Guest guest Posted May 25, 2006 Report Posted May 25, 2006 Your Life as an Atom The Planetary Showdown Against Corporate Greed, Political Graft, & Psychiatric Control by Steven Ferry If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. Thomas Jefferson Even if you're on the right track, you'll be run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction...... 3 Taking Control of What May Slide Down Your Throat 9 Organic Standards a Plastic Orange Could Pass....... 12 Corporate Ownership of All Seeds and Pigs......................... 15 Stink Bugs 1, Genetic Engineers 0............ 17 Irradiation Solves Some Nasty Problems.................... 19 Kloning Kloning Kloning Kloning Kloning Kloning Kloning ......................... 21 Health Through Toxic Chemicals................ 22 Vaccines are for the Birds.... 24 Because Everyone is Nuts (Except Us)............. 28 The Destruction of Religion......................... 36 Chemicals on the Corporate Farm....... 44 The Chemical Smorgasbord Experiment.......... 49 Toxic Recipes......................... 52 Conclusion........ 54 Some of the Organizations Doing Something............... 57 Introduction Do you think of yourself as a bunch of atoms without purpose, values, or aspirations? If so, then you will have no argument with the powerful corporate and political forces shaping our society and your life. If you believe otherwise, then you are in trouble and your life is in danger, for your view is being overruled by people who have lost their spiritual and religious dimension and consider themselves, and you, to be insignificant collections of atoms in a universe ruled by unthinking force and what is left of their spiritual dimension: deceit and destructive impulses. When the mainstream media barrages us 24/7 with disastrous news collected in real time from around the world, it has two effects: a) it numbs our minds, reducing willingness to act, given the apparent magnitude and pervasiveness of the problems; b) it focuses attention on those elements reported on in the same way that a magician focuses attention on some banal action while covertly continuing those actions that will bring about the real effect desired on the audience. As a result of this media onslaught, a) it is hard to derive a clear view of the forces that affects us personally and so take action; b) a number of issues slip by stealth under our radar. The overview that follows (it is not short, but it will open your eyes) brings together some of the main pieces of a puzzle that when taken together, create a very clear image on the radar. It is the intention of the author of this booklet that the many smaller groups fighting these separate destructive elements individually, recognize the big picture and join forces to fight each other’s fight: for only then will they have the power and case to win over legislators and the individuals that make up our society. Needed is an umbrella organization that can give our legislators the numbers and rationale for confronting the powerful interests that are setting our national and international agenda and laws. As we are fighting the age-old battle of good versus evil, maybe this organization can simply be called The Free World Foundation. Whatever it’s name, without such a coordinating effort, the majority who are good on earth will fall victim to the hidden and destructive agendas of the minority who are evil. This booklet is about a minority of our fellow citizens who are covertly buying and confusing legislators and government bureaucrats into changing the laws to increase profits through government-mandated monopoly. What are these people bringing about as they seek more money and power? Simply put, the requirement that all food be toxic, as sold through their companies; the eradication of any health models not reliant on pharmaceutical drugs; the legal right to drug the entire planetary populace with mind-altering drugs; and ultimately, the eradication of religion and the spirit of man. These goals all add up to improved market share, share prices and the bottom line—while you may be more interested in preserving your health with the right to access genuinely organic foods and effective nutritional supplements; as well as alternative health models that focus on creating health, rather than deadening symptoms and then cutting and burning out bits beyond repair; a relatively clean and safe environment; and the right to pursue your own religious beliefs. This article is not a corporate bash: Corporations are expected to look after their bottom line, but not by engaging in programs and selling products and services that harm their customers or reduce their quality of life. Nor is this report a bash against traditional western medicine, which has its place, to be sure. This report is about the actions of greedy individuals subverting the fundamental government purpose of looking after the welfare of the citizens that pay for and expect this public trust, and redirecting that government through false information and kickbacks into forwarding a minority’s aims of wealth and power by removing the right to choose from every citizen on planet earth. To be a bit more specific, pharmaceutical, chemical and food companies are creating the legal framework that will force you to eat and drink toxins, and when your body inevitably becomes ill as a result of the ingested toxins as well as polluted environment, the only recourse you will have will be very expensive medications, either psychiatric or medicinal, which will do little but deaden symptoms and further weaken your immune system—a vicious circle guaranteed to enrich drug companies all the way to your deathbed in a materialistic world. The alternative health and mental health fields, nutritional supplements and organic foods, as well as the environment and religion, have been under increasing attack for the last sixty years by companies and organizations (actually cartels, meaning an alliance of businesses formed to control production and prices, and limit competition). These cartels have a business model and philosophy based on the use of chemicals to treat everything from bugs to spiritual travails, which has resulted in a poisoning of the personal and planetary environments. They follow a philosophy that regards you basically as a collection of atoms to be cornered as a market for their products. The gains made by these cartels over the last sixty years now mean that the end game is beginning to play out. Yet again, it is up to individuals like you and I to raise the alarm without the assistance of the mainstream media, which is owned by a handful of such large corporations focused on a bottom line that is determined by corporate ad money, or lulled by cartel propaganda.[1] It is up to you and I to bring together the silent and increasingly drug-stupored and sick majority while there are still enough of us able to think, and act for ourselves. We can and will roll back the short-sighted and self-centered laws and advances made by these cartels, because there is one thing the evil cannot survive, just like metaphorical vampires: the cold light of day, or truth, exposing their activities. In our favor, we have the majority of Americans who still hold a place for religion and the spirit in their lives. We have sixty million Americans and tens of millions in other countries who have woken up to the dangers of the tens of thousands of chemicals being added to their food and water, PCPs (personal care products), etc., not to mention their medications and psychiatric drugs. The sixty million have moved to organic and natural solutions, creating a multi-billion dollar “wellness culture” as an alternative to industrial agriculture and the psychiatric/pharmaceutical cartel and their “controlling sickness culture.” The organic food market alone in the US has been increasing at 20% per annum for the last 15 years. These sixty million people (one in four Americans), as well as their elected representatives, are mostly still completely unaware of the fact that their solutions will be outside the law and unavailable from January 2010 onwards. That’s what happens when lobbyists are paid almost $800 million to change the laws and the mainstream media are owned by or in bed with the cartels, or merely eager for their ad dollars.[2] What are you going to do when true health food stores close down because their suppliers are out of business and the only food you can buy will be in agribiz grocery stores or pseudo-health food stores owned by the same cartels; when their produce will all be genetically modified and cloned, stripped of its nutritional content, tainted with toxic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, and irradiated with nuclear waste? Imagine all vitamin, mineral and other supplements being made from synthetic substances, in minute doses that have no efficacious value,[3] and costing ten times as much as they do now. Imagine having no alternative health practitioners, because their medicinal solutions are no longer being manufactured. That’s the reality we may face in five years unless you educate yourself and others, especially the legislature, on the threat to our health freedoms, and unite with others to remove all legislation underwritten by, and government agency bureaucrats in the pockets of, special interest groups. Otherwise, by governmental decree, you will only be allowed to eat toxic food. By governmental decree, you will have to take mind-bending and numbing psychiatric drugs as the new religion in a society that considers religion and the spirit unscientific superstition. By governmental decree, you will not be allowed to take nutritional supplements with any nutrition in them. By governmental decree, you will have to eat cancer-causing food and drink toxic water. If you’ve read George Orwell’s book, 1984, you’ll recognize the plot: government control overriding individual liberties for the benefit of the few. We are finally reaching the nexus between a fictionalized prediction and its reality, and it is your life we are discussing: Life as an insignificant atom, or something more? The intent here is not to sensationalize or alarm gratuitously, but to depict the society we will be experiencing in a few years unless each individual reading this takes the information to heart, passes on the information widely, and supports those existing organizations who are fighting back in the halls of power, over the Internet, and in their communities. But for each of us to preserve the freedoms that brought us beyond slavery to civilization, we will need to join forces and focus on our common goals, not our differences. There will be plenty of time to fight amongst ourselves over the fine print in the years ahead, but only if we join together now to fight the actual enemy at the gates. If you and others do, then we will have a future worth living, we will win, easily. For this reason, I ask you to consider the information in this overview and take action. The health of your body, your soul, and this planet does depend upon it. Taking Control of What May Slide Down Your Throat You may not have heard of Codex Alimentarius, the international trade regulation passed in Europe in early 2005 (by a committee comprised 90% of chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology company representatives) under the pretext of “standardizing the world’s food supply.”[4] This is the centerpiece of the strategy to make you into a compliant consumer by dictating exactly what food, drink and supplements can and cannot go down your throat. Note that the organization dictating what we can eat is not a health organization but a trade organization that has the power through World Trade Organization sanctions to enforce its laws on all countries of the world. In a nutshell, here is what Codex Alimentarius will mean to you when it is implemented globally on December 31, 2009: 1. No supplement will be available for preventive or therapeutic use. 2. Any potency higher than the Recommended Daily Allowance (itself of minimal strength) will be considered a drug requiring a prescription and must be produced by drug companies. Over 5,000 safe items now in health stores will be banned, putting nutritional supplement manufacturers and health stores out of business and leaving the pharmaceutical companies to supply (ineffective) “nutritional” supplements. 3. Natural health professionals will not be able to treat with nutritional supplements and health conscious people will be unable to choose natural health options for health promotion and disease treatment. 