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This article really lays it on the line. I really think that we are virtually doomed. It has proceeded too far to stop. But I think we need to go down fighting.
Cheers, Doug
I THINK WE ARE TOO LATE FOR THIS!
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http://credence.org/news/news.htm

THE SINISTER TRUTH BEHIND OPERATION CURE.ALL

by Ruth James

What's really behind Operation Cure.All? Is it just the FDA and FTC taking
their power too far? Or is there a deeper, more sinister purpose to this
campaign?

How could a country that prides itself in its freedom of speech, freedom of
choice, and freedom of information be facing such severe restrictions in
health freedom and dietary supplements? Haven't the people made their will
known? Didn't our government pass the Dietary Supplement Health & Education
Act of 1994 to insure our right to health supplements?

Indeed, our government did. But the FDA and FTC have found ways to get
around that. The laws put in place to protect us are being ignored. And
what's worse, is that those laws are about to be superceded, if the powers
that be have their way.

OPERATION CURE.ALL IS JUST ONE MEANS TO AN END

You see, Operation Cure.All is just a tactic, a vehicle, in a much bigger
overall plan. It is a result of "Codex Alimentarius" (meaning food
code) -- a set of regulations that aim to outlaw any health information in
connection with vitamins and limit free access to natural therapies on a
worldwide scale.

WHAT'S BEHIND CODEX?

Behind the Codex Alimentarius Commission is the United Nations and the World
Health Organization working in conjunction with the multinational
pharmaceutical cartel and international banks. Its initial efforts in the US
with the FDA were defeated, so it found another ally in the FTC. Now Codex,
with the FTC and the pharmaceutical cartel behind it, it threatens to become
a trade issue, using the campaign of Operation Cure.All to advance its
goals.

Codex began simply enough when the U.N. authorized the World Health
Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization todevelop a universal
food code. Their purpose was to 'harmonize' regulations for dietary
supplements worldwide and set international safety standards for the
purposes of increased trade. Standardize labeling and regulatory
requirements between countries to facilitate increased international trade.
Pharmaceutical interests stepped in and began exerting their influence.
Instead of focusing on food safety, Codex is using its power to promote
worldwide restrictions on vitamins and food supplements, severely limiting
their availability and dosages.

REAL GOALS OF CODEX

This is to bring about international 'harmonization.' While global harmony
sounds benign, is that the real purpose of this plan? While the stated goal
of Codex is to establish unilateral regulations for dietary supplements in
every country, the actual goal is to outlaw health products and information
on vitamins and dietary supplements, except those under their direct
control. These regulations would supercede United States domestic laws
without the American people's voice or vote in the matter.

HOW CAN IT BE POSSIBLE?

Americans gasp at the thought. It goes against everything America stands
for. Many believe this can't be possible. The truth is, it's not only
possible, it's required by the Codex agreement.

In fact, under the terms of the Uruguay Round of GATT, which created the
World Trade Organization, the United States agreed to harmonize its domestic
laws to the international standards. This includes standards for dietary
supplements being developed by the United Nation's Codex Alimentarius
Commission's Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Use.

The Uruguay Round Agreements carry explicit language clearly indicating that
the U.S. must harmonize to international standards:

"Members are fully responsible under this Agreement for the observance of
all provisions.... members shall formulate andimplement positive measures
and mechanisms in support of the observance of the provisions.... by other
than central government bodies." [WTO TBT Agreement at Article 3.5]"

In other words, the federal government must NOT ONLY CHANGE FEDERAL LAW, but
must ALSO require state and local governments to change their laws as well
to be in accordance with international law.

Not only that, but Codex is now enforceable through the World Trade
Organization (WTO). If a country disagrees with or refuses to follow Codex
standards, the WTO applies pressure by withdrawing trade privileges and
imposing crippling trade sanctions. Congress has already bowed to this
pressure several times and so have the governments of many countries.

