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Silver Lining in the “Man Turns Blue From Silver” Story: It Isn’t True!

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

The Natural Solutions Foundation, the leading Global Health Freedom organization, is proud to present this information to you. We protect your right to know about – and to use – natural ways to maintain and regain your health, no matter where in the world you live. Among your freedoms is the right to clean, unadulterated food free of genetic manipulation, pesticides, heavy metals or other contaminants and access to herbs, supplements, frequency devices and other means as therapies that may benefit or to protect your well-being without drugs and other dangerous interventions, if you choose.

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Silver is a highly useful natural antibiotic which, if used correctly (and it is hard to use it incorrectly, but can be done – see below) is astonishingly safe. it is known to eliminate malaria, colds, yeast such as Candida, pathogenic bacteria, parasites, and a host of other disease causing organisms. There is only one type of silver which does not, however, kill beneficial bacteria while it kills disease causing ones. All other types of silver kill the good and the harmful organisms in and on our bodies.

Recently the news media made a huge fuss about the man who turned blue from the use of colloidal silver. Apparently, he did not turn blue. And he, himself, is convinced that the problem was not the silver so much as the tap water that he used to make it.

Why would the media invest so much time and effort in a bogus story (Mr. Jones did not turn blue)? Perhaps it is helpful assist to the FDA which has been trying to ban colloidal silver for at least a decade. After all, a safe, inexpensive, easily made, anti viral, anti mycoplasma, antio bacterial agent which people can control for themselves while taking money out of the hands of the pharmaceutical industry (which calls the tune very well for the FDA) would be real threat to the vast antibiotic market now so wel entrenched in the general culture. The FDA appears to be riding the blue man (who is not blue at all) into a golden (not silver) future where this self administered, safe medication is no longer a legal substance in the US and, through the power of Codex Alimentarius, is no longer available everywhere.

This must not be allowed to happen. Keep on using colloidal silver and avoiding drug companies drugs!

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

[We are grateful to Life & Health Research Group, Inc. for permission to re-print the following interview from their newsletter, regarding the colloidal silver user who was said by the news media to have “turned blue” from using colloidal silver. We find it astonishing that the major news media could get a story so wrong, when a simple phone call could have clarified everything. Absolutely no reproduction of any part of this report is allowed without the expressed written permission of the publisher. Copyright 2006, Life & Health Research Group, Inc., PO Box 1239, Peoria AZ 85380-1239]

An interview with Stan Jones, the 2002 Libertarian Senate candidate from Bozeman, Montana who news media outlets have claimed “turned blue” from taking colloidal silver:

Background:

On 10-3-02 a friend in the nutrition industry forwarded to me a CNN news article that had been circulating on the internet. The news article basically stated that Montana Senate candidate Stan Jones had “turned blue” from taking daily doses of colloidal silver between 1999 and 2001. This story soon began circulating widely on the internet, and was even picked up by the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) web site.

On 10-4-02 I called Mr. Jones’ campaign office and left a message on his answering machine introducing myself as a health writer and publisher, and asking him to return my call. I explained that I hoped to be able to speak with him briefly about colloidal silver usage and the information in the news articles that had been circulating on the internet regarding his skin discoloration. I asked if he would clarify some points so that I could relay the information to the readers of my publications who may be interested in the proper and safe usage of colloidal silver. On 10-8-02 at approximately 1:30 p.m. (PST) Mr. Jones returned my telephone call.

Notes:

I began by thanking him for returning my call, and promising not to take up too much of his valuable time. “I know you are in the middle of a busy election campaign so I’ll try to keep this brief. Your case is very unusual, something of an anomaly,” I began. “Yes, yes, very unusual,” he answered, “this normally doesn’t happen with colloidal silver usage.” He continued, “However, the first thing I want to tell you is that I am not as blue as the news media is making me out to be. At certain times there is what I suppose you could call a bluish-gray tinge on the skin under my eyelids and perhaps a little on my lips. And the skin under my finger nails also has a tinge of discoloration to it. On some days the discoloration seems to be more pronounced, and on other days it is barely visible, if at all. Most people who meet me never even notice it, but on occasion some do. The spin that the media has put on this story is not at all accurate. It is highly exaggerated. The discoloration is very minimal. I have not ‘turned blue.’ The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is very minor and generally barely noticeable.”

I told him I had a number of questions that I hoped he could answer, so that other people interested in using colloidal silver could do so from a more informed perspective. He replied, “Let me tell you what happened first, and that will probably answer most of your questions…I began taking colloidal silver in 1998 while I was living in Washington state. I had done some research on Y2K and learned of colloidal silver and its powerful natural antibiotic qualities through that research…I started out using distilled water to make my colloidal silver, but I soon switched to tap water(1) because I erroneously believed the tap water in Washington State was relatively pure and mineral free. I added saline drops(2) to the tap water to increase the electrical conductivity of the solution. To make the colloidal silver I used a device composed of three nine volt batteries(3) along with two silver wires that were .999 fine in purity. I was making the colloidal silver solution in a small plastic cup(4) at that time. That was my introduction to colloidal silver…In 1999 I moved to Montana. At this time I began drinking about eight ounces a day of colloidal silver, using an eight minute generation period. I was still making it in tap water, and of course, I had no idea what concentration I was making. At that time I kept a two gallon jug of water in the refrigerator, so I started making very concentrated eight ounce batches of colloidal silver, and adding it to the two gallon jug of water in the refrigerator(5). To make these concentrated batches, I used a one hour generation process. I was still using tap water to make these initial highly concentrated(6) eight ounce batches of colloidal silver which I was then adding to my drinking water(7).”

