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  • Vaccine Fraud Putting Our Children at Risk

    Drug companies creating U.S. vaccines are GUILTY of fraud. Why is it when these companies say vaccines are ‘safe and effective’ – we still believe them? Our due diligence as parents should be to question those whose lies benefit their pocketbooks by billions of dollars and listen to the parents whose warning comes from a place of research, loss and lacks financial gain. Marcella Piper-Terry summarized the vaccine manufacturers fraud and trickery in this recent post. 

    • Merck. The company that manufactures the MMR. They are being sued in federal court over falsifying the efficacy data on their mumps vaccine. 
    • The CDC whistleblower says he falsified data on their MMR/Autism study. 
    • Merck. The company that manufactures Gardasil. It is the most compensated vaccine for injury behind the flu vaccine.
    • Merck. The company who manufactured Vioxx before it was pulled off the market due to its heart attack and stroke risks, which they denied.
    • Merck. The company who also manufactures Fosamax, Januvia, and Propecia, all which faced lawsuits due to their side effects.
    • Merck. The company named in 4 lawsuits between 2007 and 2016 for all manner of questionable business practices.
    • Merck. The company who also manufactures vaccines for chickenpox, shingles, pneumonia, Hep B, Hep A, Rotavirus, and Hib.

    “As the largest single purchaser of childhood vaccines (accounting for more than 50 percent of all vaccine purchases), the United States is by far the largest financial victim of Merck’s fraud,” according to the 2010 False Claims Act complaint.

    Listen to this medical doctor’s concern over the flu vaccine

    He says: “Dr. Geier points out how ridiculous it is spend billions of dollars on a vaccine that might, at its best, save about 50 lives a year, when there are far more serious problems causing death that are more worthy of that kind of expenditure.”

    Should we be concerned? Every US Manufacturer/supplies of pediatric vaccines has pled GUILTY to fraud within the last 5 years.

    * Merck Accused of Fraud, Deceit and Negligence in US Gardasil Case

    * Read more: Merck Accused of Fast Tracking a Vaccine for Financial Gain

    PRINTABLE FRAUD FINDINGS for Each Vaccine Manufacturer
    US Vaccine Manufacturers as listed by the CDC

    MERCK: 

    “Merck has been involved in a long federal lawsuit with allegations of fraud over the mumps portion of the MMR vaccine, in a case filed back in 2010 by two whistleblowers, virologists who worked for Merck. Merck has apparently tried hard to get this case thrown out of court, and keep this news out of the media, but late in 2014 a federal judge finally ruled that the case is to move forward.” more , United States of America vs. Merck (2:10-CV-04374-CDJ) is a current case in which former virologists, now whistleblowers, allege Merck falsified data with regards to the efficacy of the MMRII vaccine. Original Court Documents: 

    Pennsylvania Eastern District Court, Case No. 2:10-cv-04374-CDJ

    District Judge C. DARNELL JONES, II, presiding

    GlaxoSmithKline 

    Dept of Justice Press Release: GlaxoSmithKline to Plead Guilty and Pay $3 Billion to Resolve Fraud Allegations and Failure to Report Safety Data : Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in U.S. History <source document>

    Sanofi

    FBI Reports:Sanofi U.S. Agrees to Pay $109 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations of Free Product Kickbacks to Physicians 

    US Senate Committee on Finance Reports: 

    *Fraud in Clinical Trial of drug

    * Sanofi Accused Of Fraud In Clinical Trial Of Drug

    *FBI reports: Two Former Pharmaceutical/Medical Technology Executives Sentenced for Their Roles in Insider Trading Scheme 

    Sanofi-Aventis US LLC is facing a consumer fraud class action lawsuit kickbacks and over billingNY Times reports:

    MEDIA REPORTS

    Wall Street Journal: Did Merck Unfairly Monopolize the Market for a Mumps Vaccine?

    “The ultimate victims here are the millions of children who, every year, are being injected with a mumps vaccine that is not providing them with an adequate level of protection,” the lawsuit filed by the virologists states. And while federal health officials have said the disease was supposed to have been eradicated by now, “the failure of Merck’s vaccine has allowed this disease to linger with significant outbreaks continuing to occur.” Meanwhile, the mumps vaccine was ringing the register at Merck, which reported that sales reached $621 million last year, when including both the MMR II vaccine – which is mumps, measles and rubella – and the ProQuad vaccine, a combination product that is also used to thwart chickenpox, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA et al. v. MERCK & CO.

