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Meet the Billionaire Family Who Sparked America’s Opioid Crisis

(The Anti-Media by ZHE) Unbeknownst to many, the Sackler Family, with assets of $13 billion, the nation’s 19th wealthiest family is one the top players in philanthropy. You can find the Sackler Gallery in the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C. or visit the Sackler wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The Sackler’s even have a museum at Harvard, Guggenheim, and dozen of universities around the country. If it’s art— the Sackler family has it.

Participating in the art game takes money and a lot of it. So, where does the Sackler money come from?

According to Forbes, the “Sacklers continue to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from the businesses in 2016 – some $700 million last year, by Forbes’ calculations – from an estimated $3 billion in Purdue Pharma revenues plus at least $1.5 billion in sales from their foreign companies.”

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Forbes outlines a brief history lesson of how the Sackler family got started in the world of medicine:

The family fortune began in 1952 when three doctors — Arthur (d. 1987), Mortimer (d. 2010) and Raymond Sackler — purchased Purdue, then a small and struggling New York drug manufacturer. The company spent decades selling products like earwax remover and laxatives before moving into pain medications by the late 1980s. To create OxyContin, Purdue married oxycodone, a generic painkiller, with a time-release mechanism to combat abuse by spreading the drug’s effects over a half-day.

The FDA approved the medication in 1995 and it soon took off. By 2003 OxyContin sales hit $1.6 billion as the drug helped drive a huge nationwide spike in opioid prescribing. At its peak in 2012, doctors wrote more than 282 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers, including OxyContin, Vicodin and Percocet  — nearly enough for every American to have a bottle.

Now opioid prescriptions are declining amid increased scrutiny over drug addiction, down 12% since 2012 according to data from healthcare information firm IMS Health. OxyContin (which is also beginning to face competition from authorized generics while fighting to protect its patents over tamper-proof, extended-release oxycodone) saw prescriptions fall 17%.

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It wasn’t until the 1980’s, as explained by Forbes, the Sackler family through their family-owned drug company called Purdue Pharma created OxyContin. Then in 1995, the FDA approved the medication and sales exploded. Sales hit $1.6 billion in 2003, as a nationwide spike in opioids was seen. By the peak in 2012, doctors wrote more than 282 million prescription for opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin, Vicodin and Percocet. Good times for the Sacklers from 1996- 2012, as the family drug business exploded.

According to The New Yorker, Oxycontin ”has reportedly generated some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue for Purdue” since 1995. OxyContin’s sole active ingredient is oxycodone, a chemical cousin of heroin, which makes it highly addictive.

The New Yorker further says Purdue used marketing techniques to deceive the American public of the drug’s true addictive characteristics.

Purdue launched OxyContin with a marketing campaign that attempted to counter this attitude and change the prescribing habits of doctors. The company funded research and paid doctors to make the case that concerns about opioid addiction were overblown, and that OxyContin could safely treat an ever-wider range of maladies. Sales representatives marketed OxyContin as a product “to start with and to stay with.” Millions of patients found the drug to be a vital salve for excruciating pain. But many others grew so hooked on it that, between doses, they experienced debilitating withdrawal.

Oddly enough, around the time OxyContin was approved, prescription opioid deaths across the United States surged. Fast forward to more relevant times, where heroin and fentanyl deaths are exploding.

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Diving into the opioid crisis onto the streets of Baltimore. It’s very common to see local citizens shooting up heroin on city streets. In this video, I asked a man how did this addiction start? Guess what he said?… It all started with legal painkillers, such as OxyContin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7o89RNoHi0

As a few parasitical elites make billions flooding America’s streets with opioids. We the every day American citizen have to deal with the consequences, as President Trump outlined in yesterday’s opioid crisis speech:

  • In 2016, more than two million Americans had an addiction to prescription or illicit opioids.
  • Since 2000, over 300,000 Americans have died from overdoses involving opioids.
  • Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of injury death in the United States, outnumbering both traffic crashes and gun-related deaths.
  • In 2015, there were 52,404 drug overdose deaths — 33,091 of those deaths, almost two-thirds, involved the use of opioids.
  • The situation has only gotten worse, with drug overdose deaths in 2016 expected to exceed 64,000.
  • This represents a rate of 175 deaths a day.

Bottomline: It’s time for the American people to learn the truth about the opioid crisis and the very few elites who have profited. The question you should ask: why did our government allow this to happen?

The “FREE” Press Is NOT Free To Tell The Facts About Vaccines

(Natural Blaze by Catherine J. Frompovich) Ever since the U.S. Congress gave the U.S. pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturers a “get out of jail free” card exonerating them of all legal and financial product liabilities, vaccines have proliferated to the point of extreme infringements and health harms upon humans, including their rights to self-determination for themselves and their children.

