Water fluoridation linked to ADHD, obesity and depression

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 

by: David Gutierrez, staff writer

 

  (NaturalNews) Water fluoridation has been linked with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a new study conducted by researchers from York University in Toronto, and published in the journal Environmental Health.

Although prior studies have suggested that there might be a connection between fluoride and hyperactivity, the new study is the first to look at the relationship between ADHD and water fluoridation in particular.

"Given the number of children in the U.S. exposed to fluoridation, it is important to follow this up," said Thomas Zoeller of UMass-Amherst, who was not involved in the study.

The study used fluoridation data from 1992. Since then, the proportion of the U.S. population drinking fluoridated water has increased from 56 to 67 percent. During that same time, the proportion of children diagnosed with ADHD has increased from 7 to 11 percent.

'Huge' effect

The researchers compared ADHD rates between all 50 U.S. states, then compared these with those states' prevalence of artificial water fluoridation.

"States in which a greater proportion of people received artificially-fluoridated water in 1992 tended to have a greater proportion of children and adolescents who received ADHD diagnoses [in later years], after controlling for socioeconomic status," researcher Ashley Malin said.

It was important to control for socioeconomic status, because poor children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD.

Delaware and Iowa are both examples of states with low poverty rates that had higher-than-expected rates of ADHD (14 percent of children between the ages of 4 and 17). Both states have heavily fluoridated water systems.

Based on the study data, the researchers constructed a model that predicted that even after controlling for socioeconomic status, every 1 percent of the U.S. population that drank fluoridated water in 1992 was associated with an extra 67,000 cases of ADHD by 2003, and an extra 131,000 cases by 2011.

"The numbers of extra cases associated with a one percent increase in the 1992 artificial fluoridation [figures] are huge," said William Hirzy, an American University researcher and vocal fluoridation opponent who was once a risk assessment scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Harvard epidemiologist Philippe Grandjean expressed a similar sentiment. "The results are plausible, and indeed meaningful," he said, noting that the study joins a body of recent research suggesting that scientists should "reconsider the need to add fluoride to drinking water at current levels."

Fluoride is a neurotoxin

It's no surprise that fluoride could be a cause of ADHD; a 2014 Lancet study by Grandjean and Philip Landrigan concluded that fluoride is a developmental neurotoxin.

Depleted Uranium – One Of The Greatest Environmental Horrors In The History Of The World

February 2, 2010 by Michael Snyder

 

Most Americans have no idea that depleted uranium munitions used by the U.S. military are causing one of the greatest environmental nightmares in the history of the world. In fact, most Americans have no idea what depleted uranium even is. But even as many Americans gobble down their burgers and french fries and pizza and enjoy the “good life” watching their big screen televisions, an entirely different story is being written on the other side of the world. In Iraq and Afghanistan today, there are some areas that have been so polluted by depleted uranium that they have literally become uninhabitable hellholes. Americans like to think of themselves as so “environmentally conscious”, but the truth is that one of the greatest environmental tragedies of all time is being caused by the U.S. military and yet nobody seems to care.
 

But now some of the victims are starting to fight back – at least in court. According to one Iraqi minister, Iraq’s Ministry for Human Rights will file a lawsuit against the United States and the United Kingdom over their use of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq.

Iraq’s Minister of Human Rights, Wijdan Mikhail Salim, reportedly told the Assabah newspaper that the lawsuit will be based on reports from the Iraqi ministries of science and the environment.  These reports allege that the U.S. and the U.K. used nearly 2,000 tons of depleted uranium bombs during the early years of the the Iraq war.

In fact, one official Iraqi study has found that more than 40 sites across Iraq are currently contaminated with high levels of radiation and dioxins.

So who is responsible for that?

We are.

In areas where depleted uranium use was the highest, Iraqi doctors have reported a massive rise in the number of babies born with birth defects and they have seen the number of cancer cases among Iraqi citizens absolutely skyrocket.

In fact, what is happening to babies in the city of Fallujah is beyond horrifying.  Back in November, one major U.K. newspaper described the situation this way….

In September this year, say campaigners, 170 children were born at Fallujah General Hospital, 24 per cent of whom died within seven days. Three-quarters of these exhibited deformities, including “children born with two heads, no heads, a single eye in their foreheads, or missing limbs”. The comparable data for August 2002 – before the invasion – records 530 births, of whom six died and only one of whom was deformed.

The top brass in the U.S. and the U.K. militaries know full well the impact that depleted uranium munitions have had on many areas of Iraq, but they simply do not care.

So what exactly are depleted uranium munitions?

They are essentially “dirty bombs” made from nuclear waste.

Depleted Uranium is a waste product of the nuclear enrichment process. Despite claims that depleted uranium is much less radioactive than natural uranium, the truth is that it actually emits about 75% as much radioactivity as natural uranium.

This makes it highly toxic to humans.

When depleted uranium munitions impact a target, the uranium coating of these weapons becomes a powder which easily contaminates the surrounding air, soil and water.

Depleted uranium is both chemically toxic and highly radioactive. In laboratory tests it severely damages human cells, causes DNA mutations and has other carcinogenic effects.

Depleted uranium poisoning has been linked to a vast array of illnesses and diseases including severe skin rashes, intense muscle and joint pain, major birth defects, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, brain tumors and just about every type of cancer. Depleted uranium also replaces calcium in the body, thus destroying both teeth and bones.

