Up Close and Personal
An interview with CTM founder, Phillip Day
14th January 2005

ECLUB: Happy New Year.
PD: Same to you, Brian. I'd also like to welcome our new subscribers from Australia and New Zealand who came aboard during my recent tour of those balmy climes.
ECLUB: How did it all go?
PD: It was great. We have a marvellous team, led by Marlene Stopp of Credence Events Management, so things were supremely well put together, and of course, the Aussies and Kiwis are brilliant anyway.
ECLUB: And facing the same challenges we are in the frigid north.
PD: Yup. The infamous Codex. Folks, if there's one war we have to fight to the bitter end, it's for our right to choose our own treatments, supplements, health advice, doctors, etc., without the drug industry and their mastiffs strong-arming the masses, denying us choice, and taking away our vitamins and minerals, and compelling dangerous, even lethal, treatments upon us under force of law, if necessary. Think it can't happen? See what happens if you lose this fight.
ECLUB: How can people get motivated and mobilised?
PD: The resistance is now very well organised. In New Zealand, there is the New Zealand Health Trust. In Australia, there's the Alliance for Health Freedom and Eve Hillary. In Europe, there's the mighty Rath Foundation, which warns: "The Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) will come to be seen by future generations as the greatest threat to the basic human right of health the world has ever known. Never before in history has a special interest group, the pharmaceutical industry, so shamelessly tried to compromise the health of billions of people for no other reason than its desire to maintain multi-billion dollar markets for prescription drugs." In the UK, there's the Alliance for Natural Health. In the US, there's the International Advocates for Health Freedom. If anyone knows any other worthy organisations I've missed, please send me their web-sites. Each group has been set up to co-ordinate action in their respective countries, and they require supporters by the thousand to get involved. As you will see from the "Pricey Drug Trials Turn up Few New Blockbusters" article, the drug industry has got serious problems, so we need to hit them where it hurts.
ECLUB: What else do you have for us this time around?
PD: Apparently Michael Moore is considering doing another of his exposés, this time on the pharmaceutical industry.
ECLUB: Are you serious?
PD: Nothing firm yet, but the grapevine is all-agog at the implications. Then, to kick off 2005, we have a fluoride victory, a mental health victory where G W Bush has signed a law prohibiting forced psychiatric drugging of schoolchildren - a tremendous victory for the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, the global mental health watchdog (www.cchr.org). Also some great news regarding Vitamin A and cancer, something I've been harping on about since the mammoths. In all then, a promising start to the year.
ECLUB: And some changes closer to home?
PD: Yes, EClub will be formatted slightly differently and a shorter version sent out twice a month. The idea is to make the information more rapid to present, so folks with busy schedules can scan down items that interest them while discarding others.
ECLUB: And the new tour?
PD: Commences this coming Monday and will take in the UK and Ireland. For those who have received flyers who don't think I'm coming to your neighbourhood (i.e. Ireland and South-East England), I am, so panic not! A slight hiccup in the scheduling, but we'll send you a flyer with the dates. In fact, I'm doing TWO identical tours of the UK and Ireland this year, two different talks, so each stop will be visited twice. Click here for details of the first tour, but bear in mind, Ireland and SE England dates will soon be added and we'll mail you all the details.
ECLUB: And rumours of an updated version of the AIDS book?
PD: True enough. The new version, entitled The Truth About HIV, covers everything that has transpired since 2000, when the original World Without AIDS came out. The new version, if even possible, is more explosive as the AIDS agenda unfolds. The new book throws the net wider, also taking in the new affliction, Medical Testing Disease.
ECLUB: Can't wait for that one. Thank you, Phillip.