Archive for October, 2008

Gates Foundation: The Ethics of Funding Mosquito “Flying Syringes”

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Foundation Trustee Ralph Fucetola JD sent this email to The Gates Foundation and received acknowledgment of receipt. We await a response. The original Internet article “Flying Syringes” is also reproduced.

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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:34:42 PM EDT
From: “Ralph Fucetola JD”
To:
Cc: “Dr. Rima Laibow”
Subject: Gates Foundation and the Helsinki Declaration

Gentlepeople,

I am a trustee of Natural Solutions Foundation, the largest “netroots” health
freedom NGO. This email is to comment upon the below media article, “Flying
Syringe” about the Gates Foundation’s most recent Grand Challenges Awards and
our concern that your organization is not paying enough attention to the
ethical requirements of the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical
Association – http://www.wma.net/e/policy/pdf/17c.pdf

The Natural Solutions Foundation, founded in 2004, is an international NGO
(Non Governmental Organization) focused on health freedom. We are active and
registered in several countries and the Foundation 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 facing us and threatening our
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 problems involving health and wellness. We have over one hundred eighty
thousand people on our supporter list. The threats to health and freedom are
both domestic and international, as are the solutions. Individuals and other
organizations are welcome to participate in our many programs and action
options so that net roots and decision makers share the same information and
conclusions about the solutions to problems touching us all.

Our main web sites are: www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org and
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org

The Helsinki Declaration absolutely forbids “treating” people without their
informed consent. It further forbids “experimental” treatments without fully
informing people of side effects. There are a number of other provisions of
the Declaration that might also apply to to the act of releasing genetically
modified mosquitoes for the purpose of involuntarily “vaccinating” people.

The Natural Solutions Foundation and its Trustees, Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine
(USA ret), Rima E. Laibow, MD and myself, would be pleased to enter into a
dialogue with the Gates Foundation about the ethical issues involved with
involuntary or mandated vaccinations.

We also seek to “explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve global
health” and have dedicated our International Decade of Nutrition to that end,
by seeking to educate Congress, Codex Alimentarius (the world food code) and
decision makers about natural solutions to pressing health needs.

We are currently sponsoring advanced food production interventions in Benin
and in Panama, aimed at providing natural solutions to diseases and conditions
that limit food production. WHO and FAO consider under nutrition to be a major
cause of preventable disease.

Similarly, we seek to discover and disseminate advanced alternatives to the
use of dangerous vaccinations that are considered uninsurable risks by the
insurance industry. I am sure you are aware of the US Vaccine Injury
Compensation Program, a special tax that parents pay in addition to the cost
of vaccines, which allows the pharmaceutical industry to continue to provide
vaccinations without insurance coverage.

To this end, we are seeking a Grand Challenges Award in addition to initiating
an ethical dialogue with the Gates Foundation. Please forward the appropriate
Award application forms to me, and please provide me with the coordinates of
the appropriate ethical affairs staff member of the Gates Foundation.

Ralph Fucetola, JD
The Vitamin Lawyer.com Consultancy
http://www.vitaminlawyer.com
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com
All Rights Reserved . . .

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October 22, 2008 – http://snipurl.com/4oocw
‘Flying syringe’ mosquitoes, other ideas get Gates funding

WASHINGTON (AFP) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded
100,000 dollars each on Wednesday to scientists in 22 countries
including funding for a Japanese proposal to turn mosquitoes into
“flying syringes” delivering vaccines.

The charitable foundation created by the founder of software giant
Microsoft said in a statement that the grants were designed to
“explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve global health.”

The grants were awarded for research into preventing or curing
infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis and limiting
the emergence of drug resistance.

They are the first round of funding for the Gates Foundation’s “Grand
Challenges Explorations,” a five-year 100-million-dollar initiative
to “promote innovative ideas in global health.”

The funding was directed to projects that “fall outside current
scientific paradigms and could lead to significant advances if
successful,” the Gates Foundation statement said.

“We were hoping this program would level the playing field so anyone
with a transformational idea could more quickly assess its potential
for the benefit of global health,” said Tachi Yamada, president of
global health at the Gates Foundation.

The Gates Foundation said 104 grants were awarded from nearly 4,000
proposals. The recipients included universities, nonprofit
organizations, government agencies, and six private companies.

“It was so hard for reviewers to champion just one great idea that we
selected almost twice as many projects for funding as we had
initially planned,” Yamada said.

Among the proposals receiving funding was one from Hiroyuki Matsuoka
at Jichi Medical University in Japan.

“(Matsuoka) thinks it may be possible to turn mosquitoes that
normally transmit disease into ‘flying syringes,’ so that when they
bite humans they deliver vaccines,” the Gates Foundation said.

It said Pattamaporn Kittayapong at Mahidol University in Thailand
received a grant to “explore new approaches for controlling dengue
fever by studying bacteria with natural abilities to limit the disease.”

Founded in 1994, the Seattle, Washington-based Gates Foundation is
the largest private philanthropical organization in the world.
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In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is
distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior
interest in receiving the included information for research and
educational purposes.

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Acknowledgement eMail

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:35:07 PM EDT
From: “GCGHwebmaster”
To: “Ralph Fucetola JD”
Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: Gates Foundation and the Helsinki Declaration

Your email has been forwarded to the appropriate staff member for consideration. Because of the large volume of email we receive daily, we are not able to respond individually. We invite you to visit our website www.gcgh.org.

If you would like Information on the Grand Challenges Explorations, please visit www.gcgh.org/explorations/

Sincerely,
The GCGH Team

Presidential Questionnaire – Answers from Candidates

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Three presidential candidates have responded to our questionnaire; their answers are below, for your consideration. All presidential candidates who are on sufficient state ballots to theoretically have an opportunity to be elected were included. These were: Republicans (McCain), Democrats (Obama), Independents (Nader), Greens (McKinney), Constitutionalists (Baldwin) and Libertarians (Barr). McKinney, Baldwin and Barr responded.

The questionnaire is at:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=1068

1. McKinney – Green Party
2. Baldwin – Constitutional Party
3. Barr – Libertarian Party
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1. Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney – Green Party

Date: Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Subject: Candidate Questionnaire
To: dr.laibow@gmail.com
Cc: “citizenswatch@starpower.net” < citizenswatch@starpower.net>

Dear Dr. Laibow, here are Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney’s answers to your questionnaire. Please contact her press secretary John Judge (cced) with any questions. Thanks! Ann

1. International Harmonization of Health Freedom Policy: Codex Alimentarius

a. Do you support vigorous enforcement of the anti-harmonization act, 19 USC
3512, which forbids harmonization of our health freedoms with international
restrictions, such as those represented by Codex Alimentarius (the world food
code) despite US leadership at Codex in violating that statute domestically
and globally?

Yes [X] no [ ]

COMMENT: We citizens need to maintain and vigorously defend our freedom to chose herbal and other alternative health regimes that we believe will best serve us. We need to break the link between health and corporate profit.

b. Do you support the health freedom of speech principles unanimously enacted
by Congress with the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994
(DSHEA) and currently threatened by both the Codex position on health claims
and the attempted FDA restriction on truthful, scientifically supported health
claims and information?

