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NSF Comments on Illegal FDA Assault on Supplements

Friday, November 21st, 2008

The FDA has implied interest in imposing a patently illegal restriction on the interstate commerce of nutrients and supplements if there has EVER been a scientific study published about the supplement.

Not only is that insane, creating a new category of dangerous substances that might be called “Anything anyone has ever studied that competes with drugs”, it is also in direct violation of US law, to say nothing of the Constitution of the United States.

The law it violates is a provision of the 2007 FDA Authorization Act that clearly states nothing in the Act shall apply to products covered by DSHEA, the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act. Nonetheless, FDA is now questioning whether the Act’s Section 301(11) provision allowing FDA to stop interstate commerce in food substances ever studied for possible drug approval applies to dietary supplements (for details see the copy of our statement to the FDA below).

So this bizarre twist of logic, ingenious as it is, has nothing to do with legal authority by the FDA to ban supplements from interstate commerce – which it does not have.

But think about why the FDA would want to do that. Clearly, because nutrients are the single most significant economic competitor to drugs. Drugs are expensive. Nutrients are cheap. Drugs are dangerous. Nutrients are safe. Drugs kill people (23% of all adverse reactions reported to the FDA are fatalities). Nutrients do not kill people. Drug sales are reportedly off 13% in the economic downturn. Could it be that the pharmaceutical industry, which literally owns FDA decision making capacity (through permitted conflicts of interest, revolving door policies which put corporate executives in executive positions in the FDA and then the titles switch so that the same person now has a corporate executive position instead of an FDA position) and through user fees might be serving the interests of its economic masters? It certainly appears that way.

Natural Solutions Foundation is proud to have risen to the challenge because of hundreds of thousands of health freedom advocates when the FDA Authorization Act of 2007 was being debated and brought the issue squarely home to Senator Harkin (R-IL). The Senator introduced an amendment which protected all DSHEA products. Now the FDA is flagrantly ignoring the law of the land.

Health freedom advocates can go to http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26269 to let the FDA know that this attack on supplements and other DSHEA products is illegal under US law.

You can read the formal comments of the Natural Solutions Foundation to the FDA about this issue below.

Don’t forget that the Natural Solutions Foundation is supported by tax deductible donation (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189) and the sales of highly recommended publications and products like Valley of the Moon(TM) (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=1130) chemical-free, GMO-free, shade grown, 100 % hard bean coffee from the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee Finca. Your $25 donation will bring you our thanks and a 1/2 lb. bag of what we believe to be the purest coffee anywhere. You can also find outstanding products and services at our online stores, www.Organics4U.org and www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Comments of Natural Solutions Foundation to the FDA Regarding Comments Request

Natural Solutions Foundation is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) consumer group organized as an exempt entity in the United States (State of Nevada) and in several other countries. Our primary web site is www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and we have over 185,000 supporters, primarily Americans.

These comments address the third question raised by FDA in its call for comments, namely how the Section 301(11) restrictions on commerce might apply to dietary supplements, thereby restricting consumer choice.

National Solutions Foundation was one of the institutions that helped educate members of Congress and other decision makers regarding the relationship of Dietary Supplements regulated under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) to the enhanced authority granted FDA by Congress in the 2007 Food and Drug Act Amendments.

Due to determined public expression, including messages to Congress by hundreds of thousands of citizens, section 1011 of the Act was included, the Rule of Construction that states, “Nothing in this title (or an amendment made by this title) shall be construed to affect– (1) the regulation of dietary supplements under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-417)”

The 301(11) restrictions must be interpreted under the exemption for DSHEA products intended by Section 1011. As a result, DSHEA products must be allowed in interstate commerce without interference by the provisions of section 301(11).

However, the same requirement of law does not apply to food products that contain “trace” or more amounts of extraneous hormones, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics, irradiation break-down products and other toxins introduced to food during its processing. Such adulterated foods should not be on the market.

