Turns out your more likely to be killed by a corporation than a stranger! So are corporations bad for your health? Turns out they are.
In the United States the Revolution started with the American people fighting two huge corporations who were trying to crush freedoms and turn the colonists into slaves. These corporations were the Bank of England and the British East India Company ( which ironically is one of the first corporations).
Im sure we have all seen those drug ad commercials on T.V. where the side effects listed are actually longer than the benefits touted in the commercial. I dont know about you but side effects like “will cause the rise of Satan, scurvy, skin sloughing off and sometimes a rare condition know as Yog-Sothoth creeping rot” …. they can keep their “medication”. It wasn’t until the last decade that the pharmaceutical corporations had to let us know the side effects as now required by law, otherwise you know damned well they wouldn’t!
More people die every year from prescription drugs –
Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists
maybe my math is wrong but your more likely by 164 times to 1 to be killed by prescription drugs than terrorist! So why arent we rounding up pharma company execs and having a Waco style raid on Pfizer?!
(Herper, Matthew and Kang, Peter (2006-03-22). “The World’s Ten Best-Selling Drugs”. Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/home/sciencesandmedicine/2006/03/21/pfizer-merck-amgen-cx_mh_pk_0321topdrugs.html.)
For instance in the Patriot Act there is a provision which protects pharmaceutical companies making vaccines from being sued even if its proven their product made you sick or killed someone. Now in a nation wide pandemic this is understandable during an emergency but recently a U.S. Supreme Court ruling used this to stop parents who believe their children were harmed from vaccines from suing. Anyone want to bet some of these judges have ties to someone in the Pharma Industry? Id bet on it.
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Here’s some fun facts from ” Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy” by Ted Nace
“The Founding Fathers intentionally left corporations out of the Constitution
Corporations receive 3 times more government “welfare” payments than people do
You are 50 times more likely to be robbed by a corporation than by a person
You are 6 times more likely to be killed by a corporation than by a person “
In media (TV, newspapers, books ,etc) there were over 50 owners back in the early 1980’s now the 2010’s there are 6. Yup 6 that’s it. Think your getting a diverse opinion or objective news service these days compared to back in the day? Think again.
The auto industry is no better with Toyota’s recent recalls ( and only when they had too, dont let the commercials claiming otherwise fool you). The so called Big 3 are no better and their history since about 1970 onward is littered with safety problems and people being killed from defective products, think the Pinto. Ford at the time decided it was cheaper to pay out for anyone who was killed or injured than to recall the defective car. And they arent the only ones. Many corporations have done the same for chemical spills, defective products, environmental disasters, etc.
As the recent BP Spill in the Gulf of Mexico proved that after the limelight faded BP did nothing. It didnt even follow its own safety procedures. The people went back to sleep and the government went back to pretending it was in charge.
Ever have that feeling you know something is wrong with the world? Its corporations and the power they wield. There is a concept called “The revolving door of government” it means that people leave the corporations (temporarily) to go into government and regulatory bodies ( those things that are supposed to protect the public) and no sooner do they leave government they go back to the board rooms of the corporations. Its no conspiracy its a fact. Take a look at the background of the White House staff and appointees of the President. You wont find Farmer Joe there. But you’ll find former heads of big corporations who get in, change laws to benefit the same corporations and leave afterword to nice jobs in those same groups.
There is a few documentaries and books out there on the subject , the following ones best ones spell out the situation out pretty concisely( in my opinion anyway):
Inside Job ( documentary 2010 )
just finished watching this the other night and wow!! Your going to walk away angry but informed.
Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
American Psycho (fiction)
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy” by Ted Nace