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World War 3, West Asian Front-Syria: UN demands combat cease on Golan Heights, Israel says it’s ready to invade!

28 June 2013 (23:55 UTC-07 Tango 27 June 2013)/19 Sha’ban 1434/07 Tir 1391/21 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711

“What has changed here is that today we are carrying out an exercise in the Golan Heights which is not theoretical. The reality around us is changing and is volatile, and we must be ready accordingly.  I want the other side to know that when needed, we can move to any side, and I do not care that the other side hears this! I hope that we are not tested and that we meet any challenge.”-Binyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel

The United Nations has renewed Disengagement Observer Force (DOF) operations in the Golan Heights.   The UN is also demanding that all combat taking place in the Golan cease.  Japan, Croatia and Austria have already withdrawn their UNDOF troops.  That leaves UNDOF troops from Fiji, India and Philippines.

Israeli Minister of Defense, Moshe Ya’alon, made this statement about current war games conducted by the Israeli Defense Force Golani Brigade: “Golani, as other fighting units in the IDF, may find itself called to a campaign in a short period of time. Therefore, this exercise, as with others taking place these days, has special significance, in this time and in this sector.”

Ya’alon also referenced Gaza Strip, which is nowhere near Golan Heights!

International

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan: More proof the U.S. ain’t leavin’! More proof U.S. & U.K. behind illegal drugs, Iran says ‘I told you so!’ More proof of U.S. corruption!

27 June 2013/18 Sha’ban 1434/06 Tir 1391/20 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711

In Helmand Province, Musa Kala District, a Mujahid sniper claims he killed a NATO/ISAF troop.  In Nad Ali District, reports that a NATO/ISAF tank was blown up by a landmine.  Two crew killed, two wounded.  Mujahideen say they ambushed a dismounted patrol in the same district.

Members of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan Party are condemning plans by the United States to establish permanent military bases after the 2014 ‘pullout’.

In Kabul Province, Kabul city, the U.K.’s Guardian news source reports a booming housing market.  One driver is that apparently rents have dropped, however, the article points out that the money supporting such a “…lavish lifestyle has been funded by an influx of foreign money and the proceeds from drugs, which have enriched a tiny elite while most of the country still grapples with desperate poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy and some of the lowest-life-expectancy in the world.”

The Guardian also reported that many property developers in Kabul do not believe the U.S./NATO is leaving in 2014: “Everyone says the Americans are leaving but they are not. They have invested too much in Afghanistan. The current problems are just politics by the U.S. to help them negotiate their strategic pact.”-Hasan Ali Sakhizada, wealthy property developer

Red Coat Simon Cowl is jumping on the corruption bandwagon and taking his …Got Talent TV show to Afghanistan.

The U.S. Department of Defense stated they want to continue funding contracted propaganda mills in Afghanistan.   This despite a recent Government Accountability Office report that says such funding of propaganda is just throwing taxpayer money down the toilet!  The top private producer of propaganda in Afghanistan is the Leonie Group.  Last year the corrupt co-owner, Camille Chidiac, was suspended for using taxpayer money to launch an anti-news media propaganda campaign directed at USA Today!

It’s been revealed that $70 million U.S. tax dollars meant for agricultural development in Afghanistan has disappeared!  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) blamed the problems on USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)!  SIGAR also said that farm equipment, like irrigation pumps and solar panels, ended up being used in the homes of elites!  (World War 3, False Flag Front: USAID a covert terrorist organization?)

A little history lesson: What was former Prime Minister of U.K. Harold Macmillan’s first rule of politics? Answer: “Don’t invade Afghanistan!”

26 June 2013/17 Sha’ban 1434/05 Tir 1391/19 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711

In Paktia Province, Zormat district, Mujahideen report they ambushed a supply convoy.  They claim five trucks destroyed, one escorting military vehicle destroyed, and at least three people killed or wounded.

