Archive for the ‘Chemical Contamination’
The Flouride Deception
The Fluoride Deception #1 from Hesh Goldstein on Vimeo.
The Fluoride Deception #2 from Hesh Goldstein on Vimeo.
DU: The Untold Story
Depleted uranium is a by-product of the enrichment process used to make nuclear fuel. It has been used in armor-piercing ammunition and in armor for fighting vehicles.
Fine particles of depleted uranium are created when munitions made with the material strike a target.
A new study published in the journal Health Physics indicates that soldiers may absorb depleted uranium particles through inhalation, ingestion, or wound contamination.
U.S. veterans who were exposed to depleted uranium during the 1991 Gulf War have continued to excrete the potentially harmful chemical in their urine for years after their exposure.
More than 1,000 tons have been used in Afghanistan and more than 3,000 tons in Iraq.
D.U. is causing permanent disability and death for hundreds of thousands of American veterans who served in the Middle East.
Depleted uranium contamination causes virtually every known illness from acute skin rashes, severe headaches, muscle and joint pain, and general fatigue, to major birth defects, infection, depression, cardiovascular disease, brain tumors, and every other type of cancer. Uranium replaces calcium, destroying teeth and bones. 
Since DU has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, there is very little decay of those DU materials.
In May, 1997, the International Action Center published a book of essays and lectures on depleted uranium: the contamination of the planet by the United States military. In addition to exposing the deadly duplicity of the Department of Defense, the book documents the genocide of Native Americans and Iraqis by military radiation, the connection between depleted uranium and Gulf War Syndrome, the underestimated dangers from low-level radiation, the legal ramifications of DU production and use, and the growing movement against DU. 
Metal of Dishonor-Depleted Uranium: How the Pentagon Radiates Soldiers & Civilians with DU Weapons
Depleted Uranium - Deadly, Dangerous and Indiscriminate
Should the US Continue Dumping its Hazardous Waste in Third World Countries?
Electronic waste, or e-waste as it is commonly referred to, is unwanted, obsolete, or unusable electronic products such as computers and computer peripherals, televisions, VCRs, DVD players, stereo equipment, and hand-held cell phones. 
A typical 17-inch computer monitor contains approximately 2.2 pounds of lead while a 27-inch color television contains up to 8 pounds of lead. The 500 million computers that became obsolete between 1997 and 2007 contained nearly 1.6 billion pounds of lead.
Even though there is an international treaty banning the export of hazardous waste, the United States is one of only a few countries which have not ratified it. Other countries which refuse to comply include Haiti and Afghanistan.
In “Digital Dumping Ground,” airing Tuesday, June 23, 2009, at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS, Peter Klein and his team expose an industry that is polluting the environment and poisoning the people who live and work among the waste, scavenging for scrap metals. CLICK HERE for local listings
“Organic” Apparently Means Full Of Artificial Chemicals
Here is the ingredient list for: 
Nature’s Gate Organics Shampoo,Tea Tree Oil & Blue Cypress,
Ingredients: WATER ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS (ROSEMARY) FLOWER/LEAF/STEM EXTRACT, COCAMIDOPROPYL BETAINE, COCAMIDE MEA, SODIUM MYRETH SULFATE, URTICA DIOICA (NETTLE) EXTRACT(1), ROSA CANINA (ROSE HIP) FRUIT EXTRACT(1), MENTHA PIPERITA (PEPPERMINT) LEAF EXTRACT(1), THYMUS VULGARIS (THYME) EXTRACT(1), YUCCA SCHIDIGERA EXTRACT(1), HAMAMELIS VIRGINIANA (WITCH HAZEL) EXTRACT(1), HUMULUS LUPULUS (HOPS) EXTRACT(1), ALOE BARBADENSIS (ALOE VERA) LEAF JUICE(2), MELALEUCA ALTERNIFLORA (TEA TREE) LEAF OIL(3), CALLITRIS INTROTROPICA (BLUE CYPRESS) WOODOIL, GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA (LICORICE) ROOT EXTRACT(1), PANTHENOL, HYDROLYZED WHEAT PROTEIN, HYDROLYZED WHEAT STARCH, SOYAMIDOPROPALKONIUM CHLORIDE, ISOCETETH-20, FRAGRANCE, POLYQUATERNIUM-10, PEG-150 DISTEARATE, DIAZOLIDINYL UREA,METHYLPARABEN, PROPYLPARABEN, AMMONIUM CHLORIDE, BUTYLENE GLYCOL, DISODIUM EDTA,CITRIC ACID.
All these artificial chemicals have been linked to CANCER, skin allergies and irritations, breathing difficulties and even depression. I almost bought this stuff, just because it said “ORGANIC”
This kind of deception is despicable.
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Where Does All The E-Waste Go?
Computers, TV’s, monitors and other electronic equipment contain substances such as lead and cadmium in circuit boards; lead oxide and cadmium in monitor cathode ray tubes (CRTs); mercury in switches and
flat screen monitors; cadmium in computer batteries; polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in older capacitors and transformers; and brominated flame retardants on printed circuit boards, plastic casings, cables and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) cable insulation that release highly toxic dioxins and furans when burned to retrieve copper from the wires.
Where does all this stuff go when we’re ready to “upgrade” or just buy the “latest, greatest and newest”?
