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Monday, May 28th, 2007 -Time is running out for Stephen Barrett (quackwatch.com) and Terry Polevoy  (Canada's low-budget, with garish colors, version of Barrett).  They've got until about June 3rd, 2007 to come up with $433,715.93 in bonds - $264,311.68 for Polevoy alone, and $169,404.25 from Barret and Polevoy, and hand them to the Judge in an Alameda County, California Courthouse.  Or else.

If, and when, they don't do that, (and I don't expect them to do this), they're pretty much "toast," and the brutal court ordered "Collection Process" will begin in earnest.  Asset seizures, bank account grabs, forced sale of properties, garnishment of wages and accounts, etc. all will play a role in the coming days. 

Frankly, it will all be great fun to watch.

By Charles G. Brown, National Counsel, Consumers For Dental Choice

Monday, May 21st, 2007 - The tipping point against mercury fillings, my friends, has arrived.  A dentist magazine surveyed its dentist readers, and finds that 52% of American dentists now are mercury-free.  www.toxicteeth.org/Mercury%20survey.pdf   Wow.  

This new dentist majority brings colossal ramifications upon America ’s protectors of mercury fillings -- the American Dental Association and the Food and Drug Administration.  

ABC Coding Solutions launches eClaim.biz

 By Edward Johnson, PhD , President ABC Coding Solutions

Monday, May 21st, 2007 - A Note to US Health Care Practitioners - After years of coding and system development, legal logic research, wrangling with our federal Department of Health and Human Services, and politicking, ABC Coding Solutions has launched eClaim.biz, the tool that ties together the code and logic into a seamless system.  

ABC has done their share of work to help you; now we ask you to step up to the plate and help solve our US healthcare crisis. You are trained, you are experienced, many of you are licensed – why aren’t you part of the solution? 

Gerson Documentary Humiliates "Quackbusters"...

Monday, May 21st, 2007 - I almost spilled my cup of jasmine tea,  I was laughing so hard.

I had just been viewing the first part of a DVD video documentary called "Dying to Have Known," and  I had to stop the thing right there, and rewind, to see if what I had just seen really had happened.  Yup, it did.  So I stopped it again, went and got my wife Jan and said "You've got to come and watch this."  It's worth re-playing again and again.

Codex Adventures in Ottawa

By Cheri Tips - Executive Director - National Health Federation (NHF)

Thursday, May 10th, 2007 - 35th Session of the Codex Committee on Food Labeling (Ottawa, Canada)   April 30 - May 4, 2007

The National Health Federation (NHF) has International Nongovernmental Organization (INGO) observer status at all Codex Alimentarius meetings and represents the interests of health-conscious consumers.  There were numerous countries and other INGOs present, interested in various matters from labeling of genetically-modified foods to the labeling of organic foods. Importantly, too, the subject of the FAO/WHO's Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity, and Health was discussed. 

Does aspartame multiply female MS? - New Study report at Neurology Conference...

By:  Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder - Mission Possible International

Monday, May 7th, 2007 - About 400,000 people in the US are victims of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a horrible autoimmune disease that devastates the central nervous system.

At the American Academy of Neurology’s annual meeting, Dr. Gary Cutter, professor of Biostatistics at the University of Alabama, said women are now four times as likely as men to get multiple sclerosis: “It started at two-to-one and is now four-to-one.”  Researchers found the ratio of women-to-men is increasing by about 50 percent each decade.

The increase is more pronounced in younger people with young women especially contracting it at an accelerating rate.  

The Mushroom Cloud that caused Autism

Opinion by: Kenneth Stoller, MD, FAAP with Anne McElroy Dachel

In the first article in this series on autism, a mercurial finger was pointed at the high level of mercury children received from their vaccines and the huge upswing in the autism rate. It was noted that the background level of mercury pollution from coal-fire power plants and other sources (such as dental amalgam) was so high that one in every six women in the US has a level of mercury in her body high enough to affect her children’s health.  The cost to society of these affected children amounts to billions of dollars annually, and the ultimate cost of caring for all those disabled will cost trillions. Lastly, the point was made that this isn’t so much about autism as it is about the future of human life on this planet if we don’t stop mercury pollution.

Concerning the issue of autism, the press has failed to present both sides in the heated debate over a possible link between vaccines and this devastating disorder.  The last word is often given to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, without any mention of the vast web of conflict of interest ties between CDC employees and the pharmaceutical industry.

The studies produced by the CDC and others haven’t ended the controversy.  The results from published population studies come under attack each time officials think they have the convincing science to settle the issue.

Court Orders Quackbusters Barrett and Polevoy to Post $433,715.93 Bond...

.Thursday, May 2nd, 2007 - The "quackbuster" organization is learning a very HARD lesson about the reality of the US legal system.  And, I'm very pleased. 

They're learning, in the most humiliating, and financially devastating way, that US Courts don't want the system abused to harass those that the "quackbusters" don't like. 

In the Barrett v. Clark case, today, an order was issued for Plaintiffs Terry Polevoy MD, and Stephen Barrett MD, to come up with a grand total of $433,715.93 in bonds - $264,311.68 for Polevoy alone, and $169,404.25 from Barret and Polevoy - within thirty days. Barrett runs the questionable website "quackwatch.com."  Polevoy is kind of the Canadian low-budget copy of Barrett, with garish colors.

US Supreme Court Upholds "Ongom"  - Quackbuster "Plan of '96" Foiled...

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 - The New York ad agency that actually runs the US "quackbuster" operation has to be, this week, taking extra blood-pressure medication, avoiding telephone calls from angry clients demanding to know why the "Plan of '96" isn't going to work as promised, anymore.

Why?  Because the State of Washington took the "Ongom" decision to the US Supreme Court and that Court UPHELD the Washington Supreme Court decision.  This is very good for cutting-edge heath professionals, and very bad for those trying to stop innovation in health care.

For years, nationwide in the US, State Health Boards (Medical, Dental, Chiropractic, Psychology, Physical Therapy, etc.), and others, would get offers from the "quackbuster" scam operation to "help them prosecute cutting-edge health practitioners - for a fee."   The "package deal" would include services to help set up the case, write the formal "Accusation" in the most flaming language possible, distribute the "Accusation," with commentary, to the Press so as to ruin the practitioner publicly,  and testify as an "expert witness" in the hearing.  For the "quackbuster" front-men it became quite a lucrative cottage industry.

Throwing children into oncoming traffic: The truth about Autism

By: Kenneth Stoller, MD, FAAP with Anne McElroy Dachel

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 - I have been a practicing pediatrician for over 20 years. I saw my first child with autism in the early 90’s – before that I had never seen an autistic child, and I never saw an autistic child in all my years at school. The boy was 4 years old and you could see the frustration in his face as he wanted to speak but nothing intelligible would come from his mouth except shrieks of anguish.  

