I re-post in full the February 3rd media release from the Natural Products Association regarding new threats to health freedom.
It was Constitutionalist Dr. Ron Paul (R-Texas) who described the FDA’s behavior as “an abuse of power…” and now failed presidential candidate John McCain lets us know where he stands: on the side of the power abusers and against the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) which a unanimous Congress adopted to protect our access to high potency nutrients. With the suppression of wholesome, natural nutrition and natural remedies will come the preventable diseases of mal- and under-nutrition, a lower population and profits along the way.
The “Accepted Dietary Ingredient List” in the McCain bill is an especially troubling provision since such a code provision moves us away from our Common Law Right to access the foods we choose to a Civil Law (Codex Alimentarius) regulation of what we may choose. Under the Common Law what is not explicitly forbidden is allowed; under the Code, whatever is not explicitly permitted is forbidden. This “lawyer’s distinction” is of the greatest significance in preserving our Liberty. This provision could outlaw thousands of herbs, minerals and nutrients, just as similar European provisions are limiting dietary ingredient choice under the EU’s implementation of Codex.
The terms of this bill further the Globalist Eugenicidal Agenda (of the “Bigs” — Big Agribiz, Big Pharma, Big Finance, Big Govt…) in that they seek to treat dietary supplements, which are foods and therefore ought to be deemed safe if used as directed, as though they were toxins (while, of course, the agency treats the real dangers – GMOs, food additives, dangerous drugs, vaccines and industrial toxins as though they were perfectly safe). If they succeed, our best hope for safe foods and high potency nutrients could be gone.
Further, this bill needs to be seen in the context of the other fake “Safety” bill pending in the Senate, the The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, S 510, which does “for” family farms and ranches, natural and community food production what the McCain bill does to dietary supplements: create restrictions that the “Bigs” can live with but which will drive ethical, local production out of the market. See: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4014 for Sen Tom Harkin’s assurance this past November that DSHEA was not under attack. But now it appears to be under attack and we view McCain’s bill as part of a concerted effort to restrict Health Freedom. – RF
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February 3, 2010: New Legislation Poses Threat to DSHEA
At a press conference held earlier today, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) announced that he would be introducing legislation that would amend the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) additional powers over retailers and suppliers in the dietary supplements industry. The Natural Products Association is reviewing McCain’s bill, which is cosponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), and offers this initial analysis regarding the impact of the legislation on the industry.
NPA will work aggressively to address this threat to the industry. The association will continue to keep its members informed and let them know how they can help protect their businesses.
Brief description of the provisions of the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010
New Requirements from Suppliers to Retailers
Suppliers and retailers regardless of size all along the chain of commerce are required to “obtain adequate written evidence” from the seller that the product is registered as required. That evidence must be retained in a file available for inspection.
Adverse Event Reporting (AER)
Requires reporting of all adverse events, not just serious adverse events. In addition, a compilation of non-serious AERs must be submitted annually, and records must be maintained for three years.
“Accepted Dietary Ingredients” List
Mandates creation by the Secretary of a list of “Accepted Dietary Ingredients” to replace the current “in commerce pre-DSHEA” test.
New Dietary Ingredients (NDI)
NDIs are considered adulterated unless there is a history of use or evidence of its safety. Registrants shall maintain a “scientifically reasonable substantiation file” available for inspection by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Registration required 75 days prior to market.
Recall Authority
Provides immediate recall authority to the Secretary upon determination that a supplement “would cause serious, adverse health consequences or death, or is adulterated or misbranded.” Companies subject to a recall have the right to challenge the order in an “informal hearing” within 10 days. At their own expense, retailers must notify customers of such recalls.
Registration of Dietary Supplement Facilities
Dietary supplement facilities shall register with the Secretary (required information includes name, address of all facilities, trade names, list of supplements, their ingredients, and labels). Registration is annual.
Read the complete bill here:
http://www.npainfo.org/clientuploads/regulatoryLegislative/2010%20Dietary%20Supplement%20Safety%20Bill.pdf
This entry also posted at: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=32204
And: http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2010/02/mccain-bill-poses-threat-to-dshea-and.html
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Doctor Exposes Hospitals’ Forced Vaccination, Nurses’ Forge MD’s Signatures!
We were as horrified as you will be when we read S. Humphries, MD’s January 22, 2010 courageous expose of the dangerous – but common – hospital policy of automatically vaccinating patients without consulting the patient’s physician or obtaining truly informed consent for the procedure, even if that vaccination can kill them because of their medical condition.
Dr. Humpries paints a terrifying picture of “standard” hospital procedure which she learned about too late to protect the patient she writes about. Her bold truth-telling warns us all that we must be on high alert to protect ourselves and our loved ones from the tragically mis-named “health care system”.
We need to protect ourselves and our loved ones from the damage of that system, created, run and perpetuated by the pharmaceutical industry for its own agendas. Although the good men and women who are its active arm for harm are brainwashed not to see it, the reality is clear: the system’s accureat name is the Illness UnCare System.
If your job makes you part of that system, click here to take the Health Keeper’s Oath, declaring that you will not knowingly participate in Medical Fascism
Dr. S Humphries MD is a physician of principle, a doctor who knows the first rule is Do No Harm. The doctor was distressed to learn that hospital policy essentially forced patients to have vaccinations without doctor approval, but with the FORGED legal authorization of the doctor written into the chart, all without any meaningful informed consent. The good doctor objected. And the report continues with what happened next:
“My dissatisfaction eventually made it to the Chief of Internal Medicine who challenged me to produce peer-reviewed journal articles in support of my objection. There were dozens of case reports of kidney disease or small blood vessel inflammation following influenza vaccination. In fact, one paper cited 16 patients in its written report[ see foot note in original article - REL]. Under-reporting of adverse vaccine reactions is a known phenomenon. The National Vaccine Information Center estimates that only about two percent of adverse vaccine reactions ever get reported. It would follow that written and published case reports found in medical journals represent a minuscule sampling of the totality of vaccine injury cases. These implications should evoke at least some curiosity on the part of doctors and health care advocates…”
FOOD FREEDOM, ALONG WITH BIOSPHERE, AT RISK – YOUR URGENT ACTION
NEEDED NOW Once for each member of your household!
