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An Open Letter from Dr. Rima to Michelle Obama on Food Safety

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

FUNDACIÓN DE SOLUCIONES NATURAL
NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION
RIMA E. LAIBOW, MD – THE DR. RIMA INSTITUTE
THE NATURAL SOLUTIONS CENTER
VOLCAN, CHIRIQUÍ, PANAMA

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Dr. Rima to Michelle Obama
Action Item to the White House
“Michelle, please intervene…”
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5421

Open letter to Michelle Obama from Dr. Rima

Dear Mrs. Obama,

I am writing to you because you are a mother, a champion of childhood health and the wife of the current President of the United States. One of your first acts upon assuming the third of those roles, as First Lady, was to install an organic garden on the White House grounds. We applaud that demonstration of intent.

Although there were problems — (the EPA said that the ground in which the garden was planted was too toxic for human agricultural use because of the chemicals used on it previously, in order to manicure the lawn) — and opposition (the pesticide industry felt – correctly – that your decision to grow an organic garden indicated that chemical-free food was healthier than food produced using those chemicals). Thus, your decision to plant an organic garden was an act of wise, even courageous, leadership.

We note your background interest in wholesome food and decry the much-weakened, but still unacceptable mis-named “Food Safety” bill, passed [after being passed back and forth between House and Senate, like the hot-potato is was].

This new law industrializes food production in the United States. The weak local farm distribution exemptions are, in fact, nearly meaningless and the playing field is sharply tilted against the only source of clean food in the United States: the small grower who might, until the implementation of this bill, have chosen to grow clean, unadulterated food, but now will find ever more expensive barriers against continuing in business.

To be truly clean food it must be free of chemicals, genetic modification and odious secret regulations by the Department of Homeland Security. That locally produced and distributed clean food is, in fact, a food source which has NEVER produced a single major outbreak of food borne illness, while commercial, industrialized, GMO and chemically gown “phactory phud” [“It taste something like real food, but it ain’t.”] is responsible for every single episode of such illness.

Not counted in the statistics on food borne illness, however, is what the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization list in their joint 2003 publication (http://www.who.int/hpr/NPH/docs/who_fao_expert_report.pdf) as PREVENTABLE, NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES OF UNDER-NUTRITION: cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke, diabetes and obesity.

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These are also food borne diseases, Mrs. Obama, and they are killing us, and our children, at increasing rates because the oversight of the FDA, now newly empowered by this new legislation with 4000 new agents intruding on small farmers to bring their practices into “compliance” with those of the same agribiz operations which are killing us by damaging our food. This will not improve food safety!

Secret regulations (permitted in section 104) promulgated by the most inefficient and non-transparent organ of the US Government will not improve food safety. Relying on local inspectors with local interests, and on local producer organizations would continue the best food safety record in the world, from which our localities already benefit. If this bill is signed into law, the regulations issued under the new law will determine whether local production and distribution can continue to meet consumer needs. These regulations need to protect important interests, including:

a. Implementing the exemption for local production and distribution in the least burdensome way.
b. Assuring that Section 104’s “in the interest of national security” clause is not used to create secret regulations favoring Big AgBiz and,
c. No “back-door” HARMonization of our food freedoms with international Codex Alimentarius restrictions.

What will improve food safety is for the President of the United States, who, like you, is a parent, and who eats food which either makes him sick or promotes his health, to veto this bill. That would be the best outcome for the People, but not for Big AgBiz.

The industrialization of the food supply, which this bill accelerates, has brought the US epidemic degenerative, preventable, tragic and costly disease. The acceleration of this process through this unnecessary and profoundly unwise bill will aid the pharmaceutical companies and their agricultural/biotech arms, but will hasten and intensify the incidence and prevalence of the preventable illness and death, including the epidemics of diabetes, obesity, cancer and cardiovascular diseases killing us at younger and younger ages.

