Health Warning
The World Is Being Set Up To Accept
Draconian Codex Standards.
New Developments Paint A Grim Picture!
Author: Greg Ciola
Source: Crusador Enterprises
Many new developments in the supplement war have occurred in the past week showing the true intentions the United Nations and the Pharma cartel has in store for the planet. Our free access to dietary supplements is in serious jeopardy. The situation is more serious than many have been reporting and unless Americans wake up to the impending threat our whole industry and our whole nation will be radically altered very soon.
It began last week when the Alliance For Natural Health (www.alliance-natural-health.org) based out of the UK issued a press release announcing a change in the time table that the European Court of Justice will issue their final ruling on the legal challenge to the EU Food Supplements Directive.
On April 5, 2005 the Court's Advocate General, Leendert Geelhoed, declared in his Opinion that the Directive was fundamentally flawed, and contravened EU law. He concluded:
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that the Directive infringes the principle of proportionality, because basic principles of Community law, such as the requirements of legal protection, of legal certainty and of sound administration have not been properly taken into account. The Directive is, therefore, invalid."
After Justice Geelhoed declared his opinion, we were told that the court's final ruling would be issued in June. The court generally follows the oral opinions of the Justice 80% of the time. Despite what Geelhoed stated, there is a 20% chance that the EU Court of Justice could still rule against the Alliance For Natural Health. The entire supplement world is watching in anticipation for the final outcome. Those who understand the nature of the beast we're up against will not celebrate victory until it's a done deal.
And that's what has me quite concerned. The final ruling has been moved to July 12th. Why is that significant you ask? The next Codex meeting where they are hoping to ratify an agreement on the Vitamin and Mineral Standard takes place in Rome, Italy July 4-9. July 9th is a Saturday. July 12th is a Tuesday; only the second business day after Codex wraps up its meeting. Does anyone smell a rat?
What kind of power does the pharmaceutical industry wield that they can force an EU Court to issue a final ruling AFTER Codex instead of before? Those in the health freedom movement have been looking forward to a ruling in favor of the Alliance For Natural Health BEFORE Codex. A positive ruling before Codex would have been a major setback for the pharmaceutical big boys. Now the sinister nature of what's brewing behind the scenes leaves many questions unanswered. In my opinion supplement consumers are about to get hammered by Codex. There was no way the pharmaceutical industry was going to risk decades of hard work going up in smoke by allowing the EU Court of Justice to derail the Codex Vitamin and Mineral Standard.
The reality of the situation is that the entire health supplement industry worldwide is in serious trouble. What's happening is quite alarming. The postponement of the EU Court's ruling shows me that ominous storm clouds are on the horizon.
There were also two other important developments this past week that paint a grim picture. The second issue that should concern U.S. supplement consumers is the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Despite serious protests and petitioning CAFTA has cleared a major hurdle. The House Ways and Means Committee endorsed the seven-nation pact on June 15th. According to a news report by the Wall Street Journal, "Bush could submit to Capitol Hill the formal legislation needed to implement CAFTA as soon as this week. The House and Senate then will vote on the measure without amendment."
What does CAFTA have to do with our rights as Americans to buy nutritional supplements?
According to John Hammell of International Advocates For Health Freedom (IAHF) (www.iahf.com), "The WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and FTAA trade agreements all contain SPS(Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures) language. 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 U.S. 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."
In light of CAFTA moving quickly ahead we need to be concerned about our health freedoms despite the double talk and outright lies being put out by pharmaceutically dominated industry trade associations like the Council For Responsible Nutrition (CRN), The National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA), and The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) who are all telling supplement companies that Codex will not affect our domestic laws. In addition to this, they also are telling supplement companies that Codex is a good thing.
Hot on the heels of CAFTA is FTAA which has major thrust behind it by the Rockefeller clan and multinational corporations. David Rockefeller has publicly declared as far back as 1997 that FTAA will be a done deal in 2005. So, the reality of the situation is very serious people. Not only will we lose our supplement rights and health freedoms if we can't stop Codex, CAFTA, FTAA, the WTO, and the United Nations, we will lose our entire country to a world body of unelected bureaucrats who believe the population of planet earth needs to be reduced from 6.6 billion people down to 500 million.
(See http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm)
This leads me to the last and final development of the last week that is great cause for concern. Cong. Ron Paul just released an article discussing the "United Nations Reform Act of 2005." According to Cong. Paul:
"The proposed legislation opens the door for the United Nations to routinely become involved in matters that have never been part of its charter. Specifically, the legislation redefines terrorism very broadly for the UN's official purposes -- and charges it to take action on behalf of both governments and international organizations.
What does this mean? The official adoption of this definition by the United Nations would have the effect of making resistance to any government or any international organization an international crime. It would make any attempt to overthrow a government an international causus belli for UN military action. Until this point a sovereign government retained the legal right to defend against or defeat any rebellion within its own territory. Now any such activity would constitute justification for United Nations action inside that country. This could be whenever any splinter group decides to resist any regime -- regardless of the nature of that regime."
In case you don't understand the legal implications of this, it's quite apparent that supplement consumers and health freedom activists will also be defined as terrorists. Resistance to any government or any international organization (i.e. Codex, WHO, WTO, U.N., etc., etc., etc...) would become an international crime.
Our country is being sold down the river to this criminal organization by Republicans and Democrats alike so forget about the politics. Our friends in Washington are those who stand for "America First" despite their political affiliation. The sad reality is very few politicians are on the side of the American people anymore. We have the best government money can buy.
To conclude, I would encourage all of you reading this to forward this alert to everyone you know.
We are going to lose our whole country if we don't stop what's happening.
Stop George W. Bush Now
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Prior to the FDA ban, sports organizations realized the adverse effects of ephedra. The NCAA, the International Olympic Committee, and NASCAR banned the use of ephedra by competitors. In October 2001, the National Football League became the first professional athletic organization to ban it, following the death of Korey Stringer from the Minnesota Vikings. Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, and the National Basketball Association warned against using ephedra. Ephedra was banned in the military and in the country of Canada.
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Someone has to look out for the average consumer. I'm willing to bet that most consumers who see unregulated dietary supplements sitting on grocery store shelves next to the vitamins have no clue that they haven't been scientifically tested, and worse, aren't even REQUIRED to undergo the same safety tests as food (let alone RX or OTC drugs). (Comment this)
When are modern liberals going to wake up to the classical liberal reality that the only truly effective protection that consumers can have, is the competition for reputation in a market FREE of government regulation of any kind? (Comment this)