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Internet Abuzz: Avian Flu Weaponized?

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Text of the Media Release as reported on Yahoo.com News:
[Yahoo.com now shows over 100,000 links to the search term “Weaponized Avian Flu.”]

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Internet Abuzz: Avian Flu Weaponized?

Thu Aug 21, 3:01 AM ET

Natural Solutions Foundation alerts world to startling evidence that H5N1 virus may already have been genetically engineered, resulting in the potential for a man-made pandemic. Since Natural Solutions Foundation first used the phrase “Weaponized Avian Flu” on its www.HealthFreedomUSA.org Internet site, on July 19, 2008, the references on the World Wide Web to the phrase have escalated, currently running several hundred new references daily. Foundation President Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine (USA ret) current best Intelligence Estimate is for a pandemic incident to possibly start this September 2008.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) August 21, 2008 — Noted health freedom activist Rima E. Laibow, MD and her organization, the Natural Solutions Foundation, alerted Health Freedom supporters that possibly “rogue” government operatives in concert with pharmaceutical interests, may be setting the stage for the unleashing of a genetically engineered Avian Flu pandemic-for-profit, possibly during the Olympics. This warning is based on the publicly announced August delivery to the US of an alleged Avian Flu “vaccine” manufactured in China under contract to the US by Sanofi-Pasteur. This fact, coupled with other highly suggestive pieces of intelligence, has led Foundation President, Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine (USA, Ret.) to conclude that a pandemic “incident” may be the “Big Event with global consequences” to which Congressman Ron Paul MD alluded in his 2008 Independence Day message.

Significant Internet traffic has been generated from the warning, which has been picked-up by Independent News sites such as Rense.com, InfoWars.com, Nutrimed.com and others. Since Natural Solutions Foundation first used the phrase “Weaponized Avian Flu” on the Internet on July 19, 2008, the references on the World Wide Web to the phrase have escalated, currently running several hundred new references daily.

As a result, the Natural Solutions Foundation’s urgent Health Freedom eAlert and accompanying video, entitled: ‘Weaponized Avian Flu: Are YOU Ready to Die for the Establishment?’ has become an Internet phenomenon, forwarded to millions of readers, according to Foundation best estimates. The eAlert and YouTube video are available at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=742

According to Stubblebine and Laibow, “The story is a long, complicated one, winding its way from China to France by way of the First World War, the Oil Cartel, the Pharmaceutical Cartel and Iraq… to its final destination: a syringe full of something claiming to be a vaccine against the newly-deadly Avian Flu.”

The opinions expressed by Gen. Stubblebine and Dr. Laibow are based upon a series of publicly available facts which have been brought together for the Intelligence Assessment; see the substantiation citations at the end of this release and on the Internet posting.

“Our best intelligence estimate is that pandemic Avian Flu has already been created through genetic engineering. The evidence shows the Avian Flu has been turned into a viral threat through bioengineering in the United States, fusing the deadly genome of the 1918 Pandemic, misnamed the “Spanish Flu,” with the DNA of the innocuous H5N1 virus in a growth medium of human kidney cells, according to the National Institutes of Health and this vaccine’s manufacturer. Some virologists believe that this would insure that the man-made mutant virus recognizes human cells and knows how to invade them.”

Dr. Laibow stated: “As a Physician, I understand a basic virological fact that the public has not been told: it is impossible to make a vaccine against a virus that does not yet exist. Public relations efforts to the contrary, IF a vaccine is being made against the Avian Flu virus in its pandemic form, that means the pandemic virus must already exist. So the fact that the Avian Flu vaccine is already being manufactured in China by Sanofi-Pasteur, reported to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of TOTAL Petroleum, a French arm of the Cartel, supports our contention that the Weaponized Avian Flu already exists. As we saw in the case of the Anthrax scare of 2001, an allegedly disgruntled government employee can release deadly toxins from even the most secure government facility.”

The Natural Solutions Foundation notes with alarm that the media has reported that the genome of the 1918 pandemic virus, the so-called “Spanish Flu”, was recently intentionally resurrected by, and with grants from, the United States government. Because of that resurrection, the newly modified Avian Flu, and its “vaccine” may now be a significant threat to public health.

The “Spanish Flu” was American, not Spanish. The evidence shows it may have been created in the U.S. through an early bio-weapons program created at the direction of Teddy Roosevelt through manufacturing facilities controlled, according to current information, by the Rockefeller cartel, it was injected into healthy young men (i.e., ‘soldiers’) as the first mandatory vaccination in the military during WWI (also known as the “War to End Wars” and the “Great War”). The “Spanish Flu”, originating in Kansas on U.S. Military bases, killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and millions worldwide. It was one of the deadliest pandemics in modern history. It also appears to have been one of the most successful biological weapons ever created — until now.

“Publicly available information shows the pharmaceutical industry and US government are both actively preparing for an Avian Flu pandemic — this is shown through their own promotional literature and propaganda,” continues Laibow.

Sanofi-Pasteur’s website contains a document which clearly illustrates their business model and how the company successfully capitalizes on the immensely profitable worldwide mandatory vaccination market. It touted its contract with the US Government to produce a pandemic flu vaccine.

Dr. Laibow stated, “The whole notion of an Avian Flu pandemic, occurring without technological intervention, is highly questionable. To date, there have only been around 385 human cases of Avian Flu identified worldwide (assuming those identifications are trustworthy, of course), with 243 deaths. To put the absurdity of this effort into perspective, Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD), which many researchers believe is heavily associated with aspartame consumption, is a leading cause of death according to the CDC. For example, SCD killed 460,000 Americans in 1999 and the numbers keep rising (www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5106a3.htm). But aspartame, a product of Monsanto, is an approved substance, while, the currently non-pandemic Avian Flu is the focus of hugely expensive, seemingly irrational preparations IF there is no intent to create that very pandemic.”

