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From: Gary Kohls
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Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 7:54 PM
Subject: PPEN # 211: Processed/Bleached Flour Contaminant Can Cause Diabetes


Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter # 211



White Flour Contains Diabetes-Causing Contaminant Alloxan



http://www.newstarget.com/z008191.html



Sunday, June 19, 2005

You may want to think twice before eating your next sandwich on white bread.
Studies show that alloxan, the chemical that makes white flour look "clean" and
"beautiful," destroys the beta cells of the pancreas. That's right; you may be
devastating your pancreas and putting yourself at risk for diabetes, all for the
sake of eating "beautiful" flour. Is it worth it?


Scientists have known of the alloxan-diabetes connection for years; in fact,
researchers who are studying diabetes commonly use the chemical to induce the
disorder in lab animals. In the research sense, giving alloxan to an animal is
similar to injecting that animal with a deadly virus, as both alloxan and the
virus are being used specifically to cause illness. Every day, consumers ingest
foods made with alloxan-contaminated flour. Would they just as willingly consume
foods tainted with a deadly virus? Unless they had a death wish, they probably
would not. Unfortunately, most consumers are unaware of alloxan and its
potentially fatal link to diabetes because these facts are not well publicized
by the food industry.



How does alloxan cause diabetes? According to Dr. Hari Sharma's Freedom from
Disease, the uric acid derivative initiates free radical damage to DNA in the
beta cells of the pancreas, causing the cells to malfunction and die. When these
beta cells fail to operate normally, they no longer produce enough insulin, or
in other words, they cause one variety of adult-onset type 2 diabetes. Alloxan's
harmful effects on the pancreas are so severe that the Textbook of Natural
Medicine calls the chemical "a potent beta-cell toxin." However, even though the
toxic effect of alloxan is common scientific knowledge in the research
community, the FDA still allows companies to use it when processing foods we
ingest.



The FDA and the white flour industry could counter-argue that, if alloxan were
to cause diabetes, a higher proportion of Americans would be diabetic. After
all, more consumers consume white flour on a regular basis than are actually
diabetic. This point is valid, but it does not disprove the alloxan-diabetes
connection. While alloxan is one cause of adult-onset type 2 diabetes, it is of
course not the only cause. As the Textbook of Natural Medicine states, "current
theory suggests an hereditary beta-cell predisposition to injury coupled with
some defect in tissue regeneration capacity" may be a key cause. For alloxan to
cause injury to an individual's beta cells, the individual must have the genetic
susceptibility to injury. This is similar to the connection between
high-cholesterol foods and heart disease. Eating high-cholesterol foods causes
heart disease, especially in people who have family histories of heart disease.
The link between alloxan and diabetes is as clear and solid as the link between
cholesterol and heart disease.



If you've been eating white bread for years and you have a family history of
diabetes, all hope is not lost for you. Studies show that you can reverse the
effects of alloxan by supplementing your diet with vitamin E. According to Dr.
Gary Null's Clinicians Handbook of Natural Healing, vitamin E effectively
protected lab rats from the harmful effects of administered alloxan. Now, you're
not a lab rat, but you're a mammal and vitamin E is definitely worth adding to
your daily regimen of nutritional supplements, especially if you have a history
of eating foods made with white flour and are at high risk for diabetes.



Even if you are already diabetic, some simple changes to your diet can help
treat your diabetes. First of all, stop eating foods made with white flour. Even
though you already have diabetes, vitamin E supplements can still help you, as
can many common foods. Garlic, for example, does wonders for diabetes. As Dr.
Benjamin Lau states in his book Garlic for Health, "When fed garlic, the
rabbits' elevated blood sugar dropped almost as much as it did when they were
given the antidiabetic drug tolbutamide. Researchers postulated that garlic may
improve the insulin effect."



If you can't handle the taste of natural garlic, you can take it in widely
available supplements. Aloe vera is a traditional diabetic remedy in the Arabian
Peninsula, and its therapeutic characteristics are now gaining worldwide
acceptance in the treatment of diabetes. According to both human and animal
research studies, aloe vera lowers blood glucose levels by an unknown mechanism.
According to the Clinicians Handbook of Natural Healing, this natural
hypoglycemic effect extended over a period of 24 hours. Adding onions to your
diet (along with the garlic) can also significantly reduce your blood sugar
level. Additionally, as Dr. Michael T. Murray writes in The Healing Power of
Herbs, studies show that ginseng controls glucose in both diabetic humans and
diabetic laboratory animals.



It all comes down to asking if putting yourself at risk for diabetic coma,
blindness, limb amputation and death is worth eating white bread. If you're
willing to risk your quality of life and your life itself, then go ahead and eat
all the foods made with white flour you want. However, if you want to stop
poisoning yourself with alloxan, a known toxic chemical, then make a few simple
dietary changes. Eat groceries (see related ebook on groceries) made with
whole-grain wheat flour, not processed white flour.


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Subject: [pfpcnews] Focus on China: Clean water for Shaanxi farmers



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PFPC Daily - June 21, 2005

Clean water in the pipeline for Shaanxi farmers

China Daily , June 20, 2005

Clean drinking water is on the way for 5 million farmers in Northwest
China's Shaanxi Province.

The authorities there are working on the safety of rural water
supplies with plans to give them clean water within five years.

And the local government wants to see clean drinking water in all the
province's rural areas by 2020, according to Tan Cewu, director of
the Shaanxi Provincial Water Conservation Bureau.

"Apart from improving the protection of existing water sources, we
will upgrade old and build new water supply projects in rural areas,"
the director said.

This will be done in three ways, according to the official. First,
new water supply works will be built where the conditions are
appropriate. Second, new sources of water will be sought where
original water sources have been seriously polluted and cannot
recover. Finally, proper treatment will be provided in places where
water with a high fluorine content is the only source of drinking
water.

Jin Wenji, a farmer in Mingdu Village in Chang'an District, a
suburban district in the south of Xi'an, the provincial capital, said
better water could not come soon enough. The 66-year-old said: "We
have been drinking water that hasn't been properly treated from
rivers, ponds and wells. Low-quality and polluted water is
threatening
our health."

Shaanxi Province has one of the worst water supply situations in
China and also suffers from water with a high fluorine content.

Around one-third of its population drinks unsafe water, said Wang
Sousen, vice-governor of Shaanxi Province, in charge of rural affairs.

"Those who drink dirty or polluted water mostly live in rural areas.
The statistics shows that 3.5 million farmers drink polluted water,
13 per cent of the province's total rural population, because there
are no water treatment facilities in the countryside," the
vice-governor said.

In recent years, supported by the central government, projects to
supply safe rural drinking water and treat water with a high fluorine
content have been carried out in Shaanxi. Since 2000, 1.05 billion
yuan (US$127 million) has been invested, Wang said.

For example, the Qiangba Water Supply Station in Weinan Prefecture in
eastern Shaanxi has had 8.44 million yuan (US$1 million) invested in
it by the central government. It provides clean drinking water for
25,000 farmers, said Shi Yongcheng, director of the Weinan Water
Conservation Bureau.

Wang Wenchang, a farmer in Liucun Village, where drinking water was
supplied by the Qiangba Water Supply Station, said he used to drink
high-fluorine water which tasted bitter and salty, so friends and
relatives who visited him would bring a bottle of clean water as a
gift.

The provincial government is also planning to renovate and clean the
Weihe River which runs through the province from the west to the
east. With various factors affecting the river in recent years,
drinking water for around 3 million people living along the river has
been badly polluted.

Plans have been sent to the central government and will be carried
out immediately when approved, the vice-governor said.











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Subject: [pfpcnews] Recent Research 80: MSF and Prenatal Exposure



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PFPC Daily - June 22, 2005

SEE also: Hazardous Substances Fact Sheet
http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/2553.pdf

Byers DM, Irwin LN, Moss DE, Sumaya IC, Hohmann CF - "Prenatal
exposure to the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor methanesulfonyl
fluoride alters forebrain morphology and gene expression" Brain Res
Dev Brain Res. 2005 Jun 15; [Epub ahead of print]

Methanesulfonyl fluoride (MSF) is a CNS-selective
acetylcholinesterase (AChE)inhibitor, currently being developed and
tested for the treatment of symptoms of Alzheimer's disease [D.E.
Moss, P. Berlanga, M.M. Hagan, H. Sandoval, and C. Ishida,
Methanesulfonyl fluoride (MSF): a double-blind, placebo-controlled
study of safety and efficacy in the treatment of senile dementia of
the Alzheimer type, Alzheimer Dis. Assoc. Disord., 13 (1999) 20-25] .
We have previously confirmed that a single in utero exposure to MSF
at clinically appropriate doses inhibits AChE activity in fetal rat
brain by 20%, and when administered throughout gestation, MSF
achieves a 40% level of inhibition. Here, we show that rats
chronically exposed in utero to MSF display marked sex-specific
differences in morphological development of the cerebral cortical
layers compared with controls at 7 days of age. Forebrain size and
cortical thickness were increased in females and decreased in males.
An analysis of gene expression in neonate brain on the day of birth
revealed sex-specific differential expression of over 25 genes,
including choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), which were affected by
prenatal MSF exposure. Many of these genes are associated with sexual
differentiation and brain development, while others are involved in
more generalized cellular and metabolic processes. The changes
observed in cortical morphology and gene expression suggest a
critical developmental role for AChE in the fetal nervous system,
most likely through its effect on cholinergic neurotransmission.











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> going on between the forces of "health" versus the forces of "medicine."
> This war is over the future of health care.  It's a bloody war, and it
> doesn't stop at the US borders...
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Water utility wonders who would pay for fluoridation
Skagit Valley Herald - Mount Vernon,WA,USA
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Natives push scientists for more studies on toxins

By DIANA CAMPBELL

, Staff Writer
Shawna Larson sums up the apparent differences between tribal people
and scientists over pollutants with a saying from an aunt.

"We don't eat one chemical," she said to a small group of scientists
and researchers attending the 60th American Chemical Society
Northwest Conference. "We eat the whole fish."

Larson, who works for Alaska Community Action on Toxics as well as
the Indigenous Environmental Network, started her talk with a list
of words she heard last Thursday during the conference.

"Persistent. Pollutant. ... These are words that don't translate in
my language," said the young mother of Aleut and Athabascan
descent.




OTHER ARTICLES IN THIS SECTION
6/23/2005
- Fans flock to annual classic
- Senate backs climate measure
- $67 million earmarked for Alaska projects
- Churches, MADD plan community gathering to fight drunken driving
- Fair day for Fairbanks street festival




Alaska Natives have seen runny bone marrow in moose and caribou,
lesions and parasites in fish, she said. The findings make them
wonder if the food is making them sick, too. But trying to
communicate anecdotal stories about those findings to environmental
scientists and government officials is hard. Science doesn't offer a
place for word-of-mouth discoveries but instead needs evidence,
research and data.

"We see things our elders never used to see," she said. "Why do we
have cancer? Why do we have high diabetes?"

Research suggests the high rates of cancer and other diseases among
Alaska Natives and American Indians correlates to the high rates of
tobacco use and obesity. Cancer is now the number one cause of death
for Alaska Natives and has been since the 1990s. Yet 50 years ago
cancer was rare.

The history of cancer among Alaska's Native population hasn't been
ignored by Native people, Larson said. They want answers and they
want to be heard by scientists, researchers and government
officials.

But Larson wonders if Alaska Natives are the "canary in the coal
mine," who bear forewarning to the larger populations.

"Something is wrong," she said. "We just want to know why we are
sick."

An Environmental Protection Agency study showed that Cook Inlet fish
contained low amounts of contamination and were not harmful for
consumption. To date, most government findings say Alaska's wild
foods are safe to eat.

But Larson has been working to change the standard used to measure
harmful. Currently, the standard is how many fish meals it would
take to make a 160-pound white male sick. She argues that can't be
applied to Native people who eat more fish, more often and prepared
in a variety of ways.

Instead of pointing to one single factor as a cause for cancer, such
as tobacco, why not study the collaborative effects of many harmful
factors together, she said. One burning question among Native people
and others has been how does constant low level exposure to harmful
chemicals and contaminates impact health?

She recounted a telephone conversation she had with an EPA worker in
Washington, D.C. The worker suggested that the two seem to be
misunderstanding each other and wanted to talk things through.

She told Larson to think of EPA activities contained in a circle--
research, guidelines, environmental oversight. Tribal people would
never become part of that circle until they learned the language and
understood the system, she said.

Larson told her she agreed and she would take it upon herself to
learn the language and breach the circle. But once inside she didn't
plan to make way for other tribal people to follow; instead, she
would try to influence EPA to come out of the circle and go to the
tribes.

"How can we work together to talk about the synergistic effects?"
she said

Her tribal culture tells her she is responsible for the care and
keeping of environment. In fact, there isn't a concept about the
right to do things, instead it's a responsibility.

"There is only the word responsibility," she said.

One conference participant and scientist said Larson had a point.

"There is a gap between science and public opinion," said Augustine
Arukwe, a science professor in the biology department at the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He was a presenter
at the conference and spoke about female attributes in male salmon
species, presumed to be caused by a chemical in fish habitat.

"Science is rigid," he said. "To do good science you have to do a
certain procedure."

Anna Godduhn, a University of Alaska Fairbanks student and one of
the conference's organizers, agreed with Larson.

"Even if cancer is caused by smoking, there is very little doubt the
environment has caused it," she said. She, too, wonders about the
collaborative effects of various carcinogens found in the
environment, foods and other substances.

