What They’re Covering Up at Fukushima

Published on March 22, 2011 in Health News and NEWS. 0 Comments

Hirose Takashi
Counterpunch
March 22, 2011

Introduced by Douglas Lummis

Okinawa

Hirose Takashi has written a whole shelf full of books, mostly on the nuclear power industry and the military-industrial complex. Probably his best known book is Nuclear Power Plants for Tokyo in which he took the logic of the nuke promoters to its logical conclusion: if you are so sure that they’re safe, why not build them in the center of the city, instead of hundreds of miles away where you lose half the electricity in the wires?

He did the TV interview that is partly translated below somewhat against his present impulses. I talked to him on the telephone today (March 22 , 2011) and he told me that while it made sense to oppose nuclear power back then, now that the disaster has begun he would just as soon remain silent, but the lies they are telling on the radio and TV are so gross that he cannot remain silent.

I have translated only about the first third of the interview (you can see the whole thing in Japanese on you-tube), the part that pertains particularly to what is happening at the Fukushima plants. In the latter part he talked about how dangerous radiation is in general, and also about the continuing danger of earthquakes.

After reading his account, you will wonder, why do they keep on sprinkling water on the reactors, rather than accept the sarcophagus solution [ie., entombing the reactors in concrete. Editors.] I think there are a couple of answers. One, those reactors were expensive, and they just can’t bear the idea of that huge a financial loss. But more importantly, accepting the sarcophagus solution means admitting that they were wrong, and that they couldn’t fix the things. On the one hand that’s too much guilt for a human being to bear. On the other, it means the defeat of the nuclear energy idea, an idea they hold to with almost religious devotion. And it means not just the loss of those six (or ten) reactors, it means shutting down all the others as well, a financial catastrophe. If they can only get them cooled down and running again they can say, See, nuclear power isn’t so dangerous after all. Fukushima is a drama with the whole world watching, that can end in the defeat or (in their frail, I think groundless, hope) victory for the nuclear industry. Hirose’s account can help us to understand what the drama is about. Douglas Lummis

Hirose Takashi: The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident and the State of the Media

Broadcast by Asahi NewStar, 17 March, 20:00

Interviewers: Yo and Maeda Mari

Yo: Today many people saw water being sprayed on the reactors from the air and from the ground, but is this effective?

Hirose: . . . If you want to cool a reactor down with water, you have to circulate the water inside and carry the heat away, otherwise it has no meaning. So the only solution is to reconnect the electricity. Otherwise it’s like pouring water on lava.

Yo: Reconnect the electricity – that’s to restart the cooling system?

Hirose: Yes. The accident was caused by the fact that the tsunami flooded the emergency generators and carried away their fuel tanks. If that isn’t fixed, there’s no way to recover from this accident.

Yo: Tepco [Tokyo Electric Power Company, owner/operator of the nuclear plants] says they expect to bring in a high voltage line this evening.

Hirose: Yes, there’s a little bit of hope there. But what’s worrisome is that a nuclear reactor is not like what the schematic pictures show (shows a graphic picture of a reactor, like those used on TV). This is just a cartoon. Here’s what it looks like underneath a reactor container (shows a photograph). This is the butt end of the reactor. Take a look. It’s a forest of switch levers and wires and pipes. On television these pseudo-scholars come on and give us simple explanations, but they know nothing, those college professors. Only the engineers know. This is where water has been poured in. This maze of pipes is enough to make you dizzy. Its structure is too wildly complex for us to understand. For a week now they have been pouring water through there. And it’s salt water, right? You pour salt water on a hot kiln and what do you think happens? You get salt. The salt will get into all these valves and cause them to freeze. They won’t move. This will be happening everywhere. So I can’t believe that it’s just a simple matter of you reconnecting the electricity and the water will begin to circulate. I think any engineer with a little imagination can understand this. You take a system as unbelievably complex as this and then actually dump water on it from a helicopter – maybe they have some idea of how this could work, but I can’t understand it.

Yo: It will take 1300 tons of water to fill the pools that contain the spent fuel rods in reactors 3 and 4. This morning 30 tons. Then the Self Defense Forces are to hose in another 30 tons from five trucks. That’s nowhere near enough, they have to keep it up. Is this squirting of water from hoses going to change the situation?

Hirose: In principle, it can’t. Because even when a reactor is in good shape, it requires constant control to keep the temperature down to where it is barely safe. Now it’s a complete mess inside, and when I think of the 50 remaining operators, it brings tears to my eyes. I assume they have been exposed to very large amounts of radiation, and that they have accepted that they face death by staying there. And how long can they last? I mean, physically. That’s what the situation has come to now. When I see these accounts on television, I want to tell them, “If that’s what you say, then go there and do it yourself!” Really, they talk this nonsense, trying to reassure everyone, trying to avoid panic. What we need now is a proper panic. Because the situation has come to the point where the danger is real.

If I were Prime Minister Kan, I would order them to do what the Soviet Union did when the Chernobyl reactor blew up, the sarcophagus solution, bury the whole thing under cement, put every cement company in Japan to work, and dump cement over it from the sky. Because you have to assume the worst case. Why? Because in Fukushima there is the Daiichi Plant with six reactors and the Daini Plant with four for a total of ten reactors. If even one of them develops the worst case, then the workers there must either evacuate the site or stay on and collapse. So if, for example, one of the reactors at Daiichi goes down, the other five are only a matter of time. We can’t know in what order they will go, but certainly all of them will go. And if that happens, Daini isn’t so far away, so probably the reactors there will also go down. Because I assume that workers will not be able to stay there.

I’m speaking of the worst case, but the probability is not low. This is the danger that the world is watching. Only in Japan is it being hidden. As you know, of the six reactors at Daiichi, four are in a crisis state. So even if at one everything goes well and water circulation is restored, the other three could still go down. Four are in crisis, and for all four to be 100 per cent repaired, I hate to say it, but I am pessimistic. If so, then to save the people, we have to think about some way to reduce the radiation leakage to the lowest level possible. Not by spraying water from hoses, like sprinkling water on a desert. We have to think of all six going down, and the possibility of that happening is not low. Everyone knows how long it takes a typhoon to pass over Japan; it generally takes about a week. That is, with a wind speed of two meters per second, it could take about five days for all of Japan to be covered with radiation. We’re not talking about distances of 20 kilometers or 30 kilometers or 100 kilometers. It means of course Tokyo, Osaka. That’s how fast a radioactive cloud could spread. Of course it would depend on the weather; we can’t know in advance how the radiation would be distributed. It would be nice if the wind would blow toward the sea, but it doesn’t always do that. Two days ago, on the 15th, it was blowing toward Tokyo. That’s how it is. . . .

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Yo: Every day the local government is measuring the radioactivity. All the television stations are saying that while radiation is rising, it is still not high enough to be a danger to health. They compare it to a stomach x-ray, or if it goes up, to a CT scan. What is the truth of the matter?

Hirose: For example, yesterday. Around Fukushima Daiichi Station they measured 400 millisieverts – that’s per hour. With this measurement (Chief Cabinet Secretary) Edano admitted for the first time that there was a danger to health, but he didn’t explain what this means. All of the information media are at fault here I think. They are saying stupid things like, why, we are exposed to radiation all the time in our daily life, we get radiation from outer space. But that’s one millisievert per year. A year has 365 days, a day has 24 hours; multiply 365 by 24, you get 8760. Multiply the 400 millisieverts by that, you get 3,500,000 the normal dose. You call that safe? And what media have reported this? None. They compare it to a CT scan, which is over in an instant; that has nothing to do with it. The reason radioactivity can be measured is that radioactive material is escaping. What is dangerous is when that material enters your body and irradiates it from inside. These industry-mouthpiece scholars come on TV and what to they say? They say as you move away the radiation is reduced in inverse ratio to the square of the distance. I want to say the reverse. Internal irradiation happens when radioactive material is ingested into the body. What happens? Say there is a nuclear particle one meter away from you. You breathe it in, it sticks inside your body; the distance between you and it is now at the micron level. One meter is 1000 millimeters, one micron is one thousandth of a millimeter. That’s a thousand times a thousand squared. That’s the real meaning of “inverse ratio of the square of the distance.” Radiation exposure is increased by a factor of a trillion. Inhaling even the tiniest particle, that’s the danger.

Yo: So making comparisons with X-rays and CT scans has no meaning. Because you can breathe in radioactive material.

Hirose: That’s right. When it enters your body, there’s no telling where it will go. The biggest danger is women, especially pregnant women, and little children. Now they’re talking about iodine and cesium, but that’s only part of it, they’re not using the proper detection instruments. What they call monitoring means only measuring the amount of radiation in the air. Their instruments don’t eat. What they measure has no connection with the amount of radioactive material. . . .

Yo: So damage from radioactive rays and damage from radioactive material are not the same.

Hirose: If you ask, are any radioactive rays from the Fukushima Nuclear Station here in this studio, the answer will be no. But radioactive particles are carried here by the air. When the core begins to melt down, elements inside like iodine turn to gas. It rises to the top, so if there is any crevice it escapes outside.

Yo: Is there any way to detect this?

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Hirose: I was told by a newspaper reporter that now Tepco is not in shape even to do regular monitoring. They just take an occasional measurement, and that becomes the basis of Edano’s statements. You have to take constant measurements, but they are not able to do that. And you need to investigate just what is escaping, and how much. That requires very sophisticated measuring instruments. You can’t do it just by keeping a monitoring post. It’s no good just to measure the level of radiation in the air. Whiz in by car, take a measurement, it’s high, it’s low – that’s not the point. We need to know what kind of radioactive materials are escaping, and where they are going – they don’t have a system in place for doing that now.

Douglas Lummis is a political scientist living in Okinawa and the author of Radical Democracy. Lummis can be reached at ideaspeddler@gmail.com

Washington’s Blog: Fukushima is HOT and Dwarfs Chernobyl Accident!

Published on March 19, 2011 in NEWS. 0 Comments

The Amount of Radioactive Fuel at Fukushima DWARFS Chernobyl

Washington’s Blog
March 19, 2011

Science Insider noted yesterday:

The Daiichi complex in Fukushima, Japan … had a total of 1760 metric tons of fresh and used nuclear fuel on site last year, according to a presentation by its owners, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco). The most damaged Daiichi reactor, number 3, contains about 90 tons of fuel, and the storage pool above reactor 4, which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s) Gregory Jaczko reported yesterday had lost its cooling water, contains 135 tons of spent fuel. The amount of fuel lost in the core melt at Three Mile Island in 1979 was about 30 tons; the Chernobyl reactors had about 180 tons when the accident occurred in 1986.

