May 25, 2005

 

Regarding:        Fraud committed by Toby McAdam of Risingsun Health or bloodrootproducts.com

 

Dear Ms. Scott,

 

We have received at least 50 complaints in writing and several dozen more complaints by telephone.  Before we shut down in September of 2003, Mr. McAdam was our Northern American Distributor.  At the time we were shut down, he owed us a balance of between $5,000 to $6,000 for products we shipped to his customers and he received payment from the customers, but did not pay for the product to Alpha Omega Labs.  Before we shut down, Mr. McAdam had made a duplicate copy of Alpha Omega’s web site.  We began to notice after we closed that he started to change the wording from “Alpha Omega Labs” to “RisingSun Health” and from “Cansema” to “Bla-Cansema”.  Our biggest concern is that we have now realized that he is changing the wording in almost every testimonial (about 125) that Alpha Omega had received and posted on our web site.  He has changed the product wording used from the original Cansema Salve to his product “Bla-Cansema” and from “Alpha Omega Labs” to his company “Risingsun Health”.  The following is the link of Alpha’s Testimonials and “Risingsun’s Testimonials”.

 

http://www.altcancer.com/cantest01.htm  ß Alpha Omega’s Site

 

http://www.risingsunhealth.com/cansema_info/cantest.htm  ß RisingSun’s Site

 

Example:

 

http://www.altcancer.com/estes.htm  ß Kent Estes’ Testimonial on Alpha Omega

 

http://www.bloodrootproducts.com/estes.htm  ß Kent Estes’ Testimonial on RisingSun

 

Also – we know that Toby McAdam is working with George Ackerson, one of the informants who were used in the Affidavit for the Search Warrant against Greg Caton and Alpha Omega Labs.  George had a 15-year business relationship with Greg Caton.  George convinced Greg to invest in the H30 product that the FDA arrested Greg on “introduction of an unapproved drug” and screwed Greg out of $45,000 in purchasing equipment to make the H3O.  We were in the middle of a civil lawsuit against George Ackerson at the time of the raid over the $45,000 scam.  George teamed up with the FDA to get Greg thrown in jail, and now has teamed up with Toby McAdam to profit from the same products and using the same informational web site that Greg Caton had and is in jail for.

 

Toby McAdam called several weeks ago and when I answered the phone he told me his lawyer was going to contact me because he was going to sue us for slander.  Of course we are not worried about being sued for slander against Mr. McAdam because we were only repeating the complaints that we received from our/his customers.  Nothing was said without first hearing it from one of Mr. McAdam’s customers first.

 

I will be sending you several emailed complaints about Toby McAdam right now and will continue to send you emails as we get them and as I find them on our company computers.

 

If there is anything you need from us, please give us a call.  We understand this is a confidential investigation and will not repeat anything you ask from us. 

 

Thank you for your time –

 

Cathryn Caton, Crystal Leslie and Tabetha LeDoux
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Office
To: Tabetha with Alpha
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:38 AM
Subject: Risingsun - our final episode


Hello, Tabetha,  
    I thought this might interest you.  I did more research and last night I sent the following message.  Perhaps others who have contacted you about RisingSun could also use the following tactic.  Ann, at Risingsun, called this morning.  She wanted to verify that I received the notice from PayPal informing me that my money has been refunded.  I did and it was.  It's been quite a ride :o) 
    Thank you for all the support and information that has helped me through this.
God Bless You,
Virginia Lang
Las Vegas, NV 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: office@donlangtrucking.com
To: greta@bloodrootproducts.com
Cc: info@bloodrootproducts.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 7:37 PM
Subject: Repeated requests

Dear Ms. Armstrong,
    This is to notify you that I've made repeated requests for a refund for $57.45.  Transaction Date: May 1, 2005 PayPal Transaction ID: 6DF25382K6891763K.  On May 2, 2005 I requested a refund.  I have sent several emails since that time and made several phone calls.  On May 23, 2005 I once again contacted Risingsun and again spoke with Ann about the requested refund.  I mentioned fraud.  On May 23, 2005 I again emailed Toby McAdam.  I sent him the website link http://www.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp which is the governments Internet Fraud Reporting website.  I'm sorry to say I believe Mr. McAdam will test me to see if I will file a report.  I'm also sorry to say that I will.   I am one of those who have been given a death sentence of a malignant melanoma and am desperate.  I don't have the time, temperament, or desire to be robbed by a person that takes my money, without before hand mentioning the product is on back order, and then not refunding my money immediately upon request. 
    As you are listed as the Administrative contact for Bloodroot products I felt it only fair to notify you of this situation.  If my money is not refunded by noon, PST on May 25, 2005, a report of fraud will be filed with the U.S. government.  I truly hate to do this because of the government's desire to stop the sale of natural supplements.  Regardless, if my money is not refunded as mentioned, I will file the complaint.
 
Sincerely,
Virginia
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Office
To: support@altcancer.com
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:33 AM
Subject: Cansema

Good Morning and 'oh my goodness'!
    Last night I ordered Alpha Omega Cansema Black Salve Deep Tissue from http://www.bloodrootproducts.com/cansema_deep.htm  I read about the salve on your website and in desperation I ordered the product from the above site.  I didn't realize it was an alternate site to Rising Sun.  It was my hope and belief that it was actually your product and that you'd found a way to sale it again.  This is the second time I've had melanoma.  The first was removed surgically.  I now have another metastactic melanoma on my shoulder.  It's been confirmed by a biopsy.  The tumor has now raised it's head above the skin surface by one-third of and inch and is approximately one inch in diameter.  The inflammation covers +/- 3 inches.  I believe your product would get rid of it.  I apparently have fallen for a scam.  Do you think there is any possibility that the knock-off Rising Sun product will work?  Do you have the product available from any source available to me? 
    Please help me if you can.
Sincerely,
Virginia Lang
Las Vegas, NV
----- Original Message -----
From: Dianne Asquith
To: Tabetha with Alpha
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 5:31 AM
Subject: Re: TOBY MCADAM WARNING

Hi Tabetha,

Thank you for your reply.

I am appalled about Toby McAdam, he certainly is a
real rogue, with no concern for people.  I cannot
understand why he has not been arrested.  I mean, Greg
has been charged, and Toby just carries on as usual.
I have made paypal aware that he did not deliver, so
whether they still have dealings with him I am not
sure, I may send thenm another e-mail.
Has Greg been imprisoned, and if so for how long?  So
much for wanting to help people, eh?
Here in NZ I have got to know several alternative
health practitioners that have really helped many
people;  but the phrase we often hear here is that "it
is not scientifically proven"  Oh how I tire if that
phrase.  The drug companies certainly have too much
power.
We have a very good herbalist in NZ {Malcolm Harker}
I do hope the FDA do not arrest him, his products are
amazing.
All the best to you and Greg.  Will he be able to
continue with his work later on?
Regards, Dianne Asquith
----- Original Message -----
From: Jesse Rhodes
To: Tabetha with Alpha
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: Alpha Omega Labs: Email

Thank you for the email.
 
What is being done about Toby McAdams? Surely there is a legal remedy for this? I would hate to see a good product ruined by the likes of a scumbag like him. Please let me know.
 
Thanks again and best regards,
Jesse R.
----- Original Message -----
From: Joyce Pualani
To: support@altcancer.com
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 5:35 PM
Subject: rising sun

Hi Tabetha, :-)
 
Thank you for your very enlightening reply.  I am so sorry this happened to Greg Caton and all of you at Alpha Omega Labs.  I am well aware of how draconian the government can get when a cancer remedy works.  They are there to protect the patent medicine pushers and their multi billion dollar sickness industries, not the public.
 
On an immediate and personal note for me was the information regarding rising sun herbs as I had already ordered a 32oz bottle of the dewormer and a bottle of iodine from that site before I received your reply.  :-0  I thought it was an affiliated site that was still in business or I would not have bought from it.
 
I have notified paypal and just got off the phone to my bank.  The bank suggests I contact the Federal Trade Commission and Paypal suggests I call the FBI as this is internet fraud and they are very hot on this at the moment.   This guy may have well been insturmental in the deaths of people with cancer who relied on his bogus concoction and he does need to be stopped.  On the other hand I do not want to cause you folks anymore grief.
 
