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Vaccine Violations – It’s The Vaccines, Stupid!”

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

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Today there was a treat and a terror in my email box: a new article from William Engdahl. A treat, because William Engdahl is one of my heroes. I do not know whether to admire him most as a writer who researches or a researcher who writes. Looked at either way, however, he is an honest and fearless man whose works tell us what we need to know – and what the self-anointed elite does not want us to know. And they do so with passion, clarity but without the faintest hint of panic or hysteria.

A terror because of the subject: mercury and aluminum in our babies and our own bodies through the mechanism of vaccination. You have heard it before: mercury and aluminum are neurotoxins. The restatement of this information in the context of a clear and focused historical and scientific review of just what we are talking about when we talk about mercury, aluminum and autism. It must be read and shared.

There are a few more facts which help to frame the cataclysmic disaster called “Vaccine Injury”, which is by no means limited to children. Think for a moment of healthy young men and women in coma, developing demyelinating neurological disorders like MS, ALS (now seen in children and adolescents for the first time in history as a new disease called “Juvenile ALS, but only in girls and women who have received Gardasil), diabetes, encephalitis, meningitis, persistent and debilitating rashes, swollen, painful joints everywhere in the body, brain fog, memory loss, depression, loss of IQ, lupus and other auto immune disorders, Alzheimer’s Disease, etc.

They Would Have Died Anyway

Let’s start with the origins of Thimerisol, which is 49.6% mercury by weight. Mercury is more toxic by far to tissues, including the brain, than lead.

It was patented by Eli Lilly, a so called “ethical” drug company (so named because they sell patented medicines) in the 1920s. In 1930, it was administered IV to 22 meningococcal meningitis patients, all of whom were in coma. All 22 patients died.

Eli Lilly, an “ethical” drug company, concluded that Thimerisol was safe because although all patients died, none showed any adverse response to the injected Thimerisol since they WOULD HAVE DIED FROM OTHER CAUSES ANYWAY. Therefore, none died from Thimerisol and it was deemed to be safe. When the FDA was founded, this information was presented to it and accepted. Thimerisol was grandfathered into use. The FDA, always compliant to the desires of industry, bought the insane logic of the “ethical” drug company, to the endless tragedy of our children, our elders and ourselves. This horrific substance is added to our vaccines as a “preservative”.

As a simple side thought, if vaccine manufacturing were strictly clean and sterile, not careless, contaminated and dirty, why would a preservative be necessary? Thimerosal was subsequently introduced for use in vaccines and in over the counter remedies as a preservative to kill bacteria in the product without any additional safety testing of any kind since it had been “grandfathered”. The 1930 study, in which every patient died, remains the only safety testing done on the substance even after being in use for over 84 years.

Aluminum is added to vaccines in order to irritate the immune system and increase the production of antibodies which are ASSUMED to be associated with immune competence with respect to the disease entity on which the vaccine is focused. No compelling (or even non-compelling) scientific evidence exists which demonstrates that this type of antibody production is associated with protection from the disease. In fact, virtually every epidemic in modern times has occurred in fully vaccinated populations.
Aluminum is neurotoxic and is strongly associated with the epidemic of a previously unknown type of dementia which will impact more than half of those who reach the age of 80: Alzheimer’s Disease.

When combined with fluoride, also added to many vaccines, the two toxic metals are strongly synergistic, increasing the neurotoxicity of the other substance by many times, creating a much higher level of impact than either one alone could produce. Since nearly everyone in the US drinks fluoridated water and brushes their teeth with fluoride-containing toothpaste, even without added injected fluoride, the synergistic potential is both untested and very frightening.

These metals are not the only toxins found in vaccines, but they are, individually and in combination, enough to create the public health and private home tragedies which can be laid directly at the feet of Big Pharma and criminal regulators.

Please disseminate this blog as widely as possible with full attribution AND with the Action Items above: they are vital to our ability to stay unvaccinated, all of us, with the new and much deadlier Swine Flu vaccines. Safety testing, if you can call it that, will not be completed until July of 2010. Yet the WHO and FDA (CDC is part of FDA) are rushing to vaccinate our precious children, pregnant women and the chronically ill with a vaccine containing aluminum, mercury AND a million times more squalene than the wildly toxic anthrax Vaccine A which caused the horrific, and frequently lethal, Gulf War Syndrome in hundreds of thousands of Gulf War vets and is still causing the same damage in our soldiers now.

Despite that, the Department of Defense, Governor after Governor and employer after employer are making these untested vaccines mandatory even while the President and Secretary Sebelius of Health and Human Services intone solemnly that vaccinations will be “voluntary”, defining “voluntary” as one option of a pair of options which offer you the unsafe, untested, unnecessary and uninsurable vaccine, all liability for which both the government and the manufacturers have been relieve of in a convenient legislative and regulatory pirouette. The other option is involuntary internment or incarceration, as the public documents from Iowa, Florida, North Carolina and other states makes clear is already being prepared for you. Indeed, “vaccine refusers” in Massachusetts may, under a pending law, be liable to fines of $1000 per day for refusing to be vaccinated AND jailed for up to 30 days [Per day of refusal? For all days of refusal? – REL]

So, indeed, “it IS the Vaccines, Stupid!” as William Engdahl tells the FDA, the media and the rest of the deaf establishment.

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It’s The Vaccines Stupid!”

F. William Engdahl
Global Research
September 6, 2009

Part I: Evidence Linking Autism Rise in Children to Vaccinations

The WHO and US Government CDC are escalating a public psychological
conditioning to create hysteria and panic among an uninformed public about an
alleged “virus” H1N1 Influenza A, aka Swine Flu, whose alleged effects to
date appear comparable with a common cold. Before people line up in the
streets demanding their vaccinations for their children and themselves, it
would be wise to remember, to paraphrase a 1992 campaign statement of Bill
Clinton to George H.W. Bush: “It’s the vaccination, Stupid!”

By countless scientific accounts, far more dangerous to human health than any
reported incidences of Swine Flu are the dangers of severe health issues
including paralysis, brain damage and even death arising from what is added to
vaccines by virtually every major vaccine maker. Almost without exception, all
commercial vaccines today contain various substances known as adjuvants
designed to make the vaccine “work.” These adjuvants are the source of
horrendous and sometimes deadly damage.

It has been speculated for some time that there might be a link in the
alarming rise in cases of autism among tiny infants and children and massive
multiple vaccinations today given routinely to infants and children from the
first hours of birth. There is clear and
shocking evidence of the link between the two. If you do not have a strong
constitution, you are advised not to read further.

A new study shows a direct link between standard childhood vaccination series,
MMR, and autism-like symptoms in monkeys. The principal scientist involved in
the study, Dr. Laura Hewitson of the University of Pittsburgh, presented the
alarming conclusions as an abstract pending publication at the International
Meeting for Autism Research. It has been presented at scientific conferences
in both London and Seattle, USA.

The study compared vaccinated macaque monkeys with non-vaccinated macaques. No
major flaws in the study have been revealed by any attending scientist. The
vaccines included the popular MMR series. The study found a marked increase in
“gastrointestinal tissue gene expression” and “inflammation issues”
with those monkeys which received vaccinations. They are a common symptom of
children with regressive autism.

The study also found marked behavior changes and development differences in
those monkeys given the vaccines versus those who were not. “Compared with
unexposed animals, significant neuro-developmental deficits were evident for
exposed animals in survival reflexes, tests of color discrimination and
reversal, and learning sets,” the study`s authors reported. “Differences
in behaviors were observed between exposed and unexposed animals and within
the exposed group before and after MMR vaccination.”

US Government-mandated research approved by Congress was t
o begin this year, but the funds were rescinded in early January. Claiming
“conflict of interest” because of ongoing court cases, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a long-time supporter of infant
vaccinations, withdrew the research plans.

The most shocking of all is the recent and now common medical practice,
reinforced by an aggressive pharmaceutical industry, of giving multiple
vaccines, often virtually within hours of birth, to infants despite the fact
that no study including all of the vaccine series commonly given to children
in the US and UK, about 30 in all, has been conducted until now. The practice
of newborn multiple vaccinations has become widespread in Germany and other EU countries over the past decade. Significantly there have surfaced reports of dramatically increased instances of autism in newborn and infants in various German hospitals over the past decade, precisely the period multiple
vaccinations of newborn and infants has become routine.

US Government coverup

Tragically, the US Government agency theoretically entrusted with guarding
public health, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as with the case of
health dangers of GMO foods, as well with the dramatic evidence of the link
between autism and adjuvants used in typical vaccines, is accepting the
argument of big and politically powerful Pharmaceutical companies.

The Food and Drug Administration considers vaccines safe but, just as with
GMO, they have done no studies into the effects of multiple vaccinations as given in the common childhood series which started in the 1990s in
the USA and spread to the UK and now across the EU.

