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- Senate May Vote on Immigration Bill Today! "Reform" Bill Undermines the Rule of Law!
- DAWN OF THE ERA OF COMMON-ISM
- Opposition to National ID Continues to Grow
- Health Freedom Crisis – FDA Fascists Want to ELIMINATE Your Health Freedom!
- Submit comments on the draft guidance to the Division of Dockets Management (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
- The American PEOPLE do not want the FDA regulating their alternative health care options.
- You will NOT submit to Codex-type regulations.
- Their “thinking,” as expressed in the Draft Guidance, is irrelevant. As a federal agency, their “thinking” should be to follow the will of Congress! OR, in other words,
- BACK OFF!
- It is urgent that you contact your own Congressman. You can write your Representative and Senator as below:
- Urge everyone in your personal and professional circles of influence to protect their health freedom – their personal right to make their own health choices.
- It is also important to email the manufacturers of the health care products you take. Ask them to alert their suppliers and customer base, to protect their businesses.
- Make sure your health care providers know of FDA’s fascist attempt to put them out of business. They need to alert their patients and colleagues, too.
- Progress in the fight to stop the NAU and NAFTA Highway
- The Global Warming Debate: As the skeptics score points, the political climate starts to change
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- More climate scientist “strongly disagree” than “strongly agree” with the notion that climate change is caused by humans.
- Most climate scientists do not believe “the current state of knowledge is able to provide reasonable predictions of climate variability” over 100-year periods.
- Only 2 percent of climate scientists surveyed ‘strongly agree” that modeling programs designed to predict climate changes are accurate, and
- Almost all climate scientists agree that climate change could have “positive effects for some societies.”
May 30, 2007
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The Senate is in a frenzy working to pass S. 1348, The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, co-sponsored by Senator Ted Kennedy and Senator John McCain. If passed, this bill (developed behind closed doors amid massive public opposition) will so undermine our Rule of Law and the sovereignty of the United States that the nation will not recover. You must take action if we are to save the existence of the United States as a sovereign nation!
The Heritage Foundation published an analysis of S. 1348 ( http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1468.cfm ) by Matthew Spalding, Ph.D., Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation, and former DOJ/AG adviser on immigration law Kris Kobach, Ph.D. In it, they state, “This seriously flawed proposal would undermine the rule of law by granting massive benefits to those who have willfully violated U.S. laws, while denying those benefits to those who have played by the rules and sometimes even to U.S. citizens.”
They then list ten of the worst provisions in this very flawed bill, cautioning that their list of ten is “by no means an exhaustive list:”
1. A Massive Amnesty - the bill grants amnesty to virtually all of the 12-20 million illegal aliens in the country today, with no cap on the total number eligible.
2. The Permanent “Temporary” Visa – renewable every four years until the visa-holder dies.
3. Hobbled Background Checks – would make it extremely difficult to prevent criminals and terrorists from obtaining legal status.
4. Amnesty for Absconders – extends to the more than 636,000 fugitives who have been ordered deported by an immigration judge.
5. Reverse Justice – would effectively shut down the immigration court system.
6. Enforcement of Amnesty, Not Laws – would transform Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from a law enforcement agency into an amnesty distribution center.
7. Amnesty for Gang Members – extends eligibility to over 30,000 violent international gang members, such as MS-13.
8. Tuition Subsidies for Illegal Aliens – incorporates Senator Kennedy’s DREAM Act (demanded by illegal alien lobbyists), giving illegal alien students in-state college tuition breaks not available to out-of-state American students and legal immigrant students.
9. Taxpayer-Funded Lawyers for Illegal Aliens – would force taxpayers to foot the bill for many illegal aliens’ lawyers.
10. Amnesty Before Enforcement Triggers – allows provisional visas to be issued immediately after enactment; giving illegals immediate lawful status, protection from deportation, authorization to work, and the ability to exit and reenter the country.
S. 1348 also creates a new “United States – Mexico Border Enforcement Review Commission” (Title 1, Section 138). Michelle Malkin ( http://michellemalkin.com/archives/007576.htm?
print=1 ) says this “appears to be a Trojan Horse for more proxy meddling by Mexican officials hell-bent on undermining border enforcement and interior enforcement. Members from the law enforcement community will be balanced out by members from ‘academia, religious leaders, civic leaders or community leaders‘ (read: the open-borders lobby).” In practice, this provision would completely undermine our nation’s rank-and-file border enforcement.
