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This Is War!

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

March 11, 2007

US foreign policy became very clear in the December 10, 1974 National Security Study Memorandum, "NSSM 200, Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests" also called the Kissinger Document. In it, an explicit policy by which the US would promote rapid population decline in 13 countries was articulated. Kissinger’s now famous (and declassified) quote sums up the elaborate plan:

"Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries."

NSSM 200 became official US policy in November 1975 under President Gerald Ford. Birth control, war and famine were all tools to serve US access to mineral resources without impediments caused by third word populations who were to be eliminated. Brent Scowcroft, Kissinger’s replacement as National Security Adviser was put in charge of implementing the plan. CIA Director George Bush was ordered to assist Scowcroft, along with the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, and Agriculture.

Carrying out this depopulation agenda, other agencies besides those most closely identified publicly with the US are active as well.

Former Brazilian Health Minster Carlos Santana, for example, pointed out that "The World Bank, through their reports of its Presidents, has always made its proselytizing for a rigid birth control policy explicit," and that included in World Bank credit packages and investment in Third World countries is an implicit agenda of depopulation. He questioned why Brazil was targeted for birth reduction, with approximately forty per cent of Brazilian woman having been already sterilized.

The architects and engineers of global depopulation include iconic figures, corporate and governmental leaders and national decision-makers.

Depopulation programs worldwide are directed and funded by major international money interests, including McGeorge Bundy of the Council on Foreign Relations, (the architect of the US nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction or MAD policy); Warren E. Buffet, the second wealthiest man in the United States; and, long term supporters of eugenics, the Rockefellers.

In 1998, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, announced "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation."**

Ted Turner, in an interview with Audubon Magazine said, "A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal." and is using his purported $1Billion "gift" to the UN to further global depopulation programs.

UNESCO Courier, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the famous Emmy award winning film producer and ambassador for the environmental movement, said in 1991,

"It’s terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day."

As Alex Jones pointed out, "That works out to 127,750,000 people per year, and 1.27 billion people over 10 years."***

But what about the US? Is anyone trying to get rid of us? Look at what the USDA and FDA permit as "food" and tell me whether the preventable diseases of under nutrition and toxicity which are killing us to the great profit of the "Bigs" (Big Pharma at the top of the list, of course, but Big Chema, Big Biotechna, Big Abgribiz and Big Medica) could possibly have been regulated this disastrously by accident alone.

Tell me if you believe

That the permission to market spectacularly toxic drugs long after their dangers are know is caused by simple incompetence and greed.

* That the policies which support regulators who consistently protect drugs and pesticides and GM "FrankenFoods" which are killing the American population are the simple results of corruption.

* That the CDC’s decision to hide the harm being done to our young while protecting the vaccine industry’s profits is mere corruption or whether somewhere, at some level, the real impact of treatments and procedures which are destroying our population through completely preventable disasters is simply a grave error of judgment and that the scientists who try to correct these problems in the regulatory agencies are intimidated and harassed as random acts of administrative error.

* That a multi-trillion dollar business which treats people with chemotherapy agents which the industry supported American Cancer Society admits provides any benefit for a mere 3-4% of people suffering from cancer while the US government ruthlessly suppresses effective, inexpensive and safe cancer treatments is simply a result of unalloyed greed.

If so, then you can buy the notion that the disastrous (and wildly profitable) deaths by pharmaceuticals which account for huge numbers of preventable deaths in the developed world (according to journals like the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Lancet, etc.) could be due to corrupt regulators alone.

It also means that you buy the story that degraded and depleted food laced with poisons is regulated onto our tables and shelves by accident. That Donald Rumsfeld’s statement (as the CEO of Searle) that he wanted Aspartame approved by the FDA and he did "not care how many people it killed" was just a poor turn of phrase.

That means that you are comfortable that the depopulation agenda being so vigorously pursued elsewhere in the world does not touch the shores of the US.