    Merck Created Hit List to “Destroy,” “Neutralize” or “Discredit” Dissenting Doctors

    USAToday Drugmakers Health Fines

    How much damage is caused..4 Billion and counting

  • Two Landmark Cases: Is the Toxic Tide Turning In Favor Of Our Kid’s Health?

    Our children are exposed to high levels of pesticides and herbicides ingested and inhaled daily, which is negatively impacting the health of an entire generation. Two significant court rulings today in favor of protecting our children and the environment from toxins. Over a decade ago an analysis of federal data by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) revealed that 1 million American children age 5 and under consume unsafe levels of a class of pesticides that can harm the developing brain and nervous system. Chlorpyrifos, a chemical sprayed on food crops, is a known neurotoxin, especially for children. It is one of the most widely used pesticides in the U.S. based on the results of three federally funded observational studies; the EPA was expected to phase out all remaining uses of the pesticide due to evidence that it caused long-term learning problems and IQ loss in children.
    EPA revoked the ban in 2017. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children, within 60 days.

     “EPA has no basis to allow continued use of chlorpyrifos, and its insistence in doing so puts all children at risk,” said Melanie Benesh, an attorney for the group Environmental Working Group. “By requiring the EPA to finally ban chlorpyrifos, the Ninth Circuit is ensuring that the agency puts children’s health, strong science and the letter of the law above corporate interests.”

    The risk for toxic exposure in our children increases due to high levels of pesticides sprayed in their homes, schools and day care centers, because the EPA’s current standards are based on levels considered safe for adults.  Children’s bodies are smaller, their systems still developing. It is outrageous that the agency’s tasked to protect our children ignore their responsibility.

    This week a jury agreed that Monsanto hid cancer danger of the weed-killer for decades. Labeled as a possible carcinogenic by the World Health Organization, Glyphosate is the number one product used for weed control in homes and schools. Johnson was a groundkeeper at a San Fransisco school district. He is said to have used Monsanto’s glyphosate weed killer on school grounds almost 30 times per year. He claims that two accidents caused him to be “doused” in the company’s weed killer. During the trial, the juror was presented with previously undisclosed information about how the body absorbs glyphosate and the dangers associated with the other ingredients that make up the Roundup formulated product. The jury agreed that Monsanto hid cancer danger of the weed killer awarding Mr. Johnson $289.2 million dollars.

    Could this be a sign of the toxic tide turning?

    Jury Orders Monsanto/Bayer to pay $289.2 million to Cancer-stricken Grounds Keeper. Jury agreed on all counts that Monsanto hid cancer danger of weed-killer for decades

    The jury awarded Johnson 289.2 million dollars! 4000 other plaintiffs are waiting to sue Monsanto and 10,0000 are expected by the end of the year. Surely this decision has Bayer, who now owns Monsanto, reconsidering whether or not to continue to sell glyphosate-based products.Thousands of individuals from across the country have filed lawsuits against Monsanto alleging exposure to Roundup weed killer caused them to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In addition to the federal MDL in San Francisco, people from California, Nebraska, Delaware and Missouri have filed claims in state courts making similar allegations.

     The first trial in the Roundup cancer litigation is a state court case filed in San Francisco Superior by plaintiff DeWayne Johnson, who is represented by The Miller Firm, LLC. The Johnson case will begin on June 18, 2018. Another state court case will be heard in St. Louis, Missouri in October 2018.

    Since the beginning of the litigation against Monsanto, the law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman and the other firms leading the litigation have led the fight to declassify court documents that consist of internal Monsanto studies, company reports, emails, text messages, and other memoranda.

     These documents, known as The Monsanto Papers, include information that Monsanto does not want the public to see. They allow the public to look behind the curtain of secrecy that normally shrouds ongoing litigation and see firsthand how Monsanto has engaged in ghostwriting, scientific manipulation and collusion with regulatory agencies (including the EPA). The documents also include previously undisclosed information about how the body absorbs glyphosate and the dangers associated with the other ingredients that make up the Roundup formulated product.

