Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, January 27, 2024, #442
Dane Wigington
GeoengineeringWatch.org
Chemical flash freezes followed by flash flooding in the middle of winter, what's wrong with this picture? And what's coming after the relatively warm winter rains? More chemical ice nucleation cloud seeding ice storms are currently scheduled. On the wider horizon wars and rumors of wars, will global conflict be the final card played by the power structure? A "supercomputer" predicts that "25%" of life on Earth will soon be extinct. Does this seemingly dire estimation actually fall far short of how bad it already is? And how much worse it will very soon be? Will the vast majority remain completely asleep at the wheel until the moment of impact? The latest installment of Global Alert News is below.
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I was born to warn….but
For decades I've made dvds and VHS tapes of documentaries about information I found needed to be at least pondered/considered/shared. I remain convinced that information still is perhaps the best way for humans to progress forward…but I could count on one hand those I've reached over the years after the hundreds of tapes and disc's I've given out for free.
My nick name on this mountain is crazy Chris, conspiracy Chris or chemtrail Chris, and they all fit. I'm all of those. I research all the time and pass on info that seems to make logical sense and that might help in the long run, not sure what else will work…but that said people no longer seem to see the obvious and shelter back into the comfort of normal /oblivious life. It's easier and I get that.
Ignorance is bliss right….but you can hide from the truth never the consequences.
If there's one thing I've learned over the the years is that the truth doesn't set you free, it imprisons you if you are compelled to warn others of the things of dire consequence. It's been daunting to this day.
Sounds like you( we) are surrounded by Morons.
For me it is easy to ask one question to anyone?
Do you think the weather is normal ?
Everyone answers no then while I am online waiting to pay for some groceries or somthing else I hand them one of Dane's business cards with the Dimming movie./
In Tucson we walked out of church on Sunday and they were spraying like crazy, X marks the spot. Windy southerly wind on Thursday when I was getting my wife's car serviced. Sales gal said it's going to rain. Sure enough it's raining now, early Friday AM. Wednesday and Thursday were like 80 degrees. Expecting at least one more cold spell and maybe a hard freeze before winter is over. Difficult to tell geo engineered weather from normal weather if there is any at this point. Who knows what they're spraying, I know they are trying to kill us one way or another. We trust God, he won the victory for us on the cross.
I believe that most adults know exactly what is happening in our skies when it comes to geoengineering, and here is my reasoning why.
Anyone who has at minimum a high school education can look up at the aerosol trails, and simply by using common sense or even the knowledge learned up to that of a fourth-grade education. Never mind that high school diploma.
Should be able to, beyond any doubt, see that those supposed condensation trails are being turned on and turned off. Especially when a plane emerges from the clouds and initially has no trail, but suddenly a trail becomes visible. It doesn't fade into existence as the atmospheric water vapor slowly begins to condensate from the hot exhaust of the plane's jet engines.
The trail immediately appears and then it immediately disappears, just before it enters the other cloud mass, on the other side of the gap between the clouds in that area of the sky.
They should be able to fully rationalize, just by using their common sense alone. That the plane turned on some kind of spraying apparatus that was mounted on the wings, or even within the jet engine's exhaust port itself, that intentionally produced a trail which filled the gap between those clouds.
I can clearly see that, and you can see that as well, but for some odd reason, most people block that logical explanation from their mind. They don't allow their thought process to comprehend the reality of what they just observed.
Because to take that whole "cloud gap filling process" to the next level even, common sense and logic dictates that the gap between the clouds should contain the drier air, while the area of the sky with the clouds should be saturated with a lot more water vapor moisture.
So, if you use that reasoning then the hot jet engine exhaust should only condense the higher concentrations of atmospheric water vapor, within the areas of the sky that already have clouds, and not the gaps between that appear to display less water vapor.
But the trails suddenly appear in the gaps, and then they suddenly disappear just before the plane enters the clouds. Which is completely counter intuitive to how condensation trails form in the first place.
Anyone can google the facts on exactly how condensation trails are created and understand the process, yet they ignore all logic and common sense, when they see that the trails in the sky are not conforming to the science behind condensation trail formation in the atmosphere.