Laibow adds, “Given the shockingly obvious lack of any threat from an un-weaponized H5N1 virus, how can we explain the Bush Administration spending billions of dollars preparing each of the 50 States for what it drums into us is the “inevitable Bird Flu pandemic” anticipated to kill half or more of all Americans and similar numbers of people around the globe? Americans are outraged and can inform themselves and their families by contacting the Natural Solutions Foundation and joining the free distribution list of the informative Health Freedom eAlerts, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=187 — . eAlert list members can expect to be uniquely well informed as recipients of the Foundation’s continuing threat analysis and action steps.”

Gen. Stubblebine’s Current Best Intelligence Estimate suggests the following possible scenario:

1. We have been examining the historical record for latency and infectious periods (for example, for the 1918 pandemic and for the unweaponized Avian Flu). The latency period could be anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks.

2. Our current best estimate is that people could start to notice symptoms as soon as a week after disbursal of the pathogen; the disease will, if especially virulent, cause death within 72 hours of first symptoms. The current supposedly unweaponized flu is deadly to 2/3 of those who catch it.
3. For example, if the pathogen were released, say, at the end of the Olympics, on August 23rd or 24th, people would start to notice symptoms by the end of the Labor Day Holiday (US Labor Day is September 1st this year).

4. By the time most US college students are back in school, September 5th, the media would begin to notice and the public authorities would be empowered to act, we suspect, within 72 hours of mass media notice (we believe the alternative media might “get wind” of the impending pandemic a 12 to 24 hours earlier).

5. Under this scenario, by September 8th we can expect national “lock down” and a declaration of Martial Law shortly thereafter, as people panic trying to obtain food and protection. Places of public accommodation would certainly be closed. This would very possibly signal the end of Internet communications, possibly telephone communications as well.

Finally, we note that the “Pandemic Avian Flu Vaccine” is scheduled to be delivered to the United States during August from Sanofi-Pasteur’s Chinese pharmaceutical plant. The US government issued its “Vaccine” allocation plan on July 23, 2008. The Natural Solution Foundation issued its initially warning on July 19, 2008.

The Foundation has now provided links to original information, from which data leading to this intelligence Estimate of Situation has been developed, suggesting the induced Avian Flu pandemic could occur as early as September, 2008.

Substantiation

Here are some outside links that give rise to some of the elements of this Intelligence Estimate:

“Pandemic Flu Vaccine” allocation:
http://www.pandemicflu.gov/vaccine/allocationguidance.pdf

NorthCom Military Avian Flu Involvement, Planning and Exercises: www.northcom.mil

NIH Avian Flu “trials” –
http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2005/avianfluvax.htm

Sanofi-Pasteur – US contract –
www.sanofi-aventis.com/Images/060706_IR_en_tcm23-13319.pdf

Illegal “Pandemic Flu Vaccine” test:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html

Coffin Stockpile: http://www.prisonplanet.com/half-a-million-plastic-coffins.html

House Of Lords Warning:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/world-warned-over-killer-flu-pandemic-872809.html

About the Natural Solutions Foundation
The Natural Solutions Foundation, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, www.GlobaHealthFreedom.org, was founded by Dr. Rima E. Laibow, MD and Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubbleine, III (USA, ret.), who, along with Ralph Fucetola JD, are the Foundation Trustees. Established in 2004, the Foundation is an international NGO (Non Governmental Organization) active and registered in several countries, and is a not for profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization in the United States.

The Mission of the Foundation is to discover, develop, demonstrate and disseminate natural solutions to the problems threatening health and freedom, achieving and maintaining a healthy self, community and world. Since its founding the Natural Solutions Foundation has pursued a vigorous program on many fronts, including natural solutions to significant social, legal and international problems involving health and wellness. We consider health freedom to be part of those solutions. Among the major threats to health freedom are Codex Alimentarius (the World Food Code) and national agencies that are tasked with protecting the public, but are not. The threats to health and freedom are both domestic and international, as are the solutions.

Further listing of Natural Solutions Foundation accomplishments at: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=195

Source: Natural Solutions Foundation

Contact:
Dr. Rima Laibow, M.D., Trustee
dr.laibow @ gmail.com

Ralph Fucetola JD, Trustee
ralph.fucetola @ usa.net

Websites:
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
http://YouTube.com/NaturalSolutions
www.NaturalSolutionsMedia.tv
www.Organics4U.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketplace.org

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Disclaimer: No one knows if the pandemic will be unleashed. Let us pray that it will not. However, we note with alarm that there are an increasing number of indicators suggesting that this Pandemic is being prepared to be used against us all using a variety of weaponized viruses. If our ringing of the alarm bells is successful, we will be spared – and we will have been wrong. Let us all devoutly hope that the Natural Solutions Foundation’s urgent and effective information dissemination is that successful.

Penny For Your Thoughts, or Is That Life Inprisonment?

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Thinking people are the greatest danger to totalitarina regimes. Thinking people who share their thoughts compellingly are a danger which no totalitarian regime tolerates. Repression and supression of independent thinking is vilified in what can be seen as the central unifying principle of all fascist states: dissent is a crime and thinking wrong thoughts is a crime as well.
The current administration is determined to increase the characteristics that make it look like a totalitarian state with our without the consent of Congress.

The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 has not even been passed yet but the Department of Homeland Security is implementing it, at public expense, at to great public shame, despite the lack of Congressional mandate.

Passed by the House, but not even voted on by the Senate, the audacious and very likely unconstitutional acts described below should give any real patriot the “screaming meemies”. And, if they have their way untammelled, you may be screaming your meemies on the inside of a solitary confinement cell in a thought reeducation camp.

Now would be a good time to get involved to make sure this atrocity never, never comes to fruition in the US, a country which at least in theory, has a Constitution to protect your rights from invasions like this one.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org
www.Organics4U.org
www.YouTube.com/NaturalSolutions
www.NaturalSolutionsMedia.tv
Thought Crimes Agenda Already Being Implemented
08-07-2008

Lee Rogers

The Department of Homeland Security is moving towards implementing a provision of the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 otherwise known as the “Thought Crimes Bill”. This is despite the fact that the legislation has not been signed into law. The House version of the bill HR 1955 was passed by a margin of 404-6 where as the Senate version of the bill S 1959 is still awaiting action.

