Provider Nondiscrimination Case Survives Summary Judgment Motion

GREAT STRIDES IN THE CASE FOR
ALTERNATIVE PROVIDERS IN NEW JERSEY!The Affordable Care Act’s “Provider Nondiscrimination” Clause
Requires Insurance Carriers to Cover Holistic and Integrative Therapies

https://fundly.com/support-natural-therapies/ I have been working closely with an integrative practice in New Jersey for years helping them stand up to the state medical board and Horizon BCBS as their practice has been harassed since 2012. By the way, since this practice first opened in 2002, not one patient has ever filed a complaint.  When the state medical board and the largest insurer in the state set their sights on an alternative medicine practices, they usually shut the practice down. This is because most alternative providers can’t afford a multi-year a legal defense. However, with a little support from folks like you, a judge just ruled against Horizon BCBS as it asked the judge to rule in its favor without going to trial. The law firm handling this case says it doesn’t know of another example where a small provider survived this type of Summary Judgment attack! The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare), Section 2706(a), prohibits insurers from discriminating against healthcare providers who are acting within their legal scope of practice. [1] Horizon is saying it doesn’t have to cover alternative medicine, even though it is being delivered by an MD, advanced practice nurses and a naturopath, working under them. What this means is that this case may be a proper vehicle to test the extent of the PHS’s “provider nondiscrimination” clause — this case may set a precedent forcing insurers to cover holistic and integrative care! You can help set an important legal precedent with a small donation to put insurers on notice that the courts are going to require them to obey the law and cover holistic and integrative care! Small donations from large groups of consumers and providers will help assure more people have access to alternative medicine and harassing providers legally is less attractive to insurers. As little as $5 can help assure that insurers like BCBS are forced to comply with Section 2706 of ObamaCare which states:“a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall not discriminate with respect to participation under the plan or coverage against any health care provider who is acting within the scope of that provider’s license or certification under applicable state law.” (emphasis added) We strongly believe that getting this case before a jury will prove, not only that BCBS and the State Medical Board are discriminating against this practice, but that this law cannot be ignored without consequences. By supporting this case, consumer access to holistic MDs, DOs, advanced practice nurses, chiropractors, acupuncturists, naturopaths, midwives, behavioral health providers and more can grow as more insurance reimbursement for holistic and integrative alternatives gain the reimbursement their patients deserve and want. Please donate by clicking on:  https://fundly.com/support-natural-therapies/ Please share this message with this link: https://tinyurl.com/ProviderNondiscrimination ------------------ [1]  The Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) amended the Public Health Services Act (PHS) by adding section 2706(a). PHS Act section 2706(a), as added by the ACA, provides that a “group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall not discriminate with respect to participation under the plan or coverage against any health care provider who is acting within the scope of that provider’s license or certification under applicable state law.” The Federal government’s CCIIO office states: “The statutory language of PHS Act section 2706(a) is self-implementing and the Departments do not expect to issue regulations in the near future. PHS Act section 2706(a) is applicable to non-grandfathered group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage for plan years (in the individual market, policy years) beginning on or after January 1, 2014. Until any further guidance is issued, group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual coverage are expected to implement the requirements of PHS Act section 2706(a) using a good faith, reasonable interpretation of the law. For this purpose, to the extent an item or service is a covered benefit under the plan or coverage, and consistent with reasonable medical management techniques specified under the plan with respect to the frequency, method, treatment or setting for an item or service, a plan or issuer shall not discriminate based on a provider’s license or certification, to the extent the provider is acting within the scope of the provider’s license or certification under applicable state law. This provision does not require plans or issuers to accept all types of providers into a network. This provision also does not govern provider reimbursement rates, which may be subject to quality, performance, or market standards and considerations. The Departments will work together with employers, plans, issuers, states, providers, and other stakeholders to help them come into compliance with the provider nondiscrimination provision and will work with families and individuals to help them understand the law and benefit from it as intended.” https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Fact-Sheets-and-FAQs/aca_implementation_faqs15.html

Your Third Major Party Choice is Now Real

2018 ELECTIONS CONFIRM VOTER DESIRE
FOR THIRD PARTY CHOICE

The Libertarian Party is Now
America's Third Major Party

Not such a good election for the "(G)OP" (that means "(formerly) Grand Old Party") and the Demoncrats get to be led by one of the most out-of-touch crony pols of all times, Nancy Pelosi!

For Libertarians, however, this was a great election.

The Party announced significant voter results:

"Gov. Gary Johnson received more than 15 percent of the votes in his bid for U.S. Senate from New Mexico. Nebraska state Sen. Laura Ebke received 42 percent of the vote in her re-election bid. Libertarian National Committee Chair Nicholas Sarwark received 11 percent of the vote for mayor of Phoenix. Libertarian National Committee Development Director Lauren Daugherty received 22 percent of the vote in her run for justice of the peace in McLennan County, Texas. Brian Luke received 27 percent of the votes in his run for U.S. House District 2 from Washington. Running for Washington state House in District 22, Allen Acosta scored a 30 percent vote total. Mark Fish received nearly 11 percent in his race for the Alaska state House in a three-way race that included both a Republican and a Democratic candidate." [2] 

The American "two party system" is maintained through careful manipulation of the election laws, making the USA the only major "democracy" with only two "major parties." For any "third party" to be successful ballot access is essential, and the barriers against entry are significant.  Major gains were made in ballot access:

"Libertarians in states without automatic ballot access have to spend an inordinate amount of time, money, and effort every year qualifying their candidates through petitioning. Fortunately, Libertarian Party vote totals in a few states have qualified them for future ballot access. 

