country gun good in thousand aggressive sales force whose motto was succeed at any cost continue to promote the drug cardigan they claimed was a safe sedative especially for pregnant women suffering from morning sickness sales zoomed and a little my became a second best selling drug next to aspirin. but linda's shoulder hillen and her husband carl hammond were determined to find out what caused their son's short arms months later they were no closer to finding an answer i know my husband had times when he said we don't make it i think we have to get up and i said giving up. her husband soon contacted a professor of obstetrics dr video kinde lens who had received a few reports of deformed babies my father and professor lance they travel to germany and their road folks bargain and they went from one small village to another and asked are there any children with short legs are shot on and those kids

were hidden away at the time in the small villages and he asked in restaurants and bars and the local police office and everybody said no not in our town and then he showed a picture of me and said this is my bari and can i please repeat my question and then they said well at the end of the road there has been a very sad incident and then he went there and drink the darn showed first thing he did was showing the picture of means that this is my son do yourselves have a kid like this and the people burst into tears and and children through my children's were. called to the day our flight literally. in england was being sold under the brand name distal by the country's largest liquor manufacturer the distillers company as in germany distillers had received reports of deformed babies but had been issue. sure by going into the drug was

completely safe. louise mason was one of five hundred thirty three little my babies born in england over a six and a half year period the weser only learned about the circumstances of her birth by reading her father's bestselling autobiography i haven't got any arms. and my dad said it was like a little flower buds. from my arms and from my lips my dad had a look at me. and. he said my god you're not going to let this baby live. and they said yes my mom was only twenty one and she was advised by doctors to put me away and concentrate on having another family. after eleven days in hospital her parents took louise to an institution for handicapped children where she would spend the

next eighteen years of her life but louise was fortunate her father had not asked another doctor to end her life because i'm questionable. midwives and doctors were killing disabled children. in the hospitals and the delivery rooms on a large scale in britain. in germany. and if they're probably everywhere else. in canada another armless baby was spared by a poor ukrainian family in a rural cisco. years later alvin law learned how horrified his natural parents were when he was born ultimately it was the perturb grandmother who didn't want to have anything to do with us she said you're not going to bring that devil baby home with you ease he's deformed because of a curse. the armas baby wasn't taken home after doctors warned he would never

lead a normal life but after six weeks an elderly couple jack and hilda law who had already raised their own children volunteered as foster parents and got their first look at alan took one look and i thought no wonder nobody wants. and the next i went to see him person had a bath and dressed and hid and took their toll. well although in favor of taking him oh boy. but. it was a baby with nobody wanted i'm sure we're going to. turn out ok. my life story shifted the moment that sophie and peter my birth father gave me up. that that that is a profound chapter shift in my life because i went to live with the laws my

life became this life. back. in cincinnati ohio and deeply religious roman catholic couple with six children were expecting another normal birth my mother's story is that when i was born they were not at all prepared and the doctor said joy your baby doesn't have any legs. so she says that she took the baby me and she said well eileen is my four leaf clover. i have a sibling who told me that my father cried and that when he came home he handed me to my siblings and everyone got very upset and they said take it away. someone ripped off the

blankets and said that's not a baby or something to that effect that's not our sister. that was what i was taught. as a young child. people. eileen cronan was one of several flitter my babies born in cincinnati where an american drug company richardson merrill had their headquarters like the german drug company merrill promoted the drug as completely safe even during pregnancy like green and merrill had no evidence to back this up merrill applied to the federal drug administration in one nine hundred sixty for approval to bring sullivan might onto the american market and was allowed to conduct clinical trials on patients across the country now it wasn't a clinical trial at all what it was was a marketing campaign trumped up to look like

a clinical trial michael mann isn't it is an australian lawyer and former investigative reporter who spent years researching this a lot of my disaster what merrill wanted to do was to familiarize doctors with a drug so that once they got approval they would have doctors all ready to go through with a drug raid to prescribe it like crazy. during this time richardson merrill handed out two and a half million dollars to my pills to thousands of doctors in the united states and canada. in germany going thousand advertising campaign is paying huge dividends that companies owner and executives were making fortunes overnight especially heinrich mukhtar going in thousand research director. during the war mokhtar served as a nasty doctor developing vaccines which were tested on jewish prisoners in the book and vowed concentration camps many of whom died after the war mokhtar joined grin and nine years later he invented still it in mind and received