In Baghlan Province, Baghlan-e-Markazi District, Mujahideen captured a Afghan National Army (ANA) base.  The ANA then sent troops to take back the base, but after five hours of battle the ANA lost.  Mujahideen say they killed 13 ANA troops and wounded nine others.  They destroyed four vehicles and captured a large amount of weapons and ammo.  Two Mujahideen killed, two wounded.

The country of Georgia is now the top non-NATO country occupying Afghanistan, according to NATO.

USMC General James F. Amos says what military equipment the Marines can’t send back to the U.S. will be given away to other countries, or that “Anything that gets left in that country that has ‘USMC’ on the side will be purposefully left by General Dunford, or General Austin.”

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reports that the U.S. controlled Afghanistan has broken another record year in illegal drug production.  In 2012 Afghanistan supplied 74% of the World’s illegal drugs!  Way to go U.S.A.!

In Iran, the National Security Commission accused the United Kingdom, as well as the United States, of being behind the explosive illegal drugs trade in Afghanistan.  Since the 2001 invasion, hundreds of Iranian border guards have been killed by drug traffickers out of Afghanistan.  Iran has spent at least $50 million fighting drug trafficking from Afghanistan in the past eight years.  Also, 100 metric tons of illegal drugs from Afghanistan were burned in public displays throughout Iran.  Officials condemned recent accusations from U.K. officials, that Iran is the one trafficking drugs to Europe, saying the U.K and U.S. are not doing anything to stop drug trafficking from Afghanistan: “Iran is at the front line of fighting narcotics, but countries involved not only don’t provide assistance to us, they refuse to provide the basic equipment such as sniffer dogs and electronic equipment!”-General Ahmad Reza Radan, Commander of Iranian Police Forces

In Kabul Province, Bagrami District, the U.S. SIGAR says two schools built by U.S. funded contractors are so unsafe they threaten the lives of the students: “Specifically the school’s interior and exterior walls appear to be insufficiently constructed to hold the weight of the concrete ceiling.”-John Sopko, SIGAR

Iranian Deputy Energy Minister, Alireza Daemi, announced Iran will build a water treatment plant in Kabul city.  Unlike the U.S. which throws taxpayer money at contractors with any oversight, Iran strictly controls their projects in Afghanistan, which include roads and power lines.

In United States, a federal appeals court has rejected the appeal of a U.S. contractor convicted of trying to smuggle $150000 out of Afghanistan.  He tried to ship the taxpayer cash from Bagram airbase to Kansas, in a DHL box.

In Germany, the U.S. Army’s 2nd Cavalry (Cav-all-ry, not Calvary. Calvary is the hill Jesus was crucified on) Regiment held a deployment ceremony.  The regiment’s 2000 soldiers have been ordered back to Afghanistan!  They will be based in Kandahar Province.

25 June 2013/16 Sha’ban 1434/04 Tir 1391/18 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711

In Ghazni Province, reports that four Polish-NATO troops killed, two wounded, apparently after their armored vehicle hit a landmine.

In Logar Province, Poli Alam city, a car bomb rammed a regional police headquarters, as many as 25 people killed, including top police commanders.

In Kabul Province, Kabul city, eight suicide bombers/attackers killed themselves and several government security guards when they attacked the Presidential Palace.  Mujahideen said the target was the CIA office inside the compound, along with two U.S. Generals.

In Kandahar Province, Arghandab District, a bus ran over a landmine killing nine people and wounding three others.

In Uruzgan Province, Deh Rawud District, six Afghan National Police were killed when they drove over a landmine.   They were on their way home from operations against Mujahideen.

The U.S. Army admitted the Mujahideen were right when they said they killed U.S. soldiers on 23 June: In Paktika Province, Sar Rowzah District, the U.S. Army says a Specialist who’s home state was California, was killed by explosion.  In Paktia Province, Zormat District, the U.S. Army admitted a Sergeant who’s home state was Maine was killed by explosion.

 

International

World War 3: Pope angers the power elites! Will he survive to the end of the year?

