Big Pharma is killing you for profit – Oklahoma judge proves it with J&J ruling

in #informationwar5 years ago (edited)

At last, after decades of killing Americans with its products, Johnson and Johnson has been found guilty of helping to fuel the nation’s opioid epidemic. In an historic first, a drug maker has been ordered to pay a fine of over half a billion dollars ($572 million) for their crimes.
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The Oklahoma judge labelled the company “greedy”, and that is what basically drives this and many other companies to put profit above people, luring and misdirecting doctors, who become implicated as the drug pushers of these known addictive opium-based drugs. In one of my earlier articles I mentioned this problem of the opioid crisis in the world’s most powerful nation, and now the proof is out.

The tragedy is that this criminal company – one of several in the “Big Pharma” crime ring – will simply appeal the judgement and maybe pay a lesser fine eventually. And to whom do they pay this fine? Not to the families of the deceased, but probably to the state, so the real victims get at best some moral gain, but that’s all. J&J will just carry on with their crimes, making as much money as they can on the deaths of the cannon fodder toward their bottom line. Welcome to the sick society that runs your world.

Doctors are knowingly duped into believing that the opioid medication is not addictive if prescribed to people in pain, so they start prescribing it to people with little chronic ailments like a sore ankle, for example, only to scoop them up into the net of addicted victims, who now need to buy more and more of the killer drug, filling the coffers of the criminal Big Pharma corporation while killing themselves.

Is this the democracy that you enjoy? Is this your first world capitalist idea? What a con. “Oh we like sheep...” Doctors need to be re-educated and big pharma needs to be put in jail. A fine like this will be nothing more than a bump in the road of their balance sheet. Most other companies also implicated over the years have just settled out of court with a little fine and continued with their crimes.

In 2016 alone around 42 000 Americans died from opioid addiction and overdose. And about the same amount of Americans die every year. How can anyone in their right minds enjoy the profits from this kind of business unless they are psychopaths – people with a mental disease that destroys any sign of empathy of conscience. Such sick, mentally diseased people are running your government and your big corporations. And they are posing as the healers that can help you.

Secondly who in their right minds can call this kind of capitalism a healthy model? We are truly ignorant or dumbed down if we can’t see the crimes being committed in the name of profit. The capitalist system has been hijacked by psychopaths. As has your entire nation because your government endorses this kind of behaviour. We are sheep, being led to the slaughter. Capitalism that allows this kind of reality is not healthy. It is sick. It is criminal. 42 000 deaths every year are the results of this kind of system.

And that is just in the opioid epidemic. In another article we can discuss the crimes of “Big Agri” and the pesticides in your food, soil, rivers and oceans that are killing people, animals and the environment at a steady rate year by year. I am disgusted by the state of affairs I see around me on the planet. If this does not disgust you then you are one of the bewildered sheep who will be another victim of the system.

And we the sheep can rise up and from the grass roots level say “enough is enough”. We cannot wait for our governments to save us. They have been bought out by the criminals running big business. It is the community movements, the people on the ground, that have to stand up en masse and take to the streets or the social media platforms, to speak out, create awareness and push for reform.

We have to BDS boycott, divest and sanction these criminal companies. I bet almost all of you have some sort of Johnson & Johnson product in your house somewhere. Well, I for one will no longer be buying any of their products. Just like I BDS Nestle for their crimes of water privatization for profit while countries die of drought. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

We need to become educated as to what is ethical or not and act accordingly. When J&J or their parent company Janssen deliberately and knowingly sell you deadly cocktails from their labs, all the while watching as tens of thousands die annually, and still accept the profits and pay checks for their handy work, then you know they are mentally criminally insane and should be in jail to protect us, the citizens from their sociopathy. It’s obvious. That’s what the law does to a criminal who profits from any death racket or industry. So why are these CEOs being allowed to carry on their crimes?

The reason is greed. The politicians are bought out. One psychopath is working with the other. And they are the ones that already run the world. It has gone past the tipping point. Only a grass roots groundswell of mass uprising and revolution will do, to literally overthrow the corporations, so that they can’t produce poisons to sell to us, while simultaneously paying the politicians through lobby groups and “superpacs” more bribes to look the other way.

This is why we have the multiple arms of power in a state. The judiciary, the government, the law and the press, among other arms, are all their to keep each other in check, so that one does not get too powerful and upset the balance, causing destruction and abuse. Well it has already gone too far, but at least the judiciary is attempting to redress the balance by fining the criminals over half a billion dollars.