Oklahoma has some of the strictest ballot access laws in the country, which has historically made it a difficult state for Libertarians in past elections. Fortunately, Libertarian John Yeutter won nearly 25 percent of the vote in his race for Oklahoma auditor and inspector, which secures Libertarian Party ballot access until 2022. “Taxpayers in Oklahoma should have assurance that their state and local tax dollars are accounted for,” Yeutter said in his campaign. 

In New York, Libertarian Larry Sharpe received an unprecedented 89,232 votes for governor, far in excess of the 50,000 needed to assure Libertarian Party ballot access in New York for the next four years. Sharpe ran an active campaign, with appearances throughout the news media and interviews on television and radio. In 2016, Sharpe was also only 32 votes short of being selected as the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential candidate. 

Richard Brubaker, running for U.S. House from Wyoming, received enough votes to retain Libertarian Party ballot access for the state. Ballot access has also been assured until 2020 in Washington, D.C., thanks to the vote totals in Joseph Bishop-Henchman’s race for attorney general and his spouse Ethan Bishop-Henchman’s race for council chair. Mark Rutherford assured Indiana ballot access until 2022 with his race for secretary of state. In Massachusetts, Daniel Fishman has assured ballot access for two more years in his race for auditor." [2]

Here is what the Party Chair said:

"Over the past two years, we put so much into preparing for the 2018 elections. On Election Day, we made gains across the country that are the fruit of those labors and investments... The 2018 election cycle brought the rhetoric that we continue to hear every election cycle: 

    This is the most important election of our lifetime.
    The stakes are just too high to stay home.
    The future of our democracy is at stake. 

While Ds and Rs stoked voters’ fears in order to drum up record-breaking voter turnout in some areas, our 833 Libertarian candidates campaigned on practical solutions to improve America’s communities. 

As Libertarians, we take a different approach than our opponents do; we appeal to common sense. Our solutions cut taxes, improve lives, and present opportunities to make communities more free and prosperous. 

We are proud of our 16 newly-elected Libertarians and the 833 Libertarians that ran this year. Each of our candidates courageously challenged the two-party system." [3]

Just before the election the Gallup Poll questioned Americans about the need for a "major third party."  The graph at the top of this blog entry tells the story.  This is what Gallup had to say:

"Americans' views of the two-party system have soured since Gallup's initial 2003 measurement when a solid majority said the Republican and Democratic parties were doing an adequate job. More than 40% continued to feel this way on occasion through 2012, but since then no more than 38% have believed the two parties are adequate while as many as 61% have said a third party is needed." [1]

My conclusion is that the time has never been better for the Libertarian Party to confirm its "major party" status, returning real democracy to the American federal republic.  Americans no longer have just two choices.  There is a third choice to Demoncrat and (G)OP politics-as-usual.  That choice is Liberty!
 

Millions Vote Libertarian

Assuring Ballot Access in More States:

• Larry Sharpe received 90,816 votes in his race for governor of New York, well over the 50,000-vote threshold to assure Libertarian Party ballot access in New York through 2020.

• John Yeutter won nearly 25 percent of the vote in his race for Oklahoma auditor and inspector, which secures Libertarian Party ballot access through 2022.

• Voters numbering 1,609,716 cast their ballots for Mark Ash for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 8. His 25.3 percent result serves to assure LP Texas ballot access through 2020.

• Richard Brubaker, running for the U.S. house from Wyoming, received enough votes to retain Libertarian Party ballot access for the state.

• Mark Rutherford assured Indiana ballot access until 2022 with his race for secretary of state.

• In Massachusetts, Daniel Fishman has assured ballot access for two more years in his race for auditor.

https://www.lp.org/2018-election-results/

Previous articles in this series:  https://tinyurl.com/OK2beLibertarian
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[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/244094/majority-say-third-party-needed.aspx

[2] https://www.lp.org/libertarians-win-local-races-achieve-ballot-access-prevail-on-initiatives/

[3] https://www.lp.org/onward/

FOIA Action Exposes HHS Vax Failure to Report to Congress

Informed Consent Action Network v. 
United States Department of Health and Human Services (1:18-cv-03215)
Major Legal Victory!

https://tinyurl.com/AVDcard

This Informed Consent FOIA case means all vaccine mandates are illegal because the drug companies and the government have failed to obey the law.  This means your Informed Consent right to refuse all vaccines is more important than ever before.  You must assert the right or you will be "deemed" to have "waived" the right! That's where the AVD Card counts.

Sometimes you win by voluntarily dismissing your case. That's what happened a few weeks ago when the Informed Consent Action Network voluntarily dismissed its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case against the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Earlier this year the Network sought copies of the Reports that the infamous 1986 Vaccine (sic) Safety Law required the Secretary to provide to Congress every two years.

Let's remember where that all started. In 1976 we had the First Swine Flu Pandemic Vaccine. Over 400 people died from the vaccine and the drug companies had to withdraw the vaccine, subsequently, there was no flu pandemic. The lawsuits started. Then the companies told Congress they would withdraw from the vaccine business unless Congress "protected" them. It did. The 1986 law, which unconstitutionally took away from us our First Amendment Right to Redress of Grievances regarding vaccine injuries, also commanded the Secretary to make sure vaccines got safer, and to report to Congress about that every other year.

As we've known for some time, that never happened. Vaccines got much, much more dangerous -- "unavoidable unsafe" as our Courts have said, and the Secretary never told anything to Congress. 

