the global occupy movement continues to gain strength in germany as thousands take to the streets of the country's political and financial capitals demanding the government reigning incorporate greed but unlike other occupy movements the germans are present while there is some support from mainstream political parties see. more news coming up at the top of the hour next artie's a special report reveals how toxic the american pharmaceutical industry can get in pursuit of profit stay with us for that. two thousand and two the top ten drug companies in america made more profits than four hundred ninety of america's wealthiest companies combined helping raise profits or cancer drugs which in two thousand and five alone rose nearly sixteen percent compared to three percent for other prescriptions. today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month. the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget

on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing in a ministration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. than members of congress. food and drugs in the united states and the food and drugs in canada are not being a budget buy this is a very serious problem this is been the fight that i have fought for now for the last twenty years in canada and together with my colleagues and my union and a lot of other people and as a result of bruce three of us ultimately were fired by health canada for years that took to build up this and ultimately fire us and saying we should buy everything that america busses and we're saying we cannot we are a country that is sovereign country we have a sovereign law. none of us refused to conduct our work

if it's insubordination to pass drugs of questionable safety or harmful products then of course we want to be in support if that's the way it is let the community in government say that that this is what they're fighting us for big companies pressure to get us fired this where the longer the weird the more time they get to continue doing what they're doing they have got at least ten years it may take longer to keep selling the same stuff and damaging the health of people who make profit on the backs of people's health that was the insubordinate. to it.

to him the same chemical companies that brought us pesticides chlorine and dioxins have now embarked on a new frontier biotechnology. this new technology has been used to transfer genes from one organism to another and has subsequently enabled companies to patent and own the organisms that they genetically modify. that means that seeds plants and even trees which are modified using this technology can be privately owned by corporations for the first time in history. or much. as for some c. . they said well yeah we got some but they're expensive seed as

how much all that a lot got what there was now but they was quite a bit over and. i didn't sign an agreement with them they didn't ask me to sign them because somebody else had them by somebody had done bottom and killed them out and bought a mat so i'm gonna plant this and you can. classify it otop but that's how i did you know and this i want to and in the plant and then. with grass fight i don't i don't like colorado as most of us. but anyway. and that was where most of the come down on me. you know they said they got a patent on it there's no you can't have a bad mother nature bottom line. so the guys at the seed he said he forgot to have you sign a license just said here's

a new bag of seed and the state was brought back by somebody else. somebody done sandalphon he want to get rid of because they didn't want to keep him the most well most not a lawyer. or they do you really did bad to see as a star. that i don't never read a bag say because i'm big too big to work and stuff like it and then trying to keep it running. here is the most agreement that was forged by warm osama represents that's not my hand right. that's same as my hand right now. in my hand right now right here. that's my hand right does that look anything a cost mate i thought thousand dollars to prove that that was not my man right and judge wright is simple would not allow this debate and the stage and our

justice system lately so. it's just a corrupt company. mr alf was fined over two point nine million dollars infringement in regards to saving seeds. the district judge mr ailes case was. a former attorney who worked at the law firm that represents monsanto and who is listed as one of monsanto's attorneys in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven class action lawsuit. from two thousand two thousand and eight . the judge in eleven cases of which monsanto was the plaintiff or defendant eleven cases were ruled in monsanto's favor. i found that the original research grants came from the new york foundation and that was the rockefeller foundation and that they had spent over one hundred

million dollars of their foundation money to finance scientists around the world to do research to genetically modify some of the basic food seeds of the human food chain in the animal food chain and the more i researched into this the more i found that three maybe four companies if you include the swiss sent them to but three main companies and one among them was dominant and that's monsanto that these what i call in the book the four horsemen of the apocalypse these private seed companies they were originally chemical companies. student poised within five or ten years at the rate they were going to dominate the basic seeds and patent those seeds that much power concentrated into four corporate entities three of whom have decades long track record of fraud deception lying to the public about the dangers of dioxin the dangers of agent orange and the vietnam war and after and so forth. that

really set off the alarm bells for me. i got involved in the jail issue because it was a new technology bringing opportunities and still see them as officers that. i was the only the to support the that she took in four years of trawling. they were the monsanto the great vice and gentlemen they rolled in in this group in their greed to to fund the trial which all told the two hundred sixty all different i mean not just cannot if they did spring and winter and i did both a on the farm collector a grouse spring right occasionally when i have to when i have

