Tim Bolen Exposes "Quack" Anti-Health Freedom Operations

Tim Bolen - www.bolenreport.net -- a leading advocate of health freedom and publicist for advanced healthcare -- just published a breakthrough article on the apparently coordinated efforts of certain "skeptic" public persons to manipulate available information regarding advanced healthcare options. He sees a Big Pharma connection and details the combination of web ring, blog, Wiki and online discussion groups that are used to manipulate public information.

While his information is certainly suggestive, you need to read it to come to your own conclusions as to its accuracy. I know Tim and trust his judgment.

Here is the introduction, but do read the article for the details of the six components. If you are an advanced healthcare practitioner, nutrient or natural remedy purveyor, you need to read this article.

"The Six Components of the 2008 Quackbuster Operation...

"Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

"Friday, February 22nd, 2008

"Do not, for even a second, think that the US "Quackbuster" operation, a plot to stop anyone, and everyone, from changing the broken US health care system, is run, or even maintained, by [deleted]... He's just the "front man." The one they want you to focus on. ...

"So, who really is running it? And why? And, how is it being done? Keep reading, and all will be revealed.

"SUMMARY:

"The 2008 Quackbuster operation is involved in “info wars” on the internet. It is a public relations "black-ops," run out of a New York misinformation agency. It has six components designed to do two things: (1) provide false and misleading negative healthcare information, primarily through the internet, to (a) the general public, and (b) employees of health insurance companies, medical malpractice insurance companies, health agencies, County, State, and Federal enforcement agencies about those trying to fix/change the health care system, and people, therapies, products, etc., that compete with the current status quo, and (2) block, or diminish sources of substantial information about positive aspects of those people, therapies, products, etc, that compete with the status quo.

"The plot is pervasive, well funded, and well run. And, it's time to break it up. This article will give you the information on how it works, and tips on how to stop it from affecting YOU and your interests.

"The New York agency's intent is to not just defame, but to make that defamation, through organization, appear at the top of the search engines like google. Below, I’ll show you how they do that. They have organized to manipulate the online encyclopedia Wikipedia information about health care. They also, through people trained in disruption, troll Usenet (Google) discussion groups, badmouthing advanced health care, regularly.

"I emphasize that all of this attack is “organized”… and can be traced back to the same people – about five, or six, of them..."

Read more: http://www.bolenreport.net/feature_articles/feature_article070.htm

Senator Hatch Defends Dietary Supplements

This just in - "The Supplements Made Me Do It" NOT! Says Leading Senate Protector of Dietary Supplements:

">>Breaking News on Supplements & Nutrition - North America
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>>Supplements not a steroid scapegoat, says senator
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>>By Lorraine Heller
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>>2/15/2008- The sports industry should take full responsibility for abuse of performance-enhancing substances rather than blaming dietary supplements and government regulation, according to a Utah senator.
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>>Senator Orrin Hatch this week published an op-ed in the Washington Post, which heavily criticizes sports players and unions for pointing to dietary supplements as a "preposterous" excuse for steroid use.
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>>This kind of blame-dumping is not a first for the supplement industry. Dietary supplements have repeatedly taken a hit across many professional sports categories as they often have been blamed as a delivery system for banned substances - something industry says is misleading.
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>>The actual situation, say industry advocates, is characterized by illegal substances masquerading as dietary supplements rather than legitimate dietary supplements using banned ingredients.
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>>Indeed, a new report published in December suggests just that.
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>>The Mitchell report, which investigated the use of performance-enhancing substances in Major League Baseball (MLB), put forth the notion that MLB should move on from its doping scandals, not waste time trying to laying blame on particular players, and instead focus on making sure this does not happen in the future.
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>>Senator Hatch highlighted in his op-ed that the Mitchell report had found that performance-enhancing substances used by players were obtained surreptitiously by a third party, typically at a high cost.
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>>'Dietary supplements - or at least the ones governed by DSHEA - are available over-the-counter. So who shells out big bucks to a shady dealer in a back room, when he can easily purchase dietary supplements from drug stores and health food stores across the country? Someone who doesn't want what is legally on the
shelf,' he wrote.
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>>His comments were published the day pitcher Roger Clemens testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.
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>>Hatch maintained that, contrary to the claims of the sports world so far, Congress has not been negligent in its regulation of dietary supplements. Indeed, the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) actually enhanced federal regulation of supplements to ensure safety, he said.
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>>Dietary supplements and the laws that regulate them are not and have never been the problem. The problem is that a few athletes will do anything and take anything to get a competitive edge,' he wrote.
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>>'The sooner Major League Baseball acknowledges this, and does something about it, the sooner it will cease to be a problem.'"
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www.washingtonpost.com/

I am concerned that the Congressional hearings will be used to attempt to outlaw important supplements, such as DHEA. We need to be vigilant and support those in Congress who support health freedom.