We now know the truth, as a result of the FOIA suit. Below is a copy of excerpts from the stipulated Order regarding the FOIA action. It sets out the wording of the law requiring the Secretary to tell Congress, and all Americans, the truth about vaccine safety. The final paragraph is what the Secretary told the Court: the Reports required by the Law were never made!

The smoking gun of vaccine lies! What can you do about the Secretary's failure to obey the Law and make sure vaccines are safer? What can you do to protect yourself and your family? You must assert your right of Informed Consent. You can, and must, refuse all vaccines! 

Natural Solutions Foundation helps you do just that. With the Advance Vaccine Directive card you can assert your Informed Consent right with clear legal intent. The law is clear: if you do not assert the right, it can be "deemed waived." Get it here:

  https://tinyurl.com/AVDcard

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http://www.opensourcetruth.com/vax-lie-smoking-gun/

Banned by Crony Corporation Social Media Deep State Shills

SUING THE SOCIAL MEDIA FOR CENSORING SPEECH

N. Rockwell - Freedom of Speech

While some might consider my expressed views* on what happened last month to Alex Jones and www.InfoWars.com, namely, being "banned" [a term that reminds me of the evils of Apartheid] by nearly all the major social media during one 24 hour period, a conspiracy theory, I assert that the evidence does support the theory that these major corporate actors were acting in concert and that their actions violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)[1] and the 14^th Amendment[2].  

I think anyone so "banned" by the Deep State Social Media Crony Corporations has good grounds to sue.

We are told that the "bannings" were not unlawful censorship since the banning entities are all private companies, not subject to the First Amendment’s injunction, “Congress shall make no ... abridging the freedom of speech...”

The First Point of Law to note is that the Supreme Court has applied the language of the First Amendment to not just Acts of Congress, but to any actions of the Federal Government, and, through the 14^th Amendment, to the States as well.[3]

The Second Point of Law to note is that Internet Access is protected under the First Amendment,

In the 2017 case of Packingham v North Carolina the Supreme Court held that “a fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that all persons have access to places where they can speak...”[4]

The Third Point of Law to note is that the 14^th Amendment provides that States may not make or enforce any law that abridges the rights of US citizens.  This includes, of course, the granting of the corporate franchise to private companies such that they may act in violation of our Fundamental Rights.

The Internet was initially established by the US Government and remains a public utility, although used by private persons to communicate and by publicly registered and traded companies to profit from our communications.

The social media corporations are in law “creatures of the state” existing by virtue of the grant of the corporate franchise which permits such entities privileges that are not applicable to purely private persons, including the limited liability privilege and the privilege of selling shares to the public as a joint stock company.

While these companies are to some degree “private” businesses, they act over the Internet public utility. They act “under color of law” and are therefore more akin to government agencies than to private actors.

That these entities engage in substantial commerce with the government, receiving tax funds for certain contracts including the providing of data about users to government, and benefiting from the use of the Internet public utility further substantiates their status as agents of government power.

As such, they must be bound by the restrictions of the First Amendment and cannot discriminate among their users on the basis of the content of the Speech which the users express over the Internet public utility.

When several of these quasi-private companies act in apparent concert to ban the Speech of a particular user they do so “under color of law” and in violation of the Freedom of Speech of both the speaker and those who seek to hear.  Both Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association are restricted through the exercise of authority depending on government. This is unlawful.

The effect of the unlawful actions of the companies is to tortuously interfere with valuable commercial relationships, between the speaker and hearer, causing substantial financial harm and damages. I note, currently, Facebook still accepts ads from certain "banned" companies. But not from others.

Such unlawful acts, and the unlawful combination to engage in such acts, may violate the provisions of RICO.  The companies that are the most egregious banners include Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.  

Some of these same companies are "making pacts with the devil" by developing special government-censored versions of their services for Communist-controlled China, enabling that tyrannical regime to impose its social control system on the world's most populous country.

In the United States, the targeting of individuals because of the content of the Speech they seek to express over the Internet public utility can be seen as a type of commercial extortion forbidden under RICO.  Conspiracies to do so may provide the second “act of racketeering activity” to invoke RICO.

It is therefore my professional opinion, to a reasonable degree of professional certainty, that the "banned" individuals and companies have valid grounds to sue the social media companies that have "banned" them.

Such litigation could be started in the Federal District Court wherein the headquarters of any of the corporate actors might be located.

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* As I wrote recently at Open Source Truth[5]:

Our Freedom of Speech is under a world wide web of attack.

While various authoritarian states make no effort to hide direct censorship of speech, the “advanced democracies” are more subtle. Germany, with no absolute constitutional protection for Free Speech, is contemplating empowering Internet Service Providers to refuse service to “hate groups.” At the same time the large international corporate controllers of the Internet, such as YouTube, Facebook and Google, are already escalating content controls to enforce “political correctness” – if you don’t follow the Party Line, you cannot be heard.

First they came for the Neo-Nazis and banned them from Facebook. No one protested. Then they came for Alex Jones and banned him from YouTube and Facebook. No one protested. Then they came for… You know the rest… they came for you and me, and no one was left to protest.

These supposed private Social Media Companies are actually exercising government authority. Just as much as if they had been the “private” Tax Farmers of Ancient Rome.

They are the privatized agents of Deep State control and censorship. They exercise this control on several levels. Each of these mega-corporations is, in fact and in law, “a creature of the state.” It is created by registration with government that gives it authorities (such as limited liability to third parties) which it could not exercise as a truly private association.

