Fluoride Spill At Water Facility Burns Holes in Parking Lot Cement But Is OK to Drink
April 15th, 2011
EUTimes.net
A recent chemical spill at a water treatment facility in Rock Island, Ill., required the assistance of an emergency relief crew decked in the very same type of hazmat suits being worn by workers at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in Japan. Except instead of radiation, the leaked chemical at the water plant was actually hydrofluorosilicic acid, a chemical fluoride component commonly added to drinking supplies for the stated purpose of preventing cavities. This fluoride chemical is so hazardous that it actually began to burn through parking lot cement in Rock Island before emergency crews arrived on the scene.
According to reports from WQAD News 8 in Moline, a tanker truck delivering the fluoride began to overflow, leaking the chemical directly onto the parking lot where it spilled down towards the street. And before emergency crews arrived on the scene in full hazmat suits and gas masks, the fluoride had actually begun to burn a hole right through the concrete.
“It’s a corrosive agent that the water treatment plant uses,” said Rock Island assistant fire chief Jeff Yerkey, concerning the spilled fluoride. He explained that the crews had to use earthen berms, dirt, sand, and commercial broom equipment to stop the leak. Yerkey also added that there was no “inhalation hazard” from the incident, and no evacuation of local residents was required.
See the full WQAD News 8 video report of the incident, which includes footage of hazmat workers being hosed off after the incident to ensure that no fluoride residues remained.
What is truly amazing about the incident is that this very same fluoride, which fire chief Yerkey specifically called a “corrosive agent,” is deliberately added to drinking water supplies across the nation. This highly-toxic chemical that, when spilled, requires similar protective equipment as does a radioactive fallout situation, is being added to millions of Americans drinking water supplies every single day in the name of promoting health.
In reality, the events surrounding this fluoride spill are more than enough proof for any rationally-minded person that adding this poison to water supplies is a bad idea. Anything that requires the use of a protective suit and gas mask in order to handle — and that burns a hole directly through concrete — simply cannot be good for the body when ingested.
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The Future Is… Fake Chicken
April 15th, 2011
PublicRadio.org
By: Angela Kim
You may have heard Adriene Hill’s story on fake chicken on the Marketplace Morning Report. But, why chow down on something fake when you can get the real thing?
We asked Dr. Fu-Hung Hsieh.
He and his team of researchers at University of Missouri have come up with a sustainable chicken alternative. Check out the video to see how it’s made… and how it tastes.
We talked to Dr. Hsieh about his work and his vision for the future.
Dr. Fu-Hung Hsieh
Professor, Biological Engineering Department
University of Missouri
1) Explain your work in one paragraph.
Develop an energy-efficient technology for producing products that exhibit whole muscle meat-like visual appearance and taste sensation using renewable plant-based proteins and fibers. These products closely resemble chicken or turkey breast meat but deliver more high quality protein. They are expected to appeal to both vegetarian and non-vegetarian consumers.
2) What’s your hope about the future?
More people will be willing to commit themselves to become a steward of earth, make a concerted effort so that their lifestyle will become more environmentally friendly.
3) What’s your fear about the future?
The general public and our policy makers choose to ignore or refuse to face the reality of accelerated environmental changes due to man-made activities. Consumers refuse to make a shift to a more sustainable product and lifestyle.
4) How does your work help prepare for the future?
Our work is just one of many that lead to a more sustainable food product. We hope by providing a product that looks like chicken, feels like chicken and tastes like chicken, it will be easier for consumers to accept and gradually make the shift in their food choice.
5) What advice do you have for others to prepare for the future?
We have to think of our children. Our attitudes and actions toward environmental sustainability will have a profound impact to our future generations.
6) How optimistic are you about the future?
Every crisis leads to a new opportunity. While there might be setbacks from time to time, overall tomorrow will be better. Humans are living longer and lead to more productive lives. The advances in technology, internet, medicine, environmental remediation, and many other key areas will help us confront and overcome many new challenges we may face. We will recognize that we have to be a steward of earth. It is a small world after all.
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World Bank Warns Millions Face Poverty
April 15th, 2011
BBC
The World Bank has warned that rising food prices, driven partly by rising fuel costs, are pushing millions of people into extreme poverty.