27 June 2013 (21:55 UTC-07 Tango 26 June 2013)/18 Sha’ban 1434/06 Tir 1391/20 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711

Pope Francis recently upset religious ideologues saying: “The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone. ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone!“

It seems Pope Francis is setting the stage to fulfill Nostradamus’ prophesies (a short seven month career, victory of the East over the West, and civil war among Christians).

Pope Francis just issued the order that a “Christian cannot be anti-Semitic!”

Pope Francis stated at a recent mass that being Christian was a matter of destiny, not choice: “…none of us is Christian by pure chance. No one.”

Pope Francis upset the entrenched elitists within the Catholic church saying: “We are all equal in the eyes of God. But, one of you might say, ‘Mr Pope, sir, you are not equal to us.’ But I am just like each of you. We are all equal. We are all brothers and sisters. No one is anonymous: all form and build the Church.”

Pope Francis said investigations and reforms concerning the Legion of Christ group will continue into next year.  It turned out that the now dead founder of the order was a pedophile (including with his own out of wedlock children).  Former members of the order have warned that the reforms will probably be cosmetic at best because “They misled the church before, and that same duplicity is so deeply embedded in the congregation that they can proceed in no other way.”-Genevieve Kinecke, former Regnum Christi member

Pope Francis has just created a commission of investigation to reveal what is really going on in the secretive Institute for Religious Works (aka IOR, or Vatican Bank)!  Italian officials have accused the Vatican Bank of money laundering and other crimes.  The investigators include four Vatican officials and a former U.S. ambassador.

Just days prior, Pope Francis refused to show up at a traditional Beethoven concert.   A day before he chastised bishops for having “the mentality of a prince”.

Pope Francis upset Globalist elites saying “The riches and cares of the world choke the Word of God and do not allow it to grow. And the Word dies, because it is not cared for: it is choked. In that case you serve riches or you serve cares, but you don’t serve the Word of God.”

The anti-homosexual marriage Archbishop of Canterbury met with Pope Francis, and reported that the Pope and he agreed to “…the stability of families founded on marriage.”  Archbishop Justin Welby recently told the U.K. House of Lords that officially the Anglican Communion was opposed to legalized homosexual marriage.

From Malta, a news media commentator wrote about his first, and probably only visit to Vatican: “….the enormous esplanade of Piazza San Pietro, with its beggars and street vendors, its priests and pigeons and, above all, its gaggles upon gaggles of American tourists (honestly, you’d think the entire population of the USA had simply emptied itself out onto Viale del Conciliazione)……..it is almost like a house of cards: so much has since been built on these same millennial foundations that there is now a genuine fear – almost visible in the faces of the palace staff – that one false move by the already ‘controversial’ Pope Francis I could quite literally bring the entire edifice crumbling down about their ears………It is as though Pope Francis is actually overseeing the gradual winding-down of a millennial institution that can simply no longer keep up the pretence of timelessness: trying to drag the entire shebang kicking and screaming into the 21st century, even if he secretly knows (as do his cardinals and as did his immediate predecessor) that not much of the Catholic Church in its present form can actually survive the transition.”-Raphael Vassallo

Reuters said the most visible thing about the five months of Pope Francis’ reign “…is an empty chair. The chair — a large white throne….”

Pope Francis upset crony capitalist elitists by telling the UN Food and Agriculture Organization “This is truly scandalous. A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between the affluent and those who must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from the table!”

Speaking to 108 papal representatives, Pope Francis warned that future bishops must be “…pastors who are close to their people, fathers and brothers, who are meek, patient and merciful…” and to “Beware of those who are ambitious, who seek the episcopacy.”

It was reported that Pope Francis told the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious Men and Women “But there also is a stream of corruption, there is that as well, it is true…The ‘gay lobby’ is mentioned, and it is true, it is there…We need to see what we can do.”  No nun or priest at the meeting is willing to elaborate to news media what he was talking about.

Pope Francis upset his security guards when he spontaneously allowed a 17 years old boy with Downs Syndrome to ride the Popemobile.

In a nod to Saint Malachy of Ireland’s warning about Peter the Roman, Pope Francis thanked the Roman group Association of Saints Peter and Paul for their “behind the scenes” work at the Vatican.

