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From Our Supporter Coordinator

The following is a general answer, sent to some Health Freedom Action eAlert members who had similar concerns:

A marketing company pays us to advertise their clients’ goods & services in mailings twice a week. We keep those mailings separate from our regular health freedom mailings, do not include our own news in them, and, while the advertiser will not advertise with us if we put the word “advertisement” at the top of the page, Dr. Rima writes a paragraph in them explaining that we carry these advertisements to offset the thousands of dollars that we need every month to send those hundreds of thousands of emails to Washington, maintain our sites, visit Congress, attend Codex meetings, etc..

We don’t have a fancy US activities office, and work from our homes (I am sitting at my kitchen table typing and have been doing so all night). Readers who do not like these advertisement mailings should simply trash them (takes three seconds), and keep the informational mailings, to have the information you need to take part in the Health & Food Freedom & Justice “Action Items” that let you easily tell decision makers your opinions, just by clicking your mouse a few times. Our informational emails always have “Dr. Rima Reports” in the subject line.

Without the money that we are paid to send those advertisements out, we would have to fold. Due to the state of the US economy, donations have declined significantly over the past several years. Since we are the largest health freedom organization and we generate more mail to Washington than all of the other health freedom groups combined, that would be terrible (though it would make the FDA very happy!).

The average organization (of our type) has a nine per cent opening rate for their emails. Our opening rate is quite high, at about fourteen per cent. If each person who opens our emails sent in just ten dollars a year, we could pay all of our expenses (we do not pay salaries and work with volunteers) and would not have to accept advertising. We have suggested that to our readers and a few dozen responded. I must presume that the thousands of others figured, “Let the others pay it for me”. We cannot personally afford to pay the expenses, which amount to many thousands per month. The company that sends the hundreds of thousands of emails from our eblasts out to the correct Representatives and other decision makers just increased their charges to us by about sixty per cent.

So, do we continue this important work and get the health freedom message out as well as generate hundreds of thousands of emails off to Washington every month?

Or, do we quit and go under?

We feel that accepting the money we receive for sending out the advertising to keep this work alive, is worth the “pain” of having to trash or deal with a few tacky ads each week. Some people like the ads and purchase from them.

Some hate them and tell us how horrified they are that we are sending them out. Frankly, I find it ridiculous to be horrified by an easily trashed ad, with all the REAL horror that is going on in the world and all that is happening to our health freedoms. One person suggested that we have “sold out” and that is nonsense.

When one sells out, one receives payment and then changes the message to please the “payer”. We have not changed any message and are fighting the Feds as hard as we ever have. Our problem is that while everyone writes and encourages us to continue the fight, everyone wants their neighbor to pay for it. And while money to us is tax-deductible, we
haven’t found an Angel to donate the needed funds.

Then there are those who read or listen to those ads and think that they are articles by us, in spite of the fact that Dr. Rima includes a note denying same in each ad that goes out. They want the info in the ads and do not want to pay for it. We do not OWN that info and cannot give away what we do not own. We are simply paid to send ads out- we do not share in the profits of the items sold.

Several have written criticizing us for not “giving” them the info in the ads because they have “needs” (like none of the rest of us do!). I have been extremely sick in the past and spent years researching ways to get better. That took time and money (which I had little of). I would gladly have paid money for a book or video that would have answered my questions and saved me that time and money. But we would have to “steal” someone else’s hard work and research to “give away” what they are selling — and we are NOT thieves.

As for those complaining about the long winded audio ads, I agree- I can’t stand them and refuse to listen to them. (I trash them very quickly). The advertiser would have a much better chance of selling to me if he/she were more upfront and kept the advertisement short and sweet. But they hire “experts” to write their advertisements and so my opinion is not considered. When we get mail complaining about the way these ads are written, we do forward it to the Marketing Company.

At first we accepted only health related ads from the Marketing Company (and mostly from doctors we knew), and then we accepted a few ads about items that sounded like they might make peoples’ lives easier (such as the ad for the popular emergency radio). But we have learned that a couple of these items may be from questionable companies and will be dropping any questionable ads. We DO try to only accept ads for decent items, and Dr. Rima reviews health related advertisements before we send them.

I hope this answers any questions you might have about the advertisements. A few of you were so pained by the advertisements that you wanted “off” the list, rather than have to simply trash what you found offensive. But we are all in this together and your letters to Washington are needed. Can you put aside your sensitivities for the sake of preserving health freedom? It is important for each person to do his/her share or we will all find ourselves without supplements and depending on Monsanto for all of our groceries.

That is NOT exaggeration. Health Freedom is being hit from many directions by the Powers that Be. So those of you who choose to stick with us, thank you. And those of you who shudder at the ads, and thus, cannot do your part, let me know and I will remove you from our List. The company that maintains our list provides an “click-off” in our mailings, but if it does not work for you, let me know and i’ll remove you from the list by hand.

If, on the other hand, you are not getting our two regular emailings per week (usually Wednesday and Saturday) then your email system is blocking us and you need to “white list” dr.laibow@gmail.com — and you may have to rejoin the list here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=187

Whatever your choice, please visit our website regularly —

www.healthfreedomusa.org

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Keep yourself informed about attacks on YOUR Health & Food Freedom & Justice!

Kathy Greene

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