I am re-posting this article which links fracking and health freedom. I find it particularly outrageous that physicians should be required by law to maintain proprietary secrecy when human health and life might be at risk. Once more, the health keepers are being conscripted to maintain a status quo that seeks to hide foreseeable harm. Another factor to note is that some in the natural gas industry assert that fracking is never needed and that there is a huge amount of natural gas available that can be brought to market without these extreme and dangerous means.
The answer: www.HealthKeepersOath.org
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The Pennsylvania gas law fails to protect public health
Our legislators punted when it was time to protect us...
Say Pitt experts Bernard Goldstein and Jill Kriesky
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Gov. Tom Corbett recently signed a bill that goes beyond just ignoring concerns about the potential human health effects of Marcellus Shale drilling, it retains some of the worst aspects of industry secrecy about proprietary hydrofracking chemicals while making unethical demands on physicians.
Imagine a physician caring for a child whose illness might have been caused by long-term exposure to a proprietary fracking chemical while playing near a drill site. Assume that after signing a legally binding nondisclosure agreement, the physician is given the identity of the chemical and comes to believe it caused the illness. What can the physician tell the families of other neighborhood children who play in the same field?
Under the newly enacted law, copied almost verbatim from a controversial Colorado law, a physician may receive information about a proprietary chemical used in the fracking process, but the physician must agree to not reveal this information to the public.
The law also allows the company to keep secret from physicians information about agents that come up from the ground during drilling, such as natural gas constituents -- which themselves can be toxic -- and naturally occurring toxic agents such as arsenic, barium, brine components and radioactive compounds dissolved in flowback water. Nor can public health authorities begin with knowledge of a secret chemical and ask whether there is an increase in an illness that the chemical is known to cause.
Drillers should have an affirmative duty to know what dangerous chemicals they are introducing into the environment. Instead, the bill is laced with excuses: "the vendor didn't tell us" or "it was unintentional" or "it must be due to a chemical reaction." But chemicals inherently react with each other -- that is their nature. By making ignorance an excuse, the law absolves drillers from doing their homework.
This legislation was under consideration when drilling in the commonwealth began in earnest, and it was intensely studied by the governor's Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission -- a commission charged with protecting the environment and citizens' health and welfare. Moreover, citizens testified at public hearings time and time again that they are concerned about possible health impacts on themselves and their families, neighbors and friends.
Yet the governor's 32-member commission included no health professionals, and the seven state agencies involved did not include the state Department of Health.
Not surprisingly, the commission's few health-related recommendations failed to make their way into the final legislation. Neither did the governor's recommendation to provide Marcellus Shale impact funding for the Department of Health; 19 other state agencies, subagencies and commissions received funding, including the Pennsylvania Boat and Fish Commission. It appears that our state politicians are concerned about the impact of shale gas drilling on boats and fish, but not on humans.
Rather than providing health personnel with direction on how to prepare for potential exposures to toxic chemicals in the air, water or soil, or to accidents similar to those that already have occurred, the law sets up an obstacle course that health care providers must navigate to secure information about proprietary chemicals -- information needed to diagnose and treat patients. This obstacle course also presents an ethical dilemma for a doctor who treats a child exposed by playing too close to a Marcellus Shale drilling site. It is a breach of a physician's responsibilities not to report a public health threat, as well as a contradiction of established public health practice and law.
This law would have looked different had public health officials been consulted. Legislators and industry lobbyists seeking streamlined and stable regulations to aid their companies' planning and pursuit of profits should recognize that it's in everyone's best interests to research and prepare for the public health risks that come with drilling. The statistically significant disease clusters that will inevitably arise in communities with Marcellus Shale drilling, whether caused by the drilling or not, will generate fear, media attention, declines in property values and lawsuits.
Industry is liable for any adverse effects caused by the millions of gallons of chemical-laden water that flows back to the surface after each frack. Perhaps individual companies are hoping that their particular mixtures will not cause noticeable harm or that they will make their money before tort liabilities catch up with them. But hydrofracking will likely go on in Pennsylvania for decades, and depending on toxic tort suits to protect the public presupposes that we must wait until people get sick.
The usual engineer's response to just about every technology problem that has resulted in environmental or human health problems is to say that had they only known there was a potential problem, they could have designed the technology to avoid the problem. For this discussion to take place in the case of the unconventional development of Marcellus Shale gas, we need health professionals at the table to prevent adverse health effects, and we need to put them there now.
Dr. Bernard Goldstein is emeritus professor in the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
( www.publichealth.pitt.edu ).
Jill Kriesky is senior project coordinator at the school's Center for Health Environments and Communities.
First published on March 11, 2012 at 12:00 am
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12071/1215612-109.stm?cmpid=newspanel#ixzz1ovpX6weE
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Health Freedom Bills Pending in the 112th Congress
Dr. Ron Paul and several other members of Congress have introduced several health freedom bills into the 112th Congress. I summarize them here, quoting from Thomas.gov.
The relevant Action Item, where citizens can express their views about these bills, and help educate decision makers, is here: http://tinyurl.com/SaveOurSupplements
The relevant Action Item, where citizens can express their views about these bills, and help educate decision makers, is here: http://tinyurl.com/SaveOurSupplements
All of Health Freedom USA's
Current Action items are here:
http://tinyurl.com/PushBackHere Current Action items are here:
H. R. 3380
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
concerning safe dietary ingredients in dietary supplements.
The Congress finds as follows:
(1) Improving the health status of United States citizens ranks at the top of the national priorities of the Federal Government. The importance of nutrition and the benefits of dietary supplements to health promotion and disease prevention are well known and have been documented in scientific studies.
(2) Since enactment of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), dietary supplements have had an exemplary public health safety record. Based on national surveys, in 1994, 50 percent of the 260,000,000 Americans regularly consumed dietary supplements. In 2006, 232,000,000 adults over the age of 18 alone consumed dietary supplements, 53 percent of the United States adult population.
(3) There were 4,000 dietary supplements in the marketplace in 1994, and in 2006 an estimated 29,000 dietary supplements were being consumed daily by Americans. Since the enactment of DSHEA, there has been 17 years of additional historical use-safety experience conducted by millions of Americans. Over 17 years, approximately 25,000 new supplements with new dietary ingredients have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under DSHEA and have and are being safely consumed by Americans.
(4) Since January 2007, FDA regulations governing dietary supplement manufacturer good manufacturing practices, dietary supplement adverse event reporting, and private sector voluntary testing and auditing for supplement quality and purity have improved postmarketing consumer safety. Before DSHEA, these mechanisms did not exist.
(5) There are DSHEA `grandfathered' supplements, dietary ingredients, and classified products which were on the market before October 15, 1994, and `generally recognized as safe' for human consumption. FDA regulatory policy, industry practices, and consumer marketplace paradigms have drastically changed over 17 years, but this policy has not.
