The case was recently settled on terms favourable to Schwabe Pharma (Australia) Pty Ltd and its distributor, Natural Health Products Pty Ltd. The settlement of the case now means that the Therapeutic Goods Administration and other bodies can investigate the concerns over the promotional claims.
The court orders [http://esearch.fedcourt.gov.au/Esearch?showDoc=24867451 agreed to] included the following:
1. The respondents (and each of them by themselves, their servants or agents or otherwise howsoever) are permanently restrained from publishing on a website described as www.consumerhealthwatch.net.au or otherwise:
(a) a report described as ‘Does Tebonin (Gingko biloba) provide relief in tinnitus?’; and/or
(b) any document which is subsequently similar to the said report in purporting to critique as part of or emanating from a process of review of the product Tebonin applying the methodology as represented by the first respondent at a web page under the heading ‘About Us’ at a website described as www.consumerhealthwatch.net.au under the paragraphs bearing the headings ‘Background’ and ‘The Review Process’.
it is so sad and frustrating when the west
fail see the connection between the problem
in afghanistan, the war in iraq, the situation
in the west bank, and the 9/11 disaster, and
look at them as separate incidences that can
be treated separately.
invariably, the bottom-line solution put forth
is for the arabs, or whoever, to see things
the way the west sees them. 'if only they
would realize how much better our way of life in the west is, things would be much better.' everyone 'must move closer to american, or western, values". we expect the others to change their way of
life rather than everyone simply accepting everyone else's way of life as a different, but equally valid, equally fulfilling way of life.
we live in one world, yet all of us are different. we all want the same things - a better, safer world; a brighter future for our children; freedom to practice our own religions and to extend our respective wings; peace.
we are all different creeds, different colors, different cultures, one world.
Harassment --- whether or not they actually can win such a lawsuit.
This is a pattern these days: The media is taking priority over the court systems in the minds of p.r.
They are alleging things in the media that in a lawsuit could only win in a Banana Republic (or otherwise bribed) court system. They are betting on p.r. and the media having more power than the legal system.
They use unsubstantiated and/or refuted allegations as if they were ingraved-in-stone facts. The corruption in this country is absolutely amazing. (Somehow I doubt the grace will be that amazing, however, despite the "popularity" of the song.)
Also interesting is that this is yet another johnny-come-lately example and trend of humans trying to take a so-to-speak "PARENTAL" role over other humans --- using government, or whatever to do so.
This is what is known as usurping of individual automony --- or here, specifically freedom of SPEECH --- the individual God-given tongue, and when someone is alerting the public to a poison at that.
This trend of canning the news about poisons and potential poisons can only result in a holocaust of one sort or another if it continues (if not several of them), even if next-to-no-one links a particular poison to the mysterious deaths or illnesses that occur.
A slow kill might not be as obvious as the poison of a stringray, but the resulting extinctions will be just as sure. (Which incidentally, how peculiar, that Steve Irwin would become extinct right along with the extinctions of his beloved ecosystems and their inhabitants. Perhaps they could not stand to be parted from one another, and decided to go to heaven together. What a Romeo and Juliet story. They did not have to watch each others' demise. It would have been too painful.)
But back to the subject at hand: who cares about human life anyway? This was the attitude of Nero in the 1957 (or thereabouts) version of the movie Quo Vadis, starring Peter Ustinov.
That is very potentially just like saying they are going to kill people, or serious maim them, and you'd better shut up about it and watch it happen. Because I am (they are) your authorized (adoptive or something) PARENT. Even though I'm not really your parent, and if I was you'd still be an adult. Come now, children. Let's all be "good" now.
First, if there is anything that life has taught me, it is that very many of these religious people are very strongly steeped in what I can only call as "showmanship." (It is contrary to the ACTUAL teachings of Jesus, as Jesus taught to not do things to be seen of men, and also that others can be known "by their fruits." Unless we are talking about Fruit of the Loom, fruits are not labels.)
