How Safe Is Your Drinking Water
From The Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
How
Safe Is Your Drinking Water?
"Tap water from
48,000 public water utilities was found to contain multiple cancer-causing
agents from arsenic, dioxane, chromium 6 to nitrates, according to researcher
with the Environmental Working Group. Researchers published the findings of
their five year study in an online database, searchable
by zip code or a local utility’s name, with findings on tap water in public
water systems in all 50 states." http://www.blacklistednews.com/Cancer-causing_pollutants_detected_in_most_tap_water_across_US_-
study/59995/0/38/38/Y/M.html
How safe is
your drinking water? A new study by a group calling itself the Environmental
Working Group discovered 48,000
municipal utilities throughout all fifty states contained multiple cancer
causing carcinogens! For years conspiracy theorists have long maintained
"the government" or nefarious secret entities were poisoning our
water supply but now it seems, like so many of their theories there is verifiable
truth in their claims.
Municipal water contamination came to the
public attention when it was discovered the water supply in Flint Michigan
was contaminated with lead and other toxic elements. The alarming truth is Flint is not the only
city facing lead contamination issues. http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-lead-testing/,
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/us/epa-lead-in-u-s-water-systems/index.html. But nation
wide it's worse than that. The study released by EWG reveals the drinking water
in 48,000 public utilities contains cancer causing agents and carcinogens! And
this doesn't include well water or places where there aren't public utilities.
Lead is
lethal but the other stuff the study revealed is extremely toxic and dangerous
to our health. Go to the Environmental Working Group's Website to see for
yourself. https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/?_ga=2.88663451.1405934153.1501259550-1516571146.1501259550#.WX3sWI7Qc7B.
Locate your state on the map and then click it to see the water quality results
and status. You can click the state where family and friends live to see how
safe or at risk they may be. The report for each state contains the names of
each utility, the violation points, a list of the contaminants, the number of
people served and impacted and contaminant levels above the legal limit.
For years health
advocates and conspiracy theorists alike have been saying fluoridated water
doesn't protect against tooth decay, that it is a dangerous and harmful
additive. "
What is known is
that fluoride is toxic. In fact, the number one reason for poison control calls
concerning fluoride are for children who’ve eaten toothpaste. [2] [3] Long-term
ingestion is harmful to the brain, digestive system, heart, bones… even the
tooth enamel it’s supposed to help. " https://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/9-shocking-dangers-of-fluoride/
In his book
The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy (Harper
Collins) researcher Jim Marrs has this to say about fluoridated water. " Most
people don't realize that fluoride is a key ingredient in Prozac and many other
psychotropic drugs. Prozac whose scientific name is fluoxetine is 94 percent
fluoride ... Today, two thirds of all
municipal water and most bottle water in the United States contain sodium fluoride.
Fluoride is a poisonous waste product of aluminum manufacture that accumulates
in the human body. The use of aluminum cookware has been strongly linked to
Alzheimer's disease a progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys a
person's memory and ability to learn, reason and make judgments. A Christian
Science Monitor survey in 1954 showed that seventy-nine of eighty-one Nobel
Prize winners in chemistry, medicine and physiology refused to endorse water
fluoridation. Nevertheless, every US Public Health Service surgeon general
since the 1950's has supported putting this rat poison ingredient into America's
water supply." page 100-101
Don't just
take my word for it do some research on your own. Here is some additional
information that I think my interest you and jumpstart your investigation into
this aspect of water toxicity, "The US Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) lists fluoride among about 100 chemicals for which there is 'substantial
evidence of developmental neurotoxicity.' Experiments on animals reveal that
fluoride accumulates in the brain and alters mental behavior (Mullenix 1995).
There have been over 100 animal experiments showing that fluoride damages the
brain and impacts learning and behavior."
Fluoride Dangers: Top 10 Dangers of Fluoride http://www.cheeseslave.com/top-10-dangers-of-fluoride/
Here are
several Websites you can check out to
get more information on fluoride and other public water toxicity issues: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/08/unsafe-levels-of-toxic-chemicals-found-in-drinking-water-of-33-states/,
http://www.mbschachter.com/dangers_of_fluoride_and_fluorida.htm, https://www.nrdc.org/stories/whats-your-drinking-water,
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/whats-your-drinking-water
One way to
ensure safer drinking water is to drink distilled water. Experts advise not to
drink distilled water stored in plastic bottles. Some advocates say the best
way to insure clean healthy drinking water is to distill it yourself. Here is a
YouTube video that demonstrates how. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISHJt7nsPGA.