According to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of the late Attorney General and an
attorney active in campaigning to expose mercury (Thimerosal) and other
toxicity dangers in vaccines, recently stated, “as autism is a behavioral
affliction rather than a precisely defined biological injury —
epidemiological studies are critical to establishing its causation. But the
greatest source of epidemiological data is the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)
— the government maintained medical records of hundreds of thousands of
vaccinated children — which Health and Human Services Department has gone to great lengths to keep out of the hands of plaintiffs’ attorneys and
independent scientists…The raw data collected in the VSD would undoubtedly
provide the epidemiological evidence needed to understand the relationship
between vaccines and autism. The absence of such studies makes it easy for
judges to say to plaintiffs they have not met
their burden of proving causation.”

Autism was virtually unknown in the United States until 1943 when it was
diagnosed and identified eleven months after Thimerosal, a mercury-based
vaccine “adjuvant” was first added to baby vaccines along with various
aluminum compounds in the United States. Thimerosal is often used to stem
fungi and bacterial growth in vaccines despite massive evidence of its severe
effects as a potent neurotoxin. Following independent studies, Russia, Japan, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and Britain have banned Thimerisol from children’s vaccines. Germany to date has no such ban. The toxin was developed in 1930 by Eli Lilly. Tragically in 1991, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary the US Government’s Center for Disease Control (CDC), the same agency fueling the current hysteria over the non-proven H1N1 Swine Flu virus danger, recommended that infants be injected with a series of mercury-containing vaccines in some cases within 24 hours of birth for Hepatitis B and two months for diphtheria-tetanus- pertussis.

Before 1989 US pre-school children received eleven vaccinations— polio,
diphtheria-tetanus- pertussis, measles-mumps- rubella (MMR). By 1999, because of the various CDC recommendations, the number of vaccinations was twenty two before first grade of school. Parallel with this explosive rise in
vaccinations of the very young in the United States, according to Kennedy, the
rate of autism among children. The state of Iowa reported a 700% increase in
autism in children beginning in the 1990’s and along with California has
banned mercury in vaccines. Despite evidence, however the US FDA continues to allow drug makers to include Thimerosal in numerous over-the-counter
non-prescription medications as well as steroids and injected collagen. The US
Government ships vaccines preserved with Thimerosal to numerous developing
countries as well, where some are reporting sudden explosion of autism rates
as well. In China,20where autism was unknown before introduction of Thimerosal by US drug makers in 1999, press reports indicate there are almost two million autistic children.

Instances of autism in the US exploded as some 40 million children were
injected during the 1990’s with Thimerisol-based vaccines, giving them
unprecedented accumulations of mercury poison. The level of ethylmercury in a
vaccine routinely given then to children of two months age was 99 times
greater than the US Government’s daily limit for exposure. As with the
current WHO pandemic declaration around H1N1 Swine Flu, the CDC Vaccine
Advisory Committee is filled with scientists with close ties to the
pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Sam Katz, chairman of the committee was a paid
consultant to most companies producing the vaccines he “recommended.”

The aluminum danger remains

While vaccines available in the US today exist with no Thimerosal (50%
mercury), virtually all vaccines still contain aluminum, which has been linked
to impaired neurological development in children. Aluminum has not replaced
thimerosal as a vaccine preservative; it has always been used in vaccines.

In the recent past, most US children got exposed to both thimerosal and
aluminum simultaneously with the hepatitis B, Hib, DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus
and pertussis) and pneumococcal vaccines. Combining mercury with aluminum
increases the likelihood that the mercury will damage human tissue.

According to a recent report by Michael Wagnitz, an American chemist, “Currently eight childhood vaccines that contain aluminum ranging from 125 to 850micrograms (mcg). These vaccines are administered 17 times in the first 18months of life, an almost six-fold increase compared to the vaccine schedule
of the 1980s.”

Wagnitz adds, “According to the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral
Nutrition, based on IV feeding solutions, a child should not exceed a maximum
daily dose of 5 mcg of aluminum per kilogram of weight per day. That means if
a child weighs 11 pounds, the child should not exceed 25 mcg in a day. This
level was determined to be the maximum safety limit based on a study publishedin the New England Journal of Medicine titled “Aluminum Neurotoxicity in Preterm Infants Receiving Intravenous Feeding Solutions.”

The hepatitis B vaccine, administered at birth, contains 250 mcg.

In a 1996 policy statement, “Aluminum Toxicity in Infants and Children,”
the American Academy of Pediatrics states, “Aluminum can cause neurological
harm. People with kidney disease who build up bloodstream levels of aluminum
greater than 100 mcg per liter are at risk of toxicity. The toxic threshold of
aluminum in the bloodstream may be lower than 100 mcg per liter.” What level
of aluminium toxicity is contained in vaccines routinely given German, French
and other children n the EU is not known. It might be time for a public demand
for such information to be disclosed, and before governments launch mass
vaccination campaigns for untested vaccines against a non-proven H1N1 Swine Flu threat.

Sing a Song of Silver and Swine Flu

Friday, September 4th, 2009

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Dr. Rima’s Ballad: “Say Not Silver…”
Does Silver Causes Cytokine Storms? No
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Say Not Silver
Say not “silver” for the flu of pig
Lest the Phama gods be angry.
Say not “echinaca sprig”
Says Sibelius. Sang she,

“Tamiflu and vaccines only
May you tout as cure for flu.
Nature’s cures, let them be lonely,
Nothing plant-ish may you do.”

“Worst of all, far worse than C
Colloid silver, or, worse, nano.
Squalene’s safe as safe can be:
Get sick and die. See? That’s the plan-O!”

Speaking with a silver tongue
Into major trouble gets you.
Staying healthy, staying young,
Means FDA will surely fret you

Some fear immune cell health
Storms of cytokines will bring you.
“Back off silver, save yourself
Lest Death’s keen dart surely sting you.”

“Pish”, I say, and “Tush” as well
Review the research deep with care.
Silver does not increase cell
Mediated immune share

So storms of cytokines, while real,
Are not involved. We need not fear
That silver will cease to appeal
As swine flu slayer without peer.

My advice to you, for feeling dandy,
Facing Flying Pig or other trouble
Is “Keep the nano silver handy
If you need it, just take double!”
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Does Silver Causes Cytokine Storms? No

The US FDA, known in the circles in which I travel as the “Fraud and Death Administration”, has apparently decided that the First Amendment is neither binding upon it nor of much interest. It does that in two ways: first, it exerts gag order authority upon people who want to let you know the truth about what a natural product, substance, molecule or preparation does to enhance or support your health, whether you have any financial or other connection to the product or not. Only a very narrow type of health claim, called a “Structure/Function Claim” is “permitted” by the self designated “protectors” of your knowledge. They do not have the law on their side, but they do have the enormous might of the US Government, including their own legal department and the US Department of Justice. Small manufacturers rarely have the resources to fight their illegal, unconstitutional and absurd rulings. Occasionally, however, they do, and when they do, with attorneys like Natural Solutions Foundation Trustee Ralph Fucetola, JD, they often come out on the right side of justice. That road trip, however, is very, very expensive.

The Natural Solutions Foundation enthusiastically supports Rep. Ron Paul, MD (TX-R) in his bid to pass two laws which he has introduced into the US House of Representatives which would untie the gag which the FDA has unconstitutionally placed on us all. You can help by taking action here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27732, once for each member of your family.

The second way that the FDA stifles your knowledge is to tell you in advance, called ‘prior restraint’, what you may or may not say about something. In this case, they say that it is forbidden speech to tell anyone that ANYTHING except vaccines (which are totally unproven for EITHER safety or efficacy against the Swine Flu) or drugs, specifically the very dangerous Tamiflu (c) and Relenza (c) may be used to prevent, treat, mitigate or cure H1N1 virus.
Venus
Well, so much for immunology, biochemistry, virology, nutritional medicine and common sense. This amazing flu virus is so novel that not only does it travel through time, leading to at least two patents for the manufacture of the vaccines to “prevent” it to be applied for and granted BEFORE it appeared mysteriously, like Venus from the forehead of Zeus, from absolutely nowhere, but it also makes you sick by mechanisms that have nothing to do with physiology, pathology or any other “ology”. If it were not so astonishingly mysterious, the many ways in which the body counters viruses would apply. Alas, no vitamin, no nutrient, no immune support, nothing but two Big Pharma money makers will have any impact on the nasty, swiny, birdy, magical thing.

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But wait! There’s ever so much more.

