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The Controversy Continues: S.510 – the Fake “Food Safety” Bill Bullet Points

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.HealthFreedomPortal.org
The Voice of Health and Food Freedom™
“FDA Food Safety Modernization Act”
Fake “Food Safety” Bill (S.510 – HR.4739) Threatens Family Farms and More…
Over 1,000,000 Citizen Petition Emails to Congress and the White House say “NO!”
Action Item & Information: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6269

Direct Action Link: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

Updated Bullet Points: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6910

Earlier Bullet Points:

1. The House passed the so-called “Food Safety” bill, HR 4739 in July 2009, sending it to the Senate where it is being considered as S.510. The HELP committee “marked-up” the bill in November 2009 and the Manager’s Amendments were offered at the beginning of April 2010; sent to the Floor as the Senate went into recess at the end of August 2010. Scheduled to pass in September 2010. This bill remains controversial.

2. The “Manager’s Amendments” do not satisfy the Citizens Petition which demands:

“Rule of Interpretation – No provision of this act shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home, home-business, homestead, home or community gardens, small farm, organic or natural agricultural activity, (b) to any family farm or ranch, or (c) to any natural or organic food product, including dietary supplements regulated under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.”

3. The bill as written threatens small farm, home, local/organic and community food production with onerous rules that, while perhaps appropriate for industrialized food production, will create impossible “barriers against entry” that will rapidly destroy such local and natural production. No protective language is included in the Senate bill that satisfies these concerns.

4. As an example of the type of controls imposed, Section 106 provides in part for the regulations issued to be kept secret from the public, “In the interest of national security, the Secretary … may determine the time and manner in which the guidance documents issued under paragraph (1) are made public…”

5. The bill as written, in effect, incorporates the “HARMonization” provisions of the discredited “Dietary Supplement Safety Act” S.3002 and actually calls upon the FDA to recommend harmonization of American nutritional freedoms with Codex Alimentarius’ restrictions [Section 306(c)(5)].

6. Section 404: “Nothing in this Act… shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with… any …treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.

7. Section 306(c)(5): “Recommendations on whether and how to harmonize requirements under the Codex Alimentarius.”

8. Cost of Program: Section 401, $825,000,000 in the first year.

9. Recommended: this bill is highly controversial; Senators: keep a “Hold” on this bill.

Respectfully submitted:
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army Ret) – President
Rima E. Laibow MD – Medical Director
Ralph FucetolaJD – Counsel

Rev. 08.29.10

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Action eAlert: Push Back S.510 NOW or “Forget about it!”

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Natural Solutions Foundation
The Voice of Global Health & Food Freedom™
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August 28, 2010

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AMERICANS: PUSH BACK NOW OR
SAY “GOODBYE” TO FOOD FREEDOM!

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Viral Video: Dr. Rima on Stopping S.510
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NEW News

Keep S. 510 from controlling our Food and Our Lives! Click here:

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Dr. Rima on Stopping S.510
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHUeyD_KCrI&feature=player_embedded

They say “no person’s life, property or liberty are safe when Congress is in session…” and to that we must add, nor is our right to grow and use our own food, as families and communities. We are happy to report that some of our friends in the Freedom Movement, including Citizens for Health and Downsize DC have joined in S.510 Push Back, also setting-up S.510 Action Items urging their supporters to message the US Senate. We applaude their efforts and remind everyone that we need hundreds of thousands of emails flooding the Senate if we are to keep our Food Freedom! Please help by widely forwarding this eblast and Dr. Rima’s hard-hitting S.510 video~

For more than a year, the plan to capture – and kill – clean, local, organic, independent and safe farming has been wending its way through Congress, supported by the party in control of the White House and Congress, as well as the too-big-to-fail AgraBiz industry.

Last year, the devastating HR 1279 passed the House, although working with patriots like Ron Paul, We the People put up a good battle, delaying it for quite a while. However, at the end of the day, a good battle followed by a loss is still a loss.

Then the field of battle shifted to the US Senate’s version, S.510, where we’ve held the forces of Big Agra and Big Govt at bay for nearly a year…

During one memorable weekend in November 2009 over 150,000 emails to Senators tied the bill up in the HELP committee with its chairman, Senator Tom Harkin remarking about the “thousands” of emails. He promised that the (sic) food safety bill would not impose Codex Alimentarius restrictions in the USA.