Take your health into your own hands.
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Same Ol' Same Ol'
From The Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
Same Ol' Same Ol'
"Chicago has some of the strictest gun restrictions in the United States
with some of the highest rates of gun violence. Gang members are not buying
them legally, and the police are pulling guns off the street on a daily basis,
so where are they coming
from?" http://www.activistpost.com/2016/09/gang-members-implicate-u-s-govt-dumping-crates-guns-chicago.html
My brother in law sent me a book entitled Madame President The Extraordinary Journey
of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf by Helene Cooper. It is about the rise of Liberia's and Africa's first
female president. It chronicles her life story from when she was a baby and it
was prophesized she would be great. The book follows Mrs Sirleaf from her
infancy through the final years of her presidency. In between are vivid and
horrific accounts of the carnage, rape and debauchery that took place during Liberia's civil
wars from 1989-2003 and the socio- political machinations that forged the
conflicts and slaughter.
While he was reading the book my brother in law would
call me baffled how and why African people could or would commit such heinous
atrocities against one another? When he finished reading it, he sent us the
book and my wife read it first. Often she would read portions to me. We would
discuss what she read and when she finished reading it, I took it up and read
it.
The other day I was talking to my brother in law over the
phone I mentioned I finished the book and he asked me what I thought. I told him
one of my main take-aways was how the author mentioned the soldiers who raped
pillaged and killed were most often drunk off Palm wine and amphetamines. I
asked him where did the various warlords and combatants get the drugs, arms and
ammunition to wage the wars?
I told him the same thing I told my wife, that I was not
attempting to excuse or minimize the atrocities done by the various factions
during the wars but I maintained it was the West who supplied the arms
and the drugs to the Liberians because that is their modus operandi, divide and
rule by instigating and arming both sides of a conflict.
The author Helene Cooper is a writer for the New York
Times. She is a native Liberian and has had two best selling books to her
credit. She praised Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who
was descended from the former enslaved Afro-Americans who founded Liberia as part of the US African Colonization
Society's agenda, told about how she came to America got educated and eventually
worked for the World Bank and IMF. Ms
Cooper either knows nothing about the World Bank and IMF being global loan
sharks and usury vultures preying on countries like Liberia or she deliberately chose not to go there
in the book.
Most Black folks know nothing of the history and agenda
of the American Colonization Society an
organization founded in 1816 by racists like Robert Finley, Henry Clay, Francis
Scott Key and Daniel Webster designed to expatriate Blacks back to Africa or
some other place because they posed a threat to their notion of an all white
country, were serious competition to whites for jobs and inspired enslaved
Blacks to think about freedom. http://www.blackpast.org/aah/american-colonization-society-1816-1964.
Abraham Lincoln
was a major backer and supporter of the ACS which is why the name of Ashmun
Institute was changed to Lincoln
University in 1866. We
need to know more about the ACS and its politics. But this is not the point of
this article.
The point I want to raise is just like whites supplied
modern Liberians with arms, and drugs; just like whites currently supply ISIS,
ISIL and all the rest of the so called "terrorist" factions around the world with guns,
ammunition and drugs, they are doing the same thing in the inner cities of
America. Check out this video at http://www.activistpost.com/2016/09/gang-members-implicate-u-s-govt-dumping-crates-guns-chicago.html
Keep in mind Chicago
is not the only place this is happening. This has long been the MO of the Western ruling class and their flunkies. Their goal is to destabilize a people,
community, region or nation, weaken it, depopulate it, wipe them out like they
did the Native Americans and numerous African nations so they can expropriate
the natural resources (like Liberian "blood diamonds" which Helene
Cooper does not cover in her book) and exploit the people who remain.
Here in the US they are attempting to
destabilize and decimate whole Black communities and coupled with their media
mind control and brainwashing us to devalue and hate ourselves it is working big time!
Black people do not have ships, planes or the means to
transport let alone manufacture modern weaponry so where did the Liberians get
them? Ms Cooper neither asked nor answered that question I guess because that was not
the focus of her book. But I am. Where
are the gang bangers getting the drugs and arms they use to terrorize
neighborhoods here in the US?
A few yeas ago I read a study on "living
conditions" of Australian aborigines that detailed the prevalence of
poverty, isolation and high rate of alcoholism. I said to myself this is the
same thing that is happening on Native American "reservations" (our
euphemism for government concentration camps) in the ghettos and barrios in this country. Is
that a coincidence? Not hardly!
