Author Archive for Administrator – Page 186
March 16, 2007
FAQ’s on Our Blocked Site
As you probably know, yesterday the Natural Solutions Foundation website was blocked by its service provider www.1and1.com*
So many people have written to express support, ask questions and suggest options and solutions that I thought I would send out an update and give you the full details of what has happened so far. We are taking this very seriously, indeed. We feel that this represents a violation of our rights to speak our truth as we see fit and share that truth with you. Please make sure you read the FAQ about putting up another site. Those of you who asked if the problem could just be a technical problem will find that sectionrather interesting. (Hint: no, it was not just a technical problem.)
The number of emails you sent to the Natural Solutions Foundation was truly staggering. Your expressions of support, suggestion
on how to fix the the problem and make sure it could not happen again were wonderful. Sharing your own experiences of similar events was strengthening and extremely helpful. Every email will be answered personally but it will take a little time because of the volume of those emails.I have read every one of those emails and thought it would be useful to send out an FAQ sheet to address the questions and issues raised by so many of you in the meantime, though.
WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THE SITE NOW?
The Natural Solutions Foundation site is operational again. You can go there now. There apparently are some areas that are not fully operational so please, if you come across anything that is not working properly, email me at dr.laibow@gmail.com
IS THE SITE FULLY FUNCTIONAL AT THIS POINT?
The Natural Solutions Foundation site is working more or less correctly except that all the pictures of items on the Organics4U store are missing and some people have been having trouble signing up for the mailing list. We have no idea why they are missing but the rest of the store is working fine. If you want to sign up and you cannot, here’s my email: dr.laibow@gmail.com. Send me an email and I will make sure you are added.
EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED?
Two days ago we got an email from a supporter saying that the site was not on line. Within a short time I had received many similar emails. I went on line, confirmed that the site was unavailable and contacted our hosting site, www.1and1.com. When I attempted to log in, I found that our site was listed as “locked”.
Two months ago 1and1.com had said the credit card we use to pay for the hosting service ($99 per month) would not accept the charge. The card was fine. Rather than hassle further with the people in their billing department, we gave them permission to use another card so I thought that perhaps they had gotten the billing wrong again.
Their billing department was closed so I called their technical support department. I waited in a stack-up for 19 minutes and 45 seconds (typical of all my calls to 1and1.com, by the way) and since I was calling from overseas the charges were escalating and I was getting more displeased by the billing unit.
Mahat Answers the Phone
Finally Mahat, a technician, answered the call. I explained the problem to him and he looked at their computer and said, yes, the site is locked. When I asked why, Mahat said that it had been locked with no information and that was unusual. I asked him to look into it and he could/would not. When I wanted to talk to a supervisor, Mahat said his supervisor was on leave. I asked to speak to his supervisor’s supervisor and he said that he was not there. I asked the higher up to call me when he came in. Mahat said he would not.
Figuring that if a site could be locked it could be unlocked, I got Mahat to ask the supervisor of another team to authorized the site being unlocked. Mahat reported that the other person said, “If it were on the weekend we would do it but it is a weekday so we won’t unlock the site.”
Billing was open only from 9-5 PM on the next business day (yesterday). However, since I am on the other side of the world, that was a long time away.
A call to billing resulted in a similar wait and then a person got on line and told me that the site was blocked because of a credit card payment problem. This is not possible. I asked why this information was not on their computer. I got no answer. A struggle ensued and I was finally told that the site would be reopened “within the hour” and that another credit card payment would be charged to my account.
SITE DOES NOT GET UN-BLOCKED
The site did not go back on line. I spent the next 6 hours repeatedly calling headquarters (which turns out to be a call center, not a headquarters according to the person on the other end who did not know the name of the President of the company or any officers of the company to whom I could speak) and calling the billing department, technical service and anyone else who might have been able to help. 1and1.com lists their technical support as a 24 hour service.
The recorded message which stayed on for hours was “We are sorry. All circuits are busy. Please try your call again later.” I did. For over 6 hours. It was not “later” enough.
DID NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION PUT UP ANOTHER SITE?
One of the first things I did was contact my webmaster who said he would put up an informational site alerting people to what had happened if they went to our site. He did so very quickly. His server and all of the sites he hosts immediately crashed. When he took our temporary site down, the servers and sites were fine.
COULDN’T THE PROBLEM HAVE BEEN JUST A TECHNICAL ISSUE?
The problems we experienced and the ones our webmaster experienced are characteristic of a DDOS or Dedicated Disruption of Service attack in which a bank of computers is set up to fire off so many repeating and competing requests for access to a site that the system crashes. That is not a simple technical event. It requires planning and sophisticated capacity to damage of destroy site capacity.
Many of you wrote to ask if we could pursue legal action because of the disruption. Here is what our webmaster wrote to me about that question:
While DDOS are technically illegal and prosecutable, it’s basically impossible to track down the perpetrators. They could be in any country, directed by parties in any other country. They could be using a computer here, a computer there, they could even be using your computer if you’ve got a virus on your hard drive. So this route — prosecution — is not realistic (at least at this point).
