26 June 2013 (13:50 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Sha’ban 1434/05 Tir 1391/19 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
In New Hampshire, more than a week ago a pro-2nd Amendment demonstrator, who was part of a group protesting a Mayors Against Guns/No More Names rally, was grabbed by three cops, and then tazed, as onlookers booed and videoed the cops. You can heard some of the crowd say “He’s not fighting you.”
Several days later the tazed man returned to his home to find it on fire. Police swear the fire was an accident.
26 June 2013 (12:50 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Sha’ban 1434/05 Tir 1391/19 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
“To preserve its perilous dominance the U.S. today is arming against its own people….”-Peter Dale Scott, former English Professor at the University of California Berkeley, May 2012
Also a former Canadian diplomat, Peter Dale Scott, attended a meeting in Russia in May 2012. He was commenting on U.S. foreign policy and potential threats to Russia. He also realized that the people of the United States have backed way off their anti-government protests since Obama became president, and are seemingly complicit in the federal government’s totalitarian agenda.
Peter Dale Scott: What particularly concerns me is the relative absence of public response in America to a long-term Pentagon-CIA agenda of aggressive military hegemonism – or what I will call “dominationism.” No doubt many Americans may think that a global pax Americana will secure a period of peace, much like the pax Romana of two millennia ago. I myself am confident that it will not: rather, like the imperfect pax Britannica of a century ago, it will lead inevitably to major conflict, possibly nuclear war. For the secret of the pax Romana was that Rome, under Hadrian, withdrew from Mesopotamia and accepted strict limits to its area of dominance. Britain never achieved that wisdom until too late; America, to date, has never achieved it at all.
And so very few in America seem to care about Washington’s global domination project, at least since the failure of massive protests to prevent the Iraq War. We have seen much critical examination of why America fought in Vietnam, and even the American involvement in atrocities like the Indonesian massacre of 1965. Authors like Noam Chomsky and William Blum have chronicled America’s criminal acts since World War Two, but without any prominent concern about the recent acceleration of American military expansiveness. Only a few, like Chalmers Johnson and Andrew Bacevich, have written about the progressive consolidation of a war machine that now dominates America’s political processes.
It is also striking that, until quite recently, the nascent Occupy movement has had little to say about America’s unprovoked wars; I am not sure they have even targeted the militarization of surveillance, law enforcement, and detention camps which are so important a part of the domestic apparatus of repression that threatens their own survival – the so-called “continuity of government” (COG) measures by which America’s military planners have prepared never again to have to deal with a successful American anti-war movement.
…….I hope that Americans will mobilize against American dominationism, and call for a policy declaration, either from the administration or from Congress, that would:
1) explicitly renounce past Pentagon calls for “full spectrum dominance” as a military objective for American foreign policy,
2) reject as unacceptable the deeply-ingrained practice of preemptive wars,
3) renounce categorically any US plans for the permanent use of military bases in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Kyrgyzstan, and
4) recommit the United States to conducting future military operations in accordance with the procedures set out in the United Nations Charter.
Scott published in 2003 a book that established that U.S. foreign policy is about propping up the Nixon created U.S. petro-dollar system, and that the military uses drug trafficking to fund ever escalating operations. The book is called Drugs, Oil and War.
26 June 2013 (00:58 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Sha’ban 1434/05 Tir 1391/19 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
“We take water quality very seriously. Very, very seriously. But you need to make sure that when you make water quality complaints you have a basis, because federally, if there’s no water quality issues, that can be considered under Homeland Security an act of terrorism.”-Sherwin Smith, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, threatening the public for questioning water quality reports on 29 May 2013
In 1964 Stanley Kubrick raised the issue of fluoridated water in his Cold War satire Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; a crazed USAF SAC commander goes nuts and blames it on fluoridated water. Maybe Kubrick was on to something.
Phillipe Grandjean has just published a book, Only One Chance: How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development. He states that fluoride (aka fluorine) is one of 213 known toxic chemicals that lower your intelligence (turns you into an idiot!).
The U.S. EPA now includes fluoride on its list of Chemicals with Substantial Evidence of Developmental Neurotoxicity.
There are dozens more studies that prove how damaging fluoride really is (and I expect to get more people writing me asking for proof of those studies, and my answer is get off your butt and do the research yourself, I ain’t getting paid for this!), yet local governments in the United States, and other countries where English is the primary language, continue to insist putting fluoride in the drinking water.
