Thursday, April 3, 2025, 6:00 PM: Clearwater City Council is set to vote on water fluoridation.
100 N Osceola Ave; Clearwater, Florida 33755: https://maps.app.goo.gl/qpmSbjaPTVFrQfTf7
Please e-mail the Council members.
RSVP and join in conversation in the Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/582367684960430 and the Meetup event at https://www.meetup.com/we-are-change-tampa/events/307049308.
Please e-mail the Council members:
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Learn more and organize:
► Tampa Bay Water Freedom group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TampaWater
► Pinellas Fluoride Ends Now group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/470561539252385
► Fluoride Free Tampa Bay group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/960064886185056
► Make Hillsborough Fluoride Free group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/591820216928421
► Fluoride Free Florida group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fluoridefreeflorida
► facebook.com/WeAreChange.Tampa • WeAreChangeTampa.org
► Links in the category "Safer Water; Anti-Water Fluoridation; Environmental, Natural, Fluoride-Free and Mercury-Free Dentistry" at TheLiberationStation.com/Links#saferwateranddentistry
► My Water Fluoridation Blog at TheLiberationStation.com/water-fluoridation-blog
► Fluoride Action Network: FluorideAlert.org
► Watch: City of Clearwater - CRA / Council Work Session - 3/31/25: https://www.youtube.com/live/i59SiPgKWPk?si=_qkIU-Lro17hiRwf&t=3456 (at time index 57:36):
• Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida Surgeon General
• Dr. Ashley Malin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the University of Florida’s College of Public Health and Health Professions and University of Florida’s College of Medicine
Guidance:
► Stand for Health Freedom's guide to ending water fluoridation: https://standforhealthfreedom.com/battles-ahead/fluoride - thanks to the power couple, Jill and Scott Kiley, whose e-mail addresses are posted on this page.
► "Whether fluoride has an essential function in cells or organisms is not known." - 2020 NIH study, Toxicity of fluoride: critical evaluation of evidence for human developmental neurotoxicity in epidemiological studies, animal experiments and in vitro analyses | Archives of Toxicology, May 2020: https://www.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32382957 and https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7261729
► CDC Data Confirms an Epidemic of Overexposure to Fluoride During Development | Fluoride Action Network, December 29, 2023: https://fluoridealert.org/content/epidemic-of-overexposure-to-fluoride-during-development
► 50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation: http://fluoridealert.org/50-reasons.htm
► Federal Court Rules That Water Fluoridation Poses an “Unreasonable Risk” to Children | By Stuart Cooper, Fluoride Action Network, September 26, 2024: https://fluoridealert.org/content/federal-court-rules-that-water-fluoridation-poses-an-unreasonable-risk-to-children
► Government Report: Multiple Studies Show Fluoridation Can Lower Child IQ | Fluoride Action Network, January 6, 2025: https://fluoridealert.org/content/government-report-multiple-studies-show-fluoridation-can-lower-child-iq
► NIH/NTP Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ + Exclusive Interviews With Ryan ole, M.D. | Children's Health Defense, January 8, 2025: https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/nih/ntp-study-finds-fluoride-lowers-iq--exclusive-interviews-with-ryan-cole-md
► Water Break | By Skip Miller, The Health Journal, February 24, 2011: http://web.archive.org/web/20130928203620/http://www.thehealthjournals.com/2011/02/water-break
► Who Opposes Fluoridation? | Fluoride Action Network: https://www.fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/who_opposes_F.pdf
On the fluoride additive being phosphate mining industrial waste, having toxins like radioactive isotopes and heavy metals:
► MSDS (Materials Safety Data Sheet) for the 'fluoride' additive to Pinellas County's water: https://www.theliberationstation.com/uploads/2/3/0/4/2304035/msds__materials_safety_data_sheet__for_fluoride_additive_to_pinellas_countys_water.pdf and join Tampa Bay Water Freedom at https://www.facebook.com/groups/tampawater to view it at https://www.facebook.com/groups/TampaWater/permalink/9502211776488493.
