People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.
The changes may violate Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest guidelines, a spokeswoman for the site said on Thursday.
The program, WikiScanner, was developed by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and posted this month on a Web site that was quickly overwhelmed with searches.
The program allows users to track the source of computers used to make changes to the popular Internet encyclopedia where anyone can submit and edit entries.
WikiScanner revealed that CIA computers were used to edit an entry on the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. A graphic on casualties was edited to add that many figures were estimated and were not broken down by class.
Another entry on former CIA chief William Colby was edited by CIA computers to expand his career history and discuss the merits of a Vietnam War rural pacification program that he headed.
Aerial and satellite images of the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were removed using a computer traced to the FBI, WikiScanner showed.
CIA spokesman George Little said he could not confirm whether CIA computers were used in the changes, adding that "the agency always expects its computer systems to be used responsibly."
The FBI did not have an immediate response.
Computers at numerous other organizations and companies were found to have been involved in editing articles related to them.
Griffith said he developed WikiScanner "to create minor public relations disasters for companies and organizations I dislike (and) to see what 'interesting organizations' (which I am neutral towards) are up to."
It was not known whether changes were made by an official representative of an agency or company, Griffith said, but it was certain the change was made by someone with access to the organization's network.
It violates Wikipedia's neutrality guidelines for a person with close ties to an issue to contribute to an entry about it, said spokeswoman Sandy Ordonez of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia's parent organization.
However, she said, "Wikipedia is self-correcting," meaning misleading entries can be quickly revised by another editor. She said Wikimedia welcomed the WikiScanner.
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The F.B.I.and the Chicago Police Department unite to terminate Fred Hampton and Mark Clark along with the Black Panther Movement
Article from Fourth Cycle Magazine Volume 1
Fred Hampton became active in the NAACP when he was attending Triton Junior college in the suburbs outside of Chicago. He became the leader of the Youth Council of the NAACP's West Suburban Branch. He made it his mission to improve the conditions of his people, working to uptain better and more facilities in the neighborhoods. At the time he adopted a philosophy of social change through non violent activism and community orgainzing.
In November of 1968, Hampton joined the BPP at the age of 19 and relocated downtown Chicago, launching the Illinois Chapter. One of his major achievemnts was the brokering of a non aggression pact among the Chicago street gangs, emphasizing that racial and ethnic conflict between gangs would only keep its members stuck in poverty. He was then able to form a class consious, multi racial alliance of black, latino, and poor white youth. Both Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were instrumental in forming a program that provided a free breakfast for school children. Fred also helped in the establishment of a free medical clinic as well as other free services for poor people in the city.
What made Hampton a target was his incredible speaking ability, leadership skills, and charisma. He held many speaking engagements and had the ability to excite and motivate others. By the age of 20 he had became the respected community leader among the Chicago black population. As Hampton progressed and learned he became more militant in his views. The Sun times quoted him as saying, "What this country has done to non violent leaders like Martin Luther King, I think it objectively says thers going to have to be an armed struggle." In 1969 he was arrested for the strong arm theft of $71 worth of Good Humor bars that he said that he contributed to neighborhood children. Initailly he was convicted to 2-5 years in prison but it was overturned. He left the event with a stronger distrust of the American legal system.
The F.B.I.'s cross dressing alleged homo sexual director J.Edgar Hoover was very threatened by the black panther party or any other kind of movement that went against the establishment order (New World Order). Hoover was determined to prevent the formation of a cohesive black radical movement in the U.S. The F.B.I. began keeping tabs on Hamtpon's acitivities.
The F.B.I. urged the CPD (Chicago Police Dptmnt) to launch an all out assault on the panthers and their allies. Over 100 Panthers were arrested during the year of 1969 alone. All this fell under the much larger and far reaching COINTELPRO operations conducted by the F.B.I. to combat dessent within by the U.S. By the time of his death, The F.B.I. had compiled over 4000 pages of information on Fred Hampton. In 1968, Hoover described the Panthers as "The greatest threat to the internal security of the country."
The COINTELPRO operations included numerous illegal, unconstitutional, and highly immoral actions targeted against American citizens who challenged the social political order. These tactics were used to discredit, disrupt, and as we've just seen, to silent dissent.
The lives of Fred hampton and Mark Clark serves as a reminder of the sacrifice that is necessary for a better tomorrow. This is also a prime example of the fact that cops are not the heroes, regardless of what the media wants us to believe. Cops can only follow orders while heroes lead. In America trying to obtain a better standard of living for your people is cause for violent reprisal. Where is the justice in that? The civil rights movement hasn't changed anything in this country. Martin Luther had a dream, but it didnt come true. The views of King are legitimized and every February America remembers his legacy. But where's Fred, Mark,
Malcolm, Garvey, countless others? There down the memory hole of America's dark past. "You can kill a revolutionary, but you cant kill a Revolution, You can jail a liberation fighter, but you cant jail liberation."
Black Panthers
Martin Luther King
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7th Sun Beat Produced by WanderLust Dream
Michael Tsarion Speaks of the Hollow Earth
Phil Schnieder (Geologist for American Government) Talks about his deadly encounter with martians
William Hamilton in 1998 discusses some of the things he was told from NASA astronauts about Mars!
John Lear reveals the truth! In his first interview with George Noory, retired airline pilot John Lear spoke on a variety of topics which included his experiences as a pilot, NASA's secret space missions, and life on other planets. A fourth astronaut died in the Apollo 1 fire of 1967 but the reason it wasn't made public was because he belonged to the "secret astronaut corps," Lear claimed, based on information he received from a "true insider" (now deceased). This secret program actually started going to the moon in 1962 and landed on Mars in 1966, apparently using covert antigravity technology, he continued. Publicized space missions such as the Shuttle are actually a cover-up for what is really going on, added Lear. Also kept from the public, is the fact that there is life similar to ours on most of the planets in our solar system, he declared. For instance, Mars has a population of 660 million (mostly underground) and Venus is actually "green and beautiful." Further, the sky is blue on both Mars and our Moon, Lear said. Earth, he asserted, is a "farm for harvesting souls," and when people die their souls travel to the moon where they are processed by a huge machine (likely the miles-high "glass tower" spotted by Richard C. Hoagland in NASA photos) that erases their memory and eventually sends them back to Earth to be reincarnated. Lear's controversial disclosure briefing from 2003 was replayed during the show. He now believes that MJ-12 appears to want UFO/alien disclosure to take place, but seeks to put their own less-than-truthful spin on it.
