"By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom,..."

“By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion. Individuals, not the government, would define religious faith and practice in the United States. Thus the Founders ensured that in no official sense would America be a Christian Republic. Ten years after the Constitutional Convention ended its work, the country assured the world that the United States was a secular state, and that its negotiations would adhere to the rule of law, not the dictates of the Christian faith. The assurances were contained in the Treaty of Tripoli of 1797 and were intended to allay the fears of the Muslim state by insisting that religion would not govern how the treaty was interpreted and enforced. John Adams and the Senate made clear that the pact was between two sovereign states, not between two religious powers.”

- Frank Lambert, Professor of History at Purdue University

IMG_3071_Minot, North Dakota, USA by D. Alberto on Flickr.

States that I have visited.

Washington DC, United States

IMG_3531_Virginia Snow by D. Alberto on Flickr.

_MG_2065_Las Vegas, NV by D. Alberto on Flickr.

IMG_3071_Minot, North Dakota, USA by D. Alberto on Flickr.

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This. Is why I love America.

I don’t mean like loving that way or anything!

from Zerochan

(Or rather soon-to-be ex-classmates…)

So, why are you excited to spend your vacations on the U.S.?

Classmates: I can’t wait for the theme parks! Oh, and this Water Park, and Walt Disney World, and the rollercoasters and buy this and that clothing and arrgh! It’ll be awesome! 8D

Me: My family there lives conveniently in access to several bookstores, and there are several museums I want to visit or re-visit! History! Also, there’s this book I want to get and this animation film that isn’t being sold ATM in my place, and those videogames at a decent price… I also can’t wait to be able to wear coats and the like on a bit cool weather :’D

…really. I was looking through the list of unvisited museums from last year that I missed and I just got ecstatic. Ffff. I can’t wait to be a Gru in Halloween, either.

…I’m not saying it’s “bad” what my classmates aspire to (I would personally love to go to Walt Disney World someday, I’m just not overexcited yet ^^; ) but oh boy… well, I guess that the clothing factor detracts me a bit, so yay?

If anybody of you lives in Virginia or Columbia or Maryland or the like, please tell me so I can give in an attempt to bug you :3 hah!

/Random

not a tourist, but i had to :)

not a tourist, but i had to :)

This. Is why I love America.

“In my fight against terrorism, to me the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. For me it’s like, I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the ‘forms of terrorism. The root cause of the terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policies we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists.”

These were some of the comments of Lupe Fiasco said during his June 7th interview on What’s Trending Now, a show on CBS.

I’m writing an article for a magazine I’m working for this summer, Say What Online (saywhatonline.org), about whether or not it’s okay for artists to speak out about what’s happening in the world.

How do you all feel about the comments Lupe Fiasco made? Were they legitimate? Should he be attacked for what he said and should artists be allowed to make comments without backlash?

This. Is why I love America.

I don’t mean like loving that way or anything!

from Zerochan

Shopping Mall on Flickr.A new shopping mall in Summerlin, Nevada...

sin título by selfnonself on Flickr.

Vegas Strip Bellagio to Palazzo on Flickr.

The Vegas Strip from Bellagio to Palazzo as seen from Rampart Casino in Summerlin, Nevada. June 2011.

Hey anyone who just might read this, please take a moment out of your day to just remember and give thanks to all those soldiers who defended are country, died defending our country, and are still defending our country.

Whether or not you support the war, they still are fighting for everyone here in the great USA and without them who knows where we would?

Freedom is not free…

Shopping Mall on Flickr.

A new shopping mall in Summerlin, Nevada June 2011.

Lets Talk About America

The United States of America. It’s almost her birthday, and that’s got me thinking about why we still make the effort to celebrate it.

I’ve spent more time on the internet than I’d care to admit, and over the last decade or so I’ve noticed that anytime we’re talking about the USA, as an American you tend to get a lot of digital eye rolls (and flat-out hostility) from both outside and inside the country. Honestly, I live here; don’t you think I already know we’ve got problems?

(I think most competent people, here or anywhere, will admit that we’ve made some mistakes in the past - little ones, big ones, and even mistakes of the colossal, unforgivable nature. But let’s just let that rabbit hole go for tonight.)

