Fw: Assistance Sought to Wake Up Jeff Rense.... S.722 is a RED HERRING

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I got this in a response to your e-mail. Thought you should take a look at

it!

I left all the addresses on here so you could track how it came back to me.

Carol Steen

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" Tammy Wardas " <ultimatefreedom

" Carol Steen " <clsteen

Monday, August 11, 2003 9:24 PM

Fw: Assistance Sought to Wake Up Jeff Rense.... S.722 is a RED

HERRING

 

 

> here is a follow up on what you sent me the other night

> -

> " Rod Culp " <rodc7777

> " Tammy Wardas " <ultimatefreedom

> Sunday, August 10, 2003 8:47 PM

> Fw: Assistance Sought to Wake Up Jeff Rense.... S.722 is a RED

> HERRING

>

>

> > THOUGHT THIS MAY BE OF INTEREST............Rod.......

> >

> >

> > -

> > " IAHF.COM " <jham

> > <rodc7777

> > Saturday, August 09, 2003 12:23 PM

> > Assistance Sought to Wake Up Jeff Rense.... S.722 is a RED

> HERRING

> >

> >

> > > Why Your Concern re Durbin's Bill (S.722) is Seriously Misplaced: How

It

> > is Distracting You From a FAR Greater Threat Detailed Assistance to

Help

> > You See the Global Chessboard As Pharma Attempts to Destroy the Dietary

> > Supplement Industry Globally

> > >

> > > IAHF Webmaster: Post this under breaking news, whats new, what to do.

> > Allied webmasters, please post.

> > >

> > > IAHF list: Please forward this widely, help is needed to offset damage

> > done inadvertantly to the cause of health freedom by Jeff Rense who I

hope

> > will read this carefully because it is not intended to be a personal

> attack

> > on Jeff who I know was honestly motivated, even if he did recently make

a

> > serious mistake- but its not too late for Jeff to realize what is going

on

> > or to put Rob Verkerk and I back on the air for an ongoing discussion of

> > this extremely important matter. What follows here is a response to

> > Elizabeth Wright, who was responding to something of mine that was

> recently

> > posted on the Jeff Rense website. I hope this serves to not only educate

> > Elizabeth on this issue, but also many others as well who may feel

> similarly

> > confused or unsure as to what to do.

> > >

> > > At 12:13 PM 8/8/03 -0500, you wrote re Senator Durbin's Bill S.722

" The

> > Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2003 " and my statement that it is a

" red

> > herring " :

> > >

> > > Hello Mr Hammel;

> > >

> > > I'm sorry sir, I think you're wrong. The very fact that it was

> introduced

> > is a major factor here. Seems to me like they're testing the waters more

> > intensely to see exactly what will be ignored and what will not be

> ignored.

> > My opinion about the whole affair is this, it's dangerous to ignore

> anything

> > they're doing on the Hill. You may be willing to take the risk in saying

> > it's nothing, and ignoring the bills, but I am not so willing to take

the

> > same risk.

> > >

> > > We are not even going to discuss the wonderful way you made it seem as

> > though I and every other American are so ignorant we can't tie our shoe

> > laces.

> > >

> > > Sincerely,

> > > Elizabeth Wright ( " Liz " <soulwolf)

> > >

> > > Elizabeth:

> > >

> > > My apology if I offended you. It was never my intention to offend you

or

> > anyone else with what I wrote. I am working an average of over 80 hours

> per

> > week in an effort to defend consumer access to dietary supplements not

> only

> > in the USA, but all over the world, and I see a very big picture which

is

> > frustratingly challenging to explain to people, but I am going to try

here

> > because I deeply appreciate your concern. Due to the genetic need I have

> for

> > the supplements I take, my back is to the wall, and I am most assuredly

> not

> > misleading anyone when I tell them that Durbin's bill is a red herring.