NASA UFO Moon Bases
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"This type of integrated chip structure is significant because it demonstrates a way to scale the quantum computer to bigger systems," said Christopher Monroe, a physics professor. "It has applications for processing very large [data sets] such as in cryptography, for example, and there is a lot of interest in this by the government."
A computer chip based on the esoteric science of quantum mechanics has been created by researchers at the University of Michigan. The chip might well pave the way for a new generation of supercomputers. Employing the same semiconductor-fabrication techniques used to create common computer chips, the Michigan team was able to trap a single atom within an integrated chip and control it using electrical signals.
Two Places at Once
As of yet, the technology is not applicable to typical desktop PCs or servers, but quantum computers are said to be promising because they can solve complicated problems using massively parallel computing.
That is accomplished by the quirky nature of quantum mechanics, said Christopher Monroe, a physics professor and the principal investigator and co-author of the paper "Ion Trap in a Semiconductor Chip." He explained that that chips can process multiple inputs at the same time in the same device.
"With quantum mechanics, an object can be in two places at the same time, as long as you don't look at it," he said. The quantum computer architecture can store quantum bits (qubits) of information, where each qubit can hold the numbers one or zero, or even both digits simultaneously.
When a qubit is added to a quantum system, the computing power doubles. Thus, the quantum machine can crunch numbers at a rate that is exponentially faster than conventional processors, said Monroe.
New Spin on Semiconductors
Electrically charged atoms (ions) for such quantum computers are stored in traps in order to isolate the qubits, a process that is essential for the system to work.
The challenge is that current ion traps can hold only a few atoms, or qubits, and are not easily scaled, making it difficult to create a quantum chip that can store thousands or more atomic ions. A string of such atoms, in theory, could store thousands of bits of information.
In the chip created at Michigan, which is the size of a postage stamp, the ion is confined in a trap while electric fields are applied. Laser light puts a spin on the ion's free electron, enabling it to flip it between the one or zero quantum states.
The spin of the electron dictates the value of the qubit. For example, an up-spin can represent a one, or a down-spin can represent a zero -- or the qubit can occupy both states simultaneously.
Applications for Cryptography
The quantum processor is made of gallium arsenide in a layered structure and etched with electrodes using the same type of lithography process as those used to create today's computer chips. Each electrode is connected to a separate voltage supply, and these various electrical voltages control the ion by moving as it hovers in a space carved out of the chip.
The next step is to build a bigger chip with many more electrodes, so that it can store more ions. There still is a lot of work to be done to learn how to control lots of ions in one of these chips. It won't be nearly as easy as it was with conventional computer chips, but at least we know what to do in principle, Monroe said.
"This type of integrated chip structure is significant because it demonstrates a way to scale the quantum computer to bigger systems," Monroe said. "It has applications for processing very large [data sets] such as in cryptography, for example, and there is a lot of interest in this by the government."
09 June 2006 NewScientist.com news service Paul Marks
"I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves." So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption software. He is far from alone in noticing that fast-growing social networking websites such as MySpace and Friendster are a snoop's dream.
New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.
And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.
Americans are still reeling from last month's revelations that the NSA has been logging phone calls since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. The Congressional Research Service, which advises the US legislature, says phone companies that surrendered call records may have acted illegally. However, the White House insists that the terrorist threat makes existing wire-tapping legislation out of date and is urging Congress not to investigate the NSA's action.
Meanwhile, the NSA is pursuing its plans to tap the web, since phone logs have limited scope. They can only be used to build a very basic picture of someone's contact network, a process sometimes called "connecting the dots". Clusters of people in highly connected groups become apparent, as do people with few connections who appear to be the intermediaries between such groups. The idea is to see by how many links or "degrees" separate people from, say, a member of a blacklisted organisation.
By adding online social networking data to its phone analyses, the NSA could connect people at deeper levels, through shared activities, such as taking flying lessons. Typically, online social networking sites ask members to enter details of their immediate and extended circles of friends, whose blogs they might follow. People often list other facets of their personality including political, sexual, entertainment, media and sporting preferences too. Some go much further, and a few have lost their jobs by publicly describing drinking and drug-taking exploits. Young people have even been barred from the orthodox religious colleges that they are enrolled in for revealing online that they are gay.
Other data the NSA could combine with social networking details includes information on purchases, where we go (available from cellphone records, which cite the base station a call came from) and what major financial transactions we make, such as buying a house.
"RDF turns the web into a kind of universal spreadsheet that is readable by computers as well as people," says David de Roure at the University of Southampton in the UK, who is an adviser to W3C. "It means that you will be able to ask a website questions you couldn't ask before, or perform calculations on the data it contains." In a health record, for instance, a heart attack will have the same semantic tag as its more technical description, a myocardial infarction. Previously, they would have looked like separate medical conditions. Each piece of numerical data, such as the rate of inflation or the number of people killed on the roads, will also get a tag.
The advantages for scientists, for instance, could be huge: they will have unprecedented access to each other's experimental datasets and will be able to perform their own analyses on them. Searching for products such as holidays will become easier as price and availability dates will have smart tags, allowing powerful searches across hundreds of sites.
On the downside, this ease of use will also make prying into people's lives a breeze. No plan to mine social networks via the semantic web has been announced by the NSA, but its interest in the technology is evident in a funding footnote to a research paper delivered at the W3C's WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh, UK, in late May.
That paper, entitled Semantic Analytics on Social Networks, by a research team led by Amit Sheth of the University of Georgia in Athens and Anupam Joshi of the University of Maryland in Baltimore reveals how data from online social networks and other databases can be combined to uncover facts about people. The footnote said the work was part-funded by an organisation called ARDA.
What is ARDA? It stands for Advanced Research Development Activity. According to a report entitled Data Mining and Homeland Security, published by the Congressional Research Service in January, ARDA's role is to spend NSA money on research that can "solve some of the most critical problems facing the US intelligence community".
Chief among ARDA's aims is to make sense of the massive amounts of data the NSA collects - some of its sources grow by around 4 million gigabytes a month.The ever-growing online social networks are part of the flood of internet information that could be mined: some of the top sites like MySpace now have more than 80 million members (see Graph).
The research ARDA funded was designed to see if the semantic web could be easily used to connect people. The research team chose to address a subject close to their academic hearts: detecting conflicts of interest in scientific peer review. Friends cannot peer review each other's research papers, nor can people who have previously co-authored work together.
So the team developed software that combined data from the RDF tags of online social network Friend of a Friend (www.foaf-project.org), where people simply outline who is in their circle of friends, and a semantically tagged commercial bibliographic database called DBLP, which lists the authors of computer science papers.
