On the front page of the Hamilton Spectator January 18 2011. There is a picture of a needle and a bottle of medication, with the ever scary caption " Flu has hit really hard, really early".

I always give the link to any related articles that I am speaking about. But unfortunately this story is not posted on the Hamilton Spectator website.

The front page article says:
"Medical officials warn this years flu has the province in a nasty grip at a time when the number of Ontarians who received the seasonal vaccine is at an all time low.
"It's happening really hard, really early" said ministry of health spokesperson David Jensen, noting there are more than 1,800 lab confirmed cases across Ontario, about eight times higher than the average for this stage in the season. "That's why we're trying to get the word out for people to get their shots."

It goes on to say that there is four hundred confirmed cases and three deaths linked to influenza so far in Hamilton. But there are hundreds more that likely have not been lab tested. Are you scared yet? Ready to take your family to the flu clinic yet?

This article is nothing more than a pure scare tactic! Big Pharma is not happy that most Canadians have become aware of the high risks behind the flu shot and they are not making as much money. There is not one word about boosting your immune system with the food you eat, Vitamin D or C, or any other method of flu prevention, other than the shots!

Or how the influenza and most other vaccines are ineffective and dangerous. To left is a chart showing a sharp decrease in mortality rates from influenza in America, long before the vaccination programs were rolled out.

There is a great article
explaining these facts here:
vaccineresistancemovement.org

The best way to protect yourself against influenza, is by living a proper lifestyle! Eating raw organic foods, making sure you get a good intake of vitamins (vitamin D and C especially), and being active. Not blindly listening to propaganda and injecting synthetics into your body.

Vaccines have been a big money maker for big pharma companies, for a very long time now, and they refuse to accept the fact that people in large numbers have caught on to their scam. In the coming months expect the propaganda machine to be in high gear, when it comes to vaccinations!

There is so many examples of big pharma showing how much they love people, it is hard to know where to start! Between unsafe drugs, unsafe vaccines, lobbying to have harsh laws/regulations on their competition (the ever dangerous Natural Health Foods), and on and on. If you were to sit down and write a list of all the ways that big pharma companies love and care about us all, you would end up with a large stack of paper by the time you were done!

There is one example of their love that not too many people talk about, or know about. In Canada there has been people who become addicted to illegal drugs, for a very long time now. A large number of those people eventually at least try to become clean (at least once). To do so, they turn to the methadone clinics. Pharmacuetical companies produce the methadone, to help people who are suffering threw addiction.

In the brains of addicted people, methadone prevents heroin or morphine from interacting with receptors for natural painkillers called endorphins , blocking the effects of the addictive drugs and reducing the physical cravings.

The methadone usually costs about five to ten dollars a day in Canada. My research conduted in Brantford Ontario, shows that about 3,000 people visit the methadone clinic a day.
When you do the math, the pharmaceutical companies are making anywhere from $15,000 to $30,000 a day from just this one small clinic. WOW showing love, can be very profitable don't you think?

Over half of the 3,000 visitors a day to the small clinic in Brantford, are there because big pharma and their doctors loved them so much, that when these everyday people. Who most of, had no history of drug abuse, got injured. They where given drugs like Oxycontin (a narcotic pain reliever). Even after they're injury had healed and a doctor will no longer prescribe these medications to you. Do not worry! They can be purchased online without a prescription. But if you decide that you no longer wish to take the pain reliever, big pharma is right there with another drug for you! Now if that is not love, I don't know what is!

With all of this love and profits that are being made from both drugs, I do not know how things could get any better! Pharmaceutical companies profiting as they help you with your pain, and then when they help you get off of those painkillers. You get to suffer oops, I mean enjoy this whole process that could take years instead of weeks/months.

These are great times we live in aren't they?

In Canada we are witnessing the total raping of our health freedoms. We now have the consumer product safety act (Bill C-36) as a law. Which does not effect Natural Health Products itself, but it opens the door to allow the Canadian government to adopt foreign laws and foreign trading block's regulations on basically all products (including NHP's), without parliamentary scrutiny.

Health Canada is using unrealistic licensing standards on NHP's. For example, parsley in capsule form was not given it’s NPN because the manufacturer could not provide safety studies. Parsley is a herb that has been used for thousands of years. Think about it! When was the last time your heard of someone dieing from parsley (fresh or in a capsule)? Over 20,000 NHP's since 2004 have been not been licensed, because of absurdity like this!

But at the same time Health Canada is loosening the regulations on pharmaceuticals.

Here is a clip from a recent article I read from the Ottawa Citizen.

"What kind of "modernizations" should we expect to emerge from Health Canada's artfully stage-managed "technical consultations"? First and perhaps most important could be a shift of the burden of proof. The "precautionary principle" would be scrapped if drug companies had their way. So, instead of the drug industry having to prove that its products are (comparatively) safe before they can be licensed, new products would be presumed to be safe unless critics can prove that they are more harmful than beneficial."
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That's right you do not get to choose what you put into your body Canadians! NHP manufactures must prove that herbs that have been in use for hundreds if not thousands of years are safe. But big pharma companies do not have to prove the safety of their synthetic products. Oh no a critic must prove that they are not safe, AFTER they have been given out to who knows how many Canadian people.

