HEALTH & FREEDOM RELATED ARTICLES
Article #1
VIOXX - FDA EXPOSED - (BY AN
INSIDER)
In an eye-popping article published by
www.NewsTarget.com. It is an interview with Dr. David
Graham, the senior drug safety researcher at the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). He is the person who blew the
whistle to a Senate committee on the dangers of the drug Vioxx.
Despite it's being banned temporarily after causing 140,000
heart attacks and 60,000 deaths, Vioxx has been voted back on
the market by the FDA with a slightly modified label.
Everyone should print out this 10-page interview and read it
carefully.
The interview contains jaw-dropping insights about the
corruption and crimes that take place every day inside the FDA.
This is no outside critic, either; these are the words from a
top FDA employee who has worked at the agency for two decades.
If you've ever wondered how the drug industry could pull off the
greatest con of our time -- and turn the human body into a
profit-generating machine -- you're about to learn the shocking
answers in this interview. - B. Henderson
Article #2
Quackwatch Founder Stephen Barrett loses Major Defamation trial
in Hometown
Date: October 13, 2005
Location: Allentown,
Pennsylvania
Court Case: Stephen Barrett, M.D. vs. Tedd Koren, D.C. and
Koren
Publications, Inc.
Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County
for the State of Pennsylvania
Court Case No.: 2002-C-1837
Contact: Carlos F. Negrete
LAW OFFICES OF CARLOS F.
NEGRETE
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
URL:
www.healthfreedomlaw.com
(site has been shut down!)
www.negretelaw.com
(site has been shut down!)
Dr. Tedd
Koren, DC.
URL: www.korenpublications.com
(site has been shut down!)
Subject: Quackwatch Founder Stephen Barrett loses Major
Defamation trial in
Hometown
In a stunning development, Lehigh Valley
Pennsylvania Judge J. Brian Johnson on Thursday, October 13,
2005, tossed out nationally known self-proclaimed ‘consumer
medical advocate’ Stephen Barrett’s defamation lawsuit just
minutes before it was going to be considered by a local jury.
The lawsuit, filed in August 2002, against also nationally
known Pennsylvania chiropractor, lecturer, researcher and
publisher, Dr. Tedd Koren sought unspecified damages against
Koren and his company, Koren Publications, Inc. for statements
that he wrote in his newsletter in 2001 about Barrett.
Barrett, a long-time nemesis of chiropractic, filed the
lawsuit because of Koren’s publication that Barrett was
‘licensed’ and in trouble because of a $10 million lawsuit and
because Barrett was called a ‘Quackpot’.
In his defense, Koren contended that the statements were
true and not defamatory and that he had a First Amendment right
to write them in his newsletter.
Thursday’s ruling by Judge Johnson represented a major
reversal of the finding of an arbitration in August 2004 wherein
a panel of three local private attorneys reviewing the case had
found in favor of Barrett and awarded Barrett $16,500 in damages
and that Koren should publish a retraction. That award was
appealed by Koren.
Dr. Koren was represented by well-known health freedom
San Juan Capistrano, California, attorney Carlos F. Negrete for
trial and Washington, D.C. attorney James Turner of Swankin &
Turner. Easton, Pennsylvania attorney Christopher Reid of Laub,
Seidel, Cohen, Hof & Reid served as local counsel for the team
and was co-counsel for the trial along with Negrete.
Turner and Negrete have been well known for their
representation of clients in the health food, supplement and
vitamin industries as well as representing naturopaths, nurses,
dentists, physicians, chiropractors and complimentary therapists
across the country.
Turner’s experience dates back the 1960s when he joined
consumer advocate Ralph Nader and was one of the groundbreaking
Nader’s Raiders that made consumer advocacy popular and brought
about significant changes in manufacturing and consumer
protection.
In making the ruling to throw out the case, Judge Johnson
granted a rare directed verdict to the jury finding there was
insufficient evidence to support Barrett’s claims. Judge Johnson
indicated that this case was one of those rare times where such
a motion was appropriate.
Barrett operates the web site www.quackwatch.org
(site has been shut down!)
, www.chirobase.org
(site has been shut down!)
and 20 other web sites and has been a long time critic of
chiropractic calling much of it"quackery".
The victory to chiropractor Koren comes almost 18 years to
the date that chiropractors received national attention with
their victory against the American Medical Association (AMA) by
obtaining an injunction against the AMA from an Illinois federal
judge for engaging in illegal boycotting of doctors chiropractic
in Wilk et al vs. AMA.
Barrett had been an outspoken supporter of the AMA at
the same time that Koren had been a vocal advocate that the AMA
has, in recent years, violated the spirit of the federal judge’s
order.
After the ruling, Koren proclaimed that: I am overjoyed and
enthusiastic that this nightmare is over and that the science,
art and philosophy of chiropractic and the work of all of my
colleagues have been vindicated.
