I just did something that I can’t wait to share with you! One of our challenges in a grass roots, global village is finding each other. We now have a sophisticated electronic way to hook up with other people in our own locals in the same way that we can via the internet. It’s called meetup.com (URL: http://www.meetup.com/) Go there and enter “Health Freedom”. You will be directed to The Health Freedom Meetup. If you join the Meetup in your town, let me know and we will help you organize it.
Here’s how it works: if you would like to have a Health Freedom Meetup in your area (even if you don’t know anyone else to invite to your Meetup), look for a Health Freedom meetup in your area (you’ll be asked for your zip code). Go to “Fnd a Meetup Group” and enter “Health Freedom”. If there isn’t one in your area, become an organizer. It’s simple and it’s easy. That let’s you organize a Meetup on the same day and at the same time as all the other Health Freedom Meetups (or at another time if you can’t make that one although it is best if we all meet on the same day).
Meetup.com let’s us all communicate with one another, organize events that are bigger than our local meetings and share information and experience, fliers, ideas, etc. with each other. Privacy is assured and no one needs to travel long distances to meet with people who care about health freedom, too. Ask your local Starbucks or similar site if you can meet there once a month (or more often as the need arises). Make your meeting short, focused and to the point and let us know what happens so we can help coordinate what you are doing with others around the countries who are doing the similar things.
An urgent priority is getting people in your Meetup active so that they and everyone they know tells their Congressmen and women to attend the Congressional Codex Briefing, September 20 (time TBA) Room 2220 Rayburn by going to our email engine, http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw. (I’m now including URLs because when the email gets forwarded, sometimes the link does not transmit).
There is a $19 per month Meetup fee which people can help the organizer cover through dues (payable by paypal). I would suggest a meeting fee of $19 divided by the number of people at the Meetup for starters.
I am really excited about using global electronic communication to help us act locally and keep America Codex free!
Let me know that you are having a Meetup and we will provide material which will make your task easier and more effective. So let’s Meetup on Tuesday, September 13 at 7:30PMshall we? See you then!
Yours in health and well-met freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Mercury is not a good thing to put in your bodies. That much is clear to any open minded person who does not have a conflict of interest clouding his/her thinking (or speaking, at least).
I believe that heavy metal toxicity is one of the major factors accounting for the epidemic of that tragic and largely preventable disease, autism. So does Dr. David Ayoub, the director of the Prairie Collaborative for Immunization. Dr. Ayoub, a radiologist, believes that the evidence linking mercury with the deep tragedy of a perfectly normal child becoming a struggling, damaged human being through an unnecessary poisoning is irrefutable.
Four out of 5 vaccines for flu contain mercury, as much as 25 micrograms per dose. Since the EPA’s “safe limit” is 1/250 of that (0.1 microgram) every person who allows themselves to receive a flu vaccine shot gets an overdose. In fact, only an adult who weighs 550 lbs or more would receive a mercury dose in line with The Center for Disease Control recommendations.
But they are taking the mercury out of vaccines, aren’t they? Nope, they are not. Many vaccines still have mercury (thimerisol) and there is no indication that the mercury is scheduled for removal. (Of course, the next generation of vaccines contains squalene, which is much worse. More of that in another blog).
Here’s the kicker: mercury is known to pass the placental barrier. Fetuses are known to be particularly sensitive to heavy metal poisoning, especially mercury and could, with a single shot to their pregnant mother, receive several hundred times the EPA recommended dose (which I believe is not safe even at that lower level).
Astonishingly, however, in 2004 CDC specified that young infants and pregnant women should receive the flu vaccine, exposing more babies and fetuses to much more mercury although there is little or no benefit to the pregnant woman. The risks to the fetus, however, are considerable. In the case of pregnant women, the benefit of flu vaccination was minimal, yet the risks to the unborn infant could be significant.
Vaccine manufacturers admit that adequate testing has not been carried out on flu vaccine for mothers and babies. The Fluzone insert says:
“Animal reproduction studies have not been conducted with Influenza Virus Vaccine. It is not known whether Influenza Virus Vaccine can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or can affect reproduction capacity.”
What do you need to avoid the flu? Many people rely on homeopathic flu prevention. Homeopathy has an outstanding record in the prevention of epidemic diseases. But many more use common sense and nutritional sophistication to make sure that their immune systems are in tip-top shape.
In any epidemic, some people get sick and some don’t. Of the ones who get sick, if the epidemic is a killer, some will die and some won’t. The difference: the immune systems of the survivors and the people who did not get sick were in better shape.
Codex will damage the immune systems of every one on the planet. Because of that , people will sicken and die who otherwise would not have just as autistic children sicken who otherwise would not have it they had not been given vaccinations.