Would you and Alpha Omega Labs be willing to provide copies of all the complaints you have received regarding this person to the authourities?  Once I pass on what you have told me they will very likely be contacting you.  I will wait until I hear from you Monday to proceed. 
 
I received the package from Rising Sun yesterday, Friday 2/4/5.  I have emailed rising sun twice requesting a return RMA or at least an aknowledgement that the items will be refunded with no response so far.  I will give him until Monday to reply and then return the package, return receipt requested, on Monday.
 
I can be reached on my cell phone anytime, 816-694-3318.  I will be away from the computer on Monday from 12:15PM until after 6PM CST. 
 
Warmly Yours,
Joyce Pualani
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Joyce Pualani
To: Tabetha with Alpha
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: rising sun

Hi Tabetha,
 
I just went looking for the risingsun site that looked exactly like the Alpha site and it's changed.  However, I believe he is still using the Alpha testimonials.  I found them here, http://www.bloodrootproducts.com/cantest.htm
 
The FTC says they do not deal with single complaints only class action ones.  If all the people who sent you complaints about this guy would call or go on line and fill out the complaint form at; https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01
The comments just before this form can be confusing. It IS the form to use for online fraud as well as unsolicited business spam, or call them....To call the FTC go to this page; http://www.ftc.gov/ro/romap2.htm   and click on your state to get the office for your region.... Then they will do something. 
 
The woman at the FTC also suggested I contact www.fraud.com .  She said they deal with internet fraud.
 
I'm going to this site next and will keep you posted.
 
Warmly Yours,
Joyce Pualani
----- Original Message -----
From: Tabetha with Alpha
To: Joyce Pualani
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: rising sun

Joyce....
 
I will be more than happy to share any and all complaints with the athorities.  I have already contacted a local FDA agent here, but nothing has been done yet.
 
Just let me know what you need and I will be more than happy to help.
 
Tabetha
----- Original Message -----
From: Joyce Pualani
To: support@altcancer.com
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:35 PM
Subject: rising sun

Hi Tabetha, :-)
 
Thank you for your very enlightening reply.  I am so sorry this happened to Greg Caton and all of you at Alpha Omega Labs.  I am well aware of how draconian the government can get when a cancer remedy works.  They are there to protect the patent medicine pushers and their multi billion dollar sickness industries, not the public.
 
On an immediate and personal note for me was the information regarding rising sun herbs as I had already ordered a 32oz bottle of the dewormer and a bottle of iodine from that site before I received your reply.  :-0  I thought it was an affiliated site that was still in business or I would not have bought from it.
 
I have notified paypal and just got off the phone to my bank.  The bank suggests I contact the Federal Trade Commission and Paypal suggests I call the FBI as this is internet fraud and they are very hot on this at the moment.   This guy may have well been insturmental in the deaths of people with cancer who relied on his bogus concoction and he does need to be stopped.  On the other hand I do not want to cause you folks anymore grief.
 
Would you and Alpha Omega Labs be willing to provide copies of all the complaints you have received regarding this person to the authourities?  Once I pass on what you have told me they will very likely be contacting you.  I will wait until I hear from you Monday to proceed. 
 
I received the package from Rising Sun yesterday, Friday 2/4/5.  I have emailed rising sun twice requesting a return RMA or at least an aknowledgement that the items will be refunded with no response so far.  I will give him until Monday to reply and then return the package, return receipt requested, on Monday.
 
I can be reached on my cell phone anytime, 816-694-3318.  I will be away from the computer on Monday from 12:15PM until after 6PM CST. 
 
Warmly Yours,
Joyce Pualani
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Joyce Pualani
To: Tabetha with Alpha
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: rising sun

Hi yet again, :-)
 
I have just finished, between several phone calls, sending the information about Toby McAdam to the National Fraud Information Center and Internets Fraud Watch at www.fraud.org 
 
In the comments section of the online form I included the paragraph you sent me about Mr. McAdam and I included your contact info so they can contact you regarding all the complaints you have received from people.  the authorities will only act if many people complain, not just one.  I hope this was alright.  I did not think to ask until after I hit the sent button.
 
They will send the information on to all the appropriate authorities, fed, state and local.
 
Warmly Yours,
Joyce P.
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Tabetha with Alpha
To: Joyce Pualani
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: rising sun

Joyce....
 
I will be more than happy to share any and all complaints with the athorities.  I have already contacted a local FDA agent here, but nothing has been done yet.
 
Just let me know what you need and I will be more than happy to help.
 
Tabetha
----- Original Message -----
From: Joyce Pualani
To: support@altcancer.com
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:35 PM
Subject: rising sun

Hi Tabetha, :-)
 
Thank you for your very enlightening reply.  I am so sorry this happened to Greg Caton and all of you at Alpha Omega Labs.  I am well aware of how draconian the government can get when a cancer remedy works.  They are there to protect the patent medicine pushers and their multi billion dollar sickness industries, not the public.
 
On an immediate and personal note for me was the information regarding rising sun herbs as I had already ordered a 32oz bottle of the dewormer and a bottle of iodine from that site before I received your reply.  :-0  I thought it was an affiliated site that was still in business or I would not have bought from it.
 
I have notified paypal and just got off the phone to my bank.  The bank suggests I contact the Federal Trade Commission and Paypal suggests I call the FBI as this is internet fraud and they are very hot on this at the moment.   This guy may have well been insturmental in the deaths of people with cancer who relied on his bogus concoction and he does need to be stopped.  On the other hand I do not want to cause you folks anymore grief.
 
Would you and Alpha Omega Labs be willing to provide copies of all the complaints you have received regarding this person to the authourities?  Once I pass on what you have told me they will very likely be contacting you.  I will wait until I hear from you Monday to proceed. 
 
I received the package from Rising Sun yesterday, Friday 2/4/5.  I have emailed rising sun twice requesting a return RMA or at least an aknowledgement that the items will be refunded with no response so far.  I will give him until Monday to reply and then return the package, return receipt requested, on Monday.
 
I can be reached on my cell phone anytime, 816-694-3318.  I will be away from the computer on Monday from 12:15PM until after 6PM CST. 
 
Warmly Yours,
Joyce Pualani
----- Original Message -----
From: Nancy Pratt
To: 'Tabetha with Alpha'
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 2:41 PM
Subject: RE: cansema capsules

I am not surprised about what is happening.  I also take amygdalin and I have to get it from the Bahama’s. If you need a distributer for the future, I can pass it on to you.  I still have a lot of the salve so I am okay there and it saved my husbands life.  I hope you haven’t lost the formula. We took the rising sun stuff and you are right, it doesn’t work. Plus I had ordered two bottles of their cansema capsules and they only sent me one and charged me for two and never sent me another bottle.  I hope and pray you can get going again because your product is superior for skin cancer.  I lost my first husband to melanoma and now my second husband has it, but cansema works for him.  I wish I had known about it for my first, because if I did, I know he would still be alive.  What the FDA is doing is so wrong and then look at Vioxx.  Keep me on your mailing list and keep me apprised of what is happening. Nancy Pratt

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 7:38 AM
Subject: Alpha Omega Labs: Email

Your_Email_Address: dianneasquith@yahoo.com

About three months ago I ordered cansema salve from a Firm called Risingsun Health Alternatives.  Do you know if ths is a legitimate Company as I have received nothing and my e-mails have been ignored.  I would appreciate your comments.
Thanks, Dianne Asquith
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:21 PM
Subject: Alpha Omega Labs: Email

Your_Email_Address: holley_rb@hotmail.com

I would like to order cansema topical. I ordered before from rising sun and had no results from theirs and then I noticed your note about them. Please contact me.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:31 AM
Subject: Alpha Omega Labs: Email

Your_Email_Address: kim@huttriverprovince.net

Can you assure me that if I order a product from you that my order will be filled?  I have recently been caught out by rising sun health and am down $30.  Even a response to this email will be encouraging.  I am very interested in bloodroot paste, but am a little hesitant about ordering over the internet again.  Do you provide a registered delivery service to the UK?  
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:11 PM
Subject: Alpha Omega Labs: Email

Your_Email_Address: susanbruner@yahoo.com

Are you affiliated with 'Rising Sun Health Alternatives'?
I ordered some black salve from them for some basal cell carcinoma with the same ingredients as your original stuff and it didn't work after several treatments.
 I called Rising Sun and sent them an e-mail. No response. Could you tell me if this is a rip-off company and if so when is Alpha Omega going to be back up and running so I can get the original stuff?
Thank you so much for responding.......Sue Bruner
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:03 PM
Subject: Alpha Omega Labs - Facilitators

Your_Email_Address: stephj329@aol.com

My name is Stephanie Dougherty from the USA.  I have used Rising Sun Can-sema Salve for pets on my dog (lab) with no success.  We applied the 2nd application tonight but as the tumor is quite large (7cm x 4 cm) we assume the need for additional applications.  I need to get Cansema for dogs &  horses ASAP but am unable to do so in this country.  PLEASE EMAIL ME ASAP and tell me how I can have it overnighted to me!  It is now 20:00 EST on March 23.  If you would call me it would be most appreciated! 

