I quit smoking back in 1979 so i could drink more but then i tired of drinking and devoted my life to AGW (Anti Global Warming) If we were to prevent all accidental deaths it certainly would contribute to overpopulation--so the solar panel industry is doing us a favor--also we must take into consideration this--The Transportation Department estimated Friday that 32,788 people were killed on U.S. roads in 2010, a decrease of about 3 percent from 2009. It's the fewest number of deaths since 1949 - during the presidency of Harry Truman - when more than 30,000 people were killed. Since 2005, highway deaths have fallen about 25 percent.http://articles.philly.com/2011-04-02/news/29...raffic-deaths-auto-deaths

And so we have now discovered yet a third category of documented and scientifically accepted harmful effects of radiation and that is mental retardation in children who were irradiated while still in the womb. . . . http://www.ratical.org/radiation/WorldUraniumHearing/GordonEdwards.html think this is most dangerous--especially on Indian Reservations--in the US

Gerald in respect of your link above have you seen this news item?

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110627p2g00m0dm004000c.html

Radiation experts said Sunday they had found internal radiation exposure in all of the 15 people they surveyed in May in areas 30-40 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.


That's 100% of all of those sampled 30 to 40 kms from the power plant

This is worse as the radioactive material has been taken up, by various routes, into the bodies of the individuals


Nanao Kamada, a radiation biologist who led the survey, said, "There is no cause for concern...


Of course not Heaven forbid someone might complain

Fixed the link--http://www.ratical.org/radiation/WorldUraniumHearing/GordonEdwards.html Radium
Well, how did the story of uranium progress? Because uranium was less radioactive than its daughter products, it was not valued commercially. But radium was. And radium began to be used principally for two purposes. One was to burn cancerous growths. I should tell you that both Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie suffered grievous burns which were very difficult to heal and which left permanent scars just as a result of handling radium. Other scientists got the idea that if they embedded a needle containing radium inside a cancerous tumor, it would burn the cancer -- and indeed it did. That was the beginning of cancer therapy using radiation, wherein the harmful effects of atomic radiation are directed against cancerous cells instead of healthy cells. Of course, atomic radiation does similar damage to healthy cells.

Now, the other main use for radium was as a luminous paint, because of the glow-in-the-dark phenomenon that Marie Curie had observed. Believe it or not, the price of uranium in the 1920s was $100,000 a gram -- and this is using dollars of the twenties! It was a very expensive commodity, but only very little was needed for any given purpose. Some of it was used to make luminous paint, with which they would paint dials so they could be read even in the dark.

Now the young women who painted these things began to get sick. This was first reported by an American dentist called Blum, who said that he had some very young women -- 19 years old, 18 years old, 20 years old -- coming into his dentistry office. Their teeth were falling out, their gums were badly infected and bleeding profusely, they were anemic, their bones were soft, and in some cases their jawbones had spontaneously fractured. Some of them died of severe anemia.

The only thing these women had in common was that they worked in a radium dial painting factory in New Jersey. Blum called this phenomenon "radium jaw". A few years later, the women who had recovered from these symptoms started developing problems in the rest of their skeleton. They suffered weakening of the bone, spontaneous fractures of the hip and of other bones, and growths -- tumors, some of which were cancerous -- in the bones themselves. Now, bone cancer is such an exceedingly rare disease, that there was little doubt that this cancer was caused by exposure to radium.

It was discovered that simply by wetting the tip of the brush in order to get a nice clean figure on the dials, these women were ingesting minute quantities of radium. And that was sufficient to cause all these symptoms. When autopsies were performed on the corpses of these women, doctors discovered that in their entire skeleton there were only a few micrograms of radium. This quantity was so small, that no conventional chemical analysis could detect it. Nevertheless, this tiny amount of radium had distributed itself so thoroughly through their skeleton, that you could take a picture of any one of their bones just by laying it on a photographic plate in a dark room, It is called an auto-radiograph -- that is, an x-ray picture with no x-ray machine.

So this was our first introduction to the harmful effects of even minute quantities of such substances. By the way, many of the women who survived this phase of the assault later on developed cancers of the head -- cancer of the sinuses, cancer of the soft palate, and other types of head cancers. We now know how these were caused. Remember, radium is radioactive -- even inside the body. As I told you earlier, when radium atoms disintegrate, they turn into radon gas. So radon gas was being produced inside the bodies of these women. In fact, one test for radium contamination is to check a person's exhaled breath and see if it has radon gas in it; if it does, that person must have radium in his or her body. In the case of the radium dial painters, the radon gas was being produced in the bones, dissolved in the blood, and pumped by the heart up to the head where it collected in the sinus and other cavities. And there it was irradiating the delicate living tissues and causing head cancers.

Classic

Winston Smith would have been kept busy with the arrival of the Internet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8re7arPrahU&NR=1

compare and contrast in no more than a thousand words with ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Sv8GElol8&feature=related


...making a contribution to dealing with the problems of Climate Change as well



Yes it really is the same guy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!