1and1.com has still not disclosed whether they had locked our site because it had been the target of a DDOS but the chances are good since our URL immediately was hit with DDOS activity when our webmaster redirected it to his temporary page.
HOW DO I MAKE A DONATION TO THE NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION?
Your donations are critically important. The fact that we have been attacked by such sophisticated means says that we are right on target and we need your help to stay there.
1. You can go to www.PayPal.com and make a tax deductible donation to this email account:
releyes@gmail.com
PayPal donations to either of those emails go directly into the Natural Solutions Foundation bank account.
2. You can go to our website which is up now and donate either on a one time or recurring basis. Both are appreciated. Recurring donations mean that we can count on support each month and are very helpful. All donations are tax exempt for US residents and citizens.
3. You can send a check or money order marked “Donation” to our headquarters. Send your donation to
Natural Solutions Foundation
P.O. Box 722
Maryville, MO 64468
U.S.A.
WHAT ABOUT THE NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION STORE, ORGANICS4U?
Organics4U is up and running but there are no pictures of the products. We don’t know why yet.
When you shop at Organics4U all profit goes to the Natural Solutions Foundation to support our work. You will receive a letter thanking you for your support an telling you how much your donation was for that purchase!
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MAKE SURE THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN AGAIN?
Many people sent excellent suggestions about mirroring sites and other strategies to prevent a repeat of this episode. We are vigorously investigating them and will certainly take action to make sure we are not prone to this kind of attack again.
I CALLED 1AND1.COM AND THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO ANSWER MY QUESTIONS.
Me too! But many of you wrote to say that you had called 1and1 which said that they were getting lots of calls about the Natural Solutions Foundation being off line. To all of you who called or wrote to Congress about this, THANKS!
NOW THAT THE SITE IS UP AGAIN, IS THE EVENT OVER?
Not by a long shot! Our freedom of speech has been interfered with and we want to know why and by whom. We will keep you posted.
We will also be making changes (which many of you suggested) to make sure that this does not happen again. If it does, we’ll get past it because of your community of support just like this time!
OK. NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION SURVIVED THIS ATTACK. WHAT’S NEXT?
You can be sure that there will be more attacks. Disinformation, Disruption and Deception. The 3 Ds are potent tools used by those who have secrets to keep when it comes to power and money. They don’t want the secrets out and the Natural Solutions Foundation is telling it exactly the way it is. There will be more attacks, you may be sure.
We have been very busy planning for the next stages of our fight. Now we have a new piece in the puzzle: freedom of speech. You can be sure that we will be focusing on that in our blogs and emails and asking you to help support uncensored sharing of information and ideas. Without freedom, what does health freedom mean?
The General’s View of Attempts to Silence the Natural Solutions Foundation
General Stubblebine will be writing an email to you shortly so you get his take on this situation, too. As a career military officer sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, he has quite a lot to say about the meaning of this event.
Organics4U is Getting Even Better
Organics4U is in preparation for a brand new look and a brand new launch. New products are being added to make the selection even better.
We are creating a library of down-loadable information for your use because you asked us to. This free information service will have sections focusing on nutrients, herbs and disease conditions to help you with the best, most up-to-date information. Health choices will be easier to make. Our products are already the cleanest, healthiest and most effective available anywhere. Everything on the Organics4U store is clean, unadulterated and good for bodies and the earth! And we are upgrading our media section, too.
There will be a new Newsletter once a month filled with tips, topics of health interest, book reviews and health news. We’ll take your questions and give you meaningful answers. Watch for it.
ARE GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS NEXT IN THE FOUNDATION SITES ?
The Natural Solutions Foundation attended a Codex meeting in Oslo last month on the labeling of GM foods. We were invited to speak in Africa in June on the topic and we are now working on a White Paper on Genetically Modified Foods and their serious flaws and dangers. Right now you can buy the Codex eBook detailing the solution to the Codex press forcing countries do down regulate all effective vitamins and minerals (the other nutrient substances are under the hammer, too) which we give to heads of state, ministers of health, etc. It is beautiful book which clearly sets forth the problem of low potency nutrients and gives both clinical and legal solutions which people and countries can follow to become World Trade Organization sanction-proof. Research volunteers needed. Write to me at dr.laibow@gmail.com .
We are working on the next in that series, a GMO book. Stay tuned!
ARE YOU STILL TRAVELING A LOT?
This year, with your help we will attend the following Codex meetings:
* May: Codex Committee on Food Labeling, Canada
* July: Codex Commission, Italy
* September, Codex Biotech Committee, Japan
* November, Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses, Germany
* We will be lecturing and meeting with decision makers in India, Tanzania, Ghana, Us, Nigeria and about 10 other countries during 2007.