"At the end of the day, how much is too much?" she said.

Diana Campbell can be reached at 459-7523 or
dcampbell@... .

#238: Will we represent you in Chicago?
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Subject: [FAN Bulletins] #238: Will we represent you in Chicago?



THE FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.fluoridealert.org or  http://www.fluorideACTION.net

FAN CAMPAIGN Bulletin  #238: Will we represent you in Chicago?

June 23, 2005

Dear All,

We are now just three weeks away from our efforts to set the record straight in
Chicago. As you know the ADA and the CDC, partly with taxpayers' money, are
organizing a jamboree there - July 13-16 - to celebrate 60 years of
fluoridation.  We believe that this is no cause for celebration but one of
immense shame, which is compounded every day by more and more evidence which
indicates the health risks being taken with this reckless policy.

The late Dr. John Colquhoun said it very succinctly. In an interview in 1998 he
asked, "How many teeth saved could possibly justify one child dying from
osteosarcoma?" With Baskin's Harvard PhD thesis indicating that there is a seven
fold increased risk for osteosarcoma for young boys exposed to fluoride in their
6th, 7th and 8th years, his question takes on an even greater significance.
Especially when coupled with Armfield and Spencer's findings from South
Australia where these authors were unable to demonstrate any significant
difference in tooth decay in the permanent teeth of children who had drunk
fluoridated water all their lives and those who had drunk bottled water or rain
water (Armfield and Spencer, 2004).

But none of this means anything to the forces which are trying to fluoridate the
remaining unfluoridated towns and cities in the US, Australia, New Zealand and
the UK. They do not have to look at the data, because fluoridation's "safety and
effectiveness" was pre-ordained many years ago. No new evidence can possibly
deflect them from their course. Because they have the POWER, they are not ready
to admit they were wrong. They are in charge, period. They are the government
and they have millions of dollars to spend to prove that "black" is "white" and
fluoride is save enough to sprinkle on your cornflakes!

Nevertheless, for those who do care about the health and future of children, as
well as our own elderly bones and brains; who care about individual human rights
and care about maintaining scientific integrity against those who would sell it
for a few pieces of silver, we have to bear witness. So a few of us will be
there in Chicago to wave our banners at the waves of power. We always have to
hold out the hope that others - not beholden to this policy - may notice the
facts readily available in the open literature, once their minds have been
opened.

We won't be many, but we will be coming from at least nine states: Arkansas;
California; Illinois; Michigan; New York; Utah; Vermont and Wisconsin.

We won't be many, but we will represent many, many others who couldn't be there
because the distance was to great, or travel costs too high, or they couldn't
get off work, or it was the wrong time of year for the family's holiday plans.
Such are the problems when you are not being bankrolled by the US government or
one of its wealthiest professions!

We won't be many but will we represent you? Can we hold your banner? Can we hand
out your leaflet? Can we tell the press - or any dentist prepared to listen
-what you want to say?

So here is your chance to be there in spirit. Send us the words for the banner
you would have held. Send us what you would have put on a leaflet, and what you
would have said if you suddenly found a microphone in your face! We will
consider all your input - and you never know you might see your banner on the
photos that will be taken by us and the press.

Another way you can help is with funds. We are still looking for money to help
get some people there who cannot afford the air fare as well as hotel
accommodation. Right now we are looking for $300 to fly in Joe Walls, a water
treatment plant operator from Arkansas whose health was damaged by exposure to
fluoridating chemicals. If you have $10 or more you can spare towards this,
please send your tax deductible donation to AEHSP, PO Box 5111, Burlington,
Vermont 05402.  Please make check out to AEHSP-Chicago, and also email me that
you have done so, so that I have some idea how much money we have raised. This
is important because I am having to make little financial decisions on things
like hotel rooms on a daily basis.

Again, we won't be many but we will be noticed. It is going to be a very
colorful, creative and peaceful event. Our task is to open minds not close them.
The overall message: the risks are too great; the benefits too small. It is time
to stop fluoridation now.

Paul Connett




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Could some one please tell me the web site that tells by zip code or
city if you are fluoridated and how much.
Thanks
Jo Ann

Jo Ann....In "Google" key in "International Anti-Fluoridation Database"...tells
which cities are fluoridated.
Donna

punkinpie49r <punkinpie@...> wrote:
Could some one please tell me the web site that tells by zip code or
city if you are fluoridated and how much.
Thanks
Jo Ann




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> Could some one please tell me the web site that tells by zip code or
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> Thanks
> Jo Ann

"My Water's Fluoride"

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Get LOST!

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FAN CAMPAIGN Bulletin  #239: Help choose Chicago placards

June 26, 2005

Dear All,

The response to the last bulletin has been terrific. Lots of good
ideas and enough money to send Joe Walls to Chicago -and more.

Now we need a little more help choosing our placards. To date we have
received 32 suggestions. They are listed below. The organizing
committee reserves the right to make the final selection but we would
like your input.

You have six votes to use: you can give your first choice 3, your
second 2 and third 1; or you could give your real favorite 6 votes or
you could give one vote each to six different entries.

List your vote this way  3 votes for #___; 2 votes for #____ etc

We will tally them up and let you know.

Deadline - tomorrow (June 27) by 6 pm EST.

We will also consider other suggestions (outside the voting).

Have fun. Many thanks!

Paul Connett

1. Fluoridation: A Sinking Ship
2. Fluoridation: 60 years of NO science
3. Fluoridation: A 60 Year Scam
4. Fluoridation: 60 years of Science Fraud
5. Fluoridation: Poison on Tap
6. Fluoridation: Chemically poisoned water
7. Fluoridation/Bone Cancer Coverup
8. Fluoridation: Get it Out!
9. Check the facts:  FLUORIDEACTION.NET
10. We deserve pure water, without chemical additives
11.Fluorine 'the Devil's element'
12. Say NO to water fluoridation: it's illegal!
13. Untreated Untested Industrial Waste
14. Fluoride is a rat poison
15. Fluoride damages our bones
16. Fluoride lowers thyroid function
17. Fluoridation indicted for kids' cancer
18. Stop Mass Medication without Informed Consent
19. Drink F water -- die sooner!
20. Stop the fluoride insanity!
21. The ADA lied about mercury amalgams too!
22. To hell with our kids, protect the fertilizer industry
23. Nature had a reason to keep fluoride out of mothers milk
24. Fluoridation: the enemy within
25. Fluoride causes thyroid disease
26. Fluoride causes cancer
27. To prevent tooth decay: BRUSH YOUR TEETH .
28.  Stop medicating my family, Stop medicating my children, Stop
medicating me.
29. Read the back of your toothpaste label
30. Poison does not belong in water
31. Keep our water safe and clean
32. Dentists should treat kids not water

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Subject: [pfpcnews] Recent Research 81: Hepatitis & Paxil



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PFPC Daily - June 23, 2005

Colakoglu O, Tankurt E, Unsal B, Ugur F, Kupelioglu A, Buyrac Z,
Akpinar Z - Toxic hepatitis associated with paroxetine" Int J Clin
Pract 59(7):861-2(2005)

Summary: Hepatotoxicity is a rare complication of paroxetine, a
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. Regarded as safe in
therapeutic use, there have been reports of cases of severe hepatic
dysfunction with gross elevations of transaminase levels that may be
related to this drug. We report here severe adverse cholestatic and
hepatocellular injury in a patient taking paroxetine probably due to
an immune-mediated hypersensitivity reaction.






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Subject: [pfpcnews] Recent Research 82: Cipro & Mutation



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PFPC Daily - June 24, 2005

Gillespie SH, Basu S, Dickens AL, O'sullivan DM, McHugh TD - "Effect
of subinhibitory concentrations of ciprofloxacin on Mycobacterium
fortuitum mutation rates" J Antimicrob Chemother. 2005 Jun 14; [Epub
ahead of print]

OBJECTIVES: Fluoroquinolones have found a place in the management of
mycobacterial diseases including tuberculosis. It has been previously
shown that subinhibitory concentrations of quinolones increase the
mutation rate in Escherichia coli and staphylococci. The purpose of
this study is to extend this observation to mycobacteria and to
quantify mutation rates.

METHODS: The mutation rate in Mycobacterium fortuitum to
ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, moxifloxacin, rifampicin, erythromycin
and gentamicin resistance was determined when grown with and without
various sub-MIC concentrations of ciprofloxacin.

RESULTS: M. fortuitum exposed to (1/2) MIC ciprofloxacin had an
increase in the mutation rate of between 72- and 120-fold when
selected on quinolones or other antimycobacterial antibiotics.
Smaller, but significant increases in mutation rate were seen when
the organism was exposed to lower concentrations ((1/4) MIC
and (1/8) MIC).

CONCLUSIONS: These data show that sub-MIC concentrations of
fluoroquinolone significantly increase mutation rates and these data
suggest that care must be taken to ensure that bacteria are not
exposed to subinhibitory concentrations when adding quinolones to a
regimen used to treat mycobacterial infection.






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Subject: [pfpcnews] Recent Research 83: Dental Fluorosis in Colombia



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PFPC Daily - June 25, 2005

Fluoridated salt effects?

Sanchez H, Parra JH, Cardona D - "Dental fluorosis in primary school
students of the department of Caldas, Colombia" Biomedica 25(1):46-54
(2005)

BACKGROUND: A prevalence survey of dental fluorosis was conducted
among primary school students in Caldas, a small province in west
central Colombia.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The cross-sectional study compared the
prevalence of dental fluorosis in the four regions of Caldas. In the
urban area, a probabilistic sample was selected and,in the rural
areas, students were sampled in locations that were readily
accessible. One thousand sixty-one students were examined
while at school in daylight conditions. The surveillance tool applied
was the Dean Index. Univariate and bivariate analyses were made with
a chi-square test being applied for the latter to show independence
among variables.

RESULTS: Sixty-three percent (95% CI: 60-66%) of primary school
students were affected by fluorosis to some degree of severity. Among
them, 56% (95% CI: 52-59) were classified in the mild and very mild
degrees, whereas 7% (95% CI: 2-16) were classified as moderate or
severe. A statistically significant association between the region
variable and dental fluorosis was observed. However, no association
was found with gender, area, schooling or age variables. Within
Caldas, the eastern region showed the lowest prevalence (47.9%) in
contrast to the other three areas (northern, central-south and
western) where prevalences exceeded 68%.

CONCLUSIONS: At least two of three primary school students in
Caldas suffer from some degree of dental fluorosis.






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Subject: [pfpcnews] Fluoride Pollution -C8: The Gender Question



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PFPC Daily - June 26, 2005

How does gender affect contamination?

The Oakland Tribune, June 20, 2005

By Douglas Fischer

The effort to understand what's contaminating our bodies often leads
to more puzzles than answers.

Take the compounds responsible for Scotchgard, Teflon, Gore-Tex and
other modern-day nonstick and stain-resistant products.

Tiny amounts contaminate all of us, young and old. But for some
reason, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
men appear to have higher levels than women.

The data is preliminary and needs further study, cautioned Larry
Needham, chief of the CDC's Organic Analytical Toxicology branch.

But the information does offer a glimpse at the power of studying
human exposure to various chemicals: People often react differently
to a particular compounds - information that often remains unknown
until researchers analyze many diverse populations.

In the case of these two chemicals - PFOA, or perfluorooctanoic
acid, and PFOS, or perfluorooctane sulfonate - the difference
between men and women of all races and ages is notable, Needham said,
though further analysis must be done to verify it.

The samples came from CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey, the country's only large-scale biomonitoring program.

"Are males being more exposed? Or do males handle it differently?" he
asked. "We don't know. But first we need to establish if males are
higher."







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Subject: [pfpcnews] Sources of F- : Slow-Burning Cigarette Papers



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PFPC Daily - June 27, 2005

Note: "Other carcinogens, such as fluorine,
increased by about 6 percent."

FROM THE RIDICULOUS DEPARTMENT...

Cigarette bill reaches Senate
Debate about slow-burning paper today

Island Valley Daily Bulletin

By Steve Geissinger

Sunday, June 26, 2005 - SACRAMENTO - A Democrat-sponsored bill
requiring cigarettes to be made with a slow-burning paper reducing
the risk of fire that adds a possible increase to smokers' health
risks faces its last key hurdle in the Legislature today.

The Assembly bill, to be discussed at a Senate hearing before facing
a vote by lawmakers, has advanced without discussion of findings
buried in a Harvard School of Public Health study this year, showing
fire-safe cigarettes increase the amount of carbon monoxide and
cancer-causing substances.

The Harvard report on fire-safe cigarettes found that carbon
monoxide, related to heart disease, and naphthalene, linked to
cancer, are boosted by the use of a special, banded paper that slows
burning when the cigarette is unattended.

Carbon monoxide is boosted by 11.4 percent and naphthalene by 13.9
percent, according to the study. Other carcinogens, such as fluorine,
increased by about 6 percent.

Opponents say state fire statistics indicate the measure may not help
prevent fire-related deaths of smokers or firefighters due to
longtime, household fire-proofing rules and other factors. But
nationally, activists have tied hundreds of deaths to unattended
cigarettes.

The legislation, which would ban traditional cigarette sales next
year, also could cost the deficit-ridden state millions in tax
revenue as smokers dodge higher California cigarette prices with
purchases on the Internet or elsewhere, according to state tax
officials.

The measure principally authored by Assemblyman Paul Koretz, D-West
Hollywood, and Assemblywoman Wilma Chan, D-Oakland mimics legislation
adopted by New York and is under consideration in a handful of other
states. It also has support from health and public safety groups.

