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Showing posts with label Big Pharma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big Pharma. Show all posts

3.3.19

Vexxed By Vaxxing

A company called Ndemic Creations recently announced that it is adding anti-vaxxers to its popular game Plague Inc.  No word on how much cash Big Pharma is pumping into their stock to "help out".

From the outset, let's establish that Big Pharma is motivated solely and completely by profits.

A recent article announced that Big Pharma was "urging" governments to stockpile antibiotics in case of a major "flu outbreak."  This is absurd on its face.  Influenza is caused by any number of viruses, and antibiotics have no effect on viruses - at all.  This article has only two purposes: first, to cause fear that a flu epidemic could occur at any time, and second to sell vast quantities of a drug that is wholly ineffectual for the given reason.  Profit.

Next, why are vaccines the ONLY government-mandated health regimen?  Most of the vaccines are for childhood diseases that have vanishingly small death rates - measles, mumps, chicken pox.  They are not pleasant diseases, but per capita, the death rates are tiny.  Over the last 10 years, the measles death rate has been less than 1 per year, while the number of known cases has varied between 100 and 200.  The number of deaths from mumps and chicken pox are vanishingly small.  On a global scale, death rates don't even rise above the statistical noise level.

Why are vaccines mandated and not, say, hand washing, vitamin supplements, healthy diets, and so on ad nauseum.  Profit.

If vaccines are so effective, why are there no vaccines for the really dangerous viruses?  Could it be that infection rates and/or affected populations are too small to generate tremendous profits?  Or maybe there's no political interest in certain diseases.  In fact, there are dozens of viral diseases that primarily affect Third World populations who don't have the wealth or trust to use vaccines, and so Big Pharma ignores them.

It's also possible that vaccines don't work, and so they are only produced for diseases that are generally harmless.  If someone gets a flu vaccine, then still gets the flu, they are most likely not going to die from it and there's a convenient excuse about a strain that wasn't planned for.  If, for instance, an HIV vaccines were announced and people who got it still fell prey to the virus, it would be quite obvious that the vaccine didn't work.  Pure Profit.

In fact, there is almost no metric of vaccine efficacy that can't also be explained by better hygiene, better diets, and better overall health care when one is sick.  If vaccines were stopped altogether this moment, disease rates would likely not increase over current levels.

That the scientific cabal (scientidiots as we call them) finds the term "herd immunity" an acceptable way to describe human beings and our health is at once revolting and telling.  Revolting because these high priests of the secular religion actually view us collectively as flock animals, and telling for the same reason.

It seems that lately, Big Pharma has been on a massive campaign to scare us all into queuing up for our vaccines.  They are using every tool at their well-funded disposal to inject us with fear porn and instill guilt.  We are told, as members of the "herd," that if any one of us gets sick, then it is the fault of those who have the sense enough to question this whole vaccine regimen.

To that I reply, if vaccines actually worked as advertised, why would any vaccinated individual need to worry about the unvaccinated.  In fact, what better marketing tool than to show that vaccinated folks need not worry about outbreaks of measles, chicken pox or flu?  There would be no question of efficacy.  We could all witness the value in action.  Sign me up!

It seems to me that blaming unvaccinated individuals for disease outbreaks is a blatant admission that their products do not work.

In point of fact, do you actually know what is in any given vaccine?  I mean really know?  Sure, they are labelled, but labels lie and obfuscate.  And how many times have you asked your doctor, or been offered the container to read?  And those "drug information sheets," you need degrees in medicine, chemistry and ancient Greek to wade through the first paragraph.

Sure, your highly trained doctor promotes them, but what is he/she receiving from the pharmaceutical companies to do so?  I've witnessed first-hand the gimmies, elaborate meals and "retreats" hosted by Big Pharma, and I almost want to promote their crud because of all that.

Sure, the government mandates them, but what has government ever done to earn your implicit trust - besides murder, maim and steal, of course?  How many government-approved products have ultimately been shown to be harmful?

When you go to the doctor's office to get your jab, have you ever asked to see the vaccine packaging?  Have your ever sent samples to an independent lab to be tested and verified as to contents?  No?  So you are just taking the word of a bunch of people with vested financial interests that what is being delivered directly into your bloodstream is both composed of what is claimed, and works as advertised.