We didn’t believe him and when, in February, Senator McCain introduced the “companion” so-called “dietary supplement safety” bill, S.3002, we mobilized the Health Freedom “Mouse Warriors” and in one month and one day, and several hundred thousand emails, later the Senator was forced to withdraw support for his own bill, opining (and whining) that its major points could be covered by (hiss, hiss…) S.510!

Then in mid-July, the congressional majority leadership issued its “short list” of bills it wanted to push to passage before the August recess. The good news was: S.510 was not on the list!

The bad news is that the bill’s handlers could “sneak it through” the Senate as a “unanimous consent” non-controversial matter when the Senate returns in September!

That is, unless opposing Senators put a “hold” on the bill, which means it cannot be treated as non-controversial. On the way to recess, the Senate HELP committee reported the bill out, without the amendment from Senator Tester that would have offered a bit of protection to family farms and ranches, home and community gardens, farmers markets…

Please send the Action Item below to your Senators, demanding that the “hold” the bill! How does a Senator do that? The Senator has one of his or her staff members call the staff of the Senate Cloak Room (yes, there still is a Senate Cloak Room, but now it has a staff! Ah, bureaucracy! The staff is responsible for non-controversial, unanimous consent bills. That’s where this bad bill stops!


Health Freedom USA Trustees’ Board Meeting
Estimate of Situation…

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6269

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Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvdHcazFms
 Part 2: 
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The Doctor is In…
The Grand Opening of the Dr. Rima Institute
At the Natural Solutions Center

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6069


Important New Blogs & Webinar Events:

A Lesson in Political Perfidity: S.510
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6300

Food Freedom eJournal Issue #2
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6431

Why Health Freedom IS Your Problem
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6292

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Scheduled Date: September 19, 2010, NYC Area
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[2] We also present two important no-cost (to you!)
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URGENT PLEA FOR CODEX PUSH BACK
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Codex is about supression, repression, and death.

But there are other international organizations steadfastly working for food freedom, for health and for life.

Codex Push Back working on the international level; due to our work and your support, various countries and associations are becoming activated to protect safe food AND keeping America’s food safe needs just such a global effort since our food has been internationalized… Now, the international community is taking us seriously, with a growing movement for Safe Food Push Back!

No fake “food safety” bill can hide the fact that America’s food is not safe; effective Global Codex Push Back mean safer food on your plate!

Consider that we have been invited by the Panama government to participate in the Food Fair in Santiago de Panama this week, presenting our BeyondOrganic concepts to the President of the Republci (who owns the largest food store chain in the country) and we will also be representing the Panamanian authorities and the Panama Organics Producers Association at the Peru Latin American and Caribbean Food Production meeting in early September, and then, travelling for Health and Food Freedom again, in Serbia later in September (for an Int’l Safe Food Meeting).

Additionally, Natural Solutions Foundation attends several Codex meetings each year for you. 

Well, now we have multiple opportunities to attend international meetings as the representatives of you, our net roots constitunecy! This is a significant opportunity to raise our international profile to protect your internationalized food supply!

The Natural Solutions Foundation is now the International Arm of the Association of Organic Producers of Panama (APAO) and, at the request of the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MIDA) and APAO, we will be attending an important international meeting in Peru in a few weeks as their representatives and as your representative!

If you make this possible.

Panama and its 1000 organic growers have zero budget for this activity.  That is why, despite their strong interest, they have not been able to move forward with these sorts of initiatives.

Until now.  Until the Natural Solutions Foundation and the Valley fo the Moon Eco Demonstration Project came into their lives and they came into ours…

This is the significant anti-Codex opportunity we know we need.

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Is your committment strong enough and real enough to pledge enough money to make it possible for your voice to ring loud on the international scene and create the dynamic to overturn, reverse and reform Codex berfore it kills us?

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S. 510: A Lesson in Political Perfidy – And It Could Kill You

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

Natural Solutions Foundation
The Voice of Global Health Freedom™

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Permalink: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6300

This is about resources: manpower, financial resources and the strength to keep fighting. Please donate here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189, to keep health freedom strong.

Action Item: Tell the Senate: “NO!” – http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613


Dr. Laibow: Stop S.510 Now!

S. 510, the fake “Food Safety” Bill, is a lesson in the politics of persistence and perfidy.

For more than a year, the plan to capture – and kill – clean, local, organic, independent and safe farming has been wending its way through Congress. Last year, the devastating HR 1279 passed although we put up a good battle, delaying it for quite a while.  However, at the end of the day, a good battle followed by a loss is still a loss.