The fine is the equivalent of one year of costs to combat the opioid crisis that America now lives with, although apparently it will take 20 years to heal the sickness of the nation. And because the fine was significantly less than what the state of Oklahoma originally wanted to charge, J&J got off lightly. So much so that just after the ruling their share price actually went up by 2% on the “good news” of the lesser fine. How sick is that? And we thought doctors were our guardians in issues of health. Those days are gone. They were duped and implicated in the epidemic itself.

The tragedy of the commons, the disaster that is your health plan, the disease that is our modern society based on corrupted capitalism, is here to stay unless the masses revolt, take to the streets and force the government to make some changes. Voting doesn’t help, especially not in America, where the system is corrupt. Only two candidates? Both different sides of the same evil empire. What a joke. Look at the stats: 42 000 deaths a year. Anyone feel happy about that? Wake up America. You are being killed by your own guardians – the government and the medical and agricultural industry. What are you going to do about it?

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I know only too well how pharmaceutical companies are ruling and destroying humanity. I used to work in mental health and saw first hand how they push their products onto the doctors with such great incentives and witnessed many people take it without question because they trust their Doctors.
We all need to stay informed and act by not supporting these companies, I am happy to say I have no such products in my home. It all starts with you and I, great post @julianhorack x

Thanks @trucklife-family yes this is an important topic. That's a good point about the fact that we blindly follow doctors as authority figures.

Ultimately the opioid addiction problem is a mental health problem. The reason people become addicted to them is not due to physical pain as much as emotional or psychological pain, which is a symptom of the moral decay in modern society, and the abuse we suffer under the criminals running the world.

"We need to become educated as to what is ethical or not and act accordingly."

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Interesting that the judge called them out and called them greedy for that is often what we turn a blind eye to, the rampant greed that is the under lying cause of all this misery and suffering. It does grieve my heart so to see such greed and uncaring for fellow human beings that you would sacrifice their lives for your profits - I don't get it! They will not see any of my money and I'm afraid to say that I have totally lost faith in government and spend my energies else where than supporting any of the governments, big pharma or big ag! I will not go blindly to the slaughter but it does pain me to see the power that they yield and must be stood up to! Thanks for sharing!

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This is really scary. Yes the giant pharmas have been on a ride and there is no one to challenge them. It's a big time play, the hospitals, the pharmas, the doctors are all linked to each other and we pay it to them in a big way. I almost made a similar post today. Freedom of Expression and Health Care - Is it becoming a major concern?

Great to be in touch, thanks for the positive response and good to see you are also addressing the issues that are so important to the very lives of the majority of people in the world. I will check out your post.

Things are the same here in South Africa my friend.
One only has to go and look at the millions, or is it billions that they spent on building their headquarters and also have at their profits look to understand that they thrive on the sick.
Mu mother used to say a good doctor is a doctor that gets you off the pills and she was so right. We recently lost a friend that was pumped full of "The water of life" (Chemotherapy) as the doctor called it and she paid millions for it.
Natural medicine is the sure way to go, as God has gifted us with medicinal plants and roots to heal our ailments.
Blessings!

Yes good point, the chemo concept is a con. Doctors will exploit your sick condition to get as much cash from you nowadays, in cahoots with big pharma. There are natural solutions.

Totally agreed my friend, I saw a few going bankrupt after treatment and the grave winning every time.
Blessings!

When I was still young and naive I used to work for a company like this.... Big eye opener... It s what made me go back to school and study alternative nutrition and health too.

Amazing Amy, you have first hand experience. I have heard the same from another pharma rep who had to quit out of ethical principles.

After this precedence, I hope others will follow.

Namaste, JaiChai

Yes there is hope. The system has a chance to correct and save some lives from the hands of the greedy corporations.


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It costs over 2 billion dollars now to bring a new drug to market and that is even after the government funds the basic research, so big pharma does need a return on their investment, but they are doing much more than that to scam us and extract much more money than they deserve, especially in the US where we refuse to adopt universal healthcare and negotiate with drug companies for much lower prices.

I think we all need to take responsibility for our health - in so many ways. Growing our food, supporting local, organic farmers, vote with our dollars to support those who care about health and the environment and the list goes on...

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