Silicon Crunch: Satire to Make You Laugh and Cry At the Same Time

March 1st, 2007

This was sent by a supporter. If the events were not so close to reality, the piece would be absurd. As it is, they could just as well be real: in fact, under different names they happen every day.

Silicon Crunch

API – Washington, D.C., June 1, 1999 …………….. by Mark D. Gold

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it will
approve the controversial new food additive, “Silicon Crunch.” Silicon
Crunch is a flavored filler made by combining artificial flavors with
finely ground, recycled glass bottles. The product was developed by the
Association of Chemical Food Manufacturers (ACFM) — a collaboration of 12
chemical chemical and food ingredient companies.

Dr. Arthur A. Morales, Vice President of Development for the inventor,
ACFM, hailed the decision as “proof that chemical company scientists can
literally make anything info food!” Dr. A. Morales went on to say that
“Silicon Crunch will change the way food is made. The versatility of this
product is amazing! It can be mixed with a variety of artificial
flavorings, colors, and sweeteners. The consistency of Silicon Crunch can
very easily be changed from crunchy to creamy by controlling the
pre-treatment of the glass food materials. We believe that this will be the
best-selling food additive in history!”

Dr. A. Morales responded to questions of concern about the safety of
Silicon Crunch by stating that “There will always be a hysterical few who
question the safety of an innovative new product. Today’s decision proves
that Silicon Crunch meets the FDA’s stringent safety requirements for food
additives.”

Officials at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were elated
over the decision which they called “a victory for recycling.” Incoming
EPA Administrator, Dr. Morissa Green-Washington stated, “Recycling will
only work if there is a market for recycled products. The FDA’s decision
opens up the market for recycled glass. Our goal is to work with industry
to help create similar markets for other recycled products. We encourage
the development of new markets for other waste products by food and
chemical companies.” Several senior EPA scientists who spoke on the
condition of anonymity said that they do not share Dr. Green-Washington’s
views on this issue. One scientist summed up his viewpoint by stating,
“The approval of Silicon Crunch sets a significant precedent in that
Americans will now be eating recycled garbage. Even though it is
sterilized, I do not think it is appropriate.”

Considerable controversy could be seen at the FDA both before and after
the decision was announced by FDA Commissioner, Dr. Herbert D. Banner. Two
FDA scientists resigned in March claiming that the scientific review
process has been sidetracked by political and economic goals. FDA
Toxicologists Martin Fitzpatrick, Ph.D. and Elizabeth Shuller, Ph.D. held
a press conference yesterday in protest of what they allege was an
“inevitable decision without any scientific basis.” In a harsh criticism
of the FDA Commissioner, Dr. Shuller stated that there was never any
interest by FDA officials to look at the issue in a scientific way. She
went on to say that “Dr. Banner refused to even consider the extensive
documentation provided about the dangers of ingested glass! We were forced
to consider only the scientific documents on Silicon Crunch provided by
ACFM. The documentation provided by ACFM was ridiculous on the face of it,
yet there was no possibility of considering evidence challenging this
documentation given the rules we were forced to follow.” Dr. Fitzpatrick
added, “I believe that the whole process was motivated by money and that
the revolving door between drug and chemical companies and the FDA has
done irreparable harm to the credibility of the FDA.”

Commissioner Banner responded that “These two scientists were given every
opportunity to produce reputable scientific research that has shown that
ingesting heat-treated, finely-ground glass food material causes adverse
health effects. They were unable to produce any studies showing that
Silicon Crunch causes disease. The research they submitted showing serious
adverse effects from ingesting glass particles is simply not relevant
because those studies considered only normal ground bits of glass and not
specially heat-treatment Silicon Crunch. The important point is that the
majority of the FDA officials reviewing the product agreed that the
manufacturer has met its burden of proof that it is safe.”

“Silicon is already present in the body,” Commissioner Banner pointed out.
“It is in the tendons, cartilage, and blood vessels. And silicon is
already being ingested from plant fiber and hard water. The glass food
material in Silicon Crunch is simply another good source of silicon. There
is some evidence that as atherosclerosis develops, silicon levels decline
in the arteries. Adding Silicon Crunch to the diet may help prevent heart
disease!”

In response to the allegations of a “revolving door” at the FDA between
FDA officials and ACFM members, the Commissioner responded by saying,
“This whole issue of ‘revolving door’ has been grossly overblown. Firstly,
fewer FDA officials have left to work at ACFM member companies in this
calendar year than in previous years. Secondly, not all FDA officials
offered jobs by ACFM member companies have accepted those jobs. In fact, I
was offered such a job, but turned it down because I still have important
work to do as Commissioner of the FDA — namely, developing strategies to
keep herbs and supplements from stifling the development of legitimate
pharmaceuticals. Finally, former ACFM member company employees, who are
now FDA officials, have not been part of all of the critical aspects of
the decision-making process in the Silicon Crunch decision. These
‘conspiracy theories’ should not be taken seriously by the general
public.”

Commissioner Banner stated that the FDA took the cautious approach by
creating five strict requirements which must be met by the manufacturer
and other food companies using Silicon Crunch. The Commissioner provided
this official FDA summary of those requirements:

Three-layered filtration process must be installed to guarantee that no
large pieces of glass food particulates would ever be found in Silicon
Crunch. This size of these particulates are to be no more than 1/3 the
size that caused bleeding gums in animal research.

