REPUBLIC REBORN

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.

According to the Brady Bunch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR6NEv6yCEg

The measles is not the second coming of the Plague, hyperventilating headlines notwithstanding.

In light of the recent hysteria over anyone who questions the safety and efficacy of present-day vaccine policy, the campaign to censor those people, and the push for mandatory vaccination, it is more important than ever for us to remember that vaccines are not dropped from heaven by angels, but are pharmaceutical products created by fallible, flawed humans, in an environment ideal for the unchecked growth of corruption and fraud. One tragic instant of fraud happened when Merck’s pain medication Vioxx was recalled in 2004 after being on the market for 5 years. Vioxx greatly increased the risk for fatal heart attacks and strokes, with some estimates that the drug killed over 55,000 U.S. citizens in the 5 years it was on the market. More damning was the revelation that Merck knew in 1999, before Vioxx was available to consumers, that the drug increased the risk for fatal heart attacks, but fudged the research in order to fast-track the drug.

Worldwide, over 80 million people used Vioxx during the five-year window that it was available, meaning that the deaths could exceed hundreds of thousands. This is the same corporation that manufacturers, with complete legal immunity, the MMR and Gardasil vaccines. How can we trust anything that Merck produces? And how can we trust a medical establishment that can’t even bring itself to send to prison the executives that knowingly killed as many Americans as died in Vietnam?

A Sprint cell tower was installed on an elementary school campus in Ripon, California, (why, exactly?) in 2015. Since then, four students developed aggressive cancer, along with three teachers. The parents blame the cell tower for obvious reasons, and Sprint sent in a spokesman armed with a stack of industry-funded studies. Thankfully, the parents didn’t buy the bullcrap that was being sold to them, and now Sprint and the school have been sufficiently pressured to remove the cell tower.

The question, now, is: what about 5G? Thousands of cell towers identical to the Ripon tower will be placed everywhere. The wireless radiation will be ubiquitous, there will be no place to escape from it. What will be the rate of cancer after a decade of blanketing entire populations in 5G radiation?

A crucial lesson from the Ripon debacle is to never trust industry-funded science. It’s the same “science” that the tobacco industry used to “prove” that smoking cigarettes won’t give you lung cancer. It’s the same “science” that Merck has used to grease the gears for wide acceptance and distribution of the murderous Gardasil vaccine. But people who have seen the effects up close on a family member, usually won’t buy the BS that corporate reps use to cover up these crimes. What are people going to believe, what a stooge from Sprint says about the safety of a cell tower, or their own eyes?

Much of this industry-funded science uses the easily manipulable “epidemiological study” to finesse the desired facts. The susceptibility to fraud inherent in the epidemiological study was encapsulated perfectly by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when he said that you could easily manipulate an epidemiological study to prove that having sex didn’t cause pregnancy.

Industry scientists are basically the propaganda arm for their particular industry, and it’s nearly impossible to fight it. They buy the media and the politicians. Just look at how long it took to get a judgment on the non-Hodgkin Lymphoma-inducing glyphosate in Roundup. But the propaganda arms extend from the industry and into the regulatory agencies tasked with monitoring them. “Regulatory capture” takes place, which means that an industry begins staffing the agency with industry toadies, blessing the industry with a facade of objective science and accountability. Industry science infects the regulatory agencies, and these agencies begin to resist and suppress independent, actual science.

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Calls to silence an intellectual opponent is clearly an implicit admission of defeat, an admission that you have no faith in your own ability to make your case. Calls for censorship have abounded in recent weeks, when legislators and various medical professionals have called for silencing those who do not completely accept that “all vaccines are safe”. Dr. Peter Hotez prominently called for censorship of vaccine skeptics on Joe Rogan’s podcast, refusing even to consider a forum to debunk the “anti-vaxxers”. This clearly baffled Rogan, who couldn’t believe that someone who considered those ideas so dangerous would refuse to debate them. Here is the relevant part of the interview:

The anti-vaccine lobby owns the internet? The pharmaceutical industry is by far the biggest lobbying group in D.C., they air the majority of advertisements on television, in effect owning the government and the media. Social media has been a place where vaccine skeptics and health choice advocates can meet and discuss their concerns. Hotez takes the cowards way out, refusing to debate, and instead advocating censorship of these people, taking away the one public forum where they can convene.

More recently, three Yale professors and one pediatrician pulled out of a debate with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine safety at the last minute. Kennedy took the 3,000 mile flight to Connecticut anyway, and gave a four-hour press conference instead. If the other side is so confident in their ideas, why are they afraid to debate? The answer is obvious: they aren’t confident in their position. Kennedy would’ve humiliated them in a high-profile public forum and the footage would’ve garnered wide attention. The ensuing fallout would very likely have triggered a national debate where vaccine-skeptical ideas were given serious attention. It would’ve triggered a revolution and restructuring in vaccine policy. It would’ve been a healthy change, and all due to open debate. But the corrupt and intellectually bankrupt do not want debate. They want to keep their highly-paid jobs and their faux influence. But to do so means defending the laws and regulations that artificially animate their employers.

From his book, Socialism: 

Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction. Therefore everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. No one can stand aside with unconcern: the interests of everyone hang on the result.”