Author: Health Freedom Idaho

  • Your Diet Soda contains known carcinogenic additives brought to you by Monsanto

    Aspartame, commonly sold as Neotame®, Equal®, NutraSweet®, Blue Zero Calorie Sweetener Packets™, Advantame®, NutraSweet New Pink, Canderel®, Pal Sweet Diet® and AminoSweet® is typically found in “diet” foods like diet soda as well as gum, yogurt, processed honey, and fruit juice (1). In a 22-year landmark study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition involving over 125,000 people, significant links were found between daily intake of aspartame and the development of leukemia and lymphoma. (1)This research begs the question: what will we find about the effects of aspartame on human health twenty years from now, when the generation that grew up with it is at middle age?

    Aspartame wasn’t always a food product, it actually originated as an experimental ulcer medication.

    Once it came onto the market, it didn’t last very long: 1980 the FDA banned the substance after having 3 independent scientist studied the artificial sweetener. The substance was linked “without a shadow of a doubt” to brain tumors and brain cancer by the FDA’s own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross (10).

    It was even found to mimic and worsen fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and chronic fatigue. 

    Aspartame Dangers You’ve Never Heard Of

    Aspartame is broken down into “phenylalanine (50%), aspartic acid (40%) and methanol (10%) during metabolism in the body. The excess of phenylalanine blocks the transport of important amino acids to the brain contributing to reduced levels of dopamine and serotonin.” (4)

    Aspartic acid acts as a neurotoxin that causes the hyperexcitability of neurons. It’s also a precursor to another amino acid that overexcites your central nervous system (CNS): glutamates.

    Methanol and its metabolites cause CNS depression, vision disorders and other symptoms. Chronic exposure can lead to metabolic acidosis and, eventually, coma. Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), which are present in your brain, also converts methanol to formaldehyde (5).

    Another metabolite, diketopiperazine, is carcinogenic in the central nervous system and contributes towards the formations of tumors, including gliomas, medulloblastomas, and meningiomas.

    Plus, the substance “has been linked to pediatric and adolescent migraines. Upon ingestion, aspartame is broken, converted, and oxidized into formaldehyde in various tissues.”(5). Not only is formaldehydecarcinogenic, it’s also cumulative, meaning that it builds up in your body (6,7).

    Lastly, since serotonin and dopamine are key “happy” hormones, aspartame can directly contribute towards mental disorders, addiction, and including depression, suicidal behavior, and substance abuse (8).

    In an open letter to the FDA, the Aspartame Toxicity Information Center warns “Some of the many aspartame toxicity symptoms reported include seizures, headaches, memory loss, tremors, convulsions, vision loss, nausea, dizziness, confusion, depression, irritability, anxiety attacks, personality changes, heart palpitations, chest pains, skin diseases, loss of blood sugar control, arthritic symptoms, weight gain (in some cases), fluid retention, excessive thirst or urination. Clearly, regular exposure to a toxic substance such as formaldehyde may worsen, or in some cases contribute to the development of chronic diseases.”(9)

    Mega Study Reveals Cancer Connection

    “A recent mega experiment in 1800 rats tested at aspartame doses much lower than the currently acceptable daily intake (ADI) for humans reported a dose-dependent increase in lymphomas, leukemias, and transitional renal cell tumors.” (2, 3)

    Broken down, here are the primary results of this mega-study.

    • Consuming only one 12-ounce can of diet soda per day increased risk of lymphoma and myeloma (cancer of blood plasma), the incidence increasing in correlation with aspartame intake. The risk was much higher in men (it hasn’t been identified why that is the case).
    • There is an elevated risk of lymphoma with higher consumption of non-diet soda in men than women.
    • Annual consumption of aspartame in the United States is estimated at 5000-5500 tons and the most common product in which it is used is diet soda.
    • Aspartame (especially in liquids) breaks down into asparitic acid, methanol, and phenylalanine; when ingested, methanol turns into formaldehyde—a known carcinogen.
    • Previous studies that didn’t support a link between aspartame and cancer were limited in time and scope. This study included a large sample size and scientifically-viable time period and tested subjects at intervals throughout the study.
    • Subjects’ measured aspartame intake included that added from packets (e.g., NutraSweet and Equal) and contributed to the weighting of the results.
    • Subjects with a higher intake of diet soda had a higher body mass index and animal protein intake and were less likely to smoke. (This is highly significant: it is known that aspartame contributes to obesity and metabolic syndrome; the result noted here corroborates that finding. Additionally, this group of diet soda drinkers didn’t smoke cigarettes, discounting smoking as a contributing factor to the development of cancer in the study.)

    Other studies show a direct connection between the methanol in aspartame and neurological disease.

