Media Manufactured Madness

A student that I used to teach made a Facebook post in which she had drawn a fine sketch of Amanda Gorman with the comment: Just cause she's amazing ❤. I'd never heard of this person so I went to the fount of all wisdom, Wikipedia, to find out more about her. 

Amanda S. C. Gorman (born 1998) is an American poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalisation, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015. In 2021, she delivered her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden. Her poem threw her in to the national spotlight and got her praise from celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Lady Gaga.

Oh dear. But wait it gets worse:

In 2020, Gorman presented "Earthrise", a poem focused on the climate crisis. Gorman read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, and is the youngest poet to read at a presidential inauguration in United States history. Jill Biden recommended her for the inauguration. After January 6, 2021, Gorman amended her poem's wording to address the storming of the United States Capitol. During the week before the inauguration, she told Washington Post book critic Ron Charles, "My hope is that my poem will represent a moment of unity for our country" and "with my words, I'll be able to speak to a new chapter and era for our nation." Soon after Gorman's performance at the inauguration, her two upcoming books, the poetry collection "The Hill We Climb" and a project for youth, "Change Sings: A Children's Anthem", were at the top of Amazon's bestseller list. Both are scheduled to be released in September 2021. A book version of the poem "The Hill We Climb" is scheduled to be released on March 16, 2021, with a foreword by Oprah Winfrey, and each of Gorman's three upcoming books will have first printings of one million copies. IMG Models and its parent company WME signed Gorman for representation in fashion, beauty, and talent endorsements.

Clearly Amanda is doing well for herself but she is clearly being marketed as the acceptable face of black activism. Here is snap from The Guardian just adding emphasis to the fact that she is a media darling. I must confess that I couldn't bring myself to read the article nor even seek out her poem. Suffice to know that she "stole the inauguration show".

This same ex-student of mine has done a more recent portrait of Greta Thunberg with the comment:

Young people like Amanda Gorman and Greta Thunberg are media manufactured to represent the acceptable face of youth activism. The marketing campaign has been successful in capturing the admiration of the youth cohort who really believe these cartoon characters offer hope for the future. For septuagenarians like myself to criticise them on Facebook would provoke a furious backlash I'm sure. I've no doubt that many would defriend me or at least write me off as a deluded curmudgeon. 

It's only other young people who might persuade them to see beyond the marketing and propaganda. Yet, I don't hold out much hope of this happening. Another of my ex-students, living in Melbourne, was unquestioning in her support of the lockdowns there and the mainstream Covid-19 narrative. One can only read with dismay articles like the Covid Vaccine Arm from a relatively young doctor writing in Psychology Today. 

When I woke up on day eight after that first vaccine shot, my right upper arm was very itchy, and a red, round lesion about two inches in diameter was at the place where I had the shot.  As my underarm felt swollen, I put my left hand under my armpit and felt an enlarged lymph node.  I had no fever, muscle ache, no other systemic symptom or rash in any other part of my body.  I was puzzled.   

However, a friend of hers (Linda) had a similar experience and she continues:  

Linda had contacted the CDC describing her symptoms. The CDC told her that her symptoms “were unlikely to represent a long-term safety concern” and were “not considered a precaution or contraindication to vaccination with the second dose.”  The CDC recommended having the second injection in the other arm. This was very reassuring.

I can only shake my head at this childlike trust in such a thoroughly corrupt institution like the CDC. This doctor, Chris Gilbert, promotes herself as "an Integrative and Holistic Medicine physician" and yet there is no questioning of the vaccine. She got her first shot and is getting ready for her second.

Consternation arises from another article in Psychology Today titled:

Repression or the Zeigarnik Effect?

My vaccination against COVID-19 released energy trapped by repressed anxiety.

This week my husband and I rejoiced after our first injection of a COVID-19 vaccine. The Governor of New York had just expanded eligibility to include Group 1b. David had secured next-day hospital appointments for both of us. Less than 36 hours later, we were inoculated. I had not expected the intensity of my relief as we drove home.

I thought about the psychology that might explain both my joy and my surprise. What accounted for the emotional intensity following the sudden reality of getting vaccinated? With my background in public health and epidemiology as well as psychology, I had known a vaccine was coming and had become comfortable with the decision to get in line as soon as it was available. Nonetheless, warned of supply shortages and complications in delivery, I had expected at least three months of delay. We got lucky.

It's not worth even mentioning the Zeigarnik Effect that she references as the woman is clearly insane. The Governor of New York that she is referring to is none other than prime scumbag Andrew Cuomo. On paper, the woman who wrote this article is no fool:

Roni Beth Tower, Ph.D., is a retired clinical, research and academic psychologist. Tower earned her B.A. in religion at Barnard, Ph.D. from Yale, and did postdoctoral work in epidemiology and public health at Yale Medical School. She taught at Yale and Columbia University (Teachers College). She authored many journal articles and chapters and the memoir Miracle at Midlife: A Transatlantic Romance. She also writes regularly for BonjourParis.com. Link.