Proving beyond all doubt that most people (especially adults) choose to play deaf, dumb and mute, when asked if what they just saw is something entirely different than what normal condensation trails should look like.
Their minds cannot accept the fact that our government or the military would purposely spray harmful chemical laced aerosols into the sky, and if that were somehow the case, it would have been exposed by whistle-blowers years ago.
So, to avoid being labeled as a conspiracy theorist, they throw all logic and common sense out the window of their minds. And refuse to even discuss the subject any further or take the initiative to do any research on what the skies would look like, if geoengineering was being used to dim the skies with artificially produced clouds.
Never mind that climate interventions over the past seventy-five years and counting, from geoengineering the planet, has destabilized entire climate systems around the world. Or, managed to kill off 70% or more of all lifeforms in nature, and caused the premature deaths of millions of humans.
Those figures and statistics are simply fake news, in the minds of those who reject common sense and logic, for a business-as-usual life that keeps them in their preferred comfort zone of a flawed reality.
I watch them fill in the gaps between their artificially created cirrus clouds all the time, and for me… that is business as usual, for a legion of insane conquerors that are addicted to absolute power, control over the people, and wars that depopulate the masses. Those twilight zone aerosol clouds up there aren't being placed there to protect us from the sun's harmful rays and dangerous heat. No, they are merely toys of those who fantasize about being gods among all of humanity.
Just heard your weekly alert news cast, Dane.
Thank you.
V
BTW… The military is baking us here in this little Texas valley too. We have been in the upper eighties, while the rest of the state is enjoying sixties and seventies. The humidity is making it feel like it is nearly 100 degrees!
Absolutely horrible with the heat added on to this Havana Syndrome misery. I can't wait to move way further north for this coming summer.
Our little community held an emergency meeting at the church today, because there is extremely strange military activity just over the hills from this valley, and in the skies above us as well. Activity that we believe is being directed at us to force us from our homes, months ahead of the deadline that Raytheon gave us to turn over our properties to them in April.
Every man, woman, child, pet, livestock animal and even the wildlife, are experiencing bizarre symptoms that seem to have no explanation. Other than a type of Infrasound saturation of the environment taking place around the clock 24/7.
Everyone (the people) are experiencing constant nose bleeds, migraines, blurred vision, a nervous disorder that causes the hands to tremble, loss of appetite, dizziness, stiff neck, muscle spasms, occasional nausea, chronic sleepiness, a deep thumping sound in the ears, and weakness beyond comprehension.
The wildlife appear to be dazed and confused. They have no appetite, but drink water constantly. They sit or stand in one place and stare up at the sky for what seems like forever, and they are extremely skittish of any lights, sound or movement, compared to just a week ago.
There is about 150 military personnel that were transported by helicopters to the meadow just over the hills from this valley, and they have set up tents, generators, bright lights and an array of about 30 towers with radar dishes pointing in this direction.
There are also several C-130s and an AWACS plane (Surveillance Plane with a rotating Radar on top of the fuselage.) that fly overhead in massive circles both day and night.
All of which we have never seen here or experienced before.
I found a high tech sound recorder in the Professor's storeroom and it shows that we are being exposed to infrasound, or sound waves that are mostly below human perception. The instrument has recorded waves from 0.01 Hz to 23.05 Hz, and every time it drops below 8.0 Hz we all begin to exhibit the very symptoms that I described above.
At the church today, each of us came to the same conclusion, and that is that the military is using a variety of sonic weapons to make us all feel sick enough, or even scared enough to leave everything behind… and just get the hell out of Dodge!
Not only that, it takes much longer to boil a kettle of water, and our freezers are no longer keeping food frozen. Some of us are seeing things that aren't there, and when you close your eyes, there is like a fireworks display of bright flashes and pressure in the ears that makes them pop. Over and over again in rhythm, or bright, and not so bright cycles.
All of us here in this community feel so helpless, as no one even from emergency services believes us, when we tell them what we are experiencing. One older female has a pace maker and she is now being treated at the hospital. Because the pace maker fails every time they transport her back home.