4. New supplements will have to undergo very expensive CODEX testing and approval. Common Law currently used in most of the world permits things not specifically forbidden. The Napoleonic Code upon which Codex is based, on the other hand, demands that anything not explicitly permitted is forbidden, meaning all supplements would be banned by default. The irony or injustice of this set of proposals being, of course, that of the 53 billion doses of amino acids, herbs, vitamins and other nutritional supplements taken in the U.S. during 2003, four deaths may have resulted. Pharmaceutical drugs, on the other hand, caused over 2,000 deaths in 2003 from over-the-counter medications—59 from aspirin, 147 from Tylenol; and 200,000 from medications properly prescribed and taken in hospitals. It sure looks like a black pot is calling a shiny kettle black. Or the wolf is legally entitling itself to care for the welfare of the sheep. While Codex Alimentarius sounds like a bunch of Latin (which it is, for “The law concerning what is suitable for nourishing”) to most people who have still not heard of it, a handful of individuals and organizations realized the dangers it posed and did what they could to fight it against the odds. Others listened to uninformed voices telling them that US laws would protect them from Codex.[5] They in turn were listening to disinformation and multi-billion dollar public relations and marketing campaigns put out by supporters of Codex Alimentarius (that nutrients need to be tested as unsafe, that the Codex is for consumer protection, etc.). Unfortunately, these hopeful people were whistling in the dark, for Phase II of the Compliant Consumer strategy is now unfolding as US laws standing in the way of Codex Alimentarius becoming the law of our land, are repealed one-by-one over the next four years. The following legislative activity has been (or is) being pushed through in the half year alone since Codex became law: 1. HR 3156 Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act, which permits the FDA to ban any nutrient which has any degree of risk associated with it, even in the absence of any proven harm from that substance. 2. SA 1379 attached to S 1042 creates an adverse event reporting requirement for supplements while none exists for pharmaceuticals. 3. S 3 Protecting America in the War on Terror Act of 2005 removes meaningful restitution for persons harmed by vaccines while providing tax-payer-funded, corporate welfare for vaccine and drug manufacturers. 4. HR 2485 DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act) Full Implementation and Enforcement Act of 2005 appropriates $175M over the next four years for the FDA to enforce more-rigorous regulations on supplement manufacturers than those required of pharmaceuticals. 5. HR 2510 Dietary Supplement Regulatory Implementation Act of 2005 is similar to but worse than HR 2485 above, providing for the adverse event reporting system for supplements, but not drugs, and $10 million to educate physicians and consumers about dietary supplements. Organic Standards a Plastic Orange Could Pass With pesticide, chemical and biotechnology companies representing 90% of the two Codex Commissions related to nutrients, it is not surprising that Codex also calls for the weakening of organic standards. This in effect was the end run around the determined opposition by US consumers to USDA and its corporate sponsors’ efforts to undermine the organic label, the most serious threat of which occurred with the 1997 attempt at allowing toxic sludge, genetically engineered organisms and irradiation onto organic farms. In 2004, they tried unsuccessfully to permit previously banned pesticides, hormones, tainted feeds, and animal drugs in organic food. In keeping with the effort to remove US laws that prevented Codex implementation, an “Organic Rider” was added to the 2006 Congressional Agriculture Appropriations Bill. A handful of determined, small organizations found out about the rider and alerted their memberships, who inundated their US Senators with 350,000 voices of protest about the rider, which would: a. Give “organic” farmers the right to use veterinary drugs and hormones and still sell their meat and milk as “organic”; b. Allow synthetic pesticides on organic crops and farms and non-organic feed for animals; c. Convert crops and herds back and forth between organic and non-organic; d. Permit non-organic ingredients to be substituted for organic ingredients without notification to consumers; e. Require the irradiation of all food; f. Reduce public input and the National Organic Standards Board’s power, so that USDA bureaucrats and industry lobbyists, not consumers, would control what can go into organic foods and products. The senators listened to the public outcry at first, but the powerful industrial lobby representing Kraft/Phillip Morris, Dean Foods/Horizon Organic/ Whitewave, Dole, Smucker’s/Knudson's, General Mills/Small Planet, Danone/ Stoneyfield, Aurora Organic, Whole Foods, Wild Oats, and the Grocery Manufacturers of America (Wal-Mart and the supermarket chains) prevailed, allowing hundreds of synthetic food additives and processing aids to be used in organic foods without letting the consumer know, and young dairy cows to continue to be treated with antibiotics and fed genetically engineered feed prior to being converted to organic production. Anyone familiar with organic foods will note that the giants have infiltrated the organic market with labels such as Horizon, Whitewave, Small Planet, Stoneyfield, Aurora organic and the two chains, Whole Foods and Wild Oats. If they are happy with and promoting these lowered organic standards, then one shops in their stores and buys their products at the risk that they already contain unlabelled toxins, and will certainly in the near future. Why does agribiz want to take over and dilute organic standards? Simply, because they can sell their polluted and denatured produce to unsuspecting consumers of organic produce at the significant mark-up possible because of the higher prices real organic farmers need to charge in order to turn a reasonable profit. They will no doubt sell below the full mark-up initially to force real organic farmers out of business and so create a monopoly of (fake) organic foods. Meanwhile, things are not quit so cozy back on the Corporate Farm in the rest of the world: In India, farmers from all over the country met to create the “Organic Vision 2020,” a long-term strategy to shift the nation’s 700 million farmers from pesticide-intensive, GE crops back to ecological and traditional organic practices in order to resolve the degraded soils, crop failures and crushing debt plaguing their nation’s output. Then, the idea that food should have some nutritional content, the opinions of Codex Alimentarius luminaries notwithstanding, has led the British Prime Minister recently to respond to overwhelming public demand by announcing the banning of junk foods from schools and the serving, instead, of organic “made-from-scratch” meals. In the last three years, 45 states in the U.S. have proposed 287 bills to eliminate junk food from their schools. The junk food industry has lobbied hard and defeated over 85% of these bills. The citizens of New Jersey and Maine won through, passing “junk food laws” that will remove junk foods from pre-K-12 by the end of 2007. Corporate Ownership of All Seeds and Pigs Meanwhile, another arm of the corporate greed strategy as it affects farming communities is the filing of patents to claim exclusive ownership of every seed and pig on the planet. The Swiss biotech corporation Syngenta is patenting the genetic material found in thousands of varieties of rice, in effect claiming the work of breeders and farmers over millennia as the company’s own invention. Concerned that seed saving by farmers reduces their profits, seed and biotech giants like Monsanto rammed though controversial “intellectual property laws” in numerous countries that make traditional seed saving a crime. Last year, Monsanto harassed and/or sued more than 500 U.S. farmers who had saved their seeds, forcing them to pay the company over $15 million in fines and to suffer up to 8-month prison sentences. Not content with legal bullying, Monsanto and the biotech industry tried legalizing Terminator Gene technology—seeds genetically engineered to become sterile or commit suicide after one season, thereby forcing the world’s 1.4 billion farmers to purchase patented seed varieties from these corporations. With the spread of Terminator pollen and seeds by the wind, insect pollinators, and commercial seed co-mingling and transportation, a wide range of crops and plants would be killed, ultimately making all farmers dependent upon Monsanto for their crops. The Terminator gene was itself killed, instead, after a massive outcry in 1998, but Monsanto was back in 2005 trying to overturn the United Nations’ global ban on Terminator Gene technology. As for pigs, Monsanto has filed patents in 160 nations for certain types of breeding techniques that are already in common use by pig farmers around the world—the idea being that Monsanto will own all pigs born of these breeding techniques as well as their herds. Why? Well, pork sales in the U.S. alone are $38 billion annually, and for those living high off the hog on George Orwell’s Animal Farm, because some pigs are more equal than others. Again, things are not quite working out as well as the criminals would like, despite the World Trade Organization in March 2005 giving corporations the right to “discover” seeds and genetic materials used by indigenous peoples for centuries, and patent these materials, thereby obtaining monopoly rights to its products and profits. The seeds of India’s Neem Tree have been used as a fungicide for millennia. So Thermo Trilogy, an American company, obtained a patent making it illegal for anyone else to use the seeds for this purpose unless they first paid royalties to Thermo Trilogy. Chalk up one for the good guys, however, because the patent was revoked by the European Patent Office and will likely inspire the reassessment of dozens of other similar patents. Stink Bugs 1, Genetic Engineers 0 Let’s explore the world of genetic engineering further. While self-destroying crops is an obvious self-destroying gambit for mankind, equally so is the limiting of our food supply to a very few genetic varieties of animal and plant species. Take the corn grown in the U.S. in the 1980s. Most comprised just three varieties sharing the same vulnerability to pests and viral and bacterial diseases. Most of the corn crop failed in that decade. Wide gene and specie pools enable species to survive; yet modern agriculture has reduced the number of grain species from thousands to less than a hundred. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are the absolute in monocultures, being clones of a single laboratory genome. Sixty million acres of crops in the U.S. are cloned from a handful of plants. Again, things are not going exactly according to plan on the GMO Corporate farm. Tillamook, a nationwide distributor of cheese in the US, has told its dairy farmers to stop injecting their cows with Bovine Growth Hormone, a genetically engineered animal drug banned in Europe and most industrialized countries. Monsanto, the producer of BGH, has threatened to sue. Consumers and farmers in California and New England have passed local, city, and county ordinances banning GE crops because non-GMO farmers have been losing money every year as GMO pollen from neighboring fields contaminates their crops. Monsanto led the counterattack, persuading 12 states to pass laws denying cities and counties the right to ban GE crops. Californian legislators listened to irate citizens and refused to bow to Monsanto’s pressure. In Europe, 3,500 cities and counties are now free of GMOs. Needless to say, the European Commission is under pressure from the United States and the World Trade Organization to keep European markets for GMOs despite 70% of Europeans not wanting GMOs in their lands. According to a British government and biotech industry study, growing GE crops contaminates land for over 15 years, prompting the British to ban GE crops altogether. While Monsanto (a familiar name by now) denies its genetically engineered rootworm-resistant corn—which is being grown and consumed on a large scale in the U.S.