As a result of the massive depleted uranium contamination in Iraq and Afghanistan, severe birth defects and cancer have dramatically increased not only among civilians living in the affected areas, but also among U.S. troops who served in areas where depleted uranium munitions were used.

Depleted uranium munitions are classified by the United Nations as illegal weapons of mass destruction, and yet the U.S. and the U.K. continue to use them.

The uranium used in depleted uranium munitions has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, so the environmental hell that the invading armies have caused in Iraq and Afghanistan will be a gift that keep on giving.

Forever.

It has been said that when a woman delivers a baby in Iraq now, the first question she asks is typically not if it is a boy or a girl.

Instead the most typical first question now is this: “Is it normal?”

But it is not just those in other nations who are suffering from the effects of depleted uranium.
Most Americans have no idea that thousands upon thousands of our own troops are getting sick and dying from depleted uranium exposure.

According to official (but unpublicized) U.S. government data, there have been over 70,000 deaths and over 1 million disabilities among U.S. troops as a result of America’s wars in the Middle East.
The truth is that we have been slowly nuking our own troops and most Americans don’t even realize it.

In her excellent article entitled “Death By Slow Burn:How America Nukes Its Own Troops”, Amy Worthington painted a very graphic picture of the effect that exposure to depleted uranium is having on U.S. and British troops….

U.S and British troops deployed to the area are the walking dead. Humans and animals, friends and foes in the fallout zone are destined to a long downhill spiral of chronic illness and disability.

Kidney dysfunction, lung damage, bloody stools, extreme fatigue, joint pain, unsteady gait, memory loss and rashes and, ultimately, cancer and premature death await those exposed to DU.

Maersk says global IT breakdown caused by cyber attack

Maersk says global IT breakdown caused by cyber attack

Reuters  |  June 27, 2017, 21:24 IST

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COPENHAGEN: Shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, which handles one out of seven containers shipped globally, said a cyber attack had caused outages at its computer systems across the world on Tuesday.

The attack came as computer servers across Europe and in India were hit by a major ransomware attack.

"We can confirm that Maersk IT systems are down across multiple sites and business units due to a cyber attack," Maersk said on Twitter.

The breakdown affected all business units at Maersk, including container shipping, port and tug boat operations, oil and gas production, drilling services, and oil tankers, the company said.

The IT breakdown could extend across the company's global operations, a spokeswoman said, but could not say how Maersk's operations were impacted.

With a fleet of more than 600 container vessels, Maersk is the world's biggest shipping company with a market share of around 16 percent. The company handles around 25 percent of all containers shipped on the key Asia-Europe route.

Maersk's port operator APM Terminals was also hit, with Dutch broadcaster RTV Rijnmond reporting that 17 shipping container terminals run by APM Terminals had been hacked, including two in Rotterdam and 15 in other parts of the world.

The RTV report said computers were infected by ransomware that encrypted hard drives at APM Terminals.

The container shipping industry has lagged some other sectors in bringing more of its processes online.

However, in a digital push Maersk says it is committed to automating its systems to drive efficiency and cut costs, although there is still a huge amount of paperwork slowing down the handling and tracking of containers.

Russia's top oil producer Rosneft said on Tuesday its servers had been hit by a large-scale cyber attack, but its oil production was unaffected.

Ukraine's central bank also said a number of Ukrainian commercial banks and state and private companies had been hit by cyber attacks via an "unknown virus".

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'Petya' ransomware attack strikes companies across Europe and US 

Ukraine government, banks and electricity grid hit hardest, but companies in France, Denmark and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania also attacked

Full Circle - Again!

Full Circle - Again!

The meeting with the representatives from the Department of Revenue went well. 

A far cry from the last meeting on January 11, 2010:

regarding the DOR Financial Management Review  .

Attending from the DOR were Sean Cronin, Zach Blake, MJ Handy, and Deb Wagner. Senator Gobi was in attendance as well.

 

Some takeaways:

Sean Cronin: "The DOR is here to help Templeton." 

Templeton needs sound policies and procedures. 

Templeton faces significant financial challenges. 

It's not going to be easy. 

We need to work together.

MJ Handy: Templeton has spent more than it has budgeted. 

This should serve as a wakeup call.

DOR is committed to working with Templeton.

Reconciliations need to occur in a timely fashion.

Questions:

Will free cash be certified for the Fall special town meeting?

 Once the audit for FY 2017 is complete, then free cash should be certified shortly thereafter.

 The shortfall of $212,000 can be handled with Free Cash after a special town meeting vote, once Free Cash is certified. If not, then the FY 18 budget will need to be cut by that amount.

Will the FY 2018 tax rate be set on time?

Right now, the FY 2018 tax rate is on track to be set on time. 

Town departments can begin entering information right now the tax recapitulation sheet (recap).

Do monthly reconciliations include the Budget v. Actual?

Yes. They do.

Did the DOR know about the reduction in stabilization from $142,000 to $95,000?

No, they did not. But it is not unexpected due to the lack of accurate bookkeeping over the years to track the town meeting votes and post them accurately.

Does the Town need a bond rating to borrow for the elementary school project?

Yes. It does. The process for regaining a bond rating is underway. 

