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EUROPEAN COURT RULING SPELLS END TO WATER FLUORIDATION!
Doug Cross, 10th May 2009 (www.ukcaf.org)
Fluoridated water must be treated as a medicine, and cannot be used to prepare foods. That is the decision of the European Court of Justice, in a landmark case dealing with the classification and regulation of 'functional drinks' in member states of the European Community. (HLH Warenvertriebs and Orthica (Joined Cases C-211/03, C-299/03, C-316/03 and C-318/03) 9 June 2005)...
Implications for international trade in food products...
But the ruling also has an equally profound implication for export trade in processed foods and drinks. The Court stated that even if a functional food product (or a food containing it) is legally marketed as a food in one member state, it cannot be exported to any other member state unless it has a medicinal licence. So any company making a consumable product using fluoridated water in its preparation or as an ingredient cannot now export that product to any other state in the EC, even if their product is permitted in their home state.
The economic implications are enormous. Not only does the ruling ban the use of fluoridated water for all retail catering and wholesale food processing in the UK and Ireland, it also prohibits such trade from these states to other member states of the EC. But it goes much further than even this, because if British and Irish processed foods from fluoridated areas cannot be exported to the EC, this prohibition must also apply to the importing of such products into EC member states from any other country that practices water fluoridation. The decision effectively bans all processed food products from countries such as the USA, Australia and New Zealand, unless they can be positively proven to have been prepared using only water that was not fluoridated.
Do our politicians know what they are doing? Do those beverage companies realise they will effectively cut out exports to Europe of any fluoridated products? Below is a letter to our ministers pleading for them not to allow bottled water to be fluoridated due to adverse health consequences... Even if they don't want to admit the health dangers... at least they should see the disastrous economic consequences. Why would they want to do it?
NO FLUORIDE IN BOTTLED WATER - PLEASE!
URGENT Letter from Merilyn Haines of Queenslanders for Safe Water Air & Food Inc to Australian Parliament:
Dear Ministers
Currently you are considering the approval or rejection of the voluntary addition of fluoride to bottled water. On behalf of Queenslanders For Safe Water, Air and Food Inc I write on a matter requiring your urgent consideration in regard to this.
We wish to advise you that the advice provided to you by Food Standards Australia New Zealand is incomplete and inadequate in regards to the risk that fluoride may pose to vulnerable members of society, particularly those members of the community who have the medical disability of impaired kidney function...Full Letter - click here
SARKOZY'S SECRET PLAN FOR MANDATORY SWINE FLU VACCINATION
by F. William Engdahl www.globalresearch.ca June 3, 2009
The French Government is developing secret plans to impose mandatory vaccination of the entire French population, allegedly against possible Swine Flu disease according to reports leaked in a French newspaper. The plan is without precedent and even defies recommended public health advice. Pharmaceutical giants benefit from the move, as the Swine Flu increases the trend towards the militarization of public health and use of needless population panic to advance the agenda.
ELIANT PETITION TO STOP CODEX IN EUROPE...
PLEASE READ, FOLLOW LINK AND SIGN
... this is a petition to gather 1 million voices against the codex alimentarius, a law that will be imposed in december 2009, if we don't do anything against it.
This law states that:
- all biological food must be irradiated
- genetically modified products don't have to be named in ingredient-lists, neither in the ingredient-lists of biological products
- nearly all of the homeopathical remedies will be taken from the market
- all healing herbs will be illegal
- most of the alternative forms of therapy and healing will be illegal
- alternative kindergardens and schools (like waldorf-schools...) will be illegal
The ELIANT campaign together with other campaigns are collecting a million signatures in order to file a protest against this law at the European court of justice. A number of signatures above one million will enable us to do something on a european level. At this moment we still need at least 260.371 signatures to reach our goal... yours could be the One....
More information and online signing at http://www.eliant.eu Thank You for your support!
RENEWED EFFORT TO FLUORIDATE EUROPE
Fluoride Alert Network www.fluoridealert.org Professor Paul Connett, March 22, 2009
BLOOD FLUORIDE LEVELS HIGHER IN PATIENTS WITH OSTEOSARCOMA
R Newswire (04-29-09) NEW YORK, April 29, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ --
Blood fluoride levels were significantly higher in patients with osteosarcoma than in control groups, according to research published in Biological Trace Element Research (April 2009). Osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer, occurs mostly in children and young adults.
