Sterilised in Chile for having HIV Published 01 December 2010 HIV-positive women in Chile are coming forward to say they were sterilised against their will after giving birth. A new report says legal loopholes and biased doctors are to blame. Women living with HIV in Chile, maintain that the government must take concrete actions to stop the abuse and humanise the treatment. These women hope that by speaking out they'll spark a wider national conversation and change the general public's attitudes. Al Jazeera's Pablo Fernandez reports from Chile.
China probes tainted blood scandal Published 01 December 2010 A former Chinese government health official is calling for an investigation into a tainted blood scandal, which he says infected more than 100 thousand people and killed at least 10 thousand. For years, hundreds of people have protested over the tainted blood scandal and official attempts to cover it up. China's HIV and AIDS epidemic of the 1990s which is believed to have been caused by medical workers who had collected blood from poor villagers using dirty needles. Al Jazeera's Azhar Sukri reports.
101 East - Malaysia: Killer bite Published 14 October 2010 We look at Malaysia's controversial plan to use genetically modified mosquitoes to fight dengue fever.
Dry spell casts pall over fate of Brazil's Amazon jungle Published 27 November 201 Months of drought in Brazil's Amazon region is raising serious concerns about the future of the world's biggest rainforest. The prolonged dry spell has left the Rio Negro river at its lowest level in more than a century. Dead fish have begun to contaminate the drinking water and about 60,000 people are running short on food. Al Jazeera's Anand Naidoo reports. (Nov 27, 2010)
Drone attacks stepped up in Pakistan Published 01 December 2010 The US has stepped up a campaign of alleged drone strikes in Pakistan, despite the Pakistani military refusing calls for an operation in the North Waziristan region.
But the US Defense Department says Pakistan is not acting swiftly enough against armed groups in the region, and officials say it's hurting US efforts to reverse the Taliban's momentum in the Afghan War.Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr filed this report from Islamabad.
Fault Lines - Canada-Israel: The other special relationship Published December 02, 2010 Seen as an honest-broker in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Canada has become one of Israel's most fervent supporters. Avi Lewis investigates.
Controversial desert water park Published 01 December 2010 World leaders at UN talks in Mexico are struggling to reach an agreement on climate change that is aimed at finding ways to help reduce the world's carbon emissions. European Union officials at the Mexican resort of Cancun said that they have earmarked almost $3bn to fight global warming this year. Dan Nolan reports from Ras al-Khai-mah in the United Arab Emirates, where climate change has been spun into a fun way to make money.
1977 Senate Hearing found that U.S. government had infected hundreds of cities with biological agents. A mass die off of birds and fish in Arkansas which prompted a response by U.S. Environmental Services has residents asking questions about the cause -- could secret government testing be responsible for the carnage?
Around 2,000 red-winged blackbirds, as well as ducks, fell to their deaths over a 1-mile area of Beebe, Arkansas on Friday night. U.S. Environmental Services workers wore hazmat suits and gas masks as they picked up the dead birds on Sunday.
An area used by the birds to roost was unaffected, leading officials to conclude that the birds could not have died from an illness or have been targeted for poisoning. Lightning, fireworks and high-altitude hail have been forwarded as possible culprits.
"I've been to Iraq and back and not seen nothing like this," Beebe resident Jeff Drennan told local Fox16 News on Sunday.
"You know my kids are out here playing and you don't know, is it safe?" he added. "They're walking around with chemical suits picking them up with gas masks and everything."
In a related story, 100,000 fish were found dead in Northwest Arkansas. "They were found along a 20-mile stretch between the Ozark Dam and Highway 109 Bridge in Franklin County," reports Today's THV 11.
Scalar weapons that can artificially manipulate the environment could be responsible for the mass die offs. We know for a fact that over a decade ago the U.S. Military Industrial Complex was aware of and involved in the testing of such technology.
In 1997, Defense Secretary William Cohen stated, "Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counter terrorism] efforts."
The fact that illness or poisoning has been ruled out points to some form of secret testing being behind the mass die-offs.
The U.S. government has been repeatedly caught engaging in illegal bio-weapons tests over American skies that have maimed and killed not just animals, but humans. The history of US government biological testing includes deliberately infecting Americans with syphilis, malaria and other bacteriological agents.
From the 1950′s onwards, the U.S. government deliberately engaged in open air tests, spraying major cities like San Francisco and New York with Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii. In 1955, the CIA also released a a bacteria withdrawn from the Army's biological warfare arsenal over Tampa Bay, Fl in order to test its ability to infect human populations with biological agents.
In 1966, the U.S. Army dispensed Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. 1977 Senate hearings on Health and Scientific Research confirmed that 239 populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969, including San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.
In August 1994, residents in the Oakville, Washington area reported tiny blobs of gelatinous goo raining from the sky, and in 1997 residents in the Everett area of Washington State reported similar a phenomenon. http://www.infowars.com/is-mass-bird
Is Mass Bird and Fish Die Off Connected to Government Testing? - Part 1/2
Is Mass Bird and Fish Die Off Connected to Government Testing? - Part 2/2
Authorities in northern Italy say more than a thousand turtle doves have dropped dead over the past 5 days. It's the latest in a series of unexplained sudden death incidents affecting creatures in the sky and underwater. The events have sparked a media frenzy, with doomsday speculators saying it hails the end of the world. But is there really something fishy going on or is it being overhyped? RT's Katerina Azarova reports. RT on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RTnews RT on Twitter: http://twitter.com/RT_com
Video Google Ian R Crane - Codex Alimentarius 1:29:27
Having spent the past twelve months investigating Codex Alimentarius, I am deeply disturbed by the almost total lack of awareness (or even interest) with regard to the implications of this pernicious global Commission, particularly amongst those most affected by the excesses of this restrictive legislation. In the words of the National Health Federation, the aims and objectives of Codex Alimentarius are as follows:
* Only low-potency, “me too” supplements available that will do nothing for your health. * All or most foods genetically-modified. * Beneficial supplements unavailable or sold by prescription only.
