People want to trust that their so-called elected government is doing the right
thing when it passes regulations to enhance public safety. When the Pure Food
and Drug Act was passed in 1906 a new watchdog agency, The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), was born. It would be many years before we as a nation had
such luxuries as refrigeration, sanitary food processing standards, and good
manufacturing processes (GMP), so in many respects, this law was necessary. So,
what exactly does the FDA do? According to the FDA: The FDA's mission is to
promote and protect the public health by helping safe and effective products
reach the market in a timely way, and monitoring products for continued safety
after they are in use. Our work is a blending of law and science aimed at
protecting consumers." But times change and unfortunately, sometimes so do
mission statements. The growth in knowledge of biochemistry, natural medicine,
physiology, molecular chemistry and chemical process methods have yielded
millions of new synthetic drugs and treatment options, far more than our
grandparents would have imagined at the turn of the century. To ensure growing
profits, these new synthetic drugs are aimed at symptom management rather than
cures for diseases or chronic conditions. This can be seen by the continued and
growing reliance on synthetic medicine. For example, from 1985-1999, there was a
35% increase in medicines used by Americans to treat (not cure) chronic
conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, depression, and
arthritis. In the year 2000, about $116.9 Billion was spent on prescription
drugs. The number of prescriptions dispensed is projected to grow to 2.07
billion by the year 2005! By way of comparison, our up and coming war on Iraq is
estimated to cost about $90 Billion. But $90 Billion for a war somewhere in the
world every 12 years is chicken feed compared to the costs of drugs and
medicines that Americans shell out each and every year. This is approximately
$26.9 Billion less than what Americans spent on drugs in the year 2000. Let's
see, $90 Billion for a war once in a while and over $1Trillion (yes that's T"
for toy Trillion) for prescription drugs. That's a lot of pills. As
pharmaceutical business has grown, the FDA has changed from an institution that
was trying to protect public health from bad food to a rubber stamp government
organization that only takes public safety into account when it is forced to by
some form of gross public error. In other words, blind loyalty to doctors and
their symptom hiding pills" is not without consequence; Americans are getting
fatter and sicker. Today you can be confident that about 800 Americans will die
from obesity, which averages out to be 300,000 obese people dying every year.
Interestingly, scientists have already discovered the cure for obesity, yet the
FDA and doctors are ignoring it! Additionally, the Journal of the American
Medical Association (JAMA) reported that by comparing 16 "health markers"
considered indicative of good health, the U.S ranks on average 12th out of the
top 13 countries in regard to the health of it's citizens. Few people realize
the impact of these statistics. As we spend more on health care in the form of
FDA approved drugs, we becoming sicker. Wrap your brain cells around that! Still
though Americans, like cattle, are lining up at the pharmaceutical trough for
their daily dose of just what the doctor ordered". And they are bringing their
children with them.Researchers writing for Pediatrics showed that between 1997
and 2000, approximately 3,750 serious injuries, birth defects and deaths
occurred among children under 2 who were secondary recipients of prescription
drugs compliments of their mothers via pregnancy, labor, or breast feeding. The
study, conducted by researchers at George Washington University and the
University of Maryland, found 769 childhood deaths and 664 cases of birth
defects or disabilities that could be directly linked to prescription drug use.
The FDA has stated that these numbers really only account for about 2% of the
actual number of deaths and negative side effects reported! In spite of the
carnage committed against the young and innocent, the FDA does not require
pharmaceutical companies to test newly released drugs for potentially hazardous
effects on children. Yet, according to the New York Times and JAMA, spending on
central nervous system (CNS) drugs for pediatric patients increased by 85% from
1985-1999! Call it lack of sufficient funding, integrity, human nature, greed or
plain old corruption, the protective motivation that was once the driving force
of the FDA is gone! A new kind of bureaucracy has risen up in its place and very
few professionals are aware of the change, especially among media channels.
