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The Head of the CDC Was Behind the Big Gulp Soda Ban In New York

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NANNY COLABloomberg the Nanny, by William Banzai

Libertarians were outraged by New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s “Big Gulp” ban (which a state court ultimately struck down). They slammed it as a “Nanny State” measure.

But it was current Centers for Disease Control head Tom Frieden who was actually behind the ban.

The New York Times reported in 2004:

Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city’s health commissioner,
has turned out to be an active policy advocate among the city’s
department heads, the outspoken architect of some of the Bloomberg
administration’s more controversial policies.

 

Although Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is more closely associated with a
law that bans smoking citywide, the legislation was actually developed
by Dr. Frieden, who was also given responsibility for helping to push it
through the City Council.

 

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Even Mayor Bloomberg’s partnership with Snapple to sell juice in vending machines in schools has not gone without his notice.

 

"I would have preferred water,” he admitted, although he added that he liked the money that the agreement will raise.

 

He is almost certainly the only city agency head who keeps a bowl of condoms in the reception area of his office.

And the Daily Caller reported in 2010:

  • In 2009, Frieden took to the pages of the New England Journal of
    Medicine to sell the need for a soda tax. “It is difficult to imagine
    producing behavior change of this magnitude through education alone,
    even if government devoted massive resources to the task,” Frieden
    wrote. “Only heftier taxes will significantly reduce consumption.”
  • In 2010, after Obama tapped Frieden to head up the Centers for
    Disease Control, Bloomberg announced his support for a soda tax. “The
    soda tax is a fix that just makes sense,” he said in a March 2010 radio
    address. “It would save lives. It would cut rising health care costs.
    And it would keep thousands of teachers and nurses where they belong: in
    the classrooms and clinics.” Three years earlier, Bloomberg said he was
    opposed to a soda tax.
 

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Thu, 10/16/2014 - 09:41 | 5340919 Tenshin Headache
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Ebola is so not almost gone in Liberia. Society is breaking down.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 19:13 | 5344197 Rootin' for Putin
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What looks to us like society breaking down in liberia, is just how things are normally in liberia.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 14:07 | 5342496 Syrin
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Liberia just requested 80,000 body bags

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 09:47 | 5340939 Rememberweimar
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Ebola will not be controlled because the Bankers that run the world do not want it controlled...

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 10:25 | 5341149 surfsup
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But they got YOU believing lock and stock that this IS ebola !!!   Guess their control is deeper than expected!    Please someone, post a single picture of an Ebola Victim suffering from hemorrhagic discharge!    

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 11:02 | 5341373 Troll Magnet
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Jews will never leave you alone unless you start hitting them back with force or just kick them out altogether like every.single.country they have ever lived in and tried to subvert has done for thousands of years.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 20:34 | 5344557 Kobe Beef
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Germany kicked them out. They came here. See the Frankfurt School for more details.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 12:23 | 5341932 surfsup
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This shit is SO FUNNY : 

youtube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP6qMY1_6dg

If It's So Real, Why The Massive 'Ebola Is Real' Propaganda Campaign?


If Ebola is so real that people are dropping dead in the streets left and right in West Africa every other five minutes (as is being reported here), why is there such a MASSIVE propaganda campaign funded by major international NGOs such as Unicef on billboards, posters, signs, TV, pop songs with the line "Ebola is real" at #1 on the chart on the radio there and even public service messages being played at the start of each incoming phone call in Liberia reminding people over there 24/7 that Ebola is indeed real?

And what is the guy in this clip doing dropping off his son at a hospital who is supposedly dying of Ebola — an act that the media has made it a point to relay is tantamount to a death sentence over there — then just walking away with little emotion and without having his temperature taken, being quarantined, or even questioned...AND holding a wad of cash?

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 14:05 | 5342486 SafelyGraze
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"lost connection to server"

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 14:03 | 5342480 SafelyGraze
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if only there were a way to force-feed vegetables to people. 

especially children.

in public schools.

and at home.

hugs,
michee 

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