—can harm humans, internal company documents show serious health damage to laboratory animals. Naturally, the biotech industry does not want to tell consumers that 70% of their food is genetically engineered, even though 90% of Americans want genetically engineered foods to be labeled as such. So they have fought any effort to pass a law requiring GE content notification. There is currently a way to tell, however: the PLU code for items grown with Synthetic pesticides and fertilizers consist of four numbers. Organically grown produce has a five-number PLU beginning with a “9” GE produce also has a five-digit PLU but beginning with an “8.” Why would consumers want to know? Perhaps because when you combine the genes of flounder (fish), ergot (fungus), petro-chemical fertilizers, herbicides and synthetic hormones into wheat, one creates a Frankenfood that neither nature nor one’s body recognizes. The body digests what it can, tries to break down the rest with added sulphuric acid, and what it cannot break down, is added to the toxic load, resulting in allergies, diseases, and cancers. Finally, Southern U.S. cotton farmers have an issue with Bt cotton, genetically engineered to create its own pesticide to discourage bollworms. The absence of bollworms is now attracting other pests, with stink bugs causing three times as much damage as in conventional cotton fields. Playing god, it seems, requires a few more talents than those possessed by genetic engineers, and also a genuine concern for the welfare of others. Irradiation Solves Some Nasty Problems Which brings us to irradiation, the blasting of foods with nuclear waste to give them a longer shelf life by killing anything living (good or bad) in the food. The practice has been in use since 2000. Agribiz is pushing irradiation as a solution to the bacteria and fungus problems that arise when cattle are confined in overcrowded and fly-ridden feedlots and fed everything from dead animals to sawdust, while being expected to drink water contaminated with fecal matter. Irradiation is mainly being pushed, however, by the Department of Energy's Byproducts Utilization Program in an effort to reduce disposal costs of spent military and civilian nuclear fuel by developing a commercial market for nuclear waste. As one might expect from the FDA, the watchdog for public health, it supports the nuclear and agribiz position that nuking food is perfectly safe for humans. How did the FDA arrive at such a conclusion? The usual way: by ignoring any findings that did not match its intended spin. Specifically, they selected five studies from over 400 carried out before 1980, even though its own expert Irradiated Food Committee warned that these tests were grossly flawed. And as one might expect from Congress, there was someone in the pockets of agribiz who was happy to propose a law (in 2002, to circumvent the public distrust of the FDA and the industry front groups claiming there is no danger in irradiated foods) allowing irradiated foods to be labeled as “pasteurized.” What is the truth about the effect of radiation on food and humans? That the ionizing radiation produced by the shorter wavelengths of gamma radiation used in food irradiation breaks up molecules, increases levels of the carcinogenic chemical benzene while creating a whole new class of potentially carcinogenic materials (radiolytic products), and creating genetic damage in humans (through cyclobutanones, chemicals that cause chromosomal damage in the intestinal cells of humans). Our bodies have been exposed to a tremendous amount of nuclear radiation still hanging in the atmosphere and in the environment from the last six decades of nuclear testing. Radiation is cumulative in our systems and causes cancer. There are solutions for radiation poisoning [a nutritional supplement available for the last half century, as well as a detoxification regimen developed a quarter century ago], so do not feel that the end of the world is nigh; but having our radiation exposure increased by our food while providing no nutrition is an extremely bad idea for anyone interested in promoting life over death. Kloning Kloning Kloning Kloning Kloning Kloning Kloning As another extreme form of monoculture, cloning is an experiment that, if it does go awry after becoming widespread, will have disastrous consequences. Yet the FDA is expected to announce a policy late 2005 that will legalize the sale of milk and beef from cloned cows. Whatever other ethical considerations exist, nothing can justify reliance upon a world food supply designed by man to solve one problem that will have some inherent weakness overlooked by lab technicians. Again, diversity is the route to survival, not monocultures, and nature has done a wonderful job of creating diversity over time. While cloning no doubt has positive contributions to make to life, when the motivation is money for a monopoly instead of delivering good-quality diversity, shareholders and owners gain and mankind suffers. Health Through Toxic Chemicals The Pharmaceutical Research And Manufacturers of America represents corporations “devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier and more productive lives.” Sounds good, but how does it square with the truth? Let’s look at one example: In August 2005, Merck insisted to its 84 million past-and-present arthritis-suffering consumers that there was nothing wrong with Vioxx; the FDA had said the drug was safe, after all. A month later, Merck removed it from the market, admitting what it knew back in 2001: Vioxx increased risk of strokes and heart attacks. 140,000 heart attacks are now ascribed to Vioxx, with over 60,000 of these resulting in death. For every death on 9/11, Vioxx alone killed twenty Americans. How was Vioxx even approved? Pharmaceuticals bought out the FDA during the 1990’s to reduce time and requirements to approve and bring to market their latest drugs. Pharmaceuticals then delivered biased research to obtain approvals and then boosted sales with $3 billion in direct advertising to consumers (who then demanded those brands from their doctor) and the underwriting of continuing medical education. What has been the result of this pursuit of profits over good medicine? In 1998, the British medical journal 'Lancet' estimated 100,000 deaths in US hospitals from adverse drug reactions. The Harvard Medical School reported in May 2002 that adverse drug reactions “are believed to be a leading cause of death in the United States.” Other estimates put the total number of deaths from harmful prescription drugs (properly prescribed and taken) at 200,000 a year in the US alone. Airplanes crashing into buildings and killing 3,000 Americans galvanized the world. 200,000 deaths each and every year, and all we see are wrists slapped and drugs withdrawn to be replaced by more of the same. Drugs are chemicals, so the wider sphere of chemical poisoning of humans in the name of commerce applies to companies beyond the pharmaceuticals. And once again, individuals in the FDA prove equally amenable to kickbacks, as in the case of Monsanto’s NutraSweet company that makes the phenylalanine in aspartame. The problem with aspartame is that it breaks down into various toxins when exposed to temperatures above 30ºC/86ºF. Which is interesting, given that the human body’s temperature is 37ºC/98.6ºF.[6] The fact that aspartame suppresses serotonin and antidepressants claim to increase serotonin as the solution to depression is perhaps a coincidence, or certainly a mixed message. Unfortunately, 70% of U.S. adults and 40% of children are consuming drinks and foods containing aspartame while the FDA finally admits to a long list of side effects including brain tumors. A class action lawsuit has been filed in New York and New Jersey against the makers for the harm they have caused. But how come aspartame made it into our diets in the first place? Maybe one should ask the FDA Commissioner and acting Commissioner or their six juniors who went to work for Monsanto-owned NutraSweet, or the two federal attorneys charged with prosecuting the company for submitting fraudulent tests to obtain approval for its use in the food stream, who did the same. One other point worth observing: aspartame is used in diet drinks and foods as a substitute for sugar. Yet aspartame results in cravings for carbohydrates, not something conducive to losing weight. Vaccines are for the Birds Finally, let’s review something that has been in the news recently: fear mongering about dangerous new flu strains. SARS and the H5N1 Asian Bird Flu[7] are just more of the normal influenzas that come out of China every year, but packaged into alarming new and terrible diseases courtesy of the media acting on disinformation put out by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC), ultimately at the instigation of pharmaceutical companies. In case you did not know, the CDC is a government administrative office in Atlanta, Georgia that coordinates and promotes the findings of the Centers for Disease Control around the country. These centers are mostly funded by pharmaceuticals interested in creating markets for drugs. The media whipped the peoples and governments of the world into a frenzy over SARS following grave WHO and CDC pronouncements about its dangers. Yet at most, only a few thousand were sickened by SARS and a few hundred died. Compared to the hundreds of millions sickened by normal influenzas worldwide and about one million dying (100,000 in the US) each year, one wonders why pharmaceuticals are spreading alarm. The pharmaceuticals wish to eliminate any liability for wrongful deaths from vaccinations. The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program of 1986 protects companies from lawsuits not supported by scientific evidence. Yet the pharmaceuticals would like total immunity. Why? Because the science behind their vaccines is not as solid as a science should be; because the results for those immunized are not as one would hope; and because their methods are actually spreading viruses internally and externally. As the following will show, we have nothing to fear except falling for the fear others would have us believe, to extrapolate on FDR’s words. The Avian Flu scare is just that: A manufactured crisis. Which is not to say that Avian Flu is not a real influenza that can kill. But it can be combated effectively and at almost no cost, so there is no need to buy into the fear mongering. If you have bought into the vital need for influenza shots, then you might like to know that immunization does not work, for the simple reason that antiviral drugs are created using the prior year’s flu strains. They do not work against this year’s flu strains because those strains have mutated. Furthermore, looking at specific flu solutions: Tamiflu (a popular antiviral drug) has been shown to produce drug-resistant viruses (which are far more dangerous than a virus that has not learned how to evade a drug's effect) in 18% of children treated. And FluMist is a live virus vaccine based on the prior year’s virus that introduces 10-100 million viral units into the nose. The recipient then spreads these viral units for up to three weeks to everyone they come in contact with, including the 60% of the population whose immune system is weakened by chemical toxins in their bodies, in addition to at-risk groups such as nursing babies, people with eczema, HIV, taking steroids, or receiving chemotherapy or radiation treatment. In effect, FluMist adds another virus to the current year’s virus, which in turn can feed off it to create further mutations and thus a pandemic. The fact is that the pharmaceutical industry has been working for the last century to replace un-patentable and cheap natural remedies with expensive and patentable synthetic remedies. Their efforts bore fruit after the Second World War when the officially sanctioned way to combat viruses became immunization, and the reduction of the influenza fever and its resulting discomfort by taking synthetic over-the-counter cold and flu medications such as Advil and Tylenol. These drop one’s temperature so one feels well enough to walk around, spreading the virus to others for about a week while the virus proliferates in one’s own body. Finally, one’s immune system is overwhelmed and if one contracts viral pneumonia, one’s chances of survival are about 50%. In effect, the current officially sanctioned way to deal with viruses is: a) spreading the old virus in vaccines and so making the new virus more potent, b) using vaccines based on old strains that cannot be effective against the current virus, c) further compromising the immune system and d) guaranteeing the proliferation of the virus internally and to others in the environment, thus creating that which is feared: an epidemic and even a pandemic. So if the current policies are not effective, what can one do? Perhaps, looking at the big picture, the most obvious course of action is for the world community to object strenuously to the Chinese government concerning its inaction over the last quarter century since it has been recognized that raising pigs and geese in close proximity has been the source of worldwide flu outbreaks for centuries. While the loss of millions of lives may not mean much to a government that has billions of citizens, 100,000 US deaths a year and a million worldwide for thousands of years (adjusted in ratio to the planetary populace) have some significance to the rest of the planet’s inhabitants and governments. To find out what does handle influenza effectively and at almost no cost to you, see footnote 8[8]. Because Everyone is Nuts (Except Us) To understand how the pharmaceuticals moved beyond