The message: guard your immune system carefully. Choose your prevention strategies carefully. And if it has mercury in it, choose another option!
Yours in health and mercury free freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
PS: please make sure that you urge your Congressional Delegation to attend the vitally important Codex Briefing on September 20, 2005, Room
2220 Rayburn.
I had a really interesting conversation today. I called one of the many companies whose products I use because this one makes superb quality cod liver oil that I often recommend to help my patients (and me) get and stay well. I really like their oil (I have no financial relationship with them at all) and today when I saw a press release saying that they were going to resist Codex pressure to use artificial vitamins in their products I thought that was pretty terrific. I picked up the phone and called to congratulate them and discuss Codex at the same time.
I got a nice young woman on the phone who did not believe that the American people would allow our freedoms and our health to be taken away from us and could not believe that we would ever let it happen. She was adamant and insistant that there is no way that this country, founded on the ideals of freedom, and populated by people who came here for a free life, would ever allow Codex in under any circumstance. She believes in America as a land of freedom. So do I.
She’s right, you know. Now we just have to inform the American people that someone wants to take away those freedoms and their right to choose natural health options and the good people of America will say, “Not only no, but Hell no!” so loud that it will reverberate through the halls of Congress. That’s our task.
How do we do that? You are the key. You are a constituent. You are a communicator. You are a trusted person in your circle of influence. You make a difference.
1. Get a group of people together in your home to talk about taking your rights back under your own control and set up a speaker phone. I’ll join your group (we need to schedule it in advance, of course). Get a bunch of folks together to visit your Congressional member’s local offices and brief them on what they need to do (and not do) to protect your health freedom. It’s likely that if you are the first group in, your Congressman or woman will never have heard of Codex!
2. Email Congress to let them know that you want them to attend our Congressional Briefing on Codex. Let them know when and where: Congressional Briefing on Codex, 12 noon, Room 2220 Rayburn on September 20, 2005!
3. Join the Health Freedom 400: Please donate a minimum of $25 to help us reach our goal of $10,000 in the next 22 days! (More is perfectly fine, you understand.) We’re 23% of the way there. Donate now to make it possible for us to keep fighting for you! Take a look at what we’ve accomplished so far and how your donations are used. I personally promise you that every penny donated is spent directly on the Health Freedom battle! You have my word.
4. Spread the word! Tell your friends and every one in your circle of influence about Codex and send them to HealthFreedomUSA.org so they can come on board, too. Write a letter to the editor.
If you have other ideas or want to do something else, contact us. Let us know how we can support you and work together!
Yours in dynamic, forward moving health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
We get to tell our story to Congress on September 20, 2005 and you are invited! The Natural Solutions Foundation will participate in a Congressional Briefing on Codex Alimentarius in room 2220 in the Rayburn Building. We would love to see you there. We would also love to see Congress there! They will come if you tell them that you, their constituent, urge them to go. That’s how it works. This is a critical opportunity to make the pro-health side of the Codex story clear to Congress since it is Congress that can protect or overturn DSHEA and it is Congress that can allow or prevent harmonization with other Codex standards here in the US.
Congress is our bulwark and Congress knows almost nothing about Codex. The Natural Solutions Foundation has called and written to every member of Congress and spoken to their health aides (or tried to). There are a few Congressmen who “get” Codex like Representatives Ron Paul, Peter DeFazio, Dan Burton, Dana Rohrabacher and others.
The vast majority of Congress, however, has either never heard of Codex or only has the “Consumer Protection” line to hold on to. We know, of course, that consumer protection has nothing to do with Codex. We know that you cannot trust Codex with either your health or your wallet. Congress, by and large, has no idea about the real nature of Codex. So we will tell them.
Here’s your part: there are lots of Congressional briefings. Congressmen and their staff members only go when they have a reason to go. The most compelling reason to go is because you tell them to!
Here’s what you need to send them (you can cut and paste this letter or write your own):
It is urgently important that you and your staff attend the Congressional Briefing on Codex Alimentarius on September 20, 2005 in room 2220 in the Rayburn Building. Codex Alimentarius has the potential to eliminate access to high potency vitamins currently protected by DSHEA, lower the quality of food due to significant adulteration and, as a consequence, increase preventable disease and deaths in this country.
Despite inaccurate information to the contrary, Codex Alimentarius is not protective of consumer needs, rights or interests. Instead, it is a form of global corporate welfare with dire consequences to the health and well being of America’s people and environment.
I do not trust Codex with my health or my wallet and I look to you to protect my them for me since you are in a position to do so.
