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State Of Emergency Declared In Michigan City After Lead Found In Children's Blood
Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,
“The City of Flint has experienced a Manmade disaster,” said the city’s mayor Monday evening, as she declared a state of emergency over evidently staggering levels of lead in the city’s tap water. Mayor Karen M. Weaver has requested federal assistance to deal with the fallout from over a year’s worth of tainted water delivered to Flint residents and, allegedly, falsely declared safe by government officials.
In September, news broke that lead contamination was on the rise in Flint. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha of the Hurley Medical Center concluded that since the water supply switched from the Detroit system to Flint River in April 2014, the number of infants and children with elevated levels of lead in their blood had doubled, from 2.1% to 4%. While the rise seems small, it is statistically significant. Even so, Attisha warned: “My research shows that lead levels have gone up. I cannot say it’s from the water. But that’s, you know, the thing that has happened.“
The World Health Organization says “lead affects children’s brain development resulting in reduced intelligence quotient (IQ), behavioral changes such as shortening of attention span and increased antisocial behavior, and reduced educational attainment. Lead exposure also causes anemia, hypertension, renal impairment, immunotoxicity and toxicity to the reproductive organs. The neurological and behavioral effects of lead are believed to be irreversible.”
The high levels of lead have been attributed to old pipes and plumbing, which researchers say rubs off more into Flint River water than it does other sources. Because the water itself is more corrosive than other supplies, it erodes the pipes it flows through, picking up lead along the way.
Flint River is one of the filthiest rivers in Michigan. Over the years, it has housed raw sewage, tires, old refrigerators — which residents have attempted to sift out — and lead. In spite of this, officials declared it safe to drink in April 2014, when they switched the supply to the tainted river.
The change was widely attributed to the city’s switch from Detroit’s water system to the Flint River under the leadership of the city’s previous mayor, Dayne Walling. The shift in supply was a result of failed procedures and negotiations to continue purchasing the water.
Shortly after the April switch, residents complained the water emitted a foul odor and was cloudy in appearance, but local and state officials insisted the water was safe. In spite of these assurances, in January 2015, MLive reported the State Department of Environmental Quality had “issued a notice of violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act for maximum contaminant levels for trihalomethanes — or TTHM — a group of four chemicals that are formed as a byproduct of disinfecting water.”
These chemical byproducts are linked to cancer and other diseases, and presented a separate issue from the lead.
The water was so dirty that in October 2014, General Motors announced it would no longer use treated Flint River water at its engine plant out of fears it would cause corrosion.
Amid growing concerns, parents started buying gallons of bottled water to avoid the Flint River supply. Those who couldn’t afford it, as the Washington Post noted, “drank it straight from the tap all the same, knowing that they would be paying for it later. When it came to bathing, some slowly filled bathtubs with pots of boiled water for their children.”
By October 2015, protests, petitions, and public outrage led Governor Rick Snyder to promptly switch the water supply back to the Detroit System, until Lake Huron’s Karegnondi Water Authority pipeline is ready for use. It is estimated to be operating by the end of 2016.
According to the governor’s press secretary, David Murray, an “action plan” created by Snyder amid the protests provides “free water testing, free water filters and the accelerating of corrosion controls in the drinking water system.”
Even so, concerns over lead poisoning remain at the forefront of many resident’s lives. In November, a class-action suit representing tens of thousands of residents was filed against Snyder, the city, the state, and 13 other public officials. It claims that “For more than 18 months, state and local government officials ignored irrefutable evidence that the water pumped from the Flint River exposed [residents] to extreme toxicity. The deliberately false denials about the safety of the Flint River water was as deadly as it was arrogant.” The suit claims officials deprived residents of their 14th amendment rights by deliberately providing them with water they knew to be toxic.
The plaintiffs allege their health complications include “skin lesions, hair loss, chemical-induced hypertension, vision loss and depression.” Four families are described in the complaint, two of which say they ceased using the water and still suffered medical hardship.
Murray said the governor’s office disagreed with points in the suit but declined to comment further.
As a result of the apparent health ramifications, Mayor Weaver anticipates an increased need for certain services in the years to come. In her declaration of emergency on Monday, she argued increased learning disabilities and lower IQs caused by lead will require increased special education services, among other resources. She called for a Special Meeting of the Genesee County Board of Commissioners no later than this month.
