Drug Racket part 2

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The Pharmaceutical Drug Racket - Part One - cont'd

 

THE DRUG STORY

How the pharmaceutical industry took control of the hospitals,

universities, research and other institutions in the early part of

this century is amply demonstrated by world-famous medical historian

and author, Hans Ruesch, in his devastating expose: Naked Empress or

The Great Medical Fraud (55) (1992). The book is an absolute must to

read. Naked Empress exposes massive corruption and fraud in medicine,

science, industries, governments, media, and various organisations.

The importance of this book cannot be overstated.

 

In Naked Empress, Ruesch cited another important expose titled The

Drug Story (56) (1949), by American investigative reporter, Morris A.

Bealle. According to Bealle: " America's largest and most ruthless

industrial combine, the Rockefeller Empire " (which was built on

Standard Oil Company) in the early part of this century became

interested in the drug trade after making breath-taking profits from

palming off bottled petroleum called Nujol as a supposed cure for

cancer and later constipation.

 

In 1939 the Drug Trust was formed by an alliance of the world's two

greatest cartels in world history - the Rockefeller Empire and the

German chemical company, I.G. Farbenindustrie (I.G. Farben). Drug

profits from that time onwards curved upwards into gigantic

proportions and by 1948 it became a 10 billion dollar a year

industry. (57)

 

I.G. Farben's unsavoury past is highlighted by the fact that during

the Second World War it built and operated a massive chemical plant

at Auschwitz using slave labour. Approximately 300,000 concentration-

camp workers passed through I.G. Farben's facilities at Auschwitz and

at least 25,000 of them were worked to death. (58) Also, others were

brutally killed in I.G. Farben's drug testing programs. (59) Twelve

of I.G. Farben's top executives were sentenced to terms of

imprisonment for slavery and mistreatment offences at the Nuremberg

war crime trials. (60)

 

Hoechst and Bayer, the largest and third largest companies in world

pharmaceutical sales respectively, are descended from I.G. Farben. In

September 1955, Hoechst appointed Friedrich Jaehne, a convicted war

criminal from the Nuremberg trials, as Chairman of its supervisory

board. Also, a year later, Bayer appointed Fitz ter Meer, another

convicted war criminal, as Chairman of its board. (61)

 

On the Rockefellers' moves towards " influencing " medical colleges and

public agencies in the United States, Bealle writes:

 

" The last annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation itemizes the

gifts it has made to colleges and public agencies in the past 44

years [from 1948], and they total somewhat over half a billion

dollars. These colleges, of course, teach their students all the drug

lore the Rockefeller pharmaceutical houses want taught. Otherwise

there would be no more gifts, just as there are no gifts to any of

the 30 odd drugless colleges in the United States. " (62)

The Rockefellers did not restrict their " educational " activities to

the US alone. In 1927 they formed the International Education Board

which " donated " millions of dollars to foreign universities and

politicos, with all the usual strings attached. (63)

 

As these huge amounts of money were being " donated " to drug-

propagandising colleges, the Rockefeller interests were expanding

world-wide. It was large enough 40 years ago for Bealle to state:

 

" It has long been demonstrated that the Rockefeller interests have

created, built up and developed the most far reaching industrial

empire ever conceived in the mind of man. Standard Oil is of course

the foundation industry upon which all of the other industries have

been built....

" The keystone of this mammoth industrial empire is the Chase National

Bank with 27 branches in New York City and 21 in foreign countries

[now renamed the Chase Manhattan Bank with over 200 branches in the

US and abroad]. Not the least of its holdings are in the drug

business. The Rockefellers own the largest drug manufacturing combine

in the world, and use all of their other interests to bring pressure

to increase the sale of drugs. " (64)

 

THE NOT-SO-INDEPENDENT MEDIA

Instrumental in Rockefellers' moves towards making the world drug-

dependent is their enormous influence on the media. Commenting on

this, Ruesch explains:

 

" So the stage was set for the 'education' of the American public,

with a view to turning them into a population of drug dependents,

with the early help of the schools, then with direct advertising and,

last but not least, the influence the advertising revenues had on the

media.

