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Natural Solutions at the Movies!
Advanced healthcare practitioner and author Andrea Levinson’s “dark [chocolate] comedy” Death, Taxes and Chocolate is being presented at the Cannes Film Festival this week… Yes, HealthFreedomUSA.org is in the story and listed in the credits!
We’re setting up a DT&C benefit day through Amazon so you can buy the funny, sad story of a healer and what would happen if people don’t get our message of health and freedom. So expect us to let you know in the next eblast when that will happen.
Children are the latest victims in the Drug Crimes Against Humanity. Let me share my bias with you and then tell you why I believe that babies and children are being assaulted in increasing numbers with a deadly weapon: psychotropic drugs. These drugs kill and maim at the physical, neurological, psychological and emotional levels. They have lethal and sub-lethal side effects but are, astonishingly, handed out like candy, as if they were properly tested, safe or effective. Psychoactive drugs have none of those attributes and they are astonishingly unwise and unnecessary in babies, yes babies!, and children.
Big Pharma is getting / making its moves to pass the same type of coercive and anti-democratic laws about drugs that Big Agribiz is working on for food. Take the action steps listed above and protect freedom and health at the same time. Then please urge everyone you know to do the same. The issue is enormously important but time is very short.
Includes Dr. Laibow’s letter to the editor of the Shafer Autism Review.
Natural Solutions Foundation Uncovers Document Outlining UN Steps to Form One World Government When Global Pandemic Occurs
Why have the World Health Organization (WHO) and CDC continued to insist that this absurd non-crisis is a Pandemic? Could the answer lie in this document? We believe it does.
READ What / How the UN Plans to Take Over the Planet in A Global Pandemic
We do not have to tell you that the state of Pandemic Preparedness and Predictions has reached the stage of fall on the floor, gasping for breath, side splitting, laugh out loud funny. You noticed that the deaths in Mexico miraculously went from 168 to 16 with barely a MMD (Media of Mass Deception) murmur when confronted with either a monstrous con game or the biggest miracle in human history. You would think that this would have gotten some meaningful play, but no, the MMD folks trotted right along behind the Pandemic Hucksters and bleated out their illogical message without a murmur of dissent or discontent.
You noticed that WHO changed the meaning of Pandemic from a ‘disease transmitted from human to human with dire consequences’ to ‘an easily spread human to human transmission which does not have to cause a disease.
You noticed that despite a really dismal performance which any self-respecting pandemic pusher would have been humiliated to focus on, the CDC, White House, WHO and others who stand to gain enormous control and money (like Donald Rumsfeld, of Tamiflu fame, perhaps?) from this opportune Pandemic (which kindly took our minds off the rape of the economy) the drumbeats of Pandemic to Come have continued to beat.
You noticed that for a disease which may have killed two people in the US, the White House now is “considering” ramping up additional vaccine manufacturing (read “profit”) and mandating injection in the fall, when the vaccine is ready and the new, improved, really-truly, this-time-we-mean it Pandemic will be here, just in time for the vaccine!
Have you noticed that Baxter International, the company which supposedly “accidentally” contaminated 18 country’s seasonal Flu shots with live, highly infective, and we believe, weaponized Avian Flu has been chosen to coordinate the development of the Swine Flu vaccine which you WILL be presented with this coming fall, according to the Obama Administration…
What???? 20-30% of the population would become infected IF this were a pandemic but it IS a pandemic anyway despite the fact that the infection rate is not different from a regular flu?
And you noticed that Big Pharma and its legislative branch, the US Government, is gearing up to shoot you up with a mandatory vaccination whether you want it or not. Say “Not only NO! but HELL NO!” here:
Ralph Fucetola, JD Natural Solutions Foundation Counsel and Trustee
Your Help Needed – Natural Solutions Foundation Under Attack:
Cyber Attacks Launched to Destroy NSF
As a trustee of the Foundation, and its Counsel, it is my responsibility to keep you, our supporters, informed about the bad news as well as the good news. We are in a war and Natural Solutions Foundation is a primary combatent on the side of health and health freedom. It makes sense, therefore, that we would be attacked. Well, that is certainly the case right now. These attacks threaten to destroy us, IF we let them. We won’t, of course, but we need your help to survive these attacks and to come out stronger. We are betting that you will be there for us, the way we are always there for your health and health freedom.
What I have to tell you now is bad news; information that could destroy our efforts — not that Dr. Rima, General Bert, Kathy and I will ever give up. We are devoting our lives to this battle, so that’s simply not an option.
Rather, the financial reverses we’ve suffered, and the clear intent behind them to destroy us that way, have made us all the more determined to succeed.
Here is what has been happening:
1. Donations to the Foundation, like donations to charitable organizations everywhere, are down by about 2/3 from our customary levels. This began way back in the election season when the presidential campaigns began to “suck up” every penny available on the internet for nonprofit activities. Dr. Ron Paul raised significant amounts of money from many people who were our supporter base. They told us that when the campaign was over, they would come back to us as on-going supporters. Then, when the economy was tanked by the global banksters, they could not, so they did not.
The new president’s campaign raised over a half billion dollars, an unprecedented amount. Just as we thought that donations would increase again to a point where we could meet our obligations from donations with the end of the election, the financial system collapsed, and the downward trend continued. Because of this cataclysmic financial downturn, Natural Solutions has missed the Codex meetings in South Africa, Calgary and Germany to which we needed to go. No money, no ticket. No ticket, no meaningful health freedom voice at Codex. QED
3. Apparently, since the Internet is such an important part of our funding, the forces that desperately do not want us to continue the work that we are doing literally engineered another type of pandemic… a mass cyber attack on our Marketplace and Organics4U, in which some automated system or “bot” attempts, sometimes ten thousand times each day, to “donate” a dollar to the cause, with fake credit cards.
The credit card processing company that we are using, authorize.net, has failed to stop all these false card efforts, and charges us ten cents for each one… so far, nearly $3,000 has been taken from our account by authorize.net. We think that is very unfair. We pay them to protect us. And we even pay extra for a “Fraud Protection Suite” each month to prevent such occurrences. By the way, your credit card information is safe and has not been compromised in any way.
Reasoning that the problem was their failure to protect us, their client, we asked authorize.net to reverse the $3K which we could ill afford to lose and which was taken from our bank account because of their lack of ability to do the job we were paying for, “donate” their charges to us, and receive a tax write-off.
We tried persistently to contact people in the company who might have the vision to understand such an approach. However, the company prefers the money to the good publicity that would result from us telling all you that authorize.net is a public spirited (and fair-minded) company. They are not going to reverse the charges, did not accept the donation option and so we are working to find another merchant services company that will not be so easy to use to attack us.
If you have a merchant account, you may want to make sure it isn’t authorize.net, a company that does not understand and does not want to understand. Any company that is so dense and bureaucratized that it cannot understand the benefit of good publicity may not be a company that you want handling what you thought were your secure transactions. “Penny wise” and “pound foolish” is a common failing of some companies. Too bad for them. Too bad for us.
4. All of this has resulted in severe financial stress to the Foundation. Through your continuing support during these hard times, we are still able to pay for our Democracy-in-Action facility (a couple thousand $ per month) and our webmaster, but we have been unable to go to Washington or attend all the international meetings you need us to attend, to have the support we need and to make sure that we can continue to support both your health and your freedom.
Codex needs us there to speak for health and freedom. What is presented over the Internet is not what actually happens there. We keep up with those agencies by Internet, but being there is far more important for us to defend Natural Solutions and help to keep clean, unadulterated food available.
If you do not believe that, look what is happening to our food through the (sic) “Food Safety” bills before Congress – this is totally in line with the degradation and weaponization of our food through Codex which we have been writing about ever since the Natural Solutions Foundation was founded.
5. The absurd disinformation attacks continue. Click here, http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/holistic_alternative_medicine/news.php?q=1230417784, to read our rebuttal to this idiocy. Why does this unsubstantiated pack of lies go on and on and on (one lunatic even suggesting that our GMO-free, Pesticide-free, toxin-free Valley of the Moon(TM) all-natural coffee is actually laced with mind control drugs, for pity’s sake!!!!!)?
For exactly the same reasons that these other attacks take place: because we are unique in defending health and health freedom in the global and effective way which we do, and because the other side does not like being interfered with.
What Can We Do?
We need your help. Is there an angel out there who can support us with about $10,000 per month? Or, connect us to a grant-giving institution or wealthy individual? Among the hundreds of thousand people who receive this email, we know there are such people. We need to be able to attend the meetings that you need us to attend and make sure that we can afford to keep our health freedoms alive. It is that simple.
Secondly, we ask you to offset the cyber attack by doing for real what they are faking… donate a buck to keep us going! Better, sign up for a Dollar a Week donation… $4 a month… or more, if you can! If a enough of you will sign up at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189 these problems will be solved!
That’s it… counteract the cyber attacks with dollars. Then we can continue doing what we do… defending your health freedom AND your health.