For many people, this agenda is so outrageous, they cannot believe such goals are achievable; yet this may well be the reality as soon as 31st December 2009, if the Codex Alimentarius Commission continues to disregard input from those who offer a counter perspective to the combined forces of Big Farmer & Big Pharma.
Never heard of Codex Alimentarius? That's exactly what they want! The UN plan to eradicate organic farming & to destroy the Natural Health Industry.
With biting political analysis, Ian R. Crane probes the track record of those who openly crave the introduction of a One World hierarchical Government. He exposes the agenda of those who have presided over events leading directly to the launching of the illegal wars in Afghanistan & Iraq and who continually demonstrate their desire to perpetuate a state of permanent global conflict; whilst systematically eroding personal freedom, through the process of gradualism.
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Ian Crane - Codex Alimentarius Scam Ian talks about the Codex Alimentarius threat and the big pharmaceutical industry.
Codex Alimentarius: Big Brother's Plan to Control Health Supplements
September, 2007 From: Food & Health Safety News #20 Living Nutrition Magazine vol. 20 http://www.livingnutrition.com
Compiled from various sources and edited by David Klein, B.S., Ph.D.
The Codex Alimentarius agenda, which has long metastasized in the recesses of closed board rooms and governmental chambers, is now coming to light. This is the paramount issue of our times, yet few know about it. If Codex standards ever replace the current laws in the U.S. governing food and dietary supplements, it will affect not just Americans' right to choose supplements, but our right to grow crops with untampered seeds, to buy pure organic food, and to live free of the tyranny of Big Agro-Chem-Pharma-Med, through health-destructive FDA rules enacted and enforced by a pro-corporate government that cares nothing about our health freedom. In other words, the "natural health" industry will perish. Now more than ever, we must exercise our democratic duty and be vigilant in protecting that freedom, the health and survival of the Earth, and all her creatures and citizenry.
Please take action now and let your representatives know of your opposition to Codex, to prevent the pro-disease industries and affiliated financial interests from seizing the total power they crave. It's our obligation to tell our Congressional leaders to stop Codex and to protect and promote food and health safety and freedom. Our right to live healthfully is at stake.
Let us remember the vehement, relentless defiance by the founders of our nation that broke the stifling grip of tyrannical rule, giving us the democracy we wanted and way of life we now cherish, which are now threatened. At this time of mounting crisis, each of us must expose this clandestine monster while claiming and exercising that democratic freedom as never before.
Scott Tips, Esq. & Paul Anthony Taylor — www.thenhf.com The National Health Federation (NHF) is the only health-freedom organization with recognized status at Codex Alimentarius meetings, giving its members the right to speak out and submit comments on all Codex actions. As a case in point, the NHF was the only delegation at the 2005 Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting in Rome, Italy to protest the ridiculously harsh Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplement Guidelines submitted to the Commission for approval. Founded more than 52 years ago by an array of health-freedom activists, the NHF is the oldest health-freedom organization in the world, and has been following Codex issues for more than 10 years.
Codex is not just about nutritional supplements, although that is an important aspect. In fact, it is the primary political battlefield where the war is being waged about who will regulate and control the global food supply, from field and stable to table. This "war" is being waged by an increasingly tangled web of global governmental and international authorities, aligned with big business and financial interests, wherein human health takes a back seat to profit and power goals.
Although American dietary supplements are currently protected—somewhat—by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), its provisions are threatened by Codex and an interlocking array of emerging regional and international treaties, agreements, regulatory "handshakes" and other executive arrangements that will "harmonize" our food laws to harsh European standards, thereby relegating DSHEA to the dust bin of history and suppressing our health freedoms...unless we take immediate action.
Do we want to see a world where our access to safe, nutritious foods and effective dietary supplements is restricted, suppressed, and controlled by government in alliance with its pharmaceutical and chemical bedfellows? If not, we must act now, before it's too late.
Contacting government bureaucrats with your complaints is largely a waste of time. Effective action takes the form of advising others and contacting your representatives in Congress. Remember: be "persistently vocal"—most politicians don't see the light; they feel the heat. Make them feel the heat.
Shannara Johnson — www.caseyresearch.com Ever heard of the Codex Alimentarius? If not, don't be surprised. It's one of the best-kept "open secrets" of the U.S. government. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has accepted the standards of the Codex, and at some point, if their plans are allowed to proceed, member countries of the WTO will be required to implement Codex, "to harmonize the standards" for the global trade of foods. It may present the greatest disaster for our food supply—and thus for our health—that we have ever encountered, here and abroad.
Chris Gupta — http://tinyurl.com/2xohw It is not easy to come to grips with Codex. With over 20 committees meeting on an annual basis, and published reports comprising a total of over 1,600 pages in 2005 alone, most people are blissfully unaware of the extent of its implications for our health. Read on to discover the bigger picture behind the Codex Alimentarius Commission's support for the "disease business."
