Monday, March 28, 2016

A Mythical Fluoride Conspiracy

Wilmington City Council members, the mayor and other city officials recently received a letter from a Cathy Justus of Pagosa Springs, Colorado warning of the dangers of fluoridated water.
The 29 page missive included, among other items, the following claims.
Claim: I have the sad distinction of owning the first horses to ever be diagnosed with “chronic fluoride poisoning” from artificially fluoridated municipal water. We have now lost 8 horses and 4 dogs to this virulent cumulative toxin.
Most important and relevant fact: From the Pagosa Springs area 2013 EPA water quality report. “Fluoride level .07 parts per million (ppm) this miniscule level is normal for water system using wells as a source. For example Sabina does not add fluoride to its drinking water yet its EPA reported level is 1.4 PPM or 20 times the Pagosa Springs level. I have not heard of a mass die off of Sabina's animal population.
Claim: doctors and dentists, are not taught in their schooling the science, toxicology, and biochemistry of fluoride and what it does to the body.
Fact: Ask your dentist to reply to this claim. I asked my dentist Dr. Wagstaff about this matter and he gave me a five minute lecture on the benefits of controlled fluoride levels in drinking water.
Claim: [for reasons of personal gain] Public Health Authorities, CDC and EPA. are, I have found, is the case with not only most dentists, doctors and veterinarians but also the ADA, AMA, CDC, U.S. Public Health Service, and the EPA lawmakers.
Fact: What does it gain a dentist, for example, to support a program that reduces cavities.
Claim: between 2003 and 2006 the EPA commissioned the National Research Council (NRC), the highest scientific group in the U.S., to review the recent science on fluoride.
Fact: EPA did ask the NRC to conduct a review. The 2006 conclusion of the review's study was to recommend reducing the recomended fluoride level from 4.00 PPM. The latest agreed upon level is now .7 PPM Most if not all professional and public health organizations agree that .7 PM is the optimum level and would be the level for a Wilmington water project.
When fluoridation was put to the voters of Wilmington in a special election in June of 1970 the science was evolving and many refinements have been made over the last 46 years.
During the 1970 referendum campaign, a lady wrote a letter to the Editor claiming the fluoridation was a communist plot to soften our brains and make socialists of us all. The last time I looked, none of the 140 public water systems in Ohio with fluoridation has produced a den of commies.

Paul Hunter

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

A reminder: Our Boys in Columbus

Elected/public state and local officials who went on Gulenist Turkey trips

The standard Gulen Lobby Turkey trip is 9-10 days long.
Most commonly a figure around $3500 has been used.  To subsidize 6000 people at this level means the Gulen Lobby had invested $21 million in these trips as of 2012.
Most state and local officials are not required to report international trips when they are not paid with government funds.  This means that many more public officials went on these trips without leaving a trace, and therefore could not be listed below.
Akron Beakon Journal - Three months earlier, Rosenberger joined two other House Republicans and two local officials for a trip to Turkey. The trip, focused on economic development, was paid for by the Niagara Foundation, which also has sponsored dinner at the state capital.
Rosenberger’s office did not answer Beacon Journal requests for information.
  • State Rep. Cliff Rosenberger (86th District)   (Niagara Foundation, Serkan Aykan)
  • State Rep. Peter Beck (67th District) (indicted felon) (Niagara Foundation, Serkan Aykan) indicted felon
  • State Rep. Bob Peterson (85th District)  (Niagara Foundation, Serkan Aykan)
  • Jeremy Shaffer, Highland County Commissioner   (Niagara Foundation, Serkan Aykan)
  • Bret Dixon, Clinton County Economic and Business Development Director   (Niagara Foundation, Serkan Aykan)
  • Janelle Mead, Ohio Department of Agriculture Markets Division Chief   (Niagara Foundation, Serkan Aykan)
  • Tim Sword, Global Agriculture Program Manager, Ohio Development Services Agency (Ohio state govt)  (Niagara Foundation, Serkan Aykan)
Those who gave Note that there are no chater schools in Cliff's didtrict.
HUSEYIN AYDIN $ 500 2/18/12 TEACHER, HORIZON SCIENCE ACADEMY, CINCINNATI OH COMMITTEE TO ELECT CLIFF ROSENBERGER
OSMAN CALISKAN $ 400 2/18/12 TEACHER, HORIZON SCIENCE ACADEMY COMMITTEE TO ELECT CLIFF ROSENBERGER
 MUSTAFA ICEL $ 300 2/18/12 DIRECTOR, HORIZON SCIENCE ACADEMY COMMITTEE TO ELECT CLIFF ROSENBERGER
 ZOKIRJON MIRZOEV $ 200 2/18/12 TEACHER, HORIZON SCIENCE ACADEMY COMMITTEE TO ELECT CLIFF ROSENBERGER
 OZGWR OZEY $ 150 2/18/12 DIRECTOR, TURKISH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF OHIO DAYTON COMMITTEE TO ELECT CLIFF ROSENBERGER
 ORHAN UFAK $ 300 2/18/12 ASST.DIRECTOR, HORIZON SCIENCE ACADEMY, CINCINNATI COMMITTEE TO ELECT CLIFF ROSENBERGER
Concept Schools manages 27 publicly-funded Gulen charter schools that are currently operational, including the chain of Horizon Science Academy schools, 
The Niagara Foundation is an openly Gulenist organization, as can be clearly seen from its website (Fethullah Gulen is its honorary president).  The connections of Concept and Horizon to Niagara and SAC are demonstrated by the fact that the domain registration information for the Science Academy of Chicago website, saoc.org, gives registrant email asinfo@conceptschools.org.  Further financial connections have been documented on this webpage.
Akron Beakon Journal - Three months earlier, Rosenberger joined two other House Republicans and two local officials for a trip to Turkey. The trip, focused on economic development, was paid for by the Niagara Foundation, which also has sponsored dinner at the state capital.
Rosenberger’s office did not answer Beacon Journal requests for information.

A chain of 19 publicly funded Ohio charter schools, founded by Turkish immigrants, is taking the position that the United States lacks a qualified pool of math and science teachers and is importing perhaps hundreds of Turks to fill the void.