THE HANDSTAND

AUGUST 2006

DOREMUS OBSERVES : MATTERS OF INTEREST

Doremus Jessup, editor of the Fort Beulah The Daily Informer, in Sinclair Lewis' famous book "It Can't Happen Here", at its conclusion, after imprisonment and torture escaped and "drove out, saluted by the meadow larks, and onward all day, to a hidden cabin in the Northern Woods where quiet men awaited news of freedom.....still Doremus goes on, into the sunrise, for a Doremus Jessup can never die......

Take Action!fluoridation of water, and now of food.

Effects of fluoride on the brain...TAKE ACTION
People we need to keep a real close eye on this issue. If this goes ahead we absolutely cannot eat these foods. Fluoride is an extreme poison  that has been foisted on us by the Government and vested interests in spite of the thousands of investigations that have proved it to be very deleterious to health. Fluoride's affects at the limits of 4ppm which is the allowable limit in drinking water have been well documented. What is proposed as a fumigator for foods is 70ppm. Do the math....     http://www.fluoridealert.org/

The Issue at hand...
In a November 28, 2005 letter to Dow AgroSciences, Maureen Serafini, Director, NYS Bureau of Pesticides, approved sulfuryl fluoride (ProFumeŽ) fumigant on all processed foods and a large number of raw food commodities in New York. These are the foods most Americans eat. In response, FAN’s Pesticide Project Director, Ellen Connett, requested Director Serafini to revoke this approval.   Because sulfuryl fluoride breaks down to fluoride in the human body, fluoride is the endpoint of toxicological concern. In their approval, EPA approved the highest levels of fluoride residues in food in US history. Fluoride is persistent and bio-accumulates in the human body. Inhalation tests with all animal species exposed to sulfuryl fluoride revealed severe harm to the brain. Of particular concern was the finding of holes (vacuolation) in the white matter of the brain, and an abnormal softening (malacia) and cell death (necrosis) of brain tissue.  

Here are some scientific studies done as to how flouride affects the brain:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/
Flouride and the Pineal Gland
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/pineal/  

And it is no accident that the addition of flourides is being advocated at this time--Flouride is part of the 'dumming down' process: http://www.mdvventures.com/flouride.htm

Fluorides have been used to modify behavior and mood of human beings. It is a little known fact that fluoride compounds were added to the drinking water of prisoners to keep them docile and inhibit questioning of authority, both in Nazi prison camps in World War II and in the Soviet gulags in Siberia.
Fluorides are medically categorized as protoplasmic poisons, which is why they are used to kill rodents. "Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century" Robert Carlton, Ph. D., former U. S. EPA scientist on "Marketplace" Canadian Broadcast Company, Nov. 24, 1992. "Regarding fluoridation, the EPA should act immediately to protect the public, not just on the cancer data, but on the evidence of bone fractures, arthritis, mutagenicity and other effects" William Marcus, Ph. D., senior EPA toxicologist, Covert Action, Fall 1992, p. 66  
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/march2005/240305fluoridestupidity.htm

Fluoride Stupidity And Population Control
Preferred Network | March 24 2005   "The real reason behind water fluoridation is not to benefit children's teeth. If this were the real reason there are many ways in which it could be done that are much easier, cheaper, and far more effective. The real purpose behind water fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss of liberty. "When the Nazis under Hitler decided to go into Poland, both the German General Staff and the Russian General Staff exchanged scientific and military ideas, plans, and personnel, and the scheme of mass control through water medication was seized upon by the Russian Communists because it fitted ideally into their plan to communize the world. ... "I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official of the great IG Farben chemical industries and was also prominent in the Nazi movement at the time. I say this with all the earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years' research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine--any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person mentally or physically." - CHARLES E. PERKINS, Chemist, 2 October 1954.     http://www.sonic.net/kryptox/history/perkins2.htm

