Flouride side effects

il@Fluoride has been added to water in the form of hexafluorosilicic acid (an industrial waste product) in the hope that it would reduce tooth decay. However it is a poison that has some serious side effects, badly affecting almost every organ in the body and does not reduce tooth decay in permanent teeth (has graphs) nor even in first teeth and The decline in tooth cavities has been the same in fluoridated and non fluoridated countries. Europe is only 2% fluoridated but has tooth decay similar to or less than the USA, which is 64% fluoridated. It is more poisonous than lead and only marginally less so than arsenic.
—-SIDE EFFECTS (the most serious is Alzheimer�s disease) —-The side effect that is the most obvious is a discoloration of the teeth called fluorosis (includes treatments) [Pendrys]. This is inevitable if the dose of fluoride is only a little over optimum. This is very easy to happen to anyone who drinks a lot of water, say for kidney problems or for baby formula. It is also likely if someone eats or drinks food high in fluoride such as tea [Gulati], coffee, reconstituted fruit juice, grapes or raisins that have had fluoride insecticide (cryolite), dried eggs, soy beans, and carbonated drinks. Fagin gives fluoride content of some foods [Fagin]. You may see contents of all foods here. While the fluorosis effect is fairly trivial other than appearance, the cost of correcting it can be as much as $15,000. This cost should be made good by the water companies and insecticide manufacturers. The cost of dental repair is significantly greater in fluoridate British communities than in non fluoridated and the number of dentists required per population is greater. This is probably primarily because of the cost of correcting fluorosis. Since 1950, it has been found that fluorides do little to prevent pit and fissure tooth decay, a fact that even the dental community has acknowledged [Gray 1987; and Pinkham 1999]. This is significant because pit and fissure tooth decay represents up to 85% of the tooth decay experienced by children today [Gray 1987]. Pit and fissure decay is best prevented with sealants. Studies that seemed to show less number of cavities in children from fluoride did so because the tooth eruption process was delayed by one of the poisonous affects of fluoride. The number of eventual cavities were the same.
—- Fluorides cause premature aging of the human body [Leone] [Erikson].
—-A more serious effect is irreversible bone deformation [Fagin, with pictures] [Reddy] and increases of bone fractures [Orcel]. 99% of the body�s fluoride burden is in the bones. There are villages in India where two thirds of the people are crippled by fluorosis of the bone caused by less than 5 parts per million of fluoride. The affects on bone can mimic some of the symptoms of arthritis.

