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Pfizer Hit with Largest Criminal Fine in US History

Caleb Groos
FindLaw Legal Blogs
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:47 UTC
Prison
Drug maker Pfizer, Inc. and one of its subsidiaries have agreed to pay $2.3 billion dollars to settle civil and criminal charges regarding its marketing of the drug Bextra. The criminal portion of the fine is the largest fine ever levied by the United States government for any matter. As part of the settlement, Pfizer pled guilty to felony violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act for marketing the drug with the intent to deceive and mislead the public.

Unfortunately, these records don't seem to last long -- Eli Lilly set the previous record with its illegal Viva Zyprexa campaign just last January.

Like the Zyprexa case, the criminal charges against Pfiser come from "off-label" marketing of a drug -- this time Bextra, an anti-inflammatory which Pfizer yanked from the shelves in 2005. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Pfizer marketed the drug for a variety of uses which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) specifically refused to approve due to safety concerns. See FindLaw's Common Law, for basics regarding FDA drug approval and subsequent marketing.

Comment: One of the "miraculous" COVID-19 vaccines that will "save us all from this pandemic" is made by Pfizer. A private company with dark and criminal background in aggressive marketing of its products. They are intentionally selling poisons as alleged drugs and it has been proven in court. The warp speed COVID-19 vaccine is probably a part of the same illegal marketing protocols of the company.

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The woke left are demonizing parents and want to abolish the family. It's the intellectual equivalent of a toddler's tantrum

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 09:19 UTC
Family
© Getty Images / Morsa Images
Children raised in a nuclear family are safer, healthier, happier, and more successful. So, of course, the radicals want to abolish it and raise kids in communes, because "parents are tyrants."

2020 has been a year of pandemics.

The most prominent of these is coronavirus, which has killed over a million people worldwide and wreaked havoc on the global economy.


Comment: It is not that the coronavirus killed so many people and wrought havoc on the global economy. It is the tyrannical lockdowns and restrictive measures that have done that and unfortunately will still do that in near future.


But it isn't the only problematic outbreak to ravage the globe in 2020 - the pandemic of woke idiocy continues to rage unabated.

One particularly imbecilic strain of this vicious virus is the agenda that espouses eliminating the nuclear family.

As a parent and a leftist, I find this assault on parents and nuclear families to be the height of self-serving and self-defeating intellectual masturbation.

Comment: The anti-family ideology propagated by the various psychopathic elite groups is on the rise. They desperately want to create a generation without empathy, compassion, emotions, and love. Generations that will grow without the love of a family will likely look more like themselves, the "creators of their reality" that want to play gods.

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"We're outside!" Video shows Calgary police aggressively arrest ice skater for 'violating health orders'

Jill Croteau
Global News
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 19:27 UTC
Calgary rink
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In a video widely shared on social media, Calgary police are shown telling a man to leave an outdoor rink on Thursday. When he refused, he was taken to the ground by officers.
An arrest caught on camera has left one Calgary family wondering if police went too far. Twelve-year-old Rayan Sanoubar was skateboarding at a Southwood community rink and captured parts of the encounter on video.

It started on Thursday afternoon when bylaw officers responded to reports of 40-plus people crowding the Southwood community rink and skatepark.

"A peace officer came sat in this car and got out and... told skateboarders we have to go and [we're] not allowed to be there and we all refused, and he called for backup for other police to come," Sanoubar said. Story continues below advertisement

Comment: There are numerous disturbing examples of the authorities mindlessly enforcing tyrannical lockdown restrictions :

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CEO of cybersecurity company lays out scope of cyberattack on US, suggests culprit not yet known


The Daily Wire
Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:01 UTC
FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia
© Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia
The CEO of FireEye, a cybersecurity company based out of California, suggested during an interview on Sunday that the culprit of the massive cyberattack was not yet officially known as he laid out the scope of the attack, which many experts have suggested could be among the worst in U.S. history.

FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia's interview on CBS News's "Face The Nation" comes after the company noticed that it had been hacked and, after investigating, discovered that the hackers breached the software company SolarWinds, which they used to gain access to U.S. government agencies and departments, as well as numerous private firms.

