Because…. 90% of a newspaper’s revenues come from advertising. Barely 10% of a paper’s income is from the cover price. That’s the sum total of the readers’ humble contribution..

A newspaper which stabs its advertisers in the back would soon be out of business, so that’s why the media rarely tackles pharmaceutical corruption. The drug corporations are some of the biggest advertising spenders in the business, and to re-cycle an earlier message – you don’t bite the hand that feeds you!

The same is true of the banking industry, also rife with criminality. The banksters are up to their necks in dirty money from terrorism, the proceeds of the sex trade, and gun and drug running.

The media won’t touch the banksters for much the same reason that it won’t touch big pharma – the banks also have huge advertising spends…

I think it is peter breggin who claims that big pharma are the third most corrupt industry in the world after the arms industry and the drug trade.

No doubt it is the same gangsters on Wall St and in the City of London who are running all three industries…

It’s public knowledge, for example, that George “Poppy” Bush Sr, Dubya’s father, was not only a director of Eli Lilly, but also a major player in Iran-Contra, the dope-for-arms scandal in the 1980s..

So there’s one clear link between the banksters, big pharma, guns and drugs.. Not nice people..

yes..it’s heartbreaking and infuriating to hear about some of the meds children are on, especially when no one should be on some of these meds ever, adult or child.

The link is here:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22237

A couple of quotes:
“Since there are no objective tests for mental illness and the boundaries between normal and abnormal are often uncertain, psychiatry is a particularly fertile field for creating new diagnoses or broadening old ones.”

“Given its importance, you might think that the DSM represents the authoritative distillation of a large body of scientific evidence. But Lane, using unpublished records from the archives of the American Psychiatric Association and interviews with the princi-pals, shows that it is instead the product of a complex of academic politics, personal ambition, ideology, and, perhaps most important, the influence of the pharmaceutical industry. What the DSM lacks is evidence.”

I found this article timely on a personal level, as I’m acquainted with someone who recently allowed her six-year-old child to be medicated for something that should not even be diagnosed in a child so young. One of my adult children asked me what I thought about this, and I said, “I’ll tell you what I know about it,” and pretty much gave a scathing review of the DSM and psychiatry in general, concluding by saying that hell would freeze over before I’d give my child that medication.

This was two days ago. This morning I read the article and once again was justified by the facts. The scary and sad part of how drugs are approved and marketed worldwide is that as consumers, we can hardly even rely on actual “research” any more.

On top of all this, the big drug companies are really good at producing ads and commercials that really influence just about everyone. There is a large porportion of the public that blindly believe everything that they see on TV so they are forced to act as sheep and take the pills.

Jim S

See, this bothers me greatly. I never had success with SSRI, and in most cases, usually had negative impacts (sickness, sleepy, what have you) but the fact that this was known, the fact that the danger may outweigh the potentials was never discussed with patients really bothers me.

Patients and individuals who suffer from depression need a strong advocate group to help them stop this type of action on the part of big business.

What a cool article! Wow!!!
Did you see that list – they’re all there – in one piece – like the FBI’s most wanted….

I dunno….I started this New Year off right….with lots of prayers for peace, and worked out yesterday and today, and practiced some EFT, and lots of meditation these past two days….feeling great, actually…..

And, I stopped to question some of my own feelings these past two days….Why the anger/why the rage with these drug companies….these “dealers”?

And, I’ve come to some conclusions….at least for me…..

I want peace – for each of us – all of us….desparately….

And, I also want justice….so those who do harmful things are not allowed to continue to do harmful things….

Because, I’ve seen the damage – with our own son, and so many people I’ve come to know…..and, it needs to stop…..

And, so I think we can practice peace, and work for justice….both…..

These guys need to go to jail – plain and simple.

Thanks for the article,

Duane