[oleandersoup] 3 Days Left to Help Stop Big Pharma Backed EPA Petition to Ban Silver

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From: tmark1217@...(Tony)

URGENT ACTION ALERT!

The Deadline to Stop the EPA from Eliminating Access to Colloidal

Silver  is 3 Days Away!

Big Pharma Backed Activist Groups Have Used the Public Comment Extension

Period to Flood the EPA with Thousands of Comments and Make False Claims

about a " Major New Study "

by Tony Isaacs [Group owner, oleandersoup ]

Only three days are left to prevent the EPA from regulating colloidal

silver as a pesticide - a petition that has been exposed as a Big Pharma

effort to use environmental and other activist groups to help eliminate

competition from a substance that the EPA itself has tested to be safe

in the past and which millions of Americans use as a supplement instead

of the expensive, side effect laden and often less effective antibiotic

drugs that generate literally billions of dollars in profits each year

for pharmaceutical companies.

Though the efforts to regulate silver appear to come from activist

groups, recent investigations have found that the large majority of the

groups routinely receive funding from pharmaceutical companies and they

are pulling out all the stops to take colloidal silver and other

nano-silver products off the market, including massive email and regular

mail campaigns to their members, thousands of comments generated by

automated comment forms on their websites and publishing a misleading

report in the closing days of public comment which they falsely claim is

proof of silver causing harm to humans.

Many may have thought that the initial efforts to further erode our

health freedom and take yet another supplement away from the public were

thwarted by an outpouring of public comments to the EPA against the

petition.  As you will see in the story that follows, such thinking

was premature and the reality is that while many of us have been lulled

to sleep, the Big Pharma backed activist groups have regained the upper

hand by redoubling their efforts after the initial deadline was

extended.  Now, only scant days remain to again take action and

reverse the tide or very likely see access to colloidal silver taken

away.

After the initial tide of public comments turned against the thousands

of comments solicited by the activist groups, the original deadline for

comments was extended from January 20th to this Friday, March 20th. 

In the interim, the well orchestrated campaign redoubled their efforts

and they have dumped several thousands of the fill-in-the-blanks " form

letters " and other comments on the EPA sight. They have also published a

report from a so-called major study in China which actually proved to be

anything but a major study and which actually proved that colloidal

silver prevents the deadly E. coli bacteria from multiplying, exactly

what colloidal silver, which has been found to be effective against

virtually all pathogens, actually does.  NO human cells were even used

in the study.

As Spencer reports at the Colloidal Silver Secrets blogspot:

" First they state, " Yet another major study on nano-silver toxicity has

been published during the comment period. "

What's wrong with that statement? First of all, the study they are

referencing is hardly what you could call a " major " study. It is in fact

a very small study conducted in the People's Republic of China (yes, Red

China, home of the melamine scandal and tainted toothpaste scare) by a

little known group calling themselves the Bio-X Life Science Research

Center.

Interestingly, the Bio-X Life Science Research Center admit on their own

web site that they are operating in association with two major drug

companies, AstraZeneca International and Roche.

Who are These 2 Big Drug Companies?

Roche (aka Hoffman-LaRoche) is a huge, well-known multi-national drug

company which makes Bactrim, Rocephin, Lariam, Tamiflu, Invirase and

numerous other antibiotic and antiviral drugs for the treatment of

infectious diseases.

AstraZeneca, another huge, multi-national drug company, state right on

their web site that they too are focusing a large part of their business

model on developing and marketing infection-fighting antibiotic and

anti-viral drugs and vaccines. In fact, they state, " We aim to build a

leading franchise in the treatment of infectious diseases by increasing

the sales of the marketed brands Synagis, Merrem and Flumist and

bringing new products to market by exploiting our structural and

genomic-based discovery technologies and our antibody platforms. "

In other words, the group behind the study supposedly demonstrating that

nano-silver is harmful is, in reality, in bed with two of the largest

drug companies on the face of the earth, both of which are major players

in the antibiotic drug, anti-viral drug and vaccine markets.

These are the among the very same drug companies that hate colloidal

silver and other silver-based products the most, and have the most to

lose if silver ever becomes a major resource in products designed to

prevent and cure infections and related disease!

More Deception and Exaggeration from

the Environmentalists

Once their first exaggeration is established, the radical

environmentalists go on to say in their statement that " The study found

that nano-silver used in food storage materials, such as plastic bags

and containers, can directly interact with genomes and bind with DNA,

interfering with DNA replication. "

Sounds serious. But is this true? No. Once again, it is a cleverly

worded deception.

First of all, according to the study abstract, the study authors first

openly admit that " …information on whether or how nanosilver particles

bring changes in genetic materials remains scant. "

In other words, the study authors admit they simply don't know whether

or not tiny particles of silver bring about changes in genetic

materials, or how it might happen if they did. It is all speculation.

And that speculation is fueled by the radical neo-Luddite

environmentalists who oppose the use of tiny silver nano-particles in on

behalf of the major drug companies who pay their bills.

Secondly, and most importantly, the study is not even specifically

designed to prove that products containing silver nanoparticles are

potentially harmful to humans, or even that silver nano-particles could,

by themselves, could harm to humans. Yet the environmentalists would

have you believe the exact opposite.

Indeed, their statement is cleverly designed to make you think that the

study authors actually took plastic bags and other containers with

silver particles embedded in them and tested to see whether or not the

silver would somehow leach from the bag or container, and then enter a

human being and harm human DNA replication. In reality, the study did no

such thing.

What Really Happened

Here's what the researchers actually did, and what the study actually

demonstrated:

First, the researchers exposed E. coli cell cultures – not human cell

cultures, but bacterial cell cultures -- to three different types of

nanosilver, including colloidal silver. (As most people know, E. coli,

also known as Escherichia coli, is a gram negative bacteria most widely

known for its ability to cause food poisoning.)

