Monday, November 12, 2018

Cell Phone Radiation Linked to Rat Cancer - Herbicide Linked to Damaging Crop - Nuclear Energy Linked to Catastrophe: But Let's Keep Using Them!


Catastrophic risks: Discerned but ignored:
Krouse, Sarah (2018, Nov 1). Scientists Find ‘Clear Evidence’ Cellphone Radiation Can Cause Cancer in Rats. Wall Street Journal, https://www.wsj.com/articles/scientists-find-clear-evidence-cellphones-can-cause-cancer-in-rats-1541083400  
Researchers cite growing confidence in links between radiation exposure and some tumors in rats. U.S. researchers found “clear evidence” that cellphone radiation exposure can cause cancerous heart tumors in male rats. It is still unclear what the final conclusions of their two-decades-long study of the health impact on rodents mean for humans.... 
The study focused on radio frequency radiation akin to what’s used in 2G and 3G cellphones and exposed animals to cellphone radiation at levels higher than what human cellphone users typically experience

Bunge, Jacob (2018, November 1). EPA Allows Use of Bayer Herbicide. The Wall Street Journal, A6. Online available here https://www.wsj.com/articles/epa-allows-farmers-to-keep-using-bayers-controversial-weedkiller-1541040054?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=3

The Environmental Protection Agency will continue to allow farmers to spray crops with a controversial weedkiller, while tightening restrictions, the agency said.

The EPA extended by two years its approval of XtendiMax, a version of the herbicide dicamba made by Bayer BAYRY -3.54% AG, which some farmers and researchers have blamed for damaging millions of acres of crops over the past two years.

EDITORIAL: Aging Tokai No. 2 reactor should be scrapped, not restarted November 8, 2018) The Asahi Shimbun,  http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201811080024.html

The nation's nuclear watchdog on Nov. 7 formally approved a 20-year operating extension of the Tokai No. 2 nuclear power plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, which is approaching the end of its 40-year legal life span.

The decision by the Nuclear Regulation Authority effectively marks the end of government-mandated technical screening to allow Japan Atomic Power Co. to bring the offline plant back on stream.
But all sorts of questions and concerns remain.

WHY is learning so hard?

Human beings are the slowest learners on the planet.

Only this species is capable of wiping out complex life on earth and seems, against all expressed intentions, cathected to that objective.


Fukushima Daiichi this morning:

 






 

5 comments:

  1. There is an island of Plastic in the Pacific Ocean the size of australia now. That one and others are growing around the world!

    Mindless, maniacal-capitalism!

    The insane human answer to climate change in this time of stupid-insanity, is to sink into Fascism. The darkest form capitalism. of human insanity, hate , violence militarism of Brain-Damaged Moronic Evil Monkeys like Donald Trump AKA fuko the clown. This Fascist monsters insanity will insure nuclear death, climate death, nuclear war, pollution death sooner than any of the christian fascist ghoouls, fascist ghouls and nihilist ghouls can ever imagine

    They find fish, sea birds, whales, dolphins washed up on the shores of our oceans now, with their guts full of plastic and bodies full of microplastic.

    Each one of us, probably has more microplastic in our interstitial tissue and abdomen, than we would care to know. Same for radionuclides, throughout the body. Capitalism and humans are beyond stupid. Beyond insane.

    It’s unbelievable how self-destructive the people who run our society are. They seem totally motivated by greed, with no regard whatsoever for their children and grandchildren.


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    1. I can tell u 4 things that will happen in the next 2 years:
      1. There will be major economic trouble. It will be like an inflationary spiral. Wall street will crash. It will expose the reality of the true economy.

      2. There will be a nuclear detonation whether is is accidental or intentional.

      3. Donald Trump will have a stroke. He already had a small one, at a press conference.

      4. There will be another nuclear-reactor catastrophe in Japan

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  2. 3 YES THREE major nuclear melt-downs, at the Santa Susana Sodium Reactor, in Simi Valley. From 1958 to 1970. Never cleaned up. 700 acres of the most radionuclide contamninated areas in the world!

    On fire now. Completely engulfed in fire! Winds blowing south and west! Some areas register hundreds of Bqs of alpha emitters and beta emitters.

    Watch a drastic increase in reactive airway disease, cancer, intractible lung infections, across all of southern calfornia in 2019!
    Thanks nuclear!
    Thanks donald trump for subsidizing the crap out of uranium, nuclear, building and testing new nuclear weapons, setting the world up for nuclear war, being friends with Shinzo Abe and encouraging opening of shady reactors and the shipping of radioactive food to america! ABE ARMING JAPAN WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS!

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  3. Our core human nature on display. We should blame human nature if we believe that will relieve us--but it won't. Why don't people do what we think they should do? Are they just contrary or is there something deeper at work that won't go away? When in history did people behave well? I think Gibbon picked the 2nd century A.D. or around then. When would you chose?

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  4. This is excellent and very relevant: Arnold J. Toynbee - The Balance Sheet of History

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZpmT9rP2LQ

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