Archive for February, 2009

Health Freedom Action eAlert: Silver, Censorship and things that go bump in the night…

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Health Freedom eAlert

February 24, 2009

Welcome! In This Issue:

Things that go bump in the night…

* eAlert Action: eMailing the President & Congress
* Health Freedom Webinars and Webinar Video!
* Video of the Week: Health Freedom is Our First Freedom!
* The General’s Communiqué – Crisis After Crisis
* Dr. Rima Recommends – Save Health Freedom!

Remember: Check our Health Freedom Blog on our website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org . New items are posted frequently like –

Stimulus Package: Health IT and Health Freedom
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2150

Innovative Medicine Attacked by Monopolists
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2144

Thursday, February 26, 2009
“CAM” Practitioners’ Webinar
Intro Video Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCBxute9Gw&

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The General’s Communiqué
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III
(US Army, Ret.)

Crisis After Crisis…

Remember the “Food Safety Agency” bills (H.R. 875 and S.425) pending in Congress… ” These bills will industrialize all farms and insure the farmers are forced to buy chemicals and drugs. Organic is dead. As well as human control over the food supply. As well as health.” – Linn Cohen-Cole.

Here is the Action Item so you can send an unmistakable message to your representatives in the Senate and the House. Please click your Mouse and take action NOW!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

The Nano Silver Controversy

As you know, these “food safety” bills are not the only issue we’ve brought to your attention recently. You’re aware of the FDA’s banning of a certain natural form of Vitamin B-6 last month, in a way that puts all dietary ingredients at risk. You’re aware of the effort of some to have the EPA declare topical silver products “unapproved pesticides” and our efforts to send comments to the EPA before the March 20th deadline.

Recently some usually pro-freedom consumer groups have joined the pro-regulator band-wagon regarding EPA banning nano-silver products. Natural Solutions Foundation supports the availability of nano-silver products.

We think what is happening is that some well-meaning people are confusing silver ions with the types of untested GMO (genetically modified organisms) products and new technology nano-products to which we have always urged the application of the Precautionary Principle [that the company offering a truly new technology product is obligated to reasonably substantiate that it is safe for use as directed, and that new products should not be offered to the public without meeting this standard].

We do not think nano-silver products fit that criteria.

All silver products work the same way: they shed silver ions which have germicidal capacity. An ion is a single atom stripped of some of its electrons, leaving it electrically charged. A nano particle is made of many atoms. A nano particle of silver is simply a small chunk of the element, smaller even than the microscopic size silver particles found in the colloidal silver solutions that have been available for nearly two centuries.

Silver has been used safely for utensils for millennia, with traditionally noted germ-suppressing capacity. The uses being questioned by the EPA are substantially equivelent to this traditional use. Supplemental silver has been ingested safely (argyria is not a safety issue!) for nearly two centuries.

Silver products are quite distinct from the GMO or untested nano-particle products to which the Precautionary Principle should apply. Therefore, we urge you to send an appropriate message to the EPA:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26405

You know how much we need your help to continue this fight. Please make your most generous deductibe donation at:

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

Recurring donations of whatever size, are especially helpful.

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“Mouse Warrior” Action Items

Congress, the President and other decision makers must get your message loud and clear! Now that Health Freedom made it among the Top Ten social issues on Change.org and Change.gov, we are ready to push even harder. That’s where these Health Freedom Action eAlerts make a difference. Please take these actions:

1. Tell Congress “No” on the farm control bills! HR 875 and S.425

We’ve set up an Action Item for you to send an unmistakable message to your representatives in the Senate and the House. We must educate Congress that you do not want organic and small farmers regulated out of existence.

You do not want “Big Agra” regulations, perhaps necessary to protect the public when dealing with large scale agra business, applied to organic and small family farms and ranches or to natural and organic food products including Dietary Supplements.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

2. Tell the President about Change: Health Freedom is Our First Freedom

You made “Health Freedom Is Our First Freedom” one of the top 10 items on America’s mind with your votes to Change.org. Now we have to make that message resonate throught the White House halls.

Will the new President listen? Only if we tell him, in our hundreds of thousands! We need your help in making this campaign “go viral” to “infect” the Internet with health freedom! Please forward to your entire list and ask them to ACT NOW!

Click here to tell President Obama that we want real change — which means more freedom and choice in our lives, not more control over needed medical treatments by yet another overblown, impossible to approach Federal bureaucracy!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26671

Click to send an Open Letter to the President

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2096

3. Right to Use ~ Right to Choose Use Nano Silver

Thanks to Mouse Warriors, the Deadline for Comments has been extended to March 20, 2009 by the EPA. We won that skirmish, but the war is still raging.

Retain the Right to Choose Nano Silver. Tell EPA Not to topical Ban Nano Silver of Any Type. Whether you use Nano Silver or not (and we certainly do!), let’s make sure that we have the right to make that choice!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26405

Want to know more? Read Defending Nano Silver :

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1773

4. Divest FDA/USDA of Food Regulation Authority

– and all government agencies of their often misused power to deny us access to wholesome nutrition and natural remedies. Protect Food from FDA/USDA Regulation!

Congress is about to create a new agency for “Food Safety”. Our analysis is that it will be worse than both FDA and USDA combined. We need to get food out of Federal hands, and quickly. Just think what the new farm bills, coupled with a new industry-controlled, agency will do to your food, your health and your freedom. Having contemplated that horrific outcome, take action and ask everyone you know to do the same.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26314

5 . Please join the Natural Solutions Foundation’s new Food and Farming Yahoo!Groups forum.

Check it out at:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/natural-solutions-food-and-farming/

And here’s an invitation to join our other very active and informative forums:

NO to GMO

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-genetically-modified-foods/join

No Forced Vaccinations

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-forced-vaccination/join
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Sipping Valley of the Moon Coffee, our first Certified Friendly Food, produced by the Natural Solutions Foundation in our quest to find solutions to the problems farmers try to solve by using dangerous chemicals, and then teach others to produce wholesome products for their markets – that’s us, in this case, the coffee drinkers. More foods – and techniques for clean foods – to come.

Supporting because each bag you buy (or sell – see below) supports the work of the Natural Solutions Foundation. You see, we work on many fronts at the same time and we need your support to protect your freedoms.

Bert and I are in Europe this week to participate in some documentary filming on the Codex/Health Freedom battle and present “The Genocidal Feast” to a large and important meeting in Switzerland.

