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"Well, he bribes them. He bribes them overtly and covertly. He bribes them in a way that can't legally be called bribery. By the way, we aren't saying all pharmaceutical companies bribe these people or that the pharmaceutical industry is only or always bribing. We just say it happens. At the end of this chapter, we will give some documented techniques of how doctors are bribed, and some general insights on "bribing-technology," if one could call it that. But again, once one has the OLs or even key OLs in his pocket, he is a happy man as a pharmaceutical PR-Guru. He did his job." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"At Hunts Point, New York City's main wholesale market, corrupt USDA inspectors have long accepted bribes from wholesalers. In 1999, an undercover federal investigation code-named "Operation Forbidden Fruit" resulted in eight inspectors and thirteen market employees being arrested, imprisoned or fined. According to the House Agriculture Subcommittee, "The investigation revealed that owners of twelve produce firms at the Hunts Point Market had been routinely paying cash bribes to the USDA inspectors in exchange for lowering the grade of the produce being inspected." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"He bribes them overtly and covertly. He bribes them in a way that can't legally be called bribery. By the way, we aren't saying all pharmaceutical companies bribe these people or that the pharmaceutical industry is only or always bribing. We just say it happens. At the end of this chapter, we will give some documented techniques of how doctors are bribed, and some general insights on "bribing-technology," if one could call it that. But again, once one has the OLs or even key OLs in his pocket, he is a happy man as a pharmaceutical PR-Guru. He did his job. He is worth millions." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Bacon (1936: 48-56) arrived at this conclusion by applying his method of induction to a range of commonplace 3 Bacon was accused of taking bribes, in his judicial capacity. He admitted doing so but insisted that he never let these bribes influence his judgements! observations. (His far-sighted ideas about the desirability of disciplined and coordinated effort in scientific research were a major stimulus to the subsequent foundation of the Royal Society." - Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe (Get the book.)

"He was already in his fifties, and a power at court, when Justinian selected him as agent provocateur to carry bribes and disinformation to the Nika rioters, a clear indication of the emperor's trust. The trust was due as much to Narses's status as to his proven loyalty; like celibate priests, eunuchs offered their superiors a devotion uncompromised by family ambitions. Moreover, according to Procopius, Narses was also a Monophysite, and therefore probably favored by Theodora as well." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Moreover, the Roman generals were under orders to pursue negotiations, and offered enormous bribes to Khalid in return for a promised return to Arabia. Between the skirmishes and parleys, it was August 17 before the battle was joined. For three days, from August 17 to 19, each army proved able to repulse the other's attacks; the ravines of the plateau strongly favored the defense, parricularly so long as they had archers." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "In this, she failed, despite bribes, coercion, and torture. She was, however, able to keep the onetime prefect in a purgatory that would end only in death. John, unable to outmaneuver the empress, outlived her instead; and he returned to Constantinople a free man, though a poor one, and a priest at that. Theodora's vendetta had claimed victims other than John, including, perhaps, Justinian himself, who was deprived of the services of one of his most formidable lieutenants. " - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "When Justinian began his invasion of the Italian peninsula, the resourceful emperor took the Franks out of the equation with a combination of diplomacy, religious solidarity—the Franks, like the Romans, were orthodox, while the Goths were Arians—and bribes.10 Procopius quotes a possibly apocryphal letter from Justinian to the Franks in Gaul in detail: "The Goths have seized by violence Italy, which was ours [emphasis added] . . ." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"According to the House Agriculture Subcommittee, "The investigation revealed that owners of twelve produce firms at the Hunts Point Market had been routinely paying cash bribes to the USDA inspectors in exchange for lowering the grade of the produce being inspected. This saved the produce wholesalers a substantial amount of money per load, and at the same time defrauded farmers out of tens of millions of dollars." FROM THE OUTSIDE, there's little indication that the world's biggest wholesale produce market, which feeds over 23 million New Yorkers every day, is anything other than a prison." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"An article in JAMA has come up with the suggestion—that doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies. Most people didn't know that doctors routinely accept bribes (including hundreds of thousands of dollars in "contractor's fees" for signing patients up for drug trials), so this news may come as a bit of a shock to some. The majority of doctors say these gifts don't influence their prescribing behavior, just like the majority of consumers claim television advertising has no influence on their grocery purchases, either. Studies prove otherwise." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Finally, he influences, or bribes that OL. Here's another example. The PR-expert wants to influence a town. As the first step, he finds out who the key opinion leader is in that town. Perhaps it's the mayor. But it can also be another mighty or rich guy on whom the mayor is really dependent. The professors Cutclip/Center write: "Each stratum in the community develops its own leaders. The nominal leaders may not be the real leaders. In one town, the mayor is a leader; in another, he is a puppet. Identification of opinion leaders requires probing." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Holt's statement goes on to demonstrate an understanding of children we can only wish were present in classrooms, counseling offices, and examining rooms: Children have a great deal of energy; they like to move about; they live and learn with their bodies and muscles, not just their eyes and ears; when adults try to compel them to remain still and silent for long periods of time they resent and resist it; most of them can be cowed and silenced by various bribes and threats; 5 to 15 percent cannot. These we diagnose as suffering from a 'learning malady calledhyperkinesis." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Pepper once served as hard currency to pay salaries and bribes (a kilogram was sufficient to pay for freeing a slave). Seafaring nations like Portugal, Spain, Holland and Britain entered the lucrative spice trade and fought wars to maintain or gain commercial control over certain spices. This colonial period was not a happy one, as large numbers of local people were exploited or killed to centralise and monopolise the supply of spices from the famous East Indies (including India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Indonesia - and later also the Caribbean and West Indies)." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"Peter Wilmshurst, a cardiologist and researcher, testified he has been offered large financial bribes not to publish results that were unfavorable to the drug under investigation. He also testified before the government committee that he was familiar with a case in which three other professors of cardiology did not publish their findings after the sponsoring drug manufacturer saw the unfavorable results.14 I would suggest that you read that last paragraph again. It contains startling facts. They call out for intervention." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Indeed, the now disgraced former minister Kiraitu Murungi has admitted that Anglo Leasing was essentially In Nairobi, Kenya, minibus drivers are often stopped by police demanding bribes. This kind of corruption has posed great challenges to the Kenyan government. a vehicle for financing campaigns for the upcoming 2007 elections (see the East African Business Week March 6, 2006, article "Anglo Leasing Storm"). Combine systemic campaign corruption with low expectations on the part of many Kenyan voters and you have a recipe for disaster." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"They will seek out bribes, whether in cash or in kind, for favors and influence. Meanwhile, hardcore miscreants will move quickly to expand their operations and capitalize on the deteriorating social structure. They will be actively involved in loan-sharking, prostitution, narcotics, gambling, identity theft, robbery, and a multitude of other illegal activities. During the Great Depression, the Mafia and various criminal gangs made great strides in terms of organization and influence, though they were aided, of course, by their involvement in circumventing an unpopular prohibition of alcohol." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"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. It also makes good government—the intelligent policy making that underpins most solutions—virtually impossible." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Michael Antoniou, molecular geneticist, King's College London PART 2 The Regulation of GM Foods Inadequate to Protect Public Health Regulators are often hijacked by the biotech industry In Indonesia, Monsanto gave bribes or illegal payments to at least 140 officials, attempting to get their GM cotton approved.1 In a district in India, an official tampered with the report on Bt cotton, increasing the yield figures to favor Monsanto." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"This timeline shows how the government works: it's all about money, payoffs, and bribes. It's all about multinational corporations doing anything to make profits at the expense of our health. We need to know the truth. Remember, science is not better than nature. Buy products that are 100 percent organic; buy products that are as close to natural as nature intended. This same type of information can also be said about Splenda. Please, if you are reading this, stop consuming any artificial sweetener, read food labels, buy 100 percent organic foods." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Most people didn't know that doctors routinely accept bribes (including hundreds of thousands of dollars in "contractor's fees" for signing patients up for drug trials), so this news may come as a bit of a shock to some. The majority of doctors say these gifts don't influence their prescribing behavior, just like the majority of consumers claim television advertising has no influence on their grocery purchases, either. Studies prove otherwise. Studies prove that drug company gifts to doctors are, indeed, not only effective, but quite a bargain for the drug companies." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Product placement within any particular category, be it cereal or detergent, is often determined by slotting fees, a legal form of supermarket bribes. People tend to buy what's at eye level, and food companies pay supermarkets handsomely (tens of thousands of dollars) to place their products at eye level and in other highly desirable locations. You'll often find less expensive, equivalent, and sometimes better products at knee level. The Different Sections of Supermarkets Most supermarkets have seven to ten major sections. These are the most common ones. Produce department." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"In Africa, corruption limits economic growth and keeps people in poverty, especially since poor people are most vulnerable to bribes in exchange for basic services, and because corruption diverts public resources away from sectors like education, health, and housing. To say that this has undermined people's trust in government and diminished their expectations for the future would be an understatement. In fact, being an honest public servant in Africa today is considered an act of heroism." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "As part of a comprehensive campaign against corruption initiated in 1998, the government streamlined the regulatory rules of systems like licensing and permit approval that are most subject to corruption through bribes. An online tracking system now helps citizens monitor the status of government applications. It's unlikely that technology will turn nondemocracies into democracies, but it may just make the difference for young and fragile Transparency in Africa ¦mm The typical write-up on corruption in Africa is dire and despondent." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"You might be inclined to think that industry pays scientists under the table to "cook the data," bribes government officials or conducts illegal activities. Many people love a sensational story. But the powerful interests that maintain the status quo do not usually conduct illegal 249 business. As far as I know, they do not pay scientists to "cook the data." They do not bribe elected officials or make sordid underhanded deals. The situation is much worse." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"After suspecting corruption in the fast approval of some pharmaceuticals and not others, Mylan (a pharmaceutical company) hired private detectives who "caught FDA agents red-handed taking bribes in exchange for expediting drug approval," explains Kenny Ausubel in When Healing Becomes a Crime. This resulted in the conviction of four FDA employees and, most significantly, loss of public trust. New England Journal of Medicine report reveals that health care information companies have been purchasing prescription records from pharmacies and other sources since the early 1990s." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"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. We returned to Nairobi to get the papers from KPCU. No luck, and a lot of blank stares." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"I know how the bribes, payoffs, and illegal coercion work between politicians, government regulators, and corporations. In this respect I have been compared to Joe Valachi. Joe Valachi came forward and said he was a member of La Cosa Nostra, the mafia. At the time the mafia consisted of five families in New York. It also consisted of other families throughout America, Italy, and Sicily. This criminal underground empire was reportedly bigger than U.S. Steel. At the time, the mafia was at its height in size and power. Amazingly, however, there was no proof that the mafia existed." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "Even the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article that suggested that doctors should stop accepting bribes from drug companies. Most people don't know that Big Pharma spends almost $19 billion a year enticing and influencing doctors on how they treat patients. How can you believe a doctor when he has so little health information other than drugs and surgery?" - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "These "payoffs," although legal, are by any logical normal person's account, what they are—100 percent bribes and payoffs. I state this as my opinion and I state this exercising my First Amendment right. These politicians then use the agencies, which they control, including the FDA and FTC, to do their dirty work. The FTC and FDA, in my opinion, are like the Gestapo and the SS of Nazi Germany, or the KGB under Stalinist Russia. They do the dirty work of the politicians. They do not do what they are designed and commissioned to do, which is to protect consumers. They do the exact opposite." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

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