But the ambulance paramedics admitted to us that they felt the same symptoms, each time they brought her home. They are simply too afraid to tell their supervisors, for fear of being suspended and have to face a psych evaluation, or a physical exam that could end their careers.
Now we know exactly how those victims of the Havana Syndrome felt.
Why does the military cult of conflict have to be so impatient about getting our land to build their new weapons factories? What, the wars aren't going to wait for them to build even more deadly WMDs? Because there will always be more wars and they make plenty sure of that, with each new defense contract they sign.
I can only think to seriously defund the Military ASAP! If only we could ban ALL air travel (including military; ESPECIALLY military!). Which would make total sense if we REALLY meant to save on burning excessive fossil fuels; or is it just a convienient idea to speak of but we don't actually ever intend DO anything to remeidiate the problem? It is shocking to the marrow to hear what your commmunity is forced to endure at the hands of the 'space force' rollout. It certainly isn't doing the creatures of the Earth any good, is it? We suffer with you and your neighbors- and the most innocent of all casualties in this war- those without a voice at all in this madness; the plant, insect, and animal kingdoms. Prayers to you and your community Eden. : (
Dane, I guess others are experiencing plants growing when they shouldn't be?? I have either crocus or daffodil spikes 7" high so far all around my small garden by our front porch. How is this possible! Were the plants confused by the Nov. and early Dec. warm days, because the nights have been chilly– bitter cold since maybe Dec. 15 here in south New Jersey. Or is it all this toxic rain they are giving us? I've been meaning to ask this group if anyone is experiencing grass growing (as if we used fertilizer which we never do) anywhere on their properties. We have poor sandy soil and never much grass around the house till recent spring grass growing in spots that never did. And we have woods all around us. It almost seems like they are throwing a little nitrogen into the rain mix so people don't notice things dying. ?? Anyone?
Dane,
As everyone has mentioned here we see, we understand, and we are grateful for you and this radio show. It gives most of us at least one hour a week where we can listen and feel that we are not the only ones who see where we are at. On top of losing my trees and watching Nature as she struggles to carry on , I just spoke with some workers that were at the end of my driveway of my very rural home who were there to do paperwork on installing a 5G antenna . It would seem that our caring government wants to saturate the entire state under the guise of "Internet for all" now begins the battle as they want to come and cut what few healthy trees there are. I am just sick over all of this. Also thank you for caring for those who are suffering in the Middle East.
On another note if you stick geoengineering into a search engine you will find numerous recent articles on the subject.
The big problem w the articles is they say we may need to do it to save the planet.
Problem w this is either they are dumb or just part of the power structure that lies about everything. I tend to believe it is the latter. Most wars are built on lies.
The makings of a global disaster.
As thousands of species of wildlife are slowly migrating closer to the poles, to get away from the stifling heat that radiates out from the equator and tropics. They have no idea that they are quite possibly in the process of a doomed exodus.
Because as everyone knows, there are huge ozone holes above the northern and southern polar regions. The one over the Antarctic has recently grown to the size of North America, and each year it appears to be getting bigger and bigger. Just a few years back it was only the size of Texas.
So, as the wildlife populations (including insects) try to find more temperate environments. They have no idea that they are moving from the oven to a solar reactor. Which does not bode well for the human populations either.
The UN has said that over three billion people would likely have to move from regions that become too hot for their survival, by 2030 or even sooner. Creating a mass exodus towards the polar regions, but as with the wildlife, unknowingly migrating to areas that are being bathed in more and more deadly UV radiation, with each consecutive passing year.
My question is, could this all be some sort of orchestrated master plan to reduce global populations of both humans and wildlife, to reduce the strain on all the dwindling resources? Never mind the fact that UV radiation will likely exterminate billions more elsewhere. But the masses don't know that, and governments are to blame, for not exposing these truths.
Governments also refuse to allow any settlements in Antarctica, and if that changes soon. Then we might be revisiting my question above. The explorers and scientists that are there now reside in extremely hardened structures and bunkers that protect them from such UV radiation. But time will only tell if such ill-fated exoduses are in the foreseeable future.