"There's a lot of ways to look at this intrusion, and first and foremost, it's different than other ones that we commonly respond to," Mandia said. "We respond to over a thousand breaches a year. And what separates this is who did it, how they did it, and what they did when they got in."

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'We support free press, but...': Conservatives mutiny after neocon Heritage Foundation says Assange is 'US enemy' unworthy of pardon


RT
Sat, 19 Dec 2020 12:58 UTC
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© REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
A supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange protests in London, Britain September 9, 2020.
Right-leaning pundits and social media users are sharpening their pitchforks after the Heritage Foundation, a conservative US think tank, insisted that Julian Assange is not a member of the press and should not receive clemency.

The Washington, DC-headquartered public policy institute on Friday expressed its displeasure over rumors that President Donald Trump is mulling a pardon for the WikiLeaks founder, who is fighting extradition to the US.

"We support a free and open press-but Assange is not a free speech hero," the think tank wrote, adding that the Australian national, who has been languishing in a UK prison since April 2019 after being arrested in London, "deserves to face the full legal consequences of his actions" and "under no circumstances" is worthy of the president's mercy.

Comment: Another pundit calling for Assange's pardon is... Sarah Palin? From Gateway Pundit:
Sarah Palin Calls for Julian Assange to Be Pardoned, 'Years Ago I Publicly Spoke Out Against Julian — and I Made a Mistake'
Cassandra Fairbanks December 19, 2020 at 11:36am

The legendary Sarah Palin has made a touching video calling for Julian Assange to be pardoned.

Palin has been an unlikely supporter of the organization, as WikiLeaks published Palin's own hacked emails during the 2008 election while she was a presidential candidate.

"Hey this is Sarah Palin up in Alaska and I am the first one to admit when I make a mistake," Palin begins in the video. "I made a mistake some years ago, not supporting Julian Assange — thinking that he was a bad guy, that he leaked material that perhaps he shouldn't — and I've learned a lot since then."


"I think Julian did the right thing, and Julian did us all a favor in America... did the world a favor... by fighting for what he believed was right — and ultimately he's been proven to be right. He deserves a pardon. He deserves all of us to understand more about what he has done in the name of real journalism, and that's getting to the bottom of issues that the public really needs to hear about and benefit from."

Palin says that "some years ago I publicly spoke out against Julian and I made a mistake."

"I know that it's coming down to the wire on whether he's going to be pardoned or not. I want more Americans to speak out on his behalf, and to understand what it is that he has done — and what has been done to him," Palin says. "He was working on the people's behalf to allow information to get to us so that we could make up our minds about different issues, about different people. He did the right thing. I support him, and I hope that more and more people, especially as it comes down to the wire, will speak up in support of pardoning Julian. God bless him."

Though Palin's emails did not contain anything scandalous, the Washington Post and other news organizations called for volunteers to help their reporters dig through them and treated the publication far differently than they did when DNC emails leaked in 2016.
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'Come get me if I'm wrong': Proud Boys leader, wanted by FBI over possible HATE CRIME, admits to burning BLM sign, denies guilt


RT
Sat, 19 Dec 2020 03:35 UTC
burning BLM flag
© Parler / Enrique Tarrio / Screenshot
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio (right of center) and others attempt to set fire to a Black Lives Matter banner during a rally in Washington, DC, December 12, 2020.
The leader of the Proud Boys has confessed to torching a Black Lives Matter banner at a Washington, DC church last weekend after the FBI opened a "hate crime" probe into the incident, but maintains he did nothing illegal.

The chairman of the controversial group, Enrique Tarrio, admitted to the stunt in a post to Parler early on Friday morning, saying that while he did burn the BLM banner during a political rally last week, "there was no hate crime committed."

"Against the wishes of my attorney I am here today to admit that I am the person responsible for the burning of this sign," Tarrio wrote, adding "I didn't do it out of hate...I did it out of love," and that the sign-burning "wasn't about race, religion or political ideology," but rather "a racist movement that has terrorized the citizens of this country."