a fine in the winter so i did both of those trials almost mom for three as did the first year when it's a protocol the when they decided to exactly how they were going to set the. eight it didn't take me long to realize that these walls a potentially simpler way to farm therefore it was cheaper therefore we could double benefits that could be seen to be bad to be pasta almost as if it is chiefly made to grow then if the price of the end product came down i could still produce it it's off to the end of the dow got to make a margin whatever i'm doing as it happens it's because of the technology we were also following the g.m. crop yielded a bit more than the conventional call in the same field under otherwise similar management because i was doing that. after what now thirteen years of crops in the field the theory is that. we'll have we have a herbicide tolerant trait that will reduce the demand for herbicides and we have

a beach tree that will protect farmers are pretty crap from some disease some pests that's the theory. even that can't be proven finally at this stage there's a still a constant battle being in yang going on between researchers and the companies as to show whether or not this really does work or not. we're not seeing increased food production we're not seeing increased benefits to farmers in terms of their production costs we're not seeing improved nutritional qualities in our in our on our table so there really isn't a clear benefit. everywhere

you go this is seem to be good lunacy that you should just have to apply for grants . to companies. companies on the campuses the enlist students from beginning. can do a ph d. and what subjects and whether they can publish those materials because they're now

owned by the companies so it's wherever you go there is discussion of corruption going on this is not science. the people who want to administer that. are not competent on even qualified or educated in science these are accountants these odd lawyers these are m.b.a.'s is that anything but science this university center has become part of the uk. what do you think about genetically modified foods. just in general yeah i think it's definitely safe as long as there's regulation there's been research and everything there's. no research showing that it's not safe or that there's any difference between it and regular or not and modified food and scholarships they give us gosh oh yeah there's lots yeah lots from santo. better than

all the different chemical companies and everything like that for sure. so yeah they're getting involved in there's definitely have. a presence on campus for sure . it is the first time in the history of mankind that we have been able to engineer the genetic inheritance of living beings and it would be wise to ask if there are side effects and to check on them when you insert artificial genes anywhere by bombarding an organism the plants general metabolism can be affected it could be terrible but if somebody could prove that moves are dangerous a really good good. horse. would be very positive because he would have arguments that nobody else has but as long. as nobody has the arguments expected to go on thinking to do is no reason why does should be doing that

monsanto made p.c.p. is that they were a huge chemical company and they own ninety percent of the biotechnology patents so we took some of those g.m. corn i was part of the commission which was assessing this corn. and we said where the blood tests firstly the tests on rats didn't go beyond three months which was crazy they concealed the results not from the commission but from the public there were affects many others on the commission said no it doesn't matter we said we must at least start over but we didn't so we asked it to be made public we had to go to a court of appeal. monsanto went before the court to stop the world scientists and the general public from seeing the blood tests on rats their genetically modified corn for only three months. can you imagine that. the world's

largest company which sells the most herbicide and which sells virtually the most g.m. seeds in the world goes to court to prevent disclosing blood test results of rats who ate their g.m.o. foods for only three months that's crazy. so we published the effects that we had observed there was a forty eight percent increase in fat a ten percent increase in sugar in the females an increase in liver with an increase in body weight it resembled a pre-diabetic symptom the rats urine samples were abnormal particularly in the male rats the rats lost wit their livers were affected. in the past thirty years there have been no government tests. all the world's drugs are only tested by pharmaceutical companies. the same goes for pesticides.

in the late one nine hundred ninety s. patrick to see that his local organic supplier. turned out to be contaminated with dmoz so he filed a complaint to uncover where the contamination originated but in two thousand and one the case was dropped mr dick who was then contacted by a group of american farmers to join them in a class action lawsuit against monsanto dupont dow chemical astra zeneca and novartis international accusing them of engaging in anti trust activities and failure to test for human health and environmental safety coincidentally the judge was rodney simple the same judge as in mr ralph's case the case was ruled in favor of the chemical companies. resent. the gene in my field it was a paid content monsanto gene which was sold to me in seeds by as a girl which is