(6) The definition of a new dietary ingredient in section 413 of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 350b) does not recognize the current safe market in supplements, nor how intensively supplements have been regulated over the 17 years since enactment of DSHEA to protect public health and safety, and should be updated to reflect this reality...
Section 413(d) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 350b(d)) is amended by striking `October 15, 1994' each place it appears and inserting `January 1, 2007'.
Actions Against DSHEA Products
H. R. 2044
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act concerning claims about the effects of foods and dietary supplements on health-related conditions and disease, and for other purposes.
... In General- The Federal Government may not take any action to prevent use of a claim describing any nutrient in a food or dietary supplement (as such terms are defined in section 201 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 321)) as mitigating, treating, or preventing any disease, disease symptom, or health-related condition, unless a Federal court in a final order following a trial on the merits finds clear and convincing evidence based on qualified expert opinion and published peer-reviewed scientific research that--
- (1) the claim is false and misleading in a material respect; and
- (2) there is no less speech restrictive alternative to claim suppression, such as use of disclaimers or qualifications, that can render the claim non-misleading...
H. R. 2045
To amend the Federal Trade Commission Act concerning the burden of proof in false advertising cases involving dietary supplements and dietary ingredients.
...EXEMPTIONS FROM REGULATION AS ADVERTISING- No content of any publication shall be considered advertising regulated under this Act unless the content is intended by the seller of a product to promote the sale of that product and the content includes--
- `(A) the name of the product offered for sale;
- `(B) an express offer to sell the named product; and
- `(C) a purchase price for the product.
- No content excerpted in whole or part from a peer-reviewed scientific publication shall be considered advertising regulated under this Act.
- `(3) NO IMPLIED CLAIMS- In any investigation commenced by the Commission and in any adjudicative proceeding in which the Commission is a party, the Commission shall not attribute to an advertiser accused of false advertisement any advertising statement not actually made by that advertiser.
- `(4) NOTICE, OPPORTUNITY TO CURE, AND BURDEN OF PROOF FOR INVESTIGATION- Before the Commission authorizes an investigation of false advertisement by an advertiser of a dietary supplement or a dietary ingredient, the Commission shall send the advertiser a written `Notice of Suspected Violation and Opportunity to Cure' informing the advertiser ...
Reasonable Belief About Foods Protected
H. R. 2908
To protect the First Amendment rights of individuals to share their experiences and perceptions of the effects of foods and dietary supplements.H. R. 2908
...Dissemination of Testimonials- Notwithstanding the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.), the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.), and any other provision of law--
- (1) no Federal official or employee may restrict dissemination of a testimonial containing a consumer's actual perception of the mitigative, preventive, or curative properties of any food or dietary supplement based on the consumer's experience with that food or dietary supplement; and
- (2) if a person disseminating a testimonial reasonably believes that the dissemination is covered by paragraph (1), such dissemination shall not constitute a violation of any Federal law...
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* as reported: http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Regulation/FDA-silent-on-calls-from-Sen-Hatch-and-Harkin-to-withdraw-NDI-draft-guidance
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
General Bert's Estimate of Situation: Health & Food Freedom & Justice
Doctor Rima, Judge Napolitano, Counsel Ralph & General Bert
Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine (US Army, ret) President of the Natural Solutions Foundation (and the highest ranking retired office to be an Oath Keeper) has just completed the Estimate of Situation he developed as a result of our Third Annual War Council, held on January 8. 2012 here in New Jersey.
Sponsored by HealthFreedomUSA.org and our new FreeWorldNetwork.org , we brought together some of the leading voices for Health & Food Freedom & Justice.
The Foundation trustees, General Bert, Doctor Rima and Counsel Ralph, met with Judge Andrew Napolitano the morning before the event, and brought his message to the attendees:
“The struggle for liberty goes far deeper than either the Republicans or Democrats imagined. Keep on doing what you are doing and don’t give up the struggle."Among others, we heard from Foster Gamble (producer of the movie Thrive ), Tim Bolen, Sharry Edwards, Jordan Rubin, Dr. Hildy Staninger and members of the public, present at the meeting and via webinar.
General Bert begins the EoS:
We the people are under multiple economic, political, health and food attacks, mobilized and supported by certain globalist elements in the government(s) and powerful policy-setting multinational corporations which are designed to reduce the population by up to 90 percent; this is the Globalist Genocidal Agenda.
We address this EoS to all the people of the world — knowledge is power! This document is especially addressed to all of you who know there are increasing risks of a genomicidal nature that must be addressed. We acknowledge you and ask you to join us in this effort!
Please share this EoS widely!
We invite you to share this EoS with all your contacts. Just as the First Annual War Council in 2010 recommended that we seek the ways and means to make social networking a powerful tool for freedom (resulting in the Free World Network) and the Second Annual War Council in 2011 sought to establish the ways and means to protect our natural product sources (resulting in the Fund for Natural Solutions) the Third Annual War Council recommends accelerated Push Back: http://tinyurl.com/PushBackHere.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
In Defense of Ron Paul
12.28.11 Update: What appears a carefully orchestrated attack on Dr. Paul for "racism" has continued to build, based on out-of-context quotations and innuendos. Mike Laurrie deconstructs this misinformation here:Ron Paul in 2002 on Racism:
http://politiocracy.blogspot.com/2011/12/ron-paul-racism-uneducated-masses.htmlOne response to this propaganda campaign is to pledge your vote to Ron:VoteRonPaul.us
Another Response is to be counted as one who is willing to Write In Ron Paul
"Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.
The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.More importantly, in a free society every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual, rather than developing a group or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Rather than looking to government to correct our sins, we should understand that racism will endure until we stop thinking in terms of groups and begin thinking in terms of individual liberty."
A Response to Addicting Info's Attacks on Dr. Paul & His Supporters
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/11/14/u-might-be-a-ron-paul-supporter-if/
[The Bold type or Italic paragraphs are my responses to the numbered allegation below that Ron Paul supporters "do not know what they support".]
Action Item (let your voice be heard!): http://tinyurl.com/WriteInRonPaul
“For anyone that doesn’t support Ron Paul, and has ever tried to talk to his supporters, you’ve probably realized that they are unaware of all the things they are supporting by endorsing Ron Paul. Here’s a list of just 21 reasons someone might be a Ron Paul supporter...”
[As you review, below, the “reasons” alluded to above, as to why veterans, patriots, libertarians, Constitutionalists, peace activists, economists, students, 80%+ of his constituents and so many moderates and liberals support the good doctor from Texas, you will enter a strange mirror world of socialist meanderings that reasonable people thought had been left in the “dustbin of history” decades ago.
