- Perhaps the British Petroleum/Nalco event was the wakeup
call we needed in order to look more closely at untouchable corporations
that began running the whole world 100 years ago. This
is a paper about corporate communism, which is otherwise known as "monopolies"
that are now rampant in the US. Monopolies always engage
in conspiracy, and their first goal is to conspire to eliminate their competition
and choices, establish control over prices and the masses by an elite few. The
April 20, 2010, BP oil catastrophe in America's Gulf can be described
as a monumental corporate conspiracy. BP was permitted by cronies
to dig a hole to China off Louisiana's shores without safety
measures or concern for the Gulf's marine ecosystem. Rather
than immediately corking its gusher, BP quickly tapped a relatively unheard
of company named Nalco on the shoulder for millions of gallons of its toxic
Corexit dispersant. BP began adding Corexit to the oil-ravaged
Gulf on April 23, and thumbed its nose at the US government when
it suggested that something less toxic and more effective than Corexit
be used.
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- "Corexit" does not "correct" anything
as its corporately cute name implies. It makes the oil less
visible on the surface, but making something less visible has never been
a way to "correct" anything or change what needs to be changed. In
addition, the containers holding Corexit carry a substantial warning about
coming in contact with it or inhaling its vapors. Many of those
who came in contact with the oil and the version of Corexit used while
trying to "clean up" the Exxon-Valdez catastrophe remained sickened
for years. Similarly, a number of newly unemployed US fishermen
in the Gulf who began taking jobs to help clean up BP's mess have reported
illnesses. Low oxygen levels are being reported, and when the
water is low in oxygen, it means our air is also low.
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- According to numerous reports, these fishermen, who are
the "first responders" in this most recent manmade disaster,
state they have been told the air is safe to breathe, the water is safe
to come in contact with despite being filled with chemicals, and that respirators
will not be permitted. Numerous journalists and photographers, as
well as scientists have been ordered to stay away from the disaster site
or face arrest. We have an arrogant British company running
things here in the US so sloppily they have shrugged-off having
recently killed eleven men whose bodies were never found, and now they
are ordering Americans around as though we are presumed British subjects.
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- Nalco is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas,
with corporate headquarters in Illinois. Although we "little
people" might not have been familiar with Nalco until now, it appears
that directors and former directors from notable corporate giants have
been quite familiar with Nalco for years. The question of why
BP selected Nalco's more toxic, less efficient Corexit instead of other
less toxic dispersants has remained basically unanswered by BP. Not
even congressmen have been able to extract this answer from BP's reps. All
that has been truly known was that BP immediately felt their oil volcano
was going to need a mother load of dispersants, and there was only one
dispersant manufacturer prepared to step into this windfall opportunity
for a dispersant manufacturer: Nalco.
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- Corexit suspends the oil in a subsurface manner, where
oil-eating microbes flock to it, and it is this activity that scientists
say leads to depleted oxygen levels in the seas. In addition,
the use of subsurface Corexit one mile down was reportedly not based upon
any science at all. It was another experiment being conducted
by the chemical companies. Despite the "toxic stew"
that BP/Nalco have created in the Gulf, news reports continue with conflicting
statements in that "it is not known" what caused the subsequent,
massive fish kills after the Gulf was filled with oil and dispersant chemicals. Conflicting
reports certainly do not end with the fish kills. Nalco, on
their website, states, "All of the ingredients contained in Nalco's
dispersants are safe and found in common household products" However,
the Safety Data Sheet for Corexit 9527A, which was the first dispersant
reportedly used in the Gulf, has the following warnings:
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- "SKIN CONTACT :
- Can cause moderate irritation. Harmful if
absorbed through skin.
- INGESTION :
- May be harmful if swallowed. May cause liver and kidney
effects and/or damage. There may be irritation to the gastro-intestinal
tract.
- INHALATION :
- Harmful by inhalation. Repeated or prolonged exposure
may irritate the respiratory tract.
- SYMPTOMS OF EXPOSURE :
- Acute : Excessive exposure may cause central nervous
system effects, nausea, vomiting, anesthetic or narcotic effects.
- Chronic : Repeated or excessive exposure to butoxyethanol
may cause injury to red blood cells (hemolysis), kidney or the liver.
