BIG PHARMA JUGGERNAUT ROLLS TO VICTORY - HEALTH FREEDOM REELS Part 1

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This is from the americans against NAIS group.

Ann Marie

BIG PHARMA JUGGERNAUT ROLLS TO VICTORY - HEALTH FREEDOM REELS

Part 1

By Byron J. s, CCN

December 11, 2006

NewsWithViews.com

lin and Jefferson not only rolled over in their

graves, they had a stake driven through their coffins by the

departing 109th Congress. Big Pharma is now fully in charge of the

FDA. Therapeutic nutrition is now marked for elimination from the

free market. How did this happen? What does it all mean? Why did the

House Democrats, at 3:06 A.M., while Americans slept, stab our people

in the back? It is an ominous sign of things to come.

As the lame duck session drew to a close, it became clear that the

Republican’s scorched-earth policy was intended to make it difficult

for the Democrats to get anything done next year. They are hoping to

regain voter confidence by making Democrats look even worse than the

Republican’s near-total ineptitude, which is not a very tall order.

However, the Republicans and Democrats were able to agree on several

key points regarding your health: health options for Americans should

be curtailed and the American public should be subjected to massive

drug experimentation. Thus, with little fanfare or reporting by the

general media, the Destroy Effective Supplements and Poison Americans

with Biotech Drugs Innovation Act of 2006 (S.666 and HR.1832), was

passed in the middle of the night, just as the lame duck session came

to a close.

Americans seem almost numb to the fact that Big Pharma kills several

thousand of us every week. Kudos to the 109th Congress, those numbers

will now dramatically rise.

Big Pharma Now Runs the FDA

Yes, the fox is now officially in charge of the henhouse. Over the

objection of a small handful of Senators Big Pharma couldn’t buy,

von Eschenbach, M.D, was confirmed to head the FDA. His

clearly stated agenda is, and always has been, speeding new and

dangerous drugs onto the market with little testing for safety or

effectiveness. Von Eschenbach would like to turn every doctor’s

office in America into a large clinical trial run by an FDA

supercomputer, he would like a computer chip in your arm, and your

DNA in his supercomputer – and if you don’t comply you soon won’t get

medical services (read Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA’s

Betrayal of America). The experiment, known as the Critical Path

Initiative, is now full steam ahead! Of course, when Americans are

injured and killed, von Eschenbach is pushing heavily to make sure no

one can sue for damages.

von Eschenbach is up to his eyeballs in Big Pharma

connections. As director of the National Cancer Institute he

perverted billions of taxpayer dollars away from solid science on

desperately needed cancer research and into the coffers of his

biotech and pharmaceutical pals, collectively known as C-Change. Now,

he actually wants to turn part of the FDA into a drug company and

even has a name for it, the Reagan-Udahl Center for Biomedical

Research. Big Pharma co-sponsors, Senator Kennedy (D-MA) and

Mike Enzi (R-MT), are attempting to fund his new FDA drug company

with taxpayer money, which could easily be funneled through the

National Cancer Institute, into the hands of his C-Change friends,

and then used to pay for FDA drug approvals (S.3807). In other words,

the American taxpayer will soon be slated to pay for the development

of all these new biotech drugs, and then pay exorbitant drug prices

for the “privilege” of being part of a human experiment.

As temporary head of the FDA, von Eschenbach proved he could adeptly

cover for drug companies, even when they blatantly lied to the FDA!

Such was the case with Trasylol, the Bayer heart bypass drug that

needlessly kills and causes permanent kidney damage, which, thanks to

von Eschenbach, is still on the market injuring Americans this

holiday season.

Senator Grassley (R-IA) was hot and heavy on the von

Eschenbach protection agenda for Big Pharma and had placed a hold on

his nomination over von Eschenbach’s flagrant violations of law and

the FDA’s cover-up of fraud relating to the Ketek antibiotic. Von

Eschenbach’s utter disdain of Congressional oversight should be a

major concern to all Americans. On December 7, 2006, this is what

Grassley had to say:

People ought to be ashamed of saying Dr. von Eschenbach has

done a superb job in the position he is currently occupying [acting

head of the FDA].

That is an insult

..In my interactions with the Department of Health and Human Services

and the FDA these last 8 months, I have seen a complete and utter

disrespect for congressional authority and hence the law.

In Cedar Rapids, IA, I have a family that lost an 18-year-old because

of a drug [Ketek] that was on the market then and which is not on the

market now

..It seems to me that if you are concerned about the safety of drugs,

this information is important, and if you are going to have it

covered up in the FDA, you aren't protecting the public.

This body [the Senate] should not walk hand in hand with the

executive branch and sit idly by as instances of abuse and fraud

continue to endanger the health and safety of American people.

Following these frank and chilling statements of fact, the opinions

of Orrin Hatch (R-UT) were put forth to quell the concerns just raised:

To me it is simply unconscionable that the Food and Drug

Administration, one of the best little agencies in Government, has

gone leaderless for such a period of time

I know Dr. von Eschenbach well. He is a man of integrity

..I urge my colleagues--no, I implore my colleagues--to do what is

right and vote [for] this nomination

..it is what the American people deserve.

