REPUBLIC REBORN

The sudden, widespread coverage of the HPV vaccine is suspicious, to say the least. Many editorials have emerged over the past few weeks regarding the vaccine, with the likely motive being the June 27th meeting of the Advisory Council on Immunization Practices, and the HPV vaccine needed a good hyping so as to ensure that ACIP members would vote to recommend extending it to more age groups, and to also ensure that the public at large would be sufficiently groomed to accept that decision.

But the editorials trumpeting the HPV vaccine are woefully inadequate; they leave out the extensive criticism, scandals, and widespread injury that have followed it since inception. They really are nothing more than advertisements for Merck and GlaxoSmithKline. The reality is that this vaccine, heralded as a medical miracle, is a false idol, albeit one that is currently enriching those participating in this particular con.

What are some of the inconvenient facts surrounding this miracle vaccine? Here are a few: it hasn’t been proven to prevent cervical cancer, it hasn’t been tested for effects on fertility, it contains borax, it hasn’t been tested for whether it actually causes cancer, and the initial clinical trial has been mired in deception and deceit from the outset. Each of these is worthy of its own separate post, which I will write over the next several days, but it is important to first understand the scope of the deception and danger surrounding this vaccine.

The book, HPV Vaccine on Trial, documents much of this deception. Chapter 2 follows the stories of two young Danish women who participated in the clinical trials, Kesia Lyng and Sesilje. They were told, like all the other participants, that the vaccine had already been safety tested and proven to be safe, yet that was a lie. They were also told that they would be given a series of three injections of either the vaccine or a placebo, and wouldn’t discover which until several years later. But the choice wasn’t between the vaccine and a true saline placebo like they’d been led to believe. The “placebo” was the same aluminum adjuvant also contained in the vaccine. How could they give truly informed consent to the trial if that fact was concealed? Both Kesia and Sesilje experienced the same debilitating, chronic conditions, yet Sesilje discovered she had received the “placebo”, while Kesia had received the vaccine. And both girls’ symptoms were disregarded by the trial staff, refusing to indulge the possibility that their symptoms could be attributable to the injections.

It should be pointed out that Merck, the manufacturer of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, is currently embroiled in a lawsuit brought by the family of 24-year old Jennifer Robi, who was left crippled by the vaccine. The plaintiff alleges that Merck committed fraud during the clinical trials, with one major point being the fact that the “placebo” group received an injection containing twice the amount of aluminum adjuvant as the actual vaccine.

The corporate advertisements, disguised as journalism, are counting on you, the reader, to not look into the subject more closely. They’re hoping the very word “vaccine” will trigger that automatic reverence, thereby gaining a kind of counterfeit prestige among healthcare providers, which will trickle down to the public. It is a tragedy that the culture at large has developed such a blind faith in vaccines in general that bad vaccines like the HPV can slip by long enough for millions to receive it before the truth comes out. Is science truly in the miracle business? Cancer is an emotional subject for many people, and emotions can be easily and effectively manipulated. The benefactors of the HPV vaccine know this.

Justin Raimondo’s articles immediately following the attacks on 9/11 are astounding to read in hindsight. He predicted the loss of liberty, the succession of bloody wars instigated by the United States. I imagine a rather thick book is currently being compiled of Justin’s articles spanning the past two decades, because his work stands as the premier history of the War on Terror madness. I’ll post just two of his pieces here, the first written on 9/11/01, and the second the day after.

9/11: TERROR

9/12: Imperial Paralysis:”The sheer fragility of the American Imperium is what is painfully apparent here. Painful most especially to the US government, whose complete inability to defend the country while claiming the mantle of the world’s only superpower is exposed for all to see. It is the weakness of an entity that has grown too big, too overextended, too blinkered by pride (some would call it hubris) to see the pitfalls of the policies it has pursued, not only in the Middle East but around the world, from the Balkans to the Far East. Our foreign policy of global military and political intervention in the internal affairs of other nations, from Bosnia to Belarus, has produced what policy analyst Chalmers Johnson has referred to as “blowback.” In his book of that title, as if in anticipation of the perplexed “Why?” of the average Americans’reaction to this carnage, Johnson wrote:

“Only when we come to see our country as both profiting from and trapped within the structures of an empire of its own making will it be possible for us to explain a great many elements of the world that otherwise perplex us.””