    If this isn’t enough to get you to kick the can to the curb for good (and then recycle it!), 

    Read more at: 

    https://deeprootsathome.com/aspartame-the-most-dangerous-food-additive-on-the-market-3/

    https://dailyhealthpost.com/aspartame-is-linked-to-leukemia-and-lymphoma-in-landmark-study-in-humans/.

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  • Idaho CPS Traumatizing Innocent Families

    March 2022 -The recent tragic incident involving Meridian Idaho Police ripping a breast-fed infant from his mother’s arms and arresting her for her protective instincts has thousands of people in shock! The doctor treating this child with special medical needs said “the infant should be returned to the family”. Yet, the state decided to keep the infant in state custody. Parents everywhere are rising up to seek an end to the often unlawful, traumatizing, and damaging effects that Idaho Child Welfare / CPS has on parents and their innocent children.

     

    That’s a lot of children placed in a system that is proven to be less safe than in their own homes.

     – Miste Karlfeldt, Executive Director Health Freedom Idaho

    • How many of these children were traumatized worse from being removed from their situation than they would have been if they could stay with their parent(s)?
    • What is the bounty CPS gets paid for every child they kidnap? 
    • How many children are helped and don’t end up with addiction issues, depression, suicidal thoughts, or committing suicide, or are in and out of jail/juvenile detention centers? 
    • How many children kidnapped by CPS end up on mood and behavior-altering drugs, destroying their bodies’ chemical makeup forever?
    • How many of these children were traumatized worse from being removed from their situation than they would have been if they were able to stay with their parent(s)?
    • What is the bounty CPS gets paid for every child they kidnap? 
    • How many children are actually helped, and don’t end up with addiction issues, depression, suicidal thoughts or committing suicide, and/or are in and out of jail/juvenile detention centers? 
    • How many children kidnapped by CPS end up on mood and behavior altering drugs, destroying the chemical make up of their body forever?

    In 2019, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare conducted 10,159 investigations based on referrals for child abuse, neglect or abandonment out of 23,599 referrals made to the department. In Idaho, it is mandatory that every person report suspected child abuse or neglect, which creates a huge number of referrals.

    CPS social workers or law enforcement attempted comprehensive safety assessments at 4% of the Idaho households with children under the age of 18.

    In every one of those cases, CPS told the parents that they must submit to questioning, entry to their home and that they must submit their children to the questioning and examination of the children by government workers outside of the presence of the parents.

    Idaho CPS social workers say that “nobody ever questions” these intrusions into the family home and the privacy of the relationship between parents and children.

    But, because of the Constitution of the United States, it is simply not the law that parents must obey every demand of CPS

    Just because the Department rules require CPS workers to attempt to infiltrate your home and family life does not mean you have to allow the invasion.

    The fact is that abuse and neglect under Idaho’s Child Protective Act are over-reported and exaggerated. Many of the calls are anonymous, and after investigation, fully 83% of the investigations (8,432 in 2018) are found “unsubstantiated, meaning there was no abuse or neglect.

    In their attempt to investigate, CPS social workers working for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare frequently use coercive tactics, like showing up with law enforcement officers and telling parents they must cooperate, or they could lose custody of their own children. The Department frequently shows up at odd times, like on a Friday evening or even on holidays.

    That is because their rules require that they investigate priority 1 and 2 referrals either immediately or within 24 hours. And CPS social workers will never confine themselves to just investigating the nature of the original referral. Their “comprehensive safety assessment” means they will stray far and wide from the referral to investigate and explore everything about you and your family relationships, including your parenting philosophies and how often and what types of foods everyone eats.

    • https://www.cwla.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Idaho-Fact-Sheet.pdf

    If parents know their rights and begin to exercise their rights, they will be empowered against an over-reaching department, and even if the Department continues to attempt its intrusions, at least individual parents will be empowered to operate on a more level playing field. 

    The goal is to equip you to handle Idaho CPS and law enforcement in these CPS investigations.

    LEARN MORE ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS:  

    What to do if CPS Knocks

    Medical Kidnap: Homeschool Teen

    Data RESOURCES:

    https://www.cwla.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Idaho-Fact-Sheet.pdf

    https://www.childtrends.org/publications/state-level-data-for-understanding-child-welfare-in-the-united-states

  • Homeschool Teen Medically Kidnapped in Idaho

    Idaho resident Kristen, a homeschooling mother, brought her very sick child Brandon to the ER numerous times, and they keep sending him home. Tired of repeated trips to the ER and extremely worried about her son, Kristine says she urgently insisted that they provide other treatment for him. She knew something else was going on other than just the flu. Little did she know that urging for her son to be treated for more than the flu would involve CPS, accusations of medical neglect, educational neglect, and criminal charges against her. Its been six months, only limited weekly visits this single mom and her son want to be reunited. 

