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Natural Solutions Foundation
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[ April 24, 2009 – Please share this Alert! https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2515 ]
We have continually raised the warning about the potential for a “weaponized” or “engineered” pandemic as an excuse to force people to receive a weaponized vaccination. See for example the following postings on this blog:
07/19/08 – Weaponized Avian Flu Intelligence Report – https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=742
09/15/08 – Smoke and Mirrors… shards of truth – https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=965
03/06/09 – Avian Flu “Accident” – https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2220
UPDATE: 04/25/09 – Pandemic eAlert – https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2531
UPDATE: 04/28/09 – Proactive Protection Steps – https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2581
05/29/09 – Your Right to Self-Quarantine – https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2752
Now we must raise the alarm once again. “Although past weaponization events have failed to trigger the pandemic,” Foundation President Gen. Stubblebine suggests, “we must assume the forces at work will produce what world health officials have called the inevitable pandemic.”
Whether those forces are the chaos of the natural world, the greed-addicted structure of the health care industry and its Big Phama cartel, or the evil intent of individuals or groups, we know not. One need not believe in conspiracies to observe that social and economic conditions may be such that a pandemic is almost a foregone conclusion. For example, several major foundations are providing significant funding to several dozen laboratories around the world that are studying the Avian Flu virus to find out how easy it might be for “terrorists” to weaponize the flu. How many such labs do you think it takes before it is inevitable that an engineered pathogen will escape?
Before you answer that question, remember that just this past January, as related in the second link above, a shipment of annual flu vaccine was “accidentally” contaminated with live Avian Flu virus… nearly triggering the pandemic.
And now, over the past couple days, the story has broken of a potential Swine Flu pandemic (yes, the Swine Flu is back!). We reproduce below several stories about this and are continuing our investigation so that we can issue a Pandemic Flu eAlert shortly to the Health Freedom Action eAlert’s several hundred thousand subscribers. If you do not yet receive the free eAlert, please join at: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=187
A final “smoking gun” is found in one article below, where the particular strain of Swine Flu is said to be a “novel strain” — and in another where it says, “It first looked mostly like a swine virus but closer analysis showed it is a never-before-seen mixture of swine, human and avian viruses, according to the CDC.” this, Dr. Laibow says, can be a hallmark of an engineered virus.
PLEASE TAKE THIS ALERT SERIOUSLY.
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Ralph Fucetola JD
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These articles are reproduced as a public service:
[1] April 29, 2009 – Message from Dr. Joseph Mercola
http://www.voteronpaul.com/newsDetail.php?Critical-Alert-The-Swine-Flu-Pandemic-Fact-or-Fiction-899
“Could a mixed animal-human mutant like this occur naturally? And if not, who made it, and how was it released?
Not one to dabble too deep in conspiracy theories, I don’t have to strain very hard to find actual facts to support the notion that this may not be a natural mutation, and that those who stand to gain have the wherewithal to pull off such a stunt.
Just last month I reported on the story that the American pharmaceutical company Baxter was under investigation for distributing the deadly avian flu virus to 18 different countries as part of a seasonal flu vaccine shipment. Czech reporters were probing to see if it may have been part of a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic; as such a “mistake” would be virtually impossible under the security protocols of that virus.”
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[2] More US swine flu cases, Mexico illnesses raise pandemic questions
Lisa Schnirring * Staff Writer
Apr 23, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – Five more cases of an unusual swine influenza virus infection have surfaced, officials from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today, bringing the total to seven and raising more concerns about human-to-human transmission.
The new cases include two clusters, two 16-year-old boys in San Antonio, Tex., who attended the same school and a father and daughter from San Diego County. Anne Schuchat, MD, interim deputy director for the CDC’s science and public health program, told reporters today at a teleconference that the clusters are consistent with human-to-human spread.
She also said that the World Health Organization has not raised its six-phase pandemic alert level above phase 3 (no or very limited human-to-human transmission).
The fifth new case occurred in a patient from Imperial County, which borders San Diego County. Both counties are home to the first two swine flu patients that the CDC announced on Apr 21.
News of the five new swine flu cases came on the same day Canadian officials warned its public health, medical, and quarantine workers to look for illnesses among Canadians returning from Mexico. Mexico has reported several cases of severe respiratory illness and has asked Canada to assist in finding the source of the illnesses, some of which have been fatal, according to a report today from the Canadian Press (CP).
Schuchat said no swine flu cases have been confirmed in Mexico or Canada, but that CDC officials are discussing the situation with Mexican health officials and representatives from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
Novel strain, relatively mild symptoms
Concerning the seven American cases, Schuchat said, “The good news is that all of the patients have recovered, and one was hospitalized. This is not looking like a very severe influenza.”
Patients experience fever, cough, and sore throat symptoms similar to typical influenza, but some of the patients who had swine influenza also experienced more diarrhea and vomiting than is typical of seasonal flu.
The CDC said genetic sequencing of samples from the first two patients, California children who lived in adjacent counties, show that the swine flu virus contains segments from four different viruses: some North American swine, some North American avian, one human influenza, and two Eurasian swine.
“This virus hasn’t been recognized in the USA or elsewhere,” Schuchat said.
CDC scientists have determined that the novel swine flu virus is resistant to the older antivirals rimantadine and amantadine but is susceptible to oseltamivir and zanamivir.
Schuchat said the CDC expects to see more swine flu cases and that it would provide regular updates on its Web site.
“This is not time for major concern around the country, but we want you to know what’s going on,” she said. Most of the public health response will focus on the California and Texas areas where cases have been identified, but the CDC is urging health departments in other states to heighten their awareness of respiratory illnesses, particularly in those who have had contact with pigs or traveled to the San Diego or San Antonio areas.
Schuchat said the CDC doesn’t know yet if the H1N1 component of this season’s influenza vaccine provides any protection against the swine flu virus, but she said studies are under way to determine if there is any cross-protection.
Expert reaction
Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, publisher of CIDRAP News, said the findings, though concerning, don’t mean that a pandemic is imminent.
However, he said health officials shouldn’t take comfort in the fact that the illnesses so far have been mild. “The first wave of the 1918 pandemic was mild, too,” Osterholm pointed out.
Walter Dowdle, PhD, who worked in the CDC’s virology unit during the 1976 swine flu outbreak, told CIDRAP News that it’s interesting but not greatly alarming that the 2009 swine flu strain contains such an unusual mix of gene segments.
