Big Pharma Stabs Planet Earth...

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" Big Pharma " Stabs Planet Earth...

 

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" Big Pharma " Stabs Planet Earth...

 

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

 

Friday, July 8th, 2005

 

 

 

My last two broadcasts " Vitamins to be Banned Worldwide... " , and " " Big

Pharma " Controls US " TV News " ... have generated a major response.

They seem to have been forwarded everywhere, and I can't keep up with

the volume of email questions I'm getting - so I'll answer the

questions here...

 

Yes, it's true that the " Codex Alimentarius " commission in Rome, July

4th,2005, passed restriction of supplement guidelines that would, in

effect, destroy the supplement industry in it's entirety - except for

that controlled outright by " Big Pharma. "

 

Yes, it's true that the " CAFTA (Central American Free Trade

Agreement) " legislation currently being rushed through the US

Congress contains, within its language, the mechanism to force

" harmonization " of US laws to " Codex " requirements destroying the

protection afforded under the1994 DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health &

Education Act) law.

 

Yes, it's true that " Big Pharma " is behind this move - they have that

much power and money.

 

Yes, it's true that we MIGHT be able to stop CAFTA - but it's unlikely

- this time. There is too much at stake - and too little time for us

to react - and too much money being spent to buy Congressional votes,

by the opposition. We must try, but if we don't succeed at first,

we'll have to go at it again, until we get what we need.

 

 

 

We've been " Pearl Harbored... "

 

The dismantling of the " health " industry, and the surrounding " health

freedom " movement, worldwide, by force, has begun. The " German Model "

of health care will now be the law of the land - in every land.

 

We've lost this battle - period.

 

Be prepared for even more attacks. It is going to get worse. " Big

Pharma " is tired of having its will thwarted, and is calling in its

markers.

 

The US FDA, over the last few months, has LITERALLY, with automatic

weapons in hand, and body armor in place, massively attacked at least

two US practitioners who espouse alternatives to " drugs, drugs, and

more drugs, " seizing everything in their offices, their bank accounts,

the titles to their homes, cars, and personal property - and screaming

at them, on the way out " Hire an attorney, asshole, because we're

going to put you in jail forever... "

 

How do you hire an attorney when the FDA has just seized everything

you have, shut down your business, and scared the crap out of your

patients with their fingers on the triggers of laser-sighted machine guns?

 

The US television news media, in one of the most obviously bigoted

assaults, perhaps in American history, has attacked America's leaders

in the fight for changes in health care. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. felt

the wrath of " Big Pharma " recently, when he came in out in Rolling

Stone magazine exposing the " thimerasol (mercury) in vaccines " issue,

and the cover-up. Actor Tom Cruise, after pointing out " Big Pharma's

- drugs, drugs, and more drugs " approach to health care - was openly

attacked on TV network news.

 

And, more... even scarier: I make no secret of the fact that I'm an

Orange County California Conservative Republican. Frequently, I get

asked " How can you be a health activist and support George Bush,

seeing how much money he took from " Big Pharma " during his election

campaign? " Well, I'll tell you why - and the answer will frighten you

more than anything else I've said, or will say, on this newsletter,

today. Both presidential candidates, and both major political

parties took ungodly sums from " Big Pharma " during the election. If

either candidate, Republican or Democrat, had come out against " Big

Pharma " during the election, that same " Big Pharma, " with their money

and power, would have elected our President. For " Big Pharma "

controls our TV media.

 

Think about that.

 

 

 

So, now what?

 

Can we recover from this loss? Yes, but we have to change our

thinking. We have to work together, and " no more mister nice guy. "

 

Two things: (1) We have to understand why we lost this battle - and

do something about those reasons. (2) we have to put an action plan

in place - and execute that plan. Now.

 

Why did we lose this battle? (1) " Big Pharma " is well organized,

ruthless, cares not at all for human life, has lots of money to hire

people to get things done, and has been working on their plan for a

while (since World War Two, I think). (2) The worldwide health

freedom movement was lulled into comfort - thinking that everything

was just fine. (3) The worldwide health freedom movement has divided

itself into factions, run on egos, that can't agree on tactics,

information, and strategies. (4) The worldwide health freedom

movement was infiltrated by " fifth columners " who have been using

their positions to say " everything is OK - don't worry. "

 

So, what's the action plan? Keep in mind, when I explain this

segment, that, professionally, I'm a Crisis Management Consultant -

so I tend to think organizationally. I'm a Dwight David Eisenhower

type - who plans warfare - just like Eisenhower, and his team, planned

the assault in Europe to grind down the Nazi war machine. So. I'm

going to explain what needs to be done in terms of solving the REAL

problems. First. I'm going to give you a list of each thing that

needs to be done. Then I'll explain why we need to accomplish each step.