" A compilation of the magazine Advertising Age showed that as far

back as 1948 the larger companies spent for newspapers, radio and

magazine advertising the sum total of $1,104,224,374, when the dollar

was still worth a dollar. Of this staggering sum the interlocking

Rockefeller-Morgan interests (gone over entirely to Rockefeller after

Morgan's death) controlled about 80 percent, and utilized it to

manipulate public information on health and drug matters - then as

now.

 

" Anybody who tries to get into the mass media independent news,

contrary to the interests of the Drug Trust, will sooner or later run

into an unbreakable wall....

 

" For big advertisers it is easy not only to plant into the media any

news they wish to disseminate, but also to keep out the news they

don't want to get around. A survey in 1978 by the Columbia Journalism

Review failed to find a single comprehensive article about the

dangers of smoking in the previous seven years in any major magazine

accepting cigarette advertising....

 

" Even the most independent newspapers are dependent on their press

associations for their national news. And there is no reason for a

news editor to suspect that a story coming over the wires of the

Associated Press, the United Press or the International News Services

is censored when it concerns health matters.

 

" Yet this is what happens constantly. " [Emphasis added.] (65)

 

Ruesch showed how the above-mentioned international media were taken

over by the Drug Trust and he further explains:

 

" So this sews up the press associations of the Rockefeller Drug

Trust, and accounts for the many fake stories of serums and medical

cures and just-around-the-corner-breakthrough-to-cancer, which go out

brazenly over its wires to all daily newspapers in America and

abroad....

" Thus newspapers continue to be fed constantly with propaganda about

drugs and their alleged value, although 1.5 million people landed in

hospitals in 1978 because of medication side effects in the U.S.

alone, and despite recurrent statements by intelligent and courageous

medical men that most pharmaceutical items on sale are useless and/or

harmful. " (66)

 

Among the many publications owned by the Rockefeller Drug Trust,

there are: Fortune, Life, Time, Readers Digest and Newsweek

magazines, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. These publications are

constantly pushing drugs.

 

FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION - SERVING WHOM?

Leaving no stone unturned, Ruesch shows how the Drug Trust, in

securing their drug interests, planted stooges into senior positions

of colleges, universities, and government bodies. About the Food and

Drug Administration, Ruesch charges:

 

" When a good law was enacted many years ago for protecting the

American public from spoiled food and poisonous drugs, the Drug Trust

lost little time to get its hooks into the government bureau that was

charged with enforcing the law. " (67)

Ruesch cited Morris Bealle who wrote that the FDA " is used primarily

for the perversion of justice by cracking down on all who endanger

the profits of the Drug Trust " . (68) Ruesch further states:

 

" Apparently, the FDA doesn't only wink at the violations of the Drug

Trust whose servant it is (such as the mass deaths in the ginger jake

and sulfathiozole cases), but it is particularly assiduous in putting

out of business all competitors of the Drug Trust, like the vendors

of natural therapeutic devices that improve the health of the public

and thus decrease the profits of the Drug Trust....

" And the situation is practically identical in all the other

industrialized countries, notably Great Britain, France and West

Germany. " (69)

 

THE UNDECLARED WAR ON NATURAL MEDICINE

The Civil Abolitionist carried an article rightly titled " FDA: The

American Gestapo Prosecutor or Persecutor? " , which reported that on

May 6, 1992, the clinic of Jonathan Wright MD, a highly regarded

nutrition specialist, was assailed by 22 armed men because the doctor

had been treating his patients with safe natural substances that

didn't meet the FDA's approval. During the SWAT type attack the front

door was kicked open, guns were pointed directly at staff and the

shocked patients were herded into a room. Also patient records,

equipment, business records and vitamin supplies were confiscated. At

the time of the article, the FDA had not as yet filed charges against

Dr Wright. (70)

