US Government Ran Chemical Experiments On Military Veterans Under Operations MKUltra, Bluebird And Artichoke

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– US government ran chemical experiments on military veterans under operations MKUltra, Bluebird and Artichoke (Natural News, July 26, 2012):

The United States, for its warts, has achieved much in its short 230-plus year history. It is a benevolent world superpower, for the most part, that serves as a beacon of hope and freedom for an increasingly oppressed world, even as it serves as a guardian against tyranny for as many as half of the world’s nearly seven billion people.

But a few chapters in our history – slavery, oppression of the Native American tribes, causes of the civil rights movement, and moments of unconstitutionality on the part of our elected leaders – serve as more than simple blemishes on an otherwise admirable record of defending liberty and freedom. One such stain is the way we’ve treated some of our nation’s military veterans.

The maltreatment is summed up in a recent federal case. In late July, a group of veterans managed to win a court order forcing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to hand over a trove of documents detailing the department’s alleged Cold War-era drug experiments on Vietnam vets. What’s problematic about this case isn’t the decision – the VA owes these veterans any answers they are seeking – but the fact that the case had to be filed at all.

Read moreUS Government Ran Chemical Experiments On Military Veterans Under Operations MKUltra, Bluebird And Artichoke

Prof. Dr. Chris Busby: Extremely High Levels Of Radioactivity In Tokyo Apartment Air Filter – ‘We Are Talking About Hundreds Of Thousands Of Bequerels Per Kg In This Dust’ (Video)

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YouTube Added: 25.07.2012

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Dr Busby describes measurements made on an airconditing unit filter from inside an apartment in central Tokyo. This was sent by a lady in Tokyo who wanted to know if it was safe to live there. The filter only collected air from inside the apartment. It shows the presence of 130000Bq/kg radioCaesium in the dust plus enriched Uranium and for the first time Lead-210/Polonium-210. The apartment was evacuated from the Tuesday after the catastrophe and the machine switched off; and the family returned 5 months later. This and much other information about the health effects and cover ups, including leaked data are to be found in Dr Busby’s new book in Japanese: the Horror of Fukushima, published on 25th July by Kodansha in Tokyo.


YouTube Added: 25.07.2012

NSA Whistleblowers: Government Spying On Every Single American

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– NSA whistleblowers: Government spying on every single American (RT, July 25, 2012):

The TSA, DHS and countless other security agencies have been established to keep America safe from terrorist attacks in post-9/11 America. How far beyond that does the feds’ reach really go, though?

The attacks September 11, 2001, were instrumental in enabling the US government to establish counterterrorism agencies to prevent future tragedies. Some officials say that they haven’t stopped there, though, and are spying on everyone in America — all in the name of national security.

Testimonies delivered in recent weeks by former employees of the National Security Agency suggest that the US government is granting itself surveillance powers far beyond what most Americans consider the proper role of the federal government.

Read moreNSA Whistleblowers: Government Spying On Every Single American

Audit The Fed Bill Gets Passed By The House But Obama And The Democrats Are Going To Kill It

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Obama = Romney = Obamney 2012!

– The Audit The Fed Bill Gets Passed By The House But Obama And The Democrats Are Going To Kill It (The Economic Collapse, July 25, 2012):

On Wednesday, Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve was overwhelmingly passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.  The vote was 327 to 98.  You would think that a bill with such overwhelming support would easily become law.  But it won’t, because Barack Obama and the Democrats plan to kill it.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has already said that the Senate will not even consider the bill.  But of course if Barack Obama called Harry Reid and told him that he wants this bill to get through the Senate so that he could sign it then Harry Reid would be singing a much different tune.  Sadly, we all know that is not going to happen.  Barack Obama’s good buddy Ben Bernanke called the Audit the Fed bill a “nightmare scenario” last week, and Obama is certainly not going to do anything to upset Bernanke – especially this close to the election.  Obama needs Bernanke to do everything that he possibly can to stimulate the economy so that Obama will look as good as possible in November.  The sad truth is that there is absolutely no chance that the Audit the Fed bill will become law and that is a crying shame.

So why is an audit of the Federal Reserve so important?

Why does Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke consider an audit of the Federal Reserve to be a “nightmare scenario” that must be avoided at all costs?

Well, perhaps it is because there has never been a true comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve since it was created back in 1913.

Read moreAudit The Fed Bill Gets Passed By The House But Obama And The Democrats Are Going To Kill It

Fukushima Nuclear Plant Still Emitted 10,000,000 Becquerels Per Hour In June 2012

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– Tepco: Cesium getting stirred up? Fukushima plant still emitting 10,000,000 becquerels every hour (ENENews, July 24, 2012):

(Subscription Only) Title: After 500 days, Fukushima No. 1 plant still not out of the woods
Source: Asahi, AJW
Author: By TAKASHI SUGIMOTO
Date: July 24, 2012

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According to calculations by Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the Fukushima No. 1 plant, a total of about 10 million becquerels per hour of radioactive cesium was being emitted from the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors as of June.

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since February, the level of radiation emitted from the reactors has remained unchanged.

“There is the possibility that the cesium that fell on the reactor buildings was stirred up again,” said Junichi Matsumoto, acting general director of TEPCO’s Nuclear Power and Plant Siting Division.

The most radiation is being emitted from the No. 2 reactor, which is releasing 8 million becquerels an hour. The radiation is believed to be leaking from a hole that was made in the wall of the top floor of the reactor building.

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William Engdahl: ‘World Being Readied For Aggression Against Syria’

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– ‘World being readied for aggression against Syria’ (RT, July 25, 2012):

World opinion is being orchestrated towards a military operation against the Syrian regime, researcher and author F. William Engdahl told RT. Still, any decisive action against Assad will be postponed until after the US presidential election.

­The international forces supporting regime change in Syria are continuing to mount pressure on the Assad regime, whipping up the fact that the country possesses chemical weapons. Despite the Syrian government’s firm assurance these weapons will never be used in the internal conflict, countries supporting Syrian opposition are openly discussing plans to take Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles under their control.

Since control could be established only by physical presence of some sort of military force at the sites where the weapons are kept, foreign intervention into the country would be necessary.

Read moreWilliam Engdahl: ‘World Being Readied For Aggression Against Syria’

Former Wells Fargo CEO Richard Kovacevich (Video): 2008 Crash Manufactured – Made Insiders Tremendous Amounts of Money – ‘TARP An Unmitigated Disaster’ – ‘Unprecedented $29 Trillion Market Intervention By The Fed And The Treasury’ – ‘Protesters Should Occupy Washington And The Fed’

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Mass Casualty Exercise At Community College Of Aurora In Colorado In 2011 (Video)

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YouTube Added: 10.05.2011

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This video, produced by CCA’s renowned Colorado Film School, shows a simulated disaster and response scenario. EMS students participated, in partnership with CCA’s Disaster Management Institute, as well as actors from CCA’s Theatre Department.

Webster Tarpley: NATO’s Al-Qaeda Wing Clipped In Syria (Video)

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“NATO brought in thousands and thousands of fighters from Libya in particular but also from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, a whole swat of countries and they’ve essentially gone to the bottom of the barrel of the al-Qaeda sort of patsy milieu in these countries and they’ve thrown them across the borders….the idea was that this was going to bring about an overwhelming assault on the Syrian state and the outcome of last week is that this did not occur that the five-pronged defensive has so far not succeeded and I think that is a real characteristic moment that NATO threw everything they had and somehow this has failed. The Syrian state did not collapse. Decay and confusion do not reign. The death squads are being mopped up in Damascus and will be mopped up in Aleppo.”
– Webster Tarpley

– NATO’s al-Qaeda wing clipped in Syria: Analyst (PressTV, July 25, 2012):

NATO has failed in trying to topple the Syrian government despite going “to the bottom of the barrel” of the al-Qaeda militants at its disposal and exerting every effort it possibly could, says an analyst.
The comment comes as Syrian Security forces have foiled repeated attempts by armed groups to infiltrate into Syrian territory from neighboring countries.

Read moreWebster Tarpley: NATO’s Al-Qaeda Wing Clipped In Syria (Video)

Batman Shooter James Holmes Sent Notebook Full Of Planned Massacre Details To University Psychiatrist Before Rampage

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– Report: James Holmes sent notebook to university psychiatrist (ABC 15, July 25, 2012):

AURORA, CO – The man accused in last Friday’s mass shooting at an Aurora movie theater sent a notebook full of details about how he was going to kill people to a University of Colorado psychiatrist before the attack, reported Fox News.

The notebook was mailed to the professor and sat unopened in a mail room for as long as a week before it was found Monday.

FBI agents and police officers were called to the Anschutz medical campus on Monday morning on reports of a suspicious package that was sent from suspect James Holmes.

Although the package turned out to be harmless, a search of a campus services’ mail room turned up another package sent to the psychiatrist with Holmes’ name in the return address, Fox reported citing unmanned sources.