The Association of Chemical Food Manufacturers (ACFM) would be required to
monitor any unexpected adverse reactions.

ACFM would be required to design and fund research to provide continued
assurance of the safety of Silicon Crunch.

No dangerous products such as herbs or vitamins and minerals (above the
Recommended Daily Allowance) would be allowed in products which contain
Silicon Crunch.

Initially, no claims of medical benefit would be allowed on the label of
any food product which contains Silicon Crunch. However, claims such as
“Fat Free,” “Low Cholesterol,” and “Low Calorie” could be allowed for such
products. A petition to the FDA filed by ACFM for allowing a medical
claim, “Prevents Heart Disease” is currently being examined by FDA
scientists.

The food company members of ACFM are preparing to add Silicon Crunch to
many of their snack products. According to Dr. A. Morales of ACFM, “Our
goal is to get Silicon Crunch products on the shelves by late October to
coincide with the start of Halloween candy purchasing. American children
will be the first ones treated to this new wonder- product!” Dr. A.
Morales went on to say that ACFM plans to quickly obtain approval of
Silicon Crunch in other countries around the world that generally look to
the FDA to make a sound, scientific safety evaluation.

A written statement from the American Dietetic Association (ADA) pointed
out that they are still evaluating the situation. It went on to state that
the ADA will work closely with ACFM officials under a grant from that
organization to develop a workable Fact Sheet on the issue. In contrast, a
statement from the Association of Consumers for Nontoxic Food Choices
(ACNFC) claimed that the food industry has “spearheaded the destruction of
the scientific method and risk assessment for the last 25 years. This
included abuse of science and the politicizing of the approval and
evaluation process in the cases of aspartame, MSG, Olestra, acesulfame-k,
rBGH and many others. The approval of Silicon Crunch merely puts the
finishing touches on the destruction of the scientific method and approval
process.” An official of the ACNFC told this reporter that “Only a total
idiot would ingest Silicon Crunch…but given what the food industry has
been able to get Americans to ingest, I don’t hold out much hope of
preventing its widespread use.”

It appears that the controversy may rage for a considerable length of
time. The only agreed upon fact is that very soon many people will
experience first-hand the benefits or risks of Silicon Crunch.

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Mark of the Beast or Marking the Best?

January 28th, 2007

What I am about to tell you will thrill you and chill you at the same time. It will thrill you because it confirms that the course set by the Natural Solutions Foundation in the US and around the world is an effective strategy which is working. And it will chill you because it confirms that your personal freedoms and mine are being curtailed at a frightening rate in the US and elsewhere. Freedom to make your own health choices and use natural products and techniques, eat clean, unadulterated food and see health care professionals who treat you naturally is clearly under huge attack. Part and parcel of that attack is the attack on our rights, given by God, according to the Constitution of the United States, to speak as we wish and contend with the views of government and industry (increasingly one entity, in the US and elsewhere) without fear of punishment because of that speech.

As advocates for what we believe (and what you do, too), we know that speaking our truth to power and to the public at large is our right and our responsibility. Apparently, for doing so, we have been marked by the “security police” as people to be treated like enemies. Our work on behalf of health and health freedom has led some cog in the burgeoning US security Gestapo to do us the favor of confirming that the Natural Solutions Foundation is on exactly the right path. We are saying and doing things the US Government is not happy about and to let us know that, they treat us like enemies of the state every time we fly in the United States!

Here’s the story:
For about the last year, every time General Stubblebine and I travel by air — anywhere — we have been subjected to increasing, and increasingly nasty and burdensome, scrutiny at security screening points. As you know, we do a LOT of traveling so this was very, very clear to us. Up until recently, however, we were always told that it was due to “random screening procedures” and that we had been “selected for additional security”. It was, of course, a funny kind of random: the enhanced security seemed to randomly apply to anyone named Albert N. Stubblebine III and Rima E. Laibow, MD who just happened to share our seat assignments.

On January 10, 2007, when General Stubblebine and I left our home near New York City on another extended trip in the service of health and health freedom, the security thing got ratcheted up quite a large notch. Our itinerary was Newark NJ (a New York regional airport) to Asheville NC to Albuquerque NM to Los Angeles to Bangkok and beyond. Within the US we were flying on Delta Airlines. At each airport both General Stubblebine and I were treated to a level of absurd “security” unlike any we had ever experienced before. I was “smacked down”, not patted down. Our carry-on luggage was not just inspected, it was torn apart. Wires, mice, cables, combs, lipsticks, everything was opened, examined, flung around, shoved into bags in a totally disorganized, “higgledy piggledy” manner with rude demeanor and agonizing slowness thrown in for good measure. We came very close to missing our flights several times despite being at the security station a full 2 hours before take off. Nasty does not even begin to describe the manner in which we were treated.

During a lay over between connecting flights I got to chatting with a member of the Delta Airlines cabin crew staff who was “dead heading” home from an international flight. I told him about the treatment we had been experiencing and he said, “You must have a code on your tickets put there by the government. Are you speaking out about something the government doesn’t like?”

