Mass Hypnosis

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Mass hypnosis is the ability to hypnotise large amounts of people at a time, persuading them to take action in some way. It is a technique commonly used in marketing and politics, but most famous for its use in stage hypnosis shows.

The reason mass hypnosis is not recognised by the general public, is because the general public, being us, are hypnotised on such a frequent basis that we’re so used to being hypnotised, that we’re no longer aware of it.

Have you ever watched a commercial on TV advertising some food or drink product? Have you then thought about eating or drinking what was advertised? Perhaps whatever was being advertised made you think “I’d really like that for dinner” and you were disappointed with what you were eating that night, even though the food being advertised was most likely junk food in comparison to a delicious home cooked meal.

You were, believe it or not, placed into a state of trance and subliminally suggested that you wanted to eat that product. Even if it wasn’t that night, the suggestion would remain in your head, and perhaps even in a week’s time, you’d end up eating the product that was advertised.

You think that you’re in control of your life, that nothing is capable of influencing you without you first judging it, little do you know that you are being hypnotised by many different organisations on a daily basis. The actions you think are of your own free will, are actually influenced by these external organisations.

What if you could use this same ability of mass hypnosis, and apply it to your every day life? What if you could hypnotise vast amounts of people to buy a product from you, to believe in a cause, or to just become your friend?

Using the techniques taught in mass hypnosis, you can do all this. Mass hypnosis works by creating some sense of rapport with your audience. The audience must feel as if they have some connection with you, as if they’ve known you forever, even if it’s from a subconscious level.

Once this feeling of rapport has been created, you must exploit a desire of your audience, something they need. Most of our needs are instinctual, meaning that we’re not even aware that we conciously need them, we just acquire them from a subconscious level. Your need to eat and drink are both instinctual, they have become such a part of you that you don’t think “Hmm, should I eat or drink today..” you just do.

There are many other instintual urges within us, such as a desire to make money and further ourselves in life, to go out with a beautiful spouse that we get on well with, to acquire something better than our neighbour – be it a nicer car, a nicer home, a nicer job, our instintual urges are endless.

Using mass hypnosis we can play on these instintual urges. People have an instinctual need for security, that is why politicians will often talk about increasing nationality security, to give people comfort, to fulfill this “need for security”. Whether or not that security is needed is irrelevant.

Once you have established rapport with an audience, and make them believe that you will satisfy one of their instinctual needs, the audience will effectively be yours to manipulate. You may tell them whatever it is that is needed in order to satisfy that need of theirs, and they will look to you as the authority that can provide it.

Used for bad intentions, mass hypnosis can be incredibly damaging. Many fake industries such as the psychic, scientology and other massive money maker industries all prey on the vulnerability of people to make them believe that their urges can be satisfied.

Used for good intentions, mass hypnosis can deliver a useful product or service to large amounts of people. A charismatic leader who is able to sway vast amounts of people to undertake a noble cause us utilising techniques taught in mass hypnosis for a good purpose, provided the cause is indeed noble.

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EDWARD LOUIS BERNAYS

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As for Bernay’s many accomplishments, he also worked with a vast number of famous clients, including President Calvin Coolidge, Procter & Gamble, CBS, the United Fruit Company, the American Tobacco Company, General Electric, Dodge Motors, and the fluoridationists of the Public Health Service. … Bernays helped the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) and other special interest groups to convince the American public that water fluoridation was safe and beneficial to human health. This was achieved by using the American Dental Association in a highly successful media campaign

Edward Louis Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995) was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as “the father of public relations”.^[1] He combined the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud.

He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he regarded as irrational and dangerous as a result of the ‘herd instinct‘ that Trotter had described.^[2] Adam Curtis‘s award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self, pinpoints Bernays as the originator of modern public relations, and Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life magazine.^[3]

Life and influences

Born 1891 in Vienna to Jewish parents, Bernays was a double nephew of psychoanalysis pioneer Sigmund Freud. His father was Ely Bernays, brother of Freud’s wife Martha Bernays. In 1892 his family moved to New York City, where he attended DeWitt Clinton High School.^[4] In 1912 he graduated from Cornell University with a degree in agriculture, but chose journalism as his first career. He married Doris E. Fleischman in 1922.^[5]

Bernays, working for the administration of Woodrow Wilson during World War I with the Committee on Public Information, was influential in promoting the idea that America’s war efforts were primarily aimed at “bringing democracy to all of Europe”. Following the war, he was invited by Woodrow Wilson to attend the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Stunned by the degree to which the democracy slogan had swayed the public both at home and abroad, he wondered whether this propaganda model could be employed during peace time. Due to negative implications surrounding the word propaganda because of its use by the Germans in World War II, he promoted the term “Public Relations”.^[6] According to the BBC interview with Bernays’s daughter Anne, Bernays felt that the public’s democratic judgment was “not to be relied upon” and he feared that “they [the American public] could very easily vote for the wrong man or want the wrong thing, so that they had to be guided from above”. This “guidance” was interpreted by Anne to mean that her father believed in a sort of “enlightened despotism” ideology.^[7]

This thinking was heavily shared and influenced by Walter Lippmann, one of the most prominent American political columnists at the time. Bernays and Lippmann sat together on the U.S. Committee on Public Information, and Bernays quotes Lippmann extensively in his seminal work Propaganda.^{[citation needed]}

Bernays also drew on the ideas of the French writer Gustave LeBon, the originator of crowd psychology, and of Wilfred Trotter, who promoted similar ideas in the anglophone world in his book Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War. Bernays refers to these two names in his writings. Trotter, who was a head and neck surgeon at University College Hospital, London, read Freud’s works, and it was he who introduced Wilfred Bion, whom he lived and worked with, to Freud’s ideas. When Freud fled Vienna for London after the Anschluss, Trotter became his personal physician, and Wilfred Bion and Ernest Jones became key members of the Freudian psychoanalysis movement in England, and would develop the field of Group Dynamics, largely associated with the Tavistock Institute where many of Freud’s followers worked. Thus ideas of group psychology and psychoanalysis came together in London around World War II.^{[citation needed]}

Bernays’s public relations efforts helped to popularize Freud’s theories in the United States. Bernays also pioneered the PR industry’s use of psychology and other social sciences to design its public persuasion campaigns:

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits.^[8]

He called this scientific technique of opinion-molding the ‘engineering of consent‘.^[9]

Bernays began his career as press agent in 1913, counseling to theaters, concerts and the ballet. In 1917, US President Woodrow Wilson engaged George Creel and realizing one of his ideas, he founded the Committee on Public Information. Bernays, Carl Byoir and John Price Jones worked together to influence public opinion towards supporting American participation in World War I.^{[citation needed]}

In 1919, he opened an office as Public Relations Counselor in New York. He held the first Public Relations course at New York University in 1923, publishing the first groundbreaking book on public relations entitled Crystallizing Public Opinion that same year.^[10]

As for Bernay’s many accomplishments, he also worked with a vast number of famous clients, including President Calvin Coolidge, Procter & Gamble, CBS, the United Fruit Company, the American Tobacco Company, General Electric, Dodge Motors, and the fluoridationists of the Public Health Service. Beyond his contributions to these famous and powerful clients, Bernays revolutionized public relations by combining traditional press agentry with the techniques of psychology and sociology to create what one writer has called “the science of ballyhoo”.

Techniques

Bernays refined and popularized the use of the press release, following its invention by PR man Ivy Lee, who had issued a press release after the 1906 Atlantic City train wreck. One of the most famous campaigns of Bernays was the women’s cigarette smoking campaign in 1920s. Bernays helped the smoking industry overcome one of the biggest social taboos of the time: women smoking in public. Women were only allowed to smoke in designated areas, or not at all. If caught violating this rule, women would have been arrested.^[11] Bernays staged the 1929 Easter parade in New York City, showing models holding lit Lucky Strike cigarettes, or “Torches of Freedom“. After the historical public event, women started lighting up more than ever before. It was through Bernays that women’s smoking habits started to become socially acceptable. Bernays created this event as news, which, of course, it wasn’t. Bernays convinced industries that the news, not advertising, was the best medium to carry their message to an unsuspecting public.

One of Bernays’s favorite techniques for manipulating public opinion was the indirect use of “third party authorities” to plead his clients’ causes. “If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway”, he said. In order to promote sales of bacon, for example, he conducted a survey of physicians and reported their recommendation that people eat heavy breakfasts. He sent the results of the survey to 5,000 physicians, along with publicity touting bacon and eggs as a heavy breakfast.

Bernays also drew upon his uncle Sigmund’s psychoanalytic ideas for the benefit of commerce in order to promote, by indirection, commodities as diverse as cigarettes, soap and books.

In addition to the theories of his uncle, Bernays used those of Ivan Pavlov.^{[citation needed]}

PR industry historian Scott Cutlip describes Bernays as “perhaps the most fabulous and fascinating individual in public relations, a man who was bright, articulate to excess, and most of all, an innovative thinker and philosopher of this vocation that was in its infancy when he opened his office in New York in June 1919.”

Bernays used the “Freudian Theory” to deal with the public’s conception of communism, as he believed that we should not be easing the public’s fear of communism, but rather promote that fear and play with the public’s emotions of it. This theory in its own was so powerful that it became a weapon of its own during the cold war.

Philosophy and public relations

Bernays’s papers, opened in April 2010,^[12] contain a wealth of information on the founding of the field in the twenties. The Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel Edward L. Bernays (1965) contains an overview of the decade. Many of the essays selected for the Coolidge-Consumerism collection from the Bernays Papers were written as early drafts for The Biography of an Idea.^{[citation needed]}

Bernays, who pursued his calling in New York City from 1919 to 1963, styled himself a “public relations counsel.” He had very pronounced views on the differences between what he did and what people in advertising did. A pivotal figure in the orchestration of elaborate corporate advertising campaigns and multi-media consumer spectacles, he nevertheless is among those listed in the acknowledgments section of the seminal government social science study “Recent Social Trends in the United States” (1933).

On a par with Bernays as the most sought-after public relations counsel of the decade was Ivy Ledbetter Lee, among whose chief clients were John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Bethlehem Steel, Armour & Company, and the Pennsylvania Railroad. Lee is represented in the Coolidge-Consumerism collection by “Publicity: Some of the Things It Is and Is Not” (1925).

The belief that propaganda and news were legitimate tools of his business, and his ability to offer philosophical justifications for these beliefs that ultimately embraced the whole democratic way of life, in Bernays’s mind set his work in public relations apart from what ad men did. The Bernays essays “A Public Relations Counsel States His Views” (1927) and “This Business of Propaganda” (1928) show that Bernays regarded advertising men as special pleaders, merely paid to persuade people to accept an idea or commodity. The public relations counsel, on the other hand, he saw as an Emersonian-like creator of events that dramatized new concepts and perceptions, and even influenced the actions of leaders and groups in society.

Bernays’s vision was of a utopian society in which individuals’ dangerous libidinal energies, the psychic and emotional energy associated with instinctual biological drive that Bernays viewed as inherently dangerous given his observation of societies like the Germans under Hitler, could be harnessed and channeled by a corporate elite for economic benefit. Through the use of mass production, big business could fulfill constant craving of the inherently irrational and desire-driven masses, simultaneously securing the niche of a mass production economy (even in peacetime), as well as sating the dangerous animal urges that threatened to tear society apartif left unquelled.

Bernays’s magisterial, philosophical touch is in evidence in “Manipulating Public Opinion” (1928) when he writes: “This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas.” Yet he recognized the potential danger in so grand a scheme and in “This Business of Propaganda” (1928), as elsewhere, sounded the great caveat to his vision: a public relations counsel “must never accept a retainer or assume a position which puts his duty to the groups he represents above his duty to society.”^[13]

Propaganda

Cover of Bernays’s 1928 book Propaganda

In Propaganda (1928), Bernays argued that the manipulation of public opinion was a necessary part of democracy:

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.^[14]

Articles in the journals of opinion, such as the one by Marlen Pew, Edward L. Bernays Critiqued as “Young Machiavelli of Our Time”,^[15] and the debate between Bernays and Everett Dean Martin in Forum, Are We Victims of Propaganda?, depicted Bernays negatively.^[16] He and other publicists were often attacked as propagandists and deceptive manipulators, who represented lobby groups against the public interest and covertly contrived events that secured coverage as news stories, free of charge, for their clients instead of securing attention for them through paid advertisements.^{[citation needed]}

Bernays’s brilliance for promotion in this vein emerges clearly when one reads, in the Bernays Typescript on Publicizing the New Dodge Cars, 1927-1928: “Two Sixes”, the story of how he managed to secure newspaper coverage for the radio programs he developed to promote the Dodge Brothers’ new six-cylinder cars. The Bernays Typescript on Publicizing the Fashion Industry, 1925-27: “Hats and Stockings” and the Bernays Typescript on Art in the Fashion Industry, 1923-1927, reveal a similar flair for consumer manipulation in the arena of fashion.^{[citation needed]}

Tie-in

As is evident from the description of his campaign to publicize the Dodge cars, Bernays had a particular gift^{[citation needed]} for the marketing strategy called the “tie-up” or “tie-in”. In this strategy, one venue, opportunity, or occasion for promoting a consumer product, for example, radio advertising, is linked to another, say, newspaper advertising, and even, at times, to a third, say a department store exhibition salesroom featuring the item, and possibly even a fourth, such as an important holiday, for example Thrift Week.^[17]

In addition to famous corporate clients, such as Procter & Gamble, the American Tobacco Company, Cartier Inc., Best Foods, CBS, the United Fruit Company, General Electric, Dodge Motors, the fluoridationists of the Public Health Service, Knox-Gelatin, and innumerable other big names, Bernays also worked on behalf of many non-profit institutions and organizations. These included, to name just a few, the Committee on Publicity Methods in Social Work (1926–1927), the Jewish Mental Health Society (1928), the Book Publishers Research Institute (1930–1931), the New York Infirmary for Women and Children (1933), the Committee for Consumer Legislation (1934), the Friends of Danish Freedom and Democracy (1940),^[18][19][20] the Citywide Citizens’ Committee on Harlem (1942), and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (1954–1961). For the U.S. Government, he worked for the President’s Emergency Committee on Employment (1930–1932) and President Calvin Coolidge.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1950s, some of his ideas and vision helped portray India as the most democratic republic in Asia by having the People’s Congress of India adapt a Bill of Rights. Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Assembly, and Freedom of Petition were added to the constitution of India.^{[citation needed]}

The amusing Bernays Typescript on Public Relations Work and Politics, 1924: “Breakfast with Coolidge” shows that President Coolidge too was among his clients. Bernays was hired to improve Coolidge’s image before the 1924 presidential election.^{[citation needed]}