The mass media is awash with pro-vaccination articles like these and Psychology Today seems especially egregious. The magazine also features an article from a mathematician titled Why So Many Are Gambling with Contracting Covid-19 who writes:

All I ever do say is forget the mathematics and do as the nineteenth century naïve gambler did when the stakes were high: Use your instincts. Do you seriously believe the FDA would approve a vaccine for millions of Americans without overwhelming scientific evidence of safety?

As it turns out he has little to say mathematically and his essential message is to trust the FDA, an organisation that is as corrupt as the CDC. It's apparent that most people believe unquestioningly in the efficacy of vaccines and in the integrity of organisations overseeing public health like the FDA, CDC and WHO. That's to be expected of course given the control over mainstream media.

However, these people do not want alternative views to be voiced at all. Consider this petition initiated by a nurse in Melbourne:

It's not OK to question the official narrative. Tellingly, my Facebook friend who signed this petition also had this photo displayed on her timeline:

This is a variation on the old "trust the science". Scientists, at least those given a voice on mainstream media, are smarter than you so don't worry your pretty little head about it. The logo is ironic because it is inaccurate. As I wrote in a comment to my friend's post:

This representation of an atom with electrons whizzing around a nucleus as little balls like planets around a sun is quite inaccurate. It is not possible to determine the exact positions of the electrons due to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and to try to do so in a T-shirt logo is simply promoting bad science. I'd be embarrassed to wear this T-shirt because I'd be advertising my inability to grasp science.

This same friend posted a few days ago that Margaret Court was "a vile woman" because of her politically incorrect stance on sexual minorities. The LGBTQI lobby has been enormously successful in persuading theologians that failure to support its agenda represents "bad theology". The theology is what it is and Margaret Court for one has chosen to adhere to it as Christians have done for two thousand years. The theology has become unfashionable but is Margaret Court really "a vile woman" for not following the fashion?

Facebook posts are a fertile source of examples illustrating how so many have embraced this media manufactured madness.

Inventing the AIDS Virus

Having read Peter Duesberg's book, I'm far more informed now than I used to be about the supposed link between HIV and AIDS. Like most people during the 80s and 90s, I just accepted what I read in the mainstream media at the time. The story was that  HIV=AIDS and if you were infected with HIV then it was a slow death sentence.

With the start of the new millennium, AIDS faded from prominence and was thanks to the miracle of anti-retroviral drugs like AZT. AIDS remained a problem in Africa and certain third world countries but in developed countries, HIV was on the back foot.  Thanks to these drugs, HIV-positive celebrities like Magic Johnson have survived for decades. At least that was my impression.

Now it would seem that Magic Johnson has survived by NOT taking AZT, even though publicly he claims to still be taking his anti-retroviral medication. Peter Duesberg makes it clear that people who take AZT or similar drugs do not survive for decades. He claims it is the drug treatment that kills them and not HIV. I'm inclined to agree.

In WhatsApp, I wrote a message to a friend in which I attempted to convey to him the core message of the book. I've reproduced it here:

Government money for research is much sought after and in the United States this amounts to billions of dollars. It was only with the polio virus that virologists managed to attract large grants from governments. After that, they were desperate to keep the funds flowing and so “the war on cancer” was rolled out in the 60s and the improbable search for a cancer virus was launched. The search for such a non-existent virus fizzled out in the 70s and virologists were in a real panic. They needed a new virus and for a time the swine flu fiasco during Ford’s presidency looked like it might fit the bill. Pandemic fears were stoked by the mass media and vaccinations were rushed out that killed some and sickened many. It was much ado about nothing however, and things were looking very bad for the virus hunters. Soon they would be using their own money, not the taxpayers’, for their hunting. HIV changed all that. HIV, a harmless passenger virus, was promoted as the latest scourge of humanity and grim predictions were made of massive death tolls as the virus spread into the heterosexual population and triggered an AIDS pandemic. Suddenly the virologists were awash with Government funds, HIV PCR testing became rampant and toxic drugs like AZT were rushed to market. This was the great scam of the 80s and 90s but the anticipated AIDS pandemic failed to materialise and again the virus hunters needed new viruses. Ebola and bird flu were briefly trialed but with Covid-19 the virologists really hit the jackpot. The money is pouring forth once again but only to researchers who tow the party line. My point is that the virologists and especially the retro-virologists have cleverly managed to attract the lion’s share to research funds over the past few decades and they want that to continue. The money has meant that any pretence of good science has been abandoned and most scientists whose careers rely on research funding have enough sense not to go against the flow. Any scientists that do, and there are a few, will be shunned by their colleagues and barred from publishing to any of the major scientific journals. Hence my contempt for journals like The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine and their ilk. It’s all about money and has nothing to do with health. While most scientists are well-meaning, they have no control over the direction of their research. The administrators of various labs decide this and the money will stop if they sanction studies that conflict with the agreed narrative. 

