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Big Pharma Revealed As Puppetmaster Behind TPP Secrecy

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It is no secret that US healthcare corporations have been among, if not the biggest beneficiaries of Obamacare: by "socializing" costs and spreading the reimbursement pool over the entire population in the form of a tax, pharmaceutical companies have been able to boost medical product and service costs to unprecedented levels with the help of complicit insurance companies who have subsequently passed through these costs to the consumer, in the process sending the price of biotech and pharma stocks to levels not seen since the dot com bubble.

But when it came to the highly confidential TPP, it was unclear just which corporations were dominant in pulling the strings.

Now thanks to more documents published by Wikileaks, and analyzed by the NYT, it appears that "big pharma" is once again pulling the strings, this time of the Trans Pacific Partnership, which if passed will "empower big pharmaceutical firms to command higher reimbursement rates in the United States and abroad, at the expense of consumers" according to "public health professionals, generic-drug makers and activists opposed to the trade deal."

In other words, just like the narrowly-passed Obamacare was a gift for big Pharma, so America's legal drug dealers are now trying to go for another price boosting catalyst, one which however will involve not just the US but some 12 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Worst of all, the negotiations for the next price increase is taking place in utmost secrecy where "American negotiators are still pressing participating governments to open the process that sets reimbursement rates for drugs and medical devices."

As RT notes, the latest disclosure links the Healthcare Annex to the secret draft of the quite aptly-named "Transparency" Chapter of the TPP, along with each country's negotiating position. The leaked "Annex on transparency and procedural fairness for pharmaceutical products and medical devices" is dated from December 2014, with the draft being restricted from release for four years after the passage of the TPP into law.

RELEASE: TPP Transparency Chapter Healthcare Annex https://t.co/jc4hYqh06V #TPP #TTIP #TISA pic.twitter.com/xIlO4QCUu6

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 10, 2015

 

Worse, while in the US the rising healthcare costs are at least spread across a broader social safety net, the TPP is targeting countries where the potential jump in drug prices will have dramatic effects. As the NYT notes, "foreign governments and health care activists have accused pharmaceutical giants, mostly based in the United States, of protecting profits over public health, especially in poor countries where neither the government nor consumers can afford to pay rates anywhere close to those charged in wealthier nations."

That fight re-emerged in the Pacific trade negotiations, which involve countries with strong cost-containment policies, like New Zealand, as well as poor countries like Peru and Vietnam.

 

The agreement “will increase the cost of medicines worldwide, starting with the 12 countries that are negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” said Judit Rius Sanjuan, a lawyer at Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian organization that provides medical care in more than 60 countries.

None other than the CEO of Mylan explained in the simplest possible way what is going on: a government mandated monopoly under the guise of a trade pact: "Heather Bresch, the chief executive of Mylan, one of the largest generic-drug makers, said the brand-name pharmaceutical industry was “establishing, through U.S. trade policy, an international system designed to maximize its monopolies."

But where the alarm bells truly go off is when someone, anyone, uses the word "fair" to justify policy, such as surging drug costs. To wit: "drug companies, however, say they need to be able to charge fair prices to compensate for the billions of dollars and decades of research that go into their medicines."

What is amusing is that the true motive behind the TPP's secrecy have been quite clear to virtually everyone but the population of the TPP's host nation:

“It was very clear to everyone except the U.S. that the initial proposal wasn’t about transparency. It was about getting market access for the pharmaceutical industry by giving them greater access to and influence over decision-making processes around pricing and reimbursement,” said Deborah Gleeson, a lecturer at the School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University in Australia. And even though the section, known as the transparency annex, has been toned down, she said, “I think it’s a shame that the annex is still being considered at all for the T.P.P.”

RT adds that one country that should be in arms over the TPP is Australia:

The secret negotiations now allegedly reveal that Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme might be undermined, pushing up the cost of medicines in the country.

 

"United States trade negotiators have aggressively pushed for provisions favoring multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers at the expense of national governments and public healthcare systems," the Sydney Morning Herald wrote.

But the one place where the biggest price shock may be unleashed is, not surprisingly, the US itself :

The leaked TPP document "shows that the pact could expose Medicare to pharmaceutical company attacks and constrain future policy reforms, including the ability of the US government to curb rising and unsustainable drug prices," the US consumer rights advocacy group and think tank Public Citizen said in its Wednesday statement.

 

The group says president Obama's administration has been "acting at the behest of pharmaceutical companies," and the secret negotiations it has been holding within the partnership might affect Medicare, limiting "Congress' ability to enact policy reforms that would reduce prescription drug costs for Americans."

The same Congress, incidentally, which gladly washed its hands of any discussion of the TPP when the Senate "fast-tracked" its passage and as the NYT further notes, "a House vote on final passage of the bill, now expected on Friday, appears extremely close."

In other words, in exchange for a few million in lobby spending, aka bribes, by Big Pharma, the US Congress has once again sold out the US population, and this time it even voluntarily bypassed even the mock democratic process of debating the law it will pass.