We lost the clean food battle in the House.

The battle ground then shifted to the Senate.  Remember, the Uber Cartel, which includes Big Agra, Big Chema, Big Biotech and, behind them all, Big Pharma and its malignant sister, Big Oil, has endless money for lobbyists, propaganda, back-door dealings and other well-financed pressure tactics like Codex Alimentarius, for example.

For examples of corruption, we have only to look at the current Congressional probe of the Uber Cartel Pharma Phamily corruption, bribing and buying their way into national policy around the world through filling personal coffers of regulators and politicians.  If you think that is limited to foreign countries, guess again.

So the fact that we, the Natural Solutions Foundation net roots and those who have joined us in this clean food battle, following our lead and bringing their constituencies into the fray, have held off the passage of the bill that some have called “Monsanto’s wet dream Bill” since last November, when unanimous Senate agreement on its passage was reached is nothing short of miraculous.

Miraculous and, if we falter now, totally meaningless.

Once we pushed it back in November, the Uber Cartel was unable to move it forward: there were too many of us who got the picture, understood the game and comprehended what the cost would be to our health and our freedom if we did not succeed in killing this bill before it, literally, killed us.

Now we are met on the battle field of clean food again.  In mid April S 510 was once again the subject of unanimous agreement and was to be voted upon the following week. Our inside sources shared that information with us and we rose up in our collective power, sending so many emails to Congress, and activating so many Washington forces that the bill went into limbo again.

Later, as the Senate was winding up its session before summer recess, we realized that the plan was to ram it through as a “noncontroversial” bill, which would then be passed by “unanimous Congressional Consent” since no one had anything to say about it.

Well, we used the Senate rules against this bill and asked you to demand of your Senators that they put a hold on S. 510 by calling the Senate Cloak Room (yes, you read that right!) and demanding that the bill not go up for a unanimous consent approval.

Again, we prevailed and the US Senate broke for its 2010 summer recess without voting on the bill.

Enter villains gnashing teeth and twirling mustaches.

S. 510, the fake “Food Safety Bill”, is of enormous importance to the globalist genocidalists.  They want it passed.  Senators who are either their dupes or their bed mates are willing to do their bidding IF, and only IF, they can do so out of the light of public awareness.  They want to do their masters’ bidding without being tarred with the same brush of filth as their masters.
We, you and I, are here to make sure that they are publicly exposed and publicly notified by vast numbers of us that their doings are very, very public and that their constituents, you and I, are holding them personally, and professionally, accountable for their actions.

It is urgently important that the eaters of the US join together, whether we are male or females, young or old, single or married, Christian or Jew or Jain or Muslim or atheist or Hindu, parents or childless persons, unite behind this issue.

Click the NEW Action Item here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613, whether you have taken action on this item or not.  Then I urge you to become the flaming sword of dissemination and freedom through your email work.  There is no one who does not eat. There is no one who is not impacted by the quality of the food that they eat.  There is no one who, no matter what the choices that they actually make might be, does not want the RIGHT to choose clean, unadulterated food if they want to.

What’s at stake?

1. No seed saving without vast expenditures because seeds could be a terrorist weapon!  What’s really going on here?  Biotech companies want to control the world’s food access and sell ONLY their own chemical dependent seeds.

2. All seed prices, already consuming more than 1/3 of all farmers’ expenditures, will be controlled by the Uber Cartel.

3. Organic, clean, local, personal farming would still be allowed IF Codex standards and guidelines were followed. These include irradiation, chemical use and other highly dangerous, expensive and unacceptable practices for clean food consumers (those of us recently identified by the captive organization called the American Psychiatric Association as suffering from “Orthorexia”, as psychiatric disorder in which people are concerned with the quality of the food they eat!).

4. Growing personal or local food without the taxes and controls inherent in this bill will become criminal acts.

5. Record keeping will be so burdensome, and the fines for not complying, that most small, family, organic and biodynamic farmers will cease to produce food for themselves or you.

6. Supplements (attacked by Senator McCain in a bill which was ‘absorbed’ into S. 510) will be attacked even more strongly than they currently are since, as foods, they, too, will have to meet the “standards” imposed by S. 510 despite the fact that they are among the most highly regulated foods in the country AND the safest.

