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  • Inside Story: Panacea or poison?

    If you swallow more than a tiny “pea-sized” amount of fluoride, you are advised to contact a “poison control centre immediately”. With the introduction of water charges set to dominate the political agenda in the year ahead, the government’s controversial policy of adding fluoride to our water must be addressed. Fluoride, the chief ingredient in […]

  • Feature: No fracking way!

    Marin is pumping for a ban on hydraulic fracturing You may not have heard of Mainstreet Moms or 350Marin, but you will feel the heat, and soon. The Moms, along with 350.org and its associated nonprofits, are tangling with big oil companies to ban fracking in California. You don’t know from fracking? Fracking allows oil […]

  • Britain sent poison gas chemicals to Assad: Proof that the UK delivered Sarin agent to Syrian regime for SIX years

    •  British companies delivered sodium flouride to Syrian firm from 2004-2010 •  The chemical is a key component in manufacture of nerve gas •  Sale has been blasted as ‘grossly irresponsible’ in light of chemical attacks •  Intelligence expert says substance will have been diverted to regime British companies sold chemicals to Syria that could […]

  • Prima Fluorspar Corp. enters into LOI to acquire controlling interest in a Mongolian Fluorspar Mining Company

    Prima Fluorspar Corp. (TSX-V:PF) (“Prima” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that on August 30, 2013 it entered into a non-binding letter of intent with three funds managed by affiliates of New York-based Firebird Management LLC (“Firebird”),  to negotiate the purchase of holding companies through which Firebird controls it 99.8% ownership stake in BerkhUul […]

  • Fluorinated Chemical Weapons

    Sodium fluoride, Potassium fluoride, Hydrogen fluoride, and Ammonium bifluoride are chemicals used as precursors in the making of fluorinated chemical weapons. The United Nations classifies three of the fluorinated chemical weapons (Sarin, Soman, and Cyclosarin) as “weapons of mass destruction” according to UN Resolution 687. In 2013 there was a storm of media coverage, mainly outside the US, […]

  • Gormley says Fluoride Report was Suppressed

    The former Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, has spoken out for the first time about the fluoride report, which he produced – and which he believes was suppressed by the Dáil committee that commissioned it. In an exclusive interview, published in the new issue of Hot Press, the ex-leader of the Green Party describes […]

  • HFO-1234yf: DuPont president claims lifting of Mercedes ban changes nothing

    The President of DuPont Chemicals & Fluoroproducts has stated that the lifting of the ban on sales of Mercedes cars in France “does not change anything.” In a statement, Thierry F. J. Vanlancker, said: “The decision in France today is a legal matter related to vehicle registrations, and has no bearing on the safety of […]

  • An interview with the Girl Against Fluoride

    Aisling Fitzgibbon aka The Girl Against Fluoride is taking legal action against the Irish government to prevent them from adding fluoride to the water supply. The policy of mandatory water fluoridation has been practised in Ireland since 1964. In the run up to the court case The Girl Against Fluoride campaign is engaging in a […]

  • Minister doesn’t have WHO paper on fluoride dangers

    A RESEARCH paper warning excess fluoride in tap water can mottle teeth and cause crippling skeletal fluorosis is not held by the Department of Health despite Edwin Poots’ consideration of fluoridating our drinking water. A spokesperson for the Department told the Sentinel it hasn’t responded to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) 1996 ‘Fluoride in Drinking […]

  • Water, Water Everywhere — Is It Safe to Drink?

    I still remember my first exposure to the nutty idea. I was reading an anthology of humorist P.J. O’Rourke’s early work from his National Lampoon days. There is was, dripping with satire, a flow chart about how fluoridated water was turning America’s kids into communists. I laughed out loud. I’m sure I was not alone. The thought […]