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I don’t normally rant, but maybe it’s time.
I started reporting on this at least 10 years ago, in my email list, before I had my blog. It just amazes me what the American public puts up with. All we needed was one study. Now we have how many that link fluoride to lowered IQ and even brain damage?
In Anchorage, Alaska, we have pristine water from wells and a beautiful mountain lake, Eklutna Lake, and then we let the government destroy it, putting a known poison into our public drinking water — a substance that Stalin used to dumb down and pacify the prisoners in the Gulag.
And this isn’t like we can easily remove it once they put it in. It’s almost impossible to totally remove. Distillation is the only way that I’m aware of to totally get it out. Perhaps the new Berkey filters can do the job too. But most haven’t even heard of a Berkey. I was told that reverse-osmosis removed 99% of the fluoride, but now I discover that is suspect. And none of these will remove fluoride that enters bodies through the skin while taking showers and baths.
This stuff is nasty. It’s in Psych drugs, pesticides, toothpaste. People are getting way too much, and most of this isn’t even food grade fluoride, but a toxic waste product from manufacturing that corporations would have to pay to toxic waste dump it, otherwise.
And the only way to remove the fluoride is to remove all of the other healthy minerals in the water too. Whereas the chlorine is easy to remove with a simple filter which would leave most of the beneficial minerals in our pristine drinking water could still remain.
And there are many other proven ill effects from consuming fluoride, which I’ve shown in many posts on this site. The data is overwhelming. It just baffles me that we still allow this poisoning of our children and ourselves!
And I’ve said many times before how there seems to be a media ban on even discussing the topic in Anchorage; though, Juneau’s media covered it in depth, and therefore had it removed.
When will Americans say ‘enough is enough?’ Fluoride is known to passify humans, not just lower IQ. So perhaps the fluoride itself is a reason the people won’t step out. But can’t we pull ourselves out of this stupor?
I mentioned this to our mayor, Dan Sullivan, who said he was aware of the issue. Previously, Mark Begich was mayor, and his brother Nick Begich is an expert on fluoride’s mind effects. Nick, we need you on local, Anchorage radio!
Why has there not even been a peep, a squeak? Do we have to lose it all before we realize what hit US — that we should have said something back then?
So much of what is happening to America and Americans is so frustrating to me, because the truth has been out there, but the sheeple (I hope many of you are not) just follow the corporate media’s daily “hardly any Vitamin D is really needed,” and their other anti-Americans garbage.
24 human fluoride IQ studies! 100 animal brain studies! How many more hundreds do we need before we the people demand the government not use our tax dollars to put a known toxic form of fluoride into our public drinking water.
Jeff Fenske
Anchorage, Alaska
From: PR
Fluoride in Water Linked to Lower IQ in Children
Is this the end of water fluoridation?
NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Exposure to fluoride may lower children’s intelligence says a study pre-published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (online December 17, 2010).
Fluoride is added to 70% of U.S. public drinking water supplies.
According to Paul Connett, Ph.D., director of the Fluoride Action Network, “This is the 24th study that has found this association, but this study is stronger than the rest because the authors have controlled for key confounding variables and in addition to correlating lowered IQ with levels of fluoride in the water, the authors found a correlation between lowered IQ and fluoride levels in children’s blood. This brings us closer to a cause and effect relationship between fluoride exposure and brain damage in children.”
“What is also striking is that the levels of the fluoride in the community where the lowered IQs were recorded were lower than the EPA’s so-called ‘safe’ drinking water standard for fluoride of 4 ppm and far too close for comfort to the levels used in artificial fluoridation programs (0.7 – 1.2 ppm),” says Connett.
In this study, 512 children aged 8-13 years in two Chinese villages were studied and tested – Wamaio with an average of 2.47 mg/L water fluoride (range 0.57-4.50 mg/L) and Xinhuai averaging 0.36 mg/L (range 0.18-0.76 mg/L).
The authors eliminated both lead exposure and iodine deficiency as possible causes for the lowered IQs. They also excluded any children who had a history of brain disease or head injury and none drank brick tea, known to contain high fluoride levels. Neither village is exposed to fluoride pollution from burning coal or other industrial sources.
