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ADHD, AED, ASD: It’s in the Water

The #FLINT water crisis shines a spotlight on the adverse effects of lead-contaminated drinking water, presenting us, in concentrated form, with a list of symptoms that this author believes is also prevalent to some degree in broader American society.

What are the health effects and dangers of lead?

When cells in the brain absorb lead, it tends to affect the frontal cortex, the area responsible for abstract thought, planning, and attention, and the hippocampus, essential to learning and memory. …

… Lead can change how signals are passed within the brain, how memories are stored, even how cells get their energy, resulting in life-long learning disabilities, behavioral problems, and lower IQs.
(SOURCE: http://www.popsci.com/lead-water-what-are-health-effects-dangers)

The symptoms listed above are pervasive in our schools, work places, playgrounds and every-day life. They are not the cause of but contribute to ‘Trump-itis’, the racism that prompted the formation of #BlackLivesMatter and other recent social phenomenon. Could it be that the root cause of the decline in social and communication skills that is becoming more and more evident can be traced to the water we drink?

Social media can be a wonderful communication tool, but all too often is an outlet for rage expressed in uneducated, uninformed fashion, highlighting the lack of fundamental communication skills. This behavior is spreading into Main Street, the community at large. On MSNBC’s AM Joy (12/3/16) Joy Reid, in a segment titled “Trump supporter rant videos go viral”, highlights part of a 30 minute rant by a young lady claiming reverse discrimination simply because she was asked to purchase a $1 reusable bag to carry her goods. Joi calls this “Acute Discrimination Envy”. While this “Acute Discrimination Envy” (ADE) focuses on one aspect, it falls under the symptoms visible in the growing list of social/behavioral disorders.

The mental effects of poisoning will express themselves differently depending upon social, economic, and educational demographics independent of racial specificity. It may lead to overreaction of a police officer imagining his life is in danger, an airline passenger fearing the Arab-looking man doing complex mathematics, the airline staff escorting the offender, not the offendee who feels threatened by someone ‘speaking Arabic’, off the plane or the young lady thinking she’s being discriminated against simply because a person of color was offering what otherwise would be taken as common customer service.

We need to take a closer look at the ‘allowed additives’ to the fluids we ingest. Start by taking water samples from 173 randomly selected cities and rural areas. Test for water purity looking not only at lead content but also fluoride and other ‘acceptable’ content and impurities.

When a police officer shoots anyone test his or her blood and urine immediately. Gather the data and see if there are commonalities. In cases of ‘abnormal social disruption’ (ASD) do the same tests and gather data. I believe we’ll discover that the root causes stem from the contaminated water we drink and the processed foods we eat.

We should ask ourselves if these additives are helpful or detrimental to our health. Can we increase mental and physical health and reduce health costs simply by reducing the here-to-fore allowable parts-per-billion?

Perhaps we, as a nation, need to pay closer attention to the adage “You are what you eat”.

– @hypocrazy104

In a TEDTalks video Dr. David A. Sousa at TEDxASB lists caffeine, aspartame, food preservatives and colorings as the major additives which can lead to ADHD-like symptoms.

Fluoride Affects Many Tissues in Your Body Besides Your Teeth

…according to a 500-page scientific review, fluoride is an endocrine disruptor that can affect your bones, brain, thyroid gland, pineal gland and even your blood sugar levels.

There have been over 34 human studies and 100 animal studies linking fluoride to brain damage, including lower IQ in children, and studies have shown that fluoride toxicity can lead to a wide variety of health problems…

(SOURCE: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/04/30/water-fluoridation-facts.aspx)

“…and I voted for Trump.” A customer at a Chicago arts and crafts store was captured on video having a tantrum over the offer of a $1 bag.
This footage was recorded by a NYC Yellow Cab driver while making a rest stop at a fire hydrant. Street vendor on New York City’s Meat Packing District yells at driver for stopping his car at a fire hydrant next to his vending location and calls him an illegal alien from UBER.

ADHD - A case of over diagnosis? : Dr. David A. Sousa at TEDxASB

How Dangerous Is Fluoride In Water?

Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank, 1756?-1811? - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress

The scars of slavery

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THIS NATION, we, committed one atrocity pre-birth and another before the ink of our Constitution and Bill of Rights had dried. We have witnessed the strain of the guilt of these vilest crimes against man and mankind on our collective subconscious and sought in vain to be forgiven, to forget and to find a blind eye to turn towards it. All three have, of course, failed.

The genocide that so sickly heralded Europe’s arrival on these continents is the one thing.

Attributed to Isaac Cruikshank, 1756?-1811? - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g06204.
Depiction of the torture of a female slave by Captain John Kimber, produced in 1792.

Europeans, however, desired to outsource slavery, to export slaves to islands far from home with only the necessary amount of supervision to insure function and profit, buffered from guilt by the vast, uncaring Atlantic.
The U.S. however desired a hands-on, up close and personal approach. The cruelest of the European-like slave owner, it was necessary to not just beat but totally destroy the slave into submission, eliminate any sense of family, pride, dignity or justice.

To rationalize such cruelty, the American Christian needed to delve deep into the old testament and imagine he succored on a sweet nugget of some justifying righteousness which was, in truth, the pit of a long forgotten and hideously rotten fruit dropped on the path leading from a desert of primitive savagery to the edge of a new testament of human decency.

The consciousness of that cruel past born by the lashed and their kind, and the lash wielder and his (yes, mostly his) kind, has been dragged along the road to the present, littered with the bodies of the lynched, the beaten, the segregated, the impoverished, the disenfranchised.

Along that road stand trees decorated with yellow ribbons of laws passed to ameliorate the injustices. The brilliance of those ribbons, though, fade with the passing of the seasons and tatter with the violent winds of change.

Gordon, a whipped slave, photo taken at Baton Rouge, 1863.
Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer. The very words of poor Peter, taken as he sat for his picture. Baton Rouge, La., April 2, 1863. (War Dept.)
NARA FILE #: 165-JT-230
WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 109

Scars, savagely inflicted upon courageous protestors and sympathisers in an attempt to render powerless such laws, can be seen today in the halls of Congress on men of great courage who still have to fight to win just a few inches more of the road; that road which leads to no finish line, no close, no end.

This is not and has never been a race. It is race against race. But some nuts continue firing, what may soon be seen as a starting gun, into the backs of dark-skinned runners.

And Old’ Man River just keeps rolling along!

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