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Excerpts from an article written by Justin McCarthy – September 3, 2019 (483 words)  

For the unabridged article, with charts, go to: https://news.gallup.com/poll/266060/big-pharma-sinks-bottom-industry-rankings.aspx    

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The pharmaceutical industry is now the most poorly regarded industry in Americans' eyes, ranking last on a list of 25 industries that Gallup pollsters test annually. Americans are more than twice as likely to rate the pharmaceutical industry negatively (58%) as positively (27%), giving it a net-positive (ie, negative) score of -31. The restaurant industry, incidentally, is rated most positively with a +58 net positive score. Americans' Views of U.S. Business Industry Sectors, 2019  

For each of 25 different business sectors in the United States, those polled were asked to indicate whether their overall view of the industry is very positive, somewhat positive, neutral, somewhat negative or very negative.  

These data are from Gallup's annual Work and Education poll of American industries, conducted August 2019. (To interpret the results, it is important to understand that the higher the positive number, the more favorable is how that industry is viewed by Americans, and the lower the positive numbers [or the higher the negative numbers], the less favorable the industry is viewed by Americans.)  

25. Restaurant industry +58% favorable

24. Computer industry +50%

23. Grocery industry +43%

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7. TV and radio (media) industry +8%

6. The legal industry +5%

5. Oil and gas industry +3%

4. Advertising and public relations industry -1%

3. Healthcare industry -10%

2. The federal government -27%

1. The pharmaceutical industry -31%  

The pharmaceutical industry has unseated the federal government as the lowest-rated industry this year, in terms of its net-positive score; the government has been last or tied for last from 2011 through 2018. The healthcare industry's negative ratings also exceed its positive ratings by double digits, while the advertising and public relations industry's net rating is barely negative. <<SNIP>>  

A New Low for the Pharmaceutical Industry's Image   Americans' net ratings for the pharmaceutical industry have never been lower since Gallup first polled on industries in 2001. Over the past 19 years, few industries have been rated lower than the pharmaceutical industry's current -31 net rating. These include often hated entities like the federal government, oil and gas, real estate and automobile industries.   The new low in the pharmaceutical industry's U.S. image comes amid a range of criticisms of industry norms, from generating the highest drug costs in the world to spending massive amounts in lobbying politicians to the industry's role in the U.S. opioid crisis.  

Bottom Line   The pharmaceutical industry's U.S. image has fallen to a new low.   As the opioid epidemic rages on -- and as the actors involved in creating it continue to experience lawsuits, protests and public shaming -- it may be hard for the pharmaceutical industry to make a comeback just yet. The industry's rating likely will not recover until its role in the opioid epidemic is addressed, and the political pressure on the industry for high prices and massive profits subsides.   ____________________________________________________________________________   1)           

The Rockefeller Pharmaceutical Cartel, for 100 Years the Most Corrupt, Secretive and Despised Industry in America  

By the Dr Rath Health Foundation (1882 words)  

http://www.dr-rath-foundation.org/2007/05/the-history-of-the-pharma-cartel/ (2007)  

1911 May 15 The Supreme Court of the U.S. finds John Rockefeller and his Standard Oil Trust guilty of corruption, illegal business practices and racketeering. As a result of this decision, the entire Rockefeller Standard Oil Trust, the world’s largest corporation of its time, was sentenced to be dismantled. But Rockefeller was already above the Supreme Court and did not care about this decision.  

1913 In order to disperse public and political pressure on him and other robber-barons, Rockefeller uses a trick called “philanthropy”, whereby the illegal gains from his robber-practices in the oil business are used to launch the Rockefeller Foundation. This tax haven was used to strategically take over the health care sector in the US.  

The Rockefeller Foundation was the front organization for a new global business venture of Rockefeller and his accomplices. This new venture was called the pharmaceutical investment business. Donations from the Rockefeller Foundation went only to medical schools and hospitals. These institutions had become missionaries of a new breed of companies: the manufacturers of patented, synthetic drugs.  

This was also the time when the first vitamins were discovered. It soon became clear however that these natural molecules had life-saving health benefits and that they were able to prevent many chronic health conditions. The first books appeared with research (subsequently abandoned) about the health benefits of vitamins. These newly discovered molecules had only one disadvantage: they were non-patentable.  

Thus, in its first years of existence, the pharmaceutical investment business already faced a mortal threat: vitamins and other micronutrients promoted as public health programs would prohibit the development of any sizable investment business based on patented drugs. The elimination of this unwanted competition from natural micronutrients therefore became a question of life and death for the pharmaceutical business.  

