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 The White House, it seems, is heavily influenced by big pharma, and this effort by the White House to keep Americans ignorant of the results of important drug trials seems to be just the latest effort to appease the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of public health.
The core question: Should clinical trial results be made public?
Of course they should. No reasonable person would argue otherwise (unless, of course, he was on the big pharma payroll or making money from today's pharmaceutical racket). Drug companies should no longer be allowed to operate in secret. |
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 As the truth continues to come out about the predatory practices by big pharma, the public is increasingly disgusted with what they're learning about fraudulent science, deadly drugs, the bribery of doctors, price-fixing schemes and so on.
More consumers are abandoning pharmaceuticals than ever before and turning to natural treatments for diseases and health conditions. The number of ex-medicine users continues to rapidly expand.
The truth about Big Pharma's market monopoly is finally starting to gain traction among mainstream consumers. |
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 You probably already know the answer to that one. big pharma is apparently beyond justice in this country. No federal agency attempts to hold the industry accountable for the harm it has caused the American people (100,000+ people killed each year by FDA-approved drugs), and nobody questions the pricing monopoly that now exists in the U.S. Technically, big pharma executives should be brought up under RICO Act criminal charges for racketeering, but that assumes there is actually a system of justice that works in this country, and there isn't. |
| The FTC could look like a hero if it went after the monopolistic pricing practices of big pharma, but you know that project would be halted right away by a phone call from the White House. big pharma remains untouchable, and the American consumers remain deceived, injured and even killed by what drug companies are doing in the U.S. today. |
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 The big pharma 28
Here's the list of the 28 Senators who voted to protect Big Pharma's monopoly:
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lugar (R-IN)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Thomas (R-WY)
Voinovich (R-OH)
These Senators cite "safety concerns" as a reason for enforcing a U.S. |
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| The FTC could look like a hero if it went after the monopolistic pricing practices of big pharma, but you know that project would be halted right away by a phone call from the White House. big pharma remains untouchable, and the American consumers remain deceived, injured and even killed by what drug companies are doing in the U.S. today. |
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 Ultimately, big pharma is just another drug pushing cartel that has the same goals as any drug dealer: Convince customers they need your drug, get them hooked on it, and eliminate the competition.
The only difference is that big pharma has been so successful at dealing drugs that it has enough funds to buy off Congress, the Food and Drug Administration and practically the entire psychiatric industry (not to mention medical schools and mainstream media outlets).
Today, more than 40 percent of the U.S. |
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 Now the cats, dogs, horses, birds, lizards and other animals are no longer safe from the reach of big pharma. Drugs are posing a serious chemical threat to the health of pets.
There is almost no living creature left on this planet that hasn't been considered a potential revenue source by big pharma, and if they could make money drugging all the fish in the ocean, you can bet they'd come up with a fictitious fish disease and find a way to drop little fish pills into the oceans of the world. Profit is the purpose. Health is irrelevant. |
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 HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, of course, has no interest in allowing free market conditions to threaten big pharma profits, thus the outcome of this amendment is obvious: It effectively overturns the Dorgan amendment that would have allowed Americans to save billions of dollars on prescription drugs by purchasing them from outside the United States under "free market" conditions.
Fifteen Democratic senators voted in favor of this amendment to defend Big Pharma's monopoly. |
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| It's not enough to drug all the sick people in the world, you see. big pharma has to invent diseases and drug all the healthy people, too. And then, they have to drug all the children and infants to make sure those little beings are set up for future organ failure, which is even more lucrative for the drug companies later on. And just to drive yet more profits home, they've got to drug all the animals. Now the cats, dogs, horses, birds, lizards and other animals are no longer safe from the reach of big pharma. Drugs are posing a serious chemical threat to the health of pets. |
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 It's not enough to sell drugs to people who are truly sick, you see. big pharma cleverly figured out that they could sell even MORE drugs if they simply invented new diseases and convinced people they needed pharmaceuticals to treat those diseases.