► The latest available annual Pinellas County Consumer Confidence Report on Water Quality is 2023 (https://inellas.gov/2023-consumer-confidence-report-on-water-quality), which lists a "likely source of contamination" for fluoride as "discharge from fertilizer [phosphate mining] and aluminum factories."
► Fluoride and the Phosphate Connection (pioneering work) | By George C. Glasser: https://www.inspiredliving.com/water-pollution/fluorosilic-acid.htm and https://web.archive.org/web/20201111171118/http://purewatergazette.net/fluorideandphosphate.htm
► Phosphate Fluorides: Toxic Torts | By Gary O. Pittman (Mosaic Phosphate Mining Company former employee and whistleblower): https://books.google.com/books?id=l_00AwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
► Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle | By Frank Zelko, Origins: https://origins.osu.edu/article/toxic-treatment-fluorides-transformation-industrial-waste-public-health-miracle
► The Phosphate Fertilizer Industry: An Environmental Overview | Fluoride Action Network, June 11, 2012: https://fluoridealert.org/content/phosphate01
► Fluoride: Disposing of Mining Waste Through Your Body: https://fluoridealert.org/news/fluoride-disposing-of-mining-waste-through-your-body
► For more articles, search Fluoride Action Network's website for "phosphate:" https://www.qwant.com/?q=site%3Afluoridealert.org+phosphate
Water fluoridation is a civil rights issue:
► Gov’t Failed to Warn About Fluoride’s Disproportionate Harm to Black Community | Fluoride Action Network, October 15, 2014: https://fluoridealert.org/content/maier_memo
► Civil Rights Leaders Call for Halt to Water Fluoridation | Fluoride Action Network, June 23, 2012: https://fluoridealert.org/content/civil-rights01
► LULAC’s Resolution Opposing Water Fluoridation | Fluoride Action Network, June 23, 2012: https://fluoridealert.org/content/lulac_resolution
► Influential National Hispanic Civil Rights Organization Votes to Oppose Water Fluoridation | Fluoride Action Network, June 23, 2012: https://fluoridealert.org/content/lulac01
Increased fluoride load is accompanied by increased lead load, implicated in increased criminality and illicit drug use, with increased negative impact on Mexican-Americans and especially blacks, resulting in lower IQ (per Harvard: https://web.archive.org/web/20241208204358/https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi) and are declared "developmental neurotoxicants," per Lancet (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422%2813%2970278-3/fulltext):
► Dartmouth Professor Sees Ties Between Lead, Fluoride, Juvenile Crime Rate | Valley News, June 22, 1998: http://fluoridealert.org/news/dartmouth-professor-sees-tie-between-lead-fluoride-juvenile-crime-rate
► Association of silicofluoride treated water with elevated blood lead | Study by Roger D. Masters, Myron J. Coplan, B.T. Hone, and J.E. Dykes, NeuroToxicology, December, 2000 (Submitted December 15, 1999; Accepted: July 14, 2000)
• Abstract:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11233755, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12097642_Association_of_silicofluoride_treated_water_with_elevated_blood_lead and https://web.archive.org/web/20210419180915/https://www.nofluoride.com/Fluoride_and_Lead.cfm
• Full study: http://cof-cof.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Masters-Coplan-Association-Of-Silicofluoride-Treated-Water-With-Elevated-Blood-Lead-Neurotoxicity-14-Jul-2000.pdf and https://web.archive.org/web/20170115080531/http://fluoridegate.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/proof_VolXIVMastersNeurotox2000.pdf and https://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/masters-2000.pdf
• Dartmouth College press release: https://web.archive.org/web/20171230103528/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2001/mar01/flouride.html
► Confirmation of and explanation for elevated blood lead and other disorders in children exposed to water disinfection and fluoridation chemicals | Study by Myron J. Coplan, Steven C. Patch, Roger D. Masters, Marcia S. Bachman, NeuroToxicology, February 2007 (Submitted February 23, 2006; Accepted February 12, 2007): https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7fe1/e92d51e7be9f36f618db386537fb642ce60f.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20220121043722/http://fluoridegate.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/proofCoplan_2007_NeuroToxicology-.pdf
► Fluorosilicates Increase Blood Lead Levels: https://web.archive.org/web/20130429201916/http://www.waterloowatch.com/Index_files/Fluorosilicates%20Increase%20Blood%20Lead%20Levels.pdf
