Paris
Yesterday General Stubblebine, Tyson Phillips and I embarked at Newark International Airport for Cotonou. Yesterday we went to the Beninese Permanent Mission to the United Nations in order to get our visas for Benin. We met, seemingly by accident, the Ambassador to the United Nations and two Counselor Ministers. Since people do not flock to Benin for tourism, there was considerable interest in what made 3 people want to go there in a day or so needing express visa services.
The Beninese Ambassador to the United Nations came by and introduced himself. We told him that we were from the Natural Solutions Foundation and that, through our International Decade of Nutrition (www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org)we had two agricultural projects in Benin using magnets to treat water and increase crop yield and nutrient density. He was greatly interested in the fact that we were helping Benin, and through it, Africa and the rest of the developing world, feed itself in a time of food shortage caused by a combination of drought, mistaken policies to transition food growing fields to bio fuels (which take more energy to produce and transport than they yield through combustion) and general climate change problems. We explained that the last time we were in Benin (March, 2008, following a Codex meeting on labeling Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in Ghana we had met not only with the Minister of Agriculture and the head of the Water Utilization Board (both highly enthusiastic about the project – magnets reduce water utilization significantly), the head of the National Agricultural Research and Education Station, the head of the Food Safety and Security Program and Father Godfrey of Songhai.
Of course, the Ambassador knew each and every one of them and was especially interested in the fact that Fr. Godfrey has agreed to be our mentor for our Panama Beyond-Organic Farm and Farm School and the community we are building around it (the Santa Clara demonstration project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org. (If you are interested in learning more about the Santa Clara Project, check it out at the URL above.)

He told us that he knew all of the people we mentioned very well and was very, very warm about Fr. Godfrey and his magnificent work at Songhai Center which you can see on our YouTube Channel if you scroll down to the Songhai Center Videos (www.YouTube.com/naturalsolutions).

As you might expect, the Ambassador is a busy man who was, before our conversation, rushing out in his overcoat to a meeting.

We waited a bit and our visas walked in, held by the Consul. He, too, asked what took us to Benin. We told him that we were going to visit Fr. Godfrey to work on our Panama/Benin collaboration(Fr. Godfrey will act as our Zero emission consultant based on his world-changing work in Benin and we will create a natural medicine center for him at one of his Songhai Centers in Benin). The Consul was ecstatic! Fr. Godfrey was his mentor, he was trained there at the Songhai Center, he owns a piece of land which he will farm using Fr. Godfrey’s zero emission techniques and he would like to help us in any way he can!

Then his associate walked in, another Consular Minister, according to his card, and asked why we were going to Benin. Same conversation. He, too, was thrilled and asked how he could help. There is no shortage of enthusiasm for what Fr. Godfrey has accomplished: a beyond-organic fertility of outstanding magnitude in previously barren land with no pollution and the possibility of feeding Africa and the rest of the world.

(Yes, there is a population problem – the best way to reduce population, as experience has shown over and over again, is to educate women: community life improves and population goes down without brutality or suppression.)

So, after an hour and a half or so of intense conversation and enthusiasm, we said “Goodby” with a promise to come back after our trip and brief the staff of the Permanent Mission of Benin to the United Nations!

A day or so later we got on the plane at Newark for Paris and then a transfer to Benin. The flight from Neward to Paris on Air France in Economy was one of the most uncomfortable flights we have ever endured! When we reached Paris, we fully expected to wait 4 hours and get on a plane to Cotonou, Benin. Well, at least that was the theory. Songhai staff were to pick us up in Benin. Our plane was delayed 4 hours. We sent them an email. Our plane was delayed another 3 hours. We sent them another email. Our plane took off. We looked out the window and jet fuel was streaming out of the tank under the wings. We were producing a chemical trail, not a chemtrail!

The Captain announced that we had an engine problem and we were off loading fuel to reduce our weight so that we could land — at Paris!

We turned around and the flight, we were told, was canceled. We were sent to a hotel (Well, we arrived there at 11:10 – 10 minutes after the restaurant closed – the Desk Clerk said, when I asked him what we were supposed to do for food, “Madam, that is a problem without a solution. Our restaurant closed 10 minutes ago!”.) There was precious little accommodation made for us but I went outside and asked another restaurant staff person what we could do and he said, “Madam, there is no problem! The Novotel across the street has a nice restaurant open until 1 AM! So at least we had a nice meal after the difficult day spent waiting in Charles de Gaulle Airport.

This morning we are back in the airport (our plane, scheduled for the same time as yesterday, 1:20 PM) is not yet on the board and we are due to board in 30 minutes….)

Do we reach Cotonou today (of course, our meetings were canceled – we hope!) or not? Stay tuned!

After Cotonou we head for the Codex Committee on Food Labeling where the African nations which justifiably fear and distrust GMOs will try to push the US back another step and retain their right to keep unlabeled GM food out of their countries and, perhaps, keep all GMO out! We will certainly provide strategic guidance for them if they need it.

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Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
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