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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 4:23 am    Post subject: STOP CODEX!! Reply with quote

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Your right to choose your vitamin, mineral and other supplements may end in June of this year (2005). After that U.S. supplements will be defined and controlled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (Food Code) is setting the supplement standards for all countries in the WTO. They will be enforced by the WTO and will over ride U.S. laws. The U.S. President and Congress agreed to this take-over when the WTO Treaty was signed. Violations are punished by WTO trade sanctions. CODEX drastically restricts vitamins, minerals, herbs and other supplements. CODEX met secretly in November, 2004 and finalized Step 8 (the final stage) to begin implementation in June, 2005.

The CODE includes:

No supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic use.

Any potency higher than RDA (minimal strength) is a drug requiring a prescription and must be produced by drug companies. Over 5000 safe items now in health stores will be banned, terminating health stores as we now know them.

CODEX regulations become binding internationally.

New supplements are banned unless given very expensive CODEX testing and approval.
CODEX now applies to Norway and Germany, among others, where zinc tablets rose from $4.00 per bottle to $52.00. Echinacea (an ancient immune-enhancement herb) rose from $14.00 to $153.00 (both examples are now allowed by prescription only). They are now drugs. Vitamin C above 200 mg, niacin above 32 mg, vitamin B6 above 4 mg, all are banned over-the-counter as drugs. No amino acids (arginine, lysine, carnitine, etc. = essential amino acids!), essential fatty acids (omegas 3, 6, 9, etc.), or other essential supplements such as DMEA, DHEA, CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, etc. are allowed.

The CODEX rules are not based on real science. They are made by a few people meeting in secret (see web sites below), not necessarily scientists. In 1993 the FDA and drug corporations tried to put all supplements under restriction and prescription. But over 4 million Americans told Congress and the President to protect their freedom of choice on health supplements. The DSHEA Law was passed in 1994, which does so. But this will be over ruled by CODEX and the World Trade Organization. Virtually nothing about it has been in the media.
What the drug corporations have failed to do through Congress they have gotten by sneak attack through CODEX with the help of a silent media.

What can be done at this late hour?

READ:
http://www.vpxsports.com/Codex.html



Read these related articles also:
http://www.thc-ministry.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2917
http://www.thc-ministry.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3287
http://www.thc-ministry.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1687


It is very important to STOP CODEX. Mad
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 2:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I better start to stock up then Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Echo wrote:
I better start to stock up then Rolling Eyes


No kidding.

Wow...these authoritarians sure know how to create a black market, don't they...?

I can see guys in overcoats now....hanging out in parking lots saying, "pssssttt.....hey....want some Co-Q-10...? Golden Seal...? I got primo stuff, man...."

Somehow, this news item does not make me feel better. rofl

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yea, we got to let them hear our opinions on this one Mad

Where the hell are those fuckers gonna stop???

People can/will only take so friggin much--too many damned regulations being dished out by the few at the many. I have had it with groups of greedy fuck-ups trying to TELL me what I can & can't do.

FUCK them! Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looking on the hopeful side, maybe this is the wake up call that works!

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another Doctor's opinion...

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CODEX ALIMENTARIS ENDS U.S. SUPPLEMENTS IN JUNE 2005

By Dr. James Howenstine, MD.
March 6, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

Working stealthily BIG PHARMA has rapidly pushed their legislative program (Codex Alimentaris) in Europe that will eliminate the free choice Americans now have to purchase vitamins, herbs, minerals, homeopathic remedies, aminoacids and nutritional supplements. This elimination of all competition for the pharmaceutical industry will produce an enormous increase in the already exorbitant profits earned by the pharmaceutical firms. Of even greater significance the lack of free choice to stay well by taking effective nutritional substances will promptly be followed by a sharp increase in illnesses that will only be treated in the future with pharmaceutical drugs.

