Health Freedom Threats: Hit ‘Em High, Hit ‘Em Low!
Right now the American Public is being whipsawed: first the dangerous FDA CAM Guidance (Complimentary and Alternative Medicine/Modalities) which threatens to turn all health practices into medicine which only physicians could practice and the foods and supplements supporting natural health into unlicensed drugs – and, yes, there is a real danger to your health freedom despite a good deal of internet chatter to the contrary!) and now the sudden advancement of Senator Ted Kennedy disastrous bill, S 1082 (“the FDA Revitalization Act of 2007”, plus the identical House bill) from Committee to the floor of the Senate for a vote in the immediate future without public hearings.
It would be easy to succumb to “health freedom vigilance fatigue”, which is, I believe, exactly what the intended effect is supposed to be. There is even speculation that Senator Kennedy moved this bill forward so rapidly BECAUSE the American public responded so vigorously to the CAM Guidance and are presumed to be preoccupied with it. (By the way, we have already sent xxx comments on this dangerous extension of the law by the Office of Policy and Planning and the public comment period has been extended to May 29, giving us lots more time to get lots more comments in.) But, while we were busy with that assault, it looks like the Big Pharma folks decided to sneak this one through. And, by the way, although the Senate version is up for an immediate vote, it is the members of the House who will either vote it up or down ultimately so giving these elected officials your direction is critical NOW.
Who cares? You do. Kennedy’s dreadful bill could get the FDA into the business of not only regulating drugs and medical devices, which is does now very, very badly, but also into the business of licensing and selling them, too. Contained in the same bill is the opportunity for this agency (already thoroughly corrupted by its dependency on lucrative “user fees” from drug companies which provide a substantial portion of the FDA’s operating budget now) to increase these fees and, thus, increase its unsavory, unethical and all-too-often deadly reliance on the drug companies’ financial support of an agency which is mandated to be their watch dog but which has become their lap dog. This bill increases the financial incest between the regulated and the regulators. Given the corruption of the FDA and the fact that mainstream medicine-document reality that properly prescribed drug are the principal killers in every developed country in the world, this bill threatens to make a disastrous situation even more fatally toxic.
The FDA is already the governmental marketing branch of Big Pharma. What ever has possessed Senator Kennedy to make matters worse? Although there is are small sops to consumer well-being like forbidding advertising of new drugs until they have been in use for two years, the provisions of this bill are, in general, significantly hostile to FDA agency health and US public health. Read about S 1082, then take action.
Customize the letter, enter your information and click to submit your comments. Do it now.
Now for the report on today’s Codex Working Group on Production, Processing, Marketing and Labeling of Organic Foods
April 29, 2007 Ottawa, Ontario
What do you think? Should the definition of “organic” include crops grown with a fertilizer produced by surface-mining a rock (environmental degradation, non renewable resource) from Chile (non local resource), pulverizing it, (environmental degradation), soaking it in water to dissolve the nitrates out and crystallizing it after evaporation (highly processed material) and then applying that to soil where is absorbed very rapidly so that soil microbes do not get a chance to act on it and turn the nitrate into a mineral source from organic biomass?
The debate between Chile (the major producer of inorganic natural sodium nitrate) and everybody else was hot, heavy and highly emotional. Damage to the soil (Thailand), better options closer to the soil (EU), lack of organic integrity (Norway), rejection by the public (Switzerland) and a host of other arguments ranged passionately against Chile’s position that although it was derived from a ground-up rock from far away, it should be organic anyhow until, finally, the Chairwoman decided that despite lack of consensus the recommendation would be made to the full Codex Committee on Food Labeling to not allow Chile’s sodium nitrate to be used as an organic fertilizer. Chile was very unhappy with this decision, of course.
Then, in almost the next breath, New Zealand’s proposal that the use of synthetically derived ethylene gas be permitted to ripen kiwi fruits was approved. Hmmmm. You cannot use a synthetic fertilizer (although plants need nitrogen to grow) but you can use a synthetic gas to ripen fruits since plants make a small amount of it shows a wild inconsistency. There was no more consensus (what ever that means) for the first decision than there was for the second but the deal was apparently done before the discussion took place.
IFOAM, the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements, tried using science to make the point that Chile’s fertilizer was not OK but did not bother to even try to do so for the use of a synthetic gas to ripen a supposedly organic fruit. What the hot debate was about on ethylene was whether the approval should be put in paragraph 82 or table 4 or section 3 of table 2 or……
Net result: it is OK to ripen kiwi fruit synthetically and pretend that they are organic. Stay tuned next year for permission to ripen all tropical fruits that way since, as Brazil said, the process of gas ripening makes the tropical fruit trade economically viable. But does that make the fruit organic? Not in my book.