Why? Just so shareholders of pharmaceutical companies could reap even greater profits at the expense of not just the US population, but of the populations of some of the biggest US trading partners, all of whom are about to see the prices of medical care skyrocket.

And since nothing is confirmed until it is officially denied, here is the punchline:

“The transparency annex in T.P.P. is not subject to Investor-State Dispute Settlement, and nothing in its provisions will undermine our ability to pursue the best health care policy for Americans, including any future action on health care expenditures and cost containment,” a trade representative spokesman said.

Those Americans who may wish to challenge the claim well, they are out of luck: Congress is about to make sure there is no way anyone can have a say into what big corporations have in store for the US population.

The full Transparency Chapter Healthcare Annex below:

 

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Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:17 | 6184989 falconflight
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Teva! Teva! Teva!  Roll over bitches and take it the way your mama's taught you.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:27 | 6185029 Manthong
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So Medicare Part D and Obamacare wasn’t good enough for the MF’s, eh?

I say drag them into court and prosecute all of the execs under RICO.

 

PS

Awesome move TD..  you yanked the Spammer in a flash

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:40 | 6185078 falconflight
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Meh, the judiciary isn't the answer...they're the legal gate keepers for the State.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:56 | 6185117 MonetaryApostate
Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:00 | 6185137 Oh regional Indian
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MIC+Big Pharma+Big Ag = Making Poisoned Shit Folks

Banks = Enablers of said shit making

Govern Ments = Mind control to keep the quislings quiescent....

One kills and maims, one stictches and fixes and one poisons you just a little more every day.

The rest of the drama is to create so much confusion and cog diss that we don't notice...

Notice this : String Drumming...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsrCg7rwcqA

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:02 | 6185147 TeethVillage88s
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Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies, Propaganda
Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies, Propaganda
Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies, Propaganda
Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies, Propaganda
Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies, Propaganda
Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies, Propaganda
Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies, Propaganda

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:20 | 6185196 Karaio
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I will be short and thick (as always am).

Pharmaceutical companies enter the Amazon rainforest by priests, nuns, evangelical pastors mostly Americans.

Chat with old Indians, they assimilate roots and plants that heal.

Lead to the US where they synthesize in the laboratory and crystallize, turn into ancient knowledge medications.

Then comes the planting companies with genes manipulated in different cultures that spread pollen that transforms native cultures in amorphous things.

: - /

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:28 | 6185212 Karaio
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There is more to say.

Previously, one clove head had enough anesthetic to cure a toothache.

Previously there were so many mosquitoes that transmitted dengue or shou-anything because they had swallows migrating from north to south in the Americas, they fed on mosquitoes.

Today there is no swallows.

Agricula poison killed the migration.

Mosquitoes proliferated;

Diseases before contained proliferate.

Think when you were small, with 52 years like me.

Remember Swallows breaking TV antennas when it was night?

I remember.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:58 | 6185287 Rusty Shorts
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+1000 

 

80,000 (River) DAMS in USA and the impact on migratory fish, aquifers, ecosystems; discuss.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:22 | 6185329 falconflight
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Fuck fish, I'm for humans.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:32 | 6185339 Rusty Shorts
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Keep talking, we're listening...

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:25 | 6185333 Oh regional Indian
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BINGO Rusty...and when you consider the esoteric/big picture significance...and something known about for at least 10,000 years... NEVER DAM A FLOWING RIVER>..

from the Egyptian book of the dead:

I have not added to the balance weights; I have not tempered with the plumb bob of the balance.
I have not taken milk from a child’s mouth; I have not driven small cattle from their herbage . . .
I have not stopped (the flow of) water in its seasons; I have not built a dam against flowing water.
I have not quenched a fire in its time . . .

Pretty stunning I thought, especially when we consider our dammed world today...

https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/the-year-the-time-and-the-pl...

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:34 | 6185342 Rusty Shorts
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Thank you ORI, yes indeed...the deliberate destruction of prime habitat. pure evil.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:03 | 6185396 falconflight
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Deliberate?  Many of those dams you've referenced in fact have been demolished, to human kind's detriment.  A fish is a dog is a boy just doesn't impress me in a favorable way.  Environmentalists would be just after lawyers for mass graves in my protocol.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:06 | 6185400 Rusty Shorts
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Keep talking...

 

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 02:40 | 6185492 conscious being
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I see ff bringing the zino perspective and basicly maneuvering the story away from Big Pharma. Thanks for nothing ... again ff.

The cure for Big Pharma is to organicly grow your own herbs, fruits and veggies, pick them and eat them.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 09:33 | 6186021 TheGreatRecovery
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I bet Dick Cheney appreciates the environmentalists where he lives, in Jackson Hole, which is right next to Yellowstone National Park.  I bet he gives the environmentalists there his complete support.  The environmentalists in Iraq, Nigeria, and so forth - maybe not so much.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:24 | 6185425 falconflight
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You don't pray to the Delta Smelt by chance?  Or the blue speckled three legged San Antonio Freeway Arachnoid?