One of the bill’s provisions gives the Department of Homeland Security the authority to fund a University based Center of Excellence to study ways to thwart what the government believes are extremist belief systems and radical ideologies of individual Americans. In other words, if the government doesn’t like the way you think, they are going to have teams of social scientists and behavioral experts trying to figure out the best way to deal with you.

As it turns out, the Department of Homeland Security is already funding a Center of Excellence to study thought criminals in the United States at the University of Maryland. This shows that it doesn’t matter if S 1959 is defeated or not, as they are moving forward with this agenda with or without Congressional approval. In reality, Congress is nothing more than a staged circus to make people falsely believe that they actually have a say in what the government does.

The Department of Homeland Security is funding research to setup an Orwellian system to deal with political dissenters under the guise of fighting terrorism and they care not if it is in accordance with what the people want. Another words, be prepared for the possibility of a future with re-education camps as a real life Ministry of Love system is implemented.

The following is taken from Security Products Online detailing the Department of Homeland Security’s funding of this Center of Excellence that will study thought crimes or as they like to call it the threat of homegrown terrorism and violent radicalization:

A team of more than 50 social scientists, armed with new federal funding, will extend its research into radicalization and the formation of terrorist groups in the United States and abroad. The researchers will also study the effectiveness of counter-terror strategies, as well as efforts to build community resilience to attacks.

Now, let’s take a look at section 899D of HR 1955 and we’ll see that what’s proposed in the bill has for all intents and purposes already become a reality.

`SEC. 899D. CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE STUDY OF VIOLENT RADICALIZATION AND HOMEGROWN TERRORISM IN THE UNITED STATES.

`(a) Establishment- The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish or designate a university-based Center of Excellence for the Study of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism in the United States (hereinafter referred to as `Center’) following the merit-review processes and procedures and other limitations that have been previously established for selecting and supporting University Programs Centers of Excellence. The Center shall assist Federal, State, local and tribal homeland security officials through training, education, and research in preventing violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism in the United States. In carrying out this section, the Secretary may choose to either create a new Center designed exclusively for the purpose stated herein or identify and expand an existing Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence so that a working group is exclusively designated within the existing Center of Excellence to achieve the purpose set forth in subsection (b).

`(b) Purpose- It shall be the purpose of the Center to study the social, criminal, political, psychological, and economic roots of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism in the United States and methods that can be utilized by Federal, State, local, and tribal homeland security officials to mitigate violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism.

`(c) Activities- In carrying out this section, the Center shall–
`(1) contribute to the establishment of training, written materials, information, analytical assistance and professional resources to aid in combating violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism;

`(2) utilize theories, methods and data from the social and behavioral sciences to better understand the origins, dynamics, and social and psychological aspects of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism;
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(3) conduct research on the motivational factors that lead to violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism; and

`(4) coordinate with other academic institutions studying the effects of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism where appropriate.

The Department of Homeland Security is providing roughly $12 Million over 3 years to fund this research. Among the planned research includes building a database of U.S. extremist crime, studying how social networks spread thought crime, tracking sympathy and support for terrorism in the United States among various communities, studying the phony European white Al-Qaeda threat and much more.

The government has no business funding research studying the political beliefs of people and determining who may or may not be a potential terrorist based upon a vague definition of homegrown terrorism and violent radicalization. In fact, the definitions of these terms as defined in HR 1955 and S 1959 are up to the interpretation of the government.

This means that a homegrown terrorist could potentially be anybody the government doesn’t like. Not only is it unconstitutional, but it opens up the flood gates for a tyranny only theorized in novels like George Orwell’s 1984. The social scientists that are being funded in this program could potentially suggest the implementation of programs that could include the round up of people for re-education based upon any sort of criteria even if no real crime has been committed.

Literally, the Department of Homeland Security is funding research to go after people who have political beliefs and ideologies that are contrary to the agenda of the establishment. Unfortunately for the American people, they are employing the services of some very smart people to do this. Who knows what these people will come up with but considering what they’ve already done, it won’t be in the best interest of freedom.

In the Soviet Union, political dissidents and intellectuals were labeled crazy and put in mental institutions or slave labor camps. Could the same thing happen in the United States? [The largest detention center, located outside of Fairbanks, Alaska, is said to hold an astonishing 2.5 million people, and alleged to be designated for “mentally ill people”. Whether such mental illness is that which is recognized by the psychiatric profession or political dissent is an opent question at this point. Dr. Rima]

After these scientists finish their research, it very well could considering what we see with the militarization of police and growing technological spy grid here in the United States. How can we assume that their recommendations will defend liberty when everything else the government has done in order to fight this phony terror threat has been contrary to the principles of freedom?

Particularly interesting is how they are concerned about activity on the Internet. Many freedom oriented radio networks and web sites have been formed over the past decade to protest what is becoming an increasingly corrupt and criminal government. The free flow of information is a real threat to the establishment and they are scrambling for ways to determine how to put the lid on it.

In closing, it is disturbing that the Department of Homeland Security would fund a program before a bill authorizing the action is signed into law. The provisions in the thought crimes bill represent the potential for total despotism and tyranny and even if a few of the provisions are implemented like this Center for Excellence funding, it marks a severe threat for liberty. These government terrorists must be defeated and there needs to be an investigation into the funding of this research which is unconstitutional on its face.
www.roguegovernment.com

GMO Files: Prince Charles Says GM Heading for World’s Greatest Disaster

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

August 21, 2008

Codex Alimentarius is a friend to Genetically Modified (GM) foods since it allows the US to replicate its devastatingly dangerous lack of labeling for GM foods. Here in the US, such labeling is forbidden since, in 1992, George H. W. Bush, then President, issued an Executive Order granting, as if by the magic of lobbying, equality to natural foods and those produced by biotechnology. Once equivalent, the GM foods not only did not have to be labeled, they MAY not be labeled, according to the ever corporate-friendly FDA — “GM Free” labels are not lawful, according to the FDA.

