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"Censorship, censorship, censorship! 5. The author of the book has no financial connection directly or indirectly with any of the products discussed in the book. Hmm, this doesn't make any sense. Obviously, Alternative Medicine magazine, The Lancet, and Prevention magazine accept advertising. They have a direct financial connection with the products described, marketed, sold, and promoted in their publications. The FTC is writing their own rules. They keep writing their own rules and then changing their own rules." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"But the subject has become entangled with a much wider debate about censorship, at the very heart of the human rights agenda. In the US, every attempt to regulate what children see and hear comes up against the First Amendment. In the rest of the world, anti-censorship campaigners cite human rights legislation. The issue of children's right to a healthy environment is thus lost in controversy about the rights of adults to read, view and listen to whatever they like. Take violence, for example." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"They have erected a tyrannical bureaucratic oligarchy that sacrifices the lives and property of the many to support the riches of a few. FDA censorship OF HEALTH INFORMATION homas Jefferson in his Kentucky Resolutions (November 16, 1798 and December 3, 1799) and James Madison in his Virginia Resolutions (December 24, 1798) condemned the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, including their infamous prior restraint on seditious libel. They did so based on arguments that the First Amendment denied the federal government the power to abridge speech." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "In response to overwhelming public demands for an end to zealous FDA efforts to remove dietary supplements from the market and to end censorship of nutrient-disease claims, in 1990 President Bush signed into law the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act. In particular, that Act included 21 U.S.C. ?343 (r)(3)(B)(i) concerning health claims (nutrient-disease relationship claims) for foods and 21 U.S.C. ?(r)(5)(D) concerning health claims for dietary supplements." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "The ban persisted from 1994 until 2001 (seven years, during which time women were needlessly deprived of the protective information in the market by FDA censorship). The harm to the public was palpable, consistent with the Court's findings: [T]he public health risk from neural tube defects is undeniably substantial. [Neural tube defects (NTDs)] occur in approximately 1 of every 1,000 live births in the United States . . . Approximately 2,500 babies are born every year with an NTD. Of the children born with NTDs, most do not survive into adulthood, and those who do experience severe handicaps." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Support anticensorship groups, such as the National Coalition Against censorship (www.ncac.org) and the American Library Association (www.ala.org). Read books. Read books. Read books. Visit websites that scrutinize the media, such as the Annenberg Public Policy Center (www.annenberg publicpolicycenter.org). Fairness & Accuracy in the Media (www.fair.org), and Media Channels (www.mediachannel.org). join the media reform movement (www.f reepress. net). Write letters to the editor of your local papers. Spend an entire day in silence. Start a current events discussion group or salon." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"FDA's censorship contributed to a preventable 10,000 neural tube defect births. Between 1994 to 2000, FDA prohibited companies that sell omega-3 fatty acids from telling Americans that those fatty acids found in fish oil could reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by as much as 50%. FDA's censorship contributed to a preventable 1.8 million sudden death heart attacks." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Now, as we're seeing, the decision makers at the USDA don't even have the political courage to stand up and say that maybe people shouldn't be drinking soft drinks or eating so much sugar, because the sugar lobby has been able to wield its influence to the point of outright censorship. Turning health claims into crimes That's just one of the many methods by which political decision makers promote the use of mind hacks. Another way is by legislation." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"But immediately after it was published, censorship was imposed on all New England printers, and no other news bill appeared for fourteen years.1 The first American newspaper published after the ban, The Boston News-Letter, began on April 17, 1704, and the first advertisements followed less than a month later in the same paper. In 1708, the News-Letter printed the first advertisement for a patent medicine. Among the most successful and influential of the early American publishers was Ben Franklin. In 1728, Franklin took over his brother's job of publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"In 1969, Penrose put forward his Cosmic censorship Hypothesis (Penrose 1969a), according to which Nature abhors naked singularities and requires every space-time curvature singularity, lying in the causal future, to be decently veiled by an event horizon." - Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe (Get the book.) "All in all, the current motivation for the Cosmic censorship Hypothesis seems to be more philosophical than scientific. Many physicists, in particular, are disturbed by the breakdown of determinism that would follow from the creation of a naked ring singularity (a breakdown far more radical and wide-ranging than that which occurs in quantum mechanics, according to those who believe in a probabilistic collapse of the wave-function)." - Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe (Get the book.)