    UPDATE FROM COURT HEARING July 16 Canyon County Courthouse Caldwell, Idaho

    An amazing turnout to #BringBrandonHome!
    At one point I counted at least 50 people in the lobby.

    One supporter said, “I was extremely fortunate I was able to meet and speak with Brandon, a very intelligent young man who was extremely shocked all those people were there for him.”

    Thank you so much to everyone who turned out in support! We’ve definitely made a statement to this court and their reaction was perfectly predictable. Kicking people out, confiscating cellphones, threatening contempt of court over publicity, and closing their doors to the public are all red flags of CORRUPTION. 


    A summarized backstory

    Brandon, aged 15, was admitted to St. Alphonsus in Nampa and then transferred to St. Alphonsus Pediatric Center in nearby Boise, Idaho. Medical records show that he was admitted with Influenza A, a positive result for Mono, abdominal pain, recent weight loss, as well as thrombocytopenia (low blood platelet count), and leukopenia (low white blood cell count).  

    Over the next two days, Kristine watched her son suffer. It was often necessary for her to help him out of bed and walk to the bathroom. Brandon was given a walker so that he could navigate the hallways and receive some exercise.

    Brandon was then transferred to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital in Boise. Mom was told that it was because there was nothing else St. Al’s could do for him, and he needed testing for cystic fibrosis, a respiratory disorder that can result in extreme malnutrition due to digestion issues.

    However, according to medical records of Dr. Amy Barton, a child abuse specialist that works for St. Luke’s through their Children At Risk Evaluation Services (CARES), the actual purpose for the transfer was to put Brandon into her care of Dr. Barton to determine whether or not his condition was medical abuse vs. medical neglect.

    Read full details at Medical Kidnap

    Educational Neglect Alleged Due to Homeschooling

    Another allegation that CPS suddenly decided to throw at Kristine is that Brandon has been homeschooled for his entire life. The Department now alleges that Brandon’s education was neglected, because he was homeschooled, and has requested an educational evaluation, despite that he has a history of being in the gifted and talented programs through his online homeschool in Oregon.

    The Department is also requesting that Brandon begin high school again as a freshman at Homedale High School this September, despite that he has graduated through homeschool with the appropriate amount of credits at the end of this last school year.

    Read the full history with doctors and staff names at Medical Kidnap Homeschooled Teenager with Celiac & Scoliosis Medically Kidnapped at Idaho Children’s Hospital – Mother Wrongfully Accused of Medical Abuse & Educational Neglect.


    Mom is fighting for her son and NEEDS YOUR HELP

    Kristine has filed for a new evidentiary hearing and a new adjudication, asserting that misinformation and hearsay is perverting the court record. Kristine hopes that maybe her voice will finally be heard by Judge Tucker this time around. If not by the judge, then at least by someone with the power to do something about what is happening with her son.

    Kristine appears in court next on July 16th, for the 6-month review hearing, and to hear the motions she has recently filed. She expects that this will be a battle, but isn’t afraid. She says,

    “I will not quit fighting until my son is home again, where he belongs.”

    His own words! This boy wants to go home! 

    Listening to the full interview between CARES and Brandon, it is very obvious that key information was left out of Dr. Barton’s report, perhaps intentionally. 

    In the almost hour-long interrogation with Michelle Borgquist, Brandon states several times that nothing is wrong at home, his mother takes care of him, they do things outside of the house, and that he has plenty of access to food. 

    The interview begins with Michelle telling Brandon that they are in her “Talking Room” so that she can ask him questions and he can feel safe answering them. She makes him promise that he will tell the truth. Brandon agrees and then proceeds to answer her questions.

    When asked about things that he enjoys doing, Brandon answers include badminton, bowling, golf, chess, video games, board games, as well as several other outside activities. 

    At approximately 8m:45s into the interview, Brandon is asked if he can think of anything that has happened recently that made him sad or unhappy. Brandon answers,

    “Not being able to be with my family.”

    UPDATE: The court is beginning to silence this mother the interview below was taken down. 

    AUGUST UPDATE: Intimidation tactics and lack of due process for a mom who just wants her day in court. “Show me the evidence you have against me!!” She says.

    more details from Medical Kidnap 

    Idaho Mom Arrested Second Time *on same charge* as Authorities Attempt to Silence Her Fail – Meanwhile 16-Year-Old Son Suffers in Foster Care

    How you can help

    Support the Family – www.facebook.com/bringbrandonmccreeryhome .
    Financially Support Brandon’s desire to have a new attorney who will advocate on his behalf. 