In its unseemly reach for more authority to restrict consumer choice in nutrients the FDA seeks to ignore the plain Congressional intent of Section 1011 and the unanimous Congressional intent of DSHEA that Dietary Supplements are foods, deemed safe when used as directed.

In this way, FDA continues to exhibit why it is time for Congress to consider divesting FDA of its food authority. FDA has failed to protect the American food supply and is institutionally incapable of responding constructively to consumer choice in nutrition.

Ralph Fucetola JD
NSF Trustee

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eAlert: Emergency – FDA & USDA Attacking Foods, Supplements

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Natural Solutions Foundation eAlert
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Updated: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=1449

November 20, 2008

EMERGENCY HEALTH FREEDOM
ACTION REQUIRED

ADMINISTRATION USING FDA, USDA TO FORCE FEED INDUSTRIAL TOXINS – GMOs, DRUG CROPS/ANIMALS -KILL SUPPLEMENTS

PLEASE FORWARD AS WIDELY AS YOU CAN
Protect Your Health and Your Health Freedom

Urgent Action Alerts In This Issue
Can You Afford Not to Take These Actions?

~ 5 DAYS LEFT TO PROTECT FROM ILLEGAL FDA ATTACK
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26269

Here is the link to the original FDA request for comments:
http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/E8-17356.pdf

~3 DAYS LEFT TO STOP USDA
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26267

FROM SURRENDERING ALL OVERSIGHT TO BIOTECH CORPORATIONS

LET’S TAKE THESE TWO EMERGENCIES ONE AT A TIME AND CREATE A MASSIVE PUSHBACK

1. FDA SAYS “NO SHIPMENT ACROSS STATE LINES IF STUDIES ABOUT SUPPLEMENT HAVE EVER BEEN PUBLISHED!”

FDA, both domestically and through Codex, has been trying to make information about the relationship of food and food components to health forbidden speech. That includes supplements, of course.

As if that were not bad enough, they have come up with another ploy to make it illegal to ship supplements across state lines IF THERE HAVE BEEN ANY PUBLISHED HEALTH STUDIES ABOUT ANY INGREDIENT! And we have only 5 days to stop them.

This is a diabolical, but brilliant, drug company-inspired double whammy:

Whammy Number 1 : Under proposed FDA/Codex rules you cannot tell anyone about what nutrients and supplement can do for them because they are, say the bureaucrats, not “supported” in the scientific literature (despite the science called “Biochemistry” and millions of peer-reviewed journal articles)

Whammy Number 2 : You won’t be able to get supplements if what they can do for you has ever been documented in the scientific literature, as part of any medical study.

It’s Actually Even Worse Than That

In July, 2007, The FDA Amendments Act of 2007, Public Law 110-85, was adopted by the US. Congress. With your support, Natural Solutions Foundation Health Freedom advocates fought hard to convince Senator Harkin (R-IL) and others to fight to keep the language exempting dietary supplements from the enhanced FDA power provisions in the bill in the House/Senate conference committee version, where it appeared that it might have been removed. That protective language remained the law of the United States of America, enacted as section 1011, the DSHEA Product Rule of Construction.

See our comments at that time:
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2007/07/trip-to-dc-congress-liberty-coalition.html

The failed and corrupt FDA, however, in its relentless crusade to eliminate the rights of Americans to learn about or use the most significant economic competitor to pharmaceutical drugs has no respect for the law and no interest in either your freedom or your health. They are currently seeking comments that could lead to them promulgating regulations which would make it illegal to ship supplements across state lines. This would accomplish both definitions of “Nutricide” as I have lectured and written about for years:

Nu tri cide (3 syllables):

1. The death of the body of knowledge about the relationship between health and nutrition

2. The death of large populations through the manipulation of the food [and supplement] supply.

URGENT ACTION REQUIRED NOW

Comments close on November 25, 2008 on a new regulatory sneak attack against supplements. FDA regulations will, if the FDA succeeds, make the shipment of supplements across state lines illegal – get this – IF THE SUPPLEMENT HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF A CLINICAL STUDY.

They’re BAAAAAAACK!

