good evening ladies and gentlemen what i know is turned out for our spokesperson for move to him and a huge movement that has beginning to captivate on awful lot of people since what happened with the supreme court so i'm just going to sing a song that i wrote to one of those members of the supreme court here at least it starts out that way called we've got to amend my friend right but i do want to give a big shout out to any of you who are watching me right now let's just acknowledge you're watching it on people's media wherever it is that you're watching me right now some unpaid volunteer took the time to record it thank you some unpaid volunteer took the time to upload this to create the infrastructure for you to watch it so we support the people's media yes to the local cable access program that this is going to be played on and also can we get a big shot up to your community radio station it is a people's own people's operated radio station so the point i'm making is this ma'am let's build alternative people's media so that we can talk to each other and let's have those kind of conversations and let's build political power that is serious that takes ourselves seriously because we have to because a just world is at stake and frankly not only a peaceful and just world but we know that the ecology that we depend upon for life itself is in the balance so let's do our work joyously but let's also be serious about it peace minute david are montgomery the name of the book king of fish the thousand year run of salmon isaac walton described salmon famously as the king of fish back in the seventeenth century and the name kind of stuck and walton's book was amazingly bad about the natural history of salmon but he gave a good label if we look at the columbia river system in in eastern washington it's the river that actually makes it across the cascade range to reach from the interior of the continent out to the pacific coast and the salmon of the columbia had been around for probably five or six million years since they diversified from an ancestral salmon that was the same stock is the as the atlantic salmon on the eastern seaboard and the salmon have made this incredible journey of some you know i think up as much as twelve hundred miles up the columbia river system if i recall correctly where salmon are as juvenile fish there are hatched in the stream bed gravels of their nadler home stream and a head for the  coast and their biology was timed historically so that they essentially went from being a freshwater fish to a salt water fish by about the time they hit the area the columbia river they then went shopping in the ocean environment put on about ninety five percent of their body mass eating all the other stuff that was out in the ocean before coming back swimming up the river to their natal stream where they spawn and died so they had one a one a one off one shot at reproduction kind of life cycle that was successful for five or six million years along the columbia river system at least and native americans had a fairly large salmon fishery lewis and clark commented on it they they ate a lot of the dried salmon of the way down the columbia and by some estimates native americans caught on the order of about twenty percent a quarter of the salmon on the columbia and it was it's incredible resource that sustained their society in the region for at least nine nine and a half thousand years according to the archaeological evidence that's longer than our agricultural civilization in the western world has been around so that there has been a sustainable fishery on the columbia for an awful long time up until the historical period if you look at the plots of the amount of salmon on the  columbia they really started to go down with the construction of dams along the columbia disrupted their their migration patterns and the big problem it turns out wasn't so much getting the adult fish back up over the dams it was getting the juvenile fish down past the dams because when the dams on the columbia were built it essentially turned what had been a river into a great series of lakes and the juvenile fish had evolved essentially surf on the river down to the so they would become of a salt water fish by about the time the right time swimming through a whole series of lakes was a different deal took a different amount of time their biology was centrally mismatched to the new configuration of the river well how important ecologically were the great salmon runs of the columbia river well they're obviously very important ecologically to native americans who subsisted off them but all that organic matter all that nitrogen that salmon brought back up along the rivers in the form of their bodies then left in the rivers where they died in their third natal rivers that actually helped fertilize the stream bed welling bugs the benthic macro invertebrates as they're called by biologists essentially the creepy crawly bug things that live on the bed of the river that actually break down and eat things like the carcasses of dead salmon those are also the things that then the juvenile salmon will eat the next year and so essentially the the bodies of the returning fish were essentially a nutrient injection into naturally nutrient poor headwater stream systems and support of the sort of foundation of the whole stream ecosystem other animals bears eagles they would take salmon carcasses of the spawn doubt fish drag them off into the eat them eat part of them drag them off into the forest and there's places where people have found that on returning spawning salmon brought we're bringing in something like a third to a quarter maybe even more i'm forgetting the exact numbers of the nitrogen found in the trees and the stream side forests actually swam up the river as a fish so essentially salmon or fertilizing the headwater ecosystems throughout the columbia