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December 30, 2008
Welcome! In This Issue:
Urgent – Impact the New Administration – Opportunity Ends 12/31
* The General’s Communiqué
* Legal Eagle – Silver Safety
* Health Freedom Action eAlert – Our 2009 Wish List – And Yours!
* Dr. Rima Recommends – Natural Products to Stimulate Your Own Stem Cell Response
* Kathy’s Corner – New Year, New Opportunity
Urgent – Important Opportunity to
Support Health Freedom Ends December 31, 2008.
ONLY 5000 Votes Needed NOW!
Click here http://www.change.org/ideas/view/health_freedom
to Bring Health Freedom’s Perspective to the New Administration
And don’t forget to check the Health Freedom Blog frequently – you’ll find it on our website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
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And thanks for your friendship and support in 2008 from the Natural Solutions Foundation Trustees, Community Organizers and Volunteers . . Together, we ARE the Voice of the Health Freedom NetRoots.
Maj. Gen. A. N. (Bert) Stubblebine III (USA, Ret.)
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (USA, Ret)
President, Natural Solutions Foundation
The General’s Communiqué
Urgent – Important Opportunity to
Support Health Freedom Ends December 31, 2008.
ONLY 5000 Votes Needed NOW!
Click here http://www.change.org/ideas/view/health_freedom
to Bring Health Freedom’s Perspective to the New Administration
SUMMARY: Health Freedom is Alive and Well – And It’s Only Going to Get Better in 2009!
We’re coming up to another new year… and we’re almost a decade into the new millennium. Time certainly moves on! Our HealthFreedomUSA.org web site and the Natural Solutions Foundation were founded in 2004; in 2005 we announced the Codex 2 Step Process – http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=220 – to allow countries to defy Codex and provide – and trade – clean, unadulterated food; we published our seminal ” Nutricide” DVD – http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=156 – telling people – including Codex Delegates! – what Codex really is and where it came from; we announced our overall strategy to achieve and maintain free access to healthy foods, dietary supplements and natural remedies. We called that strategy “The International Decade of Nutrition” – www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org – and have initiated three major projects to demonstrate ways to reclaim food production, ending under-nutrition and the diseases that go along with it, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity, the major killer diseases. Two of those projects are in West Africa and one is in Panama. You can click here – http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=1711 – to read about the extraordinarily positive developments in the Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project in Volcan, Panama and here – http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=1130 – to taste our very first “Friendly Food” Certified Valley of the Moon(TM) product: GMO Free, Pesticide Free, Chemical Free Shade Grown Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee!
I am drinking some right now and it is spectacular! To bring that to you we had to find, and apply, a natural solution to the fungus that destroys the crop here and we have done that. Now we will provide that all-natural solution to the local farmers so they don’t have to use toxic chemicals for their crops!
With your strong support we’ve achieved some remarkable successes. Take a look at our List of Accomplishments at: http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=195
But, of course, such success sometimes comes with the odd Internet denizen or two (and they really are odd!) nipping at our heels and complaining about… all sorts of bizarre irrelevant matters. You may have seen some of the recent Internet furor fueled by poison pen emails from two or three of these odd malcontents.
These attacks always happen when we are getting close to major breakthroughs. And that is what this eblast is about: our hopes and plans for the coming year. Without your help, we will achieve nothing. With your help we will achieve amazing results!
And that’s the truth. During the past few weeks of unrelenting Internet attack our Health Freedom Action eAlert mailing list has grown by over 10,000 new members!
THANK YOU! You have spoken loud and clear. We are humbly appreciative of your continuing support!
This year will provide us with great challenges and choices for change.
If you are in the US, one way to make change is to visit www.Change.org – http://www.change.org/ideas/view/health_freedom – and vote for Health Freedom as a vitally important area of consideration and change for the new administration. This is definitely worth the effort.
Click here – http://www.change.org/ideas/view/health_freedom – to read what the Natural Solutions Foundation Trustees have posted and then add your voice. “Voicing” ends on December 31, 2009. We only need 5000 voting voices to make Health Freedom the number 1 priority of the Change.org system. This may be a real opportunity to raise our collective voices to bring about a real change in the US to re-establish health freedom in place of the growing trend toward health tyranny. Do it now.
Click as if your life depends on it — because it might !
I wish you a wonderful, peaceful, healthy and free New Year. Please check below where we set out the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Wish List for 2009…
Legal Eagle
Ralph Fucetola, JD
Council and Trustee, Natural Solutions Foundation
SUMMARY: Nutritional Silver Safety is Now Easy to Calculate with the Silver Safety Pyramid
The Natural Solutions Foundation is deeply impressed with the capacity of nano silver to protect against all know biological pathogens (disease causing agents) and enthusiastically recommends the use of a laboratory-tested nano silver product, available at www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions (-> products tab -> “Silver Solutions” on left hand side of page).
Questions arise frequently about the safety of silver because of vastly over-rated reports and fears of argyria (bluish-tinged skin following profound overuse and abuse of silver solutions). Nano silver is not stored int the body because of its extremely small particle size and so poses no threat to humans. Many people either have questions or use other forms of silver so we want to offer you a gift of knowledge on this issue.
Along with a number of other professionals involved in advanced healthcare and the health freedom movement, I am a member of the Silver Safety Committee for our Foundation. I’m pleased to announce that the Committee has created the Silver Safety Pyramid and an online calculator so you can determine the safe level of nutrient silver for you.
Is silver safe? Here is what one of my fellow committee members has to say:
“The two things we treat children for most often in poison control centers are toxic intake levels of water and of table salt. Anything in excess is toxic. With normal responsible usage, silver supplements are entirely harmless to humans.”
Jeffrey Blumer, MD, PhD; Director of the Center for Drug Research
You can read more, with a link to the calculator, on my blog:
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2008/12/silver-safety-pyramid.html
Health Freedom Action eAlert
New Year’s Wish List for Us All (+ All US!)
1. FDA Divested of Food Regulatory Authority
US Congressional Hearings on Divesting the FDA, supported by appropriate public outrage leads to a new Cabinet Level Department of Agriculture and Food headed by a Consumer Protection advocate with a separate watchdog agency with no budgetary ties to the organization it is overseeing. Anyone with ties to industry is barred from serving in either a decision making or advisory capacity. Conflict of Interests render the person ineligible to serve in any capacity in the agency. All boards are dominated by consumers, scientists and physicians specializing in health, not illness, to promote open market access to nutritious food, dietary supplements and natural remedies.
2. FTC Bans Advertising and Sale of Vaccines in Interstate Commerce
Federal Trade Commission holds hearings on dangers of vaccines, as requested in our Citizens Petition, and correctly concludes that there is no compelling scientific proof of either vaccine safety or efficacy. FTC then bans advertising which states or implies that vaccines are either safe or effective and bans advertising for, and the interstate commerce of, vaccines until they are proven safe and effective.
3. FrankenFoods Banned
Genetically Modified Foods are banned from the human and animal food supply and may not be grown pending a detailed scientific study on their safety for human, environment and animal health. All GMO plantings must be burned. No GMO crops which produce any industrial or medical products are permitted either in greenhouses or open plantings.
4. All GMO Patents Rescinded
All Biotech (GMO) patents are rescinded since the science upon which such patents have been granted is now understood to be false and inaccurate. No new patents are permitted and all current ones are suspended until further investigation is concluded. International shipment of GMO foods is interdicted for commercial, safety and scientific reasons.
5. Natural Medicine Receives Government and Insurance Incentive, Support
The financial crisis created for the US and global economies results in natural medicine receiving insurance and government support to reduce the amount of money spent on medical care from 16+% to 8% over the next 5 years.
6. Organic Family Farming Receives Financial Incentives, Organic Standards Raised to Meaningful Levels
Organic family farming and foods receive government subsidies while the Codex and National Organics Board standards are revisited to permit upward revision of each and every standard to a level which supports and enhances human, animal and environmental well-being.
7. US Codex Participation Limited to Consumer and Health Advocates, Corporations Barred from Participation
US Codex participation is declared off-limits to corporate interests. Only consumer advocates and health scientists may participate as US delegates to all Codex meetings and activities. Codex reverses course and becomes a force for global health, as its original Statute contemplated.
8. Forced vaccination and Drugging Declared Illegal
All forced vaccination and medication programs are declared illegal through unanimous consent of Congress.
9. Non Toxic Farming Becomes US Domestic and Foreign Priority
Food Production US Domestic and Foreign aide programs are developed to teach chemical free agriculture in the US and elsewhere
10. Poisons Forbidden for Humans and Animals
The use of fluoride, mercury and other toxins, including pesticides, herbicides and industrial sludge, are banned for foods, medicine, dental, agriculture and similar applications.
11. Antibiotics are Banned in Food Animals
Veterinary antibiotic and other drug use is banned for food animals and natural medicine is encourgaged for animals intended for consumption
12. US Joins Global Movement Against Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Other Persistent Toxins
The US ratifies the Stockholm Convention banning the 12 most toxic chemicals known, 9 of which are pesticides and engages on educational and regulatory programs to ban all toxic chemicals associated with food or agriculture from the environment. Seven of these POPs are permitted by Codex in food without labeling or other identification.
13. The Production of Food is Shifted Away From Industrial, Toxic Methods to Totally Natural Ones in the Hands of Family Farmers
Advanced technologies which produce chemical free, safe, clean food are subsidized for family farms while industrial farms are taxed so heavily for their pollution, inhumanity and health degradation that they cannot stay in business. Local production feeds local communities.
14. What’s next?
Write to us at dr.laibow@gmail.com and tell us what YOUR wish list for 2009 holds. We are listening!
15. R&R
General Bert, Ralph and I all get a vacation sometime this year! Mine involves skiing!
16. Natural Solutions Foundation’s Net Roots Take Wing
We have not just the 193,000+ people on our Health Freedom Action eAlert list that we do today, but 20 million+ active, concerned and involved people around the world spreading the word and making sure that the global message goes out: “My body is my property and I can make my own health decisions freely and without interference!”
17. Blessings Descend Upon Us All
Your year, and that of those you love, like ours, is truly blessed with peace, prosperity, health, joy and accomplishment in the company of those you love and those who love you.
18. Resources Become Available to Win the Codex and Health Freedom Struggles
Sufficient funds to carry out all our objectives make themselves available. For example, a couple of million dollars, judiciously used, would solve the Codex problem by creating an effective voice for consumers and galvanizing the “Coalition of the Unwilling” — those countries unwilling to submit to the current Codex agenda of support for industrial food and destruction of organic foods, natural remedies and nutritional supplements. Also, 100 strong supporters for the Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project will move us forward substantially in teaching farmers and others around the world the methods and skills necessary to reclaim food production.
19. Disinformation Attacks Disappear
All irrational disinformation attacks on us will vaporize into the mists of morning and the energy they consume will actually go to solving the problems we are facing instead of creating divisions and strife which serves the other side but weakens health freedom.
20. The Natural Solutions Foundation’s International Decade and its Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project show the way in Ending Hunger and Its Deadly Consequences
The Valley of the Moon(TM) ‘s type of food production and Eco Community organization sets the standard for farmers, consumers and countries around the world through education and participatory agriculture and health practices.
21. The Health Freedom Battle is Over – We Have Won!
I can go back to the full time practice of natural, drug-free medicine.
22. Everyone Who is Interested Gets to Experience the Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project
You and I get to meet when you visit the beautiful, bountiful, temperate Highlands of Panama and experience the Valley of the Moon (TM) for yourself!
23. You Get to Experience “A Little Taste of Heaven in a Cup (TM)”
You try our Shade Grown, Valley of the Moon(TM) GMO Free, Pesticide-Free, Chemical-Free Coffee – http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=1130#order
and love it so much you give it as gifts to everyone you know for either beverage or detox use. Your tax deductible donation says “Thanks!” in your morning cup of Java and you are loving it!
