Beyond the Zika Freakout

In this post, I've included a timely video that discusses the media hype surrounding the Zika virus, the latest virus in a long list of nasties that generate a level of concern not commensurate with the actual damage caused. It would be naive in the extreme to believe that international bodies such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) are concerned with the welfare of humanity or that they care about YOU. Any pronouncements by WHO and similar organisations, either national or international, about Zika or any other virus should be treated with skepticism. 

Ask yourself: what is the hidden agenda? In every case, Big Pharma certainly profits from marketing vaccines that governments then push onto largely unsuspecting publics, aided by propaganda from main stream media (MSM) outlets. From a broader perspective however, these scare campaigns generate a sense that the world is a dangerous place where potentially devastating microorganisms lurk in the shadows waiting their time to mutate, propagate and depopulate. Are bird flu, Ebola, Zika etc. just trial runs for the "big one" that is being deliberately bio-engineered, will be covertly disseminated and, because of its lethality, used as justification for mandatory, emergency vaccination of "the herd". 

Racing against the clock, brave scientists will develop this emergency vaccine but have no time to conduct thorough safety checks. Tragically, its effect of the concocted vaccine proves far more lethal than the concocted virus it is meant to combat. The herd of humanity is catastrophically culled from 7 billion to well under 1 billion. Of course, those in the know, receive a different vaccine that is harmless and nearly all of them survive whereas the bulk of humanity perishes. Life goes on, for some. Is this insane speculation? Maybe, but remember the world is run by psychopaths who would not lose a night's sleep over such a cull. In fact, they would probably sleep more soundly, believing that the world was a better place as a result.

Here is the video:

Steemit

An interesting alternative to mainstream social media that makes use of blockchain technology is steemit and I've linked a James Corbett YouTube video that explains a little about it. I've signed up but have yet to submit a story or even vote on a story that someone else has submitted.

I've also added the logo that the site uses. It will be interesting to follow how this site fares because alternative viewpoints are being increasingly suppressed on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc. I can help a little by posting some content of my own and voting on content that is uploaded. In fact, I've just done this so I'm up and running. I've upvoted a post by a mathematics teacher and added a comment of my own. My username on Steemit is voodooguru.

The Hidden Agenda Behind Free Trade Agreements

Robert Reich's résumé seems to put him firmly in the camp of mainstream economists:

Robert Reich, one of the nation’s leading experts on work and the economy, is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Time Magazine has named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written 13 books, including his latest best-seller, “Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future;” “The Work of Nations,” which has been translated into 22 languages; and his newest, an e-book, “Beyond Outrage.” His syndicated columns, television appearances, and public radio commentaries reach millions of people each week. He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, and Chairman of the citizen’s group Common Cause. His new movie "Inequality for All" is in Theaters. His widely-read blog can be found at www.robertreich.org.

In spite of that, what he says here in SALON on March 16th 2016 echoes precisely what David Icke was talking about in a recent YouTube post.

Here is what Robert Reich had to say. I've highlighted some of the text:

Trade agreements are simply ravaging the middle class

I used to believe in trade agreements. That was before the wages of most Americans stagnated and a relative few at the top captured just about all the economic gains.

The old-style trade agreements of the 1960s and 1970s increased worldwide demand for products made by American workers, and thereby helped push up American wages.

The new-style agreements increase worldwide demand for products made by American corporations all over the world, enhancing corporate and financial profits but keeping American wages down.

The fact is, recent trade deals are less about trade and more about global investment.

Big American corporations no longer make many products in the United States for export abroad. Most of what they sell abroad they make abroad.

The biggest things they “export” are ideas, designs, franchises, brands, engineering solutions, instructions, and software, coming from a relatively small group of managers, designers, and researchers in the U.S.

The Apple iPhone is assembled in China from components made in Japan, Singapore, and a half-dozen other locales. The only things coming from the U.S. are designs and instructions from a handful of engineers and managers in California.

Apple even stows most of its profits outside the U.S. so it doesn’t have to pay American taxes on them.

Recent “trade” deals have been wins for big corporations and Wall Street, along with their executives and major shareholders, because they get better direct access to foreign markets and billions of consumers.

They also get better protection for their intellectual property – patents, trademarks, and copyrights – and for their overseas factories, equipment, and financial assets.

That’s why big corporations and Wall Street are so enthusiastic about the Trans Pacific Partnership – the giant deal among countries responsible for 40 percent of the global economy.

That deal would give giant corporations even more patent protection overseas. And it would allow them to challenge any nation’s health, safety, and environmental laws that stand in the way of their profits – including our own.
But recent trade deals haven’t been wins for most Americans.

By making it easier for American corporations to make things abroad, the deals have reduced the bargaining power of American workers to get better wages here.

The Trans Pacific Trade Partnership’s investor protections will make it safer for firms to relocate abroad – the Cato Institute describes such protections as “lowering the risk premium” on offshoring – thereby further reducing corporate incentives to make and do things in the United States, using and upgrading the skills of Americans.

Proponents say giant deals like the TPP are good for the growth of the United States economy. But that argument begs the question of whose growth they’re talking about.

