Do you feel it? It only lasts for five minutes! Overview of Codex Alimentarius by Rima Laibow, M.D. At the request of the United Nations (UN) in 1962, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) took on the joint role of running and administering the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) to establish standards and remove barriers to trade for all food and food products. Having declared that nutrients are toxins from which we must be protected, the CAC has been busy establishing enforceable international guidelines for upper limits of nutritional supplement dosing. Codex has goals that affect every person in the UN’s 170+ member nations, including the United States. As a tool for furthering these goals, member nations are urged to adopt Codex standards and guidelines as domestic policy. The United States has already committed itself to doing so despite U. S. law which prohibits this compliance. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has adopted Codex as a standard for the adjudication of foodrelated international trade disputes and has the authority to enforce Codex standards through implementation of harsh economic sanctions on non-Codexcompliant member nations. Pre-existing international treaty laws dictate that WTO rulings will override the domestic laws already in place in its member nations and, in fact, the WHO has successfully taken both states and the U. S. government to court in the U. S. to force changes in our domestic laws eleven times. This means our nation’s hard won laws that give you access to over-the-counter, natural health supplements will become meaningless. Codex’s original mandate to remove barriers to trade and assure a clean food supply has, under the influence of private, economically-driven multinational pharmaceutical, agricultural and chemical corporations, self-expanded far beyond its original mandate. The result is a body of highly dangerous and restrictive policies that threaten to become domestic law in the U. S. and, as such, are a threat to your health and freedom. The FDA has stated explicitly that its goal is complete "harmonization" with Codex and, in order to bring that about, international regulations i.e., Codex will be given preference over domestic ones! (Federal Register, 10/ 11 /95) If Codex gets its way, as it already has in the EU, we can expect that, ultimately, only 18 or so dietary supplements will be available over-the-counter in doses which are, by design, far too small to have any discernible impact on any human being since codex classifies nutrients as toxins. High potency nutrients will not be available either with or without physician’s prescription since these molecules and compounds will be forbidden under any circumstances. The big surprise? Once in the hands of pharmaceutical companies, consumer supplement costs are expected to more than quadruple. This has, in fact, been the experience in Europe where this process is already underway and micro-dose nutrient prices have increased 10 to 100 fold or more (e.g., in Norway a bottle of zinc lozenges which previously cost $2 now costs $54; in France 12 Vitamin C tabs of just10 mg cost $117; while 10 Vitamin E caps of only 10 IU each cost $110). Australia and the European Union (EU) are in the process of enacting harmonized Codex policies that restrict consumer access to nutritional supplements. America is next. Though Americans value personal freedom, the fact Codex meets infrequently (and almost always offshore) and is bogged down in highly technical language that is difficult to understand has resulted in many Americans being unaware of this threat. The nearly total media blackout on Codex and its activities helps to keep the U. S. uninformed and therefore, pliant. While there have been rare serious adverse reactions to nutritional supplements during the past decades, (usually when taken far in excess of the recommended dosing), numerous severe and even fatal reactions to drugs (usually when taken at the recommended dosing) occur every day and are the fourth leading cause of death in hospitalized clients in the United States when properly used. When improperly used, they are, in fact, far and away the leading cause of death in the United States. Even so, drug deaths are very likely underreported. Drugs are inherently dangerous; nutrients are not. This fact makes it clear why the drug culture 2 needs to eliminate all access to natural health options, including nutritional supplements, in order to expand and intensify its influence and thus its profitability. Healthy people take fewer drugs and thus are poor customers. The global pharmaceutical powers -that-be have already purchased a large piece of the lucrative global nutritional supplement pie but the considerable size of this pie keeps the hugely profitable pharmaceutical profit -share-pie from reaching its maximum size so the competing nutrient pie must be destroyed. Though unable to patent a natural substance

Eric Johnson On Starting an Armory and Rifling (from the video): "When the country was first formed and our first President was George Washington, he’s known to us in Jefferson County for a variety of reasons, but Mr. Washington came to Jefferson County also to look for a suitable location for a place to build these firearms. Now, I picked the Charleville for a reason. That’s because in the American Revolution, the principle arm that we were armed with from another country at first, was the Brown Bess from Britain. But as you can imagine the British were a little hostile and angry with us, so that didn’t last too long. So we went looking for other sources, and the French, ever anxious to do battle with England, were able to arm us with the Charleville pattern musket. We had a lot of these left over from the Revolutionary War; and what ended up happening was that we took that musket pattern and the Ordinance Department said: “You know? We need to copy already what we have in stock. What makes the most sense?” – and that would be the Charleville. So Washington came to Jefferson County to have a look at the area and said: “You know what you need to build a gun. . .” You notice when I’m holding this gun, you need wood – right?- and you need metal. Well it just so happens in Jefferson County, you have brown hematite flowing under the rocks and under the grounds – and to tell you what that is – that’s iron ore. There had already been existing iron furnaces in the County – in fact, in the Shenandoah Valley and the Cumberland Valley up through the Appalachian stream. So, iron is a necessity when you’re making guns – also to make the machineries, and the cutting bits, and the tools that we need to make all these pieces. The other product you need is wood, hardwood to be exact. You need walnut perhaps to make the dense stocks. Sometimes maple is used. But, the reason that’s often overlooked and why Harper’s Ferry and Jefferson County seemed a suitable place at the time as we had lots of other hard woods. And hardwoods are used to form charcoal. (NOTE: This video on iron-making omits the finery forge stage, an oversight-ED) Eric Johnson continues: And charcoal is what fires forges – foundries that will do the casting, forges that will use the heat to forge the metal into shapes. Charcoal is also used in foundries and furnaces to make the raw iron itself. So those raw materials existed in Jefferson County. Also, the one component we add to all this we did have was water power, magnificent water power in the form of the falls of the Shenandoah. As you know, the Shenandoah and the Potomac converge and they come together. And as they come together, there is a powerful current. So if you wanted to take a wheel, let’s say, or a turbine and go and plop it into the river next to you or build a canal so that you capture some of that falling energy, and you’re able to turn an axis or a shaft and transfer that so it runs belts and things: well, guess what? – you’ve made a factory. And that is why the area was looked at to build firearms. There were some other reasons. Obviously we were a little closer to the capital of Washington City and it was felt that the location in Jefferson County was far enough away from the Chesapeake Bay and sea area so that an invading enemy, like the British enemy in 1812, would have a hard time getting to it – let’s say in a day’s time. It would take them a while to get across the mountain and over the roads and passes. So, it was a strategic location to build firearms. It was considered a defensible one. And also all the raw materials were there to build these parts and pieces that we’re going to talk about today. The other thing that’s overlooked often in the discussion of the making of muskets and rifles is you have to have the people who are talented enough to make them. Well, in the area, we had a nice collection of craftsmen – gunsmiths, professional gunsmiths – who had trained under the craftsmanship system – master gunsmiths in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. So you have that large resource to draw upon to fill the factory system to build this piece. All of the parts and pieces of this plan come together and one of the first pieces produced in the armory system looks an awful lot like this. It’s called the model 1795 U.S. musket, and it’s probably an exact copy of the one I’m holding in my hand – the Charleville. And so that will go on for years. And that’s the principle arm in the armory system that we’re interested in producing. In the Revolutionary War, America had a secret. Well, not really so much of a secret, but an idea that was novel to us. We in this country had rifles, and we had riflemen, and the idea we had was that, instead of having a barrel like this one that is smooth – you dump something in and it falls to the bottom – it’s not about speed as much, as it is about accuracy. I’m gonna discuss rifling with you in just a little bit. In my hand, I’m ho