"The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is protecting them. It isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as different as night and day," Dr Herbert Ley, former Commissioner of the FDA.
"The FDA serves as the pharmaceutical industry's watchdog, which can be called upon to attack and destroy a potential competitor under the guise of protecting the public," Dr James P. Carter, M.D., author of RACKETEERING IN MEDICINE, the SUPPRESSION OF ALTERNATIVES.
"The FDA should be banned all together. It is an example of an organization that has failed in its regulatory process......The FDA is accountable to the people yet they have failed in their sole objective of being the custodian of our health. We are the ones who have voted for their existence and they have failed to protect us...... As a reminder, their drugs kill over 100,000 people every year. This would be akin to the entire population of Buffalo, New York being wiped out every year. If a car company like Chevrolet were responsible for this death toll there would be blood in the streets..."
An Holistic Approach to Overcoming AIDS and HIV
There are over 122 HIV-AIDS drugs in development and mixing natural products with the powerful drugs used for AIDS can be dangerous. A qualified holistic physician offers the best results.
Despite all the advances of modern medicine, serious, incurable diseases are spreading around the world at an astonishing rate. HIV infection has gone beyond the gay community to heterosexuals and to babies from infected parents and AIDS has become a global epidemic in just 20 years.
At this writing, more than 36 million people worldwide now live with HIV-AIDS-over 70 percent of them live in sub-Saharan Africa where AIDS-suppressing drugs are not widely obtainable and safe sex practices are not culturally accepted. So far a staggering 17 million people have died from AIDS.
The body becomes unable to defend itself.
AIDS and its cousin diseases are the result of immune system breakdown. Long believed to be caused by the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), a retro-virus that affects DNA and T cells, there is a growing body of evidence that severe AIDS is influenced by nutritional factors.
AIDS occurs in stages: 1) an asymptomatic state (when HIV is most often passed); 2) a mononucleosis-like stage with one or more AIDS-related complexes; 3) "full blown" AIDS.
While the new HIV-AIDS drugs offer some hope, they are not free of side effects or serious risks. Most troubling: drug-resistant HIV strains can emerge during drug therapy and the viral load may skyrocket if the drugs are discontinued.
Other severe drawbacks:
• Diarrhea due to digestive and assimilation difficulty (HIV itself compromises digestive function)
• Adult-onset diabetes Birth defects in children born to infected mothers
• Lipodystrophy syndrome (fatty growths on the neck and back)
• Anemia and resulting chronic fatigue
• Liver toxicity
• Bone marrow toxicity (AZT).
If one decides to use a combination of orthodox and alternative treatments, it is important to seek out a knowledgeable naturopath. There are over 122 HIV-AIDS drugs in development and mixing natural products with the powerful drugs used for AIDS can be dangerous. A qualified holistic physician offers the best results.
It is important to know the facts about AIDS.
It is fairly easy to transfer the HIV virus into the body through anal intercourse, more difficult through vaginal or oral sex. Powerful proteins in tears, saliva and pregnant women's urine, friendly flora in the intestinal tract and HCI in the stomach produce a hostile environment that destroys HIV. There is no such protection in the colon.
Suppression of the immune system is believed to occur when the HIV virus slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream. Normal immune response is to attack the virus with macrophages that then die and are removed through the lymphatic system. These toxic wastes are finally dumped into the colon on its last leg of clearance from the body but in an unprotected colon without friendly bacteria or good defensive pH environment, new HIV viruses hatch from the dead macrophages and multiply in the feces, repeating the cycle again and again. The immune system cannot detect the virus in the colon and does not marshal its forces until the infection is in the bloodstream, often too late if immune defenses are exhausted.
HIV is never the only culprit in the AIDS connection. Immunosuppression comes before HIV. Syphilis is usually present in AIDS victims, as are parasites and other viruses that set the stage for AIDS and related complexes. In fact, parasites are a cofactor in AIDS development. If the lifestyle is immunosuppressing, parasites can easily take hold. If one is frequently diagnosed with a bacterial infection and has used antibiotics that haven't helped, have the stool tested for parasites. Amoebic parasites allow the virus to spread by rupturing immune defense cells that engulf the HIV virus in an effort to destroy it. Parasites also worsen drug side effects and reduce the body's capacity to benefit from the drug. Some physicians report that when they treat the parasite infections, the HIV viral load goes down to undetectable levels.
One can also continually be re-infected. Destructive immunesuppressing lifestyle elements like continual exposure to HIV and other STDs through sexual excess and multiple sex partners and sharing needles or drug "snort straws" for drugs expose people to the virus by putting them in direct contact with infected blood.
Hepatitis predisposes people to AIDS because the liver is so weakened it cannot play its part in resisting infection. HIV also predisposes one to hepatitis by grinding down liver defenses.
The symptoms of AIDS.
Symptoms can appear anywhere from six months to three years after infection. Here are the early symptoms:
• Diarrhea that lasts longer than a week
• Swollen glands and lymph nodes in the neck area, armpits and groin
• Inability to heal even minor ailments like a small cut, bruise or cold
• Unusual fatigue
• White patches in the mouth and difficulty swallowing (thrush)
• Nail ringworm fungus.
Continuing symptoms mean that AIDS is undeniable:
• Purplish blotches that look like hard bruises occurring on or under the skin, inside the mouth, nose, eyelids or rectum that do not go away (Kaposi's sarcoma)
• Pneumonia, swollen glands that never go down
• Persistent dry, hacking cough (unrelated to smoking)
• Fevers and night sweats that last for days or weeks
• Severe, unexplained fatigue
• Persistent diarrhea
• Unexplained, rapid weight loss
• Visual disturbances
• Memory loss, confusion and depression
• Personality changes
Is there hope for people who are HIV positive?
In the U.S. an estimated 800,000 to 900,000 people are living with HIV. One-quarter of them don't even know it. Testing "antibody positive" does not mean that one has AIDS, only that he/she has been exposed to the HIV virus. Being HIV positive does not even mean that one will develop AIDS. It is a warning, not a sentence. Research shows that at least five percent of people diagnosed HIV positive never develop full-blown AIDS.
Most infected people coexist with HIV. The face of AIDS has changed dramatically within the last five years. Protease inhibitor "cocktails" and genetic modifying drugs, coupled with a healthy diet, elimination of recreational drugs and responsible sexual behavior has improved HIV status. HIV positive people are recognizing that the destructive lifestyle factors leading to their diagnosis can be changed to prevent further re-infection and that lifestyle therapies can greatly improve their health condition and help keep them symptom free. In many cases, when the infection is caught early and lifestyle and nutritional healing measures are embraced, HIV infection can be effectively managed and the patient can live a full, productive life.
