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Europe to ban hundreds of herbal remedies
Safety concerns sparked drive to outlaw products

By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Thursday, 30 December 2010

Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a "discriminatory and disproportionate" European law.

With four months to go before the EU-wide ban is implemented, thousands of patients face the loss of herbal remedies that have been used in the UK for decades.

From 1 May 2011, traditional herbal medicinal products must be licensed or prescribed by a registered herbal practitioner to comply with an EU directive passed in 2004. The directive was introduced in response to rising concern over adverse effects caused by herbal medicines.

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FOR THOSE OUT OF "THE LOOP" SKIP TO THE VIDEO AND ARTICLE BELOW, THEN COME BACK UP HERE!!!

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The fact that I have been criticized for making an issue of this topic and its lack of popularity intuitively tells me IT IS VERY IMPORTANT! It was a hot topic only a couple years ago, but now the hype has conveniently died down in the thick of the vaccine scare (and for completely mislead the H1N1 scare). The purpose of this post is not to bash Rima Laibow (explained below) perse, but to prompt some more investigation.

No need to freak out, or get all bent out of shape, we are all gonna die anyway!!! But think about it, everyone is harping on about H1N1 vaccination while this becomes international policy, and if the shills are pointing one way... we should look the other!!!!!!!!
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FOR ALL OF YOU ALREADY IN THE LOOP:

You may be aware of DR. Rima Laibow, she has been a primary figure in the anti-codex campaign. See her website there.

Now I have been researching this thread at the angryscientist.com. The concensus there is that she is a shill, put there to exaggerate the consequences of Codex alimentarius so to sell alot of shit to paranoid people, while making outlandish claims that can easily be debunked (i.e. that 3 billion people will die from its implimentation)!!! Which is not to say its implications are not VERY SIGNIFICANT for the human food supply but...

Here is a quote by an anonymous poster on that thread who seems to have a juicy explanation...

"They are a controlled opposition group. Their goal is to misdirect the grass roots by using sensationalism and fabrication to divert unwary people into taking superfluous courses of action that seem solid on the surface, but are not."

MY ONLY CONCERN IS THAT WHEN YOU GOOGLE HER NAME THIS THREAD AT THE ANGRYSCIENTIST.COM COMES UP FIRST... SO I DO NOT DOUBT THIS WOMANS CREDIBILITY ENTIRELY, FOR ALL I KNOW SHES BEING BLACKBALLED!!!! AFTER ALL GOOGLE IS WELL... NEVERMIND!!!

AND SHE APPARENTLY FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE GUY WHO MADE THE VIDEO BELOW FOR NOT INCLUDING HER INFO IN IT!!!! TO BOOT HER HUSBAND IS AN EX US ARMY GENERAL (see his video on 911 truth at bottom of this page).... So I really dont know what to think, Ill give her the benefit of the doubt for now.

SO YOU KNOW WHAT I DONT HAVE TIME TO PLAY SHERLOCK HOLMES!!!! SO YOU DECIDE BITCHES!!!!

Please help to get the word out on this website by linking this, its literally the only one not trying to sell you anything!!! WHO DO YOU TRUST!!!

Dont forget to read article below for the facts!!!
Codex Alimentarius: How Well Are You Informed?
From The healthier life

Date: 12/10/09
 
The Codex Alimentarius Commission is responsible for establishing a system of guidelines, standards and recommendations that guides the direction of the global food supply. These guidelines and standards are supposed to ensure ‘fair trade practices’ and consumer protection within global food trade.

Now, you can imagine that in such a system of guidelines small producers and suppliers are left out in the cold. The same happens with small governments that disagree with the Codex guidelines. Codex’s power and influence covers almost all areas of food supply, ranging from cocoa, meat, meat hygiene, cereals, sugars, dairy and fresh fruit and vegetables. It also deals with more controversial issues such as food additives, contaminants in food, food labelling, pesticide residues and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

A few weeks ago, we wrote about the looming dangers of Codex Alimentarius. This raised some questions about the truth behind Codex Alimentarius’ modus operandi.