    Change.org Petition – https://www.change.org/p/idaho-cps-bring-brandon-home

    SEND AN EMAIL:

  • Pharma’s Ownership of the Message, Mainstream Corporate Media’s Narrative

    The reality we are living in today is the active censorship of the voices of families who call for informed consent and independent scientific review of the government backed liability free medical products that are forced upon our children and adults in the healthcare and daycare industries. This article Pharma’s Ownership of the Message, Mainstream Corporate Media’s Narrative published on Children’s Health Defense by José Solís, Ph.D., Guest Contributor clearly identifies the narrative is funded by pharma limiting true journalism by main stream media. 

    Pharma’s Ownership of the Message, Mainstream Corporate Media’s Narrative

    By José Solís, Ph.D., Guest Contributor

    A few months ago, I revisited a Reddit article titled, “News outlets self-censor extremely important information because ad revenue from pharmaceutical companies can be up to 70% of their income,” — seventy percent!  Now, that’s a lot of influence and power to decide what will become news and how it will be reported. 

    Cited in the article, from a presentation at the Revolution for Truth Rally and Protest, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. remarked,

    I talked to Roger Ailes [then CEO of FOX News], who I have known since I was 17 years old, he’s very sympathetic with this issue and saw the film Trace Amounts. I said to him, ‘I just want to go on one of your shows. Nobody will allow me to talk about this or debate me.’ He said to me, ‘I can’t allow you on any of them. I’d have to fire any of my hosts that allowed you on my station. Because,’ he said, ‘My news division gets up to 70% of advertising revenues during non-election years from the pharmaceutical companies’.

    The spin was to be engineered through the propagation of ignorance on the topic of the measles, and lies about the measles, its vaccines’ history, effectiveness, and safety, all in an attempt to deepen the already entrenched super profitable and liability-free market of the vaccine manufacturing industry.

    Pharma spends billions of dollars on T.V. advertising. 

    Mass media conglomerates rely heavily, as stated by Kennedy, on the money pharma puts into their industry and, in particular, its news cycles for the purpose of generating more profits. This reminded me of the avalanche of scientific and legal evidence that would have anyone reading the literature raise many profound questions about the theory, policies, and practice of vaccination. More importantly for the purposes of this article, I wondered, how would the “spin” on vaccines be played? Upon what context would that spin be promoted? 

    And, how would people be made vulnerable and thus fall prey to the unfolding propaganda campaign?

    The context was the recent measles outbreak. The spin was to be engineered through the propagation of ignorance on the topic of the measles, and lies about the measles, its vaccines’ history, effectiveness, and safety, all in an attempt to deepen the already entrenched super profitable and liability-free market of the vaccine manufacturing industry. And maybe more heinously, through policies that would destroy our most basic right of informed consent and exemptions.

    See our very own Health Committee Chairman’s post that intentionally misinforms!  

    Yes, Senator Martin – this is how disinformation is spread. He quotes a figure WORLD WIDE blaming anti-vaccine movement for deaths of malnourished individuals. Why not cite the US figures? Because there has been 1000 cases of measles in 2019 AND ZERO Complication including death. In fact, digging DEEPLY into the CDC figures (because they don’t want to make it easy to find) there has been ONE CASE of ‘measles related death’ in the past 27 years. 

    He’s a low ranking Senator on the freedom scale https://idahofreedom.org/freedom-index

    The pharma mainstream mass media connection, along with politicians, health agencies and their subordinates (doctors, public health officials, etc.), continue to manage the marketplace and the narrative.  While these pharma giants line their pockets and those of politicians whose careers are progressively being underscored by their own conflicts of interest and echoed by the propaganda afforded them through the mass media industry, the social, economic and political costs of allowing fear to deny an open national dialogue on the topic of vaccines are becoming insurmountable. In the end, our children will have us to blame for the failing state of health that characterizes more than half of their generation.

    READ MORE ABOUT FINANCED ‘NEWS’ at Children’s Health Defense

    © July 3rd 2019 Children’s Health Defense, Inc. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of Children’s Health Defense, Inc. Want to learn more from Children’s Health Defense? Sign up for free news and updates from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Children’s Health Defense. Your donation will help to support us in our efforts.
    This article originally appeared at: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/vaccine-coverage-in-mainstream-media-variations-on-a-theme-of-propaganda/.

  • New Idaho Broadband Task Force A Step Towards Fast-tracking 5G?

    Governor Brad Little has formed a Broadband Task Force to address the ‘internet-underserved’ areas of Idaho. This task force will make recommendations to the Governor about the best way to bring this technology to all of Idaho.  

    5G touting more speed and less latency than previous iterations, the years-long migration will require an expansion of cellular networks worldwide to include millions of new antennas that will become the backbone of IoT (Internet of Things) and its billions of sensor-laden devices, from smart dust to smart cars. 

