Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy was cursed by Apollo, whom she offended, with always being right but never being believed. She warned her father not to open the gates to the Trojan Horse but no one listened. The horse was brought in and, the story goes, in the dead of night, its huge belly was opened and the warriors hidden within destroyed Troy. Being right did not make Cassandra happy.
Being right does not make me happy when I am writing about things like deceiving, diagnosing and drugging an entire population for the benefits of anyone but the patient.
Being right when I wrote, decades ago, that the use of psychiatric drugs, especially in children, was a disastrous, brain-damaging and insane social and medical policy. These drugs are untested, toxic and will create a society of pharmaceutically damaged people rather than ill people being well treated. Being right when I said that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals for Psychiatry were dangerous and would lead to the expansion of diagnoses and treatment to the point where there were none who dared resist and non who were not diagnosed. Being right when I wrote that Psychiatric diagnoses rested in marketing, not in science and that treating CFL (corporate financial lust) was fundamentally insane, but that the insanity did not lie with the patient.
And being right when I wrote that possible drugging would inevitably become mandated drugging, although neither the science or the treatments were any better.
Alas, like Cassandra, my predictions did not ring real when I wrote them but we have arrived where I saw us collectively headed. Dangerous drugs for everything that even smacks of real life and universal mandating just around the corner – if we turn that corner.
First, an admission: I am, by training, a Psychiatrist, encouraged by that training to treat children, adolescents and adults. But I was, I believe, saved from violating the basic ethical standard of medicine (and, with decency, every activity which involves any of us): Primum non nocere – Latin for “First Do No Harm”.
It is my considered belief, after considerable study, clinical practice and observation, that it is literally impossible to BE a practicing Psychiatrist, FOLLOWING THE PRACTICE GUIDELINES AND “STANDARD OF CARE IN THE COMMUNITY” PRACTICES, and NOT do harm, first, middle and last. That is why I have never treated anyone for anything using medication with two exceptions: a wildly psychotic 19 year old patient of mine in a State Hospital locked ward was suffering the torments of the damned (which is what he believed himself to be) as he unendingly hallucinated his inner terror. I prescribed for him enough sedation to allow him to stop screaming after 9 days of 24 hour nightmare. I was a First Year Resident at the time and knew nothing of orthomolecular psychiatry (the use of nutrients for mental relief and health), but I knew that I had to do something to help this young man by allowing him to reach into our world and us to reach into his. Once the madness-fear-madness cycle was broken, our work began. Ironically, my Chief Resident had just returned from a sojourn with the British Psychiatrist R. E. Liang, who saw schizophrenia as a glorious adventure so I had to go toe to toe with my superior and his superior and HIS superior to provide some respite for my young patient. I did and I won that battle.
Today, neither my Chief Resident, the well-known Dr. James Gordon, nor I would medicate that patient, both of us for very different reasons.
The other patient was a lady who had been addicted to Xanax(R) by her General Practitioner. I had to write a prescription for a small amount to complete weaning her from that intentionally highly addictive, and therefore highly profitable, psychoactive drug.
That takes care of my prescription history for psychiatric drugs over a 40 year career practicing medicine and psychiatry with some of the most seriously ill patients in the world. Successfully. Very Successfully.
So you can see that the article below chills me to the bone. It announces another step down the path of subservient lunacy for the disgraced profession of Psychiatry, a profession devoted to poisoning a specific target organ in the face of better, safer, cheaper, kinder and more effective options like nutrition and NeuroBioFeedback, appropriate therapies and social and health supports.
It is my considered view after 40 years of practice, that there is no place, that’s right, no place whatsoever, for psychiatric drugs. None. But, then, it is also my considered opinion that there is no place for any drugs in the Doctor’s office, although there is a place for them in the Emergency Room or ambulance while a patient is being transported there.
Psychiatrists no longer learn to talk to, and therefore, to listen to people. They are trained to look for flags that trigger this drug being prescribed or that one. The “literature” in their journals is mostly junk, paid for, authored by, and owned by the drug companies. But then, the “scientific journals” that publish them are, in reality, little more than advertising circulars for their magnificent, deceptive and callously dishonest advertisements. Just ask Marcia Angel, who resigned in protest as Editor of the [supposedly] prestigious New England Journal of Medicine because of the deep, dark and deadly corruption of the “peer review” system and the staggering lies upon which drug studies, and therefore prescription practices, rest.
In the Reuters article below you will see a future emerging in which there are no normals any more. Normal means having problems and problems are given names which suggest drug treatments. Suggest? Did I say suggest? Today, for most of us, most of the time, it is a suggestion. But it is a MUCH better business model if the suggestion is rhetorical and the requirement is absolute. More drugs sold. More side effects. More drugs added to the regimen. More side effects. More brain damage which looks exactly like the condition for which the drugs were given in the first place.
If this reminds you of the influenza shot for “protection” which turns out to be the CAUSE of the influenza “epidemic” each year which then leads to more calls for more vaccines “against” the influenza “epidemic” and drugs to “treat” what was induced by the shots: flu, cancer, autism, ALS, infertility, diabetes, etc., etc., etc., then you are paying attention. The business model is identical.
And just as the flu shot is transitioning from voluntary to mandatory, so the use of psychoactive drugs, all of them, for “diseases” and “conditions” that any decent human being would be ashamed to label another person with, let alone “treat” them for, will soon be mandatory unless we collectively say “NO!”, as we did to the Swine Flu vaccination (now included in this year’s dangerous seasonal flu shot.