No one, rich or poor, believes they are disposable. And they are right.

I have traveled to places populated by some of the most abjectly poor people in the world on the health freedom trail. People without any way out of that abject poverty, people starving and watching their children starve, have not been willing, just as you and I are not willing, to hold up their hands and say, "Yes, I am a useless eater! For the sake of the elite and their comforts, my children and I are willing to be eliminated."

Yet read what a leading proponent of eugenics/depopulation has to say about those stubborn people who for some reason will not willingly class themselves as useless eaters for their own good!:

"The very word eugenics is in disrepute in some quarters … We must ask ourselves, what have we done wrong?

I think we have failed to take into account a trait which is almost universal and is very deep in human nature. People simply are not willing to accept the idea that the genetic base on which their character was formed is inferior and should not be repeated in the next generation. We have asked whole groups of people to accept this idea and we have asked individuals to accept it. They have constantly refused and we have all but killed the eugenic movement … they won’t accept the idea that they are in general second rate. We must rely on other motivation. … it is surely possible to build a system of voluntary unconscious selection. But the reasons advanced must be generally acceptable reasons. Let’s stop telling anyone that they have a generally inferior genetic quality, for they will never agree. Let’s base our proposals on the desirability of having children born in homes where they will get affectionate and responsible care, and perhaps our proposals will be accepted."

From Galton and Mid Century Eugenics by Frederick Osborn, Galton Lecture 1956, in Eugenics Review, vol. 48, 1, 1956

Using food as a weapon goes back to the beginning of inter-group struggle. Sieges are mounted to starve the opposing side. Scorched earth policies deprive peasant and warrior alike of the food they need to survive. Food has been a weapon of tribal and national policy since there were tribes and nations. The US upper echelon policy makers and their friends the would-be masters of the planet have taken this ancient form of intentional misery and death one step further.

With chilling directness, food was officially weaponized by NSSM 200 which the US has never repudiated. The document states, "Since population growth is a major determinant of increases in food demand, allocation of scarce PL 480 resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in population control as well as food production. In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion."…. "Mandatory programs may be needed and we should be considering these possibilities now," the document continued, adding, "Would food be considered an instrument of national power? … Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can’t/won’t control their population growth?" Among the conclusions reached by NSSM 200 is that "mandatory [emphasis added] population control measures" may be "appropriate."* NSSM 200 states that "large-scale famine of a kind not experienced for several decades—a kind the world thought had been permanently banished,…can be expected" as policy events and points out "In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion" and suggests that the UN and other agencies be used to carry out these policies.

Codex works perfectly for that purpose. If you were turning food into a tool of depopulation and political control, wouldn’t you do exactly what the Codex Commission has done? Wouldn’t you create a high sounding international body to "protect consumer health" and "ensure the free trade of food" while bringing your less developed brethren along to develop their "science based" agriculture and food processing capabilities? Wouldn’t you make sure that higher and higher levels of deadly chemicals, hormones and other toxins (including heavy metals and animal drug residues) were lacing their foods and get them to want to pay you premium prices for helping them to contaminate their own food and buy your illness-inducing "food" at the same time? Wouldn’t you set up seemingly scientific "risk analysis" procedures to mandate global mal- and under-nutrition knowing that, as Linus Pauling said, every disease is caused by a nutritional deficiency"? Then you could sanctimoniously declare that the "preventable diseases of under nutrition" were killing more and more and more people and wasn’t it terrible!

Supposedly "Science Based" and advisory in nature, and backed up by WTO trade sanctions (unless countries follow our two step protective strategy), Codex serves the interests of the multinational corporations which are controlled by people whose idea of a really great planet is one without 5/6 of the people on it now. You have to hand it to the would-be masters: Codex is a brilliantly constructed, glossy and beautifully crafted deception and disinformation system.

Third world countries are led down the disastrous garden path of depleted and damaged food resulting in peoples with weakened immune systems who are under nourished and over fed on nutrient poor food. Their food is irradiated, contaminated with highly profitable chemicals, genetically modified foods and the results are inevitable.