If you value

* Your access to supplements and nutrients
* Your health
* Your freedom to determine what goes into your body
* Your First Amendment Rights

then I urge you in the strongest terms to click below NOW to help make sure that the FDA, at least this once, obeys the law of the land.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26269

Last time the FDA tried something this awful, through the 2007 “Draft CAM Guidance”, the Natural Solutions Foundation alerted health freedom lovers. Time was very short then, too but as a result, 588,000+ people came to our site to tell the FDA not to continue with its plan to turn nutrients into “untested drugs” and therefore make them all illegal. The FDA system “accidentally’ crashed so “only” 198,000+ people got their comments in but FDA got the message and backed off.

We said at that time we counted their backing off as a triumph but that they would be back. Well, they are back and they are sneakier and meaner than ever.

We have enormous power in the aggregate. Now it is time to use it. Again.

Click the link below to use our power and back off the forces that are dedicated to taking away your right to use natural health options prevent and deal with illness – or even know what they can do for you – instead of high-profit drugs.

It is imperative that you tell your friends about his and have them take action, too. Forward this email NOW to your entire list with a little note at the top telling them that taking action now is vitally important to their health and to their freedom.

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Emergency Number 2 Coming Right Up, Courtesy of the Lame Duck Administration

Make no mistake – as the days of the Bush Administration draw to a close, Industry shills inside the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are ramming through regulations (which acquire the force of law once finalized) which weaken protection for human and environmental health to a degree which leaves the observer nearly speechless.

USDA has released a proposed rule gutting any meaningful oversight of GMO (genetically engineered) crops and allowing biotech companies to grow food crops engineered to produce drugs and industrial chemicals without protection for conventional or organic crops. It is imperative to remember that GMO foods are deemed “substantially equivalent” because of a 1992 Executive Order by then-President George Bush, Sr., NOT because of any scientific or epidemiological studies. It is imperative, too, to recall that the genetic material from these crops and animals enters the genetic material of humans or animals consuming it and mingles in totally uncontrolled ways with all plants once GMO crops are grown outdoors. Once mingled, there is no one on the planet who can say with certainty what the short or long term consequences of that mingling will be. All independently conducted science, however, shows, often to the surprise of the scientist, devastating health and environmental consequences.

Four years ago the FDA promised stricter oversight of GMO plants. None of the oversight promised has occurred and the new rule opens even wider holes in any regulatory restrictions despite the strong desire of US and global consumers to avoid GMO foods through labeling and selection. The new rule will make that virtually impossible:

* Biotech companies will assess their OWN crops to determine whether USDA SHOULD regulate them. Since the criteria are loose, open and subjective, the outcome is assured: no regulation.
* Biotech companies will be able to grow UNTESTED crops without any USDA oversight whatsoever, making, according to the USDA contamination of conventional and organic crops with untested GMO material “more likely”.
* This contamination does not bother USDA regulators since the new rule allows “Low Level Presence” of GMO material in BOTH conventional “organic” food, feed and seed.
* Outdoor cultivation of pharmaceutical-producing and industrial material-producing crops is allowed without supervision or restriction. The cross pollination of other plants, weeds, feed and food crops with this material is assured. The consequences include drugs and industrial chemicals ending up in our food and animal feed.
* The rule virtually assures that the DNA to produce these materials will wind up in our own DNA and that of the animals we eat. Both consumer and food industry groups have urged controls on this practice, but the USDA is determined to ignore that input.
* USDA refuses to propose any controls on GMO plants which require or tolerate high levels of pesticide or herbicide use. Insects and weeds both adapt to the presence of these toxins and become resistant to them. Chemical resistant GMO DNA mixes with the genetic material of weeds and insects: an epidemic of super weeds and pests has already resulted.
* In a move to vitiate State and local authorities from protecting farmers and consumers from these regulations, a last minute “correction” bars state or local regulation of GE crops more protective than its own weak rule.

The USDA is following the lead of the FDA by opening new loopholes which make consumer and environmental protection meaningless. The new rule will be of great benefit to Biotech companies who already have more than free reign to contaminate and then own the entire food stock of the US and beyond.