At this point in the conversation I interrupted and told Mr. Jones about the research from the late 1960’s in which doctors had given rats extremely high dosages of silver in water, relative to their body weights, and discovered that the silver solution at those high dosages had a very toxic effect on the rat’s livers. This toxic effect on their livers appeared to shut down the process by which silver is carried from the body and excreted. I explained that the doctors had discovered something very interesting: when they supplemented the rats with vitamin E and selenium, the liver damage and resulting toxicity was completely negated, and the rats were then able to ingest these relatively large dosages of silver with no problem. I asked Mr. Jones if he was aware of this research, and he said he was not. I asked if he had been taking a daily multi-vitamin/mineral supplement containing vitamin E and selenium at all during the period of time he had been using colloidal silver in Washington state and Montana, and he said he did not think he had been. He stated, “Of course we know for a fact that the body is able to process colloidal silver quite well, if it is made correctly and the dosage levels and concentrations are not too high. I think it is when colloidal silver is incorrectly made using tap water or sources other than distilled water, and is taken at higher dosages and concentrations for long periods of time that minor problems like the one I’ve experienced can result.”

He then stated that since he first started noticing the minor skin discoloration a year ago, he began studying colloidal silver usage more carefully, and has learned there are many variables to take into consideration when making colloidal silver. He said, “Even things like the type of water you use to make your silver solution, the size of the silver wire you use, the length of the time and the electrical voltage at which you generate the silver, the resulting concentration you produce in terms of parts per million, and many other factors, all of which can make a big difference in the final result.” He stated that he has since learned that some people strain their homemade colloidal silver through a paper coffee filter in order to remove larger particles, so that they are only ingesting the tinier particles that make it through the filter. He said he now believes the tinier particles are easier for the body to process.

I asked him if he had any advice for users of colloidal silver, in terms of things they can do to avoid the apparently minor problem he has encountered with skin discoloration. He said that people should be sure to use nothing but pure distilled water to make their colloidal silver, and that they should be very careful in regards to the dosages and concentrations they take. “Don’t use tap water to make your colloidal silver. Use pure distilled water only. And don’t take very large dosages or strong concentrations for long periods of time.”

I asked him how he felt about the media’s take on his story, and he stated once again that he felt it was highly exaggerated, and in fact was being blown out of proportion. “I am not blue,” he reaffirmed, “but there is some minor skin discoloration in small areas on my face and hands which is occasionally noticeable, though not always.” I asked him why he felt the skin discoloration seemed to be more noticeable on some occasions and barely perceptible on others, and he stated that he did not know.

I further asked if he felt the FDA would attempt to use his case in order to bolster their attempts to ban colloidal silver. He stated, “It doesn’t matter if they do, because we now know how to produce colloidal silver ourselves. We don’t need the FDA. We have the means of production at our fingertips. They can’t stop us from using it. I am convinced it is a very powerful and effective natural antibiotic, and that it is relatively safe when made and used correctly.”

I asked whether he was still taking colloidal silver and he said “No. Not at this time. I stopped using it last year after I first noticed the slight skin discoloration. But I can feel a cold coming on right now, so I am going to start using it again.” He stated that during the entire time he had been taking colloidal silver he had not been sick, not even so much as a cold. “Now that I’ve learned more about how to make colloidal silver correctly using distilled water, and to watch the dosage and concentration levels, I will start using it again.”

At this point in the conversation Mr. Jones was interrupted by the arrival of guests (I could hear him telling someone to come in and take a seat and that he’d be with them momentarily). I assumed he was calling from his campaign office. I thanked him profusely for taking time out of his busy schedule to speak with me. He asked me to name the two nutritional supplements that helped prevent silver toxicity in the study I had mentioned earlier, and I told him they were vitamin E and selenium, and that the daily dosages I had read about were 200 to 400 IU of vitamin E and 200 micrograms of selenium. He stated that he thinks the daily vitamin/mineral supplement he now uses has those levels of vitamin E and selenium in them. I asked if he wanted me to send him a copy of the research on vitamin E and selenium in conjunction with silver usage, and he said it would not be necessary. He concluded by stating once again that he is convinced colloidal silver usage is completely safe as long as it is made properly, and the dosage levels and concentrations are not overly high.

I then wished him luck on his campaign for the Senate seat in Montana. He said “thank you” and we hung up.

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GM Files: Monsanto Bullies Dairy Farmers, States to Deceive Consumers

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The Natural Solutions Foundation, the leading Global Health Freedom organization, is proud to present this information to you. We protect your right to know about – and to use – natural ways to maintain and regain your health, no matter where in the world you live. Among your freedoms is the right to clean, unadulterated food free of genetic manipulation, pesticides, heavy metals or other contaminants and access to herbs, supplements, frequency devices and other means as therapies that may benefit or to protect your well-being without drugs and other dangerous interventions, if you choose.