Her declaration received mixed reviews from city councilmen. Scott Kincaid praised the move for alerting federal authorities of the dire situation. Josh Freeman, however, warned residents not to expect immediate change because of the mayor’s statement. “We need to find a way to actually fix the problem,” Freeman said. “This declaration does not [fix the problem].“
Either way, one sentiment remains consistent: As the class-action suit alleges, authorities “violated the constitutional rights of Plaintiffs and Plaintiff Class members by acting in a manner that shocks the conscience and was deliberately indifferent to the those constitutional rights, as well as to the health and well-being of the Plaintiffs.
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More water contamination = Direct assault.
Hmm. Well. They had lead in the pipes in Pompeii http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/09/lawrence-solomon-water-exports-and-f...
What's a little fraud among the corrupt officials of a dying city?
Besides, they have an excuse. The water made them stupid, so they are passing the legacy on to their children.
(or Darwin at work, as I sometimes like to say)
They've been eating too much Fort Knox gold.
MMmmmmmm.... GUBMINT controlled and regulated water. High lead in the water is just creating more brain damaged progressives. What's not to like?
So the "solution" to this gubmint caused/made disaster is... wait for it... MORE GUBMINT!!!!
Time to sue the bankrupt city
After so much gun violence what else you can find in blood but lead.
that's what the stupid affirmative action hires get for disconnecting from detroit's water supply and pulling water out of a river. idiots.
“lead affects children’s brain development resulting in reduced intelligence quotient (IQ), behavioral changes such as shortening of attention span and increased antisocial behavior, and reduced educational attainment."
Amazing! Lead's effect on children's brains is the same as our public school system's.
" Change you can beleeve in! "
The problem is easily solved: Change the safe limits to 100x the current values.
Soon these kids will be declared danger to the environment by epa.
Duplicate
No, they've been lead astray.
Do not worry your pretty little heads. The EPA is on it.....just like it was on the Animas River.
Hmm, "Like stink on sh!t!"
It's for their own protecion - radiation sheilding from fukishima.
I thought the NWO would go with Ebola, but lead in the water, while slower, still gets it done. I wonder if leaded blood is any defense against radiation?
FORWARD PLUMB CRAZY SOVIETS!
WTF? State of Emergency?? Like calling out the DHS Stazi for body cavity searches in schools or gun confiscation?
"...Mayor Karen M. Weaver has requested federal assistance to deal with the fallout from over a year’s worth of tainted water..."
Oh, I get it now. State of Emergency = Free clownbucks. OK. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along...
I bet there will be no false flags while Obama is on vacation.
Sandy Hook was a week before he went to Hawaii.
Paveway, 40 years ago I started my career in the civil engineering sector. Worked a lot of sewer/water reconstruction jobs. Some of the water/sewer districts are privately owned although they bear the towns name. The cost of reconstruction is an enormous cost and there are still a lot of lead water mains and feeders out there. All one needs to see is the water/sewer entities maps (ask for the sewer map as it shows both water /sewer and note the date), look for symbol pb (lead), on the map...
A lot of older homes may older copper pipes that have high lead solder joining the copper pipes. Some inspectors ignore this, but the aforementioned is more important.
Then you can especially appreciate the need to actually repair and replace a lot of our infrastructure, which is way beyond overdue. Like third-world overdue. Sanitary and storm sewers, water, power... all of it is falling apart. I would have no problem with federal money going to real infrastructure projects - the more the better. That's kind of why I pay taxes.
Instead, you know Weaver is going to take all the clownbux she can and dole it out to a million useless government programs and social service agencies that have only the most tangential relationship to the problem. They will do ANYTHING to avoid actually fixing the problems - that's how they got into this mess in the first place. I'm sure some consultants will get that $100K grant they need for the lead-poisoned kid's "Delayed Development After School Song and Dance Therapy" program or a $175K study by some university to measure "The Impact of Social Engagement Eye Pattern Deviation in Lead-Exposed Populations."
But dig up those old, leaky lead mains leaching into the water? Provide cheap tests so people can see if their own plumbing is part the problem? Screw that - just buy less corrosive water and tell everyone there's nothing to worry about anymore. See? Fixed. Easy...
