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Friends,

Im my opinion, this has been carefully planned ever since the New England Journal published (January 1993) the article about more patients going to alternative physicians than coventional ones in 1991.

Alert!

Walt

Hi Jan:
I'm a transplanted Aussie living in the US. I read the report about this "dreadful" vitamin company in an Australian e-Newspaper that I receive and just knew it was all a witch hunt! You are right, seems like this onslaught by the pharmaceuticals is going to be world wide from what I'm reading here on this list. We have a tough fight ahead of us!
Thanks for posting!

Evonne
----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Jenson
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 8:03 PM
Subject: [S-A] fyi

FYI
Subject:Massive Multinational Assault on Alternative Medicines

Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 8:43 PM
Subject: Fw: Massive Multinational Assault on Alternative Medicines

Massive Multinational Assault
on Alternative Medicines

Australians deliberately denied access to more than one thousand
products ranging from vitamin pills to multi-mineral supplements

Copyright Joe Vialls, 2 May 2003

Web: Vialls Home

From this ...
... to this ...
... to this ...
In less than seven days! " The ever-compliant media immediately
started circulating rumors about "that dangerous Travacalm", and hinted at
mixing machines not being cleaned properly between blending batches of
different
products. One former employee was produced on television, to state that he
was
only allowed one hour to clean his mixing machine between batches instead of
three hours, and that was that. The media fix was in, despite a total lack
of
evidence."
Under cover of the fake "SARS Crisis" currently saturating
the western media, Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration has suddenly
moved to outlaw and remove from store shelves about 80% of all vitamin and
other
related alternative products. Although less than a week ago customers were
happily buying everything from vitamin A to G, and enthusiastically chewing
every conceivable mineral and trace element, these same customers today face
empty shelves in more than 5,000 health food stores across the nation.
American and European readers who may be wondering "What
has this Australian stuff got to do with me?" are urged to read on a little
further. Australia is well known as a gullible and thus attractive proving
ground for multinational scams, meaning that what happens in Oz this week,
might
well serve as a foretaste of what is yet to come in America and Europe next
week, or next month, or even next year.
The extraordinary situation facing Australians today,
started at the beginning of this week, when the Therapeutic Goods
Administration
[TGA] suddenly decided to cancel the manufacturing license of Pan
Pharmaceuticals, a large Australian company which not only manufactures its
own
line of medicines, but also provides a manufacturing service for 80% of all
alternative goods providers across Australia. Basically then, by shutting
down
Pan Pharmaceuticals without just cause, the TGA ensured that alternative
health
goods purveyors and customers would be critically disadvantaged across the
entire nation.
To suggest [or even think] that the TGA action was
deliberately designed to shut down natural health products in favor of the
huge
pharmaceutical multinationals and their coal-tar synthetic drugs, at first
seems
ill advised, perhaps even absurd. But unfortunately for the TGA, we can and
will
prove in a proper step-by-step investigation, that the shutdown process was
premeditated and deliberate.
Members of the Therapeutic Goods Administration are
Australia's medical goods "thought police", endowed by government with
incredible powers. There are documented examples of these people shutting
down
retail health food businesses for daring to suggest that cheap apricot
kernels
might retard [not "cure"] cancer, while at the same time other members of
the
TGA were busy endorsing the massive use of highly-addictive and extremely
profitable amphetamines on Australian children, with alleged but unproven
"learning disorders".
Every scam needs a convincing trigger to start the desired
chain of events. In the case of Pan Pharmaceuticals the trigger was an
in-house
medicine called "Travacalm", designed as its name suggests to combat motion
sickness in its various manifestations. The TGA allegedly received
complaints
in
late 2002 about this medicine, including claims of minor "hallucinations".
In
an apparent response to these uncorroborated claims, on 21 January 2003
Travacalm Original tablets AUST R 78192 were recalled, with the official
reason
given as "The product is being recalled following a number of reports of
excess
side effects related to the active ingredient."
Fine so far, and the TGA certainly seemed to be acting
responsibly, but it was not. You see, there are actually three versions of
Travacalm, but only the "Original" version was recalled. Travacalm Original
is
unique in its active ingredient dimenhydrinate, which is not contained in
Travacalm H.O [hyoscine hydrobromide], or in Travacalm Natural, which
contains
only zingiber officinale [natural ginger].

