David Steinman
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 I'd heard of its vibrant democracy and its nonmilitary ways. I'd heard so much about its rainforest. I wondered if it, too, was the real thing.
For the last hundred and fifty years, Costa Rica has suffered from deforestadon. By the late 1980s, the problem was really dramatic. Costa Rica, Latin America's oldest and longest-running democracy, was in trouble, with one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. It was a catastrophe in the making. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 How do you run a democracy when 60 or 70 percent of the people don't have the presence of mind to even vote rationally? How do you run a democracy like that? Well, you don't. It's gone. It's basically run by the special interest groups, just a few people in power who are acting like it's a democracy. I think that's actually where we are today.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we can turn this around, but I don't see any indication of it. I don't see any honest discussion of health care reform, do you? Look around out there! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Democracy is failing
When the government of any nation forgets its people and, instead, focuses on defending and promoting the interests of powerful corporations, you no longer have a democracy. Instead, you have a Plutocracy (see Wikipedia entry on Plutocracy), where the wealthy elite control the political process and use laws to further enrich themselves at the expense of the public.
It's an accurate description of what's happening in America today: The public is no longer represented by the Senate, the FDA, the USDA or the EPA. |
Alex Vilenkin
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 They suggested "the principle of democracy" instead. Of course, nobody wants to be mediocre, but the name expresses nostalgia for the times when humans were at the center of the world. It is tempting to believe that we are special, but in cosmology, time and again, the assumption of being mediocre proved to be a very fruitful hypothesis.
The same kind of reasoning can be applied to predicting the height of people. Imagine for a moment that you don't know your own height. Then you can use statistical data for your country and gender to predict it. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 However, as we have all learned in school, parliamentary democracy did not extend to the colonies, and Americans were isolated from the give-and-take and political deals that were the daily fare of enfranchised Englishmen in establishments like Will's and White's. The colonial well-to-do took their chocolate, but at home.
Chocolate at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution
A glance at the plate dealing with chocolate-making in Diderot's Encyclopedia will suffice to show how little the basic technology had changed since the days of the Aztecs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's enough to bankrupt our nation, which is, coincidentally, what seems likely to happen in due course. No democracy has ever survived its citizens losing their health.
We could learn a lot by listening to nature on the subject of nutrition. Most animals eat a raw foods, vegetarian diet. Even the birds and the bees have something important to teach us about nutrition: feed your children right, and your species will survive and thrive. But feed your children crap and your family tree becomes a dead stump in the dirt. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We're beyond the point of reason in this country. In a democracy, when more than 50% of the population can't think clearly, that democracy is doomed to implode sooner or later. And we're well beyond 50% today. Out in public, I'm lucky to find 1 in 20 people who seem lucid at all. That's only 5%.
I'm about to shed some light on how the powers that be manage to keep everybody so sick and diseased in the United States. My newest book, "Health Seduction" describes how food, drug and cosmetics companies trick people into buying hazardous products again and again. |
Bottom Line Health
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Charles Barber
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 In Switzerland, they had brotherly love—five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
Let's call it not the Sea Snail syndrome but the Steve Earle syndrome, referring to the extremely talented singer-songwriter who produced only middling material early in his career, with a few frustrat-ingly brief flashes of brilliance, until both his career and his health dwindled as a result of being caught in a vortex of cocaine, crack, and alcohol. With a five-hundred-dollar-a-day habit, Earle pawned his guitars and became homeless. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Today, America is neither a free democracy, nor a totalitarian police state. But it could go either way. And the direction it heads from this day forward is up to people like you. Will you demand your freedom? Or will you let it be slowly, secretly slipped away, one federal document at a time, until you wake up one day and find yourself standing alone in a world or medical tyranny where all the healers have been imprisoned, the herbs have all been banned and the public is chemically controlled under a system of lifetime medical treatment that keeps the drug corporations wealthy? |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 We regulate marketing to kids less than any industrialized democracy," adds Linn, a Harvard Medical School psychiatry instructor, who, in 2000, co-founded the coalition Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), whose long-term goal is to put an end to targeting kids with potentially harmful advertising messages.