Yes [X] no [ ]

COMMENT: This administration has a terrible record of letting corporate-based political viewpoints skew scientific research, including that regarding health and environmental matters. I see those same corporate interests at work in both the McCain and Obama campaigns, but not to the same degree. It is imperative that honest science be engaged by honest scientists with no encumbrances from corporate influences.

c. Do you support HR 2117, “The Health Freedom Protection Act,” introduced
by Congressman Ron Paul MD, that would mandate FDA approval of dietary
supplement health claims for which scientific evidence exists?

Yes [X] no [ ]

COMMENT: Furthermore, it is long overdue to have a thorough re-evaluation of the role and function of the FDA, which has on occasion abused its power by harassing alternative medicine practitioners without cause. One vital question is: “Why are foods and drugs subsumed in one agency?” Why not let the matter of food safety and quality be handled by one agency, and the matter of regulation over safety and efficacy of drugs be handled by another agency? That would be my preference. The burden of proof of both safety and efficacy ought to be on the manufacturer, based strictly on honest science. Foods and herbs used by people for centuries ought to be presumed safe unless shown otherwise. Invented drugs, however, should have to pass rigorous independent testing, with any contra-indications specified.

2. National Policy Regarding Labeling Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).

The FDA takes the position that GMO products are deemed safe without testing,
following a 1992 Executive Order to that effect and therefore holds that there
is no reason to required truthful GMO labeling and that “GMO Free” labels
will not be allowed. According to a New York Times / CBS poll in June 2008,
87% of Americans want GMO labeling and over fifty percent do not want to buy
such products.

a. As president will you tell the FDA to stop preventing truthful GMO labeling

and make all such labeling mandatory?

Yes [X] no [ ]

COMMENT: Absolutely I would give this directive. Moreover, I would overrule that Executive Order along with many others which have intruded deeply into American citizens’ liberties in a wide range of areas, and which I would regard as fully unconstitutional.

b. Do you support Congressman Kuchinich’s bill, HR 6636, “The Genetically
Engineered Food Right To Know Act,” That would require mandatory labeling of
all foods that contain or are produced with GM material?

Yes [X] no [ ]

3. National Policy Regarding Safety of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).

The FDA takes the position that GMO products are deemed safe without testing
following a 1992 executive order to that effect and is prohibited from
requiring or examining any safety studies after the initial, preliminary
studies by the patent holders. Independent studies in the US and elsewhere
make it clear that both the short term and long term effects of GMOs may be
hazardous to unborn children, babies, and adults and may have disastrous
impact on fertility and health.

a. As President will you tell the FDA to require, under the Precautionary
Principle, rigorous scientific evidence of GMO safety?

Yes [X] no [ ]

COMMENT: I share your skepticism regarding the safety of GMO products.

b. Do you support Congressman Kuchinich’s bill, HR 6637, “The Genetically
Engineered Safety Act,” would require that GE foods follow a food safety
review process.

Yes [X] no [ ]

4. National Vaccination Policy: No Forced Vaccination

We do not believe that mandating the uninsurable risk of vaccination is ever
justified, that it violates constitutionally guaranteed rights and we support
the broadest medical, religious and philosophical exemptions from all mandated
drugging.

a. As President, will you stop all federal funding for mandated vaccinations
imposed on American families and will you stop all federal funding to states
which impose such forced drugging and vaccinations on the people in their
jurisdiction?

Yes [ ] no [ ]

COMMENT: This is a multi-sided and complex question, not subject to a simple “yes” or “no”. On principle, I do not support mandated vaccinations, recognizing that people have individual medical histories and that fatalities or deformations resulting from mandated vaccinations are unacceptable. To suspend “all federal funding” to states that have ruled otherwise is too broad a response. On the other hand, rampant spread of infectious diseases has to be a major concern for a president. I would carefully examine the scientific evidence and any impingement on civil liberties before making such a determination. My inclination is to use the persuasive power of the presidency, rather than mandated measures.

We are deeply concerned that the states have been induced by the Federal CDC
to pass legislation which we believe is both ill-advised and unconstitutional
which forces citizens to submit to medical procedures which they may not agree
with or accept on pain of felony charges and penalties, or loss of access to
government schools or other government activities.

b. As President will you refuse to implement those presidential emergency
actions necessary to impose the emergency medical powers acts passed by nearly
all states, which make refusing mandatory vaccination or drugging a felony act
once the governor of a state has declared a pandemic to be in effect?

Yes [ ] no [ ]

COMMENT: Again, I can’t say unequivocally how I would govern during an epidemic, but I would agree that making a felony out of refusing often dubious allegations about a vaccine would be “off the table.” I might consider a policy of voluntary quarantine of those refusing as an alternative, to avoid inadvertent spread of an infectious disease. People should not be forced to undergo medical procedures against their will.

5. National Policy Regarding Pandemic Flu Preparations

We are concerned that the current pandemic flu preparations may actually bring
about the very pandemic we all seek to avoid.

a. Will you appoint a blue ribbon committee including at least equal numbers
of physicians who oppose the use of weaponized vaccinations and anti-virals to
review all current federally funded pandemic influenza research, ensuring that
it does not (like the Federal anthrax program) become the source of the
disease it is alleged to be established to prevent, study the serious
possibility that the avian Flu is non-pathogenic in its natural form and may
have been turned into a serious disease-producing virus in laboratories, and
release your committee’s findings openly and transparently to the American
people?

Yes [X] no [ ]

COMMENT: I would base my policies on the best independent science available, not only from this country but worldwide.

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2. Rev. Chuck Baldwin – Constitutional Party

—— Original Message ——
Received: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:50:04 PM EDT
From: “Mary Starrett”
To:
Subject: Chuck Baldwin Supports Health Freedom!

Our basic platform on
healthcare is thus:

“The federal government has no Constitutional provision to regulate or
restrict the freedom of the people to have access to medical care, supplies
or treatments. I, therefore, support the elimination of the federal Food and
Drug Administration, as it has been the federal agency primarily responsible
for prohibiting beneficial products, treatments, and technologies here in
the United States that are freely available in much of the rest of the
civilized world.”

Any questions relating to the FDA will then be difficult to answer, as we
support its abolishment and eliminating all federal monies to health
organizations similar to it. We are also for completely pulling out of the
United Nations, which would include the WHO and similar sovereignty-taking
organizations.

1. International Harmonization of Health Freedom Policy: Codex Alimentarius

a. Do you support vigorous enforcement of the anti-harmonization act, 19 USC
3512, which forbids harmonization of our health freedoms with international
restrictions, such as those represented by Codex Alimentarius (the world
food code) despite US leadership at Codex in violating that statute
domestically and globally?