Another selection from his papers, the Typescript on Publicizing the Physical Culture Industry, 1927: “Bernarr Macfadden“, reveals Bernays’s opinion of the leader of the physical culture movement. Yet another client, department store visionary Edward A. Filene, was the subject of the Typescript on a Boston Department Store Magnate. Bernays’s Typescript on the Importance of Samuel Strauss: “1924 – Private Life” shows that the public relations counsel and his wife were fans of consumerism critic Samuel Strauss.^{[citation needed]}

Campaigns

Some of the campaigns Bernays worked on:

• 1913 Bernays was hired by the actor Richard Bennett to protect a play that supported sex education against police interference. Bernays set up a front group called the “Medical Review of Reviews Sociological Fund” (officially concerned with fighting venereal disease) for the purpose of endorsing the play.^[21]
• 1915 Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes American tour convinced magazines to write articles that told people that Ballet is fun to watch.
• 1920 Successfully hosted the first NAACP convention in Atlanta, Georgia. His campaign was considered successful because there was no violence at the convention. His campaign focused on the important contributions of African-Americans to Whites living in the South. He later received an award from the NAACP for his contribution.
• In the 1920s, working for the American Tobacco Company, he sent a group of young models to march in the New York City parade. He then told the press that a group of women’s rights marchers would light “Torches of Freedom“. On his signal, the models lit Lucky Strike cigarettes in front of the eager photographers. The New York Times (1 April 1929) printed: “Group of Girls Puff at Cigarettes as a Gesture of ‘Freedom’”. This helped to break the taboo against women smoking in public. During this decade he also handled publicity for the NAACP.^[22]
• Bernays once engineered a “pancake breakfast” with vaudevillians for Calvin Coolidge in what is widely considered one of the first overt media acts for a president.^{[citation needed]}
• Bernays used his uncle Sigmund Freud‘s ideas to help convince the public, among other things, that bacon and eggs was the true all-American breakfast.^[23]
• In October 1929, Bernays was involved in promoting “Light’s Golden Jubilee.” The event, which spanned across several major cities in the U.S., was designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison‘s invention of the light-bulb (though the light-bulb had been previously invented by Joseph Swan). The publicity elements of the Jubilee – including the special issuance of a U.S. postage stamp and Edison’s “re-creating” the invention of the light bulb for a nationwide radio audience – provided evidence of Bernays’s love for big ideas and “ballyhoo“. A follow up event staged in 1954 (and directed for television by David O. Selznick) was styled “Light’s Diamond Jubileee”.
• Bernays attempted to help Venida hair nets company to get women to wear their hair longer so they would use hair nets more. The campaign failed but did get government officials to require hair nets for some jobs.
• Bernays worked with Procter & Gamble for Ivory soap. The campaign successfully convinced people that Ivory soap was medically superior to other soaps. He also promoted soap through sculpting contests and floating contests because the soap floated better than its competitors.
• Bernays helped the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) and other special interest groups to convince the American public that water fluoridation was safe and beneficial to human health. This was achieved by using the American Dental Association in a highly successful media campaign. ^[24]
• In the 1930s, his Dixie Cup campaign was designed to convince consumers that only disposable cups were sanitary.^{[citation needed]}
• In the 1930s, he attempted to convince women that Lucky Strike cigarettes’ forest green pack was the most fashionable color. Letters were written to interior and fashion designers, department stores, and prominent women of society pushing green as the new hot color for the season. Balls, gallery exhibitions, and window displays all featured green after Bernays got through with them. The result was that green did indeed become a very hot color for the 1934 season and Lucky Strike kept their pack color and female clientele intact.
• In 1939 he was the publicity director for the New York World’s Fair
• After his semi-retirement in the 1960s he worked with anti-smoker lawyer John Banzhaf’s group, ASH and supported other anti-smoking campaigns.

Overthrow of government of Guatemala

Bernays’s most extreme political propaganda activities were said to be conducted on behalf of the multinational corporation United Fruit Company (today’s Chiquita Brands International) and the U.S. government to facilitate the successful overthrow (see Operation PBSUCCESS) of the democratically elected president of Guatemala, General Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Bernays’s propaganda (documented in the BBC documentary, The Century of the Self), branding Arbenz as communist, was published in major U.S. media. According to a book review by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton of Larry Tye‘s biography of Bernays, The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & The Birth of PR, “the term ‘banana republic‘ actually originated in reference to United Fruit’s domination of corrupt governments in Guatemala and other Central American countries.”^[25]

Recognition and criticism

Much of Bernays’s reputation today stems from his persistent public relations campaign to build his own reputation as “America’s No. 1 Publicist”. During his active years, many of his peers in the industry were offended by Bernays’s continuous self-promotion. According to Scott Cutlip, “Bernays was a brilliant person who had a spectacular career, but, to use an old-fashioned word, he was a braggart.”^{[citation needed]}

“When a person would first meet Bernays”, says Cutlip, “it would not be long until Uncle Sigmund would be brought into the conversation. His relationship with Freud was always in the forefront of his thinking and his counseling.” According to Irwin Ross, another writer, “Bernays liked to think of himself as a kind of psychoanalyst to troubled corporations.” In the early 1920s, Bernays arranged an English-language translation of Freud’s General Introduction to Psychoanalysis for the US publication. In addition to publicizing Freud’s ideas, Bernays used his association with Freud to establish his own reputation as a thinker and theorist—a reputation that was further enhanced when Bernays authored several landmark texts of his own, most notably Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923, ISBN 0-87140-975-5), Propaganda (1928, ISBN 0-8046-1511-X) and “The Engineering of Consent” in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (March 1947).^{[citation needed]}

Bernays defined the profession of “counsel on public relations” as a “practicing social scientist” whose “competence is like that of the industrial engineer, the management engineer, or the investment counselor in their respective fields.” To assist clients, PR counselors used “understanding of the behavioral sciences and applying them—sociology, social psychology, anthropology, history, etc.” In Propaganda, his most important book,Bernays argued that the scientific manipulation of public opinion was necessary to overcome chaos and conflict in society.

Bernays’s celebration of propaganda helped define public relations, but it did not win the industry many friends. In a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter described Bernays and Ivy Lee as “professional poisoners of the public mind, exploiters of foolishness, fanaticism and self-interest.” And history showed the flaw in Bernays’s identification of the “manipulation of the masses” as a natural and necessary feature of a democratic society. The fascist rise to power in Germany demonstrated that propaganda could be used to subvert democracy as easily as it could be used to “resolve conflict.”

In his 1965 autobiography, Bernays recalls a dinner at his home in 1933 where

Karl von Wiegand, foreign correspondent of the Hearst newspapers, an old hand at interpreting Europe and just returned from Germany, was telling us about Goebbels and his propaganda plans to consolidate Nazi power. Goebbels had shown Wiegand his propaganda library, the best Wiegand had ever seen. Goebbels, said Wiegand, was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me. … Obviously the attack on the Jews of Germany was no emotional outburst of the Nazis, but a deliberate, planned campaign.^[26]

According to John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, in a published review of Larry Tye’s biography of Bernays,^[27]

It is impossible to fundamentally grasp the social, political, economic and cultural developments of the past 100 years without some understanding of Bernays and his professional heirs in the public relations industry. PR is a 20th century phenomenon, and Bernays — widely eulogized as the “father of public relations” at the time of his death in 1995 — played a major role in defining the industry’s philosophy and methods.

As a result his legacy remains a highly contested one, as evidenced by Adam Curtis‘ 2002 BBC documentary The Century of the Self.

Works

• The Broadway Anthology (1917, co-author)
• Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) OCLC 215243834
• A Public Relations Counsel (1927)
• An Outline of Careers; a practical guide to achievement by thirty-eight eminent Americans (1927)
• Verdict of public opinion on propaganda (1927)
• Propaganda (1928), Horace Liveright, ISBN 978-0-8046-1511-2
• This Business of Propaganda (1928)
• Universities—pathfinders in public opinion (1937)
• Careers for men; a practical guide to opportunity in business, written by thirty-eight successful Americans (1939)
• Speak up for democracy; what you can do—a practical plan of action for every American citizen (1940)
• Future of private enterprise in the post-war world (1942)
• Democratic leadership in total war (1943)
• Psychological blueprint for the peace—Canada, U.S.A. (1944)
• Public relations (1945)
• Take your place at the peace table (1945)
• What the British think of us; a study of British hostility to America and Americans and its motivation, with recommendations for improving Anglo-American relations (1950, co-author with his wife Doris Fleischman)
• Engineering of consent (1955, contributor) OCLC 550584
• Your future in public relations (1961)
• Biography of an idea: memoirs of public relations counsel (1965)
• Case for Reappraisal of U.S. Overseas Information Policies and Programs (Special Study) (1970), by Edward L. Bernays and Burnet Hershey (editors)

See also

• Crowd manipulation
• Propaganda
• Spin (political)
• Mass psychology
• Isaac Bernays (1792–1849) his grandfather
• Anne Bernays, his daughter
• Freud family, his relatives

Notes

References

External links

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Edward Bernays

• The Father of Spin
• Visiting Edward Bernays – Chapter 1 of a book by Stuart Ewen (1996)
• Torches of Freedom Video Clip
• Edward L. Bernays tells the story of “Torches of Freedom” in his own words -video clip -1999
• Meet Edward Bernays (audio documentary)
• The Edward L. Bernays papers, 1982-1998 (bulk 1993-1995) are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.
• Booknotes interview with Larry Tye on The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & The Birth of Public Relations, September 20, 1998.

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(CBS) Has tooth decay met its match?

Dentists are smiling over a new report that UCLA researchers have developed a new mouthwash that might make dental cavities go the way of the dodo bird, CBS Los Angeles reported.

For the study – published in the Nov. issue of the journal Carries Research – researchers tested the new mouthwash on 12 patients. After only one rinse, the mouthwash completely eliminated the S. mutans bacteria – the main cause of tooth decay. The patients were S. mutans-free for the entire four-day duration of the study.

How does the magic mouthwash work?

It uses a new antimicrobial technology known as specifically targeted anti-microbial peptides, or STAMP for short. The researchers developed it with financial support from toothpaste heavyweight Colgate-Palmolive. The lead researcher, Dr. Wenyuan Shi, calls the mouthwash a “smart bomb” since it eliminates harmful bacteria for an extended period of time.

“With this new antimicrobial technology, we have the prospect of actually wiping out tooth decay in our lifetime,” Dr. Shi, chair of the oral biology section at the UCLA School of Dentistry, said in a written statement.

But how does this mouthwash differ from all those other antiseptic mouthwashes on the market? Don’t they also fight cavity-causing bacteria?

Dr. Shi explained to CBS News that the mouth is a “true jungle,” with over 100 trillion bacteria residing in it. But most of the bacteria doesn’t cause tooth decay.

“99.9 percent of them are good guys,” Shi said.

But most mouthwash products are “broad-spectrum” according to Shi, which means they wipe out all bacteria in the mouth. He compared that effect to how an herbicide kills both weeds and surrounding healthy grass. The “smart bomb” mouthwash targets and destroys S. mutans bacteria, leaving healthy bacteria that help protect teeth.

“We let the mouth grow grass, and we prevent the weeds from coming back,” Shi told CBS News.

Shi said based on that principle, his lab’s research might lay the foundation for developing more “smart bombs” to fight other bacterial diseases residing in the gut or nose.

But “smart bomb” mouthwash won’t hit store shelves this year. Based on this study’s success, researchers sent an approval application to the FDA with the hopes that more studies can start as early as March 2012. Shi said the researchers need to find out if the mouthwash’s effects last for days, or even weeks. If approved, it will be the first anti-cavity “drug” licensed in nearly 60 years.

The last one approved? You may have heard of it – fluoride.

Dr. No-Hee Park, dean of the UCLA School of Dentistry summed up everyone’s excitement over the research:

“We are proud that UCLA will become known as the birthplace of this significant treatment innovation.”

Dental cavities are fairly common. More than 50 percent of kids get them, and 92 percent of adults get cavities in their permanent teeth at some point.

Fluoride and Lead

by

Frances Frech

(Originally presented at a State Lead Commission hearing in Hannibal, Missouri in 1994.)

All of the fluoride products used in the artificial fluoridation of water are contaminated with lead and arsenic. (We received the evidence from Margaret Stasikowski, an official with the EPA, in the form of copies of pages from Water Chemicals Codex, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1982.)

The lead contamination is considered the most serious so we’ll deal with that one rather than with both substances. Lead is creating the most concern today we’ll go into the arsenic angle in a later paper.

So How does the tainting occur? In the matter of the fluosilicates (such as hydrofluosilicic acid); the most commonly used fluoride substances in community water systems, this is the story:

The fluosilicates are the by-products of the phosphate fertilizer industry. In the manufacture of this kind of fertilizer, phosphorus is obtained from phosphate rock, which has to be broken down with sulfuric acid.(1) Fluorine occurs naturally in combination with the phosphates.(2) In these two facts lie the keys to the presence of lead in the fluosilicates.

Step One: Sulfuric acid is prepared by either of two ways, the lead chamber process(3) or the contact method.(4) In its purest form (made by the contact method) it is used in pharmaceuticals; in its lowest grade (produced by the lead chamber process) it is used by the fertilizer industry.(5) It is also frequently recovered for re-use, but this form is too impure for any purpose except the manufacture of fertilizer, for which it is quite suitable.(6)

In the lead chamber process purification is carried out only to the extent of removing substances that could clog the machinery.(7) Of the common metals, only lead is resistant to cold sulfuric acid in concentrations up to 100%. But in hot acid the resistance is up to about 70%.(8) The lead chamber type uses heat (about 600 C) and isn’t cooled during the process. That’s why a certain amount of lead is leached during this procedure.

If a pure product is needed, the contact method is used, but it’s more expensive, more complicated. In the making of fertilizer, however, a pure grade is not necessary. After all, neither fertilizer nor its byproducts were intended for human consumption.

Step Two: Fluorine, which is a highly reactive element capable of joining with any other element except oxygen, is able to leach lead from the contaminated sulfuric acid. In the past hydrofluosilicic acid was simply neutralized and discarded. The picking up of lead wouldn’t have been a problem. But eventually it was decided that the acid, being already in solution, would be better, simpler to use, and less expensive than sodium fluoride.(9) The lead contamination, apparently, was forgotten (if, indeed, it had ever been noticed.)

Sodium fluoride is also lead-tainted (and with arsenic, as well.) Aluminum ore (bauxite) is usually contaminated with lead and arsenic (and a number of other elements.) In order to obtain a pure product,

these have to be removed.(10) They become part of the major by-product of aluminum refining, sodium fluoride.

