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PUSH BACK WORKED!
Celebrate with a Money Bomb!
Natural Solutions Foundation
HEALTH FREEDOM MONEY BOMB!
You’ve heard that term before… “Money Bomb.” Health freedom supporter, Congressman Dr. Ron Paul became well-known last year in part because of the extraordinary Money Bomb efforts of his campaign, raising funds through the Internet.
Many of you participated in an emergency appeal from us a few months ago, when an Internet attack-bot was used to generate about 100,000 fake $1.00 donations to us, for which our big-corpoate online gateway charged us a dime each… draining our account and nearly causing us to default on our monthly payments for the Democracy in Action system we use to communicate with you.
In just 48 hours you donated enough funds to make up the shortfall and cover our expenses for last summer’s Codex meeting in Rome. You can see Dr. Rima’s brilliant video deconstruction of Codex from that meeting here:
http://www.youtube.com/naturalsolutions#p/u/4/Hyo_VjJSVFo
You helped out when we needed funding to start the Stop the Shot law suit in Washington DC earlier this month. And that Push Back worked! The “sky is falling down” pandemic seems to be over, according to HHS Secretary Sebelius’ public statement yesterday, even before it began… and no forced vaccines available, thank you.
Now even New York is rescinding, as of tonite, the healthcare workers’ swine flu vax mandate (not all flu vaccine mandates, so our suit will go on!).
That leads us to what we need to do next: (1) we need to get Dr. Rima and Gen Bert and a couple of our volunteer assistants to the next Codex meeting, early November, in Germany, while (2) Counsel Ralph needs to get to Washington DC at the same time to
attend the EPA nano silver hearing, which threatens our access to the nano silver Dr. Rima recommends. Further, we need a significant increase in support to make use of the volunteers who are seeking to work for us at Global Health Freedom Headquarters.
So we decided to celebrate recent victories and to prepare for the next round of victories by asking you all to participate in a Money Bomb!
We need everyone to forward this short email to all your contacts and ask them to donate right now to protect Health Freedom!
See our Money Bomb Donation Thermometer here:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3686
See our accomplishments for Health Freedom here:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=195
And make your tax-deductible donation here:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189
You can read our most recent Health Freedom eblast here:
Action eAlert: Pandemic Triumph and Eugenicide Threat
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3737
Let’s make this message go viral! Please send this Permalink to all your contacts:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3744
Thank you,
Maj Gen Bert Stubblebine (US Army ret.) – President
Rima E. Laibow MD – Medical Director
Ralph Fucetola JD – Counsel
Natural Solutions Trustees
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
Natural Solutions Foundation
The Voice of Global Health Freedom™
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
IT’S MONEY BOMB TIME!
To Fund Health Freedom’s Next Victory!
Health Freedom Money Bomb – Round Three!
December Annual Giving Season
TOGETHER We’ve held off the uninsurable, un-safety tested, martial law-friendly “Swine Flu” H1N1 vaccine panic… and the Senate delayed voting on the (sic) “Food Safety” bill, S.510 after nearly a hundred fifty thousand emails to the committee and Senate…
Congratulations to US! We won a couple rounds! Our Push Back and Stop the Shot law suit forced the US to effectively “cancel” the H1N1 Pandemic. Oh, there are the usual “talking head” announcements about how dangerous H1N1 still is and a bizarre National Emergency Declaration from the President that seems to contradict his own Secretary of Health, but the juice is gone: there is no serious threat either from the disease (there never was) nor, with insufficient supplies, from the vaccine (which is where all the danger really lay). Both New York and New Jersey, the only two states with flu vax mandates, suspended theirs after we went to court on one and threatened to do so on the other. But we have a long way to go before we are finished with these threats.
This Money Bomb’s continued success can be our most powerful Push Back to the President’s “National Emergency Declaration” of October 23, 2009 regarding the alleged “swine flu pandemic”. See: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3763
The depopulationists / globalists / pharma-terrorists and their government/WHO/UN henchmen and henchwomen (such as Napolitano, Sebelius and Hamburg) will be back again. By the time they mount their next terror tactic, we will be stronger, even better organized and ready to beat them back on that one, and the next, and the next, all because of your help.
Null, Laibow, et al v FDA Lawsuit UPDATE:
Round One: NY Health Care Workers’ Flu Vaccine Mandate:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3933
Round Two: NJ Toddlers’ Flu Vaccine mandate:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3970
Round Three… [But that’s a secret; we have cooperating plaintiffs and are preparing to file.]
Oh, by they way, did you forget about Codex? We didn’t. In fact, now that Gen. Bert and Dr. Rima can safely travel without fear of deadly injections, they went to the most recent Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), whose Chairman is the notorious Dr. Rolf Grossklaus.
They attended this meeting in Dusseldorf from Nov 2-6, and all workshops and associated meetings – for you. As usual, they did daily video updates, radio specials and so on. You know you can count on them to tell you what is happening and make contacts with delegates from around the world that can change history – just as we did with the H1N1 scam-for-death-and-money.
Codex Meeting UPDATE: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3942
You’ve probably heard about the powerful protective effect of Vitamin D on the immune system. There are 3 ‘D vitamins’ in Health Freedom:
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DISSEMINATE – forward each of our emails and Action Items as widely as you can
DO – take each of our Action Items once for every member of your household
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You know where you can donate to Health Freedom — right here:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189 – and it’s tax-deductible!
We need you to help us generate the funds needed to move our seminal legal challenge to the entire vaccine approval travesty forward, fighting any appeal that the FDA and other defendants may initiate and we need the funds to make sure that we can continue our Codex work. We need funds to update our Codex book and make sure that every Head of State, every Minister of Health and Agriculture and every Codex delegate gets that publication along with a clear explanation of how to use this information. Despite the (ill-informed) Nay-Sayers, when Austria, Hungary and the Netherlands used our Codex Two Step Process, they won their cases in the WTO, escaping both trade sanctions AND Codex in those instances!