At least heroin users get immediate feedback as to the purity and efficacy of the product they inject.

And there's always an out for Big Pharma.  With the flu vaccine, when you still get the flu, well...it's a strain we hadn't planned on last year when we made the potions.  Or perhaps there's a new mutated form of the virus that doesn't respond to the current vaccine.  Or perhaps you came into contact with an anti-vaxxer.

This last excuse is the one that makes me most suspicious and angry.  If the potions worked as advertised, then a vaccine should allow a member of the "herd" to walk into a room full of sick people without worry.  After all, you're immune, right?  That's what they advertise, right?

The US federal government, paragon of trust and good faith that it is, has actually set up a special court system, called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), just for claims against vaccines and manufacturers.  In that court, the manufacturer is never liable.  The American taxpayer is.  If your claim is found to be valid, you are paid off with tax dollars and required to sign a form giving indemnity to the manufacturer and vowing silence as to the details and outcomes of cases.

Such a deal!  The government mandates vaccines, then holds the manufacturers free of blame for any injuries or damages caused by vaccines, then uses your money to pay off the injured parties and shut them up.

And we wonder why we never hear of problems with vaccines?

There are two basic kinds of vaccine.  One uses chopped up pieces of viruses - the protein coats - to bind to cell receptors and activate immune responses in the form of B and T cells.

The other uses dead or "inactivated" viruses to the do the same thing.

The first question that arises is, if biologists can't agree whether viruses are actually living creatures, then how do we know they are dead, or "inactive"?  Don't exobiologists talk about viruses and bacteria lying dormant for centuries in the harsh environment of space?  Besides, if something is never alive, how can it be dead?

A virus is simply a protein shell with various bumps and dimples on the surface that lock into receptors on a cell's "skin".  Once a virus latches onto a receptor, it dissolves and injects a set of instructions - like mRNA - into the cell to high-jack the cell's normal processes and re-task them to producing more viruses.  In other words, a virus cannot reproduce itself.  It must take over a host cell and use it to do the job.  This violates one of the basic definitions of Life.

Viruses do not reproduce themselves, they must usurp the life processes of something else.  Viruses do not metabolize food and create energy - again they must use the processes of a living cell.  Viruses cannot move themselves, they depend on a medium such as air or fluid to randomly float to the next victim.  Viruses do not respire - take in oxygen and expire CO2.

They do not meet any of the criteria for life, and in fact many don't even have complete genomes or even DNA.  No motility, no respiration, no reproduction equals no life.

So exactly how do we know something is dead that shows no signs of life in the first place?  And if it is "deactivated," how does it do anything that provides immunity?

The next big issue is how vaccines are made.

Among other methods, some vaccines are produced by incubating the virus in human fetal tissue.  There is only one source of human fetal tissue that is not in utero - aborted babies.

This is one of those little details that are not widely advertised, since most people abhor the idea of having the tissue of aborted children injected into their bloodstreams.  On a cellular level, this is hardly different from cannibalism.

Then there's the is use of adjuvants.  An adjuvant is a potion that "enhances" the body's immune response, causing the release of antigens, and thus creating immunity (supposedly).  The mixtures that different companies use as adjuvants are the primary source of patents, and thus are proprietary to each manufacturer.

If, in fact, adjuvants act as advertised, one wonders why any part of a virus is needed in the first place?  What's more, we are not privy to the exact formulae because they are company secrets.  In other words, they are the part of the trick that even a magician won't tell another magician.

The most discussed issue with vaccines are the preservatives used to give the potions shelf-life and prevent contamination.  In the US, the three approved chemicals are phenol, 2-phenoxyethanol, and thiomersal.  The latter is well known to contain mercury, which causes the brain to short-circuit.

Mercury is the suspected cause of autism, and the origin of the expression "mad as a hatter".  More in a moment.

Phenoxyethanol is an interesting substance.  It is composed of a glycol chain and an ethanol chain bound by oxygen atoms.  It is also called ethylene glycol monophenyl ether, phenoxytolarosol, Dowanol EP / EPH, and several other names.  It is used in cosmetics and perfume as a liquifier base that evaporates leaving the other ingredients behind.  It is also a commercial solvent for various materials such as cellulose and resins.  It has the property of preventing bacteria and yeast from reproducing, so it is also used as a topical (on the skin) antiseptic.  Lovely stuff to shoot in your veins, especially if you are religiously bound to avoid alcohol.