The Science is pouring in. GMOs are dangerous to our health and that of the planet we live on. Yes, it is that bad. Yielding to industry pressure, S. 510 is before the Senate. It will give the FDA incredible power (although it mishandles what it has now, killing huge numbers of people every year) to turn over the food supply to Big Agribiz and Big biotech, literally criminalize clean, healthy food – even from your own garden.
The US FDA/USDA/EPA are nothing more than industry captives. Let’s get rid of GMOs before they make all of us infertile, give us preventable diseases like cancer and destroy the ecosystem of the only planet home we have. Let’s defeat the bill that would make us all food slaves, S. 510.
URGENT ACTION STEP 1: END GMO DANGERS FOREVER: BAN ALL FORMS OF GMOS, REQUIRE INDEPENDENT RESEARCH TO DOCUMENT HOW FAR THE DAMAGE HAS GONE AND FIND A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM
to protect our family healthy food in the form of the disastrous # 501 bill. Please take this action item seriously and submit it once for each member of your family.
2. Disseminate both of these Action Items to every single person you can reach, asking them to take these action steps once for every member of their families and disseminate them to their entire circle of influence
3. Find novel ways to share this information: fliers with the links of the Natural Solutions Foundation, its Blog and its Action Items, for example
4. Contact Kathy, kathy.greene@usa.net, for a free Organizer’s eHandbook to help you disseminate this information in your community – local organizing, on the Tea Party model, is powerful Push Back!
5. Donate as generously as you can. Your 100% tax deductible donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation makes it possible for us to protect both your health and your health freedom.
It is possible to stop the ogre: like Jack and the Beanstalk, when we take the tools that we have at hand, especially the legal ones, as we are doing with the Stop the Shot Litigation to defend against the H1N1 and other flu vaccines, we can prevail.
Is It Easy? No, of Course Not!
Can It Be Done? OF COURSE!
Can it be done? Yes, with determination, grit and resources. We supply the grit, you supply the determination and the resources.
Together, we are the HEALTH FREEDOM TEAM, the Natural Solutions Foundation, which is the Voice of Global Health Freedom™ because of you.
Now is the time to act to make it clear to the power system that the real power lies in our hands! Push Back Works!Take Down works, too, and it’s time to push back and take down this threat to health and freedom.
Take this Action Item once for each member of your family and then pass it on, and on and on. The life you save WILL be your own!
Open Letter from Dr Rima to
Forbes on Feb. 8, 2010 Article on “Vaccine Deniers”: Just Get Vaccinated
To the Editor, Forbes Magazine:
Your recent plea to make sure that everyone lines up for an H1N1 vaccination relies on misinformation, shocking in a publication which prides itself on reliable, research-based articles.
You decry the “pseudoscience” of the “vaccine deniers” and state that failure to get vaccinated was probably the cause of many of the deaths which you uncritically ascribe to a lack of vaccination.
Your breathless endorsement of inaccurate propaganda requires a fact-based response –
First, your assertion that H1N1 has “taken 14,160 lives, 2,328 of them in the U.S. Within the latter group are 248 children” is dramatic, but meaningless and totally inaccurate…
“It has been a very busy couple of weeks since we returned to the Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project, the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Headquarters Finca (farm) in the Highlands of Panama, from our Health Freedom USA 2010 War Council. I was way too jammed up with things I had to attend to in order to write to you all and tell you what is going on, but I am carving time out of a very, very busy day to share with you what is happening because it is so interesting and important.
General Bert and I were in the States for 3 weeks (willing to travel there only because your Push Back has - so far – managed to avert both an overt closing-down of society into a police state and mandatory H1N1 (or other) vaccination for all seeking to enter or leave the US…”
You know there is a battle going on for your mind (or maybe against it!). Part of the Globalist Agenda to reduce the 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…
The effectiveness of the genocidalist elite is maimed by what they misunderstand about human nature; it is that very misunderstanding that they seek to perpetuate in our minds.
It is a commonplace that advertising takes place in the mind of the beholder, and to a great extent, the events that populate our recent history have been carefully orchestrated to limit our perceptions of possible futures, futures in which we have enough good, wholesome food to promote long, healthy lives in a planet-sustaining manner.
While it is true that you are what you eat, or, rather, what you absorb, it is also true that your mental capacities depend on your nutritional status; truly, what you think depends on the nourishment you absorb.
For example, if you obediently dose yourself with fluoride toxin on your toothbrush every twelve hours, as you have been taught, you will ensure that fluoride’s powerful psychoactive effects, leading to docility and mental passivity and pliability, will limit your capacity for independent thinking.
? Coffee provides more than just a morning jolt; that steaming cup of java is also the number one source of antioxidants in the U.S. diet, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Scranton (Pa.). Their study was described today at the 230th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society.
The beverage, and its constituent ingredients, has come under increasing study with research linking it to reduced risk of diabetes, and improved liver health.
? All the tested coffee solutions showed remarkable antiradical activity.