This Powerpoint presentation is available on a free webinar:
http://vital-connection.com/health-freedom-action-webinar/

Your coffee purchases and donations at www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org help make trips like this possible. And the next trip, of course, is to Codex. We’ll need to fill up the coffers a bit so that we do not miss this next, important, meeting in Canada this coming Spring the way we missed the Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) in South Africa late last year.

I forgot a word in my list, true, you can sip and support, but you will find that we should add “savor” to the list.

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Video of “Health Freedom is Our First Freedom”

Counsel’s Corner
Ralph Fucetola, JD

Part of the battle for our health and freedom is through our food. But the issues are even more complex, as you know if you have been following our Health Freedom Action eAlerts and Health Freedom Blog for any time.

I was honored to address a Health Freedom Rally in New Jersey recently and was able to share the current state of the battle with the Health Freedom Advocates (and perhaps the infiltrators there.

The resulting two part film is an educational tool which I invite you to watch and share widely. My new 2 part video made while I informed other health freedom advocates at a Health Freedom Rally – Hunterdon Central High, Flemington, NJ can be seen now at:

http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2009/02/health-freedom-is-our-first-freedom.html

Now that you have watched it, please send this video, and this Health Freedom Action e Alert, to your entire list.

Let people know that they can sign up for their own copies of the Health Freedom Action e Alert at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=187 . This information needs to become a “Freedom Virus” and we, the Mouse Warriors, can make that happen.

CAM Practitioners Webinar

And if you are an “alternative” practitioner (what I like to call an “advanced healthcare” practitioner, please check out the Webinar I wll be hosting this Thursday night, February 26, 2009,8 PM EST. Live attendees will have a chance to ask questions, and the Webinar will be archived for later viewing.

You can see a short video about the Webinar at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCBxute9Gw&
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Health Freedom Action Webinar
Current Webinars

Webinars are a new, efficient and entertaining learning experience. We’re bringing together experts who can provide valuable information, practical advice and leading-edge knowledge. They will be teaching about discovering, demonstrating an implementing natural solutions. Here are some of the initial Webinars you are invited to attend on the Internet. (details below):

1. Valley of the Moon Eco Community: Free – Archived

http://vital-connection.com/health-freedom-action-webinar/

2. Ethical Considerations for CAM Practitioners
Live Online – $99 – 02/26/09

Want to know more?

Watch this Video Introduction
to this ground breaking course:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCBxute9Gw&

Sign up here:

http://vital-connection.com/ethical-legal-considerations-course-february-26th-2009/

3. Protecting your IRA – Sustainable Living
Live Online – $49 – 03/07/09

4. Bringing New Natural Products to Market – April

Webinar updates

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=2002

Be sure to bookmark this page and check it frequently!

Our Webinars are live, interactive learning experiences where you’ll hear us, see powerpoint images and be able to ask questions. Webinars are archived for subsequent retreival.

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Dr. Rima Recommends:

What do I recommend today?

1. Click here to send this open letter to President Obama and your Congressmen and Women:

The President:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26671

Congress:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

2. Click here to support the Natural Solutions Foundation, you health freedom champions. Wait a bit and there may be nothing left to defend. Remember, the “Stimulus Plan” makes any medical care which is not approved by the new Super Bureaucracy in Health And Human Services a forbidden treatment or option.

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

3. Click here to send a strong message to Congress that the so-called “Health Care Reforms” in the Stimulus Bill are unconstitutional and violate your rights. Therefore, they MUST be repealed in favor of legislation which memorializes you right to control your body and your health choices. Anything less is catastrophic and will mean that your options can only be exercised off shore in the near future.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

Are you prepared to surrender your right to natural health to Codex, to President Obama and to the Pharmaceutical corporations? If you are, please, please do nothing.

Oh, by they way, your reproductive rights are next. Here is what is happening in the Netherlands. If Holland goes, can the US be far behind?

Bert and I presented at the AZK anti censorship coalition conference in Chur, Switzerland. Approximately 2000 filled the City Hall of Chur where leading truth and freedom movement activists and whistleblowers spoke to a rapt crowd. Corruption in the Economic and Pharmaceutical worlds were detailed by insiders. General Bert and I offered a detailed and comprehensive look at Codex and its Genocidal agenda, past and future.

Look for the video of our presentation… it will be posted soon!

We’re also discussing the creation of an EU Natural Solutions Foundation, with a leading European Constitutional Attorney and Law Professor — how to create the petition to reopen EU policy on natural supplements, food, herbs, medicine and Codex.

One million signatures needed in EU, 50K signatures needed in Switzerland , and we have allies from all of the continent who will work with us to bring this petition forward. The EU has strong recall provisions which we lack in the US but it would be very helpful to our side to detach the EC from the “rear” of the US in its slavish support of the policies of the Bigs (Big Pharma, Big Agra, Big Chema, Big Finance and Big Govt) which the US brings forward on every Codex issue.

Only on GMOs does the EU differ from the US, and that rift has been meaningful up to now. We want more rifts, bigger rifts, better rifts!

Perhaps we want the EU out of Codex. We shall see what the Constitutional Law Professor has to say when he advises us.And we will, of course, advise you!

Do we want a European presence for the Natural Solutions Foundation, just as we have an African and a Panamanian? Of course we do! And that, too, will be part of the discussion. We are building for Global Health Freedom at the same time that the other side is destroying for global health fascism.

Which side are YOU on? Where is your support? Of course it is with freedom. Now, check at least one of the boxes below to know what you want to do to build the momentum and power of the health freedom movement over the next 7 days:

[ ] 1. I want to become a community organizer. Email dr.laibow@gmail.com (with Organize in the subject line) and Kathy will send you an Organizer’s Handbook to help you get started

[ ] 2. Click here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/natural-solutions-food-and-farming/ to join the food freedom forum

[ ] 3. Click on each Action Item in this email!

[ ] 4. Click here to sign up for health freedom webinars:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=2002

[ ] 5. Click here: ralph.fucetola@usa.net, to propose your webinar topic so that we can share the wisdom and skill of our community with other health freedom advocates (put “Webinar” in the subject line).

[ ] 6. Click here: gail@marketplaceinfo.com, to let us know about a product you want to introduce our membership to on our Natural Solutions foundation Marketplace, www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org

[ ] 7. Click here: dr.laibow@gmail.com, to volunteer your skills and services for health freedom. What do you do best? We need that skill! (“Volunteer” in the subject line).

[ ] 8. Click here: www.Valleyofthemooncoffee.org, to sell our coffee as a Health Freedom Fundraiser through your church, school or club.

