From Ecowatch: When you drink a glass of water, you expect it to be clean and pure, not contaminated with invisible toxic chemicals. But nationwide testing has found that 6.5 million Americans in 27 states are drinking water tainted by an industrial compound that was used for decades to make Teflon. The chemical, known as PFOA, has been detected in 94 public water systems. The amounts are small, but new research indicates that it can be hazardous even at the tiniest doses. PFOA and closely related fluorinated chemicals—including PFOS, once used to make Scotchgard—can cause cancer, birth defects and heart disease and weaken the immune system….
Monthly Archives: September 2015
Living in a food desert
Here is more evidence that the poor don’t matter in a market driven capitalist environment. In a wealthy environment you have your food delivered or you drive to the shop. In a poor neighbourhood you either walk for miles or take a bus and can carry home only a small amount. These neighbourhoods typically have no shortage of liquor outlets or fast food stores. Ever enterprising predatory capitalists always milk the poor of the little they do have. The result of course is poor health. In this doco we see a grocery store has become a dialysis centre & no fresh food stores for three miles… “an epidemic” they say … “a global problem” …
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Published on Mar 4, 2015
VSUOfficialChannel on Youtube
“Across Virginia – from Hampton to Richmond, Petersburg to
Lynchburg to Wise County and all points in between – approximately 17.8 percent of Virginia’s population live in food desert. This documentary was produced by VSU as part of a study on food insecurity in the College of Agriculture.
(Produced by Jesse Vaughan & Cedric Owens – Co-Producer Dr. Jewel Hairston – Narrator Daphne Maxwell Reid)”
UNDEBUNKABLE CHEMTRAILS PROOF AT LAST! CLIMATE MODIFICATION GEO ENGINEERING
Video post.
Source: UNDEBUNKABLE CHEMTRAILS PROOF AT LAST! CLIMATE MODIFICATION GEO ENGINEERING
For a long time some people have made money by destroying nature
Here we have a rant (Human Error) by Japan’s Frying Dutchman on the Fukushima disaster that exposes a few lies by government and others. These guys are impassioned – well worth the listen. Translation included & transcript here and under the video on YT.
Video Japanese protest
http://survivaljapan.wordpress.com/category/unreliable-japanese-official-information/
Transcript
Long ago, human beings lost their true sense of time, and because of this their senses grew dull, and they lost other-dimensional creative powers that would be unimaginable today, like telepathy & advanced powers of thought. Ever since then evil people using the science of destruction, they built civilizations dependent on material things, and created religion to force their self-serving rules on a bewildered populace, while behind the scenes they monopolized energy & built money based economies, snuffing out our powerful natural abilities. Over thousands of years, genetic memory loss set in; after numerous reincarnations, here we are, having completely forgotten those abilities. We all have collective amnesia! Talking about four-dimensional science and philosophy may bore people who have no interest in fantasy, so let me put it simply:
For a long time some people have made money by destroying nature and irresponsibly making dangerous products, all the while using the media to deceive the masses and inflicting horrible pain and suffering on those in harmony with nature.
The electricity powering our lives is no exception. It’s built on the suffering of others. But peer deep into Panora’s Box and you’ll see advanced technologies that harness natural energy without destroying nature. With technologies like solar power and other renewables, we can get all the electricity we need without nuclear power, and cheaply too. We could shut down all the nuclear plants and easily make up the difference by operating our hydroelectric and thermal power plants at full capacity. But powerful interests hide this fact from us. Why? Because of money! Money!
These people are terminally insane.
Power companies get up to about US$13 billion in subsidies from the government to build a nuclear power plant.
Once the location is chosen the power company showers the locals with money. They take the guys to hostess bars, the old people to hot springs. Wine and dine! Wine and dine! And they lie to them about the nuclear plant being good for the local economy. They actually have a manual on how to use money to divide the community into supporters and opponents. Fishermen even sell off their fishing rights for enormous sums. Then there’s a PR barrage that’s nothing but propaganda about safety measures and secret dangerous experiments. Where does the money come from for all that? From your taxes! This is how Japan has aggressively constructed 59 nuclear power plants. That means we are now living with over 50 time bombs strapped to our bodies. If even one of them blows up the entire area around it becomes uninhabitable for all living things, and contamination slowly spreads all over. That’s not pleasant to imagine. Japan built these reactors under the banner of peacefully using nuclear power. But the real reason is that the government wants nuclear weapons.