What does it take to survive AIDS?
Thousands of long-term AIDS survivors are free of HIV symptoms. In every case I know, the survivor consciously decided to take charge of his or her own life and healing. All energies were channeled into the therapies that the survivors thought were right for them. They faced reality, acknowledged that there was no silver bullet, realized that the process would be long and hard and that the battle would take great courage.
Holistic approach.
Holistic therapies show more promise than ever for AIDS and its related immune syndromes. Alternative treatment programs are enormous factors in showing that HIV infection and AIDS are no longer inevitably fatal as they once were. Holistic treatments are often seen as the key to abating symptoms, slowing the advance of the virus itself and improving the quality of life. Success is bringing more expertise into the field of AIDS therapy--holistic physicians, homeopaths, naturopaths, chiropractors, therapists, nutritional counselors and others.
HIV itself isn't deadly. It weakens the immune system to the point where its T-4 reserves are exhausted and can't fight. Thousands of research papers show that immune system failure which leads to AIDS directly correlates to specific vitamin, mineral and amino acid deficiencies.
Malnutrition is thus the number one reason for low immune response. A high resistance, immune-building diet is the key to health. AIDS victims need about 4000 calories a day, double the normal amount, to sustain body weight. Also the intestinal environment must be changed to create a hostile site for the HIV virus.
The following liquid and fresh foods diet represents only the first "crash course" stage of the change from cooked to living foods. It is for the ill person who needs dramatic measures--concentrated defense strength in a short time. It has also been extremely helpful in keeping an HIV positive person symptom free, even in symptom recession during full-blown AIDS. My diet program helps prevent attendant diseases associated with immune deficiency.
As with other immunesuppressing viral diseases, HIV lives on dead and waste matter. (AIDS experts theorize that HIV feeds off undigested proteins in the colon.) For several months at least, eat a vegetarian diet, low in dairy, yeast breads and saturated fats. Meats, fried foods, dairy products (except yogurt and kefir), coffee, alcohol, salty, sugary foods and all refined foods must be eliminated. Recreational drugs should be eliminated, as well as unnecessary prescription drugs. The ultra purity of this diet controls multiple allergies and sensitivities that occur in the autoimmune state yet it still supplies the needs of a body that is suffering great nutrient deprivation. For most people, this way of eating is a radical change with major limitations but the health improvement against HIV is excellent.
Remember: This diet is only a "jump start."
Diet defense against HIV and AIDS.
On rising: take 3 T. cranberry concentrate in 8 oz. of water with ½ t. ascorbate vitamin C crystals with bioflavonoids and ½ t. enzyme powder and a soy protein drink. Take a brisk walk for exercise and morning sunlight.
Breakfast: have a glass of fresh carrot juice with 1 t. liquid aminos and whole grain muffins or rice cakes with kefir cheese; or a cup of plain yogurt blended with a cup of fresh fruit, sesame seeds, walnuts; or oatmeal, amaranth or buckwheat pancakes with yogurt and fresh fruit; and ½ t. enzyme powder mixed in 8 oz. of aloe vera juice.
Midmorning: take a weekly colonic. On non-colonic days, take potassium essence (see below) with 1 t. liquid aminos and ½ t. ascorbate vitamin C crystals with bioflavonoids and have another fresh carrot juice or pau d' arco tea with ½ t. enzyme powder.
Lunch: have a green salad with lemon-flax oil dressing, plenty of avocado, nuts, seeds and alfalfa or broccoli sprouts; or an open-faced sandwich on rice cakes, or a chapati with fresh veggies and kefir cheese; or a cup of miso soup with rice noodles or brown rice, and some steamed veggies, shiitake mushrooms and tofu with millet or brown rice; and take a cup of pau d' arco tea or 8 oz. aloe vera juice with ½ t. ascorbate vitamin C and ½ t. enzyme powder
Midafternoon: have two drinks: another carrot juice with liquid aminos and ½ t. enzyme powder added; then a green drink with ½ t. ascorbate vitamin C crystals and bioflavonoids added.
Dinner: have a baked potato with liquid aminos, yogurt or kefir cheese and a green salad and black bean or lentil soup with ½ t. enzyme powder; or a fresh spinach or artichoke pasta with steamed veggies and lemon-flax oil dressing; or a Chinese steam stir-fry with shiitake mushrooms, brown rice and vegetables. Sprinkle on ½ t. enzyme powder.
Before bed: have two drinks: a glass of aloe vera juice with ½ t. ascorbate vitamin C crystals and ½ t. enzyme powder added; then a fresh carrot or papaya juice.
Note 1: Unsweetened mild herb teas and bottled water throughout the day offer additional toxin cleansing and system alkalizing.
Note 2: Add ½ t. ascorbate vitamin C powder with bioflavonoids to any drink throughout the day until the stool turns soupy.
Nutritional notes:
Compromised nutrition is clearly tied to low immune response. Diet improvement is the key to keeping HIV infection from becoming AIDS. Intestinal pH environment must be changed for disease protection.
Extreme toxicity, fatigue and malabsorption of AIDS forestalls a liquid detox plan--too harsh for such a weakened system. Three glasses of fresh carrot juice and a cup of potassium essence (see below) daily keeps the detox ongoing.
The diet should have the best possible nutrition. A modified macrobiotic diet is ideal for resistance and immune strength. Produce should be fresh and organically grown when possible.
No fried, fatty foods (they aggravate diarrhea). A low sugar, low fat diet is best if one has fatty accumulations related to drug therapy. Coconut oil is easily digested and has anti-HIV activity. Avoid concentrated sweeteners and chemicalized foods of all kinds. Avoid protein from dairy and red meat, especially fried meat, difficult to digest for people with HIV. Limit high gluten foods: wheat bread, barley, rye, commercial pastas and cereals and baked goods.
Eat foods with anti-parasitic enzymes: cranberries, pineapple, papaya.
Flush with fresh lemon juice (a specific for HIV) or six to eight glasses of mild herb teas and bottled water daily.
Detoxification Bodywork:
• One must detoxify the liver for holistic healing to be effective. (See my liver cleansing program at www.healthyhealing.com)
• Remove infected feces from the intestinal tract. Take both a colonic and an enema implant with aloe vera, wheat grass or spirulina once a week until recovery is well underway. Follow up with once a month treatments.
• Acupuncture, meditation, massage therapy and visualization help relieve AIDS symptoms.
• Get fresh air and sunlight on the body every day. Get mild exercise daily and plenty of rest. Do deep breathing exercises morning and evening.
• O2 spray--Use two times a day on the soles of the feet.
• Hydrotherapy is effective in re-stimulating circulation and inhibiting HIV growth. Take a sauna or an overheating bath once a week (not if one is very weak).
