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I remember when you couldn't advertise pharmaceuticals on TV but you could advertise cigarettes and liquor. I think the old days were probably better for America's health. (/sarc for the sarcasm-impaired.)

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I don't think it deserves sarcasm.

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I just read a book that states, tobacco is not harmful, if you don't sugar it. I had no idea that tobacco had sugar in it! But countries like Russia never used it and their tobacco seems to be safe.

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Good point!

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That is the way it was in Belgium when I was a kid. Lots of advertisements for cosmetics, too, most of them not working or downright harmful ( I remember one for a nasty day cream from Vichy). Now they can advertise over the counter drugs too.

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Every time I watch tv I see new ads for new meds, all with names that sound like Harry Potter wizardry spells. If I watch tv every day, every day I will see new ads. They are endless, emerging from an infinite pool of Big Pharma. Really, you’ve got to see it to believe it.

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they can only advertise over the counter meds here (UK) like cough syrup, not that i watch tv

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Whitney Webb says Joe Rogan wouldn't want her own his show...just heard that on TLAV the other day - I think they used him as a distraction

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It’s 75% of pharma ad spend is spent on tv ads. Not 75% of all tab ads being from pharma.

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Right, the real issue is Big Pharma influence on what news and views get broadcast, not so much the influence of the drug advertisements themselves. The media companies depend on big pharma for most of their revenue so they won’t air an exposé or even present balanced coverage.

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Really disappointed in him 😫

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He's a useful idiot. Same when he got "sick", as if he believed it was something that needed a lot more than just the flu receives...

Or maybe he's playing a role, appeasing an audience? I doubt that, because he's got loyalty and he's a big player in a "new market" of open alternative media.

So yeah, maybe he is this naive... And afraid?

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One of the first laws Trump signed, was one to forbid prescription drug advertisements. Did that ever get inforced? I do not have a TV so I don't know, but I thought at least he signed one good law!

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Really? I never heard of that. If he did sign such a law, it certainly was never publicized. Do you have a reference and/or link?

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No he must not have signed it after all. I heard it mentioned, but it is not listed. Only something about lowering costs, and another about repurposing which I don't understand at all. Ended 2022, so that is not it either.

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“75% of total ads spent on TV are paid for by pharmaceutical industry” That is an enormous amount of leverage of pharma over all TV content. I had wondered, and still do, how is it intelligently even legal for such ads to be launched upon the viewing public for products not even approved without a prescription and with admitted warnings, obvious when one listens to the actual ads in full. Good for UK not allowing such ads on non-over the counter meds.

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There's also the at least a billion (it may have been several billion, I don't remember exactly) the government paid to various sectors of the MSM to push the jabs, and then there's Bill Gates's outlays, at the very least to outlets like NPR but probably in one form or another even to the corporate media. I suspect they are beholden to the agenda and narrative for very close to 100% of their income and funding. Never mind the fact that most in the profession are by birth and education part of the establishment that is deeply enmeshed in and profiting from a NWO, or are striving, at whatever cost to their souls, to become a part of it.

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Hi Martha, yeah, right-on. It’s billions (multiple). I was aware and is included in my probably never to be published , massive non-narrative, “KEY COVID-19 ANALYTICAL & DISCLOSURE SOURCES” within the section, “Malpractice / Unethical / Over-Reach”. The total contents are: Adverse Events, Covid-19 as Cause of Death Classification, Covid-19 Inoculation as Cause of Death, Covid-19 Viral Particle Size, Distancing, Early Covid Treatment Protocols, Immune Suppression, Lock Downs, Malpractice / Unethical / Over-Reach, Mandates, Masks, Medical / Scientific Group Declarations, Medical Codes, Military Discharging Decliners, Natural Immunity. Re Bill Gates, I don’t have a high view of his intelligence, neither his original microsoft approach nor his current mis-led, short-sighted views of science and mankind’s future requirements. An example of giving someone too much money with which to play.

Here’s the “billions” source:

The pharmaceutical industry pays billions of dollars in conflict of interest money to insure study results in favor of products.

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It Hardcover –

https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Drug-Companies-Deceive/dp/0375508465/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1648853918&sr=1-1

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Joe Rogan is sold. He is friends with Tulsi, who is a young global leader. I wanted to love him but could'n't bring myself to watch his show.

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Does he even own a TV?

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Even if he does, I don't think he's the brightest bulb on the string.

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BRAVO

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