Americans will be forced to use CFLs that contain poisonous carcinogens after government ban on traditional light bulb begins to take effect in January
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
A damning new study conducted by German scientists has found that so-called energy saving light bulbs contain poisonous carcinogens that could cause cancer and should be “kept as far away as possible from the human environment,” but Americans will be forced to replace their traditional light bulbs with toxic CFLs ahead of a government ban set to take effect at the start of next year.
“German scientists claimed that several carcinogenic chemicals and toxins were released when the environmentally-friendly compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) were switched on, including phenol, naphthalene and styrene,” reports the London Telegraph.
The study, conducted by Peter Braun at the Berlin’s Alab Laboratory, led the scientists involved to warn that the bulbs should only be used sparingly, in areas with good ventilation, and “definitely not in the proximity of the head,” due to the danger of the electrical smog the bulbs generate impacting human health.
That’s going to cause difficulties for Americans who will be forced to buy the bulbs following a government ban on traditional incandescent lighting that comes into effect on January 1, 2012.
A 2007 bill signed in to law by President George W. Bush mandates that, “Manufacturers will no longer be able to make the 100-watt Thomas Edison bulb after Jan. 1, 2012, followed by the 75-watt version in Jan. 2013, and the the 60- and 40-watt bulbs in Jan. 2014.”
The legislation mirrors similar laws in Europe, where incandescent bulbs began to be phased out in 2009. The EU also plans to ban halogen bulbs by 2016, forcing people to use compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs, which produce a poor quality of light with an attendant flicker affect that causes many people to become dizzy and ill.
Ron Paul is amongst those leading a charge in Congress to repeal the draconian state phase out of Thomas Edison’s iconic invention. The Freedom Action group has also launched a national campaign to repeal the ban. Last week, the South Carolina House passed a bill overturning the ban and similar legislation is in the works in Texas, Georgia and Minnesota.
“It is my strong belief that the feds have overstepped the 10th Amendment and now are venturing into telling us what kind of lighting we can have in our homes and businesses,” Republican Rep. Bill Sandifer said in a statement after the House passed his legislation. “This bill is about taking a stand against government intrusion in our everyday lives. I am championing this bill because I believe that we must fight for limited government, personal freedoms, and the free market.”
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Forcing Americans to buy CFL bulbs that are harmful to their health and the environment is completely unconstitutional. Indeed, in a similar vein to forcing Americans to buy mandatory health insurance under Obamacare, it’s a clear violation of the Commerce Clause.
The so-called “dirty energy” emitted by CFLs produces radiation that has been linked with migraine headaches, sleep abnormalities, fatigue, and other health defects.
The new German study adds to concerns raised by separate research conducted by Abraham Haim, a professor of biology at Haifa University in Israel, who found that the light emitted by CFL’s increased the chance of women getting breast cancer by disrupting the body’s production of the hormone melatonin.
CFLs are also more harmful to the environment because they are filled with toxic mercury that contaminates the environment when the bulbs reach the landfill.
“A report released in 2008 from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection revealed that when a CFL bulb is broken, it can release dangerously high levels of mercury into the air,” writes Ethan Huff.
“In Toronto, city officials require people to dispose of CFL bulbs at special hazardous waste facilities because they don’t want the city’s landfills to become contaminated with mercury. While used CFL bulbs are not legally recognized as hazardous waste, they are treated as such because they pose serious environmental threats when broken and released into the environment.”
Americans have begun stockpiling dwindling supplies of incandescent light bulbs as the 2012 ban nears.
The light bulb ban is a foretaste of what’s to come as the enforcement arm of the eco-fascist agenda unfolds. As we have documented, enviro-Nazis envisage a future world in which car use will be heavily restricted, CO2 emissions will be rationed, meat will be considered a rare delicacy, the state will decide your career, and only the mega-rich elitists enforcing all these new rules and regulations will be exempt from them.
Indeed, as Rand Paul recently highlighted, the light bulb ban mirrors the collectivist dictatorship fictionalized in Ayn Rand’s dystopic novel Anthem, where the elite decides to replace light bulbs with candles as part of its purge of individual choice.