The bill's co-authors include Democratic Assembly members Lloyd
Levine of Van Nuys and Fran Pavley of Woodland Hills, along with Sens.
Elaine Alquist of San Jose, Gloria Romero of Los Angeles, and Nell
Soto of Ontario.

While some U.S. cigarette makers have remained neutral on the
California bill, others have opposed it, citing costs and other
complaints.

"We now know that not only are these cigarettes easy to manufacture,
but they are as acceptable to consumers as regular cigarettes,"
Koretz said.

"How many more lives must be lost before other states gain access to
safer cigarettes?" Koretz asked, referring to out-of-state lawsuits
about the issue and other legal battles involving the tobacco
industry.

Jim Goold of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., who plans to testify at
today's hearing, dismissed Koretz's assertions.

"We have not yet seen any indication there has been any real-world
fire-safety benefit experienced in New York and a number of studies
at the federal level and by public health groups have raised concerns
about the effects on cigarettes that compliance with such a law can
have," Goold said.

The legislation faces an uncertain future before Republican Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger if it gets the OK from lawmakers.

Assemblyman Ray Haynes, R-Murrieta, said government shouldn't meddle,
adding, "You can only protect people so much from themselves."







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Filtering information
Our intellect is continuously bombarded with a phenomenal
amount of information. Everyone tries to attract our attention
and their motives are not always clear.
For most of us the amount of information is simply
unbearable. People just ignore the most of it, or choose to
"believe" someone who filters this information and gives them
a 5 minute "summary".
Is there any better way? Can we develop our OWN filter, so
we can always distinguish a "diamond", even in a huge pile of
crap? How to find out what is true and what is important?
Knowing and understanding The Purpose of the Universe –
even if is initially limited - enables us to design a very
powerful "filter" for "incoming" information.
All you need is to ask yourself only ONE question:
"Does it contravene The Purpose?"
to "filter away" misinformation, deceit, propaganda,
demagogy etc. instantly. If you do not have The Purpose
clearly in your mind, you may expand your test into two
equivalent questions:
Does it suppress development of Individual Intellects?
Does it compromise the Freedom of Choice of anyone?
The Freedom of Choice 63
With amazing regularity and precision, you will be able to
distinguish dangerous doctrine from an interesting scientific
theory - instantly. Try it out. You'll be amazed how simple
and effective such a "filter" is. Every time.

#241: Douglass Cover-up exposed.
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From: Paul Connett
To: fan_bulletins@...
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:38 AM
Subject: [FAN Bulletins] #241: Douglass Cover-up exposed.


THE FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.fluoridealert.org or  http://www.fluorideACTION.net

FAN CAMPAIGN Bulletin  #241: Douglass Cover-up exposed.

June 28, 2005

Dear All,

The Environmental Working Group (ewg) has just dropped another bombshell into
the fluoride-bone cancer story. They are charging that Harvard Professor Chester
Douglass has attempted to cover-up his graduate student's PhD findings. The
charge appears today in the Boston Herald (see below). Thus, for those who were
wondering why it was that Elise Bassin's important finding has not seen the
light of day in the FOUR YEARS since her PhD was successfully defended in 2001,
this maybe the explanation (see http://www.ewg.org for a discussion of Bassin's
thesis). Bassin found that young boys being exposed to fluoride in their 6th,
7th and 8th years have a seven fold increase in osteosarcoma (see the FAN
homepage for more on the thesis).

We are not talking here of just little old academic paper - we are talking about
a thesis - which if held correct -means that young boys are dying because the
dental profession wants to reduce tooth decay. Such a matter is of such vital
importance for all parents that this issue should have been made public
immediately Bassin's thesis had been successfully defended. But Douglass didn't
do so.  Why?

In addition to Chester Douglass receiving enormous amounts of taxpayers' money
to investigate this matter, he is also a consultant for Colgate. He edits their
monthly "Oral Health Report." With such a glaring conflict of interest - 
Colgate has been manufacturing fluoridated toothpaste for years and pays a huge
attention to marketing to kids (there latest little gimmick is a tube which
plays a little tune when you take the top off!
http://www.epinions.com/pr-Bath_Hygiene_Accessories-Colgate_Children_s_Fluoride_\
Toothpaste_With_Musical_Cap_Baby_Looney_Tunes) - it is surprising that it was
Douglass who was chosen to be the recipient of so much public money to oversee
research into this controversial area.

Whether, Douglass was serving the interests of Colgate or some other master, the
truth is that when given the opportunity to talk about the issue in public he
has denied any connection between fluoridation and osteosarcoma. For example, in
2002, after Bassin's thesis had been accepted, Douglass spoke before a meeting
organized by the British Fluoridation Society, held at the Royal College of
Physicians in London. Along with Hoover, of the National Cancer Institute, he
specifically rejected any connection between osteosarcoma and fluoridation, and
somehow failed to mention Bassin's work!

When he was asked to summarize his work for the NRC committee reviewing the
toxicology of fluoride in water in 2004, his summary somehow fails to discuss
Bassin's findings, although he partially covered his tracks (plausible
deniability?) by listing her thesis in the list of references.

Another key question is why - year after year - public money has been put into
Douglass's work on osteosarcoma and fluoridation, when he has published
practically nothing on the subject. He published a short abstract 10 years ago
which claimed no connection between osteosarcoma and fluoridation, promising a
full paper to follow. It never came, and nothing else from Douglass on the
subject since!

In actual fact, it was Bassin's re-examination of Douglass's data from 1995,
which led to her remarkable finding. Not only did her careful examination based
upon the year in which children were exposed yield her important finding, but it
also partially explains why other epidemiological studies have failed to find
this connection.

It would appear that rather than acknowledge this to the public, Douglass has
scurried around with his friends in the cancer and dental establishment to cover
this story up.

It is important that Bassin not be made another victim of such shenanigans. Her
work is important. It is robust. It deserves to be published without further
delay.

As far as Douglass is concerned, here is a classic case of scientific integrity
at its worst. If this does not make those who promote fluoridation blink what
will?
Paul Connett

The Boston Herald story.


http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=91857



Claim: Doctor fudged fluoride findings

By Jessica Heslam

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - Updated: 05:00 AM EST



An environmental watchdog group plans to file a complaint today with federal
medical authorities claiming a Harvard doctor is fudging research findings.

      The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group said Dr. Chester
Douglass reported no link between fluoride and bone cancer in boys,
contradicting extensive research done by one of his doctoral students.

    Douglass, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental
Medicine, has been given grant money, possibly more than $1 million, by the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to research whether there is
a link between fluoride and bone cancer in boys, the non-profit group alleges.

  One of his dental doctoral students, Dr. Elise Bassin, did an extensive study
that found a link between fluoridated tap water and bone cancer in adolescent
boys, the group said. Douglass was the lead adviser on her doctoral thesis and
signed off on her research, the group claims.

   Despite his student's findings, Douglass told federal health officials in his
grant report that there is no correlation, according to the group. Douglass did
not send the NIEHS the student's research but summarized it himself.

   Douglass is the editor-in-chief of the Colgate Oral Care Report, a newsletter
that goes to dentists and is supported by toothpaste manufacturer Colgate
Palmolive.

  Douglass could not be reached for comment last night. Bassin's research has
never been published and access to it is restricted by Harvard, the group said.

   ``It sure seems pretty outrageous,'' said EWG spokesman Mike Casey. ``We're
absolutely perplexed.''

    It appears Douglass violated federal research rules, according to the group's
complaint, which they plan to file with the NIEHS.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Kohls
To: Gary Kohls
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:52 AM
Subject: Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter Extra: Jane Stillwater's "Prozac
(and antipsychotic drugs) Goes To War"


Prozac goes to war: Feeding our troops anti-depressants like they were Skittles
or M&Ms

      By Jane Stillwater http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com

(Author's note:  I first wrote this story in order to highlight one American
soldier's plight in Iraq -- but then a friend e-mailed me another soldier's
story and my essay expanded.  Now it has become more than just one individual
American's sad experience in Iraq.  It has become a larger tale -- of greed,
exploitation and mis-use.

     Both of these stories -- as well as the many other stories in the hundreds
of soldiers' blogs now pouring out of Iraq -- are documenting America's new
reality:  For Bush Republicans, the war on Iraq is a cash cow, designed to make
money at any cost.  Judging from all these stories, it appears that the people
in control of the Pentagon, the Congress and the White House regard America's
finest heroes as merely unfeeling and interchangeable human machines in their
sweatshops -- or like indentured sharecroppers out chopping cotton while they
sip Mint Julips on the veranda of their Green Zone plantations.

      No wonder recruiting is down!)

STORY NUMBER ONE:

      A friend of mine is stationed in Iraq and is totally flipping out.  Can you
possibly guess why?  Maybe he's tired of following orders that routinely involve
blowing up babies?  Well, for whatever reason, the doctors there are trying to
feed him anti-psychotic medications.  "A bottle of pills is their answer to
everything over here," he e-mailed me.

      Guess what?  A bottle of pills seems to be the answer to every problem over
here too.  I bet half of America is on anti-depressants.  But I digress.

      "I am afraid to take the anti-psychotics," my friend wrote me.  "After
everyone got so sick from the anthrax vaccinations they gave us, no one trusts
ANYTHING the Army medical corps gives out any more."

      So.  Should our war hero start taking his pills?  Or should he just wait
until he has flipped out completely and started shooting everyone in sight? 
What are his alternatives?  The Army is NOT offering him psychotherapy.  Neither
is it offering to let him go home.  You gotta have an arm or a leg blown off for
that to happen.  Just psychosis or a lost finger or two doesn't count.

     I just started reading Dr. William Glasser's book, Warning: Psychiatry Can
Be Dangerous To Your Mental Health.  So far, the book has said that psychotic
meds are only 50 to 60% effective -- but that placebos are 47 to 50% effective
too.  That's scary -- that sugar pills are as effective as Prozac or Risperdal.

      The next time I write my friend, I'll ask him if he would like me to send
him some M&Ms and Skittles instead.

      Another good cure for depression, neurosis, post-traumatic stress syndrome
and psychosis in our soldiers in Iraq is to have them stop killing babies and
start bringing our troops back home!

PS:  Here's another quote from my soldier friend.  "You might also want to check
out where the manufacturers of Prozac (Eli Lilly & Co) are putting their
'charitable' donations, heh heh.  I'm sure the government is getting a pretty
penny for shoving all those pills in our mouths."

      How many millions do Bush Republicans receive from drug lobby political
action committees?  George Bush alone received $891,208 to help lobby for drug
companies in the year leading up to passing the Medicare Prescription Drug
boondoggle.  Shouldn't that be illegal?

STORY NUMBER TWO:

     I just received the following e-mail from a VERY worried parent:

      My daughter talked to me yesterday in instant messages.  She's an MP
(Military Police) on a base in Iraq.  She was sad because she got reprimanded
for not waking up on time.  Anyhoo, I told her, "Well you'd better go to bed
earlier don't you think."

      Her reply was, "Daddy, I go to bed EVERY night at 9 pm.  But we are working
12 hours a day and have been since I arrived in January."  She has a 12 hour
shift and because they are shorthanded, she has to patrol the whole 12 hours
alone in an unarmored SUV -- and her base usually gets mortared at LEAST once a
day too.

      "I already have three alarm clocks," the daughter answered, "but I'm
exhausted and we work six days a week every week."  It seems that when she
arrived, Rumsfeld took half her unit and transferred it to Baghdad and so EVERY
MP on her base must work 12 hours a day, six days a week.  She told me that
she's totally stressed out so I told her to go to the Doc on sick call and ask
for Prozac for her stress.  I am assuming from your story that she'll get it --
and then it occurred to me.  They probably are ALL overworked since they can't
get enough recruits to go there and it's stressing them all out.  Imagine what
the combat troops must be like?  Their equipment is the same way, with most of
it being used long past its checks and balances and sand takes a heavy toll on
moving parts.

      As punishment for not waking up on time, my daughter is now working 12
hours a day seven days a week instead of just six.

****

George Bush -- Top Lobbyist For Pharmaceuticals:  In the year leading up to the
passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, the drug company PACs, employees
and their families gave more than $3 million in political contributions to these
eleven elected officials, largely credited with negotiating the bill, and also
responsible for inserting the provision that specifically barred importation [of
drugs from Canada].
   http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=394

****

From Robert:  Child Abuse By Chris Floyd:  When the public liars sat down
together -- in Crawford, in the Pentagon, in the Oval Office, at 10 Downing
Street --and very deliberately, very guilefully and very knowingly devised their
act of mass murder in Iraq, it is unlikely they gave any thought to the most
vulnerable targets of their war crime: the children.  So in considering this
aspect of the bloodbath, we should give the liars the benefit of the doubt.
Let's not make them more monstrous than they are.  Let's stick to the facts.

      Let us say -- as the incontrovertible facts compel us to say -- that they
were willing to kill tens of thousands of innocent people in an action they
knew to be illegal, reckless, ill-planned and unsupported by evidence; that
they knew their public statements about the plans for war were lies; that
they started the war with a vicious bombing campaign months before
obtaining even a fig leaf of approval from their respective legislatures, a
clear and treasonous violation of their own national laws; that long before
their blitzkrieg rolled across the border, they were already divvying up
the loot of conquest: the oil rights, the "privatizations," the crony
contracts.  http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/143444/


From Capsource:  Oh fu*k you you stupid idiot.   Funny how you chastise Bush but
not the insurgents.  You guys are so consistent with your answers.  You could
give a rat's [bottom] about those troops.   I see right through your hypocrisy
and your so transparent.  Good try though................your such a phony.


