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Stand Up and Fight Back!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9013557576101683516.post-49263844654026964112015-07-26T09:12:00.002-07:002015-07-26T09:12:26.196-07:00Open Borders... An American Tradition for Ten Thousand Years...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There is no such thing as an “Illegal Alien.”</h2>
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November 20, 2013 by <a href="https://thewordsmithcollection.wordpress.com/author/thewordsmithcollection/" style="color: #265e15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts by thewordsmithcollection">thewordsmithcollection</a></div>
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“Give me your tired, your poor,<a href="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/illegal-immigrants.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #265e15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="illegal-immigrants" class="size-medium wp-image-43 alignleft" height="245" src="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/illegal-immigrants.jpg?w=300&h=245" style="background: url(https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/shadow.gif) 100% 100% no-repeat; border: 2px solid black; display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin: 2px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px 10px 10px 4px;" width="300" /></a><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”</div>
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― “quote on the Statue of Liberty”</div>
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When we installed this beacon of freedom at our doorstep,<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />we meant it.</div>
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<a href="http://immigrationwithjustice.blogspot.com/2010/04/we-have-seen-enemy-and-he-is-us.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #265e15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://immigrationwithjustice.blogspot.com/2010/04/we-have-seen-enemy-and-he-is-us.html">http://immigrationwithjustice.blogspot.com/2010/04/we-have-seen-enemy-and-he-is-us.html</a><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“After years and years of video loops running on the cable television networks, for many Americans the term “illegal alien” conjures up images of people illegally jumping over the Southern border. Most people would be surprised to learn that nearly half the undocumented population entered the U.S. legally. Some came as visitors, others as students, and others as temporary workers. Some fell out of status because they took ill and were forced to drop out of school, others because they fell victim to domestic violence or other crimes, and others because their sponsoring employer mistreated them. <img alt="illegal_immigrant" class=" wp-image-42 alignright" height="180" src="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/illegal_immigrant.jpeg?w=240&h=180" style="background: url(https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/shadow.gif) 100% 100% no-repeat; border: 22px solid black; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 2px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px 10px 10px 4px;" width="240" />Even those foreign nationals that entered the country surreptitiously in direct violation of the immigration law are not “illegal”. Some, like victims of human trafficking, are eligible for protection, not prosecution, under our immigration law.”</div>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-leopold/ap-illegal-immigrant_b_3006392.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #265e15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-leopold/ap-illegal-immigrant_b_3006392.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-leopold/ap-illegal-immigrant_b_3006392.htm</a>l</div>
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“Illegal alien” is not a legal term. An alien is defined as anyone who is not a citizen or national of the “Illegal alien” is not a legal term. An alien is defined as anyone who is not a citizen or national of the United States. However, “illegal alien” is not a legal term in the Immigration and Nationality Act. For some, the use of the term “illegal alien” is likely based on a misconception that an immigrant’s very presence in the United States is a criminal violation of the law. While the act of entering the country without inspection is a federal misdemeanor, and for repeat offenders could be a felony, the status of being present in the United States without a visa is not an ongoing criminal violation.”</div>
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<a href="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/34-illegal-immigrant-b-7240134.png" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #265e15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="34-illegal-immigrant-b-7240134" class="size-medium wp-image-44 alignleft" height="267" src="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/34-illegal-immigrant-b-7240134.png?w=300&h=267" style="background: url(https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/mistylook/img/shadow.gif) 100% 100% no-repeat; border: 2px solid black; display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin: 2px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px 10px 10px 4px;" width="300" /></a><a href="http://nohumanbeingisillegal.com/Home.html" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #265e15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://nohumanbeingisillegal.com/Home.html</a></div>
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There Is No Such Thing As An ‘Illegal Alien’<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“Yes, you read it correctly. There really is no such thing.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And not because the Associated Press announced a long<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />overdue change to its Stylebook yesterday.”</div>
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“Do the Right Thing”<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />*******************************************************<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of you teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”</div>
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~We should build bridges instead of fences. Our nation was built by immigrants. Every time we have limited immigration, we have suffered because of it. We should live up to what it says on the statue of liberty.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Closing our doors to those who seek freedom is wrong.</div>
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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of you teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiot0tlGK7rRI4wthhq9u_cq99axdR60LK8tlVOHqwhb9kvj2mzUZHLhIXQ67_Ygmflmk3kuP9_yVI9boRMM9NLlVKhvN3yvy7_KSP-2CoADmU7ecs1SRhIpqgZao5ajeHYHKXyb9QfLvgX/s1600/freedom1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a>'The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?'</div>
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<span data-offset-key="56kur-0-0" data-reactid=".28.1:6.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.$editor0.0.0.$56kur.0:$56kur-0-0">“When did the skin on our bodies, the difference in our voice, or the direction our heart takes us decide whether or not we should have human rights?” </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3plfb-0-0" data-reactid=".28.1:6.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.$editor0.0.0.$3plfb.0:$3plfb-0-0">"There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come."</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9013557576101683516.post-73995825232162016172014-11-05T15:51:00.000-08:002015-03-29T17:43:10.543-07:00In 2016 When Third Parties Can Make a Difference?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.gp.org/"><b>GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES</b></a> - <br /><b><br />The
Green Party --</b><br /><br /> the informal US-affiliate of the leftist, environmentalist
<a href="http://europeangreens.eu/">European Greens</a> movement
-- is one of the two largest third parties in the nation. The
party regularly fields candidates for local, state and federal
offices in many states, and has established active <a href="http://www.gp.org/states.shtml">state
affiliate parties</a> in nearly all 50 states. The Greens scored
a major political points when it convinced prominent consumer
advocate <a href="http://www.nader.org/">Ralph Nader</a> to run
as their first Presidential nominee in 1996. Spending <img align="right" alt="Vote Green Party" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix2/Greens-PeaceParty.gif" height="104" hspace="4" vspace="4" width="113" />just over $5,000, Nader was on the ballot
in 22 states and carried over 700,000 votes (4th place - 0.8%).
In 2000, Nader raised millions of dollars, mobilized leftist activists
and grabbed national headlines with his anti-corporate campaign
message. Nader ignored pleas from liberal Democrats that he abandon
the race because he was siphoning essential votes away from Al
Gore's campaign -- answering that Gore was not substantially different
than Bush. In the end, Nader was on the ballot in 44 states and
finished third with 2,878,000 votes (2.7%). More significantly,
Nader missed the important 5% mark for the national vote, meaning
the party remained ineligible for federal matching funds. Until
2001, the Greens were largely a collection of fairly autonomous
state/local based political entities with only a weak (and sometimes
splintered) national leadership structure that largely served
to coordinate electoral activities. That faction -- formerly named
the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP) -- was the larger
and more moderate of the two unrelated Green parties. The ASGP
voted in 2001 to convert from an umbrella coordinating organization
into a formal, unified national party organization. Nader made
another run in 2004 -- but ran as an Independent. Instead, Green
Party General Counsel David Cobb of Texas won the Presidential
nomination (ballot status in 29 states - 120,000 votes - 6th place
- 0.1%). Cobb argued the party needed to nominate a candidate
who openly belonged to the party (note: Nader had never joined)
and was pledged to building the party at the local level. Cobb
ran what was seen as a "safe-states" strategy -- a controversial
move whereby Cobb only made major efforts to gain votes in states
where a strong Green showing would not compromise the ability
of the Democratic nominee to defeat Bush in the state. Democrats
appreciated the move, but it weakened Cobb's message. For 2008,
the Greens dumped the "safe states" strategy and instead
tried to run a more aggressive campaign wherever possible. Former
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) joined the Greens in 2007,
moved to California, and easily captured the Green nomination
in 2008. McKinney was on the ballot in 32 states and garnered
161,0000 votes (6th place - 0.1%). Physician and progressive activist
Jill Stein was the Green Presidential nominee in 2012 and scored
the party's best showing since the Nader days, capturing 470,000
votes (4th place - 0.4%). Official Green Party links include:
<a href="http://gp.org/greenpages-blog/">Green Pages</a> (newspaper),
<a href="http://www.globalgreens.info/">Global Green Network</a>,
<a href="http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml">Green Party News
Center</a>, <a href="http://www.campusgreens.org/">Campus Greens</a>,
<a href="http://www.lavendergreens.us/">Lavender Green Caucus</a>,
<a href="http://greens.org/gp-uswomen/">National Women's Caucus</a>,
<a href="http://immuneweb.org/dg/">Disability Caucus</a>, <a href="http://www.gp.org/committees/campaign/">Coordinated
Campaign Committee</a>, and <a href="http://www.gp.org/elections/candidates/">Green
Party Election Results</a>. The <a href="http://www.gp.org/platform.shtml">Green
Party Platform</a> sets forth the party's official stances.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.votecitizens.org/">CITIZENS
PARTY</a></b> - <br /><br />Not to be confused with the progressive party
by the same name in the 1980s, this new Citizens Party was launched
in 2004 as the New American Independent Party. In 2011, the party
changed its name to Citizens Party. The CP vows to become a national
entity. The CP describe their ideology as a "pragmatic ...
mixture of what might appear to be liberal, moderate and conservative
views." The party supports fair trade (reciprocity), and
opposed free trade policies, NAFTA, CAFTA and the WTO; supports
gun ownership rights; supports gay marriage and is pro-choice;
wants tougher animal cruelty laws; supports legalizing medically
assisted suicide; wants to create tax incentives to bring manufacturing
jobs back to the US and protect US family farms; opposed the Wall
Street bailout; and opposes a "neo-conservative foreign policy."
To date the party has only ballot qualified one candidate under
its name: a Pennsylvania state legislative candidate in 2006.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.cpusa.org/"><b>COMMUNIST PARTY USA</b></a> - <br /><br />The CPUSA --
once the slavish propaganda tool and spy network for the Soviet
Central Committee -- experienced a forced transformation in recent
years. Highly classified Soviet Politburo records, made public
after the fall of Soviet communism in the 1990s, revealed the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) illegally <img align="right" alt="CPUSA" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix2/cpusa.jpg" height="98" hspace="3" vspace="3" width="100" />funneled
millions of dollars to the CPUSA to finance its activities from
the 1920s to the 1980s. The flow of Soviet dollars to the CPUSA
came to an abrupt halt when the Soviet communists were ousted
from power in 1991 -- ultimately causing a total overhaul of CPUSA
activities. Founded in 1924, the CPUSA reached its peak vote total
in 1932 with nominee <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Z._Foster">William
Z. Foster</a> (102,000 votes - 4th place). The last national CPUSA
ticket -- headed by Stalinist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Hall">Gus
Hall</a> and 60s radical activist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis">Angela
Davis</a> -- was fielded in 1984 (36,000 votes - 8th place). While
the party has not directly run any candidates since the late 1980s,
the CPUSA sometimes backs some candidates in various local elections
(often in Northeastern industrial communities) and engages in
grassroots political and labor union organizing. As for issues,
the CPUSA calls for free universal health care, elimination of
the federal income tax on people earning under $60,000 a year,
free college education, drastic cuts in military spending, "massive"
public works programs, the outlawing of "scabs and union busting,"
abolition of corporate monopolies, public ownership of energy
and basic industries, huge tax hikes for corporations and the
wealthy, and various other programs designed to "beat the power
of the capitalist class ... [and promote] anti-imperialist freedom
struggles around the world." The CPUSA's <a href="http://www.cpusa.org/party-program/">underlying
Marxist ideology</a> remains strong. However, it has evolved now
-- after the death of Hall in 2000 -- into a Gorbachev-style "democratic
reform communist" movement headed by activist Sam Webb. Under
Webb's leadership, the CPUSA now touts a platform of true democratic
socialism and trade unionism, and frequently encourages votes
for Democratic candidates as a pragmatic electoral tactic to defeat
conservatives. Other official CPUSA websites include the <a href="http://peoplesworld.org/">People's
World</a> party newspaper, <a href="http://www.politicalaffairs.net/">Political
Affairs</a> monthly party magazine, and the <a href="http://www.yclusa.org/">Young
Communists League</a> youth organization.</span><span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.socialism.com/"><b><br /><br />FREEDOM SOCIALIST PARTY</b></a> - <br /><br />The
FSP was formed in 1966 by a splinter group of dissident feminist
Trotskyists who broke away from the Socialist Workers Party to
create a new party in the "tradition of Marx, Engels, Lenin
and Trotsky." The FSP has always emphasized "black liberation
and social feminsm" -- thus the reason Radical Women is an
official alternate name used by the FSP. The FSP describe themselves
as a "revolutionary, socialist feminist organization, dedicated
to the replacement of capitalist rule by a genuine workers' democracy
that will guarantee full economic, social, political, and legal
equality to women, people of color, gays, and all who are exploited,
oppressed, and repelled by the profit system and its offshoot
-- imperialism." The FSP has party organizations in the US,
Canada and Australia, and today remains staunchly Trotskyist in
ideology. The FSP occasionally fields a handful of local candidates
in Washington, California and New York (often in non-partisan
elections). The FSP also fielded their first Presidential candidate
in 2012: socialist activist Stephen Durham, who ran as a write-in
as he failed to achieve ballot status in any state. Official FSP
links include the <a href="http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node/30">Freedom
Socialist</a> newspaper and <a href="http://www.redletterpress.org/">Red
Letter Press</a> (book publishers).</span><span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.greenparty.org/"><b><br /><br />THE GREENS/GREEN PARTY USA (G/GPUSA)</b></a>
- <br /><br />When people talk about "the Green Party" in the US,
they are likely <b>NOT</b> talking about this entity.
The G/GPUSA is the older, very much smaller, and more stridently
leftist of the two Green parties. While the GPUSA also nominated
Nader for President back in 2000, Nader rejected the <img align="left" alt="The Greens (1980s)" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix/greens.jpg" height="95" hspace="4" vspace="4" width="95" />G/GPUSA nomination (while embracing the other
Green party, listed above). Prominent Nader campaign strategist
Jim Hightower described the two Green factions as follows in 2001:
"There are two Green party organizations -- the [Green Party of
the US] whose nomination Ralph accepted and the much smaller one
[G/GPUSA] ... on the fringes ... [with] all sorts of damned-near-communistic
ideas." Some in the G/GPUSA protested that Hightower's comments
were a bit unfair -- but read the <a href="http://www.greenparty.org/Platform.html">G/GPUSA
2000 Platform</a> (which remains the current G/GPUSA platform)
and decide for yourself. The G/GPUSA largely emphasizes direct
action tactics over traditional electoral politics. A majorty
of the G/GPUSA delegates and large number of party activists quit
the group and bolted to the larger Green Party of the US in 2001
(forming an informal leftist caucus within the Green Party). The
small splinter group remaining within the G/GPUSA are more dogmatically
Marxist. The G/GPUSA maintain formal <a href="http://www.greenparty.org/structure.php">local
affiliates</a> only Chicago, St. Louis and Philadelphia. The G/GPUSA
has fielded a few state and federal candidates over the years
-- often running them in Green primaries against candidates affiliated
with the larger Green Party of the US. Related G/GPUSA links include
<a href="http://greens.org/s-r/">Synthesis/Regeneration</a> (party
magazine), and <a href="http://www.greenparty.org/newsletter/">Green
Politics</a> (quarterly e-newspaper).<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://independenceamerica.com/">
<b>INDEPENDENCE PARTY OF AMERICA</b></a> - <br /><br />After two years of
openly feuding with Ross Perot's allies in the Reform Party, Minnesota
Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Ventura">Jesse
Ventura</a> and his supporters bolted from the party to launch
the new Independence Party in 2000. <img align="right" alt="Independence Party" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix/indepparty.gif" height="44" hspace="3" vspace="3" width="150" />While
this splinter party shared the Reform Party's call for campaign
finance and other political reforms, the IP shared Ventura's disagreement
with the more social conservative and trade protectionist views
espoused by the Reform Party. The IP -- which describes itself
as "Socially Inclusive and Fiscally Responsible" -- is pro-choice,
pro-gay rights, pro-medical marijuana, pro-gun rights and fiscally
moderate. The IP has fielded crowded slates of Congressional and
state candidates in Minnesota in every election since 2000. While
Ventura initially said he wanted to take this Minnesota party
national and possibly field a Presidential nominee in 2004, few
chapter exist in other states and the party to date has never
nominated a Presidential ticket. Ventura's gubernatorial retirement
in 2002 was a blow to the IP, although former Democratic Congressman
Tim Penny was a credible IP nominee for Minnesota Governor in
2002 (but finished a distant third). Also in 2002, IP co-founder
Dean Barkley became the first IP member to serve in Congress when
Ventura appointed him to the US Senate to complete the two months
of a term left open by the death of incumbent Paul Wellstone (D).
As for a national party organization, the Independence Party essentially
does not really have one. It seemingly consists of a few separately-organized
state affiliates with at most a very informal link to the tiny
central national organization which doesn't seem to coordinate
activities between the states. Thus, each state entity goes its
own way -- and support has clearly dwindled over the past decade.
Surviving state parties include the <a href="http://www.independenceminnesota.org/">Minnesota
Independence Party</a>, <a href="http://www.ipfl.org/">Independence
Party of Florida</a>, and <a href="http://independencepartyny.com/">Independence
Party of New York State</a>.</span><span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.justicepartyusa.org/"><br /><br /><br />JUSTICE
PARTY</a></b> - <br /><br />Former Salt Lake City Mayor <a href="http://www.voterocky.org/">Rocky
Anderson</a>, a former Democrat, created this party in 2011 as
a new national political vehicle for disgruntled citizens who
believed the Democratic Party was not sufficiently progressive.
The Justice Party supports universal health care, economic justice
to financial disparity, and LGBT equality, backs the Kyoto Protocols
to reduce climate change, and opposes "the wars of the Bush-Obama
Presidency" and domestic spying programs. The party fielded
Anderson as the party's Presidential candidate in 2012, and he
obtained ballot statuts in 16 states (43,000 votes - 7th place
- 0.03%). The party has also run candidates for US Senate, congress,
and other offices. The goal of the Justice Party is to ultimately
supplant the Greens as the leading progressive political party
in the US. Party leaders say Anderson is likely to make another
Justice Party run for President in 2016.<br /><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">(sorry, will reorganize the rest soonest!)</span></b></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.lightparty.com/"><b>LIGHT PARTY</b></a> - The Light Party
is a miniscule New Age party almost entirely centered around party
founder "Da Vid, M.D., Wholistic Physician, Human Ecologist &
Artist." He was also the party's write-in candidate for President
in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. The party promotes holistic
medicine, national health insurance, organic foods, solar energy,
nuclear disarmament and a flat tax. The founder is the only candidate
this party has ever fielded for office. </span><span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.modernwhig.org/">MODERN
WHIG PARTY</a></b> - Seizing the name of the long dead <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_%28United_States%29">Whig
Party</a> (1833-1856) of Presidents Zachary Taylor, John Tyler
and Millard Fillmore, this new Modern Whig Party was launched
in 2008. Nearly all of the party founders and state chairs are
Iraq/Afghan War veterans. These new Whigs explain themselves as
follows: "We represent moderate voters from all walks of
life who cherry-pick between traditional Democratic and Republican
ideals in what has been called the Modern Whig Philosophy. This
includes general principles of fiscal responsibility, strong national
defense and bold social progression." They are centrists
-- vaguely claiming they have "tens of thousands of members"
-- who support a strong military, energy independence, increased
funding of the sciences and education, more spending on veterans
and veteran families, and oppose legislating morality. The party
has established state party affiliates around the nation and fielded
a few candidates for Congress and state legislature. </span><span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.pslweb.org/">PARTY
FOR SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION</a></b> - The <img align="right" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix2/psl.jpg" height="75" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="95" />Party
of Socialism & Liberation (PSL) is "a revolutionary Marxist
party" created "to be a vehicle for the multinational
working class in the struggle for socialism ... Only a multinational
party can create the unity necessary to defeat the most powerful
capitalist class the world has ever seen ... We aim for revolution
in the United States ... We want a revolution; and, we work hard
to make it happen." Additionally, the PSL explains that "the
most crucial requirement for [PSL] membership is the dedication
to undertake this most important and most necessary of all tasks:
building a new revolutionary workers party in the heart of world
imperialism." The PSL was founded in 2006 by a breakaway
faction of the communist revolutionary wing of the Workers World
Party. The PSL espouses a pro-Cuba/pro-China view, and the iconic
Che Guevarra's call for continual world revolution against capitalism.
The PSL fielded its first candidates in 2008: a Presidential ticket
and Congressional candidates. Presidential nominee Gloria LaRiva
was on the ballot in 12 states in 2008 and captured 6,808 votes
(11th place - 0.005%). The PSL nominated Peta Lindsay for Presidential
in 2012 -- even though she was constitutionally ineligible to
serve due to being underage -- but she was still on the ballot
in 13 states and captured 9,400 votes (11th place - 0.01%). The
PSL also sponsors and/or directs numerous popular front groups
including <a href="http://www.internationalanswer.org/">International
ANSWER</a>, <a href="http://www.iacenter.org/">International Action
Center</a>, <a href="http://bailoutpeople.org/">Bail Out the People
Network</a>, <a href="http://www.may1.info/">May 1st Coalition</a>,
and many others. Other related PSL websites include: <a href="http://www.votepsl.org/">VotePSL.org</a>
(party campaign site); <a href="http://www.pslweb.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Liberation">Liberation</a>
(party newspaper) and <a href="http://socialismandliberation.org/">Socialism
and Liberation</a> (party magazine).</span><span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/"><b>PEACE AND FREEDOM PARTY</b></a>
- Founded <img align="left" alt="Peace & Freedom Party - 1968" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix2/PFP-Voter.jpg" height="129" hspace="4" vspace="6" width="130" />in the 1960s as a left-wing party opposed to the Vietnam War, the
party reached its peak of support in 1968 when it nominated Black
Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver for President. Although a convicted
felon and an odious personality, Cleaver carried nearly 37,000
votes (ironically, Cleaver ultimately became a Reagan Republican
in the early 1980s, and was later a crack cocaine addict in the
late 1980s, before emerging as an environmental activist in the
late 1990s). Famed "baby doctor" <a href="http://www.drspock.com/about/drbenjaminspock/">Benjamin
Spock</a> -- a socialist and staunch opponent of the Vietnam War
-- was the PFP Presidential nominee in 1972. Since then, the small
party has largely been dominated by battling factions of Marxist-Leninists
(aligned with the communist Workers World Party (WWP), which later
split into the militant revolutionary Party of Socialism &
Liberation (PSL)), Trotskyists, and true democratic socialists.
The PFP today is small, with activities centered only in California.
In 1996, the PFP successfully blocked an attempt by the WWP to
capture the PFP's Presidential nomination (and a California ballot
spot) for their party's nominee. In a sign of the party's serious
decline in support, the PFP's poor showing in the 1998 statewide
elections caused the party to lose its California ballot status.
The PFP finally regained California ballot status in 2003 -- and
immediately fielded a sizable slate of candidates. Native American
activist Leonard Peltier -- an imprisoned cop killer (or innocent
political prisoner, depending on your views) -- was the PFP nominee
for President in 2004 (ballot status in one state - 27,500 votes).
In 2008, the party let consumer activist Ralph Nader use their
California ballot line in support of his Independent run for President.
In 2009, the party announced plans to try expanding into "a
nationwide electoral party dedicated to socialism, feminism, democracy,
environmentalism, and racial equality." The communist PSL's
candidates captured several key PFP statewide candidate nominations
in California in 2010, but then lost control again in 2012 when
the PFP nominated comic actress Rosanne Barr for President. Barr
was on the ballot in 3 states and captured 67,500 votes (6th place
- 0.05%). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://socialistparty-usa.org/"><b>SOCIALIST PARTY USA</b></a> - The
SPUSA are true democratic socialists -- advocating left-wing electoral
change versus militant revolutionary change. Many of the SP members
could easily be members <img align="left" alt="Eugene Debs for President" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix2/Debs.jpg" height="101" hspace="3" vspace="5" width="100" />of
the left-wing faction of the Democratic Party. Unlike most of
the other political parties on this page with "Socialist" in their
names, the SP has always been staunchly anti-communist. The original
Socialist Party USA was founded by labor union leader, ex-Democratic
elected official and pacifist <a href="http://www.eugenevdebs.com/">Eugene
V. Debs</a> in 1900, the SP was once a mighty national third party.
Debs himself was the SP nominee for president five times between
1900 and 1920. Debs received over 900,000 votes (6%) in 1912 --
the SP's best showing ever. Former minister and journalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Thomas">Norman
Thomas</a> was the SP Presidential nominee 6 times between 1928
and 1948 -- his best showing being 883,000 votes (2.2%) in 1932.
The SP also elected congressmen, mayors and other officials throughout
the 20th Century (largely during the 1910s through 1950s). The
party withered and splintered so much that, by the last 1972,
it barely existed. The Democratic Socialists of American and the
Social Democrats USA -- both linked above -- are the other splinter
groups from the original Debs/Thomas SP entity. Activists from
the old SP reconstituted the party in 1976 and began to again
field SP national tickets for the first time in over two decades.
Community activist Stewart Alexander was the SPUSA President nominee
in 2012 (ballot status in 3 states - 4,430 votes - 14th place).
The party's youth wing -- the <a href="http://www.ypsl.org/">Young
People's Socialist League</a> -- has been in existence since the
early 1900s. Other SPUSA sites: <a href="http://vote-socialist.org/">Socialist
National Committee / VoteSocialist.org</a> (campaigns/candidates)
and <a href="http://socialistwebzine.blogspot.com/">The Socialist
WebZine</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.socialistaction.org/"><b>SOCIALIST ACTION</b></a> - Socialist
Action is a Trotskyist political party of "revolutionary
socialists" originally founded by expelled members of the
Socialist Workers Party. While the SA shares the SWP's pro-Castro
views, the SA still tries to retain its Trotskyist ideological
roots (versus the SWP, which has drifted away from Trotskyism
towards a more Soviet communist ideology). The SA states that
they "oppose the Democrats and Republicans, all capitalist political
parties, and all capitalist governments and their representatives
everywhere ... [and] Stalinist and neo-Stalinist regimes from
the ex-Soviet Union to China." This communist party has fielded
some local political candidates in the San Francisco Bay area
over the years, and ran its first congressional candidate in 2010
(in Connecticut). Other official sites: <a href="http://www.socialistaction.blogspot.com/">Socialist
Action Newspaper</a>, <a href="http://www.socialistaction.org/ysa.htm">Youth
for Socialist Action</a> and <a href="http://votesocialistaction.org/">VoteSocialistAction</a>.<br /><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" alt="Socialist Alternative Party" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix2/socalt.jpg" height="75" hspace="6" vspace="6" width="139" /><b><a href="http://socialistalternative.org/">SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE PARTY</a></b>
- Socialist Alternative, founded in 1986 and originally named the Labor
Militant, split from the Labor Party in the 1990s in order to pursue a
more radical leftist and anti-globalization party. The party is the US
member of the <a href="http://www.socialistworld.net/">Committee for a Workers'
International</a> (CWI), an international association of
Trotskyist political paries from nearly 50 nations. SocAlt is not as
radical as some Marxist parties, as they espouse democratic socialism
and have formed alliances of convenience with non-socialists for
political advantage. for example, the party backed Ralph Nader (Green)
for President in each of his four runs because they thought his
candidacy would help "accelerate the trend of disintigration of the
two-party system." The party wants to build a socialist mass workers
movement, and is critical of the Leninist-Stalinist historical
dictatorships as a perversion of true Marxism. The party supports a $15
national minimum wage, universal free health care, a guaranteed
$500/week minimum income for all, public ownership of major banks,
forcing bankrupt companies into public ownership, free college
education, and slashing the military budget. In a major upset in 2013, <a href="http://votesawant.org/">Kshama Sawant</a>
became the first party member to win an election when she won a seat on
the Seattle City Council -- and another candidate nearly won a seat on
the Minneapolis City Council on the same day. The party currently has
chapters in 15 states. The party also publishes a newspaper named <a href="http://socialistalternative.org/newspaper/">Socialist Alternative</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.socialequality.com/">
<b>SOCIALIST EQUALITY PARTY</b></a> - The Socialist Equality Party
(SEP) <img align="right" alt="Jerry White for President (SEP) 1996" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix/sep.jpg" height="140" hspace="3" vspace="3" width="94" />was originally named the
Workers League (WL). The WL was founded in 1966 as a Trotskyist
communist group closely associated with the electoral campaigns
of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). The goal of these Trotskyist
groups was a build a working-class labor party in the US affiliated
with the International Committee of the Fourth International (the
global Trotskyist umbrella network). They believe that "the egalitarian
and internationalist legacy of the Russian Revolution" could have
succeeded, but was "betrayed by Stalinism" and its progeny. When
the SWP drifted away from Trotskyism in the early 1980s, the WL
broke with the SWP and began fielding its own candidates. The
WL fielded its first Presidential ticket in 1984. The WL later
renamed itself as the Socialist Equality Party in 1994. The Michigan-based
SEP regularly fields Congressional and local candidates, mainly
in Michigan and Ohio. The SEP is very realistic about its candidates,
acknowledging a campaign is an opportunity to "present a socialist
alternative to the demagogy and lies of the establishment parties
and the mass media." Frequent SEP Presidential nominee Jerry White
was on the ballot in three states in 2012 and captured 1,279 votes
(21st place). The SEP's news site -- the <a href="http://www.wsws.org/">World
Socialist Web Site (WSWS)</a> -- is updated daily with articles,
analysis, history, etc., written with a hardcore internationalist,
Trotskyist perspective. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" alt="Blomen-Taylor (SLP) - 1968" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix/slp.jpg" height="95" hspace="4" vspace="4" width="95" /><a href="http://www.slp.org/"><b>SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY</b></a> - Founded in 1877,
the SLP is a militant democratic socialist party. More moderate
members of the SLP bolted to create the Socialist Party USA in
1901. The SLP ran Presidential tickets in every election between
1892 and 1976 (the SLP's final presidential candidate won 9,600
votes in the 1976 race). The high cost of fielding a Presidential
ticket and restrictive ballot access laws caused the SLP to abandon
fielding Presidential tickets after 1976, and instead concentrates
on nominating candidates for lower offices. The SLP -- which bills
itself as the party of "Marxism-DeLeonism" -- still fields a few
local candidates (mainly in New Jersey). The site features party
history, info on <a href="http://www.slp.org/De_Leon.htm">Daniel
DeLeon</a>, a Marx-Engels archive, links and more. The SLP newspaper
<a href="http://www.slp.org/tp.htm">The People</a>, first printed
in 1891, also publishes regularly updated online editions. The
SLP held its most recent national convention in 2007.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.themilitant.com/">SOCIALIST
WORKERS PARTY</a></b> - Originally<img align="right" alt="Socialist Workers Party - 1980" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix/swp.jpg" height="95" hspace="4" vspace="5" width="93" /> a pro-Trotsky faction
within the Communist Party USA, the SWP was formed in 1938 after
the CPUSA -- acting on orders from Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin
-- expelled the American Trotskyites. The SWP was for many years
the leading voice of Trotskyism in the USA. Since the 1980s, the
SWP has drifted away from Trotskyism and moved towards the brand
of authoritarian politics espoused by former Cuban leader Fidel
Castro's style of Marxism (the SWP sites calls communist Cuba
"a shining example for all workers"). The SWP has run candidates
for President in every election since 1948 -- plus many federal
and local candidates nationwide. Marxist political organizer James
Harris -- the party's three-time SWP Presidential nominee -- was
again the candidate in 2012 (ballot status in six states - 4,117
votes - 15th place). The party's weekly newspaper <a href="http://www.themilitant.com/">The
Militant</a> is the party's only online presence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://taxwallstreetparty.org/">TAX WALL STREET PARTY</a></b>
- This new progressive party, founded in 2013, seems to have adopted
the populist anti-corporate message of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The party supports a 1% sales tax on all Wall Street transactions, wants
to "nationalize" the Federal Reserve to make it more responsible to the
public, supports single-payer nationalized health care for all, and
wants a 15% protectionist tariff (tax) on all imported goods. The party
ran a canidate for NYC Mayor in 2013, and a US Senate candidate in
Nebraska in 2014. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" alt="US Pacifist Party" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix/uspp.gif" height="66" hspace="2" vspace="3" width="65" /><a href="http://www.uspacifistparty.org/"><b>U.S. PACIFIST PARTY</b></a> - This
tiny political party fielded party founder Bradford Lyttle as
a write-in candidate for President in 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2012
(and ran a US Senate candidate in Colorado in 1998). In 2008,
for the first time, Lyttle achieved ballot status in one state
(110 votes). The USPP opposes military actions in all circumstances
and wants to transform the US military into "a non-violent defense
and humanitarian service corps." The USPP platform advocates generally
left-wing political stances and slashing the military budget to
"zero." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.veteranspartyofamerica.org/"><b>VETERANS
PARTY OF AMERICA</b></a> - The <img align="right" alt="Veterans Party of America" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix1/veteransparty.jpg" height="80" width="79" />Veterans
Party was founded in 2003, but legally disolved in 2013.
