Can Dr. Peter Rost Rock Any Harder??? WORD

Dr. Peter Rost, MD, Health Care Hitman, Whistle Blower, Top Health Blogger, now breaks out the tunes, dude. Rost, or the BIG PR as I like to call him, has released his first "disco" PHARMA hit. It is so cool, you dudes gotta go download. I think its like sick trance.. but hey, what does this Kitty Know? She KNOWS a KOOL KAT when she sees one.

Dance on (ABBA??) Peter!

Oh, JM, if you think I am parroting again, please don't. I only post what interests me and my readers.

Question Authority's Disco Hit: Harvey, the Moaning Sales Rep.

This is for those of you who have already enjoyed AstraZeneca's Arimidex sales training featuring "Harvey the sales rep," in my prior post, AztraZenca rep: "I'm not pouting."

I now have a SPECIAL TREAT from the AstraZeneca "Fab 7":

The "Here's Harvey" Disco Hit!

THIS IS A REMIX of the sigh that Harvey gives before his first question and his memorable comment "I'm not pouting,"

There are instant classics, such as, "I don't think you answered his question," "Uhhh," "Or whatever," "Blow it off," "Yes or no," "I'm not pouting," "I'm back," "Yadiyada," "Or whatever."

Enjoy the Harvey Remix disco hit here!

IPODS are NOT GOOD THINGS - Buy Creative ZEN Instead

This IS amazing! I have been ranting about APPLE and its slow imitation of GOOGLE LIKE stealing of our personal private citizen freedoms. Here again, if you want to use a nice little "harmless" IPOD with the newest of WWW programs, then guess what, they are databasing you, and you pay for the privilege.
This is the part that bothers me. I am cheap, and most people don't have extra cash to burn, now songs will be more costly, that sucks!

Cheers!

Tunes Plus: DRM-Free, But Invades Your Privacy

Posted by Eric Zeman, Jun 4, 2007 10:07 AM

This one hurts. Last week, Apple launched its iTunes Plus music store, selling higher quality audio tracks from EMI for $1.29 without digital rights management. Aside from the extra $0.30, there's another, higher cost that isn't mentioned. Each song purchased from iTunes and iTunes Plus is permanently tagged with the purchaser's name and email address. Users are outraged, and I don't blame them.
Before iTunes Plus was announced, it didn't really matter. All songs downloaded from the iTunes Music Store are tagged with user info. The tracks that have digital rights management, however, can't be shared, so it isn't a real issue (even if it's still a bit creepy). Since you cant' share those songs, no one else has access to your information.
The songs from iTunes Plus are also tagged. But because they are free of DRM, they can be shared...along with your name, iTunes account information and email address. That means if you choose to share a song with a friend, who in turn shares that song with another friend (and so on and so on), your full account information will be spread with the song. That's a bit unnerving.

This almost feels like a dare of some sort. Apple is asking iTunes users to take a chance with their privacy. Who's really willing to take that risk?

Apple hasn't said anything about the song tagging.

Trailer for a Should Not Miss Movie: The Union

THE UNION - This movie is well worth seeing. It really doesn't matter if you personally use or have used marijuana in the past, or, you just love someone who does, this movie will scare you to death! How the United States can call an outright WAR on users of God's own plants, the ones that serve living things (think humans) with their organic purely natural by-products and medicinal properties.

I strongly believe that PHARMA, U.S. Foreign Policy and Government agencies (CIA, FBI, etc.), BIG OIL Companies, Alcohol and Tobacco Companies (oh no... they are Pharma.. how silly of me!),and the WAR MACHINE SUPPORTING THE WAR ON DRUG USERS AND DRUG TREATMENT are responsible for PROHIBITION of MEDICINAL HERBS IN THE UNITED STATES.

I also believe if a fair vote was taken, GLOBALLY, the WORLD would decide that this virtually free medicine could help millions if not billions of people, and save the world economy. I know this sounds grandiose, but this is what I believe.. and I will stick to my story :)

I simply don't understand how the U.S. can call Marijuana a dangerous drug, equating it with Cocaine, Meth-amphetamines or Cocaine when as the documentary states - "there has not been ONE death directly attributable to Marijuana Usage. What other substance can make that claim? Nicotine Delivery Systems? PHARMA? Alcohol?

As long as the Neo-conservatives can attack personal freedoms such as the right to medicate with a natural herb, then their cronies can continue to reap BILLIONS of dollars selling other synthetic hard drugs in support of their political ambitions. Remember, W Srub Bush, was/is an alcoholic and a cocaine addict. The Regan's supported their war with cocaine. Afganistan is NOW, thanks to the U.S., one of the largest poppy growing countries in the world. Their entire economy is essentially based on opiates. South America... Stimulants.... Why not North America = Herbals....

