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November 16, 2009
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Natural Solutions Foundation is working hard to end the ravages of the type of industrial agriculture you’ll read about below. Through our Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project we’re reclaiming the production of food, making them eligible for Friendly Food Certification(TM) because it is friendly to the earth, friendly to the workers and friendly to the consumer. The first Friendly Food Certified(TM) food is our GMO-Free, Pesticide-Free, Toxin-Free Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee grown in the Highlands of Panama and brought to your coffee cup so you can Wake Up to Health Freedom(TM). Click here, http://www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org, to order your Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee and support health freedom and your health. Your gift list, both personal and corporate, will appreciate it. And your accountant will appreciate it, too, because 80% of each purchase of Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee is tax deductible!
Industrial Agriculture is now going global, with its dislocation, its toxic environments, its massive profits and its social destruction under the guise of nations looking for fresh farmland.
Food is the new oil. Corporations are the not-so-new sharks – well, that is not fair to sharks. They have a real place in the biosphere and the multinationals have made it clear over decades and decades of abuse that their place in the economic ecoshphere might be best compared to Darth Vader.
The Natural Solutions Foundation, www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, has identified food sustainable food production, and, of course, land ownership by those producing the sustainable food on it, as a key issue for health, community cohesion and economic success, social strength, freedom and, indeed, peace.
It is for that reason that we have established the remarkable, and vitally important Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project in the Chiriqui Highlands of Panama. We believe that access to food, clean, unadulterated food, is a basic human right and that restricting that access is a massively powerful way to remove rights and take away basic human needs and, eventually, life.
Our work here is local, but our impact is global. By the way, if you are interested in either visiting the Valley of the Moon, becoming a participant in this sustainable community or or volunteering here, please join at our VotM Yahoo! Forum, NSF-Panama, http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NSF-Panama/join or our Volunteer’s Forum, http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NSF-Panama/.
At VotM we are practicing what we preach and are creating schools for a melding of ancient and modern techniques to reclaim the production of clean, unadulterated food for both farmers and non farmers alike.
In fact, in addition to our Intensive Urban Agriculture classes and courses with children and adults using many of the techniques you can see on our Food Freedom eJournal, www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org, we are now heavily involved in removing the dangerous chemicals from coffee and food production. Cattle production, for example, uses many different toxic chemicals for keeping pests at bay and, in some cases, increasing milk production.
Natural Solutions Foundation has been asked by the government here to help farmers break the dangerous cycle of chemical and drug inputs leading to weaker ecosystems and animals which then require more of the expensive and dangerous inputs.
Add corporate land ownership, where there is zero interest in health, sustainability or cultural cohesion and you have Monsanto’s GMO cotton farming disaster in India where tragically high numbers of farmers, having lost their land to the deceptive practices of GMO cotton companies, see no recourse but to kill themselves after they have lost their land and have no means to sustain themselves and their families.
For more information on this problem in India, please visit “The Dying Fields“, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/the-dying-fields/global-cotton-industry/farmer-suicides-in-india/1948/.
Why is reclaiming the production of food important to you, today? If you live in the US, about 90% of the food you eat either IS GMO or contains GMO ingredients. GMO foods are now known to cause cancer, autoimmune diseases, infertility, birth defects, loss of CD-4 cells to the point that the criteria for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (yes, that’s right: HIV/AIDS) are met, and a host of serious, permanent diseases and mutations. These altered foods contain material which crosses the placental and blood brain barriers to cause permanent genetic changes, as they do in the bacteria of the GI tract and in every cell in the body.
“But I eat only certified organic food!” you may say. Well and good IF you are growing your own organic food, protected from both pesticide and genetic drift. Otherwise, the US allows 10% or more GMO contamination of organic food without any labeling. Indeed, labeling of GMO foods is actually prohibited in the US because, as Dr. Barbara Schneeman announced at a Codex Meeting in Norway on the topic, since the FDA administratively determined that genetically modified foods are “substantially equivalent” to non modified foods [in the absence of a single shred of scientific support for this concept – if they were substantially identical, they would not be patentable – REL] and since consumers would reject these genetically modified foods if they knew that they WERE genetically modified, the FDA is preventing them from making an error in rejecting them. So, instead, the FDA and USDA are carrying out the world’s largest experiment on every eater on the planet. It is an experiment carried out, of course, without any informed consent. On you. On your children. On the children that you, or others, will never have because of the sterility impact of these foods.