“It’s a real mutt,” said Dowdle, who now works with the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, based in Atlanta. “When you have an evolving RNA mechanism, it’s hard to be surprised by anything.”
The H1N1 component of the seasonal flu vaccine might provide some degree of protection, he said. And if the swine flu virus persists, federal officials could consider adding an additional H1N1 strain to next year’s vaccine.
Marie Gramer, DVM, PhD, a University of Minnesota veterinarian who has studied swine flu, said her preliminary examination shows that the outbreak strain doesn’t appear to closely match anything currently circulating in pigs. However, Gramer added that she has only looked at a small number of viruses and only at the hemagglutinin gene.
Risk message implications
Peter Sandman, PhD, a risk communication consultant based in Princeton, N.J., also listened in on today’s CDC teleconference. While he credited the CDC with getting a clear, calm, and concise scientific message out about the swine flu cases, he said they missed a teachable moment to promote pandemic preparedness.
“Everyone needs to learn how to say ‘This could be bad, and it’s a good reason to take precautions and prepare’ and ‘This could fizzle out,'” Sandman said. “They need to simultaneously say both statements.”
He added that “good risk communicators need to know how to be both scary and tentative.”
Federal health officials are probably treading cautiously around the word “pandemic,” because some accused them of fearmongering when they raised concerns about the H5N1 virus 2 years ago and also because of overreaction during the 1976 swine flu epidemic that led to vaccination missteps.
When talking to the public about pandemic risks, federal officials could take some cues from hurricane forecasters, Sandman said, “and speculate responsibly.”
Canadian officials probe Mexico illnesses
Canada’s Public Health Authority (PHAC) said today in a situation update that Mexican authorities have asked its assistance in determining the cause of two clusters of severe respiratory illnesses that have occurred this month.
A cluster in Mexico City involved 120 cases and 13 deaths; the other occurred in San Luis Potosi, where 14 cases and 4 deaths were reported. Three deaths were reported from other locations: One from Oaxaca in southern Mexico and two from Baja California Norte, near the US border.
The PHAC report said the disease outbreak struck some healthcare workers and that most patients were previously healthy young adults between the ages of 25 and 44. Symptoms included fever, headache, ocular pain, shortness of breath, and fatigue that rapidly progressed to severe respiratory distress in about 5 days.
Mexican officials detected some influenza A/H1N1 and influenza B viruses, but have apparently ruled out H5N1 virus involvement. The PHAC said it received 51 clinical samples from Mexico for testing at its National Microbiology Lab.
Mexico told the PHAC that it had a late influenza season with an increasing number of influenza-like illnesses since the middle of March. The country also had a higher proportion of influenza B viruses than previous seasons.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/apr2309swineflu.html
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[3] Sixty Swine Flu Fatalities In Mexico Confirm Pandemic Start
Recombinomics Commentary 13:30
April 24, 2009
A rare outbreak of human swine flu has killed at least 60 people in Mexico and spread to the United States where authorities are on alert, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.
“To date there have been some 800 suspected cases with flu-like illness, with 57 deaths in the Mexico City area,” Chaib added.
Twenty four suspected cases and three deaths were also recorded in San Luis Potosi in central Mexico.
The above comment confirm that the swine H1N1 in southwestern United States (see updated map) is the leading edge of a H1N1 pandemic that appears to be centered in Mexico.
These deaths should increase the pandemic phase to 6.
Release of sequences from fatal cases in Mexico would be useful.
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04240903/H1N1_Swine_Mexico_Pandemic.html
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[4] Deadly new flu strain breaks out in Mexico, U.S.
By Alistair Bell and Noel Randewich
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A strain of flu never seen before has killed as many as 61 people in Mexico and has spread into the United States, where eight people have been infected but recovered, health officials said on Friday.
Mexico’s government said at least 16 people have died of the disease in central Mexico and that it may also have been responsible for 45 other deaths.
The World Health Organization said tests showed the virus in 12 of the Mexican patients had the same genetic structure as a new strain of swine flu, designated H1N1, seen in eight people in California and Texas.
Because there is clearly human-to-human spread of the new virus, raising fears of a major outbreak, Mexico’s government canceled classes for millions of children in its sprawling capital city and surrounding areas.
“Our concern has grown as of yesterday,” U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting director Dr. Richard Besser told reporters in a telephone briefing.
It first looked mostly like a swine virus but closer analysis showed it is a never-before-seen mixture of swine, human and avian viruses, according to the CDC.
“We do not have enough information to fully assess the health threat posed by this new swine flu virus,” Besser said.
Humans can occasionally catch swine flu from pigs but rarely have they been known to pass it on to other people.
The WHO said it was ready to use rapid containment measures if needed, including antivirals, and that both the United States and Mexico are well equipped to handle the outbreak.
Both the WHO and the CDC said there was no need to alter travel arrangements in Mexico or the United States.
CLOSE TO 1,000 SUSPECTED CASES IN MEXICO
Eight people were infected with the new strain in California and Texas, but all of them have recovered. Mexico said it had close to 1,000 suspected cases there.
The CDC’s Besser said scientists were working to understand why there are so many deaths in Mexico when the infections in the United States seem mild.
Worldwide, seasonal flu kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people in an average year, but the flu season for North America should have been winding down.
The U.S. government said it was closely following the new cases. “The White House is taking the situation seriously and monitoring for any new developments. The president has been fully briefed,” an administration official said.
Mexico’s government cautioned people not to shake hands or kiss when greeting or to share food, glasses or cutlery for fear of infection.
The outbreak jolted residents of the Mexican capital, one of the world’s biggest cities and home to some 20 million people.
One pharmacy ran out of surgical face masks after selling 300 in a day.
“We’re frightened because they say it’s not exactly flu, it’s another kind of virus and we’re not vaccinated,” said Angeles Rivera, 34, a federal government worker who fetched her son from a public kindergarten that was closing.
The virus is an influenza A virus, carrying the designation H1N1. It contains DNA from avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses, the CDC has said.
The Geneva-based U.N. agency WHO said it was in daily contact with U.S., Canadian and Mexican authorities and had activated its Strategic Health Operations Center (SHOC) — its command and control center for acute public health events.
The CDC said it will issue daily updates here
Surveillance for and scrutiny of influenza has been stepped up since 2003, when H5N1 bird flu reappeared in Asia. Experts fear that or another strain could spark a pandemic that could kill millions.