> You

> > can read my personal story of recovery from a life threatening illness

via

> a

> > suppressed alternative treatment mode involving the use of dietary

> > supplements at http://www.iahf.com/on_the_back_wards.html

> > >

> > > Things are seldom as simple as they first appear on the surface when

> > confronting the multinational pharmaceutical industry, the world's #1

> profit

> > making industry which has their tentacles as deeply into the dietary

> > supplement industry as they do. The PR Campaign to get everyone focused

on

> > Durbin's bill S.722 was initiated early in the summer by the National

> > Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA), as part of an intentional effort

on

> > the part of pharmaceutical interests that are dominating NNFA to keep

> their

> > rank and file members (who they're actively deceiving), and the vitamin

> > consuming public, (who they're ALSO actively deceiving), from paying any

> > attention to a BONAFIDE threat to the dietary supplement industry that

is

> > FAR more real and IMMEDIATE than any threat posed by Durbin's bill at

the

> > present time. I will provide complete details herein.

> > >

> > > By the time you are done reading, you will be STUNNED by the awful

truth

> > of what I am saying.

> > >

> > > I sincerely hope Jeff Rense will be too, because I am forwarding this

to

> > him with the strong urging that he not only post this, but that he put

Rob

> > Verkerk and I back on the air to do a follow up to the show he did with

us

> > on July 10th, because a follow up is badly needed. If you did not hear

the

> > show I did with Jeff on July 10th its in his archived shows as an audio

> file

> > at http://www.soundwaves2000.com/rense/

> > >

> > > This deplorable situation exists because NNFA is not enforcing Article

> > 14.3 in their Bylaws: Conflicts of Interest Disclosure. Against their

own

> > bylaws they are allowing multinational pharmaceutical companies,

including

> > Pfizer, the world's largest, to join, and play an integral role in

running

> > their trade association and determining its policies on legislative

> matters-

> > to the supreme DETRIMENT of their rank and file membership and the

vitamin

> > consuming public at large, which is being artfully kept in the DARK as

to

> > how to fight back. What they ARE being told SOUNDS plausable on the

> surface

> > to busy people who don't have time to examine the issues as I do, but it

> > remains nothing more than very slick spin control, and it sickens and

> > frustrates me when people fall for it.

> > >

> > > Ralph Fucetola, JD http://www.vitaminlawyer.com can attest to the

truth

> of

> > the things I'm saying here, and I am ccing this to him. You can reach

> Ralph

> > at <ralph.fucetola for independent verification of what I am

> > telling you. Gayle Eversole <leaflady

> http://www.leaflady.org/

> > can also attest to these truths, and I am also forwarding this to her.

> > Robert Verkerk, PhD, Executive Director of the UKs Alliance for Natural

> > Health http://www.alliance-natural-health.org robert.verkerk

> can

> > also attest to the truths expressed herein.

> > >

> > > As you can see from the cc line above, I have sent this to all of

these

> > people, along with Jeff Rense.

> > >

> > > I would have explained all of this to Jeff by phone if he had merely

> > called me as I invited him to recently. It would have taken far less

time

> > and energy for me to explain all of this to him by phone, but he did not

> > call me. I feel very uncomfortable by the censorship he is engaging in

by

> > not allowing me to respond to " Sparrowdancer " (see

> > http://www.rense.com/general39/diver.htm ) where I could have cleared up

> any

> > confusion about this had I been afforded a chance. (I am sending this to

> > " Sparrowdancer " and invite a dialogue with her and with Jeff about what

I

> > am saying here.

> > >

> > > Since Jeff chose to engage in censorship with me, given the

seriousness

> of

> > this situation, I will be posting this on my website and sending it to

my

> > distribution list. I will also be posting it on Rumormillnews where more

> > people can see it, and I'll be asking a number of allied websites to

also

> > post it, because if theres one thing I don't respect, its censorship,

from

> > Jeff Rense, or anyone else on the planet.