24. Right Makes Rights Once Again
The looming crises to our way of life and constitutional rights, health freedoms and other invasions of our liberties vanish.
May it all be so for all of us in 2009, a year of health, prosperity, productivity, joy and happiness.
Dr. Rima Recommends
Stem Enhance – Nature’s Healer
Today I want to talk about 2 products.
Individually they are each remarkable. Together they are extraordinary. I use both of them daily and so does General Bert. I have seen exceptional success with them in my natural medical practice and know how wide their impact can be. Since they stimulate and enhance natural healing processes, the range of conditions they deal with is exceptional. After all, give the body/mind/spirit/energy unit (that’s a human being, by the way) what it needs to heal and, most of the time, it will do just that, regardless of the pharmaceutical/allopathic dogma!
Health Aid 1: Stem Enhance ( http://www.wealthbuilderssystem.com/site/index.asp?DL=140935&page=103264&ad=0 ) is an extract of blue green algae which has the proven ability to signal your bone marrow to release adult stem cell – YOUR adult stem cells.
Stem cells are the renewal system of the body because they have unique, nearly limitless healing abilities to detect areas of the body that need help and flock to that site. Once there, they set about altering themselves to become – literally – whatever type of cell is needed, whether it is a heart cell, or a brain cell or a kedney, etc.
Of course, the trick is getting the body to pay attention to the danger and release adult stem cells. All too often, although we are making adult stem cells, we keep them “hidden away for a rainy day” in our bone marrow and other physiological hidey-holes. As we age, or with the stress of illness,
Stem Enhance knows that trick and literally calls forth stem cells lurking in the bone marrow and elsewhere.
Stem Enhance is totally natural, easily available and, in my experience, strikingly effective in helping the body to correct serious, long term and often devastating problems – in short, to return to normal structure and function despite serious or even lethal diagnoses.
Click here – http://www.wealthbuilderssystem.com/site/index.asp?DL=140935&page=103264&ad=0 – to learn more about Stem Enhance and its amazing ability to stimulate release of adult stem cells in your body and here – http://organics4u.stemtechbiz.com/quickorder.aspx – to get started using Stem Enhance to harness the power of your own adult stem cells.
Naturally Enhances Circulation and Detox
Health Aid 2: Stem Flo – http://drrimatruthreports.com/store/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=1239 – reduces oxidative stress and enhances circulation within 30 minutes of taking this all natural combination of widely known circulatory stimulators according to laboratory studies. That means that the adult stem cells released by your body when you take Stem Enhance are carried with greater effect to every part of your body. Of course, even without Stem Enhance, increasing circulation is helpful for a great many people. Click here – http://www.stemflo.com/index.html – to see the natural ingredients which have been synergystically combined to provide circulatory support and then imagine what increasing blood flow to the brain, heart, kidneys, lung, etc., can do to bring stem cells, nutrients and oxygen to them while removing debris and toxic waste at the same time!
Together with Stem Enhance or alone, I find that Stem Flo is a unique and highly effective circulatory aid to help the body return to normal structure and function.
Click here – http://organics4u.stemtechbiz.com/quickorder.aspx – to start enjoying the benefits of Stem Flo (and don’t forget Stem Cell stimulation for your pets, too!)
Kathy’s Corner
Kathy Greene
Community Relations and Development Director
SUMMARY: It’s a New Year and that means New Opportunities.
I’ve said it before, but it deserves repeating: we are here because YOU care. You care about your health and that of your family. You care about your freedom. And, as we’ve learned in the past few weeks, you care about us.
I take care of the hundreds of emails that come to our Foundation every day, forwarding to Gen. Bert, Dr. Rima and Counsel Ralph your messages, answering those that I can. What has most impressed me recently have been the hundreds of messages of support and good wishes. That, and the impressive growth in our Health Freedom Action eAlert list tells me that we can count on you, just as you can count on us!
Please remember to ask everyone you know to join the Action eAlert system at: http://www.healthfreedomusa.or/index.php?page_id=187
And, of course, your generous year-end donations are certainly appreciated: http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=189
A Word From Dr. Rima
My personal wish for your 2009 is exactly the same as my personal wish for my year and that of my family: peace, prosperity, health, joy, accomplishment and, not least, freedom. Personal freedom, health freedom, civil freedom, and the freedom to learn, share information and think your own thoughts free from harassment, inhibition or interference. Oh, yes, I urgently wish us in the US all a return to to the Constitutional form of Government which protects and directs a free society.
2009 CAN be a year of decisive forward movement for freedom – all freedom – if we join hands and hearts, ignore the distractions and disinformation (which indicate just how effective we are!), focus on committing ourselves to taking back our legitimate power and using it for making our voices ring loud and clear in the halls of power, in our homes and hearts.
Happy New Year!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
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The Voice of Global Health Freedom™
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1. December 23, 2008 White Paper – Response to Disinformation
2. Letter to Internet Site Webmasters
3. The Truth is Our Defense Cover Letter
4. Update: Natural Solutions Foundation v Miller, Docket
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1. Natural Solutions Foundation – White Paper: Response to Disinformation
Natural Solutions Foundation is an exempt NGO (non-governmental organization) organized in the United States and several other countries. Through our web sites, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org, we have earned the position of the largest “netroots” health freedom association in the world. This White Paper responds to some recent criticism of our efforts.
The Mission of the Foundation is to discover, develop, demonstrate and disseminate natural solutions to the problems facing us and threatening our health and freedom, achieving and maintaining a healthy self, community and world. Since its founding in 2004 the Natural Solutions Foundation has pursued a uniquely vigorous and effective, highly innovative program on many fronts, including natural solutions to significant social problems involving health and wellness. We have over one hundred ninety thousand people on our supporter list. We consider health freedom to be an essential component of those solutions. The threats to health and freedom are both domestic and international, as are the solutions. Individuals and other organizations are welcome to participate in our many programs and action options so that net roots and decision makers share the same information and conclusions about the solutions to problems touching us all. That open invitation characterizes our relationship to all other organizations and individuals of good will.
Among the innovative solutions we pursue are “Mouse Warrior Campaigns” which allow anyone with Internet access to communicate their opinions and needs for health freedom with decision makers, members of Congress, Executives and other people making decisions about health freedom policy. We urge everyone to join our free, secure Health Freedom Action eAlerts by visiting our home pages and signing up there. One of the fundamental natural solutions is to reclaim the production of food and its distribution through The International Decade of Nutrition Program and an alliance among Health Conscious Nations expressed through international cooperation which we have developed over several years of involvement at Codex (the World Food Code). To do this, we are creating the demonstration of BeyondOrganic, Bio Dynamic, Zero Emissions ™, ecologically sound communities, farms, services and schools for farmers and others to share high impact, low technology natural solutions to permit economically and environmentally sustainable, chemical free farming.
Among these, we consider Fr. Godfrey’s UN recognized Songhai Foundation in Benin, West Africa to be an outstanding example; we have formed a strategic alliance with that Community, sponsoring BioDynamic agricultural projects there and with the Government of Benin. The Foundation is also establishing an Eco Community in Central America. You can read about the proposed Valley of the Moon Eco Community demonstration project in the Chiriqui Highlands and IDN at www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org and our accomplishments are listed at: http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=195
Recently, some individuals have propagated false and misleading information about the Foundation and its founders, Maj. Gen Bert Stubblebine (US Army, Ret.) our President and Rima E. Laibow, MD, its Medical Director. This information consists of demonstrably false, actionable distortions, lies and disinformation. We make no speculation concerning their motivations, but their conduct is cause for grave concern. It has always been our policy not to respond publicly to such tactics for several reasons, one of which is that responding to lies, smears, disinformation, false charges and/or innuendo on the Internet merely raises the search engine profile of such miscommunications, no matter how unworthy.
We note that these attacks increase in ferocity and intensity when we are “on target” and have identified a new and important area of action in the protection of health freedom. This time, the coordinated attacks coincide with our alerting the public to the illegal, and novel, threat posed by the FDA’s opening discussion on whether they can or should prohibit the trade of supplements in interstate commerce!
Other health freedom advocates who missed the boat on this flagrant threat to our health choices began to attack us, not the FDA, since we caught the FDA’s action and responded to it. We would hope for more sophistication and less juvenile territoriality on their parts, but we do not attack or chastise anyone in public and will not do so here.
Feedback from our many supporters has alerted us to this fresh campaign of disinformation. We will respond to you, our friends. To our attackers, on the other hand, we will maintain the same policy: silence (and disdain and disappointment). The libel and slander has, of course, caused comment and consternation, as it is intended to do. We are therefore issuing this statement and requesting that our friends circulate it, wide and far with the following provisos:
1. Full attribution must be given to the Natural Solutions Foundation, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
2. This statement may be quoted, but only if quoted in its entirety.
One of the central falsehoods which is high on the list of charges in what seems to be a coordinated attack of rumor and slander mongers is that ‘we are in it for the money’, – this is both false and absurd. Like many nonprofits, our donations are significantly down, last year to this year. The recent election campaign impacted every educational NGO. Of course, well-done calumny always has the seeds of truth in it: we do need to replace the funds that have not come in; we were unable to attend the last Codex meeting due to this lack of funds. The negative impact of missing this meeting on positive developments in Codex is clear from the full (final) report on this Committee meeting early in November, 2008.
Begging for public support is what NGOs have to do. No one accuses National Public Radio, for example, of a ‘flim-flam’ operation, bilking money from the public because they ask to financial support. So, just like any other non-profit, you’ll continue to hear from us about raising the funds we need to be effective. The other side has more money than can be imagined. We need little and ask for it from supporters, not industrial giants, since we are completely independent of all industrial influences.
I have been directly, and inaccurately accused of abandoning a client who is one of the attacker. In fact, this alleged abandonment never occurred. The facts are quite different, as my friendly relationship with the attacker over the subsequent years makes clear.
Now it is time to hear from the founders of the Foundation. What follows are two statements, one from Gen. Bert and one from Dr. Rima, referring further to the various unfounded and libelous “criticisms”. No, we don’t ‘name names’ since we don’t do that sort of thing. However, we need to let the critics know they must ‘cease and desist’ for the good of the Health Freedom Movement. With this White Paper we will let our friends know that we are in fighting mode. And we need your support to keep on fighting!
Tax deductible donations to Natural Solutions Foundation: http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=189
Ralph Fucetola JD
NSF Trustee
ralph.fucetola@usa.net
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General Stubblebine’s Statement from the recent Action eAlert:
The Prospects for Health Freedom and the State of the Movement
Have you heard Dr. Laibow and me on the Alex Jones radio show in recent weeks?
You can hear us on the archives at http://www.prisonplanet.com
One important story Alex reported is that the FDA has admitted that dental mercury can be harmful. That article is at:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/fda-reluctantly-admits-mercury-fillings-have-neurotoxic-effects-on-children.html
‘For the first time, the FDA has issued a warning that the mercury contained in (sic) silver dental fillings may pose neurological risks to children and pregnant women.’
This admission is an important victory in the struggle for Health Freedom. Similar to the efforts of CDC to placate people by ‘removing’ mercury from vaccines (we know that ‘trace’ but still harmful amounts of mercury remain). Small steps toward more transparency and greater personal choice keep us going to our greater goal of significant individual control over our own healthcare choices.
And that brings me to the more general strategic question: how do we turn such individual victories into a general victory in the war (yes, it IS a war) for Health Freedom?
