"business with disease"
causes more deaths than
ALL WARS COMBINED."
Each year, street drugs like crystal, heroin and cocaine kill some 10,000-20,000 Americans. By comparison, The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that 106,000 hospitalised patients die each year in the US from properly administered prescribed drugs, while the side effects of prescription drugs and over-the-counter medicines kill another 200,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands globally. Pharmaceutical drugs are, by far, the single biggest killer of human beings today...
Below are extracts from an April 2003 interview with Dr. Matthias Rath, M.D., a German physician and natural remedy advocate who studied medicine in Germany, worked as a scientist at the university hospital in Hamburg and the German Cardiac Centre in Berlin, and was head of Cardio-vascular Research at the Linus Pauling Institute in the US. Rath promotes the use of herbs and vitamins as an alternative to synthetic treatments, including HIV medications.
"THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY [is] the largest investment industry on earth, maintaining and promoting one of the largest deception and fraud schemes in the history of mankind. While the advertisements promise “health”, the very market place of this investment industry is the existence and expansion of diseases. Prevention, root cause treatment and eradication of diseases threaten the pharmaceutical “investment business with disease” and are therefore fought by the so-called pharmaceutical cartel. In a public presentation in June 1997, I formulated for the first time the sobering analysis that the very industry that claims the monopoly on global “health care” is by itself the biggest obstacle for the people of the world to enjoy a healthy life..."
"ACCORDINGLY, 80% of the pharmaceutical drugs currently on the world market have no proven efficacy but merely cover symptoms. As a direct result of this fact, today’s most common diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, AIDS and many other diseases are not contained but rather continue to spread despite the fact that effective, non-patentable alternatives are available..."
"THE PHARMACEUTICAL industry is not an industry that is naturally grown. It was artificially created by investors who, in order to make money from diseases, had to block natural, non-patentable medical treatments from becoming available throughout the world..."
"ONE OF THE primary problems this industry faced was the competition from natural health products. Between 1920 and 1935, most of the vitamins and essential nutrients required for optimum cell metabolism were discovered. It was clear to the scientific world that, without these essential molecules in cellular metabolism, these cells would not function properly and would be the origin of disease.
"The pharmaceutical investment strategists realised that and embarked on a global campaign to block this life-saving information from becoming widely available. But silencing this information was only the first step. Further strategic steps to build up the fraudulent pharmaceutical business scheme included discrediting health information about these natural, non-patentable therapies and, eventually, outlawing any preventive and therapeutic statements about natural therapies.
"All of these measures had one purpose only: to protect the pharmaceutical investment industry based on patentable drugs that merely cover symptoms from natural, non-patentable therapies that are essential for maintaining cellular health. In sharp contrast, the scientific facts about natural molecules essential for basic cellular functions and described in the textbooks of biology became a matter of life and death of this entire investment business. If diseases could be prevented by optimising cellular health with natural non-patentable molecules, this must threaten the very basis of the entire pharmaceutical investment business with diseases. A disease that is prevented or eradicated is simply no market anymore..."
"DONALD RUMSFELD, the [former] minister of war of the United States, has been the chief executive officer of several pharmaceutical multinational companies. He received several awards for service to this industry before being appointed [minister of war] in the Bush administration. There is no question that Rumsfeld and all the executives of this industry - including the Rockefeller investment group - know these facts. They are shaking in their boots that the truth about the pharmaceutical business with disease is spreading worldwide like a bush fire. If that happens, their fate is sealed: they will be held responsible for the death of millions of people from diseases that could have been prevented if not for their deliberate decisions. They know: either they take down mankind in a war and a global Big Brother scenario, or mankind will take them down. There is no middle way..."
"NO ONE of healthy mind would support a ban on natural health just like that. The drug cartel therefore needed to provide a pretence for the yet undecided politicians why they should outlaw natural health therapies. That pretence was the invention of non-existing vitamin side effects. Of course, these side effects only exist in the imagination of the pharmaceutical interest groups and on the drawing boards of their global PR machinery.
"Vitamins, minerals and amino acids are the building blocks of life, and the body can eliminate any surplus of them without any problems. This is in sharp contrast to synthetic pharmaceutical drugs. Because they are synthetic, the body does not know them and this is the reason why almost all pharmaceutical drugs are related to severe side effects. According to [a] 1998 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, these deadly side effects of pharmaceutical drugs have become the fourth-leading cause of death in the industrialised world. Ignoring all these facts, the pharmaceutical PR machinery tries to manipulate worldwide public opinion and twist the arms of the politicians they need to pass the unscrupulous recommendations of Codex Alimentarius.*
"It's with this background that we have to appreciate the position the South African government took at the Codex Meeting in 2002, unmasking the hypocrisy of the decade long efforts of the drug cartel within Codex by supporting our arguments as an official government position. But this was no coincidence. Two years earlier the South African government had taken on the fight against the pharmaceutical cartel by refusing to pay the royalties on AIDS drugs. Their argument was straightforward: paying the exorbitant royalties for these drugs will make them unavailable for the vast majority of people in South Africa and the developing world. Thus the pharmaceutical industry, by insisting on these huge profit margins, is deliberately risking the death of millions of people in Africa and around the world. The drug cartel - that is the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers - was arrogant enough to sue the South African government in the court of Pretoria. Not surprisingly, this war was not won in the courtroom but in the court of public opinion.