Tomorrow the Codex Committee on Food Labeling begins its formal work. There are several really dangerous provisions up for discussion (all supported by the US through the FDA, of course. But there are a growing number of countries that are not so sure about the wisdom of just following the multinational’s best friend around the block any more. I will keep you posted. Stay tuned.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
Could It Be That All The Problems Are Coincidence?
A couple of days ago The Natural Solutions Foundation sent out an Action Alert telling you that the FDA is at it again. Their “Proposed Guidance on CAM” will classify all natural therapies as “Medical Practices” so only licensed physicians will be able to practice them. Then the supplements and products used in those practices become “untested drugs” which are, in the US and elsewhere, illegal. Not only that, I can tell you as a physician that deviations from “practice guidelines” or “treatment algorithms” are increasingly cause for doctors to have their licenses pulled so few doctors will offer those modalities.
The Comments page , (http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7185) I set up for you to use to send your comments electronically to the FDA during the public comment period (which ends on April 30) was working perfectly and, at last count, 11,030 people had sent comments to the FDA using that page.
And then the emails began coming in that said things like, “When I click the “submit” button, I get an ‘Error 404’ message.” and “When I clicked on the link in your email, I got a “Page no longer available” message and similar emails.
Connect the Dots!
Dot:
On March 14 of this year our site, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, was “locked” by our hosting company hours after we made it known that the huge number of drug-related deaths which are the leading cause of death in every developed country in the world fit in perfectly with the explicitly stated genocidal agenda of multinational and international organizations from the Council on Foreign Relations to the World Health Organization. We pointed out that this fits perfectly with the apparent underlying Codex agenda (http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php/?p=322), coming as it does straight from Nazi Germany. (Check out the Nutricide Video on our home page, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org if you haven’t seen it! Email that link, too.)
Dot:
A temporary page telling people what happened after our site went down was mounted by our webmaster. Within hours his server and all of his sites were off the Internet because of a concerted, organized and illegal attack on our site and his hosting server. When he took our temporary site down, the attack ceased almost instantly and his sever and sites were back on line within minutes.
Dot:
Our Action Alert on the proposed New York legislation (http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php/?page_id=351) which will limit access to nutrients and supplements in that state was number 1 in Google’s ranking on the topic one day and suddenly disappeared from the Internet search engine altogether overnight!
Dot:
More than 11,000 people have responded to our urgent request that they file their objections to this latest FDA end run around DSHEA (the 1994 law which says that supplements and herbs are foods and, as such, are presumed to be safe). Our Action Alert emails on the topic have been widely circulated and people are using this opportunity to create another uproar like the one that prevented Congress from taking away our right to supplements in 1994 and brought us DSHEA!
Dot to Dot to Dot:
I Can See the Picture!
I think it is reasonable to conclude that our vigorous response and success is not particularly welcome to the FDA and their friends. And that means that we need to intensify our successful response right now! We only have until April 30, 2007 to let the FDA know that We, the People, want our health products, our health freedom and our self determination. The FDA also needs to know that we want Public Hearings on these issues and that we are willing to make our will loud and clear.
Here’s Your Part
You have been doing a great job of sending your comments to the FDA and circulating this information to your circle of influence. It may be hard to take in but if this “Guidance” goes through, there will be no more legal natural health and wellness modalities. There will be no more natural health and wellness products.
Our nutrients, if we are permitted any, will look very much like the low potency, no impact nutrients permitted in Europe under the Codex-Compliant European Food Supplements Directive (using any other nutrients in any other dosages is a crime). Our herbs, if we have any, will look very much like the very, very short list of herbs permitted ONLY FOR TRIVIAL COMPLAINTS in Europe under the European Medicinal Herbal Products Directive (using any other herbs for any other reasons is a crime). In other words, Big Pharma, like Big Brother at the end of George Orwell’s chillingly prophetic “1984” will have won.
We are That Close!
We are that close to loosing natural medicine. We are that close to loosing our health freedom.
It is imperative that you submit your comments to the FDA. If you value your health or your freedom (or both) you have only a narrow window of opportunity to raise your voice with all the other voices shouting for our right to make our own health decisions.
Use this link to access the page where you can submit your comments : http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7185
If there is a problem wit the link, write to me with your information at dr.laibow@gmail.com and I will personally make sure that your comments are submitted to the FDA. Every one of them!
