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The Future is (Almost) Now

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

Bill 05130. That number should scare you witless. Don’t go looking for it in the Library of Congress legislative site. You won’t find it there. But if you search Australia’s pending legislation and find it, you are looking at what WILL happen here in the US if we do not mount the most effective grass roots campaign in history.

Here is what Bill 05130 will do if passed (and it has had 1 reading in the Australian Parliament so far):
A 5 year jail term for anyone using, importing or providing anything not approved by the TGA (Australian FDA).
A 5 year jail term for anyone using, importing or providing any food like substance, even if it has a history of use by people for health purposes, which is not approved by the TGA (Australian FDA).
A long time health activist, when I was explaining about Codex Alimentarius, who is well into her 70’s, shrugged and said as I was telling her about the prohibition on nutrients at effective doses, “Well, we will always have veterinary medicine. I am not worried since I can always get what I need from that direction even if it is illegal!” True. But if Australian-style “health freedom” comes to visit our fair shores, this nice little old lady will be wearing prison lingerie and an orange jump suit.
Australia’s TGA and our own FDA (and, most importantly, the people and industries pulling the strings) have no commitment to health and no love of freedom. You and I do, of course, but unless we make up with audibility of our opinions what we lack in dollars for lobbying and marketing, we will follow Australia into the arid and deadly wasteland of preventable suffering and premature death because of toxic food and a total ban on immune-supporting and life giving legal nutritional supplements and herbs.
SHAME ON THEM! IS BIG PHARMA SO GREEDY THAT THERE IS ONLY ENOUGH PIE FOR HER SO EVERYONE ELSE STARVES TO DEATH! SHAME ON THEM!
Can’t happen here? Why not? Because you and I won’t let it happen here! Nothing but an activated and outspoken grass roots movement can stop this runaway waggon.
So here are the steps which urgently need to be taken by you and then passed on to others:
1. Start a meetup and use it to grow the grassroots. You can let people know you are organizing a meetup and they can use the meetup link to find you. Need help? Email me at info@healthfreedomusa.org
2. Tell Congress to attend the Codex Briefing on September 20, Room 2220 Rayburn. Most members of Congress have no clue about Codex. We’ll let them know what Codex is really all about.
3. Please give generously. If you have, thanks. We are approaching the half way mark in our 30 day fundraiser and we have not yet made 50% of our goal. Please make it possible to keep fighting for your health and your health
freedom.
4. Send out emails to everyone you know and direct them to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org ask them to join the mailing list.
Listen! Can’t you hear the sound of the grass [roots] growing by the hour? I can! I feel like a gardener!
Yours in health and the freedom to make things grown,
Dr. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

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Biotech Bullies I

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Freedom. It’s a beautiful word, isn’t it?

How about Monsanto? Is that a beautiful word?

And what happens when you bump Monsanto up against Freedom? Well, if you are in North Carolina, Monsanto flattens Freedom just about like the Road Runner got flattened by a steam roller in the old cartoons. Only the Road Runner popped back up again, because it was only make believe. This is all too real.

“Monsanto Laws” have been passed in 15 states which make it illegal for counties to ban the use of genetically modified foods . That’s right. Freedom just got squashed flat as a pancake. Farmers who want to protect their crops from degradation and contamination may not do so in 15 states.

Why do they want to? Well, for one reason, because if you are a farmer growing non GMO crops and Monsanto detects GOM pollinated plants on your farm, they will sue you and, if 500 cases are any indication, they will win. Your crime? Infringing on Monsanto’s “intellectual property” which blew onto your farm without your knowledge or consent.

Of course, if you are an organic farmer, you have additional problems. You can’t protect yourself by concerted community action and according to Laurel Hopwood of the Sierra Club,
“What’s unfortunate for farmers, especially organic farmers, is that pollen can move from place to place, so the spread of GMO gene traits is inevitable.” Hopwood adds, “What’s different about this form of pollution from any other form of pollution is that it’s alive. These new life forms multiply, spread, and cannot be recalled. … Not only are organic farmers not allowed to call their crop ‘organic’ when it becomes contaminated, but
also farmers can’t sell their crops overseas where GMOs are not accepted.”

