Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Fradulene...
As The Lancet points out, the Avastin fakery isn't the first episode of cancer-treatment counterfeiting this year. Back in January, FDA warned doctors about companies promoting direct-to-clinic sales of drugs, saying they could be fakes.
And the counterfeit drugs discovered could be just the tip of an iceberg, as global supply chains bring fakes out of the developing world, where they've been concentrated in the past, and into established markets.
The International Journal of Clinical Practice warns that increasing numbers of fakes are getting into legitimate supply chains, and global sales of fake meds doubled from 2005 to 2010, to $75 billion.
The Lancet is calling for stronger anti-counterfeiting laws, plus stronger regulatory oversight and enforcement. The journal also backs "a binding, international standard for criminalizing the manufacture and distribution" of fake drugs a treaty initiated by the World Health Organization.
[Tracy Staton | -Feb 28, 2012 Fierce Pharma]
Kool-Aid...
What is the Dems strategy to come back...
Do something good for the people? oppose something good for the people, or the usual?
Monday, February 27, 2017
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Failed Policy...
The policy of the previous administration was Regime Change. With that, Chaos , killings, lawlessness, refugees, destruction, and militant rushing to the war, we torned, countries.
Hope the new administration focus differently. Just a thought.
Rockabye...
The words first appeared in print in Mother Goose's Melody (London, c. 1765), possibly published by John Newbery (1713–1767), and which was reprinted in Boston in 1785.[2] Rock-a-bye as a phrase was first recorded in 1805 in Benjamin Tabart's Songs for the Nursery, (London, 1805).[2][7]
Unknown...?
Confirming what most of us deduced, Europol and Frontex, Europe's border and coast guard agency, are finally admitting that their intelligence indicates coordinated efforts to recruit asylum seekers to carry out terrorist attacks.
"German authorities were aware of around 300 recorded attempts made by jihadists to recruit refugees" as of April 2016 while Merkel continued to relentlessly push her "open-border" policies.
Moreover, Europol notes that the power vacuum in Libya has resulted in the country becoming a "springboard" for "EU foreign terrorist fighters who, on returning to Europe, plan further terrorist attacks."
Finally, the report warns that recent success in hitting numerous targets across Europe will only encourage further attacks which are likely to become more violent and sophisticated over time.
It is not unknown any more? Just a thought.
Friday, February 24, 2017
Numero Uno...
Americans' trust and confidence in the mass media "to report the news fully, accurately and fairly" has dropped to its lowest level in Gallup polling history, with 32% saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media.
Over the history of the entire trend, Americans' trust and confidence hit its highest point in 1976, at 72%, with investigative journalism regarding Vietnam and the Watergate scandal.
After staying in the low to mid-50s through the late 1990s, Americans' trust in the media has fallen slowly and steadily.
Republicans who say they have trust in the media has plummeted to 14% from 32% a year ago. This is easily the lowest confidence among Republicans in 20 years. It is also possible that Republicans think less of the media as a result of Trump's sharp criticisms of the press.
As the communication expanded greatly since the Nineties, the Trust in the Media has deteriorated drastically. It is a Negative Correlation. Just a thought.
Being...*?
Italy's Emma Morano turned 117 on Tuesday, November 29. Born in 1899, she is the oldest person in the world and one of just a handful to have lived through three centuries.
A key to her longevity, she tells the New York Times, is being single. After a troubled marriage, Morano kicked her husband out in 1938, a time when separation was rare and divorce illegal."I didn't want to be dominated by anyone," Morano tells the Times. She never remarried despite having "plenty of suitors."
Of course, there's more to Morano's staying power than her independence. She also credits her longevity to genetics and to an unconventional diet.
"Emma has always eaten very few vegetables, very little fruit," her doctor tells AFP.
Single, Diet, Exercise.... What not to like?
Single, Diet, Exercise.... What not to like?
Refugee...*?
An attack at Ohio State University was being investigated as a possible act of terrorism after a student, an 18-year-old Somali refugee, injured eleven people, first with a car and then with a butcher's knife.
