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June 30


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100_0018.jpg This take from Huron St. near Main at around 4pm.  That is the corner of the condo building at Fourth and Huron.


June 29


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I watched this chemtrail as it originally was placed above the low patches of fluffy white clouds. This trail than expanded into this bizarre pattern above the natural clouds next to the sun. IT appears to show waves or electro magnetic forces at work. This is not a natural cloud formation. Taken from North University at around 4pm 100_0008.jpg

June 28


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2008-06-29




It's Time to Face the Truth


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It seems like with the price of gas and food, the stock market plummeting and the huge surge in mortgage defaults, Americans should be getting a tad more awake, at least as far as looking down that rocky road that lies ahead. We have indebted ourselves and our children into a new post industrial surfdom the likes of which our parents the (World War II generation)  never knew. They also never knew and never had to face the chemtrail assault from the skies, or the systematic degradation and poisoning of their food and water. They did not face the loss of the Constitution or of their basic Bill of Rights. We are sailing in unchartered waters and thanks to the total and criminal complicity of our media, we are sailing blind. So what can we as individuals--- lost and getting ever more crushed in the machine-- do? What actions can we take that will be positive and helpful?
 
The first step to helping is the hardest: we must face the truth. We must admit something very strange to our belief system and to everything we have ever been taught and that is simply this:  there is a war going on right now and we are the targets.  To face the fact that the American people are under attack by globalists and that this attack is physical, financial, psychological and spiritual is the beginning of the first step.  And when we have done so, we can start to educate and inform those we know and love, our friends, neighbors, colleages and families. Knowledge is power. Truth is the only way forward.

Perhaps the most compelling evidence that we as a people are under attack is the unremitting and massive aerial spray operation now taking place above us in our skies as we speak. If you, like many, have blocked out seeing what is happening above you please watch this
 "On the Trail of our Assassins"
This short utube was made by veteran sky watchers and retired educators, one of whom had been trained as a weather reporter and intimately knew the varieties of clouds and the conditions under which they form. They will instruct you on exactly what to look for in our skies to begin to understand the very serious and deadly program that is being undertaken without our consent or knowledge. We are simply lab rats here, folks. Our lives have about as much value to whomever is behind this as those of the millions of Viet Nam peasantry who were repeatedly soaked and blanketed with deadly toxins such as Agent Orange and worse in order to get rid of the foliage  so they could shoot the "enemies".  These were civilians. Old men, women children and the unborn....collateral damage as they say. The history of military experiments targeting helpless civilian populations and their plans to begin a program of aerial spraying is well documented and researched.Click here to Check it out for yourself. There is massive research to back up what I say.

To return to my original topic, I believe that weather control and modification are one important element being used against the American population. Recently they are really stepping up the program.  Evidence of this can be found in the sheer number of bizarre and deadly events that have taken place in this year alone:
2008 NATURAL DISASTERS
California Wildfires
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91IHLAG0&show_article=1

Here's a story today about another town losing a levee:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91IHLN81&show_article=1

Here's one on Midwest flooding:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-midwest-stormsjun10,0,1022637.story

Then there was the recent Iowa flooding:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/13/AR2008061300480.html?nav=hcmodule

And the Iowa Tornado:
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1130684820080612

And as far as the Iowa flooding goes, many sky watchers and researchers are now theorizing that these floods and storms were deliberately created in order to help the land seize going on to facilitate the huge NASCO superhighway through the heart of  America for the purpose of pushing through the NAU, being built against the will of the American people. There are many prosperous farms and family owned businesses they need to get out of the way. What faster way to do this than a storm disaster such as Katrina?