the relatively small markets of insane asylum patients and Hollywood celebrities (whom they chemically lobotomizing with Thorazine during the 1950s) to every citizen of the world as a customer for its drugs from 1960 onwards, one has to look at those who administered the drugs. Psychiatrists realized in the 1960s that they could create a vast market and achieve their goals of social control by redefining behavioral problems as physical illnesses resulting from chemical imbalances in the brain (the problem) and then offering drugs to bring about balance (the solution). By redefining more and more human behavior as diseases, it would be possible to have the entire population of the world on these drugs—even those who had nothing wrong with them other than a disagreement with this strategy, because they could be labeled as being in denial and therefore chemically imbalanced. The pharmaceutical industry was quick to support this theory even though legitimate medicine requires the identification of physical symptoms to diagnose a disease. Almost half a century later and psychiatrists have now (as of 1994) listed 374 such diseases, not one of which has clinically testable physical symptoms. Citizens are diagnosed by subjective opinion about their behavior. Meanwhile, in an effort to sound scientific, psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies claim that these diseases are based on chemical imbalances in the brain. However, no tests exist to determine the chemical status of a person’s brain while he is living, and no standards exist as established by scientific research, which could be regarded as a model of a brain in balance. Pharmaceuticals go on to claim that a particular neurotransmitter causes a specific reaction and is localized to one part of the brain. This then justifies the industry use of drugs—which they claim to have fine-tuned to a specific location of the brain in order to inhibit a specific function of that brain (let’s just assume that a particular area of the brain determines thought and function, even though it has not been proven). What’s the truth? Brain cells form molecules by combining whatever atoms and smaller molecules they can, and spitting them across the cleft between cells, to stimulate the next cell. In effect, there are thousands of different types of molecules in use, not a handful as psychiatrists claim. An analogy would be psychiatrists claiming they had discovered man’s natural diet to be chocolate, and insisting that chocolate provides all the nutrients one needs, then insisting that everybody eat only chocolate and, for good measure, teaming up with the makers of chocolates to produce pricey chocolate in a pill. Or as one student of psychiatry (who abandoned the profession during his grad school training) said more succinctly, it is “like trying to perform delicate microsurgery on a field mouse by flying overhead in a helicopter and dropping machetes under conditions of heavy wind.” This junk science doesn’t discourage psychs from fraudulently misdiagnosing tens of millions of people as suffering from these diseases (which, by the way, result from ideas psychiatrists have and vote on at their meetings—really!). Nor does it stop pharmaceutical companies from making psychiatric drugs to treat these made-up diseases and then spending billions to persuade the medical profession and, through direct advertising, citizens of the need to take these mind-altering drugs. For anyone who imagines psychiatric drugs actually do any good, consider the 2002 study by psychologists Irving Kirsch and Thomas Moore published in the e-journal of the American Psychological Association. They reviewed 47 research test-studies submitted to the FDA for approval of antidepressants including Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft. Their study showed that sugar pills produced better results than these drugs. The manufacturers make over $6 billion a year from the American public for these particular sugar pills—which unlike real sugar pills, also create violent behavior, and real psychosis upon withdrawal. Furthermore, the only government body demanding that psychs provide feedback on actual results (King County in Washington, which includes Seattle) found in 2002 that psychiatric drugs result in improvements in 1 in 2,000 people. Who would take their car to a mechanic who fixed one in every 2,000 vehicles? Yet politicians are being bought and persuaded to lend the power of the government to forcing every single one of us onto these drugs, and all this even though top psychiatrists admit they do not know what they are doing: “The time when psychiatrists considered that they could cure the mentally ill is gone. In the future, the mentally ill will have to learn to live with their illness.” Norman Sartorius, president of the World Psychiatric Association, 1994 “We do not know the causes (of psychiatric disorders). We don’t have methods of curing these illnesses yet.” Rex Cowdry, director of U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, 1995 “No single gene has been found to be responsible for any specific mental disorder…. There is no definite lesion, laboratory test or abnormality in brain tissue that can identify the [mental] illness.” Surgeon General report, 1999 As one might expect, psychiatric drugs not only do not do any good, they are actually extremely harmful: not surprising, given that the DEA classifies some of them as Schedule II drugs, the same as cocaine. These drugs are highly addictive with a huge black market developed for them and horrendous withdrawal symptoms. Ritalin and all amphetamines cause growth retardation, 10%-on-average brain shrinkage, seizures, psychosis, tics, and Tourette's syndrome, suicides, murderous rampages, brain tumors, deaths from such as heart attacks…the list goes on. To show how psychiatry and pharmaceutical companies have teamed up to create a cash cow, let’s consider a very SAD story: Social Anxiety Disease was invented by psychiatrists to give shyness a “scientific label” in 1997. Fifty mentions were made in the media of this SAD condition in 1997 and 1998, but in 1999, one billion media mentions occurred. Ninety-six percent of these also happened to say that Paxil was the only FDA-approved medication that could treat SAD. Curioser and curioser, until the Washington Post reported on July 16, 2001, that the manufacturer of Paxil, Glaxo SmithKline, had paid Cohn & Wolfe, a public relations agency, to coordinate a multimillion-dollar marketing and advertising campaign, to “inform thousands of people who previously did not know they were suffering from the disorder, and spurring many to seek needed help.” Cohn & Wolfe told the media that it was speaking for doctors and nonprofits—not the pharmaceutical company that was paying its bills. Such altruism is not reflected, however, in either Cohn & Wolfe’s annual reports, in which they make it clear they are in the business of marketing, not public health, nor Glaxo SmithKline’s 2000 annual report, in which shareholders read that Paxil had become Number One for new retail prescriptions in the huge SSRI market throughout the US during 2000. When talking fraud, let’s also consider the story of Prozac: In 1978, Eli Lilly, the manufacturer, knew Prozac caused suicidal and homicidal thoughts. The German government refused to approve Prozac in 1984 because trial results showed sixteen suicide attempts (two of which succeeded) in a group of people selected precisely because they were known not to be suicidal. Lilly withheld this from the FDA when it obtained approval for Prozac in the US. Lilly then spent huge amounts of money defending itself over murders and suicides committed under the influence of Prozac because “Lilly can go down the tubes if we lose Prozac” (Leigh Thompson, a chief scientist at Lilly). The FDA’s records show 28,623 adverse reactions reported, 1,089 of which were suicides with a further 1,885 suicide attempts. As the Government Accounting Office estimates between 1 and 10% of adverse reactions are reported to the FDA, Prozac suicides may be as high as 108,900, with attempts at a whopping 188,500. Recent studies estimate Prozac deaths in excess of 50,000 and 7- 10% of individuals taking Prozac experiencing some adverse reaction. In its efforts to hide the truth, Lilly pressured its scientists in 1990 to alter records of physician experiences with Prozac, changing “suicide attempt” to “overdose” and “suicidal thoughts” to “depression.” The company settled most of the two hundred law suits over Prozac out of court, with the terms kept confidential, and in 2002, in promoting its new version of Prozac, stated it would not produce “suicidal thoughts and self-mutilation…one of its more significant side effects”—an admission made only because it would help with sales of the new product. With free, unsolicited and unprescribed samples of Prozac being sent in the mail, Eli Lilly’s motivation and ethic level are plain. These marketing strategies may make psychs and psychiatric-drugs companies rich and therefore powerful, but they also seriously compromise the survival of mankind as a result of physical problems left untreated and the widespread ingestion of toxic chemicals that result in a host of physical problems and mental side effects ranging from stupidity to insanity, violence to suicide. One study showed that 83% of those referred for mental treatment by clinics and social workers were found to have an undiagnosed physical illness. Yet psychiatrists do not conduct searching physical examinations. They merely consult a checklist of behaviors produced by the mental disorders section of the World Health Organization, and label and prescribe psychotropic drugs for diseases they know to have no basis in fact. This violates the informed consent rights of patients and is medical malpractice. Perhaps the difficulties that psychs face stem from a fundamental confusion: That the software (mind) is just hardware (brain) and the end user (the spirit) does not exist and so by default is just software (which is just hardware). The concept that man is just a bunch of atoms actually comes from the collapse of the old subject of psychology (study of the spirit) into the subject of physiology (study of the body) when 19th Century Swiss and German physiologists decided that because all the nerves in the body went to the brain, then the brain must be the mind. So was born the current fundamental theory of psychology and psychiatry, of man as an animal, as a physical object, a bunch of atoms: you, apparently. Given this background, let’s see how far the pharmaceutical/psychiatric cartel has progressed in bringing about a nation (or world) on psychiatric drugs. They almost succeeded during the 1950s in setting up vast psychiatric prisons in Alaska to which anyone could be imprisoned on the signature of a psychiatrist. In the 1960s, they began psychiatric programs in public schools that now has one-in-five schoolchildren on mind-altering drugs, and has evolved into the ultimate invasion: TeenScreen, the forced screening and drugging of the entire school population of 52 million children, and six million adults in the education system. This program has been rolled out in all but four states at the time of this writing. It is the first step in President Bush’s 2002 New Freedom Commission on Mental Health recommendations that all “consumers” be screened. Needless to say, one Allen Jones, an employee of the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General, discovered that state officials with influence over the implementation of the plan had received money and perks from pharmaceuticals. Eli Lilly, manufacturer of olanzapine, one of the drugs recommended in the plan, had the elder Bush as a member of its board of directors, and President Bush himself appointed Lilly’s CEO, Sidney Taurel, to the Homeland Security Council. Of Lilly’s $1.6 million in political contributions in 2002, 82% went to Bush and the Republican Party. In the same year, they tried to push through the Mental Health Parity Act, which required health insurance to cover mental health treatments to the same value as physical ills. Meanwhile, half of the U.S. populace is already on psychotropic drugs. But all is not bleak. The fact is that while half the U.S. population is drugged and with crooked politicians and unethical pharmaceuticals and psychiatrists seeming to be closing in for the kill, they are finding resistance building as their lies and ulterior motives and criminality are exposed. Many who were fooled or forced into taking the drugs are rejecting them and fighting back, with the support of increasing numbers of vocal and effective civil, religious and human rights groups. The British medical community has taken a bold stand by rejecting antidepressants as dangerous, despite the false claims of the pharmaceuticals. In the summer of 2005, even