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28 Senators vote to maintain Big Pharma monopoly over U.S. consumers; Republicans oppose free trade for medicine Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Dorgan amendment proposes free trade for medicine The Dorgan amendment, entitled, "Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2007," proposes what is essentially a free trade policy on prescription medications. It would allow Americans to buy their drugs from certain certified organizations registered as valid importers or exporters. The bill states, "...

President Bush has promised to veto the bill if the Dorgan amendment stands. free trade for medicine simply will not be tolerated in the United States. There's too much money at stake.

The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

End Big Pharma's FDA-enforced drug monopoly Government regulators claim to support free trade in every area imaginable: corn, computers, software, automobiles and even steel. But when it comes to medicine, U.S. regulators feel they need to enforce a U.S. monopoly market that deprives consumers of choice and makes free trade illegal. Just try to buy meds from a Canadian online pharmacy, and you'll see what I mean. The FDA practically considers you a criminal for buying drugs at cheaper prices in another country. From the FDA to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), U.S.

Pharmacists oppose free trade with Canada, citing loss of U.S. jobs Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The way to accomplish that is to oppose free trade and turn ordinary, everyday citizens who buy drugs from Canada into felons. It's classic "Pat Buchanan" protectionism. It's a smart lobbying tactic, though. If there's anything that moves Americans to action, it's the idea that "jobs will be lost." Candle makers used the same argument to discredit pane glass window manufacturers hundreds of years ago. They realized that windows would let in light, and if homes had light, they wouldn't need as many candles.

Big Pharma industry seemed dedicated to coming up with yet more creative scare tactics to accomplish their ultimate goal: shutting down free trade between the United States and Canada in order to protect the monopoly profits of U.S. drug companies.

How to end cruelty to people, animals and nature, and create a world without war and environmental destruction Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

But this is no anti-trade rant: free trade is essential for lifting poor nations out of poverty, but only when combined with mechanisms that respect the sanctity of human life such as safe working conditions, living wages, and a system of recognizing private property ownership for the poor. Read "The Mystery of Capital" by Hernando DeSoto, which is among the most important economic books of the last 100 years, to learn the real reasons why free trade has failed to provide economic freedoms for underdeveloped nations (and what we can do to change that).

FDA Revitalization Act renamed, amended and still hotly debated; floor vote is imminent Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This single amendment, which would bring free trade to medications and save American citizens, corporations, cities and states billions of dollars in reduced pricing for prescription drugs, has Big Pharma and their legislative lapdogs circling the wagons, hoping to pass this bill quickly before any other "bright ideas" threaten Big Pharma's stanglehold on organized medicine. What's at stake here is nothing less than the future of our nation.

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

Six years previously, she had sat with her Mexican and Canadian counterparts at a meeting in Toronto of the Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC), which facilitates coordinated environmental strategies among the three partners of the North American free trade Agreeement. At that meeting, she and several of her EPA colleagues had proposed that the three countries develop a North American risk assessment plan for lindane—the first step toward tighter restrictions or an outright continental ban on its use. The NAFTA partners agreed; a transnational risk assessment was launched.

Eye-opening documentary "The Corporation" reveals the true evils behind some Big Business companies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

So, I am actually a huge proponent of free trade without all the profit mongers involved. I'm a proponent of fair trade, which is free trade between two countries where the people doing the work can make an honest living. I believe any time you have two populations trading goods and services, even if there's a disparity between the labor costs of one country and another, you can still serve the common interests of both countries by specializing in labor in one case and specializing in consumption in the case of U.S. consumers. You can still serve the common good.

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

Where disease rates plummet as the FDA's monopoly over medicine is broken, unleashing free market economics, free speech and free trade of both pharmaceuticals and natural remedies. Where the IRS is put out of business, and the terror of the IRS is lifted from the shoulders of all Americans. Imagine never having to pay income taxes again (and never having to file a dizzying array of confusing tax papers every April 15th...).

Eye-opening documentary "The Corporation" reveals the true evils behind some Big Business companies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

So, when I say free trade, I'm talking about legitimate free trade that is free of the criminal influence or the political influence of these corrupt individuals who seem to be running everything in the country and around the world. And of course, I'm a big proponent of fair trade as it is known in the organic industry. Here's a wacky idea: When corporations serve their purpose, they should dissolve What does all this have to do with The Corporation?

How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace Paul D. Blanc, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Needless to say, Ethyl sued, creatively invoking clauses of the North American free trade Agreement and claiming 250 million dollars in damages. By July 1998, faced with a costly legal battle, Canada backed off, re-scinding its ban. Ethyl stock jumped by more than 6 percent. MMT is still pumping in Canada—with a concentration of up to eighteen milligrams of metallic manganese equivalent per liter of gasoline.121 In South America, China, and Europe, MMT use is also widespread. Despite the EPA's waiver, the status of MMT in the United States has been in something of a limbo.

Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes Michael J. Panzner See book keywords and concepts

With the United States losing its place at the head of the economic table, the energizing force that has long led the charge for open markets and free trade will itself retreat into isolation and protectionism. In fact, the American public, spurred by feelings of anxiety, fear, distrust, and paranoia, will likely raise a growing clamor for barbwire and poured concrete as well as legal barriers.

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

Those were the essential ingredients of what is now the European Union, which began with a 1952 pact between France and Germany to permit free trade in the two commodities most critical to postwar reconstruction. Jean Monnet, the postwar French diplomat and visionary behind the "Coal and Steel Pact," saw early on that tying together the fates of Europe's antagonistic powers through economic links was the most effective way to ensure peace, and to navigate the rebuilding of a continent shattered by six years of war.