And last time I asked where I could get a map of the sewer system for a certain neighborhood, I'm sure they put me on a terrorist watch list. I'm surprised they didn't Taze me and put a few rounds into my neck right at the counter, then come to my house and shoot my dog. I didn't dare ask about the water supply. I don't know if that's just my city or what, but I would never go anywhere near the city offices again without a concealed lawyer and full body armor. They're real funny nowadays about 'curious' citizens.
I agree, but one can view them (maps) under the auspices of having possible construction work done (in areas where you have municipal sewer). The other main lead source are old underground high voltage lines. Those were run in lead pipe. In cases, new construction consisted of new manholes and PVC pipe, the old stuff was left buried in other instances the pipe was pulled. What blows my mind is how they are so concerned about the bullshit about AGW that they forgot about the other problems such as a certain fire retardant (PCB's) that were used in everything from caulking, hydraulic oil, power transformers and as the non flammable oil used at steel mills everywhere USA. The clouds of steam covered large areas and the PCB molecule is a heavy one, that easily leached into water supples. If one digs down a bit and samples soil in those regions and have it tested, it will more likely than not show a positive.
One more item. the chemical now kniown as roundup. Timber companies used it profusely and in the agent orange form in many heavily logged states up till the late 80's. Since then many cases of (both male and female) breast cancer (and other issues) have been dominant in those regions. I willl add that when the PCB issue came to light those same companies holding timberland used "oil" to spray on the logging roads to keep the dust down. Those roads need to be bored and have the soil tested.
This is getting a bit out of hand....
Lead used in steelmaking.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00028896309342925?journalCode...
It is also used as a lubricant in the wire making process... Lead free christmas lights vs those that dont.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/12/christmas-lights-coated-w...
Black Lives Scatter™
The lead-armored children of Flint were the only above ground survivors of the Nuclear Holocaust of 2016...
“We need to find a way to actually fix the problem,” Freeman said. “This declaration does not [fix the problem].“
I've had the same thoughts about the whole federal government and monetary system for a long time.
HA ! ... keep lathering that aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex under your pits every morning, bitchez ! < deodorant >
I believe it..
Even worse - DiHydrogen Monoxide! DiHydrogen Monoxide is one of the deadliest chemicals on the planet yet we leave it largely unregulated by the gubmint. Scores children die each year from suffocation due to DiHydrogen Monoxide. Many people are over exposed to DiHydrogen Monoxide, never to be seen again. When will DiHydrogen Monoxide be banned?!?!?!
For the children...
(crying now...)
If it falls from the sky in certain regions it may be regulated... and in its gaseous form may cause.....Global Warming
Heard once that just a tablespoon of the stuff can kill someone.
I've seen rivers of the stuff bend metal, break bones, and sweep cars and houses away like they are toys.
Funny & clever... Now, if I hadn't ingested so much hydrofluorosilicic acid in your DiHydrogen Monoxide I'd have an adequate amount of IQ points to get it..
I prefer to smell like onion soup, makes the old lady hungry.
Womyn shouldn't be so concerned about perfumes, most guys prefer their Womyn to smell like BBQ!
I started using coconut oil. Now I smell like a crayon. Who doesn't love crayons? They're so tasty :P
They are just trying to get at Michael Moore.
And his roving carolers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i52qITyCs34
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Help! Not just any bomb
Help! We need lots of bombs
Hellllp!
Help me if you can I see a clown
And all he wants to do is fuck around
Help me scrape this shithead off the ground
Won't you please, please, help me
If you want to advertise, pay the fucking Tylers, BITCH!
Then do it in the right place, not here.
Thank you, thank you, we passed the audition MsCreant!
Read this article on 'The UN Agenda 2030' and you will get some insight into why this type of event is likely to become more widespread......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/as-events-spiral-ou...
Cui bono? which wing of the oligarchy?
Hence why one should NEVER live in a bankrupt state that the unions use to run!
Dont fuck with the unions..... or they have something for you!
Last one to leave, turn out the lights.
The lights are turned off, due to failure to pay the bill.
Maybe one should never live in a bankrupt country that spends more on foreign wars than its own people.
Government always puts your best interests first!
At least Flint tested the water for lead. This is why I drink bottled water from Iceland.
Probably acidic. Research Kangen water. Google Dr Corrine Allen.
It is. Michigan is basically a temperate jungle. The groundwater is loaded with tannic acid, (from rotting vegetation) which if you run it through ancient lead pipes will add lead to the water. Combine this with a city run by deranged sjw's who only hire from the affirmative action list and the filtering system is run incorrectly. What a suprise.
