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"Justinian, having failed to defuse the insurrection with oratory, now tried to suborn it with bribery, sending a trusted retainer, an Armenian eunuch and court chamberlain named Narses, to deliver purses filled with gold to faction leaders—and, possibly, to act as an agent provocateur. Had he a week or two to foment the natural distrust between Blues and Greens, it seems likely that the riot would have collapsed on its own." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Criminal investigations have been launched against pharmaceutical bribery, but one can be sure that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Free airline tickets, free diagnostic equipment, even a money loan with low interest to build up the doctor's office in the beginning of his career (often found in Germany) - all these things happened. This and more have been offered by pharmaceutical companies to win over doctors. And the doctor, who is usually "motivated" by money, what will he do? Yes, he will take the advantages and put people on drugs." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "But even courageous lawyers will see the just case more and more, independent judges will open their mouth and whole populations will not only ask for money if one of their beloved ones died but 386 Spiegel 7/2005 will ask to stop this whole destructive course. bribery will be more and more the matter of court-cases and the fine will be higher and higher. STAGE TWO will be the next step: There will be legislation against those new types of drug-barons, who, under a legal outfit, are drugging the society at large." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "One should know that there is a high art of bribery. How is it done? To smartly bribe a person, one finds out what people respond to, what motivates them. Well, people can be, in general, motivated by decorations, honors, prizes, titles, money, precious objects and traveling. A whole science of motivation exists here already. To efficiently bribe (read: motivate) a target group one finds out the primary motivation of that target group. What is the primary motivation of doctors? Guess. Well, objective surveys found that out: money!" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Bribery. bribery is used when a purchasing agent, key officer of a corporation or government official takes a bribe to pay a higher price for a product or service instead of picking products or services on the basis of the lowest bid and highest quality. This also contributes to inflation and shoddy products. As everyone knows, one of the biggest markets for bribery is among government officials. Misleading verbal sales pitches. This is by far where the most deception takes place and the biggest frauds are carried out." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Of course it all gets done so that the image of bribery does not exist. Here is another sophisticated technique. Imagine a TV-boss (somebody who decides what features get shown) being convinced by the pharmaceutical company to show a special (good) feature. How is it done? The high art, of course, consists of researching what this TV-director really likes. Even more sophisticated is this: one invites this TV-director to give a speech to the pharmaceutical company. There is nothing wrong with this, is it? Of course not. Anybody can give a speech to a pharmaceutical company." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Those of us in the Global North face electoral systems that essentially allow open bribery, in one form or another. Those of us in the Global South often face systems that skip over the elections altogether and go straight to the bribes. And corruption tends to reinforce itself across borders, as dirty deals know no boundaries. From oil to diamonds, the commodities that make life rich in the North support corruption and oppression in the South. The corrupt are their own global network. Corruption breeds in dark corners." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "He cracked down on corrupt police officers—even shutting down the entire transit police division, which was known for its bribery schemes. He even asked people to pay an extra 10 percent in optional taxes—to everybody's amazement, 63,000 residents did. Two of Mockus's programs, though, exemplify the creativity he brought to the job. Bogota can have terrible traffic jams, and even on the best days, its streets can be mayhem. Mockus hired hundreds of mimes to direct traffic—providing not only some needed order, but a hint of levity. More impressively, he launched the Night for Women." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"They have also added to their repertoire extensive bribery,16 hijacking of regulatory agencies, and threats to reporters and scientists. Kirk Azevedo experienced firsthand how the company responded to a potentially serious safety hazard in its GM cotton. In 1997, a few months after he was set straight by the Monsanto Vice President at headquarters, a company scientist told him that Roundup Ready cotton plants contained new, unintended proteins that had likely resulted from the gene insertion process." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"And yet, the etiquette of bribery is well known the world over. Baksheesh in the Middle *Ea.st,jeito in Brazil, unpetit cadeau in West Africa, refrescos in Mexico, kitikarogo in Kenya. In the United States we sanitize bribes as consulting fees, land deals, tips on pork belly futures, jobs for relatives, and fat lobbyist donations—that is, when they aren't straightforward gobs of cash. It is sad and amazing how hard it can be to try and do the right thing when you are surrounded by people and institutions that see everything through the filter of self-interest." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"In the past, influence-peddling was more accurately described as payola or bribery. Politicians have exempted themselves from such corruption, though, by passing a multitude of rules and laws that obfuscate where the monies come from...and where they end up. Soft money, PAC (political action committee) money, campaign contributions...private donations, corporate donations...where do these begin, and where do "courtesies" such as fine dinners, exotic trips, or pricey honorariums end?" - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"SELL the drugs to as many people as possible through bribery of doctors, more direct-to-consumer advertising, etc. 4. CONTROL the monopoly market by pressuring the FDA to either ban the importation of similar drugs from other countries, or censor and outlaw natural foods and supplements that work better. And this is where the conspiracy enters the picture. A conspiracy is a group of people who plot ways to exploit others for their own gain, usually through unethical or illegal means." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "Routine bribery of physicians through consulting fees, Continuing Medical Education vacations to exotic destinations, and kickback programs that reward doctors for writing brand-name prescriptions to patients under the guise of signing them up for clinical trials. Blatant and frequent conflicts of interest at the FDA, an agency that stacks its drug safety decision panels with doctors who have strong financial ties to the very companies impacted by their decisions (and yet refuses to require full disclosure of those ties)." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Every single initiative has been promoted, either directly or indirectly, by the pharmaceutical industry, using devious, underhanded, mafia-like techniques of corruption, deception, and bribery. Our Latest Gift From President Bush As of January 2006, the Bush administration announced that "people who believe they have been injured by drugs approved by the FDA should not be allowed to sue drug companies in state courts" (http://www.sierratimes.com/06/05/14/71 158 158 30 69115.htm)." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"You will witness the corruption, fraud, and bribery that take place every day in this industry where drug companies routinely buy off doctors, as long as those doctors continue to push prescription drugs onto patients who generally don't need them—and will most likely be harmed by them. You'll see the fraudulent science behind the approval of most prescription drugs, where researchers who are funded by drug companies use carefully manipulated clinical studies to lie about drug safety." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Since they are only in it for the money, short of bribery or outright coercion, how can they possibly be expected to do the right thing? As Joel Bakan eloquently elaborates in The Corporation, self-regulation: rests on the suspect premise that corporations will respect social and environmental interests without being compelled by government to do so. No one would seriously suggest that individuals should regulate themselves, that laws against murder, assault, and theft are unnecessary because people are socially responsible." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Drug scene here means the current street conflict, the Andean warfare, the bribery and cotruption and the modern technology (helicopters and machine-guns, etc.) that characterize the present day. 4. It is an interesting comment on changed social attitudes that, while addiction to alcohol was thought to be at least partly genetic long before the word was in use in English (1831) no real research has been done into the genetics of drug-dependency in modern times. 5. It may be a rule that addictive substances have, of their nature, to affect both body and mind." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"Such gifts would trigger a big red 'bribery' alert in the mind of just about any public official or government contractor. But not, it seems, in the minds of many doctors. They have been raking in jaw-dropping gifts from pharmaceutical firms battling to give their products an edge in an increasingly competitive market."24 In 2000, the American Medical Association issued guidelines to curb these practices, and the pharmaceutical industry followed suit in 2002 (more about that shortly). In 2003, the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S." - Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.)

"As everyone knows, one of the biggest markets for bribery is among government officials. Misleading verbal sales pitches. This is by far where the most deception takes place and the biggest frauds are carried out. And these are the most damaging frauds, because it's hard to defraud somebody out of a lot of money using low-pressure methods from documented advertising. The old bait and switch trick. This means advertising your cheapest, lowest-quality product at a below-cost price and then switching the consumer to a higher-cost product after he comes in the store." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"No one is sure now whether this was an injunction to refrain from politics and bribery, or from involvement in civil affairs (a continuing of the Pythagorean and priestly prejudice), or a warning against dabbling in the supernatural, since beans have been connected not only with ghosts and death but also with supernatural spirits and witches. Scottish witches, it was once believed, rode not on a broomstick but on a beanstalk." - Dianne Onstad, Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods (Get the book.)