 

During last year, similar actions have taken place against three

manufacturers of vitamin supplements (Allergy Research, Thorne

Research and Highland Laboratories). (71)

 

The Nexus magazine, reporting in their Aug.-Sept. 1992 issue,

writes: " This undeclared war on 'unconventional' medicines has been

followed up with the introduction of bills in Congress which are

making it difficult, if not impossible, to obtain vitamins, minerals

and herbs, and which legalise their search-and-seizure techniques. "

It revealed that:

 

" There is a bill currently pending in the House called H.R. 3642

(written and sponsored by FDA allies Representative Henry A. Waxman,

and Representative John Dingell) that would:

* Make vitamins, minerals and herbs unavailable except through

prescription from Medical Doctors.

* Prevent food supplements from entering the country.

* Make it illegal for anyone to sell vitamins, mineral and herbs,

with a fine of up to US$1 million for each violation, plus a $250,000

against the store.

* Permit the IRS to make collections.

* Permit the FDA not only to seize but to also destroy all vitamins,

minerals and herbs found on the premises.

* Permit the FDA to inspect records, embargo and recall products, and

assess civil penalties for 'serious' violations with any judical

review.

 

Nexus was recently contacted by an international businessman who

mentioned that a bill identical in nature to the one above has been

passed in the UK, that one similar was on the table in several

European countries and Canada, and that one was being discussed for

Australia. " (72)

 

In Australia, a repeal of Schedule 1, Exemptions of the Therapeutic

Goods Act, scheduled for January 1994, would minimize access to

natural therapy remedies by natural therapists and would threaten the

existence of the natural therapy profession and manufacturers of

natural therapy remedies. (73)

 

CORRUPT FDA OFFICIALS

Nexus reported that it is a matter of public record that the FDA

indulges in the following practices:

 

* Many of the so-called " research grants " that the FDA receives

are " donated " by the very drug companies they were supposed to be

regulating.

* Mid- and upper-level FDA officials enjoy " revolving door " status

when they leave the FDA, wherein they go to cushy, well-paying jobs

in those very same drug companies they were supposed to have been

regulating.

* Currently, 150 top FDA officials hold significant amounts of stock

in the pharmaceutical companies they were supposed to be regulating.

(74)

AMERICAN 'MURDER' ASSOCIATION

The AMA, once openly declared by Dr Richard Kunnes at an AMA

convention that it shouldn't be the acronym for American Medical

Association but for American " Murder " Association, is, according to

Morris Bealle, the front for the Drug Trust. (75) When the FDA has to

put an independent operator out of business, they get the AMA to

furnish quack doctors to testify that while often knowing nothing

about the product involved, it is their considered opinion that it

has no therapeutic value.

 

Bealle cited an example in which the AMA furnished ten medicos to

testify in court that " vitamins are not necessary to the human body " ,

in order to close down an independent distributor of natural

vitamins. (76)

 

J.W. Hodge, MD, of Niagara Falls, New York, writes about the AMA:

 

" The medical monopoly or medical trust, euphemistically called the

American Medical Association, is not merely the meanest monopoly ever

organized, but the most arrogant, dangerous and despotic organization

which ever managed a free people in this or any other age. Any and

all methods of healing the sick by means of safe, simple and natural

remedies are sure to be assailed and denounced by the arrogant

leaders of the AMA doctors' trust as 'fakes, frauds and humbugs.'

Every practitioner of the healing art who does not ally himself with

the medical trust is denounced as a 'dangerous quack' and impostor by

the predatory trust doctors. Every sanitarian who attempts to restore

the sick to a state of health by natural means without resort to the

knife or poisonous drugs, disease imparting serums, deadly toxins or

vaccines, is at once pounced upon by these medical tyrants and

fanatics, bitterly denounced, vilified and persecuted to the fullest

extent. " (77)

It comes as no surprise that the Australian counterpart, the

Australian Medical Association, in conjunction with the Royal College

of General Practitioners, as reported in the Australian (July 21,

1992) are pushing for legislation that would cause medical doctors

using natural therapies to lose Medicare status. This would mean that

their patients would not be able to have bills rebated by Medicare.

