Showing posts with label BASF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BASF. Show all posts

Friday, January 31, 2014

A Charlatan, CEO, and Socialist Walk into a Bar... Oh, Wait It's the Same Person

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Medicine / News
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What if you could not afford the cancer drug to save or prolong your life? If you cannot pay, Bayer doesn't care. Profit before people is what corporate America is all about these days.

However in India, the government has a special court to determine if a drug is too costly for what it is. Recently it judged the oncology drug Nexavar as beyond expensive for the common Indian. So a company inside India will be making the drug for 97% less than Bayer is asking of its third world clientele.

Upon hearing the news that Bayer lost their case to charge India's citizens $65,000 a year, the CEO, Dr. Marjin Dekker had this response at a conference: 
"We did not develop this medicine (Nexavar) for Indians," Dekkers said at a little reported pharmaceutical forum last month, according to the January 21st edition of Businessweek.

"We developed it for Western patients who can afford it," Dekkers said, and called the Indian regulator's action "essentially theft".
Exqueeze me? Baking powder? $65,000 (India) to $95,000 (America) a year for an oncology drug, isn't theft either?

If you consider that an American patient pays $100 copay each month for their oncology drugs, that does not even account for the increase in their overall insurance premiums. So a cancer patient could easily pay $5,000 or more a year for their treatment. Where in India, the patient could pay just $177... again, where's the theft really occurring? 

What do you expect from a company that got its start from Nazi Germany? You think I'm joking...
Although the Nuremberg Tribunal indicted 24 IG Farben board members and executives on the basis of crimes against humanity, only 13 received prison sentences. And the sentences they received were described by the Nuremberg Chief Prosecutoras "light enough to pleasea chicken thief". Bythe early 1950sa number of those convicted of slavery, looting and mass murder were backat the helm ofthe very companies - Bayer, Hoechstand BASF, formed out of the assets of IG Farben in 1952.The owners of these "new" companies were alsothe shareholders of IG Farben. Thus, although the gravity of the crimes committed by IG Farben meant the company was considered too corrupt to be allowed to continue to exist, it was supplanted by its key constituents - companies like Bayer which were owned, and directed at the highest level, by the very same people as IG Farben. Those who had helped Hitler to power and provided the technical know-how for his wars of aggression and the Holocaust, were back in control of the industry.
If you would like to know more about Bayer's Nazi past, then visit this link: Bayer - a history. You'll never want to eat GM foods, use chemicals, or take aspirin ever again.

So the quote from Dr. Dekker, CEO of the German chemical and pharmaceutical company, shouldn't come as a surprise. Westerner's first! Everyone else can die. Such a cheery sentiment, wonder where he got it from?

Maybe the Origin of Species? Darwin's Theory of Evolution has become the mantra for people like Hitler, other madmen, like-minded psychiatrists and pseudoscientists trying to "improve" upon the human race. Eugenics in action. Or should we say: genocide? Holocaust? Because if such arenas as the Eugenics Movement or the Fabian Society were more astute, these heretics would know that:
Charles Darwin is often credited with coining the phrase - "the survival of the fittest" - however such attribution is not really correct.
Darwin had tended to write about species being engaged in a competitive Struggle for Existence. This struggle being seen, by Darwin, as primarily a struggle for food to support growth, life, and the generation of young individuals to continue the species in question.
The actual term survival of the fittest however was actually attributed by Darwin himself to another source:-  
"The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient" Darwin was so taken with Spencer's catchy phrase that he did, in fact, use it in a later (1869) edition of his "The Origin of Species".
Yet, scientific thinkers then and now seem obsessed with the strong over the weak concept of life on Earth when that delineation neither is the workings of evolution nor the theory predicated on it. Those attributes are marked by the clear misinterpretation of the scientific literature of the 1800's.

Of course, the people in question are: Aldous Huxley and George Orwell all the way to today's Stephen Hawking and Ray Kurzweil. Individuals, who do not believe in the human condition as anything more than a flesh and bones robot, have never truly lived themselves. These imposters to free thought and action transfer their loathing of themselves onto humanity at large.

If we are dumb robots without souls or freewill, then why does it take enormous feats and planning to create schools that do not teach? music that incites rage, violence, and disrespect? television programming to dissuade us from our natural intuitive nature?  why must you persuade us with propaganda in commercials, news, church, and entertainment?

Why does it take generations and incremental changes in order to dominate and nullify humans of the Earth?

Easy answer: because humans are not soulless, incapable animals. We have the divine spark of intelligence, compassion, and enlightenment. Humans are good-natured beings and do not want to be apart of your nefarious degradation of everything you touch. 

Next time someone from any industry believes that their product or services is for a certain class of people, remember, that's how they think of you too.

Vote with your dollar and put criminal minds out of business.