Yes, the ozone is depleting rapidly worldwide and could virtually vanish in its entirety, within just two years. But I still believe there will be some places where trace amounts remain, and those areas might even have thick cloud cover daily to offer some protection. Just not around the polar regions. The last vestige of hope for those trying to escape a boiling planet, could become a death trap in and of itself.
Likely however none of this will probably ever happen. As nuclear war, reactor meltdowns, plandemics, zombie viruses and even the decision to inflict mass biological genocide, by using climate engineering planes to spray every continent with a rapid eugenics’ formula of lethal gases. Could easily become a reality overnight and stop all migratory exoduses.
We can't even stop them from spraying dangerously toxic chemicals into the atmosphere, as it stands now. So, who's to say they won't go into a complete insanity meltdown and gas us all? While they hurriedly retreat and escape to their underground bunkers. Those who fly the planes won’t even know what’s in their chemical tanks, before it becomes too late to do anything about it. They just follow orders and ask no questions.
That’s what makes this whole geoengineering issue that much more of a ticking time bomb. Ready to go off at the first order given, by those who simply don’t want to deal with the 95% ever again. And I’m willing to bet, there isn’t one person here who hasn’t thought of this scenario in the back of their mind, at one time or another.
Insanity usually harbors no logic or reason and there is no denying that geoengineering is carried out by some of the most insane people on the planet. I'm not spreading doom and gloom. I'm just pointing out sane logical and reasonable opportune motives of the insane 1, 2 and 5%.
Hey Dane and the enlightened ones,
I thank you guys for hanging in there as the odds become more highly stacked against us. Dane promised that he would hang in there until the end and I am pleased that he is doing so. Because without his dedication, I don't know if I could have .made it this far without giving up.
Many of you have shared Bible quotes and have referred to what Dane calls the Creator. Many of us use the term God, but what's in a name?
I would like to add that according to the Bible, we were made in the image and likeness of God. And we have the responsibility to be good stewards of his creation. Those who don't obey this responsibility, especially in my estimation of participating in "Chemtrails," (please excuse the slang) are in, in effect, spitting in the eye of God. And their arrogance will not go unpunished. As far as us, because we are fortunate enough to exercise are God-given intellect and will, we are able to see what others are unable or unwilling to fathom. Even if it all goes south, we we can revel in our open eyes and efforts to "sound the alarm." God bless Dane and all who follow his lead.
To breathe or not to breathe that shouldn't be the question.
Watching the high altitude crop sprayers (we are the crops) completely occlude the sky here above Pinetop Az in just a few hours I stand amazed so few if any even notice the aborgation of the sky above them in such a short time. We had sun this morning, now overcast. No one notices. To point this out only leads to ridicule or the label conspiracy theorist. I need new conspiracies all my others turned out to be true.
Many out there seem to be waiting for God,Jesus or the great spirit to save us from ourselves and what we've allowed to manifest in our sky's, shouldn't hold their breath. I'm pretty sure they're all to busy running the universe A slave is someone who waits for someone else to come save them, and none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free (to breath clean air).
Confession,
I was in the top 5% back in my late twenties, but after just three years of living that lifestyle, I gave it all up and sold my business. Just to get away from the arrogance, apathetic entitlement, and better than you attitude and caustic environment which permeated from all my neighbors, business associates and the upscale community where I lived.
I was never a partyer, high roller, or wealth flaunting egomaniac and just didn't fit in with that Ivy League way of life. I still treated my high school friends, former military brothers and sisters, and pretty much anyone from the streets even with respect and dignity.
But when my fiancée was killed by a "Billionaire" drunk driver, and he got away with it without ever serving a single day in prison. Because he was able to buy the Judge and jurors, that's when I walked away from my life and started a new one.
I donated most of my "small" fortune to five different Native American communities (reservations) across the country (those that did not have casinos or luxury resorts) and settled in with my grandparents here in Texas.