► Toxins Explain High Lead Levels in Flint and Detroit | Study by Roger D. Masters, EC Pharmacology and Toxicology, Short Communication (Received October 20, 2016; Published: November 24, 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20200902124951/https://www.ecronicon.com/ecpt/pdf/ECPT-02-000028.pdf
► Dartmouth University Study Links Fluoridation with High Lead Levels in Children: Poisoning the Well: Neurotoxic Metals, Water Treatment, and Human Behavior | By Roger D. Masters, Department of Government, Dartmouth College, Foundation for Neuroscience and Society, Plenary Address to Annual Conference of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, September 2, 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/20210213214809/http://www.nofluoride.com/dartmouth_study.htm
► Chloramine + Lead Pipes + Fluoride = Contaminated tap water | By Olga Naidenko, EWG Senior Scientist: https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/chloramine-lead-pipes-fluoride-contaminated-tap-water
░▒▓► Federal Court Rules That Water Fluoridation Poses an “Unreasonable Risk” to Children | By Stuart Cooper, Fluoride Action Network, September 26, 2024: https://fluoridealert.org/content/federal-court-rules-that-water-fluoridation-poses-an-unreasonable-risk-to-children
Thanks to this astounding development, it's time to go back to the Pinellas County Commission to state the case against water fluoridation. 13 years ago in 2011 we became the largest municipality in the southeastern US to end water fluoridation, thanks to the County Commission: http://www.wearechangetampa.org/october-4-2011-victory.html. The reprieve lasted for the year of 2012, as in November 2012, despite a super-majority opposing water fluoridation, it was reinstated, effective January 1, 2013, as a result of the needed votes of two new commissioners, Charlie Justice and Janet Long, whose central plank of their campaigns was to bring water fluoridation back to a vote. For getting the massive supermajority opposing water fluoridation that was able to fill the meeting room at least five times over -- with each batch who had addressed the Commission having to leave the room to make room for the next, who had been watching the meeting downstairs -- I give the most credit to Dennis Pavluk, reporter at 970 AM WFLA. As he was on my e-mail list that also included local news outlets when I wrote to encourage folks to address the County Commission, he interviewed me by phone the day before the vote at which water fluoridation was later restarted. The day of the vote, at every half-hour news break the station played a different, very fairly-edited clip from our interview, announcing the Commission meeting and vote was taking place. Despite the Commission meeting having been in the middle of a week day and the announcement on 970 AM WFLA having been made the same day of the vote, for the first time we had not just a majority opposing water fluoridation, but the super-majority, indicating most folks are both educated and motivated to take action.
Other than persuading a municipality (city council or county commission) to end water fluoridation, PACs (political action committees) are the way to go. Only a PAC can (1) circulate petitions and, if successful at gaining enough qualified signatures, (2) place the petition initiative on the next ballot and, if successful, (3) amend a city charter, county charter, or even state constitution, absent action by the Florida Constitution Revision Commission. Through a PAC, petition circulators are compensated for their hard work. An initiative could be phrased to specifically prevent any and all forms of forced medication, not just water fluoridation and so-called, "vaccinations." Bev Harris (BlackBoxVoting.org), featured in the popular HBO documentary, "Hacking Democracy," helped in the effort for San Marcos, Texas, to end water fluoridation in 2015 via PAC, bypassing the city council. In 2013 Portland, Oregon ended water fluoridation by the same process. On her April 21, 2016, appearance on The Power Hour with Joyce Riley (ThePowerHour.com), she told me that to discourage election-rigging by documenting attempts at it, not only would poll watchers be needed, but also central tabulator watchers. The amendment process is rigorous, but if successful, can overcome the control of city councils, county commissions, and state legislatures. Plus the same rigorous process -- and not the whims of said legislators -- is required for such an amendment to be repealed. Pointing this out to legislators might motivate them to vote in accordance with the will of the people, lest their legislative power be made moot via PAC.
