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The Historic Victory of
the People of America
The pharmaceutical companies reacted immediately through the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States. A nationwide
campaign was started with the aim of prohibiting all health claims
in relation to vitamins and other natural substances. This does
not surprise anyone who knows that reviewers and advisors of the
FDA are all essentially paid employees of the pharmaceutical companies.
I recommend that everyone read Thomas Moore's book, "Deadly
Medicine," revealing the fact that the FDA is essentially controlled
by the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical companies, realizing
that the information about the eradication of heart disease with
vitamins would not be stoppable in any other way, decided to simply
have their goals accomplished by changing the law. 1993
was also the year that my book, "Eradicating Heart Disease"
was published in the U.S.A. It summarized the medical breakthrough
in vitamin research and heart disease in popular language. Tens
of thousands of Americans used this book and other studies on
the health benefits of vitamins to convince their political representatives
not to give in to the unethical plans of the pharmaceutical industry
and the FDA. Fighting for free access to vitamins was what Newsweek
described as the "largest movement since the Vietnam war."
Again, the interests of the people prevailed over
apparently overwhelming economic interests. In August, 1994, the
Senate and the House of Representatives unanimously passed the
Nutritional Health and Education Act, a monumental law preserving
and guaranteeing free access to vitamins and other natural health
products for everyone. This law did not simply maintain the status
quo, it now also allows truthful health information in relation
to vitamins to be distributed. From a historical point of view,
a popular movement of millions of Americans had just inflicted
upon the pharmaceutical companies and their interest groups the
worst defeat in their history. More importantly, millions of Americans
have won a historic victory which will benefit all of mankind.
Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical companies did
not give in even after realizing that America, the most powerful
country in the world, had started to liberate itself from the
yoke of the pharmaceutical interests. Under the leadership of
the German pharmaceutical companies and the political auspices
of the German government, the international pharmaceutical consortium
started its latest offensive. They activated a so-called expert
commission of the United Nations with the mysterious name, "Codex
Alimentarius." This commission met in Bonn, Germany, in October,
1996, in a clandestine meeting under German presidency and guidance.
The official participation of high-level representatives of the
German government (Departments of Health and Human Services and
Agriculture), showed that the aims of this commission have the
support of the German cabinet and chancellor, a case of highest
priority for Chancellor Kohl.
Against the votes of the United States, Canada,
the Netherlands, and representatives of other countries, the German
delegation pushed through the following decisions: All health
statements in relation to prevention and therapy of vitamins and
other natural substances shall be prohibited for all member countries
of the United Nations, that is, worldwide. Only those natural
vitamins and other natural products that meet the much too low
daily allowances of the pharmaceutical cartel can be sold in the
future. Countries resisting the implementation of these decisions
as binding laws in their countries are punished by international
economic sanctions which would be organized under the United Nations
World Trade Organization and other bodies.
In January of this year we talked with United States
Congressman Peter de Fazio, an advocate for vitamin freedom, about
the goals of the Codex Commission. Of particular interest was
the threat of economic sanctions against those countries that
did not comply with the "Codex" cartel. By imposing
economic sanctions the pharma-cartel wants to force all other
industries at its side. The motto of the pharma-cartel is apparently
"If you, Microsoft, Volkswagen, and Sony, do not support
the information boycott for vitamins, we will make sure within
the framework of the Codex law, that you will not be able to sell
your software, cars, and electronic products in other countries."
We must realize that the pharma-cartel and its
political representatives have apparently declared war on the
health and life interests of all mankind. The ongoing battle is
so serious that all industries worldwide must be allied with the
pharma-cartel by force of law, in order to press through the pharma-cartel
agenda against the health interests of all mankind.