- AGGRAVATION OF EXISTING CONDITIONS :
- Skin contact may aggravate an existing dermatitis condition.
- HUMAN HEALTH HAZARDS - CHRONIC :
- Contains ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (butoxyethanol).
Prolonged and/or repeated exposure through inhalation or extensive skin
contact with EGBE may result in damage to the blood and kidneys."
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- It is possible that while no trace of Corexit might be
found in the dead marine life, the marine life is dying from the effects
of depleted oxygen levels caused by the oil and dispersants, or dying from
organ damage caused by chemicals that have already passed through their
systems, damaging organs on their way out. However, according
to Nalco's Corexit EC9500A (the version of Corexit that was primarily used
in the Gulf) on the Safety Data Sheet, the Toxicological Information states,
"No toxicity studies have been conducted on this product." This
means another chemical experiment is in progress.
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- In a report dated June 1, 2010 from Mobile, Pensacola
News, WKRG, a massive fish kill took place sometime the night before June
1. "Josh Edwards, an employee of River Shack Restaurant,
said, 'Literally, it looked like the whole river back there behind the
restaurant had frozen up. It looked like snow and ice on top of the water,'"
he said, describing the millions of small, young, silvery fish called menhaden
that were now floating dead on the water's surface. Menhaden
reach a length of about one foot as adults if they have the good fortune
to live that long, but it appears that nearly all of the menhaden killed
recently were juveniles, representing the ocean's future stock of menhaden. While
many news stories are dismissing the menhaden as "a baitfish,"
the truth is that the menhaden are the most important fish in the sea. "Menhaden"
comes from a Narragansett word meaning fertilizer, after the Narragansett
Indians discovered hundreds of years ago that adding dead, nutrient-rich
menhaden to mounds that were to be planted with corn, would produce robust,
healthy corn.
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- According to NASA, the all-important phytoplankton are
the very beginning of the marine food chain, providing not only rich nutrients
but approximately half of the earth's supply of oxygen. The
menhaden swim with their mouths open, absorbing the smallest delicacies
of the sea, cleaning the seas of sunlight-blocking detritus and eating
the phytoplankton that are high in omega-3 fatty acids. They
help bring sunlight in for the photosynthesis process of vegetation, thereby
increasing the oxygen levels. Then, the menhaden become the
next in line in the marine food chain, providing a highly nutritious and
highly sought after source of food for nearly every other type of marine
life, including the larger fish whose names we are more familiar with because
they are on our menus. Menhaden also provide food for turtles,
birds, and marine mammals, including whales. Menhaden are extremity
sensitive to oxygen levels, and will die when deprived of sufficient oxygen,
thus their lives depend upon their task at hand. Ours might, as well.
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- In the wake of this Gulf disaster, Barack Obama ordered
a six-month ban on dangerous offshore drilling, only to have the ban initially
overruled by a federal court. The judge ruled instead for the
posturing presidents, directors and CEOs of corporate monopolies rather
than favoring the discretion of the person some feel might be the President
of the United States. This indicates that a handful of
corporate presidents, CEOs and directors have finally formed monstrous
monopolies and transmonopolies that are so large they have clearly become
a form of controlling government that cannot be addressed by the government
of the United States. We are their victims.
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- If they wish to experiment on us and around us, they
have, they can, and they continue doing so at this moment. They
reap the benefits of their experiments with profits, and we pay the price
either by submitting to their unending price gouging or we pay with our
national condition of deteriorating health due in part to the massive chemical
contaminations we are forced to endure. Poisoned by our food,
our water, and the air we breathe, we are then forced to rely upon our
deteriorating, abysmal healthcare industry that stands ready to treat our
growing list of symptoms with more chemicals. The healthcare system
is being run by insurance and pharmaceutical monopolies.
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- According to a Consumer Affairs article, a study conducted
by the American Medical Association (another monopoly that has eliminated
competitors and removed people's choices for medical treatments) found
that between 1995 and 2005 there were more than 400 mergers between health
insurance companies, resulting in only a handful of insurance monopolies
that now provide most of the coverage in the US, thus controlling and driving
prices ever higher and fleecing Americans out of billions of dollars. From
their offices, insurance personnel make medical decisions affecting patients
they have never laid eyes on. In order to help this unnecessary
middleman to prosper even more, our government now wants to force Americans
to pay the wages of our labor to the insurance industry for protection
or face the frightening consequences. This type of activity
is otherwise known as extortion when it is carried out by organized crime
groups. In forcing us to pay our wages to health insurance monopolies,
we will be agreeing to spend part of our work hours each month as slaves,
then giving the wages for those hours to corporate monopolies for a "service"
that is criminally overpriced, not needed, out of control and has nothing
whatsoever to do with actual healthcare.
