Sunday, October 13, 2013

Virginia Posts 2.6% Revenue Increase in September

Governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell speaking at...
Governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell  Gage Skidmore . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
– Significant Month for Revenue
September Revenues All Pre-Federal Government Shutdown

RICHMOND - Governor Bob McDonnell announced today that September revenue collections increased by 2.6 percent from September of last year. September is a significant month for revenue collections because in addition to normal collections, the state also receives the first estimated income tax payment from individuals and corporations. On a year-to-date basis, total revenue collections rose 2.8 percent through September, ahead of the annual forecast of 1.5 percent growth. Adjusting for the accelerated sales tax program and the 0.125 percent sales tax transfer required by last session’s historic transportation bill, total revenues grew 3.5 percent through September, ahead of the adjusted forecast of 1.4 percent growth.

The increase in September revenue was driven by growth in individual withholding, corporate income taxes and individual nonwithholding. Individual withholding rose 2.9 percent and individual nonwithholding grew by 2.1 percent. Corporate income tax collections increased by 16.7 percent. At the same time, sales and use taxes, reflecting sales made in August, fell 2.7 percent.

Speaking about the September numbers, Governor Bob McDonnell noted, “September was a positive revenue month for the Commonwealth, and we continue to run well ahead of our forecasted fiscal growth for the year. This is empirical evidence that the bipartisan steps we’ve taken here in Richmond to help the private-sector grow and create good jobs for our people are working. Unfortunately, the efforts we’ve undertaken in Virginia to make government function better, and use limited state resources wisely to improve the quality of life of our citizens, are being undermined daily by the dysfunction in Washington D.C. The ongoing federal government shutdown will have a direct negative impact on state revenues in the months ahead, just as it is already having a direct, negative impact on Virginians in their daily lives. The success of our Commonwealth is being threatened by the ineptness of Washington. I continue to call on leaders in both parties to reopen the federal government immediately, and come together to find solutions to the challenges facing our great nation.”

The September revenue numbers are available at this link:http://www.finance.virginia.gov/KeyDocuments/RevenueReports/MasterReportsList.cfm
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Gloucester, VA Hampton Tobacco Robbed Friday Oct. 11th, 2013

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GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) - Deputies are searching for a man who they said robbed the Hampton Pipe and Tobacco Shop.

According to the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office, it happened Friday at the store, located at 4746 George Washington Memorial Highway in Gloucester.

Employees told investigators a man went into the store with a gun, and demanded cigarettes and incense.

The suspect took off in a car, but deputies do not have any information about the make or model. The suspect is described as a white male, 5’3” tall, wearing a dark coat with a hood covering his head, and a bandana covering his face.

The Sheriff’s Office said surveillance photos were not available.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office at 804-693-3890 or the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP
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One Killed In Gloucester, VA Accident Saturday Morning, Oct,. 12th, 2013

GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) - A driver is facing a long list of charges following a deadly accident Saturday in Gloucester.

State Police said a pickup truck was headed north on Low Ground Road when it ran off the right side, into a ditch, and then hit a tree. It happened just after 9:30 a.m., less than a mile south of Zack Road.

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The passenger in the truck, identified as 29-year-old Richard Gibson III, was killed.

State Police have not released the name of the driver, who was charged with reckless driving, driving with a suspended license, and failure to maintain control of a vehicle.

http://www.wavy.com/news/local/driver-charged-in-deadly-crash  Link back to original story on WAVY TV10 News website.
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Battle of the Hook Pre Show - Liberty's Kids 32, Benedict Arnold




Battle of the Hook Pre Show.  Liberty's kids episode number 32, Benedict Arnold.  We are now less than a week away from what will prove to be this years top national event and the area is without question, sold out for rooms.   There are still rooms in Williamsburg, VA though and the drive is only about 30 minutes to Gloucester from Williamsburg.  So there is still a chance to book in while you can.  We are posting more updated information of where to park once you are here to get to the event.  See below.



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Gloucester, VA More Page Middle School Corruption?

We keep digging and the more we dig, the more everything surrounding the supposed upcoming Page Middle School stinks of all kinds of issues.  For one, in a recent cross meeting between the Board of Education for Gloucester and The Board of Supervisors, it was well stated that the county wants to move forward with a letter of intent for construction.

  A letter of intent for construction is the same thing as signing a contract for construction.  The county is committing money to a project order where the county does NOT have the money in it's coffers to contract for and is a violation of state codes from everything we have seen and have shown on this site with the state codes.  These people simply will not follow the laws and one has to ask why?  Well as we continue to dig, we keep uncovering the why.  Let's explore some of the county's own documents to reveal some issues.



