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Permalink: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6960
October 6, 2010
Action eBlasts 3 Times Weekly Until the Election!
United Action Amplifies Our Push Back!
Please 1. Open Each eBlast
2. Take Action Items 3. Visit Candidates With Talking Points
4. Spread Information to Mobilize Others To Do The Same!
We Continue to Educate the Candidates
NEW! GMO TALKING POINTS
Last eBlast had the Food Freedom Talking Points
This Time We Take on GMO “Phony Phude”
Due to your strong Push Back opposition, the US Senate has not yet adopted the fake “food safety” bills, S.510 and S.3767, and our Food Freedom Talking Points in our last eBlast continues to educate candidates and representatives about these bad bills.
Visiting Candidates and Incumbents, Talking Points in hand, gets their attention and forces them to pay attention. But, in addition to this immediate Food Freedom threat, other Health and Food Freedom issues need to be addressed during this election period, too. Therefore, we are preparing a series of Talking Points for you to use to keep the pressure up! Members of Congress and hopefuls candidates will be crisscrossing your district… be ready for them!
We ask you to visit your candidates and incumbents (especially the US Senate) during this critical electioneering month. Go, if you can, with groups of people who all come armed with the following “Talking Points”. Remember to discuss them rationally, briefly and very, very directly. Print out one Talking Point copy for each member of your group and half a dozen for the Congressman or candidate and his/her staff. And mention that you are part of the Natural Solutions Foundation, the largest Health Freedom Organization in the world. As I write this, there are more than 305,000 supporters on our primary list alone! Each of them has contacts and is willing to share this information to preserve our health freedom.
Here, Then, Are
THE TALKING POINTS
[1] GMO Talking Points
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6955
[2] Food Freedom Talking Points
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6910
Take the Above Talking Points to Your Congressional Candidates
NOW is the time to secure their commitment to Health & Food Freedom!
Now
NOW is the time to promote the Food Freedom Amendment!
Please let us know what happens: email dr.laibow@gmail.com with “Talking” in the subject line with your report
Project “Expand Our Base”
We are posting the Talking Points on various social networking and citizens web sites and we invite you to go onto those web sites and post supporting comments. Here is where to go:
Our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49374475384
Campaign for Liberty: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=38726
Tea Party Patriots: http://teapartypatriots.ning.com/profiles/blogs/election-2010-health-amp-food
If you repost either of the Talking Points on other social media, please let us know so we can feature the links here; email dr.laibow@gmail.com with “Talking” in the subject line.
DON’T STOP NOW! PUSH BACK CONTINUES!
Click Below to Take Action! Stop S.510! Stop S.3767!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613
Senate: Don’t Rush S.3767 to the Senate Floor! Support the Food Freedom Amendment Instead! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public /?action_KEY=4878
BAN ALL GMOs WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049
Please take a moment to read our current Valley of the Moon™ Restaurant and Cafe doings and see what Natural Solutions Foundation is up to at the “Boots on the Ground” Level with its Eco Demonstration Project reclaiming the production of clean food – and so much more! Be sure to check out our growing list of extraordinary Seminars and webinars!
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6896
And please remember to make your tax deductible donations to support the Natural Solutions Foundation. We can’t do our work without your support. Click below to set up a recurring donation now.
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189
We suggest you consider joining the 510/3767 Club
Donate either $5.10 weekly or monthly or $37.67 weekly or monthly.
Your donations here, http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189, make the difference.
CONTEST
You are invited! Participate in the “Landfill Health Program” video satire contest.
Visit http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6889 and let your creative juices sizzle;
You could be the big winner…
Thanks for your support.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.Dr.Rima.net
Talk Is Cheap, But It’s Not Free!
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Remember, at the upcoming Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses Meeting in November (Santiago, Chile), we’ll be reporting to you about the US efforts to replace the already absurdly low Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) for nutrients with the even more insane Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs) and make those not just suggestions, as they are now, but upper limits for nutrients.
We need your help to get us there. Click here, http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189, to send Natural Solutions Foundation to Codex next month.
Every Sunday 10 AM to 1 PM Eastern Time
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Listen or Ask Questions: 512-904-8014 or Toll Free 866-841-1065
Guest This Sunday, October 10, Will be: Eileen Dannimann, Dead Babies and Flu Vaccines Part II
Sunday, 10 AM to 1 PM Eastern
http://vaccineliberationarmy.com/cdc-falsifies-pregnant-women-stats-ignoring-up-to-3-587-miscarriages/
Click Here For More Information on Dr. Rima Reports:
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Short Takes…
Headline Shouts:
“Research Stresses That Vaccinations Should Continue as Influenza Pandemics Epidemics Wane”
http://www.medindia.net/news/Research-Stresses-That-Vaccinations-Should-Continue-as-Influenza-Pandemics-Epidemics-Wane-75025-1.htm
Translation from Dr. Rima:
“No disease? No Problem – Just keep vaccinating and there WILL be diseases –
lots and lots of them! This is the type of “Research” we call: Voodoo Science!”