• Hormonal imbalance and depletion contribute to the progression of AIDS. Consider a hormone blood panel or saliva test to assess your levels.
Lifestyle practices to avoid HIV:
• Practice safe sex. Use condoms even for oral sex. Latex condoms are 98-100 percent effective in preventing transmission, if used correctly.
• Avoid anal intercourse.
• Avoid needle-injected pleasure drugs and snortable drugs. (HIV can be spread with shared "snort straws.")
• Make sure any blood transfusion plasma has been tested for HIV virus (a regular practice in the U.S.).
Are the new HIV home tests a good choice?
Pharmacies now carry HIV tests, costing $40 to $50, that you can perform privately in your home. People who are reluctant to get HIV screening from a doctor may find home tests a good choice. There are a few drawbacks: One must send in the sample to a lab and the results will be communicated over the phone a few weeks later. Brands without FDA approval may provide unreliable results.
Most communities also offer free, confidential HIV screening and counseling. Look under AIDS-HIV in the yellow pages to find a clinic. Regardless of one's chosen screening method, know that the HIV status is critical to health and to sexual responsibility in the modern world.
Potassium Essence
For a two day supply.
Make fresh in a soup pot. Cover with water in a soup pot:
• 3 to 4 carrots, 3 stalks celery, ½ bunch parsley, 2 potatoes with skins, ½ head cabbage, 1 onion, ½ bunch broccoli and 2 T. snipped dry sea veggies.
• Simmer covered 30 minutes. Strain and discard solids.
• Add 2 t. liquid aminos or 1 t. miso. Store in fridge, covered, and warm up for each serving.
For additional information Linda Page, N.D., Ph.D., recommends a visit to www.healthyhealing.com for sea veggies, books and more.
See her book, Healthy Healing--A Guide To Self-Healing For Everyone. For a full healing program on AIDS/HIV.
Her complete diet program with supporting recipes may be found in her books Cooking For Healthy Healing--Book One-The Healing Diets and Book Two--The Healing Recipes.
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By Linda Page, N.D., Ph.D.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2008-09-19 02:11.
NaturalNews is reprinting, with permission, an article published today by Byron Richards, author of Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America. In this article, Richards exposes the real story behind a little-known provision in the new Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act (S1082), which has already passed a Senate subcommittee and is headed for an eventual floor vote.
This Revitalization Act, it turns out, seeks to create a new government-run pharmaceutical company headed by officials from the FDA. It would officially and unambigiously put the U.S. government in the drug business, where it could license pharmaceuticals and collect royalties on their sale. For obvious reasons, this is a particularly dangerous situation for consumers. Government should be regulating drug companies, not joining them as partners in profit.
Specifically, the proposed Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration, which will be operated by FDA personnel, will: ...award grants to, or enter into contracts, memoranda of understanding, or cooperative agreements with, scientits and entities, which may include the Food and Drug Administration, university consortia, public-private partnerships, institutions of higher education, entities described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code... and industry, to efficiently and effectively advance the goals and priorities established under paragraph (2). (Link to source documented included below.)
Paragraph 2 says: (2) Establish goals and priorities in order to meet the unmet needs identified in paragraph (1).
Paragraph 1, in turn, says: (1) Taking into consideration the Critical Path reports and priorities published by the Food and Drug Administration, identify unmet needs in the development, manufacture, and evaluation of the safety and effectiveness, including postapproval, or devices, including diagnostics, biologics, and drugs, and the safety of food, food ingredients and cosmetics.
In other words, the Reagan-Udall Foundation squarely puts the FDA in the business of entering into contracts with private industry for the manufacture of drugs. That's only the beginning of this story.
Here is the full text from Byron Richards:
Perverse Expansion of FDA Powers Will Target Dietary Supplements
by Byron Richards
A new attack against health freedom, drug safety, and dietary supplements was launched last week by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) with major support from Michael Enzi (R-WY). It is called the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act (S1082). This legislation was planned over the past few years working hand-in-glove with the FDA’s dysfunctional management and legal team – meaning this legislation was written for the profits of Big Pharma and Big Biotech AT THE EXPENSE OF SAFETY AND HUMAN HEALTH.
S1082 is a Trojan Horse bill that pretends to address safety issues. Unbelievably, the bill turns the FDA into a drug development company that will expose Americans to new and dangerous biological drugs that have little testing to prove safety or effectiveness. And to top it off, the bill gives broad new regulatory powers to the FDA that can be used to frivolously attack dietary supplements and forward the FDA management’s anti-American globalization agenda.
On April 18, 2007, S1082 was approved by the HELP committee (which Kennedy and Enzi control) and now moves to the floor of the Senate. In a slick move, Kennedy has attached his long-planned FDA/Big Pharma "reform" measures to the renewal of Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA). Current PDUFA law expires later this year and must be reviewed by Congress. PDUFA allows Big Pharma to pay the FDA fees to speed the approval of its drugs. The new Kennedy bill will increase these FDA bribes to 380 million dollars in 2008, well over 50% of the FDA budget for new drug approvals. This is like paying the mob for protection. Kennedy, by replacing the existing PDUFA law with this new bill (S1082), is ensuring that his twisted legislation is the one that will be put before the Senate for a vote.
The FDA Drug Company, an Agency with New Regulatory Power
It is hard for anyone to comprehend that the agency that is supposed to be in charge of drug safety is about to become a drug company. It is astonishing that the FDA will now manage a full scale business activity that uses a "non profit" foundation as a shield to avoid international patent problems, protect proprietary rights of its commercial drug-development enterprise, and massively expands FDA regulatory powers to quickly remove anything from the market that is competition to its own products and licensing agreements.
This new FDA business enterprise is called the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration (see pages 105-125). In previous versions of the Kennedy bill it was going to be an independent drug company within the FDA (the Reagan-Udall Institute for Applied Biomedical Research). In the current bill it is a "non profit" collaboration of the FDA, private industry, government funding, and private funding. It is run directly by the FDA even though it pretends to not be part of the government. Under this scam taxpayers will foot the bill for drug development and then be charged outrageous prices for the drugs. Furthermore, the new bill seeks to allow a massive expanse of FDA regulatory power through this new foundation. For example, on pages 106-107 the bill states:
"The purpose of the Foundation is to advance the mission of the Food and Drug Administration to modernize medical, veterinary, food, food ingredient, and cosmetic product development, accelerate innovation, and enhance product safety….The Foundation shall [take] into consideration the Critical Path reports and priorities published by the Food and Drug Administration, identify unmet needs in the development, manufacture, and evaluation of the safety and effectiveness, including post approval, of devices, including diagnostics, biologics, and drugs, and the safety of food, food ingredients, and cosmetics."