It's high time we woke up and set about the business of
resolving the gun and drug crisis in our communities just like Madame President
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf resolved the Ebola crisis in Liberia.
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America's Looming Pension Crisis
From The Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
America's Looming Pension Crisis
"U.S. state and
local employee pension plans are in trouble — and much of it is because of
flaws in the actuarial science used to manage their finances. Making it worse,
standard actuarial practice masks the true extent of the problem by ignoring
the best financial science — which shows the plans are even more underfunded
than taxpayers and plan beneficiaries have been told." http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-your-states-public-pension-plan-is-in-a-much-bigger-hole-than-you-already-fear-2016-08-16
While the corporate media and US Congress engage in a sham
witch hunt for evidence of the nonexistent Russian hacking of the 2016
presidential election, real concerns and problems go unaddressed. Several years
ago I had investigative reporter Patricia Kelly O'Meara of the Washington Times
on my Internet radio program. Our topic was psychotropic drug abuses against
children. She also shared a story she was working on about the insolvency of
the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation how the rash of giant bankruptcies of
the US steel and airlines industries were further depleting the reserves of
this quasi-Public entity designed to be the last resort to protect private
pensions in cases of company default and bankruptcy.
Her reports revealed that big companies were deliberately
off-loading their pension obligations onto the PBGC to be born by the US taxpayers.
They were keeping the funds they collected for and from their employees and
claiming they didn't have the money to honor their pension obligations. The BPGC was forced to step in and provide at
least some pension benefits to the retirees although in most cases it was not
what their Defined Benefit Retirement agreements called for!
As a result of her articles Congress took action to
replenish the PBGC fund so it was in better condition than prior to her
revelations. However due to the 2008 crash the fund is now seriously
underfunded again. "The government's pension insurance company, the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), is broke. Because its creditors
can't demand their money immediately, it won't have spent its last dollar for 'a
significant number of years' yet (maybe ten) -- but its liabilities of $164
billion are nearly twice its assets of $88 billion: there is no way it can
honor all its obligations." http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2016/07/26/who_will_pay_for_the_pension_benefit_guaranty_corporations_huge_losses_102279.html
There is a pension crisis in America that is metastasizing and
roiling out to the point hundreds of public and private pensions are at risk
for collapse leaving current pensioners in a lurch and future retirees at risk
for destitution due to reduced benefits or no benefits at all!
Every once in a while the media reports on a
fund that is in fiscal difficulty like
the Teamsters Union fund. https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/24970-teamsters-pension-plans-seek-massive-cuts-to-retirees-to-stay-solvent
What we are not being told is that so
many municipalities, counties states and company pensions are in deep trouble
due to decisions the CEO,s CFO's, mayors, councils, managers, governors made
negotiating contracts with unions, and how their funds were managed.
For public pensions mayors and governors opted not to
make the needed contributions to the funds. I do not have the space to provide
all the data so go to
https://ballotpedia.org/Public_pension_crisis, www.marketwatch.com/story/collapsing-pensions-will-fuel-americas-next-financial-crisis-2017-03-14
and http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/finance/325564-the-pension-crisis-will-be-americas-next-financial-crisis
to see just how precarious the US
pension system both public and private really are.
What can we
do? Ask questions, raise issues with your elected officials, your union reps and
employers. Get involved, attend meetings, read the relevant materials your
union or pension fund send you, do your own research and become more familiar
with the issues.
The fiscal
and related pension troubles in Detroit, Chicago, South Carolina and
California are
not isolated occurrences, they are the very reality most of us will face sooner
or later. When Detroit was going through its bankruptcy
proceedings several years ago, I admonished readers to keep an eye on how they
resolved the pension issues.
Now the
state of Illinois
is in deep trouble, please pay attention to what happens with their budget and
pension contributions. These same fiscal crisis are being faced by cities,
counties, states and nations. Here is some additional information on various
states, their pension status and overviews of what is being called "the
pension tsunami". More than likely regardless of where you live, your
state is included. Enlarge the graph at the top of this post and review the following material and act intelligently: http://www.welovecostarica.com/the-unfunded-pension-tsunami-is-rapidly-gaining-momentum-the-us-public-pension-system-is-mathematically-guaranteed-to-crash/,
http://reason.org/news/show/the-public-employee-pension-crisis and https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/05/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-global-pension-crisis/
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History of US Deparvity
From the Ramparts
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
History of US Depravity
"At
least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner
while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee. Further
photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects
including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5395830/Abu-Ghraib-abuse-photos-show-rape.html
When photographs of US soldiers abusing detainees at Guantanamo's high
security prison were first shown, Americans recoiled in shock and disbelief.