Not only that, but, playing the heavy at Codex, the US has managed to overcome the resistance of nearly all African countries, the EU and a host of other nations with grave reservations about both the safety of these “foods” and the ethical nature of denying consumers information they overwhelmingly say that they want to have — whether their food has been genetically tampered with or not.

A New York Times – CBS Poll earlier this summer indicated that 87% of Americans want GM labeling; over half would not buy GM food if it were so labeled: http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/05/23/half-of-all-americans-wouldnt-buy-frankenfoodsif-they-could-tell-the-difference/

Prince Charles, Heir Apparent to the throne of England, Wales and Scotland, however, got it right and did so in the face of the Press. Read what the Prince had to say below.

Natural Solutions Foundation commends Prince Charles for his stand on Genetically Modified foods and crops. The prince has long been an advocate of natural food production and a champion of organic farming. He notes, as does the Natural Solutions Foundation, that the industrialization of food production leads not only to inferior food, but drives the subsistence or peasant farmers off their lands creating social devastation along with the devastation of the environment and health for which GM foods are responsible.

The Prince warned that the bio tech corporations are taking us all towards a grim environmental disaster of unprecedented magnitude.

Whatever else the Royal Family of the UK may be engaged in, on this particular battle, they are on the right side and must be welcomed to the Natural Solutions Foundation Hall of Fame.

Congratulations, Prince Charles!

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org
www.Organics4U.org
www.YouTube.com/NaturalSolutions
www.NaturalSolutionsMedia.tv

Charles in GM ‘disaster’ warning
BBC News August 13, 2008
Prince Charles has his own organic farm at his Gloucestershire estate

Companies developing genetically modified crops risk creating the biggest environmental disaster “of all time”, Prince Charles has warned.

GM crops were damaging Earth’s soil and were an experiment “gone seriously wrong”, he told the Daily Telegraph.

A future reliance on corporations to mass-produce food would drive millions of farmers off their land, he said.

The government said it welcomed all voices in the “important” debate over the future potential role of GM crops.

However, Dr Julian Little, chairman of the Agricultural Biotechnology Council, said he was “disappointed” by the Prince’s comments because “they do not seem to be based on any solid evidence”. *

“Our experience from over 10 years of GM cultivation shows that GM technology has been [sic] found to deliver real environmental and economic benefits,” he said. *

Mr Little added: “At a time when demand for food and fuel is rising and in the face of growing environmental challenges, we need to find ways to feed an ever-increasing global population.”

FROM THE TODAY PROGRAMME

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BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the Prince’s “robust” comments were “likely to rankle with the government”, which has given the go-ahead to a number of GM crop trials in the UK since 2000.

“Even for a prince who’s a long-established champion of organic farming and critic of GM crops, these are comments which verge on the extreme,” our correspondent said.

Prince Charles told the newspaper that huge multi-national corporations involved in developing GM foods were conducting a “gigantic experiment with nature and the whole of humanity which has gone seriously wrong”.

Relying on “gigantic corporations” for food would end in “absolute disaster”, he warned.

“That would be the absolute destruction of everything… and the classic way of ensuring there is no food in the future.”

What should be being debated was “food security not food production”, he said.

He said GM developers might think they would be successful by having “one form of clever genetic engineering after another”, but he believed “that will be guaranteed to cause the biggest disaster environmentally of all time”.

Prince Charles, who has an organic farm on his Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire, said relying on big corporations for the mass production of food would not only threaten future food supplies but also force smaller producers out of business.

“If they think this is the way to go, we will end up with millions of small farmers all over the world being driven off their land into unsustainable, unmanageable, degraded and dysfunctional conurbations of unmentionable awfulness,” he said.

The prince also told the Telegraph he hoped to see more family-run co-operative farms, with producers working with nature and not against it.

The Prince’s comments come at a time of rising world food prices and food shortages.

The biotech industry says that GM technology can help combat world hunger and poverty by delivering higher yields from crops and also reduce the use of pesticides.

‘Untenable’

In June, Environment Minister Phil Woolas said the government was ready to argue for a greater role for the technology.

But green groups and aid agencies have doubts about GM technology’s effectiveness in tackling world hunger and have concerns about the long-term environmental impact.

Responding to the prince’s comments, a spokeswoman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: “Safety will always be our top priority on this issue.” …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7557644.stm

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* In the opinion of the Natural Solutions Foundation, the statements made by Dr. Little are disingenuous at the least. We know of no conclusive evidence that GM products are safe; certainly no long-term studies have been undertaken. Further, there are many suggestive developments, such as the upsurge in Morgellon’s-like syndrome, the reported devastation of the bee population, and similar instances that suggest the long term safety of GM products is not proven. Under the usual Precautionary Principal GM products cannot be deemed safe.

Weaponized Avian Flu: Current Intelligence Estimate of Situation.2.1

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Weaponized Avian Flu Intelligence Update
As of August 15, 2008
(Revised 08.24.08)

Index:
Current Updates
Disclaimer
Many More Dots…
Resources

August 21, 2008: Internet Abuzz Media Release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1227944.htm
Previous Update: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=755
Original WAF Warning: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=742

Current Update Summary:

1. Even when the news is non existent or nonsensical, the drum beat continues to keep Avian Flu in front of everyone who reads, watches or listens to the news.

2. Multiple strains of Avian Flu are being created and “identified”

3. Avian Flu vaccines are being readied in the US even though, assuming that such a vaccine would, in fact, be protective and effective, they would be ineffective against any Avian Flu strains except the one they were prepared from

4. Avian Flu vaccines might well be used to spread, rather than to prevent against the disease.

5. The full contents of Avian Flu vaccines is unknown to us at this time but we do know that the Sanofi-Pasteur version, due in the US in August, 2008, was produced using human kidney cells allowing the hemagglutinin receptors to become “educated” on how to invade human cells.

6. UK health official note that although they have purchased 3.3 million vaccine doses, the protection they offer is unknown at best since until the pandemic flu has been identified, there can be no vaccine and that creating it after that point will take 4-6 months at the least. Therefore, the entire US story about being able to vaccinate “every man, woman and child against the pandemic Avian Flu” is shown to be totally flawed and nonsensical.

