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“Taking Their Possessions and Some Seeds, They Had Retreated Ever Deeper Into the Forest”

A True Survival Story

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
February 3, 2013

When Josef Stalin instituted a campaign of purging dissidents in the 1930′s, some 17 million people were left dead or missing by the time it was all said and done.

Had you been targeted for extermination during this Great Purge, your chances of survival very rapidly approached zero.

Most became victims when their government classified them as enemies of the state.

Some, however, and against all odds, found a way to survive.

This forest [Russian Taiga] is the last and greatest of Earth’s wildernesses. It stretches from the furthest tip of Russia’s arctic regions as far south as Mongolia, and east from the Urals to the Pacific: five million square miles of nothingness, with a population, outside a handful of towns, that amounts to only a few thousand people.
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Thus it was in the remote south of the forest in the summer of 1978. A helicopter sent to find a safe spot to land a party of geologists was skimming the treeline a hundred or so miles from the Mongolian border when it dropped into the thickly wooded valley of an unnamed tributary of the Abakan, a seething ribbon of water rushing through dangerous terrain. The valley walls were narrow, with sides that were close to vertical in places, and the skinny pine and birch trees swaying in the rotors’ downdraft were so thickly clustered that there was no chance of finding a spot to set the aircraft down. But, peering intently through his windscreen in search of a landing place, the pilot saw something that should not have been there. It was a clearing, 6,000 feet up a mountainside, wedged between the pine and larch and scored with what looked like long, dark furrows. The baffled helicopter crew made several passes before reluctantly concluding that this was evidence of human habitation—a garden that, from the size and shape of the clearing, must have been there for a long time.
It was an astounding discovery. The mountain was more than 150 miles from the nearest settlement, in a spot that had never been explored. The Soviet authorities had no records of anyone living in the district.
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As the intruders scrambled up the mountain, heading for the spot pinpointed by their pilots, they began to come across signs of human activity: a rough path, a staff, a log laid across a stream, and finally a small shed filled with birch-bark containers of cut-up dried potatoes.
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The sight that greeted the geologists as they entered the cabin was like something from the middle ages. Jerry-built from whatever materials came to hand, the dwelling was not much more than a burrow—”a low, soot-blackened log kennel that was as cold as a cellar,” with a floor consisting of potato peel and pine-nut shells. Looking around in the dim light, the visitors saw that it consisted of a single room. It was cramped, musty and indescribably filthy, propped up by sagging joists—and, astonishingly, home to a family of five.
The Lykovs lived in this hand-built log cabin, lit by a single window “the size of a backpack pocket” and warmed by a smoky wood-fired stove.
Led by Pismenskaya, the scientists backed hurriedly out of the hut and retreated to a spot a few yards away, where they took out some provisions and began to eat. After about half an hour, the door of the cabin creaked open, and the old man and his two daughters emerged—no longer hysterical and, though still obviously frightened, “frankly curious.” Warily, the three strange figures approached and sat down with their visitors, rejecting everything that they were offered—jam, tea, bread—with a muttered, “We are not allowed that!” When Pismenskaya asked, “Have you ever eaten bread?” the old man answered: “I have. But they have not. They have never seen it.” At least he was intelligible. The daughters spoke a language distorted by a lifetime of isolation. “When the sisters talked to each other, it sounded like a slow, blurred cooing.”
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Slowly, over several visits, the full story of the family emerged. The old man’s name was Karp Lykov, and he was an Old Believer—a member of a fundamentalist Russian Orthodox sect, worshiping in a style unchanged since the 17th century. Old Believers had been persecuted since the days of Peter the Great, and Lykov talked about it as though it had happened only yesterday; for him, Peter was a personal enemy and “the anti-Christ in human form”—a point he insisted had been amply proved by Tsar’s campaign to modernize Russia by forcibly “chopping off the beards of Christians.” But these centuries-old hatreds were conflated with more recent grievances; Karp was prone to complain in the same breath about a merchant who had refused to make a gift of 26poods [940 pounds] of potatoes to the Old Believers sometime around 1900.
Things had only got worse for the Lykov family when the atheist Bolsheviks took power. Under the Soviets, isolated Old Believer communities that had fled to Siberia to escape persecution began to retreat ever further from civilization. During the purges of the 1930s, with Christianity itself under assault, a Communist patrol had shot Lykov’s brother on the outskirts of their village while Lykov knelt working beside him. He had responded by scooping up his family and bolting into forest.
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That was in 1936, and there were only four Lykovs then—Karp; his wife, Akulina; a son named Savin, 9 years old, and Natalia, a daughter who was only 2. Taking their possessions and some seeds, they had retreated ever deeper into the taiga, building themselves a succession of crude dwelling places, until at last they had fetched up in this desolate spot. Two more children had been born in the wild—Dmitry in 1940 and Agafia in 1943—and neither of the youngest Lykov children had ever seen a human being who was not a member of their family. All that Agafia and Dmitry knew of the outside world they learned entirely from their parents’ stories. The family’s principal entertainment, the Russian journalist Vasily Peskov noted, “was for everyone to recount their dreams.”
The Lykov children knew there were places called cities where humans lived crammed together in tall buildings. They had heard there were countries other than Russia. But such concepts were no more than abstractions to them. Their only reading matter was prayer books and an ancient family Bible. Akulina had used the gospels to teach her children to read and write, using sharpened birch sticks dipped into honeysuckle juice as pen and ink.