Source: Yahoo! Finance, Age of the Sage,

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Kaua'i Can't You Just Leave Us Alone? Chemical Companies Sue for Their Right to Poison Small Island

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Environment / Government
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"It is not Aloha to spray your neighbors with toxic pesticides."

That pretty much says it all. Everyone on the planet should adhere to this golden rule, but chemical companies could care less about the effects of poisons. Corporations are all about the bottom line.
“As a west side resident who is surrounded by the test fields of these companies, it is my basic human right to know what they are exposing me and my family to on a regular basis. Their actions prove that they do not value the health and well-being of our community, and are only interested in their corporate profit,” Malia Chun, a local educator and community activist, said in a statement.
If you listen to the video of the Council Meeting, the corporate representative believes in trade secrets as well as other counties and states making a similar ruling than the rights of local officials to protect their citizens from harmful effects of chemicals.

Good luck getting anyone to study the effects of chemicals on animals, people and the land. Chemical companies will not allow it. If a study does make a connection to ill health and chemicals, then the study is either ridiculed or not published at all. Moreover trade secrets are invoked to keep the public from knowing anything about the chemicals they are breathing in or being sprayed with daily.
 
Anecdotal evidence is summarily dismissed as if to say local doctors and residents are unable to show how pesticides create health problems. For instance, some doctors say the area of concern appears to have unusually high rates of asthma, cancer and birth defects. 

You don't say. 

With this regions ability to have all year around growing seasons, chemical companies can grow and test three and four different types of genetically modified crops in one year. The land is poisoned and tilled several times as the air becomes full of noxious fumes and toxic dust particles. 

That's what happened between 2006-08, Waimea Canyon Middle School, which is near a Syngenta field. The school had to be evacuated and children were taken to the hospital with several reports in addition complaining about the chemical farms during those two years.

Kauai and its residents wanted a level playing field, to be informed, and to create buffer zones. Waimea Canyon Middle School is one of those places the public wanted protected against further chemical onslaught. Reasonable, right?

So the law, Ordinance 960 (formerly known as Bill 2491), was passed with much political fervor.
The protection provisions of 2491 require:

1) Buffer zones between chemical fields and schools, parks, beaches and hospitals.

2) Disclosure of GMO crops (until now, they have largely remained a secret).

3) Public notification before chemical spraying so that concerned citizens can leave the area and limit their exposure.

4) A county-level environmental assessment of the potentially hazardous effects of the toxic chemicals being sprayed on agricultural crops.

5) Full disclosure of the exact pesticides and herbicides being sprayed, as well as location details of where spraying is taking place.
However the chemical industry does not see the need for compromise, they see only what benefits their profit margins. So the chemical companies did the only selfish thing they could do: file suit.
The 84-page suit claims that the Kauai law was explicitly drafted “to discriminate against GM seed farming operations on Kaua’i” and that it violates their federal and state constitutional rights to equal protection and due process.

“Bill 2491 irrationally prohibits Plaintiffs from growing any crops, whether genetically modified or not, within arbitrarily drawn buffer zones inapplicable to other growers, and restricts Plaintiffs’ pesticide use within those buffer zones,” the suit states. It says that if the companies are forced to reveal the location of their transgenic crop fields they will face the risk of “commercial espionage, vandalism and theft” and that all these “burdensome operational restrictions and civil and criminal penalties” have no legal justification and would hurt their businesses economically. It says the bill was “tailored to avoid impacting others who use pesticides on Kaua’i to grow non-GM crops and for other purposes.”

Paul Minehart, a Syngenta spokesman told Reuters that the ordinance attempts to regulate activities over which counties in Hawaii have no jurisdiction. “These activities are already regulated by governmental agencies under state and federal laws,” he said.
Listen to our reply: 

Dear Syngenta, Monsanto, Dow Chemical, Pioneer-Dupont and BASF,

If you have not figured it out yet: no one wants your toxins, poisons, chemicals or biotechnology (like geneticially modified food replication). 

Hawaii doesn't want you. Kauai doesn't want you. Other nations don't want you. 

We are tired of being bullied and lied to about your creations and how we must be enslaved to terminator seeds and forced to eat scorpion venom cabbage

We're done with you. Pack your bags and leave. Filing lawsuits is only going to make the people rise up against you stronger than ever. 

What's the point? You've outgrown your usefulness because you won't tell the truth. You won't have independent studies done and all you do is cry: Trade Secrets and Patent Law! 

If you cannot guarantee people's safety with truth and facts, then why shouldn't counties, states, and countries begin to protect themselves from you? Even remove you?

You're not really giving anyone any choices. 

Our rights for knowledge and safety outweigh your need for being nefarious.

Maybe you should think about how the world sees you before you really end your companies' future from the bad public relations campaign you have begun with court proceedings in Kauai.

Get a clue.