Joshi says their system found conflicts between potential reviewers and authors pitching papers for an internet conference. "It certainly made relationship finding between people much easier," Joshi says. "It picked up softer [non-obvious] conflicts we would not have seen before."
The technology will work in exactly the same way for intelligence and national security agencies and for financial dealings, such as detecting insider trading, the authors say. Linking "who knows who" with purchasing or bank records could highlight groups of terrorists, money launderers or blacklisted groups, says Sheth.
The NSA recently changed ARDA's name to the Disruptive Technology Office. The DTO's interest in online social network analysis echoes the Pentagon's controversial post 9/11 Total Information Awareness (TIA) initiative. That programme, designed to collect, track and analyse online data trails, was suspended after a public furore over privacy in 2002. But elements of the TIA were incorporated into the Pentagon's classified programme in the September 2003 Defense Appropriations Act.
Privacy groups worry that "automated intelligence profiling" could sully people's reputations or even lead to miscarriages of justice - especially since the data from social networking sites may often be inaccurate, untrue or incomplete, De Roure warns.
But Tim Finin, a colleague of Joshi's, thinks the spread of such technology is unstoppable. "Information is getting easier to merge, fuse and draw inferences from. There is money to be made and control to be gained in doing so. And I don't see much that will stop it," he says.
Callas thinks people have to wise up to how much information about themselves they should divulge on public websites. It may sound obvious, he says, but being discreet is a big part of maintaining privacy. Time, perhaps, to hit the delete button.
From issue 2555 of New Scientist magazine, 09 June 2006, page 30
I know we focus on Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Sudan, Palestine and what not but why do American always forget about the drama going on in our own inner cities! Why isn't the U.N. sending Peace Keeping troops in Chicago? Don't let BET,MTV fool you it's getting worse in the hood!Violent crime and poverty is on the rise! There aren't many good jobs, babies is having babies, our national debt is still astronomical,the dollar is dead,the housing market is about to collapse,interest rates are high,immigration is a joke, cops killing niggas still, we are a divided nation!Hell i know a lady who has a PHD and had to take a temp posistion working 9 to 5 making $9.25 hr.Shit ain't changed.We haven't overcome!This is Chicago 2007!in the P.J's i heard stories about snipers shooting people, dudes shooting form buildings, terror going on,drivebyes, people dying in elevators, people having to sleep in bathtubs, lil girls getting raped, no running water, rats biting lil kids, roaches, people living in constant fear and terror, no help from the goverment.But you won't see this on CNN, or Nightline!Don't think cus a few niggas got benzes and lil like the rich white people shit is sweet. America has the highest poverty gap amongst industrialized nations.2% control 98% of the wealth. And guess whose the poorest?African-Americans and Ricans
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A Berkeley, California, watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called "Gay Bomb."
Edward Hammond, of Berkeley's Sunshine Project, had used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air Force's Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, "One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior."
The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon. "The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another," Hammond said after reviwing the documents.
"The notion was that a chemical that would probably be pleasant in the human body in low quantities could be identified, and by virtue of either breathing or having their skin exposed to this chemical, the notion was that soliders would become gay," explained Hammond. The Pentagon told CBS 5 that the proposal was made by the Air Force in 1994.
"The Department of Defense is committed to identifying, researching and developing non-lethal weapons that will support our men and women in uniform," said a DOD spokesperson, who indicated that the "gay bomb" idea was quickly dismissed.
However, Hammond said the government records he obtained suggest the military gave the plan much stronger consideration than it has acknowledged.
"The truth of the matter is it would have never come to my attention if it was dismissed at the time it was proposed," he said. "In fact, the Pentagon has used it repeatedly and subsequently in an effort to promote non-lethal weapons, and in fact they submitted it to the highest scientific review body in the country for them to consider."
Military officials insisted Friday to CBS 5 that they are not currently working on any such idea and that the past plan was abandoned.
Gay community leaders in California said Friday that they found the notion of a "gay bomb" both offensive and almost laughable at the same time.
"Throughout history we have had so many brave men and women who are gay and lesbian serving the military with distinction," said Geoff Kors of Equality California. "So, it's just offensive that they think by turning people gay that the other military would be incapable of doing their job. And its absurd because there's so much medical data that shows that sexual orientation is immutable and cannot be changed."
1. Like Hitler, President Bush was not elected by a majority, but was forced to engage in political maneuvering in order to gain office.
2. Like Hitler, Bush began to curtail civil liberties in response to a well-publicized national outrage, in Hitler's case the Reichstag fire, in Bush's case the 9-11 catastrophe.
3. Like Hitler, Bush went on to pursue a reckless ultra-nationalist foreign policy without the mandate of the electorate.
4. Like Hitler, Bush has accordingly improved his popularity ratings, especially with veterans and conservative Republicans, by mounting an aggressive public relations campaign against foreign enemies. Just as Hitler cited international communism to justify Germany's military buildup, Bush uses Al Qaeda and the Axis of Evil to justify our current military buildup.
5. Like Hitler, Bush promotes militarism while in the midst of a major economic recession (or depression). He uses war preparations to help subsidize defense industries (Halliburton, Bechtel, etc.) and presumably the rest of the economy on a trickle-down basis.
6. Like Hitler, Bush glorifies patriotism to stir up public support. He treats our nation's unique historic destiny almost as a religious cause sanctioned by God.
7. Like Hitler, Bush quickly makes and breaks diplomatic ties, and he makes generous promises that he soon abandons, as in the case of Mexico, Russia, Afghanistan, and even New York City.
8. Like Hitler, Bush envisages a future world order that guarantees his own nation's hegemonic supremacy rather than cooperative harmony under the authority of the United Nations (or League of Nations). He is willing to break the U.N. Charter in promoting this end.
9. Like Hitler, Bush scraps international treaties, most notably the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Convention on the Prohibition of Land Mines, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Kyoto Global Warming Accord, and the International Criminal Court.
10. Like Hitler, Bush depends on an axis of collaborative allies, which he describes as a "coalition of the willing," to give the impression of having a broad popular alliance. These include the U.K. as compared to Mussolini's Italy, and Spain and Bulgaria as compared to, well, Spain and Bulgaria, both of which were aligned with Germany during the thirties and World War II.
11. Like Hitler, Bush possesses a war machine much bigger and more effective than the military capabilities of other nations. Today, Bush depends on a "defense" budget roughly equivalent to the combined military expenditures of the rest of the world.
12. Like Hitler, Bush is willing to invade other nations despite the opposition of the U.N. (League of Nations). He also has no qualms about bribing, bullying and insulting its members, even tapping their telephone lines.
