Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Sadly, as the above examples illustrate, the bottom line and political power are often at odds with the health and welfare of our nation's citizens. Given the realities of doing business in America—the processed-food industry needs to make money to survive—it's simply unrealistic to expect the interests of we, the people, to come first.
While Big Sugar and Big Food are taking some positive steps to confront the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and other diet-related illnesses, Dr. |
Mark Schapiro
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 In the late nineties, the EU was fifteen countries, with a fraction of the political power it wields today. The aborted General Electric-Honeywell merger was several years away. On the diplomatic front, the United States was leading Europe into a war in its own backyard, in the Balkans —a far different dynamic than would unfold four years later in Iraq. Most American companies didn't think twice about that distant bureaucracy in Brussels. Yet the toy manufacturers saw early what was coming: they saw instinctively how the Europeans' action on phthalates could ripple rapidly across the Atlantic. |
| Interstate Commerce Commission ensures that American states do not create obstacles to commerce with other states), explained to me that Europe's pushing of the REACH initiative evolved as the EU itself grew more cognizant of the political power that comes with rising economic force. Thery, a Frenchman with an energetic passion for the power plays that lurk just behind the arcane details of trade law, had worked with Pascal Lamy, who was the director general for trade before taking his current position as director of the World Trade Organization. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They are the sole source of all knowledge on anything related to health and medicine, and they've now garnered enough political power that they've managed to criminalize parents who disagree with their medical dogma.
You know what the difference is between God and doctors?
God doesn't think he's a doctor.
These days, instead of doctors simply being full of nonsense, they are suddenly a very real danger to your personal freedom. Before, they were just peddling health nonsense. Now they hold the keys to your freedom and the custody of your children. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is now only a question of how long the current crippled facade of political power will last.
The passage of this FDA reform law is merely one more sign of how thoroughly committed the U.S. Congress is to creating a future of death, disease and bankruptcy for the American people. You gotta give 'em kudos on consistency, however. At least the lawmakers are predictable.
Welcome to the United States of Big Pharma.
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On Wednesday, July 11, 2007 the House passed HR.2900 without allowing the Ron Paul (R-TX) amendments to protect dietary supplements. |
Devra Davis
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 As the seat of national political power, Washington, D.C., is home to organizations of varying political stripes whose purpose is to issue opinions. Nicknamed think tanks, their employees get paid to ponder what-if scenarios on matters as diverse as the flat tax and whether a polar route for shipping could possibly offset sea level rise. Some are well known, like the Brookings Institution and Resources for the Future, which have been issuing weighty reports and holding schools for new congresses for more than half a century. |
| Under the banner of national honor and raw political power, men had left a legacy of unresolved conflicts throughout the European battlefields of World War I. The Women's Federation bemoaned armed conflict, as did other pacifist groups during this period of growing national and international militancy.
Grace Morrison Poole, adviser to the Women's Field Army and general chairman of the National Federation of Women's Clubs, urged, "Instead of killing each other in military battles as some nations are doing, let us organize to rid humanity of one of its most dreaded diseases. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Bush into political power with resulting violations of human rights and millions of deaths. Wait! Remember, President Bush has used his power to keep the U.S. from being a member of the ICC. What a serendipitous move on the part of President Bush, since many of these greedy corporate terrorists reside within the confines of the U.S. Headlines like the ones listed below are every bit as terroristic as "Car bomb explodes killing 3 in the Gaza strip!"
• Mother Jones, Vol. 28, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. Doping Kids. Adam Stutz.
• CBS News, 5/2/04. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 While the nobility and gentry might maintain town houses in London so as to be in contact with the sources of political power, they spent most of their time in the countryside among the very people upon whose rents they lived. This was a very different picture from Bourbon France, where the huge nobility was expected to dance attendance on the King at Versailles throughout the year.