The new Codex Alimentaris adopted in a secret meeting in Europe in November 2004 is scheduled to take effect in June 2005. Because the United States belongs to the World Trade Organization WTO any changes approved in Europe automatically become law in the United States superceding our own laws (we are no longer a sovereign nation). Failure to comply with these changes institutes lawsuits which can not be won as they are settled in international courts which care nothing about U.S. laws. Incidentally, Europe has been very leery of genetically modified foods because of serious concerns about their safety. By this same WTO mechanism Europe will be forced to accept importation of U.S. GMO foods even if they know they are bad for health.

The features of Codex Alimentaris are:

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you read the article to the end?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did. More from it.
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For persons finding it hard to understand why all current turmoil is occurring remember that the Bible warns us there would be unprecedented weather problems and a One World government in the end times. The powerful organizations putting this together (Trilaterals, Club of Rome, Bildenbergers, 33rd degree Masons, etc.) meet in secret and are serving Satan. These individuals are certain that the world population is too large and they want to reduce it by 90% or more. This explains how genocides of Christians in Africa can occur with no publicity. I think that vaccines are a diabolically clever way to kill people and now with the anti-terrorism laws you can be arrested and imprisoned for refusing to take a government mandated vaccine. Where is our freedom?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did some search myself and it seems even more threatening here in Europe. Apparently Germany wants to go ahead with it before Codex final draft and consequent laws. The UK is opposing, as we have a pretty good and cheap food supplements variety on our shelves and too many companies would suffer from the ban. They don't say it's a ban, they want to regulate... hmm regulate food supplements? Europe seems to be going ahead leaving Codex behind.

Codex is the department that regulates aliments, while WHO (world health organization) regulates the medicines. If Codex wants to regulate something, they have better stuff to regulate, or better, BAN: the genetically modified crops. We, the people didn't ask for genetically modified food at all. While we, the people, decide whether we want to drop some vitamin C or fish oil capsules. Once again they are trying to bypass our will.

In modern living it is hard to have a balanced diet. They are going to take away from us not only our freedom of choice but possibly some years of our life too. Are we letting it happen?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Funny how the American Sheeople are blind to this
i had heard about this a while back and i too shrugged it off it wasnt until the last month or so when Ferre wrote about this again tha i did take notice and began researching it

it is what it says and they are going through with it
The huge problem you have these days is in Americans most of whom couldnt care less about this .......yet
when approached i am learning how Arrogant Americans are on this and many things concerning the NWO and the state of things today
theyre complacent and they just Dont CARE
Being an American myself i am Horrified at how easily the American public has been mislead to eventual slaughter


I am called a crackpot and am accused of crying that the sky is falling .......well it IS
Ferre id like to thank you for being a Beacon of light to me
at first it was the Amsterdam thing ya know your there i USED to go there(can no longer afford it at current exchange) so that was what i though had brought me here to you


over time i have learned and look forward to your views on things you seem to always come up with that just something when i seem to have lost Focus

I just want to let you all Know that there ARE some AMERICANS who hear you and agree with you and applaud you and others like you
as you know not all Americans are in the boat with the NWO etc. and many many more are going to have a RUDE awakening in the near future

Interestingly i find that my interest in religion has never been more than in these days ........i ahd never been a real religious person,,,,,but with Age Wisdom and the Internet and unselfish peoples across the globe my education races forward like never before in my life

I am beginning to get it
something i had always fleetingly wondered about

thank you all for being there and awakening something inside many of us....I am speaking for myself and others who may know but are scared to death to say so
I experienced "REAL FREEDOM" and it WAS NOT in the UNITED STATES
yes the US has a lot to offer but it appears increasingly clearer that it all comes at one hell of a price

thanks for the heads up and im hoping Americans will hear the call .......But alas i had believed that at election time too and look what happened AGAIN

the american people have lost touch theyre too tied to the culture that destroys theyre lives make believe television and US media LIES
theyre all happy and warm in anytown usa and most will just end up succumbing when the time comes



where are all the Patriots???????

