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[drugawareness] Homeland Secturity or Eli Lilly Security Bill

 

 

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This needs no introduction. Arianna Huffington has really outdone herself on

this article!! It is wonderful! I have seen no one address this issue as well

as she has. I did a show on the issue out of MN last Wednesday and wish I

would have had some of the information she exposes in this article.

 

About the only connection I think that she missed was to point out that Tom

Ridge, the Homeland Security Secretary, is the past CEO of Serle

Pharmaceutical. This should the called the Pharmaceutical Security Department

rather than the Homeland Security Department!

 

What has been done in this bill in the way of protecting Lilly from taking

responsibility for their mistakes that has cost families so much is both

frightening and despicable!

 

Autism is a condition caused by high levels of serotonin - exactly what the

SSRIs are designed to increase. So my question would be, " How do these

vaccines affect serotonin levels? " I know that there are too many reports of

autistic children being born to mothers on these SSRI antidepressants. One

mother had three before she began to wonder if it might be related to her

Prozac!

 

It would be interesting to see how many of these cases of autism could be

turned around using Dr. Cade's research on autism. He found it was linked to

the milk protein. You see when one cannot metabolize the milk protein

(casein), it turns to caso-morphine in the brain. And morphine is a powerful

SSRI. Dr. Cade found that when he took autistic and schizophrenic children

off dairy 80% had autistic symptoms dissipate.

 

Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, Executive Director,

International Coalition For Drug Awareness

www.drugawareness.org & author of Prozac: Panacea

or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare (800-280-0730)

 

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Finding The Answer To Washington's Hottest Whodunit

 

By Arianna Huffington

Filed December 4, 2002

 

Quick, somebody call Sherlock Holmes. Or at least the Hardy Boys. Or maybe

even newly-designated Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. There's a

Washington mystery that needs solving.

 

Everyone in D.C., it seems, is utterly baffled as to how an ugly little

provision shielding pharmaceutical behemoth Eli Lilly from billions in

lawsuits filed by the parents of autistic children made its way, in the 12th

hour, into, of all things, the 475-page Homeland Security bill.

 

" It's a mystery to us, " shrugged Eli Lilly spokesman Rob Smith.

 

It's a mystery to us, too, echoed spokesmen for the White House, the

Department of Health and Human Services, and

physician-turned-senator-turned-drug-company-shill Bill Frist, who had

originally penned the Lilly-friendly provision for a different bill.

 

The haphazard lawmaking also proved baffling for pharmaceutical industry

lobbyists, and for White House budget director Mitch Daniels, a former Lilly

executive, who made a very public show of disavowing any knowledge of the

amendment's mystifying genesis. Gosh, maybe the little provision just flew

down from heaven. Or was immaculately conceived. Or maybe Osama bin Laden

snuck over and planted the little public policy bomb himself.

 

The outrageous rider stuck onto the end of the Homeland Security bill

provides security for Lilly from suits filed by the families of autistic

children who believe that their kids' condition is linked to Thimerosal, a

mercury-based preservative made by Lilly that used to be a common ingredient

in childhood vaccines.

 

But in a town where knowledge is power, and where there is no shortage of

people willing to take credit for even the most minute accomplishment, there

has been a sudden outbreak of people playing dumb. Official Washington is

observing a code of omerta that makes the Sopranos look like the loose-lipped

gals on " The View. " In other words: nobody's seen nothin'.

 

Here are the clues we have to work with: over the Veteran’s Day weekend, GOP

negotiators from the House and Senate hunkered down to finalize the details

of the elephantine security bill. At some point -- no one is willing to say

when -- someone -- no one is willing to say who -- inserted the Lilly

provision -- though no one is willing to say why.

 

It's vital that we solve the mystery -- even if you believe that the

custom-made legislation is justified. We need to find out because this kind

of behind-closed-doors monkey business is an affront to our democracy -- the

very democracy this bill was theoretically designed to protect.

 

Perhaps it should have been called " The Homeland and Lilly Protection Act. "

 

" The ability, " Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, told me " of a special interest

group to secretly insert provisions into law for its own narrow benefit and

to the detriment of the public interest raises fundamental questions about

the integrity of our government. "

 

Kucinich has vowed to lead a challenge to congressional rules that permit our

representatives to do the bidding of their deep-pocket donors away from the

prying eyes of the public. At the most crucial part of the bill-drafting

process -- when the language of the law is being finalized -- Washington’s

corporate alchemists work their black magic to turn legislative gold into

self-preserving lead.