And see this.

That means that Fukushima has nearly 10 times more nuclear fuel than Chernobyl.

It also means that a single spent fuel pool – at reactor 4, which has lost all of its water and thus faces a release of its radioactive material - has 75% as much nuclear fuel as at all of Chernobyl.

However, the real numbers are even worse.

Specifically, Tepco very recently transferred many more radioactive spent fuel rods into the storage pools. According to Associated Press, there were – at the time of the earthquake and tsunami – 3,400 tons of fuel in seven spent fuel pools plus 877 tons of active fuel in the cores of the reactors.

That totals 4,277 tons of nuclear fuel at Fukushima.

Which means that there is almost 24 times more nuclear fuel at Fukushima than Chernobyl.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Nuclear Plant Operator: Water in Pool Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods May Be Boiling, an Ominous Sign for Release of Radioactivity

Kyodo News reports:

A nuclear crisis at the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant deepened Tuesday as fresh explosions occurred at the site and its operator said water in a pool storing spent nuclear fuel rods may be boiling, an ominous sign for the release of high-level radioactive materials from the fuel.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the water level in the pool storing the spent fuel rods at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant’s No. 4 reactor may have dropped, exposing the rods.

The firm said it has not yet confirmed the current water level or water temperature in the pool and will try to pour water into the facility from Wednesday through holes that were created following an explosion earlier Tuesday in the walls of the building that houses the reactor.

Unless the spent fuel rods are cooled down, they could be damaged and emit radioactive substances.

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The utility said it could not deny the possibility that the early morning explosion was caused by hydrogen generated by a chemical reaction involving the exposed spent nuclear fuel and vapor.

But it’s not just reactor number 4. Kyodo News notes:

Edano said water temperatures in the pools at the No. 5 and No. 6 reactors at the Fukushima plant have been rising as well.

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The agency said among the three, the situation is the severest at the No. 4 reactor because all the fuel rods are stored in the pool due to the change of the reactor’s shroud. At the No. 5 and No. 6 reactors, up to one-third of the rods are being kept in the pools. The more fuel rods that are kept in a pool, the more radioactive substances could be emitted.

To see why this is such an ominous development, let me provide some background.

The Washington Post notes:

At the 40-year-old Fukushima Daiichi unit 1, where an explosion Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor, the spent fuel pool, in accordance with General Electric’s design, is placed above the reactor. Tokyo Electric said it was trying to figure out how to maintain water levels in the pools, indicating that the normal safety systems there had failed, too. Failure to keep adequate water levels in a pool would lead to a catastrophic fire, said nuclear experts, some of whom think that unit 1’s pool may now be outside.

“That would be like Chernobyl on steroids,” said Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer at Fairewinds Associates and a member of the public oversight panel for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, which is identical to the Fukushima Daiichi unit 1.

People familiar with the plant said there are seven spent fuel pools at Fukushima Daiichi, many of them densely packed.

Gundersen said the unit 1 pool could have as much as 20 years of spent fuel rods, which are still radioactive.

NPR provides the following graphic, showing the spent fuel pools at the top of the reactors:

Please compare the location of the spent fuel pools (near the roofline) in the NPR graphic with the following photograph:

In some of the reactors – especially those to the right of the photo – the area in which the spent fuel pools are located appears to be severely damaged.

Nuclear expert Frank N. von Hippel explained on MSNBC that heat would release all radioactivity in the spent fuel rods, so that we could get a “worst case scenario” even if we never have a Chernobyl-like meltdown:

(starting 10 minutes into video).The Christian Science Monitor writes:

A particular feature of the 40-year old General Electric Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactor model – such as the six reactors at the Fukushima site – is that each reactor has a separate spent-fuel pool. These sit near the top of each reactor and adjacent to it, so that cranes can remove spent fuel from the reactor and deposit it in a swimming-pool-like concrete structure near the top of the reactor vessel, inside each reactor building.

If the hydrogen explosions damaged those pools – or systems needed to keep them cool – they could become a big problem. Keeping spent-fuel pools cool is critical and could potentially be an even more severe problem than a reactor meltdown, some experts say. If water drains out, the spent fuel could produce a fire that would release vast amounts of radioactivity, nuclear experts and anti-nuclear activists warn.

“There should be much more attention paid to the spent-fuel pools,” says Arjun Makhijani, a nuclear engineer and president of the anti-nuclear power Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. “If there’s a complete loss of containment [and thus the water inside], it can catch fire. There’s a huge amount of radioactivity inside – far more than is inside the reactors. The damaged reactors are less likely to spread the same vast amounts of radiation that Chernobyl did, but a spent-fuel pool fire could very well produce damage similar to or even greater than Chernobyl.”

But another scientist said while the spent-fuel pools have capacity for high volumes of radioactive material, the amount of fuel currently in the spent-fuel pool might be less than widely believed, based on data he has seen showing only about as much spent fuel in the vulnerable pool as contained in the reactor.

The Nation notes:

If the spent rods start to burn, huge amounts of radioactive material would be released into the atmosphere and would disperse across the Northern Hemisphere.Unlike the reactors, spent fuel pools are not—repeat not—housed in any sort of hardened or sealed containment structures. Rather, the fuel rods are packed tightly together in pools of water that are often several stories above ground.

“With damaged [fuel rod] pools, we are talking about things that were never considered a credible threat,” said Alvarez.

Aileen Mioko Smith, director of Green Action Kyoto, met Fukushima plant and government officials in August 2010. “At the plant they seemed to dismiss our concerns about spent fuel pools,” said Mioko Smith. “At the prefecture, they were very worried but had no plan for how to deal with it.”

Remarkably, that is the norm—both in Japan and in the United States. Spent fuel pools at Fukushima are not equipped with backup water-circulation systems or backup generators for the water-circulation system they do have.

The exact same design flaw is in place at Vermont Yankee, a nuclear plant of the same GE design as the Fukushima reactors. At Fukushima each reactor has between 60 and 83 tons of spent fuel rods stored next to them. Vermont Yankee has a staggering 690 tons of spent fuel rods on site.

Nuclear safety activists in the United States have long known of these problems and have sought repeatedly to have them addressed. At least get backup generators for the pools, they implored. But at every turn the industry has pushed back, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has consistently ruled in favor of plant owners over local communities.

After 9/11 the issue of spent fuel rods again had momentary traction. Numerous citizen groups petitioned and pressured the NRC for enhanced protections of the pools. But the NRC deemed “the possibility of a terrorist attack…speculative and simply too far removed from the natural or expected consequences of agency action.” So nothing was done—not even the provision of backup water-circulation systems or emergency power-generation systems.

Similarly, Pro Publica points out:

The plants of that design also store highly radioactive spent fuel in pools outside the protective containment structure that surrounds the reactor itself.

Opponents of nuclear power have warned for years that if these pools drain, either by accident or terrorist attack, it could lead to a fire and a catastrophic release of radiation.

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The nuclear industry says fears about the storage pools at U.S. plants are overblown because the pools are protected and, even if fuel is exposed to the air, the chance of a fire is incredibly small. And with limited information being released about conditions at Fukushima, the status of spent fuel pools is uncertain.

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At Fukushima, these tanks are attached to the outside of the reactor’s containment structure. The pools are deep – typically the fuel lies under 25 feet of water. Although the concrete-and-steel containment is designed to trap radiation leaks, there is no such protection for pools outside.

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Many plants have been operating for 20 years and have tons of used fuel in cooling pools.

The concern is that if the water in the pools ever drops too low, the zirconium cladding that holds the radioactive fuel pellets would begin to heat up and eventually burn. And if it did, the smoke from the fire could carry radiation away from the plant because the pool is outside the containment.

“People should be very concerned because the NRC [Nuclear Regulatory Commission] has acknowledged that spent fuel pools that are not located inside the containment have the potential to cause catastrophic accidents,” said Diane Curran, a lawyer who has represented environmental groups and governments in challenges to fuel storage plans.

“These are not high-probability accidents,” Curran said, “but we have seen how low-probability accidents can happen.”

After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Congress asked the National Academies to study the vulnerability of spent fuel to a terrorist attack.

The resulting 2005 report, “Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage ,” concluded that “an attack which partially or completely drains a plant’s spent fuel pool might be capable of starting a high-temperature fire that could release large quantities of radioactive material into the environment.”

The report found that the vulnerability of the spent fuel to fire depends on how old it is and how it is stored. As the fuel ages, it cools, so it becomes less susceptible to a fire.

“The industry standard is that fuel that is older than five years can be dry-stored,” said Kevin Crowley, director of the nuclear and radiation board for the National Research Council, part of National Academies.

The report recommended that the nuclear industry take steps to decrease the vulnerability of the storage pools to fire. Some of those steps are classified, Crowley said. But he said others, like making sure there were fire hoses or spray systems above the pools, were pretty simple.

***The nuclear industry disagreed with the national academy about the vulnerability of the spent fuel to a fire.

July 4th Pictures you SURELY WILL NOT SEE IN THE PRESS!

Published on September 1, 2010 in NEWS. 0 Comments

July 4th Pictures from DC you will not see in the press

I didn’t see this in the news … did you??/

July 4th Pictures from DC you will not see in the press.Maybe you now know why the Obama Administration has sent out the NAACP to trash them as racists. They are getting a little nervous. This movement is growing fast.There was an unbelievable number of the “Angry Mob” in DC over the 4th, apparently. I didn’t know that. Happy 4th!

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I think this gathering should be appreciated as the extremely important historical event that it is. This is the first great conservative anti-statist manifestation in American history. The conservative movement, which developed in the post-WWII, Cold War environment has now fully matured into the most significant political movement of the 21st century. I believe that this day could be referred to in the not too distant future as the day that changed America . This was the day the great silent conservative majority finally found its voice.

Many of the attendees were quite meek and timid and were unsure of exactly what to expect, this being the first time in their lives they’d been involved in a protest movement. Their fears evaporated early in the day and I saw people reveling in the camaraderie, the joy and sheer civility that was exhibited at the entire event. Chants of “Freedom, freedom, freedom”, “No more czars! No more czars!” carried through the air without the slightest hint of rancor or incivility which is the norm at the leftist rallies I have photographed over the years.

The two photos above show a tiny fraction of the two million ABC estimates attended. I saw signs and heard lots of comments comparing this event to Woodstock . At the time this photo was taken, around 1:00 p.m., Pennsylvania Avenue was still jammed completely, and the mall was packed from the Capitol Building past the Washington Monument .