> > >

> > > The only honest thing to do here Jeff is to not engage in censorship

and

> > to put me back on the air for a followup show to the one he did with me

on

> > July 10th. Jeff- If you truly care about defending consumer access to

> > dietary supplements, as I fully believe you do, you will not take

offense

> at

> > what I am saying to you here because you will realize my intent here is

> not

> > to put you down in any way, but to educate you, along with Liz and

> > Sparrowdancer. Because you did not call me, you leave me with no choice

> but

> > to respond to you publicly. Jeff- I sincerely hope you take this email

in

> > the spirit with which it was intended and don't misconstrue this to be a

> > personal attack, because it is not intended to be one.

> > >

> > >

> > > RENSE UNWITTINGLY ASSISTS PHARMA CARTEL - AN HONEST MISTAKE- BUT A

> MISTAKE

> > NONE THE LESS

> > >

> > > By posting an alert about S.722 on the front page of his website

> > http://www.rense.com/general39/stops.htm, Jeff Rense is unwittingly

> playing

> > directly into the hands of the pharmaceutical interests which dominate

the

> > National Nutritional Foods Association and who STARTED the massive PR

> > campaign regarding Durbin's bill as an intentional DISTRACTION so that

> > people will IGNORE a FAR GREATER THREAT than S.722- which in fact, poses

> > very little threat at the present time as I will fully prove to you and

to

> > Jeff. (Lets hope Jeff has the integrity necessary to properly address

what

> I

> > am saying given the extreme gravity of the situation before us which

> > threatens the lives of millions of people globally. Jeff would not allow

> me

> > to respond to Mary Sparrowdancer's comments at

> > http://www.rense.com/general39/diver.htm

> > > where I could have explained all of this, had I not been wrongly

denied

> a

> > chance to. I am sending this to Jeff and to Mary for the sake of a

> > dialogue.)

> > >

> > > I have been a lobbyist on the front lines in the battle to defend

> consumer

> > access to dietary supplements since 1989. I don't only work on Capital

> Hill

> > in Washington DC, but I do my health freedom lobbying all over the world

> and

> > I am able to examine the relative threat posed by Durbin and Sweeny's

> bills

> > in a global context. Frankly, they are not the biggest threat we're

facing

> > right now, not even close, but they are serving to DISTRACT people from

> > paying any attention to this much larger threat, and unfortunately, Jeff

> is

> > helping them do that.

> > >

> > > What you fail to grasp is that all threats are relative. Could you get

> > killed by lightening if you walk outdoors during a thunderstorm, or

could

> > you get killed by a bee sting if you go on a picnic? Yes, you could, and

> > some people have died this way, but Is it statistically probable? No,

its

> > not. This is the way you must learn to think as you assess this

situation

> > because right now we've got a hemmorhaging dike situation on our hands,

> > we've got more damn leaks in the dike than we have fingers, so we have

to

> be

> > STRATEGIC about how we channel our energies or we WILL get our butts

> kicked.

> > If you will please bear with me, I will fully explain why I have called

> > Durbin's bill a " red herring. "

> > >

> > > THE BIGGEST THREAT TO CONSUMER ACCESS TO DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS IS NOT

> DURBIN

> > OR SWEENEY'S BILLS

> > >

> > > The biggest threat currently posed to consumer access to dietary

> > supplements, not only in America, but globally, will be if the Alliance

> for

> > Natural Health http://www.alliance-natural-health.org in the UK fails

to

> > get the necessary financial support from vitamin companies and consumers

> to

> > overturn the European Union Food Supplement Directive via a lawsuit that

> > they MUST file no later than the middle of September, to give us the

> optimum

> > chance of saving the dietary supplement industry from total global

> > annihilation.

> > >

> > > As the person who first alerted dietary supplement consumers to the UN

> > Codex International Threat to Health Freedom in my article in Life

> Extension

> > Magazine http://www.lef.org in 1996, I am able to weigh and assess

threats

> > posed by bills such as S.722 in a much broader context than the average

> > person- I am one of the few people in the world who clearly sees the

> global

> > chessboard on which the multinational pharmaceutical industry is

plotting

> to

> > destroy the dietary supplement industry. This knowledge did not come

> easily

> > or quickly to me, it has been very hard won, and I have the battle scars

> to

> > prove it. I have had DEATH THREATS and constant threats of legal action

> due

> > to my effort to expose this agenda. Call me at 800-333-2553 if you'd

like

> to

> > discuss any aspect of what I am telling you here.