In 2014, the group began a new attemp to reorganize because of their
anger over the 2013 federal government shutdown. The party explains it
was "formed when Congress chose to balance the budget by reducing the
cost of living allowance for military retirees, including those
medically retired after sustaining injuries during combat with the
enemy." The party describes itself as "moderate and inclusive." It's <a href="http://www.veteranspartyofamerica.org/#%21platform/c1ffx">platform</a> can be viewed on their website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.workersworld.net/"><b>WORKERS WORLD PARTY</b></a> - The WWP
was formed in 1959 by a pro-Chinese communist faction that split
from the Socialist Workers Party. Although the WWP theoretically
supports worker revolutions, the WWP supported the Soviet actions
that crushed worker uprisings in Hungary in the 1950s, <img align="left" alt="Griswold--Holmes (WWP) 1980" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix/wwp.jpg" height="95" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="97" />Czechoslovakia
in the 1960s and Poland in the early 1980s. The WWP was largely
an issue-oriented revolutionary party until they fielded their
first candidate for president in 1980. The militant WWP believes
that "capitalist democracy produces nothing but hot air" and that
"the power of the workers and the oppressed is in the streets,
not in Washington." FBI Director Louis Freeh attacked the WWP
in his May 2001 remarks before a US Senate committee: "Anarchists
and extremist socialist groups -- many of which, such as the Workers
World Party -- have an international presence and, at times, also
represent a potential threat in the United States" of rioting
and street violence. The more revoltionary wing of the WWP broke
away in 2006 to form the Party of Socialism & Liberation (PSL).
In 1980-2004, the WWP fielded presidential tickets. In 2008, however,
the WWP declined to field a Presidential slate and instead endorsed
Green Party nominee Cynthia McKinney. The WWP described McKinney's
campaign as "Black-led, anti-imperialist, working-class-centered
and has a multinational radical base with the potential of unlimited
growth." No WWP Presidential candidate again in 2012. Other
official site: <a href="http://www.workers.org/">Workers World</a>
(WWP news site).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="right" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix2/WFP.jpg" height="75" hspace="4" vspace="4" width="81" /><a href="http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/"><b>WORKING FAMILIES PARTY</b></a>
- The WFP, founded in 1998 by a coalition of labor unions, was
for many years a one-state party which operated only in New York.
During 2006-08, the WFP expanded by launching new chapters in
a few other states. By 2008, the WFP obtained ballot access and
nominated congressional candidates in New York, Connecticut and
Oregon. The WFP essentially operates as a "fusion" party
which co-nominates candidates of established parties. This fusion
move allows WFP candidates -- who are almost exclusively Democrats
-- to appear on a second ballot line in the same election. Fusion
"gives voters a way to 'vote their values' without spoiling
an election," explain the WFP's website. The WFP exists to
advance a pro-labor union political agenda focused almost entirely
on liberal economic and employment issues. </span></div>
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PARTY</a></b> - Founder in 2011, this new party is entirely
focused upon the issue of health care -- particularly as relates
to autism. According to the party's official history, they were
founded by "a group of parents of children who were suffering
from neurological and autoimmune disorders, and who had been active
for years in their efforts to get mainstream medicine to address
the causes of, and find treatments for, their children's poor
health, faced the realization that while they had been earnest
in their engagement of both the private medical industry and government
public health officials, the medical establishment was not working
in good faith with them." This party believes the pharmaceutical
industry -- abetted by government and medical profession silence
-- have "launched a massive and uncontrolled experiment on
a generation of Americans. In an unprecedented intervention in
human immune development, this complex has succeeded in promoting
an explosion in medical industry revenues and profits; this explosion
has been accompanied, however, by an epidemic of death, disability
and chronic disease, much of which can be traced directly to these
medical and chemical exposures." This single-issue party
wants to address these concerns with federal government action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.thecentristmovement.org/">CENTRIST
PARTY / CENTRIST MOVEMENT</a></b> - Professor
Charles Wheelan founded the Centrist Party movement in 2013, based upon
ideas espoused in his manifesto book, as a moderate "insurgency of the
rational." According to the party's website, they believe their platform
"should not be a series of muddling compromises between the two
parties; rather, it should take the best of both parties, cut loose the
tails, and build something better." The party aspires to run candidates
for US Senate, where they believe they can elect candidates by plurality
votes in three-way races in key states. By winning just a few Senate
seats, the party believes they can control the balance pf power in DC,
forcing a shift towards the ideological center between the two major
parties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dsausa.org/"><b>DEMOCRATIC
SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA</b></a> - The DSA is the official US full
<img align="left" alt="Democratic Socialists" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix/dsa.jpg" height="65" vspace="2" width="52" />member
party of the <a href="http://www.socialistinternational.org/">Socialist
International</a> (which includes UK's <a href="http://www.labour.org.uk/">Labour
Party</a>, the French <a href="http://www.parti-socialiste.fr/">Parti
Socialiste</a> and nearly 140 other political parties around the
globe). Unlike most other members of the Socialist International,
the DSA never fields candidates for office. The DSA explains their
mission as follows: "building progressive movements for social
change while establishing an openly socialist presence in American
communities and politics." Thus, the DSA is less like a traditional
US political party and much more like a political education and
grassroots activism organization. DSA, Social Democrats USA and
the Socialist Party USA each claim to be the one true heir to
the ideological legacy of Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas (and DSA
disputes the Socialist Party-USA's claim to the title arguing
it is a modern-era creation that simply appropriated the older
name of the defunct party of Debs/Thomasy). The DSA -- then named
the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) -- split
from the SD-USA in 1972 in a rift over the Vietnam War (SDUSA
supported the war and opposed McGovern for President; DSOC supported
McGovern and opposed the war). Official DSA affiliates include:
<a href="http://www.ydsusa.org/">Young Democratic Socialists</a>,
<a href="http://www.dsausa.org/dl/">Democratic Left</a> (magazine)
and <a href="http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/">DSA Labor Network</a>.
<i>(Note: The Social Democrats of Pennsylvania claim to be the
DSA state affiliate -- but DSA National Director Frank Llewellyn
emailed Politics1: "There has never been a Pennsylvania state
affiliate of DSA. An individual in Pennsylvania, for his own purposes,
has spread this fantasy on several web sites.")</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img align="left" alt="Pansexual Peace Party" border="0" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix1/ppp.jpg" height="75" hspace="6" vspace="3" width="107" /><a href="http://www.freewebs.com/pansexualppp/"><b>PANSEXUAL PEACE PARTY</b></a>
- The PPP is a generally left-wing party that has yet to field
any candidates -- they don't take themselves too seriously --
and, oh yeah, and the PPP is founded on Wiccan (i.e., witchcraft)
roots. Check out the PPP platform plank on sexual issues, which
carries the title: <i>"Sex is Good! Sex is Great! Yea, Sex!"</i>
The PPP site also contains a short but harsh anti-libertarian
essay. To date, the PPP's political activities seem confined to
printing some PPP t-shirts and bumper stickers. Jimi Freidenker
is the founder and "Chairentity" of the PPP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.refuseandresist.org/"></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.workersparty.org/"><b>WORKERS PARTY, USA</b></a> - The WP-USA
is a hardcore Marxist-Leninist political party founded in 1992
by the late Michael Thorburn. The party was established to "bring
the working class out as an independent class force." The WP-USA
shares much of the CPUSA's ideology. While the WP-USA has yet
to field any candidates, the Chicago-based party publishes a bi-weekly
newspaper named <i>The Worker</i> and a quarterly theoretical
journal named -- not surprisingly -- <i>The Worker Magazine</i>.
The WP-USA site features an extensive on-line archive of dogmatic
screeds largely denouncing "monopoly capitalists," Western imperialism,
the USA, etc. -- and praising the working class and "revolutionary
politics." Thorburn's <a href="http://www.anti-imperialist.org/">Anti-Imperialist
News Service</a> ("assisting the people's struggles against war
and militarism") is also affiliated with the WP-USA.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/"><b>WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY OF THE
USA</b></a> - The WSP-USA are seemingly utopian Marxists. They
believe true socialism can only work when it is established worldwide.<img align="right" alt="World Socialist Party USA" src="http://www.politics1.com/pix2/World-Soc.jpg" height="80" hspace="4" vspace="4" width="80" />
They renounce violence, Soviet-style totalitarianism, money and
all forms of leadership. They advocate a classless, "wageless,
moneyless, free access society" without any national borders.
They don't run candidates nor endorse other socialist or left
candidates as they believe a vote for ANY candidate under the
current system is a vote in support of capitalism. Understanding
that world socialism "has clearly not yet been established," they
believe that "democratically capturing the State through parliamentary
elections is the safest, surest method for the working class to
enable itself to establish socialism" -- although they have yet
to field any US candidates in the period to date since the international
WSP was founded in 1904. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-large;"><b>Fluoride: <br />A statement of concern</b></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;">
<br /><i>by Paul Connett, Ph. D. </i></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">January 2000</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />Introduction.</span></b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibEEUCfi1oFTganH_IcvP2YUmvHegXs-JHM8C15i6vC9thixYQvTWVKJ2LTtdXl7WloLPRZTK697oO12VNoVtzEoBwf1TECI9WsG-VGUVBHIP5IBsMTyltke7t5AFjIua0-BcHAXBC2TR/s1600/QuestionAuthority.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />1.<b><span style="color: red;"> I have been researching the literature on
fluoride for just over three years. I approached this issue with an open mind.
If I had any bias when I set out it was that those who were opposed to
fluoridation were `crackpots'.</span></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Tahoma;"><b>1</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />2. <span style="color: blue;"><b>However, the more I have read the more
concerned I have become over the dangers posed by fluoride and the very poor
science underpinning its su</b></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Tahoma;"><b>http://</b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Tahoma;"><b>pposed efficacy in protecting children's teeth</b></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">. How
we ever allowed such a toxic substance into the drinking water is staggering.
Even though fluoride's toxicity is rated higher than lead, the US Environmental
Protection Agency's (EPA) maximum contaminant level for lead in water is 15 ppb
(parts per billion) whereas the level allowed for fluoride is 4,000 ppb. The
recommended level for artificial fluoridation of the drinking water of 1 part
per million (1 ppm = 1,000 ppb) was established in 1945, and it hasn't been
changed since, even though today we (and our children) are getting fluoride from
many other additional sources, including toothpaste, other dental products,
mouthwashes, processed food, some vitamin tablets, and beverages.</span><br />
<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Tahoma;">The benefits to teeth are questionable.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />3<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".1">. </a><b>The key initial studies
which purported to show that fluoride was a benefit to teeth</b>, conducted in Grand
Rapids, Michigan (1945), Newburgh, New York (1945), Evanston, Illinois (1947),
and Brantford, Ontario, Canada (1945), <b>were of a very dubious scientific
quality. This is fully and thoroughly documented by Dr. Philip Sutton in his
book, "<i>The Greatest Fraud: Fluoridation</i>" </b>(1). While the science was
dubious, the confidence of the US Public Health Service (PHS) was enormous. In
April 1951, before any single fluoridation trial had been completed, the US
Surgeon General, Leonard Scheele, was telling a Senate Subcommittee on
Appropriations, "During the past year our studies progressed to the point
where we could announce an unqualified endorsement of the fluoridation of the
public water supplies as a mass procedure for reducing tooth decay by two
thirds" (2). Subsequent Surgeon Generals have continued to act as
cheerleaders for this procedure. Their passionate promotion bears little
relation to the quality of the science involved in fluoridation, either to its
efficacy or to its safety. Another Surgeon General, Thomas Parran, stated,
"I consider water fluoridation to be the greatest single advance in dental
health made in our generation" (3). Such an opinion sharply contrasts with
that of<b> former US EPA scientist, Dr. Robert Carton, who after he examined the
evidence declared,</b> "<b><span style="color: blue;">Fluoridation is a scientific fraud, probably the
greatest fraud of the century" (4).</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><b><span style="color: red;">4</span></b>. According to Dr. John Lee, a bone specialist
from California, "Certain crucial errors common to fluoride studies that
claim benefit have been identified and, when applied to any or all fluoridation
trials claiming to prove benefit, are sufficient to nullify them.<span style="color: red;"> <b>I challenge
fluoridationists to find just one trial that can stand a critical review in the
light of the errors I describe. If they cannot, they should use their authority
to help rid our water supply of this useless toxin</b>"</span> (5).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /><br /><br />5. Lee continues, "It is important to
understand that in health matters, everything is interrelated and
multifactorial. This presents a challenge to all health research: the factor
being studied is just one factor among many that may confound the study. If the
other factors can not be held constant (or their presence be kept equal in all
groups being observed), the role of the single factor being studied can be
confused... In the case of dental caries, the various factors include oral sugar
and other fermentable carbohydrates, lysine and other amino acids, calcium and
other minerals, vitamins, fiber, saliva flow and oral pH, dental hygiene,
sunlight, genetic or constitutional factors, immune factors, use of antibiotics
which may inhibit plague bacteria and others" (5). <b><span style="color: blue;">Lee lists the
statistical misinterpretations common to the "fluoridation trials": a)
using "percent reductions" instead of "rate of change" of
decay; b) selection bias; and c) outright fudging of the data (5)</span></b>.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5qtkX_N17E-C8WqLof8hD-kSh5N_KR6D9y5e2XEiWKul0vpF-PXRqWqFZk_DAWrKQHuUoBS2QttCDOC4OyCFhV5nGHpnYHoydGRrxYiPuDFhmVopHcLHztEtyZRSrUAMV0mFf4OOd9xK_/s1600/fluoride2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><b><span style="color: red;"><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".2">6. </a>Why were these early studies
so poorly designed</span>?</b> In some cases it may simply have been the result of
over-zealous promotion. For example, in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, study the
control city was dropped six years into the study, supposedly because they
wanted the children in this city to get the benefits as well. In the case of
Hastings, New Zealand, this study was unmistakably fraudulent. Here the control
city of Napier was dropped after only two years and the method of diagnosing
tooth decay was changed during the course of the study, which quite artificially
inflated the drop in decay. This change in diagnosis was made without this being
stated in the final report (6). I am not aware of any double blind examination
to investigate the efficacy of water fluoridation (i.e. one in which neither
investigator nor subject is aware of which subjects have been exposed and which
have not).</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8qDU8jTI3Fb9BBswZjfcPmZXUbUL8XTXPJLVTyxMhyBafuXzTiP2_uGDt55moYojKgSEt0zdgWEYm2XAnKcWYLFfJdUhTS82M4S7l1ELCrAPB8TQpfu-yzre16KcPiHKXziw9FQ8Q0QNT/s1600/fluoride4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><br />7. Meanwhile, considerable evidence has
accumulated that the state of children's permanent teeth in non-fluoridated
communities, as measured by their DMFT (decayed, missing and filled teeth)
values, is just as good as (if not better than) those in fluoridated
communities.</b></span> For example, in 1995 the teeth of the children in fluoridated </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Newburgh were again compared to those in still unfluoridated Kingston (this
study started in 1945) and there was little difference in the DMFT values across
the 7-14 years age range. If an average is taken the children in unfluoridated
Kingston had slightly better DMFT values. However, there was one big difference:</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Tahoma;"><b>
the average levels of dental fluorosis was about twice as high in fluoridated
Newburgh as it was in unfluoridated Kingston</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />(8).<span style="color: blue;"><b> Dental fluorosis is a mottling
of the teeth. In its mildest form it consists of white patches or streaks. As
the severity increases the color of the patches changes from white to yellow, to
orange and then to brown. In its severest form dental fluorosis results in loss
of tooth enamel and extreme brittleness.</b></span> <br />The only known cause of dental
fluorosis is exposure to fluoride and the rates are increasing. The argument
used by the pro-fluoride authors of the Newburgh-Kingston study is that the
improvement in DMFTs in non-fluoridated Kingston is due to exposure to fluoride
from other sources: fluoridated toothpaste, beverages and processed food. If we
accept this argument at face value then it completely undermines the need to add
fluoride to the drinking water since a better result (i.e. slightly better DMFTs
and less dental fluorosis) was achieved in Kingston without fluoridation.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8qDU8jTI3Fb9BBswZjfcPmZXUbUL8XTXPJLVTyxMhyBafuXzTiP2_uGDt55moYojKgSEt0zdgWEYm2XAnKcWYLFfJdUhTS82M4S7l1ELCrAPB8TQpfu-yzre16KcPiHKXziw9FQ8Q0QNT/s1600/fluoride4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8qDU8jTI3Fb9BBswZjfcPmZXUbUL8XTXPJLVTyxMhyBafuXzTiP2_uGDt55moYojKgSEt0zdgWEYm2XAnKcWYLFfJdUhTS82M4S7l1ELCrAPB8TQpfu-yzre16KcPiHKXziw9FQ8Q0QNT/s1600/fluoride4.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">8. In 1986-87 a survey was conducted by the
National Institute for Dental Research (NIDR) at a cost of $3.6 million to the
US taxpayer. The raw data from this study had to be pried out of this
institution by Dr. John Yiamouyiannis using the Freedom of Information Act. From
this data he was able to show that there was little difference in the DMFT
values for approximately 40,000 children, whether they grew up in fluoridated,
non-fluoridated or partially fluoridated communities (8). Pro-fluoridationists
have argued that this data (or a sub-set of it) indicates 25% lower DMFT in
fluoridated communities. Even if we take this argument at face value, with
current DMFT values (about 2.0 or less) this represents less than half a tooth.
Hardly an achievement to compensate for the increase in dental fluorosis which
goes hand in hand with the measure and possibly other more serious health
effects discussed below. According to Dr. Hardy Limeback, the Head of Preventive
Dentistry at the University of Toronto, fluoridation of water, "has
contributed to the birth of a multi-billion dollar industry of tooth bleaching
and cosmetic dentistry.<span style="color: red;"><b> More money is being spent now on the treatment of dental
fluorosis than what would be spent on dental decay if water fluoridation were
halted"</b></span> <br /><br />(9). </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".3" style="font-family: Tahoma;">9. </a><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Another large and important
study was carried out in New Zealand. What makes this work important is that
under the New Zealand National Health Service plan every child between the ages
of 12 and 13 years has his or her teeth examined, so here we are looking at a
complete set of data, not a selected sample. Again,</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Tahoma;"><b> it was found that the teeth
of children in non-fluoridated cities were slightly better than those in the
fluoridated cities, and again the levels of dental fluorosis was much higher in
the fluoridated cities (10).</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />1<b><span style="color: red;">0. In Europe, where nearly all the countries
remain unfluoridated, the average DMFTs for the children are actually lower
(i.e. better) than those for children in the US. </span></b>Moreover, Ireland, the only
country in Europe with significant fluoridation (about 73% of the population
drink fluoridated water), rates sixth in a table of national average DMFTs in
Europe (11).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />11. How can this be? People in the US have been
told again and again that children drinking fluoridated water have far better
teeth than those who don't. What explains this conflict between claim and
reality? W<span style="color: blue;"><b>hat emerges from impartial study is that the quality of children's
teeth in industrialized countries has been steadily improving from the 1930s to
the 1990s, independent of whether fluoride has been added to the water supply or
not.</b></span> Thus, unless a control community was chosen extremely carefully–which
they were not–improvements were erroneously assigned to fluoride addition
rather than to the overall improvement that was taking place in both fluoridated
and non-fluoridated communities.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />12. Proponents of water fluoridation argue that
these overall improvements in children's teeth in non-flouridated communities
have been caused by the introduction of fluoridized toothpaste and other sources
(see paragraph 7). However, these improvements (i.e. lower DMFT scores) occurred
before the introduction of fluoridized toothpaste and other dental products, and
they have continued long after the supposed benefits of both the use of water
fluoridation and dental products would have been maximized (12,13). John
Colquhoun, using a simple but very elegant graph <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/figure1.htm">(see
Figure)</a>, has shown that there has been little change in the steady downward
movement in DMFTs over the period 1930-1990 in New Zealand's 5-year olds as a
consequence of the addition of fluoride or the introduction of fluoridized
toothpaste (14). As Lee observes, "A decline in the rate of decay rates
after fluoridation is relatively meaningless unless one knows the rate of change
prior to fluoridation" (5).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".4">13. </a>John Colquhoun's work is
both revealing and inspiring. In the 1960's and 1970's in New Zealand as both
local councilor and Principal Dental Officer for the city of Auckland (New
Zealand's largest city) he had been an avid promoter of fluoridation. He was so
successful in fact that in 1980 he was asked by his superiors to take a 4-month
sabbatical and tour the world in order to collect supporting evidence for the
efficacy of water fluoridation. He did so. He visited Australia, the US, Canada,
the UK, and several other countries in Europe and Asia. From talking behind the
scenes with dental researchers he found, to his chagrin, that the evidence was
not there. When he returned to New Zealand and examined the national statistics
the evidence was not there either. He might have left the issue to rest at this
point had it not been for the fact that his colleagues were discovering high
levels of dental fluorosis in the fluoridated cities. He had the courage to
change his mind on the issue and began publicly working for a halt to
fluoridation. His position is well summarized in his paper, "Why I Changed
My Mind on Fluoridation" (14). He later joined Mark Diesendorf and several
other authors, including a former Minister of Health from Australia, to write
another important paper, "New Evidence on Fluoridation" (15).</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibEEUCfi1oFTganH_IcvP2YUmvHegXs-JHM8C15i6vC9thixYQvTWVKJ2LTtdXl7WloLPRZTK697oO12VNoVtzEoBwf1TECI9WsG-VGUVBHIP5IBsMTyltke7t5AFjIua0-BcHAXBC2TR/s1600/QuestionAuthority.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibEEUCfi1oFTganH_IcvP2YUmvHegXs-JHM8C15i6vC9thixYQvTWVKJ2LTtdXl7WloLPRZTK697oO12VNoVtzEoBwf1TECI9WsG-VGUVBHIP5IBsMTyltke7t5AFjIua0-BcHAXBC2TR/s1600/QuestionAuthority.gif" /></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">14. In May 1998, I had the privilege of making a
videotaped interview with Dr. Colquhoun in his Auckland home less than a year
before he died. Seldom have I been so impressed with the integrity of anyone as
I was with Dr. Colquhoun. I simply cannot believe that any dentist or scientist
who watches this taped interview with an open mind could continue to promote
fluoridation. (This taped interview can be obtained from GG Video, 82 Judson
Street, Canton, NY 13617).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />15. Some of the reasons offered for the decline
in tooth decay have included: a) a better standard of living; b) better
education; c) better dental hygiene; d) more refrigeration; e) more fresh fruits
and vegetables in diet; f) more cheese in diet; g) exposure to antibiotics in
processed food; and h) less exposure to environmental lead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />16. The theory behind fluoride's purported
benefit to teeth is that the fluoride ion displaces the hydroxide ion from the
calcium hydroxyapatite in the tooth enamel, forming the substance calcium
fluorapatite, which is more resistant to acid attack. A second suggestion is
that fluoride kills some of the decay causing bacteria in the mouth by poisoning
their enzymes<b> </b>(16). However, these mechanisms pose three huge questions,
which have plagued this matter for over 50 years.</span><br />
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enzymes in the oral bacteria, without poisoning some of the enzymes in
the rest of the body? Nearly every single chemical reaction in the
body is steered by enzymes (enzymes are biological catalysts).</span>
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">2) As far as the tooth is concerned,
can you strengthen the enamel on the outside of the tooth without
damaging the tooth cells on the inside? In other words, will chemical
intervention with the enamel on the surface of the tooth be
accompanied by biological interference with the enzymes which lay down
that enamel?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">3) What will this constant exposure to
fluoride do to our bones? They, too, contain calcium hydroxyapatite.