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And more…
75% of Deaths in Arusha, Tanzania (the Capital City) allegedly due to Aids “The Deaths have not only robbed the government of its human resources but also affected productivity in the public sector.” http://thecitizen.co.tz/news/-/4599-75pc-of-workers-deaths-linked-to-aids
ROTATEQ(R) (Rotavirus Vaccine, Live, Oral, Pentavalent) Awarded Prix Galien USA 2010 Top Honor
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/203542.php
“Adverse events associated with the use of RotaTeq may include, but are not limited to, the following: * Diarrhea * Irritability * Otitis Media * Vomiting * Nasopharyngitis * Bronchospasm * Intesusseption
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Valley of the Moon™ Report
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6896
Vaccine Science: Missing in Action…
Guest Blog by Paul G. King, PhD
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6903
Dr Rima Recommends
NATURAL SOLUTIONS CENTER WEBINARS
Webinar Archives
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6588
1. CAUTIONS FOR CAM PRACTITIONERS – Ralph Fucetola JD (1.5 hr – $99)
Includes 32 slides, 20 page ebook with forms and private forum.
If You are an Advanced Health Care “CAM” Practitioner You Need This Webinar!
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6588#cautions
“Do you have questions about your legal rights and limits … or need information about how best to run your health care business? Are you aware there are words you cannot use and statements, although true, you cannot safely say to clients? Hiring an attorney, one on one, to review these issues could cost you hundreds of dollars… making a mistake could cost you thousands. I invite you, instead, to learn from my Webinar, Cautions for CAM Wellness Practices” – Ralph Fucetola JD
2. Local Organizing Webinar posted (32 minutes – free)
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6588#local
3. How are Music, Color, Organs, Food and Qi Energy Related?
Come to the Valley of the Moon’s Natural Solutions Center and Find Out!
Starting with a Five Elements BeyondOrganic™ Welcome Dinner on January 9, 2011
we’ll spend 5 days focusing on each of the Five Elements, its food, color, strengths, weaknesses, characteristics, sounds and uses. Each day will include 3 outstanding meals and snacks (including food preparation in our teaching kitchen), lectures and participation, all in the lovely Valley of the Moon™ in temperate, tranquil, beautiful, bountiful Chiriqui, Panama.
With direct flights starting this December from the US to David, just 45 minutes away, getting there is easy. Being there is really easy: you’ll be in one of the most beautiful places in the world at the most beautiful time of year.
If you want a unique get-away or want to find out if the Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Community is for you or just want to experience this intensive program to learn more about the Five Element system, then mark the week on your calendar.
Welcome Banquet January 9 to Final Breakfast on January 15, 2011. It’s a week you won’t forget.
Write to us at NaturalSolutionsCenter@gmail.com with 5 ELEMENTS as the subject line to make sure you are in line for this limited space program in Panama.
4. Are You A Wood Carver?
Arte Cruz’s Art Comes in Many Forms – Join Us for An Art Show
Then Join Arte In an Exclusive 3 Part Class Limited to Just 6 People!
Arte and an Apprentice Carving one of the Doors for the
Valley of the Moon’s Natural Solutions Center
Have You Always Wanted to Learn Wood Carving From a World-Class Master?
This Is Your Chance!
Join Us At the Valley of the Moon™ Natural Solutions Center for lunch or dinner and an Art Show and Demonstration with the World Renowned Master Carver, Arte Cruz on December 11, 2010
Then Participate in a 3 part class with Arte:
Wood Carving I Friday January 21- Sunday January 23, 2011
Wood Carving II Friday February 4 – Sunday February 6, 2011
Wood Carving III and Introduction to Sculpture and 3D Wood Carving
Wood Carving Classes begin with dinner on Friday night, then class from 7-10 PM. On Saturday morning, after a BeyondOrganic™breakfast, you will work with Arte from 9 AM to 12 noon. After a break for lunch, you’ll continue your class from 2 to 5 PM followed by dinner and evening entertainment. Sunday starts with a BeyondOrganic™breakfast and continues with class with Arte from 9 to 12 noon. Depart after lunch.
Contact us at NaturalSolutionsCenter@gmail.com for more information. Please indicate “WOODCARVING” in the subject line.
5. Experience Karma Singh’s Energy Transmissions, Then Tell Us What You Think:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6152
Valley of the Moon™ Coffee
Health Freedom’s Coffee
It’s GMO Free, Toxin Free and Helps Keep You Free!
Valley of the Moon™ Coffee – Health Freedom’s Own Coffee
www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
Order 8 bags or more and we’ll send you one of our beautiful Valley of the Moon Cups as our “Thank You!”
Don’t forget to get yourself some of our exceptional Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee, www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org, and remember to give this delightful health brew as your gift for birthdays, Christmas, Hanukkah, corporate gifts, Holiday corporate and private gift giving! etc. Clean, toxin-free coffee helps coffee drinkers, it helps the Natural Solutions Foundation at the same time and it tastes WONDERFUL!!! In fact, we want you to try, and then keep on buying, our wonderful Valley of the Moon Coffee(TM) so we have a coffee special for you: Purchase a 1/2 pound bag of our spectacular coffee for $18.87 plus shipping. This same bag normally requires a donation of $25.00 (a savings of $6.13). Now, purchase 5 bags or more (including your gifts) and your price drops to $17.57 per bag – a savings of $37.15!
Purchase 8 bags or more and we’ll send you one of our beautiful Valley of the Moon Cups so you can enjoy your coffee in yet another way: with your eyes!
Just make sure that you enter “RbR01C” in the Comments Area to receive our special price!
And don’t forget the universal remedy, Nano Silver, www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions, and supplementing with Cognitive Enhancement Nutrition to keep your brain healthy and focused…
Yours in health and freedom,
The Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)
President – www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director – www.DrRima.net
Ralph Fucetola, JD
Counsel and Trustee – www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
Support Health & Food Freedom:
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Dr. Rima Reports, live chat, updates, Action Items and more…
Permalink: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6940
October 4, 2010
Action eBlasts 3 Times Weekly Until the Election!
United Action Amplifies Our Push Back!