> > >

> > >

> > > VERKERK AND I WERE ON RENSE'S RADIO SHOW ON JULY 10th - JEFF SHOULD

> LISTEN

> > TO THE ARCHIVE OF HIS OWN SHOW

> > >

> > > Although Robert Verkerk, PhD, Executive Director of the UK's Alliance

> for

> > Natural Health and I each spent an hour (2 total) being interviewed by

> Jeff

> > Rense on his July 10th show (listen to the audio archive at

> > http://www.rense.com if you missed it), it is apparent to me that Jeff

> fails

> > to grasp what is currently going on, even though he spent two hours

> > interviewing Rob and I on the air.

> > >

> > > If Jeff had called me to ask if he should post an alert regarding

S.722

> > (or Sweeney's HR 1075) on his website, I would have said no- its a red

> > herring, its not necessary at the current time, Congress is not even in

> > session til September 2nd and the far GREATER THREAT lies in ANH not

> getting

> > the donations they need by mid September to file and sustain the lawsuit

> to

> > overturn the EU Food Supplement Directive, which has enormous

> international

> > ramifications. (details below). If Jeff had called me, I could have

told

> > him that NNFA's internal communication on this issue was recently leaked

> to

> > me, and that it reflects a pattern of deception and subterfuge thats

been

> > going on inside the trade association for YEARS because they are not

> > enforcing their conflict of interest disclosure bylaw and are allowing

> > pharmaceutical interests in to their trade association, which they are

> > dominating from the top-down.

> > >

> > >

> > > THE CURRENT SITUATION WE FACE WITH DURBIN AND SWEENEY'S BILLS WHICH I

AM

> > ACTIVELY TRACKING AND NOT IGNORING

> > >

> > > The current situation we face with regards to Durbin's S.722 and

> Sweeneys

> > HR 1075 (Ephedra Public Protection Act)

> > > http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c108:2:./temp/~c108Huw6RI:: is

> that

> > both bills are being very solidly contained via a massive lobbying

> campaign

> > by Metabolife http://www.metabolife.com/index_flash.htm, of which I have

> > inside knowledge that most people don't have because it is my business

to

> > monitor these bills- I have earned a living as a professional lobbyist

in

> > the dietary supplement industry for the past 15 years.

> > >

> > > Metabolife is a multimillion dollar dietary supplement company that

has

> > lobbying resources which eclipse the average dietary supplement company

by

> a

> > very wide margin. They have the level of lobbying firepower that is

> normally

> > only found in a pharmaceutical company. S.722 only has 3 cosponsors,

while

> > HR 1075 only has 4. Neither has a head of steam behind them, and neither

> > will EVER GET a head of steam behind them because of what FDA

Commissioner

> > McLellan said in the Ephedra hearing on July 23-24 (details below

> including

> > the url where you can watch the archived videofile of the hearing so you

> can

> > see what he said with your own two eyes.)

> > >

> > > Metabolife's political power can be readily seen via a perusal of the

> > Federal Election Commission website http://www.fec.gov where you can see

> the

> > campaign donations that they have made to numerous members of Congress

as

> a

> > way of bottling up any legislation that threatens their business

> interests.

> > They are able to get ushered directly in to the inner sanctum of

Senators

> > and Congressmen's offices with the level of campaign donations they are

> > making, but most people don't realize any of this.

