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A Modern Major General Exposed?

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_The fictional Major-General who appears in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879

comic opera " The Pirates of Penzance " _

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_General's_Song) 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)

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_ (http://www.canadiansub.com/Board.html) , 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_ (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/) and began to promote

himself as an expert on _Codex Alimentarius_

(http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp) .

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_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-beware.htm) 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_

(http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp) of restrictive new _global

guidelines for vitamin and mineral supplements_

(http://www.codexalimentarius.net/download/standards/10206/cxg_055e.pdf) ,

Stubblebine and Laibow announced

that a _miracle_

(http://blog.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?year=2005 & monthnum=07 & day=07 & name=mi\

racle-at-fao & page= & year=2005 & monthnum=07 & day=07 & name=miracle-a

t-fao & page=) 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 " _

(http://blog.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?year=2005 & monthnum=07 & day=09 & name=37\

& page= & yea

r=2005 & monthnum=07 & day=09 & name=37 & page=) and that WHO had stated that

_ " things would be different in the future " _

(http://blog.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?year=2005 & monthnum=07 & day=09 & name=37\

& page= & year=2005 & monthnum=07 & day=09 & na

me=37 & page=) . Of course, the Dr. Rath Health Foundation later proved,

definitively, that _these assertions were largely either mistaken or

exaggerated_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-miracle.htm) ;

however this unfortunately didn't stem what was by then becoming _a growing

tide of inaccuracy_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-beware.htm)

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_

(http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/resources/newsletters/ottawa.shtml) , despite

the fact

that _such an assertion had absolutely no basis in fact, as proven by the Dr.

Rath Health Foundation_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-ottawa.htm) and

confirmed by _other experienced observers who were

present at the meeting_

(http://www.thenhf.com/codex_may_2006_nhf_press_release.htm) , including even

_the Natural Solutions Foundation's own legal

council_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-vitaminlawyer.ht\

m) .

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_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-ottawa.htm)

article, as well as the _Miracle

in Rome?_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-miracle.htm)

and _Be Wary of the Instant Experts_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-beware.htm)

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_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-beware.htm) ,

and, if so, which ones? " All of them " , he

answered.

 

Rima Laibow, speaking at Northwest Missouri State University in November 2005

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:

1. Why are _Codex reports_

(http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/resources/newsletters/ottawa.shtml) issued by

the _Natural Solutions Foundation_

(http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/) increasingly at odds with those of _more

experienced observers_

(http://www.thenhf.com/codex_may_2006_nhf_press_release.htm) ,

including even those of _its own Legal Counsel_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-vitaminlawyer.ht\

m) ?

2. Why does the _Natural Solutions Foundation_

(http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/) claim that _miracles_

(http://blog.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?year=2005 & monthnum=07 & day=07 & name=mi\

racle-at-fao & page= & year=2005 & monthnum=07 & day

=07 & name=miracle-at-fao & page=) and_ stunning victories_

(http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/resources/newsletters/ottawa.shtml) for

health freedom have

taken place at Codex meetings when in reality _no such miracles_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-miracle.htm) or

_stunning

victories_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-ottawa.htm)

have taken place?

3. Why does Stubblebine – a man who has held several senior posts in US

Army Intelligence and who as such will be acutely aware of the need to

ensure accuracy in the gathering of information – continue to permit the

National

Solutions Foundation's articles and press releases to contain _numerous

crucial inaccuracies_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-beware.htm) ,

and why does he refuse to correct them?

4. Was it Stubblebine's intention to try to intimidate Paul Anthony

Taylor at the July 2006 meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission in Geneva?

5. Given that _Stubblebine once admitted in a court of law that his

" real expertise is government, primarily intelligence " , and, when asked whether

he had any other skills, answered " Not particularly " _

(http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opncavtx/1915944.txt) , what does he

expect the health freedom

movement to conclude regarding his spreading of _inaccurate and misleading

material on Codex and other related dietary supplement issues_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-beware.htm) ?

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 " _

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_General's_Song) , 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.