If you are not content to be exposed to more, and more dangerous, GMO “foods”, drugs and industrial chemicals in your “food” then I urge you to click below to tell the USDA in no uncertain terms that this is unacceptable to you and to millions more just like you.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26267

To get that message across right away, I urge you to also send this to your entire email list with a short note asking each person to take the actions here and forward the mails as well. Nothing short of your health and that of the planet is at stake.

Then click below to urge your members of Congress to support the protective legislation which Rep. Denis Kucinich (D-OH) has introduced which would take the FDA and the USDA in exactly the opposit direction – safety testing, stronger regulation and more oversight by both agencies, plus mandatory labeling.

Click Here:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25920

Health and Freedom Options the FDA Wishes You Did Not Know About !

News flash! Neither the USDA nor the FDA are your friends. They do share a great deal, however: Both care a lot about keeping industry happy and nothing at all about keeping you healthy.

FDA wants you to eat what industry wants you to ingest into your body and then take drugs, lots and lots of them. FDA prohibits the labeling of genetically modified foods (which the Austrian Government has just shown decrease reproductive capacity!) It wants you to eat Codex-approved levels of hormones (no upper limits), pesticides and other dangerous chemicals (many with no upper limits) as well as free radicals from irradiation. When you get sick, either from the drugs or the routinely contaminated foods they allow, then you make the drug side of the house very, very happy!

USDA wants you to eat whatever industry wants you to eat and put dangerous chemicals, untested DNA and hormones into your body. Whether you get sick or not is of literally no concern to them.

Americans are over medicated and under ‘healthed’ according to study after study. Click below to read the two latest studies which, like the many others published around the world, show that the US has the poorest health, and gets the worst health service, in the developed world – often worse than many countries in the developing world.

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=1440

Then ask yourself whether that is related to the fact that the number of filled drug prescriptions has gone up 72% in 10 years and vaccinations have gone up by an astonishing – and wildly profitable – 12800 percent during the same period.

The number of childhood vaccinations in that time has gone from 11 recommended doses to 78 for girls (75 for boys unless they, too, are vaccinated “against” HPV to “protect” a cervix they do not have) in that time. Starting at age 18, if people follow the recommendations and receive an annual flu sho (and we sincerely hope that they will not), that will add another 63 shots if you live to the expected age of 81 for a woman or 60 if you are a man and die at 78 as predicted. That’s right: a lifetime average of 141 shots for women and 135 for men IF you do not accept any other vaccinations.

FDA Does Not Want You to Know How
To Control Your Health

Take Silver, For Example. Please do!

FDA does not want you to have Nano Silver in your medicine chest. It is a nutrient traditionally effective against every pathogenic (disease causing organism) against which it has ever been tested and has no known side effects. It eliminates the need for most antibiotics and would, singlehandedly, reverse the cataclysmic problem of drug resistant bacteria and other disease agents which are a huge and looming threat to all of us. Instead of embracing a solution which has an enormous margin of safety, is hugely inexpensive compared to drugs and can be used without a prescription, the FDA has attacked silver products for decades. They do not want you to know that published studies show that it is effective against the H5N1 Virus (among all the others it kills). Click below to lay in a supply before the drug-cartel, through its government arm, succeeds in getting it off the market.

www.nutronix.com/ naturalsolutions – > Products tab >

While there are many silvers on the market, only nano silver has been shown friendly to the beneficial bacteria in your body, an essential part of your immune system. And your purchase supports the Natural Solutions Foundation!

Speaking of support, times are tough but we need to keep going forward together, as this email makes clear. The other side is not out of money! They are continuing their disastrous disregard of our well-being in order to take care of their own bottom line. Both the USDA and the FDA are totally controlled by industry interests. Big Pharma sales are down about 13% because of the economic downturn so they are using regulatory powers to try to kill health products.

We rely upon your support.

