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Below is an excellent article from my friend, Marie Lasater. She is not only a medical professional, but an excellent researcher and talented communicator. Please share the article with others and for Missourians, pay particular attention to the last paragraph:

Get The Lead Out

By: Marie Lasater

There is a lead crisis looming in our country, and it is being fueled by the increase in water

fluoridation. I was born in Flint, Michigan and lived there until age 6. My father was from the

Appalachian Mountains of east Tennessee, and was kind of dropped off there when he got out

of the Navy. He met my mom in the boarding house grandma ran after grandfather’s death. The

problem with being born in Flint is the fact that in 1945 Grand Rapids was the first US city to add

fluoride, followed by Flint, just in time to fully fluoridate a young kid like me, and I have the

tooth fractures to prove it.

Fluoride is not naturally found in the body, and whenever you introduce an unknown quantity to

any living system, there are going to be problems. Fluoride, like lead, is a calcium imitator,

therein lays the problem. Both substances replace healthy calcium, and in the case of teeth,

fluoride causes a frequently occurring problem caused dental fluorosis. Simply put, dental

fluorosis is the replacement of calcium in your teeth by fluoride, causing cosmetic mottling, but

more importantly fluoride fracture lines. When fluoride replaces calcium, it can cause teeth to

break off, often at the gum line, and almost always on the inner aspect of the tooth that comes

in contact with fluoridated beverages.

But fluoride is much more hazardous than broken teeth. The relation of fluoride and lead is

coming to the forefront. Both fluoride and lead can cross the blood-brain barrier and produce

toxic effects on the central neural system, resulting in low learning and memory abilities,

especially in children because of their rapidly developing nervous systems. In 2012, the Harvard

School of Public Health issued a statement on “The impact of fluoridation on neurological

development in children.” Researchers found an average loss of 7 IQ points in children exposed

to fluoride from drinking water.

Water fluoridation has always been unpopular. From the very start water fluoridation has been

an unwanted intervention, and the overwhelming majority of the communities actually able to

vote against fluoridation have rejected it. Fluoridation was not established through public

referenda, but rather through executive actions by government bodies, including city councils.

And city councils have the ability to stop fluoridating your water overnight, but that is about to

change.

Fluoride is classifed as a pharmaceutical because it is has no nutritive qualities, and is added to

the water to treat a disease (cavities). Over 97% of Western Europe has rejected fluoride as it is

considered unethical to mass medicate an entire population without the required informed

consent. While topical applications of fluoride to the teeth through toothpaste and mouthwash

have been shown to prevent tooth decay, keep in mind that these products contain

pharmaceutical grade fluoride, as opposed to industrial grade fluoride, fluorosilicic acid, that is

added to our water. Fluorosilic acid has been proven to be contaminated with arsenic, lead, and

other toxins. There is no need to ever swallow fluoride in any form, and even your tube of

toothpaste cautions you to immediately contact Poison Control if you do so.  An aanalysis of

phone calls Regarding Fluoride Exposure made to New Jersey Poison Control Center from 2010

to 2012 documented 2,476 reports of excessive fluoride exposure, with the majority of phone

calls made by mothers whose children had swallowed a fluoridated dental product. Initial

toxicity was treated by the administration of calcium as an antidote, but the long-term effects

are still not known.

The relationship between fluoride and lead has been recognized for decades. A study published

in Neurotoxicology in Dec. 2000 found that for every age and race group there was a

consistently significant elevation of fluoride-treated community water and elevated blood lead.

As far back as 1964, a pediatrics textbook noted that the incidence of lead poisoning was rising

in certain fluoridated metropolitan areas in the eastern United States. Blame was placed on

children eating lead paint, but children had been eating paint chips long before the crisis arose

in 1964. In the interim, a new source of lead was provided to children – lead contaminated

fluoridated water, also capable of leaching lead from pipes. There is also lead in brass fittings on

water supply lines, added to increase flexibility. Data collected by the Centers for Disease

Control (CDC) show that children drinking water treated with FSA and other fluorosilicate

chemicals are 20 percent more likely to have dangerous levels of lead in their blood. The CDC

has yet to warn the public about the fluoridation/lead risk, but continues to promote water

fluoridation.