So at the next check point I innocently said to the woman checking our boarding passes and photo IDs (which is, of course, just a warm up for the “Real ID” national identification card coming our way in 2008) that we were experiencing an absurd amount of security scrutiny. She smiled warmly, pointed to our boarding passes and said, “Well, here’s why. The code is right here on your boarding cards: it says that you are to get extreme scrutiny. Are you talking about something the government doesn’t want you to say?”

At that airport, too, we were subjected to the same malicious and ridiculous “screening” as at all the others. The code was right there: SSSS. So our tickets marked us, presumably at the request of the United States Government Department of Homeland Security, as bad people, people who should have their persons and belongings searched for dangerous contents. Bad people, people who should be taught a lesson, intimidated and, most important of all, people who should be cowed into not speaking out to defend their rights and the rights of others. For speaking our truth both to power and to the masses, we have been marked, as with the biblical “Mark of the Beast”.

I say, however, that our paranoid and dangerously out of control government, the one that has forgotten that our rights are, according to the United States Constitution, conferred by God, NOT by the US government, had obviously created a process of marking the best. Those who speak out, those who tell their truth and remind our government that it serves us, it does not own us, those who keep the flame of liberty, which demands active participation to feed it, alive and vigorous, are marked “for special scrutiny”. And these are the best patriots.

If the Natural Solutions Foundation were not on target, its spokespersons would not be targets. If the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Codex activities were not right on the mark, Dr. Claude Moshe, the Codex Alimentarius Commission Chairman would not have marked us for special attack before and during the 2006 Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting last July in Geneva.

Actually, I feel pretty good about receiving this direct confirmation from the US Government at the same time that I feel enraged and sorrowing that this is what our institutionalized paranoia has led us to: speak up and be marked. Be a real patriot by defending your country from corporate tyranny and become a target. You will remember that when we returned home from another long trip (during which we met privately with the President of India to brief him on Codex), our internet and phone service had been interrupted by someone who climbed the phone pole outside our isolated and remote home, removed a filter from its insulating and water-proof boot and left the boot open. Since we live on a street with only 12 houses and virtually no traffic, the pole feeds only our home with telephone and power lines. The message? Just ask General Stubblebine, who, during his active duty military career, controlled the US Army’s counter-intelligence service and he will tell you that what it means is, “We know where you live!” So the powers that be were telling us last July that we were on a watch list, too.

Is this what freedom is about? Is this what the US Constitution is about? Or is this of a piece with the same government policies and practices that are working so hard to take away your right to vitamins, minerals, natural prevention and treatment options — in short to your taking, and holding, control of your own health in favor of a pharmaceutical tyranny?

We know the answer and so do you. To the extent that you value that freedom, it is up to you to take a stand, and keep taking it, for yourself and others who may not understand yet that their freedoms, and, in fact, their very survival is at stake.

There are powerful steps you can take to support your freedoms and exercise them at the same time. Some of them will sound familiar, some will be new. They are ALL vitally important to the extent that your health and freedom are important.

Step 1: USE THE TOOL KIT
A. NUTRICIDE Watch “Nutricide” on Google Video and then get the “Nutricide: the DVD” and show it in your community. Make sure you send everyone you know this link and ask them to watch the video and then go to the Natural Solutions Foundation website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org.
B. CODEX eBOOK The Codex eBook applies the Natural Solutions Foundations’ Two Step Process (developed in conjunction with the Citizens Codex Working Group) which can protect countries from both the dangers of Codex and World Trade Organization trade sanctions for deviating from Codex has been applied to the dangerous and restrictive Vitamin and Mineral Guideline. Get the same information we present to Heads of State, Codex Delegates, Ministers of Health and other decision makers in this outstanding down-loadable eBook.
C. CODEX INFORMATION
Big Pharma and the other corporate friends of health fascism don’t want you to know what’s going on so there is a virtual black out on information about Codex. Natural Solutions Foundation wants you to have accurate, accessible and vital information. When you visit www.HealthFreedomUSA.org you will find a wealth of information for your use. Feel free to take the 5 minute Codex Tour, be sure to read “Nutricide: the Killing Fields of Codex“, download the one page Codex Flyer, visit the Resource Center, etc. You have my personal permission to use, share or reproduce these materials as long as you give full credit and a complete citation when you do. Email it, post it, blast it, just get the word out. The major media are not covering this issue so it’s up to you and me.

B. TAKE THE ACTION STEPS
Join the Citizens Petition and become part of the historic suit against the US Government against their illegal Codex policy on supplements. Nearly 40,000 other US Citizens have already signed the petition. Let your circle of influence know how important their signatures are and send them the link with your suggestion that they sign the Citizens Petition, too!
If you have not yet signed the Citizens Petition at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, do it now! You can automatically email it to us with the click of a button and we will take it from there.

Step 2: SIGN UP FOR EMAIL UPDATES
Make sure you are signed up for our secure (I.E., never sold, shared, loaded or rented), Natural Solutions Foundation eNewsletter (on our homepage, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org) and send the email blasts you receive from us to your entire circle of influence, too.

