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donhakman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 09:19 AM
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list of Think Tanks working toward a 1 party system
To allow pharmaceutical companies unprecedented power to self regulate release of new drugs and control every aspect of the proliferation of products, a "new" idea has been injected into every layer of federal oversight.

Its not new really, it goes back to a plan first sold by the great statesman Danny Quayle. It involves doing an end run around the FDA (should drug companies ever lose control of that agency) and inserting themselves into any oversight of any drug in the NIH or any other bureaucratic institution.

Ombudsmen - is the key to their plan.

If any bureaucrat or scientist has any qualms or disagreements with a pharmaceutical company's course of action, an Ombudsman (political appointee) is to be called in settle the matter which will be designed to drown any dissenter in a sea of paperwork, meetings, hearings and time wasting procedures that would discourage the most valiant crusading voices that often have other work to do.


Last Thursday at 9PM the 51 page single spaced plan was put to the NIH for review and comment. Certain individuals were given 24 hours to respond or forever hold their peace.

This is the parting shot fired by the Tommy Thompson crowd and have had years to cloak their plan in flowery language, while the people who spend their life protecting American health and welfare had but a few hours to respond.

By now I have probably lost most of you here so here is a picture to help you identify the think tanks that are responsible for the corporate control of every aspect of your life.

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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 09:21 AM
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1. What can we do?
Is there anything?
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Charlls Donating Member (301 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 09:25 AM
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2. organization to take power again


as simple as it sounds
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 09:37 AM
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4. We need our own system of think tanks
and we need to take this business seriously and give them the same sort of funding that the RW does with theirs.
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KlatooBNikto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 09:28 AM
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3. You wonder why our base is not energized by Kerry, and other me
too Republicans? They know the fix is already in.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 09:38 AM
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5. It all goes up and down any how. Each party seems to go to far
then back it goes. Look at EU it seems to have gone a little to far in its retirement and they will now back off a little. Dem will be back in power and I do hope it will not be 40 years of Rep like it was with the Dem. Face it things have been pretty good for working people since FDR came in. Not that business had it hard in that time but they didn't like paying taxes, Any tax. The rich owners also seem to think they also make the goods they sell. They seem to for get they need workers and these people have to be paid. One goes with the other. I do not think I can hear once more that no poor man ever hire any one when this week along, I bought gas, food, and ate out. I helped hire a lot of people and I am pretty poor.Weber had a lot to say on our way of life in his book.
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itzamirakul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 09:41 AM
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6. With the help of Al From and
the damned DLC!
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 11:03 AM
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7. i saw al from on c span he is an utter fool eom
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