    5G is being pushed heavily by the task force members and the industry. The Industry claims studies that show “no harm” focus on the thermal effects.  However, Independent studies show the harm is coming from non-thermal effects.  

    We need to inform the Governor that fiber optics is the safest, most reliable, quickest and environmentally friendly option, and that we DO NOT consent to 5G.

    CALL TO ACTION! #5MinActivism

    If you have not done so already, I implore you to write or type out a letter and send to the Governor first, and to your Mayor and City Council as well. Make the most use of your time, you can copy the same letter for each individual!

    While the industry likes to persuade us that there is no ‘conclusive evidence’ of health impacts from 5G /wireless technology, there is an alarming difference in the conclusions found by industry-funded research versus independent research.  In fact, there are over 28,000 studies that have shown clear biological impact from EMF (electromagnetic fields) exposure.  Please see this website for a compilation of these studies: https://www.emf-portal.org/en Please go here to see the health implications specific to 5G: https://ehtrust.org/scientific-research-on-5g-and-health/

    When coming to conclusions about the safety of this technology, it is imperative that our leaders receive input from third party, independent scientists WITHOUT industry ties.  Otherwise, they will not be receiving accurate, unbiased information.

    Send information using the resource links listed below to: 

    The Governor’s address is:
    Governor Brad Little
    State Capitol,
    PO Box 83720,
    Boise, ID. 83720

    And you can send an email here: https://gov.idaho.gov/contact-us/

    THANK YOU so much for your work in helping keep Idaho an amazing and safe place to live. We couldn’t do it without you!! PLEASE PASS ON TO YOU FRIENDS AND FAMILY!

    Join Idahoans for Safe Technology on Facebook

    Trusted Research Resources: 

    https://ehtrust.org/small-cells-mini-cell-towers-health-letters-scientists-health-risk-5g/

    https://ehtrust.org/international-actions-to-halt-and-delay-5g/

    Sample Letter 5G:

    Please do NOT allow 5G mini cell towers into neighborhoods.

    The new 5G technology is untested, yet will place mini cell towers every 2-3 houses within subdivisions.  We know, and have know for years, that Cell towers cause cancer clusters.

    WiFi is just not as safe as everyone is lead to believe.  Just like with Tobacco in the 60’s, industry studies are manipulated and scientists that speak out for independent studies are discredited and harassed.  Here’s what we know:

    • Children are particularly vulnerable.

    • Short term and long term effects of WiFi are real.  Cancer, insomnia, headaches, heart arrhythmias, are all well documented. Independent research is there in abundance.   Attached below are just a few sources.

    • Studies that show “no harm” focus on the thermal effects.  However, the harm is coming from non-thermal effects.  

    • Approximately 3% – 5% of people are moderately affected , with another 20-25% of people being slightly affected. Less than 1% of the population is severely affected, but the numbers are rapidly increasing with the exponential rise in EMF pollution****. Symptoms include,  but not limited to heart arrhythmias, insomnia, headaches, and inability to concentrate. Some studies even link infertility to cell phone use.

    Americans should, first and foremost, be afforded “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”  Those of us that suffer from the immediate health effects of Wifi are not be afforded our constitutional rights to live without fear and with harm.

    Currently, I am living in a home that is “safe”.  As long as I stay out of the path of the smart meters in my subdivision when they are transmitting, I am fine. Should I step in front of them at the wrong time (1:17 pm, 5:17 pm, 4:17 am)  I am thrown into an irregular heartbeat. With 5G being forced into our lives, I live in fear that I will soon need to leave my home of 30 years and I do not have the financial ability to do so. Even if I could afford to move, where can I go?  5G will be everywhere.    How do I leave my home and my pets (I doubt I’d be able to take them with me), just so I can live with a normal heartbeat?

    How can you ask that of me?

    Please for the sake of your constituents, and for the children, do NOT allow 5G into neighborhoods.  You will be taking away one of our constitutional rights to live – just simply to live.  Pushing 5G on people – making all neighborhoods cancer cells and hot zones for the ill, isn’t right.  It takes away our liberties.

    I would love to talk to you more about this.  As you can imagine, coming into your office would be difficult, though I will come if I need to You can contact me at my landline.

    Sincerely,

     

    References:


  • Vaccinate ALL children in 2019 bill, NATION WIDE

    H.R.2527 – Vaccinate All Children Act of 2019  Introduced by (D) Frederica Wilson of Florida and currently has 17 democrat co-sponsors. This bill has been presented before and got no traction, but there it legitimate concern it will this session in light of the political climate surrounding exemptions this year.

    This is seriously NOT about how you feel concerning vax and non-vaxx parents. Such limited, ignorant thinking. It is 100% about allowing the government to have control over what is injected into your body. Our bodies are sovereign territory — NOT PROPERTY OF THE GOVERNMENT. Just because you agree with what they are injecting today doesn’t mean you will agree with what they want to inject tomorrow.