But that is not all, of course. Corporate agriculture pumps poisons (that is a literal description, of course, not a figurative one) into the bodies of the workers, the environment and the bodies of the consumers. If the land becomes too toxic, or the water no longer supports growth and life, the corporation moves on, like a parasite which has sucked the life out of its host and then, when the host can no longer support it, drops off and moves on to another host.
Food and freedom are intimately intertwined. This theme has been with us for a very long time. Look at the myths of the bible: remember that when Essau was hungry, he sold his birthright to Jacob. When Joseph and his brothers were hungry, they traded their freedom for the fleshpots of Egypt.
Industrial Agriculture can be, if its owners wish it, the newest form of scorched earth policy: stave those whom you do not wish to survive.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
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The article published below is a study from GRAIN, www.Grain.org
Published on Sunday, November 15, 2009 by GRAIN
The New Farm Owners: Corporate Investors Lead the Rush for Control over Overseas Farmland
by GRAIN
With all the talk about “food security,” and distorted media statements like “South Korea leases half of Madagascar’s land,”1 it may not be evident to a lot of people that the lead actors in today’s global land grab for overseas food production are not countries or governments but corporations. So much attention has been focused on the involvement of states, like Saudi Arabia, China or South Korea. But the reality is that while governments are facilitating the deals, private companies are the ones getting control of the land. And their interests are simply not the same as those of governments.
“This is going to be a private initiative.”
– Amin Abaza, Egypt’s Minister of Agriculture, explaining Egyptian farmland acquisitions in other African nations, on World Food Day 2009
Take one example. In August 2009, the government of Mauritius, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, got a long-term lease for 20,000 ha of good farmland in Mozambique to produce rice for the Mauritian market. This is outsourced food production, no question. But it is not the government of Mauritius, on behalf of the Mauritian people, that is going to farm that land and ship the rice back home. Instead, the Mauritian Minister of Agro Industry immediately sub-leased the land to two corporations, one from Singapore (which is anxious to develop the market for its proprietary hybrid rice seeds in Africa) and one from Swaziland (which specialises in cattle production, but is also involved in biofuels in southern Africa).
This is typical. And it means that we should not be blinded by the involvement of states. Because at the end of the day, what the corporations want will be decisive. And they have a war chest of legal, financial and political tools to assist them.
“What started as a government drive to secure cheap food resource has now become a viable business model and many Gulf companies are venturing into agricultural investments to diversify their portfolios.”
– Sarmad Khan, “Farmland investment fund is seeking more than Dh1bn”, The National, Dubai, 12 September 2009
Moreover, there’s a tendency to assume that private-sector involvement in the global land grab amounts to traditional agribusiness or plantation companies, like Unilever or Dole, simply expanding the contract farming model of yesterday. In fact, the high-power finance industry, with little to no experience in farming, has emerged as a crucial corporate player. So much so that the very phrase “investing in agriculture”, today’s mantra of development bureaucrats, should not be understood as automatically meaning public funds. It is more and more becoming the business of … big business.
The role of finance capital
GRAIN has tried to look more closely at who the private sector investors currently taking over farmlands around the world for offshore food production really are. From what we have gathered, the role of finance capital — investment funds and companies — is truly significant. We have therefore constructed a table to share this picture. The table outlines over 120 investment structures, most of them newly created, which are busy acquiring farmland overseas in the aftermath of the financial crisis.3 Their engagement, whether materialised or targeted, rises into the tens of billions of dollars. The table is not exhaustive, however. It provides only a sample of the kinds of firms or instruments involved, and the levels of investment they are aiming for.
