Fox News - Mass Drugging Of Society With Lithium

Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:01 am » by **Dirttyrabbit**

Fox News - Mass Drugging Of Society With Lithium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPvumNbXl3E

In the remarkable Fox News report posted below, Dr. Archelle Georgiou, described as a well-recognized physician leader who helps consumers make better health care decisions, argues the case for adding lithium to the water supply. Georgiou is affiliated with the Center for Health Transformation, an organization founded by the notorious neocon Newt Gingrich.

Georgiou is also a medical expert for Fox News 9 in Minneapolis where she commented on a proposal to drug people during a segment on Health Care Innovations 2009.

Lithium in the Water Supply: America has been adding fluoride to its public water supplies for decades to help prevent reduce tooth decay. Now researchers from Japan suggests expanding the list to lithium, is how how Fox News 9 describes the segment.

Georgiou does not explicitly call for adding the mood-stabilizing drug to the water system, as suggested by Japanese researchers, but she does not denounce the proposed practice. Instead, she says the draconian proposal is a very interesting concept.

Japanese researchers, according to Georgiou, are investigating whether trace amounts of lithium can just change the mood in a community enough — in a really positive way without having the bad effects of lithium — to really affect the mood and decrease the suicide rate.

Remarkably, Georgiou does not address the moral issue of forcibly drugging a population into submission.

On May 1, the BBC reported on the Japanese research. Researchers examined levels of lithium in drinking water and suicide rates in the prefecture of Oita, which has a population of more than one million. The suicide rate was significantly lower in those areas with the highest levels of the element, they wrote in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

Scientists are not certain how lithium works in the brain. Lithium increases the amount of neurotransmitters such as serotonin, which can help stabilize both the manic and depressive sides of the disorder, but the exact method behind this is still under investigation, notes Discovery News.

Apparently the unresolved scientific aspects of lithium were not a concern in the Japanese research.

Research conducted in Texas from 1978-1987 revealed lower incidences of crime, suicide, and arrest when lithium is present in water, according to PubMed. These results suggest that lithium has moderating effects on suicidal and violent criminal behavior at levels that may be encountered in municipal water supplies.

Peter D. Kramer, in an article on lithium in drinking water, states there are serious ethical considerations to any plan to drug the populace. The neurotrophic factors seem to protect against psychiatric and neurological disease. But they may also affect personality traits and that possibility poses ethical dilemmas for any broad-based effort to improve resilience in the brain, he writes for DoubleX.

Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:10 am » by **Dirttyrabbit**

opps to late we are already drugged
older news...

Pharmaceutical Drugs and Toxic Chemicals Found in All US Drinking Water Supplies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2qUwtUFy_M

Poison tap water in Major USA Cities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ3x_D4drss

Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:50 am » by **Cricketine**

Newbie here, hope my link here works. Heard this on NPR this afternoon.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121529243

Overloaded Sewers Lead To 'Toxic Waters'
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New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg has reported that human excrement and dangerous chemicals are making their way into our waterways and then into our drinking water. Duhigg returns to Fresh Air to talk the problems with our nation's sewer system.

Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:22 am » by **Rhinert**

This is a real good reason to steam distill your drinking water. After all, do you really want to leave your health up to the criminals running this country? I thought not.

Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:47 am » by **Crunchy**

in california the water is laced with lithium naturally due to the bed rock being rich in lithium
it explains the californian's layed back attitude :lol:

Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:19 pm » by **Futuju**

crunchy wrote:in california the water is laced with lithium naturally due to the bed rock being rich in lithium
it explains the californian's layed back attitude

HEHE