For more information on our global programs, including the International Decade of Nutrition, and our US based ones, please visit us at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org and join the free email list for the Health Freedom eAlerts to keep you in the loop, informed and active defending your right to make your own decisions about your health and wellbeing!
Our activities are supported 100% by your tax deductible donations. Please give generously (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189) to the Natural Solutions Foundation. Thank you for your support.
Feel free to disseminate this information as widely as possible with full attribution.
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Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

When reading the following article, bear in mind that under Codex, all cows are to be treated with Monsanto’s recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone and there are no upper limits. Since peasant farmers who cannot read or write have neither the money nor the skills necessary to manage chronically ill cows who require antibiotics, etc., to control their constant infections (including mastitis which creates continual production of pus in milk), they will be driven out of the milk business which means, in all too many cases, off their farms.
The creation of every increasing cadres of the abjectly urban poor is fueled by just this process.

The Natural Solutions Foundation International Decade of Nutrition is helping to stop this cycle.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

Monsanto doesn’t want consumers to know the truth about the milk they’re drinking. The corporation’s monopoly is at stake.
‘Frankenfoods’ Giant Monsanto Plays Bully Over Consumer Labeling

By Scott Thill, AlterNet. Posted March 6, 2008.

“There are some corporations that clearly are operating at a level that are disastrous for the general public … And in fact I suppose one could argue that in many respects a corporation of that sort is the prototypical psychopath, at the corporate level instead of the individual level.”

–Dr. Robert Hare, The Corporation

Since 1901, Monsanto has brought us Agent Orange, PCBs, Terminator seeds and recombined milk, among other infamous products. But it’s currently obsessed with the milk, or, more importantly, the milk labels, particularly those that read “rBST-free” or “rBGH-free.” It’s not the “BST” or “BGH” that bothers them so much; after all, bovine somatrophin, also known as bovine growth hormone, isn’t exactly what the company is known for. Which is to say, it’s naturally occurring. No, the problem is the “r” denoting “recombined.” There’s nothing natural about it. In fact, the science is increasingly pointing to the possibility that recombined milk is — surprise! — not as good for you as the real thing.

“Consumption of dairy products from cows treated with rbGH raise a number of health issues,” explained Michael Hansen, a senior scientist for Consumers Union. “That includes increased antibiotic resistance, due to use of antibiotics to treat mastitis and other health problems, as well as increased levels of IGF-1, which has been linked to a range of cancers.”

For its part, Monsanto is leaning on the crutch of terminology to derail the mounting threat to its bottom line: The consumer-driven revolution against recombined food. And so the St. Louis-based agri-chem giant has launched a war of words in the form of a full-court press to suppress the “rBGH-free” label at the state level. And it’s sticking to its guns by obfuscating and indulging in cheap semantics.

“RBST is a supplement that helps the cow produce more milk,” Monsanto spokesperson Lori Hoag explained to me via email. “It is injected into the cow, not into the milk. There is no way to test because the milk is absolutely the same. Neither the public nor a scientist can tell the difference in the milk because there is not a difference. Consumers absolutely have a right to know if there is a difference in foods they are buying. In this case, there simply is not a difference.”

“Monsanto has an unfortunate habit of mixing some things together that confuse the issue,” counters Rick North, director of Campaign for Safe Food from Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Oregon chapter. “It’s true that all cows have natural bovine growth hormone. But only cows injected with recombinant, genetically engineered bovine growth hormone have rBGH. And this isn’t a ‘supplement.’ This is a drug that revs up cow metabolism so high that they’re typically burned out after two lactation cycles and slaughtered. Non-rBGH cows typically live four, seven, ten or more years.”

The threat of rBGH to cows and humans alike encouraged Canada, Australia and parts of the European Union to ban Monsanto’s recombined milk outright. As for the corporation’s native United States, it has predictably signed off on another unproven growth opportunity with possibly lethal environmental side effects. They’re in it for the money. And so the battle lines on the threat have been drawn, as North takes pains to point out, between “the FDA and those who follow them,” and those who don’t. “These proposed state bans or restrictions on rBGH-free type of labeling have nothing to do with protecting consumers,” he asserts. “They have everything to do with protecting Monsanto’s profits.”

But that battle over labels and profits hasn’t stopped Monsanto from creating its own press at home in the United States, where it infamously got two Fox News journos fired in 1997 for refusing to bend the truth about rBGH on the air. Yet, over the long term, the multinational’s attention to press relations hasn’t paid off so well. Medical authorities like Samuel Epstein and Robert Hare, quoted above, have targeted them from both the physical and psychological health perspective. Meanwhile, farmers and consumers across the world have demanded labels that differentiate the recombined milk from its naturally occurring counterparts on the store shelves. And they don’t think it’s too much to ask, given the facts.

Hoag is “accurate” when she argued “that there is no commercial test for this drug,” North concedes. “But that’s entirely different than saying there is no difference. Monsanto and its front groups have tried to equate the lack of a verifying lab test with the label being false or misleading. This is a non sequitur. There are all kinds of legitimate labels that aren’t verified by lab tests, such as state or country of origin labeling, fair trade labeling, bottled water that is labeled as originating from a spring, and so on.”

Monsanto, meanwhile, is bedeviling the details to distort the big picture. “Sure, the label can make a claim one way or the other,” Hoag admitted, “but there is no way to verify that the claim is true. This is precisely why the labels are misleading. They make consumers believe there is a difference, when in fact there is none.”

