John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s merger with pharmaceutical and chemical giant, I.G. Farben (Auschwitz was a 100% subsidiary of IG Farben) in 1928 "createdthe largest and most powerful cartel the world has ever known. Not only has that cartel survived through the years, it has grown and prospered. Today it plays a major role in both the science and politics of cancer therapy."
It's important to know Big Pharma's "crimes against humanity" history, because that history fostered the chemical-based drug treatment basis for our "orthodox" healthcare system today. The industry claims that their aim is finding medical truth, and that may be true; nevertheless, publicizing that truth, once found, if that truth entails inexpensive solutions or remedies, will not happen for obvious reasons. There is nothing Big Pharma likes more than chronic illness, for which they can produce chronic palliative costly treatments that make the patient chronically dependent on them.
Which brings me to the seldom, if ever, publicized human pathogen: mycoplasmas. They are the smallest free-living bacteria that can assume multiple shapes including round, pear shaped and even filamentous forms because they lack a cell wall. This makes it possible for them to pass through filters used to remove bacteria; and hide inside the cell from our immune system, as well as from common antibiotics, all the while interfering with the cell machinery. Because mycoplasmas have lost most of their genetic material; a strict dependence on the host for nutrients and refuge determines its ability to survive and grow.
Mycoplasma is the co-factor that alters the human immune system and opens the door for the autoimmune degenerative diseases such as AIDS, malignant transformation, chromosomal aberrations, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Syndrome (military vaccine), Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as Lou Gehrig\'s Disease (every single patient shows mycoplasmal infection), Alzheimer’s, Crohns Disease, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Lupus, Lyme disease, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Type One Diabetes, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, and cancer. Yet, these pathogenic organisms show up in vaccines.
“Because certain species of the mycoplasma have an absolute growth requirement for the up-take of pre-formed sterols, including cholesterol they can cause the ‘spontaneous degeneration’ of the cells that they invade. If they do not cause sufficient damage to kill the cell, they at least compromise its capacity to defend itself from other disease agents, such as those which present as Kaposi’s sarcoma, pneumoniae carinii pneumonia, lymphadenopathy, and so on.” Donald W. Scott and William L.C. Scott,
“From its inception, the biowarfare program was characterized by continuing in-depth review and participation by the most eminent scientists, medical consultants, industrial experts and government officials, and it was classified Top Secret. The US Public Health Service also closely followed the progress of biological warfare research and development from the very start of the program, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States were working with the military in weaponising these diseases. These are diseases that have existed for thousands of years, but they have been weaponized—which means they’ve been made more contagious and more effective. And they are spreading.” Donald W. Scott
Currently, Dr. Alan Cantwell is one of the most well-known popular proponents of the link between cancer and bacteria. He has written numerous articles and books on the subject after he isolated and reported cell wall deficient bacteria in breast cancer, Kaposi’s sarcoma and Hodgkin’s disease. He states,
”If a disease like cancer is indeed caused by microscopic bacteria, it would indicate physicians have been unable to see what was quite plain for some nineteenth and twentieth century scientists to observe using simple light microscopy."
Eventually, constantly under intense criticism, Cantwell was ostracized by many in the medical profession.
Females are four times more likely to be infected with Mycoplasmas than males. The same ratio of males to females applies to Rheumatoid Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue and other related auto-immune disorders. Men, pound for pound, have 25% more blood; hence, hemoglobin - the protein molecule in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the body's tissues - than females.
Donald W. Scott, editor of The Journal of Degenerative Diseases (pictured above) and co-founder of the Common Cause Medical Research Foundation, reveals the true and hidden story of weaponized mycoplasma and the protracted creation of AIDS by governments and private corporations. part 1 of a series drawn from the 90 min. talk given at the 9th annual conference, Sudbury, Ontario (Aug 29-31, 2008). JODD (Journal of Degenerative Disease); Box 133 Station B; Sudbury Ontario; Canada P3E4N5 $25/year
A recentstudy out of Brandeis University reveals that prescription drugs kill more people than most of the street drugs combined.
Meanwhile, our government--such as people like Dick Durbin and Dick Blumenthal-- are trying to ban vitamins and supplements under the guise of safety when they haven't killed anyone.
For instance, banning vitamin B6, which is "naturally present in a variety of foods, and that is necessary for proper nerve function, protein synthesis, regulating blood sugar, and producing antibodies and hemoglobin. But, while many people get their B6 through supplements, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is looking to make things a lot more difficult—by slowly taking all forms of B6 supplements off the market so Big Pharma can make millions off of prescriptions instead.