* We are working hard on initiating programs under the International Decade of Nutrition in several countries. These programs make the impact of nutrition clear through beautifully designed, high potency nutrient programs and other simple, natural techniques for ensuring health and health freedom.
WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP?
Hundreds of people wrote to say that they were grateful for the work that we are doing because this is their fight, too. They are absolutely right! Get involved.
1. Sign the Citizens Petition! Print out copies and take them to public gatherings, health food stores, your food market, your play group. Ask people to sign them. Email the link and get people talking. Take them wherever you go and help people to see that it is their battle as well.
2. Email the Nutricide link to every one you know. Tell them why they need to be involved in this issue. Arrange showings of the Nutricide Video in your home town, club or church. Take lots of Citizens Petitions with you so people can sign it when they have seen the video.
3. Use your creativity to find ways that you can help to win this battle. If you paint, or you sing or you do data entry or you do bake sales or dance recitals, or play jazz or sew or have your businessman’s club that would like to sponsor a cause take up health freedom, etc. Think about what you can bring to the health freedom battle and then do it! Let us know what you are interested in doing so we can support you! Contact me at dr.laibow@gmail.com and we’ll figure out how to help!
4. What happens if the unique voice of the Natural Solutions Foundation is not here defending your health and your health freedom? Don’t let that happen. Practice the 3 G’s of health freedom: Get involved, Give and Germinate new interest!
I think that answers most of the questions which your hundreds and hundreds of emails asked and the comments which you addressed. If I left something out, let me know at dr.laibow@gmail.com.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
March 11, 2007
Weapons for Winning a War Without Fighting
You are a target in a war. So are your children, grandchildren, parents, and the people half way around the world whom you have never met. The war is for resources and you are in the way.
You Are In the Way. It’s that simple.
US foreign policy became very clear in the December 10, 1974 National Security Study Memorandum, “NSSM 200, Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests” also called the Kissinger Document. In it, an explicit policy by which the US would promote rapid population decline in 13 countries was articulated. Kissinger’s now famous (and declassified) quote sums up the elaborate plan:
“Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries.”
NSSM 200 became official US policy in November 1975 under President Gerald Ford. Birth control, war and famine were all tools to serve US access to mineral resources without impediments caused by third word populations who were to be eliminated. Brent Scowcroft, Kissinger’s replacement as National Security Adviser was put in charge of implementing the plan. CIA Director George Bush was ordered to assist Scowcroft, along with the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, and Agriculture.
Brazil Noticed
Carrying out this depopulation agenda, other agencies besides those most closely identified publicly with the US are active as well.
Former Brazilian Health Minster Carlos Santana, for example, pointed out that “The World Bank, through their reports of its Presidents, has always made its proselytizing for a rigid birth control policy explicit,” and that included in World Bank credit packages and investment in Third World countries is an implicit agenda of depopulation. He questioned why Brazil was targeted for birth reduction, with approximately forty per cent of Brazilian woman having been already sterilized.
Quotes Worth Noting
The architects and engineers of global depopulation include iconic figures, corporate and governmental leaders and national decision-makers.
Depopulation programs worldwide are directed and funded by major international money interests, including McGeorge Bundy of the Council on Foreign Relations, (the architect of the US nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction or MAD policy); Warren E. Buffet, the second wealthiest man in the United States; and, long term supporters of eugenics, the Rockefellers.
In 1998, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, announced “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”**
Ted Turner, in an interview with Audubon Magazine said, “A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” and is using his purported $1Billion “gift” to the UN to further global depopulation programs.
UNESCO Courier, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the famous Emmy award winning film producer and ambassador for the environmental movement, said in 1991,
“It’s terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day.”
As Alex Jones pointed out, “That works out to 127,750,000 people per year, and 1.27 billion people over 10 years.”***
But what about the US? Is anyone trying to get rid of us? Look at what the USDA and FDA permit as “food” and tell me whether the preventable diseases of under nutrition and toxicity which are killing us to the great profit of the “Bigs” (Big Pharma at the top of the list, of course, but Big Chema, Big Biotechna, Big Abgribiz and Big Medica) could possibly have been regulated this disastrously by accident alone.
Help Me Out Here
Tell me if you believe
* That the permission to market spectacularly toxic drugs long after their dangers are know is caused by simple incompetence and greed.
* That the policies which support regulators who consistently protect drugs and pesticides and GM “FrankenFoods” which are killing the American population are the simple results of corruption.
* That the CDC’s decision to hide the harm being done to our young while protecting the vaccine industry’s profits is mere corruption or whether somewhere, at some level, the real impact of treatments and procedures which are destroying our population through completely preventable disasters is simply a grave error of judgment and that the scientists who try to correct these problems in the regulatory agencies are intimidated and harassed as random acts of administrative error.
* That a multi-trillion dollar business which treats people with chemotherapy agents which the industry supported American Cancer Society admits provides any benefit for a mere 3-4% of people suffering from cancer while the US government ruthlessly suppresses effective, inexpensive and safe cancer treatments is simply a result of unalloyed greed.