The $5 million BAN for the Elementary school project can be spent only on redesign costs, not bids for construction and demolition.

The Templeton Advisory Committee has some policies in place to help the town regain its ability to borrow money.

Other takeaways

The DOR will facilitate the arrangement of sharing a Town Manager/Administrator with Winchendon. A subcommittee will be working on that effort.

It was stated that the BoS and the DOR have been working on a "gantry" to address the financial issues outlined in the DOR letter from May 23, 2017. 

This advisory committee member, Julie Farrell, eagerly awaits the new spirit cooperation between the selectmen and advisory committee. The possibility of receiving financial documents in a timely fashion is most welcome.

In this new spirit of cooperation, the selectboard will be voting at tonight's meeting to file open meeting law complaints against the Advisory Committee and asking for Advisory Committee members resignations (if the reporting in the Gardner News is accurate.) 

Full circle - Again!

Julie Farrell

 

To YOUR Health!

To YOUR Health!

California To Add Monsanto's RoundUp To List Of "Cancer-Causing" Herbicides

by Tyler Durden

Jun 27, 2017 3:25 PM

Back in March, we highlighted official evidence divulged in unsealed court documents which seemingly revealed collusion between senior executives at the $60 billion ag-chemicals powerhouse, Monsanto, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to kill "inconvenient" research which suggested that Monsanto's key herbicidal product, RoundUp, might be literally killing people.

We've shared the entire sordid tale below but here is one of the key emails from Jess Rowland, the EPA's Deputy Division Director for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, to a Monsanto executive regarding a piece of damaging research that was pending release:

"If I can kill this I should get a medal." 

Apparently those rather unsettling court documents were all that California needed for the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to add RoundUp's key ingredient, Glyphosate, to a list of chemicals known to cause cancer.  Per Reuters:

Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's (MON.N) popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday.

Environmental groups cheered OEHHA's move to list the chemical.

"California's decision makes it the national leader in protecting people from cancer-causing pesticides," said Nathan Donley, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity.

And while agriculture may not be the first thing to come to mind when you think of California, many would be shocked to learn that over half of the United States' vegetables, fruits and nuts are grown in the Golden State.



 

Of course, California's decision doesn't mean that Monsanto has to stop selling their carcinogenic products, they just have to add a tiny label to the bottom of canisters letting consumers know that the product they're holding could kill them.

Listing glyphosate as a known carcinogen under California's Proposition 65 would require companies selling the chemical in the state to add warning labels to packaging. Warnings would also be required if glyphosate is being sprayed at levels deemed unsafe by regulators.

Users of the chemical include landscapers, golf courses, orchards, vineyards and farms.

Monsanto and other glyphosate producers would have roughly a year from the listing date to re-label products or remove them from store shelves if further legal challenges are lost.

Meanwhile, Monsanto has vowed to fight on...because colluding with the EPA to corrupt/kill 'independent' studies simply wasn't a strong enough effort.

Monsanto's appeal of the trial court's ruling is pending.

"This is not the final step in the process, and it has no bearing on the merits of the case. We will continue to aggressively challenge this improper decision," Scott Partridge, Monsanto's vice president of global strategy, said.

That said, we're quite certain that California's well trained and licensed Agricultural Pest Control Advisors (PCA's) would never allow herbicides to be applied in an unsafe manner, right?  Afterall, they're 'licensed' and we hear the process to obtain that license is quite 'rigorous'.

They would never, for example, spray toxic chemicals during high winds which would allow them to float 4.5 miles and strike a bunch of unsuspecting workers with sudden vomiting attacks and bloody noses...oh wait, that actually did happen.  

Whatever, it's probably fine.


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For those who missed it, here is our original note from back in March:

Free Fun Fridays

Free Fun Fridays

A Failure to Communicate?

A Failure to Communicate?

Wilfred Spring
Attachments4:41 PM (16 hours ago)

to PDeRensis, Paul, Diane, Selectman, Cameron, selectmen.morr., selectmen.rich., MA, Beverly, me, Robert, Darlene, Paul, Jeff, Kelli
 

To Carter Terenzini
Interim Town Administrator

Sorry for the delay in answering your email but it got lost between others and I do not always check my personal email on a regular basis.

I am not sure why your email was sent to my personal email and not to the Advisory Committee's email since this is official Town of Templeton business.  I am but one member of this Advisory Committee and not one of the other members were on copy. Let me point out that the original email was sent from the Advisory Committee’s email with its members on copy.  As you can see I have forwarded this email to the appropriate parties.

It has been clearly stated by you that a BvA would be issued monthly. I apologize if the request for information from the BvA was not clear enough as I assumed that the report was created but the Advisory Committee was not on copy.  Since this has been an issue that we are only getting paper copies of documents and not always receiving them in a timely manner.

Before I begin to answer some of your questions, I would like to point out that the transfer forms sent to the Advisory Committee seem to be edited versions.  We have not pushed back on these being the incorrect forms and yet still reviewed/discussed the items as issued by you.  The End of Year form and the End of Year policy were sent to you and all departments on Feb 6, 2017.  Please use these forms and comply with the policy. (Attachments)

Let me be clear the reason the transfer was not approved was that the Advisory Committee has received conflicting fund balances previously. If the BvA was received or the requesting parties were there to answer questions, as identified in the committee’s policy, it is my opinion that the transfer would have passed. You can see from the End of Year request form sent back to you that the vote was 5 NO and 2 YES along with the comments that an up to date BvA be issued. This request was formally done on 6/23/2017 asking that the End of Year request be resubmitted along with an electronic copy of the up to date BvA.

