Guest guest Posted June 20, 2005 Report Share Posted June 20, 2005 B Sun, 19 Jun 2005 15:29:44 -0700 (PDT) CODEX VOTE LOOMS---ACTION RE:CAFTA, FTAA IAHF Webmaster: Codex Emergency IAHF List- Several of you have been forwarding alerts that you've received on the Codex issue from Citizens for Health and from The Natural Solutions Foundation. I regard both organizations to be dangerous controlled opposition groups which are advocating a course of action which sounds great on the surface but which I know from experience to be doomed to failure, and to be DISTRACTING people from the ONLY course of action which has a CHANCE to stop this evil agenda. If you have received these organizations alerts and have forwarded them, please forward THIS to counteract what you've just done, because you've just inadvertantly shot yourself in the foot. Here is how: The Natural Solutions Foundation and also Citizens for Health are requesting people petition Dr.Ed Scarbrough, US Codex Chairman, and US Delegate to the 28th Session of Codex in Rome which meets July 4-9 to not ratify the global trade standard. Both organizations are badly misleading the public on this issue and their advice is seriously flawed for the following reasons: 1: Even if Scarbrough were to listen to us, (and he won't for reasons explained below), it wouldn't MATTER- the USA will be outvoted in the consensus process at Codex REGARDLESS. Average attendance at the main Codex meeting has been about 95 countries. 130 could attend, but typically many do not. At present, only one country on earth (South Africa) has been consistently opposed to the Codex vitamin standard. Like it or not, the USA doesn't have any more voting power at CODEX meetings (where things are done on a consensus basis) than any tiny country like say DENMARK or NORWAY in these corrupt proceedings. Its not reasonable to expect to stop anything by petitioning Scarbrough or any other unelected bureaucrat in the corrupt Codex process. Whether we like it or not, in July, they're going to ratify the Codex vitamin standard. We have no political leverage over unelected bureaucrats at Codex, but we DO have political leverage over our congressmen and senators and we CAN keep Codex from coming here. 2. Evidence that Scarbrough WON'T LISTEN ANYWAY: In 2000, Scarbrough kicked me off the US Codex Delegation to the Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses. I had petitioned him to remove Dr.Beth Yetley from the FDA as US Codex Delegate to the CCNFSDU, citing hard evidence that she'd violated US law at Codex meetings in '96 & '98 in Germany. I cited evidence that in '96 she illegally seconded a Canadian motion to shift herbs out of Codex and over to a WHO panel (where they'd be regarded as drugs). The motion was made due to massive grass roots opposition in Canada to a negative list proposal for herbs that I'd called attention to via public speaking. The motion was made to shift herbs out of codex to a venue (WHO) where they'd be deliberated behind closed doors (through the non transparent so called " Risk Assessment " process being headed at WHO today by Christine Lewis Taylor of US FDA). The motion was consistent with Canadian law where supplements are regulated as DRUGS but it was not consistent with US law where they're regulated as foods. Then in '98, Yetley violated US law AGAIN at Codex by illegally putting a paper on the table at Codex titled " A Risk Assessment Model for Establishing Upper Levels for Nutrients " . You can see the letters from Congress that she illegally ignored at http://iahf.com/codex/letter1.gif and http://iahf.com/codex/letter2.gif She went directly against clearly expressed congressional intent shown via an amendment to the FDA Modernization Act of 1997 that Suzanne Harris, JD and I had worked very hard to spearhead passage of. Instead of acting on my request and removing Yetley from the delegation, Scarbrough did HER bidding and removed ME from the delegation. Then, when challenged to DEBATE me on the air by Gary Null, he refused. Anyone who thinks this unelected bureaucrat who we have zero leverage over is going to listen to our concerns on this issue either has a very poor understanding of this issue, or they're trying to deliberately distract us from a more effective course of action. Both Stubblebine and Laibow have strong connections within the intelligence community. When Stubblebine was an Army General, he was the top man in Army intelligence, interfacing with the White House and the CIA. He and his wife both have connections with people such as the Rockefellers who have a vested interest in steering the health freedom movement AWAY from any involvement with the anti globalization movement. You can see their intelligence community connections by doing a search on a database called NAMEBASE- see http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_LAIBOW_RIMA_ http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=stubblebine,albert A BETTER COURSE OF ACTION The more effective course of action is to oppose passage of CAFTA and FTAA as discussed in my last several alerts which can be seen at http://www.ymlp.com/pubarchive.php?jham The reason this is a far more effective course of action is that it has a CHANCE of success. We DO have leverage over members of congress, we DON'T have leverage over unelected bureacrats such as Scarbrough. Even if he WOULD listen to us, and do what we wanted, we have no chance of stopping ratification of Codex this July in any case, but we CAN stop our laws from being harmonized to a finalized Codex standard- we CAN stop that if we can preserve our sovereignty by killing CAFTA/ FTAA. Unless we do that, we'll lose our whole COUNTRY. We'll find ourselves SUBSUMED into a hemispheric equivalent to the EU, and the mechanisms for harmonizing DSHEA to Codex standard are found in these trade agreements via the SPS language. Please forward this alert. 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 ********************************** Action letter re CAFTA and FTAA IAHF Webmaster: Codex Emergency, Breaking News, What to Do IAHF List: [WHAT TO DO - SEND IN FORM LETTER BELOW MY COMMENTS AT END] Historically, the ruling elite have ALWAYS tried to foist unpopular legislative measures through congress during the SUMMER when the largest possible number of people are on vacation and spending more time outdoors, not paying attention to what is going on right under their noses. This summer is certainly no exception. Don't expect me to save you from whats going on, I'm just one person. I need ALL of you to get far more actively involved in this effort by taking action, by doing public speaking, by mass forwarding this alert. PLEASE REDOUBLE your efforts to educate your fellow vitamin consumers to the immense threat posed by CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) to our future access to dietary supplements and to the ongoing existence of our country which will be plunged into a hemispheric equivalent to the EU Dictatorship if we sit idly by and LET this happen. WHAT JUST HAPPENED IN WASHINGTON At the Senate Finance Committee hearing that I just attended in Washington, Senator Conrad from North Dakota held up a huge chart showing our $617 Billion trade deficit. We're witnessing a NAKED EFFORT to crush the dollar, to DESTROY our country and we can't sit idly by and just LET it happen- but it WILL if we just sit on our hands because we must OFFSET the power wielded over our elected officials by multinational PAC donations- and we can ONLY do that by speaking out.... LOUDLY, and IMMEDIATELY! It sickens me that both the Senate and House passed CAFTA out of committee given that it obvioiusly extends the failed policies of NAFTA, but our reality is that they HAVE. We can't let our country be turned into a mere SECTOR of a global dictatorship much as is happening to the UK as its being subsumed deeper and deeper into the morass of the EU. Read Conrad's testimony, but keep in mind that what he's saying about the threat posed to the sugar beet growers in his state extends to ALL of us as more and more jobs are being outsourced to the third world: http://conrad.senate.gov/~conrad/releases/05/06/2005607946.html Our manufacturing and agricultural bases are being destroyed. We can't let this continue. The Rockefellers have made it very clear that they intend to FORCE the creation of a carbon copy of the EU Dictatorship in our hemisphere via CAFTA and FTAA, and its up to US to STOP THEM!! They've made their intentions clear via their book INTEGRATING THE AMERICAS- THE FTAA & BEYOND http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674014847/qid=1119119562/sr=2-1/ref=pd_b\ bs_b_2_1/002-1531051-4622459 CAFTA WAS VOTED OUT OF COMMITTEE IN BOTH SENATE & HOUSE LAST WEEK Last week, despite our best efforts which included my hand delivering an the info sheet expressing our concerns to every member of the Senate and meeting with as many as I could, on Monday the Senate Finance Committee passed CAFTA out of Committee, and on Wednesday it made it through the House Ways and Means Committee. The text as deliberated in committee now returns to the President who makes changes which reflect concerns expressed in the markup hearings which just took place. This means that sometime later this month or in July we can expect a vote to take place on the House and Senate floors in which the allowed numbers of hours of debate will be strictly limited by Fast Track rules, and they'll have to vote it up or down. Fast track rules limitting the number of hours of debate make it challenging to kill trade agreements such as this, and its going to take a huge amount of very hard work on all of our parts if our concerns will even be ADDRESSED in the debate. NOT EVEN HATCH OR HARKIN ARE HELPING US Not even Senators Hatch or Harkin