We got wars to focus on and different distribution of lead.
Yes, filled with Depleted Uranium that will keep poisoning the earth and everyone forever. Another gift from the psychopaths in charge.
Ain't Depleted Uranium, more like Purified Uranium (U238) in that they reduce one of the minority isotopes U235 from .72% to .3% while extracting it for fissile material, it's still Uranium, not depleted at all, just the fissile U235 lessened. If they wanted to be more specific, they should call it Reduced U235 Uranium. The definition of depleted is that it's all gone, which is not the case for their U235 extraction when it's only reduced from .72% to .3% in concentration, but since they don't mention that fact, and they let people assume that all of the uranium is gone, deplated (from usage of the term Depleated Uranium), infering to the ignorant masses that what is being used for military purposes is benign.
They postulate that U238 is safe if you sit next to it, like in a tank with U238 armor or U238 tipped shells, but when those shells are used, the U238 perpetrator melts entering the target and becomes aerosolized, the U238 particles to flutter in the breeze forever, their radioactive half life of 4 billion years, breathed in by animals and humans alike causing cancer and birth defects. A health hazard for ever.
Aerosolized Uranium is present in Kuwait, Kosovo, Iraq, wherever the US and it's lackeys wage war (so possibly also in Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan)
"They postulate that U238 is safe if you sit next to it, like in a tank with U238 armor or U238 tipped shells, "
False. All uranium products are super radiotativ their whole lives.
Don't believe me?
Get a geiger counter and get back with me
Alpha emitters like U238 don't penetrate the skin (don't injest it though, that alpha destroys cells)
Every smoke detector has some alpha emitter Americium
Don't sit beside Cesium though, it's a beta and gamma radiator (through the skin and the gamma needs heavy lead shielding to resist penetration)
Are tank crews worse off than going to the dentist for x-rays? All radiation is bad and the more you avoid it, the better your chances are of staying healthy.
You're right its more like concentrated death. I think the term is probably more of a marketing tool from the psychopaths so that most people, including those using it in or exposed to it in the military, will think its safe.
After all everyone's corporations fraudulently pretending to be governments never tell a lie. Anyone just seeing this term though that wants to look it up should know most all of the references and research are under Depleted Uranium or commonly abbreviated as (DU).
Depleted Uranium, sort of like Enhanced Interrogation (torture), Extraordinary Rendition (kidnapping), terms created to lessen the perception of their intent
Michael Moore needs to get on this.
"Michael Moore needs to get on this."
He would, but he can't get his 400 Lb ass off of the couch...
this might explain a bit about michael moore
The decline and fall of once vibrant cities.
Sad, yet an integral part of the lifecycle.
Globalization started at the end of WWll.
Some military guy was put in charge of VW in Germany to organize export of their cars.
Then he went to Japan.
But nobody in Detroit even knows his name.
Not sure this was even an accident - they had to at some point done a test of the water. Most likely it is tested multiple times every HOUR.
I know how we can get some federal money - let's poison some kids.
So, let's start connecting some dots: drinking water in Sacramento purposefully had aluminum added to it; uranium is being found in drinking water in Fresno; tap water in Oklahoma and Pennsylvania can be set on fire (due to fracking); EPA blew out a mine in Colorado, ruining drinking water for everyone relying on the affected river...am I forgetting anyone?
I doubt all of this is by accident. Buy yourselves Berkey filters, people. They are the best.
This isn't an advertisement - this is simply a way to get some peace of mind.
I use Big Berkey myself and my water is supposed to be pretty good. I have a flouride filter on mine too. Everyone comments on how good the water tastes.
Really? I stopped using the berkey fluoride filters because there was some weird precipitate in the water, despite my following their directions for flushing/break-in new filters. In fact, I ended up doing about triple what they said should suffice.
No precipitate now.
I will say this, I wondered if I over "conditioned" them by accident (too much fluid force for too long) because of excess precipitate and worried I had over done it and shortened the filter life. I did waaay more than triple. Even the other filters, I had to do more than the directions said. I know they are working right.
The death of empires, strange indeed.