[ ] 9. Donate to the strongest, most pro-active global health freedom organization in the world and protect your own health freedom. Click here to make your tax deductible donation. If you’ve given before, thanks. If you haven’t what are you waiting for? The other side isn’t waiting to take your freedoms away.

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

[ ] 10. Disseminate, Disseminate, Disseminate! In activism, there are only two options: have enough money or have enough people to bring your point of view forward compellingly. Well, we have people. You have more people. And they have yet more people.

Please be aware of what all these people have accomplished already. Like stopping the ’06 anti-CAM FDA guidance; like keeping the DSHEA protective language in the ’07 FDA bill… Never lose heart!

It is up to us to make sure that the forces which are rapidly trying to destroy our food, our fertility and our freedoms do not succeed. We are, after all, free men and women who own our own bodies and we must vigorously protect that ownership.

So the time has come. Paul Revere is swinging his lantern. You are on the winning side, but you must act, and act and act. Now.

I am proud to be associative with the Natural Solutions Foundation and I know you are, too. Let’s take that pride and manifest it as power: the Power to Speak Truth and Manifest Freedom – Health Freedom

Please share this health freedom information with your friends and contacts and ask them to help protect food and freedom, too. Let them know that they can get their very free subscription to the Health Freedom Action eAlerts at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=187.

Thanks!

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

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

PS – don’t forget to buy your nano-silver supplements at:

www.nutronix.com/naturalsolutions

Stimulus Package: Health IT and Health Freedom

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

Our thanks to Greg Scandlen for his analysis of the impact of the “stimulus” bill on Health Freedom IT,

“The health care system sorely needs better management tools and better application of technology. There is currently a vast amount of entrepreneurial energy, innovation, and money being invested in developing, refining, and marketing the tools the system needs to come into the twenty-first century…The danger is that massive federal intrusion will bring all that innovation to a screeching halt. Systems work best when they are developed from the ground up, not imposed from on high.”

Full article below.
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Guest Blog Entry from Consumers for Health Care Choices
Research & Commentary: Health Information Technology
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By Greg Scandlen (February 23, 2009)

As part of the federal government’s economic stimulus package, Congress has authorized spending about $20 billion on health information technology (Health IT) and another $1 billion on comparative effectiveness research. These provisions achieved wide bipartisan support in Congress and in the health care industry, based on the hope that the investment will help improve efficiency, cut costs, and result in better care. The reality is likely to be far different.

Proponents of this spending rely heavily on a short RAND Corporation analysis from 2005 that predicted $77 billion in annual savings and improved outcomes. RAND estimated “implementation would cost around $8 billion per year, assuming adoption by 90 percent of hospitals and doctors offices over 15 years.” It said, “The benefits can include dramatic efficiency savings, greatly increased safety, and health benefits.”

Unfortunately, RAND assumed an error-free system that is quickly and enthusiastically adopted by virtually the entire health care system. That might happen, but it is an absolute best-case scenario. Even then, instead of “dramatic savings,” the $77 billion hoped-for savings amounted to a mere 4.5 percent of total costs, placed at $1.7 trillion by RAND.

Far more likely is that every penny of the $20 billion will be wasted on systems that don’t work and can never be implemented. That was the outcome of federal attempts to upgrade technology at the IRS, the FBI, and the air traffic control system. And these are all relatively simple enterprises involving single federal agencies. Health IT is vastly more complex and must include hundreds of thousands of private organizations that have invested in legacy systems that work reasonably well and are as varied as there are providers.

This also has been the experience of the United Kingdom, which has been trying to adopt a similar information technology upgrade for its National Health Service (NHS) since 2002. This plan was far less ambitious than the U.S. version, involving merely 30,000 physicians and 300 hospitals, all of whom are already employed by the NHS. Originally estimated to cost 2.3 billion pounds, it is already at 12.7 billion pounds-$18.4 billion, or about as much as provided in the stimulus package for the entire United States. A recent report to Parliament admitted the program is four to five years late and may never be implemented as envisioned. The project has lost two of the four vendors who were working on it, and some of the elements that have been installed are not meeting expectations.

This is not to say health IT is a bad idea or that hopes for it are unwarranted. Quite the opposite. The health care system sorely needs better management tools and better application of technology. There is currently a vast amount of entrepreneurial energy, innovation, and money being invested in developing, refining, and marketing the tools the system needs to come into the twenty-first century.

The danger is that massive federal intrusion will bring all that innovation to a screeching halt. Systems work best when they are developed from the ground up, not imposed from on high. In ground-up development, flaws can be detected and eliminated without much systemwide damage. Poor vendors can be removed without disruption to the whole system.

We do not yet know what the optimal system will be. Imposing federal standards on health IT in 2009 means the entire system will be locked in to those standards for very long time to come and innovation will not be rewarded.

The RAND study said “market forces” are an obstacle to health IT. Just the opposite is true. The market is the best way to test and refine new ideas. The process of repeated testing and refinement may seem slow to people who want instant solutions and shortcuts, but the failure to engage in that process often results in massive mistakes and wasted billions.

The following articles address some of these concerns and examine health IT from a free-market perspective.

(Thanks to Scot Silverstein, MD of Drexel University and Linda Gorman of the Independence Institute for helping develop this listing).

Can HIT Lower Costs and Improve Quality?
RAND Corporation, 2005
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9136/
This is a short issue brief from RAND that is the basis for most of the estimates of systemwide cost savings. It does not look at the possible difficulties at all and claims the cost savings could reach $77 billion a year in 15 years

The National Programme for IT in the NHS: Progress since 2006
The Public Accounts Committee of the UK
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmpubacc/153/15304.htm
“By the end of 2008 the Lorenzo care records software had still not gone live throughout a single Acute Trust. Given the continuing delays and history of missed deadlines, there must be grounds for serious concern as to whether Lorenzo can be deployed in a reasonable timescale and in a form that brings demonstrable benefits to users and patients. Even so, pushing ahead with the implementation of Lorenzo before Trusts or the system are ready would only serve to damage the Programme.”

Health IT: Intelligent Evolution
Health Affairs Blog by Esther Dyson
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/08/21/health-it-intelligent-evolution/?source=promo
Esther Dyson, the well-known technology investment guru, argues health IT can help bring about improved health care, “But government standards efforts (or magical thinking) won’t make it happen. Rather, I think it will pretty much happen by itself-or rather by the decentralized efforts of millions of people and the slightly more centralized or at least clustered efforts of hundreds of companies, mostly start-ups but eventually some larger ones, too.”