On page 123 of the book, he writes about the papilloma virus before the most-maligned vaccine on the planet, Gardasil, was shamelessly unleashed upon adolescent girls in 2006:

Nevertheless, the virus hunters continue to push for the virus-cervical cancer hypothesis, which today remains one of the most popular and widely accepted among scientists. To help rationalise away some of the paradoxes, they have even revived herpes simplex virus-2 as a cofactor for the papilloma virus-two zeroes that hardly add up. Yet the biotechnology company Digene Diagnostics, based in Maryland, has won government endorsement for its papilloma virus test. Already widely in use, the test is now recommended by medical research authorities for some seven million American women each year, although only thirteen thousand cervical cancers appear each year in this country. The test costs $30 to $150 per person. Given that a woman who tests negative today may become infected tomorrow, there is no upper limit to testing. Many research laboratories are also kept in business with NIH grants to study endlessly every detail of the papilloma virus, and thus scientists would be the last to reevaluate this virus hypothesis. Unfortunately for tens of thousands of women each year, the ongoing media publicity and the tests can have devastating psychological consequences, not to mention the damage from preventive treatments for women who may have little more than harmless warts. 

To quote from the source of all wisdom, Wikipedia states that: 

The vaccine was approved for medical use in the United States in 2006,[19][20] initially for use in females aged 9–26. In 2007, the Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices (ACIP) recommended gardasil for routine vaccination of girls aged 11 and 12 years. As of August 2009, vaccination was recommended for both males and females before adolescence and the beginning of potential sexual activity. By 2011, the vaccine had been approved in 120 other countries. In 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a nine-valent version, Gardasil 9, to protect against infection with the strains covered by the first generation of Gardasil as well as five other HPV strains responsible for 20% of cervical cancers (types 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58). In 2018, the FDA approved expanded use of Gardasil 9 for individuals aged 27 through 45 years old. 

Shockingly, the use of Gardasil has only expanded since its introduction and can now be given to males and females aged 9 to 45 but the adolescents are especially targeted despite the tragic damage it is causing to adolescent girls.

On page 145 of the book, the swine flu debacle is summarised and serves as a reminder of what is happening today:

The swine flu program, on the other hand, collapsed and could not be salvaged. Millions of people received the vaccine starting in October, although many were not told of the possible side effects. Soon, reports of hundreds of cases of paralysis began pouring in, ultimately including at least six hundred cases and seventy-four deaths. The CDC attempted to classify the victims as having died of other diseases. Ultimately, the vaccine's side effects could no longer be hidden, and the expensive scandal cost David Spencer his job as CDC chief. Ironically, the swine flu epidemic itself never materialised; only the CDC's immunisation program caused sick- ness and death.

On page 211, he writes on the statistical chicanery regarding the reporting of AIDS cases and once again the parallels to the present day situation are clear:

The increasing numbers of new AIDS cases until 1993 have largely been products of the artificial AIDS definitions. Each alteration in that definition has added, not subtracted, diseases to the diagnostic list. Every time the CDC needs higher rates of new AIDS cases, it expands that definition once again, and more diseases are reclassified into the syndrome. With the stroke of a pen an illusion of the spread of AIDS is created, prominent officials explain the revisions as products of our growing scientific knowledge, and the lay public feels reassured that federal efforts are justified or perhaps even a little too slow.

One might ask how a doctor would distinguish between an AIDS-related tuberculosis and a traditional one. Clinically, the symptoms are identical, so the CDC has stipulated in its current definition that the tuberculosis must be renamed "AIDS" if anti-bodies against HIV are also found in the patient. In the absence of previous HIV infection, the disease is classified under its old name, in this case "tuberculosis," and treated accordingly. AIDS, therefore, can never be found apart from HIV infection-entirely by definition!

The book is essential reading for anyone who is trying to make sense of what is happening as regards COVID-19. 

ADDENDUM: it seems that new antiretroviral treatments are still being peddled to HIV positive individuals as this recent post from the FDA on January 21st 2021 attests:

FDA Approves First Extended-Release, Injectable Drug

 Regimen for Adults Living with HIV

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Cabenuva (cabotegravir and rilpivirine, injectable formulation) as a complete regimen for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in adults to replace a current antiretroviral regimen in those who are virologically suppressed on a stable antiretroviral regimen with no history of treatment failure and with no known or suspected resistance to either cabotegravir or rilpivirine. This is the first FDA-approved injectable, complete regimen for HIV-infected adults that is administered once a month. 

The FDA also approved Vocabria (cabotegravir, tablet formulation), which should be taken in combination with oral rilpivirine (Edurant) for one month prior to starting treatment with Cabenuva to ensure the medications are well-tolerated before switching to the extended-release injectable formulation.

“Currently, the standard of care for patients with HIV includes patients taking daily pills to adequately manage their condition. This approval will allow some patients the option of receiving once-monthly injections in lieu of a daily oral treatment regimen,” said John Farley, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Office of Infectious Diseases in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “Having this treatment available for some patients provides an alternative for managing this chronic condition.”