Sadly, our denial is so deeply entrenched we simply cannot accept that those who supposedly are responsible for our safety and well-being have so little compunction as to turn their formidable weapons against us, the American people. Well, if you are still in that camp I would ask you to spend just a few moments watching this short clip:$20 bucks . You know that building 7 also fell in the WTC attacks. Did you ever see any clips or videos of its collapse or the fires that were burning previous to the collapse? If you are among the 90% of Americans who have not, just ask yourself why. This was a 500 foot tall building, one of the tallest in the world. So far, the 911 Commission NIST report have no explanation for its perfectly symmetrical 7 second disintegration into its own footprints.  One of the world's foremost controlled demolition experts, Danny Jowenko,  have publicly stated this to be a clear case of controlled demolition. Were you ever  informed of this stupendous discovery?  Ask yourself  "why not?" This short clip has the beginnings of some answers

Who is hiding the truth from us about so many things including the environmentally disasterous and toxic aerial assault going on right now? If you are one of the many bird lovers and watchers in this town, ask yourself what has happened to the birds. Most people I know who are up on such things will tell you they are literally decimated. And the frogs are fast disappearing as well. Ten years ago I had literally dozens of humming birds in my garden. This year, I have seen one. Media lackeys and the public puppets like Al Gore tell us it is climate change and it is somehow our fault. Well, the climate is changing that's for sure. But my research has inclined me to believe that it has more to do with the military's stated goals of "full spectrum dominance"  and of "owning the weather." My question is what gives them the right to destroy our environment in order to own it?  Are  you happy that  they are using your tax dollars to do so?

I don't have answers for you. I only have questions. You will have to research and find your own answers. Don't wait for CNN to find out for you or you will wait until it's way too late.
 

 




 

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Barium Blues

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Chemtrails 911

Chemtrail Central

Chemtrails Hall of Shame

Chemtrail Matrix

Chemtrails Over America

Chemtrail Tracking

Educate - Yourself

Health Freedom USA .org

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Love For Life

Jeff Rense

William Thomas

Weather Wars

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Clouds

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Strange Days Strange Skies

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Canadian Chemtrails

Angel Fire

Xiandos Info Chemtrails

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Will You Go Silent Into That Good Night?


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I hope that you had a chance to read my post on the forced aerial spraying now slated to take place in California this summer.  Ann Arbor Mi is a long long way from Northern California. We really don't need to lose any sleep over the fact that the people in those far away cities and communities will be subject to forced spraying for an obscure pest that may or may not threaten a crop that plays a minor part in their economy.
 
Or do we?
 
In this short video linked below, General Major Albert Stubblebine explains just why we should be concerned. He points out that 40 years ago our military subjected the population of Viet Nam as well as members of our own armed forces to prolonged and repeated aerial spray exposures to Agent Orange (google 'Agent Orange' for a real eyeopener) which was being used simply as a defoliate, not as a weapon.  Despite millions of deaths from direct exposure during this time (including 10's of thousands of our own soldiers), our government claimed that this toxic chemical posed no long range health threats or genetic consequences for human beings. Though at that time this information was soundly contested by independent scientists, it took government agencies 25 years begin to admit that perhaps this potent carcinogen and neurotoxin had lasting effects.
General Stubblebine who was in Viet Nam and exposed to Agent orange has had cancer three times which he suspects are linked with this chemical. "There is no telling how hundreds of thousands of others others" like himself also have been struck with cancer and other Agent Orange related diseases or how many millions of families are now facing genetic tragedy from Agent Orange.  
 
At this very moment sprays are falling on you emitted from airplanes our government will not even acknowledge exist. Researchers all over the world are independently coming to the conclusion that this spraying is for the purpose of military research, weather control, and the creation of interfaces for electro magnetic field weapons. Researchers in Arizona now have results from laboratory analysis of these sprays and their fall out which show that with every breath you take you are inhaling a toxic brew of plastic nano particles and heavy metals. Major Stubblebine informs us from his own personal experience that this type of forced aerial spraying is called genocide. Will you go silent into that good night?

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Local Citizens Start On-line News Service!


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http://cnsa2.blogspot.com/

Go here to read about the $47 million atrocity that the City Council is planning to build without
consulting taxpayers, this at a time when they are cutting services everywhere.

Why isn't the Ann Arbor News informing us about this?

 Oh what a silly question....Ann Arbor News is not locally owned anymore but run by a giant syndicate who doesn't give a rats ass about us or our city. 

Heavy Spraying Going ON Today, June 24


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Look up people!  Today started out completely clear with a flawless blue over head.
Unmarked white jets moved in fast, laying down layer after layer of slowly expanding white chemical/clouds. These artificial clouds are the interface for weather control and for electro magnetic weapons.  To those responsible I ask...WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT?
(google carole pellatt for more photos, essays and links about the assault on our skies)

I posted the above two hours ago. Right now at 12:58pm Tues, a weird unexplainable rainbow has formed above Ann Arbor. Go out and look folks.  We are under assault.

