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• 4/6/2011 10:35 AM Jim wrote:
  Just want to mention many spills have happened. One happened by my second home in Harrison township michigan. I-4 was blocked off in Orlando when a tanker split open on the expressway and 50 went to the hospital late 90's. A major one just 2 or 3 years ago on the mississippi when a huge tank split and hundreds of thousands of gallons spilled and were put directly into the river. Many leaks happen at water plants as valves, pipes and pumps fail from corrosion. Few are reported. Many overfeeds like one in Austrailia are reported days later and ofen they get the facts of where how much very wrong. Thren they revise the warning many days later like it has value after the fact.
  Washington DC for over three years did not report know sky high lead levels to those drinking it. It took years for any to be punished. The CDC and EPA even aided in the first few years of the cover up. That started Nov 1 2000 aned hearings are still being held to access blame. They now know many were for ever lead damaged but first claimed ZERO damage in a CDC faked study. Trust government less. Read more.
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• 4/7/2011 5:23 PM Jeannon Kralj wrote:
  Excellent coverage. Here is more on this deadly substance...
  
  Dartmouth University Study
  Links Fluoridation with High Lead Levels in Children
  Although the dangers of lead poisoning have been known for years, substantial numbers of children continue to suffer from blood lead above danger level of 10µg/dL. The problem is especially serious because lead poisoning is associated with higher rates of learning disabilities, hyperactivity, substance abuse and crime.
  Newly published research at Dartmouth College has uncovered an unsuspected factor that increases vulnerability to environmental lead exposure. Analyzing a major survey of over 280,000 Massachusetts children, a team headed by Prof. Roger D. Masters has identified chemicals widely used in treating public water supplies [Editor: WATER FLUORIDATION] that apparently increase children's absorption of lead.
  
  Plenary Address to
  Annual Conference of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
  Sept. 2, 1999
  Poisoning the Well:
  Neurotoxic Metals, Water Treatment, and Human Behavior
  Roger D. Masters
  Department of Government, Dartmouth College
  Foundation for Neuroscience and Society
  Summary: Heavy metals compromise normal brain development and neurotransmitter function, leading to long-term deficits in learning and social behavior. At the individual level, earlier studies revealed that hyperactive children and criminal offenders have significantly elevated levels of lead, manganese, or cadmium compared to controls; high blood lead at age seven predicts juvenile delinquency and adult crime. At the environmental level, our research has found that environmental factors associated with toxicity are correlated with higher rates of anti-social behavior.
  For the period 1977 to 1997, levels of violent crime and teenage homicide were significantly correlated with the probability of prenatal and infant exposure to leaded gasoline years earlier. Across all U.S. counties for both 1985 and 1991, industrial releases of heavy metals were -- controlling for over 20 socio-economic and demographic factors -- also a risk-factor for higher rates of crime. Surveys of children's blood lead in Massachusetts, New York, and other states as well as NHANES III and an NIJ study of 24 cities point to another environmental factor: where silicofluorides are used as water treatment agents, [also know as water fluoridation] risk-ratios for blood lead over 10µg/dL are from 1.25 to 2.5, with significant interactions between the silicofluorides and other factors associated with lead uptake. Communities using silicofluorides also report higher rates of learning disabilities, ADHD, violent crime, and criminals who were using cocaine at the time of arrest.
  Research conducted with Myron J. Coplan (Intellequity, Natick, MA) and Brian Hone under grants from the Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training, Environmental Protection Agency, the Earhart Foundation, and the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sci
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• 4/14/2011 4:43 PM jim wrote:
  Marc Edwards of Virginia tech is the top researcher in corrosion and warned of the DC lead disaster for years before it happened. Chloramine was promoted by the EPa but they forgot to warn of its evil corrosive lead leaching dark side. Dc was a disaster very predicatable. They allowed it then ignored it then lied about it to cover it up. The truth is still coming out as to how bad a screw up this was. DC Watch had the transcripts of much of the many hearings.
  Edwards has proven lead leaching can happen in new buildings as many lead free fixtures are 8% lead and surface lead often much higher. Of course the old plumbing is often much worse. School fountains often very toxic. But faking the tests is common with flushing the night before the real test. Just like DC did to claim they were safe while very lead toxic.
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• 4/14/2011 4:46 PM Jim wrote:
  Forgot to mention the FluorideGate thing is blowing up in Atlanta Ga. Andrew Young and others are making it a issue. Lets hope it gets legs.
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