 

" It's a defect in the system, " explains Kucinich. " When a bill goes into a

conference committee, it gets yanked out of the sunlight and into the

shadows. The conference process is a closed one, so you can go into a

conference committee and basically add anything or take out anything you want

and no one really knows. It transforms the legislature into a secret cabal. "

 

So this fight is about a lot more than pushing for the repeal of the Lilly

provision, something Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and John McCain,

R-Ariz., have promised to do when the 108th Congress convenes in January.

It's about putting an end to the gaming of the system that is turning the

legislative process into a prize-a-minute carnival for big contributors. “

Inserting such favors for special interests in a bill is a directive that can

only come from some very high places,†Stabenow told me.

 

Intriguingly, Stabenow, McCain, and Kucinich may have found an unlikely ally

in their battle -- one with a very personal stake in the issue. It turns out

that Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., the chairman of the Government Reform and

Oversight Committee, has a grandson who first began showing symptoms of

autism within days of receiving vaccinations containing Thimerosal. " He

became radically different, " says Burton, " banging his head against the wall,

running around flapping his arms. Twenty years ago we had one in 10,000

children that they thought was autistic. Now, it's more than one out of 250. "

 

 

This is clearly not a left-right issue. Any politician who has waxed lyrical

about " accountability " and " transparency " -- that includes you, Mr. President

-- owes it to the public to demand that Congress get to the bottom of just

whose directive it was to insert into the homeland security bill a provision

that has absolutely nothing to do with homeland security.

 

And to find out whether the $1.6 million that Lilly contributed in the last

election cycle -- 79 percent of which went to Republicans -- had anything to

do with the inclusion of this designer provision. And, come to think of it,

whether these donations had anything to do with the Bush administration

asking a federal claims court to block public access to documents unearthed

in over a thousand Thimerosal-related lawsuits.

For anyone remotely familiar with the ways of Washington -- and Sherlock

Holmes -- the answer should be " elementary. "

 

We're used to having pounds of fatty pork stirred into almost every recipe

Congress dishes up. But the abuse of a bill about homeland security is

especially distasteful. Washington's greedy corporate masters may finally

have overreached. Their continued influence constitutes a clear and present

danger to our security and if the president is serious about protecting the

homeland, he should speak up.

 

 

 

 

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When your body cannot handle milk protien and you use kefir to ferment,does

the casein still turn to morphine in the brain?????

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" Frank " <califpacific

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Thursday, December 05, 2002 11:31 PM

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atracyphd

Fri, 6 Dec 2002 00:16:57 EST

[drugawareness] Homeland Secturity or Eli Lilly Security Bill

 

 

My Groups | drugawareness Main Page

 

This needs no introduction. Arianna Huffington has really outdone herself on

this article!! It is wonderful! I have seen no one address this issue as

well

as she has. I did a show on the issue out of MN last Wednesday and wish I

would have had some of the information she exposes in this article.

 

About the only connection I think that she missed was to point out that Tom

Ridge, the Homeland Security Secretary, is the past CEO of Serle

Pharmaceutical. This should the called the Pharmaceutical Security

Department

rather than the Homeland Security Department!

 

What has been done in this bill in the way of protecting Lilly from taking

responsibility for their mistakes that has cost families so much is both

frightening and despicable!

 

Autism is a condition caused by high levels of serotonin - exactly what the

SSRIs are designed to increase. So my question would be, " How do these

vaccines affect serotonin levels? " I know that there are too many reports of

autistic children being born to mothers on these SSRI antidepressants. One

mother had three before she began to wonder if it might be related to her

Prozac!

 

It would be interesting to see how many of these cases of autism could be

turned around using Dr. Cade's research on autism. He found it was linked to

the milk protein. You see when one cannot metabolize the milk protein

(casein), it turns to caso-morphine in the brain. And morphine is a powerful

SSRI. Dr. Cade found that when he took autistic and schizophrenic children

off dairy 80% had autistic symptoms dissipate.

 

Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, Executive Director,

International Coalition For Drug Awareness

www.drugawareness.org & author of Prozac: Panacea

or Pandora? - Our Serotonin Nightmare (800-280-0730)

 

<A

HREF= " http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns120402.html " >http://www.ari

annaonline.com/columns120402.</A><A

HREF= " http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns120402.html " >html </A>

 

Finding The Answer To Washington's Hottest Whodunit

 

By Arianna Huffington

Filed December 4, 2002

 

Quick, somebody call Sherlock Holmes. Or at least the Hardy Boys. Or maybe

even newly-designated Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. There's a

Washington mystery that needs solving.

 

Everyone in D.C., it seems, is utterly baffled as to how an ugly little

provision shielding pharmaceutical behemoth Eli Lilly from billions in

lawsuits filed by the parents of autistic children made its way, in the 12th

hour, into, of all things, the 475-page Homeland Security bill.

 

" It's a mystery to us, " shrugged Eli Lilly spokesman Rob Smith.

 

It's a mystery to us, too, echoed spokesmen for the White House, the

Department of Health and Human Services, and

physician-turned-senator-turned-drug-company-shill Bill Frist, who had

originally penned the Lilly-friendly provision for a different bill.

 

The haphazard lawmaking also proved baffling for pharmaceutical industry

lobbyists, and for White House budget director Mitch Daniels, a former Lilly

executive, who made a very public show of disavowing any knowledge of the

amendment's mystifying genesis. Gosh, maybe the little provision just flew

down from heaven. Or was immaculately conceived. Or maybe Osama bin Laden

snuck over and planted the little public policy bomb himself.

 

The outrageous rider stuck onto the end of the Homeland Security bill

provides security for Lilly from suits filed by the families of autistic

children who believe that their kids' condition is linked to Thimerosal, a

mercury-based preservative made by Lilly that used to be a common ingredient

in childhood vaccines.

 

But in a town where knowledge is power, and where there is no shortage of

people willing to take credit for even the most minute accomplishment, there

has been a sudden outbreak of people playing dumb. Official Washington is

observing a code of omerta that makes the Sopranos look like the

loose-lipped

gals on " The View. " In other words: nobody's seen nothin'.

 

Here are the clues we have to work with: over the Veteranâ?Ts Day weekend,

GOP

negotiators from the House and Senate hunkered down to finalize the details

of the elephantine security bill. At some point -- no one is willing to say

when -- someone -- no one is willing to say who -- inserted the Lilly

provision -- though no one is willing to say why.

 

It's vital that we solve the mystery -- even if you believe that the

custom-made legislation is justified. We need to find out because this kind

of behind-closed-doors monkey business is an affront to our democracy -- the

very democracy this bill was theoretically designed to protect.

 

Perhaps it should have been called " The Homeland and Lilly Protection Act. "

 

" The ability, " Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, told me " of a special interest

group to secretly insert provisions into law for its own narrow benefit and

to the detriment of the public interest raises fundamental questions about

the integrity of our government. "

 

Kucinich has vowed to lead a challenge to congressional rules that permit

our

representatives to do the bidding of their deep-pocket donors away from the

prying eyes of the public. At the most crucial part of the bill-drafting

process -- when the language of the law is being finalized -- Washingtonâ?Ts

corporate alchemists work their black magic to turn legislative gold into

self-preserving lead.

 

" It's a defect in the system, " explains Kucinich. " When a bill goes into a

conference committee, it gets yanked out of the sunlight and into the

shadows. The conference process is a closed one, so you can go into a

conference committee and basically add anything or take out anything you

want

and no one really knows. It transforms the legislature into a secret cabal. "

 

So this fight is about a lot more than pushing for the repeal of the Lilly

provision, something Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and John McCain,

R-Ariz., have promised to do when the 108th Congress convenes in January.

It's about putting an end to the gaming of the system that is turning the

legislative process into a prize-a-minute carnival for big contributors. â?o

Inserting such favors for special interests in a bill is a directive that

can

only come from some very high places,â? Stabenow told me.

 

Intriguingly, Stabenow, McCain, and Kucinich may have found an unlikely ally

in their battle -- one with a very personal stake in the issue. It turns out

that Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., the chairman of the Government Reform and

Oversight Committee, has a grandson who first began showing symptoms of

autism within days of receiving vaccinations containing Thimerosal. " He

became radically different, " says Burton, " banging his head against the

wall,

running around flapping his arms. Twenty years ago we had one in 10,000

children that they thought was autistic. Now, it's more than one out of

250. "

 

 

This is clearly not a left-right issue. Any politician who has waxed lyrical

about " accountability " and " transparency " -- that includes you, Mr.

President

-- owes it to the public to demand that Congress get to the bottom of just

whose directive it was to insert into the homeland security bill a provision

that has absolutely nothing to do with homeland security.

 

And to find out whether the $1.6 million that Lilly contributed in the last

election cycle -- 79 percent of which went to Republicans -- had anything to

do with the inclusion of this designer provision. And, come to think of it,

whether these donations had anything to do with the Bush administration

asking a federal claims court to block public access to documents unearthed

in over a thousand Thimerosal-related lawsuits.

For anyone remotely familiar with the ways of Washington -- and Sherlock

Holmes -- the answer should be " elementary. "

 

We're used to having pounds of fatty pork stirred into almost every recipe

Congress dishes up. But the abuse of a bill about homeland security is

especially distasteful. Washington's greedy corporate masters may finally

have overreached. Their continued influence constitutes a clear and present

danger to our security and if the president is serious about protecting the

homeland, he should speak up.

 

 

 

 

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