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Oh my God! Just as you thought it cannot get any worse! Hear we go again!
Yesterday it was the Barclays, Politicians, Police, media, tax-avoiders, bonuses, and… And today is the turn of Britain’s biggest drug maker caught red-handed, forced to pay $3bn (£1.9bn) in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history.
“GSK targeted the antidepressant Paxil at patients under age 18 when it was approved only for adults, and promoted the drug Wellbutrin for uses it was not approved for, including weight loss and treatment of sexual dysfunction, according to a US justice department investigation.
The company went to extreme lengths to promote the drugs, such as distributing a misleading medical journal article and providing doctors with meals and spa treatments that amounted to illegal kickbacks, prosecutors said.
"The sales force bribed physicians to prescribe GSK products using every imaginable form of high-priced entertainment, from Hawaiian vacations [and] paying doctors millions of dollars to go on speaking tours, to tickets to Madonna concerts," said US attorney Carmin Ortiz.
Believe me, nothing will change and the UK will become a country truly run by, for and of the Mafia, unless there is a sea of change in personal, professional, business and economic culture and moral compass. A change that acknowledges the followings, amongst others:
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“Native Americans’ resistance to the westward expansion of Europeans took two forms. One was violence. The other was accommodation. Neither worked. Their land was stolen, their communities were decimated, their women and children were gunned down and the environment was ravaged. There was no legal recourse. There was no justice. There never is for the oppressed. And as we face similar forces of predatory, unchecked corporate power intent on ruthless exploitation and stripping us of legal and physical protection, we must confront how we will respond.
The ideologues of rapacious capitalism, like members of a primitive cult, chant the false mantra that natural resources and expansion are infinite. They dismiss calls for equitable distribution as unnecessary. They say that all will soon share in the “expanding” wealth, which in fact is swiftly diminishing. And as the whole demented project unravels, the elites flee like roaches to their sanctuaries. At the very end, it all will come down like a house of cards.”…
Time to Get Crazy: Time to Learn from the Wisdom of the Noble Crazy Horse
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The right sort of tax avoidance
It is possible to reduce the amount of tax you pay, and put the money to a moral and ethical use
“Moral and ethical tax avoidance? Yes, it does exist, and Guardian Money even promoted it to readers last July. And as a result, a remarkable business is now prospering, jobs are protected and an historic archive is saved. It is what tax breaks were meant for, before grubby financial advisers sliced, diced and packaged them up for the wealthy to renege on their responsibility to society.”…
- America: Welcome Back to European Values and Vision
- Britain engulfed in corruption Part II: David Cameron invites tax avoiders to London!
- Whatever Happened to the Moral Compass? Britain engulfed in corruption
- Once again , the Shaming of orthodox economists
- The Barclays scandal, Bob Diamond, the Riots, and the Rioters: Where is Justice?