Here’s you bit: Help support the Stop the Shot lawsuit against the FDA. Now that H1N1 vaccine will be added to the seasonal flu shot, the women who lost their babies after they took it are especially important plaintiffs in this case. Click here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189, to set up your recurring tax deductible donation, large or small. Act now, before the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual declares caring about your life and your body a mental disorder, as caring about a healthy diet and clean food has become. There are, by the way, two names for this “disorder”:
1. “Orthorexia| from “Ortho” meaning correct and “orexis” meaning appetite
2. Complete, total and unmitigated garbage.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
(Reuters) – An updated edition of a mental health bible for doctors may include diagnoses for “disorders” such as toddler tantrums and binge eating, experts say, and could mean that soon no-one will be classed as normal.
Leading mental health experts gave a briefing on Tuesday to warn that a new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which is being revised now for publication in 2013, could devalue the seriousness of mental illness and label almost everyone as having some kind of disorder.
Citing examples of new additions like “mild anxiety depression,” “psychosis risk syndrome,” and “temper dysregulation disorder,” they said many people previously seen as perfectly healthy could in future be told they are ill.
“It’s leaking into normality. It is shrinking the pool of what is normal to a puddle,” said Til Wykes of the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London.
The DSM is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and contains descriptions, symptoms, and other criteria for diagnosing mental disorders. It is seen as the global diagnostic bible for the field of mental health medicine.
The criteria are designed to provide clear definitions for professionals who treat patients with mental disorders, and for researchers and pharmaceutical drug companies seeking to develop new ways of treating them.
Wykes and colleagues Felicity Callard, also of Kings’ Institute of Psychiatry, and Nick Craddock of Cardiff University’s department of psychological medicine and neurology, said many in the psychiatric community are worried that the further the guidelines are expanded, the more likely it will become that nobody will be classed as normal any more.
“Technically, with the classification of so many new disorders, we will all have disorders,” they said in a joint statement. “This may lead to the belief that many more of us ‘need’ drugs to treat our ‘conditions’ — (and) many of these drugs will have unpleasant or dangerous side effects.”
The scientists said “psychosis risk syndrome” diagnosis was particularly worrying, since it could falsely label young people who may only have a small risk of developing an illness.
“It’s a bit like telling 10 people with a common cold that they are “at risk for pneumonia syndrome” when only one is likely to get the disorder,” Wykes told the briefing.
The American Psychiatric Association did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The scientists gave examples from the previous revision to the DSM, which was called DSM 4 and included broader diagnoses and categories for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism and childhood bipolar disorders.
This, they said, had “contributed to three false epidemics” of these conditions, particularly in the United States.
“During the last decade, how many doctors were harangued by worried parents into giving drugs like Ritalin to children who didn’t really need it?,” their statement asked.
Millions of people across the world, many of them children, take ADHD drugs including Novartis’ Ritalin, which is known generically as methylphenidate, and similar drugs such as Shire Plc’s Adderall and Vyvanse. In the United States alone, sales of these drugs was about $4.8 billion in 2008.
Wykes and Callard published a comment in The Journal of Mental Health expressing their concern about the upcoming DSM revision and highlighting another 10 or more papers in the same journal from other scientists who were also worried. DSM 5 is due to be published in May 2013.
(Editing by Peter Graff)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66Q4BJ20100727
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Professor Denis Rancourt, PhD: The 100 Dumbest Ideas In Science and HealthCare You Must Listen to Dr. Rima Reports! Sunday Night – 9 PM Eastern
MORE RUMORS AND DISINFORMATION
MAY HIDE THE COMING RISK:
H1N1 BEING ADDED TO SEASONAL FLU VAX! How many miscarriages will it take
for the FDA to admit its mistake?
News Item:
http://www.truth-out.org/florida-dengue-fever-outbreak-leads-back-cia-and-army-experiments61565 Florida Dengue Fever Outbreak Leads Back to CIA…
July 21,2010
“With little fanfare on July 13, Florida officials released the findings of a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study conducted recently in the Key West area revealing that about 10 percent, or 1,000 people, of the coastal town’s population are infected with the dengue fever virus…”
News Item:
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/07151002/H1N1_Kirovograd.html H1N1 In Kirovograd Ukraine Approaches Epidemic Levels July 15, 2010 According to information “All Kirovograd, obtained from its own sources assurances from authorities that Influenza warming, no, supported by only one – epidemiological threshold (100 patients per 10 thousand population) has not yet crossed. But the number of patients currently is 86 persons per 10 thousand population.
The above translation indicates the level of ARI/influenza in Kirovograd, Ukraine is approaching epidemic levels.
News Item:
“A CDC study suggests that the resurgence of whooping cough is due to the vaccine causing an increased and more virulent toxin. The CDC acknowledges that whooping cough is recurring in highly vaccinated countries — and that it is not just because some children are unvaccinated, although that can be a factor.”
According to the CDC: “The reemergence of pertussis has been attributed to various factors, including increased awareness, improved diagnostics, decreased vaccination coverage, suboptimal vaccines, waning vaccine-induced immunity, and pathogen adaptation … Pathogen adaptation is supported by several observations.” In other words, vaccinating against the whooping cough pathogens has caused the pathogens to evolve with a more virulent strain.
News Item:
FDA Proposes Dangerous Vaccine Rule Change
http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/June-2010/FDA-Proposes-Dangerous-Vaccine-Rule-Change.aspx
From NVIC- National Vaccine Information Center: “This past spring, the FDA took a hands-off approach to Merck’s admission that DNA from a lethal pig virus is contaminating doses of RotaTeq vaccine being swallowed by millions of newborn babies.1 Now the agency responsible for making sure pharmaceutical products do not hurt people is proposing a Rule Change to give one staff employee the sole authority to allow “exceptions or alternatives” when drug companies want to change vaccine ingredients, such as preservatives (like thimerosal) or adjuvants (like aluminum) or the amount of residual protein and antibiotics in vaccines.“
Now let’s go back to the head line of this article: “MORE RUMORS AND DISINFORMATION MAY HIDE THE COMING RISK: H1N1 BEING ADDED TO SEASONAL FLU VAX!”
