Though you wouldn’t know it from watching the nightly news, there is a mumps outbreak currently underway throughout the U.S., one that is 20 times larger than the measles “outbreak” currently causing so much opportunistic hand-wringing and fear-mongering among the government officials and their stenographers in the mainstream media. It’s spreading like a wildfire through the vaccinated student body of several universities, stupefying health officials, who can only recommend getting an MMR “booster” in lieu of actual advice.

Something else you probably haven’t heard about is the Navy ship entering its third month of quarantine on the high seas, literally sailing in circles as it struggles to regain control of a “mumps-like illness” currently infecting a portion of the fully-vaccinated sailors aboard.

Why aren’t these stories given the same airtime as the measles “outbreak”? One reason might be due to the fact that Merck has, for the past seven years, been embroiled in a lawsuit over the efficacy of the mumps component of the Measles/Mumps/Rubella vaccine. The lawsuit was filed by two former Merck scientists who claimed that Merck engaged in fraud by concealing the poor efficacy of the mumps component of the MMR vaccine. Stephen A. Krahling and Joan Wlochowski, virologists who had worked in Merck’s vaccine laboratory from 1999 to 2002, allege that they were forced to participate in “Protocol 007”, the official name for the effort to falsify research to make the vaccine appear far more effective in inducing immunity to mumps than it actually did.

The reason for the lack of coverage is more than likely due to the fact that Pharma pays the salaries of the major media outlets, $3.7 billion in 2018 alone. They also own your Congressman, your family doctor, and probably your priest.  The narrative is on the auction block, and Merck can outbid everyone else, including the families of teenage daughters now crippled from an aluminum adjuvant in their murderous Gardasil vaccine, or formerly pregnant women who suffered a miscarriage, mysteriously, immediately after receiving a flu vaccine.

Vaccines are not sacrosanct, they are a pharmaceutical product produced powerful, corrupt corporations with no incentive to test for safety. But questioning vaccines draws the same ire as questioning the troops did at the height of the war on terrorism hysteria. “I support vaccines” is the new “I support the troops”. It’s an empty incantation, blind support that deserves criticism, ridicule, and debate. Supporting the troops has been equated with blindly supporting their deliverance into whatever new theater of death our Political Class deems appropriate to their interests.

I oppose war because I truly do support the troops. Their lives should hold more value to the ones with power over them. Accountability should be brought to the pharmaceutical industry in the same way that it should be brought to the weapons industry, the complex of interests that gains from endless war. Powerful industries that receive protection from the Political Class deserve criticism. What they do not deserve is a captive nation of customers, who are forced to inject their untested product into their bodies.

Ecuador sealed the deal on a $4.2 billion “loan” from the International Monetary Fund in late February of this year. That’s not all, though. It will also receive $6 billion from the myriad globalist moneylenders that entice the governments of developing countries into digging a bottomless pit of debt for their people. It’s a deal with the globalist devil, and that infernal creditor will collect his debt, ask for various favors, and basically ensure that yet another nation in safely tucked away in his pocket. One of those favors may have been the apprehension of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, because, just this morning, Ecuador tossed Assange out of their embassy that he’d been hiding in for the past seven years. The British police immediately arrested him, and the U.S. gov’t is going to force an extradition, give him the kangaroo court treatment, and then toss him into a hole for several decades, in order to send a message to whistleblowers and actual journalists: Expose us at your own peril.

The intensity of the mob mentality surrounding the vaccine debate is reaching a crescendo. The reaction of virtually everyone I’ve come into casual contact with where the subject has come up has not been one of a fully-formed human mind capable of critical thinking and at least a partially functioning B.S. detector. Instead, it has been the slightly horrified expression of someone held utterly in thrall to a superstition. If there has ever been documented a facial expression for a silent accusation of “heresy!” or “blasphemy!”, I see it when the topic of vaccines arises, at least in a mild way. It’s scary, but also sad, in the sense that, for many people, vaccines have reached the “it’s beyond debate” area of the brain, usually reserved for a god, a government, or the Hale-Bopp comet’s Space Jesus.

