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Overseas pharmacies ignore IP protected drugs by using a loop hole in the international trade pacts that allow country claiming a national medical emergency and then go on to create their own generic copies.

You mean overseas countries like the Netherlands, Canada and UK not to mention all the other European countries are 'ignoring trade pacts' with the US? Huh?

Yes, unlicensed manufacturing is going on in places like India, but the fact of the matter is that the drug companies are charging insane amounts of extra in the US because they can. After all, they seek to make profit, so to them, the price is set carefully to the point that allows them to extract the most profit out of any given economy. The pharmaceutical industry is in a position in which people often have to buy their products or they will die. This is what allows them to ask prices that are way beyond what their actual R & D costs are. Look at the chart from this article outlining the costs and profits of the largest drug manufacturers. All of them spend more money on marketing than R & D and all if them have large margins, with Pfizer making as much as 43 % proft. These numbers are unheard of in any other industry, and they're solely the result of the american medical system's private nature which robs hospitals and states of effective ways to buy drugs cheaper. Instead of the Federal government or a state buying drugs in bulk, each private hospital chain has to buy them separately. This, combined with the fact that insured individuals don't really care how much the price is as long as it's covered by their insurance is what's put the US so far behind other developed nations in drig-polices and allowed the pharmaceutical industry to become the most profitable industry in the US.

There's no way for example European economies to 'force' these companies to sell to us at a loss. The prices they get selling their drugs to us are still profitable to them, butt because most non-US economies use differing forms of collective bargaining among other sensible policies, we're able to negotiate the prices down. A lot. The common counter-argument to this is that if the US started limiting drug companies' abilities to make as much profit as they currently do, they'd stop R & D and we'd run out of new drugs, but this is false. All of the companies can afford to sell the drugs much cheaper than they currently are being sold in the US and still make solid profit.

This is similar to to the fake post-election hate-crime-wave that we are supposedly experiencing, and to the death threats people fake on Twitter.

It's not fake. It's well-documented by the victims themselves, who are posting evidence of the crimes on social media. You are a liar, please go away.

Here is one standard liberal site that is pushing for it http://usuncut.com/politics/wh...

Not a total load of bullshit. I never said they didn't contribute to Rs, but the CEO is democrat, the organization is generally "progressive" and they have liberal leanings.
The Koch brothers also donated heavily to democrats, yet they are firmly labeled here as conservatives.

https://www.opensecrets.org/or...
http://usuncut.com/politics/de...
http://www.nationalcenter.org/...

Clinton won the vote without the superdelegate vote so in fact we do know that Sanders would not have won. There was no rigging of the election.

I personally know of two Bernie suppporters who didn't vote because the press claimed from the beginning that the results were a foregone conclusion due to the superdelegate vote. The news from April and May were rife with interviews from people who were voting for Clinton simply because they felt that, although Bernie was the better candidate, they had been told repeatedly in DNC sponsored ads that Bernie couldn't win a general election (We heard that same crap about Trump from the other side, and he still might win in spite of himself). In short, It is my considered opinion that Sander would have won had the superdelegates withheld their votes until after the general election. This is Not just My opinion

Granted, no one can know what would have been, but when voters are staying home, or otherwise voting for a different candidate because the establishment has told them their pick cant win anyways; when voters are not even being given the chance to hear about a candidate because the DNC has picked their winner and wont even release the party roles so that the candidate can reach primary voters and likely donors; When DNC executives are actively contacting large party donors and telling them not to give money to a candidate: Its hard not to think about how much that candidate has been screwed. This is the real reason people hate Hilary. Not because she is a bad person, but because bad people and corrupt people made sure she would get the nomination. It was handed to her as though it were somehow her due.

The most telling aspect of this election: Nearly every single person Sanders spoke to in person voted for him. The same cannot be said of any other candidate.

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us...
No intent, kept records in house, but with knowledge (which Hillary should have had...she went through the briefs).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Tried to bring attention to a perceived illegal activity, prosecuted anyways.

http://www.politico.com/story/...
Sailor took some photos for posterity of his workplace, he seems to have had no clue it was even an issue until he was charged with holding classified information.

http://pilotonline.com/news/mi...
No intent to distribute.

http://usuncut.com/politics/cl...

Of course, there is no case like Clinton's, even Powel never sent or received classified information. It is however gross negligence, and all of these above were the same.

Powell did not have a private server, and while he did have a personal address there is no evidence that any material that was classified at the time was ever sent to/from it. Politifact rates Clinton's statement that her predecessors did it as "Mostly false"

"the FBI itself, less than a year ago, charged one Bryan H. Nishimura, 50, of Folsom, who pleaded guilty to “unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials” without malicious intent, in other words precisely what the FBI alleges Hillary did" http://theantimedia.org/this-m...