Fluoride interferes with the hydroxylation of proline to hydroxyproline [Sharma]. Therefore fluoride exposure disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads to the breakdown of collagen in bone, tendon, muscle, skin, cartilage, lungs, kidney, trachea and arteries. [Susheela and Mukerjee]. That is the type of damage you’d expect to see in connective tissue disorders. It will also cause damage to ligaments resembling arthritis.
—-An even more serious effect is bone cancer in young boys, but for some strange reason, not girls. During the growth spurt during 6 to 8 years the bone cancer rate is 8 times higher in boys living in fluoridated areas than in non poisoned water areas [Bassin]. Fluoride confuses the immune system and causes it to attack the body’s own tissues, and increases the tumor growth rate in cancer prone individuals [Taylor]. There is increased incidence of melanotic tumors following treatment with sodium fluoride [Herskowitz]. In view of this adding fluoride to water is breaking the former Delaney amendment law prohibiting adding cancer causing chemicals to food. That law should be reestablished.
—-Proteins are kept in their three dimensional structure by weak bonds between adjacent proteins called hydrogen bonds. Emsley, et al found that fluoride disrupts this hydrogen bonding within proteins by virtue of an unusually strong bond between fluoride ion and the NH group of amides [Emsley]. In other words, it changes some associated proteins and enzymes from the exact shape they�re suppose to be in. It also reduces the ability of white blood cells to kill pathogens [Weisman].
—- Fluoride depresses thyroid activity [Von Mundy] [Galleti]. Fluoride and bromide block the uptake and utilization of iodide in target cells [Abraham 2004]. Fluoride has been proposed to inhibit the thyroid and fluoride symptoms have many similarities to low thyroid. Also see this site for acute symptoms. Children in India who had fluoride in their blood had thyroid abnormality. Fluoride has been found to cause goiter in South Africa. A government-sponsored report has concluded that levels of fluoride that people are regularly exposed to in drinking water can cause serious malfunctioning of the thyroid gland, leading to even more serious health problems..
—- I now have to take thyroid hormone, so I have a personal reason for resenting adding this poison to my drinking water, for it is highly probable that fluoride is the reason why. As a friend if mine once said �everything is caused by something�.
—- Fluoride depletes the energy reserves and the ability of white blood cells to properly destroy foreign agents by the process of phagocytosis. As little as 0.2 ppm fluoride stimulates superoxide production in resting white blood cells, virtually abolishing phagocytosis. Even micro-molar amounts of fluoride, below 1ppm, may seriously depress the ability of white blood cells to destroy pathogenic agents [Curnette]. Fluoride inhibits antibody formation in the blood [Jain].
—-The most serious effects of all are damages to the nervous system. Fluoride synergistically with aluminum, causes nerve degeneration similar to Alzheimer�s disease. Aluminum is present in some city water, in a toothpaste tube, using aluminum pans to boil water, or drinking beverages in aluminum cans, and some baking powder. Alzheimer�s disease is very prevalent and has been rising in recent years.
—- It has been found that behaviors associated with lead neurotoxicity are more frequent in communities using silicofluorides than in comparable localities that do not use these chemicals. Violent acts were up to 2 and 1/2 times higher in fluoridated communities, particularly among African Americans. He attributes this to lead levels in these criminals, which lead has its uptake enhanced by fluoride [Masters]. Rats fed amounts of fluoride similar and also slightly higher to that found in artificially fluoridated drinking water, suffered from impaired central nervous system functioning and poorer memory. There was more malaise and fatigue and significant alteration of enzyme functioning. Some researchers have concluded that there is a mechanism by which fluoride can contribute to so many neurological problems in children. Thus, links of fluoridated water to decreased intelligence in children [Lu], increased incidence of ADD and ADHD, lower cognitive ability, poorer memory and other related problems, are almost certainly correct.
—- Varner et al found that when fluoride in water with just 1 part per million fluoride, (the amounts used for artificially fluoridated water), was used in the presence of aluminum sulfate (frequently used to improve the appearance of drinking water, present in some baking powders, and as an adjuvant in vaccines [Eisenbarth] ), the results were disastrous. Aside from brain and kidney damage, there was an eighty percent mortality rate in the animals fed doses of sodium fluoride and aluminum similar to those found in artificially fluoridated water. Animals fed the aluminum/fluoride laced water developed sparse hair and abnormal, copper-colored underlying skin which is related to premature aging. Mostly the researchers related these effects to chronic kidney failure. Further autopsy results showed serious kidney abnormalities in animals that drank water containing both sodium fluoride and aluminum fluoride. The Varner team said that �Striking parallels were seen between aluminum-induced alterations in cerebral blood vessels that are associated with Alzheimer�s disease and other forms of pre-senile dementia�. Fluoride studies in rats can be indicative of a potential for motor disruption, intelligence deficits and learning disabilities in humans. Humans are exposed to plasma levels of fluoride as high as those in rat studies. Fluoride involves interruption of normal brain development. Fluoride affects the hippocampus in the brain, which integrates inputs from the environment, memory, and motivational stimuli, to produce behavioral decisions and modify memory. Experience with other developmental neurotoxicants prompts expectations that changes in behavioral functions will be comparable across species, especially humans and rats [Muellenix] Fluorides accumulate in the brain over time to reach neurologically harmful levels [Muellenix]. If you keep rodents for pets, be sure not to give them city water.
—- It is also important that pregnant women imbibe no fluoride because it damages several brain functions and hormones in the fetuses. It also alters behavior of the babies. There is an average decline of IQ of 8 points in children showing fluorosis of the teeth. Also see this site and this one for review of Chinese studies, some of which indicate the mental damage is much greater when iodide is deficient. It has been proposed that the decline in American academic achievement may be partly due to fluoride.
—-About 2 or 3% of people are especially sensitive to fluoride poisoning. Such people can not even take showers without being affected with colicky stomach and intestinal pains, severe headaches, weakness and fatigue, skin rashes, mouth ulcers, worsening of allergic conditions including wheezy breathing, blurred vision, excessive thirst and joint pains. So apparently fluoride can be absorbed from shower water. If you live in a fluoridated area, you can collect water off your roof in barrels and wash off with that.
—- Fluoride accumulates in the pineal gland, which secretes melatonin, more than any other soft tissue in the body [Luke]. The hydroxyapetite crystals in the pineal gland accumulate more fluoride than bone or teeth, up to 21,000 ppm. As a result melatonin is interfered with by several mechanisms [Blaylock] and this causes earlier maturation of female animals. It must also be interfering with the circadian sleep rhythm.
—-At the same time there are substances that give protection to teeth, especially while children are growing, such as vitamin D, calcium, phosphate, copper and magnesium with no adverse effects in reasonable amounts and at the same time they strengthen bone [Holick]. You should be able to get all you need of these except vitamin D from unprocessed food. Vitamin D must come from sun light or supplements. There are also substances present in cashew nuts and mango fruit, anacardic acids, which are very lethal to tooth cavity gram positive bacteria [Eichbaum]. Fluoride is not more lethal to cavity bacteria than conventional mouth wash [Bibby]. Fluoride does reduce solubility of enamel in acid, but only when applied topically. Eating fluoride while teeth are forming has no affect on solubility. Therefore according to the ADA fluoride should NEVER be given to babies or pregnant mothers or used for formula.The Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA�s Dec. 1995, July 1996, July 1997, March 1999, June 2000) has published a series of studies reporting on pervasive overexposure to fluoride due to “the widespread use of fluoridated water, fluoride dentifrice, dietary fluoride supplements and other forms of fluoride…{There is} an increased prevalence of dental fluorosis, ranging from about 15% to 65% in fluoridated areas and 5% to 40% in non-fluoridated areas in North America.” In February of 1997, The Academy of General Dentistry (AGD), representing 35,000 dentists, warned parents to limit their children�s intake of juices due to fluoride content. The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) stated in its Toxicological Profile on Fluoride in 1993`, “Existing data indicate that subsets of the population may be unusually susceptible to the toxic effects of fluoride and its compounds. These populations include the elderly, people with deficiencies of calcium, magnesium, and/or vitamin C, and people with cardiovascular and kidney problems… Postmenopausal women and elderly men in fluoridated communities may also be at increased risk of fractures.”
—- I definitely recommend that you drink bottled water or collect rain water directly (not from your roof) in a sanitary container or wheel barrow if your tap water contains fluoride. This is especially important if you are on dialysis since the National Kidney Foundation has reported several deaths from fluoride in water. Cities should discontinue fluoridation because of the likelihood of future liability suits along with concern for their citizen�s health. At the very least legislators should insist that citizens be warned of the toxicity. Individual septic systems are exempt from polluting the environment law. This exception should be removed. 98% of European citizens now drink non fluoridated water. We should join them in the USA.
—- Also when fluorinated water is used for irrigation, it poisons the soil for a long time. Fluoride in phosphate fertilizers can cause fluoride to build up to high values, especially since it does not easily move in neutral or alkaline soil. Fluoride is thought to be able to damage vegetation when the concentration is high enough, especially when boron is also high in the soil. Fluoride is more readily taken up by plants from acid soil. It has been found that calcium inhibited fluoride uptake by plants (Soil Science, 1961 92(3): 172 ). Fluoride in soil has been found to be zero to 1500 ppm in eastern USA soil. Biotite and muscovite micas probably furnish the most from the parent material sources, as much as 4 and 2 per cent in each respectively. There is 290 ppm average in 10 mile deep crustal rock (Soil Science, 1946 61(5): 341 ). So fluoride must leach out of soils eventually. Formations of dolomite, bentonite, or volcanic ash produce dangerous concentrations of fluoride in ground water (from a study in Estonia). I strongly suspect that the brown ivy leaves only over my septic field that shows up in fall is from fluoride. Tomato picks up more than twice as much fluoride as bean plants.
—- Iodide can be used to increase fluoride excretion. Iodide used to be very popular with the medical profession. It was called �The Universal Medicine� over 100 years ago because it was safe, effective and had widespread applications in clinical medicine for conditions that were not responding to other treatment such as metallic poisonings, as by lead and mercury, asthma, aneurism, arteriosclerosis, angina pectoris, gout, goiter, syphilis, haemophilia, Bright�s disease (nephritis) and bronchitis. (scroll up) Iodide probably has many functions in the body other than creating thyroid hormone.
—-However, after World War II, misinformation about iodide resulted in medical professionals turning against iodide. As a result, iodide has been neglected in medical textbooks and vilified in endocrine publications [Abraham 2006]. This may be part of the reason why the World Health Organization estimates that 2 Billion people, 30 percent of the world�s population, suffer from iodine deficiency disorders. More than a billion people have visible goiters and 5.7 million are cretins. An estimated additional 750 million people without goiters have undiagnosed hypothyroidism [WHO], and many millions have iodine-related mental retardation. Double the excretion of fluoride takes place if 50 milligrams of iodide/iodine as Iodoral are taken daily for one month [Brownstein][Abraham 2003]. Half again as much bromide is also excreted. It has been suggested that the symptoms of iodism is from release of bromide. Another trial showed much higher increases of bromide from supplementation with iodide. This must have been because the patient had been eating much more than normal intake of bromide added to food. I do not know if it is safe to take this much Iodoral interminably and I am apprehensive about the use of elemental iodine or iodates since iodate has been used to cure hyperthyroid condition [Starr][Thompson]. However the Japanese average 14 milligrams IODIDE daily from 4.5 grams of seaweed (dried?) [Nutrition Section, Bureau of Public Health], which is 50 times the amount in the USA. In some sections the Japanese average 200 milligrams per day. A much lower breast cancer rate has been attributed to this [LeMarchand][Nagata]. Women with goiters (a visible, non cancerous enlargement of the thyroid gland) owing to iodine deficiency have been found to have a three times greater incidence of breast cancer. 15% of American women get breast cancer, as opposed to 5% thirty years ago. 90% of women have fibrocystic breast disease, sometimes painful, which can be improved with 50 milligrams of KI during the intermenstrual period [Vishniakova]. The Russian study has been replicated in the USA with similar results, but using elemental iodine.
Iodide also stimulates the immune system. Iodide has been proposed to have an affect rivaling antibiotics. It is possible that supplementation with as much as 50 milligrams of iodide per day to start would augment immunity against fungal infection, syphilis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Also see this site. Iodide also reduces the amount of insulin necessary during type I and Type II diabetes.
—- Iodide concentrations in seaweeds are as follows (milligrams. per 100 gm.); Alaria 16.6, Dulse5.2, Kelp 45.3, Laver 1.4, Hiziki 40, Arame 98-564, Kombu 193-471, Wakame 18-35, Nori .5, Rockweed 153.7, Bladderwrack 65. Potassium iodide can be purchased without a prescription from this site. The pill form contains 100 milligrams of iodide, so must be subdivided by dissolving it in a glass of water, and then drinking a portion each day. A list of wholesale suppliers of iodide is available here, although individuals may have difficulty doing business with them. Iodide is probably better than sea weed because seaweed has bromine and arsenic (22 milligrams of arsenic per 1000 grams) in it, both largely as organic compounds. Between 0.2 to 1.0 milligrams per day of arsenic is ingested by the Japanese daily. Inorganic arsenic is a risk factor for liver cancer. However hijiki seaweed has only 0.3 milligrams per 1000 grams of arsenic as arsenate, the remainder being organic, which is only mildly toxic. The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) issued advice to consumers to avoid eating seaweeds.
—- 12 milligrams of iodide and iodine will also cause fluoride excretion with no adverse side effects after one month. If the body is deficient, a large percentage of iodide is retained. It is said that the retention ends when the body contains about 1500 milligrams [Abraham 2005]. It has been suggested that the only way iodide excess can produce hyperthyroid condition is if the patient has had goiter or other thyroid disease prior [Roti]. Epidemiological studies confirm that hyperthyroid is most prevalent in areas that are LOW in iodide.
—-For a forum that discusses iodide access this site. For a discussion of the affect of medications on thyroid secretion or supplementation, see this site.
—- The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment has come out strongly in opposition to fluoridation. They maintain that decline in tooth decay is not from fluoride and that adverse effects have been underestimated.
—- Joel Kauffman has written an extensive review of the history of the political maneuvers that have foisted this poison, fluoride, on society. New hypotheses can be dangerous to the power wealth or prestige of old theory adherents [Charlton], or as Tolstoy puts it, “Most men can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, have proudly taught to others, and have woven thread by thread into the fabric of their lives” or as Paul Connett put it “When public policy is controlled by spin, producing a single fact is a subversive act.” , �Insanity� would be a better word than �spin�. So it will be difficult to get this unhealthy procedure discontinued. Laws spelling out liability and setting reasonable compensations would be very desirable. If liability were removed from those organizations that advocated it because of stupidity, perhaps they would not be reluctant to come out against it. Such a law should still preserve the legal concept of �malum in se� so that any who gave such advice for evil intent would still be susceptible.
—-If you should wish to see an extensive discussion of side effects of fluoride, see http://tompetrie.net/id6.html> this site.
—-Paul Connett has formed an organization devoted to getting rid of fluoride in city water and has a site giving 50 reasons for doing so, as well as a list of references.
—-This site lists the bad health affects of fluoride with numerous references for each. and you may see a blog devoted to persuading officials to discontinue fluoride here.
—-You can see a site that has links to information on fluoride content of water in each state here.
—-You may see a videotape of a dentist making a passionate plea to stop fluoride poisoning here,
—- You may see a list of US cities that have fluoridated water.
—- The Canadian Physicians Association has come out with opposition to fluoridation in http://fluoridealert.org/cape.html ,
—- The Great Lakes United has also come out with a resolution opposing fluoridation in http://www.glu.org/sites/default/files/Resolution-regarding-artificial-water-fluoridation.pdf . Part of their opposition is based on the poisoning of the Great Lakes Great Lakes by sewer water.