7. If the currently predicted “inevitable Avian Flu Pandemic” were not a weaponized version of the recently resurrected 1918 pandemic flu, why would the media suddenly start touting the idea that survivors of the 1918 pandemic are still producing antibodies which Dr. James Crowe, Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology and immunology at Vanderbilt University, says “might provide a key to a good interim treatment while a vaccine is being produced.” Note also that, like the spokes person in the UK, Dr. Crowe believes that until a virus is identified, no vaccine is possible. Compare this with the repeated US assertion that a pandemic vaccine has already been produced in the absence of any pandemic virus mutation, a scientific impossibility.
http://www.injuryboard.com/national-news/immune-system-still-fighting-the-1918-flu-pandemic.aspx?googleid=245818

We see no indication that the Avian Flu engineered pandemic events are “off the table” and believe that news outlets and journals indicate an escalating threat of an induced pandemic.

Index

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

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Disclaimer: No one knows if the pandemic will be unleashed. Let us pray that it will not. However, we note with alarm that there are an increasing number of indicators suggesting that this Pandemic is being prepared to be used against us all using a variety of weaponized viruses. If our ringing of the alarm bells is successful, we will be spared – and we will have been wrong. Let us all devoutly hope that the Natural Solutions Foundation’s urgent and effective information dissemination is that successful.

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Please help to make the Pandemic secret so ineffective that the authors of this nightmare are backed off by our shared awareness. Disseminate this information to everyone you know and ask them to do the same.

Our best weapon against the coming Pandemic is truth.

Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMedia.tv
www.Organics4U.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org

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Many More Dots…

1. May, 2008 Multiple hybrids of Avian Flu created, all “biologically fit”.
The Canadian Press, Toronto, “An experiment mating H5N1 avian flu viruses and a strain of human flu in a laboratory produced a surprising number of hybrid viruses that were biologically fit, a new study reveals. And while none of the offspring viruses was as virulent as the original H5N1, about one in five were lethal to mice at low doses, showing they retained at least a portion of the power of their dangerous parent. The work suggests that under the right circumstances – and no one is clear what all of those are – the two types of flu viruses could swap genes in a way that might allow the H5N1 virus to acquire the capacity to trigger a pandemic. That process is called reassortment. ‘This study is just showing exactly that: There is a risk this virus can successfully reassort with a human virus,’ said Richard Webby, director of the World Health Organization’s collaborating center for influenza research at St. Jude Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.” http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9833

2. H5N1 DNA found in Vaccines, Rima E. Laibow, MD Video http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=zcniJxck0gI

3. August 16, 2008: April 1, 2005 Amended Bush Executive Order including novel influenza as trigger of Marshal Law appears again in Google Avian Flu Updates/Alerts.

“EXECUTIVE ORDER: AMENDMENT TO E.O. 13295 RELATING TO CERTAIN INFLUENZA VIRUSES AND QUARANTINABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264(b)), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose set forth in section 1 of Executive Order 13295 of April 4, 2003, section 1 of such order is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
“(c) Influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic.”
Sec. 2. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.

George W. Bush
The White House

4. Public being indoctrinated with “inevitable” flu pandemic/Many strains of potentially pandemic virus exist.

a. May 8, 2008 WHO warns of rising bird flu pandemic risk: http://www.fiercebioresearcher.com/vaccines/story/who-warns-of-rising-bird-flu-pandemic-risk/2008-05-08

b. August 16, 2008 “Influenza experts agree that a deadly pandemic of some kind of flu is inevitable….More humans could be infected with bird flu, specifically the H9N2 strain, and that could lead to a worldwide pandemic, according to a Hong Kong expert.”: http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1523201/avian_flu_threat/

c. August 13, 2008 “Our results suggest that the establishment and prevalence of H9N2 viruses in poultry pose a significant threat for humans.” http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080813210710.1u3dk61t&show_article=1

d. August 13, 2008 Multiple strains of Avian Flu may cause Pandemic, US Scientists warn: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080813210710.1u3dk61t&show_article=1

e. August 16, 2008 Avian Flu Threat New strain of potentially pandemic flu becoming established. “More humans could be infected with bird flu, specifically the H9N2 strain, and that could lead to a worldwide pandemic, according to a Hong Kong expert.
“It’s quite possible … H9N2 is infecting humans quite a lot, much (more) than we appreciate merely because it is beyond the radar,” said Malik Peiris, a Hong Kong-based microbiologist.
“In humans, it is very mild, so most of the time it’s probably not even recognized or biologically tested,” said Peiris, who has co-authored several papers on the strain in recent years.”

f. Ohio spends millions to convince public of pandemic reality with “It…will…happen….again!” propaganda campaign: http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1218789179323820.xml&coll=2&thispage=1

g. “Pandemic”, a movie about the coming plague, released: http://www.moviestrailer.org/pandemic-movie-trailer.html

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h. August 17, 2008 Despite a total lack of “New News”, articles like this one are front page news all over the world: Uganda: New Strain of Bird Flu Poses a Major Threat, Jane Nafula, The Monitor, Kampla, Uganda, http://allafrica.com/stories/200808170059.html

i. Pandemic II, computer game, launched, “Do It Yourself Pandemic As a biology major in undergrad, you can imagine my glee when I found a fantastic infectious disease game at Kongregate called Pandemic II.