****
From TruthOut:   An Army study shows that about one in six soldiers in Iraq
report symptoms of major depression, serious anxiety or post-traumatic stress
disorder, a proportion that some experts believe could eventually climb to one
in three, the rate ultimately found in Vietnam veterans.  Because about one
million American troops have served so far in the conflicts in Iraq and
Afghanistan, according to Pentagon figures, some experts predict that the number
eventually requiring mental health treatment could exceed 100,000. 
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121704X.shtml

****

From the Flaming Liberal:  "Kansas group to spew hate at local soldiers'
funerals!"  A radical Midwestern hate group plans to protest at the funerals of
two local soldiers killed in action, claiming the slain heroes were cast into
hell to join many more dishonorable Americans.  The Westboro Baptist Church,
proclaiming "Thank God for IEDs'' or roadside bombs, claims the 9/11 attacks and
American deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan are God's vengeance on a nation that is
tolerant of homosexuality.  "It's going to shock and enrage every person who
sees it.  That is our goal,'' said Margie Phelps, daughter of WBC leader Fred
Phelps.

      The group is based in Topeka, Kansas and has made headlines protesting
homosexuality at school events, graduations and mainstream churches.  But when
told about the group's plans, John Maloney, the father of slain Marine Capt.
John Maloney, said his son died in Iraq to protect free speech, no matter how
offensive.



      "He fought and died for their right to do what they do,'' he said. "I may
not agree with what they do. This is still the United States of America, isn't
it?''

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=90258



****

From Google:  Risperdal Lawsuit: Janssen Pharmaceutica Products, LP (Maker of
... Find out about filing a Risperdal lawsuit at Class Action America. ... who
have been harmed by the anti-psychotic prescription drug Risperdal
(risperidone). ...

****

From Dr. El-Najjar:  Suicides in the Ranks: Something is Seriously Wrong in the
Military:  "Not long ago, at the very same base, another young man was chalked
up as a suicide-he was found face down in a creek in 4 inches of water. Excuse
me! Committed suicide by lying down in a 4 inch deep creek? Give me a break!
What in the hell is going on there?"
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2005%20Opinion%20Editorials/June\
/20o/Suicides%20in%20the%20Ranks%20Something%20is%20Seriously%20Wrong%20in%20the\
%20Military%20By%20Jack%20Dalton.htm

****

From CLG News:  Timetable: Six More Years In Iraq --by Richard Reeves. "The
words are almost always the same:  'threat' ... 'atrocities' ... 'secret
intelligence' ... 'mission' ... 'preventive' ... 'fog' ... 'brave' ...
'terrorists' ... 'Support our troops' ... 'Stay the course' ... 'waste'...
'treason' ... 'timetable' ... 'withdraw' ... 'tragedy.'  It usually takes about
nine years to say them all.  Americans said them about Vietnam between 1964 and
1973.  The Soviets said them about Afghanistan from 1979 to 1988.  Judging by
that recent history, we will be in Iraq for six or even more years.  It will be
a 'tragedy' when we leave in 2012."
      26,000 dead wounded or deserted - Time For Action --by Ray Dequenne 23 Jun
2005 "With the total number of soldiers dead, wounded and who deserted standing
at over 26,000... and with over 150,000 Iraqis dead... and with wars approaching
in Iran, Syria and North Korea, we can no longer afford to go on with life as
'normal' and must now collectively and peacefully intervene into history."

      Bush's approval rating for the Iraq war just hit 28% in California... even
Rove and Diebold can't pull this one out of the sewer.

      Tsunami aid, Bush style: Tsunami aid 'went to the richest'  --Six months
after the Asian tsunami, a leading international charity says the poorest
victims have benefited the least from the massive relief effort.  A survey by
Oxfam found that aid had tended to go to businesses and landowners, exacerbating
the divide between rich and poor.

      [Major cause of inflation --] $2.4 billion in $100 bills sent to Baghdad
--It weighed 28 tons and took up as much room as 74 washing machines.  It was
$2.4 billion in $100 bills, and Baghdad needed it as soon as possible.  The
initial request from U.S. officials in charge of Iraq required the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York to decide whether it could open its vault on a Sunday. 
Then, when the shipment date changed, officials had to scramble to line up U.S.
Air Force C-130 cargo planes to hold the money.  They did, and the
$2,401,600,000 was safely delivered to Baghdad on June 22, 2004.  It was the
largest one-time cash transfer in the history of the New York Fed.
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

****

From Riverbend:  What people find particularly frustrating is the fact that
while Baghdad seems to be falling apart in so many ways with roads broken and
pitted, buildings blasted and burnt out and residential areas often swimming in
sewage, the Green Zone is flourishing.  The walls surrounding restricted areas
housing Americans and Puppets have gotten higher -- as if vying with the tallest
of date palms for height....

      The Green Zone, [a friend who went there] told us, is a city in itself.  He
came back awed, and more than a little bit upset.  He talked of designs and
plans being made for everything from the future US Embassy and the housing
complex that will surround it, to restaurants, shops, fitness centers, gasoline
stations, constant electricity and water -- a virtual country inside of a
country with its own rules, regulations and government.  Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the Republic of the Green Zone, also known as the Green Republic.
  
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:eGoVnrJY9LAJ:www.iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/arti\
cle/54359+riverbend+green+republic&hl=en

****

From Joe T:  If I were as adamant in my support to the Lunatic as [the Bush
Republicans are], I wouldn't be sitting at a keyboard, no matter my age or
physical condition -- I would be in Iraq fighting for my lord and master.  "Save
a Child, Volunteer for military duty."

****

From SLIMFALL:  "Liberal Soldier in Iraq has a message for Karl Rove": Today he
left these two recordings.  Note his comments on Karl Rove's latest comments
regarding "liberals" aiding "terrorists."  This is a "liberal" that is proud to
be one, and he is strapping on armor every day to defend an occupation that was
based off a lie.  This is one "liberal" taking bullets for this administration. 
http://leonardclark.com/blog/

****

From Jude:  This is like Nam all over again and drugs again are the key weapons
our country seems to know how to use best on any country.  [Heroin from
Afghanistan has already hit the streets of Baghdad -- it started flowing into
Iraq over a year ago.  See the TruthOut article "Iraq: The New Heroin Route": 
Although Washington took the lead thirty years ago in the global anti-drug war,
narcotics seem to stubbornly want to surge through the wake of the American
Army.  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/060205I.shtml and from the Baltimore
Chronicle:  "American Afghanistan's Three Major Crops: Opium, Human Organs and
Children"  http://baltimorechronicle.com/082704JaneStillwater.shtml

****

From a local scientist regarding 9/11:  After extensive research, I have finally
been forced to the painful concusion that George Bush knew in advance about
9/11.  I have reviewed the mountains of evidence reported on blog sites, read
the full Commission report and constructed my own scenarios and timelines. 
Scientifically, there can be not other explanation.  Bush would have had to have
known.

****

From Katherine:  Former MI5 agent David Shayler, who previously blew the whistle
on the British government paying Al Qaeda $200,000 to carry out political
assassinations, has gone on the record with his conviction that 9/11 was an
inside job meant to bring about a permanent state of emergency in America and
pave the way for the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and ultimately Iran and
Syria.


      "It is in fact a criminal offence to interfere with a crime scene and yet
in the case of 9/11 all the metal from the buildings is shipped out to China,
there are no forensications done on that metal.  Now that to me suggests they
never wanted anybody to look at that metal because it was not going to provide
the evidence they wanted to show people that it was Al-Qaeda."

      Shayler then went on to dismiss the incompetence theory.

      "The more I look at it, you realize that it's not incompetence. There were
FBI officers all over the country, Colleen Rowley is obviously the one who
managed to get a Congressional hearing, but there was plenty of evidence
certainly."

      "There are so many questions that need to be answered, protocols being
overridden within national defense, people actively being stopped from carrying
out investigations.  This wasn't an accident, they were aware there was
intelligence indicating those kind of attacks, there were FBI intercepts saying
it in the days before the attacks.  When you look at it all, that is a big big
intelligence picture and yet these people were crucially stopped from doing
their jobs, stopped from trying to protect the American people." 
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/270605insidejob.htm

****

From RJ at http://topplebush.com regarding the JFK assassination and George HW
Bush:  The linkage of Bush to the Kennedy assassination and the CIA come via a
memo that was disclosed in a FOI request.  A researcher by the name of Joseph
McBride writing in The Nation in July 1988, disclosed a Nov. 29, 1963 memo from 
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to the State Dept. entitled:  Assassination of 
Pres. John F. Kennedy Nov. 22, 1963 referencing a briefing by people in the
Defense Intelligence Agency and George Bush of the CIA about potential problems
related to the assassination.

      Bush's resume leaves out a good portion of his time spent during this
period and he denies he was working for the CIA during this time period,
although many of his denials are pretty lame and roundabout ones.  All of this
information is documented and reported in Mark Lane's book, Plausible Denial
which links E. Howard Hunt and the CIA directly to Kennedy's assassination.

****

From "Amy doesn't go to Bali":  This episode is written but not typed.  Someone
needs to find a publisher who will give poor sweet Mary Straitwell
mstraitwell@... a big cash advance so she can get this freaking section
TYPED.  It involves living in a tourist hotel and fighting traffic congestion in
paradise in order to go watch some crazy guy walk on fire.  Did you know that
Bali is to Australia what Hawaii is to the U.S?  Fair dinkum!  That's Aussie
slang for "I kid you not."  http://travelswithamy.blogspot.com/


****

      I have become shocked and amazed lately at how bitter and cynical and mean
my e-mails are becoming -- but ever since Bush, Rove, Rumsfeld and Cheney bombed
several defenseless countries into rubble, failed to protect my country on 9-11,
scalped our treasury  and blatantly STOLE two national elections, I've just not
been the same.  I WANT to be a kind and loving and caring person but the example
being set for me by America's "leaders" has precluded that from happening.  My
apologies.

      In defense of my country, I must fight fire with fire.  Those people in the
White House are NASTY.

****
      If you like getting my outside-the-box essays but your in-box is too full
and you need a break, that's okay.  Just e-mail me, say "Dear Jane" on the
subject line and I will take you off my list.  Thanks.

      And if you get more than one copy of this, blame it on my jankity old
computer!
****

      "Imagine a world where EVERY child is wanted, nurtured, protected and
loved:  World Peace in one generation!"

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#242: "Gaff" of the year.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Connett
To: fan_bulletins@...
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:48 PM
Subject: [FAN Bulletins] #242: "Gaff" of the year.


THE FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.fluoridealert.org or  http://www.fluorideACTION.net

FAN CAMPAIGN Bulletin  #242: "Gaff" of the year.

June 28, 2005

Dear All,

I remember vividly, during a videotaped interview I had with the late Dr. John
Colquhoun in 1998, his asking this question: "How many teeth saved could
possibly justify one child dying of osteosarcoma?"

Contrast that wisdom with this nonchalance from a medical practitioner (Dr.
Terry Gaff) who gave this opinion on the ewg report of Bassin's thesis to
listeners to his radio program:

"Since tooth decay is much more common than boyhood bone cancer, I still feel
that wise use of fluoride is worth the risk."

I find that unbelievable! Where did this "doctor" go to school?

Gaff's full editorial is printed below.

He is not even right in the assumption that  making sure that the dose is finely
tuned will protect against osteosarcoma. Bassin found an increase in
osteosarcoma for young boys exposed between 0.3 -0.99 ppm (or equivalent), as
well those exposed at 1 ppm (or equivalent).

Paul Connett


2) The Terry Gaff editorial.


Fluoride fine in advised amounts


By: Dr. Terry Gaff
KPCNews.com
June 26, 2005

During the past week, another coincidence occurred in my life that resulted in
this column. While visiting a relative, I noticed a bottle of water with
fluoride added in an effort to get us to buy their bottled water. A couple of
days later, I read an article titled ³Fluoride in water linked to cancer.²

These things caused me to think of the days of my childhood when there were
people saying (loudly) that the practice of putting fluoride in the water supply
was a ³communist plot² rather than a plan to help strengthen teeth.

I also thought of my days as a family doctor when we would test the water in
homes with newborn babies. This was used to decide whether to add fluoride to
the vitamins of the baby and how much to use.

Many of the tests done in northeastern Indiana showed that fluoride occurs
naturally in the water. In the city water supply where I live, fluoride testing
is done regularly and the fluoride level is adjusted to about one part per
million (ppm). Similarly, many North American cities also fluoridate their water
supplies, citing effectiveness in reducing tooth decay, safety of fluoridation
and the low cost to do so. As of 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) statistics showed that almost 66 percent of the U.S. population
received fluoridated water through the taps in their homes.

The American Dental Association (ADA), World Health Organization (WHO), and some
other health organizations recommend fluoridation of municipal water supplies to
a level between 0.7 and 1.2 ppm. On the other hand, UNICEF warns against water
fluoridation, as does the Sierra Club. So, water fluoridation is still a highly
controversial practice and is banned in most countries in Europe, China, India
and Japan.

Much of the controversy dates back to 1951, when Joseph C. Muhler and Harry G.
Day of Indiana University, Bloomington, reported their research results on
stannous fluoride as a tooth decay preventive and the university sold the
technology to Procter & Gamble to use in Crest toothpaste.