Our answer is clear: these inconceivable and unethical
ends are not a sign of strength on the part of the pharmaceutical
companies, but a sign of desperation. The news that animals don't
get heart attacks because they manufacture their own vitamin C
will bring down a billion dollar market in cholesterol-lowering
drugs, beta blockers, calcium antagonists, and other cardiovascular
drugs. Our determined "No" to these unethical human
plans is summarized in the Petition for Vitamin Freedom. I encourage
you to talk with friends, neighbors, and colleagues about the
Codex Commission, collect signatures. There is no doubt in my
mind that, together, we will prevent the unethical plans of the
pharma-cartel. One looks at the global intrigues of these special
interest groups and one question comes to mind: why is it that
in these plans which inevitably will endanger the health and lives
of millions of people, the German pharmaceutical industry and
the German government play a leading role?
Every visitor to the Frankfurt airport in Frankfurt/Main,
Germany, can guess the worldwide influence of the German pharmaceutical
and chemical industry. The majority of the signs at the official
corporate meeting point at the airport belong to pharmaceutical
companies, a sort of business card of the German industry. But
this is only the surface. To understand the key global role of
the German government in connection with the Codex Commission,
we have to consider the close entanglement between the German
government and the German chemical and pharmaceutical industry
during this century.
The most powerful German economic corporate imperium
in the first half of this century was the Interessengemeinschaft
Farben or IG Farben, for short. Interessengemeinschaft stands
for association of common interests and was nothing other than
a powerful cartel of BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, and other German chemical
and pharmaceutical companies. The IG Farben was single largest
donor to the election campaign of Adolph Hitler. One year before
Hitler seized power, IG Farben donated 400,000 marks to Hitler
and his Nazi party.
Accordingly, after Hitler's seizure of power the
IG Farben was the single largest profiteer of the German conquest
of the world, the Second World War. One hundred percent of all
explosives and 100% of all synthetic gasoline came from the factories
of the IG Farben. Whenever the German Wehrmacht conquered another
country, IG Farben followed, systematically taking over the industries
of these countries. Through this close collaboration with Hitler's
Wehrmacht, IG Farben participated in the plunder of Austria, Czechoslovakia,
Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, France and all other countries
conquered by the Nazis.
The U.S. government investigation of the factors
that led to the Second World War in 1946 came to the conclusion
that without the IG Farben the Second World War would simply not
have been possible. We have to come to grips that it was not a
psychopath, Adolph Hitler, or bad genes of the German people that
brought about the Second World War. Economic greed by companies
like Bayer, BASF and Hoechst was the key factor in bringing about
the Holocaust.
No one who saw Steven Spielberg's film "Schindler's
List" will forget the scenes in the concentration camp Auschwitz.
Auschwitz was the largest mass extinction factory in human history,
but the concentration camp was only the appendix. The main project
was IG Auschwitz, a 100% subsidiary of IG Farben, the largest
industrial complex of the world for manufacturing synthetic gasoline
and rubber for the conquest of Europe. On March 1, 1941, the Reichsführer
of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, inspected the construction site.
On April 14, 1941, in Ludwigshafen, Otto Armbrust, the IG Farben
board member responsible for the Auschwitz project, stated to
his IG Farben board colleagues, "our new friendship with
the SS is a blessing.
We have determined all measures integrating the
concentration camps to benefit our company." The pharmaceutical
departments of the IG Farben cartel used the victims of the concentration
camps in their own way: thousands of them died during human experiments
such as the testing of new and unknown vaccines. There was no
retirement plan for the prisoners of the IG Auschwitz. Those who
were too weak or too sick to work were selected at the main gate
of the IG Auschwitz factory and sent to the gas chambers. Even
the chemical gas Zyclon-B used for the annihilation of millions
of people was derived from the drawing boards and factories of
the IG Farben.