Codex is a freedom-limiting and very dangerous contrivance to usurp
Americans’ freedom to choose the health modalities and supplements they
believe are best.Western medicine has been woefully deficient in pursuing
naturally- based health aids and has punished those who pursue those ends.
In addition, The FDA has acted in a Gestapo-like manner towards
alternative medicine practitioners .

We would encourage the free market to develop nutriceuticals and
supplements. We would work to abolish US compliance with Codex mandates.

b. Do you support the health freedom of speech principles unanimously
enacted by Congress with the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of
1994 (DSHEA) and currently threatened by both the Codex position on health
claims and the attempted FDA restriction on truthful, scientifically
supported health claims and information?

Yes

c. Do you support HR 2117, “The Health Freedom Protection Act,” introduced
by Congressman Ron Paul MD, that would mandate FDA approval of dietary
supplement health claims for which scientific evidence exists?

Ron Paul has endorsed Chuck Baldwin as president, however, since we are for
abolishing the FDA, this would no longer be applicable.

2. National Policy Regarding Labeling Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).

The FDA takes the position that GMO products are deemed safe without
testing, following a 1992 Executive Order to that effect and therefore holds
that there is no reason to required truthful GMO labeling and that “GMO
Free” labels will not be allowed. According to a New York Times / CBS poll
in June 2008, 87% of Americans want GMO labeling and over fifty percent do
not want to buy such products.

a. As president will you tell the FDA to stop preventing truthful GMO
labeling and make all such labeling mandatory?

Without an FDA, this would no longer be applicable.

b. Do you support Congressman Kuchinich’s bill, HR 6636, “The Genetically
Engineered Food Right To Know Act,” That would require mandatory labeling of
all foods that contain or are produced with GM material?

Without an FDA, this would no longer be applicable.

3. National Policy Regarding Safety of Genetically Modified Organisms
(GMOs).

The FDA takes the position that GMO products are deemed safe without testing
following a 1992 executive order to that effect and is prohibited from
requiring or examining any safety studies after the initial, preliminary
studies by the patent holders. Independent studies in the US and elsewhere
make it clear that both the short term and long term effects of GMOs may be
hazardous to unborn children, babies, and adults and may have disastrous
impact on fertility and health.

a. As President will you tell the FDA to require, under the Precautionary
Principle, rigorous scientific evidence of GMO safety?

Without an FDA, this would no longer be applicable.

b. Do you support Congressman Kuchinich’s bill, HR 6637, “The Genetically
Engineered Safety Act,” would require that GE foods follow a food safety
review process.

Without an FDA, this would no longer be applicable.

4. National Vaccination Policy: No Forced Vaccination

We do not believe that mandating the uninsurable risk of vaccination is ever
justified, that it violates constitutionally guaranteed rights and we
support the broadest medical, religious and philosophical exemptions from
all mandated drugging.

a. As President, will you stop all federal funding for mandated vaccinations
imposed on American families and will you stop all federal funding to states
which impose such forced drugging and vaccinations on the people in their
jurisdiction?

Yes, we oppose any legislation, such as Homeland Security Bill, H.R. 5005,
which seeks to authorize the forced vaccination of American citizens against
small pox. The government should not have the power to force people to
receive immunizations or vaccinations.

We are deeply concerned that the states have been induced by the Federal CDC
to pass legislation which we believe is both ill-advised and
unconstitutional which forces citizens to submit to medical procedures which
they may not agree with or accept on pain of felony charges and penalties,
or loss of access to government schools or other government activities.

b. As President will you refuse to implement those presidential emergency
actions necessary to impose the emergency medical powers acts passed by
nearly all states, which make refusing mandatory vaccination or drugging a
felony act once the governor of a state has declared a pandemic to be in
effect?

Yes

5. National Policy Regarding Pandemic Flu Preparations

We are concerned that the current pandemic flu preparations may actually
bring about the very pandemic we all seek to avoid.

a. Will you appoint a blue ribbon committee including at least equal numbers
of physicians who oppose the use of weaponized vaccinations and anti-virals
to review all current federally funded pandemic influenza research, ensuring
that it does not (like the Federal anthrax program) become the source of the
disease it is alleged to be established to prevent, study the serious
possibility that the avian Flu is non-pathogenic in its natural form and may
have been turned into a serious disease-producing virus in laboratories, and
release your committee’s findings openly and transparently to the American
people?

While this seems like an excellent endeavor and a fair project, we do not
support the federal government being involved in research or supervision or
regulation of any sort in the health industry. We would encourage private
companies to look into this and definitely have their findings open for
those interested to learn from.

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3. Former Congressman Bob Barr – Libertarian Party

Andrew Davis, Barr’s media representative discussed the Health Freedom issue with NSF Trustee Ralph Fucetola. He apologized for being unable to respond to the questionnaire in a timely fashion and urged us to let our supporters know that former Congressman Barr has a strong record of support for privacy and healthcare freedom of choice. He is opposed to mandated vaccinations and apparently agrees generally that the FDA is a failed agency. While a member of Congress he supported Dr. Ron Paul’s health freedom initiatives.

10/24/08 eAlert: Pandemics and Nutrients

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

This is a copy of the Health Freedom eAlert emailed October 24, 2008

Natural Solutions Foundation eAlert
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org – www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www. NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org – www.Organics4U.org
www. NaturalSolutionsMarketplace.org – www.NaturalSolutionsMedia.tv

October 24, 2008

IMPORTANT HEALTH FREEDOM INFORMATION – PLEASE FORWARD VERY WIDELY

Urgent Action Alerts In This Issue – Can You Afford Not to Read This?

NOT SUBSCRIBED TO HEALTH FREEDOM eALERTS YET? CLICK HERE TO BECOME A Health Freedom Warrior http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=187

URGENT UPDATE ON AVIAN FLU PROTECTION

www.nutronix.com/naturalsolutions

Here’s the Solution, Silver Solution

Natural Solutions Foundation not only identifies problems, we offer solutions to them, naturally. We were the first health freedom organization to focus on, and document, the likely weaponization of the H5N1 virus which causes Avian Flu and the equally likely weaponization of the vaccines supposedly designed to prevent the disease.

Now, we are the first health freedom organization to bring you a credible, scientifically documented strategy for protecting yourself and your loved ones from the widely predicted devastation of Avian Flu.

Scientific tests suggest that nanosilver products, including 10 ppm Silver Sol technology products, actually render non-infective all pathogens with which they come into contact in the laboratory. In my clinical and personal experience, it appears that the same thing can happen inside people and animals. What that means to you is that you can drink the Silver Sol technology liquid, place it under your tongue, wipe your hands or contaminated surfaces with it and be confident that the Silver Sol technology solution:

• Is safe to swallow for all members of your family at recommended doses (up to 1 tablespoon in a little water up to 4 times per day)
• Is tasteless, odorless and easy to take
• Can be used sublingually in the same doses and then swallowed
• Will not interfere with medication or preparations, homeopathics, herbs or other substances
• Has no known side effects – cannot cause skin discoloration when used as directed
• Has been shown in many scientific and clinical studies to provide nutritional support to stimulate normal white cell function and regulate pathogenic organisms non-infectivity

Many people have written to me asking how to protect themselves against the threat of Avian Flu or other anticipated pandemics. Until now, I have been reluctant to suggest an answer to that question because I did not have scientific documentation (although my suspicion was that nanotechnology silver preparations were the best and safest bet we had). I use these products for myself and would not think of being without them. But until I had data on what happened when the Avian Flu virus was exposed to silver nanoproducts, I was reluctant to speculate about it. Now with the studies I have recently reviewed, I have concluded that there is reasonable scientific substantiation for me to tell you that our best individual and collective solution is a natural one: silver nano solutions.

