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 I've often stated that pharmaceuticals kill more americans each year than diet in the entire Vietnam War, and the number of americans killed by acts of terrorism are dwarfed by the number killed by prescription drugs that the FDA and drug companies unquestionably knew were killing people. It's not that these deaths were truly accidental... they were fully documented but ignored anyway by an industry that is now clearly a very real threat to the health and safety of the American people. |
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 But medicines bought right here in the United States are killing 100,000+ americans each year! Do these Senators somehow imagine drugs bought in the U.S. are safer than the same medicines purchased somewhere else? Do they suffer under the illusion that paying more for prescription drugs somehow makes them safer?
When it comes down to it, none of the arguments against drug reimportation hold water. The killing of the amendment was done for one simple, uncomplicated reason: to protect the safety of Big Pharma profits by forcing americans to pay monopoly prices for their medicines. |
| These Senators, of course, all insist they were voting to protect the "safety" of americans, claiming that medicines imported from other countries are dangerous. But medicines bought right here in the United States are killing 100,000+ americans each year! Do these Senators somehow imagine drugs bought in the U.S. are safer than the same medicines purchased somewhere else? Do they suffer under the illusion that paying more for prescription drugs somehow makes them safer?
When it comes down to it, none of the arguments against drug reimportation hold water. |
| For a few hundred thousand dollars -- the profits from only a couple hundred prescription drug users -- these Senators appear to have been either strongly influenced or outright bribed to kill a measure that would have saved americans tens of billions of dollars and finally freed the American people from the financial stranglehold of Big Pharma.
These Senators, of course, all insist they were voting to protect the "safety" of americans, claiming that medicines imported from other countries are dangerous. |
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| Meanwhile, very few americans agree with the FDA or the wishes of organizations like the American Medical Association and drug companies themselves -- most of which like things just fine the way they are.
Drug companies, of course, would love to maintain the status quo and continue conducting business as usual. But thanks to grassroots consumer advocacy campaigns such as StopDrugAds (www.StopDrugAds.org), and sites like this one, the real story about the dangers of pharmaceuticals are no longer being censored and kept from the public. |
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The real threat of pharmaceuticals
Interestingly, the survey did not ask consumers the following question: How many americans do you think is acceptable for the drug companies to kill each year?
Because right now, that number is, conservatively, about 100,000 American citizens. More realistic estimates put it at double that number, or 200,000. |
| The best way to protect americans from these dangerous, deadly products is to enact sweeping reforms that end the medical racket currently being operated by the FDA / Big Pharma tag-team.
Unfortunately, many of the very lawmakers who will vote on this pending legislation are, much like FDA advisors, "on the take" from the very same pharmaeutical companies that stand to be impacted by their vote. And no lawmakers that I know of are abstaining from the vote due to conflicts of interest. |
| According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, prescription drugs currently kill approximately 100,000 americans each year. None of those deaths are accurately recorded as "death by pharmaceuticals."
As mentioned earlier, 84 percent agree that advertisements should be outlawed for drugs with safety concerns. The United States is the only advanced nation in the world that allows drug companies to advertise directly to consumers. |
| REPPED: More than four out of five americans think drug companies have too much influence over the Food and Drug Administration, and 84 percent believe that advertisements for prescription drugs with safety concerns should be outlawed, reveals a striking new survey from Consumer Reports.
The survey results, released today, are based on a telephone survey of 1,026 American adults conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Center. They reveal the Food and Drug Administration to be alarmingly out of touch with the concerns of the American people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The idea of ever having to pay back their debt and live within their means is as foreign to most americans as it is their own government. Financial consequences have been put off so habitually, for so long, that people forget they even exist. And thus the reality awakening becomes ever more rude when it finally appears. To say that most americans will be in a state of shock when their life savings are suddenly wiped out is an understatement: These people will have never even imagined such an event is possible, much less contemplated how it might affect them. |
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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. |
| Keeping americans diseased, uninformed and financially exploited is simply too profitable to walk away from. And corporate control over the U.S. Congress has never been stronger. It is no exaggeration to say that, with few exceptions, lawmakers no longer vote according to the interests of the citizens they claim to represent. Rather than casting votes that actually protect the public interest, lawmakers now spend their time determining which votes will get them reelected. |
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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. |
| The killing of the amendment was done for one simple, uncomplicated reason: to protect the safety of Big Pharma profits by forcing americans to pay monopoly prices for their medicines.
Modern-day Indentured Servants
The whole price fixing scam brings to mind a relevant term from American history: Indentured servants. These indentured servants were people who agreed to work a farm or plantation for a period of 4-7 years in exchange for passage to America. |
| Sound familiar? americans are trapped in a lifetime of medical debt being paid to wealthy drug corporations. If you live in America and need medicine, the FDA and Big Pharma are doing everything in their power to make sure you have no choice but to buy it from "the company store" -- the monopoly-controlled U.S. pharmaceutical market that's basically in the business of ripping people off by selling them dangerous synthetic chemicals.
Need to control your blood sugar? That's a few thousand dollars a year. Have high cholesterol? Another few thousand. Got cancer? |
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| We must take action to protect ourselves from the monopolists, pharma con men and corrupt regulators who are trying to keep americans trapped in a system of medicine that will ultimately destroy our collective health and bankrupt our nation. There is nothing these criminals will not attempt in order to protect their profits and territory, and right now they've pulled out all the stops to buy off senators and keep their medical monopoly intact.
Only a massive grassroots campaign of opposition can save us from a corporate-controlled plutocracy (or kleptocracy, if you will). |
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 Are americans Eating Enough Fruits and Vegetables?
An excellent source of information on fruit, vegetable and grain intake of americans is USDA's 1994/96 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals conducted by the Food Surveys Research Group, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center. The following information comes from that survey.