Sometimes what appears to be an isolated win reverberates into the future on multiple fronts. One example involves the Natural Solutions Foundation’s efforts last year to keep the DSHEA products protection Clause 1011 in the bill when the 2007 FDA “enabling act” was introduced in Congress by Sen. Kennedy (there were rumors the congressional conference committee was going to drop the protection). His idea was to deal with the failures of the FDA (what Dr. Ron Paul called ‘FDA abuse of power’) and which Congress documented clearly in a November, 2007 report (Click Here – http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=1482 -for details) by giving the agency more power to abuse, rather than dealing with its structural and functional failures.
Or the stunning victory pulled off by the Foundation when, through its scientific dossier on fluoride in babies and children, we marshaled enough voices to keep Fluoride out of baby formula for healthy babies against the vigorous opposition of the FDA at a 2006 major Codex meeting.
In 2007 the Health Freedom Movement insisted that Clause 1011 be added to the bill protecting our Dietary Supplements from new FDA interference. We were told by various political and movement ‘old hands’ and ‘insiders’ that it didn’t matter (after all, they said, ‘the bill doesn’t even MENTION Dietary Supplements’). We saw this as incredibly naive and persisted, even after the saving clause was in the bill, because we knew the protective language might not survive the House – Senate conference. You sent huge numbers of messages to Congress and, we believe, because of your efforts, the clause protecting dietary supplements survived the Conference Committee.
So here it is a year later, and guess what? FDA recently tried a flanking move, attempting to drag Dietary Supplements into the new law by seeking ‘public comments’ specifically about Dietary Supplements, focusing on an arcane section of the new law.
Last week we alerted you and you responded to our emergency Action eAlert. Once again, large numbers of our ‘net roots’ powerfully told the FDA, in no uncertain terms, to leave our supplements alone, shortly before the end of the FDA’s comment deadline.
Well, the same ‘old hands’ are at it again. Said we were being ‘alarmists’ and the FDA’s request for comments wasn’t a threat.* We think that is absurd! The FDA is committed to the destruction of the high potency supplements you and I take to protect, gain and regain our health. Just look what they’ve done in Europe through their malignant ‘leadership’ at Codex!
These same ‘old hands’ who are supposedly part of the Health Freedom Movement even say (Fasten your seat Belts for this one!) that Codex is not a threat and the not-finalized anti-CAM FDA guidance document from December 2006 that we warned everyone about wasn’t a threat, and… well, you get it.**
If they are really on our side, why are they telling the people to go back to sleep? And why are they spreading rumors, lies and disinformation about the Natural Solutions Foundation and its leadership? Maybe you heard the one about how, they say, I tried to walk through walls when I was serving our country in the US Army. Never did that one… though if I could find a way to keep our soldiers out of harm’s way by walking through walls, I’d do it!
Or about how Dr. Rima, who has practiced drug free psychiatry and medicine for her entire career, ‘made her living by using electroshock ‘therapy’ on children and using psychiatric drugs’. In fact, Dr. Rima turned down a prestigious appointment to a major University because it required her to either administer, or supervise, electroshock treatments. And the disinformation about Counsel Ralph saying that he ‘abandoned’ a doctor in a battle for her license when no such event ever occurred. Or that we work for the ‘bad guys,’ and so on and on and on. But the lies and silly rumors continue; why do they do it?
Is it perhaps because the Natural Solutions Foundation is THE single most effective, and the largest, health freedom organization in the world?
We know why and we know better, as do you. ‘Don’t sleep when you’re on guard duty!’
So if you hear someone saying that we are alarmists, you can tell them you are grateful that we are here to pull the alarm switch when the house is being set on fire!
Thank you all for responding to our emergency Action eAlert last week! Get ready to respond to more in the future. That’s how we will turn winning battles into winning the war!
And remember this Action Item:
Divesting the FDA of Food Authority
http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=1601
FROM: Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)
My specialization during a long and honorable career in the US Army was in Strategic Intelligence – the gathering of data to determine what lay behind it and where it was going to go before it got there. In fact, in order to do that better to protect the US, I redesigned the intelligence architecture of the US Military – for which I am proud to say I was honored by induction into the US Intelligence Hall of Fame.
Sometimes the picture is murky for future events, or there would be no need to learn to use analytical tools and develop others (like Remote Viewing) to help in that task. The corrupt and totally industry-controlled FDA, however, often makes the job of figuring out the shape of things to come easier. Before issuing a regulation (which has the force of law, despite never having been approved by the legislative branch), there are a number of steps which the FDA takes. The way the steps are communicated, hidden or disguised, plus the contents of the documents the FDA creates (and those it hides), tell us clearly where they want to go. And, with regard to clean, unadulterated food and high potency supplements, the answer is consistently that where they want to go is neither in our favor nor focused on our well-being.
Case in Point:
* Our co-trustee and counsel Ralph Fucetola JD tells us that asking for comments is the first step the FDA takes before issuing guidelines which proceed to regulations, so he believes the agency does, indeed, want to subject Dietary Supplements to Section 301(11) of the 2007 FDA Authorization Act. This section allows the agency to forbid interstate commerce for certain item if it deems the item to be an untested drug or otherwise not in the public interest.
The FDA asked for comments recently on how this section applies to dietary supplements. The law itself makes it clear that dietary supplements are totally exempt from anything in the act since they are covered by another act which treats dietary supplements as foods, not drugs (DSHEA, 1964) so that if the FDA were not planning another of its long line of assaults on supplements, this one totally illegal, they would never have opened the issue up for comments.
This one is a no-brainer: the FDA announced that it was about to begin the process of forbidding the interstate commerce of dietary supplements when it posed the question for comments. This is a stalking horse: send it out to see if anyone kills it and, if they do, try another strategy.
The Natural Solutions Foundation, alone of all the other supposed health freedom groups, many of which have lawyers involved, as we do, was the only group that caught this FDA action. This is not the only time this has happened. Oddly enough, and this should give those who take groups and individuals at the face value of their organizations’ names, each time Natural Solutions Foundation catches the USDA, the FDA or other government agencies in their dirty work and let people know so that they can create an effective push-back, we get attacked by pretty much the same “Health Freedom” folks. Not only have they consistently missed the boat (accidentally or intentionally?), they attack us for getting its longitude and latitude and firing effective salvos at that dangerous boat.
This time around, it would appear that there are people who do not see that this request for comments is a preamble to forbidding supplements from interstate commerce. They’ll come around later if they are, in fact, genuinely on the side of health freedom. They pretty much always do.
If they do not come around, that would be a pretty good indication that either they are run by ego, psychosis or have other more ominous and clandestine agendas.
** A good example of this was the March, 2007 FDA “CAM Guidance for Industry” which proposed another way to make dietary supplements and other natural health strategies illegal: Anything, literally ANYTHING which would be used or provided to another person with the intent of creating a healthful effect (and the FDA’s examples were Holy Water or hot rocks for massage) would become an untested drug (e.g., Holy Water) or device (e.g., hot rocks). As an untested medical device or drug, it would, of course, be illegal to sell, use or provide. We caught that one and found out that the FDA had not only hidden this action by failing to publish it in the Federal Register in a timely fashion as required by law, but had no operational means of providing comments on the proposed Guidance.
Natural Solutions Foundation called the Receiver of Dockets at FDA and asked for her email at work. She provided it and we told our supporters about it. 588,000+ people tried to tell the FDA “NO!” 198,000+ succeeded before the FDA system “crashed”.
This particular CAM guidance never materialized its threat; to this date it has not been finalized (which is rather unusual), because 198,000 of you succeeded in filing protests before the FDA comments site went down and a half million tried to file their objections! All because our Action eAlert ‘went viral’ with your help and reached millions of people.
Once again, we are being attacked by those supposedly on our side. The attacks are filled with the tools of the other side: lies, large and small.
1. Unfounded, baseless, but “juicy” personal innuendo and smear (e.g., who is alleged by an aggrieved spouse to have slept with whom in whose divorce papers hardly has anything to do with health freedom, does it? So and so is an agent of, receives money from, works for, does the bidding of this and that oppositional force). Data supporting any of these allegations is never presented since there is absolutely none.
2. False documentation and lies about past conduct (e.g., that I was involved in the “Sound of Silence” weaponry in Gulf War I or that I was involved in MK Ultra and other mind control programs, or that Dr. Rima administered electroshock to patients or supervised it, used drugs in her medical practice, etc.) Again, allegations take the place of data since there is absolutely none.
3. Emotional coloring of real data through spin and editing of real information and partial truths to create altered reality (e.g., we ask for money (true) for our own purposes and use (untrue), my operational boss in my last assignment on active duty was the Deputy Director of the CIA (true) and I am therefore a CIA operative (untrue), I created a High Performance Task Force for my troops (true) therefore I was involved in, or created, or ran, or otherwise was connected with Mind Control (untrue), that Dr. Rima is an excellent and prolific writer (true) because she has been trained in some sort of mind-control language techniques (absurd and untrue). Thus, accurate facts are confabulated with lies and negative intentionality is implied or lied about to make innocent or positive facts take on an ominous cast or meaning. Substantiation for the negatives is never presented because there is none. If substantiation is presented, it is only for the first half of the equation, the actual, factual reality.
4. Sweeping, but unsubstantiated “conclusions” and assertions about the meaning or intention of what someone is doing are presented (e.g., Natural Solut’ons Foundation is a “Controlled Opposition” group, that our information is inaccurate – see the FDA items above – or that we are sinister people working for sinister ends, using “scare tactics” to “control” people, trying to flim-flam people out of money, including their IRAs, etc.). Reality is carefully distorted to serve the ends of the distorter but, once again, substantiation is lacking, absent, not present, invisible and simply not there for a very good reason: there is none.
These are the tactics not of well-intentioned colleagues with differing views of the situation, but of destroyers, of agents, of operatives or, most benignly, of people who are, quite literally, mad.
The writer of a series of vicious internet attacks against us personally and against the Foundation “confided to us” at a Codex Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland (2006) when we asked him how he could bring himself to write such vicious lies about us not once, but many times, said, “Actually I quite like you and Dr. Rima, General, but it is the policy of the Executive Board of the xxxx Foundation [name of organization redacted because we do not engage in smear campaigns against anyone, not matter what they do!] to attack the Natural Solutions Foundation as often as possible.” That speaks volumes. What also speaks volume is that in April, 2005, the US Director of this Foundation called me and introduced herself. She asked if I were planning a health freedom rally in Atlanta a week or so later. I confirmed that I was. She said that I could not do that because I “did not have permission.” I asked from whom she imagined that I needed permission and she said, and I quote, “The xxxx Foundation owns health freedom and you do not have permission to raise any money or do anything else without the permission of the xxxx Foundation.” I was thunderstruck and told her that I did not need anyone’s permission (Controlled Opposition, anyone?) but that, as a gesture of good will, I would ask for funds for her organization OR ours at the Atlanta health freedom event. She said that she did not “trust” me and that she would have her people at the event to make sure I did so (!) Mind you, there was no offer of paying a penny for this event.
She did, indeed, have two people who attended the meeting by leaning with their arms crossed and a hostile demeanor against the wall throughout the entire meeting. I asked for donations for us and for their organization. They got none. This would certainly be classified as a spoiler attitude in my book.
The Natural Solutions Foundation, Counsel Fucetola, Dr. Rima and I will continue to provide accurate, forward looking leadership in the health freedom movement because we believe that is the correct thing to do. The attacks may well continue. They are a mark of our accuracy and success in moving us all away from the devastating and evil agendas of the Multinational Corporations and their greed, genocidal and anti-social behaviors.
