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The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as night and day.
- Herbert Lay, M.D., former FDA Commissioner

Drugs and surgery are being promoted as the only answer to the prevention and cure of illness and disease. Natural cures are being suppressed and hidden from the public. So who is involved in this "great lie"? Let me expose the culprits.

• The Pharmaceutical Companies. These include not only the companies that sell drugs, but also the companies that research and develop drugs It also includes all of the suppliers in the health-care industry of such things as syringes, gauze, medical tape, tubing, plastic bottles, tongue depressors, etc. There are over 10,000 individual pharmaceutical pieces of equipment that are used up and have to be resupplied on an ongoing basis. The profits are astronomical. The money this group of companies makes is mind-boggling.

• The Food Companies. You may ask: how do food companies get involved in health care? Well there is a huge correlation between food and health care. I'll explain this in detail in a later chapter. Keep in mind many food companies are directly or indirectly involved in the pharmaceutical industry through corporate ownership, affiliated business transactions, or by the officers and directors personally owning stock in the pharmaceutical companies. Food companies include the companies that actually manufacture and sell food directly to us but also includes fast-food restaurants and the suppliers of the food industry, the actual growers of the food.

• The Trade Associations. The number of associations involved in the health-care industry is enormous. Keep in mind, these associations are not in place to eliminate disease or keep people healthy. When you read their charters you find that they are there to promote the disease, in an effort to get additional funding and protect its members, which are the drug companies and doctors! These associations include:

Alzheimer's Association

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

American Academy of Family Physicians

American Academy of Neurology

American Academy of Ophthalmology

American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons

American Academy of Otolaryngology

American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists

American Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists

American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

American Association of Immunologists

American Association of Neurological Surgeons American Association for Respiratory Care

American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases American Board of Medical Specialties

American Board of Ophthalmology

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc.

American Cancer Society

American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

American College of Cardiology

American College of Chest Physicians

American College of Gastroenterology

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

American College of Physicians

American College of Rheumatology

American College of Surgeons

American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine

American Diabetes Association

American Gastroenterological Association

American Geriatrics Society

American Health Information Management Association

American Heart Association

American Liver Foundation

American Lung Association

American Medical Association

American Medical Women's Association

American Neurological Association

American Neurotology Society

American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine

American Otological Society

American Osteopathic Association

American Pharmaceutical Association

American Prostate Society

American Psychiatric Association

American Red Cross

American Rhinologic Society

American Society of Clinical Oncology

American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

American Society for Head and Neck Surgery

American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology

American Society for Reproductive Medicine

American Urological Association

Association of Telehealth Service Providers

Catholic Health Association of the United States

The Endocrine Society

Gerontological Society of America

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of America

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems

National Board for Respiratory Care

National Stroke Association

Society of Gynecologic Oncologists

Vestibular Disorders Association (VEDA)

This list is just the tip of the iceberg. These associations are incredibly powerful. Remember, these associations are not organizations with a goal of curing and preventing disease or protecting the consumer. These associations do not represent you, they represent their members: the companies, the corporations, and the people that are making the money. Associations such as the American Medical Association have no interest in what benefits the consumer. They only have an interest in what benefits their members. And the people that run these associations have an interest in keeping their high-paying cushy jobs.

• Charities and Foundations. These organizations sound great, but have you met the people who run them? The officers and directors of most charities and foundations have huge salaries and enormous expense accounts. They fly first-class and sometimes on private jets; they stay in the most expensive hotels and eat in the finest restaurants—all with your donations. Some foundations and charities have been found to spend over 40 percent of all of their donations on "administration costs." Think about it. If a foundation used the money it received to cure a disease, there would be no need for the foundation and the fat cats would lose their prestigious jobs and all the perks that go along with them. Yes, it's always about the money. But consider the second most powerful motivator for people is the combination of power and prestige. Think about that when you ask yourself: "Why are natural cures being hidden from us?" Consider this: The Jerry Lewis Telethon has raised over $1 billion for muscular dystrophy, yet more people have muscular dystrophy today than ever before.

• Lobbyists. This is the hidden, secret group of people in Washington that most of you have no idea even exists. These people on average make between $300,000 to $400,000 a year, plus hundreds of thousands more in perks. Their job is simply to walk up to a congressman or senator and try to persuade them to a certain line of thinking, or to pass a certain piece of legislation, or vote a certain way. Now how do they, do that? Well, the lobbyist can't walk up to a member of Congress and say "Please vote a certain way on this bill and I will give you $200,000." That would be called a bribe. But what the lobbyist can do is say, "Do you have a son or a daughter, Mr. Congressman? You do? Fantastic! You know, I know your son or daughter has absolutely no experience whatsoever, but we would like to give your son or daughter a job for $200,000 a year. And the best part is they don't even have to the way Mr. Congressman, can you please vote a certain way on this particular piece of legislation which helps who I represent?" Lobbyists also bribe members of Congress, although Congress has passed laws that make them legally not a bribe, by doing other things. Lobbyists may make huge donations to a congressman's favorite charity or school or hire companies that the congressman is affiliated with in some way. Folks, that's what is happening in Washington. Lobbyists absolutely bribe and pay off congressmen. But according to the law it is not called a bribe or payoff, it is technically legal. And who makes the law? The congressmen. Hmm, pretty interesting, isn't it? They make a law to make sure that what they do is legal. Can you begin to see why I'm mad a hell and I'm not going to take it anymore?

• Government Agencies. Primarily the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission. Isn't it surprising that it's the Food AND Drug Administration? (Why not two separate agencies?) This organization is one of the most powerful organizations in the country. They use Gestapo-like tactics to put natural cures out of business. They act as judge, jury, and executioner. They raid companies unannounced to seize products such as bread, herbal remedies, vitamins and minerals, computers, files, research data, and equipment. They conduct these raids with armed agents with guns drawn. They seize harmless products, papers, documents, and computers, like the Gestapo did in Nazi Germany, without provocation, with no customer or consumer complaints, and without warning.

There have been several outstanding books and articles written about how the FDA operates. But in the end, the FDA is the agency that approves drugs And when a company gets a drug approved, it's like putting billions of dollars in profits in the bank. So companies will do Anything to get the FDA to approve drugs. It's interesting to note that of the last twenty FDA commissioners, twelve of them went to work directly for the drug industry upon leaving the FDA and were paid millions of dollars. Let's be honest, that's a payoff. It should be illegal; it's a conflict of interest, and it's wrong. More on the FDA in a later chapter.

Ok, now let's go though each of these organizations and let me show you that it is all about the money.

• The Pharmaceutical Industry. Virtually every pharmaceutical company is a publicly traded company, which means that the officers value. That means that the officers and directors of virtually every pharmaceutical company have a legal responsibility to increase profits. The only way they can increase profits is to sell more of what they sell and produce those products at a lower cost. Drug companies, therefore, have one goal, and that is to sell more drugs and produce those drugs at the cheapest possible cost. Think about that. A drug company's objective is not to cure disease. A drug company's goal is to sell more drugs. You are their customer. They want you to use more drugs every single year. They want to produce those drugs at the lowest possible cost and they want to do whatever they can to make sure that they can sell those drugs at the highest possible price. That's why there is a huge debate about people buying pharmaceutical drugs from other countries. The FDA makes up this silly excuse that a country like Canada doesn't produce drugs under the same safety guidelines as America. Ilow arrogant!