Here’s the Solution, Silver Solution
www.nutronix.com/naturalsolutions

The FDA does not want you to have access to silver. It is safe, easy to use and has a long storage life. That means that expensive treatments may not be necessary and the FDA, ever obedient to the wishes of Big Pharma, is looking for ways to end your access to silver nutrition that works. So I urge you to make sure that you lay in a stock of these wonderful products. (This is the same solution that I used with great results when it appeared that I had contracted malaria a couple years ago, while traveling on Foundation business — I had no symptoms after 1.5 hours and took a 1/2 teaspoon in a little water for 2 days after that). We of course, note that the Food and Drug Administration has not evaluated any of these statements and we do not intend to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease with nanosilver.

To make sure that you have this remarkable silver product in your home please follow these instructions:

1. Go to www.nutronix/naturalsolutions
2. Click on the “Products” tab at the top of the page
3. Scroll down the left hand index to “Immune Support”
4. Purchase enough for yourself and your family for the foreseeable future.
5. Consider giving it as gifts to everyone on your list.

This is vitally important information and I urge you to make sure you have a supply NOW. Given that the Powers that Be insist that a pandemic is “inevitable”, and perhaps even imminent, “now” means literally NOW! www.nutronix/naturalsolutions

ACTION ALERTS

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2. Say No! to Forced Vaccines: Sign the Tiburon Declaration
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=460

3. Protect me from Dental Mercury! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26052

4. Compel FDA to respect Free Speech and allow truthful information about health and food. Click on both links below http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1134/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1035
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26028

5. Tell Hershey’s you don’t want their GMO tricks in your Halloween treats – buy organic candy, or, better yet, give out fruit! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26087

Click here ( http://gallery.me.com/dr.laibow#100158 ) to see Dr. Rima’s video and email it to your list.

6. Urge your Congressional Members to support, and co-sponsor labeling and safety assessment bills for GMOs http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25920

$25 per 1/2 Pound? Are You Nuts??????

A health freedom supporter recently saw our announcement that we are now harvesting our totally chemical-free Valley of the Moon(TM) coffee and wrote to us about it. She said,
“$25 per 1/2 pound — are you nuts???????”

Good question! Here’s what I wrote back to her,

“I think you missed the point. The $25 is a donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation: $5 covers the cost of the coffee, an astonishing bargain, I think you will admit!

The rest of the donation, $20 is your tax deductible donation credit which goes to support the Natural Solutions Foundation.

No, I do not think we are nuts. I think we are innovative and offering you an outstanding opportunity to drink premium, totally chemical-free coffee AND support health freedom at the same time!

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima”

While I was writing that email, Ralph Fucetola, our Trustee and Council, was writing another response:

“No, we are not “nuts.” Twelve ounces of good coffee can cost as much as $19 in some US stores. Our offer is a typical non-profit fund-raiser: $5 for the Coffee and a $20 [tax exempt] donation.Not much different from what you hear during a public radio fund raiser. We depend on donations for our continued activities and thus, develop as many different fund-raisers as we can [to appeal to as many of our supporters as we can and make supporting the Natural Solutions Foundation as easy as possible – REL]…”

Yours in health and freedom,
Ralph Fucetola”

Click here – http://tinyurl.com/VotMpictures – to see photos of the beautiful, chemical free Valley of the Moon(TM) Finca (farm) and click here – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=1130 – to purchase a treat for yourself and others: Valley of the Moon(TM) coffee. It’s a treat that helps keep health freedom free! You see, our toxin-free procedure for raising our coffee and controlling the devastating fungus that takes a huge toll on the coffee crops of this part of the world. When farmers have cheaper, non-toxic options, they’ll use them. Once our crop is in (and it’s being harvested right now), the Natural Solutions Foundation will work with local farmers to produce this product which can help them convert to chemical-free growing.

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When Health Freedom Happens,
Natural Solutions Is There
Trustee Ralph Fucetola Brings

‘No Forced Vaccine’ Message to NJ
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=1236

New Jersey is the most vaccinated state in the US. It is also the home to Big Pharma giants like Merck, Johnson and Johnson, Abbot Laboratories, Bristol Myers Squib and more than 60 others. The relationship is hard to miss.

New Jersey became the first state in the Union to mandate annual flu vaccines for every child in the state from 6 months to 18 years and to state publicly that it would make religious and medical exemptions as hard to get as it could. In fact, a fully vaccinated girl in NJ has had 78 vaccines by the age of 15 (75 for boys).

New Jersey bears the shame of being the first state to send out the vaccine police: inspectors who check the records of every preschool child in the state enrolled in a pre school (although they are private) and levy fines of $500 per day per child who is not fully vaccinated.

It is the first state to attempt to pass legislation which would require home schooled children to be vaccinated according to a schedule approved by the Superintendent of Schools (NOT the child’s parents or doctor!) in the child’s home district or have the “privilege” of being home schooled revoked by the district.

New Jersey is clearly not on the same planet as health freedom since a basic definition of that term is the capacity and right to decide what happens to your own body, what goes into it and what you do to it for treatment and prevention of illness.

Click here – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=1236 – to see what one of our Trustees, Ralph Fucetola, who is also an attorney, had to say about this illegal, and probably unconstitutional, economic end run around health freedom when he spoke at the State House Rally last week.

Farmer in Chief
Food Policy Is Critical to Nation’s Strength
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1250

Michael Pollan is a writer of prodigious intellect and intellegence. His book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemna ” is surely one of the best books I have ever read and although I know quite a bit about food, I learned a great deal more and had a – excuse the phrase – delicious time consuming the book.

Pollan is thoughtful and deeply insightful. He has written an article of great importance to the next president of the United States suggesting that unless he pays close attention to food policy, the United States is vulnerable and cannot be protected.

I concur heartily. In fact, I have been writing for years about the fact that the national immune system is our greatest collective vulnerability (second only to our politicians, of course). Think about it a moment an you will see that it is true: If the nation’s nutrition is as bad as it is, and its food supply is forcing it to get worse, how strong, how efficient, how work-efficient, how clear thinking can we be collectively?

Please click here – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1250 – for Pollan’s outstanding open letter to the next leader of the United States and, in truth, to us all.