As I studied his tortured face, it was as if there was an old time telephone switchboard operator inside his head trying to plug in the correct phone cables but not being able to complete the call. This family had known me from an old practice I worked at in another city, but they had traveled to see me because they trusted me and were looking for answers that no one seemed to have for them, but I too had no answers and I could see the mom was greatly disappointed. After the family left my office I poured over a few dusty textbooks and wondered if I had just seen a very rare disorder, a disorder that affected one child in 10,000 children…autism.  

I had been involved in pediatrics for a decade by the time I saw this boy and it wasn’t as if I had no experience working with rare disorders. I had been able to identify a boy with Fragile-X syndrome and his mom ending up starting the Fragile-X support group at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.  

I had noticed there was a strange upswing in children with attention disorders and impulsivity problems. I wasn’t a neurologist, but had studied with one of the finest at UCLA. While I was still a pediatric resident I spent time in his office where he helped me study the parade of unusual maladies that was starting to afflict children. I considered myself a closet neurologist, because that was what I had really wanted to specialize in – not pediatrics, but during my neurology rotation in medical school I learned some discouraging news. The attending neurologist, whom I greatly admired, had taken me on rounds for the first time and I watched him brilliantly explain to the family of a stroke patient how he had figured out where in the brain the blood clot had lodged. Then he stood up and walked out of the room and I asked him what therapy he was going to prescribe for the patient so he could recover from his stroke, “therapy?” he said, “there is no therapy.”  

Pennsylvania Dental Board Approves Cavitat Device, NICO - Dumps Quackbusters...

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007 - Public agencies have relied on the "quackbuster" operation for expertise in health care issues far too long.  The time when an agency could fly some "quackbuster" bozo in for a hearing, have them testify to nonsense for a few hours, and stuff them back on a plane, fat check in hand, with the sure knowledge they had a "win" is long gone.  The State of Pennsylvania Chief Counsel's office and the Pennsylvania Dental Board found that out the hard way, over almost a three year period, in the "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Stephen R. Evans, DDS" case. 

The case, which began in 2003, upon the complaint of one of the "quackbuster" nitwits, dragged through Administrative hearings, Superior Court, and back to Administrative hearing, then finally found its way back to the Dental Board - with Orders from the Superior Court AND an Administrative Law Judge to decide, completely, and unarguably, on behalf of the Respondent Stephen R. Evans DDS.

US FDA:  Maybe It's Time for the Hercules Solution...

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 - In Greek mythology, Aegeas, the king of Elis, had a vast herd of cattle.  The stables in which they were kept hadn't been cleaned in 30 years. By then it was impossible to clean them and the resulting stench was unbearable.  Hercules, who had been assigned 12 stupendous tasks ("the Labours of Hercules") to be performed in atonement for a crime he had supposedly committed, came on the scene. One of those tasks was to clean the Aegean stables. Hercules did the job in one day by diverting a river to flow thorough the King’s stables.

The phrase "clean the Aegean stables" now means to clear away an accumulated mass of corruption – physical, moral, ethical, legal...

The stench at the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is unbearable.  The FDA, designed to regulate certain industries in the US, has been taken over, in its entirety, by those industries, who operate the agency for their own benefit.  There is no argument against this statement.    At FDA the tail is wagging the dog.  Americans are being regulated by industries.  It's the way it is.

Quackbuster Attorney "Suffers the Consequences"...

Sunday, April 8th, 2007 - The US "quackbuster" operation, perhaps one of the slimiest groups on Planet Earth, sank to a new low this last few weeks when they, apparently, abandoned their own attorney, Christopher Grell, leaving him, perhaps, in financial, and professional ruin. 

Hundreds of pages of Court documents show the depth of Grell's desperation.

This coming Tuesday, April 11th, 2007, at 2:00PM, a hearing will be held in Oakland Superior Court in California to determine Grell's ability to pay the costs of his, and two "quackbuster" manipulators, delicensed MD Stephen Barrett, and Canadian pimple doctor Terry Polevoy's failed courtroom assault.  Court documents indicate that neither Barrett nor Polevoy, outspoken throughout the case, are willing to pay their share of the Court imposed costs.  My estimates show that the trio might have to pay out about $200,000 in legal fees to their victim/Defendant Ilena Rosenthal and her legal team. 

Courts Seize "Quackbuster" Bank Accounts, Property...

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007 - A few days ago, Christopher Grell, one of the Plaintiffs, and the attorney for the Plaintiffs Stephen Barrett and Terry Polevoy , filed an emergency Ex Parte Motion with the Alameda, California Trial Court in the Barrett v. Clark (Rosenthal) case asking for a Temporary Restraining Order preventing Defendant Rosenthal from collecting attorney fees awarded to Rosenthal by the Courts.  The Court denied the Motion,  and "collection" has begun in earnest.

Rosenthal, you will remember, in a six year legal battle, soundly thrashed the trio all the way to the California Supreme Court.  Rosenthal, the head of the Humantics Foundation, a group pointing out the dangers of silicone breast implants, had been sued by the trio in 2000 where they claimed she was some sort of conspirator supposedly defaming them on the internet.  Rosenthal, in her answer to the suit, filed a Motion to Dismiss the suit against her claiming that the trio's action constituted a violation of California's anti-SLAPP law.  The Court agreed, dismissing the case against Rosenthal, and awarded her attorney fees.

The Barrett v. Clark (Rosenthal) case garnered international notice when virtually ALL of the big names on the internet jumped in on Rosenthal's side, filing "Friend of the Court" Briefs on Rosenthal's behalf.  You can read all about that by clicking on "Quackbusters CRUSHED by California Supreme Court..."

But the really good part of all this, the one that makes me smile broadly, is that California's anti-SLAPP law, designed for just this sort of situation, worked just like it was designed.

Ten US Senators say:  "We want to fix health care NOW..."

Thursday, February 15th, 2007 - Ten US Senators, two days ago, wrote a bi-partisan letter to President George W. Bush saying:

"Each of us believes our current health system needs to be fixed now. Further delay is unacceptable as costs continue to skyrocket, our population ages, and chronic illness increases. In addition, our businesses are at a severe disadvantage when their competitors in the global market get health care for “free.”"

I'm going to say this once again - Nobody even tries to hide the fact that the US Health Care System is broken beyond repair.  There is a lot of finger-pointing going on, as well there should be.  The US health care system costs too much, it's the top three killers of Americans, and Americans don't trust it.  It simply doesn't work.

Who's fault is this?  Blame lies solidly with the management of the US Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS).  Current management is incapable of dealing with health care problems.  It has set up a US Health Care system that doesn't work, and has no chance of ever working.

Why is this happening?  Because Congress gave DHHS authority over the "structure" of US Health Care and DHHS management can't see "the big picture".    Every day we sink deeper into the hole.

Why is the US Health Care System Failing? - Incompetent Management at DHHS...

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 - Nobody even tries to hide the fact that the US Health Care System is broken beyond repair.  There is a lot of finger-pointing going on, as well there should be.  The US health care system costs too much, it's the top three killers of Americans, and Americans don't trust it.  It simply doesn't work.

Who's fault is this?  Blame lies solidly with the management of the US Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS).  Current management is incapable of dealing with health care problems.  It has set up a US Health Care system that doesn't work, and has no chance of ever working.