The fact is that American pharmaceutical companies want a monopoly. They do not want anybody competing with their sales; therefore they have managed to coax the federal government into forbidding any American to purchase a pharmaceutical drug outside of America. They are in effect stopping free trade and stopping competition, which would result in lower prices. Why is the FDA doing that? As I mentioned to you before, the drug industry gives millions of dollars to the commissioners when they leave the FDA. It's a payoff!

Remember: Drug companies do not want people to get well. A drug company's goal is not to cure disease. If everyone in the world was healthy, the drug companies would be out of business. A drug company only wants to sell you more drugs. So here is how the cycle works.

The drug industry gives billions of dollars to medical schools. Why? So that their drugs can be put in the textbooks and doctors are taught to prescribe certain pharmaceutical drugs, thus guaranteeing sales of those drugs by the pharmaceutical company. Remember, in medical school doctors are taught two things: to prescribe drugs and to cut out parts of a person's anatomy, which is surgery.

When a doctor comes out of medical school, most people don't know that the pharmaceutical industry then pays that doctor to prescribe certain drugs. Often, this is done through "incentives." For example, if a doctor prescribes a certain drug to ten patients, he is given thousands of dollars in cash from the pharmaceutical company. Drug companies routinely give doctors all expense-paid trips to "medical around the world. These medical conferences are really sales presentations by the drug companies, teaching the doctor about drugs and how to prescribe them, and giving financial incentives to prescribe those drugs They are disguised as medical conferences. They are not. The experts at these medical conferences are compensated by the drug industry.

So doctors are trained in medical school to prescribe drugs and are given incentives and additional training throughout their medical career directly by the drug industry to prescribe more drugs.
• Research. In order for a drug company to get a drug patented and approved by the FDA, it costs approximately $800 million in research and testing. Where does that $800 million go? Well, let's just follow the money trail. Remember, it's always just about the money!

The companies that are approved by the FDA to do certain research, interestingly enough, are publicly traded companies. Guess who owns the stock in these publicly traded companies? Would it surprise you to know that politicians and members of the FDA own stock in those companies? It wouldn't surprise me! Would it also surprise you that the people that work for those research companies are friends and relatives of politicians and members of the FDA? It wouldn't surprise me!

Once a drug is approved and the pharmaceutical company has the patent, it becomes the only company that can sell that drug. Getting a patented drug is an automatic billion dollars in the bank! This is why you will never see a pharmaceutical company promoting a natural cure. Natural cures cannot be patented! You can only make profits if you have a patented drug. There are no large profits in selling a natural cure that cannot be patented. When you have a patented product you are the only company that can sell it. You have no competition. You can sell it for an outrageously high price, and the profits are guaranteed. If you are selling a non-patented natural product, a hundred other companies could also sell the same product. You have no monopoly. Because of the competition, the prices will come down and the profits become incredibly small. That is why the drug industry will only promote patented drugs, because that's where the profits are.

This is also why the drug companies gave tens of millions of dollars to lobbyists to get the FDA to make a new "law." Listen to this very carefully. The FDA has the power to make "laws" and enforce them. It can make "laws" without congressional approval or debate. In order to protect the profits of the drug industry the FDA passed incredibly insane "law" of all time. The FDA has now made as "law" the following statement, "Only a drug can cure, prevent or treat a disease." This is insane. Think about the ramifications. The FDA has now guaranteed and protected the profits of the drug companies! Only a patented drug, according to the FDA, can treat, prevent, or cure a disease. First off, we all know this is flat-out untrue. The disease scurvy, for example, which is simply a vitamin C deficiency, is treated, prevented, and cured by eating citrus fruit. According to the FDA's law, however, if you were to hold up an orange and say "This orange is the cure for the disease of scurvy," you would go to jail for selling a "drug" without a license. According to the FDA, as soon as you made a disease claim in reference to taking an orange, the orange no longer is an orange, but magically became a "drug" according to the FDA. And since that "drug" has not been patented or approved by the FDA, you are selling a "drug" without a license, which is a criminal offense. You go to jail. The "drug" is obviously not a drug, it is an orange! This is how the FDA works to protect the profits of the pharmaceutical company and suppress and hide information about natural remedies.

So how do the drug companies get you to buy their drugs? Years ago, the drug companies had to basically make sure that you were sick and had a problem that the drug addressed. Second, they had to make sure that the doctors prescribed their particular drug. That still goes on. The pharmaceutical companies give huge cash incentives and information to the doctors about the drugs they make to ensure that the doctors, who are in fact legal drug pushers, get their drugs to you via prescription.
Remember, the pharmaceutical companies have ensured that you are sick. How do they do that? This is going to blow your mind, but it's true. One of the major reasons why there is so much sickness and disease is because of the poisons you are putting in your body. The number one poison you put in your body consists of prescription and nonprescription drugs! That's right. The prescription and nonprescription drugs you are taking to eliminate your symptoms are, in fact, one of the major reasons that you get sick.
The pharmaceutical companies know that all drugs have side effects. This is the dirty little secret that the pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know. Just as the tobacco industry knew that smoking cigarettes were addictive and could cause lung cancer, yet lied for decades about this fact, the pharmaceutical industry today knows in the body! The pharmaceutical industry knows that the drugs people are taking are actually causing or contributing to the increases in cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and dozens of other diseases. Why is the drug industry keeping this information a secret? Mainly because it's profitable. It is just like the tobacco industry. Look at the cycle: You start taking a drug to handle a certain symptom that you have. A few months later you develop another medical condition. This new medical condition, unknown to you, was actually caused by the first drug you were taking! You now start taking another drug for this new medical condition. The drug seems to work. Your condition gets better. A few months later you develop a new series of medical problems. Unknown to you was the fact that these new medical problems were actually caused by the last drug you were taking. You are given more drugs for this newest medical condition Can you see how profitable this is for the drug industry? The drug companies are doing this on purpose.

They're making drugs that address one set of symptoms. But they know that if you use these drugs, over a period of time, they can cause a second set of medical problems. The drug companies will then produce a drug to solve those new medical problems caused by taking their first drug. This guarantees additional drug sales and profits for the drug companies.

How is this happening? Keep in mind virtually all drug research is funded by the pharmaceutical industry. In virtually every study, drugs are found to be safe and effective. However, history has proved that this is not true. Think of all of the drugs that were proven to be totally safe and effective and were approved by the FDA. Then, years later these same drugs were proven to be incredibly dangerous and to cause all types of severe medical conditions, including death. These "safe and effective" drugs were found to kill so many people that the FDA finally had to take them off the market. Interestingly enough, they were only taken off the market after the drug companies made millions of dollars in profits.

• Advertising. The drug industry is doing something today that it has never done before in history: advertising its drugs directly to the consumer. This is absolutely unbelievable! Right now close to two- thirds of all advertising in America is for drugs. It's estimated that well in excess of $10 billion a year is spent on advertising by the pharmaceutical industry. They are advertising drugs directly to you and me, the consumer. In many cases, these drug ads don't even tell you what the drug is for. They just have some celebrity, that they pay huge amounts of money to, telling you about how their life is so much better because they take this particular drug. The ads show all these beautiful happy people and give you the impression that they are all taking this wonderful drug and that their lives are so much better.