This "showmanship" that has become such a strong part of very many peoples' religion is nothing but a shell. I was going to say more about this but I forgot what it was. Oh well, that is the jist. In fact, it is really a con game and they don't even realize that is what they are doing. They themselves are conned that this is religion, or some kind of expectation of God himself.
Secondly, about a week or so ago I had a dream which I think pretty well sums up the condition of our world today, or at least our nation and particular society:
It was about a puppeteer and a puppet. The puppeteer was of course, more or less obscurred.
What I saw in this dream was first the puppeteer. There were no strings, but rather he had something like a cattle prod in his hand by which he wielded manipulation and a sort of "get-on-with-it" type of duress.
The puppeteer (in my dream) was a very skinny and smallish human-like creature dressed entirely in a black leotard, head to toe, to obscure his identity. He was black all over (presumably because of his leotard) and therefore looked somewhat like an ant, but his physique was otherwise human-like. (For whatever that means.) (Perhaps the puppeteer represents money, or money is part of what it symbolizes, since obviously we live in a "dollar dictatorship" today, the dollar forever being "the bottom line.")
His "puppet" had no strings attached, but was rather ruled by duress. He was a taller, plumpish older man with gray hair and he was being prodded onto an auditorium stage by the skinny little, black-dressed puppeteer. His white hair looked like it might very well be a wig, and not only that, it looked like it was made to look like the white-haired wig of a founding father of the nation. It was like he was dressed to imply he was of some traditional ilk, like a phoney antique or such.
Anyway all I saw in this brief momentary dream was the two characters, first the skinny, black-dressed human-like creature quickly weilding the black prod back and forth, then I saw that he was directing this other guy like a puppet onto an auditorium stage to speak to some mass of people. He was being directed and prodded by the obscurred skinny black-dressed thing, which people were not necessarily going to notice.
As an analogy, this is so very depictive and true of so very much of our world circumstance/s and condition today. It was only a brief momentary dream, but a picture paints a thousand words to anyone who is not blind.
Okay --- totally different subject but now I've gotta go and like take a moment to reflect on the life of Steve Irwin, dare-devil that he was, and yet I'd bet that from where ever he is now, he feels his life was worth it. Will he linger on earth to haunt the daylights out of falsehood? Or proceed immediately on to a better place? These are questions I cannot answer.
Just want to point out --- in case there would be any confusion --- that my blather above (or below, as the case may be) was not directed towards the comment previous to it. It was directed at society in general.
it is so sad and frustrating when the west
fail see the connection between the problem
in afghanistan, the war in iraq, the situation
in the west bank, and the 9/11 disaster, and
look at them as separate incidences that can
be treated separately.
invariably, the bottom-line solution put forth
is for the arabs, or whoever, to see things
the way the west sees them. 'if only they
would realize how much better our way of life in the west is, things would be much better.' everyone 'must move closer to american, or western, values". we expect the others to change their way of
life rather than everyone simply accepting everyone else's way of life as a different, but equally valid, equally fulfilling way of life.
we live in one world, yet all of us are different. we all want the same things - a better, safer world; a brighter future for our children; freedom to practice our own religions and to extend our respective wings; peace.
we are all different creeds, different colors, different cultures, one world.
Harassment --- whether or not they actually can win such a lawsuit.
This is a pattern these days: The media is taking priority over the court systems in the minds of p.r.
They are alleging things in the media that in a lawsuit could only win in a Banana Republic (or otherwise bribed) court system. They are betting on p.r. and the media having more power than the legal system.
They use unsubstantiated and/or refuted allegations as if they were ingraved-in-stone facts. The corruption in this country is absolutely amazing. (Somehow I doubt the grace will be that amazing, however, despite the "popularity" of the song.)
Also interesting is that this is yet another johnny-come-lately example and trend of humans trying to take a so-to-speak "PARENTAL" role over other humans --- using government, or whatever to do so.