In Egypt, a 33-year-old woman died of bird flu, becoming the third such victim there in a week. The H5N1 bird flu, a completely different strain from the swine flu, has infected 421 people in 15 countries and killed 257 since 2003.
An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, killed 44 people in Canada in 2003.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE53N22820090424?sp=true
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[5] SNAP ANALYSIS-New swine flu likely widespread, experts say
25 Apr 2009 21:06:44 GMT – Source: Reuters
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) – A new and unusual strain of swine flu is likely widespread and impossible to contain at this point, experts agree.
The H1N1 strain has killed at least 20 people and possibly 48 more in Mexico and has been confirmed in at least eight people in the United States, all of whom had mild illness.
Probable cases also were found at a school in the New York City borough of Queens and experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say they fully expect to find more cases. Here is why:
* This new strain of influenza has shown it can spread easily from person to person.
* It has been found in several places and among people who had no known contact. This suggests there is an unseen chain of infection and that the virus has been spreading quietly.
* This can happen because respiratory illnesses are very common and doctors rarely test patients for flu. People could have had the swine virus and never known it.
* At least in the United States, it has so far only been found in people who had mild illness, another factor that would have allowed it to spread undetected.
* World Health Organization director Dr. Margaret Chan has said the new strain of H1N1 has the potential to become a pandemic strain because it does spread easily and does cause serious disease.
* CDC experts note that while it is possible to contain an outbreak of disease that is in one limited area, once it is reported in widespread locations, the spread is impossible to control. (For full coverage of the flu outbreak, click on [nFLU]) (Editing by Xavier Briand)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N25472826.htm
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[6] World eyes deadly flu risk, Mexico City hushed
Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:56am EDT
By Catherine Bremer
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Governments around the world rushed on Sunday to check the spread of a new type of swine flu that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico and infected around a dozen in the United States.
Mexicans huddled in their homes while U.S. hospitals tracked patients with flu symptoms and other countries imposed health checks at airports as the World Health Organization warned the virus had the potential to become a pandemic.
The epidemic has snowballed into a monster headache for Mexico, already grappling with a violent drug war and economic slowdown, and has quickly become one of the biggest global health scares in years.
Mexico’s tourism and retail sectors could be badly hit. A new pandemic would deal a major blow to a world economy already suffering its worst recession in decades.
In New Zealand, 10 pupils from an Auckland school party that had returned from Mexico were being treated for influenza symptoms in what health authorities said was a likely case of swine flu, although they added none was seriously ill.
The WHO declared the flu a “public health event of international concern.” WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan urged greater worldwide surveillance for any unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness.
“(We are) monitoring minute by minute the evolution of this problem across the whole country,” Mexican President Felipe Calderon said as health officials counted suspected infections in six states from the tropical south to the northern border.
While all the deaths so far have been in Mexico, the flu is spreading in the United States. Eleven cases were confirmed in California, Kansas and Texas, and eight schoolchildren in New York City caught a type A influenza virus that health officials say is likely to be the swine flu.
The new flu strain, a mixture of various swine, bird and human viruses, poses the biggest risk of a large-scale pandemic since avian flu surfaced in 1997, killing several hundred people. A 1968 “Hong Kong” flu pandemic killed about 1 million people globally.
New flu strains can spread quickly because no one has natural immunity to them and a vaccine takes months to develop.
TRAVELLERS SCREENED
Countries across Asia, which have had to grapple with deadly viruses like H5N1 bird flu and SARS in recent years, snapped into action. At airports and other border checkpoints in Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan, officials screened travelers for any flu-like symptoms.
In China, officials assured people that conventional measures in place were adequate to contain the new threat.
“The measures we’ve been taking against bird flu are effective for this new type of disease,” said Wang Jing of the China Inspection and Quarantine Science Research Institute, in comments carried by state media.
Argentina declared a health alert, requiring anyone arriving on flights from Mexico to advise if they had flu-like symptoms. Continued…
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE53N22820090426
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[7] Swine Flu Could Become More Dangerous
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The swine flu virus that has killed more than 80 people in Mexico may mutate into a “more dangerous” strain, the World Health Organisation has warned. Skip related content
“It’s quite possible for this virus to evolve… when viruses evolve, clearly they can become more dangerous to people,” said Keiji Fukuda, of the global health watchdog.
Mr Fukuda also called for international vigilance as health experts wait to see whether the virus will turn into a worldwide pandemic.
Over 1,300 people are now thought to have contracted the virulent H1N1 swine influenza after it mutated into a form that spreads from human to human.
The Mayor of New York has confirmed that eight school children are suffering mild symptoms after becoming infected.
And there have been at least 12 other confirmed cases in Texas, Ohio, California and Kansas.
The White House has declared a public health emergency but told the public “not to panic”.
Sky US correspondent Greg Milam said: “It’s important to realise that those affected have only had mild symptoms, and all have recovered or are recovering.
“But the authorities do believe that this outbreak will get worse.”
Canada has become the third country to confirm human cases of swine flu with six people falling ill in Nova Scotia and British Columbia.
Elsewhere in the world, suspected cases have been reported in France, Spain, Israel, New Zealand and the UK.
In France, two people who had returned from Mexico with fevers are being monitored in regions near the port cities of Bordeaux and Marseille.
A 26-year-old Israeli man has also been admitted to hospital after returning from a trip to Mexico with flu-like symptoms.
In Auckland, 10 school children have tested positive for influenza after returning from Mexico.
In the UK, two people have been admitted to a hospital in Scotland after returning from Mexico last week.
They are said to have mild flu-like symptoms but their condition is not causing concern.
Mexican City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said two more people have died of the virus, taking the death toll to 83.
All schools have been shut in Mexico City, the surrounding area and the central state of San Luis Potosi until May 6.
The WHO says it has a stockpile of the antiviral Tamiflu, which has proven effective against the virus, and is preparing a vaccine if needed.
The H1N1 strain of swine flu is usually only seen in pigs – but in humans can cause symptoms including fever and fatigue.
The WHO says there is “zero evidence” that people are getting infected with the virus from exposure to pigmeat or pigs.
However, many countries say they are stepping up checks on pork imports from the region.
