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> BIG PHARMA JUGGERNAUT ROLLS TO VICTORY - HEALTH FREEDOM REELS

> Part 1

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>

> By Byron J. Richards, CCN

> December 11, 2006

> NewsWithViews.com

> Benjamin Franklin and Thomas 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,

> Andrew 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.

>

> Andrew 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 Edward 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 Charles 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. Andrew 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 teamâ€â€¦

>

> 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 “potentialâ€' 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.â€

>

> 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. John Dingell (D-MI), Rep. Henry

> Waxman (D-CA), Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA), Senator Diane Feinstein (D-

> CA), Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA),

> and Senator Hilary 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 Andrew 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 David 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.

>

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> Byron J. Richards, Founder/Director of Wellness Resources, is a

> Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist and nationally-renowned

> health expert, radio personality, educator, and author. Listen to

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> Richards encourages individuals to take charge of their health,

> stand up for their health rights, and not blindly succumb to

> propaganda from the vested-interests who profit from keeping

> Americans sick. Author of Mastering Leptin, the Leptin Diet, and

> Fight for Your Health, Richards is now joining forces with health

> freedom leaders in the U.S. and throughout the world. Visit his

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> As founder of Wellness Resources, Inc. of Minneapolis, MN (since

> 1985), he has personally developed 75 unique nutraceutical-grade

> nutritional formulas. www.wellnessresources.com

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> Charter Member of the International and American Associations of

> Clinical Nutritionists (IAACN) (since 1991) Richards has presented

> hundreds of educational classes to health professionals and

> individuals who want to take charge of their health!

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