Author: Justin Lane

Pharma Scum Wishes He Raised Price of AIDS Drug More Than 5,000%

Big Pharma/Wall Street scum Martin Shkreli said that he regrets that he didn’t raise the price of an AIDS drug more. Shkreli said that he could have made more money for his shareholders and he should have done that. As CBS reports: Asked by an audience member at a healthcare summit hosted by Forbes on Thursday what he’d do differently if he could go back in time to before his highly criticized decision to raise the price of a 62-year-old drug, he replied: “I probably would have raised prices higher, is probably what I should have done. I could have...

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Pfizer and the Con Men Who Are Stealing From Us: Their Newest Con

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is planning on merging with a counterpart in Ireland called Allergan. Critics are pointing out that if this merger is successful, it could save Pfizer a lot in taxes. Corporations like to base their company in Ireland because of their low corporate tax rate. The merger could cost American tax payers millions. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss. – The Young Turks...

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Oil Industry Stops Climate Protesters With Help of French Police

As many as 24 activists are under house arrest in anticipation of the climate summit in Paris next week. They are accused of planning to disobey France’s ban on protesting during the week of the summit. According to the Guardian: One legal adviser to the activists said many officers raided his Paris apartment and occupied three floors and a staircase in his block. French authorities did not respond to requests for comment but lawyers said that the warrants were issued under state of emergency laws, imposed after the terror attacks that killed 130 people earlier this month. The author and climate...

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Should Cigarettes List Ingredients? Question – David Pakman Show

Audience Question: Here in New Zealand the cigarette packaging is covered in health warnings and horrific pictures, but I noticed that there is no list of ingredients or any indication of what is inside them. Wouldn’t it be better to also tell smokers exactly what they are consuming? What are your thoughts and what are cigarette packets like in the US? – David Pakman...

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