? Maximum antioxidant activity was observed for the medium-roasted coffee; the dark coffee had a lower antioxidant activity despite the increase in color.
del Castillo MD, et. al.
? In conclusion, these commonly consumed beverages have a significant antioxidant activity, the highest being soluble coffee on a cup-serving basis.
Richelle M, et. al.
? The results indicate that brewed coffee contains many antioxidants and consumption of antioxidant-rich brewed coffee may inhibit diseases caused by oxidative damages.
Yanagimoto K, et. al.
http://www.coffeescience.org/antioxidant
? The roasting of coffee beans dramatically increases their total antioxidant activity. A roasting time of 10 minutes (medium-dark roast) was found to produce coffee with optimal oxygen scavenging and chain breaking activities in vitro (6). A study of robusta and arabica coffees from six different countries showed that robusta samples contained significantly more reducing substances than arabica samples and that protective activity measured ex vivo was significantly greater in roasted samples than in green coffee (7). Using the ABTS•+ method (the gold standard), it was confirmed that light roast or medium roast coffee has a significantly higher antioxidant activity in vitro than green coffee….
It can be concluded that coffee possesses greater in-vitro antioxidant activity than other beverages, due in part to intrinsic compounds such as chlorogenic acid, in part to compounds formed during roasting such as melanoidins and in part to as yet unidentified compounds.
Considering that the studies below were conducted with regular coffee, which contains toxic residues of dangerous agricultural chemicals, imagine the amazing health benefits of coffee that is
GMO Free Pesticide Free Herbicide Free
Raised with fermented, Beyond Organic compost, sunshine, shade, birdsong and clean, unpolluted water!
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and are Not Tax Deductible
? Drinking instant coffee with or without milk produced the same uptake levels of coffee’s antioxidants, including caffeic acid, ferulic acid, and isoferulic acid, according to findings of a study with nine people published in The Journal of Nutrition.
“Up until now there has been very little known about how proteins, especially from milk, influence the bioavailability and efficacy of coffee antioxidants,”
Said lead author Mathieu Renouf from Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne. “
” Our study is the first to show that coffee antioxidants are just as bioavailable in coffee with milk, as they are in black coffee.”
On the other hand, the uptake of caffeic and ferulic acids was lower when coffee was made with non-dairy creamer and sugar, said the NRC scientists.
[Why would you put that stuff in your body anyway? - REL]
? Antioxidants in general have been linked to a number of potential health benefits, including protection against heart disease and cancer. For the current study, Vinson and his associates analyzed the antioxidant content of more than 100 different food items, including vegetables, fruits, nuts, spices, oils and common beverages. The data was compared to an existing U.S. Department of Agriculture database on the contribution of each type of food item to the average estimated U.S. per capita consumption.
Coffee came out on top, on the combined basis of both antioxidants per serving size and frequency of consumption.
I promise you that you have never tasted coffee this rich, this smooth and this satisfying. It’s Freedom’s Coffee: Free of GMOs, Free of Pesticides and Other Toxic Chemicals.
Silver
The Universal Antibiotic is A Major Threat to the Universal Illness Industry
One more thing: On January 1, 2010, colloidal and Nano Silver were totally banned for sale in the European Union. Big Pharma won this round there, but it is up to us to make sure that they do not have a victory elsewhere as well.
Recall that more than 90% of the antibiotics and anti-fungals used in the world are used in keeping abused, ill-fed, crowded and sick Factory Farm animals alive, and recall that this enormous market would be totally destroyed if silver were available. Then recall that the remaining 10% of antibiotics are used for humans, principally because of respiratory infections. But wait! All is not well in Pharma Town! Read the forecast in 2006, looking toward declining sales:
Antibiotic resistance is a significant problem which is negatively impacting prescribing patterns, consequently reducing antibiotic usage. The total worldwide market for [human - REL] antibiotics and antifungals was US$25 billion in 2005, but is predicted to fall to between US$15 and US$20 billion by 2016. This forecast is based on a number of factors, but largely due to declining rates of antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory infections – a major segment of the market.
Do the math: In 2006 Big Pharma was looking at losing a mere $5-10 Billion because human antibiotic use (never recommended for most respiratory disease) was declining. If $25 Billion = 10% of sales, then way back in 2006, antibiotic and antifungal sales totaled about $250 Billion. That is, in anyone’s pocket book, a nice chunk of change.
So if colloidal silver or its sturdier, more powerful cousin, Nano Silver IS the Universal Antibiotic and Antifungal (and research shows that it is), we are looking at a simple product that has no meaningful expiration date, no toxicity and can
Because of the determination of the US to “HARMonzie” with international restrictions, and because the amount of profit which would be lost is great enough to mobilize the Big Pharma cartel to push their captive regulators at the Fraud and Death Administration and Evironmental Pollution Administration
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Dr. Rima’s Cognitive Enhancement Nutrient Picks
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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.
The effectiveness of the genocidalist elite is maimed by what they misunderstand about human nature; it is that very misunderstanding that they seek to perpetuate in our minds. It is a commonplace that advertising takes place in the mind of the beholder, and to a great extent, the events that populate our recent history have been carefully orchestrated to limit our perceptions of possible futures, futures in which we have enough good, wholesome food to promote long, healthy lives in a planet-sustaining manner.
While it is true that you are what you eat, or, rather, what you absorb, it is also true that your mental capacities depend on your nutritional status; truly, what you think depends on the nourishment you absorb. For example, if you obediently dose yourself with fluoride toxin on your toothbrush every twelve hours, as you have been taught, you will ensure that fluoride’s powerful psychoactive effects, leading to docility and mental passivity and pliability, will limit your capacity for independent thinking.