"This is legal because the food industry, through the lobbyists' system of legal bribery, has gotten Congress to pass certain legislation allowing this to occur. These secret poisonous chemicals are specifically designed to do the following things: • Preserve the food. In order to produce food as cheaply as possible, it is sometimes required that chemicals be added to the food so that it will not spoil even after years of just sitting around. We have all heard the story of the thirty-year-old Twinkie that looked and tasted the same as it did the day it was manufactured. • Taste and texture." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Can problems related to funding pressures, selective apparent bribery, withholding of material facts and altered, false, incomplete, inaccurate or no records really exist? Why is it possible for products, shown to be unsafe after investigation, to be released for use by trusting Americans?175a'b • Why are some FDA and other public officials in protective agencies given lucrative incomes and positions in chemical corporations? Could these be given in return for political and other favors related to approval of products that are unquestionably unsafe for the American public? (See Chapter 7." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"That law is virtual bribery, and it doesn't even accomplish its stated purpose. Drug companies take advantage of the law to test blockbuster drugs in children whether the drugs are meant for this age-group or not. For an investment of a few million dollars or less, they can increase their revenues by hundreds of millions. But, they can opt not to test less profitable drugs in children even though they are more likely to be used in this age-group. The FDA now has the authority to require pediatric testing as a condition of approval. But it rarely uses it. It should." - Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.)

"A movement for union with the United Kingdom was promoted with much bribery by the British government. It was supported by the Roman Catholics, seduced by a promise of Catholic Emancipation in the Westminster Parliament. Union was opposed by Orangemen and Episcopalians.26 It was carried by means of the worst type of politics, but George III would not allow Catholic Emancipation. Pitt resigned. Hardly anyone noticed the most important development in Ireland during Grattan's Parliament. During the eighteen years before 1801, the population increased by an almost unbelievable 90 percent from 2." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"A later law, the bribery, Graft and Conflicts of Interest Act of 1962, set penalties for anyone who offered "anything of value" with the intention of influencing a public official. Although intention was the crucial issue, federal lawyers have interpreted this law to mean that officials of government agencies should refuse any gifts—no matter how seemingly inconsequential—from representatives of companies with matters under USDA regulatory review. Despite the warnings, Mr." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"We look down our self-righteous American noses at the governments of the Philippines and Mexico, critical of their payoffs and bribery, which in those countries has become an acknowledged way of life. But our bribery, made legal, is yet more evil, permitting the corporate core to buy and own the Congress and the presidency with pious impunity. —Life in La-la Land? If a democracy is rule by the people, then may we not take a few obvious steps to reinvest the people with their rightful power, reinvig-orate the elective process, and at once become a genuine democracy?" - Gerry Spence, Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"Peck (1810) The Court ruled that Georgia could not deprive land speculators of their title, even though the previous owners had obtained the land from the state through fraud and bribery. Arising from the infamous Yazoo land frauds of 1795, this decision followed the Constitutions obligation of contracts clause and was the first time the Court invalidated a state law. Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) The Court encouraged business investment with this decision by treating corporate charters as fully protected contracts." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Section 4 The President, Vice-President and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States, was impeached in 1868, but acquitted by one vote in the Senate. In 1974 the House Judiciary Committee voted three articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon, but Nixon resigned before the full House could act." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "In public life Bacon became lord chancellor (1618) at the court of James I; dismissed because of bribery charges, he retired to his estate to write. His philosophical work, a foundation of the scientific revolution, is found in the Novum Organum (1620) and other books. In opposition to older a priori methods of scholasticism, Bacon championed the inductive method of science, arguing that scientific theories should arise only from careful observation and experiment. His best-known literary works are the Essays (1597-1625). Baker, James Addison, III, b. Houston, Tex., 1930. American statesman." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"He also, Rogin says, "practiced extensive bribery." These treaties, these land grabs, laid the basis for the cotton kingdom, the slave plantations. Every time a treaty was signed, pushing the Creeks from one area to the next, promising them security there, whites would move into the new area and the Creeks would feel compelled to sign another treaty, giving up more land in return for security elsewhere. Jackson's work had brought the white settlements to the border of Florida, owned by Spain." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

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