“This case took a toll on my life and family, but I knew
that I was right in publishing the truth.”
Dr. Barrett has no right to misinform the public about
chiropractic and other natural healing arts or to try to silence
anyone who criticizes him or tell consumers that he is not what
he purports to be.
“I believe that it is not right to be silent when there
is a duty to inform the public and let the truth be told.”
For years, Barrett has touted himself as a medical expert on
‘quackery’ in healthcare and has assisted in dozens of court
cases as an expert. He also was called upon by the FDA, FTC and
other governmental agencies for his purported expertise.
He was the subject of many magazine interviews,
including Time Magazine and featured on television interviews on
ABC’s 20/20, NBC’s Today Show and PBS.
He has gained media fame by his outspoken vocal disgust
and impatience over natural or non-medical healthcare, including
his criticisms of two time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling.
Dr. Tedd Koren is known for his writings and lectures on
chiropractic science, research, philosophy, and chiropractic
patient adjusting.
He is known for his Koren Publications chiropractic
patient education brochures, posters, booklets, books and other
products that are used in chiropractors’offices throughout the
United States and around the world.
Dr. Koren also co-founded a chiropractic college, is on
the extension faculty of two chiropractic colleges, is published
in chiropractic and bio-medical journals and has received
numerous awards in his field. His web sites include
www.korenpublications.com and www.teddkorenseminars.com
(site has been shut down!)
In his 2001 newsletter, Koren published articles that
revealed that even though he touted himself as a medical expert,
Barrett had not been a licensed physician since the early 1990s.
He also published that Barrett had been the subject of a
$10 million racketeering lawsuit [that had been withdrawn] and
called him a ‘quackpot’ for the contradiction of his website and
lack of credentials.
Koren’s trial attorney, Carlos F. Negrete of San Juan
Capistrano, California, is known for his defense of physicians,
chiropractors, dentists, clinics and natural heath providers who
practice what is known as complimentary & alternative medicine
and holistic healthcare. Negrete has also handled groundbreaking
cases against HMOs in California and has represented many
celebrities and politicians.
At trial, under a heated cross-examination by Negrete,
Barrett conceded that he was not a
Medical Board Certified psychiatrist because he had failed
the certification exam.
This was a major revelation since Barrett had provided
supposed expert testimony as a psychiatrist and had testified in
numerous court cases.
Barrett also had said that he was a legal expert even
though he had no formal legal training.
The most damming testimony before the jury, under the
intense cross-examination by Negrete, was that Barrett had filed
similar defamation lawsuits against almost 40 people across the
country within the past few years and had not won one single one
at trial.
During the course of his examination, Barrett also had
to concede his ties to the AMA, Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
and Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
This was not the first time that Negrete was a trial
attorney in a Barrett case. He also r epresented
anti-fluoridation advocate Darlene Sherrell in a federal lawsuit
filed in Eugene, Oregon by Barrett.
Barrett also lost in trial of that case. Negrete also
represented Robert King of King Bio Natural Medicine of North
Carolina and MediaPower (manufacturers of CalMax and Nu-Zymes)
of Maine in cases filed by an organization led by Barrett, which
were lost by Barrett's organization.
Barrett has also
filed a lawsuit against Negrete and his client Dr. Hulda Clark
(author of The Cure for All Diseases and The Cure for All
Cancers) , which is now pending and awaiting trial in San Diego,
California federal court.
After the Koren trial, Negrete stated: “The de-bunker
has been de-bunked. I am pleased and satisfied with this outcome
for Dr. Koren and am proud that Dr. Koren did not succumb to the
pressures of the intimidation of Barrett’s legal wrangling. Not
everyone can stand up to someone as well known as Barrett.”
Negrete continued, “It is another great day for health
freedom and alternative healthcare around the world. I am
especially pleased that this most important victory was in
Barrett’s own hometown. It just goes to show you that there is
justice anywhere, even when you are a visitor challenging the
home team.
Barrett is a shill for the medical and pharmaceutical
cartels and his bully tactics and unjustified discrediting of
leading innovators, scientists and health practitioners should
not be tolerated.”
Negrete said, “You can be assured that our legal team
will be wherever health freedom advocates and practitioners are
being persecuted. The tide is now turning and people are no long
accepting that synthetic drugs are the only form of treatment
are the only way to address health concerns.
"Every day, consumers are becoming more educated about
the benefits of holistic and alternative methods. This is
something that the medical establishment obviously fears and
wants to crush with false propaganda.”
Koren said that he would now go back to his home in
Pennsylvania to spend more time with his family and continue to
write, research, and lecture on topics concerning chiropractic
and healthcare and the experiences he has gained from this
precedent setting legal battle.
He plans to give new lectures to chiropractors across
the country who are under attack or have been subjected to
governmental actions.