Basically you get to play an infectious disease, with the goal of strategically plotting infection, transmission and death across the entire globe. Chose Virus, Bacteria, or Parasite and do your best to ensure that you take special care to get Madagascar, that pesky island nation has a habit of shutting down its shipyards and ruining your chances of global domination.
Is it wrong when you’re trying to beat your own record for wiping out the whole of humanity?“:http://www.play-girlz.com/do-it-yourself-pandemic/

j. Pandemic leads list of worries in UK, beats terrorism. NOTE: UK says that no pandemic vaccine will give much protection and no vaccine will be available until the virus has been identified and then it will take 4-6 months to create it, thus giving anyone accepting the US’ story about having an effective Avian Flu vaccine available great pause: “…a flu pandemic still tops the bill in the register of risks because of the greater impact it could have across Britain and the overwhelming damage it would do to the economy because of the huge casualty rate. The assessment is that the number of deaths would be between 50,000 and 750,000, and that more than a million could need hospital care.
Experts cannot predict when it will happen but say when it does it will come in several waves of three to six months over a two-year period. A Ministry of Defense document recently released under the Freedom of Information Act said that a pandemic would generate ‘unprecedented levels of public fear, stress and panic’

The Department of Health has purchased 3.3 million doses of vaccine for the H5N1 strain of bird flu that could give a degree of protection. But the Cabinet Office gives warning that no pandemic vaccine will be available until the virus has been identified and that it will take, it is estimated, four to six months for it to be developed and manufactured.”: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4481505.ece

k. Absurd comparisons to real pandemics make the threat seem immense. Nigeria, Lagos, 9 August 2008 Segun Awofadeji, Gombe – The Gombe State Public enlightenment committee on Avian Influenza has described the disease as more dangerous and deadlier then HIV/AIDS.

This, according to the Desk Officer, communication on Avian Influenza in the state, Mr. Kassim Toro, is because it kills many people at once if it is allowed to transmit and infect human beings. He noted that although there are no confirmed cases of Avian Influenza in the State, the committee will not rest on its responsibilities of enlightening people about the dangers of the disease. According to him, over 26 states have confirmed cases of the disease including those States that are bordering Gombe State. …. [and] he vowed that the deadly disease would not be allowed to surface in Gombe State. http://allafrica.com/stories/200808200568.html

l. Inevitable is spelled “New Hampshire”. Pandemic preparation: Planning, partnerships By JOHN KOZIOL Wednesday, August 20, 2008

“Somewhere out in the world, there’s a potential pandemic with America and the Granite State’s name on it, but the good news, said state Director of Public Health Services, is that New Hampshire and local communities are planning for it….There is then the more “dicey” decision of which employee gets an antiviral drug and how it is administered to them, said Montero.There are no answers yet, Montero admitted, but along with many others, “I’m trying to figure this out.” http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/GJNEWS02/1911/-1/CITNEWS

5. Avian Flu Deadly in Factory Farms, Never in Outdoor Flocks
a. Deadly Avian Flu is a product of industrial poultry farms and never arises in outdoor flocks, Michael Gregor speaks at the Health Sciences Learning Center, Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=aSpv5FmJ5tg&feature=related

b. February 2006 The Poultry Industry’s Central Role in the Bird Flu Crisis, “The transformation of poultry production in Asia in recent decades is staggering. In the Southeast Asian countries where most of the bird flu outbreaks are concentrated—Thailand, Indonesia, and Viet Nam—production jumped eightfold in just 30 years, from around 300,000 metric tonnes (mt) of chicken meat in 1971 to 2,440,000 mt in 2001. China’s production of chicken tripled during the 1990s to over 9 million metric tons per year.” http://www.grain.org/briefings/?id=194

c. Avian Flu detected in US Chickens, June, 2008. Large numbers destroyed.
Ominously, on June 3, Associated Press reported, “Tyson Foods Inc. has begun killing and burying the carcasses of 15,000 hens from a flock that tested positive for exposure to a strain of the bird flu in northwest Arkansas, state officials said.” The strain, H7N3, is a less virulent strain than the better-known H5N1 strain. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-03-hens_N.htm

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d. The industrialization of chicken-raising and slaughtering in the USA has progressed to the point that by 2003 when the first cases of H5N1 Avian Flu virus were reported from Asia, five giant multinational agribusiness companies dominated the production and processing of chicken meat in the United States. The five companies were Tyson Foods, the largest in the world; Gold Kist Inc; Pilgrim’s Pride; ConAgra Poultry; and Perdue Farms.5 Most outbreaks of Avian Flu in Asia have been traced back to such mass chicken industrial factory centers. F. William Engdahl, Saat der Zerstörung: Die dunkle Seite der Gen-Manipulation, Kopp Verlag, Rottenburg am Neckar,2007, pp. 269-271. http://newresearchfindings.blogspot.com/2008/08/pentagons-alarming-project-avian-flu.html

Tyson Foods is the largest industrialized producer of chickens in the world and has been repeatedly under attack for its unsanitary conditions of breeding and slaughtering. In January 2005, a US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to the US Senate, “Safety in the Meat and Poultry Industry,” concluded that US meat and poultry processing plants had “one of the highest rates of injury and illness of any industry.” They cited exposure to “dangerous chemicals, blood, faecal matter, exacerbated by poor ventilation and often extreme temperatures. Workers typically faced hazardous conditions, loud noise, must work in narrow confines with sharp tools and dangerous machinery.”
Canadian experiments create new avian flu strains, all of which could become highly pathogenic and pandemic.

“In May this year, The Canadian Press reported from Toronto, “An experiment mating H5N1 avian flu viruses and a strain of human flu in a laboratory produced a surprising number of hybrid viruses that were biologically fit, a new study reveals. And while none of the offspring viruses was as virulent as the original H5N1, about one in five were lethal to mice at low doses, showing they retained at least a portion of the power of their dangerous parent. As well, a report by a Canadian organization, Beyond Factory Farming, described the transmission likely pathways from the giant industrialized chicken centers: ‘In Thailand, China and Vietnam there is a highly developed industrial poultry industry which has expanded dramatically in the past decade. The large poultry companies raise millions of birds, hatch chicks to supply other intensive poultry operations, export live birds and eggs to countries such as Nigeria (where the first Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza outbreak in Africa was recently reported) and produce and export feed which often includes “litter” (i.e., manure) in the ingredients….Manure that may contain live virus is spread on surrounding farmland, or exported as fertilizer, and through run-off may end up in surface waters where wild birds feed and rest.