Here’s how you can give it:

1. Give GMO-free, Chemical-free, Shade-Grown Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee to evey coffee drinker on your gift list – and get some for yourself. This product is the first output of our Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project in the beautiful, bountiful Chiriqui Highlands of Panama. We are teaching farmers how to grow coffee without chemicals so Valley of the Moon(TM) coffee is good for you, good for the workers and good for the planet. That’s why it is certified as a “Friendly Food” by the Natural Solutions Foundation.

By the way, we say, “Chemical Free” rather than “Organic” because we believe that the term “organic” should be reserved for products which are certified organic. We will be applying for that status next year after our coffee crop is in. No chemicals have been used on this land for at least 5 years. Everything we are using on the land and the coffee crop is totally safe and meets or exceeds organic standards. We could use the word “organic” but we feel it would be misleading since certification lies in the future but I give you my word that the Valley of the Moon(TM) coffee exceeds organic standards by a wide margin.

You can purchase for yourself or as a gift here:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=1130

2. Visit our two online stores, www.Organics4U.org and www.NaturalSolutionsMarketplace.org . they are designed to make products and services available to you that we believe in and that we hope you will enjoy. If you have a product or service that you want to share with our enormous readership, please send an email to Drew at NSFmarketplace@gmail.com with “Marketplace” in the subject line. Every purchase supports your well-being and health, the wellness industry (you can see from the first item in this newsletter how serious the attacks on the supplement industry are) and supports the Natural Solutions Foundation at the same time.

3. Donate to the Natural Solutions Foundation. All US tax payers receive a 100% tax deduction for the amount of your donation. As the economy turns down, the drug companies will fight harder to kill supplements, sell hormones and drugs. The Biotech companies will fight harder to sell their dangerous “food” and “feed”.

Our Donation Page is at:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189

The chemical companies will fight harder to convince people to use more of their poisons. Who is there on your behalf? Natural Solutions Foundation. You work without pay, but we have bills to pay. If every person who reads this donates a minimum of $1 per month, we will have enough money to fight this battle well. If you can give more, do it now. Click below to do it now while you are thinking about it. And let your friends and contacts know that this issue is very hot, requiring their participation, too.

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189

For more information about what is going on, please take a look at Natural Solutions trustee Ralph Fucetola JD’s recent blog:

http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2008/11/musings-on-health-freedom-in-coming.html

We’re here for you. Please make sure that you are, too. We are a team, after all, Team Health Freedom!

Please forward this email!

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

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US Health Care is Nothing Short of a Dismal Drugged Disaster

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

On November 18, 2008 the NY Times published the report of a health scorecard entitled “The Wrong Place to Be Chronically Ill” which follows. It once again documents, as does every survey of international health and health cost, that the US reliance on prescription medication rather than on healthy food, healthy life style, exercise and supplements, is a national disaster of the first water.
Only clean food, high potency natural supplements and nutrients and a huge pile of sceptical salt about what the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry, through its gullable spokespeople, uninformed doctors, will change that along with one more ingredient: common sense!

Eating GMO food is disastrous for your health. Organic food and supplements are essential. Go to www.Organics4U.org to stop using nutrients from GMO sources! Get hold of some high quality nano silver and stop using antibiotics. Check out http://www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions and go to the Products tab, then the Silver solutions button. Your health will thank you! Growing whatever you can and making contact with local growers to make sure you know what is in your food.

It’s your choice. Act now to make your life a healthy one! And act now to donate (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189) to the Health Freedom organization that is there for you, the Natural Solutions Foundation, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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The Wrong Place to Be Chronically Ill

Tuesday 18 November 2008
The New York Times | Editorial

Chronically ill Americans suffer far worse care than their counterparts in seven other industrial nations, according to a new study by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based foundation that has pioneered in international comparisons. It is the latest telling evidence that the dysfunctional American health care system badly needs reform.

The results of the study, published by the respected journal Health Affairs, belie the notion held by many American politicians that health care in this country is the best in the world. That may be true at a handful of pre-eminent medical centers, but it is hardly true for the care provided to a huge portion of the population.