Codex, Food and Freedom

Here's a copy of a comment I posted on ProgressiveU.com:

"Thanks for posting the link to Natural Solutions Foundation. -- www.healthfreedomusa.org - our educational foundation seeks to expose the Codex process and its threats to health freedom. My two co-trustees of the Foundation, Dr. Rima E. Laibow, MD and Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine (US Army, ret.) were in Africa last week for a Codex workshop on GM food labels. There, the Coalition of Health Conscious Nations that we've helped energize resisted US efforts to prevent honest GM labeling of foods. Last year, even before the recent Scientific American article on the dangers of fluoride, we were able to keep that toxin out of healthy baby formulas.

So, it is possible to engage with Codex and get some results; usually, however, Codex goes along with the illegal US agenda of degrading organic standards, allowing toxins, irradiation and genetically modified ingredients, while restricting nutrients and natural remedies.

We've developed an alternative to Codex's evil Vitamin and Mineral Guideline, which seeks to treat nutrients as though they were industrial toxins or drugs. We call it the Codex 2 Step and you can see a short video of me explaining it on the HealthFreedomUAS.org web site. In short, Codex Guidelines are advisory only, under its Statute. Codex Guidelines are enforced through the WTO which considers them "presumptive evidence" of the standards for international trade. However, if a country adopts its own differing guideline and a national statute under it, that country comes to the WTO without any presumptions and must be judged on the science that backs its law, not Codex. We've drafted a model alternative Vitamin and Mineral Guideline that is friendly toward nutrients and natural remedies and a model Dietary Supplement Law, based on our US DSHEA law, with adjustments to finally make it nutrient and remedy friendly (for example, we incorporate Dr. Ron Paul's Health Freedom Restoration Act (HR 2117) language in it.

You can read more about all that at our site, but most importantly, please sign up for our eAlert System. We've shown we can generate over 100,000 messages to Congress and FDA anytime needed; that's why last year's FDA "enabling act" (where Congress decided to deal with FDA abuses of power by giving FDA more power to abuse...) included language protecting DSHEA products.

Please join today; alone we are just "voices in the wilderness" of cyberspace; together we are growing powerful netroots! www.healthfreedomusa.org

Ralph Fucetola JD
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/"

Educating Congress about health freedom

Last Thursday I took Amtrak to Union Station in DC, met up with health freedom researcher Maury Silverman and our National Solutions Foundation Washington "guide" Charlie Frohman. It was a sunny, late winter day and I thoroughly enjoyed the walk from the station.

We met with Congressional health aides for four members of the House and two in the Senate, both parties (all members of relevant committees). We were also able to speak for a few minutes with the legislative aide of a CA congressman who is also preparing a bill to support health freedom, expanding on Dr. Ron Paul's Health Freedom Protection Act, HR 2117.

After the meetings at the Capitol, we took a quick Metro subway ride to Arlington and the Paul for President HQ. The mostly young staff and volunteers were very upbeat (Mitt Romney had just suspended his campaign) and were very much aware that health freedom was an important issue for the freedom movement they see themselves building over the coming years. In their view, just like Barry Goldwater paved the way for Ronald Regan, Dr. Paul is paving the way for a libertarian President in four to eight years.

Visiting the Capitol with Charlie Frohman - http://www.cfrohman.com/aboutus.html - as our "guide" is always an interesting experience. The people on the Hill listened to our educational message regarding health and freedom, mostly, I am convinced, as a result of their respect for him. I think we are having a positive effect!

One way we can all become more effective is for people to join the eAlert system at our Natural Solutions Foundation web site, www.healthfreedomusa.org — awesome day!

Photo: C, Frohman, R. Fucetola and D. Ernsberger

Dr Ron Paul - the ONLY health freedom candidate.

"The government should never have the power to require immunizations or vaccinations."