Because Codex is a big bad monster which has not been put to bed yet it’s important that we take a look at what Codex is and how far-reaching its influence and power is.

Decoding Codex

The Codex Alimentarius Commission is responsible for establishing a system of guidelines, standards and recommendations that guides the direction of the global food supply. These guidelines and standards are supposed to ensure ‘fair trade practices’ and consumer protection within global food trade.

On the outset Codex looks like a good idea, because it aims to tell us what is safe. However, instead of being a fair- trade movement that aims to support farmers and producers in developing countries while promoting sustainability, Codex has turned into a system of guidelines and standards that work to the advantage of the world’s corporations and food manufacturers.

Now, you can imagine that in such a system of guidelines small producers and suppliers are left out in the cold. The same happens with small governments that disagree with the Codex guidelines. Codex’s power and influence covers almost all areas of food supply, ranging from cocoa, meat, meat hygiene, cereals, sugars, dairy and fresh fruit and vegetables. It also deals with more controversial issues such as food additives, contaminants in food, food labelling, pesticide residues and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

How bad can it get?

So, you can see that the Codex tentacles are wrapped around almost every aspect of what we consume. Some of the most important issues affected by Codex are:

1. Food/dietary supplements

• Setting very low maximum daily doses for supplements using scientifically flawed risk assessment methods to determine these dosage levels;
• Effectively establishing an international borderline between foods and drugs for nutrients, forcing therapeutic nutrients into drug categories;
• Requirement for clinical trials to validate health claims of food/dietary supplements. These can be too expensive for small companies. This will provide a ‘passport system’ for big corporations and act as an obstacle to freedom of speech and trade for smaller ones;
• Setting unnecessarily low Nutrient Reference Values which seriously understate requirements for long-term optimum health for given sub- populations, age groups and genders.

2. Organic food

• ‘Dumbing-down’ of organic standards to suit interests of large food producers;
• Promotion of large-scale, high-input agriculture and international freight;
• Approval of various synthetic chemical additives and ‘processing aids’ in organic foods;
• No outright ban on use of irradiation post-production;
• Labelling that will allow the use of hidden, non-organic ingredients.

3. Genetically modified (GM) food

• Driven by GM interests which argue world food requirements cannot be met without global implementation of GM;
• GM food plants being given the green light on safety;
• ‘Terminator’ seeds could be approved for international trade;
• GM food animals are on the way.

4. Food additives

• Approving around 300 different food additives as safe. These are all mainly synthetic including aspartame, BHA, BHT, potassium bromate, tartrazine, etc;
• No consideration given to potential risks associated with long-term exposure to mixtures of additives.

5. Pesticide residues

• Allows significant residues of over 3,275 different pesticides, including those that are suspected carcinogens or endocrine disruptors, eg. 2,4-D, atrazine, methyl bromide;
• Not taking into account the long-term effects of exposure to mixtures of pesticide residues in food.

Codex is not a law... but it is bound to rule this land

Codex does not create laws but merely delivers guidelines, standards and recommendations and this is why many governments see Codex as harmless, as do corporations that benefit from these recommendations and guidelines.

The reality is that most countries have no option but to harmonise their laws to Codex. If they don’t, they face imposed sanctions by the World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Body (WTODSB). WTODSB is the ultimate enforcer of Codex’s rules governing the global food trade and once you’ve crossed their path you probably won’t be allowed to trade internationally.

On a grass root level, when the man on the street is being poisoned by pollutants or chemicals in food, or we have our fundamental rights and freedoms restricted by losing access to wholesome, natural foods and nutrients, it is of course not Codex that can be blamed; it is the national and regional law of each country. In order to change this, laws will have to be changed and we all know how time consuming that is. This distancing of Codex from the law seems to allow Codex to escape direct blame – and of course also makes its operation much more sinister. This is exactly why it is important to act against the Codex regulations now, before they become implemented trade recommendations and guidelines that are turned into the law of the land.

