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 "The influences will have nothing to do with democracy in the end. Political "leaders" will be puppets on the strings of the pharmaceutical industry. In the long run, we will lose democracy, freedom of choice, power of choice. We will be controlled by a little circle of insiders who think in profits exclusively. Our hard-won, hard fought-for rights will be lost, not overtly in the beginning but covertly and we will end up with a tyranny dictated by a small group of people who can decide about our future.
The worst is not yet said."- Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
 "In fact, it has become resistant to correction. If democracy is to be more than a ritual dance choreographed by powerful corporations in this postindustrial "information age," government must actively protect the integrity of the information on which we rely to guide our personal and political choices. As individuals we have the opportunity to reclaim responsibility for much of our health through intelligent lifestyle decisions and informed use of medical care."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
 "Every democracy is doomed to failure if 50 percent or more of the population becomes too stupid to vote intelligently, and I think we may be past that point here in the United States. democracy cannot survive if the people in power cannot think clearly and the people who put them in power, the voters, operate just on emotion, reaction and brainwashing. So, it is people like you who really represent the positive future of our society, and I hope that you benefit from this information, and put it to good use to create a better and more positive world for us all."- Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
 "Some of the reasons for the anxiety were obvious: the bomb, fears of a communist invasion, and widespread beliefs that democracy and freedom were being put at risk by spies within American society. Other reasons for anxiety, though, seemed to have more to do with pressures associated with the new prosperous lifestyles themselves. The prosperity itself had been partially achieved through a new conservative approach to gender roles."- Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "Freedom of speech is still approached with uncertainty in this fledgling democracy. According to Volcere, opposition supporters say the threat of burning the forest is just a smear tactic by the government and they would never dream of destroying their arboreal heritage. An accidental 1990 forest fire in nearby Fond Ferdinand wiped out wide swaths of forest that will take hundreds of years to recover. It's staggering to think that something so ancient and precious is also so precarious.
The are only 24,457 coco-de-mer palms left."- Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "As political philosophers point out, fighting transgenic engineering can be construed, at a certain point, as an act of resistance against the hegemony of global capitalism and its political supplement, liberal democracy. The story of the modern banana began in the 1870s, when a twenty-three-year-old American named Minor Keith started building a railroad network through the Costa Rican forest. He planted bananas alongside the railways, not realizing that the seedlings would one day grow into an empire of fruits." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) |
 "But in September 1992 the Shining Path leadership was captured, and by April 1993 democracy had been restored in Peru, ending fourteen years of guerrilla violence that had killed 27,000 people. Inflation had reached 7,000% and economic growth was negative in 1990, but by 1993 inflation was being brought under control and economic growth was positive. A
wonderful sense of a "new era" was certainly in evidence—but a quadrupling of stock prices within a year left many wondering if the increase was excessive."- Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
 "The Rise of a Sustainable Civilization
• National, continental, and global governance structures are reformed or newly created, moving states toward participatory democracy and releasing a surge of creative energy among empowered and increasingly active populations.
• The consensually created and globally coordinated eco-social market system begins to function; as a result the natural resources required for health and well-being become available throughout the world community. ?"- Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) |
 "In Switzerland, they had brotherly love—five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
Let's call it not the Sea Snail syndrome but the Steve Earle syndrome, referring to the extremely talented singer-songwriter who produced only middling material early in his career, with a few frustrat-ingly brief flashes of brilliance, until both his career and his health dwindled as a result of being caught in a vortex of cocaine, crack, and alcohol. With a five-hundred-dollar-a-day habit, Earle pawned his guitars and became homeless."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
| "The ideal of "well-ordered science" (a phrase coined by philosopher Philip Kitcher in his book Science, Truth, and democracy) is often replaced in commercially sponsored medical research by the ideal of profit-maximizing science. Dr. Andrew Bodnar, a senior vice president at Bristol-Myers Squibb, summarized this issue when he told the New York Times, "In a science-driven organization, the notion of marketing versus science is really a false dichotomy." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
| "Where the natural impulse to complain against the holocaust has been suppressed—to cry out blame, or to announce panaceas—the magnitude of an art of tragedy more potent (for us) than the Greek finds realization: the realistic, intimate, and variously interesting tragedy of democracy, where the god is beheld crucified in the catastrophes not of the great houses only but of every common home, every scourged and lacerated face." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.) |
 "Instead of encouraging the kind of transparency that a democracy should require of its corporations, Eli Lilly fights for its right to hide itself beneath the dark mud of corporate secrecy. The company is not protecting trade secrets; it is protecting information about potentially lethal adverse effects, including diabetes.