Thank you in advance for your attendance at this vitally important briefing. I particularly want you to hear what Rima E. Laibow, MD, Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation, has to share during this briefing.
Thank you,
your name
your address
Cut and paste that into the form that you will reach by following this link: Contact Congress , enter your zip code and click on “Elected Officials”. Your Congressional Delegation and the President of the US will get the email you send.
Please ask everyone on your email list join you in urging Congress to attend this briefing. Give them the link and the instructions above and suggest that they send a letter like the one above to Congress, too. Only grass roots will win this battle. But grass roots CAN win it!
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Freedom. It’s a beautiful word, isn’t it?
How about Monsanto? Is that a beautiful word?
And what happens when you bump Monsanto up against Freedom? Well, if you are in North Carolina, Monsanto flattens Freedom just about like the Road Runner got flattened by a steam roller in the old cartoons. Only the Road Runner popped back up again, because it was only make believe. This is all too real.
“Monsanto Laws” have been passed in 15 states which make it illegal for counties to ban the use of genetically modified foods . That’s right. Freedom just got squashed flat as a pancake. Farmers who want to protect their crops from degradation and contamination may not do so in 15 states.
Why do they want to? Well, for one reason, because if you are a farmer growing non GMO crops and Monsanto detects GOM pollinated plants on your farm, they will sue you and, if 500 cases are any indication, they will win. Your crime? Infringing on Monsanto’s “intellectual property” which blew onto your farm without your knowledge or consent.
Of course, if you are an organic farmer, you have additional problems. You can’t protect yourself by concerted community action and according to Laurel Hopwood of the Sierra Club,
“What’s unfortunate for farmers, especially organic farmers, is that pollen can move from place to place, so the spread of GMO gene traits is inevitable.” Hopwood adds, “What’s different about this form of pollution from any other form of pollution is that it’s alive. These new life forms multiply, spread, and cannot be recalled. … Not only are organic farmers not allowed to call their crop ‘organic’ when it becomes contaminated, but
also farmers can’t sell their crops overseas where GMOs are not accepted.”
Oh, by the way, there is a proposal in California, SB 1056, introduced by Dean Florez that would effectively remove a community’s control over its food supply. In part SB 1056 states “no ordinance or regulation of any
political subdivision may prohibit or in any way attempt to regulate any matter relating to the registration, labeling, sale, storage, transportation, distribution, notification of use, or use of field crops.”
That doesn’t sound very exciting until you realize that it says that all meaningful discourse and debate about GMO foods by local communities will be forbidden in California if this bill passes. This is what I call a legal dum-dum bullet: like a real dum-dum bullet which is scored on the tip to explode inside its target, this one sounds pretty ho-hum but, if passes, it will dovetail with the preemptive legislation States are falling all over themselves to pass which prohibits communities from protecting themselves or their crops and explode right in the belly of food freedom. Oh, yes, no government agency has ever conducted long-term meaningful GMO feeding studies to make sure that the information Big Biotechna puts out to assure us that GMOs are safe bears any resemblance to reality.
But California wants to join the other 15 States which will compel communities to plant what they are told and allow their fields to be contaminated as pollen drifts across their land without comment or complaint. Freedom? Lady Liberty? Have you seen her? Isn’t she that smudge on the road where the big truck with “Monsanto” painted across it just passed?
But GMOs are safe, aren’t they? Are they? In the EU, the dangers of Mon 863, a genetically modified corn, came to light only after a German court ordered Monsanto to reveal the data from a 90 day rat feeding study earlier this summer. Jeffrey Smith, author of “Seeds of Deception” wrote on August 27, 2005, “Rats fed Mon 863 developed several reactions, including those typically found with allergies (increased basophils), in response to infections, toxins and various diseases including cancer (increased lymphocytes and white blood cells), and in the presence of anemia (decreased reticulocyte count) and blood pressure problems (decreased kidney weights). There were also increased blood sugar levels, kidney inflammation, liver and kidney lesions, and other changes. According to top research biologist Arpad Pusztai, who was commissioned by the German government to evaluate the study in 2004, based on the evidence no one can say that Mon 863 will cause cancer or allergies or anything specific. The results are preliminary and must be followed-up to rule these out. He warns, however, “It is almost impossible to imagine that major lesions in important organs. . . . or changes in blood parameters. . . . that occurred in GM maize-fed rats, is incidental and due to simple biological variability.”
Dr. Pusztai was forced to sue the French government in order to be able to discuss his highly disturbing findings.
We’ll be taking more about this case tomorrow. In the meantime, give some thought to what it would take to shift to a diet that did not have GMOs in it if you were so inclined. Please share your thoughts by commenting on this blog.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director