March 24th, 2010
2008 Report Predicted Tamiflu Sales to Increase 531% in 2009
In a 2008 annual report to it’s shareholders and investors, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., LTD, predicted that sales of Tamiflu would increase by 531% in 2009. As you most likely already know, the media has been promoting Tamiflu as the number one medicine to combat the so-called Swine Flu.
According to Chugai Pharmaceutical’s annual report, found here, the reason for this spike in sales would be due to “expected resumption of government stockpiling … and the ongoing recovery of the prescription rate for seasonal influenza.”
Chugai Pharmaceutical is a major Japanese drug manufacturer, with 51.5% of it’s shares owned by Hoffman-La Roche.
9/11 Commission Counsel: Government Agreed to Lie About 9/11
John Farmer, the Senior Counsel to the 9/11 commission, says in a new book that the government agreed not to tell the truth about 9/11. Farmer is a former New Jersey attorney general and served as Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (officially the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States).
The new book about Farmer’s experiences working with the commission is titled The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America’s Defense on 9/11. The book reveals how “the public had been seriously misled about what occurred during the morning of the attacks,” and also that “at some level of the government, at some point in time… there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened.”
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is the publisher of the book. According to Harcourt, “Farmer builds the inescapably convincing case that the official version not only is almost entirely untrue but serves to create a false impression of order and security.”
Czech Government Collapses
The Czech Republic government has been ousted for the first time in the country’s history. The Czech government fell Tuesday after losing a parliamentary no-confidence vote brought on by their handling of the economic crisis.
There was a 101-96 vote in the lower house of Parliament to declare no confidence in the three party coalition government. Four lawmakers crossed party lines to vote with the opposition and three members were absent.
This is the first time the Czech government has been ousted from power by parliament since the country came into existence after the 1993 split of Czechoslovakia. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said that he will resign on Wednesday after a trip and also stated, “I take the vote into account and will act according to the Constitution.”
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