Fire In Babylon.

"The volume of chemical substances at a global level has gone from 1 million tons during the 1930s to 400 million tons today (that's an increase of 40,000 percent)! The chemical industry has thus put on the market - without evaluating them - substances that will sometimes be withdrawn once the damage to the population's health is assessed. That's the "proof by people" to demonstrate toxicity that was the rule at the end of many long years. Still, that's only the case for a minority of substances, since for 97% of the substances data is incomplete or nonexistent."

Sorry, fellow bloggers, not the average good news I'd usually issue on a beautiful Monday evening. But I can't help but think - are we ever gonna pay attention? Herb Ruhs, MD, writes in Unknown News (Oct. 14, 2005):

"If it was revealed that we -- all of us, some more than others, but all of us were being fatally poisoned, with millions of deaths already, and billions more deaths in the pipeline, don't you think that would be news?
Don't you think that, in its universally mortal effect, it would be such big news that it would push all other news items out of the public awareness? Wouldn't you think that no one would rest comfortably until this mass murderous assault was stopped and the injured helped?
Guess again.
André Cicolella, writing in Le Monde (English translation available at TruthOut) explores this conundrum in the context of a discussion of European Union political corruption. In the US we have the corruption but not the discussion, at least not in major news outlets comparable to Le Monde. Google "body burden" to discover that the scenario outlined above (and in Cicolella's article) is exactly what is happening to us."

Climate change, oil-shortage, famines... that's no news. World-wide poisoning? Never heard of?

Ruhs writes: "Arguably, this is the most important under reported news story in history. It is the biggest item of unknown news that I am aware of." He points out that it's not only the effects of individual substances, but "we are all being effected by a 'soup' of pollutants that have unexplored, and unexplorable, effects when combined." Read the full article here. And be sure to check out André Cicolella's article, part of which taken as introductory quote. It's real, folks. No conspiracy theory - mere facts. You, the average hard working citizen, pay politicians (to protect us) who then get payed by those poisoning us to make laws to protect them. Are you receiving?