JOHNSON AND JOHNSON HOW ABOUT THE TRUTH?
Every time I have seen the inside operations of a pharmaceutical factory on TV, every worker looks like an Afghan Muslim woman except instead of a blue or black burka they are in white. With all the care and attention attached to factories being absolutely clinically clean why then don’t they pay the same attention to the raw materials they use and where they come from? You see, just like every other dirtbag American corporation, J & J is a member of an oligoloply led by Pfizer, Merck and Glaxo where they have carved the market up amongst themselves for maximum profit.
Ever since the consolidation of the pharmaceutical industry into about five players, China has become the major source of supply for all the component raw materials. From drywall, to petfood ingredients, to baby milk, to toxic toys, to contaminated fish products, to faulty tires, to toothpaste laced with anti-freeze; the list of defective products could fill a book. I am sticking my neck out here, but I believe the recent recall of children’s Motrin, Benadryl and Tylenol will be because those bloody Chinese have shipped defective ingredients to J & J. Earlier this year J & J recalled another bunch of over the counter products because the raw materials were packed onto wooden pallets thus cominating the contents!
Since the pharmaceutical companies’ love affair began with China, their lobbyists have been hard at work undermining the workings of the FDA to all congressmen and senators who accept their campaign donations. Because that is a large majority of our representatives and since Bush came to power on the Republican platform of less government, the FDA has literally gone from a fierce policeman protecting all Americans from bad medicine to the typically ineffective government agency. The issue we have here is profits count more than the health of Americas. Fancy getting to the levels of buying pharmaceutical raw materials from a country that for starters places no value on human life. Add to that their history will doctoring up any sort of crap, call it by an impressive name (in this case its chemical definition) and then have the audacity to sell it to anyone who is willing to buy the rubbish sight unseen.
Shame on you J & J and shame on the Obama and previous administrations for allowing the FDA to lose all its muscle! To me these sorts of things are happening with accelerating propensity all around us in all aspects of our lives. Although this comment may appear somewhat cynical, I believe the era we are now in is similar to the reign of King Caligula when the Roman Empire finally totally collapsed. Sure the times were different, but the greed, corruption and debauchery are exactly the same. Maybe it is another case of history repeating itself.
WHAT DO AMERICA AND GREECE HAVE IN COMMON? GOLDMAN SACHS
By the time Goldman Sachs is finished being put through the wringer, I believe Blankfein and his cohorts will not only being spending the rest of their lives in the Big House but this company will be singled out as the prime player in the financial collapse of 2009. Why is it that a country for so long has been a beacon of freedom and fairness that in less than twenty-five years everything has been moved down to the lowest common denominator? In my opinion when the dust has settled, Goldman Sachs should go the way of Drexel Burnham, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. Warren Buffet, their influential defender is touching eighty and all things being equal he will either be dead or sitting in his rocking chair with Alzheimer’s by the time a President has the courage to sign off on Goldman’s death warrant. His powers of persuasion will be long gone as I don’t think President Obama has the mettle to act. Therefore it will need his successor’s fortitude to ultimately stick the knife in.
Greece, a small Mediterranean country, has long been a country with major social and economic ills. For over thirty years before the turn of the century each successive Greek administration courted the E.U. to become a member. They were always turned down because their economy was such that they would be forever takers and never net contributors. Enter Goldman Sachs and their creative skills to fix the situation! At about the time Greece called upon them, Enron was a rapidly rising star. Coincidentally every trick in the book Enron used with their resourceful thinking to cook the books, Goldman Sachs applied the same to help Greece. It was all about off-balance sheet accounting. By 2000 the E.U. members were delighted to see Greece engineer such a quick and strong turnaround of their economy they accepted Greece into the fold not only with open arms but also unbridled enthusiasm.
For nearly ten years Goldman Sachs, as their advisor, did a great job of hiding the real facts about Greece’s true situation. The funny thing is; for me Greece has always been about two things, olives and a little bit of tourism. How could the likes of France, Germany and Great Britain have remained so gullible for so long. Surely they must have known the biggest crooks in the world of finance were behind the “new” dynamic and fast growing Greece. Obviously they weren’t because it took a massive global recession to expose the Goldman inspired fraud. Funny thing is Spain and Portugal are not far behind in needing hundreds of $billions in bail out money. Italy is on the precipice too. So at the end of the day Greece will not be alone. Won’t it be interesting if we find Goldman Sachs have also been the advisors to Spain and Portugal?
DOESN’T AL QAEDA CHOOSE ABSOLUTE DOPES AS OPERATIVES?
Many times I have thought the CIA could have done a little more research on their choices of spies over the years, but this Muslim mob and how they choose their operatives really takes the cake. Put to one side the perpetrators of 9/11, and cast your mind back to the 1993 World Trade Center attack and the subsequent terrorist attempts since 9/11. Although serious by nature, they all have been almost comical in execution. This latest job was no exception. Talk about Murphy’s Law. More often than not when they are caught, they behave like canaries and spill all the beans. This guy hasn’t stopped talking since they dragged him off the Emirates plane and into clink.
