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  • Reply to: Donations Tie Drug Firms and Nonprofits   17 years 11 months ago

    I took zyprexa which was ineffective for my condition and gave me diabetes.

    {Only 9 percent of adult Americans think the pharmaceutical industry can be trusted right around the same rating as big tobacco}

    Zyprexa, which is used for the treatment of psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, accounted for 32% of Eli Lilly's $14.6 billion revenue last year.

    Zyprexa is the product name for Olanzapine,it is Lilly's top selling drug.It was approved by the FDA in 1996 ,an 'atypical' antipsychotic a newer class of drugs without the motor side effects of the older Thorazine.Zyprexa has been linked to causing diabetes and pancreatitis.

    Did you know that Lilly made nearly $3 billion last year on diabetic meds, Actos,Humulin and Byetta?

    Yes! They sell a drug that can cause diabetes and then turn a profit on the drugs that treat the condition that they may have caused in the first place!

    I was prescribed Zyprexa from 1996 until 2000.
    In early 2000 i was shocked to have an A1C test result of 13.9 (normal is 4-6) I have no history of diabetes in my family.
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    Daniel Haszard http://www.zyprexa-victims.com

  • Reply to: Is "Vets for Freedom" A Republican Front Group?   17 years 11 months ago
    Check out the latest on our SourceWatch article by clicking here on [[Vets for Freedom]]. Kudos to researcher and contributor Artificial Intelligence for documenting this information below, posted on [[Vets for Freedom]] with additional documentation: An internet search for ''"Vets for Freedom" + fundraising'' arrives at a donation page bearing the same logos and information as other VFF web pages. However, the web address is that for DonationReport.com (plus an extension code for VFF). The connection for the DonationReport.com [http://www.donationreport.com website] arrives at a Login page requiring both a User ID and Password—which belongs to eDonation.com, a member of [[The Donatelli Group]], a fundraising company that has raised campaign funds for the [[Republican National Committee]], [[Republican National Convention]], [[Bush-Cheney '04 Inc.]], [[John McCain]], the NRA, and an exhaustive list of members of the [[U.S. Senate]] and [[U.S. House of Representatives]] and other political organizations. [http://www.campaignsolutions.com/contents/clients/] The Donatelli Group is associated with [[Creative Response Concepts]], the [[public relations]] firm that advised [[Swift Boat Veterans for Truth]], the "organization that accused [[John Kerry|Kerry]] of inflating his Vietnam War record" during the 2004 presidential campaign.
  • Reply to: Coming Soon To a Theater Near You: Docuganda!   17 years 11 months ago

    propoganda needs to be acknowledged as such. Over the last fifteen years, Fox News has transformed "news" into editorials-- not just for its own station, but also for every other news station. First of all, the recognition that objective reporting is not possible has resulted in opinion pieces replacing that objective reporting. Secondly, stations have learned that preaching to the choir (as this website tends to do) secures a base audience that strengthens that business or organization in an otherwise too competitive market. Whether it's from Rush Limbaugh or Noam Chomsky, Fox News or CNN, politically biased perspective replaces raw (albeit organized) data that acknowledges as many sides as possible (not just Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Greenie, or Radical, but rather uncategorizable data). Unfortunately, as many people who take Fox News at face value also take Moore at face value. No source of information openly admits that it is biased or explains how it is biased.

    We're not thinking for ourselves. We're buying (literally purchasing) polarized identities. These identities disable us from thinking outside these thematic paradigms. The paradigms decide who we vote for, and even whether or not we vote. The paradigms oppose us to people we could otherwise understand. We defend the limits of this thinking: If you cross this line, you are no longer one of us. We inherently repress any acknowledgement of whatever in ourselves does not abide by our polarized definitions for ourselves. We become neurotic about certain "political" subjects. We are trapped in these identities.

    This is the true nature of democratized media: freedom of choice means you chose freely and so can be defined by that choice, until you are bound by that choice and no longer free.

    --Gray Kane

  • Reply to: PR Execs Held to Account for Overbilling City Accounts   17 years 11 months ago

    PR Week has an [http://www.prweek.com/us/sectors/crisiscommunications/article/560023/ interview with John Mann], one of the jurors in the trial, who says reaching the guilty verdict was "not a terribly emotional decision" because "There were concrete facts, and the numbers were just not adding up" (subscription required).

    [[John Stodder]], Dowie's assistant at Fleishman-Hillard (who was convicted on 12 counts) has his own weblog, which includes [http://johnstodderinexile.wordpress.com/2006/05/17/after-the-verdict/ his reaction to the verdict]: "I can't write anything specific about the jury's verdict yesterday. The process is not really over. So there's not a lot I can say right now, other than to echo my attorney's disappointment and disagreement with this result. ... It’s not appropriate for me to get into the details, except to say that my plea of 'not guilty' was sincere, and based not only an examination of my own heart, but also on my understanding of the law. I value the relationships I had with my clients thus would never have presented a bill to them for services they didn’t receive. Obviously the jury differed with my position. I don’t expect anyone to lightly dismiss the weight of that verdict. So until I’m at greater liberty to explain myself, I just have to deal with the fact that many will conclude the jury is right."

    Stodder's blog post also includes a comment from one of his friends, Suzanne Reed: "Your integrity is impeccable and irrefutable. There is no amount of evidence that anyone, anywhere could present to me that would convince me that you are guilty of the charges that were brought against you."

  • Reply to: Scandals, Scandals, Scandals -- Part II: The Investigations   17 years 11 months ago
    Yes, he was a republican -- thanks for catching that.

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