US military accused of secret climate spraying operation dumping 60 million tons of toxic nanoparticles into the skies

Comment: And we wonder why humanity is struggling with its health?

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Daily Mail

he US military has been accused of spraying toxic chemicals into the air for decades as part of a secret program that has backfired in its goal of stopping global warming.

Dane Wigington, an environmental researcher for 30 years, claimed that the conspiracy surrounding 'chemtrails' is not only true but has actually crippled the Earth's ability to naturally overcome the pollution caused by humans.

The 'chemtrail' conspiracy focuses on the idea that the government has been spraying a host of dangerous chemicals from commercial airliners for several reasons, including to control the weather and make people sick.

The vast majority of scientists and the US government have long declared this theory as false, and most condensation trails, or 'contrails', seen in the sky are the result of water vapor from aircraft exhaust freezing into ice crystals as it hits cold air at high altitudes.

However, Wigington said that lab tests on rain samples, photos of specialized planes carrying these chemicals, government documents, and whistleblower testimony all show clear evidence that a secret program has attempted to weaponize weather.  

The researcher claimed that the US military has built a massive weather control program over the last years, with chemical spraying ramping up in the 1990s to block sunlight and cool the planet.

He estimated that airliners equipped with secret nozzles and tanks on their wings, filled with aluminum, barium, manganese, graphene, and various polymers, have dumped between 40 and 60 million tons of nanoparticles in the sky every year.

'These programs are literally disabling the planet's counterbalancing life support systems,' Wigington said on the Tucker Carlson Show.

Wigington claimed that the US military has been the main group spraying chemtrails throughout the world, using their own planes as well as secretly modified commercial jets to hide the operation.

The researcher claimed he has been collecting evidence about this program for 27 years, noting that Congress has even acknowledged the existence of this operation, which allegedly dates back to the 1940s. 

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Scientists Accidentally Develop 'Mutant' Enzyme That Eats Plastic

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Researchers in the UK and the U.S. have inadvertently engineered an enzyme that eats up plastic. 

The enzyme is able to digest PET (polyethylene terephthalate)—the same material used in the ubiquitous plastic bottle that's clogging up landfills, coastlines and oceans around the world.

Amazingly, this discovery only happened by chance. Scientists from the University of Portsmouth in the UK and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) were examining the structure of a natural enzyme, Ideonella sakaiensis, found in 2016 at a Japanese waste recycling center. This enzyme could already break down PET plastic—it just doesn't do it very quickly.

To understand how Ideonella sakaiensis evolved, the research team "tweaked" the structure of the enzyme by adding some amino acids, according to John McGeehan, a Portsmouth professor who co-led the work. They ended up creating an enzyme that worked even faster than the natural one.

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Bottled Water Leeches 24,000 Chemicals into Your Body, Study Finds

 

Natural Society

Several companies have stopped using BPA in plastic production due to consumer outrage, but just because a plastic container says it is “BPA Free” doesn’t mean it’s free of potentially harmful chemicals. As a matter of fact, recent research out of Germany indicates there are more than 24,000 of such chemicals in any given bottle of water—with some of them causing serious hormone-disrupting effects.

According to the story from Goethe University Frankfort, the researchers tested 18 different bottled water products in an effort to look for endocrine disrupting chemicals, or EDCs. They found far more than expected, identifying 24,520 different chemicals in their testing. After isolating the chemicals and determining their impact on the body, the researchers narrowed down those with anti-estrogenic properties to one: DEHF or di(2-ethylhexyl) fumarate. This finding was of major concern.

Out of the 18 different bottled water products, 13 had “significant” anti-estrogenic activity, and 16 out of 18 inhibited the body’s androgen receptors by 90%. In other words, the bottled water was largely wrecking havoc on the human body.

Video: Dangers of Tap Water and How to Protect Yourself

In addition to DEHF, however, the researchers determined there is some yet-unidentified EDCs at work. Something else is causing anti-androgenic effects.

“We confirmed the identity and biological activity of DEHF and additional isomers of dioctyl fumarate and maleate using authentic standards,” the researchers reported in the online journal PLOS One. “Since DEHF is anti-estrogenic but not anti-androgenic we conclude that additional, yet unidentified EDCs must contribute to the antagonistic effect of bottled water.”

Hormone disruption has the potential to cause serious effects on human life, from early maturation in children, to increased risks of certain types of cancers. You can see one of Mike Barrett’s earlier posts outlining some of the nasty effects of BPA. The findings of this recent study, therefore, are nothing to take lightly. We’ve discussed here before how the bottled water industry may encourage you to hydrate while offering a less-than-pure, expensive product.

Read: The Bottled Water Industry Scam

The researchers concluded:

“Moreover, the antagonist activity was very potent. An equivalent of 3.75 ml bottled water inhibited estrogen and androgen receptor by up to 60 and 90 percent. Bottled water from six different countries has been found to contain estrogenic, antiestrogenic, as well as androgenic, progestagenic, and glucocorticoid-like chemicals. This demonstrates that a popular beverage is contaminated with diverse-acting EDCs.”

14 Foods To Buy Organic

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The growing consensus among scientists is that certain doses of pesticides and other chemicals can possibly cause lasting damage to human health, especially during fetal development and early childhood. Some scientists are warning of the long-term consequences of ingesting these powerful chemicals and advise that we minimize our consumption of pesticides.

According to the Environmental Working Group, consumers can reduce their pesticide exposure by 80 percent by avoiding the most contaminated fruits and vegetables and eating only the cleanest. If consumers get their USDA-recommended five daily servings of fruits and veggies from those that are most contaminated, they could possibly consume an average of 10 pesticides a day. Those who eat the 15 least contaminated conventionally grown produce will likely ingest fewer than two pesticides daily.

EWG has been publishing guides to the "dirty dozen" of the most pesticide contaminated foods since 1995, based on statistical analysis of testing conducted by the USDA and the FDA. The dirty dozen list only reflects measurable pesticide residues on the parts of the foods normally consumed (i.e. after being washed and peeled). Below is the latest EWG guide to the "dirty dozen," along with recommendations for foods other than fruits and vegetables that are best bought organic, along with information about antibiotics, hormones and the impact of producing food on the surrounding environment.[...]

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