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- The US laws, including antitrust laws, were
meant to keep cutthroat monopolies from driving and fixing prices, killing
their competition, poisoning people, poisoning and killing wildlife, poisoning
and destroying the environment, forcing consumers to have unfair enslavement
or reliance upon poor quality monopoly products, hiding their activities
from view, and engaging in outrageous conspiracies and behaviors. One
large monopoly that has its hands firmly gripped on our food supply, and
also has a propensity for dragging itself repeatedly through the mud, is
Monsanto. Among other unsavory activities it has engaged in,
Monsanto dumped millions of pounds of deadly PCBs throughout an Alabama community
and then covered it up for 40 years.
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- An article in the Washington Post states: "For
nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known
as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste
into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs
into oozing open-pit landfills. In 1966, Monsanto managers discovered
that fish submerged in that creek turned belly-up within 10 seconds, spurting
blood and shedding skin as if dunked into boiling water. They
told no one. In 1969, they found fish in another creek with
7,500 times the legal PCB levels."
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- When Monsanto's managers saw that they had already contaminated
everything to such a degree that there would be no easy fix for this mess,
their stunning decision, according to internal memos, was that "there
is little object in going to expensive extremes in limiting discharges." In
other words, they would continue to dump their toxic wastes into the environment
and the local community of unsuspecting people.
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- According to another article in the Washington Post,
when Monsanto was finally "caught," a 2002 Alabama jury
found it guilty of all charges, including: "negligence,
wantonness, suppression of the truth, nuisance, trespass and outrage." The
Post goes on to explain, "Under Alabama law, the rare claim of outrage
typically requires conduct 'so outrageous in character and extreme in degree
as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency so as to be regarded as
atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized society.'"
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- According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), as
the truth began to emerge about the Monsanto's PCB deception, Monsanto
underwent a "self-induced identity crisis," eventually claiming
that it no longer existed. In September, 1997, Solutia, Inc.
was spun off from Monsanto Co. and assumed chemical operations as well
as liability. In 2000, Monsanto merged with Pharmacia and Upjohn,
becoming Pharmacia, its new name. Later that year, Pharmacia created
an agricultural subsidiary, naming it Monsanto Co. Incredibly,
"ICIS, the world's largest information provider for the chemical and
oil industry," states in its company structure information, "Solutia
was founded in St Louis in 1901 as Monsanto Company."
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- Changing or hiding one's name will do little to alter
the real problem if the real problem is accountability. Accountability
costs money. There is no accountability when companies and corporations
merge into monopolies and overlapping transmonopolies that are so large,
not even the government can demand accountability from them. The
solution is to break corporations down into smaller, accountable firms
and encourage competition rather than allowing competition to be destroyed.
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- The US government, including the Department
of Justice (DOJ), appears to have some pressing work to do, because matters
continue to spiral out of hand. The untouchable transmonopolies
being quietly formed in boardrooms have borders, boundaries and goals that
are not easily understood or demarcated, and as they form and merge they
bring in vast riches that for far too long have meant they can buy their
way out of true accountability by paying victims off with frequently paltry
sums followed by "silence" clauses that prevent the victims from
talking about their personal tragedies.
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- The BP/Nalco affair offers us a glimpse of how a potentially
untouchable transmonopoly might be formed.
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- According to the Guardian, UK, and BP, Peter Sutherland
was the chairman of BP from 1997 until he stepped down and was replaced
by another person effective January, 2010. According to the
UN.org, Mr. Sutherland has also been the chairman of Goldman Sachs International
since 1995, as well as associated with the Trilateral Commission. According
to InvestorsMorningstar, Goldman Sachs sold almost 400,000 shares of BP
at the end of January, 2010.