At this time the automatic scheduler of the Advisory Committee’s meeting on July 5th will be cancelled. Our next meeting will be July 12, 2017. It was felt that if the BOS waited to make another End of Year transfer until their July 10th meeting it would make sense to reschedule the Advisory Committee’s meeting to July 12th.

I have provided Town Council with a copy of this email so he can be aware of the reason for the delay in payment of the bill. I would suggest that with the $8,000 balance that is in the Town council expense account a partial payment could be made to them.

I would like to reiterate that I prefer not to receive town business emails only to me and lacking copies to the Advisory Committee email and other members of the Advisory Committee.  I have indicated to you in the past this is not how town business should be handled.


Wilfred Spring
Advisory Committee Chairman

Are Illinois & Puerto Rico Our Future?

by Tyler Durden

Jun 27, 2017 5:15 PM

Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,
If Gov. Bruce Rauner and his legislature in Springfield do not put a budget together by Friday, the Land of Lincoln will be the first state in the Union to see its debt plunge into junk-bond status.
Illinois has $14.5 billion in overdue bills, $130 billion in unfunded pension obligations, and no budget. “We can’t manage our money,” says Rauner. “We’re like a banana republic.”

Speaking of banana republics, Puerto Rico, which owes $74 billion to creditors who hold its tax-exempt bonds, and $40 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, has already entered bankruptcy proceedings.

The island’s imaginative 38-year-old governor, Ricardo Rossello, however, has a solution. Call Uncle Sam. On June 11, Rossello held a plebiscite, with a 23 percent turnout, that voted 97 percent to make Puerto Rico our 51st state.

“(T)he federal government will no longer be able to ignore the voice of the majority of the American citizens in Puerto Rico,” said Rossello. Washington cannot “demand democracy in other parts of the world, and not respond to the legitimate right to self-determination that was exercised today in the American territory of Puerto Rico.”

Had the governor been talking about the island’s right to become free and independent, he would have had a point. But statehood inside the USA is something Uncle Sam decides.

Rossello calls to mind Count Mountjoy of Grand Fenwick, who, in “The Mouse that Roared,” plotted to rescue his bankrupt duchy by declaring war on the U.S., sailing to America to surrender, and then demanding the foreign aid America bestows on defeated enemies.

Yet Puerto Rico’s defaults on its debts may soon be our problem. Many bond funds in which Americans have invested their savings and retirement money are full of Puerto Rican bonds.

According to The New York Times, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Marianas and Guam are in the same boat. With 100,000 people, the Virgin Islands owe $6.5 billion to pensioners and creditors.
Then there is Connecticut, a state that has long ranked in the top tier in per capita income and wealth.

Connecticut, too, appears wobbly. Rising pension benefits, the cost of servicing the state debt and falling tax revenue due to fleeing residents and companies like Aetna and General Electric, have dropped Connecticut to near the national bottom in growth prospects.

“The state’s population is falling: Its net domestic out-migration was nearly 30,000 from 2015 to 2016. In 2016, it lost slightly more than 8,000 people, leaving its population at 3.6 million,” reports Fox News:

“(R)ecent national moving company surveys (show) more people leaving Connecticut than moving in. In 2016, the state also saw a population decline for the third consecutive year.”

As its example of a welfare state going belly up, the EU offers us Greece. And questions arise from all of these examples. Is this an inexorable trend? Has the old New Deal formula of “tax and tax, spend and spend, and elect and elect” finally run its course?

Across the West, social welfare states are threatened by falling revenues, taxpayer flight, rising debt as a share of GDP, sinking bond ratings and proliferating defaults.

Record high social welfare spending is among the reasons that Western nations skimp on defense. Even the Americans, who spent 9 percent of GDP on defense under President Kennedy and 6 percent under President Reagan, are now well below that, though U.S. security commitments are as great as they were in the Cold War.

Among NATO nations, the U.S. is among the least socialist, with less than 40 percent of GDP consumed by government at all levels. France, with 57 percent of GDP siphoned off, is at the opposite pole.

Yet even here in America we no longer grow at 4 percent a year, or even 3 percent. We seem to be nearing a point of government consumption beyond the capacity of the private sector to provide the necessary funds.

Some Democrats are discovering there are limits to how much the government can consume of the nation’s wealth without adversely affecting their own fortunes. And in the Obamacare debate this week, Republicans are running head-on into the reality that clawing back social welfare benefits already voted may be political suicide.

Has democratic socialism passed its apogee?

Native-born populations in the West are aging, shrinking and dying, not reproducing themselves. The cost of pensions and health care for the elderly is inexorably going up. Immigration into the West, almost entirely from the Third World, is bringing in peoples who, on balance, take more in social welfare than they pay in taxes.

Deficits and national debts as a share of GDP are rising. Almost nowhere does one see the old robust growth rates returning. And the infrastructure of the West — roads, bridges, tunnels, ports, airports, subways, train tracks — continues to crumble for lack of investment.

The days of interstate highway systems and moon shots seem to be behind us. Are Puerto Rico and Illinois the harbingers of what is to come?