He also announced that he is forming a new organization
aimed at informing and assisting chiropractors across the
country.
The trial started on Monday, October 10, 2005 and ended on
October 13, 2005
Barrett was represented by local Allentown attorney, Richard
Orloski.
Article #3
CODE RED ALERT: U.S.
Senate Bill Broadly Eliminates Liability For Vaccines And
Drugs
..."The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)
is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug
Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the
U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced
"a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst
nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip Americans of
the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or
licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government
to take whenever federal health officials declare a public
health emergency...
..."true partnership" between the federal government, the
pharmaceutical industry and academia to walk the drug
companies...
....will operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of
Information Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused by
drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" will become
public"...
Here is a perfect example of how supposedly democratic
decisions are made by governments. Who in their right minds
should even consider this let alone develop this blatant
piece of legislation? Unless there is collusion with the
industry. It is, yet again, sad to see another government
usurped by the industry the very industry it pretends to
regulate to protect the citizens.
Only a corrupt government in the face of injuries from Vioxx,
and anti-depressants etc. could dream up such a scheme for
their cronies.
If vaccines and drugs are so safe then why this?
Please take action as per below.
Thanks,
Chris Gupta
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E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER
Vienna, Virginia
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NVIC Note: Yesterday we witnessed the Senate HELP
Committee pass this bill out of sub-committee. It is
critical that you take action today-immediately. This bill
will go back to the committee for a final review on
Thursday-October 20, 2005 and then go to the full Senate for
a vote. Being led by Republican Richard Burr (R-NC) and
being spurred by fears of avian flu, this bill was written
and passed out of committee in a 24 hour period. Most
members did not even have the final language in front of
them.
The version that passed will broadly eliminate liability
for vaccines and drugs. Please read the press release, write
to the members of the HELP committee, write to your own
Senator and your own member of Congress. Pass this alert to
your family, friends and other organizations you are
involved with. Go to our website and take action right now!
www.NVIC.org Don't wait for someone else to do it. This is a
CODE RED alert to anyone who is concerned about forced
vaccination and holding drug companies responsible for the
products they create.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The National
Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense
and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005"(S.
1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee
one day after it was introduced "a drug company
stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." The
proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a
trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug
or vaccine that they are forced by government to take
whenever federal health officials declare a public health
emergency. The legislation's architect, Senator Richard Burr
(R-NC), Chairman of the HELP Subcommittee on Bioterrorism
and Public Health Preparedness, told the full HELP Committee
yesterday that the legislation "creates a true partnership"
between the federal government, the pharmaceutical industry
and academia to walk the drug companies "through the Valley
of Death" in bringing a new vaccine or drug to market. Burr
said it will give the Department of Health and Human
Services "additional authority and resources to partner with
the private sector to rapidly develop drugs and vaccines."
The Burr bill gives the Secretary of DHHS the sole authority
to decide whether a manufacturer violated laws mandating
drug safety and bans citizens from challenging his decision
in the civil court system. The bill establishes the
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA),
as the single point of authority within the government for
the advanced research and development of drugs and vaccines
in response to bioterrorism and natural disease outbreaks
such as the flu. BARDA will operate in secret, exempt from
the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or
deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as
"countermeasures" will become public. Nicknamed "Bioshield
Two," the legislation is being pushed rapidly through
Congress without time for voters to make their voices heard
by their elected representatives. Co-sponsored by Republican
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), Senate Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Mike Enzi
(R-WY), and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg
(R-NH), the legislation will eliminate both regulatory and
legal safeguards applied to vaccines as well as take away
the right of children and adults harmed by vaccines and
drugs to present their case in front of a jury in a civil
court of law. "It is a sad day for this nation when Congress
is frightened and bullied into allowing one profit making
industry to destroy the seventh Amendment to the
Constitution guaranteeing citizens their day in court in
front of a jury of their peers," said Barbara Loe Fisher,
president of NVIC. "This proposed legislation, like the
power and money grab by federal health officials and
industry in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the
Project Bioshield Act of 2004, is an unconstitutional
attempt by some in Congress to give a taxpayer- funded
handout to pharmaceutical companies for drugs and vaccines
the government can force all citizens to use while absolving
everyone connected from any responsibility for injuries and
deaths which occur. It means that, if an American is injured
by an experimental flu or anthrax vaccine he or she is
mandated to take, that citizen will be banned from
exercising the Constitutional right to a jury trial even if
it is revealed that the vaccine maker engaged in criminal
fraud and negligence in the manufacture of the vaccine." The
federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is legally
responsible for regulating the pharmaceutical industry and
ensuring that drugs and vaccines released to the public are
safe and effective. Drug companies marketing painkillers,
like Vioxx, and anti-depressants, which have resulted in the
deaths and injuries of thousands of children and adults, are
being held accountable in civil court while the FDA has come
under intense criticism for withholding information about
the drugs' dangers from the public. Since 1986, vaccine
makers have been protected from most liability in civil
court through the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in
which Congress created a federal vaccine injury compensation
program (VICP) that offers vaccine victims an alternative to
the court system. Even though the program has awarded nearly
$2 billion to victims of mandated vaccines, two out of three
plaintiffs are turned away. "The drug companies and doctors
got all the liability protection they needed in 1986 but
they are greedy and want more," said Fisher. "And the
federal health agencies want more power to force citizens to
use vaccines without having to worry about properly
regulating them. If the Burr bill passes, all economic
incentives to insure mandated vaccines are safe will be
removed and the American people are facing a future where
government can force them to take poorly regulated
experimental drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures"
or go to jail. The only recourse for citizens will be to
strike down mandatory vaccination laws so vaccines will be
subject to the law of supply and demand in the marketplace.