What you don't know is that virtually every single person you see in these ads has been meticulously selected by some of the top advertising minds in the world to evoke a certain emotion in you. They are paid actors; most do not use the drug they are promoting. When you see people dressed as doctors, policemen, judges, etc., you are being deceived. Even when known figures and famous actors publicly endorse a drug or foundation (usually funded by pharmaceutical companies), ostensibly because they or a close friend or relative has suffered with a particular disease, they are being paid enormous sums to do so. They are actors. These ads are not truthful. Millions of dollars are spent using technology pioneered by the CIA and KGB to produce advertising that will motivate you to not only want their drug, but feel you need their drug. The ads produced by the pharmaceutical industry are the most sophisticated, well thought out, brainwashing and manipulative campaigns ever launched on the American public. This advertising is trying to brainwash us into thinking that our life will be better in every way as long as we continue to take more and more drugs. This is absolutely outrageous! Doesn't it drive you crazy when you see all of these drug ads In newspapers, magazines, and television?

The amount of drug advertising is at an all-time high and continues to increase. When you listen to these ads, doesn't it make you smile or laugh when they start rattling off all the side effects of the drugs? However, the marketing techniques are so sophisticated that the drug ads are incredibly effective.
The Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission and the pharmaceutical industry have an unholy alliance. The regulating government body should be governing and regulating and protecting consumers from the drug companies' insatiable desire to make more profits. The problem is that they work together to increase profits and power.

A law was passed in Congress with virtually no debate at all which increased the FDA's dependence on large drug companies for its funding. You are reading this right. The FDA gets funding directly from the drug industry. It is a law that was passed in 1992 that was intended to speed up approval for new AIDS medications. But what it actually did was get the drug companies to pay for the FDA's new employees and additional funding requirements. According to an article in the Washington Post, the program was developed between the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA in secret meetings. It was not debated in Congress, there was no vote. It was a secret, private negotiation between the drug industry and the FDA and went directly to the General Accounting Office for review. According to the Washington Post, over 500 new employees to be sent to the FDA centers that actually review new proposed drugs would be paid for by the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies themselves. There are over 1,500 people that work for the FDA who are paid by the funding of the drug industry. That means over 55 percent of the FDA's staff directly involved in the reviewing of new drug applications is in effect on the payroll of the drug industry. That's over $1.2 billion that the FDA is getting directly from the drug industry.

Just to point out how crooked these people are, over the last ten years the FDA has approved over nine specific drugs that have been proven to have deadly side effects. The Journal of the American Medical Association estimates that over 125,000 Americans die pact year from side effects of FDA-approved drugs.

So how do the FDA, FTC, and the drug industry work together promoting drugs and surgery and suppressing natural cures? Criminologist Elaine Feuer did a thorough investigation on the FDA and found that the FDA invests the majority of its time protecting the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. The FDA suppresses the truth about natural cures and focuses on shutting down companies that sell natural remedies for common diseases. Her book, Innocent Casualties, the FDA's War Against Humanity, documents how the FDA specifically goes after companies that offer natural cures for diseases that make the most money for the pharmaceutical industry. Since cancer, AIDS, heart disease, and diabetes are so profitable for the drug companies, anyone promoting a natural cure for theses illnesses will be attacked by the FDA.

Drug companies also get us to use drugs through the use of the media. This is one of the scariest things I want to talk about. The drug industry, the FTC, and the FDA produce press releases, news if you will, on new super wonder-drugs At the same time they spread negative news on natural alternatives. The industry spends enormous amounts of money with public relations firms to get news organizations on television, radio, newspapers, and magazines to do positive stories on their drugs You'll notice when you're watching the news that many times there is a medical expert on who says something about a new drug. This medical expert never says it's his opinion, there is never an alternative viewpoint presented. The medical expert always gives the pro-drug side and it is presented as a news story. The fact is it is not news at all. The medical experts are in many cases spokespeople for the drug companies. These "medical experts" are being paid huge amounts of money to say all these wonderful things about drugs Where is the full disclosure? When the news organization brings out their "medical expert," they never say, "By the way, our medical expert is being paid huge amounts of money to come on our show and say wonderful things about this drug." They are put on the news without any research whatsoever done by the news organization about whether the information itself being presented is factual, fair, balanced, or honest. Everyone seems to forget that a new wonder drug makes billions of dollars in profits; and everyone seems to forget the drug companies are publicly traded companies and the people that own the stock in these companies have a major incentive for the drug company to sell more drugs. So the real question is: Who owns the stock in these drug companies? Would it surprise you that many members of the FDA and FTC own stock in drug companies? Would it surprise you that many members of. Congress own stock in drug companies? Would it also surprise you that members of the news media that are supposed to be impartially presenting news own stock in drug companies? And the corporations that own television networks, radio networks, newspapers, and magazines all have financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry and all have incentives for the drug industry to sell more drugs?

That's one of the reasons why you hear so much about drugs on the news and read so many positive articles about drugs in magazines and newspapers. These organizations get financial benefit from the drugs that are sold. Additionally, most news organizations do not research the accuracy and truthfulness of information when presenting news about drugs. When they get a press release from the pharmaceutical industry, it is read and presented as news without question.

The pharmaceutical industry has an automatic outlet to get billions of dollars in free advertising which is being disguised as news. Doesn't it surprise you that the only medical experts on the news giving any information about health, illness, disease, or sickness are all medical doctors? And that the only information we are hearing is about the use of drugs? Doesn't it surprise you that you virtually never hear any positive news at all about an herbal remedy, a natural remedy, or a homeopathic remedy? Could it be that there is no profit in those remedies? Remember, natural remedies cannot be patented.
As I mentioned previously, the unholy alliance between the FDA, the FTC, and the drug industry created the outrageous and totally irresponsible regulation that only a drug can cure, prevent, or treat a disease. Remember that the FDA has the ability to enforce this "law." Anyone making a claim that anything other than a drug can cure, prevent, or treat a disease is breaking this "law" and is subject to criminal prosecution!

The FDA has set as "law" that there is not, and never will be, a natural remedy that can cure, or prevent, or treat a disease. Because if a natural remedy did, then it has to be classified as a "drug" and once it's classified as a drug it has to go through the $800 million worth of testing that the FDA requires to be approved as a new drug. This cannot be done. Why? Because a natural remedy cannot be patented and there is no company that can spend $800 million to get a natural remedy approved as a new drug because it will not own a patent for that "new drug" and therefore can't make that money back plus tenfold profits. Natural remedies cannot be patented. Therefore, they cannot go through the testing that the FDA requires. This is why the FDA and drug companies love this system. It prevents any natural remedy from being touted as a cure or prevention of disease when in fact many of them are. The FDA has colluded with the drug industry and given the drug industry a monopoly.

Think about it. The FDA states that only a drug can cure or prevent a disease, absolutely nothing else can. How insane is that? To make matters worse, what the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA have done now is decided to classify more and more things as diseases. Once upon a time, you used to get heartburn, now it's called Acid Reflux Disease. Once upon a time people used to be shy, now it's classified as Social Anxiety Disorder, which is a disease. Kids who are eating too much sugar or are a little rambunctious are now classified as having attention deficit disorder, which is a disease. If a woman has a low sexual desire, it is now classified as a disease. An is no longer an alcoholic; he now has the disease of alcoholism. A person who is overweight is no longer overweight they now have the disease of obesity. A male who cannot get an erection is said to have a disease.