The men and women who attend Codex as National Representatives and Delegates, by the way, are, in my experience, in the main, good, decent and hard working people who have been totally hoodwinked by brilliant misrepresentation and pseudo science. The amazing thing is how quickly they convert their nagging suspicions and unease to clear understanding when we present the facts as we understand them in personal and direct conversation.

Success in taking back our food and our freedom is really up to us. We have the information and we have the power to take back our futures. This war has been brought to our tables and our bodies. It is up to us to "Join the Mouth Revolution" in more ways than just spitting out fake food. We need to speak, we need to educate, we need to purchase healthy foods and nutrients, and we need to share what we know with everyone we reach. The stakes are literally life and death. Yours, mine and theirs.

No army can fight without resources. Human resources are precious and so are monetary resources. We need your creativity as volunteers, organizers, and artists. And, yes, we need your donation.

We still have $22,341 to raise by the end of March in order to meet our goal. It’s really important that we do meet it so we can continue our work. We need your help.

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD

Medical Director

Natural Solutions Foundation

*http://www.schillerinstitute.org/food_for_peace/kiss_nssm_jb_1995.html

** Reported by Deutsche Pres Agentur, August 1998

*** http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/290805chickenlittle.htm

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Mark of the Beast or Marking the Best?

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

What I am about to tell you will thrill you and chill you at the same time. It will thrill you because it confirms that the course set by the Natural Solutions Foundation in the US and around the world is an effective strategy which is working. And it will chill you because it confirms that your personal freedoms and mine are being curtailed at a frightening rate in the US and elsewhere. Freedom to make your own health choices and use natural products and techniques, eat clean, unadulterated food and see health care professionals who treat you naturally is clearly under huge attack. Part and parcel of that attack is the attack on our rights, given by God, according to the Constitution of the United States, to speak as we wish and contend with the views of government and industry (increasingly one entity, in the US and elsewhere) without fear of punishment because of that speech.

As advocates for what we believe (and what you do, too), we know that speaking our truth to power and to the public at large is our right and our responsibility. Apparently, for doing so, we have been marked by the "security police" as people to be treated like enemies. Our work on behalf of health and health freedom has led some cog in the burgeoning US security Gestapo to do us the favor of confirming that the Natural Solutions Foundation is on exactly the right path. We are saying and doing things the US Government is not happy about and to let us know that, they treat us like enemies of the state every time we fly in the United States!

For about the last year, every time General Stubblebine and I travel by air — anywhere — we have been subjected to increasing, and increasingly nasty and burdensome, scrutiny at security screening points. As you know, we do a LOT of traveling so this was very, very clear to us. Up until recently, however, we were always told that it was due to "random screening procedures" and that we had been "selected for additional security". It was, of course, a funny kind of random: the enhanced security seemed to randomly apply to anyone named Albert N. Stubblebine III and Rima E. Laibow, MD who just happened to share our seat assignments.

On January 10, 2007, when General Stubblebine and I left our home near New York City on another extended trip in the service of health and health freedom, the security thing got ratcheted up quite a large notch. Our itinerary was Newark NJ (a New York regional airport) to Asheville NC to Albuquerque NM to Los Angeles to Bangkok and beyond. Within the US we were flying on Delta Airlines. At each airport both General Stubblebine and I were treated to a level of absurd "security" unlike any we had ever experienced before. I was "smacked down", not patted down. Our carry-on luggage was not just inspected, it was torn apart. Wires, mice, cables, combs, lipsticks, everything was opened, examined, flung around, shoved into bags in a totally disorganized, "higgledy piggledy" manner with rude demeanor and agonizing slowness thrown in for good measure. We came very close to missing our flights several times despite being at the security station a full 2 hours before take off. Nasty does not even begin to describe the manner in which we were treated.