Phenol is a white crystal composed of C6H5OH, or a phenyl group bonded with a hydroxy group.  It is aromatic, meaning it readily evaporates, and volatile, meaning it readily bonds with other substances.  It is produced from petroleum.  Let's let Wikipedia tell us about it:
 "It is primarily used to synthesize plastics and related materials. Phenol and its chemical derivatives are essential for production of polycarbonates, epoxies, Bakelite, nylon, detergents, herbicides such as phenoxy herbicides, and numerous pharmaceutical drugs."

Plastic?  Epoxy?  Nylon?  Herbicide?  And they inject that crap into our veins?  Recall that phenoxyethanol is basically this stuff mixed with grain alcohol.  Double-plus good!
We should also note at this point the connection to nylon and a strange disease called Morgellon's.

Finally, there's thiomersal.   You may know this stuff as Merthiolate, which used to be a common part of every medicine cabinet until it was quietly demarketed because of the mercury content.  It is a reddish substance used topically (on the skin) to treat cuts and scratches because of its antibacterial and antifungal properties.

Put simply, mercury is highly toxic to life as we know it.  According to "scientific consensus," and regular readers here know what we think about that term, it is perfectly harmless, which is why it is used to kill a wide variety of critters and was banned from topical use.

As a vaccine consumer, you have the choice of injecting your bloodstream with a petroleum distillate used in plastics, epoxies and detergents, or a mercury compound that kills everything it touches.  How exciting!

I've only surveyed the most visible issues with vaccines.  There are many others, such as the wisdom of over-exciting the immune system and its relationship to the growing problems with allergies.  There is also scant evidence that vaccine immunity is "remembered" by the body years later, which would take an entire book to discuss thoroughly.

Suffice it to say there are dozens of important considerations to entertain when deciding whether to pump your bloodstream full of toxins and pathogens in an effort to be healthy.  The arguments are similar to the use of radiation and toxic chemicals, all of which cause cancer, in cancer treatments: how does making the body sick create health?

There is an all-out campaign to scare people into jabbing themselves with this crud.  News stories on measles, chicken pox, and influenza outbreaks, and uninhibited guilt trips on parents are among the many tactics to induce fear and panic.

Of course, vaccines are offered as the only 'reasonable" solution to these fears.  Never mind that we are all the products of millions of years of humans surviving these ailments.  They are not pleasant, to be sure, but the death rates compared to the (hidden) damage caused by vaccines is laughable.  Furthermore, those who die from these ailments are usually immune-compromised to begin with.
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No one with a vested interest in selling you vaccines will tell you that a healthy diet, good hygiene and regular use of high-quality dietary supplements are as effective, if not more so, than any vaccines or combination of them.  In fact, the study of disease vectors, beginning with Pasteur and Leeuwenhoek, did more for public health than any vaccine ever has.  (Note polio infections were falling even before the introduction of the Salk vaccine in the 1950s)

If the foregoing information and links have produced any doubt in your mind about the safety and efficacy of vaccines, then it behooves you to do more investigation, especially if you are a soon-to-be parent about to be surrounded by people with a vested financial interest in pushing vaccines on your child.

Just looking at the preservatives used should make you question whether you want that crud pumped into your newborn.  Regular hand-washing, bathing your child and keeping the nursery clean will be far more effective and less dangerous.

Some final questions to ask: if you are vaccinated against, say...flu, then why do they run breathless fear-porn articles about flu outbreaks every year?  Wouldn't it be more effective to show all the healthy vaxxers who didn't get the flu this year?  Don't you want to be like them?  Or can't they show that to us?

27.8.17

White Is Black, Left Is Right

UPDATE: I no sooner get my rant posted than Lew Rockwell pops up with nearly the same argument, though with a more serious tone.

I have to say it has been very entertaining watching the antics of the American GeezerMedia for the past year.  They are in complete meltdown and don't understand why no one is listening.  Even Hollywood is feeling the pinch as folks just plain get tired of all the mind-control crap being pumped at them.

