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solarhydrocan's JournalThe Pharma companies that routinely bribe and cheat their way around the world
lying thieving rat bastards belong in jail, not their private jets making $400,000 per day
Drug Company Accused of Bribing Doctors
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131602
Bribery And Corruption In The Pharmaceutical Sector
http://www.financierworldwide.com/article.php?id=11025
GlaxoSmithKline fined $3bn after bribing doctors to increase drugs sales
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/03/glaxosmithkline-fined-bribing-doctors-pharmaceuticals
Bribery 'routine' for foreign pharmaceutical firms in China
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23662909
That's just a few from the first page of a search- from the last year.
Criminals on the loose.
And apparently no one will stop it
In a perfect world, the Deer would be armed with high powered rifles
and because they would still be at a disadvantage throw in some night vision goggles and motion sensing devices.
But the world isn't perfect. Fortunately there are billions of planets and this race isn't the only so called intelligent life in the universe.
Instead of "Completely" it should have said "Partially"
A friend of mine told me about a car by Henry Ford that was made almost entirely of hemp. It was unveiled as a prototype, and proclaimed to be the car of the future. Unfortunately, World War II and the DuPont corporation killed what would have been a lighter, safer and more cost effective car. I was asked to research the validity of this claim.
I had not heard of this car, so I googled it. Nearly every pro-hemp website mentioned it, but didn't give sources. Even YouTube has a video of this "hemp car" from 1941. It sounded like a good idea, and Henry Ford was certainly a visionary, but I really wanted the truth (I'm not anti-hemp; I'm pro-facts and anti-myth.) ....
....
(article continues) Mr. Ford tested the pliability of the plastic panel by swinging on it with an axe. The panel was unchanged after the blow, but a similar experiment on a steel panel cut through the metal. ...
Needed materials, he said, would include 100,000 bales of cotton, 500,000 bushels of wheat, 700,000 bushels of soy beans and 500,000 bushels of corn. "Plastic raw materials may cost a little more," he said, "but we anticipate a considerable saving as the result of fewer fabricating finishing operations."
-"Ford Shows Auto Built of Plastic - Strong Material Derived from Soy Beans, Wheat, Corn is used for Body and Fenders," New York Times, 14 August 1941.
http://theangryhistorian.blogspot.com/2010/10/hemp-car-myth-busted.html
Almost anything made from plastic can be made from hemp.
How is it that English Farmers can grow this crop but the Rebels that beat them cannot?
like the Hempcar in 2001- powered by hemp oil
http://hempcar.org/
If the media wasn't owned by 4 or 5 corporations more people would have heard about this.
It didn't stop Karen Ignagni either
This woman is one to behold. Probably the single biggest factor in convincing President Obama to "change his mind" on the mandates that he campaigned against.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Ignagni
(Karen Ignagni estimates the size of just one of her balls)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Health_Insurance_Plans
On the July 10, 2009 edition of Bill Moyers Journal, Wendell Potter, former Vice President of corporate communications at the health insurance corporation CIGNA, claimed that the industry was "afraid" of the Michael Moore documentary Sicko.
As a result, AHIP formed a strategy to "discredit this film". As part of the reporting on this allegation, Bill Moyers Journal provides May 2007 and June 2007 drafts of a memo entitled "Ensuring Accurate Perceptions of the Health Insurance Industry".
This memo outlines the strategy the health insurance industry would use to battle Moore’s documentary. The later draft lists the following as the "5 Strategies We Reached Consensus On":
1. "Debate the System, not the Anecdotes. Set the record straight then get off Moore’s turf and on to ours."
2. "Reframe the Debate: Mount Campaign against a Government-run Health Care system."
3. "Define the Health Insurance as Part of the Solution."
4. "Caution Democrats Against Aligning with Moore’s Extremist Agenda."
5. "Game Plan for Various Potential Scenarios."
The AHIP memos do not list any factual errors in Sicko. The memos instead focus primarily on media messaging in terms of influencing politicians and public opinion. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/transcript2.html
She and her lobbyists had the gold and they made the rules.