The health care consumer's cry will be: No liability? No
mandates."
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) was
founded by parents of vaccine injured children in 1982 and
co-founders worked with Congress on the National Childhood
Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. For more information, go to
http://www.nvic.org
SOURCE National Vaccine Information Center Web Site: http://www.nvic.org
Kathi Williams National Vaccine Information Center
421 Church St., Suite E Vienna, Va 22180
703-938-DPT3
www.NVIC.org
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News@nvic.org
is a free service of the National Vaccine Information Center and
is supported through membership donations. Learn more about
vaccines, diseases and how to protect your informed consent
rights http://www.nvic.org
Become a member and support NVIC's work https://www.nvic.org/making%20cash%20donations.htm
To sign up for a free e-mail subscription http://www.nvic.org/emaillist.htm
NVIC is funded through individual membership donations
and does not receive government funding. Barbara Loe Fisher,
President and Co-founder.
Opinions
Opinion #1
Good vs
Evil...
21st Century EVIL INCARNATE -
"The
Quackbuster Conspiracy"...
Opinion by Tim Bolen
A Classic Battle Between Good and
Evil...
The Battle Between Health and Medicine...
The biggest battle mankind faces on planet earth in the 21st
century is the one between the forces of "Health," and the
forces of "Medicine".
"Health" is winning. North American consumer spending
habits clearly show that our society wants to be healthy, not
medicated.
The forces of "Medicine," tout the dubious benefits of
a
drugged society. To them, everything is a new
ailment, a new disease, a new disorder, one for which an
expensive new drug is available - and which, in their
minds, the population should be "required" to embrace.
Look how easily our brighter children are being forced into a
Ritalin world. Look how our seniors are convinced that they need
to spend their life savings in the prescription line at the
local pharmacy.
"Medicine" has failed North Americans, for Medicine's goals
are not our goals, their wants and needs are not our wants and
needs, their solutions are not our solutions, and their
motivation is not our motivation.
Hence the "Health" movement. Intelligent people look at
the North American medical paradigm and say, "there's got to be
a better way than this..."
And, of course, there is...
"Health" proponents promote the simple idea of determining
what, exactly, is the "cause" of a person's poor health - and
removing that cause. For example, if a person is suffering
pain and general ill health, with depression, "Medicine"
proponents who "diagnose and treat" would load him/her up with
pain-killers, antibiotics, and anti-depressants - and a
WHOPPING, never-ending, bill down at the pharmacy..
"Health" proponents would first examine the whole body to
determine if there is a specific cause for this problem, find
it, and solve the problem by returning the body to it's natural
operating system.
It is a lot more profitable to continuously "medicate" than
it is to simply restore "health."
Probably the biggest problems facing our society, in the new
millennium, is our inability to deal with DISEASE. We,
with our current "medicine" paradigm, are losing the battles -
period. And, as our world population increases, so do our
health problems.
When it comes to DISEASE, conventional "Medicine" has NOTHING
to offer. The "War on Cancer" only benefits those involved
in the money-receiving end of it. The war on AIDS is
following the same path.
Yet, all around us we see successes against those problems -
successes that are, most likely, the beginning of the answer to
the problems. Unfortunately, we find out about those
successes by reading the newspaper about how the successful
"health" practitioner was "arrested, jailed, sued" on some
pretext... In those cases, inevitably, the thousands of
Americans who testify to the benefits of the program they used
to restore their health are IGNORED.
Somehow, in our society, we've allowed the power
structure WE OWN, and put in place, to act completely stupid
over this issue. We've allowed them to use the guiding concept
that
"proven, or approved, by a bureaucracy" supersedes the
reality of
"results." That's definitely wrong - and it's time
to correct that, right now.
"Medicine" has entwined itself into our regulatory
bureaucratic structure. It has, for now, managed to
convince certain employees of our agencies, that the "testing"
rules we, as a society, impose on DANGEROUS NEW DRUGS,
should apply to natural products, and common-sense solutions to
health issues..