I predicted years ago, somewhere around the time I started this blog, that this would happen.  Eventually, the lock-step group-think would lose its grasp on society and the swing back to the other side would begin in earnest.

The socialist goose-stepping reached a peak under Obama.  A kind of semi-religious hush fell over the populace, where no one could criticize the first black president.  The Democrats tried desperately to keep the magic going with the first female president (I purposely won't use "woman" to describe Hillary Clinton), but it failed miserably.  Now all the Puppet Masters and their mind-controlled clowns are panicked as their perceived perch atop the world's Mind is lost.

The most interesting part of this whole charade is the intense battle to define Fascism as a right-wing phenomenon, and the desperate attempt to define the common terms used in everyday life, so that the Puppet Masters can control how and what people think.

The right wing are called "alt" and "extreme," while the left wing are "fighting" and "reacting."  No media outlet will mention that the right-wingers have all taken permits for their marches, while the left-wingers show up uninvited and start all the fights.  Wild attempts are underway to silence anyone that doesn't sync with the Proscribed Narrative.  Corporations, NGOs and all sorts of quasi-official "authorities" have been mobilized to plug the drain.

What no one, and I mean NO ONE is saying is that Fascism is defined by the marriage of corporate and governmental power.  That is its raison d'etre..  That is what differentiates it from other forms of "authority."  It is not a left-right paradigm, it is up-down, which doesn't fit in the carefully crafted narrative we are all supposed to consume and spew back.

The other thing that is being VERY CAREFULLY hidden is the fact that the term "Nazi" is short for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.  If you don't read German, that's the National SOCIALIST Workers' Party.  It's a left-wing movement.  Damn fools think most people won't look it up on Giggle or are completely ignorant of history.  Well...I guess they're right in that regard.

As they pull down statues right and left, they are also banking (used advisedly) on the fact that no one knows the Civil War was started by Democrats, that racist Dredd Scott laws were instituted by Democrats, and that Democrats have caused just about every major collapse of civilization in the past 2,500 years, starting with the Greeks.

Furthermore, NO ONE will mention that the entire premise of Democracy rests on an educated and erudite populace, which judging by the campuses in the US don't exist anymore, if ever.

In every single instance in current events, it is the left-wingnuts who are censoring, destroying and injuring.  It is the left-wingnuts who fling urine and feces at peaceful protesters.  It is the left-wingnuts who ambush police, burn down businesses and demand the silencing of even the slightest opposition.  And it is the left-wingnuts who control the GeezerMedia narrative and make it positively unpalatable.

Some may point to the Neo-Cons, but they are left-wingnuts in disguise.  There is no difference philosophically between the transition from LBJ to Nixon, than from Obama to Trump, except that there are exactly ZERO conservatives in the US Federal gummint.  There are only Democrats, and Democrats who called themselves Republicans to get elected, with the possible (though tentative) exception of Rand Paul.

The public narrative is oh-so-careful not to point out that Nazis were left-wingnuts and that all this collusion between corporations and government is the very definition of Fascism.  In a real and organic system of government, it is supposed to protect people from the corporations and the use of financial power to seduce and coerce the masses.

It is an absolutely bizarre spectacle going on the US these days.  It is the insane leading the deluded.  It is normal people being overrun by nitwits whose idealism comes from a bottle of Xanax.  And in the end, puerhaps that's the root of it.

Perhaps Big Pharma has so doped the populace that people are incapable of reacting to stupidity, or conversely, folks too drugged to comprehend reality.  Perhaps all 300 million Americans are in a pharmaceutical cloud, incapable of clear thinking on anyone's part.  Nothing else adequately explains the sheer disconnect from anything sane.

It is a medical Matrix

23.2.17

From Hell's Heart I Stab At Thee

The most common argument invoked to silence those of us who are rightfully dubious of vaccines is analogous to saying a chocolate cake is still delicious, despite the presence of arsenic in the recipe.  The other part of the argument is that if a little chocolate cake is delicious, then four-and-a-half tons of it in one sitting is even better.

