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Subject:Massive Multinational Assault on Alternative Medicines

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Subject: Fw: Massive Multinational Assault on Alternative Medicines

Massive Multinational Assault

on Alternative Medicines

Australians deliberately denied access to more than one thousand

products ranging from vitamin pills to multi-mineral supplements

Copyright Joe Vialls, 2 May 2003

Web: Vialls Home

From this ...

.... to this ...

.... to this ...

In less than seven days! " The ever-compliant media immediately

started circulating rumors about " that dangerous Travacalm " , and hinted at

mixing machines not being cleaned properly between blending batches of

different

products. One former employee was produced on television, to state that he

was

only allowed one hour to clean his mixing machine between batches instead of

three hours, and that was that. The media fix was in, despite a total lack

of

evidence. "

Under cover of the fake " SARS Crisis " currently saturating

the western media, Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration has suddenly

moved to outlaw and remove from store shelves about 80% of all vitamin and

other

related alternative products. Although less than a week ago customers were

happily buying everything from vitamin A to G, and enthusiastically chewing

every conceivable mineral and trace element, these same customers today face

empty shelves in more than 5,000 health food stores across the nation.

American and European readers who may be wondering " What

has this Australian stuff got to do with me? " are urged to read on a little

further. Australia is well known as a gullible and thus attractive proving

ground for multinational scams, meaning that what happens in Oz this week,

might

well serve as a foretaste of what is yet to come in America and Europe next

week, or next month, or even next year.

The extraordinary situation facing Australians today,

started at the beginning of this week, when the Therapeutic Goods

Administration

[TGA] suddenly decided to cancel the manufacturing license of Pan

Pharmaceuticals, a large Australian company which not only manufactures its

own

line of medicines, but also provides a manufacturing service for 80% of all

alternative goods providers across Australia. Basically then, by shutting

down

Pan Pharmaceuticals without just cause, the TGA ensured that alternative

health

goods purveyors and customers would be critically disadvantaged across the

entire nation.

To suggest [or even think] that the TGA action was

deliberately designed to shut down natural health products in favor of the

huge

pharmaceutical multinationals and their coal-tar synthetic drugs, at first

seems

ill advised, perhaps even absurd. But unfortunately for the TGA, we can and

will

prove in a proper step-by-step investigation, that the shutdown process was

premeditated and deliberate.

Members of the Therapeutic Goods Administration are

Australia's medical goods " thought police " , endowed by government with

incredible powers. There are documented examples of these people shutting

down

retail health food businesses for daring to suggest that cheap apricot

kernels

might retard [not " cure " ] cancer, while at the same time other members of

the

TGA were busy endorsing the massive use of highly-addictive and extremely

profitable amphetamines on Australian children, with alleged but unproven

" learning disorders " .

Every scam needs a convincing trigger to start the desired

chain of events. In the case of Pan Pharmaceuticals the trigger was an

in-house

medicine called " Travacalm " , designed as its name suggests to combat motion

sickness in its various manifestations. The TGA allegedly received

complaints

in

late 2002 about this medicine, including claims of minor " hallucinations " .

In

an apparent response to these uncorroborated claims, on 21 January 2003

Travacalm Original tablets AUST R 78192 were recalled, with the official

reason

given as " The product is being recalled following a number of reports of

excess

side effects related to the active ingredient. "

Fine so far, and the TGA certainly seemed to be acting

responsibly, but it was not. You see, there are actually three versions of

Travacalm, but only the " Original " version was recalled. Travacalm Original

is

unique in its active ingredient dimenhydrinate, which is not contained in

Travacalm H.O [hyoscine hydrobromide], or in Travacalm Natural, which

contains

only zingiber officinale [natural ginger].

So by banning Travacalm Original but not the other two

Travacalm products, the TGA revealed to us all that it was really only

banning

the single ingredient dimenhydrinate, the active antihistamine not present

in

either the H.O. or Natural versions of Travacalm.

There is nothing unique or secret about the side effects of

dimenhydrinate, which have been known for many years. Users can be subject

to

headache, blurred vision, palpitations, loss of coordination, dry mouth, low

blood pressure causing dizziness and weakness, and ringing in the ears. What

are

less widely known, are the disturbing hallucinogenic side effects of

dimenhydrinate experienced by many experimental users with access to the

Internet. A good description is posted at

http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/legalize/drugs/dimenhydrinate/

" It takes about an hour for the full effects of this drug to

be reached, maybe even more. You know when it hits you though. The most

screwed

up thing is a complete loss of balance. Walking around without falling on

your

ass is quite the challenge. Small hallucinations are possible (your pen

sprouts

legs and begins a journey across your desk). And auditory hallucinations

(hearing s.) come into the picture at higher doses.

" Short-term memory is shot to f.. As soon as you finish a

thought, you forget what it was you were thinking about. To the casual

observer,

you would look quite weird. Slack-jawed, red faced, dilated pupils, possibly

a

hunched posture, maybe even drooling. The feeling is like floating on a

cloud

during a hurricane (or something to that effect). "

Obviously then, all medications including dimenhydrinate

are potentially very dangerous and capable of producing hallucinations,

which

leads us to question why it was that on 21 January 2003, the Australian

Therapeutic Goods Administration recalled only Pan Pharmaceutical's

Travacalm

Original, while leaving other medicines with higher levels of dimenhydrinate

on

the open market.