During a lay over between connecting flights I got to chatting with a member of the Delta Airlines cabin crew staff who was "dead heading" home from an international flight. I told him about the treatment we had been experiencing and he said, "You must have a code on your tickets put there by the government. Are you speaking out about something the government doesn’t like?"

So at the next check point I innocently said to the woman checking our boarding passes and photo IDs (which is, of course, just a warm up for the "Real ID" national identification card coming our way in 2008) that we were experiencing an absurd amount of security scrutiny. She smiled warmly, pointed to our boarding passes and said, "Well, here’s why. The code is right here on your boarding cards: it says that you are to get extreme scrutiny. Are you talking about something the government doesn’t want you to say?"

At that airport, too, we were subjected to the same malicious and ridiculous "screening" as at all the others. The code was right there: SSSS. So our tickets marked us, presumably at the request of the United States Government Department of Homeland Security, as bad people, people who should have their persons and belongings searched for dangerous contents. Bad people, people who should be taught a lesson, intimidated and, most important of all, people who should be cowed into not speaking out to defend their rights and the rights of others. For speaking our truth both to power and to the masses, we have been marked, as with the biblical "Mark of the Beast".

I say, however, that our paranoid and dangerously out of control government, the one that has forgotten that our rights are, according to the United States Constitution, conferred by God, NOT by the US government, had obviously created a process of marking the best. Those who speak out, those who tell their truth and remind our government that it serves us, it does not own us, those who keep the flame of liberty, which demands active participation to feed it, alive and vigorous, are marked "for special scrutiny". And these are the best patriots.

If the Natural Solutions Foundation were not on target, its spokespersons would not be targets. If the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Codex activities were not right on the mark, Dr. Claude Moshe, the Codex Alimentarius Commission Chairman would not have marked us for special attack before and during the 2006 Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting last July in Geneva.

Actually, I feel pretty good about receiving this direct confirmation from the US Government at the same time that I feel enraged and sorrowing that this is what our institutionalized paranoia has led us to: speak up and be marked. Be a real patriot by defending your country from corporate tyranny and become a target. You will remember that when we returned home from another long trip (during which we met privately with the President of India to brief him on Codex), our internet and phone service had been interrupted by someone who climbed the phone pole outside our isolated and remote home, removed a filter from its insulating and water-proof boot and left the boot open. Since we live on a street with only 12 houses and virtually no traffic, the pole feeds only our home with telephone and power lines. The message? Just ask General Stubblebine, who, during his active duty military career, controlled the US Army’s counter-intelligence service and he will tell you that what it means is, "We know where you live!" So the powers that be were telling us last July that we were on a watch list, too.

Is this what freedom is about? Is this what the US Constitution is about? Or is this of a piece with the same government policies and practices that are working so hard to take away your right to vitamins, minerals, natural prevention and treatment options — in short to your taking, and holding, control of your own health in favor of a pharmaceutical tyranny?

We know the answer and so do you. To the extent that you value that freedom, it is up to you to take a stand, and keep taking it, for yourself and others who may not understand yet that their freedoms, and, in fact, their very survival is at stake.

There are powerful steps you can take to support your freedoms and exercise them at the same time. Some of them will sound familiar, some will be new. They are ALL vitally important to the extent that your health and freedom are important.

1. NUTRICIDE Watch "Nutricide" on Google Video and then get the "Nutricide: the DVD" and show it in your community. Make sure you send everyone you know this link and ask them to watch the video and then go to the Natural Solutions Foundation website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org.
2. CODEX eBOOK The Codex eBook applies the Natural Solutions Foundations’ Two Step Process (developed in conjunction with the Citizens Codex Working Group) which can protect countries from both the dangers of Codex and World Trade Organization trade sanctions for deviating from Codex has been applied to the dangerous and restrictive Vitamin and Mineral Guideline. Get the same information we present to Heads of State, Codex Delegates, Ministers of Health and other decision makers in this outstanding down-loadable eBook.