Protesters came from every state in the union. This man came from San Antonio , TX . He said that he was really sorry he hadn’t brought his family. He stated that being a black conservative he was afraid to expose his children to what he expected would be a lot of liberal abuse. He was thrilled with the tenor of the event and the fact that no liberals were present to harass him. He spoke about how incredibly intolerant the left is to black individuals who don’t bow to the party line.

These Ohioans took a day off their rodeo bullriding schedule. They said they’ll be back at it tomorrow. Mike Pence (R-Indiana) was one of the speakers who addressed the crowd: “After years of fighting runaway government on this hill, you people look like the cavalry to me..I believe we are on the verge of a great American awakening.”

San Diego radio host Mason Weaver said from the podium: “I came here because I thought you might want to hear a black man speak without a teleprompter.This government is trying to make a nation of dependent people. Americans have always been independent people.This is not a Republican thing, it’s not a Democrat thing. It’s not a black thing or a white thing. It’s an American thing.We the people are telling them ‘No more! We’ve had enough!”

In the very center of the photo, above the Silence is Consent – Can You Hear Us Now sign, you can see Pennsylvania Ave. , which at this time is totally blocked with protesters who cannot move forward to the Capitol area. Sorry, full up.

There were notable differences though, in the behavior of these attendees. Although the legend of Woodstock is that there was a friendly atmosphere of camaraderie, the truth is that most people were there for the drugs, sex and rock and roll. Today in D.C. There was a true kinship amongst these people based on shared values and intellectual understanding of what America is and how its future is imperiled by big radical government.

No one was having sex in the Reflecting Pool let alone the mud, and I saw no one projectile vomiting on the steps of the Capitol. There were no warnings to avoid the bad acid which would send you on a trip to the hospital. Not just a different era, but a different level of civilized behavior and thought. Oh, and by the way, these people didn’t l eave tons of garbage behind when they left. Actually they left no trash behind at all.

Obama Lied, Capitalism Died.

We are the mob!

Support Class Envy! Redistribute Wealth.

Madam Speaker: Kiss Our Astroturf!

The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Obama Himself – - – Compassion is Voluntary, Not Compulsory!

WALNUT – Workers Against Lazy Non-Producers United Together – the conservative answer to ACORN. Didn’t have to ask them if they were receiving any taxpayer money like radical left-wing ACORN. Different DNA!

Proud members of the “Angry Mob” and they’re armed with their votes.

Your wallet.the only place Democrats are willing to drill! – Don’t share my wealth – share my work ethic!

Right-wing extremist armed with the constitution.

Marxism – the opiate of the asses – Posters from the Peoples Cube are proliferating amongst protesters.

Stop Making Profit! – Report all Capitalist Activities to flag@whitehouse.gov

World’s #1 Crypto-Marxist. Endorsed by Fidel Castro: The most powerful progressive candidate to the U..S. presidency.” – GRANMA, Havana , May 26, 2008

Nancy Pelosi has accused patriotic tea-partyers of “carrying swastikas” implying that they are Nazi sympathizers. This event was wall to wall hammers and sickles and words like “socialist” “communist” and “Marxist” etc. It continues to fascinate me how long the Democrats will tolerate this without ever commenting on it. Either they like it, or there’s something to it.

Ever present at Tea Parties are Sons of Liberty reenactors. The couple on the left is from Tennessee and the young lady on the right is not but she joined in the photo. The clothing for the couple was hand stitched by the lady on the left. And boy do they love America .

GOD BLESS AMERICA !

Published on June 26, 2010 in NEWS. 0 Comments

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Rand Paul Strikes Back At Mainstream Media Smear Machine MSNBC devotes a full day to branding anti-establishment candidate a racist bigot

Published on May 22, 2010 in NEWS. Closed

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, May 21st, 2010

Would be Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has hit back at a desperate and sustained mainstream media attempt to smear him as a racist extremist following his historic primary victory earlier this week.

Paul appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America today to make it clear that the attacks against him regarding views he expressed on the Civil Rights Act, which we covered in our article yesterday, are “red herrings” and part of an establishment effort to “trash” his campaign.

“I’ve just been trashed up and down and they have been saying things that are untrue. And when they say I’m for repealing the Civil Rights Act, it’s absolutely false. It’s never been my position and something that I basically just think is politics.” Paul said.

Following Paul’s initial appearance on Wednesday’s Rachel Maddow program, during which the MSNBC host suggested Paul would tolerate racial segregation because he opposes federal government regulation, the cable network devoted a full day of coverage to the same talking point.

Despite Paul’s repeated statements that he did not tolerate discrimination or racism in any form, and that he supported the Civil Rights Act in totality, MSNBC wheeled out its liberal attack dogs in the form of Jesse Jackson, Democratic Congressman James Clyburn, liberal professors Boyce Watkins and Michael Eric Dyson and Democratic strategist Karen Finney. The network aired eight different segments totaling 37 minutes, without a single guest to defend Rand Paul’s position or provide any balance whatsoever.

Yesterday Paul’s opponent in the Senate race, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway, now lagging behind Paul by a whopping 25 points according to a Rasmussen survey, claimed that Paul had said he wanted to “repeal” the Civil Rights Act, a blatantly false accusation that prompted Paul to issue a corrective statement. Ridiculously, Paul had to clarify that he did not wish to repeal the Civil Rights Act:

“Even though this matter was settled when I was 2, and no serious people are seeking to revisit it except to score cheap political points, I unequivocally state that I will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” Paul’s statement read.

“Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws. As I have said in previous statements, sections of the Civil Rights Act were debated on Constitutional grounds when the legislation was passed. Those issues have been settled by federal courts in the intervening years.” the statement concluded.

Despite Paul’s statement, the smear machine went into overdrive and even led to comments from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who said “I think the issues that, that many fought for in the ‘50s and the ‘60s were settled a long time ago in landmark legislation and the discussion about whether or not to support those, I don’t think, shouldn’t have a place in our political dialogue in 2010.”

The LA Times devoted its front page to the smear attack, meanwhile, Organizing for America, an Obama campaign group run by the Democratic National Committee began emailing thousands of people on it’s mailing list in an effort to convince them that Rand Paul supports segregation and that there should be a “massive public outcry”.

Late yesterday afternoon, Sen. John Cornyn (Tex.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, also issued a statement, noting that “It is apparent that the Democrats are trying to twist Rand Paul’s words and create an issue that does not exist because they are rightfully worried that he is leading Jack Conway,”.

A fired up Paul hit out further at the establishment left’s political smear campaign on Good Morning America today:

“If you want to bring up 40-year-old legislation, why don’t you bring me on with Sen. [Robert] Byrd, and we’ll talk about how he filibustered the Civil Rights Act,” Paul said of the 92-year-old West Virginia Democrat. “Make him, call him to task for something he actually did as opposed to calling me to task for something they insinuated that I might believe that’s not true.”

“What is going on here is an attempt to vilify us for partisan reasons. Where do your talking points come from? The Democratic National Committee, they also come from Rachel Maddow and MSNBC.” he added.

Watch the video:

Rand Paul’s father, Congressman Ron Paul, defended his son on Thursday, describing the smear attacks as “overkill”.

“I don’t think he has anything to recover from,” the elder Paul said in comments reported by Politico. “Get out there and talk to the people … You’re talking about recovery. That’s an insult.”

Ron Paul also refused to comment on his views on the constitutionality of the powers granted to the federal government in the area of civil rights, noting that his comments would only be taken out of context and used to further smear his son. Instead he pointed to a chapter in his forthcoming book in which he addresses the matter.

Historian Tom Woods, who has contributed to Ron Paul’s best-selling books, addresses the smear campaign using concise and eloquent language:

The Left is going after Rand Paul over the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Why, Rand Paul secretly wants to repeal it, they say, which means we’d have segregated restaurants all over again. Now any non-hysteric knows a segregated restaurant would be boycotted and picketed out of existence within ten seconds, but we’re supposed to fret about fictional outcomes from the repeal of a law that will never be repealed. And certainly we cannot question the 1964 Act, since our betters have decided the matter is closed.

Of course, someone might have objected to that Act on the grounds that it would of course lead to affirmative action, since racially proportionate hiring is the only practical way to prove one has not been “discriminating.” One might also object to the law on constitutional grounds, or on the grounds that (as has indeed happened) it would lead to legally protected classes whose members simply cannot be fired, since their employers know they will be hit with groundless but costly and time-consuming litigation. (Incidentally, black employment statistics saw far more progress in the one year before the 1964 Act than in the two years after it.)

As the Left sees it, none of these reasonable concerns can be the “real reason” for opposition to the 1964 Act. The real motivation is (what else?) a sinister and arbitrary desire to oppress blacks and other minorities for no good reason. The Left’s opponents are always and everywhere wicked and twisted people, who spend their time wondering how they can cause gratuitous harm to black people they have never met. Don’t believe me? Read the comments to this Politico article. These people have never in their lives deviated from what Official Opinion has demanded they believe. Without federal guns, we’d be back in the Dark Ages. The Left has its bogeymen and the neocons have theirs. The outcome is always the same: more power to the monopolists with the guns, and the unshakeable conviction that peaceful remedies are impossible.

Leading Libertarians have lauded Rand Paul, noting that his stance is at the core of Libertarian philosophy. True liberty requires a society in which all people can live and thrive without coercion from controlling forces such as the federal government.

Such core principles the are at the foundation of the U.S. Constitution.

George Washington said “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

Should racial discrimination be overcome by reason or by force?

This notion is at the heart of Rand Paul’s stance on civil rights. Those who equate this notion with racist beliefs are either intellectually incapable of grasping it or are purposefully seeking to defame those who embrace it.

Instead of running to the federal government for protection from and a quick fix to everything that is socially reprehensible, it is time for all of the afore mentioned detractors – from Maddow, through all her minions at MSNBC and their zombie choir – to look at the bigger picture, to wake up, grow up, break out of their pre programmed political paradigm.

Without such an awakening, discrimination and divisions will always exist and will always be taken advantage of by those who seek to control our society.

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DNC Chairman: Rand Paul Is A Far Right “Extreme Candidate” Washington incumbents woefully out of step in dismissing anti-establishment politicians

Published on May 22, 2010 in NEWS. 0 Comments

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Commenting on Rand Paul’s historic victory in the Kentucky primary, the Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine called the would be Senator an “extreme candidate”, while other Democrats suggested Paul would be an easy target for them in the November general election.

