Showing posts with label globalization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label globalization. Show all posts

Thursday, April 15, 2021

The Polio Vaccine—add this footnote

Salk's polio vaccine caused 1000s of polio cases, with 200 kids left paralyzed and 10 dead.

What is often ignored is that, although Americans lived in fear of the dreaded disease nicknamed “infantile paralysis,” and polio was the most feared disease of the 20th century, it was not the deadliest. Ten times as many kids died in accidents and three times as many to cancer.

It surely didn't help matters that a prominent American had been struck down with polio. Future president Franklin D. Roosevelt, got the disease in 1921 at the age of 39 and was left partially paralyzed and used a wheelchair during his presidency.

The narrative goes that polio occurrences were sporadic and low and "major" polio epidemics were unknown before the 20th century. In the 1900s was when "major" epidemics began to occur in Europe. Soon after, it is claimed that widespread epidemics appeared in the United States. By 1910, frequent epidemics became regular events throughout the developed world primarily in cities during the summer months.

Disease inducing viruses festering during the summer months; should there have been a concern for hygiene; or the need to stay clean and dry? Institutions back then had a poor understanding about the impact of catchy phrases like; "Wear, Wait, Wash" or "Hands. Face. Space."

At polio's peak in 1952, there were 58,000 new cases reported in the U.S., more than 3,000 (5.2%) died and over 21,000 (36.2%) had varying degrees of paralysis.

For perspective—influenza or "the seasonal flu" kills about 19,000 Americans in an average year.

The Salk polio vaccine contained formaldehyde: Salk's “killed-virus” vaccine was made by growing samples of the virus and then deactivating them by adding formaldehyde.

Jonas Salk also tackled influenza (in 1938 using fertilized chicken eggs a method that is still used today). His flu vaccine is still in use today. For the 2020-21 flu season, the CDC expects 81% of the vaccine supply to be egg-based.

Covid virus has been reportedly mutating, with "more contagious" variants or strains making appearances in South Africa*, Spain, U.K. and Brazil. Is this a similar pattern as the "seasonal flu?" If so, should we be concerned about the verity of the glowing reports on the 62-94% vaccine efficacy against the virus?

* A large round of human trials took place in South Africa, locally managed by the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg—a Gates-funded institution.

The claims of efficacy rate for Covid vaccines:

Novavax—96%, Pfizer—94%, Moderna—94%, J&J—72%, AstraZeneca—62%. The U.S. is the most vaccinated country in the world, counterintuitively it has the highest number of Covid cases, and the highest fatality rate.

Worldwide number of reported cases total 136,782,060. Top three countries with the most Covid cases and deaths as of April 12, 2021, by the numbers are:

#1 USA (pop. 332,510,877) — 31,922,097 (d. 575,851)
#2 India (pop. 1,390,530,992) — 13,527,717 (d. 170,209)
#3 Brazil (pop. 213,732,948)— 13,482,543 (d. 353,293)

Death rate percent for top three countries
USA — 0.17318260539188% or 0.17%
India — 0.012240575792934% or 0.012%
Brazil — 0.16529646145151% or 0.17%

The concerning side-effects of these vaccines up to and including death are mostly discounted by health authorities as unrelated anomalies, with rare instances of doctors, health experts and activists voicing healthy opposition to the unapproved vaxpricks.

The CDC's list of common side-effects, include tiredness, headache, muscle pain, chills, fever and nausea. However, some have been visited with more severe symptoms, like facial paralysis or bells palsy, brain blood clots, severe allergy, vasovagal syncope (fainting) pulmonary embolism, and anaphylaxis.

Polio Vaccine's historic impact

In July 1952, Salk tested his vaccine on 43 children at two Pittsburgh institutions, and later injected himself and his family.

The guinea pigs were children from the Arsenal Elementary School and the D.T. Watson Home for Crippled Children in Pittsburgh.

When a larger clinical trial commenced in the summer of 1954. The Salk vaccine clinical trial in was the biggest public health EXPERIMENT in U.S. history for it's time. It involved vast numbers of health professionals and over 1.8 million schoolchildren were volunteered by desperate parents.

Bill and Melinda Gates in Africa—vaccines that cause polio.