 

2 Out Of 3 Patients Can't Afford Their Hospital Bills Thanks To Obamacare's Soaring Deductibles

by Tyler Durden

Jun 27, 2017 6:05 PM

We've spent a lot of time over the past couple of years talking about soaring healthcare premiums brought on by Obamacare. The price increases have been outright crippling for those forced to buy policies on the exchanges, up well over 100% over the past 4 years, on average, with some states up over 200%.




But premiums aren't the only part of health plans that have soared under Obamacare.  For those people who are lucky enough to actually be able to afford a plan, you simply bought yourself the opportunity to cover even more of your healthcare costs out of pocket as deductibles have also soared.
 

 

In fact, a new study from TransUnion Healthcare reveals that 2 out of 3 patients (68%) couldn't afford to pay their hospital bills in full in 2016, up from 49% in 2014.

A new TransUnion Healthcare analysis revealed a significant rise in the percentage of patients that didn’t pay their hospital bills in full. Approximately 68% of patients with bills of $500 or less did not pay off the full balance during 2016 – up from 53% in 2015 and 49% in 2014.

“There are many reasons why more patients are struggling to make their healthcare payments in full, the most prominent of which are higher deductibles and the increase in patient responsibility from 10% to 30% over the last few years,” said Wiik, author of the book and also principal for healthcare revenue cycle management at TransUnion. “This shift in healthcare payments has been taking place for well over a decade, but we are seeing more pronounced changes in how hospital bills are paid during just the last few years.”

But that's not even the worst of it, patient responsibility on 14% of hospital bills in 2016 exceeded $3,000, an obligation which only 1% of patients were able to cover on a timely basis.

- 63% of hospital bills were $500 or less; of those hospital bills, 68% were not paid in full in 2016.

- 14% of hospital bills were $3,000 or more; of those hospital bills, 99% were not paid in full in 2016.

- 10% of hospital bills were $500 to $1,000; of those bills 85% were not paid in full in 2016.

Meanwhile, the soaring deductibles are putting even more pressure on razor thin hospital margins and have caused a rash of closures since 2010.  Per CNBC:

The Affordable Care Act has given more people access to health care, but it has driven deductibles up, in some cases, making it harder for patients to pay, said John Yount, TransUnion's vice president of product for the health-care division. Hospital margins are already between only 2 and 4 percent on average, Yount said, and that margin quickly narrows when more patients can't pay their bills.

"Waterly Circle" ?

Wikileaks Buys Recovered Image Of All 33,000 Deleted Clinton Emails, 

Sends Her This Message:

June 25, 2017 DM Jones

After a brilliant Australian hacker found a US metadata cache on a Chinese spy satellite, his team went to work and ultimately produced an image of Hillary Clinton’s email server taken just 4 days before the first ever public mention of an email scandal. In other words, all 33,000 deleted emails are alive and well.

The first thing the team did was disappear back to Australia for their own safety from a conference in Venice, complete with a $1 million prize. They then released an index of the contents by significance. 1100 were “for further review while some had already been found in the in/sent box with codeword clearance level indicators.

Wikileaks, operating separately from Julian Assange for the time being, has purchased all of the emails and is promising to do some serious damage to Hillary Clinton. After only 1-hour of review they sent this message to Clinton:

“Confess. It’s your only hope. You know what you deleted, Madam Secretary. So do we. Confess to what you know we know and we’ll go easy on you. Otherwise it will be a long and painful struggle for you, your husband and your daughter.

To show you we’re serious: Waterly Circle.”

So far nobody has been able to figure out what or where “Waterly Circle” is but we’re assuming we’ll find out when Clinton again ignores the warnings and her emails are destroying her life.

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Uranium in Oregon/Washington

Hillary Clinton, Uranium One, and the Bundy BLM Protest

Hillary Clinton, Uranium One, and the Bundy BLM* Protest

(* Bureau of Land Management)

The first statement Julian Assange made at the beginning of the Podesta Leaks was about Uranium One. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/press-release

This went largely unnoticed as 2 hours later a tape was leaked of Donald Trump having a lewd conversation about women.

Before the Podesta Leaks started, The NY Times had found a connection to Hillary Clinton and pay for play criminal activity with the Uranium One deal where Russia gained 20% of US yellowcake uranium mining rights in places like Oregon and Washington.

$2.5 million to Clinton Foundation: Https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0

BLM acquires land in Southern Oregon for Uranium One: http://www.blm.gov/or/energy/uranium.php

The Bundy Standoff was something I followed closely in January of 2016 as it unfolded and I couldn't understand why the media was spreading so much disinformation about it.

The general opinion in the MSM was that these were white, conservative terrorists committing arson on federal land and were illegally occupying a federal building with guns. One of the protesters named LaVoy Finicum was shot in the back and killed on video by FBI agents: https://youtu.be/9DGXDgzOCls

I oppose mandatory minimum sentences and the government taking private land so I could totally understand why they were protesting.

The video testimony taken by "The Oregonian" from Ammon Bundy and LaVoy Finicum showed they were on their way to give a presentation in a neighboring county for a group of 400 concerning the grievances they had with the BLM when the FBI tried to stop and arrest them for "preventing Fish & Wildlife service officials from fulfilling their duties" due to the peaceful occupation of a service building.