Russia has banned meat imports from Mexico as well as from several US states and Central American countries.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090426/twl-swine-flu-could-become-more-dangerou-3fd0ae9.html
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
The following is an email written by Dr. Laibow to a leading advocate of sustainable farming. It is a request for an endorsement of part of our International Decade of Nutrition, namely our Green Eco Demonstration Project in Panama, the Valley of the Moon™ – see: www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org. We are publishing this email as it is a comprehensive review of what we seek to do, and specifically regarding our application with the semi-official Panamanian foundation, Ciudad Sabor (City of Knowledge). We need letters of endorsement for the Project from ‘persons of international status’ and if you or someone you know can provide us with such letters, please contact me at ralph.fucetola@usa.net. For the residential aspect of the Project, please see: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2476
Ralph Fucetola JD
Foundation Trustee
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I am writing to ask a favor of you which I hope you will grant and which will lead, I believe, to a new and strong position for our shared passion to keep clean food – and freedom – ubiquitously available to everyone on the planet.
As the Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation, www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org , I would like to introduce our Foundation, then myself, and the Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org , a Seed Community and Teaching Project that we are creating in the Highlands of Panama for the purpose of helping to spread the techniques and technologies necessary to reclaim food production from the industrial forces which are attempting to hijack it on a global basis.
First, the Natural Solutions Foundation is a private NGO with no corporate or government ties of any kind. We are a tax exempt humanitarian charity registered in the United States, active on a world-wide basis and registered as a Private Interest Foundation in Panama. Our compass is the entire range of health freedom rights including –
* Open access to clean, unadulterated food;
* Food sovereignty for every human being on the planet, unrestricted by government or corporate intervention;
* Unfettered access to information about the relationship of food and health (currently restricted under both US regulation and Codex Alimentarius standards and guidelines;
* Open access to natural health options and products (currently under severe attack by bodies such as the EU, governments like the US and Australia and organizations like Codex Alimentarius);
* Self-determination about procedures and treatments such as vaccination, compulsory “screening” and coerced drugging, etc;
* Open access to natural health treatment options for health maintenance as well as disease treatment, prevention and cure;
* Total medical privacy without any government or corporate intrusion into the relationship between health care provider and patient;
* Total banning of products, “food” and ingredients from biotechnology;
* Creation of a Pro Health alliance of countries willing and able to abandon the dangerous (and potentially lethal) standards and guidelines of the Codex Alimentarius Commission by following the legal process we have identified which will protect them from WTO trade sanctions (“The Codex Two Step Process”, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QNg3MD6BxM&). We have traveled to numerous potential members of this alliance including India where we had the opportunity to meet with President Dr. Abdul Kalam in a private briefing on this topic;
* Attending Codex meetings for the purpose of supporting that pro-health alliance, providing scientific data on pro-health positions and briefing delegates, Ministers of Health and Agriculture and others on the implications of positions intended for ratification (driven, of course, by the US and its Multinational Corporate directors who literally sit on the US delegation).
In analyzing the strategic point of greatest global and local impact, we came to the conclusion that nothing would have more global impact on the widest possible number of factors than reclaiming the production of food by wresting it from corporate/statist control and returning it to the hands of farmers and non-farmers alike. To do this, we initiated the Natural Solutions Foundation’s International Decade of Nutrition (September 2005) and created a series of programs like our Agricultural Programs in Benin, Africa where we installed clean, safe, chemical free, inexpensive and intuitive technology designed to increase crop production by 200-600%, increase nutrient density by the same amount, decrease water usage by up to 25% and increase storage life by a similar amount.
After a global search, we decided to create the first of our teaching communities in the Chiriqui Highlands of Panama and created the Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Community, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org.
Our first project was to purchase an coffee farm which was heavily infested with the devastating fungus Mycena citricolor (locally known as “ojo de gallo” or “rooster’s eye”) and create a foliar spray using bacteria and nutrients to cure the disease. This was so successful that the Natural Solutions Foundation intends to build a small factor, teach local farmers how to use this product and, in so doing, replace the toxic fungicides which perviously have been the coffee farmer’s only tool against this enormously costly problem.
Our following projects include –
* A BeyondOrganic BioDynamic Zero Emissions Farm and Farm School in the remote and beautiful town of Portrerillos Arriba. Since Panama holds most of the growing climates in which food is produced by most of the world’s farmers, segments of the school will be created on pieces of land at different altitudes and conditions to allow farmers from around the world to participate in this education for sustainable, net energy-producing farming techniques. We will be following the procedures elaborated by Fr. Godfrey Nzamajo Songhai Foundation’s Zero Emissions Research Initiative (Benin).
* Intensive Urban Agriculture, similar to “Square Foot Gardening” will be taught to children, mothers and others to disseminate the techniques of growing clean, unadulterated food on a family-by-family basis using, and saving, heirloom organic seeds and providing the nutritional components necessary to reverse the deadly trends of demineralized and devitalized, GMO and contaminated food.
* A Natural Health Center where natural medicine, including traditional herbal strategies for health, acupuncture, acupressure, homeopathy, detoxification, neurobiofeedback, massage and a host of other natural medical strategies will be taught and employed.
* A medical service for local and indigenous people will be created so that economic and sociological conditions are no bar to access to these medical options.
* A seminar center will be available to allow people to come to the Valley of the Moon for intensive educational opportunities in both long and short courses.
* A small hotel for guests and tourists.
* A cutlural center for performing and teaching music, dance, the plastic and visual arts.
* A residential area for long-term participants.
By using Zero Emissions Farming, no pollution will be produced and our only outputs will be 1.) energy from methane gas and 2.) energy from clean, unadulterated food.
Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Village is applying for affiliation with the unique Panamanian semi-private Foundation know as the City of Knowledge, http://www.ciudaddelsaber.org/, which provides interlinking relationships between organizations and programs bringing best practices, including sustainable agriculture, to Panama.
We believe that we could create our program, designed for international application, more efficiently and effectively with City of Knowledge affiliation than without it it.
One of the things City of Knowledge seeks is the endorsement, support or approval of persons with “International Presence”. You are certainly such a person and your work in sustainability and GMO free agriculture is of enormous importance and has been an inspiration to the Natural Solutions Foundation and to me personally.
I would be very grateful if you would consider writing a letter in support of our efforts for health freedom. I will be happy to supply any information or particulars to assist you in that effort.
If you would like more information, or personal contact for an in depth discussion about our organization and efforts, I would be pleased to meet with you electronically at your leisure.