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FROM: Rima E. Laibow, MD
Disinformation is the first line of attack against those who are saying and doing what the Powers That Be (PTB) do not want said or done. Personal smears and lies are the order of the day. To make matters worse, many of the attackers are not rational people. One of them is a self-proclaimed paranoid schizophrenic who has been hospitalized many times and the other is a physician whose license was removed because she refused psychiatric examination and/or treatment since the Medical Board of her state (which is the same state in which I am licensed) apparently felt that her actions were floridly psychotic and were endangering others. The first of these people has sent us extremely bizarre letters disturbingly merging General Stubblebine with his brutal, alcoholic, allegedly “CIA” father and displaying exceedingly poor reality testing. This same person has sent letters to others saying that he wanted to break their fingers, watch them die while they choked on the teeth that he knocked down their throat with his fist, etc., etc. The floridly mad and rage-full “information” which this sad soul spews out over the internet and elsewhere is the principal material of which attacks on us are composed. Substantiation? Data? Reality? Zero. But, as with a bullfight, some people like the excitement and the possibility of blood.
The Natural Solutions Foundation never, never attacks in response or otherwise, but we do want our supporters to know the truth. Hence, no names are named, and no counter attacks are being mounted. Truth, you may have heard me say, rings like a bell. Our acts, dedication and devotion to health freedom stand for themselves. General Stubblebine and I gave up a successful drug-free psychiatric and medical practice, sold our house and have dumped our life savings – and more – into safeguarding YOUR health freedom. Why? Because in our world view, if you know that evil is being perpetrated and do nothing, you become a perpetrator.
We know that evil is being perpetrated by the Multinational Corporations, the compliant people in the US Government, Codex, etc., and are simply not willing to stand by and do nothing. So being attacked by the other side, as when we were met at a Codex Meeting by guards with guns to keep us away from the Delegates, is a signal confirmation of the accuracy and importance of our work in health freedom. Similarly, although sadly, the attack of those who are not merely psychotic, but motivated by something other than either good will or an investment in health freedom, is an unwelcome, but high energy signal that we ARE changing the timetable and direction of the other side, alerting people to things that they don’t want out there and generally making a significant difference. So watch who attacks us carefully and realize that the attacks are not motivated by anything good.
The Natural Solutions Foundation NEVER, but NEVER, attacks or smears anyone. We focus on the truth as we see it and use every ounce of our personal and collective strength and creativity to present that truth. If you have seen attacks on us, and have made the mistake of subscribing to their lies, you have been misled, I am afraid. Remember that it is impossible to prove a negative, no amount of denial about unfounded allegations and smears will ever convince anyone of anything. Our actions, our dedication and transparency are our reality. Oh, and by the way, as people who have devoted the last 4 years of our life without salary, compensation, or other gain (other than knowing that we are doing what no one else is doing and what needs to be done for global health freedom) the fact remains that the smears and allegations presented by people who attempt to discredit are absurd and deeply insulting. But then, they are supposed to be. And they are supposed to create divisiveness in this movement. In short, either the attackers are agents provacateurs, intentional sowers of dissent or they are unwitting ones because of their own pathology and egos. They are certainly laying up their own karma/just desserts/sins and I wish them eventual peace, which they sorely need.
Beside the two clearly mentally impaired persons attacking is a supposed scholar who proudly presents everything he shares as well-researched fact. In fact, the man participating in this disinformation campaign admitted – in writing – that his attacks on us were based on hearsay. Now what kind of credibility does that suggest? His Avian Flu facts (I believe they are since they cross-checked before I published some of them with public thanks to him for his data) but his alleged “facts” about us personally and about our activities, motivations and financial structures exceed the absurd and constitute, as do the other allegations being made about the Foundation and us, and constitute actionable libel and slander.
We know what we have to do and will do it to make it clear to these people that whether or not the motivation is intentional disinformation, libel and slander is not acceptable. There is something that you can do, too:
I strongly, very strongly, suggest that you write directly to these people and any others who seek to discredit and libel us and ask them for the documentation, not further assertions or innuendo, upon which their charges and smears rest. Sifting through the assertions and allegations you will find what everyone else who has done so has found: these allegations and assertions are baseless lies and distortions created for purposes having to do with psychotic or intentional disinformation.
For the record:
1. I have never prescribed, presided over, participated in or in any way condoned electroshock therapy for anyone at any time under any circumstances whatsoever. I did, in fact, turn down a very good position with a major university medical school because it would have required me to supervise the administration of electroshock therapy to children and adults and I felt then, and feel now, that the practice is barbaric and inexcusable. Certain of these people have publicly libeled and slandered me by stating otherwise. I have a right to, and demand, a public retraction of this lie.
2. I have devoted my professional life to the drug-free practice of both medicine and psychiatry. Saying otherwise both libeled and slandered me. I have a right to, and demand, a public retraction of this lie.
3. The Natural Solutions Foundation been repeatedly attacked as being “controlled opposition and as being “shills” for various industrial or government forces†No one controls the Natural Solutions Foundation other than its trustees. We serve no one but our own vision of what free people have a right to: clean food, any health choice they wish, freedom from compulsory “treatments”, personal choice on all matters concerning their bodies and those of the people for whom they make decisions.
Our only source of funding, besides the enormous personal funding General Stubblebine and I have contributed to this effort at great personal sacrifice, comes from our public supporters. Attacks like the ones being perpetrated now are designed to remove that funding source from us by creating distrust to tarnish our credibility and remove our funding source by discrediting us. There is no truth at all to these allegations and we have a right to, and demand, a public retraction of all such lies.
4. We have been attacked for being ‘new’ to the movement. Before General Stubblebine and I decided to close our private practice of drug free, advanced healthcare and medicine, giving up our income, selling our house and devoting our time and effort to Health Freedom as volunteers, taking no salary for our efforts and donating virtually all of our personal savings and resources to this battle, we were well known advocates of drug free medicine and freedoms, including health freedom, for the duration of our careers. Charges of “Johnny Come Lately – ism” are absurd. I personally have been involved as a social change agent based on what I believe to be right, since I was in High School, from which I graduated in 1961. We have a right to, and demand, a public retraction of these lies.
5. We have been attacked over the allegations of angry former spouses in the documents produced during divorces nearly 2 decades ago. It is of no consequence or concern what General Stubblebine’s divorce papers or mine say about anything at all. The very idea that anyone would bring anything like that up, especially so many years later, indicates how desperate these people are to manufacture “dirt”. Ask yourself, why? If anyone has any data about who, in fact, slept with whom, what difference does it make? We have a right to, and demand, a public apology for this disgraceful smear tactic designed solely to tarnish our reputations as upstanding persons, which we most assuredly are.
6. We have been attacked over the Kevin Miller video fiasco. Kevin Miller signed a contract to make a film (which he contacted me to fund). The video was commissioned early in 2005 specifically to raise awareness in the American Public about the upcoming ratification of the disastrous Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG, July 4, 2005) at the 2005 Codex Alimentarius (World Food Code) Commission (July 4-7, Rome). The contractual agreement was that the movie would be finished and released by April 15, 2005. The contractual agreement was that the movie would be shown on 25 million US TV screens through Miller’s claimed contacts. The contractual agreement also, at Miller’s suggestion, was that Natural Solutions Foundation was to receive shares in Miller’s company in appreciation for the commission and in appreciation of the Foundation’s work.
We explicitly agreed that the film was to be about the Codex Vitamin and Mineral Guideline and that General Stubblebine and I would have input into its title, contents and other aspects, that we would be interviewed and that the film would be used for informational purposes in the 6 weeks prior to its scheduled ratification. The agreed-upon release date would give us 6 weeks for a full court press public relations effort before the scheduled ratification of the VMG on July 4, 2005. Natural Solutions Foundation hired a Public Relations person, Terry White, to handle the national awareness campaign for that film based upon its contractual contents and release date.
The film was financed by one of our Foundation supporters, a mother who mortgaged her home to make the film because her autistic son will be dependent on high dose nutrients for the rest of his life and she understood that her son’s continued progress depended on continued access to the supplements which are so badly threatened by Codex, especially the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline slated for ratification that July.
Miller was explicitly told that one of the people who continually attacked us with baseless charges was the paranoid schizophrenic mentioned above. Miller wanted film footage this person had of a Codex meeting. We said that if his material, and he, were to be included in the documentary, then it would have to be in the spirit of collaboration, not of attack. Under that set of rules, the individual was a welcome interview subject in our film. But we also explicitly told Miller that the film was not about that person, his agenda or about us: it was about the VMG. Miller agreed to our terms and received the $50K provided by the mother of the autistic child through her second mortgage which she donated to the Foundation.
Miller stopped communicating with us (although we had provided the agreed $50K to make the film, thanks to the mom’s) and the April 15 date came and went with no word from Miller or a documentary. Miller refused to answer our calls or emails. He finally released the film, We Become Silent”, on June 29, 2005, just prior to the long weekend of July 4 in America and of no use whatsoever in forcing the US to alter its policy of enthusiastic support for the VMG. Miller unilaterally released the film for free on the internet although that was a decision which we, as funders, had every right – and responsibility – to participate in. We had been assured that the cost of making the film would be recouped by the sales of the film. We were never given the opportunity to do so, however, since Miller refused to communicate with us and we never received a penny for the film. Miller, who had previously declared bankruptcy, kept the money, refused to make the film we commissioned and stopped communicating with us. The film was released so late that it had no meaning in our campaign and both our hopes and the money we spent for public relations around the issue were wasted.
To our knowledge, the film was never shown on the 25 million TV screens that Miller promised to screen it on (although the original number was 52 Million, Miller later said that was an error and “real” number was 25 million) and to our certain knowledge, it never was shown on any TV stations or otherwise before its tardy, and, for us, disastrous, release date. The video did not include the information we had agreed upon and it included much irrelevant and even hurtful material. I was interviewed for the documentary in March, 2005. That interview, which was to be followed by 2 more, was not included and the other never took place.
The mother whose home was mortgaged quite rightly asked for her money back from us. We asked for the money back from Miller. We got no communication or response to those requests.
We, and the mother and father involved, were forced to sue Miller to get the money back he had been given under what appeared to be false pretenses. We did not sue to recover our related expenses, for embarrassment, for anything else. We simply wanted to protect a generous donor whose generosity needed to be made whole since Miller had abused our funding. We had no interest, and have none now, despite the distorted and dishonest disinformation that has been put out since that time, in whether Miller ever makes another film, let alone a longer version of the film that he failed to make in a timely or effective fashion. We simply wanted our money back since the work product was not what was contracted for, was tardy and did not meet the purposes of the commission.
The suit was brought through a proper jurisdiction and Court of Law and both parties had a chance to assert their positions, through documents and statements, depositions, etc. A settlement agreement was reached during Miller’s deposition in which facts came out which Miller reluctantly confirmed. Following that, Miller and we agreed to settlement terms which neither he nor we are permitted to disclose. The payments he promised were not made by him despite his agreement to recompense the family involved according to those terms. The family advised us that they were reluctant to throw good money after bad, so they did not pursue Miller to comply with the terms of the Settlement nor did Natural Solutions Foundation did not seek anything further from Miller since the family bore the legal costs. Thanks to his supposed ‘defenders’ (led by the former paranoid schizophrenic patient) , however, we have received continuing unjustified, slanderous and libelous abuse and smears. We have a right to, and demand, a public apology for these distortions, attacks and allegations.
What could have happened had Miller fulfilled his contract? Well, one of my lectures, Nutricide, is not a professional documentary of the quality we were assured Miller could produce, has been seen by over a half million people on one site alone. It’s impact has been enormous. What might a well-crafted, effective and focused film accomplished? We will never know. But we believe that the [unopposed] ratification of the VMG has done irreparable harm and we are firmly convinced that a meaningful push-back was possible if the film had been timely, effective, promoted and seen.