Polio cases today are extremely rare (no new cases had been reported in all of Africa since 2016!), but in Africa and India respectively, the UN and Indian doctors report that new cases of infantile paralysis or polio have resulted from an oral polio vaccine developed with strong support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

In 2014, the Kenyan Catholic Doctors Association became suspicious of the vaccines they were receiving from Gates and company and sent multiple batches to be tested.

Researchers discovered that the vaccines that were being administered to 2.3 million African girls were full of HCG, an antigen that causes miscarriages and sterilization.

In India, Gates Foundation backed human trials of the HPV, Cervarix and Gardisil vaccines making guinea pigs out of remote tribal children. These vaccines are for sexually transmitted diseases, which is 100% preventable if girls don’t have unprotected sex.

In Andhra Pradesh, India, the authorities say five children died immediately after receiving a Gardisil shot and many more became violently ill. In another village, two children died, and hundreds were hospitalized after receiving the HPV vaccine.

Reference: Gates vaccine spreads polio-across africa

Polio experiment gone wrong

When the accolades are written, little if anything is ever said about the 200,000 people who were injected with a tainted batch of the Salk vaccine causing 1000s of polio cases, with 200 kids left paralyzed and 10 dead.

"Today polio has almost been eradicated." —Amanda Uren (Mashable)

The Polio hysteria of the 50s is recalled with horror to this day. But it is way overshadowed by the global experiment ("The Plandemic" or "The Great Reset") that is SARS-CoV-2 of 2019-2020-2021.

Regardless of proven efficacy (these rushed vaccines are not sufficiently tested or FDA approved) — here come the "big pharma" money grab. Whether the Vaccines are effective is questionable, given the history: diseases such as measles, rubella, pertussis and scarlet fever, were all declining in numbers before the introduction of vaccines.

Why aren't natural cures ever sought, as was the case with scurvy, which is bought on by a lack of Vitamin C? We all know the answer to that.

Maybe look into why a country like Haiti, African countries (notable exception is S. Africa—site of a large Covid clinical trial), and other exceptional countries DON'T get the virus in significant numbers? Are we even seeing the reportedly significant numbers? During the lockdown—and even now—a lot of other illnesses tended to be attributed to covid, when they are not (follow the money incentives to label illnesses during lockdown as Covid). The other concerns are for the false positives, the covid vaccine causing covid in some instances, and other extenuating factors: People wonder; why are the flu numbers down so much during the flu season? One ironic (sarcastic) reason given —the flu cures covid—seems far fetched.

Interesting historical data revealed by Robert F. Kennedy of Children's Defense Fund—suggests that diseases like measles, scarlet fever, pertussis, and tuberculosis all declined before the introduction of vaccines.

"Thus, vaccination does not account for the impressive declines in mortality seen in the first half of the century."
—CDC Study 2010

"The [flu] vaccine must be changed each year, in hopes of matching the ever-mutating viruses. And that’s been a challenge. On average, it’s been 40% effective, meaning it’s prevented illness 40% of the time."
—WebMD's Debbie Koenig (Sept. 2, 2020)

Go fo yourself a favor, check out the thorough research at Global Cooperative, where they conclude that:
"Vaccines are dangerous poisons that destroy the immune system. This is simply true, based on all actual scientific and medical evidence. There is essentially no notable independent evidence (scientifically, medically, or otherwise) that suggests any valid reason to even occasionally (let alone regularly) inject the poisons known as “vaccines” into the human body. Significant numbers of independent studies (not bought and paid for by Big Pharma) are in agreement that vaccines pose many and significant dangers to health."

Herds are cattle, not people—that's the issue with the—we must "gain herd immunity" mantra. 

It's significant that now we have the beginnings of some "great awakening" in the MSM, but is 60 Minutes featuring some kind of "exposé" of their go to pandemic expert, Fauci? No, they're on the Chinese connection and ignoring any involvement by Fauci's NIH or the U.S. government.

The Hill- Lab-Leak Hypothesis Could Reveal EPIC Screwup Of US, Fauci AND China

Link: https://youtu.be/zbKll37uA5U

We knew about Fauci—Newsweek shocked U.S. with the facts a year ago! His NIH funded "gain-of-function" animal/bat viruses experiments at the Wuhan lab in China; AFTER they were outlawed in the U.S.! Turns out the U.S. was in cahoots with China: they both participate in dangerous experiments that endangered their unsuspecting citizens.