The reason more and more things are being classified as diseases is, once it is classified as a disease, legally there can be no natural, inexpensive remedy that can cure or prevent it. The FDA says only a drug can do that. The FDA has the final word on what is a "disease." Once the FDA has decided with final authority that something is a disease, any company making a claim that an all-natural product could possibly cure or prevent that disease can be legally entered by the FDA unannounced—with federal agents, guns drawn—and seize the natural product. The FDA can then shut that business down and put the people who are in charge of that business in jail for practicing medicine without a license or selling drugs without a license, even though they are not selling drugs at all; they could be selling something as benign as bread. This actually happened back in the 1970s when a gentleman named Ben Suarez sold bread that had a high fiber content. It was an all-natural bread that was high in fiber. He stated that eating a high-fiber diet could potentially lower the risk of certain cancers. At the time that statement was not "proven." But because he made that statement, he was now, according to the FDA, selling a drug without a license. He wasn't selling a drug, he was selling bread. The FDA came in, seized the bread, and destroyed it. It was enough bread to feed a million homeless people. He offered to give the bread away to homeless people. The FDA said no, and the bread was destroyed. How sick! And why was it destroyed? Because he was selling an all-natural product and was potentially tapping into the profits of one of the most powerful, profitable industries in the world. It's all about the money! Please read this incredible story about the "no hunger bread" that was and is one of the greatest weight-loss miracles of all time and how the FDA tried to destroy this man's business and life to protect the profits of the drug industry. The entire story is printed here as Appendix B.

Web sites. The pharmaceutical industry is doing a brilliant job producing all kinds of informational Web sites which appear to be consumer oriented, unbiased Web sites which give information to consumers about various illnesses, diseases, and cures. But the fact is these are not unbiased Web sites. It's a trick, it's a scam. These Web sites are paid for and put out by the drug industry. They are made to look and appear as if they are unbiased and are there to give information to the consumer and to protect the consumer. The fact of the matter is they are nothing more than Web sites owned directly or indirectly by the pharmaceutical companies to sell you more drugs. It is important to know that the pharmaceutical industry is committed to wiping out nonpatentable all-natural cures for disease. The pharmaceutical industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try to get you to believe that drugs are safe and effective and all natural cures are ineffective and dangerous. The exact opposite is true. Drugs are all dangerous and cause disease and all the current research shows that drugs are generally ineffective. Drugs do not cure any disease. This fact is becoming more and more clear. Drugs in fact CAUSE DISEASE. All natural remedies are in fact extremely safe, with virtually no side effects, and all natural remedies are incredibly effective. Technically speaking, all natural remedies do not cure disease because only the body can cure itself. All natural remedies help the body cure itself. With this said, I want to emphasize that virtually every "consumer advocacy" Web site relating to health, and every "watchdog" group or Web site relating to health, and every "consumer information" Web site relating to health is in fact a front for the pharmaceutical industry. These Web sites are NOT designed to protect consumers or inform consumers about ALL OPTIONS; but rather, these Web sites are funded and/or owned by the pharmaceutical companies and have one simple mission, to spread the LIE that drugs are the only answer to curing, preventing, and treating disease and that natural remedies, such as herbs, homeopathics, vitamins, minerals, etc., are ineffective and unsafe. This is a great lie and a great deception. The Internet is becoming one of the most powerful tools that the pharmaceutical industry uses to promulgate this great deception.

Paying of Celebrities. This shocked me when I found this out. When you watch a TV talk show, or listen to talk radio, many times a celebrity is being interviewed. That celebrity may have had some kind of disease or a family member of that celebrity may have had some kind of disease. That celebrity is on that talk show talking about the particular disease that he or a family member or friends have suffered from, and they may talk about a new treatment that they've tried or a new drug that they've tried that cured them of the problem and saved their lives and how wonderful it is. It sounds oh so interesting and oh so wonderful. It appears that this celebrity is genuinely concerned about the health and welfare of other people because they went through it in their personal life. But upon further investigation we find that these celebrities, most of whom are professional actors, are doing a brilliant job of acting, because they are being paid huge amounts of money by the drug industry to tout the drug company's drug under the disguise of a normal interview. These real talk shows are becoming infomen dials for the drug industry. But you and I watch them and don't know they are in fact commercials. This celebrity, under the banner of full disclosure, never says that he is being paid huge amounts of money by the drug industry to tout the drug in public. Does this surprise you? It shouldn't, because it is common in every industry. A golf club manufacturer says "more tour professionals use our driver than any other brand " When interviewed, the tour professionals say how much they love their driver. What you are not told is that these golfers are paid millions of dollars to use the company's particular driver. So do we really know if the golfers are using this driver because it's the best driver, or are they using the driver because they are being paid to? Remember, it's always about the money.

Government Mandates of Drug Use. Another technique that the drug industry uses to make sure sales of drugs continue to increase is to get the federal government to pass laws requiring people to take drugs There are three methods employed. First, pass a law requiring that children must take a certain drug, such as vaccines. Second, pass a law requiring all federal employees and military personnel to take a certain drug. (Note the recent drives to have government employees and members of the military vaccinated against anthrax and smallpox.) Third, get the government to pay for drug usage for the poor and elderly through Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. When this happens...barn! Billions of dollars in profits.

Remember the anthrax scare in Washington? I believe it was a brilliant campaign to increase the sales of a certain antibiotic, Cipro. When the anthrax scare went on the air, the drug companies did a brilliant marketing campaign talking about how Cipro is the drug of choice for anthrax. Overnight the sales of Cipro skyrocketed. Millions of dollars in profits were generated by the drug companies.

This is a vitally important point. Again, what we are talking about here is how the drug companies strategically and methodically increase the sales of their drugs. Keep in mind that the drugs do not cure disease. The drugs being sold, both prescription and nonprescription, actually cause most diseases that people are experiencing. All nonprescription and prescription drugs have horrible side effects. All nonprescription and prescription drugs cause disease. There is not one prescription or nonprescription drug that cures any disease. This is a proven fact even acknowledged by the pharmaceutical industry itself. All drugs, whether they be nonprescription or prescription drugs, simply suppress symptoms and, most important, unbeknownst to you, cause you to become sick with other diseases. Again, drug companies have only one goal and that is to sell more drugs.

What I am talking about here are all the various ways that the drug companies employ to increase their profits and sell more drugs Working with the government is a very important aspect. The pharmaceutical industry has figured out ways to get the government behind them. The pharmaceutical industry uses the FDA and the FTC to protect their profits and protect their monopolies. The FDA and the FTC are supposed to be protecting consumers from unscrupulous companies such as the pharmaceutical industry, but the pharmaceutical companies have figured out ways to put millions of dollars into the politicians' pockets, thus ensuring that the drug companies' profits are protected. When the pharmaceutical companies get politicians to require drug use or have the government buy drugs from the pharmaceutical companies as exorbitant inflated prices, the pharmaceutical companies make billions of dollars in profits and their stock prices soar. What is the incentive for the politicians to do this?