The United Kingdom rejected the idea of allowing Pope Francis to mediate the Malvinas/Falklands dispute with Argentina: “I think the last thing we need is religion…”-Mike Summers, Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly

Pope Francis ordered Jesuit journalists to “…be uncompromising against the hypocrisies which result from the closed, the sick heart. Be uncompromising against this spiritual illness…..Your task is to gather and express the expectations, the desires, the joys and the dramas of our time….God is at work in the life of every person and in every culture, the Spirit blows where He wills. Try to find out what God has done, and how He will continue his work.”

There are now reports that Pope Francis might cancel his trip to Brazil, due to the current civil uprising.  He is planning on showing up for World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, towards the end of July.  Brazil is a country with many rivers, with Rio being a major drainage point for many rivers.  Nostradamus warned “Roman Pontiff beware of approaching The city that two rivers flow through…”

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asia-Pacific Front: U.S. Army cuts will not apply to units poised for war with China!

27 June 2013 (20:09 UTC-07 Tango 26 June 2013)/18 Sha’ban 1434/06 Tir 1391/20 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711

The U.S. Army is reducing its size over the next four years.  However, U.S. Army units operating in the Asia-Pacific Theater of War (APTW) will not be affected.  It seems U.S. DoD officials have other plans for those Army personnel.

Only two U.S. Army Brigades in the European Theater of War will be cut.   Brigades in the U.S. states of Washington, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, North Carolina, New York, Kentucky and Georgia will be de-activated.

U.S. Army officials say the reductions are the result of the Budget Control Act of 2011.  APTW Brigades will be enhanced with equipment and personnel from those Brigades that are de-activated.

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asia-Pacific Front: U.S. cyber attack units deploying for war with China!

27 June 2013 (19:54 UTC-07 Tango 26 June 2013)/18 Sha’ban 1434/06 Tir 1391/20 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711

The U.S. Department of Defense announced it will increase the number of cyber attack units in the Asia-Pacific Theater of War from the current ten, to 27 attack units over the next three years.

Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Locklear, stresses that U.S. forces are most vulnerable on their cyber flanks.  This suggests that U.S. high tech military equipment must be easy to hack.

The People’s Hero, Edward Snowden, has revealed that the United States is behind most international cyber attacks!

U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A.: Pro-gun rights demonstrator tazed by cops, then has his home set on fire!

26 June 2013 (13:50 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Sha’ban 1434/05 Tir 1391/19 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711

In New Hampshire, more than a week ago a pro-2nd Amendment demonstrator, who was part of a group protesting a Mayors Against Guns/No More Names rally, was grabbed by three cops, and then tazed, as onlookers booed and videoed the cops.   You can heard some of the crowd say “He’s not fighting you.”

Several days later the tazed man returned to his home to find it on fire.  Police swear the fire was an accident.

International, U.S.

World War 3, Martial Law U.S.A.: Canadian diplomat says U.S. citizens complicit in their own destruction!

26 June 2013 (12:50 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Sha’ban 1434/05 Tir 1391/19 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711

“To preserve its perilous dominance the U.S. today is arming against its own people….”-Peter Dale Scott, former English Professor at the University of California Berkeley, May 2012

Also a former Canadian diplomat, Peter Dale Scott, attended a meeting in Russia in May 2012.  He was commenting on U.S. foreign policy and potential threats to Russia.  He also realized that the people of the United States have backed way off their anti-government protests since Obama became president, and are seemingly complicit in the federal government’s totalitarian agenda.

Peter Dale Scott: What particularly concerns me is the relative absence of public response in America to a long-term Pentagon-CIA agenda of aggressive military hegemonism – or what I will call “dominationism.” No doubt many Americans may think that a global pax Americana will secure a period of peace, much like the pax Romana of two millennia ago. I myself am confident that it will not: rather, like the imperfect pax Britannica of a century ago, it will lead inevitably to major conflict, possibly nuclear war. For the secret of the pax Romana was that Rome, under Hadrian, withdrew from Mesopotamia and accepted strict limits to its area of dominance. Britain never achieved that wisdom until too late; America, to date, has never achieved it at all.

