Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Congress fueled The So-Called U.S. Opioid Epidemic

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Congress fueled The So-Called U.S. Opioid Epidemic

By de Andréa

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE BOTTOM LINE’

Posted August 27, 2019

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With the so-called opioid epidemic back in the news, this is of particular interest to me because I survive day to day on opioids, without them I would be unable to function and take care of myself.

But first, opioids are not the larger problem, it’s the synthetics like Meth amphetamines and Fentanyl, a synthetic Morphine an analgesic 100 times more potent that Morphine is not technically an opioid, but is so dangerous to overdosing, killing far more people than prescription opioids. Moreover, the street versions are illegally manufactured and/or being smuggled in from China through Mexico, and the Communist democrat Congress is turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the problem because they want the illegal votes that are produced by open and uncontrolled borders. And just maybe it may be part of the DeepState agenda to destroy the fabric of America.

Second, real prescription opioids were approved by the government Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Mainly Oxy Condon and Hydrocodone Bitartrate which I have used several times daily for the past 12 years. Actually the acetaminophen/Tylenol which is added to these drugs can be more dangerous than the opioid itself causing irreversible liver damage.

Then thirdly, there is the question of responsibility. Who is responsible for opioid addiction and overdoses? Is it the legitimate drug manufacturers such as Johnson & Johnson who was recently fined a half billion dollars for knowingly manufacturing an addictive drug and filling orders for the product. That’s the same as blaming gun manufacturers for mass shootings or automobile manufacturers for hit and run deaths or liquor manufacturers for DUI’s.

And fourth, the doctor who prescribes all these drugs, sometimes unnecessarily, or even in some cases - criminally.

The lobbyist for the drug companies who could be considered sophisticated drug pushers who convinced certain members of Congress to allow the free flow of prescription drugs to pharmacies unabated tying the hands of the DEA, for a large contribution to their reelection campaign.

Then there is the Congress who knowingly passed a law which Obama signed that made it near impossible for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to investigate or stop the incredible amount of prescription drugs being sold to pharmacies all across the country as I will go into more detail later in this article.

And then most importantly the responsibility of the end user, people like me. Alcohol and drug abuse has been referred to as a disease instead of a responsibility. I mean after all, no one is responsible for getting a disease, it’s just not their fault. Just as it’s not the fault of the mass shooter, it’s the fault of the gun or manufacturer or the gun itself.

The drug epidemic of the 1980s and ‘90s was horrific. It led to draconian laws that helped break already vulnerable families, killed thousands of people, devastated communities and created an image of zombie-like addicts and unrepentant pushers that made it harder for Americans not directly affected by the scourge to empathize with those suffering.

That period is no longer considered the worst drug epidemic in the nation’s history.

Today’s ongoing opioid crisis has unfortunately, taken that title — because no one was lobbying Congress on behalf of crack cocaine dealers the way they have for large drug companies.

As usual the government goes from one extreme to the other and is highly susceptible to graft and payola. The Congress can be as criminal as the drug lords they pretend to fight against.

They went from almost no control in the 80’s and 90’s to so much control that people who needed pain killing meds couldn’t get them and then back again in the opposite direction with The Controlled Substances Act in 2016 that flooded the streets with totally uncontrolled pain killers.

Between 2014 and 2016, the drug industry spent $106 million lobbying Congress for a law that makes it virtually impossible for the DEA to freeze suspicious narcotic shipments from pharmaceutical companies.

By the time the law passed in early 2016, about 200,000 Americans had lost their lives due to overdoses. The number of deaths has risen every year since 2000. That means that at the height of a well-known epidemic that was lowering the life expectancy of working-class Americans for the first time in decades, Congress decided to follow the whims of the drug manufacturers to make it more difficult for the Drug Enforcement Agency to stop the problem at the source.

“With drug abuse raging, the new law imposed a dramatic reduction of the agency’s authority,” DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge John J. Mulrooney II wrote.

The law seemed to be largely the result of a relentless push by Republican Rep. Tom Marino of Pennsylvania — on the short list to be the nation’s next drug czar — with strong assists from Sen. Orin Hatch of Utah and Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. A Republican-led Congress passed it on voice vote and the Obama administration signed it into law— after years of relentless lobbying apparently wore it down.

The law came after large drug companies hiring dozens of former DEA investigators and lawyers who knew just how to craft legislation that would make effective enforcement tougher to come by.