Private investors are not turning to agriculture to solve world hunger or eliminate rural poverty. They want profit, pure and simple. And the world has changed in ways that now make it possible to make big money from farmland. From the investors’ perspective, global food needs are guaranteed to grow, keeping food prices up and providing a solid basis for returns on investment for those who control the necessary resource base. And that resource base, particularly land and water, is under stress as never before. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, so-called alternative investments, such as infrastructure or farmland, are all the rage. Farmland itself is touted as providing a hedge against inflation. And because its value doesn’t go up and down in sync with other assets like gold or currencies, it allows investors to successfully diversify their portfolios.
“We are not farmers. We are a large company that uses state-of-the-art technology to produce high-quality soybean. The same way you have shoemakers and computer manufacturers, we produce agricultural commodities.” Laurence Beltrão Gomes of SLC Agrícola, the largest farm company in Brazil.
But it’s not just about land, it’s about production. Investors are convinced that they can go into Africa, Asia, Latin America and the former Soviet bloc to consolidate holdings, inject a mix of technology, capital and management skills, lay down the infrastructures and transform below-potential farms into large-scale agribusiness operations. In many cases, the goal is to generate revenue streams both from the harvests and from the land itself, whose value they expect to go up. It is a totally corporate version of the Green Revolution, and their ambitions are big. “My boss wants to create the first Exxon Mobil of the farming sector,” said Joseph Carvin of Altima Partners’ One World Agriculture Fund to a gathering of global farmland investors in New York in June 2009. No wonder, then, that governments, the World Bank and the UN want to be associated with this. But it is not their show.
From rich to richer
“I’m convinced that farmland is going to be one of the best investments of our time. Eventually, of course, food prices will get high enough that the market probably will be flooded with supply through development of new land or technology or both, and the bull market will end. But that’s a long ways away yet.”
– George Soros, June 2009
Today’s emerging new farm owners are private equity fund managers, specialised farmland fund operators, hedge funds, pension funds, big banks and the like. The pace and extent of their appetite is remarkable – but unsurprising, given the scramble to recover from the financial crisis.
Consolidated data are lacking, but we can see that billions of dollars are going into farmland acquisitions for a growing number of “get rich quick” schemes. And some of those dollars are hard-earned retirement savings of teachers, civil servants and factory workers from countries such as the US or the UK. This means that a lot of ordinary citizens have a financial stake in this trend, too, whether they are aware of it or not.
It also means that a new, powerful lobby of corporate interests is coming together, which wants favourable conditions to facilitate and protect their farmland investments. They want to tear down burdensome land laws that prevent foreign ownership, remove host-country restrictions on food exports and get around any regulations on genetically modified organisms. For this, we can be sure that they will be working with their home governments, and various development banks, to push their agendas around the globe through free trade agreements, bilateral investment treaties and donor conditionalities.
“When asked whether a transfer of foreign, ‘superior’, agricultural technology would be welcome compensation for the acquisition of Philippine lands, the farmers from Negros Occidental responded with a general weariness and unequivocal retort that they were satisfied with their own knowledge and practices of sustainable, diverse and subsistence-based farming. Their experience of high-yielding variety crops, and the chemical-intensive technologies heralded by the Green Revolution, led them to the conclusion that they were better off converting to diverse, organic farming, with the support of farmer-scientist or member organizations such as MASIPAG and PDG Inc.”
– Theodora Tsentas, “Foreign state-led land acquisitions and neocolonialism: A qualitative case study of foreign agricultural development in the Philippines”, September 2009
Indeed, the global land grab is happening within the larger context of governments, both in the North and the South, anxiously supporting the expansion of their own transnational food and agribusiness corporations as the primary answer to the food crisis. The deals and programmes being promoted today all point to a restructuring and expansion of the industrial food system, based on capital-intensive large-scale monocultures for export markets. While that may sound “old hat”, several things are new and different. For one, the infrastructure needs for this model will be dealt with. (The Green Revolution never did that.) New forms of financing, as our table makes plain, are also at the base of it. Thirdly, the growing protagonism of corporations and tycoons from the South is also becoming more important. US and European transnationals like Cargill, Tyson, Danone and Nestlé, which once ruled the roost, are now being flanked by emerging conglomerates such as COFCO, Olam, Savola, Almarai and JBS.4 A recent report from the UN Conference on Trade and Development pointed out that a solid 40% of all mergers and acquisitions in the field of agricultural production last year were South-South.5 To put it bluntly, tomorrow’s food industry in Africa will be largely driven by Brazilian, ethnic Chinese and Arab Gulf capital.