river basin and indeed throughout many of the rivers and streams around the pacific northwest what would it mean if those salmon runs were actually brought back to their former day former glory days it would mean a lot more fish to catch a vibrant fishery but also revitalize a lot of the stream ecosystems and right parian or near stream ecosystems and provide food for wildlife in organisms that have come to depend on them for as long as salmon have been swimming up the columbia river and is tributaries for millions of years but the plight of the salmon in the northwest has been traditionally described his what's cloak of the called before ages harvest or overfishing hydro or dam construction that blocks their migration up and down the rivers and streams habitat or changes in their habitat variability in quality and then the role of hatcheries and hatchery fish in competing with with wild fish and if you look at the pacific northwest as a region all four of those ages actually had a role in the decline of salmon populations and in my book king of fish i look back at the history of salmon runs in england and in europe and in new england and compare that to the story of the northwest and they're actually fairly similar stories in terms of overfishing and habitat change and dams all progressively conspiring if you will to reduce the viability of salmon throughout the range of their of their habitat and politically one of the factors that it enabled the decline to go on when nobody wanted the decline of salmon in any of those three regions there was their commissions formed in all three regions or it's a societal outcry over the plight of the salmon and yet the degradation continued in part because you had multiple causes and vested interests that were very much tied to those causes were able to point to the other causes as the real culprit and the politics of the situation essentially perc precluded effective action to address the known causes of salmon declines sadly that still goes on today the early days of salmon canning on the columbia river were actually pretty impressive they were able to catch and can something like ninety percent of the runs of the earliest runs of the biggest fish that they were most attractive to the canners and they can technology came from from the east essentially from points to the east and it was imported to california and then made it up to the sacramento river and then made it up the coast to the columbia river as the sacramento was it was depleted  then the dam started being built and the habitat started to change and if you look at different rivers around the northwest you can point to overfishing or habitat change or dam construction as the primary culprit culprit in different degrees and different rivers every river has essentially a unique story in its own experience but most of them some combination of two or all three of those factors were really big factors and the strategy society lead for dealing with declining salmon runs was almost around the west adopted to be the strategy of building salmon hatcheries if we're running out official natural have it well habitat what if we just built this factories to make more fish and everybody liked the idea of that as a solution because you didn't have to stop cutting the forests down or building dams or or denigrating habitat or even or fishing for that matter you could just make more fish unfortunately that hatches haven't worked out to be that successful over the long run there's examples of successful at hatchery management there's examples of introducing salmon to other areas where they weren't native which are the hatchery programs such as like the program in new zealand where salmon are now an invasive nuisance species as opposed to an endangered species but  the brutal reality is that the in the rivers where's the hatchery programs expanded the wild fish populations declined and new england is probably the but the real the worst example of that where fish farming ha y escapees now outnumber wild fish by about one hundred to one in the rivers were trying to bring wild fish back we have a system of medicine that's broken that by itself is killing at least seven hundred thousand people a year some people are dying since they don't have health insurance but what about the number of people who are dying because of the current system administration's major reason for existence was to keep our food and drugs safe there is absolutely no question who the f d a works for they represent the interests of the drug companies and they vet attack anyone who presents a challenge to that if a company has a natural product backed by good scientific knowledge the f d a will attack them and the better your product works the more aggressively you'll be attacked you will be threatened with being arrested and thrown in jail you'll have your products confiscated your company shut down the owners of these companies are so terrified that they won't speak out publicly about what's happening behind closed doors they are being forced to sign a consent decrees where you must agree to admit that you're committing crimes even though you've never committed a crime you've only told the truth about an herb or a nutrient or even a to block new or alternative ways for people to get better they haven't revealed the vested interests and the hand in hand in a ship that exists between the f d a and the pharmaceutical companies  think the american people are finally catching on to this and this is going to i think going to blow the roof off this whole thing the food and drug administration is a captive of the pharmaceutical industry it's absolutely transparently clear and it is the of numerous whistleblowers testimony to congress f d a medical reviewers have time and again identified drugs as causing severe adverse effects and have warned against approval and their opinions have