Mrs. Obama, I urge you in your capacities as wife, mother and First Lady, to bend every effort to urge President Obama to veto this legislation and bend his every effort to create true food safety in the United States by supporting clean agriculture, banning the use of GMO foods in the United States and restoring health to the American people by preserving their Food Freedom — restoring clean food on their tables.

Sincerely,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
www.DrRima.net

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BETRAYED BY THE GOP – S.510/HR.2751 Back to House Tuesday 12.21. PUSH BACK NEEDED!

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty…”
“No one’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”

12.21.10 LATE UPDATE: HOUSE PASSES BILL… “This is how freedom dies…”
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7853

Please forward this link; help make it “go viral” – http://tinyurl.com/GOPbetrayal

12.20.10 – Revised Action item:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5395

The betrayal Sunday 12.19.10 of the Health and Food Freedom movement [and the Tea Party, Liberty, Farm/Ranch/Garden groups working with us] by the GOP Senators in passing S.510/HR.2751 back to the House with an unrecorded Unanimous Consent vote is unacceptable. We condemn the GOP for this betrayal.

12.21.10 – Update: Ron Paul’s office says the vote on HR.2751 will probably happen this afternoon or early evening. The word is that the vote will be very close (the food control bill last passed the House 212-206 with 17 not voting).

Follow the action in the House: http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/
Clerk’s Floor Summary: http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.html


According to The Hill:

12.20.10 – “The Senate unexpectedly approved food safety legislation by unanimous consent Sunday evening, rescuing a bill that floated in limbo for weeks because of a clerical error.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/food-safety/134447-in-sunday-evening-surprise-senate-passes-food-safety-bill-by-unanimous-consent

Our so-called friends in the Senate had assured us they would object to any effort to pass S.510, the fake “food safety” (really, “food control”) in the last days of the lame-duck congressional session. We feel betrayed. We pledge not to forget! S.510 has been attached to HR.2751 and has the unconstitutional revenue raising clause removed.

The office of Sen Coburn, who failed to live up to his pledge to refuse any unanimous consent, tells us the majority party had enough GOP support to close off debate and force the bill through anyway. We say, that’s no excuse! Sorry Senator, the GOP has lost our trust. By making a dirty deal to avoid a recorded vote the GOP failed the test of transparency.

ONE LAST CHANCE TO STOP FASCIST FOOD CONTROL IN THE HOUSE!
THE HOUSE NEXT MEETS TUESDAY… HOURS TO SAVE FOOD FREEDOM!

“Why,” one writer asked us, “did you say betrayed as though the GOP Senators were traitors to the cause of Freedom?” Why? Because that is the truth and we always seek to speak truth to power! We didn’t expect protection for our Liberties from the majority party, but the wimp-out by the GOP, which promised us so much, is not acceptable. We will not forget!

December 21, 2010: the critical moment is here!
Please use this Action Item over and over again this morning and all day!
ONLY YOUR PUSH BACK CAN SAVE US NOW!

KEEP ON PUSHING BACK!
PLEASE USE THE NEW ACTION ITEM EVERY DAY…
OFTEN! And Forward It to Your Contacts!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5395


A message from General Bert:

“The sweet smell of victory… or the stench of defeat… which is in the air? We must encourage the faint-of-heart to persevere. By the end of any battle, both sides are exhausted, but the side that perseveres just a little longer… wins! That is where we are now, and that is why massive Push Back is more important now than before! We are flooding the lame-duck Congress with a clear message: “No Food Control Bill! Strip S.510/HR.2751 out of any pending bill!” Keep at it! Victory is within our reach. Keep pressing forward while you recruit your contacts to act with you now!”

Natural Solutions’ Trustee Ralph Fucetola JD’s personal take on this:
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2010/12/senate-gop-betrayal-on-s510-personal.html

Please support our efforts at this critical time! Donate here:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

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LATE BREAKING NEWS: OMNIBUS WITH FOOD CONTROL DONE FOR!