The safety and efficacy of Cabenuva were established through two randomized, open-label, controlled clinical trials in 1,182 HIV-infected adults who were virologically suppressed (HIV-1 RNA less than 50 copies/milliliter) before initiation of treatment with Cabenuva. Patients in both trials continued to show virologic suppression at the conclusion of each study, and no clinically relevant change from baseline in CD4+ cell counts was observed. 

The most common adverse reactions with Cabenuva were injection site reactions, fever (pyrexia), fatigue, headache, musculoskeletal pain, nausea, sleep disorders, dizziness and rash. Cabenuva should not be used if there is a known previous hypersensitivity reaction to cabotegravir or rilpivirine, or in patients who are not virally suppressed (HIV-1 RNA greater than 50 copies/milliliter).

Cabenuva and Vocabria were granted Fast Track and Priority Review designation by the FDA. The FDA granted the approval of Cabenuva and Vocabria to ViiV Healthcare.

The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.

HIV and AIDS

I was fortunate enough to come across a Kary Mullis autobiography titled "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field". It was a short (157 page) read but very interesting. I'm going to say more about in subsequent posts but for the moment I'll focus on what he had to say about the link between HIV and AIDS. 

Kary Mullis is the inventor of the PCR test that is all the rage now in the battle against the invisible monster of Covid-19. He received the Nobel Prize for this discovery in 1993 but had developed the technique about ten years earlier. In the mid-1980s, this test was being used to identify HIV in blood samples. 

He writes:

When I first heard in 1984 that Luc Montagnier of France’s Pasteur Institute and Robert Gallo of America’s National Institutes of Health had independently discovered that the retrovirus HIV—Human Immunodeficiency Virus—caused AIDS, I accepted it as just another scientific fact. It was a little out of my field of biochemistry, and these men were specialists in retroviruses.

Four years later I was working as a consultant at Specialty Labs in Santa Monica. Specialty was trying to develop a means of using PCR to detect retroviruses in the thousands of blood donations received per day by the Red Cross. I was writing a report on our progress for the project sponsor, and I began by stating, “HIV is the probable cause of AIDS.”

I asked a virologist at Specialty where I could find the reference for HIV being the cause of AIDS.

“You don’t need a reference,” he told me. “Everybody knows it.”

“I’d like to quote a reference.” I felt a little funny about not knowing the source of such an important discovery. Everyone else seemed to.

Thus began his doubts about the link between HIV and AIDS. He never found a reference. He goes on:

I was hesitant to write “HIV is the probable cause of AIDS” until I found published evidence that would support it. Mine was the most minimal statement possible. In my grant request I wasn’t trying to say that it absolutely did cause AIDS, I was just trying to say that it was likely to cause it for some known reasons. Tens of thousands of scientists and researchers were spending billions of dollars a year doing research based on this idea. The reason had to be there somewhere, otherwise these people would not have allowed their research to settle into one narrow channel of investigation.

I lectured about PCR at innumerable meetings. Always there were people there talking about HIV. I asked them how it was that we knew that HIV was the cause of AIDS. Everyone said something. Everyone had the answer at home in the office in some drawer. They all knew and they would send me the papers as soon as they got back. But I never got any papers. Nobody ever sent me the news about how AIDS was caused by HIV.

 Kary goes on to compare the then current situation with conditions in the time of Galileo:

In 1634 Galileo was sentenced to house arrest for the last eight years of his life for writing that the Earth is not the center of the universe but rather moves around the sun. Because he insisted that scientific statements should not be a matter of religious faith, he was accused of heresy. Years from now, people looking back at us will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find the leaders who excommunicated Galileo. Science as it is practiced today in the world is largely not science at all. What people call science is probably very similar to what was called science in 1634. Galileo was told to recant his beliefs or be excommunicated. People who refuse to accept the commandments of the AIDS establishment are basically told the same thing. “If you don’t accept what we say, you’re out.”

Cut to 2021 and it's pretty much the same situation. Exchange HIV for Covid-19. Anybody in the medical establishment today faces the same problem regarding Covid-19. “If you don’t accept what we say, you’re out.” Shifting back to HIV however, the question that Kary Mullis was often asked was: "If HIV isn’t the cause of AIDS, then what is?” He replied:

The answer to that is that I don’t know the answer to that ... Knowing that there is no evidence that HIV causes it does not make me an authority on what does. It is indisputable that if an individual has extremely close contacts with a lot of people, the number of infectious organisms that this individual’s immune system is going to have to deal with will be high. If a person has three hundred sexual contacts a year—with people who themselves are each having three hundred contacts a year—that’s ninety thousand times more opportunity for infections than a person involved in an exclusive relationship.

The obvious counter to this is to ask what about those people who received HIV via a blood transfusion? These people had not necessarily been sexually promiscuous and certainly not in the case where a mother passed it on her baby at birth. The following video gives the conventional view of how HIV and AIDS are linked:

As the video explains, HIV is what is called a retrovirus and Kary Mullis says this about them in his book:

We live with an uncountable number of retroviruses. They’re everywhere—and they probably have been here as long as the human race. We have them in our genome. We get some of them from our mothers in the form of new viruses—infectious viral particles that can move from mother to foetus. We get others from both parents along with our genes. We have resident sequences in our genome that are retroviral. That means that we can and do make our own retroviral particles some of the time. Some of them may look like HIV. No one has shown that they’ve ever killed anyone before.