Health Information Technology: A Few Years of Magical Thinking?
Carol Diamond and Clay Shirky
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.27.5.w383
Argues that the current push by the federal government to perfect standards on health technology has it exactly backwards. “If you computerize an inefficient system, you will simply make it inefficient, faster.” The authors write, “[T]echnology and standards alone will not lead to health IT adoption, let alone transform health care. There are serious structural barriers to the use of IT that have nothing to do with technology.”

Sociotechnologic Issues in Clinical Computing: Common Examples of Healthcare IT Difficulties
Blog by Scot M. Silverstein, M.D., Drexel University,
College of Information Science & Technology
http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/failurecases/?loc=home
Dr. Silverstein has developed a Web site that summarizes scores of case studies documenting how various forms of health IT have wasted resources or endangered patient care. He concludes, “The appropriate levels of critical thinking and skepticism essential in a demanding area such as introduction of computer automation in medicine appear largely absent.”

Safely Implementing Health Information and Converging Technologies
Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals
http://www.jointcommission.org/SentinelEvents/SentinelEventAlert/sea_42.htm
“Any form of technology may adversely affect the quality and safety of care if it is designed or implemented improperly or is misinterpreted. Not only must the technology or device be designed to be safe, it must also be operated safely within a safe workflow process.”

Current Approaches to U.S. Health Care Information Technology Are Insufficient
National Academies of Science
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12572
“Many care providers told the committee that data entered into their IT systems was used mainly to comply with regulations or to defend against lawsuits, rather than to improve care. As a result, valuable time and energy is spent managing data as opposed to understanding the patient.”

Australian Health Information Technology
Blog by Dr David More MB, PhD, FACHI
http://aushealthit.blogspot.com/2007/10/hospital-computing-why-is-it-so-hard.html
“This blog provides a commentary on the progress (or not) of e-health in Australia from the perspective of someone who has worked in the field for over 20 years and has become a bit jaded with the lack of apparent progress in a very important field.”

Electronic Health Record Use and the Quality of Ambulatory Care in the United States
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/167/13/1400
A large study of 1.8 billion ambulatory visits in 2003 and 2004 found no difference in 14 of 17 quality indicators between using electronic health records (EHRs) and not using them. The use of EHRs resulted in significantly better quality in two indicators and significantly worse quality in one.

Role of Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems in Facilitating Medication Errors
Ross Koppel, Ph.D., et al.,
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2005
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/293/10/1197
This study found that using Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) Systems increased 22 types of medication errors.

Bad Health Informatics Can Kill
European Federation of Medical Informatics
http://iig.umit.at/efmi/badinformatics.htm
Summary of 33 separate studies from 1985 to 2009 showing that health IT was the cause of or a significant contributor to medical errors.

Preventing Chronic Disease: An Important Investment, But Don’t Count On Cost Savings
Louise B. Russell, Health Affairs, 2009
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/42
“Over the four decades since cost-effectiveness analysis was first applied to health and medicine, hundreds of studies have shown that prevention usually adds to medical costs instead of reducing them. … Careful choices about frequency, groups to target, and component costs can increase the likelihood that interventions will be highly cost-effective or even cost-saving.”

Disease Management for Chronically Ill Beneficiaries in Traditional Medicare
David M. Bott, Mary C. Kapp, Lorraine B. Johnson, and Linda M. Magno, Health Affairs, 2009
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/86
“Since 1999, the CMS has conducted seven DM [disease management] demonstrations involving some 300,000 beneficiaries in thirty-five programs. … Final evaluations on twenty programs found [only] three with evidence of quality improvement at or near budget-neutrality, net of fees. Interim monitoring covering at least twenty-one months on the remaining fifteen programs suggests that [only] four are close to covering their fees.”

For further information on the subject, visit the Health Care issue suite on The Heartland Institute’s Web site at www.heartland.org.

Nothing in this message is intended to influence the passage of legislation, and it does not necessarily represent the views of The Heartland Institute. If you have any questions about this issue or the Heartland Web site, you may contact Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, at greg@chcchoices.org.

Contact Information
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email: greg@chcchoices.org
phone: 301-606-7364
web: http://www.chcchoices.org
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Copyright 2009 Consumers for Health Care Choices
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For more information about Natural Solutions Foundation, please visit our web site at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

Innovative Medicine Attacked by Monopolists

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

Dr. Laibow and Gen. Stubblebine are in Europe, where they spoke to an important meeting of over 2,000 freedom advocates. Dr. Laibow received an email from her colleague, Dr. Wilson. She asked me to post the letter and her comments.

Ralph Fucetola JD
NSF Trustee
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Dr. Laibow:

Dr. Wilson is a friend and colleague, as well as Past President of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine – www.AAEM.com – and its long time Education Director.

He is a vigorous advocate of health freedom. Read his words about what you and your right to choose the health strategies of your choice are facing, now, today.

North Carolina is only a heartbeat away from your state legislature.

Act NOW!

1. Click here to send open letters to President Obama and your Congressmen and Women.


http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2096

2. Click here to support the Natural Solutions Foundation, your health freedom champions. Wait a bit and there may be nothing left to defend. Remember, the “Stimulus Plan” makes any medical care which is not approved by the new Super Bureaucracy in Health And Human Services a forbidden treatment or option.

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

3. Click here to join our new Food and Farming Forum — link up with others who want to defend organic and family farms and ranches, as well as natural and organic foods, supplements and remedies:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/natural-solutions-food-and-farming/join

Are you prepared to surrender your right to natural health to Codex, to President Obama and to the Pharmaceutical corporations? If you are, please, please do nothing.

Oh, by they way, your reproductive rights are next. Did you hear about what is happening in the Netherlands. A new law that would give bureaucrats the power to “temporarily” force woman to become non-reproductive. Who owns your body? You or the state? If Holland goes, can the US be far behind?

Check back on this blog and look out for our Health Freedom Action eAlerts for more about this breaking story.

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

PS – As you may know, Bert and I presented at the AZK anti censorship coalition conference in Chur, Switzwerland. Approximately 2000 filled the City Hall of Chur where leading truth and freedom movement activists and whistle blowers spoke to a rapt crowd. Corruption in the Economic and Pharmaceutical worlds were detailed by insiders. General Bert and I offered a detailed and comprehensive look at Codex and its Genocidal agenda, past and future.

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Dr. Wilson:

Dear GSMC Friends and Patients,

As we told you in an email last year, the pattern of harassment of NC integrative Medicine physicians is escalating. About 20 percent of Integrative Medicine physicians are under investigation by the NC Medical Board for “crimes” such as providing IV vitamins and minerals. Alternative medical treatments for Lyme disease, autism and cancer have been especially affected, but no diagnosis can be considered to safe from the Board’s discriminatory regulation. If allowed to continue, your alternative healthcare options will cease to exist in North Carolina.