If the same Rule of Law that applies to truly private actors applied to government and its crony corporations, “content control” efforts would be understood to be exactly what they are: censorship. Real free market competition and technological progress would rapidly make the near-monopoly power of Google and Facebook irrelevant. If the same Rule of Law that ought to apply to Government Censorship – that there can be no such law – applied to the crony corporations, YouTube, Facebook etc. “private” censorship could not remain.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act

[2] “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States” - 14th Amendment

[3] “Beginning with Gitlow v. New York (1925), the Supreme Court applied the First Amendment to states—a process known as incorporation—through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
[4] Ibid. “In Packingham v. North Carolina (2017), the Supreme Court held that a North Carolina law prohibiting registered sex offenders from accessing various websites impermissibly restricted lawful speech in violation of the First Amendment. The Court held that ‘a fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that all persons have access to places where they can speak and listen, and then, after reflection, speak and listen once more.’”

[5] http://www.opensourcetruth.com/data-mine/

Deep State Censorship and the Crony Corporate "Private" Media

Is Alex Jones the “Canary in the Coal Mine”?
The Deep State (Date) Mine

The Latest News:
YouTube Will Run Pro-Vax Messages
During Vaccine Freedom of Choice Videos

The Deep State Wants to Provide
"Corrective Information" AKA Soviet Style Censorship
And They are Doing a Pretty Good Job of It!

Alex Jones was “de-platformed” -- banned -- over a 24 hour period on August 5/6, 2018 by the following “independent” corporate media” --

1. YouTube/Google
2. Facebook
3. Apple
4. Spottify

Perhaps thereby proving Alex Jones’ “conspiracy theories” by targeting him.

[ September 11, 2018 Update:  Twitter joined the rest of the crony corporate media in banning AJ a couple days ago.  AJ had just confronted a crony corporate shill CNN reporter (whose complaint to social media sites triggered the original Bannings) in the halls of Congress and live streamed the confrontation over Twitter's live stream platform. That powerful use of live truth apparently was deemed "harassment" by Twitter's controllers.

Since the start of the Bannings Alex Jones' website -- www.InfoWars.com -- has gained over 1,000 positions in global web site ranking, according to industry source Alexa. Just look:   https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/infowars.com.

To join the Friends of Alex Jones at the uncensored, blockchain-friendly alt to Facebook, Minds.com, go to:   https://www.minds.com/groups/profile/873597137366351872 ]

ORIGINAL BLOG POSTING

Facebook deletes unpopular/challenging/unacceptable ideas. They claim to have the “right” to do that:as  they are [allegedly] a private company. YouTube/Google remove anti vaccine and other unpopular-challenging corporate-control-averse and, at their whim, edit contrary thought with “corrective” intrusions.

They maintain that they have the “right” to do so because they are a[n] [allegedly] private company. They use our public airways, have massive contracts with public sources (that is, get paid with YOUR dollars by NSA and the like) and benefit from a government-maintained monopoly status. And what used to be the constitutional protection of our foundational concepts has vanished into an electrosmog haze of privatized tyranny and censorship. 

The government does not have to do a thing but sit idly by while its tax-subsidized, defense contract enhanced corporate “partners” do its dirty work in exactly the same way that hospitals and schools have institutionalized totally illegal vaccine mandates in violation of Informed Consent.


The First Amendment’s “Congress shall make no law...” censoring speech remains the law, but it is increasingly a “dead letter law.” This trick, where the Deep State pretends that the old freedoms remain, is itself an old trick.

Part of the trick is to create structures that seem to be protecting the freedoms while they actually destroy them. 

Control over most humans had been maintained for millennia through the use of religious and, later, political ideologies inevitably justifying the dominance of the few over the many, even when the controllers pretend to speak for, and protect, the “majority”.

But in more modern times the structure of bureaucracy itself has been redesigned to become, not just to serve, the control system. Consider, for, example, how the regulatory structure of the Deep State’s Military Draft was used in the USA during the 1960s and ‘70s to “channel” students into certain fields, such as science, engineering and weapons design, which were considered of benefit to the state. Now we see the same process at work with the incessant demands for ever more vaccines, and for forcing adults and children to receive all the vaccines that crony corporatist-tainted science can concoct without regard for either scientific validation or personal rights.

However, in 2009, during the Swine Flu Vax Panic, the would-be tyrants, who planned to vaccinate every American “starting with the volunteers” with unsafety tested vaccines (with the supply “stretched” by adding the adjuvant Squalene, at levels shown to cause irreversible infertility in Patents held by the US government) found themselves stymied by a population that refused to cooperate and who, in the millions, told their “representatives” so.  The plan collapsed and even the first responders were able to escape state vax mandates unharmed, though that took a law suit. There was no pandemic.

The incipient tyrants learned an important lesson from the power of our Push Back: overt Federal mandates will be resisted.

 That is when we began to see the authorities passing off the mandates to allegedly private actors for enforcement. While this privatizing of tyranny works to increase censorship and impose unlawful financial controls, the vax mandate gambit remains a primary example of this political process.

It is, as I said, an old trick.  Very old.

During the early centuries of the Roman Empire the old forms of the Roman Republic also remained, with annual Consular elections and traditional magistrates. But that state had in fact been turned over to the Imperator who had life and death power over all others. “I am the only free person in Rome.” said the Emperor Caligula. “I am the only game in town” says YouTube...