Let’s start with what we’ve got going on now. We Americans, collectively, often get so caught up in ourselves and our little daily bubble of “me me me” that we tend to ignore everything else out there. And, for the most part, we get away with that. Even now, here I sit, in my comfortable spare bedroom sucking enough energy to power overhead lighting, two computers, a printer, and air conditioning. I’m drinking filtered tap-water from a plastic bottle. My husband is at work, and I’m still waiting to start my new job after finishing a second college degree. Tomorrow morning, I’ll probably wake up, shower, put on new shoes, and drive in my car to the church of my choosing. Now I know this doesn’t make me rich and famous and amazing – really, even by Appalachian standards, we’re probably a bit on the poor side at the moment. But I figure that puts me in a better position than a fairly large portion of the world’s population, in some respects. I feel pretty comfortable in my assumption that right now, somewhere in the world (heck, within a two-mile radius of where I sit), there’s a kid who’s trying to go to sleep in old clothes, on a crap bed, without reliable amenities, who didn’t get to eat any dinner because they just couldn’t get it together today. And that kid is probably doing better than thousands of others out there.

And here I am, not doing a thing about it.

So I figure that’s pretty much what everyone sees when they get down on America. And you’re well within your rights to do so. And we probably need a kick in the rear every now and then to try to keep us culturally on track.

But that’s only part of the story. When we get to the 4^th of July, we don’t “celebrate” all our problems. I think it’s more like this: We celebrate the belief that we can make our own choices. We celebrate the belief - the hope - that in the United States of America we have a chance (and a willingness) to make things better.

This brings me to an explanation of some of my posts for the next few days. I’ll be doing a sort-of “tribute” to the USA. Or maybe it’s more like: I’ll be posting a personal journey of mine, as I try to work out my understanding of what it means to be an American. What’s worth fighting for in this country. The things we may have done right.

So, for the next week, let’s talk about America.

Where Is Yesterday by United States Of America.

Going back for a good look on my birthday (probably maybe). 

Did you know? Buffalo ranked 86th on the “America’s Most (and least) Stressful Cities” list? Albany ranked 100th. Albany looked nice, what little I saw of it.

Where Is Yesterday by United States Of America.

Intronun ba?lang?c?n?n bana Wild Beasts’ten This Is Our Lot’? hat?rlatmas?. Hangi kafan?n dünyas?nday?m, soludu?um kimya nedir hiç bilmiyorum.

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Go go New York!

Now just legalize it whole world. 

One more state to add to the rest of the USA, if the whole USA legalizes, as a significant world power thier influence will do such good to allow other countries to join the ranks of the countries who allow is all across thier lands like Canada, Argentina, Belgium, the Neatherlands, Sweden, Spain and others. 

Keep up the good work my neighbours to the south. We still have a long way to go, but you’re making such beautiful strides. 

Gay marriage legal

+ 100 to awesome

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“Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution is pretty simple. It says, ‘Raise an army.’ It says absolutely nothing about race, colour, creed, sexual orientation. You all joined for a reason: to serve. To protect our nation, right? How dare we, then, exclude a group of people who want to do the same thing you do right now, something that is honourable and noble? Right? Get over it. We’re magnificent, we’re going to continue to be. … Let’s just move on, treat everyone with firmness, fairness, dignity, compassion and respect. Let’s be Marines.”

- Sergeant Major Michael Barrett, US Marine, on the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’

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Jose Vargas: Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, filmmaker, undocumented immigrant.:

I’ve tried. Over the past 14 years, I’ve graduated from high school and college and built a career as a journalist, interviewing some of the most famous people in the country. On the surface, I’ve created a good life. I’ve lived the American dream.

But I am still an undocumented immigrant. And that means living a different kind of reality. It means going about my day in fear of being found out. It means rarely trusting people, even those closest to me, with who I really am. It means keeping my family photos in a shoebox rather than displaying them on shelves in my home, so friends don’t ask about them. It means reluctantly, even painfully, doing things I know are wrong and unlawful. And it has meant relying on a sort of 21st-century underground railroad of supporters, people who took an interest in my future and took risks for me.

Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas talks about his life, growing up as an undocumented immigrant and learning to live with it.

My heart’s still lodged somewhere between my throat and the pit of my stomach. We need to fix this country.

“Justice will be served

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30 Day Song Challenge! Day 7: A Song From The First Album You Remember Buying For Yourself

These colors don’t run, they drive.

 (by Jennifer Daniel)

White Sands Sunset Series by mstoy on Flickr.

All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup:

You: doing more with less. Corporate profits: Up 22 percent. The dirty secret of the jobless recovery.

— By Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery

Also read harrowing first-person tales of overwork and 12 charts on just how much is being demanded of American workers.

