Feds found Pfizer too big to nail, so they looked the other way on massive fraud

(NaturalNews) When the world’s largest pharmaceutical company was found to have engaged in a massive illegal marketing campaign, federal prosecutors decided the company was too big to punish — so they let it set up a shell corporation to take the blame.

In 2001, the FDA approved Bextra for the relief of arthritis and menstrual cramps, but did not approve it for more severe surgical pain. Yet Pfizer aggressively promoted the drug to anesthesiologists and surgeons — “anyone that use[d] a scalpel for a living,” in the words of one internal company document. Company employees also told doctors that the FDA had approved Bextra as safe in doses as high as 40 milligrams, whereas the agency had actually only approved doses up to 20 milligrams.

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Iris scanners to create the LEAST secure city in the world.

NO.

Biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI) announced today that it is rolling out its iris scanning technology to create what it calls “the most secure city in the world.” In a partnership with Leon — one of the largest cities in Mexico, with a population of more than a million — GRI will fill the city with eye-scanners. That will help law enforcement revolutionize the way we live — not to mention marketers.

Just hold it right there.

As I’ve written about previously, biometric authentication is inherently insecure.  I guarantee you in 15 years this article in “Fast Company” magazine is going to sound sophomoric.  I had boss at an e-commerce job once who read Fast Company.  Biggest ^$$-hole you’d ever want to meet.

If they weren’t trying to sell us on the benefits of a biometric city-wide slave-tracking grid, this would be comical.  It’s all for the human cattle and NOT for the criminals. Criminals will have little difficulty spoofing biometrics (see my previous post, and below). It’s a rather trivial task, when considering the reward to hackers if they can steal your identity (permanently) in a system that relies on biometric authentication.

Mark my words, if they do implement this it will be a disaster.  I have a feeling that many Mexican people are not going to submit to being tracked like farm animals though.

If they tried to implement this in the US, we’d probably have more people here voluntarily participating than in Mexico, since this country full of drugged morons who subject themselves to endless hours of brainwashing every day in front of the TV.

Eventually, they’ll try to force everyone onto it.   It will be nearly impossible to “opt out.”  Even if you wear sunglasses all the time, between the gait (walk) analysis, voice recognition, finding your address, place of business, etc, they’ll be able to piece together who you are.   Automated systems could easily do this by tracking you in public with high-res cameras (constantly scanning your irises) and correlating this with publicly available data.

Just because a biometric system doesn’t know your name currently, doesn’t mean it can’t identify and track you until it does figure out your name later.

More about biometric spoofing: FIDIS. (click thru for pics, emphasis mine)

Experiments with spoofing

The Dutch Forensic Institute has done extensive tests with the various biometric systems. Several fingerprint systems and an iris system have been tested for possibilities of tampering. In most case it appeared to be easy if a person allowed to enrol into the system is cooperating. Some biometric features can also be copied without this person’s awareness and consent (for example fingerprints taken from a glass).

A low cost (Panasonic) iris scanner in our laboratory could easily be faked with a photograph of a person revealing the iris (). Punching a hole in the place of the iris turned out to be sufficient to mimic the light absorption exhibited by a real iris and fool the system into falsely accepting the photo as a real iris. It is claimed that high end scanners do not have this disadvantage: [which is where the contact lens comes in]

Nuke that thing now, part 4

Holy sh*t.  This may be the biggest BP media deception yet. The gist of it is that the main well is still leaking and the “capped well” we’re looking at video of a 2nd nearby well from this drilling operation.

“Use skimmers to siphon off the oil” …. “Send a bomb down there”

And suddenly Matt Simmonds is dead.

See also:

Nuke that thing now
Nuke that thing now, Part 2
Nuke that thing now, Part 3

For years, Crestwood Illinois Public Water Supply secretly cut its “purified” Lake Michigan water with contaminated well water

Little did the Crestwood residents know, for years they were drinking significant amounts of chlorinated hydrocarbon dry cleaning chemicals because the Crestwood Public Water Supply mixed contaminated well water with the Lake Michigan water they claimed to be delivering into the municipal water system.

Incidence of kidney and lung cancer is significantly higher in Crestwood, and the EPA has reported that the contaminants detected in the Crestwood water are likely due to a spill of a dry cleaning chemical, perchloroethylene (perc).  From the EPA’s perc ‘chemfact’ page: “Laboratory studies show that PERC causes kidney and liver damage and cancer in animals exposed repeatedly by inhalation and by mouth.”