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Attention

A political coup against Sweden's successful no-lockdown policy just as it becomes more vindicated than ever

Marko Marjanović
Anti Empire
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:45 UTC
Anders Tegnell
The reason Denmark and Norway entered into a hard lockdown in March but Sweden did not isn't because Danish and Norwegian authorities recommended that, but because they were overridden by politicians. Actually, their health authorities had proposed more modest measures. Not quite as liberal as the ones proposed in Sweden but more liberal than what the politicians ordered instead.

In Sweden, you had a similar situation in that the political government was more panicky than the health authorities, but in Sweden uniquely the politicians actually did not have the power to override the civil service. This sounds very technocratic but is actually not a recent invention but a legacy tradition.

Comment: See also: Sweden caves in to coronavirus fearmongering and begins to enforce baseless lockdown restrictions

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Merry? No, this year we need an Angry Christmas!

Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:53 UTC
family Christmas

A general view of a family delivering Christmas presents on December 19 before going into a lockdown at midnight in Cardiff, Wales
Some of my past Christmases have gone spectacularly wrong, from the festive point of view. In 1989, I spent Christmas Eve courageously hiding under my bed in a Bucharest hotel, as tracer bullets whizzed by my window, and the snowy city echoed to the sound of crazy gunfire.

Christmas Day wasn't much better and when I eventually made it home I promised my family and myself that I'd try not to let that happen again. But how can you tell?

That particular mad journey had begun with what was supposed to be a day trip to Dresden in what was still East Germany. Just as a later visit to Jerusalem somehow finished up in Mogadishu, a city I had never planned to visit and hope very much never to see again.

And in 2003 I managed to find myself on my way back from a miserable, dark and desperate Baghdad as Christmas approached, slumped in the back of a utility truck as it growled endlessly across the reddish Mars-like desert between the River Euphrates and the Jordanian border.

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Moscow refuses to lockdown Christmas, festivities to go ahead with curfews & tests as mayor says end to pandemic in sight


RT
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 13:00 UTC
moscow christmas 2020
© Sputnik / Anton Denisov
FILE PHOTO.
Although cases of coronavirus are continuing to rise in Russia, the mayor of Moscow has said there is light at the end of the tunnel, as the city prepares to celebrate a socially-distanced Christmas and New Year.

Sergey Sobyanin told Rossiya 1 news channel on Saturday that he believes "we'll fight Covid-19 for a long time to come, but the most acute period should end in a few months." He added that the most difficult choice for political leaders was not when to close things down, but when to open them back up.

"Cancelling restrictions means you risk the possibility of mass infections," he said, reiterating that it was necessary to avoid catastrophic damage to whole sectors of the economy.

Comment: Meanwhile in the UK: Ruthless UK government places a third of its population under EVEN STRICTER lockdown for Christmas

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Killing of 6th Palestinian child in 2020 was 'grave violation of international law.' But liberal Zionists want US to keep funding Israeli soldiers

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Ali Abu Aliya
© Twitter
Ali Abu Aliiah
We have tried to keep the focus here on the murder by Israeli soldiers of a 15-year-old Palestinian boy on December 4 when all Ali Abu Aliah was doing was protesting the illegal seizure of his occupied village's lands by Jewish settlers. It is a heinous crime that ought to be motivating American leaders to take action against Israeli soldiers - by refusing to continue to give Israel $4 billion a year in military aid.

Sadly the murder has gotten little attention in the United States. The New York Times has not covered the case, though the United Nations issued a statement on it three days ago calling it a "grave violation of human rights," and saying Ali Abu Aliah was the sixth Palestinians child killing by Israel this year, and Israeli soldiers act with complete impunity.

From the High Commissioner on Human Rights:
UN human rights experts today called for an impartial and independent investigation into the killing of a 15-year-old boy by Israeli security forces at a West Bank protest this month, saying they were deeply troubled by the overall lack of accountability for the killings of Palestinian children in recent years.

"The killing of Ali Ayman Abu Aliya by the Israeli Defense Forces - in circumstances where there was no threat of death or serious injury to the Israeli Security Forces - is a grave violation of international law," said the experts. "Intentional lethal force is justified only when the security personnel are facing an immediate threat of deadly force or serious harm."
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