Yours in health and freedom,
Ralph Fucetola JD Counsel and Trustee Natural Solutions Foundation
Just a quick clinical note: there has been a lot of talk about the idea that what kills people who die of a weaponized version of the flu (like either Avian Flu or Swine Flu) is the initial cytokine storm, not the virus itself.
If the cytokine storm does not prove lethal, your body would have a chance to mount a formidable response to the virus and get rid of it (using fever as one tool of many, by the way).
Click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2698) to learn more about cytokine storms and to find some options which will support your immune system but calm a cytokine storm so that it is not likely to kill you. Hint: Nano silver, available at www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions is one of those substances because it kills the virus so fast the storm never has a chance to occur.
So is high dose Vitamin C because it damps the reaction in favor of a much more balanced and effective one by suppressing cytokinessuch as interleukin (IL)-6 and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-).
These mainstays of natural medicine are regarded as astonishingly powerful for a reason. Their ability to calm a cytokine storm is a large part of that reason. But there are other natural, safe and potentially life-saving tools you should know about which also help maintain and preserver health in the most natural way possible.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Trillions for Tribute, But Not One Cent for Defense
The US declared, when faced with the demands of the Barbary Pirates who controlled the shipping routes of the Mediterranean around North Africa, Representative Robert Goodloe Harper, declared “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.” The concept is deeply enshrined in the consciousness of the US and is the meaning of the reference “To the shores of Tripoli” in the Marine’s Hymn, learned by every child in America.
Like so much else in the US, for example, the protections and provisions of the US Constitution, that deep understanding has been violated by the grim and terrible grasp of the Pharma Pirates on our lives. We do, in fact, pay trillions of dollars, and billions of person years of suffering and death, as tribute to the pirates who control our national and personal decisions with lies and more lies – Big Pharma. When the people of America learn to “Say No to Drugs”, we will have moved a long way toward freeing ourselves from the tribute and tyranny of the Phama Pirates.Pandemic Flu is thought to kill people because the immune system recognizes that it has encountered a pathogen (disease – causing agent, in this case a virus) and sends out signaling molecules called cytokines, (Greek cyto-, cell; and -kinos, movement). They can be proteins, peptides, or glycoproteins. Once those signals are received, the immune system springs into action and mounts a defense. In the case of the weaponized pandemic viruses, the defense can be so strong that it literally overwhelms the person who has been infected and causes death because the immune system itself has overwhelmed the lungs, leading to so much inflammation that they cannot carry out their essential function of exchanging gases.
Cytokine Storms and the Pharma Pirates
Cytokines are powerful signaling molecules which cells sends out in order to get a response. The word itself comes from the Greek for cell (cyto) and movement (kinos).
Pandemic, bioengineered virus are believe to kill by evoking a massive cytokine response, called a “cytokine storm” which is so powerful that the immune system itself overwhelms the lung capacity of the infected person and the number of immune cells, along with the massive inflammation (which is an immune technique to isolate an infective agent) fills up the lungs so they cannot carry out their job of exchanging gases and the patient dies.
But like any storm, it will abate and normal conditions can prevail again. If the cytokine storm provoked as an initial response to the virus can be managed for approximately 3 days, the body’s immune response is normalized, becomes more efficient, and it then kills out the virus in the ordinary way that it usually does. The result is called “surviving the pandemic flu”. H1N1 appears to be pretty poor at evoking a lethal cytokine storm.
I would call it another in the growing list of failed pandemics: SARS, Avian Flu, Swine Flu….
The WHO and CDC, however, have assured us that we can expect a lethal global pandemic from this same virus in the fall of 2009, just exactly, we are told, when the vaccine “against” this newly lethal killer virus is ready. We are astonished and awed by the ability of these organizations to predict the future and prepare for it so profitably. The billions spent on the absurd Avian Flu (H5N1) vaccines and the useless failed Rumsfeld antiviral, Tamiflu, of course, are now simply black lines on the spreadsheets of Big Pharma, another example of the monumental depravity of that industry and its governmental (and intergovernmental) servants, including the Oval Office.
In the document called “Concept of Operations of the UN In a Global Influenza Pandemic”, the final footnote (p.10) reads:
The procedures contained in this CONOPS framework will need to be tested at global, regional and country level to ensure their utility and allow for revisions where necessary. Several UN country teams have already conducted simulations to test coordination structures and other procedures outlines in their pandemic plans. Further simulation exercises at regional and global level are needed to test coordination structures and operating procedures. Such large scale simulations will require the commitment of different UN entities. It is anticipated that this CONOPS will continue to be tested through simulation exercises at global, regional and country levels during 2009. [Emphasis added – REL]
That looks very much to me like the reason that the failed pandemic of 2009 is being pursued as if it were a threat to anyone. Right now it is a real threat, but it is a threat to our liberty, our nations, our freedoms. Later this fall, if the plans hold, it would appear that the bad boy version will be ready and released – probably through the vaccines which we will be expected to line up for willingly. Remember, if you do not line up for them willingly, you will be subject to the federal powers which our spineless Congress has authorized and to the same powers of the States under their Emergency Medical Powers Acts. Those powers define you as a felon if you refuse vaccination once a Pandemic has been declared at the State level and a health hazard at the federal level. Once so identified, you are subject to immediate long-term incarceration and quarantine. At the state level, as a felon, you could be sent to prison. At the federal level you could be held indefinitely at one of the many FEMA camps which have been established all over the US (and Canada?).
So the storm is political, global and physical, all at once.
Before I discuss how to safely quell a cytokine storm, let me ask you a question or two: Did you vote for the dissolution of your country in this last election? Are you eager to have the UN run a global government?
Do you think that the UN would ever hand back control to the nation states after the pandemic is over, if it ever IS over?
Do you agree with the globalist position that the solution to global warming and overpopulation is population culling so that 80-90% of the world’s population no longer exists? If so, are you willing to step up and volunteer yourself and your family for the culling?
For most of us, the answer to all of those questions is “Not only NO, but HELL NO!” So what are you doing about it? One important thing to do is to forward this information and ask everyone, and I do mean everyone, you know to
1. Join the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Health Freedom Action eAlert list at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=187 so they can become part of the solution through sustained net-roots push back and information dissemination
2. Forward this information and ask their contacts to take these steps
3. Make a recurring tax deductible donation, large or small, to the Natural Solutions Foundation. Our support comes from our supporters, not from corporations or governments. Visit http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189 now. Even 4 dollars a month, just a dollar a week, from each of our supporters, will make the difference so that we can continue to bring you truth you need and speak truth to power together.
Quelling the Storm
So how do you control a cytokine storm without subjecting yourself to even more dangerous drugs? Simple. There are many well known natural means of doing so.
First and foremost is Vitamin C. Good ole’, familiar Vitamin C. When your body needs vitamin C, which we have somehow misplaced the gene which allows us to make during the course of our development, it tolerates more. So you need to give it more. How much more? Well, as much as you can cram in during a cytokine storm (and in the face of a full blown infection with a pandemic, bioengineered virus) – I prefer intravenous delivery systems so that up to 300 G per day can be delivered for 3 days. Since part of the impact of these viruses seems to be a cataclysmic depletion of the body’s Vitamin C stores, this is very important.
By the way, when I first published this information, I was roundly castigated by a variety of people who should have known better. Shortly thereafter, they began publishing this information as if it were their own. Ah, well! The real point is to get it out there where it can help people, but an accurate attribution would be nice!
If IV administration is not possible (and it would not be available for most people), then ingesting LARGE amounts of oral Vitamin C would be the way to go. The body will tell you when it has had enough Vitamin C: bowel tolerance is the signal that its needs have been met. That means diarrhea or softening of stools. However, the novel H1N1 virus produces diarrhea as a part of its infection process so I would say ignore that sign and just put lots and lots of Vitamin C into the patient. There is no known level of toxicity for Vitamin C and it is a powerful immune support – which is why Big Pharma, through Codex, would love to restrict it to the point that there is no useful dose available.
Should you stock pile Vitamin C? I believe you should. Should you use Vitamin C from GMO sources? Of course not. That means that it must be organic. You can visit www.Organics4U.org to find organic Vitamin C sources. Non GMO sourcing is a vitally important consideration, by the way.
Next, Nano silver. As you know, Nano silver is different from colloidal or other silver types. Because of its very small size, it cannot be retained in the body so the mythical dangers of turning blue are even less significant than they are with other types of silver (to the whole notion of argyria, my response is “Fiddle Faddle! It is literally a myth and not a real concern.”)
The Nano silver that we recommend has two properties which we believe render it superior to other products: first, it has the capacity to kill pathogenic organisms, like these bioengineered plagues and second, it has been infused with energetic information (if this is not familiar to you, you need to check out the emerging science of the use of frequency to impact living systems – the dangerous part of it is euphemistically called “non lethal weapons” while the beneficial part is often referred to as “energy medicine” or “frequency medicine” and is related to homeopathy. I have used it in my practice for years and it is rapidly gaining acceptance in countries other than the US, and even slowly there where, for example, the use of light to treat cancer has gained acceptance.)