From the words of the protesters: "The short summary is: in an effort to draw attention to a ridiculous arrest of a father and son pair of Oregon Ranchers (“Dwight Lincoln Hammond, Jr., 73, and his son, Steven Dwight Hammond, 46,) who are scheduled to begin five year prison sentences (turning themselves in tomorrow January 4th 2016), three brothers from the Cliven Bundy family and approximately 100/150 (and growing) heavily armed militia (former U.S. service members) have taken control of Malheur Wildlife Refuge Headquarters in the wildlife reserve. They are prepared to stay there indefinitely." http://www.resurrecttherepublic.com/the-truth-full-story-of-federal-abuse-of-power-unconstitutional-land-grab-of-hammond-family-ranch/

The Hammonds were charged with terrorism when they set a backfire after a lightning storm has started a wildfire. The backfire saved their home and put out the wild fire saving thousands of acres.
Their land rights were wanted by the BLM. The Hammonds had refused to give up the rights but their land rights were sold to Russia through Uranium One.

Conspiracy Central

Conspiracy Central

  
The latest conspiracy theory is that the BoS are deliberately violating the Open Meeting Law to demonstrate to the state how OML complaints tie up "valuable" resources of time and energy of the selectmen? 

From Templeton Watch

Anonymous8:10 PM

I think it's a conspiracy! Maybe Julie or Pete can advise or school me.

Mrs. Farrell12:56 PM

Dear Anon 8:10 pm

Here at Conspiracy Central, the entire OML issue looks like a big DISTRACTION if not a false flag event.

It truly is not that difficult to post a meeting according to the Open Meeting Law.

So why the DISTRACTION?

A DISTRACTION from the real financial issues facing this community and the leadership's inability to deal with these real financial issues.

There is a meeting with the Department of Revenue scheduled for WEDNESDAY Night (at least as of this moment in time - could change?) This meeting has been scheduled at the request of the DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE - BUREAU OF LOCAL ACCOUNTS - DIVISION OF LOCAL SERVICES.

THIS MEETING IS A BIG DEAL!

Petition - AWAN Brothers IT Technicians

Debbie Wasserman Shultz hired the Awan brothers and their wives to handle their IT needs in congress and were found stealing equipment and were fired from all congressmen except Rep Wasserman-Shultz. The Awans need to be investigated.

Sign Here:

We the People   

 

Feds probe Los Alamos lab for mislabeling & shipping nuclear materials by air

Published time: 25 Jun, 2017 01:22 

Edited time: 25 Jun, 2017 09:56 

Federal regulators are investigating an “absolutely unacceptable” violation of improper handling of nuclear material after the mislabeled cargo was sent on commercial cargo flights to two laboratories in the United States. 

Last week, unknown quantities of “special nuclear material” were sent from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina via “commercial air cargo” in violation of federal regulations.

Originally, the nuclear matter to both labs was packaged and “containerized” for commercial ground cargo transportation. But it later emerged that the documents by Los Alamos National Laboratory were prepared for air shipment in violation of well-defined federal regulations, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said in a statement.

While the packaging was not breached and the nuclear material not contaminated during its transportation, the NNSA announced that it is now investigating the case.

Oregon shootout rooted in Clinton uranium trade?

Investigation ties Hillary's Russian deal to rancher-fed standoff

Cheryl Chumley

Published: 01/29/2016 at 12:07 PM

An investigative reporter has suggested the Oregon standoff between ranchers and feds, that left one protester dead, could be tied to a Hillary Clinton deal with Russia over uranium mining production.

Call it a conspiracy theory – or not. But a curious investigative reporter, Jon Rappoport, posted an interesting angle to the Oregon standoff between protesting ranchers and feds that left one of the former dead, with this headline: “The Clintons: Is the Oregon standoff really about uranium?”

That article was, in fact, a followup to a previous story he wrote that was titled, “The Clintons: How Putin grabbed a fifth of all U.S. uranium.” And in the most recent, he simply looked at the information he presented in the first – how a deal approved under Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state transferred 20 percent of U.S. uranium production to Russia – and tied it to the geographical location of a proposed uranium mine in Oregon.

Coincidentally, the mine development was proposed for the same general area of the widely reported standoff between protesters and federal and police forces, Rappoport wrote.

First, a refresher on the Clinton-Russia deal, as Rappoport wrote: “On April 23, 2015, the NY Times ran a story under the headline, ‘Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal.’

The bare bones of the story: a Canadian company called Uranium One controls a great deal of uranium production in the U.S. It was sold to Russia (meaning Putin and his minions). So Putin now controls 20 percent of U.S. uranium production. From the Times: ‘…the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States.'”

The New York Times story goes on to report how leaders of the Canadian mining industry made several charitable donations to the various “endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family,” including a total of $31.3 million from mining financier Frank Giustra, and then sold the Russians a company later dubbed Uranium One. As the New York Times pointed, the sale of Uranium One to Putin required State Department approval, because uranium is considered a strategic asset – and then-Secretary Clinton gave it.

As Rappoport summarized: “The U.S. State Dept. had to sign off on the deal giving Putin control over U.S. uranium. Hillary headed up the State Dept. Much money from Canadian mining executives, who obviously wanted the deal to go through, found its way into the Clinton Foundation. The Foundation concealed these donations.”

