Thalidomide victims of debt-driven political economy
Posted by Ivo Cerckel on April 12th, 2009
“Imagine there’s no countries. It isn’t hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for …”
(John Lennon)
The Sunday Times in London thinks to be funny this morning by reporting that snubbed thalidomide victims win a new compensation offer.
From The Sunday Times
April 12, 2009
Snubbed thalidomide victims win new compensation offer
Daniel Foggo
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6077515.ece
The article does not deal with compensating the victims for the damage suffered.
It only deals with enabling the victims to survive.
Right, primum vivere, deinde philosophari (first you try to survive, then you can finally start thinking about being compensated.)
The morality of surviving on guv’mint money can, however, seriously be questioned.
This is like Nicolas Sarkozy, president of the French republic, enabling the victims of nuclear tests to survive.
Hervé Morin lance un plan d’indemnisation des victimes du nucléaire
LEMONDE.FR avec AFP | 24.03.09 | 06h10 • Mis à jour le 24.03.09 | 10h22
http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2009/03/24/herve-morin-lance-un-plan-d-indemnisation-des-victimes-du-nucleaire_1171782_3224.html#ens_id=1171783
This forms part of an economic stimulus in “our” debt-driven political economy enabling our Masters to get prestige in the very short term only. In the long term, we’re all dead, said their guru, John Maynard Keynes.
Santa Claus is a socialist re-distributor, Keynesian squanderer and common-law murderer.
To repeat:
HUMAN TESTING
“Imagine there’s no countries. It isn’t hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for …”
(John Lennon)
ABSTRACT
Thalidomide had been tested before use.
Thalidomide was created by the Nazis.
Its origins go back to 1938 and one Frances Oldham Kelsey.
Thalidomide was marketed since 1957. Kelsey was only appointed to the US of A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after the 30 April- 1 May 1960 Duesseldorf Congress of neurologists warning of the dangers of thalidomide.
In 1938 the name of Frances Oldham Kelsey, at the ripe old age of 24, appeared at the FDA in connection with the Elixir Sulfanilamide disaster.
Upon Kelsey feigning to ignore the April-May 1960 Duesseldorf Congress, US of A President John F. Kennedy honoured Kelsey in 1962 with a Presidential award for having saved his country from her product.
Now they are saying that thalidomide is useful in ophthalmology. Thanks to thalidomide, this thalidomide monster has serious ophthalmological problems. Hence, some ophthalmologists will do everything they can to prevent losing him as a paying guinea pig.
Every mother knows that her child should not play with a toy the child does not understand. The mechanism of the biological action of thalidomide is still being debated.
Human nature is constituted as such that some individuals who have inside knowledge about the effects of thalidomide will ‘always’ deliberately and unnoticeably cause the serious harm thalidomide can ‘so easily’ cause. They do that precisely because the damage is so serious to the mother and to the child and because they can do that so easily and without being noticed. It may be that ‘in clinical trials’, thalidomide is shown to be effective against many things. But ‘in real life’, it is given to unsuspecting girls. This can be reconciled with John Lennon if one remembers that thalidomide was created by the Nazis.
Ivo Cerckel, 25 March 2009
http://bphouse.com/honest_money/human-testing/
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END OF ABSTRACT
Ivo Cerckel
ivocerckel@siquijor.ws
“Imagine there’s no countries. It isn’t hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for …”
(John Lennon)
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April 12th, 2009 at 19:43
The only new sums paid to thalidomide monsters, says the article, are paid by the guv’mint of the federal republic of Germany. That guv’mint obtains this money through taxation. The difference between taxation and theft is that the thief does not come back periodically, nor does the thief pretend to be stealing in the public interest.
And the thalidomide monsters are just entitled to survive. We are not entitled to claim compensation for the fact that we have to suffer a sub-standard quality of life. The debt-driven political economy must be maintained at any cost, even the cost of human life. A fortiori, we are not entitled to claim the difference between the revenue(s) and life satisfaction we could have had without thalidomide and the amounts, if any, with which we have to make ends, if any, meet. At the end of the day, we’re all dead, said Keynes. What are we waiting for?