On a bright spring day in a wisteria-bedecked courtyard full of earnest, if half-drunk, conference attendees, we were commiserating with a fellow journalist about all the jobs we knew of that were going unfilled, being absorbed or handled “on the side.” It was tough for all concerned, but necessary—you know, doing more with less.

“Ah,” he said, “the speedup.”

His old-school phrase gave form to something we’d been noticing with increasing apprehension—and it extended far beyond journalism. We’d hear from creative professionals in what seemed to be dream jobs who were crumbling under ever-expanding to-do lists; from bus drivers, hospital technicians, construction workers, doctors, and lawyers who shame-facedly whispered that no matter how hard they tried to keep up with the extra hours and extra tasks, they just couldn’t hold it together. (And don’t even ask about family time.)

Webster’s defines speedup as “an employer’s demand for accelerated output without increased pay,” and it used to be a household word. Bosses would speed up the line to fill a big order, to goose profits, or to punish a restive workforce. Workers recognized it, unions (remember those?) watched for and negotiated over it—and, if necessary, walked out over it.

But now we no longer even acknowledge it—not in blue-collar work, not in white-collar or pink-collar work, not in economics texts, and certainly not in the media (except when journalists gripe about the staff-compacted-job-expanded newsroom). Now the word we use is “productivity,” a term insidious in both its usage and creep. The not-so-subtle implication is always: Don’t you want to be a productive member of society? Pundits across the political spectrum revel in the fact that US productivity (a.k.a. economic output per hour worked) consistently leads the world. Yes, year after year, Americans wring even more value out of each minute on the job than we did the year before. U-S-A! U-S-A!

Except what’s good for American business isn’t necessarily good for Americans. We’re not just working smarter, but harder. And harder. And harder, to the point where the driver is no longer American industriousness, but something much more predatory.

Sound familiar: Mind racing at 4 a.m.? Guiltily realizing you’ve been only half-listening to your child for the past hour? Checking work email at a stoplight, at the dinner table, in bed? Dreading once-pleasant diversions, like dinner with friends, as just one more thing on your to-do list?

Guess what: It’s not you. These might seem like personal problems—and certainly, the pharmaceutical industry is happy to perpetuate that notion—but they’re really economic problems. Just counting work that’s on the books (never mind those 11 p.m. emails), Americans now put in an average of 122 more hours per year than Brits, and 378 hours (nearly 10 weeks!) more than Germans. The differential isn’t solely accounted for by longer hours, of course—worldwide, almost everyone except us has, at least on paper, a right to weekends off, paid vacation time (PDF), and paid maternity leave. (The only other countries that don’t mandate paid time off for new moms are Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Samoa, and Swaziland. U-S…A?)

To understand how we got here, first let’s consider the Ben Franklin-Horatio Alger-Henry Ford ur-myth: To balk at working hard—really, really hard—brands you as profoundly un-American. Who besides the archetypical Japanese salaryman derives so much of his self-image from self-sacrifice on the job? Slacker is one of the most biting insults available in polite company.

And so we kowtow to—nay, embrace—a cultural maxim that just happens to be enormously convenient to corporate America. “Our culture has encouraged me to only feel valuable if I’m barely hanging on to my sanity,” one friend emailed as we were working on this article. In fact, each time we mentioned this topic to someone—reader, source, friend—they first took pains to say: I’m not lazy. I love my job. I come from a long line of hard workers. But then it would pour out of them—the fatigue, the isolation, the guilt.

“I am exhausted,” said a “part time” college instructor in Illinois. “I can’t help my son with his homework because I am grading papers until late into the night. I get up very early during the week, skip lunch to save not money but time, and the workload never lets up. My employer uses and abuses full-time employees even more so than those of us that are hourly. My supervisor, for example, runs a large department. He was just promoted to a new, even more demanding position, but his position running the department will not be filled. He will now be doing what is a 60-to-70-hour job ‘on the side.’ I can’t complain of overwork, because everyone is competing to get enough classes to pay the bills. If you lose a class, you lose a chunk of your paycheck. If we can’t handle it, the class can always be given to another teacher who will be desperate for the work or money.”