Will the formation of calcium fluorapatite in our bones make them more
or less vulnerable to fracture? Does fluoride poison the enzymes
involved in bone growth and turnover? Are there any other ways
fluoride could damage bone growth and structure?</span></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Some of these questions will be addressed below.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />17. <span style="color: red;"><b>The large increase in dental fluorosis in
both fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities testifies to the fact that an
unacceptably high number of children are now being overdosed on fluoride. In a
NIDR study of nearly 40,000 children in the US it was found that the incidence
of dental fluorosis increased in a dose-related fashion with the level of
fluoride in the drinking water. It was found that</b></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">at less than 0.3 ppm, 13.5% of the
children had dental fluorosis,</span>
</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">between 0.3 to 0.7 ppm, 21.7% had
fluorosis,</span>
</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">between 0.7 to 1.2 ppm, 29.9 % had
fluorosis,</span>
</b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: Tahoma;"><b>and above 1.2 ppm, 41.4 % had
fluorosis.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".5">It </a>was also found that each
category of severity (based on Dean's classification) increased in a similar
dose related fashion (17). Putting these numbers into perspective, it means that
for every three children who might have their tooth enamel strengthened by the
addition of fluoride to drinking water at 0.7 to 1.2 ppm, approximately one
child will have its tooth enamel damaged by dental fluorosis.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh09DBdgMvnIzCH6Oh5335OCjyUzNl7ibUjZbt76hWNRE65dDX5GkvbcsqfrBlRIUP8yF2OqcV0GF1pHVn51ujgn5DBRD1ZiDyaibt-_Z9fik3uOYVhq2XahMQvEbiyMOncjxloBLoJ38et/s1600/fluoride5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh09DBdgMvnIzCH6Oh5335OCjyUzNl7ibUjZbt76hWNRE65dDX5GkvbcsqfrBlRIUP8yF2OqcV0GF1pHVn51ujgn5DBRD1ZiDyaibt-_Z9fik3uOYVhq2XahMQvEbiyMOncjxloBLoJ38et/s1600/fluoride5.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">18. Moreover, the fact that children today are
getting dental fluorosis in non-fluoridated areas means other exposures to
fluoride can also cause this same damage. Pendrys et al (18) have shown that
there is a significant difference in the incidence of dental fluorosis in
non-fluoridated areas, between children who brush their teeth twice a day with
fluoridated toothpaste and those who brush just once a day. Thus, in conjunction
with efforts to eliminate fluoridation of the drinking water, a major effort has
to be made to force toothpaste manufacturers to make available non-fluoridated
versions of each of their major brands. In Canada, there is a non-fluoridated
version of Pepsodent, and Boots, the largest chain of pharmacies in the UK, also
has a brand which contains no fluoride. In the US, one usually has to go to
health food stores or to catalogs to find a brand without fluoride.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />19. To argue that dental fluorosis is merely a
"cosmetic effect," as some US government agencies do, is a blatant
example of "linguistic detoxification" (19). In actual fact,<span style="color: blue;"> <b>dental
fluorosis indicates that fluoride has interfered with the enzymes laying down
the tooth enamel.</b></span> Thus dental fluorosis is the visible flag of fluoride's
toxicity. This observation should raise the question, what other enzymes and
processes in the body are being affected by fluoride for which we do not have a
visible flag? Up until 1983 dental fluorosis was defined as an adverse health
effect due to overexposure to fluoride.<b> </b>It was redefined as a
"cosmetic effect" to accommodate the US EPA's Recommended Maximum
Contaminant Level [RMCL] of 4 .0 mg/L for fluoride in drinking water. According
to Bette Hileman,</span><br />
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"prevent known or anticipated adverse health effects with an
adequate margin of safety... A special committee convened by the
Surgeon General in 1983 to guide EPA in setting its fluoride standard
wrote in the first draft of its report that moderate to severe dental
fluorosis per se is a health effect. The second draft, presented to
the Surgeon General in September 1983, said that moderate to severe
dental fluorosis is only a cosmetic effect–the position long held by
political advocates of fluoridation. This rationale allowed EPA to
ignore dental fluorosis in setting the RMCL for fluoride" (20, p
34).</span></em></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />20. <b><span style="color: red;">Many researchers now agree that fluoride's
benefits (if they exist) come largely from topical application and not from
systemic exposure (i.e. ingestion) </span></b>(21). Despite this recognition of the primacy
of topical application, and the knowledge of a marked increase in dental
fluorosis, there are still many doctors who are prescribing fluoride tablets for
pregnant women and young babies, i.e. before the baby's teeth have erupted.
Another concern is that women who bottle feed their babies and who live in
fluoridated communities are not being adequately warned that they should be
using non-fluoridated bottled water, not tap water, to make up the formula.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".6">21. </a>Underlining the concerns in
paragraph 20, is the fact that fluoride levels in mothers' milk is naturally
very low, averaging approximately 0.01 ppm (22, p 301), which is one hundred
times lower than fluoridated tap water. Even when the mother herself is drinking
fluoridated water, very little of it gets passed on in her breast milk. One has
to wonder then, if fluoride is necessary for healthy tooth development, how it
was that God (or evolutionary forces) "failed" in this important
development by limiting the supply of fluoride to the newly born baby. Why is it
that human milk provides the baby with such low levels of fluoride if much
higher levels are deemed necessary for healthy teeth? Who is correct:
"God" or the US Public Health Service?</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Tahoma;"><b>The threat to our bones.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />22. If we now turn from teeth to bones, it is
shocking to see how little investigation of the long term effect of fluoride on
bones has been undertaken. For example, there has been no comprehensive attempt
to determine the levels of fluoride in the bones of people living in the US.
This, despite the fact that we know the following:</span><br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">1) fluoridation has continued for over 50
years;</span></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="color: red; font-family: Tahoma;"><b>2) approximately half of the fluoride we
ingest each day is deposited in our bones;</b></span></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">3) there is a steady accumulation of fluoride
in our bones over our lifetime;</span></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">4) serious bone diseases have occurred to
people with excessive exposure, especially in workers in the aluminum industry
and in areas of countries like India and China; and</span></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">5) we are being exposed to more sources of
fluoride today than we were in the 1940s and 1950s.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".7">By</a> now, if American health
authorities had done their job properly we should have had a wealth of data. We
should know the bone levels as a function of many variables: location,
fluoridation, hardness of water supply, diet, disease status, smoking, etc. We
have practically nothing. Instead, when American agencies consider what levels
may cause bone damage they go back to studies carried out with cryolite (the
mineral used in the smelting of aluminum) workers in Denmark in 1937. Even
though Kaj Roholm's study is a classic (23), it should not substitute today for
a comprehensive study of the bones of the American people. According to a 1993
report from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR),</span><br />
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<td width="90%"><em><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><b style="color: blue;">"Fluoride is found
in all bone, with the concentration depending on total fluoride
exposure. The amount varies among different bones. Levels of fluoride
in human bone are generally determined by biopsy of the iliac crest
bone, and are generally reported as ppm of bone ash. Normal bone
contains 500-1,000 ppm fluoride... Bone from people with preclinical
skeletal fluorosis... contains 3,500-5,500 ppm... The fluoride
concentration in bone increases with age. </b>In a group of five people
ages 64-85 who had lived for at least 10 years in an area with water
containing 1 ppm fluoride, the average fluoride concentration of the
iliac crest bone was 2,250 ppm of bone ash" (24, pp. 53-54).</span></em></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">It is extraordinary to me that a leading US
agency should be relying on measurements made on "five people"<span style="color: red;"><b>. The
sad truth of the matter is that the US PHS has spent many more millions of
dollars promoting fluoridation than it has on investigating the effect that
fluoridation has had on the American people.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />23. Belatedly, an investigation has been carried
out comparing the fluoride levels in the iliac crest bone in citizens in
Montreal (non-fluoridated) and Toronto (fluoridated). The initial results of
this study by Dr. Limeback and colleagues have been reported to the annual
meeting of the International Association for Dental Research in 1999. These
results indicate that the levels are about twice as high in the bones of the
Toronto residents. This is a disturbing finding, since Toronto was only
fluoridated in 1963. We have yet to have any human being on this planet exposed
to artificially fluoridated water for a lifetime. We have little idea what
levels of fluoride will be in the bones of someone who lives into their 60s,
70s, 80s or 90s who has had lifetime exposure to fluoridated water as well as
all the other sources we are exposed to today. It is incredible that despite the
importance of this Canadian study its funding has been discontinued. If
governmental authorities in fluoridated countries wish to retain any semblance
of credibility on this issue, these type of studies need to be carried out with
greater intensity, not less. The fear is that the increases in dental fluorosis
in our children today may foreshadow the damage to their bones that will come in
the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".8">24. </a>Meanwhile, there are
numerous studies in the published literature (four published in the Journal of
the American Medical Association alone) which demonstrate an association between
water fluoridation, or naturally occurring fluoride, and increased hip fractures
in the elderly, particularly women who were exposed to fluoride prior to
menopause (25-30). In 1993 the ATSDR made the following comment on the published
studies on hip fractures:</span><br />
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evidence from these experiments suggests that fluoride added to water
can increase the risk of hip fractures in both elderly women and
men... If this effect is confirmed, it would mean that hip fracture in
the elderly replaces dental fluorosis in children as the most
sensitive endpoint of fluoride exposure" (24, pp. 56-57).</b></span></em></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Yet another study (this one from Finland) has
just been published which demonstrates a correlation between increased hip
fracture rates in elderly women and naturally occurring fluoride (31). While
there are other smaller studies which have not found this correlation (32-34),
and some critics have stressed the weaknesses inherent in the
"ecological" methodology used (study group and control are
distinguished by geographical location and not by the actual doses received by
individuals), the weight of evidence indicates an association between hip
fracture and exposure to fluoride. Does it make sense to protect our teeth
(possibly) when we are young, and then break our bones (possibly) when we are
old? By whom should such a trade-off be made? This is not a trivial issue.
According to Harold Slavkin, Director of the National Institute of Dental and
Cranofacial Research (formerly the NIDR), "About one-half of the people
with hip fractures end up in nursing homes, and in the year following the
fracture, 20 per cent of them die" (35).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />25. Another set of findings which has been
outrageously downplayed in my view is a possible association between water
fluoridation (or fluoride exposure) and osteosarcoma (bone cancer) in <b>young
males</b>. Of particular interest in this matter is a little known comment which
was made by an early reviewer of the medical examinations of the children
studied during the Newburgh-Kingston fluoridation trial (36). This comment was
picked up by the authors of a National Academy of Sciences report in 1977, and
further amplified<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".9">:</a></span><br />
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<td width="90%"><em><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">"There was an
observation in the Kingston-Newburgh (Ast et al, 1956) study that was
considered spurious and has never been followed up. There was a 13.5%
incidence of cortical defects in bone in the fluoridated community but
only 7.5% in the non-fluoridated community... Caffey (1955) noted that
the age, sex, and anatomical distribution of these bone defects are
`strikingly' similar to that of osteogenic sarcoma. While progression
of cortical defects to malignancies has not been observed clinically,
it would be important to have direct evidence that osteogenic sarcoma
rates in <b>males under 30</b> have not increased with
fluoridation" (my emphasis) (37).</span></em></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />26. Surely, if objective government scientists
had been aware of this concern or prediction, they might have taken far more
seriously the studies that followed. For example, in 1990 the National
Toxicology Program (NTP) published the results of a 2-year study of rats and
mice treated with fluoride in their drinking water performed by scientists at
Battelle laboratories (38). Even though a peer review of this Battelle study
removed some of the other cancers found (erroneously according to Dr. William
Marcus at the US EPA) (39), it still showed a dose-related increase in
osteosarcoma in the <b>male</b> but not the female rats. Rather than taking this
result as a serious red flag, government scientists seemed to have done
everything they could to downplay it. According to Dr. William Marcus, who was
the senior scientist at US EPA's Office of Drinking Water in 1990, the NTP
studies done by Battelle</span><br />
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<td width="90%"><em><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">"showed that there
was an increased level of bone cancer and other kinds of cancer in the
animals. When I got a hold of the contractor report and reviewed it
very carefully and not only was it reporting cancers in the animals,
osteosarcomas, which bothered me a lot because I've been trying to
produce osteosarcomas in animals for almost 20 years and the only luck
I ever had was with an experiment in dogs and monkeys and the
osteosarcomas took nearly the lifetime of the animals and we were
using radium which specifically produces that in bones and here we
have a compound commonly available (fluoride) that did it in rats in
two years or less. That was upsetting to begin with. Secondarily,
there was a study of, in that same study, there were cancers of the
liver that are very rare according to the board certified veterinary
pathologist at the contractor, Battelle, and those really were very
upsetting because they were hepatocholangiocar-cinoma, a very rare,
rare, liver cancer and when that occurs, something similar to that
occurred with vinyl chloride in a far less well conducted study and it
was determined that it was carcinogenic, highly carcinogenic. Then
there were several other kinds of cancers found in the jaw and other
places and I felt at the time that the report was very, very
interesting. It showed that the levels of the fluoride that caused the
cancers in the animals were actually lower than those levels seen in
people who are ingesting lower amounts but for longer periods of time
and that was very very worrisome. It meant that the general population
could be exposed to fluoride known to cause cancer in animals and have
levels near the cancer being produced in the bones... I went to a
meeting that was held in Research Triangle Park in April 1990, the
latter part of April, in which the NTP was presenting their review of
the study and I went with several colleagues of mine one of whom was a
board certified veterinary pathologist who had originally reported
hepatocholangiocarcinoma as a separate entity in rats and mice and I
asked him if he would have an opportunity to look at the slides to see
if that really was a tumor or the pathologist at Battelle had made an
error and he told me after looking at the slide that in fact it was
correct and at the meeting every one of the cancers that was reported
by the contractor had been down-graded by the NTP. Now I've been in
the toxicology business looking at studies of this nature for nearly
25 years and I've never seen that, never ever seen where every single
endpoint that was a cancer endpoint had been down-graded</span></em><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".10"><em>.</em></a><em>
I'd seen one or two endpoints argued over, usually on a definition
what is a cancer in that particular tissue but I've never seen every
one of them down-graded. I found that very suspicious and I went to
see an investigator in the Congress at the suggestion of my friend Bob
Carton and this gentleman and his staff investigated very thoroughly
and found out that the scientists at the NTP down at Research Triangle
Park had been coerced to change their findings." (40)</em></span></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Some said the results were equivocal. Others
said the doses were so high that they weren't relevant, and yet it is standard
toxicological practice to treat a small group of animals to a large dose of a
toxicant if you are to have a statistical chance of observing any change in the
small sample size. The alternative is to treat a very large number of animals to
a lower dose, which is prohibitively expensive. The National Research Council
(NRC) in a 1993 report (41) described the result as follows: "The equivocal
result of osteosarcoma in male rats was not supported by results in females in
the same study" (page 122). This is an extraordinary statement in the
context of the concerns raised by the NAS in 1977 (see paragraph 25) because it
is precisely the result the authors had feared. The NRC further downplayed the
result based upon a study by Proctor and Gamble (42) (hardly a disinterested
party in these matters) which hadn't found any osteosarcomas in their rat
studies (they had found osteomas in mice, but they were considered not important
because they were non-malignant). Dr. John Yiamouyiannis used the Freedom of
Information Act to take a closer look at the P&G studies and found that they
had found cancers in their rats as well as lesions which could lead to cancers
(43).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />27. A suspicious person might wonder if the US
government was maneuvering around the Delaney Clause, which was operating at
that time. This clause introduced by Congressman Delaney required that no
chemical found to cause cancer in animal studies be added to food. Thus, if a
link had been found between fluoride and cancer in these animal studies it would
have scuttled the whole fluoridation program then and there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />28. In 1992, a report was published by the New
Jersey Department of Health (44) which indicated that in three fluoridated
counties in NJ, there was a seven-fold increase in osteosarcomas in <b>young
males</b>, compared to non-fluoridated counties. There was no increase in the
females. Again, this is precisely the result feared/anticipated by the NAS
commentators in 1977.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />29<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".11">.</a> In an earlier national
survey under the SEER program (45) increases in osteosarcomas in <b>young males</b>
were further correlated with fluoridation in two other states. However, a study
in New York, published in 1991, had not found any increase they could relate to
water fluoridation (46). Three other studies have failed to find a relationship
between bone cancer rates and fluoridation. These are discussed by Dr. John
Yiamouyiannis in an excellent review of the osteosarcoma data for the journal
Fluoride (43). Dr. Yiamouyiannis has pursued the fluoride-cancer connection more
thoroughly than any other scientist alive. For some, the positive and negative
results on osteosarcoma incidence in fluoridated communities neatly cancel one
another out. For me this is too serious an issue to be so lightly dismissed. In
an interview I had with the late Dr. John Colquhoun he posed the question:
"How many cavities would have to be saved to justify the death of one young
man from osteosarcoma?" (Video interview identified in paragraph 14).</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Fluoride's impact on enzymes, soft tissues,
the endocrine system, and the brain.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />30. Some of the earliest opponents of
fluoridation were biochemists. One of those early opponents was one of the
world's leading authorities on enzyme chemistry, Nobel laureate Dr. James Sumner
at Cornell University. He said:</span><br />
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slowly. Everybody knows fluorine and fluorides are very poisonous
substances...We use them in enzyme chemistry to poison enzymes, those
vital agents in the body. That is the reason things are poisoned;
because the enzymes are poisoned and that is why animals and plants
die."</span></em></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />31. Dr. James Sumner was one of at least 12
Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry and Medicine, who have either opposed
fluoridation or expressed reservations about it. These include Giulio Natta
(1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), Nikolai Semenov (Chemistry, 1956), Sir Cyril
Norman Hinshelwood (Chemistry, 1956), Hugo Theorell (Medicine, 1955), Walter
Rudolf Hess (Medicine, 1949), Sir Robert Robinson (Chemistry, 1947), James B.
Sumner (Chemistry, 1946), Artturi Virtanen (Chemistry, 1945), Adolf Butenandt
(Chemistry, 1939), Corneille Jean-François Heymans (Medicine, 1938), William P.
Murphy (Medicine, 1934), and Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Chemistry, 1929). This
listing makes absurd the ADA's claim that there is "no scientific
debate" over this issue and that the only people who oppose it are
`crackpots'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />32<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".12">. </a>It is known that many
enzymes are inhibited (poisoned) in test tubes (in vitro) at the levels at which
water is fluoridated (1 ppm) or less<b> </b><a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-statement.htm#47.">(47).
</a>One early explanation given for these observations was that many of the
enzymes inhibited had magnesium ion as a co-factor, and that the fluoride ion
interfered with the enzyme's interaction with the magnesium. A second
explanation from Dr. John Emsley throws more light on how the "humble"
fluoride ion, which is inert from a chemical point of view, can be so active and
so toxic from a biological point of view.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />33. In an article published in the Journal of
the American Chemical Society in 1981, Emsley (48) and co-workers showed that
fluoride could form a strong hydrogen bond with the amide function. This
particular function appears throughout proteins and nucleic acids. The hydrogen
bond is the "velcro strip" of biology. It is a weak bond compared to
regular chemical bonds (ionic and covalent), but when they act in consort they
are able to provide the shape of vitally important molecules and in
biochemistry, shape is exquisitely tied to function. Like the velcro strip when
the shape has to be changed in some important maneuver, like the opening of the
two DNA chains or the interaction between an enzyme and its substrate (the
chemical changed by the enzyme), these bonds can easily be broken and reformed
with little energy input. Thus, fluoride's interference with hydrogen bonds
could cause all sorts of problems at the very heart of biological functioning.
The counter-argument from those promoting fluoridation is that at 1 ppm fluoride
in our drinking water, fluoride would not reach these concentrations in the soft
tissues. Such statements are usually accompanied with a reference to the father
of toxicology, Paracelsus, who said, " 'tis the dose that makes the
poison." While this ancient observation remains valid to this day the
argument that a concentration of 1 ppm for fluoride (i.e. 1,000 parts per
billion) is "harmless" is extremely arrogant, and I define arrogance
as ignorance backed with over-confidence. We should note that today we are
concerned about very much lower levels of lead in childrens' blood than we were
in the late 1970s. Scientists and government officials were wrong about lead
then, could they be wrong about what constitutes a safe level of fluoride now?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />34<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".13">. </a>It is interesting to note
what the Swedish Nobel Prize winner Dr. Hugo Theorell said about these concerns
in 1958. He wrote:</span><br />
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<td width="90%"><em><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">"Even if with
respect to caries fluoride may be a good prophylactic, it is in larger
doses, none the less a poison. In principle this signifies nothing; in
sufficiently large doses all substances are toxic for the human
organism. What is important is the distance between the therapeutic
and the toxic dose... it may be said that even if the risks from the
viewpoint of enzyme chemistry connected with water fluoridation up to
1 ppm should not be exaggerated, yet the distance to toxic doses is
none the less so short as to justify some hesitation" (49).</span></em></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Recognizing that fluoride's target in tooth
protection is the "surface layer of the dental enamel" he suggests
that water fluoridation is "a roundabout way" of delivering it,
because "on its Odyssey through the body fluids most of the fluoride will
be lost in other organs, where it will probably not do any good, but possibly do
damage to enzymes" (49).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />35. Recent work from Dr. Jennifer Luke (50-51)
indicates that fluoride reaches one very important gland in the body–the
pineal gland–at very much higher concentrations than 1 ppm. This small gland
is almost at the geometrical center of the brain, between the two hemispheres.
However, it is outside the blood brain barrier. It also has a very high supply
of blood (a perfusion rate second only to the kidney) and it is a calcifying
tissue, laying down crystals of calcium hydroxyapatite like the teeth and the
bone. Because of these observations Luke argued that one would expect the pineal
gland to concentrate fluoride. When she had the pineal gland from 11 human
corpses analyzed she indeed found this to be the case. The levels of fluoride in
the apatite crystals averaged about 9,000 ppm (and went as high as 21,000 ppm).
The average level is as high as you would expect in the bones of someone
afflicted with skeletal fluorosis. The average projected by Luke for the whole
tissue was 300 ppm, well over the 1 ppm found to inhibit many enzymes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />36. Luke next examined the effect of dosing
Mongolian gerbils (the animal of choice for studying the pineal gland) with
fluoride. She found that animals fed higher doses of fluoride had a significant
decrease in their excretion of melatonin metabolite in their urine. She also
found that the high dose fluoride animals took a shorter time to reach puberty.
This is exactly what you would expect if melatonin production was lowered. If
this result is confirmed by others it would make fluoride an environmental
hormone or endocrine disrupter, a t <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"There</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">opic of intense discussion (52) and review by
regulatory agencies in the US and around the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />37<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".14">. </a>Another line of evidence
which indicates that fluoride is an endocrine disrupter is the number of studies
that indicate the fluoride may inhibit the functioning of the thyroid gland.
Andreas Schuld, president of a group called Parents of Fluoride Poisoned
Children, has prepared an excellent summary of the evidence that points in this
direction (53, 54). To put the matter as simply as I can, his group has been
able to show that areas of endemic fluorosis are also areas designated as being
endemic with iodine deficiency disorders (IDD). The group rediscovered studies
and documentation from the European medical literature spanning over 30 years of
research testifying to fluoride's pharmacological effectiveness in the treatment
of hyperthyroidism (the term used to describe an over-functioning thyroid
gland). Thyroid hormones are absolutely essential for normal growth and
development. Hyperthyroidism means that the thyroid gland is producing too much
of the thyroid hormones, T3 and T4. These two hormones have 3 and 4 iodine atoms
respectively. Schuld's group has also shown that there is a remarkable
similarity between the symptoms listed for hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid
gland) and those reported for fluoride poisoning (55). Putting these two
conditions together, it appears that fluoride decreases the production of
thyroid hormones. If you are suffering from hyperthyroidism, fluoride might be
of some benefit. But for a normal person if you are exposed to too much fluoride
it could result in reducing thyroid hormone production below normal and
necessary levels (i.e., hypothyroidism).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />38. It is not clear just how fluoride reduces
thyroid hormone production. It may be that fluoride competes with iodine uptake
into this gland. Alternatively, fluoride might inhibit the enzymes inside the
gland which assemble the hormones from its chemical precursor, the amino acid
tyrosine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />39. Schuld also points to research that fluoride
can also stimulate the thyroid glands, which seems contradictory to the
discussion above. However, stimulation may not lead to production of the
hormones if iodide is in short supply. Such a situation (overstimulation coupled
with iodide shortage) might explain the condition known as goiter. Here the
gland grows and grows producing a swelling in the neck. The gland grows because
it is being stimulated, but because there are no thyroid hormones produced,
there is nothing to switch off the stimulating signal. In other words, the
normal feedback mechanism is not working. This signal is the hormone
(thyrotropin or thyroid stimulating hormone) which is produced by the pituitary
gland–the master gland as far as hormonal control is concerned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />40. Now this is where the story gets very
disturbing. It appears that fluoride forms a complex with the aluminum ion, in
which 4 fluoride ions tightly surround an aluminum ion [AlF4]- and that this
complex looks to the body just like the phosphate ion (PO43-). Moreover, this
[AlF4]- complex is able to bind to G-proteins, which are part of the signaling
mechanism of all water soluble hormones and many neurotransmitters.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />41. To appreciate the significance of this we
need first to understand what hormones are and how they function. Hormones are
messengers that regulate body chemistry. They are produced at specific times and
in specific glands, for example the adrenal glands produce adrenaline when we
experience a sudden shock. Once they are produced they are injected into the
bloodstream where they circulate the body until they find their target tissue:
i.e. the tissue which they will regulate. At this point in our discussion we
need to divide hormones into two groups: those which are soluble in fat and
those which are soluble in water. The fat soluble ones like the steroid hormones
(e.g. estrogen and testosterone) can freely enter the cells of the tissues they
regulate, because the membranes of the cell are made of fat and these hormones
can pass straight through. Once inside the cell they bind with a protein
receptor and change the cell's activity in a very fundamental way. Water-soluble
hormones, on the other hand, cannot cross the cell membrane and their effect has
to be instigated outside the cell, and this is where the G-proteins play their
important intermediary role. The hormone first combines with a receptor protein
on the outside membrane of the cell. When this event has taken place, it
triggers a response from the G-proteins. The G-proteins have to take the signal,
delivered by the hormone or neurotransmitter, the so-called "first
messenger", across the membrane (transduction), and excite (or release) a
"second messenger", on the internal surface of the membrane. Once
excited (or released) this second messenger can excite various target molecules
like enzymes inside the cell. Examples of these "second or intracellular
messengers" are cyclic AMP (cAMP) and the Ca2+ion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />42<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".15">. </a>We will now concentrate on
the action of water soluble hormones and the important role played by the
G-proteins in the transduction process (getting the signal from outside the cell
to the inside). The mechanism of action of the G-proteins is complicated but
fully described in the literature (56,57). For our purposes we need only examine
the key moment when [AlF4]- interferes with the sequence of events.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />43. When the water soluble hormone attaches to
its receptor it triggers a change in the G-protein which allows a phosphate
group to bind to a molecule called guanosine diphosphate (GDP) which sits in a
crevice of the surface of the G-protein. This incoming phosphate changes the GDP
to guanosine triphosphate (GTP). If we envisage the G-protein as a switch when
GDP occupies the crevice the switch is off, but when <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"There</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> the GTP sits in the crevice
the switch is on. In the on position the signal is sent to activate the cell.
[AlF4]- not only performs exactly the same function as the phosphate but it also
does it without the participation of the hormone. Thus in the absence of the
hormone, [AlF4]- is capable of switching on the signaling mechanism which
activates the cell.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />44. The possible interference of [AlF4]- is, in
my view, one of the most important developments in fluoride research for many
years. Indications are that the aluminum levels needed for the formation of
[AlF4]- are almost certainly present in our `industrial' diets, however it may
also be that high calcium (Ca2+) and magnesium (Mg2+) levels may prevent its
formation. If this is the case it underlines the fear that those suffering
malnutrition may be especially vulnerable to fluoride. This point needs urgent
recognition by those who advocate fluoridation to provide dental care for the
poor, because it is the poor who are most likely to be malnourished.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />45. The role of G-proteins as intermediaries in
signaling by water soluble hormones (eg insulin, adrenalin, glucogon, thyroid
stimulating hormone, and many others) as well as neurotransmitters is so
fundamental to the proper growth and functioning of mammals that any
interference by aluminum fluoride complexes would be extremely serious indeed.
Interference here would go a long way to explain health problems associated with
fluoride not explained by fluoride's direct inhibition of enzymes. Anna Strunecká
& Jirí Patocka have produced an excellent review of the potential
pathological consequences of human exposure to [AlF4]- (58).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />46. Schuld points out that since the 1994 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell
for the discovery of G-proteins and their role in cellular signal transduction,
much attention has been focused on the manifold functions of these ubiquitous
molecules and on the ways in which they can become disordered in human diseases.
Entire data banks have now been established listing G-protein-coupled receptor
mutations or gene rearrangements, and human diseases caused by such (precocious
puberty, neonatal severe hyperparathyroidism, etc.). The effects of fluorides on
these can be witnessed in hundreds of studi <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"There</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">es available on Medline and
elsewhere. Schuld's group is providing the key links to these studies via their
website (54).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />47<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".16">. </a>Returning to the pineal
gland, Luke postulates a mechanism which doesn't involve the functioning of the
hormone, but its production. In the production of melatonin in this gland there
are four chemical changes between the amino acid tryptophan (a nutrient) and
melatonin. All four steps are catalyzed by enzymes. The first two steps yield
serotonin, a neurotransmitter, and the next two convert serotonin into
melatonin. Luke argues that one or more of these enzymes which catalyze these
four steps are inhibited by fluoride (51). Interfering with either the
production of serotonin or melatonin is of extreme significance. A huge amount
of research is ongoing in the attempt to elucidate all the subtle influences
that melatonin has on regulatory mechanisms throughout the body, including the
timing of puberty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />48. Of particular interest, is the knowledge
that in the US there is an earlier onset of puberty, especially in girls, and no
one knows what is causing this (59). There are many possible candidates, but
based upon Luke's work on the pineal gland, fluoride should be added to the
list.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />49. Also of interest is the fact that when
children were examined in the Newburgh-Kingston study (already cited) in 1955
(ten years after fluoridation was begun) they found that the girls in
fluoridated Newburgh reached menstruation five months earlier, on average, than
the girls in non-fluoridated Kingston (36).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />50. Our discussion now moves from the pineal
gland, which is outside the blood brain barrier, to the inside of the brain.