Can any thinking person REALLY BELIEVE that W BUSH DID NOT SMOKE POT TOO? Of course he did, as did Bill, Hillary, and probably 80% of those who DO or DID work in the White House. Why don't they just tell the U.S. Citizens the REAL reason why>???? Money.. its all Money Honey...

Six Part YouTube Anti-PHARMA Series All in ONE Place - Thanks PharmaGossip

I think that this posting will piss off those who HATE re-postings, because it is SO long. However, since I have to spend hours tied to my sweat drenched computer, I might as well have some kind of satisfaction....

Here is MY kind of satisfaction. Anything that is more than 80% accurate in content AND contains vetted sources AND most importantly is ANTI-PHARMA, is word.

Here you go, six different anti-pharma youtube.com postings.

Hog Washed - Its all Pork Anyway - Thx PG

I love PG and PG. Both PHARMA GOSSIP and PHARMA GILES are simply the best for a fun, not full of text or meaty world angst whistle blowing trauma.

Since they be pimpin'... I am gonna shout of Big P-GOSSIP and Big P-GILES. Thanks for all the support and corrections and cheer!

Very Sad Day - Its Deadly to Be Whiskey the Wild Dog

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This film made me feel very sad. I am posting it, to show how even in the face of TOTAL extinction and adversity, somehow, I have TOTAL FAITH that the Pack WILL survive! Every pack needs a strong leader. It is hard to rally the health care bloggers together in a single unified voice. I think Dr. Peter Rost IS trying, and so are several of the other INCLUSIVE bloggers. However, many of the bloggers are more concerned with themselves and their image, employment and consultant perks than they are forwarding the mission of parity in health care for all global consumers.

I hope that the message at the end of the poignant film, that the "pack will survive" extends to the INCREDIBLE CURRENT CONTRIBUTIONS of the health care blogger pack. I would especially like to thank those in the U.K., because I like their humor the best... rock on PG and PG!

QAD andThe NEW Bipolar Disorder: Furious Seasons Archive of Interesting Discussion

This is great reading for anyone who is interested in the EXPANDED indications for psycho-active medications. Phillip rationally questions whether we are getting TOO FAR afield from helping people with SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS with indications for personality, distress and general non-conformity to societal expectations.

In this regard, I previously posted (see HERE) a definition of Questioning Authority Disorder or QAD (named for my HERO and ROLE MODEL - Dr. Peter Rost :)) which I submitted to Furious Seasons Blog, for consideration for the "contest" for the best "NEW" disorder. Unfortunately, life caught up with blogging, and I missed the posting where FS picked the winner. I am proud of my tongue in cheek response, so I am linking to it again. I think I definitely suffer from QAD and its sub-disorder - ECD or excessive connections disorder.

I hope that FS is not upset with me. I thought we were beginning to form a blogger to blogger relationship, and then it stopped abruptly. I was really sick, so perhaps I did something to offend. I apologize, and it was never my intention to cause an iota of additional stress in your life.

This song is for you, Phillip.

Dr. Peter Rost Blows Whistles in India and Shows Pfizer for the Mob It Is

Perhaps one day Pfizer's auditors, KPMG, will be able to tell us more about Pfizer India's shady dealings with S.V. Phene, Lele and the others. Next week Rost will give you a clue to what may have set off Pfizer's spy operation against Dr. Lele. Includes link to other Pfizer whistle-blower stories:



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This IS SO FUNNY - This is MY Kind of Kitty Fight

Some Kitties Like Spankings

Pharma Giles: An "Unfavourable Bias...?"

Pharma Giles: An "Unfavourable Bias...?"

Pharma Giles leaves us with a very heart felt editorial about his perspective on his classification as unfavorable to PHARMA, with the pack of the other ALPHA WOLVES. Notice, not ONE woman's blog.

I hope he has a great holiday.

Opposite of Ahedonia: Everything Will Be Alright - I Promise

Please stop worrying. I am beginning to hear what people who care are saying. You all, its gonna take some time. I was told I don't like anything that I USED to like. SO, because I AGREE that I don't like many things that used to amuse me, I am trying to look at the guilty pleasures that I used to enjoy and determine IF they still mean anything to me at all.

Here is the list of things that I used to enjoy, that now I really don't care for.