Exporting food insecurity
Given the heavy role of the private sector in today’s land grabs, it is clear that these firms are not interested in the kind of agriculture that will bring us food sovereignty. And with hunger rising faster than population growth, it will not likely do much for food security, either.
One farmers’ leader from Synérgie Paysanne in Benin sees these land grabs as fundamentally “exporting food insecurity”. For they are about answering some people’s needs – for maize or money – by taking food production resources away from others. He is right, of course. In most cases, these investors are themselves not very experienced in running farms. And they are bound, as the Coordinator of MASIPAG in the Philippines sees it, to come in, deplete the soils of biological life and nutrients through intensive farming, pull out after a number of years and leave the local communities with “a desert”.
“Entire communities have been dispossessed of their lands for the benefit of foreign investors. (…) Land must remain a community heritage in Africa.”
– N’Diogou Fall, ROPPA (West African Network of Producers and Peasant Organisations), June 2009
The talk about channeling this sudden surge of dollars and dirhams into an agenda for resolving the global food crisis could be seen as quirky if it were not downright dangerous. From the United Nations headquarters in New York to the corridors of European capitals, everyone is talking about making these deals “win-win”. All we need to do, the thinking goes, is agree on a few parameters to moralise and discipline these land grab deals, so that they actually serve local communities, without scaring investors off. The World Bank even wants to create a global certification scheme and audit bureau for what could become “sustainable land grabbing”, along the lines of what’s been tried with oil palm, forestry or other extractive industries.
Before jumping on the bandwagon of “win-win”, it would be wise to ask “With whom? Who are the investors? What are their interests?” It is hard to believe that, with so much money on the line, with so much accumulated social experience in dealing with mass land concessions and conversions in the past, whether from mining or plantations, and given the central role of the finance and agribusiness industries here, these investors would suddenly play fair. Just as hard to believe is that governments or international agencies would suddenly be able to hold them to account.
“Some companies are interested in buying agricultural land for sugar cane and then selling it on the international markets. It’s business, nothing more” Sharad Pawar, India’s Minister of Agriculture, rejecting claims that his government is supporting a new colonisation of African farmland, 28 June 2009
Making these investments work is simply not the right starting point.
Supporting small farmers efforts for real food sovereignty is. Those are two highly polarised agendas and it would be mistaken to pass off one for the other. It is crucial to look more closely at who the investors are and what they really want. But it is even more important to put the search for solutions to the food crisis on its proper footing.
References
1 – It was not South Korea, but Daewoo Logistics.
2 – See GRAIN, “Mauritius leads land grabs for rice in Mozambique”, Oryza hibrida, 1 September 2009. http://www.grain.org/hybridrice/?lid=221 (Available in English, French and Portuguese.)
3 – The table covers three types of entities: specialized funds, most of them farmland funds; asset and investment managers; and participating investors. We are aware that this is a broad mixture, but it was important for us to keep the table simple: http://www.grain.org/m/?id=266
4 – COFCO is based in China, Olam is based in Singapore, Savola is based in Saudi Arabia, Almarai is based in Saudi Arabia, and JBS is based in Brazil.
5 – World Investment Report 2009, UNCTAD, Geneva, September 2009, p. xxvii. Most foreign direct investment takes place through mergers and acquisitions.
© 2009 GRAIN
GRAIN is a small international non-profit organization that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems. Their support takes the form of independent research and analysis, networking at local, regional and international levels, and fostering new forms of cooperation and alliance-building.