“There’s a young man and his name is Equality,” explained U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican and tea party favorite, at a recent energy hearing in Washington where he talked about the book. “[The character] is an intelligent young man but he is banned from achieving or reaching any sort of occupation that would challenge him. He is a street sweeper.”
“Over time, he discovers an abandoned subway and rediscovers the incandescent light bulb,” Paul continued. “And he thinks, naively, that electricity and the brilliance of light would be an advantage for society and that it would bring great new things as far as being able to see at night, being able to read and the advancement of civilization.”
“He takes it before the collective of elders, and they take the light bulb, and basically it’s crushed beneath the boot heel of the collective,” Paul went on. “The collective has no place basically for individual choice.”
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
A damning new study conducted by German scientists has found that so-called energy saving light bulbs contain poisonous carcinogens that could cause cancer and should be “kept as far away as possible from the human environment,” but Americans will be forced to replace their traditional light bulbs with toxic CFLs ahead of a government ban set to take effect at the start of next year.
“German scientists claimed that several carcinogenic chemicals and toxins were released when the environmentally-friendly compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) were switched on, including phenol, naphthalene and styrene,” reports the London Telegraph.
The study, conducted by Peter Braun at the Berlin’s Alab Laboratory, led the scientists involved to warn that the bulbs should only be used sparingly, in areas with good ventilation, and “definitely not in the proximity of the head,” due to the danger of the electrical smog the bulbs generate impacting human health.
That’s going to cause difficulties for Americans who will be forced to buy the bulbs following a government ban on traditional incandescent lighting that comes into effect on January 1, 2012.
A 2007 bill signed in to law by President George W. Bush mandates that, “Manufacturers will no longer be able to make the 100-watt Thomas Edison bulb after Jan. 1, 2012, followed by the 75-watt version in Jan. 2013, and the the 60- and 40-watt bulbs in Jan. 2014.”
The legislation mirrors similar laws in Europe, where incandescent bulbs began to be phased out in 2009. The EU also plans to ban halogen bulbs by 2016, forcing people to use compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs, which produce a poor quality of light with an attendant flicker affect that causes many people to become dizzy and ill.
Ron Paul is amongst those leading a charge in Congress to repeal the draconian state phase out of Thomas Edison’s iconic invention. The Freedom Action group has also launched a national campaign to repeal the ban. Last week, the South Carolina House passed a bill overturning the ban and similar legislation is in the works in Texas, Georgia and Minnesota.
“It is my strong belief that the feds have overstepped the 10th Amendment and now are venturing into telling us what kind of lighting we can have in our homes and businesses,” Republican Rep. Bill Sandifer said in a statement after the House passed his legislation. “This bill is about taking a stand against government intrusion in our everyday lives. I am championing this bill because I believe that we must fight for limited government, personal freedoms, and the free market.”
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Forcing Americans to buy CFL bulbs that are harmful to their health and the environment is completely unconstitutional. Indeed, in a similar vein to forcing Americans to buy mandatory health insurance under Obamacare, it’s a clear violation of the Commerce Clause.
The so-called “dirty energy” emitted by CFLs produces radiation that has been linked with migraine headaches, sleep abnormalities, fatigue, and other health defects.
The new German study adds to concerns raised by separate research conducted by Abraham Haim, a professor of biology at Haifa University in Israel, who found that the light emitted by CFL’s increased the chance of women getting breast cancer by disrupting the body’s production of the hormone melatonin.
CFLs are also more harmful to the environment because they are filled with toxic mercury that contaminates the environment when the bulbs reach the landfill.
“A report released in 2008 from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection revealed that when a CFL bulb is broken, it can release dangerously high levels of mercury into the air,” writes Ethan Huff.
“In Toronto, city officials require people to dispose of CFL bulbs at special hazardous waste facilities because they don’t want the city’s landfills to become contaminated with mercury. While used CFL bulbs are not legally recognized as hazardous waste, they are treated as such because they pose serious environmental threats when broken and released into the environment.”
