It’s life and death, it is the same thing! Our priorities are completely backwards as a society. We go on yet another aimless war for oil in Libya, we bail out corrupt, vampiric corporations, yet we can’t dedicate our resources to fighting disease.

Poor people are the ones most likely affected by disease and nobody gives a damn about them – there won’t be any multi-trillion dollar bailouts for them.

May God forgive us.

You’re right. This country’s policies are maddening. The “little people” don’t matter to the elites. We see how there’s always money found for another war and bailouts of the big banks who still don’t have to reveal the toxic debt they hold. The toxic debt held has been estimated by some economists at 600 trillion dollars. Much of the money printing is used to keep the big banks afloat. No big bankers have gone to prison. This country is upside down now and nothing what it purports to be. Our elected representatives don’t answer to the people, only to their corporate overlords who fund their re-election campaigns in exchange for favors that end up degrading the middle class in terms of their purchasing power, well being and freedom. We’re headed for the abyss while the elites amass more wealth, power and control. The war in Libya will spread throughout the Middle East and we’ll go into Iran eventually — all at tremendous expense and paid for with fiat currency “printed” by the hundreds of billions. In the end, fiat currencies — including the world’s reserve currency, the US Dollar — will crash (due to dilution) and there will be a global government, otherwise known as the New World Order that George Herbert Walker Bush has spoken openly about and encouraged. I believe that much of the violence in the ME is being intentionally fomented to drive up the price of oil to the point that the economies of many nations will collapse. This will be blamed on the cost of oil, not the big banks which took our world’s economy down three years ago. Oil companies in the US will make a fortune off the oil we already have, but have capped off years ago, leading our citizenry to falsely believe we need to import oil from the ME. The globalists and US oil companies will make immense profits from $200 oil and gasoline purchased for $8 a gallon. You can believe I’m wrong or crazy, but remember what I’ve written. It will come true because it’s been planned for decades and recently put into motion. I believe our nation is not really our nation when the Constitution is violated with impunity by our leaders who couldn’t care less what we want or need. If we consider the actions of our last two Presidents, we should already know this. As for the major pharmaceutical companies, they’ll do well. They nearly always make handsome profits, despite the many lawsuits brought against them. They are lawyered-up, much like the banks, who make huge profits and pay relatively small penalties when convicted — oftentimes, without even having to admit guilt. We won’t see Pfizer or JP Morgan Chase going out of business, but hundreds of thousands of small businesses — the employment engine of the US — have gone belly up with no rescue from the government. No bailouts for them despite the dire consequences for the “little people”. Please remember what I’ve written about the spread of the war to Iran, $200 oil, oil being blamed for our economic collapse and the establishment of a one-world government. It’s not a haphazard chain of events — it’s unfortunately a plan that has been decades in the making.

Whether planned or by coincidence doesn’t really matter. Ultimately it will come down to how the majority of the citizenry perceive it. Truth, justice and the American way are no longer recognizable to me. I suppose it is that way for most of us now. It’s chaotic. Without a common goal we will have chaos, won’t we? Is it a divide and conquer strategy, or a diversity of opinion about what government is.
The rule book is the Constitution. Without a rule book, no one can play the game right. It’s like playing Monopoly with someone who makes up the rules as they go. Can’t do it. People get angry frustrated and lose interest in the game. We need to enforce the rules or there will be no confidence and people will pursue other means to get what they want. Everyone knows it’s stupid to subsidize poverty but we can’t seem to stop. Everyone knows it’s stupid to encourage illegal immigration, but we can’t stop. Everyone knows it’s stupid to have public employee unions who support one party, but we can’t stop. It will only stop when the money is gone, and the merry go round quits spinning. We are getting there. From that perspective, I guess hitting the bottom is not a bad thing. It’s certainly something we can see coming and prepare for, isn’t it?

Yea, and while your at it, ask him to forgive us for aborting 40 million babies!

It’s 50 Million Babies that have been aborted in the USA. Babies who may have been the scientists to cure AIDS, CANCER and these Super Bugs too.
Agreed – May God Forgive Us.

Yes, may HE forgive all of us for allowing such an evil to exist.

Name the nations we have destroyed, Asshat.

United States of America is the first one that comes to mind.

Great point! In fact, there are several companies in Middle East/Arab countries that make & develop pharmaceuticals -including new antibiotics. However, none are sold or marketed here as the US & European companies have long-sought policies designed to protect their turf.

The Chinese will come up with a cure tainted with lead and produced by child labor and we will borrow the money from them to buy it. This can work!

Democrats and liberals in particular are to blame, though I also remember McCain making an idiototic statement that pharmaceutical companies are the bad guys as well.