Step 3. ORGANICS4U: SUPPORT YOUR HEALTH AND YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM AT THE SAME TIME
Every time you make a purchase from our all-organic, doctor recommended store, Organics4U you are supporting the Natural Solutions Foundation, protecting your body. Organic foods and supplements do not expose you to the dangers and damage caused by pesticides, artificial colors, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, synthetic “supplements” or food and nutrients derived from dangerous genetically modified sources. Everything at the Organics4U shop has been verified by me personally to be organic, clean and wholesome. You can shop safely for yourself and your family.
More than that, though, you know that you are helping the Natural Solutions Foundation to fight for your freedom to have access to clean, unadulterated products like these. And, as a way of saying “thank you” for your support, the tax deductible portion of every portion (approximately 40%) comes back to you as a tax deduction to a charitable organization with a letter you can give to your tax adviser come tax time in a few months!

Step 4. DONATE
Your one time or recurring tax deductible donations make it possible for the Natural Solutions Foundation to keep on finding effective solutions to problems like Codex Alimentarius and other serious health freedom threats. You send us to Codex meetings, allow us to enlist lawyers and other experts who, like us, are willing to donate their time but have travel and other expenses associated with doing this work. You pay for our webmaster, and a host of other on-going expenses. What you do not pay for is salaries or retainers for our lawyers or for us: we donate 100% of our time to keeping your health freedom alive and well. We are endorsed by organizations like the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and the National Association of Nutrition Professionals among others.
We have no commercial support: our only constituency is you. We cannot continue to be uniquely effective and uniquely present at the right times and places without that support. Consider making a recurring gift so we know what our monthly income will be. But please make your donation right now.

Step 5. GET INVOLVED
People write to me at my new email address, dr.laibow@gmail.com, to tell me that they are eager to become involved. They can either become community organizers or, as often happens, they have wonderful talents and ideas for art auctions, dance and music fund raisers, lectures, health freedom t-shirts, tag sales, etc., etc. What would you like to do to support health freedom? We’ll help! Let’s make it happen.

We’ll be here in Bangkok working on some special projects for health freedom and international cooperation for a while, then off to India in about a month to follow up on the outstanding successes we have had there. In May we’ll be in Ottawa for the Codex Committee on Food Labeling, in Rome in July for the Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting (where Dr. Moshe is probably NOT going to roll out the red carpet for us. You get the picture. We are there, literally, for you. Tell me your particular way of being there for us and we’ll continue changing the world, and protecting our freedoms, together!

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

dr.laibow@gmail.com

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Article: NUTRICIDE: THE KILLING CAMPS OF CODEX ALIMENTARIUS

January 9th, 2007

Nutricide (noo trih side):

1. Intentionally bringing about our causing the death of a body of knowledge and information concerning the health promoting and curative attributes of herbs, food and food components
2. Intentionally bringing about our causing the death of large numbers of people through nutritional manipulation

Codex Alimentarius (the international food standard organization) and multinational corporation collusion together impair and gravely threaten world health. If Codex has its way, its deadly standards and guidelines will be implemented in the United States by 2010 significantly impairing the health and health prospects of all Americans, killing those with chronic illnesses who depend on therapeutic dose nutritional supplements for survival.

Read More … download the full PDF.

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Day 51-59: December 7-15, 2006

December 26th, 2006

Day 51: December 7, 2006
When we were last in Chennai meeting with the former pharmaceutical CEO who
is now an “expert believer” (my term for a highly skilled layman) in
traditional Indian herbal healing, we were given a contact name of a very
senior member of the Ministry of Health and asked to meet with him. He was
called by his friend who was serving as our go-between (even though it was
a Sunday) and he agreed to meet with us at a particular time Delhi. We had
missed the appointment because of the traffic between Mussoorie and Delhi
(NEVER, NEVER, NEVER DRIVE THAT ROAD. WE WERE TOLD THAT THERE IS A 4 LANE
BYPASS BUT NOT ONE OF OUR MANY DRIVERS EVER LOCATED IT. Instead, we
planned on the travel time the 4 lane road requires and found ourselves
stuck on the National 74, a major road to Hell because it is paved with the
good intentions of the drivers to take us to and from Delhi on the wide,
safe, well maintained National 1 road while we actually wind up on the bullock-cart, tractor, pedestrian, bicycle, auto, truck, bus, horse-drawn
carriage, donkey cart and miscellaneous transport road creeping along at a
pace that would frustrate the pokiest of snails while they choked in the
red dust of India’s winter months for close to 11 hours. The time on the
apparently mythical National 1 between Mussoorie and Delhi (or vice versa)?
Four hours.

Anyway, by the time we got to Delhi, there was no way whatsoever that we
could see the Ministerial personage. We called, though, and he kindly
agreed to see us later in the week, so the meeting will take place tomorrow.

Day 52 December 8, 2006
This time we got to the office of the senior Health Ministry person on
time. He was in a meeting so we waited for him to finish that meeting and
meet with us.

While we were waiting for him to finish his meeting, and were drinking the
requisite cup of tea proffered by the requisite-cup-of-tea person, we saw
that there was a copy of the India’s Declaration on the rights of mothers
and babies and the huge importance of actually moving forward to protect
them, not just taking about it. We agree. The 3 million babies lost to
poor nutrition a year and their mothers are inexcusable. We know enough,
we have enough and we are determined enough that we, as a world community,
should be providing high potency nutritional support to every pregnant
mother and every child who is challenged by under-nutrition. India’s
excellent new Food Safety and Standards law makes that possible, just as
DSHEA, the 1994 US statute which treats nutrients as foods, does. So
making these nutrients available in a high potency form, consistent with
the Natural Solutions Foundation’s International Decade of Nutrition
(inaugurated September 5, 2006) is a goal which can be achieved by a
determined health community and a determined government. Why should the
lives of babies and their mothers be compromised by cheap, easily available
and abundantly safe vitamins, minerals and other basic nutrients? There is
no reason whatsoever. None.