the FDA had to add black box warnings about increased suicide risks to antidepressant drugs, an $11 billion market in 2002. As a result of the increasing resistance, sales of antidepressants have dropped 20% since 2002. Psychiatrists and their main tool, pharmaceutical drugs, reach into many other facets of our society and are the single most destructive force in it. But everything they have been working towards, most clearly stated by Rees and Chisholm, the founders of the World Federation of Mental Health (a private organization established in 1948 that runs National Associations of Mental Health, which in turn go about the establishment of mental health industry facilities, agendas and programs in each country) and quoted below, is about to come to fruition with the implementation of the Orwellian-named New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Being in a drugged stupor is not mental health, and there is no freedom connected with it—except freedom for psychs and politicians to hold sway over a nation of docile citizens without constitutional rights, and for pharmaceuticals to grow wealthy beyond anyone’s dreams. Already, the top ten pharmaceuticals make more profit ($35.9 billion in 2002) than the other 490 Fortune 500 companies combined ($33.7 billion). “Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence…. If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread, we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity…. Let us all, therefore, very secretly be ‘fifth columnists. [9]” J.R. Rees, 1940 speech “The re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training…are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy.” G. Brock Chisholm, 1945 “The family is now one of the major obstacles to improved mental health and hence, should be weakened, if possible, so as to free individuals and especially children from the coercion of family life.” G. Brock Chisholm, 1948 “Psychologists and psychiatrists had to become leaders in the ‘planned development of a new kind of human being.’” G. Brock Chisholm “To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.” G. Brock Chisholm The Destruction of Religion Which brings us to the reason people of faith should be concerned about current trends, and lending their support to fight on all fronts the materialistic forces in society. The philosophy upon which modern materialism is based is that pushed by the psychiatrist. What room is there for religion in the world the psychiatrist and psychologist is engineering? None whatsoever. The mental health industry has been built over the last 140 years on the premise that man is an animal. This idea shocked the religious majority initially, which believed that man had a spiritual dimension and was responsible for his own actions. Two decades later, cocaine-sniffing-and-pushing Sigmund Freud was rejecting religion as “obsolete,” a collection of superstitions and the “universal obsession neurosis” and “an illusion [that] derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.” For his part, Charles Binet-Sangle wrote in The Madness of Jesus, 1910, “In short, the nature of the hallucinations of Jesus, as they are described in the orthodox Gospels, permits us to conclude that the founder of the Christian religion was afflicted with religious paranoia.” None of these gentlemen made much headway in drawing the common man away from his certainty that he was a spiritual being and a man of faith. It was not until the churches of the Western world invited the wolves into the vestries after the First World War that the materialists began to gnaw effectively at the religious foundations of society. Religion was seen widely as having failed to prevent the carnage of that war. Both sides claimed to be fighting for God—“Gott mit Uns” (God is with us!) was even engraved or embossed on the belt buckles of German soldiers. The end result was a disillusionment both with God and with religions. And so here is yet another irony: it was the nihilism of Nietzsche and the “man is an animal, not a spiritual being” of psychology and psychiatry that rationalized Count von Bismarck’s approach to man as something else that could be slaughtered without compunction. The First World War was not so much the” last great failure of religions” requiring the introduction of a “scientific approach to the mind of man,” as the grand entry of the mental health industry onto the world stage, swaggering to the beat of Bismarck’s marching bands. Perhaps the final scene of that performance set the stage for the sequel when psychiatrist Edmund Foster implanted Corporal Adolf Hitler, while he was hospitalized and recovering from a poison gas attack, with a megalomaniac command during hypnosis in 1918. Do you begin to see where this is heading? If not, the following should make it clearer: “We can therefore justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard to the proper development of the human psyche, even though our knowledge be incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity in our national life…. We have made a useful attack upon a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church: the two most difficult are law and medicine.” Dr. John Rawlings Rees, " Strategic Planning for Mental Health " , June 18, 1940 The implementation of the WFMH’s overall agenda in the United States can be traced back to 1949 legislation passed through the lobbying efforts of the WFMH. This legislation established the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) with the purpose of conducting and funding research on mental health issues. While the United States has a strict separation of church and state, it suddenly witnessed a marriage between the mental health industry (private organizations, not government bodies) and government. Government funds allocated to the mental health industry’s NIMH in 1949 stood at $373,221 and by 2003 had reached $1.34 billion. When looking for some reason for this exponential rise in taxpayer subsidies of the mental health industry, need it be said that the way to obtain more government research money is to find more and more victims of mental illness. This strategy was covered briefly above and the recent Universal Mental Health Coverage, Universal Mental Health Screening, and TeenScreen initiatives are among the final pieces of legislation that will make the masters of materialism the masters of all. The implementation of the WFMH agenda concerning churches was likewise rapid and effective. Chisholm and Rees had targeted religion for “mental health orientation,” especially through the training in psychology of the clergy. · By 1952, 83% of 109 seminaries and graduate theological schools in the U.S. offered one or more mental health industry courses. · By 1961, 9,000 clergymen had taken “clinical pastoral” counseling classes. The clergy were referring parishioners to community mental health centers. · While in 1960, 42% of parishioners consulted their clergy for help and only 18% went to psychs, by 1991, 38% were going to psychs. · Church membership dropped 25% in the US between 1961 and 1991. The pedophile scandal in the United States that so damaged the Catholic Church can also be laid in part at the door of the many psychs who ran completely unworkable rehabilitation programs on pedophile priests, and who, as a body, have made sexual crimes into mental diseases to be “treated,” meaning “controlled or not,” not cured. With psychiatric and psychological programs inserted into religious communities to the extent that training in mental health counseling is mandatory for ministers, pastors, et al., the perception is now common in religious communities that one must defer to the mental health industry for effective counseling. However, until religions and people of faith combine forces and drive out the wolves, we will continue to find, for instance, situations such as the committee in Ontario, Canada, which is proposing changes to the Regulated Health Professions Act so that “emotional counseling” would be restricted to psychiatrists and psychologists. This would mean clergy and chaplains (not to mention mothers or scout leaders) would not be able to listen to another opening his or her heart for help nor offer guidance. Fortunately, the Multi-faith Council on Spiritual and Religious Care in Toronto and other groups are fighting these proposed changes to ensure ministers can still minister. We will find the kind of news releases put out on March 19, 2003 by the National Mental Health Association about coping with the stress of war, in which they suggested Americans “Talk to family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers about your stress and fears” and that more serious problems “be dealt with by social workers, psychologists or psychiatrists.” No mention is made of clergy. We will find the mental health industry’s fifth column agenda at work, such as in their current use of the phrase “pastoral counseling” or “pastoral psychology” to describe their own counseling. Or the 2003 funding by FEMA of Project Liberty in NY City for a total of $33 million for counselors to talk to school children—with no clergy involved in the project despite their superior results as counselors. And where has this “pastoral psychology” led us? “It should be recognized that an acceptance of the mental health viewpoint… carries an obligation to examine critically some of the teaching of the churches in the light of present-day insight into what seems to be essential to wholesome personality development and into what is now known to be detrimental to the growing personality of the child.” Psychiatrist – World Federation of Mental Health (WFMH) Conference “Pastoral psychology understands itself as a help for the communities in view of ‘group dynamic’ proceedings – e.g., the processes of rivalization, or the search for scapegoats, harmonization or shifting guilt, which… can determine life in a community so strongly that the succession of Jesus Christ is no longer paid heed.” The German Association for Pastoral Psychology Magazine – Ways To Man “What is the relationship between wholeness and holiness?.… What does personal responsibility mean in the light of the findings of psychoanalysis? Do the words right and wrong have any further usefulness in the light of our new knowledge of compulsive behavior patterns? I believe it’s one of the tragedies of Christianity that it has got itself all mixed up with morality…” Reverend Canon Sydney Evans, National Association for Mental Health, 1967 One would expect any group to forward its tenets and agenda: “…Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.” British psychiatrist William Sargant, 1974 “No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started… It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind…. This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience.” John B. Watson, Behavioral psychologist “The soul or consciousness, which played the leading part in the past, now is of very little importance; in any case, both are deprived of their main functions and glory to such an extent that only the names remain. Behaviorism sang their funeral dirge while materialism – the smiling heir – arranges a suitable funeral for them.” Statement delivered at the Sixth International Congress of Philosophy at Harvard University “…humanists still believe that traditional theism, especially faith in the prayer-hearing God, assumed to love and care for persons, to hear and understand their prayers, and to be able to do something about them, is an unproved and outmoded faith…. Traditional moral codes…fail to meet the pressing needs of today and tomorrow…. Promises of immortal salvation or fear of eternal damnation are both illusory and harmful…. The total personality is a function of the biological organism transacting in a social and cultural context. There is no credible evidence that life survives the death of the body.” The Humanist Manifesto 2, 1973 What one would not expect is that those a group is seeking to eradicate would agree to and assist it in its efforts. Such bears witness to the covert, fifth column program envisioned. The wolves came to the shepherds dressed as shepherds and the shepherds were fooled into following and then forwarding the wolves’ agenda. What has been the result of this attack upon the church? Today, 75% of Americans do not participate in a religion. The irony in the above evisceration of religiosity in the United States is that a) the mental health lobby has persuaded the religious community that it should defer its traditional role of counseling to the (self proclaimed) mental health experts; b) the mental health lobby has persuaded the religious community that it has to study the theory and techniques of the mental health industry in order to provide the counseling that the churches have provided for centuries; c) the mental health