Americans have begun stockpiling dwindling supplies of incandescent light bulbs as the 2012 ban nears.
The light bulb ban is a foretaste of what’s to come as the enforcement arm of the eco-fascist agenda unfolds. As we have documented, enviro-Nazis envisage a future world in which car use will be heavily restricted, CO2 emissions will be rationed, meat will be considered a rare delicacy, the state will decide your career, and only the mega-rich elitists enforcing all these new rules and regulations will be exempt from them.
Indeed, as Rand Paul recently highlighted, the light bulb ban mirrors the collectivist dictatorship fictionalized in Ayn Rand’s dystopic novel Anthem, where the elite decides to replace light bulbs with candles as part of its purge of individual choice.
“There’s a young man and his name is Equality,” explained U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican and tea party favorite, at a recent energy hearing in Washington where he talked about the book. “[The character] is an intelligent young man but he is banned from achieving or reaching any sort of occupation that would challenge him. He is a street sweeper.”
“Over time, he discovers an abandoned subway and rediscovers the incandescent light bulb,” Paul continued. “And he thinks, naively, that electricity and the brilliance of light would be an advantage for society and that it would bring great new things as far as being able to see at night, being able to read and the advancement of civilization.”
“He takes it before the collective of elders, and they take the light bulb, and basically it’s crushed beneath the boot heel of the collective,” Paul went on. “The collective has no place basically for individual choice.”
April 20th, 2011 at 9:56 am My head hurts, I can’t sleep, but I think I see the light.
April 20th, 2011 at 11:27 am
Again, CFL’s are NOT the only alternative to incandescent lights.
LED’s perform better than CFL’s. Although costly, they pay for themselves in saved energy costs in just a few months of operation.
April 20th, 2011 at 11:41 am
And, We only need to know that these are filled with MERCURY, like tooth fillings used to be, to know someone is trying to kill us.
So, who could it be?
Its the government (greedy politicians and bankers) that want us dead.
Pull their tax funding.
Search tax regulations for “excluded income”
ECFR dot GPOACCESS dot GOV
(Title 26)
Or just Google excluded income.
Notice section 861, only “Foreign earned income” is taxable for American citizens.
Hint:
26 CFR 1.861-8T(d)(2)(ii)
Read it, then see the paragraph which comes after, (d)(2)(iii)
April 20th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
WRONG!
LED’s have NO Mercury!
April 20th, 2011 at 11:41 am
I find that CFL’s are ok……But …if you break one then it is a health hazardous……!!!
I you are going to dispose the used CFL light bulb wrap it in plastic wrap.. or cling flim…..
April 20th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
No, actually, as stated in the article, the “phenol, naphthalene and styrene” would be be most likely be emitting carcinogens when the bulb is heated during lighting. That pplastic is used as a protective casing to minimize the eflux of mercury were the bulb to be dropped.
Add to that the electro-smog issue that someone brought up earlier plus the mercury making its way back into the environment when the bulbs get thrown into the trash, and what you have is really a way for industry to transfer its responsibility as a toxic source generator onto the naive consumer public which has been led by this band of Prius driving yuppie green freaks who still haven’t figured out that they’ve been USED by the system.
April 22nd, 2011 at 12:15 am
Oh so whitewash, because you “think” it is safe these scientists must be frauds right? Because you are whom? Thats right, Nobody, with not the same education as a real scientist. Jog on noob.
April 20th, 2011 at 4:27 pm
You know, passing laws are one thing, enforcing them is quite another.
It’s called “consent of the governed” and if these these little tin pot dictators in Washing ton haven’t realized this yet they are in for a world of shit.
Just wait till they see the new new black market trade in incandescent bulbs being smuggled across our borders. It may even equal prohibition in lawbreaking and violence.
Those dumb shit do-gooder progressives are just itching to get their asses kicked. This stupidity in saving the the world through light bulbs just may the thing that gets it for them.
April 21st, 2011 at 3:04 am
Too true! Banning the production of incadescents in the US isn’t going to stop anyone using them. The only people this will effect are US companies who manufacture lighting. How much more money will be wasted on retardslation in the name of GW?