The main concern has been the possibility of the development of fluorosis. This
is a condition caused by ³excessive² intake of fluorine compounds over an
extended period of time, which can cause yellowing of teeth, hypothyroidism or
brittling of bones and teeth. However, the definition of ³excessive² is
generally accepted to mean significantly higher than the 0.7 to 1.2 ppm amounts
recommended for fluoridated water. The amount that is problematic will depend on
the amount of fluoride drank, how much is absorbed, and the weight of the person
drinking it. For this reason, many doctors have advised against using
fluoridated water to make up formula for infants. People with kidney problems,
or those on dialysis, are also advised not to drink fluoridated water.

Babies over 6 months old get sufficient levels of fluoride from breast milk or
formula mixed with tap water if they live in fluoridated areas. Only children
living in nonfluoridated areas or children who drink only nonfluoridated bottled
water might need to receive supplements.

Because children under the age of 3 can¹t spit effectively, they may swallow too
much toothpaste while brushing. Talk to your child¹s dentist about the type of
toothpaste your child under 3 should use and how often. Children should use only
a pea-sized amount of toothpaste and spit out as much as possible after
brushing. Even a small amount of toothpaste supplies enough fluoride for tooth
protection but minimizes the chances of side effects from too much fluoride.

Most cases of fluorosis occur in children who take unnecessary daily fluoride
supplements even though they brush regularly with fluoridated toothpaste and
their home¹s tap water already contains good levels of fluoride. Misuse of
fluoride products, including rinses and toothpaste, can also contribute to
fluorosis, but this is less common.

Very rarely, fluoride toxicity can occur when large amounts of fluoride are
ingested during a short period of time. Children under age 6 account for more
than 80 percent of reports of suspected overingestion. Although outcomes are
generally not serious, several hundred children turn up in emergency rooms each
year.

Symptoms of fluoride toxicity may include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal
pain, increased salivation, or increased thirst. Symptoms begin 30 minutes after
ingestion and can last up to 24 hours. If you suspect your child may have eaten
a substantial amount of a fluoridated product or supplement, call the poison
control center or 911. Be sure to keep toothpaste, supplements, mouth rinses,
and other fluoride-containing products out of children¹s reach or in a locked
cabinet.

Adding to the concern about fluoride, new research by scientists at the Harvard
School of Dental Medicine has suggested that adding fluoride to tap water can
increase the risk of boys developing bone cancer. The Environmental Working
Group is even calling for fluoride in tap water to be formally added to a U.S.
government list of substances known or feared to be cancer-causing to humans.
The study found that fluoride does not pose the same risk to young girls, but
scientists say that they have not worked out why this is.

After reading all of this, I feel that I should share my opinion about fluoride.
So, here it is. I would recommend that we use tap water for cooking and drinking
whenever possible. If there is a problem with your tap water, you may choose to
drink bottled water. But I would not pay extra for the fluoridated variety. If
you have no other source of fluoride, a supplement can be prescribed. But most
of us can get all of the fluoride we need by brushing our teeth regularly with a
small amount of fluoride-containing toothpaste. Since tooth decay is much more
common than boyhood bone cancer, I still feel that wise use of fluoride is worth
the risk.

Dr. Terry Gaff practiced family medicine in Albion for 17 years and is now
medical director of the emergency department at Parkview Noble Hospital in
Kendallville and the Noble County EMS. He welcomes your questions. He can be
reached at terrygaff@...
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#243: Go to www.ewg.org.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Connett
To: fan_bulletins@...
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: [FAN Bulletins] #243: Go to www.ewg.org.


THE FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.fluoridealert.org or  http://www.fluorideACTION.net

FAN CAMPAIGN Bulletin  #243: Go to www.ewg.org.

June 28, 2005

Dear All,

If you go to www.ewg.org you will find more on the Douglass cover-up of Bassin's
thesis results. This includes:

a) The letter ewg sent to professor Chester Douglass.
b) The complaint letter ewg sent to the NIEHS.
c) Douglass's report on his work claiming little or no relationship with
osteosarcoma, while referencing Bassin's thesis -which, of course, completely
contradicts such an assertion.

I guess Douglass thought he could get away with citing Bassin's thesis, while
concealing its findings, because getting a PhD thesis out of Harvard is like
breaking into Fort Knox!

Please get this story out to as many people as you can - your friends, your
local paper, your congresspersons, and any one else you can think of. Let this
cover up be the last act of the fluoridation scandal. Let 60 years of Flawed
Science and 60 years of Public Health Embarrassment come to an end with these
scientific findings on osteosarcoma and the failed attempt to conceal them from
the public.

Meanwhile, here is a letter sent to Dr. Terry Gaff, in response to the last
bulletin, which puts a human face on osetosarcoma.

Paul Connett
_________________________________________________________________

Letter from Mark Hooper to Dr. Terry Gaff:

Hi Terry.  This is in regard to your editorial and the following statement from
that editorial:

³Since tooth decay is much more common than boyhood bone cancer, I still feel
that wise use of fluoride is worth the risk.²

I believe that water fluoridation should be stopped immediately ...

I went to public school in junior high and high school with a boy named David
Robin.  We were classmates, not friends, but I remember him well, and he was
almost always smiling, even in high school when he was diagnosed with bone
cancer and had his leg amputated.  He was an honor student and died very soon
after we graduated in 1979.  He died that same summer.  We lived in a
fluoridated community.  Whether or not the fluoridated water he drank caused his
demise is open to debate, but I¹m suspicious.

Now, I¹m thinking that I would give up all my teeth in order for David to have
avoided that bone cancer.  I can live without my teeth.

Thank you and please don¹t feel the need to respond.  I just wanted to express
my opinion.

Mark Hooper

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PFPC Daily - June 29, 2005

Claim: Doctor fudged fluoride findings

Boston Herald, June 28, 2005

By Jessica Heslam

An environmental watchdog group plans to file a complaint today with
federal medical authorities claiming a Harvard doctor is fudging
research findings.

The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group said Dr.
Chester Douglass reported no link between fluoride and bone cancer in
boys, contradicting extensive research done by one of his doctoral
students.

Douglass, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental
Medicine, has been given grant money, possibly more than $1 million,
by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to
research whether there is a link between fluoride and bone cancer in
boys, the non-profit group alleges.

One of his dental doctoral students, Dr. Elise Bassin, did an
extensive study that found a link between fluoridated tap water and
bone cancer in adolescent boys, the group said. Douglass was the lead
adviser on her doctoral thesis and signed off on her research, the
group claims.

Despite his student's findings, Douglass told federal health
officials in his grant report that there is no correlation, according
to the group. Douglass did not send the NIEHS the student's research
but summarized it himself.

Douglass is the editor-in-chief of the Colgate Oral Care Report, a
newsletter that goes to dentists and is supported by toothpaste
manufacturer Colgate Palmolive.

Douglass could not be reached for comment last night. Bassin's
research has never been published and access to it is restricted by
Harvard, the group said.

"It sure seems pretty outrageous," said EWG spokesman Mike Casey.
"We're absolutely perplexed."

It appears Douglass violated federal research rules, according to the
group's complaint, which they plan to file with the NIEHS.

SOURCE:
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=91857






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Subject: [pfpcnews] Focus on China: Corn & Chili to blame



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PFPC Daily - June 28, 2005

Corn, chili main causes of fluoride poisoning in Guiyang

China View, June 28, 2005

     GUIYANG, June 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese scientists have found
corn and chili that easily absorb fluoride in the air are more likely
to blame for the high incidence of fluoride poisoning in the
country's southwestern region.

     "Fluorosis, or overexposure to fluoride, is more a result of the
local people's eating habit and climate conditions," said Zheng
Baoshan, a researcher with the Institute of Geochemistry under the
Chinese Academy of Sciences, in southwest China's Guizhou Province
Tuesday.

     The hypothesis is contradictory to the traditional belief that
fluoride poisoning is caused by coal that is used by many Chinese
households for cooking and heating.

     Zheng said excessive intake of corn and chili, a major diet
forpeople in the southwest, is largely to blame for fluoride
poisoning in the southwestern regions. "The more water the food
contains, the faster it absorbs fluoride."

     According to Zheng, corn and chili easily absorb fluoride in the
air and in the humid southwestern regions, people often dry the food
by fire lest it goes moldy. "The food absorbs even more fluoride in
the drying process," he added.

     Zheng and his colleagues also found the sticky clay that is used
to bond the powdered coal in the southwest contains 10 times as much
fluoride as the coal itself.

     "Even if the clay content of the coal is only 20 percent, it
gives off at least twice as much fluoride when it is burned," he said.

     Fluoride poisoning causes tooth staining and corrosion. In its
most severe form, it can cause paralysis.

     At the end of 2003, the most recent time that data is available,
67.91 million Chinese were threatened by fluoride poisoning,
according to Ministry of Health statistics.

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#244: More on Douglass Cover-up.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Connett
To: fan_bulletins@...
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:03 AM
Subject: [FAN Bulletins] #244: More on Douglass Cover-up.


THE FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.fluoridealert.org or  http://www.fluorideACTION.net

FAN CAMPAIGN Bulletin  #244: More on Douglass Cover-up.

June 29, 2005

Dear All,

According to a second story in today's Boston Herald, Harvard University is
launching its own probe into the charges made by the Environmental Working Group
against professor Chester Douglass (see below). Meanwhile, UPI picked up
yesterday's Boston Herald story and a shortened version of this appeared in
today's Washington Times (see below).

For those interested in the specific findings in Bassin's thesis as well its
significance in the historical context of all the other work pointing to a
connection between fluoride exposure and osteosarcoma, please go to our home
page.

There you will find:

1) A timeline on the fluoride-oestosarcoma connection. This includes a) early
suspicions stretching back to 1955 and 1977, b) animal studies and c) human
studies. Both the animal and human studies have produced mixed findings, however
the Bassin thesis shifts the balance to a positive relationship between fluoride
and osteosarcoma.

http://fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/osteosarcoma-timeline.html

2) The key chapter in Bassin's thesis:

http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/bassin-2001.pdf

3)  PDF files of FAN's submissions on this subject to the National Research
Council's panel which is reviewing the toxicology of fluoride in water (at the
request of the US EPA). This is in two parts.

Part 1: http://fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/fan-nrc.part1.pdf

Part 2: http://fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/fan-nrc.part2.pdf

Paul Connett
________________________________________________________________

From Today's Boston Herald

Harvard launches probe in dental research flap
By Jessica Heslam

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - Updated: 05:06 AM EST

Harvard has launched its own probe into a dental professor accused by a watchdog
group of fudging research results.

     In a statement, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine said it ``takes all
allegations of misconduct seriously and has a standard system for reviewing
allegations of research impropriety.''

     Harvard plans to ``assemble an inquiry committee to review the questions
raised concerning the reporting of this work.''

     The Herald reported yesterday that the Environmental Working Group said Dr.
Chester Douglass told federal officials there was no link between fluoridated
water and bone cancer in boys, contradicting exhaustive research done by one of
his doctoral students.

     The Washington, D.C.-based group said Douglass received possibly more than
$1 million in grant money from the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences to research whether there's a link between fluoride and bone cancer in
boys.

     Douglass is editor-in-chief of the Colgate Oral Care Report, a newsletter
supported by toothpaste maker Colgate Palmolive. He has been chairman of the
Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of
Dental Medicine since 1978.
____________________________________________________
The Washington Times http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20050628-101847-9176r.htm
June 29, 2005.


United Press International



Group: Dentist hid fluoride-cancer link

Jun. 28, 2005 at 10:30PM

An environmental group alleges a dentist who teaches at Harvard concealed a
student's findings linking fluoride to bone cancer.

The Environmental Working Group, which is based in Washington, planned to file a
complaint Tuesday with federal regulators against Dr. Chester Douglass, the
Boston Herald reports.

Douglass is a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Dental
Medicine. The group says that he received a grant from the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences to study a possible link between fluoride and bone
cancer in adolescent boys.

The EWG says a student, Dr. Elise Bassin, found a correlation and that Douglass,
while signing off on her research, did not include it in his grant report.

Douglass is the editor in chief of the Colgate Oral Care report, a newsletter
subsidized by Colgate Palmolive.
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#245: "Manufacturing Uncertainty".
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Connett
To: fan_bulletins@...
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 3:50 PM
Subject: [FAN Bulletins] #245: "Manufacturing Uncertainty".


THE FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.fluoridealert.org or  http://www.fluorideACTION.net

FAN CAMPAIGN Bulletin  #245: "Manufacturing Uncertainty".

June 29, 2005

Dear All,

My wife once remarked to me that she would rather have "an honest hairdresser on
her side than a dishonest physicist." I absolutely agree with her. Would that
major corporations and major governmental regulatory bodies had the same
affection for scientific integrity as we do, but they don't.  That is not to say
that there are not honest scientists in both institutions struggling to hold on
to their principles but it is pretty tough in a world where "money and power"
means more than "little" things like protecting our children, our health, our
environment or our long term future.

Two recent revelations have stirred things up a little.  Robert Kennedy's
revelations about the CDC's cover-up of the damage to babies caused by mercury
in vaccines and the Environmental Working Group's revelations about Harvard
professor Chester Douglass's attempted cover-up of his PhD student's findings on
fluoridation and osteosarcoma.

EWG's timely exposure of Douglass's shenanigans may have forestalled an effort
by Douglass and his friends to muddy the waters on Bassin's findings. If they do
so, it certainly wouldn't be the first time that scientists who serve the
pro-fluoridation lobby have "manufactured uncertainty".