While the exemption clause (USC 3512(a)(1) and (a)(2) was created to
supposedly protect our laws from harmonization to international standards,
it has proven to be totally ineffective. The United States has already lost
seven trade disputes despite the exemption clause. Due to the enormous
pressures put on them by lobbyists from multinational corporations (who
contribute millions to congressional campaigns), Congress bowed to pressure
and changed U.S. laws.

It appears our government is being manipulated one way or another to serve
the goals of the UN, the World Health Organization and the World Trade
Organization. Food control equals people control -- and population control.
Is this beginning to sound like world government and one-world order?Could
this be the real goal behind Codex?

The United States, Canada, the Europeans, Japan, most of Asia,and South
America have already signed agreements pledging total harmonization of their
laws including food and drug laws to these international standards in the
future.

WHAT CODEX WILL BRING

What can we expect under Codex? To give you an idea, here are some important
points:

- Dietary supplements could not be sold for preventive (prophylactic) or
therapeutic use.
- Potencies would be limited to extremely low dosages. Only the drug
companies and the big phytopharmaceutical companies would have the right to
produce and sell the higher potency products (at inflated prices).

- Prescriptions would be required for anything above the extremely low
doses allowed (such as 35 mg. on niacin).

- Common foods such as garlic and peppermint would be classified as drugs
or a third category (neither food nor drugs) that only big pharmaceutical
companies could regulate and sell. Any food with any therapeutic effect can
be considered a drug, even benign everyday substances like water.

- Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding (escape
clauses would be eliminated).

- All new dietary supplements would be banned unless they go through Codex
testing and approval.

- Genetically altered food would be sold worldwide without labeling.

According to John Hammell, a legislative advocate and the founder of
International Advocates for Health Freedom (IAHF), here is what we have to
look forward to:

"If Codex Alimentarius has its way, then herbs, vitamins, minerals,
homeopathic remedies, amino acids and other natural remedies you have taken
for granted most of your life will be gone. The name of the game for Codex
is to shift all remedies into the prescription category so they can be
controlled exclusively by the medical monopoly and its bosses, the major
pharmaceutical firms. Predictably, this scenario has been denied by both the
Canadian Health Food Association and the Health Protection Branch of Canada
(HPB).

The Codex proposals already exist as law in Norway and Germany where the
entire health food industry has literally been taken over by the drug
companies. In these countries, vitamin C above 200 mg is illegal as is
vitamin E above 45 IU, vitamin B1 over 2.4 mg and so on. Shering-Plough,
the Norway pharmaceutical giant, now controls an echinacea tincture, which
is being sold there as an over the counter drug at grossly inflated prices.
The same is true of ginkgo and many other herbs, and only one government
controlled pharmacy has the right to import supplements as medicines which
they can sell to health food stores, convenience stores or pharmacies."

It is now a criminal offence in parts of Europe to sell herbs as foods. An
agreement called EEC6565 equates selling herbs as foods to selling other
illegal drugs. Action is being taken to accelerate other European countries
into 'harmonization' as well.

Paul Hellyer in his book, "The Evil Empire," states: "Codex is supported by
international banks and multinational corporations including some in Canada,
and is in reality a bill of rights for these banks and the corporations they
control. It will hand over our sovereign rights concerning who may or may
not invest in our countries to an unelected world organization run by big
business. The treaty would make it impossible for Canadian legislators
either federal or provincial to alter or improve environmental standards for
fear of being sued by multinational corporations whether operating in Canada
or not.

This will create a world without borders ruled by a virtual dictatorship of
the world's most powerful central banks and multinational companies. This
world is an absolute certainty if we all sit on our hands and do nothing."

This is the future the FDA and FTC are striving to bring us via Codex
harmonization. Is this a future we are going to willingly accept or
prevent?

WHY TARGET THE INTERNET?

It is no accident that the FDA and FTC are targeting internet health sites
through Operation Cure.All. We are standing in the doorway of an
unprecedented revolution -- the information revolution brought about by the
Internet.

