Archive for August, 2005

FDA Funnies!

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

We all know that the FDA is not a level playing field since everything tips toward pharma medicine and away from Natural Nutritional Medicine (NNM). No news there, unfortunately. However, NewsTarget.com sent this out and asked people to share it. Please read and enjoy! (And then consider what we need to do so that it no longer would be true!) It’s a bit long but worth the effort.

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Need a job? NewsTarget.com has just received word on several openings for cushy jobs with the FDA. Why keep working in powerless civilian positions when you can get paid by the government and wield power over others! Here’s what the agency is looking for:

PROPAGANDA OFFICER
No scientific background necessary. As a Propaganda Officer, you will help the FDA invent and dispense information that discredits products, companies and ideas that threaten FDA control over the monopolistic drug industry. Previous experience in a pharmaceutical company preferred. A background in public relations, communications or used car sales is a plus.

Career opportunities abound at the FDA, and it’s easy to succeed with this job since the mainstream press will print practically anything you say, regardless of whether it makes any scientific sense, as long as it’s on official FDA letterhead. Starting salary: $75,000 plus a license to kill any idea (or health business) you don’t like.

SCIENCE CENSOR
Have a scientific background? Put it to good use at the FDA as a respected Science Censor. Your job will be to bury all the scientific findings that harm the prestige and credibility of the FDA. Your main job is making sure all the drugs we’ve approved continue to be seen as safe, even when clinical studies reveal otherwise.

A variety of high-tech tools will be at your disposal. You’ll have direct phone lines to all the medical journals, a team of paralegals to generate legal threats, and you’ll even have your own personal shredder right beside the incoming fax machines where doctors fax voluntary drug side effects reports. Help us keep dangerous drugs on the market for as long as possible, and you’ll earn big performance bonuses!

Starting salary is $35,000 from the FDA, plus a $250,000 annual bonus paid by various drug companies, based on merit.

CHIEF OPPRESSION OFFICER
Ever wanted to carry a gun? Now you can wield power as an FDA employee, conducting armed raids on clinics where dangerous criminals are conducting illicit operations like healing people with prayer or teaching patients about nutrition. You can even raid buses full of senior citizens returning from medication-buying trips in Canada or Mexico! Previous military experience is a plus, ex-Gitmo interrogators preferred. (Duct tape and broomsticks provided upon request.)

No scientific or medical knowledge required, since you don’t really need to understand the reasons why you’re conducting armed raids. Just follow management’s orders, and we’ll hand you a gun and a badge, all in the name of protecting the public from the criminals of alternative medicine.

Starting salary is $65,000 plus all the free Prozac you can swallow.
(Antidepressant side effects are a plus in your line of work.)

KICKBACK COORDINATOR
As the Kickback Coordinator, your job is to keep tabs on FDA managers’ investments in pharmaceutical companies. You will maximize investment portfolios, produce reports that identify which drugs the FDA should approve next in order to boost shareholder profits, and serve as a courier for illicit cash exchanges.

There is no starting salary, but you do get a percentage of the kickbacks you manage. Criminal background preferred, mob ties are a plus.

MORALE OFFICER
The FDA’s morale has been harmed lately by utterly false accusations from certain FDA whistleblowers. As a Morale Officer, your job will be to keep all FDA employees in line as a way of boosting overall morale and work efficiency. It’s good for the economy!

To enforce proper morale among FDA employees, especially those involved in drug safety operations, you will be granted insider access to top-secret FDA technologies currently under development, including our “Graham buster” verbal silencer (patents pending) and a building-wide subliminal program broadcast system. “All profitable drugs are safe… All profitable drugs are safe…”

Salary: $85,000 plus free unlimited cable television.

CANADA BASHER
Do you share our hatred for those snooty Socialist Canadians? Join the FDA as a full-time Canada basher, and get paid to do what you love
best: insult Canada!

As you may know, the free market sales of prescription drugs from Canada threatens the FDA-controlled monopoly market for drugs in the U.
S. We need help to discredit Canada so that gullible U.S. consumers will distrust Canadian pharmacies and keeping shelling out their hard-earned cash at overpriced U.S. pharmacies (which we regulate and control, of course).

We already have a few old tricks to assist you in this job, like claiming that terrorists will poison all the drugs in Canada. You will have to come up with other strategies like claiming that Canadian pharmacies have no quality control, unlike U.S. pharmacies where pharmacists never, ever make mistakes.