Another way in which fluoridation contributes to lead in the water is through its action on whatever lead pipes may still be in existence in older homes. Any lead pipes would be old lead. These are ordinarily covered by a protective coating made by the lead itself which is impervious to diluted acids (as all of them would be in water.) Water acts slowly on lead, forming lead hydroxide, but the action is slight if the water contains carbon dioxide or carbonates or sulfates which interact with lead to form these protective coatings.(11) It’s interesting that the lead pipes in Roman aqueducts, 2000 years old, are still in such good shape the numbers and letters engraved on them are clearly legible.(12)

In fluoridated water, though, it’s a different matter. Fluorine can and does destroy the protective coatings; it can and does leach lead.

A pediatrics textbook published in 1964 (13) noted that the incidence of lead poisoning had been rising in certain metropolitan areas in Eastern United States. The blame was laid on old lead paint flaking from walls and woodwork. But most of the lead chips were old before 1964; some children chewed them long before then. But a new source of lead had arisen–unnoticed: The fluoridation of water, with lead contaminated fluoride, a substance also capable of leaching lead from the pipes.

Although there were scattered places fluoridating throughout the nation, larger numbers of eastern metropolitan communities were doing so.

Today one in nine children under the age of six is said to have unacceptably high blood lead levels (14) even though lead paint was banned in 1978 (and hadn’t been used extensively since the 1950′s!) Lead in gasoline has been phased out, and lead solder hasn’t been permitted on copper tubing since 1986 (eight years ago.) The EPA says that lead stabilizes in five years. So except for fluoride use, any pipes, whether of lead or lead-soldered, should not now be hazardous. The most revealing statistics, though, are the high blood lead levels in 400,000 newborns each year. Newsweek in its article on lead and the threat to children (15) said that pregnant women passed this toxic substance to their unborn children by eating, drinking, or breathing it. But even though pregnant women do sometimes have weird cravings, it’s not likely more than a tiny percentage would be chewing paint chips, nor would a significant number of them be engaged in renovating old houses. The lead is in the water–and in foods and beverages prepared with the water.

The EPA estimates that 10-20% of the lead in children comes from the water.(16) That agency, which knows of the lead contamination of fluoride products, insists the amount is too small to be of regulatory

concern. What they have overlooked, though, is that it concentrates in the body tissues, and over time, would add up to quite a lot. In addition, it becomes concentrated in products processed with the water.

The 10-20% directly from the water can easily become three or four times as much. The EPA lists as health problems caused by lead the following conditions: Interference with formation of red blood cells, anemia, kidney damage, impaired reproductive function, interference with Vitamin D metabolism, impaired cognitive performance, delayed neurological and physical development, elevations in blood pressure.(17) The agency also suggests lead my be a carcinogen, possibly causing kidney tumors and lymphocytic leukemia.(18) Furthermore, it’s a known scientific fact that lead poisons the bone marrow.(19) Surely, then, it would be prudent to avoid even “a little bit of lead,” assuming that’s all fluoridation contributes.

But the evidence shows it’s much more than that. Let us tell you a tale of two cities–Tacoma, Washington, and Thurmont, Maryland. Both of them saw significant decline in lead levels only six months after fluoridation was stopped. (In Tacoma, that was due to equipment problems, in Thurmont, it was a temporary ban by the city council.) Tacoma registered a drop of nearly 50% (20); in Thurmont it was 78%.(21) To the best of our knowledge, no other explanations were offered. In Thurmont the ban is now permanent.(22) In Tacoma, we’re told, a battle continues over whether or not to resume fluoridating.

We have more points to add. As we’ve already mentioned, the EPA says that lead may be implicated in causing leukemia. A booklet published by the Leukemia Society in 1987 noted that chemicals which damage the bone marrow can cause leukemia. The Book of Popular Science, 1974, pointed out that bone marrow is poisoned by lead. (23) Are we to believe, then, nothing is wrong with putting a little bit of lead into the water (from which it will also enter, more concentrated, food and beverages prepared with the water?)

The EPA permits lead-contaminated fluorides to be added; they do not require it. Thus, any community, anywhere, could halt the program any time, with the consent of its citizens, who surely would consent if given the facts.

Lead-tainted fluorides are waste products mainly of the aluminum and phosphate fertilizer industries, largely from US companies. But we’ve learned that in some communities sodium fluoride imported from Japan or sodium silicofluoride from Belgium are used. Neither of these nations fluoridates its own water supplies. (24) (Don’t you get the feeling we’re in the same category as a Third World country becoming a toxic waste dump for others?)

In California recently the Attorney General and two environmental groups have sued the makers of brass pumps containing lead which could contaminate water from wells. (24) But who is suing companies

who sell lead-tainted products to cities for their fluoridation purposes? Who is suing the EPA for allowing it? Where are the lawsuits against the US Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control for adamantly promoting it?

In conclusion, there’s still the matter of lead being leached from old pipes. Anyone who argues that fuoridation had nothing to do with it will have to explain those well-preserved lead pipes from more than 2000 years ago in unfluoridated Roman water.

REFERENCES:

(1) Book of Popular Science, Grolier, Inc., 1974, Vol.7, 63.

(2) Ibid.

(3) Book of Popular Science, Vol. 3, 167-169.

(4) Book of Popular Science, Vol. 7, 62.

(5) Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1957, Vol.21, 545.

(6) Ibid., 545.

(7) Ibid., 546.

(8) Ibid., 545A

(9) Book of Popular Science, Vol. 7, 63-64.

(10) Encyclopedia Americana, 1945, Vol. 1, 456.

(11) Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1957, Vol.1, 715.

(12) Book of Popular Science, Vol. 3, 39.

(13) Textbook of Pediatrics, Nelson WS, MD, WB Saunders Co., Philadelphia,London, 1964, 1557.

(14) Newsweek, “Lead and Your Kids,” July 15, 1991.

(15) Ibid.

(16) Ibid.

(17) Federal Register, Bol. 56, No. 110, June 7, 1991, 264.

(18) Ibid., 265-70.

(19) Book of Popular Science, Vol. 3, 74.

(20) Letter from the Tacoma Public Utilities, Dec. 2, 1992.

(21) Fluoride Report, newsletter, April, 1994, 5.

(22) Ibid.

(23) Book of Popular Science, Vol. 3,74.

(24) Letter from Tacoma Public Utilities, May 22, 1992.

(25) Kansas City STAR, April 19, 1994.

Please attend the Wash State Court of Appeals – Monday, January 7  in Tacoma at 10:00am

YOUR PRESENCE IS NEEDED TO SUPPORT THREE APPEALS COURT JUDGES BEING ASKED TO RULE  THAT WATER  FLUORIDATION IS MEDICATION.

Washington State Court of Appeals meets Monday, January 7  in Tacoma at 10: A.M.  Their decision on this Port Angeles / Forks case could stop fluoridation statewide if laws governing drug manufacture and distribution are applied. State and Federal drug laws plainly define any substance used to treat or prevent a disease as a drug. No one questions that tooth decay is a disease. Connecting the dots should be simple, but after over 60 years of greatly mistaken pro-fluoride propaganda it is going to take courage for justices to recognize that fluoridation is truly medication of people with an unapproved drug, not just a water utility additive.

Three appeals court justices are being asked to break new ground.  A decision in our favor will have state-wide effect, and will be cited nationally.  The lawyers will do the talking, but the sense of support from the  audience is also going to be critical.

Eloise Kailin

Court of Appeals – General Information website: 

http://www.courts.wa.gov/appellate_trial_courts/?fa=atc.display_divs&folderID=div2&fileID=geninfo

Court Location:  950 Broadway, Suite 300 Tacoma, WA 98402
http://maps.google.com/?q=950+Broadway+Tacoma+WA+98402

UPDATE ON PORT ANGELES/FORKS  WATER FLUORIDATION

From website:   http://www.yes4cleanwater.org/now.htm
In June, 2011 Protect the Peninsula’s Future and Clallam County Citizens for Safe Drinking Water (PPF/Citizens)  brought to the Superior Court  of Judge Verser their  lawsuit alleging that addition of fluoride compounds to public drinking water in Port Angeles and Forks constituted the dispensation of unapproved drugs.  The definition of a drug for both State and Federal statutes is “any substance used with intent to treat or prevent disease”. Tooth decay is considered a disease.  In Forks the substance is sodium fluoride and in Port Angeles it is fluorosilicic acid.  Both are industrial waste products;  neither is pharmaceutical grade.

Judge Verser dismissed our lawsuit because of language in a 1954 decision of the Washington State  Supreme  Court mentioning that fluoridation was not medication.

PPF and Citizens appealed Judge Verser’s action, and asked  for direct review by the state Supreme Court.  Many months later the Supreme  Court refused direct review.  The case is now scheduled for a hearing  on Monday morning, January 7 at 10:AM  before the Court of Appeals, Division 2 in Tacoma.

PPF/Citizens is now joined by two allies who are petitioning the Appeals Court to be heard as Friends of the Court. The political action committee, Our Water Our Choice!  which sponsored the initiative, the Medical Independence Act, offers a local perspective to the court.  Washington Action for Safe Water,  represented by dentist Dr, Bill Osmunson offers a state wide perspective.

Across the nation the attitude towards water fluoridation is changing. An increasing number of cities are abandoning  the practice. A nationwide epidemic of dental fluorosis,  the hallmark of over-dosage with fluoride,  has been documented as affecting 41% of adolescents aged 12 to 15 .  There is great concern for increases in bone fractures in later life as fluoride bio-accumulates to high levels in the skeleton and makes bones brittle . These and many other concerns led to recommendations from the Department of Health and Human  Services  that levels of fluoride in water be lowered.  We assume it was politically impossible for them to stop the practice entirely,  given its emotional and financial promotion over the past 60 years.

At any rate we feel we now have a reasonable expectation for a fair decision to define fluoride products  added to drinking water as drugs which would then allow application of protective laws relating to drugs.   January 7 will be an important day. Please attend this hearing in Tacoma at the Court of Appeals if you can.

European Environmental Bureau
Urges EU States to Ban Amalgam Fillings

Thanks to Dr. Mercola.

By Dr. Mercola

In a letter to European Union (EU) member state representatives and dental experts, the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) asked recipients to support a phase-out of the use of mercury in dentistry, both in the EU and around the world.

The EU has been aggressive in both their intent and actions aimed at reducing mercury usage, and even adopted a mercury strategy in 2005, which contains 20 measures to reduce mercury emissions, cut supply and demand and protect against exposure.

The EEB letter comes on the heels of a July 2012 European Commission report by BIO Intelligence Service (BIOS),¹ which also recommended the phase-out of dental amalgam and mercury in button cell batteries.

Will the EU Continue to Outpace the U.S. in Protecting Their Citizens from Mercury?

The European Commission has been working to reduce mercury exposure to humans for the past seven years. While the official stand has been that dental amalgam is safe, recent studies suggest otherwise. Sweden has already phased out dental mercury, and several other European countries have either significantly reduced its use or have imposed restrictions on it. The United States has been shockingly slow to respond to mounting evidence of significant harm from dental amalgam.

As the European Commission states:²

“Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at ambient temperature. It is a chemical element and therefore indestructible. This means that there is a “global pool” of mercury circulating in society and the environment – between air, water, sediments, soil and living organisms.

Mercury and most of its compounds are highly toxic to humans, animals and ecosystems. High doses can be fatal to humans, but even relatively low doses can seriously affect the nervous system and have been linked with possible harmful effects on the cardiovascular, immune and reproductive systems.

In the presence of bacteria, mercury can change into methylmercury, its most toxic form. Methylmercury readily passes through both the placenta and the blood-brain barrier, so exposure of women of child-bearing age and of children, is of greatest concern.”

The use of mercury fillings is very much an issue of global concern, as once in the environment, dental mercury converts to its even more toxic form, methylmercury, and becomes a major source of accumulated mercury in the fish you eat. So even if you were somehow ok with implanting this toxin directly into your mouth, it’s difficult to ignore the environmental ramifications. Mercury from dental amalgam pollutes:

• Water via not only dental clinic releases and human waste (amalgam is by far the largest source of mercury in our wastewater)
• Air via cremation, dental clinic emissions, sludge incineration, and respiration; and
• Soil via landfills, burials, and fertilizer

The fact that amalgam releases so much mercury into the environment is one reason why the World Health Organization (WHO) also urges “a switch in use of dental materials” away from amalgam.³ Although, they, too, noted that dental amalgam raises “general health concerns.” The WHO report observed:

“According to the Norwegian Dental Biomaterials Adverse Reaction Unit, the majority of cases of side-effects of dental filling materials are linked with dental amalgam.”

Why is This Archaic Practice Still in Use?

Amalgam simply has no place in 21st century dentistry. Yet, a decade ago, as our century dawned, amalgam was riding high. Three powerful institutional forces combined, if not conspired, to keep primacy for amalgam in American dentistry.

One was in state government (the state dental boards), another in the federal government (the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA), and the third, a private monopoly (the American Dental Association, or ADA).

The dental boards actually enforced a gag rule that prohibited American dentists from discussing mercury with their patients; in turn, FDA adamantly refused to do its legal duty to issue a rule on amalgam that would have undone the mercury secret — while the role of the ADA – with its gigantic PAC funds – was to keep much of Congress and many state legislatures in its hip pocket. Charlie Brown of Consumers for Dental Choice called these three forces – state dental boards, FDA, ADA – the “Iron Triangle.”

Even to this day, most dental patients are not informed that amalgam is 50 percent mercury – many are told that amalgams are “silver fillings” … nor are they informed of the potential risks to their health.

Finally, the momentum toward mercury-free dentistry is gaining speed and, it appears, may be set to become a reality in the 21st century – with continued support.

Those fighting for mercury-free dentistry at the international mercury treaty talks stood alone at the first session, in Stockholm in June 2010. But after building alliances with environmental groups, medical societies and consumer groups, at the second treaty session in Japan, the third in Kenya, and the fourth in Uruguay, those in favor of mercury-free dentistry, led by Consumers for Dental Choice, outflanked, outworked, and outpointed the opposition.

At the fourth treaty session, Consumers for Dental Choice and its World Alliance allies succeeded in keeping amalgam in the draft treaty by emphasizing the known environmental harms caused by amalgam and offering practical solutions. They distributed the landmark economics report The Real Cost of Dental Mercury⁴ to delegates. This report shows that an amalgam filling can cost up to $87 more than a composite filling once the environmental cost of each material is taken into account.

As a result of this environmental strategy, support from government officials and influential organizations from around the world continues to grow. Consumers for Dental Choice and its World Alliance colleagues have laid the groundwork for future success at the final mercury treaty session in Geneva in January 2013. There, the decision about amalgam (and virtually all other major treaty decisions), will be made. The challenge is great, but I believe we have found the right organization to lead us.

