Recycling to a Fault

Photo: Ileana Johnson

2018

Roy, an elderly gentleman in his 80s, is a Democrat from a bygone era, when being an American was a source of pride. He grew up very poor and never forgot the value of a penny. He became the proverbial penny-pincher.

He cracked me up when he told me he cut the top of his socks off because they constricted the circulation around his ankles, a sensitive area stemming from removal of veins in the area. Why spend money on a new pair of short socks when an old cut-off one could do just fine?

On our last visit, he served us birthday cake to honor Tim and me. The plates were elegant square shimmery white with matching forks. Knowing that he would never buy such expensive plastic, I wondered where they came from.

After inquiries, I found out that they were the plates from his granddaughter's wedding the previous year which he had carefully carried home, reused and washed numerous times.

After I ate my slice of cake, I dropped the dirty plate in the trash can in the kitchen. When we were all finished, Ray retrieved my plate and washed it again, along with the rest of the trice-used plates and cutlery.

It is amazing that he has never forgotten what it was like to grow up part of the time in foster care during a time in America when we had not yet become a throw-away society.

I sympathized with him - mom and I used to wash plastic cutlery and even Styrofoam containers from McDonald's and re-used them. I felt that it was such a waste of materials.

Nobody recycled in the late 1970s because it was too expensive to do, I was told, it was cheaper to bury the trash in the city landfill. Our hometown’s junk yard tried recycling aluminum cans and used payment as an incentive.

I drove one day through the mounds of crashed old cars and twisted rusted metal to turn in my three bags of empty soda cans. Loose nails and pieces of jagged metal littered the yard everywhere. I left with $14 and a badly punctured Michelin tire that cost me a bundle to replace. But I had recycled.

While I could not forgive Roy his vote for Obama twice and for Hillary, I respected his penny-pinching and appreciation for reusing, repairing, not replacing, and recycling. A skilled handyman who could repair most things, his garage was filled wall to wall with tools and pieces of junk that might come in handy to fix something for his family or the neighbors.

P.S. Years ago, when my first husband and I got married, we visited an older lady in the country and she took us to a shed she wanted cleaned out for the spring. We found a beautiful china hutch that was discarded on one side, with beautiful carvings. The wood was discolored by time but otherwise undamaged. We asked if she was willing to part with it and she sold it to us for $25. My husband proceeded to refinish it with love as a weekend project. His best friend from high school refinished antique furniture as a hobby and taught him how to do it. When he was done, the cabinet was beautiful! I still have it to this day in my dining room. I would never part with it. They don't make such beautiful things out of wood anymore. And it still has the key and the original glass. I keep my decades old china and crystal from Romania in it and the wine glasses his grandmother received as a wedding gift in the 1920s. She has long since passed away but I remember the joy when we received the never-opened box of china and crystal that she had not unpacked since her wedding - the tissue paper was disintegrating as dust when I opened the box. She gave it to us in 1978 after our wedding. 

Is It Another Conspiracy Theory?

While hiking through the woods, I am having a Rachel Carson “silent spring” moment. It’s early fall, nature is still beautiful, albeit a bit dry. There are no birds chirping, no squirrels, no snakes, just an annoying horse fly and a few mosquitoes. The fern gully is bone dry; all ferns have turned rusty brown from lack of rain. I finally spot a few small fishes darting about in the yellowish creek water.

The sky is blue for now but crisscrossed by grey and white trails that don’t disappear at all like vapors do but dissipate and blend hours and hours later into a strangely colored mist with blue-grey edges that blanket the sky. What is this? Why are the trails so perfectly parallel in both directions and intersecting like a chess board? Why would a plane maneuver in this grid pattern if it’s flying the shortest distance possible to a specific destination?

Conspiracy theorists call them chemical trails. Public officials have admitted that aluminum flakes are dropped from planes to “block the sun’s rays,” attempting to fix global warming. With so many real scientists acknowledging that global warming is a hoax and the climate change industry is an effort to fleece the public of trillions of dollars in carbon taxes across the globe, why are they spraying harmful chemicals into the atmosphere? Why have we engaged in weather modification for decades?

Pilots, doctors, and scientists gave their educated opinion to Shasta County Board of Supervisors on the issue of geoengineering/weather modification spraying of nanoparticles of various chemicals such as barium, strontium, and aluminum into the atmosphere. They voted unanimously to send the information obtained during this hearing to the EPA, the California Air Resources Board, and state and federal legislators. http://www.krcrtv.com/news/politics/geoengineering-on-agenda-at-board-of-supervisors-meeting/26972572

Here are excerpts from testimony of various participants and concerned citizens at the Shasta County Board of Supervisors hearing:

-          “The condensation trails occur in cold air (-30 degrees F) at higher altitudes, 30,000 feet plus; carbon dioxide and water vapor in that exhaust turns to ice crystals, that’s what you see, the white stream behind it; they warm up quickly and dissolve, and it never lasts more than a minute.” “These trails I’ve seen in the sky are not natural and are not normal.” (Jeff Nelson, former commercial airline pilot)

-          “If you take a two-mile walk on a cold day and you can turn around and see your condensation trail tracking all the way back for two miles, that’s how crazy it is to think that what we are looking at in the sky are condensation trails.” (Iraja Sivadas, member, Union of Concerned Scientists)