Dmitry (left) and Savin in the Siberian summer
Agafia Lykova (left) with her sister, Natalia.
Isolation made survival in the wilderness close to impossible. Dependent solely on their own resources, the Lykovs struggled to replace the few things they had brought into the taiga with them. They fashioned birch-bark galoshes in place of shoes. Clothes were patched and repatched until they fell apart, then replaced with hemp cloth grown from seed.
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The Lykovs had carried a crude spinning wheel and, incredibly, the components of a loom into the taiga with them—moving these from place to place as they gradually went further into the wilderness must have required many long and arduous journeys—but they had no technology for replacing metal. A couple of kettles served them well for many years, but when rust finally overcame them, the only replacements they could fashion came from birch bark. Since these could not be placed in a fire, it became far harder to cook. By the time the Lykovs were discovered, their staple diet was potato patties mixed with ground rye and hemp seeds.
In some respects, Peskov makes clear, the taiga did offer some abundance: “Beside the dwelling ran a clear, cold stream. Stands of larch, spruce, pine and birch yielded all that anyone could take…. Bilberries and raspberries were close to hand, firewood as well, and pine nuts fell right on the roof.”
The Lykovs’ homestead seen from a Soviet reconnaissance plane, 1980.
Yet the Lykovs lived permanently on the edge of famine. It was not until the late 1950s, when Dmitry reached manhood, that they first trapped animals for their meat and skins. Lacking guns and even bows, they could hunt only by digging traps or pursuing prey across the mountains until the animals collapsed from exhaustion. Dmitry built up astonishing endurance, and could hunt barefoot in winter, sometimes returning to the hut after several days, having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost, a young elk across his shoulders. More often than not, though, there was no meat, and their diet gradually became more monotonous. Wild animals destroyed their crop of carrots, and Agafia recalled the late 1950s as “the hungry years.” “We ate the rowanberry leaf,” she said,

roots, grass, mushrooms, potato tops, and bark, We were hungry all the time. Every year we held a council to decide whether to eat everything up or leave some for seed.

Famine was an ever-present danger in these circumstances, and in 1961 it snowed in June. The hard frost killed everything growing in their garden, and by spring the family had been reduced to eating shoes and bark. Akulina chose to see her children fed, and that year she died of starvation. The rest of the family were saved by what they regarded as a miracle: a single grain of rye sprouted in their pea patch. The Lykovs put up a fence around the shoot and guarded it zealously night and day to keep off mice and squirrels. At harvest time, the solitary spike yielded 18 grains, and from this they painstakingly rebuilt their rye crop.
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Perhaps the saddest aspect of the Lykovs’ strange story was the rapidity with which the family went into decline after they re-established contact with the outside world. In the fall of 1981, three of the four children followed their mother to the grave within a few days of one another. According to Peskov, their deaths were not, as might have been expected, the result of exposure to diseases to which they had no immunity. Both Savin and Natalia suffered from kidney failure, most likely a result of their harsh diet. But Dmitry died of pneumonia, which might have begun as an infection he acquired from his new friends.
His death shook the geologists, who tried desperately to save him. They offered to call in a helicopter and have him evacuated to a hospital. But Dmitry, in extremis, would abandon neither his family nor the religion he had practiced all his life. “We are not allowed that,” he whispered just before he died. “A man lives for howsoever God grants.”
When all three Lykovs had been buried, the geologists attempted to talk Karp and Agafia into leaving the forest and returning to be with relatives who had survived the persecutions of the purge years, and who still lived on in the same old villages. But neither of the survivors would hear of it. They rebuilt their old cabin, but stayed close to their old home.
Source: These excerpts have been made available by The Smithsonian Institution and shared for the increase and diffusion of knowledge

The Lykovs had the clothes on their backs, some personal possessions, and some basic supplies when they fled the Purge.

They made it in one of the most inhospitable regions in the world for forty years.

Despite the challenges and regardless of the odds, humans are built to survive.

Rev. Jesse Jackson Says Gun Supporters Are Domestic Terrorists

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
February 3, 2013


During an interview with the Wall Street Journal posted on January 30, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said “anti-government people” espousing what amounts to a “Confederate ideology” will engage in terrorist activities unless the government enacts draconian laws restricting the possession of firearms.



Jackson said the Second Amendment provides these domestic terrorists with the ability to “do something about how they feel” in their effort to “fight the government.”

The phrase “Confederate ideology” is shorthand for a political philosophy that stresses states’ rights (including nullification) and adherence to the Constitution.

New York Rep. Charlie Rangel said in January that Southern culture – a specific reference to gun culture prevalent in the South – is something that Democrats must work to overcome. “New York is a little different and more progressive in a lot of areas than some other states and some of the southern areas have cultures that we have to overcome,” Rangel told MSNBC.