a bonus for every thought in my pills sold worldwide the drug was such a success for growing and. that i started making money hand over fist. it was on a percentage of profit. from modestly are. having so much money pouring in he could've bought himself a new messiah does every month but only sixty one really he's making twenty times his salary in turnover percentage so he's getting this massive massive bonus he's become a ludicrously rich man on the back of the mod. what would a man want that with a history of wartime experimentation strong personality a massive income running on the selves of with money what would one expect that he would do when confronted with reports of nerve damage and other side effects but it is not surprising to me that there was not i rushed to investigate to get to the bottom of it to put warnings on the truck to withdraw to take all sorts of course and so i did none of it i just focused on selling more the drugs and it really was

some time till the press got a hold of it. and they knew it was going to go public that they finally backed off and agreed. hillary clinton is a warmonger and the democrats are easily conned into spending trillions of dollars and the defense industry and why they control the house defense stocks went up they mean is there any clearer to the cation that the democrats are the party of war. you know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and

shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely for watching the hawks. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to the press. that's like the full story in the morning can't be good that i'm interested in the lawyers about how. they're sitting in a. good

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i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us of the with one trillion dollars in debt more than ten by color aren't happy each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remember of one one just to show you can't afford to miss the one and only boom bust. on nov twenty eighth one thousand nine

hundred sixty one and day after the thalidomide scandal made headlines in west germany. it was withdrawing the drug from the market even if its latest the spring of nineteen sixty was. they had taken the drug off the market then they would have sped off the basis. of on glazzard was disability weren't so severe but as a young child nico had trouble adjusting to his short arms. these findings and. it's kinda if you combine don't it is competent also if you know it as he is feeling the fire and then venice from the journey some of the most at some point and then cops on foot off the connote. one survivor who is a fearless eyes to underpin dolphin bone to care to notice how far far. down from manhunt our boys far you know at least globish i only furthers. the one.

form of. all. the world. in england louise mason didn't see her parents and three siblings for months at a time. i was let alone most of the time my parents had other children there's no way that they could leave them with my nan it was my crime i was old so they just stopped coming. i went home three weeks a year. for week by week in the summer making a christmas easter. every quality was by getting to know your brothers and sisters again. in new york kansas cacho and alvin law's parents decided the

best way to get their arm the son to cope with life was to turn his tones into fingers for hours alvin was given manual task to perform with his feet. grounded having no ours it is a rather simple disability that's a very complicated disability. i'd be lying if i did say it was a lot of work a lot of work a lot of time spent by myself very long very. very frustrated but i think it was the character that was built by my parents especially by. that allowed me to not really think that i was all that different. it's not an easy thing to get dressed but. again it goes back to the basics theory of my life and that is to i have someone look after me or do i look after myself. but more than anything i

think it's a mindset you know that ok there is a lot of people in our world that have weighed bigger problems than i so that i have to spend a little extra effort putting my clothes on so what. the moment i started using my toll and my feet and my legs was the same moment i ceased to have a disability. in the united states there would have been thousands of the little my babies like ellen law except for the actions of one woman dr francis kelsey a canadian born doctor and pharmacologist had just joined the federal drug administration when she received an application to bring thalidomide onto the american market here was a drug that. looked like it should be no problem but at the same time there was just a feeling the. do something in the leader of the absence of. cause

of concern the application came from richardson merrill one of america's oldest drug companies known years ago for its best selling product mix cough drops merrill poured on the pressure they contacted the f.d.a. fifty times they went behind a back to those periods they complained of better and rushing to threaten the proceedings they pushed and pushed and pushed and she was resolute she was unbelievably tough. but i know that we're always most indebted to dr kelsey the relationship with the hope that all of us have for our children in august one thousand nine hundred sixty two president john f. kennedy awarded the highest civilian honor an american can receive to dr francis kelsey so kill sea really if you know it's. for the mother of the damage. i come home from the playground one day my mom says honey good news you're going to get arms dear i mean you just remember

a day like that right i thought we were going shopping you know arms or us i don't know. i was very confused they they had hawks and they were made of metal and plastic and wood i mean i couldn't take off my shoes i wasn't allowed to use my feet can imagine a weird that was. so this became an interesting life half of my life was being elven law the kid with no arms the other half of my life was this terrible victim of the little guy. i lost my sense of what was right stick these arms around me on my own body more all the more doesn't have any arms are special or not so why don't why why would i leave them when there was no good reason not one good reason. to use them for years i tol may start doing me any good. and i was like shut up. i was our brother what. we know what we're doing you don't.