The International Decade of Nutrition’s High Potency Nutrient Feeding
programs can be carried out in compromised communities through excellent
documentation before and after the nutrient feeding programs to show the
ups and downs of high potency nutrient feeding: increased health, decreased
illness and mortality, increased productivity and quality of life,
decreased costs of health and/or illness care. All of this, of course,
would be made impossible under Codex if, for example, a country tried to
export high potency nutrients which violated the restrictive and dangerous
Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (ratified July 4, 2005, at the Rome meeting
of the Codex Alimentarius Commission).

India has taken up the process of protecting herself and her people at Step
2 of the two step process we show in the Codex eBook (available on the
Natural Solutions Foundation website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org). She now
can easily, through her regulatory structure of her new food law, perhaps,
carry out the first step and, we believe, become “WTO Sanction-Resistant”
on this issue. And what an issue it is. The cost of human under nutrition
can hardly be described here because it is so immense. Drugs, of course,
will never cure that, just as they do not cure the diseases that under
nutrition causes, nor, in the end, the death it causes, too. And no drug
ever cured suffering, although some suppress pain, both physical and
mental/emotional. The cost of such suppression is great economically,
medically and in human terms, too great, in fact, to bear in nearly every
case.

I was taught as a Psychiatry Resident that an operational definition of
neurosis is that when something does not work, the neurotic person keeps on
doing more of it. Hmmmm. What does this fixation on using drugs, which are
the single leading cause of death in the developed world, and which are
breaking the bank and leading to more and more illness and expense when
they are used instead of nutrition and common sense, look like, sound like,
smell like, cost like? Sure enough, it must be a duck!

Anyway, there we were waiting for the very senior Health Ministry person.
We told him why we were in India, told him how concerned we were with the
pending law there that would make acupuncture, acupressure,
electro-acupuncture, Pranic Healing, frequency medicine, etc., illegal to
teach or to practice in India. He listened very attentively and discussed
how we could maximize our impact on the Indian health and nutritional
situation. It was a great meeting and one that gave us a good deal of
valuable insight into both the opportunities and ways around some
roadblocks in India in order to achieve our goals of Optimal Health using
the arrows in our quiver and the new Indian Food Act.

Then, because he thought our information would be useful and that he could
provide useful information in return, he sent us off to meet the head of
AYUSH, India’s special division of the Department of Health which is
devoted to Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathic medicine.

As you probably know, while Ayurveda has its roots in the Hindu traditions,
Unani serves the Moslem community in much the same way and, like its better
known (at least in the West) counterpart, Unani is an herb and food based
system with great wisdom and highly educated and skilled practitioners
here. Siddha is focused on cure and health through yoga, meditation and
the connection between sprit, mind and body while Homeopathy, also well
known in the West (and under major attack in the EU because it is so
effective) is a very popular form of prevention and treatment here.

Interestingly, this very enthusiastic and educated gentleman, over the next
requisite cup of tea, defended the notion of restricting the practice of
non-allopathic medicine because the practitioners of AYUSH therapies all
went to school for a long time and they should not be economically or
professional undermined by people who do not have the same degrees,
credentials or union cards that they do.

It’s a familiar point, and one that is being exploited here by the
allopathic interests to narrow and control the field, divide and conquer.
Does that have a familiar ring? Doesn’t that sound a lot like the
process John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie engaged in prior to the
full-blown assault on every type of medicine that did not use drugs prior
to the put-up job called the Flexner Report in the early 20th Century
which said that only allopathic medicine should be allowed to exist.
Rapidly, all other forms of medicine were attacked and their practice
criminalized. You know, of course, that John D. Rockefeller owned the
total world output in petroleum at that time and, because he did not
believe that the internal combustion engine would every consume all of his
output, sought out another demand stream. He found it in Germany’s
pharmaceutical industry, focused at that time on drugs made from petroleum
(also called coal-tar derivatives) and set out to get rid of the
competition. How he did that includes the story of IG Farben and World War
II, but that is another story, about which there will be an article on the
website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, shortly.

Both the first and second encounters were good meetings because each was
highly informative, although we learned something different in each. We
can go back and talk to both gentlemen and probably will. We learned a lot
from them and introduced the Natural Solutions Foundation to them.

Later, we met with a former Bollywood actor turned healer who is doing some
interesting stuff integrating all the Indian and non-Indian religious
traditions with their corresponding healing traditions and then picking and
choosing from among their wisdoms to create a personalized frequency
response on a DVD for each person. Of course, that will be illegal here in
India if this new law passes.

Day 53 December 9, 2006
We decided to fly to Dehra Dun (30 minutes), the nearest town to Mussoorie
since we had to go back to further our discussions with the frequency
scientist there about deepening our work from interest to healing
technology. That’s the good news. The bad news is that there were no
tickets on either flight (there are two a day).