There’s got to be a purpose for them; a sizeable fraction of our genome is comprised of human endogenous retroviral sequences. There are those who claim that we carry useless DNA, but they’re wrong. If there is something in our genes, there’s a reason for it. We don’t let things grow on us. I have tried to put irrelevant gene sequences into things as simple as bacteria. If it doesn’t serve some purpose, the bacteria get rid of it right away. I assume that my body is at least as smart as bacteria when it comes to things like DNA.

HIV didn’t suddenly pop out of the rain forest or Haiti. It just popped into Bob Gallo’s hands at a time when he needed a new career. It has been here all along.

Once you stop looking for it only on the streets of big cities, you notice that it is thinly distributed everywhere.

If HIV has been here all along and it can be passed from mother to child, wouldn’t it make sense to test for the antibodies in the mothers of anyone who is positive to HIV, especially if that individual is not showing any signs of disease?

Picture a kid in the heartland of America. His lifelong goal has been to join the Air Force when he graduates and become a jet pilot. He’s never used drugs and he’s had the same sweet girlfriend, whom he plans to marry, all through high school. Unbeknownst to him, or anyone else, he also has antibodies to HIV, which he inherited from his mother, who is still alive, when he was in her womb.

He’s a healthy kid, it doesn’t bother him in any way, but when he is routinely tested for HIV by the Air Force, his hopes and dreams are destroyed. Not only is he barred from the Air Force, but he has a death sentence over his head.

The CDC has defined AIDS as one of more than thirty diseases accompanied by a positive result on a test that detects antibodies to HIV. But those same diseases are not defined as AIDS cases when the antibodies are not detected. 

If an HIV-positive woman develops uterine cancer, for example, she is considered to have AIDS. If she is not HIV-positive, she simply has uterine cancer. An HIV-positive man with tuberculosis has AIDS; if he tests negative he simply has tuberculosis. If he lives in Kenya or Colombia, where the test for HIV antibodies is too expensive, he is simply presumed to have the antibodies and therefore AIDS, and therefore he can be treated in the World Health Organization’s clinic.

It’s the only medical help available in some places. And it’s free, because the countries that support the WHO are worried about AIDS. From the point of view of spreading medical facilities into areas where poor people live, AIDS has been a boon. We don’t poison them with AZT like we do our own people because it’s too expensive. We supply dressings for the machete cut on their left knee and call it AIDS.

The CDC continues to add new diseases to the grand AIDS definition. The CDC has virtually doctored the books to make it appear as if the disease continues to spread. In 1993, for example, the CDC enormously broadened its AIDS definition. This was happily accepted by county health authorities, who receive $2,500 from the feds per year under the Ryan White Act for every reported AIDS case.

What I've highlighted in bold seems to be the crux of the matter and is worth repeating:

The CDC has defined AIDS as one of more than thirty diseases accompanied by a positive result on a test that detects antibodies to HIV. But those same diseases are not defined as AIDS cases when the antibodies are not detected.

The CDC continues to add new diseases to the grand AIDS definition. In the video linked to in this post, it's stated that HIV has a latency period of up to eight years. Anybody who has tested positive for HIV and who dies of one of the thirty certain diseases during that time is said to have died of AIDS. This is no different to the situation at the moment where someone who dies of some illness, after having being tested positive for Covid-19, is said to have died from the virus. It all comes down to how deaths are recorded.

The other issue is the anti-retroviral drugs like AZT that are used to treat HIV. I came across an interesting article about Magic Johnson who was diagnosed with HIV in 1991. He apparently has been taking these drugs for many years which is given as the reason for his continued survival:

The answer to Johnson's survival is far from "magic." According to reports, he takes the same kinds of drugs that are available to other HIV patients in the developed world, and increasingly in impoverished nations in Africa and Asia, where the disease still runs rampant. Many people have lived with HIV even longer than Johnson.

"There is nothing unique about Magic," said Spencer Lieb, senior epidemiologist and HIV/AIDS research coordinator for the Florida Consortium for HIV/AIDS Research. "There are still people alive and kicking and doing very well 20 and 30 years after infection." [Does Circumcision Prevent HIV?]

Lieb said that in the state of Florida alone, hundreds of patients have hung on since becoming infected with HIV in the early 1980s, when the first confirmed AIDS cases turned up in the United States. But Johnson and these people are still in the minority: According to research and estimates by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1.2 million Americans have HIV, and 20 percent of them are undiagnosed. Approximately 50,000 people become infected each year, and more than 18,000 die annually.

Hmmm, "research and estimates by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention". Intriguingly, the article goes on to say this:

Yet even without modern drugs, in rare instances an HIV-positive person can manage on their own to keep AIDS at bay. These "long-term nonprogressors" or "elite controllers," estimated at as few as one in 500, have lived for decades with HIV, despite not being on antiretroviral therapy.