been squelched they've been punished they they had criminal investigations commenced against them political witch ons f d a deputy director of the office of drug safety david graham has repeatedly stated that there is the sun to influence that essentially he who pays the piper calls the tune i would argue that the f d a is currently configured is incapable of protecting america against another vioxx we are virtually defenseless it is important that this committee on the american people understand what  happed that what happened with vioxx is really a symptom of something far more dangerous to the safety of the american people simply put f d a and the center for drug evaluation and research are broken when i appeared before the senate finance committee and announced to the world that incapable of protecting america from unsafe drugs or from another vioxx f d a is responsible for one hundred forty thousand heart attacks sixty thousand dead americans that's as many people as were killed in the vietnam war within the center for drug evaluation research about eighty percent of the resources are geared towards the approval of new drugs and twenty percent as for everything else drug safety is about five percent congress has created that structure by purdue for the prescription drug user fee act by which drug companies pay money to f d a so the f d a will review and approve it struggles for industry every day that the drug is held up from being marketed in their minds that's another one to two million dollars of profit that they're being denied and so the incentive is review the drugs as quickly as possible approve them as quickly as possible and don't stand in the way of our making profit there's a strong bias in favor of approval in the case of vioxx for example they had a meeting with then f d a commissioner lester crawford and these scientists urged him to take action against this drug and get it off the market what did he do he said the information was all anecdotal he announced that he would approve the drug for pediatric use and what happened to lester crawford when he left the f d a he failed to reveal his ownership interest in large food companies and some pharmaceutical companies this was discovered there were investigations that took place and so he came up on federal charges and he resigned his commission from the f d a he was going to be prosecuted and he struck a deal and avoided a prison term and then what happened to him well he went to work for a lobbying firm in washington that is one of the lobbying firms for the company that made vioxx and he makes an extremely handsome salary here is a person who was responsible for decisions that imperiled lives and indeed actually cost the lives of human beings and he is not penalized for this he's not subject to any criminal prosecution for what he did instead he's rewarded handsome together with other leading national export ads i supplied this information to margaret hamburg commissioner of the f d a and if you don't know what it so here we have margaret hamburg to dismissal from her job at mediately and yet she's still in her office so we're dealing with a commission the f d a commission has which in this regard and in other gods which i could document have shown themselves to be recklessly it was sponsible what kind of a democracy you know we had when commercial interests in just industry interests take precedence of a public my father he was an amazing man is an artist had a wonderful singing voice played the violin and was an outdoorsman he and i were the best of friends after the house fire that killed my mom we brought him up here so we got him up here to washington and i i said to my wife i said you know he has a time we need to take him down and you know the doctor and i have a good work up make sure he's doing all right oh man i  regret that in so many ways but we went down and they did a full blood panel everything else and lo and behold they said you know he's got pre diabetes not full blown diabetes just kind of borderline but i'm going to grass it doctor and i like that i like to treat things you know before they get out of hand so we want to put him on metformin and it wasn't too long before he started having really difficult time breathing we thought i was going to congestive heart failure and so we had to get a cardiologist and they took a look at it and said well he is having heart problems and he has atrial fibrillation i didn't know what the metformin did now since then i realize that metformin can cause those very same symptoms so they put him on a protocol which included blood thinners and or friend and he was on a package of things including did you take i went to dr i said i don't know if this metformin started this whole mess but i don't think he's really diabetic and we're we're we're testing him every day and he's he's well within good limits and so they took him up the metformin and his heart seemed to get better become down to two thousand eight that's when the recall digitalis and of course i became alarmed i said with a double dose you no wonder he doesn't have any energy no wonder his cart course it was it was only a month or two after that that he died of a fatal rhythm and you know we're in a class action suit right now with about four hundred other people just in this one law firm so there's no question that the drugs that particular drug most likely in his life have gotten his lab reports and said di jock's and toxicity and we were never told by the doctors if you look at the literature that comes out of the research and you look at the the say the lancet or the new england journal of medicine those of them in the big journals and all of those journals have to be finance and how do they get financed think it financed by the drug companies so the drug companies basically are very involved in financing medical research and the problem with