Now we have the Cytokine Storm which is the source of death in the Swine Flu! Never mind the fact that it is not clear from any forensically meaningful evidence of any kind that
1. The Swine Flu can be diagnosed with any degree of certainly since tests seem to be running about 90% inaccurate, making chicken entrails a better diagnostic system than the tests approved – and rapidly abandoned – by CDC and WHO.

2. The Swine Flu actually exists. No independent scientist of whom I am aware has actually characterized the virus, which requires isolating it from an organism, introducing it into another organism and reproducing the disease. That may have happened, but none of the scientists whom I know of have any reports that this has, indeed, occurred.

3. No one that I am aware of knows how the Swine Flu kills because there is no clear evidence that it ever has killed anyone. It appears, and this is not clear, that some people have died WITH the Swine Flu virus, assuming that it actually exists. However, all of them had underlying medical conditions which, as far as I am aware, is what killed them or, like the pregnant woman “with” Swine Flu (unconfirmed by lab tests) in India who was in Intensive Care in Mumbai (Bombay) when her baby was born and died, they may well have been killed by Tamiflu, a dangerous and ineffective anti-viral making Hoffman LaRoche, Donald Rumsfeld and, reportedly, President Obama and his cronies a great deal of money. So the idea that because the 1918 virus has been retroactively decided to kill by “Cytokine Storm” this flu kills the same way, given the fact that it does not actually seem to do very much killing, is beyond absurd. Hysterical, yes. Great press, yes. But science? Oh, I think not.

So now we come to the question of whether silver, especially nano silver, is the cause of a cytokine storm reaction and could, if it is, be the cause of a cytokine storm if one is infected with Swine Flu and then serve as a contributory factor in death.

That question was posed by a woman who had read something of the sort in the newsletter of a very popular health guru. Generally, I admire this person for his way of sharing information and for getting things right most of the time. This time, however, I am afraid that he got the information wrong. We all do sometimes, and his credibility should not be in the least tarnished by this, but he is not, I believe, correct. Silver, especially nano silver, is a wonderful help in dealing with all types of pathogens since it does NOT work by elevating inflammatory cytokines so even if the body does not have the resources to raise a cytokine response, nano silver is exceptionally helpful in combating disease causing organisms.

Here is the letter my correspondent (name removed) sent to me:

Dear Dr. Rima,
You are my Nutronix sponsor: Can you please respond to this from Dr. X:

“…there may be significant problems in using nano silver for swine flu. We were initially going to carry one of the finest silver products in our store, but I recently learned of new information that changed my mind.

“While silver will likely work to kill the swine flu virus, in many healthy individuals it is likely to elicit a severe cytokine storm reaction. This is basically a severe allergic inflammatory reaction that can occur in your lungs, and could be fatal….” [Emphasis added – REL]

I have healed my body of cancer without surgery chemo or radiation but I can not recommend this silver nor sell nor use it anymore without knowing about this allegation of the severe cytokine reaction that may lead to death. Please tell me what you know about this.

What I am reading is this, Thanks, [Name Removed – REL]

A cytokine storm, or hypercytokinemia is a potentially fatal immune reaction consisting of a positive feedback loop between cytokines and immune cells, with highly elevated levels of various cytokines.[Emphasis added – REL]

When the immune system is fighting pathogens, cytokines signal immune cells such as T-cells and macrophages to travel to the site of infection. In addition, cytokines activate those cells, stimulating them to produce more cytokines. Normally, this feedback loop is kept in check by the body. However, in some instances, the reaction becomes uncontrolled, and too many immune cells are activated in a single place. The precise reason for this is not entirely understood but may be caused by an exaggerated response when the immune system encounters a new and highly pathogenic invader. Cytokine storms have potential to do significant damage to body tissues and organs. If a cytokine storm occurs in the lungs, for example, fluids and immune cells such as macrophages may accumulate and eventually block off the airways, potentially resulting in death.

The cytokine storm (hypercytokinemia) is the systemic expression of a healthy and vigorous immune system resulting in the release of more than 150 known inflammatory mediators (cytokines, oxygen free radicals, and coagulation factors). Both pro-inflammatory cytokines (such as Tumor necrosis factor-alpha, Interleukin-1, and Interleukin-6) and anti-inflammatory cytokines (such as interleukin 10 and interleukin 1 receptor antagonist) are elevated in the serum of patients experiencing a cytokine storm.

It is believed that cytokine storms were responsible for many of the deaths during the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed a disproportionate number of young adults.[1] In this case, a healthy immune system may have been a liability rather than an asset. Preliminary research results from Hong Kong also indicated this as the probable reason for many deaths during the SARS epidemic in 2003.[6] Human deaths from the bird flu H5N1 usually involve cytokine storms as well.[7]Recent reports of high mortality among healthy young adults in the 2009 swine flu outbreak has led to speculation that cytokine storms could be responsible for these deaths.[8] However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have indicated that symptoms reported from this strain so far are similar to those of normal seasonal flu,[9] with the CDC stating that there is “insufficient information to date about clinical complications of this variant of swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus infection”

I thought that was a totally fair, intelligent question.

The problem is that it is based on assumptions about the mechanism of action of silver that are incorrect. Here is my response to her:

Dear [Name Removed]
Good question. I am afraid that I believe Dr. X to be incorrect. A search of the available literature shows only one study in which silver has any impact on inflammatory cytokines, and the impact is negligible.
http://www.woundsresearch.com/content/effectiveness-inflammatory-cytokines-induced-sericin-compared-sericin-combination-with-silve

And here, a discussion of the nanocrystallin coating of Anticoat, a wound dressing at
http://www.worldwidewounds.com/News/News2003.html

This shows no impact, either.

See for example,

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W7N-4PPWK6N-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=998802531&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=b6a28fec2777ae9de83a361870bbd91f

This article states:

“Interleukin-5 (IL-5), interferon-? (INF-?), and tumor necrosis factor-? (TNF-?) protein levels were measured to determine the activation state of PBMCs.

At levels of over 15 ppm, nano-silver was found to have a significant cytotoxic effect on PBMCs, and PHA-induced cytokine productions were significantly inhibited by nano-silver (IL-5: at 10 ppm, INF-? and TNF-? at 3 ppm).

Although nano-silver had a cytotoxic effect at high concentration, nano-silver modulated cytokine production in a concentration-dependent manner. These experimental data suggest that nano-silver could be used to treat immunologic and inflammatory diseases.”

Based on my study of the literature, I will continue to recommend nano silver for all infections, whether with bacteria, mycoplasma, parasites or viruses.
Thanks for bringing up this important question.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

So, as you can see, there is no credible evidence that silver, nano or otherwise, will initiate a cytokine storm. The Natural Solutions Foundation strongly recommends the Nano Silver at www.Nutronix.com/NaturalSolutions without hesitation, although the FDA does not want me to tell you that it would kill the H1N1 virus. So I am not telling you that. If you have a flu and take the Nano Silver dose I use, 1-2 cap fulls once or twice a day, either in the mouth for 2 minutes, then swallowed or in a bit of water and consumed, you will do so on your own. Since nobody is going to diagnose Swine Flu accurately, my guess is that you need to take it when you get symptoms that might be flu. Who know? It might be Swine Flu. Or not. Who cares? Only Big Pharma.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

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Health Freedom Action eAlert: Stop Untested, Mandatory Vaccines… NOW!

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

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Join the New Citizens Petition! Stop FDA Approval for Untested Vaccines

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791

At last! An effective and powerful legal action with the potential to stop the FDA’s planned approval of Swine Flu Vaccines without any, repeat ANY, safety testing. Three far sighted health freedom leaders have banded together to take action to protect us all and invite your help, and your organization’s help, too.

2. Join in: Demand FDA NOT Approve Vaccines Before Completion of Safety Testing

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791

Remember: Take Actions 1 and 2 Once for Each Member of Your Household

3. Representatives of Organizations Click Here:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27793

Note: Take action 3 in addition to Actions 1 and 2 if you represent an organization

Not the signatory for your organization? Contact your organization’s leaders and urge them to participate in this democratic legal exercise. No charge, no downside – just benefits for all!

4. Mere Days Left to Save Health Freedom…

Right, our 3 Weeks Nearly over. Senate Reconvenes Sept. 7.
We MUST Prevent Passage of HR 2749 Equivalent Bill

ACT HERE NOW!
https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=3262

We, you and the Natural Solutions Foundation, ARE the net roots of health freedom. We can – and do! – produce literally millions of emails, raising our voices high enough to push back the madness. In fact, we’ve already sent more than 1.5 million emails demanding the right to say “No!” to pandemic vaccines. Well, it is time for more of same!

If you have not yet clicked on the Action Item demanding the right to say NO! to the vaccine without then going to jail, now is the right time to do so for every member of your family:

Click here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275

To safeguard your right to say “NO!” to dangerous vaccines and click here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791

To tell the FDA that untested, unnecessary, unsafe and un-insurable vaccines are not acceptable.