About 28% of the children in the low-fluoride area scored as bright, normal or higher intelligence compared to only 8% in the “high” fluoride area of Wamaio.
In the high-fluoride city, 15% had scores indicating mental retardation and only 6% in the low-fluoride city.
The study authors write: “In this study we found a significant dose-response relation between fluoride level in serum and children’s IQ.”
In addition to this study, and the 23 other IQ studies, there have been over 100 animal studies linking fluoride to brain damage (all the IQ and animal brain studies are listed in Appendix 1 in The Case Against Fluoride available online at http://fluoridealert.org/caseagainstfluoride.appendices.html).
Related (just a few of the many fluoride articles herein):
YES!!! Palmer, Alaska passes ordinance to end its water fluoridation program!
Warning: Fluoride in Your Water Can Lower Your Child’s IQ — And Yours Too!
YES!!! Denver Water Board Fluoride Action #2 We Are Change Colorado
Most SSRI Antidepressants Contain Fluoride
Dr. Blaylock: The Chemical Dumbing Down of America—”That’s What They Want”
From: DailyMail
Will we ever wake up to the deadly risks of happy pills?
As new research reveals antidepressants raise the danger of heart attacks, the disturbing cost of this modern addiction
Just as David Cameron launches his campaign to boost national happiness, along comes grim news for the 12 million Britons taking happy pills. London-based researchers have just announced that antidepressants raise the risk of fatal heart attacks.
This research is only the latest wake-up call for a nation hooked on happy pills. Might we finally heed the warnings and shake ourselves out of our pharmaceutical stupor?
It is high time we did: a small mountain of studies shows that antidepressant drugs are largely ineffective. But more than that, they can ruin lives by creating chronic dependency and a grinding hopelessness that sometimes leads to self-neglect and death.
The latest study, by Dr Mark Hamer, a public health researcher at University College London, shows that people on the older drugs — tricyclic antidepressants — are at far higher risk of cardiovascular disease than those taking the newer class of pills, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).
But if I were taking SSRIs, I would not be cheered by the findings. Tricyclics were discovered in the Forties and it is only now we have identified these dangerous effects.
Moreover, some SSRI drugs are known to cause serious problems such as stomach bleeding. In addition, the withdrawal symptoms can be so severe that patients may become dependent on them.
Dr Hamer says his findings do not only affect people with depression, because antidepressants are also prescribed to people with back pain, headache, anxiety and sleeping problems.
Last year, according to Dr Hamer’s figures, about 33 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in England.
At some point, surely, there will be no one left to prescribe for. In my view, it’s fast becoming one of the greatest medical scandals of our age.
Dr. Milham discussed a variety of topics, including how dirty electricity affects children in affected schools. Here he answers a question I’ve long had.
Caller: “What’s a safe distance to live from a cell phone tower?”
Dr. Milham: “If you’re a couple of hundred yards away from it, you’re going to be okay.”
From: Coast to Coast AM
Dirty Electricity
| Date: | 12-08-10 |
| Host: | George Noory |
| Guests: | Dr. Samuel Milham |
Specialist in occupational epidemiology, Dr. Samuel Milham outlined the frightening link between exposure to electromagnetic fields & pollution and human disease. He cited “dirty electricity,” brought about when electrical fields have an arc or interruption in current flow, as being particularly detrimental to health when it occurs at high levels. He listed cancer, diabetes, ADHD, depression, and sleep disorders as among the many problems associated with exposure to dirty electricity.
Dr. Milham was critical of cell phones, comparing their usage to putting one’s head into a microwave oven. We’re starting to see brain cancers on the same side of the head where people hold their phone, he noted. He also warned that the new DECT cordless phones were dangerous because their base units continually send out radiation which can alter a person’s heart rate.
In some cases, being “green” isn’t always a good thing for one’s health, Milham pointed out, detailing how the new compact fluorescent light bulbs contain mercury (a hazardous substance) and generate dirty electricity inside a home. And with potential “smart meters” being added to various appliances, houses will become a virtual electronic sea, he cautioned. To reduce dirty electricity in one’s home, he suggested testing electrical outlets, and placing filters on ones that are problematic.
