a number of seemingly isolated communities where the inhabitants
woke up one morning and found that unbeknownst to them, their
land, their streets, their water and their air was so polluted with tox-ic chemicals that they were being slowly but surely poisoned. Sur-prise! Surprise! Someone had stealthily been dumping tons and tons
of poisonous wastes in the "backyard" of their community for years
and now they were stuck with it. These poisons had now seeped into
the ground water, into the aquifer, into their wells, and yes, had
even been sprayed on the streets as a clever way to disguise and
disperse these poisons. Now, too late, these unwary citizens had
make an agonizing decision: abandon their homes and life's savings
and move "elsewhere," or suffer the slow death of toxic poisoning.
Although hundreds of such incidents preceded it, it was not un-til the major disasters of Love Canal in 1978 hit the front pages
and temporarily pre-empted the evening news on TV that some peo-ple began to realize that we had a major pollution problem.
However, the Love Canal tragedy was only the tip of the iceberg.
In that incident rain popped leaking drums out of the ground on a
black tide of long buried chemicals. High incidents of birth defects,
cancer and other pathological diseases among the local citizenry also
began popping up at alarming rates. it drove hundreds of families
away from their homes in Love Canal, and permanently disabled or
killed many of its former citizens. Protracted litigations and attemp-ted clean-ups are still going on, and will continue to do so for years.
But let us look at a few other cases that are becoming more and
more common.
Verna Courtemance is a former school teacher who lives at
Swartz Creek, a country crossroads 60 miles northwest of Detroit.
Her former neighbor, Charles Berlin and his partner opened a hazar-dous waste incinerator in 1972 next door to Verna's home. The in-cinerator, often overloaded, smothered the countryside in acrid
smoke so dark and dense that firemen on the horizon would take
it for blazing houses and race over. The corrosive murk turned con-vertible car tops into literal rag tops. It reddened children's faces with
rashes and swelled eyes shut.
Verna and friends harried state officials by telephone, rally and
letter for four years before Berlin's smudge pot was shut down
permanently.
Did Barlin ever indemnify his neighbors for the massive
damage be had caused? No. In 1980 he declared bankrupt-cy, abandoned the site, and left someone else to clean up
the mess and carry the burden.
During the next three years investigators unearthed behind his
incinerator five storage tanks and the first of 33000 drums. They</p>
ramifications only one dump site can create for the adjoining coun-tryside. For example, near Seymour, <enttype='NORP'>Indiana</ent>, a 13 acre disposal
How many such dangerous dump sites are there? TIMES
BEACH, which we have just described, is only one of forty such sites
in the state of Missouri alone that is under investigation by the EPA.
The 40 sites are under investigation mainly for dioxin contamina-tion (thousands of other toxic chemicals also proliferate the land-scape). Even extremely small doses of dioxin can cause miscarriages,
birth defects, liver damage or death in laboratory animals. To guinea
pigs, for example, it is 200 times as deadly as strychnine. Does that
give you an idea of the magnitude of the poisonous threat that has
been spread over the landscape?
But let us expand from dioxin and the state of Missouri.
Just how big is the hazardous waste pileup on the national scale?
The NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST of the EPA continues to grow
as states other than Missouri scramble to locate dangerous site
within their borders. At stake are billions of dollars of federal cleanup
funds. By October of 1984 the EPA had designated or proposed 786
waste sites for the list. The agency estimates that the list may even-tually contain at least 2500 emergency sites, but there are at least
16000 known hazardous waste sites in the United States, all of
which, sooner or later, are a potential time bomb. Imagine 16000
SWARTZ CREEKS, or TIMES BEACHES, or LOVE CANALS,
spread across the country polluting the land, air and water - poison-ing its residents, killing its wildlife! Bat they merely reflect PAST
criminal negligence. Where is the increasing garbage of the
future going to end up?
No one knows the true sum of our toxic wastes, but the 264
million metric tons regulated by EPA in 1981 would fill the New
Orleans Superdome almost 1500 times over. Since 1950 we have
"disposed" of possibly six billion tons in, or on, the land, into our
water, or into the air - steadily increasing our potential exposure
to dangerous toxic chemicals that can cause cancer, birth defects,
miscarriages, nervous disorders, blood diseases, and damage to liver,
kidneys and our genes.