The highly effective Nano silver available through www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions has been infused with frequency in a process developed by the brilliant and world-renowned materials scientist, Rustum Roy, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, University of Arizona. I do not have space here to discuss this remarkable innovation, but I am convinced that it creates a stable, effective and safe product which will dispatch the virus rapidly, preventing the development of the cytokine storm.
In our previous Health Freedom Blog, “Health Freedom Action eAlert: Pandemic… Be ProActive and Take Some Steps to Feel Less Helpless“, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2581, I listed several natural options which have the effect of dampening cytokine storms to let the immune system get to work in a balanced and effective way. Please check this list out and make sure that you have the items on hand. But remember, you want organic sourced items since they are free of GMO contamination AND free of pesticides, irradiation, and other health hazards.
You can find many of them at either www.Organics4U.org or www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org. But wherever you buy them, make sure you have enough on hand for your family when, not if, the next round of political pandemic comes at you.
By the way, for those of you who are interested in growing your own food to support your immune system, lower your cost and take your fate out of the hands of the biotech and agribiz industry, our new publication to help you with that process, FOOD – the Journal of Sustainability, is being prepared. Cindy Blackshear, a master gardener and a wonderful friend of both health and health freedom, has agreed to be the Editor. FOOD, by the way, is an acronym for “Food On Our Doorsteps”!
Note that there is some suggestion that the old anti-malaria drug chloroquine will quell the cytokine storm as would AcetylCholinEsterase inhibitors (ACE inhibitors). These drugs have toxicity profiles and I would not recommend them for ongoing use as the internet authors who are suggesting their use are doing. REL
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Pandemic Pushers Try Harder
I do not have to tell you that the state of Pandemic Preparedness and Predictions has reached the stage of “fall on the floor, gasping for breath, side splitting, laugh out loud funny.” You noticed that the deaths in Mexico miraculously went from 168 to 16 with barely a MMD (Media of Mass Deception) murmur when confronted with either a monstrous con game or the biggest miracle in human history. You would think that this would have gotten some meaningful play, but no, the MMD folks trotted right along behind the Pandemic Hucksters and bleated out their illogical message without a murmur of dissent or discontent.
You noticed that WHO changed the meaning of Pandemic from a ‘disease transmitted from human to human with dire consequences’ to ‘an easily spread human to human transmission which does not have to cause a disease.
You noticed that despite a really dismal performance which any self-respecting pandemic pusher would have been humiliated to focus on, the CDC, White House, WHO and others who stand to gain enormous control and money (like Donald Rumsfeld, of Tamiflu fame, perhaps?) from this opportune Pandemic (which kindly took our minds off the rape of the economy) the drumbeats of Pandemic to Come have continued to beat.
You noticed that for a disease which may have killed two people in the US, the White House now is “considering” ramping up additional vaccine manufacturing (read “profit”) and mandating injection in the fall, when the vaccine is ready and the new, improved really-truly, this-time-we-mean it Pandemic will be here, just in time for the vaccine!
Have you noticed that Baxter International, the company which supposedly “accidentally” contaminated 18 country’s seasonal Flu shots with live, highly infective, and we believe, weaponized Avian Flu has been chosen to coordinate the development of the Swine Flu vaccine which you WILL be presented with this coming fall, according to the Obama Administration?
Have you also noticed that the WHO/CDC and other medical fascist structures persist in calling the fizzled (or beta test) non-events of the Swine Flu a “pandemic”? Could that be because of money? Determination to keep us deflected from the economic situation for a “One for All, All for One, Pulling Together In Times of Crisis” manipulation by the MMD (Media of Mass Deception)?
In some countries where large numbers of the population are poorly educated and cannot think these issues through (unlike the US and EU, Australia, Canada, etc., where large numbers of the population are unwilling to think them through), the deception is even more blatant: the seasonal flu, worthless and dangerous as it is, is being touted as -ready? – a prevention for the “Deadly” Swine Flu”.
Ever Say “Die”
The Pandemic Pushers are bound and determined to keep you frightened and make sure you present your arms and those of your precious children to their syringe-weilding dupes (who were formerly known as “doctors and nurses” but who are now pretty much anybody who can plunge a syringe. Boston, for example, has hired 4000 people without any medical credentials who are trained to “do the jab” as you enter or leave the Boston T (translation: “subway” or “tube”). New Jersey is running an exercise in which troops and others will be practicing drive by shooting (of vaccines into your body) at checkpoints along the road. Cooperating motorists will receive a coupon for a food known for its healthful impact: a pizza!
These fear and poison mongers (yes, vaccines are dense and dangerous concoctions of a multitude of poisons) have to justify their absurd positions somehow so here is what they are shoving across the print and air ways today:
LONDON, May 12 (UPI) — Influenza A H1N1 is fatal in around 4 in 1,000 cases in Mexico, about as lethal as the strain found in the 1957 pandemic, researchers in Britain said.
Researchers at the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modeling at Imperial College London, the World Health Organization and public health agencies in Mexico, assessed the epidemic using data up to the end of April.
The study, published in the journal Science, said data so far are consistent with what researchers would expect to find in the early stages of a pandemic.
The uncertainty around the numbers of people who have been infected with influenza A H1N1 in Mexico means the case fatality ratio of 0.4 percent — 4 deaths per 1,000 — cannot be definitely established, but it is most likely, the researchers said.
Corresponding author Neil Ferguson said for every person infected, it is likely there will be between 1.2 and 1.6 secondary cases — comparable to normal seasonal influenza, in which around 10 percent to 15 percent of the population are likely to become infected. However, it is lower than would be expected for pandemic influenza, in which 20 percent to 30 percent of the population are likely to become infected, Ferguson said”
What???? 20-30% of the population would become infected IF this were a pandemic but it IS a pandemic anyway despite the fact that the infection rate is not different from a regular flu?
And, says the CDC and WHO, we should expect more and worse from this obvioulsy genetically engineered virus in the fall when the vaccines are, miraculously, ready to (sic) “protect us” from…what?
Just how dumb are we perceived to be?
Are we really that naive? Please take a moment to read, and read between the lines, of this important document, “Concept of Operations for the UN System in a Global Pandemic”, http://ochaonline.un.org/OchaLinkClick.aspx?link=ocha&docId=1095473. What you will see – and what you will not see, because it is hidden in plain sight between the lines, will, I believe, chill you to the very marrow of your bones AND make it clear what the game is which requires playing the Pandemic card regardless of reason or reality.
So it is necessary for the New World Order to be born for a Pandemic to occur. And the laughable Swine Flu/H1N1 is dangerous because of its political, not its medical, dangers. We are not supposed to notice that. We are supposed to buy the toxic deceptions foisted upon us. It is rather insulting, really.
Do they think we have consumed that much fluoride? Have we?
What to do? The great danger now is not the absurd Swine Flu. It is the political consequence of the need for a Pandemic. Once officials cry “Pandemic”, governors will invoke the State Emergency Powers Acts and your refusal to accept treatment will convict you as a felon, right there on the spot.
Once the head of Health and Human Services invokes the same word, FEMA, NorthCom, Police, National Guard, Xe merceneries and a host of other dangerous heavies stand ready to isolate, intern and quarantine you if you do not take the drug or shot they have in mind for you.
Is this OK with you? Of course not. Do you believe that the danger is anything but political? I doubt that you do. I certainly do not.
Click here (TBP) to send an email to the Governor of your State and your Congressional Members letting them know that you do not trust the CDC or WHO to act in an impartial manner and therefore urge them not to permit emergency measures to be triggered requiring treatment or vaccination in the absence of independent scientific and medical evaluatin confirming the reality of a pandemic situation and a real requirement.
Children are the latest victims in the Drug Crimes Against Humanity. Let me share my bias with you and then tell you why I believe that babies and children are being assaulted in increasing numbers with a deadly weapon: psychotropic drugs. These drugs kill and maim at the physical, neurological, psychological and emotional levels. They have lethal and sub-lethal side effects but are, astonishingly, handed out like candy as if they were properly tested, safe or effective. They are none of the above. Click here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27246, to tell State and Federal Legislators to protect parents’ right to make medical decisions for their children and stop the use of government money for unscientific and skewed screening tests to herd kids into the drug pusher’s offices where unnecessary and dangerous prescriptions await them.
Pregnant mothers are up for “protection” from postpartum depression by being “screened” with phony screening tools and then “offered” drugs which the PDR advises doctors to avoid or use with extreme caution in women of child-bearing age. Infants exposed to these toxic compounds can suffer a horrifying range of damage, including being born with their internal organs outside of their bodies and life long brain damage. “Never mind”, says Big Pharma, “pregnant and new moms are an untapped market. Let’s go for it! And just think! Babies with brain damage, diabetes, etc., all require meds for the rest of their lives. Yes, indeed! We will surely go for it.” And go for it they did by getting the bill passed in the House of Representatives whose companion bill, S 324, is now before the Senate. Click herehttp://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23065 to tell your Senators not to pass this dangerous and totally unnecessary bill.