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Silly Season

Time for Health Freedom Silly Season to End

Silly Season Science is the product of shameless intellectual prostitution in which science for hire pumps out whatever it is told to produce. A prime example from the supposedly reputable British paper, The Guardian:

“Healthy Eating Can be Sign of Serious Psychological Disorder”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/aug/16/orthorexia-mental-health-eating-disorder

Health Freedom Silly Season has to end, now. You see, Health Freedom organizations are notorious for NOT working together. You know, this one says this, and the other one says that and pretty soon you don’t care “who struck John” and you are sick of all the gore! That’s one of the classic disinformation techniques and juvenile people are easily stimulated to behave like tantrum-ing toddlers. You have noticed that the Natural Solutions Foundation does not waste its time, or yours, with that kind of sniping and in-fighting. Instead, we focus on the problems, find solutions and tell you what we think is going on, asking for your help.

But when the folks that like to call themselves part of the Health Freedom movement behave that way, it means they are notoriously shooting themselves in the foot. Since they are supposed to be working for you, that also means they are not doing their job protecting your interests. If they had been, perhaps we would not be in this mess and perhaps General Bert and I would still be running our drug-free practice of medicine.

This issue, mandatory/unapproved vaccination, is really the ultimate litmus test: either the other “Health Freedom” organizations actually get on board and join us in protecting your rights to stop this dangerous – possibly lethal – FDA idiocy or they are, in fact, NOT health freedom anythings.

High Road To Survival

You see, once again, as we continue to do, the Natural Solutions Foundation is offering the hand of literally life-saving collaboration to any and all other health freedom organizations and advocates. Those who join us are welcome, no matter how inappropriate or inflammatory their previous bad behavior and disinformation activities have been. This is literally a matter of YOUR life and death.

Those who do not join us are making who they are, and who they work for, clear by marginalizing themselves.

Please contact the health freedom organizations of your choice to urge them in the strongest terms to get on board with this powerful initiative. If they resist, ask them to explain, in writing, why they are not taking this opportunity to work for your health and freedom, and that of the other supporters/members of the group. Insist on real reasons for their inaction, not merely unsupported assertions and, if they cannot provide them, walk away. They are not on your side. They just proved it.

On the other hand, smart non-governmental organizations are happy to cooperate to make sure Health Freedom can survive. For example, we’ve just accepted DownSize DCs invitation to join its coalition partners in www.ConsumerCenteredHealthcare.org to “Stop current efforts to expand government control of health care – Roll back existing government involvement and restore free market competition” No matter what healthcare system exists, we want it to a system that allows people the freedom to make their own choices… and a politician and bureaucrat dominated system cannot do that! Whoever pays for it, your health care choices should be, must be, determined solely by you.

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Real Health Freedom Leaders:
Koren, Laibow, Null…

Three leading health freedom advocate organizations banded together this week and, under the guidance of Ralph Fucetola, JD, Natural Solutions Foundation’s brilliant and skillful Counsel and Trustee, submitted a Citizens Petition (unlike an Internet Petition, a Citizens Petition is a powerful legal challenge which can have real impact on Policy) to the FDA demanding redress from the immanent harm posed by approval of attenuated and adjuvanted live virus vaccines for a trivial disease when not one of the vaccines have been tested for safety. You will recall that on July 23, 2009 the Fraud and Death Administration said that they will approve these vaccines in the absence of completed safety tests.

Remember, the pediatric tests of the vaccine now underway are to determine antibody response levels (dosage), NOT safety. And the vaccines being tested are NOT those with adjuvants.

The Health Freedom movement has been divided by disinformation and ego-based squabbles for decades. Enough. The issues are too important to let absurd accusations and personal turf struggles interfere any longer.

Health advocates, officials and doctors, along with and health freedom leaders, have all known for quite some time that the enormously profitable Swine Flu Vaccines are a vast windfall for Big Pharma and a horrific dangers for the rest of us.

The New York State Association of Nurses refused New York State’s Mandatory Vaccination regulation for mandatory health care worker vaccination without any provision for exemptions of any kind.

http://www.nysna.org/publications/newyorknurse/jul_aug/flu_shots.htm

In the UK, where the Daily Mail leaked two letters from their Health Protection Agency and a leading neurologist urging other neurologists to be on the lookout for an anticipated 800% rise in the incidence of Guillian Barre Syndrome, also known as Polio, following the upcoming MANDATORY Swine Flu vaccinations there. http://dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/120936/Alert-on-killer-side-effect-of-the-swine-flu-vaccine-/, nurses are so uneasy about the mandatory Swine Flu vaccine’s dangers, and the non-seriousness of the “Pandemic” disease, that 2/3 say they will either refuse the Swine Flu vaccine outright or are unsure that they will submit to it. In fact, only 1 nurse in 7 receives the seasonal flu vaccine in the UK anyway. Skepticism runs high among people in the know!

http://www.infowars.com/nationwide-revolt-against-mass-swine-flu-vaccination-accelerates/

Legs

Legal Legs and Limps

Limping

Quite a number of legal actions have been filed in response to these dangers. Some are good, some are marginal and some make no sense at all. Click here,

https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=3170

for a look at the good, the bad and the just plain meaningless.

The Citizens Petition which we have filed with the FDA is, we believe, a highly effective way to exhaust our legal remedies so that we can rapidly and effectively move forward. We need your help, though. Your organizations and you (and your family, friends, contacts, etc.) all are invited to join the Petition and exercise your First Amendment Right for redress of grievances via a Petition to the Government.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791

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Memorial

Six for the Cemetery?

All 6 Swine Flu vaccines which the FDA has announced it will approve BEFORE the completion of any safety testing are unsafe. Some or all will have squalene-based adjuvants. Some or all will have live attenuated virus (LAIV) vaccines which have been shown to

* Increase hospitalizations of children for all causes by 300%
* Cause wheezing and asthma,
* Communicate the vaccine disease to those with health problems and weak immune systems
* Add new bits of other viruses in the warm, wet, nutrient rich environment of a cell

BUT

* They provide little or any real or lasting immunity against the target disease.

Oil in water adjuvants such as sqalene or its related compounds have never been approved for injection in the US and, in fact, have been rejected by the FDA itself because they were “too dangerous to test in the United States”. Tragically, they were used against our own military creating the cataclysmic auto immune disorder known as “Gulf War Syndrome”.

Health Without Freedom?

Let’s make an incorrect assumption for a moment, just for the sake of argument. let’s assume that untested LAIV vaccines with deadly adjuvants were safe and effective. Even if they worked and were safe, is it OK with you to force your kids and you, too, to be vaccinated at someone else’s choice? I think not and I am quite certain that you think not, too.

Health freedom IS our first freedom and making this type of decision for ourselves IS the hall mark of freedom. Take each of these Action Steps once for each member of your family, then alert all your contact to do the same to help keep health freedom free – and help keep yourself alive!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275

AND

Individuals:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791

AND

Organizations:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27793

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Freedom to Stay Alive?
Da' Hangin' Judge
Justice Antonin Scalia

“Innocence Is No Reason Not To Execute”

I will bet that you thought that the Constitution of These United States gave you the right to a fair trial along with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, didn’t you? And you thought that innocence was a defense before the bar, didn’t you.

Well, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia thinks differently – very differently. Justice Scalia recently wrote that that there is nothing inherently un-constitutional about executing an innocent person.

In his dissenting opinion in the appeal of convicted – but innocent – felon Troy Anthony Davis, Justice Antonin Scalia took his Supreme Court colleagues to task for thinking that mere innocence is grounds to overturn a conviction: “This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is “actually” innocent. Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged “actual innocence” is constitutionally cognizable.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/17/scalia-actual-innocence/

Change You Can’t Conceive Of…

You do not have to be a lawyer to understand that the very atoms of the molecules of the thread of the fabric of the Constitution of These United States are being destroyed from within the so-called “Justice System”. If you think that your right to protect your body from dangerous pharmaceutical interventions will be protected by the Justice System as it is now, in light of this madness, think again.

With a Supreme Court of this type, we clearly want to impact the regulations BEFORE we ever get to the point of needing the Court’s help! To protect us all from the vaccines, we need to grab the legal system, which means, in this case, the FDA, by its metaphoric parts, and force it to protect us while we have access to it and can still control some of its actions. And for that, we need your help, in force. NOW!

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Speaking of Rights, Does the US Have As Much Freedom of Speech as India? Apparently Not!

In the US, we like to think that our Constitutional system assures us of freedom of speech that we can rely upon, more than any other country.