Through this foundation the FDA is seeking broad new regulatory power that it currently does not possess. This will include the authority to attack any dietary supplement (which are food ingredients) as unsafe based on its use of "Critical Path" technology. This means the FDA will use proteomics (the advanced study of proteins in biological systems) to assess changes in biomarkers (the change in the state of a protein at the molecular level) in order to establish whatever it wants to consider as a risk. The FDA can slant this technology, based on their own personal opinions, to make anything they want appear as a risk – including your favorite dietary supplements that you use to stay healthy.
Deceiving the Public
This new bill panders to concerns of Americans regarding the safety of drugs. This legitimate worry is used by Kennedy and Enzi to garner support when in reality the bill does just the opposite - exposing Americans to almost unfathomable new drug risks and dangers while simultaneously making it possible to remove super safe, therapeutic, and helpful dietary supplements. The entire Critical Path initiative is a plan to race new and untested powerful biological drugs onto the market and experiment on patients all over the country – throwing caution to the wind as far as drug safety is concerned.
While S1082 also pretends to address the issues of drug safety, in reality all the needed Big Pharma loopholes are firmly in place. Additionally, the establishment of a clinical trial database as written in this proposed law will enable Big Pharma to hide experimental and undesirable side effects. Instead of full disclosure we will have a sterilized clinical trial database that will have the net effect of being used as a tool by Big Pharma to promote off label use of drugs. This is a far cry from disclosure that results in safety.
In response to the Kennedy con Charles Grassley (R-IA) immediately attacked the legislation on the floor of the Senate:
"The bill [S1802] does not address the outstanding critical problem that the office responsible for post-market drug safety lacks the independence, lacks the authority to promptly identify serious health risks and take necessary steps that will protect the public. As I think we all agree, the FDA is in desperate need of major overhaul."
The problem for Grassley, and all Americans, is that his true safety reform measures for the FDA are being held hostage by the HELP committee which is under the control of Kennedy and Enzi. His proposed legislation is S. 468: Food and Drug Administration Safety Act of 2007 and S. 467: Fair Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2007. As Grassley told the Senate:
"Let me be clear: Big Pharma does not like these bills. FDA management does not like these bills. Lobbyists are spending hours upon hours lobbying against these bills…What is wrong with establishing a separate center within the FDA--not outside the FDA, within the FDA--with its only job being that of a watchdog for those drugs already in the market?...What is wrong with supporting a clinical trial registry and results database that also requires sponsors to reveal their negative trials?...I propose there is nothing wrong with any of these proposals."
The situation is rather grave for all Americans. Kennedy has attached repressive legislation to replace the PDUFA funding thereby ensuring that his agenda will come before the Senate for a vote. The only real opposition to the legislation is coming from Grassley, who is attacking the weakness in FDA reform regarding drug safety and clinical trials. An even greater threat to the public – turning the FDA into a drug company and creating new regulatory powers that can be used to attack dietary supplements and remove them from the market – is being ignored by everyone – until now. Kennedy knows he can defeat Grassley and keep Grassley’s bills from ever seeing the light of day. Can Kennedy defeat the American public? Solving this problem is up to you.
The Secret FDA Agenda – Government Against the People
The FDA is a puppet organization. Its management is a revolving door with Big Pharma, Big Biotech, and Big Agriculture. The behavior of its management team, set by its current leader Andrew von Eschenbach – but fully entrenched in its long and ugly history, is one of acting as a police-force bully to forward the profits of those with money and stamp out all competition (under the false guise of consumer protection). The FDA management fully believes it is above any law that is in its way or any attempt at Congressional oversight. It gives lip service to its safety mission. It is a cult unto itself.
The anti-American FDA is actively seeking to undermine U.S. laws and harmonize our dietary supplement laws with Mexico and Canada. This is being done through the Trilateral Cooperation Charter – an illegal agreement set up with health regulatory agencies in Mexico and Canada. It is part of the campaign towards a North American Union, one which would be a catastrophe for health freedom in this country as dietary supplement laws in Canada and Mexico are far more restrictive than in the U.S.
The FDA would also like to harmonize our dietary supplement laws with the evolving international standards set by Codex, thus branding therapeutic nutrition as dangerous and risky and needing to be sold by Big Pharma or removed from the market altogether (if it competes with a blockbuster category of drugs). Codex is planning to use the same proteomics and biomarker technology that will be used by the FDA’s Critical Path Initiative to remove therapeutic dietary supplements from the international market and force their policies on America, thereby superseding the sovereignty of American law on threat of trade sanctions. The FDA fully supports draconian Codex guidelines to regulate dietary supplements and is working with the Germans to concoct technology to brand nutrients as drugs. The FDA management is as bad as any government agency can get. Under the leadership of Andrew von Eschenbach it has plummeted to an all time low.
What You Can Do Now:
1. Call, fax, phone, and write your Senators and tell them you are opposed to bill S1082 - Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act. Tell them you want no legislation of any kind that will enable the FDA to frivolously attack dietary supplements. Tell them you do not want Big Pharma funding the FDA with user fees for drug approvals. Demand an independent office within the FDA to monitor drug safety. And tell them you want full disclosure by Big Pharma of all their clinical trials. Tell them you support the Grassley legislation (S467 and S468) which offers true reform of the FDA. Click here for sample letter.
2. Tell your Senators you are completely opposed to any law that would enable the FDA to act as a drug company, such as S1082, which is proposing the formation of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA. Click here for sample letter.
3. Sign this petition demanding congressional oversight of the FDA’s Trilateral Cooperation Charter – a key point the FDA is using to illegally support the formation of the North American Union while at the same time undermining health freedom. This is the FDA’s front line attack that undermines American law and seeks to harmonize us with the laws of other countries. We must win this battle to stop Codex and preserve our health freedom – including access to therapeutic dietary supplements and all alternative health options.
If S1082 becomes law and the FDA is allowed to enter relationships with foreign countries without any Congressional mandate or oversight we can kiss health freedom goodbye – as well as our dietary supplements. It is time for dietary supplement companies and trade groups to get their heads out of the sand and quit jockeying for position in the New World Order at the expense of the future well being of their own customers.
The issue of health freedom is an issue for all Americans who believe in our constitution and our founding documents. America is the last bastion of health freedom on earth. If we fall, the world will be plunged into a Dark Ages of health. Our future health will be dictated by a multinational sickness industry driven by profits for drug and biologic companies with little to do with real quality of health. This is a crossroads – a moment in time. Health freedom is fundamental to all other freedoms as without health freedom the minds and bodies of a population are easy to control.