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This important article highlights three different problems: First, drugs and vaccines which have NOT been either studied or approved for pregnant woman are being used as if their unique biochemical and physiological needs (remember, their bodies have adapted to the unique stress of feeding and forming another being within their own bodies) and those of the baby within can be ignored because it is more convenient to forget about them and just use drugs and vaccines that are handy, or with which the doctor is familiar. Second, marketing pressures and propaganda lead doctors and their associates to use vaccines and drugs in pregnant woman and their babies EVEN THOUGH they are know to be dangerous to these woman and their babies. Third, safe, effective and well-known treatments exist for each of the conditions for which dangerous pharmaceutical treatments are widely, and unwisely, used. For example, if there were a danger from a virus like H1N1 or from urinary tract (or other) infections, the use of nano silver would eliminate it since it safely kills pathogens while leaving vital probiotics in place without danger to the fetus or mother.
Antibiotics, psychiatric medication and vaccines are three perfect examples of dangerous drugs widely, but unwisely, used in these vulnerable people: mothers and unborn babies. In the PDR (Physicians’ Desk Reference (R) ) and package inserts pertaining to such drugs, caution is urged stating that the drugs in these classes should be used in pregnant woman, and in the case of psychiatric drugs, in women of child bearing age, only where there are no other options or when the benefit overrides the risks to mother and child.
OK. Risks are supposed to outweigh benefits. But in the case of vaccines for H1N1, what benefits? The disease is mild and inconsequential despite the hype. There is no additional risk to pregnant women and their babies from H1N1 infection unless they are treated with the dangerous antiviral. None. A close investigation of the statistics, as Dr. Russell Blaylock has provided, http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/03/What-We-Have-Learned-About-the-Great-Swine-Flu-Pandemic.aspx, makes that clear.
What are the risks? Well, since no testing has been done on the safety of the vaccines in pregnant women and on fetuses, the risks are, as the vaccine package inserts make clear, totally unknown. ALL multidose vials of injectable H1N1 vaccine contain mercury and the risks of mercury to the fetus are well characterized and well known. Astonishingly, the FDA and CDC now say that pregnant women should expose their fetuses to the well established dangers of mercury in order to receive the “benefits” of the H1N1 vaccines without explaining how the risks of mercury have been either eliminated or overcome.
Additionally, GSK’s vaccine is adjuvanted with squalene and under an Emergency Use Authorization, the FDA now permits its store of injectable squalene to be used as an additive to the injectable vaccines in the 90,000 injection stations. Since the only way that squalene can be drawn up and mixed with the vaccine is to add it to the mercury-containing multi-does vials, and it is the multidose vials which contain mercury, this guarantees that mothers and babies will be dosed with high doses of mercury AND squalene.
Since squalene is known to cause severe disease when injected and has previously never been approved for injection in humans, there is little or nothing known about its impact on either pregnant mothers or their babies. What is known, however, is that squalene injected at the doses which are indicated in the 1998 patents for its use, which appear to be the same doses in the planned admixture with the vaccines, can also cause to cause permanent, irreversible sterility. That means that the pregnancies these woman are carrying will be their last. Will their children also be permanently and irreversibly sterile? We do not know.
Psychiatric drugs are strongly contraindicated in pregnant woman and in women who might become pregnant. Yet the United States Congress, under the influence, I presume, of the huge numbers of pharmaceutical lobbyists and their even more vast funding abilities have passed a bill which requires psychiatric “screening” to detect and drug pregnant women and new mothers with drugs to “treat” post partum depression with drugs whose impact on the fetus and nursing child can be literally cataclysmic.
This study makes it clear that antibiotics are similarly dangerous. They, like vaccines and psychiatric drugs, have been little studies in pregnant women, but what is known makes it clearly inadvisable to use any of them in pregnancy without the strongest of indications.
The article below makes it clear that drugs taken for granted by patients and doctors for safety in pregnancy should not be lightly regarded despite the general mistaken consensus that they are safe, effective and harmless. Vaccines, antibiotics, psychiatric drugs, and, indeed, all drugs require such caution and replacement by safe, effective and widely available non-pharmaceuticals for pregnant and nursing women. My own preference, of course, as a physician who has practiced drug-free medicine and psychiatry for the best part of 40 years, is that all drugs, except those in the ER, should be so replaced.
