Fluoride in Drinking Water

In 1964, during the height of the Cold War between the USA and Russia, Stanley Kubrick produced, co-wrote and directed the film classic, DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB.

In the opening scenes, General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) was concerned about an epiphany he had experienced during a sexual encounter regarding protecting his "purity of essence" and thereby became a bit paranoid about the fluoridation of drinking water.

“I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids,” he declared, then ordered a squadron of B-52s on an unauthorized nuclear strike of the Soviet Union.

Perhaps he sent the B-52s to the wrong target.

Fluoride is a toxic byproduct of aluminum manufacturing and fertilizer production.

As a common ingredient in rat poison, insecticides and military nerve gas, it's considered a dangerous substance and an environmental pollutant, and is classified as a hazardous material during shipping.

Fluoride is listed in the handbook of CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY OF COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS as more poisonous than lead and just slightly less poisonous than arsenic.

Independent studies have shown that fluoride causes various mental disturbances, makes people docile, damages bone structure and shortens life spans.

The first use of fluoridated drinking water occurred during World War II when the German pharmaceutical giant, I.G. Farben, utilized it in Nazi prison camps (such as Auschwitz) in order to force the inmates into a compliant submission.

In 1944, Oscar Ewing became the head of the U.S. Federal Security Agency where he began a campaign to add fluoride to public drinking water. Prior his appointment, Ewing had been an employee of Alcoa, which controls the global aluminum cartel.

Soon, aluminum waste material became a profitable business venture, at a 20,000 percent markup.

According to APPLIED CHEMISTRY, SECOND EDITION by William R. Stine, the fluoride ion in drinking water is responsible for a defective dental condition called mottled enamel. Also known as dental fluorosis, this defect results from disturbance by fluoride of the enamel forming cells during tooth formation and is one of the first signs of chronic fluoride poisoning.

Dr. Hardy Limeback is the head of the Department of Preventative Dentistry at the University of Toronto and the President of the Canadian Association for Dental Research. Once a leading promoter of fluoride in public drinking water, Dr. Limeback has since become an opponent of fluoridation. He claims that Canada currently spends more effort on treating dental fluorosis than treating cavities. He also reports lower cavity rates in areas where there is no fluoridation.

According to the PHYSICIANS DESK REFERENCE -- “in hypersensitive individuals, fluorides occasionally cause skin eruptions such as atopic dermatitis, eczema, or urticaria. Gastric distress, headache, and weakness have also been reported. These hypersensitive reactions usually disappear promptly after discontinuation of the fluoride.”

Research in the 1970s by the National Cancer Institute showed that more than 10,000 fluoride-linked cancer deaths occur in this country each year.

The Argonne National Laboratories demonstrated in 1989 the ability of fluoride to transform normal cells into cancerous cells.

A study by Proctor and Gamble showed that as little as half the amount of fluoride in public water supplies resulted in a significant increase in genetic damage.

The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE reported in the March 22, 1990 issue that Mayo Clinic researchers found fluoride treatment of osteoporosis increased hip fracture rate and bone fragility.

The JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION reported in 1992 that increased hip fractures were linked to rates of fluoride in the water.

Dr. Michael B. Schachter, M.D. from Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, contends, “fluoride even at dosages of one part per million, found in fluoridated water, can inhibit enzyme systems, damage the immune system, contribute to calcification of soft tissues, worsen arthritis and cause dental fluorosis in children; up to 80% of the children in certain fluoridated areas.”

If that isn’t scary enough, many recent studies show that water fluoridation is ineffective in reducing tooth decay.

The U.S. Public Health Service, in the largest study of its kind, examined the dental records of over 39,000 school children, ages 5-17, from 84 different areas around the country. The number of decayed, missing and filled teeth per child were virtually the same in fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas.

Because of evidence of harmful effects, fluoridation has been abandoned in most of Europe -- including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Yugoslavia.

As a container of precious bodily fluids, I tend to be cautious about what I eat, drink and breathe. I prefer my drinking water to be void of toxic waste.

On the Orb of Wounded Souls, elite masters continually seek to control populace slaves.

Cultivating and protecting the Purity of Essence is essential to individual freedom.

Live free or die.

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Quote for the Day – "When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man." Stanley Kubrick

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Bret Burquest is the author of 12 books. He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a few dogs and is a container of precious bodily fluids.

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The Mexican Border

In 1980, when I was married and living in Los Angeles, my wife and I took a trip to Club Med in Playa Blanca, Mexico. We boarded a 707 passenger jet, chartered by a travel agency, on a Friday night bound for Manzanillo.

To my surprise, the plane landed in La Paz on the Baja Peninsula where each passenger was given a card by the stewardess and told to fill it out. Then we all disembarked from the plane, stood in line in the terminal, handed the cards to a customs agent, got back on the plane and eventually took off for our original destination.

Apparently, this exercise in inefficiency was standard procedure for entering Mexico. Even though no one got on or off at La Paz, it was a "port of entry" into the country so we all had to go through this bureaucratic absurdity.

While my ex-wife always seemed to enjoy our travels, this sort of nonsense generally caused my blood to exceed the boiling point of tungsten. But it's nothing compared to the rigors involved in moving to Mexico.

A director with SW Bell in St. Louis recently posted an Internet account of his ordeal in relocating to Mexico. In order to receive a permanent work visa, called an FM3, the man had to submit the following original items:

• Birth certificate (plus his wife's birth certificate)
• Marriage certificate
• High school transcripts and proof of graduation
• College transcripts and proof of graduation
• Two letters of recommendation from supervisors he had worked for at least one year
• A letter from the Chief of Police of St. Louis indicating he had no arrest record, no outstanding warrants and was "a citizen in good standing"
• He also had to personally write a letter about himself clearly stating why there was no Mexican citizen with his skills and explain why his skills were important to Mexico

The above documents then had to be certified as legal transactions, notarized and translated into Spanish.

Next, he and his wife spent five hours, accompanied by a Mexican lawyer, visiting various government offices where they were photographed and fingerprinted three different times. At four separate locations, they were instructed on Mexican tax law, Mexican labor law, Mexican housing law and Mexican criminal law.

The couple paid out a total of $4,000 in fees (and bribes) to complete the process.

They were required to obtain a Mexican driver's license. Once again, photographed and fingerprinted. They were instructed that if ever stopped by a policeman to never give their driver's license to the policeman (instead, hold it against the inside of the window) otherwise they would have to pay a ransom to get it back.

At that point, the man was issued a "permanent" FM3 work visa, which was good for three years and renewal for two more years after paying additional fees.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucracy scorned.

As U.S. citizens, the couple was not allowed to purchase a home and required to rent in compliance with Mexican law. In addition, to submit their annual Mexican income tax required about 20 legal-size pages.

The U.S. Congress has been currently working on new immigration legislation that may include some improved security across the southern border, temporary work permits for Mexican laborers, etc.

However, the Mexican government is opposed to any such legislation because they consider it to be an insult and inconvenience to their people.

Note to the Mexican government -- Life is a two-way street and convenience isn't exactly your specialty.

The USA needs seasonal Mexican laborers (jobs most Americans won't do) and the laborers need the work. There must be a simple solution to this problem, but adding more government bureaucracy probably isn't it.

In an imperfect world, where fruit grows on trees, there are growers and pickers and consumers -- and those whose sole purpose in life seems to be to make it more difficult for everyone to venture from Point A to Point B.

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Quote for the Day – “The greatest power of bureaucracies is to make the smart act stupid and the good to act evil.” Raul Ramos

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Bret Burquest is the author of 12 books. He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a few dogs and rarely ventures south of the county line.

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