Dr. Rima and Gen. Bert Video on Cognitive Enhancement
Similarly, but to opposite effect, the availability of certain nutrients is limited to further limit your capacity. See my YouTube video on the outrageously low “daily reference values” being set for nutrients under Codex Alimentarius to understand how your capacity to think will be impacted by such nutrient shortages consider that people on starvation diets in, for example, concentration camps, found it nearly impossible to think-through situations and plan self-directed action.
You know that I am a physician and have practiced drug free psychiatry and medicine for decades. So I was more than a little excited when our Natural Solutions Foundation co-trustee, Ralph Fucetola JD, brought the Biologics products to our attention.
He praised the focus and clarity he felt while pursuing his more than full-time careers as a Natural Solutions Trustee and as the VitaminLawyer.com . He told us about nutritional analogues that nourished, maintained and enhanced cognitive function.
Always willing to experiment on ourselves first, we went to one of the company’s affiliate sites and ordered some of the products. Both General Bert and I are quite experienced with intelligence-enhancing techniques, including various exercise, meditation and nutritional regimes. We are very careful with our diet and use dietary supplements extensively. Well, I can tell you, we were astonished with the quick benefits we experienced.
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 synergistic ally, 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 indicia 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.
I am therefore very pleased to be able to recommend the Biologics products. Working with the people at the company, we have put together two discount-priced Combination Packs to introduce you to the products.
The first of these is the Memory Enhancement Pack — just the thing for staying up late and surfing the web for information and spreading the word!
The second is our Senior Memory Pack that I’ve designed with Baby-Boomers and beyond in mind. We, especially, need to keep our minds in top health if we are to bequeath a better world to our descendants.
Of course, your support of these products supports the Foundation. That way your mind will stay young and you’ll have the cognitive capacity to enjoy the health and freedom we all seek to ensure!
One of the main themes at our Health Freedom USA 2010 War Council was just this battle for the minds of people. That battle is why, for example, the pro-flu vaccine propaganda continues, even as the non-pandemic fades. You can see our video report about the Council and learn how to access the soon-to-be-archived version at: www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4478
In the meantime, this link to the Cognitive Enhancement products brings you directly to the special product packs I’ve designed for you. Help us while you help your cognition; try a pack!
And if you want to help us even more, you can also become a Biologics online affiliate and put their banner (like the one above) on your web site, emails and/or social networking sites:
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Dr. Rima Reports: Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Community
Dr. Rima E. Laibow, MD, Natural Solutions Foundation Medical Director reports on recent developments regarding the International Decade of Nutrition, www.InternationalDecadeofNutrition.org, and the Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project, taking back the production of wholesome, natural food – one farm at a time.
It has been a very busy couple of weeks since we returned to the Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project, the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Headquarters Finca (farm) in the Highlands of Panama, from our Health Freedom USA 2010 War Council. I was way too jammed up with things I had to attend to in order to write to you all and tell you what is going on, but I am carving time out of a very, very busy day to share with you what is happening because it is so interesting and important.
General Bert and I were in the States for 3 weeks (willing to travel there only because your Push Back has – so far – managed to avert both an overt closing-down of society into a police state and mandatory H1N1 (or other) vaccination for all seeking to enter or leave the US.
As some of you may know from my interview with Gov. Jessie Ventura on his Conspiracy Theory show, mandatory vaccination is, in our opinion, still a very real threat. And yes, to answer the questions of some, I do see very serious threat to our freedoms or I would not be devoting my life, without pay, 20 hours a day, 7 days a week, to this work – nor would the other Foundation Trustees! So it is not a ‘victim consciousness’ which drives us, but a freedom awareness and a sense of deep and abiding empowerment. We know, as “Push Back” changes to “Take Down”, we are succeeding to a greater extent than our detractors imagine! See: www.HealthFreedomRadio.com.
During that time, we actually did take a 6 day vacation and went Contra Dancing (Don’t know what it is? Google the term and then find a dance near you or go to http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/link/jig/a_contra_dancers_primer.htm for a basic description and then find a dance near you!)
Following that, we attended the Health Freedom USA 2010 Health Freedom War Council, Jan. 2,3, 2010, in New Jersey. That amazing information and potential-packed 2 day seminar will shortly, by the way, be available for download. If you missed it and you want to listen to the lectures and get the amazing ebook, please go to http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189. If you are interested in health freedom and science-based information about what is happening and what to do about it, you definitely need to attend this webinar, www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4478.
We spent the next few days meeting with people who are interested in our Eco Demonstration Projects. One of the Joint Ventures which will function at the project has created a structure for Clinical Trials here in Panama to support the Wellness Industry in the US, EU and elsewhere — to help it defend itself from intended extinction (and I am not using these words lightly) by the US and international forces (represented in the US by FDA/EPA/FTC, the minions of the pharmaceutical industry, and internationally by such forces as Pharma-funded WHO, Codex Alimentarius, etc.). These trials will be conducted in Panama at the Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project and will help the industry which provides us with the products and devices upon which we depend for natural health (e.g., supplements, herbs, energy devices, etc.) while contributing to the funding stream which will make the Project self-sustaining. See: www.NaturalClinicalTrials.org.
The Wellness and Seminar Center, here at the Headquarters Finca, is nearing completion and will provide an invaluable resource for us and for the community: There is not a single full-service Advanced medical center in Panama and, as the pressures against this type of health care (as opposed to Big Pharma’s disastrous and rationed illness un-care), this resource will become even more precious.