While Kaine was happy to note that the result was a “stunning loss” and a “show of weakness” for the GOP establishment in the form of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and the hand picked candidate, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, the DNC head also took the opportunity to slur Rand Paul’s anti-establishment credentials.

“Unfortunately for Republicans, ordinary Americans are unlikely to be receptive to extreme candidates like Rand Paul in the general election this November,”Kaine said in a statement.

“Rand Paul’s positions fail to resonate beyond the far-right Republican segment of the electorate that supported him tonight,” Kaine also stated.

Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Sen. Robert Menendez, echoed Kaine’s sentiments by stating that he believes Paul is an easier opponent to defeat in the general election.

“Rand Paul would abolish the Department of Education, would disband the Federal Reserve, and would end farm subsidies for Kentucky’s farmers,” Menendez said in a statement.

Paul responded in typical fashion by defying his critics and sticking steadfast to his principals.

“People are already saying now you need to weave and dodge, now you need to switch,” Paul said in his victory speech. “Now you need to give up your conservative message. You need to become a moderate. You need to give up the tea party. … The tea party message is not a radical message. It’s not an extreme message. What is extreme is a $2 trillion deficit.”

Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C), a prominent fiscal conservative who endorsed Paul, said that “The Washington establishment threw everything they had at him and yet he prevailed.” DeMint said Paul’s victory represented an “American awakening” and predicted that voters would send more fiscal conservatives to Washington this year.

Paul also repudiated claims that his anti-establishment position represents a fatal division in Republican ranks in Kentucky.

“We’re going to unify. I’m going to meet with Senator McConnell on Saturday. We’ve been talking, actually, for weeks now about unifying. I’ve been talking with the Republican party structure, and I think we will be unified going in to the fall,” Paul told CBS

Both McConnell and Grayson also rallied round Paul.

“Now Kentucky Republicans will unite in standing against the overreaching policies of the Obama administration,” McConnell said Tuesday evening. “We are spiraling further into unsustainable debt and Kentucky needs Rand Paul in the U.S. Senate because he will work every day to stop this crippling agenda.”

“We’ll be standing side by side on Saturday at the unity rally,” Grayson said, referring to an upcoming Republican rally in Frankfort.

Paul noted that in addition to unified GOP support, the attraction his position offers to independent voters puts him in a strong position going into the race for the Senate.

“I say, bring it on, and please, please bring President Obama to Kentucky. We’d love for him to campaign down here…. The Democrats will have to run away from President Obama if they are to have any chance down here.” Paul added.

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Rand Paul’s opponent for the Senate seat, state Attorney General Jack Conway, who has been described as a rubber stamp for President Obama, also hit out at Paul’s anti-establishment position using somewhat inflammatory language.

“We have a fundamental decision to make in this most important of Senate races,” Conway said. “Are we going to use that passion to heat the building? Or are we going to use that passion to burn it down?”

Washington incumbents are displaying just how ignorant they are of the feelings of American voters by rounding on independent, anti-establishment and tea party candidates. They are beyond foolish if they still truly believe that candidates such as Rand Paul represent a fringe minority.

Multiple recent national scientific polls indicate that the portrayal of the tea party / the libertarian movement / the freedom movement – call it what you will – as a lunatic right wing fringe group is a complete fallacy.

The American people have woken up to the false left-right political paradigm and the woes of the two party state. They also now crucially realise that in addition to operating outside that system, they can also use it to their advantage by advancing anti-establishment candidates within it.

If it is the objective of the establishment to continue to play the lunatic fringe card, even in the face of the huge victories of Rand Paul and others, then he and those like him will effectively waltz their way into Washington.

Rand’s father, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, said the outcome signaled that “the country is shifting in our direction.” adding that establishment Republicans and Democrats “ought to pay close attention to the grass roots.”

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Bombshell: Silverstein Wanted To Demolish Building 7 On 9/11

Published on April 24, 2010 in NEWS. 0 Comments

Fox News hit piece against 9/11 truth and Jesse Ventura inadvertently reveals a shocking truth; WTC leaseholder was “on the phone with his insurance carrier to see if they would authorize the controlled demolition of the building”

Bombshell: Silverstein Wanted To Demolish Building 7 On 9/11 230410top

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, April 23, 2010

Preface from Alex Jones: To truly grasp the magnitude of this story, you really have to read the entire article. Immediately after the “pull it” controversy, debunkers claimed there was no plan to conduct a controlled demolition of the building. Now the fact that officials were considering blowing up the building is established, Silverstein’s consistent denial that this took place is a huge smoking gun. How did Silverstein expect to demolish the building safely when such a process takes weeks or even months to properly set up, even without the additional chaos surrounding WTC 7 on 9/11? How could explosives have been correctly placed on such short notice inside a burning building that had already been evacuated – unless the explosives were already in place? This new revelation is astounding and it needs to be investigated immediately.

A Fox News hit piece against Jesse Ventura and the 9/11 truth movement written by former Washington D.C. prosecutor Jeffrey Scott Shapiro inadvertently reveals a shocking truth, that World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein, who collected nearly $500 million dollars in insurance as a result of the collapse of Building 7, a 47-story structure that was not hit by a plane but collapsed within seven seconds on September 11, was on the phone to his insurance carrier attempting to convince them that the building should be brought down via controlled demolition.

Writing for Fox News, Jeffrey Scott Shapiro states, “I was working as a journalist for Gannett News at Ground Zero that day, and I remember very clearly what I saw and heard.”

“Shortly before the building collapsed, several NYPD officers and Con-Edison workers told me that Larry Silverstein, the property developer of One World Financial Center was on the phone with his insurance carrier to see if they would authorize the controlled demolition of the building – since its foundation was already unstable and expected to fall.”

In February of 2002 Silverstein Properties won $861 million from Industrial Risk Insurers to rebuild on the site of WTC 7. Silverstein Properties’ estimated investment in WTC 7 was $386 million. This building’s collapse alone resulted in a payout of nearly $500 million, based on the contention that it was an unforeseen accidental event.

“A controlled demolition would have minimized the damage caused by the building’s imminent collapse and potentially save lives. Many law enforcement personnel, firefighters and other journalists were aware of this possible option. There was no secret. There was no conspiracy,” writes Shapiro.

However, obviously aware of how it would impact his insurance claim, Larry Silverstein has consistently denied that there was ever a plan to intentionally demolish Building 7.

In June 2005, Silverstein told New York Post journalist Sam Smith that his infamous “pull it” comment, which has been cited as proof that Silverstein planned to take down the building with explosives, “meant something else”.

In January 2006, Silverstein’s spokesperson Dara McQuillan told the U.S. State Department that the “pull it” comment meant to withdraw firefighters from the building (despite the fact that there were no firefighters inside WTC 7 as we shall later cover). There was no mention whatsoever of any plan to demolish the building before it fell.

Shapiro’s faux pas has unwittingly let the cat out of the bag on the fact that Silverstein was aggressively pushing for the building to be intentionally demolished, a claim that he has always vociferously denied, presumably to safeguard against putting in doubt the massive insurance payout he received on the basis that the collapse was accidental.

For over five years since the infamous PBS documentary was aired in which Silverstein states that the decision was made to “pull” the building, a construction term for controlled demolition, debunkers have attempted to perform all kinds of mental gymnastics in fudging the meaning behind the WTC leaseholder’s comments.

“I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, ‘We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it. And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse,” said Silverstein.

Debunkers attempted to claim that Silverstein meant to “pull” the firefighters from the building due to the danger the structure was in, and this explanation was also later claimed by Silverstein’s spokesman, however, both the FEMA report, the New York Times and even Popular Mechanics reported that there were no firefighting actions taken inside WTC 7.

Another clip from the same documentary clearly illustrates that the term “pull” is industry jargon for a controlled demolition.

“While I was talking with a fellow reporter and several NYPD officers, Building 7 suddenly collapsed, and before it hit the ground, not a single sound emanated from the tower area. There were no explosives; I would have heard them. In fact, I remember that in those few seconds, as the building sank to the ground that I was stunned by how quiet it was,” writes Shapiro in his Fox News hit piece.

Shapiro’s contention that the 47-story building simply collapsed into its own footprint within seven seconds without making a sound, a feat only ever witnessed in world history on 9/11 alone, is contradicted by numerous other first-hand eyewitnesses.

Contradicting Shapiro’s claim that the collapse of the building was quiet, NYPD officer Craig Bartmer stated that he clearly heard bombs tear down Building 7 as he ran away from its collapse.

“I walked around it (Building 7). I saw a hole. I didn’t see a hole bad enough to knock a building down, though. Yeah there was definitely fire in the building, but I didn’t hear any… I didn’t hear any creaking, or… I didn’t hear any indication that it was going to come down. And all of a sudden the radios exploded and everyone started screaming ‘get away, get away, get away from it!’… It was at that moment… I looked up, and it was nothing I would ever imagine seeing in my life. The thing started pealing in on itself… Somebody grabbed my shoulder and I started running, and the shit’s hitting the ground behind me, and the whole time you’re hearing “boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.” I think I know an explosion when I hear it… Yeah it had some damage to it, but nothing like what they’re saying… Nothing to account for what we saw… I am shocked at the story we’ve heard about it to be quite honest,” said Bartmer.

EMT Indira Singh, a Senior Consultant for JP Morgan Chase in Information Technology and Risk Management, told the Pacifica show Guns and Butter, “After midday on 9/11 we had to evacuate that because they told us Building 7 was coming down. If you had been there, not being able to see very much just flames everywhere and smoke – it is entirely possible – I do believe that they brought Building 7 down because I heard that they were going to bring it down because it was unstable because of the collateral damage.”

The host asked Singh, “Did they actually use the word “brought down” and who was it that was telling you this?,” to which Singh responded, “The fire department. And they did use the words ‘we’re gonna have to bring it down’ and for us there observing the nature of the devastation it made total sense to us that this was indeed a possibility, given the subsequent controversy over it I don’t know.”

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Another EMT named Mike who wished to remain anonymous wrote in a letter to the Loose Change film crew that emergency responders were told Building 7 was about to be “pulled” and that a 20 second radio countdown preceded its collapse.

“There were bright flashes up and down the sides of Building 7, you could see them through the windows…and it collapsed. We all knew it was intentionally pulled… they told us,” he stated.

Following news reports in the days after the attack that Building 7 had collapsed due to fire damage, Mike fully expected this mistake to be corrected after the chaos had subsided, but was astonished when it became part of the official story.