When in 1990 the NTP found a dose related increase in osteosarcoma in fluoride
exposed male rats, an old report from Procter and Gamble was dug up to
counteract this finding. When Cohn found an increase in osteosarcoma in young
males in NJ, other researchers quickly published studies that didn't find this
and one was given huge prominence in the Journal of the American Dental
Association. One study even claimed that fluoridation appears to be "protective"
against osteosarcoma.  When independent scientists found an increase in hip
fractures in the elderly related to fluoridation, pro-fluoridation researchers
from dental schools were quick to publish studies which found fluoride was
"protective against" hip fractures. And so it goes on.

An editorial in the June 24 issue of the Los Angeles Times (see below) indicates
that this "manufacturing uncertainty" is not limited to fluoridation promoters.
A second article in today's Dayton Times (Ohio) also illustrates the difficulty
that honest science has of being heard in today's world. It is sad, that neither
writer mentioned fluoride or fluoridation in their article, but that will come
as our efforts get more and more exposure.

Now poets would probably make as big a mess of this planet as everyone else, but
I wish that more of our leaders would heed what DH Lawrence said in his poem
"Courage" many years ago:

What makes people unsatisfied
Is that they accept lies...

Paul Connett


Los Angeles Times, Jun. 24, 2005

OP-ED: THE ART OF 'MANUFACTURING UNCERTAINTY'

By David Michaels

To many scientists and policymakers in Washington, the revelation this
month that Philip Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council
on Environmental Quality, had rewritten a federal report to magnify
the level of uncertainty on climate change came as no surprise.
Uncertainty is easily manipulated, and Cooney -- a former lobbyist
with the American Petroleum Institute, one of the nation's leading
manufacturers of scientific uncertainty -- was highly familiar with
its uses.

As an epidemiologist with a special interest in occupational diseases,
I share a fundamental problem with the scientists who are studying
climate change. Our ability to conduct laboratory experiments is
limited; we can't go out and intentionally expose people to
carcinogens any more than climatologists can measure future
temperatures. Instead, we must harness "natural experiments,"
collecting data through observation only. We then build models from
this data, and use these models to make causal inferences and
predictions, and, where possible, to recommend protective measures.

By definition, uncertainties abound in our work; there's nothing to be
done about that. Our public health and environmental protection
programs will not be effective if absolute proof is required before we
act. The best available evidence must be sufficient. Otherwise, we'll
sit on our hands and do nothing.

Of course, this is often exactly what industry wants. That's why it
has mastered the art of manufacturing uncertainty, of demanding often
impossible proof over common-sense precaution in the realm of public
health.

The tobacco industry led the way. For 50 years, cigarette
manufacturers employed a stable of scientists willing to assert
(sometimes under oath) that there was no conclusive evidence that
cigarettes cause lung cancer, or that nicotine is addictive. An
official at Brown & Williamson, a cigarette maker now owned by R.J.
Reynolds, once noted in a memo: "Doubt is our product since it is the
best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the
mind of the general public."

Toward that end, the tobacco manufacturers dissected every study,
highlighted every question, magnified every flaw, cast every possible
doubt every possible time. They also conjured their own studies with
questionable data and foregone conclusions. It was all a charade, of
course, because the real science was inexorable. But the uncertainty
campaign was effective; it delayed public health protections, and
compensation for tobacco's victims, for decades.

The tobacco industry, left without a stitch of credibility or public
esteem, has finally abandoned that strategy -- but it led the way for
others. Every polluter and manufacturer of toxic chemicals understands
that by fostering a debate on uncertainties in the underlying science
and by harping on the need for more research -- always more research
-- it can avoid debating the actual policy or regulation in question.

It is now unusual for the science behind a public health or
environmental regulation not to be challenged. In recent years,
corporations have mounted campaigns to question studies documenting
the adverse health effects of exposure to, among others, beryllium,
lead, mercury, vinyl chloride, chromium, benzene, benzidine and
nickel.

Manufacturing uncertainty is a business in itself. You too can launch
a pretty good campaign. All you need is the money with which to hire
one of the main players in the "product-defense industry," many of
whose stalwarts first honed their craft defending cigarette smoke.
These firms will hire the scientists, throw the mud, crank up the fog
machine.

A classic case is beryllium, a lightweight metal useful in nuclear
weapons. For many years it has been clear that workers exposed to
beryllium levels below the federal Occupational Safety and Health
Administration standard can develop chronic beryllium disease.

When OSHA tried to lower the standard, the industry hired Exponent, a
leading product-defense firm to focus on all the things we don't
understand, calling for more research before OSHA could act.
Meanwhile, workers are still exposed at the old, unsafe level, and are
still getting sick.

Among themselves, these product-defense lobbyists and their clients
make no secret of what they're doing. Republican political consultant
Frank Luntz wrote in a memo, later leaked to the press: "The
scientific debate remains open.... Should the public come to believe
that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global
warming will change accordingly."

Decades from now, this campaign to manufacture uncertainty will surely
be viewed with the same dismay and outrage with which we now look back
on the deceits perpetrated by the tobacco industry. But will it be too
late?

--- David Michaels, a professor at the George Washington University
School of Public Health, served as assistant secretary of Energy
between 1998 and 2001.

Copyright 2005 by Los Angeles Times
__________________________________________________________________
Dayton Daily News
Posted on: Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 00:00 CDT


When Science Talks, Does Anyone Listen?


It's probably too much to expect for an international conference on
hormoneharming chemicals to grab much attention in this country. Last week's
warning about their role in cancers and brain damage has little chance of
penetrating our national dialogue, where rigorous scientific evidence is so
often dismissed as unspeakable bias against our polluting industries and
accepted folklore.

Examples have popped up all month of key decision-makers' scorn for any science
at odds with preconceived beliefs. At the same time, scientific findings about
our health have been jumping and screaming to be noticed.

General Mills launched an ad campaign telling kids how healthy it is to eat
sugary Cocoa Puffs or Lucky Charms for breakfast. The Environmental Protection
Agency chief declared testing pesticides on children is "ethically and
scientifically sound," abandoning the experiments only under congressional
pressure.

Then there was the tale of the former oil industry lobbyist with the White House
job of rewriting scientific reports about global warming. By adding words such
as "may be" and deleting sentences, he created an appearance of doubt and raging
debate where there is overwhelming consensus -- that burning fossil fuels is
causing global climate change that's on pace to devastate farmland and flood
coastal cities within a few generations. Creating false confusion is a favored
tactic of those who see science as heresy.

Even more appalling was the revelation that government agencies have long
concealed evidence linking childhood vaccines with increased cases of autism and
other mental disorders. As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. documented in Salon and Rolling
Stone, the agencies then falsified new evidence to vehemently deny the link, and
Congress shielded the drugmakers from lawsuits.

The vaccines' mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, was used until last year.
It was in three vaccines for infants from 1991, a period that coincided with a
1,500 percent increase in autism cases, from one in every 2,500 children to one
in every 166. It's also linked to speech delays, attention-deficit disorder and
hyperactivity.

Mercury also damages children's brains through the bloodstreams of their
mothers, largely through the air pollution from coal- burning power plants. When
more than 300,000 health professionals jointly sued the EPA for allowing too
much mercury pollution, they cited the EPA's own estimate that one of every 12
women of childbearing age has enough mercury in her blood to damage the brains
of her newborn. That's 630,000 babies year.

The hormone damage we're inflicting on ourselves could be worse than all the
rest, 127 U.S. and European scientists warned in the June 20 Prague Declaration
on Endocrine Disruption. Endocrine disrupters alter the function of hormones
involved in reproduction, digestion, metabolism and frame of mind, and they're
everywhere we look. Plastics, pesticides, cosmetics, medicines, food
preservatives, flame retardants, detergents and paper are just some of the
sources that send them into our food, water and air.

Their most obvious apparent effects are girls' early puberty, men's reduced
fertility and increased rates of breast and testicular cancer. Research in this
month's Environmental Health Perspectives implicates atrazine, the pervasive
corn herbicide in local water supplies, with ADD, Parkinson's, schizophrenia and
learning, cognitive and reproductive impairments. All are on the increase.

Dioxin and PCBs, which accumulate in fat tissue, are associated with damage to
kids' immune systems and more feminine behavior in both sexes. Bisphenol-A in
plastic food containers is associated with miscarriages and breast cancer. Other
research suggests a role for hormone disrupters in metabolic syndrome, diabetes
and excess weight.

The problem, say the scientists, is no tests exist for proving it all
conclusively. Hormonal damage can take decades to surface; chemicals that are
safe by themselves can be harmful in combination, and human experiments are
unethical.

But the evidence is sufficient that waiting for proof is too dangerous, the
declaration says. "In view of the magnitude of the potential risks. . . we
strongly believe that scientific uncertainty should not delay precautionary
action."

Nobody's saying to ban plastics and fertilizers. They're just recommending safer
alternative products, better sewage treatment and improved testing, even if
they're more expensive. If that sounds reasonable enough, though, think of all
the impact common sense and moral suasion have had on children's nutrition,
fossil fuels and dangerous drugs.

Contact health and medical writer Kevin Lamb at klamb@... or
225-2129. His column appears every other Tuesday.

Online: More health news. DaytonDailyNews.com/health

Source: Dayton Daily News
________________________________________________________________________________

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#245: "Manufacturing Uncertainty".
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Connett
To: fan_bulletins@...
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 3:50 PM
Subject: [FAN Bulletins] #245: "Manufacturing Uncertainty".


THE FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.fluoridealert.org or  http://www.fluorideACTION.net

FAN CAMPAIGN Bulletin  #245: "Manufacturing Uncertainty".

June 29, 2005

Dear All,

My wife once remarked to me that she would rather have "an honest hairdresser on
her side than a dishonest physicist." I absolutely agree with her. Would that
major corporations and major governmental regulatory bodies had the same
affection for scientific integrity as we do, but they don't.  That is not to say
that there are not honest scientists in both institutions struggling to hold on
to their principles but it is pretty tough in a world where "money and power"
means more than "little" things like protecting our children, our health, our
environment or our long term future.

Two recent revelations have stirred things up a little.  Robert Kennedy's
revelations about the CDC's cover-up of the damage to babies caused by mercury
in vaccines and the Environmental Working Group's revelations about Harvard
professor Chester Douglass's attempted cover-up of his PhD student's findings on
fluoridation and osteosarcoma.

EWG's timely exposure of Douglass's shenanigans may have forestalled an effort
by Douglass and his friends to muddy the waters on Bassin's findings. If they do
so, it certainly wouldn't be the first time that scientists who serve the
pro-fluoridation lobby have "manufactured uncertainty".

When in 1990 the NTP found a dose related increase in osteosarcoma in fluoride
exposed male rats, an old report from Procter and Gamble was dug up to
counteract this finding. When Cohn found an increase in osteosarcoma in young
males in NJ, other researchers quickly published studies that didn't find this
and one was given huge prominence in the Journal of the American Dental
Association. One study even claimed that fluoridation appears to be "protective"
against osteosarcoma.  When independent scientists found an increase in hip
fractures in the elderly related to fluoridation, pro-fluoridation researchers
from dental schools were quick to publish studies which found fluoride was
"protective against" hip fractures. And so it goes on.

An editorial in the June 24 issue of the Los Angeles Times (see below) indicates
that this "manufacturing uncertainty" is not limited to fluoridation promoters.
A second article in today's Dayton Times (Ohio) also illustrates the difficulty
that honest science has of being heard in today's world. It is sad, that neither
writer mentioned fluoride or fluoridation in their article, but that will come
as our efforts get more and more exposure.

Now poets would probably make as big a mess of this planet as everyone else, but
I wish that more of our leaders would heed what DH Lawrence said in his poem
"Courage" many years ago:

What makes people unsatisfied
Is that they accept lies...

Paul Connett


Los Angeles Times, Jun. 24, 2005

OP-ED: THE ART OF 'MANUFACTURING UNCERTAINTY'

By David Michaels

To many scientists and policymakers in Washington, the revelation this
month that Philip Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council
on Environmental Quality, had rewritten a federal report to magnify
the level of uncertainty on climate change came as no surprise.
Uncertainty is easily manipulated, and Cooney -- a former lobbyist
with the American Petroleum Institute, one of the nation's leading
manufacturers of scientific uncertainty -- was highly familiar with
its uses.

As an epidemiologist with a special interest in occupational diseases,
I share a fundamental problem with the scientists who are studying
climate change. Our ability to conduct laboratory experiments is
limited; we can't go out and intentionally expose people to
carcinogens any more than climatologists can measure future
temperatures. Instead, we must harness "natural experiments,"
collecting data through observation only. We then build models from
this data, and use these models to make causal inferences and
predictions, and, where possible, to recommend protective measures.

By definition, uncertainties abound in our work; there's nothing to be
done about that. Our public health and environmental protection
programs will not be effective if absolute proof is required before we
act. The best available evidence must be sufficient. Otherwise, we'll
sit on our hands and do nothing.

Of course, this is often exactly what industry wants. That's why it
has mastered the art of manufacturing uncertainty, of demanding often
impossible proof over common-sense precaution in the realm of public
health.

The tobacco industry led the way. For 50 years, cigarette
manufacturers employed a stable of scientists willing to assert
(sometimes under oath) that there was no conclusive evidence that
cigarettes cause lung cancer, or that nicotine is addictive. An
official at Brown & Williamson, a cigarette maker now owned by R.J.
Reynolds, once noted in a memo: "Doubt is our product since it is the
best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the
mind of the general public."