Well put Doc. However, no one will listen, because we all know that the TV tells us that Drug companies are right behind insurance companies on the societal evil scale. With all private business following in a close third. It’s those evil rich guys trying to kill people again. If only we had central planners to take care of all our needs, the world would be utopian bliss.

Watching this country slowly strangle and smother itself to death with reams of regulations, red tape, and enforcement may be more painful than a brief and fatal disease. One of us has to go! I had always supposed it would be me first…now I’m not so sure. HAHAHAHAHA

Exactly doctor fred. Like I said below, people don’t even fathom how difficult it is to make a chemical that acts the way you want it to in the body, and doesn’t act the way you don’t want it to.

They think people in white coats just get together in a lab, mix some colored liquids, and there it is. It is a painstaking process requiring highly educated individuals for a very long time. And those individuals do want to get paid. You have to pay for the lab. You have to pay for the chemicals. You have to pay for people to come and willingly allow themselves to be tested on, and you have to pay for any medical expenses they may accrue.

Building a new drug costs anywhere from 800 million to 2 billion dollars. And that’s given that the drug is based on some drug before it. What we need now is a brand new class of antibiotics that we have not seen before, that germs will not be resistant to. To all those not in the industry, at least try to fathom how difficult that is, how expensive it is, and why there aren’t any.

Everyone is harassing the pharmaceutical companies for charging too much for drugs. That’s because they got to make 800 million to 2 billion off of them just to break even. They have to, otherwise they go out of business, and then you’ll have no one making anything.

Make mine some Martial Tucker Band tunes. It’s a thang.

75% of antibiotics are used on livestock in the US. Stop buying meats from the stupid food system, get local instead for a starter.

@Ramon – Actually, that’s where almost all of our medicines come from – some plant or animal extract. And all our medicines are half poisons – toxic to the bugs, but not quite potent enough to kill us.

Don and Ramon your rats are safe too!

Well, Ramon, it sure is easy to blame the pharmaceutical companies for ‘ignoring this.’ Perhaps you think they’re a charity or something. Hell, what are you doing about it, other than blaming everyone else? And then if they come up with some sort of cure, you’ll be seeing lawyer advertising to sue them when someone has a bad reaction. Hell, if i were a pharmaceutical company, I wouldn’t work on it either.

Alan – well stated my fellow patriot.

So here’s the gist of what will be done about this: if somebody can write a good grant proposal they will get government money to research this particular strain of whatever type of bacteria (thank you article for not giving any kind of name to it) and there is a high probability that they will find various ways to at least slow it down.

If this becomes a serious issue affecting many people then commercial money will be thrown at finding treatments.

As for antibiotics finding an effective cure that doesn’t harm the patient is looking less and less likely. All those antibiotics we used for so long only worked because bacteria had not had to deal with them on such a large scale for several billion years. It’s a pandora’s box situation where we’ve gone and set up all these monstrosities that we can’t just put away- and they’re only getting worse as we try to “cure” all the bacterial problems we have.

Right now biochemistry takes an awfully long time and a lot of money to really work out what’s going on. Maybe computers and programming techniques a few decades from now will be able to just spit out the diagram for an easy to make molecule that will be the Achilles heal to whatever strain of bacteria we happen to come across but we are a long way away from being able to do that.

Probably another bio-weapons test.

Ramon, I’m not sure you know how the pharmaceutical industry works, so I’m going to try to explain it. I’m not belittling you, I really do feel the better educated we are, the more constructive we will be, so I always offer knowledge when I see someone not having all the facts.

Just because something is “natural” and comes from a tree doesn’t mean it’s not poisonous. Especially when you consider that most of our poisons are based on things we have found on trees.

Likewise, just because something is synthetic doesn’t mean that it is poisonous. For example, the common pain killer, acetylsalycilic acid, aka Aspirin, is a natural compound. But it’s just easier and more feasible to make it in a lab (you don’t have to farm for it, which makes everyone happy since we don’t kill plants). Acerylsalycilic acid from a plant is exactly the same as the one made in a lab. Sometimes, we can even improve upon it. Natural compounds weren’t always made to do what we want them to…they may have painkilling properties but they may also cause liver cancer, for example. Well, thanks to organic chemists, we can get rid of the part that causes liver cancer, and only keep the part that we want. But one thing is for sure…every drug is have is based on an already existing natural compound because it is incredibly hard (almost impossible) to create a drug from scratch.

Keep that in mind the next time you employ the natural is better bias, because, after all, it is a bias.