My telephone number is:  001 248 449 9783
My name is:  Stephanie Dougherty

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Stephanie Dougherty
----- Original Message -----
From: Longearscrazy@wmconnect.com
To: support@soybean.com
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 2:07 PM
Subject: Cansema

We are the farm that sent you the testimonial about the donkey with a rare-in-equine cancer behind her ear.  We are constantly getting inquiries about Cansema and, unfortunately, do not know where to send them.  We have gotten people that have found us through Rising Sun and also, sadly, later report that they either never got any product or got a product that in no way even came close to working.  

My question is that there are several recipes for cancer salves on the web and I was wondering if you have any comments on any of these.  We are desperate to find an alternative product and are waiting for the day when, hopefully, Alpha Omega will be back in the Cansema business. The market is out there, the puplic is ready, now...if we can just get the government to stop "protecting" us.......

Please keep us informed of any updates.  

Signed: one of your number one fans!!  



May all your days be donkey days, full of patience, affection and understanding

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PO BOX 81
YOUNGSTOWN, FL 32466
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Amy - here is a link to a message board where Toby has posted:
 
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=507
 
 Posted on January 28, 2005 09:08 PM
by
Toby McAdam

It is sad that Alpha Omega was shut down. However, rules were violated. Alpha Omega claims the products from Risingsun Health are not of original formulation. This is not accurate. Alpha Omega never did manufacture any of their product them selves. They purchased them and had them private labled. As for the information on their site about our products, the lables aren't even ours. We have 3 fda approved labs putting our products together. Our stand is simple, we sell the samve products and have not had any problems with the FDA. It could be that we do not violate the law and make health claims or that we use accurate lables. Feel free to contact us at 406-222-9949.

 http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=507

Posted on April 26, 2005 07:12 AM
by JC

Does anyone know if BevenPotter.com is a reputable source to purchase cansema tonic III? I think it's the same as health.centreforce based out of Australia. I'm desperate to find this product and, unfortunately, I am another victim of risingsun.com. I can't get anyone to return my calls or e-mails. Several days ago I paid for the product thru risingsun, then got an e-mail saying the product was not in stock, with no indication of when it will be in stock. Sure enough, the Montana BBB says its received complaints about Risingsun not sending products or responding to customers wanting a refund. I am going to try to get my money back. In the meantime, I hope to be able to get the product from a reputable source.

 

Tabetha,

 

I would like a copy of the recorded conversation with notation as to when it was recorded. If you could compress the e-mail files into a .zip file that would be very helpful and you could send them at once.

 

Thank you,

 

Bob

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tabetha with Alpha [mailto:jayde@altcancer.com]
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 12:39
To: Ottaviano, Robert
Subject: Re: COMPLAINTS REGARDING TOBY MCADAM

 

Dear Mr. Ottaviano -

 

Thank you for responding.  At this point I have about 30 - 50 emailed complaints ready to send.  I still have to go throught a saved email file from right after the raid that has at least 30 to 50 more (if not more).  It is time consuming because I'm pulling the second set of emails from a crashed computer.

 

However, I did call Mr. McAdam's company today and was asking general "customer" questions.  The lady that answered the phone obviously did not know that I worked for Alpha Omega Labs.  The first conversation included her saying that "Yes, you can say that Risingsun's products cure cancer".  When she answered I asked her what products Risingsun sold.  She answered to me that they sell "Cansema" Black Salve and internal cancer formulas.  When I called the second time I recorded the converstation.  While she was hesitant to use the term "cure" again, she did tell me that Toby's products "get rid" of cancer.  Again - I have this recorded, if you like, I'd be more than happy to provide you with a copy of the tape.

 

Again - thank you very much.  I understand you can't comment, and I'm not asking you to...but I will provide you with enough information to help with any investigation that may be ongoing. 

 

Thank you again.

 

Ohh - PS --- Do you want the complaints 1 email at a time or do you want me to group them in several large emails?  Please advise.

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Ottaviano, Robert

To: 'Tabetha with Alpha'

Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:42 PM

Subject: RE: COMPLAINTS REGARDING TOBY MCADAM

 

Tabetha,

 

Thank you for taking the time to send me this information. As I told Ms. Caton yesterday, I cannot comment on investigative matters that may be ongoing. I will say that much of the allegations you claim against Mr. McAdams are outside the realm of law enforcement. His use of your product name and website design and his owing you $5000.00 are civil matters best left to your attorneys. If he is selling products he claims cures cancer or other diseases and they are unapproved that is illegal.

 

I visited your website, altcancer.com, and found that it contains the disclaimer "To U.S. Users: No products on this page, nor any of the statements herein, have been evaluated by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. Therefore, none of the products on this page is intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease." That disclaimer does not shield the company from prosecution if claims are being made that your products can cure or aid in the treatment of disease. My guess is that is why Mr. Caton was charged and your company searched.

 

I also visited Mr. McAdams websites. He also is under the misconception that the disclaimer will shield him from prosecution.

 

Please continue to send the complaints that you have received.

 

Thank you again,

 

Bob Ottaviano

 

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tabetha with Alpha [mailto:jayde@altcancer.com]
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 11:12
To: robert.ottaviano@fda.gov
Subject: COMPLAINTS REGARDING TOBY MCADAM

 

Dear Robert -

 

Hello - my name is Tabetha.  I work for Greg and Cathryn Caton at Alpha Omega Labs in Lake Charles, Louisiana.  As per your telephone converstation with Cathryn Caton yesterday, I am going to send you all of the complaints that we're received from Toby's customers.

 

First let me give you a few specifics about this case.

 

Alpha Omega Labs had been open for 8+ years.  We have an alternative website called www.altcancer.com.  We had consulted an attorney who specialized in FDA specifics regarding what we could put on our website.  After following his instructions, making sure our website language was appropriate, puting disclaimers on our website and being in business for 8 years, we were raided by the FDA and shut down.

 

While we were open we were contacted by Toby McAdams.  He credited Alpha Omega Labs and Greg Caton's products with saving his Mother.  After much discussion Toby requested to become our North American distributor.  We had multiple money problems with Mr. McAdam's before we were raided, including him asking us to raise our prices because he thought we weren't charging enough.  Mr. McAdams would also have us send his customers product, the customers would pay him and the agreement would be that he pay us a distributor price for the products so that he could make a profit, however, we NEVER got paid for products going out to his customers and his balance owing us was well above $10,000 at one point.  When we were shut down, Mr. McAdam still owed us over $5,000.00.

 

After we were shut down we asked Mr. McAdam's to stop advertising that he had Cansema products and to stop using a copy of our web site since the company was closed and the products were unavailable.  He did not stop and continues to this day to use a copy of our web site and to promise to send Cansema products when he does not have them.

 

Below are list of complaints that I received (the actual complaints will be forwarded to you via email):

 

1. Charging people's credit cards and not sending anything at all.

 

2. Sending product that they thought was Alpha Omega brand and it is not.

 

3. Sending products that do not work.

 

4. No email or telephone support.

 

5. Not answering phone at all when people request their money back because they never received any products after having their cards charged.

 

6. Claim over the phone that their products "cure cancer".

 

Below are Toby's web sites:

 

http://www.risingsunhealth.com/

 

http://www.bloodrootproducts.com/

 

Also - we've received complaints from Alpha Omega's customers who have actually used Alpha's products and submitted a testimony that has seen their Alpha Omega Labs testimony on Toby's website with their statements altered.  Mr. McAdam's took the testimonies and changed the wording to reflect his company and his products...however if you view the testimonies of both sites, you can see its the same testimonies, but with only the names changed. 