—-I have submitted a petition a few years ago to the FDA to make fluoride in tooth paste a prescription drug because of acute toxic effects if it is swallowed by children. The contents of a family-size tube of fluoridated toothpaste is enough to kill a 25-pound child. This petition was because fluoride ingestion from mouth rinses and dentifrices in children is extremely hazardous to biological development, life span and general health [Eriksson] [Augenstein]. Children in Canada aged 7 months to 4 years old averaged 0.087 to 0.160 milligrams per day in fluoridated areas and 0.045 to 0.096 in non fluoridated areas. The adults in non fluoridated areas received only 0.032 to 0.036 in spite of their much greater weight. This was because the children were getting 0.020 to 0.060 in all areas from tooth paste. Perhaps if you wrote in to support the petition the matter would be expedited. The address is; Dockets Management Branch, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Room 1-23, 12420 Parklawn Dr., Rockville, MD 20857.
—- You may see a source of filters that take out much of the fluoride here.
—- A book has been written about fluoride in drinking water called �THE CASE AGAINST FLUORIDE: how hazardous waste ended up in our drinking water and the bad science and powerful politics that keep it there�. It is reviewed in this URL: http://www.fluorideresearch.org/433/files/FJ2010_v43_n3_p170-173.pdf .

REFERENCES are below. Hundreds of references are also available from Second Look�s web site. �Second Look� is an organization devoted primarily to educating people about the dangers of fluoride. An organization called �Keepers of the Well� presents arguments against fluoridation. The National Research Council Report concludes that there should be no fluoride in water. Paul Conent analyzes the Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) report on fluoride in http://fluoridealert.org/re/connett.sept.24.2010.pdf . He concludes they were hopelessly inadequate, especially about brain researc.

EPILOGUE

Any information adopted in this article you must understand is used at your own risk.

A copper deficiency has been implicated in low thyroid secretion (there are many abstracts of copper reference articles in this URL). He thinks it can be implicated in too much thyroid secretion also.

For information about how to increase potassium to prevent arthritis and heart disease, see this site.

You may see how to get more copper from food to prevent slipped discs, aneurisms, hemorrhoids, and emphysema. A table, which gives copper and zinc in food per thousand Calories, is available at this site, as well as zinc/copper ratios

There is an article discussing cashew nuts to cure a tooth abscess Which might prove useful at this site.
There is also an article which proposes some speculation about diabetes and a possible cause from chili pepper at this site.

See this site for evidence of a correlation between magnesium deficiency and cancer. The taurate is proposed as the best magnesium supplement. However, it probably only seems to be because the taurate no doubt has advantageous properties of its own in some circumstances. Taurine or 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid is an acidic chemical substance sulfonated rather than carboxylated found in high abundance in the tissues of many animals (metazoa), especially sea animals. Taurine is also found in plants, fungi, and some bacterial species, but in far less abundance. It is an amine with a sulfonic acid functional group, but it is not an amino acid in the biological sense, not being one of the twenty protein-forming compounds encoded by the universal genetic code. Small polypeptides have been identified as containing taurine, but to date there has been no report of a transfer RNA that is specifically charged with taurine [from Wikipedia]. It is essential to babies. It has been found that supplements of the amino acid, taurine, will restore the abnormal electrocardiogram present during a potassium deficiency by an unknown mechanism. This information has been used in several case histories by George Eby to control a long standing type of cardiac arrhythmia called pre atrial contractions (PACs), a benign but irritating and nerve racking heart problem, with 2,500 grams of taurine with each meal. Taurine is said to be low in the diets of vegetarians. The 2,500 milligrams recommended by the American Heart Association causes diarrhea in some people and should probably be reduced in those people. Taurine has been used for high blood pressure [Fujita], migraine headache (I suspect that less than 1000 milligrams can remove the headache caused by allergy to peanuts), high cholesterol, epilepsy, macular degeneration, Alzheimer�s disease, liver disorders, alcoholism, and cystic fibrosis, and depression. Keep in mind that some people may have a genetic defect that limits the amount of taurine tolerated and that adequate molybdenum may desirable. Taurine may make a copper deficiency worse, based on a single case history [Brien Quirk, private communication]. This may be because taurine may be mobilizing copper and zinc into the plasma [Li]. So if you should decide to take taurine, make sure your copper intake is more than adequate, as well as your zinc.

