We have reached Day 19/30 of the Natural Solutions Foundation Fund Raising Drive and your generosity has brought us $7923. Thank you, one and all.
General Stubblebine and I are totally dedicated to protecting, preserving and defending our health freedom. We eat, sleep, drink and breath health freedom. It’s that important to us to make sure that we all have the opportunity to make whatever health choices we think best. In fact, we closed our medical practice to work on this full time (or rather full time plus!)
You probably know that we need your help with Congressional letters, sharing information via email, organizing meetups and the like. When we ask for it, your response is fantastic! And you probably also know that we depend upon you for your generous donations so that we can continue this battle for your health freedoms and for ours.
Since we are asking you for money, it seemed only right that we take a few minutes to share the 12 top reasons that make it a great idea to give generously to the Natural Solutions Foundation.
Remember, you can make your donation by credit card, PayPal or check. (If you want to make a tax deductible donation you may do so by making your check out to NISLAPP [which stands for National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy] and writing “Natural Solutions Foundation” on the memo line. Mail it to:
Natural Solutions Foundation
P.O. Box 722
Maryville, MO 64468
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So here are my top twelve reasons that it makes sense to support health freedom and the Natural Solutions Foundation:
1. Every single penny you donate to the Natural Solutions Foundation goes directly toward the health freedom fight. There are no salaries and no overhead costs like rent and utilities, etc., because they are donated.
2. General Stubblebine and I are experienced health and freedom fighters so we know how to fight this war through strategic alliances and international collaboration.
3. The Natural Solutions Foundation is beholden to nothing but the truth and no one but our supporters.
4. The Natural Solutions Foundation carries your battle everywhere: to the airwaves, the internet, Congress, the International Community and anywhere else it needs to go without ceasing. Last week, for General Stubblebine and I were interviewed on 15 national and 2 local radio shows and 1 web cast.
5. The Natural Solutions Foundation is broadly focused on ALL the health freedom issues confronting us and was the first health freedom organization to alert the public to the fact that Codex was about much more than just vitamins and minerals.
6. The Natural Solutions Foundation is willing to tackle the toughest issues fearlessly whether others agree with us or not. They usually come around after we have been breaking ground for a while.
7. General Stubblebine and I travel extensively wherever we can shed light on the issues. We reported on the Codex Alimentarius Commission in Rome, attend and speak at Public Hearings, lecture to lay and professional groups all over North America and bring the latest news and information back to you. We’ll be going to Bonn for the Codex Nutrition Committee meeting in November.
8. The Natural Solutions Foundation investigates and dissects disinformation, spin and propaganda for you and then offers you the truth as we understand it. We tell you everything we know: there are no secrets and no hidden agendas.
9. We support you fully when we ask you to do something (such as organize a Health Freedom Meetup), we are there with support, phone-in participation, information and anything else you tell us would be helpful to you.
10. We work very hard to keep the website current so that you have up-to-the minute information to make decisions with.
11. The Natural Solutions Foundation offers meaningful, well-thought-out action steps at the local and national levels so we do more than just tell you where the dangers are. We tell you how to combat them.
12. The Natural Solutions Foundation brings easy activism which can save your life with initatives like the
to help you say “NO!” to GMOs and make healthy food choices for yourself your family.
Gerbers likes to say, “Babies are our business, our only business”. We modify it to say, “Health Freedom is our passion, our only passion”.
Please support the Natural Solutions Foundation with generous donations. We look to you to tell us how important our work is to you by participating in the action steps and by donating the money we need to keep operationg.
Perhaps you might consider making an on-going contribution. The credit card form allows you to do that.
Perhaps you just want to give a one time gift. Either way, please give generously so that we can continue to work for you and your health freedom.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
PS: Think for a moment what your natural health choices are worth to you. What would you pay to get them back if you lost them? Please donate now. REL
I have been thinking about what to write about in this blog all day. This week the Natural Solutions Foundation did 15 radio shows on Codex and the Eat Smart, Eat Safe Buy-cott. Most of the shows were call-in shows and I have told who-knows-how-many people about Codex? 1 million? 10 million? 25 million? I have no way of knowing.
So I am full up to the eyeballs with facts and particulars about GMOs and Codex protocols and procedures and so on. Instead of giving you more facts and figures, I thought that I would share two quotes which capture the issues with precision and beauty and one which is breathtaking in its arrogance and inaccuracy (“Fair and Balanced”?). We’ll go back to the hard facts and statistics tomorrow. But I believe that when we make our choices, move through life with clarity and let our minds and hearts reverberate to truth, it is useful to have more than facts.