Jackson, a former Democrat presidential contender and the founder of the Rainbow Coalition, said in August that the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle is the preferred weapon “for domestic, homegrown terrorism.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center has also linked Second Amendment activists to terrorists. The organization argues the “radical right” is exploiting the gun rights issue to push a white supremacist political ideology. The SPLC has worked closely with the Department of Homeland Security. In 2009, a leaked DHS document revealed the agency’s obsession with “Rightwing Extremists.”

In early December, sports columnist Jason Whitlock likened the NRA to the Ku Klux Klan, the racist organization established during Reconstruction by former Confederate soldiers.

“You know, I did not go as far as I’d like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America’s gun culture — I believe the NRA is the new KKK,” Whitlock told CNN’s Roland Martin.

Whitlock’s comments inspired a widely-covered Bob Costas’ anti-Second Amendment halftime screed during a Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game broadcast live on NBC television.

Jackson’s comments underscore an ongoing effort by Democrats and other so-called progressives to characterize Second Amendment activists as domestic terrorists.

Jackson Calls for DHS on Streets of Chicago

Jackson has also called for the federal government to put the Department of Homeland Security on the streets on Chicago, according to Reuters.

He made the comment prior to a march on the city’s violence-wracked South Side. Jackson said Chicago mayor Rahmn Emanuel and city police are unable to address the problem and the federal government needs to intervene.

Chicago had 500 homicides in 2012 and more than 40 so far this year. The Obama administration and the establishment media exploited the murder of Hadiya Pendleton in Chicago after the 15-year-old girl performed at an event celebrating the inauguration of Obama last month.

“The details of her death shook Chicago and gave fuel to gun-control advocates in the running debate over firearms,” the New York Times reported last week. Jay Carney, Obama’s press secretary, said the tragedy is “another example of the problem that we need to deal with.”

Jackson did not elaborate on his comment demanding the Department of Homeland Security patrol the streets of Chicago.

“Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and Rainbow PUSH Coalition call for immediate Federal Intervention and Homeland Security in Chicago as January homicide totals exceeded 45,” a press release issued on Friday by Rainbow PUSH states. “Reverend Jesse Jackson reaffirms that gun control reform is critical and the ban on assault weapons paramount.”

The Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet-level department of the federal government. It was allegedly established in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks and describes its mission as protecting the United States from terrorist attacks, man-made accidents, and natural disasters. It was not originally mandated to work with local police.

The 2005 USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act passed by Congress, however, established a “permanent police force” subject to the “supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security.” According to the legislation, this new federal police force is empowered to “make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony.”

“The language conveys enormous discretionary and arbitrary powers,” former Reagan Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts, wrote in 2006. “Like every law in the US, this law also will be expansively interpreted and abused… Who is going to hold accountable a federal police protected by Homeland Security and the president?”

The Obama administration has yet to respond to Jackson’s demand. However, as gang-related violence in Obama’s hometown and elsewhere continues to claim lives and dominate headlines, it is entirely possible the federal government may directly intervene in Chicago as part of its effort to attack the Second Amendment and further meddle in local law enforcement duties under the hysterical cover of putting an end to “gun violence.”

Government and Top University Studies: Fluoride Lowers IQ and Causes Other Health Problems

February 2, 2013
Dentists Haven’t Read the Studies

Preface: This post doesn’t discuss any conspiracy theories. It simply presents a scientific review of the studies by mainstream sources on fluoride.

Why do dentists push fluoride, even though an overwhelming number of scientific studies conclude that cavity levels are falling worldwide … even in countries which don’t fluoridate water?

World Health Organization Data (2004) -
Tooth Decay Trends (12 year olds) in Fluoridated vs. Unfluoridated Countries:


And even though the scientific literature shows that – when fluoridation of water supplies is stopped – cavities do not increase (but may in some cases actually decrease)? See this, this, this, this, this and this.

And even though many prominent leaders of the pro-water fluoridation movement have recently admitted publicly that they were wrong? That includes:

• John Colquhoun, DDS, Principal Dental Officer for Auckland, New Zealand and chair of that country’s Fluoridation Promotion Committee, reviewed New Zealand’s dental statistics in an effort to convince skeptics that fluoridation was beneficial and found that tooth decay rates were the same in fluoridated and nonfluoridated places, which prompted him to re-examine the classic fluoridation studies. He withdrew his support for it in “Why I Changed my Mind About Water Fluoridation” (Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 1997;41:29—44).

• Richard G. Foulkes, MD, a health care administrator and former assistant professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia also switched from pro to anti-water fluoridation after studying the issue.

• And Dr. Hardy Limeback PhD, DDS – one of the 12 scientists who served on the 2006 National Academy of Sciences review of fluoride, and Head of Preventive Dentistry at University of Toronto – wrote “Why I am Now Officially Opposed to Adding Fluoride to Drinking Water”

As Time Magazine notes:

What has also changed is how much toxicologists know about the harmful effects of fluoride compounds. Ingested in high doses, fluoride is indisputably toxic; it was once commonly used in rat poison. Hydrogen fluoride is regulated as a hazardous pollutant in emissions from chemical plants and has been linked to respiratory illness. Even in toothpaste, sodium fluoride is a health concern. In 1997 the Food and Drug Administration toughened the warning on every tube to read, “If more than used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or contact a poison-control center right away.”