Quoting Einstein's nephew, Dr. E.H.Bronner (a chemist who had also been a prisoner of war duering WW2) in a laeeter printed in the Catholic Mirror, springfield, MA, January 1952 "There is a sinister network of subversive agents, Godless 'intellectual' parasites, working in our country today whose ramifications grow more extensive, more successful and more alarming each new year and whose true objective is to demoralize, paralyze and destroy our great Republic--from within if they can, according to their plan--for their own possession. "The tragic success they have already attained in their long siege to destroy the moral fiber of American life is now one of their most potent footholds towards their own ultimate victory over us. "Fluoridation of our community water systems can well become their most subtle weapon for our sure physical and mental deterioration. "

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As a research chemist of established standing, I built within the past 22 years, 3 American chemical plants and licensed 6 of my 53 patents. Based on my years of practical experience in the health-food and chemical field, let me warn: fluoridation of drinking water is criminal insanity, sure national suicide. Don`t do it.  
Keep in mind that what was proposed at that time was water flouridation at 1ppm---what is being proposed now is 70ppm, and as it would be in foods, entirely unavoidable once these substances were consumed. 
DO THE MATH!!
 
  This article is a MUST READ in its entirety
http://www.ekostv.com/node/125?PHPSESSID=f6bb75e02d7f26ec6ce70c8f1da86f1b   The Flouride Conspiracy  
Some excerpts:
 
Farben had developed plans during the war to fluoridate the occupied countries because it was found that fluoridation caused slight damage to a specific part of the brain, making it more difficult for the person affected to defend his freedom and causing the individual to become more docile towards authority. Fluoride remains one of the strongest anti-psychotic substances known, and is contained in twenty-five percent of the major tranquilizers. It may not seem surprising that Hitler’s regime practiced the concept of mind control through chemical means, but the American military continued Nazi research, exploring techniques to incapacitate an enemy or medicate an entire nation. As stated in the Rockerfeller Report, a Presidential briefing on CIA activities, "the drug program was part of a much larger CIA program to study possible means of controlling human behavior"(Stephen 1995). .   At the end of World War II, the US government sent Charles Eliot Perkins, a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology, to take charge of the vast Farben chemical plants in Germany. The German chemists told Perkins of a scheme which they had devised during the war and had been adapted by the German General Staff. The German chemists explained of their attempt to control the population in any given area through the mass medication of drinking water with sodium fluoride, a tactic used in German and Russian prisoner of war camps to make the prisoners "stupid and docile"(Stephen 1995).  

THE FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK

FAN Bulletin 630: EPA Union calls for "stay" on sulfuryl fluoride
 
July 25, 2006
 
Dear All,

Here is some fast breaking news: We have just received a copy of the letter that the EPA Union, which represents professionals at the EPA HQ in DC, has sent to their "boss" Mr. Stephen Johnson on the sulfuryl fluoride issue.

They are joining FAN, EWG, Beyond Pesticides and the Organic Consumers Asscoaition in calling for  a "stay" on EPA's approval of sulfuryl fluoride for use as a fumigant on food.

If you haven't done so already please add your voice in support of this effort to stop the further contamination of our food supply with fluoride. You can do this by signing the ONLINE letter at
http://actionstudio.org/?go=2367. Please get your friends and family members to do the same. We only have till August 4 to stop this dangerous nonsense. It is quick, it is simple and it is important. If you have the time add a first sentence of your own to personalize your letter.

Paul Connett
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THE NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION
    CHAPTER 280
  BEN FRANKLIN STATION
         P.O. BOX  7672    
 WASHINGTON, DC 20044
            
202-566-2785(V)
                         
202-566-1460(F)
   Website    
www.nteu280.org
July 25, 2006

Hon. Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20460

Dear Administrator Johnson:

        I am writing at the direction of the Executive Board of Chapter 280, National Treasury Employees Union, representing the professional employees here at headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

        The Board asked me to write to you about our concern that the Agency is setting itself - and by implication its employees - up for further embarrassment over the increased tolerance levels for fluoride on food stuffs. These increased tolerances come in connection with the use of sulfuryl fluoride as a fumigant, replacing methyl bromide in this application.

