Congressman Waxman sneaks anti-vitamin amendment into Wall Street reform bill

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What the fuck does an ANTI-VITAMIN amendment have to do with Wall Street Reform?  Can you believe the level of douchebaggery going on here?

This was linked by Rense today:

Friday, April 30, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

Health freedom alert: Congressman Waxman sneaks anti-vitamin amendment into Wall Street reform bill by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) Of all the sneaky tactics practiced in Washington D.C., this recent action by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) is one of the most insidious: While no one was looking, he injected amendment language into the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173) that would expand the powers of the FTC (not the FDA, but the FTC) to terrorize nutritional supplement companies by greatly expanding the power of the FTC to make its own laws that target dietary supplement companies.

This is a little-known secret about the FTC and the nutritional supplements business: The FTC routinely targets nutritional supplement companies that are merely telling the truth about their products. Some companies are threatened by merely linking to published scientific studies about their products.

For example, here's an important article that describes how to FDA criminally extorts money out of supplement companies: http://www.naturalnews.com/024567_h...

The FTC does much the same thing. They target a particular company that's having success in the natural products marketplace, then they accuse that company of "inferring" that their products have some health benefit. From there, the FTC demands that the company engage in paying a massive fine to the FTC, which the FTC calls "consumer redress" even though none of the money actually goes to the consumers.

If you try to fight the FTC, they haul you into their own special "FTC courts" which are not public courts where you have the benefit of a jury, but rather they are courts where the judges are actually FTC employees and you have no rights. You are essentially guilty until proven innocent, and virtually no one has been found innocent by the FTC.


If the King says you're guilty, then you're guilty
The FTC also forces you to sign a "consent decree" which involves you admitting to committing crimes that you have actually never committed. These crimes include the "criminal misrepresentation of a product" by, for example, explaining that walnuts help support healthy cholesterol levels or that cherries ease symptoms of inflammation.

Using these methods, the FTC has extorted tens of millions of dollars out of nutritional supplement companies. More importantly, it has terrorized the industry and put several companies out of business, denying the American public access to products that could improve their health and prevent disease.


Waxman wants the FTC to have even more power over your vitamins
Now Congressman Henry Waxman wants to give the FTC even more powers by allowing the FTC to write its own laws without Congressional approval. This would allow a rogue agency to simply invent any new law it wants, such as requiring nutritional supplement companies to spend hundreds of millions of dollars "proving" the efficacy of a vitamin before they can sell it.

This will allow the FTC to utterly circumvent DSHEA -- the law passed in 1994 that provides basic protections to vitamin and supplement manufacturers. This will result in an FTC war on vitamins and supplements that would no doubt see this rogue agency attempting to destroy the entire industry and imprison the founders and executives of all the top supplement manufacturers.

This is how bad things have become in America today: The criminal CEOs of drug companies are allowed to commit felony crimes, engage in routine price fixing fraud and fix their research with fraudulent clinical trials, yet the FTC and FDA do nothing. But when an honest nutritional supplement company says something like, "Walnuts are good for your heart," they get threatened with imprisonment or have their entire life savings stolen away from them by the FTC through a series of "fines."


Your help is urgently needed to halt this madness
Join NaturalNews.com and the Alliance for Natural Health to protest this deceptive action by Henry Waxman -- a lifelong opponent of natural medicine who is trying to covertly inject this expansion of FTC powers into the Finance Reform Bill.

Click here to sign the online petition now.

This petition is being organized by the Alliance for Natural Health (http://www.anh-usa.org), a health freedom organization we strongly support here at NaturalNews. Read their announcement and call to action on this bill right here: http://www.anh-usa.org/congressman-...

Your help is urgently needed. I don't send out a lot of "urgent call to action" articles and emails, but this is one that definitely demands our collective attention. Please call, fax or email your representatives in Washington and strongly voice your opposition to any expansion of powers of the FTC over dietary supplements. The FTC is already a loose cannon. We don't want to now hand it nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire industry.