According to the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), the FDA has already begun their crusade. They removed Pyridoxamine (a natural form of B6) supplements from the market at the request of BioStratum, a pharmaceutical company.
Why? Because BioStratum thinks it might be nice to use Pyrdoxamine in a prescription drug. They haven’t developed the drug, we don’t know what it is, and who knows when it will come to fruition, but the FDA honored a request from the big corporation to protect the company’s interest.
Now, the FDA is poised to pull another B6 product: P5P.
You see, the human body must convert B6 to P5P to make it usable within the body. Fortunately, some supplement companies have created P5P and it is currently available as a natural supplement. But, another pharmaceutical giant has petitioned the FDA to “protect its interests."
The following documentary is a MUST-SEE for everyone! I have yet to see anything so fully documented that exposes the extraordinary measures that the FDA will resort to in order to ensure that cancer remains the killer that it is, and that Chemotherapy remains the torture-chamberous non-curing treatment that it is. Not to mention, this film, in addition to detailing the FDA's 14 year campaign to remove Dr. Stanislaus Burzynski, who found a cure for cancer, from society, also reveals the battle Dr. Burzynski had with the National Cancer Institute, who is just as bad.
"Our bodies contain two categories of genes that allow cancer to flourish: oncogenes, and tumor suppressor genes. When someone has cancer, they have a higher level of oncogenes switched on, with a higher level tumor suppressor genes switched off.
The goal is to tell the body to both switch back on the tumor suppressor genes, and turn off as many oncogenes as possible."
It comes to no surprise to most of us that the median annual American pharmaceutical company profits triples the median annual profits of all of the Fortune 500 companies. But, how does Big Pharma maintain these astounding profits? Well, through its gatekeeper: the FDA, and the National Cancer Institute.
"Big Phama" didn't manifest overnight. It was an ongoing process that started in the 1970s and 1980s. At the time, profitability of the pharmaceutical industry was two times greater than the median of all industries in the Fortune 500. In the 1990s, when the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA)- which authorizes drug companies to pay "user-fees" to the FDA for each brand-name drug considered for approval, greatly speeding up the approval process - kicked in, the drug industry's profitability grew to almost four times greater than the median for all industries in the Fortune 500.
After the PDUFA was enacted, the part of the FDA that reviews new drugs received more than half its money from user fees and it grew by leaps and bounds. Meanwhile, the part of the FDA that monitors safety, ensures manufacturing standards, and checks ads for accuracy deteriorated. Not only that, the approval process for brand-name drugs shortened to 3 months, from its previous 21 months. Yet, here it is 2011, and Antineoplaston Therapy has been waiting approval since 1977.
On June 21, 1977, Dr. Burzynski's attorney's investigated both state and federal law to find out if it was legal for him to start his own biomedical research company to make the Antineoplastons (non toxic cancer treatment) and administer them to patients within his private practice. He found out it was legal as long as he avoided interstate commerce.
However, it was not soon after that Burzynski's patients found themselves harassed by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners(TMB) to file charges against their doctor, and the FDA started its witch hunt.
In 1983, the FDA obtained an injunction from a federal district court prohibiting Dr. Burzynski and the Burzynski Research Institute from shipping antineoplastons in interstate commerce without first obtaining the approval of the FDA. The injunction, however, did not preclude intrastate distribution of the antineoplastons.
On July 28, 1986, the TMB began investigating Dr. Burzynski, even though no formal complaint had been filed, and on November 18, 1986, a notarized agreement between Burzynski and the TMB was created requiring the doctor resent a list of 40 successful cases. He submitted double that number. He never heard back.
Dr. Burzynski faced numerous battles with the federal government over the years. Between 1986 and 1994, he was subjected to three federal grand jury investigations. No indictments were ever handed down. However, during that time federal officials raided his research clinic and confiscated his patients' medical records.
Then in March 1995, Dr. Burzynski appeared on the CBS TV show "This Morning," accompanied by three of his patients. That very afternoon, the FDA raided his clinic again. A fourth federal grand jury investigation got underway, and by November 1995, charged Dr. Burzynski with 40 counts of distributing a non-FDA approved drug in interstate commerce, 34 counts of mail fraud, and one count of contempt of court for violating the order against interstate delivery of Antineoplastons. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) noted that a grand jury's failure to indict someone after three attempts is "virtually unprecedented."