The kitchen is currently being finished so that we will be able to serve totally Beyond Organic meals, snacks and, of course VALLEY OF THE MOON COFFEE, www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org, to guests and everyone else who values this kind of food. The chef? Our marvelous Gail Coba, whom some of you already know. What that means, of course, is that we will need people to replace many of the functions that Gail currently fulfills as Executive Director of the Valley of the Moon. One of the really nice things that happened yesterday is that we found someone who may do just that. Maciel is coming on board this coming Monday and is a highly accomplished young woman from this area who is fully bilingual (7 years in the US). She comes equipped with a lively mind and high level administrative skills – and cares passionately about food.
Today, Patrica, our Administrator (who was hired to be my Personal Assistant but whose skills and connections are so immense that she has morphed into our Panamanian Liaison and Administrator, leaving me without a Personal Assistant – hint, hint, hint!!!!) and I are going on a kitchen tour of the local restaurants with great kitchens made by the guy we have selected to do our stainless steel work. As with all our efforts, we seek to meet the “Songhai Principles” of Doing What We Do With Passion, Perfection and Profitability”. Our Beyond Organic Cafe will provide a showcase for natural products and procedures.
Today the tiles for that kitchen have been bought. It will, of course, double as a teaching kitchen. Oh, yes, Patricia arranged for approval of our restaurant and kitchen plans by the Board of Health and the Fire Department before we went ahead with construction. We had no idea that such approval was necessary … see what I mean about Patricia? The willingness of people like her from the community to work with us on our Goal of “discovering, developing, demonstrating, documenting and disseminating natural solutions” gives us great hope for the future.
Yesterday was a red letter day for Valley of the Moon in a number of ways. We went over to the Town of Boquete to investigate another source of organic produce (we have stunningly clean raw milk, by the way, and will begin the production of Valley of the Moon yogurt this week with flavors made from organic fruit and organic sugar cane sugar, Raspadura, made in precisely the same natural way that maple syrup is manufactured: extraction of the juice and hand stirring while the excess liquid is evaporated. The result is a cake of sweet, nutrient rich concentrated cane juice. Our Raspadura is grown in clean soil without any chemical inputs whatsoever and extracted in hand driven presses, then boiled in stainless steel vats, strained with leaves to clarify the liquid and formed in wooden molds into the sweet cakes that we use for baking, cooking and, now, yogurt flavoring!
Where are we going to sell it? Many places. Yesterday, we placed our Valley of the Moon Coffee in Organica, the store selling, guess what? Organic products, in Boquete. Our yogurt will go there next week!
Wait! There is more. In the very near future, you will be able to buy our coffee in the United States for $18.95 at ewater.com by credit card, PayPal, www.Paypal.com, via the phone OR make a $25 dollar donation and get a tax refund for the total amount PLUS a 1/2 lb bag of our superb coffee. See: www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org.
Is our coffee organic? You bet it is, but it is not yet certified. We are in the process of having it certified right this very minute, as a matter of fact! I cannot tell you exactly when we can add that word to our labels and web site, but it is in the works and we are thrilled. We respect the serious consideration given to the “organic” label in Panama and look forward to that addition to our label.
While we were in Boquete we were warmly greeted by some folks who are on our mailing list. They asked us to come to lunch with them and give them an update on the state of Codex. We did so and forged a great alliance with them. They want to be part of our food chain. What does that mean?
Well, neither a restaurant nor a community, nor a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture, program in which people make an investment at the beginning of the growing season, sharing the risk with the farmer and then get a weekly delivery of goods during the harvest) can survive on coffee and yogurt alone, no matter how wonderful they are.
So this afternoon, after the kitchen tour, our Executive Committee (Bert, Gail, Patricia and I) will meet to discuss our plans for actually beginning to grow our food to our standards on land that we already control. To provide food which is truly Beyond Organic for the restaurant and our Community Supported Agriculture programs we must grow our own while we teach farmers how to meet our exacting standards, reclaim their soil, etc.
If you are thinking about coming with organic growing experience (and maybe some heirloom seeds…) in your pocket, now would be a very good time to share that with us! You would be most warmly welcomed, and given responsibility and opportunity to grow and to teach.
Tomorrow we will get 50 organically raised chicks. We will be creating a humane, clean and practical chicken production facility, grazing both milk cattle and beef and getting our seeds into the ground. Our only problem is that we have too many options and need to winnow them down!
We met last week with a group of “Gringos” (Expat North Americans and Europeans) in Panama City who want to work with us on the CSA project because they believe in what we are doing and because they want the food! So that makes Volcan, Boquete and Panama City as potential outlets for our Friendly Food Certified products. If you have the skills necessary to help make this happen, y’all come!
We are welcoming a potential participant tonight and will go to see the land that we would like to purchase for our community tomorrow. On Friday morning, he will visit the local International Baccalaureate k-12 school’s principal to see if that placement is right for his children.
We have already met with him and his delightful wife when we were in NJ for the Webinar and they would be wonderful additions to our community. We really hope they love it here!
Too funny, by the way: while Ralph and I did our weekly 2 hour radio show, the Dr. Rima Reports: Your Health, Your Way, www.TheFreedomLink.org, General Bert took our visitor to the hotel and had dinner with him. I learned when General Bert was on his way home that two men came up to him, introduced themselves and announced that they were looking for me because they had come to Panama to see the land and talk with us about becoming part of the Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project. They are coming with us tomorrow to see the land! [We do prefer to hear from people in advance if they want to visit the VotM facilities.]
What truly impresses us are the level of natural-process skills the people interested in participating in the Project possess. We are truly honored that the Health Freedom community is responding so strongly to our effort to preserve and teach the natural skills and methods we all value.