About Vegetable Intake
On average, americans consume 3.3 servings of vegetables a day. However, dark green vegetables and deep yellow vegetables each represent only 0.2 daily servings. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: More than thirty-five million americans may currently be suffering from a newly-discovered disorder that affects brain chemistry, behavior and health: Television Deficiency Disorder, or TDD for short. Based on work by Dr. Anne Tennah, a psychiatrist who specializes in brain chemistry disorders, this little-known disorder is now thought to be more widespread than ADHD and Bi-Polar combined.
Television Deficiency Disorder is a serious condition brought on by a lack of television programming. Victims display excessive intelligence quotients (I.Q.s |
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 And at times when cooler heads should have prevailed at these brand-name banks, the americans making the decisions at these banks saw the promise of easy profits too juicy to pass up. So they bought in and now they're being sued for billions by Enron investors. It's like a man robbing a house and finding a stash of heavy gold bars. In his attempt to carry them all, he collapses under their weight and dies of internal injuries. |
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 More than 60,000 americans are diagnosed with melanoma—an especially aggressive type of skin cancer—every year. European americans are ten to forty times as likely to get melanoma as African americans. as humanity was evolving, we probably had pretty light skin too, underneath a similar coat of coarse, dark hair. As we lost hair, the increased exposure of our skin to ultraviolet rays from the strong African sun threatened the stores of folate we need to produce healthy babies. And that created an evolutionary preference for darker skin, full of light-absorbing, folate-protecting melanin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Think about it: according to a new study published in The Lancet, the Vioxx drug alone seems to have killed as many as 60,000 americans. Where's the outcry? Where are the demonstrations? The marches on Washington? The declaration of war against Big Pharma? If terrorists killed 60,000 americans, we'd be bombing yet another nation into dust. If an herb killed 60,000 americans, the FDA would be screaming about how we have to regulate all herbs to "protect the people!" If a virus killed 60,000 americans, we'd call it one of the worst outbreaks since the 1918 bird flu outbreak. |
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 Where's the war on Big Pharma and the FDA who are collectively killing 100,000+ americans each year?
I often compare this atrocity to the Vietnam War. We lost about 50,000 americans in it. This means that one class of prescription drugs all by itself has killed more americans than the entire Vietnam War. And yet, the FDA says, "Oh, it's safe. It's safe!" Well, apparently it's more dangerous than being shot at on the battlefield. But that's safe enough for the FDA.
How many americans have to die?
I often wonder what the threshold is here. |
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| If you really understand Enron, then you understand what most people don't: That Enron didn't merely fool americans, it mimicked them. Enron didn't scam people as much as it played to their private ambitions of greed and power. It's like parents at a school play, tossing their kid on stage with encouraging words of what great a great actor he is. It makes for entertaining theater, and people see what they want to see, but in reality the kid picks his nose during the entire second act and he's ugly, too. It doesn't stop the applause, though. |
| This isn't the story americans want to hear. They want to hear a fairy tale about how they were all hoodwinked by a small group of corporate masterminds who executed a carefully designed system of fraud. American investors love to think they're so darned smart right up until the collapse of the company they invested in, at which point they claim they had no idea what was really going on. It's amusing how investors can go from self-proclaimed brilliance to instant stupidity in the time it takes a corporation to file for bankruptcy. |
| To which americans am I referring? Well, let's see...
First we have the Enron traders, who were caught on tape saying, "Burn, baby, burn!" as wildfires destroyed power transmission lines in California right during the rolling blackouts. Why would Enron traders want transmission lines to burn? Because scarcity creates profits. And Enron traders, the world now knows, fabricated scarcity by exporting power from California and shutting down power plants under false pretenses. Enron traders didn't just go along, they plotted the demise of the California economy for their own personal gain. |
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 Americans killed by prescription drugs since 9/11, and the number increases by the minute. Imagine a modern nuclear missile striking a significant U.S. city, killing all its inhabitants in an instant. That's what pharmaceuticals have done to americans over the last five years. The casualties of Big Pharma in just the last five years are now ten times larger than the number of americans killed in the Vietnam War. And that statistic, by the way, comes straight from the Journal of the American Medical Association, which studied deaths caused by prescription drug side effects. |
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| Too many americans, you see, think the stock market is a giant ATM. They underestimate risk (if they understand it at all) and overestimate the potential for gain, all while following the sheeple to the slaughter. They're quick to blame Kenneth Lay for his complicity in the fraud (and no doubt he is the primary evil-doer), but reluctant to examine their own greed and gullibility in participating in this free lunch, get-rich-quick moneymaking scheme.
Next we have the investment bankers. These banks, like Citibank, Chase, JP Morgan and many others, went along with the Enron scam, too. |
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| Even as tens of millions of americans may now be suffering from Television Deficiency Disorder, third world countries are hit even harder. "Many countries don't even have televisions," warned Dr. Anne Tennah, "And as a result, they are in the midst of widespread TDD epidemics that are worse than AIDS." International aid is being organized to help bring such countries more television programming, along with western junk food restaurants, drug companies and soda giants to support the advertising requirements of local television shows. |
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| As a subscriber, you'll receive an email alert when I publish new solutions to the coming financial crisis that, according to many observers, now seems a foregone conclusion. americans, it seems, are in for a rude awakening in the near future. |
| To say that most americans will be in a state of shock when their life savings are suddenly wiped out is an understatement: These people will have never even imagined such an event is possible, much less contemplated how it might affect them.
Rome is burning
It's too late to save the United States from its financial meltdown, I believe. For starters, there is a complete lack of willingness to make tough financial decisions and begin paying off the national debt. Such an idea is so foreign to the U.S. |
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