REPUBLIC REBORN

This is going to be a quick note on a cuff as I make my way through Amazon’s glorious-because-it’s-what-would-happen series, “The Boys”. Based on the premise of how superheroes, with all-too-human flaws, would operate in the real world, the show fully explores the inevitable power-drunkenness, vaunting egotism, and corruption that powered humans would exhibit if they really existed. And the worship by the public that blinds them to their flaws. So, maybe I should warn: spoilers?

Okay.

So early in the first episode, a lightning fast “supe” runs straight through a major character’s girlfriend, instantly killing her in gruesome fashion. The grieving man is later approached by an FBI agent, who informs him that “Supes lose hundreds of people each year to collateral damage”, to which the character responds, “No. Come on, that’d be all over the news. People would be screaming bloody murder.”

Sound familiar?

Isn’t there one particular pharmaceutical product that inspires that same blind worship on the part of the public, and encouraged by a snake’s den of corporate, regulatory, and government interests? All of whom share the same desire to suppress the true casualty rate and long-term health effects of this product? A casualty and injury rate that is never reported on by the corporate press, because people would be screaming bloody murder?

Isn’t there one particular pharma product that seems to be wearing an invisible cape, wreathed in holy light? And isn’t there one pharma product exempt from safety testing, from legal liability, beyond reproach? And isn’t that just the environment for the cancerous growth of unchecked corruption? We know it, and we know it hasn’t earned that esteem. Modern vaccines are riding the coattails of the earlier, and questionable, successes of the polio and smallpox vaccines. Undeservedly so.

You’ve got to hand it to the architects of the modern American State: they’ve perfected the art of pitting citizens against one another, separating them into groups and letting them fight. And our capacity to fall for the ruse every single time is uncanny. Whether by race, by the size of our paycheck, by political outlook, etc., we Americans allow ourselves to be filed into one or another group, and quarrel with the group we are instructed to. It’s pathetic, really. Our desperate, primitive need to identify with some tribe, even in this exceedingly modern era, is exploited to maximum effect, and we become sitting ducks for just the right turn of phrase that slips past our capacity for critical thought, triggering an emotional land mine, and years, decades, a lifetime later, we finally realize that we never actually chose to fight these ridiculous culture wars. We’ve been duped. Our emotions are manipulated masterfully by high artists of propaganda. We find ourselves among the ‘Left’ or the ‘Right’, the ‘capitalists’, the ‘socialists’, or whatever, and all the while the government grows, and as it grows it exploits, and wages war, and legislates to its heart’s content. Captured and controlled by myriad industries, the government becomes their tool to exploit the quarreling masses’ wallets and futures. Our true enemy is not our neighbor, our fellow citizens, however different they may be from us. Our true enemy is our own government. The chains that had been forged, over two hundred years ago, have irreversibly corroded, and lay broken at the feet of a beast that few believe to exist at all. Instead of turning our attention and anger toward it, we direct it at our fellow victims. And this monster of our own creation watches the spectacle, and laughs.

I can think of no other word to more accurately describe the mindless reverence bestowed upon one particular pharmaceutical product than ‘religion’. ‘Cult’ works as well. The fervor, the superstitious awe, the virulent desire to censor critics and forcibly convert the masses smacks of vulgar fundamentalism, and should be plainly stated. Despite the evidence that vaccines did not save the human race from infectious disease (clean water, clean food, proper nutrition, and good plumbing did that), the evidence that any immunity derived from vaccination wears off within five years, that the toxic load of aluminum injected into infants could, ironically, be causing irreversible damage to their immune systems, these people blindly, and militantly, promote vaccines as some God-given panacea. But vaccines are pharmaceutical products, produced, marketed, and sold by pharmaceutical corporations. The same corporations that have sordid histories of corruption, fraud, and criminality. We are welcome to question all manner of pharmaceutical products, but when that product resides within a syringe, the acolytes of the vaccine religion descend, quickly attempting to stamp out the fire of criticism before it spreads. How this is any different than any other deranged, totalitarian dogma from history?

Many foresaw the dangers of our government’s development of tools to combat “terrorism”: they would eventually be aimed, not at terrorism, but at any individual or group they chose. All the War on Terror tech eventually trickled down to local law enforcement to fight the War on Drugs, and other run-of-the-mill crimes. Now it will be used to suppress criticism of a pharmaceutical product, so long as that product resides within a syringe:

The Guardian: Anti-extremism software to be used to tackle vaccine misinformation

Bizarre string of news reports suggesting that the Pentagon’s experiments with insects between 1950-75 could be responsible for outbreaks of Lyme disease.

Gizmodo: Pentagon ordered to to tell Congress whether it weaponized ticks and released them into the public

Giraldi has written several intriguing articles focusing on the possible intelligence aspect of the Epstein affair, most recently his piece at Unz.com contemplating the possibility that Epstein could have ties to the spy network of a foreign state. Giraldi writes:

“That Epstein was perceived as being intelligence-linked was made clear in Acosta’s comments when being cleared by the Trump transition team. He was asked “Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?” … “Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had ‘been told’ to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. ‘I was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.’””

It’s intriguing to think of Epstein as a type of covert weapon to be used by intelligence to generate blackmail material against select individuals, providing leverage to use against them later to coerce their cooperation, with the threat of exposure always hanging above the target’s head.

If only every political event could receive coverage on-site from Dore:

English citizen Tommy Robinson has been an outspoken critic of his government’s gag on reporting on trials involving immigrants from the Third World setting up pedophile rings in his own country. Another Noble Lie situation, I’m sure, where authorities hope to contain what would surely be widespread outrage across the country, followed by demands for more restrictive immigration laws.