Eileen Dannemann, President of the National Coalition of Organized Women has this to say about GMOs:
“The Genetic engineering of the nation and world’s seeds is the broadest and single most offensive stroke of aggressive and covert manipulation against womankind in the history of humanity. Biotech’s “terminator” and “exorcist” technologies seek to sterilize the reproductive value of Mother Nature Herself. To sterilize the reproductive nature of seeds is a violation of a principal law of nature, the Law of Abundance. The only outcome that can result from this kind of trend in thinking is scarcity. After being chemicalized, cauterized and sterilized, errant man dares to implant genetically manipulated, foreign life forms into Her womb. What can She yield? Any good woman would recoil at such an offense and have a spontaneous abortion. We are looking towards an imminent agricultural collapse and a global agricultural holocaust as long as Congress supports the economic plan for the United States to own the world food supply.”
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation Technique, was aware of Biotechnology’s dangers and he offered a specific warning about it:
“Tell those who eat genetically engineered foods that their lives have been severely shortened. So tell them to meditate with the little time they have left on the planet”
And, now for something completely different: 3 of America’s leading scientists, Vernon Cardwell (ASA President), Ronald Phillips (CSSA President), Donald Sparks (SSSA President) have circulated among US scientists the following [astonishing] statement:
“Many biotechnology detractors gain public support for their cause through the use of misinformation and emotional appeals… In short, biotechnology, this incredibly powerful and valuable tool with seemingly limitless potential to resolve health problems, increase crop yields, and treat diseases, is at risk of serious setbacks.”
And, indeed, consumer opposition has lead to the cancellation of field trials of GMOs in England, the abandonment of Monsanto’s GMO wheat (when Japan and the EU threatened a boycott of US wheat, given that they buy 45% of all of our wheat) and over 3000 GMO free zones (2 in California).
In fact, the Biotech Bullies are encountering strong opposition from consumers. That’s you and me!
The Eat Safe, Eat Smart Buy-Cott needs your help to push them off the map. I am in the process of designing a web site for the campaign and need information on products.
We know that organic foods are GMO free. We also know that many supplement and food manufacturers are sourcing GMO materials for their products. We need to know who they are.
Here is what I would like you to do: email the companies that make the things that you like and use (including herbs and supplements) and ask them to provide information about the presence or absence of GMO materials in their products. Get it in writing! Once you have that email, please forward it to me at info@healthfreedomusa.org and I will make sure that the information is added to the site so that other people can make healthy choices based on that data, too.
If a company states that their products are GMO free, we will list them on the Eat Safe, Eat Smart Buy-Cott site. If not, we will mention that they did not provide that assurance. It is my hope that with your help we will quickly be able to provide a great deal of vitally important information to anyone who needs it.
Oh, one more thing: We have reached $7698 on day 18 of our fund raising drive! We have recieved large gifts and small ones and we are better than 3/4 of the way there in our goal to raise $10,000. But we are not there yet! Won’t you become part of the Freedom 400 and donate $25 or more to make sure that we can continute to work for your health and your health freedom?
We are depending on you.
Yours in health and freedom from GMOs,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Big Pharma can be a great friend or a terrifying enemy. It depends whether you play ball with it or not. If you are a Drug Or Compound Trade Optomizing Responder ( a”DOCTOR“) Big Pharma loves you because you are an open spigot dispensing highly profitable (and largely unnecessary) drugs for things that don’t respond very well to them. And those drugs may not be the safe (!), effective (!) and necessary (!) compounds magnificent advertising, purchased “research” and carefully manipulated press lead you to think that they are.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I know that drugs have a place in medicine. When something goes wrong on a short term, crisis basis, you want a short-term, crisis response and drugs are very good for short, sharp interventions. Anesthesia, drugs to get the heart pumping properly, drugs to stop seizures, drugs to treat brain hemorrhages, acute asthma and other “Right NOW!” situations are near miraculous when they are used properly. But that’s not where the money is for the Big Pharma. So that’s not where their energy is, and not where the action is.
But to be marketed a drug must be approved by the FDAs of the world. And clinical trials are expensive, especially when they don’t come out right. And that’s where John Le Carre’s brilliant novel and Fernando Mierelles’ brilliant adaptation of “The Constant Gardener” comes in.
It is a masterfully told, visually stunning tale of ordinary men and women dealing with extraordinary events in exotic places to create a graphic, chilling and vitally important film. The story is simple, the events complex and the moral clear. Based on a true story, “The Constant Gardener“chronicles a web of complicity and avarice which engulfs and murders a decent couple (along with unwitting experimental subjects) but cannot kill the truth.
“The Constant Gardner” lays bare Big Pharma’s clinical drug trial protocols which force dangerous, untested drugs onto unsuspecting Africans. Falsified documentation makes it appear that these drugs are safe leading to FDA and other national agency approvals, global distribution and immense profits.