Read More...WORST FLUORIDE DOSING ACCIDENT IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY...
- Water contaminated by too much fluoride
- Residents not told for almost two weeks
- Clause bans them from taking legal action
LAWS introducing fluoride to Queensland's water supply contained a clause banning legal action for compensation if problems should arise.
FLUORIDE & LOW IQ
23 published studies report an association of reduced IQ with high fluoride exposure...
"FLUORIDATION DISCRIMINATES AGAINST...
KIDNEY IMPAIRED, DIABETICS AND ABORIGINALS"
OPEN LETTER TO BALLINA SHIRE COUNCIL FROM QUEENSLANDERS FOR SAFE WATER (AIR & FOOD) INC. - MERILYN HAINES
See Margaret Phillip's Accounting on...
HOW MUCH FLUORIDATION WILL REALLY COST QUEENSLAND
The constant and belligerent stonewalling by the Queensland government, as well as other global policymakers, of calls by many independent doctors, scientists and citizens not to fluoridate highlights that we are up against a gargantuan global power that has an agenda of forcing the whole world into fluoridation. Why? Because they care so much about people's teeth?
Why not spend tax payers' money on better hospital care? Better education? Wouldn't that make more sense? Why are their priorities geared more in favour of fluoridation? Do they think it's better to take risks with organ failure, bone deterioration or mental illness as a result years of chronic fluoridation - all for a better set of teeth? And that point alone should be enough to stop fluoridation - let alone the fact that there is no hard evidence that fluoridation of drinking water stops tooth decay. The most recent studies have revealed no statistical difference in caries between fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas. There is a strong correlation though with caries and lower socio-economic status and quality of nutrition.
So what are the statistically significant differences between fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas? When it comes to osteosarcoma, thyroid disease and hip fractures - all of these are increased in fluoridated areas. Even crime rates are higher in fluoridated areas, which scientists believe is because fluoride binds with lead.
Do they really expect people to believe that all that money and effort to subvert the truth and spread propaganda about fluoride is for people's best interest? Do they think it's okay to ignore the warnings of thousands of scientists, health practitioners and toxicologists around the world basing their warnings on a mountain of highly credible published peer reviewed studies? The latest studies have used the highest level of scientific method - not like the ones from the 40's and 50's that pro-fluoride government officials, corporations selling fluoride chemicals, and their agent associations are relying on. If you believe their propaganda you've already had too much fluoride on the brain!
This is not about religious belief. It is about proper, responsible scientific method and the precautionary principle. Instead of making decisions about policy based on advice from expert toxicologists, government officials chose to take advice from dentists - as if they would know the TOXICOLOGICAL implications for kidney patients, diabetics, Aboriginals, babies and the chemically sensitive.
Why not allow communities to decide for themselves via ballot if they wish to take the risks and ingest fluoride? Why not help those that choose not to ingest these chemical medications to be compensated and financially assisted to have an alternative drinking water supply? The Bligh government's jackboot approach is simply not tolerable and certainly not sustainable as fluoride's toxic accumulation over time puts more pressure on people's health and the environment.
Remember, the first time scientists experimented with using fluoride to medicate drinking water to achieve a mind-alterning effect was in Nazi concentration camps... closely followed by the Russian gulags. This practice allowed them to manage the camps using less guards because fewer prisoners protested against their abject conditions or the atrocities being carried out their neighbour.
The bailout strategy will only put all the wealth of the world into the hands of the very few who control the financial system so they can buy up the real assets for a song and then force austerity measures and cost cutting on communities and the tax paying productive end of society. The tax payers are being used to underwrite a massive global scam to impoverish people with debt and liability they will not be able to repay possibly for generations to come. They will be forced to surrendour all their civil liberties and rights in a global push for totalitarian control of all utilities - water, sewerage, food, energy etc. It will be a global monopoly that would make any Nazi salivate in anticipation - if they get away with it.
