WEEKLY ROUNDUP

"In 1931, when Brave New World was being written, I was convinced that there was still plenty of time. The completely organized society, the scientific caste system, the abolition of free will by methodical conditioning, the servitude made acceptable by regular doses of chemically induced happiness, the orthodoxies drummed in by nightly courses of sleep-teaching - these things were coming all right, but not in my time, not even in the time of my grandchildren....Twenty-seven years later,...I feel a good deal less optimistic... In the West,...individual men and women still enjoy a large measure of freedom. But...this freedom and even the desire for this freedom seem to be on the wane."

Aldous Huxley Brave New World Revisited 1958

Airline passengers have 'no right' to refuse naked body scanners
"The option of having a full-body pat-down search instead, offered to passengers at US airports, will not be available despite warnings from the government's Equality and Human Rights Commission that the scanners, which reveal naked bodies, breach privacy rules under the Human Rights Act."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/26/new-body-scanners-heathrow

Airport Scanners Can Store, Transmit Images
"Contrary to public statements made by the Transportation Security Administration, full-body airport scanners do have the ability to store and transmit images, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center."
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/airport-scanners/

CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military-style spy drones
"Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ­"routine" monitoring of antisocial motorists, ­protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/23/cctv-sky-police-plan-drones

Military-style spy planes 'to be used to target civilians in the UK'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245446/Military-style-spy-planes-used-target-civilians-UK.html

The 20,000 snooper army: Vast number of town hall bureaucrats get power to enter your home without a warrant
"These include checking for fridges which do not have the correct eco-friendly energy rating, making sure a hedge is not too high and inspecting a property to ensure 'illegal or unregulated hypnotism' is not taking place. Town halls are also carrying out thousands of 'spying' missions under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. The law was passed nine years ago to fight terrorism, but access to the spy powers has been extended to 653 state bodies - including 474 councils."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238800/The-20-000-snooper-army-Vast-number-town-hall-bureaucrats-power-enter-home-warrant.html

BBC: Polio Vaccine Gave Cancer Causing Virus To Millions
http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=1320

LABOUR'S NANNY STATE GUIDE TO BEING A GRANDPARENT
"5. Help with burns and scalds: A burn is caused by direct or very near contact with heat or a flame." Worried grandparents should help out by trying to cool the affected area." (What would we do without the Government's advice?)
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/153006

Care homes forcing elderly to have feeding tubes fitted
"This is a widespread problem. Many care homes say they will not take a patient until they have had a gastrostomy. There is no reason for them to do that. They should have nursing support."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jan/06/care-homes-elderly-feeding-tubes

Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID
"Clearing out the high power analog tv emissions will improve signal to noise ratio for RFID emitting in the 700MHz band, and potentially allow passive satellite tracking of these RFID signals."
http://qbit.cc/ex-ibm-employee-reveals-tv-abandoned-analog-band-to-make-room-for-rfid/

An introduction to New Technologies (Part I)
"In 2006, IBM received a patent approval for an invention called, Identification and tracking of persons using RFID-tagged items."
http://www.michaeljournal.org/newtechno.htm

Army Funds ‘Synthetic Telepathy’ Research
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/08/army-funds-synt/

Pentagon Preps Soldier Telepathy Push
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/pentagon-preps-soldier-telepathy-push/

Monkey Brain Controls Walking ‘Bot
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/01/when-our-roboti/

Northrop To Develop Mind-Reading Binoculars
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/06/northrop-to-dev/

How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24331/

The future of brain-controlled devices
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/30/brain.controlled.computers/?imw=Y

Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues (IT'S JUST A MOVIE)
"Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html

Happiness In Slavery
"If the government does not directly seize the nation’s private wealth, then it will require $389,610 from each and every citizen to balance the country’s books.”
http://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/happiness-in-slavery-4/

Giant statue of Lenin and Mao the talk of Richmond
"METRO VANCOUVER - A public art installation depicting Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin and a feminized Chairman Mao Zedong in the heart of Richmond's business district has the whole town talking."
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Giant+statue+Lenin+talk+Richmond/2384389/story.html

WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Brain Chips: AI Is All In Your Head
http://gigaom.com/2009/12/22/artificial-intelligence/

Zogby Poll - 11% Would Like a Brain Implant to Access the Internet
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/poll_us_attitudes_about_intern_1.php

Device Turns Thoughts Into Speech
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34642356/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/

Houston Testing Unmanned Drones To Spy On Its People (can look into homes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tHk9Q3Fv6g

Russia Bans US Poultry Over Chlorine
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/01/russia-bans-us-poultry-over-chlorine/

Monsanto (the company spreading its genetically modified crops all over the world and who's employees will not eat its food in company cafeterias) named company of the year by Forbes
http://www.kmox.com/Monsanto-named--Company-of-the-Year--by-Forbes/6011986

Executive Order just signed to aid the "syncronization and integration of state and federal activity in the US"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426271/posts

545 People Responsible for all of America's Woes
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/woes.htm

Americans Say Bring On the Body Scanners
http://www.sphere.com/article/americans-bring-on-the-body-scanners-poll-reports/19312521

Naked Body Scanners Can Save And Transmit Images
http://www.naturalnews.com/027914_TSA_full-body_scanners.html

Window Cleaning Chemical Injected Into Hamburger Meat
http://www.naturalnews.com/027872_ammonia_beef_products.html

Is the Dollar a Ponzi Scheme?
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=493

The Real Newt
http://www.vimeo.com/6445068

What's In the Water? Why Everyone Needs a Good Filter!

It is now known that the water supply contains over 2,000 cancer and other disease causing chemicals at various concentration levels. Although most all are found at trace levels, one should consider buying a good water filter to reduce their cumulative exposure to these chemicals. Have you ever wondered why cancer rates have skyrocketed in the last 50 years since most of these were introduced? In 1950, 1 in 50 Americans were expected to get cancer - now its one in three.

Some of these chemicals include:

Chlorine: cancer, heart disease, stroke
Anti-Androgens: feminizes males, low sperm count, testicular cancer, man-boobs, genital deformities
Fluoride: cancer, alzheimers, cognitive defects, reproductive problems, thyroid disorders, kidney disease, fluorosis
Arsenic: cancer
Asbestos: cancer
Aluminum: alzheimers
Benzene: cancer, anemia
Mercury: nervous system disorders, kidney disease
Toluene: cancer
Herbicides/Pesticides: cancer, liver disease, heart disease, kidney disease, respiratory problems
Pharmaceutical drugs: long term effects unknown

Here's a closer look at a few of these chemicals.

Chlorine

Chlorine, Cancer and Heart Disease
http://www.waterwarning.com/chlorinefact.php

Health Effects of Chlorine in Drinking Water
http://www.pure-earth.com/chlorine.html

Cancer on Tap: The Risks of Chlorinated Drinking Water
http://www.greensense.com/Features/Action/cancer_on_tap.htm

Poisoning by Chlorinated Water
http://www.heart-disease-bypass-surgery.com/data/articles/62.htm

Anti-Androgens

Gender Bending Chemicals in Rivers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1121283/Gender-bending-chemicals-rivers-grow-potent.html

Debating How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/us/23water.html?_r=3

Transsexual Frogs
http://discovermagazine.com/2003/feb/featfrogs

Hormone or Endocrine Disruptors: fish changing from male to female
http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=297

Gender Bending Chemicals in Minnesota Waters
http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/12/08/gender-bending-chemicals-in-minnesota-waters/

EPA Looking at Gender Bending Chemicals
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/epa-looking-at-gender-bender-chemicals-in-water.php

Feminize Fish, Who's Next?
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/06/_canada_has_a_l.php

Pollution Linked to Male Infertility
http://toxicology.suite101.com/article.cfm/pollution_linked_to_male_infertility

Fluoride

The Hidden Agenda: The Fluoride Deception
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7984669833566646476&ei

10 Facts about Fluoride
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS108377+02-Jan-2008+PRN20080102

Fluoride is Poison, Says Dartmouth Doctor
http://www.americanfreepress.net/Alternative_Health/17_02%20HS%20Fluoride%20Is%20Poison,%20Sa.htm