World food prices are 36% above levels of a year ago, driven by problems in the Middle East and North Africa, and remain volatile, the bank said.
That has pushed 44 million people into poverty since last June.
A further 10% rise would push 10m more below the extreme poverty line of $1.25 (76p) a day, the bank said.
And it warned that a 30% cost hike in the price of staples could lead to 34 million more poor.
‘Protect the poor’
The World Bank estimates there are about 1.2 billion people living on less than $1.25 a day.
“More poor people are suffering and more people could become poor because of high and volatile food prices,” said World Bank president Robert Zoellick.
“We have to put food first and protect the poor and vulnerable, who spend most of their money on food.”
Mr Zoellick was speaking before IMF and World Bank spring meetings later this week.
The gatherings will be attended by finance ministers and central bankers including Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, and Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King.
Nutrition
The World Bank says prices of basic commodities remain close to their 2008 peak, with the prices of wheat, maize and soya all rocketing.
The only exception is rice, which has fallen slightly in price in the past year.
The bank suggests a number of measures to help alleviate the impact of high food prices on the poor.
They include encouraging food-producing countries to ease export controls, and to divert production away from biofuels production when food prices exceed certain limits..
Other recommendations include targeting social assistance and nutritional programmes to the poorest, better weather forecasting, more investments in agriculture, the adoption of new technologies – such as rice fortification to make it more nutritious, and efforts to address climate change.
It also said financial measures were needed to prevent poor countries being subject to food price volatility.
Click here for the full report from BBC News
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You May Have Diabetes And Not Even Know It
April 14, 2011 by KT
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I was talking to a friend of mine in Europe, who was struggling with energy levels, gaining weight, and his mood was kind of swinging back and forth. He had called me about a month ago and told me how he was always thirsty, wasn’t sleeping very well, and was going to the bathroom a little more than a normal.
People don’t realize the amount of diabetics and pre-diabetics there are in the world, and that there is an excellent chance that every person reading this blog post is either diabetic and doesn’t know it or is pre-diabetic. This is an epidemic that nobody wants to talk about.
So, I was talking to my friend from Europe. I said, “Listen, why don’t you just do a glucose test because it sounds like you are either diabetic or pre-diabetic. Now, I’m not a doctor, but you need to go to one. He then says, “I hope that’s not the case, I don’t want to be taking insulin for the rest of my life.”
Listen, you absolutely do not have to get on insulin if you are diabetic or pre-diabetic. There is an all-natural product for you. It’s an herbal tea. You take a glass of this tea in the morning, then there is another formula for lunch and another for dinner, and then there are some capsules. You just drink the tea and in 90 days you are going to be almost, if not 100%, cured and you’ll see a dramatic improvement in your insulin level secretion. This is virtually a natural cure for diabetes that “they” don’t want you to know about.
I told my friend about this and he went to the doctor and found out that he was not pre-diabetic, but that he was indeed diabetic. He immediately called and got the diabetes cure. He tried it and just within 30 days, he said his insulin levels are at 90%; almost back to normal. I told him that in another month or two he would be virtually cured.
Dr. Young Soo Kim told me years ago that when he discovered this, it was researched at the University of Calgary in Canada. It’s a combination of herbs and it’s a very specific, unique combination of natural and organic herbs and comes in tea form. At the University of Calgary, they researched this with diabetics and showed that the people who took this, almost everyone, were cured of their diabetes.
It was then sent to one of Asian Diabetic Associations and it was called the ‘final cure for diabetes.’ However, there was a problem, folks. The treatment of diabetes is a multi-billion dollar profit industry. No one out there wants diabetes to be cured. If diabetes was cured, billions in profits would be gone. Do you realize that there are groups, including the American Diabetic Association, that don’t want diabetes to be cured. They want diabetes to boost their power and control and increase the profits of the drug companies. They absolutely do NOT want diabetes to be cured.
So, when this discovery came forward, nobody was happy! The pharmaceutical industry, the governments, the universities, the diabetic associations, everyone was upset that there was a natural cure for diabetes. Then the cover-ups began.