I just started watching these while on break, i volunteer at narconon and it helps knowing whats going on with the FDA
"The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is protecting them. It isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as different as night and day," Dr Herbert Ley, former Commissioner of the FDA.
"The FDA serves as the pharmaceutical industry's watchdog, which can be called upon to attack and destroy a potential competitor under the guise of protecting the public," Dr James P. Carter, M.D., author of RACKETEERING IN MEDICINE, the SUPPRESSION OF ALTERNATIVES.
"The FDA should be banned all together. It is an example of an organization that has failed in its regulatory process......The FDA is accountable to the people yet they have failed in their sole objective of being the custodian of our health. We are the ones who have voted for their existence and they have failed to protect us...... As a reminder, their drugs kill over 100,000 people every year. This would be akin to the entire population of Buffalo, New York being wiped out every year. If a car company like Chevrolet were responsible for this death toll there would be blood in the streets..."
An Holistic Approach to Overcoming AIDS and HIV
There are over 122 HIV-AIDS drugs in development and mixing natural products with the powerful drugs used for AIDS can be dangerous. A qualified holistic physician offers the best results.
Despite all the advances of modern medicine, serious, incurable diseases are spreading around the world at an astonishing rate. HIV infection has gone beyond the gay community to heterosexuals and to babies from infected parents and AIDS has become a global epidemic in just 20 years.
At this writing, more than 36 million people worldwide now live with HIV-AIDS-over 70 percent of them live in sub-Saharan Africa where AIDS-suppressing drugs are not widely obtainable and safe sex practices are not culturally accepted. So far a staggering 17 million people have died from AIDS.
The body becomes unable to defend itself.
AIDS and its cousin diseases are the result of immune system breakdown. Long believed to be caused by the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), a retro-virus that affects DNA and T cells, there is a growing body of evidence that severe AIDS is influenced by nutritional factors.
AIDS occurs in stages: 1) an asymptomatic state (when HIV is most often passed); 2) a mononucleosis-like stage with one or more AIDS-related complexes; 3) "full blown" AIDS.
While the new HIV-AIDS drugs offer some hope, they are not free of side effects or serious risks. Most troubling: drug-resistant HIV strains can emerge during drug therapy and the viral load may skyrocket if the drugs are discontinued.
Other severe drawbacks:
• Diarrhea due to digestive and assimilation difficulty (HIV itself compromises digestive function)
• Adult-onset diabetes Birth defects in children born to infected mothers
• Lipodystrophy syndrome (fatty growths on the neck and back)
• Anemia and resulting chronic fatigue
• Liver toxicity
• Bone marrow toxicity (AZT).
If one decides to use a combination of orthodox and alternative treatments, it is important to seek out a knowledgeable naturopath. There are over 122 HIV-AIDS drugs in development and mixing natural products with the powerful drugs used for AIDS can be dangerous. A qualified holistic physician offers the best results.
It is important to know the facts about AIDS.
It is fairly easy to transfer the HIV virus into the body through anal intercourse, more difficult through vaginal or oral sex. Powerful proteins in tears, saliva and pregnant women's urine, friendly flora in the intestinal tract and HCI in the stomach produce a hostile environment that destroys HIV. There is no such protection in the colon.
Suppression of the immune system is believed to occur when the HIV virus slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream. Normal immune response is to attack the virus with macrophages that then die and are removed through the lymphatic system. These toxic wastes are finally dumped into the colon on its last leg of clearance from the body but in an unprotected colon without friendly bacteria or good defensive pH environment, new HIV viruses hatch from the dead macrophages and multiply in the feces, repeating the cycle again and again. The immune system cannot detect the virus in the colon and does not marshal its forces until the infection is in the bloodstream, often too late if immune defenses are exhausted.
HIV is never the only culprit in the AIDS connection. Immunosuppression comes before HIV. Syphilis is usually present in AIDS victims, as are parasites and other viruses that set the stage for AIDS and related complexes. In fact, parasites are a cofactor in AIDS development. If the lifestyle is immunosuppressing, parasites can easily take hold. If one is frequently diagnosed with a bacterial infection and has used antibiotics that haven't helped, have the stool tested for parasites. Amoebic parasites allow the virus to spread by rupturing immune defense cells that engulf the HIV virus in an effort to destroy it. Parasites also worsen drug side effects and reduce the body's capacity to benefit from the drug. Some physicians report that when they treat the parasite infections, the HIV viral load goes down to undetectable levels.
One can also continually be re-infected. Destructive immunesuppressing lifestyle elements like continual exposure to HIV and other STDs through sexual excess and multiple sex partners and sharing needles or drug "snort straws" for drugs expose people to the virus by putting them in direct contact with infected blood.
Hepatitis predisposes people to AIDS because the liver is so weakened it cannot play its part in resisting infection. HIV also predisposes one to hepatitis by grinding down liver defenses.
The symptoms of AIDS.
Symptoms can appear anywhere from six months to three years after infection. Here are the early symptoms:
• Diarrhea that lasts longer than a week
• Swollen glands and lymph nodes in the neck area, armpits and groin
• Inability to heal even minor ailments like a small cut, bruise or cold
• Unusual fatigue
• White patches in the mouth and difficulty swallowing (thrush)
• Nail ringworm fungus.
Continuing symptoms mean that AIDS is undeniable:
• Purplish blotches that look like hard bruises occurring on or under the skin, inside the mouth, nose, eyelids or rectum that do not go away (Kaposi's sarcoma)
• Pneumonia, swollen glands that never go down
• Persistent dry, hacking cough (unrelated to smoking)
• Fevers and night sweats that last for days or weeks
• Severe, unexplained fatigue
• Persistent diarrhea
• Unexplained, rapid weight loss
• Visual disturbances
• Memory loss, confusion and depression
• Personality changes
Is there hope for people who are HIV positive?
In the U.S. an estimated 800,000 to 900,000 people are living with HIV. One-quarter of them don't even know it. Testing "antibody positive" does not mean that one has AIDS, only that he/she has been exposed to the HIV virus. Being HIV positive does not even mean that one will develop AIDS. It is a warning, not a sentence. Research shows that at least five percent of people diagnosed HIV positive never develop full-blown AIDS.
Most infected people coexist with HIV. The face of AIDS has changed dramatically within the last five years. Protease inhibitor "cocktails" and genetic modifying drugs, coupled with a healthy diet, elimination of recreational drugs and responsible sexual behavior has improved HIV status. HIV positive people are recognizing that the destructive lifestyle factors leading to their diagnosis can be changed to prevent further re-infection and that lifestyle therapies can greatly improve their health condition and help keep them symptom free. In many cases, when the infection is caught early and lifestyle and nutritional healing measures are embraced, HIV infection can be effectively managed and the patient can live a full, productive life.