What happens now, is that when some leading-edge health
practitioner finds some natural product, or simple device, that
really does affect cancer, or AIDS, or what-have-you, they GET
STOPPED. And, when they get stopped, people, who now had a
chance to live, or restore their health, DIE...
WHAT? They get stopped? What the hell is going
on? Just when we're on the edge of an answer?
Enter, "The Quackbuster Conspiracy"...
North Americans are raised, primarily, to embrace the
Judeo-Christian sense of right and wrong. Most of us are
taught early what is GOOD, and what is not - what rules we are
to live by...
Throughout history we've seen EVIL rear it's ugly head.
Man's ruthlessness and cruelty to other men knows no limits.
Examples abound in our pages of history. Every race has
it's predators, and its victims.
In my opinion, the worst thing happening to humankind in our
lifetime, is the activity of a small, but HEINOUS group of
people who call themselves "the quackbusters."
The suffering and death of tens of millions of humans is of
no concern to them. They exist ONLY to stop advancement in
health sciences that competes with the expensive, and
nearly useless allopathic (MD) drug/surgery offering.
In some ways, the war between "Health" and "Medicine" is
working itself out. Massive drug conglomerates are
diversifying their product lines with "natural" products -
seeing the change in society's needs. That "war" is not
the problem I'm talking about, although the change is taking far
too long....
The "war" I'm referring to, is the one being run by a
delicensed MD (and some others) out of a basement in Allentown,
PA.
Doctor Julian Whitaker's views on the NCAHF written to the
President of Loma Linda University are a good explanation of the
problem. It is believed that Dr. Whittaker's letter, and
the actions of the California Health Freedom Movement team, were
responsible for the REMOVAL of the NCAHF from the Loma Linda
University campus.
For years the NCAHF had used Loma Linda University's address
in a manner designed to make it appear that the University
endorsed their bizarre health positions.
GOOD is winning against EVIL in this battle, but is a never
ending grind.
Opinion #2
National Health
Freedom Coalition: Codex Full Commission adopts Codex Guidelines
Opinion by Consumer Advocate
Tim Bolen
4th,
2005 www.quackpotwatch.org
(site has been shut down!)
"Big Pharma" won a major victory in Rome, Italy today.
Vitamins and minerals, for over-the-counter sale will be
phased out, almost completely, in every country on Planet
Earth. The
"German Model"
(site has been shut down!) of
health care will now be the law of the land - in every land.
Below is a press release from Diane Miller JD of the National
Health Freedom Coalition, detailing the action. Diane is
in Rome at the meeting.
Press Release - National Health Freedom
Coalition: Codex Full Commission adopts
Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food
Supplements in final form July 4, 2005, Rome
Italy. by Diane Miller JD.
Minutes ago the
full Commission of Codex Alimentarius adopted in
final form, the Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and
Mineral Food Supplements. This adoption is
the Step 8 adoption, the final stage of adoption
for the international Codex guidelines.
The Codex Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements
guidelines are now official and no longer in
draft form.
The Commission,
attended by over 85 of the 171 Codex countries,
adopted the guidelines by consensus method.
There was brief discussion before adoption
taking in comments from a small number of
countries and two NGOs.
Australia
requested adding the word "only" in Section 1.3
bertwee the words "apply" and "in".
The sentence would then read "These guidelines
apply only in those jurisdictions where products
defined in 2.1 are regulated as foods."
Australia's
comments were followed by request from Venzuela
and Spain to clarify the spanish translation.
Venezuela was
followed by China. China stated that every
government in making decisions about vitamins
and minerals should take into account the
dietary limitations of their own countries, that
governments can select vitamins and minerals
acocording to the customs and habits of their
country. China also pointed out that there
should be definitions of the sources of
vitamins.
Columbia spoke
up and commented that Vitamins and Minerals are
intended for deficiencies and are recommended
for health reasons and said that there has to be
no exaggerated use of minerals.
Egypt commented
and offered a clarification saying that vitamin
and minerals can be considered if daily needs
are not being met.
After the
countries were heard, the Chairman recognized
NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations). National
Health Federation (NHF) a world wide consumer
organization with NGO status at Codex was
recognized to speak. Attonery Scott Tipps
of NHF stood and requested the guidelines not be
adopted but rather be sent back to commitee for
3 important reasons. 1) According to
Codex rules a "purpose" statement must be part
of all guidelines adopted and the Vitamin and
Mineral guidelines did not contain a purpose.
Secondly,the guidelines did not define vitamin
and mineral and therefore it is unclear as to
what is being regulated. And lastly, he
pointed out that the Chinese comments were
substantive and according to Codex rules on page
27 of the procedural manual, a substantive
amendment request should be addressed at the
committee level. His comments were heard.