These other dimenhydrinate medicines include [but are not

limited to] Calm X, Dimetabs, Dinate, Dommanate, Dramamine, Dramanate,

Dramocen,

Dramoject, Dymenate, Hydrate, Marmine, Nico-Vert, Tega-Vert, Triptone, and

Vertab. All without exception should also have been ordered off the shelves,

but

were not.

Predictably perhaps, all of the other dimenhydrinate

medicines are manufactured by pharmaceutical multinationals " friendly " to

members of the Therapeutic Goods Administration, and unconfirmed rumors

still

persist about certain senior TGA bureaucrats being discreetly provided with

free

" medical seminars " in Fiji or Bali, complete with all essential extras

including

unlimited alcohol and prostitutes.

Regardless of the fine detail of exactly how this situation

was engineered, by February 2003 Australian Pan Pharmaceuticals had been

artificially " dirtied " , and was ripe for the picking. The scene had been set

for

the biggest recall of natural health products in Australia - perhaps in the

world. The scam itself started on Monday 28 April, and a mere four days

later

on Thursday 1 May, the TGA had identified and ordered 1,363 complete product

lines to be stripped from store shelves acros Australia. Does anyone out

there

really believe that a bunch of lazy bureaucrats managed all that in four

days,

without considerable forward planning?

So by Thursday 1 May, one thousand three hundred and

sixty-three complete product lines had been officially recalled, meaning

hundreds of millions of alternative health pills and capsules had to be

stripped

from the shelves, leaving Australian consumers understandably anxious. To

claim

that this TGA action " undermined public confidence in alternative health " ,

would

be seriously understating the case.

Naturally the Therapeutic Goods Administration provided no

details of why this was happening, though the ever-compliant media

immediately

started circulating rumors about " that dangerous Travacalm " , and hinted at

mixing machines not being cleaned properly between blending batches of

different

products. One former employee was produced on television, to state that he

was

only allowed one hour to clean his mixing machine between batches instead of

three hours, and that was that. The media fix was in, despite a total lack

of

evidence.

Hundreds of thousands of Australians were suddenly deprived

of the ability to buy their chosen alternative health products, and " doubt "

had

also been deliberately cast over the safety of the alternative health

products

already in their homes. Many Australians started to grumble that the

alternative

health manufacturers were no better than the hated drug companies: all of

them

obviously out to make a quick buck without the slightest regard for public

safety. Lines of demarcation became blurred, and customers started to mill

around like lost sheep.

Hard evidence to hand indicates that the undermining of

public confidence, and the resulting confusion, were the prime object of the

exercise, because there is no proof that any of these 1,363 product lines

pose

the slightest risk to human health. Ironically perhaps, in its headlong rush

to

shepherd Australians back towards out-of-fashion medical doctors and their

wide

range of synthetic coal-tar based drugs, the Therapeutic Goods

Administration

reinforced the reality of perfect safety with official statements.

Putting its foot firmly in its mouth, the TGA publicly

announced three times in less than a week, " there are no problems with

prescription drugs obtained from your doctor " , and " prescription drugs are

not

affected " . This was unquestionably reassuring news for potential patients

being

herded back towards the medical profession, and even greater news for the

pharmaceutical multinationals, who up to this point in history have been

losing

A$2,000 million per year in Australia alone to alternative health products.

Unfortunately there was a fatal flaw in these glib and very

convenient TGA statements. Though Pan Pharmaceuticals is best known for its

own

alternative health products, and as a contract manufacturer for 80% of all

other

alternative health products across Australia, it is also a significant

producer

of a wide range of in-house and contract " prescription drugs " . Those

prescription drugs manufactured by Pan are still in your doctor's surgery,

and

they are still on the shelves at the pharmacy, despite the startling fact

that

all were produced in the same allegedly " unclean " mixing machines as the

1,363

banned alternative health products.

In summary, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration

recalled a Pan dimenhydrinate product in January 2003 but failed to recall

its

fifteen multinational equivalents at the same time. The TGA also failed to

issue

a public warning about the possible hallucinogenic side effects of

dimenhydrinate. In late April the Therapeutic Goods Administration started a

whispering campaign against Pan Pharmaceuticals, with the intent of severely

undermining public confidence in alternative health products. This latter

claim

has now been proved by the selective TGA recall of all 1,363 Pan

Pharmaceutical

alternative health products, but without the recall of a single Pan

Pharmaceutical " prescription medicine " .

It is difficult to forecast the long-term outcome of this

deliberate campaign, because no one yet knows what the multinational

pharmaceutical corporations will instruct the Australian TGA to do next.

Certainly the massed media campaign has already severely undermined

Australian

public confidence in alternative health products, and for a few weeks or

months

it will be very difficult [in some cases impossible], to even purchase fresh

stocks of vitamins, minerals and so on. In turn, this forced lack of trade

will

send thousands of small alternative health retails outlets into bankruptcy.

Using these techniques, the multinational pharmaceuticals

seek to " break the alternative consumer habit " if possible, and to an extent

they will be successful. The " hard core " alternative crowd will not respond

of

course, and if necessary will import their own products, but it is not the

" hard

core " that the multinationals seek to undermine.

It is " middle " Australia [and America and Europe] that the

multinationals are targeting. Millions of intelligent folk who used to go to

medical doctors all the time, until they started to pick up the warning

signs

of

the horrific side-effects of prescription medicines. These are the people

who

must be weaned off healthy products, and brought back under direct medical

control.

The fake Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration scam

will certainly help to do this, and if only 50% effective, should still

return

roughly one billion dollars per annum to multinational pharmaceutical

investors.

Not a bad return for the price of a few hookers in Fiji and Bali.

anne