TEN MINUTE CODEX ALIMENTARIUS DOCUMENTARY

SPECIAL REPORT by TETRACTYS MERKABA, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

EVERYBODY needs to watch this short little documentary, so that they become aware of Codex Alimentarius and what to do about it.

S 510 FOOD 'SAFETY' BILL REACHES SENATE; VERY IMPORTANT AND IMMEDIATE CALL TO ACTION NEEDED FROM ALL CONCERNED AMERICANS

Our Farmers, Your Food and Your Freedom Under Attack…S 510 Threatens YOU, Directly,

BIG TIME
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This is a major emergency. We need your Push Back and we need it NOW! Tomorrow could be too late.

You see, tomorrow the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee) will "mark-up" S 510, the Senate version of the (sic) "Food Safety" bill on Tuesday, November 18, 2009. This is the last step before a full Senate vote, which could happen in the next few days. The Senate version is, compared to the House Bill, even worse. Keep reading to find out why, and to take action immediately. Of course, getting the word out NOW to everyone you know so that they can take action NOW is truly urgent.

The Senate bill can be read at: http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.510:

S 510 has an even weaker Family Farm and Ranch, Community and Home Garden exemption than the bill (HR.2749) which passed the House at the end of July. Read more and take urgent action here:

ACTION ITEM:

Protect Farm, Food, Freedom from the US Senate and AgriBiz
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

Do it Now!

WE PUSHED MONSANTO PUSHED BACK IN EUROPE. WHY NOT IN THE US?

Does Push Back work? Do our voices matter? You bet! Click here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4005, to lean how our Push Back forced biotech giant Monsanto take a backward step and pull applications for European approval of two dangerous GMO corn types off the European docket, to the tune of multibillions in profit.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Even if you are among the 142,408 people who have already taken action against these bills, we urge you, and every member of your family and circle of contacts, and urge you in the strongest possible terms, to do so again since the Action Item has now been amended to reflect the passage of HR 2749 on July 30, 2009. Our voices nearly defeated the whole bill, since we were able to cause two failed attempts on the previous days before this bill was ramrodded through the House.

Now it is the Senate's turn: if passed by the Senate, this Food Fascism Bill will guarantee the loss of clean, healthy food and independent farming in the US and the complete, note, COMPLETE industrialization of the US food supply.

Now the question is "What will the Senate do?"

You can email the Health Education Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee and your Senators here:
help_comments@help.senate.gov

(The Action Item also goes to the HELP Committee and to your Senators).

Some Success Already

We have managed to get some protective exemptions into the bill for small farmers who sell food directly to consumers or to restaurants, but they are, frankly, weak and will not be enough to protect your food or our farmers. But the Senate bill has much weaker protections, just mentioning minor exemptions for restaurants once and farms twice.

We need to rally people immediately to submit this letter to the Senate and contact their Senators to demand accountable voting on this bill.

The Obama administration is pushing new farm controls which will drive small and independent farmers off the land, literally leaving the field to Agribiz, (implementing all of Codex through complete HARMonization and allowing the FDA to declare Marshal law) through Congress as fast as possible and have coordinated the bills so there will be no debate and committee meetings are closed.

Change We Can Believe In?

Transparency, change, undoing Bush's regulations, giving the public time to comment, grassroots anything? None are visible in the current legislative process.

Our entire food system, and thus our health, is being given to the last people with any interest in quality or safety: Big Abgribiz. This is going on in the absence of public scrutiny. Those who do know what is happening, of course, have zero access to the process and to the major media. Meanwhile, the media is absent while Congress is moving at warp speed to sew this up.

There will be no direct, frontal assault on organic farming but an insidious process of "infecting" organic farming with regulations, "traceability" requirements, required practices and prohibitions enforced by truly draconian fines and prision terms for even minor offenses running to hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars and 8 years in prison for minor offenses.

Example: imagine Joel Salatin's wonderful organic farm under the direction of the USDA, with detailed instructions on what he must feed and when, how he must medically "treat" his animals and with what, what he must "spray" and when, … you get the picture. These bills will industrialize all farms and insure the farmers are forced to buy chemicals and drugs. Organic is dead. As well as human control over the food supply. As well as health.

H.R. 2749 includes a weak exemption for farmer to consumer or restaurant sales because of the Push Back we generated. But the bill has now passed the House and it is imperative that it NOT pass the Senate. More Push Back is needed for more protection for farmers, gardeners, community farming, all local food production (including yours!) and food processing.

We've set up an Action Item, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2287, for you to send an unmistakable message to your Senators. We MUST educate the Senate that you value organic farmers and small farming and do not do not want independent farmers regulated out of existence http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2287.