As for why the above will be ignored…many reasons. If the study is flawed, it will be ignored. If it is impossible to make a drug that can be delivered into human beings’ bodies, it will be ignored. If it turns out the drug actually causes those mice to then develop tumors 5 years later, it will be ignored. It’s not that simple, buddy. You have no idea how much bogus research gets published each day. Just because someone says they discovered something, doesn’t mean it’s true. If there was something to do that, you bet that pharmaceutical companies will be ALL on that, racing each other to develop the drug first, get 20 years ownership on it. Drugs like that, called last-resort drugs, are one of the few remaining ways for pharmaceutical companies to actually make a PROFIT, instead of just aiming to break even. Simply because they are so necessary and they offer a 20 year patent meaning no competition (whereas Aspirin can be made by many companies today).

There is absolutely zero, and I mean zero, reason to sweep this under the rug. It is a very small possibility that a whole industry will collectively act against reason.

KP probably stands for Klebsiella pneumoniae

To Stevie D

CRKP is about as helpful of identying the bacterium as Stevie D is identifying you. A little less assuming and being a little more demanding would help get news people stop being lazy and write better articles. If the writer couldn’t take the time to investigate the complete name why would you think he did a good job on the rest of the article?

The Germans and the British seem to do just fine with drug R&D – and we as taxpayers pay for most of the drug developemt

Obama has taken the incentive away from drug companies to develop new drugs. When the europeans went national health care their drug companies quit producing new drugs and that is where we are headed. When you tax anything you get less of it.

marsinars is correct. Obama IS responsible.

When there is no profit in drugs there will be no drugs. Simple jus like you.

Are they ‘gouging the public’ the same way you’re ‘gouging your boss?’ So if it costs them (or their investors) hundreds of millions to develop a drug and they price the drug so as to recover their investment, as well as the cost of other research which failed, then that’s ‘gouging the public?’ I’ll tell you whose ‘gouging the public.’ UNION WORKERS and GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. They produce NOTHING and earn ridiculous salaries and benefits compared to the taxpayers who are ‘gouged’ by the poiticians.

Another nice post, Alan. You beat me to the punch again.

You liberals will never get it, will you?

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Yo Kippy!
I play in a band called Creamy Noxzema and The Hot Squirts. We’ve been getting it together.
Ain’t nothing suggestive about our band’s name; We are all very tiny humans.
Hopefully if times get tough people won’t decide we are sort of like veal like they did the Bantu flavor of very tiny humans (Pygmy) at some places on the African continent.
Got a 429 Cobra-Jet in the Clown Car in case we ever get booked and insanely happy or unsanely hungry fans (or gourmets) rush the stage.
Sorry to hear everybody is going to die off before we even release a DVD with all sorts of people in it we are planning to steal from ICP, TwiZtiD, BoonDox, MCR, and The Thrill Kill Kult, The Mission Creeps, The Bangkok Five, Kid Rock, and we hope to attract a big girl singer so we don’t have to AUTOTUNE a very tiny human voice so it sounds like the large economy size human is singing…oh we’re fine as Ompaloompi, or Santa’s obviously drugged Elfin slave labor who sing happily while freezing to death polishing the bells on the sleigh. And Rudolph’s Red Nose?
One word Dude or Dudette, Chernoble (heck yeah it’s spelled wrong, I ain’t no Russian).
Ok, so if the mass die off could be postponed we’d take it as a personal favor.
BTW, this guy says the Dollar ain’t good for anything anymore, and he wants to sell me some gold….for dollars.
If the band don’t work out it’s back to wrestling or acting like an evil carny barker/pickpocket/fugitive from justice who always throws the cops off by shopping in the children’s department for our cloths, except the ones made just for us, and who wants to wear a set of elf ears or a garden gnome hat all the time. Hey BIG PHARMA! You got a little something for me? A tall pill? Not Viagra smart guy, and that only makes me seem a few inches taller when I’m reclined in my bed…depending on where I put my Elf hat and ears. A word of caution, never hug a very tiny human who is standing fully clothed in bed unless you want a new best friend.
Just sayin….

Good one.

Three people are sitting at a table, a CEO, a tea party person and a union member.
There are 12 cookies. The CEO takes 11 cookies and says to the tea party person “Watch out, the union guy is trying to steal your cookie…

TEA Party: ” Well, to whom do these cookies belong, and when did you start associating with extortionists?”

CEO:”They belong to the company, and as CEO, I get to decide who gets what. As for extortionists, the federal government has legislated that I must bargain with them ‘in good faith’. Thankfully, the government hasn’t begun stealing cookies yet.”

