Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Emil Cosman" channel.

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  20. Hello Emil. I would like to discuss an idea that I have had. There is in Washington a set-up, which as far as I know has as yet no proper name. I will call it :The "Vicious Circle". It is a circulatory structure, hence the name, and it consists of various interconnected groups, These are: the amrs-making industries, the lobbyist industry, the members of Congress (The "congress-critters") & the United States Government (USG). In action, the Congress-critters vote to tell the USG to order some weapons from the arms manufactureres. The USG then orders the arms from the arms manufacturers and send them money. The arms manufacturers then send some money to their employees, some to their shareholders and some to the lobbyists and use some for advertising themselves. (Many of the congress-critters and members of the USG are their shareholders. Many Ex-congress critters and ex military and ex-government people, are sinecured employees of the arms industry, the so called "Revolving Door".) The lobbyists use some of the moneyfrom the USG to pay their employees and their shareholders and some to persuade congress critters to vote the "Right" way to keep the money flowing to the arms manufacturers. This whole "Merry-go-round" is financed by the Taxpayers, who have almost no influence on it at all. This Vicious Circle is very powerful and completely ruthless and therefore very hard to break up - under normal circumstances. However, we are approaching a very abnormal set of circumstances, or so it seems to me. What I am refering to, is that it looks as though, in the near future, the US (N@0) is going to be defeated by the Russians. This means that the Russians are going to have a once-in-a-century opportunity to be able to impose conditions on the US and its sattelites, vassals, proxies and puppets. I suggest that if the Russians were to insist that all the arms manufacturers in the World had to be nationalized entities, and that no private individual or corporation would be allowed to have any share in an arms manufacturing industy or firm, then it would cut the financial lifeline of thw Warmongers in Washington, London, Berlin and Brussels (Or anywhere else.) and thus would destroy the Vicious Circle. This would I believe, be an enormous step towards bringing real peace to the World. What do you think?
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  49. Yeah! We have Freedom of speech! Freedom to say anything they like! Big Pharma is a particular hate of mine. On another channel I wrote this. I thin it might interest you. The need to nationalise the Pharmaceutical industry It seems to me, that there is an obvious and extremely serious objection, to privately owned pharmaceutical industries. Namely that there is a fundamental, built-in Conflict of Interest. To put it as simply as possible; to a privately -owned pharmaceutical firm, a cured customer is a lost customer. The ideal customer, is one who buys a drug that is still "in-patent", which is moderately expensive and needs to be taken indefinitely to "stabilise" the disease. A drug which does not cure the disease, but enables the patient to be well enough to earn a living. The treatment for stomach ulcers before Dr Barry Marshall's discovery of Helicobacter pylorii and the fact that the disease could be cured in a couple of weeks, was a text book example of just such a drug. The pharmaceutical industry fought hard to keep knowledge of this discovery from the public and succeeded in suppressing it for ten years! The obvious cure for this problem is to nationalise the Pharmaceutical industry in its entirety. (Better still, would be to internationalize it but that is a step for another time.) The point is, that a government has quite different priorities from those of a private firm. Whereas the job of a private company is to make money for its shareholders The job of a publicly owned pharmaceutical firm is to produce the best range of medicines that it can, as cheaply as possible. To research cures for diseases that are troubling the public and to make sure that their products are safe or at least, that its side effects are known. As far as a government is concerned, the ideal drug is one that will quickly cure a disease, that costs very little and causes the least possible trouble to the patient. Having a nationalized pharmaceutical industry would avoid wasteful duplicated research, price gouging and neglect of "rare diseases" because there is no money to be made from treating them. Above all, such an industry has no motivation to suppress a cure, because it is making money from treating a disease. Another advantage of a nationalized pharmaceutical industry is that it would not have to worry about the cost of trials of experimental drugs in the same way as a private firm. If a new or repurposed drug was very cheap, but showed promise, the fact that it would not make money for the firm would not be an obstacle to setting up a test of it. Some people will object that "nationalizrd firms are always inefficient" and that such an industry "would be bogged down in burocrasy." Personally I think that removing the the "Conflict of Interest" would make running those supposed risks worth running.
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