Please 1. Open Each eBlast, 2. Visit Candidates With Talking Points, 3. Spread Information to Mobilize Others!
It’s Time to Educate the Candidates
HEALTH & FOOD FREEDOM TALKING POINTS
The House passed the so-called “Food Safety” bill, HR 2749, in July 2009, sending it to the Senate where it is being considered as S. 510. After your strong Push Back opposition, a companion bill, S. 3002, touting so-called “Dietary Supplement Safety” was abandoned by its own sponsor, Sen. John McCain. HR 2749’s criminalization of true food health-related speech was left out of S. 510 but S. 3767, with an unprecedented extension of criminal penalties for “food crimes” was rushed forward in the last days of the September Senate session to correct that “oversight”.
The Senate HELP committee “marked-up” S. 510 and the Manager’s Amendments revision was sent to the Floor just as the Senate went into recess, with the threat that the bills would be pushed after the Election by the ‘lame-duck” Congress.
You and I know that these bills, both S. 510 and S. 3767, must not pass. To rush them through the lamest of lame duck sessions is a true abuse of power.
Despite Congressional maneuvering, to make them into “non-controversial” bills that can be rammed through via “Unanimous Congressional Approval”, these bills remains very controversial and should reconsidered by the new Congress being elected this year. The Congress is in recess, campaigning for their own, or party members’ reelection — so NOW is the time to educate those new members-to-be and NOW is the time to get their public commitment to support health and food freedom!
We, together, can do that by visiting your candidates and incumbents, especially the Senate ones, with groups of people who all come armed with the following “Talking Points” and who discuss them rationally, briefly and very, very directly. Print out one Talking Point copy for each member of your group and half a dozen for the Congressman or candidate and his/her staff. And mention that you are part of the largest Health Freedom Organization in the world. As I write this, there are more than 305,000 supporters on our primary list. Each of them has contacts and are willing to share this information to preserve our health freedom.
Here, then, are
THE TALKING POINTS
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6910
Take the Above Talking Points to Your Congressional Candidates
Now is the time to secure their commitment to Health & Food Freedom!
Now is the time to promote the Food Freedom Amendment!
Please let us know what happens: email dr.laibow@gmail.com with “Talking” in the subject line.
DON’T STOP NOW! PUSH BACK CONTINUES!
Click to Take Action! Stop S.510! Stop S.3767!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613
Senate: Don’t Rush S.3767 to the Senate Floor! Support the Food Freedom Amendment Instead! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public /?action_KEY=4878
BAN ALL GMOs WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049
Please take a moment to read our current Valley of the Moon™ Restaurant and Cafe doings and see what Natural Solutions Foundation is up to at the “Boots on the Ground” Level with its Eco Demonstration Project reclaiming the production of clean food – and so much more! Be sure to check out our growing list of extraordinary Seminars and webinars!
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6896
And please remember to make your tax deductible donations to support the Natural Solutions Foundation. We can’t do our work without your support. Click below to set up a recurring donation now.
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189
We suggest you consider joining the 510/3767 Club
Donate either $5.10 weekly or monthly or $37.67 weekly or monthly.
Your donations here, http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189, make the difference.
CONTEST
You are invited! Participate in the “Landfill Health Program” video satire contest.
Visit http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6889 and let your creative juices sizzle;
You could be the big winner…
Thanks for your support.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.Dr.Rima.net
Every Sunday 10 AM to 1 PM Eastern Time
Listen and Chat: www.HealthFreedomPortal.org
Listen: www.OracleBroadcasting.com
Listen or Ask Questions: 512-904-8014 or Toll Free 866-841-1065
Guest This Sunday Will be: Eileen Danniman, Dead Babies and Flu Vaccines Part II
Sunday, 10 AM to 1 PM Eastern
October 10, 2010: Eileen Danniman, Dead Babies and Flu Vaccines Part II
http://vaccineliberationarmy.com/cdc-falsifies-pregnant-women-stats-ignoring-up-to-3-587-miscarriages/
Click Here For More Information on Dr. Rima Reports:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=4850
Archives Here: http://www.oraclebroadcasting.com/archives.php?who=Rima
Short Takes…
H1N1 Rears its Ugly Head… via Vaccination!
Do you believe… un-safety tested vaccinations for a “potential comeback”?
“Government launches a countrywide anti-HiN1 vaccination campaign in an effort to stifle a potential comeback of the pandemic influenza recently certified to be on the drastic decrease by…WHO.”
So says The Nation of Malawi
http://www.nationmw.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6911:h1n1-campaign-starts-monday&catid=28:health&Itemid=22
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Do We Have a Right to Know If Our Food Has Been Genetically Modified?
“The FDA is close to approving genetically modified (gm) salmon… We know that at least some genetically modified foods may harm the environment… And serious questions have been raised about whether some gm foods might increase allergies or cause other health problems in humans… Indeed, as Mother Jones pointed out last week, gm salmon may itself increase allergies…”
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/do-we-have-right-know-if-our-food-has-been-genetically-modified
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GM Superbug Risk!
‘GM formula poses superbug risk’ (AAP Newsfeed, 9/30/10) – “Baby milk formula containing untested genetically modified ingredients poses a potential risk of creating antibiotic resistant superbugs, a leading medical researcher says. Professor Peter Collignon, from the Australian National University medical school, says many GM foods contained antibiotic resistance genes which needlessly placed people, animals and the environment at a risk. ‘Why expose the environment, animals, people to antibiotics resistance genes that could potentially be taken up by bacteria and develop superbug properties when we don’t have to?’ he said at a demonstration in front of Parliament House. This was part of a Greenpeace campaign that has included supermarket sit-ins and a number of arrests after analysis of the popular infant formula S-26 revealed traces of GM soy and corn. …The Greens Party plan to introduce legislation requiring food labeling to reveal GM content….”