Contrived Shortages and the New Reality


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http://www.texemarrs.com/contrived_shortages.htm
Writer Texe Marres explains why we are seeing the scare tactics in the media and starting to experience shortages and other panic inducing realities.:

"Never before have the American people been in such terrible danger as they are now. On every side, the elite have created fire-breathing dragons that are steadily advancing and threatening to destroy us.

First, there is the hocus-pocus, contrived energy 

The planet is awash in oil, but the elite have fabricated lies of "scarcity" to drive prices skyward to astronomical levels.
crisis. The establishment story is that we are fast running out of oil. The earth's petroleum stores are almost depleted--supplies are peaking and now economic and human tragedy is at our doorstep. Predictably, the price of gasoline has rocketed into the stratosphere, leaving the ordinary working public terribly depleted of income and financially up against the wall.

Are we really running out of oil? No! Of course not. In fact, the planet is awash with the gooey black stuff. Earth is truly Planet Petroleum. Recent drilling successes in Brazilian waters, in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Bakken oil region of North and South Dakota, in Canada and Alaska, and around the globe prove that mankind will never run out of oil. Never!--Never!--Never!

The unscientific theories of "fossil" fuel depletion and hoax of "Peak Oil" are absurd nonsense, lies designed by oil corporation hucksters and their paid shills to justify their highway robbery of the American and world consumer.

And More Contrived Crises

The contrived crises of "Global Warming" and "Climate Change" are similar scams. The entire environmentalist movement was founded--and funded--by the huge multinational oil corporations: Exxon, Mobil, Shell, etc. They want the Mother Earth crazies to act-up. It gives the greedy oil potentates an excuse to shelve most of the world's oil that is discovered and cap-off tens of thousands of producing oil wells. It also provides the elite an excuse for their failure to build new gasoline refineries and pipelines." read more http://www.texemarrs.com/contrived_shortages.htm



The chem trails are an unprecedented attack on the populations of all living things. It has received practically no media coverage whatsoever. See what happens when a viewer brings this topic up in the utube linked below.  It is up to each one of  us to bring this awareness to  everyone we know. They are spraying us like roaches and people remain unaware as our weather changes radically, species die off at enormous rates, and our diseases and illnesses
sky rocket. Don't ignore the obvious genocidal attack on you and your loved ones. Educate them and demand that this be covered in our media.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F4yQlMcibU&feature=user











Don't Chemtrail Me Bro'


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http://dontchemtrailmebro.com/index.html

Great Research Site...A lot of new material....very easy to use.


Truly Insane...


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While many of us still live in a state a denial concerning the massive spraying going on in the skies above us using unmarked white jets flying at around 20,000 ft, residents in the San Francisco Bay area will not only receive their almost daily dose of chemtrail toxins, but will also be subjected to a government mandated spray program using plastic nanoparticles and insect pheromones for an obscure pest that most people haven't even heard of. Isn't it great to know that at any moment our government could spray us with anything they like because they deemed something to be a "pest"  and we could only helplessly stand by and watch as the poisons rained down from the clouds?  Could this little exercise in California be a test to make sure we know it doesn't matter what we think of their spraying programs? from http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=692

INSANE SPRAYING

The State of California and the EPA have decided to spray cancer-inducing, environmentally destructive chemicals over the entire San Francisco Bay area (including waterways, wetlands, homes, playing fields, cities, farms and towns) to "control" a "pest" which has not even been confirmed to exist there and certainly does not present a hazard to any crop or plant species. Eradicating the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) is apparently such a high priority that, should the Governor of California decide to prohibit the spraying of Checkmate (R), a nano-plastic delivery system bonded to an insect pheromone, the EPA will step in and take over jurisdiction to make sure that the spraying takes place EVERY 30 DAYS FOR 5 TO 10 YEARS.