The Nuremberg War Criminal Tribunal convicted 24
IG Farben board members and executives on the basis of mass murder,
slavery and other crimes against humanity. Amazingly however,
by 1951 all of them had already been released, continuing to consult
with German corporations. The Nuremberg Tribunal dissolved the
IG Farben into Bayer, Hoechst, and BASF. Today each of the three
daughters of the IG Farben is 20 times as big as the IG Farben
mother was at its height in 1944, the last year of the Second
World War. More importantly, for almost three decades after the
Second World War, BASF, Bayer and Hoechst each filled its highest
position, chairman of the board, with former members of the Nazi,
NSDAP:
Carl Wurster, chairman of the board of BASF until
1974, during the war was on the board of the manufacturers of
the Zyclon-B gas Carl Winnacker, chairman of the board of Hoechst
until the late 70's, was a member of the Sturm Abteilung (SA)
and was a member of the board of the IG Farben Curt Hansen, chairman
of the board of Bayer until the late 70's, was co-organizer of
the conquest of Europe in the department of "acquisition
of raw materials."
Under this leadership the IG Farben daughters,
BASF, Bayer, and Hoechst, continued to support politicians representing
their interests. During the 50's and 60's they invested in the
political career of a young representative from a suburb of the
BASF town of Ludwigshafen, his name: Helmut Kohl. From 1957 to
1967 the young Helmut Kohl was a paid lobbyist of the "Verband
Chemischen Industrie," the central lobby organization of
the German pharmaceutical and chemical cartel.
Thus, the German chemical and pharmaceutical industry
built up one of their own as a political representative, leaving
the German poeple only with the choice of final approval. The
result is well known: Helmut Kohl has been chancellor of Germany
for 16 years and the German pharmaceutical and chemical industry
became the leading export country in the world for chemical products
with subsidiaries in over 150 countries, more than the IG Farben
ever had.
Germany is the only country in the entire world
in which a former paid lobbyist for the chemical and pharmaceutical
cartel is head of the government. In summary, the support of German
politics for the global expansion plans of the German pharmaceutical
and chemical companies has a 100 year old tradition. It is with
this background that we understand the support of Bonn for the
unethical plans of the Codex Commission. The U.S. lead prosecutor
in the Nuremberg War Criminal Tribunal against the IG Farben anticipated
this development when he said, "these IG Farben criminals,
not the lunatic Nazi fanatics, are the main war criminals. If
the guilt of these criminals is not brought to daylight and if
they are not punished, they will represent a much greater threat
to the future peace of the world than Hitler if he were still
alive."
Learning From the Past
Twice in this century, indescribable worldwide grief originated
from German soil. If the pharma-cartel prevails with the help
of German politicians, the now possible eradication of heart disease
will be prevented, and in the next generation alone, over half
a billion people will die unnecessarily from heart attacks.
Twice in this century the people in Germany have
kept their mouths shut until it was too late. This cannot happen
a third time. We, the people of Germany, now have a chance to
prove to the entire world that we have learned from history. The
next meeting of the Codex Commission will take place in Bonn in
the autumn of 1998. What can we do? We will step on the toes of
our political representatives until the German government prohibits
any future participation in the Codex Commission by political
or corporate representatives. Those political representatives
who do not listen to us we will vote out of office next year.
It's that easy! We don't forget: we are the people.
Concerning Chancellor Kohl he will receive a letter
with today's date in which he will be asked to immediately stop
any further support of the Codex Commission by the German government.
If he does not comply with this request within four weeks, I will
publicly demand that he be impeached for breaking his oath of
office to prevent any harm to the German people.
The Pharma-Cartel Deliberately Obstructs
the Eradication of Diseases
As far as the pharmaceutical industry is concerned, it continues
to control our society. Pharmaceutical interests control medical
research, and have brought entire health professions in their
direct dependency. To maintain and secure their position of power,
the pharmaceutical companies manipulate legislation and the media.
In large-scale advertising campaigns in Der Spiegel, Focus, and
other large media, the pharmaceutical PR and propaganda department
creates a smoke screen concealing the true interests of pharmaceutical
industry. The pharmaceutical companies try to portray themselves
in the light of Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch and other pioneers
in medicine. They claim to be interested in the eradication of
diseases in order to serve humanity.