Mike’s report of a countdown preceding the collapse of WTC 7 was backed up by Former Air Force Special Operations for Search and Rescue, Kevin McPadden, who said that he heard the last few seconds of the countdown on a nearby police radio.

In addition, the language used by firefighters and others at ground zero shortly before the building fell strongly indicates that the building was deliberately demolished with explosives, and not that it fell unaided.

“It’s blowin’ boy.” … “Keep your eye on that building, it’ll be coming down soon.” … “The building is about to blow up, move it back.” … “Here we are walking back. There’s a building, about to blow up…”

Photo and video evidence of the collapse of Building 7 shows classic indications of a controlled demolition. The standard ‘crimp’ in the center-left top of the building and the subsequent ’squibs’ of smoke as it collapses clearly represent explosive demolition.

Veteran news anchor Dan Rather shared the view that the building looked like a controlled demolition during news coverage of the event on CBS.

Several news agencies, including the BBC and CNN, reported that the building had already collapsed 26 minutes and as much as over an hour before it actually fell.

Footage broadcast 20 minutes before Building 7 fell shows BBC reporter Jane Standley talking about the collapse of WTC 7 while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head. A Separate BBC broadcast shows reporters discussing the collapse of Building 7 26 minutes before it happened.

Just about every sentence of Shapiro’s hit piece is contradicted by numerous other eyewitnesses, so his feigned righteous indignation in ranting, “I was there. I know what happened, and there is no single credible piece of evidence that implicates the United States of America in the Sept. 11 attacks,” fails to ring true.

However, the most damning aspect of the article is Shapiro’s inadvertent revelation that Larry Silverstein was on the phone to his insurance company pushing for the building to be demolished, which is precisely what happened later in the day, and as innumerable eyewitnesses as well as video footage and physical evidence prove, the collapse of WTC 7 could have been nothing else than a controlled demolition, which would place Silverstein’s $500 million insurance payout in severe jeopardy if ever acknowledged.

Shapiro’s testimony, intended to debunk questions surrounding the official story behind 9/11, has only succeeded in raising more, because it completely contradicts Larry Silverstein’s insistence that he never considered deliberately demolishing WTC 7 with explosives.

Obama Says Talk Radio is “Troublesome”

Published on April 2, 2010 in NEWS. 0 Comments

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 2, 2010

After shooting hoops for the cameras, Harry Smith of CBS asked Obama his thoughts on talk radio. Smith said a lot of people consider him a “socialist” and even a “Nazi” and asked the president if he is aware of this.

“Well, I think that when you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, it’s pretty apparent, and it’s troublesome, but keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out,” Obama responded. “It happens often when you’ve got an economy that is making people more anxious, and people are feeling like there is a lot of change that needs to take place. But that’s not the vast majority of Americans. I think the vast majority of Americans know that we’re trying hard, that I want what’s best for the country.”According to CBS, Obama said “both Democrats and Republicans have a responsibility to tone down the rhetoric, but that much of it has to do with the current media environment in which extreme comments are echoed in the blogosphere.”

In other words, the problem is not so much establishment talk radio hosts like Limbaugh and Beck but the internet and alternative media. Obama wants the “blogosphere” (corporate media shorthand for alternative media) to “tone down the rhetoric,” that is to say follow the rules on discourse established by the government. Americans have a “responsibility” to be polite and wait for the corporate media to get around to interviewing them for fifteen second sound bites. Critics of a predatory and ever-expanding federal government are expected to sit on their thumbs and wait for hell to freeze over.

It is an understatement to say “you’ve got an economy that is making people more anxious.” In fact, the hijacked and looted economy is making them increasingly angry and moving them toward political action.

Large and growing numbers of Americans understand that Obama and Congress do not have their best interests in mind. The Obama administration is filled to the brim with insiders and bankster operatives like Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner. Obama’s economic team is headed up by a former Federal Reserve mob boss, Paul Volcker, who has said the American people need to do with less. Obama’s State Department is staffed with Trilateralists and CFR members who believe in and work for world government.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

During the election Obama insisted he is a man of the people. His “change” mantra fooled millions. Obama said he would get rid of the corporate lobbyists but on the day after the election (only hand-picked contenders like Obama and John McCain were allowed to participate) he gathered together K Street insiders behind closed doors for a question and answer session (translation: corporations gave Obama his marching orders).

Obama said he would bring home the troops and put an end to torture. He said he would close Gitmo. Instead he expanded the number of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. He invaded Pakistan and killed countless civilians. He ordered a “surge” (in the killing of civilians) in Afghanistan. Obama promised to put an end to the practice of issuing executive orders but continued the practice of ignoring the will of Congress. In fact, he signed one the day after taking office. He left untouched illegal and unconstitutional government surveillance of the people. Obama and Congress left the Patriot Act in place. Obama continued the Bush legacy (as Bush continued the legacy of his predecessors). He added to this noxious legacy by cranking up the national debt (owned to bankers) to a historically unsustainable and stratospheric level. He marshaled a “health care” bill that will intrude at gunpoint on the privacy and medical decisions of every single American.

But we are not expected to get angry about any of this. We are expected to sit down and shut up. Obama wants us to “tone down the rhetoric.” Instead of taking to the streets and protesting against tyranny, we are expected to attend government orchestrated town hall meetings where questions for bureaucrats are submitted in advance and vetted by officialdom.

Obama’s hoop shooting propaganda stunt with corporate media crown jewel CBS will not convince those of us angry about authoritarian government shredding the Constitution and trampling the Bill of Rights and expanding government power at every turn to sit down and shut up.

The outrage will continue. Both Democrats and Republicans will feel the wrath come the midterm elections — that is if there will be elections in November. Never underestimate the will of tyrants and their minions and executioners to frustrate the will of the people.

Finally, Obama is not a Nazi or a Socialist. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out what he really is — a cigar store Indian for the ruling elite and the bankers. Obama is a front man who does the bidding for our globalist rulers. He is the public relations spokesman for international banks and transnational corporations. Obama’s job is to shoot hoops and look confident and come off as if he is in control while the real controllers pull the strings from behind the curtain.

10 NATIONAL INFLATION ANSWERS TO THE CURRENT US ECONOMY

Published on March 27, 2010 in NEWS. 0 Comments

We would like to provide you right now with the 10 most important NIAnswers that we have recently added to our database. Please take the time to read and enjoy!

1) Is there any kind of signal to look out for that would indicate that hyperinflation is close, or will it just all of a sudden happen one day and catch everyone off guard?

We see many signals that hyperinflation is almost here already. The price of gold has been rising to record nominal highs. Stocks have been rising despite rapidly deteriorating fundamentals. College tuition and health care costs are surging to astronomical levels. Social security is now paying out more money than it takes in. Our budget deficits are reaching record highs. Our national debt growth is rapidly accelerating. China is diversifying out of their U.S. treasury holdings.

Hyperinflation can literally occur at any time now. It will catch most people off guard, but not NIA members because we see all of the signals that the mainstream media is ignoring. It is important for us to prepare as if hyperinflation will be here tomorrow.

2) What do you think about the recent appreciation in the U.S. dollar?

The U.S. dollar index has only been rising because it is heavily weighted against the Euro. With the debt crisis in Greece, many investors have been shorting the Euro, which has caused the U.S. dollar index to rise. However, the price of gold has held strong around $1,100 per ounce, which shows the U.S. dollar in reality hasn’t been appreciating in value at all.

3) What has happened in other countries when an ‘inflationary holocaust’ wreaks havoc on pricing? Will the (broke) government actually rescind the outrageous “gains” taxation and just print more money?

During historical instances of hyperinflation, the inflation took place so fast that governments funded over 99% of their spending with money printing and less than 1% through taxation.

Let’s say for example you had a car that you purchased new for $20,000 and you decided to scrap it for $50,000 worth of metal. The government might force you to pay taxes on the $30,000 fantasy profit. However, if you merely delayed paying that income tax for a few months, it’s possible inflation will be taking place so quickly that you will now be able to sell an old beat up pair of shoes for $50,000. Therefore, paying the tax, assuming there still was one, wouldn’t be a problem at all.

4) Can you please explain how NIA estimates the real rate of inflation to be approximately 3-4% higher than what is indicated by the CPI index?

The government purposely understates inflation through the CPI index because social security and other programs adjust to the CPI index, and they want to keep payment increases for these programs as low as possible.

The CPI used to account for inflation a lot more accurately, but many revisions have been made over the years. Through geometric weighting, the CPI index today gives a lower weighting to goods that are rising in price and a higher weighting to goods that are dropping in price. They justify this by saying that if the price of steak rises, Americans are more likely to eat something that is dropping in price like hamburgers.

The government also now uses hedonics to understate inflation. Hedonics account for the increased pleasure of using goods. For example, if an oven increased 25% in price but is now more “energy efficient” the government can say the price didn’t actually gain at all. Also, if the government mandates that new safety features get added to cars and car prices rise by 10%, they can say because the cars are now safer, the price didn’t rise at all.

Between the geometric weighting and hedonics changes, the CPI index understates inflation by approximately 7% compared to the way inflation used to be calculated. However, some respected economists believe the old way of calculating inflation slightly overstated inflation so NIA is being conservative with our estimates that real inflation is about 3-4% higher than what’s reported by the CPI index.

5) China needs the U.S. to purchase their products. Do you really think their economy will grow without selling their products overseas?

The only reason the U.S. can afford to purchase cheap products from China is because the U.S. is exporting inflation to China and China is allowing the U.S. to run huge trade deficits. When China stops artificially propping up the U.S. dollar and allows their currency to strengthen, the Chinese will be able to afford to consume their own goods that they produce. They don’t need Americans to consume goods that they are perfectly capable of consuming themselves.

6) Do the other countries have to buy our debt or face the wrath of our military?

We don’t believe this is true, because if other countries stop buying our debt we won’t be able to afford our military. Our military is bankrupting our country and one of the main reasons we have such large deficits that will eventually lead to massive price inflation. The world does not need our military to police it. Countries like China can afford their own militaries a lot more cost effectively.

7) With the current size of our national debt, is deflation even possible?

The U.S. is the most indebted nation in the history of the world with a national debt of $12.7 trillion, Fannie/Freddie debts of $6.3 trillion and unfunded liabilities of more than $60 trillion. Our real debts are now about 600% of GDP and it will be impossible to pay them back. The U.S. will either default on its debt or print its way out of it, creating massive inflation.

Because we believe the U.S. is unlikely to admit it can’t pay back its debts, inflation is clearly the solution. We don’t see any risk of deflation long-term.

