It's nice to know that the U.S. Government is "fighting back," as our members of Congress take millions and millions from BigPharma, and then there's Obama's unholy alliance in HCR.

This shouldn't be surprise to many, at least to those who know how FDA works and who it is made up of. There is big revolving door between FDA and Big Pharma and now they are adding new generation of Doctors, Academic Researchers.

God knows what is going to happen to the patients, or at least they- this bunch knows what they are doing to them !!

The greatest evil of capitalism is best evident in the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry, the defense industry, and Wall Street. But, as a nation, we are willing to turn a blind eye to these industries because we love how most other corporations "improve" our lives with an unsustainable consumer lifestyle.

Democracy and capitalism are incompatible. You either have a culture of predatory capitalism or a culture based upon vibrant, honest participatory democracy. You cannot have both.

The choice is between a vibrant democracy, taught by our schools, universities and churches, or we can essentially face the collapse of civilization.

What can each of us do to fight Big Pharma?

The answer is simple: avoid using their products.

While certain folks such as diabetics have no choice but to use insulin, far too many people use pharmaceuticals because (a) they haven't taken care of themselves and (b) they're convinced that the best way to deal with life's stresses is to take a pill.

If the majority of adults in the US ate properly, exercised regularly, and developed simple tools to cope with stress (e.g. meditation), Big Pharma's revenues would drop by at least 80%.

So take care of yourself already. Good health is a stake in the heart of this racket.

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While this is a good expose, it only scratches the surface of the problem, which is endemic throughout the medical community and big pharma. The Hippocratic Oath has become as meaningless as ethics at Goldman-Sachs for the vast majority of doctors. Yes, doctors will strive to keep their patients alive as long as possible, and they may think this a noble thing, but the fact is that sick patients are quite profitable. Pharmaceuticals with iatrogenic effects are especially profitable, as their dire effects call for more and more meds, each countering the other’s side effects. This may seem paranoid, and I’m sure few doctors have ever consciously looked at their practice in this fashion, but when one looks at the facts—such as the reality that few doctors take the long view and consider the harm their prescriptions are doing, either alone or in combination, and the fact that pharmaceutical testing is done through big pharma’s direction, which avoids studies that might uncover such problems—I cannot reach any other conclusion.

Lewis Morris’s aim to get pharma CEOs and other top-ranking executives complicit in lethal drugs removed from their jobs just isn’t nearly enough. Unless they are charged with mass murder and dealt with accordingly, nothing will change, and we all know that’s not going to happen. The solution is not lawsuits or reforming the FDA. The only solution is starving the beast. Look into alternative therapies, eat a diet centered on whole grains and vegetables, exercise. Avoid the doctor, and if you do end up needing medical care, research the hell out of any drug you are prescribed before putting it in your mouth. Research alternatives to any surgery recommended. Anyone who takes a doctor's advice without question these days is a fool. Your suffering is their cash cow--that's how the system is set up. And if you don't know that, you haven't been paying attention.

Much of this video deals with psychiatry. Having suffered under psychiatric care and knowing many who have withered and died under it, I urge everyone to read Robert Whitaker’s newest book, Anatomy of an Epidemic. I’ve been posting this whenever and wherever I can, and while I don’t mean to bore people, this book contains carefully researched proof that psychiatry is doing far more harm than good. Exposing this fact is only the first step, and Whitaker has done an excellent job. Again, starving the beast is the only answer. Look for alternatives to psychiatric meds and enact lifestyle changes. Educate yourself. The best cure for mental pain is active empathy, and that’s the last thing you’ll get from the psychiatric profession.

How does Big Pharma account for the millions of pills being sold on the streets? Is there no inventory? Please explain!!

Repeal "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act" (more commonly know by Medicare Part D)signed by Bush.

This bill prohibits Medicare from negotiating discounts on drug prices. If Medicare negotiated an average discount of just 20% it would save seniors $250 billion over the ten year period covered by the bill.

The bill is graft of public money to drug company CEOs, executives and their lobbyists.