There are several other people whom we met at the War Council event who we will be welcoming soon. Not only that, a participant, his wife and 3 pets are due next week in what we all believe is a permanent move here. He is an IT guy, she is a Certified Raw Chef!!!!!!! WOW! We look forward to their help developing the infrastructure for the Seminar (and Webinar) program we will be sponsoring from the Headquarters. We have a number of world-class experts in all areas of health and food ready to provide a superb educational program.
And, indeed, one of our brilliant friends: scholar, inventor, innovative nutritional provider and War Council presenter and his talented wife, are also coming into the project as full participants – and more, which we cannot talk about yet.
Following our meetings in NJ with potential Clinical Trial clients, we were about to come back to Panama immediately but, because of an opportunity to further the project in some remarkable ways, we changed our plans and went to Denver for a week.
There we met with, spent time with, and got a commitment from a remarkable man who has the potential to bring about large impact soil reclamation impacts with reduced effort.
He agreed to come to Panama to do a field test: we will select 5 farms at various altitudes which are highly contaminated with agricultural chemicals and do laboratory analysis on the quality of the soil, including the level of chemical contamination, the bacteria and other characteristics of the soil.
Following that, we will apply the technology he brings to the project to 1/2 of each of the 5 farms and re-analyze the soil. We will also document the crop growth characteristics on the treated and the untreated halves.
If the technologies prove useful, then we will offer to apply them to the entire country. This is potentially an experiment of global significance. But before we go forward with it on a large scale, we need, of course, to document the effects. I don’t know about you, but being part 0f this level of creative development and exploration is enormously gratifying and satisfying to the Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation and everyone else who is involved in what we are doing.
Since dairy is very important here, we will also apply the technologies to 5 cows whose milk output and characteristics are already well document and use another 5 cows as controls. Their output, milk solids, bacterial count and other output characteristics will be carefully documented following this application.
You can assume, and you would be totally correct, that this technology is entirely without negative consequences for humans, animals and the environment. Precisely like the medicine I practice, if it can harm, we would not do it. If it can help, we will. That is why, under the Precautionary Principle, we cannot support the release of GMO “foods” onto the market.
Join us in telling your state and national legislators just that:
URGENT ACTION STEP 1: END GMO DANGERS FOREVER: BAN ALL FORMS OF GMOS, REQUIRE INDEPENDENT RESEARCH TO DOCUMENT HOW FAR THE DAMAGE HAS GONE AND FIND A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM
Our Valley of the Moon™ brand is now registered here in Panama and we are awaiting the final papers to sign them. This is a major legal step forward and we are very excited about that, too.
Gotta run. Come visit. Come be part of the solution.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
PS: Three days ago we were asked if we could help develop an agricultural system to help reorganize Haiti into a functional society. We are flying to the US soon for a full day of discussion on this possibility with concerned Haitians, which is very much up in the air, but which might happen. You remember, of course, that the Valley of the Moon is founded on the principles of reclaiming the production of food to establish health freedom, since that is our first freedom. This kind of project, if properly funded, would be directly in keeping with our mission. Any organic farmers out there speak French? You can see more about our efforts to achieve Food Freedom at: www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org. – REL
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Health Freedom Action eAlert of January 18, 2010
In This Issue: Push Back Works. Now It’s Time for TAKE DOWN!
FOOD FREEDOM, ALONG WITH BIOSPHERE AT RISK – YOUR URGENT ACTIONS NEEDED NOW, Once for each member of your household!
The Science is pouring in. GMOs are dangerous to our health and that of the planet we live on. Yes, it is that bad. The US FDA/USDA/EPA are industry captives. Let’s get rid of GMOs before they make all of us infertile, give us preventable diseases like cancer and destroy the ecosystem of the only planet home we have.
URGENT ACTION STEP 1: END GMO DANGERS FOREVER: BAN ALL FORMS OF GMOS, REQUIRE INDEPENDENT RESEARCH TO DOCUMENT HOW FAR THE DAMAGE HAS GONE AND FIND A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM
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Total Number of Vaccines in Fully Vaccinated Persons
Age 0 – 18: 97 Doses *
Age18 – 75: 136 Doses*
Total Vaccine Doses in Fully Vaccinated Adult
Age 0 – 75* 233
Total Mercury Exposure from Vaccines:
233** – 5825*** micrograms
How much is safe? None. Congressman Burton’s Hearing on this topic: ” ‘In June, 1999, the Food and Drug Administration discovered that ‘Infants who receive thimerosal containing vaccine at several visits may be exposed to more mercury than recommended by Federal guidelines for total mercury exposure.’ Thimerisol, a preservative used in some vaccines to prevent contamination is 49.6% mercury by weight. Infants who are being vaccinated using multi-dose vials with thimerosal can receive 62.5 micrograms of mercury per visit. [Emphasis included in original]. For an average sized child this represents an exposure approximately 100 times the 0.1 micrograms per kilogram of daily exposure considered safe by the Environmental protection Agency. The manufacturers safety data sheet on thimerosal states, “Highly toxic….Danger of cumulative effects….Avoid prolonged or repeated exposure….and the Chemical, Physical and toxicological properties have not been thoroughly investigated.”
If the ill-informed and disinformed want to pump these toxins into their bodies, they are, as far as the Natural Solutions Foundation is concerned, welcome to make that tragic error.
But if we are free men and women, free to direct our health and that of our families, we stridently opposed any coercive attempt to force these dangerous materials into our bodies. To that end, we urge you to take the following Action Items, once for each member of your family, and then disseminate them as widely as possible.