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Book(s):
Why are “75-80%” of women are losing their hair —
low iodine from fluoride &
bromine (white flour)
+ soy
Primary cause of obesity
Predicts upcoming explosion of brain cancer from cordless phones–
like cancer from cigarettes took so long to prove
Vitamin D
Vaccines
16 ounces of fresh vegetable juice per day
[12 minutes into part 3]
Toxic food packaging —
glass is best
Don’t buy GMO
Life extension —
optomise insulin (avoid sugar)
right kind of exercise (Peak 8)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNTucuWFbGc]Dr. Joseph Mercola: Taking Care of Your Health and The Dangers of Fluoride – Alex Jones Tv 1/4
TheAlexJonesChannel | December 08, 2010 | 107 likes, 4 dislikes
Alex welcomes to the show Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic physician, health activist, and entrepreneur. Mercola criticizes many of the practices of mainstream medicine and the Food and Drug Administration, particularly vaccination and the use of prescription drugs and surgery to treat diseases. He encourages using water filters to purify drinking water and is strongly opposed to water fluoridation.
http://naturalhealthcenter.mercola.com/
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/
From: Natural news
The news about the potential health dangers of the TSA’s naked body scanners just keeps getting worse. An increasing number of doctors and scientists are going public with their warnings about the health implications of subjecting yourself to naked body scanners. These include Dr Russell Blaylock (see below) as well as several professors from the University of California who are experts in X-ray imaging.
From: anh-usa.org…
Institute of Medicine Report on Vitamin D is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
November 30, 2010
A new report, released today by the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, says that few people are vitamin D deficient. The scientific research says otherwise.
The new Institute of Medicine (IOM) report says that persons between the ages of 1 and 70 do not need more than 600 IU of vitamin D daily—and makes the outrageous claim that few people are actually vitamin D deficient. This is especially troubling considering we’re moving rapidly into the thick of flu season, when people need more vitamin D, not less.
This is the government’s first official vitamin D recommendation since 1997. Despite raising the new vitamin levels by 300% for most Americans, the IOM guidelines are still in contrast to overwhelming scientific evidence that confirms the significant medical benefits of higher vitamin D levels, and that one-third of Americans are vitamin D deficient.
Changes in US lifestyles mean that many people in the US get less exposure to the sun and often inadequate dietary levels of vitamin D. The New York Times reports that a number of prominent doctors have advised vitamin D supplementation for a wide variety of illnesses, including heart disease, cancer, and autoimmune diseases. Their research shows that more and more people know their vitamin D levels because they are being tested for it as part of routine physical exams.
The IOM is wrong in its findings, wrong in ignoring the bountiful scientific research that indicates the need for higher levels of vitamin D in our system, and wrong for not educating folks about the ability of vitamin D to combat the flu. Our campaign to end the silence on vitamin D is one attempt to educate the public and get the government to listen to the clear scientific findings.
Select comments:
It makes sense to downplay the value of vitamin D(3) since it is the primary key to good health. If there was a nationwide push to increase everyones use of this vitamin, big Pharma profits would be greatly reduced.
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Just another way for the big pharma to cash in on people getting their flu shots instead…
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Dr. Luis Fuentes says:
I test all my patients for Vitamin D levels. I say about 90% of them are below acceptable ranges.
My recommendations in general are 10,000 units daily for 7 weeks then 5000 a day for life for an average adult.
From: Telegraph
Vegetables such as sweet potatoes, pumpkins and winter squashes – as well as carrots – are packed with carotenoids, which scientists say help fight off disease.
The anti-oxidants are also found in dark-green vegetables such as broccoli, green beans, and green peas, and may help combat lung cancer.
Researchers found these veg are packed with alpha-carotene, saying high blood levels of the antioxidant was linked with a reduced risk of dying over a 14-year period.
Chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer are caused by oxygen-related damage to DNA, proteins and fats.
The researchers found carotenoids including beta-carotene, alpha-carotene and lycopene produced by plants and micro-organisms act as antioxidants and counteract this damage.
Dr Chaoyang Li and colleagues from the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, USA, studied 15,318 adults age 20 and up who participated in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Follow-up Study.