Toward that end, the tobacco manufacturers dissected every study,
highlighted every question, magnified every flaw, cast every possible
doubt every possible time. They also conjured their own studies with
questionable data and foregone conclusions. It was all a charade, of
course, because the real science was inexorable. But the uncertainty
campaign was effective; it delayed public health protections, and
compensation for tobacco's victims, for decades.

The tobacco industry, left without a stitch of credibility or public
esteem, has finally abandoned that strategy -- but it led the way for
others. Every polluter and manufacturer of toxic chemicals understands
that by fostering a debate on uncertainties in the underlying science
and by harping on the need for more research -- always more research
-- it can avoid debating the actual policy or regulation in question.

It is now unusual for the science behind a public health or
environmental regulation not to be challenged. In recent years,
corporations have mounted campaigns to question studies documenting
the adverse health effects of exposure to, among others, beryllium,
lead, mercury, vinyl chloride, chromium, benzene, benzidine and
nickel.

Manufacturing uncertainty is a business in itself. You too can launch
a pretty good campaign. All you need is the money with which to hire
one of the main players in the "product-defense industry," many of
whose stalwarts first honed their craft defending cigarette smoke.
These firms will hire the scientists, throw the mud, crank up the fog
machine.

A classic case is beryllium, a lightweight metal useful in nuclear
weapons. For many years it has been clear that workers exposed to
beryllium levels below the federal Occupational Safety and Health
Administration standard can develop chronic beryllium disease.

When OSHA tried to lower the standard, the industry hired Exponent, a
leading product-defense firm to focus on all the things we don't
understand, calling for more research before OSHA could act.
Meanwhile, workers are still exposed at the old, unsafe level, and are
still getting sick.

Among themselves, these product-defense lobbyists and their clients
make no secret of what they're doing. Republican political consultant
Frank Luntz wrote in a memo, later leaked to the press: "The
scientific debate remains open.... Should the public come to believe
that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global
warming will change accordingly."

Decades from now, this campaign to manufacture uncertainty will surely
be viewed with the same dismay and outrage with which we now look back
on the deceits perpetrated by the tobacco industry. But will it be too
late?

--- David Michaels, a professor at the George Washington University
School of Public Health, served as assistant secretary of Energy
between 1998 and 2001.

Copyright 2005 by Los Angeles Times
__________________________________________________________________
Dayton Daily News
Posted on: Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 00:00 CDT


When Science Talks, Does Anyone Listen?


It's probably too much to expect for an international conference on
hormoneharming chemicals to grab much attention in this country. Last week's
warning about their role in cancers and brain damage has little chance of
penetrating our national dialogue, where rigorous scientific evidence is so
often dismissed as unspeakable bias against our polluting industries and
accepted folklore.

Examples have popped up all month of key decision-makers' scorn for any science
at odds with preconceived beliefs. At the same time, scientific findings about
our health have been jumping and screaming to be noticed.

General Mills launched an ad campaign telling kids how healthy it is to eat
sugary Cocoa Puffs or Lucky Charms for breakfast. The Environmental Protection
Agency chief declared testing pesticides on children is "ethically and
scientifically sound," abandoning the experiments only under congressional
pressure.

Then there was the tale of the former oil industry lobbyist with the White House
job of rewriting scientific reports about global warming. By adding words such
as "may be" and deleting sentences, he created an appearance of doubt and raging
debate where there is overwhelming consensus -- that burning fossil fuels is
causing global climate change that's on pace to devastate farmland and flood
coastal cities within a few generations. Creating false confusion is a favored
tactic of those who see science as heresy.

Even more appalling was the revelation that government agencies have long
concealed evidence linking childhood vaccines with increased cases of autism and
other mental disorders. As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. documented in Salon and Rolling
Stone, the agencies then falsified new evidence to vehemently deny the link, and
Congress shielded the drugmakers from lawsuits.

The vaccines' mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, was used until last year.
It was in three vaccines for infants from 1991, a period that coincided with a
1,500 percent increase in autism cases, from one in every 2,500 children to one
in every 166. It's also linked to speech delays, attention-deficit disorder and
hyperactivity.

Mercury also damages children's brains through the bloodstreams of their
mothers, largely through the air pollution from coal- burning power plants. When
more than 300,000 health professionals jointly sued the EPA for allowing too
much mercury pollution, they cited the EPA's own estimate that one of every 12
women of childbearing age has enough mercury in her blood to damage the brains
of her newborn. That's 630,000 babies year.

The hormone damage we're inflicting on ourselves could be worse than all the
rest, 127 U.S. and European scientists warned in the June 20 Prague Declaration
on Endocrine Disruption. Endocrine disrupters alter the function of hormones
involved in reproduction, digestion, metabolism and frame of mind, and they're
everywhere we look. Plastics, pesticides, cosmetics, medicines, food
preservatives, flame retardants, detergents and paper are just some of the
sources that send them into our food, water and air.

Their most obvious apparent effects are girls' early puberty, men's reduced
fertility and increased rates of breast and testicular cancer. Research in this
month's Environmental Health Perspectives implicates atrazine, the pervasive
corn herbicide in local water supplies, with ADD, Parkinson's, schizophrenia and
learning, cognitive and reproductive impairments. All are on the increase.

Dioxin and PCBs, which accumulate in fat tissue, are associated with damage to
kids' immune systems and more feminine behavior in both sexes. Bisphenol-A in
plastic food containers is associated with miscarriages and breast cancer. Other
research suggests a role for hormone disrupters in metabolic syndrome, diabetes
and excess weight.

The problem, say the scientists, is no tests exist for proving it all
conclusively. Hormonal damage can take decades to surface; chemicals that are
safe by themselves can be harmful in combination, and human experiments are
unethical.

But the evidence is sufficient that waiting for proof is too dangerous, the
declaration says. "In view of the magnitude of the potential risks. . . we
strongly believe that scientific uncertainty should not delay precautionary
action."

Nobody's saying to ban plastics and fertilizers. They're just recommending safer
alternative products, better sewage treatment and improved testing, even if
they're more expensive. If that sounds reasonable enough, though, think of all
the impact common sense and moral suasion have had on children's nutrition,
fossil fuels and dangerous drugs.

Contact health and medical writer Kevin Lamb at klamb@... or
225-2129. His column appears every other Tuesday.

Online: More health news. DaytonDailyNews.com/health

Source: Dayton Daily News
________________________________________________________________________________

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#246: Christchurch, NZ, says NO to fluoridation.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Connett
To: fan_bulletins@...
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:52 PM
Subject: [FAN Bulletins] #246: Christchurch, NZ, says NO to fluoridation.


THE FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.fluoridealert.org or  http://www.fluorideACTION.net

FAN CAMPAIGN Bulletin  #246: Christchurch, NZ. Officials says NO to
fluoridation.

June 29, 2005

Dear All,

We have just received this good news from Christchurch, NZ, one of the largest
cities in NZ which has never been fluoridated, despite the efforts of the health
"authorities" to do otherwise. This report appeared in the Christchurch
newspaper last Friday June 24.

This exciting news was sent to us by Yvonne McDonald, a board member of the
Fluoride Action Network, NZ.

Yvonne also says that in addition the deputy mayor has written an
anti-fluoridation article for one of the local newspapers. She adds:


   "We are now of course hoping this will have the desired spin-off for the
Councils on our West Coast - our Grey District Council voted five to four to
re-introduce "F" but more recently the Westland District Council voted nine to
two against "F" - a great victory for us. Moreover, there has been such an
uproar about the Grey District Council decision that we have great hopes of it
being reversed."


Congratulations Yvonne and the all others who have worked so hard to make this
happen.

Paul Connett
_________________________________________
Christchurch, June 24, 2005.

Christchurch City councillors have sent a clear message to the Canterbury
District Health Board that they will not fluoridate water supplies.

The board was told this year that young children with rotting teeth who
required a filling or extraction under general anaesthetic were waiting 11months
for treatment, often suffering bouts of pain and in need of antibiotics.

School and community dental service clinical director Martin Lee has
previously blamed the high level of decay among Canterbury children on the
lack of fluoridated water.

During debate on a council submission to the board's strategic plan
yesterday, councillors forcefully rejected any suggestion of fluoridating
Christchurch's water supply.

Cr Barry Corbett said he would not "touch fluoridation with a bargepole".

"It's about time we put this whole subject to rest. I don't think there is
anybody here that's going to vote in favour of fluoridation," Corbett
said.

"Let's get logical for once and say it isn't going to happen."

Mayor Garry Moore said the council could work with the board to improve
"oral health", but fluoridation did not have the support of Christchurch
residents.

"It's a culturally unacceptable thing to do in Christchurch. We add
absolutely no chemicals to our water," he said.

________________________________________________________________________________\
_



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#245B: Correction to "Manufacturing Uncertainty".
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Connett
To: fan_bulletins@...
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:44 PM
Subject: [FAN Bulletins] #245B: Correction to "Manufacturing Uncertainty".


THE FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.fluoridealert.org or  http://www.fluorideACTION.net

FAN CAMPAIGN Bulletin  #245B: Correction to "Manufacturing Uncertainty".

June 29, 2005

Dear All,

I'm afraid I misquoted my wife Ellen in the opening of bulletin #245. I said
that she had once remarked to me that she would rather have "an honest
hairdresser on her side than a dishonest physicist."

Ellen wants this corrected. She says: "The quote is not only inaccurate it is
embarrassing. My quote:  I would rather have a hairdresser on my side than a
physicist.  I would never want any one who is ³dishonest² on my side, no matter
who he or she is!"

Sorry Ellen.

Paul Connett

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There are 4 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

       1. Keep Pounding Senate Finance Committee On CAFTA
            From: "Stardora" <stardora@...>
       2. Fw: Codex Action Alert-Tell A Friend
            From: "Stardora" <stardora@...>
       3. Fw: CAFTA Made it Out of Senate Finance Committee- Goes to House Ways &
Means Comm Tomorrow
            From: "Stardora" <stardora@...>
       4. Fw: See Liberty Committee's Alert on CAFTA- Additional Very Solid
Information- Send Their Form Letter in Too
            From: "Stardora" <stardora@...>


________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

Message: 1
    Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:55:41 -0400
    From: "Stardora" <stardora@...>
Subject: Keep Pounding Senate Finance Committee On CAFTA

IAHF List:


I just called the Senate Finance Committee office in
Washington DC and its very important we intensify our
opposition to CAFTA due to the harmonization language
it contains which forces harmonization of our dietary
supplement laws to restrictive Codex standards.

All they did today was they had opening remarks- then
they adjourned. Tomorrow will be the bigger day, so
there is still time for us to lob in our 2 cents
worth.

Please take the following actions and urge everyone
you know to "pile on"- we need to hear the sounds of
bones breaking on this one folks cause its EAT or be
EATEN & its way better to be PISSED OFF than to be
PISSED ON, so speak up NOW while you still have the
CHANCE to be heard because these PAC $$ addicted
Senators need to be reminded that we even EXIST out
here:

WHAT TO TELL 'EM WHEN YOU CALL:

"I'm a dietary supplement consumer, and I am very
concerned about language buried inside of CAFTA and
FTAA which broadens and deepens the scope of the WTO's
SPS (Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures) Agreement.

Article 3 of the SPS in the WTO Agreement reads "To
harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as
wide a basis as possible, Members SHALL base their
food safety measures on international standards,
guidelines or recommendations."

This threatens to force harmonization of the Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 to
mindlessly restrictive UN Codex standards which would
block my access to vitamins and minerals within the
therapeutic range, for starters, then other dietary
supplements as Codex expands.

It is evident to me from the book INTEGRATING THE
AMERICAS- THE FTAA & BEYOND by the Rockefeller
Foundation that this effort to expand NAFTA throughout
our hemisphere poses as much of a threat to our
national sovereignty as the EU currently does to the
sovereignty of each of its member countries.

From a fiscal standpoint, it makes no sense to
continue the failed policies of NAFTA which have
caused our $617 Billion trade deficit unless you have
abandoned your oath of office completely and are
trying to crush the doller to usher in a hemispheric
wide currency. I don't want to live under a world
government, I want to live in the America that used to
exist but which Congress is clearly attempting to
destroy on behalf of multinational corporate interests
who have no use for our constitution or Bill of
Rights.

Congressman Paul wrote an article correctly
identifying CAFTA as an unconstitutional threat to our
sovereignty.
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst060605.htm
The Constitution clearly grants Congress alone the
authority to regulate international trade. The plain
text of Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 is
incontrovertible.

Neither Congress nor the President can give this
authority away by treaty, any more than they can
repeal the First Amendment by treaty. This
fundamental point, based on the plain meaning of the
Constitution, cannot be overstated. Every member of
Congress who votes for CAFTA is voting to abdicate
power to an international body in direct violation of
the Constitution.

Unless you vote AGAINST CAFTA and also oppose FTAA
with every fiber of your being, you can rest assured I
will oppose your political career as long as there is
a breath left in my body, because if you vote for
CAFTA, I will consider you to be threatening MY
LIFE!!!"