The Commonwealth Fund’s survey of 7,500 patients in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Britain and the United States focused on patients who suffered from at least one of seven chronic conditions: hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, lung problems, cancer or depression.

The care they received in this country – or more often did not receive – ought to be a cause for shame. More than half of the American patients went without care because of high out-of-pocket costs. They did not visit a doctor when sick, skipped a recommended test or treatment or failed to fill a prescription. The uninsured suffered most, but even 43 percent of those who had insurance all year skipped care because of costs.

Americans also were most likely to report wasting time because their care was so poorly organized. About a third reported that medical records and test results were not available when needed or that tests were duplicated unnecessarily. A third experienced a medical error, such as being given the wrong medication or test results. Some 40 percent found it very difficult to get after-hours care without going to an emergency room.

The United States did comparatively well in some areas, such as providing relatively prompt access to specialists and clear instructions to patients leaving the hospital. But the nation’s overall performance was abysmal.

By contrast, Dutch patients reported far more favorable experiences with their health care system, largely because the Netherlands provides universal coverage (through individual mandates and private health insurance), a strong primary care system and widespread use of electronic medical records. It should be possible to achieve the same level of performance here.

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Are IRA and 401 Plans under Threat of Nationalization?

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Special Announcement for Foundation Supporters:

There is a great deal of concern about potential threats to IRA and 401 retirement funds. Congress is currently discussing forcing between 50 and 100% of your retirement funds into Treasury Bonds (at 3% interest, guaranteed below inflation…).

The Natural Solutions Foundation wants to remind 401 and IRA owners that offshore interest-bearing investment is generally permitted under these plans and may allow money to “ride out” currency storms at more realistic interest rates, while offering double tax advantages. Appreciation may be tax deductible when used by a tax exempt organization like the Natural Solutions Foundation and can bear interest for placement of IRA or 401 funds.

If you are concerned with the integrity of your IRA and 401 funds and want to know how you can use those funds to support the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project, a part of the International Decade of Nutrition please visit www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org and contact through that site.

The Chairman of our Advisory Board, Larry Deckerhoff, MIM, shared his opinion with us, “It is apparent that the demise of IRAs and of 401 contribution plans is imminent. Not only are a number of firms (such as Ford) canceling all future employer contributions, the government is also preparing to assume greater control over all retirement funds in order to pay for the bailouts and deficits. This is basically a tax increase. Protecting your retirement funds through offshore participation in real value investments is both prudent and possible – at least for now. How long that option will remain open is anyone’s guess, but it there is clearly a window of opportunity which appears to be shutting rapidly.”

Further information can be found at this subsequent posting:
A Natural Solution to the IRA/401 Threat of Government Take-Over
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=1518

Here’s a third party article that tends to show another risk to retirement funds:

12/02/08: “One of Utah’s largest employers, Intermountain Healthcare, has told its 28,000 employees it will not contribute its share to their 401(k) retirement funds next year.”
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11114715?IADID=Search-www.sltrib.com-www.sltrib.com

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Original message from General Stubblebine to our key supporters:

WILL US GOV’T SEIZE YOUR 401k OR IRA – EQUITY TRUST AND NSF HAVE A SOLUTION
An Urgent Message from Natural Solutions Foundation

Argentina was the first “western democracy” to raid private pension funds… but, you might think, Argentina has a long history of fascist interventionist policies. Unfortunately, we can no longer say “it can’t happen here” since the massive fiat money interventions of the past few weeks. Clearly the American political class has no moral aversion to such interventions.

So how can you protect your retirement funds?

You are receiving this email because we have previously communicated about the opportunities regarding the Foundation’s demonstratrion projects in Panama.

We have established a Panamanian corporation, Natural Solutions Corporation, to accomplish this. It can receive IRA and 401k funds for investment in the Valley of the Moon’s land purchases, infrastructure and other investments as well as projects like the Natural Medical Center in development.