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Valley of the Moon Report
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6896
Backscatter “Naked Body Scanners” Protecting Us From Terrorists in Airports, City Streets, Sporting Events, etc., As They Rip Our DNA Apart and Give Us Cancer
Boian Alexandrov, of the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory, however, has a very decided opinion regarding the dangers of T-rays: He tells us that T-rays tear apart human DNA.
Alexandrov, and his team at Los Alamos, say that although the forces that T-rays exert are small, their resonant effects can “unzip” DNA strands, tearing them apart, thus creating bubbles in the strands that significantly interfere with gene expression and DNA replication. And whatever that means, it doesn’t sound good.
Moreover, it seems these T-ray scanners will be operated by non-healthcare, hourly wage-earners, not trained in radiation medicine or imaging. And who is to prevent massive radiation overdoses?
What protection will be offered to pregnant women, children, or our reproductive organs?
Also, whether you fly or not, the dark powers that have subjugated our federal government are intent on repeatedly lashing you with deadly radiation … all for your own good, mind you.
“Our government has bought hundreds of mobile Z Backscatter Vans (ZBVs) to hunt you down, so they can shoot you with deadly radiation.
These vans, that look innocuous enough, are carriers of radiation-death-machines that take no quarter, while they are driven through out our neighborhoods radiating pets, children, women, and men, alike, while they are in the privacy of their own homes.
These ZBVs also drive through city streets, irradiating other vehicles, and passengers, with strong enough radiation to penetrate steel and destroy the cells of human bodies, all on the flimsy pretense of protecting us from terrorists, who may be carrying bombs or drugs in their vehicles.
But who will protect us from the terrorists in our own government, who are so wantonly radiating us onto death?”
http://planetaryprescriptions.com/?p=317
11 Year Old Lays Our Food Supply’s Contamination on the Line – and Tells Us How to Fix It! MUST WATCH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Id9caYw-Y&feature=player_embedded
GMO Fish Near Approval. But They Are Freaky!
“The 10 Freakiest Things
About Frankenfish
10. According to the FDA, Frankenfish Aren’t Animals, They’re “Animal Drugs”
9. The GMO Part of the GMO Salmon Isn’t Being Safety Tested
8. Frankenfish DNA Could Change the Bacteria of Your Gut
7. If It Swims Like a Salmon, FDA Says It’s Safe to Eat
6. FDA Lets the Frankenfish Company Test Its Own Product’s Safety
5. Frankenfish Is More Carcinogenic
4. Frankenfish Is Less Nutritious
3. Frankenfish Is More Allergenic
2. GMOs Can Mess a Fish Up!
But the freakiest thing about all of this is …
1. The Government Wants More Transgenic Fish and Less Wild Fish”
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=219
Dr Rima Recommends
NATURAL SOLUTIONS CENTER WEBINARS
Webinar Archives
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6588
1. CAUTIONS FOR CAM PRACTITIONERS – Ralph Fucetola JD (1.5 hr – $99)
Includes 32 slides, 20 page ebook with forms and private forum.
If You are an Advanced Health Care “CAM” Practitioner You Need This Webinar!
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6588#cautions
“Do you have questions about your legal rights and limits … or need information about how best to run your health care business? Are you aware there are words you cannot use and statements, although true, you cannot safely say to clients? Hiring an attorney, one on one, to review these issues could cost you hundreds of dollars… making a mistake could cost you thousands. I invite you, instead, to learn from my Webinar, Cautions for CAM Wellness Practices” – Ralph Fucetola JD
2. Local Organizing Webinar posted (32 minutes – free)
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6588#local
3. How are Music, Color, Organs, Food and Qi Energy Related?
Come to the Valley of the Moon’s Natural Solutions Center and Find Out!
Starting with a Five Elements BeyondOrganic™ Welcome Dinner on January 9, 2011
we’ll spend 5 days focusing on each of the Five Elements, its food, color, strengths, weaknesses, characteristics, sounds and uses. Each day will include 3 outstanding meals and snacks (including food preparation in our teaching kitchen), lectures and participation, all in the lovely Valley of the Moon™ in temperate, tranquil, beautiful, bountiful Chiriqui, Panama.
With direct flights starting this December from the US to David, just 45 minutes away, getting there is easy. Being there is really easy: you’ll be in one of the most beautiful places in the world at the most beautiful time of year.
If you want a unique get-away or want to find out if the Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Community is for you or just want to experience this intensive program to learn more about the Five Element system, then mark the week on your calendar.
Welcome Banquet January 9 to Final Breakfast on January 15, 2011. It’s a week you won’t forget.
Write to us at dr.laibow@gmail.com with 5 ELEMENTS as the subject line to make sure you are in line for this limited space program in Panama.
4. Experience Karma Singh’s Energy Transmissions, Then Tell Us What You Think:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6152
Valley of the Moon™ Coffee
Health Freedom’s Coffee
It’s GMO Free, Toxin Free and Helps Keep You Free!
Valley of the Moon™ Coffee – Health Freedom’s Own Coffee
www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
Order 8 bags or more and we’ll send you one of our beautiful Valley of the Moon Cups as our “Thank You!”