My Grandfather was the biggest cattle rancher in this valley back then, and at one time he had over 5,000 head of cattle. This is where I bailed hay, threw out feed, cleaned cow and horse dung from the corrals and barns, repaired windmills, rustled cattle into shoots to get their shots, ear tags and be branded. And I was so much happier than when I lived in those fancy gated communities.
My grandparents lived a very modest lifestyle, even though they could have been living the good life. They came from that old school of only buying what you need, and not what you want. And I so appreciated their view on life, as I have been living on my life savings for all these years, and still live my life according to that same philosophy.
They were the ones who first opened my eyes to climate engineering and showed me how it was being used to control the agricultural sector of America. My Grandfather said it would someday challenge the survival of every living thing on the planet, if it became even more advanced with the ever-developing technologies of each passing year.
Needless to say, just like my Sioux Godfather and Apache Grandmother in the Badlands, my Texas Grandparents were just as wise and very responsible stewards of nature. All of them taught me the most important lessons in life, and I carry the torch of their spirits with me through every passage of my terrestrial journeys.
I never truly aligned with or had the malevolent manifestations that makes the 5% such an unholy congregation of entitled misfits. I believe that every human and species of wildlife deserves the same chance at a full and happy life. They do not.
They still embrace the conquer and control mentality or subjugate whenever possible and destroy other lives to get ahead in their own life. And that is exactly how I view Megachurch Pastors and Preachers. For each of them it is only about the money, and they will step on anyone or anything, just to gather as much wealth as possible.
I still say though. If I somehow get lucky and come into millions anytime soon. I will spend every penny on producing documentaries that show how geoengineering is the biggest scourge in the history of humanity, and why I believe it’s the Great Filter that will ultimately end in our extinction.
Thank You. Your words are in harmony with my own experiences. The more people possess – the shallower they need to be, in order not to second guess that the focus on truly superfluous materialism will one day haunt them, making it impossible to die with a smile on their faces.
Here in Florida, there is a spraying Bonanza going on in the sky and when You ask people what kind of 'con'-trails stop and then continue a few miles later, You get empty stares back.
When I tell people that the only way to spend one's lifetime is to grow food, the responses are always that "You can't make money with that". Which is of course delusional. As a dedicated permaculture mushroom farmer (unfortunately without my own farm) I tell them to look up the statistics e.g. at Cornell University about returns of mushroom farmers per acre. Between 25K – 450K per annum. Although the latter number requires a controlled environment and high value mushrooms. Even with Button mushrooms, the return will far exceed the expenditures.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. Too bad that it likely will not be shared widely enough. God bless you for your candor.
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One of many articles talking about decreasing groundwater around the world. This is one example. This is part of what Dane is talking about.
For those of you who are somewhat new to this type of information, it may help to think of the sprayed particulate matter coming out of these planes as extreme desiccants. Although that is an oversimplification. Think of the materials being spray out of the plains as drying out everything that they touch, and also preventing small microscopic water vapor molecules from coalescing and forming droplets heavy enough to fall down to the Earth as rain.
Although it may be confusing, and this is never simplification, much of the world is drying out, despite the headlines you occasionally see about flooding in certain other parts of the world. World. For reasons. Not fully disclosed to the general public, they are moving wind patterns and thus atmospheric moisture patterns in various ways, desiccating certain parts of the world while in some cases, lighting that waterfall and other places in damaging floods. Notice the timing of most of the droughts and floods. Most of them occur during crucial times in agricultural cycles. And they often hit parts of the world normally rich in agriculture.
Not only are many temperatures increasing around the world causing more evaporative loss of water, but the very air in so many cases is so much drier than it has ever been, evaporation further speeds up. In the last few years, I have never had such a difficult time keeping the bird baths full of clean water. And during the summer time, insects and birds gather in large numbers to cool themselves off and rehydrate. Remember to take care of the little ones in your area, the wild ones.
Is the Air in airplanes SAFE? with Chem Trails in the Sky
I don't want to get too far off the subject, but I think it is helpful to have a basic understanding of some common edible plants in your area. I was just out picking dandelion to make a tincture for immune system support. Penny would be helpful in providing additional information to those in this community.