Health Freedom Message from Dr. Ron Paul, Member of Congress from Texas. Why waste your vote on the media-nominated when you can vote your conscience, and maybe help restore the Constitution.

Dr. Paul's statement:

"Americans are justifiably concerned over the government’s escalating intervention into their freedom to choose what they eat and how they take care of their health.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in order to comply with standards dictated by supra-national organizations such as the UN‘s World Food Code (CODEX), NAFTA, and CAFTA, has been assuming greater control over nutrients, vitamins and natural health care providers to restrict your right to choose the manner in which you manage your health and nutritional needs.

I have been the national leader in preserving Health Freedom.

I have introduced the Health Freedom Protection Act, HR 2117, to ensure Americans can receive truthful health information about supplements and natural remedies.

I support the Access to Medical Treatment Act, H.R. 2717, which expands the ability of Americans to use alternative medicine and new treatments.

I oppose legislation that increases the FDA‘s legal powers. FDA has consistently failed to protect the public from dangerous drugs, genetically modified foods, dangerous pesticides and other chemicals in the food supply. Meanwhile they waste public funds attacking safe, healthy foods and dietary supplements.

I also opposed the Homeland Security Bill, H.R. 5005, which, in section 304, authorizes the forced vaccination of American citizens against small pox. The government should never have the power to require immunizations or vaccinations. "

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/health-freedom/

Codex meeting on GM food labeling rules

I met with Dr. Rima and Gen. Bert earlier today while they were on layover at JFK airport on their way to the Codex meeting in Ghana. We had a chance to lunch with a group of health and freedom activists to discuss finally ending compulsory vaccination. More about that will be posted in a few days. Hopefully a YouTube piece will be posted too.

But right now, with General Stubblebine and Dr Laibow "in the air" its time to think about the next challenge...

They are really excited by the possibilities for an alliance of developing nations that will stand against the irrational US position on Genetically Modified (GM) foods at the Codex meeting. That position is: since FDA research shows that Americans prefer non GM food, when they have that information and since the FDA has decided that is a "bad" decision, there should be no GM labeling -- no requirement that GM foods be so labeled and a prohibition against any "GM Free" labeling.

[That position is in direct contravention to US law, but that doesn't bother FDA: "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." - Supreme Court, Thompson v Western States Medical]

So watch for the fireworks at Codex when the fate of GM foods is debated this coming week. Dr. Rima will be blogging about this at www.healthfreedomusa.org

Meaningful health freedom needs "truthful and not misleading" information about foods, nutrients and remedies. Forbidding speech thus forbids health. What happens half a world away, at a meeting of a UN agency committee next week may determine whether the FDA gets away with defying the US Constitution... again.

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01/31/08 Update: See Dr. Laibow's blog from the meeting:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=512

Ron Paul Speaks Out Against Forced Vaccination

Wednesday, Jan 23, 2008
InfoWars.net - by Steve Watson

"Presidential candidate Ron Paul has spoken out against forced vaccination and the federal government's eagerness to dictate what Americans may and may not put into their bodies.

The Congressman, a fully qualified obstetrics and gynecology doctor, made his position plain in an interview with the Huffington Post's election reporter James Freedman:

"I don't think anything should be forced on us by the government, [and] immunization is one thing that we're pressured and forced into," he said.

"A responsible parent is going to say, 'Yeah, I want my child to have that,' [but] when the government makes a mistake, they make it for everybody. You know, that's what worries me. They don't always come up with the perfect answer sometimes... and people have had some very, very serious reactions from these immunizations."

Besides certain laws that apply only to government medical specialists - there is no law that enforces the mandatory use of any vaccine in the United States. Enforced medical treatment is an assault and a violation of the 14th amendment, the reason Ron Paul, a strict Constitutionalist, is so directly against it.

However, some in Washington seem determined to ignore the Constitution and to make some vaccinations (usually the most profitable ones) mandatory.

There has recently been a spate of cases where officials, with the assistance of directed media propaganda, have attempted to cajole parents into believing that laws require vaccination.

Last February one such media hoax fooled parents in Texas and other areas of the country into believing that the HPV vaccine, which experts have slammed as untested and has continued to be linked to dangerous side-effects, is now required by law and that young girls must take it. Merck Pharmaceuticals hit the headlines after it was revealed that the company was set to capitalize on this fraud by making obscene profits from a crony deal with Governor Rick Perry, while children were put at risk.

