a reversal of what has happened throughout the
country’s history of social struggles, where almost all have been born
in the capital.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">Secondly,
it’s a grassroots, assembly based, horizontal movement, linked to land
and territory. It finds its inspiration from rural populist identities
rather than unions and labor of the traditional left. Although these
sectors are integrated and participate they do not assume a hegemonic
role. The speech and language invoke the independence struggle of 200
years ago led by Jose Artigas, also emphasizing that everything relates
to the land.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
third is that the movement has thus far rejected being
institutionalized. NGOs have their hands bound. Political parties are
kept silent. But was is most interesting is that the movement hasn’t
chosen the path of a national referendum, the modality that has been
adopted by all the great Uruguayan movements since the restoration of
democracy, beginning with human rights.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
are local collectives that gather signatures for departmental
referendums, and after extensive discussions the choice to move to a
national referendum has been avoided. The experience of over 20 years
indicates that this path leads to the dismantling of the movement since
it infringes upon the popular will.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
is the first social movement that was born under a progressive
government. It directly questions the extractive model and the pollution
of water only supports the movement’s arguments especially for gaining
public support. As Panario said reflecting on the aftermath of
Hurricane Sandy in New York and the overall climate change debate: “You
must have a catastrophe for the people to become aware.”</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
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Still Eat Conventional Meat or
Poultry? Preservatives, Antimicrobials, Antifungals, and Viral Sprays
Saturate Factory Farmed Sources</div>
<br /> 70 percent of all beef and chicken sold in the United States,
Canada, UK and Australia and many other countries contain a growing
number of preservatives, meat glues, and
antibacterial/antifungal/antiviral sprays. They also are commonly
treated with carbon monoxide gas injections to make meat appear more
fresh than it actually is.
<br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-CA">Synthetic preservatives are added to
70 percent of all factory farmed meat and poultry to prevent spoilage,
rancidity and mould growth.<br />
<br />
</span><strong>Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Proprionate and Benzoic Acid </strong><br />
<br />
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has amended regulations
that once banned the use of sodium benzoate, sodium propionate and
benzoic acid in meat and poultry products, the Food and Drug
Administration has announced.<br />
<br />
In combination with ascorbic acid (vitamin C, E300), sodium benzoate and
potassium benzoate form benzene, form known carcinogens. If a
individual happens to consume any of these toxins after consuming
ascorbic acid, a carcinogenic process may initiate.<br />
<br />
The three preservatives had been on the list of prohibited
antimicrobial substances the FSIS considered to have the potential to
conceal damage or inferiority in meat and poultry.<br />
<br />
The change follows a petition by Kraft Foods Global Inc., which wants
to use the substances to help inhibit the growth of bacteria. <br />
<br />
After consideration, the FSIS said it has "determined that sodium
benzoate, sodium propionate and benzoic acid, under the conditions
proposed in the petitions, are both safe and suitable for use as
antimicrobial agents in certain RTE (Ready-to-Eat) meat and poultry
products."<br />
<br />
<strong>Nitrites/Nitrates </strong><br />
<span lang="EN-CA"><br />
Nitrites and nitrates are also added to meat products during processing to </span><span dir="ltr"><span lang="EN-CA">inhibit the growth of bacteria and enhance color.</span></span> <span lang="EN-CA">Nitrites may be added directly to the meat product, but more frequently nitrates are added.</span> <span lang="EN-CA">Nitrites
are used in pork, beef and poultry products to enhance colour. For
example, nitrates are added to ham and bacon, giving them their
characteristic pink colour. Some countries even permit the use of
nitrites in fish products.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-CA">When nitrites combine with certain
amino acids, N-nitroso compounds or nitrosamines are formed and these
have been shown to be carcinogenic (cancer-causing). </span><span lang="EN-CA">Our
primary source of exposure to nitrates and nitrites is through the
food we consume, however exposure to these compounds can also occur
through drinking water.</span><br />
<br />
<strong>Sulphites</strong><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-CA">They are used widely as
preservatives in food to maintain food colour and prolong shelf-life.