S. 1348 will place an estimated 60 million immigrants on the path to U.S. citizenship in coming years. But the U.S. physically cannot accommodate 60 million, mostly unskilled immigrants who don’t even speak our language. Heritage Foundation scholar Robert Rector recently released a new study entitled, “The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Households to the U.S. Taxpayer.” In the report, Rector notes that two-thirds of the 12-20 million illegal aliens in this country fall into the category of “low-skill” households (only about 10% of Americans fall into that category). Rector concluded the average low-skill household receives $22,449 more in benefits than it pays in taxes.
World Net Daily calculated if there are 12 million illegals in the U.S. the total tax burden would be $2.2 trillion. This is a staggering sum, but if you run the numbers based on 60 million, you arrive at a financial burden American taxpayers simply could never possibly pay.
Why is it that President Bush seems to want freedom, “democracy” and national sovereignty everywhere else in the world, but not at home?
When will this insanity stop? Who will stop it? If we are to save this nation, it must be you, and it must be today!
ACTION TO TAKE
1. Contact Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid.
2. Contact Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
3. Contact your two state Senators.
Tell them all you completely oppose any amnesty bill, in any form, by whatever name. DEMAND they vote against S. 1348 or any other bill containing amnesty provisions.
Phone calls and letters are the most effective way to contact Congress.
E-mails and faxes are many times ignored. Members of Congress have been changing their e-mail addresses and fax numbers when we send out alerts. If you prefer, though, you can send an e-mail by going to each member’s website at http://thomas.gov.
You can write your Senator as below:
Office of Senator (Name)
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
You may phone the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. A switchboard operator will connect you directly with the Senate or House office you request. Or,
You can send an e-mail by going to each member’s website at http://thomas.gov.
4. Contact President Bush. Demand he honor his sworn oath, taken twice now, to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Remind President Bush that Article IV, Section 4 of that Constitution reads, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion.”
Ask President Bush how he can guarantee our porous border prevents entry into the U.S. by terrorists.
Ask President Bush why U.S. citizens should be assaulted, robbed, raped and murdered, and have their children molested, while he refuses to seal our borders and insure enforcement of our laws.
You may phone or fax President Bush:
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461
Or email him: comments@whitehouse.gov
The President of the United States is clearly not doing his duty to protect Americans against invasion. Perhaps some courageous Republican, to get the attention of this White House, should drop a bill of impeachment into the hopper, charging President Bush with a conscious refusal to uphold his oath of office and defend the states of the Union against “invasion.”
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May 22, 2007
By Tom DeWeese
The lines used to be so clear. On one side were free markets, free societies and openly elected representative governments, normally defined as democracy. On the other, was the force of totalitarianism choking off individual initiative, private ownership of property, cynically providing a ballot box with but one choice, normally defined as Communism. In the end, the “Evil Empire” disintegrated under the weight of its own ignorance of human nature. Or did it?
Conservatives hailed the victory, dispatching Communism to the “ash-heap of history.” Many Conservative leaders have put forth the idea that we are living in a “Conservative era,” using as proof the Republican takeover of Congress and the worldwide movement toward democracy and free trade. The demise of Communism, some say, now allows a spirit of cooperation among nations that will bring on the benefits of worldwide prosperity and a universal increase in the standard of living.
Yet many Americans are concerned that the same leaders who proclaim American ideals are spreading across the globe have failed to protect constitutionally guaranteed liberties here at home. The assaults on property rights and personal privacy along with the transformation of local schools under federal programs, and above all, the seeming lack of concern for national sovereignty and protection of the nation’s borders are the obvious contradictions to the proposition that Conservative ideas now reign supreme.
Other goals seem to be taking center stage. The rule of law in our Republic, designed to insure individual rights from intrusive government, is being replaced by a new ideology; one that tends to allow the concerns of interest groups to supersede the inherent rights of the individual. Further, the interests of the United States of America now seem to take a back seat to something called the “Global Commons.” National identities and individual religions appear to be morphing into non-descript and indistinguishable arrangements to some unidentified whole. Science has been reduced to little more than a convenient political tool to promote agendas. Self-determination is being replaced with group-think.