We need money to help reclaim the production of food here at the Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project. Right now the government of Panama is asking us to help them turn ALL cattle farming in the breadbasket province of Chiriqui into BeyondOrganic/Biodynamic farming. They are asking us to help them do the same with their agricultural production, as well. We need money to support volunteers who provide hands, heads and hearts to make this project work so that we can teach farmers and non farmers alike how to grow clean, abundant food for life and health here and elsewhere.
What does that have to do with you and your health? A lot. First, we can create products which, because of their excellence, will violate Codex guidelines and standards and can then be shipped internationally, helping to further crack Codex apart. Second, we are creating a teaching center to help farmers from the developing world, where more and more of your food comes from, to grow their food in a way that is healthy for them AND for you. That means, of course, that their countries, too, will need to follow our Two Step Process to ship and sell their products.
AND we need serious funding to complete the Health Freedom Documentary which we began, but did not have enough funding to complete.
So much to do. So much to do for you. How can we do it all? Simple: we need the resources and then we can do it all – you know that you can trust the Natural Solutions Foundation to be on top of issues before they arise and find the solutions. You know you can trust us to use every single penny for the Foundation’s work since none of the Trustees takes a penny for our much-more-than-full-time work. You know that we are 100% supporter supported so that our only focus is what is good for health, and for freedom. We are there for you.
Now it is time for you to be there for Health Freedom with a powerful, decisive Money Bomb!
Lay it on us so we can keep health freedom free. Just think! Today you are free of the threat that was looming over our heads: the voluntary-but-really-mandatory adjuvanted vaccine for a made-up, make-believe disease. And we, you and the Natural Solutions Foundation, did that together. What else can we do? Let’s find out. It’s Money Bomb Time!
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Thank you for your continuing vital support. Health Freedom IS Our First Freedom.
Yours in health and freedom,
The Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)
President & Oath Keeper
Rima E. Laibow, MD – Medical Director
Ralph Fucetola, JD – Counsel
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Update: Celebrate with a Money Bomb!
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3686
PUSH BACK WORKS!
Secretary of HHS Sebelius, one of the defendants in our “Stop the Shot” Federal litigation, was on cable news this morning, announcing that “the sky is falling down” so-called “Swine Flu” pandemic is peaking this week, and the rushed-to-market, un-safety tested, uninsurable vaccines will not be widely available in time to “prevent” the pandemic.
What pandemic? Nothing happening here, folks. Even counting all respiratory illness as “Swine Flu” still doesn’t make a pandemic!
So the $6.4 billion tax dollars (see: http://www.reuters.com/article/Washington09/idUSTRE59I5IR20091019) including $484 million for the dangerous toxic “oil and water” adjuvant (squalene) has gotten us exactly… nothing!
The government has purchased the drug companies’ entire stock of “Swine Flu” vaccines, a great bail-out for Big Pharma, and the public gets nothing in return. It could have been worse. Without your Push Back, the media-created pandemic could have caused real panic, mass forced vaccination and martial law.
None of that is going to happen now… but, don’t worry, they’ll be back with a “new generation” of DNA based immune-system poisons and the fight over who will control your health choices will continue!
This abrupt reversal is, we believe, a direct result of our law suit and of our raised voices speaking forceful truth to power: NO Forced Vaccinations. NO Medical Fascism. NO untested vaccines!
Our law suite forced the FDA into a corner where this pandemic cancellation was their only possible maneuver. We will pursue this law suit with vigor because we can use it to challenge the entire vaccine approval process.
Last night we learned that FDA was purchasing an UNAPPROVED vaccine made by GSK, which is adjuvanted with squalene. This drug is not, according to the FDA’s own site, an approved vaccine. Ths must stop. Our law suit will go forward to stop this illegal madness. We need your continued support for the law suit and for the net roots power that we have generated – and must keep generating.
We will continue to pursue our Stop the Shot litigation since this case gives us the opportunity to challenge all of the dangerous myths about vaccination. We do need your help to continue the case; we need to raise funds: for lawyers, to bring our experts to Washington for the hearing we expect to have in a few weeks; to continue fighting the good fight.
We ARE the Voice of Health Freedom (TM) and you are our greatest ally and asset. Now, take this message of triumph and help us turn it into not just a temporary victory, but a permanant one.
Of course this reprieve does not stop the other issues that we face, like the current administration’s drive (just like the last administration; don’t matter which party’s in power) to force “HARMonization” of our health choice freedoms with international restrictions. Or like the GMO issue (congratulations to Greenpeace for protesting GMO corn in Mexico this week).
We urge everyone to continue to use our Action Items to send clear messages to decision makers! That’s how Push Back works!
Take each Action Item once for each person in your family and forward to everyone you know:
* Demand CDC Recommend Vaccine Exemptions: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1571
* Say NO! to Pharma Serfdom: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1545
* Say No to Forced Vaccines/Incarceration: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275
* Prevent Food Fascism: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
* End FDA & FTC Gag Rules on Health Information: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27732
Donate here: Health Freedom Defense Fund
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And thank you, thank you all for what you have already done and for what you are going to do in the future.
We are a powerful team.
Yours in health and Freedom,
Ralph Fucetola JD
Natural Solutions Counsel and Trustee
Health Freedom is Our First Freedom™
STOP the SHOT!
Health Freedom Alert
The Voice of Global Health Freedom™
News, Alerts, and More Health Freedom Information
Action Items You Must Take to Protect Your Health Freedom
October 17, 2009
Permalink to this eAlert: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3671
Update: Celebrate with a Money Bomb!
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3686
PUSH BACK IS WORKING!
PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE ISSUE!
THIS IS A TIME FOR INFORMED NET ROOTS ACTION. WE ARE ON THE EDGE OF DECISIVE MOVEMENT TOWARDS MEDICAL FREEDOM OR FASCISM. CONTINUING PRESSURE ON DECISION MAKERS IS ESSENTIAL IF WE ARE TO PREVAIL, GAINING OWNERSHIP OF OUR OWN BODIES. WE NEED YOUR ACTION AND YOUR ACTIVISM IN DISSEMINATING THIS INFORMATION AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE.