Protect your health freedoms or you will lose them! The U.S. Congress is literally just one vote away from granting the FTC dangerous new powers to destroy the natural products industry. A vote could take place as early as this weekend.

Attorney Jonathan Emord had this to say about this issue:

"The provision removing the ban on FTC rulemaking without Congressional preapproval contained in H.R. 4173 invites the very same irresponsible over-regulation of the commercial marketplace that led Congress to enact the ban in the 1980s. FTC has no shortage of power to regulate deceptive advertising; this bill gives it far more discretionary power than it needs, inviting greater abuse and mischief from an agency that suffers virtually no check on its discretion."

meanwhile back at the Kosher Kitchen the bullcrap continues:


"Like other humane citizens, most Jews are pleased that more Americans will benefit from affordable health care, including the nation's estimated 5.1 million Jews.

Rep. Henry Waxman, the subdued and astute congressman whose district covers Malibu, Beverly Hills and other obscenely rich areas, linked Jewish religious beliefs to health care, saying, "The meaning of the seder (at Passover) is that no one should be left behind. It means that everyone should have a seat at the table, that everyone should partake in the afikomen of freedom. On the secular level, that is what the health care bill means to millions of Americans."

As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Waxman was one of three committee chairs who influenced the shaping and movement of the legislation, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported. The organized Jewish community could benefit from wealthy donors whose charitable contributions were threatened by a proposed cut in tax deductions; the reduction did not go through. JTA reported that this might mean a windfall for 120 Jewish nursing homes, 145 Jewish family service agencies and 15 to 20 Jewish hospitals supported by the Federation system."

afikomen of freedom! Yeah right!  Meanwhile he goes and  sneaks anti-vitamin amendments into wall-street bills to shake down health food stores and make the America he loves so much so much healthier forced to eat only the garbage served out in the major supermarkets.


Some more kosher nuggets from the same sdjewishworld article:

"The vast majority of American Jews do not favor Israel's interests over America's interests. They never needed to decide between the two. They usually vote for Democrats or moderate Republicans who press for a progressive agenda while supporting Israel. They had the best of both worlds.

"Some Jews vote for conservative candidates who would reduce services for the poor, lower taxes for the wealthy and launch questionable wars like Iraq, while bolstering even the most hawkish Israeli governments. They represent a minority of Jews here. A check of voting patterns shows that 75 to 80 percent of Jews vote for Democratic candidates each presidential election. Why would the majority of Jews favor the invasion of Iraq or tax breaks for the rich if they voted for Gore, Kerry and Obama?"   The rest of the article is over here http://sdjewishworld.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/two-%e2%80%98big-deals%e2%80%99-for-u-s-jews/


"Most firearms instructors agree that women have a faster learning curve than men in this discipline. They tend to have better fine motor coordination, as a rule, and pulling a trigger without deviating the muzzle off target is most definitely a fine motor skill. Their biggest advantage is that they are not born believing that because of their gender, they automatically know how to do something masculine. I've found that the female student more than the male wants to know, not just "how do you do that?" but "why do you do it that way?" With a proper explanation, she follows instructions, finds the results good, and moves on. With some of the males—not all, certainly, but some—the reaction is, "Ungawa! If Mongo do what instructor say, Mongo become 'beta' and instructor become 'alpha.' I, MONGO, am alpha! Mongo must keep doing it Mongo's way! Ungawa!" It's like de-programming cult victims sometimes..."  Massad Ayoub

Funny advice but let me guess he's Irish, right?

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
- Phillip K. Dick




"As long as we're young, we manage to find excuses for the stoniest indifference, the most blatant caddishness, we put them down to emotional eccentricity or some sort of romantic inexperience. But later on, when life shows us how much cunning, cruelty, and malice are required just to keep the body at ninety-eight point six, we catch on, we know the scene, we begin to understand how much swinishness it takes to make up a past. Just take a close look at yourself and the degree of rottenness you've come to. There's no mystery about it, no more room for fairy tales; if you've lived this long, it's because you've squashed any poetry you had in you."
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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Sneaky, deceptive, cunning-war by way of deception. This time it's a war on our health.