How You Can Support Mercury-Free Dentistry

Right now, you can help progress against dental mercury in two ways:

1. Write a letter to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), asking them to take action against harmful mercury pollution
2. Make a donation to Consumers for Dental Choice, to help them fight for your right to mercury-free dentistry

EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, has done more to protect us from mercury than all other EPA administrators put together. She has written strong rules addressing mercury in air pollution. When you write, please thank her for her diligent work against mercury, and urge her to turn her attention now to dental mercury, as it is a major source of mercury in the environment.

Please remember that the EPA does not regulate the safety of health products, so do not discuss how amalgam in the mouth is damaging. The EPA’s role is to keep toxins out of the environment, so focus your correspondence on the environmental impact of dental mercury. This is where she has the authority to act. Actual letters in the U.S. mail have more impact than emails, so we encourage you to write and mail a letter! Please send it to:

Lisa Jackson, Administrator
Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20460

If you send an email, send it to Administrator Jackson at: Jackson.LisaP@epa.gov. To get noticed, emails need a good subject line; we recommend something like “Take action against dental mercury.”

Consumers for Dental Choice and its allies have made amazing progress against this primitive, polluting mercury product, but the battle is not won yet – dental mercury is still being dumped in nations all around the world… and in your own community. Will you please consider a donation to Consumers for Dental Choice, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to advocating mercury-free dentistry?

Donations are tax-exempt and can be made online at www.toxicteeth.org. Checks can be mailed to:

Consumers for Dental Choice
316 F St., N.E., Suite 210
Washington, DC 20002

Thank you for supporting mercury-free dentistry!

Thanks to Dr. Mercola.

Elephants are doing poorly in Seattle and most other US zoos.

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019809167_elephants02m.html

When San Diego was fluoridated, they did poorly.

http://fluoride-class-action.com/dr-sauerheber-on-elephants-dead-of-aluminum-fluoride

Horses get sick and die when they drink fluoridated water.

http://fluoride-class-action.com/poisoned-horses

http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/poisoned-horses-fluoride-debate-continues/2012/08/18

http://washingtonsafewater.com/wp-content/uploads/fluoride-poisoned-race-horses-4-22-2010.pdf

http://www.fluorideresearch.org/413/files/FJ2008_v41_n3_p177-183.pdf

http://www.fluorideresearch.org/431a/files/FJ2010_v43_n1_p005-012.pdf

Camels are sickened by drinking water high in fluoride.

http://www.fluorideresearch.org/433/files/FJ2010_v43_n3_p194-199.pdf

Elephants seem to be doing better in non-fluoridated Europe. Search by country.

www.elephant-news.com/

They seem to be doing well in non-fluoridated Germany

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204075/Really-wild-Elephants-hula-trunks-dance-logs-line-conga.html

Are there any correlation studies done regarding the health of zoo animals and what kind of water they are drinking?

In my opinion elephants should not be kept in zoos but instead in large elephant reserves.

Sincerely,

James Robert Deal , Attorney
James@JamesRobertDeal.com

Community water fluoridation was associated with reduced total and restorative costs among members with one or more visits, but the magnitude and direction of the effect varied with locale and age and the effects were generally small. In two locales, the cost of restorations was higher in nonfluoridated areas in young people (<age 18) and older adults (>age 58). In younger adults, the opposite effect was observed.

Read full article here:

http://washingtonsafewater.com/wp-content/uploads/Maupome-a-comparison-of-dental-treatment-utilization-and-costs-by-hmo-members-living-in-fluoridated-and-nonfluoridated-areas-journal-of-public-health-dentistry-fall-2007-67-4-p.224.pdf

WASHINGTON SAFE WATER – EDUCATING ELECTED OFFICIALS

Renton City Council Meeting – 11-26-12

Dr. Bill Osmunson, DDS, MPH, starts at 10:50 into the YouTube here:

Video:  Renton City Council Meeting, November 26, 2012, 7pm

http://streaming.rentonwa.gov/ondemand/citycouncil/2012/november/cc-11-26-2012.aspx

Videos of all Renton Council meetings:

http://rentonwa.gov/news/default.aspx?id=31359

Dr. Bill Osmunson, DDS, MPH, starts at 10:30 into the YouTube here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcfZn_p1jWA&feature=youtu.be

On Monday, November 26, Renton City Council held a Committee of the Whole meeting on water fluoridation at the Renton City Hall, Council Chambers, 7th floor, 1055 S. Grady Way, Renton 98057.   The meeting was open to the public, but public comment is not allowed until the regular Council meetings.

The meeting format was:

• Lys Hornsby, Renton Utilities Systems Director, giving a brief history of F (5 min); starts at 1.20;
• Mr. Richard Pedlar, Fluoridation Program Manager, Wash State DOH providing their official position on fluoridation of public water supplies (5 min); starts at 5.25;
• Dr. Bill Osmunson presenting arguments against fluoridation (15 min); starts at 10.50;
• Dr. Payton Gaunt, Pediatrician in Renton, supporting fluoridation (3 min); starts at 26.30;
• Dr. Moffett Burgess, Chief Dental Officer, Seattle-King County Public Health presenting arguments for fluoridation (15 min); starts at 28.00;
• Q & A period for Council members

I am very proud of Renton City Council members for having the open-mindedness to hold this meeting. These are good people who want to do the best for their citizens and they must ALWAYS be treated with the utmost respect. We are in the process of educating them and are extremely grateful that they have given us the opportunity to do so by inviting Dr. Osmunson to present to their council members. Please be 100% supportive in their quest to learn, even if many (perhaps most) of the council still believes that the BOH and CDC is telling them the truth, that fluoridation is supposedly safe. We need to be the sane and scientific half of the equation at all times.

***

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In 1992 Tacoma turned off the fluoride. The 90th percentile lead levels dropped from 32 ppb to 17 ppb.

See:

http://washingtonsafewater.com/wp-content/uploads/Tacoma-12-2-1992-letter-re-reduced-lead-while-fluoridation-paused.pdf

Quoting from Fluoride and Lead by Frances Frech:

Let us tell you a tale of two cities–Tacoma, Washington, and Thurmont, Maryland. Both of them saw significant decline in lead levels only six months after fluoridation was stopped. (In Tacoma, that was due to equipment problems, in Thurmont, it was a temporary ban by the city council.) Tacoma registered a drop of nearly 50% (20); in Thurmont it was 78%. To the best of our knowledge, no other explanations were offered. In Thurmont the ban is now permanent.

Unfortunately, Tacoma returned to fluoridating its drinking water and a battle continues over whether to stop it.

Dr. Debra Hopkins, Tacoma dentist describes how she decided fluoridation was not a good thing.

Alli Larkin, Testimony

WABOH 11-14-12

At your last meeting it was announced that the Portland City Council had voted

5 to 0 to add fluoride to Portland’s water supply, even though three times prior to 1983 the people of Portland had voted NO to adding fluoride.  But do you know the rest of the story?

The morning after the vote the people were ready with feet on the ground.  They had 30 days to gather 20,000 signatures to put fluoride up to a vote of the people.

On the 29^th day they turned in over 43,000 signatures. Way more than enough to get it on a ballot.

Then it became common knowledge that the five city council members had closed door meetings in July and August with lobbyists for those whose seek to fluoride the water.  It was not shown on the public record of the council members, but it was shown on the reporting record of the lobbyists.

Since 2010, 76 communities have rejected fluoride.  The people here in Washington State and in fluoridated areas around the world are waking up and

speaking out.  It is now even gaining the attention of the tooth paste manufactures who have began to offer “Fluoride-free. Safe if swallowed” products.

The time has come for you unzip your lips and have open debates on the scientific information now available.

Still having some time left I added

An interesting fact I just learned was that a 2011 Freedom of Information Act request asked for the names, titles, and job descriptions of all persons past and present inside the U.S. CDC that had input into CDC’s decision to support fluoridation.  The request turned up a disturbing fact:  CDC’s Oral Health Directors, acting alone within CDC for more than 35 years, had sole input and control in deciding to support fluoridation.

Thank you, any questions?   NONE!

Date: November 13, 2012

Physician: Dr. Mark Goldbaum, M.D., 3020 Rucker Avenue, Everett WA 98201

Patient: Every resident of Snohomish County who receives Everett Utility District water, including those who live in homes and apartment buildings and who attend schools with lead water pipes and lead service lines, including infants, pregnant mothers, those with kidney disease, those on kidney dialysis, those with thyroid disease, those with osteoporosis and brittle bones, those who are chemically sensitive, and those who are allergic to fluoride.

Drug: Water containing dilute fluorosilicic acid, hydrogen fluoride, lead, arsenic, and orthosilicic acid – which leaches lead from pipes.

Expiration: No expiration. All may consume this prescription for the rest of their lives.

Quantity: No limit. Everyone can drink as much fluorosilicic water as he or she wishes,

______________________________
Mark Goldbaum, M.D.

BILL OSMUNSON, DDS, MPH
Cosmetic Dentist, Bellevue and Portland
President, Washington Action for Safe Water
bill@teachingsmiles.com

November 13, 2012

To the Snohomish Health District Board:

I am presenting this response to speech made by Dr. Mark Goldbaum on October 9, 2012, and to the Powerpoint slides which he presented as supporting evidence.

Click here to read the complete letter from Dr. Osmunson.

SAFE WATER GROUPS CHALLENGE WASHINGTON ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION:

LEAD ADDED TO DRINKING WATER. The type of fluoride utilized in Seattle, Everett, and Tacoma, fluorosilicic acid, contains lead and leaches lead from pipes and fittings. Lead permeates all cells in the body, reduces IQ, and causes kidney disease and high blood pressure.

FLUORIDE SWITCH. Fluoridation started in 1945 with sodium fluoride (from the aluminum and uranium industry), but the supply was soon insufficient. Fluorosilicic acid, (from the phosphate fertilizer industry) was substituted as it was much cheaper and more abundant. Studies by Coplan, Masters, Maas, and Sawan show that there is much more lead in tap water fluoridated with fluorosilicic acid than with sodium fluoride. Why?

ORTHOSILICIC ACID, THE CULPRIT. Fluorosilicic acid when diluted breaks down into fluoride ion, hydrogen fluoride, and orthosilicic acid. Orthosilicic acid readily dissolves lead. Orthosilicic acid has an extremely low dissociation constant, meaning that it resists being neutralized even when alkalinizer such as soda ash (sodium carbonate) is added.

THERE ARE MANY FLUORIDES. Seattle, Everett,  and around 92% of cities that fluoridate, do so with the fluorosilicic acid or its salt, sodium silicofluoride, together referred to as silicofluorides (SiF). Around 8% use sodium fluoride (NaF). SiF and NaF are much more toxic than naturally occurring calcium fluoride (CaF). Fluoridationists claim to be “adjusting” the naturally occurring fluoride level, but instead are adding man-made industrial fluorides which do not occur naturally. CaF can be fairly pure. NaF is industrial grade but relatively pure; SiF is industrial grade toxic waste, highly contaminated with heavy metals. SiF contains and breaks down into hydrogen fluoride, one of the most poisonous and penetrating of all substances plus orthosilicic acid, which dissolves lead.

TOXIC WASTE. The fluorosilicic acid used is the unfiltered and unprocessed scrubber liquor from the smoke stacks of phosphate fertilizer plants in Florida, Mexico, and China. It contains trace amounts of nearly every element on the periodic table. It is not pharmaceutical grade. SiF has never been approved by the FDA, EPA, or any other federal or state agency for consumption in tap water. Pharmaceutical grade fluorides have been approved for topical use, as in toothpaste, but the fluoride is to be spat out. If it is swallowed, one is to call poison control.

TOOTH DECAY. Fluoride is added allegedly to reduce caries, however, documents posted on the CDC website claim only an 18-25% reduction in caries, meaning it is 75-82% ineffective. Tooth decay has dropped just as much in non-fluoridated continental Europe as in fluoridated United States, so fluoridation cannot be the causal factor. Tooth decay correlates with poverty, bad diet, lack of dental care, and not with the percentage of the population fluoridated.

BLACKS, HISPANICS, AND THE POOR in general are more sensitive to lead, arsenic, and fluoride than the general population due to poor nutrition. Alveda King, Bernice King, and Andrew Young lead the Fluoride-Gate movement. They see  fluoridation as a new civil rights issue because it hits minorities hardest.

TOPICAL VS. SYSTEMIC. Documents posted on the CDC website admit that the effect of fluoride on teeth is topical and not systemic, but strangely, CDC still endorses drinking fluoride.

FLUOROSIS. The CDC admits that 41% of children 12 – 15 years old have dental fluorosis. 8.6% suffer from mild fluorosis (white spots and some brown spots with up to 50% of enamel impacted), and 3.6% suffer from moderate and severe fluorosis (white spots and brown spots and sometimes pitting and chalky teeth and up to 100% of enamel impacted). Even mild fluorosis can be ugly. Fluorosis should not be forced on people just so tooth decay can allegedly be reduced and then only slightly, if at all. The way to cut tooth decay is to quit eating and drinking sugary junk foods, eat more vegetables, brush and floss, supplement vitamin D, apply topical antibiotics, and provide basic dental care. Fluoridation is a magic bullet that misfires.

PERVASIVE. If we add fluoride to tap water, then fluoride is in everything made from tap water – cola, beer, coffee, soup, bread, cereal, restaurant food, and fruit juices reconstituted with tap water.

LEAD IN SCHOOL DRINKING WATER. In 2004 Seattle papers reported lead at up to 1,600 ppb  in drinking water in old Seattle schools, far above the 15 ppm EPA action level and the 0 ppm goal. New brass pipes and faucets contain around 8% lead and older pipes contain as much as 30% lead. Most old schools, homes, apartment buildings, hospitals, office buildings, and factories contain pipes with high lead content, which SiF will leach out. When water districts stop fluoridating, lead levels in water and in blood drop, as happened in Tacoma in 1992. Seattle commissioned reports on the subject, but all ignored the possibility that SiF was the cause. Seattle began replacing pipes in schools at great cost, ignoring the fact that terminating fluoridation would reduce lead leaching and do so at no cost. Moreover, even if replacing pipes in schools would solve the problem in schools, it would not solve the problem in old homes, apartment buildings, hospitals, office buildings, old factories.

MONEY, BLINDSPOTS. The PR manipulators who sold us fluoride are the same ones who sold us tetraethyl lead. Chemical, pharmaceutical, fertilizer, and toothpaste companies donate to dental and medical colleges, which indoctrinate dentists and physicians to endorse fluoridation. We trust government agencies and those with MD and DDS after their names. The ADA tells dentists that they need not try to understand the science behind fluoridation. They need only accept the mystery and spread the gospel of fluoridation. Dentists and researchers who question it have been maligned, fired, and have had their careers ruined.