Well, I am now blowing the whistle on one of the greatest scandals in the history of American government. The members of Congress have passed a law which allows them to buy and sell stocks on, in effect, "insider information." Listen to this very carefully. I am exposing one of the greatest issues of corruption in American history. I am blowing the whistle on something that virtually no one knows about. The members of Congress have information that you and I do not have. The members of Congress have access to information that the public does not have access to. In any other venue this would be called "insider information." However, Congress has passed a law allowing themselves to buy and sell stock based on this "insider information," and these stock transactions have been made perfectly legal' You need to know that politicians in Washington are making millions and millions and millions of dollars in profits buying and selling stocks based on "insider information." One congresswoman from California, in her first four years in Congress, made over $10 million buying and selling stock on information that the public did not have access to. This should be criminal.

Think about how this works to the advantage of the pharmaceutical companies. Congress is about to vote on buying billions of dollars of drugs and shipping them overseas in the form of "aid." It is about to give the pharmaceutical companies hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. No one in the country knows this information. The congressmen, however, do have access to this "insider information." They know that once this vote is passed, certain pharmaceutical companies' stock prices will skyrocket. They then buy the stock knowing that the information about this windfall profit will be made public very soon. The congressmen have information that you and I do not have access to. They are given the right to make profits when you and I are denied that right. This should be criminal! In any other venue people would go to jail, but in Congress it is standard operating procedure. It's one of the perks of being a congressman or senator in Washington Can you see why the politicians have such a big financial tie to the pharmaceutical industry? Can you see why the government wants to suppress natural remedies and protect the profits of the drug companies? This scandal was briefly reported on Fox News. However, it was immediately squashed and no one in the news media has picked up on it. That is appalling! This is one of the biggest scandals and exposés of corruption at the highest levels in government. In effect, congressmen have voted that they have the right to buy and sell stock on insider information even though such activities are illegal for any other person. Can you see how the pharmaceutical companies and the money brokers in Washington are working together?! Remember, it's always all about the money.

This happens with the FDA as well. The FDA approves drugs. A company's profitability hinges on whether the FDA approves drugs or not. Pharmaceutical companies use their political connections, funnel millions of dollars into lobbyists, and actually put people on the FDA drug approval boards that are on their own payroll, all in an attempt to get drugs approved by the FDA so that they can increase their profits and stock price. This happens even though the pharmaceutical companies know that the drugs that they are trying to get approvals on do not work and actually cause disease, but they don't care. It's always all about the money. Members of Congress talk to the FDA and know IN ADVANCE whether a drug is going to be approved or not. If the drug is going to be approved, members of Congress simply buy the stock based on this "insider information" and make millions of dollars in profits. The drug industry is a money-making machine for the politicians in Washington. This is why the FDA and the FTC and big government want to suppress information about natural remedies; it simply will cost them money. Remember, it's always all about the money Can you see why I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!?

Use of Books. Another way drug companies increase the sales of their drugs is to pay millions of dollars to doctors, alleged experts, who in fact, are paid spokespeople for the drug companies. These experts then write books about the health benefits of certain drugs Go into any bookstore and you can see book after book after book promoting drug use by "an independent medical expert." The fact is the drug companies are paying the expert to write the books. The book is nothing more than an ad for the drug.
Among other methods used by the government in tandem with the drug industry:

Censorship of Opposing Ideas. This is scary. We live in America. It's supposed to be the land of free speech. Well, speech is not free. If your speech happens to threaten the profits of big business, you are going to be bound and gagged, ridiculed and persecuted. Here's what happens.

There are hundreds of books written about the drug industry, the FDA, the FTC, and the collusion between the associations, the corporations, the lobbyists, and certain government regulators and how they work together to suppress all-natural, inexpensive ways to prevent and cure disease. These books and these authors never see the light of day. Why? Publishers won't publish these books. If a publisher publishes a book that is bashing the pharmaceutical industry, certain government agencies, or big business, the publishing company may be blacklisted and have its other books taken out of distribution. Publishing companies fear that the publishing of these books will in fact cost them millions of dollars in profits. Additionally, many of the officers and directors of these publishing companies own stock in many pharmaceutical companies, and they do not want to do anything that will adversely affect their own personal portfolio. Remember, it's all about the money!

There is also censorship of advertising. Think about this very simply. Let's say that you are the president of a major television network. The particular network that you are the president of is owned by another multinational company that owns or has huge interest in a drug company. Your network gets two-thirds, or close to 70 percent, of its advertising revenue directly from the drug industry. Now imagine a guy comes to you and says, "I'd like to advertise on your network my book entitled How the Drug Companies Are Ripping Off America." Would you, as the president of that company, run that ad? If you run that ad, your boss could fire you. Because by running that ad, you could have a negative impact on the sales and profits of the drug companies in which your boss has a major equity position. That means it is costing your boss money. You may in fact own stock yourself. Think about it this way: If you run that ad for that book, how are your other advertisers going to feel? What if they called you up and said, "Hey, if you run that ad for that book, we're not going to run any of our drug ads next month." Your sales are going to go straight down and you'll probably be fired. Folks, this is what is happening. It's all about the money.

This actually is happening to me. When this book first came out no one in publishing or the media thought much of it, but it became a runaway bestseller. In just the first few months this book has sold over one and one-half million copies and became one of the fastest selling books in publishing history. However, because this book is exposing the truth about the news media, the television networks, the reporting at magazines and radio stations, the collusion of the pharmaceutical industry with the FDA and FTC, many networks have stopped running ads for this book. Television stations all around America have pulled the advertising of this book. They do not want my message being heard. They are in effect suppressing my free speech. Many news networks have actually done very negative stories on me and my book.

Think about it. A news network is sponsored by the drug companies and food industry. The news network then gets approached by its biggest advertisers, the drug companies and the food industry. These big advertisers tell the news network that they had better stop Kevin Trudeau and bash him anyway they can. The news network is in fact owned by the sponsors! All television, newspapers, radio, and magazines are owned by the sponsors! Do you understand how that works? The sponsors pay TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, and magazines. The sponsors are the source of income to these news organizations. The news organizations always succumb to the whims and wishes of their sponsors. Since the pharmaceutical industry and the food industry sponsor most all news organizations on TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines, these news organizations can never be trusted to give unbiased information.

It was reported recently, and a lawsuit was filed, about a group of Monsanto, exposing the growth hormone that Monsanto sells used in dairy cows. This news story exposed that this growth hormone was making the animals sick and making the milk and dairy products from these cows deadly poisonous. However, the news organization categorically refused to run the story. Why? Because Monsanto put pressure on the news organization! To read about this incredible story, go to www.foxbghsuit.com. Do you see that the sponsors control the information you are hearing about? Do not be misled into thinking that when you are listening to the news on television or radio, or reading the news in magazines and newspapers, that it is unbiased objective reporting. It absolutely is not!

The information you see and hear on TV and radio, and read in newspapers and magazines, is in effect coming directly from the sponsors of those media outlets. The majority of money received by these media outlets is from the pharmaceutical industry and the food industry. Folks, you are being brainwashed; you are being lied to; you are being deceived. A good example of this is I had an ABC news crew come to my house at 7:00 am., unannounced. They banged on my door, and they made it appear that I was unwilling to answer the door and answer their questions or give them an interview. This was categorically untrue and false. ABC News specifically tried to mislead the public into believing that I would not answer the door and give them an interview. The fact is they never mentioned to the viewers that they were banging on my door at 7:00 in the morning and I was asleep. They never mentioned to the viewers that I told ABC News that I absolutely would give them a live interview. They deceived the public. Folks, this is ABC News! You have to know that you cannot trust or believe what you are reading in newspapers and magazines, seeing on television; or hearing on the radio These outlets are simply the pawns of the pharmaceutical companies and the food industry. These media outlets are simply an extension of the sponsors. Remember, the sponsors always control the content and the information that you are being exposed to. Remember, it's always all about the money. Can you see why I'm mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore!