Dr. Paul, a gentle, courageous crusader for the Constitution, public morality and limited government, is portrayed as some sort of right-wind kook, rather than the perceptive student of history, politics and economics that he is. One would never guess, from the “21 Points” that Dr. Paul supported the restoration of our right to own gold bullion coins in the mid 1970s (of course, how could a socialist imagine such a right?), or that he garnered 320 bi-artisan House co-sponsors to his Audit the Fed Bill (the watered-down version that the leadership in Congress allowed to pass exposed the Fed Reserve's secret $14+ trillion bailout of foreign and domestic banks, above and beyond TARP, the stimulus and all that). Now, as Chair of House Monetary Policy, he has offered a trio of bills to reduce the debt by $1.7 trillion in one step, to return to Constitutional Money, and to finally END the Fed! In that, he stands with the Founders and with Andrew Jackson, ready to bring down the central bank fraud.
Below each distorted “reason” Ron Paul supporters are alleged to support him, we append some points that might be useful in refuting the allegations, assuming, of course, that such a “bourgeois” concept as “logical refutation” is accepted by the proponents of these hackneyed efforts at attack politics.
On the contrary, it appears politically correct in the chump parade to denigrate an appeal to reason and rely on collectivist “class warfare” propaganda that once-upon-a-time turned much of Eurasia into a death camp. Dr. Paul rejects the theories of statism, whether feudalistic, monarchist, merchantilist, crony corporatist, fascist or communist. Instead, he is the champion of Liberty and of the restoration of the Constitutional Republic.]
1. You’ve never researched Ron Paul’s voting record.
Dr. Paul is called “Doctor No!” because he always votes against any bill that increases govt power over people, all “homeland security” bills, all spending bills, all revenue bills, all war-supporting bills, all bills that cannot be justified under the 13 specific powers of Congress under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. His voting record is clear.
2. You think it’s OK for businesses to discriminate against people based on their race, since Ron Paul thinks the Civil Rights Act is unconstitutional.
Dr. Paul's respect for privacy and community precludes any support by him for any fed govt intervention either domestically or internationally; it is as wrong to engage in “nation building” in the USA as anywhere else. He relies on voluntary private action to promote the nondiscriminatory values most of us share; he knows it was govt intervention, through the Jim Crow laws, for example, which created segregation in the first place. The proper role of govt is to get out of the way of social interaction.
3. You’re a supporter of the white supremacist organization StormFront.org, which has repeatedly endorsed and stated their support for Ron Paul.
Dr. Paul and his supporters reject all collectivist ideology, including racialist ideologies. The reason he has photos of Professors Rothbard and Mises (both Jewish intellectuals) on his DC office wall is that he rejects the Hegelian Dialectic and its erroneous belief in legal fictions such as “race” “class” “corporation” and “state.” Mises, the great philosopher of freedom, opposed the collectivist ideologies founded on Hegel's false theories (Communism, Nazism, Racism, Collectivism) with the theory of Human Action based on individual choice on the Free Market. This reality-based philosophy defends human dignity and rejects collective impositions. See: Mises.org.
4. You don’t care that Ron Paul was the ONLY congressman who voted against granting subpoena power to the independent panel responsible for investigating the BP oil spill.
When crimes are committed, the responsible response is to impanel a Grand Jury which has well-defined subpoena powers and is overseen by the independent Judiciary. Dr. Paul opposed this non-judicial investigation for the same reason he opposes Obama's assertion that “The President” can order the death of any American he chooses, without the constitutionally required Judge or Jury.
5. You don’t like clean air and water, since Ron Paul wants to eliminate the EPA.
Historically it was govt intervention that took from people the right to redress for the trespass of pollution, in the alleged “public interest.” The creation of layer upon layer of bureaucracy to undue the damages done by bureaucracy does not protect anyone from the results of govt mismanagement of the public trust.
6. You don’t want to have a safety net in place, in case your house is destroyed by a tornado, hurricane, or some other natural disaster, since Ron Paul wants to eliminate FEMA.
The same FEMA that pretended to protect people in New Orleans is better fitted to round up and incarcerate dissidents of all beliefs, rather than provide the type of assistance that NGOs like the Red Cross exist to provide. A govt strong enough to resolve all ills is a govt too strong to allow us the freedom we need to innovate and protect our local communities. The fed govt attacks on Raw Milk is just one example of the govt “protecting” us from ourselves. See: http://tinyurl.com/rawmilkfreedom.
7. You think all schools should be private, and that you should have to pay for your children to get an education, since Ron Paul wants to eliminate the Department of Education.
Libertarians believe that education is far too important to leave to the govt. Govt “education” stifles innovation and forces all to citizens to become “Good Germans” in the service of the state. We reject state education as strongly as we reject state religion. Parents must be responsible for their own children, as is their right. For those who cannot afford non-govt education (though it is often rather less expensive that the state monopoly school system), it would be far better to provide assistance so they too can receive an education, without govt control over the content of that education. Those who believe in a state monopoly on education are just one step from all the other evils of collectivism.
8. You think corporations should be allowed to do whatever they want, because Ron Paul wants to eliminate all regulations on corporations.
This is a false accusation. Corporations are creatures of the state and have always been regulated for the good of the state (not of people). Libertarians deny the “personhood” of corporations and seek radical restructuring of these monopolistic entities.
9. You are anti-choice, since Ron Paul believes that states should have the right to take away a woman’s choice over what she does with her body.
Dr. Paul does not find any provision in Article I, Section 8 giving Congress responsibility over reproduction choices. Thus, any such regulation must be left to the states. Most libertarians oppose state govt impositions on women's reproductive choices, while often having personal moral objections to denigrating the value of human life (and often disagree as to when that life begins). Dr. Paul helped thousands of woman deliver healthy babies. He highly values life and does not favor voluntary termination of pregnancy, from that perspective.
10. You support segregation, since Ron Paul doesn’t think schools should be forced to allow attendance based on race or ethnic background.
Dr. Paul understands it is collectivism of the grossest sort to believe that govt schools should ever take cognizance of anyone's race or ethnic background. This type of invidious discrimination must not be allowed in a free society.
11. You support guns on airplanes, since Ron Paul thinks that 9/11 could have been prevented, if citizens were allowed to carry guns on airplanes.
It is clear to Dr. Paul that declaring airplanes, schools or any other place of public accommodation “gun free zones” is the same as telling shooters they have free access to victims who cannot defend themselves. Anyone who believes that the govt will protect them is sadly mistaken. They will be long dead before the police arrive, unless, of course, armed guards are stationed everywhere. Those who oppose Dr Paul on this issue objectively want a police state.
12. You oppose equality for LGBT people, since Ron Paul doesn’t think the federal government should guarantee equal protection under the law for our LGBT brothers and sisters.
It is ludicrous to believe that only the fed govt can protect the equal rights of all citizens, without regard to sexual preference. Rather, LGBT people have successfully fought for equal rights in many states and will achieve equality as they assert personal privacy rights against the power of government.
13. You don’t have a problem with people carrying guns near schools, since Ron Paul want to repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act.
See Answer 11. These guys and gals do seem obsessive about disarming people, though.