Newsweek: The Controversial Experiments and Wuhan Lab Suspected of Starting the Coronavirus Pandemic

Related: need to mention here that some of the manufacturing work that left the states for China involved work with dangerous chemicals that, when inhaled, touched or breached into the environment, can sicken and kill impoverished working people in these sweat shop factories.

This is the pattern: after they accomplish their great reset (regime change, resource war, gandsta capitalism, false flags...), then they reveal the truth behind their propagandist talking points, global shell game and Matrix hijinx. We all know the MSM is a tool of empire.

The good news: we may see this manufactured #Plandemic end soon- although they've addressed all the issues the oligarchy were looking to address:
- the retail apocalypse
- mechanization with robotic workers—CVS' cashiers are gone! They've rolled out robot driven trucks and cars.
- digital currencies—crypto: bitcoin, tokens, NFTs, app based banking from—not banks.
- normalizing mass vaccination
- massive expansion of government with the partial or complete ownership of failing private businesses
- expanded social programs (it's not all bad)
- legalizing marijuana (outlawed because a man testified to Congress that it drove negroes crazy and made white women want Black men — on God.)
....etc

As noted: there's been an exponential growth of dependence on government programs—a surveillance gold mine. The Great Reset is destined to be a celebrated success in the historical narrative of the "Ministry of Information." There's talk of infrastructure overhaul, flying cars, renewable energy, drone delivery to your door, whitey on the moon, white on mars... etc.

What we lost in the fire will be a footnote, just like the polio scare before it; put simply—the further erosion of our freedoms... we see your vaccine passports —the Neo Prison Industrial Complex.

Saturday, October 12, 2013

What to make of this U.S. "government shutdown"

Things to look for in deciphering the goals of the unity party's shutdown drama:

1) Will they allow all 800,000 "furloughed" workers to return to their "government jobs?" Over the years that term has become a perjorative. As this manufactured crises has shown, most of the anger should be directed at Legislators.

2) How is Wall Street doing? Have stocks fallen significantly? No, right? Search the net and the typical news is "Wall Street Shows Little Reaction to the Government Shutdown."




The dollar is in crisis.
U.S. military might is used  to buttress the power of the dollar.




"This system requires war." - Stan Goff




New World Order -- Small Wars, Limited War. Henry Kissinger on the record about U.S. foreign policy, July 7, 1958
What is “dollar hegemony?”

“The United States makes dollars. The rest of the world has to make things to get dollars.” -- Henry Lui (Economist)

3) What about "the debt ceiling" and it's relation to this drama? Remembering that Washington is where they print all the money, what's keeping them from paying off all they're debts? Significantly, all of the U.S.' debtors (basically all the world's major economies) are now heavily  invested in the U.S. , whose vulture capitalists control the globalized economy, with its interconnected markets. "The financial “hub” for the neoliberal world system is Wall Street. All lines go through that hub." They have a lot to lose if the U.S. defaults on its debt.

4) Supposedly, the issue for the Republicans is ObamaCare. They claim to want to "defund ObamaCare." They object to it as "government control of healthcare." They especially dislike the  "individual mandate" and "employer mandate" (delayed 1 year) insurance aspect of the new law. If the mandates remain intact it will land tons more new business for the private sector insurance companies. Republicans claim to be "the party of business," so it is counter to their ideology to kill ObamaCare, a bid to privatize healthcare.

That's the opinion of Pediatrician and "Green Cabinet" member Dr. Margaret Flowers of the Green Party. Dr. flowers thinks ObamaCare will lead to the privatization of health insurance.*

Rather than leading to government-run healthcare (like Medicare and Medicaid), ObamaCare signifies the attempt to privatize healthcare.