This is what is known as usurping of individual automony --- or here, specifically freedom of SPEECH --- the individual God-given tongue, and when someone is alerting the public to a poison at that.
This trend of canning the news about poisons and potential poisons can only result in a holocaust of one sort or another if it continues (if not several of them), even if next-to-no-one links a particular poison to the mysterious deaths or illnesses that occur.
A slow kill might not be as obvious as the poison of a stringray, but the resulting extinctions will be just as sure. (Which incidentally, how peculiar, that Steve Irwin would become extinct right along with the extinctions of his beloved ecosystems and their inhabitants. Perhaps they could not stand to be parted from one another, and decided to go to heaven together. What a Romeo and Juliet story. They did not have to watch each others' demise. It would have been too painful.)
But back to the subject at hand: who cares about human life anyway? This was the attitude of Nero in the 1957 (or thereabouts) version of the movie Quo Vadis, starring Peter Ustinov.
That is very potentially just like saying they are going to kill people, or serious maim them, and you'd better shut up about it and watch it happen. Because I am (they are) your authorized (adoptive or something) PARENT. Even though I'm not really your parent, and if I was you'd still be an adult. Come now, children. Let's all be "good" now.
A few more comments:
First, if there is anything that life has taught me, it is that very many of these religious people are very strongly steeped in what I can only call as "showmanship." (It is contrary to the ACTUAL teachings of Jesus, as Jesus taught to not do things to be seen of men, and also that others can be known "by their fruits." Unless we are talking about Fruit of the Loom, fruits are not labels.)
This "showmanship" that has become such a strong part of very many peoples' religion is nothing but a shell. I was going to say more about this but I forgot what it was. Oh well, that is the jist. In fact, it is really a con game and they don't even realize that is what they are doing. They themselves are conned that this is religion, or some kind of expectation of God himself.
Secondly, about a week or so ago I had a dream which I think pretty well sums up the condition of our world today, or at least our nation and particular society:
It was about a puppeteer and a puppet. The puppeteer was of course, more or less obscurred.
What I saw in this dream was first the puppeteer. There were no strings, but rather he had something like a cattle prod in his hand by which he wielded manipulation and a sort of "get-on-with-it" type of duress.
The puppeteer (in my dream) was a very skinny and smallish human-like creature dressed entirely in a black leotard, head to toe, to obscure his identity. He was black all over (presumably because of his leotard) and therefore looked somewhat like an ant, but his physique was otherwise human-like. (For whatever that means.) (Perhaps the puppeteer represents money, or money is part of what it symbolizes, since obviously we live in a "dollar dictatorship" today, the dollar forever being "the bottom line.")
His "puppet" had no strings attached, but was rather ruled by duress. He was a taller, plumpish older man with gray hair and he was being prodded onto an auditorium stage by the skinny little, black-dressed puppeteer. His white hair looked like it might very well be a wig, and not only that, it looked like it was made to look like the white-haired wig of a founding father of the nation. It was like he was dressed to imply he was of some traditional ilk, like a phoney antique or such.
Anyway all I saw in this brief momentary dream was the two characters, first the skinny, black-dressed human-like creature quickly weilding the black prod back and forth, then I saw that he was directing this other guy like a puppet onto an auditorium stage to speak to some mass of people. He was being directed and prodded by the obscurred skinny black-dressed thing, which people were not necessarily going to notice.
As an analogy, this is so very depictive and true of so very much of our world circumstance/s and condition today. It was only a brief momentary dream, but a picture paints a thousand words to anyone who is not blind.
Okay --- totally different subject but now I've gotta go and like take a moment to reflect on the life of Steve Irwin, dare-devil that he was, and yet I'd bet that from where ever he is now, he feels his life was worth it. Will he linger on earth to haunt the daylights out of falsehood? Or proceed immediately on to a better place? These are questions I cannot answer.
Just want to point out --- in case there would be any confusion --- that my blather above (or below, as the case may be) was not directed towards the comment previous to it. It was directed at society in general.
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