Natural Solutions Foundation
The Voice of Global Health Freedom™
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EMERGENCY CITIZENS PETITION
FDA “Ban” of Ear Candles Violates Consumer Rights!
March 2011 UPDATE: “CATCH 22? FROM THE COURT:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=8971.
04/22/10 UPDATE: Lawsuit Filed Challenging FDA Action! http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=5210
To: President Obama, HHS Secretary Sibelius and FDA Commissioner Hamburg c/o
FDA Dockets Manager, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-1448
This Petition is submitted in cooperation with the Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org — Decision-Maker Education Program.
The undersigned petition the President, his Secretary of HHS, his Commissioner of FDA and the United States Government for redress of grievances. We are all consumers of natural health products. Some of us have satisfactorily used these modalities for our entire lives. The Federal agencies that should be protecting our access to natural products too often interfere instead.
During February 2010 the Food and Drug Administration, with an excess of zeal, has ordered 14 of the 15 known Ear Candles companies in the United States to cease all activities, since the agency now deems Ear Candles “medical devices” without hearing from the Public, findings of fact, Significant Scientific Agreement or other substantiating or supporting reason, evidence of science. Among the undersigned are individuals who have used ear candles for relaxation and general wellness for decades. They have used them prior to 1976, when the agency was given power over “medical devices.” Ear Candles are not medical devices. They are a traditional, natural product that promotes relaxation and the health benefits of relaxation.
We therefore deplore the FDA’s action, which, in effect, censors what Americans can say commercially about Ear Candling. This is wrong and violates the Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court.
We cite the case of Thompson v. Western States Medical Center (535 U.S. 357, 2002). This case concerns a clause in the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act that allows pharmacists to “compound” medications for specific prescriptions without safety testing and FDA prior approval, but originally forbade pharmacists from advertising the specific compounds they make. The Supreme Court held that the restriction on Commercial Speech was unconstitutional. Some of the language used in Justice O’Connor’s Majority Decision that sets the tone is as follows:
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that regulating speech must be a last – not first – resort… We have previously rejected the notion that the Government has an interest in preventing the dissemination of truthful commercial information in order to prevent members of the public from making bad decisions with the information… Even if the Government did argue that it had an interest in preventing misleading advertisements, this interest could be satisfied by the far less restrictive alternative of requiring … a warning that the [product] had not undergone FDA testing and that its risks were unknown.”
We call upon the President and his agents to reverse the FDA determination. The law already forbids the making of medical claims with regard to products such as Ear Candles. Therefore removing the product from the market is an unnecessary interference with the choices of adults regarding their own private activities.
This is why we hold that “Health Freedom is Our First Freedom” because without it, our other liberties may not be effectively exercised. Therefore we submit the Emergency Petition set forth below.
EMERGENCY PETITION FOR STAY OF PRODUCT BAN
The undersigned Petition the President, his Secretary of HHS, his Commissioner of FDA and the United States Government for redress of grievances in that the FDA, exceeding its authority and unnecessarily restricting and interfering with the private lives of the consumers of natural products, has taken steps to remove Ear Candles from the marketplace without public hearings or any showing of significant public danger or harm. Five adverse event reports in over a decade do not warrant a Federal prohibition. We therefore petition for an immediate stay of the cease and desist letters sent to various American Ear Candle companies during February 2010.
Sign the Petition here:
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The Voice of Global Health Freedom™
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FDA Budget: More Money for the “Fraud and Death Administration”
The FDA’s budget will increase by an astounding 23% under a plan being discussed in the media and Federal administration. The Los Angeles Times, in a copyright article, reported, “The Food and Drug Administration is a major exception to the Obama administration’s freeze on discretionary spending in the 2011 budget.”
The story also revealed that “More than one-third of the 2011 budget — about $1.5 billion — would come from user fees paid by businesses that make payments for FDA services such as evaluating new applications for drugs and medical devices.”* On closer view, about eighty percent of the budget increase is from these ‘fees.’
It is interesting to analyze just what these ‘user fees’ entail. Sometimes govt acts like a private person, providing a service and charging for it. Admission fees for national parks or monuments, and the like, fit into that category of true user fees. More local levels of govt charge fees for filing copies of deeds and the like. These are also true user fees, charged to the actual user of an actual service. There are many more examples.