A bill will soon be introduced in the NC legislature to tighten the Medical Practice Act and make it more difficult for the Board to circumvent the law and discriminate against Integrative Medicine practitioners. We are very pleased to have two excellent sponsors for our bill: Senator Martin Nesbitt and Representative Julie Howard. A big “thank you” to both of them is in order – sponsoring a bill is a lot of work for a legislator. Even though a number has not yet been assigned to our bill, educating legislators about this issue NOW is very important, and no one can do that more effectively than their constituents. If you value your access to healthcare alternatives, we are asking that you send an email to your Senators (we’ll let you know when to contact your Representatives) asking them to rein in the NC Medical Board’s discriminatory actions against licensed integrative medicine practitioners. Include your health story if you want – make it brief or it will be less likely to be read.

“Strength in numbers” is critical in getting legislation passed. Please forward this email to others you know who value their access to healthcare alternatives. If you haven’t already done so, consider joining other healthcare consumers in a grassroots organization that support access to medical alternatives – Carolinians for Healthcare Access (CHCA) at: www.caroliniansforhealthcareaccess.org. Joining supports the few people working tirelessly to educate legislators in the legislature in Raleigh. If you have already joined or donated, we sincerely thank you!

Scroll down for the list of Senators and their contact information by county. You can copy and paste the email address into your message. Sending your comments to one Senator by name is most effective, but you can send a copy addressed “Dear Senator” to several Senators at once. There is not a form letter because a short personal note is much more effective. Topics ideas are below. (A thank you for sponsoring this bill and a short statement of the personal reason you appreciate his sponsorship will be adequate for Senator Nesbitt – he’s already in our camp.)

Educate Legislators: Use any of the following points you wish.

· Your personal health experience about the importance of your choice and its effectiveness.

· Many patients have sought treatment by multiple physicians before finding an Integrative Medicine physician and successful treatments. Tell your experience, briefly.

· Discuss how much you and your health insurer spent for prevailing treatments that didn’t work before you found an Integrative Medicine physician.

· Research shows that a majority of prevailing treatments are not scientifically proven to be effective. In 2008, the British Medical Association’s Clinical Evidence assessment of prevailing treatments: only 36% beneficial; or likely beneficial; 64% are a trade-off between benefits and harm, unlikely to be beneficial, likely to be ineffective or harmful, or unknown effectiveness.

· The National Institute of Health continues to identify Integrative Medicine treatments effective; ones that the N.C. Medical Board has opposed for more than 23 years.

· The Medical Board should focus on incompetence and patient harm, and not restrict the choice of millions of patients by disciplining Integrative Medicine doctors.

You can also find links to the Senate members listed alphabetically by last name at: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChamber=Senate. If you identify one Senator and click on their name, all of your legislators’ names appear as links that have all their contact information – email, snail mail, FAX, etc.

Thank you!
Sincerely.
John L. Wilson, Jr., M.D.
Eileen M. Wright, M.D.
Pamela A. Shuler, D.N.Sc., F.N.P.-B.C.

Health Freedom Action eAlert: Farmers Under Attack

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Health Freedom Action eAlert

March 6, 2008 – Farm Threat Update: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2246

February 19, 2009

Welcome! In This Issue:

Friendly Food Farmers Under Attack…

* eAlert Action: eMailing the President & Congress
* Health Freedom Webinars and Webinar Video!
* Video of the Week: Health Freedom is Our First Freedom!
* The General’s Communiqué – Farm Crisis
* Dr. Rima Recommends – Save Our Farmers, Save Our Food!

Remember: Check our Health Freedom Blog on our website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org. New items are posted frequently like

HIV: Scientific Fraud Concocted to Cover Up GMO’s Deadly Impact? http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2076

FDA Files: HHS Inspector General Finds FDA Scientists/Science Riddled with Conflict of Interest

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1884

GMO Files: Monsanto’s Rural Cleansing: Hall of Shame http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=187

Send Action eAlert
Open Letters to President Obama & Congress

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2096

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The General’s Communiqué
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)

Farmers Under Attack…

” These bills will industrialize all farms and insure the farmers are forced to buy chemicals and drugs. Organic is dead. As well as human control over the food supply. As well as health.”

Linn Cohen-Cole

I have asked our correspondent, Linn Cohen-Cole, to bring you the following urgent and time sensitive message. I cannot emphasize strongly enough that food freedom and safety – real safety – is essential to any real health or freedom.

Like the freedoms under attack through the urgent – and stealthy – creation of the comprehensively invasive spy system $3.5B ” Smart Grid” – http://rfdamerica.com/?p=333 – rushed into implementation within 60 days of the signing of the Stimulous Bill, so the freedoms of our farmers and our food rights are under massive, well organized attack.

Please read what Linn writes and then take action as the Mouse Warriors which we need to be to secure our food, our freedoms and our health:

“We have less than two weeks to stop the take over of all farms and ranches, including Organic ones.

“We need to rally immediately, reaching out to friends, contacts, customers, etc.

“The new administration is pushing new farm controls through Congress as fast as possible and have coordinated the bills so there will be no debate and the committee meetings are closed.

“Transparency, change, undoing Bush’s regulations, giving the public time to comment, grassroots anything? Our entire food system and thus our health is being decided without the public knowing [precisely as the Economic Stimulus Package and its horrific contents were rushed through Congress – Gen. Bert] and those who do know have zero access and the media is absent and they are moving at warp speed to sew this up.

“We need to put this information out, showing the article as you do so people are more likely to read it. What we are doing is explaining how the game is going to be played. We are not seeing a direct, frontal assault on organic farming but an insidious process of “infecting” organic farming…

“Example: imagine Joel Salatin’s wonderful organic farm under the direction of the USDA, with detailed instructions on what he must feed and when, how he must medically “treat” his animals and with what, what he must “spray” and when … you get the picture.

“These bills will industrialize all farms and insure the farmers are forced to buy chemicals and drugs. Under these bills “Organic” is dead. As well as human control over the food supply. As well as health.

“Schoolmarm approach to punishing farmers out of farming.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-and-the-Schoolmar-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090214-935.html

Bills being rushed through Congress, set to destroy organic farming.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-bills-being-rushe-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090217-758.html ”

Thanks, Linn. Natural Solutions is always ahead of the pack protecting your freedom because you are always there to act. We thank you. These bills are dangerous in the extreme to health AND to freedom.