After you have submitted you comments, the next step is critical. Spend some time contacting all of the people in your circle of influence and, with a short note at the top of the email, explain how dangerous this threat is, how short the window of opportunity is and what the consequences will be if the FDA and Big Pharma succeed this time around. Please include the makers and sellers of your vitamins, minerals, etc. as well as the practitioners whom you know in your emails. Ask people, practitioners, health food stores, organizations and companies to alert their customers, patients, suppliers, friends, etc. We need millions of responses and we CAN get them if we all work together on this.
Oh, and please, don’t forget to write to me to let me know if you have any further problems with the links or the sites. We will fix them if you do.
Actually, I take heart from these attacks: if we were not effective, there would be no need for sabotage!
Remember, the FDA’s goal is simple: through a “Guidance” about the regulation of “CAM” (which they conveniently define as “Complementary and Alternative MEDICINE” instead of “Complementary and Alternative Modalities” the FDA hopes to serve the interests of Big Pharma by eliminating all CAM practices and products. ALL of them.
Criminalizing Natural Health
The FDA is using a legal ploy to make all natural health criminal in either one way or another. You can’t engage in it if you are not a physician and you cannot use the products even if you are. That’s very similar to the laws recently introduced in Australia (5 year prison sentence for using, providing to another person or teaching the use of nutrients) and India (illegal to practice or teach acupuncture, energy healing, sound therapy, etc., etc.). Neither law passed but they will be back in Parliament again. It’s the same process: marginalize, then criminalize all competition to the deadly, expensive and oh-so-useful drugs!
In your email to your circle of influence, please remember to Include a link to the Natural Solutions Foundation website (www.HealthFreedomUSA.org ). Tell them that we are protecting their health freedoms and ask them to lend their support to the health freedom battle which threatens to criminalize natural health! Let them know that when you click on this link, http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7185, your comments will be automatically registered on the FDA site.
5,000,000
That’s our goal. Two weeks, five million comments to the FDA, all asserting our fundamental right to control our own health. Manufacturers, distributors, health food stores and natural practitioners pay close attention: the FDA is in the process of regulating your business out of existence. By April 30. If you value your work and your livelihood, ACT NOW!
Here’s that critically important link:
We are collectively doing a GREAT job. That’s the reason efforts to silence us crop up. We are not silent because we are right: our health and our freedom is worth speaking out for and we are doing it!
We ARE the Ones We Have Been Waiting For!
Oh, yes. One other thing: The lawyer who wrote this comments document did it for free. Our other legal consultants work for free. I work for free. General Stubblebine works for free. Our wonderful volunteers and Board Members accept no compensation. Everyone else who is providing services wants to be paid for the work they do for us. And rightly so, by the way. So don’t forget to feed the health freedom kitty by making a tax deductible donation (http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=189) or shopping at our all-organic store! Thanks for all your wonderful support.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
March 16, 2007
FAQ’s on Our Blocked Site
As you probably know, yesterday the Natural Solutions Foundation website was blocked by its service provider www.1and1.com*
So many people have written to express support, ask questions and suggest options and solutions that I thought I would send out an update and give you the full details of what has happened so far. We are taking this very seriously, indeed. We feel that this represents a violation of our rights to speak our truth as we see fit and share that truth with you. Please make sure you read the FAQ about putting up another site. Those of you who asked if the problem could just be a technical problem will find that sectionrather interesting. (Hint: no, it was not just a technical problem.)
The number of emails you sent to the Natural Solutions Foundation was truly staggering. Your expressions of support, suggestion
on how to fix the the problem and make sure it could not happen again were wonderful. Sharing your own experiences of similar events was strengthening and extremely helpful. Every email will be answered personally but it will take a little time because of the volume of those emails.I have read every one of those emails and thought it would be useful to send out an FAQ sheet to address the questions and issues raised by so many of you in the meantime, though.
WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THE SITE NOW?
The Natural Solutions Foundation site is operational again. You can go there now. There apparently are some areas that are not fully operational so please, if you come across anything that is not working properly, email me at dr.laibow@gmail.com
IS THE SITE FULLY FUNCTIONAL AT THIS POINT?
The Natural Solutions Foundation site is working more or less correctly except that all the pictures of items on the Organics4U store are missing and some people have been having trouble signing up for the mailing list. We have no idea why they are missing but the rest of the store is working fine. If you want to sign up and you cannot, here’s my email: dr.laibow@gmail.com. Send me an email and I will make sure you are added.
EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED?
Two days ago we got an email from a supporter saying that the site was not on line. Within a short time I had received many similar emails. I went on line, confirmed that the site was unavailable and contacted our hosting site, www.1and1.com. When I attempted to log in, I found that our site was listed as “locked”.