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- According to the Telegraph.co.uk, Tony Hayward, the disgraced
CEO of BP at the time of the deadly explosion (who seems to have been held
singularly to blame for this disaster while all other players have remained
hidden from view), also cashed in a portion of his holdings of BP one month
before the BP Gulf explosion, disposing of 223,288 shares on March 17,
2010. The Telegraph states, "There is no suggestion that
he acted improperly or had prior knowledge" of what was about to happen
that the company for which he was then somewhat responsible was about
to take down the Gulf ecosystem, and then "finish the job" by
adding unprecedented millions of gallons of toxic dispersants into the
waters, in another chemical experiment. Mr. Hayward told members
of Congress that he was "out of the loop" regarding decisions
about the blown well. They were not happy to hear this, but
when corporations are allowed to become so large that there can be no reasonable
supervision of their affairs and practices, disasters and corruption appear
to be inevitable.
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- The BP/Nalco toxic event happened just as heightened
awareness of the health benefits from omega-3 fish oil was creating a very
profitable market for the fish oil industry. The rich corporation
that corners the market and provides nearly all of the omega-3 fish oil
for the United States is Omega Protein, Inc. According to their
website, their omega-3 fish oil comes solely from menhaden.
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- The Omega Protein corporation depends upon their fleets'
use of spotter planes to search for the silvery clouds of menhaden glittering
and flickering like raindrops on the surface of the sea, and when the planes
spot the schools the fishing fleets are alerted and dispatched with large
nets to the exact area, sometimes capturing and removing forever entire
schools at a time. The omega-3 oil is then extracted from the
menhaden to be placed into capsules for human use. The rest
of the dead menhaden that are so critically vital to the existence of nearly
all marine life, are used as fertilizer and fishmeal that is fed to land
animals, including chickens, pigs, cows, dogs, cats, used in the production
of lipstick and linoleum, and also fed to large fish farming operations,
thus leaving the wild marine life without their most critical source of
nutritious food.
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- According to Greenpeace, the population of menhaden is
now at an all-time low. The direness of this critical situation
has been brought forth by one of the world's foremost experts on menhaden,
H. Bruce Franklin, a Rutgers professor and author of at least
18 books, including "The Most Important Fish In The Sea. Menhaden
In America."
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- In a brilliant article in Mother Jones by Bruce Franklin,
Professor Franklin writes of the menhaden: "They are filter
feeders that live on phytoplankton, which most other aquatic animals are
unable to eat. Dense schools of menhaden, sometimes numbering
in the hundreds of thousands, pour through these waters, toothless mouths
agape, slurping up plankton and detritus like a colossal submarine vacuum
cleaner as wide as a city block and as deep as a train tunnel. Each
adult fish can filter about four gallons of water a minute. Purging
suspended particles that cause turbidity, this filter feeding clarifies
the water, allowing sunlight to penetrate and encourage the growth of aquatic
plants that release dissolved oxygen and harbor a host of fish and shellfish.
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- "Much of the phytoplankton consumed by menhaden
consists of algae. Excess nitrogen can make algae grow out of
control, and that's what happens when vast quantities of nitrogen flood
into our inshore waters from runoff fed by paved surfaces, roofs, wastewater,
overfertilized golf courses and suburban lawns, and industrial poultry
and pig farms. This can generate devastating blooms of algae,
such as red tide and brown tide, which cause massive fish kills, then sink
in thick carpets to the bottom, where they smother plants and shellfish,
suck dissolved oxygen from the water, and leave dead zones that expand
year by year.
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- "In the natural ecosystem, menhaden cleaned the
upper layers while another great filter feeder, the oyster, cleaned the
bottom. But as oysters have been driven to near extinction in many Atlantic
bays and estuaries by overfishing and pollution, menhaden are left as the
only remaining check on deadly phytoplankton explosions."
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- According to observations made by James Price of the
Chesapeake Bay Ecological Foundation, striped bass in the Chesapeake
Bay have been now found diseased, thin and covered with red sores. In
examining their stomach contents, he states that the stomachs that were
once filled with menhaden can now be found empty. The dwindling
numbers of over-fished menhaden have now been further decimated by the
recent fish kills that occurred after the Gulf was filled with BP's oil,
and Nalco's Corexit.