Here is the Action Item so you can send an unmistakable message to your representatives in the Senate and the House. Please click your Mouse and take action NOW!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

You know how much we need your help to continue this fight. Please make your most generous deductible donation at:

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

Recurring donations of whatever size, are especially helpful.

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“Mouse Warrior” Action Items

Congress, the President and other decision makers must get your message loud and clear! Now that Health Freedom made it among the Top Ten social issues on Change.org and Change.gov, we are ready to push even harder. That’s where these Health Freedom Action eAlerts make a difference. Please take these actions:

1. Tell Congress “No” on the farm control bills! HR 875

We’ve set up an Action Item for you to send an unmistakable message to your representatives in the Senate and the House. We must educate Congress that you do not want organic and small farmers regulated out of existence.

You do not want “Big Agra” regulations, perhaps necessary to protect the public when dealing with large scale agra business, applied to organic and small family farms and ranches or to natural and organic food products including Dietary Supplements.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

2. Tell the President about Change: Health Freedom is Our First Freedom!

You made “Health Freedom Is Our First Freedom” one of the top 10 items on America’s mind with your votes to Change.org. Now we have to make that message resonate through the White House halls.

Will the new President listen? Only if we tell him, in our hundreds of thousands! We need your help in making this campaign “go viral” to “infect” the Internet with health freedom! Please forward to your entire list and ask them to ACT NOW!

Click here to tell President Obama that we want real change — which means more freedom and choice in our lives, not more control over needed medical treatments by yet another overblown, impossible to approach Federal bureaucracy!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26671

Click to send an Open Letter to the President and Congress

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2096

3. Right to Use ~ Right to Choose Use Nano Silver

Thanks to Mouse Warriors, the Deadline for Comments has been extended to March 20, 2009 by the EPA. We won that skirmish, but the war is still raging.

Retain the Right to Choose Nano Silver. Tell EPA Not to topical Ban Nano Silver of Any Type. Whether you use Nano Silver or not (and we certainly do!), let’s make sure that we have the right to make that choice!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26405

Want to know more? Read Defending Nano Silver :

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1773


4. Divest FDA/USDA of Food Regulation Authority

– and all government agencies of their often misused power to deny us access to wholesome nutrition and natural remedies. Protect Food from FDA/USDA Regulation!

Congress is about to create a new agency for “Food Safety”. Our analysis is that it will be worse than both FDA and USDA combined. We need to get food out of Federal hands, and quickly. Just think what the new farm bills, coupled with a new industry-controlled, agency will do to your food, your health and your freedom. Having contemplated that horrific outcome, take action and ask everyone you know to do the same.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26314

5 . Please join the Natural Solutions Foundation’s new Food and Farming Yahoo!Groups forum.

Check it out at:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/natural-solutions-food-and-farming/

And here’s an invitation to join our other very active and informative forums:

NO to GMO

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-genetically-modified-foods/join

No Forced Vaccinations

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-forced-vaccination/join

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What Does
Freedom in a Cup™
Taste Like?

www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org

Mmmm! Do You Want Your Friendly Food™ Whole or Ground?

Valley of the Moon™ Coffee is Certified Friendly Food™
Friendly to You, the Environment, the Workers!

Why Coffee? How are Coffee and Farms and Freedom and Health linked?

Because Natural Solutions Foundation understands that the food we eat is the food we grow and unless we take back – globally – the production of food, there can be no health freedom. Literally.

How does that work? Check out www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org to learn more and get involved. And while you are doing it, try sipping and supporting. Do both at www.Valley of the MoonCoffee.org

Sipping Valley of the Moon Coffee, our first Certified Friendly Food, produced by the Natural Solutions Foundation in our quest to find solutions to the problems farmers try to solve by using dangerous chemicals, and then teach others to produce wholesome products for their markets – that’s us, in this case, the coffee drinkers. More foods – and techniques for clean foods – to come.

Supporting because each bag you buy (or sell – see below) supports the work of the Natural Solutions Foundation. You see, we work on many fronts at the same time and we need your support to protect your freedoms.

Tomorrow General Bert and I will be flying to Germany to participate in some documentary filming on the Codex/Health Freedom battle and present “The Genocidal Feast” to a large and important meeting in Switzerland.

This Powerpoint presentation will be available on a free webinar soon. Your coffee purchases and donations at www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org help make trips like this possible. And the next trip, of course, is to Codex. We’ll need to fill up the coffers a bit so that we do not miss this next, important, meeting in Canada this coming Spring the way we missed the Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) in South Africa late last year.

I forgot a word in my list, true, you can sip and support, but you will find that we should add “savor” to the list.

EVERYONE who has tasted our Valley of the Moon™ Coffee agrees that it is outstanding. www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org

1. For each donation of $25 we’ll say “Thank you!” with an 8 oz bag (plus shipping) of Valley of the Moon™ Coffee AND a $20 tax deduction certificate. Order 4 or more bags to the same address and we’ll throw in the shipping.

2. Order a minimum of 2 bags of coffee per month (no donation credit) for $19.95 per 8 oz bag (plus shipping) we will send your coffee to your cup!

3. Your organization, shop or store can sell Valley of the Moon Coffee™ Coffee as a fund raiser or great “customer pleaser”. Contact Gail Coba, marketplaceinfo@gmail.com – to find out how!Visit

www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org

now and get some of the best coffee you’ve ever tried while you support the Natural Solutions Foundation. And while you savor Health Freedom in a Cup™

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Video of “Health Freedom is Our First Freedom”
Counsel’s Corner

Ralph Fucetola, JD

Part One: http://www.youtube.com/v/uWZQD_0ZMDc&hl=en&fs=1

Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/v/tJldQiJKfzM&hl=en&fs=1

Natural Solutions Foundation has prophetically been ringing the warning bell about the importance of the relationship between farms, food and freedom for several years now. That’s why we set up the revolutionary, and very necessary, Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org, in Panama to help correct the abuses of our food and our freedom globally.

The new “Food Fascism” bills under consideration which will control all food production here in the US should make it clear why we chose to set this project up outside the US – we saw this coming.

Tragically, our warnings of the centrality of this connection and the attacks on both our food and our freedoms, to say nothing of our health, are proving very accurate, indeed, as the new administration, backed by “Advisors” like Tom Daschel and members of the Administration like Secretary of Agriculture Vilsek, an old “Monsanto” hand, are proving both accurate and critically urgent.

Part of the battle for our health and freedom is through our food. But the issues are even more complex, as you know if you have been following our Health Freedom Action eAlerts and Health Freedom Blog for any time.