There have been several studies which indicate that fluoride can impact mental
behavior. In the 1940s, US scientists working on the Manhattan Project (the
making of the Atomic bomb) were concerned that exposure to fluoride could
threaten the behavior and concentration of the workers in nuclear plants which
were using huge quantities of fluoride in the separation of uranium isotopes. A
request was made by Harold Hodge, the chief toxicologist of the project, to do a
study on the impact of fluoride on rat behavior. His request was first accepted
and later canceled (60).<b> </b>While discovering this information from formerly
classified documents, researchers Cliff Honicker, Joel Griffiths and Chris
Bryson, also unearthed the fact that one of the earliest and most important
trials of fluoridation, the 1945-55 Newburgh-Kingston study (discussed above),
was partially organized by, and closely watched by, scientists from the
Manhattan Project. Apparently, there was a concern that the government would be
facing lawsuits from communities impacted by fluoride emissions from the
facilities which had manufactured the atomic bomb (60). Among those concerned
was Harold Hodge and in one memo with respect to how to deal with impacted
citizens and farmers, he asked, "Would there be any use in attempts to
counteract the local fear of fluoride... through lectures on F toxicology and
perhaps the usefulness of F in tooth health?" (60). While the impact of
fluoride on teeth was studied early, Hodge had to wait nearly 50 years before he
saw the rat-behavior experiment performed by Dr. Phyllis Mullenix <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"There<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"There</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">at the Forsyth
Dental Center in Boston.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />51<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".17">.</a> In 1995, Dr. Phyllis
Mullenix resisted an enormous amount of <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"There</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">political pressure to publish her
investigation of the impact of fluoride on rat behavior (61). In her work she
found that fluoride concentrated in the brain and that when the animals were
exposed to fluoride before birth they exhibited behavior characterized as
hyperactive, and when they were dosed after birth they became hypoactive
("couch potatoes"). I</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"There</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">n a non peer-reviewed critique by Gary Whitford,
circulated by the Centers for Disease Control, Division of Oral Health (62), but
not submitted to Mullenix for rebuttal (where are the professional ethics
here?), her work was attacked because of the high levels of fluoride she had
used.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />52. When Mullenix finally received a copy of
Whitford's critique from a third party she was quickly able to respond. She
pointed out, "These criticisms are without merit because our doses <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"There<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"There</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">in rats
produce a level of fluoride in the plasma equivalent to that found in humans
drinking 5-10 ppm fluoride in water, or humans receiving some treatments for
osteoporosis. This plasma level is exceeded ten times over one hour after
children receive topical applications of some dental fluoride gels. Thus, humans
are being exposed to levels of fluoride that we know alter behavior in
rats" (63). Mullenix also pointed out that it is standard toxicological
practice to treat animals with large doses over short periods of time, in order
to tease out an effect with the small number of the animals being tested.
However, before she could administer small doses over a longer period of time,
she was dismissed from the Forsyth Dental Center. She was told her work had
little relevance to dentistry! While agencies of the US government had shown a
lot of interest in this work (one suspects in order to discredit it) they have
not found it necessary to fund more work in this area. Another example of
politics ruling over science: a sickening thread that runs throughout this
sorrowful 50-year history of fluoride promotion by agencies of the US Public
Health Service.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />53. An impartial observer is forced to ask, if
the promotion of fluoride is an honorable cause, why it is that the tactics
behind it have been so despicable? Mullenix is not the only scientist who has
suffered reprisals because of her work on fluoride. In 1992 US EPA fired Dr.
William Marcus, the Senior Scien <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"There</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">tist at EPA's Office of Drinking Water, for
questioning the erroneous downgrading of cancers in the 1990 NTP fluoride rat
study (see paragraph 26). According to a February 10, 1994, press release from
the National Whistleblower Center in Washington, DC:</span><br />
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<td width="90%"><em><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">"In a
precedent-setting ruling, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary
Robert B. Reich has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
to reinstate toxicologist Dr. William L. Marcus. Labor found the EPA
guilty of falsifying employment records, discrimination, and
retaliation against an employee whistleblower. It also granted Marcus,
the largest compensatory damage award ever upheld under the federal
environment employee protection statues... The case marks the first
time that EPA federal employees were held to be protected from
discrimination under federal environmental laws. The ruling
establishes that all federal employees are covered under these laws...
The decision upheld an earlier order by a DOL Administrative Law Judge
(ALJ) issued December 3, 1992, supporting Marcus' claim that he was
fired for protected activity... The EPA dismissed the 52-year-old
toxicologist on May 13, 1992 after a four-year investigation of
Marcus' outside activities as an expert trial witness. EPA accused
Marcus of improper use of agency information for private gain, being
improperly absent from work, and engaging in outside employment which
appeared to pose a conflict of interest... Both the ALJ and Reich
found many of the charges to be `unsubstantiated,' and based on
apparently falsified time records and other testimony. Reich disputed
the EPA's position stating, `I agree with the ALJ that this rationale
is pretextual and that the true reason for the discharge was
retaliation.' Both Reich and the ALJ found that Marcus was actually
fired for publicly criticizing and opposing EPA's policy on fluoride
in drinking water."</span></em></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Dr. Marc Diesendorf describes a similar
situation to Mullenix with respect to the paper he published in Nature (12). He
wrote<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".18">,</a></span><br />
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covert critique of my paper... written by a senior member of the
Australian Dental Association, is apparently being circulated to
health departments, politicians, and newspaper editors in several
countries, including the U.S. Recently an overseas newspaper editor
sent me a copy, and it was immediately clear that the critique was
easily answered and was of such a low scientific standard that it
would be very difficult to publish, except perhaps in certain dental
journals" (64).</span></em></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">I, myself, have received letters from dentists
who have been threatened because they had the integrity to speak out on this
issue. What makes this kind of bullying even more unacceptable is that it is
supported at the highest levels of government. Mullenix has described her work
and the trouble it sparked in a videotaped interview<b> </b>(65). Bette Hileman
cites several other disturbing incidents encountered by fluoride researchers,
including:</span><br />
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Grandjean, professor of environmental medicine at Odense University in
Denmark, wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency in June 1985
about a World Health Organization study on fluorine and fluorides:
`Information which could cast any doubt on the advantage of fluoride
supplements was left out by the Task Group. Unless I had been present
myself, I would have found it hard to believe'" (20, p 36).</span></em></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />54. Meanwhile, Isaacson and his co-workers at
SUNY Binghamton, were conducting low-dose, long-term rat fluoride studies (66).
They found that fluoride administered daily at 1 ppm, either as aluminum
fluoride or sodium fluoride in doubly distilled de-ionized water, for a period
of one year, produced morphological changes to kidney and brain cells and an
increased uptake of aluminum into the brain. This striking finding has been
largely ignored by US authorities, as have been the studies by Guan et al on the
impact of fluoride on membrane lipids in rat brain (67), and the studies from
China which indicate a lowering of IQ of children as a function of their
exposure to fluoride (68, 69). While it is possible that these Chinese studies
may have not accounted for some potentially confounding variables, they again
wave another very serious red flag? Are we going to risk damaging our childrens'
brains for the sake of, at most, half a tooth? What would those who believe in
the precautionary principle have to say a <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"There</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">bout that?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />55<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".19">. </a>The work by Isaacson
raises a very large issue: the possibility that because fluoride forms complex
ions with very many metal ions, including toxic metals like radium, uranium,
beryllium, aluminum and lead, it may facilitate the uptake of these elements
into places they would not normally be able to enter. This may be particularly
relevant if fluoride facilitates their crossing of the blood brain barrier or
the placental membrane. Unfortunately, very few studies have pursued the
synergistic effects of fluoride and other substances like toxic metal ions. In
one of those rare studies that did, it was shown that a combination of lead and
fluoride (the salts were dissolved in the drinking water of rats) proved to be
"much more severely toxic than either compound alone" and that the
fluoride produced significantly higher lead concentrations in the blood and
femur (70). Another more recent study which may have inadvertently probed the
matter is the extraordinary work of Dr Roger Masters (Professor of Government at
Dartmouth) and Myron Coplan, an environmental engineer from Massachusetts (71).
They have found a correlation between the uptake of lead into children's blood
and the use of hexafluorosilicic acid or its sodium salt to fluoridate municipal
water supplies in Massachusetts. They also found a correlation between the use
of these same agents and the incidence of violent crime.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />56. Masters and Coplan's work also revealed that
practically no toxicological work has been performed on these silcofluorides,
which are used to fluoridate about 90% (72) of the water fluoridated in the US.
Instead, when scientists look at possible problems with fluoridation they
examine the effect of the fluoride ion not the hexafluorosilicate ion. The
assumption being made is that by the time the hexafluorosilicate ion reaches the
tap it will have been completely converted into silica and the free fluoride
ion. Coplan argues, during a fascinating videotaped interview that I had with
him (and Roger Masters) that this is not likely and that there will be still
some silicon fluoride complexes available at the tap and these might be the
species which facilitate the uptake of the lead (73).</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">The source of the fluoride used to fluoridate
water in the US.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />57<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".20">.</a> As mentioned above, about
90% of the water fluoridated in the US contains either hexafluorosilicic acid
(H2SiF6) or its sodium salt (Na2SiF6). These are obtained from the
super-phosphate industry from the scrubbing solution used to remove hydrogen
fluoride from atmospheric releases. By law, these scrubbing liquids cannot be
dumped into the sea, lakes, rivers or streams. However, the US EPA does allow
them to be diluted down to 1 ppm and then to be added to our drinking water.
From there the fluoride can be flushed through our bodies before it enters
rivers and then the sea! According to one US EPA official this is an excellent
way of dealing with "water and air pollution" problems<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-statement.htm#74."><b>
</b>(74). </a>Canada's leading pro-fluoridation dental authority, Dr. Hardy
Limeback, recently changed his position. (Limeback's qualifications include:
Ph.D in Biochemistry, D.D.S., Head of the Department of Preventive Dentistry at
the University of Toronto, and President of the Canadian Association for Dental
Research). In a December 1999 press interview he cited one of the reasons for
his dramatic turn-around:</span><br />
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was the realization that we have been dumping contaminated fluoride
into water reservoirs for half a century. The vast majority of all
fluoride additives come from Tampa Bay, Florida smokestack scrubbers.
The additives are a toxic byproduct of the super-phosphate fertilizer
industry" (75).</span></em></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Barry Forbes, the newspaper reporter who
published this interview with Limeback, wrote:</span><br />
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Hardy Limeback addressed his faculty and students at the University of
Toronto, Department of Dentistry. In a poignant, memorable meeting, he
apologized to those gathered before him. `Speaking as the head of
preventive dentistry, I told them that I had unintentionally mislead
my colleagues and my students. For the past 15 years, I had refused to
study the toxicology information that is readily available to anyone.
Poisoning our children was the furthest thing from my mind. The
truth,' he confessed to me, `was a bitter pill to swallow. But swallow
it I did' " (75).</span></em></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Many others, including myself, are outraged that
our health may be put at risk to facilitate the waste disposal needs of the
super-phosphate industry. However, from this industry's narrow economic point of
view it makes a lot of sense. It converts a hazardous waste disposal cost of
about $400 million a year to a profit of $180 million from sales to the public
water works. Citizens like George Glasser in Florida have raised the issue of
the other pollutants present in these scrubbing solutions (76). Even though they
are diluted at the public water works from about a 24% percent solution (24
parts per hundred) to a 1 part per million solution of fluoride, the worry is
that even after this dilution certain pollutants and radioactive isotopes may
still be present at unacceptable levels.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Fluoride and the environment.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />58<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".21">.</a> In addition to the threat
posed to humans is the threat posed to the environment. The impact of fluorides
on vegetation (77) and on cattle (78) is well established. Of more recent
concern is the impact of fluoride (from fluoridated water emerging from
wastewater treatment facilities) on spawning salmon in waterways like the
Columbia River (79).</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Fluoridation and common sense.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />59. Turning to common sense. Pharmaceutical
grade fluoride is freely available via toothpaste, dental products and even
vitamin tablets. Today the bigger danger, as evidenced by the dramatic increase
in dental fluorosis (discussed above), is overdosing our children not
underdosing them. There is no need to add it to the water. Too many red flags
are being waved on possible long-term health threats to continue the experiment
of adding this toxic substance to our drinking wate–especially in the form of
industrial grade hexafluorosilicic acid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />60. Dr. Robert Carton, formerly with the US EPA
and who did so much to try and expose the fraud that went on at the US EPA when
they established 4 mg/liter as the maximum contaminant level for fluoride,
points out:</span><br />
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<td width="90%"><em><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">"We shouldn't be
giving any credence to the idea that the practice of fluoridation is a
matter of weighing risks and benefits. In keeping with the notion of
human rights, the Safe Drinking Water Act does not allow the weighing
of risks and benefits. It allows you to consider economics and
feasibility only, while the truth about the adverse effects must be
stated clearly. The MCLG (maximum contaminant level goal) is the
health statement which is meant to protect everyone–young and old,
healthy and unhealthy, those with failing kidneys, diabetics and
athletes and soldiers who drink massive amounts of water" (80).</span></em></td>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />61. If the issue is the protection of human
health, as opposed to the protection of corporate profit, it is imperative that
we stop putting fluoride into our drinking water. If the precautionary principle
applies to anything it should apply to fluoride. Unlike many other toxic
pollutant exposures, this is something we are doing to ourselves and something
we can simply reverse by switching off a tap. We cannot wait for everything to
be proved to a certainty before we act. There is enough evidence from chemical,
biochemical, animal and epidemiological studies, to indicate that we should take
sensible precautionary action now. Simply put, if in doubt leave it out. If, on
the other hand, any citizen wants to take the risks they can simply go and get
the fluoride for themselves–it is readily available in every major brand of
toothpaste on the market. No one–and no government–should be imposing these
risks on someone else. The only difficult issue left with the public water
supplies is to decide how much of the naturally occurring fluoride to leave in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />62. Another common sense argument raised against
fluoridation is that it is a very clumsy form of medication. One cannot control
the dose because one cannot control the amount of water people drink or the
other sources of fluoride intake. Thus, when people talk about 1 ppm of fluoride
in the drinking water that simply tells us that if someone drinks one liter of
water a day they would get 1 mg of fluoride per day. What a doctor wants to do
is to control the total dose of medication as either "x" milligrams a
day or "y" mg per kilogram bodyweight per day. The inability to
control the total dose is particularly serious for the most sensitive and most
vulnerable members of our society. Normally, when prescribing medication to an
individual a doctor can prescribe for their special needs. But with water
fluoridation the doctor cannot. This issue is compounded by the fact that the
purported therapeutic dose for some is a toxic dose for others, as demonstrated
by the automatic increase in dental fluorosis in children whenever water is
fluoridated.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">The two sides in the debate.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><b><br />63. The promoters.</b> For over 50 years
those promoting fluoridation have used five tactics: a) they have consistently
denied that there is any debate; b) they usually refuse to appear on a public
platform with opponents of fluoridation, either in debates or public fora; c)
they cite a long list of government agencies and other organizations that have
endorsed fluoridation; d) they stress how many communities in the US are
fluoridated; and e) they dismiss their opponents as a bunch of crazies. I will
deal with each of these tactics in turn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><b><br />64. Denial that a debate exists.</b> This
position becomes less and less tenable with each new paper pointing out that
there is little difference between the state of children's teeth in fluoridated
and non-fluoridated communities and with each new paper which points out some
long term health effect which may be associated with fluoride exposure either in
animal studies or in epidemiological studies. A particularly severe blow was
delivered to the notion that there is "no scientific debate", when, in
1988, the prestigious weekly journal, Chemical and Engineering News (sent to
every member of the American Chemical Society as part of their membership fee)
ran a seventeen page cover article on this "scientific debate" (20).
This paper, along with the many months of comments which followed it, is an
absolute must for anyone considering the pros and cons of fluoridation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><b><br />65</b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".22"><b>.</b></a><b> Refusal
to appear on the same platform as fluoridation opponents</b>. This tactic may
work in the short run, but in the long run most citizens see it for what it is,
a lack of confidence in the substance of their position. Presumably they believe
that they can win the debate with leaflets or paid advertisements which sell
their position in a one-sided manner. The booklet called "Fluoridation: The
Facts" put out by the American Dental Association (ADA) (81) is a travesty
of science. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised since this same association came
into existence in the 1830's in order to promote the use of mercury amalgams,
which they have defended ever since, despite the growing evidence that mercury
escapes from these fillings and can cause health effects. In its fluoride
pamphlet the ADA selectively cites the literature and shamelessly ignores many
papers which contradicts its claims of efficacy and safety. The ADA's standard
tactic of dealing with any study which finds a problem with fluoride is to
attack the methodology used in the paper. An impartial viewer has to wonder how
so many of these papers have made it into peer reviewed journals if the authors'
methodology was as weak as they claim. Furthermore, such critiques from the ADA
don't sit well when they are not sent to the peer reviewed journals for the
authors to concede or rebut.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><b><br />66. The long list of endorsements.</b> This
long list of endorsements might look impressive to a newcomer until he or she
realizes that once the US Public Health Service officially endorsed
fluoridation, it was a foregone conclusion that many governmental and
non-governmental agencies (especially those who receive funding from the US PHS)
would fall into line. Many of the other agencies listed are dental
organizations, which have been so partisan on this issue that their endorsement
means very little. Other groups like the pro-fluoridation and industry-funded
American Council on Science and Health are well known for their pro-industrial
position on toxics. After these groups have been eliminated, the list is less
impressive. With those remaining one has to ask these questions:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">1) When did the organization endorse?</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">2) When did they last review the scientific
literature on this matter?</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">3) Who in the organization made the
endorsement?</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">4) How much independent review of the
literature was made?</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">5) And finally, what are the responses of
those organizations to the latest scientific information pertaining to
fluoride's impact on: the pineal gland, the thyroid gland, the brain, the
interaction of aluminum fluoride complexes with G-proteins, further studies
associating fluoride with hip fractures, and the vulnerability of subsets of
the population who are especially sensitive to fluoride's toxicity.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">There is an excellent chapter in the book
"Fluoridation: The Great Dilemma" by George Waldbott<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".23">,</a>
Albert Burgstahler and H. Lewis McKinney<b> </b>(82) which goes into the dubious
nature of some of the early endorsements of fluoridation. However these
endorsements were obtained, the ultimate ruling on scientific issues like this
should be made based upon weighing the evidence in the published literature and
not on the basis of who says its OK. Otherwise we go back some 300 years when
the Pope ruled over science. In this respect it is noteworthy that in some
communities, where dentists and others have refused open debate,
pro-fluoridation statements by the former Surgeon General Everett Koop, have
been trotted out, either as letters to the editor or in paid advertisements.
This may occur less and less as some of the "ethical shine" wears off
Koop's image (83).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><b><br />67. Beware of "authorities" which
do not do their homework.</b> When it comes to tarnished authority, the biggest
shock for me personally came when I went to a public hearing on September 23,
1997, organized by the Food and Nutrition Board, which is part of the Institute
of Medicine, which in turn is a part of the National Academy of Sciences. Before
this day I held these agencies in some awe. I felt that they were there to
arbitrate controversial scientific issues: to provide judgment above and beyond
the sway of political and economic pressures. On this day I was sadly
disillusioned. Not only had the Food and Nutrition Board included fluoride in a
list of the nutrients, "Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphate and Vitamin D"
but they had recommended an upper tolerance limit <b>(10 mg/kg/day)</b> which is
well over the level thought to cause severe–let alone mild–bone damage (22).
Making matters even more absurd was the fact that an earlier report from the
National Academy of Science had identified several studies which had shown an
increase in osteosclerosis at levels considerably lower than this (84). To add
salt to this "credibility wound" was the fact that for eight hours of
this meeting, not one single panelist present could provide answers to the
questions that I and Dr. William Hirzy, from the US EPA, raised about their
calculations and the many papers in the peer-reviewed literature that they had
ignored. Another shock: the chairperson for the committee which determined the
upper tolerance level for fluoride was a gentlemen called Ian Munro, the
President of Cantox. This Canadian consulting company was the very same company
which produced a study on behalf of the Chlorine Industry, which essentially
exonerated organochlorines of causing any health and environmental problems
(85). This whole day is captured on videotape for diehards who want to see their
image of this prestigious body shattered (86). The journal <i>Fluoride </i>has
carried the correspondence which followed from this meeting (87). Fifteen
scientists signed a letter to the President of the National Academy, Dr. Bruce
Alberts, pointing out the problems with this report. No reply was received.
After several months another letter was sent to Dr. Kenneth Shine, President of
the Institute of Medicine. Again, no reply was received. Finally, a citizen
recruited Senator Arlen Specter who called upon the Academy to respond. This
intervention did finally prompt a reply, over a year after the initial letter
was sent. The end result was that nothing was changed. The upper tolerance limit
for fluoride remains at a–scientifically indefensible–<b>10 mg/kg/day</b>.
The daily recommended doses were equally indefensible (88).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />68. I have dwelt on this sorry tale because I
think it is a very good example of the danger of relying on
"authorities", however prestigious, to do your thinking for you. In
most cases the reviews performed by government agencies are only as good as the
people they put on the panels. For over 50 years and in several different
countries (US, UK, Australia, NZ, and Canada) the panels that have been
appointed to review the fluoride issue have been stuffed with scientists and
dentists who have held a strong pro-fluoridation position. Very seldom, if ever,
do review panels have people appointed who have an in-depth knowledge of this
issue and have a truly independent position or an anti-fluoridation position.
Such panels are highly vulnerable to a selective use of the literature in the
hands of the pro-fluoridationists. Thus, the conclusions reached appear to be a
self-fulfilling prophesy designed to save the faces of those who have promoted
this misguided policy for so long. Whatever other damage fluoride has done, it
has certainly damaged the integrity of some of our leading scientific and
governmental agencies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><b><br />69. The number of communities fluoridated.</b>
Stressing the numbers of communities that have been fluoridated in the US is
ultimately self-defeating for the ADA and others, because it leaves them trying
to explain why it is that so many countries have not followed the American lead.
Why is it that practically no country in Europe fluoridates its drinking water?
How come that despite this failure to accept the "American wisdom" on
this matter, that European childrens' teeth are not full of cavities? No, if
numbers convince, then the ADA loses the debate hands down because they have
failed to convince the vast majority of countries around the world that
fluoridation is an acceptable and sensible public policy. North Americans
represent nearly half of the people worldwide drinking artificially fluoridated
water, which is a very small percentage of the total world population.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><b><br />70. The opponents of fluoridation are a bunch
of crazies.</b> First of all, bearing in mind the atrocious way opponents of
fluoridation have been treated over the last 50 years, it is surprising to me
that they are not crazy. I think if I had been doing this for 30 years instead
of three I would be hanging from the rafters or in a lunatic asylum! In actual
fact over the years there have been many distinguished people who have either
opposed fluoridation or expressed reservations about it, including dentists,
doctors, scientists, and 12 Noble prize winners (see paragraph 31). Indeed, the
most vocal opponents of fluoridation in the 1950s were professional biochemists
who had used fluoride to poison enzymes in their experiments. During the debate
over fluoridation in New York City in 1963 opponents collected the signatures of
over 1,500 doctors, dentists and scientists opposed to fluoridation.
Unfortunately, this solid, well-informed and well-reasoned opposition was
largely hidden from the public by slick public relations campaigns. It is a sad
part of America's history that many government agencies have been a part (and
still are) of this public relations effort. And, if you, dear reader, have felt
uneasy even simply reading this paper, this bears testament to how effective
this denigration has been.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><b><br />71. The opponents I know.</b> Over the last
few years I have been privileged, to meet in person, or correspond with, some of
the leading opponents of fluoridation. These include, Dr. Albert Burgstahler
(Harvard graduate and Professor Emeritus of Organic Chemistry at the University
of Kansas and co-author of "Fluoridation: The Great Dilemma"), Dr.
Robert Carton (formerly with the US EPA), Dr. John Colquhoun (former Principal
Dental Officer of Auckland, NZ), Dr. Richard Foulkes, M.D. (former adviser to
the Government of British Columbia), Dr. William Hirzy (currently with the US
EPA), Dr. David Kennedy, D.P.H (former President of the International Academy of
Oral Medicine and Toxicology), Dr. Lennart Krook (Professor Emeritus of
Toxicology, Cornell University Department of Veterinary Medicine), Dr. John Lee,
M.D. (Harvard graduate and bone specialist), Dr. Hardy Limeback (Head of
Preventive Dentistry, Toronto University), Dr. William Marcus (Senior Science
Advisor, US EPA), Dr. Roger Masters (Professor of Government, Dartmouth
College), Dr. Phyllis Mullenix (formerly Head of the Toxicology Department,
Forsyth Dental Center), Dr. Albert Schatz (Co-discoverer of streptomycin), Dr.
Bruce Spittle (Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago Medical
School, NZ), Dr. John Yiamouyiannis (author of the Aging Factor), and numerous
remarkable citizens who between them have spent a combined total of several
hundred human years studying this issue. I can state quite emphatically that
these people are not a bunch of crazies. They are not being paid to oppose
fluoridation and have no other axe to grind. Most of them don't want the hassle
that this uphill task brings to their lives. More than anything else, what they
have done, which many of the proponents have not done, is to do their homework
with an open mind. They may have a minute fraction of the power and influence of
those who have pushed fluoride on the American people, but, in my view, they
have far more integrity. They refuse to let go until they see justice done and a
sound basis of public policy restored. If readers do likewise, they, too, will
find, like the little boy in Hans Christian Anderson's classic tale, that the
Emperor of Fluoridation has no clothes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />72. If readers do pursue this matter one of the
arguments that they will have to deal with from proponents is that we need to
fluoridate the water to protect the poor who don't have adequate dental
services. On the face of it this seems a very noble sentiment, however, in
practice, it could prove to be extremely pernicious. There is considerable
evidence (from studies in India, for example) that those most vulnerable to
fluoride are those who have a poor diet. The poor are more likely to have a poor
diet. Moreover, the poor in the United States are also more likely to have been
exposed to other pollutants, like lead, which appear to act synergistically with
fluoride. Thus fluoride could deliver yet another blow to an already compromised
section of the community. If money is going to be spent on dental improvements
for the poor it would be better spent on providing access to better diets and
education on dental hygiene.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />73. This raises yet another issue. There are
particular subsets of the population which are, according to ATSDR,
"unusually susceptible to the toxic effects of fluoride and its
compounds":</span><br />
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include the elderly, people with deficiencies of calcium, magnesium
and/or vitamin C, and people with cardiovascular and kidney
problems... Impaired renal clearance of fluoride has also been found
in people with diabetes mellitus and cardiac insufficiency. People
over the age of 50 often have decreased renal fluoride clearance...
Poor nutrition increases the incidence of dental fluorosis and
skeletal fluorosis...</span></em><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name=".24"><em>"</em></a><em>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">To these must be added those who, in double
blind studies, have been shown to be supersensitive to fluoride (89). How can we
as a society ignore these vulnerable people? How can we put their interests
second to the rest of the community?</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">A challenge.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />74. It is very clear from my experience that the
ADA and the US PHS cannot win this argument in an open public forum. I have
challenged dentists and other proponents of fluoridation to debate this issue in
the UK and several states in the US. Only Representative Tigue in Pennsylvania
(a former Marine) has had the courage to defend his pro-fluoride position in
open public debate. This debate was held in Scranton, Pa. on October 23, 1999,
and was televised by the Pennsylvanian Cable Network (90). I am not the only one
who has made this kind of challenge. Dr. William Hirzy, of the Union
representing EPA's professionals in Washington D.C., responded to a particularly
nasty attack on the credibility of the Union's anti-fluoride position paper (91)
by challenging the author of the attack, Dr. Michael Easley, to a public debate.
Easley has failed to respond to the challenge. Let me repeat the challenge. Many
of us (Connett, Mullenix, Hirzy, Carton, and others) are more than willing to
take on representatives of the ADA or the US PHS or other promoters of
fluoridation, in open public debate in any state or in any country.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">We need a national campaign to end
fluoridation and minimize fluoride exposure.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />75. Finally, fluoridation is a peculiarly
American phenomenon. It was started at a time when there was a tremendous
optimism about what chemicals could do. After World War II, new wonder plastics
were being created and new synthetic pesticides being formulated. DDT was freely
spread around towns and to demonstrate how safe it was, it was even sprayed over
children at picnics and in classrooms! This was a different age. As with DDT, it
is now time to call a halt. Fluoridation was started in America, let's end it in
America. We need a national campaign to end fluoridation. Actually, we need more
than this. We need to minimize exposure to fluoride from all sources. We need
toothpaste manufacturers to give us a choice. They need to provide a version of
all their major brands with the fluoride removed. We need the fluoride levels
identified on all foods, beverages and bottled water. Again we need freedom of
choice. We need to limit fluoride air emissions from industry and power
stations. We need to take fluoride air emissions at least as seriously as we do
sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide emissions. We need to eliminate the use of
fluoride in pesticides and other products. Finally, we need to pay special
attention to the use of cryolite (Na3AlF6) as a "natural pesticide".