And so very few in America seem to care about Washington’s global domination project, at least since the failure of massive protests to prevent the Iraq War. We have seen much critical examination of why America fought in Vietnam, and even the American involvement in atrocities like the Indonesian massacre of 1965. Authors like Noam Chomsky and William Blum have chronicled America’s criminal acts since World War Two, but without any prominent concern about the recent acceleration of American military expansiveness. Only a few, like Chalmers Johnson and Andrew Bacevich, have written about the progressive consolidation of a war machine that now dominates America’s political processes.

It is also striking that, until quite recently, the nascent Occupy movement has had little to say about America’s unprovoked wars; I am not sure they have even targeted the militarization of surveillance, law enforcement, and detention camps which are so important a part of the domestic apparatus of repression that threatens their own survival – the so-called “continuity of government” (COG) measures by which America’s military planners have prepared never again to have to deal with a successful American anti-war movement. 

…….I hope that Americans will mobilize against American dominationism, and call for a policy declaration, either from the administration or from Congress, that would:

1) explicitly renounce past Pentagon calls for “full spectrum dominance” as a military objective for American foreign policy,

2) reject as unacceptable the deeply-ingrained practice of preemptive wars,

3) renounce categorically any US plans for the permanent use of military bases in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Kyrgyzstan, and

4) recommit the United States to conducting future military operations in accordance with the procedures set out in the United Nations Charter.

Scott published in 2003 a book that established that U.S. foreign policy is about propping up the Nixon created U.S. petro-dollar system, and that the military uses drug trafficking to fund ever escalating operations. The book is called Drugs, Oil and War.

International, U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A.: Fluoride Wars, people accused of being terrorists when they question water quality! Proof it’s a class warfare thing!

26 June 2013 (00:58 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Sha’ban 1434/05 Tir 1391/19 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711

“We take water quality very seriously. Very, very seriously. But you need to make sure that when you make water quality complaints you have a basis, because federally, if there’s no water quality issues, that can be considered under Homeland Security an act of terrorism.”-Sherwin Smith, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, threatening the public for questioning water quality reports on 29 May 2013

In 1964 Stanley Kubrick raised the issue of fluoridated water in his Cold War satire Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; a crazed USAF SAC commander goes nuts and blames it on fluoridated water.  Maybe Kubrick was on to something.

Phillipe Grandjean has just published a book, Only One Chance: How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development.  He states that fluoride (aka fluorine) is one of 213 known toxic chemicals that lower your intelligence (turns you into an idiot!).

The U.S. EPA now includes fluoride on its list of Chemicals with Substantial Evidence of Developmental Neurotoxicity.

There are dozens more studies that prove how damaging fluoride really is (and I expect to get more people writing me asking for proof of those studies, and my answer is get off your butt and do the research yourself, I ain’t getting paid for this!), yet local governments in the United States, and other countries where English is the primary language, continue to insist putting fluoride in the drinking water.

A chemist at Texas A&M University has developed a way to detect fluoride in water.  This is important as past investigations have revealed that some water departments have been adding fluoride even after telling the residents they were not.  Francois P. Gabbai has received a $400000 USD federal grant to conduct further tests on his organometallic molecule tester.  The tester glows if there’s fluoride in the water.

In Florida U.S.A., “Given the weight of this new scientific evidence, and the widespread availability of alternative topical fluoride sources (toothpaste, mouth rinses), the Wayland Board of Health is considering suspending the Community Water Fluoridation program.”  Residents are asked to voice their opinions at the Board of Health will hold a public hearing at Wayland Town Building on 08 July 2013.