The ancient city had no room for liberty. Fustel de Coulanges, observed, in The Ancient City, “The city had been founded on a religion and constituted a church. Hence its strength; hence, also, its omnipotence and the absolute empire which it exercised over its members. In a society established on such principles, individual liberty could not exist. The citizen was subordinate in everything, and without any reserve, to the city; he belonged to it body and soul. The religion which had produced the state, and the state which supported the religion, sustained each other…”

That ancient order was supposedly overthrown in recent centuries by the great liberal (in its original sense) revolutions which established the primacy of individual freedom, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” – Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

In 2017 I wrote about this issue in an article published on the news aggregation site, www.OpenSourceTruth.com , and warned that by privatizing censorship we were institutionalizing tyranny, allowing the Crony Corporate State to destroy our liberty.  Unfortunately, I was all too right.

It is reported that Marc Zuckerberg personally de-platformed Alex Jones on his own, but that hardly explains the rest of the de-platforming.

Unconstitutional Mandates "for the good of the Children."

When Governor Jerry Brownshirt of California signed SB277 into law in 2015 he gave California parents an unconstitutional choice between their child receiving the so-called “free public education” promised by the California Constitution, or, their family exercising the universal right to Informed Consent by interposing their conscientious objection to vaccines. The California governor violated basic norms of civilization. He enlisted not just the government’s schools, but even private and religious schools in his plan to force children to receive dozens of “unavoidably unsafe”, uninsurable vaccines.

The state pretends to recognize our traditional right to freedom of choice, but it actively seeks the complete elimination, the total abrogation of that right. Control over most humans had been maintained for millennia through the use of religious and, later, political ideologies inevitably justifying the dominance of the few over the many, even when the controllers pretend to speak for, and protect the “majority”.

This strict social control dominated human society for most of its existence through the use of what early freedom theorists such as the American abolitionist Lysandor Spooner saw as the great monopolies created by political power.. These included the monopolies over conscience embodied by state religions, over the bodies of certain people (e.g., chattel slavery; prisoners, war captives, caste system members, etc.), or the property rights of approximately half of the species (the legal “infirmities” of women, etc.) and over all property through royal claims to “own” the land and economic activities of a territory (feudalism and mercantilism).

But in more modern times the structure of bureaucracy itself has been redesigned to become, not just to serve, the control system. Consider, for, example, how the regulatory structure of the Military Draft was used in the USA during the 1960s and ‘70s to “channel” students into certain fields such as science, engineering and weapons design, which were considered of benefit to the state.

Now we see the same process at work with the incessant demands for ever more vaccines, and for forcing adults and children to receive all the vaccines that crony corporatist-tainted science can concoct without regard for either scientific validation, evidence of safety (both are required by law and totally lacking in the US!) or personal rights (protected by international and national law and totally ignored unless we, the owners of our bodies take the trouble to assert it correctly) .

However, in 2009, during the Swine Flu Vax Panic, the would-be tyrants, who planned to vaccinate every American “starting with the volunteers” with unsafety tested vaccines (with the supply “stretched” by adding the dangerous and equally unsafety tested adjuvant Squalene, at levels shown to cause irreversible infertility in Patents held by the US government!) found themselves stymied by a population that refused to cooperate and who, in the millions, told their “representatives” so.  Their mandate was announced to Congress by then Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius on September 15, 2009. Secretary Sebelius did not ASK Congress for approval of her plan.  She announced that the plan was already fully funded, that $4.5 BILLION dollars had been spent on the unsafety tested squalene adjuvant and billions more on the unproven vaccines.  She announced that 90,000 vaccine administration centers would be set up around the country and that the mercury-squalene-aluminum mix would be administered to every man, woman and child in the US starting with “those who want it first”. Listened and assented by its silence, maintaining the appearance and forms of governance, but, in reality surrendering that governance to the bureaucratic operatives of the Deep State, doing absolutely nothing to protect either the health or the bodies of the citizens they are, in fact, sworn to protect and the constitution they are sworn to protect and defend.

Popular outrage, mediated by internet tools available to share the information led to the collapse of the plan and even the first responders were able to escape state vaccine mandates unharmed, though that required a law suit. There was no mass vaccination so there was no pandemic. I am proud to have been, as a Trustee of the Natural Solutions Foundation, one of the architects of that mass refusal in which millions of people told these cowardly constitutional failures, “Don’t you dare!” And they didn’t because, with that mass opposition, they couldn’t.

The incipient tyrants learned an important lesson from the power of our Push Back: overt Federal mandates CAN  be resisted and, if the information is available, WILL be resisted.

That is when we began to see the authorities passing off the mandates to allegedly private actors for enforcement. Read on to see how this privatizing of tyranny works to increase censorship and impose unlawful financial controls. The vaccine mandates gambit remains a primary example of this tyrannical political process.

The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) which approves vaccines is so completely corrupted by crony corporate interests that they actually had to change the rules to allow the conflicted members to vote nonetheless, or there would never be a quorum because they ALL have serious conflicts of interest. One example: Paul Offit, MD, a so-called “ethicist” and physician from a famous children’s hospital, was allowed to vote to “recommend” a vaccine in which he had a Patent interest; his vote netted him tens of millions of dollars in the first year of its “recommendation” alone. Meanwhile the US government, deeply involved in approving and disseminating vaccines, through mandates and sponsored propaganda, owns financial interests in over 50 vaccine Patents.

After the CDC “recommendation” is voted the privatization of the mandate starts, with some local governments issuing mandates, but with private hospitals requiring staff to be vaccinated, even staff members who never have patient contact.

