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  Malawi Party Card, Scans and comment

  by BluesBrother in

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  i am indebted to marvin shilmer for the info, on his excellent site.. link .http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/03/malawi-savage-betrayal-by-watchtower.html.

  i was so pleased to see the actual cards that caused all the trouble, after wanting to see it for so long, that i post it today.. first, the background in case anybody does not know the terrible events that happened.

  in the late 1960's to early 1970's jehovah's witnesses were cruelly persecuted and subjected to the worst possible beatings, rape torture and death.

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  Would love to see a comparison/copy of the Mexican political party card at that time also..

  Snoozy..
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  I ended up in the back room of the KH today

  by Nobleheart in

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  our public talk and wt study is on saturdays.

  i was informed by an elder that i shouldn't leave right away after the meeting.. immediately i had a sinking feeling in my stomach.

  but not as bad as i would have felt about it months ago.

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  You'll probably speak up when you're ready..My first thought was 'Big Brother is watching you" but they just seem concerned for now...hopefully things won't turn ugly for you.

  Research too is very important, you have to be sure in your heart/mind that they are false before you can speak out..

  The Kingdom halls seems so different now then when I was going. We didn't have any back rooms, just a storage area and a main room , a entrance Hall where we also had the literature counter..(which any brother could be working) and two bathrooms. That was it. Now I hear some even have a basement and a crying room?

  All they things they spoke against when I was going..

  Then it was keep the congregations small and the buildings attractive and well maintained but simple. With windows.. Lots of them!

  Hugs, Snoozy

  ps..Did the Elder ask you nicely to Please stay after the meeting or tell you in a Parental way that "you shouldn't leave right after the meeting?"..
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  Old Time Assemblies Question - Watchtower Study

  by Mad Sweeney in

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  please refresh my memory.. in the past, did they have an actual watchtower study at the assembly with questions and answers?.

  if so, do you know when that ended and they started doing the review as a 30 minute talk?.

  what would the arrangement at the assembly in, say, 1966 have been for the watchtower study?.

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  Snoozy

  I remember it too...they always had someone prepared in front to answer..

  Snoozy
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  The Love Canal Tragedy:

  by Snoozy in

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  part 1:.

  the love canal tragedy #endeditable end page name begin content area #begineditable "content" .

  by eckardt c. beck.

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  Snoozy

  BK...feel free to share... Your story may be better and more fun to read..

  Snoozy..exposing the cover-ups
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  The Love Canal Tragedy:

  by Snoozy in

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  part 1:.

  the love canal tragedy #endeditable end page name begin content area #begineditable "content" .

  by eckardt c. beck.

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  Part 3:

  Quite the contrary.

  We suspect that there are hundreds of such chemical dumpsites across this Nation.

  Unlike Love Canal, few are situated so close to human settlements. But without a doubt, many of these old dumpsites are time bombs with burning fuses -- their contents slowly leaching out. And the next victim cold be a water supply, or a sensitive wetland.

  The presence of various types of toxic substances in our environment has become increasingly widespread -- a fact that President Carter has called "one of the grimmest discoveries of the modern era."

  Chemical sales in the United States now exceed a mind-boggling $112 billion per year, with as many as 70,000 chemical substances in commerce.

  Love Canal can now be added to a growing list of environmental disasters involving toxics, ranging from industrial workers stricken by nervous disorders and cancers to the discovery of toxic materials in the milk of nursing mothers.

  Through the national environmental program it administers, the Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to draw a chain of Congressional acts around the toxics problem.

  The Clean Air and Water Acts, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Pesticide Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act -- each is an essential link.

  Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, EPA is making grants available to States to help them establish programs to assure the safe handling and disposal of hazardous wastes. As guidance for such programs, we are working to make sure that State inventories of industrial waste disposal sites include full assessments of any potential dangers created by these sites.

  Also, EPA recently proposed a system to ensure that the more than 35 million tons of hazardous wastes produced in the U.S. each year, including most chemical wastes, are disposed of safely. Hazardous wastes will be controlled from point of generation to their ultimate disposal, and dangerous pratices now resulting in serious threats to health and environment will not be allowed.

  Although we are taking these aggressive strides to make sure that hazardous waste is safely managed, there remains the question of liability regarding accidents occurring from wastes disposed of previously. This is a missing link. But no doubt this question will be addressed effectively in the future.

  Regarding the missing link of liability, if health-related dangers are detected, what are we as s people willing to spend to correct the situation? How much risk are we willing to accept? Who's going to pick up the tab?

  One of the chief problems we are up against is that ownership of these sites frequently shifts over the years, making liability difficult to determine in cases of an accident. And no secure mechanisms are in effect for determining such liability.

  It is within our power to exercise intelligent and effective controls designed to significantly cut such environmental risks. A tragedy, unfortunately, has now called upon us to decide on the overall level of commitment we desire for defusing future Love Canals. And it is not forgotten that no one has paid more dearly already than the residents of Love Canal.