Much of the political and cultural life of the nobility, gentry, and burgeoning middle class centered on the coffee and chocolate-houses of London, and eventually on the clubs that sprang from them. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 The Soviets' pursuit of superior military strength, performance in the Olympic
Games, political power, and the excellence of the well-known Bolshoi ballet mattered so much to them that whatever they could do to accomplish the goal of dominance was pursued. In 1943, the People's Commissars Council issued an order regarding the goal of finding "tonic substances" for Russian workers and soldiers. The Russian scientists began to study different substances in search of the perfect performance tonic.
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Stacy Malkan
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 Yes to gathering together in communities and building political power to change the rules so that any of us can go into any store, any time, and buy any personal care products without having to worry about whether they are safe for our families.
Girls Get Together — Creating Political Space
Women build power by building networks of relationships — organizing like a girl, as Charlotte Brody called it. Cindy Luppi decided to throw in some natural products made from scratch. "It's been trial and error," explained Cindy, project director of the Boston-based group Clean Water Action. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 People at the FDA are raking in huge salaries and gaining political power, and they know that when they leave the FDA -- if they've made a lot of positive rulings in favor of drug companies -- they will be offered lucrative positions at drug companies. Hospitals are making a ton of money, and local retail pharmacies are also raking in cash from these prescription drugs.
Conventional medicine is a system of mutual greed. Everybody's raking in the bucks, except there's one problem: Nobody is fundamentally helped by this system. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The Nazis did it for political power, Big Pharma does it for financial power. Neither is morally justified.
Whether we're talking about Merck, or Nazi Germany, or the FDA or even the Bush Administration, it's usually only a few people at the top of these organizations that deserve to be labeled as evil. In the Nazi party example, that would of course be attributed to Hitler and his closest advisors who set the tone that allowed atrocities to occur. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They have the right and the political power to quarantine individuals, households or even entire towns and cities. Those quarantines will be enforced by military power. I'm not trying to be an alarmist about it, but this is reality; this is what we have to do during an infectious disease outbreak. I actually agree with these policies. If you don't want to be a victim, and if you don't want to be caught up and quarantined, then you need to take responsibility for your immune system health right now. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This drug-based system of medicine, with all its influence and political power, is a significant threat to the safety of people everywhere. It is a destructive network of corporations, bureaucrats, and doctors that will only lead us to a collapse of health. It will leave us bankrupt, diseased, and unable to access the very nutrients nature has provided our ancestors for countless generations.
To outlaw vitamins is to criminalize nature. If vitamin C is to be outlawed today, then will oranges be outlawed next year? What about orange extract? Orange juice? |
Henry Hobhouse
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 This group of potential voters could be massaged into blocs of great political power, which still influence the cities that first sheltered them. Out of the subculture that they formed came, in the next two generations, rich and powerful politicians and property men, and their Celtic qualities were in no way diminished by this significant urbanization of the Irish Catholic character.
While British cities, notably Liverpool and Glasgow, were similarly populated by immigrant Celts, these people, unless they were householders, had no vote. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 Austria was already in steep decline as a political power. Why did the Russians eventually give up an estimated 1.7 million lives in this struggle that involved no vital interest, and then turn on themselves in a brutal civil war yielding a gangster-style dictatorship that brought on even more wholesale death? There have been many explanations. Most focused on the abstruse diplomatic machinations of the day, and they are all more or less inadequate. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The highly paid bureaucrats who have ties to the pharmaceutical industry and who have the political power to override the voices of the scientists are currently in charge. That's why when Dr. David Graham testified before the Senate and finally went public with the truth about the dangers of these prescription drugs, he was congratulated by his peers.
