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December 18, 2023

How Big Pharma Sold Depression and Its Treatment to the World

Why antidepressants fail many patients and a review of the forgotten cures for depression
•After the SSRIs were developed, their manufacturers realized the population needed to be convinced they were suffering from depression so as many people as possible would buy their drugs.
•The tricks the drug industry used to perform this were remarkable and have many parallels to how the predatory pharmaceutical industry pushes many other drugs on us.
•While a minority of patients (about a third) benefit from antidepressant therapy, the majority do not (termed “treatment resistant depression”), but unfortunately, until recently there have been minimal options available for these patients.
•Much of this results from depression being viewed as a single illness, rather than a myriad of conditions with somewhat overlapping symptoms.
•In this article I will discuss the most effective non-pharmaceutical approaches I and my colleagues have come across for treating depression.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-big-pharma-sold-depression-and-1c0?publication_id=748806&post_id=139879901

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October 02, 2026

CPP is the latest on Carney’s chopping block
The new $50 billion Brookfield partnership puts hard-earned Canadian pensions at risk.

All eyes should be firmly placed front and centre on the current situation between Mark Carney and our Canada Pension Plan (CPP). His furtive sleight of hand is in action once again. In short, his latest method of eventually transferring our hard-earned fund over to his bedfellow Brookfield has begun.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Brookfield have launched a $50 billion “Maple Fund.” Their explanation is that it will be utilized to funnel capital into critical infrastructure and other industries across Canada. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

In 1965, the CPP, introduced by the government, was initiated in order to assist people who did not have a retirement pension. Employees gave a certain percentage of their income to the fund, and the employers matched that figure. To be exact, 15% of income before taxes.

This fund consists of our hard-earned money, and we ...

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October 02, 2026

End Times Headline News October 2 2026

Trump: Iran ‘ready to fold up’. War Returns To Ethiopia. Putin Warns West Not to Escalate. France BURNS. Macron takes aim at ‘American free speech’. The Agenda 2030 Plan Is WORSE Than You Think
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/end-times-headline-news-october-2-265

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