that is this they're not just interested parties they are interested in having an outcome that will show that their particular product is a workable product and this of course has led to disastrous consequences which we know because it has been widely reported that over one hundred thousand people every year are killed by one of these pharmaceutical products now if you look at any of these journals it doesn't matter which you will see incredible ads from the drug companies and you see it as look at the article that follows it and notice the article actually pertains to that particular drug you'll also see that the researchers who did the article more likely than not have listed in their disclosure that they received funding a grant if you will from the maker of the drug advertised on the prior page and so then this journal the american medical association any medical journal you care to look at is simply an advertising document not much more or less than a glossy catalogs advertising these drugs when the editor of the new england journal of medicine came out and indicated that there needs to be much more oversight in terms of who's publishing the article and where does the support come from no one really cares it's good to examine the relationship that's developing between america's doctors who have to either the ones who prescribe the medicine and america's drug companies and it is a dangerous corrupt evolution today drug companies spend literally of the solution credo there is very very undermining the amount of money that's spent is staggering and most people are shocked when they find out how much big pharma spend each individual dog doctor per year and this is well documented in the literature that number comes to sixty one thousand dollars per dr puryear all of a sudden doctors are working for corporations and what they're going to be allowed to do is you'll be dictated by them or if you're a physician and you decide for whatever reason that you have a better way that these three protocols really are not going to do the trick that you know well that you just told them to eat differently pick a couple of vitamins they do a whole lot better if you did that then because you deviated from protocols you were risking the loss of license legal prosecution loss of hospital privileges and these protocols can literally cause you to be treated to death by being exposed to hazardous actually result in your demise one of the driving forces behind this trauma that physician so for is the lack of cooperation from the insurance companies and this applies not only the to the physicians but also to the patien blue shoes and what do they do this check their free and then lying in my office and you have a breakdown right now in the primary care practice you have people running to specialist who prescribe their medication for that person symptom ignores the other medications the person is already on and we have people who are being overmedicated over medicated to the extent that they were poisoning themselves and they don't realize that another complex piece and the puzzle as to why it takes two point three trillion dollars to prematurely kill over eight hundred thousand americans another pace's the a m a that would be the american medical association it was just about dead in the water by the turn of the century and was the drug compan that breathed life into the a m a literally bankrolled it to establish an organization that they could act through it to give them more control over physicians and this is essen issues like the insurance issues doctor reimbursement issues medical practice issues takes positions that are totally opposed to the better interests of physicians so much so that many doctors have refused to even be a member of the the membership for years should be the worst for physicians and should be the voice for better health and better care of the patients i have no idea what's wrong i believe it's all politically driven and the say that to a health professional why to people commit suicide i can see why they can commit suicide administrator we're taught that medicine remember is in fact a business and we're there to perpetuate that business we don't really have an incentive to make people well our incentive is to keep bringing in chronically ill people treat them with what we've been indoctrinated to treat them with which is synthetic drugs radiation or surgery send them home and keep them coming back over and over and over again until they finally die and so the hospital has to make sure that this patient receives a certain type of care or a level of care consistent with the diagnosis that they're going to get the hospital practices very expensive equipment whether it's a cat scan or a pet scanner and in order to make back the money to pay the cost of that piece of machinery they've got to have x number of patients to get that today and they write their p so that that particular frequency is reflected in the day to day operations of the hospitals so as an administrator in the hospital i had over one hundred staff under me that i needed to constantly oversee and evaluate now again being a nurse administrator i saw the mistakes that physicians made the orders that were written and that were the wrong orders altogether to be written for a patient wrong diet ordered they make major mistakes i saw the mistakes that nurses made the medication errors i'll bet half of them were never even reported because it's a fear based system because we get paid to do more we have huge medical complex is that are doctors like to do more for their patients and if their patients are insured the patient generally doesn't care because it doesn't cost them anything i've watched people come into hospitals and we we called it the million dollar work up we to make sure we did as many work up test as possible in order for us to generate revenue and to