14. You oppose same-sex marriage, since Ron Paul was an original co-sponsor of the Marriage Protection Act in the House of Representatives, in 2004.
The conservative view is that marriage is a matter that ought to be left to the states. Dr. Paul's position would not stop any state from legalizing any form of marriage, including same-sex or even polygamy. His stated ideal is even more libertarian, that marriage is a private contract and neither state nor federal govt ought to interfere. Dr. Paul voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment in 2004.
15. You don’t like having a good relationship with other countries around the world, since Ron Paul wants the United States to pull out of the United Nations.
Dr. Paul is a non-interventionist; as such he apposes all entangling alliances. He stands with the Founders on offering friendship and trade to all; entangling alliances with none.
16. You think the middle-class should have a higher tax burden than the wealthy, since Ron Paul’s tax plan would disproportionately favor the rich.
The demographic reality is that the burden of excessive govt spending will always fall on the large middle class; even confiscating 100% of all earnings over a million dollars would only fund the deficit for a few months. Not everyone views “progressive” tax rates as fair, and even with a true flat-rate tax the “rich” will individually pay more taxes than others.
In any event, Dr. Paul never votes for increased taxes and always votes for exemptions. He is the only public figure who accurately predicted the govt-created housing bubble and bust, the 2008 economic disaster and the failure of the Bush/Obama billionaire bankster bailouts. He predicts the collapse of the Federal reserve fiat dollar and says the fed govt is bankrupt and the next president must manage that bankruptcy. He has proposed three specific bills to restore honest Constitutional Money and END the Fed, HR 1094, 1098 and 2768.
17. You want a President who would make more unilateral decisions and undo more progress in this country than George W. Bush could have ever hoped to accomplish.
Dr. Paul has spoken eloquently against presidential unilateralism. He would never seek to seize power over private persons or the states, unlike Bush and Obama. He rejects the imperial presidency, and will not exceed what he views as his limited Constitutional authority.
18. You think that poor students shouldn’t be allowed to go to college, since Ron Paul wants to eliminate federal student loans.
The allegation is illogical; opposing tax-funded education is not the same believing someone “shouldn't” be “allowed” an education! And why should blue collar workers be taxed to pay for some other, wealthier family's children's education?
19. You believe crazy conspiracy theories about globalization, and that the Zionists are trying to take over the world.
Those who fail to read history believe that “conspiracy theories” are “crazy” – those who read history see it is replete with real conspiracies. Once again, an objection to Dr. Paul based on false premises.
20. You think the 10th Amendment is the most important part of the Bill of Rights, even though it’s last on the list.
The case of Bond v US, decided by a unanimous Supreme Court on June 16, 2011, allowed individuals to assert the 10th Amendment in defense of fed govt criminal action. This goes a long way to vindicating Dr. Paul's view that the 10th Amendment is a major “Check and Balance” against overwrought fed power.
21. You’re mad at Obama because you believed him when he said he would end the war immediately, and he didn’t because he didn’t have the support of congress, but you believe Ron Paul could get it done immediately.
Says Ron Paul, in support of an immediate end to war and world-wide military bases, “They marched in; they can just march out.”
The left-neocons, such as Obama, have the same hideous warfare state/welfare state mentality as the right-neocons like Bush. Only a “useful idiot” believes the Obama “Peace Laureate” propaganda.
Dr. Paul, the only veteran running for president, understands the overriding need to achieve peace and to reject war. He stands squarely in the patriot tradition of opposition to Empire. Those who persist in supporting the Bush/Obama imperial war policies are not friends of peace, or justice, or freedom.
“Thousands of lives and trillions and trillions of dollars wasted...” based on false propaganda of war; Dr. Paul now warns us that the drums of war are being beaten yet again, mesmerizing the unthinking and perhaps leading to disaster again.
With other GOP candidates vying to see who can support torture the most; who can see more preemptive war targets, while the Democrats consolidate and extend the war policy, extending it to Pakistan, and to any place on earth where an American "judged" without trial to be a "terrorist" might hide...
The Republic is sick and needs a good doctor!
Here is Dr. Paul on Pushing Back for Freedom:
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For further information, see Tom Woods in Defense of Ron Paul:
http://www.tomwoods.com/ronpaul/
Some of the information provided here is from this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul
Other information is from my knowledge of Dr. Paul's positions over time.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Political Philosophy: Liberty or Power
A Prolegomena to Any
Future Political Philosophy
Future Political Philosophy
Amagi: Cuneiform for Liberty
"Audit the Fed!" in 2009; the TEA Party 2010 election; the Arab Spring and Wall Street Occupancy of 2011; Ron Paul's 2012 campaign: anti-establishment political activism is on the rise. But not just activism; rather also, real root-cause analysis and willingness to explore ideas.
For example, there was a vibrant discussion on a TEA Party forum a few weeks ago about the Hegelian Dialectic and the prospects for Liberty. That discussion prompted me to think about the basis of the concept of Individual Liberty and to look at the historic roots of freedom from the Ancient City to the modern Internet.HealthFreedomUSA.org Action Items: http://tinyurl.com/PushBackHere Implementation: January, 2013: http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2013/01/toward-liberty-independent-electoral.html
At one point in the discussion, one of the posters opined that Hegelian philosophy was, in essence, very pessimistic. I replied:
That is certainly a depressing view of ‘it all’ -- but also certainly one consistent with the ‘dialectic’ and its belief in unending repeated cycles of thesis, antithesis and synthesis.In a similar vein, my co-trustee at Natural Solutions Foundation, and its President, Oath Keeper Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine (US Army, ret.) engaged with Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) and sent a powerful Emergency Message on the occasion of World Food Day, October 16, 2011.
That's why, in earlier postings on this thread, I've proposed the Misian alternative to the dialectic which is based on the Axiom of Human Action and which rejects the dialectic for what Mises sometimes referred to as an "evenly rotating economy."
We do not need to accept the premises of the ‘progressives.’ There is an entire intellectual tradition which has, for over a hundred years, rejected the dialectic and Marxian materialism.
That school of thought, sometimes referred to as the "Austrian School," or Free Market School, proposes Human Action, guided by individual choice on the market, as the primary subject of real philosophy, or what Mises calls "praxiology" -- the study of Human Action.
Just look through the chapter headings in Mises' monumental Human Action and see the scope of that school of thought. [1]
The dialectic represents a failed philosophy which ought to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Mises, Rothbard and the Free Market School are the proper basis for all future political philosophy. They have offered us a true “Prolegomena to any Future Political Philosophy.”
“War is not good for children or other living things…” said those who protested and resisted the Viet Nam war, at a time when I was commanding US Army intelligence units in the jungles of Viet Nam – and being doused with Agent Orange... Today we are at war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and, increasingly involved in expansive, and expensive, imperial entanglements around the world. But there is another war being waged against US, right here at home. “Trillions and trillions wasted…” as Dr. Ron Paul says...”[2]One major factor in common among all of these diverse anti-establishment stirrings: the idea that individuals matter; that individuals can come together and effectively demand liberty.