SOMETIMES OUR NEWS IS PRETTY GRIM: TODAY WE HAVE SEVERAL VERY HOPEFUL PIECES OF INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH YOU. BUT RATHER THAN SITTING BACK AND RESTING ON OUR GAINS, IT IS TIME TO PUSH FORWARD URGENTLY, DISSEMINATE RELENTLESSLY AND MAKE SURE THAT THESE ARE NOT TEMPORARY VICTORIES FOLLOWED BY CRUSHING DEFEAT. IT IS IN YOUR HANDS, OR, RATHER, IN YOUR MOUSE!
1. MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER ENTERED IN NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION’S “STOP THE SHOT” SUITE TO PREVENT FDA FROM RELEASING ANY MORE UNTESTED PANDEMIC VACCINES
U. S. District Judge R. Walton of the District of Columbia has not yet set a hearing date.
The full eight page motion is at: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=3661
Among other relief, the order the plaintiffs, including Rima E. Laibow, MD, and the Natural Solutions Foundation, are seeking provides:
…The issuance of an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) referencing these inactivated-“novel A/H1N1”-influenza vaccines is stayed for Vaccines that permit the mixing of an adjuvant with a Vaccine outside of the Vaccine manufacturer’s Current-Good-Manufacturing-Practice-compliant facilities; and … Approval or use of these Vaccines be contingent upon clear restrictions mandating written fully informed consent and voluntary use, without coercion or risk of loss of liberty, right to health care choice, property, schooling, livelihood, licensure or other public good by any governmental entity.
Our lawyers are seeking a hearing this coming week.
Here is the Health Freedom Action Item that tells your representatives and decision makers that you refuse to be a “Pharma Serf” and demand protection from forced vaccinations:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1545
Read more here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3657
And here: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20091016/NEWS01/910160348/1003/Challenge+to+H1N1+vaccine+widens
In fact, that is exactly what happened in NY State, which issued a manre Workers and others must follow all ACIP recommendations or loose their jobs.
2. NY STATE MANDATORY VACCINATIONS ON HOLD: NY STATE SUPREME COURT JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY STAY. FINAL HEARING OCTOBER 30. NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION TO SUBMIT AMICUS BRIEF
http://wcbstv.com/breakingnewsalerts/mandatory.h1n1.vaccine.2.1252672.html
In a stunning initial step toward victory in the battle to make our own health care decisions, citizen push back pushed back really hard. The Public Employees Federation, New York State United Teachers and an attorney representing 4 Albany, NY nurses challenged the NY State order mandating vaccination with all ACIP recommended vaccinations, including seasonal and Swine (H1N1) vaccines for nurses, doctors, aides and non-medical staff members who might be in a patient’s room. For now, the vaccinations will remain voluntary.
Natural Solutions Foundation’s ‘Stop the Shot’ litigation also deals with the rights of NY State Health Care Workers, in addition to challenging the legality of the vaccines themselves. The litigation has been filed in the District of Columbia Federal District Court in order to create a stay which has national impact. Additional states, such as Pennsylvania and California, have promulgated mandates similar to those in New York.
The Natural Solutions Foundation’s Trustee and lead Counsel, Ralph Fucetola, JD, has been asked to provide an Amicus Curiae [“Friend of the Court” brief – REL] in this case because of our extensive research and involvement with the issues in this case and we are, of course, proud to do so.
Distressingly, ACIP has been discounting or eliminating exemption categories in its recommendations for vaccinations which means that such exemptions, although allowed under the laws of all states for medical reasons and 48 states for other reasons, are increasingly not permitted for ordinary vaccinations and are disallowed for pandemic vaccinations. This is not acceptable to people who believe that, as free men and women, they have the right to make their own decisions about what goes into their bodies.
Demand CDC Recommend Vaccine Exemptions!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1571
“KEEP PUSHING BACK!” TAKE ACTION NOW!
I Am Not a Pharma Serf!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1545
Demand CDC Recommend Vaccine Exemptions!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1571
Media Release: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3617
Our Federal Court Complaint filed as Docket No. 1:09-cv-01924 on October 9th has moved to its next stage: our DC lawyers have filed a Motion for an Injunction to STOP THE SHOT!
You can read this powerful legal argument against “Swine Flu” vaccines here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=3661
The underlying Complaint alleges that the government failed to follow its own rules and applicable legislation in rushing the vaccine approvals in the absence of any of the requisite minimum scientifically sound and appropriate testing for both safety and effectiveness as required by law since 1964.
The new Motion asks the Court to act immediately to stop the swine flu shots.
The government, which owns all the approved vaccines, has begun delivery this week of what they describe as the novel “Swine Flu” 2009-H1N1-A live virus nasal mist vaccine to 90,000 government-approved locations nationwide. Before the Court will have time to act, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans will take the nasal mist vaccine and, according to the nongovernmental physicians and scientists who oppose these vaccines, will become infectious, possibly triggering the pandemic the government has been predicting. The company which makes this mist vaccine states on their web site that their vaccine causes a “mild” case of the flu alleged to provide immunity to the admittedly mild “swine flu” which has so far failed to become pandemic.
Frankly. we do not know if we will be in time to prevent the pandemic.
The case of Null, Laibow et al. v FDA et al. challenges the legality of the September 15th, 2009 licensing of four vaccines prior to any safety testing for what the government calls a “novel flu virus with pandemic potential.” Although the government states that none of the vaccines contain adjuvants, that is manifestly untrue since the injected vaccines contain aluminum, a toxic adjuvant, and Novartis told the Natural Solutions Foundation on that same day that their approved vaccine contains MF59, their proprietary squalene adjuvant. The purpose of an adjuvant is to irritate the immune system into greater production of antibodies than it would otherwise create in response to a smaller antigen dose. Antigens are the most costly part of a vaccine to manufacture. Therefore, despite the enormous dangers, vaccine manufacturers are eager to use adjuvants.