Continued here: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speed-up-american-workers-long-hours

            

Domus magazine has published an article and accompanying set of graphics that display some crucial information released by Wikileaks late last year. According to the article, its purpose is as follows:

Mapping the discontinuous spatiality of the contemporary nation-state through the publication of the secret government memo listing 259 facilities around the world considered crucial to everyday life in the US

Although the graphics couldn’t have been laid in a more confusing way, it’s interesting to see just how far-reaching America’s interests span. From “border crossing” areas in the middle of Mexico (where there’s nary a border in sight), to tightly-spaced “telecommunications hubs” all over Europe and Japan, there are hundreds of sites around the globe that have deemed vital to our national security without being anywhere near the, you know, nation. In the modern globalized world in which we exist, this is anything but surprising, and I hope one day these graphics can be made a bit more interactive (and aesthetically logical), so even more information like this can be released to the public.

Wikileaks FTW. 

We Must Educate All Our Young Men:

One out of every two men that graduate HS between the ages of 15 and 24 will be incarcerated, unemployed, or dead. This makes me seriously fear for my students, all of which are people of color and a little less than half of them being men. It’s crazy that this problem has gotten so bad for men of color that the President of the College Board chose to write about it.

i couldn’t have planned this

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Our “amped intern” over here at MetroLyrics purchased The United States of America’s debut album back in ‘95, where this classic tune is from. Sing along here!

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I think I’m done with England for now…

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A Trolley in New Orleans by marantzer on Flickr.

A Swing Hangs from an Oak Tree on White Plantation Near Thibodaux by marantzer on Flickr.

A Trolley in New Orleans by marantzer on Flickr.

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German and Austrian scientists knew in the early 1930s that an overactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism) could be successfully treated by bathing patients in water containing minute amounts of fluoride. They had discovered nearly a century ago that fluoride blocked thyroid function. For the US government, long partnered with the pharmaceutical industry, to then force this same treatment on a nation of people with healthy thyroids under the lie that fluoride “prevents cavities in children,” is unconscionable. The Nuremberg Code of ethics pertaining to human experimentation labels it an act of crime, stating, “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.”  Today, 70% of the US is being forced to receive this thyroid-blocking chemical via their water without consent or medical monitoring for overdose, allergic reaction or blocked thyroid function. The benefits are being reaped by the largest of US industries:  The pharmaceutical industry. Fluoride has created a nation of sufferi ng people seeking more drugs to treat blocked thyroids and fluoride toxicity. We might drink bottled water, but most of us cannot avoid the bathwater.

Deliberately damaging the thyroid will produce a plethora of symptoms affecting the entire human body from head to toe. Symptoms of thyroid damage and fluoride poisoning include weight gain, edema, kidney disease, kidney failure, hair loss, depression, aggression, aches, pains, skin problems, bone deformities (likely including “arthritis” and spontaneous fractures), sexual/erectile dysfunction, memory loss, weakness, fatigue, heart disease, irritability, cancer, digestive disorders including severe GERD as a result of swallowing fluoride, nausea, vomiting, visual problems, gum disease, “high cholesterol,” connective tissue damage, brittle teeth, wrinkles, premature aging, dehydration, and long, long after the whole body has been damaged, “cosmetic fluorosis” might finally show up in a tooth or two. “Cosmetic fluorosis” is usually the only sign of fluoride poisoning mentioned by fluoride promoters, while downplaying the rest of the signs as though their livelihoods depended upon it.

Lethal fluoride doses cause death to occur by “natural causes” such as cardiac arrest, or acute renal failure or (for those who believe that cancer is a “natural cause” of death), by cancer. Fluoride binds to and possibly mimics calcium, but fluoride is a liar. The heart cells utilize a perfect balance of calcium and magnesium and other natural substances in the body’s matrix to cause the heart to beat and then rest. Fluoride, bound to the calcium, confuses the normal functioning and cellular communication within the body, and causes arrhythmias.

The fluoride that is purchased by municipal waterworks and added into public drinking water is not even a “pharmaceutical grade” fluoride. It is primarily discarded waste, a slurry of toxins not wanted by the phosphate fertilizer mining corporations that sell it to waterworks. From there, it is then disposed of (sometimes by unskilled workers) into our drinking water. For those who have swallowed the propaganda that fluoride is “completely safe,” and is some kind of a “nutrient” that is good for us, there is news footage available of a recent fluoride spill that took place in Illinois. A Hazmat team in protective gear was called in to clean up the mess, but not before the fluoride began eating through the concrete driveway it had spilled upon.