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 09:34 | 6186025 TheGreatRecovery
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I just want to be buried in the compost pile, so I can rejoin all the creatures who made my life worthwhile.  I appreciate all of them.  They ALL have the Creator within them.  Just as much as me.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:18 | 6185417 ebear
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They had slaves back then.  Today we have electricity.

Everything comes with a cost.

 

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:22 | 6185423 falconflight
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Slaves were a pretty minor nation-building claim.  A tiny percentage of farmers benefited.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:34 | 6185444 Rusty Shorts
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.

 

Where We Went Wrong

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpAxV6uUxsM

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 02:49 | 6185501 conscious being
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Thanks Rusty. Obviously some people never forgot the importance of their tribe. [Just checked out the first couple of minutes. Bookmarked to listen to later.] I enjoy the off the beaten path links you come up with.

Fri, 06/12/2015 - 00:28 | 6189075 webdesignvalleys
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This can be true and false. However, if we can solve all issues, then it will be good for public health.

 

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Mike @ cure for herpes 2015 to get good health.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 09:36 | 6186033 TheGreatRecovery
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Christopher Columbus brought the first black slaves to the Americas.  He started the whole thing.  And now the USA has a "Columbus Day" to celebrate him.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:19 | 6185418 falconflight
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Hmmm, consider the Anwar or the Three Rivers Gorge... people want electricity and and glimmer of improved opportunity; they'd like to escape crushing poverty.  Tesla ain't but a gov't - political daisy chain of graft and influence peddling. jmo

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 09:38 | 6186039 TheGreatRecovery
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I'll say it till I'm blue in the face: TOO MANY PEOPLE!  Every environment has a carrying capacity.  At 7 billion, human population exceeds that capacity by a factor which Mother Planet, try though She might, cannot possibly sustain.  We are killing our own planet with overpopulation.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 09:34 | 6186023 SamAdams
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I have not quenched a fire in its time . . .  Even the Egyptians knew to let the banks burn to the ground.  Otherwise, you have a heap of ash and half burnt rubbish lying about that someone has to clean up.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:36 | 6185446 Karaio
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When a piece of his arm is dissolving, rotten, held by the hand of his arm that still works, remember me.

Play with radioactivity is not anything to do with the butt on the couch.

: - /

Nuclear war is fucking unfortunately we are very close to that.

My bet is until October / 2015.

Or (at I pray to God), a violent break in the economic system.

A wood, the other poor leaves a lot of people but people alive!

:-)

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 07:23 | 6185716 firstdivision
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Soon bees will be gone and you'll be stuck with Monsanto meals.  I'm thinking that Monsanto is purposely killing the bees to create a bigger reliance on their GMO crops.  People are quickly getting left with two choices, accept it or rip the motherfuckers from their homes and hang them from lamp posts.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:37 | 6185241 RichardParker
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Pharmaceutical companies enter the Amazon rainforest by priests, nuns, evangelical pastors mostly Americans.

Chat with old Indians, they assimilate roots and plants that heal.

Lead to the US where they synthesize in the laboratory and crystallize, turn into ancient knowledge medications.

 

What you describe is termed bioprospecting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioprospecting

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:56 | 6185285 DaveyJones
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none of this should shock us since the Bummer administration had numerous Cheney like and oily secret meetings with big pharma before careless care was released.   

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:11 | 6185407 falconflight
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The ACA wouldn't have passed w/o their explicit support.  Dem Party socialists might yearn for soviet styled governance, but they'll settle for a fascist-socialism in the meantime.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 09:43 | 6186055 TheGreatRecovery
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What Americans were asking for was Single Payer.  What Obama did was an end-run around that, creating Obamacare, which made Single Payer a legal impossibility, but profited Big Pharma, Big Medicine, etc.  So is Obama "Liberal" or "Fascist"?  Maybe he combines the two.  That leaves me only Libertarians like Ron Paul.  Whatever Americans ask for WILL be turned into something that profits the most corrupt elements of  some industry.  So all Americans can do is ask for nothing.  Which is just fine with me.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:02 | 6185394 Karaio
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RichardParker:

 

The big difference is that you saw it on Wikipedia and I saw in the middle of the Atlantic.

You and I on the couch in the woods.

You a usurper me and my country's raped.

You enemy.

Need I say more?

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:09 | 6185403 Karaio
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Say if you are a Troll the pharmaceutical industry.

You know differentiate Atlantic Forest Cerrado or Amazon without Google's help?

You know the difference between a native species of an invasive or maybe (maybe) a yucca of a potato?

Buster!

Go back to your tin, glass or milk carton, believe that everything that is born in nature comes from Walmart.

Plastic comes from China.