Adjuvants like squalene (also known as MF59, ASO 1, 2, 3 and 4) are highly toxic unapproved drugs in the US. The Novartis (approved) Swine Flu and GSK (awaiting approval) vaccines contain 1 million times more oil in water adjuvant (read, “squalene”) than the devastatingly dangerous Vaccine A which caused the profound illness and death of so many previously healthy service men and women.
After you read the Complaint and the Brief and some documentation on the dangers of Squalene and similar adjuvants, it’s time to talk about what you can – what we believe we all must – do before the last second of the last minute of the now-past 11th hour has vanished and, with it, our ability to own and control the fate of our own bodies.
Link to Motion for Injunction: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=3661
Link to Motion Media Release: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3657
Link to Complaint: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=3619
Link to Brief: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=3624
Read more: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3617
Squalene: Be Very Afraid I
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3582
Squalene: Be Very Afraid II
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3592
Here is a List of Things You Can Do NOW!
1. Are you a Pharma Serf? Is your body owned by Big Pharma and the Corporate State? I did not think so. Neither am I! These Action Items go to your State and Federal Legislators, the President of the United States and your Governor telling each of them that you expect them to protect you against vaccinations which are supposedly voluntary but, in reality, carry severe penalties if they are refused.
Tell the CDC – Allow All Exemptions:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1571
I am not a Pharma Serf!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1545
Please submit once for every member of your family and then disseminate, disseminate, disseminate.
Our collective efforts are the only bulwark we have against this madness. Alone we are literally powerless. Together, we have created the push back that has taken us from “All vaccines will be mandatory for the Swine Flu” to “All vaccines will be voluntary for the Swine Flu BUT…..” There is a great deal more we need to do and we are fast running out of time to do it.
We cannot guarantee that we will be successful if we all do all of these things. But we most certainly can guarantee that the result of failing to do our absolute utmost during a time of utmost emergency will result in cataclysmic results.
2. Support the Natural Solutions Foundation’s ground-breaking (and, if we win, life-saving) legal efforts.
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189
If we win, the FDA will likely appeal the decision. If we loose, we will most certainly appeal the decision. This is an expensive process. The good news? Our lawyers have been working for very little, we have not paid our experts and we have gotten this far on your donations. The bad news? From here on out, it gets expensive, really expensive. But just think how much you would have spent to prosecute this case on your own. So please, if you value your Constitutional rights and your sovereignty over your own body, give generously. More good news: all donations by US tax payers are 100% tax deductible.
Donate any amount which ends in the number “6” to earmark your donation for our legal fund. Recurring donations, large or small, are essential for us. And while you are making your legal fund donation, please make another recurring donation to sustain the Natural Solutions Foundation.
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3. You and your circle of influence, which means EVERY SINGLE PERSON you can reach, need to tell your State and Federal legislators in no uncertain terms that you demand the right to choose, without penalty, whether you get vaccines or not for yourself and your children.
Click below to present your urgent demand to the people who work for you: elected and appointed decision makers. Then print out and take this talking point paper, , with you when you go to visit your State and Federal legislators either in their capital offices, or in their district offices. Call them up. Set up an appointment with the elected official or, failing that, with his/her Chief of Staff (NOT the phone answering underling!), present the legislator or CoS with a copy of your talking points and then talk.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275
Go in a group, and insist on making every one of your points clearly, briefly and with the full attention of the legislator. If they try to brush you off, remind them that they, every last one of them, are your employees and you, as the boss, want a moment more of their time so that they know what their instructions are. Be courteous, do not raise your voice, be logical and be forceful.
They know that a single angry voter is enough to knock an incumbent out of the primary round of elections and that is your power!
Push Back IS Working . . . So Let’s Keep Pushing!
The headlines in this issue of the Health Freedom Action e Alert make it clear that Push Back is certainly working. Americans are not going to take it any more. Even most healthcare workers, including doctors, refuse to take voluntary vaccines and huge numbers of them are up in arms over the mandates which they are being faced with to either take the vaccines or lose their jobs! These are the folks in the know: they routinely do not take vaccines (less than 40% of the same pediatricians who harangue you to get your kids vaccinated follow the guidelines for their own vaccinations – they do not take them!) Less than 1/3 of all UK health care professionals will take the H1N1 shot. Australian doctors do not want to take it.
Less than 40% of parents in the US want their children vaccinated with the H1N1 vaccines!
The FDA and CDC folks are now engaged in a major public relations push to counter what they call myths, and what we call facts:
The H1N1 vaccine is untested, unsafe, unnecessary, uninsurable and unscientific. If you want it, fine. If not, it should be your right, under all circumstances, to refuse the vaccine without coercion or penalty. That’s what our lawsuit is about.
The lawsuit has moved from the first step, which is filing the legal Complaint, to the second step, which is moving the Court to issue restraints. Read more about the legal maneuvers here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3657
More Good News:
Tim Bolen has re-started his fiery “Millions of Health Freedom Fighters – Newsletter,” and in his usual brutal, but humorous, style he points out the problems and solutions in North American health care.
You can go to the front page of http://www.bolenreport.net and see his three newest articles, all of which make important points. If you are not already on his email list you can sign up on that page.
As you probably already know, Tim Bolen is the nemesis of the quackbuster operation, smacking them around the continent, embarrassing them in Court, and hunting them to their lairs. Tim is a Crisis Management Consultant in the cutting-edge health care industry, and as such, has easy access to information most of us don’t even know exists. His articles reflect that, he’ll make you mad AND he’ll make you laugh.