In October 2023, the fishing season for the Alaskan King Sea Crab was stopped for the remainder of the year through 2024. This was announced by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
The reason was that between 2018 – 2020, 10 billion Sea Crabs disappeared from the Bering Sea. It is located between Alaska and Siberia.
Scientists now think they know what happened. The Snow Crab requires cold water to survive. Their metabolisms are temperature dependent. Due to warming waters, it required a larger caloric intake to survive. It resulted in a heartrending mass starvation event.
This disaster is also bad news for the 60 ships that caught $132 million dollars worth of Sea Crabs in 2020. 63 year old Dean Gribble has been a crab boat captain since the 70's. He said, "It's going to be life changing, if not career ending for people."
Miranda Westphal is a marine biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. She said that "I don't think anyone saw this coming." After a statement like that, it should be easy to see how important your life is as we attempt to educate the masses before it is too late.
hmmmm
i look around and all i see are people blaming others for the state of the human and green world
what we are given at birth is all we have and what we do with it is up to us
i do not believe in an "other" – so easy to give away responsibility to an "other"
we are puny creatures that have become evolved, and populus, and needy, to the point where we are destroying everything around us
and so it is
the "other" creates, and within the creation are the seeds of destruction
but there is no "other"
there is just the "energy" or is it "movement"
is "emotion" e-energy in motion
what is emotion?
Just to clarify on the Washington Post Report survey of 40 individuals from the top 5% (even though the link I have now comes back as 404 Error "Page Not Found", and it has been removed from their archive).
If they had their way,
They would allow the 95% of the population in America to have access to the internet, but only to order goods from Amazon and such. No public discussion forums, blogs or websites that earn them profits. We could purchase cell phones, just not Smart phones and no powerful computers at all. A lottery to choose which couple could have just one child, before all pregnancies are banned, by mandatory birth control of both males and females within the next five years. Definitely banned from buying air conditioning units and heaters. Food, water and gas rationed per household. No luxuries of any sort, period. No social security, Medicare, Medicaid and no high yield bank accounts or investments.
When asked if they would keep all of the amenities and necessary things needed to live without the fear of their own survival being an issue. All 40 participants said "Yes, of course."
But the bottom tier 95% should all be placed in isolated government controlled communities, and be required to work as a labor force, to keep the 5% from ever experiencing any hardships.
Which sounds more like ancient times in Rome and Egypt. The 5% see themselves as supreme rulers and we are simply peasants in their form of reality. Basically, nothing has changed in hundreds of years. Other than the fact that they are now using technologies like geoengineering to destroy the planet, and they believe they have the entitled right to do anything they want.
They own all the resources and not us. The Earth belongs to them and we are simply kept alive to serve them. But we are now threatening to use up all the resources and they will not stand for that.
But if they didn't squander all of the resources to gain incredible wealth, we wouldn't be where we are right now. Their insanity keeps them from seeing these truths.
The foolish one says in his heart: "There is no Jehovah. Their unrighteous actions are corrupt and detestable; No one is doing good."
Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father. For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be. (Matthew 24:36-39)
Consequently, Jehovah saw that man's wickedness was great on the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only bad all the time. Jehovah regretted that he had made men on the earth, and his heart was saddened. So Jehovah said: "I am going to wipe out men whom I have created off the surface of the ground, man together with domestic animals, creeping animals, and flying creatures of the heavwens, for I regret that I have made them..But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah. (Genesis 6:5-8)
I watched the documentary "Downwind" and one of the statements made about the Atomic bomb development and testing in Nevada was that "Engineers like to build things and Scientists like to run experiments". SAI is what they built and we are their experiment.
Most of the reports and pictures of Geoengineered skies come from the US, UK, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. You have to ask why these places are experiencing this and many places around the world are not reporting this phenomena?
Here is a list of 28 Senators from the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. This is where the levers of power reside over Geoengineering programs.
United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation – Wikipedia
9 US Agencies involved in Solar Geoengineering:
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). U.S. Global Change Research Program, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), NASA, and the Department of State, among others.