I was graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1970 and took my Postgraduate training in Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry, finishing my training in 1975. I am trained in psychoanalysis, group therapy and a host of other modalities. I have run drug and other treatment facilities, worked in inpatient and out patient facilities for children, adults and adolescents and have been in the private practice of psychiatry and medicine for decades.
All without drugs, electroshock or other dangerous, primitive and harmful techniques. I believe that psychoactive drugs, like virtually all other drugs, are dangerous and, unless you are in a surgery suite or an emergency room, unnecessary.
This is a conviction born out of a very long and successful drug free medical and psychiatric practice (during which, unlike most of my medical colleagues, I have never been sued for malpractice).
When I saw the article in the most recent journal of the Schafer Autism Report which is reproduced below, I wrote to congratulate the Report for publishing this outstanding piece decrying the medication of millions and millions of children for little more than mythic disorders.
Representative Ron Paul MD (TX-R) introduced the Parental Consent Act, HR 2218, on April 30, 2009. The bill prevents Federal monies from being used to support mental health screenings which are nothing short of pharma marketing tools for kids. They have no scientific validity, are supported by, and developed by, the greedy folks at Big Pharma. Kids answer trick questions in normal ways and they are “diagnosed” with phony terms and lables. Parents who resist the requirement for medication which almost always follows face enormous pressure, including jail time for “medical neglect” or “child abuse”. This sells pills, all right, but it sure does not protect rights or kids brains and bodies.
As a psychiatrist and physician I can tell you that psychoactive drugs are dangerous. They can cause permanent physical damage, obesity, suicide, homicide, diabetes, neurological damage which is life-long, rob children of their moods and their developmental opportunities and much, much more. Every single school shooting in the US has involved kids either on drugs or coming off them. There is, in my opinion, absolutely no excuse for psychoactive medicines.
Furthermore, parents have the right, and must continue to have the right, to make the life and death decisions for their children with which they have been entrusted. Those rights are fundamentally as the rights we claim for ourselves to make our own decisions about what happens to our own bodies. Absent that, our bodies are owned by others who make decisions about what happens to them and we are, by definition, slaves. I have no wish to be a slave to the government of any country or to its corporations, including Big Pharma. So it is my duty to oppose these pieces of legislation.
This is an invitation to join me in that opposition and bring all of your contacts along.
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Here is the letter I wrote to the Editor of the Schafer Autism Review:
To the Editor:
I am writing to congratulate you on your publication of “The Wholesale Sedation of America’s Youth” By Andrew M. Weiss. As a Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist who has practiced drug free medicine for my entire career, I found myself reading my own thoughts and writings in this excellent article. Physicians, Nurse Practitioners and others who endorse and enforce medicating children because they have been entrained or constrained to do so win the approval, praise and appreciation of the forces that use them and of their peers, but are, in fact, worthy of scorn and, at best, loss of licenses or, at worst, criminal prosecution for their mindless, damaging and cowardly refusal to think clearly about the needs of the children they are charged to heal, not poison.
Every doctor is trained to think logically and systematically about diagnosis and treatment. If they refuse to use that training because they have allowed themselves to be brainwashed and browbeaten into down and dirty, quick and quality-less medicine, then shame upon each and every one of them. Drug ads, phony science and cheer leader “continuing medical education” seminars are nothing short of cynical organized deceptions designed to accomplish one goal and one goal only: the generation of massive profits.
Who stands between a child and pharmaceutical damage? A doctor. Who steps aside for 8 million American children every year? A doctor. If parents object or refuse to medicate their children, they run the very real risk of being charged with medical abuse or neglect, loosing their children and/or facing criminal charges for trying to protect the vulnerable youngsters in their care. Commonly drug-company-sponsored “screening tools” used by teachers or other school personnel are what got the kids in front of the doctor or nurse practitioner staring at the dangerous end of a prescription pad.
On April 30, 2009 Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced the Parental Consent Act, HR 2218, “To prohibit the use of Federal funds for any universal or mandatory mental health screening program.” The ominously Orwellian-named “New Freedoms Initiative, passed in 2004 during the drug-friendly reign of President George W. Bush, provides for mandatory screening of every child from 0 to 18. In uterine screening is accomplished by “mental health screening” of pregnant women and the compulsory drugging of those women to “protect” the unborn child despite the former cautions urged on doctors to avoid the use of psychotropic medication in women of child bearing age because of the known and unknown dangers inherent in exposing unborn or nursing babies to those drugs.
The New Freedoms Initiative also mandates the screening for “mental problems” of everyone involved in any way with children – parents, grandparents, teachers, policemen and women, merchants who sell children things, clergy, doctors, nurses, etc. In short, everyone.
The madness must stop. Doctors must think about children and childhood as a developmental process, not a disease. Parents must be free to be what the law says they are, “GUARDians” and bureaucrats and administrators, teachers and others involved with children must ask why a child is showing signs of stress or distress and look for ways to solve that problem, not dissolve the child’s mind in a chemical soup of long and short term toxicity.
The Natural Solutions Foundation, www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org and www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, of which I am proud to be the Medical Director, supports the right of every person to make their own health decisions and, of course, of parents to make those decisions for their children. And we strongly support the rights of parents and others to say “NO!” to drugs, “No” to compulsory screenings to get kids onto subjective, and profitable diagnostic conveyor belts.
Our Health Freedom Action eAlerts offer action options to concerned parents and other persons to preserve these essential rights.
Medical fascism is facing us all. Soviet Russia was condemned world-wide because it condoned the atrocious use of psychoactive drugs to control its population and prevent behaviors it found disagreeable or unwelcome in vast numbers of people. Are our children our dissidents? Do their discontents require chemical straight jackets and personality-ectomies? Have we become mindless mind-assassins, robbing our children of their emotions and their neurological developmental opportunities because we do not dare to ask the penetrating question, “WHY?” to this drug mania we have been marketed into?
Since graduation from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1970 and completion of my Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship in 1975 I have practiced medicine and psychiatry without resorting to drugs. The results have been nothing short of astonishing for someone trained in the “Medical Model” – my patients got well because the underlying cause of their discomforts, disabilities, distortions and difficulties were uncovered and addressed. Using intensive nutritional strategies, herbology, homeopathy, detoxification, NeuroBioFeedback, frequency medicine and a host of other techniques, each patient was treated individually and their treatment tailored to their realities, including emotional ones. This type of medicine takes time – lots of it – and therefore the cottage industry, piecework compensation which doctors have allowed insurance carriers to impose upon them (insurance carriers which are often co-owned by Big Pharma so that forcing doctors to see more patients in a shorter time is a successful marketing ploy for their shareholders’ interests) make the economics unpalatable to insurance companies. Doctors have, in the main, behaved like good serfs and allowed themselves to be made wage slaves to the interests of the insurance companies, seeing more patients in shorter slots – and writing prescriptions quickly so they can see the next patient and the next and the next.
The solution? If you are a parent, find a health care professional who does not take insurance and pay for treatment so you and the doctor can spend as much time as your child needs. If you are a doctor or nurse practitioner, rethink your slavish devotion to the medicine of convenience – yours – and start doing what you have been expensively trained to do: think about root causes, look for underlying factors and return to your roots as a healer. Yes, you will have to unlearn much and question more. But you were a bright student looking for ways to help people when you fought your way into medical school. You were, after all, the best and the brightest. You may still have the capacity to think and to discern real science from marketing. And, somewhere deep down inside you, perhaps you still have a deep commitment to service and truth.
You will quickly find, if you follow the intellectual path I am advocating, that many of your most cherished believes must be abandoned by the wayside. One of those believes is that you must continue to take insurance payment for your services or you will not make a living. In fact, those doctors who have dared to let go of the insurance teat report that they are making more money, spending less in overhead and serving patients better than they dreamed possible before they took the plunge into service, not serfdom.
And here is the Special Edition article to which I was responding:
Special Edition
The Wholesale Sedation of America’s Youth
By Andrew M. Weiss, Skeptical Inquirer. is.gd/yXAW
In the winter of 2000, the Journal of the American Medical Association published the results of a study indicating that 200,000 two- to four-year-olds had been prescribed Ritalin for an “attention disorder” from 1991 to 1995. Judging by the response, the image of hundreds of thousands of mothers grinding up stimulants to put into the sippy cups of their preschoolers was apparently not a pretty one.
Most national magazines and newspapers covered the story; some even expressed dismay or outrage at this exacerbation of what already seemed like a juggernaut of hyper-medicalizing childhood. The public reaction, however, was tame; the medical community, after a moment’s pause, continued unfazed. Today, the total toddler count is well past one million, and influential psychiatrists have insisted that mental health prescriptions are appropriate for children as young as twelve months. For the pharmaceutical companies, this is progress.
In 1995, 2,357,833 children were diagnosed with ADHD (Woodwell 1997) — twice the number diagnosed in 1990. By 1999, 3.4 percent of all American children had received a stimulant prescription for an attention disorder. Today, that number is closer to ten percent. Stimulants aren’t the only drugs being given out like candy to our children. A variety of other psychotropics like antidepressants, antipsychotics, and sedatives are finding their way into babies’ medicine cabinets in large numbers. In fact, the worldwide market for these drugs is growing at a rate of ten percent a year, $20.7 billion in sales of antipsychotics alone (for 2007, IMSHealth 2008).