What does it take to survive AIDS?
Thousands of long-term AIDS survivors are free of HIV symptoms. In every case I know, the survivor consciously decided to take charge of his or her own life and healing. All energies were channeled into the therapies that the survivors thought were right for them. They faced reality, acknowledged that there was no silver bullet, realized that the process would be long and hard and that the battle would take great courage.
Holistic approach.
Holistic therapies show more promise than ever for AIDS and its related immune syndromes. Alternative treatment programs are enormous factors in showing that HIV infection and AIDS are no longer inevitably fatal as they once were. Holistic treatments are often seen as the key to abating symptoms, slowing the advance of the virus itself and improving the quality of life. Success is bringing more expertise into the field of AIDS therapy--holistic physicians, homeopaths, naturopaths, chiropractors, therapists, nutritional counselors and others.
HIV itself isn't deadly. It weakens the immune system to the point where its T-4 reserves are exhausted and can't fight. Thousands of research papers show that immune system failure which leads to AIDS directly correlates to specific vitamin, mineral and amino acid deficiencies.
Malnutrition is thus the number one reason for low immune response. A high resistance, immune-building diet is the key to health. AIDS victims need about 4000 calories a day, double the normal amount, to sustain body weight. Also the intestinal environment must be changed to create a hostile site for the HIV virus.
The following liquid and fresh foods diet represents only the first "crash course" stage of the change from cooked to living foods. It is for the ill person who needs dramatic measures--concentrated defense strength in a short time. It has also been extremely helpful in keeping an HIV positive person symptom free, even in symptom recession during full-blown AIDS. My diet program helps prevent attendant diseases associated with immune deficiency.
As with other immunesuppressing viral diseases, HIV lives on dead and waste matter. (AIDS experts theorize that HIV feeds off undigested proteins in the colon.) For several months at least, eat a vegetarian diet, low in dairy, yeast breads and saturated fats. Meats, fried foods, dairy products (except yogurt and kefir), coffee, alcohol, salty, sugary foods and all refined foods must be eliminated. Recreational drugs should be eliminated, as well as unnecessary prescription drugs. The ultra purity of this diet controls multiple allergies and sensitivities that occur in the autoimmune state yet it still supplies the needs of a body that is suffering great nutrient deprivation. For most people, this way of eating is a radical change with major limitations but the health improvement against HIV is excellent.
Remember: This diet is only a "jump start."
Diet defense against HIV and AIDS.
On rising: take 3 T. cranberry concentrate in 8 oz. of water with ½ t. ascorbate vitamin C crystals with bioflavonoids and ½ t. enzyme powder and a soy protein drink. Take a brisk walk for exercise and morning sunlight.
Breakfast: have a glass of fresh carrot juice with 1 t. liquid aminos and whole grain muffins or rice cakes with kefir cheese; or a cup of plain yogurt blended with a cup of fresh fruit, sesame seeds, walnuts; or oatmeal, amaranth or buckwheat pancakes with yogurt and fresh fruit; and ½ t. enzyme powder mixed in 8 oz. of aloe vera juice.
Midmorning: take a weekly colonic. On non-colonic days, take potassium essence (see below) with 1 t. liquid aminos and ½ t. ascorbate vitamin C crystals with bioflavonoids and have another fresh carrot juice or pau d' arco tea with ½ t. enzyme powder.
Lunch: have a green salad with lemon-flax oil dressing, plenty of avocado, nuts, seeds and alfalfa or broccoli sprouts; or an open-faced sandwich on rice cakes, or a chapati with fresh veggies and kefir cheese; or a cup of miso soup with rice noodles or brown rice, and some steamed veggies, shiitake mushrooms and tofu with millet or brown rice; and take a cup of pau d' arco tea or 8 oz. aloe vera juice with ½ t. ascorbate vitamin C and ½ t. enzyme powder
Midafternoon: have two drinks: another carrot juice with liquid aminos and ½ t. enzyme powder added; then a green drink with ½ t. ascorbate vitamin C crystals and bioflavonoids added.
Dinner: have a baked potato with liquid aminos, yogurt or kefir cheese and a green salad and black bean or lentil soup with ½ t. enzyme powder; or a fresh spinach or artichoke pasta with steamed veggies and lemon-flax oil dressing; or a Chinese steam stir-fry with shiitake mushrooms, brown rice and vegetables. Sprinkle on ½ t. enzyme powder.
Before bed: have two drinks: a glass of aloe vera juice with ½ t. ascorbate vitamin C crystals and ½ t. enzyme powder added; then a fresh carrot or papaya juice.
Note 1: Unsweetened mild herb teas and bottled water throughout the day offer additional toxin cleansing and system alkalizing.
Note 2: Add ½ t. ascorbate vitamin C powder with bioflavonoids to any drink throughout the day until the stool turns soupy.
Nutritional notes:
Compromised nutrition is clearly tied to low immune response. Diet improvement is the key to keeping HIV infection from becoming AIDS. Intestinal pH environment must be changed for disease protection.
Extreme toxicity, fatigue and malabsorption of AIDS forestalls a liquid detox plan--too harsh for such a weakened system. Three glasses of fresh carrot juice and a cup of potassium essence (see below) daily keeps the detox ongoing.
The diet should have the best possible nutrition. A modified macrobiotic diet is ideal for resistance and immune strength. Produce should be fresh and organically grown when possible.
No fried, fatty foods (they aggravate diarrhea). A low sugar, low fat diet is best if one has fatty accumulations related to drug therapy. Coconut oil is easily digested and has anti-HIV activity. Avoid concentrated sweeteners and chemicalized foods of all kinds. Avoid protein from dairy and red meat, especially fried meat, difficult to digest for people with HIV. Limit high gluten foods: wheat bread, barley, rye, commercial pastas and cereals and baked goods.
Eat foods with anti-parasitic enzymes: cranberries, pineapple, papaya.
Flush with fresh lemon juice (a specific for HIV) or six to eight glasses of mild herb teas and bottled water daily.
Detoxification Bodywork:
• One must detoxify the liver for holistic healing to be effective. (See my liver cleansing program at www.healthyhealing.com)
• Remove infected feces from the intestinal tract. Take both a colonic and an enema implant with aloe vera, wheat grass or spirulina once a week until recovery is well underway. Follow up with once a month treatments.
• Acupuncture, meditation, massage therapy and visualization help relieve AIDS symptoms.
• Get fresh air and sunlight on the body every day. Get mild exercise daily and plenty of rest. Do deep breathing exercises morning and evening.
• O2 spray--Use two times a day on the soles of the feet.
• Hydrotherapy is effective in re-stimulating circulation and inhibiting HIV growth. Take a sauna or an overheating bath once a week (not if one is very weak).