Avian Flu: A pandemic of our own making!
http://www.hsus.org/video_clips/bird_flu_a_virus_of_our_own.html

Avian flu danger has dropped for this year, the UN tells us in a press release yesterday, but not to worry! We are still due for the inevitable pandemic – http://tinyurl.com/6ogd2q – so we have to make plans, control the citizenry, kill outdoor flocks (the kind that people have raised for millennia and that a recent Johns Hopkins study shows have the lowest likelihood of developing H5N1 infections) and replace them with factory farms (the kind that multinational corporations have been making huge profits on and degrading the food supply with for decades, the kind that have the highest likelihood of developing H5N1 infections). It is worth noting, of course, that backyard flocks have NEVER developed the H5N1 strain of Avian Flu. It is the factory farmed flocks, which HAVE BEEN VACCINATED AGAINST THE H5N1 STRAIN OF AVIAN FLU WHICH DEVELOP THE DISEASE. If you think there might be a parallel there for human health, you are right, by the way.

Don’t think for a moment, says the UN, that you are out of the woods! Nope! We need more vaccines which are the ‘first line of defense’ against a disease which supposedly does not even exist yet.

Never mind that you simply cannot make a vaccine against something which does not exist, and never mind that the CDC and WHO, who sit down to guess what the viral threat will be next October each March, literally guess wrong more years than they guess right about what virus they should make the flu vaccine against for next season’s “seasonal flu vaccine”. What they waste that way is time, money and the collective and individual immune system capacity of the people whom they coerce or bamboozle into a accepting their toxic jabs.

And never mind that people who get those seasonal flu shots not only get the flu and give it to others since live viruses (like those contained in Flu Mist) are still infective and shed for up to 3 months to other people, like babies and pregnant moms and people on steroids and people who have had transplants and people who have cancer and the very young and the elderly (for example). All of these groups of folks can get the disease from contact with a person who has had the shot or the nasal inoculation! Never mind that yearly flu shots, with their load of

• Aluminum hydroxide
• Mercury (even in “mercury-free” shots)
• Formaldehyde
• Fluoride
• Stealth viruses
• Polysorbate 80 – associated with infertility
• MSG
• Aspartame
• Stray bits of DNA from the culture medium (which can be eggs, human cells or aborted fetal tissue, for example) contain viruses associated with cancer, including leukemia.

Vaccines are good business for the only “stake holder” that the government seems to consider: Big Pharma.

Never mind that recent studies showed that people who had five consecutive influenza vaccinations between the years 1970 and 1980 were ten times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s than were individuals who had none, one or two.

New “blockbuster’ drugs are in precious short supply in the pipeline that produces the wildly lucrative patented chemicals (e.g., “drugs”) which make Big Pharma so much money. Even though manufacturers cut costs by using plants in places like China, “employing”, it is reported, slave labor (which works pretty cheaply) and questionable quality controls, and are now immune from costly liability suits. Still, the profits are simply not on the horizon from block buster new drugs the way they once were. So Big Pharma has turned to Big Vaccine to pull it out of the anticipated hole$ it $ee$ ahead.

Thus
• The hype about vaccines being the first line of defense against bioterrorism and being necessary for herd immunity for diseases that do not yet exist.

• The declaration on October 1, 2008 by President Bush of a state of national emergency over Anthrax – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1257 – so that anthrax vaccine makers can get an extra measure of immunity from liability for the damage their product does since they are even more fully protected against damages when a state of emergency has been declared. By the way, it is my understanding that the government could now, if it decided to do so, order every man, woman and child in the US to have an anthrax vaccine under this state of emergency.

Anthrax? Is Anthrax a Threat?

Not so’s you’d notice. But litigation might be, what with the recent decision of a Georgia court to allow parents to sue both the doctor and the company who made the vaccine that the doctor administered to the child for damages to their child. Vaccination is, you will recall, an unisurable risk meaning that no insurance company is willing to bet on the safety of the “treatment” which governments increasingly want to compel military and civilians alike to accept into their bodies.

And thus the State Medical Emergency Powers Acts which say that if the Governor declares a state of Medical Emergency, pandemic or otherwise, refusing treatment, such as, say, a vaccine, would be a felony offense. People are imprisoned for felony offenses.

How handy to have more than 630 detention centers to take care of all the anticipated felons and add them to the largest per capita (and actual) prison population on the planet in our privatized prison system! Empty and manned, there they sit, just waiting for you to refuse to allow God-Knows-What into your body and those of your children. Have they been privatized, too? Do the same multinational corporations who run US prisons run them, too? Would that explain the reported foreign troops (German, Chinese, Belgian) allegedly stationed at these centers with nothing to do and no one to imprison? Are they, in fact, mercenaries waiting to do the bidding of their employers?

So we really do have to stop this vaccination threat NOW, before we can no longer stop it. And you are the critical player: the voice of people, en masse, really does push back the other side IF we use it. Take the action steps in this blast and ask everyone you know to sign up for the Health Freedom eAlerts and do the same.

New Wrinkle: Factory Farming the Cause of Avian Flu Danger
http://www.hsus.org/video_clips/bird_flu_a_virus_of_our_own.html

Dr. Michael Greger, relying heavily on the World Health Organization’s assessment of why we are facing the potentially global devastation (estimated to likely take an economic toll of 3 trillion dollars by the International Monetary Fund [IMF] recently) of hundreds of millions of deaths, concurs: it is factory farming which has brought us this nightmare plague.

I only partly agree: I believe that it is factory farming PLUS weaponization of the virus and vaccines which are the cause of our vulnerability. Whichever way you slice it, however, we are being told that we are on the brink of mankind’s worst disaster, ever.

Please take the time to watch Dr. Greger’s highly informative video here ( http://www.hsus.org/video_clips/bird_flu_a_virus_of_our_own.html ) and then make it your personal priority to never, ever eat factory farmed meats or eggs again. Find organic. Eat organic. Grow organic. Support organic. Share organic information and forward this email to your friends and neighbors, family and associates.
Cheap Meat – Expensive Death?

Factory farming is beyond cruel. It is insane and it can kill you. While you are on the Human Society site where Dr. Greger’s outstanding film is mounted, please take a few moments to check out the factory farming documentation below. You’ll see very quickly that these practices, permitted by Codex, by the way, as well as by the USDA, make for animals which cannot possibly resist infection and which can serve as the perfect vector for the perfect storm: weaponized disease causing organisms.

If you want more (stomach turning) information on factory farming, visit the website of the Humane Society of the United States, and take a look at their information on factory farming, http://www.hsus.org/search.jsp. Then check out “Meat Your Meat”, ( http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp ). The solution? Organic meat.

Take the time, now, to click on each of the links in the action section to create a mighty roar of direction to your legislators and others. And then take another moment, won’t you, to forward this email to everyone on your list and give them the opportunity to do the same.

What happens if you don’t? I think you already know the answer and, if you are reading this Health Freedom eAlert, you don’t like it.

Have A Little NeuroToxin on Your Food
– On Second Thought, Have a Lot!
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1247

You know that MSG, or mono sodium glutamate (one of the literally hundreds of names it goes by) is bad for you. You know that although it gives food a pleasant, beefy taste, it is a neurological poison of serious magnitude. But did you know that it is now being sprayed directly, in unlimited amounts, on food growing in the field? Click here – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1247 – to read more.