In New Zealand, after the Hamilton City Council decided to stop fluoridating the water local news media and health officials went on the warpath, brainwashing residents into thinking they will suffer without fluoride.  The result is that 500 homes in the Waikato District have signed up to pay to have bottled fluoridated water brought to their homes!  Idiots!  There’s even a petition drive to get fluoridation reinstated.  Idiots!  In Palmerston North, next year’s fluoridation is being debated.  It will cost taxpayers $10000 NZD. The Fluoride Action Network submitted reports that showed dental improvements in other countries happened independent of fluoridation (in other words, fluoride had nothing to do with it)!  The Mayor of Christchurch, Bob Parker, refused to allow fluoridation in the city water supply, saying it should be an individual’s choice!  Prime Minster John Key said anti-fluoride claims are “overstated”.  In Marlborough evidence that fluoridation of water is just a taxpayer funded economic incentive to force people to buy clean bottled water and water filters: “Those who don’t want fluoride should source their water elsewhere, like bottled water.”-Ed Kiddle, Nelson Marlborough Medical Officer

“There now exist many valid scientific studies, peer reviewed articles and much literature illustrating the negative impact of drinking water treated with fluoride contaminants such as hydrofluorocilicic acid, and there are no genuine studies illustrating any benefits whatsoever.  For some unexplained and unconscionable reasons, government health authorities have refused to conduct clinical trials and toxicology studies on this medicinal product, contrary to their own regulations on the administration of medicinal products and substances. Any dentist can tell you that fluoride only works topically.”-Troy Walts, Watertown, New Zealand

In Minnesota U.S.A., Citizens for Clean Water: St. Cloud are campaigning to stop fluoridation.  They even point to a 2011 Texas study that says fluoride does not prevent tooth decay: “After nine years and $3 million of adding fluoride, research shows tooth decay hasn’t dropped among the poorest of Bexar County’s children. It has only increased — up 13 percent this year.”

In Wisconsin U.S.A., the idiots in Holmen Village re-started fluoridation of their water supply!  They’re using hydrofluorosilicic acid containing 24% fluoride, at a cost to taxpayers of $3500 for the rest of the year.

In North Carolina U.S.A., people in Durham and Orange counties have been protesting the use of fluoride.  One protestor accused one city of breaking laws: “Raleigh, unfortunately, has been provided with copious amounts of scientific data, repeated appearances by myself and other citizens and even notifications that what they are doing breaks current state and federal drug laws.”-Corey Sturmer

In New South Wales (NSW), Australia, the Greens political party is fighting fluoridation of the water supply.  Recently NSW courts ruled to allow Ballina Shire Council to add the chemical to the water supply.  NSW Department of Health is also ordering that fluoride be added to water supplies.   In Gladstone, the city has voted to fluoridate the water from Lake Awoonga.   In Logan, city officials refused to remove fluoride from the water, saying it would cost taxpayers $100 million AUD to do so!

One evil North Carolina dentist (who recently co-wrote a report pushing fluoridation in Australia) implied that fluoridation is just a taxpayer funded economic incentive to force the smart people to buy filtration systems or clean bottled water:  “I can understand if people don’t want to drink fluoridated water, but there’s an important difference here because they actually do have a choice. Someone can currently buy bottled water without fluoride, or they can put a filter on that is able to remove fluoride…”-Gary Slade, UNC School of Dentistry

In California U.S.A., a Sacramento news media report said that most anti-fluoridians are liberals and environmentalists!  The cities of Davis and Woodland are considering adding fluoride to their new multi-million dollar water supply systems.  Make your opinions heard!  To show you that even naturally occurring fluoride is bad, there is a decades long court battle in a mobile home park in Carmel Valley’s Cachagua neighborhood.  County tests showed the levels to be four times higher than what is considered safe.  It’s so high the water is yellow.  The court battle involves the mobile home park owner and the county, which failed to clean up the water, and the residents (many have finally given up and settled out of court).

In Ireland, anti-fluoridians have petitioned the European Union for help in forcing the Irish government to stop fluoridation of the water: “Everytime we reach for a glass of water, fill the kettle for a cup tea or mix up a baby’s milkbottle we are forced to ingest fluoride. Whether we weigh 5kg or 50kg, are on dialysis for diabetes, undergoing chemotherapy or taking any amount of other medication, we are being dosed with fluoride.”-Iva Pocock, who’s father led the campaign against fluoride “unexpectedly died” two months ago.