A chemist at Texas A&M University has developed a way to detect fluoride in water. This is important as past investigations have revealed that some water departments have been adding fluoride even after telling the residents they were not. Francois P. Gabbai has received a $400000 USD federal grant to conduct further tests on his organometallic molecule tester. The tester glows if there’s fluoride in the water.
In Florida U.S.A., “Given the weight of this new scientific evidence, and the widespread availability of alternative topical fluoride sources (toothpaste, mouth rinses), the Wayland Board of Health is considering suspending the Community Water Fluoridation program.” Residents are asked to voice their opinions at the Board of Health will hold a public hearing at Wayland Town Building on 08 July 2013.
In New Zealand, after the Hamilton City Council decided to stop fluoridating the water local news media and health officials went on the warpath, brainwashing residents into thinking they will suffer without fluoride. The result is that 500 homes in the Waikato District have signed up to pay to have bottled fluoridated water brought to their homes! Idiots! There’s even a petition drive to get fluoridation reinstated. Idiots! In Palmerston North, next year’s fluoridation is being debated. It will cost taxpayers $10000 NZD. The Fluoride Action Network submitted reports that showed dental improvements in other countries happened independent of fluoridation (in other words, fluoride had nothing to do with it)! The Mayor of Christchurch, Bob Parker, refused to allow fluoridation in the city water supply, saying it should be an individual’s choice! Prime Minster John Key said anti-fluoride claims are “overstated”. In Marlborough evidence that fluoridation of water is just a taxpayer funded economic incentive to force people to buy clean bottled water and water filters: “Those who don’t want fluoride should source their water elsewhere, like bottled water.”-Ed Kiddle, Nelson Marlborough Medical Officer
“There now exist many valid scientific studies, peer reviewed articles and much literature illustrating the negative impact of drinking water treated with fluoride contaminants such as hydrofluorocilicic acid, and there are no genuine studies illustrating any benefits whatsoever. For some unexplained and unconscionable reasons, government health authorities have refused to conduct clinical trials and toxicology studies on this medicinal product, contrary to their own regulations on the administration of medicinal products and substances. Any dentist can tell you that fluoride only works topically.”-Troy Walts, Watertown, New Zealand
In Minnesota U.S.A., Citizens for Clean Water: St. Cloud are campaigning to stop fluoridation. They even point to a 2011 Texas study that says fluoride does not prevent tooth decay: “After nine years and $3 million of adding fluoride, research shows tooth decay hasn’t dropped among the poorest of Bexar County’s children. It has only increased — up 13 percent this year.”
In Wisconsin U.S.A., the idiots in Holmen Village re-started fluoridation of their water supply! They’re using hydrofluorosilicic acid containing 24% fluoride, at a cost to taxpayers of $3500 for the rest of the year.
In North Carolina U.S.A., people in Durham and Orange counties have been protesting the use of fluoride. One protestor accused one city of breaking laws: “Raleigh, unfortunately, has been provided with copious amounts of scientific data, repeated appearances by myself and other citizens and even notifications that what they are doing breaks current state and federal drug laws.”-Corey Sturmer
In New South Wales (NSW), Australia, the Greens political party is fighting fluoridation of the water supply. Recently NSW courts ruled to allow Ballina Shire Council to add the chemical to the water supply. NSW Department of Health is also ordering that fluoride be added to water supplies. In Gladstone, the city has voted to fluoridate the water from Lake Awoonga. In Logan, city officials refused to remove fluoride from the water, saying it would cost taxpayers $100 million AUD to do so!
One evil North Carolina dentist (who recently co-wrote a report pushing fluoridation in Australia) implied that fluoridation is just a taxpayer funded economic incentive to force the smart people to buy filtration systems or clean bottled water: “I can understand if people don’t want to drink fluoridated water, but there’s an important difference here because they actually do have a choice. Someone can currently buy bottled water without fluoride, or they can put a filter on that is able to remove fluoride…”-Gary Slade, UNC School of Dentistry
In California U.S.A., a Sacramento news media report said that most anti-fluoridians are liberals and environmentalists! The cities of Davis and Woodland are considering adding fluoride to their new multi-million dollar water supply systems. Make your opinions heard! To show you that even naturally occurring fluoride is bad, there is a decades long court battle in a mobile home park in Carmel Valley’s Cachagua neighborhood. County tests showed the levels to be four times higher than what is considered safe. It’s so high the water is yellow. The court battle involves the mobile home park owner and the county, which failed to clean up the water, and the residents (many have finally given up and settled out of court).