October 27th 2011 RRMM Powerpoint from Chuck Thompson

Go through the above presentation that we copied from the Gloucester County government website.  What we did was have several people with a great deal of experience with government contracting look over the above presentation and here is what we uncovered.

  A fast and dirty analysis from one of our experts showed that option B, the rebuilding of Page Middle school, at it's original location at an approximate cost of about 22 million was unjustified and looked like it had the numbers highly cooked to look like the option was just slightly lower than building on the site where ground has already been broken on TC Walker Road.

  Our second expert showed the following:

"RRMM Architects was awarded a contract on April 21, 2010 for the purpose of providing possible solutions for the “Repurposing of Page Middle School into a School Administration and Operations Center”. (I am not familiar with this other than Gloucester was facing a possible school closure due to decreasing enrollment.)

 On March 25, 2011 that contract was extended to June 30, 2012. On April 16, 2011 Page Middle School was damaged by a tornado. On June 6, 2011 a Purchase Order submitted by RRMM was approved by Gloucester County in the amount of $10,000.00 for “emergency work done to support investigative needs of schools to assess damage”. On June 6, 2011 another Purchase Order submitted by RRMM was approved by Gloucester County in the amount of $17,000.00 for “emergency work done to support investigative needs of schools to assess damage”.

 To this point RRMM is involved legally. On June 15, 2011 a Request for Professional Services to “review the potential for reconstructing Page Middle School” was advertised. Everything RRMM did from this point forward was not legal in my view. The Oct. 27, 2011 documents you attached demonstrate they were performing work outside of providing "Emergency Services" and were paid for that work. Emergency Services work is allowed to be attached to an active Professional Services Agreement which was the April 2010 agreement.

 Emergency Services is work like damage assessment and engineering services to safeguard and protect everything salvageable. On July 7, 2011 another Purchase Order submitted by RRMM was approved by Gloucester County in the amount of $13,545.00 for “schematic design/feasibility study-committee facilitation for Page Middle School options study”. This work included creating schematic design options of proposed facilities and locations, facilitating a Schools Superintendent appointed study-committee for Page reconstruction options and presenting those options to the School Board.

 At a School Board meeting on July 12, 2011 the Gloucester Schools Superintendent, announced the receipt of eleven proposals in response to the June 15, 2011 Request for Professional Services. On August 9, 2011 Duane Harver, Principle for RRMM, publicly presented information to the Gloucester School Board pertaining the July 7, 2011 study committee facilitation purchase order. RRMM was awarded the Professional Services contract on January 10, 2012.  By this time RRMM’s involvement in the reconstruction professional services process was extensive and again in my opinion, illegal.
As far as tampering with the numbers, I really can't say one way or the other.  I do know from reviewing some of it numerous months ago, that a lot of the numbers do look deceiving.  A look at how they correlate to the actual costs should be interesting."

From what we are seeing, it's deception in front of everyone's eyes.  Time to open your eyes and look at what these people are really up to.  Whatever it is, it does not look like it's within the best interest of the people at any level.  How many levels of corruption are in this county?  We keep peeling and it keeps coming our more and more.
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Middlesex , VA - Beware The Enemy Within!

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English: The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution Česky: Originál Listiny práv, prvních deseti dodatků k Ústavě Spojených států amerických Deutsch: Die Bill of Rights genannten ersten zehn Zusatzartikel zur US-amerikanischen Verfassung, die den Bürgern bestimmte Grundrechte garantieren Español: La Carta de Derechos de los Estados Unidos, el término por el que se conocen las diez primeras enmiendas de la Constitución de los Estados Unidos de América (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Beware; The Enemy Within!


September, 2013, Middlesex County Board of Supervisor, Carlton Revere announced at the board meeting that prayer was being suspended due to fears from a recent litigation case that occurred in Pittsylvania, VA, where that county's board of supervisors were sued for starting their board meetings with an opening prayer.  A direct assault on the first amendment of the Bill of Rights attached to the United States Constitution that is the right of every American regardless of government office.  We reported on the original Pittsylvania case on this site.

Article One of the Bill of Rights reads as follows;

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Chairman Carlton Revere was following the advice of the Middlesex county attorney, Mike Soberick.  Mr Soberick is supposed to be in the position of protecting the county and it's citizens from an entire host of issues to include unfair attacks against the freedoms of the county's own citizens.  Instead Mike Soberick caves to the will of some sickofant fringe group that goes by the name, "Freedom From Religion Foundation", who supposedly sent the county an email from the foundation's staff attorney.

