The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 19th October 2016

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  1. More dirty doctoring;

    http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/10/18/big-pharmas-marketing-budget-bring-clean-water-world/

    Big Pharma’s Marketing Budget Could Bring Clean Water to the Entire World

    Christina Sarich, Staff Writer
    Waking Times

    About a decade ago, a New York Times article said that it would cost $10 billion annually to provide clean, safe water to everyone in the world. This number was likely arrived at without considering free and low-cost energy which could help to desalinate or filter water, or the latest sustainable technologies which pull water right out of thin air.

    According to data pulled from Pew Charitable Trusts, the pharmaceutical industry spends enough money on the face-to-face promotion of their drugs, to provide clean water to the entire planet – $15 billion, to be exact, with an extra $12 billion and change spent on additional drug marketing schemes. This comparison proves an obvious logical fallacy promoted by the World Health Organization, the United Nations and Big Pharma – that we don’t have enough resources to take care of the health of the people on this planet.

    783 million people currently live without access to clean water around the globe, according to the Water Project. The site also states that a whopping one in five deaths of children could be prevented simply by giving their families access to clean water that doesn’t contain a water-borne disease.

    Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry spent a record-breaking $5.4 billion on direct-to-consumer advertisement, according to Kantar Media. It paid to try to convince people they need a drug for all their ills, including ones they don’t even feel or know about. Americans spent $457 billion on prescription drugs in 2015 – more than any other nation in the world. Without stating the obvious – if $10 billion could provide clean water to the masses, what could $457 billion do to improve the health of every citizen on planet earth, making them feel like they were respected, cared for, and living with at least their minimal needs as described by Maslow’s hierarchy.

    These astounding figures don’t stop at direct-to-consumer drug marketing costs, though. Big Pharma also spent millions convincing doctors to write prescriptions for their brand name drugs, paying for meta-studies which amount to legalized drug pushing using prestigious scientific journals as a back-drop for altered data, settling lawsuits for injurious drug side effects, paying for FDA approval and drug trials, as lobbying for healthcare products and drugs among politicians.

    READ: Doctor Warns – 80% of Medical Studies are Advertisements for Big Pharma

    The cost to end world hunger is a bit more than what it would cost to provide everyone healthy food. With modest estimates at $30 billion per year, Big Pharma still spends more to promote their death-causing drugs, and we Americans spend many times that number stuffing those drugs down our throats.

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  4. A woman speaks out against the msm

    ‘Asma Assad: ‘It is the West dividing our children in this conflict’ ‘

    https://www.rt.com/news/363221-asma-assad-syria-children/

    “The western world is dividing Syrian children according to the political views of their parents, Asma Assad, the Syrian First Lady, said in a rare interview. She said the mainstream media only concentrated on those stories which matched their policy…

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