April 20th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Yeah AGW is BS and laws telling me what kind of bulb i use are too, but LEDS are pretty cool though still expensive.
April 20th, 2011 at 9:59 am the want to kill us in the name of saving the enviroment
April 21st, 2011 at 2:55 am
Surely when people start using these as missiles instead of their shoes/molotovs at protests/rallies/etc the government will ban them anyway. I can think of many places I’d rather dump my ‘green’ cfls instead of a countryside landfill.
Hopefully this news will encourage the sale of LED lighting and bring the price down
April 20th, 2011 at 10:08 am Now what kind of jack turds would promote an eco friendly light bulb that kills people? Seriously…
April 20th, 2011 at 10:39 am
That would be Al “Crazed Sex Poodle” Gore. Oh, and General Electric.
I’m going to mail all my old CFLs to him. Do you think people are really going to bother to have these properly disposed? No! They’ll throw them in the trash like everything else and mercury released be dammed!
April 20th, 2011 at 10:09 am Of course they are poisonous!!!! Do you really think Congress or the Senate would vote yes for something that was actually good??!!!..Congress and the Senate are now mere formalities!!!
They mean NOTHING AND SO DOES THEIR VOTE!!!! I will not be told what to do by these sniveling crooks anymore!!!!!
Stand up for yourselves all you slaves…….Chances are if enough of us JUST STANDUP AND SAY NO…..this will all stop…..
April 20th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Amen,
You seem to have more testosterone than trhe men posting here. I say to the Washington criminals, just try and make me assholes!
April 20th, 2011 at 10:16 am The government is ineupt, they do not study or testing anything. All they see is $$$ in the form of campaign contributions.
______
“Hey Senator…I got alot of money invested in this new light bulb thing and here is $20,000 to your re-election campaign and alot more were that came from if you can get this bill passed.”
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Thats how the game is played folks.
April 20th, 2011 at 10:31 am This is right in line with their Ten Commandments, the Georgia Guidestones.
And it will make Big Pharma rich too boot when more people develop cancer.
I guess you can still buy regular bulbs… I have an oversupply but now I think I will go out and get some more.
CFLs are dangerous. They have mercury in them. Mercury is the most poisonous non-radioactive material in the world. If you break a CFL then you will be living with mercury and probably have to call Hazmat.
April 20th, 2011 at 11:18 am
The incandescent light bulbs are nigh on impossible to buy.
April 20th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Hmm…I am guessing maybe you are from somewhere in the UK? They must be moving faster on this then. They are still readily available here in the States. Yep, they cost a bit more, but negligible compared to the amount of damage they can do. I remember a couple of years ago, when I thought: Hey what an economical idea! Then I think it was roughly a year ago when the story was revealed on the HEPA-required cleanup etc. due to the Hg contained in the bulbs. That’s about when I decided…NO MORE. Now the research seems to be continuing and even more bizarre and dangerous effects are being uncovered…WHILE THE BULBS ARE STILL IN TACT and BEING BURNED!
No one should use these bulbs. Ever.
April 20th, 2011 at 10:31 am Didn’t everyone notice that EVERY damned one of these bulbs are made in CHINA! I don’t and won’t use these things. I am stocking up on REAL light bulbs…incandescent rules!! This is just a total crock… ARE YOU HEARING us Congress???
April 20th, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Dollar stores have a good selection….
April 20th, 2011 at 10:51 am It’s like in the Ayn Rand novel, you say. But (light bulb going off!) did any oh-so-objectivist ever consider that Ayn Rand was perhaps a shill? Her job was to promote the senseless ideology of narcissism, and she was rewarded with a nice situation in New York: plenty of money and support. I say she was a Rotschild agent. She dismisses all forms of cooperation as “collectivism” and lauds the businessman (as long as he is selfish) as some sort of bizarre hero. The hero, of course, comes to the rescue only of himself, and Ayn Rand and her ideology. I ask you: if you believe in selfishness, why do you want it to be virtuous? No need for it to be virtuous because there’s no reason to care whether it is or isn’t. But the selfish gits have to grab up all the deontology too, on their way through the Wasteland Buffet. That’s having your cake & eating it too, while dividing & conquering. Phony individualism (narcissism) versus a completely falsified version of cooperative economy, identified under strict enforcement with suppression of individual rights. Similar shilling has long been used from all sides. Upshot: no comprehension ebtween those raised in a place where “private property” means you have your rights versus peole raised in a palce where “private property” signifies “keep out.” Divided & Conquered R Us. Screw CFL bulbs. Let’s just light the world on fire. We can use the objectivists’ wooden heads for kindling.
