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Archive for August 18th, 2012

How Fluoride Was Sold To America…And How We Bought It

Posted by Xeno on August 18, 2012

photoFluoride – An Industrial waste product that’s added to the water supply.

The battle on fluoridation continues and is burning through the American southwest. Phoenix, Arizona, the nation’s sixth most populous city, is seeking to rid itself of the harmful chemical compound known as fluoride. Come this fall, the Phoenix city council is slated to discuss the future of fluoride and it’s removal from the municipal water supply, a move that has been a growing trend in cities across the United States. Just recently, Albuquerque, New Mexico passed a ruling to put an end to fluoridation in its city water system. In 2001, residents of the city of Flagstaff, Arizona, voted by an overwhelming majority to have fluoride removed from their public water system.

The anti-fluoride movement has been spreading not only in the United States but world-wide according to this document from Fluoride Action Network (FAN). China, Germany and France have a full ban on water fluoridation citing serious health risks. In China, the World Health Organization has estimated that millions of people have a crippling form of skeletal fluorosis from the naturally occurring fluoride that exists in the environment. Skeletal fluorosis is a painful bone disease and is directly attributed to excessive consumption of fluoride. Studies have also shown that even small increases of fluoride expose humans to mutagenic damage and destructive changes to their DNA.

EPA official and chemist, Dr. J. William Hirzy, expressed his view on fluoride at a Senate subcommittee hearing in 2000, which was contrary to the very agency he worked for. This is what Hirzy had to say: “If this stuff gets out into the air, it’s a pollutant; if it gets into the river, it’s a pollutant; if it gets into the lake, it’s a pollutant; but if it goes right into your drinking water, it’s not a pollutant. That’s amazing… There’s got to be a better way to manage this stuff.”

Under the EPA’s own regulatory guidelines fluoride is listed as a chemical neurotoxin with substantial health risks. Sodium silicofluoride and hexafluorosilicic acid are the hazardous chemicals that make up the fluoridation process and are waste products originally created by the aluminum and fertilizer industries.

In 1931 the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) under the direction of Andrew Mellon (The Mellon Institute) conducted fluoridation tests through the Public Health Service (PHS) by dentist H. Trendley Dean, who coincidentally, was the first director of the National Institute of Dental Research. Dean found that as fluoride levels began to rise, so did percentages of dental fluorosis. Dean claimed his test results lowered cavities even though it was just the opposite. Dean promoted the falsified findings and eventually became known as the “father of fluoridation”. Andrew Mellon, who held considerable authority as acting U.S. Treasurer, put pressure on (PHS) to push the fraudulent tooth decay agenda.

Via Shawn Helton | Planet.Infowars.com

Most people don’t know that fluoride is a waste product of atomic bomb production. Making bombs made huge amounts of waste fluoride and they had to get rid of it and stop the lawsuits when crops and animals died from exposure to it. So, after a secret meeting, Rutgers did a study with Army recruits and determined that those given fluoride had less cavities. That was true… because their teeth fell out. That’s what I recall from when I researched this many years ago.

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Taxes, not one cent you pay goes to this country?

Posted by Xeno on August 18, 2012

I’m listening to Alex Jones, streaming on an iPhone using “5-0 Radio Pro” and he just said that the money we pay the IRS does not go to support anything in the USA.

Seems hard to believe… How can no Federal taxes be going to US projects?

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‘Tomatoes are Christian,’ Egyptian Salafi group warns

Posted by Xeno on August 18, 2012

The group's message on Facebook.A Salafi group called the “Popular Egyptian Islamic Association” has warned Muslims against eating tomatoes on the grounds that the fruit is a “Christian food,” NowLebanon.com has reported.

The group based its claim on the fact that a shape resembling a cross is revealed when one cuts a tomato in half.

The association published the warning on its Facebook page with a photo of a tomato cut in half, revealing a cross-shaped interior.

A message posted on the page read, “Eating tomatoes is forbidden because they are Christian. [The tomato] praises the cross instead of Allah and says that Allah is three [in reference to the Holy Trinity].”

The message went on to say, “I implore you to spread this photo because there is a sister from Palestine who saw the Prophet of Allah in a vision and he was crying, warning his nation against eating [tomatoes]. If you don’t spread this [message], know that it is the devil who stopped you.”

The message caused outrage among Facebook users, which prompted the group to clarify their warning, saying they did not tell people not to eat tomatoes. “We said don’t cut it in [such a way that it reveals] the cross shape.”

via RELIGION – ‘Tomatoes are Christian,’ Egyptian Salafi group warns.

The devil won’t stop ME from spreading this message! Ha! Take that Devil! I’ve posted this on a blog that gets 5,000 views per day. Well, it’s actually more of a Maltese or Amalfi cross. It was the symbol of the Christian Knights of Malta, also called the Hospitallers, who “arose as a group of individuals associated with an Amalfitan hospital in the Muristan district of Jerusalem, which was dedicated to St John the Baptist and was founded around 1023 by Blessed Gerard to provide care for poor, sick or injured pilgrims to the Holy Land.”