Very few cool heads prevailed among the general public in those days. The greater portion of the US populace transformed into a rabid lynch mob, impatient for the retaliatory bloodshed. These people, virtually all of them, knew nothing of history, or of their own government’s actions in the Middle East that could’ve inflamed such hatred in someone that they would attack us, and they didn’t care. The vast majority delighted in the bliss of their ignorance, and called for mass murder of entire nations as if it were the most reasonable response imaginable. Our government caught wind of this national sentiment and exploited it, launching wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And the ignorant masses cheered on the destruction, not only of those nations, but of their own liberties as well. Bush/Cheney supporters positively reveled in the vast powers bestowed upon the Executive, laughing at the defenders of civil liberties as cowards, as people who didn’t have the stomach for such Imperial acts. Well, who’s laughing now? No one, that’s who. The consequences of such a heedless policy has created problems far worse than what we began with. We Americans have blindly supported legislation, war, and debt, the consequences of which utterly dwarf anything that “terrorists” could inflict upon us. Wasn’t that what Osama Bin Laden had said was his goal all along? To scare us so badly that we relinquish our liberty and launch endless war, bankrupting us in the process? The threat of terrorism has increased, yes, but the threat of our own government to our own well-being and liberty has increased by orders of magnitude. Justin saw all of this, and warned us, but few listened.

You’ll have to click through the link to watch the documentary, but it is worth it. The Danish girls that were injured following the HPV vaccination were subjected to all sorts of lies and accusations: faking their injuries, seeking attention, attempting to derail a life-saving medical breakthrough, etc. So it is amazing that their story was finally told in this documentary. It’s one that you won’t find on YouTube, however, and it is probably best to watch it now before Vimeo falls to the censorship madness:

https://vimeo.com/294301883

We are, at present, witness to a bizarre cultural cognitive dissonance, where we collectively agree, for the most part, that pharmaceutical corporations are hives of corruption and greed, who care nothing for the safety of their products if it means they can turn a profit. To the culture at large this applies to almost every pharmaceutical product with the glaring exception of one: vaccines. For some reason, the products manufactured and sold by these untrustworthy, corporate criminals can suddenly be trusted almost blindly if that product happens to be a vaccine. And the same people lambasting these companies for their role in the long series of drug scandals that have results in hundreds of thousands of deaths, will turn on a dime and begin viciously attacking anyone criticizing vaccines, which, again, are nothing more than a pharmaceutical product.

I don’t understand how it’s possible to walk around with such a massive contradiction in their mind and be comfortable with it.

I say this because it now appears that the corporate media has received its marching orders on promoting another pharmaceutical product: the HPV vaccine. The dry, unoriginal, boilerplate editorials are emerging out of whatever sweatshop that is employed to crank out such garbage in support of the HPV vaccine, touting it as some alleged miracle preventative cure for cervical cancer, despite the fact that it has never been proven to prevent cervical cancer. It has, however, caused rampant, debilitating injury in many of the teen and preteen girls that received the series of HPV vaccines beginning in Australia in 2007.

I’m currently immersed in the book, HPV Vaccine on Trial: Seeking Justice For a Generation Betrayed, one that will be instrumental in ending the bizarre cult surrounding vaccines, particularly those vaccines that target infections and illnesses that are either exceedingly mild, rare, or that have effective treatment options already available. The information in this book is so important that I will begin live-blogging each chapter, beginning tomorrow. As a preliminary remark, I will say that one of the most dangerous aspects of this vaccine is the sense of false confidence in those who receive it. Having been vaccinated, they’ll forgo the traditional pap smear, or the more recent DNA tests, thereby increasing the likelihood of HPV cancer later in life. As I said, there’s no proof that the HPV vaccine prevents cervical cancer, yet it is touted as manna from heaven, a pure gift of Science, and people buy into it because it is in vaccine form.

