That's the only reason I can think of for this story to appear on the front page:
"Blood irradiators cited as threats to security; Process uses radioactive powder" by Bryan Bender | Globe Staff May 12, 2014
WASHINGTON — They were developed as life-saving devices, ensuring that blood is properly treated before patients receive a transfusion. Massachusetts, because of its concentration of medical facilities, has one of the nation’s highest number of the machines.
But now federal officials worry the material that makes these devices dubbed blood irradiator machines so effective — a highly radioactive powder known as cesium chloride — could threaten public safety. Some fear that people could be exposed in an accident or, in a worst-case scenario, that the material could be stolen by terrorists to make a “dirty bomb” spewing radiation.
Okay, the first thing is never mind the 300 tons of radioactive water being dumped into the Pacific each day, ignore the Corexit goop at the bottom of the Gulf, ignore the depleted uranium munitions AmeriKa has littered the planet with, ignore the toxins in the air, soil, and water, ignore the prescription pharmaceuticals in the water, this threatens public safety.
The second thing is the whole terrorist thing has been CREATED, DIRECTED, and FUNDED by GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES and carried out by their agents and assets in the field (with a healthy supply of oil kingdom money).
The third thing of note is the COST of ALL the LIES! It is NOT JUST the BLOOD SHED and LIMBS and LIVES LOST! It is NOT only the DECADES of CARE veterans will need. It is the ADJUSTMENTS that MUST BE MADE to KEEP THE RUSE GOING!
All unnece$$ary and unneeded, but at least some well-connected corporation and concern will get a big fat contract!
That has set the stage for an unlikely fight between the government and some in the medical industry who are reluctant to give up the relatively low-cost machines and replace them with more expensive devices that are safer but might break down more frequently.
Un-flipping-real! So now HEALTH and SAFETY will SURELY BE THREATENED with the new machines!
I've been waiting for the airlines to start calling things out because of cost. Maybe the doctors will do it instead.
“If we could make headway on this — if you could get all the cesium chloride off the market — it would be permanent risk reduction,” said Charles Ferguson, president of the Federation of American Scientists, a nonprofit dedicated to finding solutions to international security problems.
Nonprofit means they don't pay taxes, and "nonprofits provide new ways for corporations and individuals to influence."
That's why I don't trust them. Nothing but agenda-pu$hing organi$ations that appear in my whoreporate paper.
As the debate unfolds, Massachusetts hospitals and clinics, which have received more money for upgrading security of radioactive medical supplies than any other state, are considered central to the outcome.
Treating donated blood through these machines is a crucial step to making sure that transfusions do not kill people with weak immune systems, including the elderly and the very young.
I kind of thought that was important.
This government doesn't give a f*** if you die, and don't worry, the elite will be taken care of with top notch medical care as always.
This government is LITERALLY willing to RISK YOUR LIFE to KEEP the LIE GOING!
An internal panel convened by the Department of Energy recently concluded that the United States is trailing many other industrialized nations in eliminating the blood irradiators.
I reserve the right....
Officials are prodding Boston hospitals and blood banks to phase these irradiators out and are considering the use of federal grants and other incentives to speed the process, according to officials and specialists who participated in the deliberations.
They said they could not speak publicly because they signed nondisclosure agreements with the government. What a nice way of putting federal extortion.
What they so delicately said was the feds will withhold money of you don't do what they want. I'm sure Massachusetts will buckle; we ain't Texas.
But some health providers and suppliers, which have a history of resisting such a change, say they are not convinced it is feasible to invest in newer X-ray irradiators, which costs up to $2 million, not including maintenance costs. They also said the technology is less reliable than the current machines, which can last up to 30 years, require little upkeep, and can handle larger quantities.
Okay, WHO has the CONTRACT for the NEW MACHINES, and to WHOM are they CONNECTED?
It looks to me like there is NOTHING WRONG with the old machines, they are better, in fact. Reminds of the need for scanners at airports, another $olution based on scripted and staged lies and false flag hoaxes.
“X-ray irradiators break with regular abandon, so of course you have to buy two,” said Dr. Jed Gorlin, vice president of medical and quality affairs at Innovative Blood Resources in St. Paul, Minn., and an adviser to the industry group AABB, formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks.
So, WHAT WELL-CONNECTED FRIEND or CORPORATION has the contract?