So we decided to take the train (3 hours or a 6 hour overnight sleeper).
We could book on line. That’s the good news. You can only do so if you
have an ICI card, which appears to be available only to residents and
citizens of India. We don’t have one. That’s the bad news. The travel
agencies and post offices that could have booked the tickets for us were
closed by the time we realized that the Indian Government’s Press Release
last January trumpeting the on-line availability of booking did not apply
to us. That was the even worse news.

The really bad news was that the only way to get back to Mussoorie was to
drive. Worse news? We drove. And the worst news of all is that, despite
vigorous verbal assurances that he knew the National 1 road and that he and
his car were licensed to drive on it, he did not and he was not.
Fifteen minutes shy of 11 hours later, we arrived at our destination in
Mussoorie.

Sigh.

Oh, by the way, the guest house we were booked into in the Himalayas was
unheated and there was no warm water there.

Even bigger sigh.

Day 54 December 10, 2006
Today was the birthday celebration of the frequency scientist/healer in
Mussoorie whom we had come to talk to and work with. Early in the day we
were taken to see the beauty spot of the region, a magnificent view of the
Snow Peaks of the Himalayas. We paid our 20 Rupees each to climb a
staircase (2 flights) to an observation deck with heavy duty binoculars
through which we could see the magnificence of the top of the world. We
could also see the highly aberrant HAARP array and the heavy Chemtrails in
the sky.

Climbing down the stairs we came back to the level at which the local lady
had collected our 20 Rs each and I took a photo. If I knew how to mount it
to show it to you, I would. It is a picture of the top of the world, the
snow peaks of the highest and remotest mountain range on earth in the far
distance and, in the foreground, a snack pack rack bearing an advertisement
for Frito Lay chips and packages and packages of them (made, I believe,
with GMO corn right here in the US) on the rack. It is quite a photo.

Later, we went on a drive to see another of the view spots of the universe:
this one a resort now in its down season. I won’t even begin to tell you
how terrified I was during the drive along the crests of mountains with
unguarded roads plunging into near vertical cliffs which went down
thousands of feet ON EITHER SIDE. Oh, by the way, the road was 1 lane and
the curves, which were mostly much more than 90 degrees and all blind, were
shared with fuel trucks, tour busses, SUVs, motor bikes, etc. The peaks
were glorious. My calf and knee muscles were in spasm from the reactive
terror flinch. I could barely peel my hands off the handle on the roof of
the car over the window in the back seat where we were sitting.

And then we had to get home for the Birthday Party. In the dark. Don’t
ask!

When we got back, and warmed up at the wood burning stove, we noted that
there was a tent on a patio on a lower level. It turned out to be for the
party. I have to tell you, this was the first time I ever attended a
birthday party outdoors in the Himalayas in December while it was raining,
hailing and, to some extent, snowing. But the warmth of the blazing love
of the people that the scientist/healer was treating and had treated was
blazing hot so the weather was meaningless. It was a palpable expression
of love and devotion like few that I have seen in my life.

Among the people there were some with genetic inborn errors of metabolism
who said that their genetic examinations were now normal. This healing
capacity is worth the drive if it can be substantiated.

Guest House Report: no towels, no hot water, no heat, and the breakfast
omelets was made with such an abundance of green chilies that I had to send
it back with tears streaming down my face from the first bite.

Day 55 December 11, 2006
After a walk in the town to buy one of the amazingly warm shawls which
serve as winter coats for men and women here (and which are as light as
cotton or, sometimes, silk although they are wool), we took a taxi back to
the house of the scientist. The conversation is highly significant but the
wood-burning stove reminds me that indoor pollution is one of the leading
causes of death in the developing world.

We deepened our talks about how to proceed with our research. Then down
the horrifying and dangerous road to Dehra Dun. And, to make things
complete, it snowed up on the mountain road so that getting back UP that
road was another level of terror that I, personally, had never experienced
before. Neither had the General and he has been in combat!

Think about it for a moment: we are talking about energy that can repair
genetic diseases. And I have seen the patients and the process here.
Energy that can repair a hole in a baby’s heart.
Energy that can reverse ALS. No drugs. Energy that can be delivered
through technology. No heat, terrifying drive vs. energy. No contest.
We’ll go to Mussoorie. Again.

Day 56 December 12, 2006
Mussoorie to Delhi (by road B complete with assurances that the driver
knew, was licensed to take, was in a car that was licensed to drive on, and
would choose the National Highway 1 to Delhi so that we could make the
flight to Chennai. HA!

We finally got to the Delhi airport and found that all our stress over
missing the flight was unnecessary: we did not depart until at least 4
hours after the scheduled time because of a Delhi winter delight: fog. So
we missed our dinner meeting in Chennai. Of course, we did get there,
which was a great up from hanging out in the Delhi domestic airport with no
planes flying, no seats, hardly any food, etc. You get the idea.

The hotel in Chennai has both hot water and air conditioning. Of course,
they had cancelled our reservation because we were late so we wound up
sharing a cottage: Lacey in the living room on a roll away bed and the
General and I in the bed room. Hey, we all had hot water and we were
happy. And clean. And cool. And dry. And off the damn road!

Day 57 December 13, 2006
We had series of meetings here about how to bring natural medicine to
India. They were exciting and highly productive with a really powerful
structure proposed which we will look into. You can understand that we
can=t talk about it yet. There is too much to explore, investigate and
formalize. But if you could design what you would like, it would look
quite a lot like this.