It’s the latest example of laws and deregulation designed to make it easier for corporations to make more profits while hurting everyday Americans. And this time, the costs can’t be counted only in dollars — but in lives.

This hurts just about everyone in every state in the union. Congress must rectify the mess it created by repealing the law. The Controlled Substances Act of 2016.

THE BOTTOM LINE: While I am not letting Big Pharma of the hook, it’s not as simple as just blaming the manufacturer. After all they are in business to make a profit, and Congress allows themselves to be lobbied and accept payola for their accommodations to Big Pharma. Shady doctors are not immune from tremendous profits from millions of unnecessary prescriptions. And then the ball lands in the hands of users like me to be responsible for the use of these magical drugs that enable one to function somewhat normally.

Drug addiction is not a disease as they try to indoctrinate the public with my friend, it’s about ignorance, and about responsibility…

Think about it…

Thanks for listening my friend. Now go do the right thing, pray and fight for truth and freedom.

- de Andréa

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Finally Someone Else Knows What Causes Recessions And Depressions

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)

Finally Someone Else Knows What Causes Recessions And Depressions

By de Andréa

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE BOTTOM LINE’

Posted August 22, 2019

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I have lost count of just how many articles that I have written about what and who causes depressions and/or recessions, in other words, severe economic downturns or crashes.

IT’S THE FED!

Americans have been stuck on stupid since 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was passed. And guess what? The idea of the FED was sold to the Congress for the expressed purpose of stabilizing the economy and to prevent economic disasters. And then, less than 16 years later the U.S. and the entire world suffered the biggest economic disaster the world has ever experienced. THE GREAT DEPRESSION and it lasted 12 long years. It was just the Fed flexing its muscles.

Unknown to most Americans the Fed doesn’t just have a strangle hold, on the U.S., oh no….it’s worldwide my friend. Today there are only three countries left in the world that are not totally controlled by the ‘International Banking Cartel,’ a ROTHSCHILD Central Bank!

The Rothschild family is slowly but surely establishing their Central banks in every country of this world, giving them an ultimate wealth and power.

As recent as the year 2000, just before all the wars in the Middle East and North Africa, there were seven countries without a Rothschild owned Central Bank: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, North Korea, and Iran.

It is not a coincidence that these counties listed above, were and are still under attack by western military and/or the media, since one of the main reasons these countries have been under attack in the first place is because they did not have a Rothschild owned Central Bank yet. You see, the same people that run the Central Banks run the ‘Military Industrial Complex’ that President Eisenhower warned about in his farewell speech. But no one listened then either.

The first step in having a Central Bank establish in a country is to get them to accept outrageous interest on their loans, which puts the country in debt to the Central Bank and under the control of the Rothschild’s. If the country does not accept the loan, the leader of this particular country will be mysteriously assassinated and a Rothschild aligned leader will be put into the position, and if the assassination does not work, the country will be invaded and have a Central Bank established with force all under the name of fighting against terrorism. Hence the Middle Eastern wars.

Central banks are illegally created private banks that are owned by the Rothschild banking family cartel. The family has been around for more than 230 years and has slithered its way into each country on this planet, threatened every world leader and their governments and cabinets with physical and economic death and destruction, and then emplaced their own people in these central banks to control and manage each country’s pocketbook. Worse, the Rothschild’s also control the plotting of each government at the macro level, not concerning themselves with the daily vicissitudes of our individual personal lives. Except when we get too far out of line. As President John F Kennedy did in 1961 by having the U.S. Treasury print United States Treasury Notes He also wrote an Executive order abolishing the Federal Reserve which he was going to enforce after his reelection. But he never got to abolish the FED because…well you know they killed him knowing he would be replaced with a FED friend namely LBJ. Then LBJ removed all the US Treasury Notes from circulation.

You can look this up by the way, it’s all a matter of public record.

Then the only countries left in 2003 without a Central Bank owned by the Rothschild Family were: Sudan, Libya, Cuba, North Korea, and Iran.

The Attack of September 11th was an inside job to create an excuse to invade Afghanistan and Iraq to establish a Central Bank in those countries, all controlled by the Rothschild’s using the Military Industrial Complex.

The only countries left in 2011 without a Central Bank owned by the Rothschild Family were: Cuba, North Korea and Iran.

After the instigated protests and riots in the Arab countries, called ‘The Arab Spring’, the Rothschild finally paved their way into establishing Central Banks, and getting rid of many leaders, which put them into more power.

