[RT] EpiPen maker Mylan’s CEO’s connection to the National Association of State Boards of Education may be a part of the shady dealings being investigated by US politicians, including allegations that they defrauded West Virginia’s Medicaid department.
Mylan has been highly scrutinized after increasing the price of its medical devices that fight life-threatening allergic reactions by 400 percent this year. The pharmaceutical company is now facing an enforcement action after not cooperating with the West Virginia attorney general’s subpoena issued last month, CNBC reported.
Heather Bresch is the CEO of Mylan and is reportedly very well connected. The daughter of a former West Virginia governor and current US Senator Joe Manchin (D) is facing accusations that she used her mother Gayle’s position on the National Association of State Boards of Education to boost her company’s earnings.
Gayle Manchin must have seemed to be very passionate about allergies when she was at the forefront of a movement to require schools to purchase EpiPens in 2012. Eleven states wrote laws requiring the powerful allergies-reversing medicine, and almost all of the remaining states strongly encouraged schools to keep epinephrine auto-injectors on hand in case of an emergency.
The rapid interest in allergic reactions went all the way to the White House, where in 2013, President Barack Obama I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like Special Olympics, or something... signed the EpiPen Law that gave preferential funding to states that encouraged EpiPens.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... the cost of EpiPens was increasing. In 2007, two EpiPens, the common dosage for a year, cost $100. It is around this time that EpiPen prices began increasing by 30 percent each year, according to Fortune. By the time 2012 rolled around, they were over $200 for a two-pack.
Mylan is running scared, I think. Trailing daughter #1 just went on line and got a manufacturer's coupon that covers the co-pay up to $300 for patients with commercial health insurance.
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It would be interesting to trace where the money has been flowing.
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Gayle Manchin must have seemed to be very passionate about allergies when she was at the forefront of a movement to require schools to purchase EpiPens in 2012.
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My Scottish contacts are telling me that the EpiPen is still only about $65 (~£50) each in the UK and there are at least two other competitors that offer similar products.
Odd how competition does that.
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Market was fixed by law? Competition limited by laws and regulations? Passed by a relative of the company's CEO?
Government at work. This is why we need a lot less of it. A government that does not have this power cannot abuse it.
A high school girl, whose name is being withheld by DailyMail.com because she is a minor, reveals the online relationship began last January
Weiner and Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's top aide, were still together
He told the teen that it had been a year since he and Huma had sex
The girl says she told him she was 15 and a sophomore in high school; messages confirm he knew she was underage
In one message Weiner tells the girl 'I would bust that tight p***y'
She claims Weiner asked her to undress and encouraged her to touch herself and say his name over video chat
Weiner would not get fully nude, but usually shirtless and wearing boxers
Weiner did not deny exchanging 'flirtatious' messages with the teen to DailyMail.com. He declined to comment on it
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The Dems won't denounce him. They didn't denounce Bill a couple of decades ago. They don't give a shit about right and wrong. They care only about power.
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He was only acting on a democrat's highest motivation - he was "doing it for the children..."
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He was only acting on a democrat's highest motivation - he was "doing it for the children..."
The left's position that "everyone should be able to screw everyone else without shame" isn't an accident. They have no *principles*, and thus believe that its open season on humping anything available.
I was once upon a time a Democrat. Two events changed my mind. The 1st was the ENTIRETY of the party selling out their convictions to defend Bill C. by pretending "Everyone cheats on their wife."
The 2nd was 9-11.
I was done after those 2 events.
The Democratic party these days is nothing but a criminal party. Any alleged "Republican" that says they "can't" vote for Trump is an immoral piece of shit who is worthy of nothing but disdain.
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As a number of the selfish photo participants were mere whelps 8 years ago, my take is that Obama's leadership is a total failure.
Having the ability to access the fanciest museum in the fanciest city in the fanciest state of the United States of America and take a picture of your friend pretend throwing up in a golden toilet and saying you don't have to braid the hair of your 'sick' friend because she has a crew cut....makes the people of Cash Cab look like absolute geniuses.
[RT] The pressure of medical school is world renowned - and one dental student in Pakistain may have succumbed to it in the most violent way.
Abdul Basit, who was in his final year at Hamdard University in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , died early Tuesday morning from burns he suffered after reportedly setting himself on fire because he was unable to sit an exam he failed seven times before.
He was apparently late after his car broke down.
Distraught over this rejection, the university says he doused himself in petrol and lit himself on fire. He died at a nearby hospital with burns over 95 percent of his body.
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[RT] A school in a Swiss canton has dismissed the appeal of a 15-year-old Moslem boy who had been ordered to shake hands with his teacher. The case triggered nationwide outrage back in May after the student said that the ritual of handshakes was counter to Islam. Individual virtue-signaling interpretations of shariah trump local laws and customs.