In addition to the aforesaid federal court ruling (https://fluoridealert.org/content/federal-court-rules-that-water-fluoridation-poses-an-unreasonable-risk-to-children), another good reason to stop water fluoridation is to fund repairing from damage caused by Hurricanes Helene and especially Milton and reinforcing the Pinellas County's water works, $185,000 (per https://archive.ph/qbUx8, last time I checked 12 years ago) or more per year can be saved by stopping water fluoridation in Pinellas County. We must do with so much less so that big phosphate can have more?
We need to let the Clearwater City Council know that once water fluoridation is ended, whether by their vote, by PAC-sponsored ballot initiative, or by passage of the Florida Farm Bill (CS/CS/SB 700: Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/700), we'll be independently monitoring for changes in levels of toxins, like fluoride, which should all go down once phosphate mining's radioactive waste is no longer added to the water. I ask the Council: wouldn't you like to be on the right side of history?
Although no license exists for mass-medication, pro-water fluoridation commissioners would be practicing medicine without a license if the additive were FDA-regulated, though they're acting as terrorists by adding to our water admitted "industrial discharge" containing hundreds of toxins, like metals and radioactive isotopes (alpha- and beta-photon emitters shown in the Reports). Per the aforesaid Report (https://pinellas.gov/consumer-confidence-reports), the "likely source of contamination" for many other contaminants is "discharge from refineries and factories" and the like. Calling WMNF 88.5 FM years ago on the topic I was likely to be dismissed with arguments often invoking Dr. Strangelove. In recent years and weeks calling other hosts on WMNF 88.5 FM, like Dr. Fred Harvey on Mondays at 10 AM, I haven't been dismissed. I think a key to catching the attention of left-leaning folks on the water fluoridation issue is to educate on the "industrial discharge" sold by phosphate companies at a profit, rather than having to pay to dispose of it as safely as possible. Especially because phosphate mining is notorious for environmental devastation, left-leaning folks are more likely to get onboard ending water fluoridation.
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Learn more and organize:
► Tampa Bay Water Freedom group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TampaWater
► Pinellas Fluoride Ends Now group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/470561539252385
► Fluoride Free Tampa Bay group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/960064886185056
► Make Hillsborough Fluoride Free group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/591820216928421
► Fluoride Free Florida group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fluoridefreeflorida
► facebook.com/WeAreChange.Tampa • WeAreChangeTampa.org
► Links in the category "Safer Water; Anti-Water Fluoridation; Environmental, Natural, Fluoride-Free and Mercury-Free Dentistry" at TheLiberationStation.com/Links#saferwateranddentistry
► My Water Fluoridation Blog at TheLiberationStation.com/water-fluoridation-blog
► Fluoride Action Network: FluorideAlert.org
► Watch: City of Clearwater - CRA / Council Work Session - 3/31/25: https://www.youtube.com/live/i59SiPgKWPk?si=_qkIU-Lro17hiRwf&t=3456 (at time index 57:36):
• Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida Surgeon General
• Dr. Ashley Malin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the University of Florida’s College of Public Health and Health Professions and University of Florida’s College of Medicine
Guidance:
► Stand for Health Freedom's guide to ending water fluoridation: https://standforhealthfreedom.com/battles-ahead/fluoride - thanks to the power couple, Jill and Scott Kiley, whose e-mail addresses are posted on this page.