Big Pharma and the other corporate friends of health fascism don’t want you to know what’s going on so there is a virtual black out on information about Codex. Natural Solutions Foundation wants you to have accurate, accessible and vital information. When you visit www.HealthFreedomUSA.org you will find a wealth of information for your use. Feel free to take the 5 minute Codex Tour, be sure to read "Nutricide: the Killing Fields of Codex", download the one page Codex Flyer, visit the Resource Center, etc. You have my personal permission to use, share or reproduce these materials as long as you give full credit and a complete citation when you do. Email it, post it, blast it, just get the word out. The major media are not covering this issue so it’s up to you and me.

Join the Citizens Petition and become part of the historic suit against the US Government against their illegal Codex policy on supplements. Nearly 40,000 other US Citizens have already signed the petition. Let your circle of influence know how important their signatures are and send them the link with your suggestion that they sign the Citizens Petition, too!
If you have not yet signed the Citizens Petition at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, do it now! You can automatically email it to us with the click of a button and we will take it from there.

Make sure you are signed up for our secure (I.E., never sold, shared, loaded or rented), Natural Solutions Foundation eNewsletter (on our homepage, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org) and send the email blasts you receive from us to your entire circle of influence, too.

Every time you make a purchase from our all-organic, doctor recommended store, Organics4U you are supporting the Natural Solutions Foundation, protecting your body. Organic foods and supplements do not expose you to the dangers and damage caused by pesticides, artificial colors, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, synthetic "supplements" or food and nutrients derived from dangerous genetically modified sources. Everything at the Organics4U shop has been verified by me personally to be organic, clean and wholesome.

You can shop safely for yourself and your family.

More than that, though, you know that you are helping the Natural Solutions Foundation to fight for your freedom to have access to clean, unadulterated products like these. And, as a way of saying "thank you" for your support, the tax deductible portion of every portion (approximately 40%) comes back to you as a tax deduction to a charitable organization with a letter you can give to your tax adviser come tax time in a few months!

Your one time or recurring tax deductible donations make it possible for the Natural Solutions Foundation to keep on finding effective solutions to problems like Codex Alimentarius and other serious health freedom threats. You send us to Codex meetings, allow us to enlist lawyers and other experts who, like us, are willing to donate their time but have travel and other expenses associated with doing this work. You pay for our webmaster, and a host of other on-going expenses. What you do not pay for is salaries or retainers for our lawyers or for us: we donate 100% of our time to keeping your health freedom alive and well. We are endorsed by organizations like the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and the National Association of Nutrition Professionals among others.
We have no commercial support: our only constituency is you. We cannot continue to be uniquely effective and uniquely present at the right times and places without that support. Consider making a recurring gift so we know what our monthly income will be. But please make your donation right now.

People write to me at my new email address, dr.laibow@gmail.com , to tell me that they are eager to become involved. They can either become community organizers or, as often happens, they have wonderful talents and ideas for art auctions, dance and music fund raisers, lectures, health freedom t-shirts, tag sales, etc., etc. What would you like to do to support health freedom? We’ll help! Let’s make it happen.

We’ll be here in Bangkok working on some special projects for health freedom and international cooperation for a while, then off to India in about a month to follow up on the outstanding successes we have had there. In May we’ll be in Ottawa for the Codex Committee on Food Labeling, in Rome in July for the Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting (where Dr. Moshe is probably NOT going to roll out the red carpet for us. You get the picture. We are there, literally, for you. Tell me your particular way of being there for us and we’ll continue changing the world, and protecting our freedoms, together!

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

dr.laibow@gmail.com

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Article: NUTRICIDE: THE KILLING CAMPS OF CODEX ALIMENTARIUS

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

1. Intentionally bringing about our causing the death of a body of knowledge and information concerning the health promoting and curative attributes of herbs, food and food components

2. Intentionally bringing about our causing the death of large numbers of people through nutritional manipulation

Codex Alimentarius (the international food standard organization) and multinational corporation collusion together impair and gravely threaten world health. If Codex has its way, its deadly standards and guidelines will be implemented in the United States by 2010 significantly impairing the health and health prospects of all Americans, killing those with chronic illnesses who depend on therapeutic dose nutritional supplements for survival.

