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Date Posted: 20:30:32 09/20/06 Wed
Author: Your Sources of Independent News (No Holds Barred)
Subject: Again, money talks, bullshit walks
In reply to: M'sian Govt. will shut your illegal operation down 's message, "Steal Ringgit from M'sia & runaway to invest in foreign countries!" on 19:15:28 09/18/06 Mon

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take-action4justice
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Joined: 19 Sep 2006
Posts: 2
Location: Tokyo , Japan

Thinking Allowed. Thinking Aloud.
May the powers that be take action against giant corporations who think they are above the law therefore they trample & bully the weak & the defenceless! Website - http://www.corporatescandals.cjb.net/

Posted by: Corporate.Scandals | June 19, 2006 08:59 AM

You have most likely found this website because you are suffering from an adverse drug reaction ("ADR") to a fluoroquinolone ("FQ") antibiotic. The fluoroquinolones include the brand names, Cipro, Levaquin, Tequin, Maxaquin, Avelox, Factive, Floxin, Noroxin, Penetrex, Zagam, as well as any other antibiotic that contains the words "flox" or "ox" in the generic name, such as ciprofloxacin, levafloxacin and gatifloxacin.

Some ophthalmic and otic (ear) drops solutions contain FQ's such as: Chibroxin(norfloxacin), Ocuflox(ofloxacin), Quixin(levofloxacin), Zymar(gatifloxacin), Ciloxan(ciprofloxacin), Floxin Otic (ofloxacin), Cipro Otic (ciprofloxacin), Vigamox(moxifloxacin), CiproHC.

IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY TAKING A FLUOROQUINOLONE ANTIBIOTIC AND ARE SUFFERING FROM ONE OR MORE OF THE ADR'S LISTED BELOW, PLEASE STOP TAKING IT IMMEDIATELY, REPORT YOUR ADR'S TO YOUR DOCTOR AND DEMAND THAT HE/SHE PRESCRIBE A NON-FLUOROQUINOLONE ALTERNATIVE.

If you have finished your course of FQ'S and you are suffering from one or more of the ADR's listed below, YOU MUST NEVER TAKE ANOTHER FQ ANTIBIOTIC AGAIN.
Website - http://fqvictims.org/fqvictims/index.htm

Posted by: Corporate.Scandals | June 19, 2006 09:00 AM

The foundation is a non profit organization consisting of those who have suffered irreversible and non-abating injury as a direct result of fluoroquinolone therapy. The foundation is dedicated to presenting the research regarding these issues in the hope of preventing such injury to others and to make such research readily available to those who have shown a prior interest. We strive to present accurate and up to date information to the victims of such scripting abuse so that they may be in a position to receive the medical care such rampant ignorance has denied them. Such documentation is readily available via the forum or the homepage www.fqresearch.org

Contact Information
Director
The Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Research Foundation
fqresearch@aol.com

http://www.fqresearch.org


Posted by: Corporate.Scandals | June 19, 2006 09:02 AM

The 100 corporate criminals fell into 14 categories of crime: Environmental (3, antitrust (20), fraud (13), campaign finance (7), food and drug (6), financial crimes (4), false statements (3), illegal exports (3), illegal boycott (1), worker death (1), bribery (1), obstruction of justice (1) public corruption (1), and tax evasion (1).

*(30)(tie) Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. Ltd.
Type of Crime: Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $10 million
10 Corporate Crime Reporter 40(1), October 21, 1996 Website - http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=26178

Posted by: Corporate.Scandals | June 19, 2006 09:07 AM

Raja Petra Kamarudin
Age: 55
Gender: male
Astrological Sign: Libra
Zodiac Year: Tiger
Industry: Communications / Media
Occupation: Editor
Location: Kuala Lumpur : Selangor : Malaysia Website - http://www.blogger.com/profile/2933506

Posted by: Corporate.Scandals | June 21, 2006 10:35 AM

We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition:
What Responsible Corporate Citizen Are You?
Target: Corporate Scandals, CEO , Chaiman , Directors , Managers , Executives ,, Take Action Against Daiichi & Kyowa Hakko's Illega
Sponsor: Corporate Scandals, Take Action Against Daiichi & Kyowa Hakko's Illegal Wrongdoings , money-laundering , human & drug trafficking , etc., Website - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/697238292?ltl=1150965253
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Established July 1, 1949
Capital ¥26.745 million
Number of employees 5,800 (Parent company: 3,717)
President Dr. Yuzuru Matsuda
Head office 1-6-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8185, Japan
TEL : 81-3-3282-0007
FAX : 81-3-3284-1968

Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:53 pm

take-action4justice
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Joined: 19 Sep 2006
Posts: 2
Location: Tokyo , Japan