► "Whether fluoride has an essential function in cells or organisms is not known." - 2020 NIH study, Toxicity of fluoride: critical evaluation of evidence for human developmental neurotoxicity in epidemiological studies, animal experiments and in vitro analyses | Archives of Toxicology, May 2020: https://www.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32382957 and https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7261729
► CDC Data Confirms an Epidemic of Overexposure to Fluoride During Development | Fluoride Action Network, December 29, 2023: https://fluoridealert.org/content/epidemic-of-overexposure-to-fluoride-during-development
► 50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation: http://fluoridealert.org/50-reasons.htm
► Federal Court Rules That Water Fluoridation Poses an “Unreasonable Risk” to Children | By Stuart Cooper, Fluoride Action Network, September 26, 2024: https://fluoridealert.org/content/federal-court-rules-that-water-fluoridation-poses-an-unreasonable-risk-to-children
► Government Report: Multiple Studies Show Fluoridation Can Lower Child IQ | Fluoride Action Network, January 6, 2025: https://fluoridealert.org/content/government-report-multiple-studies-show-fluoridation-can-lower-child-iq
► NIH/NTP Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ + Exclusive Interviews With Ryan ole, M.D. | Children's Health Defense, January 8, 2025: https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/nih/ntp-study-finds-fluoride-lowers-iq--exclusive-interviews-with-ryan-cole-md
► Water Break | By Skip Miller, The Health Journal, February 24, 2011: http://web.archive.org/web/20130928203620/http://www.thehealthjournals.com/2011/02/water-break
► Who Opposes Fluoridation? | Fluoride Action Network: https://www.fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/who_opposes_F.pdf
On the fluoride additive being phosphate mining industrial waste, having toxins like radioactive isotopes and heavy metals:
► MSDS (Materials Safety Data Sheet) for the 'fluoride' additive to Pinellas County's water: https://www.theliberationstation.com/uploads/2/3/0/4/2304035/msds__materials_safety_data_sheet__for_fluoride_additive_to_pinellas_countys_water.pdf and join Tampa Bay Water Freedom at https://www.facebook.com/groups/tampawater to view it at https://www.facebook.com/groups/TampaWater/permalink/9502211776488493.
► The latest available annual Pinellas County Consumer Confidence Report on Water Quality is 2023 (https://inellas.gov/2023-consumer-confidence-report-on-water-quality), which lists a "likely source of contamination" for fluoride as "discharge from fertilizer [phosphate mining] and aluminum factories."
► Fluoride and the Phosphate Connection (pioneering work) | By George C. Glasser: https://www.inspiredliving.com/water-pollution/fluorosilic-acid.htm and https://web.archive.org/web/20201111171118/http://purewatergazette.net/fluorideandphosphate.htm
► Phosphate Fluorides: Toxic Torts | By Gary O. Pittman (Mosaic Phosphate Mining Company former employee and whistleblower): https://books.google.com/books?id=l_00AwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
► Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle | By Frank Zelko, Origins: https://origins.osu.edu/article/toxic-treatment-fluorides-transformation-industrial-waste-public-health-miracle
► The Phosphate Fertilizer Industry: An Environmental Overview | Fluoride Action Network, June 11, 2012: https://fluoridealert.org/content/phosphate01
► Fluoride: Disposing of Mining Waste Through Your Body: https://fluoridealert.org/news/fluoride-disposing-of-mining-waste-through-your-body
► For more articles, search Fluoride Action Network's website for "phosphate:" https://www.qwant.com/?q=site%3Afluoridealert.org+phosphate
Water fluoridation is a civil rights issue:
► Gov’t Failed to Warn About Fluoride’s Disproportionate Harm to Black Community | Fluoride Action Network, October 15, 2014: https://fluoridealert.org/content/maier_memo
► Civil Rights Leaders Call for Halt to Water Fluoridation | Fluoride Action Network, June 23, 2012: https://fluoridealert.org/content/civil-rights01
► LULAC’s Resolution Opposing Water Fluoridation | Fluoride Action Network, June 23, 2012: https://fluoridealert.org/content/lulac_resolution
► Influential National Hispanic Civil Rights Organization Votes to Oppose Water Fluoridation | Fluoride Action Network, June 23, 2012: https://fluoridealert.org/content/lulac01
Increased fluoride load is accompanied by increased lead load, implicated in increased criminality and illicit drug use, with increased negative impact on Mexican-Americans and especially blacks, resulting in lower IQ (per Harvard: https://web.archive.org/web/20241208204358/https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi) and are declared "developmental neurotoxicants," per Lancet (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422%2813%2970278-3/fulltext):
► Dartmouth Professor Sees Ties Between Lead, Fluoride, Juvenile Crime Rate | Valley News, June 22, 1998: http://fluoridealert.org/news/dartmouth-professor-sees-tie-between-lead-fluoride-juvenile-crime-rate