Now Tommy is set to head to prison for “contempt of court” for broadcasting the offenders on Facebook Live as they leave court. He believes, rightfully so, that his life will be in constant danger from the large Muslim inmate population, so he is set to officially ask the United States for asylum, which he won’t be given, unfortunately.

Restricting speech in the name of “anti-racism” is no way for a free society to behave. But England hasn’t been worthy of that title in decades.

Slate‘s 2017 investigation into the Gardasil safety trials is surprisingly detailed and straightforward. The article, ‘Flaws in the clinical trials for Gardasil made it harder to properly assess safety‘, gave a detailed look at several victims who had developed severe neurological disorders, such as chronic fatigue syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and others, after participating in the trials.  Most of these symptoms were completely ignored, or attributed to “new medical history”, and investigators refused to consider the vaccine as the cause. From the article:

“An eight-month investigation by Slate found the major Gardasil trials were flawed from the outset, however, and that regulators allowed unreliable methods to be used to test the vaccine’s safety. While these flaws do not mean Gardasil caused the rare crippling illnesses reported by the media, they are troubling. Public health officials use trials like these both to determine safety and, as evidenced by Merck’s statement above, to reassure the public when concerns like the ones about Gardasil arise. A flawed study design can complicate both tasks…”

“…Interviews with five study participants and more than 2,300 pages of documents obtained through freedom-of-information requests from hospitals and health authorities suggest inadequacies built into Merck’s major clinical tests of Gardasil. To track the safety of its product, the drugmaker used a convoluted method that made objective evaluation and reporting of potential side effects impossible during all but a few weeks of its yearslong trials. At all other times, individual trial investigators used their personal judgment to decide whether or not to report any medical problem as an adverse event—essentially, as a potential side effect worth evaluating further. Other health issues went on a worksheet for “new medical history,” reserved for conditions that bore no relation to the vaccine. This study design put the cart before the horse, asking investigators to decide which symptoms might be side effects, rather than tracking everything in the same way. While the company now says otherwise, there is no indication in the confidential study protocol that it submitted to regulators for approval that it would use new medical history as a safety metric. And it hardly would have qualified as such: The worksheet allotted just one line per entry, with no measurement of symptom severity, duration, outcome, or overall seriousness. Even if the company then used the data in subsequent safety assessments, the lack of detail would have hampered meaningful analysis.”

“…In all the trial locations, Merck also chose to restrict the reporting of adverse events—what the study protocol calls the “clinical follow-up for safety”—to just 14 days following each of the three Gardasil injections in the trial. Illness occurring outside these narrow time slots again was relegated to a single line on the medical-history worksheet, whereas for each adverse event, several assessments would need to be carried out and reported. There was an exception: Deaths or serious adverse events brought to the investigator’s attention and felt to be related to the vaccine or a study procedure were to be reported at any time. This design put individual investigators in charge of deciding, for most of the trial’s duration, what would be assessed and reported as a potential side effect.”

One interesting aspect of the article is that Slate also posted a “companion piece” to the article by science editor Susan Matthews, justifying their investigation of the safety of a vaccine. In no other instance would a news outlet feel compelled to justify their investigation into the safety of a drug or consumer product. In this case they did, and the author makes clear that it is due to the fact that the product in question is a vaccine. The author also makes clear that she would still receive the Gardasil even had she known about the negligent safety trials conducted for the vaccine.

The “companion piece” is instructive because it reveals why so many news outlets, regulators, and governments refuse to entertain any criticism of vaccines, or report the reality of vaccine injury. It’s the Noble Lie, a deliberate falsity maintained by the elite for an ostensibly greater good. The greater good in this instance being a high vaccination rate. Any criticism or report of injury is seen as a threat to high vaccine uptake, and is immediately ignored, suppressed, and ridiculed. This includes self-censoring behavior on the part of the press and regulators, who apparently believe that high vaccination rates trump critical inquiry into the safety of the vaccines themselves.

It should also be pointed out that a lot of money was riding on the success of Gardasil’s clinical trials, so there was plenty of incentive to commit fraud in order to ensure all the investment would produce a comfortable profit.

There are no depths that corporate thugs won’t plumb if it means marginalizing a viewpoint that threatens their power, if the latest deception is to be believed: it appears that NBC was caught digitally adding a fake pimple to Tulsi Gabbard’s face during the debate, which suddenly disappeared during the debate. Here is one of several sources that investigated “pimplegate”.

If the corporate media are actually altering the physical appearance of candidates in real time, then we must expand our view of what lengths the corporate-government interests are willing to go to protect their power.

I can see the reasoning behind it, though: Tulsi is almost too photogenic, too striking amid the hideous throng of Democratic candidates. NBC probably thought that her good looks alone would draw the attention of the viewers away from everyone else on stage, thereby giving more focused attention on her viewpoints.  A tiny digital zit wasn’t affecting public perception of her at all, and NBC probably knew it, and so removed the fake blemish, praying no one would notice. Well, it was noticed, and it merely confirms what we’ve always known: that the corporate media are stenographers to power. They will do anything, say anything, and smear anyone that their benefactors asked them to.

In Tulsi, the Warfare State’s perfect storm has arrived: the voice of the anti-war, the voice of the voiceless is encapsulated in an intelligent, intransigent, young, attractive combat veteran who means to end the American empire. You can’t help but pay attention to her when she speaks, and you can’t help but to adopt her mission as your own.