Chicken manure is even found in fish farm feed formulations where it is introduced directly into the aquatic environment. Wild birds and poultry that have fallen victim to HPAI (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza) in Asia, Turkey and Nigeria appear to have been directly exposed to HPAI virus originating in the factory farm system. In Asia, a flock of wild ducks died from HPAI—after having come into contact with the disease at a remote lake where a fish farm used feed pellets made from poultry litter from a factory farm. In Turkey a massive cull of backyard flocks—and the deaths of three children—took place after a nearby factory farm sold sick and dying birds to local peasants at cut rate prices. Nigeria has a large and poorly regulated factory poultry production sector which is supplied with chicks from factory farms in China.’” William Engdahl, Saat der Zerstörung: Die dunkle Seite der Gen-Manipulation, Kopp Verlag, Rottenburg am Neckar,2007,p. 289, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9833

4. “Solution to Avian Flu – Genetically Modified Chickens to Replace All Natural Ones” Researchers in the UK are pursuing transgenic bird flu-resistant chickens. “Once we have regulatory approval, we believe it will only take between four and five years to breed enough chickens to replace the entire world population,” said Laurence Tiley, Professor of Molecular Virology at Cambridge University. Mark Henderson, “Scientists aim to beat flu with genetically modified chickens,” The Times, London, 29 October 2005: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25149-1847760,00.html

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5. April 2007 Sanofi-Pasteur H5N1 vaccine approved [in US – Dr. Rima] without human trials although its effectiveness is “limited”. FDA approved the Sanofi Pasteur vaccine for H5N1 even though one year before the FDA cited Sanofi Pasteur for producing contaminated Fluzone vaccines.12 The FDA approved H5N1 vaccine is itself apparently not really effective in event of a human-to-human outbreak of Avian Flu. On announcing its approval, the FDA stated, “two injections given 28 days apart may provide ‘limited’ protection if a pandemic occurs. About 45% of people who got the vaccine in a study developed an immune response to the virus. ” This is apparently the same vaccine which causes significant numbers of deaths in Polish vagrants who received it. The doctors and nurses involved are on trial for murder in Poland. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html.

6. August 15, 2008 Armed Forces Set To Control Pandemic in Malaysia.
“The armed forces will emerge as a major player in giving assistance in case of pandemic influenza, as it has done in times of national disasters and outbreaks. Armed forces health service director-general Lt-Gen Datuk Dr Sulaiman Abdullah said it was well prepared to assist, be it in terms of human resources, transportation, handling and containing the spread of disease.”
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1522551/armed_forces_ready_to_handle_pandemic/

7. Rapid Detection of Avian Flu Being Automated. “Scientists at Nottingham Trent University in Britain said they are developing a machine that can rapidly diagnose different types of bird flu, including the extremely infectious H5N1 bird flu virus, also known as Avian influenza.”:http://www.themedguru.com/articles/avian_flu_breakthrough_virus_detection_in_two_hours-8617572.html [Note: Avian influenza is NOT “extremely infectious”- Dr. Rima]

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8. Dissident Opinion.

a. Dr. Stefan Lanka, virologist and molecular biologist, who has been questioning the very existence of “HIV” since 1994. In the past years, however, he stumbled over a breathtaking fact: Not even ONE of the (medically relevant) viruses has ever been isolated; there is no proof of their existence. says isolated particles identified as viruses are artifacts, HIV and others do not exist. tp://www.neue-medizin.com/lanka2.htm

b. Many viruses being weaponized. Viruses do not evolve without assistance into something new, “I had never thought about this aspect of their agenda. If you can get people to believe a virus can evolve into something that didn’t exist before, you can mask your genetic manipulation as natural, and it will be easily accepted by the ‘masses’.” M. Borg

c. A. True Ott, PhD says Avian Flu Misnamed: Really 1918 Flu Pandemic Repackaged.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLT0_xMeLjI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW11wZOmdSA&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2a1fPIjFDI&feature=related

9. Vaccine Dangers abound. 14 Argentine children die after experimental SKG vaccine: http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080815/ap_on_he_me/argentina_children_s_deaths

10. July 10, 2008, Poultry Avian Flu Vaccine Looses Effectiveness, mutates in Hong Kong over the past 7 years of use.

dYuen Kwok-yung, who heads the microbiology department at the University of Hong Kong, said the virus is shifting away from the Fujian strain that it was developed for, according to a Jul 8 Deutsche Presse-Argentur (DPA) report.

He told city officials that they must ban all live chickens from markets before the vaccine becomes completely ineffective. Tests on birds in 2005 suggested that the vaccine generated only a quarter of the antibody response it did in 2001.

In early June, animal health workers detected the virus in poultry feces at several market stalls. They did not say if the testing was done in response to sick or dead birds, and the source of the virus has not been determined.

Since then, officials have banned poultry from overnight stays in the market and have proposed a total ban on live poultry in Hong Kong markets. They have offered traders and farmers compensation packages in return for surrendering their sales licenses, but the offer has angered the poultry merchants, who have said the government’s offer was too low.http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/jul1008avian-br.html

11. July 7, 2008, Avian Flu now officially endemic in Egypt. Officials in Egypt told the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) that several H5N1 outbreaks that have occurred since February and formally declared that the disease is endemic in Egyptian poultry flocks. The report said Egypt will now file updates on its H5N1 outbreaks only every 6 months.

News about poultry outbreaks in Egypt has been sparse this year, though the country reported a handful of human cases in February, March, and April.

According to the latest OIE report, covering the months February though mid June, Egypt has had 19 new outbreaks since the last update. Seven of them occurred after May 1. The most recent one was a small outbreak in Luxor that affected backyard chickens, geese, and ducks.
About half of the most recent outbreaks occurred in backyard flocks; five occurred at live bird markets and four struck commercial farms, three of which housed layer chickens. Most of the outbreaks were along the Nile River delta. http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/jul1008avian-br.html

12. Natural Solutions Foundation data on weaponized Avian Flu goes viral. The first 24 pages of 13,300 Google search results for “Weaponized Avian Flu” are Foundation information. Foundation data sighted by noted researcher F. William Engdahl:http://qwstnevrythg.com/archives/2352 among many, many others. http://newresearchfindings.blogspot.com/2008/08/pentagons-alarming-project-avian-flu.html

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Resources and Previous Related Information

Weaponized Avian Flu Update, Videos: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=742
Weaponized Avian Flu – Assault on the Body Politic: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=746
Avian Flu: Well Designed Fear: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=747
Weaponized Avian Flu Press Release Stiffled: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=750
Protecting Yourself in a Pandemic: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=752
Weaponized Avian Flu: Current Intelligence Estimate.1: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=755

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Consumer Voices Ring Loud, Even to Monsanto! rBGH to be Sold

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Natural Solutions Foundation repeats and repeats that our voices, together, are among the most powerful forces in the world when it comes to making things right.
Here is a potent example of that power:
Monsanto, the Biotech giant responsible for a huge percentage of all genetically modified organisms, as well as “wonder chemicals” (i.e., it’s a wonder they are legal) like aspartame and Agent Orange, has finally realized that the recombinent bovine growth hormone it has been selling in the US and elsewhere as “Prosilac” (TM) is a liability, no matter how much FDA and USDA support it has been able to purchase.