What is happening to our way of life and to our nation, as it once was? Communism is dead. Capitalism is fading. We have begun a new era called Common-ism.
A NEW THREAT FOR A NEW CENTURY
When the walls of Soviet Communism fell over a decade ago, the world changed. Once-proud nations, that had been swallowed up by the Soviet empire, emerged as a new “democracy movement.” Western forces were expected to rush forward and promote their ideology and bring Communism’s formerly oppressed victims into the fold of free markets and freely elected representative government. But it didn’t happened.
Instead, international Communists refused to hang their heads in defeat and leave the world stage. In fact, with the “death” of Communism, they were now freed from its negative baggage. They could begin a new movement able to reach across national boundaries – even into the West. As long as the title “Communist” was not hung around their neck to raise Western fears, the ideas of international Socialism could move forward unhindered. The world has responded in almost thunderous support. Thus, Common-ism was born.
The distinctive feature of Commonism is its intention to transform private intellectual property and nationally controlled natural resources into common property in the name of the “common heritage of mankind.” The ideology of Commonism is based on political concepts and spiritual values, such as global commons, global village, global spirituality, equalitarianism, democratism, disarmament, environmentalism, interdependence, interconnectedness, and participation in world peace.
Commonism is a political ideology containing both a doctrine and a device for its expansion. Commonism advances on the idea that problems cross national and local boundaries. In that way, natural and political boundaries are conveniently traversed through treaties, legislation and policy statements, all under the excuse that it is necessary for improvement of the common good.
President Bill Clinton boldly announced a new initiative to “reinvent government.” That reinvention was Commonism. Under Clinton’s direction, the Federal Government began implementing Commonism policy. The promise of the reinvention was that “certain tools, approaches, and strategies…could result in more environmental protection, less economic cost, and … greater opportunity for the poor and disadvantaged.” The core program of the reinvention, publicly presented as a way to protect the environment, also mysteriously involved itself in racial, economic and equality issues.
This is no accident. It is a tactic of Commonism to meld together a seemingly unconnected array of issues into one cause. It allows the formation of partnerships among a long list of interested parties.
The Clinton Administration explained how these partnerships were to be a first step. “Learning to use new approaches to achieve interrelated goals simultaneously will be an evolutionary process. It needs to build on the strengths and overcome the limitations of current economic and regulatory systems and recognize the interrelationships between economic and environmental policies.” In describing “Intergovernmental Partnerships,” the Administration explained, “Federal, state, and tribal governments need to work together in partnership with local communities to develop place-based strategies that integrate economic development, environmental quality, and social policymaking with broad public involvement.”
In other words, local or state elected officials were no longer considered to be capable of making development decisions for the community. It was now necessary to expand the process through common consensus of an endless number of private organizations with their own political agendas. In this way the boundaries of government are blurred along with the clear definition of the rule of law.
That then was the new invention of government. Top-down control in partnership with private advocacy groups and international corporations.
The doctrine of Commonism is promoted through a restructured education system where old ideas of schools as centers of academic learning are replaced with systems designed to moderate behavior that will accept the aspects of the new Commonism. The very meaning of Outcome-based Education (OBE) is that students will leave school fully indoctrinated with, and sensitive to, the Commonism agenda.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Throughout the doctrine of Commonism one rarely hears use of the words “freedom” or “liberty” as they would pertain to individuals. Instead, one hears much about the need for justice. Economic justice. Environmental justice. Racial justice. Social justice. Rights, too, are important. The rights of the child. The rights of women. The rights of indigenous populations. All of these rights and calls for justice serve a very important purpose; the need for more laws, rules and regulations to enforce them and, since these urgent needs cross international borders, there must be some sort of international power with the ability to keep it all under well-ordered control.
The United Nations’ Millennium Summit held in New York City on 2000, saw the official transfer of the UN from what many perceived as an international organization of sovereign nations to that of a global organization. In the spirit of Commonism, UN power would be switched to an “Assembly of the People,” populated by selected NGO’s, giving international scope and power to partnerships in local communities. The UN Millennium Assembly was the culmination of efforts started in 1974 by a band of international socialists that sought to stress Common-ism rather than revolutionary Communism.