We must distinguish these from the ‘user fees’ (actually, taxes) charged by a govt agency for the ‘privilege’ of being regulated. That sort of charge to a business always gets passed along to the consumer who, involuntarily, pays the extraction. This is a type of hidden tax and should be accounted for as any other tax.
And what will this agency, that Dr. R on Paul has told us “abuses power,” do with all this extra money? Reduce the general taxes used by the agency? No. That goes up too. The money will be used to increase its work force by ten percent, showing truly:
“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance…”
Will this increase in bureaucracy finally reverse the scandal of over a hundred thousand people each year dropping dead after correctly using FDA approved drugs? Nearly half the drugs the agency approves are later withdrawn from the market or restricted.
Clearly the campaign to protect food and natural remedies from the clutches of the FDA must continue; stopping John McCain’s fake “Dietary Supplement Safety” bill, DSSA, at the start of March 2010 is in no way a final victory against those who want to impose the international restrictions of Codex Alimentarius on our American dietary supplement, food and natural remedies rights.
If you are a health care worker, or may ever give health care services to anyone, please take the Health Keepers Oath:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3899
The Oath
“I am a health care professional, not an agent of State-mediated death and will conduct myself in accord with that identify. I swear, to all future generations, “Never again” will the health care professions be used, as they were in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Empire, to murder and oppress any individual. Never Again! Never here! Never on my watch!”
Stand with the Health Freedom Movement; stand for Liberty; stand against the misuse of power and money that characterizes the FDA.
* http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2010/02/food-and-drug-administration-in-line-for-another-budget-boost.html
Natural Solutions Foundation
The Voice of Global Health Freedom™
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
The Trustees of Natural Solutions Foundation seek to form the broadest alliances for health freedom. That’s why, for example, during the transition from Bush to Obama, we made sure “Health Freedom is Our First Freedom” became one of the Top Ten Social Issues on the semi-official Change.org site. Now a new popular movement seems to be growing, commonly known as the Tea Party, named after the famous patriot action in Boston Harbor on the eve of the American Revolution.
So we’ve created a facility to engage with the Tea Party to make sure the idea of health freedom remains part of the general understanding of the people in that movement. Essentially this civil society movement stands for limiting Federal power to the enumerated authority set down in the Constitution. This is consistent with the health freedom of choice we urge. At the same time various political groups seek to distort the message for partisan advantage.
We therefore invite you to comment on and defend health freedom in the Tea Party by going to the link below, joining ning.com if you are not already a member and engaging…
http://teapartypatriots.ning.com/forum/topics/health-freedom-is-our-first
Thank you!
Ralph Fucetola JD
Natural Solutions Trustee
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Here’s the introduction we’ve posted on the Tea Party Forum:
“Health Freedom is our First Freedom” is the slogan of Natural Solutions Foundation’s Health Freedom USA campaign, founded by Maj Gen Bert Stubblebine (US Army ret) an Oath Keeper and Dr Rima E Laibow MD. I’m the third trustee of the Foundation and a retired lawyer. I’ve been an activist in the Constitutional Conservative / Libertarian movement since 1964 and the Barry Goldwater campaign, a supporter of Dr Ron Paul since the days of the National Committee to Relegalize Gold of the 1970s, and a libertarian advocate for health freedom throughout my career.
We want to engage in discussion with the Tea Party regarding how we can restore Constitutional Limits on government power regarding health and food issues. We are especially concerned with Forced Vaccination, Forced Medication, Unlabeled GMOs, HARMonization of our liberties with international restrictions, such as Codex Alimentarius (the World Food Code).
Currently we seek to educate Congress regarding the dangers of legislation like the two fake “safety” bills before the Senate, S.510, on food “safety” and S.3002 on dietary supplement “safety.” Each bill is designed to make the country safe for Big AgraBiz, Big Pharma, Big Finance and Big Govt, rewarding the FDA, an agency that Dr. Ron Paul says “abuses power” with more unconstitutional power to abuse.
Health Freedom is our first freedom because without it, all our other freedoms cannot be enjoyed; as Thomas Jefferson said,
“Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body.
Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man;
without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.”
You can read about all this at:
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org
www.YouTube.com/NaturalSolutions
www.Twitter.com/HealthFreedomUS
www.DrRima.net
We support the primary goal of the Tea Party, namely the Restoration of the Constitutional Republic, and urge you all to take on Health Freedom as a primary issue. We’ve mobilized millions of Americans to support freedom and want to join with you in this great effort.
