Terminator, Robocop.....Alphadog

Soon, instead of soldiers in the war are going to fight robots. AlphaDog robot created by Boston Dynamics will go into service in the U.S. in 2012.
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Drugs That Saved Lives !

Merck President Raymond Gilmartin announces Vioxx withdrawal.

Vioxx: Once a popular treatment for arthritis and hailed for its ability to decrease pain and increase mobility, Vioxx saw its fortunes decline precipitously. More than five years after it was approved by the US FDA, manufacturer Merck withdrew the drug from the market when it emerged that long-term patients had an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.

merck minimized the true risks of vioxx
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Ongoing investigation shows a series of cover-ups by Merck who had recorded increased mortality risks during trials with the drug. Authorities question whether drug companies can safely evaluate their own information. A particularly difficult thing to do it seems when multi-million £/$'s are put into research only to find during late stage human trials that health risks mean the drug it is unsafe to market. Or as with Vioxx it seems the risks were covered up, so it was marketed.

WE'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU - coming soon to DOCNZ 2007
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Who is really looking after your health. Merck representatives publicly state their family members were taking Vioxx immediately up to its withdrawal. The problem here is it's not the same people who cover up the data that are marketing of the drug. So these people even believe their own hype.

VIOXX Class Action Lawyers‬‏
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Someone somewhere up the hierarchy makes the decisions to operate unethically. Merck is a classic example of a corporation that acts like a psychotic. This Australian man won his lawsuit even when Merck's lawyers massively outnumbered his legal team. US victims of Vioxx received a reported $6bn settlement.

Vioxx victim wins lawsuit in Australia‬‏
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Lawful Rebellion

John Harris at the Lawful Rebellion Conference 2009 shows us how we are complicit in the authority's enforcement of a police state. Not only is there a hidden agenda but we all play into it. Some very enlightening discussion on how we submit to authority because we expect it is in our best interest, but really it is not our interest that is being served....

UK Corporation - It's an illusion
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Dying from Dioxin

Everything is bigger in the States....Well that goes for their environmental pollution and environmental campaigns too. The Centre of Health, Environment and Justice was set up in the wake of the Love Canal tragedy and continues to fight for environmental justice to this day. If you think government or big business are looking out for you best interests think again, indeed don't many of our champions of government have another life as advisers of guess who....? big business. For a brief time while in government they have to devolve these interests while they get on with looking out for the people.

The story of dioxins sounds like another popular toxic history tale, that of cigarettes. Scientific evidence falsified and a catalogue of mis-information aimed at maintaining the status-quo, which is to keep on making money. Lois Marie Gibbs of CHEJ in her book Dying of Dioxin has produced an incredibly enlightening exposure of the corporate greed preventing government from acting in the interests of the people. The following extract from the Politics of Dioxins is particularly interesting.