Tamara Thérèsa Mosegaard — www.mayday-info.dk MayDay is a Danish civil health-rights organization that has been following Codex since 1999, participating in the Danish national delegation to Codex meetings. Although Denmark is a relatively small country, MayDay has had significant impact on the European food-supplement regulatory scene and its efforts are international in scope. MayDay has worked closely with the US-based National Health Federation to oppose restrictive Codex guidelines on food supplements. MayDay's extensive and informative website features articles in both Danish and English.
Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) & Dietary Supplements Rep. Ron Paul, MD, July 19, 2005 — www.ronpaullibrary.org
The Codex Alimentarius Commission, organized by the United Nations in the 1960s, is charged with "harmonizing" food and supplement rules among all nations of the world. As a result of Codex rules, those vitamins and minerals that would compete with medicines would require a doctor's prescription. The European Union has already adopted Codex-type regulations that will be in effect across Europe later this year (2005). This raises concerns that Europeans will challenge our relatively open market for health supplements in a WTO forum. This is hardly far-fetched, as Congress has already changed our tax laws to comply with a WTO order.
Make no mistake about it: those international standards are moving steadily toward the Codex regime and its draconian restrictions on health freedom. Pharmaceutical companies have spent billions of dollars trying to get Washington to regulate your dietary supplements. So far, that effort has failed, in part because of a 1994 law called the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Big Pharma and the medical establishment hate this Act, because it allows consumers some measure of freedom to buy the supplements they want.
The largely government-run "healthcare" establishment, including the nominally private pharmaceutical companies, want government to control the dietary-supplement industry so that only they can manufacture and distribute supplements providing any real benefit. If this takes place, as it has in Europe, the high-potency, beneficial supplements that you can now buy over the counter will be available, if at all, only by prescription and at a much higher cost. This alone is sufficient reason for Congress to oppose the unconstitutional, freedom-destroying CAFTA bill.
FDA and Congress are also working (FDA quite openly, Congress more covertly) toward the goal of harmonizing our health laws with Codex Alimentarius standards and guidelines.
Sharrhan Williamson — Boston, Massachusetts Area Codex Action Committee The problem with U.S. membership in NAFTA and CAFTA is that all the trading countries have to be on the same page, in lockstep, accepting the same standards and regulations. This is the purpose of the Codex Alimentarius Commission: to standardize all regulations, resulting in product policies that are more convenient and more profitable for trade interests but that work against consumers' interests. Under Codex, American sovereignty is lost, at least for international trade purposes, and the WTO will make rulings based upon Codex standards rather than Congress and/or other government agencies.
The FDA is presently recommending that the U.S. harmonize with Codex standards, and it seems they would prefer to apply those standards within the U.S. as well as for international trade.(It is more than likely that we will have no choice in the matter once we are signed on to Codex.) The recent actions of Congress (bills that threaten DSHEA) lead me to think they have a similar agenda.
The U.S. passed CAFTA with a very close vote and, in fact, the Republicans held the voting period open an extra hour or more while they haggled with their party members to accrue enough votes. Sure enough, they got them. The Democrats were already all on board.
Codex Alimentarius "Codex Alimentarius," which refers to a set of strict regulations covering all aspects of food, is Latin for "food code" or "food regulations." This collection of food rules in Europe dates back to standards enacted between 1897 and 1911 by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They were used as a legal reference by the courts, although the Codex Alimentarius itself had no legal standing.
Modern Codex regulations are prepared by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (herein referred to as "Codex"), which works with the EU and UN in an attempt to regulate every aspect of food production, packaging, preparation, preservation, and presentation of food "from farm to fork." Codex also attempts to regulate supplemental nutrients. It even goes so far as to eliminate "organic produce" standards (through dilution)!
Codex's reach Because the U.S. is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and because the WTO and other treaty agreements require the United States to adhere to Codex standards, any changes approved in Europe, and implemented in the EU-dominated Codex meetings, could subject the United States to WTO-enforced trade sanctions.
Main two Players in Codex: Germany: Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses Canada: Food Labeling
Codex will control: 1. Vitamins, minerals and nutrients, 2. Genetically modified organisms, 3. Toxic residues, 4. Antibiotics, drugs, growth stimulants, and other hormones in food animals, 5. Organic foods, and 6. Irradiation of food.
The plan is to suppress all beneficial, high-potency nutrients, and to allow only those and a few other vitamins and minerals that will be high-priced, low-dosage, and synthetically-made by drug companies.
Codex regulations will become binding internationally. Any nation that has entered into trade agreements through the WTO and its adjunctive treaties will eventually be forced to adopt Codex standards.
All "new" types of food supplements will be banned unless tested and approved in a drug-like manner. This is certain to be both time consuming and unnecessarily expensive. And, the validity of such tests is doubtful. A favorite ploy of drug and governmental authorities is to use such small doses of a supplement that tests do not show any noticeable value.
Codex standards are not based upon accepted scientific or research findings. Rather, the standards are developed in a political atmosphere, with seemingly obligatory EU and drug-cartel approval.
Organic foods From the drug cartel's point of view, the primary advantage in getting rid of true organic food is that in the absence of quality food, people will become ill and buy more prescription drugs. As a lesser advantage, the farmers will buy more insecticides and chemical fertilizers. The standards and definitions of "organic food" will be changed. Under Codex, a farmer or rancher will be able to call his products "organic" when they are full of toxic poisons. Under Codex, "organic food" may include as little as 70% organic contents, but this will not be noted on labels. (The other 30% can consist of poisons or contaminants.)