Plastics in Food and Drinks Play Big Role in Annual $250 Billion Healthcare Tab
Exposure to just four types of plastic costs the U.S. healthcare system nearly $250 billion per year, according to a study in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. The majority of adverse health effects involved the endocrine system, but investigators also found cancer, childhood development delays and IQ deficits.
… Researchers performed a literature search on four general categories of synthetic or semi-synthetic plastics with confirmed or suspected ill effects on health:
• Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a family of more than 200 compounds used mostly as flame retardants but also found in textiles, plastics, wire insulation and automobiles. PBDEs have been linked to endocrine disruption leading to fertility issues and delayed neurodevelopment in children.
• Phthalate “plasticizers” or chemicals that make plastics more durable are found in hundreds of products, including vinyl flooring, lubricants and personal-care products. Phthalates do not persist in the body but their short stay is long enough to interfere with endocrine-related events associated with normal pregnancy, child growth and development.
• Bisphenols, including bisphenol A, are found in many food-packaging plastics and coatings, for example, plastic wraps and water bottles, from where they leach into foods. Bisphenols have been associated with hormonal, neurological, liver and reproductive problems. The food industry has searched for replacements for bisphenol A but the alternative, bisphenol S, is a possible carcinogen.
• Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are another very large class of plastics used since the 1950s to prevent food from sticking to packaging or cookware. Although these materials are found in cars, construction materials and electronics, harmful human exposure occurs mainly by consuming contaminated foods and beverages. PFAS have been associated with hormonal and immune dysfunction, obesity and certain cancers that affect women.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/plastics-food-drinks-250-billion-healthcare/
FDA's New Rule Allows For Medical Research Without Informed Consent | ZeroHedge
In an effort to encourage the discovery of more treatment and diagnostic options in the medical field, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized a rule allowing certain clinical trials to operate without obtaining informed consent from participants.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/fdas-new-rule-allows-medical-research-without-informed-consent
Toxic Pollution From Petrochemical Plants ‘Devastating’ Lives in Texas
A report by Amnesty International found elevated pollution and illness near the industrial footprint of Texas petrochemical operations, thousands of air and water pollution violations by some of the major companies along the Houston Ship Channel over the past decades, and a lack of environmental enforcement by state and federal agencies.
Toxic pollution from the petrochemical industry along the Houston Ship Channel in Texas is causing “devastating harms” to local communities, according to a new report by international human rights advocacy group Amnesty International.
The report underscores the climate, environmental and human rights tolls linked to petrochemical production, adding to the ongoing controversy surrounding the practices of the U.S. fossil fuel industry.
Home to the largest petrochemical industrial complex in the U.S., the Houston Ship Channel — a 52-mile waterway that stretches from the Gulf of Mexico to Houston — is encompassed by hundreds of industrial plants that convert oil and gas into chemical building blocks that can be further processed into products such as plastics, fertilizer and pesticides.
Meanwhile, the so-called fenceline communities — which are often predominantly Black, brown and low-income — live in close proximity to the plants, becoming the frontline to absorb the harmful impacts caused by petrochemical production, the report noted.
… Common petrochemical pollutants include PM2.5, benzene, 1,3-butadiene, formaldehyde, ethylene oxide, nitrous oxides, and ground-level ozone, the report noted, which are all associated with adverse health effects.
Moreover, the report documented a series of adverse health outcomes — such as cancers, respiratory issues, cardiovascular disease and reproductive complications — experienced by fenceline communities that are suspected to be linked to petrochemical pollutants.
A 2019 analysis by the Texas Department of State Health Services, for instance, found that the rates for lung and bronchus, esophagus and larynx cancers in several neighborhoods in the Houston area were “statistically significantly greater than expected” compared to the rest of Texas.
According to Amnesty International, 15 out of 29 of the residents interviewed for the report said that they or a close family member had been diagnosed with a respiratory disease, had a chronic cough or frequently experienced breathing difficulties.
… companies can dodge penalties for pollution violations by invoking the so-called “affirmative defense” — a legal loophole in Texas that waives air pollution enforcement for a company if it reports the pollution event as “unplanned and unavoidable.”
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