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 "Secretary of Defense donald rumsfeld described the status of intelligence and information gathering in a post-9/11 world, famously stating, ". . . there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know."1
In other words, Rumsfeld was saying that we don't have all of the information and we know that we don't have it."- Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) |
 "The Bush administration has had very close ties with the drug industry: donald rumsfeld, for example, was formerly CEO of Searle, which was acquired by Pharmacia, the makers of Xanax, and budget director Mitch Daniels was vice president of Eli Lilly.
For all the talk of disaster, the top seven U.S.-based drug companies made $34 billion profit from $193 billion in revenues in 2004, which translates to an 18 percent profit margin.6 In 2006, the return on revenues for the pharmaceutical industry was 20 percent, making it the second most profitable industry in America."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
 "The FDA actually banned aspartame based on this finding only to have Searle Chairman donald rumsfeld (yes, this is the same donald rumsfeld who is currently the secretary of defense) come to aspartame's aid. Mr. Rumsfeld used his political connections, pulled some strings and got aspartame approved by the FDA. On January 21, 1981, the day after Ronald Reagan's inauguration, Searle reapplied to the FDA for approval to use aspartame as a food sweetener. The FDA appointed a five-person review board to look at the previous board's denial."- Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) |
 "The legalization of aspartame (Equal and NutraSweet), linked to a host of illnesses from impotency to brain cancer, has engendered many conspiracy theories. donald rumsfeld was the CEO of G. D. Searle & Company, manufacturer of aspartame, throughout the regulatory period that approved its use in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Thanks to his clout, aspartame finally entered the food stream in 1982. Dr."- Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) |
 "As Steve Conafay, then a lobbyist for Pfizer, recalls, "There was definitely the feeling that the industry was under attack and that something big had to be done." donald rumsfeld, then the CEO of G. D. Searle, Inc., makers of a wide variety of drugs and chemicals, summed up the general attitude when, upon greeting FDA Commissioner Donald Kennedy, he "sat down across from me," recalls Kennedy, "slumped a little, and said, 'What are we doing wrong?'"
With Reaganism ascendant, the question quickly turned into: What is the government doing wrong?"- Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) |
 "Knowing what we don't know
To borrow from donald rumsfeld, one of the great 'known unknowns' in the climate change field, and the only part of the climatic equation that we actually have any control over, is future emissions - just how many more billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases humans are going to emit through burning fossil fuels and clearing forests over years to come."- Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) |
 "Shortly after the proposed investigation was announced, Searle hired donald rumsfeld, who had just left office as Defense Secretary, to be its chief operating officer. He started in early f 977. That July, the chief attorney in charge of the grand jury, Samuel Skinner, resigned and went to work for Sidley & Austin, the law firm representing Searle. The person who replaced him, William Conlon, would eventually join Skinner at the same firm.
They had their work cut out for them."- Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "And then donald rumsfeld proved his worth. Searle's directors clearly had not hired him for his pharmaceutical expertise—he had none to speak of—but for his already legendary Washington connections. After the election of President Reagan in November 1980 these suddenly became much more powerful. Rumsfeld told a Searle sales meeting that he would get aspartame approved within the year. According to a 2006 article in the Ecologist, he vowed to "call in his markers" with the FDA.39 The day after President Reagan was inaugurated, January 22, 1981, Searle reapplied for FDA approval." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "As Searle's former CEO donald rumsfeld said in a very different context, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. A lack of definitive evidence regarding human harm is not proof that no such harm occurs. Rather it shows the difficulties and roadblocks that surround efforts to develop information on the health effects of modern technologies and chemicals. The presumption of innocence with which we accept new technologies today, like that with which the world greeted x-rays at the dawn of the twentieth century, makes no sense." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) |
| "CEO, donald rumsfeld, for his blatant violations of the Constitution and his shameless disregard for the safety of the American people. You see, Rumsfeld is not only the current point man for the disaster in Iraq, but he was also the point man who brought to your table the most toxic substance ever added to food — aspartame (commonly known as NutraSweet). Now that NutraSweet's cousin, Splenda, is taking over the packaged food industry in all those new low-carb products, it's time to take a look back at how these mutants made their way into our lives in the first place." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) "But then, in the early '80s, donald rumsfeld made his move into the political arena, joining President Reagan's transition team. One of the first things he did was appoint a new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hull Hays. And in 1981, Hays approved aspartame for use in "dry goods" — despite the long history of controversy and negative findings. Things have just continued on a downward spiral ever since. Before long, NutraSweet was everywhere, from soda to salad dressing. All thanks to a no-good, know-nothing businessman-turned-politician that we've STILL got making big decisions for this country." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) "References: "Donald Rumsfeld and Aspartame," News With Views ( - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) |
| "Searle hires Washington insider donald rumsfeld as the new CEO! A former member of Congress and secretary of defense in the Ford administration, Rumsfeld brings in several of his Washington cronies as top management. What everyone knows now is that Searle was facing some major problems and needed some "political insider help." It simply did what all companies do, pay off Washington insiders with huge amounts of money; they use their political connections, their friends on the inside of Washington to pull the strings to make sure the problems go away.