        The increased tolerances have been supported by the Agency by reference to another standard set by the Agency, namely its Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) for fluoride in drinking water, which is currently 4 milligrams per liter (4 mg/L). As you know, the National Research Council has very recently submitted a report to EPA stating that the 4 mg/L MCLG, a health-based standard, is not in fact protective of public health. For EPA to base tolerances for fluoride in foods, especially for foods to be consumed by infants and children who fall under the protection of the Food Quality Protection Act, flies in the face of both law and scientific integrity.
        We sincerely hope that you will rescind the approval of sulfuryl fluoride as a food stuffs fumigant and the concomitant increased tolerances for residual fluoride on the foods. The Agency can cite the NRC report as the basis for this action, thus minimizing any further embarrassment to itself and the professional staff.

                Please add my comments to the docket #: EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0174 and EPA-HQ-OPP-2003-0373.

        On behalf of the Executive Board, I am,
         Sincerely,


                J. William Hirzy, Ph.D.
         Vice-President  

http://www.fluoridealert.org/action.htm Ask EPA to Stop Use of Sulfuryl Fluoride on Food Despite the fact that Americans are already being over-exposed to fluoride, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently given approval to DOW AgroSciences to add a new fluoride pesticide (sulfuryl fluoride) to hundreds of foods in the US. Sign the petition asking EPA to end the use of sulfuryl fluoride on food. Support EPA Unions' Call for National Moratorium & Congressional Investigation In August 2005, eleven EPA Unions called on Congress to enact a nationwide moratorium on water fluoridation before, and until, a full-scale Congressional investigation into fluoridation occurs. To support the 11 EPA Unions' initiative, click here. Write a letter to your local newspaper Writing a letter to your local newspaper is an invaluable way of informing your community of the health and ethical concerns surrounding water fluoridation. Let the readers of your favorite paper know that there is no need to swallow fluoride; that the FDA has never approved any fluoride product designed to be ingested; that fluoride is the only chemical added to water that does not treat the water itself; that 98% of western Europe has rejected water fluoridation; that the fluoride chemical used for fluoridation is an unprocessed industrial waste product; that most people are already receiving too much fluoride from their toothpaste and diets; that recent research has linked fluoride to serious health problems including arthritis, hip fracture, alzheimers disease, and cancer; and that readers can learn about the issue for themselves at www.fluoridealert.org. Ask your local bookstore/library to carry "The Fluoride Deception" In May of 2004, the much-anticipated book The Fluoride Deception by Chris Bryson was released. The book, published by Seven Stories Press, is an eye-opening, page-turning, and meticulously researched expose of the history and politics of fluoride. A must read for anyone interested in fluoride issues. Order a copy for yourself and request your nearby bookstore/library to order copies as well. (NOTE: Due to shortage of funds, some libraries may not be able to purchase the book. If this is the case in your area, please consider donating a copy to the library. It would certainly be a wonderful contribution to your community.) Tell your friends and family There should be no underestimating the power of word-of-mouth communication. Tell your friends and family about what you have learned concerning fluoride. Let them know that the benefits have been greatly exaggerated and the risks ignored; that the vast majority of western Europe has rejected water fluoridation and yet has experienced the same decline in tooth decay as the US; that the scientists and professionals at EPA's Headquarters Union in Washington DC have recently called for a "national moratorium" on fluoridation; and that more than 70 US communities have rejected fluoridation since 1999. Let them also know about the Fluoride Action Network! Find out if your own community's water is fluoridated Call up your local water utility or your local Department of Health and ask if your community adds fluoride to the water. If it does fluoridate, write a letter to the paper, tell your friends, start a group, and start thinking of creative and effective ways to inform your community about the unnecessary hazards posed by water fluoridation.


guantanamo

CAIRO — Instead of listening to increasing international calls to close down the notorious detention camp, the US is opening a new, permanent maximum-security jail in Guantanamo, a leading British daily reported on Sunday, July 30. The two-storey block is being built by a subsidiary of Halliburton, the former employer of now US Vice President Dick Cheney, at a cost of 30 million dollars, according to The Independent. The state-of-the-art maximum-security jail is due to be opened by the end of September and accommodate 200 detainees.