Even More Good News:
Food for Life, www.ffl.org , is a global organization whose slogan, “Uniting the World through Pure Food” says it all. Imagine our delight when we received an email from their Representative, D. Kathryn Davis, wrote to us to tell us “Our charity has NSF as the headliner on our site right now”. When we visited www.ffl.org, there we are, front and center. Thanks, Food for Life. We believe, as you do, that clean food is an essential right no matter where you live. That’s a huge part of global health freedom.
…As we say, Push Back Works!
The same authorities who have warned us about the potential for pandemic for months now begin to change their tune, since it’s clear we don’t buy their obscurations and since we have (and we are!) independent sources of news, on the Internet, over Radio and the like, where people have learned not to trust authority.
“The World Health Organization, the UN agency (ir-) responsible for declaring a Phase 6 “PANDEMIC” global alert over what it calls H1N1 Influenza A or Swine Flu, whose chief Dr Margaret Chan has repeatedly warned that while Swine Flu to date had been rather mild, that the emergency declaration was necessary because it “could mutate” aggressively into a deadly pandemic killing millions, now admits well into the flu season in the Northern Hemisphere that H1N1 has apparently not mutated.”
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13803
So New York’s “emergency” flu vaccine mandates, and California’s and Pennsylvania’s and every other State’s, to say nothing of the absurd US Health Emergency declared just 11 days after the Swine Flu supposedly arose for the first time ever in Mexico, are based on no emergency at all. The Emperor has no clothes on and has no flu. When you have instructions like those in Mississippi’s emergency rooms that ALL respiratory illnesses are to be classified as Swine Flu and that there is not one laboratory in the entire state which can perform the lab tests (which are shockingly inaccurate) you know that you have a very naked Emperor, indeed!
It is important to remember that the HHS’s April 25th declaration of “emergency” with its language exculpating all government officials from the harm that may occur is based on no emergency; the imminent Emergency Use Authorization that FDA will use to permit the use of “adjuvants” (immune system toxins) that have never been permitted in drugs in the United States, because the government’s own scientists will not sign off on them, will be based on no emergency.
Use these Action Items to alert and motivate everyone you can reach –
No Forced Vaccinations!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275
I am not a Pharma Serf!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1545
Demand CDC Recommend Vaccine Exemptions!
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Ask each person to fill it out once for each member of their household and pass it on as widely as possible. Share this Health Freedom Action eAlert with them.
Yours in health and freedom,
Ralph Fucetola JD
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End \gag rules on health-related information.
These gag rules are part of “HARMonziation” with Codex.
End this part of it here!
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STOP THE SHOT
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Please join us on our weekly 10 PM Eastern Wednesday night conference call 219-509-8322, PIN 937848#
We have building projects, marketing and development ones, administrative, communication, and a host of other needs. If you are interested in either becoming a Health Freedom Volunteer or in joining the roll of Health Freedom Volunteer Sponsors, please join the Forum and contact Ralph Fucetola at ralph.fucetola@usa.net or me at dr.laibow@gmail.com with “Volunteer” as the subject.
We invite you to become a part of Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project’s exciting development by joining our VotM Forum, visiting us in Panama and become a part of the community building there, either as a volunteer, a practitioner, a Joint Venture Partner or a permanent resident – or all 4! Click this link to learn more about the Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org, and join the NSF-Panama Forum, http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NSF-Panama/join
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Seasonal Gifts With Meaning
Valley of the Moon™ Coffee
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Valley of the Moon™ Coffee is grown on our own shade-filled, clean and healthy farm. Every bag supports healthy coffee growing and drinking.
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Why not make your coffee Valley of the MoonTM Coffee? Here at Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project, everything we do helps farmers and non-farmers alike to regain their ability to produce clean, unadulterated food. Our amazingly fine premium Panamanian coffee is part of that program.
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EPA Attacking Silver – Again
http://www.nutronix.com/naturalsolutions
http://www.naturalnews.com/027186_silver_Merck_colloidal_silver.html
Big Pharma wants nano silver off the market. The EPA and FDA are ever compliant to the interests of Big Pharma and other mega industries, so their willingness to “regulate” (read, “eliminate”) nano silver is no surprise. It is surprising that so-called environmental groups are in the game. A look at their funding, of course, makes the rules of the game obvious.
The Natural Solutions Foundation obeys the laws of the land so we cannot tell you about the power of nano silver in dealing with every known virus. Since the threat to nano-silver (which threatens to eliminate the need for virtually every antibiotic in use today) is enormous and the FDA is defending it, not your health, they forbid me from saying that nano silver kills the HIV, H1N1 and other disease causing viruses. They also forbid me from recommending it to you for use in the Swine Flu “Pandemic” which they have helped to create. So I won’t. I will tell you where you can get nano silver and urge you to get a large supply of it before the “Pharma Phunded” EPA petition costs us access to this remarkable substance forever. I know
of no meaningful shelf life limitation so you can buy it and put it away for eventual use. I can tell you that nano silver was approved by the EPA as a totally non-toxic surface cleaner, at a higher concentration, because it killed every pathogen it was tested against with no toxicity to normal bacteria, animals or humans.
I believe that this is the ultimate antibiotic. I could find not one shred of evidence that it causes a cytokine storm, as some allege.
See http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3457
Where can you get your supply and support Natural Solutions Foundation at the same time?
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Action Item Summary
Take each Action Item once for each person in your family and forward to everyone you know:
* Demand CDC Recommend Vaccine Exemptions: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1571
* Say NO! to Pharma Serfdom: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1545
* Say No to Forced Vaccines/Incarceration: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275
* Prevent Food Fascism: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
* End FDA & FTC Gag Rules on Health Information: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27732
STOP THE SHOT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZINew8Elmgk
HEALTH FREEDOM IS OUR FIRST FREEDOM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWZQD_0ZMDc
NAIS in Sheep’s Clothing
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Visit your Senator to tell him/her how strongly you insist that he/she protect both your food and your freedom. Here is a printable fact sheet you can use to either send to people in your emails or hand out to your Senator and people in health food stores, community members, etc.: http://www.lifespirit.org/FoodSafetyBills-leafletFINAL.pdf
The Natural Solutions Foundation has been warning about the coming of Codex to our food supply, with its degradation of every aspect of our food freedom and quality for quite some time. We are so concerned about this food and freedom issue that we are creating the innovative Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org, in Volcan, Panama, to teach farmers and non farmers alike how to reclaim the production of food. But meanwhile, the US is loosing its food freedom and its freedom all at the same time.