13. Like Hitler, Bush pursues war without cutting back on the peacetime economy. He actually seeks to reduce taxes while conducting an expensive invasion and occupation of an "undesirable" nation.
14. Like Hitler, Bush launches unilateral invasions on a supposedly preemptive basis. Just as Hitler convinced the German public to think of Poland as a threat to Germany in 1939, Bush wants Americans to think of Iraq as a "potential" threat to our national security.
15. Like Hitler, Bush is willing to inflict high levels of bloodshed, with many thousands of casualties anticipated in Iraq, especially since the city of Baghdad--with a population of between 5 and 6 million--will be a primary target.
16. Like Hitler, Bush depends on a military strategy that features a "shock and awe" blitzkrieg beginning with devastating air strikes, then an invasion led by heavy armor columns.
17. Like Hitler, Bush is perfectly willing to sacrifice life as part of his official duty, as indicated by his unique record as a governor of Texas who was reluctant to commute death sentences.
18. Like Hitler Bush began warfare on a single front (Al Qaeda quartered in Afghanistan), but then expanded it to a second front with Iraq, only to be confronted with North Korea as a potential third front. Much the same thing happened when Hitler expanded German military operations from Spain to Poland and France, then was distracted by Yugoslavia before invading the USSR in 1941.
19. Like Hitler, Bush has no qualms about imposing "regime change" by installing Quisling-style client governments reinforced by full-scale military occupation under a military governor.
20. Like Hitler, Bush curtails civil liberties and depends on detention centers (i.e. concentration camps) such as Guantanamo Bay.
21. Like Hitler, Bush repeats lies often enough that they come to be accepted as the truth. Bush and his spokesmen argue, for example that every measure has been taken to avoid war (hardly true), that an invasion of Iraq will diminish (not intensify) the terrorist threat to the world, and that the U.S. is staging an invasion because the risks of inaction would be greater (not less). All of this is highly debatable. They likewise argue that Iraq is linked with Al Qaeda (which has yet to be proven), and that nothing whatsoever has been achieved by U.N. inspectors to warrant the postponement of U.S. war plans (which simply isn't true). They insist that Iraq hides numerous weapons it does not possess as well
as can be determined by U.N. inspectors, and they refuse to acknowledge the total absence of any nuclear weapons program in Iraq since the late nineties. As perhaps to be expected, they indignantly accuse everybody else of deception and evasiveness.
22. Like Hitler, Bush incessantly finds new excuses to justify war—from Iraq's WMD threat to the elimination of Saddam Hussein, to his supposed Al Qaeda connection, to the creation of democracy in the Middle East as a model for neighboring states, and back again to the WMD threat. As soon as one excuse for war is challenged, Bush shifts to another, but only to shift back again at another time.
23. Like Hitler Bush and his cohorts exaggerate ruthlessness by their enemies in order to justify their own. Just as Hitler cited the threat of communist violence to justify even greater violence on the part of Germany, the Bush team justifies a full-scale invasion of Iraq by emphasizing Saddam Hussein's crimes against humanity that were for the most part committed when Iraq was a client-ally of the U.S., supplied with both advisors and materiel (poison gas included) by our own government.
24. Like Hitler, Bush's Messianic ambition to bring about America's hegemonic dominance in the world makes him perhaps the most dangerous President in our nation's history, a rogue chief executive capable of waging any number of illegal preemptive wars.
25. Like Hitler, Bush has become so obsessed with his vision of a Manichaean conflict between good (U.S. patriotism) and evil (the anti-patriotic "other") that for many in contact with the White House he is beginning to seem as if he has lost touch with reality.
26. Like Hitler, Bush takes pleasure in the mythology of frontier justice. As a youth Hitler read and memorized the western novels of Karl May, and Bush retains into his maturity his fascination with simplistic cowboy values. He also exaggerates a cowboy twang despite his elitist education at Andover, Yale and Harvard. 27. Like Hitler, Bush misconstrues evolutionary theory, in Hitler's case by treating the Aryan race as being superior, in Bush's case by rejecting science for fundamentalist creationism.
In this year leading up to election 08', Americans are desperately in need of a slap in the face, or maybe a cold shower. Something to pull the whole nation out of it's slumber. The ignorance exhibited by the general public is disgraceful. The lack of willingness to learn about the country, it's government and history is disheartening. The rate of voter turnout is embarrassing. America may once have been the greatest nation on earth. Now it's just a nation of idiots. A sleeping populace on autopilot allowing the ship, this Titanic that is America, to go full steam into evermore treacherous waters. Is it too late? Is America bound to sink to depths greater than those reached during the depression or the war between the states? Can the passengers aboard this vessel stop dancing soon enough, long enough, to take the helm and avoid the catastrophe that lies just ahead? Are they willing to? Are they even capable? Do they care enough? Six questions. The first three have easy answers. No it's not too late. No this nation doesn't have to sink. Yes the citizenry can be up to the task. The answers to the last three questions are not so clear. But just suppose the answer is yes to all three. Just suppose there is willingness, there is capability, and enough concern. This then begs a seventh and eighth question. Where and how to begin? These are the toughest questions to answer because, like the problems that face this country, the solutions are multi-layered and interconnected, wrapped up in a knot that seems impossible to untangle. There is however always a place to start. To focus on the solution to any crisis, one must first understand the nature of that crisis. This then leads one towards education. Not classroom education, but investigative self-education. Education about Americas history, it's government and politics, it's media, it's perceptions and how they are formed, and the perceptions of the rest of the world concerning this nation. The proper investigative and introspective education is a tool that can be used to increase capability. There are some perceptions that need to be forgotten in any attempt to negotiate the knot. The idea that America is divided into left and right camps only promotes conflict and tightens the knot. This focus on the differences between Americans keeps the population at odds with itself and only furthers the careers of political and corporate giants, including the media. Spotlighting the differences between the left and right is the easiest way to get Americans to forget that in the center is the heart of America, which is far more important to it's survival than political arms or wings. This is not to say that there are no differences. The similarities, however, are far more important and far greater in number. The people do not benefit from dividing themselves, but the corporate politicians in Washington do. As long as a population is divided it can be played against itself over and over again while the stakes grow ever higher. As long as the concentration is on divisions there can be no unity. Without unity there can be no real progress, no real change in course. Left and right , democrat or republican are not the only lines of division used to further the agenda of an increasingly corporate run government. There is also race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, and economics, just to name a few. These differences, and others, are wielded like a carving knife to cut the people of this nation, like a turkey dinner, into portions isolated from one another and ready for consumption. It's the differences that are concentrated on by the politicians and media, not the similarities. It's the similarities that will bring the people together and make them strong and capable. Everyone wants and needs the same things, starting with the freedom to be themselves. Things like the desire for good health, enough food, education, the freedom to work in ones chosen field. To live without fear, make a decent living wage, and have a healthy and safe environment for ones self and children. Respect, recourse to the law, security, compassion, and love. Everyone wants the same ingredients to achieve a happy life. It isn't about who has more or less of these things, it's that everyone should have them. Perceptions of the differences in Americans and their lifestyles need to change to an awareness of their similarities. The problem with most of these perceptions is that they are derived primarily from assumptions and fear, not from a loving or enlightened heart. Beginning with the realization that Americans are more alike than different, a unity can form. This unity is the basic premise that America was created on. It is after all the United States of America, "United" being the key word. A government for the people, by the people. But this is