In a major defeat for the administration, the US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, June 29, that President George Bush overstepped his power in ordering military trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees. The Bush administration has signaled its intention to introduce new legislation that would circumvent the court's ruling.

Almost four years after detaining them in the remote, high-security notorious detention camp, the Pentagon released on Wednesday, April 19, the names and nationalities of 558 Guantanamo detainees. The US had designated the detainees, most of whom were detained in Afghanistan, as "enemy combatants," denying them the rights accorded to prisoners of war under international agreements.

The expansion of Guantanamo is expected to further fuel the controversy about the detention center."This appears to make a mockery of President Bush's statements about the need to close down Guantanamo Bay," said Tim Hancock, Amnesty International's UK campaigns director.A recent report by the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva pressed for the closure of the detention center, saying acts committed against detainees amount to torture.Amnesty had dismissed Guantanamo as "a symbol of abuse and represents a system of detention that is betraying the best US values and undermines international standards."


Dick Cheney

The Supreme Court, in its ruling about a Guantanamo detainee last week, was a sharp rebuke to Chenyism (fascism, American style). It dealt with only one case and left the President wiggle room. He could consult with Congress about new legislation that would provide more rights for the detainees in a military trial. But that violates Mr. Cheney's first principle that the commander in chief doesn't have to consult with anyone on matters of national security. If the President was consistent with the Cheney theory and the memos from Alberto Gonzales, first the White House lawyer and now the attorney general, he should defy the Supreme Court and insist that he has the right to establish whatever judicial process he deems proper for these potentially dangerous people without any interference from anyone. He may still do that.

Republicans who will seek re-election in November already suggest that they will run against the Supreme Court decision. The court, they will tell the American people, is soft on terror, just like Democrats in Congress. They could probably get away with this nonsense because fear will cause the voters to forget that this is the Republican court that gave Mr. Bush the Presidency.

Mr. Cheney is a vile, indeed evil, influence in American political life. He is a very dangerous person who would if he could destroy American freedom about which he and his mentor prate hypocritically. His long years in Washington have caused him to lose faith in the legislative and judicial processes of the government. The country, he believes, requires a much stronger executive. Such concentrated power would have been necessary even if the Sept. 11 attacks had not occurred. Mr. Cheney uses the fear of terrorists as a pretext to advance his agenda of an all powerful president, a military dictator.

So long, of course, as he is a Republican.

Andrew Greeley's e-mail address is agreel@aol.com.


The Halper Farm - 75 acres the U.S.Government want......

On Monday July 10 at 3:00 the government of Piscataway, New Jersey will evict a family from their farm using eminent domain. While the U.S. Constitution should have protected their home now it is up to YOU. Some people plan to form "Human Constitution" around their home when the police arrive to take it.

 

The Halper family has farmed their land for over 80 years. Now the government of Piscataway, New Jersey will take their 75 acres using eminent domain. The government claims it wants to take the farm to preserve "open spaces." It's a farm. It is already an open space. Don't be surprised if shopping malls and condos are built on the Halper land in a few years. There is nothing to prevent the government from changing their use of the land after they grab it.

 

Furthermore, the family has turned down offers to develop it and even tried to sell the development rights to the State of New Jersey so they can be left alone. A representative of a Democratic campaign committee demanded a "contribution" in exchange for giving the Halpers a good price for the development rights. This request for a bribe was caught on tape by the FBI and lead to the resignation of Governor McGreevy.

 

With the "open space" argument shown to be absurd, the government next accused the farm of being a "toxic waste dump" althought they have failed to provide any proof of this. The only chemicals found were pesticides against mosquitos that the city itself was caught spraying on the farm in the middle of the winter.

 

The government of Piscataway has taken over the property of many other people in the area using all sorts of rationale (senior housing, open spaces, etc.) most of it has been sold to developers for high-density housing. Many people believe the Halper farm will also be sold by the city to well-connected developers.