Rd


P.S. i had been wrestling with the idea of posting my personal pic as an avatar as i Do like the honesty it calls forth...... i have always been Roker everywhere ive ever been and have never hid behind a proxie etc. i have said many a thing on the web concerning the current state of things...............many of which have probably earned me a vanilla file in some feds drawer........i would like to post my pic to let other americans know that theyre not alone and that others feel like they do and arent afraid to show it and say it......

unfortunatly the current way things are with the patriot act and PA2 if i let it all hang out i fear i may just dissapear yes seems a bit paranoid but then again look at where i live and to top it all off i live in the VERY conservative Midwest.........


so i have not gotten the courage as of this writing .....perhaps the next post will accompany my personal pic as an avatar


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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where are all the Patriots???????


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I guess you share your views with about 50% of all Americans brother, maybe even more.

Because the tv and all the media is so loud shouting out propaganda it seems that the overall view of the people is kind of apathic but I really think that in reality most of the American people are getting aware of the war that their own government is waging against them, their future and their health.

I do have confidence in the American people, they are slow I admit but awareness is rising.

Just make sure you pass the information to anyone you know and ask them to do the same.
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I do have confidence in the American people, they are slow I admit but awareness is rising.



Sometimes I dont even think they care Ferre Crying or Very sad
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IAHF Webmaster: Codex Emergency, Breaking News, EU, All Countries, What to Do

IAHF List: I must urge caution in how people interpret the press release
below from the UK based Alliance for Natural Health. While its GREAT that the
lead advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has issued a preliminary
opinion in FAVOR of the Alliance for Natural Health's case, 20% of the time the
ECJ has IGNORED the Advocate General's opinion, so we're not out of the woods
yet by ANY means because the EU is incredibly corrupt.

The EU Parliament doesn't even make the laws there- they just serve as window
dressing while the actual laws are made by the European Commission, and the
Parliament rubber stamps them.

Also- Some groups in our midst have not been at all careful with their words
when addressing these health freedom issues. IAHF has always been very careful
to differentiate and distinguish between whats going on in the EU, and whats
going on at CODEX, carefully explaining where they overlap- but some other
organizations in our midst have not attempted to be this precise.

Our reality is that there is zero LEGAL interconnection between ANH's case,
and what goes on at CODEX. Even if the ECJ rules in FAVOR of ANH in June, Codex
can simply IGNORE this case in JULY and they undoubtedly WILL TRY to ignore
it too when they move to ratify the FRAMEWORK for the Codex Food Supplement
Directive (their plan being to fill in the blanks on allowable potency levels
AFTER THE FACT, when they hope we've let our guard down.)

In light of ANH's good news (below) is it necessary to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON
the US Congress in opposition to CAFTA and the FTAA? YES!! Geelhoed's opinion
is ONLY A PRELIMINARY OPINION and the ECJ MIGHT EASILY IGNORE IT and STILL rule
against ANH!

Codex, in turn is not at all legally bound to pay ANY ATTENTION to this
ruling WHEN IT IS MADE IN JUNE, so please go to http://www.stoptheftaa.org and
continue sending mssgs to Congress against the Central American Free Trade
Agreement and against the Free Trade Area of the Americas because Congress is going
to hold a FAST TRACK vote on CAFTA in June or July. (See this alert sent
yesterday: http://www.ymlp.com/pubarchive_show_message.php?jham+310



Advocate General recommends in favour of the ANH landmark case!
A FANTASTIC DAY FOR HEALTH FREEDOM!

The European Court of Justice's Advocate General Geelhoed has provided his
opinion today. His opinion was read out in the European Court in Luxembourg at
08.30 h this morning.

Please find our Press Release on the subject below.

We wish to thank all of you who have contributed, financially and in other
ways, to this landmark challenge that has the potential to rock the entire
agenda on ever-tightening restrictions worldwide on natural health.

We will be giving you further updates in due course.