"FDA's censorship contributed to a preventable 1.8 million sudden death heart attacks. Between 2000 and the present, FDA prohibits companies that sell saw palmetto extract (the fruit of the dwarf American palm tree) from telling Americans that saw palmetto reduces enlarged prostates and relieves related symptoms. Approximately 50% of all men age 50 and older suffer from enlarged prostates and are denied access to this information." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"I know it's also all about censorship. Well, I have decided that I have found the FTC guilty, not you. I am giving you back the money that they gave me. I don't need the FTC to tell me if Coral Calcium works. In December 2003 I bought one bottle as an experiment. If it did not work, I would not have bought it again. I continue to buy it because it works. You have my permission to report as fact that I have refunded my refund to you." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"The Internet makes censorship more difficult today, although controlling the Internet is now at the top of the elite rulers' agenda. The FDA has decided on a temporary strategy that is the equivalent of Nazi book burning. It is critically important for them to control knowledge about natural health options to prevent a public revolt due to a lack of results produced by current medicines. For example, inflammation is now recognized as the true source of most diseases of aging, especially cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and dementia-related illnesses." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"They will also be subject to censorship and bombarded with propaganda and wishful thinking by those who don't or won't see what is really going on. Taken together, those crosscurrents will generate scads of distracting "noise" that will probably be of little value in coping with difficult, rapidly changing circumstances. More than ever, having ready access to critical, up-to-the-minute intelligence could be the difference between not surviving, just barely making it, or successfully swimming upstream when others are sinking fast." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"This doesn't have to be a question of censorship or denying people's right to view and say what they like. As we move into the digital age we should be aiming to make violent or sexually explicit material available only to adults on demand, rather than automatically available to everyone. • Join the call for registration of ownership of mobile phones, as is already the case in France. If owners have to provide proof of age and identity, phones can be traced back to them so that it's easier to keep track of the images and information circulated." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) "Defenders of freedom of speech on the Internet are even more voluble than critics of media censorship, so there's a long way to go in finding a sensible balanced approach. There's also enormous reluctance among the vast majority of decent people to become involved in this debate. While parents worry about what children are seeing on TV and what they may encounter on the Internet, the fear of being thought prudish or ultra-right-wing holds most of them back from speaking up in public." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) "Another flashpoint in the child protection versus censorship discussion is the sexual content of many TV programmes. The effects on children of increasingly graphic sex scenes or salacious discussions (as seen daily on shows like Jerry Springer) are also lost in the debate about what's acceptable for adults .Noonehasyet proved conclusively that witnessing sexy scenarios and human sexual dramas is associated with a rise in underage sex and teenage pregnancies ... but we've already seen the effects that unmediated consumer pressure has on children." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"This is censorship. This is a violation of the First Amendment. The Federal Trade Commission has no right to determine who is reputable and who is an independent informational publisher. They cannot deem whose opinions are allowed to be disseminated, and whose opinions must be suppressed. The letter is also incredibly vague and contradictory. When it says if any of the other books mentioned a brand name product, they would have "concerns." Why would they have concerns?" - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"The intent of conventional medicine today is identical to that of the slave owners in years past: To control and exploit the people for their own profits, and to do so through any means necessary, including censorship, oppression, and tyranny. These are not casual accusations. All of these statements will be irrefutably supported throughout this book. By the time you finish this book, you will bear witness to the kind of information that, if widely circulated, could actually help bring an end to this modern medical regime." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Politicians and others with a vested interest will try to engage in censorship, whether overtly or behind the scenes, disseminating virtually continuous propaganda: everything is under control, and there is light at the end of the tunnel. At the same time, economic and financial turmoil, increasing crime and revelations about past frauds, and a rapidly souring social mood will spur investigative and other reporting that borders on rabid bloodlust. Listening, reading, paying attention, and thinking clearly will offer other benefits." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"It's also a system of control, based on shocking degrees of censorship and oppression, structured to keep the American people ignorant of natural, low-cost solutions to nearly every disease in existence. Remember, I used to believe in conventional medicine. I took prescription drugs and believed in doctors. But I was conned. I was naive. And I realized that if I continued down the path of believing in conventional medicine, I would end up sick, miserable, and bankrupt, just like far too many Americans today who mistake modern health care for actual caring of health." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"FDA has thus proven that it cannot be trusted to abide by decisions of the federal courts. Rather, it can be counted upon to achieve its desired end even if that end violates the Constitution and the orders of federal courts. The rule of law has been replaced by the rule of designing agency appointees. They operate outside the Constitution. They are unanswerable to the courts, the Congress, and the American people. They are possessed of so much power that they are never ultimately made to account for constitutional law violations or for the many lives and the property they choose to sacrifice." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"What he didn't realize was that in wartime, England and America quickly took on many of the attributes of a socialist society such as rationing, censorship, economic planning, and price controls. He also didn't realize that it is not merely the percentage of a society's output that the state is able to grab that counts; what also matters is the total gross amount to grab from. Both of these points were to become critical to the development of global politics in the twentieth century." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"Because of FTC censorship, I cannot tell you the brand name of it, but if you search on the internet under "multi-wave oscillator," you should be able to find it. I have used this personally, and others have as well. This is another "natural cure" that they don't want you to know about. Everything in my newsletters can easily be attacked by someone in the media. They can claim I'm a snake oil salesman, a charlatan, a fraud, and so forth, but these are not my discoveries." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Schlachter explains, as follows: Power tactics including threats, ridicule and frank censorship aimed at scientists and clinicians knowledgeable about fluoridation have prevented the truth about fluoride from being disseminated to the science world as well as to the public. Epidemiology research in the mid-1970s by the late Dr. Dean Bur, head of the cytochemistry division of the National Cancer Institute, indicated that 10.000 or more fluoridation-linked cancer deaths occur yearly in the United States." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"When the censorship could be said to "further an important or substantial government interest" or where it was in the "substantial governmental interests of security, order, and rehabilitation," censorship would be allowed. In 1978 the Supreme Court ruled that the news media do not have guaranteed rights of access to jails and prisons. It ruled also that prison authorities could forbid inmates to speak to one another, assemble, or spread literature about the formation of a prisoners' union." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is actually engaged in a campaign of nutritional censorship that tries to keep the public ignorant of the true healing power of natural foods like cherries and blueberries. On October 17, 2005, the FDA sent warning letters to 29 companies that market cherries." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

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