 

The government of Piscataway, New Jersey has been harassing the Halper family for years by sending over police officers on bogus code infractions, driving by and shining bright lights in their windows and even arresting Larry Halper on superficial charges. When Freestar went to a public fair to interview Mayor Brian Wahler (and offer an award from Vladimir Lenin) we were surrounded by police and chased away. A government like this should not exist in America.

 

You can help draw a line in the sand in the battle over eminent domain. Take a stand at the Halper Farm. Don't assume others will preserve your freedom for you. We need YOU to join us. In addition to helping stop eminent domain abuse you can help the Halpers by purchasing a ornamental pear tree or shrub . They have spent a fortune on legal bills to try to fend off this land-grab by the government. Buy a plant, don't let the government steal it.

 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

 

   1. Get the media involved: contact talk radio hosts and encourage them to do a live on-site broadcast, to get people to show up for the Halper Camp-Out, and to generally promote it.

   2. Contact groups that might get their members out: RV owners, camping groups, property rights groups, other victims of eminent domain.

   3. Contact entertainers: musicians, comedians, performers, Civil or Revolutionary War re-inactors.

   4. Help us rent a flat bed truck for a stage, a PA system for the entertainers, and port-a-potties.

      Help us buy food and drink for the campers, make banners, and cover other costs.

   5. Answer phone calls and e-mail from people that have questions about the event.

 

You don't need prior authorization to help with items 1-3...just do it on your own! For 4 & 5, or to help in some other way, please contact logan@freestarmedia.com

 

QUESTIONS

 

Phone 310-593-4843

 

e-mail: logan@freestarmedia.com

 

MEDIA COVER-UP BLOCKS MAJOR HOME-NEWS STORY OF 2006

Rodney Stubbs
July 16, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

Normally, watching CSPAN you will often come across tidbits of good information. Through their search engines, it is possible to review the hearings especially those programs involving hearings conducted by the United States Congress. On July 5, 2006, a hearing at the border guard station in San Diego, California caught my attention. Several prominent Republicans and Democrats were on the panel concerning Border Vulnerability. They were interview panels of selected individuals including a panel of county Sheriffs who are responsible for controlling aliens once they cross the border.

On July 5, 2006 the following exchange took place between U.S. Representative William Bilbray and William Kolender, Sheriff of San Diego County. This is an 11-second transcript of that hearing including the time markers.:

2:55:56 - Rep. Bilbray: "Do you want to break the news about three law enforcement officers concerning an incident that took place about two miles from this location in the last couple of weeks?

2:56:02 Sheriff Kolender: "They were killed."

2:56:04 Rep. Bilbray: "They were not only killed, they were decapitated (Beheaded) weren't they?

2:56:07 Sheriff Kolender: "Yes!"

Within this same time period, Private Tucker a Marine from Madras, Oregon is tortured and beheaded in Iraq. He received International press and was laid to rest in Central Oregon.


In the meantime the main stream media failed to report the beheading of three law enforcement officers. Where is the outrage by the Senators Boxer, Reid, McCain, Feingold, and Kennedy. Why the silence? Why the cover-up? To make matters worse the video recording of the hearing was buried by CSPAN. No press, and the President said nothing. It is easier to secure a video of Private Tuckers ordeal than find the video regarding the beheading of deputies in San Diego county. Fortunately the clip can be viewed at www.plantek.us.


Incidents of suicide among U.S. troops in Iraq is also reaching troubling levels.  There are also reports of defections by U.S. troops to neighboring Turkey, Iran, and Syria, where they can get passage to Europe and Russia.

Incidents of fighting between regular U.S. military personnel and private military contractors, who wear uniforms similar to those worn by regular U.S. soldiers and Marines, is also increasing. U.S. troops are frustrated that they come under attack for atrocities carried out by private contractors who receive triple and quadruple the salaries U.S. military personnel receive. This situation has created a tinderbox between U.S. troops and private contractors.

Visit http://www.veteransforamerica.org/ for more information on the plight of our troops in Iraq and veterans of the quagmire into which the neo-cons have plunged our military.