Unlike earlier Lilly public relations successes, in the case of Zyprexa the truth came out with a big bang.22 Alaskan lawyer and heroic psychiatric reformer Jim Gottstein obtained the sealed documents."- Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
 "Facts that stand alone from personal experience often associated with the meaning of specific words (the United States gained its independence in 1776; the definition of the word democracy is government by the people; the four Beatles were John, Paul, George, and Ringo). Semantic memory is often lumped together with episodic memory under the heading of "declarative memory"—a blanket term for memory that stores facts and personal experience rather than rote skills.
Procedural memory. How to complete motor tasks (remembering how to tie one's shoe, ride a bike, or play a guitar riff)."- 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 American democracy has been stolen by our new class of robber barons—the CEOs of our largest corporations. A political system dependent on charity from rich men in hand-tailored suits with $ 100-million retirement packages is no democracy. It is a kleptocracy.30 It is not what our founding fathers envisioned.
So, can we change this? Can we build a new future? I believe that we can."- Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) |
| "Every democracy is doomed to failure if 50 percent or more of the population becomes too stupid to vote intelligently, and I think we may be past that point here in the United States. democracy cannot survive if the people in power cannot think clearly and the people who put them in power, the voters, operate just on emotion, reaction and brainwashing. So, it is people like you who really represent the positive future of our society, and I hope that you benefit from this information, and put it to good use to create a better and more positive world for us all." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
| "Of all the former Soviet bloc countries, it was in Hungary that the transformation to democracy was the most ordered and peaceful, and totally without bloodshed.
There was a vast movement of opinion in Hungary at the time?popular opinion and intellectual opinion, also shared by the progressive echelons of high-ranking politicians—that pointed toward the need for a peaceful transformation from a Soviet satellite to an independent democratic state. Agreement between the parties was negotiated with the result that free elections were held in May of 1990." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) |
| "In other words, when a person liked democracy he/she was insane. He/she got labeled as a crazy person and had to receive treatment. Another form of "disease" was the mere fact that one was a woman. The fact that one was female, alone, meant insanity.
Unbelievable, but true.
182 Dr. Thomas Roder, Volker Kubillus, Die Manner hinter Hitler, (Men behind Hitler), (Pi-Verlag: Malters, Switzerland: 1994), p. 45
From the first moment on, psychiatry also engaged in labeling persons "insane" when they behaved politically incorrect." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "In the long run, we will lose democracy, freedom of choice, power of choice. We will be controlled by a little circle of insiders who think in profits exclusively. Our hard-won, hard fought-for rights will be lost, not overtly in the beginning but covertly and we will end up with a tyranny dictated by a small group of people who can decide about our future. The worst is not yet said. The true side effects, and by far the most dangerous ones, will be CONTROL OF THE MEDIA and thus CONTROL OF THINKING." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
 "I n their ground-breaking The Calculus of Consent; Logical Foun-•^¦dations of Constitutional democracy (1962), Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan along with Gordon Tullock developed the "public choice" theory of economics. That theory, in part, explains the behavior of federal regulatory agency and commission heads by associating their public actions with pursuit of self-interest. When political decisions favor self-interest they often come at the expense of the public. The threat of self-interest to the public becomes acute when an agency head is possessed of independent governing power."- Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "Referring to FDA's history of silencing scientific dissent, Francesca Grifo, senior scientist and director of the Scientific Integrity Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, stated: "Censoring scientists undermines our democracy and threatens public health. One stunning example: Vioxx. Fifty-five thousand Americans died because scientists at the Food and Drug Administration couldn't speak out." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) |
| "But it was neither a democracy nor a republic. It was exactly the opposite - a dictatorship.