Almost all the growth goes to the richest 1 percent. The rest of us can buy some products cheaper than before, but most of those gains would are offset by wage losses.

In theory, the winners could fully compensate the losers and still come out ahead. But the winners don’t compensate the losers.

For example, it’s ironic that the Administration is teaming up with congressional Republicans to enact the TPP, when congressional Republicans have done just about everything they can to keep down the wages of most Americans.

They’ve refused to raise the minimum wage (whose inflation-adjusted value is now almost 25 percent lower than it was in 1968), expand unemployment benefits, invest in job training, enlarge the Earned Income Tax Credit, improve the nation’s infrastructure, or expand access to public higher education.

They’ve embraced budget austerity that has slowed job and wage growth. And they’ve continued to push “trickle-down” economics – keeping tax rates low for America’s richest, protecting their tax loopholes, and fighting off any attempt to raise taxes on wealthy inheritances to their level before 2000.

I’ve seen first-hand how effective Wall Street and big corporations are at wielding influence – using lobbyists, campaign donations, and subtle promises of future jobs to get the global deals they want.

Global deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership will boost the profits of Wall Street and big corporations, and make the richest 1 percent even richer. But they’ll contribute the to steady shrinkage of the American middle class.

New Polio Vaccine

I read today on the BBC news site that a new polio vaccine is being pushed out to a waiting world. Here is the article in its entirety:

Vaccine switched in 'milestone'
towards ending polio

By Jane Dreaper

Health correspondent, BBC News 

More than 150 countries have begun switching to a different polio vaccine - an important milestone towards polio eradication, health campaigners say. The new vaccine will target the two remaining strains of the virus under a switchover 18 months in the planning.There were just 74 cases of the paralysing disease in 2015 and there have been 10 so far this year. All of the cases were in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Africa has been free of polio for more than a year. 

Switching the vaccine from one successfully used to fight polio for more than 30 years is a huge logistical exercise. Thousands of people will monitor the changeover in 155 countries during the next fortnight.It is taking effect mainly in developing countries, but also in richer ones such as Russia and Mexico. 

The new vaccine will still be given as drops in the mouth, so healthcare workers will not need fresh training. It will no longer include a weakened version of type 2 polio virus, which was eradicated in 1999.
Dr Stephen Cochi, from the US-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC), said: "The current vaccine contains live weakened virus relating to three types of polio. "But we don't need the type 2 component, as it's not in the world any longer. "And in very rare cases it can mutate and lead to polio, through what's called circulating vaccine-derived virus. "So removing type 2 from the vaccine takes away that risk - and ensures we have a vaccine which will work better dose by dose." 

Polio, or poliomyelitis, mainly affects children aged under fiveIt is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hoursInitial symptoms include fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness of the neck and pains in the limbs. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis. Among those paralysed, 5% to 10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilised Today, only two countries - Afghanistan and Pakistan - remain polio-endemic, down from more than 125 in 1988. Source: World Health Organisation 

The planning involved in the switchover has included dealing with a global stockpile of 100 million doses of vaccine targeting just type 2, built up as an insurance policy in case of any outbreak. The World Health Organization denied some media reports that "millions" of doses of the old vaccine would need to be destroyed, by incineration or other approved means. Its director of polio eradication, Michel Zaffran, said: "Some will need to be destroyed - but this will be a few vials, not trucks full of vaccine. "This has been carefully planned because of the huge amount of resources, so countries have been using up the old vaccine, to minimise leftover quantities. "We're closer than ever to ending polio worldwide, which is why we are able to move forward with the largest and fastest globally synchronised vaccine switchover."

In a remarkable admission, the CDC doctor admits that the previously used vaccine could cause polio. He says: But we don't need the type 2 component, as it's not in the world any longer. And in very rare cases it can mutate and lead to polio, through what's called circulating vaccine-derived virus. So removing type 2 from the vaccine takes away that risk - and ensures we have a vaccine which will work better dose by dose." 

In very rare cases it can mutate and lead to polio? Polio itself is very rare: 74 cases in a world population of over 7 billion people. Is the chance of mutation less than this? If a mutation that led to cancer occurred in only one out of a million people, that would mean 7000 cases worldwide if everyone was inoculated. However, no quantitative estimate is given and so we just don't know.

However, we can be consoled by the fact that the other types of live virus don't carry the possibility of this mutation. Yeah, sure. Note that the viruses are not inactivated but live and are being rolled out to developing countries but also richer ones such as Mexico and Russia. This huge, logistical exercise is being carried out for a disease which infected just 74 persons in 2015? Is there more to this rollout? Is this the beginning of the implementation of the global depopulation agenda? 

Another article that appeared in the Medical press states that WHO has warned that the live polio virus used in some vaccines is one of the biggest obstacles to eradicating the disease. It is the trivalent vaccine that is being referred to here and the reason for the change to the new bivalent vaccine seems to be that the former has been responsible for the actual spread of polio via faecal-contaminated water.

Meanwhile, I came across this excellent video on YouTube about the polio vaccine. The video is two years old but in it the creator warns about the very problem that WHO has now admitted to.