 

Our testimonies:

 

http://www.altcancer.com/cantes20.htm

 

Toby's fake testimonies:

 

http://www.risingsunhealth.com/cansema_info/cantest20.htm

 

The point I'm trying to make is that although I believed in Alpha Omega's products (because they worked in my opinion), I think Mr. McAdam is scaming the public.  Tonic III has been deemed by the FDA as an unapproved drug, yet Mr. McAdam is able to sell it with out being raided.  I hope that there is a full investigation and that the actual scam artists like Mr. McAdam's is stopped and the people who are trying to actually help like Greg Caton are freed.

 

I can send you email upon email of complaints against Mr. McAdams and will start as soon as I can.  I have many complaints on this computer and will be going through the old computer logs for the bulk of the complaints.  It may take me awhile to get them all to you, but I will be forwarding you each and every complaint we received that I can find. 

 

Thank you for listening.

 

Tabetha LeDoux

(337) 436-6748 office

(337) 436-1769 fax

support@altcancer.com

Ms. LeDoux,

 

Thank you for sending the complaints. They are interesting to read.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tabetha with Alpha [mailto:jayde@altcancer.com]
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 13:42
To: robert.ottaviano@fda.gov
Subject: Toby McAdam Complaints

 

Dear Mr. Ottaviano -

 

Here is an attachment with many, many complaints.  I'm trying to organize them to make sure there are no duplicates and continuing to go through saved files from a crashed computer.  I know there are more.  I will get everything in order and send you an updated list...I wanted you to have somewhere to begin.

 

I hope please advise that you've received this email.  The attachment is in Word format.

 

Thank you!

 

Tabetha LeDoux

(337) 436-6748

 

PS - I will still be copying the recorded session from calling Toby's order center and get a copy to you asap.  Sorry its taking so long...with the hurricane disaster in our area and the holidays, we are very busy.

Tabetha,

 

Thank you, yes I have received all three of the emails.

 

Bob

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tabetha with Alpha [mailto:jayde@altcancer.com]
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 09:33
To: Robert with the FDA
Subject: Toby's criminal history

 

Did you get this one?

 

A little strange.

 

Tabetha

 

 

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:32 PM

Subject: Alpha Omega Labs: Email

 

Your_Email_Address: riverfrontstables@inbox.com

Email_Topic: Other

Your_Comments: Toby McAdams from Montana has a criminal history. If this is the one Im thinking of (BIllings Montana) Im not sure if he is on paper still or not.  I was his parole officer.  I am not longer employed there. 

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Thanks Tabetha

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tabetha with Alpha [mailto:jayde@altcancer.com]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 07:52
To: Ottaviano, Robert
Subject: Toby McAdam Complaint....

 

Another complaint.

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: michael adair

To: Tabetha with Alpha

Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 3:08 PM

Subject: Re: Alpha Omega Labs: Email

 

Hello Tabetha

I don't have a copy of that email so I will begin
anew, with the best of my recollection and using prior
mail as a guide. I have two cents to add about my
dealings with one Toby McAdams. This started when I
was searchinng the internet for the altcancer/alpha
omega products. I had been a customer of AO Labs in
the past but had not ordered in maybe 4 years. I had
attempted since being a customer to order again but
saw that things had shut down. Some time had now
elapsed since , maybe a year so I attempted again  to
see how things were going. I got confused to say the
least with different web sites for McAdams (bloodrooot
product & rising health) and altcancer site. I was
motivated by wanting the products, They seemed to be
able to supply them. Maybe two emails to them wet
unanswered so I phoned a couple of times and left
messages explaining what I wanted to order which
amoount to over 200.00 because they would offer
discounts on orders over 200.00. I even hinted I might
be interestd in a Rife type machine that they were
offering but I don't remeber the exect price of. It
was a few thousand dollars. McAdams did call me back
finally. I went over my order with him. (part of my
earlier confusion stemmed from wanting to make sure I
was not sending my money to someone that was no longer
in business). He told me they did except Pay Pal as a
payment alternative. This is how I chose to pay.
Several weeks passed with no shipment and I began to
call. This time when my phone calls were not returned
and I could get no informaton through the answering
sevice. I began to research more using McAdams name
and fraud (I think) in the search engines.  A came
acroosss a couple of hits dealing with complaints
about him. I immediately contacted Pay Pal and filed a
complaint. In another few weeks I had my money back.
Never a word again from Mr. McAdams. When I ordered I
recieved an email mail stating what my order was and
the shipping date and that I would recieve in 2-3
days.. I had orderd a melange of items such as Lugol's
Iodine and what he refers to as a bundle which was to
include cansema internal,external,etc., and some other
items totaling about 258.00 I think.    I  can
definetly say that his web site appearing so similar
or exactly the same  as Alpha Omegas led me to trust
him. Fortunatly for me I was able to get my money
back. Maybe he wouldn't even contact PayPal to try to
explain things. It would have hurt. He was going to
have Christmas on me. I feel sorry for those that were
unable to get a refund. One thing of note, and I
havn't looked it up lately is that I found later after
I made my complaint that McAdams was selling his
product on Ebay. You can look there for cansema and
others.I would venture that there is scam involved
there as well through eroneous buyers leaving eroneous
feedback. Hopefully ebay has stopped him by now which
they will do through the complaint process. If I can
be of any further help, let me know. Michael

--- Tabetha with Alpha <jayde@altcancer.com> wrote:

> Thank you for emailing us...however your email was
> cut off...I did not get the remainder of the email.
> Please send again directly to me.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Tabetha LeDoux
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   Sent:
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:28 AM
>   Subject: Alpha Omega Labs: Email
>
>
>   Your_Email_Address: madair3000@yahoo.com
>
>   So don't know if I'm in the right place but if
> anyone reads these correspondences anymore, I have
> two cents to add about these folks (Toby McAdams)
> bloodrootproducts aka risingsunhealth and my
> experience with that outfit. Unfortunately I got
> sucked in by the familiarity of the web sight. I was
> having a dificult time trying to figure out what was
> going on, not having ordered products from altcancer
> in a few years. But it all seemed the same or to be
> very similar products, just a different location, so
> I thought. I placed an order, this being after
> placing several call to McAdams, fionally a return
> call,talking with McAdams on the phone mostly while
> he was telling me how lovely Montana is (that part
> is probably the truth I am sure, but who knows if he
> is really there or if I really talked to McAdams). I
> found that he would except PayPal (an Ebay co.)  I
> went back to web site to place order. After a 2-3
> weeks (my product was supposed to be shipped in
> 2-3days) I began to call again to no avail. I
>   M


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Tabetha,

 

Our division is not responsible for warning letters. They are issued out of the regulatory side, which we have no control over. The issuance of a warning letter is reviewed and approved by a large number of people at all levels on the regulatory side. It isn't just an inspector signing off on it and sending it out.

 

As you were probably told when your boss was arrested, disclaimers on a website do not shield the company from liability when the company makes drug claims. The fact that several people claim the product works through testimonials doesn't make the product safe and effective in the eyes of the FDA. Anecdotal information from users of the product does not satisfy the FDA's requirements for clinical trials to test the product, nor I imagine, will it ever.

 

Has your company taken any civil action against Toby for the unauthorized use of the website? That may be an avenue open to you. 

 

Bob

 


From: Tabetha with Alpha [mailto:jayde@altcancer.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 9:38 AM
To: Ottaviano, Robert
Subject: Toby McAdams/Risingsun

 

Dear Bob -

 

Are you still in control of the Toby case?  My boss, Cathryn Caton was wondering why Toby received a warning letter (http://www.risingsunhealth.com/)    to take down the testimonials (http://www.risingsunhealth.com/cantest.htm).

 

We are wondering why Toby is allowed to operate a website (after stealing a complete copy of our web site including ALPHA's testimonials), sell an FDA declared unapproved drug, receive hundreds of complaints about credit card theft or that his product doesn't work after we were shut down.  We never received a "warning" letter.  The Indiana case that was filed that got Greg in trouble was insurance fraud in my opinion on the behalf of the Indiana lady and her lawyer. 

 

We had disclaimers...(its easy to prove this...Toby stole a complete copy of our web site), and would have taken any recommendation from the FDA had it come, instead my boss was sentenced to 33 months in jail for helping people.  Toby is doing the exact same thing we were, with regards to his web site, except that he scams people.  His products really don't work, and thats even if his customers even receive anything after having their cards charged.