PRESS RELEASE

For immediate release
5 April 2005

ADVOCATE GENERAL FINDS FOOD SUPPLEMENTS DIRECTIVE INVALID UNDER EU LAW

ALLIANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH SET TO WIN ITS LANDMARK CHALLENGE TO THE EU FOOD
SUPPLEMENTS DIRECTIVE

There was tremendous news today for the millions of people in Europe who
choose to use food supplements. Following a landmark challenge in the European
Courts of Justice (ECJ) brought by the Alliance for Natural Health and Nutri-Link
Ltd to the contentious Food Supplements Directive, which effectively proposed
to ban 75% of vitamin and mineral forms, Advocate General Geelhoed, the
senior adviser to the ECJ, gave his Opinion in favour of the Alliance’s case.

What does this mean? That the chances of consumers being able to continue
using the natural food supplements they believe are beneficial to their health
are now greatly increased. There has been uproar about the proposed EU ban, and
maybe, against the odds, the consumer is going to come out on top in what is a
remarkable modern day case of David and Goliath.

In a statement released in Luxembourg today at 0830 GMT, the Advocate General
concluded that:

The Food Supplements Directive infringes the principle of proportionality
because basic principles of Community law, such as the requirements of legal
protection, of legal certainty and of sound administration have not properly been
taken into account.
It is therefore invalid under EU law.
It should be stressed that the Advocate General’s pronouncement is not a
ruling. That will come from the ECJ judges, later - probably around June. But
typically, in the vast majority of cases, the Court Judgment follows the
recommendations of the Advocate General.

If the Advocate General’s recommendations are adopted, in effect, the ban on
vitamin and mineral forms not included on the EU’s ‘Positive list,’ due to
come into effect on 1 August 2005, will be declared illegal. In essence, the
positive list of allowable nutrient forms will be deemed to be too narrow, too
restrictive, and based on flawed science.

This would avoid the totally irrational situations that the Food Supplements
Directive would otherwise create. For example, synthetically produced selenium
would have been allowed on the positive list, while the natural source found
in Brazil nuts would not; synthetic forms of Vitamin E (often used in ‘adverse’
vitamin studies reported in the media) would be allowed, but the natural,
most beneficial food forms would not.

An outstanding moment for the Alliance for Natural Health

The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) is a Europe-wide professional
organisation dedicated to ensuring that good science and good law are applied to
regulation affecting the leading edge of natural health. If the Advocate General’s
recommendations are endorsed by the ECJ judges, it will represent the
culmination of three years dogged determination, dedication and hard work on the part
of ANH and its many supporters around the world.

‘It is commendable that the EU Advocate General has seen through the flawed
science and law of the Food Supplements Directive and reached his
recommendations today,’ said Dr. Robert Verkerk, Executive Director of the ANH. ‘All that
ANH is campaigning and working cooperatively for is the right for consumers to
have access to safe natural healthcare and for legislation to be based on
good science and good law. This is a great day for the tens of millions of people
who believe passionately in the benefits of natural, preventative healthcare.’


David C. Hinde, Solicitor and ANH Legal Director, added: ‘This is a very
significant Opinion in a landmark case. What we want to see in the EU is the Food
Supplements Directive doing the job for which it was created which is to
provide a “safe harbour” for food supplements so that they are not classified as
drugs, and to promote their availability across the EU. Advocate General
Geelhoed is the most senior Advocate General at the ECJ and his considered reasoning
vindicates ANH’s legal analysis and position. We are very optimistic that the
Court will adopt his recommendations.’

Supporting safe supplements

ANH supports many aspects of the Directive, and firmly endorses the banning
of ingredients that are patently not safe, stating that existing UK and EU food
law already provides perfectly effective protection from unsafe products
getting onto the market. Furthermore, ANH says that it is not scientifically
rational to classify an ingredient as being unsafe without taking dosage levels
into account, something that was not a condition of being admitted onto the
positive list.