Thank you for your kind attention to this matter. I remain,
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Comparison of Provisions in Two (sic) “Food Safety” Bills before Congress
(From www.Thomas.gov Bill Summaries)
H.R. 759
Increases FDA power over foods
Title: Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009 – Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to set forth provisions governing food safety, including requiring for each food facility: (1) a hazard analysis of facilities that manufacture, process, pack, transport, or hold food for consumption in the United States; (2) identification and implementation of preventive controls; and (3) a written food safety plan.
Latest Major Action: 1/28/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) issue science-based performance standards to significantly minimize, prevent, or eliminate the occurrence of such hazards; (2) establish science-based minimum standards for the safe production and harvesting of fruits and vegetables as necessary; (3) establish a risk-based inspection schedule; and (4) establish a program to expedite the movement of certified food through the importation process.
Provides for: (1) an accreditation system for food facilities; and (2) certification of laboratories to conduct sampling and testing of food.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to establish an active surveillance system for food.
Sets forth provisions governing drug and device safety, including: (1) providing for risk-based inspection schedules; (2) requiring quality risk management plans for establishments; (3) requiring country of origin labeling; and (4) providing for the recall of drugs.
Sets forth provisions governing cosmetic safety, including requiring cosmetic establishments to: (1) submit to the Secretary a cosmetic and ingredient statement for each cosmetic; (2) report any serious and unexpected adverse event in the United States associated with the use of the cosmetic; and (3) conform with good manufacturing practices.
Sets forth provisions governing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including provisions: (1) regarding the reorganization of FDA; and (2) authorizing the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to issue subpoenas for any proceeding regarding a violation of the FFDCA.
Sponsor: Rep Dingell, John D. [MI-15] (introduced 1/28/2009)
Cosponsors (8)
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H.R. 875
Establishes new food safety agency in HHS with new powers
Title: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 -To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.
Latest Major Action: 2/4/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Food Safety Administration. Assigns all the authorities and responsibilities of the Secretary of Health and Human Services related to food safety to the Administrator of Food Safety.
Transfers to the Administration all functions of specified federal agencies that relate to the administration or enforcement of food safety laws. Renames the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the Federal Drug and Device Administration.
Directs the Administrator to: (1) administer a national food safety program; and (2) ensure that persons who produce, process, or distribute food prevent or minimize food safety hazards. Sets forth requirements for the Administrator to carry out such duties, including: (1) requiring food establishments to adopt preventive process controls; (2) enforcing performance standards for food safety; (3) establishing an inspection program; (4) strengthening and expanding foodborne illness surveillance systems; (5) requiring imported food to meet the same standards as U.S. food; and (devil) establishing a national traceability system for food.
Requires the Administrator to: (1) identify priorities for food safety research and data collection; (2) maintain a DNA matching system and epidemiological system for foodborne illness identification, outbreaks, and containment; (3) establish guidelines for a sampling system; (4) establish a national public education program on food safety; (5) conduct research on food safety; and (devil) establish a working group on foodborne illness surveillance.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop the Food-Borne Illness Health Registry.
Directs the Comptroller General to report on the federal resources being dedicated to foodborne illness and food safety research.
Sets forth provisions regarding prohibited acts, recalls, penalties for violations of food safety laws, whistleblower protections, and civil actions.
Sponsor: Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. [CT-3] (introduced 2/4/2009)
Cosponsors (41)
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For a carefully researched “Solemn Walk Through HR 875” showing how these bills will stifle food freedom.
https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2287
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Natural Solutions Foundation’s Proposed Natural and Family Food and Farming Exclusion Amendment:
“Rule of Interpretation: No provision of this act shall be deemed to apply (a) to any 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. Government or corporate entities shall not infringe on a citizen’s right to own (hold, store, transport) produce, or sell, use or consume food, seeds, nutritional or therapeutic dietary ingredients, nor should any threat of war, emergency or pandemic be used to abrogate or limit these rights.”
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Natural Solutions Foundation
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April 20, 2009
Urgent! Health Freedom and Natural Solutions Under Attack!
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KEEP READING AND LEARN WHY,
WHILE YOU LEARN HOW YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM IS UNDER EVEN MORE ATTACK!
This eblast is being sent as “plain text” instead of our usual attractive format in an attempt to reach you through the “spam filters” which are part of the continuing attacks on Health Freedom and the Natural Solutions Foundation. We believe that live links are picked up by “spam filters” and keep you from getting the words, information and ideas that you need to protect your health freedom from health tyrants.
You know that whenever we “push back” successfully against the forces which are attacking Health Freedom we experience heavy attacks on our organization, electronic, personal and otherwise. Every time our Online Ranking increases and our eAlert list grows, the attacks ratchet up and up. Their purpose, of course, is to keep you from getting the information you need to protect your health freedom and your health.
Right now, the current attacks include:
1. Fraudulent Credit Card Charges and Associated Costs: Thousands of attempts each day – sometimes as many as 7000 per day!- to obtain small “charges” from our Organics4U and Markeplace merchant account (please note that our service provider has been able to isolate these attacks and no one’s personal information has ever been at risk). Each one would cost us a nickle if we were not able to identify them successfully as fraudulent charges. Each one still has to be removed by hand, wasting time, of course, but at least we are not forced to pay $350 per day for this cyber attack. The fact that this attack has continued for several weeks points to the growing success of our campaign to stop the false food safety bills threatening in Congress; those bills were “fast-tracked” but now appear to be at least temporarily halted thanks to the pressure tactics we have initiated.
2. Fraudulent Blocking of Health Freedom Action eAlerts by Spam Filters: Our emails are not spam. Every single person we email to has opted into our list. Every email has an unsubscribe feature. Period. No organ enlargement or get-rich-quick schemes are offered. Every email receives a low “Spam Quotient” score. Blocking by “spam filters” – even though you opted to join our Health Freedom Action eAlert system – is an electronic way to censor our message and prevent people who need – and want – it from getting it. Natural Solutions Foundation is not the first, of course, to be censored under the guise of “protecting you” from information that would be incendiary or motivate you to action if you have it. The main corporate “spam house” policing agency in Germany has a long history of attacking pro-freedom NGOs. If our previous emails have been blocked and this censorship is impacting your access to our emails, please add “healthfreedomusa@mail.democracyinaction.org” to your email “white list.” The reason that we are not using our ordinary format and links throughout this email is to get it to as many people as possible and allow you to forward it with less censorship than ordinarily.