Why is this happening?  Because Congress gave DHHS authority over the "structure" of US Health Care and DHHS management can't see "the big picture".    Every day we sink deeper into the hole.

When you are incapable of identifying the problem - you cannot provide solution. DHHS management has been told, repeatedly, what the problem is.  They just don't get it.

We can solve America's health problems quickly if we just do a house cleaning at the top of DHHS.  It was Laurence J. Peter, in his book "The Peter Principle" that pointed out to all of us that "in a hierarchy everyone rises to their level of incompetency."  That's clearly obvious at DHHS.

Quackwatch "Defamation" Verdicts Could Reach Many Tens of Millions of US Dollars...

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007 - Delicensed MD Stephen Barrett, of quackwatch.com infamy, announced to his followers (Barrett's Parrots) last week that: "During the next few days, my sites will be changing servers. It's possible that the healthfraud list will be disrupted during the switch."

Barrett critics are concerned about this situation - for several reasons.  The questions are: (1)  Is Barrett moving his quackwatch.com, etc., servers out of reach of the US Court System after recent Courtroom losses?   (2) Is Barrett moving his quackwatch.com, etc., servers out of reach of the US Court System after the  barrage of newly files legal actions naming him, and his, as the Defendants? (3)   Is Barrett moving his servers out of US Court Jurisdiction to avoid answering legal demands for "discovery" of information on his websites?

All of the above are possible, but even more likely is this:   Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have "Terms of Service" requirements.  Every one I've ever seen has rules about not defaming others.  Barrett's ISP may simply have ousted him, and his sleazy quackwatch.com offering, when Barrett refused to remove the offensive material.

Anti-Quackwatch "Defamation" Litigation ROARS Forward...

Thursday, February 1st, 2007 - It's not easy, these days, being a "quackbuster."   What with the (1) public humiliation surrounding recent High Court decisions (2)  rejection by the US Court System of "quackbuster" "expert witnesses," (3)  pointed questioning of "quackbuster" credentials  (3) internet, and other successful public challenges, of the quacker's activities, and much more, the "quackbusters"  have really fallen on hard times.

The "quackbuster"  flagship, the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF), sank beneath the waves in 2003, after the NCAHF lost several lawsuits in California including (1)  the NCAHF v. King Bio case - where delicensed MD Stephen Barrett and Wallace Sampson MD, the author of the presumptuous "Scientific Review of alternative and Aberrant Medicine" were officially declared to be "biased, and unworthy of credibility,"  (2)  in a separate action the NCAHF was tagged with over $100,000 in attorney fees they can't pay, and (3)  The NCAHF lost their 501C(3) non-profit status in California. 

It appears that, now, the NCAHF is run out of  cardboard box in the back room of Robert Baratz's, it's President-For-life, hair removal salon in Peabody, Massachusetts.  Apparently, no NCAHF Board meetings have been held since 2003 - and there are none planned.

But those problems seem to be just stage dressing for the beleaguered group.  It's the currently lawsuits filed against them, and those they can't extricate themselves from, that tell the real story - and they tell the story with flair.

Quackbusters "On the Ropes?"...

Friday, January 26th, 2007 - Top "quackbuster"  Robert S. Baratz MD, DDS PhD was forcibly removed as a witness in a California case recently after it was pointed out to the State of California that Baratz was a not quite what he claims to be.  Cases all over the United States, originally initiated by "quackbusters" , are being dropped by State agencies - like hot potatoes. 

Why?  Probably because "the word is out" about the "quackbusters"  - and no State agency, and certainly no individual medical or dental board member wants the personal liability attached to using fake witnesses.  It was probably the Massachusetts v. Satloff case, and its outcome, where the Massachusetts Dental board called special meetings to drop all charges against Satloff that started the decline.  In that case Satloff sued the Dental Board, the State prosecutor, the Administrative Law Judge, and others for violating his right to due process for using Baratz as a witness..  When confronted with the reality the Massachusetts State Dental Board called two separate special meetings canceling the case and promising never to come after Satloff again.

In Washington State, as you read this, health activists are storming the Governor's office, the State Auditor's office, and the State legislature, demanding explanations, and details about, the State's relationship with the "quackbuster"s.   Legislators are responding with new legislation to protect cutting-edge practitioners. 

Quackbuster Citadel Crumbling - They Face Massive Litigation...

Sunday, December 31st, 2006 - The conventional healthcare system in the US, rated 72nd in quality but first in cost by the World Health Organization, (WHO) and declared in the authoritative study "Death by Medicine" to be the number one killer of Americans is finally beginning to suffer the consequences of its policies.

 Americans are challenging, not just the concept of "five minute medicine," but the absurdity of the "drugs, drugs, and more drugs," approach to dealing with health issues.

Everywhere in the land, the health care system is being challenged.  State legislatures, like California and others, are so fed up with the greedy-maw-with-trash-offering of organized health-care, that many are considering forcing health care into State-run systems, in an attempt to force some honesty and integrity into the morass.  Consumer groups across America are railing over health issues, loudly, proclaiming their anger at vaccinations infested with pollutants and toxins, deadly radioactive fluoride in their water, testing of their children in schools to justify forced drugging, and more.

There is a major revolution brewing in the US, and the pot is at boil.  There is no question America is angry - and well it should be, for the rip-off has been of major proportion, and its time to point fingers and issue arrest warrants.

Washington State Supreme Court SMASHES Quackbuster "Plan of '96"...

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 - The Washington State Supreme Court, in its wisdom, a few days ago (December 14th, 2006), literally, for all time, smashed the New York ad agency run "quackbuster" operation's effort to use individual State Administrative hearings to destroy innovation in health care in favor of the "drugs, drugs, and more drugs"  medical monopoly.  The sleazy "Plan of '96" has been thwarted.

Cutting-edge health professionals around the US can breathe a sigh of relief, for the method of attack derived from the filth-encrusted "Plan of '96" has been declared to be unacceptable by the High Court.  And, State Supreme Court decisions carry weight in every area of the US.

I'm proud to be a member, and a leader, in the North American Health Freedom Movement (NAHFM).  In the thirteen years I've been active I've seen massive wins against which might, at one time, have seemed like insurmountable odds.  The movement has so many victories, almost daily, they can't all be nationally documented.  There are, simply, so many activists charging at issues I couldn't begin to meet with all of the groups. 

Quackbusters Under MASSIVE Attack in Washington State....

Sunday, November 26th, 2006 - Years ago the people of Washington State passed legislation protecting their cutting-edge health practitioners from the constant attacks wrought on them by the "status quo."  The people of Washington, quite rightly, decided that the "drugs, drugs, and more drugs" paradigm was woefully inadequate, and they set up the mechanism to allow much better health offerings.  Washington's "Health Freedom Law" was, for years the envy of other States.  It created laws that said:

California Legislature Votes to Kill the Health Insurance Industry....