FLOURIDE AND MAGNESIUM ARE ANTAGONISTS
"Cattle can only tolerate about 6 mg’s of fluorine per kilo of weight. Sheep tolerate about 22 mg’s per kilo, horses 36 mg’s and pigs 60 mg per kilo of weight. Lucerne and clover are highly tolerant of fluorine and take it up as part of their transpiration cycle.
When a cow is poisoned with fluorine the sequence goes like this; the fluorine kills several of the ruminants bacteria, allowing the remaining gas producing bacteria to have a population explosion, which inflates the cows rumen, which in turn stops the diaphragm from working, and so she suffocates. A great example of ‘cause and effect’, which are always removed in space and time!"
1.38ppm FLUORIDE Concentration in Tweed Tap Water Tested !!!
See Independent Laboratory Test 7 January 2009 - Shocking... Way Over Legal Toxic Limit for Safety 
THE BEST FLUORIDE SONG EVER!!!
LISTEN here to Hazel Eyes with Davo and the Gang sing:
So good... 
...WE DON'T NEED NO FLUORIDATION!!!
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO NEW FLUORIDE COMMERCIAL BY DAVO AND THE GANG...
Pretty cool! 
LAWYER'S LETTER challenging fluoridation... Politicians and bureaucrats practising medicine without a licence... Click here to open PDF"More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette" 60's commercial.
This era is where the myth of fluoridation started... There have been no scientific studies done anywhere in the world to show the addition of silicofluoride chemicals to drinking water is safe.
FLOW
Excellent documentary on the global control and privatisation of water. Very sobering.http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=4541841125880036824&ei=pkKzSduxI6PWqAPI7ZztAw&q=FLOW&hl=en&emb=1
SEE THIS VIDEO ABOUT PHARMACEUTICALS IN DRINKING WATER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ3x_D4drss&feature=related
What most people (and politicians) don't take into account is that whatever is in the main water supply gets multiplied many times over ( bio-magnification) in the environment and food supply. The restaurants will cook with that water, the manufacturers will process food with that water - just about everything can get contaminated with artificial synthetic substances that the body is not equipped to deal with or eliminate.
LATEST VIDEOS FROM FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
PROFESSOR PAUL CONNETT www.fluoridealert.org - "One Stop" YouTube watching...
When you go to www.youtube.com/user/fluoridealert you will find Bill Osmunson's video at the top of the screen, and below that you will see 9 pictures. Click on any of these pictures and you will be able to watch a video. One longer video (Don't Swallow Your Toothpaste) has been posted in three parts. Underneath each picture you will see how many people have viewed the videos. Those 7 videos are:
Bill Osmunson
Vyvyan Howard
Brent Foster
TV news clip from the DC area on the launch of the Professionals' Statement
TV news clip from Tennessee featuring Dr. Joey Hensley, a state rep.
TV news clip covering the Chester Douglass osteosarcoma cover-up scandal
Don't Swallow Your Toothpaste, parts 1, 2 and 3.
FLUORIDATION WARNING!
Avoid foods and beverages made with fluoridated water (not necessarily listed on the label). Ask your favourite restaurants and cafes to install fluoride filters for water used in making their food and beverages - and keep enjoying your cappuccinos! MOTHERS - PROTECT YOUR BABIES!!! Do not mix infant formula with fluoridated water - or use reconstituted juice (which is most often made up using fluoridated water - many with 0.7ppm fluoride concentrations). Babies can drink up to 4 times their bodyweight in liquids and will be getting a much higher more severe dosage over and above the recommended safety limit.
MAGNESIUM HELPS BUFFER THE BODY AGAINST
ADVERSE EFFECTS OF FLUORIDE
...but its deficiency contributes to a more virulent effect of fluoride ingestion.
Australian soils (and therefore the foods grown in it) are severely deficient in magnesium, yet it is the most important mineral to the body and involved in numerous biochemical processes. The bones prefer magnesium. Without magnesium the calcium can't get into the bones, and settles instead in soft tissue and joints. Without magnesium the bones take in more fluoride as a substitute. On top of short supply, if you stress the body in any way (emotional or physical), it will consume more magnesium. It's a downward spiral... unless you can sufficiently replenish your reserves. To give your body a buffer and counter the toxic and ageing effects of inadvertently ingested fluoride (via the food supply), absorb magnesium chloride through the skin every day. How? Swim in the ocean for one hour every day... OR,
see www.elektralife.com for Elektra Magnesium Mineral Bath Salts. 
