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Politics, Kick-Backs
And Harmful Pharms!
(...or Mo' Money... Mo' Money!)

By Alan Graham (with Alfred Lehmberg)
AlienView.net
5-28-5
 
We live in dangerous and accelerating times, reader. But because of an expanding internet let too soon out of invention's box (in the view of some), our out-of-control access to unfiltered information can make us abundantly aware of that accelerating danger... perhaps even provide a buffer against it... a preparation for it.
 
The danger alluded to has its roots in a continuing ignorance we suffer, an ignorance more easily cultivated in a mythic "Norman Rockwell" faux-past... previous to the aforementioned internet. This is an uglier ignorance camouflaging insidious characteristics of duplicitous governments, closed institutions, and unaccountable agencies who cooperate, dare I say conspire... to fleece, make ill, or impoverish the *trusting* masses... governments, institutions, and agencies once thought to generally support and sustain these masses... but no more. If ever...
 
Mainstream Medicine, by way of example, only one of the larger entities alluded to, is pharmaceutically, surgically, and corporately driven by ardent sociopaths who spit on the Hippocratic oath. It has many distinguishing, if disappointing (horrific actually), characteristics, only a few of which I will discuss here.
 
Let's get started:
 
1. Make Mo' Money... ...Mo' Money -- the pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable industry in this country and, I suspect, the world. We're talking obscene profits, usurious in the extreme, reader, where the difference in profit percentage between even the 2nd, 3rd & 4th most profitable industries are measured in 2 or 3 measly tenths of a percentage point (you know, 0.2... 0.3 etc.). The difference in profit between the pharmaceutical industry and the distant 2nd most profitable industry, one finds, is measured in whole percentage points (approximately 3... whole... percentage points, the last I looked).
 
And please honored reader! Don't fall for the insulting excuse trotted out by Big Pharms and used in misleading TV ads... that the gigantic profits are needed for Research and Development? Pause to guffaw and then see that for what it is! A lie, bald and unvarnished.

Seriously, stop and think for a second... isn't the cost of the R&D already figured in to their bottom line year after year? Yes? And aren't they still #1 in an orgy of profit taking... year after egregious year? Yes! They really treat us like we're stupid, don't they? Yes...

Still... we do line up in grateful queues for their lucrative but dangerous abuse... Yes. It just may be we are pretty stupid...
 
Moreover, the skewed profits just mentioned are particularly unseemly when you consider they come from customers who are scared, under duress, and willing to do anything some... "Marcus Welby," graying at the temples, "God-like" genius orders them to do! There are medical dramas plastered all over the television for a reason, folks! And if that wasn't bad enough -- the near worshiped *doctor* then gets a kick back for prescribing a particular drug... some dangerous designer chemical by which the *doctor* is rewarded for insuring that you, reader, will be taking for the rest of your increasingly miserable life.

This is a glaring conflict of interest in direct opposition to the solemn oaths they swear, wouldn't you say? The reader may remember the oaths referred to. These are of course the oaths sworn to do no harm... that is then clearly, and even gleefully, done, regardless! Consider the disturbing implications, reader, when the medical advisor on NPR, Dr. Zorba Paster (...an evil little troll!), let slip that he did... "research"... for the pharmaceutical industry!

Not that this verbal slip mattered much. I was probably one of only a handful listening who understood that "research" is just another one of those slimily misdirecting euphemisms... or code... for the following:
 
...One, a Doctor prescribes a particular drug...
...Two, the doctor "tells" the drug company how the drug performed.
...Three, the drug company then sends the Doctor money...
 
On reflection, the second step above is likely superfluous -- I'm guessing it's just two steps...really: One, *doctor* writes your prescription... Two, *doctor* gets his palm greased.
This preceding, despicable, little ["wink..wink"] *practice*... was the drug industries inadequate answer to years of complaints shoved grudgingly before Congress (check the congressional record) regarding blatant, out and out kick-backs in the past, reader, forgetting the ethical transgressions of present day! All these *honored* statesmen accomplished was to put an artfully dodged "dress" on that pig... with all due respect to pigs, everywhere.
 