The NGO IADSA
was then recognized. IADSA stressed the
fact that the draft guidelines should be adopted
because they had been worked on in committee for
near 10 years and that valuable consensus had
been reached in the Bonn Germany committee
meeting and the guidelines should now be
passed.
After all
comments, the Chair, consulted with counsel to
assess whether the addition of the word "only"
would change the meaning of the sentence.
After learning that it would not he consulted
with Australia and Australia repeated their
request for amendment. The Chair
recommended adoption of the amendment and there
was no dissent. Then the Chair recommended
the guidelines be adopted at Stage 8 in their
final form and that China submit their
substantive amendment requests to the committee
at their next meeting. There was no
further comment or dissent from any country and
the guidelines were adopted.
What this means, in the United
States, is that as soon as CAFTA (Central American Free Trade
Agreement) passes the House of Representatives (it has already
passed the Senate), the US government will be forced, by the
terms of that CAFTA agreement, to restrict vitamin and
supplement sales in accordance with the
"German Model" of health care.
If and when this happens, the hard won
1994 DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act) will be
nullified, and the dismantling of the North American supplement
Industry will begin.
However, it is not inevitable - the use of
"supplements" and other "alternatives" to
conventional medicine regimens represents over fifty percent
(50%) of the total US health dollar spent annually.
Eighty-eight percent (88%) of US adults use an
"alternative," and believe in them. Opposition is
already gearing up for the battle -
(click here).
This is a battle between
"We the People," and the free world's biggest, and worst,
enemy - ever -
"Big Pharma."
Stay tuned...
Opinion #3
Federal Prison For
Quackbusters?
Opinion by Consumer Advocate
Tim Bolen
July 24th,
2003
www.quackpotwatch.org
(site has been shut down!)
Official Health care in North America is a
disaster. It is designed
"not to work," INTENTIONALLY. In Official Health
care America, nobody ever gets "cured" of anything - only
"treated." The system feeds massive amounts of cash into
the hands of the greedy - with little, or no benefit to
Americans.
The "approved" medical system in America
is called the drugs/surgery paradigm. In it, all medical care is
made up of ONLY drugs or surgery offerings. It is all very
expensive, and outside of the Emergency Room, it's nearly
useless.
Americans who are forced to rely on
approved Medicare offerings are getting system of health care
that's fifteen years old. It wasn't any good fifteen years
ago - and it's certainly no better now. Those that have
health insurance are getting health care ten years old.
Frankly, if our official medical system
were in charge of our computer industry, we'd all be still using
#2 pencils, and we'd have to have a license to use an eraser.
We Americans, leery of new drug offerings,
have put a test system in place for new drugs, forcing chemicals
which are unnatural, and have never been introduced into the
human body before, to undergo rigorous testing. It can
cost $100 to $200 million dollars to develop and test a new
drug.
Where the problem begins is that certain
government agencies are now trying to force that rigid drug test
system on "natural" products - those things that have been part
of the human diet since the beginning of time, and "non-drug"
approaches like healing, detoxification, self-health, oxygen
therapies, energy medicine, and electro-medicine.
Why would the FDA and the FTC do that?
It's about money. The answer is simple - drug company
influence. The FDA has a "revolving door" program with drug
company executives. They constantly change jobs - from
agency to industry - and back.
With this influence, it is apparent that
"new" health care ideas, in America, called the "alternative"
paradigm, are being subjected to near impossible criteria for
approval. Only the richest of the drug companies can
afford the official process - which is why conventional doctors
only have "the newest pill" to offer. "Natural" or the
other approaches, don't generate the kind of income that drugs
do. So the $100 to $200 million test costs are out of
reach.
Americans are the losers. For, if it
continues, and we allow our employees at the FDA to continue
their incestuous relationship with the drug world, we're stuck
with drugs and surgery.
Combating that situation In North America,
is an organization called "The North American Health Freedom
Movement." It's purpose is to deal with the organized
attack on new health care ideas. It is very
successful. It is on the side of GOOD.
On the side of EVIL
there is an organization grandiosely calling itself the "quackbusters,"
who's sole purpose is to stop new health care modalities.
Their intent is to force Americans to be reliant, for their
health care needs, on that which has been allegedly
"approved." They, in their murderous scam, label all
things allegedly not "approved," as "quackery," and
the proponents of new things as "quacks."
Americans are suffering and dying because
of this conspiracy. James Carter MD, Dr Phil., in his
authoritative book "Racketeering in Medicine," carefully
explains the problem. Retired New York Assemblyman Dan
Haley, in his book "The Politics of Healing," does an excellent
job of talking about how much damage is being done to North
Americans.
