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Bastards. http://www.ahrp.org/infomai... They probably don't remember about this: "An examination of internal Bayer company documents by The New York Times reveals that the company was engaged in unsavory, probably criminal marketing practices. The documents reveal that Bayer continued to sell contaminated blood plasma causing thousands of hemophiliac patients to be infected with AIDS. The company continued to sell the contaminated blood in Asia for over a year when it had already introduced a safer, heated blood plasma version in the US and Europe in February 1984. The documents examined by the Times provide evidence of unrestrained corrupt practices by a pharmaceutical industry giant. According to The Times, records suggest that the reason for continuing to sell an AIDS infected blood product, was to get rid of inventory and "the company hoped to preserve the profit margin from 'several large fixed-price contracts.'" This previously uninvestigated case demonstrates how this industry's lies and crimes are shielded by officials at the Food and Drug Administration. The Times reports that in 1985 FDA's Dr. Harry Meyer willingly helped Bayer cover up "one of the worst drug-related medical disasters in history." Meyer suggested that the issue should be "quietly solved without alerting the Congress, the medical community and the public." This culture of accommodation continues to prevail at the FDA. The case also demonstrates Bayer's racial elitism. Its lethal marketing policies disregard human lives. The mother of a 22 year old hemophiliac who was killed by Bayer's tainted product in Hong Kong put it this way: "they did not care about the lives in Asia. It was racial discrimination." The Times reports that three other American pharmaceutical companies were involved in selling tainted blood plasma after a safer version existed: Armour Pharmaceutical, Baxter International and Alpha Therapeutic. American taxpayers have awarded unprecedented, generous financial subsidies to this industry--no other has extended patent rights as does this industry. In return they have been deceived, believing that drug company officials care about alleviating suffering and improving people's health, and that the FDA protects them from tainted products. In fact, this industry has repeatedly shown that profits matter more than human livesóeven less valued are the lives in underdeveloped countries. Currently, Bayer--through its subsidiary, Bayer CropScience--is applying pressure on the Environmental Protection Agency in an effort to lower the standards for pesticide contamination. Bayer has conducted unethical human pesticide experiments and wants the EPA to accept the data from those trials. The nature and purpose of such wholly nontherapeutic experiments violate The Nuremberg Code which was adopted in 1947 to protect human beings from potentially lethal, non-medical experiments." - Zu from AOD

Which of these words resonates with you? My guess is some will at different times, but they're all good words to live by. - bcultral

"1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me." - bcultral

The internet is disrupting video entertainment as we know it - bcultral

Of course, no one rules if everyone obeys, either. - COMPLICATED MR. NOODLE

I never thought of it that simply, but not obeying is the way to change how the ruling is made. We are change you can believe in, I "Hope." - Zu from AOD

"In 1823 the Supreme Court handed down a decision which stated that Indians could occupy lands within the United States, but could not hold title to those lands. This was because their "right of occupancy" was subordinate to the United States' "right of discovery."" - bcultral

"Regarding the criminal decimation of the indigenous nations of North America for the value of their homelands: By the end of the 19th century, the nations of the indigenous peoples of North America within what would be called the United States of America had been destroyed by the white European colonists, their descendants and European immigrants at the constant inciting of land speculative banking." - bcultral

"The “Matrix of Control”, made up of special interests linked largely to powerful financial actors, through its dominance-by-donations of the political party system, is able to influence the agendas of our mainstream political parties on issues we really care about like education, health, social welfare, and so on. Corporate imperatives mean that the government is pressured by its key donors to rollback all sorts of social spending, privatize public services, and open up society to the rampaging whirlwind of corporate financial speculation: Profit over people." - bcultral

"32 Privacy Destroying Technologies That Are Systematically Transforming America Into A Giant Prison By Michael Sny" - bcultral

"But many Americans, the 99 percent, don't understand how bad economic inequality really is.  A recent Harvard study found: The bottom 80 percent owns only 7 percent of the nation's wealth, and the top 1 percent hold more of the country's wealth -- 40 percent -- than 9 out of 10 people think the top 20 percent should have.  The top 10 percent of earners take home half the incom e of the country; in 2012, the top 1 percent earned more than a fifth of U.S. income -- the highest share since the government began collecting the data a century ago." - bcultral