Health Security, Curbing Cancer- a global menace

Ever heard the expression , ‘closing the stable when the horse is already out?’ It was one that was favored by an extremely wise woman who meant so much to my personal  life, from the  tender  age of eight weeks , until I was  sixteen years. She was my Grandmother , and the woman I affectionately came to call mom , until her untimely ,and extremely painful  death , from what I came to know decades later , was due to  Cervical  Cancer . It is very unfortunate when you grew up in a society that did not treat health as a priority, especially when it comes to women.

After all, I am speaking of a country that at the time, had only 15 years under its belt as an independent nation. I personally administered to her every need , as she suffered in severe pain, but  no medical attention was sort, or delivered by friend ,family ,foe , or the non-existent  authorities.

Today that country  , has a vibrant economy , produces billions of natural resources from underground , and is perhaps one of the region  largest exporters to the United States. Tell me something, who do you believe when it comes to dangerous chemicals , and it’s implications for the  environment and humans? Is it governments, global organizations controlled by the powerful , with hidden agendas, unconcerned elitist , middle class , domestic or international Civil Society ,civic leaders , many solely interested in self-aggrandizement whether monetary , or global awards. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=86572

As one modern leader said , that’s above my pay grade.Nevertheless , let me add that the situation is terrible , and getting worst.  As late as 2007 world-wide figures for this deadly disease of Cancer stood at 12 million, which roughly translates to 20,000 per day. One can however safely say that this is a very conservative figure , as data gathering on a global level can as well  be expected to be  problematic. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-12/acs-nre121207.php

Surprisingly enough , modernity did not produce the success in health , as expected. The media distortion remain, corruption still exist , and global exploitations of governments, conglomerates, and agents of NGO’s with hidden agendas continue to be the norm . This malady affects  all global citizens , with few even being aware as to what is at play.  Our global environment remains in danger , due to great measure to the actions of  powerful profiteers . What is also ignored in the name  of you get it, profits, is that we as humans being are capable of preventing  cancer.Instead you hear of highly touted drugs to heal and cure cancer. Daily awareness sporting events to raise awareness ,after the fact , and a  growing billion dollar industry where the interest of victims are side-stepped.

Ironically,   some ” 80  to 90 % of all cancers it is alleged , can be attributed to environmental factors.” What is necessary , therefore is critical, preventative  actions now, yes? http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/docs-talk/2010/04/environmental-chemicals-and-cancer/

http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm/Forming-a-Nuclear-Conglomerate.

What about nuclear technology and it’s possible links to   cancer?

We know about Chernobyl , but what about the effects  dumping of radio-active waste materials in our oceans, and waters especially in the poor, desperate  regions, sometimes without their knowledge , but often without? http://www.ratical.com/radiation/Chernobyl/

Drafting treaties are fine,  but how practical  are they to enforce? http://www.imo.org/Conventions/contents.asp?topic_id=258&doc_id=681

But no I have no nuclear plants in my back yards , and live in a pristine section of the global environment , many might  say. Also , who has the monopoly on the truth? http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/10/2008109174223218644.htm

Take for example the Caribbean and Central America, throughout the region ,.. “the devastating health crisis is exacerbated — if not directly caused — by international capital’s “recycling” of toxic wastes. (Indeed, Haitian women who have emigrated to the U.S. have been found to have double or triple the cervical cancer rates as women born in the U.S.)”

This situation forced Ehrl LaFontant of the Haiti Communications Project to say , “Instead of repatriating Haitian refugees to Haiti, the U.S. government should repatriate this toxic waste back to its own country.”

“Toxic waste dumping in Haiti was, after all, a lucrative source of income for the Duvalier dictatorship.”  http://www.counterpunch.org/cohen01222010.html

Therein lies the dilemma between the developed world and developing, and often the agents that are used as the conduits, can be most surprising ,as was the case with Haiti and America.

It is simply important that folks become engage into recognizing that a skeptical approach must be developed to deal with many of the matters that afflicts the global community. Nothing is more critical as Health Security. Where do you stand on this, I ask  ?http://www.infectagentscancer.com/content/2/1/17 I know where I am . Remember , ‘the personal is political , ‘and ‘;an ounce of  prevention is better than a  pound of cure.’ These wise assertions , would be echoed, and endorsed  by  my Grandmother  if she was still alive. Working on ensuring that her sacrifices were not in vain.

Nuclear power Gene

Due in most part to the unrelenting   work of Dr. Helen Caldicott and others of the anti Nuclear movement , I am almost certain that by now millions across the globe have developed a greater understanding   of the negative impact of this foolish nuclear obsessions by many countries – either as a form of energy , or in their quest to develop weapons of mass destruction , so as to perhaps produce another devastating , though unacknowledged  Hiroshima , and Nagasaki genocide.

