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Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

Republicans for Environmental Progress, also known as REP America, has done a great deal to keep the environmental flame alive in the republican party and is building stronger support every year, according to their political strategist David Jenkins in an interview with me. Check out www.repamerica.org to learn about the Republican Party's deep-rooted environmental ties that go all the way back to Abraham Lincoln, who set aside portions of what would later become Yosemite National Park.

Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro See book keywords and concepts

During the 2004 election year, Procter & Gamble donated $160,000 to a Chamber campaign for four judges running for state supreme court judgeships in its home state of Ohio, who were promoted by the republican party as supporters of "tort reform."28 The American Bar Association later issued a statement criticizing the Chamber for "waging war on the judges who protect the rights and safety of Americans.

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

Half the republican party is strongly proenvi-ronment, and so are most Democrats, even if a lot of them are really only once-over light. Doing the simple math tells me that probably three-quarters of all voters want a president from either party who can energize the nation by articulating a coherent, practicable and visionary environmental policy that ties together our future sources of energy with an inspired response to the threat of global warming and our national security—what I call being a green patriot.

Republican Party's deep-rooted environmental ties that go all the way back to Abraham Lincoln, who set aside portions of what would later become Yosemite National Park. According to Jenkins," Teddy Roosevelt established our unmatched system of wildlife refuges and national parks. Barry Goldwater, the father of conservatism, was a lifelong conservationist (and also a REP America member). Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and also established the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Secret History of the War on Cancer Devra Davis See book keywords and concepts

Elmer Bobst was CEO of the New Jersey pharmaceutical giant Warner Chilcott and a major donor to the republican party. Known as "Uncle Elmer" toTricia Nixon Cox, he would go on to engineer the nomination of Spiro Agnew to the vice presidency. Eventually he secured presidential backing for independent funding of the NCI. As the ACS became a domain for titans of industry, the Field Army fell out of step. A largely volunteer network of amateurs and activists, its members said and did things that the ACS board found embarrassing.

Join the Ron Paul Revolution to Restore Health Freedom to America Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

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Democrats win, Big Pharma loses (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Fed up with the war on Iraq, the corruption, scandals and incessant fear mongering of the republican party, voters ushered in what soon-to-be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi calls, "A new direction for America." Part of that direction, of course, involves ending the blatant pharmaceutical price fixing scheme that was erected by a conspiracy of the Bush Administration and Big Pharma. This scheme is also known as the Medicare discount drug plan, and it established a pharmaceutical monopoly whereby the federal government was not allowed to negotiate volume price discounts with drug companies.

Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda Jacky Law See book keywords and concepts

Bush and the republican party.19 But the most crushing evidence that the plan had been inspired for financial gain came from another whistle-blower, Allen Jones, who had been an employee of the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General, before he was sacked for speaking up. Jones revealed to both the New York Times and the BMJ that officials with influence over the medication plan in his state had received money and perks from drug companies with a stake in the medication algorithm.

The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers Katharine Greider See book keywords and concepts

Whereas a decade ago contributions were split pretty evenly among Republicans and Democrats, the industry is increasingly throwing in its lot with the republican party, with three out of four dollars going to Republicans. This bet paid off in 2000 and again in 2002, sealing a mutually advantageous relationship between the drug industry and the party in power. If the drug lobby has gone on high alert in recent years, it's for good reason.

World Without Cancer G. Edward Griffin See book keywords and concepts

At that time, the republican party was favored for that purpose. Shortly afterward, Herman Metz, a Tammany leader and lifelong Democrat, switched allegiance to the republican party. Metz was president of the H.A. Metz Company of New York, a large pharmaceutical house that was controlled by Farben. In 1925, he helped to organize General Dyestuff Corporation, another Farben outlet, of which he became president. In 1929, he helped organize the American I.G., and he became vice-president and treasurer of that organization.