The school council in Therwil, Basel-Country rejected the complaint filed by his parents aimed at overturning the decision ordering the boy to shake hands with teachers. The school issued a statement on Monday saying it was in teacher’s right to demand a handshake.
The council’s decision was hailed by the head of the city’s education department, Monica Gschwind. The official said the ritual of handshakes is not only a sign of decency but is also "deeply rooted in our society and culture," adding that she was "pleased" with the school’s ruling.
"For me it is clear: the handshake is enforced ‐ no ifs and buts," Gschwind said. She went on to say that everyone regardless of their religion should respect Swiss traditions.
The boy’s parents now have an option to lodge a further appeal with the city’s education authorities, but Gschwind stressed she would lobby the local authorities to comply with the school’s ruling.
Salhani and his older brother made headlines back in May after they said they could not shake hands with a female teacher since Islam does not allow physical contact with a member of the opposite sex, unless they are family. The high school initially tried to reach a compromise and passed a controversial ruling, saying that the students will no longer have to shake hands with female teachers.
However, the decision triggered nationwide criticism, and the school then abolished the ruling. Local authorities later ruled that refusal to follow the Swiss tradition of handshake would trigger fines up to 5,000 francs or other disciplinary measures.
“The public interest with respect to equality between men and women and the integration of foreigners significantly outweighs the freedom of conscience (freedom of religion) of the students,” the department of education, culture and sport in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, northern Switzerland said in May.
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Salhani and his older brother made headlines back in May after they said they could not shake hands with a female teacher since Islam does not allow physical contact with a member of the opposite sex, unless they are family.
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I happen to disagree. I doubt there is a Swiss law mandating handshakes, and nulla poena sine lege (no penalty without a law). This also is a very European principle.
A school may require from a pupil to show respect. If the boy chooses another respectful form of greeting, that should do it.
For example (non Muslim) Thais use the wai, and also a nod of the head will suffice.
A handshake can't be enforced. There are many reasons to refrain from it. You may have a cold, the other person may have a cold.
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Also consider this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negiah
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I agree with EC. You can't force contact, and some other form of respect should be allowed.
On the other hand:
1) I am glad the Swiss, at least, are standing up to Muslim bullying.
2) I suspect that this kid and his parents are like Ahmed the clock boy, looking for a fight.
3) Since several other European countries have reported multiple instances of Muslim immigrants groping and raping females in public places, I guess that means the immigrants aren't true Muslims.
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The family should certainly be watched (daddy is an imam at a Saudi financed mosque, go figure).
But I think what counts is respect. Any disrespectful behavior must not be tolerated. So if the boys refused to greet female teachers, kick them out of school.
But this doesn't sound right
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I'm sure that within a couple years that these young men will be groping girls at some Swiss Folk Fest anyway.
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CUBA STANDARD --In another success in its efforts to diversify for-pay medical service exports, Cuba is nearly doubling its medical program in South Africa.
The number of Cuban doctors working in the African country under a bilateral program will grow from 119 to 213 within the next three months, Alex Carreras Pons, head of the cooperation delegation of Cuba's Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) in South Africa, told Prensa Latina.
A Brazilian plan to contract thousands of Cuban doctors in underserved areas of the South American country is still alive. The by far biggest share of Cuba's income for medical service exports comes from Venezuela; under a bilateral oil-for-services agreement, more than 11,000 Cuban doctors are serving in Venezuela.
In a rare mention of the amounts Cuba receives for medical services abroad, the official news agency quoted Carreras Pons as saying that Cuba collected $3 million for the export of medical services and pharmaceutical products from South Africa in 2012. The article didn’t say how much Cuba charges South Africa for medical services.
The South African health ministry is struggling to find enough doctors to work in the expanding public health system. Half of South Africa’s medical graduates emigrate to countries like Canada or join the private sector. If they would simply adopt Obamacare, 'private sector' medical practices could be quickly extinguished.
Based on a bilateral healthcare cooperation agreement signed in 1995, the first Cuban doctors began arriving in South Africa in 1996, to fill a skills shortage in state hospitals and in rural and under-served areas.
Cuba also increased the number of scholarships for South African medical students in Cuba from 60 to 80. However, most of the South African medical students in Cuba pay their own way or get scholarships from the South African government. Cuba received $10 million for the medical studies of South Africans on the island in 2012, Carreras Pons said.
[All Africa] The headquarters of three opposition parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were torched by ***cough*** unidentified ***cough Kabila brownshirts cough*** assailants on Tuesday, one day after violent protests, leaving at least two dead inside.
The renewed violence came after a bloody day on Monday during which opposition groups said more than 50 people had died in protests calling for Kabila's resignation.