> > >

> > > With what just happened in the ephedra hearing held on July 23rd and

> 24th,

> > these bills have been all but killed- and by a surprising means too:

> believe

> > it or not, FDA Commissioner McLellan is a man of uncommon integrity, I

> have

> > never seen an FDA Commissioner as honest as he is- and believe it or

not,

> he

> > made a statement that you can watch on the archived videocast of the

> > hearing, that is going to contribute very heavily to the killing of

these

> > bills, which at the present rate, won't even make it out of committee

and

> > onto the floor of either the house or senate. Due to how they're

currently

> > being contained, they will be among the 96% of all bills that are

> introduced

> > which " die on the vine. "

> > >

> > > The first thing you should do in order to have an objective basis to

> > assess the degree to which S.722 or Sweeny's house bill poses a threat

is

> to

> > go to

> >

>

http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/Hearings/07232003hearing1021/hearing.htm

> > and watch the archived videocast of both days of the ephedra hearing

which

> > just took place on July 23 and 24th in the House Energy and Commerce

> > Committee Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Congressman

Greenwood

> > from Pennsylvania.

> > >

> > > At this hearing, when grilled by Congress, surprisingly, McLellan did

> NOT

> > give them what they wanted him to say. They tried to get him to say that

> the

> > Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 " ties FDA's hands "

and

> > " blocks FDA from properly protecting the public from unsafe dietary

> > supplements. " They tried to get him to say " FDA needs help from congress

> to

> > repeal or amend DSHEA " but surprisingly, McLellan would not give them

any

> of

> > that.

> > >

> > > What he did say was something like this: " FDA has been able to move

> > successfully on numerous occassions under DSHEA to remove adulterated

and

> > misbranded products from the shelves, including ephedra that has been

> > illegally spiked with pseudoephedrine, and including ephedra which was

> > illegally sold as a substitute for street drugs. FDA has had no problem

> > moving under DSHEA to confront manufacturers who had illegal labelling

or

> > who were making illegal health claims. The only untested part of DSHEA

is

> > the safety clause which has never been thoroughly tested in court. The

> last

> > time we went to court to try to ban ephedra, the Judge threw us out

> telling

> > us that we had to have something a lot more substantial to prove that

the

> > risks of taking ephedra outweigh the benefits than just some anecdotal

> > Adverse Event Reports- he told us we had to have solid clinical data. We

> > have to do this right. We will be going back to court armed with

clinical

> > data that we did not have the first time. In the mean time we aree still

> > sorting through thosands of comments received from the public in

response

> to

> > an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking pertaining to a proposed rule

we

> > will be coming out with on Ephedra. It would be premature for me to

> comment

> > on exactly what that final rule will be, but we are leaning toward

coming

> > out with strict warning labels on ephedra as well as imposing potency

> > restrictions. "

> > >

> > > You may not realize it, but McLellan did more with that statement to

> pour

> > cold water on this bill than any other single factor, and you can be

sure

> > Metabolife's lobbyists will be using this in their efforts to kill the

> bill.

> > While it is ironic that the FDA Commissioner has just done us all a huge

> > favor by saying this, it is none the less true. It will be very

difficult

> > for these bills to move appreciably after this, and I am much less

> concerned

> > about it as a result. That doesn't mean I won't continue to track the

> bills,

> > but I predict that my suspicions will be confirmed that these bills are

> not

> > moving after Congress reconvenes on September 2nd just as soon as bill

> > status updates the information on the number of cosponsors. (Anyone can

> > learn the current number of cosponsors on any bill at

> http://thomas.loc.gov

> > and by going to the bill summary and status file for the bill, such as

for

> > S.722, see http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:s.00722: where

you

> > will see the bill has just 3 cosponsors.

> > >

> > > (For the record, FDA isn't going to get ephedra banned in court for

the

> > simple reason that even if they were to succeed in a lower court, which

is

> > far from certain, they'd be overturned on appeal because Metabolife

would

> > appeal under the Administrative Procedures Act, wherein they'd argue

> > successfully that pseudoephedrine found in OTC cold products poses a far

> > greater threat than ephedra and its not justified for FDA to ban ephedra

> > unless they're ALSO prepared to ban pseudoephedrine- (which aint' gonna

> > happen due to the Pharma lobby, but this would be an air tight argument

in

> > court.)