Advocates of liberty can look back to the earliest stirrings of human culture for the beginnings of the concept of self-ownership and the right to liberty which that entails. Early cuneiform written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash included the word “amagi” which is translated as “freedom.” Sixth Century BCE philosopher Lao Tse championed personal freedom of conscience and during the subsequent millennia the idea of freedom became ever more a driving force in the development of human culture.
But, we must not think of the Ancient City as a place of what Mises might have understood as Liberty. One extraordinary work exploring the governance of the Ancient City is the 1864 master work of jurist and scholar Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City.
There we find:
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, and made but one; these two powers, associated and confounded, formed a power almost superhuman, to which the soul and body were equally enslaved… There was nothing independent in man… Private life did not escape this omnipotence of the state… The state allowed no man to be indifferent to its interests… The ancients, therefore, knew neither liberty in private life, liberty in education, nor religious liberty…In contradistinction to the ancient past, the past half millennium has seen very significant advances in liberty and, in the past century or so, a clear theory of human action, or praxeology, has developed which posits Freedom of Choice as a driving factor in the advance of human civilization, as “dissatisfied” individuals engage in human action.
It is a singular error, therefore… to believe that in the ancient cities men enjoyed liberty. They had not even the idea of it. They did not believe that there could exist any right as against the city and its gods… The government was called by turns monarchy, aristocracy, democracy; but none of these revolutions gave man true liberty, individual liberty. To have political rights, to vote, to name magistrates, to have the privilege of being archon, -- this was called liberty; but man was not the less enslaved to the state…[3]
Control over most humans has been maintained for millennia through the use of religious and, later, political ideologies that justify the dominance of the few over the many. Through the use of what early freedom theorists such as Lysandor Spooner saw as the great monopolies created by political power, this strict social control dominated human society. These included the monopolies over conscience (state religions), over the bodies of certain people (chattel slavery; caste systems), or the property rights of about half of the species (the legal “infirmities” of women) and over property through regal 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 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, which were considered of benefit to the state.
During the past few centuries the King’s age-old monopolies have begun to break-down and disappear. The world-wide outlawing of chattel slavery and the movement toward equality for women and an end to caste systems have freed-up extraordinary level of human creativity. As a result, despite the enormous growth of government and the burden that system of coercion imposes on all people, human economic activity has reached new levels of organization and efficiency. More people live longer, healthier and wealthier lives than ever before in human history.
This powerful, world-wide movement toward greater liberty has met nearly equally powerful resistance among the beneficiaries of the monopolies. Fundamentalists among the three related monotheistic religions have especially resisted the equality of women. Politicians of various persuasions have many spurious arguments to make about economic controls that are just variations on the King’s Monopolies that had been rejected by the European Classical Liberal Tradition, from which the work of Mises and Rothbard arose.
The Twenty-First Century has enhanced intellectual tools to bring to the battle of ideas; the instantaneous communications of the Internet Social Networking universe allow no one to hide behind old, disproven ideas. Nonetheless, Hegelian concepts about “collectives,” echoed by the intellectual heirs of Hegel, the Nazis and the Marxists, and more recently taken up by collectivists of various more seemingly-modest varieties, are still raised in an attempt to impose “Politically Correct” restrictions on speech and intellectual inquiry, especially in the government’s “public” universities and other “public” spaces. Similarly, collectivist arguments are made by Islamic and Christian fundamentalists, against freedom of conscience and for government restrictions on freely chosen Human Action. Of course, against this we find many expressive association non-governmental organization (NGOs)[4] using the most advanced forms of Internet communication, to pursue the Liberty we have come to expect as of right.
Advocates of liberty see only one ethical limit on Human Action: non-coercion against non-coercers. In this way, libertarian political theory stands in direct opposition to the ideologies of the old Right/Left paradigm. The Misian approach counters arguments about legal fictions such as “peoples” – “races” – “nations” – “religions” – “classes” – “corporations”, with arguments about the root of Human Action – the Axiom of Human Action: individual dissatisfaction. These legal fictions cannot act in the real world. Only humans act; sometimes pretending to act on behalf of these fictions. It's time, though, to wake up from the mythic ancient city and assert the real roots of human culture, in Human Action. It's time to take responsibility for what is real.
“Man's freedom to choose and to act is restricted in a threefold way. There are first the physical laws to whose unfeeling absoluteness man must adjust his conduct if he wants to live. There are second the individual's innate constitutional characteristics and dispositions and the operation of environmental factors; we know that they influence both the choice of the ends and that of the means, although our cognizance of the mode of their operation is rather vague. There is finally the regularity of phenomena with regard to the interconnectedness of means and ends, viz., the praxeological law as distinct from the physical and from the physiological law.Thus, the line in the sand...
The elucidation and the categorical and formal examination of this third class of laws of the universe is the subject matter of praxeology and its hitherto best-developed branch, economics. The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all the moral, intellectual, technological, and therapeutical achievements of the last centuries have been built. It rests with men whether they will make the proper use of the rich treasure with which this knowledge provides them or whether they will leave it unused. But if they fail to take the best advantage of it and disregard its teachings and warnings, they will not annul economics; they will stamp out society and the human race.” - Human Action, Pg 885.[4]
Mises, speaking to a group of then rather young libertarians at a Society for Individual Liberty conference in Philadelphia warned us all back in 1971. He wagged his finger at his long-haired audience (including a Nobel laureate's son; several future best-selling authors; even a congress-critter-in-the-making...) and told us, "You are eating your seed corn..."
And so we have been... but we have also been learning and communicating in ways that visionaries like Mises, or Buckminster Fuller, were just dimly perceiving just a few decades ago. It was Fuller who opined, just before his passing, that the then new computer media would make what he called "the secret government" impossible.
I firmly believe that the Tea Party #teaparty and Occupy Wall Street #OWS can constructively engage, in a transpartisan discussion - since both movements see the the same mis/non and malfeasance of the crony corporatists and their minions in govt.
However, "IMHO" it is the Ron Paul libertarians, who can "stand in both camps," who can best bridge to actual solutions to the problems, and an opportunity to teach a whole "progressive" generation that govt is not any solution!
The solution is to adopt the strong market-oriented reforms, such as Rep. Ron Paul, as House chair of Monetary Policy, has offered.
HR 1094, 1098 and 2768 are a comprehensive restructuring and de-socializing of the USA's centralized banking system. I wrote about that HERE. Similarly, he is offering a comprehensive Trillion Dollar Budget Reform that rapidly returns to a balanced budget, and a series of bills about health and food freedom, such as the Raw Milk Freedom Bill, HR.1830, about which I wrote, HERE, that, in his wording, would "Legalize freedom!"