Several recent studies are examining the relation of fluoridated water and lead levels. A 2010

study in the journal Toxicology examined the fact that higher blood levels of lead have been

reported in children living in communities with fluoride-treated water. Researchers found that

fluoride consistently increases lead levels in both blood and calcified tissues, showing an

association between increased blood levels in children living in water-fluoridated areas.

In a manuscript entitles “how does fluorosilicic acid leach lead?” by Dr. Sauerhaber, he describes

the process as follows; ‘When diluted in water, fluorosilicic acid breaks down in drinking water

into fluoride ion, hydrogen fluoride, and orthosilicic acid, H4SiO4. Orthosilicic acid is classed as a

weak acid and is often dismissed as relatively harmless. Unfortunately for our health, it is able to

dissolve – slowly but surely – lead salts out of lead based pipes and fittings, especially brass.”

Call to Action

There is a very important bill currently in Senate Committee, HB1717 that requires the public

water system to notify the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Health and

Senior Services 90 days prior to any vote to cease fluoridation. You can consider this a fluoride

protection bill, as there is no requirement to notify these entities prior to ADDING fluoride to

the drinking water, which on the face of it would be of greater concern to the DNR as

fluorosilicic acid is considered a pollutant, and companies are fined if they dump it in rivers or

streams. Somehow it is okay to add it to our drinking water, which eventually ends up in the

rivers and streams. This bill will make it almost impossible for your city council to remove

fluoride from your drinking water. I have experienced firsthand the huge resources put forth by

the government to keep fluoride in place. In order to kill this bill in the Senate Committee,

contact your State Senator, or send them a copy of this article.

As most of my dear readers know, I very rarely speak of my personal life, problems, or day to day dramas. Many of you may have noticed that I have been rather silent as well. It sure isn’t because nothing is happening. For cryin’ out loud, you can’t turn around without running face first into a new and more egregious form of tyranny these days!

Suffice to say, my silence does not, in any way, equal consent. I’ve just been busy fighting a personal war with bulging and/or ruptured discs, and a broken down 2008 Macbook that I have replaced and repaired major issues on entirely too many times. So I gave in and went for the eugenicist’s format on the computer front. In a nut shell, those are the computer and compression problems alluded to in the title of this missive. And I have learned a lot in these two battles…and I will share what I have learned with you! Oh boy, huh?

First of all on the back issues. Let me be very clear, I do not like new and interesting pains at all. I also detest the idea of surgery and radioactive particles being shot through my person. Pain pills and anesthesia are not my idea of a good time, and I will go to great lengths to avoid those things. So, I am going to a fantastic chiropractor once or twice a week for the foreseeable future, and I have an inversion table that I use when my back isn’t in a flat out spasm from the pinched nerves at the site. Also doing yoga stretches and looking for a better computer chair that may help with the right posture to prevent further difficulties.

As for what I have learned, most of it I actually already knew. I am not designed to sit on my butt and read massive amounts of documents for hours upon hours. Yahweh made me to do some of that, but not a quarter of what I have been doing for the past decade. I was made to grow things, to create, to produce, to care for things, as well as to study. Lesson…balance, grasshopper. Solution? Six months to a year of changing behavior, posture and doing lots of physical therapy to heal it. Kind of like having a back baby, if you will. Fun? Not really, but I will heal in time.

On the computer front, to be honest, I have no idea how people can love the Bill Gates platform. It drives me crazy. Nothing is intuitive or where I expect it to be. I really do like the 15 inch screen and the speakers that you can actually hear. I also am very happy to have a free scripture study program that is super duper cool, but man, it’s more than just learning a new language. It’s closer to the old Soviet issue (which we are experiencing here in many other areas) wherein nothing works the way it should for as long as it should. Like it’s designed to frustrate people and make them just give up. I just don’t know if I can make this work for me. So I replaced the heat sink on the Macbook, hoping that would work and stop the old  girl from burning up…Guess what? It didn’t work.

And that leads to the confoundment. I know, I made that word up, but I think it fits.

