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Aide: Clinton apologizes to Obama
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Adviser to Hillary Clinton: GOP will exploit Obama's admission of past drug use

Adviser apologizes, says Clinton campaign did not authorize comments

Barack Obama says, "People are feeling a little worried about the polls"

Latest CNN/WMUR shows Obama, Clinton tied in New Hampshire

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton apologized to rival Sen. Barack Obama for an adviser's comment that Obama's admission of past drug use would hurt his chances in a general election matchup, a Clinton aide told CNN on Thursday.

Obama earlier brushed aside the adviser's remarks, saying they were probably the result of the latest poll numbers, which show the two candidates tied in the first-primary state New Hampshire.

"I just think people are feeling a little worried about the polls," Obama said Thursday.

Bill Shaheen, co-chairman of the Clinton campaign in New Hampshire, told a Washington Post reporter Wednesday that the Republicans would exploit Obama's past admission of drug use should he win the Democratic Party's presidential nomination and might even suggest Obama once dealt drugs.

"The Republicans are not going to give up without a fight ... and one of the things they're certainly going to jump on is his drug use," Shaheen said. "It'll be, 'When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?' There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome."

Shaheen, husband of former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, apologized for his comments and said in a statement late Wednesday "they were not authorized by the campaign in any way."

Obama said he did not think it was Shaheen's intent to plant such a rumor. The candidate said he is not worried the remarks may damage his campaign "since it's not true."

"I don't think the American people are concerned about what I did when I was a teenager. They're concerned about what I'm going to do as a presidential candidate," he said.

Clinton on Thursday said she did not approve of Shaheen's comments. "I don't in any way condone that, and it was certainly not authorized or approved at all. It was inappropriate, and he's apologized," the senator from New York said.

Obama's camp quickly responded to Shaheen's comments.

Obama spokesman David Plouffe called the remarks "desperate," saying the "campaign is recycling old news that Barack Obama has been candid about in a book he wrote years ago, and he's talked about the lessons he's learned from these mistakes with young people all across the country."

Obama wrote in his 1995 book "Dreams of My Father" that he was once headed in the direction of a "junkie" and a "pothead."

Referring to his emotional struggles as a young man, Obama wrote, "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though."

Obama has not shied away from bringing up his past use of drugs while on the campaign trail. He spoke candidly about his past experimentation at an event in New Hampshire last month, acknowledging that he did inhale and that "it's not something I'm proud of."

And in a statement that proved popular with the crowd, Obama said he never understood then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton's contention in 1992 that he did not inhale marijuana.

"I never understood that line," he said. "The point was to inhale. That was the point."

The latest back-and-forth between the two Democratic campaigns on the issue of Obama's electability came as a new CNN/WMUR poll showed the two candidates statistically in a dead heat in New Hampshire.

Clinton stands at 31 percent, with Obama 1 percentage point behind, well within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

CNN's Alex Mooney and Ted Barrett contributed to this report.

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HOW DO PEOPLE in HOSPITALS VIEW PD? -or do they even know what it is?

sincerely -one ticked off lil Parkie...

there are lies -damn lies and stats! and azzholes that start rumors...

many of us/US have gone into hospitals where the doctors have no idea
how to treat a PD patient are we on drugs?
They even ask questions pertaining the how and why- and whatever's
of a disease they can not even cure?
I have been asked if I ever took street drugs????????????????
and I have heard ER people say they believe it to be a mystery why
our sinemet -now levodopa - carbidopa works at all?

do we have a psychological disease -therefore perhaps a self inflicted wound
thus deserving of our disease?

I do know personally many true accounts of PD patients being taken to
insane assylums, in handcuffs or in straightjackets for Parkinson disease
afflictions such as overdose -which was not overdosed by the patient...
More to the point overdosed by the doctor,
unflagged medications -that contraindicted other meds./...
Patients if you all do not speak up and get the WORD out,
The same group of finger pointers who are heavily counting on the stock market of pharma drugs to fill the bank accounts by the DOW / NASDAQ/
trading in the "Market"...

if you can call and tell your senators or congressman or those running for
President to knock off the "stone throwing" -no one is perfect -
it is what we do -not what we say -that changes lives on this earth...

WE are their market! they want us on drugs -
they want us to be afraid of the "Bird Flu" -
get in line -and your children too
need another toxic vaccine today!...
BIG BROTHER SAYS -do as I say not as I do...

this quote is the sum of my feelings

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
MartinLuther King, Jr.

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Number One Priority for the new Democratic Administration:
A Patients' Bill of Rights


Matthias Rath, M.D.


On July 25, 2004, The New York Times wrote: “The Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator John Edwards, a longtime plaintiff attorney, said that his proudest accomplishment in Washington thus far was to help win Senate passage of a bill defining patients’ rights, including the right to sue.” Unfortunately, this bill never became law.