only the beginning. Remember that action is the only way to get anything done and to act without knowledge is worse than not acting at all. What knowledge does a united America need in order to act effectively to save herself? Simple knowledge about the workings of government and the role that large corporations play in that government is one course of study. Reading and learning about the policies, both foreign and domestic, that have been instituted in the name of the people is very important, yet no one seems interested. "Too busy," "it doesn't really effect me," "I got mine so I won't rock the boat," "It's not my affair," "let the government handle it, that's why we elected them," are all excuses for civic laziness. As long as the attitude is "I can't do anything about it" nothing will be done and the ship will sink. Knowledge and unity, the beginning of capability. The action of voting can be a strong one if it is exercised. It isn't. Only 12 out of every 100 people regularly vote, this is embarrassing on a global scale. France in it's latest elections had a voter turnout of at least 87%. This is an example of capability and civic responsibility. But voting to maintain the status quo, no matter how many people vote, won't make the change in course that is desperately needed. Voting without an understanding of the issues, problems, and possible solutions to those problems could be termed civic masturbation. This is a nation in which most of the population speaks in terms they have no grasp on. It is a time of patriotism, fervent to the point of nationalism. No one recalls history and the fact that the Nazi movement in Germany was born in such patriotism. The Dow has just marked the longest bull run in 80 years as foreclosures are at an all time high. Eighty years ago the market crashed. A democracy cannot survive a corporate, capitalist economic system. Free enterprise and capitalism are not the same. Neither is patriotism and nationalism. Supporting ones country does not necessarily mean supporting it's government. The powers that were entrusted to the people by the founders of this country rely on an understanding of the workings of government and exercising those powers. When a government is as entrenched in corruption as the government of the United States, it is up to the people to take a stand. To take a stand the nation needs to comprehend the nature of the corruption and realize their power to end it. America has a federal budget that covers things like Medicaid, Medicare, the national debt, and social security. This budget is mandatory and covers these programs by law. There also exists what is called the discretionary budget which congress and the president create each year. This discretionary budget covers things like defense spending, K through 12 education, children's health care, humanitarian foreign aide, job training, renewable energy research, and the environmental protection agency. Sounds good until one looks at the numbers spent on each area. In the just concluded fiscal year more than half the discretionary budget, for a total of 463 billion dollars, went to the Pentagon. This does not include spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In relation to this, spending on K-12 education was around-38 billion, children's health care-50 billion, humanitarian foreign aide-13 billion, job training-6 billion, renewable energy research-2 billion, and the environmental protection agency-8 billion. When coupled with the fact that the 463 billion dollars spent by the Pentagon is more than the rest of the world combined spends on defense, it is exposed as gross mismanagement of taxpayer dollars. In addition this gross mismanagement is exasperated by the fact that the Pentagon's books are in such bad shape that they cannot even be audited. Nor can they account for the money they spend. Congress gives them a pass on this because in every congressional district in the United States there is a plant that produces some part of some defense system. Cut the defense spending and you cut jobs in every congressional district, and that wouldn't be good for re-election. Removing just 60 billion from the Pentagon's discretionary budget fund the United States could finance several much needed programs and account for the money. 9 million children, who don't have it, could have health insurance. Over a 12 year period America could rebuild the outdated school system that currently exists. A quarter million workers could be retrained, saving American jobs and boosting the economy. Dependency on foreign oil could be cut in half over 10 years. Money could be directed to Homeland Security for thorough inspection of cargo containers entering the ports of America. The federal deficit could be reduced and eventually eliminated. Medical research could be improved, and aide could be given to 6 million children world wide that die of hunger and related diseases each year. This would improve the perceptions of America in the eyes of the rest of the world more than the exportation of democracy at the end of a rifle. These things could be done at no added expense to the taxpayer beyond what is now being spent and not accounted for at the Pentagon. Even after trimming 60 billion dollars from the Pentagon budget in this manner the United States would still spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined. America could use her money like this every year, not just once. Another area of unchecked corruption is known as the revolving door. This is a maneuvering between decision making positions in government, such as congress or the office of the vice-president, and high paying lobbyist or corporate board member jobs. This creates a system of legal war profiteering that continually siphons funds from productive social programs and funnels those funds into making war for profit. The most obvious example of this is the Vice-President of the United States. Dick Cheney served in both the Nixon and Ford administrations beginning in 1969 and ending as President Fords Chief of Staff in 1976. Following this tenure he became a congressman for the state of Wyoming, during which time he served as vice-chairman on the committee investigating the Iran-Contra scandal involving the Reagan administration. So far a seemingly straight forward political career. When George H.W. Bush became President Mr. Cheney was handed the job of Secretary of Defense and was a major player in the Persian Gulf War. He also commissioned a study on privatizing much of the militaries logistic and support work. Paying a corporation known as Kellogg, Brown and Root 9 million dollars to do a study on whether or not the military should hire private companies like KBR to do such work. When the Bush administration failed to secure the White House for a second term Dick Cheney went to work in the private sector as a top corporate executive with Halliburton, the parent company of Kellogg, Brown and Root. Technically an oil company Halliburton and it's subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root are also big defense contractors. This is Mr. Cheney's first obvious trip through the revolving door. When George W. Bush took office in 2000, he tapped Dick Cheney for the Vice-Presidency giving him his second obvious round through the revolving door. Halliburton, in the guise of KBR has since been awarded multi-billion dollar no-bid contracts in Iraq, This presents a conflict of interest that in most areas of business would be considered illegal but is pushed "under the rug" at the federal level. Dick Cheney is the highest profile example of the revolving door, but there are many others on both sides of the aisle. At every level and in every branch of the government of the United States this practice is at work. It involves members of congress, congressional staffers, White House officials both elected and appointed, White House staffers, lobbying firms, think tanks, major corporations, and the banking, pharmaceutical, and insurance industries. The revolving door effects every aspect of federal policy and decision making. What this means is America is governed by corporations and the power of their money, not the people and the power of their voice. Laws have been created and enacted by the same people who traverse the revolving door to keep the practice both legal and "ethical". Barely legal, it is completely unethical regardless of the spin or rules in place to protect it. Only big business large corporations, especially defense contractors, and career politicians benefit from the revolving door. The taxpayers, the citizens, bare the cost and most aren't even aware that the situation exists at all. Aside from the defense and lobbying industries ability to profit from this situation there are other corporate beneficiaries of an American government controlled in this way. The people always lose however and the gap between the top 1% and the rest of the country continues to widen. The privatization of government functions sounds good, sounds like government downsizing. Sounds like giving business to the private sector, but the reality is quite different. Privatization only benefits those at the top of the ladder and crushes those on the lower rungs. Once something is outsourced to a private or corporate entity it loses a great deal of government oversight. This means that although it is still paid for by tax dollars it is completely above the scrutiny of the taxpayer/voter.