    Call, write, stand. MEDICAL FREEDOM for all!

    This is NOT about health, it is about control. Nothing, and I mean, NOTHING, in our lifetime has the ability to change the entire course of the American people like government mandated injections. They can change the rules, add ANY vaccine they choose, and call CPS when you do not comply.

    STAND NOW!

    SPEAK UP NOW!!!!

    (202) 224-3121 to get the Congressional Switchboard.

    Ask for your Congressman’s office.
    Don’t know your Reps name? They can get it for you with your zip code.

    H.R.2527 – Vaccinate All Children Act of 2019

    TEXT OF THE BILL

    116th CONGRESS
    1st Session/Bill Number H. R. 2527

    It reads:
    “To amend the Public Health Service Act to condition receipt by States (and political subdivisions and public entities of States) of preventive health services grants on the establishment of a State requirement for students in public elementary and secondary schools to be vaccinated in accordance with the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
    SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the “Vaccinate All Children Act of 2019”.

    SEC. 2. REQUIRING STUDENTS AT PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS TO BE VACCINATED.

    (a) Requirement.—Section 317 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247b) is amended by adding at the end the following:

    “(n) Requiring Students At Public Elementary And Secondary Schools To Be Vaccinated.—

    “(1) REQUIREMENT.—For a State or a political subdivision or other public entity of a State to be eligible to receive a grant under this section, the applicant shall demonstrate to the Secretary’s satisfaction that, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the State requires each student enrolled in one of the State’s public elementary schools or public secondary schools to be vaccinated in accordance with the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

    “(2) EXCEPTION FOR CHILD’S HEALTH.—The funding condition described in paragraph (1) shall not apply with respect to a student if a duly registered and licensed physician submits a written certification at the beginning of the school year to the individual in charge of the health program at the student’s school—

    “(A) certifying that the physician has personally examined the student during the preceding 12 months;

    “(B) certifying that, in the physician’s opinion, the physical condition of the student is such that the student’s health would be endangered by the vaccination involved; and

    “(C) demonstrating (to the satisfaction of the individual in charge of the health program at the student’s school) that the physician’s opinion conforms to the accepted standard of medical care.

    “(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection:

    “(A) The term ‘Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ means the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices established by the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    “(B) The terms ‘elementary school’ and ‘secondary school’ have the meanings given to such terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.”.

    (b) Application.—The amendment made by subsection (a) applies only with respect to fiscal years beginning after the date that is 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act.”

    Forced Injections of liability free medical products. Every vaccine manufacturer has committed fraud and we still believe them?

  • Be Heard

    BE HEARD BY JULY 3rd! RIGHT NOW THE CITIZENS CAN COMMENT! We have an unprecedented opportunity to have our voices heard on ANY state rule that we have concerns about! State law requires that the public receive notification when a state agency initiates proposed rulemaking procedures and be given an opportunity to comment to that rulemaking. Due to the lack of vote at the end of Legislative Session last year the rules department has published ALL the temporary rules and they must provide us opportunity to comment on them.
    However, COMMENTS CLOSE July 3rd (10 days!). 

    #BeHeardbytheThird 

    Now is the time to have a real and meaningful impact on the 8200+ pages of Idaho Rules and Regulations up for public input. Remember that the Legislature did not automatically approve all the rules at the end of last session. Review how this happened read an overview on page 2>

    It is really that simple to make a difference. Complaining and getting angry with government will not fix government; only involvement and civil communication will.  I hope you get involved in this GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY! – Heather Scott

    There are THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of pages of rules. 

    HINT START AT PAGE 1900 
    to find a search using KEY WORDS using CNTL F – find – search keywords

    HFI Concerns with IDAPA RULES…

    IDAPA 16 Department of Health and Welfare Docket 16-0000-1900

    IDAPA 16 Department of Health and Welfare Docket 16-000-1900f

    **You can choose to send public comments on these rules and other areas that cause you concern!
     Don’t limit yourself! 

    You can send numerous emails on various topics. Just be sure to email the appropriate department. All Health and Welfare Concerns: go to dhwrules@dhw.idaho.gov 

    Make the MOST of your time and efforts 

    Be sure to CC your email all the Health and Welfare Committee legislators, your personal legislators <find them here> and Health Freedom Idaho) 

    <COPY/Paste EMAILS Addresses>

    WHAT ABOUT OTHER RULES? 

    There are a lot to choose from, such as the Department of Transportation, Fish and Game, Environmental Quality, Dentistry, Education, Board of Medicine, Idaho Commission on the Arts, Parks and Recreation, State Police, Attorney General and many more.  If you click on the rule you are interested in in the table of contents, it will take you to that section in the document where you can read what the rule says.