They called the process social and economic democracy. Democracy is a positive term in the West. However, understanding the use of this word by international socialists is the key to understanding Commonism and today’s changed world. To Conservatives, democracy means civil and political decisions made within the framework of a free society and a free market. It means moving from closed elections (or none at all) to free and competitive elections among multiple parties. In the United States, democracy particularly means that defense of individual rights and property is paramount to government dictate.
To the Socialist or Communist, democracy primarily means economic or social equality with or without parliamentary means. To the Socialist, if property, wealth, choice or communication need to be taken from one group in order to create “equality” for another, that is social democracy. In Socialist philosophy, law becomes an instrument to advocate the redistribution and intrusion of rights, riches, privacy and property, under the excuse of economic equality in order to “enforce” a new international economic order.
COMMISSIONING COMMONISM
During the early and middle part of the Twentieth Century, international Socialist David Multrany pioneered the path to Commonism using the common cause approach to find global “common security” and “common future.” His ideas were fully entrenched in international policy through a series of four UN-sponsored international commissions in the early 1980s.
The four international commissions were led by prominent European international socialists and dealt with the interconnection, integration and “democratization” of economic development, disarmament, environment and communications.
In 1980, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt chaired the commission on international development. The Commission report, entitled “North-South: A program for Survival,” said: “World development is not merely an economic process, [it] involves a profound transformation of the entire economic and social structure…not only the idea of economic betterment, but also of greater human dignity, security, justice and equality…The Commission realizes that mankind has to develop a concept of a ‘single community’ to develop global order.”
Also in 1980, Sean MacBride, a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize, headed up a commission on international communications, which issued a report entitled, “Many Voices, One World: Towards A New, More Just And More Efficient World Information And Communication Order.” The Commission, which included the head of the Soviet news agency, TASS, believed that a “New World Information Order” was prerequisite to a new world economic order. The report was a blueprint for controlling the media, even suggesting that international journalists be licensed.
In 1982, Olof Palme, the man who single-handedly returned socialism to Sweden, served as chairman of the Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues. His report, entitled “Common Security: A Blueprint for Survival,” said: “All States have the duty to promote the achievement of general and complete disarmament under effective international control…” The report went on to call for money that is saved for disarmament to be used to pay for social programs. The Commission proposed a strategic shift from “collective security,” such as the alliances like NATO, to one of “common security” through the United Nations.
Finally, in 1987, came the granddaddy commission of them all, The Brundtland Commission on Environment and Development. Headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, Vice President of the World Socialist Party, the commission introduced the concept of “Sustainable Development.” For the first time the environment was tied to the tried and true Socialist goals of international redistribution of wealth. Said the report, “Poverty is a major cause and effect of global environmental problems. It is therefore futile to attempt to deal with environmental problems without a broader perspective that encompasses the factors underlying world poverty and international inequality.”
These four commissions laid the groundwork for the Common-ism agenda. A controlled media would dictate the flow of information and ideas and prevent dissent. Control of international development manages and redistributes wealth. Full disarmament puts the power structure into the hands of those with armaments. And tying environmentalism to poverty and economic development brings the entire socialist agenda to the level of an international emergency.
One world, one media, one authority for development, one source of wealth. One international army. The construction of a “just society” with political and social equality rather than a free society with the individual as the sole possessor of rights. It’s all wrapped up in nothing more that Orwellian single-think and double-talk. Exclusive and universal power in the newly reformed United Nations. Welcome to the world of Common-ism.
A NEW AMERICA IN THE NEW GLOBAL ORDER
In the wake of the euphoria following the fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall, socialists wasted little time implementing their plans. The former Soviet Empire gave birth to a hoard of Socialist democracies. Western Europe fell in line, discarding once-proud sovereign nations, and forming the European Union with its common regulations, common currency and common Socialist agenda.
Today, in the United States the agenda is moving forward faster than any Socialist could ever have hoped. Of course the effort was greatly advanced under President Clinton’s Executive order pen as he began the full implementation of Commonism as official U.S. policy. That brought the United States into much closer compliance with the UN’s Agenda 21 agreement, first signed by former President George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Republicans too, have embraced the agenda, all the while proclaiming the Commonism brand of free trade as the vision of our founding fathers. Even after the Republicans gained control of the Congress, Speaker-to-be Newt Gingrich agreed that the lame-duck 103rd Democrat-controlled Congress should reconvene to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Many freedom-loving libertarians have argued that NAFTA is about free enterprise and universal global liberty. Yet a comparison of the NAFTA document show it to be literally indistinguishable from the agenda outlined in the Brandt and Bruntland Commission reports from the 1980’s. Meanwhile, most Republicans continue to dismiss the United Nations and its policies of global governance and Commonism as no threat to U.S. sovereignty.