In fact, however, the FDA imposes a profoundly un-American gag rule on what you can or cannot say – or learn – about the health benefits of food and food components and will put manufactures out of business if they tell you the truth about health freedom with legal methods or with their ax-wielding, gun-toting, dog-using goons called FDA Marshals.

Take Swine Flu (NOT the Swine Flu vaccine, of course – don’t take that!): The FDA has criminalized the discussion of ALL options to prevent, treat, mitigate or cure Swine flu except Swine Flu Vaccines and the [quite dangerous] anti viral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza.

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/h1n1flu/

But my friend in India, the noted Dr. Leo Rebello, notes that although doctors at Kasturba Hospital of Infectious Diseases in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) maintain, falsely, that they don’t know why a baby born to a mother who supposedly had Swine Flu [although tests for Swine Flu are wrong 90% of the time, so how could they tell?- REL], they do, in fact, know why the baby died: it died because its mother was given Tamiflu!

He states, “The adverse or side-effects of Tamiflu are – delirium, hallucination, delusion, disturbances in consciousness, abnormal behavior and convulsions. Allergic reaction including severe rash, nausea, dizziness are the common reactions. Children under 12 months and pregnant and nursing mothers and those who are allergic to oseltamivir phosphate – the main ingredient – or any other ingredients in Tamiflu should not be given Tamiflu. H1N1 is a bio-weapon and Tamiflu in combination is designed to control the population. We will have on hand another tragedy like Thalidomide if Tamiflu is given so recklessly.”

Dr. Rebello goes on, in what the FDA has previously announced would be criminal speech if, for example, I were to tell you this information,

“There are much better, safer and cheaper Flu medicines in Ayurveda and Homeopathy. Amla which contains the highest level of Vitamin C as also Mosambi (sweet lime) and Santra (orange) and simple Nimbu Pani bring immediate relief in Flu.

In Homeopathy, as I have already written :

We have Arsenic Album 200 — cold, running nose, cough and feverishness.

Gelsemium Sempervirens 200 — headache, cold, running nose, bodyache.

Eupatorium Perfollatum 200 — bone pain, bodyache.

Bellis Perennis 200 — muscle pain, bodyache.

Bryonia Alba 200 — cold, cough, fever, headache, giddiness.”

If I were to tell you in the USA, as I could in India, that Nano silver, www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions, is outstandingly effective in killing this virus (and all others against which it has been tested) and then point you to an article by Gordon Peterson, PH D, which states,

“Antibiotic Drugs:

Antibiotic drugs provide no solution against the virus but can be very beneficial for pneumonia that develops later. A broad spectrum antibiotic should be used because there are numerous bacteria that can produce pneumonia. According to a Penn State publication, silver sol can be given with the antibiotics and produce up to a tenfold increase in antibiotic activity.

Nutritional Supplements

There are hundreds of supplements that can be of significant benefit for the immune system and even some that claim to have antiviral activity. The best proven choices for nutritional supplements come in the form of immune stimulants and wellness products. These include: immunity Vit C, B complex, folic acid, vit D (prevention) ginseng, Echinacea, garlic, probiotics, expectorants and silver sol.

Air Filters:

CDC recommends one in every room. HEPA air filters use silver to inactivate viruses and can effectively kill 99% of all bacteria, and viruses in minutes.

Water Purifiers

Proper hygiene and a water purifier are recommended by the CDC because the influenza virus can survive 100 hours in water. Get one that has a silver filter that can actually destroy the virus. Carbon, filtration, reverse osmosis does not destroy or remove the virus.

Topical Disinfectants:

Topical disinfectants are recommended by the CDC for use between each patient and can kill germs for 4-6 hours. Patients and health care professionals should use these 4 times a day or as needed. Silver so gel demonstrates effectiveness against some of the worst pathogens including: MRSA, VRE, Strep, and the other bacteria that cause pneumonia.

Silver Sol: [Silver Solution, www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions – REL]

Prescription drugs and vaccines “treat” and [may -REL] help prevent viral infection and disease but are not capable of totally controlling a dangerous new or novel virus. Nutritional supplements such as Vitamins, Minerals, Echinacea, Ginseng, Probiotics and many others have the ability to help boost immune function and improve natural defenses which results in some defense against disease causing viruses and the associated secondary infections

Silver Sol provides proven prevention and treatment against viral and bacterial infections, while there is nothing else with such broad spectrum benefits. In addition, Silver Sol can be safely taken every day for prevention where it has been shown to provide protection against the very dangerous Bird flu H5N1.

The combination of antibiotics with Silver Sol has been shown to enhance antibiotic function by as much as ten fold due to the fact that Silver Sol kills the residual pathogens that the antibiotics cannot. Results of the combination of 19 different prescription antibiotics and silver sol demonstrate safe additive and/or synergistic benefits across 7 different pathogenic strains (Staphylococcus, MRSA, E coli, Pseudomonas arugenosa, Salmonella and Streptococcus). The results of this combination therapy result in significant pathogenic destruction while helping to reduce bacterial resistance (19). This can be attributed to the fact that Silver Sol does not produce resistance, nor does it destroy the beneficial intestinal probiotic bacteria.

Discussion:

…It is evident that the newly patented EPA certified and FDA approved Silver Sol technology provides tremendous treatment options for prevention and combination therapies. Silver Sol gel can help stop viral spread on the most contagious areas like hands, nose, mouth and skin. It is sufficiently documented and proven to be considered to be a first line of defense against Influenza and a significant companion to antiviral and antibacterial drug regimens topically and orally.”

Swine Flu Influenza Type A/H1N1 Protection for Health Care Practitioners and Their Patients, http://www.worldhealth.net/news/swine_flu_influenza_type_a_h1n1_protecti4

If I said that, I would be violating the FDA’s regulations which, in the US, have the strength of law.

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Is this Your Kind of Democracy?
Not Mine, Either.

Happily, we’ve got Rep. Ron Paul, MD (Tx-R) on our side. He has introduced two bills to end this unconstitutional rule by edict by the Fraud and Death Administration (FDA) and the Fake Trade Commission (FTC).

We urge you to join the dozens of thousands of people who have already told their members of Congress that they co sponsor and support HR 3394 and HR 3395.

Please visit http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27732

To lend your support (and do so once for every member of your Household) to real free speech, as defined in the Constitution of These United States.

For more information, please visit (and share!) our Three For Liberty Campaign, https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=3209

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Noble-Bugle Child

Two for One Update

Health freedom, your freedom, is facing enormous challenges right now. I cannot remember them coming so fast, or so furious. And the Natural Solutions Foundation is working on the most important ones of all:

1. Codex-i-fication of our Food Supply through really awful bills like HR 2749 which, if passed as a sister bill by the US Senate will be nothing short of a full blown disaster for health and freedom. You can take action by informing your Senator in person (use our talking points) and by email:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

Tell them this (sic) “food Safety” bill is NOT what you want. You can visit our Three for Liberty Campaign,

https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=3209

for background information and talking points leaflets.

2. Free Health Speech being gagged

3. State and Federal mandated Swine Flu

You can imagine that keeping up with health freedom is an enormous job which requires diverse skills and talents. You can also imagine that we need hands, but not just any hands: hands that are connected minds, hearts and brains.

That is why we are asking for volunteers for the Natural Solutions Foundation and, at the same time, volunteers for our Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org, in Volcan, Panama.

Click here, https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=3283, to read about our Volunteer program and see if you are cut out to help change the world! If you are, please join us on our Yahoo! Forum, NSCC, at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NSCC and on our weekly Wednesday night conference call (info in the “Calendar” section of the Forum).

We have building projects, marketing and development ones, administrative, communication, and a host of other needs. If you are interested in either an Expense Paid Volunteer Position (Room and Board in Volcan, Panama) or in joining the roll of Health Freedom Volunteer Sponsors, please join the Forum and contact Ralph Fucetola at ralph.fucetola “at” usa.net or me at dr.laibow “at” gmail.com with “Volunteer” as the subject.

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Donate to Support Natural Solutions

Oh, yes, Money

You know that this battle is expensive. You know that we are fighting for you. That means that we need your support.

Whether you can volunteer or not, health freedom also requires your on-going support. Click here,

https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?page_id=189

to set up your recurring, tax deductible donation now.

Please visit our donations page and help us in any way you can; of course, recurring donations are the most important, since that allows us to plan ahead and be prepared for the Health Freedom battles to come!
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Don’t miss this chance to spend time with this renowned physician and activist.