Such a character endorsement, coming from a man at the top of Big

Pharma’s payout list, is hardly an encouragement to anyone. What is

it that constitutes integrity in Hatch’s mind? And just what is it

that the American people deserve? These questions were answered for

us by Grassley, in his follow-up testimony:

A vote for this nominee would be an endorsement of the

stonewalling, but, more importantly, the disrespect for Congress he

has shown by not cooperating with congressional oversight.

Under Dr. Von Eschenbach, the FDA has not only avoided transparency,

it also has threatened those who are trying to desperately expose the

truth

..

This started back in January with Ketek and our getting involved

in the oversight. There was fraud in this Ketek study

..In June, Dr. Von Eschenbach held a meeting of FDA staff involving

this drug I have been investigating, questioning how it was handled--

Ketek. FDA employees who were present say that he used a lot of

sports metaphors regarding being a “team player” and keeping opinions

“inside the locker room.” Basically, he said to not criticize the FDA

outside the locker room, “outside the locker room” being his words.

Apparently he stated that anyone who spoke outside the locker room

might find themselves “off the team”

This nominee held this meeting in the midst of this ongoing

congressional investigation of this drug Ketek. He called the meeting

after a number of critical reports in the media about the FDA's

handling of Ketek. A number of FDA employees interviewed by the

committee were offended by his comments, found them highly

questionable, inappropriate, and potentially threatening. I don't

think there was any “potential”' about it, they were meant to be

threatening, and I agree with the employees.

Leaders of an agency should not hold a meeting to suggest that

dissenters will be kicked off the team, particularly when the lives

of American people are at stake, when drugs are going to be put on

the line and they might not be safe. I can refer to the death of an

18-year-old in Cedar Rapids, IA. His is the type of action that shows

the true stripes of the nominee

..The way the Food and Drug Administration under this nominee has

handled the investigation of Ketek shows the agency would like to

keep its business secret.

This gives us a very clear understanding of how Hatch defines a “man

of integrity.”

The Rise of the Hatch-et-man

In the gospel according to Orrin Hatch (R-UT), the R now stands for

regulation. It has been somewhat difficult for him taking large sums

of money from the supplement industry and Big Pharma at the same

time; however, after 30 years of Senate politicking Hatch-et-man has

talking out of both sides of his mouth down to a science. And

unfortunately for the supplement industry, he takes the most money

from Big Pharma. He has even been able to completely forget that

Republican core values center around less government regulation, not

more - especially when such regulation is totally unnecessary.

Under the false guise of consumer safety, Hatch-et-man was clearly

the driving force that ramrodded AER (Adverse Event Reporting)

legislation for dietary supplements, without any testimony or

hearings, through the Senate and the House. The net effect of the

legislation will be to remove therapeutic nutritional supplements

from the market, health options millions of Americans count on to

remain well. This is a favor to Big Pharma, not the supplement industry.

Of course, Democrats love the smell of any legislation smacking of

increased regulation of health care, thus they pounced on the bill,

driving it through the House with Democrats voting 134-4 to pass it.

This is the first of many bills the Democrats will endorse in the

coming months to undermine the supplement industry. Leading the

charge against health freedom will be the Big Pharma Democrat cartel.

This group is composed of the vitamin-hating Senator Dick Durbin (D-

IL), along with Rep. Dingell (D-MI), Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA),

Rep. (D-CA), Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Senator

Schumer (D-NY), Senator Kennedy (D-MA), and Senator

Clinton (D-NY). These Big Pharma sponsors are sure to pile on

in the coming months.

Now there are those out there who think Hatch-et-man is a friend of

the supplement industry, based on his long ago support of DSHEA. Well

times have change. Hatch-et-man wears a supplement industry suit and

has a heart of Big Pharma gold. His veins are icy cold, filled with a

synthetic FDA-approved blood.

Emboldened by his rise to power as a profit broker between Big

Pharma, the FDA, and the supplement industry, Hatch-et-man actually

started to publicly spill the beans. Maybe all the idiots in the

supplement industry that either supported the AER legislation or did

little or nothing to stop it will start to wake up.

In his December 6, 2006 Senate testimony he tells us that he has

spoken to von Eschenbach to ensure that the FDA will more

vigorously pursue supplement companies. His AER legislation was

crafted with the help of over twenty meetings with the supplement-

despising FDA. He pays special thanks to Dorsey, a Senator

Kennedy staffer, once a top FDA lawyer, who was instrumental in

drafting the bill, and his own Bruce Artim who has now, but not

surprisingly, moved on to a top position at Eli Lilly.

Yes, our wonderful Big Pharma-sponsored legislative system has now

produced draconian supplement-regulating legislation that could

easily obliterate natural therapeutic health options from planet

earth, the true competition to Big Pharma profits.

In Part 2 of this report I will explain how Hatch-et-man accomplished

the sell out of health options and health freedom for Americans, with

special help from traitors within the supplement industry itself.

[Guest guest]

I forwarded this to numerous holistic pals around the country for

feedback... here's an interesting comment from my pal, Steve, in New

York:

Actually this has been an issue for several years. It has been shot

down twice already including supplements like DHEA. I'm surprised to

see Orrin Hatch as the bad guy since he stopped it the last two times

(gotta give the devil his due). This issue actually crosses party

bondaries although the Congress persons generally line up based upon

campaign contributions. I suggest you check out Life Extension

(www.lef.org) which has been one of the leaders in the fight on the

contra side.

Dani

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