So the famous sign at a Tea Party rally was (inadvertently) right and not as assinine as "liberals" thought in defiantly declaring: "Get Your Government Hands off my Medicare!" The Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka ObamaCare will NOT lead to the implementation of a "public option."
Wiki: "The public health insurance option, also known as the public insurance option or the public option, was a proposal to create a government-run health insurance agency which would compete with other health insurance companies within the United States of America."
"Neoliberal theology asserts the primacy of the private, the value of small government; but neoliberal practice has been massively subsidized and legally protected from public accountability by the state. Without the state’s affirmative actions on behalf of the international business class, the system would collapse. Fast. Begin by thinking about how many battle groups from the US Navy are required to ensure the flow of fossil hydrocarbons into the industrialized metropolis, and you can extrapolate from there."

The above is excerpted from the "blog-book": Hillary's Bones - A Coup Tutorial by Stan Goff. It was posted at his now defunct blog "the Feral Scholar."

Thanks to archive.org this must read article is available online here.



Obamacare Debate: Flowers vs. Baker Economist Dean Baker and Dr. Margaret Flowers debate the merits of the Affordable Care Act -October 1, 2013



Thursday, November 27, 2008

Chavez on Fronline of Global Change

A global change agenda that gives voice to the poor and dispossessed continues to be spearheaded by Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

You would not be able to gather that if you watch the Frontline documentary about Hugo Chavez called ""The Hugo Chavez Show" which aired on PBS this week. It claimed to present "An illuminating inside view of the mercurial Venezuelan president, his rise to power, and the new kind of revolution that he seems to be inventing -- on television."

I was surprised by some of the information. Like about the oil magnate that came to the rescue of the Chavez government during a paralyzing strike staged by workers on December 2, 2003 at the national oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). This so-called "worker's strike" was actually called by the opposition after the Chavez government called for an increase in the government's share from oil profits in order to fund social programs. Venezuela is the world's fifth largest oil producer and ranks among the top four U.S. oil suppliers. The strike cut total oil imports to the U.S. by 14%.

I was not surprised by the criticism of Chavez's programs or the adversarial tone of the piece, which held out little hope for the success of the Bolivarian Revolution movement. This piece was the usual U.S. mainstream media propaganda. The role of the U.S. in the attempted coup by the Venezuelan opposition in 2002 for instance, is just a short aside that avoided mentioning the extent of U.S. involvement. The piece implies that Chavez is "obsessed" with Bush, in that he falsely attributes an imperialistic and interventionist agenda to the U.S. However, the U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice has made many statements branding Hugo Chavez a threat to hemispheric stability and implied that he must be stopped. Just this September, the U.S. ambassador was expelled by the Venezuelan government for his role in an attempted coup. No mention of this was made on the program.

One positive is that the piece acknowledges that Hugo Chavez has been a voice for the poor indigenous people of South America, that he has put their needs on the agenda whenever there is a legitimate discussion of the political priorities of the Latin American nations. This is a significant and very important change.

Hugo Chavez is well on his way to affecting real change in South America because he has eschewed the mindset that allows extreme poverty to exist in the same space as extreme wealth. Leaders of Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay officially launched the South American Bank in Buenos Aires in December 2007 to challenge the world banking system of debt and dependency which is controlled by capitalist bureaucrats at the IMF and the World Bank. The global economic crisis resulting from the U.S. economic collapse serves to confirm the need for such an alliance.

Hugo Chavez's ideals are a positive change for the poor people of Venezuela and the world. They are in the majority. The rich who enjoy most of the world's resources compromise a very small minority. The documentary's narrow exploration does not reflect the Herculean proportions of his struggle, nor credit him primarily for the global seismic shift left that has occurred in the political, social and economic life of Latin America and the world.

"The Hugo Chavez Show" producer Ofra Bikel should know that even though the revolution is televised, it is also bringing about positive change to Latin America and the world.

Monday, July 28, 2008

End the U.S. War on Haiti

The following is an article from the Haiti Action Committee Website. It expresses for me the aspirations of many Haitian activist (including myself), who are endeavoring to see Haiti regain its sovereignty and ability to be a self-sustaining, viable and thriving democracy. Haiti is a country with a proud heritage which deserves the world's respect and honor.


