Posted on 05/01/2016 4:57:36 AM PDT by HomerBohn
As the debate over which bathroom an individual should use based on their sexual identity heats up, we are witnessing the ignorant and brash nature of state enforcement of these edicts come to a head.
It is not only a distraction and a means for the state to get involved in your bowel movements, but it paints the trans and gay community in a negative light by asserting there is some sexual stigma involved in relieving one’s bladder.
The end result of such obstinate legalese clouding the minds of the public is going to be state violence initiated against individuals who have caused zero harm.
As individuals argue over how much government should be in the bathroom, nuclear environmental disasters are unfolding before our eyes. However, many Americans are too blinded by the blue glow of the television to notice.
According to a Missouri emergency plan recently distributed by St. Louis County officials, in recent months, a fire at the Bridgeton Landfill is closing in on a nuclear waste dump. The landfill fire has been burning for over five years, and they have been unable to contain it thus far.
There are clouds of smoke that have been billowing from the site, making the air in parts of St. Louis heavily polluted. In 2013, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster sued Republic Services, the company responsible for the landfill, charging the company with neglecting the site and harming the local environment.
Last year, city officials became concerned that the fire may reach the nearby West Lake Landfill, which is littered with decades worth of nuclear waste from government projects and weapons manufacturing. Remnants from the Manhattan Project and the cold war have been stuffed there for generations. The site has been under the control of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since 1990, but they have not made any significant effort to clean up the waste.
In December of last year, the EPA announced that it would install a physical barrier in an effort to isolate the nuclear waste. But the timeline given by the EPA said it could take up to a year to complete. Residents aren’t comforted by that timetable, and think the government, despite years of warning, has done too little to stave off a possible environmental disaster. They are right.
To add to the legitimacy of the residents’ worries were about the government’s timeline, the ground has yet to be broken, the fire is still smoldering, and the EPA just finalized, on Thursday, an Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent (Settlement) requiring Bridgeton Landfill, LLC to start work on the isolation barrier system at the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site.
Aside from the threat of the U.S. Military’s decades-old nuclear waste erupting into flames in the near future, there are also two nuclear reactors inside the United States, which have been leaking for months.
In Florida, a recent study commissioned by Miami-Dade County concluded that the area’s four-decades-old nuclear power plants at Turkey Point are leaking polluted water into Biscayne Bay.
This has raised alarm among county officials and environmentalists that the plant, which sits on the coastline, is polluting the bay’s surface waters and its fragile ecosystem, reports the NY Times. In the past two years, bay waters near the plant have had a large saltwater plume that is slowly moving toward wells several miles away that supply drinking water to millions of residents in Miami and the Florida Keys.
Samples taken during the study show everything from the deadly radioactive isotope, tritium, to elevated levels of salt, ammonia, and phosphorous. So far, according to the scientists conducting the study, the levels of tritium are too low to harm people. However, in December, and January, the levels were far higher than they should be in nearby ocean water which is a telling sign of a much larger underlying problem.
“We now know exactly where the pollution is coming from, and we have a tracer that shows it’s in the national park,” said Laura Reynolds, an environmental consultant who is working with the Tropical Audubon Society and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, which intend to file the lawsuit, according to the Times. “We are worried about the marine life there and the future of Biscayne Bay.”
Fifteen hundred miles north of the leaking reactors in Florida is the Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York. Since the beginning of this year, there’s been an uncontrollable radioactive flow from the Indian Point nuclear power plant continues leaking into groundwater, which leads to the Hudson River, raising the specter of a Fukushima-like disaster only 25 miles from New York City.
The Indian Point nuclear plant is located on the Hudson River and serves the electrical needs of an estimated 2 million people. In January, while preparing a reactor for refueling, workers accidentally spilled some contaminated water, containing the radioactive hydrogen isotope tritium, causing a massive radiation spike in groundwater monitoring wells, with one well’s radioactivity increasing by as much as 65,000 percent.