Salary: $45,000 plus unlimited free drugs from Canada.

PUBLIC SAFETY PROGRAM DIRECTOR
In this role, you will actually work to protect the public from unsafe ingredients in foods, drugs and cosmetics. This is not really a full-time job. In fact, you do not even need to show up.

No experience necessary, in anything. No education required. Starting salary is minimum wage. You must bring your own desk to work, if you want one. That is, if you actually want to work at all.

HOW TO APPLY
Are you qualified for one or more of these prestigious positions at the FDA? Apply online at the FDA website, and if hired, you could soon wield government-sanctioned power over your fellow citizens. It’s a dream job, with outstanding job security. As long as you can help us make sure people never have access to genuine healing therapies, you’ll always have a job with us!

Laugh a Little!

Saturday, August 13th, 2005

Sometimes the best way to make a serious point is with humor and wit. Richard Brodie has made that clear. After I wrote a blog (Help Shape the Grassroots Campaign) asking for suggestions for slogans to capture the imagination of America, many of you wrote in with wonderful suggestions. Richard went one further: first, he wrote a limerick for us:

There were “Food Rules” once, very nefarious,
With which Bayer intended to bury us.
But we said “Go to hell!”
To Big Pharma’s cartel,
And “Screw you, Codex ALIMENTARIUS!”

But wait! There’s More! Then he wrote a side splittingly funny annotated version of Susan Davis’ devastatingly bad bill, HR 3156 Davis bill is funny? No, but the annotation is wonderful and it is funny. Best of all, it makes the point beautifully.

Once you read it, share it widely via a link in your emails to the Natural Solutions Foundation guide to important Congressional bills, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/bills

And share Richard’s limerick, too. CODEX is a bloated, pompous beast! Laugh at it and watch it deflate to a manageable size!

Yours in health and freedom (and laughter, too),

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

Use Meetup.com To Meet Other Health Freedom Activists

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

Hello,

This is Fox, web designer of HealthFreedomUSA.org. Dr. Laibow has asked me to write an entry in this blog. Alright, so I will share with you something that should lift your spirits.

Let me tell you a little bit about a fellow named Joe Trippi. Funny name, incredibly smart guy.

Joe Trippi is the author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (a book which I highly recommend to all health freedom activists). He was the campaign manager for the Dean for America 2004 campaign. And although Dean didn’t win, his campaign achieved some incredible successes.

Under Trippi’s leadership, the name “Howard Dean” went from total obscurity to having the big guys like Kerry trembling. Under Trippi’s leadership, the Dean campaign raised more money than the Kerry campaign.

Trippi made brilliant use of the power of the Internet to build community and get people together. Using the Internet, the Dean campaign raised over $7 million, mostly from $50 donations by thousands of individuals using their credit cards, sitting behind their computers.

Can we do the same for HealthFreedomUSA.org?

Maybe. We are launching Version 2 of HealthFreedomUSA.org in the next week, which will link to Meetup.com. Take a look at Meetup.com: it allows you to find people in your town who are interested in the same things you are interested in.

Regards,

– Fox
Web Designer
HealthFreedomUSA.org

P.S. Incidentally, Howard Dean is an M.D., and he graduated from the same med school as Dr. Laibow. Interesting. If anyone of you know Dr. Dean, please tell him about Dr. Laibow.

P.P.S. You can contact me via the commenting system of this blog. Click below.

Help Shape the Grass Roots Campaign

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

OK, you know that you have power with your Congressional members. You also know that there are really, really serious threats to health freedom and Natural and Nutritional Medicine (NNM) afoot because of CODEX, the confluence of the major corporate interests of the Bigs: Big Pharma, Big Chema, Big Agrabiz, Big Biotechna and Big Medica. You know that they can buy and sell political influence six ways to Sunday because of their legal and illegal influence peddling and limitless budgets. They are powerful, but they are not invincible, by any means! One of the things that they cannot stand is strong public pressure. Let’s give it to them!

Here is my question to you: Are you, a Little like me, ready to use the power we have to counter the Bigs? I sure am. That is exactly what I am doing when I battle CODEX with radio shows, articles, blogs, lectures, etc., etc. Remember the lobbyist’s advice: “This is a winnable battle if you can mobilize the grass roots. Get groups of people to visit the members of Congress in their local offices and let them know you mean business”.