Update: Due to claims by some that the Miller case either did not happen or did not result in a Consent Judgment by Mr. Miller, admitting that funds were to be returned to the Foundation, we have reluctantly posted the Docket of the Case at the bottom of this report. See: Miller Docket.
7. We have been accused of being government ‘mind control’ operatives. General Stubblebine was never involved in any way in any mind control operations. Because of security compartmentalization, he believed that the MK Ultra program, of which he had only dimly heard, had been halted when Congress held hearings on the topic and ordered the CIA and Army to do so. It was not until many years after his retirement in 1984, when he met me, that he learned that this was not the case and it took me years to convince him, though the data which had been presented to me, that the case was not closed, as he believed.
Similarly, I am not, have never been and have never been asked to be, affiliated with, party to, involved with or connected with anything done by the US or any other government, agency or force to people which controlled their minds, thoughts, hearts, health, decisions, etc. General Stubblebine has a right to, and demands a public apology for this distortion of his illustrious career and reputation.
I have never received a paycheck, privileged, or other compensation or support, favor or benefit from the US Government which any other tax paying citizen receives.
I pay taxes. I get a Social Security payment every month from the government because of those taxes. That is it. No “cut out”, no clearance, no special relationship, no code words, no handler. I met twice with an FBI agent in 1990 and 1991 when they asked me for the names of contacts with whom I had met in the Soviet Union and Former Soviet Union. I provided those contacts.
I met once more with FBI agents from their Vice Squad to reveal information I had uncovered about a Child Pornography and snuff film ring. I turned over all documents and data and never heard from them again.
I also met twice with CIA representatives because I had become aware of information which I felt was dangerous to the welfare of the US through my foreign travels and contacts. I requested those meetings, General Stubblebine accompanied me. Those are the sum total of my connections with, at any level, either the CIA or the FBI. Oh, yes, one more contact: General Stubblebine and I became aware though an unlikely source, that there was a possibility of a nuclear attack on Washington, DC. We made contact with a soldier in Army Intellegence who worked for General Stubblebine when he was on active duty before he retired in 1984 and shared the information with her. We were later informally told that the information we provided did, in fact, allow a nuclear dirty bomb attack to be prevented. We never knew the source of the funding, planning or organization, just the possibility of the attack on the date we were told.
I have no other connection with agencies, governments or other units of any organizational structure of any kind whatsoever. Anything else to the contrary is a lie and is said in order to bring my loyalty to our constituency into question and damage my reputation and work. I have been slandered and libel and have a right to, and demand, a public apology since these charges and smears are without basis.
8. In April, 2005 a meeting of Health Freedom groups was convened in Crystal City, VA to find common ground for action against Codex. The organizer was Brenna Hill, formerly with the American Association for Health Freedom. One of the conditions under which the meeting was organized was Brenna’s assurance that the former mental patient, an irrational critic on groundless charges of the Natural Solutions Foundation and a relentless smear disseminator, would not be present since he was known for his emotionally and verbally abusive and threatening behavior. When he nonetheless bullied her, she allowed him to attend despite the promise to all attendees. His first participatory act was to send out an email through Brenna attacking General Stubblebine and me for the same sort of bizarre and totally unfounded accusations that you hear from him again and again and yet again when you give his bizarre material credence. He included the same material which he had previously written to us in a long, rambling and largely incoherent email to General Stubblebine in which he confessed that his father was brutally violent, apparently psychotic, definitely alcoholic and had once, the former patient asserted, worked for the CIA. He therefore accused General Stubblebine of being a CIA operative and his father in other ways which reflected psychotic thought patterns. This same information permeated his contributions at this meeting. He continued to insist that we were acting on behalf of the other side in this vital battle although no data exists to suggest any such thing.
General Stubblebine did not respond. The letter was floridly bizarre and suggested the lack of reality testing which is the hallmark of paranoid schizophrenics, known within psychiatry by the professional term “schizophrenese”. These allegations are patently false and must be immediately stopped, along with all other false and misleading attacks and public revelations. Both General Stubblebine and I, each on our own behalf, and on behalf of the Natural Solutions Foundation, are entitled to, and demand, a public apology for these damaging and groundless charges.
9. Our Counsel as been accused as well on baseless charges. Ralph Fucetola JD did not “abandon” the former New York physician as so inaccurately presented by her. Counsel Fucetola did not cause her to loose custody of her child through such abandonment. He did not even know this person when the state took her child away from her long before the proceedings at which she lost her license. He did not “represent†her before the medical board since he was not a practicing New York lawyer, but did advised her at her request as is permitted by law during that hearing. We understand that she chose not to hire a New York lawyer to handle any subsequent appeal. These accusations are false, constitute slander and libel and Counsel Fucetola has a right to, and demands a public apology for these baseless charges which are meant to damage his reputation and that of the Foundation with which he is associated.
Please remember that people with psychotic personality disorders confuse and confabulate information which seems true to them, but they cannot distinguish between that and what is actually real. If they are intelligent and articulate, they can be quite convincing. Only a careful examination of the internal logic (and lack therefore) and the lack of factual, substantiating data makes the lack of solidity of their delusions apparent.
Of course, disinformation agents have a sinister reason for distorting truth.
10.One detractor (without a psychiatric history of which we are aware) maintains that General Stubblebine and I profit handsomely from the donations to the Natural Solutions Foundation. This is absurd. We put money into the Foundation, we do not receive anything at all from it. We take no salary and regularly put money into it. I am writing this while I sit in a house purchased for the Natural Solutions Foundation’s International Decade of Nutrition Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project headquarters. The house is not mine or General Stubblebine’s yet every penny which has gone into the purchase to date, furnishing the house, repairing it, etc., etc., has come from our personal funds for the benefit of the Natural Solutions Foundation and Health Freedom. How is that profiting from the donations, which are not sufficient to carry out the diverse and innovative programs of the Foundation’s Health Freedom program. What have we taken? Nada. Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nunca. Zero. Nein. So how are we profiting? We have given up our home, our careers and our financial stability to fight for your health freedom, dumped our life savings into this effort for our own health freedom and for that of our critics and anyone else alive now or yet to be born. We are directed by and devoted to the objective of real choice for everyone about their food, their futures and their bodies. Period. In four years we have created the largest, most active, most effective and most significant health freedom organization in the world without corporate funding, without grants, without attacking potential allies and without compromise.
NGOs ask for money from the Public. That is how they support themselves if they do not accept industrial money. We do not. During this electoral cycle, all organizations like ours have been hurt because of the huge amounts of money sucked up by the Election cycle. To make matters worse, the economic cataclysm began in the US this fall. We were not able to attend the last important Codex meeting because we did not have sufficient funding.
Here is what another prominent NGO just published about the financial issues they are facing:
‘In the last couple of weeks, however, we’ve been hit hard in a way that no one could forecast. You have, no doubt, heard about the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme in which investors have been horribly defrauded of up to $50 billion. What you may not know is that two foundations that have been incredibly generous and longstanding supporters of our national security and reproductive freedom work have been victimized by the Madoff scandal — forced to close their doors and terminate their grants.
‘That means that $850,000 in support we were counting on from these foundations in 2009 simply won’t exist. We’re dealing with that reality and remain committed to continuing our critical work in these areas. But, as you can imagine, the year-end donations of you and other [Organization Name] supporters are now more important than ever.’
These charges of personal profit, misuse of funds and similar disinformation are libel and slander and are designed to damage our reputation and deprive the Foundation of its income so that our work could be carried out. We are individually and organizationally entitled to public apologies and demand those apologies.
11, 12, etc. Balderdash! The [unfortunately] endless lies about us show that these others persons have little to do except create diversions and divisions. We are accomplishing a great deal. You can go to our website and read our “accomplishment” page to see what we are doing.
http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=195
Just what are these others actually accomplishing except to denigrate us? And how does that serve health freedom? Right. This divisiveness only serves the other side, and serves it well. They have all the money in the world and only domination in mind. Could it be that there are those who are unwittingly duped into serving their needs? Or perhaps wittingly? Who knows? The reality is that these attacks confirm that we are effective and other persons and organizations, for whatever reasons, do not wish to have that happen.
I do know that we are motivated by a belief that everyone, that means everyone, has a right to the precious freedoms of information and choice. We will continue to act as we believe is best and will continue to take these attacks as the grim confirmation that we are effective and that the other side would prefer to have us out of the way.
Other organizations and individuals are welcome to join with us in our efforts and successes, which are many, once they finish their absurd attacks. They would be more successful, however, if other people who are allegedly part of the health freedom movement were to stop clawing each other’s eyes out and get down to brass tacks.
Ask yourself, as they say in law, qui bono? Who benefits from this onslaught of attacks?
We do not demand that others agree with us (as others demand of us). That is pure Leninism. (For Lenin, if you disagreed with him or his position by so much as a hair, he demanded that you either recant or had you killed. We are dealing with the same absurd and dangerous mentality here.)
We demand nothing of anyone in the movement. We offer the opportunity to collaborate and, whether or not others choose that path, we continue to act as we see best. We do not attack others (as they attack us). We attack no one except the institutions and agencies that attack the peoples’ right to freedom of choice in healthcare.
We identify problems and look for the deep, underlying natural solutions to those problems and then carry out appropriate actions on a local, national, and international scale.
Again, contact the purveyors of this disinformation and ask for their SOURCES. There are none.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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To: Webmaster
The Natural Solutions Foundation, and its Trustees, Council Ralph Fucetola, JD, Rima E. Laibow, MD and Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.) are shocked and disappointed that you have chosen to publish baseless attacks on us which have no substantiation and which are, in themselves, actionable as libel and slander. We know your site as a friend of truth and believe that your decision to publish these lurid and unfounded assertions and groundless accusations was an unfortunate mistake.
Our Foundation, and we personally, have been, and continue to be, damaged by this publication and we would request that you take the following actions to help make sure that we are not further damaged through your continued publication of allegations based on nothing but malice or worse:
1. Please remove any negative articles, allegations or other groundless, actionable material from your site. Although damage has been done, removing the article or entry may help to limit that damage.
2. Please post a notice that you have been informed that the charges in this material are both baseless and actionable and have removed it for that reason.
3. Please post the attached Response Letter with the included links to, or a scroll-down capability to, our full explanatory Health Freedom Blog entry in its entirety. This would help set the record straight since none – that is correct, NONE – of these charges is based in reality.
4. Please let me know when this has been done.
The Foundation and I look forward to counting you as a friend of truth and health freedom and look forward to getting past this round of attacks. It is our experience that these attacks occur when our information and actions are right on target and this time, in fact, follow hard on the heels of our fresh attack on the FDA’s latest effort to remove dietary supplements, this time through a totally illegal means.
We ask you to treat us fairly and to consider joining our 2009 Campaign to Divest the FDA of its misused authority over food claims and safety. The time has come to move forward and secure our health freedom.
I look forward to hearing that the above steps are ones you want to take and, in fact, have taken.
Yours in health and freedom,
Ralph Fucetola, JD
Council and Trustee
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
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3. The TRUTH is our Defense
Confused About the Natural Solutions Foundation?
That’s Exactly What the Other Side Wants!
There is only one defense for libel or slander: the truth. Since the recent Internet attacks against us contain no truth, they are, by definition, both libel and slander. Why are they happening? It is really quite simple: Your ill health is big business (the biggest) and the other side has all the money it needs to buy disinformation and disinformation agents. So there are agents provocateur, people who stir up division and trouble on demand, out there trying to attack the Natural Solutions Foundation. We are the largest and far and away the most successful health freedom organization in the world.
And then there are what Lenin called “useful idiots”, people who unwittingly do the work of the tyrannizers. Sadly, health freedom has both in abundance.