My take on the issue, when in the presence of someone else, is vanilla in the extreme: I wonder aloud what could be the cause of the autoimmune/autism epidemic that sprung up seemingly out of nowhere sometime around 1990. I wonder aloud why lifetime chronic illness affects one-in-three children born after 1990. I bring up the fact that many vaccines are manufactured by Merck, the same company that knowingly manufactured and sold a pain medication that induced fatal heart attacks, and ended up killing over 55,000 U.S. citizens. For some reason, these people don’t mind that I criticize Vioxx, or Merck. But vaccines are a different story altogether. I sense the psychic equivalent of a hand reaching for a crucifix at the mere mention of them in a tone that suggest they are something slightly less than an immaculately conceived gift from God.

I’m not even trying to convince anyone, I’m only raising questions. But it’s the reaction to any type of questioning that is disturbing to me. Openly raise a slight objection to vaccines and the air suddenly leaves the room. Every mouth within earshot transforms into a thin line. If there was a censorship Czar close at hand, I’d be reported. And it is so easy to see how quickly we slip into tyranny.  In a sense, we are predisposed towards it. Something inside us just loves watching a heretic burn, and we want to be the one to have put them on the pyre.

We are not nearly as evolved, or “modern”, as we think we are.  We think that, because we use a laptop, use a mobile phone, drive electric cars, and believe in “Science”, we aren’t susceptible to the same superstitions that destroyed countless lives and civilizations before us. We go about our day-to-day lives with all our gods lined up nice and neat in our mind, whether we are aware of it or not. One could say that that very unawareness of our insidious ability to deify is all the more dangerous, since we wouldn’t know the danger of what we created until it was already raising up armies, passing laws, and sacrificing children.

There is a feeling that we as a society are backpedaling into a cult of Science, with the flames stoked by pharmaceutical corporations, politicians with a price tag on their integrity, and the legion of well-meaning useful idiots that inhabit every level and feverishly spread the Dispensation.

If we are to preserve liberty, and civilization itself, every aspect of our existence should be subject to questions and cross-examination, nothing should be allowed to fossilize into dogma.

In 2008, Michael Froman, a Citigroup executive at the time, sent an email to Obama’s campaign chairman John Podesta with a list of who he wanted to fill the cabinet in the event of an election victory. Obama won, and he did exactly what he was told by an executive of the largest recipient of financial crisis bailout cash. This should’ve been the real news, yet why didn’t we hear about?

Here is the stranger than fiction story from The New Republic: 

The most important Wikileaks revelation isn’t about Hillary Clinton

Jimmy Dore breaks it down, along with other revelations from the Obama years:

“Have you ever used orphans to study an experimental vaccine?

Plotkin-“Yes.”

“Have you ever used babies of mothers in prison to study an experimental vaccine?”

Plotkin-“Yes.”

And so goes the ghoulish, 8-hour deposition of Stanley Plotkin, possibly the foremost authority on vaccines in the world. Plotkin had decided to intervene in a custody battle in Michigan. The father wanted his child vaccinated, the mother did not. Plotkin apparently thought it would be a quick cakewalk, and it’s highly doubtful he knew he’d be subjected to such a probing deposition from someone familiar with the subject matter. He recused himself from the court case the following day.

Here is just one of many nuggets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDxrcwvaUMw

“The question is whether we are to have experiments performed on fully functioning adults and on children who are potentially contributors to society or to perform initial studies in children and adults who are human in form, but not in social potential. It may be objected that this questions implies a Nazi philosophy, but I do not think that it is difficult to distinguish non-functioning persons from members of ethnic, racial, economic, or other groups.”

Unbounded ego, and the insidious capacity of some people to believe they can play God, is on display here. It’s ugly, but is it surprising? Plotkin is just one of many of the pedigreed filth that comprise the academic Praetorian Guard of the pharmaceutical industry, cloaking it in it’s mystique, and it’s facade of white-coated, objective Science.

Aside from falsifying safety tests for it’s murderous pain medication, Vioxx, Merck also discussed how to silence physicians critical of the drug. In 1999, Merck employees batted around a hit list of doctors that needed neutralizing, with one email stating that:

“We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live …”

The shenanigans of Merck during the Vioxx saga border on the surreal, such as the pro-Vioxx pop song written for sales reps, and a legion of reporter stalkers to ensure the “correct” story gets published.