Lacey left after the meetings and my computer froze. Happily, one of the
people in the group here in Chennai is an IT guy so, despite my
forebodings, he was able to fix it up after about 6 hours of intensive work.

Then we went to the airport to take a flight back to New York. Nope. The
travel agent, our Indian IT friend and we had all misread the ticket. We
mistook the flight number for the time of departure. We got to the airport
to have the armed guard at the door to the departure terminal tell us that
we had missed the plane B it was gone, gone, gone.

Back to the hotel (since we were now in the middle of the night, checking
back in for a few hours of sleep.

Sigh.

Day 58 December 14, 2006
We had to check out by noon so we spent the day next to an outlet in the
wall in the very nice veggie restaurant, had lunch, dinner and did email
and this blog. This is really an internet café. Now we are eating dinner
(excellent home made tomato soup as I write this), I will go back on line,
send it to the blog site and say, see you in the US.

We have had stunning success and should be deeply encouraged to continue
our work. Don’t forget to go to our new store at
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/store to buy organic nutrients and other needs
while supporting us. And, speaking of support, we need your tax deductible
donations. You can do that on our site, too. Just go to
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and click on Donate, sign the Citizen’s Petition
while you are there and sign up for the secure email newsletter.

See you. We’re having a final meal here in India before we leave for home
early on December 5, 2006.

Day 59 December 15, 2006
Fly home, arrive home. I’ll let you know what happens.

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Days 33-40: November 28-December 5, 2006

December 5th, 2006

November 28, 2006

We had an astonishingly successful (and important) day yesterday in Delhi. Today we headed north to the foothills of the Himalayas for a meeting with a world-class frequency scientist and healer whom we had met last July through the good offices of a physician in Delhi whose hospital is using some of this gentleman’s technology to cure cancer successfully. When we met him before it was a great joy and the beginning of a working relationship. We were headed back to pursue this connection and to learn from him.

The car was booked for 6:30 AM but did not arrive until 7:30 AM. Off we went into a hideous traffic nightmare: the “rules of the road” are a meaningless construct and the dust, bullock carts, pollution, dangers of drivers coming in the other direction, etc., made the 10 hours we spent on the road more harrowing than I can recount.

So instead of getting there for lunch (6 hours) we got there in time for dinner.

Despite that, we found time to watch the healing process (astounding) and talk (even more astounding) while eating a phenomenal home-cooked dinner of local and Punjabi Indian food cooked by a lady with one of the sweetest faces I can remember seeing.

The people being healed included folks with Motor Neuron Disease (for example, ALS), diabetes type I (Insulin dependent), a child with a tiny head (microcephaly), cases of asthma, eczema, depression, violent discontrol and on and on and on. We saw some people who did not respond to a particular session and many, many who did. We also saw people with neurological and other devastating diseases get significantly better in one or two sessions although many of them needed to keep coming (and stayed to do so).

We know, and this remarkable scientist knows, that there are ways to get these effects with technology so that everyone in the world can access them. We also know that they will be illegal here in India if the new law pending now goes through: no “new” medicine will be allowed here: not acupuncture, pranic healing, music therapy, only AYUSH (Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathy), Naturopathy and Reiki and, of course, allopathic medicine will be legal to teach or practice. You can see the game clearly: get rid of the others and then attack the other included practices one by one. Does that give you an idea what is in the works in the US?

While there, we talked about the need to move the research forward which we want to do in common and the importance of making sure that Codex does not become the law of this land.

We stayed in a cold, but very clean, hotel in the village. No internet, of course.

November 29, 2006

Several hours of talking with the professor and his brother (also a professor, this time from Harvard University) about the research and devices we hope to build and we were off back to Delhi. At night. On the killer road.

We watched as the brother visiting from the US told the driver in the local language a shortcut which would take us to a superhighway which was faster and safer. “Ok, OK!” with the famous Indian sideways headwobble (which can mean yes, no, maybe or go away) to support it and we were off.

The driver had NO idea where the shortcut was and, in fact, about 45 minutes down the (harrowing) mountain switchback road (during which I literally screamed at the driver, “SLOW DOWN!!!!!”) We stopped to change cars (“The driver has no license for Delhi” and I asked the old driver to tell the new one about the short cut. Same “OK, OK”, same head wobble, this time from two drivers.

He had no idea whatsoever about any road or shortcut other than this one. The road was unlit, the drivers were clearly certifiably insane. We were driven off the road 7 times. One time, the first car passed us in the wrong direction, occupying our entire lane and 6 more cars followed right on his tail.

I have never been so frightened for so long in the company of 2 other terrified people in my life. Never.

Eventually, we got to a clean rest stop and had a much needed break. A family from the UK, although they were culturally Indian, sat at the next table and the mother of the family came over and asked us if we would like some help. “Yes, thank you”, we said and she helped us pick out dinner from the incomprehensible menu.

Rested, but reluctant to go back out into that terrifying experience, none the less, we did so. When we got to Delhi, the new driver had not even the faintest clue where our hotel was (“Yes, Ok, OK, I know where it is” — complete with head wobble) did not correspond with any kind of reality so we wandered around dark Delhi for a very long time.