Gorlin said that in his experience X-ray irradiators are also hard to find. One of the blood bank’s facilities expected to get delivery of an X-ray irradiator in November, he said. “Do we have it yet? No. To say there are myriad available alternatives . . . is not quite accurate.”
Those concerns have raised fears that a transition would harm patients.
Again, YOU MUST BE SACRIFICED so THIS GOVERNMENT can continue to promote the NARRATIVE of MYTH so they can GRAB MORE LOOT and KILL MORE PEOPLE!!
In a recent paper, the AABB asserted that “inadequate availability of irradiation capability in hospitals and blood centers would have a dramatic impact on the standard of care that is provided to the most seriously ill patients.”
And it is already dropping like a WTC tower at free-fall speed because of the failures of Obummercare!
The same paper raised concerns that making the transition could hurt medical research.
Just eat it!
Others contend that some of the resistance stems from the radioisotopes industry, for which cesium irradiation machines have been a lucrative slice of the market.
Right, they are the ones after a buck.
‘There are going to be winners and losers,” said Miles Pomper, a senior research associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and an expert on radiological materials. “The people who only make cesium chloride aren’t going to like it.”
Nor will those needing operations and transfusions.
According to a recent study, Massachusetts is among the four states — along with Pennsylvania, Texas, and California — with the largest quantities of radiological medical materials that are considered highly dangerous and vulnerable to theft.
They are pretty much TELEGRAPHING a FALSE FLAG, folks!
At the same time, the largest amount of federal dollars spent on upgrading security for such material has been directed to Massachusetts: more than $11 million at 25 facilities, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Massachusetts stole the money?
Among the area hospitals and universities that have participated in the security upgrades are Tufts University Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to officials. Those institutions declined to discuss their role or their position on Department of Energy policy. Julie Jette, a spokeswoman for Tufts, said that “for security reasons, the medical center doesn’t publicly discuss our policies and practices.”
Cesium chloride is derived from cesium-137, a by-product of nuclear fission. In blood irradiators, it is compressed into stainless steel capsules.
They don't care if it is in the Pacific or the Connecticut River. You will regret it in any event.
If humans come in contact with cesium chloride, it can cause radiation sickness, burns, and death. An accidental exposure in Brazil in 1985 killed four people, contaminated 249 others, and required 112,000 to be monitored for adverse health effects.
Cesium chloride is considered among the most pressing challenges in preventing the use of a dirty bomb. It has similar properties as sodium chloride, or table salt, such as being dissolvable in water. Such properties, along with its high radioactivity, make it better suited to a terrorist weapon than other medical radiological materials, such as cobalt-60, which comes in the form of a small pellet or wire.
As early as 2008, the National Research Council, a private nonprofit that advises the government on policy, recommended getting rid of the material, saying that “cesium chloride is a greater concern than other radiation sources based on its dispersibility and its presence in population centers across the country.”
Those concerns have only grown in recent years.
They are taping on that TELEGRAPH real hard!
Better GET OUT of BOSTON now!
GAO investigators detailed a series of security lapses around the country, including a hospital in an unnamed city where the combination to a lock on a room that housed a blood irradiator was written on the door frame. The room was near a loading dock.
At another unnamed hospital, research irradiators were kept in a basement open to the public. One of the irradiators was on a wheeled pallet, investigators found.
Officials also assert that the American medical community is far behind in finding a replacement. Other countries have already widely adopted such alternatives as X-ray technology, including Japan, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, according to a survey.
Their machines work better than the ones the government is making us get?
Still, others say that determining what to do with unused blood irradiators is a major challenge.
“There is no practical way of disposing of the cesium irradiator,” said Dr. Gorlin. “And Congress shows no ability to have radiological medical disposal sites. I think government incentives would be fantastic.”
The Department of Energy does have on board one powerful voice for phasing in X-ray technology: the American Red Cross.
“It is FDA-cleared and it has been for a long time and they have been in use in blood banks,” said Stephen Wagner, a biophysicist and director of the blood component department at the organization’s Jerome H. Holland Laboratory in Rockville, Md. “I think that they are equivalent. But there are still some concerns about significant downtime [with X-ray irradiators] that companies will have to address.”
BUT?
About the last thing you want to hear with a tube in your arm on the operating table.
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Except the call came from Nigeria this time.
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