Because of what they were taught in school:

I contacted [a] dentist friend of mine, Dr. Susan Rubin, to find out what she recommends.Like most dentists, she was taught in dental school that fluoride saves teeth, and it never occurred to her to question that (even after her patients started bringing it up) until her own daughter came down with thyroid problems. Oh yeah, fluoride can affect that, too. She did her own research and was alarmed at what she found. She tried to get her town to stop putting fluoride in her water, but they refused.

And because dentists have no idea that the type of fluoride added to water supplies is a dangerous, unapproved variety.

In other words, dentists are well-meaning … but uninformed.

In reality, a United States National Academy of Science report, a Harvard meta-review of 27 studies, and many other government and university studies show that fluoride lowers IQ and causes a variety of other serious health problems.

The Harvard School for Public Health reports:

For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to the developing human brain. Extremely high levels of fluoride are known to cause neurotoxicity in adults, and negative impacts on memory and learning have been reported in rodent studies, but little is known about the substance’s impact on children’s neurodevelopment. In a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27 studies and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children. Based on the findings, the authors say that this risk should not be ignored, and that more research on fluoride’s impact on the developing brain is warranted.
The study [click for abstract] was published online in Environmental Health Perspectiveson July 20, 2012.

Environmental Health Perspectives is a publication of the United States National Institutes of Health’sNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Harvard’s announcement continues:

The researchers conducted a systematic review of studies…. Anna Choi, research scientist in the Department of Environmental Health at HSPH [and] Philippe Grandjean, adjunct professor of environmental health at HSPH, and their colleagues collated the epidemiological studies of children exposed to fluoride from drinking water. The China National Knowledge Infrastructure database also was included to locate studies published in Chinese journals. They then analyzed possible associations with IQ measures in more than 8,000 children of school age; all but one study suggested that high fluoride content in water may negatively affect cognitive development.
The average loss was only half of one IQ point, but some studies suggested that even slightly increased fluoride exposure could be toxic to the brain. Thus,children in high-fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those who lived in low-fluoride areas. The children studied were up to 14 years of age, but the investigators speculate that any toxic effect on brain development may have happened earlier, and that the brain may not be fully capable of compensating for the toxicity.
“Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury, and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain,” Grandjean says. “The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale can be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us.”

No wonder some pediatricians are starting to question fluoride:

Numerous other government reports have shown fluoride’s adverse impacts on intelligence:

[A] 2006 National Academy of Science [report ] reviews the scientific studies which have been performed on fluoride, and concludes:

It is apparent that fluorides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the brain and the body by direct and indirect means. (bottom of page 222).

The NAS report also notes that fluoride may actually impair intelligence, and that more testing should be done in this regard.
Indeed, studies from around the world continue to find that exposure to sodium fluoride – especially in the very young – lowers IQ. See this and this. The same is true for rats exposed to fluoride. See this and this. And see the studies listed here.
Dr. Vyvyan Howard – a PhD fetal pathologist, who is a professor of developmental toxico-pathology at the University of Liverpool and University of Ulster, president of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment and former president of the Royal Microscopical Society and the International Society for Stereology, and general editor of the Journal of Microscopy – said in a 2008 Canadian television interview (short, worthwhile video at the link) that studies done in several countries show that children’s IQ are likely to be lower in high natural water fluoride areas.
He said that these studies are plausible because fluoride is known to affect the thyroid hormone which affects intelligence and fluoride is also a known neurotoxicant. Such studies have not been conducted in countries that artificially fluoridate the water such as the US, UK and Canada, but should be, he said.
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One scientist – Jennifer Luke – argued in a 2001 scientific article that fluoride accumulates in the brain (specifically, in the structure of the pineal gland) more than it accumulates in our bones. In other words, she implies that fluoride may accumulate more in the brain than in the teeth, doing more harm than good (here’s Luke’s 1997 PhD dissertation on the topic.)
The 2006 National Academy of Sciences report corroborates some of Luke’s allegations:

As with other calcifying tissues, the pineal gland can accumulate fluoride (Luke 1997, 2001). Fluoride has been shown to be present in the pineal glands of older people (14-875 mg of fluoride per kg of gland in persons aged 72-100 years), with the fluoride concentrations being positively related to the calcium concentrations in the pineal gland, but not to the bone fluoride, suggesting that pineal fluoride is not necessarily a function of cumulative fluoride exposure of the individual (Luke 1997, 2001). Fluoride has not been measured in the pineal glands of children or young adults, nor has there been any investigation of the relationship between pineal fluoride concentrations and either recent or cumulative fluoride intakes.

