Email Newsletter from February 29, 2008

Good News In Action, Part II

The Natural Solutions Foundation is about solutions. Our solutions are natural so they work! And part of our solutions are the action steps that we provide for you to let legislators know what you want (health freedom to make your own health choices) and what you do not want (including compulsory screening, drugging and vaccination. Here are some good news statistics:

129,101 people support our right to know how nutrients and supplements can benefit us and support Ron Paul’s bill HR 2117, the Health Freedom Protection Act which not only guarantees free speech but forces the FDA to allow scientifically based information instead of prohibiting that information as they do now. Click here (http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11754) to join nearly 139,000 people in urging their Congresspeople to become co-sponsors of this important law.

588,832 people used our website to tell the FDA its CAM Guidance, allowing the FDA to declare nutrients “untested drugs” if they were used for health benefits was unacceptable. Recently the FDA forced two companies to stop making and marketing products for diabetics made from cherry juice because the products turned cherry juice into an untested drug by stating the health benefit derived from using it. More action is clearly needed: half a million voices were not enough to counter Big Pharma. Five million would be more like it. That means you need to get your circle of influence activated. Ask them to go to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and subscribe to the free Health Freedom eAlerts (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=187) and get involved in protecting their health and their freedom before there is nothing left to protect.

467 people donated to support the Natural Solutions Foundation this month. Thanks to each of you.

But I have a question for the rest of you (hundreds of thousands of you, actually): where are your tax deductible donations (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189)? Small donations add up, especially when they are recurring donations. Even $1 a week mounts up if enough people make that pledge. Large donations are essential, too. If you are a supporter of the Natural Solutions Foundation who has not yet made the commitment to support us financially, now would be a good time. We have a deficit for this month’s bills (that means last month’s activities in the US, Panama, Thailand, Ghana and Benin) of about $30,000.

That sounds like a lot to handle until you realize how many people are on our list, how little it would take from each of them to cover what we are doing and how very much we are doing for your health freedom. So whether you want to help fund the full length documentary on Health Freedom and the Codex Agenda (with the first segment due out soon on Compulsory Vaccination) or our Congressional Education and anticipated lobbying organization, the 501 (c) 4 Natural Solutions Health Freedom Strategic Alliance, or the International Decade of Nutrition or our trips to Codex and the countries of health friendly countries, or the Panama Project (see below for the wonderful developments there) or our information services to subscribers to our Health Freedom eAlerts or our specialized forums like the No-Forced-Vaccination Forum and the NSF-Panama Forum, or any of the other vigorous programs we are creating and running for your benefit, now is a great time to do it! Click here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189) to make a tax deductible donation – and why not make it a recurring one! February is coming to a close and we need to pay our bills! Thanks for your support.

The Panama Project Moves Ahead!

Last week Ralph Fucetola and a Natural Solutions Foundation Supporter made a quick trip to Panama to see the land and determine how to move ahead. Here is Ralph’s report, taken from his Vitamin Lawyer Blog (vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/):

“Natural Solutions Foundation in Panama was set up to research, educate and demonstrate natural solutions. Our shared vision is of an intentional community that links home sites (on a wonderful hillside with great views) with a natural wellness center/spa and organic+ farm and school, all on a 300 hectare (700+ acre) site that has never been farmed with chemicals. Currently, about ten acres are planted with organic coffee.

Our Panamanian legal entity is very flexible, combining the best aspects of a non-profit and a “private interest” entity that is allowed to form its own commercial enterprises. In keeping with the Songhai Principals, we see three “profit centers” for the project: the Wellness Center, the Beyond Organic Zero Emissions Farm and School and what I call the Infrastructure Company, which provides transportation, communications, off-grid power, etc. to the center and farm school as well as the home sites. The Foundation will hold majority interest in the commercial entities, but there will be private investment opportunities.

The area is in the far north, by the Costa Rica border, against the 17,000 acre Amistad National Forest. Elevations vary from 3,000 to 5,000 feet above sea level. It is in the township of Santa Clara (Sacred Light) and is reached by modern road about an hour from the Vulcan eco-tourist area. The climate is year-round temperate (the woods look much like the woods of the US Northeast: similar evergreen, birch and other deciduous trees, deer and rabbits, but with coffee, banyan trees, plantains and howler monkeys too). [Dr. Rima’s note: it is also quite similar to Marin County in California, except for the howler monkeys, of course.]

Gen. Stubblebine and Dr. Laibow have explored the area in recent months and I went there last week with a Natural Solutions supporter, guided by Kenneth Taylor, our Panamanian builder with experience in the area.

