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"J Young" |
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24 Oct 2005 09:07:20 AM |
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Roche makes a killing |
Obviously, not everyone suffers when catastrophe strikes. I'm suprised that
a member of the Bush inner-circle isn't connected somehow.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1598469,00.html
Roche makes a killing
As panic spreads over avian flu, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant is accused
of putting profits before people.
For the obsessively guarded, conservatively dressed and unflamboyant Oeri,
Hoffman and Sacher families, avian flu could be good news. Over the next two
years, the heirs of Fritz Hoffman, founders of Roche, one of the world's
most powerful pharmaceutical companies, and who already rank as among the
world's richest families, could see their combined £10 billion fortune reach
giddy heights.
Twenty members of the founding family control Roche, which industry analysts
estimate will benefit from the Tamiflu drug thought to relieve the symptoms
of avian flu, with extra profits of £500 million this year and £1bn next.
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| User: "Jim07D5" |
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| Title: Re: Roche makes a killing |
24 Oct 2005 12:02:46 PM |
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"J Young" <youngopinions@aol.com> said:
Obviously, not everyone suffers when catastrophe strikes. I'm suprised that
a member of the Bush inner-circle isn't connected somehow.
What makes you think they aren't?
<some quotes, easily found:>
For 2002-2004, pharmaceutical companies have cushioned George W Bush's
campaign with $47,000,000 in soft money contributions. Of this amount,
nearly $500,000 comes from pharmaceutical firms outside the USA.
# From the UK: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals $91,000
# GlaxoSmithKline $310,000
From Switzerland:
# Genentech Inc. $50,000 <Roche subsidiary>
# Hoffman-La Roche $42,000
From Belgium:
# Solvay Pharmaceuticals $3,000
<quid quo pro;>
The White House says that consumers may not recover damages for
injuries of products approved by the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), which the Justice Department says is a position that reflects a
change in government policy and persuades judges to accept the new
strategy.
Any consumer who sues manufacturers would undermine public health and
interfere with federal regulation of drugs and devices, government
prosecutors argue.
Lay judges may not second guess the FDA the government contended in
their arguments against Barbara Horn, a Pennsylvania woman who sued
over a faulty heart pump that killed her husband. The appeals court
tossed Horn's case out after the Bush administration said federal law
barred claims on products produced under federal specifications. When
the FDA approved the heart pump, the law read that states could
provide additional protection to consumers, but the Bush
administration said the agency's approval criteria has changed.
Individual consumers have no right to sue, which benefits everyone.
http://www.thinkandask.com/news/fdadruglaw.html
<family ties>
COMPREHENSIVE AGENDA
TEAM FLORIDA GERMANY/LIFE SCIENCES TRACK
MUNICH, GERMANY/BASEL, SWITZERLAND
November 12-18, 2005
<...>
<...>
11:00-12:00pm
Site Visit to **************Hoffman-La Roche and meeting with Roche
officials
for briefing on activities including R&D priority areas, discussion
on how Roche collaborates with outside institutions and companies
followed by Q&A. Speakers include the Heads of Pharma
Partnering and Research
Location:
Hoffman-La Roche Headquarters
Group Headquarters
Grenzacher Strasse, 124
4070 Basel, Switzerland
Contact: Pierre Jacoud, Executive Assistant to the Chairman
Tel: 41(0) 61-688-8595
12:30-1:45pm
Team Florida Lunch at Tingueley Museum, hosted by ************Hoffman-
La Roche
****************************Remarks by Governor [Jeb] Bush
Location:
Tingueley Museum
Contact: Paul Sacher-Anglade
Tel: 41 (0) 61-681-93-20
2:30pm
--- Jim07D5
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| User: "Parsifal" |
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| Title: Re: Roche makes a killing |
24 Oct 2005 10:05:47 AM |
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And the relation between this and atheism is? Do you even know where
you're posting?
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| User: "Josef Balluch" |
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| Title: Re: Roche makes a killing |
24 Oct 2005 09:55:42 AM |
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In a message sent 'round the world, J Young poured fuel on the fire with
the following:
....
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1598469,00.html
Roche makes a killing
As panic spreads over avian flu, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant is accused
of putting profits before people.
....
There never seems to be an omnipotent deity around when you need one.
Regards,
Josef
We cannot learn without pain.
-- Aristotle
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: Roche makes a killing |
24 Oct 2005 06:01:15 PM |
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Josef Balluch <josef.balluch@sympatico.can> wrote in
news:MPG.1dc6bff8cd3e9d9c989bc7@news1.on.sympatico.ca:
In a message sent 'round the world, J Young poured fuel on the fire
with the following:
...
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1598469,00.html
Roche makes a killing
As panic spreads over avian flu, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant is
accused of putting profits before people.
...
There never seems to be an omnipotent deity around when you need one.
He's too busy punishing sinners in New Orleans like the fundies told him
to do. Omnipotence ain't what it used to be.
Used to be, the fundies had a killer attack dog, ready to maim and kill
entire populations.
Now...just a semi-trained, toothless old chihuahua that pisses itself and
gums your fuckin' ankle good
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