The EPA estimated that residents of Crestwood were consuming water containing the various chemical byproducts of the perc spill in the low PPB (parts per  billion) range, which may not seem like much, but over years of chronic exposure can lead to significant increases in the incidence of disease.

Those who are predisposed to certain diseases may find their tissues can not withstand the chronic exposure to organic chemicals.

From Natural News

A report by the Chicago Tribune has revealed that officials in the village of Crestwood, just outside Chicago, have been secretly introducing tainted well water into the town water supply for years.

“I feel deceived,” village resident Tom Parkis said.

For years before the story broke, town residents had wondered if there might not be something wrong with their water. For example, Frank Caldario was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2009, at the age of 30.

“I can’t help but wonder if what happened to me had something to do with the water,” said Caldario, a non-smoker.

“It’s just unreal for someone my age to get that.”…In response to the article, the Illinois Department of Public Health conducted a survey of disease rates in Crestwood between 1994 and 2006. The researchers found that rates of kidney and gastrointestinal cancer were significantly higher in Crestwood men than in the population at large, and rates of lung cancer were significantly higher in both men and women. The researchers could not prove that the higher cancer rates were caused by the polluted water, but did find it to be a possible cause.

From the Illinois EPA’S site regarding the contamination (check out the FAQ)

From 1986 to 2007, the Illinois EPA believes Crestwood was using water from its contaminated groundwater well to supplement the Lake Michigan source water without informing the Illinois EPA or its water customers. Since the Crestwood Public Water Supply (PWS) well was reportedly not in use during this time period, no routine samples of that well were taken; federal Safe Drinking Water Act regulations do not require sampling of PWS wells that are not in use. Consequently, no regularly-collected analytical data are available to determine the levels of contamination over those years. However, in a letter to the Illinois EPA from April 1998, a consultant investigating a nearby drycleaner solvent release reported results from two samples collected from the Crestwood well. This letter also documents conversations with Crestwood officials who told the consultants that the well water was being mixed with the purchased Lake Michigan water at a ratio of 10:90. If this report is accurate, this set of results indicates that the chemical contamination discovered in 1986 had not yet degraded into the more dangerous chemical, vinyl chloride, which was first found in a 2007 well sample

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Where are the VOCs vinyl chloride, 1,1-dichloroethylene (1,1-DCE) and the cis- and trans- forms of 1,2-DCE coming from?

Vinyl chloride is often found in the environment as a breakdown product of other solvents and is most likely coming from a release of the drycleaner solvent known as tetrachloroethylene

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Illinois EPA is actively researching potential sources of the Crestwood well contamination.

Wayne Madsen: Wikileaks is a CIA Front

Wayne Madsen Report via Arthur Zbygniew

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WMR has confirmed Young’s contention that Wikileaks is a CIA front operation. Wikileaks is intimately involved in a $20 million CIA operation that U.S.-based Chinese dissidents that hack into computers in China. Some of the Chinese hackers route special hacking program through Chinese computers that then target U.S. government and military computer systems. After this hacking is accomplished, the U.S. government announces through friendly media outlets that U.S. computers have been subjected to a Chinese cyber-attack. The “threat” increases an already-bloated cyber-defense and offense budget and plays into the fears of the American public and businesses that heavily rely on information technology.

It is also pointed out that on Wikileaks advisory board is Ben Laurie, a one-time programmer and Internet security expert for Google, which recently signed a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and has been charged by China with being part of a U.S. cyber-espionage campaign against China.

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Full article here

Let Them Eat Cake

Paul Craig Roberts
Prisonplanet.com
August 2, 2010

It is not unusual for members of the diminishing upper middle class to drop $20,000 or $30,000 on a big wedding. But for celebrities this large sum wouldn’t cover the wedding dress or the flowers.

When country music star Keith Urban married actress Nicole Kidman in 2006, their wedding cost $250,000. This large sum hardly counts as a celebrity wedding. When mega-millionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump married model Melania Knauss, the wedding bill was $1,000,000.

The marriages of Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie, Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren, and Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones pushed up the cost of celebrity marriages to $1.5 million.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes upped the ante to $2,000,000.