An illustration drawn from popular culture: Just a while back there was an episode of "ER" centered around this kick-back practice...

...After a woman dies as a result of taking a particularly dangerous drug, "Carter" confronts the dead patient's regular *doctor* as to why he did not use a better and safer drug that was readily available. The *doctor* (an old acquaintance who had once worked at "County") admitted that by prescribing that drug he received a "small stipend"... (...you know... Money?) as a pharmaceutical company associate, researcher, field-rep, or some other meaningless title that is just a euphemism for "Ho"... (...prostitute for the un-hip?). ...And calling his kick-back a "small stipend" only makes it sound a tiny bit less sleazy. Only a tiny bit. ...Just enough when it's your mother dead on a slab, good reader?
 
Back at the "ER", "Carter" is appalled at this revolting conflict of interest... ...of course! ...Remember that "ER" is benign propaganda masquerading as TV fiction, it's only there to fool you into believing something is being done! "Carter" would have actually said "Hey 'Player,' How can I get some of that action...?" ...This practice continues unabated for all of "Carter's" well-acted outrage...
 
Oh yeah... further putting Dr. Zorba in perspective... ...on his NPR radio show he once told his trusty side-kick Tom, astonishingly, that there was NO Omega 3 in cod liver oil... ...and by his animated, condescending tone you could tell that he was incredulous that Tom (and Tom's mother) could even think such a thing! ...And would you believe they actually turn this guy loose on innocent students in Med school?

I'm not a doctor, but even I know that every gram of Cod liver oil has about 220 to 240 mg of Omega 3... which is significant! The other sources with more Omega 3 are regular potency Fish Oil, at about 300 mg... or Hi-potency Fish Oil at 500 mg. So... Cod liver oil is not only a good source of natural vitamin A & D3 but is also rich in Omega 3.

Sorry, Zorbie! You're only competent enough to attract "Mo' Money"; real medicine seems plainly beyond you...
 
2. The Ol' Slight of Hand -- ...Make it only appear that something is being done to slow (or stop) the progression of the afflicting disease by superficially treating only the symptoms of that disease... but letting the disease, itself, run rampant. Yes, incredulous reader. Additionally, if the drug, while just treating the symptom, actually makes the disease worse, faster... ...all the better!

I know this pops your circuit-breaker, reader, but see this as their mechanism for provisioning another sales opportunity! They do! Yes, not only will a "less than best practice" approach insure a life-long customer, but one that will need to buy ever stronger (more expensive?) drugs as the condition worsens... Mo' Money... Mo' Money! Christ retches.
 
...And believe it or not, this "exacerbating the condition" corporate approach is applicable to virtually every chronic disease suffered by a lay humanity -- disease cultivated in that lay humanity! They only make you feel a little better... as they kill you... and while on this trip to debilitating hell you give them your money, your regard, and your grateful thanks every step of the freaking way...
 
3. Blame the Patient! When the "therapy" eventually fails? Then it's convenient to be able to blame the patient by pontificating that they didn't eat right, lose weight, or exercise enough.
4. When the "Blame Game" doesn't work -- because the patient is thin, a marathon runner, and a hospital dietician? Then they blame 'God and your Parents' by telling you that it's a genetic problem...

I think this is where I am supposed to ask, "Have they no shame"?
 
...Speaking of licensed hospital dieticians in a short digression, have you ever paid any attention to the unhealthful swill served in their hospitals? Have they?

Ummmm... oh boy... lots of refined sugar (maple syrup, sweet rolls), refined flour (pancakes, bread, cereal), trans fat (margarine, vegetable shortening), lots of starchy crap like biscuits & gravy, noodles & gravy, potatoes & gravy, gravy & gravy... I truly believe the Dietitian in our little local hospital must be 'Larry the Cable Guy'..."Put some Gravy on that SOB -- Git r' done."