The rest exploding is produced locally to be distributed around the world for democracy.

hehe.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 08:03 | 6185799 shovelhead
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It ain't me doing the slash and burning the rainforest to sell beef to McDonalds.

I think maybe you better look a little closer to home for that.

Are you enjoying all that ethenol down there? All that corn needs a place to grow, right?

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 18:27 | 6188106 RichardParker
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What the pharmaceutical companies are doing a la bioprospecting is legalized STEALING

You might want to pickup a book and some peer reviewed articles on "natural products chemistry".

Here's some "light reading" for you;

http://pubs.acs.org/journal/jnprdf

You are an ignorant jackass.

 

 

 

 

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:09 | 6185404 falconflight
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We're all post colonial societies...the entire Western Hemisphere.  That's why I sneer at this artificial (Richard Nixon, the Progressive) creation of the term Hispanic, a/k/a post colonial Spaniard, or the other Iberian conqueror.  

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:35 | 6185445 falconflight
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Gee, will the REAL pansy, Please step forward and Illuminati (sarc on) me about "indigenous" nation states/societies in the Western Hemisphere?  They don't even have an indigenous language; FAIL.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 02:18 | 6185477 PhoQ
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I amuse myself at the supermarket by stopping in the area marked "Hispanic Foods." I try to speak to the food in my best restaurant Spanish, but it never speaks to me. Not in Spanish, not in English.

So what makes it Hispanic? If it can't even talk to me in broken Spanish on its home turf in the supermarket, that's just not meeting my standards for being Hispanic.

Sorry Mr. Nixon, but something's screwy with the word your minions invented. And now it's infecting my supermarket.

 

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:06 | 6185301 Shumbies
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Rinse, and repeat...

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 06:53 | 6185678 duo
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"If you can't afford your politician, Astra Zeneca may be able to help".

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 10:24 | 6186209 discopimp
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Since no ones going to jail, we might as well self medicate...no??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAXPUN2z2CE

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:09 | 6185169 vic and blood
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+ 100 for the impressive colorful English! "quislings quiescent".

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:43 | 6185365 Karaio
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Did you like it!

Good, I am grateful!

I'll tell you a parable.

At 52 years of age, one lives very well with 16 teeth in the mouth.

Needless to 32.

An empire, the decay, wear a denture, will remain active.

See the British ...

hehe.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:13 | 6185408 nosam
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This article is disinfo. Its not just the Pharma companies that want TPP. TPP is a core goal of the illuminati. Which means it is a prime goal of the government or whoever runs this world.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:32 | 6185438 falconflight
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Is it such a giant leap in ideology than NAFTA?

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 02:01 | 6185463 GoinFawr
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No it isn't; at all. Isn't that just super?

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 02:54 | 6185505 conscious being
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nosam - here some news. Big Pharma is the Illuminati/ZinoWorldOrder.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 05:08 | 6185608 nosam
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My point is that Big Pharma is just a tiny part of the illuminati. They are just taking one for the team here.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:00 | 6185139 Latina Lover
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The Pharmaceuticel companies are not the only criminal interests behind the TPP.  Wait till Monsanto, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon etc get outed.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:08 | 6185304 Karaio
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Latin lover:

The more you tell.

I had access to RADAM-BRAZIL Project when it was graduation in Geography in Santos-SP

If you take the data of the largest ore deposits in Brazil, you find on an Indian village or ecological park created by imposition of NGOs.

These sons of bitches know since 1970 where the deposits in Brazil.

The first aerial photographs (I have some) who discovered the niobium deposits in Brazil in 1964 were made by the USAF.

I lived in Catalan, State of Goiás, had access to much cost to such information in 1997 with companies.

Face!

You can not imagine what's inside my head, I am subject to a nail gun to talk more quietly.

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:24 | 6185332 Karaio
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The average Brazilian is inflated by the media.

The Brazilian low (poor) want justice.

The Brazilian who formerly spent two weeks a month in Florida or California perhaps in NY is terrified.

You bet.

One thing that most Americans do not know is that in Brazil we speak Portuguese.

And that language is spoken from north to south (4500 km) and from east to west (other 3500 km) approximately.

The thing is very different from entering a place where there is insane dialects with people of the same color and texture.

Some unique binders as Lula, Dilma, Getúlio Vargas, Juscelino Kubitchek (who was a descendant of Polish) can turn the boat and fuck the Americans interests easily.

Brazil is very different from Venezuela and Argentina.

At the bottom Brazilians are similar to ... nothing!

They are not similar to Russian because it has a similar territory but there is no ethnic groups.

They are not similar to the Chinese because here there is not as great deserts.

There are similar to indiandos because Brazilian women are beautiful (if you excuse me but the Indian is ugly, very ugly).

The Brazil has almost no weapons, no need, have a single language.

The Brazilian to be literate knows the limits of its territory.

This win any war.

hehe.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:21 | 6185327 falconflight
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Outed? Hell they're riding in the rickshaws....