This is only the tip of a very large iceberg in Canada. But it is not only happening here.

In America Bill S510 (HR 2751) has passed. All of the provisions, restrictions and requirements of this law, would apply to small farmers and small food producers (think farmer’s market, fruit, veggies, jam, pie, nuts, eggs, and yes herbs). Simply cutting off the herb production of the country.

Many of you have probably heard about the European Union Banning many Chinese and Indian Herbs. The AHN has been standing up against this mandate. Here is what they have to say about it:

"The date—ironically April Fool’s Day 2011—represents one day after the end of the transition phase of the EU Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive (THMPD). The THMPD exists as a sub-Directive of the Human Medicinal Products Directive, and was originally intended to be a fast-track licensing system for a wide variety of traditional herbal products, including those of non-European origin. These include the super-traditions of Ayurveda, associated with the Indian subcontinent and that of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Both are of more than 4,000 years standing. The directive was originally implemented in 2004, but the lengthy 7-year transition period has lulled many into thinking that the April 2011 date marks the implementation of a new directive. This is not the case."

"What are the facts about THMPD?

* 31st March 2011 marks the end of the 7-year transition phase of the THMPD
* The directive requires that the same type of pharmaceutical standards applied to conventional, synthetic drugs are applied to complex, polyherbal products
* A range of eligibility and technical problems, along with prohibitive costs, have, so far, prevented any products from either the Chinese or Indian traditions from successfully being registered under the scheme"

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This shows that in Canada, America, and in the European Union the attack on NHP's is kicking into gear. Not by flat out banning them. Because it is well known that, an action like that would not be tolerated by the people. So the tactic seems to be the slow and methodical elimination of these products, through licensing regulations.

Testing and proving the safety of NHP's apparently can cost upwards of US $100,000.
For small to medium sized manufacturers this is devastating! But to the large companies it is tolerable. Unfortunately the large companies seem to be the ones complying with big pharma. By using genetically modified ingredients, and other synthetics produced in the pharmaceutical industry.

The small guys in our communities are being "licensed" out of business, because they refuse to comply. They refuse to keel over in the presence of big pharma.

They have looked out for us, and our health for a long time now. It is time that we return the favor! We now need to not comply right along with them! DO NOT buy from the major NHP companies. Instead look for the smaller, and more local products.

It is estimated that over 10,000 Canadians die every year from pharmaceuticals. Do you think the number of deaths caused by NHP's comes anywhere even close to that?

We are the gears of this machine, and we decide when it stops!

Health Canada is continuing to block natural health products from hitting Canadian shelves. In there most recent move a major NHP manufacturer has been forced to discontinue 53 safe, popular NHPs. Including Bee Pollen, Zinc, GABA, Resveratrol, Grapeseed extract, cinnamon, boron, Gaba, B12, and boswellia.

When the regulations started in 2004, Health Canada classified NHPs as “DRUGS”. This meant that there were now two classes of drugs: synthetic pharmaceuticals, which are patentable, and NHPs, (vitamins, minerals, herbs, probiotics, etc.)

Within three years, this requirement had eliminated well over 20,000 imported American products from Canada, because their makers couldn’t justify the cost or hassle.

American made NHP's that are safe and very effective are slowly being blocked from the small Canadian market. Health Canada is accomplishing this by setting very high and costly testing standards, that these companies cannot afford to provide. In return for the small return. And bet your bottom dollar that Health Canada knew this would be the case!

It is a calm and collected way for Codex Alimentarius to be phased into Canada.


According to the Herb Regulation In Canada, under section C. The UN Codex Alimentarius Commission

* The UN Codex Alimentarius Commission aims to harmonize international food standards to protect consumers against health hazards and fraud; to ensure safe practices in the food trade; and to facilitate international trade in food and food products.

* In 1997, the Codex Commission’s Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses reviewed concerns over potentially harmful herbs and botanical products sold as foods. It stated that the toxicity of herbs is essentially a safety problem with no nutritional implications and recommended that national authorities establish lists of potentially harmful plants on a toxicological basis.

* As one of its 151 member countries, Canada is free to adopt or reject the standards, guidelines and recommendations the Commission develops. The herbal community is concerned that Canada will yield to international trade pressure but Health Canada stresses that the World Trade Organization does not have the authority to require countries to adopt and enforce a Codex finding.
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According to this Canada is free to adopt these standards or not to, but unfortunately Health Canada seems hell bent on imposing these draconian measures, on top of the other draconian measures like the consumer product safety act. To keep Canadians safe from products that have been in the market place for decades, without one known death caused by any of them. But you know things like Bee Pollen and Grapeseed extract are so dangerous, they just can't take that chance!

It is very clear that health Canada is fully on board with codex, and is being backed by the big pharma corporations that want the Canadian people unable to naturally defend themselves. Big pharma/health Canada wants all of you fully dependent on their ineffective and dangerous pharmaceuticals!