Remember, we know a lot about the health risks of MSG in prepared food for babies, children and grown ups. We know nothing, literally nothing, about the health risks of applying this toxin to food while it is still growing. The FDA and EPA both agree that there are adverse events in its use.

What does a plant do to biotransform this substance? We don’t know. What does the concentration become in various foods? We do not know. What is the toxicity of MSG levels reached through this practice? We have no data but we know the picture is not a pretty one from what we already know about MSG.

GMOs are Dead – They Just Haven’t Stopped Wiggling!

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1249
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25920
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1252

Oh, did you think that the food grown and contaminated this way would be labeled? Surely you jest. Remember that dangerous GMO “FrankenFood”, including cloned “Franken Meat” MAY NOT be labeled in the US (which pushes this policy on the rest of the world with great vigor through Codex and elsewhere).

But remember, too, that there are three bills in front of the House of Representatives right now, sponsored by Rep. Denis Kucinich, to change that, require safety testing (not carried out or examined by either the FDA or the USDA now) and clear labeling of any and all GM foods. It is urgently important that our combined pressure, like the pressure of consumers in South Africa, reverse this industry friendly, health hostile position and require not only safety assessments, but clear labeling of all GMO ingredients and components in foods and supplements. Click here – http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25920 – to urge your legislators to support Rep. Kucinich’s bills.

And then take a few minutes to read Dr. Mae Wan Ho’s excellent analysis of why GMO practices are economically and environmentally unnecessary and are, fundamentally, dead. The problem is, like Frankenstein, they will not climb into their coffin and stay where they belong. They are walking around right now and poisoning the crops and insects, weeds and consumers. It’s a cat we need to urgently put back in the bag. Click here – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1249 – to find out why GMOs are already dead and why we need to bury them before they bury us and bury biodiversity for all time!

What about genetically modified insects? Read here – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1252 – to find out what the profit driven “scientific” madmen have in store next.

Act now and create the roar of health freedom for us all.

How About Something Light and Refreshing? Perhaps a Party in Panama?
http://web.me.com/dr.laibow/Site/Panamanian_Party.html#grid

As you know, General Bert and I are currently spending full time in the Highlands of Panama laying the foundation for the Valley of the Moon (TM) Eco Demonstration project. The roads here vary from perfectly paved, smooth and modern to atrocious. There is no way, for example, to get to the house we are renting without driving over a short stretch of awful road which can only be navigated by a regular car at about 3 miles per hour – and that is hazardous to the undercarriage of the vehicle.

So we needed a 4 wheel drive, high chassis car to get around, see the sites we are looking at, and generally survive the parts of the Panamanian road system that is not perfect. We were recommended to a car dealer and a dealership and off we went. Every time we visited Oscar Hernandez at Ricardo Perez in the provincial capital of David, the big, bright and very clean dealership was either having a fiesta or getting ready to have one.

Big, lavish ‘do’s’ with food and music and drinks and flowers.

We finally concluded our 4 wheel drive purchase on Thursday last week. Oscar implored us to come back to David on Friday because the dealership was having another party, but this time, it was going to have typical Panamanian dancing, music and food. Well, we could not resist and, indeed, it was delightful.

I wanted to share a bit of the fun with you. Click here – http://web.me.com/dr.laibow/Site/Panamanian_Party.html#grid – for some photos of the fun, the girls in Polera (the National costume) with astonishing head pieces and the liveliness of the party. At the end, as often happens at these events, the dancers in the troupe fanned out and brought people in the audience back in to dance with them. When a dancer approached me (the best male dancer in the troupe, by the way), I did not even consider saying “NO!”. I was up in a second and if you click on some of the videos, you can see me there. Unfortunately, I do not have a Polera dress. Maybe I will next time!

About Those Detox Pads…

A number of people wrote to me recently to question the sale of Detox Pads since another physician on the internet said that they were a scam. While I respect the other doctor and his work, I do not agree on his assessment of this particular item. I have had good clinical and personal experiences with these detox tools and have done a little experimentation of my own with them because I was quite skeptical about their function when I first encountered them.

The first time I used them, I put the pads on the soles of my feet as instructed and noted the change in color and consistency in the pads in the morning. The next time I applied them, I put them on the soles of my feet and the inside of my forearm to see if contact with skin or moisture alone would bring about the same results. In the morning, the pads applied to my feet were gooey and brown/green (UGH!) while the ones applied to my forearms were unchanged.

Coupled with the change in my physical state after using the pads, I decided to recommend them to some very toxic patients. Each of the people who used them reported that they experienced a positive change after the use of the pads, although sometimes several applications were necessary to feel that improvement.

I have no idea why these things work. I also have no idea whether the other physician used the same Detox Pads which we make available here on our site. What I do know is that my information testing, my personal experience and the experience of my patients led me to conclude that these items are worth having in my took kit of things that will help detoxification with good clinical results. Otherwise, you may rest assured that we would not offer them for sale!

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima

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

GM Files: GMIs – Genetically Modified Insects

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

I am nearly speechless by the stupidity and ill-conceived arrogance of industry scientists who are playing havoc with my world and yours.
Read this for yourself and see if you do not believe that you need strong allies to fight this madness back into the nightmare it came from.
That ally is the Natural Solutions Foundation. Give us the voice and give us the strength to carry this battle forward by making sure that you are on the distribution list of the free Health Freedom eAlerts (sign up on our home page, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org) and by forwarding the eAlerts to your entire list and asking them to take the action steps therein.
This madness MUST stop.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD

Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Invasion of the warrior insects
Clive Cookson
Financial Times, October 11 2008

Scientists are about to unleash a new weapon in mankind’s running battle
against insect pests: a genetically modified flying army. The first
commercial release of GM insects, to protect US cotton fields from the
voracious pink bollworm, is expected within the next two years. The second
target will be the mosquito that spreads dengue fever in Asia.

This new airborne offensive is being mounted from a business park near
Abingdon, Oxfordshire, where a set of low-key laboratories houses the
world’s leading centre for GM insect development. Oxitec, a private company
spun out of Oxford University in 2002, holds tens of thousands of moths,
mosquitoes and flies in its insectaries. They are undergoing genetic
engineering as part of the fight against agricultural pests and carriers of
human disease.

GM is being deployed to extend the “sterile insect” technique that has
already successfully eradicated pests such as screw-worms and Mediterranean
fruit flies (medflies) in parts of north America. The idea is that vast
numbers of sterile yet virile males – at least 10 times as many as the wild
population – are released in infected areas. These sterile newcomers swamp
the native males, mating with all available females, which then fail to
produce any offspring.

Until now, insects have been sterilised before release by old-fashioned
irradiation from radioactive isotopes. But this is a crude technique that
works only on some species. “It doesn’t work for mosquitoes because a
radiation dose big enough to sterilise the insect will also incapacitate or
kill it,” says Luke Alphey, founder and research director of Oxitec.