Sunday, November 26th, 2006 - There is a war on in the United States over health care.  On one side is the "status quo" represented by the medical monopoly, the pharmaceutical industry, the health insurance carriers, and an entrenched bureauracracy wholly beholden to, and run by, the people they are supposed to regulate. 

The US system, according to the World Health Organization, is rated 72nd in quality, but number one in cost, worldwide.  The "Death by Medicine" study shows that the system itself is the number one killer of Americans.  The number two and three killers of Americans are heart disease and cancer, diseases which those of us outside of the "status quo" know are curable, and preventable - but those cures and preventive treatments are being suppressed by agents of the "status quo."

On the other side is a beleaguered America simply trying to find ways to survive

Tim Bolen - Where've You Been?...

Opinion by Consumer Advocate  Tim Bolen 

Monday, November 23rd, 2006 - I've received a lot of inquiries about my newsletter's absence over the last several months.  Where've I been?  Right here, trying to figure out who, and how, someone was messing with my newsletter broadcasts - and what to do about it. 

Activist groups across America - beware.  This is going to happen to you. 

I've had several VERY IMPORTANT articles to broadcast for months now - and I suspect I was blocked because of those articles.  It wasn't that big of a secret that I was working on these exposes.  A lot of people knew. 

In short, one of the strangest, and most "secret" groups I've ever come across, a group I call "the Ku Klux Klan of the internet," decided to block my broadcasts because they didn't like what I had to say.  They decided to falsely label me as a  "spammer" so that tens of thousands of Internet Service providers (ISPs) would block my broadcasts to my subscribers. 

Anger in Indiana - The "Cal Streeter" Story Batters State...

Monday, June 26th, 2006 - On May 31st, 2006, in this newsletter, I revealed some details about a project I've been working on for a while.  In that article, called the "The Cal Streeter Story..." I talked about "one of the most important cases in US healthcare, an assault, and a turning point..."

The "Cal Streeter Story" is ripping health care regulation apart in Indiana - and it needs to be ripped apart.  A few months ago, for instance, an Indiana Court ordered the State Medical Board, using VERY STRONG language, to restore Streeter's license to practice medicine IMMEDIATELY.  The Board, clearly defying the Indiana Court, waited a full ninety days (90) to restore the license, then filed an Appeal with the State Appellate Court over the restoration order. 

The State Appeals Court rejected the Medical Board's appeal rather abruptly - refusing, as it were, to even look at the Board's case, making it clear that, no matter what the Board, itself, thinks, or wants, "the law is the law..."

So, in the end, what this means is that, the Indiana State Medical Board had absolutely no right, what-so-ever, to even question Cal Streeter's ability to practice medicine over the issues they presented.  The Indiana Courts have spoken. 

But now, in response, the PEOPLE of Indiana are beginning to speak loudly.  And, the questions they are asking are all about "how" this happened to their doctor, and "who" was it that abused the Indiana regulatory system, "what" was it they actually did to manipulate the system, "where," exactly did this manipulation take place.  Most importantly, the question "why" comes to the forefront - as in "who gained" from this anti-Streeter action - and THAT question-line is just beginning.

US HealthCare System Implodes - "Health Freedom" is Here...

Thursday, June 8th, 2006 - The US healthcare system  is falling in on itself, and it is about time.  Change is in the air, and it won't take long.  Rated 72nd in quality worldwide - but number one in cost, it has become the number one killer of Americans. 

American industry, quietly, over the last few years, took the Bush Administration by the throat, so-to-speak, and demanded, and got, legislation moving consumer health choices out of the hands of the mega-greedy health insurance industry and into the hands of those same consumers.

US Industry did this, not just to put a stop to the health insurance industry's "low quality at high price" offerings, but to protect US Industry's ability to compete in a world market, keep its US employee base, and, frankly, stop the outright destruction of the US economy by runaway health, and health insurance costs.

This is a huge victory for the large, and powerful, "North American Health Freedom Movement."

The "Most Dangerous Woman in America - (to the Medical Establishment)" to Speak in Chicago...

Sunday, June 4th, 2006 - The "most attacked" proponent of change to the "drugs, drugs, and more drugs" medical paradigm, scientist and author Hulda Regehr Clark PhD, is the primary speaker, Saturday (10:00am, and Sunday 10:00am), with an additional three hour "laboratory workshop" on Sunday afternoon at the Health Freedom Expo Convention in Chicago, June 9th, 10th, and 11th, 2006.  Clark will be doing book signings in her booth at the Expo.

Attendees need not be overly concerned about "quackbuster"  attacks on Clark at the Expo.  Full security will be in effect, and anyone interfering with Clark and her participants will be held for the police.  Charges will be filed.  As you know,  on several occasions, mentally unstable(?) "quackbuster"  minions have attempted to interfere with Clark, but each time they have been thwarted.

Quackpot Stephen Barrett "Mugged" Again - in Hometown Court...

 Monday, April 17th, 2006 - Delicensed MD Stephen Barrett, author of the questionable website "quackwatch.com," lost another Court case this last month.  Barrett is on a long Courtroom losing streak.

Barrett's bigoted comments about cutting-edge health care offerings have caused concerns among health industry leaders for years - and now those leaders are reacting..  Barrett has been embroiled in, seemingly, one Court action after another.  Those court actions included two separate actions where he was named as a participant in Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) charges. 

The recent case though, wasn't an assault against Barrett, it was a Pennsylvania Court's rejection of a lawsuit filed by Barrett against one of his detractors. 

Barrett claims to be a "retired Psychiatrist," but Court records show he was never able to pass the testing requirements to be Board Certified in that specialty.  Barrett is not licensed to practice Medicine in any State, and has not been allowed to do so since 1993.  More importantly - Barrett is not licensed to practice Naturopathy in any State either - and by his own admission, has not completed even the basic requirements to be registered in that field.

A few years ago, Barrett sued leading US Chiropractor Tedd Koren for allegedly "defaming Barrett."  The Court ruled against Barrett, tossing out the case.  The Judge in that case publicly remonstrated Barrett, "I'm saying this to the parties, and particularly to you Dr.Barrett.  I notice you are talking to your lawyer while I'm talking.  And I would suggest to you that you would be better off if you listen to me, for afterwards you will have plenty of time to talk."

The "Cal Streeter" Story...

Tuesday, May 31st, 2006 - I'm about to tell you about one of the most important cases in US healthcare, an assault, and a turning point - the prosecution of a Northwestern Indiana cutting-edge Doctor of Osteopathy, Wilbert C. (Cal) Streeter. 

Although few have ever heard of the Streeter case, it, of itself, and of its result, make it a landmark.  The case began, roughly, in 1996, as the result of certain pressures put on the government by the nefarious "quackbuster"  operation, and it is still going on - but has taken an entirely different, and interesting turn. 

The case is interesting to the powerful North American Health Freedom Movement because it was THE CASE,  I believe, that was supposed to be the "model case" to be used against all "Alternative Medicine" practitioners nationwide.  But since the case pretty much died on the vine, so to speak, the "model" was dropped, and although the tactic was used in a few places - it wasn't continued. 