most the other miners don't use artificial limbs today but aileen cronan is an exception she wears artificial legs every day to get around. i was born with both legs from the knees down according to my mother i did it down to the legs pretty quickly. if you have. you know artificial legs a lot of things go wrong you've got to go around conducting your life and yet you know you've got a skin infection and you've got to play a leg on when he couldn't do me i put the leg on i guess that's not always the best thing to do but. that's what i do. in march nine hundred sixty seven the owner and eight executives of growth all the german drug company were charged with criminal negligence premeditated bodily harm

and manslaughter. among the defendants was heinrich mokhtar the natty doctor who made a fortune inventing fellow to mind. another chop green and it was amorous a nasty war criminal known as the devil's. chemist ambrose was convicted of war crimes he committed at auschwitz for which he served four years in prison but after the war the chemist found no shortage of employers including dow chemical j. peter grace and the u.s. army's chemical corps before he became chairman of green and sells board of directors in one thousand nine hundred nineteen seventies quinto had as the chair of a man convicted of mesmo slavery. a man who hired nancy war criminals like ambrose and was owner. verts was a member of the local nattie party in his hometown before the second world war

a service for which he was handsomely rewarded by it like you said it was the personal lawyer for a good one thousand or herrmann verts but in december nine hundred sixty six burger resigned suddenly became justice minister in the province where the trial was being held. defense lawyer. ended up with a government responsibility overseeing the conduct of the trial. away from the trial a secret deal was worked out between. him and birds and the provincial government a secret deal was only revealed when the trial was dramatically stopped after two and a half years. in return for having all the serious criminal charges against its owner and executives dropped the company agreed to pay the victim's life time pensions ranging from thirty to one hundred forty dollars a month as well as a small one time payments but in order to collect the money the little mite has had

to agree not to launch any further suit against her and so taken as a whole the trial was a. look the trial of her until. well canada loudly celebrated its one. hundred birthday and nine hundred sixty seven peace and maybe my family's suffered in silence a few parents had committed suicide others became alcoholics and some were having severe psychiatric. that's a little my children were now school age but the question that plagued medical and educational authorities was what type of school should they enter some experts recommended schools for the handicapped while others advise the regular education system. in new york since the scatman alvin law's parents had run into opposition from the local grade school when they tried to enroll him school says wait he's got no arms you can't go to school you don't have such a thing as integration and our going what's integration is

a kid needs to go to school he needs to learn and it's to be educated he can write he can read what else do you need this school finally agreed to take alvin but soon afterwards he ran into a reaction his teachers expected and feared i came home and i was very upset because somebody had called me. but i've never heard that word before it was never used in this house. it was never used in this neighborhood that i go to school there was no kids called me so i had to run home and i was a little freaked out mom called me down and that's when our first remember hearing those words that some people are born with black hair and some people are born with blond hair and you were born. in england one hundred ninety seven families of the little my children are suing distillers the british company which had distributed the drug distillers made a ridiculously low offer of compensation and warned that the money would be paid out only if all parents agreed to the lifetime the five families refused the offer

they were led by david mason a wealthy london art dealer and father of louise now i came under tremendous pressure i received threats on my life i had a police guard for a period of time i had anonymous phone calls i had anonymous letter. you know threats from parents her father as well publicised opposition to the compensation created problems for louise and her care institution up until then i was not one of the crowd but often. i was picked on. louise escape the hostility of our classmates when her father took her out to participate in publicized events for his campaign i was used as a as opposed to go. david mason's campaign succeeded in increasing by six times. finds the drug companies original offering to their parents i did pay a heavy pot. botts. if i hadn't paid that price the third of my daughters wouldn't have got the compensation when they got the

compensation so i think it was worth. i'm like louise mason who rarely saw her mother during childhood yeah i'm sure to hell and formed a close bond with his mother from birth and her unwavering support and encouragement were critical in his career decision she never lost hope she'll she said you everything you want to achieve in your life you're going to achieve it i have absolutely no doubt and where night when i turned up with it with the idea that. that i wanted to be a doctor everybody told me you should not it's not a very good idea you cannot do that you will have severe problems she said son do your own thing if that's what you want to do you're gonna match jaan is now an emergency room doctor in switzerland i don't consider my condition as a major issue i mean i'm not a little modern for a spot on the first but i'm a man i'm trying to be a good doctor and trying to be a good husband and

a father and a lover and i have short arms and that's it and if people have problems it's accepting me are i have problems to interact with me because i have short arms it's their problem it's not mine. the host for your set it's. those that don't wish thing against. them. beautiful to be. included at least they knew. that i was caught but i'm counting that in the scheme to show. for the truth that he's.

given to us not to the south korean his are still empty come forth summed up all. the money that you could the british mr west imo sure. cracking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive trucks people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation

a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down so much they lost their jobs got laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal. people

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