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- In looking at who is on Nalco's boards of directors,
and at current or former affiliations with other large corporations, one
director of Nalco is Douglas A. Pertz. Mr. Pertz was also the
CEO of IMC Global, which later merged with part of Cargill forming The
Mosaic Company, for which he also served on the board of directors. Mosaic
is another extremely large company that many have not heard of because
it keeps a highly profitable portion of its business, for the most part,
just under the radar.
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- The Mosaic Company is one of the largest phosphate fertilizer
mining operations on earth. From its phosphate fertilizer, Mosaic
then "scrubs," removes and captures toxic fluorides along with
other pollutants and radioactive wastes found in phosphate rock that has
no use by the fertilizer industry. This gaseous slurry that
contains fluoride is then distributed and sold throughout North America,
largely by the Lucier Company. It is sold to our municipal waterworks
companies to be used as "water fluoridation," which is another
chemical experiment.
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- The production of "water fluoridation" from
phosphate fertilizer waste materials is a highly profitable, very dependable,
but relatively unknown branch of the phosphate fertilizer industry. Common
sense will lead one to understand why this profitable and ever-expanding
operation throughout theUS is not openly and proudly advertised: Many
people are now aware of and opposed to the "fluoridation" lie,
but have no voice. Further investigation of why Mosaic is keeping
quiet reveals another chemical experiment now conducted on 70% of the US,
who have no choice but to submit to their tap water.
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- An article written by George Glasser, who is a respected
investigative environmental journalist, further explains. Although
this slurry used in water fluoridation is referred to as "fluoride,"
it is actually much more. "The product is not 'fluorine'
or 'fluoride' as proponents state," Mr. Glasser writes. "It is
a pollution concentrate. Fluorine is only one captured pollutant comprising
[about 19% to] 23% of the total product," Mr. Glasser writes. Included
in the concentrate making up the remaining percentage is whatever else
that is not desired by the fertilizer industry, including polonium and
other deadly agents.
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- The municipal waterworks folks have been led to believe
that fluorides became something suddenly needed by the human body after
the Atomic Bomb Era when fluoride wastes became ubiquitous in the US. The
municipalities then add this slurry into our drinking water. Various
officials claim that we all need to drink this chemical to prevent cavities
in our teeth whether we want it or not, or whether we even have teeth or
are as edentulous (i.e., toothless) as the many "optimally fluoridated"
people of Kentucky now are. The people of Kentucky have
been "optimally fluoridated" at almost 100% for a long time. They
have won government awards for being "optimally fluoridated,"
but those award-winning folks now have one of the highest rates of dental
cavities and toothlessness in the US, perhaps because fluoride is known
to cause and exacerbate periodontal disease. It has never been
found to prevent cavities. Boiling fluoridated water increases
the concentration of the fluoride; freezing it does nothing to remove the
fluoride. Bathing in fluoridated water it results in dermal
absorption.
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- It is unknown whether the municipal waterworks "officials"
perform their own assays on each new shipment of pollutants they purchase
from the phosphate fertilizer industry and distributors. Assays
would be the only way of determining what else in addition to fluoride,
including polonium, is in the tank before disposing of it on behalf of
the fertilizer industry into our drinking water. Each shipment
contains a unique percentage of pollutants and levels of radioactivity. Concerned
lawyers reading this should note that if the municipal "authorities"
are not performing individual assays on each shipment of "fluorides,"
then they can and should be held liable for breaking standing laws by deliberately
contaminating public drinking water with unknown pollutants. This
is now classified as an act of terrorism. It should also be
known that testing should not be done by common Ion Specific Electrodes
that only detect the presence of fluoride but cannot accurately report
elevated levels. The far more sophisticated test is forensic
Ion Chromatography, which gives accurate reading levels of fluoride. At
this time, therefore, it is doubtful that most know what level of fluoride
waste is being placed in our drinking water or how much is coming out of
our taps.
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- Unlike other chemical pharmaceuticals, no physician will
ever check the public citizen who is drinking deliberately contaminated
water to see whether he or she is having any detrimental, allergic reactions
to their "fluoride" treatment, because professional follow-up
services were never a part of the national fluoride treatment plan. The
individual and entire household never really received a prescription for
their lifelong, daily dosing of fluoride in the first place. No
physician would prescribe a life-long chemical pharmaceutical medication
and then have no medical follow-up plans to make sure that the patient
was doing well on their "medication."