The nano-particle plastic breaks down in the environment in about 70 days. How long does it take to break down in your lungs and what happens when it does? Who knows. Why is San Francisco being punished -- or experimented upon? Or is it slated for extermination? Under the US Biological Agents Act such experimentation is terrifyingly legal. See http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=449 Did we also mention that no one knows the impact of the nano particles to which the moth hormone is bonded when they lodge deep in the lungs of people who have no choice but to breath them? And did we also mention that while severe physical problems accompany the spraying of this compound on human populations, there is no credible evidence that the LBAM actually presents any threat to anything at all?

The Natural Solutions Foundation has been watching this situation since Santa Clara and Monterey were sprayed last year resulting in serious and prolonged mass illness. In fact, you can click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php) to see what General Stubblebine and I had to say at a meeting a few months ago in California about this genocidal program. And don't miss the chance to click here (http://youtube.com/watch?v=QTLhpc8fEIs) to see a music video with General Stubblebine!

Our collaborators, the Ecological Options Network, www.eon3.net, suspended work on our Health Freedom Documentary collaboration and the Health Freedom Video Library because of the emergency presented by the LBAM spraying so that they could document and support the community organization against this atrocious program which threatens the environment and the residents of Northern California and, we believe, the rest of the country, too.Your continued support in funding the Health Freedom Video is very important. Click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189)to make a donation to help fund the film. Donors of $100 or more will be thanked personally in the final version of the documentary. We are concerned that the Bay Area may a "belle weather" or early indicator experiment for the spraying which can be imposed on the rest of the US for reasons as far fetched and fatuous, and as potentially deadly, as those used in California.

It is imperative for us to be informed about this program because although the target is California now, there is no reason to believe that it will be limited there. Make-believe "pests" can be imagined anywhere and massive spraying programs called ChemTrails already exist. The EPA is willing to seize jurisdiction if California refuses to spray. Could this happen in your community? Click on these links to learn more:
Public Service Announcement http://www.fastphilanthropy.org/
Ecological Options Network's YouTube.com page http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=eon3
Ecological Options Network's 2 volume DVD sets, STOP THEM BEFORE THEY SPRAY AGAIN, is available now The 2-volume, 3-disk set is $33.00 (Volume 2 is a 2-disk set.)
http://www.eon3.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ES&Product_Code=STBTSA2V3S

Why would such dangerous, untested and patently absurd spraying, and sprays, be poured on us and on the environment every 30 days for 10 years without any pest to kill or safety studies to rely upon?



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Mae Brussels was a tireless researcher, lecturer and writer.  Her prodigious work is a gold mine of hidden connections and astonishing information about the inner workings of our government  that has been covered up and ignored by our criminally complicit media..She died in 1988, but still lives through this website.



CHAPTER 280
P.O. BOX 76082
WASHINGTON, DC 20013
202-260-2383(V)
202-401-3139(F)


May 1, 1999
WHY EPA'S HEADQUARTERS UNION OF
SCIENTISTS OPPOSES FLUORIDATION

The following documents why our union, formerly National Federation of Federal Employees Local 2050 and since April 1998 Chapter 280 of the National Treasury Employees Union, took the stand it did opposing fluoridation of drinking water supplies. Our union is comprised of and represents the approximately 1500 scientists, lawyers, engineers and other professional employees at EPA Headquarters here in Washington, D.C.

The union first became interested in this issue rather by accident. Like most Americans, including many physicians and dentists, most of our members had thought that fluoride's only effects were beneficial - reductions in tooth decay, etc. We too believed assurances of safety and effectiveness of water fluoridation.

Then, as EPA was engaged in revising its drinking water standard for fluoride in 1985, an employee came to the union with a complaint: he said he was being forced to write into the regulation a statement to the effect that EPA thought it was alright for children to have "funky" teeth. It was OK, EPA said, because it considered that condition to be only a cosmetic effect, not an adverse health effect. The reason for this EPA position was that it was under political pressure to set its health-based standard for fluoride at 4 mg/liter. At that level, EPA knew that a significant number of children develop moderate to severe dental fluorosis, but since it had deemed the effect as only cosmetic, EPA didn't have to set its health-based standard at a lower level to prevent it.