Read More … download the full PDF.

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Day 25: July 6

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Day 25: July 6, 2006

Today was another special day for the Natural Solutions Foundation. Dr. Mosha, the Chair of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, apparently violated CAC procedure to go back and revisit a section of the report of the most recent Codex Alimentarius Executive Committee which took place just before the current CAC meeting. Now, ordinarily, procedural rules are absolutely sacrosanct. They are observed scrupulously (unless of course they are inconvenient, as for example, when the Chair of a Committee or the CAC itself tells a member nation which has called for a vote "Codex does not vote anymore" although the procedural manual says "…each member of the Commission shall have one vote." (CAC Procedural Manual, Rules of procedure, Rule VII, 1., page 12) and "…any Member of the Commission may request a roll-call vote, in which case the vote of each Member shall be recorded" (CAC Procedural Manual, Rules of procedure, Rule VII, 4., page 12).

In Codex, when an agenda item is complete, it is completed. So it was a huge surprise and, in its way, a rather significant honor or sorts when, have finished the entire work of the CAC meeting today, Dr. Claude Mosha, the CAC Chair, made an exception for us, the Natural Solutions Foundation.

Although the adoption of the report of the Codex Executive Committee (June 28-July 1, 2006) had taken place on the very first day of the CAC meeting, Dr. Mosha though that the status of the Natural Solutions Foundation was so important that he asked the CAC Members, as the last item of business, just before the close of this year’s CAC, to turn back to the report of the Executive Committee, Alinorm 06/29/3A, to regard together Item 109. It reads, in full,

109. The Executive Committee recommended to the Directors-General of FAO and WHO to reject the application for observer status from the Natural Solutions Foundation on the ground that the applicant did not meet the requirement of section 3 (e) of the Principles. Moreover one Member pointed out that the organization did not fulfill other criteria set out in section 3 of the Principles, especially with regard to the confidentiality of members."

How nice of him! Yes, Section 3 (e) says that an organization has to have been functioning internationally for at least 3 years and we have not and yes, we refused to reveal the names of our "members" because we are not a membership organization and the identities of our donors are confidential. But the Procedural Manual also says, "The Directors-General of FAO and WHO may, upon the advice of the Executive Committee, grant observer status to Organizations not meeting this requirement if it is clear from their application that they would make a significant contribution to advancing the purposes of the Codex Alimentarius Commission." (CAC Procedural Manual, Guidelines of IGO Cooperation, 3., page 36).

We are flattered that Dr. Moshe took such pains to mention us and look forward to developments under his second term of CAC Chairmanship (to which he was elected without opposition yesterday.) I wonder if his special mention of the Natural Solutions Foundation had anything at all to do with the press release we put out yesterday mentioning another special event which he orchestrated by stopping one of our sponsored Delegates from attending the CAC: Codex Chairman Seeks to Thwart Natural Solutions Foundation Pro-Health Codex Initiative http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/7/prweb406560.htm

Perhaps, or perhaps not. We will probably never know.

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD

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Africa Journal, Days 2 and 3

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

In this hot, dusty Africa country, the seat of government is not the same city as the seat of commerce. One lands at the city where business is conducted for the whole region. But Parliament meets in the other city. And they are 500 km (415 miles) apart.
That’s 415 miles on an unfinished road, by the way, with unpaved detours, no roadside amenities or service stations during most of the run and huge oil and cargo lorries barreling down upon you in the other of the two lanes (which you are in to pass the barely moving car in front of you).

So there is a good deal of adrenal workout on an ordinary drive.

ital just before that time and walked into a dark, empty set of corridors with heavy padlocks on white painted wrought iron gates over every office door and one open door: the Minister’s.