  Everyone can look and see that even the United States Congress opens it's meetings with prayer.  How is it that counties are being attacked for what Congress practices in front of the media everyday?  Stopping the sickofant fringe groups from attacking the rights of the people is real simple.  Force them to sue every county in every state to try and stop our freedoms.  This would quickly force these fringe groups into bankruptcy.  

  As noted above in the first amendment to the Constitution, freedom of religion, speech and the press is all under one umbrella for a reason.  They are all intertwined and the same.  You take away one, you take away all of them.  It's a direct attack on the American People as a whole by a minority that wants to dominate your very thoughts and dictate all your actions.  It's anarchistic.

Thomas Jefferson:  "Of liberty then I would say that, in the whole plenitude of it's extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will, but rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.  I do not add "within the limits of law," because law is often but the tyrant's will and always so when it violates the rights of an individual."

  In other words, the folks at the "Freedom From Religion Foundation", are very clearly obstructing the rights of their fellow citizens as defined by the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

  Further;  It is a time tested and well proven fact that prayer before meetings is a natural deterrent to violence during the meeting and a positive influence to the proper flow of said meetings.  

  That would mean the folks over at the Freedom From Religion Foundation have opened up the county of Middlesex to potential violence and anarchy and that the county attorney, Mike Soberick, has facilitated this action of his own will and against the citizens of the county at which we would recommend that the citizens of Middlesex county seek the fair removal, for just cause,  of any further services and or dis services of this spineless weezle of a county attorney.


"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.  In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness-these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.  The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and cherish them.  A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity.  Let it simply be asked, Where is security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?  And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.  Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." 
George Washington


   Again we say, Beware The Enemy Within!



King James Version of the Bible from Chuck Thompson

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We are always giving away free digital copies of bibles.  We have numerous versions on our e-book page.  The link above allows a free PDF file download of the King James Version.  You can also download a copy from our slideshare site as well.  We offer other file versions on our e-book page so take a look around.

  You have the right to your opinion to what you feel is in your best interest to believe in or not believe in.  We fully respect that.  You also have a right to ignore the fact that we give away bibles and we have no issues with that.  You do not have the right to violate our rights and freedoms and we will defend that.
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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Can Adding Fluoride to Milk Help Improve Children’s Dental Health?

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English: Putting toothpaste on a toothbrush. The toothpaste is Crest Pro-Health Clean Cinnamon, 0.454% stannous fluoride, 0.16% w/v fluoride ion. Deutsch: Zahnpasta auf eine Zahnbürste auftragen. Русский: Выдавливание зубной пасты из тюбика на зубную щётку (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Dr. Mercola
People in the UK may want to pay special attention to the following issue. The Blackpool Council’s Health and Wellbeing Board recently proposed adding fluoride to milk in its primary schools.
This so-called “dental milk” would ostensibly be introduced to promote dental health in school age children, since the town does not fluoridate its municipal water supplies. The proposal was supported by “an overwhelming majority.”
The dental health in Blackpool children is said to be among the worst in the country, with 43 percent of 12-year olds having at least one unhealthy tooth,1compared to 33.4 percent nationally.
Ten other areas of the UK have already introduced fluoridated milk to its students: St Helens, Knowsley, Wirral, West Cheshire, Manchester, Trafford, Leeds, Sheffield, Barnsley and Doncaster.
Councilor Tony Williams said parents should be given both sides of the argument before agreeing to let their children have fluoridated milk.
 “I believe that just adding fluoride to school milk falls far short of the need to tackle the problem,” he told the British Gazette.2 “Better school dental programs should also be introduced with an increase in school visits from NHS dentists and oral hygiene specialists.
“Most school children in Blackpool are now eating two breakfasts a day with the school serving including starch and syrup. Children should be allowed and encouraged to brush their teeth in school after every meal.”
In response, cabinet member for health, Ivan Taylor, said that the council has not yet made any decision on the matter, but that they will be “testing the opinion of schools and anyone else that’s interested.” He also noted that parents would have the right to choose if they want their children to receive fluoridated milk or not.

Why Is Poisoning of Children Considered a Valuable Public Health Policy?