"Big Pharma" Owns Their Regulators - But Not For Long...

 Wednesday, March 15th, 2006 - Health Canada, North America's "North of the border" version of the US FDA, has, so far, spent two million dollars ($2,000,000.00) prosecuting a Canadian based nutritional supplement company, Truehope International, to collect a five hundred dollar ($500.00) fine.

Yup,  you read that right.  Health Canada has spent, so far, two million bucks to get a five hundred dollar fine. 

More amazing is that they probably won't be able to collect the fine, because they are in Court over it right now - and they, and the Health Canada employees involved in this fiasco, will get personally sued, by Truehope, for their efforts.  And, they SHOULD be personally sued... 

So, what's this all about?  It's about "the role" of Health Canada, and the US FDA.  Most North Americans believe that those agencies are in existence to regulate the drug industry - because that's what "we the people" set them up to do.  But, that's not what's really happening. 

"Quackbusters" Crushed in Massachusetts Dental Case...

 Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 - The "quackbuster" operation in North America, run out of a New York ad agency,  took another broadside last month in Massachusetts when the Massachusetts Dental Board called, not one, but two, "special meetings," both to dismiss, with prejudice, all seven charges against cutting-edge Dentist David Satloff.  The attempt to use a State agency in a "fake" prosecution to eliminate "Holistic Dentistry," and/or "Biological Dentistry" failed.

Charges had been brought against Satloff by the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) president Robert S. Baratz who claims to be a combination MD, DDS and PhD.  Baratz was, also, the only person to testify against Satloff - and he testified for nine full days.  I estimate Baratz was paid $125,000 for his testimony by the State of Massachusetts.  Baratz testified in an earlier hearing that he has never, actually practiced Dentistry.  He also claimed to be a "spokesperson" for the American Dental Association, and a consultant to the US FDA.

During Baratz's testimony, interestingly, Baratz testified for six-and-one-half hours on his reasons why David Satloff improperly installed a dental bridge in a patient's mouth - in great detail.  On cross-examination it was revealed that Baratz, who graduated from Dental school in1974, had never actually installed a dental bridge himself, and had never even seen one installed.  When asked how he could testify as an "expert" on this subject he replied "I researched it."

It was also revealed that Baratz had, since 1974, only worked in a Dental office for one two-and-a-half week period, shortly after graduation - and never since then.  When asked how he could qualify as an "expert" to testify in dental cases, he replied that "testifying WAS his practice of Dentistry."

So, how did this happen?  Good question.

Why Corretta Scott King went to a Mexican Clinic...

 Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 - There is no question that the extremely profitable US cancer industry provides absolutely ZERO hope, for US patients, against cancer.  I don't think there is anybody in the US that believes the absolute drivel promoted by the American Cancer Society (ACS), a group that has come, not to represent "the fight against cancer," but more as a "spokesperson for the rip-off cancer industry."

A few months ago the American Cancer Society publicly whined that they had done a survey and found out that about half of the American public believed that there really were cancer cures available and that those cures were being suppressed by the industry because the non-cures were so profitable...

Well, I hate to be rude here, but, in street language, I'd have to say about this "no shit, Sherlock.."  What surprises me is that only about half of the US has figured that out.

US health care, rated seventy-second (72) in quality, worldwide, despite a massive public relations campaign, is losing ground with the American public.  I think it is just a matter of time before the American Cancer Society goes into full-security mode, concerned about drive-by shootings from gang members, and drug dealers, who became aware of the ACS's role in withholding adequate cancer care from the mother that raised them...

It's not fun watching your loved ones die from conventional cancer treatments.  The treatment is worse than the disease.

US Internet "Free Speech" Tightly Controlled by Secret Group... 

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 - American citizens think, wrongly, that the internet is a place where they can somewhat freely express their opinions about social issues important to them. But they are dead wrong  - for there is an internet company, based in London, England that continuously monitors internet traffic - and if that company, or any of its members, or its customers, don't like what an American is saying on the internet, they can, and will, shut down that person's access to the internet.

Surprised?  Don't be. 

Controlling internet access, and preventing "free speech" is a despot's dream come true - for it has been the internet, for some time now, that has provided the means for social activists on important issues to communicate, not only with each other, but with the media and the public.

The internet has, basically, changed the way people communicate worldwide.  Everyone knows that, on the internet, you can type out a  message to someone, "CC" it to any number of friends at all corners of the Earth, and in seconds you can get responses.

But that's over.  Those social activists are being identified by a British company called Spamhaus for its customers,  and barriers and blocking devices are being put in place to block communication between activists,  groups, and the American public.  So far, Spamhaus has taken sides on several issues, and despite the fact that the US is a "free speech" nation, Spamhaus openly states on its website "we don't care what US laws say..."

American citizens think, wrongly, that the internet is a place where they can somewhat freely express their opinions about social issues important to them. But they are dead wrong  - for there is an internet company, based in London, England that continuously monitors internet traffic - and if that company, or any of its members, or its customers, don't like what an American is saying on the internet, they can, and will, shut down that person's access to the internet.

Surprised?  Don't be. 

Controlling internet access, and preventing "free speech" is a despot's dream come true - for it has been the internet, for some time now, that has provided the means for social activists on important issues to communicate, not only with each other, but with the media and the public.

The internet has, basically, changed the way people communicate worldwide.  Everyone knows that, on the internet, you can type out a  message to someone, "CC" it to any number of friends at all corners of the Earth, and in seconds you can get responses.

But that's over.  Those social activists are being identified by a British company called Spamhaus for its customers,  and barriers and blocking devices are being put in place to block communication between activists,  groups, and the American public.  So far, Spamhaus has taken sides on several issues, and despite the fact that the US is a "free speech" nation, Spamhaus openly states on its website "we don't care what US laws say..."

Americans Flee to India, and Elsewhere, for Better Health Care...

Saturday, January 7th, 2006 - According to the newspaper "Times of India," 150,000 people, mostly from the United States, went to India last year for Medical care.  Called "medical tourism" the numbers are growing at 15% per annum and by 2012, that "medical tourism"  is expected to generate $2.3 billion annually in India. As one representative of an Indian Hospital,  Anne Marie Moncure, MD, of Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, says, "Every year, 98,000 patients die in US hospitals due to medical negligence and three to four times that number are left permanently-disabled."

The United States Medical Care system, rated a poor seventy-second (72nd), worldwide, has been teetering on the brink of destruction for years now.  Greed, malfeasance, misfeasance, grand corruption, murderous intent, and a self-centeredness unequaled in history has led the system to the abyss. The system, the most expensive in the world,  according to the authoritative study "Death by Medicine," IS THE NUMBER ONE KILLER OF AMERICANS.  Above heart disease, cancer and stroke, the medical system, itself, is responsible for the unnecessary deaths of 783,936 Americans EVERY YEAR.  There are no estimates of how many are damaged or disabled by it.

American Dental Association Shmucked in Chicago .....

 Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 - 2005 has not been a good year for the American Dental Association (ADA).  