I won’t tell you about the unbelievable conditions we passed, nor the fact that when we ran out of gas along the way and pulled into a dilapidated and disserted gas station (whose two goats were the only living creatures we could find), nor about stopping by the desolate side of the road and having 4 or 5 men magically appear with a large jerry can and hose and begin to fill up the tank with illegal gas using an illegal and dangerous method: pouring leaking gas into the gas tank while all of them smoked and the engine was running. I won’t tell you how they gathered around us in a frightening demand for money (and more) when suddenly they recognized the NGO Facilitator as the National Beauty Queen and simple smiled to be seen with her. We got back in the car and whizzed off toward the Capital. I also won’t even begin to tell you about the toilets. You really, really do not want to know.

But when we got to the Minister’s office we found a direct, sincere, humble and decent human being, an American trained Gastroenterologist, who had never heard of Codex but listened with deep attention and growing distress as we explained both the past and present, and then added the future of Codex to the discussion.

He took our materials (Nutricide, the DVD, which you can have, too, by going to

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/aboutcodex/dvd.shtml

and the hard copy version of the Codex eBook, available at

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/aboutcodex/dvd.shtml

We explained that the eBook demonstrated the application of our International Strategy for correcting every problem raised by Codex and for protecting the health of his people. We explained, too, that we are facing a great opportunity: South Africa’s "Ottawa Beachhead" in which the 11 point guidelines for the implementation of the pro-health "Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health" gave Codex for the first time a potential focus on Optimal Health needs to be supported and adopted at the upcoming Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting, July 3-7, 2006 (Geneva). We asked the Minister of Health to help make sure that his country’s voice was raised loud, clear and firmly in favor of these principles at this meeting.

His answer? "You have caught my attention. I will certainly read your materials but you understand that I am not able to make policy on my own. I will consult with the appropriate people and contact you!" It was a highly successful and positive meeting with a thoughtful and careful policy maker who did not brush us off and took us very seriously. Tomorrow we meet with the Codex Committee of the country to further this effort here.

But wait! There’s more to this adventure! By now it was late and there was no way that it was safe to drive the road back to the commercial center both because of the brigands we did not meet, but were much more likely to meet after dark and because of the sheer physical danger of the road at night. (Shoulders? Don’t be absurd! Road accidents, by the way, are a hugely significant cause of death here.)

But when we started out we were told that there was a very important ceremony in the Political Capital that day and that the one decent hotel in town would be filled with both the Members of Parliament and with the dignitaries gathered for the ceremony. We had clearly seen on the way to the Capital that there was nothing even vaguely resembling a hotel, let alone one that we would consider staying in.

So we left the Minister’s office very pleased for the intermediate term but very concerned for the immediate one. Nonetheless, we drove to the hotel and made inquiries. Yes, there was a double room for the General and the Doctor. Yes, there was a double room for the lovely young lady and yes, the driver and our contact could share a single bed in the last room. "NO!" was the reply from our contact so, magically, although it was unavailable just moments before, the 4th room materialized and we checked in.

During and after dinner, our lovely, capable and well-known NGO facilitator greeted Member of Parliament after Member of Parliament. She introduced us to them and we told them about the reason for our visit. In an hour or so we met a dozen Members of the Parliament of this dynamic nation and introduced them to the Codex issue. Several of them wanted to talk about it more deeply and so we did, leaving our materials with them as well. We lobbied the MP’s to think about Codex and how they could protect their people while preventing trade sanctions from the World Trade Organization while doing so. To say that they were interested is a woeful understatement.

Then, on to our room where we found a triangular frame hanging from the ceiling over the bed with a circle of steel suspended over the bed from which hung a very large mosquito netting which was wound up into a series of knots hanging over the center of the bed and a large table fan attached to the ceiling. Spread the netting out (which did not have fist size holes in it like the netting we encountered in Adama, Ethiopia earlier this year which we stuffed with underwear), turn on the fan because the netting blocks all movement of air which is not very forceful (making sleeping unbearable if the air does not move inside the net) and dropped off to sleep.

