for over half a century, a closely related unholy troika of petro-chemical,
food-additive, and pharmaceutical industries have poisoned for profit
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everybody knows
we believed industry and manufacturers would be responsible
but bit by bit, more and more, they poisoned us
everybody knows
~ the young think to avoid injury by cynicism alone
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Poisoned for Profit
~ the film
"Watch the trailer for the documentary at the website," says Douglas Petrikat.
"I love you website! Well Done, Albert!
"After 2 years of hard work our DVD is now available!"
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Poisoned for Profit ~ the book
"How toxins are making our children chronically ill.
"These children are victims of a crime; the perpetrators are the companies who knowingly
manufacture and use poisonous products."
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Poisoning for Profit: The Mafia and Toxic Waste in America 1985
by Alan A. Block and Frank R. Scarpitti
still available at
Amazon
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Forbidding Fruit
Not since Eve ~ mother of all things ~ threw away the core of her forbidden fruit, have we so
unfavourably considered plants it seems. We seem to consider Nature our ugly stepmother, and so
distrustful are we of her produce that we bleach her flour, colour her oranges, and treat her
potatoes so they will not reproduce and show their ugly eyes to us.
Even before our food falls into the hands of those additive addicts the processors, the growers
themselves ~ those 'guardians of the soil' ~ attack it with dicamba, bromoxynil, mecoprop,
dichlorprop, and such chemicals as are hidden in the strange formulae as 2,4- D amine,
2,4-D ester, MCPA, Banvel D, or Ductril M, which are recommended to farmers by the various
departments of agriculture.
In processing, additives by the thousands are poured into our foods: preventives of mold and
staleness; preservatives and bleaches; artificial flavouring, sweetener and dyes; emulsifiers,
fumigators, anti-foaming, anti-sprouting agents, and parafin sprays. Packaging with its use of
waxed papers and cartons, adds contaminants through lacquers, enamels, and plastics.
Yet it appears that business throughout the ages have assured that they would 'maximize
profit'. Will Durant (in his volumous The Story of Civilization) noted that the pamphlet
literature of sixteenth century Europe "groaned with denunciations of wholesale adulteration of
food and other products." Pepper apparently always had been mixed with mustard husks, pea flour,
juniper berries, and sweepings off the store-room floor. The Diet of Innsbruck (1518)
complained that importers "add brick dust to ginger, and mix unhealthy stuff with their pepper."
Tea was mixed, according to Reay Tannahill in Food in History, with 'smouch' which was
made especially for the purpose from leaves of the ash tree, "dried and curled on copper plates".
Dried thorn leaves, poisonously coloured with verdigris, served the same purpose. Commercial
bakeries in the eighteenth century whitened their products with alum, lead gave cheese its
appealing colour, cocoa powder was complemented with large amounts of brick dust, and the hearty
foam on the beer of that time was owed to green vitriol or sulphate of iron.
Bon appetit.
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the mcburger, according to the company is made of "100 percent Canadian, CFIA inspected beef,
. . . sprinkled with salt and pepper at the restaurant during cooking. That's it. No additives,
fillers or binding agents."
right
kept for over a year unwrapped on a kitchen counter, mould, maggots, fungi, bacteria have
avoided it
the cheeseburger weighs 115 grams at the time of cooking, delivers 200 calories and 750mg
of salt; the "regular" bun has 30 or more ingredients and the processed "cheese" 15 or more
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the litle ones have ruthlessly been taught consumption of chemicals to become the most
medicated children in history ~ for a depressed and then medicated population is easier to
control than one made unpredictable by seeking happiness
medicated population = controlled population
august 13 2010
"Scientific Dictatorship wants Lobotomized, Subservient Public"
says texas radio host alex jones at
infowars
jones also maintains the site prison planet, and urges
people to "search for 'brain eating vaccines'” on
google
"I know that millions of Americans are the victims of consuming food and drink products
that have been killing our people for decades," wrote Devvy Kidd
in News with Views
"Students arriving on college and university campuses today are the most medicated
population . . . to ever set foot on a campus," noted the
Housing University
Prof Dr Anantha Krishnan railed against the medical profession in a
letter
that: ". . . They chemically medicate the people who seek treatment,
and create a huge medicated population instead of a healthy population. A medicated population
is at a great risk to develop side effects which will weaken the body and make them more
vulnerable to diseases."