> > >

> > > THE THREAT THAT IS FAR MORE IMMEDIATE THAN DURBIN OR SWEENEYS BILLS-

> > > ANH NOT GETTING THE DONATIONS THEY NEED BY MID SEPTEMBER-------

> > > IF ANYTHING INTERFERES WITH THEIR GETTING THE FUNDS NECESSARY TO FILE

> AND

> > SUSTAIN THEIR ALL IMPORTANT LAWSUIT TO OVERTURN THE EU FOOD SUPPLEMENTS

> > DIRECTIVE- GIVEN ITS GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS- WE'RE SCREWED!!!

> > >

> > > See my article at http://www.iahf.com/anh_lawsuit.html or the editted

> > version as published in the July issue of Life Extension Magazine at

> > >

> >

>

http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2003/2003_preprint_eu_02.html?SUBMIT2=Search

> > >

> > > That much larger and far more REAL threat stems from the fact that the

> FDA

> > has set the USA up to lose in a WTO Trade Dispute via which our domestic

> > vitamin laws can be forcibly harmonized to a very restrictive, rapidly

> > emerging international vitamin standard. We CAN protect ourselves from

> what

> > is going to unfold, but ONLY if we act VERY QUICKLY and make timely

> > donations (prior to mid September when they must file their lawsuit) to

> the

> > UKs Alliance for Natural Health via their website at

> > http://www.alliance-natural-health.org where you can donate via a credit

> or

> > debit card via a secure server, or via an international money order send

> to

> > the

> > >

> > > Alliance for Natural Health

> > > Mount Manor House

> > > 16 The Mount

> > > Guildford

> > > Surrey GU2 4HS

> > > United Kingdom

> > >

> > > It is only from being able to see the global chess board on this issue

> as

> > clearly as I do that I have made the statement that it is premature of

> NNFA

> > to sound the huge alarm that they have sounded regarding S.722- but

> because

> > I am privvy to their internal communications, which have been leaked to

me

> > by disgruntled NNFA members who are tired of being lied to and misled on

> > issues such as this, I am fully aware of aspects of this situation that

> you

> > and the vast majority of other Americans are not aware of.

> > >

> > > I realize that at first glance it would seem perfectly reasonable to

get

> > behind NNFA's bandwagon in opposition to S.722, it seems perfectly

> > reasonable to adopt this position......... until you are able to see the

> > global picture which I have just tried to explain to you here. It is my

> hope

> > that this explanation will help you to more clearly see how a lobbyist

> > thinks, and that it will help you to properly assess the relative degree

> of

> > threat posed by Durbin's and Sweeney's bills. Also note that no one ever

> > told you about Sweeney's house bill before I did, you only knew about

> > Durbin's bill. Trust me, I am tracking these bills, and if at a future

> time

> > I feel that the threat posed by them overshadows other threats in our

> midst,

> > I will be the first to sound an alarm.

> > >

> > > Right now, as of August 9th, they do not, our most immediate concern

> > should be to alert everyone we know to the dire need to get donations in

> to

> > the Alliance for Natural Health for their lawsuit which has huge

> > international ramfications. Remember, 96% of all bills that are

introduced

> > are never passed into law, but the threat posed by the EU Food

Supplement

> > Directive if it is not overturned in court is INDISPUTABLE.

> > >

> > > For Health Freedom,

> > > John C. Hammell, President

> > > International Advocates for Health Freedom

> > > POB 10632 Blacksburg VA 24062 USA

> > > http://www.iahf.com

> > > http://iadsa-exposed.tripod.com

> > > 800-333-2553 N.America

> > > 540-961-0476 World

> > > International Advocates for Health Freedom

> > > POB 10632 Blacksburg VA 24062 USA

> > > http://www.iahf.com; http://iadsa-exposed.tripod.com

> > > 800-333-2553 N.America

> > > 540-961-0476 World

> > >

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