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Common antibiotics tied to birth defects
Study: Drugs to treat urinary infections could cause heart, brain problems
Mon., Nov . 2, 2009
CHICAGO – Researchers studying antibiotics in pregnancy have found a surprising link between common drugs used to treat urinary infections with birth defectshttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2.gif. Reassuringly, the most-used antibiotics in early pregnancy — penicillins — appear to be the safest.
Bacterial infections themselves can cause problems for the fetus if left unchecked, experts said, so pregnant women shouldn’t avoid antibiotics entirely. Instead, women should discuss antibiotics choices with their doctors.
The new study is the first large analysis of antibiotic use in pregnancy. It found that mothers of babies with birth defects were more likely than mothers with healthy babies to report taking two types of antibiotics during pregnancy: sulfa drugs (brand names include Thiosulfil Forte and Bactrim) and urinary germicides called nitrofurantoins (brand names include Furadantin and Macrobid).
It was the first time an association had been seen between urinary tract treatments and birth defects, said lead author Krista Crider, a geneticist with the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2.gif, which funded the research. “Additional studies are going to need to be done to confirm these findings.”
Before rigorous safety testing
Used for many decades, the antibiotics in question predate the Food and Drug Administration and its requirements for rigorous safety testing. The FDAhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2.gif now grades all drugs for safety to the fetus based on available research, but rigorous studies are so lacking in many cases, that no antibiotics get the highest grade of “A.”
Sulfa drugs are the oldest antibiotics and some animal studies have found harm during pregnancy. Nitrofurantoins previously have been viewed by doctors as safe to treat urinary tract infections during pregnancy.
The study, appearing in November’s Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, may cause doctors to change the drugs they choose to treat pregnant women with infections. The findings were released Monday.
Dr. Susan Mehnert-Kay, a family practice doctor in Tulsa, Okla., who has written about diagnosing and managing urinary tract infections, said the research is “very interesting” and would cause her to reconsider antibiotic choices in early pregnancy.
The study is important because it looked at drugs that have been used for decades without large studies of their safety in pregnant women, said Dr. Michael Katz of the March of Dimes.
“Some physicians are not as attuned to this as they ought to be, so patients have the right to ask questions,” Katz said.
The researchers analyzed data from more than 13,000 mothers whose infants had birth defects and nearly 5,000 women who lived in the same regions with healthy babies.
The women were interviewed by phone from six weeks to two years after their pregnancies. Those who remembered taking antibiotics during the month before conception through the first three months of pregnancy were identified as exposed to antibiotics.
The women’s memories could have been faulty, a substantial weakness of the study, which the authors acknowledged. About one-third of the women who took antibiotics couldn’t remember the specific type of drug they took.
It’s also unclear whether the birth defects were caused by the drugs or by the underlying infections being treated, Crider said.
Birth defects linked to sulfa drugs included rare brain and heart problems, and shortened limbs. Those linked to nitrofurantoins included heart problems and cleft palate. The drugs seemed to double or triple the risk, depending on the defect.
“These defects are rare. Even with a threefold increase in risk, the risk for the individual is still quite low,” Crider said.
Katz of the March of Dimes said anencephaly, a fatal brain problem linked to sulfas, affects about 1 in 10,000 births in the United States. Cleft palate occurs about 20 per 10,000 births.
Crider said the findings give doctors another opportunity to caution against overuse of antibiotics. Viral illnesses like colds and flus shouldn’t be treated with antibiotics, she said.
Women in 10 states, including California, Texas and New York, were interviewed as part of the National Birth Defects Prevention Study.
The FDA recommends that pregnant women discuss medications with their doctors, said FDA spokeswoman Sandy Walsh. The agency has proposed changes to prescription drug labeling that would require more complete information for women of childbearing age, pregnant women and those who breastfeed, Walsh said.