Now comes the politicians’s daughter as celebrity. According to news reports, Chelsea Clinton’s wedding to investment banker Mark Mezvinsky on July 31 is costing papa Bill $3,000,000. According to the London Daily Mail, the total price tag will be about $5,000,000. The additional $2,000,000 apparently is being laid off on US Taxpayers as Secret Service costs for protecting former president Clinton and foreign heads of state, such as the presidents of France and Italy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who are among the 500 invited guests along with Barbara Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, and Clinton friend and donor Denise Rich, wife of the Clinton-pardoned felon.

Before we attend to the poor political judgment of such an extravagant affair during times of economic distress, let us wonder aloud where a poor boy who became governor of Arkansas and president of the United States got such a fortune that he can blow $3,000,000 on a wedding.

The American people did not take up a collection to reward him for his service to them.
Where did the money come from? Who was he really serving during his eight years in office?

How did Tony Blair and his wife, Cherrie, end up with an annual income of ten million pounds (approximately $15 million dollars) as soon as he left office? Who was Blair really serving?

These are not polite questions, and they are infrequently asked.

While Chelsea’s wedding guests eat a $11,000 wedding cake and admire $250,000 floral displays, Lisa Roberts in Ohio is struggling to raise contributions for her food pantry in order to feed 3,000 local people, whose financial independence was destroyed by investment bankers, job offshoring, and unaffordable wars. The Americans dependent on Lisa Roberts’ food pantry are living out of vans and cars. Those with a house roof still over their heads are packed in as many as 14 per household according to the Chillicothe Gazette in Ohio.

The Chilicothe Gazette reports that Lisa Roberts’ food pantry has “had to cut back to half rations per person in order to have something for everyone who needed it.”

Theresa DePugh stepped up to the challenge and had the starving Ohioans write messages on their food pantry paper plates to President Obama, who has just obtained another $33 billion to squander on a pointless war in Afghanistan that serves no purpose whatsoever except the enrichment of the military/security complex and its shareholders.

The Guardian (UK) reports that according to US government reports, one million American children go to bed hungry, while the Obama regime squanders hundreds of billions of dollars killing women and children in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The Guardian’s reporting relies on a US government report from the US Department of Agriculture, which concludes that 50 million people in the US–one in six of the population–were unable to afford to buy sufficient food to stay healthy in 2008.

US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that he expected the number of hungry Americans to worsen when the survey for 2010 is released.

Today in the American Superpower, one of every six Americans is living on food stamps.
The Great American Superpower, which is wasting trillions of dollars in pursuit of world hegemony, has 22% of its population unemployed and almost 17% of its population dependent on welfare in order to stay alive.

The world has not witnessed such total failure of government since the final days of the Roman Empire. A handful of American oligarchs are becoming mega-billionaires while the rest of the country goes down the drain.

And the American sheeple remain acquiescent.

TWA 800 was shot down by one or more surface-to-air missiles

Physical evidence and eyewitness testimony contradicts the official explanation.

All 6 parts should play automatically. If not here’s the youtube link.

Deepwater Horizon leak capped (maybe)

Well, I’m so glad to hear that BP has a better chance to pump the oil without having to drill all the way down again.  It’s great that they were able to save all that money and red tape and increase profit instead of nuking the thing early on via one of their relief wells.   It’s also great that the US military (the largest single consumer of oil in the world) will still have access to cheap fuel from one of its main suppliers, BP.

Based on what I’ve been hearing about fissures forming in the sea floor and oil leaking in multiple locations due to bad cementing,  I’m skeptical that this cap will be a permanent solution.  I assume they will use one of their relief wells to redirect the flow and continue to pump the oil.

Because of the mess BP (and Halliburton) have caused there is going to be a lot more red tape and international resistance to drilling a new well than to tapping the existing one with a relief well.

There is obviously more money in that well than the amount BP will be putting toward the cleanup.  Regardless of how much money or “Corexit” they throw at this mess, it’s not going to correct the environmental damage.

BP is interested in one thing: profit (obviously).  If they nuke their well, they’ll have to drill a new one somewhere else.  They’d rather pawn that cost off on our wildlife and beaches than start over on a new well, and they’ve done so with the blessing of the US Government.  Well, I hope you’re happy, government puppet bureaucrats.  You really showed us who pulls your strings with your handling of this incident.

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Well Integrity Test Shows Oil Stopped (ABC)

BP finally stops oil spewing from Gulf gusher (AP)