According to Pocock, fluoridation of water violates Medicinal Products Directive 2001/83/EC: “Any substance that is presented as having properties for preventing a disease as defined under this Directive is a medicinal product. Hydrofluorosilicic acid is therefore a medicinal product.  I am convinced that this product is being added illegally and in breach of of EU law.”

In Iowa U.S.A., the Scott County Board of Health is expected to continue fluoridation of water.  they were not convinced by four people protesting the possibly criminal act.   The city of Dubuque stated that they’ve been adding fluoride to the water since 1954.  Someone should do a study on the overall intelligence level of the residents since 1954.

In Washington U.S.A., the state appeals court rejected demands to stop fluoridation in Clallam County.  The court ruled that the U.S. FDA does not regulate fluoride, therefore water districts do not have to get FDA approval.

In Oregon U.S.A., a survey was done to identify just who the anit-fluoridians are.  In Portland it turns out that the biggest opponents to fluoride are people of low income, with lack of education, and minority residents!  61% of Portlanders recently voted against fluoride, and a map was made showing where those residents are concentrated (why would city officials want to know that?).  The survey also showed that supporters of fluoride tend to be wealthy and highly educated (elites!).

Now there’s a new fluoride delivery system for all you fluorid-o-holics in Merry ol’ England: Phocal fluoride disks.   It’s being marketed as a way to fight incipient tooth decay (aka dental caries).  You shove the disks inbetween your teeth for a highly concentrated dose of fluoride, yum yum!

To update what I reported on in 2011, many villages in India are suffering from chronic conditions the government has linked to naturally occurring fluoride in the water.   A recent study said that boiling tulasi leaves will not get rid of the fluoride.  For the past 70 years the Indian government has been looking for ways to cheaply get rid of naturally occurring fluoride, because of the massive health issues it creates.

U.S.

Corporate Evil: New study says Fracking poisons drinking water!

25 June 2013 (13:18 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Sha’ban 1434/04 Tir 1391/18 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711

“The methane, ethane and propane data, and new evidence from hydrocarbon and helium isotopes, all suggest that drilling has affected some homeowners’ water.”–Robert Jackson, Duke University

Duke University sampled 141 water wells in Pennsylvania.  They concluded what past studies have concluded; fracking of shale gas/oil poisons the drinking water.

Methane concentrations were six times higher and ethane concentrations were 23 times higher at homes within a kilometer (about half a mile) of a shale gas well.

“Our studies demonstrate that distances from drilling sites, as well as variations in local and regional geology, play major roles in determining the possible risk of groundwater impacts from shale gas development.”-Avner Vengosh, Duke University

Now for the controversy: Back in May, Duke University said they could not find water contamination in Arkansas fracking operations: “These findings demonstrate that shale gas development, at least in this area, has been done without negatively impacting drinking water resources.”-Nathaniel R. Warner, Duke University student researcher

The Arkansas study checked only “shallow drinking water wells”.

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, NSA Scandal: Hong Kong says Obama administration a big Fail!

25 June 2013 (12:51 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Sha’ban 1434/04 Tir 1391/18 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711

“So far no notification has been received from the U.S. government of Mr Edward Snowden’s passport being revoked.”-Hong Kong Immigration Department

“To ensure procedural fairness, the Hong Kong government needed to secure this information and also enough evidence about the charges against Snowden. Failure to do so would give rise to the possibility of a judicial review by Snowden.”-unnamed Hong Kong government source

“The people of Hong Kong and our friends in the international community expect us to follow the laws of Hong Kong itself. They expect us to uphold our rule of law and, equally importantly, they expect us to follow procedural fairness and procedural justice. We were asking the United States government for further important information on the case, and there was no legal basis to stop Mr Snowden from leaving Hong Kong.”-Leung Chun-ying, Chief Executive and President of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region