The new laws requiring genetically modified crops, pesticides, hormones and antibiotics in foods will be cost-prohibitive to people living in developing nations, and billions of people may die and/or sicken as a result of these policies.
Codex is not based on science or democracy Unelected government officials, working in cooperation with vested industry and trade interests, make decisions that result in domestic and international standards, which in turn are to be enacted into law by the member states of the WTO. When the WTO was created, the enforcement mechanisms for Codex and other international standards were created. With this enforcement mechanism in place, an increased incentive therefore arose to hijack the original purpose of Codex (i.e., to provide clean and safe food for the planet with no international barriers to the movement of that food), instead promoting a restrictive governmental agenda of suppression of natural alternatives to pharmaceutical medicines.
Harm in 'harmonization' Through the process called "harmonization," our legislators in Washington will be required to align America with harsh and restrictive Codex requirements, regulating international trade, distribution and processing of food, herbs and nutrients. Those proposed standards will be extremely detrimental to the environment and your health, blocking your access to many clean, unadulterated, life-enhancing foods.
The FDA is currently at work, preparing its own plans for "directives" for "harmonization" of our dietary supplement laws so they will fully agree with the excessively restrictive "international standard" set by the EU-dominated Codex.
What Codex will accomplish These new standards and guidelines will: 1. Protect the multimillion euro (European equivalent of dollars) investments of the large drug companies as well as their government-blessed monopolies. 2. Lead people away from natural healing methods, resulting in more power for the government-medical-pharma cartel, more suffering and death for the populace, and the further degradation of life on Earth.
Codex's Evil Sister The drug industry, recognizing the growing preference for natural remedies over pharmaceuticals, wants nutritional supplements and herbs either forbidden or priced out of reach. In Europe, the drug cartel has succeeded in enacting the European Food Supplements Directive, which will accomplish that objective on the European continent very soon. This Directive, which passed into European Union (EU) law in 2002 and was implemented throughout the EU on August 1, 2005, is the first of several EU Directives to impact natural healthcare and is one of the bases for the Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements Guidelines adopted by Codex Alimentarius.
Effects of the 1994 U.S. dietary-supplement law, DSHEA: In the United States, after DSHEA was enacted by Congress, the shackles were removed from American suppliers, who were permitted for the first time to actually advertise some of the purported health benefits of vitamins, minerals, and herbs, and to sell such products free of the arbitrary enforcement powers of the FDA. DSHEA was passed because large numbers of Americans demanded it. Over 2.5 million ordinary citizens wanted to ensure that dietary supplements would remain available over-the-counter. By 2002, nutritional supplements outsold drug medications. Interestingly enough, although the FDA has retained wide-ranging enforcement powers over supplements, many anti-supplement interests repeatedly and deliberately lie and call supplements "unregulated."
CAFTA agreement Special clauses have been inserted into the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) designed to force America to submit to Codex standards after its enactment by the U.S. Congress. CAFTA was passed by the U.S. Senate and Congress in 2005. This laid yet another brick in the wall for the U.S. government to eventually restrict vitamin and supplement sales in accordance with the "German Model" of healthcare. Gradually, DSHEA, which protects the nutritional rights of Americans, is being nullified by these "end runs," and the North American supplement companies (along with their healthfood stores) are being insidiously phased out.
The power behind the throne Codex is a joint venture between the United Nation's World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization (WHO/FAO). The WTO stated that it will enforce Codex "guidelines" as the world standard for trade in food and food supplements. Both the FAO and the WHO are intended to protect the health and welfare of the world's population, but it is clear they have shirked this responsibility in regard to Codex.
An immense German, French, U.S., and British drug cartel is behind this. Codex is also working with other groups supporting the following agendas:
1. The chemical industry's aim that all animals be treated with antibiotics and hormones. 2. The largest seed company in the world (Monsanto) is working toward 100% genetically-modified crops. 3. The nuclear industry's goal of irradiating all foods including plants and livestock. 4. All industries' goal: phasing out truly organic foods, or at least, making them extremely difficult to obtain.
Hopefully, the facts will alarm you enough that you will want to immediately contact Congress and tell them how you feel about all of this.
Actions by the European Union and the United Nations affect millions of lives. What makes it possible for drug companies to have so much influence at the EU and UN and even within our own FDA? The answer is rather simple: drug companies make excessive profits by overcharging on patented medicinal drugs. They claim that the profits are needed for research into new drugs. Yet, the costs of that research only come down to paying the salaries of some lab technicians. It is well-known that most of the profits are used for lobbying politicians, advertising, and similar methods of increasing sales.
The powers on the throne Some 167 countries are members of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC). Here are some of the international organizations working closely with Codex in order to accomplish its objectives:
* Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): * International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) * International Consultative Group on Food Irradiation (ICGFI) * Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA): * The European Commission on Food Safety (ECFS) * United Nations (UN) * World Health Organization (WHO) * World Trade Organization (WTO)
The bottom line is that, for all their power, the pharmaceutical companies could no more force you to buy their drugs and accept their medicines than Wal-Mart could force you to buy its pots and pans. It is the overriding dictates of monopolistic legislation enacted by Congress, coupled with the government-enforced monopoly given to government-licensed and approved medical doctors, that restrict our healthcare choices. Without these laws, you could reject "Big Pharma" with impunity as you bought and used all the natural health products you wanted in a truly free market.