Those agencies may say that it is safe, but consumers do not want milk, milk products, meat or other products which are contaminated with rBGH. And it is the voice of the consumer, like the voice of the turtle, which is heard in the land.

Below you will find an article which outlines the decision by Monsanto to sell off the product which has become a liability, despite its profitability.

Good for us! Good for our children. And good for our planet!

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A Decade of Consumer Pressure Is Driving Monsanto’s Bovine Growth Hormone off the Market

* Monsanto Dairy Hormone Division For Sale Amid Consumer Concerns
By Jane Akre
Injury Board, August 6, 2008
Straight to the Source

Monsanto announces its selling its posilac division that makes bovine growth hormone.

St. Louis-based Monsanto announced today it is selling the division that produces bovine growth hormone, also known as rBGH or rBST.

There’s no problem with the product, insists the company. During a conference call today, Monsanto’s Chrissie Chavis told reporters that Posilac, as it’s known commercially, is a “solid successful product of significant value to dairy farmers.”

But nationwide a growing number of consumers and dairy processors feel otherwise. “No artificial growth hormones used” is now commonly displayed on store shelves from Florida to California.

The proposed sale, she said, allows the company to focus on genetically engineered seed. “Our long term growth platform is focused on corn, soybeans, cotton and vegetables. Repositioning the business would ensure that loyal dairy farmers could continue to receive the value of Posilac in their operations.”

Posilac, is sold in an injectable form to an unknown number of dairy farmers in the U.S. and internationally. Monsanto refused to divulge sales figures, but insists that one-third of the nation’s cows receive injections. The USDA estimate that number to be more in the range of 15 percent.

The dairy drug is now made at the company’s Augusta, Georgia plant after production problems at its Austrian facility forced it to close earlier this year.

The sale would include the Augusta, Georgia plant facility. In the meantime it’s “business as usual,” said Chavis about whether operations there would cease.

Monsanto has no timeline for the sale and would not comment to *IB News* on any prospective buyers, though Chavis says the product could complement animal production or pharmaceutical companies.

Consumer surveys show that over the last decade, consumers have rejected buying milk from artificial hormone treated cows.

In the last several years, major retailers such as Safeway, Publix and Kroger have decided to ban the artificial hormone in their store-brand milk. Starbucks has refused to purchase dairy from treated cows at its 6,793 company-operated stores. Chipotle Mexican Grill, a McDonalds spinoff, has banned rBST in its company stores.

In January, Kraft Foods announced it would offer a line of cheese made with rBGH-free milk, despite assurances from the FDA that it is safe. Glanbia, a high-volume cheese production company in Idaho and New Mexico, will phase out the use of Posilac by next year. Dean Foods, the largest U.S. dairy company now offers a line of rBST-free products.

Recently agriculture officials around the country moved to limit labels on dairy products that disclosed whether they came from treated or untreated cows. In February, consumer pressure led to a reversal of a labeling prohibition in Pennsylvania.

Has pressure from consumers led to Monsanto’s decision? Chavis denies it. “Our core focus is in the seeds and trace business. Since 1994 it’s (Posilac) been a very strong product for us. We’ve sold more doses this year than we sold last year. We see significant opportunity in the future in the U.S. as well as the international markets.”

The company plans to continue sales outside of the country, particularly Mexico and Brazil.

rBGH is approved for use in 20 countries, says the Monsanto spokesperson, although it is banned in all of Europe, Japan, Australia and other industrialized countries, with the exception of the U.S.

rBGH was approved by the FDA in November 1993 and marketed in February 1994. Studies show that milk from treated cows has an increased level of a spinoff hormone, IGF-1, which causes the cow to produce more milk. IGF-1 is identical in cows and humans, and studies show that it causes cells to proliferate, including cancerous cells.

The Cancer Prevention Coalition’s Dr. Sam Epstein says that the IGF-1 from rBGH treated milk is “supercharged” and can lead to an increased number of cancers in humans. Consumers Union cites that elevated mastitis rates among treated cows leads to additional antibiotic treatment in the animal. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics “may pass into humans through milk, air, water or soil, or through ground meat”, says Michael Hansen, a senior scientist with CU.

Terry Etherton, at Penn State University, says the growth of rBGH-free products is “part of a smoke-and-mirrors campaign” that means consumers are paying more for products of questionable value.

Chavis positioned the new face of Posilac as a “green” alternative for farmers. Studies at Cornell University, where Monsanto has funded dairy scientist Dale Bauman and his studies since the 1990s, show that the drug allows big savings in terms of feed and land.

“As the environmental pressure on agriculture gets greater, this allows dairy producers to produce more milk with less (sic) cows thereby reducing the overall carbon footprint of milk production,” said Chavis.

Posilac was the first in a long line of genetically engineered products to be introduced by Monsanto, a former chemical company. Monsanto is increasingly focusing on buying seed companies and converting the industry to its own brand of genetically engineered seeds, where qualities of foreign plants or plants and animals are merged to create seeds that can be patented. The company then charges a premium for the seeds and requires farmers internationally to sign user contracts.

More than half of the U.S. soybeans and corn that make up roughly 70 percent of pre-packages grocery store items come from genetically engineered ingredients.

Recently, rBGH has been tested on catfish and tilapia to increase growth.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_14008.cfm