You do not want "Big Agra" regulations applied to organic and small family farms and ranches or to natural/organic food products, including Dietary Supplements.

Previous postings on this issue include: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2287

We have prepared the below Petition to Congress for you to send to your Senators via the Action Item.

For Health and Freedom,

Ralph Fucetola JD
Natural Solutions Foundation Trustee

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PETITION

To Amend S.510 or Any Food Safety Modernization Act or Similar Bill By the Addition of the
Natural and Family Food and Farming Exclusion Amendment

To: The Members of the Senate of the United States of America:

Whereas the proposed Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services should focus its activities on the significant public administration issues involving the capacity of large scale, industrialized agriculture to threaten public safety,

Whereas organic and natural agriculture, family farms and ranches, and natural or organic food products, including dietary supplements are not a significant part of the food safety problem, and

Whereas Congress previously provided for an exemption for natural food dietary supplements from the increased agency authority granted by the FDA Modernization Act of 2007, through a rule of interpretation, added as section 1011 of that Act, and has on numerous occasions exempted small and family farms from the same level of regulation as has been deemed necessary in the case of industrialized agriculture,

The citizens ascribing to this Petition therefore hereby request that any Food Safety Modernization Act identical or similar to HR 2749 be defeated, or that it, or any substitute for it be amended to exclude organic and natural agriculture, family farms and ranches, and natural or organic food products, including dietary supplements, through a rule of interpretation, as follows:

"Rule of Interpretation

"No provision of this act shall be deemed to apply (a) to any home, home-business, homestead, home or community gardens, small farm, organic or natural agricultural activity, (b) to any family farm or ranch, or (c) to any natural or organic food product, including dietary supplements regulated under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994."

We also note the language of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 USC sec 203 (s) (2) which provides, "(2) Any establishment that has as its only regular employees the owner thereof or the parent, spouse, child, or other member of the immediate family of such owner shall not be considered to be an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce or a part of such an enterprise…" Language such as this would be helpful to allay our concerns.

If the FDA Center for Food Safety is to be moved into a new Food Safety Agency, then Dietary Supplements, regulated as foods under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) should be included in such agency, with the proviso that such substances, as foods, are deemed safe when used as directed.

Furthermore, the ascribing citizens Petition the Congress of the United States to declare it the public policy of the United States that organic and natural agriculture, home and community gardens, family farms and ranches, and natural or organic food products, including dietary supplements shall be at all times free from suit, vexation, trouble, penalty, or loss of their goods, for the inestimable values they confer upon the public.

Europe rejects GE corn but Australia has 'no concerns

Written by Kelly Bourke

Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:07

A genetically engineered corn authorised by the Australian food regulator as safe for human consumption has been withdrawn from Europe because of safety concerns. Monsanto has pulled its commercial development application for high lysine LY038 corn, originally intended only as feed for animals, after the European Food Safety Authority questioned the safety studies already conducted by the company and used by Food Standards Australia New Zealand to approve the GE corn in 2006. The dangers of GM crops DVD exposing the dangers of growing GM crops in Australia www.newint.com.au/shop Rather than conduct additional research as the European authority requested, Monsanto decided to abandon its bid to introduce the corn to the European market. FSANZ has subsequently come under attack for its approval of the corn by the University of Canter-bury's centre for integrated research in biosafety in New Zealand. The research's leader, Professor Jack Heinemann, a prominent anti-GE campaigner, said FSANZ ignored the centre's detailed scientific analysis conducted over two years by 10 biosafety researchers and instead ''shopped around'' for alternative opinions which would cast a more favourable light on the corn's safety. Other countries which have approved LY038 include Canada, South Korea, the Philippines and Japan. Although the crop has yet to be grown here commercially, Monsanto Australia told the Herald there were no immediate plans to withdraw from the local market. The product had been withdrawn in Europe purely for commercial reasons, the Monsanto spokeswoman said, an assertion FSANZ repeated in a statement issued to the Herald yesterday. ''Following a rigorous safety assessment of genetically modified high lysine corn in 2006, we concluded that it was as safe as its conventional counterpart,'' the statement said. ''We have no safety concerns about this corn.'' FSANZ said it had followed the processes outlined by the international food standards-setting body, Codex Alimentarius, which is overseen by the World Trade Organisation. But Professor Heinemann said Monsanto went against the Codex Alimentarius by using another genetically modified product as the control in its safety studies. ''This violates both international food safety testing guidelines and European rules,'' he said. ''We were the first in the world to point this out and FSANZ chose to ignore it. The European Food Safety Authority didn't.'' The European authority also expressed concern that Monsanto had failed to conduct any tests on cooked LY038, which could cause a chemical chain reaction leading led to a higher level of advanced glycation end products, believed to be pathogenic. Research recently published in the Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism found that if ingested, these end products could be linked to cardiovascular and chronic kidney diseases. Earlier research has also suggested a link with some cancers and Alzheimer's disease. CROP FAILURE - Australian food regulator accused of ignoring research pointing to failings in the safety studies conducted by Monsanto. - Monsanto accused of using a GM product as its control, in contravention of international protocol. - Monsanto failed to conduct safety studies on cooked GE corn, leading to European regulator's concerns consumption could be linked to cancer, heart and kidney disease and Alzheimer's. Europe rejects GE corn but Australia has 'no concerns' KELLY BURKE CONSUMER AFFAIRS November, 2009