a pill for every ill
worst pills; best pills
expert, independent second opinion for prescription drug
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Killer Pain Killer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA government)
September 2009
Increase in Fatal Poisonings Involving Opioid Analgesics in the United States
download pdf version databriefs
Summary
Opioid analgesics are drugs that are usually prescribed to treat pain. Poisoning death rates
involving opioid analgesics have more than tripled in the United States since 1999. Among opioid
analgesic-related deaths, those involving methadone increased the most during the period 1999-2006.
The importance of opioid analgesics in the management of pain is unquestioned. However, increasing
opioid analgesic-related poisoning deaths pose a serious public health risk.
1 Nov 2011
Unintentional poisoning death rates have been rising steadily since 1992, and was second only to
motor vehicle crashes as a cause of unintentional injury death for all ages in 2007. In 2008,
poison control centers reported receiving calls about 2.5 million human poison exposure cases. In
2009, unintentional poisoning caused about 708,318 Emergency Department visits.
In 2007, 93 percent of unintentional poisoning deaths were caused by drugs. Opioid pain medications,
such as methadone, hydrocodone, or oxycodone, were most commonly involved, followed by cocaine and
heroin.
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psycho ~ the business of making us crazy
psychoactive drugs have been prescribed over 60 million times this year in canada alone, and
the most potent mood altering drugs go to children under 13
check these out:
christopher lane's shyness: how normal behaviour
became an illness provides a behind-the-scenes look at the haphazard, unscientific process
used to revise The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. . . .
making us crazy: the psychiatric bible and the creation of mental disorders by herb
kutchins and stuart kirk reviewed at
amazon
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the upcoming fifth edition of diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders,
psychiatry's book of official classification of all the ways humanity can go mad, continues a
frightening trend of increasingly classing human behaviours as 'disorders'
the current edition already lists such as: Mathematics Disorder, Nocturnal sleep-related
eating disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder, Transient Tic Disorder, Disorder of Written
Expression, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Female and Male Orgasmic Disorders, Adjustment
Disorders, Phonological Disorder, Caffeine Intoxication/Withdrawal Disorders, Conduct Disorder,
Nicotine Use or Withdrawal Disorder, Non Compliance With Treatment Disorder, Sibling Rivalry
Disorder . . .
it is too much even for allan frances of duke university ~ the chair of the committee that prepared
the last edition: 'it could unnecessarily trigger wholesale epidemics of mental illness and expose
millions more adults and children to potentially harmful psychiatric drugs' ~ 'pushed by drug
companies and advocacy groups'
it seems a nasty war is raging over the issue in psychiatry, according to this article at
stanford university's law and
biosciences
not everyone agrees with the Church of Scientology which maintains the sites linked below to expose
what they call "the biggest deceptions, frauds and myths currently being perpetrated on our society",
but there is a lot of thought-provoking material here:
fight for kids
drugs and your mind
food kills
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"The sedge is wither'd from the lake,
And no birds sing."
~ with these lines from the poet Keats, Rachel Carson imagined a spring without the songs of
birds and generated a storm of controversy over the use and abuse of chemical pesticides with her
book Silent Spring in 1962
Carson died in 1964 age 56 but left a legacy that has had an important influence on the
environmental movement, as can be read in this 1991
lecture
at Purdue University
a website on her life and legacy is maintained by one of
her biographers: Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
stamp issued 1981
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"the integrity of creation is being sacrificed"
~~~ a Serious Moral Problem ~~~
Fort McMurray bishop addresses
"oil company executives in Calgary and Houston,
. . . government leaders in Edmonton and Ottawa, and . . .
the general public whose excessive consumerist lifestyles drives the demand for oil."
read the full
Pastoral Letter by Luc Bouchard, Bishop of St. Paul (January 2009)
ordinary joes want all their flashy toys ~ boats, quads, snowmobiles, cars
useless electronic gadgets
shoddily built but luxurious appearing monster houses
support billion dollar 'medicine', cosmetics, pet industry
"Market forces are the best tool of policy-making, and should be elevated as the state criterion
for all actions.