1. TV - I was a total tv addict most of my life. I have TIVO, WMC * 3, JOOST, ZEN VISION and many other ways to continually watch TV. I used to LOVE the O.C. (above with my message to my loved ones). I watched this video and it evoked many emotions. I did feel for those folks, I did love to watch that show. Now, I do have feelings, but I have no interest in watching that or any of "my shows" anymore. I hope this is okay. My family doesn't watch much TV, it was all me.

2. MOVIES - my family sees just about every movie. Most of my life, WE had OSCAR parties and loved seeing every single nominated movie. We used to go to 3 or 4 movies in a day!!!! Now, honestly, and if this is sick... okay... The only movie I can imagine going to see is SICKO. Because I UNCONDITIONALLY support MICHAEL MOORE.

3. MY HOME TOWN - It just does nothing for me. I try to recall its original attractions and why I loved it so much. It boils down to GREEN. I love the PCness (but not too much), the GREEN, the nature, all the big tall trees, and most of all I love my yard and my own redwood tree.

4. ARGUING - I just can't stand to argue anymore, but it seems like that is my normal discourse with most people. In my wack kat mind, when I sincerely believe that I am correct, I don't back down.

5. North American LAWS - I keep questioning our laws, our war, our invasion of countries, our prison rates, our insane drug war, and all of the rest of the BUSH reigning disaster.

I am also including some more versions of this song... well.. cause I can....

Peace, Love, and trying to remember why I liked Evening Soaps

Although this one has Tom Cruise, who I refuse to watch in any form, given his anti-psychiatry funding, I love the VAMPIRES... they rock.. I STILL love ANNE RICE in all forms... and incarnations



This show, ONE TREE HILL was another favorite of mine. I don't know why they call it NALEY when HER name was HALEY.. but I guess it is an inside joke. I watched every episode of OTH, like the OC, and Anne Rice....enjoy

SeaGull Pfizer Watches Black Kitty From Balcony - I AM SO HONORED

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BAYER - EVIL Part II - More Evidence for the Skeptical

PharmaGiles commented very thoughfully (thank you!) about the weak link in my BAYER Posting below.

Because this was one story, where I was very hesitant to write what I was feeling, and because I didn't feel I had enough HARD PROOF to back up my crazy kitty rant, I consulted with an EXPERT on the topic of BAYER and their CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

This expert, I will call Dr. EBR or (Evidence Based Rants) looked over my posting TWICE and said, that my grammer sucks... well I KNOW THAT :) My bads are what are endearing :)

Here are several other supporting materials for my contention that BAYER was directly responsible for many deaths, due to their a priori knowledge that their medication contained the HIV/AIDS virus. This company KNOWINGLY dumped a drug that cost many people their lives, and many families more torture and pain, than anyone should have to endure. Remember people, most people with hemophelia at that point were youngsters and young adults...

Please read and watch the support I provide If you still have questions, I would be SO grateful if you would comment, so I can feel justified into more research on this horrible but important topic.

Dr. EBR said to look here
and to look here
and HERE.

PharmaGossip: Describe Big Pharma in two words

PharmaGossip: Describe Big Pharma in two words

Should PHARMA Have Their Own TV Station? PHARMA Central?

It would be a JOKE to consider a PHARMA sponsored network, as anything more than another QBC or Marketing Channel. I don't believe that most consumers of PHARMA synthetics really believe that PHARMA will give them UNBIASED information about medications, nor do they believe that IN GENERAL, the PHARMA Industry is in it for anything but the bottom line.

It was very interesting, that PHARMAGOSSIP posted this, and the post that follows. The post below basically says what I was nagging about - most consumers think PHARMA IS SHADY, SKETCHY, GREEDY, BIASED, AND UNETHICAL.

This is a very serious breach of trust between patients and their medication providers.

I always say, you know the answer to your health care problem, its on the door. That is, if you go to a surgeon, then most likely you will get a surgical solution. If you go to the PCP you will get a pill and if you go to a physical therapist, you will get physical therapy.

So, if you go to a PHARMA company for information, you are going to get synthetics.

Cheers

Billy Idol Helps Me - What Set You Free? I need YOU HERE by ME!

So think about it, YOU were born on this year. This is WHERE I WAS AT mentally, when you were born. Then I became a MOM... What a concept! Rebel Yell to Mommy in 38 weeks. Peace and Love, and GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK.

Can I Change Your Mind? -Killers Help Me Thru the Hopeless Haze

This has not been a good day. Someone who meant the most to me, doesn't know who I am anymore. I think the picture is a good representation of yesterday's interactions. I am so sorry.

BAYER CAUSES THE WORST TREATMENT DISASTER in the history of the British National Health System (NHS)!

PharmaGossip: "The worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS"

“1,757 PEOPLE DIED and Many More Are Terminally Ill - Infection risk of imported blood 'known in 70s' – GUESS WHO is Responsible?

