Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Such voting systems include Instant Runoff voting where voters choose their first, second and third choice, allowing them to vote for who they really want to support without fearing they might "waste" their vote on a candidate who doesn't have a real shot at winning.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties hate the idea of an Instant Runoff Vote because it would allow independent-minded candidates to threaten their stranglehold over U.S. elections. Click here to learn more about Instant-Runoff voting at Wikipedia. You can also learn more at www.InstantRunoff. |
| In an honest voting system that wasn't engineered to favor the two-party system, Paul would no doubt be the victor. Such voting systems include Instant Runoff voting where voters choose their first, second and third choice, allowing them to vote for who they really want to support without fearing they might "waste" their vote on a candidate who doesn't have a real shot at winning.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties hate the idea of an Instant Runoff Vote because it would allow independent-minded candidates to threaten their stranglehold over U.S. elections. |
Stacy Malkan
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 The panel has seven voting members, with nonvoting memberships for the trade association, the FDA and a consumer group.
Charlotte and Jane were about to get a good look at how this system works. On November 19, 2000 — four months after the Not Too Pretty report made national headlines in the US and just one week after the European governments reached agreement to ban two phthalates from cosmetics — the CIR panel was scheduled to debate the science on phthalates. |
| The politicians are not voting on facts. They are voting because their mother died of breast cancer." A hush fell over the room, Susan recalled. "It was like there was this sudden understanding that these aren't just hippie liberals, these are people who are sick. This is mainstream America. Maybe we need to pay attention. There was a sense of confusion in the room, like people were wondering if they really did have the science to back up what they were saying."
Miss Treatment USA
Some companies have a funny definition of the word "natural. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Republicans voted against the Dorgan amendment, voting to enforce the pharmaceutical monopoly and keep Big Pharma in control of virtually the entire U.S. medication market. There were no Democrats that voted against the amendment. But why would 28 Republican Senators vote against breaking a marketplace monopoly and encouraging the use of free market economics to save American consumers billions of dollars? The answer isn't complicated: Because nearly all of them have taken money from pharmaceutical companies! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Supporting those organizations you believe in, and voting with your dollars. If you don't like big, ugly chemical companies like DuPont, then stop buying Teflon! If you want to support organic farmers, buy organic! Vote with your dollars and you'll support those people and those organizations you want to see more of in 2008 and beyond.
These are the kind of ingredients that can bring you personal success in 2008 and beyond. Remember, if you want different results in 2008, you need to engage in different actions.
Your daily habits determine your year-end results. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 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. Religious affiliation does not qualify a candidate to direct this nation's economic policies, executive actions or respect for individual liberties. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Click here to learn more about Instant-Runoff voting at Wikipedia. You can also learn more at www.InstantRunoff.com
Ron Paul needs your continued help. I donated another $100 last night as part of the Boston Tea Party event. You can donate today at www.RonPaul2008.com
And you want to know the most interesting part of all this? Ron Paul is a doctor! He was actually trained as a physician, and yet unlike most other physicians, he believes in genuine freedom for patients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Ron Paul cannot reverse all this overnight, but if the People use their voting power to eject all the criminals, hucksters, war mongers and corrupt fat cats that currently run this country, we could begin the economic and political healing processes that, in fifty years or so, might return this country to something resembling an honest society. It will take at least two generations to pay off the national debt, and that's if we radically slash government spending on war and health care right now. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Ethics have surrendered to greed, and we have now become a nation of mind-numbed druggies who seem increasingly incapable of questioning the news, voting intelligently, or understanding anything that's really going on in the world (such as the coming collapse of the real estate bubble and the inevitable hyperinflation of the U.S. dollar).
Here are the seven facts you need to remember about everything you're seeing today in modern medicine:
Fact #1: 90 percent of all diseases (cancer, diabetes, depression, heart disease, etc. |
| The people are now considered proxy voters to be brainwashed and manipulated into voting for whichever candidate is going to concentrate the most power into the hands of the few. As a result of all this, the future of this nation is in real jeopardy.