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

He had been re-elected as attorney general three times by wide margins, had previously held political office in the state legislature, and had headed the Washington State republican party in the '70s. He was the only candidate with statewide name recognition. Five years before his gubernatorial run, Eikenberry siphoned over $100 million of public money into the attorney general's office, so he could institute lawsuits that would bolster his career - even though they were not in the public interest. This was ostensibly done to further his campaign for governor.

Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism Marion Nestle See book keywords and concepts

Naturally, the meat industry and its stooges in the republican party have ganged up on the Agriculture Department (and the American consumer) to make sure the new inspection system never sees the light of day. . . . [Negotiating rulemaking] is like negotiating prison rules with convicts. . . . Children will continue to die in excruciating pain because the meat they ate was contaminated, and because unscrupulous Republicans in Congress fought aggressively to keep it that way.13 At this point, Mr.

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating Jeffrey M. Smith See book keywords and concepts

Democratic and Republican party's 1988 presidential platforms. They also needed federal regulations. With that in place, it would be the government, not Monsanto, who would be assuring the public that GM products were safe. Monsanto wasn't ready to once again ask the public to "trust us." Monsanto's connections in Washington ran deep—very deep. The meeting with Vice President Bush was successful, and they got what they asked for. According to the New Tork Times, "It was an outcome that would be repeated, again and again, through three administrations.

Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Healing Herbs and Spices John Heinerman See book keywords and concepts

He boldly declared: "This trial will advance forward in that science manages to survive the self-righteous and self-serving politics of the republican party." Despite the federal government's obvious reluctance, it has been forced to admit that some individuals have a true, legitimate medical need for this veiy useful drug. I spoke with Bob Randall a few years ago when I was in the nation's capitol attending a garlic research conference. At that time he was still driving a cab and took me across the Potomac River to my destination.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

A symbol of the republican party, introduced in a series of political cartoons by Thomas Nast during the congressional elections of 1874. {Compare donkey.) entitlements Federal programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid that disburse money according to fixed formulas to citizens who fall into designated categories. Because entitlements do not require annual congressional appropriations, their cost tends to rise steadily and, in the view of many, out of control.

As the nominee of the republican party, promising to work toward a balanced federal budget, he won a large victory over President Jimmy Carter in 1980, and an even larger one over Walter Mondale in 1984. Early in his presidency, Reagan persuaded a Congress controlled by Democrats to increase spending on defense and to reduce taxes. The federal budget was to be balanced by reductions in spending outside of defense, but Reagan and the Congress were never able to agree on these. Accordingly, the federal government went deeper into debt throughout Reagan's presidency.

He was an early enthusiast for the republican party, and was its nominee for the Senate from Illinois in 1858. Lincoln rose to national prominence in a famous series of debates with his opponent in the 1858 election, Stephen A. Douglas (see Lincoln-Douglas debates). He was elected president in i860. Lincoln was an exceptionally active commander in chief of the army and navy in the Civil War, which broke out the month after his inauguration. During the war, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, delivered the Gettysburg Address, and approved the Homestead Act.

The party fell into disunity in the 1850s over slavery; some former Whigs, including Abraham Lincoln, then joined the new republican party. Whisky Rebellion An insurrection that broke out in the early 1790s in western Pennsylvania. Hundreds of residents took arms against federal officials charged with collecting a tax on liquor distilled at home. Federal troops then put the rebellion down. Occurring only a few years after the adoption of the Constitution, the Whisky Rebellion was an important test of the power of the new federal government to enforce its laws.

A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who served as president from 1921 to 1923. As republican party candidate in the campaign of 1920, he described his goal as a return to "normalcy" after the ambitious foreign and domestic policies of the outgoing Democratic president, Woodrow Wilson; Harding strongly opposed the participation of the United States in the League of Nations.

Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing John Robbins See book keywords and concepts

The California republican party didn't give his campaign a dime, and the National Republican Congressional Committee contributed a grand total of $16. Williams loaned $14,000 of his own money to his campaign, which was about all it had to spend until AMPAC appeared on the scene, sinking in more than $250,000 dollars. It came to be called "the most expensive and controversial 'shadow' campaign ever conducted in a Congressional race.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

The Democrats' strength in the white South, its strongest base before 1950, has slipped significantly, and in the 1970s and 1980s many bluecollar workers shifted to the republican party. fa The Democrats' party symbol is the Donkey. Depression, Great The great slowdown in the American economy, the worst in the country's history, which began in 1929 and lasted until the early 1940s. Many banks and businesses failed, and millions of people lost their jobs. (See Dust Bowl; fireside chats; hoovervilles; new deal; Okies; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; and Crash of 1929.

Food Politics Marion Nestle See book keywords and concepts

Unlike PAC funds, soft-money donations can be substantial; in 1991, for example, several food and agriculture corporations made $100,000 contributions to the republican party, and in the 1997-1998 election cycle, agribusiness corporations made soft-money donations of $1.3 million to Democrats and $1.4 million to Kraft Foods Milk Marketing Association Western Pistachio Association Republicans.

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Dewey, the New York GOP presidential candidate, accused the Truman administration of harboring sex offenders. GOP republican party officials, quick to take advantage of the "homosexual angle," mailed thousands of newsletters to party aides explaining that "sexual perverts" were "perhaps as dangerous as the actual Communists" who allegedly supported them. They encouraged a campaign to rid government of the "queers" who had "lodged themselves in the tissues of the bureaucracy."2 Soon thereafter, the U.S.

World Without Cancer G. Edward Griffin See book keywords and concepts

The conversion of Metz from a Democrat to a Republican was significant because it signaled the cartel's affinity for the republican party. In October of 1942, the Library of Congress received a sealed gift of some nine-thousand letters comprising the files of the late Edward T. Clark. These files were important, because Clark had been the private secretary to President Calvin Coolidge, and they contained valuable data relating to behind-the-scenes politics. On March 4,1929, Mr.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

The size of our annual budget and the size of our mailing list will [soon] exceed that of the republican party," Reed predicted. The Coalition plans to build that base by reaching out to two demographic groups: prodife Catholics and the 24 percent of the electorate who define themselves as born-again evangelicals. The Coalition's success is based partly on technological wizardry. The group's Chesapeake, VA, headquarters are equipped with a phone system capable of generating 100,000 calls in a single weekend.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

As the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported (8/11/96), "Observers say the Council, not the Moral majority or the Christian Coalition, is the driving force behind the growth of the religious right's influence in the republican party." Skip Porteous, director of the Institute for First Amendment Studies, charged, "They have the money, the machinery, the manpower, and the motivation to push their ideas as national policies, or to oppose such policies." The Council, whose membership is by invitation only, now meets secretly two or three times a year in undisclosed locations.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

The party began in 1854 (see republican party under "American History to 1865"); Abraham Lincoln, elected in i860, was the first Republican president. During Reconstruction, many Republicans were eager to punish the South for its former slaveholding and for its secession from the United States. The northern Republicans, for example, supported carpetbaggers in southern governments. After Reconstruction, the Republicans favored a high protective tariff, and were generally considered the defenders of northeastern and business interests.

Ill feeling by former Confederates during Reconstruction led to the formation of the Ku Klux Klan, and a long-standing mistrust among southerners for the republican party. Red Scare The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This "scare" was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution. Remember the Maine A slogan of the Spanish-American War. The United States battleship Maine mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, in 1898.

As the nominee of the republican party, promising to work toward a balanced federal budget, he won a large victory over President Jimmy Carter in 1980, and an even larger one over Walter Mondale in 1984. Early in his presidency, Reagan persuaded a Congress controlled by Democrats to increase spending on defense and to reduce taxes. The federal budget was to be balanced by reductions in spending outside of defense, but Reagan and the Congress were never able to agree on these. Accordingly, the federal government went deeper into debt throughout Reagan's presidency.

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