Now fast-forward to today’s Oregon standoff and fatal shooting.

In his just-posted piece, Rappoport wrote: “Is uranium at the heart of the … standoff? That’s the question I’m asking. It isn’t a flippant question. I realize there are many other issue swirling around this event … This article isn’t meant to take apart those matters.”

What he does point to, however, is a U.S. Bureau of Land Management notation that’s titled, “Uranium on BLM-Administered Lands in OR/WA,” that talks about a May 2012 presentation from Oregon Energy LLC to develop a uranium oxide mine, in concert with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, in “southern Malheur County in southeastern Oregon,” Rappoport wrote.

The much-publicized standoff between Oregonian residents and law enforcement has taken place by the Mahleur National Wildlife Refuge.

Rappopport went on: “What does this have to do with Hillary and Bill Clinton? … The short version is: there’s a case to be made that they, through Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation, facilitated the sale of Uranium One to Putin and the Russians. And if so, and if this area of Oregon is projected to be part of that uranium mining deal, then we are looking at a stunning ‘coincidence’: the U.S. federal government is coming down hard on a group of protesters who are occupying, for their own reasons, a very valuable piece of territory that goes far beyond the issue of private cattle grazing on government land.”

Beer, barbecue draw thousands to abbey in Spencer

By Justine E Caggiano, Correspondent

Posted Jun 25, 2017 at 10:42 AM 

Updated Jun 25, 2017 at 11:15 PM

 

SPENCER - Beer and barbecue drew a crowd to St. Joseph’s Abbey for the monks’ second annual open house Saturday at the Spencer Brewery, America’s first Trappist brewery.

“Last year we had such an overwhelming response,” said the Rev. Isaac Keeley, brewery director.

About 2,500 attended last year, and more than 3,000 were expected this time.

“We felt such gratitude from people at last year’s event - they were saying ‘thank you for letting us into the monastery’ - that we absolutely want to keep this event ongoing.”

For a brewery to be certified as Trappist, it has to be located inside the monastic enclosure and cannot be open to the public. The open house is the only time the public is allowed on the grounds of the monastery.

Bill Arduser came from Conway to attend the open house.

“We’ve wanted to come here for a year. We saw on Facebook they were having an open house, and we have never seen such an amazing and lovely property.”

The Spencer Brewery is the only Trappist brewery outside of Europe. About 40 percent of the beer it produces is sent to Belgium.

“My brand is better known in Europe than the United States,” said Rev. Isaac.

Possible Meetings for the Week of June 26, 2017

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Possible Meetings for the 

Week of June 26, 2017

Monday  6/26/17

Adv. Com.                        PCS Town Hall*                6:30 pm

Liars Club?                      PCS Town Hall*                6:30 pm

Tuesday  6/27/17

Liars Club                        Winchendon                      7:00 pm

Wednesday 6/28/17

DOR Meeting

Adv. Com.                       PCS Town Hall*               6:30 pm

Liars Club                       PCS Town Hall*               6:30 pm

Thursday 6/29/17

Liars Club                      PCS Town Hall*              6:30 pm

 

* Pauly Cosentino Sr. Town Hall

The Case of the Missing Meeting Posting

The Case of the Missing Meeting Posting

In an effort to keep up with meetings posted in the Town of Templeton, I decided to gather the meetings to post for a "Meetings of the Week " blog. I do this for most weeks. I save the posted agendas as .pdf for future reference and link them on the blog post.

Yesterday, June 24, 2017 on the Town's website under "Meetings" 

an agenda was posted for the selectmen meeting on June 26, 2017.

It looked like this:

Agenda
1.Call the Meeting to Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Meeting Minutes~ 6.12.17
4. New Business:
a. Introduction of New Employee
b. Discussion Re: 06/28 w/DOR (portions w/Advisory Committee)
c. Action RE: Representative to MPO
d. Action RE: Annual Appointments
e. Action RE: Otter River Sportsman’s One-Day Licenses
f. Action RE: Open Space Plan Submission to the State
g. Action RE: Open Space Grant Re: Land Acquisition at TDC
h. Action RE: BoS member to attend Advisory Committee Meetings
i. Action RE: FY ’17 Budget Transfer Request(s)
j. Action RE: Response to OML Complaint of J. Farrell
k. Action RE: Response to OML Complaint of R. May
l. Action RE: Filing of OML Complaint #1 w/Advisory Committee
m. Action RE: Filing of OML Complaint #2 w/Advisory Committee
n. Action RE: Memo of TA Re: Options to Fill Position
o. Update RE: Town Website Renewal Project
p. Update RE: Scholarship Committee
q. Update RE: Audit Workpaper Review/Approval 
5. Old Business:
6. Public Comment
7. Board & Staff Member Comments & Reports
8. Potential Request for Executive Session
9. Adjournment
The listing of Agenda items is those reasonably anticipated by the Chair which may be discussed at the meeting. Not all items listed may in fact be discussed and other items not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent it is permitted by law.
THIS AGENDA IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

 So today's version looks like this:

I took a full screenshot so you can see this was at my computer on SUNDAY June 25, 2017 at 11:51 am.

From page 43 of the Town of Templeton Bylaws :

 Article XLIV - Official Town of Templeton Website
"The Templeton Board of Selectmen  shall designate an official Town website, for the official posting of town business, meeting notices, and agendas of all boards, committees and commissions;..."

