Fw: Unraveling Codex - Reversing the Snopes Spin

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Monday, March 14, 2005 4:13 PM

Fwd: Unraveling Codex - Reversing the Snopes Spin

 

 

 

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About SNOPES and CODEX

 

Now, when you have a website that is supposed to give the bottom line on urban

legends and internet rumors, their position is very distressing. They seem to be

cut from that " Big Pharma " cloth, spouting the party line. For the most concise

rebuttal, please read the following from John Hammell at:

 

http://www.ymlp.com/pubarchive_show_message.php?jham+288

 

 

 

UNRAVELING CODEX - REVERSING THE SNOPES SPIN

By: Dr. RobinFalkov

 

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=66654

 

 

We are in the end game of the battle for our Health Freedom Rights. This is a

time that so many swore would never come. Well, here it is, waiting to slam the

door on our choices! Choices that enable us to take care of our health in ways

that do no harm, while still being affordable and highly effective!

 

Most of you do not realize, nor can you begin to comprehend the bottom line.

It is profit --- NOT facilitating preventive maintenance or safe healing. These

methods do NOT keep one coming back with a multitude of side effects,

necessitating more appointments to receive further medication for treatments.

 

I can hear your thoughts echoing so many comments told to me over the years:

" This is nuts, you're talking about our health. Our doctors want to heal and

help us, not focus on their profits. "

 

Please stop and think about it. Do they willingly let this cash cow disappear?

This self perpetuating industry, that keeps you coming back for more, and more,

and more? This practice becomes clearer when you realize it is " THE " very

protocol that has been so deeply ingrained over their many years of training.

While your doctors are certainly well intentioned, they, like so many other

professionals, function within the known paradigm of their training. So many

have come to the profession of healing with the desire to make a difference and

save lives, but unfortunately find their hands tied professionally by insurance

companies and managed care. Only with the loss of their revenue to alternative

care, are curriculums competitively expanding to make them more " conversant "

with these areas.

 

Please pay attention to language here; " conversant, " does not mean " fully

trained. " Ten weekend courses in " Herbs, and Homeopathy " cannot

prepare a medical professional for serious application of these subtle and

complex alternatives to patient care.

 

There are obviously exceptions of medical doctors who DO undertake the

intensive, necessary training in many other areas and they can be readily found

in organizations like A.C.A.M. and Orthomed. (links available at:

http://www.healthfreedomrights.com/ )

 

Many of you remember the television program, " Marcus Welby, M.D. He epitomized

the caring physician who went that extra mile to find what was best for his

patients. In all fairness to your doctors now, Marcus Welby did NOT have his

hours tied up with endless paperwork demanded by HMOs and managed care. This is

what happens when your doctor must justify a treatment he decides to be

NECESSARY for a patient, even though the previously mentioned companies have

specific guidelines for diseases and care, that do not treat the individual, but

the statistics.

 

If your best interests were being served by the medical profession, you would

not have such great difficulty locating alternative treatment. The majority of

insurance companies have not recognized these modalities. Some progress has

finally begun with these companies, but most still require that difficult to

obtain " doctor's referral, " enabling you to get a second opinion from an

alternative care practitioner. Quite the " Catch 22. "

 

I have received many emails asking for clarification of the " snopes.com "

explanation of Codex. Now, when you have a website that is supposed to give the

bottom line on urban legends and internet rumors, their position is very

distressing. They seem to be cut from that " Big Pharma " cloth, spouting the

party line. For the most concise rebuttal, please read the following from John

Hammell at:

 

http://www.ymlp.com/pubarchive_show_message.php?jham+288

 

This is from an interview in the archives at John's web site:

http://www.iahf.com/

 

Vitamins will not be removed from the US market in June. Here is John's

explanation from the above linked archive:

 

The following statement was made in error and we have John's answer, as

follows:

 

" In June 2005 the USA will be forced to accept Codex regulation of vitamins,

minerals, and dietary supplements: False.

 

" IAHF: This IS false, but I never said vitamins would be banned in the USA in

June of 2005, Wallace Heath said that due to not having all his facts straight,

What I have been telling people is that between July 4th and 9th 2005 the 28th

General Session of the UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission will be held in Rome,

Italy and a highly draconian global trade standard for vitamins and minerals

will be ratified at that time unless a last ditch global campaign to stop this

criminal agenda succeeds.

 

" Unless we succeed in stopping this, the USA would be set up to lose in a

future WTO trade dispute as a result of which Congress would be forced via the

threat of cross sector sanctioning to harmonize our supplement laws to the Codex

standard or huge sanctions could be levied against broad sectors of our economy.

At the same time this is happening, huge domestic attacks are occurring against

the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, with the Institute of

Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences being joined by the National Center

for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in calling for the Repeal of DSHEA.

 

" This attack is not happening in a vacuum, its part of a broader global

pattern of pharma attack against the natural supplements industry which I've

been documenting since I created IAHF in '96 to catalyze awareness of this

complex issue. "

 

For those of you unfamiliar with the history of Codex, please go to the

history page at my website:

 

http://www.healthfreedomrights.com/

 

and check the websites of the Alliance for Natural Health:

 

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/

 

and International Advocates for Health Freedom at:

 

http://www.iahf.com/

 

Many of you do not understand the impact trade agreements like the World Trade

Organization (WTO) and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) impose on

our own government. John Hammell's following examples, will give you

perspective:

 

" [An example of the WTO forcing our Congress to change a law happened just

prior to the recent US Presidential election when the WTO ruled that US Tariffs

protecting our steel industry were illegal under international law. We lost in a

trade dispute over this, and the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body told Bush that

unless Congress scrapped the tariff that they'd begin imposing trade sanctions

beginning with Florida Citrus Growers...... (Gee - guess where Bush needed

votes?)

 

http://americaneconomicalert.org/view_art.asp?Prod_ID=925

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/wto/800.html

 

" We're up against a mechanized system of international coercion. If we can't

protect an industry as important as our STEEL INDUSTRY what makes people think

we can protect ANY of our industries including our dietary supplement industry?

 

" The fact is, WE CAN'T protect our supplement laws in the USA unless we can

kill ratification of the global trade standard for vitamins and minerals which

stands to be ratified at the Codex meeting in Rome between July 4-9th 2005 or

else get this country out of the WTO. (Last time anyone tried that was Ron Paul

in 2000 via House Joint Resolution 90 (see legislative history here :

 

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/? & db_id=cp106 & r_n=hr672.106 & sel=TOC_7355

 

& HJ Res 90 was slammed.) "

 

What you CAN do is write and call your Congressman and Senators to voice your

request that the US withdraw from the WTO. This is the year to do it, or we must

wait until 2010.

 

You CAN contribute to the lawsuit for the Alliance for Natural Health. Their

record breaking lawsuit has moved up the court system in England to challenge

and remove the recently passed, poorly written laws withdrawing 300 supplements

from the marketplace in Great Britain, by June 2005.

 

The supplements to be removed are the most bio-available, natural forms of

many vitamins and minerals. The low dose synthetic replacements are NOT

equivalent. Lower dose, less effective products will be sold at higher prices.

 

We still have a chance

 

ACT NOW TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM RIGHTS!

 

Dr. Robin Falkov

http://www.healthfreedomrights.com/

 

 

 

 

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