With colleagues at Oxford University he discovered how to achieve the same
effect more gently and specifically, by inserting a “dominant lethal” gene
into the insects. “The males produce viable sperm which will fertilise the
egg, but the embryo [larva] dies in development,” says Alphey, who left the
university this year to work full time for the company.

“Of course the system needs to be reversible, so that we can breed the
insects in the first place,” he adds. This is achieved by designing the
lethal gene so that it can be suppressed by adding the antibiotic
tetracycline to the captive insects’ diet. In the absence of tetracycline,
the larvae die.

The lab insects live in clear plastic containers of various shapes,
typically about the size of an archive box. Some have fine mesh or gauze on
one side. Fruit flies, for example, lay their eggs on the mesh, where they
can easily be collected by lab staff.

Female mosquitoes receive what’s known as their “blood meal”, which they
need to breed, through the gauze. Genevieve Labbe, who is in charge of the
mosquito breeding programme, gives them horse blood heated to 37Æ’C, twice a
week. “First we blow into the cage to tell them there’s something to bite,”
she explains. Carbon dioxide in the breath alerts the insects to the
presence of a warm-blooded animal.

The mosquitoes, which have been sitting or flying lethargically around their
box, begin buzzing energetically in response to Labbe’s breath. Then a
cylinder of warm blood, with one end covered with sausage skin, is placed
against the gauze – and the mosquitoes gorge themselves.

Oxitec’s highest-profile project is to attack Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the
carriers of dengue fever, which afflicts an estimated 100m people every
year. The work is funded with a $5m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, part of the charity’s drive to reduce the toll from tropical
diseases.

“Both the incidence and severity of dengue are increasing,” warns Alphey.
“There are no drugs or vaccine, and $1bn has been spent – largely
ineffectively – on dengue control through insecticide fogging and site
sanitation.” (The mosquitoes breed in small rainwater pools, such as those
that form in discarded tyres.)

The Malaysian government is collaborating with Oxitec to run a field trial
with GM insects on Pulau Ketam, an island east of Kuala Lumpur inhabited
mainly by Chinese fishing families. Its relative isolation makes Pulau Ketam
a good test site, because were Aedes aegypti to be suppressed locally, the
success would not be masked by mosquitoes moving in from elsewhere. But some
residents are objecting to what they call “warrior” mosquitoes.

“What else will the ‘warrior’ mosquitoes kill?” asked Saw Lek, a retired
teacher quoted in the South China Morning Post. “We fear, once released,
there is no way to control the new mosquito if anything goes wrong.”

There are also objectors further afield. Mae-Wan Ho, director of the
Institute of Science in Society, based in London, calls the use of
“terminator mosquitoes” to control dengue “dangerous and costly”. She
believes there is a risk of the lethal genes moving from the released GM
mosquitoes into other organisms and disrupting the already fragile
environmental balance.

But Oxitec scientists insist their GM mosquitoes are environmentally benign.
First, they argue, only the non-biting males are released; they are easily
sorted from the females in the breeding facility because their pupae are
smaller.

“The natural population density of Aedes aegypti is not high,” says Alphey.
“For a city of 1m people you are probably talking about releasing 10-20
mosquitoes per person per week. I don’t think anyone would notice the
increase in the mosquito population.”

He points out too that Aedes aegypti, like the other pests targeted by
Oxitec, is not a native species (it originates in Africa) but has been
spread around the world by human activities. Its eradication would not
disrupt any local ecosystems. “There is no breeding route into a wild
population,” Alphey insists. And if the terminator gene does inadvertently
get into wild mosquitoes, it “absolutely will not spread”, because any
insects carrying it would not survive.

The promise to keep genetic modification out of the wild population may make
the Oxitec technology more acceptable to sceptics than other ways of using
GM insects, which are being studied but are further from commercial
application. Scientists at Imperial College London, for example, plan
permanently to change the genetic make-up of wild mosquitoes, so that they
can no longer transmit a human pathogen such as the malaria parasite.

Safe or not, GM technology will get nowhere without winning over the people
living near release sites, warns Anthony Wilson, an expert on insect-borne
disease at the UK-based Institute of Animal Health. “If you can see a
facility releasing clouds of mosquitoes, you’ll want to be very sure that
you are not just being used for experimental purposes,” says Wilson. In the
1970s, long before scientists could genetically engineer insects, the World
Health Organisation and the Indian government had to cancel an ambitious
dengue control project after local newspapers caused a furore with erroneous
claims that it was a camouflaged US germ warfare experiment.

In the US, Oxitec’s pink bollworm project is not meeting hostility, partly
because American public opinion is less suspicious of genetically modified
organisms than Asian and European. Another reason is that the GM insects
released in the US would replace insects sterilised by irradiation in the
fight against cotton bollworm, rather than adding millions of new insects to
the existing population. “We have had three years of field trials, releasing
our GM pink bollworm from the air over cotton in Arizona,” says David
Brooks, Oxitech chief executive. “We had a very positive environmental
impact report [from the US Department of Agriculture] and we could go into
commercial operation next year or in 2010.”

A bigger prize in the agricultural sector would be the medfly, a scourge of
fruit-growers worldwide. Oxitec hopes the US government will eventually
adopt GM technology to replace the irradiation facilities that it is funding
in central America to push medfly further away from the US. The
sterilisation plant in Guatemala produces a staggering 2bn sterile flies
every week – that’s 20 tonnes of living insect.

Once the GM medflies have proved themselves in field trials, the US
authorities, nervous about the potential security risks posed by radioactive
sources, may indeed prefer the cleaner and simpler technique of genetic
sterilisation. But it is hard to imagine GM insects being released in
Britain or Europe for the foreseeable future. If activists are determined to
trash static biotech crops, imagine the uproar that would greet GM on wings.
Clive Cookson is the FT’s science editor.
http://www.gmfreeireland.org/news/index.php

HHS Declares Health Emergencies – And Protects Industry!

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

The Natural Solutions Foundation has been deeply concerned for some time now about the possibility, enshrined in Executive Order, Homeland Security Directive, Patriot Actis 1 and HS Declares ‘Health Emergencies’ to Limit Legal Liability for harm done to victims of vaccine injury and other preventable medical disasters. We note with great alarm that the mechanism of “Emergency” declarations is being used with increasing frequency and take this opportunity to share with you a very serious issue which we urge you to take seriously and heed the potentially dire implications of.

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Rima E. Laibow, MD

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http://www.legitgov.org/HHS_declares_health_emergencies.html
HHS Declares ‘Health Emergencies’ to Limit Legal Liability for Anti-
terrorism Vaccines, Drugs
By Lori Price
www.legitgov.org

October Surprises: The U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary,
Michael Leavitt, has declared a series of ‘public health emergencies’
— due to risk of a bioterrorism attack — that continue through 2015.