Thirty years ago, Jerome Nriagu argued in a milestone paper that Roman civilization collapsed as a result of lead poisoning. Clair Patterson, the scientist who convinced governments to ban lead from gasoline, enthusiastically endorsed this idea, which nevertheless triggered a volley of publications aimed at refuting it. Although today lead is no longer seen as the prime culprit of Rome’s demise, its status in the system of water distribution by lead pipes (fistulæ) still stands as a major public health issue. By measuring Pb isotope compositions of sediments from the Tiber River and the Trajanic Harbor, the present work shows that “tap water” from ancient Rome had 100 times more lead than local spring waters.
Not just the water, but the wine. If stored in lead-glazed amphorae, wine (because of its slight acidity) ccould pick up much more lead than the water in the pipes.
But of course, Rome really collapsed the same way all empires of conquest collapse. It ran out of other groups of people to loot and pillage and enslave. And it eventually became overrun with people from its victim-lands, who wanted Roman citizenship and benefits and such. A familiar pattern?
Roman Empire started to neglect the infrastructure because there was no money in fixing things.
sound familiar?
Yup.
At least thats what the jews say, anyway.
what a dung hole USA is
Definitely a third world shithole in a lot of places.
Indeed, the USA is toast and yet the brain dead populace cant accept the truth. What a flash in the pan this empire was.
All I can say is "good riddance".
I wish I could leave as I cant stand this place any longer.
The problem is everyplace else is a corrupt mess as well.
Humans-don"t ya just love em?
Nothing more than your run-of-the-mill African nation - what's the problem...?
Lead pipes? 21st Century?
Lawyers from all over are giving generously, rushing in to help...
ROFL!! Good one!!
"falsely declared safe by government officials."
We're from the government and we're here to help. Please, give us moar gubermint.
They did not want to pay Detroit for the water...so they got their own...guess they got it wrong....
Bullish lead
I prefer my lead in a more "conical" configuration.
3rd world here we come! Si se puede!
I'm pretty sure that Flint is well past the third world stage.
This is really sad. A wake up call to the hellish dark age the US is heading into. Perhaps there is just no power great enough to stop it. Our destiny.
Holy crap.
You made me pee blood.
Has your mother ever had, you know, that "talk" with you? Birds and the bees?
Never let a good man made crisis go to waste.
After driving thru' Flint several times,I'd already concluded it was a toxic dump before this revelation.
Nuke it from space,just to be sure.
Since when have people had rights.
Is there now any question that financial sociopaths control all levels of government, without conscience nor empathy.
How about potable water? All these immigrants need water, food, housing, jobs and guess who they will compete with?
"Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse.
U.S. population will double from 300 million to 600 million on its way to 1 billion in the lifetime of a child born today if we fail to change course."
Frosty Wooldridge 2000
The world population along with the USA is going to crash off a cliff when the neocons decide to attack Russia directly.
1 year with out electricity in this country= 90% death rate.
With a bit of nuclear winter world populations crash to 10%.
And if Yellowstone decides to let loose some suggest the world pop will be MAYBE 5,000.
Yes 5,000
No, I dont see anyway the population will raise from this point forward. Fukushima is killing the Pacific that 2,5 billion depend on for protein.
Face it, it is over.
Humans-don't you just love em?
I wish this shit happened in Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai. Man I can't walk the streets there without seeing atleast 1 homeless person for every other yard. I am sorry to say but the Indians need to fucking put their dicks in their pants and stop having sex for couple generations.
"Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century."
no
In the present economic model, can't decrease the population, there has to be consumers to buy product, food, housing, clothing, services, the economists just don't associate lack of jobs with lack of consumption, they are too busy devising ways to pad the bottom line for the Corporates.
If all those on food stamps or unemployed disappeared, that's a big chunk of GDP that would disappear from the ledger.
"Loss of jobs (and lower paying jobs) in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century."
Outsourcing jobs, outsourcing manufacturing are the greatest culprit to economic demise.
Stop blaming the victims.
People still drink tap water? EEEwwwwww....
Only the uninformed.
Long RO systems.
yup...looks like the 2 down votes I got are from people who have never heard of Reverse Osmosis. For $150 you can have sparkling clean water all the time. First thing I put in when I moved into this house.
You do know that all bottled water is Flint MI tap water, right?
RIGHT?