1918 The Rockefeller Foundation uses the ”Spanish flu” epidemic and the media (that it already controlled by this time) – to start a witch-hunt on all forms of medicine that were not covered by its patents.  

Within the next 15 years, all medical schools in the U.S., most hospitals and the American Medical Association all essentially became pawns on the chessboard of Rockefeller’s strategy to subjugate the entire health care sector under the monopoly of his pharmaceutical investment business.  

Disguised as a “Mother Theresa”, the Rockefeller Foundation was also used to conquer foreign countries and entire continents for the pharmaceutical investment business – just as Rockefeller himself had done a few decades previously with his petrochemical investment business.  

1925 On the other side of the Atlantic, in Germany, the first chemical/pharmaceutical cartel is founded in order to compete with Rockefeller’s quest for control of the global drug market. Lead by the German multinationals Bayer, BASF and Hoechst, the I.G. Farben cartel was founded with a total number of employees surpassing 80,000. The race for global control was on.  

1929, November 29 The Rockefeller cartel (U.S.A.) and the I.G. Farben cartel (Germany) decided to divide the entire globe into interest spheres – the very same crime Rockefeller had been sentenced for 18 years earlier, when his trust had divided up the U.S. into “interest zones”.  

1932 / 33 The I.G. Farben cartel, equally insatiable, decides to no longer be bound by the 1929 constraints. They support a new German politician, who promises I.G. Farben to militarily conquer the world for them. With millions of dollars in election campaign donations, this politician seized power in Germany, turned the German democracy into a dictatorship and kept his promise to launch his war, which soon became known as WWII.  

In each and every country Hitler’s Wehrmacht invaded, the first act was to rob the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries and assign them – free of charge – to the I.G. Farben empire.  

1942 – 45 In order to cement its global leadership with patented drugs, the I.G. Farben cartel tests its patented pharmaceutical substances on concentration camp inmates in Auschwitz, Dachau and many other sites. The fees for conducting these inhumane studies were transferred directly from the bank accounts of Bayer, Hoechst and BASF to the bank accounts of the SS, who operated the concentration camps.  

1945 I.G. Farben’s plan to take control of the global oil ---and drug markets-- has failed. The U.S. and the other allied forces won WWII. Nevertheless, many U.S. and allied soldiers had lost their lives during the conflict, and the allies’ reward was small compared to the rewards of others. The corporate shares of the losers, I.G. Farben, went to the Rockefeller trust (U.S.A.) and Rothschild/J.P. Morgan (U.K.).  

1947 In the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, 24 managers from Bayer, BASF, Hoechst and other executives of the I.G. Farben cartel were tried for crimes against humanity. These crimes included: leading wars of aggression, instituting slavery and committing mass murder. In his final pleading, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Telford Taylor summarized the crimes committed by these corporate criminals with the following words: “Without I.G. Farben, the second World War would not have been possible”.  

Amazingly, the real culprits for the death of 60 Million people in World War II – the I.G. Farben executives – received the mildest verdicts. Even those executives directly responsible for the crimes in I.G. Auschwitz only received a maximum of twelve years in jail. Surprised? You shouldn’t be.  

By 1944 Nelson Rockefeller had already entered the executive branch of the U.S. government. He started off as Under-Secretary of State and ended up a few years later as Special Adviser of President Truman for Special Affairs. In other words, at critical junctures of the 20th century, the Rockefeller interests took direct charge. They decided the post war shape of the world and the distribution of its wealth.  

As such, under the influence of the U.S. State Department, the verdicts in Nuremberg against the I.G. Farben managers can easily be explained. In return for taking over the corporate shares of I.G. Farben, and thereby global control of the oil and drug business, Nelson Rockefeller made sure that the real culprits of World War II were not hanged. In fact, and as we shall see, they were needed.  

1949 The Federal Republic of Germany was founded. This was the first time in history that the constitution and society of an industrialized nation could be planned and modeled as a fortress of the pharmaceutical investment business – a transatlantic outpost of the Rockefeller interests.         Within only a few years, the I.G. Farben managers sentenced in Nuremberg were released from jail and put back into their previous positions as stakeholders of the Rockefeller interests. Fritz Ter Meer, for example, sentenced to twelve years in jail for his crimes in Auschwitz, was back as chairman of the board of Germany’s largest pharmaceutical multinational, Bayer, by 1963!  

