Showing posts with label Mercury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mercury. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Harvard Study: Fluoride Lowers Children’s Intelligence By 7 IQ Points

Harvard Study: Fluoride Lowers Children’s Intelligence By 7 IQ Points
Feb 10, 2014 | Washington's Blog

The Harvard School for Public Health reports:
In a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27 studies and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children. Based on the findings, the authors say that this risk should not be ignored, and that more research on fluoride’s impact on the developing brain is warranted.

The study [click for abstract] was published online in Environmental Health Perspectives on July 20, 2012.
Environmental Health Perspectives is a publication of the United States National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Harvard’s announcement continues:
The average loss in IQ was reported as a standardized weighted mean difference of 0.45, which would be approximately equivalent to seven IQ points for commonly used IQ scores with a standard deviation of 15.   Some studies suggested that even slightly increased fluoride exposure could be toxic to the brain. Thus, children in high-fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those who lived in low-fluoride areas. The children studied were up to 14 years of age, but the investigators speculate that any toxic effect on brain development may have happened earlier, and that the brain may not be fully capable of compensating for the toxicity.“Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury, and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain,” Grandjean says. “The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale can be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us.”
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Monday, January 20, 2014

Fukushima Mainstream News

Fukushima Mainstream News
Jan 14, 2014 | DrSircus.com | Dr. Mark Sircus

Nuclear tests, such as Operation Redwing in 1956, deposited radioactive plutonium and cesium in the atmosphere. Photo via National Nuclear Security Administration/Wikimedia

Recently the long silence around Fukushima and the dangers of the radiation emanating from there is hitting the mainstream. ABC News is worried about Fukushima and what that might mean for the west coast of North America. It’s an enormous problem getting bigger and radiation is creeping up on the west coast as the entire north Pacific becomes contaminated on the surface. “TEPICO is over their heads” and the rest of the world does not care that corporate mafia types are at the helm.

Fairewinds Energy Education’s Arnie Gundersen discusses the risk to the US West Coast population from the ongoing releases from Fukushima Daiichi. Should we be worried about walking by or swimming in the Pacific? How safe are California’s beaches? What about eating Pacific seafood? The upshot, in Arnie’s presentation is that, while all exposure to radiation is hazardous and cumulative, it’s still OK to jog along a California beach on a foggy morning and even to swim in the Pacific Ocean but he does warn us not to eat Pacific-caught fish, until a reliable system of checking the bio-accumulation of hot particles in seafood, guaranteeing its safety has been put into place.

This is a must listen to video that Arnie puts out in all sincerity. What he shares does provide a reference point but clearly it is only one of many. I would like to ask him if he was a pregnant mother in her first weeks would he do the same. I would like to know if he was a young man planning a family would he move to California. Those would be hard questions that hurt.

But there is no place like home and being where one’s loved ones are but that said I have heard Dr. Helen Caldecott say over and over how she would fly her family right out of Boston if the spent pool in building four goes critical. Arnie is so right about just about everything and he has my trust as a reliable anchor to reality. Unfortunately it’s almost impossible, for any one of us, to hold onto all corners of a presenting reality.

For instance, and I think I might almost be guilty of this myself, I have not heard one commentator speaking about the mercury fallout in California. Yes, even with all that radiation from Fukushima, which so far, if you are out of Japan, and if you did not catch a hot particle from there in your lungs, belly or thyroid so far, what is happing at Fukushima is peanuts compared to the thousands of tons of mercury that are put into the air each and every year by the burning of coal.

Actually I have written more about mercury than anyone else and you can see my many articles here. I must confess that I have become unfocused about the RISING TIDE OF MERCURY, which is the name of a book I never published. One of the ways you can spot an evil person easily is when they talk about global warming and carbon dioxide as a cause yet they fail to mention mercury emissions from coal plants. Some people just do not care a hoot about how many people get hurt nor how long they will suffer.

Just to give a hint about what we are up against with radiation and the Fukushima problem, that will never go away, is how mercury is dealt with by medical officials and the government. It too is not a problem so it’s ok to inject it in babies and adults blood and dentists still have little problem installing tons of it inches from peoples’ brains. Both children and adults have been known to drop dead suddenly—even athletes have fallen only to have it found out that concentrations of mercury have massively concentrated in heart tissues. And cancer. Much of cancer is caused by human ignorance and deceit because mercury is one of the great causes of cancer like radiation is.

