Banned in Ireland

Blitzkrieger wrote: »

If there's enough trade and someone's willing to serve us, why can't a bar be open at 3am when the lads get off work?.

Sadly because we as a people can't be trusted to enjoy it sensibly tbh.

who the fug wrote: »

No the powers that be refuse to give the same rights to the working class as they themselves enjoy. You can drink 24/7 just have to spend money in upper class haunts

Yet, I've been in lock ins in small country pubs until morning light so there you go. Class issue me hole.

The recent laws on the purchasing of alcohol are a typical example of the thinking of the incumbents of the Dail, who share a single brain cell and use it in rotation. The intention was, if I understand, to combat binge drinking. The legislators seem to think that this occurs because people leave bars on closing time and go to Tesco and buy a top up with which they then get pissed and cause trouble. OK, so ban 24 hour supermarkets from selling alcohol between (say) 11 o'clock in the evening and 7 o'clock in the morning.

Ah no. That won't work. We legislators have to be seen to be a total pain in the a**e or the proles won't believe we are doing anything useful. Let's ban the sales in the daytime until after 10.30 when the drunks are still in bed. Then they won't try to buy anything anyway and we won't lose the duty and the VAT.

'All Vitamins, Herbal Remedies and Nutritional supplements to be banned You're might be aware that as of 2010, natural cures, supplements, herbs and vitamins will be prohibited in the EU. As of 2010, EU members won't have the freedom to choose high quality food or natural cures. In Canada, a law with similar content is proposed and the US will follow shortly.

I normally have no interest in "take action campaigns" but having been informed of and then spent some time researching this, I am absolutely shocked.

This is due to something called the Codex Alimentarius. I suggest you check-out this link to find out more: Codex Alimentarius Info & Videos

They even have an interview with Ron Paul, the Texan Republican. This is a genuine, very serious threat to people's free choice to use vitamin and mineral supplements. Deprived of these global levels of health will rapidly decline.

Please, do your own research, and UK citizens sign the petition against it:
Petition to: oppose the adoption of the Codex Alimentarius (WHO/UN) proposals for restriction of the presently freely available herb/vitamin/mineral food supplements. | Number10.gov.uk

U.S. Citizens, please also find the petition for your country and sign! EU citizens, sign the petitions for your respective countries!

Here's another good source for further info:

Codex Alimentarius - How the global elite will control your food supply | War On You: Breaking Alternative News

The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), based in Rome, Italy is an international organization jointly created in 1962 by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations “allegedly” to protect the health of consumers with guidelines for food standards.

Codex Alimentarius may present the greatest disaster for our food supply and thus our health this country has ever seen, and if not stopped is likely to be implemented in 2011.

The Codex and its regulations affecting our food sovereignty go back to 1962. Fortunately in 1994 Congress passed the Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act (DSHEA) which for the moment preserved the definition of vitamins, minerals and herbs as foods.

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and the “World According to Monsanto,” should be required viewing and are related to the Codex. In the U.S. and in the Codex GMO’s do not require labeling making in impossible to know what you are eating.

Without congressional oversight the U.S. will move towards the policies of Canada and Mexico where supplements are considered drugs, not foods. Codex if implemented will reverse DSHEA and the U.S. will no longer treat dietary supplements as foods, but as toxins.

For 18 years Norway, Switzerland, Russia, Japan, the European Union and most African countries have fought the U.S. unsuccessfully to require labeling of GMOs. The U.S. erroneously considers GMOs equal to non-GMOs based solely on a 1992 Executive Order from then Skull and Bones president George H. Bush.

The Codex will be enforced by the barrel of a gun.

The FDA will use their power to outlaw more than raw almonds and tryptophan. In Ohio a food co-op was raided Gestapo style by the USDA because they sold a dozen eggs to an aggressive undercover agent “without a business license.”

Is the FDA looking out for consumers … unlikely.

Half of the 198 new drugs the FDA approved from 1976 to 1985 had to be withdrawn or relabeled because they caused unexpected side effects. Predictably no one at the FDA withdrew Donald Rumsfeld’s Aspartame sold under the trade names Equal and NutraSweet. Aspartame is a deadly carcinogen made from the feces of e coli bacteria that we can’t avoid because it’s an additive in just about every food we eat.

The story gets even more interesting when you find out NAZI Germany’s notorious I.G. Farben cartel is behind Codex and the proposals that would drastically curtail our health care freedoms.

Catherine Bertini, the head of the UN food programs in 1995, paraphrased the famous Kissinger statement, “Food is power. We use it to change behavior.”