Note: A negative can not be proven (I am NOT this, I have NOT done that), but such accusations are made about us not because they are true, but because they can be made to SOUND true, made to appear plausible through the Big Lie techniques of disinformation.
We get attacked all the time, notably when we are RIGHT on target. This go around is no exception.
If you haven’t encountered the latest attacks, good. Ignore this. If you have encountered them, ignore the attacks. Here’s why:
Fact from Rima E. Laibow, MD: I am not now and have never been associated with the CIA, Big Pharma, the US Government except as a tax payer and a citizen, the New World Order or any of its faces, or any other force trying to control you or me. I act as I see fit and say what I believe to be true based on the best of my information and knowledge. Period. Natural Solutions Foundation is so effective in our opposition to the Powers That Be that a serious attempt was apparently made on my life a year ago. We have been met with guns at the Codex meeting to keep us under guard and away from the other attendees and delegates. We have been threatened by representatives of the industries and agencies whose agendas we oppose. We have been attacked directly by the Chairman of Codex from the Podium during a Codex meeting and Dr. Barbara Schneeman, the US Codex Representative at a recent Codex meeting actually told members of our pro-health nations’ delegates to stay away from us since we “got things wrong” and that they, the developing world, should come to HER, instead, for answers to their questions and concerns! The members of the developing nations’ delegations came running to me roaring with laughter after these conversations! I would say that we are pretty clearly UNcontrolled opposition, and pretty good at it, too!
Fact from General Stubblebine: I am the Foundation’s President. I retired from Active Duty in 1984. Before that, my operational commander was the Deputy Director of the CIA and I held all clearances of which I was aware although I now know that there were others that I did not hold. I continued to work as a Defense Contractor until 1992 or so and retired from that business. At that time, I allowed ALL my security clearances to lapse and have no more access to classified, sensitive or other restricted data than you do. Dr. Rima has no clearances of any kind and has neither applied for any nor been given any.
Fact from the Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation: We do not individually or as an organization care if Keven Miller makes one or a thousand films of any length. The film was commissioned to provide the center of a public relations storm starting 6 weeks before the Codex meeting later that year. That would have meant a release date of April 15, 2005. We were compelled to sue him for failure to meet his contractual obligations because the mother who mortgaged her house in order to pay for the film which the Foundation commissioned opposing the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline, slated for ratification on July 4, 2005 requested a refund when the film was not forthcoming as promised on April 15, 2005. Miller did not produce the film in a timely fashion, releasing it on June 29, 2005, far too late to accomplish its public relations goal and did not make the film for which he had been contracted. We requested the donor’s money back. After a legal proceeding, Miller agreed to a settlement in which he paid back the money under terms which the settlement prevents either Miller or our side from disclosing. Miller defaulted on those payments but the family chose not to pursue him at this time since they felt it was throwing good money after bad.
Fact from the Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation: The Natural Solutions Foundation accept NO corporate sponsorship. One hundred percent of its funding comes either from the money that General Stubblebine and Dr. Rima put into it (our life savings and the proceeds from the sale of our lovely home in Westchester, NY in 2007) or what private donors donate. We work for free, take no salary, compensation, or other benefit from the Foundation and, instead, pay for any expense shortfall with our dwindling resources. Council Ralph Fucetola, JD devotes at least half time every month on the same basis. Our other staff are similarly all volunteer. Where is the profit? Where is the misuse of funds? Every penny goes into the work of the Foundation. We provide the overhead, the office, the ink, the internet, the paper, the time and the skill to run it. There are no salaries to drain the impact of your donations. None.
Fact from General Stubblebine: I am NOT the illusory violent, abusive, alcoholic, “CIA Agent” father of a multiply hospitalized paranoid schizophrenic “activist” whose charges hit the Internet and then reverberate to his glee and our undeserved discredit, despite the bizarre letters we, and others have received to that effect. Nor have I ever stared a goat (or anything else) to death, nor has he tried to do so. I did, while on active duty, learn about the purported human capacity to do so and brought the idea that it might be possible to Fort Bragg, home of the Special Forces, with which I have no connection. I never heard what happened to the technology thereafter.
Facts from General Stubblebine and Rima E. Laibow, MD:
General Stubblebine: I have never had any connection, part in, knowledge about, or dealings with the Mind Control program. I believed, until he met Dr. Rima in 1991, that the program had been stopped following the demand of Congress that MK Ultra and other Mind Control programs cease immediately. Anyone making these assertions has no idea how compartmentalization and clearances work: the need to know determines what you know. I was in Strategic Intelligence and had no need to know, so I was never “read into” any Mind Control Program.
Dr. Rima: I knew that the Mind Control programs had continued because as a psychiatrist and social activist I had been introduced to a number of people who claimed the same events/conditioning/torture had happened to each of them. The similarity attracted my attention and I learned a great deal about the Mind Control programs. In fact, long before I met General Stubblebine, a Congressional Staffer friend brought data and people to me to evaluate whether these people had, in fact, been subjected to Mind Control techniques and asked me if I thought the subject was worth another round of Congressional Hearings. I was able, through this documentation, to convince the highly skeptical General Stubblebine in 1991-2 that this program had continued after Congress ordered it disbanded.
Fact from Rima E. Laibow, MD : I have never administered, supervised or been associated with electroshock or electroconvulsive (ECT) therapy in any form. I turned down a fine position with a major University hospital because I would have been forced to either administer or supervise ECT and I am unwilling to do that for any reason. I have spent my entire career in psychiatry and medicine using non-drug treatments rather than drug ones. For example, when I was asked to take over an in patient psychiatric ward for children and adolescents in Connecticut, I took every child and teen ager in the ward off drugs. The administration of the hospital and the insurance companies protested vigorously, but the children got better and the horrific behaviors and side effects (read, “brain damage” caused by the drugs) diminished significantly.
Fact from General Stubblebine and Rima E. Laibow, MD: It makes no difference whether General Stubblebine and I were lovers before his divorce! (DUH!) The assertions of an angry spouse during divorce proceeding in 1994 are neither accurate nor relevant. I would say our detractors are scraping all the way through the bottom of the barrel and into the dirt below if this is what they need to uses to damage us. Shame!
Fact from the Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation : We are not using high pressure tactics to separate people from their money, IRAs or 401s. The government of the United States is about to do just that and we have a legitimate and helpful humanitarian project in Panama which can accept these funds. The Valley of the Moon Eco(TM) Demonstration Community project, part of our International Decade of Nutrition, is a sustainable farm, farm school, natural medical center, etc., offers people many reasons to become a part of it. Those who are interested can learn more and decide whether or not it is for them. Others can ignore it.
Fact from Council Ralph Fucetola, JD: I was asked by one of the attackers to advise her in the medical board hearings which ultimately cost her medical license in the same state in which Dr. Rima is licensed. Despite claims to the contrary, I did not know her when she lost custody of her child. Nor did I “abandon” her during the hearings. Once she was advised that to regain her license she would have to seek psychiatric help she did not, to our knowledge, retain me or another attorney to assist her and remains de-licensed to this day.
The truth is that these detractors, whatever their mental status and their motivation, would add much, much more to the battle for health freedom by actually accomplishing something rather than attacking those who are accomplishing it! If they can behave like adults, they are welcome to join us. We have NEVER attacked anyone and will not. We will, however, take whatever steps we need to in order to protect health freedom and our well-deserved reputations, as we did when we sued Miller to get back the donor’s money. These false statements and innuendos must cease and desist.
Had enough of this? Good. let’s move on. You can join with us by going to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and joining our Health Freedom Action eAlert mailing list.
If you really want more details about these detractors, just click here:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=1694
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
4. Natural Solutions Foundation v Miller
The following is a true copy of excerpts from the official docket of the Clerk of the Court of Common Please, Cuyahoga County, Ohio- Docket Journal 3647 Pages 531-532 showing that the litigation was opposed by the defendant and that the defendant eventually consented to a Judgment. No payments have been received on the Judgment to which the defendant had agreed.
Judgment Lien: JL-06-272928
Civil Action Docket No: CV-05-568778
Judgment Amount: $23,000 with interest
Judgment Entry Date: August 31, 2006
Consent Judgment Date: August 24, 2006
Counterclaims Dismissed with Prejudice: August 24, 2006
Answer and Counterclaim Filed: October 12, 2005
Complaint Filed: July 29, 2005
Re-posted by Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
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NEWS RELEASE
Release: No. 18-Thimerosal-6
Date Mailed: Dec. 1, 2008
CDC and Congress Secrets Vaccine Mercury Report:
Experts Expose Lucrative American Genocide
Sandpoint, ID–Congressional investigators and federal health officials have
secreted a report prepared by experts proving vaccine mercury is harming
children far worse than previously known. The “Thimerosal VSD Study: Phase I”
document was secreted in 2000, and subsequent congressional hearings and news
reports neglected it.
The study, conducted by scientists commissioned by the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC), shows statistically significant links between vaccine-injected
mercury and “neurological developmental disorders” including misery,
depression, and suicide. Additional links to autism were strongly suggested by
the data that heavily discourages the use of the drug Thimerosal containing
mercury used for vaccine sterility.
The official documents marked “CONFIDENTIAL . . . DO NOT COPY OR RELEASE” were
obtained by class action attorneys through Freedom of Information petitions
and posted this week on the Internet attached to a filmed commentary by public
health expert, Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz. The iMovie is viewable on YouTube.
“This is an obvious vaccination genocide,” Dr. Horowitz said. He called it
“gross criminal negligence and murderous official malfeasance” that the report
was secreted by congressional investigators and public health protectors.
“These traitors have purposefully manipulated and impaired millions of
American children, and the economic burden of caring for their special needs
with be catastrophic.”
The VSD Study data was referenced in 2003 by researchers publishing in the
Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons; then rebutted by the American
Academy of Pediatrics commissioned to establish vaccination schedules on
behalf of the drug industry. The rebuttal failed to note the VDS data had been
sequestered, then used its lacking availability to argue inadequacy of data
with which to condemn mercury as the cause of skyrocketing rates of autism.
Genocide is defined as the mass killing or enslaving of people for profit,
politics, and/or ideology. All motives are evident in this vaccination
atrocity with powerful drug lobbyists conspiring with corrupt health officials
to profit by injecting children with mercury. This is why most health workers
and school administrators still believe this practice is safe rather than
dangerous and damaging.
Dr. Horowitz, a Harvard-trained humanitarian knighted for his work in vaccine
risk awareness and consumer protection has asked CDC officials on several
occasions to explain the suppression of vaccine science and side-effects
without a response. Last year he released a documentary film, In Lies We
Trust, to cite to the government’s immunization agenda and ongoing televised
propaganda as “genocidal.”
Regarding another vaccine-administered genocide, President-elect Barack
Obama’s long time minister and spiritual counsel, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, told
reporters at the National Press Club, “I believe our government is capable
of doing anything.” He recommended Dr. Horowitz’s book, Emerging Viruses: AIDS
& Ebola–Nature, Accident or Intentional?, (Tetrahedron Press;
1-888-508-4787 ) as best proving HIV/AIDS came from chimpanzees that were
used by American biological weapons developers to produce the hepatitis B
vaccines given to New York homosexuals and African villagers in 1972 as
reported by CNN.
“Yes, it is genocide,” said Ingri Cassel, regarding the secreted Thimerosal
study. The director of Vaccination Liberation Organization has researched
and written on the mercury accumulating in children from vaccinations for
nearly 20 years. “The government has always been involved with Big Pharma; so
this suppression of scientific evidence condemning vaccine mercury and the
child abusers in government and industry does not surprise me.”