This should leave little question as to why a 2005 study by the American Gastroenterological Association showed that there was a sharp increase in Barrett’s esophagus and GERD, and other reports show that adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, once rare, has now become one of the most frequently occurring cancers. Fluoride can eat its way through a titanium container. Fluoride is converted in the stomach into hydrofluoric acid, an acid so strong that it cannot be stored in a glass container because it will eat the glass. Fluoride, proven to block thyroid function, is not a substance we should be forced to drink, breathe, eat, and bathe in without our consent.

Fluoride promoters have utilized all seven propaganda techniques identified by the “Institute for Propaganda Analysis,” (est. 1937 and brought to an early end in the 1940s), including “Name-Calling, Glittering Generality, Transfer, Testimonial, Plain Folks, Card Stacking, and Band Wagon” in order to keep the fluoride flowing here and creating medical problems. Mention an aversion to fluoride, and the promoters will more than likely make comments about “tinfoil hats,” or make a reference to the strange movie, “Dr. Strangelove.” They also refer to people opposed to being dosed with fluoride against their wills as “anties” as though attempting to paint a picture of opponents as confused old ladies. The one thing that fluoride promoters are incapable of doing, however, is engaging in a logical debate about fluoride. They cannot debate fluoride because they have no real facts or clinical evidence showing that fluoride “prevents cavities.” They merely repeat, as they have been repeating for over 60 years, the following mantra: “It is well-known that fluoride prevents cavities.”

If fluoride “prevented cavities” as the CDC and other government pharmaceutical branches imply, they would be shining a light on the Commonwealth of Kentucky. According to the NIH “Community Water Fluoridation Status by State” 2002 report (reportedly updated in March of 2010), the state of Kentucky ranks #1 in having the highest percentage of fluoridated water of all states in the US. According to Kentucky Oral/Dental Health, the state has received awards for achieving this feat. “The American Dental Association, the Centers for Disease Control and the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors have recognized Kentucky’s efforts.” If we were going to see water fluoridation in action and working as promised by the fluoride salesmen, we would have seen its miracles clearly happening on any given day in the gleaming smiles of our Kentucky neighbors. Instead we see something unexpected.

When the ADA’s and CDC’s exaggerated hoopla dies down, a check of the facts reveals that Kentucky is also ranked #1 in other areas not mentioned during the praising ceremonies. Kentucky ranks #1 in incidence of cancer in the USA, and it ranks at the top for having one of the worst dental health scores in the US. Despite all of its award-winning fluoridation, it has one of the worst rates of cavities in children, as well as complete toothlessness in adults. One must also wonder if the spontaneous fractures and tendon problems in the racehorses might be due to the fluoride in their drinking water. Horses drink many times more water than humans do.

Even more disturbing than the lie about the “benefits” of having “optimally fluoridated water,” is that the majority of physicians do not know how to treat fluoride poisoning, nor do they even know how to look for it or diagnose it. Due to the media, many people simply conclude that Americans are just fat and lethargic, everyone has heartburn so what else is new, arthritis is just bone aches and crippling deformities, fibromyalgia is a sign of malingering, and degenerative disk disease raises no eyebrows or questions as spines spontaneously collapse and disks bulge from sea to shining, oil-slicked sea. We are not adequately studying cause and effect at this time. Instead of treating symptoms with even more pharmaceuticals, we need to start looking for the cause of the symptoms.

Many physicians are unaware that in addition to the daily doses of fluoride their patients are receiving via water, air, dental products, and our fluoride-contaminated food, a growing number of prescription drugs are now fluorinated as well. Lipitor, for instance, is fluorinated and has been known to cause aches and pains, and according to the Lipitor website, can cause serious muscle problems resulting in kidney failure, as well as liver problems, edema, tendon problems, jaundice, nausea and GI problems. A number of patients are reporting memory loss, as well; however, this complaint has not yet become an “accepted” side effect. All of these complaints are, however , “accepted” symptoms of fluoride poisoning. High concentrations of fluoride can also be found in other unexpected items, such as tea, grapes and raisins, and some American wines contain too much fluoride to be sold in European markets.

The amount of fluoride constituting a “lethal dose” is not even known at this time due to disinformation and lack of appropriate study, nor is it known how long a lethal dose will take to finally kill the victim via organ failure or cancer. Most of the deliberate fluoride dosing is sub-lethal, thus allowing people to live out their lives without frank evidence that they are being chronically poisoned by a daily dose of fluoride. They will, however, live out their lives while suffering from the resulting, unexplained but now “commonly found” symptoms that their grandparents never had. They will desire lifelong medications for relief of these symptoms, and no one knows how many years the fluoride will shave off the life of each person being forced to take it.