1945 – 49 The role of the Rockefeller brothers was not limited to their taking over the global monopolies of the oil and drug businesses. They also needed to create the political framework for these businesses to thrive. Under their influence, therefore, the United Nations was founded in 1945, in San Francisco. To seize political control of the post war world, three countries – leading drug export nations – had all the say, and 200 other nations were rendered mere spectators.   Founded as organizations to allegedly serve the well-being of the people of the world, the UN’s subsidiary organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Trade Organization (WTO), soon turned out to be nothing more than the political arms of the global oil and drug interests.  

1963 On behalf of the Rockefeller interests, the government of the pharmaceutical banana republic Germany spearheaded one of the most infamous efforts ever made within the United Nations.  

Under the pretense of consumer protection, it launched a four-decade-long crusade to outlaw vitamin therapies and other natural, non-patentable health approaches in all member countries of the United Nations. The goal was to simply ban any and all competition for the multi-billion-dollar business with patented drugs. The plan was simple: copy for the entire world what had already been accomplished in America in the 1920s – a monopoly on health care for the investment business with patented drugs.   Since the marketplace for the pharmaceutical investment business depends upon the continued existence of diseases, the drugs it developed were not intended to prevent, cure or eradicate disease. Thus, the goal of the global strategy was to monopolize health for billions of people, with pills that nearly cover symptoms but hardly ever address the root cause of disease. The deprivation of billions of people from having access to life saving information about the health benefits of natural health approaches, whilst at the same time establishing a monopoly with largely ineffective and frequently toxic patented drugs, caused disease and death in genocidal proportions.  

This epidemic of unnecessary disability and death by the pharmaceutical business with disease is unparalleled in history.  

Linus Pauling and other eminent scientists deserve credit for having kept open the door of knowledge about the health benefits of vitamins and other effective natural health approaches. If it were not for them we would already be living in a health prison today, guarded by the gatekeepers of the pharmaceutical business with disease in medicine, politics and the media.  

Linus Pauling should also be credited for having identified the significance of Dr. Rath’s early research in vitamins and cardiovascular disease, and for having invited Dr. Rath to join him during his last years to continue his life’s work.  

1990 – 92 These years will go down in history as the beginning of the end of the pharmaceutical business with disease. In a series of scientific publications, in some of which Dr. Rath invited Linus Pauling to join him as co-author, Dr. Rath identified micronutrient deficiency as the primary cause of diseases. These diseases include heart attacks, high blood pressure, diabetic circulatory problems, cancer and even immune deficiency diseases, including AIDS.   Like a Sherlock Holmes of science, Dr. Rath traced the real cause of these diseases, and found that they had been deliberately nebulized or even hidden away from millions of people for one purpose only: to feed the insatiable greed of the pharmaceutical business with disease.  

2010 According to his 2010 book, “The Trillion-dollar Conspiracy: How the New World Order, Man-made Diseases, and Zombie Banks are Destroying America, author Jim Marrs writes: “On May 5, 2009 some of American’s leading billionaires met in a private Manhattan home just a week before the annual meeting of the secretive Bilderbergers in Greece. Calling themselves the “Good Club”, attendees included David Rockefeller, Jr. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey. According to John Harlow of the Sunday Times, the group agreed with Gates that human overpopulation was a priority concern and to achieve the globalists’ dream of a US population of no more than 150 million, the current population would have to be halved.” (Addendum provided by GGK)   The means by which the elite’s de-population program would be achieved was not recorded.    

For further information about the history of the pharma cartel, we recommend the following sources: Rockefeller Medicine Men, a book by Richard E. Brown and The Profit Over Life website, containing the official records from the postwar Nuremberg war crimes trial.    

Dr Gary G. Kohls lives in the USA and writes his weekly Duty to Warn column for the Reader Weekly, Duluth, Minnesota’s alternative newsweekly magazine. His columns, which have been re-published around the world, deal with a variety of justice issues, including, most recently, the dangers of copper/nickel sulfide mining in water-rich northeast Minnesota. Also commonly dealt with are the realities of corporatism, globalism, “Friendly” Fascism in America, militarism, racism, malnutrition, Big Pharma’s over-drugging, Big Vaccine’s over-vaccinating, Big Medicine’s over-screening, over-diagnosing and over-treating agendas, as well as other corporate profiteering agendas, including climate engineering, that threaten human health, the environment, democracy, civility and the sustainability of the planet. Four of the websites that archive his columns include: http://duluthreader.com/search?search_term=Duty+to+Warn&p=2; http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/gary-g-kohls; http://freepress.org/geographic-scope/national; and https://www.transcend.org/tms/search/?q=gary+kohls+articles

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