industry has successfully hidden from the religious community that the mental health industry is based not on science but opinions couched in complex language and ponderous-sounding chemical names, and that its practices do not and are not intended to produce any real improvements or cures; d) the mental health industry has successfully hidden from the religious community that the mental health industry agenda for religion is to eradicate it in the quest for a “new kind of human being.” “In recent years pastoral counselors have separated from their parishes and emerged as a psychotherapy profession…. This professionalization process includes a shift away from parish-based counseling to counseling centers or medical settings, declining interest in religious practices and convictions, increased interest in psychological practices and theories, the charging of fees, and increased institutional and professional barriers to those individuals perceived as poor counseling clients or unable to pay…. There is also… growing deviation from a religious orientation to a pseudo-psychiatric orientation.” American Journal of Psychiatry, March 1986 “The danger is that these psychologies may, to one degree or another, replace Christianity without most people even noticing that any substitution has taken place.” Christianity Today, 1994 And so the upholders of the spirituality of man, the affirmers of the existence of a Supreme Being, trustingly assist those who oppose them with materialistic goals. Despite the churches being discredited falsely and membership falling, we find Gallup polls between 1944 and 1994 showing that 94% to 99% of Americans believe in God or a Universal Spirit. What happens to those who do turn to their clergy when the chips are down? An October 2001 article in Psychiatric Times, “Research Findings on Religious Commitment and Mental Health,” reviewed more than 70 studies done over 20 years. The findings: religion has a tremendously positive effect on people’s mental health. The truth is that religious people experience less depression and are less likely to have problems with alcohol. Religious programs are 900% more effective at handling drug addiction than psychiatric programs. People who do not attend church are four times more likely to commit suicide than churchgoers. These kinds of successes do not compel the mental health industry to support religious programs, because their agenda is not one of improvement. Their agenda is profits, power, social control and the affirmation of their view of man as an animal and the eradication of the spirit of man. Consider, for instance, a letter from the head of Los Angeles County’s Department of Mental Health dated 20 May 2003, which thanked clergy for attending a free breakfast sponsored by a pharmaceutical company. The pastors were encouraged to send troubled parishioners to “mental health professionals.” The fact that the mental health industry’s own studies prove that people recover better with religion than drugs was never brought up at that breakfast. Nor was another key piece of the history of recovery from mental illness: that the most successful recovery programs ever documented gave individuals no (or minimal) drugs, but treated them with compassion, gave them individual attention, healthy food, and encouraged exercise and productive work. This information is covered extensively in Robert Whittaker’s book, Mad in America, Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill. Maybe this redirecting of those in need to the mental health industry could be justified if it had something good and workable to offer. But when all it brings is suppressed symptoms, no hope of cure, and unwanted side effects on a personal as well as societal level, and all in the name of help with the force of government to command compliance with its regimens, and all the while with the intent to create a new kind of human being devoid of morals, spirituality, and a Supreme Being, then there is little justification for religion continuing to acquiesce to the one group that could be described as its mortal enemy. Chemicals on the Corporate Farm After World War II, chemical companies were looking for new markets for their ramped up production during the war, and found the farm: fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides. Thus began the beginning of the end of mainstream organic farming. Rachel Carlson was dying of cancer in 1962 as she wrote Silent Spring, the book that first brought public attention to the loss of wildlife and a healthy human food supply as a result of toxins on the farm—in this case, DDT, a pesticide that was developed in 1939 and used to kill malaria-bearing insects in jungles where US troops were battling the Japanese. After the war, it was used on the farm to kill insects, good and bad, and birds, indiscriminately. DDT accumulates in the fatty tissue of mammals, causing cancer and genetic damage. Monsanto led the charge trying to discredit Ms. Carlson and her book, claiming famine, disease, and insects would follow the banning of chemical pesticides. However, her book won through as being based solidly on science, and so was born the environmental movement—citizens aware that industry and scientific progress needed to be monitored and regulated in the interests of preserving the food chain and avoiding such as cancer, genetic damage, and the loss of entire species and their habitats. Where are we today? Consider some of these snippets: 1. The National Cancer Institute estimates 90% of all human cancers are caused by environmental factors ranging from pesticides to industrial chemicals. 2. A century ago, 1-in-every-200 people died of cancer. Today, it is 1-in-3. 3. Complete toxicity and health-exposure assessments are available for only 10% of the pesticides and 5% of the food additives in commercial use in the U.S. 4. The EPA is ten years behind in its testing program because private-contracting testing laboratories falsified their reports. 5. Fifteen weed species have complete resistance to Monsanto's RoundUp, the world's most widely used herbicide. Meanwhile, scientific studies show RoundUp damages human placental cells at exposure levels ten times less than Monsanto claims are safe. This herbicide/pesticide also results in increased risk of cancer, genetic damage, and miscarriage in humans, as well as the loss of aquatic life, including 86% of tadpoles. This is of added interest, because RoundUp is meant to kill algae, but in reality it encourages it to proliferate because it kills off frogs. Despite these studies, Monsanto continues to manufacture the “safest pesticide on the market” for use on 140 million acres of genetically engineered and other crops and woodlands around the world. Not surprising, as 67% of its profits (as of 2001) come from RoundUp. 6. In case Monsanto’s role is not clear, consider that Monsanto and Syngenta successfully beat back an attempt by Minnesota legislators to follow the European Union’s lead in banning the corn pesticide, Atrazine. Although this pesticide has been directly linked to cancer, low sperm counts, and widespread deformities in frogs, and is in our water supply, the corporations argued that Atrazine is safe and that a ban would negatively impact their profits. 7. Corporate agribusiness lobbyists persuaded Congress in the 2005 Budget Reconciliation Bill to slash funds for sustainable agriculture and farm conservation programs while maintaining $20 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies to the largest chemical-intensive and genetically engineered farms. Agricide is an interesting term that refers to “soil erosion, the impoverishment and poisoning of the soil, the pollution of lakes, rivers, and oceans from the runoff of topsoil contaminated with chemicals, the destruction of groundwater sources from pollution and overuse, the use of nitrogenous fertilizers that are also implicated in the destruction of the earth's ozone layer, and the development of fast growing, high-yield hybrid strains of crops and animals that are more susceptible to disease. An estimated 85% of all U.S. agricultural land is used in the production of animal foods, which in turn is linked with deforestation, destruction of wildlife habitats, extinction of species, loss of soil productivity through mineral depletion and erosion, water pollution and depletion, overgrazing, and desertification.” Some more snippets, then: 1. Soil erosion in the US is estimated at 2-6 billion tons a year (about 25 billion around the world). 35 years ago, the US had lost a third of its topsoil. This may be hard to picture, so consider the 12,000 square miles of productive land lost each year to soil erosion and land development. 2. The agricultural land that remains is being poisoned by toxic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers, as well as contaminated groundwater and rivers used for irrigation. Each year, we send over one million tons of nitrogen, and 250,000 tons of potassium and also phosphorus into these water sources. Added to this toxic load in the water supply used in agriculture is waste from households and industries. Then there is the one and a quarter billion tons of animal waste that contains high concentrations of drugs, arsenic, copper, and undigested protein. Lakes, rivers, and drinking water end up with toxic levels of trace elements as a result of soil erosion and irrigation, and metals such as aluminum as a result of acid rain leaching them from the ground (air pollution from such as sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions from electrical utilities and automobiles cause acid rain). Nitrous oxide also breaks down into photochemical oxidants, which are toxic to plants and impair photosynthesis and thus agricultural production. As a result of this kind of pollution, forty percent of waterfowl eggs in the San Joaquin Kesterson reservoir in California contained dead embryos in 1981, and 20% of hatched chicks had deformities such as no wings. 3. The German chemist Justus van Liebig analyzed the ash residue of burned plants over a century ago and found mainly potassium, nitrogen, and phosphorus. Today, we find these three artificial chemicals being used as ingredients of fertilizers. Modern analysis equipment, however, shows thirty times as many essential elements in plants. Adding just three chemicals to the soil has resulted in serious imbalances in the soil and thus food supply. So serious, in fact, that just adding crushed gravel to animal feed and soil results in dramatically increased yields. The lack of these essential trace minerals (from soil erosion accelerated by deforestation, strip-mining, and intensive agriculture; and the imbalances caused by improper fertilization) have contributed to the suppression of our immune systems and susceptibility to any toxins and pathogenic organisms, while decreasing crop production and resistance to disease, and impairing the health and productivity of farm animals. 4. Hazardous chemicals used as pesticides (including herbicides) and antibiotics, growth stimulants and other drugs in animal feeds are absorbed into the animal products and by-products we consume. Last-spray pesticide treatment of crops to prevent spoilage; artificial ripening with gas and petroleum, wax covering of vegetables, and food preservatives, chemicals added for color and flavor, and to facilitate storage and freezing all add to the toxic load of our food stream, and the market for chemicals. Consider, for instance, the spraying of the possibly carcinogenic daminozide on apples to make them ripen uniformly and so permit the grower to call in only one team of pickers. Or the use of arsenic to improve the looks and stimulate the appetites of chicken. Such wanton use of chemicals shows chemical companies looking for new markets. 