While the sheer volume of psychotropics being prescribed for children might, in and of itself, produce alarm, there has not been a substantial backlash against drug use in large part because of the widespread perception that “medically authorized” drugs must be safe. Yet, there is considerable evidence that psychoactive drugs do not take second place to other controlled pharmaceuticals in carrying grave and substantial risks. All classes of psychoactive drugs are associated with patient deaths, and each produces serious side effects, some of which are life-threatening.
In 2005, researchers analyzed data from 250,000 patients in the Netherlands and concluded that “we can be reasonably sure that antipsychotics are associated in something like a threefold increase in sudden cardiac death, and perhaps that older antipsychotics may be worse” (Straus et al. 2004). In 2007, the FDA chose to beef up its black box warning (reserved for substances that represent the most serious danger to the public) against antidepressants concluding, “the trend across age groups toward an association between antidepressants and suicidality . . . was convincing, particularly when superimposed on earlier analyses of data on adolescents from randomized, controlled trials” (Friedman and Leon 2007). Antidepressants have been banned for use with children in the UK since 2003. According to a confidential FDA report, prolonged administration of amphetamines (the standard treatment for ADD and ADHD) “may lead to drug dependence and must be avoided.” They further reported that “misuse of amphetamine may cause sudden death and serious cardiovascular adverse events” (Food and Drug Administration 2005). The risk of fatal toxicity from lithium carbonate, a not uncommon treatment for bipolar disorder, has been well documented since the 1950s. Incidents of fatal seizures from sedative-hypnotics, especially when mixed with alcohol, have been recorded since the 1920s.
Psychotropics carry nonfatal risks as well. Physical dependence and severe withdrawal symptoms are associated with virtually all psychoactive drugs. Psychological addiction is axiomatic. Concomitant side effects range from unpleasant to devastating, including: insulin resistance, narcolepsy, tardive dyskenisia (a movement disorder affecting 15–20 percent of antipsychotic patients where there are uncontrolled facial movements and sometimes jerking or twisting movements of other body parts), agranulocytosis (a reduction in white blood cells, which is life threatening), accelerated appetite, vomiting, allergic reactions, uncontrolled blinking, slurred speech, diabetes, balance irregularities, irregular heartbeat, chest pain, sleep disorders, fever, and severe headaches. The attempt to control these side effects has resulted in many children taking as many as eight additional drugs every day, but in many cases, this has only compounded the problem. Each “helper” drug produces unwanted side effects of its own.
The child drug market has also spawned a vigorous black market in high schools and colleges, particularly for stimulants. Students have learned to fake the symptoms of ADD in order to obtain amphetamine prescriptions that are subsequently sold to fellow students. Such “shopping” for prescription drugs has even spawned a new verb. The practice is commonly called “pharming.” A 2005 report from the Partnership for a Drug Free America, based on a survey of more than 7,300 teenagers, found one in ten teenagers, or 2.3 million young people, had tried prescription stimulants without a doctor’s order, and 29 percent of those surveyed said they had close friends who have abused prescription stimulants.
In a larger sense, the whole undertaking has had the disturbing effect of making drug use an accepted part of childhood. Few cultures anywhere on earth and anytime in the past have been so willing to provide stimulants and sedative-hypnotics to their offspring, especially at such tender ages. An entire generation of young people has been brought up to believe that drug-seeking behavior is both rational and respectable and that most psychological problems have a pharmacological solution. With the ubiquity of psychotropics, children now have the means, opportunity, example, and encouragement to develop a lifelong habit of self-medicating.
Common population estimates include at least eight million children, ages two to eighteen, receiving prescriptions for ADD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, autism, simple depression, schizophrenia, and the dozens of other disorders now included in psychiatric classification manuals. Yet sixty years ago, it was virtually impossible for a child to be considered mentally ill. The first diagnostic manual published by American psychiatrists in 1952, DSM-I, included among its 106 diagnoses only one for a child: Adjustment Reaction of Childhood/Adolescence. The other 105 diagnoses were specifically for adults. The number of children actually diagnosed with a mental disorder in the early 1950s would hardly move today’s needle. There were, at most, 7,500 children in various settings who were believed to be mentally ill at that time, and most of these had explicit neurological symptoms.
Of course, if there really are one thousand times as many kids with authentic mental disorders now as there were fifty years ago, then the explosion in drug prescriptions in the years since only indicates an appropriate medical response to a newly recognized pandemic, but there are other possible explanations for this meteoric rise. The last fifty years has seen significant social changes, many with a profound effect on children. Burgeoning birth rates, the decline of the extended family, widespread divorce, changing sexual and social mores, households with two working parents — it is fair to say that the whole fabric of life took on new dimensions in the last half century. The legal drug culture, too, became an omnipresent adjunct to daily existence. Stimulants, analgesics, sedatives, decongestants, penicillins, statins, diuretics, antibiotics, and a host of others soon found their way into every bathroom cabinet, while children became frequent visitors to the family physician for drugs and vaccines that we now believe are vital to our health and happiness. There is also the looming motive of money. The New York Times reported in 2005 that physicians who had received substantial payments from pharmaceutical companies were five times more likely to prescribe a drug regimen to a child than those who had refused such payments.
So other factors may well have contributed to the upsurge in psychiatric diagnoses over the past fifty years. But even if the increase reflects an authentic epidemic of mental health problems in our children, it is not certain that medication has ever been the right way to handle it. The medical “disease” model is one approach to understanding these behaviors, but there are others, including a hastily discarded psychodynamic model that had a good record of effective symptom relief. Alternative, less invasive treatments, too, like nutritional treatments, early intervention, and teacher and parent training programs were found to be at least as effective as medication in long-term reduction of a variety of symptoms (of ADHD, The MTA Cooperative Group 1999).
Nevertheless, the medical-pharmaceutical alliance has largely shrugged off other approaches and scoffed at the potential for conflicts of interest and continues to medicate children in ever-increasing numbers. With the proportion of diagnosed kids growing every month, it may be time to take another look at the practice and soberly reflect on whether we want to continue down this path. In that spirit, it is not unreasonable to ask whether this exponential expansion in medicating children has another explanation altogether. What if children are the same as they always were? After all, virtually every symptom now thought of as diagnostic was once an aspect of temperament or character. We may not have liked it when a child was sluggish, hyperactive, moody, fragile, or pestering, but we didn’t ask his parents to medicate him with powerful chemicals either. What if there is no such thing as mental illness in children (except the small, chronic, often neurological minority we once recognized)? What if it is only our perception of childhood that has changed? To answer this, we must look at our history and at our nature.
The human inclination to use psychoactive substances predates civilization. Alcohol has been found in late Stone Age jugs; beer may have been fermented before the invention of bread. Nicotine metabolites have been found in ancient human remains and in pipes in the Near East and Africa. Knowledge of Hul Gil, the “joy plant,” was passed from the Sumerians, in the fifth millennium b.c.e., to the Assyrians, then in serial order to the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Persians, Indians, then to the Portuguese who would introduce it to the Chinese, who grew it and traded it back to the Europeans. Hul Gil was the Sumerian name for the opium poppy. Before the Middle Ages, economies were established around opium, and wars were fought to protect avenues of supply.
With the modern science of chemistry in the nineteenth century, new synthetic substances were developed that shared many of the same desirable qualities as the more traditional sedatives and stimulants. The first modern drugs were barbiturates — a class of 2,500 sedative/hypnotics that were first synthesized in 1864. Barbiturates became very popular in the U.S. for depression and insomnia, especially after the temperance movement resulted in draconian anti-drug legislation (most notoriously Prohibition) just after World War I. But variety was limited and fears of death by convulsion and the Winthrop drug-scare kept barbiturates from more general distribution.
Stimulants, typically caffeine and nicotine, were already ubiquitous in the first half of the twentieth century, but more potent varieties would have to wait until amphetamines came into widespread use in the 1930s. Amphetamines were not widely known until the 1920s and 1930s when they were first used to treat asthma, hay fever, and the common cold. In 1932, the Benzedrine Inhaler was introduced to the market and was a huge over-the-counter success. With the introduction of Dexedrine in the form of small, cheap pills, amphetamines were prescribed for depression, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, motion sickness, night-blindness, obesity, narcolepsy, impotence, apathy, and, of course, hyperactivity in children.
Amphetamines came into still wider use during World War II, when they were given out freely to GIs for fatigue. When the GIs returned home, they brought their appetite for stimulants to their family physicians. By 1962, Americans were ingesting the equivalent of forty-three ten-milligram doses of amphetamine per person annually (according to FDA manufacturer surveys).
Still, in the 1950s, the family physician’s involvement in furnishing psychoactive medications for the treatment of primarily psychological complaints was largely sub rosa. It became far more widespread and notorious in the 1960s. There were two reasons for this. First, a new, safer class of sedative hypnotics, the benzodiazepines, including Librium and Valium, were an instant sensation, especially among housewives who called them “mothers’ helpers.” Second, amphetamines had finally been approved for use with children (their use up to that point had been “off-label,” meaning that they were prescribed despite the lack of FDA authorization).