It seems the soothing positive-sounding double speak of Commonism lulls them to a peaceful sleep. Only a radical, they say, could oppose world-wide democracy and free trade.
However, the noose continues to tighten as three elements are now being promoted for an American union similar to the European Union. First are efforts to harmonize diplomatic relations in the North American countries of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Second are steps to homogenize economic relations into a North American trade agreement. Third is a strategy to dilute traditional concepts of the rule of law, which protect individuals and property. A new system would “humanize” or democratize the Americas, in which such things as property and liberty are not automatically protected, but rather decided by a majority.
The effort to create a North American Union took a huge step forward in March, 2005, when President George Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin signed an agreement to create common policies concerning various economic and security areas among the three nations. The agreement, called the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), authorized the creation of twenty tri-national working groups to establish policies leading to a European-style Union.
The blueprint being used to formulate the Union in undeniably a book written by Robert Pastor entitled “Building a North American Community.” Dr. Pastor, one of the architects of the Panama Canal Giveaway in the 1970’s, has argued that “Countries are benefited when they changed these (national sovereignty) polices, and evidence suggests that North Americans are ready for a new relationship that renders this old definition of sovereignty obsolete.”
Once such a union is established and has the full faith and credit backing of the U.S. government and commercial banks, the United States will certainly be less free or independent to act according to its national interests. As the United States forfeits its national sovereignty to the Union, Mexico and Canada will grow more determined to ensure the redistribution of wealth and power between the three nation states, and more within the commonwealth of North America.
The Socialists’ dream of a “Global Commons” is quickly nearing completion. Yet Americans, about to lose their national sovereignty, remain surprisingly ignorant to that fact. The policies are being implemented all around them, by every department of the federal government, but every state government, by every county commission and by every city council in the nation. Yet no alarms are sounding. Politicians never mention it on the campaign trail. Certainly no vote has been taken by the American people.
How is it being done? Step by step, town by town across the country, through the policies of community development, historic preservation, environmental protection, and school restructuring. The root of such policies are not locally created, rather they come from a central plan; a blueprint from an international agreement called Agenda 21. It works under many names including Commonism, the Third Way, and the most widely used – Sustainable Development.
May 11, 2007
By Tom DeWeese
Five states, Idaho, Washington, Montana, Arkansas and Maine, have enacted legislation informing the federal government that their states will not comply with the Real ID Act, a law passed by Congress in 2005 which will essentially transform driver’s licenses into a national ID Card.
The Act requires each state to change their driver’s license system to meet national standards and ensure that their databases are linked with other states and is set to take effect by May, 2008.
Under the Act, states and federal government would share access to a vast national database that could include images of birth certificates, marriage licenses, divorce papers, curt ordered separations, medical records, and detailed information on the name, date of birth, race, religion, ethnicity, gender, address, telephone, e-mail address, and Social Security Number for more than 240 million with no requirements or controls on how this database might be used. Many Americans may not have the documents required to obtain a REAL ID, or they may face added requirements based on arbitrary and capricious decisions made by DMV employees.
States are in revolt primarily because they simply cannot afford to comply. Estimated costs for full implementation are as high as $14.6 billion (or $292 million per state. Moreover, individuals will have to cover an additional $7.8 billion in additional fees, raising the price tag for the Real ID Act to $23 billion. In many cases the technology necessary for compliance actually does not exist. Moreover, in March, 2007, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released 162 pages of proposed regulations which States are supposed to implement as part of the Real ID Act.
Under the DHS dictates, the Real I D Act is nothing more than a federal take over of state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMVs). Everything for the color of the card backgrounds to the fonts used must conform to federal standards. States will have to completely overhaul their systems to comply.
The DHS requires states to set up information databases that are shared by all states, to allow information verification for driver’s licenses, passports and foreign documents, yet the technology to do that doesn’t yet exist. There isn’t even a national database system yet in place to verify birth certificates.
The DHS regulations do nothing to protect individual privacy in its proposed data bases. It conveniently says it “would be outside its authority to address this issue (privacy).” It simply leaves the issue for states to work out.
