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Oct 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

The EPA does not want Americans to have access to clean drinking water. That is why they are doing this. What a shame if Americans did not have to consume microplastics, PFAS, endocrine disruptors, fluoride, and other harmful substances. You can always count on the government to do the wrong thing.

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Oct 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

we learned this today when trying to order filters (we order them way in advance). all i want is for my government to leave me the F alone. i don't need them to "protect" me from clean water.

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Oct 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Wow, I was completely unaware of this. I had heard of Berkey and went to their site early this year with the intent of buying a unit and the fluoride filters and was wondering why on earth none of their filter systems were available and continue to be so. Pretty clear that this coincides directly with WHO & "public health" agencies all aligned with an agenda to make us ill, turn us into slaves, and depopulate the planet. Lord, when do these psychopaths turn on each other?!

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Oct 4, 2023·edited Oct 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

I think it’s sinister, not absurd. The govt clearly targeted Berkey, which means they were right over the target. They don’t want us filtering out the poison that is deliberately put into our water.

When I first heard about the Berkey controversy, I was navigated to a video showing that Berkey fluoride filters produced more aluminum than was in the original tap water it filtered. I panicked and bought an Aquatru, only to realize later that this was another ivermectin-like hit job.

Also feels ominous. They’re targeting these gravity filters now after decades on the market? I believe Newsom has even banned their sale in California. I looked for those filters this weekend. Nothing for sale anywhere, even on the Berkey site.

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Oct 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Damn I was just chatting with my roommate today about the alarming activities of governing bodies that are supposedly protecting our health. The EPA unfortunately seems to be straying from it's proposed purpose. If ya still trust the guvment good luck to ya!

Thanks Mathew for all your good work. I have been reading and sharing for a few months with friends and family who are skeptical of the "mainstream narrative" on these topics but don't know where to turn for a solid information.

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There has to be a hidden reason they r doing this

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Oct 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

This is nuts!! The EPA is even more insane than I knew.

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Holy Theotokos, Batman! The fascists totally demented!

I've never used Berkey but I'm so buying one rn.

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Hi Mathew,

You had me with ...

"People who still believe in the fairy tale that large centralized governments won't tend toward destructive governance have fewer and fewer legs to stand on."

Now to get off my duff and dig deeper into Tokyo's over-chlorinated water supply.

Hmm ... finding those filters are still shipping to Japan. Evidently the legal system of this puppet state has not yet followed that particular goose-step, lock-step to dehumanization. I'd better think about getting some.

p.s. Last night while digging deeper into the Lahaina Massacre, I found 70% of their water is privatized, but pay-walls keep me from finding out who are the largest institutional stockholders. I suspect the same two who are the largest stockholders of Hawaiian Electric ... Vanguard and BlackRock ... who also, coincidentally (I think not), are the largest institutional stockholders in the military industrial complex — including DEW diligence.

While sharing this info in a 'private' Fakebook group, I made proton-mail buddies with a former song-writer gone water-rights / human rights activist in Australia. If I can ever find time to extract myself from digging through the ashes of Lahaina, I will try to post this into a separate substack ... but as serendipity seems to have led us both to water today, I will make a 'slurry-dump' (😅, was a mountain fire fighter in Arizona for 3 summers) here for those interested.

Forgive me if it appears that I am piggy-backing over your social capital. I have nothing personal to gain from posting this, so give me the word and I will erase what follows ...

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Subject: Letter sent to Shadow Minister for the Environment and Water (Australia)

Just for those who don't know, the government changed the WATER ACT in 2007 so they now own the water ??

Already sent a version of this to Shadow Minister for the Environment and Water Ms Terri Butler terri.butler.mp@aph.gov.au (new changes now made contain *)

Dear Ms Terri Butler MP

I'm writing this to you after fish started dying in our local town along with water starting to disappear that has never dried up before. "MEGALONG CREEK HAS STOPPED FLOWING in the lower Coxs River, "River Lett in the middle Coxs River has stopped flowing... The Fish River has now stopped flowing in sections that supplements Lithgow’s drinking water.... Fish are like the canary in a coal mine once we start getting fish kills there is something seriously wrong"

Most people I speak to realise there is a real problem now with 90 towns out of water and in some cases water turned off without notification??? * https://www.thefifthestate.com.au/articles/day-zero-might-mean-tough-choices-for-90-towns-looking-at-new-locations/

To learn the government quietly changed the WATER ACT in 2007 which was found on political deception https://mdbca.com/2016/08/23/professor-john-briscoe-the-water-act-of-2007-was-founded-on-a-political-deception/

Along with draining the Menindee lakes twice for mining exploration without notification to thousands of people living alongside them https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/11/the-menindee-lakes-project-who-loses-and-who-really-wins

Not including all the water mismanagement of the Murray Darling River which the government and certainly our water ministers seem to be doing little or nothing about?? *Farmers outpriced unable to buy water at water auctions https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-07/accs-first-public-forum-in-the-water-market-inqury-mildura/11683704

The shocking reason 22 BILLION litres of precious water was flushed into a swamp while desperate farmers watched in horror”. This case is a massive scandal! The water could have sustained the 30,000 people in nearby towns for a year. But the water was released down the Lachlan River from Wyangala Dam despite its capacity being at only 23 percent at the start of September. As of 26 November, the dam level is at only 16 percent, and towns risk the prospect of zero water over the coming summer. https://cecaust.com.au/water-trading-bankers-destroy-agriculture?

