As many of you know, I am a doctor, licensed by two states to practice medicine. As you probably also know, I have chosen to offer my patients Natural and Nutritional Medicine or NNM as I currently refer to it. NNM uses natural, effective, non-toxic and safe methods to give the body/mind/spirit unit what it needs to heal in profound ways.
Right now we are in the midst of a war against health, a war against nature and a war against freedom. In every war there is propaganda and you have undoubtedly heard and seen the poison press about nutrients and supplements, herbs and natural cures. Anything that does not put money in the pharmaceutical coffers is “debunked” and dismisses regardless of how safe, effective (and cheap) it is. Or, rather, because it is safe, effective and cheap and therefore a dangerous economic competitor to drugs the only “official” way to get treated now a days besides surgery.
But wait: there are statistics to be considered here which make the propaganda sound awfully hollow. For example, doctors are the leading cause of death in the United States killing 800,000 mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and friends. That is more than any other cause of death.
You probably are aware that the gun lobby maintains that people in the US have the right to bear arms and bear them they do. So we are thinking about Supplements, Doctors and Guns today. What ties them together? Statistics from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI and Dr. Ron Law, as a matter of fact. Here’s how:
The US Department of Health and Human Services tells us that
(A) The number of doctors in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14%
The FBI tells us
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000 (That’s 80 million)
(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500
(C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.001875%
Ron Law, MD tells us that there have been zero deaths directly attributable to supplements. So does Dr. Andrew Saul when he asked the Canadian Parliament, “Where Are the Bodies?”
So statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners who are infinitely more dangerous than supplements.
Remember, guns and supplements don’t kill people, doctors do.
FACTS:
NEARLY EVERYONE HAS SUPPLEMENTS
NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN
BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors
before this gets completely out of hand!!!
Tongue (or supplement) in cheek? Perhaps and, then again, perhaps not.
Do I really want to ban doctors? Of course not. Modern Western medicine is brilliant at diagnosis and in the treatment of acute trauma. But that’s not where the bucks are. They are in the deadly, but oh-so-profitable “treatment” of everything chronic. The drugs don’t work but the numbers do.
Remember, it’s your body, it’s your choice and it’s your life! Make the decisions that are good for you, not your doctor or your insurance company.
Join me Wednesday evening at 7 PM Eastern at www.FICAA.com when our guest on the Voice of Health Freedom (c), FREE U.S./FREE US! will be Dr. Gail Johnson, a brave and special former Navy doctor who realized that the psychiatric drugs she was trained to use were deadly poisons and told the Navy she would not use them any more! Listen to her story Wednesday night.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
CAFTA is almost upon us. The Senate passed it and now the House is waging war within its perimeter as a House divided. The vote will be very close as our elected Representatives work into the final weekend before the August recess to tie up loose ends and decide a major part of our economic and social fate as a sovereign nation. Or not. That’s the issue. The issue is our sovereignty, it is NOT CODEX. CAFTA is a bad idea. Tell Congress in no uncertain terms to defeat it but it is NOT a health freedom fight. I know, I know, that puts me squarely in the minority on this issue. But the facts bear me out and the hype and hysteria, the red 38 pt. italic type does not make a error of analysis true.
CAFTA needs to go down because it is bad for America, bad for American workers and bad for American society. But why isn’t everybody screaming about CODEX and NAFTA right now? Just because CODEX is mentioned in the CAFTA agreement? Since every country in the CAFTA deal is a member of the World Trade Organization [WTO] (another really bad idea, by the way), why wouldn’t CODEX and other WTO agreed-upon standards get mentioned? It seems obvious to me that every trade agreement or treaty between WTO members will mention CODEX because that is part of the lamentable, but currently all-too-real international trade climate. CODEX is an international trade commission with international trade impact so international trade agreements are going to specify it.
The health freedom issue is what CODEX is, not whether CODEX is mentioned in international trade agreements. If CODEX is pro-illness, as it is now, then pro-illness will be the order of the day. If the Natural Solutions Foundation is successful at changing that stance, then CODEX may become pro-health and THAT is what would get implemented by the WTO and by CAFTA. Far better to have no CODEX at all, of course. And far better to have no sovereignty-busting international trade agreements, too. But given where we are right now, CAFTA is NOT a health freedom issue. CAFTA is a sovereignty issue and should be defeated as such.