3. Imitators and Detractors: The proliferation of not-very-real (sic) “Health Freedom” groups that are little more than web sites established to gather money from people concerned with these issues. At the same time, various “poison pen” people out there continue to concoct strange (and false!) stories about us, but you can find out the real story at the “About Us” section of our web sites, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org. In fact, you can also look at our “Accomplishments” page under the “About US” section of those websites and see that we are doing the heavy lifting, thanks to you!
We are the constant target of absurd lies and “revelations” which are total fabrications, but, interestingly, step up sharply in viciousness and intensity each time we do something different and get something new right. How absurd is this: a former psychiatrist who lost her license because the State Board required her to get a psychiatric examination to determine if she were sane (she refused and lost her license) because of the extremely bizarre charges she was leveling against people with whom she was angry) has charged on her radio show and elsewhere that our wonderful chemical free Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee is poisoned with a mind control drug.
Aside from the fact that once I have sipped my first cup of it in the morning I HAVE a mind, this is, literally, insane. But, as with everything else on the internet, it gets repeated as if it had some meaning.
We understand this sort of thing. It is classical Disinformation 101 stuff. The ramped-up electronic attacks are a confirmation, in this case, that our intensive campaign, resulting in nearly a million emails to Congress and decision makers around the atrocious and freedom-and-food-fascism bills before Congress about Food “Safety” and Food” Security” have, apparently, been brought to a grinding halt, at least for the minute.
Imagine a speeding locomotive pulling 500 cars zooming down the tracks in your neighborhood. You want it to stop so you walk out in front of it, plant your feet and hold your hand up toward the nose of the rushing onrush of steel and momentum. The train slams into your palm, you are nearly flattened with the force of the train’s movement but you regain your equilibrium and continue to resist.
Slowly, grindingly, the force of the train is absorbed by your resistance. And then, suddenly, the train is no longer moving! You actually stopped the train with your resistance.
Well, the train in this case, the Farm Bills, has not given up its total momentum and come to a dead stop. But it is having trouble continuing to make the rounds of Congress with all of the enormous opposition we have offered Monsanto and their corporate familiars.
No wonder they are using more means than before to stop us! If you were trying to stop the Natural Solutions Foundation, wouldn’t you try everything you could think of, too/
But we are not stoppable! Oh, if you have not taken the necessary Freedom Mouse ride to prevent these horrific bills from becoming law, please visit the link below this paragraph to make it clear, crystal clear, that laws which have the intended effect of removing farming from the capable hands of small, local farmers, and food production from everyone but the multinationals is not just unacceptable, it is unacceptable under our system of laws and values, whether or not the Boards of Big Agribiz like it.
Send your message here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714
Beware the Health Freedom Vampires
Thank you! When we ask you to take action, you ride that Freedom Mouse hard. Collectively, you have responded to the Natural Solutions Foundation’s requests to make Health Freedom a known quantity, an idea of significance. That’s how “Health Freedom is Our First Freedom” became one of the Top Ten social issues on Change.org and part of the new President’s Briefing Book on the official Change.gov web site. Thank you! Of course, when we tried to enlist other “Health Freedom” groups to seize that opportunity and join us in earning it an even higher ranking, our intelligence told us that they actually banded together to encourage voting AGAINST “Health Freedom Is Our First Freedom” which confirmed a lot of our suspicions about who was who and who was what.
None the less, we NEVER attack anyone – the other side does quite enough of that. But there is now a new phenomenon which we need to work you about:
Health Freedom Vampires and Parasites
In fact, our collective success has been so significant that we now have parasites and blood suckers! There are a host of new “Health Freedom” organizations which claim to be doing something, going somewhere and having a purpose.
And if they are, God bless ’em. The Health Fascism Beast we are fighting is a hydra with many heads and the more organizations attacking it, to kill it by ‘the death of a thousand cuts’, the better. But the parasites among these organizations are, in fact, just blood suckers.
If they hold out lofty words without a meaningful plan, they are parasites who want your email address.
One of these new organizations, in fact, is run by a convicted felon who got into trouble, as we understand it, from doing just this sort of thing before.
Pretty banner, grand words, no plan, no action steps, just “spread the word” and, Shazaam, he’s got your email for whatever purposes he wants to use it, sell it, etc. We never sell or share or give away your personal information! Never.
Natural Solutions Foundation welcomes real groups and people into the fray – if that is what they are. There is plenty for all of us to do, and we are not worried about either defending our turf or competing for resources, as other groups seem to be. (Which seems to be part of why they attack us.)
We believe that our consistent leadership (which gives others either guidance or something to copy, depending on your point of view) will always attract the kind of activism and enthusiasm which has made the Natural Solutions Foundation, in spite of consistent and constant disinformation and slander, the acknowledged leader in the battle for global health freedom in just 4.5 short years.
But we urge caution when you are asked to “support health freedom by buying our books” – and nothing else or by “spread the word” – and nothing else or by sending donations – and nothing else.
The problem here is the “nothing else” part. IF an organization is really fighting for your health freedom, they have plenty to tell you about that they are doing, and plenty for you to do.
So if these health freedom parasites transform themselves into real health freedom forces, because of what I am writing here, or the lack of response they are getting to their empty words, so much the better.
If not, beware, be vigilant and be active by making sure that you are getting the Natural Solutions Foundation Health Freedom Action eAlert and taking all the steps indicated. And get active, please, by donating to the Natural Solutions Foundation. All gifts are tax deductible for US tax payers.
Test Format to Defeat Spam Systems: This email is a test of our Action eAlert system. We have nearly a quarter of a million people on our Health Freedom Action eAlert system. Once again, our intelligence suggests that not all of you are getting our emails.
We are attempting to see if a “plain text” email will get us through the spam filters and into your inboxes during this urgent campaign to stop Codex Food Fascism in its most recent incarnation, the (sic) “Food Safety” bills before Congress right now.
Please copy and paste the Action Items and links we list below into your internet browser so we can gauge the level of public response.
Here are the latest Action Items where we need your help (note: these are not set up as “active links” to avoid spam attacks, so you may need to copy and paste). And as always, please forward this message as widely as you can!
We have learned that some folks do not know how to copy and paste so we have included the following instructions to help them. If you already know how to copy and paste, skip this section.