Pharmaceutical companies, coincidentally, became more aggressive in marketing their products with the tremendous success of amphetamines. Valium was marketed directly to physicians and indirectly through a public relations campaign that implied that benzodiazepines offered sedative/hypnotic benefits without the risk of addiction or death from drug interactions or suicide. Within fifteen years of its introduction, 2.3 billion Valium pills were being sold annually in the U.S. (Sample 2005).
So, family physicians became society’s instruments: the suppliers of choice for legal mood-altering drugs. But medical practitioners required scientific authority to protect their reputations, and the public required a justification for its drug-seeking behavior. The pharmaceutical companies were quick to offer a pseudo scientific conjecture that satisfied both. They argued that neurochemical transmitters, only recently identified, were in fact the long sought after mediators of mood and activity. Psychological complaints, consequently, were a function of an imbalance of these neural chemicals that could be corrected with stimulants and sedatives (and later antidepressants and antipsychotics). While the assertion was pure fantasy without a shred of evidence, so little was known about the brain’s true actions that the artifice was tamely accepted. This would later prove devastating when children became the targets of pharmaceutical expansion.
With Ritalin’s FDA approval for the treatment of hyperactivity in children, the same marketing techniques that had been so successful with other drugs were applied to the new amphetamine. Pharmaceutical companies had a vested interest in the increase in sales; they spared no expense in convincing physicians to prescribe them. Cash payments, stock options, paid junkets, no-work consultancies, and other inducements encouraged physicians to relax their natural caution about medicating children. Parents also were targeted. For example, CIBA, the maker of Ritalin, made large direct payments to parents’ support groups like CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) (The Merrow Report 1995). To increase the acceptance of stimulants, drug companies paid researchers to publish favorable articles on the effectiveness of stimulant treatments. They also endowed chairs and paid for the establishment of clinics in influential medical schools, particularly ones associated with universities of international reputation. By the mid 1970s, more than half a million children had already been medicated primarily for hyperactivity.
The brand of psychiatry that became increasingly popular in the 1980s and 1990s did not have its roots in notions of normal behavior or personality theory; it grew out of the concrete, atheoretical treatment style used in clinics and institutions for the profoundly disturbed. German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, not Freud, was the God of mental hospitals, and pharmaceuticals were the panacea. So the whole underlying notion of psychiatric treatment, diagnosis, and disease changed. Psychiatry, which had straddled psychology and medicine for a hundred years, abruptly abandoned psychology for a comfortable sinecure within its traditional parent discipline. The change was profound.
People seeking treatment were no longer clients, they were patients. Their complaints were no longer suggestive of a complex mental organization, they were symptoms of a disease. Patients were not active participants in a collaborative treatment, they were passive recipients of symptom-reducing substances. Mental disturbances were no longer caused by unique combinations of personality, character, disposition, and upbringing, they were attributed to pre-birth anomalies that caused vague chemical imbalances. Cures were no longer anticipated or sought; mental disorders were inherited illnesses, like birth defects, that could not be cured except by some future magic, genetic bullet. All that could be done was to treat symptoms chemically, and this was being done with astonishing ease and regularity.
In many ways, children are the ideal patients for drugs. By nature, they are often passive and compliant when told by a parent to take a pill. Children are also generally optimistic and less likely to balk at treatment than adults. Even if they are inclined to complain, the parent is a ready intermediary between the physician and the patient. Parents are willing to participate in the enforcement of treatments once they have justified them in their own minds and, unlike adults, many kids do not have the luxury of discontinuing an unpleasant medication. Children are additionally not aware of how they ought to feel. They adjust to the drugs’ effects as if they are natural and are more tolerant of side effects than adults. Pharmaceutical companies recognized these assets and soon were targeting new drugs specifically at children.
But third-party insurance providers balked at the surge in costs for treatment of previously unknown, psychological syndromes, especially since unwanted drug effects were making some cases complicated and expensive. Medicine’s growing prosperity as the purveyor of treatments for mental disorders was threatened, and the industry’s response was predictable. Psychiatry found that it could meet insurance company requirements by simplifying diagnoses, reducing identification to the mere appearance of certain symptoms. By 1980, they had published all new standards.
Lost in the process was the fact that the redefined diagnoses (and a host of new additions) failed to meet minimal standards of falsifiability and differentiability. This meant that the diagnoses could never be disproved and that they could not be indisputably distinguished from one another. The new disorders were also defined as lists of symptoms from which a physician could check off a certain number of hits like a Chinese menu, which led to reification, an egregious scientific impropriety. Insurers, however, with their exceptions undermined and under pressure from parents and physicians, eventually withdrew their objections. From that moment on, the treatment of children with powerful psychotropic medications grew unchecked.
As new psychotropics became available, their uses were quickly extended to children despite, in many cases, indications that the drugs were intended for use with adults only. New antipsychotics, the atypicals, were synthesized and marketed beginning in the 1970s. Subsequently, a new class of antidepressants like Prozac and Zoloft was introduced. These drugs were added to the catalogue of childhood drug treatments with an astonishing casualness even as stimulant treatment for hyperactivity continued to burgeon.
In 1980, hyperactivity, which had been imprudently named “minimal brain dysfunction” in the 1960s, was renamed Attention Deficit Disorder in order to be more politic, but there was an unintended consequence of the move. Parents and teachers, familiar with the name but not always with the symptoms, frequently misidentified children who were shy, slow, or sad (introverted rather than inattentive) as suffering from ADD. Rather than correct the mistake, though, some enterprising physicians responded by prescribing the same drug for the opposite symptoms. This was justified on the grounds that stimulants, which were being offered because they slowed down hyperactive children, might very well have the predicted effect of speeding up under-active kids. In this way, a whole new population of children became eligible for medication. Later, the authors of DSM-III memorialized this practice by renaming ADD again, this time as ADHD, and redefining ADD as inattention. Psychiatry had reached a new level: they were now willing to invent an illness to justify a treatment. It would not be the last time this was done.
In the last twenty years, a new, more disturbing trend has become popular: the re-branding of legacy forms of mental disturbance as broad categories of childhood illness. Manic depressive illness and infantile autism, two previously rare disorders, were redefined through this process as “spectrum” illnesses with loosened criteria and symptom lists that cover a wide range of previously normal behavior. With this slim justification in place, more than a million children have been treated with psychotropics for bipolar disorder and another 200,000 for autism. A recent article in this magazine “The Bipolar Bamboozle” (Flora and Bobby 2008) illuminates how and why an illness that once occurred twice in every 100,000 Americans, has been recast as an epidemic affecting millions.
To overwhelmed parents, drugs solve a whole host of ancillary problems. The relatively low cost (at least in out-of-pocket dollars) and the small commitment of time for drug treatments make them attractive to parents who are already stretched thin by work and home life. Those whose confidence is shaken by indications that their children are “out of control” or “unruly” or “disturbed” are soothed by the seeming inevitability of an inherited disease that is shared by so many others. Rather than blaming themselves for being poor home managers, guardians with insufficient skills, or neglectful caretakers, parents can find comfort in the thought that their child, through no fault of theirs, has succumbed to a modern and widely accepted scourge. A psychiatric diagnosis also works well as an authoritative response to demands made by teachers and school administrators to address their child’s “problems.”
Once a medical illness has been identified, all unwanted behavior becomes fruit of the same tree. Even the children themselves are often at first relieved that their asocial or antisocial impulses reflect an underlying disease and not some flaw in their characters or personalities.
Conclusions In the last analysis, childhood has been thoroughly and effectively redefined. Character and temperament have been largely removed from the vocabulary of human personality. Virtually every single undesirable impulse of children has taken on pathological proportions and diagnostic significance. Yet, if the psychiatric community is wrong in their theories and hypotheses, then a generation of parents has been deluded while millions of children have been sentenced to a lifetime of ingesting powerful and dangerous drugs.
Considering the enormous benefits reaped by the medical community, it is no surprise that critics have argued that the whole enterprise is a cynical, reckless artifice crafted to unfairly enrich them. Even though this is undoubtedly not true, physicians and pharmaceutical companies must answer for the rush to medicate our most vulnerable citizens based on little evidence, a weak theoretical model, and an antiquated and repudiated philosophy. For its part, the scientific community must answer for its timidity in challenging treatments made in the absence of clinical observation and justified by research of insufficient rigor performed by professionals and institutions whose objectivity is clearly in question, because their own interests are materially entwined in their findings.
It should hardly be necessary to remind physicians that even if their diagnoses are real, they are still admonished by Galen’s dictum Primum non nocere, or “first, do no harm.” If with no other population, this ought to be our standard when dealing with children. Yet we have chosen the most invasive, destructive, and potentially lethal treatment imaginable while rejecting other options that show great promise of being at least as effective and far safer. But these other methods are more expensive, more complicated, and more time-consuming, and thus far, we have not proved willing to bear the cost. Instead, we have jumped at a discounted treatment, a soft-drink-machine cure: easy, cheap, fast, and putatively scientific. Sadly, the difference in price is now being paid by eight million children.