While each of these articles is likely true, and symptomatic of a very sick “illness” miscare system, they also point to the possibility that we face another “flu season” (created in our opinion by the voodoo “science” of vaccination) with pandemic potential. Yes, it is true that FDA has already approved the admixing of the “novel’ H1N1 influenza vaccine into the seasonal flu vaccine!
“For the 2010-2011 flu season, which begins in the fall of 2010, the seasonal flu vaccine will include [sic] protection against the 2009 H1N1 vaccine.” – http://www.flu.gov/individualfamily/vaccination/index.html
Over 3,000,000 — that’s three million — emails were generated through our Action eAlert System telling national and state decision makers that we would NOT take the swine flu vax, and most Americans and people elsewhere in the world refused the H1N1 vax… no Pandemic. Wonder if that’s connected? In my view, it is. And so, we have created a new NO FLU VAX Action Item to make sure the next weaponized vaccine does not create the next weaponized pandemic.
There is no significant scientific agreement that the influenza vaccine has any health benefits at all; much evidence it is harmful. For example, the only peer reviewed, published meta-review of various flu vaccine clinical studies (the Grier, King, Grier paper) shows statistically that there is no benefit. Additionally, we believe the record will show that there were at least 200 miscarriages associated with receiving the 2009 H1N1 vaccines (while in a “normal” flu season there are from 0 to 7). Therefore we are justified in demanding the removal of these dangerous toxins from the health care system.
This is an urgent matter.
Dr. Rima
Join Us in Panama for the
Grand Opening of the Dr. Rima Institute!
NOTE FROM COUNSEL RALPH: I’ll be traveling from NJ to the beautiful, bountiful, temperate Highlands of Panama from August 4 through August 11 to celebrate the Grand Opening of the Dr. Rima Institute and to conduct a tour of the Valley of the Moon Eco Community.
If you’d like to join me, you are invited!
Please call me as soon as possible at 973.300.4594 to discuss arrangements.
Here is what Dr. Rima posted on one of our forums about the event:
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I am so happy to report, although Gen. Bert and I had to be at the Codex Commission meeting in Europe, work on the Dr. Rima Institute at the Natural Solutions Center in Panama continues on track and on time for the Grand Opening event of August 7 – 8, 2010. A number of guests will be attending, including the provincial governor. Our co-trustee Ralph Fucetola JD will be leading a group from the United States to attend, inspect the properties and view the 120 acre Phase III parcel that we see as the future home for the Valley of the Moon Eco Community – www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org.
We are getting ready to move to Phase III (permanent home) even as we progress with Phase II and the remaining BICs are limited. The participation cost currently is $75,000, but this amount is expected to double when the Phase III parcel is contracted. Remember, a BIC gives you four rights and an opportunity:
1. The right to simple interest at least at the Banco Nacional de Panama prime rate;
2. The right to build and own a home on the Community trust land;
3. The right to buy from Community Enterprises at co-op rates;
4. The right to participate in Community Governance; and
5. The opportunity to develop of Joint Venture Community Enterprise with the Foundation.
Yes, IRA, 401, trust, church and similar funds are certainly welcomed as well!
This week is an important one as we plan for the full function of the NaturalSolutionsCenter. Gen. Bert and I will leave Geneva, where we have been attending the Codex meeting this past week, and where we spent this weekend in meetings with a special colleague, healer, inventer and supporter of our work to see in what ways we can mutually move the important work that his organization and ours engages in.
Monday at 6 AM local time, immediately after we finished the Dr. Rima Reports Internet radio program (9PM to Midnight, Eastern time, but 3 AM to 6 AM Geneva time!) we left to make the plane back to Panama. We will be travelling for about two days, but you can always contact Ralph Fucetola at 973.300.4594 if you have any questions.
On Tuesday we’ll be back in the Valley of the Moon and then the real work starts! We have a little over 3 weeks to get the Center decorated and ready for the Grand Opening!
The Natural Solutions Center Grand Opening will take place on August 7 and 8. You are invited!
As I mentioned at the start of this email, we will hold two special Conference Calls:
Wednesday night from 9 PM to 10 PM Eastern for people who are interested in providing clinical services (which means through a Joint Venture with the Foundation and/or leading seminars at the Center and Thursday night 9 PM to 10 PM Eastern for people interested in making sure that they have a BIC – there are a limited number and we will be moving from Phase II to Phase III rapidly.
By the way, if you have an idea for a seminar, please send as much detail as you can to me at releyes[at]gmail.com with a copy to Ralph at ralph.fucetola[at]usa.net and we’ll start working on the schedule, etc.
The call number for the special conference calls is 661-673-8600, PIN: 125038#
I hope you will be able to join us on either one or both of those calls and come to the opening. Please, PLEASE RSVP let me know since you know how awful it is to run out of food at a party! Email me at releyes@gmail.com. Please don’t forget and just arrive!
Since Ralph is leading a tour to the Valley of the Moon at the same time, if you want to coordinate with him, please call him as soon as possible.
In addition, if you have other questions you want to discuss about providing clinical services, having a JV (to provide services or other collaborations), securing your BIC while they are still available, what types of funds can be used for the BIC, etc., etc., feel free to contact Ralph Fucetola, ralph.fucetola[at]usa.net, Skype “vitaminlawyer”, phone 973.300.4594.
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What Does Attending a Codex Session Mean for Dr. Rima, Gen. Bert and YOU?
Your generosity and support sends Natural Solutions Foundation to a variety of Codex meetings around the world. Right now General Bert and I are in Geneva Switzerland. We left our home at the Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project in Volcan, Panama, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org, to get on a plane to Panama City, then another one to Madrid and another one to Genva two days ago so that by the time we reached Switzerland we had not slept for about 48 hours. Why didn’t we take a quicker, more direct route? Because neither General Stubblebine nor I am willing to expose our bodies to the radiation hazard of full body scanners and neither Madrid nor Geneva airports use full body scanners.