There is a site that contains reviews of natural remedies for many diseases

There is an opioid antagonist drug called Naltrexone, which stimulates the immune system to eliminate several serious diseases, including multiple sclerosis and possibly some cancers (Naltrexone in the large 50mg size, originally manufactured by DuPont under the brand name ReVia, is now sold by Mallinckrodt as Depade and by Barr Laboratories under the generic name naltrexone), that blocks some endorphin receptors. Said blockage is thought to cause the body to temporarily secrete more endorphins, especially after midnight at night. These endorphins are thought to stimulate the immune system, and in particular to stimulate the TH-1 or type 1 antiviral response by decreased interleukin-4 and with increased gamma interferon and interleukin-2 and a simultaneous decrease of type 2 anti bacterial response [Sacerdote]. It appears to be especially effective for minimizing symptoms and retarding progression of multiple sclerosis (MS) (also see these sites hereand here and this site). A few doctors have had encouraging results in Crohn’s Disease (prompting Penn State College of Medicine to plan 4mth Study of Crohn’s Disease & LDN. This has now been completed with very good results [Smith JP] ) and) CFIDS, and even to some extent in cancer. Low doses of Naltrexone (LDN), 1.5 to 4.5 milligrams, at bedtime is used (timing is important, and it is important not to buy slow release forms). It is said to have no known bad side effects at those doses other than stimulate the TH-1 or type 1 antiviral response by decreased interleukin-4 and with increased gamma interferon and interleukin-2 and a simultaneous decrease of type 2 anti bacterial response [Sacerdote]. There is also reports from an extensive survey in this site. I think some clinical studies on Naltrexone are in order, and it should not be a prescription drug. Though side effects appear unlikely, it is not proven over longer periods. If you try it (it is a prescription medicine in the USA), it seems likely that you should discontinue if you get a bacterial infection in view of its inhibition of antibacterial response. There are suggestions on how to obtain Naltrexone without a prescription in this site. Naltrexone is currently being used by Dr. Enlander, a New York City doctor, but with limited success for chronic fatigue syndrome using 3 to 4.5 milligram doses for CFIDS. . It is also being explored for AIDS by Dr. Bernard Bihari, 29 W 15th St. New York, NY 10011, 212) 929-4196 who is still prescribing Naltrexone for HIV/AIDS. (and currently Executive Director of the Community Research Initiative). Dr. Gale Guyer of Advanced Medical Center located in Zionsville, Indiana also is using it for cancer. Dr. Bihari has shown promising results for a large percentage of his cancer patients.

Olive leaf extract has shown clinical evidence of effectiveness against a wide range of viruses, including AIDS [Bihari], herpes, and cold viruses. It sometimes produces a Herxheimer or pathogen die off symptoms (from effectiveness against bacteria?). There is evidence that it is synergistic (reinforce each other) with Naltrexone. There have been a few case histories of improvement in what were probably arthritis patients and CFIDS patients. The active ingredient is said to be oleuropein or enolate. There has been very little follow up research done on it.

Also it has been found that curcumin in turmeric or curry powder will inhibit several forms of cancer, including melanoma. People who live in India where these spices are eaten, have one tenth the cancer elsewhere. Keep in mind, though, that chemicals in plants can not automatically be trusted simply because they are natural. >

A site is available which shows. foods which are high in one nutrient and low in another (including calories). This last site should be especially useful for a quick list of foods to consider first, or for those who must restrict another nutrient because of a genetic difficulty with absorption or utilization

The very extensive USDA Handbook #8 may be seen here. To access the information you must press “enter” to search, and then divide Kcal into milligrams of potassium. This last table is very comprehensive, is used in search mode, and even lists the amino acids. There are also links in it to PDF types of printouts from the table for individual nutrients available here Just click on the �A� or �W� button for the nutrient you desire.

Take a look at a marvelous site that gives average RDR multiples for most of the essential elements in graphical form from several food groups along with average costs. Vegetables are the winners. (But no copper entry)

You may find useful and easy to use a search for abstracts of medical journal references, “Gateway”.
—-Google�s �scholar search site� is excellent for all types of references.

The journal �Medical Hypotheses� publishes new theories in the medical field, including radical ideas. There is a URL that has an incredible number of links to information supposedly for those interested in law as applying to environmental concerns at http://www.lawvianet.com/desk_ref.html , However it lists main newspapers, news search engines, financial news sources, directories (telephone, email, lawyer, government, financial, congressional, business, corporate executives, zipcodes), online legal and ethics research, banking, trade associations, law reviews, bar associations, weather, airline tickets, and more.
—- There is an article that has an incredible number of links to information supposedly for those interested in law as applying to environmental concerns. �> , However it lists main newspapers, news search engines, financial news sources, directories (telephone, email, lawyer, government, financial, congressional, business, corporate executives, zipcodes), online legal and ethics research, banking, trade associations, law reviews, bar associations, weather, airline tickets, and more.

The author, Charles Weber, has a degree in chemistry and a masters degree in soil science. He has researched copper and potassium nutrition for over 30 years, primarily a library research, as well as fluoride poison for the last year. He has published articles on allied subjects in; The Journal of Theoretical Biology (1970, 1983), The Journal of Applied Nutrition (1974), Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology (1983), and Medical Hypotheses (1984, 1999, 2007, and 2008).

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Satanism In The Vatican!

Please notice the picture above with an upside-down cross. In his article, The Kingdom of Satan, Professor J. S. Malan says this about the inverted cross . . .

“This cross is not broken, but turned upside down. It indicates the rejection of Jesus Christ and contempt for the gospel of salvation. Inverted symbols are typical of the opposite values pursued by Satanists. People who are sometimes sacrificed to Satan on Black Sabbath are crucified upside down in accordance with this tradition.”

“…even now are there many antichrists…” —1st John 2:18.

It is easy to find Satanic websites and occult stores where you can purchase all types of items with inverted crosses. The “Upside Down Cross” symbolizes mockery and rejection of Jesus. Necklaces are worn by many Satanists. It can often be seen on Rock singers and their album covers.”

“…and no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light”
—2nd Corinthians 11:14.

The “Bent Cross” is a grotesque emaciated depiction of Jesus Christ, the only Son of God who died to provide salvation for those who believe in Him. This scepter is used by the Popes on many occasions. Its occult ramifications and connections cannot be disregarded.

Pope John Paul II with frontal view of the Bent Cross.

Pope John Paul II with side view of the Bent Cross.

The Catholic religion often calls herself the “Mother Church.” She’s NOT the mother of Christ’s church! By calling herself “mother” she is telling on herself. Is this the abomination spoken of in the Scriptures? . . .

THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH

(Revelation 17:5)!

Notice the Catholic religion calls herself a woman. The Bible calls Catholicism a whore, and what a GREAT WHORE she is—committing spiritual fornication with the kings and rulers of the earth (nearly every king throughout history has had some type of political, economic or religious ties with the Vatican). Read about how Nazi Germany and the Vatican worked together to murder millions of innocent Jews in the holocaust!  Read The Vatican’s Holocaust. She’s DRUNKEN with the blood of the saints. Study the Inquisitions—the torture and killing of tens-of-millions of people.Oh, even the antichrist is naked in light of God’s word.

“Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists (Popes and priests); whereby we know that it is the last time” —1st John 2:18

“And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color (official Vatican colors), and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls (the Vatican is filthy rich), having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations (the Holocaust, inquisitions, etc.) and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY (very few people realize where the Catholic religion started), BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS (who seduce people into their damnable religion) AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH” —Revelation 17:4,5

Catholicism’s ill-gotten children profess to know Christ but do service to Satan by disregarding the commandments of God in order to keep the traditions of men which papists even themselves call “TRADITION.” Why is she (the whore) called a mystery? The antichrist spirit of ancient pagan Babylon, though seemingly long fallen, lives in the rites and blasphemies of the Roman Catholic religion. Now that ancient Babylonian false religion lives today within the Catholic religion, disguised by Christian names. What a Satanic scam! The queen of heaven is now… Mary! Mystery Babylon lives, undetected by doomed millions across the world.

“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the QUEEN OF HEAVEN…that they may provoke me to anger” —Jeremiah 7:18

Notice the Halo around Mary (especially her head). The is an idolatrous practice of the Catholics which symbolizes deity (that she is equal with God).The Babylonians practiced the same idolatrous worship to the Queen of Heaven. Mary is NOT deity, she was a normal every-day woman. Yes friend, Satan is definitely working in the Vatican and in Catholic organizations all across the world. Though most Catholics will deny worshipping Mary, the evidence says something very different! They bow down and literally pray in the name of “Mother Mary” to a graven statue of Mary. This is sinful idolatry! They are lying through their teeth. God makes CLEAR in His Word that He will NOT share His glory with another (that includes Mary).

“I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.” —Isaiah 42:8

How could anyone be so foolish to actually bow down in prayer to a statue of Mary, yet at the same time deny that they are worshipping her? Talk about crazy! God clearly command us in the second of the Ten Commandments NOT to make unto ourselves ANY graven images.

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:” —Exodus 20:4

Do the Catholics need glasses? It says right there in black and white in Exodus 20:4 that we are NOT to make unto ourselves ANY likeness of anything that is in heaven!!! Mary is in Heaven.   We are NOT to make any likeness of her according to Exodus 20:4. So what do you call a statue of mother Mary?It surely is a likeness of her, a graven image! Here’s another shocker…

“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them…” —Exodus 20:5

Ok, so then why does every Catholic BOW DOWN before a statue of Mary in their worship places? I’ll tell you why… because they are practicing FALSE religion totally void of the truth of God. You can argue whether or not you are worshipping Mary as your bowing down to her; but one thing is for certain, God has commanded us in Exodus 20:5 NOT TO BOW DOWN to her. Even if your not worshipping Mary, you ARE SINNING if you bow down to her because the Bible strictly forbids it! As I write, millions of people all around the world are bowing down to Mary in violation of God’s Word. Yes, Satanism is in the Vatican!

“Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” —Mark 7:7

“For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.” —Mark 13:22

Sister Faustina’s blasphemous Image of Divine Mercy. Notice the occult New Age pyramid.

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Vatican’s denial of Holocaust ( Pope Puis XII )

Vatican’s denial of Nazi Holocaust

Some might call this as a conspiracy theory and some may call this as rumors. I was always perturbed as person born in a Roman Catholic family that the Pope could be biggest coward and a supporter of evil. I do not wish condemn pope or the Vatican, but I will just take you through all my notes that I have gathered through last 20 years of investigations into the biggest denial in Catholic Church. The Vatican has also gone through an extent of totally rubbishing the Jewish holocaust, but what alarmed me most is that, the Nazi death camps were not only limited to Jews. A systematic approach by the Nazis towards the strategies of death camps and who should be killed and who should be sent for experiments. (These were in literal sense human rats or guinea pigs ). If the WW2 had its perpetuator Adolf Hitler, then its stupidity to rule out in involvement of the Pope. Perhaps some of you must be thinking “This guy is crazy”, but I don’t write these things just from some books or internet research. I have first hand information from several people working at the Vatican (Whose names cannot be mentioned here due to security reasons) and also the survivors of WW2.

 

The pope is the central figure of the Roman Catholic religion. He is termed as vicar of Christ, I wonder even Jesus Christ must be thinking “Did I make vicar, or ?, errr that’s not for me to think what Jesus is thinking. Apparently all this fairy tale stories of the Catholics and catechism classes is just a diversion and misleading as the Pope. Alright, lets start with a little background of the this pope during the WW2.

 

Eugenio Pacelli born in 1876, Rome. He was ordained in 1899, became cardinal in 1929 and appointed as secretary of State in 1930. He lived in Germany from 1917 and was appointed papal nuncio in Bavaria, was there until 1929. He became Pope in 1939 and took the name Pius XII. Those days the pope was the most influential & powerful person in the world. He held three positions, Head of the Roman Catholic Church, Chief of State for Vatican and Bishop of Rome. He was one person who could influence his views over 400 million Catholics around the world. Yet his silence during the world war causes a stir even today for the Vatican spokespersons and officials. I understand Catholics revere their Pope almost to a degree as Jesus Christ and look at him as a Holy person, but not necessary all Christians in the world have the same view of him. Although the immense power and anarchy of the popes has diminished in last couple of centuries, but it has not stopped the huge amounts of funds the Vatican gathers for the guilt of most Sunday Mass Catholics.

 

The Pope was extremely worried and scared about the intensions of Hitler’s Nazis, because much of his life he lived in Germany and he exactly knew the ideology of Adolf. He believed that Socialism is profoundly anti-Christian. Catholics need not worry because the pope had a follow up plan for Hitlers intention. Any blow on the Vatican or its command would once and for all destroy the power and centre of Roman Catholicism. The revival of Roman Catholicism, would be impossible if the Nazis had to attack the Vatican. There are thousands of documents, scriptures, things which are highly scandalous in nature. For sure the Nazis would discover the facts of the Vatican, inform the rest of the world the horrors of Vatican and that would mark the end of the popes power over Catholics and would be a permanent end of the Catholic Church. Subsequently, the pope had to act steadfastly on a strategy which would save his throne and maintain the guilt’s of the Catholics for few more centuries. One of my Swiss guard friend had told me once “If the world discovers the Vatican’s library the entire Catholic faith would become topsy-turvy and the Catholics themselves would burn the Vatican including all the bishops, priest and nuns”, this showed me the intensity of the lies locked behind the doors of Vatican. However, I will write more about Vatican lies in my next article, let’s stick to the pope and the WW2.

As a Cardinal Pacelli sometimes condemned Hitler’s Nazi action, but no sooner it appeared that Hitler’s popularity rose in Germany. Maybe Hitler could also target the Catholic Church in the process of cleansing the world. In a shrewd attempt Cardinal Pacelli signed an agreement with German diplomat Franz Von Papen that granted freedom to Roman Catholics. In return Cardinal Pacelli agreed to separate Church from politics. Dissolved any and all Catholic political parties & labor unions in Germany. Hitler saw this as his first diplomatic victory that reduced western involvement in Germany through Catholic church. During the early 1939s the Jewish population became precarious, Pius XII did intervene the month he was elected Pope, March 1939, and obtained 3,000 visas to enter Brazil for European Jews who had been baptized and converted to Catholicism. Two-thirds of these were later revoked, however, because of “improper conduct,” probably meaning that the Jews started practicing Judaism once in Brazil. At that time, the Pope did nothing to save practicing Jews

Thereafter, a series of cries of help from the Jews, were hitting the deaf ears of the Pope. In 1940, Chief Rabbi of Palestine Isaac Herzog asked the Vatican to stop the deportation the Jews to Nazi camps in Germany & Poland from Spain & Lithuania, the Pope didn’t act on this request.