And that's good... Congratulations, are in order, for all of you that helped make that happen.  

There are those in North America that believe that the ADA, and their dental policies, positions, and statements, are responsible for a significant part of the constant health problems inflicted on Americans.  I'm one of those. 

Take the "mercury amalgam" issue, for instance.  The ADA would have you believe that those tooth fillings they, and they alone, call "silver fillings," even though they contain 52 to 54% mercury, are SOMEHOW not dangerous in your mouth.  Even though Federal law clearly classifies those fillings as "toxic," and requires special handling before they are installed, and when they are being removed - but SOMEHOW, without any scientific data backing their claims - the ADA claims those fillings are safe in your mouth. 

And, they'll sell  you some swampland, too.

Nine Percent Approval Rating?  US Network Television News FAILS "Big Pharma"...

Saturday, December 10th, 2005  - In 1999 "Big Pharma" went to the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and got permission to advertise drugs, drugs, and more drugs directly to the American consumer.   Their intent, as it became obvious, was two things: (1)  sell more drugs to the American consumer, and, (2) control the media, especially US television..

TV network news, it appears, got the lion's share of advertising dollars.  I estimate that 55% percent of all advertising during the News Hours are paid for by "Big Pharma."  More, about a third of the entire newscast, itself, is focused on how wonderful your "local drug peddler" actually is.  Almost every night a new wonder drug (snort) is presented, that will absolutely save humanity - and, of course, this never actually happens.  Network TV news is just about ALL advertising hype - with the occasional brainless "car chase - endlessly documented by the 3.5 million dollar ($3,500,000) network helicopter."

Television News departments have sold out for the money - there is no doubt about that.  Even more, the networks, beyond the news features, couldn't go even part of a season without another boring TV series about life in a hospital - without ever mentioning that those same hospitals are the number one (#1) killer of Americans, ahead of heart disease and cancer.

Yes, US television has sold out to "Big Pharma."   There is no doubt about it.  But, the question is "Did TV do 'Big Pharma' any good?"  And the answer is "no, it did not..."  and, we can all laugh about that.

What do I mean "no, it did not..?"  There's an easy answer - in two parts: 

"Health Freedom Wins" Increase Worldwide...

Monday, November 28th, 2005 - "Health Freedom" is winning everywhere.  Everywhere, that is, where strategy and tactical teams have taken the time to organize, make a plan, execute the plan, etc.  Winning against "Big Pharma," and their sleazy minions, is becoming embarrassingly easy.

Canadian "Health Freedom" Wins a BIG ONE...

Friday, November 25th, 2005 - The Canadian "Health Freedom" movement spells the word "AGGRESSIVE" in all capital letters.  A few years ago concerned citizens from all across Canada gathered together and decided, like Californians, that they wanted "the best health care they could get - and they wanted it RIGHT NOW..."

What they do not want is a "Big Pharma" controlled "drugs, drugs, and more drugs" based health care system.

Because of their decision to (1) identify problems, (2) identify possible solutions, (3) make plans, (4) execute plans, (5) review situation, etc., the Canadian movement is far ahead of the US group in terms of GOAL achievement.  They have a plan - and they're working it - HARD.

Good for them.

I'm not going to go into the details of their plan - for it is specially designed for Canada, and the specific situation in Canada. For now, I'll just focus on their current victory.  In short, strange as it may sound, they lost(?) a battle because the other side surrendered.

Huh? 

Yup.  They lost a battle (C-420) because the other side surrendered.

Health Freedom Protection Act (HR 4282) Introduced Into US Congress...

Sunday, November 13th, 2005  - The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) was originally designed to serve the needs of the American public. 

Of course, these days, it does no such thing - it is owned, outright, by "Big Pharma," the very industry it is supposed to regulate.

Not just is there a revolving door of pharma employees with the FDA, but every committee is in the hands of the drug pushers.  In fact, the FDA is little more than a gun carrying enforcement agency whose only purpose seems to be to stifle, raid, imprison, shut down, harass, torture, lie about, and generally discourage competition to drugs, drugs, and more drugs.

They don't even try to hide it.

In Health Care "Constant Vigilance" is the Answer...

Thursday, November 10th, 2005  - California has always been a leader in health care reform, officially and unofficially.  It's just that way in a State in constant transition.  I've pointed out, for a long time, that the health care paradigm is shifting - and nowhere is this more obvious than California. 

I've said, time after time, that fully half of the total US health dollar is being spent on alternatives to "organized medicine."  In California I'd say that about 80% of California's health dollars are spent on alternatives. 

American Dental Association Flummoxed in Philly...

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005 - The American Dental Association (ADA) spent a fortune last month holding its annual convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  If it had hoped for a public relations coup to help promote its aims, its hopes were dashed by the Pennsylvania chapter of the North American anti-mercury-amalgam movement, the "Pennsylvania Coalition for Mercury Free Dentistry"

The ADA fell on its face - and frankly - their convention worked against them.  What  I predicted in my September 26th, 2005 newsletter "Health Freedom" Counter Attacks - Big Time..." happened.  Here's what I said:

Quackpot Polevoy Sued for Libel in Canada...

Friday, October 28th, 2005 - When the New York ad agency, the one the runs the "quackbuster"  operation against innovation in health care in North America opened its email program last month, it was probably chagrined to find that one more self-styled "quackbuster"  was being sued for what many feel they do best - libel health care providers.

Will the FDA Attack the US Army?...

Friday, October 21st, 2005 - When the New York ad agency, the one the runs the "quackbuster"  operation against innovation in health care in North America selects a new target, one of the things they count on is "a raid" from their bed partners at the FDA, against that selected target.

On the morning of "the raid," highly trained (insert a BIG SNORT here) FDA agents, dressed in cute little body armor,  covered by "the right" special jacket, ordered expressly from a "law enforcement" catalog - the wanna-be cops version of L.L. Bean - with "FDA" emblazoned in the approved yellow, ten inch high letters, across the back, stop by the gun locker where they will be issued their M-16, or their Browning 12-Gauge Pump, for this morning's event.

MY VIEW OF THE BIGGER PICTURE

The Significance of Dr. Tedd Koren’s Courtroom Defeat of Quackbuster Stephen Barrett 

A Guest Commentary by Steven C. Eisen, DC, Research Coordinator, Foundation for Health Choice - Thursday, October 20th, 2005

On October 13, 2005, notorious self-proclaimed consumer medical advocate, Stephen Barrett’s defamation lawsuit against Dr. Tedd Koren was thrown out of court after a grueling three and a half day trial. To the unknowing observer, this may seem insignificant, but in no uncertain terms, it was a big victory for the battle of freedom and rights of all individuals to select the health care of their choice. 

More about - Quackbuster Barrett BROKEN in "Home Town" Court...

Saturday, October 15th, 2005 - Below is an interesting Press Release sent to top "quackbuster"  Stephen Barrett, the author of the dubious website, "quackwatch.org's" local newspaper.  But before I let you see that, I want to explain what happened in this case.