 

Privately, within the " Health Freedom Movement " we need to identify

friend and foe. The Council For Responsible Nutrition (CRN) is NOT a

friend of health freedom - it is an enemy. Its membership is Phizer,

Bayer, Monsanto, etc. - manufacturers of some supplement INGREDIENTS,

not supplements. Ignore what they say completely.

 

The National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA), although having a

significant membership, is living in lah-lah land. I believe they are

getting their legal advice on " Codex " from the attorney firm that ran

the Aspartame approval through the FDA. Think about that. So, for

now, my recommendation is to ignore what they have to say.

 

Publicly, primarily to Congress, we need to do several things.

 

(1) We need to stop CAFTA, and any other attempts to cancel the US

Constitution in favor of a big business controlled world government.

If we can't stop it in this first go-around, then we'll have to do it

the second time, or the third time.

 

(2) We have to remove " Big Pharma's " right to advertise directly to

consumers.

 

(3) We must criminally prosecute industry executives for the deaths,

and damages, of, and to, Americans. Merck, and Vioxx, knowingly

killed 55,000 Americans, in the name of profit. Thimerasol in even

more insidious. Mercury fillings in teeth have been accepted far too

long.

 

(4) We need to push to get the Bush administration's new " Health

Insurance Guidelines " for America into effect. The Bush

Administration, recognizing the overburdening of health care costs to

American industry and its employees (the cost for health insurance for

an American family of four is now $14,700 per year), wants to change

the requirements for " Health Insurance Coverage " from " Full Coverage "

to allowing Industry to offer " Catastrophic Coverage Plans " - with

employees putting tax-free money into " Choice " plans, where they can

spend their health dollars wherever they want...

 

(5) We must ask Congress to pass a bill creating a " Health Czar, " for

a five year period to investigate, and straighten out, the US Hospital

system - the number one annual killer of Americans. This agency must

be given the power to criminally prosecute Hospital Administrators,

and doctors, responsible for this calamity.

 

(6) We must ask Congress to put laws in place stopping the revolving

door between " Big Pharma " and the US FDA. We need the FDA to do what

" we the people " intended it to do - not what " Big Pharma " wants it to do.

 

(7) We must ask Congress, and the Bush Administration, to

investigate, and vigorously prosecute, the " Quackbuster " conspiracy

to suppress innovation in health care.

 

 

 

So, why do we need to do ALL of these things?

 

In essence, we need a Health Care " Nuremberg... " We cannot, as a

society, permit what's happened to our health care system to continue,

or to be able to resurface any time soon.

 

(1) So, why not accept CAFTA? Easy answer. Why should we? Why

would Americans want to turn over their carefully created set of

freedoms to some set of snivelling " New World Order " bureaucrats? As

IAHF president John Hammell says

 

" The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Treaty will require

the U.S., a member of the World Trade Organization, to revise our food

laws and regulations based on Codex decisions. CAFTA would force

harmonization of our dietary supplements and regulations to

international standards, overriding the DSHEA Act of 1994.

 

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the even-broader

Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) are both modelled after

the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These agreements are

typical bureaucratic monstrosities of " managed " trade that masquerade

as free trade and would expand NAFTA to include first Central America

and then the rest of the Americas in an economic " union. " True free

trade would take a few pages of written text to enact ( " eliminate

these barriers to trade and these tariffs, " etc.); all three of these

agreements encompass thousands of pages of bureaucratic textual

garbage sprinkled liberally with rules, regulations, and

special-interest benefits.

 

Buried in the language of CAFTA is Section 6 that would require of all

its members that they form a Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS)

committee for the purpose of insuring ongoing harmonization under the

terms of the SPS Agreement in the World Trade Organization (WTO). You

can find that text at the following website:

 

http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Sectio\

n_Index.html.

 

If you then look at Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement, you will

read the following words: " 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. " (emphasis added) And as you all know by now, Codex

sets the international standards for food safety including vitamins &

minerals.

 

So, CAFTA, which is set for a vote in the House of Representatives any

time after they reconvene July 11th, 2005, is another critical link by

which health-freedom haters hope to bypass the Dietary Supplement

Health and Education Act of 1994 and obligate the United States and

Canada by treaty to harmonize to the harshly restrictive Codex

vitamin-and-mineral standards. They cannot be allowed to succeed, and

we at the NHF completely oppose these two treaties that would put a

knife in the back of our health freedoms. "

 

But that's not all. Rima Laibow MD was at the Rome event and had this

to say:

 

 

It's Official: The Vitamin War Was Declared at CODEX Today!