First, one of the largest profiteers in the diabetic industry approached to Dr. Young Soo Kim and offered tens of millions of dollars cash to take the product off the market.
Now think about that! Think about how evil these people are! There is a cure for diabetes and an executive of a drug company says, “Take it off the market. I want these people to suffer, so they can buy my product! I don’t want them to be cured and live a better life! I don’t want them to have more energy! I don’t want them to lose weight easily!”
You see, when you are diabetic or pre-diabetic, you gain weight easily. You can’t lose that extra weight either. Your energy levels go down and you look older. When you are diabetic, you have a lot of health problems, so this product, which is a natural cure for diabetes, was and is an absolute miracle.
Dr. Young Soo Kim is a courageous hero. When I first interviewed him about this herbal, natural cure for diabetes, the drug companies, the media, the governments, all attacked him because they didn’t want this cure revealed.
When I wrote about this in my book, Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You To Know About. The pawn, John Stossel, said that he contacted the University of Calgary, and they said that Kevin Trudeau is a liar and that this herbal natural cure for diabetes was never researched at the University of Calgary.
John Stossel never called me. John Stossel never called Dr. Young Soo Kim. When he published that report, Dr. Young Soo Kim became so upset because he knew it was true! He was physically there! He knew that this natural cure for diabetes was in fact researched at the University of Calgary. He went through his files and guess what he found?! He found the original photos of the documents saying that yes, this was in fact researched at the University of Calgary and it’s up on the website!
Here is the point, folks, if you have diabetes or if you know somebody that does, or more importantly, if you even think you may be diabetic or pre-diabetic, I would encourage all of you to do what I did.
When I first interviewed Dr. Young Soo Kim, I said, “Well, I don’t think I’m diabetic or pre-diabetic.” He says, “Well, you haven’t been tested.” I said, “Well, no, but let me ask you a question; is this herbal supplement good for me regardless?” He goes, “It’s super-nutrients. Kevin, everybody should take it because it is loaded with anti-oxidants and is loaded with anti-aging properties. It is a super food. It has super nutrition and will boost your immune system. It will make you look younger, feel better, have more energy, lose weight, and if you are pre-diabetic, it’ll prevent you from getting diabetes or if you do have diabetes, it could potentially cure you of the ailment.” So, I decided to take it for six months and it was just one of the best things that I’ve done.
And if you are pre-diabetic or diabetic, this could be a miracle for you. Click here to learn more about the cure for diabetes they don’t want you to know about: http://bit.ly/caHZYS
Yours in health…
KT
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Japan Declares Nuclear Crisis at Level of Chernobyl
April 12, 2011 by Andrew
Filed under Government
April 12th, 2011
AOL News
By: Ryan Nakashima and Yuri Kageyama
Japan raised the crisis level at its crippled nuclear plant Tuesday to a severity on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing high overall radiation leaks that have contaminated the air, tap water, vegetables and seawater.
Japanese nuclear regulators said they raised the rating from 5 to 7 – the highest level on an international scale of nuclear accidents overseen by the International Atomic Energy Agency – after new assessments of radiation leaks from the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant since it was disabled by the March 11 tsunami.
The new ranking signifies a “major accident” that includes widespread effects on the environment and health, according to the Vienna-based IAEA. But Japanese officials played down any health effects and stressed that the harm caused by Chernobyl still far outweighs that caused by the Fukushima plant.
The revision came a day after the government added five communities to a list of places people should leave to avoid long-term radiation exposure. A 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius already had been cleared around the plant.
The news was received with chagrin by residents in Iitate, one of the five communities, where high levels of radiation have been detected in the soil. The village of 6,200 people is about 40 kilometers from the Fukushima plant.
“It’s very shocking to me,” said Miyuki Ichisawa, 52, who runs a coffee shop in Iitate. “Now the government is officially telling us this accident is at the same level of Chernobyl.”
Japanese officials said the leaks from the Fukushima plant so far amount to a tenth of the radiation emitted in the Chernobyl disaster, but said they eventually could exceed Chernobyl’s emissions if the crisis continues.
“This reconfirms that this is an extremely major disaster. We are very sorry to the public, people living near the nuclear complex and the international community for causing such a serious accident,” said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano.