It's time to call a spade a spade.

In the case of Vioxx, 9 of the 15 FDA physician reviewers were receiving consulting fees from the manufacturer. They of course approved the drug. What is it about conflict of interest do we not understand?

But of course, when your own congress does exactly the same thing when it passes laws, what else should we expect?

Jack Lohman ...
http://MoneyedPoliticians.net

My favorite critic of Big Pharm remains the late George Carlin. D R U G S D R U G S.

Remember the Swine Flu scare... somebody call the cops. Manslaughter/Murder has taken place.

A Third Of The Experts Advising The World Health Organization About The Swine Flu Pandemic Had Ties To Drugs Firms

By Sophie Borland

"...Five of the 15 specialists who sat on the emergency committee had received funding from pharmaceutical giants, or were linked to them through their research..."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1302505/WHO-swine-flu-advisers-ties-drug-firms-Experts-linked-vaccine-producers.html

Our entire ‘Insurance Care’ industry should be nationalized.
All drugs should be developed with our (government) money, and then released as generics.
The military uses our government money and seems to thrive. Wouldn't scientists also thrive? Or, are the banks only accepting corporate money now, like the politicians?

Check the top 25 defrauders of the taxpayers at Taxpayers Against Fraud www.taf.org and tell me if you see a trend here.

It seems to be running in the veins...shyster whenever, wherever for as long as not caught. A good example of the "me first" mentality.

Here are a few things to consider. Medicine in this country USED to be about CURES. Now, it's not, it's about hiding the symptoms (largely so you can go back to work before you're really well). There isn't a single drug they make anymore that cures a damned thing. They discovered back then they CURED polio that suddenly there was no continuing money from CURING things. They have done literally at least a trillion dollars worth of research on MS, for instance, just to choose one off the top of my head. We didn't spend that much on the atomic bomb, but they STILL haven't made that break through that will CURE the damned disease. MD? How long has Jerry Lewis been doing that labor day telethon? bout 45 years, now? How much longer will it take before they actually CURE the thing?

They have NO intention of curing any disease EVER again. There is much more money in masking symptoms, you can keep people hooked on horrible things for the rest of their lives. Who CARES if the disease actually ultimately kills you, you had no symptoms!

This is NOT medicine. This is drug pushing. It should NOT be allowed in this or any other society.

And for the record, the last stat I saw on this topic says that prescription drugs kill 200,000 Americans EVERY YEAR. That is just not an acceptable figure to me. And it shouldn't be to anyone else, either. Oh, and also for the record, cannabis has been used for over 4700 years for MANY of the things that these murderous pills are used for, and has never been involved in a single human death. Why do you think they are so against it? It sure aint' for your health!

If you want to really scare yourself, look through the PDR (Physician's Desktop Reference) sometime. It's a listing of every drug used in "modern medicine", the uses and side effects (contraindications). The VAST majority of these drugs can cause VERY serious side effects, most including DEATH (If this pill kills you, cease taking it IMMEDIATELY or serious results could occur).

They call it "traditional" medicine, now, but we've only been pill popping for about 100 years or so. Traditional medicine USED to CURE things. Now, we don't, and we call THIS traditional medicine, with everything that USED to be medicinal in nature now being "alternative" medicine. I'll take that alternative over this lifelong slavery to the pharma companies ANY day.

I trust a street pusher selling me a quarter ounce of weed FAR more than I trust these pill pushing scum. At least the street pusher isn't trying to tell me I'm his only hope for survival.

'the constant gardener' by john le carre is an insight into the big pharma deviousness in africa...........

If folks would just go back to eating real food, you wouldn't need the pills or the doctors. We could put em' all outa business.

A side effect no one mentions is the pollution these pills cause. In municipal water the unmetablolized ingredients pass into drinking water and are not filtered out. Birthcontrol pills are responsible for changing the secondary sexual characteristics of amphibians and well the male species are being feminised. This is one tiny example, prozac anyone, if you live in a metropolitian area chances are you drinking it in your morning coffee.