Or they agreed with Keith Olbermann

You might find this book interesting

The ideas and solutions presented in this book will not be discussed in the Major US Media because their advertisers would not be pleased.

Pharmageddon by David Healy Amazon rating: 4.9/5.0

This searing indictment, David Healy's most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing side effects of many anti-depressants, attributes our current state of affairs to three key factors: product rather than process patents on drugs, the classification of certain drugs as prescription-only, and industry-controlled drug trials.



These developments have tied the survival of pharmaceutical companies to the development of blockbuster drugs, so that they must overhype benefits and deny real hazards. Healy further explains why these trends have basically ended the possibility of universal health care in the United States and elsewhere around the world. He concludes with suggestions for reform of our currently corrupted evidence-based medical system.

"This meticulously documented book makes extraordinary claims with far-reaching intellectual and practical ramifications. It is the most powerful critique of the contemporary medical-industrial complex that I know."--Andrew T. Scull, author of Hysteria and Madness: A Very Short Introduction

"This book shines a bright light on the pharmaceutical industry (and American healthcare) in the same way that Silent Spring called out the chemical industry and Unsafe at Any Speed called out the automobile industry. Pharmageddon is Healy's most important book to date. It will make a real contribution toward healing our sick system of pharmaceutical-driven medicine and helping doctors provide better care for their patients."--Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, author of The Estrogen Elixir and On the Pill

Excellent expose
David Healy has written extensively about the pharmaceutical industry, and this book is one of his best. He gives a short history of how drugs became such big business, and why the incentives are wrong for new drug development. Healy is by no means anti-drug, but he objects to the use of too many drugs and of drugs that have questionable value to the patient. Everyone should be aware of the information in this book before filling their next prescription.
http://www.amazon.com/Pharmageddon-David-Healy/dp/0520275764/

The Pharma companies that routinely bribe and cheat their way around the world

lying thieving rat bastards belong in jail, not their private jets making $400,000 per day

Drug Company Accused of Bribing Doctors
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131602

Bribery And Corruption In The Pharmaceutical Sector
http://www.financierworldwide.com/article.php?id=11025

GlaxoSmithKline fined $3bn after bribing doctors to increase drugs sales
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/03/glaxosmithkline-fined-bribing-doctors-pharmaceuticals

Bribery 'routine' for foreign pharmaceutical firms in China
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23662909

That's just a few from the first page of a search- from the last year.

Criminals on the loose.

In a perfect world, the Deer would be armed with high powered rifles

and because they would still be at a disadvantage throw in some night vision goggles and motion sensing devices.



But the world isn't perfect. Fortunately there are billions of planets and this race isn't the only so called intelligent life in the universe.

Instead of "Completely" it should have said "Partially"

The Hemp Car - Myth Busted

A friend of mine told me about a car by Henry Ford that was made almost entirely of hemp. It was unveiled as a prototype, and proclaimed to be the car of the future. Unfortunately, World War II and the DuPont corporation killed what would have been a lighter, safer and more cost effective car. I was asked to research the validity of this claim.

I had not heard of this car, so I googled it. Nearly every pro-hemp website mentioned it, but didn't give sources. Even YouTube has a video of this "hemp car" from 1941. It sounded like a good idea, and Henry Ford was certainly a visionary, but I really wanted the truth (I'm not anti-hemp; I'm pro-facts and anti-myth.) ....

....



(article continues) Mr. Ford tested the pliability of the plastic panel by swinging on it with an axe. The panel was unchanged after the blow, but a similar experiment on a steel panel cut through the metal. ...



Needed materials, he said, would include 100,000 bales of cotton, 500,000 bushels of wheat, 700,000 bushels of soy beans and 500,000 bushels of corn. "Plastic raw materials may cost a little more," he said, "but we anticipate a considerable saving as the result of fewer fabricating finishing operations."
-"Ford Shows Auto Built of Plastic - Strong Material Derived from Soy Beans, Wheat, Corn is used for Body and Fenders," New York Times, 14 August 1941.

http://theangryhistorian.blogspot.com/2010/10/hemp-car-myth-busted.html

like the Hempcar in 2001- powered by hemp oil

It didn't stop Karen Ignagni either

This woman is one to behold. Probably the single biggest factor in convincing President Obama to "change his mind" on the mandates that he campaigned against.

The best hot dog is a tofu pup

grill 'em till they're almost black. Most regular hot dog eaters can't tell the difference.

You can read the original paper by Stewart Butler here

The United States spends over 11 percent of its gross national product on health care. That translates into more than $2,000 per person each year - more than the per capita GN P of many countries. Yet although the U.S. spends far more than any other country on health care, there are gaping holes in the system's coverage, and health care services are gripped by runaway inflation...

...2) Mandate all households to obtain adequate insurance. Many states now require passengers in automobiles to wear seatbelts for their own protection. Many others require anybody driving a car to have li a bility insurance. But neither the federal government nor any state requires all households to protect themselves from the potentially catastrophic costs of a serious accident or illness. Under the Heritage plan, there would be such a requirement.

This mandate is based on two important principles. First, that health care protection is a responsibility of individuals, not businesses. Thus to the extent that anybody should be required to provide coverage to a family, the household mandate assumes that it is the family that carries the first responsibility.

Second, it assumes that there is an implicit contract between households and society, based on the notion that health insurance is not like other forms of insurance protection. If a young man wrecks his Porsche and has not had the foresight to obtain insurance, we may commiserate but society feels no obligation to repair his car. But health care is different.

..more
http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/assuring-affordable-health-care-for-all-americans

"The government also has a poor track record when it comes to keeping secrets that big."

Not entirely true.

The 1953 Iran coup d'etat was not mentioned even once by Ted Koppel or anyone else in 444 days and nights. Which was the direct cause of the hostage crisis to begin with. It was a "Conspiracy theory" until de-classified in the late '90s.

The Manhattan project was a pretty big secret and it was kept pretty well.