IMPORTANT DOCUMENTARY "NUTRICIDE" ABOUT CODEX ALIMENTARIUS

This is an important documentary for you to watch, especially, those of you, who are interested in issues such as Swine Flu vaccinations and vaccinations in general.

THE LATEST ON CODEX ALIMENTARIUS PROPAGANDA

Dr. Rima General Bert Codex Propaganda


Attending a Codex meeting makes me remember Edmund Burke's famous saying, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Most of the delegates attending these meetings have less than no idea what is actually going on and so, sadly, they do nothing to change the intended outcome of Codex: degredation of the world's food supply.
Why? One reason is that the glossly, highly science-like materials and propaganda they are given by Codex (largely from the WHO, FAO, US, EU and Australia), look, to the casual observer, pretty solid. They are not. They are, in fact, glossed up, glossed over junk science. You'll see a perfect example when we get to the "Nutrient Reference Value Upper Daily Intake Limits" from the Institute of Medicine in a little bit.
The second reason is that while people in the developing world may revile the political and military activities of the US, they revere, yes, revere, the science of the US. They do not realize that when they stand aside in breathless awe of, for example, Nutrient Reference Values produced by the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) as - hold onto your hats - UPPER LIMITS for DAILY NUTRIENT INTAKE these upper limits:
1. Violate current US law if they were to be enacted since nutrients are to be considered as foods and, as such, may have no upper limits set for them under the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education (DSHEA) legislation, passed by unanimous Congressional assent.
2. Have been set to concur with the limits proposed by CCNFSDU's chair, Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, retiring this year, by the way, for Maximum Permissible Upper Limits on nutrients. These same absurd and dangerously low levels will go into effect in the European Union through its Food Supplements Directive this December 31, 2009.
These Upper Intake Limits are so low that they are incapable of even preventing nutrient deficiencies, let alone promoting health.
Dr. Schneeman, in what looked to me like a well-scripted performance, allowed as how, although she had not thought about it before (!), since dietary supplements are foods under US law, well, yes it would seem that these Upper Limits would apply to them as well. This is, of course, contrary to US law. But remember that the FDA's Codex game is to ramrod things through Codex that violate US law and then come home and tell the US that we have to go along with it since Codex requires it. If we don't they say, the WTO will sock us with horrific trade sanctions and we don't want to loose that money, do we? That, after all, is precisely how we got fructose in the beverage supply, with its consequence of childhood obesity and diabetes.
Nutrient Reference Values are specified for labeling purposes only - at this point. What is expected to happen is that they will first become the standard of international trade (isolating and weakening the US nutrient industry, by the way) and then the national standard of the developing world. Once that happens, you can be sure that they will become the US standard if we do not act now to protect our high potency nutrients.
If you take a good, strong multinutrient (a good one requires 6 pills per day to get the proper level of nutrients each day!) check out these Nutrient Reference Value UPPER INTAKE LIMITS. I promise you will be shocked and appalled.
Nutrient Reference Values vitamins and minerals (NRVs) are to be used for labeling so that consumers know what their upper limit nutrient intakes should be and what percentage of that intake they are getting in the foods they purchase, no matter where they are from. They are intended for everyone over 36 months of age regardless of state, sex, medical condition, pregnancy, biological absorption capacities, etc.
These NRVs were proposed by South Korea: in fact, it came out in the discussion that Australia gave them to SK which had NO idea what they meant or where they came from. The US and Canada were deeply involved in that process, too.
Although they are purely for labeling right now, these upper limit values are expected to be adopted by national entities when they have reached Step 8 [final ratifiction], according to the discussion which took place on the floor of the Codex meeting.