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- We are being medicated by politicians, corporate presidents,
directors, and CEOs whose main concern is making money. The
CDC, which is a pharmaceutical propaganda mouthpiece, has pronounced water
fluoridation as one of the "Ten Great Public Health Achievements"
during the 1900s, which is true in a sinister sort of way. Those
who are being forced to drink the fluoride wastes are not the ones benefiting
from this "great achievement." Fluoridation is a "great
achievement" for the corporations selling it, and then fluoridation
becomes a "great achievement" for the pharmaceutical industry,
which is the largest, most profitable industry in the US. The
pharmaceutical industry reaps benefits from fluoridation by treating the
resulting national symptoms.
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- Most physicians have no training regarding fluoride's
systemic effects and symptoms. This is despite the fact that
virtually all patients now are contaminated with fluoride toxins from water,
air, processed foods, fluorinated drugs, dental retardation activities,
teas, beverages, wine, grapes, raisins, household cleansers, floor wax,
Scotchguard, Stainmaster, insecticides, pesticides, Teflon-coated pans,
food packaging, plastics and toothpastes.
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- Fluoride has been known since the 1930s in Germany to
block thyroid function. Some of the symptoms of fluoride poisoning
include depression, behavioral problems, aggression, weight gain, aches,
pains, tendon/muscle rupture, severe kidney problems, skeletal problems,
erectile dysfunction, visual problems, muscle spasms and twitches, connective
tissue damage, cancer, heart problems, lung problems, premature aging because
of collagen breakdown, declining IQ, severe GERD, mental confusion, gum
disease, tooth rot, and Barrett's esophagus, etc. It has been
known for years that fluoride forms concretions in the pineal gland, located
within the brain. It affects every part of the body because
it is a systemic poison, not a nutrient as the propaganda mouthpieces continue
to claim. The effect of fluoride on kidney patients is so severe that the
use of water containing elevated fluoride levels during dialysis has resulted
in patient deaths.
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- Despite the fact that the Mosaic company keeps a rather
low profile, they have shown their own unconscionable activities carried
out for money. According to the Miami Herald, St. Petersburg crabber
Howard Curd's crab fishing grounds in Tampa Bay were "killed
off when HurricaneFrances blew out a retaining wall at a phosphate
pit that spewed acidic water into the bay. The fertilizer company,
Mosaic, persuaded a trial court and an appeals court that Curd and other
fishermen couldn't sue because they didn't own the seafood that was potentially
killed, so they weren't technically damaged."
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- Curd said, "'Crabbing in the bay is bouncing back,
but the BP spill is depressing seafood sales even though the oil is nowhere
near the western coast of Florida.' He's prepared
to sue BP, but harbors no illusions about facing a big corporation in court."
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- Curd further said, "They've got all the money, and
all the attorneys and all the experts on retainer. It really doesn't cost
them anything. It's like it's cheaper to pay their attorneys
and fight in court than paying the money to people they hurt and doing
the right thing."
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- Another director Nalco is J. Erik Fyrwald, Nalco's CEO,
and President. According to Nalco, Mr. Fyrwald is also
on the Board of Directors of Eli Lilly and Co., and was Group Vice President
of DuPont's "Agriculture and Nutrition" division, a division
name that might qualify as an oxymoron to anyone who knows anything about
nutrition and the current state of the US petrochemical, agricultural
industry.
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- Also among Nalco's board members is Richard Friedman. According
to Bloomberg, Mr. Friedman is the head of Goldman Sachs, as well as on
the board of trustees of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital,
to which he recently gave $20 million for the creation of the Friedman
Brain Institute, according to the Wall Street Journal. It should
be noted that if one has acute fluoride poisoning in NYC, you cannot have
your urine tested for fluoride anywhere in New York or surrounding
areas. Your urine will have to be FedExed out of New York to
a remote forensic lab for ion chromatography fluoride testing. (Perhaps
the Friedman Brain Institute can look into those somewhat troubling pineal
gland concretions.)
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- Also on the board of Nalco is Daniel Sanders. According
to Forbes, Mr. Sanders is the former President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company.
