CALGARY READY TO PULL THE PLUG ON FLUORIDE

Common sense in Canada? How refreshing! 

“Any person who drinks artificially fluoridated water 

for a period of one year or more 

will never again be the same person mentally ~ or physically.”

~  Charles E. Perkins, Chemist

February 7, 2011

by MICHAEL WOOD, 

CALGARY SUN

Half of Calgary’s aldermen say support for a fluoride-treated water supply has dried up and its fate shouldn’t be decided in a public vote.

Ald. John Mar, along with several other council members polled by the Sun ahead of Monday’s meeting where fluoride will be debated, are ready to pull the plug on Mayor Naheed Nenshi’s suggestion the matter might be better left in the hands of Calgarians through a plebiscite.

“I think water fluoridation has seen its day,” said Ald. John Mar, one of several staunch supporters of a city committee’s recommendation to flush fluoride once and for all.

Ald. Jim Stevenson, another staunch opponent of water fluoridation, said a plebiscite leaves the fate of all in the hands of a few.

“I don’t think 53% of the 30% who vote should be able to force a medication on a 100% of the people of the city,” he said.

“It’s not the right way to decide mass medication.”

His words were echoed by aldermen Brian Pincott, Shane Keating and Gian-Carlo Carra, Druh Farrell and Andre Chabot.

Chabot said he fails to see the value a pricey plebiscite would bring to the discussion, which was recently addressed during a day-long public forum.

“It comes down to me, for fluoride, a moral issue — something that touches everyone,” he said.

“If everyone is not in agreement, it should not be forced on the population.”

The debate over water fluoridation has raged for years with staunch supporters on both sides.

Nenshi, who suggested a plebiscite may be the way to go when he met with the Sun’s editorial board, said he would prefer to engage the public on an issue over which many people have raised serious ethical concerns despite being backed by health officials and Alberta Health Services as a way to curb tooth decay.

We all know what a crock that claim is! Don't you wonder who these people serve? Some just don't know, but those who do... who gives them these false claims to put out as fact? I would like names.... 

Ald. Gord Lowe was one of the few aldermen contacted Sunday who agreed with the mayor.

“It came in with a plebiscite, it should go out with a plebiscite,” he said.

Aldermen Dale Hodges and Ray Jones also said they would vote in favour of such a motion if raised.

At least two aldermen, Gael MacLeod and Peter Demong, were undecided on how they would vote if presented with a plebiscite option.

Calgarians have been drinking fluoridated water since it was first brought in by plebiscite in 1989, a decision upheld by a second public vote in 1998.

 Can you spell societal manipulation and humongous deception?

THOSE CALGARIANS ARE ON TO SOMETHING... KEEP READING

Scientific Study Finds Fluoride Horror Stories Factual

Industrial by-product consumed by millions of Americans 
lowers IQ, causes cancer

Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Tuesday, January 15, 2008

The establishment media will have to find a new tactic with which to ridicule those who oppose the fluoridation of water after a major new Scientific American report concluded that "Scientific attitudes toward fluoridation may be starting to shift" as new evidence emerges of the poison's link to disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland, as well as lowering IQ.

"Today almost 60 percent of the U.S. population drinks fluoridated water, including residents of 46 of the nation’s 50 largest cities," reports Scientific American's Dan Fagin.

Fagin is an award-wining environmental reporter and Director of New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.

"Outside the U.S., fluoridation has spread to Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and a few other countries. Critics of the practice have generally been dismissed as gadflies or zealots by mainstream researchers and public health agencies in those countries as well as the U.S. (In other nations, however, water fluoridation is rare and controversial.)" 

Indeed, the zeitgeist for scoffing at those who spoke of the dangers of mass medicating the public against their will with fluoride was the deranged and paranoid character of General Ripper in the hit 1964 Peter Selllers movie Dr. Strangelove.

But that stereotype is quickly fading as serious scientific research uncovers proof that all the horror stories about sodium fluoride told down the decades are essentially true.

The Scientific American study "Concluded that fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially in the thyroid -- the gland that produces hormones regulating growth and metabolism."

The report also notes that "a series of epidemiological studies in China have associated high fluoride exposures with lower IQ."

"Epidemiological studies and tests on lab animals suggest that high fluoride exposure increases the risk of bone fracture, especially in vulnerable populations such as the elderly and diabetics," writes Fagin.


Fagin interviewed Steven Levy, director of the Iowa Fluoride Study which tracked about 700 Iowa children for sixteen years. Nine-year-old "Iowa children who lived in communities where the water was fluoridated were 50 percent more likely to have mild fluorosis... than [nine-year-old] children living in nonfluoridated areas of the state," writes Fagin.

The study adds to a growing literature of shocking scientific studies proving fluoride's link with all manner of health defects, even as governments in the west, including recently the UK, make plans to mass medicate the population against their will with this deadly toxin.

In 2005, a study conducted at the Harvard School of Dental Health found that fluoride in tap water directly contributes to causing bone cancer in young boys.

"New American research suggests that boys exposed to fluoride between the ages of five and 10 will suffer an increased rate of osteosarcoma ~ bone cancer ~ between the ages of 10 and 19," according to a London Observer article about the study.

Based on the findings of the study, the respected Environmental Working Group lobbied to have fluoride in tap water be added to the US government's classified list of substances known or anticipated to cause cancer in humans.

Cancer rates in the U.S. have skyrocketed with one in three people now contracting the disease at some stage in their life.

The link to bone cancer has also been discovered by other scientists, but a controversy ensued after it emerged that Harvard Professor Chester Douglass, who downplayed the connection in his final report, was in fact editor-in-chief of The Colgate Oral Health Report, a quarterly newsletter funded by Colgate-Palmolive Co., which makes fluoridated toothpaste.

An August 2006 Chinese study found that fluoride in drinking water damages children's liver and kidney functions.

FACTS ABOUT FLUORIDE

~ Fluoride is a waste by-product of the fertilizer and aluminum industry and it's also a Part II Poison under the UK Poisons Act 1972.

~ Fluoride is one of the basic ingredients in both PROZAC (FLUoxetene Hydrochloride) and Sarin nerve gas (Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl FLUoride).

~ USAF Major George R. Jordan testified before Un-American Activity committees of Congress in the 1950's that in his post as U.S.-Soviet liaison officer, the Soviets openly admitted to "Using the fluoride in the water supplies in their concentration camps, to make the prisoners stupid, docile, and subservient."

~The first occurrence of fluoridated drinking water on Earth was found in Germany's Nazi prison camps. The Gestapo had little concern about fluoride's supposed effect on children's teeth; their alleged reason for mass-medicating water with sodium fluoride was to sterilize humans and force the people in their concentration camps into calm submission. (Ref. book: "The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin.)

~ 97% of western Europe has rejected fluoridated water due to the known health risks, however 10% of Britons drink it and the UK government is trying to fast track the fluoridation of the entire country's water supply.

~ In Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg fluoridation of water was rejected because it was classified as compulsive medication against the subject's will and therefore violated fundamental human rights.

~ In November of 2006, the American Dental Association (ADA) advised that parents should avoid giving babies fluoridated water.

~ Sources of fluoride include: fluoride dental products, fluoride pesticides, fluoridated pharmaceuticals, processed foods made with fluoridated water, and tea.