In 1941, the Cardinal of Vienna Theodar Innitzer informed Pope Pius XII that the Jews from Slovakia would be sent to death camps, once again no action.

In late August 1942, after more than 200,000 Ukrainian Jews had been killed, Ukrainian Metropolitan Andrej Septyckyj wrote a long letter to the Pope, referring to the German government as a regime of terror and corruption, more diabolical than that of the Bolsheviks. The Pope replied by quoting verses from Psalms and advising Septyckyj to “bear adversity with serene patience.”

On September 18, 1942, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI, wrote, “The massacres of the Jews reach frightening proportions and forms.” Yet, that same month when Myron Taylor, U.S. representative to the Vatican, warned the Pope that his silence was endangering his moral prestige, the Secretary of State responded on the Pope’s behalf that it was impossible to verify rumors about crimes committed against the Jews and there were no death camps or extermination of Jews by Germans…(Ha Ha Ha Ha……….)

Wladislaw Raczkiewicz, president of the Polish government-in-exile, appealed to the Pope in January 1943 to publicly denounce Nazi violence. Bishop Preysing of Berlin did the same, at least twice. Pius XII refused & denied such actions of atrocities by Nazis, was this Pope a Nazi henchman ?

The Pope throughout the WW2, claimed a “neutral” stance, he was given a blind eye towards the Jewish mistreatments and giving a deaf ear to any requests of intervention on behalf of Jews. The constant denial of death camps and staying mum towards Nazi, one can only understand that the Pope was either trying to protect his chair and support Hitler. Other then the British & German intelligence the Vatican was the only European state that was highly informed about Holocaust. On September 8, 1943, the Nazis invaded Italy and, suddenly, the Vatican was the local authority. But, hold on, why didn’t Hitler’s army invade a defenseless Vatican? This is the most controversial question in the history of WW2. Perhaps, experts come up with speculations, but with no substantial proofs.

Historians point out that any support the Pope did give the Jews came after 1942, once U.S. officials told him that the allies wanted total victory, and it became likely that they would get it. Furthering the notion that any intervention by Pius XII was based on practical advantage rather than moral inclination is the fact that in late 1942, Pius XII began to advise the German and Hungarian bishops that it would be to their ultimate political advantage to go on record as speaking out against the massacre of the Jews.

In fact, Catholic Poles were the most outspoken critics of his silence. Pius did not speak out effectively after Germany overran Poland and the restrained remarks that did come from the Vatican about the oppression of the Catholic Poles ceased after Germany protested.

 

In a letter dated November 20, 1946, showing that Pope Pius XII ordered Jewish babies baptized by Catholics during the Holocaust not to be returned to their parents.

The Popes reactions, actions, inability to act and fluctuations still stand mysterious. Although, he did assist the Jews sometimes, but it was only when the Russian had turned the war table against the Germans. This clearly shows that the Pope lost his defenders ( Nazi Germans ) and now, the Russians could uproot and wipe out Vatican from the face of the earth. It was necessary in such times that the new western power United States of America was coming to join the war scene. If the pope failed to help few thousands ( Less then 5000 ) Jews on different occasions, then that might get him the favor from the Americans. The Jews in America were strongly lobbying for the US forces to get involved in the war. The helping hand of Pope extended to help Jews only in 1942s.

 

What a wonderful player he was, the master politician of all. Yet the Catholics were deceived to believe that “This is the Vicar of Christ”.

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Easter Sunday is not Biblical.

Easter is a worldwide tradition involving many customs that people believe to be Christian. What is the origin of Lent and sunrise services? How did rabbits, eggs and hot cross buns become associated with Christ’s Resurrection? Is Easter mentioned in the Bible? Did the apostles and early Church keep it?

Most people just believe just what they are taught without checking on the vague meaning of a senseless festival. Since hundreds of millions are following it, that doesn’t mean that its right way to follow, then I am sure the Bible must have something to say about Easter. Surely there are numerous verses mentioning rabbits, eggs and egg hunts, baskets of candy, hot cross buns, Lent, Good Friday and sunrise services—not to mention Easter itself.

Bible Authority for Easter?

The Bible is the source for all things Christian. Does it mention Easter? Yes.

Notice Acts 12:1. King Herod began to persecute the Church, culminating in the brutal death of the apostle James by sword. This pleased the Jews so much that the apostle Peter was also taken prisoner by Herod. The plan was to later deliver him to the Jews. Verse 3 says, “Then were the days of unleavened bread.” The New Testament Church was observing these feast days described in Leviticus 23. Now read verse 4: “And when he [Herod] had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions [sixteen] of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.”

Is this Bible authority for Easter?

This passage is not talking about Easter. How do we know? The word translated Easter is the Greek word pascha (derived from the Hebrew word pesach; there is no original Greek word for Passover), and it has only one meaning. It always means Passover—it can never mean Easter! For this reason, we find a Hebrew word used in the Greek New Testament. Once again, this Hebrew word can only refer to Passover. And other translations, including the Revised Standard Version, correctly render this word Passover. Instead of endorsing Easter, this verse really proves that the Church was still observing the supposedly Jewish Passover ten years after the death of Christ!  Now let’s go to the other scriptures authorizing Easter. This presents a problem. There are none! There are absolutely no verses, anywhere in the Bible, that authorize or endorse the keeping of Easter celebration! The Bible says nothing about Lent, eggs and egg hunts, baskets of candy, etc., although it does mention hot cross buns and sunrise services as abominations, which God condemns. We will examine them and learn why. The mistranslation of Acts 12:4 is a not-so-subtle attempt to insert a pagan festival into scripture for the purpose of authorizing it. We will examine the Passover more closely later.

The well-known Old Testament Passover story centers on God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt through ten miraculous plagues. These included how the death angel would “pass over” all the houses where the Israelites lived. They were instructed to put blood over their doorposts to ensure that only the firstborn of Egypt would die. In this first Passover, it was only the blood of the slain lamb that protected each Israelite home. While Egypt suffered the plague of death, the Israelite firstborn were delivered by blood. By obeying God’s command and by faith in His promise to protect them, they were spared from death.

The Passover account is found in Exodus 12:12-14. Verse 14 states that the Passover ceremony was commanded by God to be an annual memorial feast to be kept by Israel “forever.” (This command is repeated in Leviticus 23:5.) Exodus 12:15 introduces the seven-day festival called the Days of Unleavened Bread (also repeated in Leviticus 23:6-8), which was to immediately follow the Passover feast each year. This is why Acts 12:3 states, “Then were the days of unleavened bread,” before mentioning the Passover in the next verse. These days were always kept in conjunction with one another.

If the Passover was instituted forever, then New Testament instruction for its observance should be clear. This instruction is found in I Corinthians 5:7-8: “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast (of unleavened bread, which always followed Passover, as explained above)…”

Christ, as the Lamb of God (John 1:29; Acts 8:32; I Peter 1:19; Rev. 5:6), replaced the Old Testament lamb eaten on Passover evening each year. The New Testament symbols of the bread and wine were instituted so that Christians could eat the body and drink the blood of Christ, the true Lamb of God. Jesus’ sacrifice replaced the need to kill a spring lamb. Luke 22:19 shows that Jesus substituted the bread and wine to be taken annually in commemoration of His sacrifice for the remission of our sins—both spiritual and physical.

