IAHF List:

Listen up! A key vote on the fate of the internet happens THIS FRIDAY
in the House, and I need your help NOW to fight back.

If the web were turned into a toll road, and it suddenly were to take
5 minutes for the IAHF website to open because I can't afford
whatever extorsionistic rate the telecommunications giants would like
to charge so that it would even take people with high speed
connections forever to get into my site, far fewer people would visit
and we would have one hell of a harder time defending health freedom.

On another note, IAHF and NHF have drafted a letter that we're
getting around to members of the House Oversight & Investigations
Subcommittee. We're trying to get someone to send this letter to the
FDA Commissioner to ask a lot of questions about their Trilateral
Cooperation Charter with Canada & Mexico. This is the first step
toward getting an oversight hearing. Donations are needed to send
John Hammell back to DC for lobbying on this. See
http://www.nocodexgenocide.com/page/page/3113342.htm We now have
copies of Byron Richard's new book Fight for Your Health- Exposing
the FDA's Betrayal of America which I've had input into. We'll send
this book to you for a donation of $25.
If you'd like it and our existing Education Kit as shown on the
website, we'll send both for a donation of $50. Additional donations
beyond that are always helpful as trips to DC are expensive.


VERY EASY: WHAT TO DO RIGHT NOW TO SAVE THE INTERNET

Please go here http://action.freepress.net/campaign/savethenet to
send a form letter to congress to save Network Neutrality so that the
telecommunications giants don't force website owners (like me) to
have to pay extorsionistic rates for our websites to open as quickly
as those who can afford to pay these fees.


LATEST NEWS: Go to link below to see hypertext links that don't show
up in my text here

http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2006/06/06/will-the-house-get-a-
vote-on-internet-freedom/

Will the Full House Get to Vote?
The tech companies are wading into the fight, gingerly (with eBay as
the most effective) writes Matt Stoller. But their pro-Net Neutrality
campaign is still dwarfed by AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon's
legislative shopping spree.

The telcos are reportedly spending between ten and fifty million
dollars in their campaign to control the Internet. Their ads are
splashed across local TV in DC, Maine, Washington State, Wisconsin
and other areas of the country. Their money is channeled through
phony front groups like Hands off the Internet and TV4US (along with
indirect costs, such as money to think tanks) in a campaign to paint
Net Neutrality as big, bad government regulation - bad for consumer
Joe's like you and me.

This deceptive campaign also includes canned telephone appeals and
beltway radio spots. These Astroturf pitches fail to mention that
every major consumer advocacy group is in our coalition and opposed
to the telco cartel on this - or that their real plan is not to free
net-users from regulation but to write new laws that clear the way
for AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth to seize control of content.

Telco money has bought a lot of support in the House, though less in
the Senate. The House telecom bill that's on deck this week is called
the COPE Act. As it's currently written it eviscerates net neutrality.

It's now up to the House Committee on Rules to allow an amendment
onto the floor that would put meaningful and enforceable Network
Neutrality language into the Act. The 13 members that play
gatekeepers at Rules are meeting 3:30pm, Wednesday. They could stand
a call from you. Tell them that we need the full House to vote on Net
Neutrality. Every representative's stance on the future of the
Internet should be put on the record.

If Rules allows Net Neutrality to the floor, we expect a full House
vote as early as Friday.

The House fight is in its final throes. After this week, the Net
Neutrality debate will shift to Congress, where we have good momentum
behind a bipartisan bill offered by Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)
and Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota).

Stay tuned.

For Health Freedom,
John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Road
Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
http://www.iahf.com
jham@...
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World