The suspect "intentionally" drove over a curb, striking multiple pedestrians, before emerging with a knife and stabbing several people.
The suspect was identified as a Somali national and legal permanent resident of the US.
In September, a 20-year-old Somali-American stabbed 10 people at a St. Cloud, Minnesota, shopping mall before being shot to death by an off-duty officer.
Who are we letting in the country, giving them a legal status, then spent our taxes to chase their terrorist activities day and night? If we accept Refugee, then all the comers will claim that status.
Just a thought.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
What's Up...?
The Media is looking for anything to report on.... and so far mostly nothing of value to the American People as it is intended. The words itself such as Migrants, Immigrants, Illegal Immigrants, Refugees and Illegal, are mixed and matched together.
This one , I thought, represents any thing but value...?
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Self Inflected...
The Media bet on the wrong horse. They know it all. They wouldn't stop and admit their errors. That is what having today, Discomfort.
Monday, February 20, 2017
Le Pen...
Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said that having Syria ruled by President Bashar Al-Assad was a more “reassuring” choice for France.
“There is no viable and plausible solution other than this binary choice, which is Bashar al-Assad on one hand and the Islamic state on the other hand,” she said. “Assad is obviously today a much more reassuring solution for France.”
The French government, along with most of its allies, insists that Assad should leave office in order to bring peace to Syria. Weapons and money poured in Syria in support of various fighters which extended the misery of the Syrian people.
Her talks with Aoun included the Syrian refugee crisis and the need to join forces to combat Islamist extremists, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported. Lebanon hosts more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees, whose presence has crippled its ailing economy.
Someone Knows something about Foreign Policy in the Middle East.
Tuned...
This is the Media's image of the new administration. They lot their spot and power to some extent.
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Evacuate...?
Well, the election is over, but the score needs to be evened out. Dems, Media, and others.
Just a thought
Cayla...
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It's nice to have a friend who's a good listener, but a doll called My Friend Cayla listens a little too well, according to German regulators who say the toy is essentially a stealthy espionage device that shares what it hears and is also vulnerable to takeover by third parties.
"Cayla ist verboten in Deutschland," says Jochen Homann, the president of Germany's Federal Network Agency, announcing a ban on the doll in Germany. His agency oversees electronic privacy; Homann also cites a special obligation to protect the privacy of children, calling them the most vulnerable members of society.
The heart of the problem is that Cayla looks like an everyday doll and gives no notice that it collects and transmits everything it hears in this case, to a voice-recognition company in the U.S. whose other customers include intelligence agencies.
Nuance, the U.S. company in question, has said in response to similar criticisms that it "does not share voice data collected from or on behalf of any of our customers with any of our other customers." To ban the doll, regulators invoked a federal law against espionage devices. [NPR-2-17-17 ]
Sex Toys...*
More than 16 million new refugees sought homes around the globe in 2015.
The refugee crisis in Europe is more a matter of culture and numbers. The German and Swedish governments have failed to take seriously the cultural differences on issues like women’s rights, minority rights, family honor, and individual liberties between asylum-seekers, mainly from the Middle East and North Africa, and the European societies.
In Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve, more than 600 women were sexually assaulted – and in some cases also robbed – by large gangs of men, most of whom were illegal immigrants or asylum-seekers, 153 suspects detained.
It was revealed that similar attacks had taken place at the We Are Stockholm youth festival in the Swedish capital two years in a row, with young refugee men encircling and sexually assaulting teenage girls. Police had to escort 200 male attendees from the festival area last year.
Harassment at public bathhouses in Sweden have multiplied, In Bornheim, Germany, male asylum-seekers had to be banned from a local bathhouse because of sexual harassment.
Swedish police undertook an analysis of all harassment that has been occurring in public spaces. Their findings confirm that there is a problem with immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers acting in groups to attack local women and girls.
There is no denying that in Germany and Sweden, two of the world’s most open tolerant, and equitable societies, their women and girls now face a new terror reality in their own homes.