A PEOPLES' CLASS ACTION TO STOP FLUORIDATION
OF QUEENSLAND'S WATER SUPPLY has been lodged by Mr Brian McDermott, who engaged the services of legal counsel Bruce Bell. Click here to open letter.
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or see www.peoplesclassaction.org The team have recently engaged the services of a senior barrister for the next stage of the legal process. For more information contact: Bruce Bell 0412 463 777, Brian McDermott (07) 3716 0309, or Merilyn Haines (07) 3879 1080
WORLDWIDE PETITION...
TO STOP WATER FLUORIDATION... http://www.petitiononline.com/4001k/
THE QUEENSLAND WATER PETITION
REQUESTS THE PARLIAMENT TO GRANT A REFERENDUM OF THE PEOPLE ON
1) FLUORIDATION AND
2) DRINKING OF RECYCLED SEWAGE
- as per the people's democratic right of choice not to be medicated or to be forced to drink re-used water from sewage.
"I respect your right to smoke, but don't force me to do it."
NEARLY 3,500 PETITION SIGNATURES HAVE BEEN TABLED IN PARLIAMENT BY RAY STEVENS UP TO THE LAST SITTING OF 2008. MORE SIGNED PETITIONS ARE FLOODING IN AND WE ARE CLOSE TO REACHING 5,000 SOON, BUT WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO. KEEP THEM COMING IN AS IT HAS A PROFOUND EFFECT ON THE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN - AS DOES THE PROGRESS OF THE PEOPLE'S CLASS ACTION. FLUORIDATION, THE POISONING OF OUR WATER SUPPLY, WILL BE A DEFINING ISSUE IN THE UPCOMING QUEENSLAND STATE ELECTIONS. THE ISSUE OF FORCED MASS MEDICATION WITHOUT CONSENT AND WITHOUT MEDICAL MONITORING OF QUANTITIES OF CONSUMPTION OR ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS HAS FAR WIDER IMPLICATIONS THAN MANY POLITICIANS REALISE. IT GOES TO THE HEART OF WHAT IS DEMOCRACY AND IS A BLATANT VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
*** CLICK HERE TO OPEN PETITION, THEN PRINT OUT ***
NOTE: This is a paper petition which combines the issues of fluoridation and recycled sewage for both to be the subjects of referendum. This is not the same as the E-Petition on LNP member Ray Steven's website http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_QLD/CurrentEPetition.aspx?PetNum=1141&lIndex=-1 which deals only with the 'recycled sewage to drinking water' issue. Neither is it the same as the Fluoridation petition on the www.qawf.org site, as this deals only with the issue of fluoridation. You may sign each 'different' petition, but not the same petition twice.
GOLD COAST CITY COUNCIL'S LETTER TO QLD STATE GOVERNMENT
REGARDING FLUORIDATION.
Gold Coast residents mean business - and so does its Council.
Please send letters to LNP party candidates and ask their position regarding fluoridation so you know who to vote for. The email link for contacts is: http://www.lnp.org.au/the-lnp-team/340.html Also send a copy to Cr Grant Pforr of the GC City Council, as Council is closely monitoring public sentiment on this issue.
PROFESSIONALS SPEAK OUT AGAINST FLUORIDE CONTAMINATION AND OVER-EXPOSURE:
Emeritus Professor Paul Connett, PhD says, "Water fluoridation is a peculiarly American phenomenon. It started at a time when Asbestos lined our pipes, lead was added to gasoline, PCBs filled our transformers and DDT was deemed so 'safe and effective' that officials felt no qualms spraying kids in school classrooms and seated at picnic tables. One by one all these chemicals have been banned, but fluoridation remains untouched." (www.fluoridealert.org) NEW 50 PAGE FLUORIDATION REPORT WITH LOADS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY REFERENCES! http://fluoridealert.org/connett.sha.2008.pdf
WHAT KIND OF FLUORIDATION CHEMICAL IS USED TO DOSE QUEENSLAND'S DRINKING WATER?