If so, then you can buy the notion that the disastrous (and wildly profitable) deaths by pharmaceuticals which account for huge numbers of preventable deaths in the developed world (according to journals like the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Lancet, etc.) could be due to corrupt regulators alone.
It also means that you buy the story that degraded and depleted food laced with poisons is regulated onto our tables and shelves by accident. That Donald Rumsfeld’s statement (as the CEO of Searle) that he wanted Aspartame approved by the FDA and he did “not care how many people it killed” was just a poor turn of phrase.
That means that you are comfortable that the depopulation agenda being so vigorously pursued elsewhere in the world does not touch the shores of the US.
Are You Disposable?
No one, rich or poor, believes they are disposable. And they are right.
I have traveled to places populated by some of the most abjectly poor people in the world on the health freedom trail. People without any way out of that abject poverty, people starving and watching their children starve, have not been willing, just as you and I are not willing, to hold up their hands and say, “Yes, I am a useless eater! For the sake of the elite and their comforts, my children and I are willing to be eliminated.”
Yet read what a leading proponent of eugenics/depopulation has to say about those stubborn people who for some reason will not willingly class themselves as useless eaters for their own good!:
“The very word eugenics is in disrepute in some quarters … We must ask ourselves, what have we done wrong?
I think we have failed to take into account a trait which is almost universal and is very deep in human nature. People simply are not willing to accept the idea that the genetic base on which their character was formed is inferior and should not be repeated in the next generation. We have asked whole groups of people to accept this idea and we have asked individuals to accept it. They have constantly refused and we have all but killed the eugenic movement … they won’t accept the idea that they are in general second rate. We must rely on other motivation. … it is surely possible to build a system of voluntary unconscious selection. But the reasons advanced must be generally acceptable reasons. Let’s stop telling anyone that they have a generally inferior genetic quality, for they will never agree. Let’s base our proposals on the desirability of having children born in homes where they will get affectionate and responsible care, and perhaps our proposals will be accepted.”
– From Galton and Mid Century Eugenics by Frederick Osborn, Galton Lecture 1956, in Eugenics Review, vol. 48, 1, 1956
Weaponizing Food
Using food as a weapon goes back to the beginning of inter-group struggle. Sieges are mounted to starve the opposing side. Scorched earth policies deprive peasant and warrior alike of the food they need to survive. Food has been a weapon of tribal and national policy since there were tribes and nations. The US upper echelon policy makers and their friends the would-be masters of the planet have taken this ancient form of intentional misery and death one step further.
With chilling directness, food was officially weaponized by NSSM 200 which the US has never repudiated. The document states, “Since population growth is a major determinant of increases in food demand, allocation of scarce PL 480 resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in population control as well as food production. In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion.”…. “Mandatory programs may be needed and we should be considering these possibilities now,” the document continued, adding, “Would food be considered an instrument of national power? … Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can’t/won’t control their population growth?” Among the conclusions reached by NSSM 200 is that “mandatory [emphasis added] population control measures” may be “appropriate.”* NSSM 200 states that “large-scale famine of a kind not experienced for several decades—a kind the world thought had been permanently banished,…can be expected” as policy events and points out “In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion” and suggests that the UN and other agencies be used to carry out these policies.
Codex: A Perfect Disguise
Codex works perfectly for that purpose. If you were turning food into a tool of depopulation and political control, wouldn’t you do exactly what the Codex Commission has done? Wouldn’t you create a high sounding international body to “protect consumer health” and “ensure the free trade of food” while bringing your less developed brethren along to develop their “science based” agriculture and food processing capabilities? Wouldn’t you make sure that higher and higher levels of deadly chemicals, hormones and other toxins (including heavy metals and animal drug residues) were lacing their foods and get them to want to pay you premium prices for helping them to contaminate their own food and buy your illness-inducing “food” at the same time? Wouldn’t you set up seemingly scientific “risk analysis” procedures to mandate global mal- and under-nutrition knowing that, as Linus Pauling said, every disease is caused by a nutritional deficiency”? Then you could sanctimoniously declare that the “preventable diseases of under nutrition” were killing more and more and more people and wasn’t it terrible!
Supposedly “Science Based” and advisory in nature, and backed up by WTO trade sanctions (unless countries follow our two step protective strategy), Codex serves the interests of the multinational corporations which are controlled by people whose idea of a really great planet is one without 5/6 of the people on it now. You have to hand it to the would-be masters: Codex is a brilliantly constructed, glossy and beautifully crafted deception and disinformation system.
Third world countries are led down the disastrous garden path of depleted and damaged food resulting in peoples with weakened immune systems who are under nourished and over fed on nutrient poor food. Their food is irradiated, contaminated with highly profitable chemicals, genetically modified foods and the results are inevitable.
