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Story Acquired From the Anti Ignorance Web Site
Every year, nearly 100 million animals die in research laboratories at the hands of curious scientists who perform outdated and inaccurate tests that prove no benefit to humans or animals.
Before these animals die, they are routinely burned, scalded, poisoned, starved, given electric shocks, addicted to drugs, subjected to near freezing temperatures, dosed with radioactive elements, driven insane, deliberately inflicted with diseases such as cancer, diabetes, oral infections, stomach ulcers, syphilis, herpes, and AIDS.
Their eyes are surgically removed; their brains and spinal cords damaged, and their bones broken... The usage of anesthesia is not mandated by law, and consequently, thus is rarely administered. Despite all of this cruelty, not a single disease has been cured through vivisection in this century.
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IRS says Glaxo owes $5.2 billion in taxes, interest
The drugmaker said it had paid its U.S. share and would fight the claim over how it apportioned multinational obligations.
By Linda Loyd
Inquirer Staff Writer
GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. said yesterday that the IRS wanted it to pay $5.2 billion in back taxes and interest on pharmaceutical sales that go back to 1989.
The world's second-largest drugmaker, which has a U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia, said it would fight the IRS claim on the grounds it has made "adequate provision for tax liabilities."
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The family of a pregnant woman who died while taking an experimental AIDS (news - web sites) drugs to protect her baby from getting the disease is suing the doctors, drug makers and hospitals involved in the study for $10 million.
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The House That AIDS Built
In New York’s Washington Heights is a 4-story brick building called Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC).
This former convent houses a revolving stable of children who’ve been removed from their own homes
by the Agency for Child Services. These children are black, Hispanic and poor.
Many of their mothers had a history of drug abuse and have died. Once taken into ICC, the children become subjects of drug trials sponsored by NIAID (National
Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, a division of the NIH), NICHD (the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) in conjunction
with some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies – GlaxoSmithKline,
Pfizer, Genentech, Chiron/Biocine and others.
The drugs being given to the children are toxic – they’re
known to cause genetic mutation, organ failure, bone marrow death, bodily deformations, brain damage and fatal skin disorders. If the children refuse the drugs, they’re held down and have them force fed.
If the children continue to resist, they’re taken to Columbia Presbyterian hospital where a surgeon puts a plastic tube through their abdominal wall into their stomachs. From then on, the drugs are
injected directly into their intestines.
The IRS sent London-based Glaxo a "statutory notice of deficiency" for $2.7 billion that was owed by the predecessor company, Glaxo Wellcome, between 1989 and 1996, before the merger with SmithKline Beecham three years ago.
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Half UK pollution
traced to one plant
By Michael McCarthy, Environment
Correspondent
Official figures show that Britain's
most heavily polluting factories are still spewing more than 10,000 tonnes of
cancer-causing chemicals every year, Friends
of the Earth claims today.
Nearly half is coming from just one
plant, that of Associated Octel
which produces lead additives for motor fuel at Ellesmere Port, Merseyside,
the environmental group says. The ICI chemical
plants at Runcorn and Teesside, and Glaxo
Wellcome's antibiotics plant at Ulverston, Cumbria, are the next worst offenders,
FoE says.
There Is No Doubt That Glaxo Is A Problem !
UK Observer July 8, 2001
Drug Company Admits Unsafe Vaccines Were Used
The former UK company Wellcome allowed thousands of babies to be inoculated in the 1960s and 1970s with toxic whooping cough vaccines it knew had not passed crucial safety tests, the Observer, a UK newspaper, claimed on July 8.
It said its investigations showed that two batches of the firm's vaccine were more than 14 times more potent than the standard dose and 14 other batches containing thousands of vaccine doses were not put through a crucial toxicity test.
One of the toxic batches was the same batch that led the Irish Supreme Court in 1992 to award £2.7 million (US$3.8 million) in compensation to Kenneth Best, a Cork boy who suffered permanent brain damage. At the time the Irish judge accused Wellcome of negligence and attacked the company's poor quality control at its Kent laboratory.
Now, 9 years after the award, the newspaper said the Irish Department of Health had received details from GlaxoSmithKline about the batch--numbered 3741--and was tracing 296 Irish children who were inoculated with it.
Glaxo Wellcome merged with SmithKline Beecham to form GlaxoSmithKline in late 2000.
The newspaper added that pressure from Denis Naughten, a senior Irish Member of Parliament (MP), has forced other disclosures from the company, including the fact that a second batch of vaccine, numbered 3732, produced by Wellcome around the same time, was even more potent than that used on Best in 1968.
In the 3 years after Wellcome produced the toxic batches, dozens of British parents believed their children suffered brain damage or even died as a result of the whooping cough vaccine. But their views were dismissed by drug companies and health officials.
The report quotes Gordon Stewart, emeritus professor of public health at Glasgow University, as saying the revelations are "scandalous." Stewart, who in 1984 was asked by the government's Chief Scientific Officer to investigate a link between brain damage and the vaccine, said he advised the Department of Health about these potential toxic batches in 1989 but they did not act.
His report, which was never published by the government but has been seen by The Observer, is highly critical of the whooping cough vaccine used at this time, which he believes was toxic.
Ian Stewart, Labor MP and chair of the all-party Commons committee on the vaccine issue, said he would be holding an emergency meeting of the committee this week and tabling a series of parliamentary questions.
He said, "The families need to know the truth."
"If it can be shown that Glaxo Wellcome were negligent in allowing toxic vaccines to be used, then the company must face up to its responsibilities."
The families of vaccine-injured children receive £100,000 compensation from a government fund financed by the taxpayer. Stewart believes if the firm is at fault, then they should pay compensation, which would be significantly more.