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me brain lead

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2022.06.25

So it turns out that if you were born in North America between 1966 and 1975, there is a hundred percent certainty that you were exposed to harmful amounts of lead as a child. This would have been compounded by living next to a major highway (as I did from '71 through '78) and having any exposure to small plane engines, which I did from '71 through '91 at a minimum. Those small planes use 20x as much lead in their fuel as cars did at their peak. The average damage to a brain exposed to so much lead, in terms of IQ is 6 points.

rand()m quote

Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

—Hermann Goering