On February 9, 1996, US District Court Judge Sim Lake ruled that Dr. Burzynski cannot treat patients outside of clinical trials. In other words, he issued a death sentence for hundreds of Dr. Burzynski's patients.
This prosecution marked the first time the FDA had tried to jail a scientist for using a drug on which he was conducting FDA authorized clinical trials. This trial alone, which was not even based on whether or not antineoplastons work or not cost the American taxpayer $60 million, while costing Dr. Burzynski over $2.2 million!
On March 4, 1997, due to a dead-locked jury, a mistrial was declared.
The FDA still did not back down. A second federal trial got underway May 19, 1997 to try Dr. Burzynski on the contempt of court charge. A federal jury acquitted Dr. Burzynski on May 27, 1997.
At the same time, Dr. Burzynski was fighting the Texas Medical Examiner's Board and the FDA, the National Cancer Institute, under Dr. Michael Friedman, tried to co-opt his discovery and render it ineffective.
A former employee of Dr. Burzynski, Dvorit Samid, betrayed him when she partnered with Elan Pharmaceutical through her employment with the National Cancer Institute and tried to hijack Burzynski's discovery. The problem was that she used only one component of the antineoplaston, phenylacetate, which when isolated, has very little clinical effect.
When that didn't work, the National Cancer Institute said they would accept Dr. Burzynski's antineoplastons; however, only if they could revise the protocol that Dr. Burzynski had perfected. Burzynski refused. The NIC threatened with patent infringement. Finally, they came to an agreement. Yet, within a very short time, in March 1995, the NIC tried to drastically alter Burzynski's protocol to make his treatment less effective!!
Four years after the NCI trials were closed and two years after Burzynski defeated the FDA, winning his freedom, the NCI, in February of 1999, decided to vindictively publish the scientifically invalid Antineoplaston trials in peer-reviewed medical literature. However, whoever published the invalid trials forgot to leave out the dosage, which in some patients was 2.7 times lower than the protocol demanded, and in other patients, 36 times lower, and, in even other patients, 170 times lower!
Li-Chuan Chen, PhD, who worked as a scientist for the National Cancer Institute from 1991-1997, said that when the NCI or assigned entities conducted trials on alternative cancer therapies they always altered the protocol and let it fail in order to discredit the therapy. He went on to say, "Scientists never look at it carefully, because as he says, Popeye is telling you something and you don't question him...under the capitalist sun, there is nothing sacred."
Here's the kicker. On October 21. 1991, the United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services, along with "Inventor": Dvorit Samid filed a patent for Antineoplastons. On October 12. 1993, the US and Dvorit Samid file for a second patent on Antineoplastons. And on March 7, 1994, the US and Dvorit Samid file its most comprehensive patent spanning 111 pages. Seven months later they file a fourth one. On 6/6/1995, the US files its 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th extended patent. The next day, the US files its 9th, 10th, and 11th patent. A few months later, Dr. Michael Friedman leaves his position at the NCI and becomes Deputy Commissioner of Operations for the FDA, working directly under Dr. David Kessler.
In the three years (1997-2000) after Dr. Burzynski was indicted, all of the US patents for Antineoplastons were approved. However, one paragraph within these patents, in particular, is quite revealing:
Since 2009, the only obstacle in the way of Antineoplasmons is the $300 million pricetag on the final phase of FDA clinical testing...and the FDA's requirement that children with inoperable brainstem glioma to also under go radiation treatment in these Phase 3 trials, claiming it would be unethical to do otherwise.
Cancer's been around forever, it seems, yet very little progress has occured in its treatement. In fact, more people than ever are getting cancer, and, very often, the prescribed treatment: chemotherapy, is more lethal than the disease. Not to mention, the mental anguish, physical suffering, and poor quality of life cancer patients are encouraged to endure by almost every doctor who talk or scare them into undergoing chemotherapy.
So, if technology is advancing exponentially, why does oncology remain in the "dark ages"? Could it be the economics behind chemotherapy? In other words, cancer is big business, and healthy individuals interfere with the profit mechanism that depends on the proliferation of cancer patients. Something as simple and cheap as baking soda and sunshine is a complete anathema to the cancer industry. Promoting baking soda as an alternative treatment for cancer plunders the profits of the parasitic industries who sell themselves as our friends.
On the other hand, what do you have to lose from considering alternatives to this extraordinary costly, and barbaric form of cancer treatment that oncologists push today? Nothing, especially if you consider it before the "industry" gets a chance to wrap its parasitic tentacles around you.