Where the Upper Intake Limits have been changed from earlier proposed levels, the original is in parenthesis.
Technical note: Codex says "Numerical information on vitamins and minerals should be expressed in metric units and/or as a percentage of the Nutriet Reference Value per 100g or per 100 ml or per package if the package contains only a single portion. In addition, this information may be given per serving as quantified on the lable or per lportion provided that the number of portions contained in the package is stated. This information is contained in Para 3.4.4 of the PROPOSED DRAFT ADDITIONAL REVISED NUTRIENT REFERENCE VALUES FOR LABELLING PURPOSES IN THE CODEX GUIDELINES OF NUTRITION LArevised Nutrient Reference Values for Labelling Purposes in the Codex Guidelines of Nutrietion Labelling at Step 3, Cx/NFSDU 09/31/4
My comments in red - REL
Protein (g) (50) [no new value proposed: category eliminated]
Vitamin A ug RE (800) 550 Minimum 10,000 for adults
Vitamin D (ug) 5 I personally take 10,000
Vitamin E (mg a-TE) 8.8 I take 1800 plus fish oil
Vitamin K (ug) 60 I take 1000
Vitamin C 45 I take 6,000
Thiamin (mg) (60) 45 I take 100
Riboflavin (mg) (1.6) 1.2 I take 50
Niacin (mg NE) (18) 15 I take 1000
Vitamin B6 (mg) (2) 1.3 I take 500
(Folic Acid ug 200) Folate (ugDFE) 400 I take 25,000
Vitamin B12 (ug) 2.4 I take 5000
Biotin (ug) 30 I take 8000
Calcium (mg) (800) 1000 I take 1200
Magnesium (mg) (300) 240 I take 1000
Iodine (ug) 150
Iron (mg) % bioavailability 14.3/15% 18.0/12% I take none 21.6/10% 43.1/5%
Zinc (mg) % bioavailability 3.6 (high) 6.0 (moderate) 11.9 (low) I take 35
Selenium (Value to be Established) (ug) 30 I take 600
Phosphorus (mg) 700 I take 1000
Chlorine (g) 2.3 I take none
Copper (Value to be Established)(ug) 900
Fluoride (mg) 3.5 Tremendously dangerous - no biological requriement for any fluoride. All risk, no benefit
Maganese (mg) 2.1 I take 5
Chromium (ug) 30 I take 8000
Molybdenum (ug) 45 I take 70
3. Are supposedly merely for labeling purposes to tell consumers how much of their daily upper intake levels, if they are over 36 months of age, they are getting from whatever it is they are looking at
4. This is the part where it gets dangerous -- These standards will be adopted by countries around the world as their international and domestic limits on nutrients since they will use the Nutrient Reference Value Upper Intake Limits as their guidelines. This was spelled out quite clearly during the meeting and in conversations that I had with delegates at the meeting
5. This is even worse -- they will, I believe, be used by the United States FDA to lower not only intake levels, but set upper limits for nutrients both for international trade and for consumer use.
So, once again, Codex junk science will mandate under nutrition for most of the world's people. Those people will include the US if current policy prevails. This is Arrow Number 1 in the genocidal quiver: degrade the food supply in every way possible and mandate such low nutrient values that the levels of cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity rise to universal cataclysm.
By the way, at this Codex meeting I heard plans laid for meetings in 2012, 2013 and beyond. It looks like our speculation that Codex was simply too far behind schedule to be finished by ecember 31, 2009. Whew! That gives us more time for more pushback!
Thanks for coming through with the funds to send General Bert and me to this Codex meeting. Next year's CCNFSDU is in Chiled. Maybe you'll be there with us!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
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Three of Our Attorneys Discuss the Stop the Shot Litigation

I was in Washington Thursday for the Federal court hearing on standing for the Stop the Shot case, along with Dr. Paul G. King, Leslie Fourton, Esq. (Dr. Gary Null's lawyer) and Jim Turner, Esq. (Foundation for Health Choice attorney).
Judge Reggie Walton did not allow the case to remain in the Federal court at this time. He said that once NY suspended the mandate there was no longer a "case or controversy" under the Federal constitution.

He urged us to participate in the administrative process started by NY to make the mandates permanent and told us we could come back to court if new mandates are enacted.

Further, he did not let us amend the complaint to include the NJ plaintiffs (NJ remains the only state with a flu vaccine mandate, for children under 5) and told us to re-file those claims as a separate case. We are working on that right now...
We are looking for NJ parents of kids under 5 who are willing to become plaintiffs in the case. Please contact me at ralph.fucetola@usa.net with "NJ Parent" in subject line if you can help.

Ralph Fucetola JD
Natural Solutions Foundation Counsel and Trustee