This idiotic, evil entity lived through a scandal that should have leveled the entire industry. Instead, it flourishes today, and you’ve probably injected your children with one of its products.

The Third World has got it rough: completely apart from rampant poverty, malnutrition, disease and early death, they also have to deal with the misguided humanitarian campaigns waged against them by the idle, ignorant rich from the First World. These campaigns take a variety of forms, including devastating regime-change wars that transform whatever social order that existed into a raging dumpster fire, “aid” that ends up destroying the local economy, to propping up the humanitarian-approved dictator with billions in taxpayer dollars. They also take the form of vaccines. One such vaccine is Dengvaxia, ostensibly designed to inoculate one such Third World population against dengue fever. That population resides in the Philippines, and the vaccine did not perform as planned. The manufacturer, French-based corp Sanofi Pasteur, found, in 2017, that their vaccine caused a severe dengue infection in those without a prior infection. By that time, over 700,000 Philippine children had been vaccinated with Dengvaxia, many without parental consent. Fallout ensued.

This is just another example of the Third World being used as a laboratory for First World pharmaceutical corporations.

The last thing that these poor countries need is any more intervention from the West, whether that be in the form of regime-change war via the Military Industrial Complex, or the Big Pharma poison, be it in the form of a syringe or a pill. They don’t need money, they need to be left alone to evolve, to find their own path, to grow their own social order, their own institutions.

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How could anyone that lived through the Vioxx scandal ever trust anything their doctor, or any doctor, said, ever again? The heart attack-inducing pain medication was prescribed to over 25 million U.S. citizens, killing an estimated 55,000, and probably much, much more, over a period of five years. This should have been an industry-changing scandal, a profession-changing one. It was not. Hundreds of thousands of family members had to wake up to, and process, the shocking news that their parents, grandparents had simply died, suddenly, from a severe heart attack. Merck, the manufacturer of Vioxx who concealed the evidence of a doubling/tripling of the heart attack rate in studies before launching the drug, settled with some victims finally in 2011. Ray Gilmartin, CEO of Merck while Vioxx passed over the land like the Grim Reaper, now teaches “Management Practice” at Harvard Business School. He’s on the board of Microsoft. His post-Vioxx, post-Merck career has been more than a golden parachute; there has been no discernible decrease in the wind at his back. This pig-at-the-trough glided from a burning ship to another without a single scratch. He even had the audacity to pen (ghost-written?) essay, The Vioxx Recall Tested our Leadership, implicitly denying culpability and vainly expounding on what he learned from the ordeal, much the same way a child would after getting caught torturing the neighborhood cat. There were no consequences, and so he didn’t learn a thing, other than gaining an expanded perspective on what he could get away with.

His treatment and career perfectly mirrors that of politicians, generals, and media personalities who lie us into war. The architects of Iraq are still given medals, Hillary walks free although the facts of Libya are in full view, Obama’s war in Syria has destroyed millions of lives. The list is endless. These people do not live in the real world, of consequences, guilt, and growth. There isn’t a prison for the truly powerful.

Back to the original point: how can you trust your doctor, any doctor? They are still pushing products manufactured by the same corporation that created Vioxx. Why would you trust them? Gardasil and the MMR are Merck pharmaceutical products. But these products are unique in the fact that you are unable to sue Merck in the event that your child is permanently crippled by them. Gardasil has a 1-in-40 serious injury rate by Merck’s own admission, yet parents blindly inject their daughters. Why trust a member of an industry with an environment so toxic that it not only produces scandals such as Vioxx, but fails to punish anyone responsible when it does happen?

We are told that there is a measles “outbreak”, but what of the skyrocketing epidemic of chronic illness in children? It never makes the news. Where are all the 40- and 50-year olds with debilitating autoimmune disorders or autism? Something in our environment is devastating the immune systems of entire generations of children, something that has only been around since the early 90’s, and no one talks about it. The tail is wagging the dog, Pharma is controlling the narrative.