Chromium in drinking water causes cancer: U.S. agency
Reuters May 18, 2007 Jill Serjeant
A type of chromium highlighted in the film "Erin Brockovich" causes cancer in lab animals when they drink it in water, and it could be harmful to people, the U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Wednesday.
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Hexavalent chromium, also called chromium 6, already has been shown to cause lung cancer when inhaled and is controlled by the Environmental Protection Agency as well as by states. It is best known as the contaminant exposed by campaigner Erin Brockovich, whose battle against a polluter was dramatized in the May 2000 movie of the same name. "I am relieved and pleased and sorry because there are a lot of people who have ingested chromium 6," said Brockovich, who still works in Los Angeles as a legal consultant on environmental issues. "It is high time but it is no surprise to me," she told Reuters. "This is a chemical that there have been ongoing arguments about, and now a third party has concluded that it can cause cancer by ingestion." Environmentalists, who have been fighting for decades for tighter limits on how much chromium can be present in drinking water, said the findings offered a basis for such restrictions. High doses of chromium 6 given to rats and mice in drinking water caused malignant tumors, the two-year study by the NIH's National Toxicology Program or NTP found. "In the rats we saw oral cavity tumors," said Michelle Hooth, who worked on the report. "In the mice we saw tumors in the small intestine."
Hooth said the animals were given much higher doses of chromium than people would ever encounter in drinking water, which is the usual practice in testing chemicals for cancer-causing potential. INDUSTRIAL USES Hexavalent chromium compounds are often used in electroplating, leather tanning and textile manufacturing and have been found in some drinking water sources, the NTP said. Brockovich started investigations in 1991 into exposure to chromium 6 in drinking water in the town of Hinkley, California. In 1996, she and lawyer Ed Masry won a landmark $333 million settlement with Pacific Gas and Electricity over claims of toxic exposure. Brockovich said on Wednesday she had settled another lawsuit with PG&E involving the contaminant last year. But she said there were potentially dozens more toxic sites around the country. The lowest doses given to rats and mice in the study were 10 times higher than what humans could consume from the most highly contaminated water sources identified at Hinkley, the researchers said. From 1987 to 1993, according to the Toxics Release Inventory, chromium compound releases to land and water in various U.S. states totaled nearly 200 million pounds. "The chromium industry has been trying to convince regulators for years that hexavalent chromium is actually quite safe when consumed via drinking water, even though it has long been known to be carcinogenic when inhaled," said Renee Sharp, a senior analyst at the Environmental Working Group. "NTP's findings will finally allow state and federal regulators to set drinking water standards based on up-to-date sound science, rather than having to rely on old, inadequate, and/or biased studies often funded by chromium polluters," added Sharp, whose group has lobbied for tighter regulation of chromium and other chemicals.
By AnthonyBarnett-Public Affairs Editor - The Observer
A leading zoologist has found evidence that genes used to modify crops can jump the species barrier and cause bacteria to mutate, prompting fears that GM technology could pose serious health risks. A four-year study by Professor Hans-Hinrich Kaatz, a respected German zoologist, found that the alien gene used to modify oilseed rape had transferred to bacteria living inside the guts of honey bees. The research - which has yet to be published and has not been reviewed by fellow scientists - is highly significant because it suggests that all types of bacteria could become contaminated by genes used in genetically modified technology, including those that live inside the human digestive system. If this happened, it could have an impact on the bacteria's vital role in helping the human body fight disease, aid digestion and facilitate blood clotting. Agriculture Minister Nick Brown, who was yesterday advising farmers who have accidentally grown contaminated GM oilseed rape in Britain to rip up their crops, confirmed the potential significance of Kaatz's research. He said: 'If this is true, then it would be very serious.' The 47-year-old Kaatz has been reluctant to talk about his research until it has been published in a scientific journal, because he fears a backlash from the scientific community similar to that faced by Dr Arpad Pustzai, who claimed that genetically modified potatoes damaged the stomach lining of rats. Pustzai was sacked and had his work discredited. But in his first newspaper interview, Kaatz told The Observer: 'It is true, I have found the herbicide-resistant genes in the rapeseed transferred across to the bacteria and yeast inside the intestines of young bees. This happened rarely, but it did happen.' Although Kaatz realised the potential 'significance' of his findings, he said he 'was not surprised' at the results. Asked if this had implications for the bacteria inside the human gut, he said: 'Maybe, but I am not an expert on this.' Dr Mae-Wan Ho, geneticist at Open University and a critic of GM technology, has no doubts about the dangers. She said: 'These findings are very worrying and provide the first real evidence of what many have feared. Everybody is keen to exploit GM technology, but nobody is looking at the risk of horizontal gene transfer. 'We are playing about with genetic structures that existed for millions of years and the experiment is running out of control.' One of the biggest concerns is if the anti-biotic resistant gene used in some GM crops crossed over to bacteria. 'If this happened it would leave us unable to treat major illnesses like meningitis and E coli .' Kaatz, who works at the respected Institute for Bee Research at the University of Jena in Germany, built nets in a field planted with genetically modified rapeseed produced by AgrEvo. He let the bees fly freely within the net. At the beehives, he installed pollen traps in order to sample the pollen from the bees' hindlegs when entering the hive. This pollen was fed to young honey bees in the laboratory. Pollen is the natural diet of young bees, which need a high protein diet. Kaatz then extracted the intestine of the young bees and discovered that the gene from the GM rape-seed had been transferred in the bee gut to the microbes. Professor Robert Pickard, director-general of the Institute of the British Nutrition Foundation, is a bee expert as well as being a biologist and has visited the institute where Kaatz works. He said: 'There is no doubt that, if Kaatz's research is substantiated, then it poses very interesting questions and will need to be looked at very closely. 'But it must be remembered that the human body has been coping perfectly well with strange DNA for millions of years. And we also know many people have been eating GM products for years without showing any signs of ill health.' (link to www.rense.com) Gene transfer to bacteria inside the bees intestine. Maybe that's a contributing factor in their disappearance.