When in doubt, ask yourself, cui bono ("To whose benefit?"). The answer is simple. The unscrupulous powers that work to maintain the status quo of the medical and pharmaceutical industry at any cost, including the lives of millions of people.
Dr. Tullio Simoncini scrapped the current cancer paradigm and started from scratch. His findings show cancer is caused by the progression of a fungus called Candida Albicans. Based on this hypothesis, Dr. Simoncini treats cancer with sodium bicarbonate, the most potent enemy of fungi, and his rate of success is encouraging.
The Federal Reserve gave out $16.1 trillion in emergency loans to U.S. and foreign financial institutions between Dec. 1, 2007 and July 21, 2010, according to "first-ever audit of the central bank". Yet, we're supposed to worry about what is essentially, chump change, in comparison? Debt ceiling crisis, my ass!
Okay, let's pretend it's real. According to Rob Johnson, Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute (see video below), it's much easier to go after we, the people, than to take on Wall Street, the Military Industrial Complex, Big Pharma, etc., to pay for this so-called "crisis". As he says, it's the "logic of collective action".
Demonizing people, even though they pose no threat to the public appears to be the goal of the code enforcement bureaucracy that is out in full force, recently, as in the case of Julie Bass of Oak Park, Michigan, who is facing 93 days in jailafter being charged with a misdemeanor for planting a vegetable garden in her front lawn.
Moreover, the political agenda that drives these relentless code enforcement systems around the nation tend to zero in on self-sufficient living, the safety of dietary supplements, and/or anyone who dares to explore beyond the conventional unbending framework of government.
Take the FDA, who wants all super-foods, multivitamins, detox supplements, and medicinal herbal products created after 1994 stripped from store shelves, and outlawed across the nation. Never mind, the lethal drugs they knowingly allow to stay on the market for decades. Chantix, which has been linked to more than 3,000 reports in the U.S. of serious side effects, including suicides, heart trouble and aggression, according to a Bloomberg article in 2008. Fast forward to 2011, Chantix has been found to increase the risk of heart attack or arrhythmia by 72%! What's the FDA's response? They're weighing the evidence. They're still not sure whether they will ban this killer drug.
In January of this year, Hospira, the pharmaceutical company that produces sodium thiopental - the anesthetic most states use as the first drug in a three drug cocktail to execute prisoners in the US - ceased production over concerns about its use in executions. Since that time states have been scrambling to get their hands on their next fix on a replacement. After importing sodium thiopental from non-FDA approved sources, the state of Georgia acquired a replacement from Lundbeck, the Nembutol’s Danish manufacturer, who has repeatedly sent letters requesting that it not be used in executions. The manufacturer “explicitly warned” that “this drug is not safe for use in judicial lethal injections.”
After Georgia's supply of sodium thiopental was seized by the DEA and after acquiring this controversial new sedative, Roy Willard Blankenship thrashed, and jerked his way to death after its administration. Mr. Blaankenship was not the first death-row inmate who suffered from a botched lethal injection involving pentobarbital this year. Eddie Duval Powell also suffered from the administration of this deadly drug.
A death-row prisoner who was executed using a new lethal injection drug 'suffered greatly' during the process, a leading U.S. anaesthesiologist has testified.
Roy Willard Blankenship, who was executed on June 23 using pentobarbital - also known as nembutal - was said to be conscious for approximately the first three minutes of the execution and 'suffered greatly'.
Dr David Waisel, an Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School, also said in the sworn affidavit that 'his eyes were open throughout', according to witness accounts.
He said: 'I can say with certainty that Mr Blankenship was inadequately anaesthetised and was conscious for approximately the first three minutes of the execution.
So, 35-years after the US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment, the US still remains among the top global executioners. 139 nations abolished the death penalty, but China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Yemen continue to execute people, in direct contradiction to international human rights law. Like the other four countries listed, the death penalty in the United States is/was frequently imposed after unfair trials, where the defendant is almost always poor, uneducated, very often black, and totally vulnerable to a process that lacks fairness and integrity.
138 innocent people have been sent to death row, and who knows how many victims were sent to their death, guilt-free. The claim that the US is a progressive force for human rights is complete hypocrisy.
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Don't you wonder why more Americans than ever before are burdened by expanding waistlines, multiple chronic illness, and "out of the X-files" type affliction, such as the controversial Morgellon's Disease? The disease that the CDC has yet to reveal its findings, despite constant inquiry that started over ten-years ago.