"Any other ethic or moral, whether spiritual, religious, or philosophical, is irrelevant and not
deserving public attention."
see [polity]
for the excesses of the capital democracy
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to "spark discussion", Thomas L Friedman wrote an
influential article, The First Law of Petropolitics (2005), in which he posited that "the
price of oil and the pace of freedom always move in opposite directions in oil-rich petrolist
states."
UCLA Anderson School of Management's Romain
Wacziarg, however, reported (2009) "We find strictly no evidence in favor of this so-called
[law]."
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William Marsden: "This is Alberta's moment. F*** posterity."
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Nowhere has the world seen such colossal environmental destruction as is being wreaked here,
where Alberta is destroying itself in a desperate search for oil and gas riches, depleting
energy reserves, selling them off to Americans at bargain-basement prices, without thought to
conservation or the long-term needs of the nation.
Stupid to the Last Drop: how Alberta is bringing environmental Armageddon to Canada
(and doesn't seem to care) at the
publisher
from 2007
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Greenpeace press release September 16 2009 ~ Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
Greenpeace has ended its blockade at Shell’s Albian Sands mine after successfully bringing
international attention to the climate crime of tar sands operations.
“We went in on the eve of the meeting in Washington between Prime Minister Harper and President
Obama to send a message that climate leaders don’t buy tar sands,” said Mike Hudema, Greenpeace
climate and energy campaigner. “It’s clear from their meeting today that our work is not yet done.
Greenpeace will continue to expose the climate crime of the tar sands.”
The Greenpeace blockade began at 8 a.m. Tuesday 15 September 2009 when 25 activists went into the
Shell mine and blockaded a giant shovel and two giant trucks. At one point the whole mining
operation was shut down in response to the Greenpeace blockade. The activists stayed for more than
30 hours to focus attention on the urgent need for action on climate change.
“Through this action, Greenpeace put this destruction centre stage to show the world why we must
stop the tar sands,” said Hudema. “Greenpeace will press world leaders to make strong commitments
to fighting climate change, that means stopping the tar sands and embracing a clean energy future.”
With only 80 days remaining before the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen, the
Greenpeace blockade brought a much needed focus on the threat of catastrophic climate change
caused by the world’s addiction to oil.
Through its KYOTOplus campaign, Greenpeace Canada is working to convince the Harper government to
become a leader at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in December.
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a fullpage ad in Variety march 4 2010 caused a stir in the media and drew a lot of attention
throughout north america
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~ an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles
abstract and pdf download
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~ the cause of urban violence?
study (2009 11 24) finds disturbing evidence
Gasoline exhausts cause increased aggression
This paper examines the hazards of the inhalation of car fuel exhaust: leaded gasoline and the
unleaded type enriched with oxygenate additives as lead substituent in order to raise the octane
number.
The impacts of exposure in the cerebral cortex were evaluated, and the effect on aggressive
behaviour was also studied. It revealed that gasoline inhalation induced significant
fluctuations in brain regions. These physiological impairments were accompanied with a higher
tendency towards aggressive behaviour as a consequence to gasoline inhalation.
It concludes that chronic exposure to gasoline vapours impaired brain areas and modulated
several behavioural aspects related to aggression in rats.
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minamata disease at wikipedia
canada's minamata
40 years on, mercury poisoning worse
Download the health study by Dr. Harada, in
English for the first time (at freegrassy.org). Published in Japanese in 2005.