Two months ago 1and1.com had said the credit card we use to pay for the hosting service ($99 per month) would not accept the charge. The card was fine. Rather than hassle further with the people in their billing department, we gave them permission to use another card so I thought that perhaps they had gotten the billing wrong again.
Their billing department was closed so I called their technical support department. I waited in a stack-up for 19 minutes and 45 seconds (typical of all my calls to 1and1.com, by the way) and since I was calling from overseas the charges were escalating and I was getting more displeased by the billing unit.
Mahat Answers the Phone
Finally Mahat, a technician, answered the call. I explained the problem to him and he looked at their computer and said, yes, the site is locked. When I asked why, Mahat said that it had been locked with no information and that was unusual. I asked him to look into it and he could/would not. When I wanted to talk to a supervisor, Mahat said his supervisor was on leave. I asked to speak to his supervisor’s supervisor and he said that he was not there. I asked the higher up to call me when he came in. Mahat said he would not.
Figuring that if a site could be locked it could be unlocked, I got Mahat to ask the supervisor of another team to authorized the site being unlocked. Mahat reported that the other person said, “If it were on the weekend we would do it but it is a weekday so we won’t unlock the site.”
Billing was open only from 9-5 PM on the next business day (yesterday). However, since I am on the other side of the world, that was a long time away.
A call to billing resulted in a similar wait and then a person got on line and told me that the site was blocked because of a credit card payment problem. This is not possible. I asked why this information was not on their computer. I got no answer. A struggle ensued and I was finally told that the site would be reopened “within the hour” and that another credit card payment would be charged to my account.
SITE DOES NOT GET UN-BLOCKED
The site did not go back on line. I spent the next 6 hours repeatedly calling headquarters (which turns out to be a call center, not a headquarters according to the person on the other end who did not know the name of the President of the company or any officers of the company to whom I could speak) and calling the billing department, technical service and anyone else who might have been able to help. 1and1.com lists their technical support as a 24 hour service.
The recorded message which stayed on for hours was “We are sorry. All circuits are busy. Please try your call again later.” I did. For over 6 hours. It was not “later” enough.
DID NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION PUT UP ANOTHER SITE?
One of the first things I did was contact my webmaster who said he would put up an informational site alerting people to what had happened if they went to our site. He did so very quickly. His server and all of the sites he hosts immediately crashed. When he took our temporary site down, the servers and sites were fine.
COULDN’T THE PROBLEM HAVE BEEN JUST A TECHNICAL ISSUE?
The problems we experienced and the ones our webmaster experienced are characteristic of a DDOS or Dedicated Disruption of Service attack in which a bank of computers is set up to fire off so many repeating and competing requests for access to a site that the system crashes. That is not a simple technical event. It requires planning and sophisticated capacity to damage of destroy site capacity.
Many of you wrote to ask if we could pursue legal action because of the disruption. Here is what our webmaster wrote to me about that question:
While DDOS are technically illegal and prosecutable, it’s basically impossible to track down the perpetrators. They could be in any country, directed by parties in any other country. They could be using a computer here, a computer there, they could even be using your computer if you’ve got a virus on your hard drive. So this route — prosecution — is not realistic (at least at this point).
1and1.com has still not disclosed whether they had locked our site because it had been the target of a DDOS but the chances are good since our URL immediately was hit with DDOS activity when our webmaster redirected it to his temporary page.
HOW DO I MAKE A DONATION TO THE NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION?
Your donations are critically important. The fact that we have been attacked by such sophisticated means says that we are right on target and we need your help to stay there.
1. You can go to www.PayPal.com and make a tax deductible donation to this email account:
releyes@gmail.com
PayPal donations to either of those emails go directly into the Natural Solutions Foundation bank account.
2. You can go to our website which is up now and donate either on a one time or recurring basis. Both are appreciated. Recurring donations mean that we can count on support each month and are very helpful. All donations are tax exempt for US residents and citizens.
3. You can send a check or money order marked “Donation” to our headquarters. Send your donation to
Natural Solutions Foundation
P.O. Box 722
Maryville, MO 64468
U.S.A.
WHAT ABOUT THE NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION STORE, ORGANICS4U?
Organics4U is up and running but there are no pictures of the products. We don’t know why yet.
When you shop at Organics4U all profit goes to the Natural Solutions Foundation to support our work. You will receive a letter thanking you for your support an telling you how much your donation was for that purchase!
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MAKE SURE THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN AGAIN?
Many people sent excellent suggestions about mirroring sites and other strategies to prevent a repeat of this episode. We are vigorously investigating them and will certainly take action to make sure we are not prone to this kind of attack again.