Here’s the thing, things are so beyond the pale of believability on every front. The Presidential charade in both major parties, the Pope and his many insane opinions, the headlong rush to go to total surveillance and cashless society without borders, the Zika virus (or not) and on and on. It’s to the point that one must wonder what vestiges of this nation might be worth saving? The fact is, that when you read comments on articles about Lavoy Finnicum being killed and Scalia dying (with protocol being entirely ignored!) and people apparently think that it is right for the federal government to do what they want with impunity and that the rule of law and the foundations of our republic should be ignored for expediency, maybe it is time to let the whole thing fall and quit trying?

There is no accountability. There is no truthful logic. There is very little chance that we can change anything by voting when our votes don’t actually count and the “parties” (there certainly looks to be one with a heads and tails side) have made the nomination process such a blather that the only “choice” we seem to have is whether we continue to think we actually have a choice.

There are a few things that I know with certainty. One of those is that the consent of the governed is absolutely necessary for any government to stay in power. Another is that if you don’t have accurate information, you can only make inaccurate decisions. Which leads me to more confoundment.

So, on this day that we in Missouri go to the polls to “choose” who the nominees will be in the duopoly political parties, I wish I could feel really hopeful. But here is where I stand…If Trump is for real, I am concerned that the powers that shouldn’t be may actually try to kill him. I don’t really “like” the man, but one thing he has been solid on (and hasn’t flip flopped over) is how detrimental the free trade agreements are for us. I couldn’t agree more on that front. The other thing that is quite hopeful about him, is how much the establishment (elitist corporate globalist shill control freak jerks) hate him. If that is actually the case, and not some kind of spy versus spy double think paradigm, it’s a good sign.

Just to be clear, the thing that irks me the most about Cruz is that he says he is a Constitutionalist. If that were so, he wouldn’t even be running because he would have read the supporting documents to the Constitution and understood that he is NOT eligible to run for the office of President because he is not, in any way, actually a “natural born citizen”. Never mind the lying, dirty tricks and Goldman Sachs, CFR connections. Just the hypocrisy of his stand on the Constitution puts me off entirely. Reading Green Eggs and Ham on the Senate floor doesn’t trump the real issue of him being ineligible for the office.

Then on the other side of the same coin, we have someone who ought to be in prison as the premier candidate, and a nice enough guy who is not shy about about admitting he is a socialist. If I were to vote Democrat, I would vote for Bernie just because he appears to be honest and it would knock the country down economically in pretty short order.

So, I see it as a choice between having a little bit of economic hope for awhile with Trump upping the oxygen level as it were, or going with the establishment picks of Cruz, Rubio,or Clinton, having the bedridden, on life support body of America continuing to be kept on life support with no dignity or hope, simply to raise the hospital bill even higher, or pulling the plug and all the machines entirely and voting for Sanders.

Meanwhile, I really need to get $600 together to get another Mac computer. Or I think I may go crazy from frustration with the Windows format. So, continued confoundment!

May you have a blessed day!

While most of us are watching the Presidential theater, the increasingly difficult to negotiate police state is expanding. Here’s a piece I came across that I think people need to know about:

FBI Orders Teachers To Report Students Who Question Government

New federal guidelines have just been introduced across the country, and what they mandate is quite disturbing to civil libertarians. The FBI has now instructed high schools across the nation to report students who in any way criticize government policies and what the report phrases as “western corruption.”

The FBI is interested in determining – as part of some warped “pre-crime” program – who might become potential future terrorists.

The FBI warns in the report that that “anarchist extremists” are no different that ISIS terrorists.

They further caution teachers against young people who are poor, as well as immigrants and others who travel to “suspicious” countries. These, they explain, are teens who are more likely to commit terrorism.

Sarah Lazare, writing for AlterNet, notes that “based on the widely unpopular British ‘anti-terror’ mass surveillance program, the FBI’s ‘Preventing Violent Extremism in Schools’ guidelines, released in January, are almost certainly designed to single out and target Muslim-American communities.”

Lazare notes that the FBI cautions teachers to “avoid the appearance of discrimination,” in carrying out the order to spy on students and report them to the Bureau.