The Queensland Government originally intended to use Hexafluorosilicic Acid, but has more recently changed its position to using Sodium Silicofluoride (sometimes called Sodium Fluorosilicate). According to a Victorian manufacturer's material safety data sheet common uses for this chemical are for: "fluoridation of water, laundry compounds, enamels and glazes in pottery manufacture. Additive in metallurgy (aluminium and beryllium). Component of some insecticides, rodenticides and moth repellent. Used as preservative in glue, leather and wood; chemical intermediate." http://www.quantumchemicals.com.au/Environments/edoras/Resources/QuantumChemicals/MSDS/SodiumSilicofluoride_MSDS_Aug2006.pdf
The same material safety data sheet goes on to say that Sodium Fluorosilicate's toxicity is high and that it is a hazardous substance, and further, "CHRONIC HEALTH EFFECTS: The material is considered to be harmful by all exposure routes. Principal routes of exposure are by accidental skin and eye contact and inhalation of generated dusts. The material may accumulate in the human body and progressively cause tissue damage. Extended exposure to inorganic fluorides causes fluorosis, which includes signs of joint pain and stiffness, tooth discolouration, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, diarrhoea or constipation, weight loss, anaemia, weakness and general unwellness. There may also be frequent urination and thirst. Redness, itchiness and allergy-like inflammation of the skin and mouth cavity can occur. The central nervous system may be involved. Chronic inhalation exposure may result in nasal ulceration and/or perforation of nasal septum.
FLUORIDE IS NOT A NUTRIENT:
IT IS A CHEMICAL COMPOUND INDUSTRIAL WASTE PRODUCT OF THE PHOSPHATE FERTILIZER INDUSTRY, WHICH ALSO CONTAINS LEAD, ARSENIC, CADMIUM, MERCURY, POLONIUM AND RADIUM AMONGST OTHER CONTAMINANTS.
FLUOROSILICIC ACID TEST FAILURE
WHAT IS THE NSW EXPERIENCE WITH FLUORIDATION?
WHERE IS THE PROOF? According to Cr Lisa Intemann's (Member Hastings Council) submission No. 89 to the NSW Standing Committee on Public Works Parliamentary Inquiry into Coast Infrastructure (May 2005)... Click here to read more
DOES FLUORIDATION REALLY REDUCE CARIES?
NO. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE. QUEENSLAND'S CARIES RATE FALLS WITHIN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE AND IT HAS BEEN 95% FLUORIDE FREE!
Sourced from Table 12 of individual state reports 2004-06 National Survey of Adult Oral Health (The higher the DMFT - the more teeth affected by decay)
DMFT = Decayed. Missing and Filled Teeth due to decay | |||||
STATE | All ages DMFT | 15-34 yrs DMFT | 35-54yrs DMFT | ≥ 55yrs DMFT | % Fluoridated (NHMRC 2007) |
ACT | 11.0 | 2.6 | 12.9 | 22.7 | 100% |
NSW | 12.8 | 4.4 | 13.9 | 22.7 | 92% |
NT | 10.7 | 5.0 | 12.7 | 22.1 | 70% |
QLD | 13.1 | 5.0 | 14.6 | 23.1 | <5% |
SA | 12.7 | 4.1 | 14.0 | 22.1 | 90% |
TAS | 13.4 | 4.9 | 14.1 | 23.4 | 83% |
VIC | 12.8 | 4.4 | 15.1 | 22.5 | 77% |
WA | 13.1 | 5.4 | 14.5 | 22.7 | 92% |
Overall Australian population DMFT = 12.8 (Slade et al 2007)
WASTE OF TAX PAYERS' MONEY
Only 1% of fluoridated water is consumed - the rest goes down the drain, making this a most costly waste of tax payers' money. This money could be better spent on educational programmes in schools to teach about good nutrition and dental hygiene - the biggest factors influencing dental health. Instead, the Queensland government is spending $30 million dollars to fluoridate Queensland. This is a convenient way to dispose of industrial toxic wastes- sodium silicofluorides - repackaged as 'fluoridation chemicals'. It costs chemical companies over US$7,000 per tonne to dispose of these wastes in approved toxic waste dumps because of how they have to be packaged and sealed for environmental and public safety.They can't be released to the air and they can't be released in the ocean. But it seems to be okay to filter them through your liver and kidneys via water. This is madness to say the least.