The following will be easier to follow, if, first, you understand that, according to the FDA, anything used to treat disease is considered a drug... anything! Therefore, that anything is subject to regulation by Monsanto the FDA. And second, "Codex Alimentarius" (latin for food rules), is not about consumer protection at all. It's chief reason for existence is to serve the economic ambitions of multi-national corporations, in particular, the pharmaceutical industry.
The same industry that Bill Gates is dedicating his philanthropical career, ( 500,000 shares in Monsanto) as he tries to lower the population of the planet, through vaccines, health care and reproductive health.
Really, Bill, what's next? Handing the control of our food over to Monsanto? Oh, wait...
What's so scary is that since Senate Bill 510, now H.R. 2751:FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act, is law, and President Obama's appointed Antichrist's Monsanto’s own Michael Taylor - who designed the FDA’s GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) friendly policy, allowing GMOs on the market without any investigation into its safety, without labeling, and who wrote the FDA’s guidelines on recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), banning dairies from labeling their milk “rBGH Free“ while serving as the FDA’s Deputy commissioner for policy - as Food Safety Czar, our food may very well cease being food, if it hasn't already. And, we may have to get prescriptions for oranges, apples, spinach...hell, maybe even the right to walk around the block, if Monsanto the FDA finds out those things actually treat disease. Unfortunately for us, we can't even rely on claims of no genetically modified ingredients.
Proof of the FDA's knowledge - thanks to the Alliance for Bio-Integrity's lawsuit(Alliance for Bio-Integrity et al., vs. Shalala, et al.) to gain mandatory safety testing and labeling of food, FDA internal memoranda about the hazards of genetically engineered foods - can be found here. Not to mention, Wikileaks revealed that former President Bush was conspiring with Monsanto to force the global sale and use of hazardous-to-life-as-we-know-it GMOs. And now that H.R. 2751 passed, it gives Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming.
So, what's so bad about genetically modified food? Well, think cell invasion. In order to move genetic material from one organism to another that do not normally interact, you've got to find an agent such as bacteria or viruses, since they're so good at penetrating and establishing themselves in the cell, to allow the transformation to take place. For example, Monsanto uses e-coli to recombine with the modifying dna that will create the genetically engineered dna inserted into the organism targeted for modification. (See video below for all methods).
So, there you have it. The multinational pharmaceutical industry seizing the opportunity to line their pockets with profits of providing "safe" nutrition with their FDA approved food substitutes and the biotechnology companies playing genetic rhoulette, resulting hazardous-to-life-as-we-know-it GMOs.
Well, it saves them a step or two, as they can mostly bypass the embalming process. Why? Because Aspartame (AminoSweet, Equal, NutraSweet, Spoonful, Canderel, E951, Benevia, etc.) pretty much does it for them.You see, upon ingestion, aspartame is broken, converted, and oxidized into formaldehyde in various tissues. So, thanks to Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan and aspartame - we'll get to that later- you or your loved ones arrive, at the funeral home, either partially or fully embalmed. Joe the Funeral Director can
I mean, come on...haven't you noticed how waxy people look lately? Some even exhibiting that "in the coffin" glow?
Anyway, it's really hard to avoid embalming yourself aspartame that's 180 times sweeter than sugar, as it's in everything from gum (aspartame works like nitroglycerin under the tongue, goes through saliva straight to the brain) to diet drinks to yogurt to Metamucil, and everything in between.
What's more, it has been linked to many diseases, and/or symptoms, thereof, including: Multiple Sclerosis, Diabetes, Parkinsons, Lupus, Graves Disease, Epilepsy, Hyper/hypothyroidism, ALS, Migraines, brain tumors, etc . Aspartame damages the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell, so it interacts with drugs and vaccines. But, that's not all it does, it does so much more because aspartame is a molecule which contains:
40% aspartic acid, an excitotoxin that literally stimulates neurons to death causing brain damage.
50% phenylalanine, which comes with a PKU warning for those who can't metabolize phenylalanine. However, it's a wonder anyone can, as phenylalanine floods the brain as a neurotoxic isolate, which lowers the seizure threshold, and depletes serotonin. As we know, this can cause a variety of psychiatric behavioral problems, and if you're already taking an antidepressant, it most definitely interacts with it.
10% methanol, free methyl alcohol, which is basically what converts to formaldehyde and formic acid.
