This is a reprint of my landmark article on the history of PCBs — my last major project before entering astrology full-time. It appeared in the September/October 1994 edition of Sierra magazine.
In response to an email -- and I don't understand what this is doing here. My argument is that intent is not desire but foreknowledge of an effect. It is not "premeditation" but rather being in possession of the facts necessary to understand that harm will be caused. This is more than mere negligence. The legal terms are mens rea, and scienter. The writing below reads like a publicist wrote it.
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The intent to spread PCB and dioxin pollution specifically to make people sick is contradicted by the record. However, that does not rule out subsequent chemical classes, such as glyphosate (Roundup) and plasticizers, after the hormone effects of PCBs and dioxin were discovered.
The discovery of wide-scale PCB pollution, which was only later known to really mean dioxin-like compounds (due to the discovery of certain dioxin-like PCB isomers and congeners) was not discovered until 1966-1968 by Jensen and Widmark. Even if we could DDT, it was Risebrough who discovered that it killed birds in this same era by making their eggs to thin to hatch, then unknown to Carson.
PCBs are being used in hundreds of applications, from familiar electrical use to caulking and surgical implants. Their specifically hormonal effects are not discovered until after the ban in 1976-79.
Prior to that time, in the early 1970s, they were thought to be carcinogens, but that they had reached everyone and everything everywhere was not known until decades after the fact.
So while I believe there was intent, there is also evidence through the secret record that the suspicions were that PCBs made the men sick in industrial settings, due to industrial exposure in the 1930s.
They were ubiquitous long before the technology to find them in the environment; and I don’t think anyone at Monsanto or elsewhere would have predicted — before the fact — that they would be as widespread as DDT even though PCBs were mostly used only in contained settings.
These chemicals have a history that set long before the real problems are discovered. Said another way, in the secret files, the only indications are knowledge of sickness through industrial exposure (prior to the Yusho incident, which is a form of industrial exposure); and the only motive indicated is to keep the business going.
By the time of the discovery of environmental contamination, it’s all too late. But it’s not too late to warn them off of the next 10 generations of chemicals, from Roundup to Aspartame to BGH, which were and are known hormone and neurological pollutants.
Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds are toxic at the parts-per-trillion level, with the toxicity manifesting mostly as endocrine disruption and immune issues (those, in turn, lead to cancer, though all of these compounds are cancer promoters and initiators).
These and other halogenated organic compounds are lipophilic (mixing carbon with bromine, fluorine and chlorine for thousands of purposes with the results concentrating in fat).
In humans, and what we eat, they concentrate in the fatty tissue of animals and each dose adds to what is already building up. They are not excreted. They magnify up the food chain (meaning parts-per-trillion in water can lead to a bird whose brain is 40% PCBs from eating fish).
It is worth reading Silent Spring by Rachel Carson to get a sense of this. The forest was silent because DDT contaminated the leaves of trees, then concentrated in worms who ate the leaves, which were eaten by song birds, whose eggshells were then rendered too thin for the eggs to be viable — the effects go RIGHT to reproduction across nearly all species — especially in females).
In 1900, these chemicals were extremely rare. The chemical revolution of the 20c made them prominent today (excess benzene from gasoline production; excess chlorine from bromine production, all recombined into countless substances, all of which produce dioxin and are also hormonally active themselves).
Now we have a massive plastics pollution issue at every level, from infiltration of plasticizers, to plastic nano particles showing up everywhere. The plastics problem is approximately the same as the dioxin problem.
At the time I was doing my major work on this issue circa 1992-1998, there was a lot of discussion…and I am certain that the hormone pollution issue (now discussed a “forever chemicals,” which are really 3rd generation chemicals) is at the root of the cancer problem, reproductive issues like endometriosis, and the sterility problem, lower sperm counts, feminization of many species, the TRANS issue is mostly about this (and digital), etc.
All this “gender dysphoria” is chemically induced, digitally enhanced (the tendency to want to amputate is an effect of electrical media) and then pushed by social and medical propaganda.
As, a Michigan resident, I'm so glad the Palistine toxic dirt is being shipped to Michigan. As I write this a local news reporter is speaking of burning the dirt to make it safe to ship!
I do not know anyone, who helped himself or others through astrology. Though I do know people, who got what they wanted, but paid a terrible price for that and got it in a context, that was definitely unintended and just terrible. I feel complied to warn anyone against that path, not because it doesn’t work. When that doesn’t work it’s still the better scenario. When it does work, people get what they want in an unwanted context, that way to the desired outcomes is usually too toxic to take with terrible downstream effects. Basically astrology as opposed to prayer to the Creator and meditation means to cave to the system.
Let's talk about astrology on an astrology article. This is another topic. I would be happy to discuss my position on the effects astrology, including as a Quaker, a student of A Course in Miracles, and as a trained (uncertified) therapist. But not here. Thanks.
Yes. As he did create the toxic mushrooms (Amanita Phalloides for example) and even the toxic jabs and people, who have chosen evil. That’s the reason to be cautious.