In following a recent case of massive fluoride poisoning in a previously healthy, 42-year-old male living in New York City, the true extent of the national fluoride and crime cover-up surfaced. The victim, an inventor named Sean Dix, stated that his dentist poisoned him with a sublingual dose of liquid chemicals. By the following morning, he was in acute renal failure, as subsequently documented by lab tests. His head-to-toe symptoms matched many of those already mentioned, except he did not have nausea, vomiting or other GI distress, for the simple reason that the chemicals had been administered under his tongue. He had not swallowed it, so it bypassed the liver and intestines that would have otherwise filtered some of the poison out. He had saved his scant morning-after urine sample, and after I learned of his symptoms I urged him to have it tested for fluoride. I suggested this because of the data I had obtained years earlier through the government’s FOIA regarding fluoride effects and symp toms.

The first indication of a massive fluoride cover-up occurred when Sean Dix then tried to have his urine tested, only to discover that there are no hospitals or labs in NYC that routinely test for fluoride levels.  He tried elsewhere, including in other states, and could not find any hospitals that routinely tested for fluoride, as though the level of fluoride in one’s body is now a great, state-kept secret.

The victim was told to take a train to Connecticut, drop his urine off at a lab there, and they would then forward his specimen to another lab that would test it for fluoride. The fact that there are no hospitals or labs found that do simple, accurate, routine urine fluoride tests means that no one really knows what the fluoride levels are in Americans. We do, however, know that the US ranks #1 worldwide in its consumption of pharmaceuticals used to treat the massive symptoms now plaguing Americans. Too sick to travel to Connecticut, it was necessary for the NYC victim to hire two separate US forensic labs, as well as ship his urine to India in order to have it tested for fluoride.

He then discovered that there are at least two types of equipment used to test for fluoride, resulting in at least two completely different test results. A cheaper, less sophisticated test, Ion Selective Electrode, or ISE, (sometimes referred to as Ion Specific Electrode) can apparently give a false low reading. Another test, by Ion Chromatography (IC), is expensive but stated to be far more accurate.

It is currently guessed that any level of fluoride over perhaps 1 or 2 ppm showing up in the urine might indicate poisoning. In Hooper Bay, Alaska, a water fluoridation disaster reportedly caused by an unskilled fluoride handler, resulted in a community being poisoned by fluoride. This resulted in the death of one man. Testing of the deceased man’s urine indicated he had a reported level of “55 mg per liter” of fluoride, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. It has been reported that the unfortunate 41-year-old man had symptoms of nausea and vomiting, and in an innocent attempt to remain hydrated, he drank more and more of the fluoride-poisoned water until he had a heart attack and died. He was found dead in his home. On the surface, this suggests that 55 mg/L must be the upper limits of fluoride poisoning before death claims the victim. Fluoride, however, deserves much more than a mere surface study.

According to ISE forensic testing, the morning-after urine of the still-living NYC poisoning victim contained only slightly over 1 mg/L of fluoride. This was momentarily reassuring, and I apologized to Mr. Dix for having been so certain he had been poisoned with fluoride. Several hours later, the forensic lab using the more sophisticated IC testing revealed their results. Repeated IC testing showed that his urine contained over 160 mg/L of fluoride, with the lowest adjusted level being 132 mg/L. Three weeks after being poisoned, his urinary fluoride level spiked to an incredible 188 mg/L, by IC.

The next unfortunate discovery was that no one had ever heard of fluoride levels this high in a living person, no one knew what to do about it, no one knew how to treat it or remove it, and no one knew if the man was going to live or die. In addition, no one knew what caused the three-week spike, or if the dentist had poured an “extended release” fluoride product under his tongue, meaning she was dosing him repeatedly. She was refusing to cooperate with those asking questions.

The next bizarre discovery was found after contacting a group of toxicologists who stated that they would not even look at lab tests to determine a diagnosis of fluoride poisoning. They determined fluoride poisoning only according to their list of “nationally accepted” symptoms. Unless the victim’s symptoms matched their “accepted” list of symptoms, they would not consider him to have been poisoned with fluoride.  As stated, the NYC victim did not have nausea and vomiting, nor did he have the excessive salivation as noted on the “accepted” list, and therefore he did not qualify for the “poisoned by fluoride” diagnosis. He had a dry mouth and dehydration. He also had additional symptoms that were not on the “accepted” list, symptoms that were possibly previously unknown and were being documented for the first time. These included sudden loss of near-vision acuity and eye pupils constricting to “pinpoints.”