An Efficient Rat Poison
http://writerspiece.blogspot.com/2007/08/fluoride-efficient-rat-poison.html

Second Thoughts about Fluoride (Scientific American): teeth, bone, brain, and thyroid disorders
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS108377+02-Jan-2008+PRN20080102

Fluoride conference reveals fraudulent science behind mass fluoridation
http://www.naturalnews.com/001807_fluoride_water_fluoridation.html

50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation
http://www.fluoridealert.org/50-reasons.htm

Fluoride Stupidity and Population Control
http://www.preferrednetwork.com/FLUORIDE_STUPIDITY.htm

Fluoride Warning for Infants
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/infant/

The Absurdities of Water Fluoridation
http://www.fluoridealert.org/absurdity.htm

Why EPA Scientists Oppose Fluoridation
http://www.fluoridation.com/epa2.htm

What Pharmaceuticals use Fluoride?
http://www.just-think-it.com/f-drugs.htm

Fluosilic acid (one of the compounds used to fluoridate water)
(1) http://www.fluoridealert.org/pesticides/fluosilicic.acid-page.htm
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorosilicic_acid

Sodium Fluoride (another compound used to fluoridate water)
(1) http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-Sodium_silicofluoride-9925037
(2) http://www.fluoride-history.de/chemicals.htm

Manufacturers of sodium fluoride
(1) http://www.kcindustries.com/sf.htm
(2) http://www.sodiumsilicofluoride.com/

Nazi's used Sodium Fluoride
http://wearechangemelbourne.org/newsupdates/49-fluoridation/465-nazis-used-sodium-fluoride.html

Fluoride-based Drugs
http://poisonfluoride.com/pfpc/html/malaysia.html

Fluoride is an active ingredient in Prozac and Paxil
http://poisonfluoride.com/pfpc/html/prozac.html

Professionals' Statement To End Fluoridation
http://www.fluoridealert.org/statement.august.2007.html

Is Fluoride in your bottled water brand?
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=117872

Fluoride Content in Mineral Water by Brand
http://web.archive.org/web/20021012111812/www.pmgeiser.ch/cgi-bin/mineral?sort=f

The Fluoridation Fiasco
http://rense.com/health/fluoride1.htm

Pharmaceutical Drugs

Medication Pollution Spreads
http://www.naturalnews.com/z022809.html

Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water (CBS)http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/10/health/main3920454.shtml

Drugs found in drinking Water (USATODAY)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-10-drugs-tap-water_N.htm

EPA Dropped Ball on Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water
http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1011

Drugs Are in the Water. Does it Matter?http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/science/earth/03water.html?_r=1&ref=science

Other Carcinogens

EPA to Study Tap Water Carcinogens
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3959641

What may be added or leaked into the water supply?

Lithium: to prevent suicide

Japanese Researcher suggests putting lithium into drinking water
http://www.infowars.com/japanese-researchers-suggest-putting-lithium-in-drinking-water/

US to Add Lithium to Water Supply?
http://www.kfwb.com/US-to-Add-Lithium-to-Water-Supply-/5918658

Statins: to prevent heart attacks

Statin-fortified Drinking Water
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3931157.stm

CNBC Host Recommends Statins be Put in the Water Supply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmBnaJIQdUw

Stirilants: to prevent more of you

Obama Science Czar Plan to Sterilize Population Through Water Supply
http://www.infowars.com/obama-science-czars-plan-to-sterilize-population-through-water-supply-already-happening/

Given all of the research above and literally thousands of articles and papers available online that explain the many adverse health effects of drinking tap water (and some bottled water), does it make sense to invest in a good water filter to at least reduce your repeated exposure to these toxins? Most are probably not harmful in single doses at the current concentration levels, but it is unknown how repeated exposure to some of these chemicals will impact your health in the long run as they accumulate in your body. Would you be willing to expose yourself to a harmless x-ray every day of your life? One x-ray is not that harmful, but what about 100 in 100 days or 1000 in 1000 days? Think about it! Protect yourself and your family. I'm not here to sell water filters, so I will leave it up to you to determine which filter is best.