This is a movie every one who cares about truth and health freedom should see. In fact, this movie is so important that I want you to see it as my guest. Here’s how: Eileen Dannemann, the Director of the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) has arranged with the film’s producer to make free tickets available to everyone who is willing to pass out flyers about the film and its vitally important message!
To get your free tickets and download the flyers, print at least 100 copies of the movie-goers’ flyer (the fist one) , Tessa Lives, http://tinyurl.com/agf7m, and fax copies of the second flier to your Congressmen and women, http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ .
Next, get your free ticket, http://tinyurl.com/cu83h, and take your 100 (or more) fliers with you to the theater. Hand them out to people who are leaving the theater (who are usually somber and quiet as they absorb what they have just witnessed and learned). It is a wonderful time to give them information. Ask them to take action and hand them the flier.
If you want to do more to make sure that the vital message of this powerful film reverberates throughout our society, visit The Progressive Convergence site, http://tinyurl.com/7wv2u. You will find press releases and other material you can distribute.
In fact, why not take these fliers to a Health Freedom Meetup in your area. If there isn’t one yet, I suggest you become the organizer and use the site and your email network, health food store, etc., to let people know that your local Meetup will be gathering at the time and location of your choice on a particular date. Pass out the Tessa Lives flyer and suggest that others at the meeting share the message at the theater playing “The Constant Gardener” in your neighborhood. Of course, there’s lot’s more to talk about at the meetup and, if you let me know that you are organizing it, I will provide material for your meeting which will help organize it.
I urge you to see this outstanding film. We are deeply fortunate that we have this vehicle for education and truth created by such outstanding talents.
Yours in health, freedom and art in the cause of truth,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
The US wants Codex to make our policy of allowing the unlabeled use of Genetically Modified Organisms (known as “GMOs” or “Frankenfoods”) worldwide. Let’s take a quick look at the dangers of supposedly safe Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for us and explore GMOs a little further and how to protect yourself and your loved ones from GMO’s insidious and emerging dangers.
Let me be clear right up front: to me as a doctor and a scientist, the scientific evidence is nowhere near compelling that GMOs are safe. They are tested only inside the confines of the companies that create and market them who can suppress whatever evidence they don’t like. Scientists who question the official dogma of their safety (despite the facts) are punished by loss of career and reputation even if they are right — especially if they are right!
Dr. Alpad Pusztai has a hard name to pronounce but an easy message to remember: GMOs cause damage to every organ in the body when eaten either by the animals we eat or by us directly. He is one of the most respected scientists in the EU and, although corporate forces have risen up in wrath because of his brave and bold willingness to speak freely about what others are eager to hide, Dr. Pusztai’s science is impeccable.
He has shown that genetically-manipulated foods, when fed to animals in reasonable amounts, causes very gradual total body organ and immune system damage.
But wait, there’s more! Do a Google search on “GMO Dangers” and you will meet up with respected scientists from genetics, medicine, epidemiology, bioethics, ecology, sociology, agronomy and just about every other relevant science telling you why GMO foods are a really, really dangerous technology if you want to live a long and healthy life.
In the US, GMOs may be released into the environment without any identification or proof of their safety whatsoever. While enthusiastic advocates of GMOs abound, scientists who are not tied to industry have a great many serious problems with genetically modified plants, animals, insects, trees, flowers, etc. It is important to remember that GMOs are not tested for safety before marketing in the US. Regulation by the FDA involves only a voluntary certification program which says that the GMO in question exhibits “substantial equivalence” (it looks like, tastes like, smells like, cooks like the unmodified organism).
That’s it. That’s the full extent of our government’s involvement with GMO plants and crops. Fish, herd animals and other organisms (including GMOs modified to produce vaccines and drugs) are regulated just a bit more but human health (to say nothing at all of environmental health) appears to not be a government concern.
It needs to be your concern, though. In the US (and the rest of the world if the US has its way with the Codex Committee on Biotechnology), unless you buy organic produce, foods and grass fed, free range meat, you WILL be eating GMOs since the US is the world leader in GMO crops (63% of the world’s GMO crops are gown here).
If your diet includes corn, soy products, canola oil, wheat, potatoes, beets, papayas, sweet potatoes and a host of other foods you are eating unstable genetic material which can, despite industry assurance, make its way into your body and brain with unknown consequences.
Why should you care?
Because if the food you eat exhibits “substantial equivalence” you cannot tell if it is real food or GMO food. And there is every reason to believe that this transgenic food may seriously harm you and your family over time. We know it harms the environment.
Dr. Terje Traavik (Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology), investigating mysterious lethal syndromes where GMO crops were being grown, said blood tests showed the villagers had developed antibodies to the genetically inserted pesticide [in the crops]. Traavik’s studies show that a virus promoter—which controls the genetic message—was unexpectedly found intact in human cells.