HR 2749, and its sister bill which the Senate will consider when it reconvenes in September brings it all back home. The article below is long, detailed and vitally important to you and your family. This is not simply a technical bill for technocrats. This is real life food slavery for you and for your family unless we act now.
HR 2749 takes giant steps forward in bringing what none of us want to see into being. HR 2749’s sister bill must NOT pass in the Senate if you value the health that comes from food, value your freedom to grow and source the type of clean, unadulterated food you value and if you do not want to see, eat and be, a global food slave. To date, as I write this, some 876,996 emails have been generated to tell Congress to safeguard, not destroy, our health and our food supply, as well as our freedom. It is imperative that we make sure that the Senate understands that this is not a request, it is a demand. If you have not generated emails to stop this invasion of the Constitution, your health freedom and your food and pets, do so now.
The article below focuses on just one aspect of that program, the National Animal Identification System or NAIS.
There has been a long and powerful battle in the US against NAIS, a regulatory and chipping system which would place extraordinary burdens on small farmers, raising costs of “traceability” and farming practices so high as to drive them out of business, leaving the field to the industrial giants, the Codex Criminals who want food produced cheaply enough to make them even richer – and care nothing about health, safety or the future of either food or your family.
HR 2749, passed under great pressure by the House of Representatives on July 31, 2009, just as it went on August recess, is a disastrous bill for food, for freedom and for farmers. It is a disastrous bill for you. If you keep pets, it is a disastrous bill for them, too.
When we gained successful push back when Congresswoman Rosa Delaurio (CT-D) agreed not to fund NAIS in Committee, we knew that the issue would be back around. And here it is.
Please take the Action Step in our Three for Liberty Campaign, http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3262, right now, once for each member of your family. Then let every single person you know or can reach that it is urgent that they do the same IF they believe in their right to clean, unadulterated food, do not want Codex’ international globalization standards implemented, want to support small and organic farmers, do not want their pets chipped (yes, their pets!) with devices which have been shown to cause cancer, do not want the FDA to be able to declare martial law (!) and seize property in cases of food contamination and want to be able to grow their own gardens without having to adhere to Codex standards, complete with PIN number!
This is not the United States we believe we live in. This is global food fascism, nothing more and nothing less. Don’t let it happen. It really is up to us.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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www.GlobalHealthFreedomUSA.org
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Welcome to the Global Plantation: HR 2749 Authorizes International Take-Over of Domestic Food Production
© Doreen Hannes 2009
Published by permission of the author
HR 2749 AUTHORIZES NAIS and OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
Congressional staffers have been telling people that HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, does not authorize the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Many organic groups have agreed with them. However, this is misleading. Though HR 2749 does not name “the” National Animal Identification System, it still authorizes the program. It also does not state that it legally authorizes Good Agricultural Practices, or GAP, partially comprising Codex guidelines on traceability and food safety, and the OIE’s Guide to Good Farming Practices including auditing, certification and inspections, disincentives for not participating in the form of fines, penalties, and loss of access to market, but it does. Is it possible that Congress was not aware of what it voted on? The bill was changed three times in a 24-hour period before passing the House 283-142 on July 30, 2009.
Are these assertions about HR 2749 wild and unsubstantiated? Proving them is fairly easy—just understand “Good Agricultural Practices” (GAP), how the agencies of the World Trade Organization operate within member countries to achieve them and what comprises the actual jurisdiction of the FDA and USDA. A brief explanation follows, along with substantiating quotes from HR 2749.
First we look to jurisdiction in HR2749….
“Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this Act shall be construed to alter the jurisdiction between the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, under applicable statutes and regulations…” (p.3&4)
Then, tossing our preconceived notions to the wind and looking to law instead, we find that congressional testimony of the FDA on establishing a single food safety agency and a myriad of other sources including the FAO (Food and Ag Organization of the UN), the FDA statements on the Bioterrorism Act of 2002, and many books on food law affirm that FDA has jurisdiction over live food animals:
“FDA is the Federal agency that regulates 80 percent of the nation’s food supply-everything we eat except for meat, poultry, and certain egg products, which are regulated by our partners at USDA. FDA’s responsibility extends to live food animals…”(Cfans Director, March 2004 Congressional hearing)
So then what is the authority of the USDA? It is over agricultural disease, animals in the slaughter channel or transport, marketing (like grading of eggs and certification of processes) and the end product of many (but not all) food animals; meat. This is why NAIS always had to be “about disease” because the USDA couldn’t run it otherwise! The exemption section on USDA regulated products is a dust up. Most people think the USDA has authority over live food animals, but it is the FDA after all. They surrender “cow, sheep or goat for milk production”, but the FDA retains authority of the fluid milk and when the animal is no longer productive for milking, it’s into the slaughter channel (under USDA) or out to pasture (back to FDA) anyway!