However, outside the USA there is no such “collusion” going on between government agencies and Big Pharma. Many legal lawsuits against vaccine makers have been filed, especially against those who manufacture the HPV vaccines, which are damaging both male and female youngsters. See the statistics posted from the CDC’s VAERS reporting system on the SaneVax homepage. Ever since the HPV vaccines were first introduced in 2006 until June 2017, 51,956 adverse events from HPV vaccines have been reported to VAERS along with 328 deaths.

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Now, let me ask you this question: What would happen to a sausage maker, a car maker, or any other product manufacturer if there were that many consumer problems reported to proper government agencies? What happened with the Takata air bag problems/recalls?

The New York Times reported in February of 2015:

In an escalating standoff with Takata, federal regulators said on Friday that they would begin to fine the Japanese auto supplier $14,000 a day, saying it had not fully cooperated in an investigation into defective airbags.

What happened to Volkswagen for its fraudulent emission scheme? A $4.3 BILLION settlement!

Volkswagen has agreed to pay $4.3 billion to settle civil and criminal allegations over its diesel emissions cheating scheme involving some 590,000 vehicles in the U.S. [2]

What about product recalls? The website www.Recalls.gov states the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has jurisdiction over more than 15,000 kinds of consumer products, but vaccines are not listed! Aren’t they healthcare consumer products?

The very fact vaccines are treated totally differently when, in fact, they can contain nothing short of hazmat materials [mercury (Thimerosal), aluminum in four formulations, formaldehyde] plus other toxic chemicals, foreign DNA, human diploid cells from aborted fetal cell lines, MSG, antibiotics, etc. [3] which are injected via a syringe into newborns, 2-4-6 month old infants, toddlers, teens, adults and senior citizens.

Adverse effects and contraindications from every vaccine are reported on vaccine package inserts [4] by manufacturers, BUT federal, state and local health agencies, including school districts DO NOT advise parents and prospective vaccinees of those real and potential adverse health dangers and/or effects. Why? Collusion?

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Shouldn’t the media be the first line of communication about the dangers of vaccines? Why is the media so bamboozled into disseminating false and fraudulent vaccine information? Shouldn’t such collusion be prosecuted as a criminal act—not telling consumers about the toxins in vaccines and the possible health risks? Where’s informed consent? Or, is the administering physician’s mandate to get inoculated considered ‘informed consent’?

And yet, vaccine safety advocates who are vocal about the fraud at the CDC/FDA and the hazardous vaccine ingredients, plus the horror stories of what happened to vaccine-damaged vaccinees, are harassed and even prosecuted, as in Australia.

Is Australia the beta-market test venue for just how far totalitarian health mandates can be enforced?

Or are there too many vested interests at stake in Australia, e.g., pharmaceutical maker CSL (HPV vaccine interests) [5]; Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s daughters NOT to be vaccinated but everyone else must get vaccinated [6]; Lucy Turnbull, the current Prime Minister’s wife AND chairman of pharmaceutical company Prima Biomed, a company trying to get out a cancer vaccine [7]?

Here is a video, which shows the numerous anti-vaccination policy demonstrations that have taken place in various countries around the world and documented on film, but NEVER shown on the USA TV evening news or talked about in daily newspapers. Why? Collusion?

Watch in amazement and listen to the stories told about vaccine horrors in Australia, Poland, Italy, Germany, USA, and Kenya.

https://www.facebook.com/avn.org.au/videos/2001681173454938/

Innocent children and adults are being harmed deliberately by several entities responsible for promoting the falsehood that vaccines are safe.

Fraud at the CDC has been exposed by whistleblowers; see the documentary VAXXED: from catastrophe to cover-up; two Merck & Company former employees filed a qui tam lawsuit in Philadelphia, PA federal court regarding falsified Mumps vaccine efficacy reporting for almost ten years [8]; plus others I cannot recite here and which I’ve written about over the years.

The HHS’s HRSA has paid out almost $3.6 BILLION in vaccine damage claims and attorney’s fees [9]!

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What does that tell you and prove?

When will the citizens of the USA wake up and demand the repeal of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34, which literally is responsible for all the vaccine problems we have in the USA?

October is “Vaccine Injury Awareness Month.” Please tell everyone you know about the falsehoods and health damages from unproven, unsafe vaccines.

