Posted on 01/19/2005 9:51:40 AM PST by Mo1
I'm waiting for the Maytag Repair Guy. Joy.
The rain has returned. More joy.
CHREERS TO YOU SUNRISE......
At 0430? You jest!
This fantastic sculpture collection of sports teams and other Colorado events was a big hit at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, CO.
PLEASE SHARE WITH ALL YOU KNOW. POST EVERYWHERE YOU CAN. WE MUST ACT NOW!!
ATTENTION:
This action MUST be STOPPED!!
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!
Our right to choose our vitamin, mineral and other supplements may end in June of this year (2005).
After that, US supplements will be defined and controlled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
It is called the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (food code) and it is setting the supplement standards for all countries in the WTO. CODEX met secretly in November, 2004 and finalized ‘Step 8 (the final stage)’ to begin implementation in June, 2005, severely restricting the use and availability of numerous vitamins, minerals and other supplements.
The US president and congress agreed to the take over when the WTO treaty was signed, therefore these supplement standards WILL BE ENFORCED BY THE WTO AND WILL OVERRIDE US LAWS. CODEX violations are/will be punished by WTO trade sanctions.
CODEX Includes:
No supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic use.
Any potency higher than RDA (recommended daily allowance, aka minimal strength) is a ‘drug’ requiring a prescription and must be produced by drug companies. Over 5000 safe items now in health stores will be banned, terminating health stores as we now know them.
CODEX regulations become binding internationally.
New supplements are banned unless given very expensive CODEX testing and approval.
CODEX now applies to Norway and Germany, among others, where:
Zinc tablets rose from $4 per bottle to $52.
Echinacea (an ancient immune-enhancement herb) rose from $14 to $153.
Both examples above are now allowed by prescription only. They are now ‘drugs’.
Vitamin C above 200mg? Banned for over-the-counter. Sold as a prescription drug only.
Niacin above 32 mg? Banned for over-the-counter. Sold as a prescription drug only.
Bitamin B6 above 4 mg? Banned for over-the-counter. Sold as a prescription drug only.
Same for Amino Acids like arginine, lysine, carnitine, etc.
Same for the Omega Essential Fatty Acids and many more supplements including DMEA, DHEA, CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, etc.
The CODEX rules are not based on real science. They were made by a few people meeting in secret (see web sites below); not necessarily scientists. In 1993 the FDA and drug companies tried to put all supplements under restriction and prescription, but over 4 million Americans told congress and the president to protect their freedom of choice on health supplements. The DSHEA law was passed in 1994 which does so, but this will be overruled by CODEX and the WTO.
Virtually nothing about it has been in the media. What the drug corporations have failed to do through congress, they have gotten by sneak attachk through CODEX with the help of a silent media.
So…what can be done at this late hour?
Spread the word as much as possible. Inform yourselves fully !!
Oppose bills S.722 and H.R.3377. These support the CODEX restrictions with US laws, changing the DSHEA law.
Support H.R.1146 which would restore the sovereignty of the US Constitution over CODEX, etc.
1) Express your wishes ASAP to the president, senators and representatives (they got us into this!).
2) Contact multi-level health marketing groups that can get their members to inform the government.
3) Send donations, however small, to the British Alliance for Natural Health (see website above). It has succeeded in challenging the CODEX directives in World Court later this month or next. They need help financially, having carried the fight effectively for everyone.
CODEX claims to wish to protect us the same way the FDA protects us from prescription drugs. To accomplish this, they used a study of prescription drugs (not supplements) by three medical scientists as reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998-Vol. 279, No. 15, p. 1200, "…Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) was found to be extremely high." Covering 30 years from 1966 to 1996, it was found that in the US, an average of 106,000 hospitalized patients per year die from ADRs. That’s equivalent to 290 people per day. 2.2 MILLLION need more hospitalization for recovery. And these were FDA approved drugs, properly administered by competent professionals in hospitals…yet none were considered malpractice. ADRs represent the number four cause of death in the US. When combined, they account for 7% of all hospitalized patients. This is equivalent to a 9/11 attach every ten days.
Contrary to pharmaceutical drugs, there are few fatalities from supplements. Can you just imagine the news coverage if vitamins and supplements created the amount of death that drugs do?
There is no need for more FDA control of supplements than is already in place, which is substantial. Instead of drastically restricting supplements, why doesn’t the FDA better control and restrict the extremely dangerous pharmaceutical drugs which are now killing us at the rate of a major airline crash per day?
Wallace G. Heath, PhD.
1145 Marine Drive Bellingham, WA 98225
Soggy Monday morning to ya, Resty.
I'm a tad like swervie when it comes to the Super Bowl (and with me, anyway, football in general). Game? What game? There was a game today?
Actually, my husband went to a superbowl party with friends, and I went to a play with one of the friend's wife and daughter. I had a lot of fun. Hubby had fun socializing. I asked him who won - he didn't even know the team's names! But he had a good time. :)
I don't know what you have but I have a cheerful sunny day!
Don't fret, our snow has returned!! UGH! I had to scrape the car windows before I could get these two boys to school.
Freepmail loddy!!
Got it and done.
I'll be up before that in the morninmg. I have to pick the first kid up at 6.
I just had the lunch from hell. My client that is in a facility in Little Rock was here for court with her 2 kids, ages 1 and 2. I took them out to eat. This woman has absolutely NO control over these children AT ALL. They did nothing but scream and throw things, including entire plates of food. Then she would give them treats to shut them up, without making them eat anything else (never mind that it didn't work). The driver ended up having to take one of them out of the restaurant so she could finish her meal. Neither one ever did eat. I would have never put up with that kind of behavior off of mine. I wanted to wear their behinds out myself. Of course, at the facility she is in, they are not even allowed to spank. Then we wonder why we have a society full of tyrannical children.
Thanks Jim.
Ah well. Must go get my car cleaned out so I have room for everybody and their stuff tomorrow. I really need to get a minivan.
when mine were small, if they acted up like that, I took them to the bathroom or out to the car and whooped their little asses. When they had settled down, we went back to what we were doing. God those situations make me crazy.
That's how I handled mine, too. The older of these 2 little boys has a bad habit of taking off running, and he doesn't respond when you call his name, or say "no." I could easily see this kid taking off running into the street with a car coming, and he'd get hit, unless someone could run fast enough to catch him. If your attention gets distracted from him for even a couple of seconds, he's gone.
Hubby had a bad experience a couple of weeks ago. He was pulling out of the drive-in window of a donut shop. Suddenly, this toddler ran in front of his truck. He slammed on the brake and missed him by inches. He looked over to see the Mom casually walking along eating a donut. She didn't even seem alarmed and let the child run all the way to their car.
He was shaken, though, and he told me it was all he could do not to get out of his truck and slap her face.
I'm up.
Did the exorcism work for you?
A little bit :)
I read that the movie "Constantine" with Keanu Reaves has some exorcism stuff in it...
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