The targeted buildings included the leading opposition party, the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), as well as the Forces of Union and Solidarity (FONUS) and the Lumumbist Progressive Movement (MLP).
The national secretary of the main opposition group blamed a "commando" unit from the government for torching the opposition headquarters buildings.
"Does a normal state respond with reprisals?" said Felix Tshisekedi from the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS).
At least two burnt bodies could be seen in the fire-ravaged UDPS offices. Two others were burned alive and another injured, AFP journalists said.
Flames tore through all three headquarters, located in the capital Kinshasa, throughout the early morning on Tuesday.
Fighting through tears, a woman described as being aged in her 40s told AFP that her husband was inside the UDPS office when attackers hit.
"I've just put my husband's body in the morgue. He was killed in the clashes."
The arson attacks come a day after the DR Congo government reported at least 17 people were killed in a bloody clash between Congolese police and protesters marching through Kinshasa on Monday, warning the figure could rise.
Opposition groups contradicted the death toll, saying at least 50 people were killed as security forces fired live ammunition on protesters in the worst clash the country has witnessed since a bloody police crackdown in January 2015.
The violent anti-government protests have intensified in the central African country as pressure mounts on President Joseph Kabila to step down from his position when his term ends on December 20.
Earlier this year in May, the Constitutional Court claimed that Kabila, who has ruled the region since 2001, could remain in office in a caretaker capacity until an election is held, triggering a wave of angry protests.
Kabila was catapulted into power as a young soldier by Kinshasa politicians, a day after his father was assasinated.
In 2006, three years after multiple peace deals ended a bloody war that embroiled troops from at least six foreign countries, Kabila won the first free, democratic presidential poll since independence from Belgium in 1960. A large UN peacekeeping force deployed during conflict enabled elections to take place in 2016.
The overarching consensus was that these elections were fair. But when Kabila won a second and final five-year term in 2011, his victory was disputed by domestic and foreign observers.
Opposition parties accuse Kabila of conspiring to extend his mandate by delaying general elections, initially set to take place in November, to next year at the very least. Government supporters deny the claims.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault described the magnitude of the situation in Charlotte, NC Congo as "extremely worrying and very dangerous", adding that European nations will discuss the possibility of imposing sanctions.
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[All Africa] PRESIDENT Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... is now in New York for this week's 71st Session of the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... General Assembly.
He is accompanied by cabinet ministers, senior government officials, wife Grace and youngest son Chatunga who could be was seen smiling on arrival at JFK International Airport in New York on Sunday.
Mugabe's children take advantage of his UN-related trips to travel to the West after the veteran Zim-bob-wean leader was hit with sanction over allegations of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... abuses and electoral fraud.
Although he is banned from travelling to the West, Mugabe can still attend meetings of the UN in these countries.
His wife Grace has previously complained that Chatunga's basketball-playing brother, Robert Junio,r saw his dreams of playing in the US come to grief because of the sanctions.
"We had to sit him down and explain that he cannot join a club playing in the US college league because of the sanctions. It hurt him because there was a lot of interest in him, but now he understands what it means to be the son of President Mugabe," Grace claimed back in 2012.
Mugabe travelled to the United States from Venezuela where he was one of a handful of leaders who attended a summit of the 120-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
Speaking after the adoption Monday of the New York Declaration on Refugees and Moslem colonists Migrants, Mugabe blamed western adventurism for the current refugee crisis.
"We have noted that a large portion of refugees that have landed on European shores originated from countries in armed conflict such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria," he said.
"More often than not, member states have been too keen to resort to force without exhausting peaceful means.
"This hegemonic military doctrine and adventurism, fueled by a desire to achieve the narrow national interests of a powerful few, is the root of the proliferation of armed conflicts which have spawned so many refugees today."
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A senior Russian commander has been appointed as commander of Russian ground forces in Syria to its Southern Military District, according to Russian language news sources.
Colonel-General Aleksandr Dvornikov was appointed acting commander of Russian Southern Military District July 1st before his permanent appointment as military district commander.
General Dvornikov replaced Colonel-General Aleksandr Galkin.
Dvornikov was formerly commander of Russian ground forces in Syria starting in September, 2015. The date is significant as it is the start of Russian military intervention in Syria.
[Yahoo] A recent poll shows that nearly half of all Australians want to ban Muslim immigration to their country.
Polls conducted by Essential Research found that 49% of Australians supported a ban on Muslim immigration. Among Australians who voted for the country's conservative coalition, the proportion was 60%. The proportion was 40% of the nation's Labor Party voters.
Survey participants cited what they see as the inability of Muslims to integrate into Australian society as their primary reason for voting in favor of a ban, with the threat of terrorism and a perceived lack of shared values as the second and third reasons respectively.