Right now in Kaminoseki Town in Yamaguchi, Chugoku Electric Power wants to build what would be two of Japan’s largest nuclear reactors, filling in ocean along the beautiful Tanoura coast. For thirty years the people of nearby Iwai Island have fought these plans. They devoted their lives to this cause, and they stopped the construction. These people lived in harmony with their island’s verdant nature for generations. It’s an amazing place with history and wide-open nature. But Chugoku Power wants to ignore all that and force their plans through. ‘Fukushima?’ they say. ‘We didn’t have anything to do with that.’ until only recently they were working on that plant every day. How stupid! And now other companies that shut down their nuclear plants after Fukushma want to restart them. ‘They’re safe’ they say. What do you mean safe? Did a meltdown happen inside your heads? They are terminally insane. With all that chanting of ‘it’s safe, it’s safe’, they’ve brainwashed themselves like people in a religious cult. What idiots! But we’ve been deceived by those idiots, which makes us idiots too. We’re completely caught in their trap! A lot of people on Twitter & the Internet nit-pick what the anti-nuclear people say, but those shallow types don’t understand the situation at all. It’s pathetic! Don’t say you support nuclear power until you know the real history – Hiroshima & Nagasaki. The fisherman on the Daigo Fukuryu-maru who were exposed to lethal radiation from a hydrogen bomb test, the United Nations ‘peaceful use’ campaign starting in 1953 which was just a cover for the Cold War nuclear development race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The nuclear energy plans drafted by America and sold to the public by Matsutaro Shoriki’s Yomiuri newspaper & TV station. That’s how uranium came to Japan. Once you know that history, your views will change! Once you see the negative chain reaction that nuclear energy has throughout our society, it’ll make you want to puke! If you have a heart, that is. Television & newspapers are tools for deceiving the public, and it’s reallybad in Japan. The TV news is absolutely horrible.
19.47
Only now have they started mentioning plutonium, the most dangerous substance in the world. Fukushima reactor no 3 is a plutonium- thermal reactor, the kind promoted in the Kansai Power commercials starring baseball coach Sen’ichi Hoshino. A reactor that uses plutonium, that’s the one that blew up. But the newspaper headline the next day said that it was a planned stoppage. Pure propaganda. How many people’s lives will they sacrifice to cover up their crimes? Enough already, you bastards! Plutonium is far deadlier than other radioactive materials. You breathe in even just a tiny amount, it attacks your cells and destroys their DNA so they can’t reproduce. That’s the stuff that leaked out but for a long time, those bastards never even mentioned plutonium.
They just kept repeating, ‘there is no immediate health risk’. ‘There is no immediate health risk’.
That phrase should win some kind of propaganda award. This is organized crime committed by a gang of murderers. More lives could have been saved had they disclosed more information, and not just about nuclear power. You TV news people are nothing but mindless cheerleaders for the nuclear industry. Do you have any respect for human life, you stupid morons! You scumbags! Right now, those lying, deceiving bastards aren’t thinking about the Japanese people. They’re desperately trying to think up excuses to avoid taking responsibility for what they’ve done. What a joke! That’s their job. ‘Human error’. Anyone can see right through that crap! The whole world is watching. The whole universe is watching! Now, the world is watching to see how the Japanese will overcome this horror — what Japan’s young people will do, how artists and musicians 
will express this pain in their art. And the whole world is watching, Japan is in crisis! So this is no time for hair splitting arguments. It’s time to wake up! 9:17 nuclear energy is outdated! The Swedish government was honest with its people. ‘nuclear energy is headed for disaster!’ they said. ‘we can give it up but it will be hard at first’. But the people still said no to nuclear power and now the country is working to get by without it! Japan already has the technology to get by with just natural energy, but that fact is covered up with lies and fearmongering. Because of money! So wake up! How can you be so apathetic? At the Rokkasho nuclear reprocessing plant in Aomori nuclear waste leaked from a 3,000 ton pool. There was too much liquid waste to bury so they dumped it into the ocean. Can you believe that? And they’re hiding that from everyone. There’s so much nuclear material there that if the plant ever exploded , forget about Japan – the whole world would be finished!10:29
The government is hiding so much, and that’s just what they’re hiding about nuclear power. Those recent planned power outages were outrageous. They intentionally did that to fool people into believing they need nuclear power. People died because of those outages, but what’s the point? Japan has so much electrical power that more and more homes and buildings are switching to electricity-only power. Everyone, think about it. Japan has hot springs almost everywhere. So there’s plenty of hot water underground for geothermal energy! Japan is an island nation and we’ve created the technology to generate unlimited energy from the tides. 11:24
You can buy a house but you can’t buy a home,
Money buys you a watch, but it can’t buy you time,
You can buy a book but you can’t buy knowledge,
You can buy a bed but you can’t buy sleep,
Money pays the doctor but it can’t cure disease.Buying electricity destroys nature,
While we played around, engineers designed nuclear power plants. They knew the dangers better than anyone, and they got paid well, so maybe they did the best job they could… with all the lies they’ve told us… irresponsible people have left contaminated waste that will plague the nation for who knows how many generations. The power companies, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, bureaucrats, politicians, bankers, corporate executives, mass media, and government scientists are all chasing money around like characters in a comedy….