The DHS regulations require that every citizen applying for a driver’s license must present two verifiable documents to prove identity. That requirement alone will create massive lines and backups in DMVs across the nation as every single American will have to provide such information. Worse, the same documentation will be required for RENEWAL as well. Some estimate the time required to get a new driver’s license will be at least four months. Proof of address must be shown with not just one document, but two. Birth certificates must be verified with state vital records offices, even though, as stated, there is no database from which to access such information.
And the new system will do absolutely nothing to stop terrorists or illegals from acquiring driver’s licenses, nor will it protect us from identity theft. Because the DHS acknowledges that it needs an exemption allowing individuals to bypass many of the states’ verification and document requirements, identity thieves and terrorists will have huge loopholes to exploit to obtain Real IDs.
These are the reasons why the five states mentioned above have passed legislation refusing to comply. They simply can’t.
In addition to those five states, thirteen more states have passed legislation in one chamber of their legislatures to refuse compliance, including; Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Missouri, Minnesota, Georgia, South Carolina, West Virginia, Vermont and New Hampshire.
Nine states have introduced legislation that is still waiting action including; Oregon, Texas, Nebraska, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Massachusetts.
The federal government overstepped its Constitutional bounds when it tried to force the creation of a National ID on Americas. Now the states are what they should always when faced with that situation – they are saying no. Hopefully that will become a habit.
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The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has launched another sneak-attack, trying to regulate your health freedom into oblivion. Through FDA’s unholy partnerships with Big Pharma and the Codex Alimentarius Commission (an offshoot of the UN), we are very close to losing alternative health care in America. This is a crisis, and needs your immediate action.
In 1994 Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Heath and Education Act (DSHEA), voting unanimously to protect your health care choices, in response to 2.5 million ordinary citizens demanding dietary supplements stay on the over-the-counter market.
The FDA is trying to end-run the DSHEA, and regulate you out from under Congress’ severe limitations on the authority the FDA has over items currently classified as “food” (and therefore presumed to be safe) including dietary supplements and herbs. DSHEA currently provides the FDA with plenty of legal authority to remove any herb or supplement from the market anytime the agency can show REAL evidence of REAL harm to the public.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission is working to “harmonize” food and supplement rules, pulling our American health care system down to the level of Third World nations. Under Codex rules, even basic vitamins and minerals will require a doctor’s prescription. As Europe moves ever closer to adopting Codex standards, it becomes more likely that the World Trade Organization will attempt to force those standards on the United States. This is yet another example of how the WTO threatens American sovereignty. By cooperating with Codex, the FDA is blatantly ignoring the will of Congress and the American people, hoping to overpower both through their fascistic “partnerships.”
If the FDA adopts this proposal, all natural health care would be illegal even for medical doctors; all natural health care would be criminal in one way or another. Anyone else who advises, advocates, counsels, distributes, markets, recommends or suggests anybody use “medicine” is practicing medicine without a license. This is a felony in the USA punishable by fines and incarceration.
You can read FDA’s proposed
Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative
Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug
Administration(.pdf), or view the document in html here:
http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/E7-3259.htm.
This guidance document details PDA’s plans to regulate virtually all herbs and supplements as drugs if they actually benefit a medical condition of a man or other animal. Believe it or not, the FDA has even targeted juice! If you plan to drink it “to promote optimal health”, juice would be a “food subject to…the Act and FDA regulations.” If you plan to drink juice “as part of a disease treatment regimen” juice would be “subject to regulation as a drug under the Act.”
You would no longer dare recommend anyone drink cranberry juice to help with a bladder infection. And please remember, water cures dehydration!
Follow the Money!
The FDA wants to put your wallet, and your throat, within reach of Big Pharma’s greedy, fat fingers. According to the National Institutes of Health (http://nccam.nih.gov/news/camsurvey_fs1.htm), over 1/3 of all American adults use some form of alternative therapy, spending tens of billions of out-of-pocket (read, not refunded by insurance) dollars annually. Americans now spend more on “Complimentary and Alternative Modalities” than they do on standard (allopathic) healthcare professionals. Consumers know that readily available vitamins, minerals, herbs, and supplements are often just as effective (if not more so) as the drugs without the harmful side effects.