The reality is that the "cures" for a good
many of society's most dreaded health problems are already in
existence - but are being suppressed FOR THREE REASONS: because:
- They are not drug
or surgery oriented, and won't bring mega-dollars into
the conventional medical coffers,
- They are a "cure"
and not a "treatment." There is much more profit in a
"treatment" than there is in a "cure." AND
- The health
problems are too often caused by the very products, and
the very industry that manufacturers those products,
used as "treatments."
Cancer, for instance, isn't being cured by
Oncologists, cancer centers, or the American Cancer Society.
Those groups only use, and promote, expensive "treatments."
Cancer is being cured by individuals, in different parts of the
world. All of those individuals, and their new ideas, are
either being suppressed in some way, or are under outright
attack. It is the same for AIDS, diabetes, heart problems,
strokes, autism, MS, you-name-it.
There are cures for
almost everything already available - and none of them bring
piles of gold to drug companies.
People who are restricted to "approved"
medical offerings in North America simply suffer and die.
Those that step outside of the current accepted paradigm -
thrive. Medicare "approved" offerings are fifteen years old.
Health insurance companies only pay for ten-year old medical
care. Studies show that Americans go elsewhere for their
health care, to stay alive, and healthy. That's reality.
It is no great leap to suspect who is
funding the quackbusters - and for what reason. "Quackbusting"
frankly, is a scam, funded I believe, by the greedier, and more
murderous, of the conventional mendicants. Those
mendicants are simply protecting their mega-dollars by attacking
the credibility, and the new health offerings, of those
who would dare to challenge their obscene profits.
It is time to take a hard line against the
"quackbusters." Hard line, as in "Federal prosecution."
Hard line, as in "hard time." Hard line, as in "seize
property." Hard line, as in "throw those corporations out of
America - officially ban their products."
Opinion #4
"Health Freedom" Counter Attacks - Big Time...
Opinion by Consumer
Advocate Tim Bolen
Monday, September 26th, 2005
The
world-wide war between
"health" and "medicine," "conventional" and
"alternative," rages across continents.
"Big Pharma," in an almost uncontrolled panic in the
US, is shoveling so much cash, by the truck and trainload,
at US television networks, trying to buy their way back to
Americans, it's laughable.
If you
thought North American television was buried in
"drug
ads"
(site has been shut down!)
last year, this year is far worse. Sheer panic has hit
the drug world. New York ad agencies are in a heyday.
North
American dentistry, another hellhole of bad practices, is
reeling from assaults, and according to ADA's Edwin Mehlman
from their membership division, who tells me, in a personal
email, that the ADA is having to spend
"a Budget of over$100
million proposed for 2006 and reserves of over 47 million."
Just to keep their heads above water, I think.
For
good reason.
Americans are on the march, with anger in their eyes.
The
"duping" of America is about to be paid for in
industry blood...
In a nutshell, Americans are finding
out, simply, that they are NOT getting first-rate, or even
GOOD health and dental care from the system - although they
are paying top prices - and that to get
"first-rate" health and dental care they have to go
outside of the system, and pay for it
"out-of-pocket," AFTER they, and/or their employer,
have laid out a lot of hard-earned dollars for supposed
"Health Insurance," or "Dental Insurance."
Worse, "the system" is feeding on
itself, and has, in place, mechanisms to destroy any one of
its members who try and break out and solve the problems of
healthcare. The system is at crisis point. Frankly,
it's a house of cards a good wind could, and will, knock
down.
But, lets not wait - lets knock it down
ourselves.
The Counter Attacks...
(1).
Last Wednesday, September 21, 2005, in Madison,
Wisconsin a very large irate citizen's group gathered, from
all over the State, in a hearing room at the State Capitol
building. They were there to testify in front of the
Wisconsin Legislature's
"Government Operations and Spending Limits"
committee. They came, figuratively, with a hangman's
noose, for the express purpose of
"stringing up" the Wisconsin Department of Regulation
& Licensing (DRL).
For seven hours they testified - and
the Legislators listened, sometimes with mouths agape, to
the horror stories poured out in official complaint, about
the unrestricted activities of certain members of the staff
of the DRL, and that staff's relationship with the
"quackbuster"
(site has been shut down!)
operation - an organization sworn to stopping
advances in health care in favor of the deadly status quo.
Testifying, at the hearing, to a
standing-room only crowd, were MDs, Chiropractors, Nurses,
Dentists, DOs, Attorneys, and ANGRY consumers.
First to testify were two members of
DRL Management. They were there to answer questions
about
"How they manage their employees." They
response, immediately, from a Wisconsin attorney who spoke
next was
"That's nice to hear, but the reality of the operation is
somewhat different." Six hours later a STUNNED
legislative committee had heard the reality of
"health prosecutions" in Wisconsin - and the hunt
begins...
I know exactly what's going to
happen next - and I'm very pleased. But, like
those Saturday movie matinees I used to go to as a kid -
you'll have to wait to read it later...