We got to Geneva and continued our preparation for the meeting. You see, in order bring you intelligent, meaningful and precise information in our daily video and written reports and later create meaningful strategies to deal with Codex and its dangers, we need to do a major amount of planning and preparation.
Codex is designed to be overwhelmingly complex, detail driven and difficult to comprehend because the technical level of the considerations is so enormously demanding if you are going to understand it all. Delegates are just supposed to be so overwhelmed that they simply sink into a lulled position in which whatever the US or EU says is what they go along with, sort of like the courtiers just letting the red queen do what she likes in Alice and Wonderland because it is so much easier and safer.
But at Codex, as in so many other urgently important situations, the devil really IS in the details. Consider:
There are 15 Committee Reports to be studied from major codex Committees (http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/archives.jsp) for the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) session starting on Monday, July 5.
The Report of the Codex Executive Committee has 28 pages
The Committee on Food Labeling has 58 pages
The Committee on Contaminants in Foods has 69 pages
and so on through the 15 committees presenting their items for discussion at the CAC.
Potentially buried in each one of the clauses, phrases, reports and agenda items is a time bomb that can, despite its innocuous language, kill people through the implications and permissions granted via its legalese.
Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs) and GMO labeling are excellent, but by no means unique, examples. Both of these issues are highly technical and both, if carried out as the US desires, would lead to highly undesirable outcomes. NRVs are daily intake values of nutrients so low that they actually introduce and make permanent, the under-nutrition which WHO and FAO point out as the primary cause of the non-communicable, preventable, degenerative killer diseases: cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity. Misleading consumers into believing that their processed food provides adequate levels of vital nutrients, the NRVs are both a biochemical absurdity and an atrocity since they will, through their use on labels, lead people to believe that since their food is providing most or all of the NRVs, it provides the nutrients they need for a healthy life.
NRVs have been winding their way through the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) and the Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL). When South Africa was discussing them in 2005 at CCNFSDU, Dr. Grossklaus, the Chairman cut the delegate off at the knees when she mentioned “optimal nutrition” and said “It would be nice if Codex were about nutrition, but it isn’t. It’s about trade!” But most delegates have no idea what biochemical individuality is about, why high potency nutrients save lives, money and misery and the discussions must include the technical issues of the Codex texts and committee which are dealing with NRVs, their status in the CAC, etc. To learn more about where this nutrients as toxins, nutrients as controlled substances, idea in Codex, click here to watch “Nutricide”: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634#.
GMO labeling is another example, as is whether Codex should define consensus or a code of ethics for codex participants. In these discussions and decisions, information lies which could, going in one direction, change history and survival for good and, going in the other direction, could do exactly the opposite.
Each Agenda Item rests on a multi-year background with a huge pile of data and debate behind it. Having that perspective is essential to informed, effective dialogue with the delegates at Codex and in their home countries. And that is what we do at Codex! We take your interests, and those of well-nourished, autonomous, food independent people and “bang them against” what Codex is doing. The lives of food producers, food consumers and the planet turn on these tiny nuances since all of the Codex documents are written in such a way as to lull you into a fluorided haze of complacency. There is, however, nothing to be complacent about.
There is also nothing worth participating in at Codex. It is my contention that the United States needs to get out of Codex and do it now. We will lose nothing and grain a great deal, I believe, by loosening the hold that we have allowed the World Trade Organization, WHO, to place on us through trade agreements that can only inevitably degrade our food and our health unless we follow the Codex Two Step Process, as other nations have done successfully. If we were out of Codex, I believe that two things would happen:
First, it would be a great deal easier for interested parties to apply pressure to force the US to deviate from the Codex guidelines and standards since we would not have teams of experts ramming these guidelines and standards through Codex and, second, we would not be twisting and distorting the entire Codex process, making the decisions that the US wants, not the ones that protect the farmers, the consumers and the earth. By the way, the Developed World is one of the major consumers of third world-produced toxic food. Here is the link to my video:
There are at least a hundred equally vital items before the CAC this week. They would be far better decided by the national competencies of the countries rather than by the “bully of the class” threatening the other kids in the class with the active and vigorous help of the corrupt and self interested “teacher”, WHO, a corrupt and genocidal organization which acknowledges that it wants to see the population of the earth reduced by a minimum of 80%, better 90%!
So what we do is prepare for the topics of greatest interest to you and to the developing world’s delegates, mingle with delegates and share our perspectives on these topics and provide leadership for dissent strategies. Then, very importantly, we offer them information on how they can increase crop yield, decrease food born illness, and, in reality, actually accomplish exactly what Codex says it is about.
And we report. After each day’s meetings, we make sure that you know what the highlights (and low points) of the day’s proceedings have been, what they mean for you, what they mean for the dangerous forward movement of “HARMonization” by the US and how to protect ourselves, our health and our health freedom.
Attending Codex is really hard work. We do it for you, with your support because it is hugely important. At the end of a Codex meeting we are exhausted. Then we fly home to Panama to put the things we are teaching the developing world into practice.
Our Natural Solutions Center will be opening at the Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project in Volcan, Panama, on August 7/8, 2010. You are invited. Please join us for this important step forward. You can see the health protocols that we plan to offer if you visit www.DrRima.net. And you can be with us for the initiation of what is, in essence, the exact opposite of what Codex is about. We’ll be living, teaching, sharing and creating clean food and vital freedom through education and dissemination, demonstration and direction.
For more information on the Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project, how you can participate in it, live there, work there, safeguard your retirement income there and otherwise be a huge part of this innovative freedom project, please visit www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org. And if you would like to join our very active NSF-Panama Forum on Yahoo.com, please visit http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NSF-Panama/join to become part of this vital community while you still can.