really make sure we could diagnose these people well and then once we diagnose them we filled them with our medication that was and mostly our middle aged people once we got to our elderly that was a whole different ballgame we can warehouse them in the hospitals in the acute care settings until we can get them into nursing homes so the question we've been with all these resources is why are we doing so badly and the answer it seems to me is striking the clear we cling to a private insurance system which has a thirty to thirty two percent overhead overhead as a euphemism for profits for advertising marketing and spectacular salaries to their executives in the course huge amounts of money the stimulus to their investors and the end up with insurance policies that leave them with huge deductibles or huge co pays they end up either deterred from going and seeking appropriate treatment of early time when they can really manage it at a more cost effective way or save their own lives that's the way the system is set up the health care bill that passed provided reform within the context of a for profit system did it make some progress absolutely i mean when you tell insurance companies look you have to cover young people under parents policies age twenty six you have to cover people there for existing conditions that's progress but the truth of the matter is that there's a reason why america has ranks thirty seven of all countries in the world in terms of the cost of health care despite the fact that we spen there's just no question that there are injustices that many people who are under insured or non insured are not receiving the type of care they need but the problem with the proposed solution i propose a solution that's passed and is now part of the united states law is that it perpetuates the same craziness and nonsense has been going on for decades in the united states which is actually accelerating and catalyzing the degenerative diseases in this in the in this country because the focus is  really using drugs as symptomatic treatment for four diseases rather than addressing the underlying causes diseases let's look at who's making money in medicine third party payers are making about thirty percent of the health care dollar the administrative the moving the money around essentially is very expensive this is honestly why i'm a believer in the british health system where there's actually a public health system a private health system it gives people choice it g clinicians choices to where they want to work is it perfect you know is it better than where we are i think so as far as i know it's our private entities that contracted with medicare basically they're brokers of medical gives hundred dollars a poor patient to a particular for care of the patient for the whole year you would expect at least ninety cents of that money would go to patient care but i don't see that happening for the mitcham oh it is in their interest to hold on to that money because that goes into their pockets i know health insurance companies and have had a lot of sway and and they have a concealing lobbyist right now doing everything they can to sway things in their direction in washington i don't like the idea of a corporation deciding how many sessions i should have or how i should be working with any given patient but not a day goes by that i don't get a rejection for a medication that i felt was in my patient's best interest or a treatment that was rejected by the insurance company and they say we would prefer you to use a different medication or a different screening procedure or a different procedure if everybody learned how to alter their attention and recharge their energy and release stress so it doesn't accumulate right down to their d n a because there's good evidence of that now if people learned how to deal with their own minds and their negative emotions and make their mind fresh every moment and in the present by the time they were twelve this would be a really different society this is the guts of what the indigenous healer did and like the body mind emotion spirit and they spent time they did what they had to do to be with people because they were important and if they are important that's what you must do or they won't heal you know what you all over the world there are systems of medicine and there are healing practitioners in place right now in other countries who are getting amazing results with nutritional therapies they're really using anxious systems that are also timeless because healing and nutrition is a timeless concept and it cannot be censored forever it cannot be put out of the way it cannot be ignored it cannot be shut down healing is part of you healing is inside you we have to watch out for the fact that medical science world doing marvelously well with a mechanistic model is still missing the most important parts of the piece they are just a few areas where the mind body connection has been acknowledged by medicine the placebo effect the power of prayer know there's more and more appreciation by the scientific establishment that prayer accelerates healing we now understand through science the interim relationships of the mind in the body and the role of thoughts and feelings in our sell you a life that's actually one hundred eighty degrees different than the allopath eck model and if we feed the body with the proper thoughts which is a form of nutrition we can really start to move into a true popular will but everything you do the smallest cause can produce a huge change in the outcome so the millstone around here is going to firm up over here and when it's in the process of firming or up over here that's when you can after being taken off twenty pharmaceutical drugs sixteen months ago show night is improving show continues her recovery with the help of her husband dave in washington state i just someone's actually