But is it really cultural or Imorality? Do these illegals do this to their own, back home?
But is it really cultural or Imorality? Do these illegals do this to their own, back home?
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Nothing New...?
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He was the leader of one of Egypt’s most feared militant groups which led a campaign of violence aimed at bringing down Egypt's Gov.
He fled Egypt to the U.S. in 1990. A circle of his followers were convicted in the Feb. 26, 1993, truck bombing of
Later in 1993, he was arrested, with others, of conspiring to wage a string of bombings against the
His longtime associate from Egyptian militant circles,
The two groups shared an ideology rejecting the governments of Egypt and other Arab countries as infidels that must be brought down by force. Between 1990 and 1996, they carried out a wave of attacks on Western tourists, Egyptian police and
We let them in, Protect them, providing freedom, and they continue to plot against their people and ours. What's up with that. Just a thought.
Contrast...*
He is a German impostor, moved to U.S and lived under a succession of aliases moving repeatedly from one location to another. Claiming to be an art collector, a physicist, a ship's captain, a negotiator of international debt agreements, and an English aristocrat. He was quite plausible, and at one point was hired to work in a brokerage firm.
In 1995, using the name "Clark Rockefeller," he married Sandra Boss, a high-earning McKinsey senior executive who had graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Business School, in a Quaker ceremony that had no legal status. Boss "he was charming and she believed the stories he told her at the beginning of their relationship". Boss earned all of the family income, while he had complete control of the family's finances and other aspects of her day-to-day life for 12 years.
Boss hired a private investigator, who found that "Clark" was not who he claimed to be. She changed her child's surname because he refused to provide proof of his identity.
What makes a successful woman believed his stories? Something is missing here. Just a thought.
Line-Ups...
The Trump administration says it will cut off federal funds to cities that give sanctuary to illegal immigrants. These “sanctuary cities,” and there are many, decline to enforce federal immigration law.
Miami-Dade County, Florida, became the first major metropolitan area to drop its sanctuary status.
“Shame on you!” protesters shouted at county commissioners.
The decision to back the president’s new order to detain illegal immigrants charged with a crime ignored hours of emotional pleas.
The mayor’s list of 34 recent detentions includes repeat and violent offenders, including murder, but also lesser charges.
Many businesses in Miami depend on the undocumented, like farm workers. Some have worked the fields for decades.
Follow the money I say... Just a thought.
Collected...*
Terrorists are a different type of enemy. They could be anyone, anywhere in the world. To find them, NSA has to look for bad actors swimming in a sea of innocent people. This is why NSA turned to broad surveillance of populations, both in the United States and internationally.
NSA access information collected from the servers of nine major American internet companies: Microsoft, Google, etc. as well as mass-intercepting data from the fiber-optic cables.
The surveillance program opened our eyes to how our privacy been reduced by the daily gadgets we use. NSA is putting all these information collected together, and create organized loss of privacy.
The crucial thing is what are we using this information for? Now if the government release/Use information not related to terrorism, that is a violation of privacy.
Terrorist will do any thing once they get the chance or find a weak point. It is happening around the globe. If not caught/punished immediately, the loss would be beyond privacy, but life itself.
Just a [private] thought.
Friday, February 17, 2017
Fight...?
New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis was charged with four first-degree felonies and one misdemeanor after allegedly being involved in a fight with two men last weekend.
According to a docket sheet filed, the 31-year-old is facing two counts of aggravated assault, along with charges of robbery, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and terroristic threats a misdemeanor after the incident Sunday at 2:43 a.m.
An argument ensued after one person was using his cell to vedio Revis. Police say the two men claimed they were punched and knocked out.
Witnesses told police that the two men were unconscious for about 10 minutes.
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Late...*
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Charles Manson and his fiancée, have gotten a marriage license, the source told CNN.
Several years ago, she moved from Illinois to Corcoran, a small central California city that's home to Corcoran State Prison, where the 80-year-old convicted murderer has lived for the past 25 years.
