Internet Babel

This piece from ‘Today Tonight’ highlights some of the medical opinion against the increasing flouridisation of water supplies and also notes growing use of floruide in many other products.

Various institutions have identified fluoride as a possible developmental toxin. The Lancet, in 2006, listed fluoride as an “emerging neurotoxic substance”. In 2000, Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility discussed fluoride as a “known or suspected developmental neurotoxicant”.

In fact, neurological effects were known as early as the 1930′s and 40′s, by scientists working for the Manhattan Project and in Nazi Germany.

The University of Western Ontario says, “Though apparently vague and non-specific, most of the symptoms of Fluoride toxicity point towards some kind of profound metabolic dysfunction, and are strikingly similar to the symptoms of Hypothyroidism.”

Learning Disorders/Difficulty Concentrating/Incoherence/Memory Loss/Confusion, Body Temperature Disturbances/Cold Shivers, Chest Pains, Heart Palpitations, Depression, dizziness/Vertigo, Dyspepsia, Excessive Sleepiness/Fatigue, Headaches/Migraines, Joint Pains, Nausea, Restlessness, Shortness of Breath, Difficulties Swallowing, Thirst, Tinnitus, Visual Disturbances.

Maybe use it as a basis for further investigation of your own.

The Opium machine continues to thrive in Afghanistan. The Russians were often accused of sanctioning and assisting in the production and distribution of Opium whist in Afghanisatn. Has anything changed?

Drug production in Afghanistan has increased dramatically since the US-led invasion and a recent report by the United Nations states that Afghan opium is having a devastating impact on the world, killing thousands in consumer countries.

Meanwhile, The New York Times has reported that Ahmad Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president, is involved in the opium trade, meets with Taliban leaders, and is also a CIA operative.

The opium trade is the major source of Taliban financing.

Google and an investment arm of the CIA are jointly backing a company working on real-time web monitoring and prediction.

Recorded Future uses real-time analysis of tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to identify relationships between people, organisations and events — both present and still-to-come.

The company says its temporal analytics engine looks at  ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same (or related) entities and events. The idea is to derive, for each event, who was involved and where/when it happened or might happen.  Recorded Future plots that chatter, showing online “momentum” for any given event.

“The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science.

This seems to be the first time that the intelligence community and Google have funded the same startup, at the same time. No one is accusing Google of directly collaborating with the CIA, but this is bound to be fodder for critics of Google, who already see the search giant as overly cozy with the U.S. government.

Full story: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/

US defence company Raytheon has been demonstrating a new solid-State, powerful laser that can shoot down aircraft and projectiles as well as sinking ships, with the capability of being hooked up with existing anti-aircraft weaponry. They are also working on land-based and more mobile versions with increased power.

A massive cache of secret US military files released by Wikileaks to selected newspapers provides a devastating portrait of the  war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, attacks by Taliban groups have soared and also how NATO commanders fear that Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency.

Regardless of your personal opinion of the conflict in Afghanistan or of the leaking of these papers, the material released should be studied. One of the best summarisations of the material can be found at the Guardian’s website:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/afghanistan-the-war-logs

This is a piece of video that makes you glad that for the existence of the medium, and of the Internet.

Invaluable experience and knowledge that otherwise could have been lost forever. It will explain much about what is going on today, but the events recalled are more than sixty years past and the interview itself was conducted in 1982.

G. Edward Griffin interviews Norman Dodd, congressional Director of Research for the Reece Committee, 1953-1954. The Reece Committee’s purpose was to investigate the seemingly unconstitutional activities of tax-exempt foundations such as Ford, Rockefeller or Carnegie Endowment.

For those in the developed world, Asbestos may seem like a health hazard from the past: A cancer-causing fibre banned in the EU, Australia and elsewhere and limited to a small number of products in the United States. Scientists have long agreed that any exposure to Asbestos presents grave risks. Yet an investigation from the Center for Public Integrity and the BBC has found that Asbestos is still being used at shockingly high levels throughout the developing world.

See more here: http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/asbestos/

In an interview with Max Keiser, economist Paul Craig Roberts argues that the deliberate off-shoring of jobs from the U.S is destroying the economy – outsourcing or off-shoring of manufacturing base in particular is something that is occurring in many developed economies.

A UK Police Federation article that seems to advocate the forced chemical sedation of suspects is a move into dangerous territory.

It appears that the Federation wish to formulate a strategy which they hope will lead to recognition and acceptance of so-called “excited delirious syndrome” and to formalise chemical methods of dealing with suspects who exhibit symptoms they say are associated with it including: running for no apparent reason; running wildly; being naked (trying to get cool); stripping off clothes (trying to get cool); apparent superhuman strength; seemingly unlimited endurance; violent resistance; violent resistance after being restrained; muscle rigidity; and the subject claiming “he can’t breathe”.

Read the full article here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/apr/22/police-excited-delirium-forced-sedation

Gold, Torture, Lies, Propaganda, Junk Bonds, Fraud, the Media and the State of the Union.

An extract from the excellent “Keiser Report”.