Someone should do a "Super-Size Me" style movie on hospital food and see how long it takes to put a healthy person in that self-same hospital! Moreover, consider the fast-food franchises installed in some hospitals!

5. The pills are FREE! Remind (applicable) patients that they don't have to pay for these obscenely expensive tests and drugs because they're covered by insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid. The reality is; however, we all pay because it's the taxpayer who foots the bill!

Unfortunately, it's much more insidious than even that... Do you remember in the 1950s when "free medical" was just a throw away 'perk' to rank and file employees? Now; however, as medical costs go through the roof, more corporations are moving overseas... conveniently, where there is either no medical coverage or inadequate state funded coverage. Consequently, the pharmaceutical industry, with the help of Wal-mart, is slowly turning the US into a third world-style economy -- where we grow, extract, drill, cut-down, or dig-up the raw materials... which are then sent to China, et al, to be turned into value-added products... then sold back to us. This is a recipe for economic and ecological disaster at worst; at best it makes the rich richer, shrinks the middle class, while geometrically increasing the expanding poor.
 
6. Lucrative Drug Design -- Most pharmaceuticals work, when they work at all, in a negative and unnatural way. These, very unwisely, block, stop, mask, suppress, or inhibit normal bodily systems. Let's look at just a few of the big sellers:
 
a. Lipitor -- inhibits the production of cholesterol... but simultaneously suppresses the ubiquinone system producing Coenzyme Q-10... probably the most important substance our bodies manufacture for the heart and other muscles! This is surely what causes the muscle "weakness" *thing* associated with statin type cholesterol lowering drugs. The drug companies are very aware of this muscle wasting aspect, yet they do nothing, even considering the many deaths involved!
 
If they were smart they would put at least 100 mg of CoQ-10 right in the lipitor... but no! That would be like openly admitting there's a problem! ...I'd bet a hundred dollars to a hole in a rolling doughnut that even President Clinton's "Doctors" didn't advice him to take supplemental CoQ-10 while taking his lipitor.
 
b. Vioxx and Celebrex -- I was warning people about these "Cox 2 Inhibiters" years before it was admitted that Vioxx was killing people... Unlike Vioxx and Celebrex, mother nature's natural Cox 2 inhibitors (Omega 3, bromelain, ginger, etc.) are smart and selective substances relieving inflammation without simultaneously blocking the beneficial effects... like V&C do!

Man-made "Cox 2 inhibitors" block chemistries they shouldn't and cause convoluted, arcane, and imbalanced conditions...that resulted in 28,000 deaths due to stroke and heart failure! And Ironically, the reason most people take Vioxx, etc. is for joint pain -- but again, one of the systems inhibited is your body's ability to help repair the damaged cartilage causing the pain in the first place! Again, true to form, you only feel better while the drug makes you sicker.

After a while? Your body can't cash the biochemical check the designer drug is writing and you ...Oops, oh well. Next victim! *Doctor* needs a new pair of shoes!

c. Fosamax -- It increases the amount of 'bone' in your bones. Yes... this is true... but this is a bad thing! To insure you have strong bones, mother nature created a dual system by which, as new strong and healthy bone is manufactured, the older and weaker bone is efficiently removed. Fosamax blocks the system removing the old bone... ...Yes, you have more bone... but it's brittle and weaker bone, crap bracing crap... so after 4 or 5 years of Fosamax the incidents of hip fractures increases. Is this a solution, especially given that the mainstream knows these facts?

I could go on for hours-- with virtually every chronic disease pharmaceutical you run the risk of dying to treat a symptom! There is a better way!

MERCH vs. MEDELLIN...and the winner is?
 
The pharmaceutical drug-industry kingpins and their gleeful pushers (the MDs) are, by far, much more destructive and dishonest than the Columbian Drug lords and their pushers.
 
I could quote a bunch of stats that could be right or wrong, especially when you consider the pharmaceutical companies have shown they will lie and misrepresent passionately to keep the truth from you, reader, regarding negative and potentially life threatening side effects associated with their *designer* drugs. Instead, just look at your environment and how illegal versus legal drugs effect your life.

