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MENGXI VILLAGE, China — On a chilly evening early last month, a mob of more than 200 people gathered in this tiny eastern China village at the entrance to the Zhejiang Haijiu Battery Factory, a maker of lead-acid batteries for motorcycles and electric bikes. They shouldered through an outer brick wall, swept into the factory office and, in an outpouring of pure fury, smashed the cabinets, desks and computers inside.

Navy researcher links toxins in war-zone dust to ailments

By Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY

U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait have inhaled microscopic dust particles laden with toxic metals, bacteria and fungi — a toxic stew that may explain everything from the undiagnosed Gulf War Syndrome symptoms lingering from the 1991 war against Iraq to high rates of respiratory, neurological and heart ailments encountered in the current wars, scientists say.

“From my research and that of others, I really think this may be the smoking gun,” says Navy Capt. Mark Lyles, chair of medical sciences and biotechnology at the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. “It fits everything — symptoms, timing, everything.”

Linda’s comments: Dr Gordon has been preaching for years and warning folks about the heavy metals we take into our bodies.  How many folks in the USA live near coal plants?  How much Tuna do we eat on a weekly basis.  Those of us who have or have had amalgams in our mouths for years will be fighting to remove the mercury from our bodies, BUT, we must remember that all mercury doesn’t come from amalgams….Dr Gordon gives a good explanation below…

Dr. Gordon’s Comments: Where does all this mercury come from? Many have opinions that it is all from dental sources or vaccinations, but the April issue of Discovery has the facts that contradict those opinions. I have attached the link to the April 2011 issue of Discovery, an article called Ill Wind Blowing Article by David Kirby.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://issuu.com/kiosciencek/docs/discover-magazine-2011-04

To access the article “Ill Wind Blowing”, click on link above then:

1.On cover of Discovery magazine, CLICK TO READ.
2.At bottom of page, press right page arrow until you get to pages 58-59. 
3.Click on them.

Link: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=21223661&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

Excerpt:

OBJECTIVE: To understand the carrying status of Borrelia burgdorferi in
ticks from the mountain areas from six representative provinces, including
Jilin, Shanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Guizhou and Hunan in China. 

METHODS: Flagging and
trapping methods were used to collect ticks in forest area and culture
medium was used to isolate the pathogen. Nested-PCR was used to detect the
germ-carrying rate of ticks. 

RESULTS: More than 2200 ticks from six
representative provinces were collected and 1000 ticks were used to isolate
the pathogen. 13 Lyme disease spirochetes from ixodes persulcatus in
Changbai, Jilin province and 9 Lyme disease spirochetes from ixodes
granulatus in Daozhen, Guizhou province were identified. There were 1255
ticks used for PCR testing.
Specific fragments of the Borrelia burgdorferi in ticks were found from the
six representative provinces in China. The carrier rate was higher in Jilin
(Changbai 27.08%, Tonghua 20.41%), Qinghai (Huzhu 25.06%, Huangnan 21.11%)
and Guizhou (Daozhen 25.63%), than in Shanxi (Yuanqu 4.72%, Jiaocheng
3.64%). Result from the sequence analysis showed that the genotype belong to
Borrelia garinii in Jilin, Qinghai, Gansu, Shanxi provinces but Borrelia
valaisiana in Guizhou and Hunan provinces. 

CONCLUSION: Our data showed that there existed Lyme disease spirochetes in
all the six representative provinces in China, but the carrying rates of
ticks were different. Borrelia garinii was found in Shanxi province, and
Borrelia valaisiana in Hunan province.

Linda’s comment:  A friend of mine on another group posted this valuable information….make a copy for your purse/wallet…IMPORTANT…

With all the food and pet products now coming from China, make sure to
scrutinize the labels. But no matter what the front of a box or package
says, turn it over and study the bar code. Many products no longer show
where they were made; they show only where the distributor is located. The
bar code will show the product’s origin.

Below are the first three digits of the barcode, and where the product is
made:

00 – 09 . . . . . . . . .     USA and/or Canada.
30 – 37 . . . . . . . . .     France
40 – 44 . . . . . . . . .     Germany
49 . . . . . . . . . . . . .      Japan
50 . . . . . . . . . . . . .      UK
471 . . . . . . . . . . . .     Taiwan
690 – 692 . . . . . . .    China

Also, if a product says “made in PROC,” this is People’s Republic of
China-China.

Full article can be read on the IMVA site. Don’t miss the excellent videos!

