Through Dr.Hickey's Experience We See IMPORTANCE of ANH Lawsuit.... Helps Delineate CODEX Issue

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Through Dr.Hickey's Experience We See IMPORTANCE of ANH Lawsuit....

Helps Delineate CODEX Issue

 

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In a NUTSHELL- the cartel has set the USA up to lose in a WTO Trade Dispute via

FALSE DEFINITIONS of supplement safety and we CAN'T EXPOSE THIS in the rigged

mickey mouse court they're set to RAILROAD us in, but we CAN expose this in the

European Court of Justice via the ANH lawsuit..... see more below

 

The illustration I give below in my response to Diane Miller from Dr.Hickey's

experience of attempting unsucessfully to communite with the National Academy of

Science about their fraudulent RDA for vitamin C speaks volumes and really helps

everyone see why we must help ANH get into court......... Please forward this to

help more people connect the dots....

 

 

 

At 08:27 AM 6/20/04, Diane Miller, JD Wrote:

Dear all:

 

As I delve into this international conversation and learn more my challenge

is to keep all of the terms straight. The history that John has been involved

with since I first spoke with him during the Saunders trials in 1994, is vast.

I am grateful for all of the writings. I actually have to draw my own map to

see all of the players. A complex situation for the average person. As an

educator, it will be a challenge to simplify this.

 

I understand that CODEX of WHO/FAO ....and the FSD (Food Supplement

Directive) coming out of the European Parliament,.... are not the same thing

however

they may effect the same thing politically and for our future because of

intention to adopt and also EEU treaty law.

 

I will do my best to educate myself on this issue so that I can converse with

all of you and support efforts that will support health freedom in the United

States and abroad.

 

Best Regards,

 

Diane M. Miller JD

Legal and Public Policy Director

National Health Freedom Action

PMB 218

2136 Ford Parkway

St. Paul, MN 55116-1863

www.nationalhealthfreedom.org

Phone: 651-690-0732

 

Diane and Everyone:

 

Here is a BARE BONES SIMPLIFICATION of the CODEX issue------ it all becomes

clear when you examine the letters below sent by Dr.Steve Hickey to the

Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Science demanding

accountability regarding the unscientific conclusions NAS has come to over the

" development " of the (fraudulent) RDA for vitamin C. (NAS refuses to communicate

with Dr. Hickey.)

 

What Hickey is exposing is the WEAPON FDA/NAS have arrayed against us to INSURE

that we will lose in a WTO Trade Dispute via which our vitamin laws will be

forcibly harmonized to the Codex " standard. " (The weapon is the FALSE DEFINITION

of supplement safety, see SPS Agreement below)

 

Its important to note that just as NAS refuses to communicate with Hickey, our

side would NOT be able to bring expert witnesses (like Hickey) into court in the

event of a trade dispute (see info below about the rigged WTO court, the DSB),

but we WOULD be able to bring people like Hickey in as expert witnesses to the

ANH hearing before the EU Court of Justice where we can EXPOSE all of this, and

bring massive pressure to bear at Codex to stop finalization of a vitamin

standard that mirrors the EU FSD and on the US Congress to hold a PROPER

oversight hearing on this issue (since the hearing in 2001 was whitewashed.)

 

The key to the whole thing is the Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures Agreement

( " SPS " ) http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/sps_e/spsagr_e.htm a subsection of

GATT.

GATT never used to have TEETH, but GOT teeth via the Uruguay Round which created

the WTO which superceded GATT in 1999.

 

The WTO has a new International Court (The Dispute Settlement Body) which

doesn't follow US rules of evidence and is rigged to enable multinational

corporate interests to make END RUNS around ANY national law that interferes

with multinational profits.

 

The WEAPON the DSB will use against us (unless we provactively CHANGE the global

situation by supporting the ANH lawsuit to overturn the EU Food Supplement

Directive via which we can MONKEYWRENCH development of a finalized Codex trade

standard for vitamins which MIRRORS it) is the SPS AGREEMENT

 

Only Via the ANH lawsuit we can EXPOSE the FRAUDULENCE of the " RISK ASSESSMENT

METHODOLOGY " which all nations are required to base allowable vitamin potencies

on per Article 5 of SPS (see below)

 

Especially see Article 5:

(for a more in depth analysis examining the entire SPS Agreement see commentary

at http://www.iahf.com/iadsa/gatt_sps_obligations.html

 

 

Article 5 back to top

Assessment of Risk and Determination of the Appropriate Level of Sanitary or

Phytosanitary Protection

 

1. Members shall ensure that their sanitary or phytosanitary measures are based

on an assessment, as appropriate to the circumstances, of the risks to human,

animal or plant life or health, taking into account risk assessment techniques

developed by the relevant international organizations. [My note: eg: The Codex

Alimentarius Commission, the Institute of Medicine at National Academy of

Sciences, International Life Sciences Institute, the EU Scientific Committee on

Food, etc. These groups are all falsely defining supplement safety and THAT is

the key to the whole matter

 

MAIN THING TO GRASP ABOUT HOW THE FDA & IOM AT NAS HAVE SET US UP:

 

Firstly: our opponents are multinational pharmaceutical companies and the

world's ruling elite: they don't think in terms of individual countries- they

are seeing a

GLOBAL chess board. SEEING this GLOBAL Chess Board is the KEY to understanding

how we have been set up, and WHAT we must do to fight back.