The first task for the new Democratic administration is a Patients’ Bill of Rights to protect the health interests of the American people from the unscrupulous pharmaceutical investment business, which is driven by the continuation of diseases.

The American people can no longer tolerate that the health and lives of every family are threatened by an investment industry that fraudulently promises health - yet, in fact, promotes diseases as billion-dollar markets for its drugs. This “Pharma-Fraud” is the largest organized fraud in history and the very foundation of the pharmaceutical industry.

This Patients’ Bill of Rights must protect patients’ rights to free access to lifesaving information about natural, nonpatentable therapies, and it must secure the patients’ right to sue drug makers for the devastating side effects of their synthetic, patented drugs.

The Immediate Causes of the Current Health Care Crisis
The Bush Administration and the “Pharma-Fraud” Business

Do You Know the Facts That:

The pharmaceutical and petrochemical (oil) industries are held in the hands of the same financial interest groups, such as Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan.
The pharmaceutical industry has become the largest and most profitable investment industry with annual gains in excess of $540 billion. (Source: Vatican, February 2004)
The drug manufacturers were the largest donors to the 2000 presidential election campaign. Without this support, the Bush administration would not be in the White House today.
Key representatives of the pharmaceutical industry were appointed as policy makers in the Bush administration, most notably Donald Rumsfeld, a former pharmaceutical CEO and highly decorated drug maker executive.
Five out of 10 key legislative initiatives during the Bush administration were nothing other than multi-billion dollar government subsidy programs for the pharmaceutical drug cartel.
With these kinds of politically motivated kickbacks amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars, the pharmaceutical cartel is again investing millions in the Bush re-election campaign.
Understanding the “Pharma-Fraud” Business

To prevent Bush from being re-elected and to ensure a new policy direction, we need to unmask the interest group behind the Bush administration - the unscrupulous “Pharma-Fraud” business.

Do You Know the Facts That:

The pharmaceutical industry is not a naturally grown health industry, but rather is an artificially designed investment “business with disease.”
The pharmaceutical industry promises health solutions to the people of the world, yet the return on investment for this industry is dependent on the continuation and expansion of diseases as drug markets.
The engine of this “Pharma-Fraud” is the patentability of drugs, a business principle that requires the elimination of all natural, nonpatentable health approaches and the exclusive development of synthetic patentable drugs, most of which have toxic side effects.
The prevention and eradication of diseases can and will never be in the interest of this industry because they threaten its return on investment and eventually will destroy this investment business by eliminating its marketplace - diseases.
The pharmaceutical investment business with disease is the largest organized fraud operation in history - it promises health, yet delivers diseases!

The Inhumane Dimensions of “Pharma-Fraud” and
its Cover-Up by the Bush Administration
The Heavy Toll of the “Pharma-Fraud” Business on the American People

The consequences of this “Pharma-Fraud” affect the health and lives of every American - many of whom have already paid the ultimate price.

Do You Know the Facts That:
More than 100,000 Americans die each year from the known deadly side effects of prescription drugs, an epidemic only surpassed by the deaths from cardiovascular disease and cancer. (JAMA, April 15, 1998)

There is hardly any pharmaceutical drug without known deadly side effects. These harmful drugs include, among many others, beta blockers, calcium antagonists, chemotherapy drugs and cholesterol blockers (statins).
Statins are currently taken by 11 million Americans daily, yet their health benefits remain doubtful as their side effects accumulate. Fifty people died from taking the statin Baycol, and the six million who have taken this drug are living on borrowed time.
A recent study with statins in pregnant women published in the New England Journal of Medicine on April 8, 2004 showed that 20 out of 52 babies - almost half of them - exposed to harmful statin drugs during pregnancy were born with severe malformations.
All chemotherapy drugs - the “Pharma-Fraud” answer to the cancer epidemic - are severely toxic agents that damage all cells in the body.Thus, the most frequent side effect of chemotherapy is the development of new forms of cancer in patients taking these drugs.
The “Pharma-Fraud” answer to AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is AZT, a toxic agent that blocks the genetic material in all cells, including the white blood cells required for the patient’s immune defense. Thus, the most frequent side effect of AIDS treatment is an even more severe form of this disease.
There Must Be No Amnesty for the Ongoing “Pharma-Fraud” Business

The damage to the health of the American people and the economy of the entire nation done by the “Pharma-Fraud” business far surpasses the damage caused by the tobacco industry.

The health and lives of millions of people are being deliberately sacrificed by the withholding of lifesaving health information for one reason only - it is not patentable and less profitable. The patentable synthetic drugs marketed instead cause severe side effects to an extent that this has caused the fourth largest deadly epidemic among American people - prescription drug death (JAMA 4/15/98). The costs to society of this “Pharma-Fraud” amount to billions of dollars.