"The food industry is clearly under a lot of pressure," she says. "They're acting a lot like the tobacco industry did in the 1990s. There's a possibility that [down the line], we'll have regulation of junk food marketing to kids. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The Natural Solutions Foundation also has a web comment form posted here, which uses the "Democracy In Action" engine to send comments to the FDA and adds your name to a petition asserting our collective right to health freedom. This petition needs approximately another 90,000 electronic signatures to be taken seriously by the FDA, so please consider signing this petition as well. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Other Countries Set Higher Priorities on the Weil-Being of Their Kids
Despite our alleged civilized democracy, what's happening in the United States seems backward. By contrast, a number of countries around the world protect their children with stringent TV advertising rules and regulations.
Sweden and Norway ban advertising to kids under 12.
Ireland prohibits TV commercials for fast food and candy.
Italy forbids advertising during cartoons, and characters can't show up in ads before and after programs in which they appear. |
Joseph Campbell
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| Where the natural impulse to complain against the holocaust has been suppressed—to cry out blame, or to announce panaceas—the magnitude of an art of tragedy more potent (for us) than the Greek finds realization: the realistic, intimate, and variously interesting tragedy of democracy, where the god is beheld crucified in the catastrophes not of the great houses only but of every common home, every scourged and lacerated face. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Another big player is Commercial Alert, which seeks to keep commercialism from "exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity, and democracy. "
The Battle to Ban Soda and Other Junk Food from
Our Schools
The situation that most infuriates health and family groups across the political spectrum is that corporations sell their processed, often sugary snacks or sugary beverages on school grounds.
Consumer advocate and social critic Ralph Nader describes this ploy as "relentless marketing to the youth that bypasses parents. |
Anne Harrington
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 Some of the reasons for the anxiety were obvious: the bomb, fears of a communist invasion, and widespread beliefs that democracy and freedom were being put at risk by spies within American society. Other reasons for anxiety, though, seemed to have more to do with pressures associated with the new prosperous lifestyles themselves. The prosperity itself had been partially achieved through a new conservative approach to gender roles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's the idiots of America who are supporting these candidates, and we must all pray that these idiots are not in the majority when Election Day arrives. Any democracy in which the idiots become the majority is doomed to fail (as ours is).
What do I mean by "idiots" when it comes to voting? It's simple: People who strictly vote along party lines are complete idiots. Voters must consider the individuals, not merely the party. People who also vote for candidates simply because of their religious affiliation are not too bright, either. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| How do you run a democracy like that? Well, you don't. It's gone. It's basically run by the special interest groups, just a few people in power who are acting like it's a democracy. I think that's actually where we are today.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we can turn this around, but I don't see any indication of it. I don't see any honest discussion of health care reform, do you? Look around out there! We don't see people talking about health care reform and saying, "We need to address the health: We need to ban dangerous food ingredients. We need to teach people about sunlight and water. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In a democracy, when more than 50% of the population can't think clearly, that democracy is doomed to implode sooner or later. And we're well beyond 50% today. Out in public, I'm lucky to find 1 in 20 people who seem lucid at all. That's only 5%.
I'm about to shed some light on how the powers that be manage to keep everybody so sick and diseased in the United States. My newest book, "Health Seduction" describes how food, drug and cosmetics companies trick people into buying hazardous products again and again. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One lesson might be, "Never run a democracy based on the votes of a population that's doped up on pharmaceuticals." All those drugs interfere with cognitive function, of course, and give people such short memories that they have no capacity to understand or consider the long-term implications of their decisions.
