Rip-Off

 In independent investigation of how much profit drug companies really make, we obtained the actual price of active ingredients used in some of the most popular drugs sold in America. The chart below speaks for itself.

 

BRAND NAME OF DRUG	CONSUMER PRICE: 100 TABS	COST OF GENERAL ACTIVE INGREDIENTS	PERCENT MARKUP
Celebrex	100 mg $130.27	$0.60	21,712%
Claritin	10 mg $215.17	$0.71	30,306%
Keflex	250 mg $157.39	$1.88	8,372%
Lipitor	20 mg $272.37	$5.80	4,696%
Norvasc	10 mg $188.29	$0.14	134,493%
Paxil	20 mg $220.27	$7.60	2,898%
Prevacid	30 mg $44.77	$1.01	34,136%
Prilosec	20 mg $360.97	$0.52	69,417%
Prozac	20 mg $247.47	$0.11	224,973%
Tenormin	50 mg $104.47	$0.13	80,362%
Vasotec	10 mg $102.37	$0.20	51,185%
Xanax	1mg $136.79	$0.024	569,958%
Zestril	20 mg $89.89	$3.20	2,809%
Zithromax	600mg $1,482.19	$18.78	7,892%
Zocor	40mg $350.27	$8.63	4,059%
Zoloft	50mg $206.87	$1.75	11,821%

Drug Profits
Between the huge markup charged to consumers and the generous corporate welfare enjoyed by the drug companies, things are going quite well. 

DRUG MAKER	LEADING PRODUCTS	ANNUAL PROFIT 12/02	MARKET CAP (10/27/03)	SYMBOL
Pfizer	Celebrex, Lipitor, Zoloft	9.1 Billion	245 Billion	PFE
Merck	Zocor	7.1 Billion	100 Billion	MRK
AstraZeneca	Prilosec	84 Million	1 Billion	AZN
Glaxo	Paxil	132 Million	662 Million	GSK

  
   Summery-The numbers may vary -reported by [Frank M. Painter,   Frankp@chiro.org]   

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[Many Somali Migrants 2016 ]

A recent Minnesota college student and Somali immigrant – was identified as the man who randomly stabbed nine people in a St. Cloud mall while referring to Allah.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune said Adan’s father had identified him as the suspect and added that authorities executed search warrants at an apartment where Adan lived with his father. However, authorities have yet to formally identify the mall suspect.  

In July three Somali immigrants were convicted in Minnesota of plotting to join ISIS, says MPRNews. Yahoo News says nine Minnesota Somalis overall have been accused of plotting to join the Islamic State since 2014;

Donald Trump previously provoked criticism on the campaign trail when he quoted a Washington Times article that had called Minnesota a rich recruiting pool for ISIS due to its levels of Somali immigration, with some 30,000 Somali refugees.

Minnesota’s Somali community has condemned the attack. [after the attack]

CBS local says local charity groups and strong benefits helped attract Somali immigrants to Minnesota. Minnesota started seeing waves of Somali refugees in the early 1990s.

Is it a time to look at Immigration-Naturalization Problems and take a different approach?
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The commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team at Fort Bliss Col. Earl B. Higgins Jr has been relieved of his duties after an investigation.

The investigation concluded that Higgins had committed “multiple violations of the Army’s sexual harassment and Equal opportunity regulations and policies, Created a hostile work environment and Failed to treat subordinates with dignity and respect,” the statement read.

Based on the investigation done by an officer senior to Higgins, relieved Higgins of his duties for “lack of trust and confidence in Higgins’ ability to command.”

Our soldiers deserve the best leadership the Army can provide.  Based on the findings of the investigation, and in the best interests of the soldiers of the Ready First Brigade, A decision is made to relieve Col. Higgins of duty.”

Lt. Col. Stephen Phillips, commander of the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, will serve as acting brigade commander until the Army appoints a replacement for Higgins.

Higgins took command of the brigade in July 2015.

Jungle..

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced this month plans to dismantle The Jungle [tent city] and disperse migrants to other sites throughout France. Part of the vast camp was closed earlier this year.

France and the U.K. are building a 13-foot-high wall to block the camp's 9,000 migrants from reaching a nearby highway or ferry port to hitch a ride across the English Channel. Britain is paying nearly $3 million for the half-mile-long concrete wall, which will start going up this month.

Many Migrants resigned to seeking French refugee status, but think brighter  future would be  living and working in the U.K. 

Calais Mayor Natacha Bouchard said residents are pleased to see the tent city go, because it has left the town in “complete pain." But some locals said its closure would simply send the migrants to someone else’s backyard.

Boulogne and her husband moved from the Paris suburbs to retire in this quiet northern French city. Now they lock their doors at night for safety, claiming migrants have stolen everything in their backyard.

The migrants also caused disruptions at night, when groups of them go to the nearby highway to try boarding trucks heading to England.

"We cut trees and throw them onto the road," then set them on fire to slow down traffic, explained a 16 y.o., an Afghan who is one of an estimated 670 unaccompanied minors in the camp.
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Mama...

Lilian Hunt Trasher was born in Jacksonville, Florida and was raised Roman Catholic in Brunswick, Georgia. According to one account, her Quaker family had moved to the South after the Civil War.

While still in her late teens, Trasher attended Bible college for one term, and then worked at Faith Orphanage in North Carolina in 1908-1910, after she failed to get a reporting job that she wanted. 

Deciding that her mission lay in Africa, she broke off the engagement ten days before the wedding after her prospective husband failed to share her call.

Trasher also taught at a second Bible school in South Carolina, pastored a Pentecostal church, and briefly travelled with an evangelist, but later returned to work again at the orphanage.

In 1910 after meeting Pastor Brelsford (or Perlsford) of Assiout, Egypt at a missionary conference, Trasher decided to defy her family's wishes and leave for that country.^[3] Inspired as well by opening a bible to Acts 7:34, which referred to Egypt, Lilian and her sister Jennie sailed to Africa with less than 100 dollars in their pockets.

By the time she died in 1961, the Lillian Trasher Orphanage had grown to some 1200 children. Today, the institution is entirely the responsibility of the Assemblies of God of Egypt.

"Mama" Lillian lies buried on her orphanage's cemetery. 

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Give the man a chance. Let him help Egypt become the balancing power in the middle East. Look around... Syria, Iraq, Libya, and give the man the respect he command.  Welcome Pres. El Sisi.

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Federal Court Judge Robin Camp was a provincial court judge in a case involving a 19-year-old woman who said she was raped over a sink during a house party.

Camp asked the victim "why didn't you just sink your bottom down into the basin so he couldn't penetrate you" and "why couldn't you just keep your knees together?" He suggested if she moved her pelvis, she could have avoided him.

He also said, "wom[e]n want to have sex, particularly if they're drunk" and “sex and pain sometimes go together [...] that’s not necessarily a bad thing.”

Camp has since apologized and said he didn't receive training on sex assault cases prior to the case, CNN reports.

The Canadian Judicial Council will decide if Camp will be dismissed over the comments. The story as reported is very limited and some details are deliberately not reported.

Just a thought.