CDC, EPA. The Oral Health Division, one small branch within the CDC, run by fluoridationist dentists, pushes fluoridation. Likewise, the non-scientists at EPA endorse fluoridation. Endorsements prove nothing, but the most significant non-endorsement is that of the EPA scientists’ union, which opposes fluoridation. Neither CDC nor EPA has authority to approve, promote, or finance fluoridation. The Safe Drinking Water Act says “No … regulation may require the addition of any substance for preventive health care purposes unrelated to contamination of drinking water”. Fluoridation, it is clear that fluoridation is one of the greatest frauds of the 20^th Century.

ARSENIC. SiF also contains up to 1.6 ppb arsenic, a confirmed Type 1, Class A human carcinogen. For arsenic the MCL is 10 ppb and the MCLG is zero. A zero MCLG for lead and arsenic means that there is no level of lead or arsenic which can safely be added to drinking water.

SiF AND NaF are mutagens, poisons, and probable carcinogens. As little as seven grams of SiF or NaF, the weight of seven paper clips, can kill an adult. It would take a half pound of naturally occurring CaF to do the same. The fluoride we drink is of course not immediately fatal. However, healthy adult kidneys only excrete half of the fluoride we consume, while the body retains the other half. Fluoride seeks out calcium and is retained in bones and other calcium rich areas of the body. Once in our bones, fluoride cannot be removed.

KIDNEYS AND BONES. Fluoride builds up in kidneys and prevents them from functioning normally and may hasten death. Those on dialysis who quit consuming fluoride may recover and some may be able to quit dialysis. After a lifetime of drinking fluoridated water, bone can be up to 12,000 ppm fluoride, depending on water hardness and diet, making bones brittle. Fractured pelvises are twice as common in fluoridated areas. Fluoride of all kinds affects bones, joints, and tendons and exacerbates arthritis.

ALUMINUM UPTAKE – ALZHEIMER’S. Water treatment plants add aluminum to precipitate dirt. The fluoride ion binds with the aluminum, and aluminum fluoride passes the blood-brain barrier, delivering aluminum into the brain, which is believed to cause or worsen Alzheimer’s disease.

OTHER SYMPTOMS. Fluoride interrupts and inhibits enzymatic action. It denatures proteins. SiF is an anticholinesterase inhibitor. It damages brain tissue and reduces IQ while the fetus is still in the womb. It attacks the thyroid, pituitary, pineal, and other glands. Fluoride incorporates into atherosclerotic plaque in coronary arteries and the aorta in patients with cardiovascular disease. Around 1% of the population is so hypersensitized to fluoridated water that they have to relocate.

BABIES are highly sensitive to fluoride, lead, arsenic because their cells are still dividing and because babies drink four times as  much fluids per body weight as do adults. Their kidneys are not mature and excrete only 20% of fluoride consumed. CDC, ADA, AMA, and the surgeon general have advised that if formula is mixed using fluoridated water fluorosis will result. The poor are unable afford to buy fluoride-free water or filter it out. Only an expensive reverse osmosis filter, ionizer, or distiller can remove the tiny fluoride ion.

FETUSES – IQ REDUCTION. Fetuses too are sensitive to fluoride. Fluoride and lead penetrate the placental barrier and lower IQ. The FDA banned prenatal supplements containing fluoride.

ATHLETES, HARD LABORERS, DIABETICS, and those with kidney disease are highly vulnerable because they drink up to ten times as much water as typical people. Fluoride is a drug, but the dose cannot be controlled.

IN WESTERN WASHINGTON, we are especially susceptible to the slow but certain ravages of fluoride because our snow melt water is exceptionally soft and contains little calcium, which would bind with and tie up fluoride to some extent.

THE NATIONAL SANITATION FOUNDATION – NSF – is a chemical company trade association, funded by EPA to certify fluoride as safe and to approve its use. Some 47 states require that only NSF 60 fluoride be used, including Washington. WAC 246-290-220(3), says: “any treatment chemicals … added to water intended for potable use must comply with ANSI/NSF Standard 60. The NSF web site and the NSF Standard for Drinking Water Additives, say: “Standard 60 … requires a toxicology review to determine that the product is safe at its maximum use level and … to determine if any contaminant concentrations have the potential to cause adverse human health effects. …” However, NSF official Stan Hazan admitted under oath in deposition that toxicological studies are not being done. (See Hazen deposition, pages 22, 67). Thus fluoridation materials do not “comply” with NSF 60 and fluoridation with them is illegal.

SCRUBBER LIQUOR. Cities buy SiF by the tanker truck load. Everett pours 250 gallons per day, day after day into its water, spending $300,000 per year. Fluorosilicic acid corrodes equipment and shortens its useful life. Hazmat suits must be worn to handle it. When the liquid is spilled on concrete, it burns a hole through it, as it will do to steel and glass. When fluoride is added to water, extra sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate – Draino® or soda ash – must be added to reduce acidity.

NO INFORMED CONSENT. Fluorosilicic acid is not a mere additive such as chlorine, which is there to kill microbes. Fluorosilicic acid meets the FDA and Washington definition of a drug. Although it is an unapproved drug and in reality a poison, its administration is medical treatment. Informed consent before treatment is a fundamental principle of law. Administering it without prior consent is a violation of ethics and freedom of choice. Forcing us all to take a toxic waste drug such as fluoride violates our right to control our own bodies. It should not be our duty to remove the toxic waste. Water departments should stop adding it. Those who want to consume fluoride can swallow a little toothpaste or get a Luride prescription.

NOTICE OF POTENTIAL LIABILITY have been served on Seattle and Everett. Water districts could be exposed to liability. Insurance might not cover them. If the FDC chooses to assert its jurisdiction over this area, there could be individual criminal liability.

CAPTIVE WATER DISTRICTS, those which buy fluoridated water from Seattle and Everett never voted on fluoridation. They should demand non-fluoridated water and that they be held harmless from liability.

LEGAL FRONT. fluoridation lawsuits which have been filed in federal courts in California, Maryland, and in the Washington courts. Three safe water groups presented their case to the Seattle City Attorney’s office on January 9, 2012. Fluoride Class Action has written to Jenny Durkin, US Attorney in Seattle, asking her to bring appropriate action to stop these violations of law.

MORE READING: Letters to HHS and EPA, 50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation, The Case Against Fluoridation by Dr. Paul Connett, 2006 National Research Council Report on Fluoride.

Sharon Dressler
Everett Washington
September 11, 2012

Hi, My name is Sharon Dresler and I reside in Everett WA 98208. I have lived in the Lynnwood, Everett area for more than 25 years. Recently I became aware of the source of the fluoride being added to our water supply. I was astonished and outraged knowing that the average person has no idea what is being given to them without their knowledge.

I was trained as a pharmacist and have previously worked as such, but let my license expire as I stayed home to raise my family. I had heard all my life about the benefits of adding fluoride to water and as a topical to prevent dental cavities. I was also taught that in pharmacy school. However we studied and talked about sodium fluoride, not about some other product being added to our water. For babies and children to supplement with fluoride a prescription must be written and based on the fluoride in the communities water supply it is adjusted so there are not toxic effects. The higher the fluoride in the water supply the less is needed for the infant or young child by prescription. Conversely the lower the fluoride in the water supply the more supplementation is given. But this was assumed to be sodium fluoride not some waste product that is more toxic to our health. I made an assumption through school and working as a pharmacist that the less toxic sodium fluoride was being added to water supplies. This is the substance we studied. The toxicity of various forms of fluoride was not addressed and I had no reason to believe that something else was being used instead in our water supply.

How do you feel when you realize you’ve either been lied to, or duped into believing something that isn’t true because not all the information was given to you. I feel angry. I feel shocked that we would add a waste product to our water supply, instead of what I had studied in school.

At this point in time we can not opt out of receiving fluoridated water as individuals. We must let them know we are against what they are doing to us. To now read the studies that say dental cavity rates are reduced EVEN where there is non-fluoridated water, and that toxicity signs are present (fluorosis of teeth, hypothyroid problems, lower IQ in the young, and other health issues to state a few) I take back my support of fluoride being used. At least in toothpaste or prescriptions you are limiting the availability and making your own choice but do not take this choice away from the people. Eventually all of us are affected by the fluoride but some people are extra sensitive and show toxic signs in various ways as I stated earlier. Please follow up and read some of the materials and links being supplied to you today.

As for using non-FDA approved fluoride to fluoridate our water who will take responsibility for the toxicity. We assume, obviously wrongly that the toxicity studies have been done. We assume our Health district will take care of us. Is this wrong also? Everyone seems willing to pass the buck to take responsibility for this problem. The city counsels, the water districts, the suppliers of the toxic product all turn a blind eye while the toxicity goes on. When will you stand up to the suppliers and tell them to get the toxicity studies and start protecting the people who believe you are working in their best interest.

8-21-12

To Everett Safe Water:

Audio recording of presentations to Sno Co Health District on 8-14-12:

http://fluoride-class-action.com/wp-content/uploads/audio-sno-co-health-dept-8-14-12.mp3

Audio recording of presentation to Sno Co Health District on 7-10-12.

http://fluoride-class-action.com/wp-content/uploads/audio-7-10-12-Snohomish-Health-Dept-Deal-John-Bernard.mp3

Tim, please send the video.

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I got this message from Carol W:

“James … Fred Fillbrook, editor of the Mill creek View is interested and he would like to talk to you.    His phone is  (425) 357-0549     Carol W”

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So I called Fred up. Fred wants me to write an article, which he will publish. He will announce it when we speak at the Mill Creek City Council meeting.

My suggestion:

Let’s all go as a group to the next Mill Creek City Council Meeting.

The City Council meets on the first, second and fourth Tuesday of each month, at
6 p.m. in the council chambers located in the Mill Creek City Hall at:

15728 Main Street
     Mill Creek, WA  98012

http://www.cityofmillcreek.com/DETAIL%20PAGES/CITY%20COUNCIL%20DETAIL%20PAGE%20FINAL%20APRIL%202008.htm

Because of vacations and Labor Day there might not be a meeting Tuesday August 28. But there will be one on Tuesday September 4 or Tuesday Sept 11 at 6:00 pm.

I will let you know which Tuesday it will be.

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Meanwhile, the Everett City Council meets tomorrow, Wednesday 8-22-12, at 12:30. On the last Wed of the month the meeting as at 12:30. All the other Wed meetings are at 6:30.

Talking to Everett is like talking to the Flat Earth Society, but we have to keep it up because there is an election coming up.

It would be good if at least one person would speak every Wed at the Everett City Council.  I can’t make it. Can someone go?

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Is anybody willing to call the two candidates for City Council? June Robinson and Scott Bader? Do you know someone who is an Everett voter who can call?

Scott

scottbaderforeverettcitycouncil@gmail.com

425-501-8859

JUNE ROBINSON is Executive Director of the Housing Consortium of Everett and Snohomish County, with a long history of advocacy on affordable housing issues. June believes that transit-oriented development, including housing for people of all incomes, is important for Everett and the region. She has an advanced degree in public health. Her knowledge of environmental issues is good, and she is open to improving it. Her election would move the Everett City Council in a positive direction. http://www.junerobinson.org/

Citizens for June Robinson | 616 Wetmore Ave. Everett WA 98201 | June@JuneRobinson.org | 425.923.7355 | site by Priestdi Communications

June@JuneRobinson.org

425.923.7355

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I think we should put our big effort now into holding meetings in other places, including Mill Creek and Mukilteo City Councils.

How about a school board meeting? Let’s be creative.

It is triangulation. We will ask Mukilteo and Mill Creek to exert pressure on Everett, pressure we just do not have.

We are advising Mill Creek and Mukilteo to write a demand to Everett saying:

Neither the City Council nor the voters of Mill Creek / Mukilteo ever voted to have water fluoridation. The city of Mill Creek / Mukilteo demands that Everett either cease fluoridating its entire water supply. Or that Everett utilize one of the four pipelines coming down from Spada Lake to deliver non-fluoridated water to Mill Creek / Mukilteo. If this is not workable, then Everett must installing a new pipeline for Mill Creek / Mukilteo that will deliver non-fluoridated water. The cost of these improvements should be borne entirely by Everett. Mill Creek wants to buy water from Everett, not water plus small amounts of contaminants such as lead, arsenic, hydrogen fluoride, and fluorosilicic acid, silicic acid, and sodium. Until such changes have been made Everett should indemnify and hold Mill Creek harmless against any suits against Mill Creek which its citizens might bring. Further, Everett must demonstrate that it has sufficient insurance coverage to hold Mill Creek harmless if Mill Creek is sued.

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Tim, can you please send me the video of the 8-14-12 hearing before the Sno Co Bd of Health? I would like to get it posted.

Or you can post it on your own site, in which case, please send me the link.

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Regarding Mukilteo:

http://www.ci.mukilteo.wa.us/SectionIndex.asp?SectionID=14

Council meetings are held in the City Hall Council Chambers on the first and third Mondays of each month beginning at 7:00 PM unless posted otherwise.

Phone: 425.263.8018

That would be Sept 3 or 10, depending on when Labor Day falls.

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Then we want to visit Sno Health District on the second Tuesday in September, which is September 11.

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To get updates weekly go to www.WashingtonSafeWater.com and enter your email address. You will then get all new posts, and they come twice each week.

www.WashingtonSafeWater.com focuses on safe water efforts in Washington.

www.Fluoride-Class-Action.com focuses on the science and law of so-called fluoridation and the coming fluoride litigation.

To sign up for the Yahoo group send an email to:  EverettSafeWater-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To post a message send an email to: EverettSafeWater@yahoogroups.com

I encourage you to sign up for both. With the Yahoo group you can adjust the settings to get messages either weekly or daily.

If you have a 3 minute speech you would like to have posted, just email it to James@JamesDeal.com. We should be sharing our 3 minute speeches. That will make it easier for everyone to make speeches, even people who are not knowledgable enough to write their own.

We should write out our speeches if we have time. Give copies to the Council members if you can.

If you don’t have a speech, then just take one of my speeches from www.Fluoride-Class-Action.com or just cut and paste a few paragraphs.

Here’s a good one: http://fluoride-class-action.com/candidates/snohomish-county You can’t cover it all in 3 minutes. Just pick out the points you want to emphasize. Give them copies and they can follow the links.

Please forward this email to as many of your friends as possible. We need more voters showing up at council meetings, calling city council members, sending emails to them.

We must politicize this issue. Each one of you should become your own campaign organization.

Go to

Sincerely,

James Robert Deal , Attorney
James@JamesRobertDeal.com

PO Box 2276 Lynnwood WA 98036

Telephone: 425-771-1110
Fax: 425-776-8081

8-21-12

The Everett Safe Water group continues to grow.

We had 10 show up at the Snohomish Health District meeting on 8-14.

Nine people have signed up for the Everett Safe Water Yahoo group.