Debunking Natural Remedies. In an actual government memorandum, the U.S. federal government states that one of the most effective tools to get people to believe the government's opinion is to put together a well orchestrated debunking campaign. What this means is there is a coordinated effort between the FDA, the FTC, the health care associations, and the entire pharmaceutical industry—as well as some major news organizations—to produce scare stories about natural alternatives and suppress the truth about the ineffectiveness and dangers of drugs There is a long list of inexpensive, highly effective natural cures that are being' labeled as "snake oil" or simply hidden from the public.

The FDA has led the way in this battle against natural cures. In the 1970s the FDA attempted to make vitamin supplements prescription drugs The FDA claimed that vitamins are so dangerous they should be prescribed only by doctors. The public was outraged and Congress rejected the idea. In 1993 the FDA tried to classify certain minerals and amino acids as prescription drugs. Again, a public outcry caused Congress to act. Recently the FDA has been going after companies that sell natural remedies via the Internet. It claims these companies are selling "drugs" without a license.

In the book The Assault on Medical Freedom, secret documents from the medical industry have been exposed proving the FDA, the pharmaceutical industry, the AMA, and even insurance companies are working together to discredit natural medicine. The documents show how the FDA worked with the pharmaceutical industry directly, producing the "public service, anti-quackery campaign," which is designed to make people believe alternative natural remedies are ineffective, a waste of money, and even harmful. This "public service campaign" is simply a front of the pharmaceutical industry. The author claims that this collusion between the government and the pharmaceutical industry has created "nothing less than an enforced totalitarian medical-pharmaceutical police state."

The FDA targets natural remedies one at a time. Their debunking campaign begins by warning the public that these substances have not been properly tested, are potentially dangerous and should not be used. Even when double-blind studies prove the effectiveness or safety of the remedies, the evidence is debunked, suppressed, or ignored.

There are thousands of studies that prove not only that natural remedies are effective, but they can be more effective than any drug counterpart. An example is vitamin E. In major double-blind studies, vitamin E was found as effective or more effective as a blood thinner than its drug counterpart. But why aren't we given vitamin E instead of the drug? The facts are clear: Natural remedies could financially devastate the pharmaceutical industry.

Virtually every day we hear about "warnings" relating to the usage of dietary supplements. The news organizations that report this information, for the most part, do virtually no research into the accuracy or truthfulness of these warnings. There are different standards used in what is classified as news and advertising. If information is presented by a politician or government agency, such as the FDA or FTC, news organizations present that information as 100 percent factual. Any press release submitted to a news reporting organization by a politician or government agency is reported as 100 percent fact. The news reporting agency rarely if ever investigates the claims or allegations, or seeks out an opposing viewpoint. The government has the ability to influence the masses at will without opposition. So, the first standard set is that anything a government agency or politician says true and evidence is not required to support their claims.

The next standard set is for "big business." When large publicly traded corporations send out press releases to news organizations, very little verification is done on the accuracy and truthfulness of what is presented. The information is reported as news, but because it is coming from business and not the government, occasionally opposing viewpoints are presented as well.

The FTC allows big business to do things in their advertising that smaller businesses would be prohibited from doing. Example: You are watching an ad on television. At the bottom of the screen there are several lines of "disclaimers." The FTC requires that these disclaimers be present. However, because it's big business, they are allowed to put the disclaimers on the screen for just a few seconds, and printed so small there is not a human being in the world who can read them! It's an absolute joke.

Additionally, big business ads are allowed to do something that small advertisers are routinely prosecuted for. If a small advertiser, let's say a company selling a piece of exercise equipment through a TV infomercial, were to have a man dressed up as a doctor making wonderful statements about the product, that man must be a doctor, cannot be a paid spokesperson, and must not be reading a script. However, in big business advertising when you see doctors, judges, business executives, policemen, etc., making statements about how wonderful the company's products are, you are being deceived and lied to. These people are paid actors reading a script! If a small company shut down and prosecuted for false and misleading advertising. The bottom line is the government and politicians can say anything on TV, and it is never challenged and it is presented as 100 percent truth. Big business can do almost anything on TV and produce false and misleading advertising without the FTC preventing them.

Small businesses or companies threatening the profits of "big ' business" are the ones routinely attacked by the FTC, the FDA and other regulatory agencies. It is surprising to note that the majority of actions taken by the FTC and FDA are against small- and medium-sized businesses. They rarely if ever go after big business. For example, the FTC's Field Manual states that agents should not go after "big business" because they have deep pockets and will fight back against the FTC. It instructs its agents not to go after very small businesses because they have no money. It states to go after medium-sized businesses that will settle quickly out of fear. It's shocking to note that the Federal Trade Commission does not take action against companies based on consumer complaints. Rather, the FTC succumbs to political pressure on who to go after and makes its decision based on the amount of money that can be extracted from that company.

Did you know that when the FTC charges a company with false and misleading advertising and then collects money for "consumer redress," it never gives the money to the consumer? The FTC keeps the money! This agency is supposed to protect the consumers, yet the vast majority of actions filed by the FTC are against companies where there are no consumer complaints.

The FTC and the FDA also work together to spread misinformation and lies about all-natural remedies. Think of the millions of dollars that are poured into public relations campaigns specifically designed to debunk and make natural remedies appear foolish. So-called consumer advocate associations, or watchdog groups, have sprung up with fancy names that sound like they are looking out to protect the consumer when in fact these particular organizations are nothing more than a front for the pharmaceutical industry to promote their products, increase drug usage, and increase the nation's perception that natural remedies don't work and are dangerous.

A good example of this is ephedra. Ephedra is a compound most commonly found in the herb ma huang. This herb has been used for centuries around the world, most notably in China, as a very effective herbal remedy for various types of illness including obesity and asthma. It is safe and incredibly effective. Ephedra was a substance used in diet aids to increase metabolism and decrease appetite. It did an outstanding job. If you took massive amounts and did not follow the instructions on the bottle, you may have had some adverse effects, such as nervousness or the jitters similar to drinking twenty cups of coffee. In a very well orchestrated debunking campaign, the FDA has banned the use of ephedra stating it is dangerous. This was a very coordinated effort to get people to believe that a natural herbal supplement could be dangerous. This campaign is designed to encourage Congress to ban more natural remedies, as well as require supplements as harmless as basic vitamins and minerals to be classified as drugs and be sold by prescription and manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry. This is being touted under the guise of safety. Safety has nothing to do with it. Why?