People are Dying

We have to face the music. People are being diagnosed with cancer and dying like flies all around us and this is not yet from Fukushima, not yet officially at least. Some very young were reported to have perished when the first plumes went over and round and round the globe a few times. Fetus and infants are ultra-sensitive to radiations hellish effects. I challenge anyone to deny that!

Mercury is a heavy metal that gives uranium a run for its money. Mercury is like radiation meaning its effects are only felt long after exposure though some die more quickly and again it’s the infants that doctors expose in their sick madness. They are more sensitive to heavy metal exposure than adults meaning you would think, if pediatricians were human, that they would adjust down the dosage of mercury with the weight of a person but no, they did not do that with the Hep B vaccine until they took the mercury out in the first world but not in the third.

People are dying of “mystery” illnesses. People are dying of the flu but what are they really dying of? When someone dies of the flu they are really dying of what caused the flu. One of the most brilliant scientists concluded that and many clinicians have seen the mercury lining their cancer patients’ mouths. The increasing radiation from Fukushima is mixing with the already well-established mercury that has gotten into EVERYTHING! It is worse than ten Chernobyls and twenty Fukushimas.
Thiol poisons, especially mercury and its compounds, reacting with
SH groups of proteins lead to the lowered activity of various enzymes
containing sulfhydryl groups. This produces a series of disruptions
in the functional activity of many organs and tissues of the organism’.
- Professor I.M. Trakhtenberg

Radiation is the Death Principle

"Radiation is the normal death principle. Everything in Nature dies normally by slowly radiating its heat. Radioactivity is the explosively quick death principle. Radioactivity is man’s discovery of how the human race can die quickly, and not be able to propagate its kind for many long centuries. Man’s illegitimate use of DEATH to benefit life will but multiply death upon this planet until not one grass blade will be left upon it." Wrote Dr. Walter Russell in his infamous book Atomic Suicide.

Between 1945 and 1998, nations around the world tested nuclear weapons underground, underwater and high in the atmosphere. Particles of radioactive plutonium from nuclear testing have remained high in the stratosphere for more than 50 years, and volcanic eruptions such as Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 can bring those particles into the lower atmosphere, researchers report January 7 in Nature Communications.

When they watched the one volcano erupt researchers in Switzerland began taking aerosol samples from the troposphere, and they found elevated concentrations of radioactive particles. Levels of plutonium and cesium (another byproduct of nuclear testing) were up to three orders of magnitude higher than levels found in aerosols at ground level. And we have had a lot of that kicked up from Fukushima in the early meltdown and explosion days.

Now we have volcanoes blowing up all over the place blowing enormous amounts of materials into the stratosphere where more particles are just waiting to be taken down.







 These are two volcanoes in Indonesia that have been erupting almost constantly. Mount Sinabung, a volcano in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, erupted 24 times on Friday, shooting a column of ash about 4,000 meters to the sky and forcing further evacuation. Mount Sinabung has erupted more than fifty times since Saturday, spewing searing clouds of gas and lava as high as 4 to 5 kilometer. Before we only had to worry about the cooling effect of record breaking volcanic activity but now scientists are telling us we have to worry about plutonium falling from the sky.



 We are just starting to get a clearer picture of what is going on from the mainstream media. The silence is cracking. This video is precious as we witness Dr. Helen Caldecott eat alive a doctor who represents the official views of institutions like the UN and WHO. Caldecott knows her stuff and it pays to listen to her.
A south St. Louis man who has been measuring radioactivity levels for years says levels jump substantially when it snows in the area. Readings taken from the snow blanketing St. Louis, Missouri seems to contain double the normal radiation amount, once again stoking concerns that the ongoing Fukushima crisis is now impacting areas of America.

“Normal background in this area is approximately 30CPM,” writes DutchSinse. “This means small particles of radioactive material are indeed coming down in the precipitation. Past tests show around 30CPM in the same spot on a nice day with no precipitation,” he adds, noting that snowstorms in 2012 also showed alert level radiation readings.

Background radiation is only slightly dangerous and double or triple that amount is not dangerous in the short term but it is in the long term since every tiny bit more added to the background, according to the Academy of Science, is dangerous and adds additional cancer risk.

As reported earlier, Geiger counter readings taken on a beach in San Francisco returned results five times the safe level of normal background radiation, prompting officials to launch an investigation. Whether such readings are linked to the ongoing Fukushima crisis is unknown but we do know that trade winds blow the radiation right over and through the ocean waters, which will year by year become increasing radioactive.