There are more than 20 Codex Alimentarius Committees. These committees develop guidelines (there are more than 16,000 pages of working documents) on every aspect of food, and present those guidelines to the Codex for ratification. Trade organizations with strong publicly documented ties to the pharmaceutical, chemical and agricultural industries have a very influential voice at these meetings. There has been no significant representation from health advocates, nutritional supplement manufacturers, natural healthcare professionals, or similar groups at the Codex meetings, except for the National Health Federation (NHF), which is the only health-freedom organization with official International Nongovernmental Organization (INGO) status at these meetings. The NHF is the only INGO voice consistently speaking out for health freedom year after year at these meetings.
The Codex Commission meets every year, alternating between Rome and Geneva, while its various committees meet in different host countries (such as France, Germany, Canada, Australia, the US, etc.). The U.S. representatives to Codex have well-documented, unsavory connections to the very industries that stand to profit from the wholesale implementation of the Codex standards. Insofar as the FDA is concerned, consumers have virtually no say at all.
The governments of both India and South Africa have repeatedly expressed their dissatisfaction with the foolish restriction of nutrients and herbs under Codex, but their protests have been regularly disregarded during meetings by ill-defined "consensus" tactics that do not allow full discussion or debate on these crucial issues, or even true consensus.
The Power in Codex Here is one of many reasons why Codex can overrule our U.S. dietary laws. In the United States Federal Register, dated Oct. 11, 1995, the FDA's Policy on Standards states that "where a relevant international standard exists, or completion is imminent, it will generally be used in preference to a domestic standard." The U.S. Constitution states that U.S. treaties take precedence over U.S. laws. There has been activity on Capitol Hill to prepare "harmonization" rules, which will lock America into obeying Codex dietary standards.
It is important to note that Codex Alimentarius operates under the system enshrined in the Napoleonic legal code, under which anything not explicitly permitted is forbidden! In contrast to the Napoleonic legal code, the U.S. operates under the more sensible English-based Common Law, wherein anything not specifically forbidden is permitted.
WTO placed corporations over nations The WTO has put the mechanisms in place to override any national law that interferes with multinational corporate profits in international trade. That is one of the reasons why Congressman Ron Paul tried to remove us from the WTO in 2000 via House Joint Resolution 90. Congress failed to enact his proposal.
U.S. Codex Office The U.S. Codex Office is found within the FDA, which, in turn, is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This Office works very closely with Codex in Europe. If you go to its website, you will see this:
"The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by FAO and WHO to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme. The main purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers, ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations."
The U.S. obeys WTO Codex standards and guidelines were originally intended to be voluntary, i.e., each nation could obey or disobey them. But that began to change when the various nations signed new treaties at the Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), at which time the World Trade Organization (WTO) came into existence. According to the treaty the United States signed at Uruguay, we are required to obey the rulings of the WTO. The WTO has enforcement power through a new international court, the Dispute Settlement Body, which does not follow our rules of evidence and wherein our interests are represented by unelected government bureaucrats.
We have a controlled (or paid-off) press This Codex crisis is the clearest proof this writer has ever seen that we have a "controlled press" in America! There is absolutely no mention by ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, BBC, or the newspapers and newsmagazines that America is hurtling toward the total loss of effective vitamin-and-herbal supplementation! This is largely due to a conflict of interest: the drug companies provide them with millions of dollars in drug-ad revenues, and it is my belief that the media have been threatened with the loss of this revenue if they tell the public the truth about Codex.
In my opinion, this includes generous "contributions" to the White House and Congress, as well as immense bribes to EU and UN officials. Now you can understand why the newspapers, newsmagazines, and news broadcasts do not say a word about the nutritional crisis we are facing. In 2004, pharmaceutical companies spent over $4 billion on direct consumer advertising. This includes media advertising. In that same year, $785 million was spent on Congressional lobbying.
Can Codex be stopped? There is no certainty about this. You should contact your Congressmen and Senators, and tell them how you think they should vote. It is imperative that concerned natural health consumers become organized and fully activated to stop Codex from being enacted in the United States.
July 4, 2007 Update by Sharrhan Williamson Just this week, the FDA announced that it was implementing tough, new "Good Manufacturing Practices," which consist of regulations that will adversely affect sales of vitamins and minerals. For once, the FDA was very forthright, making it clear that small supplement companies will have to go out of business. According to news sources, the big vitamin/supplement companies that are set to stay in business (Vitamin Shoppe, GNC, etc.) have strong pharmaceutical company backing.
Senator Ted Kennedy's FDA "revitalization" bill S. 1082 is another blow to DSHEA: it allows for its dismantling by the FDA and Congress. Dr. Ron Paul is trying to counteract this with some new bills such as his H.R.2117. We'll see if he is successful.
Codex is happening, although they are implementing it in small stages so that the public hardly notices. If we call Congress to complain, they'll say, "Oh no, that's not happening." We must read between the lines and look at all the evidence—it's as plain as day. On the bright side, perhaps people will get back to growing more good organic food and herbs locally than ever before.