An intoxicated nation
We have become a nation of drug addicts -- and I don't mean illegal drugs. From the high-fructose corn syrup and caffeine in the food supply to all the prescription drugs people now believe they need because they saw them on TV, synthetic substances now dominate American medicine (and American tragedy). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Democrats, though, are also on Big Pharma's payroll, as was obvious with the recent voting record on the FDA Revitilization Act co-sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy. The truth is, Big Pharma owns virtually all the politicians in Washington (except Rep. Ron Paul, of course).
The movie will definitely get America talking about serious health care reforms. But as I've pointed out in a previous article, Where's the Health In Health Care Reform?, almost nobody is considering proposals that would genuinely solve the health care problem in America today. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Food and Drug Administration panel voting to allow the return of Vioxx had worked as consultants, in recent years, for the drug's makers.10 This panel also supported the continued use of other cox-2 drugs, such as Celebrex and Bextra, for arthritis, despite their known cardiovascular risks, so long as they also carry a black-box warning. Given the evidence that arthritis can often be successfully treated with vitamins B-3 and C or other nutrients, these decisions raise many interesting ethical issues.
Vitamin B-3 is not a drug. Drugs are developed to treat a single condition. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Anyone voting for change in the last election can now plainly see the shenanigans of a Democratic-controlled Senate. Under Republicans no FDA reform ever took place. Big Pharma owns so many Republicans that all meaningful legislation to curtail the deaths and injuries of American citizens at the hands of Big Pharma and the FDA had been completely thwarted for the past six years. Under Democratic control sweeping FDA reform favorable to Big Pharma was proposed and the majority of meaningful reform was blocked or seriously watered down. Which is worse? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| We've already managed to delay the voting on the bill from early this week to next week (Monday looks likely), and as Byron Richards reports here, the Senate voted 63-28 to accept the Dorgan amendment which allows prescription drugs to be imported from other countries -- a move that would break Big Pharma's monopoly over the current U.S. drug market and cost the industry billions of dollars in racketeering profits.
President Bush, not surprisingly, threatened to veto the bill if it allowed consumers, cities and states to purchase prescription drugs on the free market. |
| Dorgan won Round 1 of the voting on his amendment yesterday (63-28), showing that he has the power to hit Big Pharma where it hurts -- in the pocketbook. A final vote on the Dorgan amendment is expected Monday (keep up support for the Dorgan amendment).
Major Problem #2 -- A Fake Safety Bill.
Last year's Institute of Medicine report labeled FDA management as dysfunctional causing FDA reform to pick up momentum. To deflect public outrage S1082 was created by Kennedy and Enzi, in close consultation with the FDA and Big Pharma. |
Alex Steffen
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 DEMANDING TRANSPARENCY
Right: Andrus Ansip, the prime minister of Estonia, demonstrates the ease of voting online, in 2005. Estonia was one of the first countries to enable nationwide Internet voting. Opposite: The Corruption Perceptions Index is one of Transparency International's best-known tools, ranking more than 150 countries in terms of perceived corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys. The lower the number, the higher the perceived level of corruption. This one is from 2005.
¦mmm Corruption is a global problem. |
Stacy Malkan
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| They are voting because their mother died of breast cancer." A hush fell over the room, Susan recalled. "It was like there was this sudden understanding that these aren't just hippie liberals, these are people who are sick. This is mainstream America. Maybe we need to pay attention. There was a sense of confusion in the room, like people were wondering if they really did have the science to back up what they were saying."
Miss Treatment USA
Some companies have a funny definition of the word "natural. |
| Some people accused California lawmakers of "voting on emotion" when they approved a bill requiring cosmetics companies to disclose their use of chemicals linked to cancer. Yes, this is about emotion — it's about grief, and love too, those age-old human traits. "My 27-year-old nephew was just diagnosed with Stage 3 testicular cancer," Jeanne Rizzo told me at the end of our half-hour conversation about pink ribbons. "I want that kid cured," she said, her voice rising. "I don't care if they have to dump a superfund site down his veins. But I don't want my son and my other nephew to get it either. |
| As the primary buyers of household goods and the largest voting block in the US, women also have the power to change the situation by demanding better laws and safer products. "There is so much untapped potential in women. We haven't been engaged in high-level decision making and we need to be. Our health is not protected," said Bryony.