Don’t forget to get yourself some of our exceptional Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee, www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org, and remember to give this delightful health brew as your gift for birthdays, Christmas, Hanukkah, corporate gifts, Holiday corporate and private gift giving! etc. Clean, toxin-free coffee helps coffee drinkers, it helps the Natural Solutions Foundation at the same time and it tastes WONDERFUL!!! In fact, we want you to try, and then keep on buying, our wonderful Valley of the Moon Coffee(TM) so we have a coffee special for you: Purchase a 1/2 pound bag of our spectacular coffee for $18.87 plus shipping. This same bag normally requires a donation of $25.00 (a savings of $6.13). Now, purchase 5 bags or more (including your gifts) and your price drops to $17.57 per bag – a savings of $37.15!
Purchase 8 bags or more and we’ll send you one of our beautiful Valley of the Moon Cups so you can enjoy your coffee in yet another way: with your eyes!
Just make sure that you enter “RbR01C” in the Comments Area to receive our special price!
And don’t forget the universal remedy, Nano Silver, www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions, and supplementing with Cognitive Enhancement Nutrition to keep your brain healthy and focused…
Yours in health and freedom,
The Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)
President – www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director – www.DrRima.net
Ralph Fucetola, JD
Counsel and Trustee – www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
Support Health & Food Freedom:
Donate Here, http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189
Shop for Natural Products Here, www.Organics4U.org or www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org
Our Seminar and Webinar Program Here.
Click here to unsubscribe from the Health Freedom Action eAlerts:
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/healthfreedomusa/unsubscribe.jsp
Click here to manage your subscription:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/profile/login.jsp?redirect=%2Fo%2F568%2Fprofile%2Findex.jsp
Natural Solutions Foundation
The Voice of Global Health Freedom™
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
Permalink: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6300
Action Item: Tell the Senate: “NO!” – http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613
For more than a year, the plan to capture – and kill – clean, local, organic, independent and safe farming has been wending its way through Congress. Last year, the devastating HR 1279 passed although we put up a good battle, delaying it for quite a while. However, at the end of the day, a good battle followed by a loss is still a loss.
We lost the clean food battle in the House.
The battle ground then shifted to the Senate. Remember, the Uber Cartel, which includes Big Agra, Big Chema, Big Biotech and, behind them all, Big Pharma and its malignant sister, Big Oil, has endless money for lobbyists, propaganda, back-door dealings and other well-financed pressure tactics like Codex Alimentarius, for example.
For examples of corruption, we have only to look at the current Congressional probe of the Uber Cartel Pharma Phamily corruption, bribing and buying their way into national policy around the world through filling personal coffers of regulators and politicians. If you think that is limited to foreign countries, guess again.
So the fact that we, the Natural Solutions Foundation net roots and those who have joined us in this clean food battle, following our lead and bringing their constituencies into the fray, have held off the passage of the bill that some have called “Monsanto’s wet dream Bill” since last November, when unanimous Senate agreement on its passage was reached is nothing short of miraculous.
Miraculous and, if we falter now, totally meaningless.
Once we pushed it back in November, the Uber Cartel was unable to move it forward: there were too many of us who got the picture, understood the game and comprehended what the cost would be to our health and our freedom if we did not succeed in killing this bill before it, literally, killed us.
Now we are met on the battle field of clean food again. In mid April S 510 was once again the subject of unanimous agreement and was to be voted upon the following week. Our inside sources shared that information with us and we rose up in our collective power, sending so many emails to Congress, and activating so many Washington forces that the bill went into limbo again.
Later, as the Senate was winding up its session before summer recess, we realized that the plan was to ram it through as a “noncontroversial” bill, which would then be passed by “unanimous Congressional Consent” since no one had anything to say about it.
Well, we used the Senate rules against this bill and asked you to demand of your Senators that they put a hold on S. 510 by calling the Senate Cloak Room (yes, you read that right!) and demanding that the bill not go up for a unanimous consent approval.
Again, we prevailed and the US Senate broke for its 2010 summer recess without voting on the bill.
Enter villains gnashing teeth and twirling mustaches.
S. 510, the fake “Food Safety Bill”, is of enormous importance to the globalist genocidalists. They want it passed. Senators who are either their dupes or their bed mates are willing to do their bidding IF, and only IF, they can do so out of the light of public awareness. They want to do their masters’ bidding without being tarred with the same brush of filth as their masters.
We, you and I, are here to make sure that they are publicly exposed and publicly notified by vast numbers of us that their doings are very, very public and that their constituents, you and I, are holding them personally, and professionally, accountable for their actions.
It is urgently important that the eaters of the US join together, whether we are male or females, young or old, single or married, Christian or Jew or Jain or Muslim or atheist or Hindu, parents or childless persons, unite behind this issue.
Click the NEW Action Item here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613, whether you have taken action on this item or not. Then I urge you to become the flaming sword of dissemination and freedom through your email work. There is no one who does not eat. There is no one who is not impacted by the quality of the food that they eat. There is no one who, no matter what the choices that they actually make might be, does not want the RIGHT to choose clean, unadulterated food if they want to.
What’s at stake?
1. No seed saving without vast expenditures because seeds could be a terrorist weapon! What’s really going on here? Biotech companies want to control the world’s food access and sell ONLY their own chemical dependent seeds.
2. All seed prices, already consuming more than 1/3 of all farmers’ expenditures, will be controlled by the Uber Cartel.
3. Organic, clean, local, personal farming would still be allowed IF Codex standards and guidelines were followed. These include irradiation, chemical use and other highly dangerous, expensive and unacceptable practices for clean food consumers (those of us recently identified by the captive organization called the American Psychiatric Association as suffering from “Orthorexia”, as psychiatric disorder in which people are concerned with the quality of the food they eat!).