However, we will make little progress with all of these urgent demands until
scientists and environmental organizations take a scientific attitude to this
matter and have the courage to revisit the issue with an open mind. The great
moments in history do not occur when every body jumps up and shouts yes, but
when a few courageous people step out of the crowd and say no. Fluoride has been
a "protected pollutant" (92) for far too long.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5qtkX_N17E-C8WqLof8hD-kSh5N_KR6D9y5e2XEiWKul0vpF-PXRqWqFZk_DAWrKQHuUoBS2QttCDOC4OyCFhV5nGHpnYHoydGRrxYiPuDFhmVopHcLHztEtyZRSrUAMV0mFf4OOd9xK_/s1600/fluoride2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5qtkX_N17E-C8WqLof8hD-kSh5N_KR6D9y5e2XEiWKul0vpF-PXRqWqFZk_DAWrKQHuUoBS2QttCDOC4OyCFhV5nGHpnYHoydGRrxYiPuDFhmVopHcLHztEtyZRSrUAMV0mFf4OOd9xK_/s1600/fluoride2.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />Postscript.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">In proof reading this paper I realize that I
have not done justice to a number of significant issues relating to fluoride's
toxicity, for example: demonstrations of its mutagenicity; it's ability to
promote cancer in the presence of other carcinogens; its possible relationship
to birth defects like Down's Syndrome; the major work of Burk and Yiamouyiannis
on comparing cancer rates in fluoridated and non-fluoridated cities in the US;
Marier's extensive work on fluoride's toxicity in conjunction with magnesium
deficiency; and the apparent willingness of the US, Australian and other
governments to downplay or outright ignore the seriousness of industrial
fluoride pollution which has plagued industrial society since the beginning of
the century. However, the important point at this juncture, I believe, is not to
overwhelm the reader with more detail but rather to encourage them to cut
through the layers of public relations, hype, and name calling, and find out for
themselves the prostitution of science which has taken place on the fluoride
issue at the highest level of government.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><br />Acknowledgements</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">I would like to thank Dr. Albert Burgstahler,
Dr. Robert Carton, Dr. Richard Foulkes, Peter Meiers, Andreas Schuld, and Ellen
Connett, for taking the time to read this paper and making very useful comments.
Any mistakes left after this process are mine, not theirs.</span><br />
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Academy of Sciences Plays Politics with Fluoride. Videotape, length, 135
minutes, October, 1997. See ref. 51 for ordering details.</span><br />
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Two Unanswered Letters. Fluoride (Discussion Section), 31, 153-157.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name="88.">88. </a>Yiamouyiannis, J., (1999).
Letter to Dr. Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences and Dr.
Kenneth Shine, President, Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C. Text of letter
available from the Safe Water Foundation, 6439 Taggart Road, Delaware, Ohio
43015.</span><br />
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Fluoride: The Freedom Fight. pp 103-107. Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name="90.">90. </a>Pennsylvania Cable Network
(1999). Debate on Fluoridation: Dr. Paul Connett versus Representative Tigue
(Pa.). Oct. 23, 1999. Videotape available from Ellie Rudolph, 645 Ninth Street,
Oakmont, Pa. 15139. Tel: 412-828-5096.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name="91.">91. </a>Hirzy, J.W. (1999). Why
the Union Representing US E.P.A's Professionals in Washington, D.C. Opposes
Fluoridation. Waste Not # 448. May 1, 1999. For more information call Dr. Hirzy
at the National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 280. Tel: 202-260-4683 or
Email: hirzy.john@epa.gov</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9013557576101683516" name="92.">92. </a>According to Albert
Burgstahler the term "protected pollutant" appears to have been first
been first used in the pamphlet: The Case of the Protected Pollutant. Jerard, E.
Distributed in 1969. Copies available from Dr. Albert Burgstahler, Chemistry
Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-0046.</span><br />
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and Tea-Partiers are creations of and funded by extreme right wing
activists primarioly affiliated with the Republican party. The the stink of racism and sexism is
very real. </span><br data-reactid=".1.1:3:1:$comment10201682532571096_5472783:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$text0:0:$1:0" /><br data-reactid=".1.1:3:1:$comment10201682532571096_5472783:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$text0:0:$3:0" /><span data-reactid=".1.1:3:1:$comment10201682532571096_5472783:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$text0:0:$4:0">"The
anti-government fervor infusing the 2010 elections represents a
political triumph for the Kochs. By giving money to “educate,” fund, and
organize Tea Party protesters, they have helped turn their private
agenda into a mass movement. Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist
and a historian, who once worked at the National Center for Policy
Analysis, a Dallas-based think tank that the Kochs fund, said, “The
problem with the whole libertarian movement is that it’s been all chiefs
and no Indians. There haven’t been any actual people, like voters, who
give a crap about it. So </span></span><br />
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the problem for the Kochs has been trying to
create a movement.” With the emergence of the Tea Party, he said,
“everyone suddenly sees that for the first time there are Indians out
there—people who can provide real ideological power.” The Kochs, he
said, are “trying to shape and control and channel the populist uprising
into their own policies.”<br />
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Republican campaign consultant who has done research on behalf of
Charles and David Koch said of the Tea Party, “The Koch brothers gave
the money that founded it. It’s like they put the seeds in the ground.
Then the rainstorm comes, and the frogs come out of the mud—and they’re
our candidates!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-reactid=".3i.1:3:1:$comment10152441297116509_36442438:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".3i.1:3:1:$comment10152441297116509_36442438:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body" style="background-color: #f6f7f8;"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".3i.1:3:1:$comment10152441297116509_36442438:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".3i.1:3:1:$comment10152441297116509_36442438:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0" style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Obama is a war criminal.<br /><br /> And Hillary is complicit in war crimes. </span></span></span></span></h2>
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Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton <br />belong in the presidency. Nor does Biden.<br />
The proof is in the puddin'.<br />
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<span data-reactid=".3i.1:3:1:$comment10152441297116509_36442438:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0" style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">This is not slander, nor is this a smear. <br /><br />Simple facts:</span><br />
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<span data-reactid=".3i.1:3:1:$comment10152441297116509_36442438:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$8:0" style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">1. Obama has engaged in at least five new extra-constitutional and illegal wars since taking office: </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><br />These corporate wars feed the munitions industry </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">by selling arms to both sides of US-sponsored wars.</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".3i.1:3:1:$comment10152441297116509_36442438:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$14:0" style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><br />2. Barack surrendered to the insurance cartels on health care: </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">The usual suspects, who have been betting against the health of </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">the American people for years... now set the rates, call the shots </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">and are mandated payments... even from those who do not choose </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">to purchase the product. <br />All this is done to preserve the corporate </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">bottom line instead of serving public health needs. And thirty million Americans will not be provided any health care. </span><br />
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<span data-reactid=".3i.1:3:1:$comment10152441297116509_36442438:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$20:0" style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">3. A surrender to transnational economic cartels on not only corporate <br />ambitions abroad... but also in supporting demonstrably unsafe offshore <br />drilling. Obama also endorses fracking, allows regulatory neglect and agrees with precipitous and wrong-headed wilderness development by extraction industries. </span><br />
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4<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">. A refusal to create jobs with justice by rebuilding our deteriorating infrastructure. </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><br />Instead of investing in the American people, those who own the natural resources </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">of the planet have convinced Obama to </span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">ship American jobs overseas. </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">This enhances short term corporate bottom lines, instead of taking care of the business of the American people. </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">5. Obama sacrificed an opportunity to shut down seven corporate wars of choice. <br /></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">~These are not party issues:</span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">The current administration is corrupt. <br />The previous administration was corrupt.</span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><br />We should throw the current bums out and </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">prosecute them <br />and the previous corporate cons for crimes against the American people . </span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15px;"><br /></span></span>
<span data-reactid=".3i.1:3:1:$comment10152441297116509_36442438:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$32:0" style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Obama could shut down seven conflicts of choice, <br />implement non-profit single payer health care and <br />spend these peace and health dividends on <br />rebuilding ports, roads, bridges, and infrastructure.<br /><br />All ships can rise, once we find the courage. <br /></span><br />
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This week we are inspired by activists of all ages who are taking bold action and by the upcoming waves of resistance!</div>
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<strong id="yui_3_13_0_1_1396061184666_5042">Stopping Torture and Injustice towards Prisoners</strong></div>
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The Friday Fast also remembers prisoners in the US who are tortured with solitary confinement. You can stop further abuse by <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=42570d2fee&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">letting the California prison system know</a> that long term solitary confinement should be stopped. The deadline for comment is April 3.</div>
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This past week, the UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=1ea1492a6e&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">visited</a> long-time political prisoner Leonard Peltier. And PFC Manning’s lawyer David Coomb’s wrote <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=9a3d14cc6f&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">an update</a> in which he says that she did not receive “a fair trial and a just result.” Both Peltier and Manning continue to demand justice with the realization that what happened to them can happen to anyone.</div>
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Sayyaf Jamal, the youngest person in the case of the execution today. He’s a medical student.</div>
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It doesn’t look like Cecily McMillan will get a fair trial. <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=0f21abb2b5&e=fa52a05a29" id="yui_3_13_0_1_1396061184666_5225" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Judge Ronald Zweibel denied</a> her lawyer access to information necessary to support her case. She faces 7 years and goes to <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=af39a95b40&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">trial on April 7</a> in New York City for elbowing a police officer who grabbed her breast from behind as she was leaving Zuccotti Park.</div>
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Another important campaign is to <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=f48a4deec9&e=fa52a05a29" id="yui_3_13_0_1_1396061184666_5227" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">stop the outrageous sentencing in Egypt</a>. The court gave the death penalty to 529 activists. CODEPINK held a <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=cd8ffa0a89&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">protest</a> at the Egyptian Embassy to spread the word. Please share this campaign with your contacts.</div>
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<strong>Taking Matters into Our Own Hands</strong></div>
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<a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=bbf65a9b0e&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Antidrone activists at US Attorneys Office." class="yiv2234953160alignright yiv2234953160size-medium yiv2234953160wp-image-32977" height="168" src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Antidrone-activists-at-US-Attorneys-Office.-300x168.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 5px 10px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></a>When the government fails to act appropriately, then it is up to us. Members of the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance have been trying to bring a criminal complaint against Obama, Brennan and others about the drone program. The <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=17f7b89a78&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">US Attorney’s response</a> this week was to refuse them entry to her building although the rest of the public was allowed in.</div>
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<img align="left" height="180" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413/images/Healthcare_activists_tell_Obama_support_single_payer_San_Francisco_November_2013.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 180px; line-height: 14px; outline: none; width: 239px;" width="239" />With tax season upon us, some are choosing to refuse paying for our criminal wars through <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=8f204f1b1f&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">war tax resistance</a>. A new type of tax resistance is against our for-profit health system that siphons hundreds of billions of public dollars away from actual care. Some are choosing to be <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=4e84cfc951&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Conscientious Objectors</a> to Obamacare.</div>
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<a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=3cf78613b7&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="1afghan" class="yiv2234953160size-medium yiv2234953160wp-image-32722 yiv2234953160alignright" height="160" src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1afghan-300x160.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 0px 5px 10px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></a>This past week was the celebration of the New Year in Afghanistan. The Afghan Peace Volunteers wish for a world without borders. They invite you to <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=f7afcd8a6d&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">meet them through Skype</a> to share dreams. Another positive note is that support for Palestinians is growing. A UN human rights investigator <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=4eebdbfc8b&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">accused Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’</a> and practicing apartheid. And Loyola University in Chicago became the <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=faca15cd8f&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">first Catholic university</a> to join the BDS movement.</div>
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<strong>Resistance to Ecological Destruction</strong></div>
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There is so much strong resistance happening against the extreme energy extraction economy that it is hard to cover this past week in one newsletter. Of note are growing movements in <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=076ba93308&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Vermont</a> against a pipeline, a rally and petition in <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=3d50a3108f&e=fa52a05a29" id="yui_3_13_0_1_1396061184666_5271" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">New York</a> for divestment from fossil fuels and students in <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=bfebca2173&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Massachusetts</a> planning a walk out for divestment on Monday. A tar sands <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=4229e5824c&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">megaload was turned away</a> from the Cheyenne River Sioux lands by the tribal council after one person decided to block the truck and many more saw his tweets and joined him.</div>
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In British Columbia, <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=d069caa82f&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Enbridge</a> is exerting tremendous effort in a small town to gain approval of their pipeline, but the townspeople are fighting back. The <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=2e39292dd1&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Quebec Cree</a> are working to preserve close to 10,000 acres of land. First Nations in Canada are trying to stop the <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=817dd9d172&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Northern Gateway Pipeline</a>. The “<a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=5156cec2a9&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Wall of Women</a>” is blocking a pipeline that Kinder Morgan plans to build. And in the US, the <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=d763a51c8b&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Cowboy Indian Alliance</a> is heading to DC to protest the northern portion of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=e29eea0ba1&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Great Climate March</a> is on its way across the US to raise awareness of climate change. Check their <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=f9a0980728&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">website</a> to see if they will come close to you.</div>
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Anti-fracking activists in Pennsylvania were hit with maximum bail last week for a blockade action. They need <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=cfeadb14aa&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">donations</a>. Twelve people were <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=0fecb73132&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">found guilty</a> after their protest of the Pilgrim Nuclear Plant. And Popular Resistance is partnering in a campaign, <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=2ea44ab3e5&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Clean Up the Mines!,</a> to halt all further uranium mining until the thousands of abandoned mines that continue to poison us are properly cleaned up.</div>
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<strong>Taking a Stand against the Neoliberal Agenda</strong></div>
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The policies that privatize everything possible while cutting our public programs have in common that they are part of an overall neoliberal economic model. Last week we told you that #FedUp was holding a first action to take money creation out of the hands of private banks. Here is their <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=d711f4008f&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">report</a>.</div>
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Poverty is growing in the US. <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=cdabb49ddb&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Paul Bucheit writes</a> this week that official poverty would be much higher if we used accurate measurements that reflected the current cost of food, housing, health care and education. He finds that almost half of all Americans hold zero wealth because of debt. Nearly a third of <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=68b50e61e8&e=fa52a05a29" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">student loans</a> are thought to be in default. Considering that we are in a huge stock market bubble and both the Federal Reserve and China are cutting back on cash infusions, economists are forecasting another financial collapse this year.</div>
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<a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=b14f6fc94a&e=fa52a05a29" id="yui_3_13_0_1_1396061184666_5316" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Global Climate Convergence banner snipped" class="yiv2234953160size-medium yiv2234953160wp-image-33224 yiv2234953160alignleft" height="143" id="yui_3_13_0_1_1396061184666_5315" src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Global-Climate-Convergence-banner-snipped-300x143.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; height: auto; line-height: 14px; margin: 10px 10px 5px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="300" /></a>While the current crises are frightening, they are also opportunities to join together in both protest of harmful policies and the creation of new systems that meet our basic needs. This spring we see that happening through the <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=3d8100c51b&e=fa52a05a29" id="yui_3_13_0_1_1396061184666_5312" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">#WaveOfAction</a> and the <a href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=b3e7ce6e8d&e=fa52a05a29" id="yui_3_13_0_1_1396061184666_5313" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #509295; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Global Climate Convergence</a>. Across the country and around the world, movements for social, economic and environmental justice are connecting their struggles. It is an exciting time. We encourage you to find some way to get involved.</div>
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More issues and ideas from Occupy: <a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/occupation">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/occupation</a><br />Occupy Portland: <a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/occupyportland">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/occupyportland</a><br /><a href="http://theissueslist.blogspot.com/2013/08/small-wisdom.html">http://theissueslist.blogspot.com/2013/08/small-wisdom.html</a></div>
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“The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours,<br />
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“I want to see the world without explaining away its mystery by calling things wicked, righteous, sinful, and good. I want to erase in myself the easy explanations, the always mendacious explanations about why things happen the way they do, and in this way, come to know the mystery of being–-not by any approximation in thought, but by being. I want to be and not be ashamed of being.”<br />
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“From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.”<br />
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”<br />
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― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest<br />
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“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”<br />
― Malcolm X<br />
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“The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”<br />
― Mark Twain<br />
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“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”<br />
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“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”<br />
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“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”<br />
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“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”<br />
― Anaïs Nin, Journals Of Anais Nin Volume 3<br />
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“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”<br />
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“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”<br />
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“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.”<br />
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with the last honesty and truth.”<br />
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
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Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”<br />
― Bob Dylan<br />
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“Hold fast to dreams,<br />
For if dreams die<br />
Life is a broken-winged bird,<br />
That cannot fly.”<br />
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">~Mr. Obama... The time has come to walk the talk.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">Thursday, August 1, 2013 8:59:27 PM</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">solidarity, human rights, peace, justice ... </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">“I believed that if the general public, especially</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;"> the American public, had access to the information</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;"> contained within [the military’s own databases], </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;"> it could spark a domestic debate on the role of </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;"> the military and our foreign policy in general </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;"> as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">Bradley Manning</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">"Would you be willing to give up what Edward Snowden has given up? He has given up his high paying job, his home, his girlfriend, his family, his future and his freedom just to expose the monolithic spy machinery that the U.S. government has been secretly building to the world. He says that he does not want to live in a world where there isn’t any privacy. He says that he does not want to live in a world where everything that he says and does is recorded.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">Thanks to Snowden, we now know that the U.S. government has been spying on us to a degree that most people would have never even dared to imagine. Up until now, the general public has known very little about the U.S. government spy grid that knows almost everything about us. But making this information public is going to cost Edward Snowden everything."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;">"Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;"><a href="http://my.opera.com/WritingResource.org/blog">http://my.opera.com/WritingResource.org/blog</a>/</span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.234375px;"><br />It is now time for Mr. Obama to do the right thing and walk the talk.</span></span><br />
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Zimmerman Walks!<br />
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It's open season on young black men in America. <br />
Walking while black is illegal. <br />
No Justice, No Peace. <br />
Time to March.<br />
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George Zimmerman ignored the dispatcher's instruction to leave Trayvon alone. He then tracked down the 17 year-old kid because he was black. Trayvon was unarmed and just walking home. <br />
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George accosted the young man and after a scuffle pulled a gun on him. Instead of ending the fight, he decided to shoot the young man, because he knew he could get away with it. George was found not guilty of any crime, but a 17 year old kid who committed no crime is dead. He was guilty of walking while black. <br />
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We are all Trayvon and cannot let this injustice stand. No Justice, No Peace. <br />
Time to stand up, March, Speak Out, and Demand Justice.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9013557576101683516.post-16073222370845207582013-06-24T09:27:00.002-07:002014-05-30T23:06:33.724-07:00The United Fascist State<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There has already been a "fascist takeover." The Demagogues and Republicons represent corporate interests and enforce those ambitions by attacking, invading, occupying and exploiting nations abroad while stifling dissent and curtailing civil rights at home. The United States executive branch, both houses of congress, and the U.S. judiciary are bought and paid for by transnational economic cartels.<br />
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1. <b>Powerful and Continuing Nationalism</b> - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays. This technique was used extensively when ratcheting up attacks during the Iraq war.<br />
<span style="color: red;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">President Barack Obama delivers "New Nationalism" Address on the Economy at Osawatomie High School, Kansas, on 6 December 2011. </span>http://www.youtube.com/embed/W_oEWrBKHTA</span><br />
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2. <b>Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights -</b> Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." These people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc. "Rendering" is a prime example. <br />
<span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://www.newcivilisation.com/home/2254/international-affairs/guantanamo-anniversary-confirms-us-exceptionalism-and-disdain-of-human-rights/"><span style="color: red;">http://www.newcivilisation.com/home/2254/international-affairs/guantanamo-anniversary-confirms-us-exceptionalism-and-disdain-of-human-rights/</span></a></span><br />
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3. <b>Identification of Enemies or Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause -</b> The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, <span style="color: red;">terrorists</span>, etc. The people of Iran have become scapegoats while right wing syncophants advochttp://theissueslist.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-united-fascist-state.htmlate war with Iran.<br />
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4. <b>Supremacy of the Militar</b>y - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, <span style="color: red;">the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding</span>, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized. The G.W. Bush administration bankrupted every state in the union and drove us into economic crisis with unfunded wars of choice. Obama embraces the Bush agenda.<br />
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5. <b>Rampant Sexism</b> - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution. <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sexism-pervade-white-house/story?id=14559177#.Ucht4_FhJ4w">http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sexism-pervade-white-house/story?id=14559177#.Ucht4_FhJ4w</a> </span><br />
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6. <b>Controlled Mass Media</b> - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common. Obama's recent moves for absolute control of the media have become a real concern. <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read"><span style="color: red;">http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read</span></a><br />
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7. <b>Obsession with National Security</b> - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses. <span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/media-embrace-obamas-controversial-picks-for-national-security-team/"><span style="color: red;">http://www.aim.org/aim-column/media-embrace-obamas-controversial-picks-for-national-security-team/</span></a></span><br />
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8. <b>Religion and Government are Intertwined</b> - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions. All three Abrahamic traditions oppose wars of choice, but Bush and Obama, while claiming religious fealty, continued to pursue platforms based in endless war. <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2009/0122/p01s02-usgn.html"><span style="color: red;">http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2009/0122/p01s02-usgn.html</span></a><br />
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9. <b>Corporate Power is Protected</b> - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.<span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://clearingthefogradio.org/escalation-protecting-corporate-interests-terrorism-in-the-us/"><span style="color: red;">http://clearingthefogradio.org/escalation-protecting-corporate-interests-terrorism-in-the-us/</span></a></span><br />
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10. <b>Labor Power is Suppressed</b> - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed. Union membership is dwindling, now around 8% <a href="http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120902/articles/120909952"><span style="color: red;">http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120902/articles/120909952</span></a><br />
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11. <b>Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts</b> - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is curtailed or openly attacked. <br />
<span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/whither-moral-courage.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0"><span style="color: red;">nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/whither-moral-courage.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</span></a></span><br />
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12. <b>Obsession with Crime and Punishment</b> - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations. (DHS & NSA) <a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130523/OPINION03/305230086/Obama-staff-has-lost-sense-balance-over-leaks-obsession"><span style="color: red;">http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130523/OPINION03/305230086/Obama-staff-has-lost-sense-balance-over-leaks-obsession</span></a><br />
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13.<b> Rampant Cronyism and Corruption</b> - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.<br />
Fortune 500 firms often pay nothing for our US timber and oil.<br />
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/edward-snowden-and-booz-how-privatizing-leads-to-crony-corruption/277052/" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/edward-snowden-and-booz-how-privatizing-leads-to-crony-corruption/277052/</span></a><br />
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14. <b>Fraudulent Elections </b>- Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.<br />
<a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2005/08/none-dare-call-it-stolen/"><span style="color: red;">http://harpers.org/archive/2005/08/none-dare-call-it-stolen/</span></a><br />
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Notes: <a href="http://rense.com/general37/fascism.htm">http://rense.com/general37/fascism.htm</a><br />
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who believes Obama has the support of 70% of the country has been
listening to too much talk radio or mainstream media. <br /><br />Entertainment is
not news. And Gitmo is an international disgrace. <br /><br />But Lars Larson is not a
news analyst, not by a long shot. His is a sick form of entertainment
embraced by the semi-literate and abysmally misinformed. A huge part of
Obama's election did come about because of his race, but this was
certainly not the primary factor. Follow the money. </span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[1]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[2]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[3]"> </span></span><br />
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“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” <span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[5]">~Martin Luther King, Jr. </span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[6]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[7]">Lars
is wont to judge Obama by the color of his skin. I find Obama's
character lacking. He's not stupid, which makes him either a moral
coward or a thug. </span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[8]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[9]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[10]">Obama
was elected because the corporate cons played on the fears and
apprehensions of the American people. He got the anti-Romney vote, the
corporate vote, Republican votes, and the political spin machines
convinced people that voting for a third party was voting for Romney.
They were wrong. </span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[11]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[12]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[13]">There
is nothing “great” about Obama except his oratorical skills. When it
comes down to substance and integrity, he has none. He sold out the
people who supported peace, justice and freedom and sucked up to the
people who continue to deliver endless war, judicial homicide, drone war
crimes and corporate hegemony. I find nothing wonderful about four
news wars, no kindness in putting corporate cons in charge of health
care delivery, and absolute cowardice in his abject surrender to the
right wing. Anyone who finds courage in the murder of innocents is
simply not paying attention.</span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[14]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[15]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[16]">Obama
is not a “left wing hack,” unless you are willing to buy into the most
transparent of the corporate spin. He governs like a right wing
Republican war hawk. It was never Obama's intention to "bring our races
together." He intended to get elected... and now he is a very rich
man. </span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[17]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[18]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[19]">Lars
Larson, however, is not speaking anything resembling truth, he is
appealing to incipient racism.</span> Most people really can't handle the
truth. (One of Clint's better lines.) The truth is Obama could not be
farther from left and stands to the right of Ronnie Reagan, George Bush,
Dick Cheney, Romney, Rumsfeld, et al.<br />
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS52OBYPmOho4KsVFnRPtFeoHfJ5oi16GAHsnSVIgKO-iay8h0Rjw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS52OBYPmOho4KsVFnRPtFeoHfJ5oi16GAHsnSVIgKO-iay8h0Rjw" width="200" /></a><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS52OBYPmOho4KsVFnRPtFeoHfJ5oi16GAHsnSVIgKO-iay8h0Rjw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[21]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[22]">The
fact that Obama is a jerk with no scruples is not what makes Lars a
bigot. Lars established his credentials as a bigot years ago. </span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[23]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[24]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[25]">“How
many times have we heard Lars and his ilk insist they are not racist?
"I'm not racist, but ... ." The hell with "but." There is no "but." The
argument is clear: We cannot give amnesty to "illegal aliens" because
they are "guys like this." Or -- at the very least and to be far more
charitable than they deserve -- because the masses of brown hordes
invading our country include a disproportionate number of "guys like
this." </span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[26]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[27]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[28]">"We must stop illegal immigrants because they will rape our children!" </span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[29]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[30]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[31]">Lars
excels at issuing reactionary bile on his program, but this little
snotty remark -- with its overtly racist insinuation , tucked away on
his web site -- goes quite a bit further. It is something to remember
the next time you hear, "I'm not racist, but ... ." With a comment like
this, he proudly aligns himself with the most extreme right-wing
elements in this country, openly fascistic elements. He endears himself
even to those racists he may be given to condemn on the air. But let's
cut the bullshit, please. These guys speak the same language. They know
the code. </span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[32]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[33]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[34]">The
beauty of Larson's undiluted bit of venom is that is so pure. There is
no code, no wink-and-nod. It is clear what he means, and he means what
he says: we can't let "guys like this" in our country BECAUSE they are
"like this," -- they are guys prone to raping 10-year-old girls! If that
were actually true, how could one possibly argue against building a
20-foot wall topped with razor wire and a moat full of alligators along
the entire U.S.-Mexican border? </span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[35]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[36]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[37]">Larson
likes to boast, cigar in hand, that he speaks for true American
conservatives, not Republicans in Name Only, but the real deal, those
lost souls who worship Reagan. On that, I'll take him at his word. If
one wants to understand the dark heart of darkness that beats vibrantly
within the Republican Party, I present to you their unofficial
spokesman: Lars Larson of KXL radio, Oregon's own right-wing, racist
pig. </span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[38]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[39]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[40]">Yes, racist. Racist to the core.” </span></span><br />
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<span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[42]">~Lyle Wallace </span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[43]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[44]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[45]">And
I am sorry Walter Perkins, but Obama fooled you again. He is a notch
above average intelligence, absolutely insincere, and the furthest thing
from authentic. He </span><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[47]">sold us out on health care, peace, fixing infrastructure and has not even bothered to address our failing schools. </span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[48]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[49]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[50]">And
his claim that illegal assassinations and drone warfare are justice has
lost us any credibility for years to come. The bottom line is his
embrace of judicial homicide as a “good thing.” It is this surrender of
integrity which allows him to condone endless war while he talks about
peace. He talks the talk, but when the cameras are turned off, he turns
tail, takes the money and runs in the opposite direction.</span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[51]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[52]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[53]">Obama
was reelected in spite of the color of his skin. When you are running
against a Romney, the fear factor is pretty high and many Americans,
during the flim-flam of a national campaign, can be cowed into voting
for the so-called “lesser evil.” But it is time for us to stop settling
for evil and demand integrity.</span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[54]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[55]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[56]"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ-9c3ruEHmI_9wpcNRYuw19W13nrWbfV1jipV1Ds4B3cpsiZNvJlYJWrw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ-9c3ruEHmI_9wpcNRYuw19W13nrWbfV1jipV1Ds4B3cpsiZNvJlYJWrw" width="151" /></a>George
Bush, the problem child of the Bush family, did very little. His claim
to ignorance was valid. During the Cheney-Bush presidency... Paul
Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, Lewis </span>"Scooter" Libby, Dick
Cheney, John R Bolton, Colin Powell, Elliott Abrams, James Woolsey, and
Richard Perle ran the show.<br />
<a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ-9c3ruEHmI_9wpcNRYuw19W13nrWbfV1jipV1Ds4B3cpsiZNvJlYJWrw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[58]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[59]">But
Obama, by talking left and leading from the right has been much worse
for this nation than Bush. He added four more wars, drones, offshore
drilling, and letting off profiteers and lawbreakers to Bush's mere two
war road show.</span><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[60]" /><br id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[61]" /><span id=".reactRoot[38].[1][2][1]{comment632226790139140_8462758}.[0].[1].[0].[1].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[62]">Lars
is a racist and he plays on fears related to incipient racism... but
Obama is either a coward or compromised. His intransigence, aggression,
embrace of endless war, failure to lead, and attacks on the American
people have crippled this nation, forfeited any legitimacy we might have
established, and leave a sad legacy of war, coffins, crime and chaos.