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3 Leaflets for the
3 Weeks to Save Health Freedom Campaign:
https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=3241

Must Read – Dr. Laibow’s Hard Hitting
Push Back and the Ministry of Lies
https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=3279

Don’t Forget to “Follow”
Us on Twitter!
For Up-to-the-Minute Developments

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Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

Media Announcement: Citizens Petition tells FDA – STOP the “Swine Flu” Vaccine Rush to Approval

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT

From: Ralph Fucetola JD
Natural Solutions Foundation Counsel

Health Freedom Citizens Petition tell FDA:
STOP the “Swine Flu” Vaccine Rush to Approval

Docket No. FDA-2009-P-0418

Follow this issue on http://www.Twitter.com/HealthFreedomUS
Hashtags: #selfshield #pandemic #noforcedvax #vaccine #healthfreedom

Action item to Support the Citizens Petition, Individuals Sign Here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791

Action item to Support the Citizens Petition, Organizations Sign Here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27793

September 4, 2009 Update: Preparations for Legal Action to “Stop the Shot.”
https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=3452

August 31, 2009 Update: FDA Docket Number issued:
http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/?p=3429

August 17, 2009 – Led by such health freedom luminaries as Gary Null, PhD, Human Nutrition & Public Health Science, Rima E. Laibow, MD, Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, and Dr. Tedd Koren, DC of Citizens for Health Choice, we filed a formal Citizens Petition to the FDA today expressing our serious concerns about the approval of dangerous Swine Flu vaccines BEFORE ANY SAFETY TESTING IS COMPLETED. A Citizens Petition, unlike an internet petition, is a formal statement of grievance which challenges the government’s actions, asks for specific protection and redress, as provided for by the Constitution of These United States:

“Pursuant to the Constitution of the United States of America, First Amendment, Right to Petition for Redress of Grievances the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21 U.S.C. §§ 321 et seq., and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 553(e), to amend the FDA’s rules respecting the safety, effectiveness and availability of vaccines said to be useful for swine flu (A-H1N1-09)…”

The goal of this regulatory intervention is to stop FDA’s headlong, dangerous and unjustified rush to approve the so-called “swine flu” vaccination, even before safety testing has been completed. If FDA fails to act on our Petition in a timely fashion, a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) can be sought from the Federal Courts to stop the alleged “emergency” approval process.

The Petition details, in ten pages of carefully structured and well supported reasoning, the legal and factual basis for a formal stay of the approval process, citing issues of transparency and science-based decision making, which the President claims to be the hallmarks of his Administration. The FDA has failed to follow statutory and case law requirements for the emergency approval of these un-insurable, untested and unproven vaccines which have been recently cited for their potential dangers to health and safety here and abroad.

Within the next couple days, when a formal Docket Number is issued, Natural Solutions Foundation will set up an Action Item to allow the public to express support to “Stay the Shot”, Stop the Swine Flu Vaccine rush to approval. That link will be posted here.

FDA requires a snail-mail copy of a signed document to issue a Citizens Petition docket number. You can track the progress of the document sent today with this US Postal Service tracking number: EO 964 064 326 US.

Here is what the Petition demands:

(a) The first action sought is an emergency Temporary Stay of the pending Vaccine approval applications. The applications should be denied. Petitioners request a Public Hearing. Petitioners are in immanent peril of irreparable harm if the Temporary Stay is not granted immediately.

(b) Additionally, the Petitioners petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and/or the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to open and accept public comments and include, as part of any approval of the Vaccines, requiring strong warnings to the public of each age groups, geographic location and any other relevant demographics, that a process be developed for individuals to opt out of any mandatory program and that clear instructions be given on the risk and benefits of the vaccine:

“This Vaccine has not undergone FDA safety or efficacy testing and its risks are unknown in all age groups. This Vaccine contains ingredients previously rejected for use in the United State and/or never evaluated by the FDA which have been shown in animal studies to cause significant adverse biological response when injected.”

(c) Furthermore, the Petitioners petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and/or the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to recommend to all implementing agencies, such as State Departments of Health that the Vaccines not be subject to any legal mandate requiring their use by any class of persons in order for such persons to receive government services, or to work in particular employments, or to travel or to attend any public places or for any other purpose.

(d) The Petitioners petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and/or the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to recommend to all implementing agencies, such as State Departments of Health that these un-insurable, unproven and untested Vaccines not be subject to any legal mandate, whether direct or indirect, perceived or actual, requiring their use by any class of persons in order for such persons to receive government services, such as schooling, or to work in particular employments, such as first responders or health care workers, or to travel or to attend any public places or for any other purpose.

(e) The Petitioners petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and/or the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to recommend voluntary Self-Shielding at home in preference to vaccination or removal to FEMA or other relocation facilities in the event of a Declared Pandemic Emergency.

Read the full text of the Petition is here:
https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=3314

The petitioners believe that halting these approvals is literally a matter of life and dealth since the new vaccines are made with adjuvants based on injected oil-in-water preparations based on squalene which are known to cause profound, chronic inflammatory response throughout the body, leading to ailments similar to those known was “Gulf War Syndrome”. These adjuvants, or immune system irritants, are so toxic that they have been rejected for testing in the US previously and no vaccine containing them has ever been approved in the US.

For more information, please sign up for the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Health Freedom Action eAlerts, https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?page_id=187.

Tax deductible donations to support this legal challenge to the FDA’s rush to approve these vaccines are gratefully acknowledged and may be made here, https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?page_id=189.

Yours in health and freedom,
Ralph Fucetola, JD
Counsel and Trustee
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

This Media Announcement issued as a media release on Free-Press-Release.com August 17, 2009
http://www.free-press-release.com/news-citizens-petition-tells-fda-to-stop-vaccine-approval-rush-1250560414.html

Natural Solutions Vaccine Portal:
http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/?p=3085

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August 31, 2009 Update:

FDA issues Docket No. FDA-2009-P-0418 — the Petition should be available for review on www.Regulations.gov within a couple days.
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August 20, 2009 Update:

Citizens Petition Tracking per USPS.gov:

Label/Receipt Number: EO96 4064 326U S
Class: Express Mail®
Status: Delivered

Your item was delivered at 10:51 AM on August 18, 2009 in ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 to HHS . The item was signed for by P ZIEDMAN.

Detailed Results:

Delivered, 08.18.2009, 10:51 am, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850
Arrival at Unit, 08.18.2009, 10:37 am, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850
Processed through Sort Facility, 08.18.2009, 4:54 am, GAITHERSBURG, MD 20898
Processed through Sort Facility, 08.18.2009, 2:48 am, LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, MD 21090
Processed through Sort Facility, 08.17.2009, 7:06 pm, NEWARK, NJ 07114
Acceptance, 08.17.2009, 3:27 pm, NEWTON, NJ 07860
Electronic Shipping Info Received, 08.17.2009
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August 23, 2009 Update:

After a discussion with FDA on Friday, August 21, 2009, the following email was sent:

From: “Ralph Fucetola JD”
To: [redacted]@fda.hhs.gov
Cc: [redacted]
Subject: Revised Petition to Stay “Swine Flu” Vaccine Approvals

To: FDA Dockets Management Division

Att: [redacted]

Dear Mr. [redacted],

Pursuant to the Petition submitted under date of August 17, 2009 and our
discussion of August 21, 2009, I submit herewith the following:

1. [3.4b1.rev] A revised Petition which addresses, by way of Addendum 1.01 and
1.02 the requirements of 21 CFR 10.30 and 10.35, and which includes the
Certification specified in the regulation. Petition includes signature.

2. [3.4b1.yhl] A yellow-highlight copy showing the changes. Only copy #1 above
is submitted for filing; this yellow-highlighted copy is for convenience
only.

3. Copies of the four articles referenced in the Petition, which have been
downloaded from the Internet and saved to be attached to the Petition.

Thank you for your attention to the emergency Citizens Petition. I will
follow-up with a phone call this Monday to confirm your receipt.

Ralph Fucetola JD
Natural Solutions Foundation Trustee
All rights reserved . . .

Application FDA-Vaccine-Petition.3.4b1.rev.doc 98K
Application FDA-Vaccine-Petition.3.4b1.yhl.doc 99K
Application Fucetola-Self-Shield.doc 80K
Application Holcomb-MedVeritas6-2009.pdf 158K
Application Laibow-True-Lies.doc 46K
Application Maniotis-Timeline.doc 78K

Want Your Animals Chipped? More Reasons Why the Senate MUST NOT Pass HR 2749 Sister Bill

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

NAIS in Sheep’s Clothing
Natural Solutions Foundation

Donate to Keep Health Freedom Free. All donations are tax deductible for US taxpayers: https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?page_id=189

Take this Action Step NOW for every member of your family/household and mobilize everyone you can reach to do the same: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

Visit your Senator to tell him/her how strongly you insist that he/she protect both your food and your freedom. Here is a printable fact sheet you can use to either send to people in your emails or hand out to your Senator and people in health food stores, community members, etc.: http://www.lifespirit.org/FoodSafetyBills-leafletFINAL.pdf

The Natural Solutions Foundation has been warning about the coming of Codex to our food supply, with its degradation of every aspect of our food freedom and quality for quite some time. We are so concerned about this food and freedom issue that we are creating the innovative Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org, in Volcan, Panama, to teach farmers and non farmers alike how to reclaim the production of food. But meanwhile, the US is loosing its food freedom and its freedom all at the same time.