“Inside the package was a notebook full of details about how he was going to kill people,” the source said. “There were drawings of what he was going to do in it — drawings and illustrations of the massacre.”

Read moreBatman Shooter James Holmes Sent Notebook Full Of Planned Massacre Details To University Psychiatrist Before Rampage

Several Links Between Batman Shooter James Holmes And US Government Research (DARPA & Mind-Control)

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– Aurora massacre: Several links between James Holmes and US Gov’t research (RDR, July 23, 2012):

By Wayne Madsen
Posted: July 23, 2012
WayneMadsenReport.com

WASHINGTON — James Holmes, the 24-year old suspect in the mass shooting of Batman “The Dark Knight Rises” movie goers in Aurora, Colorado that left 12 people dead and 58 injured, has had a number of links to U.S. government-funded research centers. Holmes’s past association with government research projects has prompted police and federal law enforcement officials to order laboratories and schools with which Holmes has had a past association not to talk to the press about Holmes.

In 2006, at the age of 18, Holmes served as a research intern at the Salk Institute at the University of California at San Diego in La Jolla. It is noteworthy that for the previous two years before Holmes worked at the Salk Institute, the research center was partnered with the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Columbia University, University of California at San Francisco, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wake Forest University, and the Mars Company (the manufacturers of Milky Way and Snickers bars) to prevent fatigue in combat troops through the enhanced use of epicatechina, a blood flow-increasing and blood vessel-dilating anti-oxidant flavanol found in cocoa and, particularly, in dark chocolate.

The research was part of a larger DARPA program known as the “Peak Soldier Performance Program,” which involved creating brain-machine interfaces for battlefield use, including human-robotic bionics for legs, arms, and eyes. DARPA works closely with the Defense Science Office on projects that include the medical research community. Fitzsimons was at the forefront of DARPA research on the use of brain-connected “neuroprosthetic” limbs forsoldiers amputated or paralyzed in combat.

According to his LinkedIn profile, James Holmes’s father, Dr. Robert Holmes, who received a PhD in Statistics in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley, worked for San Diego-based HNC Software, Inc. from 2000 to 2002. HNC, known as a “neural network” company, and DARPA, beginning in 1998, have worked on developing “cortronic neural networks,” which would allow machines to interpret aural and visual stimuli to think like humans. The cortronic concept was developed by HNC Software’s chief scientist and co-founder, Robert Hecht-Nielsen. HNC merged with the Minneapolis-based Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO), a computer analysis and decision-making company. Robert Holmes continues to work at FICO.

Read moreSeveral Links Between Batman Shooter James Holmes And US Government Research (DARPA & Mind-Control)

Greece To Run Out Of Money And Go Bankrupt By August 20

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Greece may run out of money and go bankrupt by Aug 20, a British government analysis of the ongoing eurozone crisis has warned.


– Debt crisis: Greece to run out of money by August 20 (Telegraph, July 24, 2012):

The beleaguered country will have to refinance billions of euros worth of government bonds in less than a month and requires international assistance — which may not be forthcoming — to repay the money.

International inspectors arrived back in Greece on Tuesday to assess the country’s austerity programme with European officials warning that it was “hugely off track”.

David Cameron is now receiving daily written updates on the deteriorating situation and was warned earlier this week that a Greek bankruptcy in the next month is now a serious possibility.

Official economic figures to be published today are expected to show that Britain suffered from a third successive quarter of negative economic growth — suggesting that the country is still in recession. If the figures are negative, it will be the longest double-dip recession for more than 50 years.

Read moreGreece To Run Out Of Money And Go Bankrupt By August 20

Batman Shooter James Holmes’ Father, Robert Holmes, Set To Provide Crippling Information On Libor And Other Banking Scandals

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– KingCast and Mortgage Movies remain pensive as James Holmes’ father, Robert Holmes, is set to provide crippling info. on Libor & other banking scandals. (Mortgage Movies, July 26, 2012):

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“Most important to note about James Holmes, however, this report says, is that his father, Robert Holmes, was said to have been scheduled to testify within the next few weeks before a US Senate panel on the largest bank fraud scandal in world history that is currently unfolding and threatens to destabilize and destroy the Western banking system. Robert Holmes, whose “blueblood” family links go back to the Mayflower, is known throughout the global banking community as being the creator of one of the most sophisticated computer algorithms ever developed and is credited with developing predictive models for financial services; credit and fraud risk models, first and third party application fraud models and internet/online banking fraud models.

Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, Robert Holmes is currently the senior lead scientist with the American credit score company FICO, which was formally known as Fair, Isaac and Company, and which every American citizen is beholden to should they need to borrow money.”

Mind you I am not saying that there is any sort of conspiracy involved here, however it has to make you stop and wonder, “what are the chances that two of America’s most volatile issues — gun control and the ongoing banking and mortgage crisis and scandal — could be countenanced by a single family?”

ECB’s Mario Draghi Is Looking For Ways To Get Around FORBIDDEN Quantitative Easing

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Central banksters are totally in love these days with the weapon of last resort, the so-called ‘Nuclear Option’ or ‘Quantitative Easing’ (QE).

(Quantitative easing = printing money = creating money out of thin air = increasing the money supply = inflation = hidden tax on monetary assets = theft!)

– Spekulation über EZB-Intervention: Draghi befeuert die Märkt (Financial Times Germany):

Der Euro zieht kräftig an: Mario Draghi gelobt, dass die EZB “alles Erforderliche” zur Rettung der Währungsunion tun werde. Die Notenbank sucht offenbar einen Weg, das Verbot der direkten Staatsfinanzierung zu umgehen. Auch die Aktienmärkte reagierten euphorisch.

Don’t miss:

– Spain Is Out Of Money In 40 Days … And ‘Spain Has No Plan B’ (FAZ)

Anglo Irish Bank’s Ex-CEO Sean FitzPatrick Arrested For Fraud

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– Anglo Irish Bank’s ex-CEO arrested for fraud (USA Today, July 24, 2012):

DUBLIN – Fraud detectives arrested the former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank and charged him Tuesday over a conspiracy to hide colossal losses at the bank that brought the nation to the brink of bankruptcy.

Japan Ministry Of Education And Science Admits: Strontium-90 Found In 10 Prefectures

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–  Strontium-90 of #Fukushima Origin Found in 10 Prefectures (Fukushima Diary, July 24, 2012):

Japanese government has started to admit the actual contamination situation because of Fukushima little by little.
On 7/24/2012, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology published the data of strontium90. This measured has been done since before 311 monthly. The published data was taken from 4.2010 to 12.2011.

It’s been reported that strontium90 from Fukushima was measured in Fukushima and Miyagi. This data reported it was measured in 10 other prefectures as well,

Tokyo
Kanagawa
Chiba
Saitama
Tochigi
Gunma
Ibaraki
Yamagata
Iwate
Akita

MEXT states the highest reading was 6 Bq/m2 in Hitachinaka city Ibaraki, which was taken in 3.2011.
It was 1/2850 of cesium supposedly, which is harmless for health.

However, 195 Bq/Kg of strontium90 was detected in Yokohama. (cf. Breaking News: Measurement result of Strontium-90)

Source

It took about 15 to 16 months for the Ministry of Education and Science or MEXT (the very name is a joke at this point) to announce radioactive strontium (Sr-90) was widely dispersed from the broken reactors at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant last year in 10 prefectures in Kanto and Tohoku, to the levels last seen in the Chernobyl accident.

Caveat is that it excludes Fukushima and Miyagi, probably the two most contaminated with radioactive fallout from the Fukushima accident. MEXT’s excuse is that the stations in these prefectures have been damaged by the earthquake/tsunami.

From the press release by Ministry of Education and Science on July 24, 2012, “Analysis of Strontium-90 in the monthly environmental radioactivity levels (fallout)” (in Japanese; labels added by me):

Asahi Shinbun has a chart that tries to put these numbers in perspective. The bump this time looks slightly bigger than the one after the Chernobyl accident. But Asahi, either in its scientific illiteracy or on purpose to minimize the latest bump, uses the normal scale on the Y-axis instead of a log scale which would make it easier to discern the fluctuations in smaller numbers:

Looking for a historical chart on a log scale, I went to the site maintained by the Japan Chemical Analysis Center. I searched the database, and the 2011 data is already in the database. Here’s the chart I created using the graph function at the site. I added the thin red line later to compare the 2011 level with that after the Chernobyl accident. It does look it is ever so slightly higher. The chart is a log scale, and the data is from all prefectures:

I wonder what the levels would be if Fukushima and Miyagi’s data were to be added. Back to the level during the atmospheric nuclear testing? Or would it exceed that level?