Oh, by the way, there is a proposal in California, SB 1056, introduced by Dean Florez that would effectively remove a community’s control over its food supply. In part SB 1056 states “no ordinance or regulation of any
political subdivision may prohibit or in any way attempt to regulate any matter relating to the registration, labeling, sale, storage, transportation, distribution, notification of use, or use of field crops.”

That doesn’t sound very exciting until you realize that it says that all meaningful discourse and debate about GMO foods by local communities will be forbidden in California if this bill passes. This is what I call a legal dum-dum bullet: like a real dum-dum bullet which is scored on the tip to explode inside its target, this one sounds pretty ho-hum but, if passes, it will dovetail with the preemptive legislation States are falling all over themselves to pass which prohibits communities from protecting themselves or their crops and explode right in the belly of food freedom. Oh, yes, no government agency has ever conducted long-term meaningful GMO feeding studies to make sure that the information Big Biotechna puts out to assure us that GMOs are safe bears any resemblance to reality.

But California wants to join the other 15 States which will compel communities to plant what they are told and allow their fields to be contaminated as pollen drifts across their land without comment or complaint. Freedom? Lady Liberty? Have you seen her? Isn’t she that smudge on the road where the big truck with “Monsanto” painted across it just passed?

But GMOs are safe, aren’t they? Are they? In the EU, the dangers of Mon 863, a genetically modified corn, came to light only after a German court ordered Monsanto to reveal the data from a 90 day rat feeding study earlier this summer. Jeffrey Smith, author of “Seeds of Deception” wrote on August 27, 2005, “Rats fed Mon 863 developed several reactions, including those typically found with allergies (increased basophils), in response to infections, toxins and various diseases including cancer (increased lymphocytes and white blood cells), and in the presence of anemia (decreased reticulocyte count) and blood pressure problems (decreased kidney weights). There were also increased blood sugar levels, kidney inflammation, liver and kidney lesions, and other changes. According to top research biologist Arpad Pusztai, who was commissioned by the German government to evaluate the study in 2004, based on the evidence no one can say that Mon 863 will cause cancer or allergies or anything specific. The results are preliminary and must be followed-up to rule these out. He warns, however, “It is almost impossible to imagine that major lesions in important organs. . . . or changes in blood parameters. . . . that occurred in GM maize-fed rats, is incidental and due to simple biological variability.”

Dr. Pusztai was forced to sue the French government in order to be able to discuss his highly disturbing findings.

We’ll be taking more about this case tomorrow. In the meantime, give some thought to what it would take to shift to a diet that did not have GMOs in it if you were so inclined. Please share your thoughts by commenting on this blog.

Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

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Codex’s Smoking Gun

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Codex Allows Seven Deadly Pesticides Banned by Stockholm Convention and US Law

A smoking gun in the hand of an enraged man who is looking down at the inert corpse bleeding at his feet is the next best evidence to actually seeing the perpetrator pull the trigger. All of us who understand Codex as a threat (rather than the supposed “consumer protection” creature its apologists claim that it is) know that Codex is a sandbox in which the multinational corporations play their greed need games with no concern for the well-being of those who will pay the price in every coin. Those of use without our own illegal cattle, milk and supplements farms and factories will have no choice but to eat the food Codex has adulterated. We won’t have the nutrients we need when our natural health choices have disappeared because Codex has “protected” us from the “toxic nutrients” we used to take to keep our selves healthy.

What would you say if I told you that I had found Codex’s smoking gun, Codex’s dirtiest secret which is so foul that it makes clear just how far from a consumer protection system Codex is? Consumer protection like the Turks had in 1954-59 when they ate food grown from seeds containing Hexachlorobenzene and 95% of the children who were exposed in the womb died? Or protection like older people got when 14% of them died from the poison. Well, guess what! Hexachlorobenzene is but one of the seven deadly toxins Codex will let the Big Chema poison you with.

Well, we found the smoking gun. But how many consumers must it kill before we take the gun out of the madman’s hand?

If you are like me, you would both rejoice and come close to speechless frustration and outrage at the same time. How could “they” do this? What are they thinking” Where do they think they will raise their grandchildren?