Ephedra was banned because 153 deaths have been linked to taking ephedra. Now, millions of people were taking ephedra. If you take any group of ten million people, over a year, there's a good chance that 153 people in that group will die. The FDA said there is a "link" between ephedra use and those deaths. There is absolutely no conclusive evidence that ephedra caused those deaths or even had any remote association with those deaths. However, the FDA keeps saying how dangerous ephedra is. Every single nonprescription drug is dangerous! If you went into your medicine cabinet, took a drug, and took more than what the label said, there is a high probability that you could die. Every single drug is incredibly dangerous. This is not about danger, it is about who controls these products. The scary part is whatever the FDA says, it is presented as truth and no opposing opinions are allowed to be heard.

Think about this. Two thousand people die every year by simply taking aspirin. Not overdosing on aspirin but by taking aspirin in the recommended amounts. Wow! It appears that aspirin is not safe. Yet, I don't see aspirin being banned. Do you see where this is going? This debunking campaign includes two things: getting news organizations and various publications to do positive stories about drugs, falsifying or misrepresenting research data on drugs while at the same time spreading any type of negative information about a natural remedy and natural holistic healers.

Another perfect example of this debunking campaign was a headline that said "Saint John's Wort Not Effective for Treating Depression, Study Concludes." The article—written in a national newspaper— stated that a recent study was conducted and proved that Saint John's Wort, the herbal remedy touted as a depression alleviant, was found to have absolutely no effect on depression. This article went on to talk about how many herbs are used to treat various illnesses and disease without any research whatsoever to back up the effectiveness of those herbs. The article then went on to state that people should not take any herbs or natural substances because they could be unsafe and are probably ineffective.

The article was ridiculous, one-sided, and outrageous. Why do I say that? Because when you actually look at that particular study they were referring to, Saint John's Wort was tested in addition to Prozac in the exact same study. And the study showed that Prozac and Saint John's Wort both had no effect on depression in the patients in the study. But the news organization never mentioned that Prozac was also proven to be ineffective. It also failed to mention that there are dozens of studies that show that Saint John's Wort is, in fact, effective. But obviously this study was flawed. The fact is that you can create a study to show virtually anything you want, but the news media chose only to talk negatively about the herbal, all-natural supplement and didn't have anything negative to say about the drug. Debunking by use of studies is very common. Most "studies" are funded by the drug industry, The researchers are given very specific parameters and objectives. Since these studies are funded by the pharmaceutical industry, the objectives are to show that drugs are effective and safe, and all-natural treatments are ineffective and dangerous. These researchers are given financial incentives to produce these results: millions of dollars in additional grants, funding, future contracts, as well as luxury perks like vacations and cars. Imagine how this works. Any research results a pharmaceutical company wants, it can get; all it has to do is buy it!

Here's an example, parents were concerned that their children were eating too much sugar, causing hyperactivity, learning disabilities, and behavioral problems. The sugar industry was concerned that kids would be eating less sugar, thus cutting into their profits. (Remember the role of the food companies in all this from our discussion at the beginning of the chapter.) The sugar industry associations indirectly funded a study, which was to prove that sugar consumption had no effect on hyperactivity or learning abilities. They got the study with the results they wanted. In a national newspaper, the headline read: "Sugar. Has No Effect on Hyperactivity or Learning and Behavioral Problems in Children." The article stated that a study was conducted with two groups of children. The first group was given a "controlled diet." The second group ate the exact same controlled diet but 30 percent more sugar. The hyperactivity level, learning abilities, and behavioral actions were found to be the same in both groups. This concluded that sugar did not increase hyperactivity or cause learning or behavioral problems in children.

Here is what they didn't tell you. The study had only a few children in it! Certainly not enough to have any accuracy on the study results. (This happens routinely. Studies are conducted with just a few people just so the results the companies need can be achieved.) Second, you were not told that the controlled diet contained lots of sugar in it. It actually contained enormous amounts of sugar. The controlled diet contained the sugar equivalent of eating twenty-five doughnuts, drinking three dozen sodas, and eating ten candy bars. So all the kids were so hyped up on sugar that when you added 30 percent more, there wasn't any change! Can you see how outrageous this is2 Can you see you are being lied to and misled? Can you see why I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore? I can give you dozens of examples of studies that simply are false and misleading. You can create any "credible scientific evidence" you want if you just pay the right people.

Drugs are not the answer for the prevention and curing of disease. Natural methods work better in the long term, and are much safer than drugs and surgery. "They" don't want you to know the truth. "They" use television, radio, newspapers, and magazines, including the use of paid celebrities, paid experts, and false and misleading advertising to convince you that drugs are good and natural remedies are bad.
Lawsuits. The industry uses lawsuits as a tool to spread negative information about natural remedies and also to put out of business anyone that is challenging the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. Keep in mind the pharmaceutical industry is the most powerful, profitable business in the world.

Some of you remember the movie The Fugitive. Well, that was more fact than fiction. Some of you may remember that the whole reason Dr. Kimble, played by Harrison Ford, was found guilty of murdering his wife was because a doctor was falsifying research on a new drug and stood to make tens of million of dollars if the drug was approved by the FDA. Folks I can tell you that happens! It's scary but true. The industry has so much money, has such deep pockets, they can afford to file outrageous, frivolous lawsuits against small independent people and companies and virtually drive them out of business or bring them to their knees.

One particular case was with the American Medical Association. Keep in mind the AMA is a union for its members, not a government organization with the mandate of solving the medical problems of America. The American Medical Association has no interest in you and me, we are simply customers. The American Medical Association is a union designed to protect its members, which are the medical doctors and the medical industry. But it is always being presented as an independent, unbiased body presenting medical facts to the world, with a goal of curing disease, which simply is not the case. Just read their charter.

The history of the AMA is fascinating. The AMA was founded in 1847 in Philadelphia. While there were many state medical associations at the time, the need to establish a national association that would look after the interests of medical doctors nationwide was determined to be paramount one year earlier at the New York medical convention. At the time, doctors were not the majority of heathcare practitioners in America dealing with the cure and prevention of illness and disease. There were vast amounts of homeopathic and other practitioners using natural remedies. The very next year after being created, the AMA began its organized assault on debunking natural remedies and discrediting any health-care practitioner who was not a medical doctor. At the same time it set out to establish the laws governing patent medicine. This practice has continued ever since, thus establishing the health-care monopoly for the medical doctor as these continued to expand into the areas of drug manufacturing and medical research. Today, the American Medical Association stands as the largest and most powerful health-care association in the world. It has amassed enough power and influence to create laws that help expand the business of its members while at the same time eliminating any competition that might threaten their outrageous profits.

From this position of power, the AMA filed a lawsuit against the chiropractors in Illinois. Chiropractors at the time were saying that chiropractic adjustments can alleviate pain. Many people were going to chiropractors instead of medical doctors. The AMA, in order to protect its members, filed a lawsuit against the chiropractors. The chiropractors fought back and fought back big time. The chiropractors won. It was proven in court that chiropractic treatments were better at eliminating or reducing pain than anything that medical doctors could offer. But the travesty is that the case got almost no press at all Can you see why? That was a huge landmark case but got virtually no press whatsoever.

Another huge case which got virtually no press whatsoever was when a doctor, who was treating people through all-natural methods, was saying that his all-natural non-drug methods were curing people of AIDS. He was immediately sued by the FDA. The case went all the way to the New York Supreme Court and the doctor was found not guilty. It was proven that his treatments were more effective than those offered by any medical doctor, and he was using no drugs or surgery, only all-natural methods. Did you read about this in the newspapers? Of course not. Did you hear about it on any of the TV news stations or radio news stations? No. Did you read about it in any major front page articles in magazines? Absolutely not.