“Livestock and poultry that are intended to be presented for slaughter pursuant to the regulations by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the Poultry Products Inspection Act are exempt from the requirements of this Act. A cow, sheep, or goat that is used for the production of milk is exempt from the requirements of this Act.” (p.5 of HR2749)
HR 2749 is 160 pages (July 29 version) and contains the following references to international standards and guidelines (emphasis added for clarity) (all page numbers refer to the PDF file):
“(B) INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS.—In issuing guidance or regulations… the Secretary shall review international hazard analysis and preventive control standards that are in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act and relevant to such guidelines or regulations to ensure that the programs…..are consistent……with such standards.” (p. 35)
“CONSISTENCY WITH INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS.—The Secretary shall apply this paragraph consistently with United States obligations under international agreements.” (p. 81)
“The Secretary shall issue regulations to ensure that any qualified certifying entity and its auditors are free from conflicts of interest. In issuing these regulations, the Secretary may rely on or incorporate international certification standards.” (p. 82)
This means that there will be a layer of auditors, certifiers and inspectors over every aspect of food production in this country and that these inspectors and certifiers will be trained in ISO (International Standards Organization) management program certification. The ISO has been working with Codex Alimentarius on Food Safety Standards and, in particular, a technical standard for Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) which is a consortium of the seven largest food retailers in the world, and that is ISO22000:2005. All traceability (read NAIS) falls under the purview of Codex, the OIE (World Animal Health Organization) and the IPPC (International Plant Protection Convention) for global trade agreements.
The following excerpt from HR 2749 shows the fully interoperable global network already in existence regarding food and its production:
“Development of such guidelines shall take into account the utilization of existing unique identification schemes and compatibility with customs automated systems, such as integration with the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and the International Trade Data System (ITDS), and any successor systems.” (p. 142)
So it is clear that international standards and guidelines are implicit in this legislation. Note the usage of the command form SHALL. This isn’t a ‘might’, ‘may’ or in anyway a voluntary issue on the part of the Secretary. Then there is the section on Traceability. This is a code word in the National Animal Identification System and when one reads Sec.107 of this bill, it describes specific components of NAIS down to 48-hour trace-back, which cannot even be fantasized about with out individual animal identification.
“…..the Secretary shall issue regulations establishing a tracing system that enables the Secretary to identify each person who grows, produces, manufactures, processes, packs, transports, holds, or sells such food in as short a timeframe as practicable but no longer than 2 business days.” [note that it says “grows”] (p. 70)
and…
“……use a unique identifier for each facility owned or operated by such person for such purpose…” (p. 69)
So we have PIN (Premises Identification Number) and 48-hour traceback harmonizing with international standards and guidelines along with this:
“….‘‘(C) COORDINATION REGARDING FARM IMPACT.—In issuing regulations under this paragraph that will impact farms, the Secretary ‘‘(i) shall coordinate with the Secretary of Agriculture; and ‘‘(ii) take into account the nature of the impact of the regulations on farms.” (p. 71)
Now that I’ve killed you with legalese, it’s time to let you find out just what these international standards and guidelines mean to those engaged in agriculture in this country.
“GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES”
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) are not a standard in and of themselves. They are a combination of standards and guidelines set forth by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. (FAO), through both the OIE (World Animal Health Organization) and Codex Alimentarius (Food Code) and IPPC to meet the certification and auditing side of the international trade aspects of the standards set forth. The OIE and Codex are charged with setting global standards and guidelines for the member countries of the WTO to meet and satisfy the SPS (Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary), TBT (Technical Barriers to Trade) and Equivalency agreements of the WTO for participation in international trade. Both the OIE and CODEX have guidelines for traceability that, with the passage of HR2749 into law, would be written into regulations governing all interstate commerce within the boundaries of the United States. The components of traceability are the pillars of NAIS that many of us have become so familiar with in the course of the battle over the past several years. Those being 1) Premises Identification 2) Animal Identification and 3) Animal Tracking. You can’t have traceability under international standards without having those three components.
One of the main issues in the implementation of these standards and guidelines within a member nation of the WTO is that they must have a legal framework through which to regulate and enforce these guidelines and standards. HR 2749 would meet the criteria for that legal framework by way of the excerpts from the bill above.
In the OIE’s “Guide to Good Farming Practices” the management of a livestock facility are clearly spelled out. Some of these recommendations that would become defacto law in the US under agency rule-making on passage of HR2749 (GGFP delineates international guidelines for food safety at the farm level) are:
– For each animal…Require and keep all commercial and health documents enabling their exact itinerary to be traced from their farm or establishment to their final destination…
-Keep a record of all persons entering the farm…..
-Keep medical certificates of persons working with the animals……
-Keep documents proving the water you give to the animals meets specific criteria
-Keep samples of all feed given to the animals
-Keep all documents from official inspections
-Keep records of treatment and procedures on all animals (castration, disbudding, calving, medications, etc.)
-Prevent domestic animals (cats and dogs) from roaming in and around livestock buildings
-Place all these documents at the disposal of the competent authority (Veterinary Services) when it conducts farm visits.
Some of the other guidelines and standards that would come into play after the implementation of traceability for all agricultural products would be : (from FAO COAG/17 “Development of a Framework for Good Agricultural Practices”) “the adoption and implementation of international standards and codes for which Codex food safety standards and guidelines have been designed, and the associated capacity building, training, development and field implementation in the context of the different production systems and agro-ecozones. These include: Enhancing Food Quality and Safety by Strengthening Handling, Processing and Marketing in the Food Chain (214A9); Capacity Building and Risk Analysis Methodologies for Compliance with Food Safety Standards and Pesticide Control (215P1); Food Quality Control and Consumer Protection (221P5); Food Safety Assessment and Rapid Alert System (221P6); and Food Quality and Safety Throughout the Food Chain (221P8).”*
To be certified as meeting the requirements of “GAP”, which is synonymous with being in compliance with international standards and guidelines, we can check out GlobalGAP.org. This is “the” certifying methodology for international trade in ag products. Here are a few excerpts from their 122-page general regulations booklet that has links to checklists for those who would be certifiers and auditors under the principles of GAP. This is an organization, not a governing body under WTO agreements, but working with nations and businesses to meet the criteria regarding these GAP practices for international trade. Here is a bare minimum of excerpts from their regulation document:
-(ii) Developing a Good Agricultural Practice (G.A.P.) framework for benchmarking existing assurance schemes and standards including traceability. (iii) Providing guidance for continuous improvement and the development and understanding of best practice. (iv) Establish a single, recognised framework for independent verification.