To copy, drag your mouse along the length of the link you want to copy while holding down your left mouse button. Then tell your computer to “copy” by a using a keyboard control [Ctrl C] or or by hitting “copy” under your “Edit” button.
Open a new browser tab or window (where you can paste the web address when you are ready).
Click your mouse in the new browser window and then either use the keyboard control to paste the address (or “URL”) there or go to the Edit menu and click “paste” [or Ctrl V]. After that, you will be able to click “go” and it will take you to where you will be able to carry out the action steps.
Action Steps and Information:
1. Our Action Item telling Congress and the White House “NO!” to industrializing food production under the guise of fake “Food Safety” bills:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26996
2. Read and share our important White Paper on the connection between Codex Alimentarius (the World Food Code) and (sic) “Food Safety:”
https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2394
3. The latest information on our green Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project in the beautiful, bountiful highlands of Panama:
https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2476
4. You know we need your help to keep up the good fight. Please donate here:
https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=189
This has been a “plain text” eblast test to see if we can get through the spam filters; if you want to see one of our regular eblasts, we’ve posted the last blast, with very important information here: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2439. And we have posted this one, with live links, at: https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?p=2491
Sincerely,
Maj. Gen. Albert (Bert) Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.), President and Trustee
Rima E. Laibow, MD, Medical Director and Trustee
Ralph Fucetola, JD, Counsel and Trustee
PS – for a listing of some of our accomplishments over the past years, please see:
https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=195
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Draft 1.2 rev 03/09/10
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
Is Proud to Present
The Valley of the Moon™
Residential Community Program and Eco Demonstration Project
(VOTM)
Chiriquí Province, Panama Highlands
Natural Solutions Foundation Trustees
Maj. Gen. Albert N Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.) Trustee and President
Rima E Laibow, MD, Trustee and Medical Director
releyes@gmail.com Volcan – Chiriquí, Panama
011-507-771-5059 011-507-6838 9898
Ralph Fucetola JD, Trustee and Counsel
ralph.fucetola@usa.net 58 Plotts Road, Newton, NJ 07860
Volcan Baru and the Pacific Ocean are Visible From Many Points in the Area
View Toward Volcan Baru
Sample of Hospitable Land that Invites Farms, Houses
Larry Deckerhoff, Advisory Board Chairman
Larry@zero2.com
Houston, Texas
Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Community
http://www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
Natural Solutions Foundation
http://www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
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Table of Contents
All Growing Areas are Irrigated
I. Cover Page
II. Trustees
I. Table of Contents
II. Vision and Purpose
III. Mission and Implementation
IV. Concept & Sites
V. RC Project Details
VI. Financial Structure
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Vision and Purpose
Valley of the Moon™
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Residential Community Program
Providing a Few Members of the International Community of Alert, Aware People with an Opportunity to Live Well in an-
• Off-the-Grid
• Health Promoting
• Wholesome
• Sustainable Environment.
In a sustainable, wholesome community, food must be clean and unadulterated. Therefore, at VotM, we will grow our own in a BeyondOrganic BioDynamic Zero Emissions [BODYZE™] context. While we provide abundance and health for ourselves, we will be teaching farmers and families to do the same. Reclaiming the production of food and restoring the essential balance of food, farming, community and the environment is essential to any healthy community or nation. The Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project (VotM) will provide well-planned, integrated options for healthy living. This program is for individuals who do not want to build their own homes on the trust land, but prefer to have the structures build for them; all structures in any event will be “green” structures.
The Residential Community Program is embedded in the larger purpose and function of the Valley of the Moon. The primary premise of VotM is to introduce best practices around full sustainability – agricultural, health, environmental, economic and cultural and community and to do so with “Passion, Perfection and Profitability”.*
To accomplish this multi-layered and complex goal in a concrete, transmissible fashion, many sub projects are involved, calling upon the wisdom and capacities of local and international experts. VotM Residential Community is one such program, permitting our participants an opportunity to make a home in the pristine environment of the Panama Highlands, with its year-round Spring-like climate in the context of a community which learns, practices and disseminates sustainable techniques, technologies and trends. Private homes will be a part of the focus and function of the community, impacting its form as well.
* Fr. Godfrey Nzamajo, O.D., Ph. D, Founder and Director, Songhai Foundation, Benin Africa http://www.songhai.org/songhai_en/ – learn more about Songhai and Zero Emissions Farming at www.YoutTube.com/naturalsolutions
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Mission and Implementation
Mission: The Natural Solutions Foundation in Panama (NSF-P) has been established exclusively for charitable, educational, literary and scientific research purposes, with the express intent of creating an Eco Demonstration Project and Educational Program in Panama that includes residences, a farm and farm school, health, performing arts, seminar and performance centers and our VotM Community Outreach Program
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NSF-P is a sister Foundation to the Natural Solutions Foundation (NSF-US), a humanitarian tax exempt NGO whose mission is “To discover, develop, document, demonstrate and disseminate Natural Solutions to the problems facing us and threatening our health and freedom, achieving and maintaining a healthy self, community and world.” In accordance with the Panama Escritura, NSF-P “is constituted with the purpose to promote, develop and execute projects with charitable purposes in Panama and in other countries around the world.” Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project and its embedded Residential Community is one such project.
To further the purposes of the Foundations, we have also established a commercial enterprise in Panama, the Natural Solutions Corporation (NSC), which is empowered to receive funds for land and other development purposes, acting under the provision of the Escritura which permits and encourages NSF-P to establish such enterprises.
In keeping with this purpose, NSF-P has created the Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Community (VotM) which is in the Chiriquí Highlands. VotM is a demonstration Seed Community with diverse activities serving a common purpose:
– A BeyondOrganic, BioDynamic, Zero Emissions (BODYZE™) farm providing:
1. A complete and affordable food supply for the members of the community and the surrounding areas of Panama
2. A “BeyondOrganic, BioDynamic, Zero Emissions” (BODY-ZE™)* Farm and Farm School demonstrating and disseminating best practices and techniques both in commercial farming and Intensive Urban Agriculture (IUA) applications.
– The Advanced Natural Solutions Health and Wellness Center providing natural and advanced health services and education in a world-class Health and Wellness Facility as a Health Destination to which residents of the Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Community, the wider community, Panama, the region and the global community may come. Since several of our participants are world-renowned health practitioners, this goal is realistic. Bringing in Practitioners in Residence will broaden and deepen these options. The initial site of the Center will be at the foundation’s Headquarters Finca in Volcan; expected opening: Spring 2010. The Wellness Center draft Protocol can be found through www.DrRima.net
– A net-energy producing, low-resource consumption, energy-independent community using Zero Emissions Farming and other accessible technology to meet and exceed its own needs. Techniques to apply off-grid energy options will be shared with the local and wider communities.