So about 0.02% are "long-term nonprogressors" or "elite controllers" if we believe these statistics. The remaining 99.98% go on to die if they don't get treatment. Some "victims" have chosen not to accept this death sentence. Christine Maggiore was one such person. She wrote a best-selling book called "What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?" after being diagnosed with HIV in 1992. She died at age 52 in 2008 with what Wikipedia described as AIDS-like symptoms but more controversially her three year old daughter died of pneumonia after having been breastfed as an infant.

There is a video from around 2002 on BitChute in which Christine Maggiore makes an appearance along with Kary Mullis and Peter Duesberg. In his autobiography, Kary Mullis says that it was after listening to a radio interview featuring Peter Duesberg that he understood why there was no evidence supporting the link between HIV and AIDS. The term for people who refuse to accept the link is AIDS denialist. Peter Duesberg is still alive and aged 84 at the time of this post.

I've managed to locate a copy of Peter Duesberg's 1996 "Inventing The AIDS Virus" with a foreward by Kary Mullis. It should be an informative read. AIDS denialism is branded as pseudoscience and yet the views of distinguished scientists like Mullis and Duesberg are an embarrassment to the scientific establishment.

Switch and Bait

Probably the most unsettling video that I've watched recently is the following that I came across in an article by Silviu "Silview" Costinescu on this site that began with the heading:

YES, THEY CAN VACCINATE US THROUGH NASAL TEST SWABS AND TARGET THE BRAIN

Her article, dated November 26th 2020, goes on to say:

I don’t know if they do it, because no independent researchers examine those swabs, but I have always pointed out that our overlords seem more concerned with testing than with vaccinating. Almost like the vaccines were the bait and tests were the switch. And now we also know they totally CAN do that.

She has a very persuasive graphic that she obtained from an article on this site dated November 5th 2020. See Figure 1.

Figure 1

The theragrippers referred to are shown in Figure 2:

Figure 2

These devices could burrow into the brain as well as gastrointestinal tract of course. Silview goes on to quote a much earlier medical article from December 13th 2008 titled:

NANOPARTICLES FOR NASAL VACCINATION

The abstract states:

The great interest in mucosal vaccine delivery arises from the fact that mucosal surfaces represent the major site of entry for many pathogens. Among other mucosal sites, nasal delivery is especially attractive for immunization, as the nasal epithelium is characterized by relatively high permeability, low enzymatic activity and by the presence of an important number of immunocompetent cells. In addition to these advantageous characteristics, the nasal route could offer simplified and more cost-effective protocols for vaccination with improved patient compliance. The use of nanocarriers provides a suitable way for the nasal delivery of antigenic molecules. Besides improved protection and facilitated transport of the antigen, nanoparticulate delivery systems could also provide more effective antigen recognition by immune cells. These represent key factors in the optimal processing and presentation of the antigen, and therefore in the subsequent development of a suitable immune response. In this sense, the design of optimized vaccine nanocarriers offers a promising way for nasal mucosal vaccination.

In the light of this article and the video above, this T-shirt logo is pretty accurate:

Mindfunk: Source

This is all very disturbing and makes perfect sense, explaining the obsession with testing. Let's finish with her earlier words:

Almost like the vaccines were the bait and tests were the switch.

Pakistan in the Dark

 I quote from a news item in that useless rag called the Brisbane Times on January 10th 2021: 

Massive power outage leaves Pakistan in the dark 

Islamabad: A major technical fault in Pakistan's power generation and distribution system caused a massive power outage that plunged the country into darkness overnight, the energy minister said. Hours after the late Saturday outage, Energy Minister Omar Ayub said on Twitter that power was being restored in phases, starting with Islamabad. He said later on Sunday that power had been restored to much of the country.The blackout was initially reported on social media by residents of major urban centers, including Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Multan. The minister and his spokesman then took to Twitter to update the country. Ayub urged people to be patient. He said the cause of the cause of the power outage was being investigated and work was being done to fire up Pakistan's main Tarbela power station in the northwest, which would lead to a restoration of power in the rest of the country in phases. Ayub said in a news conference on Sunday that the Guddu power plant in southern Sindh province developed a fault at 11.41pm that triggered the shutdown of other power plants in seconds. Later, Zafar Yab, spokesman for the Ministry of Energy, said the Tarbela and Warsak plants, both in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, had come back online and power was being restored to the transmission system. Yab said restoration of power to all areas of the country would take some time, however.