Central banking has truly taken over the entire planet. At this point, the only major nation on the globe that does not have a central bank is North Korea. And while the Rothschild’s do not yet own the central banks of Iran and Cuba they are in the possess of taking over their banks as I write this article. The Iranian Central Bank is the Bank of Markazi. The Central Bank of Cuba is the Banco Central de Cuba.

There are still some small island countries such as the Federated States of Micronesia that do not have a central bank, but even if you count them, more than 99.9% of the population of the world still lives in a country that has a central bank.

When the last three countries are completely controlled by the Rothschild’s Central Banking Cartel they will be in total control of the world economy.

THE ONE WHO CONTROLS THE WORLD’S MONEY, CONTROLS THE WORLD!

But I promised you that I wasn’t the only one who knows this, Ron Paul says:

From zerohedge.com

“The Trump Trade War is Not The Root Cause Of Economic Downturn, The Fed Is!”

While the establishment is desperate to ensure President Trump (and the nationalist deplorables) is "obviously" to blame for whatever bad things happen in the global economy, Ron Paul brushes aside the smoke and mirrors to get to the real driver of economic boom and bust for decades - The Fed!

Via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,

Stocks fell last week following news that the yield curve on Treasury notes had inverted. This means that a short-term Treasury note was paying higher interest rates than long-term Treasury note. An inverted yield curve is widely seen as a sign of an impending recession.

Some economic commentators reacted to the inverted yield curve by parroting the Keynesian propaganda that recessions are an inevitable feature of a free-market economy, whose negative effects can only be mitigated by the Federal Reserve. Like much of the conventional economic wisdom, the idea that recessions are caused by the free market and cured by the Federal Reserve is the exact opposite of the truth. As usual we are controlled by a Shadow Government spewing out false information.

Interest rates are the price of money. Like all prices, they should be set by the market in order to accurately convey information about economic conditions. When the Federal Reserve lowers or raises interest rates, it distorts those signals. This leads investors and businesses to misjudge the true state of the economy, resulting in misallocations of resources. These misallocations can create an economic boom. However, since the boom is rooted in misperceptions of the true state of the economy, it cannot last. Eventually the Federal Reserve-created bubble bursts, resulting in a recession that benefits only the Federal Reserve.

So, recessions are not a feature of the free market. Instead, they are an inevitable result of Congress granting a secretive central bank power to influence the price of money. While monetary policy may be the prime culprit, government tax and regulatory policies also damage the economy.

Many regulations, such as the minimum wage and occupational licensing, inflict much harm on the same low-income people that the economic interventionists claim benefit the most from the welfare-regulatory state.

This is not to say that no one would experience economic difficulties in a free market. Businesses and even whole industries would still close because of changing consumer tastes, new competitors offering superior products, or bad business decisions. There may even be bubbles in a free market as some investors misread fads as permanent changes in consumer preferences. But periods of downturn would be shorter, and most would only affect specific industries rather than the entire economy.

President Trump’s trade dispute with China may be the event that pushes the US economy into a recession or even a depression. However, the trade war is not the root cause of the downturn. The next recession, like every recession since 1913, will come stamped “Courtesy of the Federal Reserve.”The only way to end the boom-and-bust cycle and restore peace, prosperity, and liberty is to end the welfare-warfare state, repeal the Sixteenth Amendment (IRS), and audit, then abolish the Fed.

Note. We won’t need the IRS if the Federal Reserve is abolished. Personal income tax is needed just to pay the interest on FED loans.

THE BOTTOM LINE: So there you have it from the point of view of Ron Paul. But the next President that tries to end the FED better have a private and personal body guard or militia surrounding him at all times, because if you know your history JFK is not the only President that tried to abolish Americas existing Central Bank. Lincoln (1865), James A. Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1901), and John F. Kennedy (1963). All tried to abolish the Central Bank that existed at the time. And all were killed. That my friend is how powerful the Rothschild’s Banking Cartel is. It’s the international version of the DeepState or the Shadow Government that really runs the country.

That’s why they hate Donald Trump! That’s why they hated John Kennedy.

So how have they managed to keep this a secret for all these years? Educational Influence, that’s how. And then when Jimmy Carter was president he created the Department of Education to rewrite history among other things, and now the DeepState has full control over the education system in the country to date.

Think about it…

Thanks for listening my friend. Now go do the right thing, pray and fight for truth and freedom.