We can do better.</span></span></div>
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Good morning. Now is the time for Portland City Council to request an EPA – Safe Drinking Water Act Waiver.</div>
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Without the waiver- Portland will continue to increase water utility rates that have doubled over the last decade, continue to lose jobs as we have seen with Siltronics and Steinfelds, AND reduce water quality while jeopardizing the microbrew industry and the health of children……all for a Cryptosporidium public health problem that has NEVER existed and NEVER WILL because we do not have exposure to sewage, in our Bull Run drinking water.</div>
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<strong>So why are we asking for an EPA Waiver?</strong></div>
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-The public health science for Portland supports a waiver</div>
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-EPA is currently reviewing the regulation, and sees data showing the opposite of what they projected the last 20 yr.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><strong>No</strong> surface water utility outbreaks from Cryptosporidium</li>
<li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><strong>No</strong> deaths linked to drinking water and Cryptosporidium</li>
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These outcomes are consistent with my comments made a decade ago requesting a waiver, because I identified sewage… not Cryptosporidium as the cause. The City of New York has also made a request for a waiver from LT2. We are not alone.</div>
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<strong>Comments from current Council members- quote</strong></div>
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<em>“spending a lot of money to address a public health problem that may not exist sticks in my craw”</em> — Commissioner Steve Novick</div>
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<em>“we need to review water budgets in great detail and see where we can reduce costs”</em> — Mayor Charlie Hales</div>
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<em>“the federal government insists we solve a problem that doesn’t exist and further insists we pay for this folly”</em> — Commissioner Nick Fish</div>
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<strong>Regarding the above statements – that’s why we’re asking for the waiver</strong></div>
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<strong>EPA says- “science will determine the ultimate outcome”</strong></div>
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The scientific papers I’ve written over the years provide the guidance for a successful outcome leading to an EPA waiver exempting us from LT2. The scientific hard work has already been completed. Now it’s up to Council. Bull Run has provided safe healthy drinking water for over 100 years without a microbial or chemical public health incident. As a city we NEED and DESERVE the waiver…. and we all need to start working together now. Thank you.</div>
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Over a decade ago a broad based community stakeholder group requested the City of Portland obtain an EPA Waiver from the scientifically unsupported Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule, (LT2). The weight of scientific evidence continues to show added treatment and covering the reservoirs are unnecessary, introducing toxic and carcinogenic chemicals into the drinking water. Additionally, we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars for a public health problem that does not exist. We want an EPA Waiver to stop the wasteful spending and retain safe healthy drinking water. We are not alone. New York City is asking for an EPA LT2 Waiver. <a href="http://crowley.house.gov/press-release/crowley-spearheads-call-epa-waive-hillview-reservoir-mandate" style="border: 0px; color: #478898; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Crowley Spearheads Call for EPA to Waive Hillview Reservoir Mandate</a></div>
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<strong>Continuing resistance of water ruling Bull Run</strong><br />
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Scott Fernandez M.Sc. biology/ microbiology recently spoke at a town hall in the Mount Tabor neighborhood. He spoke in favor of an EPA Safe Drinking Water Act Waiver from the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule. Scott asked to stop wasting hundreds of millions of dollars for a public health problem that does not exist, and keep our Bull Run drinking water safe and pure… <a href="http://southeastexaminer.com/2013/03/continuing-resistance-of-water-ruling-bull-run/" style="border: 0px; color: #478898; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">more…</a></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #edeff4;">Obama
is installing right wing zealots and extremists to head Defense,
Commerce, and the CIA. His choices hurt this nation, undermine
security, and compromise our credibility. These wrong-headed choices
provide more evidence of incompetence and malfeasance. The background of these appointees<br />makes it clear they favor corporate elites over regular people.<br /><br />Why Progressives Should Oppose Hagel | The
Progressive</span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.progressive.org/why-progressives-should-oppose-hagel" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3b5998;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #edeff4;">http://www.progressive.org/why-progressives-should-oppose-hagel</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #edeff4;"><br /><br />John
O. Brennan on Key Issues -
NYTimes.com</span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/01/07/.../07brennan-issues.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3b5998;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #edeff4;">www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/01/07/.../07brennan-issues.html</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #edeff4;"><br /><br />Undernews:
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<span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"> signal what he intends not to </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">do. <br /><br /><br />How many </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">times does Obama <br /><br />have to </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">deliver a speech<br /><br />embracing a set of values</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"><br />and </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">policies, only to watch <br /><br />as he then </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">proceeds to do the opposite</span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">"</span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><br /> Friedersdorf added that</span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"> Obama "has a long record <br /><br /> of </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">broken </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">promises and</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"> misleading rhetoric <br /><br /> on civil </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">liberties"</span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"> Anthony Romero... noted, <br /><br />"the </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">president still claims </span><br />
<span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"><br /> broad </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">authority to <br /><br /> carry out targeted </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">killings <br /><br /> far from any battlefield,</span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"> and there is still <br /><br />insufficient </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">transparency."</span><br />
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<br />than <span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">past government statements </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">which meant he</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">"appeared to be laying groundwork for an </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">expansion <br /><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"><br /><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"><br /> of the controversial </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">targeted killings"<br /><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[71].[1][4][1]{comment669482613078036_120355478}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span id=".reactRoot[71].[1][4][1]{comment669482613078036_120355478}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[15]">...his speech had something for everyone, which<br /><br /> </span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">is </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"> another way of saying that it offered </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">nothing <br /><br /> definitive or even reliable about future actions.<br /><br /></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><br /> No matter how good it made some </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">eager-to-believe</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"><br /></span>
<span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"> progressives feel, it's impossible rationally to assess</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"><br /></span>
<span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"> Obama's future </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">posture regarding the war on terror,</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"><br /></span>
<span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"> secrecy and civil liberties except by his actions. <br /><br /><br /> Until </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">one sees actual changes in behavior and substance </span><br />
<span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"><br /> on those issues, cheering for those </span><span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;">changes as though</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 9.333333015441895px;"> they already occurred or are guaranteed is the height <br /> <br /> of self-delusion."</span><br />
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<em>The petition reads:</em><br /><strong>The Koch Brothers intend to
turn the Tribune Company papers into a mouthpiece for their extremist,
right-wing agenda. We can't let the Kochs turn major American newspapers
into Fox News-like propaganda organs. Reject the Koch Brothers' offer
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The infamous Koch brothers, who've spent millions on right-wing
political causes like climate change denial, voter disenfranchisement,
and union-busting, are now trying to buy eight newspapers including the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, and <i>The Baltimore Sun</i>.<sup>1</sup></div>
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These anti-democratic billionaires have a plan to take over media
outlets to help spread the conservative message, and the Tribune
newspapers are their next targets.</div>
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<strong><a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/637?t=2&akid=7950.3387622.7kziYf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tell the Tribune Company: Don't sell to the Koch Brothers.</a></strong></div>
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The Kochs brothers are oil barons who have funded dozens of
right-wing organizations and think tanks while contributing over $10
million to conservative political candidates over the years.<sup>2</sup></div>
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Thousands of people have already pledged to cancel their
subscriptions to these papers if the Kochs buy them, while almost half
the <i>LA Times</i> staff recently expressed that they would quit if the Kochs took over the paper.<sup>3</sup></div>
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By purchasing the Tribune newspapers, the Kochs would have a direct
line of communication with millions of customers across the country. In
the same way Fox News uses editorial voices to spread misinformation
and right-wing propaganda, the Kochs will have the power to remake the
editorial staff of these papers and install people who will push
propaganda rather than pursuing journalism in the public interest. </div>
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<strong><a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/637?t=3&akid=7950.3387622.7kziYf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tell the Tribune Company: Don't let the Kochs turn major American newspapers into a print version of Fox News.</a></strong></div>
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This kind of takeover will have a devastating effect on the
reporting of important issues like climate change. The Koch brothers
have spent millions trying to deceive the public by funding climate
change deniers and organizations which spread misinformation. Imagine
what they could do with a chain of major American newspapers.</div>
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Progressive organizations, labor unions, and free press advocates
are coming together to fight the Kochs' attempt to take over these
papers. Protests have already happened in a number of cities, and more
are planned for the coming weeks.</div>
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We need to make sure that the decision-makers at the Tribune
Company understand the tremendous backlash that will happen if they sell
out to the Kochs.</div>
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<strong>Tell the Tribune Company: Don't sell to bidders that want
to turn your newspapers into rightwing propaganda organs modeled on Fox
News. Click the link below to sign the petition automatically:<br /><a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/637?t=4&akid=7950.3387622.7kziYf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://act.credoaction.com/go/637?t=5&akid=7950.3387622.7kziYf</a></strong></div>
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<strong>Thank you</strong> for standing up for journalistic integrity.</div>
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Jordan Krueger, Campaign Manager<br /><a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/109?t=6&akid=7950.3387622.7kziYf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CREDO Action from Working Assets</a> </div>
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1. Amy Chozick, "<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/640?t=8&akid=7950.3387622.7kziYf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conservative Koch Brothers Turning Focus to Newspapers</a>." The New York Times, April 20, 2013.<br />2. Suzanne Goldenberg, "<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/641?t=9&akid=7950.3387622.7kziYf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks</a>." The Guardian, February 14, 2013.<br />2. Kathleen Miles, "<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/642?t=10&akid=7950.3387622.7kziYf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If Koch Brothers Buy LA Times, Half of Staff May Quit</a>." Huffington Post, April 30, 2013.
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50 REASONS TO <br /> <br /> OPPOSE<br /><br />FLUORIDATION</h1>
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By Paul Connett, PhD (updated in September 2012)</div>
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In <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/content/europe-statements/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Statements from European Health, Water, & Environment Authorities on Water Fluoridation">Europe</a>, only Ireland (73%), Poland (1%), Serbia (3%), Spain (11%), and the U.K. (11%) fluoridate any of their water. Most developed countries, including Japan and 97% of the western European population, do not consume fluoridated water.</div>
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In the U.S., about 70% of public water supplies are fluoridated. This equates to approximately 185 million people, which is <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/content/bfs-2012/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">over half </a>the number of people drinking artificially fluoridated water worldwide. Some countries have areas with high natural fluoride levels in the water. Unfortunately, because government officials and dental leaders have put so much of their credibility on the line defending fluoridation, and because of the huge liabilities waiting in the wings if they admit that fluoridation has caused an increase in hip fracture, arthritis, bone cancer, brain disorders or thyroid problems, it will be very difficult for them to speak honestly and openly about the issue. But they must, not only to protect millions of people from unnecessary harm, but to protect the notion that, at its core, public health policy must be based on sound science, not political expediency.These include India, China and parts of Africa. In these countries measures are being taken to <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/skeletal_fluorosis05/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">remove</a> the fluoride because of the health problems that fluoride can cause.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1) Fluoride is the only chemical added to water for the purpose of medical treatment</strong>. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies fluoride as a <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/fluoride_drug.pdf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">drug</a>when used to prevent or mitigate disease (FDA 2000). As a matter of basic logic, adding fluoride to water for the sole purpose of preventing tooth decay (a non-waterborne disease) is a form of medical treatment. All other water treatment chemicals are added to improve the water’s quality or safety, which fluoride does not do.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Fluoridation is unethical</strong>. <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/water/medical-ethics/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Medical Ethics">Informed consent</a> is standard practice for all medication, and one of the key reasons why most of Western Europe has ruled against fluoridation. With water fluoridation we are allowing governments to do to whole communities (forcing people to take a medicine irrespective of their consent) what individual doctors cannot do to individual patients.</div>
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Put another way: Does a voter have the right to require that their neighbor ingest a certain medication (even if it is against that neighbor’s will)?</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3) The dose cannot be controlled</strong>. Once fluoride is put in the water it is impossible to control the dose each individual receives because people drink different amounts of water. Being able to control the dose a patient receives is critical. Some people (e.g., manual laborers, athletes, diabetics, and people with kidney disease) drink substantially more water than others.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">50 REASONS TO OPPOSE FLUORIDATION4) The fluoride goes to everyone regardless of age, health or vulnerability. </strong>According to Dr. Arvid Carlsson, the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology and one of the scientists who helped keep fluoridation out of Sweden:</div>
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“Water fluoridation goes against leading principles of pharmacotherapy, which is progressing from a stereotyped medication — of the type 1 tablet 3 times a day — to a much more individualized therapy as regards both dosage and selection of drugs. The addition of drugs to the drinking water means exactly the opposite of an individualized therapy” (Carlsson 1978).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5) People now receive fluoride from many other sources besides water.</strong> Fluoridated water is not the only way people are exposed to fluoride. <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/sources/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Other sources</a> of fluoride include food and beverages processed with fluoridated water (Kiritsy 1996; Heilman 1999), fluoridated dental products (Bentley 1999; Levy 1999), mechanically deboned meat (Fein 2001), tea (Levy 1999), and pesticide residues (e.g., from cryolite) on food (Stannard 1991; Burgstahler 1997). It is now widely acknowledged that exposure to non-water sources of fluoride has significantly increased since the water fluoridation program first began (NRC 2006).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6) Fluoride is not an essential nutrient</strong>. No disease, not even tooth decay, is caused by a “<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/essential-nutrient/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fluoride deficiency</a>.”(NRC 1993; Institute of Medicine 1997, NRC 2006). Not a single biological process has been shown to require fluoride. On the contrary there is extensive evidence that fluoride can interfere with many important biological processes. Fluoride interferes with numerous enzymes (Waldbott 1978). In combination with aluminum, fluoride interferes with G-proteins (Bigay 1985, 1987). Such interactions give aluminum-fluoride complexes the potential to interfere with signals from growth factors, hormones and neurotransmitters (Strunecka & Patocka 1999; Li 2003). More and more studies indicate that fluoride can interfere with<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/fluoride-biochemistry/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">biochemistry</a> in fundamental ways (Barbier 2010).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7) The level in mothers’ milk is very low</strong>. Considering reason #6 it is perhaps not surprising that the level of fluoride in <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/infant-exposure/breast-milk/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Breast Milk">mother’s milk</a> is remarkably low (0.004 ppm, NRC, 2006). This means that a bottle-fed baby consuming fluoridated water (0.6 – 1.2 ppm) can get up to 300 times more fluoride than a breast-fed baby. There are no benefits (see reasons #11-19), only risks (see reasons #21-36), for infants ingesting this heightened level of fluoride at such an early age (an age where susceptibility to environmental toxins is particularly high).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8 ) Fluoride accumulates in the body</strong>. Healthy adult kidneys excrete 50 to 60% of the fluoride ingested each day (Marier & Rose 1971). The remainder accumulates in the body, largely in calcifying tissues such as the bones and <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/pineal/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pineal gland</a> (Luke 1997, 2001). Infants and children <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/infant-retention/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Infants Have Impaired Ability to Excrete Fluoride">excrete less</a> fluoride from their kidneys and take up to 80% of ingested fluoride into their bones (Ekstrahttps://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrAecCk9XjhBJHEM_ozVFJX-589mM18Qvi2EgXi6ZfmpdrrdyCf3xnfdmqDRFbICf2WTdama8hzXP2pfPhTSt2DjiyIZ_3wN9XkIcZnVxbP9TVhiRP-0jUYROnfEdWpbHDhGVo968bxp4/s1600/sodiumfluoride.jpgnd 1994). The fluoride concentration in bone steadily increases over a lifetime (NRC 2006).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9) No health agency in fluoridated countries is monitoring fluoride exposure or side effects</strong>. No regular measurements are being made of the levels of fluoride in urine, blood, bones, hair, or nails of either the general population or sensitive subparts of the population (e.g., individuals with <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/kidney/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">kidney disease</a>).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10) There has never been a single randomized clinical trial to demonstrate fluoridation’s effectiveness or safety</strong>. Despite the fact that fluoride has been added to community water supplies for over 60 years, “there have been no randomized trials of water fluoridation” (Cheng 2007). Randomized studies are the standard method for determining the safety and effectiveness of any purportedly beneficial medical treatment. In 2000, the British Government’s “York Review” could not give a single fluoridation trial a Grade A classification – despite 50 years of research (McDonagh 2000). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to classify fluoride as an “<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/researchers/fda/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">unapproved new drug</a>.”</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11) Benefit is topical not systemic.</strong> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 1999, 2001) has now acknowledged that the mechanism of fluoride’s benefits are mainly <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/caries/topical_systemic/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">topical</a>, not systemic. There is no need whatsoever, therefore, to swallow fluoride to protect teeth. Since the purported benefit of fluoride is topical, and the risks are systemic, it makes more sense to deliver the fluoride directly to the tooth in the form of toothpaste. Since swallowing fluoride is unnecessary, and potentially dangerous, there is no justification for forcing people (against their will) to ingest fluoride through their water supply.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12) Fluoridation is not necessary.</strong> Most western, industrialized countries have<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/content/europe-statements/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Statements from European Health, Water, & Environment Authorities on Water Fluoridation">rejected</a> water fluoridation, but have nevertheless experienced the <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/caries/who-data/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">same decline</a> in childhood dental decay as fluoridated countries. (See data from World Health Organization presented graphically in Figure).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">13) Fluoridation’s role in the decline of tooth decay is in serious doubt. </strong>The<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/caries03/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">largest survey</a> ever conducted in the US (over 39,000 children from 84 communities) by the National Institute of Dental Research showed <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/caries03/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">little difference</a> in tooth decay among children in fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities (Hileman 1989). According to NIDR researchers, the study found an average difference of only 0.6 DMFS (Decayed, Missing, and Filled Surfaces) in the permanent teeth of children aged 5-17 residing their entire lives in either fluoridated or unfluoridated areas (Brunelle & Carlos, 1990). This difference is less than one tooth surface, and less than 1% of the 100+ tooth surfaces available in a child’s mouth. Large surveys from three Australian states have found even less of a benefit, with decay reductions ranging from 0 to 0.3 of one permanent tooth surface (Spencer 1996; Armfield & Spencer 2004). None of these studies have allowed for the possible delayed eruption of the teeth that may be caused by exposure to fluoride, for which there is some evidence (Komarek 2005). A one-year delay in eruption of the permanent teeth would eliminate the very small benefit recorded in these modern studies.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">14) NIH-funded study on individual fluoride ingestion and tooth decay found no significant correlation</strong>. A multi-million dollar, U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/ifs/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="The Iowa Fluoride Study: Fluoride, Teeth, and Developing Bone">study</a> found no significant relationship between tooth decay and <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/ifs/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="The Iowa Fluoride Study: Fluoride, Teeth, and Developing Bone">fluoride intake</a>among children. (Warren 2009) This is the first time tooth decay has been investigated as a function of individual exposure (as opposed to mere residence in a fluoridated community).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15) Tooth decay is high in low-income communities that have been fluoridated for years</strong>. Despite some claims to the contrary, water fluoridation cannot prevent the<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/caries07/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Water Fluoridation, Tooth Decay, & Poverty">oral health crises</a> that result from rampant poverty, inadequate nutrition, and lack of access to dental care. There have been numerous reports of severe dental crises in low-income neighborhoods of US cities that have been fluoridated for over 20 years (e.g., Boston, Cincinnati, New York City, and Pittsburgh). In addition, research has repeatedly found fluoridation to be ineffective at preventing the most serious oral health problem facing poor children, namely “<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/caries06/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Fluoridation & “Baby Bottle Tooth Decay”">baby bottle tooth decay</a>,” otherwise known as early childhood caries (Barnes 1992; Shiboski 2003).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">16) Tooth decay does not go up when fluoridation is stopped.</strong> Where fluoridation has been <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/caries05/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Fluoridation & “Baby Bottle Tooth Decay”">discontinued</a> in communities from Canada, the former East Germany, Cuba and Finland, dental decay has not increased but has generally continued to decrease (Maupomé 2001; Kunzel & Fischer, 1997, 2000; Kunzel 2000; Seppa 2000).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17) Tooth decay was coming down before fluoridation started.</strong> Modern research shows that decay rates were coming down before fluoridation was introduced in Australia and New Zealand and have<br />
continued to decline even after its benefits would have been maximized. (Colquhoun 1997; Diesendorf 1986). As the following figure indicates, many other factors are responsible for the decline of tooth decay that has been universally reported throughout the western world.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">18) The studies that launched fluoridation were methodologically flawed. </strong>The early trials conducted between 1945 and 1955 in North America that helped to launch fluoridation, have been heavily criticized for their poor methodology and poor choice of control communities (De Stefano 1954; Sutton 1959, 1960, 1996; Ziegelbecker 1970). According to Dr. Hubert Arnold, a statistician from the University of California at Davis, the early fluoridation trials “are especially rich in fallacies, improper design, invalid use of statistical methods, omissions of contrary data, and just plain muddleheadedness and hebetude.” Serious questions have also been raised about Trendley Dean’s (the father of fluoridation) famous 21-city study from 1942 (Ziegelbecker 1981).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">19) Children are being over-exposed to fluoride. </strong>The fluoridation program has massively failed to achieve one of its key objectives, i.e., to lower dental decay rates while limiting the occurrence of <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/fluorosis/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Dental Fluorosis">dental fluorosis</a> (a discoloring of tooth enamel caused by too much fluoride. The goal of the early promoters of fluoridation was to limit dental fluorosis (in its very mild form) to<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">10%</span> of children (NRC 1993, pp. 6-7). In 2010, however, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">41%</span> of American adolescents had dental fluorosis, with 8.6% having mild fluorosis and 3.6% having either moderate or severe dental fluorosis (Beltran-Aguilar 2010). As the 41% prevalence figure is a national average and includes children living in fluoridated and unfluoridated areas, the fluorosis rate in fluoridated communities will obviously be higher. The British Government’s York Review estimated that up to 48% of children in fluoridated areas worldwide have dental fluorosis in all forms, with 12.5% having fluorosis of <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/dental_fluorosis03/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Dental Fluorosis: The “Cosmetic” Factor">aesthetic concern</a> (McDonagh, 2000).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">20) The highest doses of fluoride are going to bottle-fed babies.</strong> Because of their sole reliance on liquids for their food intake, <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/infant-exposure/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">infants</a> consuming formula made with fluoridated water have the highest exposure to fluoride, by bodyweight, in the population. Because infant exposure to fluoridated water has been repeatedly found to be a <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/infant03/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">major risk factor</a> for developing dental fluorosis later in life (Marshall 2004; Hong 2006; Levy 2010), a number of <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/infant01/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">dental researchers</a> have recommended that parents of newborns not use fluoridated water when reconstituting formula (Ekstrand 1996; Pendrys 1998; Fomon 2000; Brothwell 2003; Marshall 2004). Even the American Dental Association (ADA), the most ardent institutional proponent of fluoridation, distributed a November 6, 2006 email alert to its members recommending that parents be advised that formula should be made with “low or no-fluoride water.” Unfortunately, the ADA has done little to get this information into the hands of parents. As a result, many parents remain unaware of the fluorosis risk from infant exposure to fluoridated water.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">21) Dental fluorosis may be an indicator of wider systemic damage</strong>. There have been many suggestions as to the possible <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/dental_fluorosis07/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">biochemical mechanisms</a> underlying the development of dental fluorosis (Matsuo 1998; Den Besten 1999; Sharma 2008; Duan 2011; Tye 2011) and they are complicated for a lay reader. While promoters of fluoridation are content to dismiss dental fluorosis (in its milder forms) as merely a cosmetic effect, it is rash to assume that fluoride is not impacting other developing tissues when it is visibly damaging the teeth by some biochemical mechanism (Groth 1973; Colquhoun 1997). Moreover, ingested fluoride can only cause dental fluorosis during the period before the permanent teeth have erupted (6-8 years), other tissues are potentially susceptible to damage throughout life. For example, in areas of naturally high levels of fluoride the first indicator of harm is dental fluorosis in children. In the same communities many older people develop <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/skeletal_fluorosis05/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">skeletal fluorosis</a>.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">22) Fluoride may damage the brain</strong>. According to the National Research Council (2006), “it is apparent that fluorides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the brain.” In a <a href="http://www.epa.gov/ncct/toxcast/files/summit/48P%20Mundy%20TDAS.pdf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">review</a> of the literature commissioned by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), fluoride has been listed among about 100 chemicals for which there is “substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity.” Animal experiments show that fluoride accumulates in the brain and alters mental behavior in a manner consistent with a neurotoxic agent (Mullenix 1995). In total, there have now been <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">over 100</a> animal experiments showing that fluoride can damage the <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/brain/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="A Critique of the York Review – by Paul Connett, PhD">brain</a> and impact learning and behavior. According to fluoridation proponents, these animal studies can be ignored because high doses were used. However, it is important to note that rats generally require five times more fluoride to reach the same plasma levels in humans (Sawan 2010). Further, one animal experiment found effects at remarkably low doses (Varner 1998). In this study, rats fed for one year with 1 ppm fluoride in their water (the same level used in fluoridation programs), using either sodium fluoride or aluminum fluoride, had morphological changes to their kidneys and brains, an increased uptake of aluminum in the brain, and the formation of beta-amyloid deposits which are associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Other animal studies have found effects on the brain at water fluoride levels as low as 5 ppm (Liu 2010).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">23) Fluoride may lower IQ</strong>. There have now been <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/brain01/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">33 studies</a> from China, Iran, India and Mexico that have reported an association between fluoride exposure and reduced IQ. One of these studies (Lin 1991) indicates that even just moderate levels of fluoride exposure (e.g., 0.9 ppm in the water) can exacerbate the neurological defects of iodine deficiency. Other studies have found IQ reductions at 1.9 ppm (Xiang 2003a,b); 0.3-3.0 ppm (Ding 2011); 1.8-3.9 ppm (Xu 1994); 2.0 ppm (Yao 1996, 1997); 2.1-3.2 ppm (An 1992); 2.38 ppm (Poureslami 2011); 2.45 ppm (Eswar 2011); 2.5 ppm (Seraj 2006); 2.85 ppm (Hong 2001); 2.97 ppm (Wang 2001, Yang 1994); 3.15 ppm (Lu 2000); 4.12 ppm (Zhao 1996). In the Ding study, each 1 ppm increase of fluoride in urine was associated with a loss of 0.59 IQ points. None of these studies indicate an adequate margin of safety to protect all children drinking artificially fluoridated water from this affect. According to the National Research Council (2006), “the consistency of the results [in fluoride/IQ studies] appears significant enough to warrant additional research on the effects of fluoride on intelligence.” The NRC’s conclusion has recently been amplified by a team of Harvard scientists whose fluoride/IQ meta-review concludes that fluoride’s impact on the developing brain should be a “high research priority.” (Choi et al., 2012). Except for one small IQ study from New Zealand (Spittle 1998) no fluoridating country has yet investigated the matter.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">24) Fluoride may cause non-IQ neurotoxic effects. </strong>Reduced IQ is not the only neurotoxic effect that may result from fluoride exposure. At least three human studies have reported an association between fluoride exposure and <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/brain03/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">impaired</a> visual-spatial organization (Calderon 2000; Li 2004; Rocha-Amador 2009); while four other studies have found an association between prenatal fluoride exposure and <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/brain05/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Fluoride’s Effect on Fetal Brain">fetal brain damage</a>(Han 1989; Du 1992; Dong 1993; Yu 1996).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">25) Fluoride affects the pineal gland.</strong> Studies by Jennifer Luke (2001) show that fluoride accumulates in the human <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/pineal/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pineal gland</a> to very high levels. In her Ph.D. thesis, Luke has also shown in animal studies that fluoride reduces melatonin production and leads to an earlier onset of puberty (Luke 1997). Consistent with Luke’s findings, one of the earliest fluoridation trials in the U.S. (Schlesinger 1956) reported that on average young girls in the fluoridated community reached menstruation 5 months earlier than girls in the non-fluoridated community. Inexplicably, no fluoridating country has attempted to reproduce either Luke’s or Schlesinger’s findings or examine the issue any further.