Friday, December 17th, 2010

LATE BREAKING NEWS: OMNIBUS WITH FOOD CONTROL DONE FOR!
If We continue to Push Back!

Natural Solutions Foundation
Your Voice of Global Health & Food Freedom™
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

The various attempts by Big AgraBiz and DC Politicians to force the fake “food safety” bill, actually the food control bill, through the Congress is failing because hundreds of thousands of messges are flooding the “lame-duck” Congress from citizens demanding: Don’t Adopt Any Bill that Includes S.510!

The counterpoint rumor is that Sen. Harry Reid is desperate to add S.510 into one of several more bills that may reach the floor of the Senate before adjourning for the Holidays…

New Action Item: Support Simple C.R.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5395

Lame Duck Congress

Lame Duck Congress

From the Senate Calendar: “Thursday, Dec 16, 2010 – The Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 8:36 p.m. No record votes were taken.”

From Breitbart: “Democrats controlling the Senate have abandoned a 1,924-page catchall spending measure that’s laced with homestate pet projects known as earmarks and that would have provided another $158 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan”

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9K5BA5O0&show_article=1

“Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) touts his one-page continuing resolution that would “simply continue the government through February 18th.”

From RealClearPolitics: “I would hope that it would make sense on a bipartisan basis, this one-page continuing resolution on Feb 18th as an alternative to this 2,000-page monstrosity that spends a half a billion dollars a page,” McConnell said on the Senate floor.”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/12/16/mcconnell_dems_using_christmas_break_as_an_inducement_to_pass_omnibus.htm

Congratulations Mouse Warriors!

This message from Health Freedom USA’s President, Gen. Stubblebine: “The smell of victory is in the air… we must encourage the faint-of-heart Senators to persevere. And get ready to blast ‘em if they turn-tail to run! By the end of any battle, both sides are exhausted, but the side that perseveres just a little longer… wins! That is where we are now, and that is why massive Push Back is more important now than before! We are flooding the Congress with a clear message: No New Programs in the Continuing Resolution; Strip S.510 out of any funding bill! Keep at it! Victory is within our reach. Keep pressing forward while you recruit your contacts to act with you now!”

Health Freedom USA
www.HealthFreedomPortal.org
Dr. Rima Reports: Sunday 9 to Noon, Central

Valley of the Moon – December Art Show, Seminars, Webinars and More…

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION
Your Global Voice of Health & Food Freedom™
www.HealthFreedomPortal.org

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Holiday Season Events at Valley of the Moon™
Contact Us:
www.MyValleyoftheMoon.org
NaturalSolutionsCenter@gmail.com
Reservations, Directions, Registration: 6936 5226

GALALUNA: Arts and Cultural Exposition December 11, 12 noon-9 PM
Admission Free. Please call 6936 5226 for lunch or dinner reservations.
Details: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7698
Artists, dancers, carvers, musicians for your delight – you’ll find those special gifts for your friends and loved ones and help support the arts in Chiriquí at GALALUNA.

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With GALALUNA we are inaugurating the Valley of the Moon Arts Center where you can learn to dance, sing, play instruments, attend art shows and performances.

Please join the Yahoo.com group “Valley of the Moon Updates” here, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MyValleyoftheMoonUpdates/join, to make sure you are up to date on all upcoming events.

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Mother’s Day at Valley of the Moon Restaurant and Café December 8th

Bring Mother out to a lovely lunch or dinner and we’ll provide the corsage! One mother per table will receive a beautiful corsage along with an unforgettable meal!

More than one mother in your party? No problem! Just tell us when you make your reservation at 6936 5226 and we’ll have as many as you need ready for your celebration! Reservations are required for our special Mother’s Day menu. Gluten-free Crêpes and bread available with advance notice.

Valley of the Moon BeyondOrganic™ Restaurant and Café Weekend Specials

December 3-5: 3 Cheese Fettuccini Alfredo (Organic Gluten-Free Pasta available on request), Veggie/Non Veggie – just tell the waitress your preference.