How many times has the cocaine world, for instance, touched your life...probably never. I've known a couple of people who used cocaine... but I wouldn't answer the door if they ever knocked. Granted, you might inadvertently get caught up in some act of violence related to the (phony?) drug war...but even that is pretty rare in most of the country... I know, if you live in Compton... all bets are off. But in the round? For most of the country?
 
I don't want to diminish the tragedy, of course. When innocent people die while getting mugged or caught in the crossfire of the drug war -- we're outraged, as we should be. But we never bat an eye when these same people die from taking expensive, unnecessary drugs like Vioxx, Aleve, Lipitor, Nexium and Blood Pressure Meds... just to name a paltry few!

Now, in contrast, how many people do you know taking one or more of the aforementioned harmful Pharms? It's bad enough they can cause death and erectile dysfunction (that other "death") in the middle aged... but now the FDA wants to recommend Lipitor, etc. for grade school kids! Additionally, how many old people do you know who are circling death's drain while taking 15 or 20 powerful (and probably unnecessary!) pharmaceuticals -- many of which have nothing to do with the initial illness...but are taken to treat one or more mere symptoms caused by the other pharmaceuticals that they are invariably taking? Mo' Money!
 
Consider who's more honest! Have you ever seen a TV commercial extolling the benefits of coke snorting or a wholesome "Dorothy Hamill" athlete type promoting "crystal meth" as a way to lose weight and be more popular? Of course not! But, Dorothy certainly pushed her Cox 2 Inhibitors causing 130,000 strokes and heart attacks with 28,000 deaths! Pardon the hyperbole, but were the new gold fixtures for her summer home worth this death and misery, I wonder?
 
Sincerely, most medical disciplines are wrapped around a lie at their very core... to sell more pharmaceuticals. Here are some clear examples.

Heart Doctors say high cholesterol causes heart disease... when it's actually arterial inflammation that causes high cholesterol, so it's the inflammation that is the disease, folks, not the cholesterol. See LTR #001 at <>http://tinyurl.com/9vnyo

Gastroenterologists say "Too Much stomach acid causes heartburn and reflux..." when, actually, both are generally caused by Too Little stomach acid....when you have a very acidic stomach, reader, you are more likely to NOT have heartburn because the acid makes the LES (Lower Esophageal Sphincter) want to slam shut on the pain causing acid. 75% of people over 50 have too little stomach acid, NOT too much, see LTR #002 <>http://tinyurl.com/9vnyo

Dermatologists say the sun causes skin cancer... when it's actually caused by a lack of Omega 3, antioxidants, and vitamin D3, which is made by the sun you are trying to avoid! Astonishingly, its the sun-SCREEN (Zink Oxide sun-block is OK) that may have the potential to cause the cancer you are trying to stay away from. How's that for a little irony?

Immunologists say that autoimmune diseases (like the Crohn's I contracted 13 years ago) should be treated by suppressing the immune system with something on the order of Prednisone... This, and other steroid or steroid-like pharmaceuticals, are some of the most evil substances known to man because they leave you vulnerable to any microbe or infection that comes down the pike... ...when actually, the thing that works best is pumping up the whole immune system with a broad spectrum of antioxidants, immune enhancing supplements and a fine-tuned digestive system. (My Crohn's has been virtually nonexistent for 6 years). Read "How I Beat Crohn's Disease" at <>http://tinyurl.com/7zc7c .

Child Psychologists say that grade school children need Paxil & Zoloft to relieve depression... OK Folks! Cut... Cut... Cut! Paxil and Zoloft to kids?!? Are even children to be used as pharmaceutical cash cows?

This is really so simple, I'm forced to digress... I offer the very nearly foolproof "Helicopter Pilot's Anti-depression Regimen for Children." Try it ~before~ you cripple your kids with unneeded and depression provoking mood enhancers...