AFTER A GENERATION OF USE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES
FLUORIDE IS NOW RAMPANT THROUGHOUT THE FOOD SUPPLY
IN DRUGS AND DENTAL HYGIENE PRODUCTS:
We purchased from a Gold Coast supermarket a common brand of reconstituted apple juice and had it lab tested for fluoride. It was found to have .071ppm of fluoride concentration.
My 10 year old 
daughter has developed a mild case of fluorosis just from foods and from brushing her
teeth with fluoridated toothpaste, as she has never lived in a fluoridated area.
THE EPA (USA) HEADQUARTERS UNION OF SCIENTISTS SAYS
"Recent peer-reviewed toxicity data, when applied to EPA's standard method for controlling risks from toxic chemicals, require an immediate halt to the use of the nation's drinking water reservoirs as disposal sites for the toxic waste of the phosphate fertilizer industry\24."
"So, in addition to our concern over the toxicity of fluoride, we note the uncontrolled - and apparently uncontrollable - exposures to fluoride that are occurring nationwide via drinking water, processed foods, fluoride pesticide residues and dental care products. A recent report in the lay media\23, that, according to the Centers for Disease Control, at least 22 percent of America's children now have dental fluorosis, is just one indication of this uncontrolled, excess exposure. The finding of nearly 12 percent incidence of dental fluorosis among children in un-fluoridated Kingston New York\17 is another. For governmental and other organizations to continue to push for more exposure in the face of current levels of over-exposure coupled with an increasing crescendo of adverse toxicity findings is irrational and irresponsible at best."
http://www.nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/NTEU280-Fluoride.htm
Review Showed Fluoridation Not Safe
Professor Sheldon, head of the prestigious UK York University fluoride review, said in a letter he wrote in 2004 to correct misrepresentations by ADA, AMA and other organisations, "The review did not show fluoridation to be safe;" and "The review found water fluoridation to be significantly associated with high levels of dental fluorosis which was not characterised as 'just a cosmetic issue';" and "There was little evidence to show that water fluoridation has reduced social inequalities in dental health."
EUROPE IS NOW MORE THAN 99% FLUORIDE-FREE
(the most recent city to stop fluoridating was the Swiss city of Basel); Medical doctor Hans C. Moolenburgh was involved in a Netherlands health study and gave these statements about adverse health effects of fluoridation in an affidavit in 1993 in a court case involving the city of Fond Du Lac:
"20. In a poison, a small dose will give complaints in the more sensitive persons. In the case of fluoride, research shows that to include about 5% of the population. With increasing doses more and more people will fall ill, and when the dose is high enough everyone will be ill, with perhaps the most sensitive persons already dead or dying.
21. This poison reaction to fluoride, rather than an allergic reaction, has also been show by the sudden increase of complaints in populations exposed to increased fluoridation, usually due to malfunctioning fluoridation equipment.
22. As a summary of our research, we are now convinced that fluoridation of the water supplies causes a low grade intoxication of the whole population, with only the approximately 5% most sensitive persons showing acute symptoms.
23. The whole population being subjected to low grade poisoning means that their immune systems are constantly overtaxed. With all the other poisonous influences in our environment, this can hasten health calamities.
24. It is in the light of this constant low grade poisoning that the substantial evidence of increased cancer death rate due to fluoridation needs to be considered and understood.
25. It is my considered scientific opinion, and I speak in the name of my colleagues who joined in this research, that the fluoridation of water supplies gives a significant immunosuppression of the whole population subject to it, and is one of the important precursors of the civilization illnesses that are rampant in modern industrialized society.
26. There are no artificially fluoridated water supplies today in the Netherlands.
27. It is my best scientific judgement, made with a high degree of scientific certainty, that fluoridated drinking water is very dangerous to the health of those who drink it."
NEBRASKA COMMUNITIES VOTED TO CEASE FLUORIDATION (4 NOVEMBER 2008) A number of communities, primarily in Nebraska, voted on Election Day to opt out of "water safety" programs and end community water fluoridation. (As Queenslanders look on longingly, wishing they still had the democratic rights to vote on the issue).