December 10-13: Salmon Carribe (NON GMO!)

December 17-19: Teriyaki Cabbage Rolls Veggie/Non Veggie – just tell the waitress your preference

Gluten-free bread and pasta available upon request. Vegetarian, gluten-free and raw options available at every meal.

Valley of the Moon BeyondOrganic Coffee proudly served and sold! www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org

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January, 2011 will bring us regular weekend specials and special seminars.

During January 2011 we will continue with our regular weekly BeyondOreganic™ specials and will offer a series of world-class Seminars…

You will want to register early for
5 Elements Week at the Valley of the Moon: January 9-15, 2011
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC8T1GkD0XY

5 Elements Banquet (Not Included in 5 Elements Week): January 9, 2011 [Reservations Required]
Space is Limited! To Reserve, call 6936 5226
or Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035

5 Elements Intensive Seminar: January 10-14, 2011
To Register, Call 6936 5226 or Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035
Farewell Breakfast (included in 5 Elements Week): January 15, 2010

Not Able to Attend the Intensive?
To Register, Call 6936 5226 or Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035

1. Welcoming Sleep the 5 Elements Way; 4 Evenings to Good Sleep
7:30-9:00 PM, January 10-13, 2011

To Register, Call 6936 5226 or Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035
Getting a good night’s sleep tonight and every night is a problem for countless people. Poor sleep is associated with poor concentration, depression, depressed immune function, decreased disease resistance and the development of multiple problems.

Disordered sleep architecture, produced by sleeping drugs, does not allow healthful function and full repair during the sleep hours and wakefulness is wearing on both the emotional and physical body.

One way of promoting sleep without drugs is found in the rich 5 Element system for health and regulation. Come join our5 Elements Intensive Seminar participants, in whose week of instruction this course is included, in a 4-session lecture and experiential series.

You will learn techniques that you can use every night to bring healthy sleep to your pillow!
Tuition: $60
To Register, Call 6936 5226 or Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035

2. Cooking for Health With the 5 Elements: 9:00-11AM, January 10-14, 2010
To Register, Call 6936 5226 or Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035

Healthy food, correctly prepared, is a cornerstone of the ancient Chinese 5 Elements system. In fact, this IS the quintessential Chinese Food. Join our 5 Elements Intensive Seminar students for 2 hours every morning in our Valley of the Moon Teaching Kitchen to focus each day on a different member of the 5 Element system. Learn how to prepare and use delicious health(y) food.

Supplies and utensils provided. If you like, you can, by reservation, join us for lunch as we continue our exploration on 5 Element health. Each day’s menu will focus on one of the 5 elements.

Since 5 Elements Intensive Students are automatically included in the course, space is limited when accommodating other students. Please reserve early to avoid disappointment
Tuition: $125 includes all supplies and utensils
To Register, Call 6936 5226 or Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035

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Inquiries: 6939 5226, email: naturalsolutionscenter@gmail.com
Remember: 5 Elements Intensive Students are already included in the both the cooking and sleep courses, so registration for other students is limited.

To Register, Call 6936 5226 or Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035
5 Element Intensive Seminar: January 10-14, 2010

The Chinese 5 Elements Theory offers information and action options for food, health, organ systems and their diseases, sound, colors, tastes and energy.

Our focus will be on what you can do yourself, using the rich 5 Elements Theory to create health and healing practices for yourself.

The 5 Elements are related by their characteristics and their interactions and form the basis for Traditional Oriental Medicine, Qi Gong, acupuncture, etc.

Come spend a week learning about the 5 Elements, eating DELICIOUS 5 elements food (all BeyondOrganic, of course!) which you’ll learn to prepare and use for health in our teaching kitchen every morning, learn the 5 Elements diagnostic and treatment systems for conditions and diseases, explore sound and color as part of health and healing, understand the basis of Fung Shui and much, much more!