"In 1970, fish caught from the English-Wabigoon River system in northwestern Ontario indicated
mercury contamination. Since then, many more mercury contaminated fish were reported. The
government banned commercial fishing and issued a warning against taking fish for food. Otters and
minks, which eat fish in the area, disappeared. People witnessed eagles flying abnormally. An
eagle indicated a mercury level of 96 ppm in its liver. High levels of mercury were detected from
the liver, the muscle, and the eggs of ducks in the same area. Cats in the area showed symptoms
of Minamata Disease.
"One of the cats was sent to Japan for autopsy by a neuro-pathologist. He found typical Minamata
Disease in the cat. Very high levels of mercury were detected in the cat. The eat's owner also
indicated a high mercury level. Experiments proved that cats, which were fed fish from the same
river system, contracted Minamata Disease in about 90 days. Contamination of the environment and
the food web was clear. The source of contamination was a caustic soda factory up stream, in
Dryden, Ontario."
Doctor Harada "organized a research team from Kumamoto Gakuen University and physicians. We
conducted examinations in September in 2002 and September in 2004, 27 years after the first
research in 1975. The areas of research were two reserves, Grassy Narrows First Nation and
Wabaseemoong (White dog) Independent Nations, the same two communities where we conducted research
in 1975. The registered population is 1214 people in Grassy Narrows and 1649 people in Whitedog. "
Conclusions:
"High-density mercury contamination had occurred in areas where methylmercury was discharged by
acetaldehyde production facilities or where agricultural chemicals that contained an organic
mercury fungicide were massively sprayed. Now the situation is changing into lower density
contamination over broader areas. Sources of contamination are mostly inorganic mercury discharged
into the natural environment, which methylate into methylmercury, as in the case of caustic soda
plants or gold mines. In the late 1980s, mercury contamination was found in several areas in the
world, like the Amazon, where analysis was conducted on the air, earth, organism, fish, shellfish
and hair sample oflocal residents. However, very few clinical reports were done on the health of
local residents in the contaminated area. Even after the high mercury levels of the residents were
reported, it was not clear what kind of symptoms the residents had. For example, residents living
along the Amazon River indicated mercury levels that are high enough to contract Minamata Disease,
but there are few reports about clinical examinations of the residents."
"Our research method examined life conditions, medical history, family history, subjective
symptoms, mental symptoms and complications as well as collecting hair samples. The same doctors
conducted both studies, in 1975 and the follow-up studies. There is no such precedent. Therefore,
our research from 1975 and the follow-up studies in 2002 and 2004 are significant contributions in
considering mercury contamination and the health of the residents in these two communities."
The total number of people tested was 187. Almost all had subjective and neurological symptoms of
numbness, pain in limbs, joints and back, impaired vision, dizziness, imbalance, difficulty
grasping and dropping things, tremor, and speech impairment. Two-third was diagnosed with
Minamata Disease.
"It is a very high rate of neurological symptoms for a sample of a population. It is as high as
contaminated areas in Minamata."
"Currently it is being reported that fetuses could be affected by mercury."
"The possibility of congenital Minamata Disease occurrence is very high in these two communities."
"Official acknowledgement of Minamata Disease and corporate responsibility are important in order
to implement [health services, living standards, and employment development] policy."
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" . . . to this day children are born grotesquely disfigured . . . "
No, Union Carbide does not say "sorry"
The Company "provides our statement regarding the tragedy, details our response, . . ." at
bhopal.com
The children of Dow's chemicals:
BLIND, LAME, LIMBS TWISTED or missing, deafmute, brain-damaged, with hare-lips, cleft palates,
webbed fingers, cerebral palsy, tumours where should be eyes, these are Bhopal’s children. The
living children. The still-born often can not be recognised as human. If you want to break your
heart, look at their pictures at bhopal.org and REMEMBER
International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal at bhopal.net
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dextromethorphan
"cough syrop"
14-year-old after friend landed in detox: "i found out what it does is messes up your brain and
can give you brain damage ~ your brain will stop telling your lungs to breathe"
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