HR 2749, and its sister bill which the Senate will consider when it reconvenes in September brings it all back home. The article below is long, detailed and vitally important to you and your family. This is not simply a technical bill for technocrats. This is real life food slavery for you and for your family unless we act now.

HR 2749 takes giant steps forward in bringing what none of us want to see into being. HR 2749’s sister bill must NOT pass in the Senate if you value the health that comes from food, value your freedom to grow and source the type of clean, unadulterated food you value and if you do not want to see, eat and be, a global food slave. To date, as I write this, some 876,996 emails have been generated to tell Congress to safeguard, not destroy, our health and our food supply, as well as our freedom. It is imperative that we make sure that the Senate understands that this is not a request, it is a demand. If you have not generated emails to stop this invasion of the Constitution, your health freedom and your food and pets, do so now.

The article below focuses on just one aspect of that program, the National Animal Identification System or NAIS.

There has been a long and powerful battle in the US against NAIS, a regulatory and chipping system which would place extraordinary burdens on small farmers, raising costs of “traceability” and farming practices so high as to drive them out of business, leaving the field to the industrial giants, the Codex Criminals who want food produced cheaply enough to make them even richer – and care nothing about health, safety or the future of either food or your family.

HR 2749, passed under great pressure by the House of Representatives on July 31, 2009, just as it went on August recess, is a disastrous bill for food, for freedom and for farmers. It is a disastrous bill for you. If you keep pets, it is a disastrous bill for them, too.

When we gained successful push back when Congresswoman Rosa Delaurio (CT-D) agreed not to fund NAIS in Committee, we knew that the issue would be back around. And here it is.

Please take the Action Step in our Three for Liberty Campaign, https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=3262, right now, once for each member of your family. Then let every single person you know or can reach that it is urgent that they do the same IF they believe in their right to clean, unadulterated food, do not want Codex’ international globalization standards implemented, want to support small and organic farmers, do not want their pets chipped (yes, their pets!) with devices which have been shown to cause cancer, do not want the FDA to be able to declare martial law (!) and seize property in cases of food contamination and want to be able to grow their own gardens without having to adhere to Codex standards, complete with PIN number!

This is not the United States we believe we live in. This is global food fascism, nothing more and nothing less. Don’t let it happen. It really is up to us.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedomUSA.org
Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
www.Organics4U.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org


Welcome to the Global Plantation: HR 2749 Authorizes International Take-Over of Domestic Food Production

© Doreen Hannes 2009
Published by permission of the author

HR 2749 AUTHORIZES NAIS and OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
Congressional staffers have been telling people that HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, does not authorize the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Many organic groups have agreed with them. However, this is misleading. Though HR 2749 does not name “the” National Animal Identification System, it still authorizes the program. It also does not state that it legally authorizes Good Agricultural Practices, or GAP, partially comprising Codex guidelines on traceability and food safety, and the OIE’s Guide to Good Farming Practices including auditing, certification and inspections, disincentives for not participating in the form of fines, penalties, and loss of access to market, but it does. Is it possible that Congress was not aware of what it voted on? The bill was changed three times in a 24-hour period before passing the House 283-142 on July 30, 2009.

Are these assertions about HR 2749 wild and unsubstantiated? Proving them is fairly easy—just understand “Good Agricultural Practices” (GAP), how the agencies of the World Trade Organization operate within member countries to achieve them and what comprises the actual jurisdiction of the FDA and USDA. A brief explanation follows, along with substantiating quotes from HR 2749.

First we look to jurisdiction in HR2749….

“Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this Act shall be construed to alter the jurisdiction between the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, under applicable statutes and regulations…” (p.3&4)

Then, tossing our preconceived notions to the wind and looking to law instead, we find that congressional testimony of the FDA on establishing a single food safety agency and a myriad of other sources including the FAO (Food and Ag Organization of the UN), the FDA statements on the Bioterrorism Act of 2002, and many books on food law affirm that FDA has jurisdiction over live food animals:

“FDA is the Federal agency that regulates 80 percent of the nation’s food supply-everything we eat except for meat, poultry, and certain egg products, which are regulated by our partners at USDA. FDA’s responsibility extends to live food animals…”(Cfans Director, March 2004 Congressional hearing)

So then what is the authority of the USDA? It is over agricultural disease, animals in the slaughter channel or transport, marketing (like grading of eggs and certification of processes) and the end product of many (but not all) food animals; meat. This is why NAIS always had to be “about disease” because the USDA couldn’t run it otherwise! The exemption section on USDA regulated products is a dust up. Most people think the USDA has authority over live food animals, but it is the FDA after all. They surrender “cow, sheep or goat for milk production”, but the FDA retains authority of the fluid milk and when the animal is no longer productive for milking, it’s into the slaughter channel (under USDA) or out to pasture (back to FDA) anyway!

“Livestock and poultry that are intended to be presented for slaughter pursuant to the regulations by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the Poultry Products Inspection Act are exempt from the requirements of this Act. A cow, sheep, or goat that is used for the production of milk is exempt from the requirements of this Act.” (p.5 of HR2749)

HR 2749 is 160 pages (July 29 version) and contains the following references to international standards and guidelines (emphasis added for clarity) (all page numbers refer to the PDF file):

“(B) INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS.—In issuing guidance or regulations… the Secretary shall review international hazard analysis and preventive control standards that are in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act and relevant to such guidelines or regulations to ensure that the programs…..are consistent……with such standards.” (p. 35)

“CONSISTENCY WITH INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS.—The Secretary shall apply this paragraph consistently with United States obligations under international agreements.” (p. 81)

“The Secretary shall issue regulations to ensure that any qualified certifying entity and its auditors are free from conflicts of interest. In issuing these regulations, the Secretary may rely on or incorporate international certification standards.” (p. 82)

This means that there will be a layer of auditors, certifiers and inspectors over every aspect of food production in this country and that these inspectors and certifiers will be trained in ISO (International Standards Organization) management program certification. The ISO has been working with Codex Alimentarius on Food Safety Standards and, in particular, a technical standard for Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) which is a consortium of the seven largest food retailers in the world, and that is ISO22000:2005. All traceability (read NAIS) falls under the purview of Codex, the OIE (World Animal Health Organization) and the IPPC (International Plant Protection Convention) for global trade agreements.

The following excerpt from HR 2749 shows the fully interoperable global network already in existence regarding food and its production:

“Development of such guidelines shall take into account the utilization of existing unique identification schemes and compatibility with customs automated systems, such as integration with the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and the International Trade Data System (ITDS), and any successor systems.” (p. 142)

So it is clear that international standards and guidelines are implicit in this legislation. Note the usage of the command form SHALL. This isn’t a ‘might’, ‘may’ or in anyway a voluntary issue on the part of the Secretary. Then there is the section on Traceability. This is a code word in the National Animal Identification System and when one reads Sec.107 of this bill, it describes specific components of NAIS down to 48-hour trace-back, which cannot even be fantasized about with out individual animal identification.

“…..the Secretary shall issue regulations establishing a tracing system that enables the Secretary to identify each person who grows, produces, manufactures, processes, packs, transports, holds, or sells such food in as short a timeframe as practicable but no longer than 2 business days.” [note that it says “grows”] (p. 70)

and…

“……use a unique identifier for each facility owned or operated by such person for such purpose…” (p. 69)

So we have PIN (Premises Identification Number) and 48-hour traceback harmonizing with international standards and guidelines along with this:

“….‘‘(C) COORDINATION REGARDING FARM IMPACT.—In issuing regulations under this paragraph that will impact farms, the Secretary ‘‘(i) shall coordinate with the Secretary of Agriculture; and ‘‘(ii) take into account the nature of the impact of the regulations on farms.” (p. 71)

Now that I’ve killed you with legalese, it’s time to let you find out just what these international standards and guidelines mean to those engaged in agriculture in this country.

“GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES”
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) are not a standard in and of themselves. They are a combination of standards and guidelines set forth by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. (FAO), through both the OIE (World Animal Health Organization) and Codex Alimentarius (Food Code) and IPPC to meet the certification and auditing side of the international trade aspects of the standards set forth. The OIE and Codex are charged with setting global standards and guidelines for the member countries of the WTO to meet and satisfy the SPS (Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary), TBT (Technical Barriers to Trade) and Equivalency agreements of the WTO for participation in international trade. Both the OIE and CODEX have guidelines for traceability that, with the passage of HR2749 into law, would be written into regulations governing all interstate commerce within the boundaries of the United States. The components of traceability are the pillars of NAIS that many of us have become so familiar with in the course of the battle over the past several years. Those being 1) Premises Identification 2) Animal Identification and 3) Animal Tracking. You can’t have traceability under international standards without having those three components.