She talks to Manson almost every day by phone and visits him on most weekends.
The couple has 90 days to exercise the license without having to reapply.
A spokesman with the California Department of Corrections said, the wedding must happen on a visiting day. Manson and his fiancée will be allowed up to 10 guests from outside the prison, an officiant of their choice, and two additional guests from inside the prison, the spokesman said. No outside photography. Star and Manson can only hug each other at the beginning and end. No conjugal visits.
Isn't love beautiful, behind bars at the age of 80? What if the path differed?. Just a thought.
Much Needed...?
While Rex Tillerson is on his first overseas trip as Secretary of State, his aides laid off staff at the State Department. Much of seventh-floor staff, who work for the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and the Counselor offices, were told their services were no longer needed.
These staffers in particular are often the conduit between the secretary’s office to the country bureaus, where the regional expertise is centered. Inside the State Department, some officials fear that this is a politically-minded purge that cuts out much-needed expertise from the policy-making, rather than simply reorganizing the bureaucracy.
There are clear signals being sent that many key foreign policy portfolios will be controlled directly by the White House, rather than through the professional diplomats.
Any other approach will get better results than what we had in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Yemen.
Just a thought.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Basics...?
Germany has set up a website for migrants giving explicit advice on how to have sex and behave in relationships as part of a drive to educate its 1.1 million new arrivals in the cultural norms of their adopted country.
The website, Zanzu.de, shows in revealing cartoons the mechanics as well as the mores of sexual behavior, from how babies are made to who to call if your rights are violated.
Sad to say that German women's rights are the one violated. Just a thought.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Fuel...*
“A very small percentage of the people in this world will actually experience and live today. So many will be stuck on another day, another time that traumatized them and caused them to spiritually stutter so they miss out on this day.”
“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, and you are not your struggles. You are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.”
“People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one.
Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.” [Steve Maraboli.......]
Riches......
Once known as Brazil's richest man, Eike Batista has had the biggest drop in net worth of any other billionaire to date. It is estimated that his wealth peaked at $30 billion in 2012, but Batista claims he is now worth a negative $1 billion.
Federal Police in Rio de Janeiro seized six vehicles, computers, mobile phones, watches and roughly $32,500 in cash from the business magnate and former race car driver.
Judge de Souza had frozen almost $82.8 million of Batista's financial assets early in the suit as guaranteed payment for penalties if he was found guilty.
Batista made and lost his fortune in mining, oil and gas exploration. He was accused of market manipulation and using privileged information to make a profit of about $95 million through the sale of company stock in September 2014.
Cylvia...*
In her role as Oregon's first lady, Hayes has depicted her life story as a sort of fairy tale: Poor girl bootstraps her way to success, falls in love with a powerful man, together they save the world.
But a closer look suggests something more reminiscent of Greek tragedy. Friends, fellow environmentalists and political allies describe a woman with a desperate need for affirmation, a weather eye on the next opportunity and a giant blind spot when it comes to how others might perceive her.
She was 29 when she accepted $5,000 to marry an Ethiopian man to stay in the USA, and 30 when she and a boyfriend bought property in rural Okanogan County, Washington, hoping to set up a pot farm.
Kitzhaber told campaign staff to treat Hayes as his spouse and the presumptive first lady. Democratic activists who did not, felt the irritation of both the candidate and his companion. Hayes expected respect, she repeatedly told people within the party. She'd earned it....... Yet personal email accounts relating to state business derailed her ambition.... Just a thought.
Love Again...*
"You've got to dance like there's nobody watching
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
and live like it's heaven on earth"
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
"Just give me a reason, Just a little bet's enough"
Enjoy Pink's song.Monday, February 13, 2017
Wait...
Since 2010, 1.4 million Mexicans have been repatriated by US migration officials, and more are likely to follow. It’s unknown how many others have returned voluntarily, often taking their US-born children with them.