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Court Sets Ominous Precedent, Tells Mother, “Vaccinate Your Son Or Go To Jail”

(Natural Blaze By Matt Agorist) Detroit, MI — In a seemingly unprecedented violation of rights, a case out of Detroit, Michigan should worry even the most stringent pro-vaccine advocates. A well-meaning mother has been given an ultimatum by an Oakland County judge—vaccinate your child or go to jail.

While the Free Thought Project has reported on instances of children being denied public services, like school, for not vaccinating their children, the idea that someone could be thrown in jail for choosing to abstain from vaccination is chilling.

“I would rather sit behind bars standing up for what I believe in, than giving in to something I strongly don’t believe in,” says Rebecca Bredow, a mother of two who has been ordered to vaccinate her son.

In what sounds like a scene from a dystopian novel, Bredow has been backed into a corner and her freedom at risk because she is making a medical decision for her child. By order of an Oakland County judge, Bredow was given one week to fully vaccinate her son or she will be thrown in jail.

To be clear, Bredow did not fully abstain from all vaccinations. She is merely choosing to space them out, like lots of parents do.

As WXYZ reports, Rebecca believes in parents having the choice to make the right decision for their children based on the parents’ knowledge of vaccines and the child.

Rebecca tells 7 Action News that she and dad made the decision to space out and delay some their little one’s vaccines.

“It wasn’t until they started grouping them together that I backed off of doing vaccines,” she says.

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However, the father, who does not have custody of the children, has since changed his mind and now wants to vaccinate his children to the fullest extent. Bredow disagrees, but the court, according to Bredow, couldn’t care less about what she thinks—despite Michigan law allowing for vaccine exemption.

“We’re fortunate in the state of Michigan that’s still permitted, still allow religious, personal and medical exemptions for parents who chose to delay, to skip a vaccine to make various choices,” says Joel Doorman a representative of Michigan for Vaccine Choice. But this law is now being taken away from Bredow.

Bredow says the court won’t even hear her side of the story, and despite her having custody of the children, the court automatically sided with the father who wants their son vaccinated.

While vaccinating your children is certainly the decision of both parents — the idea of one parent being kidnapped and thrown in a cage for not wanting to vaccinate is the very fabric of tyranny.

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“Why automatically side with the father that wants the vaccines? What about my choice as a mother?” says Bredow — and she has a point. If the court sided with Bredow instead of the father, would the father face the same threats of being thrown in a cage if he vaccinated the child?

“I feel angry. I feel backed into a corner. I feel like my rights as a parent have been taken away,” she says.

While there will likely be some folks cheering on the state in this situation, how you feel personally about vaccines should never lead to a loss of freedom. No person should be forced by government regulation or societal pressure to receive any medication or treatment, including vaccines, against his or her will.

Indeed, even the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) opposes the idea of government forcibly medicating society against their will.

AAPS does not oppose vaccines. AAPS has never taken an anti-vaccine position, although opponents have tried to paint that picture. AAPS has only attempted to halt government or school districts from blanket vaccine mandates that violate parental informed consent.

As for Bredow, she now has until next Wednesday to decide how to proceed before armed agents of the state come to her home, chain her up, kidnap her, and throw her in a cage—for legally doing what she feels is best for her nine-year-old son. And we call this the land of the free.

Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project, where this article first appeared. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Facebook.

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Mass Infertility: A Sign Of The Times?

Man takes out mobile phone of his pocket of jeans on beach near the sea to make self-portrait or to photograph the sea

Dramatic decline in male fertility may be a product of modernity

(Natural Blaze) Modern living can be a real drag, particularly if you’re a sperm cell it seems. In July came news of the publication of a scientific review that appeared to confirm the suspicions of many a soothsayer down the ages. Verily, the seed of human existence looks to be drying up.

According to study authors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, sperm counts and concentration figures in the West have halved since the early 1970s, and continue to fall at an alarming rate. Might the baron dystopia of intergenerational fruitlessness, foretold by many a cackling witch down the ages, indeed be just around the corner?

As the news broke, Edinburgh University’s Professor Richard Sharpe was on hand to reassure us that “the end of humanity is not approaching”.

 Alas, those of the Sir David Attenborough (“we are a plague on earth”) school, quick to cheer the report, may have been a little premature in rejoicing. A substantially depopulated planet may not, in fact, be right around the corner and mankind’s fate is far from sealed.

Rather disconcertingly, however, the professor added:

We have no idea about what is the cause of the condition…

We cannot remedy it…

Knowledge of male fertility problems remains patchy on the whole; but this is not to say we have no clue as to what’s going on – far from it. Whilst some in the field may still be firing blanks, others feel that they have already reached satisfactory conclusions.