The FDA, always happy to serve the profit interests of big pharma, went right along with the ploy and legalized television and magazine drug ads in 1997. Since then, drug sales have skyrocketed, drug company profits have ballooned, and fictitious disease diagnoses have proliferated at an alarming rate. |
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| REPPED: Consumers expecting a miracle in the Senate that would end Big Pharma's monopoly and the FDA-enforced drug racket now operating in the United States will be sorely disappointed by yesterday's events. Fifteen Democratic senators (led by Sen. Edward Kennedy) abandoned consumer interests and joined a Republican-organized amendment that would protect Big Pharma's stranglehold over U.S. consumers by blocking the importation of prescription drugs from other countries.
The amendment in question is Senate Amendment 1010: "To protect the health and safety of the public," sponsored by Sen. |
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| On a simple economic basis, no state or national government can afford to continue doing business with big pharma in the long run. The scam is just about up. When cities, states and countries start to declare bankruptcy due to outrageous health care costs, the winds of change will blow stronger than ever. The clock is ticking against drug-based medicine...
More consumers are choosing naturopathic medicine than ever before. The popularity of modalities such as homeopathy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, energy medicine, sound healing, massage therapy and mind-body medicine is at an all-time high. |
| There are no more solutions from big pharma that stand on their own merit. The whole health care scheme has degraded into propaganda, monopolistic control, discrediting the competition, and brainwashing consumers through television ads. These are not the tactics used by organizations that have legitimate solutions to offer the world; these are the tactics of desperate businesses grasping for one last measure of control before being swept away by a tidal wave of change. |
| The truth about Big Pharma's market monopoly is finally starting to gain traction among mainstream consumers. People are finally starting to get the fact that they're being ripped off by a profit-minded industry charging them the highest prices in the world for medications that are neither safe nor effective. Once this realization hits the masses, the backlash will be unstoppable.
The entire system of organized medicine is only years away from collapsing upon itself due to outrageous costs, fraud, corruption and criminal behavior by its proponents. |
| Without the internet, nobody would know the truth about big pharma, the FDA, and the dangers of organized medicine.
So feel good about what you've done so far, and keep yourself in a state of readiness to participate in yet more grassroots action that accelerates changes toward natural health and sustainable living. I believe we will live to see the demise of the FDA as it is currently structured. We will one day drive an electric car that's refueled for free using solar panels on the roof of our home. |
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| Fifteen Democratic senators voted in favor of this amendment to defend Big Pharma's monopoly. Those senators are are: Max Baucus, Evan Bayh, Maria Cantwell, Thomas Carper, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Mary Landrieu, Frank Lautenberg, Blanche Lincoln, Robert Menéndez, Barbara Mikulski, Patty Murray, Ben Nelson, Jay Rockefeller, and Kenneth Salazar.
Thirty-three Republicans also supported the bill, which passed 49-40 (11 not voting). |
| We are approaching that scenario now, and this latest vote by Senators to protect and even expand the big pharma monopoly over U.S. consumers is a glaring example of what happens when politicians sell out their constituents and kowtow to the influence of powerful corporations. Big Business and Big Government are now merging to become a unified system of financial exploitation of the people. The corporations financially rape the people, and the government keeps it legal. |
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 But 49 Senators voted against the amendment, defending the big pharma monopoly that continues to force Americans to pay the highest prices in the world, by far, for medicines. As I've documented in my book, Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them, some pharmaceuticals are marked up 500,000% or more over the cost of their ingredients!