5. $20 billion a year in pork-barrel subsidies for the wealthiest factory farms in the U.S., commodity exporters, and industrial agriculture corporations. These subsidies are being pushed by politicians beholden to lobbyists, not constituents. These snippets are among thousands that it would take a book to detail and which indicate that profits are the motive behind the continual forcing of toxic chemicals into humans and environment alike, and those profits are then used to bully any dissenters into silence. Thanks to Rachel Carlson and other like-minded individuals since, those who play fast and loose with our very survival will not enjoy their criminally gained profits in peace. What’s the answer to pesticides and herbicides? In part, a return to the organic farms that were the norm sixty years ago. According to a study of organic farms in the UK, they support one-third more birds and bats than non-organic farms. Their greater wildlife is the result of thicker hedging, smaller fields and the lack of pesticides. Birds and bats have always been nature’s pesticide. Other environmentally friendly and intelligent solutions work in place of synthetic herbicides, too. The Chemical Smorgasbord Experiment There are 80,000 chemicals in use today in the U.S., 8,000 of them known to be carcinogens. Yet only 600 must be reported to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Almost half of the top 3,000 chemicals in use by volume have no testing data on their toxicity. Only about 250 have a full set of basic test data. The EPA has reviewed almost 500 chemicals in common consumer products, but only one quarter have been fully investigated for toxicity. We are talking about the testing of single chemicals. Now consider these toxins in combination. How many combinations are possible with 80,000 separate chemicals? The task of testing them is manifestly impossible. But they do combine when they enter our bodies and are stored in fatty tissues, blood and organs, or excreted in urine and breast milk. That is the experiment, and it is being conducted on the entire human race. Ever wondered why cancers and other degenerative diseases have been leaping higher and higher over the last half century? The chemical companies are not in doubt, which is why they have been busy forcing the passage of laws that allow them to avoid disclosure and deny liability. To date, 25 state legislatures in the U.S. have adopted laws that allow toxic chemical releases, spills, and other environmental problems to be kept secret (even from legislators) if the companies discover the problems themselves during self-audits. They have placed their own in political power—men and women who are busy representing their own interests instead of those whom they are sworn to serve, to push through laws that weaken universal access to clean air and water so that corporations can pollute without liability or drains on their bottom line. What do these corporations fear? That you will make the connection between their irresponsible use and misuse of chemicals for profit and a) the deaths each year (as reported by The Journal of the American Medical Association) of 60,000 Americans, half of them from cancer, as a result of synthetic chemical exposure. b) the pollution of the entire planet—even polar bears above the Arctic Circle are contaminated with industrial chemicals. So if you do make the connection, it won’t matter, because the laws of the land will protect their negligence and criminality. One specific area worth mentioning is the wanton addition of highly toxic chemicals to our drinking water. Even thousands of EPA scientists are trying to stop the use of fluoride in drinking water because the chemical causes cancer. Note that hydrofluorosilicic acid, used to add fluoride to the water, includes arsenic, lead and other heavy metals. These lead, among other things, to brittle bones. Currently, 68% of U.S. cities add fluoride to their public water systems, compared with 2% of European cities. Why? Because it is illegal for the metal plating and phosphate-mining industries to dispose of their toxic hydrofluorosilicic acid in rivers and other bodies of water. But they have made it legal to add it to the public water supply. Consider further that it is illegal for pediatricians to give infants under six months any fluoride supplements. Yet pregnant women, and infants can drink and bathe in the water. Add to this toxic dilemma chlorine and ammonia and other chemicals being added to the water supplies, and we find citizens around the country denied the basic necessity of clean water. Why is this important? Because about 64% of toxic chemicals in our bodies enter through the pores of the skin, not our mouths, when we take a bath, shower, or swim in a pool, or apply PCPs (personal care products). As for PCPs, inspect the soaps, shampoos, lotions, dusting powders, etc. in your bathroom and see if they contain any of the following carcinogens: · PEGs, laureths, and ceteareths (the latter contain ethylene oxide, dioxane, and lanolin from sheep’s wool contaminated with DDT-like pesticides); · TEA (combines with nitrite to form nitrosamine); · Quaterniums and Diazolidinyl urea preservatives (these break down to release formaldehyde); · Parabens (reduce testosterone levels, create urogenital abnormalities, and are associated with breast cancer); · Sodium lauryl sulfate (damages skin, allowing easier penetration for toxins). The multibillion-dollar cosmetic and toiletry industry resists any efforts at proper labeling/warning requirements, being focused instead on “protecting the freedom of the industry to compete in a fair market place.” The FDA has obviously been paid off, as has the American Cancer Society, which enjoys over $100,000 in annual funding from a dozen cosmetic and toiletry industry corporations. What solutions exist for our water? Ozonators and ionizers in pools kill the algae by eliminating its lime scale food source, raising oxygen levels that kill bacteria and fungi. Hydrogen peroxide can be added during hot weather or heavy use. As for water supplies, work to disconnect the chemical companies from the water boards, and start insisting on natural solutions for combating the toxins in the water that the chemicals were meant to solve. Until then, invest in a very good quality water filtration system for the whole house, as well as the drinking spigot. As for PCPs, buy products with organic and natural ingredients, not ones that sound like a lab experiment, which is what they are. For toxins in the air, use the same sort of tools (ozonators, ionizers, HEPA filtration systems, etc.). Toxic Recipes Lastly, let’s take a brief look at the ingredients not yet covered that food processors use when preparing and packaging our foods and drinks, which then slide down our throats. We began this article looking at what these large corporations wanted to regulate out of existence so they would never slide down our throats: natural foods. Instead, they want expensive chemicals and products that have been through their hands, denatured and made toxic, and that promote diseases creating a large market of ill people for the pharmaceuticals to enjoy. Whether this was part of a long-range plan or not, the fact is, this is where we now stand as a populace cowed by corporations and government agencies “looking after our welfare.” So, here are some snippets at random that paint a dietary picture inundated with false information and solutions: 1. Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is ubiquitous in our food supply, where it is used as a flavor enhancer to make up for the lack of flavor that food has when grown in depleted soils and fed on junk. These days it is even used in PCPs, as well as in fertilizers, fungicides and pesticides. It is listed under many names other than MSG, so it is hard to spot, and its list of side effects (in some people) reads like a Mayo Clinic compendium of physical illnesses. 2. Then consider the amount of sugar routinely being added to foods and the effect that would have on obesity as well as insulin and energy levels. 3. Or consider the prevalence of soy as a protein source. Unfermented soy is toxic, acting to block enzymes needed to break down proteins, clotting red blood cells, increasing estrogen levels, causing impotence, and being high in acids that prevent the assimilation of calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc. Now look at all the protein powders, infant formulas and other foods that utilize soy (the fermented soy products such as miso and tamari sauces are fine). 4. The American Diabetic Association (ADA), which for years has linked high sugar-diets with diabetes, suddenly denied any link in early 2005, a month after they inked a three-year contract worth millions with the third largest producer of soft drinks in the world. The Oregon Senate Education Committee has rewritten a law that would have banned soft drinks from vending machines in the state's schools, to permit them—those lawmakers instrumental in the rewrite claim their about-face had nothing to do with the $91,000 contribution from the Oregon soft drink association to their election campaigns in 2004. While we can marvel at Indian farmers finding colas very effective as low cost pesticides and European mechanics using them as degreasers for engine oil for years, we have to wonder why the ADA insists diabetes cannot be cured, only managed with expensive treatments, and allows a million Americans to die from it each year. Diabetes is simply the over-acidification of the body as a result of a diet high in sugars and junk food. Conclusion To return to George Orwell, and his colleague Aldous Huxley and his novel, Brave New World, we find government control of populations effected through media misinformation and drugging them into a stupor. Consider then the following “Newspeak” titles by the U.S. government for its most recent initiatives: Clear Skies Act of 2003, which releases more toxic mercury emissions and tons of smog-forming nitrogen oxides into the air we breathe New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, which is designed only to drug the whole population without its consent. Let’s not be fooled or lulled into a false sense of security by these outward appearances. Under the shepherd’s smock is a wolf licking its chops. Educate yourself at the following and other web sites. Even if you disagree strongly about some aspect of this booklet or the stance or language of some of these web sites, realize that we will only win if we put aside our differences and unite to expose the criminals who have been playing god with our health and that of the planet. We won in 1994 when the cartels tried to make nutrients available only by prescription. Congress was impressed by the volume of the electorate who felt strongly on this issue and every single lawmaker voted for DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act) , keeping nutritional supplements in the food category to maintain free access. Codex Alimentarius and the flurry of US legislation to enforce it since, are the end run by the cartels around the will of the US people. I mentioned an umbrella organization: the platform conceived has already been thought up to some extent as the FAIR Health Agenda—making healthier food/farming practices a priority, protecting access to dietary supplements and all health practitioners, creating a truly integrative health system, respecting the individual's wisdom and giving individuals full and final responsibility for their health dollars and decision. But given the breadth of the onslaught by chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, food manufacturers, psychiatrists, et al, the response needs to be widened correspondingly. It must include more like-minded individuals and groups who are essentially fighting the same enemies. Then sound the alarm to all your friends, neighbors, and business colleagues. You can send them this booklet. The ideal for the evil people within these corporations and their philosophy is you as a quiet, compliant consumer who, as a collection of chemicals, they need have no qualms about harming. This type of person is not a modern phenomenon. What is different now is that with a global market, international conglomerates, and the destructiveness made possible through advances in technology, we are not just talking about local suppression, but the suppression of all life around the world. And while you would prefer to have an inhabitable planet and to enjoy some quality of life, a life with values and aspirations and joyousness, these people are not like you. They have an evil streak; they seek destruction. Until we all confront this fact and these people’s actions, we will continue to reel from their plainly irresponsible and illogical and actually insane actions. On the other hand, beating them is easy, because even though many are in positions of power, they are an absolute minority. Even though they have twisted the laws to protect themselves, they cannot hide behind them when the spotlight of truth is calmly, persistently and intelligently shone on their devious crimes. The answers are simple. Surprise them by being more than a bunch of atoms: 1. Spread the word; 2. Practice a healthy life style personally and environmentally, favoring real organic foods, reducing your exposure to toxic sources, and pursuing an alternative and real-medicine health treatment system instead of a chemically based one that merely suppresses symptoms; 3. Join forces with all the other good people around the world, such as those organizations listed on the following page; 4. Working with these organizations, flood our legislators with communications and peaceful demonstrations to change the laws to favor sustainable and healthy ways of living; 5. Encourage these organizations to form an umbrella organization that has environmentalists standing side by side with organic and concerned farmers, hunters, alternative