When we got to the hotel we were staying in, there was the woman from the rest stop who helped us so nicely. She, it turns out, is a health activist, a UK ans Asian radio and print advocate for clean healthy food and all the other things we believe in so strongly. She is also a devote of a powerful and influential guru here in India so we wrote to him in the middle of the night. We also bonded.

You will be hearing more about our work together in the near future.

I stayed up all night getting our work together shaped while General Stubblebine was in our rooms the whole time I was downstairs. He was packing and getting ready to leave at 4:30AM to take another plane, this time to Chennai, on the SE coast of Southern India.

Day 30, November 30, 2005

Flight to Chennai. Arrival in Chennai, trip to hotel, dinner with IT (Information technology) guy from Chennai and arrangements for Monday’s experiment in Chennai. Sleep.

Day 31, December 1, 2005

We are working with one of the world’s great diabetologists. He and his doctor wife run a private health clinic for poor children. They give medicine to, feed (the whole family if necessary, clothe, pay school tuition, buy books, etc. nearly 600 children. Out of their own pocket with the help of a few friends. Anything that will help these children is what they want.

So we brought our equipment along and showed what we could do to the doctor and his associates when we used our equipment and what it could do for diabetic children. We then agreed upon a very small scale, very preliminary study on Monday coming to see what would happen if we used our technology on people who have the biological issues we characterize as “diabetes.”

Day 32, December 2, 3, 2006

We continued to get ready for the small experiment using technological means to control blood sugar. Saturday we had a visit from a rather amazing innovator who is creating energy-based devices for wellness based in ancient, modern and esoteric information. His presentation was very detailed and very impressive. We will meet him again in Delhi later this week to collaborate further.

Dinner on Saturday night was at the posh (and delicious) restaurant at the Park Hotel in Chennai with the diabetologist and his IT person (who is now our IT person). As it turns out, we need to acquire a more robust system to handle all of our new activity (such as the brand, spanking new internet website selling only pure, organic products which we will launch within the next couple of weeks, we anticipate).

On Sunday we were visited by a completely remarkable industrialist who believes what we do and is on our side. He does, however, have some serious medical problems which allopathic medicine could not cure and found that his childhood playmate, the noted diabetologist, was very important on putting him on the road to health.

Since he had already been to allopathic doctors of the conventional stripe, once he came to the diabetologist and learned that he was not, in fact, incurable and about to die, his whole framework of thought changed and his interest in methods other than allopathic medicine grew at a rapid pace until today he has a farm for organically grown Ayurveda medicinal herbs.

The industrialist came to our hotel room specifically to tell us about what Indian legal structures are the best choices for us so we can move foreward here in India. We listened very carefully, of course, and will follow his advice in the construction of a parallel organization here in India with the same goals and objectives as the Natural Solutions Foundation “mother ship”. A lot of passionate brainstorming took place, you can be sure.

He left after giving us the information: we tried to absorb it all and see how we fit with the legal structure we were told is going to be the best for us to use here in India.

Of course we did not go to the same hotel for dinner on Sunday as on Saturday. When we met with the diabetologist for dinner on Sunday at the famed Gymkhana Club in Chennai we had lovely, lovely food and equally delightful ambiance and company. What we talked most about, of course, was health freedom and health innovation so the food supported the conversation and the quality of the conversation was supported by the excellence of the dinner!

No internet, by the way, in the Chennai hotel except for peculiar spots at weird times using cards that we could not get and did not work when we could. For those of you who have been trying to reach me by email please be patient. We are trying to dig out from under nearly 3000 emails!

Day 33, December 4, 2006

Today we arrived at the diabetes clinic and tested 4 patients using blood glucose meters to determine their fasting blood sugars, then giving them energy input to correct their blood sugar levels, testing again with the glucose meters and repeating the process as their condition warranted. The results were very interesting: there was no question that we impacted their blood sugars using the energy. There was also no question that we were interacting with the liver as well as their pancreas, which will make perfect sense to those of you who are involved with the physiology of diabetes which is a much more profound disease than simply a sugar dis-regulation one. The results that we got suggested strongly that more clinical work is needed and that the possibilities of energy regulation, as opposed to drug regulation, is a very real one. A real one, that is, which will take some work to develop.

Now I want to remind you that there is a law pending which would make this type of intervention illegal here in India. How different is that from the innovation-hostile position of the FDA toward anything which does not serve its pharmaceutical masters? Not very.

Day 34, December 5, 2006

Early in the morning we had breakfast and left for the Chennai airport to come to Delhi. Of course, we had fixed and appointment for noon with a very important man in government and our plane tickets got changed: we missed the appointment. Happily, the man who made it and another person were calling frantically on our behalf to let him know that we would not make the meeting today.

When we got to the Delhi airport, there was a car arranged for us with a sign saying “Dr. Rima” to take us to the lovely hotel that had been booked by the inventor of the wellness device. We called the important man whose meeting we missed and he graciously gave us another appointment time. Then we hooked up with the inventor who was here in Delhi to serve as a critic in a film festival on the disabled in India.

It is a very impressive festival, indeed, and it looks like I may be given the opportunity to make a brief (+/- 5 min?) address to the press and the dignitaries tomorrow on health freedom. YES! Let’s hope so.

Then dinner (“Octopus Oriental” — that is really its name!) and on to the computer!

I’ll keep you posted as we go, now that we have email and internet!

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