7. Health will decline as more chemicals are used by farms, more toxic effluent enters the environment, less nutritious food is available, more chemical contamination is permitted, even more food is irradiated and high potency supplements disappear.  The diseases of under nutrition, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity, already epidemic, will sky rocket, along with the endless human suffering which accompany them.

8. Raw milk will be a thing of the past.

9. Freedom, like raw milk, will be a memory of what we used to be able to access.

In case you haven’t heard already, Speaker Pelosi called my colleagues and me back from the August recess on Tuesday to vote on more government spending.  This one comes in the form of a bailout package to help states cover the costs for education and Medicaid to the tune of $26 billion.  And here I thought the American public would finally get some reprieve from the voracious spending appetite of liberal Democrats in Washington, DC.

It should come as no surprise for you to know that I voted against this bill.  Not only does it spend money that we don’t have, but it perpetuates the bailout culture that has become so popular with Democrats in Congress.  Also, but the so-called spending “offsets” in the bill came in the form of a $10 billion tax increase on corporations.

Democrats would like you to believe that spending this additional $26 billion will somehow create jobs, spur economic growth and expand individual opportunity for Americans.  The truth is that this latest bailout is really just a give-away to state bureaucrats at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.  Another short-term federal bailout will only encourage states to rely on more taxpayer funded federal assistance rather than balancing their budgets and reducing unneeded spending.
Now is the time to act. Tomorrow may well be too late.

Single voices are good. Multipliers of many thousands makes our voices count – powerfully.

And… voices backed by resources are the most powerful of all!

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Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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Why the “Not My Problem” Error Could Kill You

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

Natural Solutions Foundation
The Voice of Global Health Freedom(TM)

www.HealthFreedomUSA.org www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

Permalink: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6292

Lynn McTaggert publishes the interesting UK-based “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” newsletter and materials. We have never met but I read her material and hope that she reads ours.

Recently I read a heartfelt plea by Ms. McTaggert crying out for someone, anyone, to understand that health freedom and the restrictions of nutrients and natural health options (to which, of course, I would add both food and the right to refuse or use any treatment you wish), when under attack, IS their problem.

In 2002, when Ms. McTaggert saw what was going to happen to natural health options in the EU, she convened a meeting to which few came and fewer paid close and productive attention.

Her experience was so like mine that I felt compelled to answer her experience in the UK with ours here in the US. Please read her article after you read my response and you will see why YOU are the lynch pin. It is you, after all, who can mobilize your contacts and help them to get active and involved.

It is you who will take the Action items that keep the globalists off balance and backing up. And it is you who shoulder the responsibility to whatever degree you can, to keep the health freedom battle alive and kicking. Click here, now, to make your recurring donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation. It is, you see, your problem.

And thank you!

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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My response to Lynn McTaggert’s WDDK article “Not My Problem”,
I am the Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org.
I have practiced natural, that means drug free, psychiatry and medicine since I was graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1970.
It was clear to me for a couple of decades that these assaults on our health freedom, and the right to access clean food, natural health strategies and pharmaceutical alternatives was under an increasing crescendo of attack.
It was clear to me by 2004 that our side was doing nothing much productive to counter effectively what the Uber Cartel, led by Big Pharma, were up to: globalized health and freedom suppression and genocide through illness based on dangerous drugs, pollution and devitalized foods that do not sustain health, let alone life.
Realizing that there was no road back once these changes were institutionalized, my husband, Maj. General Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.) closed our practice of drug free medicine, sold our house and created the Natural Solutions Foundation.
Why didn’t we just join forces with other health freedom organizations? Well, we tried. The first thing we did was call a well known health freedom advocate and offer our help and support. financial and otherwise. His response? “I do not like you because I do not know you, I do not trust psychiatrists and there is nothing you can do for health freedom. Just send money and leave me alone.” That is a direct quote.

We were so appalled that an apparent leader of this “movement” would be so short sighted and self absorbed, with no better prospects on the horizon, that we were catapulted into our decision to take this battle on since no one particularly effective or strategy-minded was on the scene.

Next, we met with other people in the “movement” and suggested in early January, 2005, a meeting of all the groups involved in this battle, much as Lynn did. That meeting took 6 weeks to organize. Most of the invitees did not come. Those who did were most occupied with slashing at each other behind backs and to faces. The outcome was predictable: nothing of any use whatsoever.

We were told that people were cowed by the vicious attacks of the first person I mentioned and so, in true co-dependent fashion, allowed the least stable person in the system make the most important decisions through bullying.