• Hormonal imbalance and depletion contribute to the progression of AIDS. Consider a hormone blood panel or saliva test to assess your levels.
Lifestyle practices to avoid HIV:
• Practice safe sex. Use condoms even for oral sex. Latex condoms are 98-100 percent effective in preventing transmission, if used correctly.
• Avoid anal intercourse.
• Avoid needle-injected pleasure drugs and snortable drugs. (HIV can be spread with shared "snort straws.")
• Make sure any blood transfusion plasma has been tested for HIV virus (a regular practice in the U.S.).
Are the new HIV home tests a good choice?
Pharmacies now carry HIV tests, costing $40 to $50, that you can perform privately in your home. People who are reluctant to get HIV screening from a doctor may find home tests a good choice. There are a few drawbacks: One must send in the sample to a lab and the results will be communicated over the phone a few weeks later. Brands without FDA approval may provide unreliable results.
Most communities also offer free, confidential HIV screening and counseling. Look under AIDS-HIV in the yellow pages to find a clinic. Regardless of one's chosen screening method, know that the HIV status is critical to health and to sexual responsibility in the modern world.
Potassium Essence
For a two day supply.
Make fresh in a soup pot. Cover with water in a soup pot:
• 3 to 4 carrots, 3 stalks celery, ½ bunch parsley, 2 potatoes with skins, ½ head cabbage, 1 onion, ½ bunch broccoli and 2 T. snipped dry sea veggies.
• Simmer covered 30 minutes. Strain and discard solids.
• Add 2 t. liquid aminos or 1 t. miso. Store in fridge, covered, and warm up for each serving.
For additional information Linda Page, N.D., Ph.D., recommends a visit to www.healthyhealing.com for sea veggies, books and more.
See her book, Healthy Healing--A Guide To Self-Healing For Everyone. For a full healing program on AIDS/HIV.
Her complete diet program with supporting recipes may be found in her books Cooking For Healthy Healing--Book One-The Healing Diets and Book Two--The Healing Recipes.
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By Linda Page, N.D., Ph.D.
NaturalNews is reprinting, with permission, an article published today by Byron Richards, author of Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America. In this article, Richards exposes the real story behind a little-known provision in the new Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act (S1082), which has already passed a Senate subcommittee and is headed for an eventual floor vote.
This Revitalization Act, it turns out, seeks to create a new government-run pharmaceutical company headed by officials from the FDA. It would officially and unambigiously put the U.S. government in the drug business, where it could license pharmaceuticals and collect royalties on their sale. For obvious reasons, this is a particularly dangerous situation for consumers. Government should be regulating drug companies, not joining them as partners in profit.
Specifically, the proposed Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration, which will be operated by FDA personnel, will: ...award grants to, or enter into contracts, memoranda of understanding, or cooperative agreements with, scientits and entities, which may include the Food and Drug Administration, university consortia, public-private partnerships, institutions of higher education, entities described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code... and industry, to efficiently and effectively advance the goals and priorities established under paragraph (2). (Link to source documented included below.)
Paragraph 2 says: (2) Establish goals and priorities in order to meet the unmet needs identified in paragraph (1).
Paragraph 1, in turn, says: (1) Taking into consideration the Critical Path reports and priorities published by the Food and Drug Administration, identify unmet needs in the development, manufacture, and evaluation of the safety and effectiveness, including postapproval, or devices, including diagnostics, biologics, and drugs, and the safety of food, food ingredients and cosmetics.
In other words, the Reagan-Udall Foundation squarely puts the FDA in the business of entering into contracts with private industry for the manufacture of drugs. That's only the beginning of this story.
Here is the full text from Byron Richards:
Perverse Expansion of FDA Powers Will Target Dietary Supplements
by Byron Richards
A new attack against health freedom, drug safety, and dietary supplements was launched last week by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) with major support from Michael Enzi (R-WY). It is called the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act (S1082). This legislation was planned over the past few years working hand-in-glove with the FDA’s dysfunctional management and legal team – meaning this legislation was written for the profits of Big Pharma and Big Biotech AT THE EXPENSE OF SAFETY AND HUMAN HEALTH.
S1082 is a Trojan Horse bill that pretends to address safety issues. Unbelievably, the bill turns the FDA into a drug development company that will expose Americans to new and dangerous biological drugs that have little testing to prove safety or effectiveness. And to top it off, the bill gives broad new regulatory powers to the FDA that can be used to frivolously attack dietary supplements and forward the FDA management’s anti-American globalization agenda.
On April 18, 2007, S1082 was approved by the HELP committee (which Kennedy and Enzi control) and now moves to the floor of the Senate. In a slick move, Kennedy has attached his long-planned FDA/Big Pharma "reform" measures to the renewal of Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA). Current PDUFA law expires later this year and must be reviewed by Congress. PDUFA allows Big Pharma to pay the FDA fees to speed the approval of its drugs. The new Kennedy bill will increase these FDA bribes to 380 million dollars in 2008, well over 50% of the FDA budget for new drug approvals. This is like paying the mob for protection. Kennedy, by replacing the existing PDUFA law with this new bill (S1082), is ensuring that his twisted legislation is the one that will be put before the Senate for a vote.
The FDA Drug Company, an Agency with New Regulatory Power
It is hard for anyone to comprehend that the agency that is supposed to be in charge of drug safety is about to become a drug company. It is astonishing that the FDA will now manage a full scale business activity that uses a "non profit" foundation as a shield to avoid international patent problems, protect proprietary rights of its commercial drug-development enterprise, and massively expands FDA regulatory powers to quickly remove anything from the market that is competition to its own products and licensing agreements.
This new FDA business enterprise is called the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration (see pages 105-125). In previous versions of the Kennedy bill it was going to be an independent drug company within the FDA (the Reagan-Udall Institute for Applied Biomedical Research). In the current bill it is a "non profit" collaboration of the FDA, private industry, government funding, and private funding. It is run directly by the FDA even though it pretends to not be part of the government. Under this scam taxpayers will foot the bill for drug development and then be charged outrageous prices for the drugs. Furthermore, the new bill seeks to allow a massive expanse of FDA regulatory power through this new foundation. For example, on pages 106-107 the bill states:
"The purpose of the Foundation is to advance the mission of the Food and Drug Administration to modernize medical, veterinary, food, food ingredient, and cosmetic product development, accelerate innovation, and enhance product safety….The Foundation shall [take] into consideration the Critical Path reports and priorities published by the Food and Drug Administration, identify unmet needs in the development, manufacture, and evaluation of the safety and effectiveness, including post approval, of devices, including diagnostics, biologics, and drugs, and the safety of food, food ingredients, and cosmetics."