Do you have control of your mind? The devil reaches your soul through the mind. Diminishing intelligence and distracting thoughts. This country and most of the world has based its evil plot through mind control. Using subliminal messages, symbols, sounds and etc. When world war 2 was over, america(illuminati) found, transported and smuggled in nazi scientists of all areas. This american goverment used humans that were taken from mental hospitals and put them in labs. Giving them drugs, electrical shot, playing music and words 24 hours a day for several weeks. Slowly killing the mind, learning how to control the rest of the planet. People are not aware because they are trapped in a box that was created just for that purpose. You need to look inside and look out the box. Question everything and everyone. Do research and gather the facts, so you can have your own conclusion and make your own decisions.
I put this blog together to inform the people of the mental destruction that has been taking place. There are two important and vital people on the front lines with the war against mind control. Cathy O' Brien and Mark Phillips have united to fight and confront the real terrorists. They've written a book call "Trance-Formation America" and goes into detail about their experiences, especially Cathy O'Brien who was a government mind control slave.
Fluoride Action Network 1) 97% of western Europe has chosen fluoride-free water . This includes: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, and Switzerland. (While some European countries add fluoride to salt, the majority do not.) Thus, rather than mandating fluoride treatment for the whole population, western Europe allows individuals the right to choose, or refuse, fluoride.
2) Fluoride is the only chemical added to drinking water for the purpose of medication (to prevent tooth decay). All other treatment chemicals are added to treat the water (to improve the water's quality and safety - which fluoride does not do). This is one of the reasons why most of Europe has rejected fluoridation. For instance: In Germany, "The argumentation of the Federal Ministry of Health against a general permission of fluoridation of drinking water is the problematic nature of compulsion medication." In Belgium, it is "the fundamental position of the drinking water sector that it is not its task to deliver medicinal treatment to people. This is the sole responsibility of health services." In Luxembourg, "In our views, drinking water isn't the suitable way for medicinal treatment and that people needing an addition of fluoride can decide by their own to use the most appropriate way."
3) Contrary to previous belief, fluoride has minimal benefit when swallowed. When water fluoridation began in the 1940s and '50s, dentists believed that fluoride needed to be swallowed in order to be most effective. This belief, however, has now been discredited by an extensive body of modern research (1). According to the Centers for Disease Control, fluoride's "predominant effect is posteruptive and topical" (2). In other words, any benefits that accrue from the use of fluoride, come from the direct application of fluoride to the outside of teeth (after they have erupted into the mouth) and not from ingestion. There is no need, therefore, to expose all other tissues to fluoride by swallowing it.
4) Fluoridated water is no longer recommended for babies. In November of 2006, the American Dental Association (ADA) advised that parents should avoid giving babies fluoridated water (3). Other dental researchers have made similar recommendations over the past decade (4). Babies exposed to fluoride are at high risk of developing dental fluorosis - a permanent tooth defect caused by fluoride damaging the cells which form the teeth (5). Other tissues in the body may also be affected by early-life exposures to fluoride. According to a recent review published in the medical journal The Lancet, fluoride may damage the developing brain, causing learning deficits and other problems (6).
5) There are better ways of delivering fluoride than adding it to water. By adding fluoride to everyone's tap water, many infants and other at-risk populations will be put in harm's way. This is not only wrong, it is unnecessary. As western Europe has demonstrated, there are many equally effective and less-intrusive ways of delivering fluoride to people who actually want it. For example: A) Topical fluoride products such as toothpaste and mouthrinses (which come with explicit instructions not to swallow) are readily available at all grocery stores and pharmacies. Thus, for those individuals who wish to use fluoride, it is very easy to find and very inexpensive to buy. B) If there is concern that some people in the community cannot afford to purchase fluoride toothpaste (a family-size tube of toothpaste costs as little as $2 to $3), the money saved by not fluoridating the water can be spent subsidizing topical fluoride products (or non-fluoride alternatives) for those families in need. C) The vast majority of fluoride added to water supplies is wasted, since over 99% of tap water is not actually consumed by a human being. It is used instead to wash cars, water the lawn, wash dishes, flush toilets, etc.