(78)

 

THE MASTERS OF GOVERNMENT

If to you it seems inconceivable that governments have allowed a

ruthless industry to dictate health matters, consider what Woodrow

Wilson stated during his first presidential campaign in 1912:

 

" The masters of the government of the United States are the combined

capitalists and manufacturers of the United States. It is written

over every intimate page of the record of Congress, it is written all

through the history of conferences at the White House, that the

suggestions of economic policy in this country have come from one

source, not from many sources. The benevolent guardians, the kind-

hearted trustees who have taken the troubles of government off our

hands have become so conspicuous that almost anybody can write out a

list of them... The big bankers, the big manufacturers, the big

masters of commerce, the heads of railroad corporations... The

government of the United States at present is a foster child of the

special interests. " (79)

Writes Ruesch:

 

" Woodrow Wilson's words have remained as true today as they were when

he pronounced them from his campaign train. The American Presidents,

unless they want to end up like John Kennedy, do not rule their

country anymore than the official governments of the other so-called

democracies, for the big boys in industry and finance have long since

taken over that task. " (80)

Morris H. Rubin, Editor and Publisher of The Progressive, writes in

an article in January 1977:

 

" Corporate power has become the dominant force in our society... All

attempts to check the mounting power of the corporate giants have

failed. Consider the two most important instruments forged by the

progressive forces of the country in their crusade to curb the march

of monopoly: the regulatory system and the antitrust program...

" The regulatory system lies in shambles, and the corporations which

were intended to be regulated in the public interest now dominate

these regulatory agencies. The betrayal of the public trust is

virtually complete... The antitrust laws are virtually dead letters.

It is clear from recent disclosures that the Antitrust Division of

the Justice Department is almost immobilized because of deals made

over its head and behind its back in the White House and other

corridors of power... " (81)

 

" The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost

matched by hospital owners and doctors. " - President Carter, 1979.

(82)

 

Incidently, in 1980, Exxon became America's largest corporation.

Exxon is the new name for the old Rockefeller Standard Oil Trust.

 

For a further insight on how the cartels have turned democracies into

private oligarchies, the books Naked Empress by Hans Ruesch and None

Dare Call It Conspiracy (83) (1971) by investigative journalist, Gary

Allen, are highly recommended.

 

AUSTRALIA'S HEALTH SYSTEM UNDER THREAT FROM US CORPORATIONS

Because the Australian Government can no longer afford to fund our

ailing public health care system, privatisation is inevitable. A

major concern is that the ruthless US corporations will be the

principal buyers. An article appearing in the Daily Telegraph Mirror

(October 1, 1992), titled " U.S. Giants 'Threat To Hospitals' " ,

reports:

 

" Huge American corporations soon will control Australia's public

hospitals forcing health care costs to double, a leading health

expert claims.

" Dr Ron Williams says the public health care system is facing a bleak

future because governments can no longer afford to fund it.

 

" And as they are forced to sell off hospitals to private interests,

American corporations will step in and take over, leaving ordinary

Australians unable to afford skyrocketing health care costs.

 

" 'I see little but doom and gloom,' says Dr Williams, who has spent

11 years researching the Australian and American health care systems.

 

" 'I wish I could say that if we all pulled together we could avert

the coming brutality... but today's reality is that for the health

industry, compassion will give way at an increasing rate to

profit....

 

" 'As public hospitals are sold to privates, and as nursing homes join

national chains, as nurses move out of government employment on to

contract, as individual doctors lose ever more control over their

practices; no government will say that the processes it is promoting

might lead to disaster.' " [Emphasis added.]