Another so called “leader” called us up and told us that we were not “permitted” to run a health freedom rally because “Health Freedom BELONGS [emphasis added] to the XXXX Foundation, as does all money involved in health freedom.” Again, not a very productive approach to winning a war, one might say.

And so it went. Petty jealousy, foolish self-interest and a movement so out of control that it could only be explained by ego or agents provocateur, or, as we believe the case to be, both.

Another example: in the US, where the Natural Solutions Foundation is based, we had a unique phenomenon develop during the most recent Presidential elections: through www.Change.org we were able to create the 10 top issues in the US according to people’s electronic votes. Those issues would, we learned, be presented to the newly elected President of the United States as the major concerns of the people of the US.

We seized the opportunity and created a health freedom item. We then wrote to every health freedom organization asking them to join with us to bring our issue to the forefront of awareness. The name of our organization did not appear anywhere in the item. We asked all of these organizations to urge their members to use their collective power and move the Health Freedom item up to number 1.

What did they do? Several of them actually banded together to urge their members to use the voting format to vote DOWN the health freedom item because they were not the initiating organization.
We made it, if I recall, to Number 8, if I recall, which was enough to be included in the top 10, but hardly where the issue should have been.

And, of course, every time the Natural Solutions Foundation accomplishes something like, for example, forcing the disastrous phony Food Safety Bill off the voting agenda, or stops the mandatory Swine Flu vaccine program the federal government was planning in the US, we get attacked as – of all things – “controlled opposition”.

Then there are the manufacturers and business people. Exactly as Lynn described it, when their ox is being gored, they have a hard time seeing it. When their ox is not being gored, they could not be less interested, many of them. Of course, there are the far sighted exceptions, but I share with Lynn the awareness of how important action is and how little the organizations and, in many cases, the companies involved are willing to see beyond their own noses.

So, in essence, it is up to us, the people.
The Health Freedom Organizations are either infiltrated, underfunded or ineffective. The Wellness companies are either blind or so burdened trying to stay in business that they cannot see the forest for the trees even though the forest is advancing like the forest in Macbeth!

What to do? Exert the strength of a powerful netroots and take this struggle on as your own. Because it is. What we are struggling about is not pills and powders. It is health and freedom, the right to control our own bodies, make our own choices.
It is the right to seek, or refuse, any treatment or health strategy which we desire.
It is the right to access clean, unadulterated food and high potency nutrients because we want to, under whatever terms we want to use them.
It is the right to share and study truthful information about the benefits of food and food components in a climate of free inquiry, not criminalization or regulatory gag rules, as is currently happening under Codex and in the US.

Just weeks ago, the European Parliament agreed to stop requiring the labeling of GMO “foods” and ingredients. This is a horrific blow to your freedom in Europe, which has already been accomplished in the US where such labeling is FORBIDDEN. This, of course, follows the secret meeting of the 27 heads of state of Europe last October 22 in London to find ways to compel the people of the EU to accept GMO foods despite their vigorous objections to it.

Gag rules to prevent health information (called “claims”) from being shared are the order of the day of the corrupt and industry-owned FDA (which we in the Natural Solutions Foundation refer to as the Fraud and Death Administration) and are one of the tools of Codex to make sure that your only options are drugs and, eventually, death, after serious profit from that death march.

Truly, either we do what needs to be done, or what they want done to us will prevail.

I urge you, wherever you live, and whatever you eat, to become part of the thrust for freedom. Health and Freedom are essential components of one another. Health Freedom IS Our First Freedom. Please join the free, secure Health Freedom Action eAlerts here, www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org, or here, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, and join us in securing our Health Freedom once and for all.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

Comment available at:
http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/not-my-problem.htm/comment-page-1#comment-7081

And here is Lynn’s poignant article:
Not My Problem
August 6th, 2010

In 2002 my magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You first learned about plans within the European Union to radically restrict natural medicine across all member countries, starting with laws that would create a very low ceiling of ‘safe upper limits’ in vitamins.

Although the laws were ostensibly to create a level playing field within the European supplement market, the proposals bore the heavy hand of Big Pharma.

At the time, the solution appeared simple. The majority of people in the UK use some form of natural medicine. All we needed to do was to band together, whip up a national protest, and the laws would be stopped in their tracks.