ABC News from Raleigh-Durham reported last year:

As the I-Team dug into the science behind the fluoride controversy, we found study after study dating back to the 80s from respected academic and scientific institutions that connect fluoride to health dangers. Some of the studies were funded by the government. They suggest fluoride can be linked to brain, blood and bone deficiencies in humans. This past summer, Harvard University released a report after reviewing 27 studies of children in China exposed to fluoride. It concluded the higher the fluoride exposure, the lower the child’s IQ.
One of the most recognized reports was published in 2006 by The National Academy of Sciences. It found fluoride can affect the thyroid gland and potentially lower the intelligence of children.
“EPA’s drinking water standards are supposed to protect all persons against anticipated adverse health effects of the contaminant in question,” explained Kathleen Thiessen – one of the scientists who worked on the 400-page study. “And we concluded after three years worth of work that the drinking water standard for fluoride was not protected and cannot be assumed to be safe for humans.”
Thiessen said the EPA was warned about potential fluoride health dangers by one of its own chemists more than a decade ago. Dr. William Hirzy testified before a Senate subcommittee in 2000. He was representing the views of EPA scientists and staff who analyze hazards in the environment.
“In 1997, we voted to oppose fluoridation, and our opposition has grown stronger as more adverse data on the practice has come in,” said Hirzy.
“The CDC and others say whatever beneficial effect there is from fluoride is from topical use. It’s not from swallowing it. It never has been from swallowing it,” said Thiessen.
The I-Team discovered most western countries do not fluoridate their water. Dental records kept by the World Health Organization show tooth decay in those countries has declined at the same rate as here in the United States – where we do fluoridate our water.

Dr. Mercola writes:

The harmful effects of fluoride have been known by conventional medical organizations for over half a century. For example, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) stated in their Sept. 18, 1943 issue that fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons that change the permeability of the cell membrane by certain enzymes. And, an editorial published in the Journal of the American Dental Associationon Oct. 1, 1944, stated:

Drinking water containing as little as 1.2 ppm fluoride will cause developmental disturbances. We cannot run the risk of producing such serious systemic disturbances. The potentialities for harm outweigh those for good.

Part of the problem is that it’s an accumulative toxin that, over time, can lead to significant health problems that are not immediately linked to fluoride over-exposure. In a 2005 paper entitled “Fluoride — A Modern Toxic Waste,” Lita Lee, Ph.D. writes:

Yiamouyiannis’ book, Fluoride, The Aging Factor, documents the cumulative effect of tissue damage by fluoride, commonly seen as aging (collagen damage), skin rashes and acne, gastrointestinal disorders, and many other conditions, including osteoporosis. The U.S. Center for Disease Control and the Safe Water Foundation reported that 30,000 to 50,000 excess deaths occur in the United States each year in areas in which the water contains only one ppm fluoride …
Fluoride suppresses the immune system: Fluoride inhibits the movement of white blood cells by 70 percent, thereby decreasing their ability to reach their target. Yiamouyiannis cites 15 references in his pamphlet, Lifesavers Guide to Fluoridation, that document immunosuppressive effects of as little as 10 percent of the amount of fluoride used in fluoridated water … Immunosuppressive effects run the gamut, from a cold that won’t go away to increased risk of cancer and other infectious diseases.

Studies have shown that fluoride toxicity can lead to a wide variety of health problems, including:
• Increased lead absorption
• Disrupts synthesis of collagen
• Hyperactivity and/or lethargy
• Muscle disorders
• Thyroid disease
• Arthritis
• Dementia
• Bone fractures
• Lowered thyroid function
• Bone cancer (osteosarcoma)
• Inactivates 62 enzymes and inhibits more than 100
• Inhibited formation of antibodies
• Genetic damage and cell death
• Increased tumor and cancer rate
• Disrupted immune system
• Damaged sperm and increased infertility
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Long-lost research linking fluoride to cancer has resurfaced in a Dutch film clip featuring Dr. Dean Burk, who in 1937 cofounded the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and headed its cytochemistry department for more than 30 years. In the taped interview, he equates water fluoridation to “public murder,” referring to a study that had been done on the 10 largest U.S. cities with fluoridation compared to the 10 largest without it. The study demonstrated that deaths from cancer abruptly rose in as little as a year or two after fluoridation began. This and other studies linking fluoride to cancer were government-ordered but were quickly buried once fluoride was found to be linked to dramatic increases in cancer.

And Donald Miller – cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington – argues:

Fluoride … inhibits the enzyme acetylcholinesterase in the brain, which is involved in transmitting signals along nerve cells.
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Fluoride also damages the brain, both directly and indirectly. Rats given fluoridated water at a dose of 4 ppm develop symptoms resembling attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. High concentrations of fluoride accumulate in the pineal gland, which produces serotonin and melatonin.
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People with Alzheimer’s disease have high levels of aluminum in their brains. Fluoride combines with aluminum in drinking water and takes it through the blood-brain barrier into the brain. Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD, a neurosurgeon, spells out in chilling detail the danger fluoride poses to one’s brain and health in general in his book Health and Nutrition Secrets that can Save Your Life (2002).