 

Thanks...just wondering --- why the actual herbalist spent time in jail when scam artists are allowed to prosper.

 

Tabetha

Tabetha,

 

I was out of the office last week. Since I wasn't involved in the case of your former employer, I can't answer your question. I can tell you that the FDA doesn't have to issue a warning letter before criminal action is taken. Since the criminal investigation and the regulatory side are two separate entities, there may be parallel investigations going on. Many times we conduct criminal investigations where no regulatory action is taken, and they don't inspect or become involved at all. Sometimes we determine that criminal activity is present, but through experience know that the activity doesn't meet the United States Attorney's prosecutorial guidelines, and we take no action but let the regulatory side issue warning letters or do seizures. And sometimes, not only do we prosecute criminally, but the regulatory side sends warning letters and conducts inspections. It also depends on how the case is referred to the FDA. If the regulatory side gets the call first, they may not notify the criminal side until the warning letter is issued. Other times, the criminal side may get the call and run with it and notify the regulatory side later. Also, you are talking about two different districts, Montana and Florida. They may have different thresholds for action. Also what are the actual facts of the case, such as, what was the target of the investigation doing?, how much money was made?, what laws were broken?, was anyone hurt or die?, etc.

 

I hope this helps.

 

Bob


From: Tabetha with Alpha [mailto:jayde@altcancer.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 8:05 AM
To: Ottaviano, Robert
Subject: Another Question

 

So which agency or person do I need to talk to about why Toby got a warning letter and why Greg had to spend time in jail, when for the most part the web sites are identical?  We are checking into a civil action against Toby, but it still doesn't answer the criminal part of it.

 

I really appreciate your responses.

 

Tabetha

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:18 PM

Subject: RE: Toby McAdams/Risingsun

 

Tabetha,

 

Our division is not responsible for warning letters. They are issued out of the regulatory side, which we have no control over. The issuance of a warning letter is reviewed and approved by a large number of people at all levels on the regulatory side. It isn't just an inspector signing off on it and sending it out.

 

As you were probably told when your boss was arrested, disclaimers on a website do not shield the company from liability when the company makes drug claims. The fact that several people claim the product works through testimonials doesn't make the product safe and effective in the eyes of the FDA. Anecdotal information from users of the product does not satisfy the FDA's requirements for clinical trials to test the product, nor I imagine, will it ever.

 

Has your company taken any civil action against Toby for the unauthorized use of the website? That may be an avenue open to you. 

 

Bob

 


From: Tabetha with Alpha [mailto:jayde@altcancer.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 9:38 AM
To: Ottaviano, Robert
Subject: Toby McAdams/Risingsun

 

Dear Bob -

 

Are you still in control of the Toby case?  My boss, Cathryn Caton was wondering why Toby received a warning letter (http://www.risingsunhealth.com/)    to take down the testimonials (http://www.risingsunhealth.com/cantest.htm).

 

We are wondering why Toby is allowed to operate a website (after stealing a complete copy of our web site including ALPHA's testimonials), sell an FDA declared unapproved drug, receive hundreds of complaints about credit card theft or that his product doesn't work after we were shut down.  We never received a "warning" letter.  The Indiana case that was filed that got Greg in trouble was insurance fraud in my opinion on the behalf of the Indiana lady and her lawyer. 

 

We had disclaimers...(its easy to prove this...Toby stole a complete copy of our web site), and would have taken any recommendation from the FDA had it come, instead my boss was sentenced to 33 months in jail for helping people.  Toby is doing the exact same thing we were, with regards to his web site, except that he scams people.  His products really don't work, and thats even if his customers even receive anything after having their cards charged.

 

Thanks...just wondering --- why the actual herbalist spent time in jail when scam artists are allowed to prosper.

 

Tabetha

...."the independent farmer is the greatest threat to the power of the ruling elite the world over because the farmer can produce for himself. He can't starve. If all independent farmers produced only for personal consumption, the rest of the world can starve, the ruling elite can also starve [unless they eat Martian wheat or Plutonian meat], the square mile of Delhi, where the Indian ruling elite dwells will definitely starve, but not the farmers. If the independent farmer and the SMFs refused to sell their surplus to the food-MNCs (Multinational Corporations), that decision can destroy the global US$3.2 trillion food racket and make people so healthy that it would in turn destroy the US$466 billion pharmaceutical industry as well. Oh no, too much money is involved. Hence, the elaborate charade of "farmer-friendly" government, an elaborate mechanism to steal tax-payers money in the name of poor farmers, brilliantly engineered by the Leftists and Socialists [chiefly Jawaharlal Nehru and his minions] since 1947. And all this money, running into trillions of rupees since 1947, has neither improved the lot of SMFs (Small to Medium Farms), nor helped create sustainable rural infrastructure. The money has simply evaporated and no questions are being asked....


...The global food industry is worth 3.2 trillion US dollars and growing, possibly worth US$ 4 trillion. The food industry can maximize its profits only if it controls the farm workers and their land; that is the logic of food business."...

Further to Fighting Globalism with Common Law the following paper, while based on the Indian situation, by Arun Shrivastava has a common thread to all. It is an incredible prospective on how control of our basic needs has systematically controlled. Exposure of these tactics is vital! Resistance creates time to awaken populations to disaster!
A must read.

"It demonstrates how conventional method of farming traps small and marginal farmers into debt, a system of farming that was promoted by Swaminathan, a Rockefeller plant. Swaminathan exploited the desperate food situation in 1966 to the hilt: without critical appraisal of our indigenous system of farming, he vigorously pushed industrial farming methods, trapping farmers into spiraling cost of production financed by debt. This is how small independent farmers in North America were destroyed, to be replaced by industrial farmers. This is how Indian farmers are being destroyed.
 
Despite the fact that 70% of India?s voters are SMFs (Small to Medium Farms) living in 600,000 villages, and despite the fact that every politician ritually genuflects to these impoverished peasants at election time, not once the Government of India, or any state government of any political hue, has shown seriousness to pull them out of poverty, poor health, malnutrition, and illiteracy....

....A common strand in nearly all development programmes for rural India is that they neither benefit the people, nor the local communities. In fact, these programmes not merely cause colossal wastage of tax-payers money; they actually create conditions for slow death by ignorance and filth and diseases while large corporations profit....

...Dr John Coleman's research sheds a new light that forces one to view the present agrarian crisis in a new perspective, possibly never explored before by the Indian intellectuals, whatever that term means, particularly those who claim to represent the civil society; the official intellectuals are anyway deadwoods, co-opted side-kicks of the Rockefellers."...

Mass dissidence primarily by the intellectual community is needed. Unfortunately they are so easily bought, just about in every field, else we should not be in this mess. They will continue to do the bidding of their controllers totally oblivious to the fact that they are next in line in the gravy train! 

See also:
Global - The Decline of Transcendent Markets and the Rise of Fascism

Following is a note by Arun.

Chris Gupta
http://tinyurl.com/4ulxd
------------------
 
Dear friends
 
I am writing against mass culling of India's farmers. My friends have already lodged a Public Interest Litigation to stop all "slipping in" of GE seeds, GM foods. Can't write much about it because the matter is pending in the court.
 
I have written many articles on DU contamination of western India, published by globalresearch, the peoples voice, uruk.net, and others. I am now concentrating on how six forces are converging on all of us on earth.......to cull "useless eaters" [Kissinger's language] we are all useless eaters....the bastards who control your country are the only useful eaters. Let's see.
 
This is no more an Indian or American or Chinese issue. Every one on this one earth is now under death sentence. There is no time lose. I think we all should unite, exchange information, and forget about making money from writing so long as the threat lasts. We should fearlessly expose every corporation and every politician and every bureaucrat EVERYWHERE. Take their bloody pants off in full public view. 
 
I am sending an article to the people's voice, copied to you.
It was published under the same header by www.GlobalResearch.ca last month. The editor of the Peoples' Voice has agreed to publish it.
 
You tell me how can I help you from India. I desperately need a column in as many websites as I can.
 