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- Also onboard Nalco is Rodney Frank Chase. According
to Bloomberg's BusinessWeek.com, Mr. Chase has been a senior advisor of
Lehman Brothers, as well as former Deputy Group Chief Executive of BP,
Managing Director, and CEO of BP Finance International.
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- Also among the list of directors on Nalco is Mary Margaret
VanDeWeghe. According to various sources, Ms. VanDeWeghe has
been a high-ranking executive with the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Lockheed
Martin emerged after a fusion between Lockheed and Martin Marietta. According
to the Lockheed website the corporation is the world's "leading provider
of safety-critical nuclear instrumentation & control (I&C) systems
for commercial and DoD customers for over 50 years." It
now owns several Superfund sites that were at some point contaminated with
chemicals. One is near Columbine, where a massacre happened. Another
is in Paducah, near another school massacre. We do not know what the
chemicals are doing to us.
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- Also on Nalco's board is Carl M. Casale. Most
of us have probably never heard of Carl Casale, but a closer look at corporate
affiliations and a comparison of photos indicates that Mr. Carl M. Casale
is also the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Monsanto.
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- In 2005, the EPA and DuPont settled a lawsuit in which
the EPA charged DuPont with knowing about the dangers of C8 (perfluorooctanoic
acid, another form of fluoride used in the production of Teflon), contaminating
a town's drinking water with it and keeping quiet for approximately 20
years. According to the EWG, this hiding allowed "DuPont more
than two decades of multi-hundred million dollar annual profits, while
guaranteeing contamination of the entire planet with Teflon [fluoride]
chemicals, now recognized as persistent global pollutants that nearly universally
pollute human blood."
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- In 2006, BP announced that it was forming a partnership
with DuPont in order to create new biofuels. In 2006, Monsanto
announced it was going to create a genetically modified (GM) soybean that
would have high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. Health markets
were newly and increasingly profitable for omega-3 products. The
primary source of the omega-3 fatty acids had been the menhaden, but Monsanto
warned that fish populations were being depleted, and that a more renewable,
land-based source of omega-3 fatty acid was needed for our good health. Monsanto
said their new GM omega-3 soybeans should be ready by about 2010 or 2011. Monsanto
then partnered with Solae, which is primarily owned by DuPont, to bring
about new GM soybeans.
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- "Soy beans represent a renewable, land-based source
of omega-3s," said Jerry Steiner, Executive Vice President of Monsanto
(Sustainability & Corporate Affairs).
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- According to a 2007 article in Food Navigator-USA.com,
"Consumer awareness of the health benefits of omega-3 has sky-rocketed
in recent years as the scientific evidence stacks up. Industry
experts predict that the market for omega-3 products could be worth as
much as $7bn by 2011. But concerns over the sustainability of fish
sources, as well as the amount of fish oil available to the nutrition industry
as demand for crude fish oil from the aquaculture industry increases." Indeed,
this same article goes on to state, "The problem with plant sources
like flax, however, is that they yield upALA, a shorter chain fatty acid
which is less bioavailable for humans than DHA and EPA, of which fish is
the best source. This was the spur for Monsanto and Solae/Dupont
to embark on their respective R&D [Research and Development] projects."
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- At the end of May, 2010, an article in the Chemical and
Engineering News carried the following headline: "Gulf
Oil Spill Boosts Nalco Sales," and then stated, "Water treatment
firm Nalco has told investors that it expects sales of dispersants used
in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will have reached $40 million by May 21."
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- In June, 2010, NutraIngredients-USA.com announced, "Omega-3
is 'among the most successful functional ingredients ever, with sales of
omega-3 ingredients destined for processed foods undented by the global
economic turndown,' according to Euromonitor." According
to a Monsanto press release dated July 10, 2010, food companies are now
testing a new product: "Soymega, the world's first SDA
(stearidonic acid) soybean oil, is making it easier for food companies
to incorporate more omega-3s into a variety of products." The
press release also states, "SDA soybean oil is the result of a collaboration
project between Solae and Monsanto Company." The downside
of this is that many people feel that the consumption of GM foods, as well
as r-BGH/r-BST dairy are more chemical experiments with end-results unknown.
The "r" in rBST stands for "recombinant." Monsanto
sold its bovine growth hormone to Eli Lilly in 2008, indicating perhaps
that Monsanto was giving up on its long battle trying to convince the consumer
that engineered dairy was "identical" to non-rBST dairy. The
public literally was not buying it.