Another lesson might be, "If you want a true democracy, get the representatives the hell out of the way. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Facts that stand alone from personal experience often associated with the meaning of specific words (the United States gained its independence in 1776; the definition of the word democracy is government by the people; the four Beatles were John, Paul, George, and Ringo). Semantic memory is often lumped together with episodic memory under the heading of "declarative memory"—a blanket term for memory that stores facts and personal experience rather than rote skills.
Procedural memory. How to complete motor tasks (remembering how to tie one's shoe, ride a bike, or play a guitar riff). |
Mark Schapiro
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 David Wirth, who was on the State Department team that negotiated the Montreal Protocol in 1988 and is now the head of international law at Boston College, has been following developments in Europe with a mixture of satisfaction—the EU is taking actions he has long advocated from inside and outside government—as well as trepidation for the implications for American democracy.
"If California or some other state adopts an EU directive, then who cares what EPA says anymore?" Wirth commented. "If you're not engaged in the process, then you can't influence the outcome. . . . |
Devra Davis
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 The Germans thought of themselves as standing against the phony egalitarian ideas of the French Revolution, with its concepts of universal brotherhood, freedom and equality July 14 is the date celebrated in France as the liberation of the Bastille, the beginning of democracy. The German cabinet chose the same date in 1933 to enact a number of major laws, including one allowing sterilization of those deemed defectives. |
| In his book Propaganda, written in 1928, Edward Bernays argued that democracy depended on the successful control of public opinion.
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element of Democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. . . . We are governed, our minds are molded, our taste formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. |
David Steinman
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| This is the fuel of democracy there, he said. Their large numbers of protestors over the recent chemical contamination of a river are democratizing China, and we'd be politically foolish to turn away from this powerful movement. Protests over environmental rape today are as politically energizing and the modern global equivalent to the historic anger over taxes on stamps and tea, invasions of privacy, and as forced lodging of the crown's soldiers in patriots' homes were to our own American founders. |
Peter Rost
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 The American democracy has been stolen by our new class of robber barons—the CEOs of our largest corporations. A political system dependent on charity from rich men in hand-tailored suits with $ 100-million retirement packages is no democracy. It is a kleptocracy.30 It is not what our founding fathers envisioned.
So, can we change this? Can we build a new future? I believe that we can. |
Devra Davis
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| The English philosopher Bertrand Russell was not perturbed by the fundamentally undemocratic aspects of eugenics:17
The ideas of eugenics are based on the assumption that men are basically unequal, while democracy is based on the assumption that they are essentially equal. It is politically awkward to advance eugenic ideas in a democratic community when those ideas take the form, not of suggesting that there is a minority of inferior people, such as imbeciles, but of admitting that there is a minority of superior people. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson, "every good democracy must have a citizenry that is willing to stage a revolution periodically in order to rid itself of those looking to abridge the rights of a free society." Are you too sick to stand up for your rights?
Chapter 15
CURES-They ARE Preventable
We love the science, but don't think that it is a good business model. - Eli Lilly Corporation
To interpret the quote above, consider that in the case of 18 million Americans with diabetes, a cure would effectively kill a $132 billion/year industry. |
| Fried's investigation also revealed that the drug Seldane, stomach analgesic to prevent damage caused by their arthritis medication
As both victims and citizens of a democracy, we should all be asking where our system has failed us. Is the dividend paid to every shareholder of pharmaceutical stock truly worth more than the lives of the consumers of their products?
Another revealing example of how our system fails us can be seen with the marketing of a drug called Rezulin. |
Dawson Church
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 Nelson Mandela: He emerged from years of imprisonment and tor ture to become a leader for freedom, democracy, and the rights of the oppressed.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Unable to walk, and with fingers twisted by arthritis, he attached a paintbrush to his hand and painted some of the world's most memorable works, including (at age seventy-six) "The Washerwoman."
Henri Matisse: Suffering from heart failure, gastrointestinal disease, and with his lungs failing, he placed paintbrushes on a long stick and painted from his bed. |
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