….. Following the scandal dubbed the "worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS" by Labour peer Lord Winston.”

“* 'Lost' documents emerge, public inquiry told
* Health department set to release more information

All material quoted from “Original Source and PharmaGossip”: Sarah Boseley, health editor Saturday May 26, 2007 The Guardian

"More details emerged last night of the way government advisers handled the haemophilia scandal which saw thousands of patients infected with imported blood. Yesterday the Guardian revealed that the Department of Health was warned of the HIV danger from US blood products in 1983, but its advisers on the Committee on the Safety of Medicines decided not to ban imported blood for fear the UK would not have sufficient supplies. Now, campaigners who have finally won the right to a public inquiry, say they have discovered evidence that the government also knew that there was a risk of patients contracting the potentially lethal virus hepatitis C in blood products imported from the US as early as the 1970s. Years after the government said documents relating to the safety of the UK's blood supply had been destroyed; a public inquiry conducted by Lord Archer of Sandwell has been told by the Department of Health that most have resurfaced. Among 5,000 documents being made available to the inquiry are papers relating to the dangers of hepatitis C in blood collected from paid US donors. One of the documents, summaries of which have been placed in the library of the Palace of Westminster, contains minutes of a meeting of the Medical Research Council on February 12 1979, which discussed the possible contamination of US blood products with a virus known only then as "non A, non B hepatitis" which is now identified as hepatitis C. "In agreeing that post-transfusion hepatitis was rare in the UK, concern was expressed about the continued use of commercial plasma products, many of which were produced in the US and carried a high risk of transmitting non A, non B hepatitis," it says. Haemophiliacs were at greatest risk of infection from the virus because of their need for regular blood transfusions. Carol Grayson, whose husband Peter Longstaff died in April 2005 after contracting both hepatitis C and HIV from contaminated blood products, is among those who have campaigned to get to the bottom of what the government knew and when. She says the government has never acknowledged that blood products from the US carried a higher risk of hepatitis C than those sourced from the UK. Yet blood products from the US were more dangerous, campaigners say, for several reasons - the system for paying donors and collecting blood from prisoners meant a higher risk of infections. The US also pooled huge numbers of blood donations which meant that large quantities of blood products could be infected from a few virus-carriers. Mrs. Grayson has unearthed a document suggesting the British authorities knew of the hepatitis danger as early as 1975. That year Dr J Garrott Allen, a surgeon from Stanford University in California, who had studied hepatitis in post-transfusion patients, wrote to the head of BPL, in charge of Britain's blood supply. The United States Department of Health said they were about to release 1,700 more documents to add to more than 5,000 they have already made available to the Archer inquiry. A spokeswoman said: "We are not trying to hide anything. HIV was not the problem then that we now know it is and hepatitis C didn't even have a name. It has to be seen in that context."
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BAYER COMMENTED on PHARMAGOSSIP IN RESPONSE TO ABOVE MEDIA RELEASE:

"Bayer complied with all regulations in force in the relevant countries based on the amount of scientific evidence available at that time. The decisions that the company made 20 years ago should not be judged by the same standards of scientific knowledge available now, the statement said." End quote.

I respond:

Bayer's explanation that their behavior was consistant with the scientific knowledge OF THE TIME, doesn't really hold water with reality, and social justice.

"Bayer complied with all regulations in force in the relevant countries based on the amount of scientific evidence available at that time." - 5-2007, Bayer Spokesperson.

Is this comment, also the empirical rationalization f or making the poison gas for the Nazi Concentration Camps during and preceding WWII? I guess that Nazi medical torture (experiments) would also fall under the following explanation: "Bayer complied with all regulations in force in the relevant countries based on the amount of scientific evidence available at that time." Jews as sub-humans? Yes, that was also the scientific evidence available in Nazi days.

Please see HERE for PROOF that "Bayer played a decisive role in human experiments with deadly outcomes during the Third Reich."
I disagree strongly with this comment made recently by Bayer.

I believe that society has to hold companies responsible for their BEHAVIOR NO MATTER WHAT were THE "SCIENTIFIC STANDARDS" OF THE TIME (Jews as Laboratory Rats?)

Black Kitty Sets out a Dare for Bayer... hey that rhymes... dare for bayer.... hahaha
BAYER COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE WHO READS HEALTH BLOGS FOR MONEY, PLEASE REPLY HERE in my BLOG COMMENTS a statement about your company's involvement with the Nazi's and their role in the Holocaust? And how you thought "that killing Jews and many other people were the standards of the time?" I guess it was the standard to use slave labor and kill your workforce!