From: medicalnewstoday.com
Imagine a society where over half its people, i.e. the majority of them, are diabetic or prediabetic. There is a good chance this will happen in the USA by 2020. The estimated $3.35 trillion cost over the coming ten years is massive. A study by The Center for Health Reform & Modernization of UnitedHealth Group, an insurance company, reveals that if the current pattern continues, those figures will be a reality within the next ten years. The report offers some suggestions which may slow things down, and perhaps even turn them round.
Imagine what it does to people:
Electromagnetic fields stress living cells
From: metro
Wi-Fi makes trees sick, according to Dutch study
A study by Wageningen University in the Netherlands claims that radiation from Wi-Fi networks is causing serious harm to trees.
Wi-Fi sickness: About 70% of trees in urban areas are showing symptoms, compared with 10% 5 years ago.
Side effects include significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark.
The harmful radiation is believed to effect all deciduous trees in the Western world, a very worrying discovery given that we are reliant on trees for our existence.
Twenty ash trees were exposed to varying levels of radiation, with the trees situated closest to Wi-Fi stations being the most damaged.
A ‘lead-like shine’ appeared on the leaves that was caused by the dying of the upper and lower epidermis, according to researchers. This would eventually result in the death of part of the leaves.
In addition to the electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones and LAN networks it is thought that ultra-fine particles emitted by cars may also be to blame.
Further research has been commissioned to examine the severity of the damage to trees.
From: cosmeticdentistryguide
Residents in Waterloo, Ontario have voted to stop adding fluoride to water supplies. …
Campaigners against fluoride believe that adding fluoride to the water supply is tantamount to poisoning and are lobbying for fluoridation to be stopped all over Canada. Opponents of fluoride claim the chemical is illegal, unnecessary and dangerous; campaigners believe fluoride contributes to health conditions, including increased risk of cancer, thyroid disease and arthritis.
From: Prevent Disease
With the intention of flooding 70% of the global cocoa supply with genetically modified (GMO) cocoa tree hybrids, a collaboration involving Mars, USDA and IBM is accelerating this process.
With primary funding from US chocolate producer Mars, the partnership includes scientists based at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the US Department of Agriculture and Science as well as researchers working at IBM’s Thomas J Watson Research Center.
The scientists are determined to finalize gene sequencing of the cocoa genome which they say will “benefit” the chocolate industry and cocoa growers.
From: Natural News
(NaturalNews) Imagine: you`re watching your daytime dramas and you see an advertisement showing a silver-haired couple walking along the beach holding hands, apparently linking their longevity to a once-daily multivitamin with mineral supplements. Or it`s Saturday morning and the kids take note of a cartoon figure advertising a gummi candy-like vitamin in tangy fruit flavors. Live longer and healthier? Nutrition the kids will like? Not so fast. What`s actually in those treats? What chemicals lurk inside that pill? Where does it all come from; how will your body react to it; and more importantly, do you actually need it? These are questions you should be asking before falling for the advertising gimmicks.
The ingredient list of one popular over-the-counter multivitamin/multimineral supplement reveals a dictionary of lengthy Latin phrases, many that should never be in anything you would willingly consume. Let`s examine some of these, shall we?
… The ingredient list goes on to include some very questionable additives such as polyethylene glycol — a caustic agent used to dissolve grease and found in some oven cleaners. It is also used as a sexual lubricant and whole colon laxative used prior to colonoscopy examinations. Its purpose here? To treat drug overdoses, believe it or not.
Another strange ingredient for a vitamin is stannous chloride, commonly used in silvering mirrors, in tin-plating steel and in the production of plastic polylactic acid for biodegradable polyester plastics. Its addition as a food additive is for color retention.
The cream of this crop of questionable chemicals is the inclusion of a known poison: boric acid.
Boric acid`s inclusion is as a medicinal preservative; however, prolonged exposure has been known to be toxic, producing kidney lesions, cardiovascular defects, skeletal variations, sterility and birth defects. It has been re-classified by the European Diagnostics Manufacturing Association (EDMA) meeting of 2007 in the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals Regulations (REACH) as a highly toxic substance(3).
From: Reuters
U.S. doctors still too cozy with drug industry: report
(Reuters) – Doctors in the United States are still too cozy with drug companies, although they have managed to break some of those ties, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
The team at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital did a national survey of 1,900 primary care doctors in 2009 about their contacts with drug companies.