ANH believes that a far more appropriate system for banning any substances
that might pose a risk to health would be to produce a ‘Negative list’ for
ingredients where there was proper evidence of lack of safety. The system proposed
by the EU was going to ban ingredients on the basis that companies did not
have the financial capacity to meet the high data threshold required for the
scientific dossiers demanded by EU authorities. In this way, ingredients that
have been part of the human diet for thousands of years, and which are
increasingly difficult to derive from conventional foods, would be lost, and would not
be able to be supplemented.

The future of the leading edge of natural health secured

Drawing its support European-wide from consumers, manufacturers, retailers,
practitioners and some of the leading experts in nutritional medicine, ANH has
taken on the Goliath of the European Commission and those that support the
unscientific and unlawful ban in the Food Supplements Directive, to protect the
interests of everyone concerned with the leading-edge of food supplements and
natural healthcare.

‘None of the major EU countries felt the need to oppose our application for a
declaration that the ban on vitamins and minerals in the Food Supplements
Directive was unlawful,’ added Anthony Haynes, Technical Director of Nutri-Link
Ltd., a UK food supplements company that brought the legal challenge jointly
with ANH. ‘It’s bizarre how this regulation got this far.’

A wide welcome across the industry if the ban is overturned

Greg Watts, Chief Executive of Ultralife, a manufacturer of leading-edge food
supplements, said: ‘This is very encouraging news. If the ban came into force
we would have to reformulate down to simpler, more basic products that
consumers and practitioners find are less effective.’

Dr Damien Downing, a medical doctor and one of the UK’s leading practitioners
in nutritional medicine, said: ‘Practitioners of nutritional therapy, and
there are thousands of them in the UK, largely use leading-edge food supplements.
If these nutrient forms remain, we can continue to treat our patients with
meaningful solutions and provide the products that we know are so beneficial. A
ban would in one fell swoop remove the vital tools of practitioners’ trade.’

Sara Novakovic, owner of Oliver’s Wholefood Store in Richmond, Surrey, said: ‘
At last it is now highly likely we can continue to offer the products that
our customers ask for and want, rather than have to remove them all from the
shelves for no good reason and supply them with inferior quality alternatives.’

The end of the beginning

This is just the beginning for the Alliance for Natural Health. Regulatory
and industry pressure through the EU Food Supplements Directive was always
likely to translate globally, particularly to the US, through Codex and the World
Health Organisation. Without having to justify any health hazard, and without
considering any benefits, safety has been used as a reason to restrict the
availability of natural food products.

‘Yet food supplements are the safest things that people put into their mouths
– considerably safer even than conventional foods’, said Dr Robert Verkerk. ‘
With rapidly declining vitamin and mineral content in fruit vegetables and
other foods, and continuing increases in degenerative diseases such as heart
disease and cancer in the West, this has always been a very big issue worth
fighting for.’

‘Fundamentally, an amended Directive would help to slow down the agenda of
the Codex Alimentarius Commission to export worldwide an onerous, EU-style
regime for food supplements.’

David Hinde added. ‘The ANH is now going to be working on getting a proper
procedure in place for the Food Supplements Directive and in addition, the next
challenges will be on legislation proposing to reduce dosages to ineffective
levels, and to restrict other nutrient forms such as amino acids, enzymes and
plant nutrients. Traditional herbal remedies are also under threat. In its
work, the Alliance for Natural Health will continue its thorough, professional
approach based, as always, on ‘good science, good law.’