It appears to some analysts, such as Gen. Stubblebine, that the globalists want to use #OWS as a counterfoil to what they perceive as a potential Tea Party Tsunami. The General thinks we need to outflank them by weening the movement from pro-govt stands to a truly radical rejection of the Left-Neocons that now control the White House.
General Bert's Emergency Message & Video to Occupy Wall Street:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=10462
A globalist "Genocidal Agenda" is discussed by Dr. Rima E. Laibow MD in this appearance at the School of Enlightenment, Yelm, WA.
In this new approach to politics, this transpartisan approach, once again Dr. Paul has shown extraordinary leadership. Examples include garnering over 320 House co-sponsors to his tough Audit the Fed bill in 2010, and the 2008 Joint Policy Statement what he calls the "Principled Third Parties" issued together, in an unprecedented "right/left" show of support for his leadership, about which I wrote HERE. Any wonder Dr. Paul has photos of Mises and Rothbard on his DC office wall?
These are, as the old Chinese curse has it, "exciting times..." they are times that cry out for concerted, well-considered Human Action.
Liberty rests on the restlessness of the individual; on our individual dissatisfaction, as we each seek to maximize our individual good…
Here is Dr. Paul on Pushing Back for Freedom:
To paraphrase Mises:
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[1] http://mises.org/resources.aspx?Id=3250&html=1
[2] Gen. Bert's Message:http://tinyurl.com/Bert2OWS
[2]Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City, p 222 – 223, Doubleday Anchor Books, Library of Congress #55-12307 / https://archive.org/details/cu31924100532054
[3] Some of which are: www.GlobalFoodFreedom.org – www.OathKeepers.org – www.HealthKeepersOath.org – www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org – www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org – www.DownsizeDC.org and www.CampaignforLiberty.org
[4] http://mises.org/humanaction/chap39sec3.asp
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Leadership in Crisis: Ron Paul's Constitutional Monetary Reform Bills HR.1094, 1098 & 2768!
YES WE CAN!
Balance the Budget & Abolish the Fed, that is...
Action Item to support Free Market Monetary Reform:
https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/85
Dr. Ron Paul (R - TX) as Chair of the House Monetary Policy Subcommittee, and a leading presidential candidate, has introduced a package of bills aimed at restoring Constitutional Money and saving the United States from the Deficit Downgrade Dollar Debacle brought about by the Boehner/Reid Fed Debt Increase.
The third of the bills was introduced on Monday, August 1st, the same day the current White House occupant signed the Debt Increase law, the day before the Treasury borrowed (on 08.02) another $263 Billion (which may lead to August being the largest Treasury borrowing month ever, surpassing even February 2011).
With the Federal Reserve fiat "dollar" in free-fall against the value of Gold (8.8.11 - reaching up to 1,762 FRNs to the Oz Au overnight) and with the Dow collapsing 512 & 634 points in the biggest drops since December '08, the urgency of real Free Market Monetary Reform becomes all the more obvious. The Market knows the Boehner/Reid Fed Debt Increase is doomed to failure.
Americans ought to reject the Big Lie: namely, that the Tea Party is to "blame" for the S&P Downgrade! Patriots need to Push Back against this disinformation!
IMHO, the way to do that is for Patriots to get behind Dr. Paul's Free Market Monetary Reform bills with the same fervor we got behind the '07 End the Fed Rallys and the 2010 Kick-the-Bums-Out Election.
Patriots need to organize around an issue that can keep us together and in the news as the deception media ramps up the electioneering show, hoping to further marginalize the Tea Party and their natural allies, such as the Constitutionalists, Libertarians and so many others. We need to organize around an issue that positions us to "have the answer" as the hyperinflation escalates.
Free Market Monetary Reform is just the issue... and soon the fiat "dollar" is all anyone will want to discuss, since we will all be caught up in the whirlwind as we reap what the Fed Establishment has sewn...
Action Item to support Free Market Monetary Reform:
https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/85
The Constitutional Monetary Reform Bills are:
HR 1098 which legalizes the setting of legal tender in private contracts; abolishes taxes on gold & silver coin trading.
H.R.1098 -- Free Competition in Currency Act of 2011
To repeal the legal tender laws, to prohibit taxation on certain coins and bullion, and to repeal superfluous sections related to coinage.
HR 1094 which abolishes the Fed Reserve board of governors and puts it in receivership preparatory to abolition.
H.R.1094 -- Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act
To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks, to repeal the Federal Reserve Act, and for other purposes.
HR. 2768 Would Cancel the Fed Reserve's FAKE TREASURY BOND "PURCHASES" MADE WITH ITS FAKE FIAT "DOLLAR" INFLATION!
Rep. Ron Paul on Monday introduced legislation that would lower the federal government's debt by canceling the roughly $1.6 trillion in debt held by the Federal Reserve.
Paul has argued for the last few weeks that the idea represents a quick way to make the growing fiscal crisis more manageable. Under his bill, H.R. 2768, the $1.6 trillion that the Treasury owes to the Federal Reserve would disappear.
Continued here: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/174953-rep-paul-...
The approach that Dr. Paul proposes is a continuation of his overall program to "Legalize Freedom..." as he says.
Please support these bills! Urge your congressional reps to become co-sponsors, like over 300 did with Dr. Paul's Audit the Fed bill in '09.
Here is a short video interview I did with Dr. Paul May 2011 on the issue of Pushing Back to Legalize Freedom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WhlwOojjF4
The good folks at DownsizeDC have an action item to support Dr. Paul's monetary bills (this action item is about HR.1098, but you can add comments about HR.1094 and 2768 to it):
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Responding to FDA Assaults on Nutrients:
Current Action Items
Responding to FDA Assaults
Action Item: http://tinyurl.com/FDApowerabuse
Armed Govt Agents Raid Amish Dairies, Raw Food Co-ops and Health Food Stores... As the Raids Intensify, our Health and Food Freedom is Threatened... Meanwhile, the Increases in Factory "Phude" (Looks Like Food, But It Ain't) Disease Exposes the Failures of the Federalization of Food Safety!
9.8.11 Update: FDA Extends Comment Period for its NDI Guidance for 60 days -"ROCKVILLE, Md.—FDA extended the comment period for its New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) Draft Guidance by 60 days to Dec. 2, 2011. The extension came one month after five industry trade organizations requested FDA to extend the comment period by 45 days..." http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com/news/2011/09/fda-extends-ndi-draft-guidance-comment-period-by.aspx
Although we fought hard to make sure language was kept in the 2007 bill "exempting" dietary supplements, the DSHEA Exemption, (and you sent over 150,000 emails in one weekend!) we were not holding out much hope that this massive increase in FDA power would not be used against our freedom of choice... despite the fact the the law is clear and the statute had specific exemption language. We were specially worried about language in the Act that would let FDA ban interstate commerce in any FOOD that had ever been studied for medical use.