The aforementioned diet also works for ADHD, Aggressive Behavior, and it might even give the dim-witted, socially repressed child a little pep & personality! It will also prevent or stop Alzheimer dead in its tracks... In descending order of importance:

(a). Essential Fatty Acids (EFA): 2 grams of Cod Liver Oil-- 1 gram of Hi-potency Fish Oil--1or 2 grams of Borage Oil-- 1or 2 grams of Flax Seed Oil (or even better-2 tbl of freshly ground Flax Seed) Read "Way Grind Flax Seed?" at <>http://tinyurl.com/blaht
 
(b). NO Sugar (Use Stevia as a sweetener): So that also means NO refined flour, fruit juice, carbonated drinks (not even the sugar free), bread, cereal, pasta. And NO Soy unless it's fermented, like miso.
 
(c). Vitamin B12: Use the most active form, Methylcobalamin, in a sublingual tablet. You can't take too much so take from 1000mcg to 5000mcg daily.
 
(d). NO Poly food oils (only use Olive Oil or Extra Virgin Coconut Oil). The medicinal oils, Hemp & Flax, can also be used as a food oil, but only cold.
 
(e). NO Trans Fat from Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO)- so use the peanut butter where the oil floats to the top and for God's sake, use Butter, NEVER margarine.
 
(f). Take a health food store quality Natural, Food-based Multivitamin/mineral with a liquid trace mineral complex. Take an additional Amino Acid Chelated Cal/mag supplement--most multimineral complexes don't have the required 1000 to 1500mg of calcium. Make sure the total Vitamin D3 in the cod oil, MultiVitamin & the Cal/Mag supplement does not go over about 1000mg unless you test for vitamin D. Avoid the potentially toxic Vit. D2 found in milk.
 
(g). NO dairy except cheese & Kefir: As a milk substitute-mix Kefir & ice water with stevia to sweeten and vanilla extract, etc. to flavor.Your children will love it much BETTER than bland old milk- make sure they get at least 1 cup of kefir a day to maintain healthy gut flora & fauna.
 
(h) As a minimum- eat 3 poached or soft scrambled eggs daily.

Why wouldn't you try this? It's only food and critically necessary Vitamins & Minerals! But, if you would rather give your EFA deficient child Paxil, Sugar and Twinkies, make sure they have a Matrix trench coat and a key to the gun cabinet, sincerely.
 
Virtually, every medical regimen's very existence is propped up by a lie! So please ... don't get me started on surgeons and the millions of operations they perform which are not only unnecessary and unethical, but, I suspect, damned near criminal! Surgeons are the vultures who wait for the toxic pharmaceuticals to do their insidious work so they can swoop in at the eleventh hour and cut something out, or do a transplant or a gut resection at the last minute... so they can saunter away like a hero with their boat payment (your money!) in their pocket. Actually, if it's a transplant they can buy the whole damn boat with one payment.
 
Who's More Informed? I bet you that 99.99% of the people who snort coke know it's not good for them.

Conversely, most people who take prescribed pharmaceuticals don't have a freaking clue that many of the latter are even more dangerous! Not that ounce for ounce they are necessarily more harmful, but they are more dangerous because prescribed pharmaceuticals only seem benign when administered by a smiling, trusted doctor imposing strict orders that you will have to take them for the rest of your life... so you do.

On the other hand, virtually every person who has ever snorted coke has promised themselves, many times, that one day soon they would quit -- then when they get sick enough, they do or they die... But this is an informed decision! Doctors misinform. They don't talk about the bad stuff associated with their drugs, so it's easy to blindly follow their orders. And then, when the pharmaceuticals accelerate you to the grave, everyone thinks the heroic "Doctors" did all they could... not knowing you would have likely lived longer had they or you, done NOTHING.

Additionally, they demonize or ridicule any kind of nutritional or supplemental approach... even when the clear evidence to the contrary is overwhelming -- like a demonized folic acid to relieve homocysteine arterial inflammation, for instance. Instead of dirt-cheap folic acid, you get expensive Lipitor to lower your Cholesterol... when that is not even the problem! High cholesterol is the symptom not T.H.E. disease, not the cause, remember!