In early 2003, we invited all the heads of the largest vitamin companies and representatives from all the leading natural medicine organizations – homeopathy, herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and many others – to a meeting in central London.

Many of the organizations never showed up. Of the 50 or so who did, many groups felt that our concerns were alarmist. Others welcomed the new moves as good for business. A few attempting to fight the legislation were busiest fighting each other.

No group seemed able to see the bigger picture. Each organization was mainly concerned with whether their own business was under fire. If it wasn’t – and at the time it wasn’t for many of the disciplines – they weren’t interested. Not my problem.

Big Pharma had big plans all those years ago. Unless there is sufficient opposition, within the next year or two, laws will come into effect in Europe that will drastically restrict the access of all Europeans to high-dose vitamins and herbal medicine.

Most therapeutic herbal medicine, plus forms that are new to the West, such as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese herbal medicine, will effectively be banned. And although homeopathy has emerged unscathed from future EU law, the British Medical Association is working to eliminate funding for NHS homeopathic hospitals.

This pogrom will not end in Europe. The near identical international laws that have been drafted within the United Nations suggest that a well organized and concerted effort is under foot to finish off any alternative to orthodox medicine.

The plan is to watch Europe closely to assess the level of consumer protest. Thus far, that protest has been minimal. The two consumer groups that have maintained any sort of consistent attack – the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) and Consumers for Health Choice who have challenged the law and lobbied parliament are starved of funds.

The individual organizations to this day remain isolationist. Not my problem.
This attitude reminds me a bit of the speech given by Pasto[r] Martin Niemoller about the passivity of many German groups to the purging by the Nazis of group after group.

First they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for me for me
and then there was no one left to speak out for me.

For all of us wishing to maintain alternatives to drug-based orthodox medicine, these laws are all of our problem, and every last one of us has an obligation to speak up now…..

Stop Fake “Food Safety” Bills, S.510/S.3767!
Estimate of Situation: Defending Health Freedom in the USA and Globally

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Natural Solutions Foundation
The Voice of Global Health & Food Freedom™

URGENT Push Back Needed to Defend Health Freedom: S.510 Remains an Immediate Threat! The Criminalization of Food Distribution Bill, S.3767 is a New and Imminent Threat!

Update: 11.17.10 – Senate may pass S.510 today! Push Back needed!
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7446

– FOOD FREEDOM TALKING POINTS: NO! to Food Fascism – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6910
– GMO DANGERS TALKING POINTS: NO! GMOs – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6955

The Food Freedom Amendment: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6999

Click Here to Take Action! Stop S.510! Stop S.3767! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

09.23.10 Update: Senate: Don’t Rush S.3767 to the Senate Floor! Support the Food Freedom Amendment Instead! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4878

Food Freedom Amendment
“No provision of Federal Law giving regulatory oversight to any Federal department or agency shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home, home-business, homestead, home or community gardens, small farm, organic or natural agricultural activity, (b) to any family farm or ranch, or (c) to any natural or organic food product, including dietary supplements, as protected under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.”

Health & Food Freedom Amendments Action Item: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3729

09.18.10 Update: Thank You Senator Coburn for Keeping a “Hold” on S.510!
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6719

09.10.10 – FDA/HHS “Stampede Congress” into Passing S.510 Letter!
The Empire Strikes Back… http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6611

09.13.10 – Text and Threat of S.3767: Criminalizing the Food Trade
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2010/09/s510-companion-bill-s3767-to.html


Dr. Laibow: Stop S.510 Now!

The Natural Solutions Foundation Trustees met on August 11, 2010 to discuss the health and food freedom situation in America and the rest of the world. These videos are our report…

One urgent item discussed is the faked “Food Safety” bill.
S. 510 is a lesson in the politics of persistence and perfidy
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For more than a year, the plan to capture – and kill – clean, local, organic, independent and safe farming has been wending its way through Congress. Last year, the devastating HR 2749 passed although we put up a good battle, delaying it for quite a while. However, at the end of the day, a good battle followed by a loss is still a loss. Then the field of battle shifted to the US Senate, where we’ve held the forces of Big Agra and Big Govt at bay for nearly a year… Part 1 below includes an estimate of that situation, and much more! Part 2, below, continues the discussion of strategies to defend health freedom in the USA and worldwide.

URGENT Action Item: Stop S.510! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

To read more, click here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6300, and then, please come right back to watch these important videos.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvdHcazFms

2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Kt7u-KzWc

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Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
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