ENDS

For enquiries and further information contact:

Alliance for Natural Health
www.alliance-natural-health.org

Dr Robert Verkerk, Executive Director
Tel. +44 (0)1252 371 275
E-mail: robv@alliance-natural-health.org

David C. Hinde, Solicitor, Legal Director
Tel: +44 (0)20 7738 1640
E-mail: davidh@alliance-natural-health.org

IKON Associates
(PR advisers to the Alliance for Natural Health)

Adrian Shaw
Tel: +44 (0)1483 535102
Mobile: +44 (0)797 990 0733
E-mail: adrian@ikonassociates.com

Paul Donkersley
Tel: +44 (0)1483 535101
Mobile: +44 (0)796 764 6046
E-mail: paul@ikonassociates

Notes for editors:

1. The Alliance for Natural Health is a Europe-wide association of
manufacturers, distributors, retailers, consumers and complementary practitioners
who have an interest in food supplements. More information, including details
of members, will be found at www.alliance-natural-health.org

Good science and good law underpin all of the ANH’s work, and the scientific
reports produced by the ANH are endorsed by many of the world’s leading
doctors and scientists working in the field of nutrition.

2. If the ban on vitamins and minerals is implemented there is much at
stake:

· Over 5000 products will disappear from the shelves of UK health
stores as a result of the ban removing access to over 300 vitamin and mineral
ingredients (out of a total of about 420). These include, amongst others, the
main natural forms of Vitamin E, several forms of vitamin C, the key natural form
of folic acid, MSM and a range of minerals such as vanadium, silicon and
boron, all being products which millions of consumers choose to take as part of
their regular health regime and have done so without any ill effects for many
years.

· An individual’s freedom of choice to take safe natural health
products will be removed – 40% of the UK’s population take vitamins and minerals.

· Products are to be banned with absolutely no scientific justification.
Many of the world’s leading scientific and medical experts in nutrition
support the absence of any proper basis for the proposed bans.

· Although the proposed bans related only to vitamins and minerals,
unless overturned, the ‘Positive list’ system will most likely be transferred
to other nutrients used in food supplements, such as plant extracts, amino
acids and enzymes. The precedent set by an ANH victory will drastically reduce
the chance of future bans on these other nutrient forms.

· Further legislative proposals by the EU are due to be considered by
the European Parliament later this and next year. These include restrictions
on maximum dosages of vitamins and minerals and restrictions on health claims
of foods. Again, the ANH is working to help positively shape such legislation
using its mantra of ‘good science and good law’.

In health,

Robert Verkerk PhD
Executive Director, ANH

David Hinde, Solicitor
Legal Director, ANH

and the rest of the Core Team of the ANH in the UK, Sweden, Ireland and
Denmark.

E-mail: info@alliance-natural-health.org
Web: www.alliance-natural-health.org


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@iahf.com
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 5:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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IAHF on AIR SATURDAY NIGHT & MONDAY: HOW YOU CAN KILL CODEX & DEFEND AMERICA FROM FTAA

IAHF Webmaster: Codex Emergency, Breaking News, Whats New, What to Do, USA &
All Countries

IAHF List: At http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/14/health/15cnd-ephedra.html the
NY Times has posted their article discussing the court's recent removal of
the mindless ban on ephedra.

On January 6th, 2004, (as you can see from the IAHF alert listed below which
I sent out to you all on that date) we _PREDICTED_ that this ban on Ephedra
WOULD be overturned under the Administrative Procedures Act, and we were dead
on ACCURATE.

MOREOVER, we predicted that the move to push us into the Free Trade Area of
the Americas would be the VEHICLE used to harm-onize our domestic vitamin laws
to Codex standards. The prediction was that FDA would not be able to yank
vitamins off the market under our existing laws, therefor a MOVE would be made to
DESTROY our country, and to force us into a hemispheric version of the EU
Dictatorship.

THAT is in FACT HAPPENING, but we CAN STOP IT!!!

Next MONTH, in MAY, a FAST TRACK vote is expected in the Senate on CAFTA
(Central American Free Trade Agreement)

STOP IT BY USING THESE SITES TO SEND THE FORM LETTERS FROM _EACH_ & BY
SENDING YOUR OWN HAND WRITTEN LETTER TO YOUR SENATORS AGAINST CAFTA & FTAA
(1) http://www.stoptheftaa.org
(2) http://www.citizen.org/trade/cafta/

These two organizations between them cover the whole political spectrum. If
Congress gets hammered with enough letters from BOTH of them and ALSO gets lots
of hand written letters against CAFTA, we will STOP the destruction of our
country and we'll PRESERVE our existing dietary supplement laws which clearly
WORK.