I would also LIKE BAYER TO DEFEND THE FIRST, PRECEDENT SETTING USE OF LABOR SLAVES PRIOR TO WORLD WAR I. Bayer forced Jews and other Europeans to work at their companies for free and at the costs of employee health and life. I would LOVE to understand how that STANDARD maps into today's thinking at your company.

In this Black Kitty OPINION, Bayer HAS NO SOUL, and the company, even in its current incarnation does not care at all for life; rather they seem to care only about profit for their shareholders, and lets not kid ourselves, the gold lined pockets of the top leadership of Bayer.

Bayer certainly does not care for those individuals who are either Jewish, physically or mentally ill or just not those people we like. Bayer had a policy of slave labor like many other European companies during WWI and WW2.

It is ironic, that a company owned by Germans who caused so much evil and hurt to humans over time, is CONTINUING TO CAUSE DEATH?

Anyone who does NOT KNOW the connection between Bayer, Exxon and the Nazi Death Camps (BTW, Bayer MADE THE POISON FOR THE GAS CHAMBERS) should read up on it in a very seriously footnoted and documented history Magazine Potshotzine #19 . By Clicking you can order copies of the magazine (I highly recommend it) or just READ UP on Bayer’s role in Genocide and the World Wars (also Exxon's Role :)).

Thank you so much in advance for providing me and family WITH AN APOLOGY, for your role in the deaths of my family members, and the genocide.

"Keep tabs on YOUR rulers, cause they got tabs on you" – Happy Birthday OPA.

Pfizer readies consumer ads for its year-old anti-smoking pill

If this guy doesn't make you quit smoking with his "sage" advice, then what will?


INSIDE HEALTH CARE
Pfizer readies consumer ads for its year-old anti-smoking pill

BY BRUCE JAPSEN
Published May 10, 2007

Although most Americans with health insurance are unlikely to get coverage for Pfizer Inc.'s smoking pill Chantix, the pharmaceutical giant says the pill is still much cheaper than a pack of cigarettes, which figures into its marketing plan.

Pfizer, which launched Chantix last summer, said it did not expect much health insurance coverage of the prescription, which costs about $3 a day, so it priced the pill below that of a package of cigarettes.

Cigarettes are expensive and can cost $8 to $10 a pack in Manhattan and some bars in Chicago, or $3 to $4 in rural America or certain areas where taxes on cigarettes are not as high, according to Pfizer and other sources.

"It's the difference between putting money into making yourself sick or putting money into making yourself healthy," said Terri O'Gorman, a Pfizer director of marketing.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Chantix was the first new prescription aid to smoking cessation treatment to be approved in nearly a decade when the agency cleared the drug for marketing a year ago.

With more employers and health insurers pushing high-deductible health plans on consumers that require them to pay more out of pocket for drugs anyway, Pfizer is not expecting a huge boost in coverage for the pill. The New York-based drugmaker, citing government figures, said about one in four Americans with health insurance get coverage for smoking cessation treatments and programs, according to research it did before launching Chantix.

Chantix was approved to be taken for up to 12 weeks, according to its government-approved label. Upon consultation with their doctors, smokers can take Chantix for another 12 weeks if they have demonstrated they have quit, Pfizer said.

In the next stage of Pfizer's marketing blitz for Chantix the company this summer will begin branded consumer ads for the pill. Chantix sales were $162 million in the first quarter, with the bulk of sales coming from the U.S.

Since December Pfizer has been marketing the pill with unbranded ads through its campaign dubbed "My time to quit." The ad campaign includes a Web site ( www.mytimetoquit.com) and offers smokers a chance to calculate the amount of money they are spending on smoking. It does not, however, compare savings to the cost of the drug.

DEPENDENCY NETWORK: In a deal that will create a consolidated chemical dependency program with 19 sites in the Chicago area, Rush University Medical Center said it has sold the Rush Behavioral Health Network to Catholic hospital operator Resurrection Health Care for an undisclosed sum.

Rush Behavioral will essentially merge its operations, including its addiction services for professionals, into the Resurrection Behavioral network. More than 70 Rush Behavioral employees along with contracts, leases and other businesses will transfer to Resurrection, the parties involved said.

Dr. Daniel Angres, who is the founder and director of Rush Behavioral Health, will continue to oversee the program for professionals and becomes director of the newly formed Resurrection Addiction Services.

Rush, a large academic medical center on Chicago's West Side, sold the chemical dependency and substance abuse network to focus on its campus redevelopment and "core tertiary care, research and educational missions," a spokesman said. "We have consolidated or sold a number of programs over the years."
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