Similar to the tobacco litigation, the people, the communities and states across America have filed lawsuits against drug makers to save lives and to bring the multi-billion dollar “Pharma-Fraud” to an immediate end. In the Baycol case, more than 10,000 complaints are already pending against Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline.

In order to protect “Pharma-Fraud” and to allow this unscrupulous business to continue, the Bush administration seeks to grant general amnesty to the drug industry. Because no healthy-minded person would support such a political favor - the Bush administration tried to sell a “Trojan Horse” to the American people:

First, they tried to hide the “Pharma-Fraud” amnesty behind the so-called “medical liability litigation reform.”
Second, they tried to insert the “Pharma-Fraud” amnesty into the Patriot Act and other laws hastily created in the wake of September 11.
Now, with little time left in their tenure, they have dropped all pretense. In a dramatic change of established government policy, they announced on July 24, 2004 their determination for a comprehensive “Pharma-Fraud” amnesty by banning consumers from suing drug manufacturers.
The Natural Health Alternatives and
the Efforts of the Bush Administration to Ban them
Lifesaving Natural Health Alternatives Deliberately Withheld From the American People by the “Pharma-Fraud” Business

In order to conduct their global fraud operation, the drug industry needed to eliminate the dissemination of effective, safe and natural alternatives that are non-patentable and do not lend themselves to financial speculation.

As a direct result of this health censorship, millions of Americans did not get proper, lifesaving health information that would have allowed the effective prevention of cardiovascular disease, cancer and other health problems.

This black out of essential health information was no easy task. For decades, billions of dollars have been spent by the “Pharma-Fraud” business to buy strategic influence from medical schools (pharmacology), health care providers, the media, political parties and, ultimately, the Bush administration.

The American people must learn immediately that scientific discoveries have been made explaining why the three leading causes of death in America, heart attacks, cancer and strokes, are essentially unknown in the animal world.

Do You Know the Facts That:

Most human diseases are essentially unknown in the animal world, including cardiovascular disease, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer and other diseases.
As opposed to humans, almost all animals produce large amounts of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in their livers by converting it from sugar. This vitamin is the single most important catalyst for the production of collagen and elastin, the key molecules for stabilizing blood vessels and connective tissues and, thereby, for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and other conditions.
AIDS - the greatest threat to the developing world - is not reproducible in animal models. It has recently been shown to be best managed by a combination of vitamins and other essential nutrients that now can save millions of lives and billions in health care costs. (NYT, July 1, 2004)
There is no reason why these diseases should continue to threaten millions of people once their scientific cause has been understood. And it has.

The Bush Administration’s Final Coup: Abuse of WHO for Protection of the “Pharma-Fraud” Business and a Global Ban on Natural Health

The people of America and all mankind have reached a stage where we can liberate ourselves from the yoke of today’s most common diseases and from the “Pharma-Fraud” business.

It is the responsibility of and an opportunity for a new Democratic administration to provide this ultimate service to the American people, saving millions of lives and billions in health care costs.

This will be no easy path.The special interest groups behind “Pharma-Fraud” will put up a fierce battle to protect their economic privileges derived from their multi-billion dollar business with disease. In this endeavor, the new Democratic administration needs the full support of the people of America - and they will get it.

The rewards will be breathtaking: In coming generations, heart attacks and strokes will be the exception, and today’s most common diseases will be essentially unknown. The resources set free will be used to meet urgent needs in the areas of health, education, unemployment and other pressing issues of mankind.

In a final coup, the Bush administration is trying to block this liberation of mankind from the burden of disease.

Do You Know the Facts That:

The Bush administration is spearheading an international effort to outlaw the dissemination of information about the lifesaving health benefits of vitamins, essential nutrients and other natural non-patentable therapies.
The Bush administration even abuses the World Health Organization’s Codex Alimentarius Commission for one purpose only: the protection of the “Pharma-Fraud” business against the rapid advances in the area of natural health. (For more information, visit our website.)
But this effort by the Bush administration - behind the backs of the American people - is nothing but the last hurrah of a system that is bound to die.

With the presidential election in November 2004, the people in America have the opportunity to shorten this agony.

Isn’t That Enough for the People of America?
You have the choice: You can continue sacrificing your health and life for the perpetuation of the “Pharma-Fraud” business - or, you can take action now to eradicate today’s most common diseases and terminate the “Pharma-Fraud.”

This November, vote only for politicians who guarantee your basic health rights:

Unrestricted patient right to sue drug makers for life-threatening drug side effects
Free patient access to lifesaving, natural, non-patentable health measures

20/20 -NOW we are looking back at these prophetic words -we now have one more chance in some of our lifetimes!