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">26) Fluoride affects thyroid function. </strong>According to the U.S. National Research Council (2006), “several lines of information indicate an effect of fluoride exposure on<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/thyroid/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">thyroid function</a>.” In the Ukraine, Bachinskii (1985) found a lowering of thyroid function, among otherwise healthy people, at 2.3 ppm fluoride in water. In the middle of the 20th century, fluoride was prescribed by a number of European doctors to reduce the activity of the thyroid gland for those suffering from hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid) (Stecher 1960; Waldbott 1978). According to a clinical study by Galletti and Joyet (1958), the thyroid function of hyperthyroid patients was effectively reduced at just 2.3 to 4.5 mg/day of fluoride ion. To put this finding in perspective, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS, 1991) has estimated that total fluoride exposure in fluoridated communities ranges from 1.6 to 6.6 mg/day. This is a remarkable fact, particularly considering the rampant and increasing problem of hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) in the United States and other fluoridated countries. Symptoms of hypothyroidism include depression, fatigue, weight gain, muscle and joint pains, increased cholesterol levels, and heart disease. In 2010, the second most prescribed drug of the year was Synthroid (sodium levothyroxine) which is a hormone replacement drug used to treat an underactive thyroid.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">27) Fluoride causes arthritic symptoms</strong>. Some of the early symptoms of skeletal fluorosis (a fluoride-induced bone and joint disease that impacts millions of people in India, China, and Africa), mimic the symptoms of <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/arthritis/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">arthritis</a> (Singh 1963; Franke 1975; Teotia 1976; Carnow 1981; Czerwinski 1988; DHHS 1991). According to a review on fluoridation published in Chemical & Engineering News, “Because some of the clinical symptoms mimic arthritis, the first two clinical phases of skeletal fluorosis could be easily misdiagnosed” (Hileman 1988). Few, if any, studies have been done to determine the extent of this misdiagnosis, and whether the high prevalence of arthritis in America (1 in 3 Americans have some form of arthritis – CDC, 2002) and other fluoridated countries is related to growing fluoride exposure, which is highly plausible. Even when individuals in the U.S. suffer advanced forms of skeletal fluorosis (from drinking large amounts of tea), it has taken <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/skeletal_fluorosis01/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">years of misdiagnoses</a> before doctors finally correctly diagnosed the condition as fluorosis.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">28) Fluoride damages bone</strong>. An early fluoridation trial (Newburgh-Kingston 1945-55) found a significant two-fold increase in cortical bone defects among children in the fluoridated community (Schlesinger 1956). The cortical bone is the outside layer of the bone and is important to protect against fracture. While this result was not considered important at the time with respect to bone fractures, it did prompt questions about a possible link to osteosarcoma (Caffey, 1955; NAS, 1977). In 2001, Alarcon-Herrera and co-workers reported a linear correlation between the severity of dental fluorosis and the frequency of bone fractures in both children and adults in a high fluoride area in Mexico.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">29) Fluoride may increase hip fractures in the elderly.</strong> When high doses of fluoride (average 26 mg per day) were used in trials to treat patients with osteoporosis in an effort to harden their bones and reduce fracture rates, it actually led to a higher number of fractures, particularly <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/bone01/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Clinical Trials: Fluoride Treatment Increases Bone Fracture Rates in Osteoporosis Patients">hip fractures</a> (Inkovaara 1975; Gerster 1983; Dambacher 1986; O’Duffy 1986; Hedlund 1989; Bayley 1990; Gutteridge 1990. 2002; Orcel 1990; Riggs 1990 and Schnitzler 1990). Hip fracture is a very serious issue for the elderly, often leading to a loss of independence or a shortened life. There have been over a dozen studies published since 1990 that have investigated a possible relationship between hip fractures and long term consumption of artificially fluoridated water or water with high natural levels. The results have been <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/bone12/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Water Fluoride & Bone Fractures: Epidemiological Studies">mixed</a> – some have found an association and others have not. Some have even claimed a protective effect. One very important study in China, which examined hip fractures in six Chinese villages, found what appears to be a dose-related increase in hip fracture as the concentration of fluoride rose from 1 ppm to 8 ppm (Li 2001) offering little comfort to those who drink a lot of fluoridated water. Moreover, in the only human epidemiological study to assess bone strength as a function of bone fluoride concentration, researchers from the University of Toronto found that (as with animal studies) the strength of bone declined with increasing fluoride content (Chachra 2010). Finally, a<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/ifs/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="The Iowa Fluoride Study: Fluoride, Teeth, and Developing Bone">recent study</a> from Iowa (Levy 2009), published data suggesting that low-level fluoride exposure may have a detrimental effect on <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/bone11/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Fluoride & Bone Density: Epidemiological Studies">cortical bone density</a> in girls (an effect that has been <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/bone03/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Fluoride’s Differential Effect on Bone Density: Trabecular vs. Cortical Bone">repeatedly documented</a> in clinical trials and which has been posited as an important <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/bone06/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Mechanisms by which fluoride may reduce bone strength">mechanism</a> by which fluoride may increase bone fracture rates).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">30) People with impaired kidney function are particularly vulnerable to bone damage.</strong> Because of their inability to effectively excrete fluoride, people with <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/kidney/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Kidney">kidney disease</a> are prone to accumulating high levels of fluoride in their bone and blood. As a result of this high fluoride body burden, kidney patients have an elevated risk for developing skeletal fluorosis. In one of the few U.S. studies investigating the matter, crippling skeletal fluorosis was documented among patients with severe kidney disease drinking water with just 1.7 ppm fluoride (Johnson 1979). Since severe skeletal fluorosis in kidney patients has been detected in small case studies, it is likely that larger, systematic studies would detect skeletal fluorosis at even lower fluoride levels.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">31) Fluoride may cause bone cancer (osteosarcoma)</strong>. A U.S. government-funded animal study found a dose-dependent increase in bone cancer (<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/cancer05/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">osteosarcoma</a>) in fluoride-treated, male rats (NTP 1990). Following the results of this study, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) reviewed national cancer data in the U.S. and found a significantly higher rate of osteosarcoma (a bone cancer) in young men in fluoridated versus unfluoridated areas (Hoover et al 1991a). While the NCI concluded (based on an analysis lacking statistical power) that fluoridation was not the cause (Hoover et al 1991b), no explanation was provided to explain the higher rates in the fluoridated areas. A smaller study from New Jersey (Cohn 1992) found osteosarcoma rates to be up to 6 times higher in young men living in fluoridated versus unfluoridated areas. Other epidemiological studies of varying size and quality have failed to find this relationship (a summary of these can be found in Bassin, 2001 and Connett & Neurath, 2005). There are three reasons why a fluoride-osteosarcoma connection is plausible: First, fluoride accumulates to a high level in bone. Second, fluoride stimulates bone growth. And, third, fluoride can interfere with the genetic apparatus of bone cells in several ways; it has been shown to be mutagenic, cause chromosome damage, and interfere with the enzymes involved with DNA repair in both cell and tissue studies (Tsutsui 1984; Caspary 1987; Kishi 1993; Mihashi 1996; Zhang 2009). In addition to cell and tissue studies, a correlation between fluoride exposure and chromosome damage in humans has also been reported (Sheth 1994; Wu 1995; Meng 1997; Joseph 2000).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">32) Proponents have failed to refute the Bassin-Osteosarcoma study. </strong>In 2001, Elise Bassin, a dentist, successfully defended her doctoral thesis at Harvard in which she found that young boys had a five-to-seven fold increased risk of getting osteosarcoma by the age of 20 if they drank fluoridated water during their mid-childhood growth spurt (age 6 to 8). The study was published in 2006 (Bassin 2006) but has been largely discounted by fluoridating countries because her thesis adviser Professor <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/researchers/harvard/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chester Douglass</a> (a promoter of fluoridation and a consultant for Colgate) promised a larger study that he claimed would discount her thesis (Douglass and Joshipura, 2006). Now, after 5 years of waiting the Douglass study has finally been published (Kim 2011) but in no way does this study discount Bassin’s findings. The study, which used far fewer controls than Bassin’s analysis, did not even attempt to assess the age-specific window of risk that Bassin identified. Indeed, by the authors’ own admission, the study had no capacity to assess the risk of osteosarcoma among children and adolescents (the precise population of concern). For a critique of the Douglass study, <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/kim_fan/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">click here</a>.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">33) Fluoride may cause reproductive problems.</strong> Fluoride administered to animals at high doses wreaks havoc on the male reproductive system – it damages sperm and increases the rate of <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/fertility/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">infertility</a> in a number of different species (Kour 1980; Chinoy 1989; Chinoy 1991; Susheela 1991; Chinoy 1994; Kumar 1994; Narayana 1994a,b; Zhao 1995; Elbetieha 2000; Ghosh 2002; Zakrzewska 2002). In addition, an epidemiological study from the US found increased rates of infertility among couples living in areas with 3 ppm or more fluoride in the water (Freni 1994), two studies have found increased fertility among men living in high-fluoride areas of China and India (Liu 1988; Neelam 1987); four studies have found reduced level of circulating testosterone in males living in high fluoride areas (Hao 2010; Chen P 1997; Susheela 1996; Barot 1998), and a study of fluoride-exposed workers reported a “subclinical reproductive effect” (Ortiz-Perez 2003). While animal studies by FDA researchers have <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/fertility04/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Fluoride’s Effect on Male Reproductive System — The “Sprando/Collins” Anomaly">failed</a> to find evidence of reproductive toxicity in fluoride-exposed rats (Sprando 1996, 1997, 1998), the National Research Council (2006) has recommended that, “the relationship between fluoride and fertility requires additional study.”</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">34) Some individuals are highly sensitive to low levels of fluoride</strong> as shown by<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/hypersensitivity01/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Case Reports of Hypersensitivity to Ingested Fluorides">case studies</a> and double blind studies. In one study, which lasted 13 years, Feltman and Kosel (1961) showed that about 1% of patients given 1 mg of fluoride each day developed negative reactions. Many individuals have reported suffering from symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, rashes and stomach and gastro intestinal tract problems, which disappear when they avoid fluoride in their water and diet. (Shea 1967; Waldbott 1978; Moolenburgh 1987) Frequently the symptoms reappear when they are unwittingly exposed to fluoride again (Spittle, 2008). No fluoridating government has conducted scientific studies to take this issue beyond these anecdotal reports. Without the willingness of governments to investigate these reports scientifically, should we as a society be forcing these people to ingest fluoride?</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">35) Other subsets of population are more vulnerable to fluoride’s toxicity.</strong> In addition to people suffering from impaired kidney function discussed in reason #30 other subsets of the population are more vulnerable to fluoride’s toxic effects. According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR 1993) these include: <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/infant-exposure/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">infants</a>, the elderly, and those with <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/diabetes/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">diabetes mellitus</a>. Also vulnerable are those who suffer from <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/nutrition/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">malnutrition</a> (e.g., calcium, magnesium, vitamin C, vitamin D and iodine deficiencies and protein-poor diets) and those who have <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/diabetes-insipidus/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Fluoridated Water Causes Severe Dental Fluorosis in Children with Diabetes Insipidus">diabetes insipidus</a>. See: Greenberg 1974; Klein 1975; Massler & Schour 1952; Marier & Rose 1977; Lin 1991; Chen 1997; Seow 1994; Teotia 1998.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">36) There is no margin of safety for several health effects</strong>. No one can deny that high natural levels of fluoride damage health. Millions of people in India and China have had their health compromised by fluoride. The real question is whether there is an adequate margin of safety between the doses shown to cause harm in published studies and the total dose people receive consuming uncontrolled amounts of fluoridated water and non-water sources of fluoride. This margin of safety has to take into account the wide range of individual sensitivity expected in a large population (a safety factor of 10 is usually applied to the lowest level causing harm). Another safety factor is also needed to take into account the wide range of doses to which people are exposed. There is clearly no margin of safety for dental fluorosis (CDC, 2010) and based on the following studies nowhere near an adequate margin of safety for lowered IQ (Xiang 2003a,b; Ding 2011; Choi 2012); lowered thyroid function (Galletti & Joyet 1958; Bachinskii 1985; Lin 1991); bone fractures in children (Alarcon-Herrera 2001) or hip fractures in the elderly (Kurttio 1999; Li 2001). All of these harmful effects are discussed in the NRC (2006) review.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">38) Black and Hispanic children are more vulnerable to fluoride’s toxicity. </strong>According to the CDC’s national survey of dental fluorosis, black and Mexican-American children have significantly <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/dental_fluorosis02/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Racial Disparities in Dental Fluorosis Rates">higher rates</a> of dental fluorosis than white children (Beltran-Aguilar 2005, Table 23). The recognition that minority children appear to be more vulnerable to toxic effects of fluoride, combined with the fact that low-income families are less able to avoid drinking fluoridated water, has prompted prominent leaders in the environmental-justice movement to oppose mandatory fluoridation in Georgia. In a statement issued in May 2011, Andrew Young, a colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr., and former Mayor of Atlanta and former US Ambassador to the United Nations, <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/ej/statements/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">stated</a>:</div>
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“I am most deeply concerned for poor families who have babies: if they cannot afford unfluoridated water for their babies’ milk formula, do their babies not count? Of course they do. This is an issue of fairness, civil rights, and compassion. We must find better ways to prevent cavities, such as helping those most at risk for cavities obtain access to the services of a dentist…My father was a dentist. I formerly was a strong believer in the benefits of water fluoridation for preventing cavities. But many things that we began to do 50 or more years ago we now no longer do, because we have learned further information that changes our practices and policies. So it is with fluoridation.”</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">39) Minorities are not being warned about their vulnerabilities to fluoride.</strong> The CDC is not warning black and Mexican-American children that they have higher rates of dental fluorosis than Caucasian children (see #38). This <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/ej-considerations/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Risk Factors for Fluoride Toxicity in the Black Community">extra vulnerability</a> may extend to other toxic effects of fluoride. Black Americans have higher rates of lactose intolerance, kidney problems and diabetes, all of which may exacerbate fluoride’s toxicity.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">40) Tooth decay reflects low-income not low-fluoride intake</strong>. Since dental decay is most concentrated in poor communities, we should be spending our efforts trying to increase the access to dental care for low-income families. The highest rates of tooth decay today can be found in low-income areas that have been fluoridated for many years. The real “Oral Health Crisis” that exists today in the United States, is not a lack of fluoride but poverty and lack of dental insurance. The Surgeon General has estimated that 80% of dentists in the US do not treat children on Medicaid.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">42) The silicon fluorides have not been tested comprehensively. </strong>The chemical usually tested in animal studies is pharmaceutical grade sodium fluoride, not industrial grade fluorosilicic acid. Proponents claim that once the silicon fluorides have been diluted at the public water works they are completely dissociated to free fluoride ions and hydrated silica and thus there is no need to examine the toxicology of these compounds. However, while a study from the University of Michigan (Finney et al., 2006) showed complete dissociation at neutral pH, in acidic conditions (pH 3) there was a stable complex containing five fluoride ions. Thus the possibility arises that such a complex may be regenerated in the stomach where the pH lies between 1 and 2.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">43) The silicon fluorides may increase lead uptake into children’s blood.</strong> Studies by Masters and Coplan (1999, 2000, 2007), and to a lesser extent Macek (2006), show an association between the use of fluorosilicic acid (and its sodium salt) to fluoridate water and an increased uptake of lead into children’s blood. Because of lead’s acknowledged ability to damage the developing brain, this is a very serious finding. Nevertheless, it is being largely ignored by fluoridating countries. This association received some strong biochemical support from an animal study by Sawan et al. (2010) who found that exposure of rats to a combination of fluorosilicic acid and lead in their drinking water increased the uptake of lead into blood some threefold over exposure to lead alone.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">44) Fluoride may leach lead from pipes, brass fittings and soldered joints.</strong> In tightly controlled laboratory experiments, Maas et al (2007) have shown that fluoridating agents in combination with chlorinating agents such as chloroamine increase the leaching of lead from brass fittings used in plumbing. While proponents may argue about the neurotoxic effects of low levels of fluoride there is no argument that lead at very low levels lowers IQ in children.</div>
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What the committee found is that we’ve gone with the status quo regarding fluoride for many years—for too long really—and now we need to take a fresh look . . . In the scientific community people tend to think this is settled. I mean, when the U.S. surgeon general comes out and says this is one of the top 10 greatest achievements of the 20th century, that’s a hard hurdle to get over. But when we looked at the studies that have been done, we found that many of these questions are unsettled and we have much less information than we should, considering how long this [fluoridation] has been going on.</div>
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The absence of studies is being used by promoters as meaning the absence of harm. This is an irresponsible position.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">46) Endorsements do not represent scientific evidence.</strong> Many of those promoting fluoridation rely heavily on a list of endorsements. However, the U.S. PHS first endorsed fluoridation in 1950, before one single trial had been completed and before any significant health studies had been published (see chapters 9 and 10 in <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Case Against Fluoride </em>for the significance of this PHS endorsement for the future promotion of fluoridation). Many other endorsements swiftly followed with little evidence of any scientific rational for doing so. The continued use of these endorsements has more to do with political science than medical science.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">47) Review panels hand-picked to deliver a pro-fluoridation result.</strong> Every so often, particularly when their fluoridation program is under threat, governments of fluoridating countries hand-pick panels to deliver reports that provide the necessary re-endorsement of the practice. In their recent book Fluoride Wars (2009), which is otherwise slanted toward fluoridation, Alan Freeze and Jay Lehr concede this point when they write:</div>
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There is one anti-fluoridationist charge that does have some truth to it. Anti-fluoride forces have always claimed that the many government-sponsored review panels set up over the years to assess the costs and benefits of fluoridation were stacked in favor of fluoridation. A review of the membership of the various panels confirms this charge. The expert committees that put together reports by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1941, 1944 and 1954; the National Academy of Sciences in 1951, 1971, 1977 and 1993; the World Health Organization in 1958 and 1970; and the U.S. Public Health Service in 1991 are rife with the names of well-known medical and dental researchers who actively campaigned on behalf of fluoridation or whose research was held in high regard in the pro-fluoridation movement. Membership was interlocking and incestuous.</div>
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The most recent examples of these self-fulfilling prophecies have come from the Irish Fluoridation Forum (2002); the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC, 2007) and Health Canada (2008, 2010). The latter used a panel of six experts to review the health literature. Four of the six were pro-fluoridation dentists and the other two had no demonstrated expertise on fluoride. A notable exception to this trend was the appointment by the U.S. National Research Council of the first balanced panel of experts ever selected to look at fluoride’s toxicity in the U.S. This panel of twelve reviewed the US EPA’s safe drinking water standards for fluoride. After three and half years the panel concluded in a 507- page report that the safe drinking water standard was not protective of health and a new maximum contaminant level goal (MCLG) should be determined (NRC, 2006). If normal toxicological procedures and appropriate margins of safety were applied to their findings this report should spell an end to water fluoridation. Unfortunately in January of 2011 the US EPA Office of Water made it clear that they would not determine a value for the MCLG that would jeopardize the water fluoridation program (EPA press release, Jan 7, 2011. Once again politics was allowed to trump science.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">49) Proponents usually refuse to defend fluoridation in open debate.</strong> While pro-fluoridation officials continue to promote fluoridation with undiminished fervor, they usually <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/utah-debate/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Why Not Debate?">refuse</a> to defend the practice in open public debate – even when challenged to do so by organizations such as the Association for Science in the Public Interest, the American College of Toxicology, or the U.S. EPA (Bryson 2004). According to Dr. Michael Easley, a prominent lobbyist for fluoridation in the US, “Debates give the illusion that a scientific controversy exists when no credible people support the fluorophobics’ view” (Easley, 1999). In light of proponents’ refusal to debate this issue, Dr. Edward Groth, a Senior Scientist at Consumers Union, observed that, “the political profluoridation stance has evolved into a dogmatic, authoritarian, essentially antiscientific posture, one that discourages open debate of scientific issues” (Martin 1991).</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">50) Proponents use very dubious tactics to promote fluoridation</strong>. Many scientists, doctors and dentists who have spoken out publicly on this issue have been subjected to <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/martin-1991/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Professional Attack">censorship and intimidation</a> (Martin 1991). <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/content/mullenix-interview/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Fluoride & the Brain: An Interview with Dr. Phyllis Mullenix">Dr. Phyllis Mullenix</a> was fired from her position as Chair of Toxicology at Forsythe Dental Center for publishing her findings on fluoride and the brain (Mullenix 1995); and <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/content/marcus-interview/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Interview with EPA’s Dr. William Marcus on NTP’s Fluoride/Cancer Study">Dr. William Marcus</a> was fired from the EPA for questioning the government’s handling of the NTP’s fluoride-cancer study (Bryson 2004). Many dentists and even doctors tell opponents in private that they are opposed to this practice but dare not speak out in public because of peer pressure and the fear of recriminations. Tactics like this would not be necessary if those promoting fluoridation were on secure scientific and ethical grounds.</div>
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When it comes to controversies surrounding toxic chemicals, vested interests traditionally do their very best to discount animal studies and quibble with epidemiological findings. In the past, political pressures have led government agencies to drag their feet on regulating asbestos, benzene, DDT, PCBs, tetraethyl lead, tobacco and dioxins. With fluoridation we have had a sixty-year delay. Unfortunately, because government officials and dental leaders have put so much of their credibility on the line defending fluoridation, and because of the huge liabilities waiting in the wings if they admit that fluoridation has caused an increase in hip fracture, arthritis, bone cancer, brain disorders or thyroid problems, it will be very difficult for them to speak honestly and openly about the issue. But they must, not only to protect millions of people from unnecessary harm, but to protect the notion that, at its core, public health policy must be based on sound science, not political expediency. They have a tool with which to do this: it’s called the Precautionary Principle. Simply put, this says: if in doubt leave it out. This is what <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/content/europe-statements/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Statements from European Health, Water, & Environment Authorities on Water Fluoridation">most European countries</a> have done and their children’s teeth have not suffered, while their public’s trust has been strengthened.</div>
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Just how much doubt is needed on just one of the health concerns identified above, to override a benefit, which when quantified in the largest survey ever conducted in the US, amounts to less than one tooth surface (out of 128) in a child’s mouth?</div>
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While fluoridation may not be the greatest environmental health threat, it is one of the easiest to end. It is as easy as turning off a spigot in the public water works. But to turn off that spigot takes political will and to get that we need masses more people informed and organized. Please get these 50 reasons to all your friends and encourage them to get fluoride out of their community and to help ban this practice worldwide.</div>
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Further arguments against fluoridation, can be viewed at <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.fluoridealert.org</a> and in the book The Case Against Fluoridation (Chelsea Green, 2010). Arguments for fluoridation can be found at <a href="http://www.ada.org/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.ada.org</a></div>
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The 50 Reasons were first compiled by Paul Connett and presented in person to the Irish Fluoridation Forum in October 2000. The document was refined in 2004 and published in<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Medical Veritas</em>. In the introduction to the 2004 version it was explained that after over four years the Irish authorities had not been able to muster a response to the 50 Reasons, despite agreeing to do so in 2000. Eventually, an anonymous, incomplete and superficial response was posted on the Irish Department of Health and Children’s website (see this response and addendum at:http://www.dohc.ie/other_health_issues/dental_research/. Paul Connett’s comprehensive response to this response can be accessed at http://www.fluoridealert.org/50reasons.ireland.pdf. We learned on August 7, 2011 that this governmental response was prepared by an external contractor at a cost to the Irish taxpayers’ of over 30,000 Euros.</div>
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Since 2004, there have been many major scientific developments including the publication of the U.S. National Research Council report (NRC, 2006); the publication of Bassin’s study on Osteosarcoma (Bassin 2006), and many more studies of fluoride’s interaction with the brain, that necessitated a major update of the 50 Reasons in August 2011. This update was made with the generous assistance of James Beck, MD, PhD, Michael Connett, JD, Hardy Limeback, DDS, PhD, David McRae and Spedding Micklem, D.Phil. Additional developments in 2012, including FAN’s translation of <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/researchers/translations/2012studies/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; color: #ed1556; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">over 20 Chinese studies</a> on fluoride toxicity and publication of the Harvard team’s meta-review of fluoride and IQ (Choi 2012), warranted a further update in August 2012, with the extremely helpful assistance of my son, Michael Connett.</div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">Fact #1: Most Developed Countries Do Not Fluoridate Their Water</span></b></div>
In the United States, health authorities call fluoridation “one of
the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century.” Few other
countries share this view. In fact, more people drink artificially
fluoridated water in the U.S. alone than in the <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/content/bfs-2012/">rest of the world</a> combined.[1] Most advanced nations do not fluoridate their water. In <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/fluoride-facts/www.fluoridealert.org/content/water_europe/">western Europe</a>,
97% of the population has water without a single drop of fluoride added
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Europe adds fluoride to its salt. Only five nations in western Europe,
however, have any fluoridated salt.[3] The vast majority do not.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Fact #2: Fluoridated Countries Do Not Have Less Tooth Decay Than Non-Fluoridated Countries</span></b></div>
It is often claimed that fluoridated water is the main reason the
United States has had a large decline in tooth decay over the past 60
years. This same decline in tooth decay, however, has occurred in <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/caries01/">all developed countries</a>,
most of which have never added any fluoride to their water.[4] Today,
according to data from the World Health Organization, there is no
discernible difference in tooth decay between the minority of developed
countries that fluoridate water, and the majority that do not.[5]<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Fact #3: Fluoride Affects Many Tissues in the Body Besides the Teeth</span></b></div>
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Fluoridation advocates have long claimed that the safety of
fluoridation is beyond scientific debate.[6] However, according to the
well-known toxicologist, Dr. John Doull, who chaired the National
Academy of Science’s review on fluoride, the safety of fluoridation
remains “unsettled” and “we have much less information than we should,
considering how long it has been going on.”[7] In 2006, Doull’s
committee at the NAS published an exhaustive <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/researchers/nrc/">500-paFluoridation advocates have long claimed that the safety of fluoridation is beyond scientific debate.[6] However, according to the well-known toxicologist, Dr. Johge review</a> of fluoride’s toxicity.[8] The report concludes that fluoride is an “endocrine disruptor” and can affect <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/researchers/nrc/findings/">many things</a> in the body, including the <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/health/bone-fracture/">bones</a>, the <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/health/brain/">brain</a>, the <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/health/thyroid/">thyroid gland</a>, the <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/health/pineal/">pineal gland</a>, and even <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/health/diabetes/">blood sugar levels</a>.[9]<br />
Far from giving fluoride a clean bill of health, the NAS called upon scientists to <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/researchers/nrc/recommendations/">investigate</a>
if current fluoride exposures in the United States are contributing to
chronic health problems, like bone disorders, thyroid disease, low
intelligence, dementia, and diabetes, particularly in people who are
most vulnerable to fluoride’s effects.[10] These recommendations
highlight that—despite 60 years of fluoridation—many of the basic
studies necessary for determining the program’s safety have <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/researchers/nrc/recommendations/">yet to be conducted</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Fact #4: Fluoridation Is Not a “Natural” Process</span></b></div>
<a href="http://fluoridealert.org/articles/phosphate01/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="fluorosilicic-acid" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-12877 colorbox-12867" height="225" src="http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/fluorosilicic-acid-300x225.gif" width="300" /></a>Fluoridation
advocates often say that “nature thought of fluoridation first.” By
this, they mean that fluoride occurs at naturally high levels in some
water supplies.[11] Lots of toxic substances, however, like arsenic,
and even some medicines, like lithium, occur at naturally high levels.
This doesn’t mean they’re safe.[12] Further, the level of fluoride added
in artificial fluoridation programs is far higher than the level of
fluoride that occurs in the vast majority of (unpolluted) <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/content/fresh_foods/">fresh surface waters</a>.[13]<br />
Also, the main fluoride chemical (fluorosilicic acid) that is added
to water is not what most people would call a naturally occurring
compound. It is a corrosive acid captured in the air poFact #10: Disadvantaged Communities Are the Most Disadvantaged by Fluoridellution control
devices of the <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/fluoride-facts/www.fluoridealert.org/articles/phosphate01/">phosphate fertilizer industry</a>.[14] Fluoride is captured in air pollution control devices because fluoride gases are <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/fluoride-facts/www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/hanmer1983.pdf">hazardous air pollutants</a> that cause significant environmental harm.[15] This captured fluoride acid is the <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/water/fluoridation-chemicals/">most contaminated</a>
chemical added to public water supplies,[16] and may trigger additional
risks from those presented by natural fluorides. These risks include a
possible cancer hazard from the acid’s elevated arsenic content, and a
possible neurotoxic hazard from the acid’s ability–under some
conditions–to increase the erosion of lead from old pipes.[17]<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Fact #5: 40% of American teenagers show visible signs of fluoride over-exposure.</span></b></div>
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According to a recent national survey by the CDC, about 40% of American teenagers have a condition called <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/fluorosis/">dental fluorosis</a>.[18]
Fluorosis is a defect of tooth enamel caused by fluoride’s interference
with the tooth-forming cells. The condition shows as cloudy spots and
streaks and, in more severe cases, brown stains and tooth erosion.[19]
In the 1950s, health officials claimed that fluorosis would only affect
10% of children in fluoridated areas.[20] This prediction has proven
false. Today, not only do <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/studies/dental_fluorosis01/">40% of American teenagers</a> have fluorosis, but, in some fluoridated areas, the rate is as high as <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/studies/dental_fluorosis01/">70 to 80%</a>, with some children suffering advanced forms of the condition.[21]<br />
The high rate of fluorosis in the U.S. reflects the fact that children now receive fluoride from <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/sources/">many sources</a>
besides tap water. When fluoridation first began, there was not a
single tube of toothpaste that contained fluoride. Today, over 95% of <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/sources/f-toothpaste/">toothpastes</a> are fluoridated. Although fluoride toothpastes carry <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/studies/acute03/">poison warnings</a>
on them, studies show that children can swallow large amounts of
fluoride when they brush, particularly when using toothpaste with bubble
gum and candy flavors.[22]<br />
And there are other sources of fluoride as well, including <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/sources/processed/">processed beverages/foods</a>,[23] fluoride <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/sources/f-pesticides/">pesticides</a>,[24] tea,[25] <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/sources/teflon/">Teflon pans</a>,[26] and some fluorinated <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/sources/pharmaceuticals/">pharmaceuticals</a>.
