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"Big pharma is also one of the biggest spenders in Washington (and statehouses), hedging its bets by supporting both Republicans and democrats. Add to their expense accounts all the lawyers they pay to defend intellectual property rights and to attack generic drugs, and it is a wonder that they have any money left to pay for actual research. Ten years ago I founded a group called the International Working Group for the Harmonization of Dementia Drug Guidelines." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"The first interpretation that occurred to me," one of the UCLA neu-roscientists said, "is that the democrats see the 9/11 issue as a good way for Bush to get reelected, and they experience that as a threat." Their enthusiasm overlooks the fact that just because the machines can now locate the source of thought and emotion, they can't tell us anything about why it exists or what it really means. Stephen Pinker, again: "We are still clueless about how the brain represents the content of our thoughts and feelings." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Instead, they observed which parts of the voters' brains were active as they watched. democrats responded to the 9/11 imagery with far more activity in the amygdala—the part of the brain that responds to threats and danger— than did the Republicans. The UCLA neuroscientist who conducted the scans didn't think much of the traditional methodologies used by political scientists and consultants, like focus groups, to gauge the mood of the electorate. "It seemed so last century," Professor Joshua Freedman said. "Consultants were quoting Freud as if it was cutting edge." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"They appear in the role of the democrats, lead revolutions, create new political parties, sects and cause unhappiness for themselves and other.... 183 This writing appeared in 1892. Another German psychiatrist tried to label "insane" the mere fact that one was a Frenchman. He tried to prove that all living Frenchmen are in delirium. Another psychiatrist called the whole of France crazy, "maniac"; another one called Frenchmen psychopathic, giving their "diseases" the name "psychopathica Gallica" (the Munich psychiatrist, L. Lowenfeld, 1914)." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Change of subject: during the 2008 election cycle democrats received about $4 million from the Pharmaceutical industry and the Republicans obtained close to the same amount. Is Big Pharma buying our politicians? Well the above numbers are facts, not a weird conspiracy theory. Let us repeat: the industry is "spending" tons of money on the members of USA House of Representatives and the USA Senate. It goes to "decision-makers," to opinion leaders, to KOLs (Key opinion leaders). So what does that mean? Well it simply means that Big Pharma protects its profits." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Experts estimate that about two thirds of this money, which influence politicians, goes to the Republicans and one third to democrats. In the 1999/2000-election cycle, the Republicans "received about 76% of the drug industry's financial largesse."56 Lobbying Congress cost the pharmaceutical industry hundreds of millions of dollars. In the 2004 election year, with its surprising outcome, the mega-fundraisers of George W. Bush were also under attack. The Republicans differentiate between Pioneers (raising more than $100,000) and the Rangers (raising more than $200,000)." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"It exerted constant pressure on its friends in Congress, most of them Republicans, but also many powerful "Dixiecrats," Southern democrats like Tennessee's Albert Gore Sr. The group arranged for incessant phone calls from influential constituents and organized letter-writing campaigns by physicians back home. It launched "Operation Coffee Cup," a campaign to get thousands of physician's wives to hold afternoon letter-writing parties." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Ultimately, even some Republican senators became embarrassed by this Lillygate and, by early 2003, moderate Republicans and democrats agreed to repeal this particular provision in the Homeland Security Act. Today the thimerosal issue is a hotly debated topic. It leaves the entire immunization industry hanging by a thread, as they clutch to the ever-evaporating evidence that thimerosal is harmless." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Democrats and $1.4 million to Kraft Foods Milk Marketing Association Western Pistachio Association Republicans. As just one example, the Flo-Sun Sugar Company and its subsidiaries made 21 donations of amounts ranging from $2,500 to $25,000 to congressional campaign committees in 1997-1999, for a total of $202,500 to democrats and $147,500 to Republicans.17 Flo-Sun is unusual in distributing more money to democrats than to Republicans—and to good effect, as I shall soon explain." - Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Get the book.)

"Neo-Con Republicans and Third Way democrats are actively sponsoring globalization. These groups want to sell out American freedom, family values, and faith-based communities for the profits of multinational corporations and world bankers. They want American culture replaced with a global culture. They want strict regulation of all health-care options. Billions of dollars are driving the political and corporate elite. They are not representing the will of the people. They are out of touch with the reality of America." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Troy was well known by the president's chief adviser, Karl Rove,- in 1995 Troy had successfully argued in front of the Supreme Court against then Governor Bush in a case involving racial gerrymandering that allegedly benefited democrats. Not surprisingly, one of the new president's first appointments to the FDA was Troy. His brief: all legal-policy issues pertaining to FDA activities. It was a ballsy appointment, considering that Troy's firm had made more than $350,000 that year from one client, Pfizer." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Democrats or Republicans, Conservatives or Labourites, Christian democrats or Social democrats." So just when I was getting sized up for my own straightjacket—and, boy, was I excited—I read that there were riots in Ecuador. And I remember thinking to myself, "Oh my, why are they in the streets?" There are people in the streets, and there are tanks, too. And I thought to myself, "Perhaps the Internet is down. Perhaps they're trying to unload their Amazon.com stock, which is dropping like crazy. They can't log on. It's all jammed up. I mean, the future's on hold here." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"David Crane, the governor's economic advisor and one of the few democrats on his staff, had advised the governor to sign the bill, but Crane said Schwarzenegger's decision was, "believe me, entirely him ... I can guarantee you, there was incredible opposition to it, even among the staff. It was all him. He cared about it." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"There are lots of democrats who don't think, just as there are Republicans who don't think, so this isn't an argument saying that if you voted for Bush you're an idiot. It's saying that if you voted without thinking, you're an idiot, much like at least 50 percent of the population." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"But there is still enough left for key democrats. The citizen group Common Cause looked at the top recipients of drug company donations during the 1990s. It found, not unexpectedly, that Senator Hatch led the Senate, followed by Senator Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who became the Senate majority leader. In the House, Representative Bill Thomas was number one, followed by Representative Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.).7 But powerful democrats from states that are home to major drug companies, such as former Senator Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) and Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn." - Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.)