Now, if you call up the aspartame makers, or one of the federal agencies that "protect" us from all that's bad, they will try to tell you that there is more methanol in oranges, and they're right; however, the methanol in oranges binds to the pectin which takes it right out of the body, not to mention, the ethanol is the classic antidote for methanol poisoning. Nature knows what it's doing. The FDA, CDC, and so forth...not so much, or maybe they do, and they're just plain evil (see Congressional reports, buried investigations in links section). As Mel Fabregas wrote:
"More than 90% of all FDA complaints are attributed to Aspartame, yet the very same government agency that is supposed to protect us is allowing these poisons in our food supply. Some of these excitotoxins are chemicals that we have been fooled into thinking will help us live longer and healthier lives."
And I might add, thinner lives.
And-possibly due to aspartame's endocrine disrupting properties-it will not help you keep the weight off! Conversely, it fattens you up, because it creates carbohydrate cravings. Sneaky bastards don't want you cutting out the carbs...that might eat into their profits, after all. Therefore, one could conclude that aspartame plays a part in the current obesity epidemic, not to mention, the rapid increase in the diabetes rate. Not only can aspartame precipitate the disease, it can stimulate and aggravate diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy by destroying the optic nerve; can cause diabetics to go into convulsions; and the methyl alcohol can interact with insulin which may cause loss of limbs.
According to Dr. Betty Martini, there are records that show aspartame was listed by the Pentagon in an inventory of perfected biochemical warfare weapons submitted to Congress. Which leads right into Rumsfeld and Reagan's role in getting this "biochemical warfare weapon" approved for human consumption.
In September of 1980, the Board of Inquiry (FDA) concurred and denied the petition for aspartame'. In 1985, Donald Rumsfeld, Searle Labs, CEO, at the time, said he would "call in my markers" to get aspartame approved. The next day, President Reagan (Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team), at 3 AM, placed a call to FDA Commissioner, Jere Goyan, and fired him, knowing it would take 30 days to get someone in to overrule that Board of Inquiry. President Reagan then wrote an executive order, making the FDA powerless to do anything until the newly appointed Arthur Hull Hayes took over.
According to Dr. Martini, President Reagan may have promised Rumsfeld the VP position, and when he chose Bush; Rumsfeld felt Reagan owed him; hence, the "call in my markers" remark.
We seem to hear a lot about mass murderers these days: insane, demonic sociopaths who thrill to the terror and agony they inflict. On a gigantic scale history names great masters of destruction: Who can number those slain by Hitler, Stalin, and Mao? To collect such a stupendous price the mind of the people must be saturated with propaganda, packaged lies relentlessly fire-hosed into the public consciousness until the world is upside down: evil is virtue; slaughter is holiness, dying for the emperor, the fatherland and the 1,000 year Reich or a twisted religion is the supreme glory. All these crimes breed in the egocentric brains of ambitious morally stunted men full of hubris and hate, consumed with pride & greed.
The same greed, the same hubris, the identical fatal fanaticism resides in the boardrooms of gigantic corporations. Consider Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Anderson and the French medicos who released AIDS-contaminated blood for transfusions. When the crime surfaced these guardians of health sold the sewage to poor nations there to infect millions for generations to come. Heinous condemnation of millions to lingering death! Would not a fair price be to infect these despicable, heartless human scum with their own vaccines? Instead these lords of liquidation with lettered names retire to their chateaus, servants and limousines to tally blood money. Twenty years later they dine in smart cafes and saunter the streets of Paris unpunished! The crime was so deep, the bloodguilt so broad, that a hundred mass murderers got a free pass! "O the Humanity, the Humanity."
UPI Investigative Report 1987 NutraSweet: Questions Swirl
(Editor's note: UPI Investigative Reporter Gregory Gordon spent eight months examining industry research into popular artificial sweetener, NutraSweet and the Food and Drug Administration's handling of the
product permeating the diet food and drink markets. here is the first in his three-part report.)
The Bressler Report
In Searle's original studies they were caught removing brain tumors from the rats and putting them back in the study. Dead rats that died were resurrected on paper. Neoplasms were filtered out. FDA Jerome Bressler's honest Audit Report exposed it all. After he retired from the FDA I thanked him for his honesty and courage in telling the facts. He told me his report was much worse, but the FDA retyped and removed the worst 20%. He also discussed this with Doctors H. J. Roberts and Russell Blaylock. Doctor H. Roberts asked his congressman to have the FDA release this 20%. They refused, claiming it was confidential. In denying a Congressman this data FDA broke the law, but they do it all the time, as they're a law unto themselves, like you! Bressler's report wasn't confidential, it was just so bad that FDA couldn't let anyone see it.