Because we are both a US exempt organization and a private interest foundation in Panama, we have been able to structure an opportunity for people to safeguard their retirement funds by placing the funds into appreciating land in the temperate, bountiful highlands of Chiriqui Province. We have established a Panamanian corporation, Natural Solutions Corporation, to accomplish this. It can receive IRA and 401k funds for investment in the Valley of the Moon’s land purchases.

Once the funds are out of the US and into land, it is very unlikely that the funds can be seized by the Federal Government.

Panama is in the unique position of have NO central bank. It has, according to all the reseach we have done, a very stable banking sector that is not at risk during the global financial meltdown.
Dr. Laibow and two of our project participants are in the process of moving “self directed” IRA funds into the corporation, through Equity Trust Company (the cost is under a thousand dollars). Here is what that company told us about the process:

“- If the client is still employed with the firm that offers the 401k they will need to verify with the plan administrator the restrictions placed upon the plan. It may be possible to move a portion or the entire plan. However, the plan administrator may require that the employee terminate employment before funds can be released.

-If the client has terminated employment with the firm. The funds would be eligible to be rolled to a new IRA at Equity Trust Company. They would need to contact the plan administrator to see what information is required to release the funds to a new custodian.”

Equity Trust Company can be found at: http://www.trustetc.com/

Once in a self-directed plan, the funds can be transferred to our bank in Panama and the custodian will receive the appropriate investment document from the corporation. The investment bears accumulating interest at twice the prime rate set by Chase Manahattan Bank. When you take your tax rate and potential upside benefits, your return could be much higher.

We are considering several alternative arrangements to give everyone an alternative that fits their needs. These are:

1. Allocate all funds to land (maximum protection from dollar depreciation). A sinking fund would be established to allow redemption without the sale of the land.
2. Allocate half of the funds at interest in strong Panamanian banks, to be used as collateral to borrow funds to buy land; the other half would go directly into land. This alternative would give greater flexibility if funds might be needed in the next couple years.
3. In either event, the funds would earn interest and be secured by the land. Land appreciation would inure to the Foundation and therefore we believe its value could be attributed as a tax deductible (against US income) donation.

If you think this arrangement is a viable alternative for your 401k or IRA funds, please contact Foundation Trustee Ralph Fucetola JD at ralph.fucetola@usa.net to initiate discussion. Please put “Equity Trust” in the subject line.

Remember, Congress is currently investigating options for invading IRAs and 401 funds. We cannot predict the timing on these actions so we urge you to act prudently but promptly. We are a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization and do not offer legal, tax or accounting advice. Please do your own due diligence and seek advice from professionals about what we have discussed here.

Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (USA ret)
Foundation President
11/16/08

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Fluoride Facts and Myths

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Fluoride is a multi-system poison. The Natural Solutions Foundation strongly opposes compulsory drugging through its addtion to the water systems of communities. We believe that this is both medically reckless and unconstitutional.

The Natural Solutions Foundation’s strongly anti-fluoride position for infants and children is now echoed by the American Dental Association (ADA) which says that children under 1 year should not be exposed to fluoride.

Although the US supported fluoride in infant formula during the 2006 Codex Committee on Nutritiona and Foods for Special Dietary Uses meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand which dealt with infant formula and other special purpose foods, using data provided by the Natural Solutions Foundation, South Africa pushed the restriction on fluoride in healthy infants’ formula through, despite strong US objection.

Long a proponent of fluoridation of children’s teeth, the ADA joins the Natural Solutions Foundation in pointing out the dangers of the now-debunked toxin in infant’s bodies.

Rather than deal with the expense of safe disposal, the mining industry created the false belief that fluoride should be added to water, toothpaste, supplements, etc. That way, mining companies make a profit instead of taking a loss on fluoride which is expensive to dispose of according to EPA regulations. Despite propaganda to the contrary, fluoride has no known place in human metabolism and increases disease in those exposed to it. It is toxic to the brain, kidneys, bones, teeth, causes bone and other cancers at levels far lower than those permitted in water and has no known positive impact on human health despite oft-repeated but deeply flawed research claims to the contrary. Recent re-evaluation of the original research and other data make it clear that fluoride in any amount is a cumulative biological poison.