Here's the one I just put in. Kit includes everything you need for install, and is made in USA.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00I0ZGOZM/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1450286435&...
not that it really matters at this point, but changing water sources will not help the FlintStones if their pipes and infrastructure are lead pipes. what is not mentioned is what polluted the fucking river in the first place, THE AUTO INDUSTRY. Lead NEVER leaves your body after it's ingested, NEVER. i can only surmise that Flint isn't alone in this debacle............
Don't tell that to the republicans.
They will say that it is the liberals of michigans fault.
They were in charge when the pipes were put in.....so, their logic being what it is.....
Strawman arguments are the bread and butter of the modern day "liberals".
Similarly, Obama IS in charge of the nation, EPA, etc., so, to follow your reasoning...
It does. ~2 month half life in blood and soft tissues. Though if it's taken up by bone it stays. It has a half life of 5-20 years.
http://www.toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Biological+Properties+of+Lead
Long Big Berkey.
Now we have evidence that democrats are simply contaminated with lead and have low IQs through no fault of their own.
Says it all about our current city, state, and federal gubments and shall be the epitaph of a sad and fallen nation that should break up.
"Either way, one sentiment remains consistent: As the class-action suit alleges, authorities “violated the constitutional rights of Plaintiffs and Plaintiff Class members by acting in a manner that shocks the conscience and was deliberately indifferent to the those constitutional rights, as well as to the health and well-being of the Plaintiffs.
"
I bet the environmental issue was discovered by Goldman Sachs executives. "I was sucking a child's blood and I noticed a funny taste....."
Flint is mostly African American. Must be racist attack.
Help stamp out micro-agressive lead particles?
Remember the story about all the detroit people refusing to pay their water bill, because water IS ANOTHER ENTITLEMENT? Well, there you have it. It's free now, but no quality guarantee.
Just population control....and then people say Alex Jones is a conspiracy theorist. How many theories have been proven right before you are no longer labeled a conspiracy theorist?
"nd then people say Alex Jones is a conspiracy theorist. How many theories have been proven right before you are no longer labeled a conspiracy theorist?"
All of them.
'Conspiracy theorist' is a perjoritive created by the CIA to discount JFK conspiracy fact.
Since the same banksters who controlled things behind the scenes came out after the Kennedy hit are still in power, nothing really changes. And won't.
Till 'mericans grow balls.
Which is worse on a city; a nuclear detonation or welfare state detonation?
http://www.radjournal.com/hiroshima/hiroshima.htm
We're with the government and we're here to help you....
If you hear that you better RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!
I guess we can see clearly the goal is to create more crazies? Just to really make things interesting. Arent there supposed to be some alarm bells that go off? WHEN YOU HAVE LEAD IN YOUR PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY? Wouldnt this be considered something they "protect" us from? Or is this just how we "roll" these days? Wait for it to show up in the hospitals? Isnt it a little too late by then? Damage Done? THIS IS AN ATTACK.
Moron, read the article. The water is fine. It's the older pipes that haven't been replaced. The pipes are the responsibility of each home owner.
From article: "The high levels of lead have been attributed to old pipes and plumbing, which researchers say rubs off more into Flint River water than it does other sources."
Its not piping going into the houses? rubs off more into FLINT RIVER???? than it does other sources... Not sure how you got to where you are?? MORON.
When were they piping with LEAD pipes dude???? In the early 1900's when they knew not to use lead?? Are you fucking kidding me? Who was using lead for water piping ever? The Romans learned the hard way.. We didnt have to?
Do you think pulling drinking water from the River is healthy???? Ive got some bridges for sale cheap dude! No one that I know of has used lead for water piping since before Columbus DUDE. Thats how fucking stupid using lead for water piping is?
Although Im not 100% and there is only so much info in this article.. I would find it extremely hard to believe that there is water piping made of lead running to homes.. I understand they used lead solder for a while but they haven’t used it in years and most traces of it would be gone by now and as far as lead water piping Ive been in construction a long time and I have never heard of lead water piping....EVER. I hear about it in jokes.
That's one way to dumb down the voters, they'll believe anything now. 100 more years of Democratic administration.
What I have found from discussing the voting situation of who the rulers select for us to choose from is the idiots that still participate in the charade is "vote for the lesser of 2 evils".
What kind of brain dead argument is that? I hear it over and over and yet the idiots spewing this crap have no idea what they are actually recommending.