We tried to settle this ethics issue quietly, within the family, but EPA was unable or unwilling to resist external political pressure, and we took the fight public with a union amicus curiae brief in a lawsuit filed against EPA by a public interest group. The union has published on this initial involvement period in detail.1

Since then our opposition to drinking water fluoridation has grown, based on the scientific literature documenting the increasingly out-of-control exposures to fluoride, the lack of benefit to dental health from ingestion of fluoride and the hazards to human health from such ingestion. These hazards include acute toxic hazard, such as to people with impaired kidney function, as well as chronic toxic hazards of gene mutations, cancer, reproductive effects, neurotoxicity, bone pathology and dental fluorosis. First, a review of recent neurotoxicity research results.

In 1995, Mullenix and co-workers2 showed that rats given fluoride in drinking water at levels that give rise to plasma fluoride concentrations in the range seen in humans suffer neurotoxic effects that vary according to when the rats were given the fluoride - as adult animals, as young animals, or through the placenta before birth. Those exposed before birth were born hyperactive and remained so throughout their lives. Those exposed as young or adult animals displayed depressed activity. Then in 1998, Guan and co-workers3 gave doses similar to those used by the Mullenix research group to try to understand the mechanism(s) underlying the effects seen by the Mullenix group. Guan's group found that several key chemicals in the brain - those that form the membrane of brain cells - were substantially depleted in rats given fluoride, as compared to those who did not get fluoride.

Another 1998 publication by Varner, Jensen and others4 reported on the brain- and kidney damaging effects in rats that were given fluoride in drinking water at the same level deemed "optimal" by pro-fluoridation groups, namely 1 part per million (1 ppm). Even more pronounced damage was seen in animals that got the fluoride in conjunction with aluminum. These results are especially disturbing because of the low dose level of fluoride that shows the toxic effect in rats - rats are more resistant to fluoride than humans. This latter statement is based on Mullenix's finding that it takes substantially more fluoride in the drinking water of rats than of humans to reach the same fluoride level in plasma. It is the level in plasma that determines how much fluoride is "seen" by particular tissues in the body. So when rats get 1 ppm in drinking water, their brains and kidneys are exposed to much less fluoride than humans getting 1 ppm, yet they are experiencing toxic effects. Thus we are compelled to consider the likelihood that humans are experiencing damage to their brains and kidneys at the "optimal" level of 1 ppm.

In support of this concern are results from two epidemiology studies from China5, 6 that show decreases in I.Q. in children who get more fluoride than the control groups of children in each study. These decreases are about 5 to 10 I.Q. points in children aged 8 to 13 years.

Another troubling brain effect has recently surfaced: fluoride's interference with the function of the brain's pineal gland. The pineal gland produces melatonin which, among other roles, mediates the body's internal clock, doing such things as governing the onset of puberty. Jennifer Luke7 has shown that fluoride accumulates in the pineal gland and inhibits its production of melatonin. She showed in test animals that this inhibition causes an earlier onset of sexual maturity, an effect reported in humans as well in 1956, as part of the Kingston/Newburgh study, which is discussed below. In fluoridated Newburgh, young girls experienced earlier onset of menstruation (on average, by six months) than girls in non-fluoridated Kingston.8

From a risk assessment perspective, all these brain effect data are particularly compelling and disturbing because they are convergent.

We looked at the cancer data with alarm as well. There are epidemiology studies that are convergent with whole-animal and single-cell studies (dealing with the cancer hazard), just as the neurotoxicity research just mentioned all points in the same direction. EPA fired the Office of Drinking Water's chief toxicologist, Dr. William Marcus, who also was our local union's treasurer at the time, for refusing to remain silent on the cancer risk issue.9 The judge who heard the lawsuit he brought against EPA over the firing made that finding - that EPA fired him over his fluoride work and not for the phony reason put forward by EPA management at his dismissal. Dr. Marcus won his lawsuit and is again at work at EPA. Documentation is available on request.

The type of cancer of particular concern with fluoride, although not the only type, is osteosarcoma, especially in males. The National Toxicology Program conducted a two-year study10 in which rats and mice were given sodium fluoride in drinking water. The positive result of that study (in which malignancies in tissues other than bone were also observed), particularly in male rats, is convergent with a host of data from tests showing fluoride's ability to cause mutations (a principal "trigger" mechanism for inducing a cell to become cancerous) e.g.11a, b, c, d and data showing increases in osteosarcomas in young men in New Jersey12 , Washington and Iowa13 based on their drinking fluoridated water. It was his analysis, repeated statements about all these and other incriminating cancer data, and his requests for an independent, unbiased evaluation of them that got Dr. Marcus fired.