Mental illness is a fact of life, and it is naïve to imagine that there are not seriously disturbed children in every neighborhood and school. What is more, in the straitened economy of child rearing and education, medication may be the most efficient and cost effective treatment for some of these children. Nevertheless, to medicate not just the neediest, most complicated cases but one child in every ten, despite the availability of less destructive treatments and regardless of doubtful science, is a tragedy of epic proportions.
What we all have to fear, at long last, is not having been wrong but having done wrong. That will be judged in a court of a different sort. Instead of humility, we continue to feed drugs to our children with blithe indifference. Even when a child’s mind is truly disturbed (and our standards need to be revised drastically on this score), a treatment model that intends to chemically palliate and manage ought to be our last resort, not our first option. How many more children need to be sacrificed for us to see the harm in expediency, greed, and plain ignorance?
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1. Deaths in Mexico have gone from 168 to 16. Now that is REAL healing! Where are the hundreds of deaths the MMD (media of mass deception) were originally reporting? Where are the thousands of deaths they predicted?
2. CDC said that we should expect to see more severe cases of the Swine Flu on April 26 despite the fact that NONE of the cases they have identified are at all severe.
“We are seeing more cases of swine flu, and we expect to see more cases of swine flu,” said Richard Besser, Director of the CDC, at a White House briefing. “I would expect that over time we are going to see more severe disease in this
country.”http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/04/26/cdc-head-expect-more-severe-cases/
3. CDC prepared a “seed stock by April 24, just 10 days after the previously unknown disease was identified. Here’s is what it takes to prepare a seed stock:
“Scientists first have to decide which flu strains to use in the vaccine-they typically pick three, based on predictions of how the virus will evolve by next year. (It’s still unclear whether they’ll include the swine flu in next year’s seasonal flu vaccine.) They then inject the strains into chicken embryos, wait for them to multiply, and extract them several days later to create a so-called “seed stock.” http://www.slate.com/id/2217007/ Pretty good work for 10 days, I shouldn’t wonder!
4. CDC “justified” declaring a “Health Emergency” on April 27, just 13 days after the “novel” Swine Flu was first “discovered” in a rural town in Mexico.
5. Meriden Company would be able to produce a Swine Flu Virus in just six weeks on April 28. Here is what it takes to produce a vaccine AFTER the seed stock is produced: ” inject the [viral] strains into chicken embryos, wait for them to multiply, and extract them several days later to create a so-called “seed stock.” Then comes testing on lab animals, followed by any necessary adjustments to the stock. (Haste can have a price: During the swine flu outbreak of 1976, 500 people who got vaccinated developed a disease called Guillain-Barré syndrome, and 25 of them died.)
Once researchers have finalized the vaccine, they repeat the embryo injection process millions of times. So even if they finalize the vaccine in June, it will take at least until September to produce the first 50 million or so doses. Producing all 600 million doses-enough to give Americans the usual two shots-would take months longer.[Note that no testing in humans or other animals is involved in this schedule]
A new experimental method would grow the virus in individual cells instead of eggs. That process is a lot faster-it could shave weeks off the time it takes to create the seed stock-since cell cultures grow faster than eggs. But that method hasn’t been approved yet by the FDA, and there are still doubts about its effectiveness.” [Once again, using this vaccine at this stage would mean approving it in the absence of any animal or human testing] http://www.slate.com/id/2217007/
6. WHO raised the alert level to Phase 5, the start of a
Pandemic, on April 29 with one alleged death and only 91 confirmed human cases of a mild, inconsequential flu, with one death. At the moment the Phase 5 start of the Pandemic was created, countries reporting laboratory-confirmed cases with no deaths are: Austria (1), Canada (13), Germany (3), Israel (2), New Zealand (3), Spain (4) and the U.K. (5) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124116941340176895.html
7.WHO changed the name of the current “Pandemic” from “Swine Flu” to “H1N1Influenza” because the name “cause an unwarranted clampdown on pork trade” on April 30.http://www.canada.com/Health/changes+swine+name+influenza+H1N1/1549929/story.html
8. Hawaii’s Governor, Linda Lingle, said that WHO was considering raising the alert status of the “Pandemic” to Level 6 on May 1 despite the lack of any meaningful threat. http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/health/index.ssf?/base/national-10/1241232303247520.xml&storylist=health
Saving the Best for Last
I wonder at the total absurdity of the following article, printed without change (make sure to read the last sentence!):
9. Ohio health officials say two more cases of H1N1, formerly known as swine flu, have been confirmed in Ohio. That brings the state’s total to three. The victims are 31 years old and 33 years old, both are men and both are from Franklin County, near Columbus. Health officials confirmed, last week, a nine year old boy from Elyria has H1N1.
Pennsylvania health officials say there are still no confirmed cases of swine flu in the commonwealth, although they are listing five Philadelphia-area cases as probable. All cases reported so far have been in Philadelphia or Montgomery County.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says the outbreak continues to grow in the U.S. Officials gave an update Saturday afternoon and say they now have 160 confirmed cases of H1N1 in 21 states. MD/CDC Interim Deputy Director, Anne Schuchat, said, “The point is that the majority of cases don’t have direct contact with Mexico. They didn’t travel to Mexico. It is much more likely that people are getting this particular infection now from somebody who has no…from somebody within their own communities.”
The World Health Organization has confirmed more than 700 cases of H1N1 flu worldwide so far, in at least 15 countries. And now, Canada officials say pigs have been infected and are under quarantine. It’s the first known case of pigs having the virus.”
To my mind, the real threat here is decidedly NOT the disease although it is very clear that the novel virus was manufactured by a lab crew. That is threat enough. But there is more. To my way of thinking, this is a crass, cruel and horrifying example of intentional mayhem and death (although this pandemic, like Avian Flu and SARS has so far fizzled) used as a weapon of not only mass deception, but of mass destruction as well.
I do not believe that this episode, which is far from finished, is merely another exercise in fear mongering by agencies and of potential profiteering by Big Pharma… No, I believe there is additionally a heavy political agenda; a, dare we say, “mind control” agenda, whereby we are all being desensitized to the violations of privacy and health rights that become “normal” during a time of declared “medical emergency?”
The game plan, as I see it, was to have created a major epidemic, invoke the State’s Emergency Medical Powers Acts of the States through which, when a Governnor declares a Pandemic, you MUST accept vaccination/treatment or you will automatically be declared to be felon and incarcerated/quarentined indefinitely.
This dovetails precisely with the federal powers invoked when the Secretary of Health and Human Services declares a Pandemic (which would happen first) and the same compulsions desend upon you: either accept vaccination/treatment or be involuntarily quarantined indefinitely.
If people resist, riot or protest? Martial Law is right around the corner.
Foreign troops (including 300,000 Chinese troops reputed to be quartered at Edwards Air Force Base, in clear violation of the US Constitution) and domestic ones (including NorthCom, in whose mission this type of action lies), police and mercenaries are apparently ready, to one degree or another, to enforce these “safety measures”.
Failing this scenario, there is also the political possibility of using the irrational and absurd “Health Emergency Alert” status of the US to divide the country in to the 10 FEMA regions, restrict movement and commerce and build the tension through the MMD, the Media of Mass Deception, so that, finally, when the savior vaccine arrives, the maximum number of people roll up their sleeves to be both “saved” from the “deadly” flu threat or be released from FEMA territorial restrictions.
Do I know this is what is in store for us? Of course not. But do I strongly suspect that these possibilities are not too far off the mark? Yes I do.
And while all this is going on, are you thinking about the insanity and criminality of the bailout? Of the weaponization and industrialization of all food production and control? Of the rapid coming of the new global currency? Of the dissolution of national states under the emergency authority of the United Nations, to whom all power is ceded under a state of “Global Pandemic”? Of course not.
This is the ultimate slight of hand. But instead of a rabbit magically pulled out of the hat, it is a weaponized vaccine in a syringe.
The syringe of death. Death to health, freedom and, very possibly, billions of people.
We must also acknowledge, as Gen. Stubblebine pointed out, the Swine Flu panic was not the first such incident that could have triggered a pandemic; there have been several in the past several years. The forces at work that, WHO tells us, will lead to the “inevitable” pandemic are still there. Only push-back can hold off the event. Vigilance, preparation and courage.
I am glad to read that both Dr. Mercola and Dr. Paul (Ron Paul, that is) agree with me that we cannot view recent events, such as the Baxter incident and the Swine Flu panic, as mere epidemiological events. When we connect the dots, we are concerned that we are looking at the engineering of weaponized pathogens to force weaponized vaccinations on an unsuspecting public.
Dr. Leonard Horowitz also agrees, and in an astounding YouTube presentation, names the names of the researchers, institutes and companies he considers responsible.
And the good doctors all agree on something else: Natural Solutions are available to protect the public. “Pandemic panic” is not necessary. Forced vaccinations, transportation and public event closings, and martial law are not necessary!