The tritium leak is the ninth in just the past year, four of which were severe enough to shut down the reactors. But the most recent leak, however, according to an assessment by the New York Department of State as part of its Coastal Zone Management Assessment, contains a variety of radioactive elements such as strontium-90, cesium-137, cobalt-60, and nickel-63, and isn’t limited to tritium contamination.
As the utility companies and government agencies continue to downplay the severity of these situations, the residents who live the closest to these spots are already feeling the effects.
According to a report by RT, Radiation and Public Health Project researchers compared the state and national cancer data from 1988-92 with three other five-year periods (1993-97, 1998-02, and 2003-07). The results, published in 2009, show the cancer rates going from 11 percent below the national average to 7 percent above in that timespan. Unexpected increases were detected in 19 out of 20 major types of cancer. Thyroid cancer registered the biggest increase, going from 13 percent below the national average to 51 percent above.
Sadly, it seems, government officials care more about locking people in cages for possessing arbitrary substances than they do about the potential for nuclear environmental disasters. As multiple Fukushima-like scenarios continue to unfold across the country, the media, who is largely beholden to the special interests behind these disasters, remain mum.
Instead of showing Americans the things that actually affect them, strawmen, red herrings, puppet politicians, and two-party talking points are shoved down our collective throats — and the majority of people are pacified. Until Americans change their preference for being lied to and stolen from, we can only expect more of the same.
Just think what good Obama’s $900 billion ‘Stimulus’ money could have done if it was indeed used as promised.
Remember it was going to be spent on rebuilding America’s infrastructure?
Remember Obama’s promised “shovel ready jobs” that he later joked about never existing?
That $900 billion could have rebuilt or repaired these nuclear plants, repaired roads, bridges, other nuclear plants.
It could have even built new nuclear plants to replace the generating capacity Obama killed with is NO COAL vendetta.
However- most of the $900 billion just seemed to disappear into vapor.
Or into democrat pockets and bank accounts.
But in all fairness, Obama did use a bit of it to:
- Take over General Motors
- Screw the GM stockholders out of their investments-
- Shut down 2,000 privately owned dealerships screwing the owners out of their investment
- Kill 100,00 jobs in those dealsrships
- Trash 700,000 perfectly good used cars in his 2009 Cash For Clunkers debacle
And then there was the $535 million he gave to Solyndra.
Or did it grow to $850 million as some reported.....
And the $5.9 billion the government has handed over to Tesla.....
On June 24,1984 from 10:30 to 10:45 p.m. security guards at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant near Peekskill, New York reported seeing UFO over the plant for approximately 15 minutes. It was roughly 30 stories above the exhaust funnel of one of the plant's three nuclear reactors.
UFO investigator Philip J. Imbrogno for the Dr. J. Allen Hynek's Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in Chicago, Illinois interviewed six of the twelve security guards who saw the UFO.
The UFO, according to the witnesses was huge in size, diamond-shaped and approximately 450 feet in length. It was first white, then changed to blue to red to green to amber in color. Local police in Peekskill received numerous UFO sightings during the same evening. One of them, Sgt. Karl Hoffman said the UFO he observed included a "dozen white lights" in V-formation that slowly moved towards the power plant at Indian Point. 16
In the case of the UFO reported by security guards at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant at Peekskill investigators uncovered some interesting information.
As the UFO approached the nuclear plant it flew to within 30 feet of its Reactor Number Three. When it did the plant's security systems, shut down as did all of its alarm systems and communication systems.
Security guards were issued shotguns and were waiting for the final word to shoot at the UFO. A request was also made for an armed helicopter to come and shoot down the UFO, but before the command was given, the UFO moved away and left the area.
Carl Patrick of the plant's information office, when questioned by investigators about the UFO had this to say, "I can neither confirm or deny that the guards fired upon it, but they did what was necessary to protect the plant.
~http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-convisnuc.htm
Maybe the State of Missouri can buy out Bridgeton, disincorporate it as they did Times Beach in the 80s? Build a State Park? Only co$t $250 million....then.
