Napoleon Bonaparte once famously observed "history is a set of lies agreed upon." For those who look for the truth, it is often far too easy to believe in fraudulent history and science when they tell us what we want to hear.
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News of a huge victory against fluoridation
The voters of Portland, Oregon overwhelmingly REJECTED dumping toxic "fluoride" chemicals into their city water supply.
So-called "fluoride" is actually a toxic cocktail of over 100 dangerous chemicals and deadly heavy metals, often derived as chemical waste from heavily-contaminated industrial chemical factories.
Here’s the report on the fluoride victory in Portland:
http://www.naturalnews.com/040465_water_fluoridation_Portland_ballot_measure.html
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Senators push for safer chemicals
“As a result, EPA has only been able to require testing for roughly 200 of the more than 84,000 chemicals currently registered in the United States, and has been able to ban only five dangerous substances since [the Toxic Substances Control Act] was first enacted in 1976,” the senators said in a statement.
Based on information from Lautenberg and Vitter’s offices, changes from current law proposed in the bill include: All chemicals currently in the market must be evaluated for safety and prioritized as “high” or “low” risk to human health and the environment. EPA would do further safety evaluations for high-priority chemicals.
EPA would be granted authority to take action on unsafe chemicals, including labeling requirements, phasing out use and bans.
New chemicals would have to be screened for safety before entering the market, and EPA would have the authority to ban their use.
EPA would be required to evaluate risks to vulnerable populations, such as pregnant women and children.
EPA would be allowed to get health and safety information about chemicals from the manufacturers, and required to use existing information first “to avoid duplicative testing.”
The legislation includes measures to protect trade secrets and intellectual property.
State and local governments would be allowed “input on prioritization, safety assessment and the safety determination processes.” EPA would be time-limited in responding to state concerns, and a waiver process would be created to allow state regulations and laws to remain in effect in some circumstances.
Andy Igrejas, executive director of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, a coalition of public health, environment, business and labor groups that favor reform, said the bill is a step in the right direction but noted some areas where the bill pulls back on prior efforts.
“On the one hand, the bill gives EPA new tools to protect the public from toxic chemicals. It also gives state governments, who have made important gains in public health protections, a continued role in chemical regulation,” he said. “On the other hand, the bill omits many of the deadlines in the Lautenberg/Gillibrand legislation, its special focus on heavily impacted communities and other important provisions.”
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FYI: Are Unvaccinated Kids Really Causing The Whooping Cough Resurgence?
05-22-2013 • popsci.com
Deadly pertussis is on the rise in the U.S., but
is it really the fault of the anti-vaccine crowd?
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Arizona drought conditions expanding and intensifying
Spring is typically the driest time of year in Arizona, and the lack of rainfall over the last two months has caused our drought to worsen.
Unfortunately, little to no improvement is expected before the monsoon arrives this summer.
Seventy percent of the state is now in severe or extreme drought. That is a big jump from the 44 percent reported last month by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
This time last year, severe or extreme drought covered 67 percent of the state.
Phoenix has only received 67 percent of the normal average rainfall from October 1st to May 15th.
In that same time, Yuma received 78 percent of normal rainfall, Tucson received 55 percent of normal and Flagstaff received 72 percent of normal.
Here’s how the drought conditions break-down around our state:
Extreme Drought - across central Arizona, specifically northwest Maricopa county.
Severe Drought - across central and southwest Arizona, specifically in western Maricopa county, western Pinal county, far eastern La Paz county and much of Yuma county.
Moderate Drought - across parts of central and southwest Arizona, specifically in parts of eastern Maricopa and Pinal counties and portions of Yuma and La Paz counties.
Abnormally Dry - across parts of central and southwest Arizona, specifically in western La Paz county, parts of eastern Maricopa county and southern Gila county .
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05-22-2013 • Reuters
A Justice official insisted no financial company is too big to jail, in the latest effort to backpedal from statements made by Attorney General Holder that it can "become difficult" to prosecute major financial institutions accused of wron
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