Part of the reason, of course, is the global economic downturn, which eliminated many of the low-wage job opportunities that Mexican immigrants might have come to the U.S.
Gimme...
The people's representatives avoid any thing to do with healthcare cost.... but go after the little people. Let us hold their feet to the fire. Just a thought.
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Scope...
Pastor Fred Morris looked out over his congregation as news ricocheted around the world that American authorities were rounding up immigrants in an enforcement surge that President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail.
For days, fear and confusion have gripped immigrant communities after word spread that federal agents were rounding up hundreds of immigrants in cities across the country. The scope of the operation remained unclear.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said the efforts were “routine” and no different than the arrests carried out under former President Barack Obama that targeted those with criminal histories or multiple immigration violations.
But this time, the Media wants to confuse the issue. Just a thought.
Bad Choice...*
A Tennessee college football player allegedly killed his cheerleader girlfriend because she broke up with him, and then professed his twisted love for her several hours after she was found dead.
Emma Walker, 16 yo, was found dead of a gunshot wound inside her home. Evidence at the scene indicated she had been shot from outside while asleep in her bedroom, according to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, who announced Gaul’s arrest.
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Burn Baby...*
Donald J. Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders harnessed working-class fury to surge to commanding victories in a New Hampshire primary that drew a huge turnout across the state.
The success by two outsider candidates dealt a remarkable rebuke to the political establishment, and all but guaranteed protracted, bruising races for each party’s presidential nomination.
Mr. Trump, the wealthy businessman whose blunt language and outsider
image have electrified many Republicans and horrified others, benefited
from an unusually large field of candidates. he ran strongest among voters
who were worried about illegal immigrants, incipient economic turmoil
and the threat of a terrorist attack in the United States.
Mr. Sanders, who has proposed an emphatically liberal
agenda to raise taxes and impose regulations on Wall Street, drew
support from a wide cross-section of voters, even edging among women,
boosted by his appeal among the young.
At his victory party, Mr. Sanders, flashing a wide, toothy grin, pointed
to the large voter turnout as evidence that only he could energize the
Democratic electorate to defeat the Republicans in November.
“Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to
Washington, from Maine to California,” Mr. Sanders said. “And that is
that the government of our great country belongs to all of the people,
and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their ‘super PACs.’ ”
Are we looking at one and the same? Just a thought. Posted 2/10/2016.
Threat...?
French President Francois Hollande says there’s “no doubt” that the attack on the Louvre Museum was of a “terrorist nature.” He said the situation around the Paris landmark museum is “totally under control” but the overall threat to France remains.
CBS Radio News correspondent Elaine Cobbe says the assailant was shot and wounded after pulling a machete on the soldiers guarding the entrance to the museum from the adjoining, underground shopping area known as Carrousel du Louvre.
Sources told CBS News the man had an Egyptian passport, he is 28 years old.
One soldier fired a total of five shots. A second individual was taken into custody following the attack, but Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said it would be up to prosecutors to determine his involvement, if there was any. Form your own opinion...
Friday, February 10, 2017
Next Gen...?
Anti-terrorism forces arrested four people in southern France, including a 16-year-old girl, and uncovered a makeshift laboratory with the explosive TATP and other ingredients for fabricating a bomb. France's top security official said the raid thwarted an "imminent attack."
The prosecutor's office said around 70 grams (2.5 ounces) of TATP were seized in the Montpellier-area home, along with a liter each of acetone, oxygenated water and sulfuric acid. TATP, which can be made from readily available materials, was used in the deadly November 2015 attacks in Paris and the March 2016 attack in Brussels carried out by Islamic State extremists.
Person in the group had tried to reach Syria in 2015 and was known to intelligence services. The group notably the girl attracted new attention with their social media postings.
The country's prime minister praised the work of anti-terror investigators.
France is still under a state of emergency after several deadly attacks in 2015 and 2016.
With all these attempts, what is the outcome of it? Terrorists didn't help themselves nor their own.
With all these attempts, what is the outcome of it? Terrorists didn't help themselves nor their own.
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