Former Citi CEO Sandy Weil: Reduce Leverage To 15 Times Assets, Put EVERYTHING Back On The Books, And Mark All Assets To Market EVERY DAY

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?- Former Citi Boss: Reduce Leverage to 15 Times Assets, Put EVERYTHING Back on the Books, and Mark All Assets to Market EVERY DAY (ZeroHedge, July 26, 2012):

?It is – justifiably – big news that former Citi CEO Sandy Weill said that we should break up the big banks, and separate traditional depository banking from speculative investing. Indeed, even congress members are confronting top government officials on why they haven’t done this.

But Weill said 3 other equally important things today.

First, Weill told CNBC that the financial crisis was largely caused by too much leverage, and that we should reduce leverage to between 12-15 times. (Background.)

Secondly, Weill said that we have to restore transparency, so that nothing is hidden off balance sheet. (Leading economist Anna Schwartz told the Wall Street journal in 2008: “The Fed … has gone about as if the problem is a shortage of liquidity. That is not the basic problem. The basic problem for the markets is that [uncertainty] that the balance sheets of financial firms are credible.”)

Third, Weill said that assets must be marked to market every day. (Background here and here.)

Mr. Weill’s suggestions would go a long way toward fixing our broken financial system and giving us a shot at prospering once again.

Note:
We are obviously not defending Weill’s horrific past actions, and he
failed to mention prosecuting fraud, which is perhaps the most important action we can take to help the economy recover. And we believe that bonuses and ill-gotten gains should be clawed back from every Wall Streeter who committed fraud.

However, we take our allies where we find them. And
on the points he raised today, Mr. Weill’ is on the same side of the
fence as all of the top independent economists and financial experts.

ECB’s Draghi Repeats The Party Line, Forces Another Brief EUR Squeeze, Sends Futures Soaring

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– ECB’s Draghi Repeats The Party Line, Forces Another Brief EUR Squeeze, Sends Futures Soaring (ZeroHedge, July 26, 2012):

When you can’t act, you talk. Sure enough, here we go again:

  • DRAGHI SAYS ECB WILL DO WHATEVER NEEDED TO PRESERVE THE EURO
  • DRAGHI SAYS THE EURO IS IRREVERSIBLE
  • DRAGHI SAYS YIELD DISRUPTING POLICY TRANSMISSION ARE IN ECB REMIT
  • DRAGHI SAYS SHARING SOVEREIGNTY ON EU LEVEL TO COME
  • DRAGHI SAYS LAST EU SUMMIT WAS MOMENT OF RECOGNITION

And of course the weak hands cover until they realize Draghi just said absolutely nothing, as at this point everything is in Germany’s hands. And not only has Germany not said anything, and won’t until September when the constitutional court will approve or deny the ESM, but in fact they have been saying overnight that Spanish bonds are not eligible for EFSF purchases. In the meantime, Europe has devolved from a continent of coordinated action to coordinated jawboning.

Read moreECB’s Draghi Repeats The Party Line, Forces Another Brief EUR Squeeze, Sends Futures Soaring

And Here Is What Former Goldman Sachs Managing Director And ECB President Mario Draghi CAN Do, In His Own Words

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– Mario Draghi (Wikipedia):

Draghi was then vice chairman and managing director of Goldman Sachs International and a member of the firm-wide management committee (2002–2005). A controversy existed on his duties while employed at Goldman Sachs. Pascal Canfin (MEP) asserted Draghi was involved in swaps for European governments, namely Greece, trying to disguise their countries’ economic status.

– And Here Is What Draghi CAN Do, In His Own Words (ZeroHedge, July 26, 2012):

For those stunned that the market is reacting as euphorically as it is to remarks which are basically a rehash of prior Draghi statements and are nothing new, or that bond yields are ripping in on the implicit threat that Draghi may reactivate the SMP, in the process further subordinating bondholders and cramming them down forcing even more selling, here is a sampling of previous Draghi statements explaining what he can do, and more importantly, what he is allowed to do under the existing European framework. Which is why we find it not very surprising that Draghi waited until all usual German suspects are on vacation and are thus unable to immediately issue a press release as to the structural limitations of what Draghi can do. Because when in doubt, ask this: does export-heavy Germany want a strong or a weak euro?

Read moreAnd Here Is What Former Goldman Sachs Managing Director And ECB President Mario Draghi CAN Do, In His Own Words

Study: ‘Children In High Fluoride Areas Have Significantly Lower IQ Scores’ (Journal Published By The National Institute Of Environmental Health Sciences)

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– Developmental Fluoride Neurotoxicity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Environmental Health Perspectives):

Abstract

Background: Although fluoride may cause neurotoxicity in animal models and acute fluoride poisoning causes neurotoxicity in adults, very little is known of its effects on children’s neurodevelopment.