The truth, however, is the exact opposite: the
pharmaceutical industry is interested in keeping diseases alive
as a basis for an expanding pharmaceutical drug market. The goals
of the Codex Cartel deliberately obstruct the eradication of diseases.
Thus, the pharmaceutical industry acts not in the tradition of
savior of humanity, but in the tradition of the IG Farben, a group
of organized criminals willing to sacrifice countless human lives
in order to maintain their profits. In some advertisements the
pharmaceutical industry claims that the eradication of infectious
disease is their intended agenda. However, the fact is that the
most important causes of infectious diseases, as well as penicillin
and other remedies, were discovered at publicly financed universities.
The only credit the pharmaceutical industry deserves
is that they immediately tried to use these discoveries for their
own profit. Millions of people and taxpayers were defrauded twice:
they paid for the research at public universities, but they did
not get the benefits from their investments. On top of that, they
had to pay for the drugs developed with public funds but marketed
by pharmaceutical companies. In other deceptive PR campaigns,
the pharmaceutical companies claim that with their help, life
expectancy has doubled throughout this century.
However, the fact is that every medical textbook
documents that this progress is the result of better hygiene and
has nothing to do with antibiotics and other pharmaceutical drugs.
What a lie, considering the fact that the pharmaceutical cartel
is trying to ban health information for vitamins, fully aware
that by doing so they shorten the life span of millions of people
by decades. A further deception of the public is the campaign
for cholesterol-lowering drugs. Millions of hibernating animals
have cholesterol levels of 400 mg to 600 mg per deciliter, yet
they don't get heart attacks because they stabilize their artery
walls with sufficient vitamins produced in their own bodies, and
taken up in the diet.
The connection between cholesterol and heart disease
obviously is another illusion maintained by the manufacturers
of cholesterol-lowering drugs. The only thing we know for sure
about cholesterol-lowering drugs is that all of them can cause
cancer. In January, 1996, the Journal of the American Medical
Association alerted the medical community and the general public
that cholesterol-lowering drugs have caused cancer in dosages
close to those currently swallowed by millions of people worldwide.
The pharmaceutical companies are not impressed by these facts.
In large-scale TV spots and advertising campaigns they continue
to sell these cancer time bombs like lollipops and chewing gum.
The great German poet, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, may have had large
scale public deceptions in mind when he wrote in his Faustus:
"If I hear that, I feel as dull as if a millstone were turning
in my head."
On June 23, 1997, Fortune magazine, one of the
major Wall Street weeklies, carried an article about the health
care system. It contains an interview with an investment consultant
for pharmaceutical companies, "everyone loses if eradication
therapy catches on." With "everyone" he, of course,
does not mean you or millions of patients, this consultant simply
stated what everyone on Wall Street knows: the research and therapeutic
decisions within the pharmaceutical companies are guided by the
financial interests of the shareholders. The following picture
shows that the profits of the pharmaceutical companies during
the past 25 years were on average 500% percent above the average
of all industry branches. In other words the business with ongoing
diseases is the most lucrative business in the world, and millions
of people pay the bill, directly and indirectly. Exploding health
care costs, paid for by the people and the patients, are nothing
but the insatiable greed of pharmaceutical companies.
What Can We Do?
These facts underscore the necessity for an entirely new structure
of the health care system. Every day that we allow these unscrupulous
practices to continue thousands of people will pay with their
lives. What can we do?
In the United States the attorneys general of 34
states sued cigarette manufacturers in order to recover the health
care costs caused by cigarette smoking. The cigarette giants started
to shake in their boots, and they face an ultimate fine of over
$400 billion dollars to make up for damages caused by their product.
Of course, they knew all along about the crimes they had committed.
If I am not mistaken, the damage caused by pharmaceutical corporations
to millions of patients and to the public sector of essentially
every country in the world, exceeds the damage done by tobacco
by an order of magnitude.
The most important step to change things is that
we are not only willing to denounce abuses, but we are taking
part in constructing a new health care ourselves. Once we have
liberated ourselves from the yoke of the pharmaceutical cartel,
the prospects for improvement of human health are breathtaking.
