madthumbs
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 A Modern Major General Exposed? |
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From:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-moderngeneral.html
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fictional Major-General who appears in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879
comic opera "The Pirates of Penzance"
famously sings boastfully about his extremely wide general knowledge.
Hardly the most modest of people, he comically claims to know about
or to understand all manner of disparate subjects, and repeatedly
tells the audience that he is "the very model of a modern
Major-General."
Not
entirely dissimilarly therefore, the health freedom movement has
recently been subjected to the increasingly bizarre claims of a
real-life Major-General, a man who, rather like his counterpart in
The Pirates of Penzance, claims to be an expert in all manner
of things.
Major
General Albert (Bert) N. Stubblebine III (U.S. Army, Retired)
graduated from The United States Military Academy (West Point) in
1952, and served in the US Army for 32 years. Starting his career as
an Armor officer, he subsequently rose through the ranks to lead
troops at every echelon of Army command, and held several senior
posts in US Army Intelligence. His commands as a General Officer
included the US Army Intelligence Center and School, the Army's
Electronic Research and Development Command (ERADCOM) and the US Army
Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). Whilst on active duty
Stubblebine also redesigned the intelligence architecture of the
United States Army, and restructured the Army Intelligence training
curriculum. After his retirement from the Army in 1984 he served
until 1990 as the Vice President for Intelligence Systems at BDM
Corporation, a private defense sector contractor, and then acted as a
part-time consultant to two government contractors; ERIM, and Space
Applications Corporation (SAC). More recently, and along with his
wife, the psychiatrist Rima Laibow, Stubblebine
sits on the Board of Canadian Submarine Technologies Inc,
and claims to be the designer of AEGIS, "a major Homeland
Security private initiative".
Given
this background, and his resulting proximity to the US Government,
eyebrows began to be raised in the health freedom community in early
2005 when, along with Rima Laibow, Stubblebine launched the website
of the Natural
Solutions Foundation
and began to promote himself as an expert on Codex
Alimentarius.
However,
for a man who had previously held several
senior posts in US Army Intelligence, and who as such would be
acutely aware of the need to ensure accuracy in the gathering of
information, it quickly became apparent to experienced health freedom
observers that Stubblebine either hadn't done his homework
properly, or that he and Laibow were intentionally spreading
inaccurate
and misleading material on Codex and other related dietary supplement
issues via their
website and press releases. Moreover, despite repeated concerns being
expressed by more experienced health freedom observers, Stubblebine
and Laibow continued to disseminate this material, and pointedly
ignored requests to remove it from their website.
The
inaccuracy of their written output on Codex reached a new high in
July 2005, when, following the adoption by the Codex
Alimentarius Commission
of restrictive new global
guidelines for vitamin and mineral supplements,
Stubblebine and Laibow announced that a miracle
had taken place at the Commission's meeting. While the health
freedom community looked on in astonishment, Stubblebine and Laibow
went on to claim that during the meeting a World Health Organization
(WHO) Under Secretary for Food Safety had spoken "sternly,
sharply and scathingly of the fact that little contribution to human
health had been made by Codex"
and that WHO had stated that
"things
would be different in the future".
Of course, the Dr. Rath Health Foundation later proved, definitively,
that these
assertions were largely either mistaken or exaggerated;
however this unfortunately didn't stem what was by then becoming a
growing tide of inaccuracy
flowing from Stubblebine and Laibow.
Next,
for example, following a meeting of the Codex Committee on Food
Labelling that took place in Ottawa, Canada in May 2006, Stubblebine
claimed that the meeting's outcome was a "Stunning
Victory" for health freedom,
despite the fact that such
an assertion had absolutely no basis in fact, as proven by the Dr.
Rath Health Foundation
and confirmed by other
experienced observers who were present at the meeting,
including even the
Natural Solutions Foundation's own legal council.
Perhaps
not surprisingly therefore, Stubblebine did not take kindly to being
repeatedly exposed in this way, and subsequently confronted Paul
Anthony Taylor at the July 2006 meeting of the Codex Alimentarius
Commission, in Geneva. Paul's summary of this encounter follows
below:
Immediately
after the close of the meeting Bert Stubblebine approached me and
positioned himself so that I could not easily walk away. His manner
was somewhat aggressive, and at one point I had to tell him that
there was no need to shout, as his raised voice and threatening
manner were beginning to attract the attention of other delegates. He
claimed that the subject of his anger was the Foundation's Codex
meeting in Ottawa
article, as well as the Miracle
in Rome?
and Be
Wary of the Instant Experts
articles that had recently been revised to include his and Rima
Laibow's names. He asked me whether I wrote these articles, and I
answered that the decision to name him in them was taken by the
Executive Board of the Dr. Rath Health Foundation. In turn, I asked
him whether he disagreed with any of the factual corrections that the
Dr. Rath Health Foundation had published regarding the
fictional nature of material put out by his organization,
and, if so, which ones? "All of them", he answered.
By
this point we had been joined by his wife, Rima Laibow, who,
seemingly white with anger, proceeded to ask me some of the same
questions that Bert had just asked me. I therefore told her that I
had just answered these same questions to Bert, and that as such I
saw no need to answer them again. Rima then proceeded to ask me "Who
are the Executive Board of the Dr. Rath Health Foundation?", and I
told her that the relevant names could all be found on the
Foundation's website. At this they both about-turned and stormed
off, and Rima muttered something whilst they were walking away to the
effect that they would find that information very interesting.
The Dr. Rath Health Foundation believes that the health
freedom movement now needs to ask several important questions of
Stubblebine and the Natural Solutions Foundation:
Is
Albert Stubblebine "the very model of a modern Major-General"?
We'll leave you to make up your own minds on that one, and can only
but wonder what Gilbert and Sullivan might have made of him. One
thing is for sure however, in that the
fictional Major-General in "The Pirates of Penzance",
with his "pretty taste for paradox", would probably find a man
with a background in the Intelligence Community, but who can't seem
to get his facts right, most interesting indeed. |
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