In the Far Side's ongoing rant against vaccines, the most common criticism we receive is that we are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.  Vaccines, they say, are obviously good, so what's a hundred thousand acute and/or chronic illnesses per million, when compared to the glories of induced immunity?

When it is you or your child that is incapacitated for life, we must conclude that 1-in-10 is unacceptable, especially when both the efficacy and safety of vaccines have been dramatically called into question in the past couple of years.

Most recently, the Italian national science agency discovered significant quantities of heavy metals and unknown bio-contaminants in over 40 tested human vaccines, the German high court found no evidence for a measles virus, and outbreaks of disease among vaccinated populations have highlighted issues regarding the efficacy of vaccines.

A recent RAND study of over 20,000 published papers found little strong evidence for associations between vaccines and common complaints:
CONCLUSIONS: There is evidence that some vaccines are associated with serious adverse events; however, these events are extremely rare and must be weighed against the protective benefits that vaccines provide. Careful consideration should be given to the investigation of research gaps, including patient risk factors that may be associated with AEs; however, important factors must be taken into account when determining whether studies are warranted, including the severity and frequency of the AE being studied and the challenges of conducting sufficiently powered studies when investigating rare events.

However, this study doesn't appear to address so-called "tobacco science," in which data is cherry-picked to arrive at the desired outcome, nor does it address the powerful influence that vaccine manufacturers have over which papers are published and/or allowed public access.  Furthermore, in the US in recent years, the manufacturers have been inoculated against liability for their products and special "secret" courts set up that don't allow class-action suits. This can easily be interpreted as a virtual admission of guilt, not to mention a blatant example of government and industry colluding in a protection racket.  It is also a sure-fire recipe for abuse of public trust.

Into this mess rides Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  Long a champion of the vaccine safety issue, he has issued a US$100,000 reward for anyone who can produce evidence that Thimerosal - a mercury compound commonly used in vaccines as a preservative - is safe for human injection.  It also appears that the Trump administration will name Kennedy as head of a special investigative panel on vaccines.

One is tempted to feel a glimmer of hope that the global reign of terror by Big Pharma may be coming to an end, but I am reticent to indulge just yet.  The prospect of losing billions in ill-gotten profits, plus the decades of potential lawsuits in nearly every jurisdiction on Earth would tend to make the industry willing to fight dirty.

Take the MMR vaccine as an example.  The German court's findings mean that at least one-third of the vaccine is completely imaginary, since no measles virus exists.  Thus, the millions of doses given worldwide, with at least some part of the price being completely without cost, as no processing is required to inoculate against fantasy.  That's a tidy little income with virtually no expense to achieve it.  How many of the vaccines are equally imaginary?

We have only the say-so of Big Pharma to guarantee the safety of vaccines, since government regulators seem more than willing to sell us out for free vacations and cushy revolving-door jobs at the end of every rainbow.

We are faced with severely entrenched forces whose ability and desire to poison humanity for profit is increasingly clear.  It is an uphill battle with both industry and government sided against those of us who are sick of being told what is good for us at the expense of our children's futures and the general health.  It will not be easy to pry the truth out of the system.

Nevertheless, we can be encouraged that the tide is turning against the Big Pharma leviathan and even little victories are worth celebrating.

26.3.16

Going Viral (The New Postal)

A while back, I spent two and a half years and a quarter-million dollars fighting Texas "Child Protective Services."  I use quotes because that and similar agencies do not protect children, but that's another post.

Among other issues, such as I wouldn't file a Birth Certificate (I had notarized letter instead), wouldn't get her a Social Security Number and home schooled, the big issue was that I stopped all vaccines.

Here's what happened: at about three months old, my daughter started having petit mal seizures, usually after eating.  Her eyes would roll back and her body would go stiff as a board.  Naturally, I did what any dad would do and freaked out.  I took her to the largest and most famous hospitals in the world.  They flashed her with colored lights, scanned her with CATs and MRIs.  Hooked her up to all kinds of electrodes and made reams of paper with squiggly lines.

In the end, I got one of the most distressing diagnoses you can get - the Big Shrug.  No one knew what was going on.  She was perfectly normal, as far as anyone could tell with all their gee-whiz machines and laboratory tests.  I was told everything from she'll grow out of it to maybe some future discovery will help.