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The Patriot Act
Patriot II's attack on citizenship
(March 6, 2003) - A basic principle of American democracy is that members of government serve at the behest of the citizenry, and not vice-versa. The people, being sovereign, can use their votes to "throw the bastards out," even though the government has no reciprocal power to jettison disfavored citizens. Yet with the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, informally known as "Patriot II," this basic rule is under attack. The draft legislation, the Justice Department's proposed sequel to the 2001 USA Patriot Act, was recently made public after being leaked to the Center for Public Integrity. The bill would go well beyond its predecessor in threatening essential civil liberties.

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US Patriot Act laws are curbing disease research say scientists
(February 23, 2003) New federal laws meant to control bioterrorism are making it considerably tougher for researchers to continue work with such agents as anthrax and the plague, just as the United States reaches the brink of war with the country that supposedly possesses the greatest bioterrorism threat in the world. Starting to take effect this month, the rules require all researchers to register bioterrorism agents with the federal government -- and make sure they are in secure facilities, which are rare and expensive to build.

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Ashcroft proposes vast new surveillance powers
(February 12, 2003) Proposed legislation leaked to the Internet on Friday would criminalize some uses of encryption, and dramatically increase federal law enforcement's domestic spying powers.A sweeping new anti-terrorism bill drafted by the Justice Department would dramatically increase government electronic surveillance and data collection abilities, and impose the first-ever federal criminal penalties for using encryption in the U.S.

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European Security Organizations Criticizes U.S. Surveillance Law
(January 23, 2003) - The media watchdog in Europe's leading security organization criticized the United States on Thursday for snooping on the private lives of Americans with a law passed in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In a reproach to the Big Brother-like tactics creeping up on post-Sept. 11 America, Freimut Duve of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe condemned the FBI and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for monitoring library records and bookstore receipts under the USA Patriot Act.

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Patriot Act chills First Amendment freedoms
(January 22, 2003) - The US Department of Justice will not supply even the most general information concerning the use of its new surveillance powers. This attitude denies the American people basic information they need to provide meaningful guidance to the department. The Act has been amended a number of times to give greater access to public documents. The Act contains a provision that allows a federal agency to refuse an FOIA request if national security interests are at stake. However, the Ashcroft memo limiting what can be released sweeps much further than the original national security provision.

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SF Supervisors Oppose Patriot Act
( January 22, 2003) - The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has passed a resolution opposing the Patriot Act on the grounds it violates civil rights. "The USA Patriot Act encourages the use of racial profiling and creates an atmosphere of hate against immigrants who have done nothing wrong," said Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, who introduced the resolution. "This is something we in San Francisco will not tolerate."

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Total Information Awareness
Bay State entities building record-tracking technology
(March 7, 2003) - A handful of Massachusetts businesses are helping to develop a controversial Defense Department antiterrorism program that has been attacked by critics as an assault on individual privacy. Lexington-based defense giant Raytheon Co., Woburn's Aptima Inc. and Burlington's AlphaTech Inc. have won Total Information Awareness project contracts. A handful of other local firms and universities bid unsuccessfully for work on the project.

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DOD spy database funding revealed
(February 27, 2003) - The U.S. Defense Department has awarded millions of dollars to more than two-dozen research projects that involve a controversial data-mining project aimed at compiling electronic dossiers on Americans. Nearly 200 Corporations and universities submitted proposals to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, according to government documents brought to light by a privacy group Thursday. John Poindexter, who oversees the agency’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, approved 26 of them last fall, including grants to the University of Southern California, the Palo Alto Research Center, and defense contractor Science Applications International.

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Udall Joins House Members to Block Total Information Awareness Program
(February 12, 2003) - U.S. Representative Tom Udall (D-NM) today joined a bipartisan effort to block the controversial Total Information Awareness (TIA) project until Congress can review privacy issues related to the plan. The TIA program - a wide-ranging Pentagon monitoring scheme that critics say could threaten the civil liberties of law-abiding Americans - aims to develop technology to collect information on all financial transactions, travel, medical records and other activities of all citizens of the United States.

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Snooping in All the Wrong Places
(December 18, 2002) - Not only would the Administration's plan to centralize every American's records destroy privacy, the security payoff would be minimal. The 2002 elections proved one thing: The promise of security wins votes. The GOP campaigned on a pledge to make the country safer, and it brought home one of the biggest midterm victories in decades. That huge win may have emboldened the Bush Administration to ignore widespread criticism of the Defense Dept.'s $240 million effort to develop a Total Information Awareness system (TIA).

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Related Literature
1984
by George Orwell

Winstone Smith (front) and the Big Brother system in a scene from the 1984 motion picture.


In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion.

Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

Newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime -- in his novel "1984", George Orwell created a whole vocabulary of words concerning totalitarian control that have since passed into our common vocabulary. More importantly, he has portrayed a chillingly credible dystopia. In our deeply anxious world, the seeds of unthinking conformity are everywhere in evidence; and Big Brother is always looking for his chance.