-A Community Arts and Education Center
– A Restaurant(s) and Teaching Kitchen to share nutritional abundance and options with interested eaters and learners
– A Nature Preserve, Recreation and Wilderness Area holding land in trust for future generations
– A hotel and eco tourism facility where seminar participants, medical and wellness tourism guests and those enjoying the beauties of the environment (and the BeyondOrganic BioDynamic cuisine) can enjoy their time at the VotM
– A Residential Community in which VotM full-time participants can reside
– An educational system for the children of residents and those in the local community who choose to have their children attend
– A local economy to allow both VotM residents and those in the local community who wish to participate in it a means of stabilizing their economic situation avoiding the need to expend Balboa for local products, goods and services.
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Concept & Sites
Walking the Land Allows Participants to Visualize Their Homes
Valley of the Moon™ Residential Community is an activity of the Natural Solutions Foundation’s International Decade of Nutrition (IDN). The central concept of IDN lies in the belief that a healthy food supply is essential to a healthy community, in both the local and wider sense, and is fully achievable. Such a health food supply will be established in the context of intact communities of producers and consumers using best practices (which are, by definition, toxin free).
Some functions are best housed on the same site, while others are most successfully placed on varied sites. For that reason, VotM plans to operate at several sites but its main site will be in the Chiriqui Highlands.
GMO-Free, Pesticide Free Coffee Harvested at Valley of the Moon™
The Valley of the Moon™ Coffee Finca is located in Santa Clara. Coffee production areas: 10 prime hectares of land planted with prized specialty coffees grown over 1200 m (approximately 4000 ft) producing containers of roast coffee produced under the Valley of the Moon™ label by the renowned Hartmann family. Additional coffee areas will be planted as terrain and conditions allow. An additional prime 10 Hectares is also part of the VotM Coffee Finca
The Headquarters, Hospitality, Intensive Agriculture Training Area and Seminar Center are currently located in Volcan. A .78 Hectaria parcel of land with two houses and associated structures is expected to be developed to accommodate an 18-person hotel, seminar facility, NSF-P headquarters (including administration, communications, reception/hospitality) and an Intensive Urban Agriculture (IAU) food production training area. A professional kitchen specifically designed for teaching purposes will facilitate both outstanding food service and culinary education for health and sustainability. Education and employment opportunities for local personnel are part of the program. Managerial skills will be fostered and taught so that personnel become empowered to develop their own enterprises after association with the VotM project.
The HQ finca Greenhouse is the subject of several videos at the Food Freedom eJournal:
www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org
With future development, emphasis will shift from the property nearest Volcan to larger sites for most of the functions fulfilled by the initial Volcan site. But for the foreseeable future, Volcan will house the social and active part of the community’s life.
The Residential Community Project Site will be located on a minimum of 20 to 50 hectares (50 – 100 acres) along with cultural, health and various social upliftment projects in the area.
The site will see the fully developed BeyondOrganic BioDynamic Zero Emissions farm and farm school, sharing the site with our hotel, housing, food service, performance and arts center, seminar, wellness facility and recreational areas. This integrated community will serve as a hub for the VotM project. The initial area can easily be expanded by acquiring the surrounding land.
It is on pristine land that the initial Residential Community will be developed.
It is important to note that land will be part of a land trust. Individual lots will not be sold. Rather, 99 year leases, renewable in perpetuity, will be offered. Residential Community participants are free to build the house of their desires on the land. They will have full ownership of the house.
NSF-P will hold the land in common as a land-lease program while the various uses of the land support and sustain a community with diverse functions, all of which are focused around teaching and dissemination. All aspects of the community will be designed to serve as demonstrations of sustainable, reproducible and transmissible solutions to the problems facing communities all over the world.
Undeveloped, protected forest and water-shed areas will be maintained and extended. We are working with another international NGO to plant large areas of fruit and nut trees with the goal of providing education for farmers on how to develop those crops using totally natural techniques. Lower elevation lands are currently being acquired to provide farm schools and food in different micro climates.
The Project will be based on a land trust model: individual lots will not be sold, but leased with a perpetually renewable lease, assignable to heirs and others, and saleable with right of first refusal going to the community. Residential Community participants will own their own dwellings and will have the right to a voice in community governance.
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VotM Residential Community Program (RCP) Details
The Residential Community Participation (RCP) is structured as follows:
Participation: $75,000. Not including cost of housing.
Receipt of One Beneficial Interest Certificate (BIC)
Benefits of the BIC:
• Bears accumulating interest at Banco National Prime Rate, currently 4%. (Community economic activities support the interest payments)
• Permits participation in Community Governance
• Provides access to BODY-ZE foods at coop prices
• Provides access to community goods and services at coop prices.
• Provides perpetually renewable 99 year land lease for home site (homesite locations to be determined by community architectural and land use plan; choice of sites in order of BIC issuance)
Each RCP BIC is entitled to the choice of a 2,000 to 2,500 sq ft “green” home, at participant’s cost, with community oversight.
BIC holder owns the home and may sell or will it, subject to standard coop community approval. New purchaser of home will refund cost of BIC to seller.
As with any new community which offers beneficial interests or other joint potential, we cannot promise the rate of return but can provide information to make a realistic assessment of the opportunities presented possible. We believe a conservative estimate of potential shows the Eco Valley concept, here in the Valley of the Moon™, offers competitive financial and social benefits.
This is a private, confidential and privileged communication to persons interested in supporting the work of the Foundation and is not an offer of securities or any investment. While the Trustees and others involved have substantial experience in organizing agricultural and other projects, advanced health care options, developing real estate and community oriented commercial or nonprofit activities, there can be no guarantee that the project will materialize in the manner suggested in this initial informational memorandum. Final development will depend on funding, through donations, grants, beneficial interests and loans both from private sources and financial institutions, as well as legal development requirements. This Summary is not an Offering Statement and no one should invest or offer to invest without full due diligence and any necessary offering memorandum.
Local Indigenous Noble Bügle People Pick the Coffee Crop With Care: Once Touched, if a Coffee Bean falls off the branch, it cannot be used for coffee.