And, oh, yes, don’t forget that the limited supply of our amazing Valley of the Moon™ Coffee is available for you now. If you want premium Panamanian Highland coffee grown without a single chemical contaminant, you need to place your order before it is all gone. Don’t forget your corporate gifts this holiday season and your personal ones. Order now and we will make sure that your recipients are not left out in the gift-giving cold this year! Make your tax deductible donation and get what we believe you will agree is the best coffee you have ever tasted at www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org.
Because of high winds, we had to cut down 80% of our plants to allow them to regrow so this scarce beauty of a coffee is even scarcer. Our harvest is magnificent, but the best coffee in the world, and the cleanest, is even more rare than last year! We have not raised the price of a donation, but make sure you get as much as you need before there is no more left this year.
And, as hard as it is, thanks for sending us to Codex. We still need your donations to finish defraying the cost (Geneva, Switzerland is a very expensive place!)
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima and General Bert
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)
President
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Listen to the Dr Rima Reports
Sunday Night Starting 9 PM Eastern to Midnight…
1. 9 PM: Dr. Rima and Co-Host Ralph Fuectola address this week’s health freedom news and rumors — We’ll discuss the heath freedom information and sort out the disinformation for you…including
What to Expect from the Codex Meeting in Geneva…
2. 9:15 PM to 11 PM Eastern Time: Dr. Rima interviews Nancy Orlen Weber, healer extraordinare! Nancy will talk with us about the exceptionally gentle and powerful
Raindrop® Technique and share her stories as a successful psychic detective.
Please get as many people as you can to join our chat room since potential supporters monitor the number of people in the chat room. The more, the better!
Each of These Action Items is Vitally Important. Please Take Once For EACH MEMBER of your Family, Then Forward to Your Whole Contact List
Include a brief note saying this is important to you and you are sure that it will be to the other person and urge them to take action and forward widely
The Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project’s Natural Solutions Institute, which we call the “Dr. Rima Institute” for short, is about to open in the beautiful, bountiful, temperate highlands community of Volcan, Panama on August 7-8, 2010 and you are invited!
You can read more about this long-awaited opening, follow our progress (we will be posting photos and videos!) at the Dr. Rima Network web site: www.DrRima.net where you will also find a description of many of the natural protocols to be offered at the Institute and some of the products we love
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Valley of the Moon™ BeyondOrganic Coffee
Supplies are Limited for this Artisenal, Hand Picked and Roasted Coffee. Place your gift orders now for yourself and friends.
Valley of the Moon™ Coffee make a wonderful corporate gift for friends, colleagues and clients. Gifts say a lot about the giver. Your impeccable taste is revealed when you give GMO-Free, Toxin-Free, Non Toxic Valley of the Moon™ Coffee This Year!
I Promise You:
You Have Never Had a Better Cup of Coffee! Non Toxic, Clean, Beyond Organic… Powerfully Antioxidant…
Order Yours Now!
Every Bag Valley of the Moon Coffee Supports your Physical Health and supports the Natural Solutions Foundation at the same time!
www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
What? You’re Still Drinking Ordinary Chemical Coffee?
You Have No Idea What You Are Missing!
Health Freedom’s Own Coffee, Valley of the Moon Coffee, Will Delight You, While You Support the Natural Solutions Foundation With Your Morning Java! Make a donation and get your coffee. Once you taste this exceptional brew, we know you will love it! Write to us at dr.laibow@gmail.com to let us know your experience drinking Valley of the Moon Coffee. We are confident that it will the finest cup of coffee you have ever tasted in your life, bar none!
www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
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Cognitive Enhancement Nutrition: Empower Your Mind!
Dr. Rima and Gen. Bert love these leading-edge products… Control your own mind! Feed your brain what it needs for discernment and acuity… “These are the times that try men’s souls…” Are you ready?
Dr. Rima has designed a third, very special Dietary Supplement Mind Enhancement Pack!
To learn more, or to try the products, go to:
Cognitive Enhancement “News & Specials” lista the three Dr. Rima Packs For more Details about the Packs:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4558
You know there is a battle going on for your mind (or maybe against it!). Part of the Globalist Agenda to reduce human population and restrict our freedoms goes on in our own heads, as we are subjected to a level of propaganda that can only be termed “mind controlling.” Its success depends on making sure that we are dumb, dull, deluded and distracted….
Let me quote General Bert, “‘Focus and clarity’ were the words Ralph used to describe the Cognitive Enhancement nutrients, and that is exactly what I experienced. Both my long and short term memory are enhanced by these products and my thinking processes are noticeably sharper. I am very impressed and intend to continue using them.”
There are numerous smart nutrients, but few of them, working synergistically, have the capability of doing what these products actually do. In this battle to take back our food, our health and our freedoms, we must all be as mentally sharp as possible. That is why the genocidal elitists want us under-nourished and unable to think. I was so impressed with these products that I immediately began to study them and their impact. I researched the ingredients and am satisfied that there is no indication of a lack safety when used as directed. That’s when I decided to create combination packs that would support mental function without agitating; would enhance cognition without later let-down. Dr. Rima
If you’ve had problems placing orders for these extraordinary nutrients, we’ve set up a special email address for you to use; just email your contact information and we’ll have you called back right away!
brians@biologicsnutra.com
Natural Solutions Foundation has no corporate sponsorship. YOU are our only sponsors, but the goods and services come from companies who believe in what we are doing. Every sale helps to support the Foundation and move our health freedom actions forward. We urge you to patronize these mission-driven malls where you will find outstanding ways to support and be supported as free men and women!
In This Issue:
Find Out About Our Next Guest on the Dr. Rima Reports
Four Blog Links You MUST Click!