  Snoozy
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  The Love Canal Tragedy:

  by Snoozy in

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  part 1:.

  the love canal tragedy #endeditable end page name begin content area #begineditable "content" .

  by eckardt c. beck.

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  Part 2:

  In an article prepared for the February, 1978 EPA Journal, I wrote, regarding chemical dumpsites in general, that "even though some of these landfills have been closed down, they may stand like ticking time bombs." Just months later, Love Canal exploded.

  The explosion was triggered by a record amount of rainfall. Shortly thereafter, the leaching began.

  I visited the canal area at that time. Corroding waste-disposal drums could be seen breaking up through the grounds of backyards. Trees and gardens were turning black and dying. One entire swimming pool had been had been popped up from its foundation, afloat now on a small sea of chemicals. Puddles of noxious substances were pointed out to me by the residents. Some of these puddles were in their yards, some were in their basements, others yet were on the school grounds. Everywhere the air had a faint, choking smell. Children returned from play with burns on their hands and faces.

  And then there were the birth defects. The New York State Health Department is continuing an investigation into a disturbingly high rate of miscarriages, along with five birth-defect cases detected thus far in the area.

  I recall talking with the father of one the children with birth defects. "I heard someone from the press saying that there were only five cases of birth defects here," he told me. "When you go back to your people at EPA, please don't use the phrase 'only five cases.' People must realize that this is a tiny community. Five birth defect cases here is terrifying."

  A large percentage of people in Love Canal are also being closely observed because of detected high white-blood-cell counts, a possible precursor of leukemia.

  When the citizens of Love Canal were finally evacuated from their homes and their neighborhood, pregnant women and infants were deliberately among the first to be taken out.

  "We knew they put chemicals into the canal and filled it over," said one woman, a long-time resident of the Canal area., "but we had no idea the chemicals would invade our homes. We're worried sick about the grandchildren and their children."

  Two of this woman's four grandchildren have birth defects. The children were born and raised in the Love Canal community. A granddaughter was born deaf with a cleft palate, an extra row of teeth, and slight retardation. A grandson was born with an eye defect.

  Of the chemicals which comprise the brew seeping through the ground and into homes at Love Canal, one of the most prevalent is benzene -- a known human carcinogen, and one detected in high concentrations. But the residents characterize things more simply.

  "I've got this slop everywhere," said another man who lives at Love Canal. His daughter also suffers from a congenital defect.

  On August 7, New York Governor Hugh Carey announced to the residents of the Canal that the State Government wold purchase the homes affected by chemicals.

  On that same day, President Carter approved emergency financial aid for the Love Canal area (the first emergency funds ever to be approved for something other than a "natural" disaster), and the U.S. Senate approved a "sense of Congress" amendment saying that Federal aid should be forthcoming to relieve the serious environmental disaster which had occurred.

  By the month's end, 98 families had already been evacuated. Another 46 had found temporary housing. Soon after, all families would be gone from the most contaminated areas -- a total of 221 families have moved or agreed to be moved.

  State figures show more than 200 purchase offers for homes have been made, totaling nearly $7 million.

  A plan is being set in motion now to implement technical procedures designed to meet the seemingly impossible job of detoxifying the Canal area. The plan calls for a trench system to drain chemicals from the Canal. It is a difficult procedure, and we are keeping our fingers crossed that it will yield some degree of success.

  I have been very pleased with the high degree of cooperation in this case among local, State, and Federal governments, and with the swiftness by which the Congress and the President have acted to make funds available.

  But this is not really where the story ends.
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  The Love Canal Tragedy:

  by Snoozy in

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  part 1:.

  the love canal tragedy #endeditable end page name begin content area #begineditable "content" .

  by eckardt c. beck.

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  Part 1:

  The Love Canal Tragedy

  by Eckardt C. Beck
  [EPA Journal - January 1979]

  If you get there before I do
  Tell 'em I'm a comin' too
  To see the things so wondrous true
  At Love's new Model City
  (From a turn-of-the-century advertising jingle promoting the development of Love Canal)
  
  Give me Liberty. I've Already Got Death.
  (From a sign displayed by a Love Canal resident, 1978)

  Quite simply, Love Canal is one of the most appalling environmental tragedies in American history.

  But that's not the most disturbing fact.

  What is worse is that it cannot be regarded as an isolated event. It could happen again--anywhere in this country--unless we move expeditiously to prevent it.

  It is a cruel irony that Love Canal was originally meant to be a dream community. That vision belonged to the man for whom the three-block tract of land on the eastern edge of Niagara Falls, New York, was named--William T. Love.

  Love felt that by digging a short canal between the upper and lower Niagara Rivers, power could be generated cheaply to fuel the industry and homes of his would-be model city.