In Ireland, anti-fluoridians have petitioned the European Union for help in forcing the Irish government to stop fluoridation of the water: “Everytime we reach for a glass of water, fill the kettle for a cup tea or mix up a baby’s milkbottle we are forced to ingest fluoride. Whether we weigh 5kg or 50kg, are on dialysis for diabetes, undergoing chemotherapy or taking any amount of other medication, we are being dosed with fluoride.”-Iva Pocock, who’s father led the campaign against fluoride “unexpectedly died” two months ago.
According to Pocock, fluoridation of water violates Medicinal Products Directive 2001/83/EC: “Any substance that is presented as having properties for preventing a disease as defined under this Directive is a medicinal product. Hydrofluorosilicic acid is therefore a medicinal product. I am convinced that this product is being added illegally and in breach of of EU law.”
In Iowa U.S.A., the Scott County Board of Health is expected to continue fluoridation of water. they were not convinced by four people protesting the possibly criminal act. The city of Dubuque stated that they’ve been adding fluoride to the water since 1954. Someone should do a study on the overall intelligence level of the residents since 1954.
In Washington U.S.A., the state appeals court rejected demands to stop fluoridation in Clallam County. The court ruled that the U.S. FDA does not regulate fluoride, therefore water districts do not have to get FDA approval.
In Oregon U.S.A., a survey was done to identify just who the anit-fluoridians are. In Portland it turns out that the biggest opponents to fluoride are people of low income, with lack of education, and minority residents! 61% of Portlanders recently voted against fluoride, and a map was made showing where those residents are concentrated (why would city officials want to know that?). The survey also showed that supporters of fluoride tend to be wealthy and highly educated (elites!).
Now there’s a new fluoride delivery system for all you fluorid-o-holics in Merry ol’ England: Phocal fluoride disks. It’s being marketed as a way to fight incipient tooth decay (aka dental caries). You shove the disks inbetween your teeth for a highly concentrated dose of fluoride, yum yum!
To update what I reported on in 2011, many villages in India are suffering from chronic conditions the government has linked to naturally occurring fluoride in the water. A recent study said that boiling tulasi leaves will not get rid of the fluoride. For the past 70 years the Indian government has been looking for ways to cheaply get rid of naturally occurring fluoride, because of the massive health issues it creates.
25 June 2013 (13:18 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Sha’ban 1434/04 Tir 1391/18 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
“The methane, ethane and propane data, and new evidence from hydrocarbon and helium isotopes, all suggest that drilling has affected some homeowners’ water.”–Robert Jackson, Duke University
Duke University sampled 141 water wells in Pennsylvania. They concluded what past studies have concluded; fracking of shale gas/oil poisons the drinking water.
Methane concentrations were six times higher and ethane concentrations were 23 times higher at homes within a kilometer (about half a mile) of a shale gas well.
“Our studies demonstrate that distances from drilling sites, as well as variations in local and regional geology, play major roles in determining the possible risk of groundwater impacts from shale gas development.”-Avner Vengosh, Duke University
Now for the controversy: Back in May, Duke University said they could not find water contamination in Arkansas fracking operations: “These findings demonstrate that shale gas development, at least in this area, has been done without negatively impacting drinking water resources.”-Nathaniel R. Warner, Duke University student researcher
The Arkansas study checked only “shallow drinking water wells”.
25 June 2013 (12:51 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Sha’ban 1434/04 Tir 1391/18 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
“So far no notification has been received from the U.S. government of Mr Edward Snowden’s passport being revoked.”-Hong Kong Immigration Department
“To ensure procedural fairness, the Hong Kong government needed to secure this information and also enough evidence about the charges against Snowden. Failure to do so would give rise to the possibility of a judicial review by Snowden.”-unnamed Hong Kong government source
“The people of Hong Kong and our friends in the international community expect us to follow the laws of Hong Kong itself. They expect us to uphold our rule of law and, equally importantly, they expect us to follow procedural fairness and procedural justice. We were asking the United States government for further important information on the case, and there was no legal basis to stop Mr Snowden from leaving Hong Kong.”-Leung Chun-ying, Chief Executive and President of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
25 June 2013 (12:31 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Sha’ban 1434/04 Tir 1391/18 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
“Our country has changed, and while any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to the current conditions.”-John Roberts, Chief Justice
The U.S. Supreme Court has just ruled against the 1965 Voting Rights Act!