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:51 | 6185377 Karaio
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You do not mess with a population of 250 million people who speak the same language and have a preservation instinct, knowledge of its physical limits as a state.

No, do not mess with it.

Many Brazilians have been living abroad in the 80s and 90s, they know the shit that is.

Calculation empirically that between 5 and 8% hit it off, the rest came back (and speak horrors of how living abroad).

hehe.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:58 | 6185386 falconflight
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I like Brazil, but the one thing that troubles me is the media-cultural hype about the polyglot, our diversity really is our strength mime.  The Castillo still reign and those post colonial Iberians were the last to officially end slavery in 1888.  

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:17 | 6185414 Rusty Shorts
Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:30 | 6185434 falconflight
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Thx, I hadn't heard of that.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:44 | 6185452 Rusty Shorts
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You're welcome, cheers

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:41 | 6185449 Karaio
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Homer Simpson or Troll?

hehe

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:45 | 6185453 Rusty Shorts
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LMAO

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:01 | 6185146 falconflight
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Where are all the Christians?  Are there any remaining, or are the various sects nothing more than human-securlarist front groups?  Giving unto Ceasar seems to have taken on a whole new meaning.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:58 | 6185464 Seek_Truth
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Me and my brothers and sisters are still here.

There are many calling themselves "christian."

But that claim amounts to semantic sophistry.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 09:39 | 6186044 11b40
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So, what is your suggestion, FF?  

The media sure as hell won't step on big pharma's toes.  Just look at all the drug commercials since the laws were changed to allow them.  Drugs and political ads are what keeps the media profits so high.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:49 | 6185098 vic and blood
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Compared to Big Pharma, Big Oil is pretty benevolent. We actually need petroleum products. Big Pharma convinces you that you need their poison.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:04 | 6185154 falconflight
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Yeah, without the Oil industry, we could be living at 1/3 the standard of living such as it is, and at 1/6 the standard of living without coal.  Self immolation is such a drag...

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 03:21 | 6185531 conscious being
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What is this "standard of living" you speak of? People have been hoodwinked into selling their liberty for the opportunity to be lazy, dependent, fat and unhealthy in a plastic empty void. Who benefits from the present arraingement?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:51 | 6185103 BLOTTO
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Jon Rappoport, excellent as usual...

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“After any agreement is achieved between high-level criminals, there are two basic phases. First, conflicts arise, and the settlements are crude and sometimes painful. Second, the criminal parties realize, like the ‘gentlemen’ they are, that the jackpot they are sharing is big enough for everyone. So they unify their stance. They focus in on their real target: the public.” —The Underground, Jon Rappoport

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'When a massive global agency, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), is actually a criminal organization, it enjoys special benefits, not the least of which is freedom from prosecution.

Now you’re talking about real power. Now you’re talking about the Wild West, in terms of the license to commit crimes.'

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/tpp-death-pool-more-pharmaceutical-destruction-is-coming/

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:01 | 6185143 piceridu
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Always the usual suspects...

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 05:35 | 6185621 netpounder
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What spammer?  Forget big pharma.  Get research chemicals that do a lot more for a lot less.  Self medicate bitches!

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Thu, 06/11/2015 - 12:43 | 6186291 e_goldstein
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 I say drag them into court and prosecute all of the execs under RICO.

 Frankly, dragging them by a chain behind a pickup down an asphalt road would be much more satisfying.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:31 | 6185050 doctor10
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We gonna need more rope Leroy

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:28 | 6185214 The Rolling Thunder
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Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:30 | 6185222 falconflight
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Only if you're a true Khazar...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:37 | 6185245 WTFUD
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Dudes improving though, pulling in a tart for a second upvote.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:46 | 6185265 Tall Tom
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He has his faggot boyfriend doing that...

 

Or he has already created another account which he has in reserve.

 

Tyler...See what account awarded the uparrow then ban both accounts.

 

Kill two birds with one stone,  eh?

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 03:00 | 6185512 Money Boo Boo
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Multi-national corporations are behind trying to install TPP of which the richest and most powerful are American Multi-national corporations, so is it any surprise these fucks are trying to take over the world once again? for you stoopid fucks the answer is NO!

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 03:02 | 6185514 Colonel Klink
Thu, 06/11/2015 - 04:51 | 6185592 raywolf
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see it's not big pharma that's the problem here.... it's big government..... if it wasn;t for all the red tape, rules, international (hob knobing) treaties and so forth, big pharma would be operating on a level playing field and have to compete like any business...... government creates the monopolies.... big pharam is just making the best of a bad job, because if they don't do it, someone else will cosy up to the career poltiicans and they will lose out.....

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:22 | 6185018 Dragon HAwk
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You have to pass it  to see what's in it, and they can Say it with a straight face..

roll the guillotines..

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:01 | 6185135 sleigher
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I am really starting to hate that I work in healthcare now.  One of the bigger ones too.  

Not long though.  I will have my land soon and will be done with this awful system of enslavement.  (thanks for the tips chumba!)