What do you say?
Natural Solutions Foundation
The Voice of Global Health Freedom™
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
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February 15, 2010
Hello, Gen. Bert, Dr. Rima and Ralph:
Would HealthFreedomUSA be willing to sign on as a supporting organization? (see below)
We will be launching our website tomorrow and it will have details. We want as many nongovernmental organizations as possible on the list when we announce.
You’re doing important work. I think there are many points of cross-over and confluence, where we can work together… to do this type of collaboration justice… I am hoping 2010 is a turning point…
Trust all is well…
All Best,
Louise
Louise Kuo Habakus, MA, HHP, AADP
THE AMERICAN RALLY FOR PERSONAL RIGHTS
Vaccination Choice * Parental Consent
We believe in the rights to life, liberty, and personal security for ourselves and our children.
We demand the universal human rights standard of informed consent for all medical interventions. Compulsory vaccination cannot be legally and morally justified.
We affirm the sanctity of personal space, the right to be left alone, and the freedom to make personal health care decisions guided by the professionals of our choosing.
We invite all people, families and organizations committed to protecting these fundamental rights to stand with us in downtown Chicago on May 26, 2010, and to work with us after the rally to support grassroots advocacy, education, and leadership in defense of our personal – individual, legal, moral, religious, civil, and human – rights.
THE AMERICAN RALLY FOR PERSONAL RIGHTS
Vaccination Choice * Parental Consent
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Grant Park, Downtown Chicago
www.AmericanPersonalRightsRally.org
www.AmericanPersonalRights.org
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URGENT ACTION ITEM TO PROTECT ACCESS TO SUPPLEMENTS, CLEAN FOOD:
1. Protect access to supplements and clean food http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714. You can read more here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=4608
2. Ban All GMOs Now http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049
Vaccines are a magnificently financed, well-crafted fraud. They do not work. They are dangerous. There has NEVER been a single placebo-controlled, double blind standard to show whether vaccines do or do not protect against disease.
Kids vaccinated with seasonal influenza shots have three times the hospital admissions for all reasons. Asthma incidence and prevalence has gone up at the same rate as increases in pediatric vaccine schedule. Autism has followed the same curve. Infant mortality has, too, so that it is safer to be pregnant and give birth – for both mother and baby, in Bosnia than it is in the US where vaccines are ubiquitous.
People are getting wise and are becoming resistant to the lie that vaccines are safe or effective or, worse, both. They stayed away in droves from the H1N1 vaccine and, guess what? They did not die. Since the lab tests for H1N1 virus are wrong 90% of the time, and since nobody is doing those lab tests anymore, it is not clear that a single person has ever died from that genetically engineered, highly profitable virus.
It is clear, however, that no antibody produced by the body in response to a vaccine have ever been shown to protect the vaccinated person against the disease.
Vaccine programs create outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics.
Read the article following to see how it works and note carefully that 75% of the victims of mumps had been vaccinated either once or twice, considered full immunization by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5851a6.htm?s_cid=mm5851a6_e.
And be sure to read my Open Letter to Forbes Magazine’s absurd advice to “Just Get Vaccinated“, http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=4568.
IF vaccines worked, perhaps the risk might be justified. When you clear away all the propaganda, though, the ultimate fact comes through: toxic and dangerous at all ages (seen the new ACIP schedule for adults yet? Click here: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5901-Immunization.pdf): the more vaccinations, the more toxic.
How many diseases are we willing to accept for a fraudulent procedure?
How many children are we willing to loose to it?
How many dollars are we willing to surrender to it when it simply turns us into life long ATMs for Big Pharma?
How many lies are we willing to look past because they are the social norm and truth challenges the astoundingly well-financed system of lies and deceit?
How many micrograms of aluminum, mercury (which literally changes not only our immune systems and brains, but our very DNA as well!), formaldehyde, leukemia viruses, antifreeze, infertility substances, fetal tissue, and other injected poisonous substances are we willing to offer ourselves and our children up for?
The Natural Solutions Foundation has initiated the Stop the Shot Federal Law Suit as our second round in legal assaults on this immoral poisoning of us all. Please support us in this health freedom battle for our very sustainability. If your tax deductible donation ends in the number “6”, your donation will automatically be earmarked for our legal fund.