► Association of silicofluoride treated water with elevated blood lead | Study by Roger D. Masters, Myron J. Coplan, B.T. Hone, and J.E. Dykes, NeuroToxicology, December, 2000 (Submitted December 15, 1999; Accepted: July 14, 2000)
• Abstract:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11233755, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12097642_Association_of_silicofluoride_treated_water_with_elevated_blood_lead and https://web.archive.org/web/20210419180915/https://www.nofluoride.com/Fluoride_and_Lead.cfm
• Full study: http://cof-cof.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Masters-Coplan-Association-Of-Silicofluoride-Treated-Water-With-Elevated-Blood-Lead-Neurotoxicity-14-Jul-2000.pdf and https://web.archive.org/web/20170115080531/http://fluoridegate.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/proof_VolXIVMastersNeurotox2000.pdf and https://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/masters-2000.pdf
• Dartmouth College press release: https://web.archive.org/web/20171230103528/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2001/mar01/flouride.html
► Confirmation of and explanation for elevated blood lead and other disorders in children exposed to water disinfection and fluoridation chemicals | Study by Myron J. Coplan, Steven C. Patch, Roger D. Masters, Marcia S. Bachman, NeuroToxicology, February 2007 (Submitted February 23, 2006; Accepted February 12, 2007): https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7fe1/e92d51e7be9f36f618db386537fb642ce60f.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20220121043722/http://fluoridegate.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/proofCoplan_2007_NeuroToxicology-.pdf
► Fluorosilicates Increase Blood Lead Levels: https://web.archive.org/web/20130429201916/http://www.waterloowatch.com/Index_files/Fluorosilicates%20Increase%20Blood%20Lead%20Levels.pdf
► Toxins Explain High Lead Levels in Flint and Detroit | Study by Roger D. Masters, EC Pharmacology and Toxicology, Short Communication (Received October 20, 2016; Published: November 24, 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20200902124951/https://www.ecronicon.com/ecpt/pdf/ECPT-02-000028.pdf
► Dartmouth University Study Links Fluoridation with High Lead Levels in Children: Poisoning the Well: Neurotoxic Metals, Water Treatment, and Human Behavior | By Roger D. Masters, Department of Government, Dartmouth College, Foundation for Neuroscience and Society, Plenary Address to Annual Conference of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, September 2, 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/20210213214809/http://www.nofluoride.com/dartmouth_study.htm
► Chloramine + Lead Pipes + Fluoride = Contaminated tap water | By Olga Naidenko, EWG Senior Scientist: https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/chloramine-lead-pipes-fluoride-contaminated-tap-water
░▒▓► Federal Court Rules That Water Fluoridation Poses an “Unreasonable Risk” to Children | By Stuart Cooper, Fluoride Action Network, September 26, 2024: https://fluoridealert.org/content/federal-court-rules-that-water-fluoridation-poses-an-unreasonable-risk-to-children
Thanks to this astounding development, it's time to go back to the Pinellas County Commission to state the case against water fluoridation. 13 years ago in 2011 we became the largest municipality in the southeastern US to end water fluoridation, thanks to the County Commission: http://www.wearechangetampa.org/october-4-2011-victory.html. The reprieve lasted for the year of 2012, as in November 2012, despite a super-majority opposing water fluoridation, it was reinstated, effective January 1, 2013, as a result of the needed votes of two new commissioners, Charlie Justice and Janet Long, whose central plank of their campaigns was to bring water fluoridation back to a vote. For getting the massive supermajority opposing water fluoridation that was able to fill the meeting room at least five times over -- with each batch who had addressed the Commission having to leave the room to make room for the next, who had been watching the meeting downstairs -- I give the most credit to Dennis Pavluk, reporter at 970 AM WFLA. As he was on my e-mail list that also included local news outlets when I wrote to encourage folks to address the County Commission, he interviewed me by phone the day before the vote at which water fluoridation was later restarted. The day of the vote, at every half-hour news break the station played a different, very fairly-edited clip from our interview, announcing the Commission meeting and vote was taking place. Despite the Commission meeting having been in the middle of a week day and the announcement on 970 AM WFLA having been made the same day of the vote, for the first time we had not just a majority opposing water fluoridation, but the super-majority, indicating most folks are both educated and motivated to take action.