Undoubtedly, the general population is grossly ignorant of the FDA's new
mission, to approve life-threatening drugs that will profit the pharmaceutical
companies and to suppress non-toxic, inexpensive and effective natural
therapies. Jay R. Cavanaugh, PhD, Member, California State Board of Pharmacy
1980-90, said it best when referring to the FDA and international pharmaceutical
companies:This collection of serial killers with reckless disregard of human
life, extinguishes the hopes and lives of over 100,000 Americans every year. In
the past decade they have been responsible for over one million innocent deaths,
yet not only have they not faced justice, they have enriched themselves with
profits that would make Bill Gates envious. These parasitic killers come not
from some cave in Afghanistan, but from plush office suites..." That the FDA is
a watchdog agency for public health interests is a fallacy. The FDA is a lapdog
for international, multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies and is
responsible for millions of preventable deaths.Shane holds a Master's degree in
organic chemistry and has first-hand industry experience with drug research,
design and synthesis. He is committed to raising health awareness by exposing
the shocking and sometimes-frightening truth behind FDA approved drugs, sports
supplements, and natural medicine. His unique experience allows his clients to
live naturally healthy for life without the aid of synthetic drugs! Learn more
by visiting http://www.health-fx.net - ?We have come a long way intellectually
from the time of Giordano Bruno...who was burned at the stake in 1600 by the
church for saying that the sun was nothing but a star. . . But as a species we
are in our infancy... and just beginning to break free from the imprisonment of
gravity.?~ Michio Kaku, Physicist Outer life ? as seen through the senses and
the circuitry of consciousness ? is a hyper spatial vibrancy of complex energy
patterns. A human face is one such pattern, as is making love. But whose face is
it, and who?s making love with whom?Physicists tell us that beneath visual life,
beneath how we ordinarily perceive things, lies a shimmering sea of subatomic
particles, and humans are holographic excitations consisting of those very same
particles. Universal intelligence may be so multidimensional that life as we
know it? every aspect of the cosmos? may be the inside of a single molecule of
DNA.We may be a molecule of God among hundreds of trillions of other God
molecules within a being?an entity, a person, a form of life ?we have no idea
about. Or maybe we are so microscopic that our infinity is a single cell in the
cerebral cortex of a creature crawling along a corridor somewhere in some world
?a creature imprinted with the memory of the evolutionary code of consciousness,
while oblivious to the greater context of its life, the infinite cosmos.It?s
possible.That?s life ? an unfathomable sea of potentialities: a magnificent and
maddening blend of organic intelligence that bleeds, weeps, and makes love with
itself. Thus, we know ourselves to be?conscious life.Or unconscious, depending
on how you look at. Let?s face it, by and large us humans are myth making
mammals ? flesh-draped hallucination factories with a predilection for
projecting movies on the cave walls of our own minds and then calling our trance
The Truth. The Church of Religious Fundamentalism is the new McDonalds, and they
are selling a leaner, meaner God as their new and improved Big Mac.Complicity
kills in every language. No country is exempt. We see it everywhere: human
beings concocting creation myths resplendent with apocalyptic futures and or
promises of heavenly pleasures that give new meaning to religious
porn.?Relativism is the new totalitarianism,? according to the new Pope. I say,
absolutism is dead. Impeach God, not just Bush. And vote for freedom, not a
trigger-happy faith.I?m not anti-religious. I just see illusion as a treatable
disorder. Let?s face it. Reality clearly hurts whereas coma comfortable numbs.
And yes, I think we all understand the very human need to try to make sense of
it all, to try to bring this maddening miracle under control.Yes, we are in an
awesome situation. Nearly seven billion of us collectively en-wombed in an
eight-mile high globally warming bio-bubble spinning in predictable orbits
around a sun-star with a mere four billion years left of fuel.If ?peak oil?
doesn?t make you shiver, existential reality will. And to think about all this
stuff is enough to make you religious. Or start believing in God. Or just go
bury your head in the pharmaceutical sand of deaf and dumb and keep your eyes in
lock step to the next episode of W?s lawlessness and disorder. My God, what will
the future bring?Whatever this is, we are a microcosm of a mysterious totality.
We are paradoxically bound within a membrane that allows for our own uniqueness
while also being inseparable from the whole.The confluence of opposite, yet
simultaneous, worlds ? that of self with other, mortality with eternity, spirit
with matter, life with death, ignorance with wisdom, creativity with
determinism, certainty with ambiguity, and liberation with bondage ? creates in
us a yearning for some kind of reconciliation that is forever out of reach.Life
is a polarity of opposites, a simultaneous heaven and hell, a yin-yang of
torture and ecstasy, not easily reconciled this or that way. It is our instinct
for freedom that compels us to push the boundaries of our confinement, seeking
to transform chaos and confusion with intuition and reason, dancing at the edge
of where knowledge and love emerge from mystery.Live your life and struggle to
be who you want to be. That is what I tell myself everyday and in every way I
can remember. With that said, perhaps the most radical activism is to simply
live as a free human being. And that freedom is ours to choose.Freedom cannot be
bought. Freedom cannot be sold to us. Freedom doesn?t come prepackaged.There is
no right expression of this freedom. If in need of clarity about the wisdom or
ignorance of an action, I ask myself: if what I am about to say or do will cause
harm to myself and or others, stop. On the other hand if it elevates me and
others, cultivate it.We must be vigilant in our defense against indoctrination.
Let us refuse to be shaped into any image or dogma. Existence is the journey.
Consciousness is the guide.Life is the living art of finding and expressing
freedom. There is no core philosophy that will free our mind. Being free frees
the mind. Freedom is the only religion and it?s where all true religions
meet.There?s no central plan of action for the next bold move. Let the
mysterious constellation of the whole universe, inside and outside, be our
guide, our president, our lover, our angel.Alan Clements ? a former Buddhist
monk, author, war reporter, and theatrical monologist ? is the Director for The
Campaign to Liberate Freedom, and the co-founder of The World Dharma Online
Institute ? a nonsectarian community of seekers, artists, writers, performers,
activists, and other ?everyday rebels? exploring the nature of consciousness,
the preciousness of freedom, and the mysterious wonder of the cosmos.
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