To sign up for the Yahoo group send an email to:  EverettSafeWater-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To post a message send an email to: EverettSafeWater@yahoogroups.com

Our next definite action is Snohomish Health District 2nd Tuesday in September.

There is interest in going to a Mukilteo City Council meeting. The Mukilteo newspaper wants to give us coverage.

The strategy is triangulation: Mukilteo never voted for fluoridation, and it is possible that we could get Mukilteo to put pressure on Everett.

I am James Robert Deal, president of Fluoride Class Action.com.

I am setting up this Everett Safe Water Yahoo group to make it easier for Everett safe water people to get organized. I want the people of Everett to be able to stand on their own and help themselves. This Yahoo group will be a very helpful tool.

To subscribe send an email to: EverettSafeWater-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To post a message or question send an email to: EverettSafeWater@yahoogroups.com

This Yahoo group is intended to be a way to announce upcoming meetings and share ideas about how to spread the word throughout the city.

My vision of Everett Safe Water is this: The group will become self-motivating and carry on even when I am not working to push things forward.

My vision of Everett Safe Water is that two or three leaders will arise who will see to it that there will be someone speaking every week to the City Council and who will invite people.

The City Council meets on Wednesdays at 6:30, except that the meeting on the fourth Wednesday of the month takes place at noon. The address is 3002 Wetmore Avenue in downtown Everett.

The Snohomish Health District meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 3 pm at 3020 Rucker Avenue in the Auditorium in the south end of the building.

I have invited some experts from out of the Everett area who can help you if you have technical questions.

Sincerely,

James Robert Deal , Attorney
James@JamesRobertDeal.com
PO Box 2276 Lynnwood WA 98036
Telephone: 425-771-1110
Fax: 425-776-8081
www.Fluoride-Class-Action.com

Fluoridation Math for Everett Washington

One half of one percent of Everett’s so-called fluoridated water is drunk by humans.  The rest goes down the drain.

The alleged reason for taking so-called fluoride internally is to harden the enamel of the permanent teeth of children as it is forming, before teeth erupt fully, from infancy up to around eight years. There is no claim of any significant benefit to adults from consuming fluoride. Children up to eight years constitute only around one-fifth of those who drink said fluoridated water and thus consume only around one-fifth of water which is consumed.

Note: We disagree that taking so-called fluoride internally makes for harder enamel; fluoride ruins enamel, especially when the calcium levels in water are low.

Note:

Grab a calculator:

One percent = .01

One half of that (divide by 2) = .005.

One fifth of that (divide by 5) = .001.

This means that only one one-thousandth of the fluoride reaches its target.

Each truckload of fluoride costs $16,000, and one one-thousandth of $16,000 is …… ($16,000 x .001)……$16 !

So….. your City is paying $16,000 for $16 worth of “benefit”, that is IF every child benefits.

The rest of the fluoride goes into the ecosystem. In the river or the intertidal zone it can harm fish. Salmon are repelled and even killed by fluoride at over .2 mg/L, and the plume of water from the sewer plant outfall into river or Sound is typically around 1.0 ppm.

The rest of the fluoride goes to poison the soil irreparably by repeatedly watering of lawns, gardens and farms.

Every three weeks you are spending $16 for “benefit” and $15,984 for polluting the environmen.

Yet all members of the Everett City Council members agree with pro-fluoridation activist Dr. Gary Goldbaum, director of the Snohomish Health District, that fluoridation is a financial bargain for the taxpayers.

How many more financial bargains like this can Everett afford?

You are invited to join the Everett Safe Water Yahoo Group.

If you join, you are under no obligation to attend Everett City Council meetings, Snohomish County Council meetings, Snohomish Health District meetings and speak up, but we hope you will anyway, and that you will invite others, and invite others to join this Yahoo group.

The Everett City Council should institute a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation and then do further studies. Not the other way around.

See:  http://fluoride-class-action.com/press-releases.

I am setting up this Everett Safe Water Yahoo group to make it easier for Everett safe water people to get organized. I want the people of Everett to be able to stand on their own and help themselves. This Yahoo group will be a very helpful tool.

To subscribe send an email to: EverettSafeWater-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To post a message or question send an email to: EverettSafeWater@yahoogroups.com

This Yahoo group is intended to be a way to announce upcoming meetings and share ideas about how to spread the word throughout the city.

My vision of Everett Safe Water is this: The group will become self motivating and carry on even when I am not working to push things forward.

My vision of Everett Safe Water is that two or three leaders will arise who will see to it that there will be someone speaking every week to the City Council and who will invite people.

The City Council meets on Wednesdays at 6:30, except that the meeting on the fourth Wednesday of the month takes place at noon. The address is 3002 Wetmore Avenue in downtown Everett.

I have invited some people to join who are from out of the Everett area who can help you if you have technical questions.

Bill Osmunson DDS, MPH, President
Washington Action for Safe Water
1418 – 112th Ave NE 200
Bellevue, WA 98004
425.466.0100
bill@teachingsmiles.com

June 3, 2012

City of Everett, Washington

cwiersma@ci.everett.wa.us; rramerman@ci.everett.wa.us; dwilliams@ci.everett.wa.us;
jmoore@ci.everett.wa.us; AHatloe@ci.everett.wa.us; saffholter@ci.everett.wa.us;
PRoberts@ci.everett.wa.us; rgipson@ci.everett.wa.us; DNielsen@ci.everett.wa.us;
BStonecipher@ci.everett.wa.us; ggoldbaum@snohd.org

Dear Ron Gipson, City Council President,

Washington Action for Safe Water is a not for profit organization to improve water quality in
the state of Washington. Although there are many pollutants in water, the addition of
fluoride to public water is the most egregious. The contaminant, substance, unapproved
drug is intentionally added and can simply be stopped by obeying laws and science.

It makes no sense to throw a toxic chemical, contaminant, unapproved drug at everyone in
an attempt to cover up bad health habits such as poor diet and lack of personal hygiene. If
Snohomish Health District were to focus on diet and personal hygiene, rates of other
diseases such as periodontal disease, obesity and diabetes as well as caries/decay would
be improved.

Snohomish Health District recommends ingestion of fluoride but fails to provide evidence
of an “optimal” enamel and dentin body concentration of fluoride which prevents dental
caries. Ask Snohomish Health District what is the optimal enamel and dentin fluoride
concentration (within the tooth) and provide one reference they have actually read.
Snohomish Health District fails to provide an “optimal” blood serum or urine fluoride
concentration which will achieve the “optimal” tooth fluoride concentration. Ask Snohomish
Health District what is the “optimal” blood fluoride concentration and have them provide
one reference which they have actually read.

Snohomish Health District fails to provide a single measured test, case, data or study on
what fluoride blood or urine concentrations are for customers of Everett City fluoridated
water. Ask Snohomish Health District what concentration of fluoride we have in our blood
and urine and ask for the data. Do we actually need more?

Snohomish Health District fails to provide data at what concentration of fluoride in the
water achieves the unknown “optimal” serum and urine fluoride concentrations which will
then result in the unknown optimal tooth fluoride concentrations.

Snohomish Health District claims to have 3,000 references on the benefits and safety of
fluoridation. Ask Snohomish Health District to provide a list of those articles they have
actually read or do they simply “trust” others to read the science.

Ask Snohomish Health District if their DEA license will cover the City of Everett’s use of
fluoride. Who has legal liability for harm? What legal support will Snohomish Health
District provide to the City of Everett should fluoridation, like lead, be found to cause or
contribute to harm?

Click here to read the rest of Dr. Osmonson’s response to Dr. Goldblum.

HHS and EPA have still not come out with a final rule in response to their 2011 request for comment

HHS request for comments in the Federal Register

HHS Press Release page

Pre-publication preliminary version of the HHS recommendations.

Dr. Bill Osmunson submitted this comment on April 22, 2012.

March 21, 2012

I’d like to introduce Donna Graham, Cindy Fischer, Mary Fischer, Kathleen Grieci, Sheryl Ladette, Vicki Rosenan and Christine Unckles who were first-time fluoride fighters for us on March 21 at the Everett City Council, having come because of James’ ad in the Everett Herald.

To watch this fabulous team in action, testifying to the Everett council, go to this link below, then fast-forward to the spot you want to view.

http://everett.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=603

James Deal 00:26:00

Donna Graham 00:29:50

Cindy Fischer 00:33:10

Kathleen Grieci 00:34:30

Alli Larkin 00:36:30

Audrey Adams 00:40:55

Sheryl Ladette 00:45:25

When I watch the video, hearing all the testimonies again, I am amazed at how well everyone did! I am particularly impressed by the four new participants (Donna, Cindy, Kathleen and Sheryl) who had no idea you were going to speak at the council meeting that night and nailed it beautifully anyway!!

You were all so sincere, gracious and well-spoken. You thanked the council, you didn’t get angry (sometimes harder than it seems), your voice was calm but convicted and each of you spoke from your own heart, which gave the council many different points of view and different reasons to not fluoridate. The Council won’t suddenly decide not to fluoridate based on our testimonies, but with continued public pressure, education and awareness, they might stop it eventually.

I’d also like to introduce Guy Paduano from Kirkland who contacted me through FAN and would like to become involved. He has some IT experience (YEAH!)

Welcome to all of you!

Audrey Adams

Alli Larkin, Vice-President
Washington Action for Safe Water

March 14, 2012

To the Washington Board of Health

I hope you have done your ‘due diligence’ and read “The Case Against Fluoride” by Dr. Paul Connett that we gave each of you.  I am going to share part of an email that Dr. Connett sent out to the Fluoride Action Network.

The subject is, “An Ambitious Campaign Against An Unacceptable Realty”.  The title of the article is, “My Involvement With Fluoridation”.*

“When we published our book I thought it would raise the level of the debate. It has not. The promoters have not produced a single scientific response to our text. They have so much money to spin the issue that they have simply ignored this book, just as they ignored the landmark NRC report on fluoride’s toxicology of 2006.

 

This is nothing new. The promoters have ignored the demands of normal scientific debate for over 60 years. Instead, they have used two strategies: 1) insist that “authority” is on their side using a list of endorsements and 2) claim that opponents know nothing about “real science.”

 

Both strategies have worked superbly because they have served to intimidate most doctors, dentists and academics and kept them from reading the literature for themselves. Additionally, every time that more strong scientific evidence is presented that would convince anyone with an open mind that fluoridation is a bad idea (e.g. Bassin’s study on osteosarcoma; the 25 IQ studies; Li’s study on hip fractures, etc.), we have people supposedly “on our own side” giving these studies the kiss of death with nutty rants about Hitler and Stalin. I sometimes wonder if the proponents pay these people!

 

Every day I am confronted by the fact that the world doesn’t really function on a rational level on this and many other issues. As a scientist concerned about health this is a painful realization. Who would have thought that there are health professionals out there who would lend their names to a practice that may be harming people – may even be killing a few young men with osteosarcoma -without examining the issue carefully for themselves? Who would have thought that there are public health officers who confidently tell decision makers that it is “safe and effective” simply because their employer (e.g. Health Canada; CDC; UK Ministry of Health; Australian health authorities in every state etc) tells them to do so.

 

I keep going for several reasons. Firstly, I am working with some really wonderful people around the world who continue to stand up for the truth on this issue. Secondly, I realize that other people in history have fought even harder battles with far more pain and sacrifice and have finally won against the odds. I remember reading a statement from the South African author Alan Paton (Cry the beloved Country) during the apartheid era, “The only way to endure man’s inhumanity to man is to make one’s own life an example of man’s humanity to man.” Those few words have inspired me ever since.”

Please make this a “Safer and Healthier Washington” by removing the toxic waste silicofluoride out of Washington’s public water supply.

* Read the full statement from Dr. Paul Connett here.

Factory Farms

Aerial shot of the Nelson Faria Dairy in Royal, Wash. Note the tiny dots that are the dairy cows congregating in the holding pens. (Image by Google Maps.)

In a precedent-setting decision earlier this month that received scant national coverage, a federal district court judge in Washington state ordered a CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation), also known as a factory farm, to monitor groundwater, drainage, and soil for illegal pollution resulting from its grossly inadequate manure management practices in violation of the Clean Water Act. This first-ever ruling holding a CAFO accountable for its pollution was a result of a lawsuit by the nonprofit Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE) against the Nelson Faria Dairy in Royal, Wash. The ruling upholds the terms of a 2006 settlement CARE had with the dairy’s previous owners, which the current owners subsequently ignored.

The case underscores one of the major problems with CAFOs, which is the massive amount of manure they produce and the manners by which operators dispose of it, which have major environmental implications. According to the EPA, “a single dairy cow produces approximately 120 pounds of wet manure per day,” which is “equivalent to that of 20-40 people.” The quantity of manure produced by one dairy cow can be multiplied on a CAFO by hundreds or, in some cases, thousands of heads. This higher concentration of CAFO animals leads to a higher concentration of animal waste, a problem that holds true for all types of livestock raised in these operations. As CARE describes the scale of the waste problem:

Operations like the Nelson Faria Dairy produce as much waste as a city of over 200,000 people. Unlike cities, however, which treat their wastes, the dairy industry applies manure to agricultural fields primarily to get rid of it.

Photo by Tonvolz.

In moderation, manure is a great soil fertilizer, but the sheer amount (and concentration) of untreated waste generated by CAFOs is a serious liability. When too much manure is spread out over fields for soil to properly absorb it, or when manure lagoons leak, overflow, or rupture, rain and stormwater runoff can carry the waste into groundwater and nearby waterways. This over-application or discharge of CAFO animal waste is an egregious example of nonpoint source pollution, where the source(s) is diffuse and can have a wide distribution area. Untreated animal waste is a hazard for both public health and ecosystems because it can contain harmful quantities of nutrients, pathogens, and heavy metals. (Ecocentric has covered the problems associated with large amounts of untreated CAFO animal waste.)

The case of the improper handling of manure on the Nelson Faria Dairy is typical of the CAFO industry. While state and federal animal waste rules exist, their enforcement is lax at best. As CARE president, Helen Reddout, explained:

The Washington Department of Agriculture had recently inspected the dairy and found that it was doing an excellent job managing its manure. Nothing could be further from the truth … It is now time for the agencies who are supposed to be protecting our health to follow the precedent set by this Order. Our state and federal laws were aimed at protecting people and now it’s time for the agencies responsible for safeguarding public health to do just that.

Reddout goes on to explain the reality of state agency CAFO inspections:

Washington Departments of Ecology and Agriculture (WSDA) are supposed to monitor and regulate the dairy industry to ensure that operations do not harm public health or the environment. Unfortunately, inspections often involve nothing more than cursory visits by WSDA staff. If problems are found, dairy owners receive only a slap on the wrist, at best.

