Dark Skinny

The video below is sure to astonish and amuse. In this recent video, the Inspector General of the FED — Elizabeth Coleman — is grilled by a Congressional Committee, questioned so patiently by Congressman Alan Grayson. The answers are few — only excuses, if anything at all, are subtended by the Inspector General. Coleman avoids giving even one complete answer to any of Grayson’s questions. Most who have seen this video are saying that the Inspector General is an idiot who knows nothing of FED activities. But I think we knows better. With a security rating that is higher than the CIA, the FED’s Inspector General knows exactly what she is doing (Watch for the woman behind Ms Coleman who so studiously and confidently advises her — obviously a FED lawyer). The Inspector General is fully aware that she doesn’t have to tell any US government committee anything because the FED is protected — by US Law — against any openness, accountability or transparency. There is no better illustrative evidence concerning the power of the FED — where any checks, balances and oversight on their activities are not allowed. They can do what they like by telling any questioning Congressional or Senate Committee to go jump — with complete immunity and impunity.

Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Fed?

In 2007, the UK government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir David King, laid out a ‘universal code of ethics’, which was a sort of ‘Hippocratic Oath for Scientists‘ for all researchers and scientists across the globe. The reasons for the introduction of this code was because of the increase in amoral breaches that were becoming apparent within the very fibre of the scientific research communities worldwide.  The UK government has already adopted this code of ethics.

The seven principles of the code are intended to guide scientist’s actions, and are defined here:

• Act with skill and care in all scientific work. Maintain up to date skills and assist their development in others.

• Take steps to prevent corrupt practices and professional misconduct. Declare conflicts of interest.

• Be alert to the ways in which research derives from and affects the work of other people, and respect the rights and reputations of others.

• Ensure that your work is lawful and justified.

• Minimise and justify any adverse effect your work may have on people, animals and the natural environment.

• Seek to discuss the issues that science raises for society. Listen to the aspirations and concerns of others.

• Do not knowingly mislead, or allow others to be misled, about scientific matters. Present and review scientific evidence, theory or interpretation honestly and accurately.

Please notice the clauses that protect against corruption, that respects the rights of ordinary people, prevents disinfomation or propaganda, and promotes mutual sharing of information for the common good and adherence to The Law.

There is no such scientific code of ethics like this in the US. But here is one of the current definitions of the US modern version of the Hippocratic Oath (which applies only to the medical and not the scientific research personnel) as defined by Dr Louis Lasagna. There is much about humanity in this oath, but very little to do with morals, corruption or indeed the Law. This is certainly not emphasised.

Unfortunately, the US Medical Profession and its researchers(read Big Pharma) have not yet taken up this modern version of the Hippocratic Oath for Scientists. Perhaps this is understandable since even recent and modern US medical research has had such a poor and desperate history. See :

A History of Modern Medical and Psychiatric Experimentation in the USA(1965 - 2005)

This modern history is truly disgusting and horrific, involving not only Big Pharma and Medicine, but also the CIA and even President Bush himself — and in its reading, brings to mind all too well the abhorrent Nazi medical experiments and practices on the Jews during the Second World War.

But, if truth be told, my biggest gripe against modern Big Pharma is the power they have over both the Food and Drugs Administration as well as the US  government. And my biggest reasons and suspicions of Big Pharma and the whole medical lobby are based mainly on statistics.

According to the NIA’s report(2001), over 784,000 people die annually due to medical mistakes. Comparatively, the 2001 annual death rate for heart disease was 699,697 and the annual death rate for cancer was 553,251. Iatrogenic death(death due to medical mistakes and drugs) are , undoubtedly,  the major cause of death in the US.

Click here to see a breakdown of all the Iatrogenic Causes of Death in the US

The FDA Exposed: An Interview With David Graham, Vioxx WhistleBlower

The Increasing Corruption in the US Medical and Pharmaceutical Sectors

See also Big Pharma: The Success of the Germ Theory