Excerpt:

We have an increasingly dangerous and poisoned world exactly for the reason that the people at the top of the human heap make a lot of money poisoning our world and the people in it and they are not going to tell you about it. The whole idea of poison through the ages was to knock off adversaries without any clear trace back like an arrow in the back gives. What’s the point of an assassin advertizing his dirty deed?
 
Scientists Consensus Statement on the Use of Chemical Dispersants
in the Gulf of Mexico calling for the Obama Administration to
immediately halt chemical aerial spraying in the Gulf region.
 
They have not been warning people about living downwind of a coal-fired power plant or about the dangers of mercury in medicine and dentistry. They certainly have no intention of changing their tune so they will not be warning anyone about the true dangers of oil toxicity and the chemicals they are using to disperse the oil. It looks like certain communities along the Gulf are turning into overly large gas chambers and British Petroleum thinks they care about people. And the Obama administration is allowing it all to go on and history will remember that President Obama did not go down into the Gulf in the early days with the Army, Navy and Marines to stop BP from using Corexit.
 
 

SAN ANTONIO (April 24, 2008)—How do mercury emissions affect pregnant mothers, the unborn and toddlers? Do the level of emissions impact autism rates? Does it matter whether a mercury-emitting source is 10 miles away from families versus 20 miles? Is the risk of autism greater for children who live closer to the pollution source?

A newly published study of Texas school district data and industrial mercury-release data, conducted by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, indeed shows a statistically significant link between pounds of industrial release of mercury and increased autism rates. It also shows—for the first time in scientific literature—a statistically significant association between autism risk and distance from the mercury source.

“This is not a definitive study, but just one more that furthers the association between environmental mercury and autism,” said lead author Raymond F. Palmer, Ph.D., associate professor of family and community medicine at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio. The article is in the journal Health & Place.

Dr. Palmer, Stephen Blanchard, Ph.D., of Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio and Robert Wood of the UT Health Science Center found that community autism prevalence is reduced by 1 percent to 2 percent with each 10 miles of distance from the pollution source.

Dr. Gordon’s comments:

LEAD is again being recognized for the persistent danger it represents.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/health/09lead.html?scp=1&sq=lead%20and%20EPA&st=cse

Excrept:

After almost two decades of delays, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it was on track to implement a regulation requiring the construction industry to help prevent cases of lead poisoning among children.
The agency said it expected more than 125,000 renovation and remodeling contractors to be trained and certified in lead-safe work practices by April 22, when the new regulation takes effect.

Under the rule, workers would have to take steps like containing their work area with plastic and conducting a thorough cleanup of lead paint dust stirred up during construction activity, which federal officials say is partly to blame for about 120,000 cases of elevated lead levels in children younger than 6 each year. Congress passed legislation in 1992 directing the E.P.A. to propose the regulation, but the agency did not finish the rule until 2008, after environmental and public interest groups filed a lawsuit to pressure the agency to issue it.  Some environmental groups are now pushing to make the rule tougher, while builders are warning their clients that it will inevitably increase construction costs. The rule applies to work performed in homes and buildings occupied by children, including schools and day care centers built before lead paint was banned in 1978.  E.P.A. officials said on Thursday that with a housing stock of about 38 million units that are potentially affected by the rule, they expect it to produce results. 

Linda’s comments:  READ labels folks….this is more proof why we need to eat organically.  If it isn’t GMO it is tainted with toxins, pesticides and insecticides. 

Continued

2009 GM Crop Fact File

ARE GM CROPS TAKING OVER GLOBAL AGRICULTURE? 

• GM plantings make up a mere 2.4% of global agricultural crop land
• Nearly 80% of the global area planted to GM crops was in just three countries – the US, Argentina and Brazil
• The US alone plants over 50% of the world’s GM crops
• Less than 3% of cropland in India and China is planted with GM crops, almost exclusively just 1 crop – GM cotton

ARE GM CROPS EXPANDING IN EUROPE? 

• In the 27 countries of the European Union, GM crop cultivation represents a mere 0.21% of agricultural land
• The number of hectares of GM crops fell last year in Europe
• EuropaBio inflated the figures for GM crops grown in Europe by almost a quarter to mask the decline in the area of GM crops being grown has actually fallen in Europe every year since 2005.

WHAT GM CROPS ARE BEING GROWN? 

• Most investment has gone into a small number of crops and traits targeted toward large-scale commercial farming
• Only four crops – soya, maize, cotton and canola (oilseed rape) – comprise virtually 100% of GM agriculture
• GM rice, wheat, tomatoes, sweetcorn, potatoes and popcorn have all been rejected as unacceptable in the global marketplace
• GM papaya cultivation in Hawaii has been declining over several years.

DO GM CROPS MATCH THE HYPE?