That sounds simple enough, but consumers don’t seem to need or want Monsanto’s mothering. In 2007, its efforts at an outright ban on rBGH-free labels in Pennsylvania were almost cleared for takeoff, until the state invited its citizens to publicly comment, which eventually doomed the move. That scenario has replayed itself across the United States in accelerated fashion with success.

“The issue looks pretty dead in Indiana and Ohio, and there are solid victories in Pennsylvania and New Jersey,” explains Recipe for America’s Jill Richardson, author of the forthcoming book Vegetables of Mass Destruction. “Utah and Kansas are probably going to revise their bills after their hearings, because of opposition.”

This opposition comes in spite of Monsanto’s funding of so-called grass-roots farming coalitions like the American Farmers for Advancement and Conservation of Technology — also known as, cleverly enough, AFACT. Monsanto’s public relations firm Osborn & Barr built a site for AFACT pro bono, knitting the two organizations together in a way that may not sit well in states currently pondering their own label bans. AFACT’s attacks have virally replicated across the nation, as farmers on Monsanto’s payroll have taken to harassing their state legislatures in concert with the multinational’s usual tactics at the federal level, such as forcing skeptical scientists off advisory panels, intimidating critics and so on.

But the assault has only met equally powerful resistance, as environmental awareness has driven the market into a recombinant-free zone. In the end, this might be Monsanto’s last gasp in the fight.

“Monsanto has seen the writing on the wall in terms of consumer rejection of artificial growth hormones,” claims National Family Farm Coalition policy analyst Irene Lin. “Consumers are becoming more aware and educated about what goes into their bodies and what their kids are drinking. And this is Monsanto’s last-ditch, desperate attempt to maintain its profit. And they are hiding behind dairy farmers to do it.”

But for every farmer who toes Monsanto’s line, there are as many if not more, and not just in the United States, who are amassing in opposition to the multinational’s attempt to change, and then patent, how America grows (and describes) its food. And behind them, in ever larger numbers, are consumers and stores themselves, who are demanding more, not less, information from those who produce the food.

“In the last year or so, some really big names have announced that they will only buy rBGH-free milk,” explains Food and Water Watch’s assistant director Patty Lovera, “including Chipotle, Starbucks, Tillamook and lots of supermarket house brands, like Kroger, Meiers and Publix. Even Kraft is going to do an rBGH-free line of cheese.”

In the end, Monsanto’s quibbling over labels has added up — ironically enough, given all the text it has generated — to censorship, pure and simple. And, as with past debacles like the aforementioned Agent Orange, PCBs and Terminator seed, they’ve established a pattern of stopping at nothing to increase not your health but their profits. At your expense.

“Absolutely nothing good could come from a ban on rBGH-free labeling,” concludes Hansen. “More information is a good thing, and all these state actions are anti-consumer, restrict free speech and interfere with the smooth functioning of free markets.”

Learn more about the ban on rBGH-free labeling and take action.
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AAP Fellow Speaks the Truth on Mercury: A Must Read

Friday, February 29th, 2008

The Natural Solutions Foundation, the leading Global Health Freedom organization, is proud to present this information to you. We protect your right to know about – and to use – natural ways to maintain and regain your health, no matter where in the world you live. Among your freedoms is the right to clean, unadulterated food free of genetic manipulation, pesticides, heavy metals or other contaminants and access to herbs, supplements, frequency devices and other means as therapies that may benefit or to protect your well-being without drugs and other dangerous interventions, if you choose.

For more information on our global programs, including the International Decade of Nutrition, and our US based ones, please visit us at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org and join the free email list for the Health Freedom eAlerts to keep you in the loop, informed and active defending your right to make your own decisions about your health and wellbeing!
Our activities are supported 100% by your tax deductible donations. Please give generously (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189) to the Natural Solutions Foundation. Thank you for your support.
Feel free to disseminate this information as widely as possible with full attribution.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

LES INCOMPETENTS: OPEN LETTER TO THE AAP

By K. Paul Stoller, M.D.

02/26/2008

http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/02/aap-fellow-resi.html?cid=104990550#comments

“Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.” —-Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society p50, 1953

As a pediatrician, who has been a fellow of the AAP for two decades, I find the AAP’s approach to the autism epidemic to be deeply disturbing.

Not only have they allowed the myth of better diagnosing (as the reason for all the notice given to affected children) to be perpetuated, but when they were put on notice at the CDC’s Simpsonwood meeting in 2000, that the mercury in the preservative Thimerosal was causing speech delays and learning disabilities, they obfuscated and hide that information. They never made good on their 1999 pledge to have Thimerosal eliminated from vaccines and almost a decade later joined in the protest against a fictitious TV show (Eli Stone) because it was critical of mercury being in vaccine. Out of 132 million doses of the worthless1 flu vaccine for the 2007-08 flu season, 8 million doses are Thimerosal free. That means 94% contain the full amount of Thimerosal.

If a pregnant woman got a flu shot in 2001 and her child followed the flu shot recommendations, the baby/fetus would have received six flu shots with the full amount of Thimerosal by the year 2005.

Today, flu vaccine for those under 3 year of age supposedly do not contain Thimerosal, but with no government agency testing vaccines for mercury, the only ones who know whether these Thimerosal free vaccine (flu or otherwise) actually are mercury free are the manufacturers themselves.