So by banning Travacalm Original but not the other two
Travacalm products, the TGA revealed to us all that it was really only
banning
the single ingredient dimenhydrinate, the active antihistamine not present
in
either the H.O. or Natural versions of Travacalm.
There is nothing unique or secret about the side effects of
dimenhydrinate, which have been known for many years. Users can be subject
to
headache, blurred vision, palpitations, loss of coordination, dry mouth, low
blood pressure causing dizziness and weakness, and ringing in the ears. What
are
less widely known, are the disturbing hallucinogenic side effects of
dimenhydrinate experienced by many experimental users with access to the
Internet. A good description is posted at
http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/legalize/drugs/dimenhydrinate/
"It takes about an hour for the full effects of this drug to
be reached, maybe even more. You know when it hits you though. The most
screwed
up thing is a complete loss of balance. Walking around without falling on
your
ass is quite the challenge. Small hallucinations are possible (your pen
sprouts
legs and begins a journey across your desk). And auditory hallucinations
(hearing s.) come into the picture at higher doses.
"Short-term memory is shot to f.. As soon as you finish a
thought, you forget what it was you were thinking about. To the casual
observer,
you would look quite weird. Slack-jawed, red faced, dilated pupils, possibly
a
hunched posture, maybe even drooling. The feeling is like floating on a
cloud
during a hurricane (or something to that effect)."
Obviously then, all medications including dimenhydrinate
are potentially very dangerous and capable of producing hallucinations,
which
leads us to question why it was that on 21 January 2003, the Australian
Therapeutic Goods Administration recalled only Pan Pharmaceutical's
Travacalm
Original, while leaving other medicines with higher levels of dimenhydrinate
on
the open market.
These other dimenhydrinate medicines include [but are not
limited to] Calm X, Dimetabs, Dinate, Dommanate, Dramamine, Dramanate,
Dramocen,
Dramoject, Dymenate, Hydrate, Marmine, Nico-Vert, Tega-Vert, Triptone, and
Vertab. All without exception should also have been ordered off the shelves,
but
were not.
Predictably perhaps, all of the other dimenhydrinate
medicines are manufactured by pharmaceutical multinationals "friendly" to
members of the Therapeutic Goods Administration, and unconfirmed rumors
still
persist about certain senior TGA bureaucrats being discreetly provided with
free
"medical seminars" in Fiji or Bali, complete with all essential extras
including
unlimited alcohol and prostitutes.
Regardless of the fine detail of exactly how this situation
was engineered, by February 2003 Australian Pan Pharmaceuticals had been
artificially "dirtied", and was ripe for the picking. The scene had been set
for
the biggest recall of natural health products in Australia - perhaps in the
world. The scam itself started on Monday 28 April, and a mere four days
later
on Thursday 1 May, the TGA had identified and ordered 1,363 complete product
lines to be stripped from store shelves acros Australia. Does anyone out
there
really believe that a bunch of lazy bureaucrats managed all that in four
days,
without considerable forward planning?