This is just the beginning. The fact that officials in Japan have been duplicitous in downplaying the true scale of radiation releases at almost every turn has understandably fanned the flames of deep suspicion and fear that the public is being deceived and even betrayed by governments and their corporate sponsors.

About the Author

Dr. Mark Sircus, Ac., OMD, DM (P)

Director International Medical Veritas Association
Doctor of Oriental and Pastoral Medicine
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Sunday, October 27, 2013

How Much Mercury Escapes From Broken CFL Light Bulbs?

How Much Mercury Escapes From Broken CFL Light Bulbs?
Oct 26, 2013 | Farm Wars


Just how much mercury is emitted from broken CFL bulbs?

This video not only shows you the answer, but provides you with shocking information from an experiment conducted by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

Will your house become un-sellable if tested for mercury?

Will you inhale dangerous amounts of mercury vapor when a CFL bulb breaks in your house, even after it is cleaned up?

When a CFL bulb breaks, how far above legal limits will the mercury vapor in a room rise to?

To view the State of Main CFL study, visit this address: http://gsw.bz/maine-cfl

Please share this video with everyone you know.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

China's industrial pollution is so bad that it's dumping toxic mercury on Japan's Mount Fuji

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China's industrial pollution is so bad that it's dumping toxic mercury on Japan's Mount Fuji
Oct 23, 2013 | Natural News | PF Louis

China and India combined have more coal-burning energy plants than the rest of the world, and China has more than India. Japanese scientists are openly complaining that the almost 13,000 foot Mt. Fuji is coated with toxic mercury from China's coal burning plants.

Some Chinese scientists have challenged that by explaining Mt. Fuji's high mercury counts could be from other sources, but Japanese scientists have noted the mercury count is highest when the air currents are westerly from the Chinese mainland. They say they are lowest when Pacific air currents come through.

Considering the exaggerated hype on carbon emissions causing global warming, it's easy to say the clear and present danger of coal-burning plants is mercury emissions.

During the 1990s and into the early 2000s, China expanded its coal-burning power plant capacity tremendously using older "dirty" technologies that did nothing to curb mercury emissions.

China's mercury emissions from coal burning plants and other industries are the highest in the world, and mercury emissions are easily carried long distances by air currents.

Recently, China has begun to modify coal-burning plants with newly developed cost-effective technologies that can reduce mercury emissions by 90%. They've also begun switching to gas-powered power plants.

High mercury levels of seafood are mostly from coal plant mercury emissions 

A recent study completed by researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Hawaii have determined that the bulk of mercury contamination in fish throughout the Pacific Ocean is from Asian atmospheric mercury deposits.

The major Asian contributors are India and China. Their mercury pollution from coal plants comprises over 50% of the world's mercury pollution.

They deduced the mercury sources from a method of chemical analysis "finger printing" that enabled the determination of atmospheric coal emissions, usually delivered into the ocean via rainfall, as the primary source of mercury in Pacific fish.

They also explained how deeper water fish, such as tuna, were affected more than shallow water fish or those closer to the surface.

According to the study's scientists, sunlight on water creates a biochemical process that neutralizes much of the mercury. But as the mercury drifts downward into the depths, certain waterborne bacteria convert mercury into monomethylmercury, a compound that collects in animal tissue and is highly toxic to humans.

Most of us know that extreme mercury toxicity induces severe neurological reactions that can cause convulsions and death. Less intense mercury contamination can accrue to cause long-term mental disabilities.

But some scientists think it's not just mental or neurological issues that exist from mercury contamination. Mercury depletes the immune system and damages cellular DNA.

This not only can precipitate cancer, it can cause it. According to cancer researcher Dr. Yoshiaki Omura, "All cancer cells have mercury in them."

The USA has its own coal plant mercury emission problems

25 coal-burning energy plants in the USA were creating 30% of all the nation's mercury emissions while contributing only 8% of the nation's electric energy. There are more than 25 coal-burning energy plants in the USA, of course.

Many of them have or are planning to install ACI (activated carbon injection) technology that has demonstrated the capacity to reduce mercury emissions by over 90%. And the price tag for ACI has dropped considerably over the last decade.

Most states have their own mercury emission limit standards. But the 25 worst mercury emitters, as of 2010, were in states that didn't have limits. Texas is one of them, and they have seven of the top 25.

So China and parts of the USA have begun to lower mercury emissions for coal-burning power plants with ACI technologies. Hopefully it's not too little too late.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.rsc.org

http://www.huffingtonpost.com

http://www.edf.org

http://www.edf.org

http://ourtoxicplanet.com