    • You do not like the way that the Department of Labor deals with unemployment insurance requirements.
    • You believe that the systems for pardons and parole needs improvement.
    • You do not like the Commission of Libraries condoning promotions of certain political agendas.
    • You believe the Department of Education should allow more charter schools.
    • You believe the requirements to get an occupational license for Sign Language Interpreters is restrictive.
    • You believe the Health and Welfare Department is denying parental choice when it comes to vaccinations.
    • You are tired of Common Core (re-branded as Idaho Core) and its agenda in the schools.

    HINT: Concerned about other department’s rules? You can find the department’s contact information by looking at the document pages 4 – 25 and click the hyperlinked “Notice of Omnibus Rulemaking – Temporary and Proposed Fee Rulemaking” there is a link under each docket. 

    We have this opportunity to make a public comment to the department on every state rule. This has NEVER happened in Idaho before, don’t squander it.

    RESOURCES:

    What’s the difference? Negotiated and Proposed Rules? <see page 8>

    Where did all these rules come from? Here is an index of all the rules https://adminrules.idaho.gov/cindex/16.pdf

  • 8 Medicinal Benefits of Cannabis

    The innate endocannabinoid system in humans releases natural endocannabinoids, a different kind of ‘cannabinoids’ inherent in the human body. That said, the more the cannabinoids are present in the body, the more health benefits they promote. 

    Here’s a quick rundown of the eight unexpected benefits of cannabis that will shed some light on why this plant is a healing caliber. 

    1. Possibly cures cancer.

    Cancer cells are abnormal cells that grow in the body sporadically due to several reasons. Although the body has a way of controlling cell growth naturally through apoptosis, cancer cells evade this process and can continue to develop into difference cancer illnesses. 

    The cannabinoids in cannabis latch onto the different receptors in the immune system, specifically those that regulate apoptosis. When appropriate modulation of apoptosis is done, this possibly inhibits the growth of cancer cells, preventing further cancer diseases. 

    2. Reduction of vomiting and nausea in patients under chemotheraphy.

    Although more peer-reviewed studies and journals are needed to prove that cannabis is the panacea for cancer, the role of cannabis in helping patients under chemotherapy will never go unnoticed. Vomiting and nausea are two of the primary side effects of chemotherapy. Some medicines during chemotherapy are futile, and a few doctors have resorted to medical marijuana for treating patients who are nonreactive to pharmaceutical medications. 

    3. Stimulates appetite. 

    The high-inducing cannabinoid in cannabis which is called THC is responsible for increasing the hormones known as “ghrelin.” This is what causes consumers a heightened craving for sweets and any types of food. This is a huge breakthrough for those experiencing eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. 

    4. Relieves epileptic seizures. 

    The FDA has approved the use of Epidiolex, a cannabidiol-based pharmaceutical drug for epileptic patients. Since the decriminalization of cannabis, which made the online dispensary Canada legal, epileptic patients in Canada can now have the freedom to buy their CBD oil needs to relieve them of daunting seizures that happen sporadically within the day. 

    A clinical trial of 25 children isn’t huge—but it is to those 25 children and their families. Plus, another trial is simultaneously occurring statewide in Idaho, testing Epidiolex on both children and adults. In 2015 the American Epilepsy Society reported on a study of 313 patients suffering two types of the brain disorder.

    5. Alleviates muscle and joint pains. 

    Because of the anti-inflammatory properties of cannabis, it mitigates the pain from inflamed muscles and joints. When CBD (cannabidiol) latches onto the receptors and neurotransmitters, it reduces inflammation, relieving chronic pain from muscles and joints. 

    6. Lessens the onset of anxiety and depression. 

    Serotonin is one of the essential receptors found in the brain which is responsible for a person’s mood and behavior. Because CBD in cannabis latches onto the receptors in the different parts of the body, it results in better regulation of the entire endocannabinoid system. In turn, this allows the body to produce more serotonin, hence, promoting overall positive wellbeing. 

    7. Regulates diabetes.

    A small dosage of CBD can possibly regulate diabetes. Diabetic patients know how important it is to have controlled levels of blood sugar all the time. Homeostasis is the physiological process of maintaining an equilibrium within the different elements in the body. Due to the role of CBD in working with the receptors in the connective tissues, brain, immune system, and other parts of the body, it controls blood sugar levels in diabetic patients as well. 

    8. Reduces spasticity in multiple sclerosis. 

    Spasticity is when specific muscles in the body are contracted. This happens when a small portion of the spinal cord or brain is damaged, which is usually common in multiple sclerosis patients. CBD is linked to modulating spasticity associated with multiple sclerosis through the endocannabinoid system. 