Other than persuading a municipality (city council or county commission) to end water fluoridation, PACs (political action committees) are the way to go. Only a PAC can (1) circulate petitions and, if successful at gaining enough qualified signatures, (2) place the petition initiative on the next ballot and, if successful, (3) amend a city charter, county charter, or even state constitution, absent action by the Florida Constitution Revision Commission. Through a PAC, petition circulators are compensated for their hard work. An initiative could be phrased to specifically prevent any and all forms of forced medication, not just water fluoridation and so-called, "vaccinations." Bev Harris (BlackBoxVoting.org), featured in the popular HBO documentary, "Hacking Democracy," helped in the effort for San Marcos, Texas, to end water fluoridation in 2015 via PAC, bypassing the city council. In 2013 Portland, Oregon ended water fluoridation by the same process. On her April 21, 2016, appearance on The Power Hour with Joyce Riley (ThePowerHour.com), she told me that to discourage election-rigging by documenting attempts at it, not only would poll watchers be needed, but also central tabulator watchers. The amendment process is rigorous, but if successful, can overcome the control of city councils, county commissions, and state legislatures. Plus the same rigorous process -- and not the whims of said legislators -- is required for such an amendment to be repealed. Pointing this out to legislators might motivate them to vote in accordance with the will of the people, lest their legislative power be made moot via PAC.
In addition to the aforesaid federal court ruling (https://fluoridealert.org/content/federal-court-rules-that-water-fluoridation-poses-an-unreasonable-risk-to-children), another good reason to stop water fluoridation is to fund repairing from damage caused by Hurricanes Helene and especially Milton and reinforcing the Pinellas County's water works, $185,000 (per https://archive.ph/qbUx8, last time I checked 12 years ago) or more per year can be saved by stopping water fluoridation in Pinellas County. We must do with so much less so that big phosphate can have more?
We need to let the Clearwater City Council know that once water fluoridation is ended, whether by their vote, by PAC-sponsored ballot initiative, or by passage of the Florida Farm Bill (CS/CS/SB 700: Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/700), we'll be independently monitoring for changes in levels of toxins, like fluoride, which should all go down once phosphate mining's radioactive waste is no longer added to the water. I ask the Council: wouldn't you like to be on the right side of history?
Although no license exists for mass-medication, pro-water fluoridation commissioners would be practicing medicine without a license if the additive were FDA-regulated, though they're acting as terrorists by adding to our water admitted "industrial discharge" containing hundreds of toxins, like metals and radioactive isotopes (alpha- and beta-photon emitters shown in the Reports). Per the aforesaid Report (https://pinellas.gov/consumer-confidence-reports), the "likely source of contamination" for many other contaminants is "discharge from refineries and factories" and the like. Calling WMNF 88.5 FM years ago on the topic I was likely to be dismissed with arguments often invoking Dr. Strangelove. In recent years and weeks calling other hosts on WMNF 88.5 FM, like Dr. Fred Harvey on Mondays at 10 AM, I haven't been dismissed. I think a key to catching the attention of left-leaning folks on the water fluoridation issue is to educate on the "industrial discharge" sold by phosphate companies at a profit, rather than having to pay to dispose of it as safely as possible. Especially because phosphate mining is notorious for environmental devastation, left-leaning folks are more likely to get onboard ending water fluoridation.