Now let's combine that with an article from November 2020 in the Middle East Eye:

Pakistan under pressure to recognise Israel, says Imran Khan

Prime minister says United States and other countries 
ramping up pressure following Israel's deals with UAE and Bahrain

Pakistan is under pressure from the US and other countries to normalise ties with Israel, Prime Minister Imran Khan said, but insisted Islamabad will not open up relations with the "Zionists". Cash-strapped Pakistan relies on the support of Gulf Arab states, particularly Saudi Arabia, who have been overtly and covertly building ties to Israel in recent years. In September, the UAE and Bahrain signed a US-brokered normalisation agreement with Israel, and have been rapidly building ties since. Sudan last month became the latest Arab or Islamic country to follow suit after heavy pressure from Abu Dhabi and Washington. Last week, Khan revealed that Pakistan, too, was being pressed to recognise Israel. Khan told local media "Israel's deep influence in the US" was behind the pressure. "This influence was in fact extraordinary during the Trump stint," he said. When asked if Muslim countries were also applying pressure, Khan said: "There are things we cannot say. We have good relations with them. "I have no second thought about recognising Israel unless there is a just settlement, which satisfies Palestine," he added. In September 2019, Middle East Eye reported Imran Khan saying that "Pakistan has a very straightforward position. It was our founder of Pakistan Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah who was very clear that there has to be just settlement, a homeland for Palestinians before Pakistan can recognise Israel." He reiterated his position this week, adding that "Islamabad would continue to follow in Jinnah's footsteps vis-a-vis Palestine." Commenting on the policy of the US President-elect Joe Biden regarding issues of Palestine and Afghanistan, Khan said: "Afghanistan is not the real issue. The real issue is Israel. It is to be seen how Biden deals with that. Whether he changes Trump's policies about Israel or continues with them." Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, sent a thankful letter to Khan following his comments. "We highly appreciate your adherence to your positions in support of the Palestinian people to obtain their legitimate rights," Abbas wrote.

So what's the connection between these two articles? Electricity is a critical component of a country's infrastructure. If that supply fails nationally, as has happened in Pakistan, then that country has problems. Russia, China and Iran are widely regarded as being the source of most cyberattacks but Israel leads the world in terms of cybersecurity. Hacking and cybersecurity are two sides of the same coin. With the Stuxnet virus that destroyed Iran's centrifuges that were being used in its nuclear energy program, Israel showed its hacking prowess. That was in 2010. Israel has come a long way since then and can impose cyber-insecurity on any country that gets in the way of what it wants.

What Israel wants of course in recognition and it's getting that with the Gulf States but Pakistan is holding out, along with many other countries. Could this blackout be a warning to Pakistan from Israel? There may be no link at all but it will be interesting to see if Imran Khan softens his position in the coming year on recognition of Israel.

The following article from The News (August 22nd 2020) contains information about countries that don't recognise Israel:

30 countries, including Pakistan, still do not recognise Israel

LAHORE: Although 163 of the 193 United Nations member states recognize Israel, there are 30 countries, including Pakistan, which still do not enjoy diplomatic relations with this Zionist state which was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1517. The Ottoman Empire kept ruling over Israel for 400 years till 1917, when the British finally conquered it. The Jewish State of Israel was finally proclaimed under the British Mandate for Palestine in 1948. Following the Washington DC-brokered deal between the UAE and Israel to normalise relations on August 13 this year, Prime Minister Imran Khan had also gone on to flash headlines globally by categorically stating that his country would not recognise Israel until there was a Palestinian state acceptable to the Palestinians. Having a GDP of $387.72 billion, Israel maintains full diplomatic relations with two of its Arab neighbours, Egypt and Jordan, having signed the peace treaties in 1979 and 1994 respectively. The countries that do not recognise Israel include Pakistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Mali, Niger, Bhutan, Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela. The passports of some countries are not valid for travel to Israel. These include Pakistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Iran and Iraq. Some 14 world countries do not accept Israeli passports. These are Pakistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. A week or so ago, the United Arab Emirates was also featuring on this list.

(References: The Jewish Virtual Library, the Daily Haaretz of Israel, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post and Al-Jazeera Television etc)

The Cutter Incident

With the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine worldwide, it's timely to recall the so-called Cutter Incident that I became aware of today when watching the initial two episodes of 1986: The Act that are available for free. To watch the entire film costs $9.99 but it's money spent in a good cause because these types of movies that question the safety of vaccines are never going to feature on Amazon Prime, Netflix or any similar platforms.

The movie is promoted as: 

Man and microbe, from Polio to COVID19... a never more relevant forensic examination of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and its consequences. What happens when an ancient wisdom – a mother’s intuition - is pitted against powerful interests in a race against time?

And yes, the Andy J Wakefield, who directed the movie (and also Vaxxed), happens to be the much maligned doctor who dared to link vaccines with autism. An unforgiveable sin. To quote from the site:

One of the most controversial, misrepresented figures of recent times, Dr. Andrew Wakefield has been maligned in Wikipedia, the press, science journals and other mainstream outlets - all stemming from his challenge to claims that MMR vaccine is safe. In doing so, he has threatened one of the most powerful corporate cabals in history. 

The British medical establishment deregistered him in 2010. The mainstream media continue to denigrate Wakefield at every opportunity, depicting him as the arch-villain who has single-handedly undermined confidence in vaccines around the world. Thankfully, he has had the courage of his convictions and refuses to be cowed by the vitriol. This July 2018 article in The Guardian is typical of the sort of press he gets. It's titled:

How disgraced anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield was embraced by Trump's America

I managed to find a 2005 book specifically written about the Cutter Incident. The book's title is THE CUTTER INCIDENT: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis and its author is Paul A. Offit, M.D. It should be an interesting read but it's interesting how even I, who have been skeptical of vaccines for several years now, hadn't heard of it. I knew that the polio vaccine that I'd received as a child in the late 50's had been contaminated with a simian tumour-causing virus. 