In short - Stephen Barrett's claims that I, Tim Bolen, and those people re-posting, or quoting my articles, allegedly having "defamed" him, have now been thoroughly examined in a Court of Law - and Barrett's claims, within that Court of Law, in his own home town of Allentown, Pennsylvania - a Court of Barrett's own choice, have been determined to have no merit. 

Specifically, Barrett had sued Koren for repeating my words "delicensed" and "quackpot."  The Judge specifically ruled that these words were not defamatory to Barrett - and threw out Barrett's case against Koren.  Completely.

As soon as I get copies of the trial transcripts I will make them available on my website.

Quackbuster Barrett Broken in "Home Town" Court...

Thursday, October 13th, 2005 - In simple language - the Lehigh County Court Judge, today, in the Barrett v. Koren "defamation" case, ruled that Stephen Barrett wasted the Lehigh County Court's time with his meritless claims.

NOW IT'S TIME FOR A LAUGH...

Sunday, October 9th, 2005 - Monday, October 10th, 2005, is a day to watch - for Stephen Barrett gets his date in Court, again - and I don't think he's going to like it.

A couple years back,  top "quackbuster" propagandist Stephen Barrett, a failed MD who describes himself as "a retired Psychiatrist," took it upon himself to attack the age-old Chiropractic profession. He even made up a new website "chirowatch" or something like that, to criticize the profession.  He began to talk as though he knew something about it - drawing, I guess, on his life experiences as a part-time MD in an Allentown, Pennsylvania mental hospital. 

"Health Freedom" Counter Attacks - Big Time...

Monday, September 26th, 2005 - The world-wide war between "health" and "medicine," "conventional" and "alternative," rages across continents.  "Big Pharma," in an almost uncontrolled panic in the US, is shoveling so much cash, by the truck and trainload, at US television networks, trying to buy their way back to Americans, it's laughable. 

If you thought North American television was buried in "drug ads" last year, this year is far worse.  Sheer panic has hit the drug world.  New York ad agencies are in a heyday. 

North American dentistry, another hellhole of bad practices, is reeling from assaults, and according to ADA's Edwin Mehlman from their membership division, who tells me, in a personal email, that the ADA is having to spend "a Budget of over$100 million proposed for 2006 and reserves of over 47 million."  Just to keep their heads above water, I think.

For good reason.

Americans are on the march, with anger in their eyes.  The "duping" of America is about to be paid for in industry blood...

"Tim Bolen" Featured on "Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory"...

Friday, September 23rd, 2005 - Well, it had to happen sooner or later.  I'm going to be interviewed by George Noory for three hours late Wednesday Night, September 28th, 2005, starting at 11:00pm PST through 2:00AM PST on the 29th.  I'll have to take a nap ahead of time - so I can be my usual fire and brimstone self on the subject of health care.

I just couldn't resist - George Noory has more listeners than I've got readers.  I need to reach more people with my message about how bad North American health and dental care REALLY IS, and who's trying to change it.  George has millions of listeners, and I have only a few hundred thousand readers.

As George says on his website "Consumer advocate and health freedom fighter Tim Bolen will reveal the ways in which the medical and dental establishments are preventing and punishing innovation in their industries."

You bet I will, George.  Your listeners are in for a shock.

ADA Gets "Kiss of Death"...

Sunday, September 18th, 2005 - It had to happen sooner or later.  The ADA (American Dental Association) has had a long run - with the posse chasing them.  I'm surprised they've lasted this long.

They'll scream,  they'll holler, they'll whine, they'll whimper.  They'll threaten, and they'll lash out - but in the end it won't matter - the American Dental Association is finished.  Nail their doors shut.  Board up their windows.  It's soon to be all over for them.

The ADA, as we know in the Health Freedom Movement, stateside, is an organization designed to protect the status quo in US dentistry.  Never mind that the methods they protect are from two centuries ago.

Medical Board Brutality - The Plot Thickens...

Friday,  August 26th, 2005 - Last Friday, August 19th, 2005 I sent out a newsletter called "Medical Board Brutality."  It was about the newest antics of the California Medical Board Staff - an organization, I believe, to be completely corrupt - and not worth saving.  Like the story about Hercules and the Aegean stables, the best thing that could happen is for someone to re-route the Sacramento river right through 1426 Howe Avenue (the medical board offices) - and for the same reasons....

The responses were startling.  In short, my disdain for the Administrative Law System, and the way it is abused against licensed health professionals, is SHARED worldwide.

I want to thank all of those who responded with a letter to the Presiding Judge of the Appeals Court.  If you haven't yet sent yours in, please do so.  You can get the details about what to do by clicking here. 

In short, my earlier newsletter details an assault against a "lay representative" helping people through the Administrative law process.  Charles Benninghoff had complained to an Administrative law Judge the Medical Board, and the prosecutor in the case had "biased" the State's witness against his client - a violation of the agency's own rules of conduct - and the State retaliated against Benninghoff, claiming he was "practicing law without a license."

The Medical Board went to a "friendly" Superior Court Judge and got an order seizing Benninghoff's office, leaving his clients in the lurch.  Benninghoff filed an Appeal to the Fourth District Court of Appeals - and here we are.

So, how is the plot thickening?

Medical Board Brutality...

Friday, August 19th, 2005 - I'm about to tell you about an important legal "case" in California that has far-reaching (national) implications for the regulation of health care, and other, licensed professionals.  The case is currently heading for the California Appeals Court - and a letter from YOU to the presiding Judge of the Appeals Court will have a tremendous effect.  I'll explain.

I am not a fan of the Administrative law system that SUPPOSEDLY regulates licensed health professionals.  I have found, nationally, that as a unit, the system is brutal, stupid, poorly organized, inefficient, and inhabited by some of the lowest form of humans that could, and would, use their positions of power over licensees, to prey on them for their own perverted delight.  Few places, nationwide, is the system held accountable for its actions.

California is one of those.

The situation got so bad in California, that, a few years ago, the California Legislature ordered, and funded, an "Enforcement Monitor" on the California Medical Board Staff.  It was absolutely necessary then - and it still is now.

University of Virginia "Drug Whores" attack Echinacea...

Thursday, August 4th, 2005 - I had a good laugh this last week.  The University of Virginia Medical School showed the world how easy it is for "Big Pharma" to buy the appearance of science, from a University, with their so-called "Echinacea study." 

Then the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) ran a pompous editorial on the subject by one of the best known, and laughable, CRACKPOTS in the US, Wallace Sampson MD.

Then the New York Ad agency (the one that runs the "quackbusters" ), sent out, to every media outlet in the US and Canada the story that "Echinacea had been discredited."

(Insert laughter here)

I love it when "Big Pharma" does something this dumb - and traceable back to them.   It shows how weak, and afraid of the US "health" movement, they really are. 

"Big Pharma" is using "Western Medicine" to Destroy America...

Monday, August 1st, 2005 - In the United States every company with over two hundred employees is required to provide full health insurance coverage to its employees.  Since 1999, when the US FDA allowed "Big Pharma" to advertise directly to the American consumer, the cost of the average prescription drug has increased 500% - with no reason other than greed. 