4. Growing personal or local food without the taxes and controls inherent in this bill will become criminal acts.
5. Record keeping will be so burdensome, and the fines for not complying, that most small, family, organic and biodynamic farmers will cease to produce food for themselves or you.
6. Supplements (attacked by Senator McCain in a bill which was ‘absorbed’ into S. 510) will be attacked even more strongly than they currently are since, as foods, they, too, will have to meet the “standards” imposed by S. 510 despite the fact that they are among the most highly regulated foods in the country AND the safest.
7. Health will decline as more chemicals are used by farms, more toxic effluent enters the environment, less nutritious food is available, more chemical contamination is permitted, even more food is irradiated and high potency supplements disappear. The diseases of under nutrition, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity, already epidemic, will sky rocket, along with the endless human suffering which accompany them.
8. Raw milk will be a thing of the past.
9. Freedom, like raw milk, will be a memory of what we used to be able to access.
In case you haven’t heard already, Speaker Pelosi called my colleagues and me back from the August recess on Tuesday to vote on more government spending. This one comes in the form of a bailout package to help states cover the costs for education and Medicaid to the tune of $26 billion. And here I thought the American public would finally get some reprieve from the voracious spending appetite of liberal Democrats in Washington, DC.
It should come as no surprise for you to know that I voted against this bill. Not only does it spend money that we don’t have, but it perpetuates the bailout culture that has become so popular with Democrats in Congress. Also, but the so-called spending “offsets” in the bill came in the form of a $10 billion tax increase on corporations.
Democrats would like you to believe that spending this additional $26 billion will somehow create jobs, spur economic growth and expand individual opportunity for Americans. The truth is that this latest bailout is really just a give-away to state bureaucrats at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. Another short-term federal bailout will only encourage states to rely on more taxpayer funded federal assistance rather than balancing their budgets and reducing unneeded spending.
Now is the time to act. Tomorrow may well be too late.
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Lynn McTaggert publishes the interesting UK-based “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” newsletter and materials. We have never met but I read her material and hope that she reads ours.
Recently I read a heartfelt plea by Ms. McTaggert crying out for someone, anyone, to understand that health freedom and the restrictions of nutrients and natural health options (to which, of course, I would add both food and the right to refuse or use any treatment you wish), when under attack, IS their problem.
In 2002, when Ms. McTaggert saw what was going to happen to natural health options in the EU, she convened a meeting to which few came and fewer paid close and productive attention.
Her experience was so like mine that I felt compelled to answer her experience in the UK with ours here in the US. Please read her article after you read my response and you will see why YOU are the lynch pin. It is you, after all, who can mobilize your contacts and help them to get active and involved.
It is you who will take the Action items that keep the globalists off balance and backing up. And it is you who shoulder the responsibility to whatever degree you can, to keep the health freedom battle alive and kicking. Click here, now, to make your recurring donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation. It is, you see, your problem.
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My response to Lynn McTaggert’s WDDK article “Not My Problem”,
I am the Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org.
I have practiced natural, that means drug free, psychiatry and medicine since I was graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1970.
It was clear to me for a couple of decades that these assaults on our health freedom, and the right to access clean food, natural health strategies and pharmaceutical alternatives was under an increasing crescendo of attack.
It was clear to me by 2004 that our side was doing nothing much productive to counter effectively what the Uber Cartel, led by Big Pharma, were up to: globalized health and freedom suppression and genocide through illness based on dangerous drugs, pollution and devitalized foods that do not sustain health, let alone life.
Realizing that there was no road back once these changes were institutionalized, my husband, Maj. General Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.) closed our practice of drug free medicine, sold our house and created the Natural Solutions Foundation.
Why didn’t we just join forces with other health freedom organizations? Well, we tried. The first thing we did was call a well known health freedom advocate and offer our help and support. financial and otherwise. His response? “I do not like you because I do not know you, I do not trust psychiatrists and there is nothing you can do for health freedom. Just send money and leave me alone.” That is a direct quote.
We were so appalled that an apparent leader of this “movement” would be so short sighted and self absorbed, with no better prospects on the horizon, that we were catapulted into our decision to take this battle on since no one particularly effective or strategy-minded was on the scene.
Next, we met with other people in the “movement” and suggested in early January, 2005, a meeting of all the groups involved in this battle, much as Lynn did. That meeting took 6 weeks to organize. Most of the invitees did not come. Those who did were most occupied with slashing at each other behind backs and to faces. The outcome was predictable: nothing of any use whatsoever.
We were told that people were cowed by the vicious attacks of the first person I mentioned and so, in true co-dependent fashion, allowed the least stable person in the system make the most important decisions through bullying.
Another so called “leader” called us up and told us that we were not “permitted” to run a health freedom rally because “Health Freedom BELONGS [emphasis added] to the XXXX Foundation, as does all money involved in health freedom.” Again, not a very productive approach to winning a war, one might say.
And so it went. Petty jealousy, foolish self-interest and a movement so out of control that it could only be explained by ego or agents provocateur, or, as we believe the case to be, both.
Another example: in the US, where the Natural Solutions Foundation is based, we had a unique phenomenon develop during the most recent Presidential elections: through www.Change.org we were able to create the 10 top issues in the US according to people’s electronic votes. Those issues would, we learned, be presented to the newly elected President of the United States as the major concerns of the people of the US.