The polls come after the recently elected senator Pauline Hanson gave her first speech to the Australian Senate, during which she said "[Muslims] share a culture and ideology that are incompatible with our own."
"It's too a big a number to say it's an unrepresentative rump that should be shunned from polite society," Essential pollster Peter Lewis said.
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A Bloomberg poll shows that Americans living in households making $100,000 or more have abandoned the Republican party, led by Donald Trump, in favor of Hillary Clinton. Clinton beats Trump by 46 percent to 42 percent, according to the poll. Twelve percent indicated that they were not sure.
Bloomberg reports that the Republican nominee has either won or tied among the group of voters making $100,000 or more, according to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. According to exit polls, Mitt Romney had a ten-point lead over Obama among the high-earning group in 2012, but still lost the election. People who benefit by the current state of affairs don't want changes?
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I do not consider 100,000 per year wealthy and I would like to see these numbers spilt by private sector versus public sector (there are plenty of GIVERnment workers pulling down more than 100k per year)
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It takes over $100K a year in Californicate to live as middle class.
Everything in any Democratic paradise is so frigging expensive. I plan to retire one of these days and move to a Republican state where I can live comfortably on about a third of what I need here.
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Consider how many people at this income/education range would answer a poll and admit financial information. How many answer polls at all, I certainly never do. So how reliable do you consider such info?
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Answer a poll? They got the database. They know your age, race, residence, whether you're registered, et al. You have been sliced and diced and pigeon holed already. You are surrendering the secret vote.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump opposes a long-planned transition of oversight of the internet's technical management from the US government to a global community of stakeholders, his campaign said in a statement on Wednesday.
Congress should block the handover, scheduled to occur on Oct. 1, "or internet freedom will be lost for good, since there will be no way to make it great again once it is lost," Stephen Miller, national policy director for the Trump campaign, said in a statement.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a former presidential primary foe of Trump's who has refused to endorse the real estate developer, has led a movement in congress to block the transition, arguing it could cede control of the internet itself to authoritarian regimes like Russia and China and threaten online freedom. It's like Trump been lurking around here to get his talking points
h/t Gates of Vienna. I know we don't post from "InfoWars" but this is just too important
At the recent high-level climate change conference in London, a fundamental error in climate science was revealed for the first time.
...the error, first introduced a generation ago when climate scientists borrowed feedback math from electronic network analysis without really understanding it, is the reason for their exaggerated predictions of how much global warming Man may cause. I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! Mathematical modeling is an art form and there are fewer competent practitioners than there are maestro level concert pianists.
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I was involved in creating many models in my 30+ year software career and have always suspected this kind of thing.
Given the lying about data that has been documented and the bizarre collection techniques (put the thermometer over an AC in a parking lot, really) there were so many other issues that it never really bothered me since I certainly am not knowledgeable enough to understand it.
Until two things were done I will always remain a skeptic. 1) complete disclosure of ALL data and meta-data; 2) a release of ALL programming (aka models) with full documentation.. Then let anyone/everyone audit the results and discuss the findings.
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the error discussed is in the climate modeling, not in the temperature measurement (although the latter has numerous issues also)
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Any time you make a mathematical model of something, you are leaving out things that are assumed or hoped to be unimportant. In climate modeling, they sometimes leave out things that are hard to model, like cloud cover, only to find out that they are in fact important. Plus, the climate is not really just one system, but several (sun, atmosphere, oceans, land, clouds ) that interact in complex ways* that are not completely understood, and not well modeled.
*OK, the oceans, etc. don't affect the sun.
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Still won't stop them from pushing this bullshit as hard as they can to control our lives.
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Could be the first step, knowing teh whole fraud will collapse before long and giving everyone involved an "I was fooled too" angle to avoid any repurcussions.
If so the next fraud requiring big government fixes must be about ready to go.
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The left's drive to establish this bullshit is non-stop. I found myself in front of a "Reader's Digest" earlier today at an appointment. "Reader's Digest" once was a bastion of conservative thought (or it seemed that way to me).
Within its pages was a denunciation of Exxon for funding an opposition to "global warming".
The U.S. Navy has confirmed that the newest littoral combat ship USS Montgomery which the Navy received in June this year, experienced two unrelated casualties within a 24-hour period while transiting from Mobile, Alabama, to her homeport of San Diego on September 13.
USS Montgomery is the fifth littoral combat ship to experience some sort of break down within a year. USS Freedom, USS Coronado, USS Fort Worth and USS Milwaukee are the littoral combat ships that broke down earlier.
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Oooh that hurt!
Weren't these recently, suddenly, transformed into engineering review beta platforms? What I read was the $1.B deal is now pending, but everybody was hot to get on with it last fall.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
[Yahoo] A recent poll shows that nearly half of all Australians want to ban Muslim immigration to their country. 