On the Road to Codex
Current ‘Must Take’ Action Items
Dr.Rima Recommends
GOOD NEWS! THE NATURAL SOLUTIONS NEW MARKETPLACE HAS RE-OPENED!
1. 9 PM: Dr. Rima and Co-Host Ralph Fuectola address this week’s health freedom news and rumors — We’ll discuss the heath freedom information and sort out the disinformation for you…including
What to Expect from the Codex Meeting in Geneva…
2. 9:15 PM to 11 PM Eastern Time: Dr. Rima interviews Nancy Orlen Weber, healer extraordinary! Nancy will talk with us about the exceptionally gentle and powerful
Raindrop® Technique and share her stories as a successful psychic detective.
Interested in aromatherapy? Visit http://www.drrima.net/#aroma
3. 11 PM to Midnight Eastern Time: The DR. Is IN! Dr. Rima takes your health and health freedom questions. Ask your questions by
a. Email to Dr.Laibow@gmail.com (”QUESTION” as the subject line, please)
b. Chat (join chat community at www.BlogTalkRadio.com/FreedomizerRadio)
c. Phone using our call in number, 347.324.3704
Please get as many people as you can to join our chat room since potential supporters monitor the number of people in the chat room. The more, the better!
Each of These Action Items is Vitally Important. Please Take Once For EACH MEMBER of your Family, Then Forward to Your Whole Contact List
Include a brief note saying this is important to you and you are sure that it will be to the other person and urge them to take action and forward widely
* President Obama: Allow Natural Solutions!
* Food & Health Freedom Action Items and Video…
* Support Health Freedom of Speech Acts!
* Demand Congress Investigate Autism and Environmental Toxins!
* Stop the Fake Food and Vitamin “Safety” Bill -S.510
* Oppose “Ear Candle” Ban!
* Health Keepers Oath
The Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project’s Natural Solutions Institute, which we call the “Dr. Rima Institute” for short, is about to open in the beautiful, bountiful, temperate highlands community of Volcan, Panama on August 7-8, 2010 and you are invited!
You can read more about this long-awaited opening, follow our progress (we will be posting photos and videos!) at the Dr. Rima Network web site:
where you will also find a description of many of the natural protocols to be offered at the Institute and products we love
_________________________________________________
Valley of the Moon™ BeyondOrganic Coffee
Supplies are Limited for this Artisenal, Hand Picked and Roasted Coffee. Place your gift orders now for yourself and friends.
Valley of the Moon™ Coffee make a wonderful corporate gift for friends, colleagues and clients. Gifts say a lot about the giver. Your impeccable taste is revealed when you give GMO-Free, Toxin-Free, Non Toxic Valley of the Moon™ Coffee This Year!
I Promise You:
You Have Never Had a Better Cup of Coffee!
Non Toxic, Clean, Beyond Organic… Powerfully Antioxidant…
Order Yours Now!
Every Bag Valley of the Moon Coffee Supports your Physical Health and supports the Natural Solutions Foundation at the same time!
www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
What? You’re Still Drinking Ordinary Chemical Coffee?
You Have No Idea What You Are Missing!
Health Freedom’s Own Coffee, Valley of the Moon Coffee, Will Delight You, While You Support the Natural Solutions Foundation With Your Morning Java! Make a donation and get your coffee. Once you taste this exceptional brew, we know you will love it! Write to us at dr.laibow@gmail.com to let us know your experience drinking Valley of the Moon Coffee. We are confident that it will the finest cup of coffee you have ever tasted in your life, bar none!
www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
_________________________________________
Cognitive Enhancement Nutrition:
Empower Your Mind!
Dr. Rima and Gen. Bert love these leading-edge products…
Control your own mind! Feed your brain what it needs for discernment and acuity…
“These are the times that try men’s souls…” Are you ready?
Dr. Rima has designed a third, very special
Dietary Supplement Mind Enhancement Pack!
To learn more, or to try the products, go to:
Cognitive Enhancement
“News & Specials” list the three Dr. Rima Packs
For more Details about the Packs:
You know there is a battle going on for your mind (or maybe against it!). Part of the Globalist Agenda to reduce human population and restrict our freedoms goes on in our own heads, as we are subjected to a level of propaganda that can only be termed “mind controlling.” Its success depends on making sure that we are dumb, dull, deluded and distracted….
Let me quote General Bert, “‘Focus and clarity’ were the words Ralph used to describe the Cognitive Enhancement nutrients, and that is exactly what I experienced. Both my long and short term memory are enhanced by these products and my thinking processes are noticeably sharper. I am very impressed and intend to continue using them.”
There are numerous smart nutrients, but few of them, working synergistically, have the capability of doing what these products actually do. In this battle to take back our food, our health and our freedoms, we must all be as mentally sharp as possible. That is why the genocidal elitists want us under-nourished and unable to think. I was so impressed with these products that I immediately began to study them and their impact. I researched the ingredients and am satisfied that there is no indication of a lack safety when used as directed. That’s when I decided to create combination packs that would support mental function without agitating; would enhance cognition without later let-down. Dr. Rima
If you’ve had problems placing orders for these extraordinary nutrients, we’ve set up a special email address for you to use; just email your contact information and we’ll have you called back right away!
brians@biologicsnutra.com
Natural Solutions Foundation has no corporate sponsorship. YOU are our only sponsors, but the goods and services come from companies who believe in what we are doing. Every sale helps to support the Foundation and move our health freedom actions forward. We urge you to patronize these mission-driven malls where you will find outstanding ways to support and be supported as free men and women!
David Korten is both a change agent and an observer of change. He has written a provocative article called, :The Big Picture: 5 Ways to Know if You’re Making a Difference”.
He says that if you can answer “YES!” to ONE of the following criteria, you are making a difference.