How to make a difference?

While many of us are still able to exercise freedom of choice, one of the most effective actions we can take is to be selective in our choice of foods.

* Consumer action: do not buy or eat processed foods, GM foods, or foods containing food additives wherever possible. Try to buy or cultivate organic foods or foods to which pesticides have not been applied.

* Political action: make sure you make your views known both about national and European laws – as well as Codex – to your governments and elected representatives. In the UK, this includes your Member of the European Parliament and your MP. If your local MP is unaware of what Codex entails, make them aware with the correct information.

* Social action: make others aware of the risks posed to our food supply by European and other national or regional laws and Codex. Help your friends, relatives and other contacts to appreciate the risks of processed, GM and unnatural foods. Stress the importance of chemical-free, locally or regionally produced, whole foods in the diet.


Currently there are two petitions on the 10 Downing Street website relating to Codex activities. Signing these petitions is important and making other people aware of them plays a key role in having our voices heard.

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Codex Ailimentarius laws will enforce participating WTO members to implement what some call dangerous standards on food regulation to facilitate free trade. This involves placing what some sceptics presume to be dangerous standards on nutrients, vitamins, pesticides and GMOs, on exchanged between countries. Pretty much every WTO country (153 of them) wants to be compliant with the codex rules because if a trade dispute arises and needs to be arbitrated, the one who is compliant will be favored. Thus they all strive to be compliant with the initiative. Codex defines nutrients as poisons in the sense that anything proven to have virtually no impact on a person is the greatest amount that is permitted in food, or 1/100 of that which is shown to have some noticeable effect in animal tests; which pretty much means zero! Thus poisonous amounts are thought to be anything that exceeds this 1/100th rule. Among other things it necessitates the use of Monsanto's Bovine growth hormone in every cow in participating countries, and resetting pesticide standards to what many speculate are dangerous levels. And such is the primer for the following article breakdown which details how vitamins are being increasingly downplayed in value in the media, as preventative agents, as Codex readies for full implementation at the end of 2009.


Here is a sentence from one of these reports:
“A major study has been released showing that Vitamin E and selenium don't prevent prostate cancer, so do vitamins and supplements do us any good?”

I mean being stupid is one thing, not seeing the deception in this statement is another. Yes, because it isn’t a stretch in the least, to say that vitamins are all bad based on the fact that one study challenged one vitamins utility in combating one disease. This implies that not only are vitamin supplements unnecessary but that vitamins period may be unnecessary!

“CBS news asked the government's top authority on vitamin supplements, Paul M. Coates (director of the Office of Dietary Supplements for the National Institute of Health), for the bottom line on:”
• Vitamin E: "We have exhausted the possibilities for its role in chronic disease prevention."
• Vitamin C: "No effect for cancer prevention."
• Vitamin B: "For the prevention of chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer, the evidence does not point to a benefit of B vitamins."

And what about taking a daily multivitamin?

"There is a lack of ... solid evidence taking multivitamins regularly have an impact on disease prevention," Coates said.

Yes… so you may as well just eat anything, because the key to longevity certainly isn’t what you eat, rather its what kind of synthetic drugs you can take, energy drinks, and diet drinks! Fuck eating local go to Mickey Dees and take two of these in the morning you dumb fuck nutrient devoid Tran fattened sterilized GMO face stuffing peasant bitch you!
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November 16th 2008
CONSUMER HEALTH AND DEPOPULATION

1) Upon their first release, the radiation emitted from cell phones (nearly equivalent to that of a microwave) was said to be highly dangerous (a once popular fact that has long since been repressed). Infantile consumers (who think they will live forever) are surely in for a big surprise!

In addition internet web use on a cell phone found to be far more radiant an activity than via laptop, nonetheless soon to be eugenicized peasants text on.