I CALLED 1AND1.COM AND THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO ANSWER MY QUESTIONS.
Me too! But many of you wrote to say that you had called 1and1 which said that they were getting lots of calls about the Natural Solutions Foundation being off line. To all of you who called or wrote to Congress about this, THANKS!
NOW THAT THE SITE IS UP AGAIN, IS THE EVENT OVER?
Not by a long shot! Our freedom of speech has been interfered with and we want to know why and by whom. We will keep you posted.
We will also be making changes (which many of you suggested) to make sure that this does not happen again. If it does, we’ll get past it because of your community of support just like this time!
OK. NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION SURVIVED THIS ATTACK. WHAT’S NEXT?
You can be sure that there will be more attacks. Disinformation, Disruption and Deception. The 3 Ds are potent tools used by those who have secrets to keep when it comes to power and money. They don’t want the secrets out and the Natural Solutions Foundation is telling it exactly the way it is. There will be more attacks, you may be sure.
We have been very busy planning for the next stages of our fight. Now we have a new piece in the puzzle: freedom of speech. You can be sure that we will be focusing on that in our blogs and emails and asking you to help support uncensored sharing of information and ideas. Without freedom, what does health freedom mean?
The General’s View of Attempts to Silence the Natural Solutions Foundation
General Stubblebine will be writing an email to you shortly so you get his take on this situation, too. As a career military officer sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, he has quite a lot to say about the meaning of this event.
Organics4U is Getting Even Better
Organics4U is in preparation for a brand new look and a brand new launch. New products are being added to make the selection even better.
We are creating a library of down-loadable information for your use because you asked us to. This free information service will have sections focusing on nutrients, herbs and disease conditions to help you with the best, most up-to-date information. Health choices will be easier to make. Our products are already the cleanest, healthiest and most effective available anywhere. Everything on the Organics4U store is clean, unadulterated and good for bodies and the earth! And we are upgrading our media section, too.
There will be a new Newsletter once a month filled with tips, topics of health interest, book reviews and health news. We’ll take your questions and give you meaningful answers. Watch for it.
ARE GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS NEXT IN THE FOUNDATION SITES ?
The Natural Solutions Foundation attended a Codex meeting in Oslo last month on the labeling of GM foods. We were invited to speak in Africa in June on the topic and we are now working on a White Paper on Genetically Modified Foods and their serious flaws and dangers. Right now you can buy the Codex eBook detailing the solution to the Codex press forcing countries do down regulate all effective vitamins and minerals (the other nutrient substances are under the hammer, too) which we give to heads of state, ministers of health, etc. It is beautiful book which clearly sets forth the problem of low potency nutrients and gives both clinical and legal solutions which people and countries can follow to become World Trade Organization sanction-proof. Research volunteers needed. Write to me at dr.laibow@gmail.com .
We are working on the next in that series, a GMO book. Stay tuned!
ARE YOU STILL TRAVELING A LOT?
This year, with your help we will attend the following Codex meetings:
* May: Codex Committee on Food Labeling, Canada
* July: Codex Commission, Italy
* September, Codex Biotech Committee, Japan
* November, Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses, Germany
* We will be lecturing and meeting with decision makers in India, Tanzania, Ghana, Us, Nigeria and about 10 other countries during 2007.
* We are working hard on initiating programs under the International Decade of Nutrition in several countries. These programs make the impact of nutrition clear through beautifully designed, high potency nutrient programs and other simple, natural techniques for ensuring health and health freedom.
WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP?
Hundreds of people wrote to say that they were grateful for the work that we are doing because this is their fight, too. They are absolutely right! Get involved.
1. Sign the Citizens Petition! Print out copies and take them to public gatherings, health food stores, your food market, your play group. Ask people to sign them. Email the link and get people talking. Take them wherever you go and help people to see that it is their battle as well.
2. Email the Nutricide link to every one you know. Tell them why they need to be involved in this issue. Arrange showings of the Nutricide Video in your home town, club or church. Take lots of Citizens Petitions with you so people can sign it when they have seen the video.
3. Use your creativity to find ways that you can help to win this battle. If you paint, or you sing or you do data entry or you do bake sales or dance recitals, or play jazz or sew or have your businessman’s club that would like to sponsor a cause take up health freedom, etc. Think about what you can bring to the health freedom battle and then do it! Let us know what you are interested in doing so we can support you! Contact me at dr.laibow@gmail.com and we’ll figure out how to help!
4. What happens if the unique voice of the Natural Solutions Foundation is not here defending your health and your health freedom? Don’t let that happen. Practice the 3 G’s of health freedom: Get involved, Give and Germinate new interest!
