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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:20 pm


well go do your own research. I'm just here to say if you have a filling please remove it
PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:37 pm


And be careful not to break those light bulbs!

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:58 pm


love your quotes...........^^
PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:53 pm


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PostPosted: Tue May 04, 2010 8:21 pm


Do you guys know where Mercury Poisoning originated? It happened in Japan between the 1920's and 1950's, they dumped thousands of tons of mercury into Minamata Bay. The Mercury entered the ecosystem and into the shells of several organisms. These organisms are lower on the food chain so the content of mercury got bigger as it traveled up the food chain in a process called biomagnification or bioaccumulation. Mercury is found in many fish and dolphins in Japan today, still. Back then, when people ate fish and the like they didn't know they had mercury in them and they developed what is called the Minamata disease. Mercury affects the neurons of the brain and reproductive systems. That is why many children being born after the mercury poisoning were born with birth defects and disabilities. The problem with mercury today is that the industry in Taiji, Japan are slaughtering dolphins, who have mercury in them, and feeding it to the people of Japan without them knowing it. If you would like to find out more information about this you can watch this excellent documentary called, "The Cove"
PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:37 am


My mom said she and her class mates used to "accidentally" break mercury thermometers and play with the little round silvery orbs. But back then, like lead was a few years ago, it wasn't considered such a big deal or a crisis. And it doesn't seem to have had an effect on her, at least. To be honest I don't think lead is as big of a deal as they're making it out to be now. Thousands of books are being thrown away because of how old ones contained lead.

This is not to say it's not toxic to ourselves and the environment in large doses, however.
Some people are sensitive to it, and some people say it causes all sorts of problems. So in that case - yes I would try to exchange amalgam fillings for some kind that is toxin free.

When you die, the people who deal with your body after death do not recycle them as hazardous waste. It gets put right into the ground to be brought to the water again. This is why both Norway and Sweden have outlawed the usage of them.

This is not all, though. You also have to ask yourself - which is the worse of two evils? A normal lightbulb that uses more energy or a fluorescent which a lot of the media is proclaiming to be "Better for the environment"? A lot of people don't even know there is mercury in these lightbulbs and simply throw them away like any other without reading the package. Hell, I didn't know there was mercury in fluorescent light bulbs until just recently and all of this time, my family and I, we've just been hrowing them out thinking they're the same as the others.
I wouldn't even know where to recycle them in the first place. There is a huge lack of decent recycling centers where I live...

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:47 am


remember now that the amount of mercury put into a baby's system with all of the new vaxes is enough to render 25 gallons of water undrinkable. why would we poison our babies this way?!
PostPosted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:22 pm


I'd like to see some cited sources, and I believe vaccines are used to keep us from becoming sick.

Reading historical accounts, it's like people today take their vaccinations for granted. Some of these diseases would cause horrible death. Anti-vaccinationists, claiming their children grow up just fine are relying on herd immunity. If they had their way, diseases, which we are no longer familiar with in the western world, would run rampant.

There may be other ways to preserve our vaccines, perhaps better ways, but if they are not administered at all, there is no point.

People seems to think that the world was flawless back in the day. Firsthand accounts seems to disagree with this implacable nostalgia.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:01 pm



The amount of mercury in fillings is the least of our concerns. Although I'll kindly remove all of mine if you pay for me to get the porcelain ones.
PostPosted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:08 am


this site has the official EPA allowed limits:
http://www.new-idria.org/mercury_prespec.html

this site talks of the PPM of mercury in the flu vax vs PPM of mercury considered poisoning.
http://www.thenhf.com/vaccinations_73.htm

i should say that my number was wrong, it's actually 23 gallons of water, but still. i could keep pulling out sites but they pretty much say the same thing. if you google "mercury vaccines 23 gallons of water" you'll see what i mean.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 3:49 am


Did I hear something about the genetically engineered h1n1 virus?? >.> Yeah, I never got that shot.
PostPosted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:01 am


Insanity Logic
Did I hear something about the genetically engineered h1n1 virus?? >.> Yeah, I never got that shot.

Pfft. For the flu and/or flu shot to be an eeeeevil depopulation plot, it sure did a shitty job.


Actually, the amount of mercury in a flu shot is fairly close to the amount of mercury in a can of tuna:
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One way to gain perspective is to compare the amount of mercury in the flu shot with the amount found naturally in tuna fish.

According to the EPA, light tuna, considered to be low in mercury, contains an average of .12 PPM (parts per million) of mercury (www.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/ sea-mehg.html).

That works out to 0.12 mcg of mercury per gram of tuna. A typical 6-oz (170 grams) can of light tuna would thus contain 20.4 mcg of mercury, on average.

That’s very close to the 25 mcg of mercury contained in the adult dose of the flu shot.

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