Past attendees of recent Freedom21 conferences have heard Dr. Carolyn Dean, Dr. Madeleine Pelner Cosman (now deceased), and Henry Lamb talk about the little-known aspect of Agenda 21 known as Sustainable Medicine. If you don’t yet understand Sustainable Medicine, you had better educate yourself, as the UN expects you to accept their “lowered expectations” for your health care. You see, it’s just not fair for Americans to have better health care than the rest of the world.
If you value your health freedom you have only very little time to raise your voice. If you wait for someone else to protect your health freedom, you risk losing the freedom you now enjoy – freedom that is the envy of the world.
ACTION TO TAKE:
I assert my fundamental right to control my own health and health care. I want Complementary and Alternative Modalities (“CAM”) to be freely available.
OR, submit electronic comments to
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgibin/leaving.cgi?from
=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.fda.gov/
dockets/ecomments.
Tell the FDA:
Finally, add Cc: Representative (Senator) _______________, so the FDA knows you’ve contacted your Congressmen.
Your comments must reference “FDA Docket No. 2006D-0480“, and must be submitted by April 30, 2007. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Philip L. Chao, Office of Policy and Planning (HF-23), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 301-827-0587.
Office of Congressman (Name)
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Office of Senator (Name)
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
You may phone the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. A switchboard operator will connect you directly with the Senate or House office you request. Or,
You can send an e-mail by going to each member’s website at http://thomas.gov.
Tell them, First) you want your fundamental right to control your own health and health care protected; Second) you want the FDA reminded that their Draft Guidance violates the will of Congress, and the American people; and Third) it would be politically most unwise not to support and protect the health care choices of most American voters.
URGENT! Please take action today and pass this alert on to at least 10 more people.
May 7, 2007
By Tom DeWeese
A tiny but determined band of organizations and individuals are standing up to Goliath and are beginning to see his knees wobble.
Goliath is the globalist-inspired Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) – better known as the North American Union (NAU) and the Trans Texas Corridor (TCC) – also know as the NAFTA Highway.
To date a dozen states have introduced resolutions to oppose the SPP and the NAU. Some states have also included language to oppose creation of a new currency called the Amero. Also opposed in most of the resolutions is the super highway (TCC) to run from Laredo, Texas all the way to Kansas City and more. Specifically, all of the resolutions are reacting to a wide range of concepts and structures dealing with the integration of North America into one “harmonized” union.
The states where resolutions have been introduced include Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Montana, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
The TCC itself has come under specific attack. First, in April, 2007 a group of trucking and environmental organizations, led by the Teamsters Union, filed a law suit against an announced Bush Administration pilot project that would authorize up to 100 Mexican-based trucking companies to travel beyond U.S. Border States. The suit demands that the American public be given an opportunity to comment on the policy before it is implemented. It is widely understood that the pilot program is a necessary first step in the creation of the NAFTA Highway, which will allow traffic across the border to move with out stopping for inspection.
In filing the suit, Teamster president Jim Hoffa said the Bush Administration “is ignoring the American people in its zeal to open our borders to unsafe Mexican trucks.”
Meanwhile, in Texas, at the center of the storm, the state legislature passed legislation to impose a 2-year moratorium for the highway. This will slow down the process and give the opposition a chance to organize and stop the highway completely.
The state has already signed a 50-year lease with a private Spanish company named Cintra. That lease not only allows the company to make huge profits from the tolls to be collected, but also includes a no-complete clause that prevents the state from building new government roads or improving existing highways that travel in the same direction as the TCC. This fact prompted one Texas official to call the rush to impose public/private partnerships a “rush to sell the crown jewels of Texas.”
The Texas House passed the moratorium legislation on April 11 by a vote of 137 – 2. Now the Senate has passed it with one 4 votes in opposition. This is an incredible result considering that just months before most Texas legislators claimed the Corridor was just a highway improvement bill. It is even more impressive when considering that he Texas Governor tried to team up with the Federal Department of Transportation to threaten the Texas legislators that federal highway funds would be “in jeopardy” if the moratorium passed. The action simply served to anger legislators who then voted for the moratorium with a vengeance.
The Security and Prosperity Partnership is a threat to our national sovereignty and independence. The United States, with its Constitution which protects individual liberty from government, is the most unique on earth and cannot be “harmonized” with nations which do not share our values.