Union member:” Who owns them is irrelevant. It’s unfair that he has cookies and I have none. He’s trying to destroy working families. ”

TEA Party member; “Why don’t you union members create your own cookie factory, and then you get to decide who gets what you produce?”

Union member: “Are you kidding? I have a right to HIS cookies, I have a family too. He knew when he began to produce cookies that I would have a right to my fair share.”

TEA Party to CEO: “Would you like some tea with your cookies?”

Union member: “You have tea? AHA. Another person holding out from working families. Give me my fair share of your tea! I’m a working family. What else do you have for me that’s my right?”

TEA Party to union: “Perhaps you’d like some cheese with your whine?”

What?

Yes… Why would those Evil Pharmaceutical Companies want to develop an effective method of eliminating a new strain of deadly drug resistant bacteria? Oh wait, could it be that if the customer is dead then the losses of future revenue would far outweigh the investment costs. Simply put: when people live longer they consume more healthcare/prescription drugs over their life, especially in their geriatric years. The compounded effect of the previous statement in regards to our entire society ends up yielding 100-1000′s of times the potential future profit by partaking in the endeavor. By the company acting in the best interest of their shareholder’s, they employee 1000’s of people and save lives at the same time.

Too often the ignorant demonize any profitable company as “Greedy”, as if success is something that society should shun. So in the end the average person probably lives longer, has a better quality of life, and their income is indirectly better higher because of these pharmaceutical companies’ efforts. While I do agree that there is corruption, greed, and deception that occurs in the prescription drug industry; you have to recognize it occurs in all industries as well as all forms of government.

So Bif; while you choose to vilify companies and portray yourself as the victim of a giant conspiracy, you fail to realize that you have a choice. Don’t buy the products of these “Evil” companies. That way you are hitting these “Greedy” companies in the pocket book while refusing to become a pill popping slave. That’s what you want right? A tough guy keyboard ninja like you doesn’t need that hocus-pocus modern biochemistry anyways. No vaccines, OTC meds, pain killers, prescriptions of any sort, or anything else you would find at a drug store.

I bet you that you will not back up your hateful words by boycotting and I also bet that you are too weak to admit that just maybe you didn’t think before you typed your pre-programmed emotional comment. Thinking is a good thing Bif. Objective analysis is something we should all try to strive for, emotional responses are dangerous. I hope truly hope you heed that reminder because actions based on emotions is an extremely dangerous and often short lived endeavor.

The book Drug Story by Morris Bealle was pretty much censored by the government “FDA” for telling the true hard facts behing the pharmacuetical industry. Ignorance is bliss or Knowledge is power?

That article you linked to was very unreadable…

@mrezyka – You are apparently not aware of the advances in silver medical technologies in the past 20 years. Your information is woefully incorrect. Nano-catalytic silver hydrosols have replaced the old silver salts and ionic colloids. They are completely non-toxic and require very small amounts to do what once took enormous doses. This form of silver is currently available as supplements, but the pharmas have entered into product development agreements with the manufacturer and it is only a matter of time before these become accepted in mainstream medicine. Educate yourself: http://www.lifesilver.com/studies.htm

I’ve never seen proof one way or the other, but I use it occasionally, and haven’t been sick in the 11 years I’ve done so, and haven’t turned blue. I suspect that you
A) are simply regurgitating something you’ve read without actually having any first hand experience over an extended period. B) Work for a drug company
This is not to say that I would encourage or discourage its use, but I am beginning to wonder if it might not be one of several possible reasons why I don’t get sick when the usual colds and flu go around. I really don’t know for sure, but neither do you.

Silver hasn’t been used since the 30′s because the pharmaceuticals couldn’t make money on it. And, it was easier to grow mold than to mine silver. When the pharmas got big enough, they needed to create situations that would allow them to continuously come up with “new” and “more effective” drugs.

Silver is a natural anti-pathogen. It has been proven to kill most pathogens and certainly all bacteria. And that is KILL, not suppress. If as much research money was put into ways to disperse or apply silver to the human body, I’m sure we would not have any drug resistant bacterias floating around. The old methods of using silver salts or silver ion colloids caused the only real bad side effect to silver antibiotics which is turning your skin blue. Now with nanoscale technology, the silver can be dispersed in a non-ionic compound and won’t cause the blue skin problem. Research it. Silver WILL be the antibiotic of choice as we create more and more of these drug resistant diseases and the pharmaceuticals cannot find new drugs to combat them. Many companies are already applying nanosilver on tech products that receive lot of handling to reduce bacteria transfer.

I would much rather ingest nanosilver which is a PROVEN anti-pathogen with KNOWN side effects than to ingest some genetically modified concoction that may cause a cancer or some other UNKNOWN side effect.