If we DON'T get enough people moving in this direction, our country will be
SUBSUMED into a hemispheric wide version of the EU dictatorship in our
hemisphere, and you need to know that the same SPS language thats in the WTO is also
in NAFTA (CAFTA and FTAA) and THATS the means by which they hope to bring Codex
in here.

HERE JOHN HAMMELL of IAHF ON THE AIR DISCUSSING THIS TOMORROW, SATURDAY
APRIL 16th on ERSKINE OVERNIGHT from 10 pm- 11 pm west coast time at
http://www.gcnlive.com and on 40 stations nationwide (Will be Archived)

HEAR ME AGAIN ON THE AIR on MONDAY ON JACKIE PATRU's "SWEET LIBERTY"
from 6-7 pm west coast time at http://www.sweetliberty.org or 5.070 Mhz Short
Wave.

PLEASE: Alert everyone you know about danger of CAFTA and FTAA by forwarding
this alert widely! Send letters to the Editor of the NY Times and Additional
Newspapers to discuss this Ephedra decision and also to discuss the dangers of
CAFTA and FTAA to hijack our country- to force us into compliance with Codex
standards.

John Hammell of IAHF will be participating in a Conference with other health
freedom activists on the Codex vitamin issue near Washington DC next Friday
and Saturday in an effort to form a Coalition Against Codex. I'll also be
lobbying in DC. Donations Needed, see address at end.

http://www.iahf.com/20040106.html

To: IAHF List
Subject: NY TIMES Calls For Repealment of DSHEA- IAHF Response
From: IAHF.COM
Date: 6 Jan 2004 17:16:03 -0000

IAHF Webmaster: Breaking News, Whats New, What to Do, USA and all Countries,
Harm-onization

IAHF List: Yesterday the NY Times Newspaper published the following editorial
calling for the repealment of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act
of 1994. Please read their editorial and my response, below which was posted
on the NY Times Website.

Many Americans, including well meaning people in the health freedom movement
are already jumping up and down all excited about this editorial, despite the
fact that neither Durbin's Senate bill (S.722) The Dietary Supplement Safety
Act of 2003, or Davis's House Bill (HR 3377) have any support in Congress, and
aren't likely to pick up any appreciable support, this editorial
notwithstanding.

The FDA's ban on ephedra can easily be overturned in court. It is illegal
under the Administrative Procedures Act, but no one can file a lawsuit until the
FDA publishes their Final Rule, which they haven't done yet (it will be out
soon.) Under the Administrative Procedures Act it is illegal for the FDA to act
in an inconsistent way. It is not legal for them to ban epehdra as a dietary
supplement, while leaving pseudoephedrine, which objective data proves is FAR
more dangerous than ephedra, in a slew of OTC cold preparations sold by a slew
of multinational drug companies.

The double standard here is a classic, and its outrageous. There is no way
the Cartel will succeed in repealing DSHEA via this sort of angle on US soil,
but there is a VERY REAL danger of repealing DSHEA indirectly via
HARM-ONIZATION, which is why he FDA and Cartel have set us up to lose in a future WTO Trade
Dispute.

The Cartel WHITEWASHED the Oversight Hearing on Codex that I pushed for for 5
years on March 20, 2001. I witnessed CRIMES committed by Dr.Beth Yetley of
the FDA at Codex meetings in Germany. What Yetley is doing (in total violation
of US law) is that she and the pharma dominated National Academy of Science are
creating FALSE DEFINITIONS of supplement safety in order to set us up to lose
in a WTO Trade Dispute via which our domestic law can be forcibly HARM-onized
to a grossly restrictive emerging INTERNATIONAL VITAMIN STANDARD.