The hope is that this court victory against CAFO manure handling and pollution — little mentioned in the media — will help set a precedent toward better practices, regulation, and enforcement of the CAFO industry. Reddout acknowledges that this court victory is one small step, albeit an important one, that shows that CAFOs aren’t above the law and puts them on notice for pollution practices, a particularly big deal for the economically (and thus politically) strong Yakima Valley dairy industry. Based on the compelling evidence of agricultural water contamination in the Lower Yakima Valley, and bolstered by the recent ruling, the EPA selected the area for inclusion in a study monitoring nitrate pollution in groundwater. Reddout expects the EPA report to be released in late spring 2012.

CARE and their allies in the Royal City area deserve our congratulations for this major legal victory that may ultimately inspire a regulatory approach to CAFOs capable of safeguarding human and ecological health. Government agencies must acknowledge the great harm cased by CAFO pollution and hold the industry accountable for the true costs CAFOs impose upon the public.

As expressed by CARE’s lead attorney, Charlie Tebbutt, “Citizens have once again proven that the CAFO industry is a huge polluter. It is time for the state agencies to step up.”

To find out how many CAFOs are in your area, check out Food & Water Watch’s Factory Farm Map.

This post originally appeared on Ecocentric.

Kai Olson-Sawyer is a Research and Policy Analyst in the GRACE Water and Energy Programs where he also works on H2O Conserve project operations. Prior to joining GRACE, Kai was employed at the World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon and researched with NYC Apollo Alliance. His body is composed of 60 percent water.

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Tour of Everett Water Treatment Plant at Sultan.

Let’s use January 28, Saturday, as the tentative date. Lets tell as many people as possible and see if that date works. I will try to get KSER Radio to announce it.

It is not hard to get to. You can go out either 522 to Monroe and then on 2 to Sultan.

Or you can go east from Everett on Hwy 2. The filtration and fluoridation plant is immediately to the south of Lake Chaplain.

http://washington.hometownlocator.com/maps/feature-map,ftc,1,fid,1517626,n,lake%20chaplain.cfm

Or we could organize carpools.

Regarding the meeting with the City Attorneys on Monday, this is my follow up letter.

http://fluoride-class-action.com/the-fluoride-maze

We are still waiting for the video, Tim.

The Salem News has published an article by Dr. Bill Osmunson:

Dec-20-2011 22:05

Do Not Give Fluoridated Water to Babies or Pregnant Mothers

Dr. Bill Osmunson DDS, MPH for Salem-News.com

There is still not one single prospective double blinded randomized controlled trial of fluoridation.

From the article: Fluoride Linked to Pre-term Birth and Anemia in Pregnancy published by marvelous-girl.com

(WILSONVILLE, Ore.) – If you are upset with the lack of SEC (Securities Exchange Commission) oversight of Bernie Madoff, then fluoridation will break your heart. The incompetent oversight of Health and Human Services, CDC, EPA, and FDA CDER dwarfs the Madoff scandal. Those who have blind trust in all government regulators need not read further.

CONTAMINATED WASTE

Fluoridation is the process of adding a highly toxic industrial waste, often contaminated with lead and arsenic, to public water. In contrast, naturally occurring fluoride is usually calcium fluoride, about 800 times less toxic.

MOTHER’S MILK

In 2006 the CDC and others advised that infants should not consume fluoridated water. Fluoridated water contains around 200 times more fluoride than mother’s milk and is not safe for infants. Caution: do not mix infant formula with fluoridated water. Salem water is not safe for infants.

Mother’s breast milk provides complete nutrition for babies and is virtually fluoride free. A baby’s kidneys are only about 20% developed and their blood brain barrier has not fully formed. Most babies are consuming some formula, often made with tap water, up to four times more liquids for their weight as do adults.

Below is an EPA (2011 DRA) graph. All the children above the black line are ingesting too much fluoride. The EPA has attempted to paint the best picture possible. EPA does not include infants younger than six months of age. EPA only includes 90% of the children and provides a 1:1 margin of safety (1:10 or 1:100 is standard). The EPA increased the RfD by 33% and failed to include total fluoride exposure. Even then, more than a quarter of children are ingesting too much fluoride.

FLUORIDE IS AN UNAPPROVED DRUG

The FDA requires fluoride toothpaste labels to say “Drug Facts” “Use a Pea Size” “Do Not Swallow.” There is 0.25 mg of fluoride in a pea-sized amount of fluoridated toothpaste, the same as in one glass of fluoridated water! The FDA CDER advises not to swallow the same amount of fluoride as the City of Salem forces everyone to swallow in each glass of water.

Washington and Idaho Boards of Pharmacy confirmed fluoride is a drug and FDA CDER before Congress testified that fluoride is a drug and unapproved. Pharmacists sell fluoride for ingestion only by prescription, and unapproved drugs are illegal drugs.

There is still not one single prospective double blinded randomized controlled trial of fluoridation. The ingestion of fluoride in any form for the prevention of dental caries has never been approved by the FDA CDER. HHS, CDC and EPA evade Congress supporting corporate interests based on biased historic science, not much better than witchcraft.

LACK OF BENEFIT

EPA scientists concluded: “The toxicity of fluoride is so great and the purported benefits are so small – if there are any at all – that requiring everyone to ingest it borders on criminal behavior on the part of government.”

Graphing Iida’s data, finds an increase in dental fluorosis with increased fluoride (blue lines). Caries experience (red lines) finds virtually no benefit from fluoridation.

Colquhoun’s 1997 graph below shows a steady decline in dental caries regardless of fluoridation. We all agree fluoridation did not prevent dental caries before fluoridation started.

Compare developed countries of the world and fluoridation makes no difference. All have reduced dental caries to similar low levels.

Ranking states on the percentage of the whole population fluoridated finds no common cause. Fluoridation makes no difference.

How on earth do the CDC dentists protect their corporate fluoridating friends and claim for every dollar spent on fluoridation saves $38 in dentistry? Simple. When measured evidence doesn’t support policy, CDC dentists use estimates based on assumptions. Wouldn’t we all like to use estimates of assumptions to balance our check books or “prove” to our bosses we are worth our wages?

RISKS AND HARM

With little or no benefit, any risk or cost is unacceptable. CDC dentists claim safety by ignoring most risks.

Xiang in 2003 & 2005 published data illustrated below. An 8 IQ point drop with increased (0.04 ppm compared with 0.08 ppm) fasting blood serum fluoride concentrations, about half a standard deviation IQ drop throughout the entire population. Salem water is frying our brains.

The CDC reports less than 0.02 ppm fluoride serum concentration is “normal.” And studies find many have fluoride serum levels more than 10 times normal. What is your child’s serum fluoride concentration?

Ranking the states based on fluoridation and plotting the reported mental retardation rate confirms triple the number of mentally retarded (graph below), half a standard deviation.

25 human studies confirm ingesting fluoride damages the brain. The fetus and infants are most at risk.

Close to $1,000/yr less income is reported with each IQ point loss. With 180 million fluoridated in the USA, you do the math. The CDC dentists and HHS are unprecedented in their harm to the American public.

Dental fluorosis is an undisputed biomarker of excess fluoride ingestion, a toxic overdose and 41% of adolescents now have dental fluorosis. Repairs for dental fluorosis can cost over $1,000 per tooth, replaced about every 15 years.

Fluoride is an enzymatic reactor and the damage to cells, thyroid, kidneys, teeth, brains, GI tract, and bones has hundreds of published studies.

We do not give our consent to be fluoridated. If someone wants to ingest fluoride, they can disregard the FDA and swallow a pea size of toothpaste, but don’t force your neighbors to ingest the illegal fluoride drug.

More at www.fluoridealert.org; www.slweb.org, www.washingtonsafewater.com; www.fluorideresearch.org

Bill Osmunson DDS, MPH

Wilsonville, OR 97070

bill@teachingsmiles.com

Click here to read the rest of the article.

From Gary Flanzer:

Dear Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District Commissioner,

I am a long time Klahanie resident and in the Plateau water district.

I just read that the city of Fairbanks, Alaska has decided to discontinue adding fluoride to its water supply after a task force found new health concerns after conducting a year-long independent study using the latest data. I have attached to this email a copy of the results of the April 2011 Fairbanks Fluoride Task Force.

News Report: http://newsminer.com/bookmark/13889457-Fairbanks-City-Council-halts-additional-fluoride-in-city-water

As you may already know, the city of Calgary, Canada in February of this year also decided not to continue to fluoridate its drinking water after scientists changed their support of the drinking water additive.

Due to the recent concerns expressed in the Fairbanks report, including a 2006 potential link to cancer, I urge the commissioners here to revisit its 2003 decision (Resolution 3121 dated Dec 15, 2003 – not unanimous) to introduce fluoridation to our Issaquah /Sammamish drinking water. As I’m sure the health of our residents is your top concern, I request a hearing be held to consider this new data, not available in 2003. (Please see attached 54 page pdf file.)

Sincerely yours,

Gary Flanzer, Webmaster
www.webcityusa.com

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“You do not have to teach the grass to grow, you just have to move the rocks off it.”

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Reply from the Sammamish Plateau Water District re Fluoride Issue:

Mr. Flanzer,

Thank you for your comments and the material you passed along. I am glad to see you shared your message directly with the commissioners as the introduction of fluoride to our water supply is a policy decision the commission addressed some time ago. To change the direction would also be a matter requiring commissioner consideration.

You may want to consider contacting the commissioners directly or attending one of our commission meetings in the future to further explain your position.

Thank you,

Should Washington Action for Safe Water change its name?

Should we be Fluoride Free Washington? What do you think?

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From Golda:

I’ve been pondering this comment.  At first I kinda shook my head in agreement but the term continues to come up.  I just did a search for the popularity of the term Fluoride Free.  At this point it appears that this might be our best name yet. 

Popularity of using Fluoride Free:

Fluoride Free Windsor
Fluoride Free Austin
Fluoride Free Fairbanks
Fluoride Free Sacramento
Fluoride Free Australia
Fluoride Free NZ
Fluoride Free Wexford
Fluoride Free Portsmouth
Fluoride Free Murray River
Fluoride Free Moncton, Canada
Fluoride Free Winnipeg
Perth Fluoride Free, Australia
Fluoride Free Florida
Fluoride Free Taranaki, NZ
Fluoride Free Waterloo
Fluoride Free Britain
Fluoride Free Yuma
Fluoride Free Findlay
Fluoride Free Ireland
Fluoride Free World
Fluoride Free New York City

By far the most popular term for anti-fluoridation organizations is Fluoride Free ______.  It could be a strong element of bonding us with worldwide anti-fluoride orgs.  Worth considering seriously.

Golda Starr

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From Bill:

Indeed.  FAN has been encouraging the term Fluoride Free.

A very positive term.

If I were going to start from scratch, or if it were up to me, I would use the term “Fluoride Free Washington.”

In fact, keeping WASW and starting FFW would also be a good idea.

Right now I’m working with Fluoride Free TV (Tualatin Valley).

People know we are not Fluoride Free at this time, so I don’t think most people would jump to the conclusion that Washington is already Fluoride Free.

I’m not good at marketing and have no preference.

Bill

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From James:

Over half the people think fluoride is good and think anti-fluoride people are nut jobs.

We come in and say we are looking at all aspects of water safety.

We are not just against fluoride. We are against lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, lithium, statins in water. And maybe aluminum flocculent.

Maybe we should take a stand against Weed and Feed atrazine in lawn fertilizer. Why is it legal for people to put a powerful poison on their lawns?

And we are against a particular kind of fluoride especially, silicofluoride, because it leaches lead and is an enzyme interrupter, although in the last sentence we always say we are against any kind of fluoride in water.

And we have some allies who are pro-fluoride. Some are in favor of fluoride applied topically but opposed to putting it in the water because the dose cannot be controlled and because of the type of industrial waste fluoride used.

I am opposed to topical fluoride across the board, but I am willing to make allies with pro-topical fluoride people to stop water fluoridation.

WASW is a good name. It sounds objective. It allows us to attack water fluoridation specifically without attacking topical fluoride.

WASW offers more angles of attack than Fluoride Free Washington.

We are the objective protectors of our water.

So I think we should be happy that we have such a good name. That’s just my opinion. I’ll go with the majority opinion.

James

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What do you think?

Mercer Island needs separate water supply

Mercer Island Reporter – November 14, 2011 · 4:37 PM

Our goal is to educate the City Council about the lead, arsenic and silicofluoride that Seattle adds to Mercer Island water.

Neither the City Council nor the public ever had a chance to vote on whether they wanted dilute toxic waste added to their water.

We are proposing that Mercer Island demand that Seattle provide water free of any additives other than a little chlorine to kill microbes and a little alkalizer to raise the pH of our acidic snowmelt water to a more neutral, slightly alkaline level.

Seattle probably has numerous pipelines coming down from the Tolt and Cedar watersheds, and it should be no problem to bring silicofluoride free water down in at least one of them.

Seattle ought to install a new pipeline if necessary to deliver “just water” to Mercer Island.

In the meantime, Seattle ought to indemnify and hold Mercer Island harmless against the possibility of a lawsuit by residents of Mercer Island against the city.

We invite Islanders to meet with us at 6 p.m. before the next City Council meeting in the City Hall lobby on Nov. 21 to learn more.

James Robert Deal, Attorney, Vice-President

Washington Action for Safe Water

JAMES ROBERT DEAL ATTORNEY PLLC
PO Box 2276, Lynnwood, Washington  98036-2276
Telephone 425-771-1110, Fax 425-776-8081
James@JamesRobertDeal.com

WATER DISTRICTS ARE TURNING OFF THE FLUORIDE

November 21, 2011

Bruce Bassett – Councilmember        Jane Brahm – Councilmember
Mike Cero – Councilmember             Mike Grady – Councilmember
Dan Grausz – Councilmember          Jim Pearlman, Mayor

El Jahncke – Deputy Mayor

City of Mercer Island
9611 SE 36th Street
Mercer Island WA 98040

Dear Council Members, Mayor, and Deputy Mayor:

I am the president of Fluoride Class Action and the vice-president of Washington Action for Safe Water. I write this letter on behalf of Fluoride Class Action. Members of Fluoride Class Action and Washington Action for Safe Water live in Mercer Island and drink Seattle water.

Over the last year, the following communities have stopped adding fluoride to their drinking water. That’s approximately 2,538,500 people.