“The agency identifies risk factors that are so broad and vague that virtually any young person could be deemed dangerous and worthy of surveillance, especially if she is socio-economically marginalized or politically outspoken,” she notes.

This overwhelming threat is then used to justify a massive surveillance apparatus, wherein educators and pupils function as extensions of the FBI by watching and informing on each other.

The FBI’s justification for such surveillance is based on McCarthy-era theories of radicalization, in which authorities monitor thoughts and behaviors that they claim to lead to acts of violent subversion, even if those people being watched have not committed any wrongdoing. This model has been widely discredited as a violence prevention method, including by the US government, but it is now being imported to schools nationwide as official federal policy.

The new guidelines suggest that “high school students are ideal targets for recruitment by violent extremists seeking support for their radical ideologies, foreign fighter networks, or conducting acts of violence within our borders.”

The paranoid of the document warns that the youth “possess inherent risk factors” that predispose them to being terrorists.

The FBI suggests that all teachers “incorporate a two-hour block of violent extremism awareness training” into their core curriculum for all high school students in the United States.

According to the FBI’s educational materials for teenagers, circulated as a visual aide to their new guidelines, the following offenses constitute signs that “could mean that someone plans to commit violence” and therefore should be reported: “Talking about traveling to places that sound suspicious”; “Using code words or unusual language”; “Using several different cell phones and private messaging apps”; and “Studying or taking pictures of potential targets (like a government building).”

Under the category of domestic terrorists, the educational materials warn of the threat posed by “anarchist extremists.” The FBI states, “Anarchist extremists believe that society should have no government, laws, or police, and they are loosely organized, with no central leadership… Violent anarchist extremists usually target symbols of capitalism they believe to be the cause of all problems in society – such as large corporations, government organizations, and police agencies.”

But the FBI didn’t stop at the ISIS boogymanning. They warn teachers of “Animal Rights Extremists and Environmental Extremists” who are – to the FBI – no different than “white supremacy extremists,” ISIS and Al Qaeda terrorists.

All of these are “out to recruit high school students,” in the FBI’s mind, according to Lazare.

The materials also instruct students to watch out for  extremist propaganda messages that communicate criticisms of “corrupt western nations” and express “government mistrust.”

If you “see suspicious behavior that might lead to violent extremism,” the resource states, consider reporting it to “someone you trust,” including local law enforcement officials like police officers and FBI agents.

Lazare posits that “young Muslims are the real targets” of the FBI’s high school spy program.

At the surface level, the FBI’s new guidelines do not appear to single out Muslim students. The document and supplementary educational materials warn of a broad array of threats, including anti-abortion and white supremacist extremists. The Jewish Defense League is listed alongside Hizbollah and Al Qaeda as an imminent danger to young people in the United States.

But a closer read reveals that the FBI consistently invokes an Islamic threat without naming it. Cultural and religious differences, as well as criticisms of western imperialism, are repeatedly mentioned as risk factors for future extremism. “Some immigrant families may not be sufficiently present in a youth’s life due to work constraints to foster critical thinking,” the guidelines state.

“The document aims to encourage schools to monitor their students more carefully for signs of radicalization but its definition of radicalization is vague,” Arun Kundnani, the author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic War on Terror notes. “Drawing on the junk science of radicalization models, the document dangerously blurs the distinction between legitimate ideological expression and violent criminal actions.”

“In practice, schools seeking to implement this document will end up monitoring Muslim students disproportionately,” Kundnani said. “Muslims who access religious or political material will be seen as suspicious, even though there is no reason to think such material indicates a likelihood of terrorism.”

Oddly, however, the FBI’s new guidelines say that they do “not advocate the application of any psychological or demographic ‘profiles’ or check lists of indicators to identify students on a pathway to radicalization.”

As Hugh Handeyside, staff attorney for the ACLU’s national security project, said that “broadening the definition of violent extremism to include a range of belief-driven violence underscores that the FBI is diving head-first into community spying. Framing this conduct as ‘concerning behavior’ doesn’t conceal the fact that the FBI is policing students’ thoughts and trying to predict the future based on those thoughts.”

Are you concerned about the FBI’s new “pre-crime” high school spying program?

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