The mainstream media talks about deflation because they see through a rear view mirror. They see some prices having fallen after the financial crisis of 2008, but they don’t realize there were temporary forces driving prices down due to artificial forced liquidations and excess inventories that needed to be worked off.

When the artificial pressures holding prices down are gone, all that will be left is the trillions of dollars of newly printed money in circulation that will chase goods and services all at once.

What good would it be to elect a few select people to the Senate like Rand Paul and Peter Schiff? Shouldn’t we focus our energy and efforts on changing the entire system?

We believe the system is corrupt because of the Federal Reserve and its ability to manipulate interest rates and create phantom money out of thin air. Before the creation of the Federal Reserve, the value of our currency was stable and we did not have the booms and busts that we do today.

In our opinion, the system our founding fathers created would work if we only followed the Constitution. The creation of the Federal Reserve and all of the actions of the Federal Reserve are unconstitutional.

We need to do more than elect a few select people to Washington. We need to replace everybody in Washington with people who will work to protect the Constitution. If everybody in Washington was like Ron Paul, our country would not be on the verge of a hyperinflationary crisis like it is today.

It is because of the mainstream media and how they brainwash Americans, that Congress is full of people who are clueless about the economy and the root cause of all our problems. With the Internet, the mainstream media is slowly losing its power and our hope is that an increasing percentage of Americans will see our documentaries and learn to think for themselves instead of electing politicians based on what the mainstream media tells them.

9) If no governments currently back their currency with gold then why do they still hoard it?

Even though there are no currencies that are still convertible into gold, gold is real money and it is important for central banks to hold gold in order to protect the value of their foreign exchange reserves.

The average country has about 10% of their foreign exchange reserves in gold. However, China currently only has 1.5% of their foreign exchange reserves in gold and they have most of their reserves in U.S. dollars. Due to the massive monetary inflation taking place in the U.S., China’s reserves are at risk and it is important for them to diversify out of their U.S. dollars and accumulate more gold.

Although the U.S. has the largest gold reserves at 8,133.5 tonnes, which makes up 68.7% of its foreign exchange reserves, the value of the U.S.’s gold and other reserves is nothing compared to its $12.7 trillion national debt plus Fannie/Freddie debt and unfunded liabilities.

10) Don’t you think the short U.S. dollar/long gold trade is too crowded for it to work?

In December when everybody was bearish on the U.S. dollar, we predicted a short-term really in the U.S. dollar index in early 2010 and we were right. Today, everybody is bullish on the U.S. dollar and bearish on the Euro. Soon traders will be forced to reverse their trades and the U.S. dollar will plummet. With interest rates at 0%, it will be impossible for gold prices to crash. There is simply way too much excess liquidity in the system. The average American is still more likely to be selling their gold than buying it. There are still more Americans looking to invest into Real Estate foreclosures, than precious metals. We have a dollar bubble, not a gold bubble.

The National Inflation Association

http://inflation.us

It is important to know that we are not investment or financial advisors. NIA’s web site and newsletter are meant for informational and educational purposes only and should not be used to make investment decisions.

Published on March 12, 2010 in Health News. 0 Comments

Thursday, March 12, 2010

Natural Solutions Foundation Health Freedom Action eAlert!
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Will Senators Harkin and Hatch Sell-out Supplements?

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McCain and Dorgan Continue to Attack Dietary Supplements…

Battle Rages: Make your voice heard!

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

The recent apparent demise of Senator McCain’s bill, S.3002, which was designed to kill access to high potency supplements, was trumpeted in the health freedom world as a triumph. We urged caution, saying that while Senator McCain’s abandoning his own bill sounded good, we were quite certain that the dangerous provisions of the bill would be incorporated into Senator Harkin’s S. 510, a genuine food fascism bill. Many said, as they usually do, that we were alarmist and had missed the point of this triumph.

Well, unfortunately, the Natural Solutions Foundation was on target again. Earlier today a letter was released from Senators McCain and Dorgan, sponsors of DSSA (that’s pronounced “DISS-sa” as in “disappoints”) the so-called “Dietary Supplement Safety Act” S.3002. This letter to Senators Harkin and Hatch confirmed in writing what had been rumored for a few days: they were abandoning their ill-considered bill to gut the law that protects Americans’ access to high potency nutrients, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). That law was adopted by a unanimous Congress responding to strong pressure from the Health Freedom Movement. The McCain/Dorgan bill has just died due to very powerful PUSH BACK from a more mature and even more effective Health Freedom Movement, led by over 390,000 emails to the Senate and decision makers through Health Freedom USA’s Action Item. Sounds like a triumph for the pro health freedom forcers, right?

But this battle for the survival of high potency nutrients is not over yet. The letter asks Harkin and Hatch to import some of the worst provisions of S.3002 into another pending fake “safety” bill, S.510… literally imposing the Codex Alimentarius “approved dietary supplement list” instead of the consumer’s right to choose, protected in current law. Remember, the United States is the ONLY high potency nutrient country in the world. The globalizing forces have long had their eyes set on the destruction of this legally granted freedom to choose high potency nutrients, each of which cuts into the huge profitability of Big Pharma products. Each of these dangerous bills is designed to control more and more of your freedoms around food and supplements and, finally, control them out of existence.

This battle is between your freedom to control your own body and how you use it and those who take all such freedom from you. It is, truly, the “Mother of all Battles” wth regard to supplements and other dietary strategies to be well or get that way.

Read more about this development here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4805

Critically Important Action item: Continue to send messages to your Senators:

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

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Push Back Is Working!

Push Back Turns to Take Down: India bans Food Crop GMOs!

India has had enough of GMO contamination. Suiciding farmers by the dozens of thousands and the lack of real science showing that GMO foods are safe (plus the science showing that they are not safe) are enough for India . Watch this brief video and then ask yourself why we cannot dfo at least as well.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/02/india-defies-monsanto-says-no-to-gmo-crops.html

Now take this Indian solution and ask yourself why we cannot replicate this bold and vitally protective action elsewhere in the world. Of course we can! Take this Action Item once for every member of your family and then send it on to everyone you can reach and ask them to do the same
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

^{What’s so wrong with GMOs beside causing cancer, infertility, HIV/AIDS, damage to GI, liver, kidneys, death of babies in utero, and auto immune diseases? Well, how about the CIA’s cozy and long term ties to Monsanto and vice versa? Click here}http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=238&id2=113 ^{to read how they are knotted together. Do you really want the CIA running your food system? I certainly do not.}

FDA Creates an Ear Candle Ban!

Natural Solutions Foundation Action Item Says, “Back Off, FDA!”

Tell the FDA to BACK OFF! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2521

Have you ever tried an Ear Candle? It is a pleasant experience and some say a curative one. Be that as it may, this relaxation tool is one of the many choices that you might want to make to follow a healthy and natural health path. But the FDA has decided that NOW is the time to ban them in the total absence of any substantiation of any kind. Make no mistake: this is not about cones of wax through which you might relax your body. The battle is about your freedom to make your choices your way today, tomorrow and the next day. This is the same battle as the one that is being waged in the Senate against your right to choose nutrients for your health and the one against your access to clean, healthy food. Today it is Ear Candles. Tomorrow it could be a massage tool or a herbal nutrient or tomatoes you grow in your own back yard, corn without GMO genes, etc.

The next day? Who knows? Only the globalists and their minions.

Consider: the FDA has decided to ban Ear Candles. No one has ever died from ear candles. There are 5 adverse event reports about Ear Candles.

Meanwhile the FDA routinely approves dangerous drugs that kill over 150,000 Americans annually, when properly prescribed. five adverse event reports in ten years are apparently sufficient to deny adults their right to engage in this traditional relaxation technique. We say “NO!” to yet more Nanny State interference in our private lives!

Natural Solutions Foundation is entering a Citizens Peititon, which is a law suit against the FDA, for taking this draconian and irrational step.

Read more here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4790

Use our Action Item to tell the FDA to BACK OFF! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2521

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The Dr. Rima Network … Are YOU Cognitively Enhanced?
www.DrRima.net

Our Natural Solution Foundation’s own Dr. Rima E. Laibow MD, is one of our foremost natural physicians and environmental doctors. She practiced drug-free psychiatry and medicine in New York for decades. She is now the Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation and oversees its Natural Solutions Center for Wellness in the temperate, bountiful, beautiful Highlands of Chiriquí Province, just outside the quaint town of Volcan, Panama.

Through the Dr. Rima Network, www.DrRima.net, report, we are distilling her work, presented to you over the past several years of these Health Freedom Action eAlerts, in one place where you can benefit from what Dr. Rima Recommends in these difficult times. There, she’ll help you find the high quality nutrients and remedies you need, and which may not be easily available otherwise. So we invite you to join in this private expressive association activity by visiting the new site often and watch it grow. If you want a personal consultation with her, just fill in the on-line questionaire, http://www.luceleaf.com/DrRimaNet/DRN-Quest.php, and you’ll be on your way to a private medical conversation with Dr. Rima!

The latest news on the Health Freedom front is that FDA has ordered the traditional relaxation remedy Ear Candles off the market! This was done several days ago by determination letters issued, claiming this simple relaxing method is a “medical device!” Check the Dr. Rima Network over the next few days… we will be adding Ear Candles, Natural Solutions Ear Candles, to what you can find on the site!

You probably know that the Natural Solutions Foundation has created an innovative and very important porject to reclaim the production of food world-wide and establish a community around that activity which will include all of the natural aspects of a healthy community. One of those aspects is a health service system with a facility called the Natural Solutions Center.

Three days a week, we will hold seminars at the facility. The other four days a week we will practice natural health care for local, ex pat, national and international people who want to experience, learn or teach, these health care techniques. What will we do there?

Please take a few moments to look at our Outline for TherapeuticProtocol for services, http://www.luceleaf.com/DrRimaNet/DRN-Protocol.php at Dr. Rima’s Natural Solutions Center in Chiriqui, Panama. www.DrRima.net

You might also want to think about how you would like to use the services of the Natural Solutions Center and contact us for more information: dr.laibow@gmail.com

This is what we call Push Back with Your Dollars!
Dr Rima Recommends Messages

Remember, every purchase supports YOUR health freedom.

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Cognitive Enhancement… It’s Mind Control, All Right: You Control Your Own Mind!

General Bert and I continue experiencing extraordinary results with our Cognitive Enhancement Pack (me) and Senior Cognitive Enhancement Pack (Gen. Bert) which are literally astonishing. Last week we made a quick trip to the Northwest to speak to several thousand people, and the feedback we’ve received is that we were “on top of the game” and held the attention of all those present. That takes focus, attention and acuity… and that’s the benefit of Cognitive Enhancement!