Poll: 53% Say Govt Threatens Freedoms

Ben Shapiro
breitbart.com
February 2, 2013

According to a new Pew Research poll, Americans are increasingly worried about the federal government violating their rights. The survey, conducted January 9-13, showed that 53 percent of Americans believe that the federal government “threatens their own personal rights and freedoms,” with 43 percent disagreeing. That is a significant uptick from March 2010, when just 47 percent said that the government threatened their freedom, with 50 percent disagreeing.

Republicans are largely responsible for that increase; 76 percent of Republicans say that the federal government threatens freedoms, and 54 percent said the federal government was a “major” threat. That was up from 62 percent and 47 percent, respectively.

Independents agree with Republicans; 55 percent say the government represents a threat, and 33 percent say it represents a major threat.

231 Sheriffs and 4 State Sheriffs Associations Saying ‘NO’ to Obama Gun Control

CSPOA.org
February 1, 2013



Sheriffs have risen up all over our great nation to stand up against the unconstitutional gun control measures being taken.

The following is a list of sheriffs and state sheriff’s associations from who have vowed to uphold and defend the Constitution against Obama’s unlawful gun control measures. I applaud these public servants for their courage and conviction.


I call on sheriffs all over this nation to add their voices to the growing numbers of faithful protectors of our freedom. -Richard Mack



Sheriffs and associations who have made public statements committing to protect their citizens’ 2nd Amendment rights from Obama’s gun control efforts will be added. Some of these sheriffs are members of the CSPOA, but inclusion in this list does not necessarily mean they are a member.