Let’s start by outlawing guv’mints …
“Imagine there’s no countries. It isn’t hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for …”
(John Lennon)
April 12th, 2009 at 21:19
How come The Sunday Times is able to come with this scoop out of the blue?
How come the (German) press did not talk about this earlier?
Is this the Kelsey scandal all over again?
Yes, very timely for Mr Keynes and Mr Brown.
I didn’t know The Sunday Times was on the same side of the political spectrum as Mr Brown.
We’re all Keynesians now, aren’t we?
Disgusting!
April 12th, 2009 at 22:08
SNIP FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES ARTICLE
German thalidomiders receive compensation averaging £10,000-a-year from a foundation funded by Grünenthal and the government, which is now putting aside an extra £900,000-a-year to pay for the anticipated new claims.
UNSNIP
Sterling 900,000-a-year to be divided among how many thousand unrecognised, at least unregistered, thalidomide monsters in third-world and other countries?
April 13th, 2009 at 09:34
As I said here on 10 November 2008, organised deficit spending to the benefit of those who are on the receiving end of the free money causing the deficits has become the enlightened International Monetary Fund policy of the day. By the same token, the central bank issuing the green paper is being established as the world central bank. At the end of the day, that is now, this planet’s economy is a debt-driven political economy to the benefit of the same dollar fraternity. (1)
Our friends needed thalidomide in order to institute the Welfare State.
The Welfare State is about giving everybody a chance to survive.
The Welfare State cannot do anything wrong.
So it cannot accept that it has to pay for the damage it has inflicted through thalidomide.
It can only accept that perhaps it should enable thalidomide monsters to survive.
Yesterday’s Sunday Times article starts as follows
SNIP
The German government has agreed to offer compensation to previously snubbed victims of the drug thalidomide following a campaign by survivors and the Sunday Times. UNSNIP
The German guv’mint is thus the judge in this case.
The problem is that the same guv’mint is also the defendant, no the accused, in this case.
This is Article 6 (1) of the [European] Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as amended by Protocol No. 11 Rome, 4.XI.1950 (2)
Article 6 – Right to a fair trial1
SNIP
1. In the determination of his civil rights and obligations or of any criminal charge against him, everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an INDEPENDENT AND IMPARTIAL TRIBUNAL established by law. Judgment shall be pronounced publicly but the press and public may be excluded from all or part of the trial in the interests of morals, public order or national security in a democratic society, where the interests of juveniles or the protection of the private life of the parties so require, or to the extent strictly necessary in the opinion of the court in special circumstances where publicity would prejudice the interests of justice. UNSNIP
In this thalidomide case, the German guv’mint is both the criminal and the judge.
Of course, it is independent and impartial in its own case.
Fraus omnia corrumpit, fraud negates everything.
Ivo Cerckel
ivocerckel@siquijor.ws
NOTES
(1)
Say No to Keynes
Posted by Ivo Cerckel on November 10th, 2008
http://bphouse.com/honest_money/2008/11/10/say-no-to-keynes/
(2)
http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/Treaties/Html/005.htm
April 13th, 2009 at 10:06
What’s this, Mr Foggo?
If, as their research suggests, thalidomide was first developed by scientists working in wartime Germany, it could have implications for the liability of the German government, said you in February(1)
Now you are saying that the German government has agreed to offer compensation to previously snubbed victims of the drug thalidomide following a campaign by survivors and the Sunday Times. (2)
Is it for the German guv’mint to determine the implications of its liability for the damage it caused by thalidomide?
Ivo Cerckel
ivocerckel@siquijor.ws
NOTES
(1)
From The Sunday Times
February 8, 2009
Thalidomide ‘was created by the Nazis’
The damaging drug may have been developed as an antidote to nerve gas
Daniel Foggo
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5683577.ece
(2)
From The Sunday Times
April 12, 2009
Snubbed thalidomide victims win new compensation offer
Daniel Foggo
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6077515.ece
April 13th, 2009 at 21:32
Of course, I forgot in all my emotions
nemo judex in causa sua
or
nemo iudez in re sua
Nobody can be judge in his own case.
April 16th, 2009 at 08:08
typing error
nemo iudez in re sua
should read
nemo iudex in re sua