HAITI 2008
by Nia Imara
    “The United States is at war with Haiti. Congress has never sanctioned the war. Josephus Daniels has illegally and unjustly occupied a free foreign land and murdered its inhabitants by the thousands. He has deposed its officials and dispersed its legally elected representatives. He is carrying on a reign of terror, brow-beating, and cruelty, at the hands of southern white naval officers and marines. For more than a year this red-handed deviltry has proceeded, and today the Island is in open rebellion. The greatest single question before the parties at the next election is the Freedom of Haiti.”
        - W.E.B. Du Bois
Du Bois wrote this succinct statement in 1920, five years into the first US occupation of Haiti. Replace the words “Josephus Daniels” with “George W. Bush” or “Condoleeza Rice,” “southern white naval officers” with “United Nations,” and you have an accurate description of the crisis situation in Haiti today and of the United States’ role in instigating that crisis.

February 29, 2008 marked the fourth anniversary of the US Government’s kidnapping and subsequent exiling of democratically elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Following the kidnapping, US Marines invaded Haiti and thousands of United Nations troops soon followed in their murderous footsteps, with the express mission of perpetuating a reign of violence and destruction upon the Haitian people. During the past four years of the occupation, the US Government and the United Nations have ignored the call for Aristide’s return to Haiti; locked up thousands of political prisoners; murdered tens of thousands; and raped and brutalized tens of thousands more. All this in the name of creating stability and security.

Yet during the past four years, Haitians have fought persistently and unceasingly for their freedom. In spite and because of the daily violence of poverty; the regular harassment by the elite upon the poor; and the deficiency of education, healthcare, clean water, and jobs, Haitians have continued to fight the occupation which cultivates these crimes.

And where do we, in the US, stand after four years? Taken wholly, it seems that the American public is scarcely more just in its attitude towards Haiti than it was 88 years ago when Du Bois wrote in The Crisis. The mainstream media is certainly as racist and unfounded in their depiction of Haiti. Though maybe expressed a touch more euphemistically, Haiti is still the tiny black country that can’t get its act together and that is of no special significance to the greater concerns of the world.

But since it would be worthless to look to the corporate media for sound analysis or context, perhaps the question should be put to those of us who consider themselves progressives or on the “left.” Certainly, those that are demanding an end to the murderous US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan must also be calling, just as loudly and articulately, for an end to the US occupation of Haiti? Those that see through the US media’s demonization of Chavez and Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution must also, at the least, be suspicious of the gratuitous lies printed about Aristide and Lavalas? And those understanding that racism still informs Washington’s policy towards the great majority of the black and brown world must have some idea of what’s at stake in Haiti? But this is not the case. When it comes to Haiti, it appears that many progressives are left mystified and confused. This may be one reason why in leftist discussions concerning the United States’ patronization and exploitation of Latin America, for instance, there is rarely any mention of Haiti.

The revolt of Haitian slaves that began in 1791 and culminated in the country’s independence in 1804 directly influenced and inspired the revolts of slaves in the rest of the Americas, ultimately leading to their emancipation throughout. The Haitian revolution threatened the very foundation of American society in 1804, as in 2004. Anyone who believes that the world would be safer, healthier, and more just without the hegemony of the United States and its partners in crime will find that Haiti has long been in an especially strategic position of defiance against the reigning imperialist regimes. It just takes a little diligence in blowing away the smoke that has shrouded Haiti in obscurity and mystification.

Haiti 2008 is under occupation. Even after elections in 2006, it is not a democracy, for there can be no democracy under occupation, even if the troops are wearing blue helmets. A people’s leaders are not kidnapped or exiled, and there are no political prisoners in a democracy. Haitian human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, kidnapped last August, is still missing. Thousands of political prisoners still languish in deplorable conditions. Families living a hand-to-mouth existence are still struggling to find the means to send their children to school. And the schools that do serve the poor are still harassed by local officials who are more interested in securing Haiti for the elite than providing children with education. None of this paints the picture of a democracy. And the United States is a driving force of the current crisis in Haiti.

Nevertheless, Haiti 2008 is a place of constant struggle with dignity. By working in solidarity with the Haitian people to end the occupation, we are doing them no favor. In a small way, we are merely returning a debt to a people who continue to struggle in the legacy of their ancestors—ancestors that founded a birthplace of freedom more than half a century before the concept was even partially put into practice in the United States. Now as then, the fight for liberty in Haiti is a fight for the liberty of people the world over.