Each of the five days of the Intensive Week will be devoted to a different Element

We’ll explore its color, sound, organs, foods, etc. each day. In fact, you’ll learn how to make your own non-toxic paints using milk and natural toxins so you can create (and teach) the 5 Elements

All meals will be provided at the Valley of the Moon Restaurant and Cafe and will be, of course, BeyondOrganic. Each day’s meals will focus on a different member of the 5 element’s food, flavor, impact, etc.

Our instructor, well-known opera singer, Angela Malek, can be seen here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC8T1GkD0XY , in a brief introductory video along with Natural Solutions Foundation Trustee Ralph Fucetola.

The 5 Element Intensive starts with an optional 5 Elements Welcome Banquet on Sunday night, January 9, 2011 at the Valley of the Moon Restaurant. Our BeyondOrganic™ 5 Elements Feast will be served for Seminar participants and others on a space limited basis on Sunday evening, January 9, 2011 at 6:30 PM. Please call 6939 5226 for reservations. Cost: $25 per person including beverage (non alcoholic). BYOB. Space is limited so please reserve early.

January 10-14, 2011. Every day will begin with a 5 Elements BeyondOrganic breakfast and discussion beginning our focus on that day’s element.

After breakfast, we’ll move to the teaching kitchen for a practical lesson during which we’ll prepare part of the food for the day, focusing on the curative and preventive properties of the foods and herbs. If you are interested in attending the cooking portion of the course only, you may do so on a strictly space-limited basis.

Seminar participants will take a break for a 5 Elements snack in keeping with our day’s theme, then experiential or lecture sessions will take us to lunch.

Of course, that’s part of the day’s lesson, too, as our food takes us deeper into the 5 Elements experience. We’ll take a bit of time off, then back to our Intensive afternoon program, complete with 5Elements snack and dinner.

Each evening after dinner we’ll be looking at sleep management from a 5 Elements point of view. So from 7:30 to 9 PM each evening we will use sound, movement, breathing and other techniques to learn how to invite and maintain good sleep every night, night after night. For those people not taking the full Seminar, attendance at the evening program, Welcoming Sleep the 5 Elements Way, is possible on a space-limited basis. The 4 lecture series is available for a Tuition of $60. Registration is for the full 4 session series only.

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5 Elements Farewell Breakfast and departure: January 15, 2011
Seminar participants will say goodbye over a full 5 Elements breakfast feast.

After the completion of our 5 Elements Intensive, you will receive a Certificate of Attendance.

5 Elements Feast on Sunday night before the Intensive begins is optional.
5 Elements Intensive Seminar Tuition Includes
6 night’s lodging in a clean, simple, safe and secure accommodation (Arrival: January 9, 2011, Departure: January 15, 2011)
Local transportation to and from the Center January 10-15, 2011. Transportation to and from 5 Elements Banquet is by taxi which your host can arrange for you
All lectures and activities
5 Elements Cooking Class including all supplies
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, two snacks each day
Farewell Breakfast
Tuition and Lodging: $757
To Register, Call 6936 5226 or Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035
5 Elements Intensive Seminar Tuition Plus Premium Accommodations Available for a Surcharge of $240 Per Person
6 night’s lodging in private accommodations with private bath (suitable for a single person or a couple). Local transportation to and from the Valley of the Moon, January 10-15, 2011. Transportation to and from 5 Elements Banquet is by taxi which your host can arrange for you.
5 Elements Cooking Class, including all supplies
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, two snacks each day
Farewell Breakfast
Tuition and Premium Lodging: $997 per person
To Register, Call 6936 5226 or Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035
Local Student Tuition for the entire 5 Elements Course, without meals or snacks $827 (Meals and snacks may be purchased with advance notice)

To Register, Call 6936 5226 or Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035

January 9, 2011: Optional 5 Elements 5 Course Feast $25

January 10-14, 2011: 2 Hour 5 Elements Cooking Class $125

January 10-13, 2011: Welcoming Sleep the 5 Elements Way Series: $60
To Register, Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035
Phone: 507-6936 5226 Email: naturalsolutionscenter@gmail.com Skype: natsolcent
REGISTER NOW! SPACE IS STRICTLY LIMITED

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More Seminars at the Valley of the Moon!

