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GLOBAL NEWS FDA CLAIMS STEM CELLS ARE A “DRUG” TO BE REGULATED wants to protect the market for FDA- approved drugs. No more beating around the bush: its agenda is right out in the open! The primary role of adult stem cells in a living organism is to maintain and repair the tissue in which they are found. The hard part has been to get enough of them. However, new echnology is giving doctors the ability to obtain more stem cells rom a patient than previously hought possible. Blood, fat or tissue is withdrawn rom the patient, stem cells are obtained using one of these new processes, and the cells are injected back into the patient where they can repair the tissue. Source: Alliance for Natural Health, USA, 1 February 2012, http://tinyurl.com/7lqgtfy) confidential intelligence services to arge corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Company, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, and government agencies including the US Department of Homeland Security, he US Marines and the US Defense ntelligence Agency. [he emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods. The material shows how a private intelligence agency works, and how it argets individuals for its corporate and government clients. Despite the governmental ties, Stratfor and similar companies operate in complete secrecy with no political oversight or accountability. Stratfor claims that it operates “without ideology, agenda or national bias", yet the emails reveal private intelligence staff who align hemselves closely with US government policies and channel ips to Israel's Mossad. An extrajudicial blockade imposed by Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, Bank of America and Western Union, designed to destroy WikiLeaks, has been in place since December 2010. ‘Source: WikiLeaks.org, 27 February 2012, http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.htm!) I; another outrageous power-grab, he FDA says your own stem cells are drugs—and stem cell therapy is interstate commerce because it affects the bottom line of FDA- approved drugs in other states! This is the US Food and Drug Administration's latest claim in its battle with a Colorado clinic over its Regenexx-SD™ procedure, a non- surgical treatment for people suffering from moderate to severe joint or bone pain using adult stem cells. The Centeno-Schultz Clinic takes your blood, puts it into a centrifuge machine that separates the stem cells, and a doctor puts them back into your body where there is damaged tissue. The Clinic has argued numerous times that stem cells aren't drugs because they are components of the patient's blood from his or her own body. [he FDA asserts in a court document that it has the right to regulate the Centeno-Schultz Clinic for two reasons: (1) stem cells are drugs and therefore fall within FDA's jurisdiction; (2) the Clinic is engaging in interstate commerce and is therefore subject to FDA regulation because any part of the machine or procedure that originates outside Colorado becomes interstate commerce once it enters the state. Moreover, interstate commerce is substantially affected because __ individuals travelling to Colorado to have the Regenexx procedure would "depress the market for out-of-state drugs that are approved by FDA". The FDA has been attacking the Clinic for the past four years. It has tried injunctions and demanded inspections in their attempts to make the company bend. This court battle is merely the latest salvo. This time the FDA just nakedly says in court documents that the Agency WIKILEAKS RELEASES THE GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE FILES n Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files—more than five million emails from the Texas-~headquartered “global intelligence" company, Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher but provides ya Aink Fil ow gone “Moby Did"! onm i! interactive App.. Coe a a Aink Fell read some “M Dick"! on MY new interdctve App.. Cee APRIL - MAY 2012 NEXUS ¢ 7 www.nexusmagazine.com