The officials who knew of this study, yet neglected or suppressed its
reporting should be indicted under federal organized crime (RICO) laws for
“conspiring with the vaccine industry to commit mass murder; condemning
children to suffer serious illnesses managed pharmaceutically capriciously and
terminally for profit,” Dr. Horowitz commented.
Health officials have consistently promoted vaccines as central to their ‘War
on Preventable Diseases,’ luring families with children and elders into
serious depression and drug addictions restricting life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness. Millions of people now must cope with vaccine
injuries–maladies ranging from eczema and allergies to crippling autoimmune
diseases, psychopathologies, and certain cancers.
Given these revelations about Thimerosal, the mind-set of health officials and
vaccine administrators is reminiscent of last century’s doctors who
recommended cigarettes for health. The secreting of cigarette smoking risks
and physical damages done is much like this suppressed “VSD Study:” neglected
by those licensed-to-kill pushing vaccines instead of tobacco.
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NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: For interviews with Dr. Horowitz, please call Jackie
Lindenbach at 1-208-265-8065 . To view “The CDC’s VACCINATION GENOCIDE”
search Google or YouTube.
Barbara Loe Fisher is a strong and consistent voice in the vaccine debate: protect children, give parents the deciding vote on whether their children are vaccinated and tell the public the truth about vaccines and vaccine injury.
She writes well and compellingly about the many intertwined issues involved in vaccination and vaccination compulsion. The article that follows is an excellent review of the reasons that the US special Vaccine Injury Compensation program may now be considered a failure.
Vaccines are increasingly becoming mandatory for workers, students, children attending camp, home schooled children, college students, and more and more groups as well. The constitutional dangers and the physical dangers are enormous.
The Natural Solutions Foundation’s No-Forced-Vaccine Yahoo! Forum is a vigorous community of active and informed people sharing information and strategies for local and larger focus action.
Please visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-forced-vaccination/join to become a member of this active and informative group. And, remembering that compulsory vaccination as a public mandate is looming on the horizon, according to both the Health and Human Services and Homeland Security Departments, for every man, woman and child in the US — starting with those who want it (July 23 and 24, 2008, respectively), I urge you to take a moment to take the following actions:
1. Download a copy of the highly informative Vaccine Exemption Handbook, http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=699
2. Sign the Tiburon Declaration, http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?p=460, to join other health freedom advocates in making your opposition to forced vaccination and drugging clear
3. Forward this email to others on your list, tell them that this issue needs to concern them, too, and ask them to take the actions above and
4. Join the Distribution List for the Natural Solutions Foundation’s safe, secure and private Health Freedom eAlerts, http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=187.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Why Vaccine Injured Kids are Rarely Compensated
by Barbara Loe Fisher
On Nov. 14, 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 into law, instituting first-time vaccine safety reforms in the U.S. vaccination system and creating the first no-fault federal vaccine injury compensation program alternative to a lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers and pediatricians. Twenty-two years later, on Nov. 18, 2008, I made a statement to the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) and questioned whether the compensation program is fatally flawed and so broken that it should be repealed. Many parents are wondering whether it would be better to return to civil court without restrictions to sue vaccine manufacturers and doctors for injuries and deaths their children suffered after receiving federally recommended vaccines.
During its two-decade history, two out of three individuals applying for federal vaccine injury compensation have been turned away empty-handed even though to date $1.8 billion has been awarded to more than 2,200 plaintiff’s out of some 12,000 who have applied. Today, nearly 5,000 vaccine injury claims are sitting in limbo because they represent children, who suffered brain and immune system dysfunction after vaccination but have been diagnosed with regressive autism, which is not recognized by the program as a compensable event. There is $2.7 billion sitting in the Trust Fund which could have been awarded to vaccine victims.
At the time of the law’s creation in 1986, Congress said they were committed to setting up a fair, expedited, non-adversarial, less traumatic, less expensive no-fault compensation mechanism alternative to civil litigation. But Congress also acknowledged that any legislation providing liability protection must also be equally committed to preventing vaccine harm. The Act contains strong safety provisions, including first-time mandates for doctors to record and report serious health problems, hospitalizations, injuries and deaths after vaccination and give parents written benefit and risk information before a child is vaccinated.
But few of the safety provisions have been enforced and, as I testified in Congress in 1999 and again at the Nov. 18 ACCV meeting, there has been a betrayal of the promise that was made to parents about how the compensation program would be implemented. Obtaining compensation has become a highly adversarial, time-consuming, traumatic and expensive process for families of vaccine injured children and far too many vaccine victims have been denied compensation while vaccine makers and doctors have enjoyed liability protection and dozens of doses of nine new vaccines have been added to the childhood vaccine schedule.
I pointed out that federal court judges are beginning to look back at the legislative history of the Act, which so clearly affirms the intent of Congress when creating it. In recent court decisions, judges have agreed with parents and their attorneys that the compensation program has become far too difficult for plaintiffs. A recent state Supreme Court ruling also reiterated that Congress never intended to shield vaccine manufacturers from ALL liability for vaccine injuries and deaths when it could be demonstrated that a safer product could have been marketed.
In a Supreme Court of Georgia ruling on October 6, 2008 in American Home Products v. Ferrari, the justices unanimously held that the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act does not give a vaccine manufacturer blanket immunity from vaccine injury lawsuits if it can be proven that the company could have made a safer vaccine. Georgia Supreme Court Justice George Carley wrote that the 1986 law and “the congressional intent behind it shows that the Vaccine Act does not pre-empt all design defect claims.” He added that Congress did not “use language which indicates that use of the compensation system is mandatory” but only “an appealing alternative” to the courts.
Justice Carley wrote that there is no evidence that “FDA approval alone renders a vaccine unavoidably safe” and said “We hesitate to hold that a manufacturer is excused from making changes it knows will improve its product merely because an older, more dangerous version received FDA approval,” adding that to do so would have “the perverse effect” of granting complete immunity from liability to an entire industry and he concluded that “in the absence of any clear and manifest congressional purpose to achieve that result, we must reject such a far-reaching interpretation.”
During the ACCV meeting, longtime plaintiff’s attorney Sherry Drew gave a moving description of the suffering that families with vaccine injured children endure and, during public comment at the end of the meeting, Jim Moody, of SafeMinds, and Vicky Debold, RN, PhD joined me in urging the Committee to recommend to the new Secretary of DHHS that more vaccine injured children be compensated. This was echoed by outgoing parent ACCV member Tawny Buck, of Alaska, who has a DPT vaccine injured daughter and new ACCV parent member Sarah Hoiberg, of Florida, who has a DTaP vaccine injured daughter.
In the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act, the Institute of Medicine was directed to review the medical literature for scientific evidence that vaccines can cause injury and death, which resulted in landmark reports to Congress in 1991 and 1994 providing that evidence. IOM announced at the ACCV meeting that it has recently been contracted by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) to assemble a Committee of scientific experts to review of the medical literature for evidence regarding the biological mechanisms for injury and death in association with varicella zoster (chicken pox), hepatitis B, meningococcal and HPV vaccine. There will be several public workshops during the Committee’s two-year study.
NVIC has been calling for basic science research into the biological mechanisms of vaccine injury and death for more than two decades. Without understanding how and why vaccines can cause brain and immune system dysfunction, there will be no way to develop pathological profiles to help scientifically confirm whether or not an individual has been injured or died from vaccination.
The truth about vaccine risks lies in the science, properly designed and conducted. The upcoming IOM review may be hampered by a lack of biological mechanism studies published in the medical literature but the review is also an opportunity to point the way to fill in those gaps in knowledge and the need for additional research that could become part of a national vaccine safety research agenda.
In the absence of scientific certainty, all children who regress into poor health after vaccination should be given a fair hearing in the federal vaccine injury compensation program and generously compensated when no other plausible cause can be found for what happened to them after vaccination. Congress intended the vaccine injury compensation program to be non-adversarial, fair, generous and humane. If it cannot function the way it was intended to function, then parents have every right to call for its repeal and a return to unrestricted lawsuits.
http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_blog/Vaccine-Injury-Compensation–A-Failed-Experiment-in-Tort-Reform–72617.aspx
The Weston A Price Foundation is an important source of nutritional information whose article on soy and its negative impact on the brain and the thyroid is worth reading.
If you do decide to eat soy products, please make sure that they are strictly organic since most soy beans grown in the US are Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and carry serious potential dangers in addition to those listed here.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
www.Organics4U.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMedia.tv
Soy Alert!Soy and the Brain
By John MacArthur http://www.westonaprice.org/soy/soyandbrain.html
“Tofu Shrinks Brain!” No science fiction scenario, this sobering soybean revelation is for real. But how did the “poster bean” of the ’90s go wrong? Apparently, in many ways–none of which bode well for the brain.
In a major ongoing study involving 3,734 elderly Japanese-American men, those who ate the most tofu during midlife had up to 2.4 times the risk of later developing Alzheimer’s disease. As part of the three-decade long Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, 27 foods and drinks were correlated with participants’ health. Men who consumed tofu at least twice weekly had more cognitive impairment than those who rarely or never ate the soybean curd.1, 2
“The test results were about equivalent to what they would have been if they were five years older,” said lead researcher Dr. Lon R. White from the Hawaii Center for Health Research. For the guys who ate no tofu, however, they tested as though they were five years younger.
What’s more, higher midlife tofu consumption was also associated with low brain weight. Brain atrophy was assessed in 574 men using MRI results and in 290 men using autopsy information. Shrinkage occurs naturally with age, but for the men who had consumed more tofu, White said “their brains seemed to be showing an exaggeration of the usual patterns we see in aging.”
Phytoestrogens–Soy Self Defense
Tofu and other soybean foods contain isoflavones, three-ringed molecules bearing a structural resemblance to mammalian steroidal hormones. White and his fellow researchers speculate that soy’s estrogen-like compounds (phytoestrogens) might compete with the body’s natural estrogens for estrogen receptors in brain cells.
Plants have evolved many different strategies to protect themselves from predators. Some have thorns or spines, while others smell bad, taste bad, or poison animals that eat them. Some plants took a different route, using birth control as a way to counter the critters who were wont to munch.
Plants such as soy are making oral contraceptives to defend themselves, says Claude Hughes, Ph.D., a neuroendocrinologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. They evolved compounds that mimic natural estrogen. These phytoestrogens can interfere with the mammalian hormones involved in reproduction and growth–a strategy to reduce the number and size of predators.
Toxicologists Concerned about Soy’s Health Risks
The soy industry says that White’s study only shows an association between tofu consumption and brain aging, but does not prove cause and effect. On the other hand, soy experts at the National Center for Toxicological Research, Daniel Sheehan, Ph.D., and Daniel Doerge, Ph.D., consider this tofu study very important. “It is one of the more robust, well-designed prospective epidemiological studies generally available. . . We rarely have such power in human studies, as well as a potential mechanism.”
In a 1999 letter to the FDA (and on the ABC News program 20/20), the two toxicologists expressed their opposition to the agency’s health claims for soy, saying the Honolulu study “provides evidence that soy (tofu) phytoestrogens cause vascular dementia. Given that estrogens are important for maintenance of brain function in women; that the male brain contains aromatase, the enzyme that converts testosterone to estradiol; and that isoflavones inhibit this enzymatic activity, there is a mechanistic basis for the human findings.” 3
Although estrogen’s role in the central nervous system is not well understood, White notes that “a growing body of information suggests that estrogens may be needed for optimal repair and replacement of neural structures eroded with aging.”