Vaccines with “trace” amounts of Thimerosal are supposed to contain less than 1 microgram of mercury per 0.5 ml dose (1 microgram (ug) Hg per 0.5 ml is the same as 2 ug Hg per ml which is the same as 2000 ug/liter. Micrograms per liter is parts per billion [ppb]2)

0.5 parts per billion (ppb) mercury = Kills human neuroblastoma cells (Parran et al., Toxicol Sci 2005; 86: 132-140).

2ppb mercury = U.S. EPA limit for drinking water (http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html#mcls).

20 ppb mercury = Neurite membrane structure destroyed (Leong et al., Neuroreport 2001; 12: 733-37).

200 ppb mercury = level in liquid the EPA classifies as hazardous waste (http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/mercury/regs.htm#hazwaste)

25,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose, Hepatitis B vaccine vials, administered at birth from 1991-2001 in the U.S.

50,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose DTP and Haemophilus B vaccine vials, administered 8 times in the 1990’s to children at 2, 4, 6, 12 and 18 months of age. Current “preservative” level mercury in multi-dose flu, meningococcal and tetanus (7 and older) vaccines.

For years the Infectious Disease division at the CDC (and others) have said the reason for the dramatic increase in autism is due to “better diagnosing” and “greater awareness.” They have encouraged those like the AAP to manufacture uncertainty by publishing articles that were less than truthful. The AAP shamefully played along, perhaps encouraged by the largesse of vaccine manufacturers who significantly contribute to the AAP’s yearly budget.

There is another budget to consider for eighty percent of autistic Americans under the age of 18, and we will soon begin to see a dramatic impact on Social Security in coming years as these children become dependent adults. There are no studies that have found the previously undiagnosed or misdiagnosed autistic individuals among older Americans. They simply aren’t there. So what is coming will significantly impact on society.

As there are no genetic epidemics, which leaves an epidemic linked to some sort of exposure. Now, the increase of autism has been linked to the increase in mercury exposure through fish and industrial sources, amalgam and additionally, through increased parenteral exposure to Thimerosal – no controlled, randomized study regarding the safety of amalgam or Thimerosal exists.

A recently released Scientific Consensus Statement on Environmental Agents Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment’s Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative) concludes that environmental contaminants are an important cause of learning and developmental disabilities.

Delayed detoxification of mercury severely impairs methylation reactions (required for the correct expression of DNA, RNA, and neurotransmitters), which further adversely affects growth factor derived development of the brain and attention abilities. Phospholipid methylation, which is crucial for attention, is impaired in autistic and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders.

In a first analysis of the VSD datasets, Verstraeten (et al) had described a 7.6 to 11.4 fold increase of autism risk in children at one month, with the highest mercury exposure levels compared to children with no exposure. In four subsequent separate generations of the analysis, which involve the exclusion of children with no Thimerosal exposure and less than two polio vaccines, the statistical significance disappeared. This is what was published by the AAP even though they knew the truth. How did they know the truth?

Again, they were presented at the Simpsonwood meeting in June 2000, a meeting that was illegal to hold. No Federal agency is allowed to call a meeting together with representatives of private industry (all the vaccine manufacturers were represented at this meeting) without opening the meeting to the public.

Thimerosal was tested only once, by Eli Lilly on 22 adult patients suffering from meningitis. There was no chance for follow- up to observe long-term effects, as all of the patients in this “study” died. Even if follow-up had been possible, damage to the developing brains of very young children would have remained an unknown. Eli Lilly said it was safe and the medical community accepted it. After the creation of the FDA, its use was simply continued. The federal government has never tested the type of mercury in vaccines for toxicity. This is an unconscionable oversight failure at best, at worse it is an example that we have left consensus reality to be created by the liars, thieves, cheats, killers, and the junk scientists they employ.

How it came to pass the AAP joined these rogues and became an active participant in this skullduggery is beyond reason – is even beyond greed. They have remained silent as mercury laden vaccine continue to be exported and used in all third world and second world countries.

We are living in a time where an incredible overplay and lies and self-aggrandizing behavior and non-science is the norm. We have tolerated the junk science that has covered up the true cause of this epidemic at a considerable cost to science, the public, and our very way of life in this country. Is it stretch to realize that by putting our collective heads in the sand about the autism epidemic we have made it possible for the destruction of our very civilization?

Not something easy to contemplate? Then ask why haven’t pediatricians come forward to demand the end of the use of Thimerosal once and for all, and to advocate for the treatment of these children before it is too late? Why are they not at the front of the line protesting the amounts of mercury allowed to come out of coal-fired power plants? Why aren’t they leading the charge to stop the use of mercury amalgam dental fillings that are placed in the mouths of young children and pregnant women?

The very Federal agencies that should have been sounding the alarm bell about environmental pollution creating future generations of mentally disabled citizens did less than remain silent because they have become arms of the very corporations that profit from selling and distributing poisons. Just look who sits on the FDA’s Scientific Advisory Boards – the conflicts of interest are so glaring as to suggest that the FDA has become a trade arm of big pharma.

Nevertheless, the hand writing is on the wall as the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.3 Pediatricians will no longer be able to hide behind the skirts of “Standard of Care” if they are giving autistic children heavy-metal laden vaccines. That is only one step away from giving vaccines and making normal children autistic.