are focused on the threat lurking in the form of the SPS (Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures) language buried deep inside this trade agreement which would force harmonization of our dietary supplement laws to restrictive emerging Codex vitamin standards. When I was in Washington, although I tried, I was unable to get appointments with their aides to discuss this concern, and we're going to just have to keep trying. The SPS Agreement is part of the WTO Trade Agreement, and we're more firmly bound to it via SPS language contained simultaneously in NAFTA, CAFTA, and FTAA. Passage of CAFTA and FTAA would broaden and deepen its scope, roping us in. (see http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/15sps_01_e.htm#ArticleIII) Article 3 of the SPS Agreement reads: " To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as possible, Members SHALL base their food safety measures on international standards, guidelines or recommendations. " (Codex sets the international standards for Food Safety including vitamins & minerals, soon to be expanded to include the full spectrum of other supplements) Then see the applicable text in CAFTA on SPS: http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Sectio\ n_Index.html Section 6: CAFTA requires members to form an SPS Committee for the purpose of insuring ongoing harmonization under the terms of the SPS Agreement in the WTO. WHAT YOU CAN DO By Monday I will have gotten a new alert on the Consumer Alerts section of Life Extension Foundation's website http://www.lef.org LEF has something called " Capital Advantage " which facilitates the sending of form letters to members of Congress with one mouse click. I'll have a new set of directions on their site by then to replace the instructions their currently which were intended to impact the markup hearing in the Senate that just took place. If you'd like to utilize a form letter immediately, you can take the one below, and fax or email it to members of Congress, getting their contact info from http://www.house.gov and http://www.senate.gov Kill CAFTA For the Following Reasons Senators____________________________ And Congressman ______________________________ I Urge Your Opposition to CAFTA for the following reasons: The WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and FTAA trade agreements all contain the SPS (Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures) agreement. Article 3 of SPS states: " To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as possible, Members SHALL base their food safety measures on international standards, guidelines or recommendations. " This makes the supposedly voluntary Codex Alimentarius standard for vitamins and minerals MANDATORY for all WTO member nations. Passage of CAFTA and FTAA would broaden and deepen the scope of the SPS agreement, forcing harmonization of not only our dietary supplement laws to mindless international standards, but it would lead to the creation of a supranational body similar to the EU in our hemisphere, and we oppose this clear threat to US sovereignty. When the draft text of CAFTA was first made available on January 28th, 2004 the Governors of all 50 States discovered that they were bound by the 2,400 page agreement- being specifically listed in chapter 9. A third have since rescinded their support of CAFTA. Last fall, a WTO tribunal outlawed Utah's ban on gambling, opening the door to millions of dollars in penalties against all states with anti-gambling restrictions. Antigua had charged that Utah's ban on gambling violated America's obligation not to discriminate against foreigners providing recreational services. CAFTA includes hundreds of pages of grants of vague authority to foreign tribunals. It wouldn't take long for an activist foreign judge to read his own interpretation into language such as the SPS agreement and force changes to US laws including the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. In addition to these concerns, NAFTA never lived up to the numerous promises made about it, and our Trade Deficit is worse now than ever, contributing to the weakening of the dollar. There is no reason to expect CAFTA or FTAA do anything more than to FURTHER this negative trend, and lead to the destruction of our nation, and our economy. WTO tribunals have ruled against the USA in 42 out of 48 cases, many of which were very costly to our economy. Since joining the advent of NAFTA, our trade deficit has ballooned to $617 Billion. CAFTA continues this failed policy, threatening to destroy our country. I therefore ask you to vote NO on CAFTA and on FTAA. Signed________________________________ Address__ City_________________________________State____Zip____________ 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 _______________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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