What Responsible Corporate Citizen Are You?
The 100 corporate criminals fell into 14 categories of crime: Environmental (3, antitrust (20), fraud (13), campaign finance (7), food and drug (6), financial crimes (4), false statements (3), illegal exports (3), illegal boycott (1), worker death (1), bribery (1), obstruction of justice (1) public corruption (1), and tax evasion (1).
* (30)(tie) Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. Ltd.
Type of Crime: Antitrust
Criminal Fine: $10 million
10 Corporate Crime Reporter 40(1), October 21, 1996 http://corporatescandals.cjb.net/

_________________
Established July 1, 1949
Capital ¥26.745 million
Number of employees 5,800 (Parent company: 3,717)
President Dr. Yuzuru Matsuda
Head office 1-6-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8185, Japan
TEL : 81-3-3282-0007
FAX : 81-3-3284-1968

Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:06 pm

take_action4justice
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Posts: 2
Location: Los Angeles , USA

Protect Patients Now
Protect Patients Now
New Video on Medical Liability Crisis and Threat to Patient Access to Care
Protect Patients Now and Doctors for Medical Liability Reform have produced an important, new mini-documentary on the medical liability crisis that is responsible for a serious threat to patient access to care. All across the country, patients are suffering because they can’t get the care they need when they need it. The reason? Personal injury lawyers are driving good doctors out of the practice of medicine.

Please take the time to watch our video. It contains important information that you should know. Then help us spread the word by sending it along to ten people. By spreading the word to your friends, family, neighbors and colleagues, you can help end medical lawsuit abuse.

This mini-documentary is just one element of Protect Patients Now’s nationwide grassroots education and advocacy campaign dedicated to ending medical lawsuit abuse and:


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Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:37 pm

take_action4justice
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Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US,
Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Causing 225,000 Deaths Every Year

This article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is the best article I have ever seen written in the published literature documenting the tragedy of the traditional medical paradigm.

If you want to keep updated on issues like this click here to sign up for my free newsletter.

This information is a followup of the Institute of Medicine report which hit the papers in December of last year, but the data was hard to reference as it was not in peer-reviewed journal. Now it is published in JAMA which is the most widely circulated medical periodical in the world.

The author is Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and she desribes how the US health care system may contribute to poor health.

ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR:

12,000 -- unnecessary surgery
7,000 -- medication errors in hospitals
20,000 -- other errors in hospitals
80,000 -- infections in hospitals
106,000 -- non-error, negative effects of drugs
These total to 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!!
What does the word iatrogenic mean? This term is defined as induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy. Used especially of a complication of treatment.

Dr. Starfield offers several warnings in interpreting these numbers:

First, most of the data are derived from studies in hospitalized patients.
Second, these estimates are for deaths only and do not include negative effects that are associated with disability or discomfort.
Third, the estimates of death due to error are lower than those in the IOM report.
If the higher estimates are used, the deaths due to iatrogenic causes would range from 230,000 to 284,000. In any case, 225,000 deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer. Even if these figures are overestimated, there is a wide margin between these numbers of deaths and the next leading cause of death (cerebrovascular disease).

Another analysis concluded that between 4% and 18% of consecutive patients experience negative effects in outpatient settings,with:

116 million extra physician visits
77 million extra prescriptions
17 million emergency department visits
8 million hospitalizations
3 million long-term admissions
199,000 additional deaths
$77 billion in extra costs
The high cost of the health care system is considered to be a deficit, but seems to be tolerated under the assumption that better health results from more expensive care.

However, evidence from a few studies indicates that as many as 20% to 30% of patients receive inappropriate care.

An estimated 44,000 to 98,000 among them die each year as a result of medical errors.

This might be tolerated if it resulted in better health, but does it? Of 13 countries in a recent comparison, the United States ranks an average of 12th (second from the bottom) for 16 available health indicators. More specifically, the ranking of the US on several indicators was:

13th (last) for low-birth-weight percentages
13th for neonatal mortality and infant mortality overall
11th for postneonatal mortality
13th for years of potential life lost (excluding external causes)
11th for life expectancy at 1 year for females, 12th for males
10th for life expectancy at 15 years for females, 12th for males
10th for life expectancy at 40 years for females, 9th for males
7th for life expectancy at 65 years for females, 7th for males
3rd for life expectancy at 80 years for females, 3rd for males
10th for age-adjusted mortality
The poor performance of the US was recently confirmed by a World Health Organization study, which used different data and ranked the United States as 15th among 25 industrialized countries.

There is a perception that the American public "behaves badly" by smoking, drinking, and perpetrating violence." However the data does not support this assertion.