Is this the first time you have heard of “Codex Alimentarius?” That’s not unusual because Codex is an “open secret.” The information is available if you want to look for it but the corporate controlled media isn’t going to tell you about it until its already too late.

Monsanto, Big Pharma, Chema and Agra have convinced most companies “Codex is a non-issue”, and that they will actually gain market share when Codex is implemented.

So who is raising awareness about this issue?

John C. Hammell of International Advocates for Health Freedom and Ian Crane an ex oil field executive. Ian lectures and writes on U.S. Hegemony and the NWO agenda for control of Global Resources.

Mr Crane says, “After spending the past twelve months investigating Codex Alimentarius, I am deeply disturbed by the almost total lack of awareness (or even interest) with regard to the implications of this pernicious global Commission, particularly amongst those most affected by the excesses of this restrictive legislation.”

The general lack of public awarness is well illustrated by the low traffic volume visiting his website.

Ian warns of the “pernicious” effects legislation will have believing “without a shadow of a doubt” there is a plot by major food and pharmaceutical companies to see that the Codex proposals become international law.

Codex is laying siege to our freedom of choice, let’s stop it.

Normally I don’t recommend those take action campaigns. The ones that tell you, it’s not too late, click-here to importune our elected representatives with emails and faxes. But Codex Alemintarius is different.

The inconvenient truth for our elected representatives their families and staff is they have to eat and take vitamins and supplements… just like us. So go ahead and email, fax and phone. This is one email campaign that might just work.

It’s going to come down to a massive rebellion.

The DSHEA law that kept the FDA off our backs was passed because millions and millions of letters were sent to people in Congress demanding health freedom. International Advocates for Health Freedom website has a “take action” page.

Think buying organic will help you? Well, not as much as you think, because the U.S. currently allows for up to 10% of GMO contamination of organic foods (the highest of any country in the world, most permit 0.1%).

You can make a difference by support local self sustaining farmers who refuse to use GMO seeds. And of course start a garden and grow your own food.

Because guess what? …..They can’t stop us from growing our own food.'

From: http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/health-fitness/36177-all-vitamins-herbal-remedies-nutritional-supplements-banned.html

Despite the fact that dietary supplements are far safer than table salt, aspirin, vaccines and many FDA-approved drugs, they are being demonized.

Year after year, surveys conducted by poison control centers show dietary supplements to be the safest products of all.

In a misdirection, it appears food supplements are being mischaracterized as potentially dangerous and in need of greater regulatory oversight. This leads to the possibility of FDA placing supplements under the same regulatory body that oversees drugs.

The FDA appears to be covering for the sins of the drug companies, which is pushing for faster approval of new drugs, which led to the Vioxx fiasco (it is estimated 20,000 Americans died prematurely from taking this anti-inflammatory drug that should have never been approved by the FDA). Vioxx, if you recall, was touted as being safer than other anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and aspirin.

From: The Irish Institute Of Nutrition And Health.

CCCP wrote: »

Having a place in Dublin airport to smoke after clearing security.

I agree with the smoking bad, but some people are mortally afraid of flying, for god sakes let them have a smoke before getting on a Ryanair.

If you're getting on Ryanair its not a smoking area you need, its brandy.

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Is suicide still illegal ?

Yeah, the penalty is a death sentence, which is a bit harsh.

I think we have stupid retarded laws like the ban on fireworks which I think was put into place due to are past history with the IRA but then there legal up north where the majority of IRA or dissident activity takes place complete stupidity.
Also the ban on selling drink from an off-licence after 10 what idiot came up with that :mad:
the ban on legal highs just because the goverment wasent willing to put in the reserch on them and got scared by the older community getting annoyed with the idea of them, and now there going to vote on legalising marijuana in california its a joke we are going backwards with are laws :rolleyes:

porn is illegal

giving your name in Irish to the Gardaí is also apparently judging by the slaps i have got everytime I have done so

5 kicks of the same can shall be considered transportation of litter and is an offence

Johro wrote: »

Much better to take chemically synthesised drugs with sh1t side-effects.:rolleyes:

You do realise that herbal medicines are also subject to side-effects, right?

'All Vitamins, Herbal Remedies and Nutritional supplements to be banned You're might be aware that as of 2010, natural cures, supplements, herbs and vitamins will be prohibited in the EU. As of 2010, EU members won't have the freedom to choose high quality food or natural cures. In Canada, a law with similar content is proposed and the US will follow shortly

Have you got a source?