In a close vote, the Court struck down the VRA provision determining when the federal government can investigate state and county voter discrimination.
The Court says Congress must now create a new law to determine which states and counties are subject to federal oversight. Under VRA that was known as Section 4. By striking down Section 4 the Court effectively struck down Section 5 as well, because Section 5 relies on Section 4.
Section 5 is meant to protect minority voters from local governments that create barriers to voting.
25 June 2013 (12:12 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Sha’ban 1434/04 Tir 1391/18 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
“…..I would like not to deal with such issues because it is like shearing a pig: there’s lots of squealing and little fleece.”-Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, says NSA contracted worker Edward Snowden is in Russia, and the United State can’t have him!
Putin said the accusations by the Obama administration and the U.S. government are “ravings and rubbish”. Snowden has not committed any crimes on Russian territory, and Russia has not signed any extradition deal with the U.S.
Putin also says “Snowden is a free person”, having never worked for Russian intelligence agencies.
Putin says they never expected Snowden to show up on their doorstep: “It is true that Snowden has arrived to Moscow, and it really came as a surprise for us. He arrived as a transit passenger, and didn’t need a visa, or any other documents. As a transit passenger he is entitled to buy a ticket and fly to wherever he wants.”
Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, explained that the “transit zone” Snoweden is residing in is like a neutral zone, meaning that technically Snowden is not in Russia, as long as he remains in the Moscow transit zone.
22 June 2013 (14:35 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Sha’ban 1434/01 Tir 1391/15 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
In Virginia, the Fairfax County Health Department is investigating a TB outbreak where as many as 430 people at Robert E. Lee High School, in Springfield, have been exposed.
In South Carolina, a nurse formerly in charge of the tuberculosis program with the Department of Health and Environmental Control, is suing the DHEC for firing her after she revealed the DHEC intentionally tried to cover up a recent TB outbreak at the Ninety Six Primary School in Greenwood County. She also says the DHEC actually ordered her to stop follow-up tests on students at the school.
She was fired on 30 May, after repeated requests to continue the TB testing. The DHEC claims they fired her because she was the one refusing to conduct TB tests. Testing was resumed after her termination.
According to the lawyer representing the nurse there is a posting on the internet to the DHEC, from the nurse, requesting more staffing and supplies, which was ignored.
South Carolina is also where a school janitor was placed in detention under Title 44-Health, Chapter 31, Article 2 THE EMERGENCY DETENTION AND COMMITMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS law.
I don’t know what’s going on with the DHEC, but TB has now spread throughout South Carolina. Reports of outbreaks at a Myrtle Beach homeless shelter, and at Clemson University.
In Wisconsin, after slashing and burning funding for health care, the state legislature is considering $4.6 million USD to fight an outbreak of tuberculosis in Sheboygan. Eight cases confirmed. Those infected have been quarantined in their homes or in hospitals. At least one person has a type of TB that is resistant to almost all anti-biotics.
Many people in the U.S. don’t know that back in February 2013, Los Angeles, California, saw a TB outbreak that is suspected of exposing at least 4600 people. It was so bad that Los Angeles County Health Department asked for help from the federal government. Of interest is that these cases seemed to be targeting homeless or low income people (par for the course in the history of TB epidemics), and have been getting worse year after year. The TB outbreak in LA hasn’t stopped. The latest reports say the UCLA School of Nursing Health Center is on the front lines trying to fight the outbreak, in the past two years they’ve screened 11000 people: “Our screening has gone up about 200%!”-Mary Marfisee, director UCLA nursing clinic inside the Union Rescue Mission
In 2012, the state of Florida saw a TB outbreak that was called the worst in the past 20 years. This as the state government slashed and burned funding for health programs. Hundreds of people were confirmed infected with TB, thousands exposed.
Symptoms include fever, chills and coughing up of blood.
22 June 2013 (13:08 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Sha’ban 1434/01 Tir 1391/15 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
“The detachment will remain in Jordan, in full coordination with the government of Jordan, until the security situation becomes such that it is no longer needed.”-Barack Obama, President of United States
After months of saying U.S. Marines, and other personnel were in Jordan for war games, U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered 700 Marines (originally scheduled to leave) to remain incountry indefinitely.