In response to an email -- and I don't understand what this is doing here. My argument is that intent is not desire but foreknowledge of an effect. It is not "premeditation" but rather being in possession of the facts necessary to understand that harm will be caused. This is more than mere negligence. The legal terms are mens rea, and scienter. The writing below reads like a publicist wrote it.
_____________
The intent to spread PCB and dioxin pollution specifically to make people sick is contradicted by the record. However, that does not rule out subsequent chemical classes, such as glyphosate (Roundup) and plasticizers, after the hormone effects of PCBs and dioxin were discovered.
The discovery of wide-scale PCB pollution, which was only later known to really mean dioxin-like compounds (due to the discovery of certain dioxin-like PCB isomers and congeners) was not discovered until 1966-1968 by Jensen and Widmark. Even if we could DDT, it was Risebrough who discovered that it killed birds in this same era by making their eggs to thin to hatch, then unknown to Carson.
PCBs are being used in hundreds of applications, from familiar electrical use to caulking and surgical implants. Their specifically hormonal effects are not discovered until after the ban in 1976-79.
Prior to that time, in the early 1970s, they were thought to be carcinogens, but that they had reached everyone and everything everywhere was not known until decades after the fact.
So while I believe there was intent, there is also evidence through the secret record that the suspicions were that PCBs made the men sick in industrial settings, due to industrial exposure in the 1930s.
They were ubiquitous long before the technology to find them in the environment; and I don’t think anyone at Monsanto or elsewhere would have predicted — before the fact — that they would be as widespread as DDT even though PCBs were mostly used only in contained settings.
These chemicals have a history that set long before the real problems are discovered. Said another way, in the secret files, the only indications are knowledge of sickness through industrial exposure (prior to the Yusho incident, which is a form of industrial exposure); and the only motive indicated is to keep the business going.
By the time of the discovery of environmental contamination, it’s all too late. But it’s not too late to warn them off of the next 10 generations of chemicals, from Roundup to Aspartame to BGH, which were and are known hormone and neurological pollutants.
Here is a short summary:
Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds are toxic at the parts-per-trillion level, with the toxicity manifesting mostly as endocrine disruption and immune issues (those, in turn, lead to cancer, though all of these compounds are cancer promoters and initiators).
These and other halogenated organic compounds are lipophilic (mixing carbon with bromine, fluorine and chlorine for thousands of purposes with the results concentrating in fat).
In humans, and what we eat, they concentrate in the fatty tissue of animals and each dose adds to what is already building up. They are not excreted. They magnify up the food chain (meaning parts-per-trillion in water can lead to a bird whose brain is 40% PCBs from eating fish).
It is worth reading Silent Spring by Rachel Carson to get a sense of this. The forest was silent because DDT contaminated the leaves of trees, then concentrated in worms who ate the leaves, which were eaten by song birds, whose eggshells were then rendered too thin for the eggs to be viable — the effects go RIGHT to reproduction across nearly all species — especially in females).
In 1900, these chemicals were extremely rare. The chemical revolution of the 20c made them prominent today (excess benzene from gasoline production; excess chlorine from bromine production, all recombined into countless substances, all of which produce dioxin and are also hormonally active themselves).
Now we have a massive plastics pollution issue at every level, from infiltration of plasticizers, to plastic nano particles showing up everywhere. The plastics problem is approximately the same as the dioxin problem.
At the time I was doing my major work on this issue circa 1992-1998, there was a lot of discussion…and I am certain that the hormone pollution issue (now discussed a “forever chemicals,” which are really 3rd generation chemicals) is at the root of the cancer problem, reproductive issues like endometriosis, and the sterility problem, lower sperm counts, feminization of many species, the TRANS issue is mostly about this (and digital), etc.
All this “gender dysphoria” is chemically induced, digitally enhanced (the tendency to want to amputate is an effect of electrical media) and then pushed by social and medical propaganda.
As, a Michigan resident, I'm so glad the Palistine toxic dirt is being shipped to Michigan. As I write this a local news reporter is speaking of burning the dirt to make it safe to ship!
https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2023/02/contaminated-soil-is-shipped-to-michigan/
This is just the tip of the iceberg, isn't it?
I do not know anyone, who helped himself or others through astrology. Though I do know people, who got what they wanted, but paid a terrible price for that and got it in a context, that was definitely unintended and just terrible. I feel complied to warn anyone against that path, not because it doesn’t work. When that doesn’t work it’s still the better scenario. When it does work, people get what they want in an unwanted context, that way to the desired outcomes is usually too toxic to take with terrible downstream effects. Basically astrology as opposed to prayer to the Creator and meditation means to cave to the system.
Let's talk about astrology on an astrology article. This is another topic. I would be happy to discuss my position on the effects astrology, including as a Quaker, a student of A Course in Miracles, and as a trained (uncertified) therapist. But not here. Thanks.
I've not had the time to read the whole thing yet, but I will. Excellent research and writing! Thank you.
Did the Creator not create the planets and the stars?
Asking for a friend.
Yes. As he did create the toxic mushrooms (Amanita Phalloides for example) and even the toxic jabs and people, who have chosen evil. That’s the reason to be cautious.
Beware of unearned gifts.
It's an axiom I try not to forget.