Last November we reported on a case in Prince George's County, Maryland, where parents of more than 1600 children were told they could be put in jail for failing to get their kids vaccinated. At the time a local Fox News affiliate reported, "A new law was passed last year requiring children from 5th through to 10th grade to have the vaccine," which was a total lie. A state prosecutor involved in the case then admitted that there is no law that mandates any vaccine."

Read the rest at InfoWars.

http://www.infowars.net/articles/january2008/230108Vaccines.htm

NYC says ignorance is bliss... just trust the City with your health.

The New York City Soviet wants to license private ownership of "the possession or use of any instruments which monitor chemical, biological or radiological contamination" -- to "reduce excessive false alarms and unwarranted anxiety..."

I kid you not. Private sources of information about contamination of the environment could be banned under a bill pending before the NYC council; since the power to license is the power to ban. Says NYCOSH,

"Had such legislation been in place on and after 9/11, the independent testing done by unions and community-based organizations could not have been legally conducted and what we now know about the contamination of Lower Manhattan would be limited."

See: http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=53912

Let's see, since measuring the environment and communicating about it is communication - speech about information in the public domain, the Supreme Court's "two prong test" for government restrictions on speech should apply.

The first prong is to ask two questions: (1) is the speech in question about unlawful activity and (2) is the speech misleading. If "no" to both, the speech is entitled to protection unless the Government can carry its burden and prove (1) the governmental interest involved is "substantial", (2) the regulation must "directly advance" the governmental interest and (3) the regulation of Commercial Speech cannot be "more extensive than is necessary to serve that interest" (quoting Central Hudson v Public Service, 447 US 557, at 566).

Is "reducing anxiety" a "substantial" governmental interest? Hardly. We have a right to the truth, no matter how that may make us feel.

Is reducing false alarms? How does licensing "directly advance" that interest? How does it do so without being "more extensive than is necessary...?"

What this bill #650 does is protect the authorities from embarrassment. That's it. And our health be damned.

As we have been saying: No health without freedom.

Health Freedom Victory on rBGH Labeling in Pennsylvania!

Late breaking news from the Center for Food Safety, www.centerforfoodsafety.org

"Victory on rBGH Labeling in Pennsylvania!

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) has backed down from a controversial ban on the use of labels on milk products. The agency had issued new rules in October, set to go into effect February 1st that would have barred dairy companies or milk producers from labeling their products as from cows not treated with rBGH. PDA argued that a misleading impression might be conveyed by identifying milk as coming from cows not treated with synthetic hormones. Pennsylvania would have been the first state to implement such a labeling ban."

A victory for health, freedom and truthful labeling! Health Freedom advocates strongly support the right of all producers to include truthful information on their labels, even when those in authority think the information is not relevant.

This is in keeping with the leading Supreme Court Commercial Speech Case of Thompson v Western States Medical Centers, where then Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote for the majority:

"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... a warning..."

ACLU warns against threat to health and freedom: the US Government!!!

ACLU held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC yesterday, releasing a report, Government Must Abandon Misguided Approach to Pandemic Preparedness and warning us all of this threat to health and freedom (link to report below).

NSF's own Charlie Frohman was there and reports in his Common Interest blog -

"An avian influenza call “H5N1″ has killed birds around the world, and if it spreads to humans, President Bush has proposed military quarantines of whole sections of the population. ACLU claims coercion never protects the public health, and trading “liberty for security” is a dangerous slippery slope that justifies perpetual Rights violations.

"And despite ACLU assurances, can they really protect”our liberties” from Big Brother’s “security”? Precedent suggests not. After the September, 2001 terrorism, we suffered the Patriot Act and the Military Tribunals Act, Total Information Awareness, No-Fly lists, as well as “signing statements”. The 2006 Defense Authorization Act expanded the 1807 Insurrection Act to allow the President to declare Martial Law and send in the Military not only for insurrections, but also any “natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition,” with both “incident” or “condition” not defined nor limited. Further, Haliburton has built a constellation of concentration camps (like our very own Gulag Archipelago) across the U.S. - are these camps for infected patients, or civil libertarians and nonviolent dissidents (once Congress passes the “Homegrown Terrorism” bill)?"

Read more -

http://www.commoninterest.info/2008/01/16/aclu-to-protect-against-government-in-pandemic/

ACLU Report - http://www.aclu.org/privacy/gen/33649prs20080114.html