Bone pathology other than cancer is a concern as well. An excellent review of this issue was published by Diesendorf et al. in 1997.14 Five epidemiology studies have shown a higher rate of hip fractures in fluoridated vs. non-fluoridated communities.15a, b, c, d, e. Crippling skeletal fluorosis was the endpoint used by EPA to set its primary drinking water standard in 1986, and the ethical deficiencies in that standard setting process prompted our union to join the Natural Resources Defense Council in opposing the standard in court, as mentioned above.

Regarding the effectiveness of fluoride in reducing dental cavities, there has not been any double-blind study of fluoride's effectiveness as a caries preventative. There have been many, many small scale, selective publications on this issue that proponents cite to justify fluoridation, but the largest and most comprehensive study, one done by dentists trained by the National Institute of Dental Research, on over 39,000 school children aged 5-17 years, shows no significant differences (in terms of decayed, missing and filled teeth) among caries incidences in fluoridated, non-fluoridated and partially fluoridated communities.16 The latest publication17 on the fifty-year fluoridation experiment in two New York cities, Newburgh and Kingston, shows the same thing. The only significant difference in dental health between the two communities as a whole is that fluoridated Newburgh, N.Y. shows about twice the incidence of dental fluorosis (the first, visible sign of fluoride chronic toxicity) as seen in non-fluoridated Kingston.

John Colquhoun's publication on this point of efficacy is especially important.18 Dr. Colquhoun was Principal Dental Officer for Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand, and a staunch supporter of fluoridation - until he was given the task of looking at the world-wide data on fluoridation's effectiveness in preventing cavities. The paper is titled, "Why I changed My Mind About Water Fluoridation." In it Colquhoun provides details on how data were manipulated to support fluoridation in English speaking countries, especially the U.S. and New Zealand. This paper explains why an ethical public health professional was compelled to do a 180 degree turn on fluoridation.

Further on the point of the tide turning against drinking water fluoridation, statements are now coming from other dentists in the pro-fluoride camp who are starting to warn that topical fluoride (e.g. fluoride in tooth paste) is the only significantly beneficial way in which that substance affects dental health.19, 20, 21 However, if the concentrations of fluoride in the oral cavity are sufficient to inhibit bacterial enzymes and cause other bacteriostatic effects, then those concentrations are also capable of producing adverse effects in mammalian tissue, which likewise relies on enzyme systems. This statement is based not only on common sense, but also on results of mutation studies which show that fluoride can cause gene mutations in mammalian and lower order tissues at fluoride concentrations estimated to be present in the mouth from fluoridated tooth paste.22 Further, there were tumors of the oral cavity seen in the NTP cancer study mentioned above, further strengthening concern over the toxicity of topically applied fluoride.

In any event, a person can choose whether to use fluoridated tooth paste or not (although finding non-fluoridated kinds is getting harder and harder), but one cannot avoid fluoride when it is put into the public water supplies.

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 media23 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 York17 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.

Thus, we took the stand that a policy which makes the public water supply a vehicle for disseminating this toxic and prophylactically useless (via ingestion, at any rate) substance is wrong.

We have also taken a direct step to protect the employees we represent from the risks of drinking fluoridated water. We applied EPA's risk control methodology, the Reference Dose, to the recent neurotoxicity data. The Reference Dose is the daily dose, expressed in milligrams of chemical per kilogram of body weight, that a person can receive over the long term with reasonable assurance of safety from adverse effects. Application of this methodology to the Varner et al.4 data leads to a Reference Dose for fluoride of 0.000007 mg/kg-day. Persons who drink about one quart of fluoridated water from the public drinking water supply of the District of Columbia while at work receive about 0.01mg/kg-day from that source alone. This amount of fluoride is more than 100 times the Reference Dose. On the basis of these results the union filed a grievance, asking that EPA provide un-fluoridated drinking water to its employees.