6) Ingestion of fluoride has little benefit, but many risks. Whereas fluoride's benefits come from topical contact with teeth, its risks to health (which involve many more tissues than the teeth) result from being swallowed. Adverse effects from fluoride ingestion have been associated with doses atttainable by people living in fluoridated areas. For example: a) Risk to the brain. According to the National Research Council (NRC), fluoride can damage the brain. Animal studies conducted in the 1990s by EPA scientists found dementia-like effects at the same concentration (1 ppm) used to fluoridate water, while human studies have found adverse effects on IQ at levels as low as 0.9 ppm among children with nutrient deficiencies, and 1.8 ppm among children with adequate nutrient intake. (7-10)b) Risk to the thyroid gland. According to the NRC, fluoride is an "endocrine disrupter." Most notably, the NRC has warned that doses of fluoride (0.01-0.03 mg/kg/day) achievable by drinking fluoridated water, may reduce the function of the thyroid among individuals with low-iodine intake. Reduction of thyroid activity can lead to loss of mental acuity, depression and weight gain (11) c) Risk to bones. According to the NRC, fluoride can diminish bone strength and increase the risk for bone fracture. While the NRC was unable to determine what level of fluoride is safe for bones, it noted that the best available information suggests that fracture risk may be increased at levels as low 1.5 ppm, which is only slightly higher than the concentration (0.7-1.2 ppm) added to water for fluoridation. (12) d) Risk for bone cancer. Animal and human studies – including a recent study from a team of Harvard scientists – have found a connection between fluoride and a serious form of bone cancer (osteosarcoma) in males under the age of 20. The connection between fluoride and osteosarcoma has been described by the National Toxicology Program as "biologically plausible." Up to half of adolescents who develop osteosarcoma die within a few years of diagnosis. (13-16) e) Risk to kidney patients. People with kidney disease have a heightened susceptibility to fluoride toxicity. The heightened risk stems from an impaired ability to excrete fluoride from the body. As a result, toxic levels of fluoride can accumulate in the bones, intensify the toxicity of aluminum build-up, and cause or exacerbate a painful bone disease known as renal osteodystrophy. (17-19)
7) The industrial chemicals used to fluoridate water may present unique health risks not found with naturally-occurring fluoride complexes . The chemicals - fluorosilicic acid, sodium silicofluoride, and sodium fluoride - used to fluoridate drinking water are industrial waste products from the phosphate fertilizer industry. Of these chemicals, fluorosilicic acid (FSA) is the most widely used. FSA is a corrosive acid which has been linked to higher blood lead levels in children. A recent study from the University of North Carolina found that FSA can - in combination with chlorinated compounds - leach lead from brass joints in water pipes, while a recent study from the University of Maryland suggests that the effect of fluoridation chemicals on blood lead levels may be greatest in houses built prior to 1946. Lead is a neurotoxin that can cause learning disabilities and behavioral problems in children. (20-23)
8) Water fluoridation’s benefits to teeth have been exaggerated. Even proponents of water fluoridation admit that it is not as effective as it was once claimed to be. While proponents still believe in its effectiveness, a growing number of studies strongly question this assessment. (24-46) According to a systematic review published by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, "The magnitude of [fluoridation's] effect is not large in absolute terms, is often not statistically significant and may not be of clinical significance." (36) a) No difference exists in tooth decay between fluoridated & unfluoridated countries. While water fluoridation is often credited with causing the reduction in tooth decay that has occurred in the US over the past 50 years, the same reductions in tooth decay have occurred in all western countries, most of which have never added fluoride to their water. The vast majority of western Europe has rejected water fluoridation. Yet, according to comprehensive data from the World Health Organization, their tooth decay rates are just as low, and, in fact, often lower than the tooth decay rates in the US. (25, 35, 44) b) Cavities do not increase when fluoridation stops. In contrast to earlier findings, five studies published since 2000 have reported no increase in tooth decay in communities which have ended fluoridation. (37-41) c) Fluoridation does not prevent oral health crises in low-income areas. While some allege that fluoridation is especially effective for low-income communities, there is very little evidence to support this claim. According to a recent systematic review from the British government, "The evidence about [fluoridation] reducing inequalities in dental health was of poor quality, contradictory and unreliable." (45) In the United States, severe dental crises are occurring in low-income areas irrespective of whether the community has fluoride added to its water supply. (46) In addition, several studies have confirmed that the incidence of severe tooth decay in children ("baby bottle tooth decay") is not significantly different in fluoridated vs unfluoridated areas. (27,32,42) Thus, despite some emotionally-based claims to the contrary, water fluoridation does not prevent the oral health problems related to poverty and lack of dental-care access.
9) Fluoridation poses added burden and risk to low-income communities. Rather than being particularly beneficial to low-income communities, fluoridation is particularly burdensome and harmful. For example: a) Low-income families are least able to avoid fluoridated water. Due to the high costs of buying bottled water or expensive water filters, low-income households will be least able to avoid fluoride once it's added to the water. As a result, low-income families will be least capable of following ADA’s recommendation that infants should not receive fluoridated water. This may explain why African American children have been found to suffer the highest rates of disfiguring dental fluorosis in the US. (47) b) Low-income families at greater risk of fluoride toxicity. In addition, it is now well established that individuals with inadequate nutrient intake have a significantly increased susceptibility to fluoride’s toxic effects. (48-51) Since nutrient deficiencies are most common in low-income communities, and since diseases known to increase susceptibility to fluoride are most prevalent in low-income areas (e.g. end-stage renal failure), it is likely that low-income communities will be at greatest risk from suffering adverse effects associated with fluoride exposure. According to Dr. Kathleen Thiessen, a member of the National Research Council's review of fluoride toxicity: "I would expect low-income communities to be more vulnerable to at least some of the effects of drinking fluoridated water." (51)
10) Due to other sources, many people are being over-exposed to fluoride . Unlike when water fluoridation first began, Americans are now receiving fluoride from many other sources* besides the water supply. As a result many people are now exceeding the recommended daily intake, putting them at elevated risk of suffering toxic effects. For example, many children ingest more fluoride from toothpaste alone than is considered "optimal" for a full day’s worth of ingestion. According to the Journal of Public Health Dentistry: "Virtually all authors have noted that some children could ingest more fluoride from [toothpaste] alone than is recommended as a total daily fluoride ingestion." (52) Because of the increase in fluoride exposure from all sources combined, the rate of dental fluorosis (a visible indicator of over-exposure to fluoride during childhood) has increased significantly over the past 50 years. Whereas dental fluorosis used to impact less than 10% of children in the 1940s, the latest national survey found that it now affects over 30% of children. (47, 53)
* Sources of fluoride include: fluoride dental products, fluoride pesticides, fluorinated pharmaceuticals, processed foods made with fluoridated water, and tea.
"The level of fluoride the government allows the public is based on scientifically fraudulent information and altered reports. People can be harmed simply by drinking water." - Dr. Robert Carton, Ph.D, former Environmental Protection Agency Scientist (20 years), Food & Water Journal, Summer 1998
"Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century, if not of all time." - Robert Carton, Ph.D. former US EPA scientist
"The real purpose behind water fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss of liberty." - chemist Charles Perkins, 1954
"All of Europe is using ozone to clean their water supplies. Here they use chlorine. They want us with cancer. And how do we get cancer? With the vaccinations and immunizations, where they inject us with live viruses, like the hepatitis vaccine-every one of them has the HIV virus, SV-40. What they're doing is what they learned in Nazi Germany. They implemented here and they continue their research in the CIA." - Interview of Eric Jon Phelps
Hip hop, rap and spoken word artist Mos Def reads Malcolm X's "Message to the Grass Roots" on November 9, 2006. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States.
The video for Mos Def's "Katrina Klap" (utilizing the instrumental for Juvenile's "Nolia Clap"), a critical reaction to the lack of response by the Bush administration to the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
Mos was arrested in front of the MTV VMA's performing this song. I guess it didn't matter to Big Brother that he had a permit to perform.
This story is very shocking indeed. Philip Schneider was an engineer who worked for the US government and in the last few years of his life revealed many secrets about what has been covered up. As a result he was murdered for this in 1996. Here is the lecture that got him murdered, recorded 6 months before his death. very interesting:http://realufos.blogspot.com