They found 84 percent reported some type of relationship with drug companies, compared with 94 percent in 2004.
About two thirds accepted drug samples, 70 percent accepted food or beverages from drug companies and 14 percent accepted payment in exchange for their professional services, they reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVeS1yIA7x0]Jeffrey M. Smith: The GMO Threat 1/4
TheAlexJonesChannel | November 10, 2010
Jeffrey M. Smith, author of the #1 GMO bestseller Seeds of Deception, talks about his campaign to force mass rejection of genetically modified foods in order to expunge them form the market entirely. Smith explains how the FDA allowed GMO foods to enter the market with no safety testing whatsoever, and that the man primarily responsible for this is now food safety czar in the Obama administration.
Smith notes how Obama has broken his pre-election promise that every GMO food should be properly labeled, and also installed pro-GMO executives in the USDA and FDA who have close ties to Monsanto and the biotechnology industry.
Smith documents how consumption of genetically modified foods has been directly linked with reproductive problems, immune system deficiencies, accelerated aging, organ damage and gastrointestinal problems. The immune system problem has been seen consistently in mice and rats who are fed GMO food, explains Smith, and now since humans have started consuming genetically modified foods, auto-immune diseases and allergies have increased.
Smith explains how research exposing the dangers of genetically modified food has been censored and shut down by the establishment, with scientists involved in such studies finding themselves blacklisted and shunned by their peers before being fired from their jobs in many cases as big agriculture throws its weight around.
Smith covers a plethora of vital issues in this one hour interview, and offers workable solutions to phase GMO out of the market, by pushing for proper labeling standards and an intensive education outreach that will help people realize how big a threat genetically modified food poses to their health.
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From: Coast to Coast AM
EMF Pollution
| Date: | 11-09-10 |
| Host: | George Noory |
| Guests: | Ann Louise Gittleman, Whitley Strieber, Charles R. Smith |
Author and health pioneer Ann Louise Gittleman discussed the latest scientific data & case studies that show how EMF pollution has reached the point of toxicity, causing fatigue, irritability, weakness, and even illness, and how we can protect ourselves from the danger. With our various electronic devices and appliances, “we’re immersed in a sea” of man-made electromagnetic fields or waves, that are about “100 million times more than what are own grandparents were exposed to,” she said. Gittleman became cognizant of the issue after she developed a tumor on the side of her head that she held her cell phone up to.
Surprisingly, cordless phones can be 100 times riskier than cell phones— they’re like having a mini cell phone tower in your home, she reported, adding that people should try and replace these models with corded phones. It’s also not a good idea for people to carry cell phones close to their body such as in a pants pocket, or use them in a tightly enclosed space like a car, she noted.
Try to keep electronic devices away from your head, especially in your bedroom, Gittleman advised. She suggested that people could use an AM transistor radio, tuned between stations, as a testing device to see which areas in your home are emitting strong signals. Static will emanate from the radio when there is an electronic field, and ideally, you should place your furniture at a safe distance from these fields, she continued. To combat exposure, she said there are a number of things people can do nutrition-wise, including taking Vitamin D, magnesium, EFA’s, and melatonin (for sleep), as well as eating asparagus and artichokes. A free sample excerpt from Chapter 1 of her book Zapped is posted here (PDF file).
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjn04-HqVDY]Paul Connett PhD In-Studio: The Case Against Fluoride – Alex Jones Tv 1/3
TheAlexJonesChannel | November 09, 2010
A “painstakingly researched exposé of fluoridation’s overall ineffectiveness and toxicity… It remains to be seen whether the public-health community will give this landmark work due credit or continue to rubber stamp an outdated policy that, like bloodletting and trepanation, properly belongs on the scrap heap of sham medical interventions.”
http://www.fluoridealert.org/
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From: areyouzapped.com/articles
It’s Your Health with Lisa Davis Interviews Dr. Ann Louise
It’s Your Health on Thinking Out Loud on WUML 91.5 FM, October 2010
Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology Address Mobile Phone Safety
Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology, 2010
Video – WiFi in Schools Proven Dangerous
Safe School, October 2010
Petition – Urge Congress on EMF Safety, FCC Must Change Exposure Guidelines for Microwave Radiation Exposure
ElectromagneticHealth.org Sponsored Petition, 2010
Don’t Get Zapped! How to protect yourself against electropollution.