The implication for the general public of these calculations is clear. 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

This document was prepared on behalf of the National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 280 by Chapter Senior Vice-President J. William Hirzy, Ph.D. For more information please call Dr. Hirzy at 202-260-4683. His E-mail address is hirzy.john@epa.gov

END NOTE LITERATURE CITATIONS

1. Applying the NAEP code of ethics to the Environmental Protection Agency and the fluoride in drinking water standard. Carton, R.J. and Hirzy, J.W. Proceedings of the 23rd Ann. Conf. of the National Association of Environmental Professionals. 20-24 June, 1998. GEN 51-61.

2. Neurotoxicity of sodium fluoride in rats. Mullenix, P.J., Denbesten, P.K., Schunior, A. and Kernan, W.J. Neurotoxicol. Teratol. 17 169-177 (1995)

3. Influence of chronic fluorosis on membrane lipids in rat brain. Z.Z. Guan, Y.N. Wang, K.Q. Xiao, D.Y. Dai, Y.H. Chen, J.L. Liu, P. Sindelar and G. Dallner, Neurotoxicology and Teratology 20 537-542 (1998).

4. Chronic administration of aluminum- fluoride or sodium-fluoride to rats in drinking water: alterations in neuronal and cerebrovascular integrity. Varner, J.A., Jensen, K.F., Horvath, W. And Isaacson, R.L. Brain Research 784 284-298 (1998).

5. Effect of high fluoride water supply on children's intelligence. Zhao, L.B., Liang, G.H., Zhang, D.N., and Wu, X.R. Fluoride 29 190-192 (1996)

6. Effect of fluoride exposure on intelligence in children. Li, X.S., Zhi, J.L., and Gao, R.O. Fluoride 28 (1995).

7. Effect of fluoride on the physiology of the pineal gland. Luke, J.A. Caries Research 28 204 (1994).

8. Newburgh-Kingston caries-fluorine study XIII. Pediatric findings after ten years. Schlesinger, E.R., Overton, D.E., Chase, H.C., and Cantwell, K.T. JADA 52 296-306 (1956).

9. Memorandum dated May 1, 1990. Subject: Fluoride Conference to Review the NTP Draft Fluoride Report; From: Wm. L. Marcus, Senior Science Advisor ODW; To: Alan B. Hais, Acting Director Criteria & Standards Division ODW.

10. Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of sodium fluoride in F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice. NTP Report No. 393 (1991).

11a. Chromosome aberrations, sister chromatid exchanges, unscheduled DNA synthesis and morphological neoplastic transformation in Syrian hamster embryo cells. Tsutsui et al. Cancer Research 44 938-941 (1984).

11b. Cytotoxicity, chromosome aberrations and unscheduled DNA synthesis in cultured human diploid fibroblasts. Tsutsui et al. Mutation Research 139 193-198 (1984).

11c. Positive mouse lymphoma assay with and without S-9 activation; positive sister chromatid exchange in Chinese hamster ovary cells with and without S-9 activation; positive chromosome aberration without S-9 activation. Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of sodium fluoride in F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice. NTP Report No. 393 (1991).

11d. An increase in the number of Down's syndrome babies born to younger mothers in cities following fluoridation. Science and Public Policy 12 36-46 (1985).

12. A brief report on the association of drinking water fluoridation and the incidence of osteosarcoma among young males. Cohn, P.D. New Jersey Department of Health (1992).

13. Surveillance, epidemiology and end results (SEER) program. National Cancer Institute in Review of fluoride benefits and risks. Department of Health and Human Services. F1-F7 (1991).

14. New evidence on fluoridation. Diesendorf, M., Colquhoun, J., Spittle, B.J., Everingham, D.N., and Clutterbuck, F.W. Australian and New Zealand J. Public Health. 21 187-190 (1997).

15a. Regional variation in the incidence of hip fracture: U.S. white women aged 65 years and older. Jacobsen, S.J., Goldberg, J., Miles, ,T.P. et al. JAMA 264 500-502 (1990)

15b. Hip fracture and fluoridation in Utah's elderly population. Danielson, C., Lyon, J.L., Egger, M., and Goodenough, G.K. JAMA 268 746-748 (1992).