So. When I make the assertion that the Templeton Board of Selectmen should follow their own policies, procedures and bylaws, I am talking about the Templeton Board of Selectmen.

Just as I was talking about the Templeton Board of Selectmen in the blog post:


Policies. Procedures. Pins.

Have a lovely day!

Julie Farrell
 

Don't Look Back, or You'll turn to Salt

 Don't Look Back, or  You'll turn to Salt

Generation Snowflake Ignore THIS blog!  It might "trigger" you.

March 26, 2011

Pauly's Response to Bob C.'s letter to the gardner news

 

March 15, 2012

Our nice town of Templeton     

 

March 17, 2012

Just how stupid are we taxpayers?

 

May 20, 2012

Templeton under siege 2012

 

May 31, 2012

Going to Boston?

 

 

 

What is irony?

What is irony?

Comment posted to Templeton Watch

Mrs. Farrell9:42 AM

How very interesting.

This is the posted agenda for Monday's BoF meeting:

Agenda
1.Call the Meeting to Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Meeting Minutes~ 6.12.17
4. New Business:
a. Introduction of New Employee
b. Discussion Re: 06/28 w/DOR (portions w/Advisory Committee)
c. Action RE: Representative to MPO
d. Action RE: Annual Appointments
e. Action RE: Otter River Sportsman’s One-Day Licenses
f. Action RE: Open Space Plan Submission to the State
g. Action RE: Open Space Grant Re: Land Acquisition at TDC
h. Action RE: BoS member to attend Advisory Committee Meetings
i. Action RE: FY ’17 Budget Transfer Request(s)
j. Action RE: Response to OML Complaint of J. Farrell
k. Action RE: Response to OML Complaint of R. May
l. Action RE: Filing of OML Complaint #1 w/Advisory Committee
m. Action RE: Filing of OML Complaint #2 w/Advisory Committee
n. Action RE: Memo of TA Re: Options to Fill Position
o. Update RE: Town Website Renewal Project
p. Update RE: Scholarship Committee
q. Update RE: Audit Workpaper Review/Approval

5. Old Business:
6. Public Comment
7. Board & Staff Member Comments & Reports
8. Potential Request for Executive Session
9. Adjournment
The listing of Agenda items is those reasonably anticipated by the Chair which may be discussed at the meeting. Not all items listed may in fact be discussed and other items not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent it is permitted by law.
THIS AGENDA IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

So IF this meeting has been posted improperly - not within the 48 hour timeframe per the Open Meeting Law- maybe these select people might want to consider tabling the filing of 2 open meeting law violations against the Advisory Committee?

At least until they can figure out how to post a meeting correctly within the 48 hour timeframe.

'Cause wouldn't THAT be ironic?

Discussing filing an OML violation against another board/committee at a meeting that has not been posted correctly and possibly in violation of the OML?

Priceless.

My opinions as always!

Julie Farrell
 

Temperance Tea & Speakeasy

Temperance Tea & Speakeasy

 Saturday June 24th  2-4:30 pm

 

Advisory Meeting Update

Advisory Meeting Update

The Advisory Committee met on June 21, 2017. One of the agenda items was to discuss and vote on a transfer request from the Board of Selectmen.

After discussion, the request for this transfer was defeated by a vote 5 No to 2 Yes.

The Advisory Committee has asked for updated budget to actual (BvA) on numerous occasions. This document - BvA - has important data regarding the budget figures for each town department and account. This advisory committee member, Julie Farrell, wants to to know what the figures are in the accounts BEFORE approving  a transfer.

Given the sketchy track record of the current TA and BoS, I believe it is the obligation of advisory committee members to make sure there is money in the accounts from which the transfer would take place.

Sketchy Track Record - in April 25, 2017 the Financial Management letter was released.   

At that meeting and subsequent meetings no mention was made of the change in the stabilization figure. Everyone went into the Annual Town Meeting thinking there was $142,326.99 in the stabilization account.

Stabilization Account  blog posted  June 6, 2017.
New figures are given for the stabilization accounts:

townadministrator
2:35 PM (4 hours ago)

to MA, Kelli, Beverly, Jeff, me, Paul, Wilfred, Cameron, Doug, Diane, John, Julie
Good Day:

Per your request; the balances we now show, as a result of the audit(s) for the several stabilization funds are:

General Stabilization        $95,334.28
Pajari Stabilization              $9,263.90
Capital Stabilization            $1,958.95

Total                                  $106,557.13

Many Thanks

Carter Terenzini
Interim Town Administrator
Town of Templeton
160 Patriots Road
East Templeton, MA 01438
(978) 894-2753 

Let's put this situation into perspective:

If you had a bank account(Stabilization) that had $142,326.99 in that bank account and then you were informed that that bank account really only had $95,344.28, wouldn't you ask questions? Wouldn't you want an explanation?

Then you go back to that same bank to make a transfers from  different accounts, wouldn't you want verification of the amounts in those accounts BEFORE you authorize that transfer? Especially since you never received an explanation on how $142,326.99 was reduced to $95,344.28?

Julie Farrell

Blogs from the past:

The Pillars of the Budgeting Process 

A Trip in the Way Back Machine 

Here are some snippets from the management letter. 

Audit Meeting