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A story on NPR was quite shocking about the recycling of e-waste. Earlier this sumer I ws thinking bout buying a kindle and stp buying books to be more eco-friendly. Lilly reminded me about the waste created by these efforts. Well I just heard the story on NPR and I was truly shocked! Shocked! I don't know all the names and facts but got the gist. When you "recycle" (as a lot of us do) a full 80% is promptly shipped to China and Africa. In China there are whole mid-sized cities where they are cooking down the old components in big vats like soup and tobe in that atmosphere gives one immediate horrible headaches and the workers there are coming up with massive cancer clusters trying to leech out the valuable trace minerals from the circuit boards. I might have some of th tech stuff wrong, but the gist is horrifyingly correct.. In Ghana and other western african countries they are unvolvd in reproducing the old recycled product into a new product, advertising it as new! They get some of the motherboards with old information on them. Information thievery is pretty big over there and they used to get about $25 for an intact memory boards but now they have smartened up and are getting $300 for each one with the raw info intact. The good news? There s a caped crusader, whose name I forget, putting together a bunch of recyclers who won't just profit shipping this stuff offshore. They will have to meet rigorous and policed standards. The most crazy thing is that is it is highly toxic to make these things. It is not toxic during their useful lives (so far, that we know of) and it is is highly toxic at the recycling endpoint. And, yes, children are involved in the very end process, going through e-dumps and bashing old tubes for tiny bits of precious metals that remain. I know I didn't get this all right but it makes me think that I might not be so totally unhip without my kindle and I-pod and droid and blackberry, At least I'm not ruining the planet and creating cancer custers that could eventually kill off entire cities and turn my species into mutants. The whole story would be on the NPR archive 12/22. Merry Cristmas/Kwanzaa/etc. everybody. You don't need to call or text or buy me an e-pad. Lama-G wishes you a great holiday!

This bird and fish kil-off Arkansas and now Louisiana seems very frightening. I think the unknown is what is most terrorizing. Discarding fie crackers and hail, It seems clear that these starlings and blackkbirds and fish have been exposed to something that May Be extrtaterresteria l. I say "May Be: so people won't think I'm a nut. What he hell is hapening an when miight it start hapening wih us? Is there a precedent for this. This is creepy.

Dang Dean! I've only got a little over three months to make the Rapture cut. I'm not gonna make it. I couldn't even make the cut for my litle league team when I was eight! This is not good. Was your friend really outside of the Arknasas area or are you goofing,-- toying with my delicate balance. Don't freak me our out Mean Al Dean. There isalready enough bad shit going on. -- too much to keep up with. I don't know, maybe it was the firecrackers, the crackersfrom their long, blond hair! The fish are another matter though, as well snow down to 200 feet in LA Basin.

Greenland, Sweeden, other aeas of th US. Rapture --mI don't tend to believe in but something is going on. These newer animals being found are bleeding from the mouth. Off hand, I'd say this is not good sign.. Lets hope there is a rational, temporary explanation to this situation . More possible rather than the beginning of a nerve gas leak. in Siberia. It;s all so possible it almost makes you feel good raided your 401k.