Now all people everywhere have the ability to learn about anything that
interests them with just a few clicks. History has shown that informed,
educated people change civilizations -- they change the flow of thought and
they change the flow of money. They can even change the direction of a
country. When similar transitions have happened in the past, the powers that
existed did not give up willingly. The Catholic Church fiercelyprotected
its practice of selling 'indulgences' as a forgiveness of sin. When the
practice was abolished, the Catholic Church lost a great deal of power and
money.

When the printing press was invented, books were banned and printers were
imprisoned by the authorities, who feared an educated public could not be
governed. In the same way, the medical monopoly (and the UN) now fears that
a public educated in health and privy to the shortcomings of modern medicine
could not be controlled. Loss of control means loss of revenue and loss of
power. And they are doing everything they can to stop progress so they can
contain their losses and strengthen their power.

The printing press changed the world. Can you imagine what life would be
like today if the book banners had their way? But because the printing
press won out, society progressed and freedom was embraced. The internet is
changing the world in an equally significant way. While the entire internet
can hardly be suppressed, the pharma-cartels and their backers are looking
to protect their interests by restricting as much information as they can on
the internet.

Will we, the people, win out again -- or will the UN and theWorld Health
Organization agenda and the pharmaceutical cartel change the course of
history and take us back to the "dark ages" of medicine?

WHAT CAN WE DO?

Step number one is learn as much as possible about this issue. Here are some
websites where you will find a great deal of information:

John Hammell's International Advocates for Health Freedom
website: http://www.iahf.com/index2.html

'Codex Alimentarius Commission: A threat to mankind'- article
from Dr. Rath's website:
http://www.drrath.com/mr-publishing-internet/uk/codex/codex.htm

'The Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry' - article on Dr.
Rath's website:
http://www.drrath.com/mr-publishing-internet/politics/pc/uk/index.htm

'U.S. and European Leaders Agree on Principles to Harmonize
Dietary Supplement Regulations:'
http://www.crnusa.org/shellnr112000.html

Federal Register where the FDA states its intention to harmonize
with Codex standards: http://iahf.com/codx-fda.txt

Read, "WHOSE TRADE ORGANIZATION? Corporate Globalization and the
Erosion of Democracy" by By Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza,

Public Citizens Global Trade Watch:
http://www.tradewatch.org/publications/wtobook.htm

Sign the petition - Click on 'Sign Health Freedom Petition:'

http://www.iahf.com/index2.html

Also sign the European Anti-Codex petition at: www.laleva.cc

Signing petitions is fine, but not nearly as effective as writing to your
congressmen and congresswomen. Write to them insisting we hold a PROPER
Oversight Hearing on Codex. An oversite hearing was held in March, but the
truth was not allowed to come out. Witness who could have exposed what was
going on, and who wanted to testify, were denied the opportunity to testify.
Congress is strongly resisting another Codex hearing, telling their
constituents it is not necessary. This could not be further from the truth.

Contact information for representatives: http://www.house.gov
Contact information for senators: http://www.senate.gov
Copyright 2001 Ruth James rjames@therealessentials.com
www.therealessentials.com

CTM Comment: Codex is of course the single most virulent assault on human
freedoms in recent times. The desire to control of vitamins, minerals, herbs
and other nutritional factors has ironically come about as a result of the
inability of orthodox medicine to destroy the practice of the public
practising health without drugs. Now government and the chemical industry
will seek to control and profit from that which was available directly to
the public in times gone by.

Overturning the Codex by a mass public backlash is CTM's sworn goal. This
can be accomplished only with large numbers of the public all committed to
this endeavour. As the above article states, the Internet itself has been
able to grant access to information freely to anyone seeking it, and this
has destabilised the flow of money and profits to institutions which have
traditionally believed their highly lucrative monopolies to be safe. There
can be no more pressing reason to join the Campaign for Truth in Medicine
for FREE than to assist us in pressuring for the scrapping of Codex. Do you
know other members of your family or friends who will be willing to join?
Have them visit the appropriate sign-up section of the CTM web-site and
register today.

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