KELLEY VLAHOS: How Justin Raimondo made me a braver writer

TOM WOODS: Justin Raimondo, RIP

LEW ROCKWELL: Justin Raimondo, RIP

Chronicles Mag: In Memoriam: Justin Raimondo, 1951-2019

National Review: Justin Raimondo, RIP Ed: This one is more back-handed, written with the barely-concealed envy of a writer painfully inferior to the subject of the obituary. NR has been nothing more than a pro-war rag for years, with so much disposable, and forgettable, daily content.

San Francisco Chronicle: Justin Raimondo, longtime Bay area activist and writer, dies

Amazing interview:

It was announced on Antiwar.com earlier today that Justin Raimondo has died at the age of 67 after a two-year battle with lung cancer. An energetic and intransigent advocate for peace and liberty, he was gifted with a writing ability that left all others in the dust. His style of writing, and his passion, compelled me to make my own feeble attempt at the craft, and his writing was virtually my sole inspiration at the time I created Republic Reborn, back in 2014. His writing made me appreciate the persuasive power of the written word when done well and with care, and I’ve eagerly read and reread his tri-weekly columns, not merely for the enjoyment, but also to glean lessons of composition and style. I had always meant to communicate with him in some way on the topic of writing, if only to gain insight into what it takes to write truly well. He probably was the most eloquent of the anti-war voices, and his death is a tragedy and a irreplaceable loss for the liberty/peace movement.

The staff at Antiwar.com published a wonderful obituary following his death earlier today, filled with more information than I’d ever known about early years, including his run-in with Ayn Rand’s fatuous Objectivist cult when he was just 14. The article paints a picture of an eternal, inveterate rebel and individualist, passionate about the philosophy of liberty and a desire to deliver it from the realm of ideas and imagination into this world as soon as possible. The entire corpus of his writing stands as an immortal testament to that spirit, an attitude that is certain to realize the ideal of liberty, if only enough of its advocates hold fast to it. What I loved about him, and what I’m sure others also loved about him, was that Raimondo never “evolved” or “matured” as many writers do when they allow their pockets to be filled by rich philanthropists and corporate-sponsored think tanks, committing the ultimate act of artistic perversion and selling their soul in exchange for a false, and fleeting, prestige among the wretched Political Class. Raimondo’s website, Antiwar.com, relied on the monthly donations of its readers to sustain it, thereby retaining its complete and utter independence from the monsters for whom Raimondo was an eternal adversary. He never abandoned his principles, even when the war madness was at its height, and when everyone seemed to succumb to it in the early days of the War on Terror. He was a hero to many, of a type bordering on extinction now, but one that Tennyson surely had in mind when composing Ulysses, and I can think of no more appropriate epitaph for someone who so deftly wielded steel among so much filth and decay of the Imperial perversion of a long-dead Republic:

The best of the best during the first Democratic debate:

Unsurprisingly, Tulsi got the Ron Paul treatment during the first debate: little speaking time, disproportionate attacks, etc. Yet it was impossible for NBC to make her look and sound like anything but a voice of reason among a throng of the most hide-bound corporate puppets imaginable. And despite the fawning over the corporate-backed candidates, it was equally impossible to make them look and sound anything other than old, frail, and fake. The candidates most favored by the Political Class came across as hideously insincere, particularly Warren and Biden. Well, all of them really. At each new question, Beto O’Rourke roused as if awaking from a stupor, giving the most banal, empty boilerplate answers in both English and Spanish. Buttigieg brags about military service, yet his only “service” consisted of sitting behind a desk from the safety of a military base for six months. In contrast, Tulsi deployed on two combat tours, and experienced real war. According to her sister, the stress of war gave Tulsi the signature streak of silver in her jet black hair. It also gave her a unique perspective on war, as well as her intransigent stance against the endless stream of regime-change wars that have ruined nation after nation in the Middle East. That type of talk is vanishingly rare coming from a Presidential candidate; we’ve only heard it once before from Ron Paul. It’s an unalloyed attack on Imperialism, no waffling, no fine print. It’s also a frontal assault on the Political Class, for whom war is their very lifeblood. They’ll come down on Tulsi hard, but it’s clear she is going to put up a hell of a fight. And, just as it was a blast to watch the corporate puppets from every sector panic over Ron Paul, so it will be with Tulsi.