    This week the jurors agreed with the plaintiff  and the scientific evidence to back their claims that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).

    Chlorpyrifos Court Decision

    HuffPost: Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids

    In a joint letter to Pruitt in June, the American Academy of Pediatrics and Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit advocacy group, said they were “deeply alarmed” by his decision.  “EPA has no basis to allow continued use of chlorpyrifos, and its insistence in doing so puts all children at risk,” they wrote. Reprinted by AOL and Yahoo! News.

    Washington Examiner: Federal appeals court orders EPA to ban pesticide

    “Today’s court decision is huge victory for public health, especially that of children,” said Melanie Benesh, an attorney for the group Environmental Working Group. “By requiring the EPA to finally ban chlorpyrifos, the Ninth Circuit is ensuring that the agency puts children’s health, strong science and the letter of the law above corporate interests.” 

    Learn more about the 1998 report, Overexposed: Organophosphate Insecticides in Children’s Food, is in response to the Food Quality Protection Act, passed unanimously by Congress in 1996, that requires all pesticides to be safe for infants and children.  

  • Monsanto Faces Man Dying of Cancer in Roundup Trial

    Doctors didn’t think he’d live long enough to testify in court that exposure to Monsanto Co.’s Roundup weed killer caused his deadly cancer. But the 46-year-old is now first in line to go to trial against the agrochemical giant among thousands of people across the U.S. who blame its herbicide for their disease.As groundskeeper for the school district in Benicia, California, about 40 miles east of San Francisco, Johnson mixed and sprayed hundreds of gallons of Roundup. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2014, and in July, after chemotherapy and other treatment, his oncologist gave him six months to live.  A pretrial ruling allows Johnson’s lawyers to try to use internal Monsanto correspondence to show that the company has long been aware of the risk its herbicides are carcinogenic.

    Monsanto knows “the cat is out of the bag” and there is no more hiding or pretending. We know that the majority of researches that claim safety of glyphosate are performed by scientists who are funded by Monsanto. Monsanto and its financial beneficiaries should be ashamed aware of the toxicity of their product they are poisoning our nation with glyphosate its residue found in soy, sugar, corn or wheat, orange juice and more. 

     

    #ELIMINATEGLYPHOSATE AROUND SCHOOLS AND IN PARKS – sign the HFI PETITION

    Glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, was first approved for use in Monsanto’s weed killer in 1974. According to rodale.com, in U.S. alone, homeowners and farmers use about 100 million pounds of Roundup herbicide every year. At the same time, weeds are becoming more resistant to Roundup, so farmers are using more and more chemicals to deal with super-pests and super-weeds. From 1994 to 2005, the use of glyphosate has increased by 1,500 percent. As it grew to become the world’s most popular and widely used herbicide, the question of whether it causes cancer has been hotly debated by environmentalists, regulators, researchers and lawyers — even as Monsanto has insisted for decades that it’s perfectly safe. Now, a jury will decide in a case set to start this week in San Francisco state court.

    The case is Dewayne Johnson v. Monsanto Co., CGC-16-550128, California Superior Court (San Francisco).

    Biologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber comments on the links between cancer and pesticides in the President’s Cancer Panel report:

    We have sprayed pesticides … throughout our shared environment. They are now in amniotic fluid. They’re in our blood. They’re in our urine. They’re in our exhaled breath. They are in mothers’ milk … What is the burden of cancer that we can attribute to this use of poisons in our agricultural system? … We won’t really know the answer until we do the other experiment — which is to take the poisons out of our food chain, embrace a different kind of agriculture, and see what happens.

    Steingraber’s book (and documentary film) Living Downstream tells the story of her own “journey” as a cancer survivor, and documents her scientific investigations that expose a simple, tragic truth: As a society, we are so busy treating cancer and searching diligently for a cure that we’re failing to tackle its causes.

    Read more at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-18/monsanto-squares-off-with-man-dying-of-cancer-in-roundup-trial

    MORE ABOUT GLYPHOSATE:

    RoundUp Toxicity it isn’t just the carcinogenic glyphosate

    Farmers Sue Monsanto 2016