April 20th, 2011 at 10:56 am Been stalking up on regular bulbs. Hope to use some of them for bartering.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:48 pm
I’m filling my pantry with them, too. Right next to the stuff I can from my garden.
April 20th, 2011 at 11:02 am Lets get rid of these ticking time bombs in our homes. These things kill. Get rid of them.
April 20th, 2011 at 11:13 am NOTE: They are also going out of their way to give the bulbs away for free to the poor via “Energy Assistance Programs”.
April 20th, 2011 at 11:24 am
Well they are a darn sight more expensive than the old ones. Hey, what a wheeze, make a huge profit and kill us off at the same time.
April 20th, 2011 at 11:25 am If one break, you must leave the room for atleast som
hours. Then open all Windows, wear gas mask and
rubber gloves and treat the broken lamp as toxic wast.
April 20th, 2011 at 11:32 am i have a theory behind the forced usage of these toxic light bulbs
i may sound wacky or crazy but frankly i would not be surprised if
It is a plan by the elitists in Washington to force Americans to use these toxic bulbs when they know that they are toxic, then later on they cause massive power surges and as result all the bulbs burst all at once, and when they do cyanide or mustard gas or some other deadly gas is released into the homes and offices, and all Americans die, then the Elitists who Work for CHINA, can call the Chinese and the Chinese can invade and occupy and annex without any resistance what so ever. that is my theory. Am i crazy? or just plain insane?
April 20th, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Now that’s thinkin like the NWO scum. I wouldn’t put it past them seeing as they are also able to use them to somehow mind control people even moreso than all the other crap and HAARP are being used for. I wouldn’t doubt if they’re all somehow connected to HAARP to bring the mind control to total reality for them. Who knows what all is happening with this most psychotic minds at the helm.
April 20th, 2011 at 11:43 am Since this is happening on à global scale, here in Europe
We have already changed to the new lamp. So it’s NWO
plan to kill us. With lamp, food, water….
April 20th, 2011 at 12:20 pm well it adds up with the depopulation plan?????
April 20th, 2011 at 12:23 pm Why does the government always mess with something that works & is so good?! This light bulb has been around what…over 100 years! An now all of a sudden they want to take it away for no reason whats so ever. Just a lame ass excuse that they hurt the environment what doesnt hurt the environment now a days? Cow farts hurt it are these eco fascists going to go plug all the cow buttholes around the world or worse yet kill them all? I’ve had enough of this bullshit. I dont need the government being my parents. To hell with them.
April 20th, 2011 at 1:03 pm Quantum dot LED.
What?
Its something that’s been around for about 6 years but not really in the market yet.
Nexxus Lighting has been selling them but you wont find these at Kmart.
These are not just the white LEDs with a blue color. It’s covered with a film that has quantum dots that turn the blue into yellow color. The quantum dots also amplify the brightness a little.
LEDs are very cheap to manufacture so you might think why these lights are not sold at Kmart.
I think that China would lose a lot of jobs that’s why.
April 20th, 2011 at 1:23 pm CFLs also contain lead, used to solder components together inside the base of the bulb. There also could be other compounds in the electronic components such as tantalum (capacitors), copper (circuit board traces), tin (again in the solder), and potentially others depending upon the design of the bulb.
Many CFL have slow startup times, taking a fair amount of time to reach full brightness.
CFLs seem to be hard to recycle when they burn out or need to be replaced.