I think that answers most of the questions which your hundreds and hundreds of emails asked and the comments which you addressed. If I left something out, let me know at dr.laibow@gmail.com.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
What I am about to tell you will thrill you and chill you at the same time. It will thrill you because it confirms that the course set by the Natural Solutions Foundation in the US and around the world is an effective strategy which is working. And it will chill you because it confirms that your personal freedoms and mine are being curtailed at a frightening rate in the US and elsewhere. Freedom to make your own health choices and use natural products and techniques, eat clean, unadulterated food and see health care professionals who treat you naturally is clearly under huge attack. Part and parcel of that attack is the attack on our rights, given by God, according to the Constitution of the United States, to speak as we wish and contend with the views of government and industry (increasingly one entity, in the US and elsewhere) without fear of punishment because of that speech.
As advocates for what we believe (and what you do, too), we know that speaking our truth to power and to the public at large is our right and our responsibility. Apparently, for doing so, we have been marked by the “security police” as people to be treated like enemies. Our work on behalf of health and health freedom has led some cog in the burgeoning US security Gestapo to do us the favor of confirming that the Natural Solutions Foundation is on exactly the right path. We are saying and doing things the US Government is not happy about and to let us know that, they treat us like enemies of the state every time we fly in the United States!
Here’s the story:
For about the last year, every time General Stubblebine and I travel by air — anywhere — we have been subjected to increasing, and increasingly nasty and burdensome, scrutiny at security screening points. As you know, we do a LOT of traveling so this was very, very clear to us. Up until recently, however, we were always told that it was due to “random screening procedures” and that we had been “selected for additional security”. It was, of course, a funny kind of random: the enhanced security seemed to randomly apply to anyone named Albert N. Stubblebine III and Rima E. Laibow, MD who just happened to share our seat assignments.
On January 10, 2007, when General Stubblebine and I left our home near New York City on another extended trip in the service of health and health freedom, the security thing got ratcheted up quite a large notch. Our itinerary was Newark NJ (a New York regional airport) to Asheville NC to Albuquerque NM to Los Angeles to Bangkok and beyond. Within the US we were flying on Delta Airlines. At each airport both General Stubblebine and I were treated to a level of absurd “security” unlike any we had ever experienced before. I was “smacked down”, not patted down. Our carry-on luggage was not just inspected, it was torn apart. Wires, mice, cables, combs, lipsticks, everything was opened, examined, flung around, shoved into bags in a totally disorganized, “higgledy piggledy” manner with rude demeanor and agonizing slowness thrown in for good measure. We came very close to missing our flights several times despite being at the security station a full 2 hours before take off. Nasty does not even begin to describe the manner in which we were treated.
During a lay over between connecting flights I got to chatting with a member of the Delta Airlines cabin crew staff who was “dead heading” home from an international flight. I told him about the treatment we had been experiencing and he said, “You must have a code on your tickets put there by the government. Are you speaking out about something the government doesn’t like?”
So at the next check point I innocently said to the woman checking our boarding passes and photo IDs (which is, of course, just a warm up for the “Real ID” national identification card coming our way in 2008) that we were experiencing an absurd amount of security scrutiny. She smiled warmly, pointed to our boarding passes and said, “Well, here’s why. The code is right here on your boarding cards: it says that you are to get extreme scrutiny. Are you talking about something the government doesn’t want you to say?”
At that airport, too, we were subjected to the same malicious and ridiculous “screening” as at all the others. The code was right there: SSSS. So our tickets marked us, presumably at the request of the United States Government Department of Homeland Security, as bad people, people who should have their persons and belongings searched for dangerous contents. Bad people, people who should be taught a lesson, intimidated and, most important of all, people who should be cowed into not speaking out to defend their rights and the rights of others. For speaking our truth both to power and to the masses, we have been marked, as with the biblical “Mark of the Beast”.
I say, however, that our paranoid and dangerously out of control government, the one that has forgotten that our rights are, according to the United States Constitution, conferred by God, NOT by the US government, had obviously created a process of marking the best. Those who speak out, those who tell their truth and remind our government that it serves us, it does not own us, those who keep the flame of liberty, which demands active participation to feed it, alive and vigorous, are marked “for special scrutiny”. And these are the best patriots.
If the Natural Solutions Foundation were not on target, its spokespersons would not be targets. If the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Codex activities were not right on the mark, Dr. Claude Moshe, the Codex Alimentarius Commission Chairman would not have marked us for special attack before and during the 2006 Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting last July in Geneva.