15c. The association between water fluoridation and hip fracture among white women and men aged 65 years and older: a national ecological study. Jacobsen, S.J., Goldberg, J., Cooper, C. and Lockwood, S.A. Ann. Epidemiol.2 617-626 (1992).

15d. Fluorine concentration is drinking water and fractures in the elderly [letter]. Jacqmin-Gadda, H., Commenges, D. and Dartigues, J.F. JAMA 273 775-776 (1995).

15e. Water fluoridation and hip fracture [letter]. Cooper, C., Wickham, C.A.C., Barker, D.J.R. and Jacobson, S.J. JAMA 266 513-514 (1991).

16. Water fluoridation and tooth decay: Results from the 1986-1987 national survey of U.S. school children. Yiamouyiannis, J. Fluoride 23 55-67 (1990).

17. Recommendations for fluoride use in children. Kumar, J.V. and Green, E.L. New York State Dent. J. (1998) 40-47.

18. Why I changed my mind about water fluoridation. Colquhoun, J. Perspectives in Biol. And Medicine 41 29-44 (1997).

19. A re-examination of the pre-eruptive and post-eruptive mechanism of the anti-caries effects of fluoride: is there any anti-caries benefit from swallowing fluoride? Limeback, H. Community Dent. Oral Epidemiol. 27 62-71 (1999).

20. Fluoride supplements for young children: an analysis of the literature focussing on benefits and risks. Riordan, P.J. Community Dent. Oral Epidemiol. 27 72-83 (1999).

21. Prevention and reversal of dental caries: role of low level fluoride. Featherstone, J.D. Community Dent. Oral Epidemiol. 27 31-40 (1999).

22. Appendix H. Review of fluoride benefits and risks. Department of Health and Human Services. H1-H6 (1991).

23. Some young children get too much fluoride. Parker-Pope, T. Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 1998.

24. Letter from Rebecca Hanmer, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water, to Leslie Russell re: EPA view on use of by-product fluosilicic (sic) acid as low cost source of fluoride to water authorities. March 30, 1983.

OTHER CITATIONS (This short list does not include the entire literature on fluoride effects)

a. Exposure to high fluoride concentrations in drinking water is associated with decreased birth rates. Freni, S.C. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health 42 109-121 (1994)

b. Ameliorative effects of reduced food-borne fluoride on reproduction in silver foxes. Eckerlin, R.H., Maylin, G.A., Krook, L., and Carmichael, D.T. Cornell Vet. 78 75-91 (1988).

c. Milk production of cows fed fluoride contaminated commercial feed. Eckerlin, R.H., Maylin, G.A., and Krook, L. Cornell Vet. 76 403-404 (1986).

d. Maternal-fetal transfer of fluoride in pregnant women. Calders, R., Chavine, J., Fermanian, J., Tortrat, D., and Laurent, A.M. Biol. Neonate 54 263-269 (1988).

e. Effects of fluoride on screech owl reproduction: teratological evaluation, growth, and blood chemistry in hatchlings. Hoffman, D.J., Pattee, O.H., and Wiemeyer, S.N. Toxicol. Lett. 26 19-24 (1985).

f. Fluoride intoxication in dairy calves. Maylin, G.A., Eckerlin, R.H., and Krook, L. Cornell Vet. 77 84-98 (1987).

g. Fluoride inhibition of protein synthesis. Holland, R.I. Cell Biol. Int. Rep. 3 701-705 (1979).

h. An unexpectedly strong hydrogen bond: ab initio calculations and spectroscopic studies of amide-fluoride systems. Emsley, J., Jones, D.J., Miller, J.M., Overill, R.E. and Waddilove, R.A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 103 24-28 (1981).

i. The effect of sodium fluoride on the growth and differentiation of human fetal osteoblasts. Song, X.D., Zhang, W.Z., Li, L.Y., Pang, Z.L., and Tan, Y.B. Fluoride 21 149-158 (1988).

j. Modulation of phosphoinositide hydrolysis by NaF and aluminum in rat cortical slices. Jope, R.S. J. Neurochem. 51 1731-1736 (1988).

k. The crystal structure of fluoride-inhibited cytochrome c peroxidase. Edwards, S.L., Poulos, T.L., Kraut, J. J. Biol. Chem. 259 12984-12988 (1984).

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