We do not need nuclear energy any more!
Staying apathetic and gullible will only lead us to destruction!
This isn’t about having enough electrical power! Because you can live without electricity. But you can’t live without nature. Irreversible damage has already been done.
You know who we should really feel sorry for? The children! They’re our future.
Love is what we need!
No more nuclear power!
Related Links:
Frying Dutchman Official Website
http://fryingdutchman.jp
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Some links to what is really happening:
http://www.enenews.com
http://survivaljapan.wordpress.com/ca…
http://fairewinds.com
http://www.enviroreporter.com/
and
http://fukushima-diary.com
Which Milk Beats All Other Milks?
From Natural Society website, by Barbara Minton:
It can take some effort to find a ‘healthy’ commercially-prepared substitute for cow’s milk. One will go through a number of different milk products before even finding which is best; but know this, there is an alternative to conventional cow’s milk that stands out above the rest.
How global capitalism actually works
From the Daily Blog … a look at how capitalism works and why the rich are getting richer on the backs of everybody else:
By Douglas Renwick
“There is a standard view of how capitalism is supposed to work given by the media. It goes something like this; capitalism is a system where people come together to freely exchange goods and services, including labour. Businesses compete competitively to give the most efficient outcome, and the profit motive gives incentive for innovation. People who become rich do so because they work hard to offer the market what it wants while the poor do not, so this wealth inequality is to a large extent the natural workings of the market. This is an imperfect but the best possible system.
That is I think the standard view given in the media, and I think most of it can be debunked while the rest can be turned on its head. I’ll be critiquing this view, but also give my own view of how I think Global Capitalism works. I’ll give what I think are realistic and viable solutions to the faults of Global capitalism at the end.
- Capitalism is always seeking to make profit, and it was able to make profits in the period from 1945-1971 in the productive sector of the economy, and under this system there was high economic growth which was relatively egalitarian
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the productive sector reached a certain capacity in the 1970’s, increasing productivity became less profitable … profits went into the FIRE economy … finance, insurance, real estate
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the banking sector became wealthier and got turned into an institution that gambles rather than investing in productive things
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the economy is now a system that is normally stagnant, and only grows when it is driven by speculative bubbles which eventually crash
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real wages stagnate, as they have in New Zealand since 1984, while corporate profits go way up ……”
In the Fukushima prefecture of Japan thyroid cancer rates have jumped by 6000%
From RT on Youtube
Interview with Kevin Kamps, radioactive watchdog, Beyond Nuclear
More on what you are not being told about the nuclear disaster that far out did Chernobyl. In Boise Idaho, measurements by the US Federal Government of radioactive iodine in rainwater is at 242 times safe drinking water permissable levels. The industry continues to bury the truth.
Published on Jun 24, 2015
“Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom. The worst nuclear accident in recent history wasn’t unexpected – that’s according to an internal document recovered from Tokyo Electric Power – also known as Tepco. Tepco originally claimed that it had done everything possible to protect the nuclear power plant at Fukushima. But we now know that Tepco executives had discussed the need to build up coastal defenses back in 2008 – two and a half years before the tsunami hit Fukushima and caused a triple meltdown.
For more information on the stories we’ve covered visit our websites at thomhartmann.com – freespeech.org – and RT.com. You can also watch tonight’s show on Hulu – at Hulu.com/THE BIG PICTURE and over at The Big Picture YouTube page. And – be sure to check us out on Facebook and Twitter!”
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How to Cut Your Water Bill in Half Irrigating With Ollas – for the Gardeners
For those who are growing their food here is a great idea that draws from ancient cultures, originating in Northern Africa. This serves to conserve water and is very simply demonstrated here with two videos. Follow the links for how to make your own olla from two terracotta pots. Note in the comments below the article, someone there uses plastic bottles with holes in sides and bottom … you’ll get it when you read the articles.
Here is the first video and links following:
http://www.realfarmacy.com/how-to-cut-your-watering-bill-in-half/
https://www.facebook.com/GrowFoodNotLawns
How to make an olla: http://mouthfromthesouth.com/how-to-make-an-olla/
Happy gardening. In NZ’s neck of the global woods, Spring is here & being a little colder where I live, nevertheless folks are getting ready for Summer gardens.
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