Organizing a grass roots effort is a big, big task. We will help you. I will provide you with organizing outlines, flow charts and methods, conference calls, etc. to make it easy and successful to organize your fellow voters and get them involved in defeating CODEX.

But the way I figure it, every movement needs music and pity, memorable slogans to bring its message home to the hearts as well as the minds of the millions who will listen and join us. So here is my challenge: This is YOUR campaign every bit as much as it is mine! It’s your health, your longevity, your wellness we are talking about. I invite you to help design this campaign. Here’s how:

Music: If you have a link that plays a piece of music that you would like to share with the Health Freedom audience, send me a link in an email with your permission to post it and we will do exactly that! No obscenity, please. CODEX is quite obscene enough!

Slogans: We need strong, memorable and direct slogans to get people’s attention and give them a mental and emotional hook they can hang their well informed passion about CODEX upon. The Natural Solutions Foundation is fortunate enough to have a group I call our “War Council”. We meet often by phone and I know that I am deeply fortunate to have the diverse and wise council of this august group (not just in August, of course!) While we were talking about this very problem this evening we came up with a bunch of slogans. Picture them on signs in front of the White House and you get the feel for what we need very quickly.

As we were discussing the idea and developing the slogans when it suddenly occurred to me that YOU should be on the phone during this conversation, each one of you! Why? Because your passion, your humor, your creativity and your slant on the issues are vital to the ground swell of support that we are building. So send me your slogans, your suggestions for a theme for the grass roots campaign and your creative thoughts and we will post the ones that we believe we can use. In your email to me at rima.laibow@healthfreedomusa.org, along with the ideas they include a statement that you give us permission to use them, please.

This is a work in progress and I invite your participation. Here are the slogans we came up with in our brainstorming session. Tell us which ones work for you, which ones don’t and send us yours:

Pharma Fed = Pharma Dead

I’m Pharma Phed Up!

My Health – My Choice!

Drugs Kill – Vitamins Don’t!

My Way? DSHEA!

Americans Choose Health Not Drugs!

Health By Vitamins
or
Death by Drugs?

Death By CODEX!

CODEX: Latin for “Death”

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Laibow
Medical Director

Ready, Set, Organize!

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

I am putting the “PS” right up front today because it is so important:
PS: Please make sure that you listen to our August 10 radio show, FREE U.S./FREE US!, the Voice of Health Freedom ™ tonight, 7-8 PM at www.FICAAL.com. Our guest is Grace Jackson, MD, one of the bravest doctors you will ever hear! She told the Navy that she would no longer give deadly and damaging psychiatric drugs while she was an active duty Navy Psychiatrist and lived to tell about it. Listen to her story with us!

OK, now to today’s blog:

Did you ever get an email that made your whole day bright and sparkly? Well I did. I get about 1000 emails a day and I answer every one myself (so sometimes I get a little behind) but I try to read them all the day they come in even if it takes me a couple of days to get the answer out. Well, today’s inbox had a treat for me.

My treat was an email from a lady who wrote to tell me about the health freedom advocacy group that she runs in her state with local units that have a regular program of contacting their legislators on a regular basis on health freedom issues and making regular trips to visit their legislators.
They have a program of development with manageable goals for fund raising, for new members, for legislator contacts and for information dissemination. I was thrilled and asked her if she would like me to be present by speakerphone for the next meeting so the people present and I could interact with questions, suggestions, etc.

That’s exactly what we need: local meetings in homes, stores, offices of practitioners, etc, with an easy and manageable organization providing goals and materials for touching each and every senator and representative in his or her home district by phone, mail to their district offices, emails to their DC offices and, perhaps most important, visits to see them in their home offices. When you visit your Congressmen and women, you can look them in the eye and they can see that you are 1. Well informed, 2. Serious about the issue, 3. A real person, not a concept with no face and 4. A voter with friends and the conviction to vote on what you believe.

So let’s do it: home health freedom parties with a mission: to develop local units of politically effective voters. Write to me and let me know that you are willing to make a difference this way and I will make sure that you have all the support that the Natural Solutions Foundation can give you:
Materials
Networking strategies
Speakerphone support
And, if you set up a rally, I will be there with you! I promise!

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Laibow
Medical Director