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Yallow

(1,926 posts)
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 09:56 PM Dec 2015

‘Toxic stress’: Max blood lead levels in Flint children 7 times higher than CDC guidelines – doctor

Source: RT.com

"kids had blood lead levels far higher than those US health officials consider “elevated” – and that the state knew kids were being poisoned"

Read more: https://www.rt.com/usa/327363-flint-children-blood-lead-water/



Important part. State knew people were being poisoned.

I assume they are preparing charges for the people responsible for the poisoning. They obviously knew what they were doing.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/foia-request-shows-govt-lied-about-lead-water-knowingly-poisoning-countless
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‘Toxic stress’: Max blood lead levels in Flint children 7 times higher than CDC guidelines – doctor (Original Post) Yallow Dec 2015 OP
Rick Snyder's "State is a soulless machine." (Gandhi) Ed Suspicious Dec 2015 #1
Criminal charges need to filed against Snyder. roamer65 Dec 2015 #2
Gov. Rick Snyder (MI): You are unworthy. Resign. /nt NCjack Dec 2015 #3
The Republican Party is a Fascist Party. Dawson Leery Dec 2015 #4
Criminal charges are needed. Sienna86 Dec 2015 #5
They Were Poisoned By Republicans Yallow Dec 2015 #6
And Snyder runs as free as a killer cop of an unarmed black teen. Or as free valerief Dec 2015 #7
"There is no such thing as a “safe” level of lead" ffr Dec 2015 #8
kick Liberal_in_LA Dec 2015 #9
What happens in one place chapdrum Dec 2015 #10

valerief

(53,235 posts)
7. And Snyder runs as free as a killer cop of an unarmed black teen. Or as free
Thu Dec 31, 2015, 01:12 AM
Dec 2015

as murderer George Zimmerman.

ffr

(22,672 posts)
8. "There is no such thing as a “safe” level of lead"
Thu Dec 31, 2015, 03:07 AM
Dec 2015

-Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Cosmos season 1)

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"Saturn is the slowest moving planet of those able to be seen by the naked eye. Perhaps this is why it was named for the God of Lead. #cosmos"

 

chapdrum

(930 posts)
10. What happens in one place
Thu Dec 31, 2015, 03:28 PM
Dec 2015

will happen everywhere.

Yet another (now murderous) example of Michigan as experimental/sacrificial zone.

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