But Edano told reporters there was no “direct health damage” so far from the crisis. “The accident itself is really serious, but we have set our priority so as not to cause health damage.”
Hironobu Unesaki, a nuclear physicist at Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute, said the revision was not a cause for worry, that it had to do with the overall release of radiation and was not directly linked to health dangers. He said most of the radiation was released early in the crisis and that the reactors still have mostly intact containment vessels surrounding their nuclear cores.
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The change was “not directly connected to the environmental and health effects,” Unesaki said. “Judging from all the measurement data, it is quite under control. It doesn’t mean that a significant amount of release is now continuing.”
Prime Minister Naoto Kan, in a national television address, urged the public not to panic and to focus on recovering from the disaster.
“Right now, the situation of the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant has been stabilizing step by step. The amount of radiation leaks is on the decline,” he said. “But we are not at the stage yet where we can let our guards down.”
Continued aftershocks following the 9.0-magnitude megaquake on March 11 are impeding work on stabilizing the Fukushima plant – the latest a 6.3-magnitude one Tuesday that prompted plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., or TEPCO, to temporarily pull back workers.
Officials from Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said that the cumulative amount of radioactive particles released into the atmosphere since the incident had reached levels that apply to a Level 7 incident. Other factors included damage to the plant’s buildings and accumulated radiation levels for its workers.
“We have refrained from making announcements until we have reliable data,” said NISA spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama said. “The announcement is being made now because it became possible to look at and check the accumulated data assessed in two different ways,” he said, referring to measurements from NISA and Japan’s Nuclear Security Council.
NISA and the NSC have been measuring emissions of radioactive iodine-131 and cesium-137, a heavier element with a much longer half-life. Based on an average of their estimates and a formula that converts elements into a common radioactive measure, the equivalent of about 500,000 terabecquerels of radiation from iodine-131 has been released into the atmosphere since the crisis began.
That well exceeds the Level 7 threshold of the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale of “several tens of thousands of terabecquerels” of iodine-131. A terabecquerel equals a trillion becquerels, a measure for radiation emissions.
The government says the Chernobyl incident released 5.2 million terabecquerels into the air – about 10 times that of the Fukushima plant.
If the leaks continue, the amount of radioactivity released in Fukushima could eventually exceed the amount emitted by Chernobyl, a possibility that Naoki Tsunoda, a TEPCO spokesman, said the company considers “extremely low.”
In Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, a reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing a cloud of radiation over much of the Northern Hemisphere. A zone about 19 miles (30 kilometers) around the plant was declared uninhabitable, although some plant workers still live there for short periods and a few hundred other people have returned despite government encouragement to stay away.
In 2005, the Chernobyl Forum – a group comprising the International Atomic Energy Agency and several other U.N. groups – said fewer than 50 deaths could be confirmed as being connected to Chernobyl. It also said the number of radiation-related deaths among the 600,000 people who helped deal with the aftermath of the accident would ultimately be around 4,000.
The U.N. health agency, however, has said about 9,300 people are likely to die of cancers caused by radiation. Some groups, including Greenpeace, have put the numbers 10 times higher.
The Fukushima plant was damaged in a massive tsunami that knocked out cooling systems and backup diesel generators, leading to explosions at three reactors and a fire at a fourth that was undergoing regular maintenance and was empty of fuel.
The magnitude-9.0 earthquake that caused the tsunami immediately stopped the three reactors, but overheated cores and a lack of cooling functions led to further damage.
Engineers have pumped water into the damaged reactors to cool them down, but leaks have resulted in the pooling of tons of contaminated, radioactive water that has prevented workers from conducting further repairs.
A month after the disaster, more than 145,000 people are still living in shelters. The quake and tsunami are believed to have killed more than 25,000 people, but many of those bodies were swept out to sea and more than half of those feared dead are still listed as missing.
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In Indonesia, Tobacco Smoke Promoted As Cancer Cure
April 12th, 2011
RawStory.com
By: AFP
An Indonesian woman exhales cigarette smoke into the mouth of a gaunt, naked patient at a Jakarta clinic, where tobacco is openly touted as a cancer cure.