 

HERE is a MICROCOSMIC ILLUSTRATION:

 

The Fraudulent RDA the Institute of Medicine at National Academy of Sciences

Have just generated for VITAMIN C have been exposed by Dr.Steve Hickey in the

UK, author of a new book called ASCORBATE- THE SCIENCE OF VITAMIN C- See his

letters to the IOM about this http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/hickey/index.htm

 

Hickey tells everyone:

" To be blunt, the NIH gave a dose of vitamin C, waited til it had been excreted,

then measured blood levels. " As you can see from his book and letters, Hickey

has made an exhaustive study of the scientific literature and has totally

exposed the current RDA for vitamin C as utterly fraudulent, but no one from the

Institute of Medicine at the US National Academy of Sciences will RESPOND to his

emails.

 

He is being IGNORED.

 

What you must GRASP about this is that in the event of a trade dispute against

the USA by the EU over our vitamin laws, the American supplement industry would

not be able to bring Dr.Hickey (or any OTHER highly qualified expert witness)

into a courtroom where the TRUTH of this matter could be EXPOSED.

 

That is because the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization

meets in secret, behind closed doors, and no private citizen ordinarily would be

ALLOWED to present testimony (this would ONLY be allowed if BOTH conflicting

parties ALLOWED it, and so far this has never happened for obvious reasons.)

 

In the event of a Trade Dispute, the USA would be " represented " by the same

unelected bureaucrats who have SET US UP to lose in a trade dispute in the FIRST

PLACE:

Dr.Beth Yetley of the US FDA and her assistant Codex Delegate at the Codex

Committee on Nutrition and Foods For Special Dietary Use: Dr.Barbara Schneeman.

 

Both people will echo the views of the pharma dominated Institute of Medicine at

the National Academy of Sciences.

 

See complete discussion on Schneeman nailed in conflict of interest at

http://www.iahf.com/20040419.html

 

Schneeman was just HIRED by the FDA to run the Office of Dietary Supplements at

CFSAN, replacing Dr.Christine Lewis who has moved from the FDA to the WHO (which

administrates CODEX)

 

We can see the COMPLETE circle when we examine Schneeman's background- she came

to FDA from UC Davis which has a public disclosure policy for its faculty. UC

Davis has confirmed to me by email that while she was employed there,

Dr.Schneeman had a grant for nearly $40,000. from ILSI (International Life

Sciences Institute)

ILSI's membership list reads like a " Who's Who " of the multinational drug

companies: http://www.ilsi.org/about/Assembly_of_Members.pdf

 

(Schneeman chaired the NAS committee that was commissioned by the FDA to

generate a 400 page book titled " Dietary Supplements: A Framework for Evaluating

Safety " None of the people who generated this biased book were clinicians with

any EXPERIENCE in using supplements to help patients, they were ALL academic

researchers working in University Nutrition Departments that are awash in

pharmaceutical research grants- they're the SAME sort of people who REFUSE to

respond to Dr. Hickey's emails about the fraudulent methods used by NAS to

" determine what the RDA of Vitamin C should be " .

 

This illustrates exactly what the FDA's game plan is: they've set the USA up to

lose in a WTO Trade Dispute using SPS as their MAIN WEAPON

 

WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT:

 

1) In MARKED CONTRAST to the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, in the EU Court of

Justice, ANH will be ABLE to bring expert witnesses such as Dr.Hickey to EXPOSE

the FRAUDULENCE of the " risk assessment " methodology being used to generate

global trade standards at CODEX.

 

The EU is the dominant political force at CODEX. On May 1, the EU expanded from

15 to 25 nations in size. They can thus push a finalized Codex vitamin standard

through to completion at Codex which Mirrors the EU FSD, especially given that

the EU Codex Delegate: Basil Mathoudakis was the primary author of the EU FSD,

and he has already had complete backing from the German chair of the Committee,

Dr.Grossklaus, on any changes he's wanted made.

 

We must therefor strongly encourage public and industry support for ANH's

lawsuit via http://www.alliance-natural-health.org and

 

2) We must work together to get a GENUINE oversight hearing on the Codex vitamin

issue in the US Congress because the one I pushed for for 5 years was

WHITEWASHED on March 20, 2001- see details at

http://www.thehealthcrusader.com/pgs/article-0104-ban.shtml This article details

how the supplement industry has been set up from within, and how the whole

industry is being actively steered to the CLIFF by Randy Dennin, who until

September when he announced his " retirement " in Functional Foods and

Nutraceuticals Magazine was an employee of Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company, but

who still Chairs IADSA, and the Joint International Committee of NNFA and AHPA.

 

John C. Hammell, President

International Advocates for Health Freedom

556 Boundary Bay Rd.

Point Roberts WA 98281 USA

http://www.iahf.com

800-333-2553 N.America

360-945-0352 World

For Health Freedom,

John C. Hammell, President

International Advocates for Health Freedom

556 Boundary Bay Road

Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA

http://www.iahf.com

jham

800-333-2553 N.America

360-945-0352 World

 

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[Guest guest]

I will say this once. The nature of this Codex beast, is that it has

presented interested parties with a legal and medical hall of mirrors of

staggering complexity. This will never become a matter that can be fully

understood by the public. There isn't enough time to fully educate the

general public about all these issues. You must find ways of streamlining

this process, enabling the general public to become actively involved

without having to comprehend all the intricate details involved here. Every

effort should be made to make this process as simple, straightforward and

set-for-action, as it can be. The public has a vague understanding that

their right to access to supplements is endangered. This is sufficient to

create the sort of movement necesssary, hopefully, to stop Codex. We can

sort out the details more slowly, " after " a strong effort has been made to

stop the Codex process.

JP