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4558 or www.DrRima.net

I know supplementation and neurological enhancement very, very well. I have never seen (or experienced) anything like this. You know how busy we are; how much we rely on our ability to multitask and react quickly to challenges…

The name says it all: COGNITIVE. ENHANCEMENT.

That’s the story, in two words.

Here are the other two words to the story: Try Them!

Dr. Rima’s Cognitive Enhancement Packs:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4558

Or visit our new Dr Rima Recommends Network link,
www.DrRima.net

for links and more images of these amazing products. And don’t forget our other important virtual store links:
www.Organics4U.org and
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketplace.org

Remember, the EPA and FDA are, in a separate action, trying to take nano and colloidal silver off the market, just as the European Food Supplements Directive has succeeded in doing there as of January 1, 2010. The goal is to “HARMonzie” our freedoms with their restrictions. They have succeeded totally in Europe. Silver for health is now an illegal substance there.

Why? Because silver is the universal antibiotic and would destroy a vast pharmaceutical market (over used in both animals and people and very, very dangerous!) if enough people knew about it. After investigation, I personally recommend the Silver Biotics nano silver available at: www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions

Support your health and your health freedom
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http://www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org or
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Urgently Important: Health Freedom Action eAlert Action Items -

Health Freedom Movement turning “Push Back” into “Take Down” – And Natural Solutions Foundation is Leading the Way, As Always! And after taking the Action Items below once for every member of your household, please send this email to every person you can reach asking them to take action and then pass it on in the same way. After all, everyone eats so this is everyone’s battle. We’re making this issue “go viral”: that’s how we turn “Push Back” into “Take Down!”

We are pleased to report that a number of health freedom groups who are, generally, so fragmented and ineffective that they trip all over each other, are once again taking their cue from our Action Items and offering a Citizens Petition for Health Freedom. We say: “Good for them! And Good for us all!” We believe that the Globalist agenda must die the “death of the thousand cuts” and that every opposition to it is one of those cuts. Therefore, in addtion to taking our Food and Supplement Freedom Action Item,

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

Our new Ear Candle Petition to the FDA:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2521

Our urgent call to Ban ALL GMOs immediately,

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

We urge you to also take this new Action Item to sign the Health Revolution Petition, created by other members of the Health Freedom world. The more voices, the bigger the swell -

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2352

And for any of our supporters who are involved in the Tea Party, we’ve started a new forum on the Tea Party ning.com web site. We’d appreciate your comments on the forum, since an active forum will be noticed by others and we hope to show the Tea Party that “Health Freedom is Our First Freedom” since without it, our other freedoms cannot be enjoyed. so, just as we engaged with Change.org during the transition between presidential administrations, we seek to open a dialogue with these people too.

http://teapartypatriots.ning.com/forum/topics/health-freedom-is-our-first

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Featured Videos

What do you call it when Robert Wanek, a high school student, is physically assaulted by a teacher, and then suspended by his school for handing out literature about vaccine hazards when his school is holding a free vaccine clinic? Fascism? Police State? Tyranny? Oppression? I say, “All of the above”. The other side is weak enough so that they respond in irrational fear and oppression when legitimate challenges to their propaganda and distortions. Thank you, Robert!

How do you turn Push Back into Take Down? You bring millions of people together. How do you do that? One person at a time! The following is a short – and very important – video on Leadership: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ&feature=player_embedded

If you need a reminder of why Sen. McCain’s S. 3002 (or its replacement, S.510) is such a good ploy to get nutrient restrictions matching Codex into the US, watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P30Itrfhn8o

and recall that these Nutrient Reference Values are supposed to tell consumers what they need of a particular nutrient on labels first and then they will become the maximum permissible upper level. How low are they? Low enough to mandate under nutrition which guarantees increased chronic, deadly degenerative diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity just as we have been warning was the next step since 2005.

But just exactly what is Codex? How does it work and what are its vulnerabilities? Watch “Rome Codex Deconstruction”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyo_VjJSVFo

And where did it come from? If you have not yet seen the video “Nutricide”, now would be a good time to learn where the genocidal Codex program came from. Hint: “From convicted genocidalists, of course!)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634&ei=WxiTS5-cDpK8qgKFzrzbAg&q=nutricide

You can purchase your own copy here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/store/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=1192, along with the Codex eBook.

Brain in a whirl? Does it feel like it is all too much? Is age taking a toll on your memory or that of someone you care about?

You must watch Gen Bert and Dr Rima on “Cognitive Enhancement”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FL3SKYVEwE

Then try these amazing products. I personally KNOW how amazing they are. You may find that you are amazed after trying them. Find them at www.DrRima.net.

And, last, but certainly not least, here is the news that you have been waiting for: The exceptional 2010 Health Freedom War Council is now available for download. If you have already paid to attend this webinar, you will be getting your link in just a few days! If you do not want to miss out on this exceptional opportunity, click below, donate $99 and we will send the link to you:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

If you have attended or donated to receive the webinar and are still waiting for it, let us know. Write to dr.laibow@gmail.com with WEBINAR as the subject line and let us know the details.

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Good News from Eco Demonstration Project

And one more thing: The Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org, is all about reclaiming the production of clean, unadulterated food on a global basis. We chose Panama for a multitude of reasons, including its political stability, its social stability and its financial stability. There is a wide spread interest in clean, unadulterated food here, among both the English speaking and the Spanish speaking communities. The diversity of growing eco niches and micro climates means that the growing conditions of most of the world are represented here, making farm classrooms meaningful for teaching farmers from all over the world how to grow food without dangerous chemicals. For example, take our Valley of the Moon Coffee. Please. Once you do, you will be brewing yourself a cup of what coffee experts tell us is the finest coffee they have ever tasted, free from GMOs, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides or any other “cides”. Shouldn’t health freedom have its own Friendly Food Certified Coffee, friendly to the workers, the environment and you, the consumer? We think so! And shouldn’t you know about it, drink it and give it as a special gift? http://www.ValleyfotheMoonCoffee.org

Eco Project Update – Read More here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4798

Is Your IRA Safe from
US Government Confiscation?
Certainly NOT!

But there is another reason for talking about the Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project right now. And that is money. You see, the US Government has announced that it is accepting comments on taking your IRA and 401 retirement funds and converting them to fixed income annuities with a 3% yield “guaranteed” by the failing, flailing US Treasury. Middle-class Americans’ last asset base [since the equity in our homes is gone] will be raided like the Social Security “Trust Fund” has been raided… to fund more government waste!

The Natural Solutions Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Panama Natural Solutions Foundation, is a legitimate offshore investment vehicle for those funds (and any others you might want to have offshore, such as personal funds, trust funds, family investment funds, church or other nonprofit funds). Offshore investment is an option which will not, we believe, be available much longer now that the US economy has been gutted and the last pool of what passes for real money, your retirement funds, is about to be stolen out of your future.

In addition to producing Health Freedom’s Own Coffee, the wonderful, smooth and delightful Valley of the Moon Coffee, we are also entering the process of generating our own BeyondOrganic, BioDynamic food for our use and for the use of our customers here in Panama and elsewhere. We are nearing completion of our Natural Solutions Center (with its wellness and seminar programs): we’ll let you know about our Grand Opening Celebration and our Seminar Schedule as soon as we have firm dates! Meanwhile, I can tell you that I feel much better having invested my own IRA offshore in a project with such a strong future.

If you are interested in any of our many types of participation in changing the face of food and freedom around the world, and living in a sustainable community with like minded people, you are invited to check out -

www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org and contact us at dr.laibow@gmail.com with VOTM as your subject line.

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Next Codex Meeting, May 3-7, Will Discuss Dietary Supplements… and GMOs. Do You Want Us There?

Your recurring donation is 100% tax deductible, and urgently necessary. We have nearly 300,000 supporters. If everyone donated what they could on a monthly basis, we would have the resources we need to wage the battle for your health freedom in the Mother of All Battles currently being fought at Codex, in the Senate, the House and the White House. Please give generously. http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

Oh, yes, one other thing: we are getting ready for the next Codex meeting. The Codex Committee on Food Labeling takes place from May 3-7, 2010 in Ottawa, Canada. If you want us there, you need to send us there.

$630 per person, Economy Class for 3 people = $1890
Accommodations: $ 1509.79 US (simple bed and breakfast 8 blocks from meeting – we walk)
Food: $75.00 per person for 3 persons, does not include hosting delegates for meals $150
Incidentals like printing (documents we give to delegates, for example) not included

So we are asking you, through recurring small or large donations, to send us to Codex for you. By the way, if you want to come along, you are welcome! Just let us know and we will fill you in on what, when and where.

Can we afford that? Collectively, yes, we can.

Can we afford NOT to afford that? Collectively, no we can not.

Click here to make your tax deductible donation to make sure that your eyes and ears are at this important Codex meeting.

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

You’ll have a video report each day, and our written reports as well.

There are nearly 300,000 people on this list. The math of activism is pretty simple.

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The Dr. Rima Reports: Your Health, Your Way

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Dr. Rima Reports – Sunday, March 14, 2010 7-9 PM EST
Guest: Catherine Frompovitch Talks About Her Critically Important Book,
“Our Chemical Lives And The Hijacking Of Our DNA”
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You asked for better sound quality so we switched from the internet broadcast on www.TheFreedomLink.org to www.blogtalkradio.com/freedomizerradio

Please visit our good friends at www.TheFreedomLink.org often.

Check out our Dr. Rima Reports Archives,
http://www.thefreedomlink.org/Dr_Rima_Reports.php

Jim Fulsom: Speaking Truth to Corrupt Power Requires More Voices to Shout!
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4805136

Paul G. King, PhD: Think vaccine schedules are just for children? Think again!
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4626763

Sarah Schons, MD: European Health Fascism Heading to the US
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4197979

Justin Plumlee: Health Freedom – Does It Include Medical Marijuana?
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4116404

Fred van Liew: Health Freedom and Health Freedom Foes
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3793748

The Dr. Rima Reports brings you information on the issues we must respond to, battles we must win, victories we must achieve.