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:03 | 6185148 Millivanilli
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I keep my incriminating thoughts to myself.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:06 | 6185162 falconflight
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Is not crime-thought just as incriminating.  Just asking...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:50 | 6185272 Tall Tom
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It is actually worse as it leads to incriminating statements and expressions. It is INSIDIOUS.

 

You must tame your mind.

 

Doubleplusgood comrade.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:52 | 6185277 falconflight
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See ya at the 2 minute hate on the morrow!

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:24 | 6185023 Usurious
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corporate welfare taken to a whole new level....

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:57 | 6185122 Usurious
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dying baby boomers = HUGE PROFITS...........understand your demographics...........

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:01 | 6185145 p00k1e
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A large chunk of Baby Boomers will be killed-off so the rest will fall on line rationalizing the ‘free care’. 

A Russian Bio-Hazard sounds good.

Camel flu too.  

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:32 | 6185055 juangrande
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Any doubt that the NWO is fascism part "due"?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:32 | 6185059 ted41776
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wow, a revalation! bears really do shit in the woods!

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:59 | 6185133 falconflight
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...and Flipper pisses in the deep blue sea!

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:05 | 6185156 WTFUD
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. . radiation blue.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:34 | 6185063 blindman
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GEORGE CARLIN : Life is worth losing full show - stand up comedy of all time !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2462&v=EqfHxc6d6r0
.
here, a real eye opener.
.
princebullock said it.
“Princebullock • 13 days ago
This was an extremely important broadcast. I got in on the program late. So, I didn’t know it was Dr. Joseph P. Farrell. I read most of his books. On my blog, In Search of Black Assassins, I often discuss the Nazis and its impact on this country and specially the Black Community. Yes, Himmler and SS came out of WWII intact with Billions. Contrary to popular belief, they did not surrender. They changed venue to the United States. It’s virtually taboo to talk openly about the Nazis on public radio or anyplace else. It was a surprise, enlightening, refreshing and very informative. Good work bringing out Dr. Joseph P. Farrell to the general masses for discussion. THANKS” ..
.
Guns and Butter
05.27.15 – 1:00PM
https://kpfa.org/episode/guns-and-butter-may-27-2015/
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bonnie faulkner does the heavy lifting and everything
she does is golden, amazing.
Read more at http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/06/shots-fired-jamie-dimon-questions-eliza...
.
the mini malls are placed within the cesspool of the
other maxi malls. ....

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:37 | 6185071 falconflight
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Himmler moved to Skokie?  I thought he was captured wearing a frock?  

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:51 | 6185276 blindman
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: " it is all bullshit and
it is bad for ya." g.c.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:54 | 6185282 falconflight
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Yup, and I'm the chump worrying about it, instead of partying like it's 1999!

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:40 | 6185068 WTFUD
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I don't blame Big Pharma. Ok they're filthy greedy bastards. I blame Obama for selling out the people , yet again , and Congress for allowing this blatant gerrymandering.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 01:34 | 6185442 Deathrips
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It wasnt one fuckign man.

 

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:38 | 6185073 kchrisc
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"Profits Over Public Health" - Big Pharma Revealed As Puppetmaster Behind TPP Secrecy"

Who else believes that big-pharma is only one of many others cronies demanding secrecy?

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:06 | 6185160 suteibu
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No one writing this piece of shit, lobbying for it, negotiating it in secret, or in any other way involved in it has clean hands.  They are all traitors to the people of every nation that joins.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:13 | 6185179 WTFUD
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I supplied the writing paper from my plantation suteibu. Do i get an exemption?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:17 | 6185189 suteibu
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Did you know what they were doing with it? 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:29 | 6185216 WTFUD
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Was kidding mate.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:41 | 6185256 suteibu
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I know.  I was just playing along.  BTW, if the plantation is real, I hope you have plenty of room there...you know...for friends and such.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:15 | 6185317 WTFUD
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Am going to invite you along with other Z/H'rs to the plantation as soon as an event occurs that looks like bringing down this Ponzi.
We'll all probably be in our 80's though but at least Soros & Buffett and some of the other good ol' boys will have been in hell a long time.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 10:41 | 6186278 gonetogalt
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We don't have to wait that long, the Lord Himself is going to start the ball rolling this 29th of Tishri, that's September 13 to you Goy...

I recommend sleeping in a tent with no tall buildings around for a few days in September...

And that will be the black swan.

Got Gold???

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:39 | 6185076 hannah
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this is all becoming a real comedy...WHO THE FUCK WILL PAY FOR ALL THIS SHIT...LOL. does anyone really think that all this bs will continue?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:11 | 6185172 falconflight
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Yes, it will continue until it can't, just like any other empire and/or society that worships their Masters.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:13 | 6185181 kowalli
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you can't pay - you will die, they don't care

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:41 | 6185356 mkkby
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You are going to die anyway.  That's the real scam.  Most of the drugs made in the last few decades do very little at a very high price.  Extend your life a few months -- maybe, no guarantee for 200k, and a lot of pain.