Early Christians kept the Passover, not Easter. Notice this from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edit., Vol. 8, p. 828: “There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers…The first Christians continued to observe the Jewish festivals [God’s festivals of Leviticus 23], though in a new spirit, as commemorations of events which those festivals had foreshadowed. Thus the Passover, with a new conception added to it, of Christ as the true Paschal Lamb…continued to be observed.”

The original apostles and early New Testament Church did not observe Easter. Notice: “In the second century A.D., Easter Day was, among Christians in Asia Minor [these would be the Gentile churches that Paul raised up in places such as Philippi, Colossae, Galatia, etc.—and he warned the Galatians (4:9-10) about taking days such as Easter] the 14th of Nisan [or Abib] the seventh month of the [civil] Jewish calendar” (World Almanac, 1968 edit., p. 187). The date described here is not Easter Day, but rather the Passover—which was kept on the 14th day of the first month (Nisan) of the sacred calendar. The apostles and early Church did not observe Easter!

Despite the overwhelming proof that God’s Holy Days, as listed in Leviticus 23, are still to be kept by Christians today (Acts 2:1; 12:3; 18:21; 20:6, 16; I Cor. 5:7-8; 16:8), almost no one who claims to believe in the God of the Bible keeps them! Almost no one who professes to worship Jesus Christ observes the Passover as He commanded! Why?

Since instruction to observe Easter is not in the Bible, and God’s permanent command to keep Passover is, then where did Easter originate? After surveying the origin of Passover, we are ready to study the origin of Easter.

Where Did Easter Come From?

Does the following sound familiar?—Spring is in the air! Flowers and bunnies decorate the home. Father helps the children paint beautiful designs on eggs dyed in various colors. These eggs, which will later be hidden and searched for, are placed into lovely, seasonal baskets. The wonderful aroma of the hot cross buns mother is baking in the oven waft through the house. Forty days of abstaining from special foods will finally end the next day. The whole family picks out their Sunday best to wear to the next morning’s sunrise worship service to celebrate the savior’s resurrection and the renewal of life. Everyone looks forward to a succulent ham with all the trimmings. It will be a thrilling day. After all, it is one of the most important religious holidays of the year.

Easter, right? No! This is a description of an ancient Babylonian family—2,000 years before Christ—honoring the resurrection of their god, Tammuz, who was brought back from the underworld by his mother/wife, Ishtar (after whom the festival was named). As Ishtar was actually pronounced “Easter” in most Semitic dialects, it could be said that the event portrayed here is, in a sense, Easter. Of course, the occasion could easily have been a Phrygian family honoring Attis and Cybele, or perhaps a Phoenician family worshipping Adonis and Astarte. Also fitting the description well would be a heretic Israelite family honoring the Canaanite Baal and Ashtoreth. Or this depiction could just as easily represent any number of other immoral, pagan fertility celebrations of death and resurrection—including the modern Easter celebration as it has come to us through the Anglo-Saxon fertility rites of the goddess Eostre or Ostara. These are all the same festivals, separated only by time and culture.

If Easter is not found in the Bible, then where did it come from? The vast majority of ecclesiastical and secular historians agree that the name of Easter and the traditions surrounding it are deeply rooted in pagan religion.

Now notice the following powerful quotes that demonstrate more about the true origin of how the modern Easter celebration got its name:

“Since Bede the Venerable (De ratione temporum 1:5) the origin of the term for the feast of Christ’s Resurrection has been popularly considered to be from the Anglo-Saxon Eastre, a goddess of spring…the Old High German plural for dawn, eostarun; whence has come the German Ostern, and our English Easter” (The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967, Vol. 5, p. 6).

“The fact that vernal festivals were general among pagan peoples no doubt had much to do with the form assumed by the Eastern festival in the Christian churches. The English term Easter is of pagan origin” (Albert Henry Newman, D.D., LL.D., A Manual of Church History, p. 299).

“On this greatest of Christian festivals, several survivals occur of ancient heathen ceremonies. To begin with, the name itself is not Christian but pagan. Ostara was the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring” (Ethel L. Urlin, Festival, Holy Days, and Saints Days, p. 73).

“Easter—the name Easter comes to us from Ostera or Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, for whom a spring festival was held annually, as it is from this pagan festival that some of our Easter customs have come” (Hazeltine, p. 53).

“In Babylonia…the goddess of spring was called Ishtar. She was identified with the planet Venus, which, because…[it] rises before the Sun…or sets after it…appears to love the light [this means Venus loves the sun-god]…In Phoenecia, she became Astarte; in Greece, Eostre [related to the Greek word Eos: “dawn”], and in Germany, Ostara [this comes from the German word Ost: “east,” which is the direction of dawn]” (Englehart, p. 4).

As we have seen, many names are interchangeable for the more well-known Easter. Pagans typically used many different names for the same god or goddess. Nimrod, the Bible figure who built the city of Babylon (Gen. 10:8), is an example. He was worshipped as Saturn, Vulcan, Kronos, Baal, Tammuz, Molech and others, but he was always the same god—the fire or sun god universally worshipped in nearly every ancient culture.

The goddess Easter was no different. She was one goddess with many names—the goddess of fertility, worshipped in spring when all life was being renewed.

The widely-known historian, Will Durant, in his famous and respected work, Story of Civilization, pp. 235, 244-245, writes, “Ishtar [Astarte to the Greeks, Ashtoreth to the Jews], interests us not only as analogue of the Egyptian Isis and prototype of the Grecian Aphrodite and the Roman Venus, but as the formal beneficiary of one of the strangest of Babylonian customs…known to us chiefly from a famous page in Herodotus: Every native woman is obliged, once in her life, to sit in the temple of Venus [Easter], and have intercourse with some stranger.” Is it any wonder that the Bible speaks of the religious system that has descended from that ancient city as, “Mystery, babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth” (Rev. 17:5)?

We must now look closer at the origin of other customs associated with the modern Easter celebration.

The Origin of Lent

According to Johannes Cassianus, who wrote in the fifth century, “Howbeit you should know, that as long as the primitive church retained its perfection unbroken, this observance of Lent did not exist” (First Conference Abbot Theonas, chapter 30). There is neither biblical nor historical record of Christ, the apostles or the early Church participating in the Lenten season.

Since there is no instruction to observe Lent in the Bible, where did it come from? A forty-day abstinence period was anciently observed in honor of the pagan gods Osiris, Adonis and Tammuz (John Landseer, Sabaean Researches, pp. 111, 112). Alexander Hislops, The Two Babylons, pp. 104-105, says this of the origin of Lent: “The forty days abstinence of Lent was directly borrowed from the worshippers of the Babylonian goddess. Such a Lent of forty days, in the spring of the year, is still observed by the Yezidis or Pagan Devil-worshippers of Koordistan, who have inherited it from their early masters, the Babylonians. Such a Lent of forty days was held in spring by the Pagan Mexicans…Such a Lent of forty days was observed in Egypt…”

Lent came from paganism, not from the Bible!

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Dark Side of UAE

All the sky touching towers, Mega shopping Malls, five star hotels, express highways, McDonalds, KFCs, Pizza Kings and all that which glorifies the Sheiks of the land. Indeed I never thought that UAE would be such high flying place on earth. People from all corners of the world come here to fulfill their families’ requirements and achieve their career and financial goals, but little do they know that this land has its own toll, after all it’s a place which is dwelling on desert and they are dealing with the Arabs who for centuries have been killing and slaughtering people. The only difference is that now these Arabs don’t ride on camel back but they drive 4.5Litre Land Cruisers & Hummers.