    Learn More About cannaboid system from Dr. Judy Mikovitis

    In her thirty-five-year quest to understand and develop therapies for chronic diseases, she has co-authored seminal papers culminating at least a decade of research in each of four fields: immunology, natural products chemistry, epigenetics, and HIV/AIDs drug development. Her book, Plague, is about one scientist’s intrepid search for the truth about human retroviruses and chronic fatigue syndrome, autism and other diseases.

    Article contributed by Hartley Ewin

    Sources:

    https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/20-medical-benefits-marijuana-you-probably-never-knew.html

    https://www.businessinsider.com/health-benefits-of-medical-marijuana-2014-4

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3820295/

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/marijuana-gives-you-the-munchies-what-about-cbd/2019/01/07/7a793076-0ebc-11e9-8938-5898adc28fa2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d5607bfdfb13

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3349875/

    https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects/complementary-and-alternative-medicine/marijuana-and-cancer.html

    https://www.epilepsy.com/release/2018/6/epilepsy-foundation-statement-president-and-ceo-philip-gattone-us-food-drug

  • Vaccine Exemptions Are A Necessary Part of Religious Toleration

    Likely to be lost amid all the liberal preening about the mandatory vaccination bill signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week is the fact that, during the period covered by the so-called “epidemic,” not a single person has died from a confirmed case of measles in the state of New York. The sun and moon have not dropped from the sky and the red-splotched corpses of thousands of victims do not litter the streets of Brooklyn.

    Nor are they likely to do so. Everyone involved knows this. The new law is legislation of the very worst kind — passed in a fit of self-aggrandizing indignation and meant to affect a single group of people who are all but named. I am referring to the minority of Orthodox Jews in New York who have refused to vaccinate their children and whose objections were, until last week, granted specific legal protection. This is not a question of so-called “association” or “public accommodations.” No one is demanding the right to send unvaccinated children to public schools, nor are the post-faith bobos of today’s Williamsburg likely to send their own children, if they have any, to receive an Orthodox education. 

    The new law is about power and control for their own sake.

    Let me be clear at the outset. I am a father of three small children, all of whom have received measles and other vaccinations. I do not oppose the consensus such as it is about the necessity of all these shots, though I do find it absurd that in many of our hospitals they begin before a mother has so much as nursed her child for the first time. I could quibble by pointing out that when I was a child in the not-so-distant 1990s we got less than half the number of vaccinations said to be the sole bulwark against various public health emergencies today — what was so wrong with getting the chicken pox, I wonder? — or that my daughters who were both born in Virginia were required to receive many more shots than their brother has in Michigan. Could it be that we have defined “necessary” in this context down the way we have virtually everything else? But this is irrelevant to my real argument.

    I do not share or even quite understand the objections made by those Orthodox who refuse to have their children vaccinated against measles and other diseases. The content of these objections is of very little interest to me because I am not Jewish. 

    But I do believe in religious toleration — the rather antique notion that one can freely confess the falsehood of a sect or a doctrine while believing that its blameless adherents ought to be allowed to do as they wish.

    It is odd to me, too, that so few have discussed the way in which the coverage of measles cases in New York makes effortless use of tropes about Jews as somehow unclean or contaminated and thus requiring a mandatory purification by the authorities. 

    This is not the first time that black hats and long beards have become outward signifiers of an unspeakable interior pollution.

    These do not exhaust my concerns. There was a time when one could expect a certain degree of epistemic humility from good liberals who had read their Thomas Kuhn. No longer. Science has joined “the economy” as one of those first-order goods whose pursuit we are told cannot be questioned. The ease with which all moral and prudential questions are being subsumed into the rhetoric of “science,” “health,” and “safety” should worry all persons of humane views and skeptical temperament.

    As I write this, many of New York’s yeshivas have been closed until further notice. This will not end with vaccines. 

    Health is a remarkably fluid concept in the modern liberal imagination. A day will come when refusing to affirm the latest fashionable nonsense about gender theory will be considered a threat to “health” by the relevant medical authorities. Catholic schools will be shut down because they do not instruct children in the art of contraception. In British Columbia it is already considered child abuse for a parent to refuse to allow naïve adolescents to undergo elective hormonal therapy — or even to refer to one’s own children by their given names and the pronouns associated with persons of their sex. Only a fool would believe that this could never happen in this country, or that many of our progressives are not already in favor of it.

    My prayers, and those of every person of faith and good will, belong with New York’s Orthodox Jews, who have become the victims of a fideistic campaign of persecution.

    This article originally appeared at: https://theweek.com/articles/847598/vaccine-exemptions-are-necessary-part-religious-toleration.

    CDC table: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6817e1.htm