As I have repeatedly said, if CAFTA and FTAA go away tomorrow, we still have CODEX as a major problem . CAFTA and FTAA will implement whatever CODEX is. If CAFTA passes it will undermine the essence of America. That’s bad enough without a health freedom threat, to boot.
Because some of the CODEX interest group (the health freedom folks, not the people who are CODEX-friendly like the Council for Responsible Nutrition [CRN], the National Nutritional Foods Association or the International Alliance of Dietary Supplement Associations keep shouting that CAFTA is a health freedom issue since it mentions CODEX, let me ask you a question: Is NAFTA a health freedom issue? Tell me about the impact of NAFTA on our health freedom. Is it a threat to our jobs and financial and domestic conditions? Oh yes! It is a most definite threat. But to our health freedom? No, it is not, even though Canada has made nutrients into drugs and taken more than 60,000 of them off the market through an administrative decision by Health Canada which has had terrible effect on the health of Canada. But take a look at what NAFTA says about CODEX:
NAFTA — Agreement
Chapter Seven
Agriculture
Article 755: International Standards and Standardizing Organizations
5) Each Party shall, to the greatest extent practicable, participate in relevant international and North American standardizing organizations, including the Codex ALIMENTARIUS Commission, the International Office of Epizootics, the International Plant Protection Convention, and the North American Plant Protection Organization, with a view to promoting the development and periodic review of international standards, guidelines and recommendations. [emphasis added]
NAFTA mentions CODEX as every treaty inside the WTO is bound to do. Has it impacted your health freedom? Do you honestly believe that it will?
If NAFTA is not a health threat because it mentions CODEX, why is CAFTA different?
Call Congress. Email Congress. Use our email engine and compose a letter to your Representatives telling them to oppose CAFTA. But oppose it as a sovereignty issue, not as a health threat issue.
Cloudy thinking never illuminated anything.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Coincidence is a wonderful thing (assuming that it really exists at all, of course). Yesterday I wrote a blog about disinformation around CODEX (specifically, the dangers of focusing on the derivative or secondary issues of FTAA and CAFTA as if they were, in fact, related causally to CODEX).
Today I got an exceptionally important email from my good friend and advisor, Ralph Fucetola, JD. Ralph is smart and experienced in regulatory law with an unshakable belief in the importance and power of advanced medicine and its safe, non toxic tools (I strongly dislike the word “alternative” – what is good medicine an alternative to?).
When Ralph thinks something demands being listened to, I listen and pay close attention. Although it is long, the article which follows was passed along to me by Ralph and relates directly, especially in the first half, to the very issues that we considered yesterday: the techniques by which thought and information are distorted and, in turn, distort belief and behavior.
The grammar is not perfect but the information in this extremely vital piece make the lapses forgivable. If you think that your understanding of CODEX is being manipulated by words (such as “risk assessment” as a scientific approach of toxicology appropriate to nutrients which are, by definition, non-toxic, for example), distortion (“CAFTA and FTAA have CODEX language in them so they are the same as the CODEX problem”) and distraction (who is a Druid?, who is a witch?, who is “Controlled Opposition”?, who is a CIA Agent?, who is a good person?, who is a bad person?, etc.”) you are right.
So the infighting and turf wars which have provided this distortion and distraction (and which the Natural Solutions Foundation will not dignify by entering since there is plenty of turf to go around in the world of health freedom) fulfill the role of the bloated and meaningless “news” that keeps us disconnected both from reality and from its meaning.
Read, study, follow the links and make sure that you are comfortable with both what is presented and what is concluded from that. Above all, question your sources and evaluate the answers carefully. I know that I do.
You won’t always be correct, but you can always be informed. If you are an American, Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers gave you that opportunity and obligation. If not, seize this right for yourself as a human being! Sadly, the CODEX battle is no different from any other struggle for freedom. Then, if you discover that you are wrong, your truth-seeking awareness can correct your understanding and you can move on more accurately without being bogged down in a phantom reality which you are stuck defending because you don’t know how to integrate information without this particular piece of empty data.
Please ask, question, pursue and conclude for yourself. Such actions constitute the bedrock of Democracy.
Continue to read the thought-provoking The Doors of Perception – Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything, by Tim O’Shea.
And remember: reality, beyond distortion and illusion, is gracious.
Yours in Health and Freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation