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and 21 in foreign countries [now renamed the Chase Food and Drug Administration - Serving Who? Manhattan Bank with over 200 branches in the US and Leaving no stone untumed, Ruesch shows how the Drug Trust, abroad]. Not the least of its holdings are in the drug busi- in securing their drug interests, planted stooges into senior posi- ness. The Rockefellers own the largest drug manufacturing tions of colleges, universities, and government bodies. About the combine in the world, and use all of their other interests to Food and Drug Administration, Ruesch charges: bring pressure to increase the sale of drugs." "When a good law was enacted many years ago for pro- tecting the American public from spoiled food and poiso- The Not-So-Independent Media nous drugs, the Drug Trust lost little time to get its hooks Instrumental in Rockefellers’ moves towards making the world into the government bureau that was charged with enforc- drug-dependent is their enormous influence on the media. ing the law.” Commenting on this, Ruesch explains: Ruesch cited Morris Bealle who wrote that the FDA “is used pri- "So the stage was set for the ‘education’ of the marily for the perversion of justice by cracking down on all who American public, with a view to turning them into a popu- endanger the profits of the Drug Trust."* Ruesch further states: lation of drug dependents with the early help of the “Apparently, the FDA doesn't only wink at the violations schools, then with direct advertising and, last but not least, of the Drug Trust whose servant it is (such as the mass the influence the advertising revenues had on the media." deaths in the ginger jake and sulfathiozole cases), but it is A compilation of the magazine Advertising Age showed particularly assiduous in putting out of business all competi- that as far back as 1948 the larger companies spent for tors of the Drug Trust, like the vendors of natural therapeu- newspapers, radio and mag- tic devices that improve the health of the public and thus decrease the profits of azine advertising the sum the Drug Trust..." total of $1,104,224,374, when the dollar was still And the situation is worth a dollar. Of this stag- practically identical in gering sum the interlocking all the other industrial- ockefeller-Morgan interests ized countries, notably gene over entirely to Great Britain, France sesh) contralicd Mecee'zo “see 1.5 million people landed in hospitals in *"¢ West Germany” per cent, and utilized itto 1978 because of medication side-effects in The Undeclared War on manipulate public informa- i j " Natural Medicine an is = _- —_ drug mat- the US alone ... The Civil Abolitionist car- Anybody who tries to get ried an article rightly titled into the mass media inde- on E ae pendent news, contrary to a. apo P ware or or the interests of the Drug ersecutor?", whic! Trust, will sooner or later that on May 6, 1992, the run into an unbreakable clinic of Jonathan Wright wall PE M1), a highly regarded nutri- ¥ bic edvertt a | . h tion specialist, was assailed by 22 armed men because the doctor For big advertisers it is easy not only to plant into the had been treating his patients with safe natural substances that did- pers = deny the wish to disseminate, - also to keep n't meet the FDA's approval. During the SWAT type attack the out the news they don't want to get around. A surve front door was kicked open, guns were pointed directly at staff and 1978 by the Columbia Journalism Review failed to find a the shocked patients were herded into a room. Also patient records — comprehensive article about the dangers of smoking equipment, business records and vitamin supplies were confiscated. 1 Che (RGVEARS EER PS a ahy Bae eae ocae At the time of the article, the FDA has not as yet filed charges ing cigarette advertising. against Dr Wright.” Even the most independent newspapers are dependent During last year, similar actions have taken place against three on their press associations for their national news. And nf: Sse there is no reason for a news editor to suspect that a story Reseach and Bigidend Lebsetoocioas™ CAlleogy Research, Time coming over the wires of Associated Press, United Press International or the International News Services is censored In Australia, a repeal of Schedule 1, Exemptions of the 5 Therapeutic Goods Act, scheduled for January 1994, would min- when tt conaaras Hiesiiirmeiiars. imise access to natural therapy remedies by natural therapists and Yet this is what happens constantly. [Emphasis added.]© rid tiheeraien thee-edisbe f th : wo! tural th fe id Ruesch showed how the above-mentioned international media pack i of Pres "at tien" OEY Peer eae were taken over by the Drug Trust and he further explains: "So this sews up the press associations of the Rockefeller Corrupt FDA Officials Drug Trust, and accounts for the many fake stories of In their August-September 1992 issue, NEXUS Magazine report- serums and medical cures and just-around-the-corner- od that is 0 acker wf pablic record thet the FDA re rie i te a which go out brazenly over its following practices: P wires to all daily newspapers in America and abroad..." * Many of the —_— 'research grants’ that the FDA receives Thus newspapers continue to be fed constantly with propaganda fi 4 about drugs and their alleged value, although 1.5 million people pn by the very drug companies they were supposed to be landed in hospitals in 1978 because of medication side-effects in + Mid- and upper-level FDA officials enjoy ‘revolving doar’ sta- the US alone, and despite recurrent statements by intelligent and tus when they leave the FDA, wherein they go to cushy, well-pay- prays ied — —— that most pharmaceutical. items on sale foddiahal i plecvoayaecer tg mamupiilie’ icy antcketaieee ls , have been regulating. Ammons Hen meeny paeliestions omped by. Ss Eeekieene ia * Currently, 150 top FDA officials hold significant amounts of Trust, are: Fortune, Life, Time, Readers Digest and Newsweek ° A “ magazines, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. These publications atthe be pharmaceutical companies they were supposed to be are constantly posing drugs. : Continued on page 64 and 21 in foreign countries [now renamed the Chase Manhattan Bank with over 200 branches in the US and abroad]. Not the least of its holdings are in the drug busi- ness. The Rockefellers own the largest drug manufacturing combine in the world, and use all of their other interests to bring pressure to increase the sale of drugs." Corrupt FDA Officials In their August-September 1992 issue, NEXUS Magazine report- ed that it is a matter of public record that the FDA indulges in the following practices: * Many of the so-called ‘research grants’ that the FDA receives are ‘donated’ by the very drug companies they were supposed to be regulating. * Mid- and upper-level FDA officials enjoy ‘revolving door’ sta- tus when they leave the FDA, wherein they go to cushy, well-pay- ing jobs in those very same drug companies they were supposed to have been regulating. * Currently, 150 top FDA officials hold significant amounts of stock in the pharmaceutical companies they were supposed to be regulating.” gulating Continued on nage 64 APRIL - MAY 1993 NEXUS¢29 24 Continued on page 64