So by Thursday 1 May, one thousand three hundred and
sixty-three complete product lines had been officially recalled, meaning
hundreds of millions of alternative health pills and capsules had to be
stripped
from the shelves, leaving Australian consumers understandably anxious. To
claim
that this TGA action "undermined public confidence in alternative health",
would
be seriously understating the case.
Naturally the Therapeutic Goods Administration provided no
details of why this was happening, though the ever-compliant media
immediately
started circulating rumors about "that dangerous Travacalm", and hinted at
mixing machines not being cleaned properly between blending batches of
different
products. One former employee was produced on television, to state that he
was
only allowed one hour to clean his mixing machine between batches instead of
three hours, and that was that. The media fix was in, despite a total lack
of
evidence.
Hundreds of thousands of Australians were suddenly deprived
of the ability to buy their chosen alternative health products, and "doubt"
had
also been deliberately cast over the safety of the alternative health
products
already in their homes. Many Australians started to grumble that the
alternative
health manufacturers were no better than the hated drug companies: all of
them
obviously out to make a quick buck without the slightest regard for public
safety. Lines of demarcation became blurred, and customers started to mill
around like lost sheep.
Hard evidence to hand indicates that the undermining of
public confidence, and the resulting confusion, were the prime object of the
exercise, because there is no proof that any of these 1,363 product lines
pose
the slightest risk to human health. Ironically perhaps, in its headlong rush
to
shepherd Australians back towards out-of-fashion medical doctors and their
wide
range of synthetic coal-tar based drugs, the Therapeutic Goods
Administration
reinforced the reality of perfect safety with official statements.
Putting its foot firmly in its mouth, the TGA publicly
announced three times in less than a week, "there are no problems with
prescription drugs obtained from your doctor", and "prescription drugs are
not
affected". This was unquestionably reassuring news for potential patients
being
herded back towards the medical profession, and even greater news for the
pharmaceutical multinationals, who up to this point in history have been
losing
A$2,000 million per year in Australia alone to alternative health products.
Unfortunately there was a fatal flaw in these glib and very
convenient TGA statements. Though Pan Pharmaceuticals is best known for its
own
alternative health products, and as a contract manufacturer for 80% of all
other
alternative health products across Australia, it is also a significant
producer
of a wide range of in-house and contract "prescription drugs". Those
prescription drugs manufactured by Pan are still in your doctor's surgery,
and
they are still on the shelves at the pharmacy, despite the startling fact
that
all were produced in the same allegedly "unclean" mixing machines as the
1,363
banned alternative health products.
In summary, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration
recalled a Pan dimenhydrinate product in January 2003 but failed to recall
its
fifteen multinational equivalents at the same time. The TGA also failed to
issue
a public warning about the possible hallucinogenic side effects of
dimenhydrinate. In late April the Therapeutic Goods Administration started a
whispering campaign against Pan Pharmaceuticals, with the intent of severely
undermining public confidence in alternative health products. This latter
claim
has now been proved by the selective TGA recall of all 1,363 Pan
Pharmaceutical
alternative health products, but without the recall of a single Pan
Pharmaceutical "prescription medicine".
It is difficult to forecast the long-term outcome of this
deliberate campaign, because no one yet knows what the multinational
pharmaceutical corporations will instruct the Australian TGA to do next.
Certainly the massed media campaign has already severely undermined
Australian
public confidence in alternative health products, and for a few weeks or
months
it will be very difficult [in some cases impossible], to even purchase fresh
stocks of vitamins, minerals and so on. In turn, this forced lack of trade
will
send thousands of small alternative health retails outlets into bankruptcy.
Using these techniques, the multinational pharmaceuticals
seek to "break the alternative consumer habit" if possible, and to an extent
they will be successful. The "hard core" alternative crowd will not respond
of
course, and if necessary will import their own products, but it is not the
"hard
core" that the multinationals seek to undermine.
It is "middle" Australia [and America and Europe] that the
multinationals are targeting. Millions of intelligent folk who used to go to
medical doctors all the time, until they started to pick up the warning
signs
of
the horrific side-effects of prescription medicines. These are the people
who
must be weaned off healthy products, and brought back under direct medical
control.
The fake Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration scam
will certainly help to do this, and if only 50% effective, should still
return
roughly one billion dollars per annum to multinational pharmaceutical
investors.
Not a bad return for the price of a few hookers in Fiji and Bali.

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