I was honored to address a Health Freedom Rally in New Jersey recently and was able to share the current state of the battle with the Health Freedom Advocates (and perhaps the infiltrators there.

The resulting two part film is an educational tool which I invite you to watch and share widely. My new 2 part video made while I informed other health freedom advocates at a Health Freedom Rally – Hunterdon Central High, Flemington, NJ can be seen now at:

http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2009/02/health-freedom-is-our-first-freedom.html

Now that you have watched it, please send this video, and this Health Freedom Action e Alert, to your entire list.

Let people know that they can sign up for their own copies of the Health Freedom Action e Alert at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=187 . This information needs to become a “Freedom Virus” and we, the Mouse Warriors, can make that happen.

And please take a look at this important article by the former Lt. Governor of New York, about how Health Freedom is being limited by new laws being passed in Congress including the one signed earlier this week by President Obama: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=2060

Thanks!

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Health Freedom Action Webinar
Current Webinars

Webinars are a new, efficient and entertaining learning experience. We’re bringing together experts who can provide valuable information, practical advice and leading-edge knowledge. They will be teaching about discovering, demonstrating an implementing natural solutions. Here are some of the initial Webinars you are invited to attend on the Internet. (details below):

1. Valley of the Moon Eco Community: Free – Archived
2. Ethical Considerations for CAM Practitioners
Live Online – $99 – 02/26/09

Want to know more?

Watch this Video Introduction to this ground breaking course:


3. Protecting your IRA – Sustainable Living
Live Online – $49 – 03/07/09

4. Bringing New Natural Products to Market – April

Webinar updates

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=2002

Be sure to bookmark this page and check it frequently!

Our Webinars are live, interactive learning experiences where you’ll hear us, see powerpoint images and be able to ask questions. Webinars are archived for subsequent retrieval.

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Dr. Rima Recommends:
If Not Now, When? If Not We, Who?
Tell it to the President – And Congress!
Using Action Alerts to Defend Food, Freedom

There does seem to be so much happening all at the same time. We at Natural Solutions Foundation do not think that is an accident. The momentum of the new administration is even more dangerous than the lame duck deregulation momentum of the Bush administration seeking to leave presents for their supporters and funders, Big Business, before they left office.

The new White House is determined to extend and expand that gifting by driving all doctors out of the business of independent thought or service to their patients through the new super bureaucracy which will determine your health options – all of them, while removing any shreds remaining of your health privacy.

For that matter, any other privacy you might have had will be dissolved in the acid brine of the Smart Grid proposed for implementation within 60 days.

And any persistence of Organic Farming is slated for extinction, too, just like your access to Nano Silver and other health options.

We know you don’t want that and neither do we. That’s why we are sending you more emails than usual. We need your help and your vigilance. Now and in the future.

In the Action Item section of this emailing we list about a half dozen actions you can take to help educate the new President and Congress about your need for health freedom so we can find natural solutions to many pressing issues.

Recently I wrote about the psychology and physiology of brainwashing and what you can do to resist mind control misinformation aimed a persuading you that your loss of health freedom doesn’t matter.

You know it matters! If you haven’t read that article, please do. http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1940

And here are our two most recent Action Items. Taking these actions matters too.

1. Tell the President:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26671

2. Tell your Congressional Representatives:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

Copies of our sample letters to the President and Congress are here:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2096

Change.org continues to promote Health Freedom as one of its Top Ten Ideas for Change! We can help them by clicking onto their site, taking a look at the NEW BLOG and VIDEOS we’ve posted, and commenting on them. Thanks!

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/health_freedom

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Nano Silver: Big Market Buster
Why Would Nano Silver Be Attacked by the Government?

1. Nano silver is cheap, safe and effective. That’s good for us, but takes power and income out of the hands of the Illness Control Industry. You’ve noted how tightly your doctor and you will be controlled in all of your health choices in the new legislation which was just signed. Natural Medicine will, under this tyranny, be eliminated, Nano silver along with it.

2. More than 50% of all antibiotics are used in rearing sick animals for food. They are packed so closely together and so badly fed and treated, that they would die before you had a chance to eat them without these antibiotics. This is an enormous market and Nano silver can eliminate it.

3. Whatever plague is thrown our way by the genetic geniuses who are weaponzing organisms (or by the insanity of modern farming and weapons development) will likely be susceptible to Nano silver, making it useless as a population control mechanism.

So, while you still can get it, we recommend some really great Nano silver here:

www.nutronix.com/naturalsolutions

Go to Products and then scroll down to Silver Solutions (bottom of left side menu).

Have you considered the possibility of using this great product to replace or augment your income? If this is an interesting idea, go to www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions and click on the “Opportunities” tab.

Why not assist the people you know in getting an outstanding product and make some income while doing it? You’ll be supporting your customers, your income and the Natural Solutions Foundation at the same time.

One of the issues in any sales situation, of course, is support. Obviously, the Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation would love to provide product support for you, but we are otherwise occupied.

So the founders of Nutronix, the Bremners, have graciously agreed to do that for us. That means that if you do decide to become a distributor of the Nano Silver product (and others on their site, of course, if you like them), the people who run the company will be your upline support. We really appreciate their help in this matter and know you will enjoy working with them, as we do.

Nano silver has a very long shelf life, years really, so you can safely lay in your supply NOW!

General Bert told you that we are speaking at an important conference in Europe. Make no mistake: we never, but never, leave home without silver. We believe that it is one of the most important reasons that we virtually never get sick and if we do, get better very, very quickly.

Please share this health freedom information with your friends and contacts and ask them to help protect food and freedom, too. Let them know that they can get their very free subscription to the Health Freedom Action eAlerts at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=187.

Thanks!

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

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

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Copyright 2009 – You may reproduce this message in it entirety for distribution, with attribution and a link to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

GMO Files: Monsanto’s Rural Cleansing: Hall of Shame

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Think GMOs don’t impact you because you grow 100% of your own food in a closed environment greenhouse to control all pollination? Think again. If you live in the US, your world is being reshaped in the image of Monsanto. If you don’t like that image, get your head out of the sand in your greenhouse and get busy defending both the American value system and your food, along with your society, from this malign influence.
And, if you tend to think that the Federal Government won’t let this happen, recall that Secretary of Agriculture Vilsek is a Monsanto man.
This kind of atrocity is just fine with the GMO-friendly Federal Government which clearly cannot be trusted to regulate our food. It is imperative to divest the FDA and USDA of their food regulatory responsibilities and get food regulation back into the hands of those of us who eat the food, at the State level. Click here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/112/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26405, to tell Congress to get the Federal Government out of our pantries and off our dinner plates before these agencies do even more harm.
So get involved now.
Sign up for the Natural Solutions Foundation Health Freedom Action eAlerts, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=187, and ride the Freedom Mouse hard.