Strontium is chemically like calcium, so it collects in bones, where it causes bone cancer and leukemia. Cesium is chemically like sodium, which means it goes everywhere in your body but also washes out pretty easily. Cesium 137 is a nasty gamma emitter, so it can irradiate stuff at a distance. Strontium 90 is a beta emitter, so you have to eat it, breathe it, or park it on your skin for it to cause trouble.
Nice to see somebody that knows the details of radiation risk and what background exposure means. Thank you for posting the science.
Sexual perversion will last forever, checked or unchecked. But the nations that indulge it will quickly decline.
Author can shove the title and article where the sun don’t shine.
Good grief!
The radiation thing is a lot more important as it can affect everyone over the long term.
This common headline, or media trope, annoys me no end.
Americans are NOT "arguing over which bathroom to use". There is zero argument taking place.
What there IS is a relentless rhetorical assault on normal people and normal, ordinary perceptions of reality, which are widely shared.
"Argument" presupposes a search for truth within a common frame of reference. This phenomenon lacks a common frame of reference, there are no elements subject to persuasion or to discovery of new facts.
There is only (so far, rhetorical) warfare.
Wrong. It's not more important.
Long term safety (from any threat) first requires a frame of reference within which A=A, water is wet, and fire is hot.
If you accept constant gaslighting along the lines of "that man is really a woman", or whatever, the goal of which is to put you into a frame of reference where A≠A or fire doesn't burn because it's not really hot, then you will wind up putting plutonium on your kid's Cheerios.
You are correct. I should have looked for the chemical similarities to non-lethal substances.
The pertinent point is not that a federal agency made a decision, but that they used relevant science to inform the decision.
The EPA certainly deserves every word of criticism it gets when it makes and enforces policies based on political narratives. However, it should be supported when it makes decisions based on genuine science.
Investigating cancer clusters just because they are clusters is a waste of taxpayer money (such investigations can cost millions). Anyone familiar with statistics knows that random distribution causes clusters and bare patches; random is not an even dispersal.
Strontium is in the same family as calcium, and thus behaves chemically similar to calcium. That means it deposits in bones and other tissues that have high calcium content.
And yes, this article is heavy on the vague fear-mongering.
And bathroom laws can change overnight while radiation can be effectively forever.
To be quite frank, bathroom confusion can never reach the level of seriousness of radiological disasters, and it is just as far from reality to assert they can be so, as to assert that a man can be a woman.
Perspective demands that potential nuclear disasters be viewed as an immediate do-or-die situation with consequences on the broadest possible scale. It has the potential to do effectively permanent planetwide ecological damage. It’s practically the definition of things that need to be taken seriously.
It’s a whole different class of problem than having to be street smart when you see a man in a dress.
Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is *not* a theory. A scientific theory is a conceptual framework that is developed to unify and explain the totality of observations made regarding a natural phenomenon.
By definition, AGW is not a theory. It is, rather, a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a supposition made on the basis of an observation or group of observations, and it is informed by theory. In this case, AGW is a hypothesis formulated on the facts that 1) carbon dioxide has a broad absorbance/emittance band within the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (in other words, it fluoresces in the infrared); 2) that heat is a result of infrared radiation; and 3) that human industrial processes are reintroducing carbon dioxide into the air that has been sequestered underground for thousands or millions of years.
A hypothesis is testable; scientific experiments are designed around devising a test that either supports the hypothesis, or shows that the hypothesis is incorrect (or that the null hypothesis is correct). If a hypothesis is not supported by the experimental evidence, then the assumptions used to formulate the hypothesis should be revised.
In the case of AGW, although experimental observations have not really supported the hypothesis, the assumptions underlying the hypothesis have not been appropriately revised.
You are welcome.
I try to correct misinformation where I can. Scientific education is pathetic in this country, so misinformation abounds.
I see that some of the other posters here also understand the science.
When you accurately describe homosexuals, pedophiles and other afflicted individuals as mentally ill, the leftists get all bent out of shape. They want it both ways. Just a variation on normal when it suits them, and illness when that becomes convenient.
Puzzling, because what benefit to big business is it to cater to the whims of a tiny fraction of the population while risking pi$$ing off most of the rest?
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