Even pharmaceutical giant Merch (Network News, first week of May, 2005) sent out a memo to train their people how to deflect questions by doctors about the apparent negative side effects caused by Vioxx! So, you see, the pharmaceutical company teaches your Doctor how to lie to you. A pusher by any other name would smell as sweet, reader.
 
And who's easier to Spot? We all know who and what the coke dealer is all about. He's the twitchy, 90 IQ guy on the corner blowing a snot bubble. Even though we know he would sell out his mother and prostitute his sister, it could still be argued that his opportunities are limited, being poor, not very smart, and probably the wrong color...But the trusted MD, with his landed 'whiteness', high IQ, and open doors, never has to worry! Consequently, he doesn't have to be a Whore; he could insist on NOT being told what to do and what to think by the drug industry; he could insist on learning more about nutrition and not just repeat the same old tired lies like "Margarine is good & Coconut oil is bad", when actually, Margarine is toxic & Coconut oil is magic; he could insist on becoming truly Holistic by learning the power of supplementation instead of telling the lie that we can get all the required nutrients we need with the typical American diet...
 
But NO! They choose to dispense unnecessary poisons to babies, moms and grandmothers while cloaked in an aura of goodness and virtue. A true wolf in sheep's clothing, wearing the mantle of institutional respectability...when unfortunately the institution is corrupt to its rotten core.
 
...Their perfectly tanned, square jawed countenance seems to radiate a halo-like glow... oh let's see -- like when Dr. (Senator) Bill Frist saved the life of a fellow Senator on the floor of the Senate... oh yeah... ask Bill how he made his millions, and why his family's HMO business got caught cheating the taxpayers, yet was able to be wrist-slapped out of it! It's good to be King... or Senate Majority Leader...
 
How does that "wrist-slap" work? Simple! The Frist family HMO business, HCA, is the largest for-profit hospital chain in the country, with 179 hospitals...WOW, folks, that's MO' Money... on steroids!
 
...And if that wasn't enough of a conflict of interest? HCA owns HCI (Health Care Indemnity) which is the 6th largest malpractice insurance carrier in the country! He owns the pot AND the kettle while officiating at the whole freaking stove! So... do you think that Bill Frist is looking out for YOU concerning HMO liability and malpractice insurance caps? If you do...then please stop reading right here... and go back to watching "American Gladiator" or your 'reality' programming of choice.
 
Instead, I challenge every person with a chronic disease to recognize the cognitive dissonance ( a form of psychological denial) associated with the very real possibility that for your whole life... you've been medically and nutritionally duped. Sadly, many people will continue to suffer rather than try to wrap their brain around the likelihood that their old, grandfatherly, and sagely wise family *doctor* kept information from them and got kick-backs, besides, for dealing them unnecessary and unhealthful information about legal drugs perhaps even more dangerous than heroin and cocaine!
 
What have you got to lose? Try the "Helicopter Pilot's Diet" for 6 months (remember, I'm not selling anything), read LTR#007 at http://tinyurl.com/9vnyo for specifics about the diet--don't confuse the "Hel. Pilot's Diet" with the "Hel. Pilot's Anti-depression Regimen" above. Find a Naturopathic Doctor or a Holistic Nutritional consultant to advice you about supplementation tailored to your ailment, or call/E-mail me and I will help you for FREE. Why? I just like stickin' it to the evil, greedy, and officious, *man*, reader!

If you show no improvement and are not able to start dramatically weaning yourself off your quality of life destroying pharmaceuticals? Please call or write to cuss me for wasting your time. Additionally, feel free and entitled in returning to your life of Twinkies, white-bread, margarine, and those "miracle" pharmaceuticals.
 
...Also, for insult on top of injury? You might want to hang adoringly on Dr. Zorba's every word.
 
Until next time... Well BE!
 
Alan Dawson Graham
800 Robin Parker Rd.
Ozark, AL 36360
334 774-0395
burt@graceba.net
 
www.alienview.net
 

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