Codex Delegates Disinformed
The men and women who attend Codex as National Representatives and Delegates, by the way, are, in my experience, in the main, good, decent and hard working people who have been totally hoodwinked by brilliant misrepresentation and pseudo science. The amazing thing is how quickly they convert their nagging suspicions and unease to clear understanding when we present the facts as we understand them in personal and direct conversation.
We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For
Success in taking back our food and our freedom is really up to us. We have the information and we have the power to take back our futures. This war has been brought to our tables and our bodies. It is up to us to “Join the Mouth Revolution” in more ways than just spitting out fake food. We need to speak, we need to educate, we need to purchase healthy foods and nutrients, and we need to share what we know with everyone we reach. The stakes are literally life and death. Yours, mine and theirs.
Marshalling Resources
No army can fight without resources. Human resources are precious and so are monetary resources. We need your creativity as volunteers, organizers, and artists. And, yes, we need your donation.
We still have $22,341 to raise by the end of March in order to meet our goal. It’s really important that we do meet it so we can continue our work. We need your help.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
*http://www.schillerinstitute.org/food_for_peace/kiss_nssm_jb_1995.html
** Reported by Deutsche Pres Agentur, August 1998
*** http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/290805chickenlittle.htm
This was sent by a supporter. If the events were not so close to reality, the piece would be absurd. As it is, they could just as well be real: in fact, under different names they happen every day.
Silicon Crunch
API – Washington, D.C., June 1, 1999 …………….. by Mark D. Gold
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it will
approve the controversial new food additive, “Silicon Crunch.” Silicon
Crunch is a flavored filler made by combining artificial flavors with
finely ground, recycled glass bottles. The product was developed by the
Association of Chemical Food Manufacturers (ACFM) — a collaboration of 12
chemical chemical and food ingredient companies.
Dr. Arthur A. Morales, Vice President of Development for the inventor,
ACFM, hailed the decision as “proof that chemical company scientists can
literally make anything info food!” Dr. A. Morales went on to say that
“Silicon Crunch will change the way food is made. The versatility of this
product is amazing! It can be mixed with a variety of artificial
flavorings, colors, and sweeteners. The consistency of Silicon Crunch can
very easily be changed from crunchy to creamy by controlling the
pre-treatment of the glass food materials. We believe that this will be the
best-selling food additive in history!”
Dr. A. Morales responded to questions of concern about the safety of
Silicon Crunch by stating that “There will always be a hysterical few who
question the safety of an innovative new product. Today’s decision proves
that Silicon Crunch meets the FDA’s stringent safety requirements for food
additives.”
Officials at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were elated
over the decision which they called “a victory for recycling.” Incoming
EPA Administrator, Dr. Morissa Green-Washington stated, “Recycling will
only work if there is a market for recycled products. The FDA’s decision
opens up the market for recycled glass. Our goal is to work with industry
to help create similar markets for other recycled products. We encourage
the development of new markets for other waste products by food and
chemical companies.” Several senior EPA scientists who spoke on the
condition of anonymity said that they do not share Dr. Green-Washington’s
views on this issue. One scientist summed up his viewpoint by stating,
“The approval of Silicon Crunch sets a significant precedent in that
Americans will now be eating recycled garbage. Even though it is
sterilized, I do not think it is appropriate.”
Considerable controversy could be seen at the FDA both before and after
the decision was announced by FDA Commissioner, Dr. Herbert D. Banner. Two
FDA scientists resigned in March claiming that the scientific review
process has been sidetracked by political and economic goals. FDA
Toxicologists Martin Fitzpatrick, Ph.D. and Elizabeth Shuller, Ph.D. held
a press conference yesterday in protest of what they allege was an
“inevitable decision without any scientific basis.” In a harsh criticism
of the FDA Commissioner, Dr. Shuller stated that there was never any
interest by FDA officials to look at the issue in a scientific way. She
went on to say that “Dr. Banner refused to even consider the extensive
documentation provided about the dangers of ingested glass! We were forced
to consider only the scientific documents on Silicon Crunch provided by
ACFM. The documentation provided by ACFM was ridiculous on the face of it,
yet there was no possibility of considering evidence challenging this
documentation given the rules we were forced to follow.” Dr. Fitzpatrick
added, “I believe that the whole process was motivated by money and that
the revolving door between drug and chemical companies and the FDA has
done irreparable harm to the credibility of the FDA.”
Commissioner Banner responded that “These two scientists were given every
opportunity to produce reputable scientific research that has shown that
ingesting heat-treated, finely-ground glass food material causes adverse
health effects. They were unable to produce any studies showing that
Silicon Crunch causes disease. The research they submitted showing serious
adverse effects from ingesting glass particles is simply not relevant
because those studies considered only normal ground bits of glass and not
specially heat-treatment Silicon Crunch. The important point is that the
majority of the FDA officials reviewing the product agreed that the
manufacturer has met its burden of proof that it is safe.”