Taste for Life, November 2010
Blog Reviews of Zapped
Bloggers reviewing Zapped by Dr. Ann Louise Gittleman
Interphone Study Design Flaws
ElectromagneticHealth.org
Cell Phones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern
RadiationResearch.org, August 25, 2009
Are Cells the New Cigarettes?
New York Times, By Maureen Dowd, June 26, 2010
Scams Galore
Microwave News, October, 20, 2010
Cell Phones and Cancer Risk: It’s Worse Than We Thought
iVillage.com, By Jill Provost, October 27, 2010
Radiation from Cordless Phones Causes Heart Irregularities…
ElectromagneticHealth.org, Press Release By Camilla Rees
Evidence That Non-Thermal EMF’s From Cell Phones Do Have Biological Effects
Quote by Paul J. Rosch, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Medical College
Government Regulations are “just plain wrong”
The 7 Key Questions that Demand Accurate Answers
Zapped Research Archive
From Zapped, Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn’t Be Your Alarm Clock and 1,268 Ways to Outsmart the Hazards of Electronic Pollution
Electromagnetichealth.org Media Story Leads
Visit http://electromagnetichealth.org/media-story-leads/
Are Cell Phones and WiFi Hazardous to Your Health?
The Huffington Post, By Hyla Cass, M.D., October 13, 2010
Zapped — Why Your Technology Is (Really) Bad for Your Health
LemonDrop.com, By Emily Tan, October 13, 2010
Ann Louise Gittleman’s New Book Zapped Explores the Health Risks of Electronic Pollution
Thyroid Disease Blog, By Mary Shomon October, 5, 2010
At a Time When Electro-Magnetic Fields (EMFs) Have Reached Toxic Levels, ZAPPED by Ann Louise Gittleman Offers A Proactive Solution
TMCnet.com, October 1, 2010
San Francisco 1st City to Require Warnings of Cell Phone Radiation Risk at Point of Sale
Electromagnetic Health Blog, June 15, 2010
Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price
New York Times, By Matt Richtel, June 6, 2010
Earth Rx: An Amazing Solution for Pain and Stress – Stress-Busting from the Ground Up
www.psychologytoday.com, By Stephen T. Sinatra, MD, May 25, 2010
Confused by Media Coverage of The Interphone Brain Tumor Study?
ElectromagneticHealth.org, By Camilla Rees, May 23, 2010
President’s Cancer Panel: Environmentally caused cancers are ‘grossly underestimated’ and ‘needlessly devastate American lives.’
Environmental Health News, By Marla Cone, May 6, 2010
Children and Cell Phones: Time to Start Talking Sense
Microwave News, May 3, 2010
Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health
GQ Magazine, By Christopher Ketcham February 1, 2010
Generation X-Ray – Child Victims of Technological Abuse
Idaho Observer, May 1, 2008
Electromagnetic Forces Are Making Women Fat!
First for Women Magazine, October 1, 2007
Hormones, Cell Phones and EMFs
Wise Women, November 4, 2006
Electrical Pollution Takes Its Toll On School
The Chronicle or online at http://www.jacksoncountychronicle.com, By Ken Luchterhand, February 12, 2004
From: Coast to Coast AM
Hosted by George Noory
Guest(s):
Ann Louise Gittleman
Author and health pioneer Ann Louise Gittleman will discuss the latest scientific data & case studies that show how EMF pollution has reached the point of toxicity, causing fatigue, irritability, weakness, and even illness, and how we can protect ourselves from the danger.
From: mercola
In the early 1950s, the United States administered four vaccines — diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and smallpox. Children received 13 doses of four vaccines by the time they were two years old and not more than three vaccines in a single visit.
By the mid-1980s, there were seven vaccines — diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella and polio.
Children received 15 doses of seven vaccines by the time they were two years old and not more than four vaccines in a single visit.
Since the mid-1980s, many vaccines have been added to the schedule.
Today, children may receive as many as 37 doses of 14 vaccines by the age of two, and as many as eight vaccines in a single visit!