The next discovery of a massive cover-up of fluoride and crime occurred when the victim reported his poisoning to the police. The NY police refused to investigate or even question the dentist. After finally obtaining a toxicology narrative based upon forensic evidence stating he had been poisoned by fluoride, the victim again attempted to file criminal charges against the dentist but he was blocked at every step of the way. He took the matter to the District Attorney, the NY State Troopers, and to the Governor, but at this time, nearly one year later , no one has been willing to charge or even question the dentist who appears to have pulled off the worst and most surreal case of fluoride poisoning ever reported.

The next discovery that was stumbled upon regarding the massive fluoride and crime cover-up was that the US government does not have a national database documenting incidence and prevalence of American thyroid disease. While the US government follows prevalence and incidence of diabetes, cancers, cardiac problems, bone problems and every other disease imaginable, it does not nationally follow thyroid disease. This is despite the fact that the government is forcing 70% of the US population to take daily doses of thyroid-blocking fluoride in their water.

At this time, one year later, the NYC victim continues to struggle with kidney problems along with joint and bone pain, and his well-cared for teeth are now pitted and showing signs of “cosmetic fluorosis” near the area where the dentist poured liquid fluoride under his tongue. This is despite the fact that some “experts” claim that the development of cosmetic fluorosis in an adult is not possible. The Park Avenue dentist remains free to go about her daily routine without any consequences after having poisoned Sean Dix.

Because ISE testing is less expensive and therefore more commonly used than IC, it is possible that much of our information regarding fluoride levels is based upon false low readings. It is possible that the fluoride levels in our bodies might be much higher than we have previously assumed, possibly putting us all in great danger for cardiac arrhythmias, kidney disease, premature aging and cancers, in addition to all of the other symptoms of just not feeling well. We have been led down a propaganda path for over 60 years regarding the nonexistent “benefits” of fluoride, while no safety measures to guard us against fluoride poisoning or even routinely check us for fluoride or blocked thyroids have ever been made.  The only “benefits” of fluoride are being pocketed by the pharmaceutical industry selling drugs to treat the resulting national array of symptoms.

The result of this governmental cover-up means that it is apparently easy now to get away with murder in the United States if one has “professional” access to a supply of liquid fluoride and if one knows how to administer it at the right dose so that it will not cause immediate death. The victim will walk away a ticking time bomb not knowing that he was just poisoned; he will most likely not know to save his urine 12 hours later and even if he does, hospitals do not routinely and accurately test for fluoride in the US; physicians know very little about fluoride in the US; the most commonly used fluoride testing equipment has flaws; the “accepted symptoms” list for fluoride poisoning is flawed; and, a few days, weeks or months after the poisoning (when the death might occur) the victim will be nowhere in the vicinity of the person who poisoned him. In addition, by that time there might be very little trace of the fluoride left in the blood or urine, but it will have done its damage on its way o ut of the system. It will have left behind a wake of chaos.

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One must now wonder how many innocent people have been “removed” by fluoride poisoning with no one ever suspecting a thing. Very few know enough about fluoride to watch for symptoms and no one routinely tests for fluoride overload with IC. One must at this time wonder how many assassins have gotten away with murder because of the disgraceful cover-up of fluoride in the US. Because of this cover-up, fluoride has become an ideal tool for assassins. Leading assassination expert, Professor Emeritus James Fetzer, is now studying the case of the attempted murder by fluoride of Sean Dix.

It is my hope that the above information will serve to alert this entire nation of the problems and dangers we now face with fluoride. It is my hope that law enforcement personnel, coroners, hospitals, clinics, municipal water personnel and healthcare professionals throughout the United States will responsibly study all they can about fluoride, responsibly ban it immediately from use on humans, and then responsibly establish new policies regarding accurate, affordable, routine testing for human fluoride levels in hospitals and clinics.

Until that happens and we finally have some measure of protection against fluoride poisoning, I would suggest that we all safeguard ourselves by saving urine specimens 12 hours after dental visits, or after any event that leads to unexpected illness, such as dining out … or perhaps even after dining in. Saving urine samples will provide us with potential documentation, and documentation removes some of the invisibility and motivation from any would-be murderer or assassin who presumes he or she knows exactly how to get away with murder in the United States.

