Are you tired of being lied to? I am. We supposedly live in a democracy. We supposedly have the mechanisms for an informed citizenry. We supposedly have mechanisms in place to protect the our health, security, and environment. Yet time after time we find we have been lied to. Unfortunately, the generally comes out way after the fact. What is even more frustrating is to be called names for trying to talk about the truth. While it may not silence those who are trying to inform and alert the populace, it does mean that the warnings are not "heard."
Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses. When amalgam fillings are placed in teeth or removed from teeth, they release mercury vapor. Mercury vapor is also released during chewing. FDA's rulemaking (described in question 7) will examine evidence concerning whether release of mercury vapor can cause health problems, including neurological disorders, in children and fetuses. (FDA)
I don't know how many dentists I have asked about this over the years. The virtually unanimous response has been "It's not a problem." Of course as a simple non-dentist, it seemed like a bad idea to me to be putting highly toxic materials in people's mouths - including my own. For roughly 30 years, the FDA has stood by its rule that mercury-based amalgams pose no health threat. For many of those years, concerned people have tried to raise the issue - bunch of kooks.
This little news tid-bit set in motion a walk down memory lane of other lies. In no particular order ...
Rowan, I think I'd rather look for the truths. In particular, those significant truths that stand the test of time and research. For one thing, there are so many interwoven levels of untruth that it becomes difficult and time consuming to even sort them out. There are silent and implied lies, lies of deed more than of words, and there are half truths and twisting of the truth. There are distortions through changing the context. And there are the spammers and the spin, the bias and agenda of media moguls and corporate interests.
If the lies outweigh the truths by ... 100 to one? or more, then it may be easier and more meaningful to seek out truths instead.
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Aurora (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 345 comments)
on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 5:23:06 PM
1) Americans put a man on the moon in 1969 and then six more times thereafer.
2) Central bankers, who control the creation and destruction of money, the only means through which economic activity can proceed in today's world, had nothing to do with the murders of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, who both wanted to retain/regain this function for the government.
OK, the last one is contentious, but certainly worth seriously investigating.
Sydney, Australia
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Robert Hoogenboom (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 168 comments)
on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 6:11:25 PM
I used to love to rant, pontificate and generally let folks know how I would prefer the world to run. All that hot air no doubt contributed significantly to Global Warming....but other than that I noticed little effect other than that folks started to avoid me. So I have pretty much given it up. (Yeh...I do backslide now and then)
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Roger (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 359 comments)
on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 9:09:02 PM
The 911 Commission Report, There's no such thing planned...The NAU and The Amero, I did not have sex with that woman; We landed in Bosnia under heavy sniper fire (Hillary), "I know nothing about the CFR (even though my wife is a top official), and I never heard my minister speak negatively of the USA in 20 years" Obama, Major combat in Iraq is over (4yrs ago)..."Mission Accomplished" G.W.Bush
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ronheri (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 149 comments)
on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 9:16:14 PM
The biggest lie of all is the way people think about themselves and the world we live in. It encompasses every aspect of our lives. Too many people lie to themselves so they can feel good about what they do and how they live.
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arlen custer (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 247 comments)
on Monday, June 30, 2008 at 7:49:25 AM
Too Many Lies: Need For Focus: WHY ISN'T THERE FOCUS??
The problem is that the lies on the big issues are not MEDIATED.
I used to be a Chomsky mainliner, and wondered why the world didn't change with writing like that! Know I'm understanding why! The big
potential mass-entreway questions were always dismissed as low-class conspiracy theory. After reading of the Cold War role of the Non-Communist left I began to get suspicious. And so I returned to The Big One.----------
Any wonder the Media has been used to cover up the most imporatant aspects of Iran-Contra when its use had already been perfected to cover up the Coup D’etat Of 11-22-63?
See the book that Chomsky and Cockburn cannot answer!
New book JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE WHY HE DIED AND WHY IT MATTERS BY JAMES W. DOUGLASS. I am telling people about this book, because I think it is the MOST CURRENT of possible events!
I am a former Chomsky mainliner. Then after a while I began reading a book that WAS NOT a JFK “ASSASSINATION” BOOK as that genre has been so laboriously constructed (moated?) The book mixed structural developments of the Cold War and National Security State with some elements of the Kennedy Assassination. From there on I read more about the assassination, and concluded that CHOMSKY’S DECPICTION OF JFK WAS DEAD ON: ABOUT 50% OF JFK.
What makes it all the more distorted is that it compleetly ignores the other 50%, the part of JFK that was in permanent struggle with the permanent military industrial bureacracy.
This incredible book is the answer to Chomsky and I especially recommend it to those on the “left” –whatever that means these days– who have accepted the Chomsky Cockburn view that seems to be the only one publishable on the left these days. It offers the other side of the story, better than any other book I have read
And no it is not naive-liberal. It acknowledges JFKs strong Cold War uttereances and actions rather than trying to pretend they don’t exist. That is exactly what makes this book so provocative! Checkout these comments:
“Douglass writes with moral force, clarity, and the careful attention to detail that will make JFK and the Unspeakable a sourcebook for many years to come, for it provides us with the stubborn facts needed to rebuild a constitutional democracy within the United States.”–Marcus Raskin, co-founder, Institute for Policy Studies
“Douglass presents, brilliantly, an unfamiliar yet thoroughly convincing account of a series of creditable decisions of John F. Kennedy—at odds with his initial Cold War stance—that earned him the secret distrust and hatred of hard-liners among the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA. Did this suspicion and rage lead directly to his murder by agents of these institutions, as Douglass concludes? Many readers who are not yet convinced of this ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ by Douglass’s prosecutorial indictment will find themselves, perhaps—like myself—for the first time, compelled to call for an authoritative criminal investigation. Recent events give all the more urgency to learning what such an inquiry can teach us about how, by whom, and in whose interests this country is run.”—Daniel Ellsberg, author, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
“A remarkable book: devastating in its documented indictment of the dark forces that have long deformed the public life of this country, while also illuminating JFK’s final vision of world peace and documenting beyond reasonable doubt the unspeakable assassination of our last partially admirable president. This book should be required reading for every American citizen.”—Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University
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Nathaniel Heidenheimer (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 45 comments)
on Monday, June 30, 2008 at 4:14:20 PM
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