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Stop the Shot Law Suit: Judge Issues ‘Show Cause Order’ to Prove We Have a Right to Be in Court
There are many wrongs under the law, but not everyone has the right to contest them all. Law suits can require plaintiffs (that’s us – the people bringing the suit and making the formal complaint) to show that they have a reason to bring this suit, or, in legal terms,that we have “standing”. We believe that this Show Cause Order is a positive move that gets the issue of standing, which the other side will surely use to try to get the suit dismissed, out of the way before our November 5 hearing.
Yesterday, Judge Reggie B. Walton of the US District Court, District of Columbia, issued a “Show Cause Order” giving us 48 hours to show why we have standing so that the case 1:09-cv–1924-RBW v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the “STOP THE SHOT” law suit, can continue.
You can imagine that we have a team of highly skilled, dedicated lawyers and scholars working very hard, indeed right now to create . What’s at stake? Out ability to stop the FDA from releasing any more of the dangerous vaccines for a non-existent pandemic and, in fact, a powerful legal challenge against ALL influenza vaccines. They don’t work, they are not safe and they cause harm. We want them off the market.
We are doing our part to Stop the Shot. What’s your part?
You know that good immune function requires large amounts of Vitamin D. Did you know that health freedom requires the Three Vitamin D’s of Activism?
To keep your health freedom intact, you need to take large doses of them. The Three D’s of Health Freedom are:
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Do These Action Items:
1. Tell President Obama to Rescind Dangerous, Unnecessary Health Emergency giving unprecedented powers to Secretary Sebelius to set us a medical internment system without appeal or protections. Take this item once for every member of your household
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2. If you are a Health Care Worker, student or in any allied profession, take the Health Keeper’s Oath
now to prevent the Medical System from becoming a tool to imprison and kill as happened in Nazi Germany. Whether you are a Health Care Worker or not, forward this information to every Health Care Worker you can reach:
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Disseminate This Information Far and Wide
Our impact is enormous because our voices are raised in a chorus millions strong. Push Back is a numbers game: you have to be right AND have might. The other side has enormous resources and buys public policy. We have the courage, the information and the will to correct that dangerous public policy and to protect ourselves from its impact. But that means spreading the word and mobilizing people who still believe that we are too small to make REAL change we can survive with happen.
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Our Money Bomb has given us the resources to go to Codex (we are leaving for the airport in just 6 hours as I write this) and we thank you. We’ll be there for you, observing, building alliances for health and reporting daily. Thank you.
We are not anywhere near the funding mark, however, to prosecute this case for you so that you do not have to face the threat of what these dangerous vaccines can do to you and your loved ones, or the threat of living in a society devastated by either a man-made plague or the devastation of medical gulags and a police state.
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Correction and Repeat Opportunity
In our last Health Freedom Action eAlert I told you about the book written by my remarkable friend, Dr. Leonard Coldwell, The Only Answer to Cancer. I urge you to get a copy of this remarkable book now for yourself and another for anyone you know facing the threat of cancer. But you cannot do it at the link I gave you: I made a mistake. Here is the correct link:
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Important Article
Dr. Gary Null, one of the plaintiffs in the STOP THE SHOT lawsuit, and Richard Gale have written an important summary of why the Swine Flu vaccines are a scientific travesty, including the statement from Dr. Laver, who invented influenza vaccines, saying that they are worthless. It is a must read. Click here, http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3901.
Thanks for your activism. Thanks for being able to handle tough facts and take action. Thanks for being the Voice of Global Health Freedom.
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IT’S MONEY BOMB TIME!
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Health Freedom Money Bomb – Round Three!
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TOGETHER We’ve held off the uninsurable, un-safety tested, martial law-friendly “Swine Flu” H1N1 vaccine panic… and the Senate delayed voting on the (sic) “Food Safety” bill, S.510 after nearly a hundred fifty thousand emails to the committee and Senate…
Congratulations to US! We won a couple rounds! Our Push Back and Stop the Shot law suit forced the US to effectively “cancel” the H1N1 Pandemic. Oh, there are the usual “talking head” announcements about how dangerous H1N1 still is and a bizarre National Emergency Declaration from the President that seems to contradict his own Secretary of Health, but the juice is gone: there is no serious threat either from the disease (there never was) nor, with insufficient supplies, from the vaccine (which is where all the danger really lay). Both New York and New Jersey, the only two states with flu vax mandates, suspended theirs after we went to court on one and threatened to do so on the other. But we have a long way to go before we are finished with these threats.