But have we really disposed of these toxic chemicals or are they
really still there, accumulating in ever larger piles and dumps clos-ing in on us, and threatening to turn the world into an uninhabitable,
garbage dump? Have we solved the problem? No, we have not. Is
there a viable solution in the future?
Let us examine the ingenious methods that government and in-dustry have devised to seemingly "dispose" of all these billions of
tons of toxic poisons.
Well, they are not really so ingenious at all. Basically they con-sist of dumping them somewhere that will be at least temporarily</p>
(e) Some European countries compress their wastes into com-pact packages and dump them far out to sea. A dirty and irresposi-ble method that among others is rapidly polluting the greatest
resource and expanse of our planet, the oceans themselves. They,
too, are limited in the abuse they can take.
(f) Some send incinerator ships out on the ocean to burn the
refuse, thereby avoiding local pollution of the air, but nevertheless
adding it to the earth's already overpolluted atmosphere.
(g) Some industries sell their poisonous wastes to gullible govern-ment agencies on the basis that they will help promote health.
excellent example is the aluminum industry who for years had
thousands of tons of excess fluoride on their hands as a by-product
in the manufacture of aluminum. Then some bright exec came up
with the idea of selling it to the thousands of water treatment plants
across the country, as an aid to prevent tooth decay.
The fact is fluoride in its inorganic form (the form to which it
comes to the water companies) is one of the most deadly poisons
known, and has the added danger of staying in the bones of those
who ingest it for years. It is a major ingredient in rat poison. Whereas
some fluoride COMPOUNDS that are organic (parts of plants, liv-ing food) are compatible to the human body, inorganic fluoride, is
and will forever remain highly poisonous.
Nor do even minute quantities of INORGANIC fluoride help
anybody's teeth. It will, however, cause pitting of the enamel, and
mottling the color of the teeth.
(h) Many backward countries (like Mexico) simply run a sewer
line a mile or so out in the ocean and run all of their sewage, raw
and untreated, directly into the ocean. Some U.S. cities on the
coastline also once indulged in this dirty practice.
(i) Millions of tons of waste go up the tall smoke stacks of
smelters, refineries and power plants to disperse into an already over
polluted atmosphere. Add to this the emissions from millions of cars,
trucks, diesel locomotives, airplanes and steamships, and you have
a floating garbage dump hovering overhead. As a result, we have
acid rain, polluted air and an ever increasing accumulation of CO2
in the atmosphere that in the long run is creating a "greenhouse"
effect, the inevitable result of which will be disastrous to the climate
and environment of this planet earth.
(j) There are a number of other nasty little tricks, such as spray-ing highly toxic chemicals on regular garbage and letting the gar-bage man pick it up along with the rest of the garbage. Or some
smaller chemical companies have been caught running highly toxic
chemicals into the city sewer lines through secretly drilled connec-tions. And other dirty tricks.</p>
of fictitious abstractions, which, taken either singly or col-lectively from a bizarre nightmare that is an affront to any
thinking man['s intellect. These fictitious fantasies go something
like this.
There are spooks tn the sky - somewhere, anywhere,
everywhere, - who control our lives, who control world events and
control the universe. These spooks are omnipresent and continually
looking over our shoulders, taking notes and recording our every word
and every action. Not only our words and actions, but even our every
thought is put on record in that super-computer in the sky.
Talk about the mass of material the Jews have in their super-computer in Tel Aviv! But even that is small potatoes compared to
that super-duper computer in the sky needed to record every word,
deed and thought of the burgeoning 5 billion people now living, not
to mention all the garbage stored up for those already dead, but
waiting for "Judgment Day." It must really overload the circuits in
the sky. No wonder we have repeated short circuits and flashes of
lightning up there on high.
The fantasy goes on. When we die we will have all this ac-cumulated garbage thrown back in our face. We will be held accountable for every word, deed, thought, and woe betide! If you are found
wanting and meandered from the mainline, or made some mistakes,
it's the pits for you, the fiery sulphurous pits, that is. And since none
of us are perfect, guess where 99 and 44/100 percent of us will go.