July 1, 1977. Samuel Skinner, the U.S." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "January 1981. donald rumsfeld, the CEO of Searle, states in a sales meeting that he is going to make a big push in Washington by using his friends and connections to get aspartame approved within the year. Rumsfeld says that he will use his political pull, rather than scientific means, to make sure aspartame gets approved! Remember, if aspartame is approved, Searle makes tens of billions of dollars in profits and the stock skyrockets. Rumsfeld is poised to make hundreds of millions. January 21, 1981. Ronald Reagan is sworn in as president of the United States." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) |
 "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's immortal words denouncing the irrelevance of "old Europe" to U.S. policy came just as "old Europe" was causing anxiety in the State Department. A position paper, circulated inside the Bureau of European Affairs, denounced REACH as too "costly, burdensome and complex" for industry, and asked for "increased coordination among US and EU regulators" (though the United States had been notably absent from important environmental agreements over the previous two years)."- Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) |
| "To a generation of young medical men and women, Illich struck a chord; certainly he was part of the background music to activist physicians like Terry Kupers and his band of antipharma interns, and he was likely one of the cultural critics of big pharma who had made donald rumsfeld, during his days at G. D. Searle, so glum." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) "The arrogance was palpable, a far cry from Donald Rumsfeld's "What are we doing wrong?" lament of a decade or so earlier. In 1992, after withdrawal of its drug Omniflox, officials from Abbott Laboratories simply refused to show up and meet with FDA safety people. At a scientific advisory meeting on using the drug tamoxifen for breast cancer, according to a longtime observer, "You could read between the lines that the reviewers were just screaming that the companies were not providing all the information." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) |
 "Aspartame and Other Sweet Killer Drugs
Aspartame is the sweetener in Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi and thousands of "diet" foods. donald rumsfeld, who once was the CEO of a major drug company, managed to bring this poisonous food/drug to market during the Reagan administration. He used his political influence to quash an FDA toxicologist's report naming aspartame as a cause of not only cancer, but brain tumors as well."- Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "As recorded in the Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories donald rumsfeld said that he would call in his markers to get aspartame approved. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and, a day after taking office, Reagan appointed Hayes. No FDA Commissioner in the previous sixteen years had allowed aspartame on the market. In 1983, aspartame was approved for use in carbonated beverages. Today it is found in over 5,000 foods, drinks and medicines." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) |
 "Defense Secretary donald rumsfeld, for example, seems likely to profit greatly from government purchase of Tamiflu, the drug developed by Gilead Sciences when Rumsfeld was president of the company.
He is reported to hold major portions of stock in Gilead.8 Tamiflu was actually developed by Gilead, which then gave Roche Laboratories (www.roche.com) the exclusive rights to market and sell this drug.9 Trust in our government's medical officials is in short supply.
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 "Then, the following day, donald rumsfeld resigned. He didn't "do quagmires," he had once told the nation. And now, he was being punished for getting the nation into its biggest foreign policy quagmire ever.
But losing a job hardly seems a suitable chastisement for an epic blunder like the war in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was hanged for killing only 148 people during his career as dictator of the country. By the close of 2006, that many people were being killed in Iraq every day. Roman bridge builders used to stand under their arches as the scaffolding was removed."- William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) "At Iwo Jima, the Japanese commander committed ritual seppuku, opening up his own belly to remove his intestines and dying in agony. donald rumsfeld got off easy. But it is a strange, strange world we live in. Can you really measure success or failure in terms of lives and treasure? The Bush team aims for "full spectrum dominance." Who's to say the occupation of Iraq didn't help them get it? Suppose, for example, the gods intended the Muslims to triumph over the West. Suppose they considered Western civilization irredeemably decadent and intended to cleanse it. It wouldn't be the first time." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) |
| "Reagan's transition team, which includes donald rumsfeld, CEO of Searle, also hand picks Arthur Hull Hayes to be the new FDA commissioner.
March 1981. An FDA commissioner's panel is established to review issues about aspartame raised by the Public Board of Inquiiy.
May 19, 1981. Three FDA scientists advise against approval of Nu-traSweet and aspartame stating on the record that Searle tests are unreliable and are not adequate to determine the safely of aspartame. These FDA scientists believe that aspartame is responsible for brain tumors and other major health concerns.
July 15, 1981." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) |
 "Defense Secretary donald rumsfeld was CEO, president, and chairman of G. D. Searle, a major drug firm that merged with Pharmacia, which in turn was bought by Pfizer. Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., former White House budget director, was senior vice president of Eli Lilly. The first President Bush was on the Eli Lilly board of directors before becoming president. The connections are so close that annual meetings of PhRMA look like Washington power conclaves."- Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.) |
 "This was manipulated through the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 'safety checks' by donald rumsfeld, the US Defense Secretary under Boy George Bush, and CEO of Seale Pharmaceuticals when he used his buddies in the Reagan-Father Bush administration to have fundamental doubts about the safety of aspartame ignored. Searle later sold out to Monsanto and now aspartame is in an ever-growing number of drinks and foodstuffs, a trend only stemmed by the fear of class action lawsuits over its effect on human health."- David Icke, Icke David, Infinite Love Is the Only Truth: Everything Else Is Illusion (Get the book.) "Dr Gerald Hyland, a British physicist, said that if mobile phones were a type of food they 'simply would not be licensed'. If donald rumsfeld was behind them they probably would, but the point is taken. Dr Hyland's findings were published in the medical journal, The Lancet, and reflect a gathering concern about the effects on the brain of mobile-phone frequencies. One of his concerns is that cellphone use can be linked with aggressive behaviour in children, but it goes much further." - David Icke, Icke David, Infinite Love Is the Only Truth: Everything Else Is Illusion (Get the book.) |
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