"In my initial meeting with Congressman Sanders and his staff, who had planned the event, they were very careful to point out that this was a bipartisan issue and that I shouldn't take any political position in favor of Republicans or democrats. That wasn't hard advice to follow, since I considered myself an independent. After a cup of coffee in a paper mug in the large cafeteria with fake wood tables and spindly chairs, we left for the Dirksen Senate Office building. This was a nicer building with elaborate decorations." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"Just as some democrats are trying to take over border security as their issue, Republicans ought to be falling all over themselves to be green elephants and to have a vision, have something new and interesting and inspiring to say. Tell your Republican local, state, and federal officials that you will support them far more strongly when they take strong proenvironmental positions." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The pick of an FDA commissioner has always been political, and neither democrats nor Republicans, let alone pharma, have ever quite mastered the art of getting exactly whom they wanted. David Kessler, Mr. Cigarettes Are Drugs, was an appointee of George the First. Mary Henney, who presided over more drug recalls than any agency chief in modern history, was a Clinton appointee. Neither proved particularly sympathetic to the industry. Holmer learned something from that: if you wanted to increase your odds of getting a decent candidate, you had to create the context." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"It isn't like you in America with your Republicans and democrats so that we never know what environmental policy America will carry out from one administration to the next. Our consistent and unwavering commitment to valuing the many services a healthy environment performs has been enormously successful. With this new policy in mind and its execution, the forests have quickly reverted back to canopy." This shows that you can recapture Eden. "When we started our land had only twenty percent canopy remaining. Today in 2005,1 am pleased to say it is fifty-three percent forest canopy." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "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." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Politicians, both Republicans and democrats, had no problem with the idea of paying for pensioners to get their prescription drugs on Medicare. The question was how it was to be funded - via a state-run NHS-type scheme or an extension of the privately run insurance system most Americans were used to and which the industry strongly favoured. Hundreds of billions of dollars were at stake, since not only are the elderly the biggest users of pharma's products by far, but it was thought likely that if state controls even got a foothold in the system, it would automatically lead to lower prices." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"What the Americans still do not understand," he said, "is that even for us Christian democrats, the environment is a big issue."'" I made numerous efforts to speak with Charles Auer, who deals most directly with U.S. chemical enforcement as director of the EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. Auer's domain would be most directly affected by REACH; he was one of those U.S. officials who had been making regular appearances in parliamentary and commission offices to argue against it." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"This was such absolute insanity that both Republicans and democrats questioned the actions of the FDA. Controversy after controversy hits the headlines. The fast-paced twenty-four-hour news cycle makes sure little of it registers in your mind. After all, the drug companies are some of the largest advertisers on TV. The FDA approves drugs that later turn out to kill thousands of people. It is estimated that 108,000 people annually die from adverse reactions ro prescription medication in the United States." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"The difference was that the democrats pledged to steal the money from the rich (Republicans). The Republicans promised to create it in a free economy, like Jesus multiplying the loaves and fishes at Beth Saida. "Voodoo economics," was how George Bush described it. ORIGINS OF SUPPLY SIDE When supply-side economics first appeared in the American press, real economists were perplexed. They had never heard of it. There were no university departments specializing in it. There were no peer-reviewed papers. There were no scholarly books describing it." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.) "China is still run by veterans of various "great leaps forward," but Americans are convinced that they're all leaping to become just like us—capitalists and democrats at heart! So vain are we that we can't imagine anyone wanting to be anything else. Likewise, we were recently in Nicaragua. We have a house down there, and we buy more land whenever we get an opportunity. Prices have soared in the past five years. Someone bought a beach-front lot recently for $350,000, a price that would have been thought insane a few years ago. Nicaragua is, after all, a third-world country." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.) "Pandering to the lumpen masses, the democrats offered to "do something" to "protect American jobs." A lot of dopey things are said to voters with the cameras running. But no one is going to look the American worker in the face and tell him that he earns too much money for what he does. A politician might as well pour gasoline over his head and light a match; the media would scorch him in a matter of minutes; his career in politics would be in cinders. We are not running for anything." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"Instead of working together to resolve matters, many democrats and Republicans will get caught up in laying blame and try to gain at least a short-term advantage at the other's expense. In fact, emboldened by a dramatic reversal of fortunes following years of GOP control in Washington, a resurgent Democrat party may well decide that its overriding goal is to obliterate all signs of its rival's legacy, no matter how destructive that course might be. Some die-hard loyalists will press hard for high-profile investigations, impeachments, and even criminal trials." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"If the democrats gain control of the House in 2006 it will be an ominous sign for nutritional supplements. On the other hand, Big Pharma is quite happy with the current Republican neo-con efforts at suppressing health options. It's, heads I win, tails you lose. The Senate also attacks DSHEA through Richard Durbin (D-IL). An early version of his attack was S 722: Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2003. Co-sponsors were Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Charles Schumer (D-NY), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). This bill never passed." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"This ascent he accomplished via the unabashed use of a political action committee, by which he funded the campaigns of like-minded fellow democrats, who would then support his nomination to important committees. Perhaps more importantly, Waxman was a single-focus legislator by design, rather than by circumstance. "I recall him coming up to me at a fundraiser very early is his career and telling me he had found the key to his political life," one longtime supporter remembered. "He said, 'It's health. Who can be against health?'" If Waxman's concern seemed calculated, it was also genuine." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

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