July 16, 2007 Update by Scott C. Tips of National Health Federation The 30th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) in Rome, Italy just ended (July 2-7, 2007). Heaping plates full of Codex standards and guidelines were advanced to their final stages as if starving people were gathered around a banquet table. It did not matter what was heaped on the plate; it got passed to the table regardless. It also did not matter that there were some 451 country delegation members and another 61 INGO (International Nongovernmental Organization) delegate-observers from around the world in attendance (or pretend attendance); the CAC Chairman, Dr. Claude Mosha, plowed forward, pushing aside any and all objections—excuse me, he called them "reservations"—that were made. It would not have mattered if a plate of rotten tomatoes had been presented to him for approval; he would have approved them too. In this one meeting, the CAC was rendered irrelevant as a meaningful "approving" body, for it merely rubber stamped without thought what had been done by others. Mimi the Gorilla could have done just as good a job.
That is the essence of what happened at the Codex meeting as Sepp Hasslberger and I (the National Health Federation delegation) saw it. To read our full report, see www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_16_jul_2007.html
While Americans Slept by A. Ofria When we see powerful players forcing our leaders to act in ways that threaten the rights that Americans have historically died to preserve, we must remind them of their duty to safeguard our way of life. If we do not raise our voices above the clamor of multinational commercial interests, we may be silenced forever.
Take Action by Scott C. Tips Legislation can either protect or restrict your freedom in all its aspects, including your health freedom. As long as there is some semblance of representation in the halls of Congress, use whatever influence you have as a constituent on your Senators and Congressional representative. Let all three of them know that you oppose American harmonization with Codex Alimentarius standards and all other restrictions upon your right to purchase and grow naturally healthful foods and choose naturally healthful goods and services.
Remember the National Health Federation's action motto: "Be persistently vocal." That is, do not just send one letter or fax, or one e-mail, and then sit back and watch TV reruns, thinking your job is done. Be persistent, do all three, re-send, and pick up the telephone to call them with your concerns. Even better, if possible, pay them a personal visit in their offices, ideally, going together with friends. Engrave your views in their minds, even when they are on the Senate or House floor. Make them feel the heat.
To begin, you could say: "I am asking you to do two things to protect our health freedoms here at home: 1. Support the Health Freedom Protection Act (H.R.2117) by signing on as a cosponsor; and 2. Oppose all efforts to harmonize with or conform our American system of food and food-supplement regulation to the European-dominated Codex Alimentarius Commission's health standards, which are based on junk science." Unify your efforts with others by joining an organization such as the National Health Federation with an established track record of health freedom activism. Together, our individual efforts will be coordinated and amplified.
Editor's note: Special thanks go to Scott C. Tips, Esq. of the National Health Federation for assisting with the editing of this article.
"This is What Democracy Looks Like" (2000) A 68-minute compilation of interviews with Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Susan Sarandon and Michael Franti about the driving forces behind the World Trade Organization. Available at video stores and www.corrugate.org.
New Book CODEX Alimentarius - Global Food Imperialism This 293-page book, just released this year, consists of a compilation of informative articles and viewpoints by various knowledgeable health-freedom activists who know Codex intimately. Compiled and edited by Scott Tips, President of the National Health Federation. $15.95 plus shipping: U.S $3; Europe $12 Online orders: www.thenhf.com Mail orders: National Health Federation, P.O. Box 688, Monrovia, CA 91017 U.S.A., or call 626-357-2181.
Democracy in Action "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." –Thomas Jefferson. To contact your U.S. congressional representatives, go to: www.house.gov. To contact your U.S. congressional senators, go to: www.senate.gov. Or visit: http://www.house.gov/zip/ZIP2Rep.html
Codex Action Information Boston Area Codex Action Committee Sharrhan Williamson • 617-499-0920 • sharrhan@verizon.net
National Health Federation P.O. Box 688, Monrovia, California 91017 626-357-2181 • contact-us@thenhf.com• www.thenhf.com
Many manufacturers of personal care and household items still test their products on animals, despite the growing number of alternative methods for evaluating product safety. The following list contains all such companies known and their associated brand names. This list originally was compiled from two primary references (cited at the bottom of this page). In addition, it is updated as new information is made available to us. We cannot fully guarantee its accuracy, so please use the list accordingly--and do let us know if you can offer any further updates. You may wish to print out the list and take it along next time you go shopping! Please also note that all over-the-counter medicines and/or their ingredients are extensively tested on animals, as currently required by the FDA.
Companies That Still Test on Animals (and associated brands): A * Alcon Labs * Allergan, Inc. * Arm & Hammer * ArmorAll * Arrid * Axe * Aziza
B * Bain de Soleil * Ban Roll-on * Banana Boat * Bausch & Lomb * Benckiser * BenGay * Biotherm * Block Drug Co. Inc. * Bounty * Boyle-Midway * Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
L * Lady's Choice * Lancaster * Lancome * Lava * Lever Brothers * Listerine * L'Oreal USA * Lubriderm * Lux * Lysol
M * Matrix Essentials * Max Factor * Maybelline * Mead * Mop & Glo
N * Nair * Naturelle * Neutrogena * Neutron Industries, Inc.
O * Olean * Oscar de la Renta
P * Pantene * Parfums International * Pearl Drops * Pennex * Pfizer, Inc. * Pine-Sol * Plax * Playtex Corporation * Pledge * Polident * Ponds * Post-It * Prince Matchabelli * Proctor & Gamble Co.