 

Today was a bad day here in Rome. The US supported the Vitamin and

Mineral Guidelines and betrayed US law and you. But that's not all

that happened here in the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission meeting today.

No, that's not bad enough. There's a whole lot more. Here is what the

United States participated in and helped to happen in just one day

(don't let the helpful sounding names fool you):

 

The dangerously elevated pesticide levels for a variety of poisonous

chemicals were ratified. A win for Big Chema!

 

Hygienic Practices for Meat were ratified (don't let the name fool

you). A win for Big Agra.

 

Code of Practice to Minimize and Contain Antimicrobial Resistance was

approved (don't let the name fool you). Another win for Big Agra and

one for Big Pharma, too!

 

Veterinary Drug Maximum Residue Limits Draft approved. Wins for Big

Pharma, Big Agra, Big Chema!

 

Maximum Levels for Cadmium in Wheat Grain; Potato; Stem and Root

Vegetables; Leafy Vegetables; and, Other Vegetables was approved.

 

Code of Practice for the Prevention and Reduction of Aflatoxin in Tree

Nuts was adopted (don't let the name fool you).

 

I could go on, and on, and on. And today was only the first day. But

instead of listing all of the really awful standards which were

approved or advanced to higher steps in the 8 step ratification

process, let me turn your attention to betrayal.

 

America has, once again, been betrayed by the people who should have

been protecting her most precious resource: her people. The US CODEX

Office's US CODEX Policy look to me like they have been sold to the

highest bidders: Big Pharma, Big Chema, Big Agra, Big Biotechna and

Big Medica. These high minded-wounding standards and codes are nothing

short of the triumph of corporate greed at your expense and mine.

 

Let me ask you to think about America on this sad and sorry

End-of-Independence Day. Our CODEX Policy is in the process of taking

America apart, illness by illness, and selling its sovereignty to the

highest bidder. "

 

 

(2) We have to remove " Big Pharma's " right to advertise directly to

consumers. Why? Three reasons: (1) " Big Pharma " is controlling US

TV news media. A New York Ad agency tells the TV news media what is

acceptable and what isn't. Half of TV news media advertising is from

" Big Pharma. " (2) In 1999 when " Big Pharma " went to the FDA to get

permission to advertise directly to the consumer, the average monthly

prescription cost was $30. Now the average price, for the exact same

prescription, is $140. (3) " Big Pharma " is using the money from the

increased cost to fund their nefarious projects while damaging the

American fabric, and economy.

 

(3) We must criminally prosecute industry executives for the deaths,

and damages, etc... This is simple logic. I'm appalled that our TV

media spends all day, and night, covering the subway bombings in

London, and the deaths of 50 people, and outright ignores the 55,000

deaths caused by Merck's Vioxx, the thimerasol issue, or the mercury

amalgam tooth filling issue. We have health atrocities going on,

worldwide, that have perpetrators that need punishment. So, lets get

to it.

 

(4) We need to push to get the Bush administration's new " Health

Insurance Guidelines " for America into effect. This also is an easy

explanation - people who are given CHOICES make them...

 

(5) We must ask Congress to pass a bill creating a " Health Czar... "

Why? Because the broken American Medical System does not, and will

not, police itself.

 

(6) We must ask Congress to put laws in place stopping the revolving

door between " Big Pharma " and the US FDA. We need the FDA to do what

" we the people " intended it to do - not what " Big Pharma " wants it to

do. No explanation needed.

 

(7) We must ask Congress, and the Bush Administration, to

investigate, and vigorously prosecute, the " Quackbuster " conspiracy

to suppress innovation in health care. No explanation needed.

 

Opposition is already gearing up for beginning of the battle. If you

are interested in getting in on the first round, the stopping of CAFTA

- (click here). If you're writing to Congress give them all seven

things. listed above, to think about.

 

This is a battle between " We the People, " and the free world's

biggest, and worst, enemy - ever - " Big Pharma, " and we're just

getting started with the counter-attack.

 

Stay tuned...

 

Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate

 

This " Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter " is about the

battle between " Health and Medicine " on Planet Earth. Tim Bolen is an

op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the activities of a

subversive organization calling itself the " quackbusters, " and that

organization's attempts to suppress, and discredit, any, and all

health modalities that compete with the allopathic (MD) paradigm for

consumer health dollars. The focus of the newsletter is on the ongoing

activities, battles, politics, and the victories won by members of the

" Health Freedom Movement " against the " quackbusters " It details " who

the quackbusters are, what they are, where they are operating, when

they appear, and how they operate - and how easy it is to beat them... "