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Mary is a medical, health, science and political writer who is currently being fluorosed against her will in Tallahassee, Florida. She is a columnist for Jeff Rense, www.rense.com. She has a lengthy background in the studies of laboratory science, veterinary science, ornithology, and she provided free humane care to over 20,000 wild birds and wild animals, including endangered species, before turning her focus on providing help for humans.  She is an internationally published author of four books. (All English books in the US are sold out at this time. Books remain available in Germany and Japan.) Mary has a daughter who is a Deputy Sheriff in Tallahassee, and she has a son in Tallahassee who recently ran for a seat in the Florida Senate.

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Links to references: Schuld, Andreas, Parents of Fluoride Poisoned Children – A. “History of Fluoride” – “Around the same time (1932) Gorlitzer von Mundy, being aware that fluorides also get absorbed through the skin, began fluoride treatments of hyperthyroid patients in Austria by prescribing 20 minute baths containing 30ccm (0.03l) HF per 200 liters of water. He reported on his successful treatment spanning over 30 years and involving over 600 patients at a 1962 symposium on fluoride toxicity in Bern, also attended by other world-leading experts including George Waldbott.”

B. Gorlitzer von Mundy V – “Ein neuer Weg zur Behandlung der Thyreotoxikose mit Fluorwasserstoffsäure” Med Klin 21:&17-719 (1932) (reports on the first successful use of baths containing HF in the treatment of hyperthyroidism)

C. Gautier – Bull Soc Chim 14:241 (1914); cited in: Kraft K -”Beiträge zur Biochemie des Fluors I.Über den Antagonismus zwischen Fluor und Thyroxin.” Hoppe-Seglers Z.Physiol. Chem 245:58 -65 (1937) D. May W – “Behandlung der Hypothyreosen einschließlich des schweren genuinen Morbus Basedow mit Fluor” Klin Wochenschr 16:562-564 (1937) Schuld, Andreas, PFPC –http://www.bruha.com/pfpc/html/thyroid_history.html Meiers, Peter – (Historian) – “Guenther Schiemann, Wolfgang Winkelmueller, Wilhelm Roselius: ‘Verfahren zur Darstellung von Kondensationsprodukten kernfluorierter Arylaldehyde’, German Patent DE 621,862; filed July 1, 1932; pat. Nov. 14, 1935.” – Patent for fluoride medication used to treat hyperthyroidism, and, Kurt Kraft, Ferdinand Dengel: “Verfahren zur Herstellung kernsubstituierter Phenylessigsäuren,” German Patent DE 819,696; filed Feb. 3, 1943; pat. Nov. 5, 1951 (A compound similar to fluorotyrosine, i.e. 3-Fluoro-4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid, was patented by Kraft and Dengel of Knoll, pharmaceutical company of Ludwigshafen, and became known under the names of “Capacin,” “Kapacin,” and “Wiflucin” [marketed by Knoll] as a treatment against hyperthyroidism. – s.a. The Merck Index, 9th edition, Merck & Co., Rahway, N.J., 1976) Meiers, Peter – http://www.fluoride-history.de/

Nuremberg: http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/nuremberg.html

Barrett’s: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051202084834.htm

Esophageal cancers: http://cancerprevention.aacrjournals.org/content/1/5/308.full.pdf

Hypothyroidism: http://www.endocrine.niddk.nih.gov/pubs/Hypothyroidism/

Thyroid: http://www.endocrineweb.com/conditions/thyroid/ hypothyroidism-too-little-thyroid-hormone

Thyroid: http://www.endocrineweb.com/conditions/thyroid/your-thyroid-gland

http://www.nofluoride.com/Toxicity_of_Fluoridated_Water.cfm

Propaganda techniques: http://www.propagandacritic.com/

Fluoridation: http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/DataStatistics/FindDataByTopic/Water

Fluoridation/CommunityWaterFluoridationState.htm

Kentucky data: http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/kentucky-health-profile

Kentucky: http://www.e-archives.ky.gov/pubs/LPRC/foresighno50.pdf

Lipitor: http://www.lipitor.com/aboutLipitor/sideEffects.aspx?source=google&HBX_PK=s_

lipitor+side-effects&HBX_OU=50&o=23127370|166376222|0&skwid= 43000000210101631

Lipitor ingredients: http://www.rxlist.com/lipitor-drug.htm

Hooper Bay  fluoride deathhttp://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199401133300203#t=articleResults

Jim Fetzer  http://www.d.umn.edu/~jfetzer/

Jim Fetzer: http://www.assassinationscience.com/

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