The AAP should proactively be bringing in risk management specialists and be proactive towards how this could affect pediatricians in civil litigation for following the CDC recommendations on vaccinations after a diagnosis of any type of neurodevelopmental delay in a child. This is what they are afraid of and this is what the law of attraction will bring in upon the AAP and the minions of those that just followed the recommendations and drank the Kool-Aid that Big Pharma wanted them to drink.

For all the above reasons, I will no longer enable the AAP to be party to the damage that is being done to the world’s children by sending in my dues for a third decade. It is a token protest, but it has to begin with someone.

1 BMJ 2006;333:912-915 (28 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.38995.531701.80

2 http://www.ajph.org/cgi/eletters/AJPH.2007.113159v1

3 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html

K. Paul Stoller, MD is the President of International Hyperbaric Medical Assoc and Medical Director of the Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico.

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Facts Worth Noting About Pediatric Flu Vaccination

Friday, February 29th, 2008

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November 18, 2007

The following article presents testimony and statistics which any health freedom advocate or parent will find useful in considering whether they want to be vaccinated or have their child vaccinated against their will.

Vaccinating For Profit – From Cradle to Coffin News
February 2, 2006. By Evelyn Pringle

Due to the flooding of special education classrooms, along with the rising medical costs of treating injured children, local taxes will soon go through the roof, at which time the public will be forced to face the unthinkable truth about the poisoned generation.

And when that happens, government officials had better not even think about trying to feign ignorance because parents, scientists, and medical experts have been screaming about the epidemic in vaccine injuries, from one end of the country to the other, since the 1990s, and the fact is that lawmakers knowingly allowed it to happen.

Over the past twenty years, our government has facilitated a nationwide experiment on our country’s youngest citizens via the Mandatory Childhood Vaccine Schedule, and the tragic results of the experiment can be equally credited to the joint efforts of compromised regulatory officials and politicians, and the pharmaceutical industry that stood to make billions.

In a perverse twist of fate, the vaccine program has evolved into a grand profiteering scheme, second only to the military industrial complex’s war on terror fiasco. Instead of prevention, the program has resulted in an epidemic of serious health problems for an entire generation of children and at the same time, produced an infinite market expansion for the sale of other prescription drugs, for the scheme’s developers.

The start of the epidemic can be traced to the late 1980s, when public health officials dramatically increased the number of vaccines, which contained the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, without taking into consideration the impact of the cumulative mercury load on developing brains of infants.

Once the mercury poisoning was discovered by the FDA in 1999, vaccine-makers claimed they were eliminating thimerosal from vaccines but they never recalled the vaccines already on the market and children continued to receive mercury in vaccines for several more years. Even today, the flu vaccine recommended for 6-month-old babies and pregnant women still contain a full dose of thimerosal.

Instead of ordering drug companies to get the preservative out of all vaccines, Congressional Republicans and President George W Bush spent much of the past 3 years working on strategies to give the pharmaceutical industry protection against lawsuits from vaccine injured children. A handful of shameless Congressional Republicans remained lurking around in the shadows for years, just waiting for the right moment to attach the protective provision to some “anti-terror” spending bill until they succeeded in December 2005.

Before the age of two in this country, children receive at least 20 injections involving twelve diseases. By the time they reach first grade, they have had at least 24 vaccinations, if they are in compliance with the CDC’s 2005 Immunization Schedule. [By the time they reach age 18, if they have been vaccinated according to the American Academy of Pediatrics schedule, they have received fully 78 vaccinations! Comment by Dr. Rima]

For good reason, many parents do not want their children to receive 24 injections for diseases they have never heard of [and another 58 by age 18! Comment by Dr. Rima]. However, government officials use every trick in the book to force them to inject these poisonous concoctions into their children, including economic sanctions for refusing to comply.

Refusing vaccination can result in citizens being denied enrollment in daycare, elementary school, and college; denial of health insurance; denial of employment; and denial of federal and state benefits for poor children including cutting off medical care under Medicaid, and food, under the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program.

Medical professionals have been trying to get lawmaker to take notice of the health problems caused by vaccines since the 1990s. On June 14, 1999, Jane Orient, MD, Executive Director of the Associating of American Physicians and Surgeons, testified before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources of the Committee on Government reform and said:

“Striking increases in chronic illnesses have occurred in temporal association with an increase in vaccination rates,” she said. “Asthma and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, causes of lifelong morbidity and frequent premature death, have nearly doubled in incidence since the introduction of many new, mandatory vaccines.”

“There is no explanation for this increase,” Orient added.

“Even more alarming,” she told lawmakers, “is the huge increase in reports of autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, with devastating, life-long impacts.”

“Measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, and the whole panoply of childhood diseases are a far less serious threat,” Orient warned, “than having a large fraction (say 10%) of a generation afflicted with learning disability and/or uncontrollable aggressive behavior because of an impassioned crusade for universal vaccination.”

About 3 years later, across the country on the West Coast, Barbara Loe Fisher, President of the National Vaccine Information Center, testified before the California Senate Committee on Childhood Immunization Mandates: Politics vs Public Health on January 23, 2002. Fisher acknowledged that the CDC, and American Academy of Pediatrics, vigorously deny that the vaccines could have anything to do with more children being chronically ill.