And remember, please try to attend the American Rally for Personal Rights:
Vaccine Choice, Parental Consent – May 26, 2010, Chicago
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4693

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow MD
Natural Solutions Foundation

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www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
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Thursday, March 12, 2010

This Issue:

1. McCain and Dorgan Still Attacking Supplements
2. New Action Item: Preserve Public Access to Ear Candling
3. Other Action Items: GMOs, etc.
4. Dr Rima Network Recommends: Cognitive Enhancement
5. Featured Videos
6. The Next Codex Meeting
7. Good News from Panama
8. Dr. Rima Radio – this Sunday evening

McCain and Dorgan Continue to Attack Dietary Supplements…

Battle Rages: Make your voice heard!

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

The recent apparent demise of Senator McCain’s bill, S.3002, which was designed to kill access to high potency supplements, was trumpeted in the health freedom world as a triumph. We urged caution, saying that while Senator McCain’s abandoning his own bill sounded good, we were quite certain that the dfangerous provisions of the bill would be incorporated into Srenator Harkin’s S. 510, a genuine food fascism bill. Many said, as they usually do, that we were alarmist and had missed the point of this triumph.

Well, unfortunately, the Natural Solutions Foundation was on target again. Earlier today a letter was released from Senators McCain and Dorgan, sponsors of DSSA (that’s pronounced “DISS-sa” as in “dissapoints”) the so-called “Dietary Supplement Safety Act” S.3002. This letter to Senators Harkin and Hatch confirmed in writing what had been rumored for a few days: they were abandoning their ill-considered bill to gut the law that protects Americans’ access to high potency nutrients, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). That law was adopted by a unanimous Congress responding to strong pressure from the Health Freedom Movement. The McCain/Dorgan bill has just died due to very powerful PUSH BACK from a more mature and even more effective Health Freedom Movement, led by over 390,000 emails to the Senate and decision makers through Health Freedom USA’s Action Item. Sounds like a triumph for the pro health freedom forcers, right?

But this battle for the survival of high potency nutrients is not over yet. The letter asks Harkin and Hatch to import some of the worst provisions of S.3002 into another pending fake “safety” bill, S.510… literally imposing the Codex Alimentarius “approved dietary supplement list” instead of the consumer’s right to choose, protected in current law. Remember, the United States is the ONLY high potency nutrient country in the world. The globalaizing forces have long had their eyes set on the destruction of this legally granted freedom to choose high potency nutrients, each of which cuts into the huge profitability of Big Pharma products. Each of these dangerrous bills is designed to control more and more of your freedoms around food and supplements and, finally, control them out of existance.

Read more about this development here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4805

Critically Important Action item: Continue to send messages to your Senators:

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

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Push Back Is Working!

Push Back Turns to Take Down: India bans Food Crop GMOs!

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/02/india-defies-monsanto-says-no-to-gmo-crops.html

Now take this Indian solution and ask yourself why we cannot replicate this bold and vitally protective action elsewhere in the world. Of course we can! Take this Action Item once for every member of your family and then send it on to everyone you can reach and ask them to do the same
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

^{What’s so wrong with GMOs beside causing cancer, infertility, HIV/AIDS, damage to GI, liver, kidneys, death of babies in utero, and auto immune diseases? Well, how about the CIA’s cozy and long term ties to Monsanto and vice versa? Click here} http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showConnection.php?id1=238&id2=113^{to read how they are knotted together. Do you really want the CIA running your food system? I certainly do not.}

FDA Creates an Ear Candle Ban!

Natural Solutions Foundation Action Item Says, “Back Off, FDA!”

Tell the FDA to BACK OFF! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2521

The next day? Who knows? Only the globalists and their minions.

Consider: the FDA has decided to ban Ear Candles. No one has ever died from ear candles. There are 5 adverse event reports about Ear Candles.

Natural Solutions Foundation is entering a Citizens Peititon, which is a law suit against the FDA, for taking this draconian and irrational step.

Read more here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4790

Use our Action Item to tell the FDA to BACK OFF! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2521

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The Dr. Rima Network … Are YOU Cognitively Enhanced?
www.DrRima.net

Our Natural Solution Foundation’s own Dr. Rima E. Laibow MD, is one of our foremost natural physicians and environmental doctors. She practiced drug-free psychiatry and medicine in New York for decades. She is now the Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation and oversees its Natural Solutions Center for Wellness in the temperate, bountiful, beautiful Highlands of Chiriqui Province, just outside the quaint town of Volcan, Panama.

Through the Dr. Rima Network, www.DrRima.net, report, we are distilling her work, presented to you over the past several years of these Health Freedom Action eAlerts, in one place where you can benefit from what Dr. Rima Recommends in these difficult times. There, she’ll help you find the high quality nutrients and remedies you need, and which may not be easily available othewise. So we invite you to join in this private expressive association activity by visiting the new site often and watch it grow. If you want a personal consultation with her, just fill in the on-line questionaire, http://www.luceleaf.com/DrRimaNet/DRN-Quest.php, and you’ll be on your way to a private medical conversation with Dr. Rima!

Please take a few moments to look at our Outline for TherapeuticProtocol for services, http://www.luceleaf.com/DrRimaNet/DRN-Protocol.php at Dr. Rima’s Natural Solutions Center in Chiriqui, Panama. www.DrRima.net

You might also want to think about how you would like to use the services of the Natural Solutions Center and contact us for more information: dr.laibow@gmail.com

This is what we call Push Back with Your Dollars!
Dr Rima Recommends Messages

Remember, every purchase supports YOUR health freedom.

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Cognitive Enhancement… It’s Mind Control, All Right: You Control Your Own Mind!

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4558 or www.DrRima.net

Dr. Rima’s Cognitive Enhancement Packs:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4558

Or visit our new Dr Rima Recommends Network link,
www.DrRima.net

for links and more images of these amazing products. And don’t forget our other important virtual store links:
www.Organics4U.org and
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketplace.org

Support your health and your health freedom
at the same time with Valley of the Moon Coffee,

http://www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org or
http://nsfcoffeedeal.com

GMO Free, Pesticide Free, Herbicide Free

Brought to you from the
Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project
Volcan, Chiriqui, Panama

www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org

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Urgently Important: Health Freedom Action eAlert Action Items -

Health Freedom Movement turning “Push Back” into “Take Down” – And Natural Solutions Foundation is Leading the Way, As Always! And after taking the Action Items below once for every member of your household, please send this email to every person you can reach asking them to take action and then pass it on in the same way. After all, everyone eats so this is everyone’s battle. We’re making this issue “go viral”: that’s how we turn “Push Back” into “Take Down!”

We are pleased to report that a number of health freedom groups who are, generally, so fragmented and ineffective that they trip all over each other, are once again taking their cue from our Action Items and offering a Citizens Petition for Health Freedom. We say: “Good for them! And Good for us all!” We believe that the Globalist agenda must die the “death of the thousand cuts” and that every opposition to it is one of those cuts. Therefore, in addtion to taking our Food and Supplement Freedom Action Item,

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

Our new Ear Candle Petition to the FDA:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2521

Our urgent call to Ban ALL GMOs immediately,

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

We urge you to also take this new Action Item to sign the Health Revolution Petition, created by other members of the Health Freedom world. The more voices, the bigger the swell -

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2352

http://teapartypatriots.ning.com/forum/topics/health-freedom-is-our-first

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What do you call it when Robert Wanek, a high school student, is physically assaulted by a teacher, and then suspended by his school for handing out literature about vaccine hazzards when his school is holding a free vaccine clinic? Fascism? Police State? Tyranny? Oppression? I say, “All of the above”. The other side is weak enough so that they respond in irationale fear and oppression when letitimate challenges to their propaganda and distortions. Thank you, Robert!

How do you turn Push Back into Take Down? You bring millions of people together. How do you do that? One person at a time! The following is a short – and very important – video on Leadership: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ&feature=player_embedded

If you need a reminder of why Sen. McCain’s S. 3002 (or its replacement, S.510) is such a good ploy to get nutrient restrictions matching Codex into the US, watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P30Itrfhn8o

But just exactly what is Codex? How does it work and what are its vulnerabilities? Watch “Rome Codex Deconstruction”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyo_VjJSVFo

And where did it come from? If you have not yet seen the video “Nutricide”, now would be a good time to learn where the genocidal Codex program came from. Hint: “From convicted genocidalists, of course!)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634&ei=WxiTS5-cDpK8qgKFzrzbAg&q=nutricide

You can purchase your own copy here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/store/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=1192, along with the Codex eBook.

Then try these amazing products. I personally KNOW how amazing they are. You may find that you are amazed after trying them. Find them at www.DrRima.net.

If you have attended or donated to receive the webinar and are still waiting for it, let us know. Write to dr.laibow@gmail.com with WEBINAR as the subject line and let us know the details.

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Good News from Eco Demonstration Project

Eco Project Update – Read More here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4798

Is Your IRA Safe from
US Government Confiscation?
Certainly NOT!

www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org and contact us at dr.laibow@gmail.com with VOTM as your subject line.

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Next Codex Meeting, May 3-7, Will Discuss Dietary Supplements… and GMOs. Do You Want Us There?

Click here to make your tax deductible donation to make sure that your eyes and ears are at this important Codex meeting.

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

You’ll have a video report each day, and our written reports as well.

There are nearly 300,000 people on this list. The math of activism is pretty simple.

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The Dr. Rima Reports: Your Health, Your Way

TUNE IN Every Week! Sunday 7-9 PM Eastern at
www.blogtalkradio.com/freedomizerradio

Dr. Rima Reports – Sunday, March 14, 2010 7-9 PM EST
Guest: Catherine Frompovitch Talks About Her Critically Important Book,
“Our Chemical Lives And The Hijacking Of Our DNA”
Note New Time, New URL Address
www.blogtalkradio.com/freedomizerradio

You asked for better sound quality so we switched from the internet broadcast on www.TheFreedomLink.org to www.blogtalkradio.com/freedomizerradio

Please visit our good friends at www.TheFreedomLink.org often.

Check out our Dr. Rima Reports Archives,
http://www.thefreedomlink.org/Dr_Rima_Reports.php

Jim Fulsom: Speaking Truth to Corrupt Power Requires More Voices to Shout!
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4805136

Paul G. King, PhD: Think vaccine schedules are just for children? Think again!
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4626763

Sarah Schons, MD: European Health Fascism Heading to the US
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4197979

Justin Plumlee: Health Freedom – Does It Include Medical Marijuana?
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4116404

Fred van Liew: Health Freedom and Health Freedom Foes
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3793748

The Dr. Rima Reports brings you information on the issues we must respond to, battles we must win, victories we must achieve.

And remember, please try to attend the American Rally for Personal Rights:
Vaccine Choice, Parental Consent – May 26, 2010, Chicago
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4693

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow MD
Natural Solutions Foundation

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