“Silicon is already present in the body,” Commissioner Banner pointed out.
“It is in the tendons, cartilage, and blood vessels. And silicon is
already being ingested from plant fiber and hard water. The glass food
material in Silicon Crunch is simply another good source of silicon. There
is some evidence that as atherosclerosis develops, silicon levels decline
in the arteries. Adding Silicon Crunch to the diet may help prevent heart
disease!”
In response to the allegations of a “revolving door” at the FDA between
FDA officials and ACFM members, the Commissioner responded by saying,
“This whole issue of ‘revolving door’ has been grossly overblown. Firstly,
fewer FDA officials have left to work at ACFM member companies in this
calendar year than in previous years. Secondly, not all FDA officials
offered jobs by ACFM member companies have accepted those jobs. In fact, I
was offered such a job, but turned it down because I still have important
work to do as Commissioner of the FDA — namely, developing strategies to
keep herbs and supplements from stifling the development of legitimate
pharmaceuticals. Finally, former ACFM member company employees, who are
now FDA officials, have not been part of all of the critical aspects of
the decision-making process in the Silicon Crunch decision. These
‘conspiracy theories’ should not be taken seriously by the general
public.”
Commissioner Banner stated that the FDA took the cautious approach by
creating five strict requirements which must be met by the manufacturer
and other food companies using Silicon Crunch. The Commissioner provided
this official FDA summary of those requirements:
Three-layered filtration process must be installed to guarantee that no
large pieces of glass food particulates would ever be found in Silicon
Crunch. This size of these particulates are to be no more than 1/3 the
size that caused bleeding gums in animal research.
The Association of Chemical Food Manufacturers (ACFM) would be required to
monitor any unexpected adverse reactions.
ACFM would be required to design and fund research to provide continued
assurance of the safety of Silicon Crunch.
No dangerous products such as herbs or vitamins and minerals (above the
Recommended Daily Allowance) would be allowed in products which contain
Silicon Crunch.
Initially, no claims of medical benefit would be allowed on the label of
any food product which contains Silicon Crunch. However, claims such as
“Fat Free,” “Low Cholesterol,” and “Low Calorie” could be allowed for such
products. A petition to the FDA filed by ACFM for allowing a medical
claim, “Prevents Heart Disease” is currently being examined by FDA
scientists.
The food company members of ACFM are preparing to add Silicon Crunch to
many of their snack products. According to Dr. A. Morales of ACFM, “Our
goal is to get Silicon Crunch products on the shelves by late October to
coincide with the start of Halloween candy purchasing. American children
will be the first ones treated to this new wonder- product!” Dr. A.
Morales went on to say that ACFM plans to quickly obtain approval of
Silicon Crunch in other countries around the world that generally look to
the FDA to make a sound, scientific safety evaluation.
A written statement from the American Dietetic Association (ADA) pointed
out that they are still evaluating the situation. It went on to state that
the ADA will work closely with ACFM officials under a grant from that
organization to develop a workable Fact Sheet on the issue. In contrast, a
statement from the Association of Consumers for Nontoxic Food Choices
(ACNFC) claimed that the food industry has “spearheaded the destruction of
the scientific method and risk assessment for the last 25 years. This
included abuse of science and the politicizing of the approval and
evaluation process in the cases of aspartame, MSG, Olestra, acesulfame-k,
rBGH and many others. The approval of Silicon Crunch merely puts the
finishing touches on the destruction of the scientific method and approval
process.” An official of the ACNFC told this reporter that “Only a total
idiot would ingest Silicon Crunch…but given what the food industry has
been able to get Americans to ingest, I don’t hold out much hope of
preventing its widespread use.”
It appears that the controversy may rage for a considerable length of
time. The only agreed upon fact is that very soon many people will
experience first-hand the benefits or risks of Silicon Crunch.
What I am about to tell you will thrill you and chill you at the same time. It will thrill you because it confirms that the course set by the Natural Solutions Foundation in the US and around the world is an effective strategy which is working. And it will chill you because it confirms that your personal freedoms and mine are being curtailed at a frightening rate in the US and elsewhere. Freedom to make your own health choices and use natural products and techniques, eat clean, unadulterated food and see health care professionals who treat you naturally is clearly under huge attack. Part and parcel of that attack is the attack on our rights, given by God, according to the Constitution of the United States, to speak as we wish and contend with the views of government and industry (increasingly one entity, in the US and elsewhere) without fear of punishment because of that speech.
As advocates for what we believe (and what you do, too), we know that speaking our truth to power and to the public at large is our right and our responsibility. Apparently, for doing so, we have been marked by the “security police” as people to be treated like enemies. Our work on behalf of health and health freedom has led some cog in the burgeoning US security Gestapo to do us the favor of confirming that the Natural Solutions Foundation is on exactly the right path. We are saying and doing things the US Government is not happy about and to let us know that, they treat us like enemies of the state every time we fly in the United States!