Of course now there might be some exceptions, like the Jerry Falwells
who kow-towed obediently and subserviently to God's Chosen. But
you can never be sure, and that includes Jerry Falwell, the Pope and
Billy Graham. Who knows what evil thoughts might sometimes have
lurked in the dark recesses of their twisted little minds. Even Jimmy
Carter admitted there have been times when he lusted.
Now not all these spooks in the sky are surveiling and taking
notes. Only the "good guys" are doing that. But spooks evidently
come in a great variety of forms, shapes and sizes and not all of them
are "good," in the eyes of the "Holy Scriptures." Like in the movies
you always have the good guys and the bad guys, so too, up there</p>
bomb - the brain bomb, in which they have been fantastically suc-cessful. <enttype='NORP'>Christianity</ent> was their major weapon and Saul of Tarsus was
is basically a self-concocted history of the Jewish Race (the Israelites)
and Jahweh's unending devotion to, and love affair with, this parasitic
tribe of Semites. There is not a shred of historical basis to its con-cocted "history," nor is there any scientific evidence for its Creation
hypothesis of the World being "created" 6000 years ago in a 6 day
period. The Old Testament constitutes 75 per cent of the "Holy Bi-ble" and never so much as mentions Jesus Christ. (b) THE NEW
TESTAMENT. It is all about the life of a circumcised Jew named
Jesus Christ, who supposedly lived circa 1-33 C.E., but again not
a shred of historical evidence to verify this story. The teachings of
Christ were already promoted by a small religious cult called the
Essenes, who pre-dated the supposed Christ era by a century.
CREATIVITY - is founded on three basic books: (a) NATURE'S
ETERNAL RELIGION - lays the foundation for the religion of
CREATIVITY. (b) THE WHITE MAN'S BIBLE - reinforces and ex-pands upon the first book, and introduces the idea of Salubrious Liv-ing - a program for achieving the ultimate in superb health and
well-being. (c) SALUBRIOUS LIVING - spells this program out in
detail - including the details about nutrition, fasting, exercise, en-vironment, and eugenics. Spelled out in 14 specific points.</p>
<enttype='NORP'>CHRISTIANITY</ent> - beliefs are based on the supernatural. Essentially geared to denouncing the real world and focusing on a fictitious
the government will thus try to cover its own growing budget deficits and
decline in foreign currency reserves with private money.
The Israeli government, whose budgetary expenses actually exceed its
gross domestic product of around $20 billion, has protested - in the per-son of Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai - that it "will not touch the savings
of the individual Israeli."
But Israelis have long since stopped believing in their government.
"I don't believe anything they're saying anymore," declared Orah Lip-sky, an American-born educator who lives in Jerusalem. She said she was
especially upset by the governments recent decision to raise the travel tax
to $300 along with another 20 percent on the price of airline tickets.
For Mrs. Lipsky, her husband and two children, this means that what
used to be $2000 trip to visit her parents in New Jersey has become over-night a trip that costs close to $14000 just for airfare and government taxes.
"It's an outrage", said Mrs. Lipsky. "I feel like a prisoner of conscience.
I don't think they (the government) have any economic plan."
Beyond the travel tax, the Israeli government also decreed that the value
added tax (VAT) - a kind of national sales tax on every good and service
- would rise from 15 to 17 percent.
"What this gigantic government really has to do it cannot do because
it has to please 25 different ministers, and therefore it cannot cut public spen-ding," asserted Nehemya Shessler, economic reporter for the liberal morn-ing daily paper, Ha'aretz.
In less than two months, the black market rate for the dollars has prac-tically doubled as thousands of Israelis and Israeli institutions cashed in their
savings and pension plans and bought dollars on the black market or rush-ed out to buy luxury items such as new cars.
Already, however, senior government ministers are talking about im-posing a new tax on all cars, no matter how old, owned by the public. This
would be in addition to the numerous taxes and customs levies on new cars
that have raised prices to astronomical levels.
A mid-size sedan, for example, which would cost five or six thousand
dollars in Britain, Germany or the United States, costs "only" twenty-four
to twenty-nine thousand dollars (in shekels) here.
Despite the high price of cars, however, Israeli dealers have reported
that all their stocks have been bought out through the end of the summer.
"Everybody's buying now," said Danny Tzarfati, a car dealer here,
"because they know the government will only tax it even more."</p>