The Western patient is suffering from emphysema, a condition she developed from decades of smoking. Along with cancer and autism, it’s just one of the ailments the Griya Balur clinic claims it can cure with cigarettes.
“I missed this,” says the woman, a regular customer, with an American accent, as Phil Collins’s “I Can Feel It” blares in the background.
Griya Balur would be shut down in many parts of the world, but not in Indonesia, one of the developing-country new frontiers for big tobacco as it seeks to replace its dwindling profits in the health-conscious West.
Long traditions of tobacco use combined with poor regulation and the billions of dollars that flow into government coffers from the tobacco industry mean places like Griya Balur go unchallenged.
The “treatment” for the emphysema sufferer includes the blowing of smoke from “divine cigarettes” infused with “nanotechnology” to remove their cancer-causing “free radicals”, through a tube into her diseased lungs.
Smoke is also blown into her ears and nose, while she holds a cup of aspirin over her right eye. The Phil Collins music, it seems, has no curative properties.
Griya Balur founder Dr. Gretha Zahar told AFP she had treated 60,000 people with tobacco smoke over the past decade.
With a PhD in nanochemistry from Padjadjaran University in Bandung, West Java, Zahar believes that by manipulating the mercury in tobacco smoking can cure all diseases including cancer, and even reverse the ageing process.
“Mercury is the cause of all illnesses. In my cigarettes — we call them Divine Cigarettes — there are scavengers that extract the mercury from the body,” she said.
On her website she says she does not need to subject her theories to clinical tests or publish them in peer-reviewed journals, nor does she have the money to “fight” with “Western medical scientists”.
Zahar’s claims were recently presented to the Constitutional Court where farmers and legislators from the tobacco-growing hub of Central Java are challenging a law that recognises the leaf as addictive.
Aris Widodo, a pharmacology professor at Brawijaya University in Malang, East Java, told the court that he had never heard of anyone dying from smoking. On the contrary, he said, smoking was good for you.
“Smoking can eliminate anxiety, sharpen concentration and calm the nerves. It?s a good cheap alternative to other expensive drugs, like Valium,” he said.
Tobacco is addictive and harmful to health, but Indonesians are taking up the habit in ever larger — and younger — numbers, cheered on by the tobacco industry’s aggressive marketing.
Addicts puff everywhere from beauty salons to dentist?s waiting rooms. Parents give cigarettes to toddlers to keep them quiet. Cigarettes are handed out to teenagers along with concert tickets. Laws banning public smoking are rarely if ever enforced, and tobacco advertising is ubiquitous on the country’s roadsides and television screens.
Cigarettes cost about one dollar for a pack of 20, yet they are often the second biggest item of household expenditure after food for the Southeast Asian country’s poorest families.
According to the World Health Organisation, smoking rates have risen six-fold in Indonesia over the last 40 years. Smoking kills at least 400,000 people every year and another 25,000 die from passive smoking.
Yet Indonesia is the only country in Asia not to have ratified the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which sets policy recommendations and benchmarks for countries concerned about the health impacts of smoking.
Indonesia’s biggest cigarette manufacturer, PT HM Sampoerna, is an affiliate of Philip Morris International. British American Tobacco bought Indonesia?s fourth largest cigarette maker, PT Bentoel, for $494 million in 2009.
The government reaps about seven billion dollars a year in excise taxes from the industry, which employs scores of thousands of people around Temanggung in Central Java.
Anti-smoking activists say industry players are dusting off their old marketing playbook to obscure the science and paint smoking as cool, masculine, glamorous and even healthy, especially to women and children.
During deliberations of smoking regulations in 2009, a clause stating tobacco?s addictiveness went missing from the final draft. The government said the omission was a mere oversight and later reinserted the clause.
Health ministry official Budi Sampurno was questioned but he maintains that tobacco companies had nothing to do with it.
“Never. Is there any proof? We have never been approached by tobacco companies. That is not legal practice,” he said.
Dr. Hakim Sorimuda Pohan, a Democratic Party legislator who helped draft the Health Law, said there was no doubt big tobacco was behind the shenanigans.
“They did the same thing in 1992. Tobacco companies successfully had the same clause omitted from the law,” he said.
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