-Production Location: A production unit or group of production units, covered by the same ownership, operational procedures, farm management, and GLOBALGAP (EUREPGAP) decision-making activities.
-Within the context of GLOBALGAP (EUREPGAP) Integrated Farm Assurance this means tracing product from the producer’s immediate customer back to the producer and certified farm.
-Within the context of GLOBALGAP (EUREPGAP) Integrated Farm Assurance this means tracking product from the producer to his immediate customer.
In simple English, which appears to be highly lacking in all these guidelines, it means NAIS for everything, and for anyone who wishes to be engaged in agriculture….Remember the “grows” phrase from the earlier excerpt from HR2749. Now let’s look at some of the ‘exception’ clauses in HR2749. This bill is a terrifically crafty piece of legislation that is designed to cloud the reader’s understanding of the impact of the law being proposed in it. All of the exception clauses give the exception under this Act so long as you are ready to be regulated under a different Act. We’ll just look at a couple of these clauses to allow you to get the gist of the lack of exception available through the exceptions….
“EXCEPTIONS”
Farms- A farm is exempt from the requirements of this Act to the extent such farm raises animals from which food is derived that is regulated under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, or the Egg Products Inspection Act.
‘‘(I) such an operation that packs or holds food, provided that all food used in such activities is grown, raised, or consumed on such farm or another farm under the same ownership;
‘‘(II) such an operation that manufactures or processes food, provided that all food used in such activities is consumed on such farm or another farm under the same ownership; (pages9 and10)
Thus, if you grow everything you feed and consume everything you grow, and use no minerals or salts that you don’t mine yourself, you may be exempt. Or, in plain English, don’t even try to make a living in agriculture if you won’t comply with these rules.
One more exception to contend with here is:
‘(A) DIRECT SALES BY FARMS- Food is exempt from the requirements of this subsection if such food is–
‘(i) produced on a farm; and
‘(ii) sold by the owner, operator, or agent in charge of such farm directly to a consumer or to a restaurant or grocery store. (page 71)
This sounds good. However, there are several problems with this that are not evident without some knowledge of how things are done in the traditional avenues open for market to growers. First of all, cattle, whom you may recall as the primary target of the NAIS Business Plan, are often sold either at auction barns or via potload to feedlots. It is illegal to sell beef directly from the farm to consumers in every state that I know of. People often will sell a calf ready to butcher in halves or quarters to people and deliver the calf to the slaughter facility for the consumer, but this is far from the normal route of commerce in cattle or other species of meat animal. Even if you can securely wedge your operation into this particular exemption, they get you later via the record keeping section of this bill:
‘(E) RECORDKEEPING REGARDING PREVIOUS SOURCES AND SUBSEQUENT RECIPIENTS- For a food or person covered by a limitation or exemption under subparagraph (B), (C), or (D), the Secretary shall require each person who produces, receives, manufactures, processes, packs, transports, distributes, or holds such food to maintain records to identify the immediate previous sources of such food and its ingredients and the immediate subsequent recipients of such food.
‘(F) RECORDKEEPING BY RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES- For a food covered by an exemption under subparagraph (A), restaurants and grocery stores shall keep records documenting the farm that was the source of the food.
‘(G) RECORDKEEPING BY FARMS- For a food covered by an exemption under subparagraph (A), farms shall keep records, in electronic or non-electronic format, for at least 6 months documenting the restaurant or grocery store to which the food was sold.’ (pp. 74-75)
So being exempt means you are required to keep records. Keeping required records means you could be required to release those records. So how exempt can a person get under this legislation? Especially when the slaughter facilities will all be regulated unless the USDA already regulates them?
PENALTIES AND FINES
Then of course, as with any law, there are the fines and penalties. These are from $20,000 to $1,000,000 per violation. (p. 122)
NO JUDICIAL REVIEW
There is also the change under the seizure section that takes away judicial overview…(double quotations indicate amending language)
…….procedure in cases under this section shall conform, as nearly as may be, to the procedure in admiralty; except that on demand of either party any issue of fact joined in any such case shall be tried by jury, “”and except that, with respect to proceedings relating to food, Rule G of the Supplemental Rules of Admiralty or Maritime Claims and Asset Forfeiture Actions shall not apply in any such case, exigent circumstances shall be deemed to exist for all seizures brought under this section, and the summons and arrest warrant shall be issued by the clerk of the court without court review in any such case””…… (p. 116)
So we can just throw out that pesky Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and while we’re at it, let’s get rid of probable cause as well via this wording from page 117:
by striking ‘‘credible evidence or information indicating’’ and inserting ‘‘reason to believe’’;
There are many other dangerous aspects to HR 2749, like seizures, quarantines, and licensing and whistle blower provisions, but this should leave no doubt that this bill will indeed affect farms and has the potential to affect even home food production if an agency decides to apply the international risk analysis schemes to that venue. This bill opens a huge regulatory nightmare that is only evident when one knows what the international guidelines and standards consist of in regard to agriculture. Understanding those, it is highly unlikely that they will issue regulations that keep things as they are now.
Now, the questions that everyone involved in agriculture, meaning everyone who eats, must ask themselves are these:
Can regulating, fining and destroying the freedom of people to grow food create food safety?
Have the impacts of so-called “Free Trade” on this nation been beneficial for the citizens of this country?
Have food safety concerns increased or decreased since we have begun to import more food under these trade agreements?
And ultimately, does the US Constitution provide for the voidance of the Bill of Rights to participate in global trade?
My copy of the Constitution clearly does not allow for any law to void the Bill of Rights which is unalienable and Constitutionally guaranteed. It’s time to let our Federal representatives know in no uncertain terms, that everything to do with governance ultimately comes down to the consent of the governed, and we will not consent to being run by international agencies.
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My deep thanks to Paul Griepentrog, who helped in going through the legislation and many of the ramifications and amendments to current law under this Act.