Dr. Traavik’s team also found that genetically engineered viruses used in the GM process combined with natural viruses to create new hybrid viruses with unpredictable characteristics, and that these hybrid viruses could cause new diseases.
Don’t you think it is prudent to avoid these unstable, untested and unsafe foods? So do I.
Suppose you could find out what foods had GMOs in them and which ones didn’t. Wouldn’t you want to avoid eating the ones that might be dangerous? Food should not have life-threatening consequences!
Here are the basic rules for avoiding GMO foods:
1. Eat organic whenever possible. It’s worth the extra money because you probably will save it in co-pays on hospital bills and drugs later: healthy people don’t need drugs.
2. Buy products from GMO free companies (there are a lot of them).
3. Avoid products from companies using GMOs (like Lumen Foods and Boca Burgers)
4. Ask companies whose foods you eat about their GMO policy. Go to their corporate sites and send them an email. Let me know what they say and we will share the information. (Email me at info@healthfreedomusa.org)
5. Avoid anything with canola oil. Nearly all of it is genetically modified and treated with toxic chemicals
6. Avoid soy, corn and wheat (and things made from them) unless they are organic
7. Purchase only free range, organically fed animal protein i.e., beef, milk, veal, ostrich, turkey, chicken, eggs, etc.)
8. Limit your fish to wild-caught, never farmed, sources.
Does this sound like a boycott? Close. I call it a “buy-cott”, a positive action by consumers to protect their health and support the market for health foods so farmers and producers will have an incentive to keep producing wholesome food.
Please send me your ideas and strategies for this buy-cott. Buying what you know is good for you and your family is another way for you to take your own power, authority and decision-making into your own hands.
Yours in health and freedom from dangerous foods,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Today’s Blog comes to you from the Natural Solutions Foundation President, Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)
Hello. 300 years before Christ (or thereabouts) Sun Tzu wrote the greatest treatise on winning a war ever written. He said there are only a few Principles of War: follow them and you win, violate them and you loose.
The first is Mass: numbers will carry the day. The more of us who communicate our position, the stronger each one of us becomes since we have grass roots support by people who vote, lots of people who vote. Another Principle is Offense . You never, never win a war by sitting on your hands and accepting the pabulum of inane responses by people who are supposedly responsible to you for their actions.
I know that many of you are writing to your Congressmen and women, http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw, and receiving empty, meaningless or even irrelevant letters in return. This is not acceptable. Democracy demands dialogue. Like you, I wrote to my Congressional Delegation and, like some of you, I received an absolutely empty letter in return. Please let me know who the Congressmen and women are who are abusing our trust in this way and the Natural Solutions Foundation will publish a list of those non-communicators.
I had written to my Representatives urging their strong opposition to Susan Davis’ disastrous HR 3156 because it represents a potential danger of massive proportion to the health and health freedom to the population of the United States. Of course, there are other major threats, too. SA 1379, attached to the Defense Spending Bill, is a serious threat to our health and nutrient access as well. As it happened, the letter I received was about HR 3156. It might just as well have been about any of the other bills we urge you to oppose.
In this case, I received an email back thanking me and telling me that HR 3156 was in Committee and “I will take your views into account when considering this bill”. There was no substantive information or indication of a position on the issues in the reply I received. Not acceptable!
Many of you have told us you are getting the same unacceptable letters from your Congressmen and women. The natural tendency is to throw up your hands in disgust and not write again. Wrong. That means that you have allowed yourself to be fobbed off by a meaningless letter and you accepted it. That is not how we win the battle and not how we win the war. Rather, what you need to do is go back to the email engine on our site, http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw, and write a letter demanding a real answer and telling your Congressman or woman that he or she works for you and needs your vote in the next electoral cycle. Therefore, you need a straight answer and a vigorous protection of your rights and interests in this electoral cycle. You can also remind your Congressperson that he/she needs to win the primary in order to secure re-election and that you are an active member of your community who will remember and share the interactions which you have with your Congressional Delegates. If you do not get straight answers to straight questions and get mealy-mouthed verbiage instead of straight talk, you will let other people know that this is not a trustworthy person to send to Congress again.
Corporate interests have declared war on Health and Health Freedom. This is a war that we must win! Inactivity won’t win it nor will allowing a ridiculous letter to pacify you.
Yours in health and freedom,
Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III
President
PS: Thanks for your outstanding email response demanding a Congressional Codex Briefing. More than 16,000 emails have been sent to Congress in the last two days by our supporters. Since Congress counts each one as the opinion of 13,000 voters, that’s a whole lot of people saying, “Protect our Health Freedom, Congressman!” Keep up the good work! ANS