Living Younger Longer with Dr. Robert Sorge, ND
January 21-23, 2011

You will NOT want to miss this outstanding seminar in which we will be demonstrating and discussing hormone regulation for men and women, including human growth hormone, replacing free radical regulation for health and abundant energy, intensive nutrition for intensive living, frequency medicine, Chelation therapy, mental clarity and how to keep it, brain conditioning with essential oils and other important and practical topics. Your complete BeyondOrganic lunch, snack and dinner at the Valley of the Moon Restaurant and Cafe are included in this anti-aging intensive. Dr. Sorge is the Director of Abundalife, Asbury, NJ and brings with him an international faculty for this exceptional seminar.

Tuition including BeyondOrganic Meals and Snacks (Dinner, January 21, 3 BeyondOrganic gourmet meals January 22, Breakfast and Lunch January 23, snacks on January 21 and 22): $397 per person.

Reserve Here:





Lodging and Transportation Package available upon request

To Register, Call 6936 5226 or Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035

Four-Day Seminar in Aromatherapy as a Ministerial Practice, Jan. 25 – 28, 2011

Health and Food Freedom Webinar Access & Archives


Tuition including BeyondOrganic Meals and Snacks (3 BeyondOrganic gourmet meals, 2 snacks per day January 25-28): $497 per person

Reserve Here:





Lodging and Transportation Package available upon request

To Register, Call 6936 5226 or Click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7035

For further information, please contact us PHONE: 6939 5226, EMAIL: naturalsolutionscenter@gmail.com

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Don’t Forget: the Natural Solutions Center, Located at the Valley of the Mon Eco Demonstration Project’s Headquarters (see directions below) offers natural, drug-free health care based on Dr. Rima’s 40 years of experience wth drug-free medicine and psychiatry. Our protocols include –

a. IV nutrition (e.g., Chelation, Vitamin C drips, Meyer’s Cocktails, etc.)
b. Detoxification programs including Far Infra-Red Sauna and Lymphatic Detoxification
c. Pain resolution
d. Acupuncture
e. Electro Acupressure
f. Frequency Treatments
g. NeuroBioFeedback
h. Applied, Personalized Nutrition

For more information on clinical protocols, please visit www.DrRima.net

There’s always something fascinating going on at the Valley of the Moon! While you’re here, you’ll want to make sure you try our signature chocolate espresso cake and some of our totally toxin free Valley of the Moon Coffee. We grow it ourselves in Santa Clara. Take some home! www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org .

We would love to hear from you. Please drop us a line and give us your suggestions, reservations and questions at NaturalSolutionsCenter@gmail.com.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project
www.MyValleyoftheMoon.org
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
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Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

To join the Valley of the Moon Updates group on Yahoo.com, please click here: http://launch.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyValleyoftheMoonUpdates/join

Join us every Sunday Morning 10 AM to 1 PM for the Dr. Rima Reports at www.OracleBroadcasting.com . Chat and Listen at www.HealthFreedomPortal.org . Listen Live or Listen to the Archives Here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4850

Sign up for the free Health Freedom Action eAlerts at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

Directions To The Valley of the Moon, Volcan

From the Center of Volcan: Take the Via Volcan towards Conception. On your right as you are getting near the end of Volcan you will see a large brown circular building and a red, unnamed gas station on your left. There is a sign for the Valley of the Moon on your Right. Turn right and go one block.

From Conception, David, Boquete:
Follow the signs as you come up the Via Volcan towards Volcan for the Valley of the Moon. On your left as you are entering Volcan you will see a large brown circular building and a red, unnamed gas station on your right . There is a sign for the Valley of the Moon on your left. Turn left and go one block.