I have met ordinary villagers in over 2000 India villages, researched every issue that affects their life.
 
let us first just discuss some possibilities.
 
regards to you all
 
arun shrivastava cmc
new delhi
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Mass suicides by Indian farmers

………………….shape of things to come

By Arun Shrivastava CMC

20 August 2006

The truth is slowly emerging. A Home Ministry report, monitoring deaths by suicide, says that roughly 100,000 farmers committed suicide over six years to 2003 in India. On 18th May 2006, Sharad Pawar, the Minister of Agriculture [MoA], Government of India, presented the data to the Upper House [Rajya Sabha] adding that investigations by state governments on agrarian distress show that the main “cause of suicide is indebtedness.”  In the dehumanized statistical gimmickry, the utter devastation of the 100,000 households of dead farmers comprising women, children and elders was quietly buried under the soft thick carpet of the Indian Parliament.

 

India, with adequate rainfall, warm climate, enormous biological diversity, and excellent traditional agricultural practices, has no reason to face agrarian crisis and, given nature’s bounty, its farmers have no reason to commit suicide. This paper deals with how the rule of one British company and its buccaneers started a process in 1760 that continues to this day, ravaging the farmers of the sub-continent and how independent farmers everywhere are under threat of extinction.

 

Indian farmers before the “Company rule”

 

An average Indian peasant at the beginning of 19th century earned significantly more than his British counterpart and there was no substantial difference between the diets of a peasant and a rich landlord in India. Most significantly, there was a tradition to feed outsiders first, including beggars, before a family sat down to eat. The affluent households did not sell milk and milk products; they were distributed free within the community, a practice that continued right up to 1960s in many parts. The destruction of India’s agriculture and destitution of its farmers is a story of corporate greed and the utter ruthlessness of a small group of people in Europe and the United States who do not value human beings: whites, browns, yellow, or black. The sooner we realize this and take effective action, better will it be us and the farmers.  

 

The genesis of agrarian distress

 

Agrarian distress starts with colonization of eastern India by a British company, the East India Company [EIC] around 1760, their system of extortionate land tax, combined with forcing farmers to grow cash crops [chiefly indigo and cotton] on the best lands and not paying appropriate price for the produce. They systematically destroyed a sustainable agriculture system that’d fed millions for over 6,000 years and then introduced money lenders and rack renters to trap farmers in debt.

 

The colonial system of land use led to frequent collapse of India’s farms resulting in food shortage, famine, mass deaths, destruction of fertile lands, and destruction of age-old symbiotic system of farming, animal husbandry, and forestry.  While doing nothing to alleviate agrarian distress, the Colonial officials kept repeating, parrot-like, that there are too many Indians!  Henry Waterfield’s paper on India’s population density and comparison with some of the regions/countries of Europe is most illuminating: whilst the population density of British Indian Empire was 165 per square mile in 1875, the density of Belgium was 447, England 422, Saxony 377, the Netherlands 291, Italy 237, German Empire 193, Prussia 180, and Switzerland 175. Only France, Denmark, Scotland, Portugal, Spain and Greece had lower population density as compared to India. [Henry Waterfield , (1875), Memorandum on the Census of British India 1871-72 , London , Eyre and Spottiswoode , p. 6;

 

The British fixed the tax from land at fifty percent of the average gross produce and collected the tax in cash [rupee] that forced the farmers to first sell their produce, earn cash, and then pay tax. This was a unique experience for the Indian peasantry. The costs of maintaining cultural and religious institutions, healthcare facilities, schools, irrigation infrastructure, roads, serais [places where a person could halt at night, somewhat like Inns in England], etc., were extracted in addition to the land tax at least during the first eight decades [1780-1860]. No mercy was shown in matters of tax collection: if harvest was less than normal, the tax could be more than 100% of the value of produce.  If price of crops collapsed because of bumper harvest, again the farmer lost to the tax collector.  

 

Economic historians, like Dharampal, have calculated that, for example, in Madras presidency [present day Tamil Nadu state], from 1830s onward, around one-third of the most fertile land, probably larger in area than the available cultivable land in major counties of England, went out of cultivation by 1840 because, even with 100% produce sold for cash, land tax demand could not be met. The British called it “substantial ‘decay’ of revenue.”

[Dharampal. India Before British Rule and the Basis for India's Resurgence. 1998. Gandhi Seva Sangh, Sevagram, Wardha, Maharashtra; . It should be noted that Sevagram was established by Mahatma Gandhi.]

That substantial revenue decay did not stop their territorial expansion.  John Stuart Mill wrote in 1858 that not a penny was spent by British tax payers for the conquest and control of India and the region from St. Helena on the west coast of Africa to Hong Kong in China. The resources, every single penny, were extorted from India’s farmers. India was an awesome cash cow to the company.  

 

For Indian farmer to go hungry, or even remain undernourished, was a new experience, and they retaliated; the history of 1780-1858, is one long list of spontaneous uprisings throughout India.

 

Indian farmer again begin to feed the millions

 

The population of India was 238.4 million in 1900. The Colonialists said, “too many, can’t feed ’em all.” It went up to 252.1 million in 1911 and the colonialists said, “too many, can’t feed ‘em all.” In 1947, when India became independent, India’s farmers could feed all of the 325 million. In 1991 there were over 844 million and the farmers fed them all; no famine and no collapse of agriculture as happened time and time again during the British period. Agrarian distress and consequent mass suicide since 1997 once again starts when India exposed its agriculture to foreign companies in 1991. It is again driving India’s farmers to hell and this time with full support of the Indian government, officers of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ag-scientific establishment. This time there is method in the madness.

 

Agrarian distress and the Warehousing Act

 

In 1945, economists of the Reserve Bank of India, in anticipation of India’s independence, studied farmers’ indebtedness and made four key recommendations:

(a)     Farmers be provided with facilities  for scientific storage of produce in proper warehouses to minimize post-harvest losses;

(b)     Farmers be issued warehousing receipts against their stocks which could be used to borrow cash from normal banking channel, thereby eliminating dependence on private money-lenders who often charged a minimum of 60% interest;

(c)     Each warehouse to have a trained technical team who would work closely with agriculture scientists, provide extension services including advice on seeds, fertilizers, and scientific storage of produce; and

(d)     The warehouse superintendent would advice the farmers when to sell their produce in order to maximize revenue and prevent distress sale.

 

 

Whilst the recommendations were excellent, it was only nine years later, in 1956, that the Warehousing Act was passed by the Parliament. From 1956 to 1971, nearly every state constructed a number of warehouses. The technical people employed in these warehouses were generally competent and highly motivated; they worked with the farmers, helped them, and brought about a degree of stability within rural farming communities.

 

From 1971 onward the focus of warehousing corporations shifted.  The scheme of warehousing receipt was allowed to fall into disuse for various reasons including corruption within warehousing corporations, and pressure from fertilizer and chemical companies to allocate more space for their products. It was a convenient arrangement: the companies got highly subsidized warehousing space and the warehousing corporations got assured income by way of rent with the added comfort of reduced paperwork and virtually no fieldwork with the farmers. Thus, an excellent strategy to pull farmers out of desperation was allowed to fail.

 

In 1966 the food situation was desperate following three consecutive draughts. The US Government refused to allow sale of wheat to India because of India’s refusal to fall in line with US policies in Asia.  

 

On the advice of MS Swaminathan, the Government decided to make available fertilizer, pesticides and hybrid seeds to the farmers through these warehouses, at the same nominal rent which was actually meant for the farmers. This is still true in 2006. Thus, the many private and public sector seeds, fertilizer and chemical companies benefited a lot more than India’s peasants from the existing warehousing facilities. Also, the big farmers benefited.

 

The economics of farming in India: a simple illustration

 

The following analysis is based on agriculture practice in one of the largest regions [roughly 700 square kilometres] growing potato and onion and some vegetables. The region is south east of Patna and falls within the Gangetic plains.  Potato crop is taken in three and half months, onion in about five and half around May. During rainy season the area gets inundated so people have stopped growing paddy. Most of the farmers have forgotten the rejuvenating role of paddy: the algae that grows on stagnant water is nature’s way of fixing nitrogen to the soil, a reason as Sir Albert Howard found why farmers of the Gangetic plains had been growing food, season after season, year after year, since hoary antiquity. It should be noted that when the British forced Indian peasants to grow cotton and indigo on lands that were best for paddy, they also destroyed the system of fertility recovery, which caused collapse of winter crops. But let us fast forward to 2004. I found that seeds accounted for 20% of input costs, chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides) about 32%, diesel (to draw water out of the underground aquifers for irrigation) about 10%, and labour 38%. Give or take a few percentage points, this is the break-up of input costs, together for potato and onion crops and is broadly representative of the average costs of farmers in northern India.