Similarly, schools join in the rush to increase their vaccine levels (as higher vaccination rates translate into more Federal and State money for the institution) – in one particularly egregious example from 2007, Prince Georges County, Maryland revaccinated hundreds of children literally at gun point to prevent the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in Federal subsidies. The school system claimed it had lost the vaccination records of nearly a thousand children. This is, in fact, a less known form of human trafficking, selling children’s bodies for money to the agency of the State required by law to protect these same children, body and mind. Their vaccination-mandate-for-pay damages those same children, body and mind, while abrogating their fundamental rights. But the pay is great and maybe the basketball team sees some of it.

We now see a disturbing trend where private employers join the mandate madness although the businesses have nothing to do with health care. This trend is building despite the fact that the courts  have clearly held that people retain their right to Informed Consent even where governments are restricting religious and philosophical conscientious objections to vaccination.

Several years ago, an Administrative Judge in New Jersey held that it was illegal to fire a nurse for refusing vaccines for philosophical reasons while the people were permitted to assert a religious conscientious objection to refuse the injection.

As recently as 2013 the US Supreme Court upheld Informed Consent, stating, Even a “…diminished expectation of privacy does not diminish the… privacy interest in preventing a government agent from piercing the… skin. And though a blood test conducted in a medical setting by trained personnel is less intrusive than other bodily invasions, this Court has never retreated from its recognition that any compelled intrusion into the human body implicates significant, constitutionally protected privacy interests…” Missouri v McNeely 133 SCt 1553.

As a side note, McNeely teaches us that unless you assert your right to Informed Consent, it will be deemed waived. Assert your conscientious objection to forced vaccination with the Advance Vaccine Directive card, http://tinyurl.com/AVDcard – an advance medical directive that must be respected by ethical health care professionals.

Our Freedom of Speech is under a world wide web of attack.

While various authoritarian states make no effort to hide direct censorship of speech, the “advanced democracies” are more subtle. Germany, with no absolute constitutional protection for Free Speech, is contemplating empowering Internet Service Providers to refuse service to “hate groups.” At the same time the large international corporate controllers of the Internet, such as YouTube, Facebook and Google, are already escalating content controls to enforce “political correctness” – if you don’t follow the Party Line, you cannot be heard.

First they came for the Neo-Nazis and banned them from Facebook. No one protested. Then they came for Alex Jones and banned him from YouTube and Facebook. Almost no one protested. Then they came for... You know the rest... they came for you and me, and no one was left to protest.

These supposed private Social Media Companies are actually exercising government authority. Just as much as if they had been the “private” Tax Farmers of Ancient Rome. They are the privatized agents of control and censorship. They exercise this control on several levels.

Each of these mega-corporations is, in fact and in law, “a creature of the state.” It is created by registration with government that gives it authorities (such as limited liability to third parties) which it could not exercise as a truly private association.

If the same Rule of Law that applies to truly private actors applied to government and its crony corporations, “content control” efforts would be understood to be exactly what they are: censorship. Real free market competition and technological progress would rapidly make the near-monopoly power of Google and Facebook irrelevant.

If the same Rule of Law that ought to apply to Government Censorship – that there can be no such law – applied to the crony corporations, YouTube, Facebook etc. “private” censorship could not remain.

What can you do about it?

1. Assert your right to Informed Consent:   http://tinyurl.com/AVDcard
2. Join the Health Freedom USA email list to continue to receive Dr. Rima’s Truth Reports, even when we are banned by the Social Media Giants. Do that here:   http://drrimatruthreports.com/action/step1/
3. Patronize Alt Social Media such as the uncensored   Minds.com
4. And don’t forget what Dr. Rima Recommends:   DrRimaRecommends.com
5. Share this message!   http://drrimatruthreports.com/welcome-to-the-deep-state-data-mine/

Will President Trump Divest the FDA?

Breaking Up the US FDA…
Will President Trump Divest the FDA?

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A current rumor on the Internet has it that President Trump wants to abolish or combine various US Federal Agencies to create a leaner, more efficient Federal Bureaucracy. [1]

Suggestions are bantering about Facebook, Minds and Twitter.

We no doubt each have our favorite agency to see “disappeared.”    Certainly, at least the second-most-hated agency is the FDA — the Food and Drug Administration, known to some of its detractors as the Fraud and Death Administration.  It is one of the most convoluted and omnipresent agencies in the bloated organization chart of the Federal Establishment. [2]

It’s been just over a decade since an official government study of the FDA proclaimed:

1) The FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its scientific base has eroded and its scientific organizational structure is weak... . 2) The FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its scientific workforce does not have sufficient capacity and capability... . 3) The FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its information technology (IT) infrastructure is inadequate... . 4) FDA does not have the capacity to ensure the safety of food for the nation... . 5) The development of medical products based on “new science” cannot be adequately regulated by the FDA... . 6) There is insufficient capacity in modeling risk assessment and analysis... . 7) The FDA science agenda lacks a coherent structure and vision, as well as effective coordination and prioritization... . 8) The FDA has substantial recruitment and retention challenges... . 9) The FDA has an inadequate and ineffective program for scientist performance... . 10) The FDA has not taken sufficient advantage of external and internal collaborations... . 11) The FDA lacks the information science capability and information infrastructure to fulfill is regulatory mandate... . 12) The FDA cannot provide the information infrastructure support to regulate products based on new science. [3]

The FDA is a failed agency…

…that, in Dr. Ron Paul’s memorable words, “engages in abuse of power.” He said, in effect, ‘Giving the FDA more power is giving it more power to abuse.’