AFTER YOU HAVE GONE 1 BLOCK:
You are now facing a white wall. Make a right turn and an immediate left turn. This takes you around the corner of the wall. Continue straight (DO NOT TAKE THE ROAD THAT GOES OFF TO THE RIGHT). The paving ends. Continue straight. Two signs will guide you. Now you are on an unpaved road which you will take past 7 houses on your left hand side.
There is a large thatched patio which tells you that you are here! Park nose in, please, so as many people as possible can park in front of the Valley of the Moon. You are here!

For instructions, questions, etc., please call us at 6936 5226.

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Bloomberg, Who Rules Midtown Mahattan, and NPA Have It Wrong About $.510, Small Farmers & Food Freedom!

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION
Your Global Voice of Health & Food Freedom

www.HealthFreedomPortal.org

Current Action Item: Tell the Senate to Strip S.510 from the CR – http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5303

December 20, 2010 Update: http://TinyURL.com/GOPbetrayal

December 10, 2010 Update: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7682

Bloomberg reports – Headline: “Small farms would be exempt from food safety regs” — nice sounding, but false! More details below…

FINAL SENATE VOTE PENDING ON NOV. 29! – ACT NOW TO STOP $.510! PLEASE TAKE EACH STEP BELOW ONCE FOR EACH MEMBER OF YOUR HOUSEHOLD, EACH DAY:

[1] EMAIL YOUR SENATORS HERE :
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

[2] CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW! FIND THE CORRECT DC PHONE NUMBERS HERE:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm — OR, BETTER, CALL THEM AT THEIR HOME STATE OFFICES; GOOGLE “US Senator [your state] office”.

[3] BETWEEN NOW AND NOV. 29, PLEASE TAKE BOTH STEPS EVERY DAY!

[4] REACH OUT TO YOUR ENTIRE CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE, CONTACTS, COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS, SUPPLIERS, ASSOCIATES, CLASSMATES, ETC. TO HELP THEM BECOME ACTIVATED IN TAKING STEPS [1] THROUGH [4]

[5] Keep Health Freedom Strong by making your recurring tax deductible donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation here:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

We are so pleased to have seen over the past couple weeks especially various people and groups in the Freedom Movement, like Downsize DC, Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party Nation and the Campaign for Liberty have joined health and food freedom advocates, like Health Freedom USA, Citizens for health and others to bring a truly transpartisan perspective to the opposition to the fake “food safety” bill, S.510, scheduled by the lame duck Congressional “leadership” for a “final” vote on Monday, November 29, 2010.

The Congressional lame duck “leadership” have used every maneuver allowed by their parliamentary procedures to push through the fake “food safety” bills; what will be, essentially, a law that sets the stage for regulatory imposition of industrialize “farming” methods on our local, natural food production and distribution while implementing the worst of Codex Alimentarius’ international restrictions on our freedoms. It would allow imposition of what we have called “Food Fascism” and be a continuation of the Federal Administration’s policy of “seizing the commanding heights” of the economy.

One of those maneuvers has been to tempt several Senators who are normally on the side of local food production to “go along” with this Big AgBiz-written bill in exchange for some changes in the new farm order to be imposed. Those amendments, even if adopted in their most local-food-friendly versions barely begin to allay our fears of Federal Food Fascism.

Let this example suffice:

Earlier today Bloomberg reported, and the Natural Products Association (NPA) spread it around and about that:

Headline: “Small farms would be exempt from food safety regs” — nice sounding?
But read the Text: “Some small farms would be exempt…”

Read the rest here: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9JJ0G700.htm

Bloomberg, we should point out, is the media outlet of the wealthy Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City. Just as a reminder, New York City is not what most people would call a farming community. It does not raise food and is not the home of any significant number of small farms. Just why is Bloomberg organization positioning itself as a Company Man in the food wars which have been thrust upon us by the likes of Monsanto Man, Michael Taylor, now our Food Safety [sic!] Czar? And why would the Natural Products Association take the position that industrializing the US Food Supply is a good thing? We believe that their lawyers are as capable as ours of reading the bills and discerning the disastrous consequences and stipulations. We’ve quoted specific language from the Manager’s Bill that would allow secret regulations, would pave the way to full implementation of Codex Alimentarius (the so-called ‘world food code’ that serves the globalists’ interests) and have shown how the “exemptions” will hardly protect significant proportions of local food production.