*60 Minutes millions of litres of water ........be prepared to lose you sh#t??

https://www.facebook.com/deno.budimir/videos/442271213364404/UzpfSTY2NzkxNjg3NzozMDYwNjExMjk0OTk0MTQ6MTA6MDoxNTgwNTQzOTk5Oi0xNDEzNzk1NDU1Njk3NTIzMjA4/

Also draining of other dams into the oceans while we are in a drought? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/30/coalition-anger-as-dam-water-flows-out-to-sea-in-drought-hit-queensland

Plus storing water in giant private mega-dams not including all the massive amounts of water already pumped up and held on cotton and nut farms pumped up from Murray Darling https://theconversation.com/dams-are-being-built-but-they-are-private-australia-institute-124807

Along with politicians having invested interests in water https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-07/accs-first-public-forum-in-the-water-market-inqury-mildura/11683704

Alan Jones interview, There are both state and federal politicians that secretly own and trade water .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1WwK7xBVf0

Not including the constant pumping millions upon millions of litres every day from mining, CSG and water bottling companies?? For heaven's sake even schools are closing because they have no water https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/parents-urged-to-keep-children-home-as-school-runs-out-of-water-20191211-p53iwk.html

While fires now burn all around us??? Like seriously what gives??

Doesn't take a scientist to see the reality of what is being done lowering the water tables *massively drying out land and plant life from the ground up making the awful dry fire conditions we now have and *you can't even continue to hide it?? https://www.fluencecorp.com/wildfires-linked-to-groundwater-depletion

*During prolonged dry spells, groundwater levels can get so low that capillary action cannot take place, creating a condition called “hydrological drought.” The researchers found that when a fire occurs, almost 10 times more land is burned in a hydrological drought year than in a non-drought year.​ https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/groundwater-may-play-key-role-in-forest-fires/

*Now with the lack of water and water and fire pollution/contamination from all the debris and dead animals killing many aquatic life forms with news reporting predicted death for many?? What about our children and grandchildren?? Do you even really care??? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-16/nsw-bushfire-ash-leads-to-mass-fish-kill-in-macleay-river/11872372

*Very hot fires, like the ones experienced this season, have the potential to convert good chromium to bad, researchers at Southern Cross University have found. ... "Chromium-6(Erin Brockovich movie) can cause lung cancer- for those front line fighting fires/smoke inhalation and then leach/flow into waterways when it rains https://www.theland.com.au/story/6589141/red-hot-toxic-concern-on-fire-grounds-from-soil/

Starting to see politicians only care about their own families and no wonder the government built those bloody high fences at Parliament house to keep the rabbits out!!

When our Prime Minister said this drought was a necessary evil?? I think he made an understatement??

*What he should have said was gee I'm sorry folks WE your government are greedy and evil had to create this drought so we could profit massively from all this destruction so we can put the whole of Australia under mining leases including 6 new mines after Adani https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/adani-approval-opens-galilee-basin-to-six-other-mine-projects-20190613-p51xhz.htmland...

CSG leases https://www.theage.com.au/national/fractured-future-water-fears-as-drilling-for-gas-begins-in-the-nt-20191003-p52xfj.html

Kangaroo Island Lithium projects https://sites.google.com/site/kipaview/history/register-articles-1908/the-mining-industry---a-brighter-outlook

While the government can start building Smart cities https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/cities/smart-cities/plan/index.aspx and fast rail https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/rail/trains/faster_rail/index.aspx so we the politicians can profit all over again storing our profits in the Cayman Islands and we actually don't care who dies???

This all is created blatantly destroying this beautiful country....., anyone hoping/believing in government/politicians to do the right thing ever again?? Yeah well..... good luck with that??

Regards (xxxx - to protect her identity for now — steve)

Documentary music video all things poison is our water supplies Poison( song called Poison) https://www.facebook.com/leanne.hawkins.908/videos/10157872263796878/

All things Poison in our water supplies facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Song-called-Poison-115447606577863/

Song Called Poison youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZxhV2oqC4M

Or share this email to all your family and friends ❤️ Remember we are all in this together

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Shouldn’t the EPA be concentrating on stopping the stuff that requires filtering getting into the water in the first place?

Kind of ironic they’re making it difficult for a company that wouldn’t be required if they were doing their job.

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There are serious problems with Berkey water filters, such as leaching aluminum:

https://truthaboutfluoride.com/berkey-water-filter-scam/

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I had read about this in Epoch Times and was so disappointed as I have a Big Berkey which I think is great. As an environmental consultant for industrial clients I have been on the opposite side of the table of EPA for years. They have an agenda and they have their consultants fit the "science" to that agenda. They toyed with my client for years collecting data and writing reports and in the end all the data was ignored and it was clear they had been set up. The danger is that most EPA employees are zealots that think they are doing good. I haven't met any that were particularly intelligent.

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You think Berkey can back their claims? It's an expensive product for what it is. I think the company brought this upon themselves many customers (me included) are concerned with this company's claims and scam like behavior.

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Thank you for covering this story that is very symbolic of our bureaucracy. It brings to mind Fredrich Hayek's book The Road to Serfdom. When he wrote big corporations want regulations because they squeeze out competitors, it cleared the fog. We have complete garbage on grocery shelves, children don't exercise enough and are shot up with all sorts of poison, and we have destructive industrialized farming and ranching. However, the EPA must go after a little company as it allows the main monsters destroying the village to continue their rampage. It is like the prosecution of a family bank in NY serving the Chinese community with a better loan/payment record than the large banks we bailed out featured in the documentary 'Small Enough to Jail.

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The deep state & the administrative state are the mechanisms being used to destroy this great country, and others. I'm praying good companies like this will stand strong and help to cut off the head of the snake. It will be costly, but they may do more than save a company. They may help save the country. God speed.

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