Here’s the story:
For about the last year, every time General Stubblebine and I travel by air — anywhere — we have been subjected to increasing, and increasingly nasty and burdensome, scrutiny at security screening points. As you know, we do a LOT of traveling so this was very, very clear to us. Up until recently, however, we were always told that it was due to “random screening procedures” and that we had been “selected for additional security”. It was, of course, a funny kind of random: the enhanced security seemed to randomly apply to anyone named Albert N. Stubblebine III and Rima E. Laibow, MD who just happened to share our seat assignments.
On January 10, 2007, when General Stubblebine and I left our home near New York City on another extended trip in the service of health and health freedom, the security thing got ratcheted up quite a large notch. Our itinerary was Newark NJ (a New York regional airport) to Asheville NC to Albuquerque NM to Los Angeles to Bangkok and beyond. Within the US we were flying on Delta Airlines. At each airport both General Stubblebine and I were treated to a level of absurd “security” unlike any we had ever experienced before. I was “smacked down”, not patted down. Our carry-on luggage was not just inspected, it was torn apart. Wires, mice, cables, combs, lipsticks, everything was opened, examined, flung around, shoved into bags in a totally disorganized, “higgledy piggledy” manner with rude demeanor and agonizing slowness thrown in for good measure. We came very close to missing our flights several times despite being at the security station a full 2 hours before take off. Nasty does not even begin to describe the manner in which we were treated.
During a lay over between connecting flights I got to chatting with a member of the Delta Airlines cabin crew staff who was “dead heading” home from an international flight. I told him about the treatment we had been experiencing and he said, “You must have a code on your tickets put there by the government. Are you speaking out about something the government doesn’t like?”
So at the next check point I innocently said to the woman checking our boarding passes and photo IDs (which is, of course, just a warm up for the “Real ID” national identification card coming our way in 2008) that we were experiencing an absurd amount of security scrutiny. She smiled warmly, pointed to our boarding passes and said, “Well, here’s why. The code is right here on your boarding cards: it says that you are to get extreme scrutiny. Are you talking about something the government doesn’t want you to say?”
At that airport, too, we were subjected to the same malicious and ridiculous “screening” as at all the others. The code was right there: SSSS. So our tickets marked us, presumably at the request of the United States Government Department of Homeland Security, as bad people, people who should have their persons and belongings searched for dangerous contents. Bad people, people who should be taught a lesson, intimidated and, most important of all, people who should be cowed into not speaking out to defend their rights and the rights of others. For speaking our truth both to power and to the masses, we have been marked, as with the biblical “Mark of the Beast”.
I say, however, that our paranoid and dangerously out of control government, the one that has forgotten that our rights are, according to the United States Constitution, conferred by God, NOT by the US government, had obviously created a process of marking the best. Those who speak out, those who tell their truth and remind our government that it serves us, it does not own us, those who keep the flame of liberty, which demands active participation to feed it, alive and vigorous, are marked “for special scrutiny”. And these are the best patriots.
If the Natural Solutions Foundation were not on target, its spokespersons would not be targets. If the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Codex activities were not right on the mark, Dr. Claude Moshe, the Codex Alimentarius Commission Chairman would not have marked us for special attack before and during the 2006 Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting last July in Geneva.
Actually, I feel pretty good about receiving this direct confirmation from the US Government at the same time that I feel enraged and sorrowing that this is what our institutionalized paranoia has led us to: speak up and be marked. Be a real patriot by defending your country from corporate tyranny and become a target. You will remember that when we returned home from another long trip (during which we met privately with the President of India to brief him on Codex), our internet and phone service had been interrupted by someone who climbed the phone pole outside our isolated and remote home, removed a filter from its insulating and water-proof boot and left the boot open. Since we live on a street with only 12 houses and virtually no traffic, the pole feeds only our home with telephone and power lines. The message? Just ask General Stubblebine, who, during his active duty military career, controlled the US Army’s counter-intelligence service and he will tell you that what it means is, “We know where you live!” So the powers that be were telling us last July that we were on a watch list, too.
Is this what freedom is about? Is this what the US Constitution is about? Or is this of a piece with the same government policies and practices that are working so hard to take away your right to vitamins, minerals, natural prevention and treatment options — in short to your taking, and holding, control of your own health in favor of a pharmaceutical tyranny?
We know the answer and so do you. To the extent that you value that freedom, it is up to you to take a stand, and keep taking it, for yourself and others who may not understand yet that their freedoms, and, in fact, their very survival is at stake.
There are powerful steps you can take to support your freedoms and exercise them at the same time. Some of them will sound familiar, some will be new. They are ALL vitally important to the extent that your health and freedom are important.
Step 1: USE THE TOOL KIT
A. NUTRICIDE Watch “Nutricide” on Google Video and then get the “Nutricide: the DVD” and show it in your community. Make sure you send everyone you know this link and ask them to watch the video and then go to the Natural Solutions Foundation website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org.