Want proof?  With all of Steve Job's wealth, the cancer stll killed him.

Just make peace with your inevitable end and enjoy life now.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 03:54 | 6185551 conscious being
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FWIW, Learn to live well. Go to a diet and life-style that you and your dna evolved to thrive in. Simple first step. Don't eat any processed "food". Second step. Learn to grow your own. Next. Study often supressed, ancient knowledge. Never been easier now that we have the www. Simple example - if you are not too far gone already, yoga will fix what ails you. Learn enough to know you should find a teacher.  These three steps will get you on your path out of the soul crushing matrix. Steve Jobs, for all his brilliance didn't understand this stuff.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:41 | 6185083 yrad
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Crazy days. The founders should have stayed in Britain.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:47 | 6185099 p00k1e
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At least it’ll be lawful.      

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:47 | 6185100 q99x2
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No way. My bionic systems are going to cost more. I already paid 700 this year.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:48 | 6185101 dirty belly
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"national health care  authority"


Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:48 | 6185102 Omen IV
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There are no rules only ...victims

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:51 | 6185108 WTFUD
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The ass pummeling will continue until morale improves.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:55 | 6185115 pocomotion
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REVOKE THIER CHARTERS.  http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Controlling_Corporations/NewCourse_Cor...

and

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread587140/pg1

From another poster at zero hedge:

The original language of corporate charters stipulates that they operate in the public interest.  Demonstrating they are destructive to that end is cause enough to revoke their right to incorporation.   All that's required is the political will to do so.

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:58 | 6185125 q99x2
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Fuck them. We ain't paying them. They can have dead people.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:15 | 6185183 suteibu
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The medical community has hooked the population on its services and products, literally like a drug dealer.  Barring accident or debilitating illness, your great grand parents probably lived a full life without those services, except at the basic level.  And they were probably healthier in general than their drugged up progeny.

We don't need everything they are selling to live a good life.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:45 | 6185368 mkkby
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Well said.  Most of it is a scam based on false or exaggerated studies.  The average cancer drug can extend life a few months.  The cost is huge and you suffer like a dog.  I'd rather just die in peace.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:38 | 6185250 Tall Tom
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Agenda 21.

 

That is, I fear, what they are after. Disease will kill off the population and leave the resources intact.

 

Much better than war and more affective,

 

Of course while we are still alive then maybe we can DO SOMETHING and kill before being killed off?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:50 | 6185273 falconflight
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Yes, cause we can't afford another 1348/49...the second black plague.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:00 | 6185138 TeethVillage88s
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Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies
Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies
Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies
Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies
Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies
Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies
Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies
Fraud, Racketeering, Conflict of Interest, Anti-Trust, Monopolies

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:10 | 6185171 falconflight
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Did not ole Freddie Hayek's "Road to Serfdom" explain the how and whys?  One of the most terrifying books that I ever read.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:12 | 6185174 Pinche Caballero
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TV88s, you hit the motherfuckin nail on the head with all that! See the links I just put up about Heather Bresch, aka, Senator Joe Manchin's daughter!

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:08 | 6185166 Pinche Caballero
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Oh, well, it's just those crazy elites carry-on! Surely it won't affect any of us common folk living up here in the Highlands! Anyone else make the connection? Or, is it just me? Oh, how it do pay to be connected! A Senator, no less! What was his take on TPP?

"2014 was the year of the 'inversion.' But 2015 is when Mylan CEO Heather Bresch will make it happen"

http://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/profiles-strategies/2015/01/201...

"West Virginia University M.B.A. controversy"

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University_M.B.A._controversy

Heather Bresch
Executive
Heather Bresch is an American business executive and public policy advocate. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Mylan, a global pharmaceutical company based in Pennsylvania. Wikipedia
Spouse: Jeff Bresch (m. 2002)
Education: West Virginia University
Parents: Joe Manchin, Gayle Conelly Manchin

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:14 | 6185175 Kirk2NCC1701
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Soma and vaccines for everyone! 

It's a Brave New Big Brother World (BNBBW).

Chillax, serfs.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:42 | 6185258 vic and blood
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Good one, Kirk! Made me laugh. I also believe that we are at a midpoint between the 2 dystopias.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:05 | 6185297 Oh regional Indian
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I believe it is intended to be a perfect mix of the two dystopias...

Sitting high on Soma in front of your TV.....

Forever....

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 03:59 | 6185555 conscious being
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Huxley hijacked an ancient Vedic term. The original soma got rave reviews.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 04:47 | 6185588 Oh regional Indian
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True. The original Soma also got the"origins and WHAT THE HECK IS IT REALLY" lost in the mists of deep antiquity.....

In any case, we live in a time where folks are doing Ayahuasca for kicks and dropping DMT to "russsshhh"...

Soma was sacred as is Ayahuasca.