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Oh, by the way, just a few days ago the New York State Legislature abandoned a vote on legislation which would have given the state permission to prevent or treat, including the use of vaccines, any sexually transmitted disease or anything related to one (which could be twisted into anything at all) WITHOUT PARENTAL KNOWLEDGE OR APPROVAL.
The uproar was so deafening that, once again, Push Back became Take Down and the vote was canceled. God job, New York State. You were an inspiration to the rest of us.
Oh, yes, one more thing: herd immunity is absurd. IF vaccines worked, they would provide individual immunity, and the herd would be totally irrelevant. More tobacco science. But, hey, what can you expect? It’s Big Pharma, the Mother of Lies!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Food Freedom eJournal – www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org
International Decade of Nutrition – www.InternationalDecadeofNutrition.org
Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project – www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
Valley of the Moon Coffee – www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
Virtual Malls Supporting Health Freedom
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www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org
Vaccine Not Fail-Safe in Ongoing Mumps Outbreak
CDC says more than 1,500 cases have been reported in New York, New Jersey
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Feb. 11 (HealthDay News) — In a recent mumps outbreak occurring in the eastern United States, even some of those who were vaccinated against the infectious illness got sick, health officials report.
A study released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracked an ongoing outbreak of mumps, largely confined to an orthodox Hasidic Jewish group. The outbreak started among boys attending a religious summer camp in New York State and continued when the youngsters returned to their homes in New York and New Jersey. Currently some 1,521 cases have been reported, with more individuals coming down with the disease.
The mumps virus can cause swelling and pain in the salivary glands, giving people so-called “chipmunk cheeks,” as well as fever, headache, sore throat and pain when swallowing. Other symptoms include loss of appetite, vomiting and tired, achy muscles.
Symptoms can last for up to 10 days, and the disease can be spread one to two days before symptoms start and for up to nine days after symptoms appear. It can take up to 25 days after exposure to mumps before symptoms appear.
Mumps is a self-limiting disease with no specific treatment. It is best treated with bed rest and over-the-counter medications such as acetaminophen to reduce fever, according to the CDC.
“The outbreak has been ongoing since the end of June,” said study co-author and CDC epidemiologist Kathleen Gallagher. “Ninety-seven percent of cases are among this Jewish community.”
The outbreak has probably been confined to this group because they have less contact with the wider community, Gallagher noted.
She said the outbreak started in a summer boy’s camp. “The original [patient] case had traveled to Great Britain, where they are having, and have been having, an ongoing outbreak of mumps for a while now,” she said.
The report is published in the Feb. 12 edition of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Although the outbreak started among boys and remains mostly among them, the disease has spread to some adults and girls, Gallagher said. The concentration of the outbreak among boys is largely due to the separation of these boys and girls in school and other social and religious activities.
Most of the people who have become sick had received the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine (MMR), according to the report. In fact, 88 percent had received at least one dose of the vaccine and 75 percent had received two doses.
However, the vaccine is not 100 percent effective, the CDC team noted. Studies have found one dose 73 percent to 91 percent effective, while the effectiveness of two doses ranged from 79 percent to 95 percent, according to the report.
“That means if you were to expose 100 people to mumps, 10 of them might still come down with the disease,” Gallagher said. In this outbreak, these percentages are holding, she added.
Although the vaccine doesn’t protect everyone, it does work for most people and effectively prevents outbreaks from becoming worse. “We think that if we didn’t have such high levels of MMR coverage, we would have even more spread,” Gallagher said.
Outbreaks of mumps are not all that unusual, Gallagher said.
“We have had outbreaks of mumps in communities that have had two doses before,” she said. In 2006, there was a large outbreak of mumps among college students in the Midwest, she noted.
And mumps remains prevalent in other areas of the world.
“While we are well-vaccinated against mumps in the United States, many countries throughout the world don’t vaccinate at all against mumps,” she said. “There is a lot of mumps circulating globally. This means that anytime there is a potential for importation like happened with this summer camp, there is potential for mumps to be introduced even into a highly vaccinated population.”
More information
For more information on mumps, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SOURCES: Kathleen Gallagher, D.Sc, M.P.H., epidemiologist, Division of Viral Diseases, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Feb. 12, 2010, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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