Within the next few generations, most common diseases can be controlled,
and the average life expectancy can increase by ten years or more.
Growing older in full physical health will be the rule, not the
exception. I have asked myself whether there has ever been a parallel
situation in human history when the people had to liberate themselves
from such an ever present suffocating grip by a small but powerful
interest group. Here is this historic parallel.
Liberation From Antiquated Rules
Imagine that you live somewhere in Europe 500 years ago. Eighty
percent of the people are farmers living in the poorest conditions
imaginable. You cannot read or write, and every other one of your
children dies before their fifth year from preventable childhood
diseases. Tributes to the earthly dukes and magnates have already
left you penniless. Now, the Roman Church comes along, the only
church in Europe at that time, and declares to millions of believers
that the key to going to heaven is through Rome. If you do not
pay, says Rome, your soul will go to purgatory or immediately
to hell.
Billions of thaler, the currency of the time, were
thus extorted by the Roman church from their faithful believers,
in the form of indulgence payments. The extorted indulgence money,
of course, was used for rather worldly projects, for example,
for the reconstruction and gold ornamentation of the St. Peter
Cathedral in Rome. To secure the constant flow of money the indulgence
sellers regularly visited the villages and towns of medieval Europe.
Their sales pitch sounded like this: “Only if the thaler
is clinking in the chest, the soul will spring out of purgatory."
Here you are, and you don't know whether you should use your last
pennies to feed your children or to buy entrance to heaven for
your own soul. But then, it happened -- on October 31, 1517, a
young monk nailed 35 theses to the castle church of Wittenberg.
Martin Luther's message was simple and clear: neither the church
in Rome nor anybody else can sell the key to heaven because the
key to heaven is within yourself.
This simple message released a windstorm of spiritual
liberation. Suddenly millions of people realized that they had
been humbugged and cheated for decades, and served only one purpose:
the boundless enrichment of Rome. The storm of liberation was
so powerful that the existing systems of the world came tumbling
down. In April, 1521, only four years later, Luther was called
in front of the emperor's Diet in the city of Worms. In the presence
of Emperor Charles V and the pontifical legates, he was pressured
to recant in order to stabilize the antiquated order of things.
Luther did not recant. This day in Worms is considered the single
most important day in this millennium, because, like no other,
it influenced the further development of this millennium. The
liberation of the human mind from a century-old yoke of spiritual
slavery had become irreversible.
Millions of illiterate farmers started to learn
to read and write with the help of the German translation of the
Bible. During the course of the 16th century the illiteracy rate
in Europe dropped from 80% to 20%. Commerce and trade began to
blossom because people now could write. Ulrich von Hutten, a contemporary
of Luther, described the incredible feeling of liberation with
the words, "What a joy it is to live." The medieval
times had ended once and for all and the liberation of the human
spirit and intellect released resources in all sectors of society
and made Europe the most influential continent on Planet Earth.
Today, 500 years later, we find ourselves in a
similar dependency. This time it is not the dependency of the
mind and the intellect, but the dependency of the body and our
health. Just as 500 years ago, millions of people have been deprived
of their last money for an illusion: health through the pharmaceutical
industry. It is high time that this illusion is ended. Thus, as
it was 500 years ago, the message today is simple. Nobody else
owns the key to your health. The liberation of mankind towards
health will liberate similar resources in all sectors of society,
like the intellectual liberation 500 years ago. We cannot wait
another day. Today, here in Chemnitz we hammer the thesis of liberation
for human health to the walls, but this is more than a thesis.
The results of the clinical studies have already confirmed this
thesis. Therefore, we present here today the Chemnitz Program,
which will become the foundation of a new health care on a worldwide
scale.
- We, the people of the world, realize that at
the end of the 20th century we have hardly any understanding
about the causes of health and disease of our own body. This
physical illiteracy is deliberate and millions of people are
kept in physical and financial dependency from interest groups
which make money from diseases, particularly the pharmaceutical
industry.