Meanwhile, other bureaucrats at the FDA threatened to discredit him; they even contacted a whistleblower group that was offering protection for Dr. David Graham and sought to discredit his reputation with that group. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Since my book is ha\ring an adverse affect on the pharmaceutical industry and the food industry, those industries are pouring millions of dollars into public relations firms and lobbying groups, all trying to influence politicians into using their political power and clout to squash and discredit people such as myself. I want to expose this organization and its corrupt nature. Here are some of the outrageous questions that Mr. Sorensen asked:
1. Does Mr. Trudeau own a microwave?
2. Can you tell me what meetings Mr. Trudeau is referring to in his infomercials?
3. In Mr. |
Michele Simon
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 Our food choices are heavily influenced by a complex set of laws that often have more to do with political power than with public health. For example, the federal government provides corn growers with massive subsidies, which results in the production of high fructose corn syrup, the cheap sweetener found in almost every processed food and a significant contributor to our health problems. Thanks in part to corporate lobbying, our federal food policies have yet to catch up with nutrition science. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 He further stated that all you would have to do is walk the halls of the Capitol building and see all the purified water dispensers in the offices of those who have used their political power to force water fluoridation on millions of helpless and under-informed individuals.
These defenders of water fluoridation do not seem to care a whit that the poorest members of our society will be most harmed, since they will not be able to afford expensive reverse osmosis filters and distillation devices. |
| Modern-day corporations act more like small governments, complete with massive bureaucracies, dictatorial heads and board rooms filled with corruption, intrigue and collusion with those in political power. These behemoths are not free market entities, but rather exist as a merger between capitalism and socialism, something that once was known by its true name: fascism or corporatism. Corporations are impersonal, bureaucratic, slow to change, resistant to criticism, and rely on incestuous relationships with governmental power structures for their continued existence. |
Greg Critser
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 Many inside the FDA agreed, but the political power of the PMA, along with institutional inertia, cowardice, and plain old bureaucratic ass-covering had precluded any meaningful reform.
Then, in mid-1982, just as the PMA and Engman were using a new, ostensibly "independent" study to convince Congress that patent life had been dramatically shortened by FDA red tape, Haddad got a letter from a woman in Florida, a statistician who claimed she had been an author of the supposedly independent study. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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 As nations wrestle with exploding drug use and escalating drug costs, it may be time to look for new regulatory mechanisms to influence the way drugs are actually being prescribed in doctors' offices. Banning drugs that might be valuable to a few who are genuinely ill certainly seems an unattractive option. But approving drugs likely to harm many healthy people is surely also undesirable. Whether the established regulators like the FDA, with its recent history of close communication with drug companies, are the appropriate bodies to be forging this new role, is highly questionable. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If a nation cannot remain fiscally viable, then it ultimately has no political power and radical reforms are close at hand. Frankly, we're not far from a time when China is the dominant world power, and the U.S. is just a has-been agricultural exporter with sky-high debt resembling that of third-world nations today.
I don't know where the United States is on this timeline of financial destruction. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Today we see our so-called "leaders" making serious decisions that affect the health and lives of millions of Americans, but basing those decisions on greed for political power for the particular politician or political party or their medical connections with no regard for the truth or what is best for the people. Worse yet, citizens are complacent with what is being done to them. |
| Politicians surround themselves with dozens of "political advisors" who calculate every word said by the politician, every speech made, and every vote on legislation based on not how it will positively or negatively affect the country, the communities, or the individual citizens, but rather how those actions will positively or negatively impact the politician's chance of getting re-elected, increasing their political power, or increasing their own personal wealth.
Governments and corporations around the world have routinely abused power and are filled with corruption. |
| Every politician has simple objectives: (a) to get re-elected, (b) to increase their political power and influence, and (c) to increase their own personal wealth. |
Marion Nestle
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 Whenever safety measures raise costs or intrude on autonomy, the affected industries mobilize their considerable political power to block actions perceived as unfavorable—even when such measures are strongly supported by science (example: antibiotics). Government regulatory agencies also engage in competition, in this case among themselves for scarce resources and territorial mandates. As we will see, they often appear to be more concerned about protecting their own turf—or that of the industries they regulate—than about protecting the health of consumers. |
| The inequitable distribution of political power illustrated here is at the root of public distrust of genetically engineered foods, as we will see in the next chapter. |
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