Through this foundation the FDA is seeking broad new regulatory power that it currently does not possess. This will include the authority to attack any dietary supplement (which are food ingredients) as unsafe based on its use of "Critical Path" technology. This means the FDA will use proteomics (the advanced study of proteins in biological systems) to assess changes in biomarkers (the change in the state of a protein at the molecular level) in order to establish whatever it wants to consider as a risk. The FDA can slant this technology, based on their own personal opinions, to make anything they want appear as a risk – including your favorite dietary supplements that you use to stay healthy.
Deceiving the Public
This new bill panders to concerns of Americans regarding the safety of drugs. This legitimate worry is used by Kennedy and Enzi to garner support when in reality the bill does just the opposite - exposing Americans to almost unfathomable new drug risks and dangers while simultaneously making it possible to remove super safe, therapeutic, and helpful dietary supplements. The entire Critical Path initiative is a plan to race new and untested powerful biological drugs onto the market and experiment on patients all over the country – throwing caution to the wind as far as drug safety is concerned.
While S1082 also pretends to address the issues of drug safety, in reality all the needed Big Pharma loopholes are firmly in place. Additionally, the establishment of a clinical trial database as written in this proposed law will enable Big Pharma to hide experimental and undesirable side effects. Instead of full disclosure we will have a sterilized clinical trial database that will have the net effect of being used as a tool by Big Pharma to promote off label use of drugs. This is a far cry from disclosure that results in safety.
In response to the Kennedy con Charles Grassley (R-IA) immediately attacked the legislation on the floor of the Senate:
"The bill [S1802] does not address the outstanding critical problem that the office responsible for post-market drug safety lacks the independence, lacks the authority to promptly identify serious health risks and take necessary steps that will protect the public. As I think we all agree, the FDA is in desperate need of major overhaul."
The problem for Grassley, and all Americans, is that his true safety reform measures for the FDA are being held hostage by the HELP committee which is under the control of Kennedy and Enzi. His proposed legislation is S. 468: Food and Drug Administration Safety Act of 2007 and S. 467: Fair Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2007. As Grassley told the Senate:
"Let me be clear: Big Pharma does not like these bills. FDA management does not like these bills. Lobbyists are spending hours upon hours lobbying against these bills…What is wrong with establishing a separate center within the FDA--not outside the FDA, within the FDA--with its only job being that of a watchdog for those drugs already in the market?...What is wrong with supporting a clinical trial registry and results database that also requires sponsors to reveal their negative trials?...I propose there is nothing wrong with any of these proposals."
The situation is rather grave for all Americans. Kennedy has attached repressive legislation to replace the PDUFA funding thereby ensuring that his agenda will come before the Senate for a vote. The only real opposition to the legislation is coming from Grassley, who is attacking the weakness in FDA reform regarding drug safety and clinical trials. An even greater threat to the public – turning the FDA into a drug company and creating new regulatory powers that can be used to attack dietary supplements and remove them from the market – is being ignored by everyone – until now. Kennedy knows he can defeat Grassley and keep Grassley’s bills from ever seeing the light of day. Can Kennedy defeat the American public? Solving this problem is up to you.
The Secret FDA Agenda – Government Against the People
The FDA is a puppet organization. Its management is a revolving door with Big Pharma, Big Biotech, and Big Agriculture. The behavior of its management team, set by its current leader Andrew von Eschenbach – but fully entrenched in its long and ugly history, is one of acting as a police-force bully to forward the profits of those with money and stamp out all competition (under the false guise of consumer protection). The FDA management fully believes it is above any law that is in its way or any attempt at Congressional oversight. It gives lip service to its safety mission. It is a cult unto itself.
The anti-American FDA is actively seeking to undermine U.S. laws and harmonize our dietary supplement laws with Mexico and Canada. This is being done through the Trilateral Cooperation Charter – an illegal agreement set up with health regulatory agencies in Mexico and Canada. It is part of the campaign towards a North American Union, one which would be a catastrophe for health freedom in this country as dietary supplement laws in Canada and Mexico are far more restrictive than in the U.S.
The FDA would also like to harmonize our dietary supplement laws with the evolving international standards set by Codex, thus branding therapeutic nutrition as dangerous and risky and needing to be sold by Big Pharma or removed from the market altogether (if it competes with a blockbuster category of drugs). Codex is planning to use the same proteomics and biomarker technology that will be used by the FDA’s Critical Path Initiative to remove therapeutic dietary supplements from the international market and force their policies on America, thereby superseding the sovereignty of American law on threat of trade sanctions. The FDA fully supports draconian Codex guidelines to regulate dietary supplements and is working with the Germans to concoct technology to brand nutrients as drugs. The FDA management is as bad as any government agency can get. Under the leadership of Andrew von Eschenbach it has plummeted to an all time low.
What You Can Do Now:
1. Call, fax, phone, and write your Senators and tell them you are opposed to bill S1082 - Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act. Tell them you want no legislation of any kind that will enable the FDA to frivolously attack dietary supplements. Tell them you do not want Big Pharma funding the FDA with user fees for drug approvals. Demand an independent office within the FDA to monitor drug safety. And tell them you want full disclosure by Big Pharma of all their clinical trials. Tell them you support the Grassley legislation (S467 and S468) which offers true reform of the FDA. Click here for sample letter.
2. Tell your Senators you are completely opposed to any law that would enable the FDA to act as a drug company, such as S1082, which is proposing the formation of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA. Click here for sample letter.
3. Sign this petition demanding congressional oversight of the FDA’s Trilateral Cooperation Charter – a key point the FDA is using to illegally support the formation of the North American Union while at the same time undermining health freedom. This is the FDA’s front line attack that undermines American law and seeks to harmonize us with the laws of other countries. We must win this battle to stop Codex and preserve our health freedom – including access to therapeutic dietary supplements and all alternative health options.
If S1082 becomes law and the FDA is allowed to enter relationships with foreign countries without any Congressional mandate or oversight we can kiss health freedom goodbye – as well as our dietary supplements. It is time for dietary supplement companies and trade groups to get their heads out of the sand and quit jockeying for position in the New World Order at the expense of the future well being of their own customers.
The issue of health freedom is an issue for all Americans who believe in our constitution and our founding documents. America is the last bastion of health freedom on earth. If we fall, the world will be plunged into a Dark Ages of health. Our future health will be dictated by a multinational sickness industry driven by profits for drug and biologic companies with little to do with real quality of health. This is a crossroads – a moment in time. Health freedom is fundamental to all other freedoms as without health freedom the minds and bodies of a population are easy to control.
"They [big pharma] pay the salaries of the FDA." That's scary.
greedy, disease mongering pharmaceutical companies.