- de Andréa

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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

No Russia – No Racism – So Now The Economy Is Failing

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No Russia – No Racism – So Now The Economy Is Failing

By de Andréa

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE BOTTOM LINE’

Posted August 21, 2019

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The Communist Media failed at the false Russian collusion and they are failing at the false racist accusations, so now they want you to believe that there is a recession. They know it’s the only way they can win.

There is an intense drive on the part of the Democrat Communist Congress and the U.S. creative media to convince the public that a recession is in our near future. While there are always indications both positive and negative for the economic forecast, there are of course political motivations for those emphasizing a possible downturn in our economy. I think it’s the only arrow in their quiver that they have left.

Kimberly Amadeo, writing in The Balance, reports that, “The US is healthy according to the key economic indicators…There isn’t too much inflation or deflation. That’s a Goldilocks economy.”

Unemployment is at near-record lows. Unemployment for African Americans is at the lowest in history. And for the first time in 40 years the growth in jobs in industries such as manufacturing have been astounding.

As noted in Forbes, in the final 26 months of Obama’s presidency, manufacturing employment increased barely 0.8%. In President Trump’s first 26 months, it grew 3.9% -- that's 399% more jobs than Obama’s record high.

In another area, mining, even labor leaders have praised Trump for his success. In an interview with The Hill Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, it was noted that “According to a 2018 report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an estimated 2,000 new coal jobs were created during Trump’s first year in office” and the once nose-diving labor picture there has finally stabilized.”

The economy is considered to be in the best condition than in the past three decades.

The significant threat to the economy from China’s greedy policies of restricted access to its markets, intellectual property theft, dumping and other practices long ignored by Washington, is for the first time in 50 years being addressed by the White House. While this could result in some substantive temporary issues, the long-term result will be a significant boost for the U.S. economy. Past presidents didn’t have the guts to do it.

Stephen Moore stated in a Heritage Foundation/Washington Times study that “Beijing’s abusive trade practices and theft of U.S. intellectual property ($300 billion stolen per year), are intolerable..."

His analysis explains that:

“The United States is simply a better place to invest in today than it was two years ago. If/when Mr. Trump prevails and gets the concessions from China, the market upside is gigantic and that’s what isn’t being discounted into the market today. There’s an old saying that Wall Street economists have predicted eight of the last two recessions. The bears in the economics profession keep getting paid a lot of money misreading the nation’s economic weather. […] The boom began on Nov. 8, 2016, not in 2009. The recovery was anemic in the Obama years.”

A hate America media continues to overemphasize negative indicators. It’s more than just poor journalism, it’s flat out lies. The type of fear generated by this fictitious reporting can lead to a lack of confidence that actually could spur a recession. This is of course is what they are hoping for. In an analysis for the Federal Reserve, David S. Miller warns, “It’s hard to predict recessions. We haven’t had many, and we don’t fully understand the causes of the ones we’ve had. Nevertheless, we persist in trying.”

Well I have my own theory about recessions. They are caused by the Federal Reserve. They are the only one that benefit from them.

As Joseph Valle reported in Newsbusters that the leftist media hyped recession fears every single day in June and July.

“… At least one journalist openly sided with left-wing comedian Bill Maher who wants a recession to get rid of President Donald Trump. NBC’s Richard Engel chimed in “Short-term pain might be better…after Maher said ‘I really do’ want a recession on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher Aug. 9.

"A recession is generally considered two quarters or more of negative economic growth. That hasn’t stopped the media from pushing “dark clouds” and the likelihood of a recession coming soon, possibly even before the 2020 election. That could have serious consequences if economist Mohamed El-Erian was correct when he warned “we’ve got to be careful because we can talk ourselves into a recession.”

THE BOTTOM LINE: But that is exactly the point, isn’t it???

Think about it…

Thanks for listening my friend. Now go do the right thing, pray and fight for truth and freedom.

- de Andréa

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Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Man Caused Global Warming Or Man Caused Plastic Pollution Which one will destroy the ecosystem? …

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)

Man Caused Global Warming Or Man Caused Plastic Pollution…

Which one will destroy the ecosystem?

By de Andréa

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE BOTTOM LINE’

Posted August 20, 2019

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The Problem with Plastics

Those of you who are my regular readers know that I am not a big fan of so-called ecologists. Mainly because ecologists know next to nothing about real ecology. They are just paid political activists.

While “MAN CAUSED” Climate change is a paid scientific hoax just to create a central GLOBAL power base, Climate change itself is and has been a real and natural phenomenon since the Earth began. Just read your book on ancient history. From tropical climate to ice ages and back to a tropical climate or anywhere in between, Earth’s climate has been changing continually throughout history and without any outside influence from you and me.