Gawdallmighty we are totally fvked and they STILL think they can vote in nirvana and they WILL NOT admit that voting is what has put us to the situation of looking down the barrel of nuclear exchange. FVKmeBlInD!!
Humans-don't ya just love em?
"Frame" the argument and you can predict the outcome most of the time, it's all by design, like rats in a maze, the cheese is always around the corner.
Two junks I guess it was my bad to leave off the /sarc, damn some people really are challenged
Face it..its not like these Michigan Children were going to be brain surgeons anyway...
Brain surgeon Ben Carson is from Detroit. Ya never know.
Without affirmative action Ben Carson would be working at walmart.
Some smarter, more talented non minority student got screwed out of going to med school, so this half wit could jump the line. Then they manipulated his grades so he could pass his exams and not flunk out.
I guess SJW assholes would say that's fair because 150 years ago a totally unrelated black person was mistreated.
Republican Governor Snyder gave those people a death sentence. This Intergenerational deformities will break the bank in Michigan.
Actually, if you're going to go all red team / blue team, the decision to change the water supply was made by Democrat mayor Dayne Walling. His wife Carrie Walling is a real SJW at Albion College
Yeah, but just wait until ricky's tax cuts kick in.
Well, niggers, quit shooting each other. Lead levels will drop.
.Gov is your friend
i believe ALL of the .Gov people involved with this travesty should be lined up against a LONG WALL and given a large dose of "LEAD" poisoning.
You’re right. Schools full of children, poisoned. What’s left to lose? Not the future.
Its a really blatant attack.. People were screaming about them taping into the river? It seems like just another predictable event..not predicted? At some point people have to realize this is blatant. There is an assault on our population and people better start paying attention. Or else you’ll be drinking the Kool-Aid too, or should I say lead. Thats what it would take to get people to follow their crazy ideas.
“I cannot say it’s from the water."
Well screw you science lady, politicians say it is, so it is. Ipso facto. Now give them fed money now.
Looks like yet another "fiscal prudence" scam. Apparently the Governor of Michigan has declared some sort of state of financial emergency in Flint, MI, as if some rhetoric, hocus-pocus, and if needed outright fraud can reverse the effects of declining Empire and global labor arbitrage, not to mention outrageous criminal industrial pollution that nobody is willing to hold anyone responsible for.
So to pretend to save money, Flint's managers signed onto a water pipeline project that hadn't even broken ground yet, and terminated their existing deal to buy treated Lake Huron water from Detroit. To tide themselves over from the shutoff date on the Detroit contract to the beginning of supply from the under-construction pipeline deal, Gov. Rick Snyder's Tea Party financial alchemists decided to use Flint River water.
Apparently you can't turn lead into water any more than you can turn it into gold. So much for Alchemy, quick fixes, and getting something for very nearly nothing.
Beg to differ, but the pipeline owners did turn lead into gold - someone's lead into their gold.
take-away: Never, never, never trust the government
"The World Health Organization says “lead affects children’s brain development resulting in reduced intelligence quotient (IQ), behavioral changes such as shortening of attention span and increased antisocial behavior, and reduced educational attainment."
That pretty much describes the entire US population at this point. Are all of our children drinking lead or is the system biased towards the survival of the stupid?
No wonder fat bastard Michael Moore is so f'd up.
Chevy In The Hole.....
Just look at what is going on in our universities. We are on the verge of WWIII due to poor political decisions. 100s of thousands of people are being slaughtered in civil wars and what are our students worried about? The creation of "Safe Spaces" where they will not be made uncomfortable that's what!
Thats what they said about Rome; the disease of lead pipes.
Of course it is an absolute given that not one government official who was involved in the processing, treatment and testing of the water will go to jail nor face any sort of ramification for seriously damaging the health of many citizens (especially children).
No one will lose their job - no one will even get demoted. Only in govt can you be completely incompetent, break multiple laws with impunity AND not only NOT get fired, but often get a bonus and a promotion.
Its not like lead poisoning is new. They knew exactly what they were doing and did not care. That is gross negligence. I am sure the goal was to stall/placate the population until some sort of solution could be found by just outright lying to them. Not the first time govt has done this and its not the last.
Read this article on 'The UN Agenda 2030' and you will get some insight into why this type of event is likely to become more widespread......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/as-events-spiral-ou...
is this part of MI that is infested with mooslims?
Worse than that....
UAW.