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Octafish

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22. I met the author's best friend...

Fri Jan 31, 2014, 10:23 AM

Jan 2014

...the man is prominent in the Detroit community and thinks the world of his work. Here's something online we can learn for free:

Please download this PDF of a 1975 article on The Chicago Plot against JFK, ReRe -- it is most illuminating and will help us pass the torch forward:

http://www.thechicagoplot.com/The%20Chicago%20Plot.pdf

...same M.O. as Dallas, ambush, high-power rifles, high-rise, and one patsy by the name of Thomas Arthur Vallee, a USMC veteran from a U-2 base in Japan. The plot was broken up by the Secret Service in Chicago. Not that they wanted to, they sort of had to when the local cops got a call from a landlady with the guns, passports, maps and "parade route" in Highlighter still on the bed. An important name still with us: Abraham Bolden.

Thank you, ReRe! Readers are leaders.

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Well, there went all my wife's work: Bayer CEO: "We did not develop this drug for Indians" [View all] Recursion Jan 2014 OP

Cynicism is your best defense against this shit Fumesucker Jan 2014 #1

Damn, that's true Recursion Jan 2014 #2

Optimists never get nice surprises Fumesucker Jan 2014 #3

Brilliant. mac56 Jan 2014 #6

Goals are a mistake; the unaimed arrow never misses CanonRay Jan 2014 #11

My favorite Homerism... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2014 #37

Gawd... I remember Tom Lehrer! :-) n/t ReRe Jan 2014 #16

Given what Nestlé' CEO said about water this wouldn't dballance Jan 2014 #4

No, no I have the quote Recursion Jan 2014 #5

They just pulled it. LuvNewcastle Jan 2014 #7

There is no doubt of the racism of the Bayer CEO. However, what is frustrating the pharmaceutical lostincalifornia Jan 2014 #8

Do you believe the for profit model is the best way for society to develop pharmaceuticals? kristopher Jan 2014 #12

Ideally the government should subsidize this, but looking back at the way the ACA became a reality, lostincalifornia Jan 2014 #27

Is there a direct answer in your reply? kristopher Jan 2014 #33

I don't really have a yes or no because I do not have a full grasp of everything involved. I do lostincalifornia Jan 2014 #34

Pharma sector profit margins run about 20%. Which suggests there is little "risk" in their business El_Johns Jan 2014 #36

You'd hope that somebody on the Bayer board... elzenmahn Jan 2014 #17

absolutely, but I doubt that will happen lostincalifornia Jan 2014 #28

"The CEO from Bayer should be fired for his comments." Hotler Jan 2014 #20

"major quality issues going on with some of the generics " dixiegrrrrl Jan 2014 #21

They are suppossed to be biochemically equivalent, and go through similar testing, but I can tell lostincalifornia Jan 2014 #31

this disgusts me. I've watched family and friends die from cancer and this guy is telling me... wyldwolf Jan 2014 #9

You better believe that taxpayer dollars helped in developing this drug... elzenmahn Jan 2014 #14

Kind of NAZI. Octafish Jan 2014 #10

You.. ReRe Jan 2014 #15

I met the author's best friend... Octafish Jan 2014 #22

Stop! ReRe Jan 2014 #23

Knowledge is Power! n/t ReRe Feb 2014 #38

You are right on the mark lostincalifornia Jan 2014 #29

what an asshole NewJeffCT Jan 2014 #13

I'm curious about the nature... elzenmahn Jan 2014 #18

Have you noticed.... ReRe Jan 2014 #19

I think they are getting so cocky they don't care what they say dixiegrrrrl Jan 2014 #24

They don't have to care, If he gets fired tommorrow he's still rich. I pray India takes the drug and uponit7771 Jan 2014 #25

You're so evil!!!! j/k Ed Suspicious Jan 2014 #26

Well, they ought to be quaking in their Italian imported boots... ReRe Jan 2014 #30

But U.S. Pharmaceutical Companies aren't afraid to Test Drugs on India’s Poor Sunlei Jan 2014 #32

FYI, Bayer is NOT a U.S. Pharmaceutical company. Also, at least for U.S. pharmaceutical lostincalifornia Jan 2014 #35

Why did you remove it from your FB page? Roland99 Feb 2014 #39