Q * Quintessence
R * Raid * Ralph Lauren Fragrances * Reckitt Benckiser * Redken * Resolve * Richardson-Vicks
S * Sally Beauty Supply * Sally Hansen * Sanofi * SC Johnson & Son * Schering-Plough * Scotch * Scott Paper Co. * Sensodyne * Signal * SmithKline Beecham * SoftSheen * S.O.S. * Stanhome Inc. * Sterling Drug * Suave * Sun Star * Sunsilk
T * TCB Naturals * Tegrin * 3M * Tide * Tilex
U * Unilever
V * Vaseline * Vichy * Vidal Sassoon * Visine * Vivid
W * Warner-Lambert * Westwood
Companies That Still Test on Animals (and associated brands): Primary Original References: American Anti-Vivisection Society, Guide to Compassionate Shopping (8214.GCS) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 1999, Consumer Products Companies That Test on Animals. Source from:The Vegetarian Site
Climate change is meant to happen and has been happening for over millions of years. We go the hottest and coldest temperatures records that show prof this. It is not Co2 (carbon) that is causing the global warming. It is the Sun and there are spikes in the heat that has been transmitted all over. Carbon taxes is just to make developing nations unable to compete and build. Here are some of the effect but don't be overly worried about global warming think on how we need to stop waste! Think of ways to use alternative energy!
In a world where we (Humans) take every living thing for granted and treating them with no respect and regards of their existence. From the slaughter houses, black market trades, animal testing to production of products, man have abused and raped everything in their path.
"Man is the only species known to kill its kind, not for food like animals to survive but for other means."
Watching this eye opening documentarythat shows the truth about these monstrosities: Earthlings
Earthlings Earthlings is a 2005 documentary about mankind's use of nonhuman animals as pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and for scientific research. The film is narrated by Joaquin Phoenix and features music by Moby, both who are practicing vegans. It was directed by Shaun Monson, and co-produced by Maggie Q, who are also vegan.
Synopsis Covering pet stores, puppy mills and animal shelters, as well as factory farms, the leather and fur trades, sports and entertainment industries, and finally the medical and scientific profession, EARTHLINGS includes footage obtained through the use of hidden cameras to chronicle the day-to-day practices of some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely on animals. It draws parallels between racism, sexism, and speciesism, and advocates veganism.
Awards In 2005, EARTHLINGS premiered at the Artivist Film Festival, (where it won Best Documentary Feature), followed by the Boston International Film Festival, (where it won the Best Content Award), and at the San Diego Film Festival, (where it won Best Documentary Film, as well as the Humanitarian Award to Joaquin Phoenix for his work on the film).
Before reading this Alex's of Alex's Guides, wishes that everyone could repeat this:
"I will no longer give my hard-earned dollars to companies that torture animals and spray their faces with banal products." Below, you will find a fairly comprehensive list of companies that still test their products on animals. If you do not care that some poor animal was tortured for your eye shadow or toothpaste, then feel free to continue to support these companies.
As a consumer, you can help by avoiding their products (e.g.,) in favor of companies that do not test. Believe it or not, that list is actually far more comprehensive than the below list and includes several big names. CHECK IT OUT!"
A
• Allergan Inc. • Alcon Labs • Applewoods [ROLLING PLAN] • Arm & Hammer (Church & Wright) [per PETA] • Astley Dye & Chemical Company (ACDO) [ROLLING PLAN] • Andrew Jegens Co. (Ban, Bioré, Curél) [per NAVS] • Aziza
B
• Bay House Aromatics [ROLLING PLAN] • Baush & Lomb (Curel, Soft Sense, Clear Choice) • Betterware [ROLLING PLAN] • BioForce UK [ROLLING PLAN] • Bic Corp. [MORATORIUM] [per PETA] • Blistex, Inc. • Block Drug Co. (Sensodyne, Carpet Fresh, Lava, Polident) [per PETA] • The Body Shop Int'l (L'Oreal) • Boots Plc *Tests through BASF • Boyle-Midway (Reckit Benckiser, Coty, Jovan, Lancaster) [per PETA] • Brodie & Stone [ROLLING PLAN] • Braun (Gilette Co) [MORATORIUM] • Breck [MORATORIUM] • Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (Clairol, Ban, Final Net, Redmond, Herbal Essences, Sea Breeze, Aussie, Keri) • Bronnley [ROLLING PLAN] • Burberry *Because of Fur promotion or marketing
C