Click here for Codex’s dirty secret: Codex permits 7 of the 9 most deadly chemicals known, all of which are illegal in the US and all of which have been banned by every member of Codex from being used anywhere on the planet.

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants agreed upon a list of the 12 most poisonous chemicals in the world and 176 countries banned them. The US banned them, too. But Codex has a better idea (Smoking gun coming right up). Instead of protecting consumers, Codex says, “Let’s set dangerous pesticide and real toxic residue levels really, really high and let’s pretend that nutrients are toxins (so we can “protect” consumers from food without them, of course) and, best of all, [cock the trigger back: smoke coming up], we will, despite a global ban on the worst chemicals possible, will ignore all of that and pull the trigger!”

“We, Codex, will allow seven of the nine deadliest, nearly universally banned, pesticides known to human kind to be used on your foods! Allow us to protect you, dear consumer, at the point of a smoking gun!”

If we let our Congress know that we are on to Codex and the multinational corporations that are driving Codex and, in fact, pulling the trigger on the smoking gun, we can change the course of history and avoid eating foods poisoned with the seven deadly pesticides.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Laibow
Medical Director

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We Must Be Doing Something Right!

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

When you clean out the pig sty you are going to get mud on your clothes. The Natural Solutions Foundation has taken strong public positions to clean out some of the biggest, richest, strongest, dirtiest pig sties in the world. These sties have their own publicists and spin-meisters and we have all seen what they can do when the want you to believe something that is good for them, whether it is true or not. It’s called “propaganda” or “spin” or “lies” or “disinformation” or just plain “advertising”.

Let’s go back a few months: the President of the Natural Solutions Foundation, Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine was shocked to learn from the savage attack email of a supposed health freedom activist that he had been featured as a person who had a bunch of irrational beliefs (that he could walk through walls, for example) in a book whose author claimed to have interviewed him. Neither one was true. No walls, no interviews.

He was also identified as being things like a witch and a CIA agent. Again, not true.

(In fact, in Rome, yet another supposed health freedom activist advised people against having their picture taken with us since we were, you know, all those bad things and more!) That’s how rumor and innuendo works: spread it and watch it multiply itself into more and more absurd character assassination.

Then there was the Playboy article repeating the same untruth: I was really amused: my 75 year old husband made it to Playboy! You would think they would have given him the centerfold but, alas, they did not which showed what poor judgment they have. What they did was repeat a the lies the first guy had cooked up with an astonishing lack of fact-checking. They claim that they did fact-check but they got the facts wrong so I’d say they have a little fact problem since they published a passel of lies. The whole thing was still nonsense whether it was in a glossy chick pic mag or not.

Today, though, things got even weirder. The Executive Intelligence Review published Cheney’s ‘Spoon-Benders’ Pushing Nuclear Armageddon which makes you ponder the middle word in the magazine’s title.

In this one, somebody took the information in the book and Playboy article (still wrong) and added a bunch of incorrect assertions and some historical facts and some stuff about 9/11, put them in the intellectual blender and came out with the most astonishing nonsense yet.

Bert, who retired from the Military in 1984 and whose clearances expired when he left defense contracting about 7 years later (1991), and has had zero contact with that world since then, winds up in the article’s mish mash of illogic and is tied up with Cheney, exploding mutilated goats’ hearts, Nuclear Armageddon, The First Earth Battalion, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, torture, 9/11 and international terrorism!

And all that with not a single security clearance or one minute of contact with any one in a position to influence any of those things in 14 years!

Wow! What a guy!

What the publication of these articles and books says to him (and to me, too) is that somebody wants him, and through him, the Natural Solutions Foundation, besmirched and marginalized. So, while he is investigating the possibility of some pretty significant law suits against some pretty major companies and a number of individuals, we are also watching with interest (and some wry amusement) to see what nonsense is next. You know it’s coming, of course.

And we know, too, that the “irrationalists” will pick it up and sling it around. Repetition does not make anything more true if it was wrong the first time. And this stuff was really, really wrong the first (and second and every) time.

Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

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Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics and Medical Journals

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

This week the British Medical Journal published a study which reported that older people don’t benefit from taking a nutritional supplement. A few months ago, the same journal published another study that reported Multivitamins Won’t Ward Off Infection in Elderly – Senior Health, Aging and Elder Care Health Conditions Show No Decrease in Infection among the elderly who took supplements. Another articles in The Lancet and the British Medical Journal trumpets supplements don’t reduce the risk of fracture in the elderly. And David Bender graced the pages of the British Medical Journal with an editorial incorrectly asserting that we have no biomarkers for optimal health and that there is no point to a daily multivitamin for the elderly.

Years ago someone who knew a lot about a lot said, “The answer has to make sense”. So does this make sense? Nope! No sense at all. Well, then, what’s wrong with this picture? These are reputable journals, right? Peer reviewed, right? So the articles must be real science, right? Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Here’s what’s wrong. The study on infection used a vitamin pill with values so low that they match what we can expect in Codex’s standards. And they had, as they are designed to have, no effect on keeping people healthy as they were intended not to have. Here are the nutrient contents of the supplement in the infection study with the amount that I take of each substance on a health-promotion basis in bold for comparison:

800 µg vitamin A (acetate) REL: 50,000 µg , 60 mg vitamin C REL:6,000 mg, 5 µg vitamin D3 REL:6,000 µg, 10 mg vitamin E (D, L-{alpha} tocopheryl acetate) REL:1,200 IU mixed tocopherols, 1.4 mg thiamin (mononitrate)REL:100 mg, 1.6 mg riboflavinREL:100 mg, 18 mg niacin (nicotinamide)REL:1000 mg, 6 mg pantothenic acid (calcium D-pantothenate)REL:400 mg, 2 mg pyridoxine (hydrochloride)REL:50 mg, 1 µg vitamin B12, REL:1000 µg , 200 µg folic acidREL:25,000 µg, 14 mg iron (fumurate) REL:0 mg, 150 µg iodine (potassium iodide)REL:150 µg, 0.75 mg copper (gluconate)REL:1 mg, 15 mg zinc (oxide)REL:25 mg, and 1 mg manganese (sulphate)REL:10 mg. The doses I take are those that I typically recommend for a health adult who wants to stay that way. I take 100 times as much Vitamin C, 1200 times the Vitamin D, 55.5 times as much niacin, and 25,000 times as much folic acid as test subjects recieved. So what the authors are actually testing is pretty close to the the Risk Assessment values which Coydex wants make the universal standard. Risk Assessment, you will remember, is a branch of toxicology and the Risk Assessment values of Vitamins and Minerals are those which are chosen because they have no effect on any human being! So of course they did not show an impact. DUH!

So guess what, here it is, hot off the press: Ultra low dose nutrients actually don’t work! But wait: what’s this? Buried deep in the study is the following fascinating set of statements: “Our participants were similar in age and place of residence to those studied in a previous, disputed trial that reported beneficial effects from supplementation…. Unlike our trial, the supplement used in the previous trial had four times the levels of vitamin E and vitamin B12 and also contained selenium, magnesium, calcium, and {beta} carotene. (emphasis added) ….Supplementation, especially of trace elements, has been shown to reduce infections in older people in nursing care with higher levels of nutritional deficiency….We cannot exclude the possibility that the intakes provided in the supplement were inadequate to affect the immune system.

These nutrient levels were either carefully chosen to show no impact (which is highly unethical considering the impact on human health and well-being if therapeutic dosages of these nutrients had been given) or the authors are astonishingly incompetence scientists who committed a large number of subjects, scientist hours, journal pages, etc., to experiments designed by nincompoops. If the latter is the case, then the peer reviewers and all the department chairmen involved were nincompoops, too. And while I have seen my share of academic nincompoops, I don’t think that is the explanation here. Remember, the answer has to make sense.

No, I believe these articles are part of the poison press against safe, simple, effective and non toxic health choices.

So I have a couple of questions about these studies (which are questions I always ask): Who funded these studies? Who wrote the articles? The principle author or a ghost writer? What are the financial interests of the authors in the outcomes of the studies? Who chose the level of nutrients to be tested and upon what basis?

And, most important, why did these well educated people want to perform studies that “show” nutrients have no value so badly that they shamed themselves in front of anyone who understands biochemistry, scientific methodology or medical ethics?

I guess I would feel better if they were nincompoops.

Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

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