“Yet, the haunting question remains,” she said, “if we have wiped out polio and almost eliminated measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and other childhood diseases with vaccines – why are so many of our children stuck on sick?”

“Why are our special education classrooms so crowded that we can’t find enough money or train teachers fast enough to care for these learning disabled, hyperactive, autistic, asthmatic, diabetic, emotionally disturbed, sick children?” Fisher asked.

Since 1982, she charged, “the numbers of American children with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder and asthma have doubled; diabetes has tripled; and the incidence of autism has reached epidemic proportions, increasing 200 to 600 percent in every state, marking a staggering 3400 percent increase in the prevalence of autism in our children.”

Scientist have also been warning lawmakers about the vaccine injuries. Dr Mark Geier, holds a PhD in genetics, and was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health for10 years. He has studied vaccines for over 30 years. Dr. Geier and his son, David Geier, are the only independent researchers who have gained access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink database controlled by the CDC, to conduct studies on the connection between vaccines and the epidemic in neurological problems.

In a March 22, 2003 letter to Senator Hillary Clinton, the Geiers reported: “we have concluded in our studies that a causal relationship exists between mercury from thimerosal in childhood vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders.”

“Our best estimates are that the thimerosal contributed to about 75% of the cases of neurodevelpmental disorders while the MMR contributed to about 15%,” they said. “The remaining 10% of the cases were related to mercury in Rhogam, a shot given to Rh-negative women, and to other sources of neurotoxicity.”

On June 18, 2004, Representative Dave Weldon (R-FL), a doctor by calling, was on the floor of Congress waving red flags, and literally begging Congress to recognize the seriousness of the epidemic in children with neurological disorders all over the country.

“Mr. Speaker, something dreadful is happening to our youngest generation, and we must sound the alarm and figure out what is going on with our children,” he said.

He quoted the Department of Health and Human Services when explaining that one in every 167 children was being diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. “Furthermore,” Weldon reported, “one in 7 children is being diagnosed with either a learning disability or a behavioral disability.”

On June 19, 2002, James Bradstreet, MD, Clinical Director of The International Child Development Resource Center in Florida, testified in Washington before the Government Reform Committee, and warned lawmakers about the cost of the autism epidemic back then.

“ICDRC estimates the minimal cost in present value, to care for those 420,000 existing children with autism is $1,260,000,000,000 (based on $3million/lifetime and 420,000 children affected).”

“So a little over a $1 trillion in the next 50 years would be required if we stopped creating new cases today,” Bradstreet said.

“Because autism is doubling every four years, this is likely an overly conservative estimate” he added. “The societal cost could easily be $3-4 trillion.”

On June 20, 2005, Robert F Kennedy, Jr, a relatively new advocate calling for the removal of thimerosal from vaccines, appeared on the Don Imus Show on MSNBC, and warned the public that our government is allowing drug companies to ship thimerosal-containing vaccines for use on children in other countries.

“They’re giving this now to kids all over the third world,” Kennedy warned. “In China, autism was unknown five years ago,” he said. “They started giving them American vaccines containing thimerosal and now they’ve got 1.8 million cases of autism,” he added.

Autism is also exploding in Argentina, India, and Nigeria, Kennedy said.

“What’s going to happen when our enemies around the world realize that the United State’s most heralded foreign policy which is vaccinating the children of the world is poisoning the brains of developing third world children?” he warmed.

“This is just a disaster,” Kennedy told Imus.

But it gets worse. Over the past 15 years, the vaccine scheme has resulted in a full-circle cycle of profits for the pharmaceutical industry. After poisoning an entire generation, drug companies are now making record profits from drugging their victims.

And the true irony of the situation is that due to their partnership with compromised officials and lawmakers, they were able to pull most of it off on the tax payer’s dime. Federal and State government programs, are the largest buyers of vaccines, administered “free” beginning with pregnant women all the way up to seniors citizens in nursing homes.

The vaccine racket is raging on at full-throttle. In 2005, more vaccines were administered to infants under the age of 1 in the US than in any other country. The current immunization schedule calls for 3 doses of Hepatitis B, the first at birth, 3 doses each of DTAP, HIB, IPV, Prevnar, and one dose of flu vaccine before a child’s first birthday.

The first year of childhood vaccines costs $620, and the second year costs $340, according to Pediatric Preventive Care Cost, Estimated US Average, 2005, by Patient Age, Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care (RE9939) and Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule, US, 2005.

For the year 2004, the CDC reported the US birth rate to be 4,115,590. Without an industrial size calculator, it would be impossible to do the math to multiply the birth rate by the vaccine costs above. Suffice to say that the total amount represents major profits for vaccine makers especially when most of the bill is sent directly to the tax payers.

As for making money off the vaccine-injured children, between 2000 and 2003, the number of children treated for “severe behavioral conditions” related to conduct disorder and autism rose more than 60%, according to Behavior Drugs Lead in Sales for Children, New York Times, May 17, 2004.

Tax dollars are being directly funneled to the pharmaceutical industry through the damaged children. Public funds currently account for 63% of all mental health spending and Medicaid spending has risen more than 50% since 2000 to more than $300 billion per year, according to Parity-Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America’s Mental Health System, Progressive Policy Institute, June 22, 2005; Medicaid Largest US Payer, Daily Health Policy Report, March 30, 20005.