The same prescription drugs cost five to twenty times as much in the US as other countries.  Because of this, the average cost of health insurance for a family of four, including the amount a company pays, and what the employee pays, is now $14,700 per year. 

No company in the US can afford those increases in health care costs - so just to survive, at all, much less compete in a word-wide market, US companies are sending their labor requirements overseas - and shutting down US production facilities, laying off US workers, supervisors, managers, vice presidents, etc. 

It's time America recognized "Big Pharma" for what it really is - the enemy of mankind - and does something about it.

"Big Pharma" versus Everybody...

Thursday, July 14th, 2005 - A seven-thousand-five-hundred-dollar hand-tailored business suit.  A fifteen-hundred-dollar designer tie.  A four-hundred-fifty-dollar belt.  Twenty-five-hundred dollar hand-made shoes.  Three-hundred-fifty-dollar hand-made silk underwear. And, a twenty-five-thousand dollar hand-made watch.

Who's wearing this?  Every one of the roughly seven thousand lobbyists working for "Big Pharma" trying to get laws, and treaties, favorable to their aims, through the US Congress.  They dress like this for two reasons (1)  with the money "Big Pharma" is paying them they can afford to, and (2)  they want to make "the right impression."

Their current project is to get CAFTA (the Central American Free Trade Agreement) passed.  It's important to them - and they've pulled out all of the stops.

"Big Pharma" Stabs Planet Earth...

Friday, July 8th, 2005 - My last two broadcasts "Vitamins to be Banned Worldwide...", and ""Big Pharma" Controls US "TV News"... have generated a major response.  They seem to have been forwarded everywhere, and I can't keep up with the volume of email questions I'm getting - so I'll answer the questions here...

Yes, it's true that the "Codex Alimentarius" commission in Rome, July 4th,2005,  passed restriction of supplement guidelines that would, in effect, destroy the supplement industry in it's entirety - except for that controlled outright by "Big Pharma."

Yes, it's true that the "CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement)"  legislation currently being rushed through the US Congress contains, within its language, the mechanism to force "harmonization" of US laws to "Codex" requirements destroying the protection afforded under the1994 DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act) law.

Yes, it's true that "Big Pharma" is behind this move - they have that much power and money.

Vitamins to be Banned Worldwide...

Monday, July 4th, 2005 - "Big Pharma" won a major victory in Rome, Italy today.  Vitamins and minerals, for over-the-counter sale will be phased out, almost completely, in every country on Planet Earth.  The "German Model" of health care will now be the law of the land - in every land.

Below is a press release from Diane Miller JD of the National Health Freedom Coalition, detailing the action.  Diane is in Rome at the meeting.

"Big Pharma" Controls US "TV News"...

Monday, July 4th, 2005 - There is no such thing as "investigative journalism" on US network television anymore.  In fact, it's hard to find real news, at all, on the networks.  "TV news" is all hype - every bit of it - and it is designed to promote the interests of those that write the checks for advertising.  Nothing else.

The single largest group of advertisers during the news hours, I've noticed, is "Big Pharma."  Roughly fifty percent (50%) of all advertising, during the news hours, comes from the pharmaceutical industry.

And it's paying off, handsomely, for them - but not for America...

Simply spoken, "Big Pharma" is using America's airwaves to destroy the American fabric.  Our TV media, the same media we, as Americans, count on, as "the fourth estate," to monitor society's problems, has been prostituted as an advertising campaign for the interests of the biggest, and most evil, enemy America, and democracy, has ever had to face - "Big Pharma."

"We the People" Need to Shut Down "Big Pharma"...

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 - I live in Southern California, in the United States, and I know that, in the United States, there is a tremendous war going on between the forces of "health" versus the forces of "medicine."  This war is over the future of health care.  It's a bloody war, and it doesn't stop at the US borders...

In California we say "We'd rather be 'healthy' than 'medicated," and there's a big difference between the two philosophies.  In that war I am firmly, and unequivocally, on the side of "health."  I want the best health care I can get, and I want right now...

Everybody knows that the US Health Care System is badly broken - and not repairable. The US MEDICARE System will go belly-up in the year 2011 - It's going to be, at that point, so costly that the United States simply won't be able to afford it anymore. AMERICAN CORPORATIONS, right this moment, are cutting back their health care offerings -  No one can afford the skyrocketing costs.  HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES are desperately trying to reduce provider expenditure - and because of that, Americans are being offered a poorer, and poorer, quality of health care - Insanely, everything NEW is being banned. 

Why?  There are two interlocking reasons. 

"Bobbie Bogus" Runs For Cover ... 

Friday, June 10th, 2005 - Everybody knows that, in my advocation, I hunt "Quackbusters,"  The fact that there exists at all, a group whose purpose is to stop innovation, and progress, in health care, in favor of the "drug world" status quo, raises my ire.   

Professionally, I'm a Crisis Management Consultant in the health care industry.  My clients, for the most part, are "cutting edge" practitioners whose successful activities on behalf of their patients, or customers, have earned them the attention of the status quo - who react against them as viciously as possible.  Inevitably, during my work with clients, the influence of the "Quackbusters", on the case, comes to the surface.   

I learned a long time ago, in these types of cases, that you can't deal with the client's problem without dealing with the source of the problem - the "Quackbuster" conspiracy against innovation in health care.  So, I deal with that issue right up front. 

And, the "Quackbusters" don't seem to like my activities. 

Robert S. Baratz MD, DDS, PhD, the current president of the "Quackbuster's" flagship, the now legally defunct National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) nearly had a heart attack, the other day, Tuesday, June 7th, 2005, when I walked into a hearing room, in downtown Boston, where he was slated to testify for the sixth day.  Baratz, who always has a lot to say (he gets paid by the hour) was supposed to be "cross-examined" on his five earlier days of testimony.  I was there, since I know a lot about "Bobbie," to help the attorney make that "cross." 

CODEX – THE SICKNESS INDU$TRY’s LAST STAND...

A Guest Article By Australian Health Activist Eve Hillary

About Eve Hillary:  Eve Hillary is a Health Freedom Advocate based in Sydney.  She a medical analyst, public speaker and writer on issues pertaining to the health care industry and environmental health.   She is the author of Children of a Toxic Harvest: An Environmental Autobiography, and numerous articles relating to health issues. Her most recent book is Health Betrayal; Staying away from the Sickness Industry. Eve has spent 25 years in health care where she has observed the medical industry at first hand from the inside. evehillary@smartchat.net.au  or eve@evehillary.org  

Is American Dentistry Killing Us?...

Monday, May 23rd, 2005 - Is American Dentistry killing us?  Probably.  There are certainly good reasons circulating around the campfires to believe so.  It's time, I believe, for the North American Health Freedom Movement to focus on Dentistry, and its problems, because what happens in the mouth effects the whole body.

I believe that the American Dental Association (ADA), as the primary representative of Dentistry, is in "siege mode,"  meaning that their Modus Operandi, these days, seems more defensive of position than promo