That's right, Congress gave FDA authority to ban any food... why? Indeed, why would Congress believe it had power under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to control what food free Americans grow and use? We leave the answer to such questions to the philosophers and psychiatrists...
Dr. Ron Paul (R - TX):
Giving FDA more authority is giving
"FDA power to abuse..."
Sure enough, the ink of President Bush's signature was barely dry when FDA moved to ban the first supplement under the new law. At the behalf of a drug company (they called it a "citizen petition") FDA banned a form of Vitamin B6 that has been continually available for decades. This form of B6 happens to be the most bioavailable, thus the drug company "studied" it and then decided NOT to market it, but rather seek govt help in banning it!
How did FDA "get around" the DSHEA Exemption? It announced that none of the vitamin companies and advocates objecting to the ban had "proven" that this particular form of B6 had been "sold to supplement the diet" prior to the "grandfathering" cut off date in 1994. The listing of this form of B6 in the "Old Dietary Ingredients" list posted on the FDA website was not to be considered proof anymore! This new regulation threatens every nutrient innovation since 1994... and maybe before!
New FDA NDI (New Dietary Ingredient) Regulation
We warned that the Vitamin B6 precedent would threaten all dietary supplement advances since '94. Fast-forward to 2011... FDA announces a new guideline on New Dietary Ingredients which takes the B6 precedent and codifies this for all nutrients. Remember, FDA restricts what people can say about nutrients and then uses its new powers to ban those nutrients. This is a Freedom of Speech Issue. Here is what Life Extension says about this:
The FDA has just issued a proposed mandate that will enable the government to ban the most effective dietary supplements you are now taking.
If this proposal is enacted, many fish oil formulas and natural plant extracts will be removed from the market until so-called safety testing is done. The FDA wants each nutrient company to force-feed laboratory animals the human equivalent of up to 240,000 milligrams a day of certain fish oils. This outlandish dose will injure the test animals and give the FDA an excuse to outlaw the supplement.
How can the FDA do this? They are seeking to reclassify the natural supplements you now take as "food additives." This gives the FDA power to mandate outrageous safety thresholds that have no relationship to the scientifically validated doses of nutrients you take every day.
Why are they doing this? Because these natural products work too well. Take curcumin as an example. It has been shown to inhibit a deadly transcription factor in cells called nuclear factor-kappa beta (NF-kB) that is responsible for immune system regulation. Over-expression of NF-kB is linked with tumor cells that resist normal cell growth and maturation, as well as inflammation.
Pharmaceutical companies want to own the exclusive rights to these kinds of plant extracts that are freely sold on the market today. They don’t want consumers to be able to obtain these biological benefits in low-cost supplements. Instead, they want to patent synthetic versions as high-priced prescription drugs!
We know what the FDA wants to do... stop us from making what they and their drug company friends think are "bad" decisions... What is the law, however? Here is what the Supreme Court said in Thompson v Western States (535 U.S. 357 - 2002):
"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that regulating speech must be a last - not first - resort... We have previously rejected the notion that the Government has an interest in preventing the dissemination of truthful commercial information in order to prevent members of the public from making bad decisions with the information... Even if the Government did argue that it had an interest in preventing misleading advertisements, this interest could be satisfied by the far less restrictive alternative of requiring each ... to be labeled with a warning that the [product] had not undergone FDA testing and that its risks were unknown..."Once again, the FDA is abusing power Congress wrongfully granted to this oppressive agency! Once again, our Health and Food Freedoms are under assault! We initiated a new Action Item to reply to this latest FDA attack on health and food and urge everyone to "take it viral" and flood decision makers with your concerns! In addition, we have several other current relevant Action Items we urge you to use daily!
WE TOLD YOU SO!!!
NOW ARE YOU READY TO GET SERIOUS????
Let's face it. We need a staff devoted to keeping the attack, and the attackers, straight.
Food. Nukes. GMOs. Vaccines. Compulsory Drugging. Medical Privacy. Chipping. TSA/DHS Radiation Exposure. FDA Raids.
The list goes on and on
"No! No! Not ANOTHER one!" some people say -- as one person did, in fact, say, during the chat session at www.HealthFreedomPortal.org during this week's edition of the Dr. Rima Reports,
"Yes, Yes, and there will be more. Many more, I am sorry to tell you."
You see, if you watch the Globalist Agenda, http://youtu.be/_gWmVtn5JsA, you'll hear the plan. If you have been one of those folks who denies that it could be real, or happen, or be anything other than a "CONSPIRACY THEORY" despite the data that turns it into a "CONSPIRACY FACT", then perhaps, perhaps, this assualt by State and Federal agencies working in concert at 3 locations on one morning, might just, possibly, be enough to shake the scales from your eyes and get youIncensedAnd ready to take back - yes, it has been lost, but can be reclaimed - your
Activated
Communicating
Enraged
HorrifiedFreedomThat's right, all of them. The Constitution of the US was shredded by the Rawsome Food Co-op raids. What is left? Rags and tatters of the hemp parchment upon which it was written.
Constitutional Rights
Health
Food
Ownership of Your Body
Dignity
Control of the Government
Amendments: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XIII...
Had enough? Believe us now? OK
Here is the plan1. Take the following Action Items Every Day for Every Member of Your Family. Every Day
2. Commit to informing, AND ACTIVATING 10 people to do the same (that is, taking the actions and activating 10 other people)
3. Set up a recurring donation for whatever your health freedom and constitutional rights are worth to you and you can afford (really afford, for patriot's sake) here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189
And/or4. Invest in the NSFGreenFund, www.NSFGreenFund.org, to use the money that you would invest anyway, be it IRA, 401 or other monies, to support the activities of the Natural Solutions Foundation AND make a return. For our supporters, this private expressive association has made it affordable by setting very low minimum investments for monthly or lump sum investments (which can be pooled by several people) and adding a bonus value of 6% to your investment. Check it out. The money is for freedom. AND you get a return on your bonded, insured principle.
OK. That's it. No guns, mud, freezing conditions at Valley Forge. Just Freedom Mice and Freedom Money. How very 21st Century! How very essential. Too much trouble? Not enough interest? Really? With your DNA and your future at stake?
I know you'll do the right thing because you have read this far. If you don't, along with enough others, you have chosen to enslave yourself.slave - [sleyv] noun, verb, slaved, slav·ing. noun - 1.a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant. 2.a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: a slave to a drug. 3.a drudge: a housekeeping slave. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/slave
TELL CONGRESS:
NO MORE POWER TO THE FDA!
TELL THEM: "NO! NO! NO!"
http://tinyurl.com/FDApowerabuse
http://tinyurl.com/RawMilkFreedom
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6822#Action
(Support Ron Paul’s RAW MILK BILL)
NO MORE POWER TO THE FDA!