Even the FDA’s own scientists are complaining about the corruption that pervades the agency — and this is not the first time conscientious scientists have raised these issues. [4]

Then we have the strange case of William W. Thompson, PhD., the whistle-blower in the CDC (an agency that acts in conjunction with the FDA) who exposed the shocking fact that the CDC knew the MMR vaccine was associated with elevated autism rates among especially black boys. [5] 

I believe that due to the (1)  FDA’s focus on the drug industry (80% of its funding comes from Big Pharma “user fees”) and (2)  its failure to protect the safety of the food supply, (3)  while engaging in international “harmonization” that degrades organic standards and allows ever-increasing levels of toxins (including antibiotic residues) in the food supply, the FDA is incapable of administering food regulations. 

The FDA’s prejudice against nutrient supplementation and traditional homeopathic and natural remedies means these advanced healthcare alternative competitors to pharmaceuticals are denigrated, marginalized and regulated against.

What is the answer?

What would, say, a businessman who became President do? 

I suspect it would be to tell FDA to, in the immortal words of John Galt, “Get out of the way.”

We need to engage market forces to stimulate advanced alternatives to a medical system that is now the major source of death in our society, according to a landmark peer-reviewed article by Dr. Gary Null. [6]

We need to divest the FDA of any authority over foods. Maybe then it can focus on the dangers of pharmaceuticals, including the un-insurable risks of mandatory “unavoidably unsafe” vaccination, as it was mandated by law in 1986 to do. Historically both the DEA and EPA were “spun-off” the FDA.

We need to free Foods (including nutrients, and natural and homeopathic remedies) from the deadly hands of the FDA.

Health Freedom Advocates have proposed the Natural Remedies Access Act  which would protect foods, vitamins, homeopathics and other natural remedies from FDA’s fake science “risk/benefit” analysis which always leads to restricting access. [7] 

Read the Bill here:   http://drrimatruthreports.com/updating-the-fda-attack-on-homeopathy/#Bill

That’s a first step toward deregulating and divesting.

The details? I suppose we’ll have to leave that up to the CEO-in-Chief.

By Ralph Fucetola JD

This article was originally published at the Bolen Report: http://bolenreport.com/breaking-up-the-us-fda/

[1] “Merge the food-safety functions of the USDA, HHS, and FDA into a single agency within the Department of Agriculture.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1011087230968868865.html
[2] When I first called for divesting FDA of food authority: http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2008/11/divesting-fda-of-food-authority.html
[3] November 2007 Report of the Subcommittee on Science and Technology, “FDA Science and Mission at Risk.” http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/PublicHealth/MedPrep/2010-FEB-22/Feb-24-Session-5-Cassell-FDA-Science.pdf
[4] http://www.naturalnews.com/z024910.html
[5] http://drrimatruthreports.com/emergency-cdc-whistleblower-to-cave-stop-him/ [6] http://www.webdc.com/pdfs/deathbymedicine.pdf
[7] Read the bill here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/updating-the-fda-attack-on-homeopathy/

Voting Third Party - Only Vote Not Wasted!

Voting Third Party this November
Is the Only Vote Not Wasted!

Voting Third Party Furthers The Disruptive Agenda

Libertarians and Friends

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Ben Shapiro, writing in the Daily Wire June 14, 2018, said he was shocked that FBI agents would interfere with American elections, and particularly in the 2016 presidential election.

"Buried in the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report – a report that found no political bias in the actions of the FBI during the Hillary investigation – is one massive bombshell: a text from FBI agent Peter Strzok to his lover, FBI agent Lisa Page. Here’s the insane exchange, circa August 2016: 

Page: "[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!"
Strzok: "No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it." 

WE’LL STOP IT? 

How in the world could an FBI agent – and not just an FBI agent, but a key, high-ranking FBI agent involved in both the Hillary Clinton investigation and the Russian election interference investigation – text this? And more importantly, how could the IG then find that no political bias was present in the actions of the FBI?" [1]

My comment posted at the Shapiro article was:

"While I doubt that Mr. Shapiro is really shocked, he does right by pointing to the FBI's interference in the election.  If you want a deep state "strong enough" to "guarantee security" you will get a deep state strong enough to "guide" the electoral process. We are not just witnessing deep state corruption in the FBI, we are seeing how all power corrupts. If you want a return to a free republic, both Republicans and Democrats in Congress must reassert "our representatives" control over the government. Or, failing that (and fail Congress will!) we the people must vote for third party candidates this November to send a clear message of rejection of the deep state takeover!"

That is the theme I take up here:  voting for the (G)OP or the Demoncrats is a vote for the Deep State. 

Such a vote is worse than wasted. It allows the "two" tax-eater party leaders to pretend to have public support.  The only vote that is not wasted is a vote for any third party candidate.  Only someone   willing to stand for Congress on a ticket other than the duopoly parties is someone we might be able to trust in Congress!

Continuing Donald Trump's disruptive impact on American politics requires a real shake-up of voting habits.

What impact will third party votes have on the way the ruling parties govern?

Historically, American third parties have often "set the agenda" for the governing coalitions, even though the "two party system" has been maintained as a structure in which the elites are able to contain their rivalries. There are numerous examples of significant policy changes, from the end of slavery through alcohol prohibition of the effect of third party movements throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries.  Independent campaigns, such as those of former governor George Wallace (the last independent candidate to win electoral votes in multiple states - 1968), connected businessman Ross Perot and politician John Anderson determined the scope of presidential politics throughout the second half of the 20th Century.

What impact will future third party votes have on election outcomes?