The debate over the dangers of fluoride has been ongoing for more than six decades, despite the fact that study after study has confirmed that fluoride is a dangerous, toxic poison that bio-accumulates in your body while being ineffective at preventing dental decay.
Fluoride can also create a calcium deficiency situation by precipitating calcium out of solution. This causes low blood calcium, as well as the buildup of calcium stones and crystals in joints and organs. This could potentially turn out to be a concern with regard to adding fluoride to calcium-rich milk...
Worse yet, when you consider the fact that there are 25 studies showing that fluoride reduces IQ in children, the idea of giving fluoridated milk to school children is a shockingly bad idea, even if they don’t also drink fluoridated water.  Approximately 100 animal studies have also linked fluoride to brain damage. This includes such effects as:3
Reduction in nicotinic acetylcholine receptorsDamage to the hippocampusFormation of beta-amyloid plaques (the classic brain abnormality in Alzheimer's disease)
Reduction in lipid contentDamage to the purkinje cellsExacerbation of lesions induced by iodine deficiency
Impaired antioxidant defense systemsIncreased uptake of aluminumAccumulation of fluoride in the pineal gland

One particularly striking animal study4 published in 1995 showed that fluoride ingestion had a profound influence on the animals' brains and altered behavior. Pregnant rats given fluoride produced hyperactive offspring. And animals given fluoride after birth became apathetic, lethargic "couch potatoes." Other research has linked fluoride toxicity with the wide-ranging problems listed below.
Increases lead absorptionDisrupts collagen synthesisIncreases manganese absorption, which is alsolinked to lower IQ in childrenCrippling skeletal fluorosis andbone fractures
Genetic damage and cell deathIncreased tumor and cancer growthDisrupts immune systemInhibits antibody production
Brain damage, and lowered IQDementiaArthritisSevere eye problems, includingblindness
Impairedthyroid functionBone cancer (osteosarcoma)Inactivates 62 enzymesMuscle disorders

Important Facts About Fluoride

After reviewing the available evidence, the only rational conclusion you can come to is that fluoride's health dangers far outweigh the marginal dental benefits itmight offer. For example, the science is very clear about the following:
  • Fluoride acts as a cumulative poison and is in no way a "nutrient.” It offers NO benefits at all to the human body.
  • Fluoride exposure for many can easily reach toxic levels. For example, poison control should be called if you swallow a quarter milligram of fluoride from toothpaste. Meanwhile just ONE glass of fluoridated water can contain this amount of fluoride.
  • Fluoride is a cumulative poison that has been proven to cause wide-ranging, serious health problems, such as damage to your bones, brain and endocrine system.
  • Dental caries can be prevented with means other than fluoridation, thereby avoiding the adverse effects of fluoride.
  • Recent research reveals that ingesting fluoride in supplement form does notreduce cavities in primary teeth, and may in fact cause harm.
  • When hydrofluorosilicic acid is added to water, over 99% goes down the drain and into the environment.  It never comes in contact with a human tooth
A 2011 Cochrane Database Review,5 which looked at 11 studies involving more than 7,000 children, showed that the effect of fluoride supplements (in the form of tablets, drops, lozenges and chewing gum) on primary teeth could not be determined, with one study showing no cavity-reducing effect. Meanwhile, the study revealed that no difference was noted between fluoride supplements or topical fluoride for preventing cavities. The researchers noted:
"In the review, no conclusion could be reached about the effectiveness of fluoride supplements in preventing tooth decay in young children (less than 6 years of age) with deciduous teeth. Moreover, insufficient evidence exists to show whether or not using fluoride supplements in young children (less than 6 years of age) could mottle teeth (fluorosis), an effect of chronic ingestion of excessive amounts of fluoride."

Aspartame—Another Harmful Ingredient Considered for Addition to Dairy

Earlier this year, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) filed a petition with the FDA requesting the agency “amend the standard of identity” for milk and 17 other dairy products. This was done to provide for the use of any safe and suitable sweetener as an optional ingredient — including non-nutritive sweeteners such as aspartame—without having to indicate its use on the label.
The IDFA and NMPF claimed the proposed amendments would “promote more healthful eating practices and reduce childhood obesity by providing for lower-calorie flavored milk products” since many children are more inclined to drink flavored milk products than unflavored milk.
Funny how big business’ ideas of “helping children” keep revolving around the use of wholly unnatural ingredients that have clearly been proven toxic! In this case, I’m not sure what’s more frustrating: the fact that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) insists on using the flawed theory of calories as a measure of the “healthfulness” of school meals; their misguided insistence on fat free and low fat products to combat obesity; or their ignorant stance on artificial sweeteners...
When combined, what you end up with is a nutritional nightmare. How can anyone believe a fat-free, hormone-laced pasteurized milk-like product from cows raised on genetically engineered corn, flavored with artificial flavors, colors and chemical sweeteners might actually do a growing body good? The nutritional illiteracy within these agencies is staggering... yet they’re responsible for making decisions that affect over 30 million school children across the US on a daily basis.


What Really Causes Cavities and Obesity?