WHO TO CALL TO TELL THIS TO:
(Call the Capital Switchboard # 202-225-3121 and ask
to be connected to each of these people, and after
you're done talking with each one ask to be
reconnected to the switchboard so you can be connected
to the next one):

REPUBLICANS:

Charles Grassley, IA
Orrin Hatch, UT
Trentt Lott, MS
Olympia Snowe, ME
Jon Kyl, AZ
Craig Thomas, WY
Rick Santorum, PA
Bill Frist, TN
Gordon Smith, OR
Jim Bunning, KY
Mike Crapo, (pronounced "CRAY-PO") ID

DEMOCRATS
Max Baucus, MT
John D. Rockefeller,IV, WV
Kent Conrad, ND
Jeff Bingaman, NM
John Kerry, MA
Blanche Lincoln, AR
Ron Wyden, OR
Charles Schumer, NY

ALSO- Keep sending in this form letter where you can
also add your own comments
http://capwiz.com/lef/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=7739691

SNOWBALL THIS ALERT- IF CAFTA MAKES IT OUT OF
COMMITTEE TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY JUNE 29th) they're going
to bring it to the Floor of the Senate on FRIDAY, then
it goes before the House Ways and Means Committee and
to the Floor of the House after the week long July 4th
recess)

Donations Needed:
Donations are needed to Send John Hammell back to
Capital Hill for more lobbying on this issue.
See address below or donate via paypal at
http://www.iahf.com (paypal button on top of scrollbar
inside the site)

We have no leverage with the unelected bureaucrats at
CODEX, but we DO have leverage with members of our
congress and we CAN keep Codex from coming here, IF we
work together and OVERCOME the challenges of
organizing people during the summer when folks are on
vacation.
The elements of coersion ALWAYS make moves like this
against us during the summer, we just have to work
that much HARDER to stop them!

PLEASE SNOWBALL THIS ALERT!!

----


For Health Freedom,
John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Road
Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
http://www.iahf.com
jham@...
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World


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Message: 2
    Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:54:06 -0400
    From: "Stardora" <stardora@...>
Subject: Fw: Codex Action Alert-Tell A Friend




      Dear Natural Health Leader,

       Thank you for sending a letter to the head of the U.S. Codex delegation. 
Because of your action, the pressure is mounting to
keep the international trade of vitamins, herbs, and minerals open and free.  We
have already sent over 22,000 letters to Dr.
Scarborough and our members of Congress, telling them to apply the principles of
our law, DSHEA, to international dietary supplement
standards.

       Now it's time for one last push.

       The next meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission is less than two
weeks away, on July 11th, and we need to make sure that
the will of the American people is fresh in the minds of the U.S. delegation. 
That's why we need you to tell your friends and
family about our action alert.

       Tell a friend.  Forward this email to your colleagues, family and friends
with a note urging them to take action.  We've made
it easy to send a message.  It only takes 60 seconds to protect our health
rights -simply visit www.citizens.org or >>click here to
send a letter today!

       Word of mouth is the most powerful way for you to spread the word about
Codex.  Please take the time to tell as many people as
possible.  With a strong, united voice we can insure that the trade of vitamins,
herbs, and minerals stays open and vibrant.

       Thank you,
       Patrick McGrath
       Associate Director
       Citizens for Health
       612-879-7583
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Message: 3
    Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:47:56 -0400
    From: "Stardora" <stardora@...>
Subject: Fw: CAFTA Made it Out of Senate Finance Committee- Goes to House Ways &
Means Comm Tomorrow



> IAHF Webmaster: Codex Emergency, Breaking News, Whats New, What to Do
>
> IAHF List: CAFTA was passed this morning in the Senate Finance Committee
> by voice vote (so we can't find out how they voted) and it will be taken
> up at 10 am tomorrow morning in the House Ways and Means Committee.
>
> You can watch tomorrow's hearing on C-Span or over the link from the House
> Ways and Means Committee website at
> http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/graphics/video.htm
>
> If it makes it out of committee tomorrow, the soonest it could go to the
> floor in either the House or Senate would be July 11th when congress
> reconvenes after July 4th recess, however it would probably be after that
> because A) they have to line up the votes, and B) it first has to go to
> the Rules Committee which would take a day or two. The Washington Post has
> stated that this battle could be decided in the House by as close a margin
> as ONE SINGLE VOTE, so our voice ACTUALLY MATTERS!
>
> It is IMPERATIVE that we KEEP THE PRESSURE ON and try to KILL CAFTA
> because it and the FTAA threaten to expand the scope and reach of the
> WTO's SPS Agreement, Article 3 of which would force harmonization to
> Codex.
>
> The list of committee members can be accessed here
> http://waysandmeans.house.gov/members.asp  You can send email to any
> member of the House of Representatives via http://www.house.gov/writerep/
>
> WHAT TO SAY WHEN YOU CALL: (See list of names below)
>
> "As a vitamin consumer I am very concerned by the threat of globalization.
> CAFTA would expand the scope and reach of the WTO's SPS Agreement, Article
> 3 of which forces harmonization to restrictive UN CODEX standards for
> vitamins and minerals. Please watch the video "We Become Silent" narrated
> by Dame Judy Dench at http://www.welltv.com which fully addresses this
> threat.
> Additionally, I am sending you email which more fully addresses my
> concerns"
>
> THEN EMAIL THEM THIS:
>
> "I'm a dietary supplement consumer, and I am very concerned about language
> buried inside of CAFTA and FTAA which broadens and deepens the scope of
> the WTO's SPS (Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures) Agreement.
>
> Article 3 of the SPS in the WTO Agreement reads "To harmonize sanitary and
> phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as possible, Members SHALL base
> their food safety measures on international standards, guidelines or
> recommendations."
>
> This threatens to force harmonization of the Dietary Supplement Health and
> Education Act of 1994 to mindlessly restrictive UN Codex standards which
> would block my access to vitamins and minerals within the therapeutic
> range, for starters, then other dietary supplements as Codex expands.
>
> It is evident to me from the book INTEGRATING THE AMERICAS- THE FTAA &
> BEYOND by the Rockefeller Foundation that this effort to expand NAFTA
> throughout our hemisphere poses as much of a threat to our national
> sovereignty as the EU currently does to the sovereignty of each of its
> member countries.
>
> From a fiscal standpoint, it makes no sense to continue the failed
> policies of NAFTA which have caused our $617 Billion trade deficit unless
> you have abandoned your oath of office completely and are trying to crush
> the doller to usher in a hemispheric wide currency. I don't want to live
> under a world government, I want to live in the America that used to exist
> but which Congress is clearly attempting to destroy on behalf of
> multinational corporate interests who have no use for our constitution or
> Bill of Rights.
>
> Congressman Paul wrote an article correctly identifying CAFTA as an
> unconstitutional threat to our sovereignty.
> http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst060605.htm The Constitution
> clearly grants Congress alone the authority to regulate international
> trade. The plain text of Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 is
> incontrovertible.
>
> Neither Congress nor the President can give this authority away by treaty,
> any more than they can repeal the First Amendment by treaty. This
> fundamental point, based on the plain meaning of the Constitution, cannot
> be overstated. Every member of Congress who votes for CAFTA is voting to
> abdicate power to an international body in direct violation of the
> Constitution.
>
> Unless you vote AGAINST CAFTA and also oppose FTAA with every fiber of
> your being, you can rest assured I will oppose your political career as
> long as there is a breath left in my body, because if you vote for CAFTA,
> I will consider you to be threatening MY LIFE!!!"
>
> WHO TO CALL TO TELL THIS TO:
>
> (Call the Capital Switchboard # 202-225-3121 and ask to be connected to
> each of these people, and after you're done talking with each one ask to
> be reconnected to the switchboard so you can be connected to the next
> one):
>
> HOUSE WAYS & MEANS COMMITTEE (VOTES THURSDAY)
>
> Members of the 109th Congress
> Bill Thomas, CA Chairman
> E. Clay Shaw Jr. , FL
> Nancy L. Johnson, CT
> Wally Herger, CA
> Jim McCrery, LA
> Dave Camp, MI
> Jim Ramstad, MN
> Jim Nussle, IA
> Sam Johnson, TX
> Phil English, PA
> J.D. Hayworth, AZ
> Jerry Weller, IL
> Kenny C. Hulshof, MO
> Ron Lewis, KY
> Mark Foley, FL
> Kevin Brady, TX
> Thomas M. Reynolds, NY
> Paul Ryan, WI
> Eric Cantor, VA
> John Linder, GA
> Bob Beauprez, CO
> Melissa A. Hart, PA
> Chris Chocola, IN
> Devin Nunes, CA
> Charles B. Rangel, NY
> Fortney Pete Stark, CA
> Sander M. Levin, MI
> Benjamin L. Cardin, MD
> Jim McDermott, WA
> John Lewis, GA
> Richard E. Neal, MA
> Michael R. McNulty, NY
> William J. Jefferson, LA
> John S. Tanner, TN
> Xavier Becerra, CA
> Lloyd Doggett, TX
> Earl Pomeroy, ND
> Stephanie Tubbs Jones, OH
> Mike Thompson, CA
> John B. Larson, CT
> Rahm Emanuel, IL
>
> ALSO- Keep sending in this form letter where you can also add your own
> comments
> http://capwiz.com/lef/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=7739691   Sending
> this in will help especially if it makes it out of committee tomorrow. The
> Washington Post stated last week that CAFTA could be decided in the House
> by a close a margin as ONE SINGLE VOTE.
>
> Other organizations are encouraging people to either communicate directly
> with US Codex Delegate Ed Scarbrough, or to urge the President and
> Congress to rein him in and to demand that he oppose ratification of the
> Codex vitamin standard.
>
> IAHF views their approach as senseless given that Codex could easily
> ratify anyway OVER our objection just via the power wielded by the EU
> alone, but beyond this, we view it as a political impossibility to rein in
> Scarbrough given that he's an unelected bureaucrat with a track record of
> violating the law on this Codex issue and given that he's a cog in the
> machinery of the executive branch of our government serving directly under
> a lame duck President who is awash in Pharma PAC Money and who we have
> very little influence over because he can't run for reelection.
>
> Given the closeness of the CAFTA battle in Congress, and given that we
> have zero influence over the unelected bureaucrats at CODEX while we DO
> have influence over Congress, under these circumstances we feel that we're
> recommending the course of action where we have the best political chance
> to succeed. If Codex does get sent back to step 5, it won't be due to
> anything our movement has even done, it would be due to language changes
> requested by Australia, Venezuela and especially CHINA.
>
> Please take action TODAY and forward this alert.
>
> IAHF needs donations to send John Hammell back to Washington to lobby on
> this issue. We can't stop Codex AT CODEX because we have no political
> influence over the unelected bureaucrats who will be making the decisions
> there, but we CAN stop codex from coming here by killing CAFTA/FTAA.
> ---
>
> For Health Freedom,
> John C. Hammell, President
> International Advocates for Health Freedom
> 556 Boundary Bay Road
> Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
> http://www.iahf.com
> jham@...
> 800-333-2553 N.America
> 360-945-0352 World
>
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Message: 4
    Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:06:17 -0400
    From: "Stardora" <stardora@...>
Subject: Fw: See Liberty Committee's Alert on CAFTA- Additional Very Solid
Information- Send Their Form Letter in Too



> June 29, 2005
>
>
>
> "CAFTA is NAFTA on steroids!"  That's how one experienced trade attorney
> describes the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
>
>
> And CAFTA is on the move.  This morning, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee
> endorsed CAFTA, sending it to the full Senate for a vote which will likely
> take place in two days.  The vote will be close, but pro-CAFTA forces
> believe they have enough votes to get it passed by the Senate.  If they
> do, they will claim "momentum" and get the U.S. House to vote on it soon
> thereafter.
>
>
> The pro-CAFTA forces aren't really for true free trade.  They are for
> global managed trade...because that is what CAFTA (like NAFTA) really is.
> Think about it.  Why does it take over 1,000 pages to define free trade?
>
>
> We've had over 10 years of NAFTA so we should know what to expect with
> CAFTA.  Again, "CAFTA is NAFTA on steroids!"
>
>
> CAFTA fits hand-in-glove with the world-government agenda to make the U.S.
> just another client state.  How?
>
>
> Consider:  CAFTA article 10.16.3 places the United States under the
> jurisdiction of international tribunals supervised by the United Nations.
>
>
> Consider:  CAFTA article 10.5.2(a) states that these international
> tribunals must use "customary international law" as established by the
> "principle legal systems of the world" when deciding cases.
>
>
> Welcome to the United Nations' world court system!
>
>
> And then there's the unconstitutional granting of "fast track" authority
> to the president.  Article I, section 8, clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution
> gives Congress the sole authority to regulate international trade.  But
> CAFTA, like NAFTA, treats the U.S. Constitution as a relic.
>
>
> We already suffer from the World Trade Organization and its international
> bureaucrats.  CAFTA will add another layer of unaccountable world elites
> who will tell us what we can and cannot do.
>
>
> Even the French understand the critical importance of national
> sovereignty.  They recently rejected the proposed constitution of the
> European Union.  Remember that the E.U. started as a trade agreement in
> 1957, and now it is a regional supra government.
>
>
> NAFTA.  CAFTA.  And then the Union of the Americas.
>
>
> We strongly urge a "no" vote on CAFTA.  Tell your U.S. senators to reject
> CAFTA.
>
>
> To send your messages, go to
> http://capwiz.com/liberty/issues/alert/?alertid=7774311&type=CO
>
>
>
> Kent Snyder
> The Liberty Committee
> http://www.thelibertycommittee.org
> For Health Freedom,
> John C. Hammell, President
> International Advocates for Health Freedom
> 556 Boundary Bay Road
> Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
> http://www.iahf.com
> jham@...
> 800-333-2553 N.America
> 360-945-0352 World
>
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