The pictures were in stark contrast to the narrative about the US
"bringing justice" to terrorists and radical Islamists. Most people experienced
cognitive dissonance when they saw the pictures, they could not believe their government, their soldiers would commit
such vile acts. This unwillingness to believe the fiendish depravity of "their
soldiers" is a testament to the effectiveness of the brainwashing, propaganda
and mind control technology of the ruling class than anything else.
The Europeans who came to this
hemisphere came in search of wealth, gold, fortunes and they used ruthless violence,
cunning and degeneracy to get what they wanted. Their first victims were the
indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean, then subsequently South, Central and North America. Cristobol Colon (aka Christopher Columbus)
recorded in his journals how his men ran down the Arawaks with armored attack
dogs, shot them point blank with small canons and killed them with swords, lances
and pikes. His men raped the Native women. Colon
set the tone and tenor for cultural contacts between whites and indigenous
people in the so called "New World".
This pattern replicated everywhere
on this planet Europeans ventured. It multiplied and continued as more European
nation states were attracted by ideas of empire and unimaginable wealth. The
cruelty and barbarism the Europeans brought with them continues to this very
day.
When the British came to North America they imitated the behavior of the Spanish
and Portuguese. Unable to enslave and
subjugate the indigenous people, they turned to white servitude which eventually
proved unproductive because the whites couldn't tolerate the hard work. Plus
the whites could run away, blend into other colonies or start their own
settlements despite their brands and signs of servitude. So the British did
like other Europeans, they turned towards Africa.
Most of us are familiar with the
horrors of the slave trade, the physical abuse, the brutality, desecration and
degradation our ancestors experienced at the hands of whites. We can
look
around and see the results of the hundreds of years worth of rape and forced
"relations" but we don't talk much about the other horrors our
ancestors faced.
We don't talk about the crass
depravity the white enslavers and their overseers forced on black boys and men,
the sodomy and rape by white men. Given the rampant pedophilia of the Catholic
Church http://www.dw.com/en/belgian-report-lists-hundreds-of-pedophilia-cases-in-catholic-church/a-5993739,
the pedophilia scandals in England http://www.trueactivist.com/new-witnesses-accuse-fmr-uk-prime-minister-of-pedophilia-ritual-murder/
and the suppressed scandals here in the US http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/08/24/vt-exclusive-largest-pedophile-ring-in-history-70000-members-heads-of-state-the-rats-scramble/
we should not be shocked or surprised about the sexual abuse heaped upon both
Black females, males and children!
During slavery, enslavers routinely
abused and took advantage of our ancestors both male and female! Like most of
the atrocities committed against our people, the Europeans covered them up,
dismissed them or trivialized them leaving us to try to regroup, deal with the psycho-physical
trauma and attempt to make sense out of this insanity! But there is little
documentation of this deviant behavior. Like much of what transpired during US
slavery the dastardly deeds of the slave catchers, ship captains, mates,
jailers and owners were whitewashed and swept under the proverbial rug.
There is a scholarly thesis by
Chelsea Clarey May a Masters Degree candidate at Clemson University
entitled THE METONYM OF EDENIC MASCULINITY: DEPICTIONS OF MALE-MALE RAPE IN
INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL AND PROPERTY,http://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3084&context=all_
theses
that examines this subject based upon the real life narratives of a slave girl
and a fictionalized account of slavery.
A lack of scholarly research on this
topic aside, these abuses were real and their effects linger on, festering
beneath the surface of our psyches contributing to the trauma and pain even
today. This helps to explain our maladaptive responses to our oppression. The
new research field of epigenetics is
revealing how psychic pain, trauma and habits can be transmitted across
generations and have major impact often unbeknownst to the person and their
descendants.
Now scientists are speculating that
the experiences of a parent can impact the genes of their offspring without
altering the DNA structure
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/21/study-of-holocaust-survivors-finds-trauma-passed-on-to-childrens-genes.
This means the horrors our ancestors experienced during slavery have impacted
us and unless we find ways to truly heal ourselves, (even within this insanely racist
and evil culture) we will perpetuate them in future generations. It is a combination
of nature and nurture so we must be the ones to control our socio-psychological
and physical environments so we do not further traumatize ourselves and our
progeny.
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