Steups... You must be joking. Thousands of laptops given to secondary children are broken. Randomly ask the children. They will tell you. The minister just covering up the truth as usual.

How do you make money from a deadly pandemic? According to tens of thousands of investors, you plow money into Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, the company that's suddenly the darling of the pharmaceutical industry due to its early R&D work on an Ebola vaccine.

The company's Ebola vaccine trial was on hold by the FDA, but after a calculated petition was posted last week urging the FDA to allow the trial to move forward, the FDA reversed its position and announced a fast-track approval for human trials. Tekmira's stock price skyrocketed nearly 100% and now stands at around $26 per share. (Since when did an online petition ever get the FDA to move on anything other than pharmaceutical profits?)

Over 28 million shares of Tekmira stock changed hands last Friday in a flurry of buying activity. But have all these investors really thought about what would be necessary for Tekmira to earn a profit on its research?

Essentially, Tekmira only becomes profitable if there's an exploding Ebola pandemic that begins killing people en masse, thereby forcing world governments to purchase and stockpile the vaccine.

The gold rush has already begun. Here's a five-day chart of Tekmira's share price. The huge upticks correspond with the FDA clearing the company for Ebola vaccine trials:

To sell a vaccine, first create a panic
There's a lot of fear mongering taking place right now for the purpose of creating demand for an Ebola vaccine -- something both government and media describe as the one and only medical treatment with any value at all, to the exclusion of everything else.

Dave Hodges of The Common Sense Show just posted an article entitled Yahoo's Ebola Tweet Is a Lie Designed to Promote Fear-Based Acceptance of the Ebola Vaccine.

That article references a tweet which was fabricated to cause total panic by claiming 145 people in Atlanta had contracted Ebola. Before the tweet was pulled, it was re-tweeted countless times, spreading fear about Ebola faster than Ebola can spread itself.

The aim of these campaigns is of course to create a public outcry calling for governments to stockpile vaccines. And that's where the ka-ching! kicks in: when governments buy vaccines for a pandemic, they spend hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. Mission accomplished for the vaccine manufacturers.

If there's one thing drug companies, pesticide companies and processed food companies have in common, it's their willingness to sacrifice human lives in the name of increased profits. Anyone who thinks the vaccine industry wouldn't cause a pandemic to profit from it is tragically uninformed. As these two Merck virologists stated in their False Claims Act against the company, Merck committed scientific fraud by spiking test subject blood samples with animal antibodies in order to fake the vaccine efficacy. This is the same industry that ran for-profit medical experiments on the Tuskegee victims as well as Guatemalan prisoners. (Funded by the NIH, no less!)

That's what everybody forgets in all this. The public has been completely hoodwinked into thinking vaccine companies conduct business in the best interests of the public. That's false. In truth, their one and only interest is in earning higher profits, often at any cost. If a few felony crimes have to be committed along the way in order to accomplish that, such actions have never held them back. In fact, drug companies have been caught so many times committing felony crimes and paying huge fines that they now consider the paying of such fines a "routine" cost of doing business.

Right now, we are all literally one vial away from an Ebola pandemic outbreak in America, followed by skyrocketing stock valuations for drug companies. Is there somebody crazy enough or evil enough in the vaccine industry to intentionally promote a pandemic for profit? Without question. Remember, it was vaccine pioneer Dr. Maurice Hilleman who thought it was hilarious that polio vaccines contained hidden cancer viruses. As you can see for yourself in this transcript and recording, Dr. Hilleman thought it was hilarious that polio vaccines would give the Russians cancer tumors.

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In States With Medical Marijuana, Painkiller Deaths Drop by 25%

America has a major problem with prescription pain medications like Vicodin and OxyContin. Overdose deaths from these pharmaceutical opioids have approximately tripled since 1991, and every day 46 people die of such overdoses in the United States.

However, in the 13 states that passed laws allowing for the use of medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010, 25 percent fewer people die from opioid overdoses annually.

“The difference is quite striking,” said study co-author Colleen Barry, a health policy researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. The shift showed up quite quickly and become visible the year after medical marijuana was accepted in each state, she told Newsweek.

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In the study, published today August 25 in JAMA Internal Medicine, the researchers hypothesize that in states where medical marijuana can be prescribed, patients may use pot to treat pain, either instead of prescription opiates, or to supplement them—and may thus require a lower dosage that is less likely to lead to a fatal problem.

As with most findings involving marijuana and public policy, however, not everyone agrees on a single interpretation of the results.

It certainly can be said that marijuana is much less toxic than opiates like Percocet or morphine, and that it is “basically impossible” to die from an overdose of weed, Barry said. Based on those agreed-upon facts, it would seem that an increased use in marijuana instead of opiates for chronic pain is the most obvious explanation of the reduction in overdose deaths.

Not so fast, said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, chief medical officer at Phoenix House, a national nonprofit addiction treatment agency. He said that the immediate reduction in overdose deaths is extremely unlikely to be due to the substitute use of the herb, for one simple reason: Marijuana isn’t widely prescribed for chronic pain.

“You don’t have primary care doctors in these states [prescribing] marijuana instead of Vicodin,” he said. Even in states where medical marijuana is legal, it is only prescribed by a small subset of doctors, and, therefore, probably couldn’t explain the huge decrease in opiate-related overdose deaths.

Kolodny says the study results are more likely due to a host of factors. One example is differences in state policies to cut down on over-prescribing of opiate medications. Also, many people who overdose on painkillers are already addicted, and these individuals are naturally among the most likely to take too much, Kolodny told Newsweek. States that pass progressive laws to treat addiction may be more likely to lower their rates of overdose deaths; for political reasons these states may also be more likely to legalize medical marijuana.

“This is a good example of where policy change has gotten ahead of the science,” Barry said. She and Kolodny would probably agree on that point.

Was Dr Lincoln Douglas under the influence of scopolamine, a powerful suggestive drug with he voted for this reform Bill? The drug strips away person will and blocks memories from forming.

Hmm. Makes a lot of sense for people like me who want to get to the bottom of this issue. If this was a child rape case we would be more thorough. If the AG has nothing to hide he wouldn't have a problem with a deeper probe. But if he's hiding something a deep probe won't go down well with him.

The TT population misunderstands the run off method. There will only be two rounds of run off voting. The top 2 candidates move round 2 only if neither has 50% of votes cast.
In round 2 voting which ever candidate gets 50% of votes cast at that stage is the winner. Example, in round one party A gets 1000 votes, party B 2500 and party C 2000. Total votes cast is 5500. And 50% of this is 2750 so no clear winner. In round two party B gets 500 votes and C gets 600. Thus C is the winner.

The men were in an isolated house. No other houses nearby. And "Police said officers surrounded the house and were greeted by gunfire. Senior Superintendent Johnny Abraham said the officers returned fire and three of the occupants were wounded." Express. Cops kill three in Freeport By Carolyn Kissoon. Aug 20 2014

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Who will pick these popular candidates prior to elections? The electorate or you businesspeople?