There is apparently an EPA FAQ sheet covering CFLs. They claim that incandescent bulbs produce mercury emissions due to extra power consumed from the power source (likely coal fired plants). This spread the blame (we have a pollution source, let us just divide the pollution the power plant generates amongst all the lighbulbs attached to plant and then blame the bulbs for the producing toxic emissions) approach is used in carbon tax proposals and many other things to deflect scrutiny.
April 20th, 2011 at 2:12 pm I gave props to prisonplanet in the video, if that helps.
April 20th, 2011 at 2:21 pm If you need to properly dispose of your CFLs I was told that you are supposed to take them to an electrical supply company.
You are not supposed to throw them away or take them to the dump.
You know this is a real pain disposing of these things. I had one and it did not last any longer than a regular bulb, and it went dim on me, but I continued to use it until it completely died. And now I still have it because the electrical supply company is far away and I hardly ever go there. Everything about these bulbs except power usage is very unenvironmental!!!
April 20th, 2011 at 3:11 pm I put the last one I used in a plastic bag in the trash. Easy! If no one will use the CFL’s what then??
April 20th, 2011 at 3:20 pm Send all your old CFL to the White House. The dim lights over there need a little extra illumination.
April 20th, 2011 at 4:19 pm Household tip #67
foods prepared in microwave w/ plastics, (wrap,tupperware,etc) also known to produce nasty carcinogens as well!!
April 20th, 2011 at 4:24 pm There was a big article on GE (in their Chinese plants of course) producing these gremlins. I think it was in the NYT or Wash post. Seems a lot of the workers there were exhibiting mercury poisoning, or killed themselves.
GE-the same scum that didn’t pay a cent in taxes, and did one hell of a job in Fukushima.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:45 pm All my comments deleted… wow….
April 20th, 2011 at 6:52 pm but, but, but….I like curly bulbs with phenol, naphthalene and styrene…I like it when TSA puts thier hands down my pants…You know what?! No, I LOVE IT!!! They care about me so much! Turn off the lights, America!! I want to watch myself glow in the dark!!
April 20th, 2011 at 7:27 pm Here’s a rhetoric quiz:
Which of the following two countries is so protective of the health and well being of its citizens that it:
(a) Knowingly injected polio vaccines tainted with mutated monkey viruses in the 50s;
(b) Knowingly injected experimental live cancer cells into patients without their consent in the 40s;
(c) Has already announced cancellation of nuclear energy ;
(d) Has already discovered that curly light bulbs are carcinogenic:
(1) Germany?
or (2) The USA?
April 20th, 2011 at 7:40 pm ummm…Germany for $1,000, Alex
April 20th, 2011 at 8:41 pm Well Geniuses,
NONE OF THIS MATTERS.
Part Ten – Hell On Earth, Is Up.
…http://www.4shared.com/embed/DfoH3pt1/Part_Ten_Hell_On_Earth_The_Cri.html
April 21st, 2011 at 3:11 am My government has passed a law banning the old light bulbs and now this comes out. I was very skeptical of Alex but he’s starting to slowly convince me that there’s more than meets the eye with these governments. I mean how can you just put these out here and not have any testing like this before they were introduced into society. I remember my friends telling me they felt sluggish when coming into my home and low and behold I had 2 lamps on the side of my couches. SMFH I hate the fact that Alex is proven right but I don’t even know anymore….what’s this world coming to….
April 21st, 2011 at 3:15 am Ontario will ban the sale of inefficient incandescent light bulbs by 2012, a move that follows in the footsteps of Australia, the province said Wednesday.
Coincidence?
April 21st, 2011 at 10:38 am I just detest them.I hate everything about them and i sensed that there was something wrong about them so i have banned them.One instinctively knows when something is wrong.
I dont want their Collectivist Soft Kill lightbulbs.
Filthy NWO Eugenicist Trash.
April 22nd, 2011 at 10:37 am A dumb ass would say: Well you must remember that since the recession is over and NASA’s funding is increasing so much, we’ll have a cure for cancer in no time and ObamaCare will pay for the treatment to be given to everyone.
I say: It wont matter cause they are just going to send everybody to the camp anyways and they’re going to mix cyanide and uranium into into our weekly cracker.