This Money Bomb’s continued success can be our most powerful Push Back to the President’s “National Emergency Declaration” of October 23, 2009 regarding the alleged “swine flu pandemic”. See: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3763
The depopulationists / globalists / pharma-terrorists and their government/WHO/UN henchmen and henchwomen (such as Napolitano, Sebelius and Hamburg) will be back again. By the time they mount their next terror tactic, we will be stronger, even better organized and ready to beat them back on that one, and the next, and the next, all because of your help.
Null, Laibow, et al v FDA Lawsuit UPDATE:
Round One: NY Health Care Workers’ Flu Vaccine Mandate:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3933
Round Two: NJ Toddlers’ Flu Vaccine mandate:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3970
Round Three… [But that’s a secret; we have cooperating plaintiffs and are preparing to file.]
Oh, by they way, did you forget about Codex? We didn’t. In fact, now that Gen. Bert and Dr. Rima can safely travel without fear of deadly injections, they went to the most recent Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), whose Chairman is the notorious Dr. Rolf Grossklaus.
They attended this meeting in Dusseldorf from Nov 2-6, and all workshops and associated meetings – for you. As usual, they did daily video updates, radio specials and so on. You know you can count on them to tell you what is happening and make contacts with delegates from around the world that can change history – just as we did with the H1N1 scam-for-death-and-money.
Codex Meeting UPDATE: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=3942
You’ve probably heard about the powerful protective effect of Vitamin D on the immune system. There are 3 ‘D vitamins’ in Health Freedom:
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We need you to help us generate the funds needed to move our seminal legal challenge to the entire vaccine approval travesty forward, fighting any appeal that the FDA and other defendants may initiate and we need the funds to make sure that we can continue our Codex work. We need funds to update our Codex book and make sure that every Head of State, every Minister of Health and Agriculture and every Codex delegate gets that publication along with a clear explanation of how to use this information. Despite the (ill-informed) Nay-Sayers, when Austria, Hungary and the Netherlands used our Codex Two Step Process, they won their cases in the WTO, escaping both trade sanctions AND Codex in those instances!
We need money to help reclaim the production of food here at the Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project. Right now the government of Panama is asking us to help them turn ALL cattle farming in the breadbasket province of Chiriqui into BeyondOrganic/Biodynamic farming. They are asking us to help them do the same with their agricultural production, as well. We need money to support volunteers who provide hands, heads and hearts to make this project work so that we can teach farmers and non farmers alike how to grow clean, abundant food for life and health here and elsewhere.
What does that have to do with you and your health? A lot. First, we can create products which, because of their excellence, will violate Codex guidelines and standards and can then be shipped internationally, helping to further crack Codex apart. Second, we are creating a teaching center to help farmers from the developing world, where more and more of your food comes from, to grow their food in a way that is healthy for them AND for you. That means, of course, that their countries, too, will need to follow our Two Step Process to ship and sell their products.
AND we need serious funding to complete the Health Freedom Documentary which we began, but did not have enough funding to complete.
So much to do. So much to do for you. How can we do it all? Simple: we need the resources and then we can do it all – you know that you can trust the Natural Solutions Foundation to be on top of issues before they arise and find the solutions. You know you can trust us to use every single penny for the Foundation’s work since none of the Trustees takes a penny for our much-more-than-full-time work. You know that we are 100% supporter supported so that our only focus is what is good for health, and for freedom. We are there for you.
Now it is time for you to be there for Health Freedom with a powerful, decisive Money Bomb!
Lay it on us so we can keep health freedom free. Just think! Today you are free of the threat that was looming over our heads: the voluntary-but-really-mandatory adjuvanted vaccine for a made-up, make-believe disease. And we, you and the Natural Solutions Foundation, did that together. What else can we do? Let’s find out. It’s Money Bomb Time!
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