QUEBEC CITY COUNCIL Voted to Stop Fluoridation by April 2008
FLUORIDATION QUOTATIONS
"In 1997, the EPA estimated that Americans were ingesting nearly five times more fluoride than in 1971 - from food and drinks alone." Smith G. 2001, Why Fluoride Is An Environmental Issue, Earth Island Institute.
"Fluoride is now everywhere. It is in the air we breathe and in the food and beverages we consume. It is impossible to eliminate our body’s systemic ingestion of fluoride.... If this stuff (fluoride) gets out into the air, it's a pollutant; if it gets into the river, it's a pollutant; if it gets into the lake, it's a pollutant; but if it goes right straight into your drinking water system, it's not a pollutant. That's amazing!" Dr. J. William Hirzy 2000 – Senior US EPA chemist, about fluoride; in an interview with Dr. Paul Connett PhD, Chemistry and Toxicology
“Fluoride is the most consumed drug in the U.S., and it’s time we talked about it.” Paul Connett, Chemistry Professor at St. Lawrence University, and Executive Director – Fluoride Action Network
“For individuals who are still heavily invested in the belief that swallowing fluoride is of any significant benefit, they need to understand the shift in scientific thinking, which now accepts that swallowing fluoride (systemic ingestion of fluoride) does not make teeth more resistant to tooth decay. One certainty that does not require a belief for or against fluoride. There is no deficiency in exposure and access to fluoride by any segment of the population. Quite the opposite. It is increasingly harder to avoid fluoride over-exposure and fluoride toxicity, even without a fluoride presence in our public drinking water. Fluoride accumulates in our bodies over a lifetime, as do arsenic and lead. All three are known toxins. All three pose significant health hazards. Why would we ever want to continue dumping these things (i.e. hydrofluorosilicic acid mix) into our clean, fresh drinking water?” www.WaterlooWatch.com
"I was the counsel for the plaintiffs in rigorous trials in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Texas, resulting in judicial findings in all three cases - based on the quality of the evidence heard on both sides - that artificial fluoridation of public water supplies induces large-scale cancer and other ailments in man. Eminent experts from great universities, government institutions, and the private sector appeared in all three cases, and were all subjected to direct and cross examination by veteran trial lawyers before experienced trial judges. The professional union at the national headquarters of the United States Environmental Protection Agency later reviewed these judicial findings, and certified them as scientifically correct to a subcommittee of the United States Senate. Since those hearings, the evidence reported in leading scientific and medical journals has extensively confirmed and elaborated what the three judges found. Under these circumstances, it is morally irresponsible to continue this practice, and governments have an urgent duty to end it." John Remington Graham, BA, LLB, co-author of "La fluoration autopsie d'une erreur scientifique," 2005, St-Agapit, Quebec
"For decades we have believed that fluoride in small doses has no adverse effects on health. But more and more scientists are now questioning the benefits of fluoride, even in small amounts."
UNICEF – A United Nations Organization
Just like lead, once fluoride enters our body it can stay there accumulating over a lifetime - and most especially if we are lacking essential minerals such as magnesium.
PLANS ON HOLD FOR DRINKING RECYCLED EFFLUENT
(but for how long?): Plans for drinking recycled (re-used) sewage water has received a temporary reprieve from the Bligh government - pending the election outcome. They have moved to a position of not implementing the measures unless the Wivenhoe dam water dips below 40% The pressure to change position has been in response to public pressure and the LNP taking it up as an election issue. However LNP have still included an 'exclusion clause' in their position and they would also implement drinking recycled sewage 'in an Armageddon situation'. Well what does that mean exactly? Why do they have to give themselves that loophole at all when over 90% of water is used by industry and power stations? If they gave all of the recycled sewage to industry and power stations they wouldn't even have enough to supply all their needs. It is not necessary to take such risks with people's health under any circumstances whatsoever.
WHAT ABOUT DRINKING RECYCLED SEWAGE?