Isn’t odd that every operative caught look the same? They could all be Muslim brothers or cousins? They are relatively young, they are all Middle Eastern looking and they all wear beards. I am sure Israel knows exactly what is going on with their enemy, because they actually identify them and keep a close watch on them. In America we are consumed by political correctness. For me it is a madness that has taken over this country. For this reason, I agree with many of the things the Tea Party stands for. Under our very eyes our country is being taken away from us. In actual fact, what we are doing is stupidly tell the world we really don’t know our enemies from our friends. We are wasting huge resources chasing moonbeams by treating a sixth generation eighty-year-old grandmother from Boise, Idaho exactly the same way as a young Pakistani “American” man who has just returned to the country from a six month holiday in Islamabad.
Firstly President Obama and your crew of Home Security chiefs, get a reality check into what is really going on. For starters I need to tell you all, Pakistan is your enemy, not your friend. They are as bigger promoters of international terrorism as those idiot countries, Sudan and Yemen. Every bearded young Muslim staying or living in America should be profiled and their behavior closely watched. The moment there is any suspicion, then ship ‘em back to where they originally came from. Even if they were born here, if we discover there is the evil intent in their behavior, then get rid of them. That’s what Great Britain is doing. Quite frankly I believe the followers of Al Qaeda are happier sitting starving over a camp fire in a cave in Afghanistan just like they did in the Dark Ages than existing in a country they hate and want to destroy.
To be truthful, I am more scared of an attack from Russia or China crippling this country than a bunch of religious moronic Muslim zealots. That is once we get them off our shores. This current secular approach to people who are nothing but dangerous nut cases has to stop. It’s absolute nonsense. Anyone choosing to come to America must do so to become American and they must accept our laws and customs, which include our language, English. I say spend money on closing our porous borders and then start cleaning up the trash inside America that holds American lives in fear. The cost would be minuscule compared to what we are now spending in Afghanistan and Iraq.
WHO’S TO BLAME FOR THE DISASTER IN THE GULF OF MEXICO?
No, it isn’t BP. It is a Swiss corporation called Transocean who needs its head put through the wringer. Even though it employs Americans almost exclusively and controls its operations from Houston, the company changed its H.Q. from the Cayman Islands to Zug Switzerland in early 2009 because of better tax dodging deals. You learn something new every day. I always thought the Cayman Islands’ “Trusts” were bullet proof, but alas the Swiss have come up with something better. Transocean is a company, like most large American corporations; it has spent the last twenty years swallowing up its competitors. The oil industry at large has also undergone significant change. Once regarded as a vertical industry, since its consolidation into five majors, oil companies only want to be involved in finding and claiming the ownership of black gold. Slowly over the last ten years, they have all got out of retail, wholesale, refining, transportation and extraction. Each one of those parts have been sold off or handed over to contractors. That is where Transocean steps in; as a contractor to BP.
The Deepwater Horizon rig is owned by Transocean, all the drilling equipment is owned by Transocean, all the people on the rig were employed by Transocean, and all the systems and processes were the propriety property of Transocean. How in the hell can BP be held responsible for a company who obviously had sub-standard practices in place in making sure their equipment performed to specifications. However, it is far easier to make BP look the bogey man because over the years we have all grown to hate them for just who they are; price gougers. Transocean means very little to the outside world and the story would not have the same emotional impact had they been at the center of the controversy.
I think it is fair that BP should not be held accountable for the reasons I have explained. However Transocean in order to shift the blame is now suggesting Halliburton were responsible because their job was to place the cement around the casings to prevent them from breaking or leaking. For me it is a grand example why oil companies should be vertical operators like they used to be in the good old days. That way they are truly held accountable. Even at retail level, in the days they owned or leased out the service stations, there were standards which just do not exist anymore. In fact service is no longer a factor. Oil companies used the front line service station to project its image. They were always bright and clean with a manager you could often see on the forecourt helping customers. Today the only people manning a service station are hidden behind bullet proof glass and more often that not if a question is asked to them in English, the chances are they can’t answer it in English! The premises are generally unkempt, the repair shop is shut up, the forecourts are dirty, and the signage faded. I wouldn’t even buy bottled water from inside the now typical service station. Most closed down service stations are surrounded by chain link fences and the owners of the properties (still mostly oil companies) can’t even be bothered clearing the properties in readiness for a sale.
This disaster was brought about by Transocean being allowed to take shortcuts without any oversight. Why the shortcuts? So these evil companies could make higher profits. Isn’t sad we haven’t learned from the Exxon Valdez disaster where Exxon (then in the shipping business too) were too cheap to build double skinned tankers. Capitalism today is all about less government oversight and totally about making as big a profit as possible, and ironically when the shit hits the fan, it is the government (moreover the ordinary working man) that has to foot the bill for the excesses of greed. By the time BP has to cough up in ten to twenty years time, America will have paid the environmental price of the disaster and the cost to clean it up. BP, Transocean and Halliburton will have moved on to somewhere else to do the same thing all over again.
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