- The very nature of the pharmaceutical industry
is to make money from ongoing diseases - not the prevention
of diseases or their eradication. The pharmaceutical industry
has a direct financial interest in making sure that diseases
continue as the basis for a growing pharmaceutical market. This
is the reason, why pharmaceutical drugs are designed to alleviate
symptoms, but not to treat the causes of the disease.
- Those diseases that are widespread are the most
profitable for the pharmaceutical companies. The pharmaceutical
industry itself has become the main obstacle why no medical
breakthrough towards the control of cardiovascular disease,
high blood pressure, heart failure, cancer, osteoporosis, and
other common diseases has been made. All these diseases continue
to expand on a worldwide scale.
- The business with disease is one of the most
profitable of all businesses. Over the past three decades the
average share prices and profits of the pharmaceutical industry
rose over five times higher than the average of all other industries.
These profits of the pharmaceutical industry are the main reason
for the exploding health care costs. The economies of all industrial
nations of the world are held hostage by the pharmaceutical
industry.
- We, the people of the world, are harmed twice:
For one, we have to pay for the exploding health care costs,
for the other, we do not receive any value for our money in
the form of better health and the control of diseases.
- Against the declared opposition of the pharmaceutical
industry, a medical breakthrough has now been achieved that
will lead to the eradication of cardiovascular diseases. Heart
attacks and strokes are not diseases but the consequence of
vitamin deficiency - and therefore preventable.
- Now that mankind has the unique opportunity
to liberate itself from the threat of cardiovascular death,
the pharmaceutical companies have formed an international cartel
in order to protect their billion dollar market of artificial
cardiovascular drugs. These actions of the pharmaceutical industry
cartel deliberately continue the cardiovascular epidemic and
cause the unnecessary death of millions of people.
- With this action the pharmaceutical companies
reveal their true face and the nature of their business to everyone.
We, the people of the world are no longer willing to remain
under the yoke of these unethical interests.
- We declare the pharmaceutical industry, the
business mission of which is to guarantee the continuation of
diseases, as unethical and incompatible with all fundamental
human rights. We demand immediate legal actions to terminate
any such business.
- Deliberate prolongation of diseases and obstruction
of their eradication causes the death of millions of people.
Because of the magnitude of these crimes they have to be punished
with the maximum sentence possible under existing laws. National
laws have to be amended immediately to punish these crimes appropriately.
International courts have to prosecute these acts as crimes
against humanity.
- Existing pharmaceutical companies will be subjected
to a thorough investigation in the extent to which they have
caused or participated in the deliberate prolongation of diseases.
Once convicted of these crimes, the assets of these companies
have to be seized to pay for the damages to millions of people
affected and to the health care service.
- Politicians and other accomplices who are found
guilty of assisting these crimes or protecting them will be
held responsible in court.
- Laws obstructing free access and unrestricted
use of vitamins and other natural therapies only serve to keep
unnecessary pharmaceutical drugs on the market. These laws have
to be declared null and void immediately.
- Above all, this Program defines the foundation
of a new health care system. As a first step, the protection
and optimization of human health will be declared a fundamental
and non-tradable human right for this generation and all future
generations.
- The most important goal of this new health care
system is the prevention of diseases and their eradication.
Vitamin research and Cellular Medicine are an essential scientific
basis for an effective, safe and affordable health care system.
- We, the people of the world, declare that we
will construct this new health care system ourselves and that
we are the corner stones of this new health care system.
- The foundation of this new health care system
is a comprehensive program of health information and health
education for everyone, young and old. In every town new information
and consulting centers will be created. These centers allow
interested lay people and health professionals alike to start
building this new health care system without delay.
- In order to meet the needs of a community-oriented
primary health care network, the training of existing health
professions will be expanded and new health professions will
be created.
- Health education becomes part of every step
of education from kindergarten through high school and college.
Further education of the public at large will be prompted at
every level and by all means available.
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