The Government Has Prosecuted Nearly Every Violator of Secrecy Rules Before Hillary Clinton. The Obama administration has filed more charges against those who leak classified information than all previous presidential administrations combined, according to a statement made by CNN’s Jake Tapper that was marked “True” by Politifact. http://usuncut.com/politics/cl...

Many people, after watching the actions of Debbie Wasserman Shultz and the DNC in organizing the primaries and debates, would disagree with you. The contest was set up to provide as little resistance as possible to Hillary, and only when Sanders started to call the DNC on that did things start to change. Shultz is the current DNC chair, and she was the Clinton campaign co-chair in 2008, are you really trying to suggest that she was perfectly neutral in this entire process, and did not have her thumb on the scale for Clinton? If you want to claim that the DNC was unbiased in running the primaries, then you need to address issues like these (that list was written 6 months ago, by the way, it doesn't even include Nevada or other recent events).

Surely you're not trying to argue that the DNC did not formally and officially nominate Hillary before the primaries. If that's what you're arguing for, that's not the same argument that I'm having.

Well for starters:

Illinois:
http://www.inquisitr.com/30220...
https://electionfraud2016.word...

New York:
https://news.vice.com/article/...
http://www.inquisitr.com/30113...
http://usuncut.com/politics/so...

Feel free to look up Arizona on your own.

most of her significant wins have a cloud of large-scale voter suppression over them.

http://usuncut.com/politics/ne... http://www.democracynow.org/20... http://thinkprogress.org/polit...

When your guys is losing, there is always "large-scale voter suppression."

Actually, she's not winning free and clear; most of her significant wins have a cloud of large-scale voter suppression over them.

http://usuncut.com/politics/ne...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://thinkprogress.org/polit...

And at least in NY that likely would have disproportionately older people (it seemed to hit people with old registrations more) and minorities (because they always get hit the worst by voting issues). Aka Hillary's base.

Whatever you think of Hillary's politics she won because more people wanted to vote for her and more people did vote for her.

The door to this was left open when 191 million voter records were leaked, making re-registration with edited details trivial. The earlier scandal over the DNC voter records being open allow for specific targeting of those not supporting Clinton which is the demographic reporting issues.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/04/...

Quite simply, yes, there's overwhelming signs that this election is being heavily rigged and in dirty

Ok, lets look at the first piece of evidence from that link.

Shelly Berry shared on Facebook that she had proof her New York voter registration was changed. Her registration was switched from Democrat to unaffiliated and she was told the change was made in 2012.

So Hillary's dastardly plan to rig the primary by specifically suppressing Bernie supporters began four years ago?

Otherwise do you have any idea how many people would need to be involved to mess with enough registration records to really affect the democratic primary? That's a 9-11 truther level of conspiracy theory.

Sure there are problems with the US's voting system, it's a disorganized mess, it may be worse this year or it might just look worse because of the extra scrutiny.

But voting issues + your favourite candidate not winning aren't the same as "overwhelming signs that this election is being heavily rigged and in dirty".

Actually, she's not winning free and clear; most of her significant wins have a cloud of large-scale voter suppression over them.

http://usuncut.com/politics/ne...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://thinkprogress.org/polit...

And huge number of affidavit ballots cast in New York have simply not been counted.

Across the country, voters that have long been registered Democrat have discovered their registration details tampered to make their participation in closed primaries impossible. The door to this was left open when 191 million voter records were leaked, making re-registration with edited details trivial. The earlier scandal over the DNC voter records being open allow for specific targeting of those not supporting Clinton which is the demographic reporting issues.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/04/...

Quite simply, yes, there's overwhelming signs that this election is being heavily rigged and in dirty

The 2012 GOP platform clearly endorses alternative, renewable energy.

And by "endorse", I assume you mean, "doing everything they can to kill renewable energy".

http://usuncut.com/news/solarc...

http://www.scholarsstrategynet...

https://newrepublic.com/articl...

http://mic.com/articles/130336...

Plus, both of the leading GOP candidates for president, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, are climate deniers.

https://youtu.be/J_xVWfGjk0o

https://youtu.be/KyulquUwi1Q

Do you really believe that preventing legitimate Syrian refugees from entering the U.S. will prevent a single existing terrorist from an organization like ISIS from entering the U.S.? Even if no Syrian citizens are permitted to enter the U.S., terrorist organizations will pick another route to enter the U.S. Fake passports are not that difficult to come by. Hell, the Syrian passport found near the body of one of the Paris suicide bombers was a fake. Serbian police arrested a man Saturday with the same passport information except for the photo. But why even bother with coming in with false passport when you can use nationals who are already in place. Federica Mogherini, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, stated, “Let me underline—the profile of the terrorists so far identified tells us this is an internal threat. It is all EU citizens so far. This can change with the hours, but so far it is quite clear it is an issue of internal domestic security."

When you buy American, you're supporting institutionalized slavery.

http://usuncut.com/class-war/t...