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Journal (The Ember Update)
Thursday, March 3
Grandma B's 90th
Kevin's grandmother Bessie had her 90th birthday two weeks ago, so we
drove down to Wilson, NC for the family celebration. Kevin's folks put
us up at Miss Betty's B&B
(thanks, it was nice!) and I got to meet more of the maternal side of
the family. The photos below are from the very nice restaurant where we
had a Sunday buffet.
   
 
Kevin has the potential for good longevity genes, for his paternal Grandfather
recently died at 94. Which is a good thing, because…
Contamination at Burning
Man?
I'm on a local Burning Man list,
where I received the following today:
scary scary shit
http://www.rense.com/general63/dub.htm
even scarier when you check the map and see Fallon Nevada is about an
hour south of the playa
To which someone else responded:
good thing we don't drink the water out there on the playa. it might
be contaminated…
To which I responded (after giving the article a close skimming):
Well, fuck, we did. All four of us (and anyone else who drank our 40
gallons of possibly depleted-uranium contaminated water) which came
from a pump at the gas station at Fernley (or was it the next exit East
... not that it matters ... both are about 15 miles from Fallon).
What, do we now have to drive our water across the country? Do we even
go this year (we've got tickets)? And is this why we're in Black Rock
Desert ... so the BLM can contaminate all of us freaks?
Pardon my paranoia…
So, I can't claim that consuming & bathing in roughly 10 gallons
of possibly DU-contaminated water will kill me any more than 37 years
of eating the meat produced in this country, and lots of other factors
of course, but man does that
scary article give me pause! Yes, the web site itself (visit the home
page) seems a good bit out there for my tastes—I'm not the New-Agey
type, I don't believe we came from UFOs, even if I've
seen my share, and I'm not into the supernatural—but I can't
completely discount the article's claims because the one I researched
appears accurate. For example, the article states:
Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf
War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I,
11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical
disability. This astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade
later, 56 percent of those soldiers who served now have medical problems.
[…]
Not only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off the battlefields,
but they brought it home. DU in the semen of soldiers internally contaminated
their wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some women in their
20s and 30s who were sexual partners of exposed soldiers developed endometriosis
and were forced to have hysterectomies because of health problems. […]
Military research report summaries detail the testing of DU from 1974-1999
at military testing grounds, bombing and gunnery ranges and at civilian
labs under contract. Today 42 states are contaminated with DU from manufacture,
testing and deployment.
Women living around these facilities have reported increases in endometriosis,
birth defects in babies, leukemia in children and cancers and other
diseases in adults. Thousands of tons of DU weapons tested for
decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon,
Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest growing leukemia cluster
in the U.S. over the past decade. The military denies that DU is the
cause. […]
In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release
that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else
do they know that they aren't telling us?
I did look at the WHO site for that last quote, and it
appears to be true … but how much of the rise is attributable
to population growth and other factors? There's just not enough time to
research things fully…
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