Sulphites can also be used in some pharmaceutical medications as a way
of maintaining their potency.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-CA"> Sulphites can trigger asthma or an
anaphylactic-type reactions. Certain individuals, particularly those
with asthma, may react to sulphites with allergy-like symptoms. It's one
reason most pre-packaged foods are required to have an ingredients
listing on the presence of sulphites on the label. The pre-packaged
food product label will state “may contain” or “may contain traces
of” sulphites and sulphite derivatives.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-CA">It is important to always read the ingredients’ lists and remember that sulphite derivatives exist and may be listed as:</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="pt">E 220, E 221, E 222, E 223, E 224, E 225, E 226, E 227, E 228 (European names)<br />
Potassium bisulphite/metabisulphite<br />
Sodium bisulphite/dithionite/metabisulphite/sulphite<br />
Sulfur dioxide<br />
Sulphiting agents<br />
Sulphurous acid</span><br />
<br />
<strong>Meat Glue<br />
</strong><br />
Produced as Activa by Japan's <a href="http://www.ajinomoto.com/" target="_blank">Ajinomoto Company</a>, it's scientific name is "transglutaminase" and it belongs to the family of clotting enzymes which are eight in number. <br />
<br />
<a href="http://preventdisease.com/news/11/032211_meatglue.shtml" target="_blank">Meat glue is thrombin</a>,
a coagulation protein which together with the fibrous protein
fibrin can be used to develop a "meat glue" enzyme that can be used
for sticking together different pieces of meat. It can be made from
blood taken from either cows or pigs.<br />
<br />
The European Parliament had voted to ban bovine and porcine
thrombin. The House said the meat glue has no proven benefit for
consumers and might mislead them instead. One year later, all but
one of the European Union nations voted in favor of using Thrombian,
or Transglutaminase (TG). They now joining other developed nations
such as the U.S., Canada, and Australia who approved the product.<br />
<br />
This sort of thing has been a boon to the food industry, which can now
treat all sorts of proteins like meat or fish as just another
material to be processed, but in the hands of molecular
gastronomists it's become a way to manipulate food in a way that
would have been previously impossible. It's possible, for example,
to make tenderloin rolls wrapped in bacon that hold together
perfectly without the need for twine or toothpicks. <br />
<strong><br />
Viral Sprays
</strong><br />
<br />
The FDA also approved a virus-cocktail spray that might
prevent listeriosis. The spray, called LMP 102, is a mixture of six
different special viruses called bacteriophages -- viruses that infect
only bacteria, not people, animals or plants. <br />
<br />
Bacteriophages, like all viruses, contain protein. These
proteins can cause allergic reactions, just like milk proteins cause
milk allergies. <br />
The bacteriophages might also get into battle with the
friendly bacteria in the digestive system, making it harder for the
body to digest food. But that's a risk the FDA already takes by
allowing the use of antibiotics on farms. <br />
The FDA currently allows bacteriophages to be used in
pesticides, including those sprayed on crops. But this is the first
time that the FDA has regulated the use of bacteriophages as a food
additive. Other countries actually use bacteriophages in antibiotic
drugs. <br />
<br />
The idea here is that these six bacteriophages will infect and kill any listeria bacteria that might linger on meats.<br />
<br />
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, use of this spray
will have to be marked on the food just like any other ingredient on
the label. <br />
Consumers might soon see the words "bacteriophage
preparation" on cold cuts. As always, although the virus spray is
intended to make food safer, it does not come without its own risks. <br />
<strong>Carbon Monoxide Treatment</strong><br />
<br />
Carbon monoxide (often referred to as CO) is a colorless,
odorless, tasteless gas, one measly oxygen molecule away from the
carbon dioxide we all exhale. But that one molecule makes a big
difference in that it does very, very bad things to the human body
at very, very low concentrations.<br />
CO is toxic because it sticks to hemoglobin, a molecule in blood
that usually carries oxygen, even better than oxygen can. When
people are exposed to higher levels of CO, the gas takes the place
of oxygen in the bloodstream and wreaks havoc. Milder exposures mean
headaches, confusion, and tiredness. Higher exposures mean
unconsciousness and death, and even those who survive CO poisoning
can suffer serious long-term neurological consequences.<br />
<span>Keeping meat at healthy temperatures is very challenging for grocery retailers.</span> <span> The actual surface temperature of displayed fresh meat is often much higher</span> than the thermometer of the display case due to <span>UV
radiation from the display case lighting which penetrates the meat
packaging and heats the surface just as the sun can cause a sunburn
on a cold winter day.</span> <span>Various
studies have found that the internal temperature of meat from
display cases does exceed 50 degrees Celsius which is more than 10
degrees higher than recommended temperatures.</span><br />
<br />
The meat consequently decomposes very quickly, so the meat
industry heavily invested in modified atmospheric packaging which
utilizes carbon monoxide gas to extend the shelf life and resist
spoilage.<br />
<br />
In a carbon monoxide system, with low oxygen, the carbon monoxide will
react with the myoglobin and give the meat a
bright red colour. The low oxygen mixture artificially limits the
growth of spoilage organisms that are commonly
caused by increased levels of heat in display cases.<br />
<br />
So although carbon monoxide is a gas that can be fatal when inhaled in
large quantities, the meat industry insists that it is not harmful to
human health when ingested via atmospheric packaging. <br />
<br />
This is not true of course since <em>C. perfringens</em> bacteria, the
third-most-common cause of food-borne illness, has been proven to grow
on what is considered fresh meat right out of the supermarket that is
well within the expiry dates on the labels. Marissa Cattoi a lab
tech who analyzes meat samples for a health and safety agency says the
bacteria are commonly found on fresh grocery meat. "We commonly test
for C.perfringens bacteria and about half of the fresh meat products
that come in are positive despite them being within the expiry
period. 100% of the these cases come from packagers who adopted
atmospheric packaging methods such as the use of carbon monoxide gas,"
she stated.<br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-CA">Most atmospheric packaging will not
be labeled. There also many foods that do not have to declare the
presence of preservatives, unless the amount of the preservative is
naturally occurring in, or added to, the product exceeds a certain
concentration. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Is it okay
to kill? I don’t mean a bug in your house, a <span style="font-size: small;">s</span>nake in your garage,
or a deer in the woods</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Deer tastes good; you may not know if that
snake in your garage is poisonous; and bugs are home invaders.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">I mean is it
okay to kill a man, a human being, a person? Again, I don’t mean
someone trying to kill you, rob your business, rape your wife, harm
your children, or break into your house. Killing someone might be
perfectly justified in those circumstances if it involves defense
against aggression.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Specifically,
is it okay to kill someone who has not threatened or committed violence
or aggression against you, your family, your friends, your neighborhood,
anyone you know, or any American you don’t know? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">No? Then –
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<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
he is not an American?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
he lives thousands of miles away from America?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
he adheres to a religion that is different from that of most Americans?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
he is a darker color than most Americans?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
he speaks a language that most Americans don’t understand?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
he has habits that seem peculiar to most Americans?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
he holds to a political ideology that doesn’t resemble America’s?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
he smells different than most Americans?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Does someone
having one or more of these characteristics alone mean it is okay
to kill him?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Another no?