The question therefore is why after all the harmful fall outs and close shaves  , aren’t folks in the global community not more outraged , and or concerned to the point where they  are prepared to tell their respective leaders , “no mas ,but  stop  the procrastinations,  and please leaders give us jobs, respectable infrastructure, education for our kids, concrete security measures,efficient health care  systems ,    and other prudent services that a geared  towards us, as a people , country , and well-ordered , safe planet ?”

America has millions , yet still cannot find  a  6 feet plus  Muslim thug in an Afghan bat cave , even after two highly wasteful , unnecessary  wars. Europeans and Russians are laden with them , still many are cowering in fear , though unprepared to use it against each other.Some say deterrence at work, others , American citizens  tax dollars. http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/Allbombs.html

North Korea, Iraq,and  Libya  have wasted millions of resources in their quest to acquire it , and have paid  a dear price ,some more than others . Israel posses it,though pretending  to herself  not to ,  yet feels less safe, and more impotent  against determined regional Islamic enemies without similar American tax dollars heavily  subsidized , firepower than  on the day of Independence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3340639.stm

Neocolonial ,elitist South  Asian competing tribes in both India, and Pakistan  are unconcerned that more than perhaps 90 % of their citizens might be living in squalor and neglect ,under the poverty line , so long as they can spend billions in the acquisition of their nuclear toys, and feel as if somehow they are relevant ,respected , civilize   players ,in the  modern developed world nuclear power game .   http://www.subcontinent.com/research/sapra_documents/nuclear20000612a.html

As for China? Talk about a disaster waiting to happen , re this   unregulated, pseudo democratic , post socialist wannabe, Human Rights abusing  country !

It’s insecure  leaders are not even mindful of the harm they are causing across the world , as they strive to become the next global hegemonic  leader, and  Nuclear Super power.

So Al Gore , and Jimmy Carter remains silent on their own country’s actions in endangering millions at home and abroad due to nuclear proclivity , since getting their respective  Nobel Peace prize  trophies.Dr Helen might get one too as the Norwegians run out of politically correct causes to honor , and the poor desperate Indians from Brazil would still be blamed for global warming , due the fact that they burn a few log woods from the Amazon for survival.

In the mean time non state actors , and insignificant countries – laden with natural resources that can foster nuclear technology ,  such as Niger – are portrayed as the problem , and threat to global peace .   http://www.thehour.com/story/484269.

Where do you stand in demanding a final elimination of all nuclear weapons and curbing of nuclear energy obsessions, or is it too late to put that power gene back into the bottle?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/19467068/Nuclear-Energy-Fallacies

http://www.belarusembassy.org/humanitarian/chernobyl.htm

http://www.chernobyl-international.com/school_education/impact_of_the_disaster.462.html

Nuclear Disaster meltdown , and the quest for energy.

Folks are outraged at the recent BP oil spill disaster off the Gulf of Mexico in Florida, but the consequences of a nuclear disaster could be quite mammoth , with wider , and far reaching consequences. http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/nuclear_disasters/nuclear_disasters.html

Are we concerned enough?

The sting of Death &the Victory of the Grave

Each year, about 31,000 Americans commit suicide, making it the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. Once thought to be primarily a white male problem, suicide is increasingly dramatically in the Black community. Whether Black, Caucasian, or any other racial or ethnic group, the number one risk factor for suicide is being male.
Suicide is now the third-leading cause of death for African-American males ages 15 through 24, and a rate increase of 233 % for boys between the ages of 10 and 14. Black teenagers in this country are killing themselves at a rate of 5 per day. Sixty-five percent of them are using firearms to do it.

One theorist states that ,“the most common element involved in suicide seems to be the persons perception that life is so painful that only death can provide relief.” There is the first the often ignored phenomenon of suicides by cops for most young black males , who chooses to confront law enforcement officers in fatalistic shootouts , even though fully aware of the dire consequences of confronting a more organized , and determined , force.
http://www.blacknews.com/news/henrie_m_treadwell301.shtml
This is followed by the increasing accounts of equally ignored , very educated males of a high social class, taking their lives at prestigious Ivey League schools across the country, in Universities such as Yale, Cornell, and NYU .
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-harold-koplewicz/suicide-college-has-your_b_511583.html
Some are jumping and others are also using weapons. What is of more concern to you , the fact that guns are playing a major part, elites are giving up, police inability to address the problem by using different approaches to fighting crimes, or that , an increasing number of young black are joining their privileged whites counterparts and succumbing to despair , and fatalism by by resorting to suicides , in unarguably the greatest , and most prosperous country in the world ?