She also felt that, in order to engage women, the environmental debate needed to focus on issues relevant to the everyday lives of families. For that reason, she finally came around on the cosmetics question. |
| We have to use our collective voting and purchasing power as moms to change it."
Women of all ages are likewise organizing to make change. As high school junior Sophie
Lambert explained: "If we just get the word out Good health begins with and continue communicating with everyone, breastfeeding: Despite the making changes — small changes and then presence of toxic chemicals in increasingly larger changes — then we really can breast milk, experts agree that make a difference ... And soon, if we all just keep women should breastfeed their expanding our areas of where we're communi- children. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Any time you choose a food, you're voting with your fork."
So henceforth vote in a healthy way. Help us make the world a healthier place. That means don't buy or eat sugary foods.
Of course, you may have a powerful habit, but using my strategies and other experts' tactics, you can kick it. Say NO now to sweets for the sake of your moods, health, and happiness.
Cut out or curtail those quickie carbs, and I'm sure that you'll find, as I have, that Life Is Sweeter Without Refined Sweets. acknowledgments from author connie bennett
SUGAR SHOCK! |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 People who wanted organic food were voting both for their health and against a marketplace that was increasingly providing them with "food products" bearing less and less resemblance to anything that could once be considered real or whole food—stuff that grew out of the ground, fell from a tree, or was harvested from healthy animals grazing on pasture or wild fish from uncontaminat-ed waters. Buying organic represented a return to natural—and presumably healthier—foods.
At least that was the hope.
So yes, I buy organic whenever possible. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These Senators, of course, all insist they were voting to protect the "safety" of Americans, claiming that medicines imported from other countries are dangerous. But medicines bought right here in the United States are killing 100,000+ Americans each year! Do these Senators somehow imagine drugs bought in the U.S. are safer than the same medicines purchased somewhere else? Do they suffer under the illusion that paying more for prescription drugs somehow makes them safer?
When it comes down to it, none of the arguments against drug reimportation hold water. |
Dawson Church
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 Yet because these therapies work—and are often far more effective than anything conventional medicine has to offer—patients are voting with their feet and their dollars, dragging research along behind them, and creating social mind change on the way ic In uence am d Wars Bet ween
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A critical finding of gene methylation and acetylization studies is that once nurturing is done by one generation, and those genes are expressed, then nurturing behavior, and its accompanying gene expression, is passed to the next generation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Through the products you buy (and the products you avoid), you are voting with your dollars. And guess what? The rest of the world is following your leadership!
Late adopters are finally waking up to natural living principles
It's true! Three years ago when NewsTarget readers were buying organic, and avoiding fragrance chemicals in their body lotions, and eating blueberries and superfoods, most of the world thought you were nuts, right? But today, the rest of the world is beginning to adopt the healthful living strategies pioneered by the kind of people who read NewsTarget. |
Dan Buettner
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 The "quasi-extinct cohort" method was based on using the well-documented death records of Costa Rica's voting population and birth records to compute ages. (Unlike many places in Latin America, the depoliticized office of statistics and census has been free of government meddling since 1883.)
Put simply, he took a sampling of births recorded between 1890 and 1900 and then found the death records. From that, he calculated the average age of death (life expectancy) and the chance of dying at any given age (mortality rate). |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Move in the direction of your strongest beliefs, and remember that boomers are a potentially powerful voting bloc in many countries that will shape the contours of our collective future. If you need a further prod, studies have shown that engaging in politics and keeping apprised of world events may be protective against cognitive loss.
In the context of Alzheimer's disease, I would suggest that you encourage your local politicians to make life-span aging a priority issue on their agenda. |
| At this moment in history, our attention must begin shifting in earnest from cure to prevention, from expecting a symptomatic treatment for a "disease" called Alzheimer's to choosing behaviors, and advocating and voting for policies that may be able to delay the effects of cognitive decline over the course of our lives.
There's still time for all of us to make changes in our lives, and in the lives of our family members and our communities, to promote healthy brain aging. |
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