 

With this input, the farmers take about 7 metric tonnes each of potato and onion per bigha (1.59 bigha in this area equals one acre). The five-year average ex-farm price for potato is about Rs 200 per quintal [1 quintal=100 kgs] and Rs 250 for onion. Wastage can be pegged anywhere between 10 to 40% on account of drying, rotting, and losses in transit (various government estimates). If the farmer is lucky, and responds to market prices intelligently, he can average about Rs 2000 per tonne for potato and onion. In other words, from two crops he can generate revenue of about Rs. 44,500 per year per acre [about US$ 1,000]. With input costs per acre of about Rs. 38,000, the ex-farm return is about 6,500 plus savings in labour costs that is achieved because the entire household works these farms. This calculation does not include post harvest losses due to rotting, drying, and spoilage during transportation nor does it include cost of borrowed capital.

 

The Rs 14,440 computed for labour costs if saved can give the household a net income of Rs 20,900  per acre per year, that is about the same if a family of six were living below the poverty line. Majority is small (below 2 hectare holding) and marginal (below 1 hectare) farmer. So, SMFs can generate a maximum income of about Rs. 50,160 per hectare (Rs 20,900 x 2.4 acre) (or US$ 1,114 per annum per hectare), excluding cost of capital. Rarely do farmers achieve this level of notional mean income.

 

If a farmer finances 50% of his input costs from borrowings, even at 36% (3% flat rate per month) interest he lands up in serious financial trouble. Many borrow 75-100% of their input costs sometimes at 40% rate of interest. Invariably at harvest time, when there is glut, prices crash. Small and marginal farmers do not have the resources to hire storage space and obtain better price at some future time. Distress sale further erodes a farmer’s financial viability. Those who store their surplus end up losing 10-20% stock due to spoilage and drying shrinkage neutralizing any gains through seasonal price fluctuation.

 

If the market price drops by 20%, even if the farmer has not borrowed money, he would be in loss to the tune of Rs 2,384 [US$ 53] per acre.  Every third year or so, prices crash by as much as 30-50%, largely engineered by traders, leaving farmers deeply in debt. Therefore, the talk of helping farmers with greater access to market, a promise that has been repeated by every politician and every Agriculture Minister since 1947, is unlikely to resolve the problem of assured minimum income. As shown above, SMFs can’t benefit from market access; rather the market left to its own devices works against the interest of SMFs.

 

It demonstrates how conventional method of farming traps small and marginal farmers into debt, a system of farming that was promoted by Swaminathan, a Rockefeller plant. Swaminathan exploited the desperate food situation in 1966 to the hilt: without critical appraisal of our indigenous system of farming, he vigorously pushed industrial farming methods, trapping farmers into spiraling cost of production financed by debt. This is how small independent farmers in North America were destroyed, to be replaced by industrial farmers. This is how Indian farmers are being destroyed.

 

Despite the fact that 70% of India’s voters are SMFs living in 600,000 villages, and despite the fact that every politician ritually genuflects to these impoverished peasants at election time, not once the Government of India, or any state government of any political hue, has shown seriousness to pull them out of poverty, poor health, malnutrition, and illiteracy.

 

The failure of development programmes in India

 

 

Since 1951, India ostensibly started its Five Year Plans for “planned development” under the influence of Soviet Russia but surprisingly its agriculture policy was directly under control and influence of the Rockefellers, Ford Foundation and USAID. In every Five Year Plan, agriculture and rural development was top priority on paper but the ground reality is quite different.

 

 

With few exceptions, the story is the same right across India.

 

A common strand in nearly all development programmes for rural India is that they neither benefit the people, nor the local communities. In fact, these programmes not merely cause colossal wastage of tax-payers money; they actually create conditions for slow death by ignorance and filth and diseases while large corporations profit.

 

So, all programmes seeking to alleviate rural poverty, educate the peasantry, and create rural infrastructure are made to fail but no officer and no politician can be held accountable for the failure. The administration operates with rules that ensure that persons in positions of authority can’t be held accountable, ever, for failure. There are indeed excellent officers and effective politicians, but they are invariably marginalized. There is a method at work which few can cope with in this country.

 

The machinations of the New World Order

 

Why is it that the elected leaders and the professional civil servants in the world’s largest democracy deliberately keep 70% of its people, the SMFs, in perpetual servile subjugation?    Something very sinister is happening here in India, something as despicable as happened in the Soviet Union about 70 years ago and something that happened in the US over the last 100 years: utter decimation of the independent farmer.

 

According to John Coleman “One of the principal but little known operations of the Rockefeller Foundation has been its techniques for controlling world agriculture.”

 

Its director, Kenneth Wernimont, set up Rockefeller controlled agricultural programs throughout Mexico and Latin America. The independent farmer is a great threat to the World Order, because he produces for himself, and because his produce can be converted into Capital, which gives him independence. In Soviet Russia, the Bolsheviks believed they had attained total control over the people; they were dismayed to find their plans threatened by the stubborn independence of the small farmers, the Kulaks. Stalin ordered the OGPU to seize all food and animals of the Kulaks, and to starve them out.”

 

In the United States, the foundations are presently engaged in the same type of war of extermination against the American farmer. …… The Brookings Institution and other foundations originated the monetary programs implemented by the Federal Reserve System to destroy the American farmer, a replay of the Soviet tragedy in Russia, with one proviso that the farmer will be allowed to survive if he becomes a slave worker of the giant trusts.”

Dr. John Coleman, a former intelligence agent of British MI6

 

Dr John Coleman’s research sheds a new light that forces one to view the present agrarian crisis in a new perspective, possibly never explored before by the Indian intellectuals, whatever that term means, particularly those who claim to represent the civil society; the official intellectuals are anyway deadwoods, co-opted side-kicks of the Rockefellers.

 

First, the bankers, chiefly the Rockefellers, were responsible for destroying the independent farmer in the US and that story is being repeated in India: destroy the will of SMF in order to control 700+ millions Indians forever, condemned to perpetual slavery. This was started by the British colonialists who kept them perpetually hungry for 180 years. In free India the same policy is being continued by the co-opted Indian ruling elite by keeping SMFs illiterate, malnourished, and without any basic services like healthcare, sanitation, clean water, schools, and roads.

 

Second, the independent farmer is the greatest threat to the power of the ruling elite the world over because the farmer can produce for himself. He can’t starve. If all independent farmers produced only for personal consumption, the rest of the world can starve, the ruling elite can also starve [unless they eat Martian wheat or Plutonian meat], the square mile of Delhi, where the Indian ruling elite dwells will definitely starve, but not the farmers. If the independent farmer and the SMFs refused to sell their surplus to the food-MNCs, that decision can destroy the global US$3.2 trillion food racket and make people so healthy that it would in turn destroy the US$466 billion pharmaceutical industry as well. Oh no, too much money is involved. Hence, the elaborate charade of “farmer-friendly” government, an elaborate mechanism to steal tax-payers money in the name of “poor farmers,” brilliantly engineered by the Leftists and Socialists [chiefly Jawaharlal Nehru and his minions] since 1947. And all this money, running into trillions of rupees since 1947, has neither improved the lot of SMFs, nor helped create sustainable rural infrastructure. The money has simply evaporated and no questions are being asked.  

 

 

Third, the independent farmers or SMF need capital for labour, inputs and knowledge. Knowledge (to reduce risk) and inputs like fertilizers, pesticides, and seeds are all controlled by big business and under tutelage of big business by government officials, including scientists of the Indian Agricultural bureaucracy. The money to buy these critical inputs is supplied by the bankers in the US/EC/Australia and New Zealand AND not supplied by the Indian banking system, now effectively under control of the World Bank and the IMF, which in turn is controlled by the plutocrats like Baring, Hambros, Lazard, Erlanger, Mirabauld, Fould, Mallett, Rothschild+Morgan, Schroeder, and of course the Rockefellers.