The Health Freedom Action eAlert begins a series of eblasts intended to implement the Offensive Push Back Strategies developed at the 2010 Health Freedom War Council™ Webinar
The Science is pouring in. GMOs are dangerous to our health and that of the planet we live on. Yes, it is that bad. The US FDA/USDA/EPA are industry captives. Let’s get rid of GMOs before they make all of us infertile, give us preventable diseases like cancer and destroy the ecosystem of the only planet home we have.
URGENT ACTION STEP 1: END GMO DANGERS FOREVER: BAN ALL FORMS OF GMOS, REQUIRE INDEPENDENT RESEARCH TO DOCUMENT HOW FAR THE DAMAGE HAS GONE AND FIND A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM
The biosphere of Planet Earth is, like the banks, AIG and two of the Big Three Auto Makers, “Too Big to Fail”. Like those agencies, however, ill-informed, corrupt and intentionally dangerous policies are causing it to fail.
Mother [Earth] needs a “bailout” or she will go crashing down to her, and our, total demise.
One sector of the food agenda is particularly dangerous and the Natural Solutions Foundation is addressing it head on, as we do with every dangerous threat to our lives, health and freedom. That danger is Genetically Modified “Food”, also known as GMO or Biotech “food”.
This material is approved for use in the US food chain without any significant safety testing. In fact, even if an FDA regulator wanted to examine the safety of a GMO food, that is forbidden in the US following one brief, preliminary “report” provided by the company that is patenting the “food”.
Not unexpectedly, these preliminary reports all claim that the “food” is safe and is “substantially equivalent” to non GMO foods. No further questions are asked and the manufacturer or patent holder can insert his “food” into your bodies in the absence of any labeling. In fact, it is forbidden in the US to label even “GMO free foods!” Any labeling of GMO ingredients, as such, is outlawed because, as Barbara Schneeman, PhD, the US Codex Delegate, announced at a Codex meeting on labeling GMOs (Oslo, 2008), US consumers overwhelmingly reject GMO food when they know it is GMO. This is so although the FDA says that food and GMO food-substitutes are administratively equivalent. If Americans knew that more than 90% of their food was GMO, or contained GMO ingredients, they would overwhelmingly reject it. Therefore, in order to prevent them from making that mistake, the FDA forbids the labeling of GMO foods or ingredients so that they will not be able to reject what they should, actually, accept. Such is the “reasoning” of our regulators.
Not only is this bizarre and illegal (see, for example, the Supreme Court Decision in Thompson v. Western States, grounded in the Right of the People to Truthful Commercial Information) it is proof positive of collusion, yes, a conspiracy, to degrade our food and food options.
It is instructive to remember here that the Biotech/GMO companies are also pharmaceutical companies who make the drugs that you are prescribed when these dangerous “foods” make you sick, infertile or otherwise damaged. It is important to remember, too, that they are also the chemical companies that make the agricultural and other chemicals which are damaging and destroying your immune systems and enzymatic health. It is a classic triple play, but the winner is the one who creates the most profit, not the most well-being.
The success of a recent case in which Monsanto has lost, yet again, on appeal, to the forces seeking to protect both organic alfalfa farmers and the environment from the insect and wind-born contamination of Monsanto’s GMO alfalfa is of enormous importance.
In past years Monsanto seized hundreds of the remaining family farms because their GMO pollen has invaded – trespassed – on the fields of farmers growing the same or similar crops. The “laws” which they pressured and maybe bribed into existence make the farmer whose land was contaminated by their genetic material the villain in the piece and horrendous penalties are levied, leading to inevitable default and seizure of the family farm.
The result? More GMO land, fewer independent, clean farms and less clean food. And more contaminated – and contaminating – pollen on the insects and on the wind. Ultimately, more silent danger in your grocery store, unlabeled danger.
The Natural Solutions Foundation Action Item calling for a ban on GMOs, link, challenges every legislator in the US, every Governor, every Member of Congress, the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, the EPA, the US Department of Commerce and the US Department of Agriculture, as well as President Obama to protect the nation they are sworn to protect and defend by -
1. Declaring a total “Precautionary Principle Ban” on GMO crops and animals grown, used or incorporated into foods, medicines or crops in the United States, or imported into the country.
2. Initiating a 10 year research commitment to conduct and evaluate studies on the impact of GMOs that have been already unleashed on our environment at every level. The researchers must reveal all financial and other ties with GMO or related companies, even distantly related, and will, without exception, disqualify investigators and others from participation in this evaluation project.
Biotech companies have announced that they cannot control the spread of their patented genetic material into clean crops and wild-breeding animals (such as fish). They must therefore be held responsible for the imminent danger in which they have placed us all.
We Need Your Help!
The Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation are asking you to get ready to become dissemination points on the next vitally important battle.
Towards the end of the last Bush administration, even the catastrophically-high, permitted contamination level for organic foods, a whopping and shameful 10% (in contrast to the rest of the world’s permitted contamination level of either 0.09% or 0.1%!!!!!!) was revised to allow the current permitted level to “float” so that the limits are whatever is easy for industry – with no upper limit whatsoever. NONE!
Real Organic Food and GMO “Franken-food” Cannot Co-exist
Over time, the genetic drift will inevitably contaminate the entire world’s biosphere. Monsanto will then, under current legal standards, accomplish its goal: to own the world’s food supply.
Independent science is showing what we have been saying all along: GMOs are dangerous to our health, our fertility and our environment. Further, they are dangerous to our health freedom, the right to control what goes into our bodies.
It is a Globalist Agenda absurdity that holds that they are, in fact, “food” at all. GMOs are commercial properties but that does not make them fit for human consumption.
It is the judicial and regulatory corruption of pseudoscientific deceit standing in the muck of conflicted interest – heavily conflicted interest – by the companies which make and market the GMOs which allows them to be classified as fit for consumption by animals or humans, allows them in our environment or allows them to be patented.