Then – </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says he is a terrorist?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says he is an insurgent?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says he is a communist?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says he is an extremist?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says he is a potential threat?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says he hates our freedoms?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says he is the enemy?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says he is a bad guy?</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Does the U.S.
government merely saying any of these things make it okay to kill
him?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">No again? Then
– </span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says it is a matter of national security?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says it is in the national interest?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says it is of strategic concern?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says it has secret information that makes
it necessary?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says it is part of the president’s grand strategic
vision?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says it is essential to maintaining hegemony?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says it is just a part of fighting terrorism?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. government says it is important to foreign policy objectives?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Does the U.S.
government merely saying any of these things make it okay to kill
him?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Still no? Then
– </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. military gives you a nice uniform? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. military gives you a gun and ammunition?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. military pays for your college education?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. military provides you with free medical and dental care?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. military offers you citizenship in exchange for service?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. military gives you an enlistment bonus?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. military gives you generous combat pay?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. military assists you with repaying your student loans?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">What if
the U.S. military offers you liberal retirement benefits?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Does the U.S.
military doing any of these things make it okay to kill him?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Of course not?
Then – </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Why are
some so quick to make apologies for U.S. military personnel who
kill for the state in unjust wars? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Why are
some so quick to excuse U.S. military personnel who kill while
not defending the United States?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Why are
some so quick to justify U.S. military personnel who kill people
thousands of miles away that are no threat to the United States?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Why are
some so quick to defend U.S. military personnel who kill people
that resent and resist being invaded, bombed, occupied, or "liberated"?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Why are
some so quick to blame the government, the politicians, and the
defense contractors and exempt the U.S. military personnel who
do the actual killing?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">For years now
I have heard the excuses. But what are these apologists, excusers,
justifiers, defenders, and exempters really saying?</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you can’t
find a job.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you can’t
make it in college.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you are economically
disadvantaged.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if your father
was in the military.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you are patriotic.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you are ignorant.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you are poor.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you are uneducated.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you have no
resources available.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you think
you are doing the right thing.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you were raised
to never question the military.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you were never
taught otherwise.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you are just
obeying orders.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you think
you are avenging 9/11?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">It is okay
to kill for the U.S. government in an unjust war if you think
you are defending our freedoms.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">I have been
given every one of these excuses at least ten times. The first part
of the excuse is generally omitted, but why should it be? Is not
this exactly what people are saying?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">None of this
means that the despicable creatures in the U.S. government who send
American boys to war, and the equally loathsome creatures outside
of the U.S. government who cheer them on, are not to be condemned
as well. But those aren’t the people that are <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/137215.html">applauded
in airports</a>, <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance330.html">called
heroes</a>, and <a href="http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance250.html">thanked
for their service</a>.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">But why is
it that these excuses only seem to be valid for American soldiers?
Why is it that soldiers from other countries aren’t lauded as heroes
for killing Americans if they offer up one of the excuses that are
commonly used to justify killings carried out by American soldiers? </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Some agree
with everything I have said thus far, but think that if soldiers
are draftees then it changes everything. I know this is the case
because they write and tell me. I have written about the culpability
of drafted soldiers in my article "<a href="http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance322.html">Murder
Is Still Murder</a>." But again, why is it that it is only
drafted American soldiers who can kill with impunity? I don’t think
that apologists for draftees realize what they are saying. To excuse
the actions of soldiers because they were drafted is to say that
the state can somehow <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance47.html">sanctify
murder</a>. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;">Although the
U.S. military is looking for a few good men to unjustly kill for
the state, it is not okay to kill, even if the military advertises
itself as a global force for good.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright All Rights Reserved 2010 Toni Reita ND
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