But one of the most devastating man caused ecological travesties that has been taking place for at least the last 60 years goes unreported by those that claim they are concerned about saving the planet and its wild life ecosystem. But as I said, the truth about ecology isn’t relevant, it is just about Global Power and Control.

From the tiniest plankton to the largest whales, plastics impact more than 3000 species in our oceans.

You’ve probably seen videos of these impacts first hand, like a sea turtle with a plastic straw embedded in its nose or a whale entangled in a plastic fishing net, approaching divers that release it from harm. Some of these incidents have happy endings, but in reality, millions more do not.

Plastic has been found in 100% of all seabirds and their off spring and in 100% of sea turtles species, as well as millions of fish and sea mammals such as whales, porpoise, dolphins and seals that mistake plastic for food. And when animals ingest plastic, it causes life-threatening problems, such as reduced fitness, nutrient intake and feeding efficiency, bowel strangulation, laceration and obstruction, not to mention the toxic effects from the leaching plastic itself. Plastic has been found in the blubber of whales.

Plastic pollution in the ocean frequently appears as seabird guts filled with plastic cigarette lighters and bottle caps, marine mammals entangled in fishing gear and drifting plastic bags mimicking a gelatinous meal. Last year, a study estimated that around eight million metric tons of our plastic waste enter the oceans from land each year.

But where this plastic ends up and what form it takes is no longer a mystery. Most of our waste consists of everyday items such as bottles, wrappers, straws or bags. Yet the vast majority of debris found floating far offshore is much smaller: It’s broken-down fragments smaller than your pinky fingernail, termed microplastic.

A newly published study, showed that this floating microplastic accounts for only about 1% of the plastic waste entering the ocean from land in a single year. To get this number – estimated to be between 93,000 and 236,000 metric tons –all available measurements of floating microplastic together was used with three different numerical ocean circulation models.

Getting a bead on microplastics

The new estimate of floating microplastic is up to 37 times higher than previous estimates. That’s equivalent to the mass of more than 1,300 blue whales. The increased estimate is due in part to the larger data set –more than 11,000 measurements of microplastics collected in plankton nets since the 1970s was assembled. In addition, the data were standardized to account for differences in sampling conditions.

The broad range in the estimates (93 to 236 thousand metric tons) stems from the fact that vast regions of the ocean have not yet been sampled for plastic debris. There may be billions of tons more than we even know about.

It is widely understood that the largest concentrations of floating microplastics occur in subtropical ocean currents, or gyres, where surface currents converge in a kind of oceanographic “dead-end.”
These so-called “garbage patches” of microplastics have been well-documented with data in the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. The analysis includes additional data in less sampled regions, providing the most comprehensive survey of the amount of microplastic debris to date.
However, very few surveys have ever been carried out in the Southern Hemisphere oceans and outside of the subtropical gyres. Small differences in the oceanographic models give vastly different estimates of microplastic abundance in these regions. The work highlights where additional ocean surveys must be done in order to improve microplastics assessments.

And the rest?

Floating microplastics collected in plankton nets are the best-quantified type of plastic debris in the ocean, in part because they were initially noted by researchers collecting and studying plankton decades ago. Yet microplastics represent just a small part of the total amount of plastic now in the ocean, which means that in the near future as existing plastics become microplastics there will be billions more tons of microplastics floating just beneath the surface with more on the way.

Plastics” is a collective term for a variety of synthetic polymers with variable material properties, including density. This means some common consumer plastics, such as PET (resin code #1, stamped on the bottom of clear plastic drink bottles, for example), are denser than seawater and will sink upon entering the ocean. However, measuring plastics on the seafloor is very challenging in shallow waters close to shore, let alone across vast ocean basins with an average depth of 3.5 kilometers.

It’s also unknown how much of the eight million metric tons of plastic waste entering the marine environment each year lies on beaches as discarded items or broken-down microplastics that are ingested by sea birds and other marine life.

In a one-day cleanup of beaches around the world in 2014, International Coastal Cleanup volunteers collected more than 5,500 metric tons of trash, including more than two million cigarette butts and hundreds of thousands of plastic food wrappers, drink bottles, bottle caps, drinking straws and plastic bags.