I wasn't very happy with that, as you might imagine.  I started researching.  I read hundreds of medical papers.  I traded email with experts.  I consulted acupuncture and massage therapists.  I left no stone unturned.

That was when I discovered a network of parents who had stopped vaccines and had cured a whole host of things, like autism, learning disabilities, ADHD, even asthma (which my daughter also had).  I was skeptical, naturally.  Like any good parent today, I bought the line about vaccines being good and necessary for your child's health, but after reading the experiences and talking to parents involved, I came to the conclusion that something about the vaccines was inherently wrong, and that kicked off a whole other line of inquiry.

When I was done, I was convinced.  I stopped the vaccines immediately and from that point on, the seizures stopped.  The asthma eventually went away.  I became a convert.

There are far better articles out there on vaccines than the one I intend to write here.  What I am going to do is point out that there are a number of "authorities" who are also questioning vaccines, and that the veil that has hidden the corruption and greed behind the vaccine "industry" is slipping and a great many folks are waking up.  In fact, I recommended that my granddaughter not receive vaccines, but was ignored until a developmental psychiatrist (one of the most respected in Southeast Asia) told my kids to stop the vaccines to repair the problems they've been having (mild autism, allergies, the usual).

It's a very difficult choice.  There is a tremendous amount of pressure and guilt placed on parents to vaccinate.  The issue is clouded with a bunch of kooky conspiracy theorists that make anyone researching this feel silly.  Worst of all, the pharmaceutical industry is so powerful, that they have gotten some governments to pass mandatory vaccination laws (I won't go into the morality of this here).  It's getting to the point where there is little choice left but to pump your child full of toxic chemicals and lethal microbes, or the government will attempt to take your child away.  I know...I've been there.

What brought this rant on was a recent article stating that the Centers for Disease Control in the US has mandated three additional vaccines in the already overloaded schedule.  The average US child will now receive 74 doses with 53 injections by the time they are 18 years old.  This sounds excessive to me, considering most of the vaccines are for diseases that used to be considered a normal part of grouwing up (mumps, measles, chicken pox, etc.).  These diseases, with proper care and rest, are little more than inconvenient and uncomfortable.  In my day, if someone got chicken pox, all the kids were piled into the same room to get it over with.

Within days, I found another article about a court in Milan, Italy, ruling in favor of parents of a boy with autism, which the evidence showed was caused by a 6-in-1 vaccine (hexavalent) produced by GlaxoSmithKlein.  Good luck trying this in the US, since laws now protect and indemnify the Big Pharma producers from liability.

I no sooner finished that article, when this one popped up: Putin: Western Governments Are Enslaving Humanity Through Vaccines.  The gist of the article is this:

"According to the Ministry of Health insider, the report validates President Putin’s suspicions. There is a huge conflict of interests between the government agencies which regulate vaccines and the corporations that approve and implement the vaccines."

Of course, none of this is coming in through Western media, but a thorough search of foreign press will turn up additional articles.  I suggest using DogPile or some other search engine not bought out by corporate and national security interests.  You might even want to use the Tor Browser to avoid some of the censorship issues.

I still believe that the CONCEPT of vaccines is viable and correct, but the current implementation of vaccination policies and the toxic brews that are manufactured are far more harmful than taking your chances with nature.  There is a growing body of evidence that current formulations and practices are far more harmful than the diseases they claim to protect us from.

It's a tough decision and one that requires a parent to reflect deeply on what they believe, how much risk are they willing to take with their children's health, and how trustworthy are the institutions and corporations that are foisting these things on us.

In the end, there were several questions that led me to my decision.  If vaccines work, then why do children still get these diseases?  When someone gets sick at school, why do they go on quarantine?  If the formulas are good and risk-free, then why does Big Pharm need laws indemnifying them from damages?  Finally, does any individual or organization have the right to tell you what you must or must not put in your body or those of your family?

The answers to these questions are complex, and if properly weighted, will lead an individual to question a lot of things about our modern society, especially when it comes to drugs and medical treatment.  If nothing else, one must ponder the power of greed and the profit motive in all of this.

Maybe the answers to these questions are why we are so thoroughly discouraged from asking them in the first place.