Here are his criteria, taken from the article which you can read below:
1. Does it help discredit a false cultural story fabricated to legitimize relationships of domination and exploitation and to replace it with a true story describing unrealized possibilities for growing the real wealth of healthy communities?
2. Is it connecting others of the movement’s millions of leaders who didn’t previously know one another, helping them find common cause and build relationships of mutual trust that allow them to speak honestly from their hearts and to know that they can call on one another for support when needed?
3. Is it creating and expanding liberated social spaces in which people experience the freedom and support to experiment with living the creative, cooperative, self-organizing relationships of the new story they seek to bring into the larger culture?
4. Is it providing a public demonstration of the possibilities of a real-wealth economy?
5. Is it mobilizing support for a rule change that will shift the balance of power from the people and institutions of the Wall Street phantom-wealth economy to the people and institutions of living-wealth Main Street economies?
You, through the Natural Solutions Foundation, can answer
1. YES!!
2. YES!!
3. YES!!
4. YES!!
5. YES!! to this excellent assay of effectiveness.
Check out just a few of our accomplishments below and here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=195. These accomplishments are yours and ours, together, because without you, there would be no meaning to our work. It is the community of empowered people that makes a difference, and that is what you, and we, are, together.
Frankly, our “Accomplishments” page is out of date because the Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation do not have time to get it up to date without taking time away from our rapid, profound and widely focused forward movement.
Consider: Our Codex eBook, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=220, was the first document to outline exactly how every country in the world, including, of course, the US!, could move to a higher standard for every class of food than Codex (which would not be hard!) without the dreaded World Trade Organization trade sanctions which are the club Codex waves to subdue countries that balk at degrading their food supply to make the globalists happy while their people die, just as we do, from toxic, degraded food and nutrients whose doses are so low that they have no beneficial impact worth noting – by design!
Our Codex DVD, “Nutricide“, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=156, is the lecture that has helped millions of people, including Codex delegates!, understand what Codex is about by understanding where it came from!
Our trips to the poorest countries all over the world resulted, for example, in their trusting our leadership so that we were able to block the US government’s attempt to get fluoride approved for inclusion at high levels in infant formula for normal babies at the Codex Committee for Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (Thailand, 2007). This, alone, is a major victory in policy change!
The Natural Solutions Foundation, with its radio show, the Dr. Rima Reports, www.BlogTalkRadio.com/FreedomizerRadio, 9 PM to Midnight Eastern Standard Time, every Sunday night, is getting information out. Just look at the lineup of guests for the next couple of months! http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4850
Our Action Items generate hundreds of thousands to millions of your emails to decision makers!
Our Blogs are widely circulated and passed from reader to reader around the world!
Radio appearances (on shows like Alex Jones, Jeff Rense and dozens of others), documentary film appearances (like “Making a Killing, Psychiatry, Industry of Death, and two of Governor Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theories episodes, and other public information activities get the word out there. Uniquely, Natural Solutions Foundation gives people meaningful actions they can take – including growing their own food at www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org, for example.
And, uniquely among all the health freedom organizations we know of, we are actually creating a project to help the farmers of the world, the consumers of the world and the governments of the world to reclaim the production of clean, unadulterated food! It is called The Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org, and it is a major forward step for people who want to live, to farm, to help or to enjoy a truly sustainable teaching community the temperate, beautiful Highlands of Panama.
Several governments have asked us to work with them to change their food supply to a clean, unadulterated, health-promoting one and, of course, we said “YES!”
On the eve of our departure for another grueling Codex meeting. Oh, Geneva is OK as a city. There are some decently priced restaurants for locals and the lake, surrounded by mountains is pretty enough. If I had my way, though, and if General Stubblebine had his, we would stay right here in Panama working on the development of the Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org, getting ready for the Grand Opening of the Natural Solutions Center on August 7 and 8! By the way, consider this your invitation to join us for this event! If you are on the Health Freedom Action eAlert list (sign up here: www.HealthFreedomUSA.org) you’ll get all the details.
But we cannot stay here, much as we would like to. Hundreds of thousands of people -and more – want to know what the Codex Alimentarius Commission is doing to despoil the world’s foods to bring about the perpetual war on their bodies, their health and their freedom – indeed, their very existence, that Big Pharma, WHO, Big Chema and the other genocidal, callous and much-worse-than indifferent players on the global food scene, led by the US, of course. They wait for our live radio reports, our daily Codex Video and written updates and our analysis of what is happening so they can counter it.
They know, and they take action on, the dangers that bills like S. 510, the Food Fascism Bill (named, of course, the “Food SAFETY Bill”), http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714, will bring to them if they remain inactive. And we’ve kept this horrible bill from being voted on since November, 2009! That’s impact.
They are willing to call for a complete ban on the dangerous technology which has invaded the world’s food and non-food plant and animal life forms – including US, our DNA. By clicking on this link, rapidly growing numbers of people are protecting their future, and that of every living thing on the planet: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049
Millions of people demanded that they have the right NOT to receive the vaccine for the absurd and fraudulent “Level 6 Pandemic” nonsense known as H1N1 or Swine Flu and the US backed off from requiring mandatory vaccination.
Now we are demanding Congressional hearings and responsibility in controlling, stopping and reversing the loss of children because of devastating environmental toxicity, including vaccines that do not work, have no science behind them and are killing us and our kids, while rendering huge numbers of us infertile, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3688. And we are suing the FDA to prevent more vaccines from being used which have never, ever been either tested to make sure that they are safe OR effective, let alone both. That case, the Stop The Shot Case, is a companion case to the Ear Candle Case, which we are also suing the FDA in that one, too. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2521. You see, if they can innocuous ear candles, of which 20 million have been sold without a single meaningful adverse event, saying that they are a medical device for which there is no medical use, they can ban ANY device or nutrient claiming the same.