What is? Dr. Paul recommends sun, rest and good nutrition. Dr. Mercola recommends many of the herbs and nutrients discussed in our last eAlert, Proactive Protection – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2581.
Every day hundreds of our Natural Solutions health and freedom advocates contact us with information data points which, pieced together with media, online reports and other sources, lead us to the understanding we need to survive – and help you to survive – in these dangerous times. That’s the knowledge we seek to share with you. When we push back, together, against the truly nefarious plans of those who seek to manipulate us with panic and herd us into serfdom, we achieve miraculous advances.
The past few weeks have seen just such plans repeatedly made and repeatedly thwarted. But this is no cause for complacency. We are not anywhere close to being out of the woods.
At the beginning of the year Natural Solutions Foundation reported on the strange case of Baxter International… in which an Avian Flu pandemic was nearly triggered by the “accidental” live, infective, human strain Avian Flu virus contamination of a seasonal flu vaccine destined for eighteen European countries.
These are the same countries in which Baxter was about to receive approval to sell its “Avian Flu” vaccine – a vaccine which, you will recall, cannot be produced until the pandemic version of the Avian Flu actually exists. Recall that the WHO, CDC and other official organization insist that it does not yet exist. So another strange phenomenon in all of this is that there cannot BE an Avian Flu vaccine yet, although numerous companies have made and sold hundreds of millions of doses against something which supposedly does not yet exist. Curiouser and Curiouser.
“Somehow” (and we believe we know how) that threat caused by Baxter’s “accident” was averted. Against the usual procedure of accepting the vaccine as having been irradiated to kill the viruses included in it (!) by Baxter, a laboratory in one of the countries (the CzechRepublic) tested and discovered the deadly contamination. See: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2233 .
Did a secret whistle-blower save us? We believe so. To that hero, whoever he or she may be we all owe a profound: “Thank you!”
We reported the strange movements of medical materials around the country by overpaid truckers sworn to secrecy, asking for your help in confirming or refuting it.
Meanwhile, we asked our Mighty Mouse Warriors’ help in educating Congress about the dangers of forced industrialization of all food production under the guise of the (sic) “Food Safety” bills. Is the current absurd “Swine Flu” non-event designed to deflect your attention from the Banksters’ enormous crimes and the hijacking of your food? We are not deflected.
to continue to push Congress back from taking away your right to clean, unadulterated food, grown and prepared by you or people whom you trust (like organic farmers).
Even as the Natural Solutions Foundation, through your efforts, has been pushing back against this major threat to family farms, natural and home food production and, ultimately, both health AND freedom, a new threat appeared, an alleged “pandemic” Swine Flu that, oddly, uniquely, in a never-before-seen manner, shows contamination with human flu and avian flu DNA.
This is evidence of a bio-engineered, weaponized virus.
P For Pandemic AND PushBack!
Natural Solutions Foundation pushed back with loud warnings about the weaponized flu and weaponized vaccines that are being, and would be, foisted upon us. We offer you information about proactive protective steps you could take for your family and Dr. Laibow’s posting on that http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2581 included dozens of potentially life-saving suggestions for natural strategies to protect for your immune system from any hazard they throw at us.
Emergency Planning
Sometimes in the midst of crisis we have to put aside our longer-term goals to focus on, and contend with, an immediate threat (which is what makes it an emergency, after all) —
natural solutions to pressing social, legal, health and freedom problems…
These solutions share a common ultimate purposem the 5th D: Defending our health and our freedom.
Demonstrating and Disseminating Natural Solutions
Meanwhile, our implementation programs, such as the International Decade of Nutrition and our demonstration projects in Africa and Panama are still going strong. See: www.naturalsolutionsfoundation.org.
In the spirit of Demonstration and Dissemination we have established the Natural Solutions Vital Connection Webinars, in cooperation with VitalConnectionUniversity (VCU).
Webinars can be attended live over the internet just like any course in a lecture hall but they can also be accessed later at your convenience. Of course, questions and answers are only possible during the live webinar but can be read during later viewing.
Natural Solutions Foundation has already held several well-received Webinars. We are happy to announce that our webinar partner, VCU, has a new and improved platform up and running which we believe will make these webinars even more successful.
We will be offering several exciting new Webinars and hope you will join us -live and later.
We – you and we together – ARE the ‘net roots’ of Health Freedom, providing Natural Solutions to the problems that threaten our health and health freedom. The better informed we are, the more active we can be. The more active we are, the more effective we become.
Knowledge IS power. But without action, it means little. But knowledge without action is mere abstraction. Come to our webinars, learn with us (and teach with us if you have information you would like to share) and then become an even more effective net roots movement.
Please take a look at the information below regarding the Webinar program.
The more we learn, the stronger we become.
Yours in health and freedom,
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US A Ret)
President
Natural Solutions Foundation
Counsel’s Comments
Knowledge IS Power.2
Vital Connection Webinars
SUMMARY: Information to Protect Your Health AND Freedom
Using the Internet to achieve our health AND freedom goals, we constantly look for ways to share information in the on-going educational campaign that forms a principle thrust of our tax-exempt activities.
Based on your feedback, we are proud to offer you new, enhanced outreach programs:
Natural Solutions Webinars – see below for detailed information.
‘Webinars’ are unique, online learning and communicating events combining live audio and visual opportunities for a limited number of people with interactive Q&A! Once the live Webinar has taken place, it is archived and becomes available on the Internet at any time you want to see it.
You may remember that we had a vigorous Webinar Schedule which we had to cancel because VCU was upgrading to a new platform.
They have finished that upgrade and we are back in business. We have rescheduled our Webinars and added new ones; the new platform also supports a private online forum attached to each Webinar!
Once you’re on that screen, follow the instructions to create your own private New Student Account.
Once you have created your New Student Account , login and browse through the Live Upcoming Courses or check out the Recorded Courses where you will find past Natural Solutions Foundation webinars.
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 – 02/12/09 – Archived
2. Legal Considerations for CAM Practitioners
Presenter: Ralph Fucetola JD May 6, 2009 at 8 PM EDT $99
You can attend a new, updated live version – follow sign up instructions above.
Watch a special free Video Introduction to this Webinar here:
This webinar is intended for Natural or Advanced (sometimes called ‘CAM‘, “Alternative”, “Holistic” or “Integrative”) health practitioners in every area of practice. With the State and Federal Government agencies determined to stamp out all non-pharmaceutical-focused treatments, if you are an advanced health practitioner, you need accurate, up to the minute information on –
* Standard Operating Procedures
* Disclaimers
* Disclosures
* Informed Consent
* Risks to Private Practitioners
* Practical advise on structuring your practice to protect yourself and your client/patients
* Forbidden words
* How to present what you do and why you do it wisely
* Waivers
Common sense, talent and experience may make you a great practitioner, but it takes legal information and careful strategic communication to keep you out of trouble and in practice. Join us for this essential course. Tuition includes a $30 tax deductible donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation and an information-filled eBook with practical forms to use. The information in the eBook would require several hours of legal retainer time to acquire.
3. Protecting your IRA/401 – Supporting Sustainable Living
May 9, 2009 – 8 PM EDT
Presenters: Natural Solutions Foundation Trustees
Rima E. Laibow, MD, Ralph Fucetola, JD
Min. tuition contribution: $30 (50%, min. $15) credited as a tax deductible donation to Natural Solutions Foundation
Off-shore placement of retirement funds may not be available for much longer. In fact, your retirement funds are being eyed by the cash-starved US government. At the same time, your health freedom and access to clean food and dietary supplements is under more attack than at any time in the past. Retirement funds can support the Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSoltutionsFoundation.org, in Panama while the Valley of the Moon helps to protect your health freedoms and reclaim the production of food.
This is far more than a win-win relationship. It is a must-win relationship for both you and health freedom. Join us to learn more and find out what others are doing to protect their health and their wealth. Tuition includes a $15 tax deductible Donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation and a free eBook you can share with others to help them get the picture, too.
4. Bringing New Natural Products to Market in a Hostile Regulatory Environment
Presenter: Ralph Fucetola JD
Live Webinar: May 10, 2009 – 8 PM EDT Tuition: $199.99
What does it take to bring a new natural product to market? How does a product qualify as a Certified Friendly Food? What types of claims can be made for natural products? What are the pitfalls and opportunities? Includes an eBook containing the full slide text and copies of forms and formats for SOPs, SUS, and more.
“Your papers must be in order.”
Are your ingredients “grandfathered” under DSHEA?
Have you filed your Structure and Function Claims Notices with FDA?
Do you have your SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures)?
Is your web site Site Use Statement up-to-date?
Is your Substantiation Notebook ready?
You must be better organized before the FDA inspection!
Just last month the FDA’s Dietary Supplement program manager told Expo West, to paraphrase his statement, “that FDA is about to receive much more money and will be able to saturate the field with inspectors… a large increase in our force out there… largest supplements firms shouldn’t have a problem funding, but some mom and pop operations will be lost… [he] recommends that small firms band together so the new rules don’t break their backs…”