"With the public concern over childhood obesity and diabetes, few are being told of the overwhelming evidence that early exposure to excitotoxins (as found in aspartame) consistently produce gross obesity and insulin resistant diabetes, just as we are seeing in our youth." -- Dr. Russell Blaylock, neurosurgeon,
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Veritaswith Mel Fabregas - Great show. It's supported 100% by subscriptions, and it's worth every penny...and a whole lot more. No censoring. No advertisements. No interruptions. Mel asks great questions and he makes it all about the subject, giving his guests all the time they need to explain. Not to mention, his guests are the most interesting guests I've ever heard.
Mission Possible World Health International Dr. Betty Martini's website. She is the founder of the global volunteer force, Mission Possible International, which is committed to removing the deadly chemical aspartame from our food. She has been doing this for 14 years with operations in most states and over 30 countries of the world. She works with the world experts who write the reports you will find on their web pages. She spent 22 years in the medical field before this, and created the first health delivery system in the US. She can be seen in the aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World.Read more...
Update: Big Pharma has surpassed every other industry when it comes to defrauding the US government, according to a new analysis by Public Citizen, which calls for stiffer penalties and increased criminal prosecution Big Ph executives. Here's the thing: 75% of all of these violations and penalties have taken place in the last five years! And four drugmakers: GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Merck’s Schering-Plough.
The report lists all of the violations: kickbacks; financial violations and illegal distribution; overcharging government health programs; illegal promotion; anti-trust violations; concealing clinical trial findings; poor manufacturing practices; environmental violations...
Here's another thing: those who commit the crimes walk while those who report the crimes pay the price...and, it's often life-changing.
However, nothing will change because the primary job and responsibility of US government is to protect the corporate elite, and that includes allowing them to plunder with impunity. In fact, it's not only accepted, it's expected. Those who play by ethical rules, lose.
In other words, what we see play out, in what appears to be the feds going after Big Pharma is all for show. To be sure, Big pharma pays their "drop in the bucket" fine (for them), but, to be even more sure, they earn back double that amount when they take their criminal behavior to the next level. What do the feds get out of all of this? The same thing Big Pharma does: more money...more power...
Conflicts of interest amongst academic researchers who accept enormous contributions from some of the largest and influential lobbying organizations in Washington, namely, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, also known as PhRMA, started polishing their image in anticipation of the incoming Obama administration. This included becoming slightly more transparent with a little pressure from the US Senate Committee on Finance Committee. PhRMA has a record of hiding its lobbying and PR activities, often by paying other organizations to advocate industry-friendly policies.
The phrases: "too much of a good thing" and "everything in moderation", echo in the minds of most; however, knowing when we've crossed the line into "too much of a good thing", is not always so clear. The emergence of the pharmaceutical industry at the turn of the 20th century is a blatant example of how "too much of a good thing" has created a monster.
At first, drugs transformed the quality of our lives, by not only prolonging our life span, but allowing us to do so as much healthier individuals. It's no surprise that demand for this "good thing" continued to increase, and the industry reaped the rewards of ever increasing profits. One-hundred years later, the result is that the pharmaceutical industry has transformed into Big Pharma (Big-Ph), the most profitable industry in the world.
But, to be sure, Big-Ph has no plans of discouraging "too much of a good thing"; moreover, has no plans of discouraging our demand the "good thing". Why? Well, greed for one. Big-Ph made $180 billion on 12 drugs alone, and paid $2.3 billion in fines, so, one can safely assume a little fraud and corruption runs through its industrial veins. So, what's a little deceit and trickery? How are a few fatal side-effects, huge kickbacks paid to doctors, off-label marketing and/or, illegal promotion of pharmaceuticals going to hurt bottom line anyone? Right? After all, the New York Times reported the $2.3 billion in fines is a drop in the bucket: less than three weeks of Pfizer’s sales.
Big Ph used their enormous wealth/power buying up influence and co-opting any institution that stands in the way of its profit, including the U.S. Congress. In fact, Big Ph has surpassed the defense industry in fraud against the government.
A new study by the watchdog group Public Citizen has found that the drug industry has become the biggest defrauder of the federal government, surpassing the defense industry. Public Citizen found that the drug industry paid out nearly $20 billion in penalties over the past two decades for violations of the False Claims Act. More than half of the industry’s fines were paid by just four companies: GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Schering-Plough.