We backed them off this crazed behavior in March, 2008 when they first flew this particular idea to see what would happen. What happened was that we, 688,000 strong, roared NO!, HELL NO! They predictably went away and, just as predictably, came back with this absurd power-grab to make all natural health products and services illegal.
We were there that time, and we are there this time, too. By the way, your recurring tax deductible donations here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189, are the essential lubricant which allows the health freedom wheels to keep turning. These donations are the only way that we can do this work, get to Codex, sue agencies, etc.
We are there, every time, because YOU are there. YOU are the netroots and YOU are the solution, the natural solutions. Thanks for making the Natural Solutions Foundation the largest health freedom organization in the world. And thanks for making a big, big difference.
Thanks, too, for your generous tax deductible donations. http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189
If you are not already giving the cost of a month’s worth of coffee, tea, chai, latte, cappuccino, or your other pleasure items each month, let me suggest that you do so, on a recurring basis. That’s the life-blood that keeps our brains and our other working parts pumping!!!!!
Oh, yes, two other things: first, if you use coffee for health or pleasure, you will want to taste the Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee – FREE coffee! Coffee that we grow here in Panama to teach other farmers how to grow coffee without ANY toxic chemicals, neither herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup(C), nor paraquat, nor Agent Orange products like 2-4D, nor pesticides or herbicides – NOTHING but sun, rain, fish meal and a 10 ingredient fermented compost! Other farmers are beginning to grow coffee this way, but there is nothing like our Valley of the Moon Coffee! Support your health and health freedom at the same time by making a tax deductible contribution and getting the healthy coffee. Oh, by the way, you can give this superb coffee as a thoughtful gift at any time of the year. Supplies are strictly limited so order NOW!
The second thing: All of this is great but without YOU as the person who disseminates this information, the Action Items and takes them once for each member of your family and then passes them along to all your contact, this information would stay the private knowledge of the few, a sort of information elite. Nice, but not effective. It is YOUR dissemination which makes this heath freedom thrust take wing and shape local, national and international policy.
It’s your world. Thanks for making us effective so that we do, in fact, make a difference!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD www.DrRima.net
Medical Director
The Big Picture: 5 Ways to Know if You’re Making a Difference David Korten
David Korten’s newly revised and greatly expanded 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, outlines an agenda to create a new kind of economy: locally-based, community oriented, and devoted to creating a better life for all.
In this special pre-publication excerpt Korten explains how to tell if your actions are helping to build the new economy that “must be lived into being from the bottom up.”
For the many millions of us working to create a better world, it is easy to feel discouraged by the seeming insignificance of even major successes relative to the scale of the problems we face as a nation and a species. Consumed by the details and challenges of our daily engagements, we may easily lose sight of the big picture of the powerful social dynamic to which our work is contributing.
Step back from time to time; take a breath, look out beyond the immediate horizon to bring that big picture back into perspective. Reflect in awe and wonder at the power of the larger social dynamic to which your work contributes.
In my career in international development, I saw, time and again, that the most successful projects were not the largest or the most carefully, centrally planned; they were the ones that arose from the bottom up. Likewise, successful social movements are emergent, evolving, radically self-organizing, and involve the dedicated efforts of many people, each finding the role that best uses his or her gifts and passions. Their scope and their success may not, at first, be readily apparent. Social movements grow and evolve around framing ideas and mutually supportive relationships instead of through top-down direction. New ideas gain traction, or not, depending on what works for those involved in the movement. Some alliances are fleeting; others endure.
The organism, not the machine, provides the appropriate metaphor. The relevant knowledge resides not in the heads of outside experts but in the people who populate the system. The challenge is to help them recognize, organize, and use that knowledge in ever more effective ways.
This is the model I think of when I think about what it will take to build the New Economy—one based on fulfilling the basic needs of people and planet—that we need. It’s also the way that that economy is already being built: step by step, in creative and surprising ways, by people looking for alternatives to a system that isn’t working for them.
To bring down the institutions of Empire, we must begin to build the rules, relationships, and institutions of a New Economy. These must be lived into being from the bottom up.
So how do you know whether your work is contributing to a big-picture outcome? If you can answer yes to any one of the following five questions, then be assured that it is.
1. Does it help discredit a false cultural story fabricated to legitimize relationships of domination and exploitation and to replace it with a true story describing unrealized possibilities for growing the real wealth of healthy communities?
2. Is it connecting others of the movement’s millions of leaders who didn’t previously know one another, helping them find common cause and build relationships of mutual trust that allow them to speak honestly from their hearts and to know that they can call on one another for support when needed?
3. Is it creating and expanding liberated social spaces in which people experience the freedom and support to experiment with living the creative, cooperative, self-organizing relationships of the new story they seek to bring into the larger culture?
4. Is it providing a public demonstration of the possibilities of a real-wealth economy?
5. Is it mobilizing support for a rule change that will shift the balance of power from the people and institutions of the Wall Street phantom-wealth economy to the people and institutions of living-wealth Main Street economies?
These are useful guidelines for setting both individual and group priorities. Bear in mind that in a systems-change undertaking of this magnitude, there is no magic bullet and no one is going to make it happen on their own, so don’t be discouraged if the world looks much the same today despite your special and heroic effort yesterday. It took five thousand years to create the mess we are in today. It will take more than a few days to set it right.
David Korten adapted this article from the newly revised and expanded 2nd edition ofAgenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, available for advance purchase from the YES! Magazine web store.
David is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, president of the People-Centered Development Forum, and a founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). His books include Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, and the international best seller When Corporations Rule the World.
"If you have one of those days again when you want to thrash people with genetically modified nettles, remember that there is a friend out there in Africa, and I am sure many others, who greatly admire your intelligence and above all your honesty and integrity. It's okay to pat yourself on the shoulder once in a while for all the wonderful work you are doing :)"
