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Generic equivalent drugs

mardi 14 octobre 2014 à 14:00

Around 10 million people with HIV owe their lives to generic equivalent drugs. The Obama regime is pressuring India to stop making them, which would kill millions of those people within a few years.

The Nazis murdered 7 million civilians. This could murder more than 7 million of those now in treatment, and more millions in the future. The US officials behind this are aiming to be literally worse than the Nazi leaders convicted at Nuremberg of crimes against humanity.

The article uses the incoherent propaganda term "intellectual property", which the pharma companies love because it interferes with critical thinking about their unjust demands.

The pharma companies claim that only patents can enable them to do research into new lifesaving drugs, but the fact is they don't do much of that research. It is usually government funded.

Pirate Party electoral success

mardi 14 octobre 2014 à 14:00

The Pirate Party had an electoral success in Czech local elections.

US allows cancelling 60% of pensions

mardi 14 octobre 2014 à 14:00

The US now allows bankrupt cities to cancel 60% of retired workers' pensions.

They can't live on what remains.

The evil of the Koch brothers

mardi 14 octobre 2014 à 14:00

The evil of the Koch brothers includes racism, as well as voter-suppression, dooH niboR and frying Earth's ecosphere.

University divestment from fossil fuel

mardi 14 octobre 2014 à 14:00

The Australian National University decided to divest from some fossil fuel companies, which occasioned absurd rebukes from right-wing politicians that represent the fossil fuel companies.

There is no limit to how far they will go to increase fossil fuel sales.