And what did they find? They found that

" The results showed that the replication

fidelity of the rpsL gene was differentially compromised by all three

kinds of nanosilver particle compared with that without nanosilver. "

In other words, they discovered that silver disrupts the ability of this

infectious microorganism to replicate. That's it. They actually proved

what colloidal silver users have been saying all along, i.e., that tiny

particles of silver destroy pathogens from the inside out!

So what did this study have to do with human cells? NOTHING. And what

did this study have to do with products containing silver

nano-particles? NOTHING. "

Big Pharma Companies Linked to Funding of the Activist Groups Behind the

Petition to Regulate Silver

It was reported recently that that a handful of the activist agencies

behind the petition to the EPA to regulate nano-silver as a pesticide

have received funding from pharmaceutical giant Merck, which annually

has hundreds of billions of dollars in profits from patented

antibiotics.  Now, further investigation by this author has discovered

that the initial revelations may just be the tip of the iceberg when it

comes to Merck and other pharmaceutical companies' funding of the groups

who support the EPA petition.

As it turns out, virtually all of the activist groups receive funding

and support connected to major pharmaceutical companies with donations

running from the tens of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars -

and that is only what could be found with simple internet searches. 

No one really knows the true scope of such funding and support, since

many such donations and efforts are made anonymously and shielded from

the public.

For more information about the funding links which were uncovered, see:

" Merck, other Pharma Companies Funding Activist Groups behind the EPA

Petition to Regulate Silver "

http://www.tbyil.com/EPA_Petition_Funding.htm

Clearly, the EPA petition is little more than a thinly disguised effort

from the same people who tirelessly work to circumvent DSHEA and limit

our health freedoms and access to vitamins, minerals and other natural

supplements in order to protect their monopoly on our health and dictate

to us through unconstitutional laws and agency codes how we are allowed

to address what should be our very private health issues however we

choose.

I urge each and every one of you who values liberty, health freedom and

what should be your unalienable right to make your own health decisions

to go to the EPA site and let them know exactly how you feel - and do so

immediately, because time is running out and the powers of greed and

suppression are holding sway.

Quoting again from Spencer :

The public comments deadline is this Friday, the 20th of March. So the

next three days are, euphemistically speaking, our " midnight hour. "

And like Gideon of old, who was instructed to attack at the midnight

hour with his tiny, rag tag band, we need to start…

Sounding the trumpets (i.e., emailing the EPA)…

Breaking open the lanterns (i.e., faxing the EPA)…

And shouting at the tops of our voices (i.e., calling the EPA on the

phone)

We need to let them know in no uncertain terms that we don't want them

to regulate nanosilver in any form as a " pesticide, " and especially, we

don't want them to enforce such " pesticide " regulations against any form

or brand of dietary colloidal silver.

We need, simply speaking, to unleash a final massive renewed storm of

protest over the plan to have silver regulated as a " pesticide. " Nothing

less will do.

So if you can do all three things (i.e., phone, fax and email) please

get to it right away. It is absolutely critical that we, like Gideon of

old, shake the adversary up like he has never been shaken before. We

literally need to make them tremble at the sound of our voices, the

light of our determination to maintain our basic health freedoms, and

the sword of truth in regards to the safety and benefits of colloidal

silver.

Here is the contact information you're going to need:

Email Your Comments: Email your comments opposing the petition to

regulate silver particles as " pesticides " to the new EPA Administrator

. Her email address is: jackson.lisa@...

Phone the EPA Administrator's Office: To call the EPA Administrator's

office and voice your opinion on this issue, dial (202)-564-4700

Fax Your Comments: Fax your comments to EPA Administrator ,

at her Washington DC fax number: (202)-501-1450.

It is simply too late to write personal letters at this point in time,

so I'm not going to bother to reprint that contact information, though

you can find it in the previous post entitled " Dirty Tricks in the

Battle to Save Colloidal Silver from EPA Regulation. "

If you don't have personal access to a fax machine (they are available

to use for just a few dollars at just about any local " Mail Boxes Etc. "

or " UPS Store " ) then use the EPA public comments page. But that's only a

last ditch choice. Right now, faxes will make the most dramatic impact,

followed by your personal phone calls and emails.

If you can, please do all three. We need to make a righteous noise for

the next three days. And we need to start now. Just call, fax and email

the EPA saying the following:

" I respectfully request the EPA reject the petition by environmental

groups such as Center for Technology Assessment and Friends of the Earth

to force the regulation of silver nanoparticles as `pesticides.' The

petition is clearly without merit, as there is no evidence to suggest

that tiny particles of silver are causing any harm whatsoever to the

environment. Such a new regulatory burden should not be undertaken by

the EPA with such flimsy evidence, which amounts to little more than

conjecture and exaggeration on the part of the environmentalists. It is

particularly important that you do not attempt to regulate any form of

colloidal silver dietary supplement – regardless of its content -- as

a " pesticide " as this is not only outside of the regulatory purview of

the EPA, but is detrimental to the widely acknowledged health freedoms

of all Americans. "

Note: In your faxes and emails, please be sure to reference " Petition

for Rulemaking Requesting EPA Regulate Nanoscale Silver Products as

Pesticides, " and Docket #: EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0650-0506. That way the EPA

knows exactly what you are talking about.

And I might add, send this notice to as many people and groups as

possible.

Yours in health freedom and liberty,

Tony Isaacs

For more information:

http://www.colloidalsilversecrets.blogspot.com/

http://www.tbyil.com/EPA_Colloidal_Silver.htm