2) 8000 more blacks die due to blood pressure than other American cultural groups. Media agencies claim the results are not due to a establishment supported campaign geared toward the promotion of low nutrition foods to African Americans, nor the availability of fast food restaurants and liquor stores in their neighborhoods. The programmed spending habits of blacks who are able to avoid slavery 2.0, (I.e. prison) work to the benefit of large corporations that rely on their FIAT currency. Doctors persist in denial that these social issues are the cause. Instead they will try to engineer a drug to sell them, to bridge the establishment prescribed racial health divide.


2) Dutch government (in the spirit of social Darwinism), will force what it deems to be ‘unfit mothers’ to take contraceptives. The US insists that they are doing it all wrong, and continues distributing harmful vaccinations and engineering viruses for population control and maintenance of the increasingly imbalanced status quo.


3) Increasing sterility of males attributed to plastics and GMO’s. In addition significantly less males being born in an attempt by ‘Mother Nature (a patriarchal term to compensate for the wrongdoings done to women) to impede the ongoing extinction of millions of its other species.


4) China recognizes internet addiction, and designates psychiatric units to treat the disorder in an effort to stigmatize CPU use and further censor their people from knowing what’s going on in the world. like clockwork, big pharma braces for another suppressive round of profitable psycho-pharmaceutical induced thought suppression.


5) Obese kids said to have the equivalent of middle aged arteries. The American Academy of Pediatrics is recommending a cholesterol lowering drug to make pharmaceutical companies richer while maintaining excessive consumption, and keeping kids manageable, rotund and stupid. Because its clear that encouraging them not to eat as much isn’t a valid option in a profit driven society that is on the brink of collapse.

6) Nicotine replacements from Tobacco companies being promoted to pregnant women as industry driven studies indicate that it is less harmful on children then smoking cigarettes. Instead of advocating they quit all together (which would be slightly sensible), they facilitate the business needs of GlascoSmithKline (leading nicotine supplement provider; owners of Nicolette and Nicoderm) enabling them turn profits through their target markets gestation period. Concurrently, they are able to further endorse the notion that quitting smoking is in fact difficult, which in turn makes it more psychologically difficult to quit. Nicorette chewers remain ignorant to the fact that Only 5% quit smoking using these supplements, and that anti-smoking campaigns, including smokers help lines, are merely there to propagate the false idea that quitting is hard to do.


7) Vitamin intake being discouraged in line with Codex Alimentarius’s depopulation agenda, which involves dangerous nutrient regulations on food in order to facilitate “free trade” between countries. The regulations are set to be fully implemented by 2010...


BREAKING NEWS!! This just in: Vitamin C causes cancer and Vitamin E causes high risk of strokes, including a new found skepticism over the utility of vitamin D. But its OK!!! Because nutrient deficient genetically modified foods (that soon will be all that is available) increase sterility and kills bees! Whew!


8) Health agencies persist in their proliferation of a treatment base medicinal economy by not curing anything. Meanwhile super microscope unveiled that can see 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair to aid in the process of not curing anything, rather it will aid in the engineering of more disease.

9) The populous being warmed to the idea of global CIA initiated influenza pandemic, ensuring us that it’s not a question of ‘if’ rather a question of ‘when’ the next outbreak occurs. Predictions are that it may kill between 51 and 80 million people. Now the popular question is said to be “who lives” or who is vital to the society (I.e. who gets the antidotes and vaccine to the engineered plague) which should shed light on which part of the population the virus will be released on...

10) To commemorate veterans day 18 American Iraqi vets kill themselves (which is the same amount that do so everyday) due to post traumatic stress disorder,
and brain damage, this isn't counting the deaths and permanent damage caused by exposure to the radiation of depleted uranium artillery shells. Media persists in the flawed statistic that only 4000 troops have died as a result of the Iraq war, as unknowing Americans are continuously preconditioned for WW3.
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