These victories against the effort to create a North American Union are exciting and important. However, the fight is far from over. The forces driving the SPP and the TCC are rich, powerful and determined. Opponents must continue to pour on the attack and we must score again and again to have any hope in stopping the SPP.
Two actions are necessary to stop the SPP threat. The first is to stop the Trans Texas Corridor. The second is to impose strong immigration policy that stops the flood of illegals across our border. Texas has taken steps to provide the first. Now every American must flood Congress with calls and letters to demand the second. Meanwhile, we must also encourage every state legislature to pass resolutions against the whole concept of a North American Union.
But it’s not a bad bit of work for a tiny band of dedicated activists which have no national media voice, no massive funding and little support among political leaders. All we have is some truth and a lot of heart. It works.
May 3, 2007
By Tom DeWeese
With great fanfare, in March, Al Gore took Capitol Hill like a conquering hero as he testified on Global Warming before both houses of Congress. Fresh from conquests at the Academy Awards where his adoring Hollywood elites showered him with coveted golden statues for spreading their favorite propaganda, Gore was determined to turn his personal conquest into draconian federal law and ultimate human misery.
Gore’s words to Congress were predictable. The earth is warming. The polar ice caps are melting. Polar bears are on the run. And it’s man’s fault. Solution? Ban or control human activities. The mantra of the religion of Global Warming is getting a little boring. It’s quite possible, however, that Gore’s appearance on the Hill actually represents the beginning of the end of his influence on climate policy rather than the start of a legislative tsunami.
Why? Because even after the Global Warming storm troopers, armed with billions of dollars, the backing of the Hollywood elite, the news media and most of academia have done everything possible to threaten, bully and force their one-sided propaganda on us, the so-called global warming skeptics seem to be coming out of their hiding places in ever greater numbers. The debate is now taking a dramatic change. As the skeptic side is heard, more Americans are beginning to understand that there are legitimate reasons for skepticism. Here are just a few of the latest developments.
Item: Just days before Gore’s charge up Capitol Hill, a high profile climate debate between prominent scientists ended with global warming skeptics being voted the clear winner. Before the start of the debate, held in New York City, the audience polled 57.3% to 29.9% in favor of believing that Global Warming was a crisis. But following the debate the numbers completely flipped to 46.2% to 42.2% in favor of the skeptical point of view. Conclusion — when people hear both sides they can easily judge for themselves what is truth.
Item: On March 13, The New York Times, one of the most adamant promoters of the Global Warming gospel, published a landmark article stating “scientists argue that some of (former Vice President Al) Gore’s central points are exaggerated and erroneous.”
Item: French scientist Claude Allegre, a prominent French Socialist and supporter of Global Warming dogma, recanted his belief in man-made catastrophic global warming and now says promotion of the idea is motivated by money.
Item: One of Israel’s top young scientists, Nir Shaviv, recently reversed his opinion, declaring that the link between emissions and climate variability has nothing more that “circumstantial evidence.”
Item: The United Kingdom’s famed environmental activist David Bellamy also recently converted to skepticism, as did Meteorologist Reid Bryson, who has switched from the 1970’s global cooling scare to a global warming skeptic.
Item: A report by the Heartland Institute, entitled “What Climate Scientists Really Say About Global Warming,” exposes the weakness of the “consensus” claims of Global Warming shock troops. To reach its findings the report examined two surveys conducted among climate scientists; the first in 1996, and the second in 2003. Both surveys confirm scientists are divided on the issue. Says the report –
Item: After Global Warming propagandists rushed to declare that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report proved conclusively that Global Warming was caused by human action, (a report by the way that won’t be released until May) the just released summary predicts less global warming than was forecast by previous IPCC reports.
Item: New research by international scientists is revealing that the sun has been a major driver of climate variability. Solar specialist Henrik Svensmark of the Danish National Space Center explained “We have the highest solar activity we have had in at least 1,000 years.”
As Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) sums it up, “The usual suspects will still insist that there is a ‘consensus’ of scientists who agree with Gore. And yes, many governing boards and spokesmen of science institutions must toe the politically correct line of Gore-inspired science, but rank and file scientists are now openly rebelling.
As real debate finally forces fact over headline-making one liners, the truth will become ever more inconvenient to Al Gore and his Global Warming zealots.