Objective: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies to investigate the effects of increased fluoride exposure and delayed neurobehavioral development.

Methods: We searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE, Water Resources Abstracts, and TOXNET databases through 2011 for eligible studies. We also searched the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database, as many studies on fluoride neurotoxicity have been published in Chinese journals only. In total, we identified 27 eligible epidemiological studies with high and reference exposures, endpoints of IQ scores or related cognitive function measures with means and variances for the two exposure groups. We estimated the standardized mean difference (SMD) between exposed and reference groups across all studies using random effects models. We conducted sensitivity analyses restricted to studies using the same outcome assessment and having drinking water fluoride as the only exposure. Cochran test for heterogeneity between studies, Begg’s funnel plot and Egger test to assess publication bias were performed. Meta-regressions to explore sources of variation in mean differences among the studies were conducted.

Results: The standardized weighted mean difference in IQ score between exposed and reference populations was -0.45 (95% CI -0.56 to -0.35) using a random-effects model. Thus, children in high fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those who lived in low fluoride areas. Subgroup and sensitivity analyses also indicated inverse associations, although the substantial heterogeneity did not appear to decrease.

Conclusions: The results support the possibility of an adverse effect of high fluoride exposure on children’s neurodevelopment. Future research should include detailed individual-level information on prenatal exposure, neurobehavioral performance, and covariates for adjustment.

Read moreStudy: ‘Children In High Fluoride Areas Have Significantly Lower IQ Scores’ (Journal Published By The National Institute Of Environmental Health Sciences)

Batman Shooter James Holmes Received Grant Money From National Institutes Of Health

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See also:

– Batman Shooter James Holmes Was On Hardcore Pharmaceutical Drugs

– Colorado killer James Holmes received grant money from National Institutes of Health (Natural News, July 24, 2012):

As if there wasn’t anything negative to add to the story of the horrible massacre committed during an opening weekend midnight matinee of the new Batman movie in Aurora, Colo., this past weekend, you likely will be sickened to learn that the suspect, James Holmes, had previously been awarded a $26,000 taxpayer-supported grant to go to school.

The grant, which was one of six awarded to the brightest of students by the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., is considered extremely prestigious. NIH is part of the Department of Health and Human Resources.

The agency awarded the stipend to Holmes and also paid his tuition to the highly competitive neuroscience program at the University of Colorado Denver. Five other students at the school were also given the stipend.

It wasn’t clear if any of the funds were used by the suspected gunman to purchase the vast array of weapons, 6,000 rounds of ammunition and other gear – such as his bulletproof vest, shin, groin and neck protectors, as well as a gas mask and other items – he used in the attack and to booby trap his apartment.

Read moreBatman Shooter James Holmes Received Grant Money From National Institutes Of Health

Olive Oil Lowers Mortality By A Quarter And Heart Disease By Nearly One-Half

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– Olive oil lowers mortality by a quarter and heart disease by nearly one-half (Natural News, July 24, 2012):

Followers of the popular Mediterranean diet have known for years that eating fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds and plenty of extra virgin olive oil is beneficial to health. Recent studies have continued to bolster this eating pattern, with much less emphasis on overcooked meats, hydrogenated fats and fried foods. They may not realize that many of the benefits come from the monounsaturated fats provided by the liberal use of fresh-pressed olive oil.

Reporting in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers from Spain found that the monounsaturated fats found in olive oil work synergistically with essential fatty acids such as the omega-3 fat, DHA to enhance their incorporation into cell membranes. The scientists found an association between greater olive oil intake and a lower risk of dying over an average of 13.4 years of follow-up.

Read moreOlive Oil Lowers Mortality By A Quarter And Heart Disease By Nearly One-Half

Hong Kong Completing 1,000 Ton Gold Vault

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– Hong Kong Completing 1,000 Ton Gold Vault (ZeroHedge, July 26, 2012):

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In Hong Kong they are completing work on its largest gold vault due to open in September which can hold 22% of the gold that is in the US facility Fort Knox.

The new secure storage facility will compete with services set up by the Airport Authority Hong Kong in 2009 that serviced governments, commodity exchanges, bullion banks, refiners, wealthy individuals and exchange-traded funds.

The new facility is within the international airport compound and its capacity is 1,000 metric tons.

This signals the growing interest from China currently the world’s second largest consumer of gold in owning physical gold bullion.

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