Recent Florida victories ending water fluoridation:
Perry, FL: August 2023
Starke, FL: August 2023
Collier County, FL : February 2024
Brooksville, FL: April 2024
Sebring, FL: September 2024
Live Oak, FL: October 2024
Winter Haven, FL: November 2024
Stuart, FL: November 2024
Naples, FL: December 2024
Tavares, FL: December 2024
Port St. Lucie, FL: December 2024
Lake Alfred, FL: December 2024
Palm Bay, FL: January 2025
Niceville, FL: January 2025
Melbourne, FL: January 2025
Imokalee, FL: January 2025
Ormond Beach, FL: January 2025
Fort Pierce, FL: January 2025
Lee County, FL; February 2025
Longwood, FL: February 2025
Lake Mary, FL: February 2025
Leesburg, FL: February 2025
New Smyrna Beach, FL: February 2025
Oviedo, FL: February 2025
Boynton Beach, FL: February 2025
Collier County, FL: February 2025
Cocoa, FL: February 2025
Manatee County, FL: February 2025
Crystal River, FL: February 2025
Lakeland, FL: February 2025
Plant City, FL: March 2025
Total: 31
Presently listed in this article, Florida has 24 out of the 54 nationwide (Crystal River, FL (voted Feb. 28, 2025 to end water fluoridation) has yet to be added):
Communities That Have Ended Fluoridation Since The Fluoride Ruling | Fluoride Action Network, January 2, 2025 [and updated often]: https://fluoridealert.org/content/communities-that-have-ended-fluoridation-since-the-fluoride-lawsuit-ruling
Let's keep up the the momentum until we reach our goal!
Take Great Care,
😀 Chris Steiner
Phone: 727-520-2000
Host, Liberation Station Radio Show (to be resumed) • TheLiberationStation.com
Organizer, We Are CHANGE Tampa • WeAreCHANGETampa.org
Perry, FL: August 2023
Starke, FL: August 2023
Collier County, FL : February 2024
Brooksville, FL: April 2024
Sebring, FL: September 2024
Live Oak, FL: October 2024
Winter Haven, FL: November 2024
Stuart, FL: November 2024
Naples, FL: December 2024
Tavares, FL: December 2024
Port St. Lucie, FL: December 2024
Lake Alfred, FL: December 2024
Palm Bay, FL: January 2025
Niceville, FL: January 2025
Melbourne, FL: January 2025
Imokalee, FL: January 2025
Ormond Beach, FL: January 2025
Fort Pierce, FL: January 2025
Lee County, FL; February 2025
Longwood, FL: February 2025
Lake Mary, FL: February 2025
Leesburg, FL: February 2025
New Smyrna Beach, FL: February 2025
Oviedo, FL: February 2025
Boynton Beach, FL: February 2025
Collier County, FL: February 2025
Cocoa, FL: February 2025
Manatee County, FL: February 2025
Crystal River, FL: February 2025
Lakeland, FL: February 2025
Plant City, FL: March 2025
Total: 31
Presently listed in this article, Florida has 24 out of the 54 nationwide (Crystal River, FL (voted Feb. 28, 2025 to end water fluoridation) has yet to be added):
Communities That Have Ended Fluoridation Since The Fluoride Ruling | Fluoride Action Network, January 2, 2025 [and updated often]: https://fluoridealert.org/content/communities-that-have-ended-fluoridation-since-the-fluoride-lawsuit-ruling
Let's keep up the the momentum until we reach our goal!
Take Great Care,
😀 Chris Steiner
Phone: 727-520-2000
Host, Liberation Station Radio Show (to be resumed) • TheLiberationStation.com
Organizer, We Are CHANGE Tampa • WeAreCHANGETampa.org
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