Oct. 1, 2008: U.S. declares a ‘public health emergency’ due to the
risk of a bioterrorism attack. HHS Secretary, Michael Leavitt, said
the emergency began on Oct. 1 and would run through Dec. 31, 2015.
The declaration establishes legal immunity for public and private
officials who oversee the production or distribution of the anthrax
vaccine.
Oct. 10, 2008: U.S. declares more ‘public health emergencies’ for
smallpox, radiation sickness from the detonation of a nuclear device
and poisoning from botulinum toxins, the active ingredient of Botox.
This move provides the manufacturers, distributors, and others, of
‘anti-terrorism’ drugs and vaccines immunity from lawsuits, should
injuries or deaths occur due to the drugs or vaccines.
U.S. Limits Anthrax Vaccine Legal Liability By Elaine M. Grossman 07
Oct 2008 The U.S. Health and Human Services Department early this
month moved to shield government, industry and business officials
from lawsuits filed by those who have received the anthrax vaccine
(see GSN, Sept. 5, 2007). Health and Human Services Secretary Michael
Leavitt established legal immunity for public and private officials
who oversee the production or distribution of the anthrax vaccine by
declaring a “public health emergency” due to the risk of a
bioterrorism attack. He said the emergency began on Oct. 1 and would
run through Dec. 31, 2015. U.S. law provides protection from lawsuits
to individuals responsible for selected countermeasures, including
antibiotics, during a declared emergency. Under the Public Readiness
and Emergency Preparedness Act, which President [sic] George W. Bush
signed into law in December 2005, a health and human services
secretary’s emergency declaration can limit financial risk for
government program planners and the manufacturers or distributors of
pharmaceutical countermeasures.

Emergency declarations smooth way for vaccine makers –Consumer
advocates see action as giveaway to the drug industry that strips the
public of legal protections. 17 Oct 2008 In a little noticed move,
federal officials this month have declared a series of public health
emergencies relating to potential weapons of biological terror. On
Oct. 1, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt declared an
anthrax public health emergency. On Oct. 10, he declared health
emergencies for smallpox, radiation sickness from the detonation of a
nuclear device and poisoning from botulinum toxins, the active
ingredient of Botox. There’s no clear evidence that terrorists have
managed to weaponize anthrax or stolen large caches of Botox from
cosmetic surgeons in Beverly Hills. But by declaring these public
health emergencies, HHS has granted manufacturers of anti-terrorism
drugs and vaccines and others involved with the products protection
from lawsuits if the drugs were to cause unfortunate side effects.

Bogus Anthrax ‘State of Emergency’ Protects Drugmakers, Not Public By
Brandon Keim 15 Oct 2008 Not a single case of human anthrax has been
reported in the United States this year, but the nation is now
officially in a state of anthrax emergency. The emergency was
declared earlier this month by the Department of Health and Human
Services, and will last until 2015. Whether it will protect public
health is debatable, but it will certainly protect makers of faulty
anthrax vaccines. Emergency exemption from legal liability is granted
to vaccine manufacturers by the Public Readiness and Preparedness
Act, passed in 2005 to protect against paralyzing lawsuits during
outbreaks of anthrax, avian influenza or other potentially pandemic
diseases. The act is supposed to be invoked when the Secretary of
Homeland Security has determined “that there is a domestic emergency,
or a significant potential for a domestic emergency, involving a
heightened risk of attack with a specified biological, chemical,
radiological, or nuclear agent or agents.”

37 human anthrax cases in northern Iraq outbreak 12 Oct 2008 Thirty-
seven people have been infected by anthrax in northern Iraq in the
country’s first outbreak of the disease since the 1980s, the health
minister in the Kurdish autonomous region said on Sunday. Health
Minister Ziryan Othman said the disease appeared to have been passed
on from livestock [?]. The first human case of the outbreak was
discovered in remote Dahuk province last month.

US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears 11 Oct 2008 When
Indonesia’s health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a
research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to
make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and
called it “the nuttiest thing” he’d ever heard. Yet deep inside an 86-
page supplement to United States export regulations is a single
sentence that bars U.S. exports of vaccines for avian bird flu and
dozens of other viruses to five countries designated “state sponsors
of terrorism.” The reason: Fear that they will be used for biological
warfare.

Mail carriers, escorted by police, to bring drugs in anthrax attack —
HHS science advisor: Attack using crop-dusting airplane dumping
anthrax spores over a city is a possible scenario 01 Oct 2008
Government mail carriers would deliver emergency supplies of
antibiotics to people in U.S. cities in the case of an anthrax
attack, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials said
on Wednesday. The system has been tested in three large [blue] cities
— Seattle, Philadelphia and Boston — and a pilot program is set to
begin soon in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in Minnesota. The U.S.
Postal Service carriers who would bring the antibiotics from door to
door all would be volunteers who would have advance supplies of
antibiotics to protect themselves and their families, officials said.
Following any new attacks, the mail carriers would be escorted by
local police as they deliver supplies of a few days’ worth of
antibiotics directly to residences throughout an affected community,
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt said.

HHS Announces New Steps in Anthrax Preparedness (dhs.gov) 01 Oct 2008
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced two new actions in the
department’s ongoing activities to bolster the nation’s preparedness
for a potential outdoor anthrax attack. In development since March of
this year, the steps being implemented today build upon more than a
decade of preparedness efforts across HHS and other agencies of the
federal government. The first of today’s actions focuses on United
States Postal Service letter carriers who volunteer to deliver
medicines directly to residences in their communities during an
emergency… Over the past several years, under the Cities Readiness
Initiative (CRI), HHS and the Postal Service have successfully
developed and tested in three U.S. cities — Seattle, Philadelphia
and Boston –the ability of letter carriers to quickly deliver door-
to-door quantities of antibiotics from the Strategic National
Stockpile to residential addresses. This quick-strike capability is
intended to buy time for local and State public health authorities to
set up points of dispensing for further provision of antibiotics
across the community.

Judge Affirms Win for Plaintiffs in ‘Anthrax I’ Case By Elaine M.
Grossman 05 Sep 2007 For the first time, a federal judge last month
declared six U.S. defense personnel the definitive winners in a four-
year court battle over the anthrax vaccine. The Aug. 21 decision,
which revolves around payment of attorneys’ fees, is the latest
chapter in a protracted struggle over whether the Defense Department
can require service members to take the anthrax vaccine. U.S.
District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan decided the government defendants
must pay the plaintiffs’ expenses because the plaintiffs won the
case. The litigants — defense personnel who were required to take
anthrax vaccine shots in a Defense Department effort that began in
1998 — won the first round of litigation in October 2004, when
Sullivan issued a permanent injunction banning mandatory
inoculations. Based on a finding that the vaccine was never certified
to protect against “weaponized” airborne anthrax spores, the judge
declared the Pentagon’s mandatory vaccinations “illegal.”

HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/HSPD-21, issued 18 October
2007, states that within one year of the directive’s date, ‘the
Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Defense, in coordination
with the Secretaries of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security, shall
establish an academic Joint Program for Disaster Medicine and Public
Health housed at a National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public
Health at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences…
Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense
authorities will be used to carry out respective civilian and
military missions within this joint program.’