naked capitalism

Jim Haygood says:

From thelocal.se:

When Per Johansson of Särö, south of Gothenburg, returned home from work on Tuesday it was dark outside and the rain was coming down hard. Suddenly Johansson heard a bellowing noise from the garden next door.

“I thought at first that someone was having a laugh. Then I went over to take a look and spotted an elk stuck in an apple tree with only one leg left on the ground,” Johansson told The Local.

The unfortunate elk was desperately entangled in the tree’s branches and was kicking ferociously as Johansson approached.

According to Johansson, it looked very much like the elk was severely drunk after eating too many fermenting apples.

http://www.thelocal.se/36002/20110907/

No one dares call the inebriated quadruped’s plight by its true name: QE [Quantitative Eating].

Jim3981 says:

“Scrambling for cancer drugs”

It’s going to sound outrageous to those who haven’t followed the medical history in the USA over the years. But these guys want to make you sick and keep you sick. You can go to http://www.canaryparty.org/ or add Canaryparty to your facebook and find out how your health is being affected by these Big Pharma criminals.

Big Pharma controls everything related to your health. From the medical journals, the CDC/FDA, universities, the drugs, and to the research. They fund and control everybody and anything to do with it. They do this by controlling the money.

Big Pharma funds the polticians, funds the research, funds the universities, and funds the advertising? It is ALL controlled by big pharma.

The FDA has a rule that requires a $300,000,000 application fee for new drugs and certain supplements!! Who else but big pharma can afford that much money for an application? Forget Dr Burzynski’s life saving non-toxic cancer treatment coming to market. Dr Burzynski created an excellent movie about his battles with the FDA. He is the real deal.(contrary to the propaganda suggesting otherwise)

It gets much worse when you understand how much life saving research is simply buried by the FDA and CDC. Take Lyme disease for example. The CDC has known this has been an epidemic for decades, yet your doctor will never rule it out when you come in with symptoms. Your doctor is going to give you a antidepressant and something else, because that is what Big Pharma wants.

Think about the mercury in your dental fillings, the fluoride in your drinking water, the fluoride in your medications, the extra high levels of Acetominophen(liver damaging) in your Vicodin, the aspartame in your chewing gum. Those are highly toxic chemicals that can lead to chemical injury, especially if one is already genetically predisposed.

Big pharma is making you sick, and your highest level government officials have been helping them keep you sick for decades.

By the way, when some big pharma/government employee comes by this blog later, and pretends to disagree with my post, just ignore him! It’s just his job to surf the web and leave pseudoscience type comments. After all how else would senators and congressman know how to vote if there wasn’t abundant propaganda in the media to convince them otherwise?

Rotten to the core.

CB says:

If companies posted more jobs in July, I didn’t see the postings, and I’m always looking at jobs listings. I’ll take the story as another phony baloney attempt to make things seem better than they are. For a fact, September listings in my geo area are down, again.

Jeff says:

Shortage of cancer drugs.
Yet another reason why we
need Medicare For All. Socialism. National Health Care. Whatever you want to call it. How about Congress’
Health Care shall be available to every citizen?

The V.A. was able to quickly and inexpensively
create its own drugs for a rare
disease in its own laboratories when Big Pharma
refused to do it because there was too little
profit in it.

Cancer is an economic disease.
It is caused by activities that create profits and
there are huge profits to be made in its treatment.

Externality says:

From Public Citizen:

U.S. measures to reduce teenage smoking deemed WTO violation

U.S. measures to reduce teenage smoking violate World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, according to a panel ruling released late last week. Indonesia successfully argued that the U.S. Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA) of 2009 violated WTO rules. The ruling opens the door to more teenage tobacco addiction, while further imperiling the legitimacy of a WTO that rules against environmental, health and other national policies 90 percent of the time.

The FSPTCA took a series of unprecedented and bold measures to combat teenage smoking, including Warning the banning of many forms of flavored cigarettes. There is substantial evidence that tobacco companies produce and market these cigarettes as “starter” or “trainer” cigarettes in order to hook teenagers into a lifetime of nicotine addiction.

However, as the U.S. noted in its defense in the WTO case, the U.S. did not ban all types of cigarettes. In particular, regular tobacco and menthol cigarettes were excluded from the ban. The justification for these exclusions was that, unlike candy flavored or clove cigarettes, large numbers of adults are also hooked on regular and menthol cigarettes. To abruptly pull these products out of the market could cause a strain on the U.S. healthcare system (as lifetime addicts would instantly seek medical treatment for wrenching withdrawal symptoms) and might lead to a rise in illicit black market sales and associated crime. Nonetheless, various studies were ordered on the feasibility of banning menthol cigarettes in the future.

http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2011/09/wto-opens-door-to-teen-tobacco-addiction.html

Link to WTO opinion:
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds406_e.htm