One link to the puzzle may involve calcium-binding proteins, which are associated with protection against neurodegenerative diseases. In recent animal studies at Brigham Young University’s Neuroscience Center, researchers found that consumption of phytoestrogens via a soy diet for a relatively short interval can significantly elevate phytoestrogen levels in the brain and decrease brain calcium-binding proteins.4
Concerns About Giving Soy to Infants
The most serious problem with soy may be its use in infant formulas. “The amount of phytoestrogens that are in a day’s worth of soy infant formula equals 5 birth control pills,” says Mike Fitzpatrick, a New Zealand toxicologist. Fitzpatrick and other scientists believe that infant exposure to high amounts of phytoestrogens is associated with early puberty in girls and retarded physical maturation in boys.5
A study reported in The Lancet found that the “daily exposure of infants to isoflavones in soy infant-formulas is 6-11 fold higher on a bodyweight basis than the dose that has hormonal effects in adults consuming soy foods.” (This dose, equivalent to two glasses of soy milk per day, was enough to change menstrual patterns in women.6 In the blood of infants tested, concentrations of isoflavones were 13,000-22,000 times higher than natural estrogen concentrations in early life.7 )
Soy Interferes with Enzymes
While soybeans are relatively high in protein compared to other legumes, they are a poor source of protein because other proteins found in soybeans act as potent enzyme inhibitors. These “anti-nutrients” block the action of trypsin and other enzymes needed for protein digestion. Trypsin inhibitors are large, tightly folded proteins that are not completely deactivated during ordinary cooking and can reduce protein digestion. Therefore, soy consumption may lead to chronic deficiencies in amino acid uptake.8
Soy’s ability to interfere with enzymes and amino acids may have direct consequence for the brain. As White and his colleagues suggest, “isoflavones in tofu and other soyfoods might exert their influence through interference with tyrosine kinase-dependent mechanisms required for optimal hippocampal function, structure and plasticity.”2
High amounts of protein tyrosine kinases are found in the hippocampus, a brain region involved with learning and memory. One of soy’s primary isoflavones, genistein, has been shown to inhibit tyrosine kinase in the hippocampus, where it blocked “long-term potentiation,” a mechanism of memory formation.9
Tyrosine, Dopamine, and Parkinson’s Disease
The brain uses the amino acids tyrosine or phenylalanine to synthesize the key neurotransmitters dopamine and norepinephrine, brain chemicals that promote alertness and activity. Dopamine is crucial to fine muscle coordination. People whose hands tremble from Parkinson’s disease have a diminished ability to synthesize dopamine. An increased incidence of depression and other mood disorders are associated with low levels of dopamine and norepinephrine. Also, the current scientific consensus on attention-deficit disorder points to a dopamine imbalance.
Soy has been shown to affect tyrosine hydroxylase activity in animals, causing the utilization rate of dopamine to be “profoundly disturbed.” When soy lecithin supplements were given throughout perinatal development, they reduced activity in the cerebral cortex and “altered synaptic characteristics in a manner consistent with disturbances in neural function.”10
Researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and at the National Institutes of Health are finding a connection between tyrosine hydroxylase activity, thyroid hormone receptors, and depleted dopamine levels in the brain–particularly in the substantia nigra, a region associated with the movement difficulties characteristic of Parkinson’s disease.11,12,13
Soy Affects the Brain via the Thyroid Gland
Tyrosine is crucial to the brain in another way. It’s needed for the body to make active thyroid hormones, which are a major physiological regulator of mammalian brain development. By affecting the rate of cell differentiation and gene expression, thyroid hormones regulate the growth and migration of neurons, including synaptic development and myelin formation in specific brain regions. Low blood levels of tyrosine are associated with an underactive thyroid gland.
It is well known that isoflavones in soy products can depress thyroid function, causing goiter (enlarged thyroid gland) and autoimmune thyroid disease. In the early 1960s, goiter and hypothyroidism were reported in infants fed soybean diets.14 Scientists at the National Center for Toxicological Research showed that the soy isoflavones genistein and daidzein “inhibit thyroid peroxidase-catalyzed reactions essential to thyroid hormone synthesis.”15
Japanese researchers studied effects on the thyroid from soybeans administered to healthy subjects. They reported that consumption of as little as 30 grams (two tablespoons) of soybeans per day for only one month resulted in a significant increase in thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), which is produced by the brain’s pituitary gland when thyroid hormones are too low. Their findings suggested that “excessive soybean ingestion for a certain duration might suppress thyroid function and cause goiters in healthy people, especially elderly subjects.”16
Thyroid Hormones and Fetal Brain Development
Thyroid alterations are among the most frequently encountered autoimmune conditions in children. Researchers at Cornell University Medical College showed that the “frequency of feedings with soy-based milk formulas in early life was significantly higher in children with autoimmune thyroid disease.”17 In a previous study, they found that twice as many diabetic children had received soy formula in infancy as compared to non-diabetic children.18
Recognizing the risk, Swiss health authorities recommend “very restrictive use” of soy for babies. In England and Australia, public health agencies tell parents to first seek advice from a doctor before giving their infants soy formula. The New Zealand Ministry of Health recommends that “Soy formula should only be used under the direction of a health professional for specific medical indications. . . Clinicians who are treating children with a soy-based infant formula for medical conditions should be aware of the potential interaction between soy infant formula and thyroid function.”19
Thyroid hormones exert their influence during discrete windows of time during development of the infant. Inappropriate hormone levels can have a devastating effect on the developing human brain, especially during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy when the fetus depends on the mother’s thyroid hormones for brain development. After that, both maternal and fetal thyroid hormone levels affect the central nervous system.
A 1999 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that pregnant women with underactive thyroids were four times more likely to have children with low IQs if the disorder were left untreated. The study found that 19 percent of the children born to mothers with thyroid deficiency had IQ scores of 85 or lower, compared with only 5 percent of those born to mothers without such problems.20
Thyroid, Brain, and Environmental Toxins
Children exposed prenatally and during infancy to common environmental toxins like dioxin and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) can suffer behavioral, learning, and memory problems because these chemicals may be disrupting the normal action of thyroid hormone.21
Soybeans grown in the United States contain residues of the pesticide dieldrin, an organochlorine similar to DDT. Although both chemicals were banned in the 1970s, dieldrin still persists in soils and is absorbed through the roots. Today it is the most toxic residue found on domestic soybeans.22 In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson warned that dieldrin is nearly 50 times as poisonous as DDT. In addition to disrupting hormones, it can have long delayed neurological effects, ranging from loss of memory to mania.23 Chinese aphids were recently discovered in fields scattered across Wisconsin, so increased pesticide applications are likely.
Combinations of insecticides, weed killers, and artificial fertilizers–even at low levels–have measurable detrimental effects on thyroid and other hormones as well as on the brain.24 EPA scientists now want to upgrade the commonly used herbicide, atrazine, to a “likely carcinogen.” In animal tests, atrazine attaches to sites on the hypothalamus, a crucial brain region involved with regulating levels of stress and sex hormones.25
Individuals newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease were more than twice as likely to have been exposed to insecticides in their home, compared to those without the disease.26 In September 2000, The Lancet reported that farmers and gardeners regularly exposed to pesticides may have more than five times the risk of developing mild cognitive dysfunction.
Soy formulas for infants can contain other neurotoxins: aluminum, cadmium, and fluoride. Studies found that aluminum concentrations in soy-based formulas were a 100-fold greater compared to human breast milk,27 while cadmium content was 8-15 times higher than in milk-based formulas.28 In an Australian study, the fluoride content of soy-based formulas ranged from 1.08 to 2.86 parts per million. The authors concluded that “prolonged consumption (beyond 12 months of age) of infant formula reconstituted with optimally-fluoridated water could result in excessive amounts of fluoride being ingested.”29 A study of Connecticut children revealed that mild to moderate fluorosis was strongly associated with soy-based infant formula use.30
In May 2000, Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility released their report, “The Toxic Threats to Child Development.” In the section on neurotoxins, they concluded, “Studies in animals and human populations suggest that fluoride exposure, at levels that are experienced by a significant proportion of the population whose drinking water is fluoridated, may have adverse impacts on the developing brain.”31
Iodine versus Fluorine
The thyroid gland uses tyrosine and the natural element iodine to make thyroxine (T4), a thyroid hormone containing four iodine atoms. The other, much more biologically active thyroid hormone is tri-iodothyronine (T3), which has three iodine atoms. Lack of dietary iodine has long been identified as the problem in diminished thyroid hormone synthesis.
According to the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders: “Iodine deficiency has been called the world’s major cause of preventable mental retardation. Its severity can vary from mild intellectual blunting to frank cretinism, a condition that includes gross mental retardation, deaf mutism, short stature, and various other defects. . . The damage to the developing brain results in individuals poorly equipped to fight disease, learn, work effectively, or reproduce satisfactorily.”
This crucial role of iodine is another reason why the thyroid gland is especially vulnerable today. Canadian researcher Andreas Schuld has documented more than 100 studies during the last 70 years that demonstrate adverse effects of fluoride on the thyroid gland.32 Schuld says, “Fluorine, being the strongest in the group of halogens, will seriously interfere with iodine and iodine synthesis, forcing more urinary elimination of ingested iodine as fluoride ingestion or absorption increases.” (See page 21.)
Soy Inhibits Zinc Absorption
The high phytic-acid content in soy may also have adverse effects on brain function. Phytic acid is an organic acid present in the outer portion of all seeds which blocks the uptake of essential minerals in the intestinal tract: calcium, magnesium, iron, and especially zinc. Soybeans have very high levels of a form of phytic acid that is particularly difficult to neutralize and which interferes with zinc absorption more completely than with other minerals.
The soy industry acknowledges the problem with the admission that while “one-half cup of cooked soybeans contains one mg of zinc
. . . zinc is poorly absorbed from soyfoods.” As for iron, “both phytate and soy protein reduce iron absorption so that the iron in soyfoods is generally poorly absorbed.”33
According to unpublished documents, researchers testing soy formula found that it caused negative zinc balance in every infant to whom it was given.34 Even when the diets were additionally supplemented with zinc, there was a strong correlation between phytate content in formula and poor growth.
Zinc and the Brain
Relatively high levels of zinc are found in the brain, especially the hippocampus. Zinc plays an important role in the transmission of the nerve impulse between brain cells. Deficiency of zinc during pregnancy and lactation has been shown to be related to many congenital abnormalities of the nervous system in offspring. In children, “insufficient levels of zinc have been associated with lowered learning ability, apathy, lethargy, and mental retardation.”35
The USDA references a study of 372 Chinese school children with very low levels of zinc in their bodies. The children who received zinc supplements had the most improved performance–especially in perception, memory, reasoning, and psychomotor skills such as eye-hand coordination. Three earlier studies with adults also showed that changes in zinc intake affected cognitive function.36
New research has identified a specific contingent of neurons, called “zinc-containing” neurons, which are found almost exclusively in the forebrain, where in mammals they have evolved into a “complex and elaborate associational network that interconnects most of the cerebral cortices and limbic structures.” This suggests the importance of zinc in the normal and pathological processes of the cerebral cortex.37 Furthermore, age-related tissue zinc deficiency may contribute to brain cell death in Alzheimer’s dementia.38
Not a Good Idea
High levels of phytoestrogens and zinc-blocking phytic acid, plus additional neurotoxic compounds such as dieldrin, aluminum, fluoride and cadmium combine in soy to yield a veritable witches’ brew that can have adverse effects on the brain during development and throughout life.
Unfortunately, many American are now consuming soy foods in high amounts as infant formula, soy milk and tofu-based products, usually as a substitute for nourishing animal foods. In Asia, soy is consumed in small amounts as a fermented condiment and not as a substitute for animal foods.
Asians recognize the need for “brain foods” like eggs and fish and realize that large amounts of soy can cause thyroid problems and inhibit growth. They know that for optimum mental function, soy foods are not a good idea.
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