One of the main issues in the implementation of these standards and guidelines within a member nation of the WTO is that they must have a legal framework through which to regulate and enforce these guidelines and standards. HR 2749 would meet the criteria for that legal framework by way of the excerpts from the bill above.

In the OIE’s “Guide to Good Farming Practices” the management of a livestock facility are clearly spelled out. Some of these recommendations that would become defacto law in the US under agency rule-making on passage of HR2749 (GGFP delineates international guidelines for food safety at the farm level) are:

– For each animal…Require and keep all commercial and health documents enabling their exact itinerary to be traced from their farm or establishment to their final destination…

-Keep a record of all persons entering the farm…..

-Keep medical certificates of persons working with the animals……

-Keep documents proving the water you give to the animals meets specific criteria

-Keep samples of all feed given to the animals

-Keep all documents from official inspections

-Keep records of treatment and procedures on all animals (castration, disbudding, calving, medications, etc.)

-Prevent domestic animals (cats and dogs) from roaming in and around livestock buildings

-Place all these documents at the disposal of the competent authority (Veterinary Services) when it conducts farm visits.

Some of the other guidelines and standards that would come into play after the implementation of traceability for all agricultural products would be : (from FAO COAG/17 “Development of a Framework for Good Agricultural Practices”) “the adoption and implementation of international standards and codes for which Codex food safety standards and guidelines have been designed, and the associated capacity building, training, development and field implementation in the context of the different production systems and agro-ecozones. These include: Enhancing Food Quality and Safety by Strengthening Handling, Processing and Marketing in the Food Chain (214A9); Capacity Building and Risk Analysis Methodologies for Compliance with Food Safety Standards and Pesticide Control (215P1); Food Quality Control and Consumer Protection (221P5); Food Safety Assessment and Rapid Alert System (221P6); and Food Quality and Safety Throughout the Food Chain (221P8).”*

To be certified as meeting the requirements of “GAP”, which is synonymous with being in compliance with international standards and guidelines, we can check out GlobalGAP.org. This is “the” certifying methodology for international trade in ag products. Here are a few excerpts from their 122-page general regulations booklet that has links to checklists for those who would be certifiers and auditors under the principles of GAP. This is an organization, not a governing body under WTO agreements, but working with nations and businesses to meet the criteria regarding these GAP practices for international trade. Here is a bare minimum of excerpts from their regulation document:

-(ii) Developing a Good Agricultural Practice (G.A.P.) framework for benchmarking existing assurance schemes and standards including traceability. (iii) Providing guidance for continuous improvement and the development and understanding of best practice. (iv) Establish a single, recognised framework for independent verification.

-Production Location: A production unit or group of production units, covered by the same ownership, operational procedures, farm management, and GLOBALGAP (EUREPGAP) decision-making activities.

-Within the context of GLOBALGAP (EUREPGAP) Integrated Farm Assurance this means tracing product from the producer’s immediate customer back to the producer and certified farm.

-Within the context of GLOBALGAP (EUREPGAP) Integrated Farm Assurance this means tracking product from the producer to his immediate customer.

In simple English, which appears to be highly lacking in all these guidelines, it means NAIS for everything, and for anyone who wishes to be engaged in agriculture….Remember the “grows” phrase from the earlier excerpt from HR2749. Now let’s look at some of the ‘exception’ clauses in HR2749. This bill is a terrifically crafty piece of legislation that is designed to cloud the reader’s understanding of the impact of the law being proposed in it. All of the exception clauses give the exception under this Act so long as you are ready to be regulated under a different Act. We’ll just look at a couple of these clauses to allow you to get the gist of the lack of exception available through the exceptions….

“EXCEPTIONS”
Farms- A farm is exempt from the requirements of this Act to the extent such farm raises animals from which food is derived that is regulated under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, or the Egg Products Inspection Act.

‘‘(I) such an operation that packs or holds food, provided that all food used in such activities is grown, raised, or consumed on such farm or another farm under the same ownership;

‘‘(II) such an operation that manufactures or processes food, provided that all food used in such activities is consumed on such farm or another farm under the same ownership; (pages9 and10)

Thus, if you grow everything you feed and consume everything you grow, and use no minerals or salts that you don’t mine yourself, you may be exempt. Or, in plain English, don’t even try to make a living in agriculture if you won’t comply with these rules.

One more exception to contend with here is:

‘(A) DIRECT SALES BY FARMS- Food is exempt from the requirements of this subsection if such food is–

‘(i) produced on a farm; and

‘(ii) sold by the owner, operator, or agent in charge of such farm directly to a consumer or to a restaurant or grocery store. (page 71)

This sounds good. However, there are several problems with this that are not evident without some knowledge of how things are done in the traditional avenues open for market to growers. First of all, cattle, whom you may recall as the primary target of the NAIS Business Plan, are often sold either at auction barns or via potload to feedlots. It is illegal to sell beef directly from the farm to consumers in every state that I know of. People often will sell a calf ready to butcher in halves or quarters to people and deliver the calf to the slaughter facility for the consumer, but this is far from the normal route of commerce in cattle or other species of meat animal. Even if you can securely wedge your operation into this particular exemption, they get you later via the record keeping section of this bill:

‘(E) RECORDKEEPING REGARDING PREVIOUS SOURCES AND SUBSEQUENT RECIPIENTS- For a food or person covered by a limitation or exemption under subparagraph (B), (C), or (D), the Secretary shall require each person who produces, receives, manufactures, processes, packs, transports, distributes, or holds such food to maintain records to identify the immediate previous sources of such food and its ingredients and the immediate subsequent recipients of such food.

‘(F) RECORDKEEPING BY RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES- For a food covered by an exemption under subparagraph (A), restaurants and grocery stores shall keep records documenting the farm that was the source of the food.

‘(G) RECORDKEEPING BY FARMS- For a food covered by an exemption under subparagraph (A), farms shall keep records, in electronic or non-electronic format, for at least 6 months documenting the restaurant or grocery store to which the food was sold.’ (pp. 74-75)

So being exempt means you are required to keep records. Keeping required records means you could be required to release those records. So how exempt can a person get under this legislation? Especially when the slaughter facilities will all be regulated unless the USDA already regulates them?

PENALTIES AND FINES
Then of course, as with any law, there are the fines and penalties. These are from $20,000 to $1,000,000 per violation. (p. 122)

NO JUDICIAL REVIEW
There is also the change under the seizure section that takes away judicial overview…(double quotations indicate amending language)

…….procedure in cases under this section shall conform, as nearly as may be, to the procedure in admiralty; except that on demand of either party any issue of fact joined in any such case shall be tried by jury, “”and except that, with respect to proceedings relating to food, Rule G of the Supplemental Rules of Admiralty or Maritime Claims and Asset Forfeiture Actions shall not apply in any such case, exigent circumstances shall be deemed to exist for all seizures brought under this section, and the summons and arrest warrant shall be issued by the clerk of the court without court review in any such case””…… (p. 116)

So we can just throw out that pesky Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and while we’re at it, let’s get rid of probable cause as well via this wording from page 117:

by striking ‘‘credible evidence or information indicating’’ and inserting ‘‘reason to believe’’;

There are many other dangerous aspects to HR 2749, like seizures, quarantines, and licensing and whistle blower provisions, but this should leave no doubt that this bill will indeed affect farms and has the potential to affect even home food production if an agency decides to apply the international risk analysis schemes to that venue. This bill opens a huge regulatory nightmare that is only evident when one knows what the international guidelines and standards consist of in regard to agriculture. Understanding those, it is highly unlikely that they will issue regulations that keep things as they are now.

Now, the questions that everyone involved in agriculture, meaning everyone who eats, must ask themselves are these:

Can regulating, fining and destroying the freedom of people to grow food create food safety?

Have the impacts of so-called “Free Trade” on this nation been beneficial for the citizens of this country?

Have food safety concerns increased or decreased since we have begun to import more food under these trade agreements?

And ultimately, does the US Constitution provide for the voidance of the Bill of Rights to participate in global trade?

My copy of the Constitution clearly does not allow for any law to void the Bill of Rights which is unalienable and Constitutionally guaranteed. It’s time to let our Federal representatives know in no uncertain terms, that everything to do with governance ultimately comes down to the consent of the governed, and we will not consent to being run by international agencies.

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My deep thanks to Paul Griepentrog, who helped in going through the legislation and many of the ramifications and amendments to current law under this Act.