UAE might boost its amazing growth rate and a high GDP compared better than the rest of their folks in the Arabian Peninsula, but what happens here is never discussed on news channels or published in print media. They claim that they are least corrupt in administrative and bureaucratic front but lets not believe what the local news agencies have to say. Corruption is as high as any other underdeveloped country in the world, the crime statistics are never made public and the other atrocities by the locals on the expatriates are only rumored. The living conditions of the 1.6 Million Asian construction expatriate workforce are not worth describing and they live under very inhuman conditions. A ten feet by ten feet room with single toilet and bathroom will have ten to twelve workers sharing, this room will not even have a place to keep your foot. These workers have paid about Rs.100,000/- to Rs.120,000/-( Approx $ 2500 ) to a recruitment agent back in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka. The worker thought that he would recover that amount within a year and he was also promised excellent wages plus lots of overtime, but when he lands in UAE. First his passport is taken by the employers PRO and he is made to sit in Minivan like a slave and dropped to his labor accommodation. The feeling for that worker only gets worse when he realizes that he has to share the room with ten more workers in a most unhygienic condition. The other workers usually will be very hostile with the new guy and they find all the reasons to vent out their frustration on this new guy. The next morning the new worker has to sign loads of documents , agreements’ & undertakings less then a minute. He is supposed to keep copies of the same or neither can he read them. These undertakings are signed to fully protect the employer not the employee. The new worker understands that his dream of becoming a rich man back home is only a dream and he has to face the fact that he will be working 12 hours a day without overtime in scorching heat of over 50 degree Celsius. He has barely any money for himself and all he thinks is how green were the pastures back home and how will he collect money for his daughters or sisters marriage or how will he educate his children. This new worker will get his vacation only after 4 years and during those 4 years he only knows work and two square meals.

Although the country doesn’t tax anybody but there are several other ways that the government gets money from the tourists and expatriates working here. You pay for the visa, identity card, for get employment, for water, for sewage, for electricity , parking, house rent tax, municipality charges, real estate charges, medical card charges and list of other services ( Note the UAE is highest in the world for its charges on services ). A person earning $ 3000 per month will barely have any savings at the end of the month as he has incurred all on the services. The government does issue a medical card but its very funny to know that the medical card doesn’t cover any medical insurance, I never understood then why issue a medical card on the first place. The amount spent for renting an apartment in UAE for two years will fetch a house for a person India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka. Almost 45% of the salary will go towards house rent.

Banks have their Kiosks all over, to lure the expatriate community for credit cards and personal loans. Claiming these cards are free for life without yearly charges, but one only gets fooled when realizes that even a minimum monthly payment sometimes becomes impossible. A person with a minimum salary of Dhms.2000/- ( $546 ) can also get a credit limit five times his salary or a personal loan 20 times his salary. Its only matter of time when the individual realizes that he was better off without a credit card or a personal loan. Since August 2008 many expatriates have lost their jobs due to recession and proof is hundreds of cars parked at the parking lots without the trace of the owner. However, even these cars were brought on loans. The expatriates who lost their jobs find it difficult to get jobs in their home country and many have even committed suicide.

I know one businessman Mr. Abdul Aziz who was awaiting his outstanding payment for his products sold for about 3 Million dirhams ( $ 815 thousand ) and the company owing him had fled the country. Mr. Abdul Aziz had registered a complaint to the authorities, but in vain. Eventually he was finding difficult to pay his employees, so he decided to take loan and pay them, he did release his employees to find jobs somewhere else. Little did he know that he would find difficult to pay the loan amount to the banks. Later the Bank filed a suit against Mr. Abdul Aziz, he was arrested and put into prison, his wife and children were not allowed to leave the country and they had to literally beg / borrow to even get one time meal.

Another instance I met a young expat who was cheated by his employer, mind you this employer was one of the biggest retailer in Dubai. They promised this guy named Karl a salary of Dhms.3000 per month but when he reached Dubai he was asked to sign an agreement of Dhm.900 per month for the job of Showroom Sales. Upon discovering the fraud Karl decided to approach the Ministry of Labor Department, he registered a complaint and was waiting for over a week for action to be taken by the Labor Department. Karl was living on the streets of Dubai without food or water, luckily we found him sleeping on a bench and we decided to help him. Karl said that one policeman had taken Dhm.2500 from him on a pretext to help him, thereafter the policeman supposed to be Capt. Mohammed Al Hashmi from Dubai Police wouldn’t help Karl or return his money. An official complaint was lodged at Murraqabat Police Station by Karl against Capt. Hashmi but no action was taken against him. They said “The Capt is Dubai local and a Muslim , we don’t cheat anybody , trust in Allah and one fine day the Capt would return your money”, this is not funny at all but what Karl had experienced in Dubai was one of the most horrific acts of he expats living here. We decided to lodge complaint with Indian Embassy Dubai, Indian Embassy Abu Dhabi & with the Police Head quarters so atleast Karl could get out of the country and Capt. Hashmi & Karls employer be punished. There was no response from any one of them. Finally Karl had to ask his relatives to transfer money to his employer sign an undertaking that he doesn’t have any case against the company and only then they allowed Karl to exit the country.

Now these are only some of the experiences I have mentioned above. The worst cases I have witnessed is human trafficking and children abuse. Dubai has the highest number of girls who are sold or forced into prostitution. I have seen and heard with my own eyes at one of the night clubs a Ukrainian girl being sold for Dhms. 30,000/- ( $ 8200 ). I was with one of my clients and he said these deals are very normal here sometimes girls are sold even for Dhms. 12000 ( $3300 ).

There is a very high percentage of girls from Eastern Europe, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, North Africa, East Asians being illegally brought into the country and forced into prostitution. No wonder Dubai has a Disco, Night Club and bar practically on every street. In the nights one can just see girls roaming the streets of Dubai. These girls are not even scared of a passing Police cars, as I understand that most of the Policemen are the local sponsors and owners of these girls.

All the glamour, blizz, international sporting activities doesn’t make a country developed. Neither does high rise buildings, indoor ski, water parks, seven star hotel make UAE a country to be pursued. One must not forget that it was Dubai which shelters some of the worlds most wanted criminals and refuse to handover these criminals to their respective countries.

People leave their families and head towards UAE to make their future, the laws here only protect the locals and hardly sentence the locals for any crimes against expats. Alcohol & prostitution are the major two elements where young expats get trapped and spend all of their fortune on both. Many expat females get sexually abused by their senior managers or locals without anything coming to the news. Many girls who are forcibly brought to UAE are murdered and killed and never return back to their home countries. Many expat employees get cheated and loose their savings which they had paid to the recruitment agencies, many girls get pregnant and quietly undergo abortion in UAE or fly to Mumbai to abort their unborn, high percentage of men & woman expats who leave their country have illicit or live in relationship which is unknown to their spouses back home and they say that due to financial crunch that was the only solution, many expats are locked up in the prisons of UAE for reasons unknown even to the Police. UAE and especially Dubai is the place which is very attractive but it has its own toll on the poor expats.

This country has a DARK SIDE which is world has unheard off, this is the place to magic , this is the place of curse , this is the place of material happiness or a place of life to get worse….

this is UAE.

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