Make sure you understand what I just said. A licensed health-care practitioner was curing people of AIDS without drugs and surgery. He was using all-natural methods. His cure rate was higher than anything that medical doctors could offer. He had a higher cure rate than anyone using drugs and surgery and had absolutely no side effects. This is a miracle. This man should be given a Nobel Prize. He was and is curing people of AIDS without drugs and surgery! This was proven to be true at the New York Supreme Court level. Why isn't this man and his methods front-page headline news all around the world? Why aren't his methods being employed all around the world to cure AIDS? His all- natural methods were proven in court to work better than any drugs and surgery! Doesn't this cause you outrage? Doesn't this cause you disbelief? Doesn't this cause you to be mad as hell?

The "powers that be" do not want his inexpensive all-natural AIDS cure known even though it was proven in court to work! The "powers that be" only want profits. This goes to the highest levels of government.
It has been reported that former President Bill Clinton is making millions of dollars exporting pharmaceutical drugs around the world. No one can make big money on all-natural remedies; therefore, they are being suppressed and debunked at every chance. There are virtually hundreds of lawsuits filed against health-care practitioners who are curing people of disease without drugs and surgery. Their only crime is that they are curing people of disease WITHOUT drugs and surgery! The government and pharmaceutical companies do not want people to know that all-natural inexpensive treatments work better than drugs and surgery and have absolutely no side effects. News organizations will not run these stories because of the pressure they are under by their sponsors, most notably the pharmaceutical companies and food industry. This is suppression of the free flow of information; this is suppression of people's First Amendment right of free speech; this is suppression of opposing views and alternative ideas, all in the name of profits. Remember, it's always all about the money.

Again, I want to reemphasize this fact Lawsuits are routinely filed against individual health-care practitioners who are curing people without drugs or surgery. Not only are civil lawsuits filed against them, but many of these honest, dedicated, health-care providers are being prosecuted criminally for curing people's diseases. They are being charged with practicing medicine without a license or dispensing drugs without a license. Their only real crime is curing disease through natural methods and not using drugs and surgery. Lawsuits are also routinely filed against companies that sell all-natural products that can prevent or cure diseases. These lawsuits are filed primarily by the FTC, the FDA, and watchdog groups, which are really fronts for the pharmaceutical industry and medical associations. These suits are filed even though there are no consumer complaints! Remember, when these lawsuits are filed, the allegations are presented as facts by the news media. Also remember that virtually all television networks, radio networks, newspapers and magazines depend on the advertising revenue they receive from the pharmaceutical industry. What you read about and what you hear about will always be influenced by the pharmaceutical industry.

These attacks via lawsuit are increasing at an alarming rate. Recently the FDA, the FTC, and several other government agencies have teamed up and launched a campaign called "Operation Cure All." The reason this campaign has been launched is said to be to protect the health of consumers against natural products that are not proven effective or safe. These government agencies are making the playing field uneven, Operation Cure All allows the pharmaceutical industry to produce their deceptive and false advertising, while at the same time setting strict rules as to what is truthful, substantiated, and allowable in advertising for natural health products. One rule is the prohibition on saying that a natural product does anything relating to the prevention or curing of a disease. Not only are you prohibited from making such a statement, even if it is true; you are forbidden to imply such a claim.

The amazing thing is that the courts have determined that the FTC has the authority to decide whether a claim is implied or not. This means the FTC has the absolute final word on whether an ad is in violation of law. This ultimately means that the FTC can at any time sue a company or individual, and they will always win.

Under the banner of Operation Cure All, telling the truth is also forbidden. A person is prohibited from telling what the product has done for him, even though his statement may be 100 percent truthful and accurate. The FTC and the FDA have effectively taken over the right of free speech under the guise of protecting the public. Why are drug companies allowed to advertise their products on television, on radio, and in newspapers and magazines so freely? These ads are clearly false and misleading. The testimonials you hear are fake. You are watching paid actors who are reading a script. You are being lied to and deceived and both the FDA and FTC take no action. Why is it that advertising for natural products are being routinely attacked? It is obvious to everyone that the truth about natural remedies is being suppressed.

How can America, a country that presents itself to the world as a bastion of free speech, free expression of ideas, freedom of choice, freedom of information and free enterprise, be faced with such draconian restrictions of these freedoms when it relates to our health and medical choices? Operation Cure All is part of a new set of rules being implemented to restrict and limit access to health information, food supplements, and natural therapies on a worldwide basis. The World Health Organization, the United Nations, international banks, and the multinational pharmaceutical industry are working together right now, implementing these regulations. This worldwide commission is working on restrictions that would severely limit the availability of vitamins, food supplements, natural remedies, and even information.

It appears the actual objective of this organization is to bring natural dietary supplements under the umbrella of the pharmaceutical industry. Is it true that the pharmaceutical industry is trying to take over all-natural products? In America, pharmaceutical giants are buying vitamin, mineral, herbal, and homeopathic companies. Currently there are two products being marketed on television. The ads look eerily similar to drug ads. The packaging of the products makes them appear to be drugs. But in this instance, they are not drugs at all. They are natural products being manufactured and sold by the pharmaceutical industry at outrageous prices, because it's the pharmaceutical industry, these ads are allowed to run. If a small, independent company were running the same ad, the FTC would come in and charge them with false and misleading advertising and making unsubstantiated health claims. The FDA would come in, seize the product, confiscate the equipment, books, records and computers of the company, and charge the officers, directors and owners with selling drugs without a license. I know this to be true because I actually transcribed these ads, changed a couple of words and presented them to both the FTC and FDA. I asked if these ads would violate any of the FTC or FDA rules. I was told that these ads violated both FTC and FDA rules and regulations. Hmm. Imagine their surprise when I informed them that these ads were being run by big pharmaceutical companies. Their response was "we'll look into it." But they assured me that if I ran these ads action would be taken against me immediately. We are supposed to have equal protection under the law. Selective prosecution is allegedly forbidden in this country. Unfortunately, that's not how it works. The bottom line here is that the government is working together with the pharmaceutical industry to take control of all-natural remedies. For example, in Germany and Norway the drug companies have virtually taken over the entire health food industry. Vitamin El, vitamin C and vitamin E, in certain amounts, are illegal in these countries. A major pharmaceutical company now controls the herb echinacea, and sells it as an over-the-counter drug at exorbitant prices. Selling herbs as food, in certain parts of Europe, is now a criminal offense.

Am I the only voice expressing outrage? No. There are thousands of medical doctors, scientists, surgeons, and ex-pharmaceutical insiders who know the truth and are desperately trying to educate the public. Hundreds of books have been written on these subjects. I am not the only author or consumer advocate addressing these critical and timely subjects. Here is a reprint of a public notice that was placed in the New York Times in January 2005, by Mathias Rath, M.D. This shows that I am not the only person expressing this viewpoint. Please note that there are thousands of MEDICAL DOCTORS who are coming forward and denouncing drugs and surgery. Even medical doctors who have been trained to prescribed drugs and perform surgery are coming forward because they see that it is really all about the money and not about curing and preventing disease. This public announcement makes some excellent points:

NO AMNESTY FOR MAKERS OF DEADLY DRUGS!
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