We seized the opportunity and created a health freedom item. We then wrote to every health freedom organization asking them to join with us to bring our issue to the forefront of awareness. The name of our organization did not appear anywhere in the item. We asked all of these organizations to urge their members to use their collective power and move the Health Freedom item up to number 1.
What did they do? Several of them actually banded together to urge their members to use the voting format to vote DOWN the health freedom item because they were not the initiating organization.
We made it, if I recall, to Number 8, if I recall, which was enough to be included in the top 10, but hardly where the issue should have been.
And, of course, every time the Natural Solutions Foundation accomplishes something like, for example, forcing the disastrous phony Food Safety Bill off the voting agenda, or stops the mandatory Swine Flu vaccine program the federal government was planning in the US, we get attacked as – of all things – “controlled opposition”.
Then there are the manufacturers and business people. Exactly as Lynn described it, when their ox is being gored, they have a hard time seeing it. When their ox is not being gored, they could not be less interested, many of them. Of course, there are the far sighted exceptions, but I share with Lynn the awareness of how important action is and how little the organizations and, in many cases, the companies involved are willing to see beyond their own noses.
So, in essence, it is up to us, the people.
The Health Freedom Organizations are either infiltrated, underfunded or ineffective. The Wellness companies are either blind or so burdened trying to stay in business that they cannot see the forest for the trees even though the forest is advancing like the forest in Macbeth!
What to do? Exert the strength of a powerful netroots and take this struggle on as your own. Because it is. What we are struggling about is not pills and powders. It is health and freedom, the right to control our own bodies, make our own choices.
It is the right to seek, or refuse, any treatment or health strategy which we desire.
It is the right to access clean, unadulterated food and high potency nutrients because we want to, under whatever terms we want to use them.
It is the right to share and study truthful information about the benefits of food and food components in a climate of free inquiry, not criminalization or regulatory gag rules, as is currently happening under Codex and in the US.
Just weeks ago, the European Parliament agreed to stop requiring the labeling of GMO “foods” and ingredients. This is a horrific blow to your freedom in Europe, which has already been accomplished in the US where such labeling is FORBIDDEN. This, of course, follows the secret meeting of the 27 heads of state of Europe last October 22 in London to find ways to compel the people of the EU to accept GMO foods despite their vigorous objections to it.
Gag rules to prevent health information (called “claims”) from being shared are the order of the day of the corrupt and industry-owned FDA (which we in the Natural Solutions Foundation refer to as the Fraud and Death Administration) and are one of the tools of Codex to make sure that your only options are drugs and, eventually, death, after serious profit from that death march.
Truly, either we do what needs to be done, or what they want done to us will prevail.
I urge you, wherever you live, and whatever you eat, to become part of the thrust for freedom. Health and Freedom are essential components of one another. Health Freedom IS Our First Freedom. Please join the free, secure Health Freedom Action eAlerts here, www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org, or here, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, and join us in securing our Health Freedom once and for all.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
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And here is Lynn’s poignant article:
Not My Problem
August 6th, 2010
In 2002 my magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You first learned about plans within the European Union to radically restrict natural medicine across all member countries, starting with laws that would create a very low ceiling of ‘safe upper limits’ in vitamins.
Although the laws were ostensibly to create a level playing field within the European supplement market, the proposals bore the heavy hand of Big Pharma.
At the time, the solution appeared simple. The majority of people in the UK use some form of natural medicine. All we needed to do was to band together, whip up a national protest, and the laws would be stopped in their tracks.
In early 2003, we invited all the heads of the largest vitamin companies and representatives from all the leading natural medicine organizations – homeopathy, herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and many others – to a meeting in central London.
Many of the organizations never showed up. Of the 50 or so who did, many groups felt that our concerns were alarmist. Others welcomed the new moves as good for business. A few attempting to fight the legislation were busiest fighting each other.
No group seemed able to see the bigger picture. Each organization was mainly concerned with whether their own business was under fire. If it wasn’t – and at the time it wasn’t for many of the disciplines – they weren’t interested. Not my problem.
Big Pharma had big plans all those years ago. Unless there is sufficient opposition, within the next year or two, laws will come into effect in Europe that will drastically restrict the access of all Europeans to high-dose vitamins and herbal medicine.
Most therapeutic herbal medicine, plus forms that are new to the West, such as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese herbal medicine, will effectively be banned. And although homeopathy has emerged unscathed from future EU law, the British Medical Association is working to eliminate funding for NHS homeopathic hospitals.
This pogrom will not end in Europe. The near identical international laws that have been drafted within the United Nations suggest that a well organized and concerted effort is under foot to finish off any alternative to orthodox medicine.
The plan is to watch Europe closely to assess the level of consumer protest. Thus far, that protest has been minimal. The two consumer groups that have maintained any sort of consistent attack – the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) and Consumers for Health Choice who have challenged the law and lobbied parliament are starved of funds.
The individual organizations to this day remain isolationist. Not my problem.
This attitude reminds me a bit of the speech given by Pasto[r] Martin Niemoller about the passivity of many German groups to the purging by the Nazis of group after group.
First they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for me for me
and then there was no one left to speak out for me.
For all of us wishing to maintain alternatives to drug-based orthodox medicine, these laws are all of our problem, and every last one of us has an obligation to speak up now…..
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JOIN THE PUSH BACK! BAN GMOs NOW! Click here now: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049 and forward this link to all of your contacts to make sure that we end the GMO menace NOW!
PUSH BACK! THEY TELL US IT CAN’T BE DONE. THEY ARE WRONG!