Could it be because their membership is heavily weighted to Big Pharma? Given that Big Pharma makes most of the nutrients and “natural products” with which they deal, and given the fact that clean food is a direct threat to Big Pharma, whose income rests on your impaired nutrition and immune system, and given the fact that Big Pharma is also Big AgraBiz and Big Chema and Big Biotech, could it be that NPA (formerly the NNFA) has once again acted the whore to its powerful members as it did when it produced its expensive (rumored to have cost $800,000) “Report” assuring wellness companies that Codex would prove not threat to them or their businesses? see http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=180 for a detailed analysis of that report.

Make no mistake: $.510 will not only hurt small farmers, it will eventually criminalize their activity, and yours if you are growing your own food, and put them out of business. Done. Finished. Over. Ended.

But consider our $.510 Talking Points,http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6910, first published weeks ago, to see the truth is that only a small percent of local food production and distribution would be exempt from Federal controls under the best of the amendments; only partially protecting a few small family farms, representing a small percentage of local food production, and as inflation kicks in, without indexing, the “protections” will become meaningless. Under one version of the “let them eat cake” amendment, only farms grossing less than $500,000 annually would be exempt… and as inflation kicks in, even with “indexing” pegged to the manipulated CPI, the “protections” will become meaningless.

“In 2009, the majority of family farms (60 percent) had gross sales of less than $10,000, but they accounted for only 2 percent of the total value of agricultural production… Family farms with gross sales of $10,000 to $249,999 were 30 percent of the family farms and were responsible for 18 percent of production. At the other end of the size distribution, the 10 percent of family farms that grossed at least $250,000 accounted for 80 percent of the value of production…” http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/WellBeing/farmhouseincome.htm

Talking Points: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6910

What percent of local food production would be protected? The above Federal figures do not reveal that, but applying a reasonable distribution curve suggests less than 40%.

Bloomberg’s and NPA’s headlines are misleading and the threat from S.510 is far worse than they imagine.

But we do not need to let that happen. Here’s the plan to STOP S.510!!!

1. Flood Senators’ home offices with calls over the Thanksgiving holiday week; if you know the Senator personally, call him/her direct, or talk to him/her over the Thanksgiving Day table!

2. Begin to flood the Senate with emails starting Sunday 11.28 and peaking throughout 11.29 — our system reached over 5,000 emails an hour for several hours a day, several days last week. Other groups were similarly engaged. We need to do much better.

No time for Thanksgiving yet, no time to pat ourselves on the back! Our Senators are home… it’s time for the Home Folks to tell them what we want: Vote “No!” on S. 510. Even Sen. Testor or Dr. Coburn’s well-intentioned amendments do not go far enough to protect local, organic, family, community food production and distribution!

If the lame duck “leadership” forces this bad bill through the Senate, we will flood the House of Representatives with opposing emails; if it is sent to the White House, we will petition the current occupant to veto the bill; if he signs it, we will demand that the new Congress refuse to fund its provisions, including any funding for more FDA inspectors or for any “HARMonizing” with Codex Alimentarius, or any other provision that restricts Food Freedom!

One message to the Senate and the House: VOTE “NO!” ON S.510!

The updated Action link, a bit of the history of the past couple weeks and more information are right here:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7446

Right now you and I and our Freedom Mouses are all that stand between Food Freedom under a corrupt FDA and Food Fascism under an FDA on steroids… a true Food Gestapo.

Yours in health and freedom.
The Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation

Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)
President

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

Ralph Fucetola, JD
Counsel and Trustee

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