What could have prompted these 49 Senators to vote to protect the profits of drug companies? Follow the money and you'll find your answer. |
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| Republicans voted against the Dorgan amendment, voting to enforce the pharmaceutical monopoly and keep big pharma in control of virtually the entire U.S. medication market. There were no Democrats that voted against the amendment. But why would 28 Republican Senators vote against breaking a marketplace monopoly and encouraging the use of free market economics to save American consumers billions of dollars? The answer isn't complicated: Because nearly all of them have taken money from pharmaceutical companies! |
| Big Pharma to bilk Americans out of billions of dollars by operating an obvious profiteering scheme. But the truth is that the price you pay for a drug does not affect its safety. And those concerned that adulterated medications from other countries might harm patients conveniently forget that FDA-approved drugs sold in the United States already kill 100,000 Americans each year. It would be difficult to find any source more dangerous than the pharmacies operating in the U.S. right now. |
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 How did big pharma manage to so completely hijack medical science, taking over the medical journals, FDA regulators, science researchers and medical schools? And why hasn't this been stopped? Why have these chemical crimes against children continued to be tolerated -- even encouraged! -- by the Food and Drug Administration and a Big Pharm-funded U.S. Congress? (Note of hope: There is one peer-reviewed medical journal that remains honest and publishes good medical science: PLoS Medicine, an open-source journal that accepts no advertising from drug companies... |
| It buys media coverage, it buys distorted science, it buys legislation, and it even buys the very definitions of disease. big pharma money has so completely infiltrated modern psychiatric medicine that any person claiming diseases like ADHD or "bipolar disorder" are based on solid science should be laughed off the world stage. Modern psychiatric medicine is an empty sham, a medical hoax, an uninspired contrivance of scientific-sounding babblydeegook designed to mesmerize gullible parents into putting their children on dangerous patented chemicals that may ultimately kill them. |
| You'll see the remarkably lucid explanations and warnings by the scientifically-minded Robert Whitaker (who used to be a skeptic that big pharma money could possibly influence science), pleas for medical sanity by Dr. Julian Whitaker, and even home movie footage of young girls who later killed themselves while on Prozac. You'll walk away from this film shaking your head in disgust, asking "How did it come to this? |
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| Technically, big pharma executives should be brought up under RICO Act criminal charges for racketeering, but that assumes there is actually a system of justice that works in this country, and there isn't.
So instead of going after the real criminals who are literally killing over 100,000 Americans each year with dangerous prescription drugs (while bankrupting families, corporations, cities and states with monopolistic pricing schemes), the FTC has chosen to target author Kevin Trudeau over his claims in a weight loss book.
Wow. |
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| Generation Rx" delivers a devastating blow to the psychiatric drug pushers, FDA puppets and big pharma marketing fraudsters who have sold an entire nation on an absurd idea that turns out to be a grand medical hoax: that millions of children have "chemical imbalances" in their brains requiring treatment with patented, profitable pharmaceutical drugs like Prozac and Ritalin.
The film features interviews with many notable doctors, authors and health experts, including Dr. Julian Whitaker, Dr. |
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| Big Pharma's monopoly over pharmaceutical sales and allow U.S. consumers, cities, states and businesses to purchase their pharmaceuticals from safety-certified pharmacies located in Canada, Japan, the U.K. and other nations.
Americans currently pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Canadians, Europeans, and even citizens of Mexico pay only about one-half to as little as one-tenth the price paid by Americans for the very same chemicals. Drug companies actually import many of the raw materials used in pharmaceuticals from other countries, meaning that some U.S. |
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| Senate sellout to big pharma.
It's not just consumers who are financially harmed by this drug price fixing scheme, either. Many corporations, city governments and states are headed to near-certain financial bankruptcy in large part due to monopoly pricing on prescription drugs. The near-collapse of the U.S. auto industry, for example, is largely due to health care costs. General Motors spends more on health insurance than it does on steel. |
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| There is almost no living creature left on this planet that hasn't been considered a potential revenue source by big pharma, and if they could make money drugging all the fish in the ocean, you can bet they'd come up with a fictitious fish disease and find a way to drop little fish pills into the oceans of the world. Profit is the purpose. Health is irrelevant. And your precious pet is only seen as a vehicle for generating profits by an industry that has zero compassion for living beings (human, canine, feline or otherwise). There is no effort to protect life. |
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