The ONLY WAY we can stop what is unfolding is to support the Alliance for
Natural Health's lawsuit against the EU Food Supplement Directive, and ANH will
be in court AT THE END OF JANUARY (JANUARY 30th) in the British Courts. They
BADLY need donations, not only for this lawsuit, but also to be able to continue
their emergency lobbying in the EU Parliament against the EU Traditional
Herbal Medicinal Products Directive, and against the Pharmaceuticals Directive.
This last, the "PD" is the worst of the 3- and we won't be able to kill it
unless we FIRST OVERTURN the FSD in court.

The PD turns any substance that squeaks through the first two Directives into
a "drug". It turns any substance with ANY PHYSIOLOGIC EFFECT IN THE BODY into
a "DRUG". It would turn WATER into a "DRUG".

Keep in mind that at NEXT YEARS CODEX MEETING in Bonn Germany they can
FINALIZE a Vitamin Standard which can be imposed GLOBALLY via a new international
court- the "Dispute Settlement Body" of the WTO- which is a mickey mouse court
that does not follow our rules of evidence.

It was created to enable multinational corporate interests to strike down any
national law that interferes with multinational corporate PROFIT$$$ and thats
exactly what its been doing.

Every single decision made by the WTO's "DSB" has gone against the
environment, against the public health, against human rights, against labor rights,
against every intantible that goes into the shaping of any democratic nation's
laws.

We are, quite LITERALLY, being forced into a PRISON PLANET in which all the
laws are being "harmonized" (made the same). Our would be rulers intend to
create a CARBON COPY of the EU Dictatorship in our hemisphere called the FTAA
(Free Trade Area of the Americas) via which they intend to harmonize the laws
between Canada, the USA, Mexico, Central and South America. Unless we oppose them
with EVERY FIBER OF OUR BEINGS, these greed driven Machivellian BASTARDS FROM
HELL will succeed.

Food control = PEOPLE control.

Codex is all about culling our numbers. They don't want us to be healthy,
they don't make $$$$ when we stay clear of their doctors, their hospitals, and
their DRUGS, so they're trying to raise the hurdles via a ton of red tape so
that they can CRUSH the supplement industry, all in the name of "safety" in the
name of "protecting us from harm."

Well these hypocritical pieces of dog waste can stick it where the sun don't
shine, and its up to everyone in America to do the following things to
monkeywrench their plans:

1) Call your members of Congress today via the US Capital Switchboard at
202-225-3121 (ask for your Senators and Congressmen, if you don't know their names
tell the switchboard operator your zipcode and they'll tell you, then connect
you.

USE my response below to the NY Times as a script, and EDUCATE THEM so that
they can see the BIG PICTURE which is that this attack on DSHEA is only one
SMALL PART of a COORDINATED GLOBAL ATTACK against the entire supplement industry
which is not only occurring in the USA, but world wide!!! Explain to them
about the whitewashed oversight hearing on Codex in 2001 and tell them that if
they cosponsor Durbin's and Davis's bill (the so called Dietary Supplement Safety
Act of 2003) that you will move heaven and earth to destroy them politically.

2) You MUST donate IMMEDIATELY to the Alliance for Natural Health's lawsuit
to OVERTURN the EU Food Supplement Directive. Donate via their secure server at
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org or via the address on their website.
(You must send an international money order if you donate via snail mail or
they can't deposit your check in an English bank.)

If ANH fails in court, or in their lobbying campaign, we're done for, but
they have the best lawfirm in Europe working with them and they're VERY CAPABLE
people who are totally WORTHY of our support!!! We CAN WIN in court!! We CAN
STOP the cartel's genocide agenda, we HAVE TO, or we're going to witness
GENOCIDE.

See the NY Times Article Calling For the Repealment of DSHEA Below, and Below
it see IAHF's RESPONSE. Please get on the NY Times website yourself
http://www.newyorktimes.com and put your OWN comments to them on their website and also
email them to the editor, and copy them to your Senators and Congressmen.

This is WAR people: GLOBAL WAR:


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