As power stations and industry use over 90% of our water supply, all the recycled sewage water produced could not even supply all their water needs. How can we be saving water by drinking the stuff? There is no justification for drinking recycled sewage because of the substantial public health risks. Everything goes down the sewer from residential to hospital to industrial wastes. There will be radioactive chemotherapy drugs, abortion drugs, oestrogen hormones, paint solvents and blood products all coming together in the sewage treatment works. The CSIRO had referred to the thousands of known and unknown chemicals in sewage as a 'witches brew'. Not all can be removed by the technology. They don't even have tests for most of them. Other countries don't drink their sewage (re-used water). 99% of Singapore's recycled sewage goes directly to industry and is prohibited for drinking by Singaporeans. The Queensland water grid is a world first - a completely closed loop toilet-to-tap system. Why should we be the guinea pigs in this large unconscionable human population experiment? According to a CSIRO document Toowoomba was going to be a 'Living Laboratory'.
CYANIDE TO BE RECYCLED FOR DRINKING WATER IN QUEENSLAND Greg Roberts | November 11, 2008 Article from: The Australian
A WIDE range of industrial contaminants including cyanide, pesticides, grease and fertilisers can be included in waste that will be recycled as drinking water for the 2.6 million residents of southeast Queensland. READ MORE...
See what Professor Collignon had to say in this 30 October Australian newspaper article titled, Flush Then Drink in the Sunshine State. "Nobody in the world has done what southeast Queensland is about to do," says the eminent microbiologist and Australian National University professor of clinical medicine. "What is about to happen is the reversal of 150 years of public health policy in Australia because sewage will be put into the drinking water of more than two million people. Everywhere else in the world, the emphasis is on keeping sewage out of drinking water. We should be concerned about what Queensland is doing, especially as it is being looked at by the rest of the country as a solution to water supply problems."
GOLD COAST SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS ENGINEER SPEAKS OUT AGAINST DRINKING SEWAGE WATER: "I was also part of the engineering team with Civil engineers - Camp Scott Furphy, who were engaged to document a report titled; ‘Gold Coast Sewerage Disposal Study 1976’. The results of that report included a note that without any reservation, recycled sewage should never be used for drinking purposes, even allowing for advances in purification technology." AND "The vision of drinking recycled sewage is not a vision worth pursuing. Queensland is such a young state. Australia is the 5th most watered country in the world per head of population. It is just that most of the water is not where the population resides. Yet there is an abundance of water infrastructure projects that
could be undertaken by a government with vision."
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DOWNLOAD NEW FLUORIDE ADVERTISEMENT (980kb): HELP RAISE AWARENESS OF ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS. Please help to warn others of the dangers. We appeal to any individuals or groups in various Queensland regions that can raise money for advertising in their local newspapers to get the message out there. Many people still don't understand how toxic sodium silicofluoride is and must be warned to protect their families and children. You are welcome to use this ad for free so you only have to find the cost of the advertising space. You can also put it on your websites, paste it up in waiting rooms and reception areas... wherever people are likely to see it. It is a black and white A5 size x 2 on an A4 page... So it's easy to print out on your home computer and just cut in half. (968kb)
NEW BLACK AND WHITE FLYER TO PRINT OUT AND DISTRIBUTE (2 FIT ON AN A4 PAGE)(980kb)
GENERIC FLUORIDE AD FROM QUEENSLANDERS FOR SAFE WATER (AIR & FOOD) INC (1470kb)
FLUORIDE 2 PAGE BROCHURE (473kb)
SEWAGE - DRINKING WATER - 2 PAGE EXCERPT (1135kb)
SEWAGE - DRINKING WATER FULL 26 PAGE REPORT (2417kb)
PETITION (172kb): Click to open and print out. You can gather the signatures of people you know and send a copy to Gold Coast Water Watch Citizens' Action Group at: P.O. Box 9343, Gold Coast Mail Centre, Queensland 9726, attention Joan Hoare (president). Remember to keep a copy for yourself.
WRITE LETTERS: You can also write a protest letter to your local State MP and a photocopy for the Councillor (addresses are on the Internet: For Gold Coast City Council the link is http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/t_standard.aspx?PID=349 and for Queensland State Government the link is http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/legislativeAssembly/documents/MEMLIST.pdf
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