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There exists a significant, growing body of robust research we may look to for signs of credible causes. In truth, one doesn’t have to be a reproductive health expert to fathom what may (at least partially) underlie the recent decline in male fertility.

Whatever select specialists may be willing to venture, on the record, about what they know, or how convincing they find the existing evidence, the picture that emerges from the literature is pretty clear. Contrary to the dismissive pronouncements of certain on-message establishment figures (who shan’t be named), in reality we are unlikely to have to wait another generation to be in a position to pinpoint some of the main culprits. Better still, the prime suspect is close at hand, and we have it in our grasp to do something about it.

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As it happens, the elephant in the room is actually in your pocket…

That’s right guys, we’ve more than likely done this to ourselves. Irradiating intimate areas with radiofrequency (or ‘wireless’) transmission devices – like mobile phones, tablets, and laptops – has been repeatedly shown to be bad news for delicate reproductive cells and anatomy. Turns out microwaving the family jewels may be harmful. Who’d have known?

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According to Dr. Joel Moskowitz of the University of California, Berkeley, “we have considerable evidence that cell phone radiation damages sperm and is associated with male infertility”. The Director of the Center for Family and Community Health at Berkley’s School of Public Health has further cautioned in recent months that it appears female fertility may also be adversely affected.

The link is consistent with the observation that Western men are the only major demographic group known to have experienced such a stark transformation. Of course, this could well be a function of other shifting cultural phenomena but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to discount the possibility that early adoption of wireless consumer tech has played a role. Any which way you look at it, growing male infertility in the West is plausibly the very definition of a ‘modern disease’.

Besides recent replicated study findings linking radiofrequency radiation (RFR) exposure to impaired male fertility, scientists have known for decades that even relatively low power intensity microwaves can disturb finely tuned, sensitive biological systems in sometimes subtle and insidious ways.

This is not, however, to say that RFR represents the primary determinant of the emergent fertility crisis, or indeed that biomedical science is close to having the precise role of any lifestyle-linked risk factor all sewn up.

Clearly, there remains plenty of further investigative research to be done in this most sensitive of areas, and a number of other contemporary thematics must also be borne in mind. These include a role for: stress, diet, body weight, temperature of the testes, and both voluntary behavioural and involuntary environmental exposure to endocrine disruptors (e.g. pharmaceuticals, drugs, alcohol, and other chemical pollutants).

 “If we act now … then countless couples may be spared the ordeal of having to pursue invasive and by no means guaranteed … reproductive treatments in the future.”

For many, the jury’s still out on the effects of RFR, but few by now can deny the rationale for a precautionary approach, in view of the emerging evidence. If we act now, both as individuals and as a society, then countless couples may be spared the ordeal of having to pursue invasive, by no means guaranteed, and increasingly restricted assisted reproductive treatments in the future.

All that’s required is that we’re willing to accept the mother of all inconvenient truths: that the gizmos and gadgets we’re all glued to may not just prove a barrier to truly living life in the present but also get in the way of life (rather less figuratively) going forward.

Scientists Discover Frightening Amount Of Plastic Fibers In Drinking Water Environment

(True Activist) Researchers all over the world are discovering micro plastic particles in drinking water. Studies from a dozen countries reported plastic fibers in 83% of tap water samples. The United States had the highest number of contaminated samples, with 94% showing the presence of plastic particles.

“Microplastics have been shown to absorb toxic chemicals linked to cancer and other illnesses, and then release them when consumed by fish and mammals,” said Orb Media. Plastic is beyond ubiquitous, and furthermore, it can never biodegrade, it can only be broken down into smaller and smaller pieces.

How plastic gets into the air, water and food is frightening and unavoidable. Car tires release plastic particles during abrasion, synthetic fabrics shed thousands of particles in the washer and dryer, among countless other sources.

These plastics can attract bacteria and become carriers of diseases. According to Dr. Anne Marie Mahon at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, “Some studies have shown there are more harmful pathogens on micro plastics downstream of wastewater treatment plants.”

Water treatment systems cannot filter out all plastic fibers because they are so small.

These nanoparticles of plastic have been shown to travel through the walls of the intestine, ending up in the lymph nodes, lungs, and other organs. Plastic was also found in samples of commercially bottled water in the United States, as well as bottled beer in Germany.

“We are increasingly smothering ecosystems in plastic and I am very worried that there may be all kinds of unintended, adverse consequences that we will only find out about once it is too late,” said Prof Roland Geyer, from the University of California in Santa Barbara, reporting that 300m tonnes of plastic are produced annually and only 20% is recycled or incinerated.

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