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- This tells us how powerful we, as consumers, actually
are. We are more powerful than monopolies. Our first
line of business at this moment is to call for a moratorium on all "menhaden
reduction" fishing activities so that the menhaden can be allowed
to replenish their population and act as the oceans' natural filters, and
thus increase the world's declining oxygen levels. The earth,
in fact, might depend on this act. If the government will not
step up and realize it must regulate and protect this important fish, then
we consumers can stand up and avoid all menhaden products until the little
fish makes a powerful comeback. Then we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Choose
another type of fatty fish for omega-3s. .
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- Our second line of business will require the help of
lawyers. We need to sue the hell out of the municipal waterworks
companies until they stop putting fluoride wastes and other unknown toxic
pollutants into our drinking water. Those responsible for doing
this should know they are going to be held criminally accountable for deliberately
adding pollutants into drinking water. According to the Nuremberg
Code, Directives for Human Experimentation, the first code states: "The
voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential." This
has never happened. Number 10 states: "During
the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be prepared to
terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe
. . . the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death
to the experimental subject." We now have probable cause.
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- Mary Sparrowdancer is an investigative journalist and
author of two best-selling books, English versions of which are currently
sold-out. German and Japanese versions remain available. She
is of Narragansett/Five Nations, Irish and Italian descent, and was born
near Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. She and her children
live in Tallahassee, the capital of Florida. Her training
was in laboratory sciences including bacteriology, microscopic analysis,
veterinary sciences and ornithology. She is the mother of John
Shaw, who recently ran unopposed in the Florida Primary Election for Senator. He
is a Constitutional Republican, protecting the Constitution rather than
corporations. His platform is the reintroduction of industrial
hemp as a sustainable, renewable, national fuel and source of new industries
and revenue for our economy. John also owns John Shaw Computers. Mary
is the mother of Emily Shaw, who is a Deputy Sheriff and a bank fraud specialist. Emily
and John are former professional Irish Step Dancers, trained by experts
from Riverdance. Mary is the former caretaker of wild animals,
having cared for over 20,000 of them, including endangered species and
many brown pelicans that were sent to Louisiana to replenish
the dwindling number of endangered pelicans in Louisiana. "We
do not know how many of our brown pelicans and offspring are now covered
in toxic oil and chemicals." Mary wishes to commend all
of those who are trying to help clean this mess up. "Please
be careful." She extends her sincere condolences to the
families and loved ones of the eleven men who lost their lives during the
BP explosion.
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- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07
- /23/AR2010072305419.html?hpid=topnews
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- http://finance.yahoo.com/news/As-oil-spews-in-Gulf-BP-chief-apf-
- 1422722456.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=
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- http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/26/the-missing-oil-spill-photos.html
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- http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/06/09/09greenwire-ingredients-
- of-controversial-dispersants-used-42891.html
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- Monsanto claims it is extinct
- http://web.archive.org/web/20060928131949/http://www.
- ewg.org/reports/anniston/shells/lowdown.html
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- Nalco news
- http://www.nalco.com/news-and-events/4279.htm
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- Nalco: our dispersants are safe
- http://www.nalco.com/news-and-events/4348.htm
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- Health Insurance Trends
- http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/04/ama_insurance_study.html
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- Menhaden die-off
- http://www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/thousands-of-dead-
- fish-at-local-marina/892412/Jun-01-2010_5-33-pm/
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- http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/14/news/companies/nalco_
- macondo_bp_spill.fortune/index.htm
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- Mosaic leading producer of Fluorosilicic acid for
water fluoridation.
- http://www.ct.gov/dph/LIB/dph/drinking_water/pdf/NEWSLETTER3_1.pdf
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- http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.u3Axn.a.htm#1stPage
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- Peter Sutherland, chairman since 1997
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/oct/01/oilandpetrol.news
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- http://business.highbeam.com/436155/article-1G1-186911700/
- carl-m-casale-named-director-nalco-holding-company
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- Gulf Fish Good Source of Omega 3
- http://www.usm.edu/gcrl/omega-3/
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- http://www.nalco.com/news-and-events/3563.htm
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- http://www.monsanto.com/features/omega.asp
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- http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/statistics/cwf_status.htm
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