The proportion of females who smoke ranges from 14% in Japan to 41% in Denmark; in the United States, it is 24% (fifth best). For males, the range is from 26% in Sweden to 61% in Japan; it is 28% in the United States (third best).
The US ranks fifth best for alcoholic beverage consumption.
The US has relatively low consumption of animal fats (fifth lowest in men aged 55-64 years in 20 industrialized countries) and the third lowest mean cholesterol concentrations among men aged 50 to 70 years among 13 industrialized countries.
These estimates of death due to error are lower than those in a recent Institutes of Medicine report, and if the higher estimates are used, the deaths due to iatrogenic causes would range from 230,000 to 284,000.

Even at the lower estimate of 225,000 deaths per year, this constitutes the third leading cause of death in the US, following heart disease and cancer.

Lack of technology is certainly not a contributing factor to the US's low ranking.

Among 29 countries, the United States is second only to Japan in the availability of magnetic resonance imaging units and computed tomography scanners per million population. 17
Japan, however, ranks highest on health, whereas the US ranks among the lowest.
It is possible that the high use of technology in Japan is limited to diagnostic technology not matched by high rates of treatment, whereas in the US, high use of diagnostic technology may be linked to more treatment.
Supporting this possibility are data showing that the number of employees per bed (full-time equivalents) in the United States is highest among the countries ranked, whereas they are very low in Japan, far lower than can be accounted for by the common practice of having family members rather than hospital staff provide the amenities of hospital care.
Journal American Medical Association July 26, 2000;284(4):483-5


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DR .MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

Folks, this is what they call a "Landmark Article". Only several ones like this are published every year. One of the major reasons it is so huge as that it is published in JAMA which is the largest and one of the most respected medical journals in the entire world.

I did find it most curious that the best wire service in the world, Reuter's, did not pick up this article. I have no idea why they let it slip by.

I would encourage you to bookmark this article and review it several times so you can use the statistics to counter the arguments of your friends and relatives who are so enthralled with the traditional medical paradigm. These statistics prove very clearly that the system is just not working. It is broken and is in desperate need of repair.

I was previously fond of saying that drugs are the fourth leading cause of death in this country. However, this article makes it quite clear that the more powerful number is that doctors are the third leading cause of death in this country killing nearly a quarter million people a year. The only more common causes are cancer and heart disease.

This statistic is likely to be seriously underestimated as much of the coding only describes the cause of organ failure and does not address iatrogenic causes at all.

Japan seems to have benefited from recognizing that technology is wonderful, but just because you diagnose something with it, one should not be committed to undergoing treatment in the traditional paradigm. Their health statistics reflect this aspect of their philosophy as much of their treatment is not treatment at all, but loving care rendered in the home.

Care, not treatment, is the answer. Drugs, surgery and hospitals are rarely the answer to chronic health problems. Facilitating the God-given healing capacity that all of us have is the key. Improving the diet, exercise, and lifestyle are basic.

Effective interventions for the underlying emotional and spiritual wounding behind most chronic illness are also important clues to maximizing health and reducing disease.

Related Articles:

Medical Mistakes Kill 100,000 per year

US Health Care System Most Expensive in the World

Drug Induced Disorders


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Author/Article Information

Author Affiliation: Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Md. Corresponding Author and Reprints: Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 452, Baltimore, MD 21205-1996 (e-mail: bstarfie@jhsph.edu).


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Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:46 pm
Website - http://www.generasi-m.com/today/board/viewtopic.php?t=166

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:07:19 PM
borneo_indian said...
RPK said:-

Today's Malay are Glocal, as the PM and DPM said - global in sperm makeup but local (kampong) in attitude....

Another good one, RPK...

ha ha ha ha!! Sorry folks. couldn't help it.. really funny hw RPK put it !!

Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:49:20 AM
Take Action 4Justice said...
Date Posted: 19:15:28 09/18/06 Mon
Author: M'sian Govt. will shut your illegal operation down (What unscrupulous biznesman)
Subject: Steal Ringgit from M'sia & runaway to invest in foreign countries!
In reply to: The evil man does, only God can forgive! 's message, "Decent, honest businessman, upright citizen but the evil man does, only God can forgive!" on 18:21:22 09/18/06 Mon

Don't think you have multiple citizenships, you're hell of a great! The Malaysian governtment will revoke your M'sian citizenship & kick you out of the country to Fantasy Island in Timbuktoo! These Hokkien People are a bloody disgrace to the Chinese community! Even the Japanese also spit at their graves and urinate at their ancestors & tombstones! Website - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Steal+Ringgit+from+M%27sia+%26+runaway+to+invest+in+foreign+countries%21&btnG=Search Website - http://www.voy.com/207120/52.html

Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:32:41 AM Website - http://www.malaysia-today.net/Raja_Petra/2006/09/again-money-talks-bullshit-walks.html

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