Let's look at Libertarian Party votes over the past three presidential elections. I addressed that in more detail [2] where I wrote,

"The recent trend in Libertarian Party [www.lp.org] Presidential Vote Results is clearly upward: [3]

          2008 - 523,715 - 0.40%
          2012 - 1,275,971 - 0.99%
          2016 - 4,488,914 - 3.28%

[Note that the 2016 total, when two former two term (G)OP governors carried the LP banner, was substantially larger than the 2.9 million vote difference between the two tax-eater parties.]"

Third party votes most likely prevented Hillary Clinton from becoming president.

During the 2017 off-year election LP candidates garnered anywhere from 1% to 45% of the votes cast in particular local elections [4]. As far back as the presidential election of 1972 the LP presidential candidate did receive an electoral vote in Virginia [5].

Voter participation (as a percent of VAP -- Voting Age Population ) peaked, interestingly in 1860, at 81% and has slowly declined to 2016's 55.5% (the lowest was 50.3% in 2000). [6] As the voting percentage has declined, in recent years, however, the percentage of people who regularly vote for third parties has grown. [7] This is confirmed by the above noted LP presidential votes over the past three cycles.

So the question becomes: what is a patriotic American to do when faced with the choices on the ballot this coming November?

Voting for either Democrats or Republicans just encourages the continuation of the current situation -- a Congress unable to reform the broken "progressive" entitlement programs that are leading us to ruin; unable to protect the peace, our security and especially our liberties.

The Federal Government still chooses to borrow about 40% of its bloated budget, policing the world to make it safe for Chinese commerce, while failing to provide safe roads, bridges and schools here in America.

While the deregulation "Trump Boom " may paper-over the fundamentals, for a while, we are still faced with extraordinary increases in the Federal Debt, which are themselves papered-over by the Federal Reserve buying nearly all new Treasury Bonds and inflating the money supply as a result. This Keynsian debt time bomb will blow up the boom, sooner or later. Especially since the President, in years past, had famously stated, "I love debt."

The two tax-eater parties need to fear a taxpayer revolt, again. Taxed Enough Already. That revolt is always expressed by refusing to vote for the duopoly parties. They do, indeed, watch the numbers carefully.

If even ten percent of voters started regularly voting third party, the duopoly would shudder.

If a third did so, it would collapse and the deadlock in DC would be replaced by new alliances and new approaches.

The power of disruptive politics has been proven by the Trump Presidency. Now it needs to move beyond Trump.

Your vote counts. But only if you don't vote Democan or Republicat.

It's TEA time again!

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[1] https://www.dailywire.com/news/31856/bombshell-fbi-agent-said-hed-make-sure-trump-was-ben-shapiro

[2] http://tinyurl.com/ok2belibertarian

[3] http://lpedia.org/Libertarian_Party_US_Presidential_Election_Results#2008_Presidential_Election

[4] https://www.lp.org/election-updates-for-november-2017/

[5] https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/map/historic.html#2008

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_States_presidential_elections

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_third_party_performances_in_United_States_elections

Trump Signs Misnamed "Right to Try" Law

A LAW FOR WRONGS, NOT RIGHTS

"Thousands of terminally ill Americans will finally have hope, and the fighting chance, and I think it's going to better than a chance, that they will be cured, they will be helped, and be able to be with their families for a long time, or maybe just for a longer time." Donald J. Trump

President Trump signed the so-called Right to Try bill, S-204, passed by Congress, into law today.

The website for the 115th Congress describes the law with this official summary: [1]

"This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exempt, from specified requirements and restrictions under that Act and other laws, the provision of certain unapproved, investigational drugs to a terminally ill patient who has exhausted approved treatment options and is unable to participate in a clinical trial involving the drugs. The manufacturer or sponsor of an eligible investigational drug must report annually to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on any use of the drug in accordance with these provisions. The FDA shall post an annual summary report of such use on its website. The bill limits the liability of a sponsor, manufacturer, prescriber, or dispenser that provides, or declines to provide, an eligible investigational drug to an eligible patient in accordance with the bill."

The new law provides that any patient diagnosed with "a life-threatening disease or condition..." who has "exhausted approved [by whom?] treatment options..." as certified by a physician who is not compensated by a drug company, may benefit from the experimental treatment's exemption from FDA licensing.

The law also correctly requires, in section (1)(C) that the written Informed Consent of the patient or guardian be obtained.

Unfortunately the new law restricts its benefits only to pharmaceutical drugs that have already gone through FDA-approved Phase 1 testing or certain other procedures. This law does not apply to the many natural remedies or to medicines used in other countries. [2]

The law specifically exempts drug companies from liability for harm to the patient and provides that the FDA may not, in normal circumstances, use the outcome of the Right to Try to delay or deny drug approval. The law concludes with a Statement of the Sense of the Senate that the the law does not "establish a positive right to any party or individual..." and that any "use of experimental treatments under the criteria and procedure described in such section 561A involves an informed assumption of risk..."

Thus, what appears on first look as an act of compassion by Congress and the Administration, when viewed more closely, is a law made to protect drug companies without securing for Americans the Right to Try natural remedies that are not subject to FDA approval in the first place!

This new law does not expand Freedom of Choice and is at best a half-way measure that might benefit a few individuals. It does not address the excess power already possessed by an Agency of which former Congressman Ron Paul once said, to the effect, "the more power it has, the more power it has to abuse."
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Also posted at:  http://www.opensourcetruth.com/trump-signs-misnamed-right-to-try-law/

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/204
[2] There are other legal provisions which do allow some limited access to other remedies.  I have written about two of them here:
     Medical Foods:  http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2013/05/medical-foods-under-orphan-drug-act.html
     Personal Importation:  http://www.lifespirit.org/perimport.html