[27] The concern today, therefore, is not just the safety of
fluoridated water by itself, but the safety of fluoridated water in
combination with all the other sources to which we’re now exposed.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Fact #6: For Infants, Fluoridated Water Provides No Benefits, Only Risks</b></span></div>
<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/infant-exposure/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="baby_small" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-12874 colorbox-12867" height="199" src="http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/baby_small-300x199.jpg" width="300" /></a>Up until the 1990s, health authorities advised parents to give fluoride to newborn babies. This is <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/infant-exposure/">no longer the case</a>.
Today, the Institute of Medicine recommends that babies consume a
minuscule 10 micrograms of fluoride per day.[28] This is roughly the
equivalent of what babies ingest from breast milk, which contains
virtually no fluoride.[29]<br />
Infants who consume formula made with fluoridated tap water consume
up to 700 to 1,200 micrograms of fluoride, or about 100 times more than
the recommended amount. According to the CDC, these early spikes of
fluoride exposure during infancy provide <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/cdc-2012.pdf">no known advantage</a> to teeth.[30] These spikes can, however, produce harm.<br />
Recent studies show that babies who are given fluoridated water in their formula develop significantly <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/infant03/">higher rates</a> of dental fluorosis.[31] Because of this, a number of <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/infant01/">prominent dental researchers</a> now advise that parents should not add fluoridated water to baby formula.[32]<br />
And teeth are not the only concern. In July of 2012, scientists from Harvard University warned that the <a href="http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi/">developing brain</a>
may be another target for fluoride toxicity.[33] The Harvard team based
their warning on a large number of studies from China that have found <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/studies/brain01/">reduced IQ</a>
scores among children exposed to elevated fluoride during their early
years of life. Twelve of the studies the Harvard team reviewed found IQ
loss at fluoride levels deemed safe in the U.S. and a study sponsored by
UNICEF found IQ loss in iodine-deficient children at the so- called
“optimal” fluoridation level.[34] According to the senior Harvard
scientist who conducted the review, the possibility that fluoridated
water can reduce IQ is a matter that “<a href="http://www.braindrain.dk/2013/02/fluoridated-water-and-brains/">definitely deserves concern</a>.”[35]<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Fact #7: Fluoride Supplements Have Never Been Approved by the FDA</span></b></div>
<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/researchers/fda/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="f-supplements" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-12873 colorbox-12867" height="223" src="http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/f-supplements-300x223.jpg" width="300" /></a>Fluoride <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/dental-products/supplements/">“supplements”</a>
are designed to provide children the same dose of fluoride they would
receive by drinking fluoridated water.[36] Unlike other dietary
supplements, however, you can’t just walk into a grocery store and buy a
fluoride supplement. Because of fluoride’s toxicity, you can only buy a
fluoride “supplement” if you have a doctor’s prescription. Yet,
although federal law requires that prescription drugs be approved as
safe and effective by the FDA,[37] the FDA has <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/researchers/fda/not-approved/">never approved</a> fluoride supplements for the prevention of tooth decay.[38] In fact, the only fluoride supplements the FDA has reviewed, <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/enziflur-1975.pdf">have been rejected</a>.[39]
So, with fluoridation, we are adding to the water a
prescription-strength dose of a drug that has never been approved by the
FDA.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Fact #8: Fluoride Is the Only Medicine Added to Public Water</span></b></div>
<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/water/medical-ethics" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="medicine_glass" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-12871 colorbox-12867" height="300" src="http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/medicine_glass-267x300.jpg" width="267" /></a>Fluoride
is the only chemical added to water that doesn’t actually treat the
water. Chlorine, for example, is added to kill bacteria so that we can
drink the water without getting sick. Fluoride, by contrast, is added to
prevent a disease (tooth decay) that is not caused by drinking water.<br />
Fluoridation proponents claim that fluoridated water is not a
medication because, in their view, it’s no different than adding iodine
to salt or vitamin D to milk. What proponents fail to acknowledge,
however, is that iodine and vitamin D are both essential nutrients; but
fluoride is not.<br />
An essential nutrient is something the body has a physiological
demand for. If we don’t have enough iodine, for example, our thyroid
gland won’t function properly. Although fluoride advocates sometimes
claim that fluoride is a “nutrient,” the National Academy of Sciences
has repeatedly confirmed that this is <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/essential-nutrient/">not the case</a>.[40]<br />
Because fluoride is not a nutrient, the FDA has defined fluoride as a <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/researchers/fda/drug/">medicine</a>
when used to prevent disease.[41] Since tooth decay is a disease,
adding fluoride to water to prevent tooth decay is — as a matter of
logic — a form of medication. This is one of the reasons why <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/content/europe-statements/">most European nations</a>
have rejected fluoridation: because, in their view, the water supply is
an inappropriate way to deliver medicine.[42] With other medicines, it
is the patient, not the doctor, who has the right to decide which drug
to take.[43] Fluoridation denies people this right.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Fact #9: Swallowing Fluoride Provides Little Benefit to Teeth</span></b></div>
When water fluoridation first began back in the 1940s, the medical profession believed fluoride needed to be <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/caries/topical_systemic/">ingested</a>
to be most effective in preventing cavities.[44] This was why fluoride
was added to water and pills—because these are things that people
swallow.<br />
Today, however, it is now widely recognized that fluoride’s main
benefit does not actually come from ingestion, it comes from fluoride’s <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/caries04/">topical contact </a>with
teeth[45]—a fact that even the CDC has now acknowledged.[46] So, not
only does fluoridation add a medicine to water, it adds a medicine that
does not actually need to be swallowed.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Fact #10: Disadvantaged Communities Are the Most Disadvantaged by Fluoride</span></b></div>
<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/ej/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-12872 colorbox-12867" height="199" src="http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/girl02-300x199.jpg" width="300" /></a>In the United States, there is a <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/content/dental-care/">serious shortage of dentists</a>
who will treat low-income patients.[47] The claim, however, that we can
compensate for this lack of care by forcing poor populations to consume
fluoridation chemicals in their water is a dangerous one.<br />
The conditions that make people more vulnerable to fluoride toxicity are far <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/ej/">more prevalent</a>
in poor communities than affluent ones (e.g., nutrient deficiencies,
infant formula consumption, kidney disease, and diabetes).[48] This
likely explains why African American and Mexican American children
suffer significantly <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/dental_fluorosis02/">higher rates</a> of dental fluorosis.[49] These disparities in fluoride risk have led several prominent <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/ej/statements/">civil rights leaders</a>—including Andrew Young and the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights organization—to call for an end to fluoridation.[50]<br />
Despite claims that fluoridation can prevent the high rates of tooth
decay seen in poor areas, the vast majority of poor urban communities
have been fluoridated for over 30 years, and yet are still suffering
from a <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/caries07/">severe oral health crisis</a>.[51] In fluoridated <a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/cincinnatis-dental-crisis/">Cincinnati</a>,
the dental director described the state of oral health among poor
children as “absolutely heartbreaking and a travesty,” adding that
“people would be shocked to learn how bad the problem has become.’”[52]
Many other cities have experienced the same fate. For example:<br />
<ul>
<li>In (fluoridated) <a href="http://iadr.confex.com/iadr/2006Orld/techprogram/abstract_73168.htm">Detroit</a>, 91% of 5-year-old black children have tooth decay, with 42% suffering from “severe” decay.[53]</li>
<li>In (fluoridated) <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/uploads/albert-2002.pdf">New York City</a>,
34% of pre-school black children from low-income families have rampant
tooth decay, with a staggering 6.4 cavities per affected child.[54]</li>
<li>In (fluoridated) <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/uploads/cook_county.pdf">Chicago</a>, 64% of third graders have tooth decay.[55]</li>
<li>In <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/uploads/san_antonio_caries.pdf">San Antonio</a>,
annual head start surveys show that fluoridation failed to reduce the
high rate of tooth decay among the city’s head start children. After
eight years of fluoridation, the tooth decay rate did not decrease–it
increased.[56]</li>
<li>Untreated tooth decay in fluoridated urban areas has led to several deaths, including a 12-year-old child in <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Dental/story?id=2925584&page=1">Prince Georges Maryland</a>, and a 24-year-old father in <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/insurance-24-year-dies-toothache/story?id=14438171">Cincinnati</a>.[57]</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/ej/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignleft wp-image-12878 colorbox-12867" height="159" src="http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/child-300x199.gif" width="240" /></a>The simple fact is that <strong>poor populations need dental care, not fluoridation chemicals in their water.</strong>
The millions of dollars spent each year promoting fluoridation would be
better spent advocating for policies that provide real dental care:
like allowing dental therapists to provide affordable care to
populations with little access to dentists.[58] In short, fluoridation
provides good PR for dental trade associations, but bad medicine for
those it’s supposedly meant to serve.</article></div>
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KBOO, the Portland community radio station that has long championed worker rights and other progressive causes, is embroiled in a labor dispute of its own.</div>
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Staff members are trying to unionize after KBOO Station Manager Lynn Fitch reduced employee benefits and shifted paid staff to “at will” status, which means they can be fired without cause. </div>
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Fitch’s moves to assert more managerial authority are a departure for the 45-year-old nonprofit, which has long practiced a participatory style of governance that grants staff, board members and volunteers significant roles.</div>
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The station’s paid staff will vote via secret ballot May 30 on whether to designate the Communications Workers of America Local 7901 as their collective bargaining agent. </div>
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“As a dedicated worker for many years, it deeply saddens me that KBOO management has changed the terms of staff employment from ‘for just cause’ to ‘at will,’ cut our benefits and then has chosen to fight our efforts to unionize,” says Kathleen Stephenson, the morning news and public affairs director, who has worked at the station more than 20 years.</div>
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KBOO, broadcasting at 90.7 FM, offers an eclectic mix of music, news and public affairs, including blues, bluegrass, folk, jazz and African music, and spoken-word shows offering alternative perspectives not found elsewhere on Portland’s radio dial.</div>
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Fitch says the KBOO Foundation Board of Directors re-evaluated its role and station personnel procedures after winning a $25,000 grant to hire outside consultants.</div>
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KBOO often has relied on a personnel committee of board, staff and volunteers to conduct hiring searches and weigh grievances. Efforts to fire staff — even on-air and other volunteers — often are cumbersome and controversial.</div>
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As occurs at other alternative community radio stations, longtime program hosts and other volunteers often have a sense of ownership of the station, and for good reason. The station is owned by the KBOO Foundation, which is controlled by the station’s 5,000 donors. However, Fitch complains that only about 300 to 400 people vote in foundation board elections, and those presumably include many of the station’s 500 volunteers.</div>
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In the past few months, the board granted Fitch sole authority to hire and fire staff, and the personnel committee was deactivated, says board member Michael Papadopoulos. A staff grievance procedure, which Fitch says was “very lengthy and somewhat convoluted,” was eliminated. </div>
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Fitch also cut employees’ paid sick pay from 80 hours a year to 40 hours. Staff had been allowed to accumulate as much as 480 hours’ unused sick pay, and she cut that to 20 hours. She also cut paid pregnancy leaves from six weeks to three weeks, and eliminated staff sabbaticals and step raises.</div>
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“The way they’re treating their workers is a reflection of where they’re heading,” says Madelyn Elder, president of Communications Workers of America Local 7901. “That doesn’t seem very community-like.”</div>
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Fitch says the benefits cuts were necessary because of the station’s crimped finances, and to bring them in line with other nonprofits. She also wants the flexibility to grant some employees pay raises, and end the policy of paying everyone the same amount.</div>
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KBOO will remain a “pretty wonderful place to work,” Fitch says, noting the station pays full health care premiums and allows a new mom to bring her baby to work every day.</div>
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But Fitch’s changes have provoked a sharp division within the staff, who say they were told they might all be laid off and then forced to reapply for their jobs.</div>
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Ironically, a station that has long aired a public affairs program hosted by labor activists, and promoted human rights of all kinds, is now officially opposing the union drive, or at least Fitch is.</div>
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She contested the union’s bid to create a bargaining unit of 10 employees — all the paid staff except herself— arguing that three of those employees are managers.</div>
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Eight of the 10 employees signed union-authorization cards requesting affiliation with the Communications Workers of America Local 7901. A planned National Labor Relations Board hearing to resolve the size of the bargaining unit was scheduled for April 30, but was canceled the day before when both sides agreed to move the finance director — who didn’t support the union anyway — out of the bargaining unit.</div>
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“KBOO fully supports the staffs’ legal rights to unionize or not,” Fitch insists. </div>
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However, that’s merely what the law requires. Fitch makes no secret that she opposes the union drive.</div>
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“The KBOO Foundation believes, however, that at this time and under the circumstances, that we don’t believe it’s in the best interests of the station and the staff to involve third-party representation,” Fitch says.</div>
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It’s unclear if that position is shared by the board.</div>
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Board Chairman S.W. “Conch” Conser declined to comment, saying he can’t speak for the organization.</div>
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Papadopoulos says the board has no formal position on the union drive, and he doesn’t oppose it.</div>
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Elder— a former volunteer with the KBOO radio show — says the station is behaving in many ways like a typical corporation that opposes union drives.</div>
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“Unions are attacked all over the place and not just by corporations any more,” Elder says. Her local also recently organized bargaining units at Portland nonprofits Free Geek and the Fund for the Public Interest, a call center that raises money for the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group.</div>
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If KBOO workers vote to join the union and win a collective bargaining agreement, they might secure the right to a grievance process and seniority-based considerations in future layoffs, Elder says. However, KBOO would still have the freedom to make layoffs if it so chooses, she says, even if the workers fend off the “at-will” hiring and firing policy.</div>
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“There’s power in numbers,” she says. “At the least, they’d face it together.”</div>
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Fitch, who was promoted recently from development director to “station navigator,” says KBOO’s social justice-oriented philosophy and programming will not change as a result of the union drive. However, she says, conditions are tense among the staff.</div>
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“It makes for a very hostile work environment — not hostility from me — but uncomfortable,” Fitch says. “Yet, would I have have done anything differently? No.”</div>
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<i>E</i><i>d</i><i>i</i><i>t</i><i>o</i><i>r’s note: Reporter Steve Law worked as KBOO volunteer coord</i><i>i</i><i>n</i><i>a</i><i>t</i><i>or from 1980-82, and served on its board from 1987-94.</i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9013557576101683516.post-28135923658396323082013-05-08T18:53:00.003-07:002013-05-08T18:53:22.173-07:00 "Do the Right Thing"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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~We should build bridges instead of fences. Our nation was built by immigrants. Every time we have limited immigration, we have suffered because of it. We should live up to what it says on the statue of liberty. tmf<br />Closing our doors to those who seek freedom is wrong: <br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>With conquering limbs astride from land to land;</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>Here at our sea-washed, sunset hates shall stand</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>Is the imprisoned lighting, and her name</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>Mother of Exiles. From her beacon hand</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><b>I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"</b></i></span><br />
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<b>Emma Lazarus</b><br />
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Here is some commentary which expresses the idea of open borders rather well:<br />
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"Do the Right Thing"<br />
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Since 2008, there seems to be a feeling that the United States is in decline, that a great stagnation has set in, that Americans’ customary optimism is obsolete. One antidote to this (decline) can be found in the ideal expressed on the Statue of Liberty:<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: red;">Give me your tired, your poor, </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red;">Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red;">Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tossed to me,</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red;">I lift my lamp beside the golden door.</span></i></b></div>
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That famous poem remains part of American patriotic mythology, even after a hundred years of immigration restrictions have been betraying it.<br />
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Of course, it is not the first time that an American ideal has remained latent for generations. Americans took pride in the Declaration of Independence’s valiant pronouncement that “all men are created equal” through generations of slavery and segregation. At long last, though, the dream won through. So there is hope—including for those tempest-tossed beside the golden door.<br />
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Nathan Smith is the author of <br />Principles of a Free Society. <br />He blogs at The Free Thinker.<br />
<a href="http://openborders.info/nathanael-smith/">http://openborders.info/nathanael-smith/</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9013557576101683516.post-67561769839697978212013-05-06T14:26:00.000-07:002013-05-06T14:26:08.279-07:00Bill Fletcher: International Organizer, Jr: Sun., May 19, 1:30 PM – 5 PM, Red Lion Inn, Salem, OR 3301 Market St NE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What Now For Labor And The Left? A Conversation with Bill Fletcher Jr.<br />
Posted by juareza on April 9, 2013<br />
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Bill Fletcher Jr.<br />
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Bill Fletcher, Jr., is a leading labor, racial justice and international solidarity activist. Fletcher got his start in the labor movement as a rank and file member of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America. Combining labor and community work, he was also involved in ongoing efforts to desegregate the Boston building trades. Fletcher is a graduate of Harvard University; he writes and speaks widely on domestic and international topics, and on racial justice and labor issues. Fletcher is the author of “They’re Bankrupting Us” – And Twenty Other Myths About Unions (Beacon Press), and co-author (with Fernando Gapasin) of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice (University of California Press)<br />
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Sunday, May 19, 2013<br />
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM<br />
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Red Lion Inn, Salem, Oregon<br />
3301 Market St NE, Salem, OR 97301<br />
From I-5, take Market Street Exit #256<br />
West on Market 1/4 mile<br />
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Program<br />
1:30 – 1:45 Introductory remarks<br />
1:45 – 3:00 Bill Fletcher, Jr. on “The Left and the building of a winning majority” + Q & A<br />
3:00 – 3:30 Break<br />
3:30 – 5:00 Bill Fletcher, Jr. on “Labor, the Left and social transformation” + Q & A BILL FLETCHER, JR.<br />
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Free – donations accepted to cover conference costs.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9013557576101683516.post-39329668373607537882013-05-05T15:12:00.005-07:002013-05-05T15:12:55.179-07:00Prison Reform is not about building prisons. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 15px;"><br />When we talk about the war on drugs, which is increasingly turning into a </span><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kovalik/honduras-civilians-dead_b_1521177.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); border: none; color: #1156a7; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">real war</a></em><span style="font-size: 15px;">, we often overlook the fact that the "criminals" involved in the drug trade aren't actually violating anyone's rights. When a drug dealer is hauled before a judge, there is no victim standing behind the prosecutor claiming damages. Everyone participating in the drug trade does so voluntarily. However, there are </span><em style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a lot more crimes</em><span style="font-size: 15px;"> for which this is also true. Millions upon millions of Americans have been thrown into cages without a victim ever claiming damages. It is important to look at the burden this mass level of incarceration places upon our society.</span><br />
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In light of that, let us review some statistics which demonstrate just how destructive the mass incarceration of victimless criminals has become to our society. The 2009 federal prison population consisted of criminals who committed these crimes:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 2px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Violent 7.9%</li>
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Drug offenses are self-explanatory as being victimless, but so too are public-order offenses, which also fall under the victimless crimes category. Public order offenses include such things as immigration, weapons charges, public drunkenness, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocZFsQgbIjM" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); border: none; color: #1156a7; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">selling lemonade</a> without a license, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWeF6lwg4aY" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); border: none; color: #1156a7; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dancing</a>in public, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDD6FtNMpNw" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); border: none; color: #1156a7; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">feeding the homeless</a> without a permit<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDD6FtNMpNw" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); border: none; color: #1156a7; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">.</a> etc....</div>
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The United States has the highest prison population rate in the world. Presently <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">756 per 100,000</strong> of the national population is behind bars. This is in contrast to an average world per-capita prison population rate of <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">145 per 100,000</strong> (158 per 100,000 if set against a world prison population of 10.65 million), based on 2008 United Nations population data. In other words, the U.S. incarcerates its citizens at a rate that is 5 times the world average.</div>
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I find some dark humor in the fact that those who engage in victimless crime don't create any real victims until they are put behind bars, at which point they cause the state to steal $47,000 a year from the tax paying public. In our justice system today, victims are victimized twice; once by the perpetrator of the crime against them, and the other by the state which then forces the victim to pay for the punishment of their assailant. Clearly our society's notion of "justice" is logically ridiculous. It's apparently not OK for someone to steal from you, but its perfectly acceptable for the State to steal from you if the state is going to use that money to punish the person who stole from you. What kind of asinine system of justice is that?</div>
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What is justice? Isn't justice making a victim whole once again? Isn't justice punishing a criminal for the damages he imposed upon his victims? I propose that the only real justice that can be enacted in a free society is monetary punishment in the form of taking the perpetrators property and handing it to their victim, or ostracism by defamation of character.</div>
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I know some people will cry that under such a system violent criminals will be left free to roam the streets, but isn't that what our system is doing now? Consider that if a man commits a violent crime today, he is put behind bars for some arbitrary length of time with hundreds of other violent criminals, after which he is released back on to the streets. Do you think that criminal is going to be more dangerous to society after spending years locked in a cage with other violent criminals or less dangerous? <b><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/IncarcRecid.pdf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); border: none; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Numerous studies</a> show that prison either <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">increases</span></em>, or has no impact on, recidivism. </span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.48em;">Putting people behind bars does nothing but squander resources. It deprives society of able-bodied workers and costs society massive amounts of resources which are stolen from the general public through the coercive theft of taxation. Consider how much richer American society would be today if it had an additional 5% of the male population working to produce goods and services in the private sector labor force.</span></div>
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Economist David Friedman has put together a fantastic presentation on how society could be organized in such a way as to eliminate all victimless crime while simultaneously eliminating the necessity of the State to steal from the victims of crimes to pay for their assailants punishment. After you're done watching Friedman's presentation, check out this <a href="http://www.realcostofprisons.org/materials/comics/prison_town.pdf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); border: none; color: #1156a7; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fantastic comic</a> put together by the Real Cost of Prisons project.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS; font-size: medium;">Sen. Johanns expects the Supreme Court to overturn DOMA </span><span class="date published time" style="background-image: url(http://nebraskaradionetwork.com/wp-content/themes/news/images/icon-time.png); background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px 0px 2px 18px;" title="2013-04-29T07:40:39+00:00">April 29, 2013</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px;">by</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="author vcard" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><span class="fn"><a class="fn n" href="http://nebraskaradionetwork.com/author/bmartin/" rel="author" style="color: #006699;" title="Brent Martin">Brent Martin</a></span></span></h1>
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Johanns says it appears a majority is emerging on the Supreme Court which concludes states define marriage.</div>
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“If that holds together, what that would mean is that the Supreme Court, kind of on a state’s rights theory, would say, ‘Look states you define what marriage will be, but Defense of Marriage Act would be unconstitutional,’” Johanns tells Nebraska Radio Network.</div>
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That, though, could cause problems.</div>
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Johanns suggests it might take years of litigation to determine how a same-sex couple married in one state will be treated under the law if it moves to a state that doesn’t recognize same-sex unions.</div>
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<span class="wpaudio-container" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; zoom: 1;"><a class="wpaudio" href="http://cdn.nebraskaradionetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/samesexva.mp3" style="border: 0px; color: #2244ff; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img class="wpaudio-play" src="http://nebraskaradionetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/wpaudio-mp3-player/wpaudio-play.png" style="background-color: #cccccc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; height: 13px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 14px;" />AUDIO:</a></span> Brent Martin reports [:40]</div>
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<a href="http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=1993"><cite>www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=1993</cite></a><a class="pplsrsla" data-ci="srslc_7" data-desc="Fluoride - Not FDA Approved for Ingestion By Sally Stride June 25, 2004. Amazingly enough, children's sodium fluoride anti-cavity drug products have never ..." data-slg="webres" data-sli="srsl_7" data-title="Fluoride - Not FDA Approved for Ingestion - National Health ..." data-url="http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=1993" data-ved="0CIIBEOYZMAc" data-vli="srslcl_7" href="http://www.blogger.com/null" id="srsl_7" role="button" tabindex="0"><span class="pplsrsl"></span></a><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[2]"> <br /><br />Ballots for the Special Election will be mailed May 3rd!<br />Yes to Clean Water, No to Toxic Waste... <span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="st">What It Is. The National Mail Voter <i>Registration</i> Form is the one document that allows you to <i>register</i> to <i>vote</i> from <i>anywhere in the United States</i>.</span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[2]"></span><a href="http://theissueslist.blogspot.com/"></a><br id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]" /><br id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[4]" /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[5]">Why Should You Vote NO on Fluoridation?</span></b></span><br id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[6]" /><br id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[7]" /><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[8]">1. <b>Fluoridation Chemicals Threaten Clean Water</b></span><br id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[9]" /><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[10]">Fluoridation
would mean adding 1.1 millions pounds a year of fluorosilicic acid, an
unpurified industrial byproduct of fertilizer production to some of the
world’s best water. Read more </span><br id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[11]" /><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[12]"> </span></span></span><br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[12]">2. <b>Recent Science Shows Health Risks</b></span><br id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[13]" /><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[14]">Major
scientific studies from the National Academy of Sciences and others
have reported serious uncertainties and risks from fluoride in drinking
water, including decreased childhood IQ and thyroid disorders. Recent
science has also led to warnings against regularly mixing infant formula
with fluoridated water to avoid excessive exposure for infants. Read
more </span><br id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[15]" /><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[16]"><br />3. <b>Better Alternatives For Kids' Teeth and Health</b></span><br id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[17]" /><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[18]">Across
the United States cities that have been fluoridated for decades are
still facing dental health problems. Increasing access to care and
prevention education is the only real solution to improving kids' dental
health.</span><br id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[19]" /><span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[20]">Instead
of spending up to $7 million on a fluoridation plant and $500,000 or
more a year on fluoridation chemicals, a comparable investment in
increased access to care would better help at-risk kids while protecting
the entire community from the health risks of fluoridation. <br /><br />Read more </span>at <span id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[22]">Clean Water Portland: Located at 1125 SE Madison ST #112, Portland, OR 97214 Tel. 503.893.8999 </span><a href="http://www.cleanwaterportland.org/" id=".reactRoot[2].[1][4][1]{comment10151632572158653_300727210}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[23]" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.cleanwaterportland.org/</a></span></span><br />
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The recent bombings at home and abroad are endemic and systemic. Bombings are often political. The Central Intelligence Agency, <br />acting as an enforcement arm of the Trilateral Commission, under the auspices of the United States Government, has been supporting, encouraging, facilitating, and engaged in bombing a variety of sites and locations for "political" reasons as basic and misguided as a temporal corporate bottom line. <br />And yet, lives still hang in the balance...<br />
<a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/corporateaccountability" target="_blank">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/corporateaccountability</a><br />
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Life remains political. We can debunk the junk, speak truth to power, and daily mourn for lives lost in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and the Palestinian territories. And victims in the USA and elsewhere: some "rendered" citizens for<br />
to be tortured, raped, and or murdered under the veil of state secrecy and a guise of national security. These extra-legal crimes proceed with the full consent and approval of congress. To mourn is only <br />a beginning. Afterwards we must stand up and fight back.<br />
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To cope with the daily deaths, one can only offer what seem endless condolences, and still engage in political discussions during planning, organizing, and preparation for revolutionary acts to help prevent needless deaths and expose the culprits. When people get real news they tend to do the right thing. <br />
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Video-games, movies, and popular entertainment are symptoms reflecting dysfunctional corporate culture. We lost a few battles. Military, industrial, corporate, government, and educational tides favoring or condoning war-based economic initiatives must be challenged. We can use the media, including radio, television, movies, films, videos, gatherings, rallys, seminars, webinars, meetings, books, marches, newsletters, websites, blogs, social media, and a variety of alternative media to inform and educate for social change that makes a difference.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/drones">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/drones</a><br />
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Drone murders and corporate ambitions abroad, including overt and covert wars in dozens of nations, will only be ameliorated or ended by our care in nurturing incipient liberation. Growing movements, organizations, and counter-cultural efforts for peace, justice, and freedom will be out in the streets on Mayday. Join us if you can... We are under attack, but more and more of us are standing up and fighting back. Even in our mourning the dead, let us join together in celebration of life. <br />
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<a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/mayday" target="_blank">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/mayday</a>The "Occupation" movement is only a new beginning to an old story. <br />
<a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/occupation">http://www.theportlandalliance.org/occupation</a> <br />
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The corporate press is very powerful.<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[2]">Here is Obama's record of betrayal:</span><br id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]" /><br id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[4]" /><b><span id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[5]"><strike>Four</strike> <span style="color: red;">Five</span> new wars, for a total of <strike>six</strike>...<span style="color: red;"> Seven!</span></span><br id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[6]" /><span id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[7]"><br />Illegal drones, </span><span id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[9]">Support for capital punishment,</span><br id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[10]" /><span id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[11]"><br />Mandated corporate control of health care delivery, </span><br id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[12]" /><span id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[13]"><br />Reductions in civil rights: wiretapping, state secrets, rendering, a</span><span id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[15]">nd the declaration of a presidential right <br />to kill any American, </span><span id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[17]">anytime, anywhere, for any <br />reason or without providing any reason at all.</span></b><br id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[19]" /><span id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[20]"><br /><br /><br />Which of these "accomplishments" most appeals to you?</span><br id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[21]" /><span id=".reactRoot[51].[1][3][1]{comment164022617094353_449782}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[22]">Where do you get your "news?"<br /><br />Here is the NW Alliance for Alternative Media & Education:<br /><a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/2014/January">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/January</a> </span></span></div>
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