(2).
The American Dental Association (ADA) is about to
get
"publicly confronted" at their 2005 Philadelphia
convention. In shock, I think, and reeling from the
effects of lawsuits ( "ADA
Gets 'Kiss of Death'"),
(site has been shut down!)
the ADA may be totally unprepared for
what will happen next. As we know, mainstream
US dentistry is in bad shape.
(site
has been shut down!)
And,
what happens next? Well, the
"Pennsylvania Coalition for Mercury Free Dentistry"
is
insulted, and incensed that the ADA would even THINK
if holding a meeting in their state - and are gearing up to
get in their face... They've put together a five
pronged attack. I'll tell you about one of those
prongs:
Dentists - "Get your Head Out of the Sand...The ADA won't
protect you when the lawsuits start......
describing how the ADA abandoned one of its members in
California, when it bailed out of a case claiming:
"The ADA owes no
legal duty of care to protect the public from allegedly
dangerous products used by dentists. The ADA did not
manufacture, design, supply or install the
mercury‑containing amalgams. The ADA does not control
those who do. The ADA's only alleged involvement was
to provide information
regarding its
use."
This
one will be fun to watch. I don't think most dentists
have any idea that the ADA has abandoned them. For
more information click here.
(3).
On October 10th, 2005 this year delicensed MD
Stephen Barrett,
(site
has been shut down! )
author
of the infamous
"quackwatch.com" website, will be officially
confronted in a Courtroom in his home town of Allentown,
Pennsylvania. Barrett was forced to give up his
medical license in 1993 when he lost his part-time
employment at the State mental hospital and because he had
so few patients, he couldn't afford the required malpractice
insurance premiums any more.
Barrett has angered MOST of the health
professions with his blatant accusations of quackery against
anyone who does not believe in "drugs, drugs, and more
drugs" as the answer to health problems. This time
Barrett is attacking one of the top people in the
Chiropractic profession - Tedd Koren DC of Koren
Publications - and Koren, and the Chiropractic profession,
is not taking it lightly. Barrett is going to get
slapped around the Courtroom, for Koren has brought in
Washington attorney Jim Turner, and experienced Barrett-slapper
Carlos F. Negrete of California.
The Foundation for Health Choice is heading up this
assault on Barrett.
(site
has been shut down! )
There is a difficulty in the case that
we'll find out if we get around tomorrow. Somehow, or
other, Barrett's attorney was able to get the local Judge to
rule that Koren will not be allowed to put on a defense....
and of course, Koren wants a full-on assault against
Barrett's activities. Koren has about sixty witnesses
willing to testify against Barrett - including me, Tim
Bolen. There is a hearing tomorrow, Tuesday, September
27th, 2005 where the Judge will be asked to reconsider his
decision. If he doesn't the trial will go on anyway,
because, frankly, Barrett, himself, is the BEST witness
Koren could have against Barrett... Barrett, in
testimony under pressure is laughable. He's such an
arrogant jerk he harms himself. In an Oregon Federal
Court case a few years ago, Negrete, using
"cross-examination," almost literally used Barrett to
polish the courtroom floor. Barrett lost that case,
dramatically.
I'm looking forward to this
confrontation. More on this later.
(4).
On October 28th to 30th, 2005, this year, a
conference will be held in Minneapolis, MN by the very
successful
"National Health Freedom Coalition." The point
of the meeting is to get North American Health Freedom
activists together, under one roof, to strategize. The
scheduled speakers represent a
"Who's Who of North American Health Freedom."
I'll be joining Carolyn Dean MD, former congressman Dan
Haley, Diane Miller JD, Alliance for Natural Health
Barrister David Hinde, and Robert Verkerk PhD, the National
Health Federation's Scott Tips JD, Citizen's for Health
James Gormley, Friends of Freedom's Trueman Tuck, the Law
Loft's Suzanne Harris JD, and long-time health activist
Clinton Ray Miller
on the speaker's platform.
Primarily the meeting is to trade
strategic, and tactical information. As you probably
already know, there are different approaches to dealing with
health freedom issues. There are those, like me and
Canada's Trueman Tuck, who believe in a no-prisoners,
all-out assault, and those that use a quieter, convincing,
legislative approach - and those in between. Come to
this meeting and you'll get an overview like you've never
seen before - because EVERYTHING we do, EVERY APPROACH is
working.
(5).
On November 4th to 6th, 2005, another Health Freedom
Expo will be held in Dallas, TX. With four events
scheduled per year, around the US, this organization is
waking up America. I'll be there, as well as leading
alternative Cancer Researcher Hulda Regehr Clark PhD - plus
many others.
(5).
And, much, much more...
We are heading for a health care
"Nuremberg..."
(site has been shut down! )
And, it's about time...
Stay
tuned...
Tim Bolen - Consumer
Advocate
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