And remember these battles against Big Pharma and Big Biotech cost money. Make your tax deductible donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation by clicking here,http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189 . Do it now. Time is short and the enemy is large.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
www.Organics4U.org www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org”>www.Organics4U.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org

Monsanto Investigator in Illinois Laughs They Are Doing ‘Rural Cleansing’
by Linn Cohen-Cole
www.opednews.com

As of last night, a US marshal, 2 state police and a county police are all over Mr. Hixon’s area, serving notices to farmers that they are being sued by Monsanto. They arrive in pairs, with two cars parked a quarter mile and half mile down the road. They’ve served 3 so far and said “a bunch more are coming.” No telling how many will be served since Hixon has between 200-400 farmers he cleans seeds for and these farmers have been repeatedly threatened by Monsanto thugs for the last two months, getting “visits,” letters, and calls daily.

Farmers report that a Monsanto investigator laughed that they were doing “rural cleansing.”

Steve Hixon is a seed cleaner in southern Illinois. He has equipment that takes the plant materials and “cleans” it so that the seeds are separated out and can be given back to farmers to save for the next season. It’s a mechanized step up from farmers hand picking seeds off their own plants, which, with hundreds of acres – or even 10 – would not be easy to do.

Mr. Hixon has the non-distinction of being attacked by Monsanto. He is far from alone. Monsanto has been picking off seed cleaners across the Midwest, having already done its thuggish thing in Pilot Grove, Missouri, and in Indiana, attacking Maurice Parr, destroying business for all of them.

Mr. Parr reports that when he was sued, the first think out of the judge said was how “honored to have a fine company like Monsanto in my courtroom.”

“Shortly after someone broke into Mr. Hixon’s office and he found his account book on his truck seat where he would never have left it, evey one of his remotely located and very scattered customers had three men (described as goons with “no necks”) arrived at each farm, going out onto it without permission … Mr. Hixon and state police who were called in, believe a GPS tracking device may have been put on Mr. Hixon’s equipment.” Click here.

In 2002, when Mr. Hixon was at the state legislature for a meeting, he said he told a Monsanto representative there, “If you guys wnt to tak over the seed industry so bad, you ought to buy guys like me out.” The Monsanto agent is supposed to have responded “We’d rather put you out of business, it’s more fun that way.”

Mr. Hixon says that when he is cleaning seeds, he is pouring $13,000 a hour into the local economy, which right now is being hit. A fence company has gone out of business and other businesses are in trouble. And in using seeds that have been cleaned, those seeds have carbon footprint, by Mr. Hixon’s figures, less than a fraction of 1% of that of GMO seeds delivered over 1000s of miles at 5 miles a gallon that semis require to run.

But Monsanto’s GM-soy and other seeds have a much heavier carbon footprint that the absurd transport of seed across the country by semis. Petroleum-based pesticides are the essence of genetic engineering, and Monsanto has a poorly known history of their relation to warfare.

“Huge excesses of nitrogenous compounds that accumulated during World War I provided the basis for the beginnings of the mass production of synthetic nitrate fertilizers. DuPont — now the sole owner of the world’s largest seed company, Pioneer HiBred — was the largest manufacturer of gunpowder in the United States during the early 19th century and the first World War. Monsanto increased its profits 100 fold during the World War, from $80,000 to well over $9 million per year, supplying the chemical precursors for high explosives such as TNT.

“In the 1930s, chemists working for the German company Bayer discovered the highly poisonous properties of organophosphate compounds. …. As all of German industry became absorbed into the growing Nazi war machine, Bayer’s organophosphate compounds were developed simultaneously as agricultural pesticides and as nerve gases for military use. These included such notorious chemical warfare agents as sarin, soman and tabun gases, all of which are still manufactured today. …

“In the 1930s, scientists at the Swiss J. R. Geigy Company were searching for new compounds to disinfect seeds and prevent moths from feeding on wool. … These researchers’ key discovery was that DDT … could accomplish both of their desired ends and more. … DDT was seen as the “atom bomb of insecticides,” capable of permanently eliminating various pest species.

“After World War II, DDT became the most widely applied chemical in human history …. The widespread use of DDT — for both agricultural and household uses — led to a dramatic shift in the chemical industry’s approach to pest control … was in many ways a direct outgrowth of its wartime origins. …

“During the 1960s, Monsanto was a leading manufacturer of the herbicide ‘Agent Orange,’ which was used by U.S. military forces to obliterate the dense jungles of Vietnam. Today Monsanto’s Roundup-family herbicides play a central role in the U.S. “drug war” via its widespread use to eradicate coca and poppy plants in Colombia and other countries….”

The shift to genetically engineered food seems a welcome change from such a history. But it appears there has been no change, only a more thorough and disguises means of ensuring its sales.

“Of all of Monsanto, DuPont and Dow’s agricultural products, genetically engineered food crops might appear to be the least tainted with immediate wartime origins. But this technology emerged from a period when the future of chemical agriculture appeared very much in doubt. With the rapid expansion of the agrochemical industry during the post-World War II era, these companies and their European counterparts had established a profound degree of control over agricultural practices. But as public pressure and the weight of scientific evidence curtailed the use of DDT and many other chlorinated pesticides in the 1970s, executives and corporate scientists saw the potential for limitless advances — and ever-expanding marketing potential — in the incorporation of technological advances into the genetics of seeds. During the 1990s, Monsanto alone spent nearly $8 billion acquiring leading commercial seed suppliers in the United States and internationally; DuPont and others quickly followed suit, leading to today’s widespread proliferation of genetically engineered food crops.” Click here.

Today, in Illinois, our federal agents and police, working on behalf of Monsanto, are terrorizing … whom? Drug dealers? Financiers who have stolen this country blind? The people who took us to war based on lies and have profited while thousands of American and 100s of thousands of Iraqi have died? No. Our tax dollars are being used to turn our marshals and police into Monsanto agents to terrorize our disappearing farmers.

Terror is palpable in rural America. It defines American farming communities now.

Monsanto, with its history of warfare and creating chemicals to “cleanse” both enemies and agricultural pests of any area desired, appears to bring this power and method of thinking to all it touches.

“Rural cleansing” is its stated goal, and our farmers the pests to be eliminated.

Where is the Illinois ACLU? Where is Amnesty?