The United States recommends more vaccines than any country in world. The CDC recommends 48 doses of 14 vaccines by age six, and 69 doses of 16 vaccines by age 18.
The CDC also recommends an annual flu shot for all Americans from six months of age through year of death.
What exactly is fueling this dramatic rise in the number of shots recommended to our children and adults?
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The Vaccine Industry’s Ethical Questions
Besides the questions of whether vaccines are safe or effective, or whether supposedly independent vaccine advisory panels have been hijacked by doctors with financial conflicts of interest, or whether the questionable ingredients in vaccines have been properly tested for toxicity, there are other questions to consider as well.
No discussion of the business practices of the vaccine industry would be complete without addressing the questionable ethical practices long associated with the pharmaceutical industry.
Numerous times in the past 50 years they have been accused of falsifying drug study results, paying bribes, covering up or omitting side effects and deaths, and denying responsibility when drugs are pulled off the market for killing people.
For an eye-opening introduction to the criminal side of the vaccine industry please review this recent article.
According to an ABC News story from 2010, drug company reps from Eli Lily were instructed by the company to regularly give lavish gifts to doctors, and push more profitable drugs at higher doses in order to maximize profits, regardless of safety concerns. According to the story:
“To sell their drugs, pharmaceutical companies hire former cheerleaders and ex-models to wine and dine doctors, exaggerate the drug’s benefits and underplay their side-effects, a former sales rep told a Congressional committee this morning.”
With an ethical track record like this, full of outright lies, cover-ups, denials and bribery, how can you trust anything they say?
From: Activist Post
Airport Body Scanners Under Pressure: Experts Now Warn X-ray Devices “could give you cancer”
As we wrote in our newsletter this week: scanners and backscatter devices are under pressure from all sides. Despite the best efforts of Michael Chertoff and the TSA, word is out that Backscatter X-ray scanner technology that is being used in airports is exceedingly harmful, along with being an invasion of privacy.
An increasing number of people are becoming informed and are deciding to opt-out of the radiation and the X-rated detail of you and your family. Naturally, this has forced the TSA to threaten more invasive physical searches, as they try to coerce people into taking the “easier” option. This is a sign of desperation, since the success of these machines in airports will determine the future of their presence throughout America. They already are being deployed in street roving vans, and are most likely headed to a mall near you if the public doesn’t continue to raise its voice.
This Daily Mail article on the subject is another nail in the coffin for X-ray scanning technology. Even if you don’t care about privacy issues, the fact that experts are now saying that “radiation from the scanners has been underestimated,” and that “because the beam concentrates on the skin — one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the human body — that (the) dose may be up to 20 times higher than first estimated,” should sound the final alarm.
G. Edward Griffin and Idaho state representative, Phil Hart, have made a strong case that the states have jurisdiction over this Federal program, which has yet to be approved by Congress.
The battle almost has been won before it began; with public support of proposed state legislation, we will see these machines sent to the waste bin where they belong.
From: Natural News
BPA found in virtually all canned foods
Bisphenol A (BPA), the endocrine-disrupting plastics compound that has garnered much attention for its prevalence in infant- and water bottles, is far more common in an even more widely used family of products: canned foods and beverages.
Almost 100 percent of canned food and beverage products on the market are lined with a resin made from BPA, and have been since the 1940s. These epoxy resins prevent the metal of the can from influencing the flavor of the food. More importantly, they prevent compounds in the food from reacting with the metal, causing spoilage and even causing cans to explode.
Exposure from this source is “far more extensive” than from plastic bottles, said Shanna Swan of the University of Rochester in New York. After all, BPA is known to leach from cans into food, the chemical is used in nearly all canned products, and nearly everyone consumes such products regularly.
BPA is known to mimic estrogen and otherwise interfere with the hormonal system, and studies have linked it to elevated risks of cancer, diabetes and heart disease. In January, the FDA admitted for the first time that “some concern” exists over the chemical’s effects.
More recent findings are even more troubling, suggesting that BPA can effect
“epigenetic changes,” modifying the way that the body’s genes are expressed in a way that can be passed on to an exposed person’s children and grandchildren.