Actually, I feel pretty good about receiving this direct confirmation from the US Government at the same time that I feel enraged and sorrowing that this is what our institutionalized paranoia has led us to: speak up and be marked. Be a real patriot by defending your country from corporate tyranny and become a target. You will remember that when we returned home from another long trip (during which we met privately with the President of India to brief him on Codex), our internet and phone service had been interrupted by someone who climbed the phone pole outside our isolated and remote home, removed a filter from its insulating and water-proof boot and left the boot open. Since we live on a street with only 12 houses and virtually no traffic, the pole feeds only our home with telephone and power lines. The message? Just ask General Stubblebine, who, during his active duty military career, controlled the US Army’s counter-intelligence service and he will tell you that what it means is, “We know where you live!” So the powers that be were telling us last July that we were on a watch list, too.
Is this what freedom is about? Is this what the US Constitution is about? Or is this of a piece with the same government policies and practices that are working so hard to take away your right to vitamins, minerals, natural prevention and treatment options — in short to your taking, and holding, control of your own health in favor of a pharmaceutical tyranny?
We know the answer and so do you. To the extent that you value that freedom, it is up to you to take a stand, and keep taking it, for yourself and others who may not understand yet that their freedoms, and, in fact, their very survival is at stake.
There are powerful steps you can take to support your freedoms and exercise them at the same time. Some of them will sound familiar, some will be new. They are ALL vitally important to the extent that your health and freedom are important.
Step 1: USE THE TOOL KIT
A. NUTRICIDE Watch “Nutricide” on Google Video and then get the “Nutricide: the DVD” and show it in your community. Make sure you send everyone you know this link and ask them to watch the video and then go to the Natural Solutions Foundation website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org.
B. CODEX eBOOK The Codex eBook applies the Natural Solutions Foundations’ Two Step Process (developed in conjunction with the Citizens Codex Working Group) which can protect countries from both the dangers of Codex and World Trade Organization trade sanctions for deviating from Codex has been applied to the dangerous and restrictive Vitamin and Mineral Guideline. Get the same information we present to Heads of State, Codex Delegates, Ministers of Health and other decision makers in this outstanding down-loadable eBook.
C. CODEX INFORMATION
Big Pharma and the other corporate friends of health fascism don’t want you to know what’s going on so there is a virtual black out on information about Codex. Natural Solutions Foundation wants you to have accurate, accessible and vital information. When you visit www.HealthFreedomUSA.org you will find a wealth of information for your use. Feel free to take the 5 minute Codex Tour, be sure to read “Nutricide: the Killing Fields of Codex“, download the one page Codex Flyer, visit the Resource Center, etc. You have my personal permission to use, share or reproduce these materials as long as you give full credit and a complete citation when you do. Email it, post it, blast it, just get the word out. The major media are not covering this issue so it’s up to you and me.
B. TAKE THE ACTION STEPS
Join the Citizens Petition and become part of the historic suit against the US Government against their illegal Codex policy on supplements. Nearly 40,000 other US Citizens have already signed the petition. Let your circle of influence know how important their signatures are and send them the link with your suggestion that they sign the Citizens Petition, too!
If you have not yet signed the Citizens Petition at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, do it now! You can automatically email it to us with the click of a button and we will take it from there.
Step 2: SIGN UP FOR EMAIL UPDATES
Make sure you are signed up for our secure (I.E., never sold, shared, loaded or rented), Natural Solutions Foundation eNewsletter (on our homepage, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org) and send the email blasts you receive from us to your entire circle of influence, too.
Step 3. ORGANICS4U: SUPPORT YOUR HEALTH AND YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM AT THE SAME TIME
Every time you make a purchase from our all-organic, doctor recommended store, Organics4U you are supporting the Natural Solutions Foundation, protecting your body. Organic foods and supplements do not expose you to the dangers and damage caused by pesticides, artificial colors, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, synthetic “supplements” or food and nutrients derived from dangerous genetically modified sources. Everything at the Organics4U shop has been verified by me personally to be organic, clean and wholesome. You can shop safely for yourself and your family.
More than that, though, you know that you are helping the Natural Solutions Foundation to fight for your freedom to have access to clean, unadulterated products like these. And, as a way of saying “thank you” for your support, the tax deductible portion of every portion (approximately 40%) comes back to you as a tax deduction to a charitable organization with a letter you can give to your tax adviser come tax time in a few months!