B. CODEX eBOOK The Codex eBook applies the Natural Solutions Foundations’ Two Step Process (developed in conjunction with the Citizens Codex Working Group) which can protect countries from both the dangers of Codex and World Trade Organization trade sanctions for deviating from Codex has been applied to the dangerous and restrictive Vitamin and Mineral Guideline. Get the same information we present to Heads of State, Codex Delegates, Ministers of Health and other decision makers in this outstanding down-loadable eBook.
C. CODEX INFORMATION
Big Pharma and the other corporate friends of health fascism don’t want you to know what’s going on so there is a virtual black out on information about Codex. Natural Solutions Foundation wants you to have accurate, accessible and vital information. When you visit www.HealthFreedomUSA.org you will find a wealth of information for your use. Feel free to take the 5 minute Codex Tour, be sure to read “Nutricide: the Killing Fields of Codex“, download the one page Codex Flyer, visit the Resource Center, etc. You have my personal permission to use, share or reproduce these materials as long as you give full credit and a complete citation when you do. Email it, post it, blast it, just get the word out. The major media are not covering this issue so it’s up to you and me.
B. TAKE THE ACTION STEPS
Join the Citizens Petition and become part of the historic suit against the US Government against their illegal Codex policy on supplements. Nearly 40,000 other US Citizens have already signed the petition. Let your circle of influence know how important their signatures are and send them the link with your suggestion that they sign the Citizens Petition, too!
If you have not yet signed the Citizens Petition at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, do it now! You can automatically email it to us with the click of a button and we will take it from there.
Step 2: SIGN UP FOR EMAIL UPDATES
Make sure you are signed up for our secure (I.E., never sold, shared, loaded or rented), Natural Solutions Foundation eNewsletter (on our homepage, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org) and send the email blasts you receive from us to your entire circle of influence, too.
Step 3. ORGANICS4U: SUPPORT YOUR HEALTH AND YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM AT THE SAME TIME
Every time you make a purchase from our all-organic, doctor recommended store, Organics4U you are supporting the Natural Solutions Foundation, protecting your body. Organic foods and supplements do not expose you to the dangers and damage caused by pesticides, artificial colors, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, synthetic “supplements” or food and nutrients derived from dangerous genetically modified sources. Everything at the Organics4U shop has been verified by me personally to be organic, clean and wholesome. You can shop safely for yourself and your family.
More than that, though, you know that you are helping the Natural Solutions Foundation to fight for your freedom to have access to clean, unadulterated products like these. And, as a way of saying “thank you” for your support, the tax deductible portion of every portion (approximately 40%) comes back to you as a tax deduction to a charitable organization with a letter you can give to your tax adviser come tax time in a few months!
Step 4. DONATE
Your one time or recurring tax deductible donations make it possible for the Natural Solutions Foundation to keep on finding effective solutions to problems like Codex Alimentarius and other serious health freedom threats. You send us to Codex meetings, allow us to enlist lawyers and other experts who, like us, are willing to donate their time but have travel and other expenses associated with doing this work. You pay for our webmaster, and a host of other on-going expenses. What you do not pay for is salaries or retainers for our lawyers or for us: we donate 100% of our time to keeping your health freedom alive and well. We are endorsed by organizations like the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and the National Association of Nutrition Professionals among others.
We have no commercial support: our only constituency is you. We cannot continue to be uniquely effective and uniquely present at the right times and places without that support. Consider making a recurring gift so we know what our monthly income will be. But please make your donation right now.
Step 5. GET INVOLVED
People write to me at my new email address, dr.laibow@gmail.com, to tell me that they are eager to become involved. They can either become community organizers or, as often happens, they have wonderful talents and ideas for art auctions, dance and music fund raisers, lectures, health freedom t-shirts, tag sales, etc., etc. What would you like to do to support health freedom? We’ll help! Let’s make it happen.
We’ll be here in Bangkok working on some special projects for health freedom and international cooperation for a while, then off to India in about a month to follow up on the outstanding successes we have had there. In May we’ll be in Ottawa for the Codex Committee on Food Labeling, in Rome in July for the Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting (where Dr. Moshe is probably NOT going to roll out the red carpet for us. You get the picture. We are there, literally, for you. Tell me your particular way of being there for us and we’ll continue changing the world, and protecting our freedoms, together!
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
dr.laibow@gmail.com
Nutricide (noo trih side):
1. Intentionally bringing about our causing the death of a body of knowledge and information concerning the health promoting and curative attributes of herbs, food and food components
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2. Intentionally bringing about our causing the death of large numbers of people through nutritional manipulation
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Codex Alimentarius (the international food standard organization) and multinational corporation collusion together impair and gravely threaten world health. If Codex has its way, its deadly standards and guidelines will be implemented in the United States by 2010 significantly impairing the health and health prospects of all Americans, killing those with chronic illnesses who depend on therapeutic dose nutritional supplements for survival.
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