Modern science makes it clear that there is no validity to the basis upon which those patents have been granted, which is the theory of “one gene, one function.” We know now that each gene can produce a wide variety of effects, depending on such factors as the genes in its vicinity and the nutritional surround in which the gene is functioning, whether its neighbors have been switched on or off, and a host of other factors. What is done with your body may pass “exogenes” to the next generation controlling its potential.
Indeed, part of the awesome dangers posed by GMO foods is that their inserted genes are not stable, moving from one location to another inside the nucleus into which they have been inserted and therefore creating novel proteins which -
a. Have never existed before on the planet or in any of its creatures
b. Are totally unknown in terms of short, or long, term biological impact on any aspect of health, fertility and longevity
c. Differ from cell to cell, leading to a shifting picture of “chimeras”, or genetic mosaic cells which are not identical to each other either in cell function or type even if they were all identical before their makeup was altered by the ingestion or incorporation of novel genetic material
d. Have no common enzymatic of functional blue print within the body because of the novel genes and their inconsistent activity.
Monsanto generally does not lose cases. Recently, though, courts have begun to understand the risks and an important 9th Circuit private property rights case that Monsanto lost is heading to the Supreme Court. IF the Supreme Court chooses to deal with the issue of wind and insect contamination of GMO crops (trespass on farmers’ property) this will be a milestone and a half toward safe, clean, unadulterated food. We need to follow up these outstanding events by pressing the advantage which this case gives us going forward.
Then there is the disastrous (sic) “Food Safety” bill, S. 510, held over from before Christmas Break. If passed, this bill will usher in a complete rout of the organic and clean food sectors of our food system. Reporting requirements and draconian penalties are so extreme that small farmers, unable to hire battalions of accountants and clerks will be driven out of business.
Our sources tell us that the principle architect of this loathsome excuse for legislation is, of course, Monsanto.
If you want foodless food on your tables, and in your bodies, do nothing.
If, on the other hand, the quality of both your health and your freedom, and, hence, your food, matters to you, this a time for concerted and vigorous action:
Protect our family healthy food from the disastrous S501 bill! Please take this action item seriously and submit it once for each member of your family.
2. Disseminate both of these Action Items to every single person you can reach, asking them to take these action steps once for every member of their families and disseminate them to their entire circle of influence
3. Find novel ways to share this information: fliers with the links of the Natural Solutions Foundation, its Blog and its Action Items, for example
4. Contact Kathy, kathy.greene@usa.net
,Ask for the Organizer’s eHandbook to help you disseminate this information in your community – local organizing, on the Tea Party model, is powerful Push Back!
5. Donate as generously as you can. Go to Your 100% tax deductible donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189, makes it possible for us to protect both your health and your health freedom.
It is possible to stop the ogre: like Jack and the Beanstalk, when we take the tools that we have at hand, especially the legal ones, as we are doing with the Stop the Shot Litigation to defend against the H1N1 and other flu vaccines, we can prevail.
Is It Easy? No, of Course Not!
Can It Be Done? OF COURSE!
Can it be done? Yes, with determination, grit and resources.
We supply the grit, you supply the determination and the resources.
Together, we are the HEALTH FREEDOM TEAM, the Natural Solutions Foundation, which is the Voice of Global Health Freedom™ because of you.
Now is the time to act to make it clear to the power system that the real power lies in our hands! Push Back Works! Take Down works, too, and it’s time to push back and take down this threat to health and freedom.
Take this Action Item once for each member of your family and then pass it on, and on and on. The life you save WILL be your own!
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Although the “Swine Flu” pandemic did not, and most likely will not, materialize, we thought we’d share this interesting information from Sharry Edwards MEd, since we know a number of people on the Action eAlert list are interested in frequency work. The Trustees of the Foundation consider Ms. Edwards’ work to be among the most advanced in the field.
Watch the Archived Health Freedom War Council Webinar: If you missed the Health Freedom USA War Council on Jan 2, 3, 2010, you will be able to learn from our outstanding experts. Stay tuned! Your $99 donation brings you two full days + of information you won’t want to miss! Sign up now: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189
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Stop the Shot Litigation Moving Forward
As the New Year starts and while both FDA and CDC try to frighten us with no-longer believable “Swine-Flu-Pandemic Third Wave” tales…
You may recall our federal law suit ended when the New York health care worker flu vaccine mandate itself was suspended for alleged lack of vaccines. No vaccines, no mandate; no mandate, no court case.
Well, they’re back! “Governor David A. Paterson today announced that the State Department of Health (DOH) is reinstating the requirement that hospitals offer the H1N1 flu vaccine to the caregivers of newborns in intensive care and hospital patients who are 65 years of age or older. The reinstated requirement was made possible by increased supplies of vaccine.”….
Meanwhile, the New Jersey licensed childcare attendance mandate has also come back into effect. NJ was the only other state-wide flu vaccine mandate in the US. It had also been suspended for alleged lack of supply (curiously just as we were seeking to amend the Complaint in the “Stop the Shot” case to include the NJ mandate). That suspension covered 2009, so in this new year a new annual flu vaccine requirement exists.
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"Heartfelt thanks to you all, Dr Rima, Gen. Bert and Ralph, for your tireless dedication, efforts and expertise; we value your guidance and realize we will all need to mobilize our efforts in these next months and years. My efforts focus on integrating health freedom in the current health care system, which, by the way, will bankrupt the nation soon if we do not integrate health and wellness. If I can help you on those fronts, I am privileged to do so. Blessings to all."
Yours in health and freedom, 