  But despite considerable backing, Love's project was unable to endure the one-two punch of fluctuations in the economy and Nikola Tesla's discovery of how to economically transmit electricity over great distances by means of an alternating current.

  By 1910, the dream was shattered. All that was left to commemorate Love's hope was a partial ditch where construction of the canal had begun.

  In the 1920s the seeds of a genuine nightmare were planted. The canal was turned into a municipal and industrial chemical dumpsite.

  Landfills can of course be an environmentally acceptable method of hazardous waste disposal, assuming they are properly sited, managed, and regulated. Love Canal will always remain a perfect historical example of how not to run such an operation.

  In 1953, the Hooker Chemical Company, then the owners and operators of the property, covered the canal with earth and sold it to the city for one dollar.

  It was a bad buy.

  In the late '50s, about 100 homes and a school were built at the site. Perhaps it wasn't William T. Love's model city, but it was a solid, working-class community. For a while.

  On the first day of August, 1978, the lead paragraph of a front-page story in the New York Times read:

  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y.--Twenty five years after the Hooker Chemical Company stopped using the Love Canal here as an industrial dump, 82 different compounds, 11 of them suspected carcinogens, have been percolating upward through the soil, their drum containers rotting and leaching their contents into the backyards and basements of 100 homes and a public school built on the banks of the canal
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  The Story of Times Beach ...

  by Snoozy in

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  part 1:.

  the times beach story.

  by marilyn leistner, last mayor of times beach, missouri .

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  Snoozy

  This was the story told by a former mayor of the town. I remember when it all happened. We used to go swimming in the area..I posted it because of all tlhe hush hush that was going on within the government. I lived about 30 miles from the site. But often crossed over the bridge that had Times Beach under it..and watched it slowly deteriorate and turn into a ghost town and the eventual warning signs that went up with the hazardous warnings on the beaches..a little too late!

  Similar to what I believe is going on now with the nuclear reactors in Japan.
  I noticed that The Love Canal was even mentioned in the story I posted...that is a whole nother story as they say about cover-up. Another poster brought it to my attention.

  Youth today just haven't seen and experienced the stories of horrible things like this..they should know about the past.. You have to watch out for yourself and your family. But even then no teling what is going on behind closed government doors..

  Snoozy

  ps..a afterthought Regarding Times Beach and The Love Canal:

  Love Canal, along with Times Beach, Missouri, are important in United States environmental history as the two sites that in large part led to the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA). CERCLA is much more commonly referred to as "Superfund" because of the fund established by the act to help the clean-up of toxic pollution in residential locations such as Love Canal. It has been stated that Love Canal has "become the symbol for what happens when hazardous industrial products are not confined to the workplace but 'hit people where they live' in inestimable amounts." [ 40 ]

  Love Canal was not an isolated case. Eckardt C. Beck, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Love Canal crisis suggested that there are probably hundreds of similar dumpsites. [ 27 ] President Carter declared that discovering these dumpsites was "one of the grimmest discoveries of the modern era." [ 27 ] Had the residents of Love Canal been aware that they were residing on toxic chemicals, most would not have moved there in the first place. Beck noted that one main problem remains that ownership of such chemical companies can change over the years making liability difficult to assign (a problem that would be addressed by CERCLA, or the Superfund Act). [ 41 ] Beck contended that increased commitment was necessary to develop controls that would "defuse future Love Canals." [ 27 ]

  The free market environmentalist movement has often cited the Love Canal incident as a consequence of government decision-makers not taking responsibility for their decisions. Stroup writes, "The school district owning the land had a laudable but narrow goal: it wanted to provide education cheaply for district children. Government decision makers are seldom held accountable for broader social goals in the way that private owners are by liability rules and potential profits." [ 14 ]

  The legacy of the disaster spawned a fictionalized made-for-TV film entitled Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982). A documentary entitled In Our Own Backyard was released in the U.S. in 1983, and Modern Marvels retold the disaster in 2004. Love Canal was also referenced in 1982 film Tootsie, in the 2000 film Erin Brockovich, and the 1998 computer game Blood II: The Chosen.
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  Why you should not worry about Japan's nuclear reactor problems.

  by beatthesystem in

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  a nuclear reactor is built in such a way, that when operating normally, you take out all the moderator rods.

  so if these radioactive materials are released into the environment, yes, radioactivity was released, but no, it is not dangerous, at all.

  when the uranium splits, it generates a neutron (see above).

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  Snoozy

  Thank you Vill..I never had this happen before but it seems odd things have been happening since Simon has been working on his "New Board"...
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  Have you ever felt an earthquake?

  by Iamallcool in

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  personally, i have never felt an earthquake in my life.

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  5.5 in Missouri in the late 60's. I think the quake was actuallly in Illinois. We are on the New Madrid fault..:(

  That was so bad I can't even imagine being in a stronger one!

  Snoozy