Nov. 13– Amesbury, Massachusetts
Oct. 25 — Palmer, Alaska (8,400)
Oct. 18 — Lawrenceburg, Tennessee (11,000)
Oct. 16 — Churchill, Manitoba (1000)
Oct. 13 — New Plymouth, New Zealand (50,000)
Oct. 4 — Pinellas County, Florida (700,000)
Sept. 30 — Spencer, Indiana/ BPP Water (10,500)
Sept. 22 — College Station, Texas (100,000)
Sept. 12 — Slave Lake, Alberta (7,000)
Sept. 6 — Hohenwald, Tennessee (4,000)
Aug. 16 — Pottstown, Pennsylvania (15,500)
Aug. 15 — Spring Hill, Tennessee (30,000)
Aug. 8 — Philomath, Oregon (4,500)
July 20 — Taber, Alberta (6,500)
July 4 — Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan (5,000)
June 30 — Taumarunui, New Zealand (5,000)
June 6 — Fairbanks, Alaska (30,500)
May 18 — Naples Village, New York (1070)
May 16 — Mount Clemons, Michigan (17,300)
April 21 — Lago Vista, Texas (6,500)
Mar. 17 — Marcellus, Michigan (1,100)
Feb. 16 — Independence, Virginia (1000)
Feb. 8 — Calgary, Alberta (1,300,000)
Feb. 7 — Yellow Springs, Ohio (3200)
Feb. 7 — Vercheres, Quebec (5240)
Jan. 19 — Schuylkill Haven, PA (5,500)
Nov. 15, 2010 — Sparta, North Carolina (2,000)
Nov. 4, 2010 — Tellico, TN (900)
Oct. 25, 2010 — Waterloo, St. Jacobs, and Elmira, Ontario (103,000)l

Sincerely,

Everett is the county seat of Snohomish County, Washington.

I live in Lynnwood, in the southwest part of  the county.

The Everett Utility District supplies water to some 700,000 users, most of them in the central and southern part of the county, including Lynnwood where I live.

Everett sells water to the Alderwood Water District, which sells it to Lynnwood, which sells it to me.

The water comes from Spada Lake and Lake Chaplain, which are to the north and east of Sultan, and which drain into the Sultan river, which drains into the Snohomish, which drains into the sea.

In 2008 I made several speeches to the Alderwood Water District. Alderwood’s defense was that it had no control over what is in the water.

I disagree. They have a duty to demand and negotiate for the delivery of water that is not fluoridated. And until it is delivered, they have a duty to demand, on behalf of the citizens of Lynnwood, to require that Everett hold Lynnwood harmless in case of suit by injured plaintiffs.

In 2008 I submitted a Notice of Potential Liability to Everett as well as requests for disclosure of documents.

On June 9, 2011, I submitted this Notice of Liability to Everett for Water Contamination and Notice to Consult with Insurance Carrier.

On June 11, 2011, I handed out this Notice of Liability Flier Edition to 500 people at the Everett Garden Fair.

On June 12, 2011, I hand delivered this letter to the Bailey AME Church in Everett, along with other materials. On the same day I attended worship services at the Second Baptist Church of  Everett and talked with deacon and pastor about my project.

On June 22, 2011, I wrote this letter to the Second Baptist Church, asking this church, predominantly black, to help spearhead the de-fluoridation effort in Everett.

On June 22, 2011, I posted this news release about Alveda King, Bernice King, and Andrew Young coming out against water fluoridation.

See
Notice of Liability to the City of Everett for Water Contamination, dated June 9, 2011.

See
Notice of Liability to the City of Everett for Water Contamination delivered July 20, 2011.
Hear:
Audio of presentation made

Renewed Notice of Liability to the City of Everett for Water Contamination, delivered August 3, 2011.
Hear:
Audio of presentations made by James Robert Deal, Olemara Peters, Golda Starr.

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This page is under construction. I am moving a lot of posts and pages on Everett topics from www.Fluoride-Class-Action.com to www.WashingtonSafeWater.com.

PROTECT THE PENINSULA’S FUTURE, CLALLAM COUNTY
CITIZENS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER, and ELOISE KAILIN,
Appellants,
v.
CITY OF PORT ANGELES, and CITY OF FORKS,
Respondents.

Citizens of Port Angeles and Forks have filed suit again against their cities.

Read the latest brief asking the Washington Supreme Court to take the case directly, without it having to proceed through the mid-level Court of Appeals.

Read about the previous suit here.

WASHINGTON ACTION FOR SAFE WATER
PO Box 2276, Lynnwood, Washington  98036-2276
Telephone 425-771-1110
James@WashingtonSafeWater.com

November 16, 2011

Audio Recording

The last time I addressed the Everett City Council, I mentioned, as I frequently do, that there is lead in the silicofluoride added to Everett drinking water and that silicofluoride leaches lead from pipes.

Council member Jeff Moore took exception and said that I should not compare Seattle’s problem with lead in schools with Everett.  He said that Everett schools had taken care of the lead problem.

In my efforts to inform the Everett City Council about the lead-arsenic-silicofluoride problem, I have noted that Council members just do not believe that their water contains lead – or arsenic. Council Member Paul Roberts, formerly a director of the Marysville Water District, has stated that Everett had the best water in the world, implying that it contains no lead or arsenic impurities.

So I looked through the documents returned to me in response to my 2008 Request for Documents.

I handed out copies of this particular document to the Council members, a 2006 water quality report, one of many documents which show there is up to .063 ppm lead in Everett drinking water, that is 63 ppb. See the item circled. Bear in mind that the same document shows that the EPA MCL – Maximum Contaminant Level – is 15 ppb.

Note also the information in footnote number 3. This lead level is measured at “178 consumer taps”. This information does not tell us the age of the houses and buildings in which these consumer taps are located.

A NSF letter from 2000 says that there can be up to 1.6 ppb lead in water after the silicofluoride is dilution 240,000 times to get the fluoride level down to 1 ppm. A 2008 NSF Fluoride Fact Sheet says the maximum is only .6 ppb. NSF Fact Sheets are updated only every three or four years. There has not been a new one since 2008.

Even if Everett has replaced all the lead bearing brass and galvanized pipes from its schools and all the brass fittings, it has not solved the problem. That is because there are still lead bearing pipes and fittings in homes, apartments, office buildings, commercial buildings, and churches. The typical lead level in brass pipes is 8.0% while for pipes installed before 1986 the level can be up to 30%.

Unless Everett is going to pay to replace all lead bearing pipe in all homes, apartments, office buildings, commercial buildings, and churches, it has not solved the lead problem in drinking water.

Further, Everett is failing to follow federal law, which requires that it give notice to water consumers of lead content in their water.

Another one to add to the disingenuous list is that many cities like St. Petersburg that are fluoridated buy Zephyrhills Spring Water.  I found the water company truck outside city hall back in 1994 and asked the driver if the water was for the city council, and he said “Yes, all and all the other departments.  I called the city utility department and asked for a letter specifying how long were they getting the water, what departments.  The letter came back saying all the city departments were getting the water, and it began right back in 1994 when fluoridation began!

I advise everyone reading this to call your utilities department, request the AWWA Standard for Fluorosilicic Acid B703-06 or the latest standard as this one is from 2006.  The standard advises the utilities foreman to take samples from top, middle and bottom when the acid arrives and check for heavy metals and uranium, radium 226-228 levels.  It also notes in Foreword page ix: “AWWA B7030-00 addresses additives requirments in Sec. 4.3 of the standard.  The transfer of contaminants from chemicals to processed water or the residual solids is becomming a problem of greater concern.”

Also, toothpaste with fluorides uses prescription-grade whereas the water fluorides are referenced even in the dictionary as commercial-grade, but, whoa! Don’t swallow the toothpaste, but swig down all the fluoridated water, soft drinks, canned foods, and on and on.

Hope and pray for a Requiem for F,

Anita K, St. Petersburg

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Pinellas County City Council in Florida voted to remove fluoridation from the city drinking water. (700,000 residents of Tampa-St. Petersburg region on West coast of Florida)

Commissioner Norm Roach, who championed the effort, is interviewed by Dr. Stan Monteith on his victory against public drinking water fluoridation:

audio:
http://radiolibertyarchives.gsradio.net:8080/110111c.mp3

related story:

Pinellas County Commission votes to remove toxic fluoride from water supply of more than 700,000 Floridians :

http://www.naturalnews.com/033801_fluoride_water_supply.html#ixzz1d3brx4QK

11-7-11

Candidates:

Under the Public Records I am asking Everett to produce documents and to answer hard questions about what it adds to drinking water.

Read the Request for Documents online here.

Download the Word version of the Request for Documents here.

For background – if you are new to this issue see this press release directed to candidates.

Read about NSF, the sham-agency which approves the strange additive but also admits that it contains lead and arsenic.

How would you answer Washington Action for Safe Water’s questionnaire to candidates?

Every tanker load is different. Only a tiny representative sample of tanker loads is tested.  Everett tests down to an arbitrary concentration and no further. Everett does not know for sure what is in the strange additive. Since 2008 I have been challenging Everett to perform an independent and detailed assay of the raw material, but Everett does not seem to want to know what is in the chemical stew, and so is showing disregard for the health of the people.

Tanker trucks arrive every 20 days or so at the Lake Chaplain treatment plant above Sultan. The liquid within is the unprocessed and unfiltered slurry liquor from the smokestacks of super-phosphate fertilizer production facilities in Florida, Mexico, China, and other countries. Raw phosphate rock contains around 4% F plus many other elements and chemicals. Sulphuric acid is added to phosphate rock, and there is a hot fire. The smoky end products is captured in EPA wet scrubbers. After cooling it goes into tankers for direct shipment to Everett and Seattle.

The main elements in the strange substance – lead, arsenic, and F – are all on the Superfund Priorities list of toxic substances.

Uranium was mined from the same rock, back when the price was higher, and may be minded there again if the price rises. The uranium concentration is not as high as in other mines, but uranium is there, and so, according to George Glasser, there is a very tiny amount of radionuclides in your water.

Those who support adding the strange substance contend that we should not worry because the amount of the strange substance is so small.  The problem with this defense is that the strange substance is cumulative. The body has difficulty excreting it. It builds up.

With such known poisons and carcinogens, there is no small amount that safely may be added.

If we stopped adding the strange substance to tap water, it would be no hardship to find another source. Those who want to eat and drink the strange additive can simply swallow some of their toothpaste. It would be a lot more pure than what is in the drinking water.

We ask Everett to quit forcing us to consume chemicals which we do not want to consume. Give us pure water.

The strange additive is expensive.

The proponents of adding the strange additive to drinking water admit that the effect is topical and occurs after childhood, not during formation of teeth. Some dentists favor topical application but oppose internal consumption.

The proponents admit that consuming too much of the additive is causing 41% of adolescents to have dental fluorosis. Paradoxically CDC and ADA still favor drinking and eating the additive.

The proponents of adding the strange additive to water provide no mechanism for those who are especially sensitive – arthritics, diabetics, all who drink much water such as laborers and athletes, those with kidney disease, children, babies, infants, and pregnant mothers and their fetuses – to obtain an alternate source of it. The old wells have been shut down in most districts.

As in Enemy of the People, the proponents of the strange additive oppose giving written disclosure to those who are sensitive to the additive, as it would imply there is something wrong with the water. It would hurt tourism. It would harm the giant chemical corporations by reducing sales of the strange additive. The price would drop only somewhat. There are other uses such as etching metal and glass and dissolving concrete.

There is a myth that if we stopped the strange practice that children’s teeth will immediately be smitten with more cavities. There are many other better ways of preventing tooth decay, and we know them. But we will not get serious about implementing them until we quit the strange practice.

And why are we so fixated on teeth? Why are we willing to poison all the other organs in the body and even cause fluorosis to some of the teeth in order perhaps to reduce cavities a small percentage if any?

How do the proponents of the strange practice come to believe the strange substance finds its way directly and only to tooth enamel, sparing all other parts of the body from any harm whatsoever?

To the contrary, the strange substance spreads throughout the body. It concentrates more in high-calcium regions and in the bones, kidneys, thyroid, and pineal. The body is poor at excreting the strange substance. We did not evolve to need needing to be able to do so because we consumed little if any of it.

The last time I talked with Alveda King she told me: “As soon as they started adding that stuff to the water, young, healthy wives started having stillbirths – spontaneous abortions.” Alveda says this is a civil rights issue. Blacks, Hispanics, and the poor in general are more likely to be the ones with the worst cases of fluorosis – brown spots on the teeth, with pitted and even chalky teeth.

The proponents of the strange additive agree that children under two years old should little or none of the additive. Yet they do nothing to deliver pure water containing none of the additive to poor mothers, those who need it the most.

So I am asking Everett the hard questions, the questions Everett should be asking. The questions that the other water districts in Snohomish County should be asking. We outside of Everett never got to vote on adding the strange substance to our water. Surrounding water districts should insist on receiving “just water”. Lay a new pipe if necessary.

If it is hard for you to entertain the notion that adding the strange substance to our water is not good for us and that big companies have manipulated us into poisoning ourselves, you can open your mind by refreshing your memory about the people who sold the world tetraethyl Lead in the 1920s. It is the same PR firm which sells us the strange substance today. Remember when we were assured that asbestos was nothing to worry about? Government agencies knew they were unhealthy but went along with the big chemical corporations.

How would you answer Washington Action for Safe Water’s questionnaire to candidates?

Sincerely,

Justice Department seeks to pass rule allowing government officials to lie in response to FOIA requests

Saturday, November 05, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

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(NaturalNews) A powerful tool that allows ordinary citizens to obtain crucial information from government archives, the US Department of State (DOA) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is under attack. The Daily Caller reports that the US Justice Department wants to revise the law to allow government officials to lie about, or conceal the very existence of, records that it does not wish to release publicly.

The Justice Department claims that the law needs to be revised to protect sensitive information from being released. But current FOIA provisions already exempt certain information from having to be supplied, as long as those requesting the information are given a proper explanation as to why it cannot be released.

But the new rule would allow officials to not only conceal the information, but also to blatantly lie about it. In other words, when the federal government wants to keep certain dirty little secrets under wraps, even “secrets” not protected by the exemption, it will simply be able to tell those requesting such information that it does not exist.

“(The rule) will dramatically undermine government integrity by allowing a law designed to provide public access to government information to be twisted to permit federal law enforcement agencies to actively lie to the American people,” said the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and OpenTheGovernment.org, in a joint public statement (http://www.openthegovernment.org/si…).

FOIA requests, of course, have been crucial in exposing all kinds of government corruption. A FOIA request exposed US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano as a liar concerning the safety of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) naked body scanners, for instance (http://www.naturalnews.com/032839_b…).

“The problem is, if you’re a FOIA requester and the agency says they don’t have the records, you have no reason to doubt that,” said CREW chief counsel Anne Weismann concerning the proposal. “But if they cite an exemption, you have the option to sue.”

The proposed FOIA revisions were first published back in March, and the Justice Department began taking public comments on them for a short period of time. Due to massive public backlash, the agency is once again accepting comments. You can submit your own comments by contacting:

Office of Information Policy (OIP)
Suite 11050
1425 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530
(202) 514-3642

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