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Stop posion drinking water flouride,paystrike,companies cant legally turn it off

Green Syndicalist | 24.06.2008 16:09 | Health | Birmingham

Many water companies in UK including Severn Trent maybe using anaerobic digesters to recover phosphate & fertilise crops& burn methane but some in west midlands & nottingham are using flouride in water supply. So bad that the area it is added has to have glass windows regularly replaced due to flourides corrosion. Strike legally they cant legally turn off water, its legally our right to have a supply. Especially worth it if your not bothered about your credit rating on own or in shared house

Below Taken from this wks 24/6/2008 Schnews
"ALONG FOR FLUORIDE

AS BRITAINS FACE MASS MEDICATION OF TOXIC WATER ADDITIVE

If you knew that someone was putting poison into your water supply, what
would you do? Call the authorities? Well don't bother cos it's the
government wot's doing it!

If you live in the West Midlands or the North East, the chances are that you
already have a fluoridated water supply - and comments earlier this year
from Health Secretary Alan Johnson made it clear that he is keen to see this
toxic industrial waste added to everyone else's water as soon as possible.
Why? He believes that it is a 'key means of tackling tooth decay' - despite
the fact that no scientific evidence bears this out, and much other evidence
has emerged linking fluoride ingestion to bone deficiencies, cancer, joint
pain, skin rash, damage to thyroid glands and even IQ deficits.

So what's going on? Well, Alan Johnston has swallowed the arguments put
forward by the dental and pharmaceutical lobbying groups, all of which have
been exported here from the US where, since the 1940s, they have managed to
get over 70% of water fluoridated. It's just science they say - fluoride was
shown in the mid-1930's to have a beneficial effect on the incidence of
children's tooth decay, so why not add it at source and protect everyone's
teeth without them having to do a thing?

But this mass medication argument has more holes in than my sugar-addled
teeth. Number one is obviously, er, mass medication? Unknown dosage level
(everyone's water consumption is different) and without the patients'
consent? Since when was that normal practice? You don't forcefeed people
aspirin because one of them may be experiencing a headache... it's illogical
and wasteful - not to mention people's rights to refuse medication.

In fact, a dip in the scientific fluoride literature is like diving into a
very muddy pool, reminiscent of the 'smoking is not really bad for you' or
'climate change isn't really happening' debates of recent decades. This
alone should be ringing the alarm bells. Many studies do suggest that
'topical' application of fluoride, i.e. applying it to the teeth directly by
way of toothpaste etc does have some beneficial effect on cavity rates,
although these don't attempt to separate out all the other factors which may
play a part in tooth health, like diet, or attempt to discover other ways of
achieving the same benefits. While fluoride is proven (and accepted by all)
to cause dental fluorosis (pitted or mottled tooth enamel) - now widespread
in American mouths - little high quality study has been done on other side
effects like bone deterioration or cancers, which may mean a slightly
healthier smile is far outweighed by a shorter diseased life.

And the story with applying the fluoride by drinking it in water is even
cloudier. There is no unequivocal proof that it works. In fact, since large
parts of America started sipping it in the 1950s, numerous studies have
shown that, all else being equal, tooth decay rates for fluoridated and
non-fluoridated water areas are, er, exactly the same - or in some cases
even higher in fluoridated areas! This has led to nearly all of Europe long
since abandoning the practice - but it seems that governments in the UK (10%
fluoridated) and Ireland (72%) just can't resist the persuasive American
connection.

If you were of a slightly cynical mind (who us?!), it would almost seem that
nobody at the top wants to hear any evidence contradicting the fluoride
dogma. The approved studies are designed (and funded) purely to decide
whether adding fluoride for teeth can be considered 'a good thing'. This is
the result demanded by big business eager to turn an expensive-to-get-rid-of
toxic industrial waste product (left over in pesticide production, aluminium
processing and nuclear uranium enriching, amongst other things) into a
'miracle' health ingredient to be boxed up, re-branded and sold back in
small amounts to the general public in return for a handsome profit. Well
you can see their logic. Two birds with one stone and profits up. No wonder
that the many more recent long term-studies and peer-reviews of past data
showing no provable benefits (and many possible negatives) are swiftly
discredited or ignored.

CLOSE TO THE BONE

And there are other (presumably weakened, deteriorating) skeletons in the
closet. In 1997, two American journalists dug out previously classified
documents revealing how fluoride policy and research was shaped by atom bomb
making at the end of the Second World War. The first court cases against the
government from people affected by living near to the bomb making facilities
were not for the effects of radiation, but for damage to crops from fluoride
pollution.

The secret 'Manhattan Project' memos - the group of government and
industrial capitalists running the development of the nuclear option - show
that they knew about the problems and commissioned pro-fluoride research
merely to help fight these and future possible court cases. Despite
editorial approval and full referencing, the damning article was dropped by
the Christian Science Monitor and never widely published.

Despite Birmingham and other areas' water being contaminated, no new UK
regions have joined them since the mid 1980s when the rollout was put on
hold. But the threat is back. In 1993, despite no demand, the government
passed an act giving regional strategic health authorities (SHA) the power
to compel water to be fluoridated. It must have been frustrating for them
and their corporate sponsors that, to date, not one of them has done so. So
it seems like a whole new round of propaganda and pressure is about to be
applied. Anti-fluoride action groups have sprung up around the country (see
www.hampshireagainstfluoridation.blogspot.com and
www.freewebs.com/keepwatersafe for example) who are working to try and
ensure that nobody else is unwillingly force-fed this harmful toxic poison
for no health benefit. As recent studies in China and Mexico have shown a
link between fluoride consumption and lower IQ scores, maybe they're just
out to keep us all dumb...?

* There's tons more info to get yer teeth into at
www.freewebs.com/keepwatersafe and www.fluoridealert.org"

Green Syndicalist

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