-          Chemtrails are real; they’re spraying almost every day. I’ve watched the clouds, I’ve watched the spraying. We are in great danger from this pollution that’s coming down over us.” (Allan Buckmann, former Military Meteorologist/Fish and Game Biologist)

-          “I became interested in chemtrails when I was in Hawaii and Hawaiians were very vocal about it. When micronized aluminum is breathed in, it leaves a metallic taste in your mouth.”(Dr. Frank Livolsi, doctor and pilot)

-          “When you look up at the sun and you see a white haze, that is aluminum floating in the air and is coming from aircraft.” (Mark McCandlish, former Defense Industry technician)

-          “There is a huge amount of aluminum found; these sprays contain aluminum, strontium, barium, and manganese. Aluminum is common in a bonded form not in a free form, and we are finding high rates of free-form aluminum in the soil which is not natural.” (Iraja Sivadas)

-          The metal compounds that are being used are environmentally dangerous; we need to be monitoring them and test them.” (Allan Buckman)

-          “Water samples tested 13,100 micrograms/liter of aluminum, normally it should be zero. Pristine snow on Mount Shasta had 61,000 mcg/liter of aluminum, four times the amount found in the soil. Where is this stuff coming from if it’s not coming from the soil?” (Francis Mangles, 35 year USFS biologist)

-          “I am seeing clouds I’ve never seen before, almost every day, and NASA even named a few of these new clouds.”(Allan Buckmann)

-          NASA conducted research in metallized fuel, we’re actually putting aluminum oxide right into the fuel because it has two atoms of aluminum and three atoms of oxygen and during the combustion it releases all that oxygen and dramatically increases efficiency but it leaves aluminum in the air.”(Mark McCandlish)

-          “We’ve got things coming from the sky down. As it [aluminum] comes down, it is in our air that we breathe into our nostrils, it goes into our brains, in the frontal lobe. The contaminant aluminum is the number one neuro-free radical in the brain to cause early Alzheimer’s.” (Dr. Steven Davis, D.C., C.T.N.)

-          I’ve been practicing for 17 years and in the past five years I’ve seen a number of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, and other neuro-degenerative diseases tremendously increase, almost quadruple.” (Dr. Hamid Rabiee, Neurologist)

-          Dr. Steven Davis voiced his concern about ADD which started in the 70s and autism which “was not on the radar, there were no documents, no information, there was one case in 100,000 children. Today, there is one case in 48 boys. I was part of the early group looking for aluminum in ADD and ADHD. All those children that started to develop those phenomena had high levels of aluminum. When we figured out protocols to detox them out, to free their bodies of those contaminants, their brains came back. When we do this to the aged, it does not come back as quick but it will come back. I’ve seen Alzheimer’s in 56 year olds when it used to be only in 80 year olds.”

-          Dr. Frank Livolsi reminded the audience about the big move to remove aluminum from deodorant and cooking pots years ago because it caused Alzheimer’s. “Look what they are doing to us now,” he added.

-          Mark McCandlish told the audience that 50 nanoparticles are the size of a red blood cell, that is how invasive they can be to a single cell.

-          Francis Mangles was more concerned about the collapse of agriculture as we know it because of the spraying with toxic chemicals.

-          Allan Buckmann was alarmed about overloading the ecosystem with aluminum, overwhelming and destroying microbial systems. “How did Monsanto know to create aluminum-resistant plants?”

-          Francis Mangles said that “aquatic and terrestrial insects have taken a nose dive with a 20 percent reduction with the exception of ants.”

-          Mark McCandlish said that trees absorb the thermal nanoparticles of barium and aluminum through the root system and, when trees burn, they burn considerably hotter, increasing the cost and danger of putting out forest fires. “The impact on human health is also dramatic.”

-          Joseph Marman testified that he personally tested aluminum in water. He found large amounts of barium, aluminum, and strontium in a sample he held up that looked like a cobweb. Since they destroyed his previous sample, he said he was not letting go of this one. (Joseph Marman, attorney)

-          Francis Mangles said that in Shasta County, “aluminum in soil has doubled in the last ten years and the soil is ten times more alkaline. Aluminum blocks essential nutrients. I am unable to restore normal pH in my garden because nanoparticles are now in the circulatory systems of both plants and humans.”

-          Mark McCandlish talked about a study called “In vitro toxicity of aluminum nanoparticles in rat alveolar macrophages” and how long-term exposure to aluminum nanoparticles suppresses the immune system.

Joseph Marman concluded that the Board of Supervisors in Suffolk County, NY has outlawed geochemical engineering and Hawaii passed an ordinance banning geochemical engineering. Experimentation on humans is prohibited in this country, he said, and if anyone does experiment, they have 30 days to inform Congress. He wanted to know why was aluminum spiking in Shasta County, cases of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and why are there strange cobweb-like fibers on the ground? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPnWaBsMYnY&feature=em-share_video_user

All these private citizens, with years and years of experience in molecular biology, chemistry, medicine, physics, agriculture, research, and flying, have put their reputations on the line and testified that chemical experimentation through aerial nanoparticle spraying of aluminum, barium, and strontium to modify the weather has been conducted for decades. Conspiracy theorists or not, many questions remain unanswered.