Save Food and Keep It Safe NOW! Take Action here to protect food from the dangerous fake “Food Safety Bill”, S. 510 which could be passed in the Special Session of Congress or in September. This is an urgent danger and we need your help. This is a new Action Item so even if you have registered your opposition to this bill before, please do so now by clicking here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=6269. Now send this to all of your contacts asking them to take action and send it along for similar push back.
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PUSH BACK! LET’S HEAR IT FOR PUSH BACK! AND THEN, LET’S HAVE A WHOLE LOT MORE OF SAME.
Using the Courts, the Court of Public Opinion, Political Pressure, Radio and TV, Video Action Items in the Health Freedom Action eAlerts and similar publications, We, The People, are, in fact, exerting our power. We do not win every battle, but we win and win and win when we push together. This time, the victory is the reversal of a clearance for a dangerous GMO to be grown without restraint or supervision.
Children are among the major consumers of sugar. Sugar beets are among the major sources of sugar. Genetically modified sugar beets are adapted to survive the use of deadly chemicals. That is, in fact, despite the propaganda and hype, the only reason that most GMOs are created: to create an after market for deadly chemicals. Of course, the sales of GMO seed help the bottom line along for the Uber Cartel but the real money is in the increased use of, and subsequent sale of, the profitable chemicals which the same companies make. Oh, yes, of course they are also drug companies so they get you coming into the food cycle and the hospital when they sell you drugs for the conditions and diseases which their chemicals and dangerous GMO “foods” cause you to develop.
And, then there is the lack of safety information on consuming GMOs. All independent science makes it clear that there is no reason to believe that GMO foods are safe since their consequences are to damage the DNA OF EVERY CELL IN THE BODY, including the cells of children still unborn. All this, of course, without oversight by the FDA or USDA.
Do you know what happens when people eat genetically modified sugar? No? Neither do I. But when mammals eat GMO soy, their offspring die, or are born stunted. Their fertility is impaired, their GI tracts and kidneys and immune systems are impaired, too. So is just about every other part of their bodies. It stands to reason, of course, since the DNA and its dangerous products have never existed before and we simply lack the mechanisms to get rid of them once they are in our bodies.
Then there are super weeds and super pests and genetic contamination and…. well, it sort of makes sense to feed them to children if you are a genocidalist AND a drug company owner, don’t you think?
We rejoice that approval for GMO sugar beets was vacated (e.g., canceled) pending an environmental impact statement. But it was not vacated on the grounds that these products, once genetically modified, are unstudied, unsafe, unnecessary and must be stopped before they literally contaminate every plant and animal on earth in what is heading toward the greatest cataclysm in the history of life on this planet.
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VICTORY! FEDERAL COURT RESCINDS USDA APPROVAL OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SUGAR BEETS
ORDER BANS PLANTING OR SALE OF CONTROVERSIAL CROP. COURT DENIES MONSANTO REQUEST TO ALLOW CONTINUED PLANTING
Today Judge Jeffrey White, federal district judge for the Northern District of California, issued a ruling granting the request of plaintiffs Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Organic Seeds, and the Sierra Club to rescind the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) approval of genetically engineered “Roundup Ready” sugar beets (Center for Food Safety v. Vilsack, No. C08-00484 JSW [N.D. Cal. 2010]). In September 2009, the Court had found that the USDA had violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by approving the Monsanto-engineered biotech crop without first preparing an Environmental Impact Statement. The crop was engineered to resist the effects of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, which it sells to farmers together with the patented seed. Similar Roundup Ready crops have led to increased use of herbicides, proliferation of herbicide resistant weeds, and contamination of conventional and organic crops.
In today’s ruling the Court officially “vacated” the USDA “deregulation” of Monsanto’s biotech sugar beets and prohibited any future planting and sale pending the agency’s compliance with NEPA and all other relevant laws. USDA has estimated that an EIS may be ready by 2012.
Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Director of plaintiff and co-counsel the Center for Food Safety, stated, “This is a major victory for farmers, consumers and the rule of law. USDA has once again acted illegally and had its approval of a biotech crop rescinded. Hopefully the agency will learn that their mandate is to protect farmers, consumers and the environment and not the bottom line of corporations such as Monsanto.”
Paul Achitoff of Earthjustice, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, commented: “Time and again, USDA has ignored the law and abdicated its duty to protect the environment and American agriculture from genetically engineered crops designed to sell toxic chemicals. Time and again, citizens speaking truth to power have taken USDA to court and won.”
In his order, Judge White noted that USDA’s “errors are not minor or insignificant, and his “concern that Defendants are not taking this process seriously.” He also pointed out that “despite the fact that the statutes at issue are designed to protect the environment,” USDA and the sugar beet industry focused on the economic consequences to themselves, yet “failed to demonstrate that serious economic harm would be incurred pending a full economic review….”
The Court held in part:
…the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ request to vacate APHIS’s decision to deregulate genetically engineered sugar beets and remands this matter to APHIS. Based on this vacatur, genetically engineered sugar beets are once again regulated articles pursuant to the Plant Protection Act. This vacatur applies to all future plantings…
This is the second time a Court has rescinded USDA’s approval of a biotech crop. The first such crop, Roundup Ready alfalfa, is also illegal to plant, based on the vacating of its deregulation in 2007 pending preparation of an EIS. Although Monsanto took that case all the way to the Supreme Court and the High Court set aside part of the relief granted, the full prohibition on its planting – based on the same remedy granted here, the vacatur – remains in place. In the past several years federal courts have also held illegal USDA’s approval of biotech crop field trials, including the testing of biotech grasses in Oregon and the testing of engineered, pharmaceutical-producing crops in Hawai’i.