One should look at the true meanings of words. Words are patient. Words are like empty bottles, waiting to be filled with a new significance. The old label is left on the bottle. It just has a new significance depending on how it is crafted. The dark side of this is that public relations specialists redefine words. They change the labels on the bottles to suit the particular needs of their clients rather than let the language grow in its own natural way." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
| "After all, they'd look bad if they didn't support democracy, free speech, and a citizen's right to appear before Congress, wouldn't they? They just don't want me to work so hard anymore. Things could be worse—I could be working weekends."
What I didn't expect was the reaction I got. The New York Times even sent over a photographer to take new pictures." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) |
 "The English philosopher Bertrand Russell was not perturbed by the fundamentally undemocratic aspects of eugenics:17
The ideas of eugenics are based on the assumption that men are basically unequal, while democracy is based on the assumption that they are essentially equal. It is politically awkward to advance eugenic ideas in a democratic community when those ideas take the form, not of suggesting that there is a minority of inferior people, such as imbeciles, but of admitting that there is a minority of superior people."- Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) |
| "A political system dependent on charity from rich men in hand-tailored suits with $ 100-million retirement packages is no democracy. It is a kleptocracy.30 It is not what our founding fathers envisioned.
So, can we change this? Can we build a new future? I believe that we can. I believe this because we live in a country that could rid itself of slavery, a country that finally allowed women to vote; a country that has come a long way in the short time since the civil rights movement began." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) |
 "Nelson Mandela: He emerged from years of imprisonment and tor ture to become a leader for freedom, democracy, and the rights of the oppressed.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Unable to walk, and with fingers twisted by arthritis, he attached a paintbrush to his hand and painted some of the world's most memorable works, including (at age seventy-six) "The Washerwoman."
Henri Matisse: Suffering from heart failure, gastrointestinal disease, and with his lungs failing, he placed paintbrushes on a long stick and painted from his bed."- Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.) |
 "It seems sensible to this old-fashioned supporter of democracy and free speech that the governments of the world should be making real efforts to protect children - and all of us - from virtual crime through the United Nations or a similar international body. There are moves afoot to protect economic interests on the net (although at the moment the UN and the US are, as usual, locked in disagreement about it) and since 2003 a Virtual Global Task Force has been working to prevent paedophile activity. So why can't we do more to close down other dangerous sites?"- Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) |
 "A portion of the island is ruled by Indonesia, and a portion as an independent democracy. Salawati Island is off the coast of Indonesian New Guinea. He was asked to conduct a bird survey of islands of the region. Much of the island was leased for oil exploration by Pertamina, the national oil company of Indonesia. Visiting as a guest of Pertamina, which even provided him with a vehicle, Diamond reports, "In view of that kindness, I am sorry to report on the conditions that I encountered."- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "With the emergence of modernist consciousness comes the liberal ideals of religious freedom, gender equality, democracy, freedom of speech and press, and the equality of all persons before the law. And even though the modern world has yet to deliver these "dignities" in a fair and universal distribution to all citizens, it was through the rise of modernist culture that these rights and freedoms were originally conceived as achievable ideals. But perhaps the greatest gift of modernist consciousness was the emergence of science and the scientific worldview."- Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) |
| "This is the fuel of democracy there, he said. Their large numbers of protestors over the recent chemical contamination of a river are democratizing China, and we'd be politically foolish to turn away from this powerful movement. Protests over environmental rape today are as politically energizing and the modern global equivalent to the historic anger over taxes on stamps and tea, invasions of privacy, and as forced lodging of the crown's soldiers in patriots' homes were to our own American founders." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Costa Rica, Latin America's oldest and longest-running democracy, was in trouble, with one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. It was a catastrophe in the making. The combination of international debts at high interest rates, rising unemployment, and national economic depression brought on by stifling international profiteering as one of America's preeminent banana republics led the Costa Rican government to embark on a campaign of rapid deforestation, for cheap timber and to raise cattle, as a means of raising foreign currency. It was a road to oblivion." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
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