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 thingss?) 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.
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