"Worldwide protests against the “killing in the interest of the pharmaceutical business with disease” made it impossible for the pharmaceutical cartel to continue this litigation. In January 2001, only weeks after it had challenged the South African government in court, the pharmaceutical cartel conceded its defeat and withdrew its litigation. The South African government had won an historic victory against the pharmaceutical cartel. In the meantime, many countries are following the example of the South African government and are producing their own drugs without having to pay the strangulating patent fees."
"IT IS A scientific fact that essentially all viruses can be partially or completely blocked by natural therapies. Ascorbate (Vitamin C) decreases the multiplication (replication) of viruses. A study published in the influential Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA in 1990 showed that Vitamin C in amounts that can be taken by people on a daily basis could block the replication of the HIV-Virus by more than 99.9%. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the US is one of the most widely read scientific publications in the world. Thus, for over an entire decade the pharmaceutical industry, the World Health Organisation and the medical establishment knew that there are natural, non-patentable alternatives to drugs. Moreover, these natural treatments are more effective than any current pharmaceutical approach in controlling the disease.
"A second substance critical to block the spreading of viruses is the amino acid lysine. Since all viruses spread by digesting the surrounding tissue (collagen) with the help of enzymes (collagenases), neutralising these enzymes will decrease or prevent the spreading of the virus. The natural amino acids lysine and proline have been shown to accomplish this effect. Moreover, Vitamin A and other essential nutrients have been documented to enhance the immune system and thereby contribute to the effective prevention and treatment of AIDS.
"We have documented many of these studies on [our] website for anyone to take immediate advantage of and help spread this life-saving message – patients, health professionals and health politicians alike..."
"THE CONSEQUENCES, as more and more countries liberate themselves from the yoke of the pharmaceutical cartel, are devastating for that industry. Imagine what will happen when more and more countries in the world realise that the AIDS epidemic can be contained by providing sufficient Vitamin C and other non-patentable natural therapies in optimum amounts to their people? Imagine the reaction of people who realise that the drug industry has deliberately withheld the life-saving information of these natural ingredients from them?
"We are just witnessing this turning away from the drug companies on a global scale. The governments of Jordan, United Arabic Emirates, Nigeria, South Africa, Angola, Malawi and many other African governments, as well as the Peoples Republic of China, have decided to embark on natural health care strategies. What the pharmaceutical investment industry is facing is not simply a domino effect - it is the crashing of the Berlin Wall of the global pharmaceutical business with disease..."
"THE NATURE of this industry was deception: promising health and selling ever more disease. Once the fraud was unmasked there was no defense to protect it from demise. Thus, over all those years that I have confronted the pharmaceutical industry and accused them publicly as being fraudulent and risking the lives of millions of people, they never dared to openly counter attack. Nor did they openly question my scientific discoveries.
"What has happened, though, are efforts by some of the pharma-dependent medical opinion makers and media to discredit me as a person. But that is the fate of everyone who dares to stand up for what is right. I hope that many young people, future generations, can learn from this example and will have the courage to stand up for what they will recognise as being right when their time comes.
"As for my personal safety, many people ask me whether I’m not afraid for my life. They refer to the latest novel by John le Carré, The Constant Gardener, and the fact that the business model of the pharmaceutical industry has no respect for lives. John le Carré himself wrote in the epilogue that while working on this book he realised that “compared to the pharmaceutical reality his novel reads like a vacation post card”.
"If you are in a privileged situation, like I am, that you can make a difference to the lives of millions of people on earth for generations to come, you make the right decision. Speaking out the truth loud and everywhere becomes your best protection from those interest groups opposing you. The series of Open
Letters I published on behalf of our Foundation in various countries was just another step in this process..."
"WITH THE scientific knowledge currently available in the area of vitamin research and cellular medicine, it is possible to largely eliminate three out of four diseases in the industrialised world. In the developing countries, more than 2 billion people suffer from deficiencies in micronutrients, rendering them susceptible to infectious
"And imagine the amount of money that will be liberated for education and other social measures, once it is no longer drained by the pharmaceutical industry and its largely ineffective and unsafe “business with disease”. On a global level we are talking about trillions of dollars that will become available for preventive health measures, education and to meet other social needs. Of course, there will still be diseases in the year 2020, but heart attacks, strokes, cancer, osteoporosis and many other of today’s most common health problems will no longer be epidemics. I’m convinced that our Foundation can make a major contribution for mankind to accomplish the important goal of “Health for All by the Year 2020”."
"THE WEB SITE of our Foundation has become the main source worldwide for natural health information for patients, health professionals and health politicians anywhere in the world. We are working vigorously to make this information available in as many languages as possible.
We encourage everyone to communicate with us, either by letters, facsimile or e-mail, and send us information about pilot projects, either existing or planned, that start the implementation of natural health in the village, community or country where you live.
Our Foundation also serves as a clearing house for the campaign to put pressure on the governments of the world to bring those interests behind disease and war to justice. To facilitate that, we are preparing an international hearing in The Hague, the Netherlands, that will gather the information already available now to expose those interest groups. By doing that, we intend to facilitate the governments of the world to initiate a formal complaint at the International Criminal Court in the same city.
*The full introduction of the Codex Alimentarius agenda would mean:
• Dietary supplements could not be sold for preventive or therapeutic use;
• Potencies would be limited to extremely low dosages. Only Big Pharma would have the right to produce and sell the higher potency products and dictate the price.
• Prescriptions would be required for anything above extremely low dosages;
• Some common foods would be classified as drugs, or a third category (neither food nor drugs) that only Big Pharma could regulate and sell. Any food with any therapeutic effect could be considered a drug.
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