• Calvin Klein (Unilever) • Carabay Seaweed [ROLLING PLAN] • Carlonina Herrera • Chesebrough-Ponds (Aziza, Fabergé, Cutex, Oil of Olay, Vaseline) [per PETA] • Chanel Inc. *Because of Fur promotion or marketing • Church & Dwight (Arm & Hammer, Arrid, Lady's Choice, Nair, Pearl Drops) [per PETA] • Clarion (Sea Breeze) • Clairol Inc. (Proctor & Gamble) [per PETA] • Clorox (Pine Sol, Armor All, Tilex, S.O.S., 409, SoftScrub, Fresh Step) [per PETA] • Colgate-Palmolive Co. (SoftSoap, Palmolive, Ajaz, Speed Stick, Mennen, Hill's Science Diet {sadly!}) [per PETA] [MORATORIUM] • Consumer Value Stores *House brands • Corine de Farme [per Uncaged] • Cosme Decorte • Coty (Davidoff, Joop!, Jovan, Lancaster, Rimmel, Stetson) [per PETA] • Color Me Beautiful [ROLLING PLAN] • Cover Girl (Procter & Gamble) [per PETA] • Crimpers Pure [ROLLING PLAN]
D
• Dana Perfumes • Del Laboratories (Sally Hansen, Natural Glow, Naturistics, Flame Glow, Commerce Drug) [per PETA] • Dial Corp. (Purex, Renuzit) [per All for Animals] • Dome Cosmetics [ROLLING PLAN] • Donna Karan Beauty Company *Because of Fur promotion or marketing • DowBrands (Glass Plus, Fantastik) • Dracket Products Co. (S.C. Johnson & Son) [per PETA] • Dolce & Gabbana [IT] *Because of Fur promotion or marketing
E
• EcoLab Inc. • Eli Lilly & Co. • El Sanofi Inc. (Oscar de la Renta) • Elizabeth Arden (Unilever) • Enamelon Inc. • Erno Laszlo [per PETA] • Estée Lauder Cos. (Aramis, Clinique, Prescriptives, Origins, M•A•C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown, Tommy Hilfiger, Jane, Donna Karan, Aveda, Stila, Jo Malone, Bumble and bumble, Kate Spade, Darphin, Michael Kors, Rodan & Fieldsr) *Because of Fur promotion or marketing • Ettusais
• IAMS (SHOCKING!) *Please Boycott! • Intimate Brands *Bath & Body Works tests ingredients, Veronica's Secret sells fur • ISO • IPSA
J
• JCB Developments [ROLLING PLAN] • Jhirmack (Playtex) • Jergens, Andrew Co. (Bioré) *Parent Company (KAO) tests • Johnson & Johnson (Neutrogena, Clean & Clear, Roc) [per PETA] • Johnson Products Co. • Jovan (Quintessence)
K
• KAO Cosmetics (John Frieda, Jergens, Bioré) • Kanobe • Kimberly-Clark Corp. (Kleenex, Scott Paper, Huggies) [per PETA] • Kinarese (Valeant Pharmaceuticals) • Kingsmill Cosmetics [ROLLING PLAN] • KMS Research Labs [ROLLING PLAN] • Kose
L
• Laboratoires Garnier (Ambre Solaire, Maybelline, Synergie, Movida, Fructis, Nutralia) *Have adopted policy against testing, however for now, NAVS lists them as "questionable" and no other group seems willing to endorse them • LaCoupe Salon [per own reply] • Lamaur (Willow Lake, Colorsoft) [per PETA] • L & F Products • Lever Brothers [per PETA] • Lifestyles [ROLLING PLAN] • Lloyds Chemists [ROLLING PLAN] • L'Oréal (Anais Anais, Biotherm, Body Shop Int'l, Cacharel, Cosmair, Gemey, Giorgio, Gloria Vanderbitl, Inné, Helena Rubenstein, Jade, Kiehl's Since 1851, La Roche Posey, Lancôme, Lanvin, L'Oréal, Matrix, Ombrelle, Phas, Polo, Ralph Lauren, Redken, Soft Sheen, Vichy) [per AAVS] *May Still be Testing Ingredients • LPI Cosmetics [ROLLING PLAN]
M
• Manetti & Roberts • Mars Candy (Snickers, M&M's, Twix, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, Starburst, Dove, Skittles) Yes, the candy company is conducting all sorts of hideous experiments! • Marlene Klein Cosmetics • Marshall Pet Products *Make pet products, while selling animals to research labs! • Max Factor (Procter & Gamble) [per PETA] • Mead [per PETA] • Melaleuca Inc. (Nicole Millers) [per PETA] • Mennen Co. (Colgate-Palmolive) [per PETA] • Micol Direct [ROLLING PLAN] • Miss Selfridge [ROLLING PLAN] • Murphy Phoenix Co. (Colgate-Palmolive) [MORATORIUM]
• Sara Lee [ROLLING PLAN] *However, Sara Lee, is reportedly planning to divest it's personal care division, and, on a positive note, working with animal groups to stop the cruel animal experiments sponsored by March of Dimes. • Sally Hansen (Del Laboratories) [per PETA] • Schering-Plough (Coppertone, Ban de Soleil, Dr. Scholl's) [per PETA] • Schick (Warner-Lambert) • Scott Paper Co. • Scottish Fine Soaps [ROLLING PLAN] • S.C. Johnson & Son (Pledge, Drano, Windex, Glade) • Seven Seas [ROLLING PLAN] • Shiseido Company Ltd. • SmithKline Beecham (AquaFresh, Contac, Tums) [per PETA] • Sofina • Softsoap Enterprises (Colgate-Palmolive) • Sterling Drug • Suave [per PETA] • Sunshine Makers (Simple Green) • Sun Star • 3M (Scotch, Post-It) [per PETA]
T
• Tom's of Maine (Colgate-Palmolive) This was once a GREAT company, and unfortunately, is no longer. Colgate's even gone so far as to start putting Fluoride into their toothpastes which were free of it. AVOID.
U
• Unilever (ALL™ detergent, Lever Bros., Calvin Klein, Elizabeth Arden, Helene Curtis, Ben & Jerry's, Aim, Close-Up, Dove, Finesse, Salon Selectives, Pond's, Vaseline, Sure, Pepsodent, Mentadent) [per PETA]
V
• Vidal Sassoon (Procter & Gamble) [per PETA] • Victoria's Secret *Sell fur products at stores • Viktoria Apothekere (Phas) • Virgin Vie [per Uncaged] • Vogue International (hair care)
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