a monsanto subsidiary i agreed to take part in a class action lawsuit in the united states so in two thousand i went to washington d.c. to testify to answer the questions asked by monsanto's lawyers all day they asked questions such as do you know your neighbors names i much tax do you pay and where nothing to do with g.m. seeds. i tended to meetings at the ministry of agriculture recently during which they tried to impose on a bill for a ministerial order for coexistence determining a twenty five yard distance between two fields of corn. that means that my neighbor g.m. crops twenty five yards away from my field and yet we officially proved in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven that plant three hundred yards away was contaminated. maybe there's not much organic corn today. maybe someone with five

acres of organic corn surrounded by people with five hundred acres of g.m. corn. so he's not important you can just die out that's the situation if you're small you don't matter make room for those who will feed the world. big farmers in my group managers will feed the world having poisoned it for years it's unbelievable their objective is obvious they want to sell the seeds and the herbicide with the same company makes them both the objective is to liberate the farmer or to make them independent it isn't to make a better product for the consumer. pesticides and g.m. owes. g.m. food due to our d.n.a. to ourselves and to our children. we don't know.

for the past twelve years genetically modified crops have been grown on a large scale around the world they feed both us and our animals we haven't observed any problems due to g.m. consumption or direct or indirect. this french farmer is completely self-sufficient along with four hundred fifty million other farmers worldwide he practices are again a public culture of farming compared to conventional chemical agriculture this type of farming produces soil with three times more earthworms produces eighty percent more yields in developing nations and fruits and vegetables that are up to forty percent more nutritious studies even show that this type of organic farming could feed today's population in more so why do governments still give the majority of subsidies to conventional chemical farming companies claim we need g.m. crops to feed the world. if this is the case then why in america where g.m.

crops have been commercialized the longest are thirty five million americans still food insecure see only experience and you experiment with something without any follow up it's almost criminal pesca came in there because what we are doing isn't very serious of a move to secure those coffee yet that's what every government has done because biotechnology is their religion they think it will develop so that it will be good all but that's just a belief because it will be you know it's just like when we were told the earth was flat or you get rather than the reality t.v. you know. someone from the european union commission explained it to my wife at the time didn't know that she was my wife she does that carry my name is she's

professor bought a daw it's not professor priest they explained it to had that. if if they repeated the study. a fad symbolising that what we thought. would be able to hush it up again is once it was bad enough. twice is saw most impossible what i regard it also as the most important thing studies is that that is an invalid response and in each case since then whatever the g.m. was they looked at the indian status of the and it was they always found that it was jeopardized when we looked at the rats who had been having the

g.m. then the clip was illuminated and that we wouldn't have expected if the g.m. is substantially equivalent in other words the same then the links should be the identical but they weren't so both the whole and the steinle tract the lining was growing it was thick and so we thought this was evidence that there was a growth factor at work now if you're applying that to a transition lesion in the human for example with the lower end of your sofa goes if you apply the growth factor of. then you might hist on the development of malignancy at the lower end of yourself with us and similarly in the stomach there's once again transition lesions there which normally will take time to develop into counsel the gut and its immune system the god is this as a foreign material. it's almost like an infection it's not an infection

but the immune system just sees something coming in as strange for in and it has to be act to it i just think that. it was highly it is possible to foist on us something that was not properly examine and we are all made to be exposed to it is highly irresponsible or even fact i would say that it's probably criminal but who the hell listens to me monsanto b.s.f. bayer dupont dow chemical syngenta and astra zeneca declined to be

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from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandos that to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to be a mess so i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two

percent of what we do the florida problem this medical. couple weeks ago waited for hours for i waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. believing that tower of berlusconi finally falls the italian prime minister resigns after parliament approves a new austerity package intended as a last line of defense against a collapsing confidence in its economy. the dark clouds of european debt

overshadow the apec summit in hawaii as the top asia pacific economies that look to limit the fallout and prevent another global recession. the arab league it suspends in syria recommending sanctions against the country in an effort to force president assad to end of the deadly unrest that's claimed more than three and a half thousand lives. top news headlines and commentary direct from the russian capital moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us it is the end of an era in italy as the country's charismatic prime minister silvio berlusconi steps down it comes after the lower house of parliament gave its final approval to a vast new austerity package which was a precondition for his resignation the p.m.'s seat won't.