Dr. Dan Carlat, who was once on the industry's payroll, now blogs about the drug industry. He has tracked the changes, and concluded that from the mid to late 1990s, the "blockbuster" drug (making at least $1 billion/ year on one drug) culture exploded throughout the industry.
Think about this: 60-70% of the money made in the cancer industry is based on kickbacks to doctors. What does that tell you? Aside from the fact that the cancer industry has no interest in what's best for cancer patients, it's also very possible that your doctor has sold you - the patient he swore from doing harm - out. In 2009 alone, the drug companies paid doctors $200 million to doctors in the U.S. Is it any wonder why it seems our health care industry is so dedicated to surgery and the heavy use of drugs? Is it any wonder why alternative remedies, often less painful and less expensive are cast aside? And even worse, suppressed completely?
Still, so many of us continue to put our blind faith in these institutions. Why? Because we've been conditioned to do so, even when there is no doubt that the FDA, the CDC, the AMA, the APA, and even our personal physicians, whom we implicitly trust regarding what we eat, take as medicine, and what we give to our children in the form of vaccines are, to a certain degree, compromised by the "profit before patients" principle that rules our health care system.
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Generic drugs make up 70% of all prescriptions, and according to House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman, "in the last decade alone, generic drugs have saved consumers, businesses and state and federal governments $734 billion." Despite that savings, the cost of drugs continues to escalate. In large part this is due to what is regarded as the future of health care: biotechnology drugs, or "biologics".
Simply put, biologics are protein based drugs made from living organisms - hamster ovaries, mare's urine, pig intestines, blood - grown inside living cells, as opposed to chemicals, normally showing better efficacy and safety than conventional drugs. Used to treat everything from cancer to multiple sclerosis to psoriasis, biologics currently make up about 20% of the pharmaceutical market - predicted to make up half the market by 2015 - and are the fastest-growing class of medicines, with more than $40 billion in annual sales in the United States.
However, the FDA has no authority to approve lower-cost, generic versions, biosimilars or “follow-on biologics” (“FOBs”) so, these drugs very rarely face competition from generic copies. FOBs (generic form of biologics) could save patients, insurers and our government anywhere from $67 billion to $108 billion during the first decade, and between $236 billion to $378 billion over the next two decades according to the Generic Pharmaceutical Association.
The contentious issue here is the length of time that brand names can hold a monopoly before the FDA can approve the entry of generic competitors. Competition from generic drugs has substantially reduced prescription drug prices and overall prescription drug expenditures, increased access to therapeutic drugs for more Americans, and hastened the pace of innovation.
The provision in proposed health care legislation would allow pharmaceutical companies to extend monopolies to 12-years exclusivity once the product is licensed by the FDA. Even after 12 years, this legislation would allow a pharmaceutical company to extend market protection for its biologic by making minor modifications to the drug to effect dosing, for example.
Generic brand medications only make up for 17 percent of all profits, and generic prescription companies are more focused on the hit that consumers will take financially if longer terms of exclusivity are given to brand-names and biologics. Brand names and biologics, however, are more focused on their profits.
So, why do biologics need a 12-year instead of a 5-year monopoly?
The answer is, of course, profit, and not just a little profit...a lot of profit. According to the pharmaceutical trade association, the average research and development costs are approximately the same for biologics as they are for conventional drugs. Not only that, generics face higher than normal barriers to entering the market. The FTC recently released a report entitled, “Follow-on Biologic Drug Competition” which addressed questions that have arisen about whether the price of biologics might be reduced by competition if there were a statutory process to encourage biosimilars or FOBs to enter and compete with pioneer (brand name) biologics once a pioneer drug’s patents have expired. The FTC did not recommend biologics any years of exclusivity protection.
Based on these findings, the Report concludes that patent protection and market-based pricing will promote competition by FOBs, as well as spur biologic innovation. It states that legislation to put a process in place for the abbreviated FDA approval of FOBs is likely to be an efficient way to bring FOBs to market, because of the time and cost savings it would provide.
In addition, the Report states that the 12- to 14-year regulatory exclusivity period is too long to promote innovation by these firms, particularly since they likely will retain substantial market share after FOB entry. The Report concludes that special procedures to resolve patent issues between pioneer and FOB manufacturers before FDA approval, which are not needed,
could undermine patent incentives and harm consumers. Finally, the Report states that FOB manufacturers are unlikely to need additional incentives – such as a 180-day marketing exclusivity period – to develop interchangeable FOB products.
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