List of State Sheriff’s Associations

1. Utah Sheriffs Association

2. Florida Sheriffs Association

3. Georgia Sheriffs Association

4. Colorado Sheriffs Association

5. New Mexico Sheriffs Association

List of County Sheriffs

	Name	County	State
1	Blake Dorning	Madison	Alabama
2	Ana Franklin	Morgan	Alabama
3	Andy Hughes	Houston	Alabama
4	Jay Jones	Lee	Alabama
5	Huey Hoss Mack	Baldwin	Alabama
6	Scott Mascher	Yavapai	Arizona
7	Joe Arpaio	Maricopa	Arizona
8	Tom Sheahan	Mohave	Arizona
9	Paul Babeu	Pinal	Arizona
10	Mark J. Dannels	Cochise	Arizona
11	Mike Moore	Boone	Arkansas
12	Adam Christianson	Stanislaus	California
13	Jon Lopey	Siskiyou	California
14	Tom Bosenko	Shasta	California
15	John D’Agostini	El Dorado	California
16	David Hencraft	Tehama	California
17	Dean Growden	Lassen	California
18	Dean Wilson	Del Norte	California
19	Mike Poindexter	Modoc	California
20	Thomas Allman	Mendocino	California
21	Mike Downey	Humboldt	California
22	Margaret Mims	Fresno	California
23	Greg Hagwood	Plumas	California
24	Bruce Haney	Trinity	California
25	Martin Ryan	Amador	California
26	Jerry Smith	Butte	California
27	Donny Youngblood	Kern	California
28	James W. Mele	Toulumne	California
29	Justin Smith	Larimer	Colorado
30	Terry Maketa	El Paso	Colorado
31	John Cooke	Weld	Colorado
32	Stan Hilkey	Mesa	Colorado
33	Lou Vallario	Garfield	Colorado
34	Rick Dunlap	Montrose	Colorado
35	Jeff Christopher	Sussex	Delaware
36	Bill Snyder	Martin	Florida
37	Frank McKeithen	Bay	Florida
38	Mike Scott	Lee	Florida
39	Rick Beseler	Clay	Florida
40	Michael Adkinson	Walton	Florida
41	Grady Judd	Polk	Florida
42	Stacy Nicholson	Gilmer	Georgia
43	Scott Berry	Oconee	Georgia
44	Roger Garrison	Cherokee	Georgia
45	Neil Warren	Cobb	Georgia
46	Butch Conway	Gwinnett	Georgia
47	Gary Gulledge	Paulding	Georgia
48	Joe Chapman	Walton	Georgia
49	Roy Klingler	Madison	Idaho
50	Kieran Donahue	Canyon	Idaho
51	Daryl Wheeler	Bonner	Idaho
52	Chris Goetz	Clearwater	Idaho
53	Doug Giddings	Idaho	Idaho
54	Doug McFall	Jerome	Idaho
55	Brian Brokop	Lewis	Idaho
56	Joe Rodriguez	Nez Perce	Idaho
57	Tom Carter	Twin Falls	Idaho
58	Dave Resser	Benewah	Idaho
59	Edward Motley	Edgar	Illinois
60	Mike Emery	McLean	Illinois
61	Jerry Parsley	Clark	Illinois
62	Brad Rogers	Elkhart	Indiana
63	Ken Murphy	Franklin	Indiana
64	Warren M. Wethington	Cedar	Iowa
65	Frank Denning	Johnson	Kansas
66	Denny Peyman	Jackson	Kentucky
67	Michael A. Helmig	Boone	Kentucky
68	John Snedegar	Bath	Kentucky
69	Scott F. Harrison	Powell	Kentucky
70	Chuck Korzenborn	Kenton	Kentucky
71	Charles A. Jenkins	Frederick	Maryland
72	Ken Tregoning	Carroll	Maryland
73	Dar Leaf	Barry	Michigan
74	Ted Schende	Benzie	Michigan
75	Larry Stelma	Kent	Michigan
76	Robin Cole	Pine	Minnesota
77	Bill Rasco	DeSoto	Mississippi
78	Billy McGee	Forrest	Mississippi
79	Cecil Cantrell	Monroe	Mississippi
80	Brad A. DeLay	Lawrence	Missouri
81	Charles Heiss	Johnson	Missouri
82	Steve Cox	Livingston	Missouri
83	Mick Epperly	Barry	Missouri
84	Stephen Stockman	Mercer	Missouri
85	George R. Underwood	Oregon	Missouri
86	Michael Dixon	Osage	Missouri
87	Randee Kaiser	Jasper	Missouri
88	Steven R. Blunkall	Shannon	Missouri
89	Tom Rummel	Sanders	Montana
90	Jay Doyle	Lake	Montana
91	Scott F. Howard	Powell	Montana
92	Chris Hoffman	Ravalli	Montana
93	Darby Harrington	Wibaux	Montana
94	Mike Linder	Yellowstone	Montana
95	Ed Kilgpore	Humboldt	Nevada
96	Benjamin D. Trotter	Churchill	Nevada
97	Tony DeMeo	Nye	Nevada
98	Douglas R Dutile	Grafton	New Hampshire
99	Dan Houston	Bernalillo	New Mexico
100	Shawn Menges	Catron	New Mexico
101	Patrick R Jennings	Chaves	New Mexico
102	Johnny Valdez	Cibola	New Mexico
103	Jim Maldonado	Colfax	New Mexico
104	Dennis A. Cleaver	De Baca	New Mexico
105	Todd Garrison	Dona Ana	New Mexico
106	Scott London	Eddy	New Mexico
107	Raul Holguin	Grant	New Mexico
108	Michael R Lucero	Guadalupe	New Mexico
109	Herman Martinez	Harding	New Mexico
110	Saturnino Madero	Hidalgo	New Mexico
111	Mark Hargrove	Lea	New Mexico
112	Rick Virden	Lincoln	New Mexico
113	Marco Lucero	Los Alamos	New Mexico
114	Raymond Cobos	Luna	New Mexico
115	Benny House	Otero	New Mexico
116	Joe Schallert	Quay	New Mexico
117	Joe Mascarenas	Arriba	New Mexico
118	Darren Hooker	Roosevelt	New Mexico
119	Ken Christesen	San Juan	New Mexico
120	Benjie Vigil	San Miguel	New Mexico
121	Robert Garcia	Santa Fe	New Mexico
122	Joe Baca	Sierra	New Mexico
123	Phillip Montoya	Socorro	New Mexico
124	Miguel Romero Jr	Taos	New Mexico
125	Heath White	Torrance	New Mexico
126	William Spriggs	Union	New Mexico
127	Louis Burkhard	Valencia	New Mexico
128	Tony Desmond	Schoharie	New York
129	Richard Devlin Jr.	Otsego	New York
130	Donald Smith	Putnam	New York
131	David Cole	Steuben	New York
132	Coy Reid	Catawba	North Carolina
133	Adell Dobey	Edgefield	North Carolina
134	Jerry Jones	Franklin	North Carolina
135	Charlie McDonald	Henderson	North Carolina
136	Jimmy Thornton	Sampson	North Carolina
137	Eddie Cathey	Union	North Carolina
138	Donnie Harrison	Wake	North Carolina