I am most impressed by Panama as a country where people have great hopes for the future… Panama City and the Canal area, where half of the 3 million population resides, is a very modern, thriving area with a huge building boom, very well developed banking and commercial sectors (the Singapore of the New World).

The Santa Clara area, to the far north, is pristine, flower filled and well connected to civilized amenities (international cuisine, locovore restaurants) [that is, serving food grown near where he or she lives – Dr. Rima]. It is becoming an eco-tourist center mostly because of the nearby Vulcan Baru, the highest point in Central America, a magnificent extinct volcano. The area is filled with ExPats from the US and Europe (20% of one town is American).

Land values in Santa Clara are quite reasonable right now, but will not stay that way for long, as Americans and Europeans looking for more freedom than they can find at home, join the Panamanians in appreciating this land. Two hours away, in Boquete, land is bumping $100,000 per hectare (2.45 acres) – about 8 times our cost. Land taxes are very low and there is a 20 year tax holiday for new construction.

Because the land owners, who farm organically themselves, appreciate our vision, they are giving us a highly favorable financial arrangement and going far out of their way to work with us in a positive and helpful way. One of their sons, who lives on the land, would be ideal as a land manager for us. He is most amenable to that idea.

We are currently making arrangements to have the land surveyed, the soil and water tested and will be setting up preliminary meetings with architects to determine the number of building lots and areas. A generous donor has made that possible with a first gift for Panama.

We are now open for donations which, while fully tax deductible in the US, will allow the Natural Solutions Foundation to proceed with the development of our better than organic, advanced farming technology project complete with farm school for farmers from around the world — teaching how to farm and feed communities while resisting the pressures of Big Agribiz [so that they can stay on their land, feed themselves and feed their communities – Dr. Rima], is a central commitment of the Panama Project.

So is providing a free, beautiful, healthful and sustainable community for visionaries like …YOU! Leasehold and other types of interests will be available.

If you are interested, just send an email to me at ralph.fucetola@usa.net with “Panama” in the subject line or call 973-300-4594 to learn more about your place in the Panama Project! Before I became “The Vitamin Lawyer” I grew up on family construction projects and practiced construction law for fifteen years, being involved in housing, hotel, mall and commercial developments (including historical renovations) in northeast NJ.

I believe this site is ideal to develop and demonstrate natural solutions. It is the right country (friendly to Americans, natural health and organics) and the right natural area. We’ve looked for years for the best place to demonstrate natural solutions. In my humble opinion, this is the place!

You are invited to join our Panama Yahoo!Group forum where you will find many photos, copies of the organizing documents, skills database and much more : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/NSF-Panama/join.

Natural Solutions Foundation is more than just talk: we are willing to walk our talk, and a beautiful walk up the mountain it will be!

One More Bit of Insanity Which Is So Crazy It’s Actually Good For Our Side!

A totally mad assault on the health freedom of San Francisco Bay area residents is underway. They will have no option except to flee their homes and farms if they do not wish to be exposed to a highly toxic, and poorly tested, spraying program every 30 days for the next 5 years. The target is the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM), a theoretical pest which has never threatened humans, crops, ornamental shrubs, habitats or anything else. But, in their determined to spray this insect to death, the California Department of Agriculture appears to have totally lost its sanity. They will, if they have their way, be spraying an untested pesticide (a “plasticized pheromone”) which has never been tested for safety on people, and whose inert and active ingredients are dangerous, every 30 days for the next 5 years. The cost of the program? $74.5 million dollars.

Santa Clara and Monterey were sprayed twice and once respectively with CheckMate (c). People experienced numerous serious health consequences before a judge halted the spraying in those towns pending further information. Undeterred, the CDA wants to spray the entire San Francisco Bay area (parks, wetlands, farms, houses, schools, all of it) over a 5 year period. Did I mention that the impact on beneficial moths and butterflies is likely to be disastrous?

Why is this good news? Because it is so insane that this assault on health, freedom and the environment has become a rallying point for large numbers of people from every walk of life. General Bert and I will be in San Francisco on March 3, 2008 to attend a meeting about this tremendous threat. The program, by the way, is only possible because the CDA got an EMERGENCY exemption form the US EPA to allow them to carry out this program without testing or impact studies. What emergency? Read more (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=528) on this breaking story.

And don’t forget to show your strong support for the Natural Solutions Foundation by taking the action steps in the side bar to the right and making your recurring tax deductible donation (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189) right now!

More than just talk…Our Solutions are Natural So They Work!

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director Natural Solutions Foundation