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TheHealthRanger | October 13, 2010
Just Say No to GMO music video and song by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews.com. Written and performed by Mike Adams, this song exposes the lies of the GMO biotech industry, specifically mentioning Monsanto and genetically modified corn. It also features rap lined from Jeffrey Smith of the Institute for Responsible Technology, author of Seeds of Deception.
From: greaterthings
The Truth About ‘Fluoride’
(or what every Mother should know)
by A. True Ott
“Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual’s power to resist domination, by slowly poisoning and narcotizing a certain area of the brain, thus making him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him. [A convenient and cost-effective light lobotomy? — Ott].
“The real reason behind water fluoridation is not to benefit children’s teeth. If this were the real reason there are many ways in which it could be done that are much easier, cheaper, and far more effective. The real purpose behind water fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss of liberty.”
“When the Nazis under Hitler decided to go to Poland, both the German General Staff and the Russian General Staff exchanged scientific and military ideas, plans, and personnel, and the scheme of mass control through water medication was seized upon by the Russian Communists because it fitted ideally into their plans to communize the world.”
“I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official of the great I.G. Farben chemical industries and was also prominent in the Nazi movement at the time. I say this with all the earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years’ research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine — any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person mentally or physically.”
From: Guardian
Walking may protect the brain against shrinking and preserve memory in the elderly, according to research by US neurologists who monitored 300 volunteers over 13 years. …
The US study bears this out, with neurological tests on dementia-free people in Pittsburgh who agreed to log their walks and accept brain monitoring in 1995.
Tests nine years later, followed by a further round in 2008, showed that those who walked the most cut their risk of developing memory problems by half.
The study suggest that nine miles a week – or in the urban US terms of the data, 72 Pittsburgh city blocks – is the optimum distance for “neurological exercise”.
The paper, published in Neurology, the online medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, found no discernible bonus in going the extra mile after that.
The first round of scans showed that nine-mile walkers had larger brains than those who walked around for less.
From: Dr. Mercola
Vitamin K may very well be “the next vitamin D” as research continues to illuminate a growing number of benefits to your health.
It is probably where vitamin D was ten years ago with respect to its appreciation as a vital nutrient that has far more benefits than was originally recognized.
And, according to Dr. Cees Vermeer, one of the world’s top researchers in the field of vitamin K, nearly everyone is deficient in vitamin K – just like most are deficient in D.
Vitamin K measurements in blood plasma can be done accurately, but the results are not necessarily helpful because they mainly reflect what you ate yesterday. Because of this, we will have to trust Dr. Vermeer on his assessment that most are too deficient to reap all of its health benefits. Vitamin K researchers across the world will acknowledge him as a leader in this field.
Most people get enough K from their diets to maintain adequate blood clotting, but NOT enough to offer protection against the following health problems—and the list is growing:
- Arterial calcification, cardiovascular disease and varicose veins
- Osteoporosis
- Prostate cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer and leukemia
- Brain health problems, including dementia, the specifics of which are still being studied
Vitamin K comes in two forms, and it is important to understand the differences between them before devising your nutritional plan of attack.
From: Alliance for Natural Health
How worried should drug companies be about supplements eating into their monopoly profits? A lot—as this story will show. Please share it with anyone you know who is suffering from Alzheimer’s or is worried about it.
Of course, just about everyone worries about Alzheimer’s. It currently afflicts 5.2 million people in the US and is the seventh leading cause of death. The cost of treating it is estimated at $148 billion.
Mary Newport, MD, has been medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit at Spring Hill Regional Hospital in Florida since it opened in 2003. About the same time the unit opened, her husband Steve, then 53, began showing signs of progressive dementia, later diagnosed as Alzheimer’s Disease. “Many days, often for several days in a row, he was in a fog; couldn’t find a spoon or remember how to get water out of the refrigerator,” she said.
They started him on Alzheimer’s drugs—Aricept, Namenda, Exelon—but his disease worsened steadily. (It should be noted that the latest research shows that the various Alzheimer’s drugs, like Aricept, have proven disappointing, with little real benefit and often distressing side effects.) When Dr. Newport couldn’t get her husband into a drug trial for a new Alzheimer’s medication, she started researching the mechanism behind Alzheimer’s.
She discovered that with Alzheimer’s disease, certain brain cells may have difficulty utilizing glucose