TELL THEM: "NO! NO! NO!"
http://tinyurl.com/FDApowerabuse
http://tinyurl.com/RawMilkFreedom
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6822#Action
(Support Ron Paul’s RAW MILK BILL)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5708#Action
(Hold Big Pharma and FDA Responsible for Vaccine Harms)
http://tinyurl.com/NoFoodControl
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5421#Action
(Do Not Fund Food Control Law! – very important for food/vitamin rights)
http://tinyurl.com/StateFood
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5622#Action
(State sovereignty for Food Freedom and Real Food Safety)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049
(SAY NO TO GMOs)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5731#Action
(SAY NO TO NUCLEAR POWER)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5448#Action
(LEAVE OUR VITAMINS ALONE)
Natural Solutions Center
Thursday, July 7, 2011
DSHEA & Nutrients Under Increasing FDA Attack!
DSHEA & NUTRIENTS STILL UNDER ATTACK!
http://tinyurl.com/nofoodcontrol *
Updated Foundation Counsel's Blog Report:http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2011/04/free-speech-about-science-act-hr-1364.html
Last week Natural Solutions Foundation's Health and Food Freedom Action eAlert reported on the Nutraingredients USA article that warned us about a new threat to Health and Food Freedom in Congress: the Durbin Dietary Supplement Labeling Bill - http://tinyurl.com/6bpuz7x
According to the article: "The bill would... require manufacturers to register dietary supplement products [with] the FDA, require labels to disclose the known risks of ingredients and display a mandatory warning if the product contains a dietary ingredient that may cause potentially serious adverse events. The bill also calls for labels to display the batch number, something already adopted as standard"
The article quotes leading dietary supplement lawyer Jonathan Emord, calling the bill a “classic example of regulatory overkill.... The FDA has full regulatory power to prevent the sale of adulterated and misbranded foods and dietary supplements... By introducing new powers when old ones are more than sufficient, [Durbin] invites abuses, including more burden and cost on an industry that is already overwhelmed by the burden and cost of the GMPs and, now, the [sic] Food Safety Modernization Act...”
POWER IS THE GOAL: "Sen Durbin said that his goal “is to take the decision about how a product will be regulated out of the hands of the manufacturer and put it in the hands of the FDA where it belongs."
For More About Our Analysis of the Attacks on Nutrients please see Foundation President, Gen. Bert Stubblebine's First Risk Assessment, updated: Threats to Health and Food Freedom - http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=9145
Subsequent to this disturbing report, we learned of a new FDA dietary supplement regulation under the new Food Control Law, the infamous S.510 of the 111th Congress.
As Natural News reports: "...nearly all vitamin and supplement ingredients could soon be banned under the FDA's new NDI [New Dietary Ingredient] rules because very few supplement ingredients can be conclusively shown to have been widely used BEFORE [the "grandfathering" date of] 1994... Through this clever trick with NDI rules, the FDA can now position itself as the gatekeeper for all supplement approvals. Far from merely being a requirement to "notify" the FDA of the use of new ingredients, NDI rules essentially subject supplements to approval from the FDA.
Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/032912_FDA_dietary_supplements.html#ixzz1RNe6SrP4
Similarly, the Natural Products Association has this to say:
We believe the draft guidance does not match Congress’s clear intent that products made from ingredients on the market prior to DSHEA should remain on the market. The FDA is asking for far more from the industry to prove that an ingredient was on the market before 1994 than most makers can probably produce. That was not the intent of DSHEA. These requirements will reduce ingredients meeting the established grandfathered status to a regrettably small number.Our Action Item has been updated to help educate decision makers about the new NDI rule as well as Sen. Durbin's bill: please contact your congress-critters daily about this the other health and food freedom issues that matter!
http://www.npainfo.org/index.php?src=news&srctype=detail&category=pressreleases2011&refno=330
http://tinyurl.com/nofoodcontrol
Here is Dr. Ron Paul about Push Back:
And while you are at it... Please support Dr. Ron Paul's Raw Milk Interstate Commerce Freedom Bill, HR.1830: http://tinyurl.com/rawmilkfreedom - hear him about that here: http://youtu.be/sAQdjjXCN6A
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* The draft of the "Educate Decision Makers" email reads as follows (you can modify it):
To the White House, Speaker Boehner, Chairman Kingston & Congress:--------------
DO NOT FUND THE FOOD CONTROL LAW AND ADDED FDA FOOD & NDI REGULATIONS! REJECT FDA HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR "USER FEE" INCREASE: IT IS JUST ANOTHER TAX ON FOOD!
DO NOT SUPPORT Sen Durbin's "Dietary Supplement Labeling Act" which would require pre-market registration of these nutrient food products.
I am a concerned organic gardener, family farmer, rancher and/or consumer... I am concerned about food safety and I am concerned about protecting my access to local and natural food production and distribution; that is, Food Freedom.
I am very concerned that the FDA will implement the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act in ways that will harm these important interests. This is not a "food safety" law; it is a Federal power-grab food control law!
The new Congress ought to re-consider its controversial provisions, such as section 104 that may allow secret regulations, in violation of the pledge of transparency.
Further concerns include the convoluted procedure for local food production exemptions and the "road map" the new law provides for rapid "HARMonization" of our food freedoms with international Codex Alimentarius restrictions.
I urge the White House to be very closely involved in the writing of the regulations under the new law, to ensure the protection of these interests and to make sure all interest groups are heard and considered by the regulators.
To my Congressperson and to Chairman Kingston & Speaker Boehner - please help the White House avoid the worst aspects of the food control bill.
DO NOT FUND ITS PROVISIONS. We are especially concerned with the provision for thousands of new FDA food control inspections. No provision of this bill should be funded by the new Congress. DE-FUND FOOD CONTROL!
I also oppose what Health Freedom USA has called Sen. Leahy's "Criminalization of Food and Speech" bill, which claims to "increase criminal penalties for certain knowing and intentional violations relating to food..." but applies only to SPEECH -- this bill has reared its ugly head again, as S.216.
Do not increase FDA authority; oppose the Durbin Dietary Supplement Labeling Act.
I agree with Rep Jack Kingston:
"I think we will [not fund the food control law]. We have a lot of concerns about the necessity of putting 18,000 food police on the streets and the kitchens of America. The trend in food safety has been very, very favorable. I'm not sure that this kind of investment is going to give any returns that justify it."
Food Freedom is an important issue to me and I will pay attention to what the White House and FDA do with any new power granted by Congress. But what would be best would be for Congress to REDUCE the Power of the FDA!
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Since the exchange at the GOP Tea Party Debate in Florida earlier this week, where Rep. Michelle Bachmann chastized Gov. Rick Perry for his Texas Executive Order illegally mandating the dangerous Gardisil vaccine for children, there has been a lively debate about vaccines and freedom on various forums and news media.
Some have expressed the opinion that they trust the CDC more than they trust those who oppose such invasive medicine.
The excerpts and paraphrases below gives the flavor of some of the arguments against the vax supporters.