Although the United States has sought to add Fluoride to infant formula in the US and internationally, the World Health Organization recommends that infant formula be prepared in water which has no fluoride. Fluoridating water supplies means that infants will necessarily be exposed to amounts of fluoride which are toxic to them. “Little is known of the particular susceptibility of infants to fluoride but what we do know makes it clear that infant formula should be mixed with fluoride free water because fluoride is so toxic to them. Since infants are generally more sensitive to toxins than adults, banning it from formula is the only sensitive alternative,” according to Rima E. Laibow, MD, Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation (http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org).

Despite its wide acceptance as a water and food additive, and even as a “nutritional supplement,” fluoride is actually a dangerous metabolic poison with permanent effects at levels much lower than 1 part per million (ppm). Exposure is cumulative since fluoride is a bio-accumulator which remains in the body and can cause cancer, kidney failure, bone disease, including bone cancers, structural damage to bone and teeth, thyroid poisoning, pineal gland calcification, reproductive failure, synergistic increases in lead poisoning when both are present, endocrine disruption leading to diabetes, other cancers and decreases in the availability of essential nutrients like magnesium.

In addition to water, the FDA allows sodium aluminum fluoride (cryolite) to be sprayed on more than 30 fruits and vegetables at up to 7 ppm. The USDA set a 1.2 ppm limit for arsenic and fluoride pesticides in 1933 since they are equally toxic. While arsenic sprays have been phased out, fluoride ones are increasingly popular and now can be used not only on food but on food storage areas as well. Current FDA water fluoridation standards allow up to 4 ppm and assure on-going fluoride contamination for most Americans.

Industry pressure is strong to increase the amount of fluoride we ingest: DOW Chemical uses extremely high fluoride tolerances on a wide number of common foods including 98 ppm for wheat germ, 40 ppm for wheat bran, 31 ppm for rice bran, 30 ppm for some nuts, 28 ppm for corn meal, 26 ppm for corn flour, 25 ppm for millet, wild rice, sorghum and wheat grains and 17 ppm for oat grain.

Leading scientists have called for a ban on all fluoride usage in light of its devastating impact on health and a recent evaluation of the data upon which fluoridation was initially approved by the FDA for municipal water supplies was deeply and fraudulently distorted when presented to the FDA and the public since toxic results were not revealed in the group receiving fluoridated water.

Vaccines often contain fluoride as an adjuvant or immune system irritant to provoke the immune system into producing more antibodies with fewer antigens since antigens are the expensive part of vaccines. Since vaccines also frequently contain aluminum hydroxide, the synergistic toxicity of the two toxins is significantly more than the toxicity of either toxic metal alone at the same dosage. This problem is repeated in municipal water supplies since fluoride is added for its alleged dental health benefits while aluminum salts are added to “polish” the water and give it an appealing gleaming appearance.

Fluoride as an additive has a dark past: it was first added to water in the Soviet Gulag (prison system) since it is a neurological poison and made political and other difficult prisoners complacent and therefore easier to manage. It was added to the water supplies of the Nazi death and slave labor camps for the same reason. Fluoride is widely used as an additive although the scientific evidence upon which its use rests is either fraudulent or flawed. Long a staple of water treatment, sodium fluoride has been replaced by other, even more toxic fluoride compounds like sulfuryl fluoride which has never been tested in water supplies nor approved for use in them.

The New York State Attorney General has expressed support for banning this dangerous but widely used pesticide. Fluoride contamination from either natural sources or its addition to liquids and products used by children results in dental fluorosis, a permanent mottling of teeth which is both cosmetic and structural, and similar structural damage to bone associated with increased fractures, osteoporosis (bone loss) and demineralization of bone. IQ loss and other neurological damage is due both to the fluoride itself and the dangerous interaction of fluoride with lead since fluoride renders lead even more toxic to the brain. Fluoride without lead leads to loss of higher cognitive functions including decision-making and IQ.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Medical Director
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