Analysts claim Obama is only responding to a request for military help from the British installed Hashemite king of Jordan, Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein: “The Jordanians came dead set on pushing the Americans to create a safe zone. They didn’t get it, but they left with some reassurances and I think the troops are part of that.”-Elizabeth O’Bagy, Institute for the Study of War
Not only will U.S. Marines be left behind, but U.S. Army Patriot missiles systems and their crews, USAF F-16 fighter/bomber aircraft and personnel, and other personnel and equipment for command & control operations. There are now more than 5000 U.S. military personnel in Jordan.
Main streamer U.S. news media reporting that only 1000 U.S. personnel are in Jordan, but U.S. military news source, Stars and Stripes, reports that at least 5000 U.S. personnel are incountry for war games called Eager Lion, along with 3000 military personnel from 19 other countries. That exercise officially ended on 20 June 2013, which means almost all those 8000 U.S. backed personnel are still there.
Also, the U.S. Department of Defense officials revealed that at least 200 personnel and their equipment, from the U.S. Army’s 1st Armored Division will be deploying to Jordan.
Obama also intimated that it was all about going to war with Syria: “The deployment of this detachment has been directed in furtherance of U.S. national security and foreign policy interests, including the important national interests in supporting the security of Jordan and promoting regional stability….”
Back at the beginning of June, Syrian news media reported that U.S. Marines were spotted along the border with Jordan and Syria. Syrian news media also claimed that sources in the United States told them the 26th Marine Expeditionary Force were not in Jordan for war games, as Obama spokesmen repeatedly stated.
Obama made the announcement of Jordanian occupation to the U.S. Congress as part of the War Powers Act reporting procedures.
20 June 2013 (03:04 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Sha’ban 1434/30 Khordad 1391/13 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
“This is insane. I’ve never seen so much security!”-a 20 year veteran newspaper editor in Berlin
U.S. President Barack Obama was given a welcome worthy of the Führer, when he arrived in Berlin, Germany!
The entire city of Berlin was locked down, even the Brandenburg Gate was closed to traffic. Reporters with Deutsche Welle said people weren’t even allowed to open their windows, even though it was a hot day and many don’t have air conditioning: “‘Whatever you do, don’t open the windows,’ warns an experienced colleague, as two small figures move about on the roof of the government building opposite. They might be window cleaners, but they’re more likely to be snipers – sure to be targeting us, according to the colleague. It’s not quite clear whether he’s serious. The windows remain closed for safety reasons.”
There’s even reports that a Secret Service agent shoved German President Joachim Gauck, when he tried to greet Obama! Reporters complain that their cell phones have been searched multiple times, the automatron security guards say only “Sorry, we have to do it.”
“Have you seen the American security officer with the thick legs? I’ve got a date with her afterwards!”-one of many German jokes about paranoid U.S. security personnel
At least 8000 polizie were deployed, complete with garish green painted armored vehicles, armed with remote control machine guns mounted on turrets. All for 4000 to 6000 ‘invited’ guests to hear Obama give a hypocritical speech called Peace with Justice.
Obama even ripped off Kennedy and used the hilarious quote “Ich bin ein Berliner” (you see it actually means “I am a jelly donut” in Berlin dialect, because a Berliner is a type of jelly donut. If you want to say you are a resident of the city then you should say “Ich bin Berliner”, drop the “ein”).
Oh, but Obama probably didn’t even realize how many Berliners he prevented from getting to work or errands, because of the massive NAZIistic security.
Berliners had to have special passes to cross certain streets, some gave up after waiting hours at check points.
Many Germans who lived in East Germany during the Cold War said it was like going back in time to Stasi control! Markus Ferber, of the Christian Social Union political group, said Obama’s visit and the domestic spying program in the U.S. amounts to “American-style Stasi tactics.”
Who knows how much this is costing the taxpayers? But polls still show Germans love Obama, someone get the man a toothbrush mustache and red, white & black armband!
It isn’t just that Germans love Obama, it turns out that the United States is the only thing keeping the German economy from crashing.
The United States is the largest investor into the German economy, and 50% of German foreign investments go to the United States. U.S. companies provide at least 800000 jobs to Germans. Germany is the third largest foreign employer in the U.S. (after Canada and United Kingdom. Hah, you thought it would be China)
Oh, but that doesn’t mean the economy is getting better. On the same day that Noble Peace Prize winner Führer Obama arrived to give his Peace with Justice speech, Germany’s second largest Too Big to Jail bank, Commerzbank, announced it would layoff at least 5200 people over the next three years.