Drug companies have also been raking in major profits from the sale of attention deficit drugs, with much of it coming from the public trough. The National Center for Health Statistics, reports that the number of children aged 3 to 17 with ADHD went from 3.3 million in 1997 to 4.4 million in 2002. Between 2000 and 2004, use of attention deficit stimulant drugs rose 56% among children, according to data compiled Medco Health Solutions, one of the largest prescription benefit managers in the nation.

According to testimony at the February 18, 2004, FDA hearing, by Dr Gianna Rigoni, of the FDA’s Office of Drug Safety, a combined total of approximately 10.8 million prescriptions were dispensed for SSRI antidepressants and atypicals antipsychotics to the 1 to 17-year-old population in 2002, and children between 1 and 11-years-old, accounted for about 2.7 million of those prescriptions.

In 2004, SSRIs and antipsychotics became the third-and fourth-biggest classes of drugs in the country, with sales of $20.7 billion. And much of that cost was borne by government health-care plans, according to the July 27, 2005 Wall Street Journal.

As for the continued use of thimerosal-laced flu vaccines with infants, according to the ACIP report of July 29, 2005 / 54(RR08);1-40, actual deaths from influenza are uncommon among children with and without high-risk conditions. A study that modeled influenza-related deaths estimated that annually, an average of 92 deaths, or 0.4 deaths per 100,000, occurred among children under 5 during the 1990’s.

So, are the risks associated with injecting a full dose of thimerosal into 4,115,590 six-month-old babies worth it when weighed against the benefits, if any, of flu vaccines? More and more parents think not.

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/vaccine-profit.html

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Food Fights and Fear in Australia

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Food prices are rising as biofuel uses up farm land and farmer’s time. Worse, Codex compliant foods, shipped long distances, add much more to global warming than locally produced and consumed foods (whose nutrients are more available and taste better, too). But all over the world, food is becoming so expensive, and the food shortages of food in storage are becoming so extreme that the ability of the poorest members of society to obtain food is becoming more and more difficult.

The following Australian article notes that a the price of a cow has increased in the past year from $700 Australian dollars to $1400 this fall. What this means to the poorest is cataclysmic. What it means to the middle class is difficult. What it means to the international corporations that control the production of food (Big Agribiz and Big Biotechna) is what disease means to Big Pharma and the rest of the illness care industry: profits, and big ones at that.

The David Suzuki Foundation notes that a basic North American meal could travel about 1,500 miles to get to your dinner table?
Transporting food causes greenhouse gases that lead to global climate change while locally grown foods help conserve farmlands and wildlife habitats. Local food also reduces the environmental costs of food transportation and is more likely to be fresh than food shipped long distances.

In fact, local eating has a new name: locovores. People whose diet consists primarily of food grown in their local areas have taken on the characteristics of a new type of human. Locovores celebrate the seasons and eat what their region produces all year long. Locovores can be meat eaters, non meat eaters, vegans, raw foodists or whatever they please. But whatever they fill their plates with, it did not travel long to get there. They are saving fuel, saving time, saving costs and saving the planet. And their food tastes better, too. Not a bad deal.

Grow and eat local organic produce to stem this tide of manipulated sticker shock and failing food supplies. Better yet, grow some or all of your own food in your own gardens or in community gardens. Find out more about community gardens from Canadian Health, the American Community Gardening Association (http://www.communitygarden.org/).

Do yourself and the planet a favor. Help counter the global food shortage by buying and eating locally.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

Food fear beats climate change

Article from: The Advertiser, Australia

CLARE PEDDIE, SCIENCE REPORTER

January 17, 2008 09:30pm

A WORSENING global food shortage is a problem far more urgent than climate change, top Australian scientists have warned.
The Australian Science Media Centre briefing heard why prices for some staple foods had risen by as much as 60 per cent in the past year, and how dramatic price rises are expected to sweep across all staples in the near future.

Executive director of the Australian Farm Institute Mick Keogh said dairy products, grain and poultry had seen the strongest price rises in recent months.

Beef and lamb were forecast to follow, with nationwide livestock shortages taking the average price for a cow from $700 a head 12 months ago to $1400 a head going into autumn.

Key speaker at the national science briefing Professor Julian Cribb said the security of our food supply is “the global scientific challenge of our time”.

The problem was more urgent even than climate change, said Professor Cribb, from the University of Technology in Sydney, because it will get us first . . . through famine and war. “By 2050 we will have to feed the equivalent of 13 billion people at today’s levels of nutrition,” he said.

“This situation brings with it the very real possibility of regional and global instability. Investment in global food stability is now defence spending and requires proportionate priority.”

A “knowledge drought” – the lack of innovation to address farm productivity challenges – had added to the crisis, Professor Cribb said.

He called for a massive increase in public investment in agricultural research and development.

Farmers face challenges posed by drought, climate change, rising oil prices, erosion and nutrient loss combined with more demand for food stocks and biofuels.

Global grain stocks have fallen to their lowest level since record-keeping began in 1960, while Australia’s sheep flock is at its lowest since the mid-1920s, with about 86 million.

In September last year 2007 the Australian Bureau of Statistics found consumers were paying 11.9 per cent more for basic food items than they were two years before. That is almost double the Consumer Price Index rise of 5.9 per cent during the period.

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