 

Fourth, the SMFs are under pressure in India to produce for Food-MNCs, like Pepsico and others. The name of PepsiCo comes up time and again when I meet SMFs in northern India. Their field staff has been offering “lucrative” deals for contract farming, a new concept in India. Started by the previous BJP Government, [Hindoo Nationalists, as the British Blabbering Corporation would have us believe, as if Hindooo Nationalists are siblings of the Taliban], the scheme seeks to rent land from SMFs to grow crops that these MNCs need for their food processing business. This will displace millions of SMFs from their farms and further erode India’s farming skills. Where will they go, how they will spend their time, how much these MNCs will pay them, whether they will pay them at all, and whether they will return the land to the rightful owners are questions that do not occupy the minds of Indian ruling elite. It has the machinations of East India Company written all over. And the same agenda, of the previous Hindooo Nationalist party is being perfected under the present “secular” government, great favourites of Fox, CNN and of course the Leftist BBC, ably supported by the Rightist and Centrist-leftists of India. So, all governments and all political parties are implementing the agenda of the Rockefellers and their ilk, through powerful food-MNCs; we are back in the 1760s, only the names have changed.

 

Fifth, backward and forward linkages of SMFs’ supply chain are now under control of the big business. Multinational seed companies have set up operations in India, some are frequently in the news for stealing local seeds [Monsanto and Syngenta]. They, along with illustrious names like Swaminathan, are responsible for the destruction of India’s bio-diversity. It should be noted that India had 100,000 rice varieties; today barely 50 are available. Farmers are now dependent upon these multinational seed companies and the first step they have taken is to push hybrid seeds, often stolen from indigenous people. To add icing to their thievery, these seed MNCs are now deliberately contaminating local seeds with genetically engineered ones. Local seeds in 39 countries are now contaminated with genetically engineered seeds as reported by Dr Mae Wan Ho of ISIS-UK.

 

“In his major expose, “The Great Gene Robbery”, Dr. Claude Alvares reveals how the US government stole genes from India through [active connivance of] scientists such as Dr. M S Swaminathan, who was once widely hailed as the father of the Green Revolution” and still influences decisions in India’s Agriculture Ministry. “Alvares describes the marginalization of the brilliant rice specialist, Dr. R H Richharia, who single-handedly fought to preserve a precious… national heritage [the rice seeds] - only to lose to the agents of the US.” [The Illustrated Weekly of India; pages 6-17, March 23-April 5, 1986].  This is not India-specific problem; farmers everywhere are fighting a losing battle in matters of seeds.

 

Similarly fertilizer and pesticides manufacturers now cover the whole of India, with local retail outlets selling potent poisons and the farmers use them without shoes, without facial masks, while women and children are sitting nearby. Recent reports by an NGO reveal that cotton farmers in Punjab state have high levels of pesticide residue in their blood. Incidences of cancer have soared; farmers are dying of pesticide poisoning.

 

There is no difference in the action of the thieves of East India Company [1760-1857], the looters of British India [1857-1947] and the co-opted Indian Government [since 1947].

 

 

Except that the form of extortion has changed

 

Each acre under onion and potato gives the MNCs sales worth US$523 in terms of seeds, diesel oil, fertilizers and pesticides, and gives a maximum of US$ 464, under ideal conditions, to the farmer.

 

Income of farmers [Per annum, per acre]

Farmers                                    :           US$      144.00

Savings in labour                        :           US$      320.00 [If no bought-in labour cost is incurred]

Gross surplus                            :           US$      464.00 [excluding cost of capital]

 

Income for corporations [per annum, per acre]

Seeds                                       :           US$      168.89

Diesel                                       :           US$        84.45

Fertilizers and pesticides            :           US$      270.23

Total to corporations                   :           US$      523.57

 

If the farmer is taking $464 to an acre, the social cost of $320 additional revenue is enormous: children remain out of school, women work a back-breaking 16-hour day, and the family barely scrapes through two meals a day, sometimes not even that. On the other hand, the environmental cost of $523 going to US and European multi-nationals, their distributors and retailers is also enormous: depleted water resources, poisoned land, dead soil, destroyed bio-diversity, contamination of natural seeds with genetically engineered ones, destruction of the habitat, contamination of natural water bodies, emergence of unknown diseases and widespread health problem including cancer, diabetes, immune disorders, etc.

 

Shape of things to come

 

The global food industry is worth 3.2 trillion US dollars and growing, possibly worth US$ 4 trillion. The food industry can maximize its profits only if it controls the farm workers and their land; that is the logic of food business.

Table 1 GLOBAL MARKETS

 

US$ million

% of total

Seeds

21,000

0.55%

Fertilizer

80,000

2.10%

Pesticide

35,400

0.93%

Food industry

3,200,000

84.16%

Pharmaceutical

466,000

12.26%

Total

3,802,400

100.00%

 

Table 1 shows that people purchased food worth US 3.2 trillion dollar on earth. In order to generate 3.2 trillion dollar worth of sales for the food industry, the farmers paid 21 billion dollars to the seeds industry, 80 billion dollars to the fertilizer industry, and 35.4 billion dollars to the pesticide industry. And each industry is a silent killer. When people got sick and debilitated, they paid an additional US$ 466 billion to the pharmaceutical industry to cope with the after effect of that food, remain sane and survive. The plutocrats who control the banks control seeds, fertilizers, and food industries and also control the pharmaceutical industry. Through well funded AID agencies and research foundations they promote spurious technologies and destroy sustainable indigenous systems. The Indian Government’s complicity is all over: [a] It has signed Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture [KIA] with mass murderer George Bush in Hyderabad [Match 2006] knowing fully well that the initiative seeks to slip in technologies destructive of India’s food security and indigenous farming methods; [b] there is a major attempt underway to de-regulate food safety in favour of transnational food corporations; [c] farmers in UP and Bihar have frequently complained of their inability to store seeds, which indicates that genetically engineered terminators are present in the market despite laws banning GM seeds; [d] the Genetic Engineering approvals committee [GEAC] of Ministry of Agriculture is nothing more than rubber stamping body; [e] western governments and the transnational food corporations under WTO are rewriting all rules covering all foods (Codex). All this will push the SMFs into debt and slavery. Today, nearly all systems that support health and longevity have been destroyed and people are forced to depend upon the corporations for their survival…from seeds to food and medicines and in this globalization without consent the survival of SMFs is not an issue.


The truth

 

A poor farmer of India today earns US$ 144 from his back-breaking effort: exactly 12 dollars per month. If the entire household works an acre, including children as young as five, they just might earn US$ 464 from their meager holdings, provided all factors are favourable, which rarely happens. But the corporations, their distributors and retailers extract US$ 523.57 from each acre worked whether the farmer earns even a dollar or not. The Rockefeller-engineered destruction of the independent farmers in the US is being repeated here in India.

 

The suicides of Indian farmers serves two purposes: one, it is reducing the population of India and reducing the pressure on natural resources for reasons that have been engineered by neo-conservative thinkers controlling Washington’s policy. World population must be reduced to 1750 level of 770 million if the planet is to survive in post oil era. This was known to a small group in the US back in 1974 and the plan for culling world population was set in motion by Henry Kissinger, endorsed by Jimmy Carter, furthered by Reagan, George Bush senior, Clinton, and now being expedited by baby George. And two, while the plutocrats implement their agenda through the co-opted Indian ruling elite, they’d extract as much profit as they can, while simultaneously killing as many on earth. Profit must be ensured, no matter how many die. And the Indian governments have been active co-conspirators in this agenda since 1947. Earlier it was Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi who ruled India for 34 years. Then Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi’s son, who ruled this hapless nation. Today, Manmohan Singh, Montek Singh, Chidambaram, Karat, Sitaram, and the entire Indian political and bureaucratic establishment is responsible for creating conditions for culling India’s population.

 

The tragedy of it all is that every person on this earth is under death sentence from depleted uranium contamination of the earth’s atmosphere: every person of every class, colour, creed, or religion. The ruling elite of Delhi are particularly vulnerable. They have been breathing depleted uranium contaminated air since 1991 and they are all under death sentence. How long they will lead a normal life before dying a painful, prolonged death is their problem, not mine. But they are as much responsible for the death of farmers as they would be for their own death and the death of an ancient civilization because they failed to read the writing on the wall.

 

World’s two greatest democracies are writing the epitaph of the independent farmers and their own people. The irony of it all is that gravestones for American farmers are actually produced in the stone quarries of India by surplus farm hands, while the wood for funeral pyres of India’s dead farmers are sourced by bribing forest officials here, directly or indirectly. The Illuminati rules, okay!

 

Arun Shrivastava MBA, CMC, is a certified management consultant. He can be contacted at: arun1951@yahoo.com