The best hot dog is a tofu pup
grill 'em till they're almost black. Most regular hot dog eaters can't tell the difference.
Water, soy protein isolate, soy oil, organic spray dried tofu (organic dehulled soybeans, calcium sulfate), contains 2% or less natural flavors (from vegetable sources), beet powder, yeast extract, sunflower oil, natural smoke flavor, salt, paprika oleoresin, vegetable gums, tomato pulp.
Mmm good, and good for you!
Lightlife also makes a meat free hamburger that is to die for.
http://www.lightlife.com/Vegan-Food-Vegetarian-Diet/Vegetarian-Burgers/Vegetarian-Grilling-Burgers
You can read the original paper by Stewart Butler here
Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans
Stewart M. Butler Heritage Foundation
http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/assuring-affordable-health-care-for-all-americans
The United States spends over 11 percent of its gross national product on health care. That translates into more than $2,000 per person each year - more than the per capita GN P of many countries. Yet although the U.S. spends far more than any other country on health care, there are gaping holes in the system's coverage, and health care services are gripped by runaway inflation...
...2) Mandate all households to obtain adequate insurance. Many states now require passengers in automobiles to wear seatbelts for their own protection. Many others require anybody driving a car to have li a bility insurance. But neither the federal government nor any state requires all households to protect themselves from the potentially catastrophic costs of a serious accident or illness. Under the Heritage plan, there would be such a requirement.
This mandate is based on two important principles. First, that health care protection is a responsibility of individuals, not businesses. Thus to the extent that anybody should be required to provide coverage to a family, the household mandate assumes that it is the family that carries the first responsibility.
Second, it assumes that there is an implicit contract between households and society, based on the notion that health insurance is not like other forms of insurance protection. If a young man wrecks his Porsche and has not had the foresight to obtain insurance, we may commiserate but society feels no obligation to repair his car. But health care is different.
..more
http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/assuring-affordable-health-care-for-all-americans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_foundation#Policy_influence
"The government also has a poor track record when it comes to keeping secrets that big."
Not entirely true.
The 1953 Iran coup d'etat was not mentioned even once by Ted Koppel or anyone else in 444 days and nights. Which was the direct cause of the hostage crisis to begin with. It was a "Conspiracy theory" until de-classified in the late '90s.
The Manhattan project was a pretty big secret and it was kept pretty well.
pharma companies bribing their way around the world
to get others hooked on their poison
Drug maker Eli Lilly hit with foreign bribery charges
By James O'Toole @jtotoole December 20, 2012: 2:11 PM ET
http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/20/news/companies/eli-lilly/index.html
Pharma giant GSK investigated for bribery
Global Times | 2013-7-12 1:18:01
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/795677.shtml#.UpUnzcWvfCo
Pfizer settles foreign bribery charges
By James O'Toole @CNNMoney August 7, 2012
http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/07/news/companies/pfizer-bribery-charges/index.htm
Here’s Another Chinese Bribery Scandal for Novartis
Jacqueline Sahagian September 18, 2013
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/heres-another-chinese-bribery-scandal-for-novartis.html/?a=viewall
CEO Pay is a symptom of a huge problem. I'm not going to pay $300+ per month to cover a few minutes of a crooks pay.
Neither is Keith Olbermann.
Edit to add the Olbermann vid I meant to post and leaving the existing one because it is also on topic
Right! k/r
and this too
Healy...attributes our current state of affairs to three key factors: product rather than process patents on drugs, the classification of certain drugs as prescription-only, and industry-controlled drug trials.
These developments have tied the survival of pharmaceutical companies to the development of blockbuster drugs, so that they must overhype benefits and deny real hazards. Healy further explains why these trends have basically ended the possibility of universal health care in the United States and elsewhere around the world. He concludes with suggestions for reform of our currently corrupted evidence-based medical system.
http://www.amazon.com/Pharmageddon-David-Healy/dp/0520275764/
Pharma + Insurance weasels= a busted system that will only get more expensive
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