Perhaps Carlos Castaneda and his worki was a double edged sword...

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 10:20 | 6186193 juangrande
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A reality altering/expanding drug is a reality altering/expanding drug. It is the culture that the user is immersed in that is "sacred" or not. That can be applied to just about everything. Culture and, thru reduction, individual consciousness are what is sorely missing in the world. It is nobody's fault but our own. True responsibility. Until enough people arrive to this conclusion, the human race will continue to suffer and degrade. History will continue to rhyme until people wake up!

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 11:16 | 6186393 L Bean
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Welp, once Gates gets his 70 vaccines per child thing going truly global, we won't have to worry about any more uprisings.

Asperger World Order. Ready to code, sort, and grunt for their Monsanto feed. Nary a human in sight.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:16 | 6185187 kowalli
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TTP is the simple way to kill governments. Corporates will have a right to write laws.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:27 | 6185211 falconflight
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That's been going on for decades.  Who needs "government" when corporate organizations can organize even more efficiently?  

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:30 | 6185221 kowalli
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they can't....corporates care only about profit.

banks can sell debt 10 times and they do it.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:48 | 6185271 falconflight
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And gov'ts dont?

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 04:01 | 6185559 conscious being
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There is no this or that. Goverments are owned by corporates.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:17 | 6185190 gersky18
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I guess Philippines is not included in the TPP. But given the high cost of medicines in my country, these big pharmaceutical corporations of the West have been making a fortune for decades now. :(

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:19 | 6185192 MedicalQuack
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United Healthcare will make out well on this as they have a subsidiary that has now been incorporated into Optum, which was called "China Gate" which focuses on bringing Chinese drugs and devices into the US and into other parts of the world.  Read it..

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2010/05/unitedhealth-subsidiary-ingenix.html

And they own CanReg, a consulting firm that helps drugs and devices get through the FDA approval process.

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2011/09/united-healthcare-optum-owns-consulting.html

Here's an archive of some of their many subsidiaries to include LHI who does military health and provides inoculations and health services for US soldiers who are being deployed...they win again.

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2013/07/health-insurance-business-under-radar.html

And this will help United sell even more cheap Chinese hearing aids...they already do this 

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2013/07/unitedhealthcare-expands-their-cheap.html

And is is any wonder that former Goldman Sach banker and former United Healthcare Executive Andy Slavitt is now the head of Medicare...don't choke too hard on that one but it's true.  We already have the six degrees of Bob Rubin running HHS as secretary Burwell was one of his directors in the past as well.

So as you are soon somewhat forced to go to a United/Optum Clinic (read link below on their new acquisition and mysterious fund raising filed with the SEC) you can see a bit of politics here, you think?  With owning their own pharmacy benefit manager, they make money in the front door and the back door so I'm sure they are anxious for this trade agreement to pass and are lobbying big time.  

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2015/05/optum-clinics-holdings-new-subsidiary.html

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:24 | 6185205 Icelandicsaga.....
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We will have systemic failure and break down .. they can pass al ths shit they want .. I doubt any country is going to pay through the nose for pharma they get cheap now .. we might be screwed but the rest of the world will laugh and give us a well deserved middle finger. The TPP ... unless they get the rest of the world to go along with some global govt scam .  .this is not going anywhere ..

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:51 | 6185275 suteibu
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You underestimate the money and influence these transnational companies have.  They do not need to convince the larger population, only a relatively small and select group in each nation.  If they can buy the US Congress, for a mere pittance, how difficult would it be to buy the governments of third world nations?  Once passed, who will repeal it?

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 04:08 | 6185564 conscious being
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Icelandic has the correct take on this imo. Outside of the anglo-zio grouping, countries will dance with the dying hegemon while they have to, but that does not mean they will surrender their turf. There is already a lot of pressure on drug patents in the developing world. Lots of cheaper generics come out of India. Locals demand these, instead of the big name, big mark-up versions fron Big Pharma. AIDSdrugs are a good example.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:24 | 6185208 Kirk2NCC1701
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I wonder what JPG kinetic-Pb enthusiasts are using for practice. 

Or when one of the more capable ones will come up with a Plan, to convert the Dream inot Reality.  Was that veiled enough for you? 

Well, there's always Hope for kinetic Change, isn't there?  Cause I'm pretty sure that Prayers for a Factory Recall aren't getting through with the Guy in the Sky.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:32 | 6185227 kowalli
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We need part of TTP about civil laws. I think you can read a word slavery somewhere between the lines

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:33 | 6185235 WTFUD
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My gut tells me that Barry & Gang have spared us commoners from ever having to read any small print , ever again. I swell up when i feel that kind of love. s/c

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:58 | 6185289 Atomizer
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Obama Kevorkian fun bag drugs to build the new ACA Ponzi Scheme. He has a new young generation of illegal immigration taxed imbeciles, who will fund the new medical trust fund.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:24 | 6185331 palmereldritch
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