Did Missing Chalk River Physicist Know Too Much?

“You expect me to talk, Goldfinger?”
“No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.”
From Lachlan Cranswick’s Personal Homepage

The Canadian towns of Chalk River and Deep River are in the northern region of the Ottawa Valley, nestled between Algonquin Park to the west, and the Ottawa River to the east.

Deep River is a small community that boasts an network of hiking, biking, and skiing trails. Chalk River is the location of the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) laboratories.

Lachlan Cranswick, 41, was a physicist who worked there. On Jan. 18, he finished work and went to his home in Deep River. At some point that evening or the next day, he took the garbage out, and vanished.

How much tritium escaped into the environment?  Did Lachlan Cranswick know? 

Was he about to blow the whistle?    read full story at Heroin and Cornflakes

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Heroin and the 'Fat Tax'

Heroin is an opiate drug that is synthesized from morphine extracted from the seed pod of the poppy plant. Produced in Mexico and Asia, heroin is reported to be widely available throughout the U.S.

The latest form of this addictive substance sweeping middle America is a semi-processed type of Mexican heroin known as black-tar; so called because it’s sticky and dark.

Users need not venture into dangerous neighborhoods for their fix. Instead, they phone in their orders and drivers take the drug to them......

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Fish, Mercury and the Incurable Condition

The most pervasive physical handicap in America today is an invisible condition — hearing loss. Howard E. “Rocky” Stone.

Today, hearing loss is the number one disability in the world, and
approximately 28 million Americans, suffering some type of hearing
loss, help fuel this statistic.

Of this number, only a few million are considered ‘deaf’ and the
remainder are hard of hearing. In addition, 15 of every 1,000 people
under the age of 18 have a hearing loss.

In a landmark study, ‘The Impact of Untreated Hearing Loss on Household Income,’ The Better Hearing Institute estimate that the annual cost in lost earnings due to untreated hearing
loss is $122 billion, with the Federal government losing $18 billion in
taxes.

This situation is not improving. ‘The Better Hearing Institute’ also reports that America’s hearing loss population is growing at a rate of 160% of the overall population growth.

Wow, that’s a pretty high growth rate.

What’s sustaining it? Is there an increase in older folk, or are there other influences at play?
 

Let’s take a closer look......read more at Heroin and Cornflakes

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The Sun Tan Industry: Whiter than White?

 

Newfoundland and Labrador is a province of
Canada on the country’s Atlantic coast in northeastern North America.

When faced with bankruptcy in 1933, representative institutions were
suspended in favor of an appointed Commission that governed for fifteen
years without an elected assembly.

One of the Commission’s primary goals upon entering office was to
improve the country’s health-care services. It established a series of
government-subsidized cottage hospitals in 1935 to make affordable
medical services more accessible in rural communities.
Government officials also tried to reduce malnutrition rates by
including brown flour instead of white in dole rations, and by
distributing a vitamin-rich beverage ‘Cocomalt’, a chocolate mix, to schoolchildren for free.

According to the vintage ad above, ‘Cocomalt’ provided the Vitamin D kids need to develop “well formed, husky bodies.”

Why is this of interest today?

Well, in North America,someone dies from skin cancer every hour.

Are these deaths preventable and do people know about the dangers they face?.....

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