Interestingly, the root cause behind both of these problems that “dental milk” and “low-calorie” artificially sweetened milk propose to address is identical, and can be summed up in two words: sweetened beverages—and when it comes to obesity, thisincludes those sweetened with artificial sweeteners!
Soda and other sweet beverages, including all fruit juices, have long been known to increase your risk of cavities. Many of these types of beverages supply a double-whammy because they also cause dental erosion, which is a condition independent of the microbial action that produces cavities. Unlike caries, dental erosion is a process of incremental decalcification, which, over time, literally dissolves your teeth.

If officials are adamant about pushing fluoride into a drink, it would appear to be a better choice to dump it into soda instead of milk or tap water.
Sweetened beverages of ALL kinds are also one of the primary culprits behind our skyrocketing obesity rates, which are closely mirrored in both the UK and the US. As recently reported in the Guardian Express,6 kids are 40 percent heavier today compared to just 25 years ago, and a growing number of studies have linked rising childhood obesity rates to increased consumption of sugary beverages, including those sweetened with no- or low-cal sweeteners.
In fact, artificial sweeteners have been shown to cause greater weight gain than calorie-laden sugars, and recent research has also found that diet soda drinkers suffer the same exact health problems as those who opt for regular soda, such as excessive weight gain, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke.7, 8 In short, cutting out sweetened beverages is one of the quickest ways to simultaneously address your child’s dental health and weight.

The Best Way to Ensure Healthy Teeth

Anyone who has ever read Dr. Weston Price’s book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration will soon recognize that diet is a major factor in dental health. Dr. Price wrote this book in 1920 and it is full of pictures of cultures with excellent dental health that rapidly deteriorated once processed Western food was introduced. When Dr. Price studied these native diets, he noticed some similarities in the foods that kept them so healthy. Among them:
  • The foods were natural, unprocessed, and organic (and contained no sugar except for the occasional bit of honey or maple syrup).
  • The people ate foods that grew in their native environment. In other words, they ate locally grown, seasonal foods.
  • Many of the cultures ate unpasteurized dairy products, and all of them ate fermented foods.
  • The people ate a significant portion of their food raw.
  • All of the cultures ate animal products, including animal fat and, often, full-fat butter and organ meats.
I believe that if you have an optimal diet, without processed foods and sugars from infancy, you can be virtually assured of cavity-free teeth. All of the brushing and flossing in the world will not give you the healthy teeth that following the eating patterns described above will, so if you value your pearly whites, get started eating a healthier diet today.

Improve Your Health by Ditching Sweetened Drinks

Sweetened beverages, whether sweetened with sugar, corn syrup, naturally-occurring fructose, or artificial sweeteners likeaspartame, are among the worst culprits in the fight against obesity and related health problems, including diabetes and heart disease. Sweetened drinks are also a primary cause of cavities. Ditching ALL of these types of beverages can go a long way toward reducing your and your child’s risk for cavities and weight gain—not to mention a long list of other chronic health problems. 
Your best and most cost-effective beverage choice is to drink filtered tap water. Nothing beats pure water when it comes to serving your body’s needs. If you really feel the urge for a carbonated beverage, try sparkling mineral water with a squirt of lime or lemon juice.
Since we’re on the topic of milk, I would also like to add my latest recommendations. As always of course, the only acceptable dairy products would be raw, unpasteurized organic varieties. Raw is more important than organic so don’t be fooled. Although raw milk is only available commercially in a few states in the US, nearly everyone can get it by going to RealMilk.com. For those of you who live in the UK or Ireland, The Natural Food Finder9 is one resource.
I recommend drinking whole milk only; the lower the fat content the more processed and less wholesome it is.  

Join the Fight to Get Fluoride Out of Drinking Water

There's no doubt about it: Fluoride should not be ingested. Even scientists from the EPA's National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory have classified fluoride as a "chemical having substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity.” Furthermore, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 41 percent of American adolescents now have dental fluorosis—unattractive discoloration and mottling of the teeth that indicate overexposure to fluoride.
Clearly, children are being overexposed, and their health and development put in jeopardy. Why?
At least when it comes to topical application, you have a choice. You can easily buy fluoride-free toothpaste and mouthwash. But you're stuck with whatever your community puts in the water, and it's very difficult to filter out of your water once it's added. Many do not have the resources or the knowledge to do so.
The only real solution is to stop the archaic practice of water fluoridation in the first place. Fortunately, the Fluoride Action Network has a game plan to END water fluoridation, both in the United States and Canada. 
Clean pure water is a prerequisite to optimal health. Industrial chemicals, drugs and other toxic additives really have no place in our water supplies. So, please, support the anti-fluoride movement by making a donation to the Fluoride Action Network today.
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