health practitioners of every stripe and their patients, true health food stores and nutritional manufacturers, those who believe in the spiritual and religious dimension to man, and those who fight psychiatry’s insidious message and control—if each group fought for every other group’s specific goals as part of this umbrella organization, our voice would be in the tens and even hundreds of millions—the largest constituency in the world. We would empower the well-meaning politicians to act against their crooked colleagues and the criminality of the few, and so we would put back on track the benign and healthful management of each other and our natural resources. Perhaps the actions of the antisocial few had to become so obviously destructive for the silent majority to sit up, take notice, and act. While we still have the power and resources, let’s use them. Some of the Organizations Doing Something About It About the Different Elements Covered in this Booklet Codex Alimentarius www.healthfreedomusa.org Organic Standards www.organicconsumers.org Psychiatric Pharmaceuticals www.cchr.org www.alternativementalhealth.com www.mindfreedom.org www.prozactruth.com www.blockcenter.com www.antidepressantsfacts.com www.antipsychiatry.org/ www.psychcrime.org Pharmaceuticals, Psychiatrists, and Religion www.betterchoices.org www.religiousfreedoms.org About the Author Steven Ferry is a professor, minister, business owner and social activist with many books and articles published on a variety of topics. Don’t take his word for any of the information in this booklet. The subjects covered above require a dozen books each with 500 footnotes quoting sources. But who would read them? Word has to reach all citizens of good will, because empowered through understanding of the web the less well-intentioned have weaved around them, they will be able to break free and bring about change that will help the good and evil alike. For however much short-term wealth and power may seem appealing, of what use are they on a planet with an atmosphere or environment or food chain unable to sustain life? Be aware that the lines you are being fed by the mainstream media are just spin motivated by the lure of profit without risk. You don’t have to be the victim here, or even waste any thoughts on the serious risks being portrayed. Instead, get busy, because there IS something you can do about it. Do the research yourself if you are skeptical, consult with experts who aren’t receiving kickbacks from the pharmaceuticals, chemical companies, biotechnology firms, and their crooked politicians and hired hands and spin doctors. The author is not a doctor, but a researcher and writer who wonders “why?” when things do not add up. He relied upon others, too numerous to credit, for much of the primary research. You can do the same. [1] Pressure in the 1980s from the International Money Fund, World Bank, and U.S. government to deregulate and privatize media and communication systems coincided with new satellite and digital technologies, resulting in the rise of transnational media giants dominated by nine firms (Time Warner, Disney, Bertelsmann, Viacom and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, TCI, GE, Sony and Seagram, with combined media sales in 1997 of about $117 billion). A second grouping of four-dozen national or regional media companies, such as CBS, Hearst, Gannett and Comcast make up the bulk of the remaining media companies in the world. These companies share ownership of concerns with their “competitors,” in effect forming cartels that control what the world sees and hears. Their interest is not in journalism or public affairs but commercialism (“We are here to serve advertisers. That is our raison d'etre.” C.E.O. Westinghouse Advertising Age, 2/3/97). After World War II, the Allies restricted media concentration in occupied Germany and Japan because they noted such concentration promoted anti-democratic, even fascist, political cultures. Taken from Robert McChesney’s The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism, Cassell, 1997. 2 The pharmaceutical industry utilized 3,000 professional lobbyists (805 being former federal officials, including more than 50 former members of the House and a dozen from the Senate) to lobby our elected Federal representatives over 1,400 congressional bills between 1998 and 2005 at a cost of $759 million according to the Center for Public Integrity. For every member of Congress in office during this time period, there were 4.5 pharmaceutical industry lobbyists to persuade them verbally, through media campaigns, and with funding and favors, scoring legislative victories worth tens of billions of dollars of additional revenue to drug companies annually. Once the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 takes effect in 2006, the government will be paying 41% of Americans’ drug bills through Medicaid, the Veterans Administration and other programs (about $40 billion annually). The lobbyists blocked the government from negotiating prices downward and kept out imports of cheaper medicines from Canada and other countries. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act has resulted in pharmaceuticals paying a significant portion of the FDA’s total budget, all to gain faster approval of new drugs being brought to market, focusing the FDA on pharmaceutical’s interests and making the FDA dependent on the industry. [3] Top-of-the-line investigative writer, G. Edward Griffin, documents in his book, World Without Cancer, the high-jacking by chemical corporations (from the largest ever to exist, IG Farben, creator of the Zyklon B gas used to exterminate millions in concentration camps during World War II), using tax-exempt foundations and government agencies like the FDA, of medical education and practice in order to create a drug-biased health system that would maximize pharmaceutical profits. These corporations joined forces in the early part of the 20th century to engineer the phase-out of natural medicines and vitamins so they could enjoy a monopoly in the manufacture of synthetic chemical substitutes for which they could charge much more money. Concurrently, they steered medical schools away from natural, organic healing processes and onto pharmaceuticals by granting funds to the medical schools that followed the synthetic model. Fast forward a century, and we find CODEX-type rules (see the next section) already applying in Norway and Germany, among other countries, where reportedly zinc tablets rose from $4 per bottle to $52. Echinacea (an ancient immune-enhancement herb) rose from $14 to $153 (and both are now allowed by prescription only). [4] In talking of special and conflicting interests at work, consider Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, chair of one of the two committees of the Codex Commission that impact nutrition. He stated: “nutrition is not relevant to health.” In fact, he went further in 1994 by declaring that nutrients were toxins and instituting the use of toxicology (Risk Assessment) to prevent nutrients from having any impact on humans who take supplements. Looking deeper, we find that Dr. Grossklaus owns the Risk Assessment company advising his committee and which would gain substantially from the practice of “assessing nutrients for the risk they pose.” While everyone else on the planet with two brain cells to rub together considers nutrients as essential for life, Dr. Grossklaus has misused his position to pass a law that redefines nutrients as toxins so he can make a quick buck. How does that square with the Hippocratic Oath? [5] US supplement usage is protected by The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), which classifies supplements and herbs as foods with no upper limit on their use. It was passed by unanimous Congressional consent following massive grass-roots support organized by health food stores. [6] Toxins include formaldehyde (a carcinogen used for preserving bodies in mortuaries, a fungicide, germicide and disinfectant, with an OSHA exposure limit of less than one part in a million every eight hours), carcinogenic wood alcohol (used in antifreeze, etc. and leading to blindness and death when ingested, a fatal dose being about 4 fl oz), formic acid (can cause severe poisoning and death). [7] Have you ever wondered how come China keeps developing these influenzas? It’s actually quite simple. The Chinese raise pigs and geese in close proximity to each other. When a pig has flu and eats the poop of a goose with flu, the influenzas combine into a new flu. Humans have no immunity to bird flu but luckily cannot catch it directly from birds. But human and pig lungs and organs are similar, so pigs can transmit their flu to humans. Several such new influenzas are generated within China and surrounding countries each year. How do influenzas work their evil? A single virus enters the nose or lungs, dives into a cell there and within minutes has multiplied until the cell bursts and the viruses, covered in the old cell material as a disguise from the body’s immune system, dive into more cells and so the process repeats. Unchecked, there would be millions of virus cells swarming the body within hours. [8] What does work to handle viruses? Firstly, there is no substitute to having a healthy diet low in toxins for creating an alkaline environment in the body. Acidic bodies lead to diseases and breakdown of various body systems. Secondly, the human body is perfectly capable of dealing with viruses. It has for millennia. The mechanism it employs is generating a high temperature by fever. Any temperature over 101 degrees Fahrenheit prevents a virus from reproducing, giving the white blood cells time to surround, eat up and expel the infected cells before the virus is able to overwhelm the body’s defense mechanism. What does this mean you do? Simply, the moment you feel chills/shivering (which occur within an hour of the first viral attack and which are the result of the body withdrawing blood from the extremities so it can generate the heat for a fever), start to cough or sneeze, or your nose starts to run, dive into bed, stay warm, and drink lots of water to replace body fluids lost. Six-to-eight hours later, you may not have felt overly comfortable, being achy and feverish, but the higher temperature would have contained the spread of the virus and the white blood cells would have done their work. Unfortunately, the pharmaceuticals will not have made any money from your misfortune. This remedy has been used for centuries (Native Americans used sweat lodges—saunas—to purge viruses through elevated temperatures), up to the 1940/50’s hijacking of natural health remedies by the pharmaceuticals (anyone around then will probably remember their doctor advising bed rest, to stay warm and to drink lots of water till the fever broke). However, thanks to real scientific advances, there are some additional natural supplements you can take to knock out these viruses. The H5N1 virus wipes out vitamin C stores in the body very rapidly, reducing immune function as well as the integrity of ones veins. That’s why those infected with such viruses bleed to death. The regimen recommended by Dr. Laibow (www.HealthFreedomUSA.org) is to take 1,000 mg of vitamin C four times a day; on the second day, raise the first dose by 1,000 mg.; the third day, take the 2,000 mg dose for the first two doses, then the third day, the first three doses are 2,000, etc. By the time your stool is soft or you have diarrhea, reduce the doses by 75% and continue. At the same time as taking C, take 3 grams each of the amino acids l-lysine, l-proline and l-glycine and balance the C with vitamins A and E, zinc and L-Glutathione. Dr. Laibow also recommends boosting your immune system in general by avoiding processed foods, chemicals, synthetic flavorings, preservatives, pesticides, sugar and artificial sweeteners that acidify your body, lowering its resistant to viral infection. Instead, eat fruits, dark and brightly colored veggies, free-range animal protein and organic everything. During flu season, you can supplement your diet with selenium, elderberry syrup and garlic as known flu busters. When traveling, boost your immune system further by taking Olive Leaf Extract, Oil of Oregano (not for pregnant women as it can cause miscarriages), goldenseal, Echinacea, curcumin (from turmeric), probiotics, B complex, fish oil and alpha lipoic acid. [9] “Fifth Column” refers originally to those elements within a group that secretly undermine it from within, pushing their own agenda or the agenda of the enemy. It was coined during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) by a general as four of his army columns advanced on Madrid. He spoke of his supporters within the capital as his “fifth column,” furtively undermining the government from within. 2 Quote
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