Step 4. DONATE
Your one time or recurring tax deductible donations make it possible for the Natural Solutions Foundation to keep on finding effective solutions to problems like Codex Alimentarius and other serious health freedom threats. You send us to Codex meetings, allow us to enlist lawyers and other experts who, like us, are willing to donate their time but have travel and other expenses associated with doing this work. You pay for our webmaster, and a host of other on-going expenses. What you do not pay for is salaries or retainers for our lawyers or for us: we donate 100% of our time to keeping your health freedom alive and well. We are endorsed by organizations like the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and the National Association of Nutrition Professionals among others.
We have no commercial support: our only constituency is you. We cannot continue to be uniquely effective and uniquely present at the right times and places without that support. Consider making a recurring gift so we know what our monthly income will be. But please make your donation right now.
Step 5. GET INVOLVED
People write to me at my new email address, dr.laibow@gmail.com, to tell me that they are eager to become involved. They can either become community organizers or, as often happens, they have wonderful talents and ideas for art auctions, dance and music fund raisers, lectures, health freedom t-shirts, tag sales, etc., etc. What would you like to do to support health freedom? We’ll help! Let’s make it happen.
We’ll be here in Bangkok working on some special projects for health freedom and international cooperation for a while, then off to India in about a month to follow up on the outstanding successes we have had there. In May we’ll be in Ottawa for the Codex Committee on Food Labeling, in Rome in July for the Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting (where Dr. Moshe is probably NOT going to roll out the red carpet for us. You get the picture. We are there, literally, for you. Tell me your particular way of being there for us and we’ll continue changing the world, and protecting our freedoms, together!
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
dr.laibow@gmail.com
I’ll admit it. I got scooped! I was planning to blog, e-blast, write press releases, do a series of interviews and generally focus attention on a burning question that could save your life or your child’s (or someone else’s): “Drugs: What are You Taking and Why?”. But a wonderful campaign got there first and is doing a spectacular job of providing information about the serious, and potentially lethal, disconnect between psychiatric drugs, psychiatric diagnoses and biochemical reality.
I want to tell you about this campaign and urge you to consult the first class information provided on their site, their radio shows, articles and tools for empowerment and choice-making. Psychiatric drugs can be dangerous, they are largely untested, their efficacy is unproven, and they are powerful toxins which can have lasting, and often highly damaging, impact on the brain and behavior. Their long term effects are little known in adults and virtually unknown in children. None the less, they are quick and easy to use: they provide an initial damping of disturbing or irksome behaviors in many patients. True, the distressing and dangerous downward spiral of more symptoms, more drugs, more symptoms, more drugs, more symptoms, more drugs is a well established cycle rooted in biochemical reality. Unfortunatley, the use of these drugs is not rooted in any such biochemical solidity. The much-vaunted “Chemical Imbalance” has never been shown to exist. Treating it with expensive, life-threatening drugs whose efficacy is more a matter of glossy, but brilliant, media than of of non-commerically-tainted science is highly questionable at best and may be a lot worse. The system is broken (see below), drugs are highly questionable and should only be taken with full knowledge of the risks and benefits, and of all other options available (including questioning any diagnosis made so that you understand completely why you [or your child]) should, or should not, take the drugs offered by a harried, time-compressed, well-meaning, but well-indoctrinated physician or other prescriber.
What to do? Go to “The Truth About Psychiatry” and spend some time there. The information is sound, good science and, where there are only questions instead of answers, clearly and simply stated. While the site is not yet complete (the bookstore, for example, is yet to come), the information is top notch as are the experts who have banded together to get the word out: if YOU do not know what, and why, you are taking medication, it is your right and your responsibility to find out. Their radio archives, currently contain 11 easily downloadable archived interviews which are uniformly high quality, non technical and riveting. Each one is more potent, and more empowering, than the last. And each one prepares you to ask the right questions and evaluate the answers you get from your doctor or any where else.
The “Just Say Know” site is not about drug bashing. It is about ignorance busting.
To help you be in the know so you can make truly informed decisions, there is a very elegant, simple, clear (and clearly useful) form which you can download at www.psychtruth.org/justsayknow.htm. Working through it with your doctor you can see what you are taking and why. And, whatever your decision about the drugs themselves, as an informed consumer you are “doing a body good!” — Yours!
October is “Just Say Know” Month. I salute this initiative and will support it. And oh, by the way, the alternatives to drugs are all natural items (including a clean diet and high potency nutrients) which would become a thing of the past – world wide – if we do not preserve our right to health and health freedom. Donate now to the Natural Solutions Foundation to keep health freedom alive and well — so you CAN “Just Say ‘Know'” this month and every month using your choice of nutrients, supplements, clean food, detox, etc. Don’t let Codex take that away from you and those you love!
If you choose drugs, then let it be a knowing, understanding and well-informed choice. Just Say KNOW!”
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director