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Shocker! US government actually admits: Americans have been overdosed with fluoride

Jeff Roberts
Collective Evolution
Sat, 16 May 2015 17:27 UTC
Fluoride
The US government has finally admitted they've overdosed Americans on fluoride and, for the first time since 1962, is lowering their recommended level of fluoride in drinking water.

The CDC reports that around 40% percent of Americans have dental fluorosis, a condition referring to changes in the appearance of tooth enamel — from chalky-looking lines and splotches to dark staining and pitting — caused by long-term ingestion of fluoride during the time teeth are forming.

Comment: How to detox from fluoride:

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The startling cost of war: Latest Department of Defense figures show suicide kills almost 5 times as many troops as combat

Matt Agorist
Activist Post
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:40 UTC
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As bureaucratic fatcats sit back from their lush taxpayer-funded offices in giant marble buildings debating on whether or not to send more troops to the Middle East, a crisis is being ignored.

Last week, the Department of Defense (DoD) released its 2014 calendar year Suicide Event Report (DoDSER), which details the number of suicide attempts and deaths for U.S. service members.

The numbers are startling.

In all of 2014, a total of 55 US troops, in both hostile and non-hostile situations, lost their lives in foreign occupations. The number of soldiers who killed themselves is nearly 5 times that amount.

Comment: 25 disturbing facts about psych drugs, soldiers and suicides
We are living in an age of upside-downs, where right is wrong, fiction is truth and war is peace. Those who fight the wars are subjected to their own house of mirrors via pharmaceutical "treatments." Instead of providing U.S. soldiers and veterans with actual health care, the government throws pills at them and calls it "therapy."

Stimulants, antidepressants, anti-psychotics, sedatives and pain meds are the new "fuel" for America's front-line forces. While the idea of sending medicated soldiers into battle was unthinkable just three decades ago, today it's the status quo. And the cost in human lives has never been more tragic.


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Syringe

Learning about vaccine dangers the hard way

Joel Edwards
Wake Up World
Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:18 UTC
vaccine dangers
I carry a burden of guilt with me. I will carry this guilt until the day I die. I was stupid, arrogant, and naïve, and my decision may have caused permanent damage to the children I love with all of my heart.

I thought vaccines were more dangerous than most people realized, but I still thought, overall, they were worth the risk. I was too lazy to do the research. Like an idiot, I blindly trusted my doctor. This belief system was what led me to vaccinate three out of four of my children. My twins are now seven years old. They have not completely recovered from their last round of vaccines.

Comment: Read more about the serious concerns regarding vaccines: In addition read another excellent article by Joel Edwards: Scientists come out against vaccines

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Health

Ginger tea: Kills cancer, dissolves kidney stones, improves liver health & much more

Daniel Barker
Natural News
Sun, 14 Feb 2016 15:35 UTC
giner tea
Ginger is another example of a 'superfood' that has been prized for thousands of years for its amazing health benefits, and which is now being scientifically proven to have more beneficial properties than almost anyone had previously imagined.

Recent research has shown that - among its many other health-promoting qualities - ginger may be up to 10,000 times more effective at fighting cancer than chemotherapy.

Comment: The Cure-All Properties of Ginger:

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Zika: Different virus, same fear campaign

Marco Torres
Prevent Disease
Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:31 UTC
How many fear campaigns does it take before people start to submit to false declarations of emergencies? The answer is endless, because most of the world is catching on very quickly to the obvious and pathetic attempts to shove fabricated pandemics down the throats of billions. Zika has now been officially entered into the database of global disease fear mongering. The latest news from Hawaii has the 'pineapple state' declaring a state of emergency, despite zero cases transmitted of the virus.
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Generating Fear Through Invisible Threats

In 2002, it was West Nile. In 2004, it was SARS. In 2005 it was Bird Flu. In 2009 it was H1N1 Swine Flu. In 2014 it was Ebola and today it is Zika. The end game is always the same--a vaccine or drug that will be expeditiously developed to protect everybody and forcibly introduced to populations if necessary.

You can avoid people and birds, but you can't avoid mosquitoes. They're everywhere. What better and more convenient danger than mosquitoes passing viruses to humans? What better way to create fear than to alarm populations through a worldwide threat that causes deformation in their children? Are people finally recognizing how these operations are designed to create terror? That what we are being exposed to year after year, at strategic times of the year, in both mainstream and alternative education, news, entertainment, etc, is the repetition of fear through persuasive messages to condition?

Comment: For in in-depth discussion of the Zika scaremongering epidemic listen to this episode of the Health and Wellness show.

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Neuroscientist: Meth Is virtually identical to prescription drug Adderall

Carl Hart
The Influence
Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:42 UTC
Carl Hart
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The long subway ride from DC's airport to Silver Spring was unusually pleasant. It had been about an hour since I had taken a low dose of methamphetamine. It was my 40th birthday—October 30, 2006—and I was headed to a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-sponsored meeting.