We do know that these larger pieces of plastics will eventually become microparticles which may be just a bad or worse. Still, the time it takes large objects – including consumer products, buoys and fishing gear, for example – to fragment to millimeter-sized pieces upon exposure to sunlight is essentially unknown.

Just how small those pieces become before (or if) they are degraded by marine microorganisms is even less certain, in large part because of the difficulty in collecting and identifying microscopic particles as plastics. Laboratory and field experiments exposing different plastics to environmental weathering will help unravel the fate of different plastics in the ocean. And then as the microplastics become smaller and smaller until they are microscopic…are they any safer or are the just smaller versions of the same pollutant that will eventually kill every living creature in the sea. Moreover at that stage it will be impossible to extract from the oceans.

Why it matters

If we know that a massive amount of plastic is entering the ocean each year, what does it matter if it is a bottle cap on a beach, a lost lobster trap on the seafloor, or a nearly invisible particle floating thousands of miles offshore? If plastic trash were simply an aesthetic problem, perhaps it wouldn’t.
But ocean plastics pose a threat to a wide variety of marine animals, and their risk is determined by the amount of debris an animal encounters, as well as the size and shape of the debris.

To a curious seal, an intact packing band, a loop of plastic used to secure cardboard boxes for shipping, drifting in the water is a serious entanglement hazard, whereas bits of floating microplastic might be ingested by large filter-feeding whales down to nearly microscopic zooplankton. Until we know where the millions of tons of plastics reside in the ocean, one can’t fully understand the full suite of its impacts on the marine ecosystem.

Yet we don’t have to wait for more research before working on solutions to this pollution problem. For the few million tons of microplastic floating in the ocean, we know that it is not feasible to clean up these nearly microscopic particles distributed across thousands of kilometers of the sea surface.

Instead, we have to turn off the tap and prevent this waste from entering the ocean in the first place.

THE BOTTOM LINE: What happens and where does our so-called recycled plastics go?
Most, if not all of our recycled plastics are not recycled at all, they are shipped to China, Indonesia and various other countries who either actually recycle or dump it into rivers which eventually make it to the ocean.

The problem with plastics is that they generally don’t breakdown, biodegrade and become inert. Once created they are with us for as long as nuclear waste is. Meaning todays plastics have a half-life of nearly a thousand years, maybe longer.

Cleaning this mess up is not the long term solution. Making plastics used for containers must be made from biodegradable inert substance, or plastic containers of all kinds must be done away with. I can remember when we didn’t have plastic and guess what? We survived with paper and glass containers. Paper straws, bags, paper wrap, corrugated cardboard instead of Styrofoam containers. Juice, soda and beer came in glass containers. Shredded paper and cardboard for packing instead of Styrofoam peanuts.

If industry is going to continue to use plastic single use containers, they must be responsible for recycling them. From the cradle to the grave as they say.

The next time you go the supermarket, take time to look at just how many products come in plastic containers or plastic bags. Nearly everything, and most of it is totally unnecessary and redundant. When you go to get your hamburger at your local fast food chain, it will come in a Styrofoam container, inside, it is wrapped in a paper wrap and it is all in a paper bag. Is the Styrofoam container even necessary? Probably not, and yet there it is, and it will likely end up in a land fill for a thousand years, or in the ocean to be eaten by some animal or if your real lucky it will wash up on the beach on Midway island in the Pacific where there is already a million tons of it.

I am not going to do what the airhead ecologists do and claim that we only have 12 years left before we all die from Global Warming. But this my friend, unlike Climate Change that throughout history we have always adapted to, is a real threat to our vast ocean wild life. And yet not a peep from the so-called guardians of our planet. There is now more plastic in the ocean than there are fish and the Albatross are eating it.

What happens in the future when we are unknowingly eating it? Can we survive it any better than the wildlife? Probably not!

Watch a video of Midway Island plastic sand.

Watch a video of what is called Plastic Beach Hawaii

On a personal note: For the past 5 years I personally have been recycling everything that I possibly can. Plastics, Glass, Paper, steel and aluminum cans etc. According to the bureau of statistics, the average American produces 1569.5 pounds of household trash per year. What little I couldn’t feasibly or practically recycle, amounted to approximately 37 pounds per year which had to go into land fill.

If all the trash that I sent to the recycler was actually recycled, all that would be left would be 37 pounds, instead of more than 1500 pounds per year. Moreover there wouldn’t be any plastic in the ocean.

Think about it…

Thanks for listening my friend. Now go do the right thing, pray and fight for truth and freedom.

- de Andréa

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019