And then the phone (which does not work in this country) rang at 4 AM local time. It was a US product manufacturer who wanted me to be a spokesperson for his products. They are not organic. I declined and asked him not to call at 4AM again. After I hung up I realized that he must have been pretty puzzled since where he was calling from (the East Coast), it was 2 in the afternoon!)

Good news! The Minister of Energy and Mining wants to meet with us about Codex! Be ready at 8 AM because he has a meeting just after that and he can give us only 5 minutes. Right! Ready! Prepared! And frustrated: No car, no driver, nobody but the NGO facilitator and us. About 45 minutes later, a government truck drives up and we are told to get in at once! Off we go to the Minister’s office for a quick cup of coffee and a very quick discussion. Again, the kind and straightforward Minister told us that he had never heard of Codex and it was clearly not his responsibility but he would read our material carefully because when it came to a Cabinet discussion he wanted to be informed to help guide his country to health.

And then back to the hotel, gather our bags up and prepare for the drive back to the seat of commerce for a crucial meeting with the Codex Committee of this country. YES!

No! You have forgotten about the car and the driver, haven’t you? Well, we certainly did. Where were they? Who knows? Certainly not in front of the hotel waiting to drive we back to the commercial city at a reasonable pace (or at any pace, for that matter). MIA: Missing in Action.

So we waited, watching the precious minutes tick away while our crucial meeting began to evaporate. And that is exactly what happened. The bad news is that they could no longer wait for us because we started off so late that no amount of insane speed could make up for the delay (whose cause is still not known to me).

Oh, did I mention that we had air conditioning for about 12 minutes on the trip and then a ball bearing in the air conditioning unit (?) went out on us (don’t you just hate it when good bearings go bad?) and we were back to open windows with no possibility of breathing because of the dust or no possibility of surviving with the windows closed because of the heat. We vacillated back and forth between the two options for that whole long, terrifying drive. Neither option was satisfactory.

So we missed the appointment. Not to worry, though, we will meet with them tomorrow, we are told. We have asked to leave at 9:30 SHARP, SHARP, SHARP. But this is Africa. We will see what time is like tomorrow.

At any rate, we had time (AAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHH!) because of the missed appointment so we went into the only store here that is believed to sell organic food. The company is South African so a good deal is imported from there. But the produce is primarily gown in this country. It is not labeled as either organic or not and when we asked the manager, she told us that pesticide and other chemicals are virtually unknown in this country. Farmers use traditional means of growing their crops and, in the main, cannot afford the chemicals. This is a country, after all, where less than 10% of the population has access to electricity, let alone spare cash to buy chemicals.

I also took a look around beyond the produce area. The meat counter had locally gown and produced meats in the same kind of packaging we are used to. It also had meat for which a premium was charged: South African meat. It was grey. It had been irradiated. The local meat was, of course, satisfyingly red.

When I explained to our companions the fact that irradiation of food creates huge free radical concentrations which are, in the absence of sufficient anti oxidants, significantly toxic to human beings and the animals which are also fed these toxic meats. Without adequate anti-oxidants (made inaccessible by the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline and the extention of it by World Health Organization to all nutrients) there is no way to neutralize these dangerous metabolic fires which will damages pancreases, brains, eyes, lungs and the immune system. I also found myself explaining that the fats in meats can be transformed by the irradiation process itself into cancer-causing compounds like benzene.

Together we asked ourselves how many "excess cancer deaths" do we need to calculate before we look at the biochemical information on the dangers of free radical excess whether or not Codex wants it?

Then back to the hotel for an outstanding, and inexpensive, seafood buffet dinner.

Tomorrow, the missed appointments! I hope!

In the meantime, the General is already asleep and I will finish my report to you and join him.

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Laibow
Medical Director

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