A friend, who had a prescription for the drug, had given me a couple of pills as a gift, knowing that I was an expert on amphetamines but had never actually taken any myself. I sat on the train feeling alert, mentally stimulated, and euphorically serene.

And when the effects had worn off after a few hours, I thought, "that was nice," worked out, and enjoyed a productive two-day meeting. Well, maybe not enjoyed—it was a NIDA meeting after all. But I didn't crave the drug or feel the need to take any more. I certainly didn't engage in any unusual behaviors—hardly the stereotypical picture of a "meth head."

Comment: See also...

Outspoken drug critic Dr. Carl Hart: Popular big pharma drug Adderall is pretty much crystal meth



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Health

Rabid bats kill a dozen children in Peru


Gulf Digital News
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:41 UTC
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At least 12 indigenous children in Peru have died from rabies after being bitten by blood-sucking bats, which locals at first blamed on witchcraft, health officials said.

The children aged between eight and 15 died between September and February in two indigenous communities in the Amazon region of Loreto, regional health official Hermann Silva said.

"From the symptoms and medical reports it was determined that the 12 children from the Achuar ethnic group died from an outbreak of wild rabies," Silva told AFP.

"The victims were bitten by blood-sucking bats, animals that drink blood, in the Yankuntich and Uncun communities in the jungle" 1,100km north of the capital Lima.
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Health

Iron toxicity: Low doses can damage cellular DNA within minutes


Science Daily
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:00 UTC
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Concentrations of iron similar to those delivered through standard treatments can trigger DNA damage within 10 minutes, when given to cells in the laboratory.

This is the finding of scientists from Imperial College London, who suggest that researchers need to look carefully at the amount of iron given in standard treatments, such as tablets and infusions, and the effects this could be having on the body.

Iron is essential for the body to function and has a crucial role in transporting oxygen -- low levels cause anemia which leads to tiredness and lethargy. Iron tablets, which are available over the counter or on prescription, are taken by millions of people in the UK -- with six million prescriptions issued each year for iron tablets in England and Wales alone.

In the study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, the team used human endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, and added a placebo or an iron solution of 10 micromolar (a similar concentration to that seen in the blood after taking an iron tablet).

Comment: While iron is essential for life, iron is a very toxic element. Excess iron accumulated in the body can increase pathogenic infections, and can become a primary cause of oxidative stress and free radical activity. Studies have linked iron intake and stored iron to diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, insulin resistance, inflammation, Alzheimer's disease, hypertension, fatty liver, hypothyroidism, arthritis, and cancer. In addition, as much as 20% of the population has a genetic condition called hemochromatosis, which causes the body to overload with iron from a normal dietary intake.

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Does growing up poor influence your approach to food forever?


UK Independent
Sun, 14 Feb 2016 10:50 UTC
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Those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds ate the cookies regardless of whether they were hungry
Poverty has a way of rearing its ugly head, slipping into the cracks in people's lives when they're young and then re-emerging later in life. Sometimes it happens in ways that are easily observable — what poor babies are fed, for instance, has been shown to alter what they crave as adults, creating life-long affinities for foods that might be better left uneaten. But sometimes the influences are hidden, and all the more insidious as a result.

A team of researchers, led by Sarah Hill, who teaches psychology at Texas Christian University, believe they have uncovered evidence of one such lingering effect. Specifically, Hill and her colleagues found that people who grow up poor seem to have a significantly harder time regulating their food intake, even when they aren't hungry.

"We found that they eat comparably high amounts regardless of their need," said Hill.
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Oklahoma man's tests negate smart meter safety claims

Catherine J. Frompovich
Activist Post
Sat, 13 Feb 2016 18:36 UTC
smart meter
All around the USA, Canada, the EU and other countries, utility companies are employing "no-option enforcements," along with threats of disconnecting and interruption of utility services, for refusing retrofitting safe analog meters for electric, natural gas and water utilities with EMF-RF-microwave-emitting, health-damaging (Non-thermal adverse health effects) AMI Smart Meters. [1]

Utility companies' lobbyists and public relations campaigns regarding AMI Smart Meters apparently cite safety statistics and information that say, "cell phones are astronomically bad and Smart Meters are next to nothing," as found in the PSO of Oklahoma trifold brochure explaining Smart Meters.

One determined Owasso, Oklahoma, resident, Mr. Joe Esposito, took it upon himself to perform a test to challenge PSO's trifold brochure statistics regarding AMI Smart Meter safety, after listening to Dr. Dietrick Klinghardt, MD, [2] discussing health concerns from Smart Meter EMF-RF exposure.
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