Now someone else is writing them; the EU is flipping the switch on free trade. This is what Penelope Naas, formerly of the Commerce Department (who we met in chapter 1) was referring to when she commented that "things are going to get tough" for U.S. manufacturers.10 By sculpting their laws to conform to the nondiscriminatory requirements of the WTO —applying the same standards to European and foreign producers —the European Union is showing how standards for environmental and other protections may be leveraged upward rather than down.

Until now, the primary impact of free trade principles has been to drive protective standards downward toward the lowest common denominator. That system rests on a sequence of critical precedents expressing the principle that environmental protection in one country constitutes discrimination against another. It is a highly selective supermarket of goods and ideas.

This phenomenon is being triggered, unexpectedly enough, by the mechanisms of free trade. Globalization unleashed new sources of power with centripetal force; from Europe to emerging economies like China, Brazil, and India, trade flows are shifting and new forms of leverage emerging that the architects of a harmonized global economy may never have anticipated. During the cold war, power lay in the finger that held the trigger. In today's multipolar world, driven in the long run more by economic than military imperatives, the finger that writes the rules is the one with real power.

Eye-opening documentary "The Corporation" reveals the true evils behind some Big Business companies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

But when I say it, I really do mean free trade. I mean free and open borders with economic prosperity between two trading partners and without influence of the people who always have their fingers in everything -- the people who make the big decisions about who goes to war, which corporations are going to come in and invade a country and so on. You know who I'm talking about -- the top people who run the top banks, top corporations and top governments around this world. When they get involved, everything gets messed up. What I'm talking about is free trade without those disaster creators.

Alternative Medicine?: A History Roberta Bivins See book keywords and concepts

One well-known medical convert to mesmerism, James Esdaile (see Chapter 4) bitterly protested the lack of a 'Free Trade in medical knowledge', after a paper describing his mesmeric practice in India, initially solicited by a respectable medical journal, was suddenly rejected.2 Denied the freedom of the medical press, Esdaile stubbornly published his article himself as a pamphlet.

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

I hope that President Oscar Arias Sanchez will resist free trade with America and insist on fair trade with good intentions for both nations. Costa Rica is where I came up with the title of this book. It is a land Tom Newmark fell in love with, Brian Hall fell in love with, I fell in love with, and Herb Lewis and Peter Schulick. Everybody who loves the Earth ought to visit this Eden. Indeed, according to the World Bank, the benefits to the nation have been enormous.

Alternative Medicine?: A History Roberta Bivins See book keywords and concepts

As in the US, the British government had no stomach for restricting the free trade in medical thought—or commodities. Both homeopathy and mesmerism presented themselves initially as radical innovations within established medicine. Only as they were squeezed out by orthodox hostility did these systems reposition themselves as 'alternatives'—as challengers to the medical system they had intended to reform. The two systems shared not only a belief in imponderable forces or energies that could be turned to the task of curing; they also shared certain aspects of practice.

Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies Greg Critser See book keywords and concepts

In the past, companies might send out information kits to medical journals, trying to drum up some free trade coverage. But only physicians who actually flipped through their weekly periodicals saw those. Lilly's Oraflex team decided to expand the concept: why not send the kits out to thousands of mainstream press outlets, including TV and radio, perhaps pushing the notion (albeit technically unproven) that Oraflex actually healed tissues and hence might "cure" arthritis?

Eye-opening documentary "The Corporation" reveals the true evils behind some Big Business companies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We want to protect our borders from any free trade. The FDA wants to protect us from lower-priced prescription drugs from other countries. U.S. automobile companies are in the dumps and GM, the U.S. flagship automobile company, is about to declare bankruptcy, in my estimation. This company is going to be screaming for protectionism because they can't compete with companies like Toyota, so they're going to want to be protected. The U.S. is erecting a whole lot of barriers right now. It doesn't want to compete in the global marketplace.

Real free trade can prevent wars; protectionist attitudes can cause them I've received a lot of e-mails asking my opinion on these matters and, to some degree, my opinion might stray from most of the opinions of the readership of this site, but here's my view on it: If you want to make war impossible between any two countries, one way to do it is to make sure those countries have so much cross-investment in each other that war would be unprofitable.

Where's the health in health reform? Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Our government claims to support free trade, unless of course it harms the profits of politically-connected corporations like those who characterize Big Pharma. All of this, of course, is Big Government at its finest. And it's all being done for your own protection, didn't you know? Drugs from Canada are very, very dangerous, we've been told. (I have a question: if drugs from Canada started killing Americans, how would we know? So many Americans are falling over dead from prescription drugs right now that it would be hard to sort them out.

The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Just try to buy meds from a Canadian online pharmacy, and you'll see what I mean. The FDA practically considers you a criminal for buying drugs at cheaper prices in another country. From the FDA to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), U.S. regulators are determined to enforce a monopoly market of pharmaceuticals -- a drug cartel. While all other citizens around the world pay more competitive prices for their drugs, U.S.

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

These forces of globalization and "free trade" encourage the very powerful to step into those countries that have the cheapest labor and most relaxed environmental standards in a vicious cycle of pollution and competitive stress. These unregulated actions make a mockery of authentic free trade which could deliver the needed goods and services for a green future. I will present in Chapter 4 the case for the most urgent measures, ones upon which the preponderant number of citizens of the world would agree.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Can we turn free trade into fair trade? Can the system of global trade work for the very poor as well as for the very rich? Or does achieving justice and sus-tainability involve turning away from the systems we've used for the past sixty years? If so, what do we turn to? ez Why China Wins mmm China is rapidly becoming the world's factory. By one measure, China is responsible for 13 percent of global economic output, making its economy twice the size of Japan's, and third only in size to the United States and the European Union.

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