 

But wait… using just a LITTLE logic here, weren’t there crosses in tomatoes long before the year 1023 AD?  In fact, it would be pretty difficult to convince me that there were no crosses in tomatoes before Christianity, because the Aztecs used the fruit in their cooking and it was cultivated in southern Mexico in 500 BC. Did crosses suddenly appear in tomatoes around 30 AD? What about all the tomatoes that were around 500 years before there was any such thing as a Christian? Sorry, the devil of biology and simple logic wins.  If they are going to keep going with this belief, the Egyptian Salafi’s will need to avoid snowflakes at all costs!

 

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Norwegian driver hits bear after trying to avoid moose

Posted by Xeno on August 18, 2012

A bull mooseA Norwegian driver who tried to avoid crashing into a moose hit a bear instead, a wildlife official said.

The accident took place on Wednesday night on a rural road 225km (140 miles) north of Oslo, in Hedmark county.

While the driver escaped uninjured, a search party was tracking the bear after finding traces of blood, local wildlife official Svein Erik Bjorke told the Reuters news agency.

Norway is home to around 100,000 moose and 150 brown bears.

The driver spotted the moose around midnight near Hanestad village and tried to steer around the animal, when a bear suddenly ran in front of his car.

“The driver had lost a bit of speed as she tried to avoid the moose before hitting the bear,” Mr Bjorke told Reuters.

“We are currently tracking the bear and we have found traces of blood indicating internal injuries.”

The driver’s car sustained some damage in the accident. The moose managed to flee the scene unharmed.

via BBC News – Norwegian driver hits bear after trying to avoid moose.

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Dog stumbles upon 300 million-year-old fossil

Posted by Xeno on August 18, 2012

The fossil comes from a branch of reptiles described as mammal-like as they are thought to be the ancient ancestors of modern mammal species.Previously, scientists had discovered fossilized footprints in Colchester County and a few scattered bones on P.E.I., but Superstar is the most complete specimen to date.  A family and their dog named Kitty have stumbled upon one of the most significant fossil finds ever in Nova Scotia. The reptile fossil, affectionately nicknamed “Superstar,” is the first of its kind to be found in the province.

While out walking along Nova Scotia’s fossil-rich Northumberland shore, Patrick Keating, his family, and their dog, Kitty, found a fossilized rib cage, backbone and partial sail.

When they went back to the same area a week later, they found the creature’s fossilized skull.

“We really had no idea how significant this was,” said Keating. “My brother Peter and his kids took the pieces to the Nova Scotia Museum and when we learned what they were, we were truly amazed and so glad we brought them in.”

Researchers estimate the reptile lived between 290 and 305 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period or early Permian Period.

Based on fossil evidence, researchers believe Superstar was a juvenile, measuring about one metre long, weighing in at about 15 kilograms.

Paleontologists and other staff from the Museum of Natural History, the Fundy Geological Museum and the Joggins Fossil Institute are working together to unravel the mystery.

“A new window into our ancient world has just opened,” said Deborah Skilliter, curator of geology for the Nova Scotia Museum. “This is just the beginning of the story as we undertake the task of determining exactly what type of sail-back reptile Superstar is, where, and how, it lived and died.”

Previously, scientists had discovered fossilized footprints in Colchester County and a few scattered bones on P.E.I., but Superstar is the most complete specimen to date.

Skilliter and other researchers are very excited.

“This is one of the most significant fossils that’s come out of the province in recent history,” she said.

“This was a land creature. Land creatures don’t get preserved as easily as water creatures, aquatic things — so it’s rare that we get a land animal …150 years of paleontological research in the province and not a single bone, and here we get almost the whole darn thing.”

The fossil comes from a branch of reptiles described as mammal-like as they are thought to be the ancient ancestors of modern mammal species.

via Dog stumbles upon 300 million-year-old fossil – Nova Scotia – CBC News.

And for those of you who had no idea where Nova Scotia is …

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eBay Bans Sale Of Magic Spells, Potions And Other Witchcraft

Posted by Xeno on August 18, 2012

Curses! eBay has banned magic spells and potions.

A small paragraph in the new eBay 2012 Fall Seller Update (h/t Tecca) is proving to be a big bummer for purveyors of the occult — and for other believers. As of Aug. 30, eBay wrote on its site, the following merchandise is prohibited: “spells; curses; hexing; conjuring; magic; prayers; blessing services; magic potions; healing sessions.”

Ebay also banned “advice.”

Might we advise the aggrieved to push a voodoo pin in a sensitive area of the auction site?

It wasn’t clear whether books such as the “Wicca Witch Alchemist Book of Shadows Spells Rituals Magick (sic) Potions Oils” were subject to the ban. But just in case, the last time we checked it was available for $166.50.

Ditto for the $3,000 rock that allegedly has an “apparition” image of the Virgin of Guadalupe on it.

“Miracles will still be permitted,” wrote “Fine.Books” on an eBay discussion board.

via eBay Bans Sale Of Magic Spells, Potions And Other Witchcraft.

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