139	Carey Winders	Wayne	North Carolina
140	Sam Page	Rockingham	North Carolina
141	Larry Rollins	Harnett	North Carolina
142	Alan Norman	Cleveland	North Carolina
143	A.J. Rodenberg	Clermont	Ohio
144	Sam Crish	Allen	Ohio
145	J. Steve Sheldon	Richland	Ohio
146	Harrell Reid	Hamilton	Ohio
147	Bob ‘Big Block’ Colbert	Wagoner	Oklahoma
148	Johnny Tadlock	McCurtain	Oklahoma
149	Roger LeVick	Jackson	Oklahoma
150	Glenn E. Palmer	Grant	Oregon
151	Gil Gilbertson	Josephine	Oregon
152	Tim Mueller	Linn	Oregon
153	Craig Zanni	Coos	Oregon
154	John Hanlin	Douglas	Oregon
155	John Bishop	Curry	Oregon
156	Larry Blanton	Deschutes	Oregon
157	Jim Hensley	Crook	Oregon
158	Pat Garrett	Washington	Oregon
159	Dan Staton	Multnomah	Oregon
160	Mike Winters	Jackson	Oregon
161	Brian Wolfe	Malheur	Oregon
162	Mitchell Southwick	Baker	Oregon
163	Frank Skrah	Klamath	Oregon
164	Jason Myers	Marion	Oregon
165	Bob Wolfe	Polk	Oregon
166	Jack Crabtree	Yamhill	Oregon
167	Boyd Rasmussen	Union	Oregon
168	Jim Muller	Adams	Pennsylvania
169	Eric J. Weaknecht	Berks	Pennsylvania
170	Clinton J. Walters	Bradford	Pennsylvania
171	Jeffrey C. Krieg	Elk	Pennsylvania
172	Bunny Welsh	Chester	Pennsylvania
173	Jonathan Held	Westmoreland	Pennsylvania
174	Al Cannon	Charleston	South Carolina
175	Chuck Wright	Spartanburg	South Carolina
176	Wayne DeWitt	Berkeley	South Carolina
177	Jim Matthews	Kershaw	South Carolina
178	James Metts	Lexington	South Carolina
179	Leon Lott	Richland	South Carolina
180	Bruce Bryant	York	South Carolina
181	Jim Ruth	Bradley	Tennessee
182	Jim Hammond	Hamilton	Tennessee
183	Larry Smith	Smith	Texas
184	Terry Box	Collin	Texas
185	Joel W. Richardson	Randall	Texas
186	Jack Brandes	Austin	Texas
187	Johnny Brown	Ellis	Texas
188	Michael Cox	Hill	Texas
189	Bob Alford	Johnson	Texas
190	Earl Howell	McCulloch	Texas
191	Parnell McNamara	McLennan	Texas
192	David Medlin	Oldham	Texas
193	Tommy Gage	Montgomery	Texas
194	Dane Kirby	Fannin	Texas
195	R. Glenn Smith	Waller	Texas
196	W.T. Smith	Burnet	Texas
197	Ed Cain	Hardin	Texas
198	Cameron M. Noel	Beaver	Utah
199	David Edmunds	Summit	Utah
200	James Tracy	Utah	Utah
201	Robert Dekker	Millard	Utah
202	Frank Park	Tooele	Utah
203	Joseph Yeates	Box Elder	Utah
204	G. Lynn Nelson	Cache	Utah
205	James Cordova	Carbon	Utah
206	Jerry Jorgensen	Daggett	Utah
207	Todd Richardson	Davis	Utah
208	Travis Mitchell	Duchesne	Utah
209	Greg Funk	Emery	Utah
210	James D. Perkins	Garfield	Utah
211	Steven White	Grand	Utah
212	Mark Gower	Iron	Utah
213	Alden Orme	Juab	Utah
214	Lamont Smith	Kane	Utah
215	Blaine Breshears	Morgan	Utah
216	Marty Gleave	Puite	Utah
217	Dale Stacey	Rich	Utah
218	Rick Eldredge	San Juan	Utah
219	Brian Nielson	Sanpete	Utah
220	Nathan Curtis	Sevier County	Utah
221	Jeff Merrell	Uintah	Utah
222	Todd Bonner	Wasatch	Utah
223	Cory Pulsipher	Washington	Utah
224	Kurt Taylor	Wayne	Utah
225	Terry Thompson	Weber	Utah
226	Merv Gustin	Duchesne	Utah
227	Than Cooper	Garfiled	Utah
228	James B. Nyland Sr.	Grand	Utah
229	Gene Ercanbrack	Morgan	Utah
230	Mike Lacy	San Juan	Utah
231	Kay P. Larsen	Sanpete	Utah
232	Phil Barney	Sevier	Utah
233	Kenneth Vanwagoner	Wasatch	Utah
234	Kirk Smith	Washington	Utah
235	Ken Bancroft	Asotin	Washington
236	Tom Jones	Grant	Washington
237	Dave Brown	Skamania	Washington
238	Brett Myers	Whitman	Washington
239	Ken Irwin	Yakima	Washington
240	Mike Harper	Roane	West Virginia
241	Ken Merritt	Wood	West Virginia
242	David A. Clarke Jr.	Milwaukee	Wisconsin

Disclaimer: While we encourage all sheriffs, their departments and peace officers to join CSPOA, the above list was created to identify those county sheriffs who have gone on record to uphold their oath by having made public statements, written open letters or called our office and asked to be included in the list of sheriffs and peace officers standing against gun control. This DOES NOT mean they are members of the CSPOA.

Poll: Majority of Young Americans Against Banning ‘Assault Weapons’

Celia Bigelow
breitbart.com
February 2, 2013

You know President Obama and his allies are losing the gun argument when his greatest supporters are against him: Reason/Rupe released a scientific poll which found the majority of Americans–particularly young Americans–support the right of people to own so-called “assault weapons.”

Of the 1,000 adults surveyed, 51 percent of respondents support the private ownership of “assault weapons,” while 44 percent were opposed. It may come as a shock to the public that the strongest advocates for private ownership are young Americans, the same age demographic that overwhelmingly supported the President in his reelection.

The poll found that 70 percent of young Americans ages 18-24 agree that Americans “should be allowed” to own “assault weapons,” while only 27 percent believe they should be prohibited. A recent study conducted by American University also showed that 60 percent of young Americans either already plan to or are considering purchasing a firearm for their home in the future.