Since manufacturers refuse to eliminate hazardous materials or design for dis-assembly and government policies fail to hold manufacturers responsible for end-of-life management of their products, the US has found a suitable dumping ground: The developing countries of Asia. Few of us realize that the obsolete computer we pay someone to take, in hopes it would be recycled, might end up in China or some other far-off Asian destination.
Vast amounts of E-waste material, both hazardous and simply trash, is burned or dumped in the rice fields, irrigation canals and along waterways. The poorest workers in the E-waste recycling and disposal operations found in China, India, and Pakistan are exposed to toxins that are extremely polluting and
very damaging to human health. Examples include open burning of plastic waste, exposure to toxic solders, river dumping of acids, and widespread general dumping. For more information and possible solutions go to the full report entitled Exporting Harm: The High Tech Trashing of Asia.
What Creates The Most Pollution? The Answer Might Surprise You!
Which machine creates the most air pollution per hour of operation: the typical car, or gasoline-powered lawn mower?
A single two-stroke engine such as those found in lawnmowers produces pollution equivalent to that of 30 to 50 four-stroke automobiles.
The EPA estimates that one hour of operation by a 70-horsepower two-stroke motor emits the same amount of hydrocarbon pollution as driving 5,000 miles in a modern automobile!
The two-stroke motor, found on 75 percent of all boats and personal watercraft (jet skis), generates 1.1 billion pounds of hydrocarbon emissions each year.
Every year, marine two-stroke motors spill 15 times more oil and fuel into waterways than did the Exxon Valdez.
Two-stroke engines are highly inefficient users of fuel: up to 40 percent of the fuel and oil goes out of the exhaust pipe unburned. This exhaust is packed with oxides of carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, hydrocarbons and fine dust - all toxic contributors to air pollution.
The 2-stroke engine emits significant amount of particulate matter (PM), un-burnt hydrocarbons (HC), Carbon Monoxide (CO) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOx).
It is estimated that particulate emissions from a single 2-stroke motorcycle is comparable to those from a diesel truck or bus.
The following machines typically use two-stroke engines:
Gasoline-powered landscaping equipment such as lawnmowers and trimmers
many outboard motors
chain saws
leaf blowers
some snowmobiles
smaller motorcycles
Act Now to Stop The Destruction of Our Food Supply
Congressional Bill HR 875 was introduced by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto.
Go to this site (CLICK HERE) and Read about Monsanto, TAKE THE TIME TO FIND OUT WHAT’S GOING ON.
- Contact your Congressional members at 202-224-3121 and ask them to oppose HR 875 and S 425.
- Sign the Natural Solutions Foundation’s petition to Amend the Food Safety Modernization Act H.R. 875 [and Substitutes], by adding a “Natural and Family Food and Farming Exclusion Amendment”
- Find out who sits on your states agriculture and farming committee and contact them with your concerns.
- Contact your local elected officials and let them know your position on legislation and why.
- Attend a local Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) meeting, this is a good start to learning about what is going on in farming, as well as getting involved with local and state initiatives .
- Support the Farmers Legal Defense Fund
Guide To Pesticides In Food
The point of pesticides is to kill living things. 
Using common sense, we can assume that poisons that kill are probably not very healthy to ingest. If you’d like to know which fruits and veggies have the most and least pesticides you can print out a guide from Environmental Working Group’s Shoppers’ Guide To Pesticides.
Peaches contain the highest levels of pesticides, while onions are the lowest.
War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (Studies in Environment and History)
Does An Increase In Toxins Equal An Increase In Disease?
A new study found that the number of type 2 diabetes medications prescribed for kids and adolescents more than doubled from 2002 to 2005.
Researchers from the Pediatric Research Institute of St Louis University and the Kansas Health Institute reported that the number of asthma medication prescriptions for children increased 46.5% over a three year study.
ADHD medication prescriptions were up over 40%, and girls accounted for a larger percentage of the increase than boys.
In the last 20 years rates of asthma and attention-deficit disorder have doubled, diabetes and learning disabilities have tripled, chronic arthritis now affects nearly one in five Americans and autism has increased by 300 percent or more in many states.”—-Barbara Loe Fisher
Rates of breast cancer have nearly tripled in the United States in the past 50 years.
TNS Healthcare, along with physicians from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, releases findings suggesting that the prevalence of “metabolic syndrome”–a condition that increases the risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes–has increased nearly 50% over the past 6 years in both the U.S. and Europe.
The rate of kidney disease mortality in the United States has increased by 52% in the past 16 years and continues to be higher in blacks than whites
We have invented some 80,000 new chemicals just in the past 50 years. All are toxic to some degree, nobody knows how they interact with each other, and they never go away, they just continue to contaminate everything they come into contact with forever. These chemicals are so toxic that they must be tested on animals, to decide just how much contamination we can take. The animals suffer horribly…so we can use chemicals…to destroy our health and environment…
Over 350 contaminants have been found in human breast milk
In the last 20 years, we have increased sugar consumption in the US from 26 to 135 lbs of sugar per person per year. Prior to the turn of the century, the average consumption was only 3 lbs per person per year. Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer were virtually unknown in the early 1900’s.
How is it possible that so many people do not make the connection between skyrocketing use of toxic chemicals and sugar, and the skyrocketing increase in disease?













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