Review of Book: January 11th 2021

Here is what I wrote in GoodReads:

The book, written in 2005 by a doctor who is very much pro-vaccines, nonetheless lays bare the awful catastrophe that unfolded in the United States in 1955 when over four hundred thousand people, mostly children, were injected with a polio vaccine. The vaccine should have contained only killed virus but instead it contained, alive and well, the most virulent of all the polio strains. It shows how dangerous vaccines can be and how cautious we should be allowing ourselves and our children to be injected with them. The book is a timely read in light of the rolling out of the experimental and untested Covid-19 vaccines around the world.

I must add that the author shows no concern for the thousands of monkeys on which the vaccine was tested. Primate testing continues unabated to this day. Back in the 1950's inmates of institutions for the mentally retarded were also made guinea pigs. Primate farms are big business of course and I should make a future post on this topic. 

World Economic Forum

It seems that the World Economic Forum has its tentacles into every aspect of our lives. Figure 1 shows the "platforms" that it's involved with.

Figure 1

Apart from this, the WEF supports various initiatives such as the #ShapePRIDE Summit that took place in June of 2020 in support of the LGBTQI community. The Summit introduced a neologism allyship, defined as:

Allyship is an active, sincere and lifelong commitment to a marginalised group in the fight against all forms of oppression. It may be easier to hang a rainbow flag or post a picture from a Pride parade to show your queer friends you celebrate them. But there is actual work required to truly earn the status of an ally.

The site goes on to say what allyship involves:

As queer people live every single day in their queer identities, allies could strive to also make their allyship a daily commitment. This means shutting down homophobic or transphobic rhetoric even when passed as jokes among friends. It means taking the time to educate your ignorant friends and family members on the need to respect LGBQTI identities. It means standing up for LGBTQI persons when they are harassed, victimised or attacked. It means refusing to support businesses that disrespect and abuse queer people. It means withdrawing support from politicians linked to anti-LGBTQI policies.

It means respecting people’s pronouns and how they have chosen to identify. It means pushing for policies that protect LGBTQI people in your workplace. It could also mean something as simple as recommending literature focusing on queer people to your book club; or making your place of worship welcoming to people of all sexual orientations and gender identities; or demanding that the school makes its curriculum and facilities inclusive to trans children. 

Figure 2

The illustrate what being an ally involves the site gives the example of a Dr. Lathan:

In 2017, Dr. Corinna E. Lathan’s 10-year-old child came out to her – not as the gay son she had previously assumed, but as a transgender girl. With no way of conceptualising her daughter’s newly revealed identity, Dr. Lathan had to find the right way to nurture and continue to affirm her daughter. Her family embarked on a learning journey to care for their daughter and allow her room for self-determination. “It is not enough to love my child. Most parents love their children. That’s not enough. They need to know that we have their backs. That’s what being an ally is to me as a parent,” Dr. Lathan notes.

Here's part of the good doctor's resumé:

Dr. Corinna Lathan is CEO and founder of AnthroTronix, Inc., a biomedical engineering research and development company creating innovative products in digital health, wearable technology, robotics, and augmented reality.

Dr. Lathan has served as principal investigator on multiple grants from funding agencies such as DARPA, NASA, NIH, and NSF. Most recently, Dr. Lathan led the AnthroTronix team to develop DANA™, an FDA-cleared, mobile digital health software platform for the Department of Defense as a deployed diagnostic support to evaluate cognitive function during treatment for depression, brain injury, and post-traumatic stress. For this work, she was named a 2017 Woman to Watch by Disruptive Women in Health Care.

Dr. Lathan is founding co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Human Enhancement and is a thought leader on technology trends that impact health and health care. Dr. Lathan has been featured in Forbes, Time, and the New Yorker magazines, and her work has led to such distinctions as Maryland’s “Top Innovator of the Year,” MIT Technology Review magazine’s “Top 100 World Innovators,” and one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People in Business.” Dr. Lathan was named a Technology Pioneer and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and served as chair of their Global Agenda Council for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

Dr. Lathan serves as a director of PTC, Inc., a global technology provider of Internet of Things (IoT) and Augmented Reality platforms, and is a member of the audit committee. She also serves as a director of the non-profit boards Engineering World Health and the KID-Museum, and she is on the advisory board of the Smithsonian Institute’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.

Before founding AnthroTronix, Dr. Lathan was an associate professor of biomedical engineering at The Catholic University of America and an adjunct associate professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Lathan received her BA in biopsychology and mathematics from Swarthmore College, and an MS in aeronautics and astronautics and PhD in neuroscience from MIT.

I started this post with the intent of focussing on the WEF in general. I've shifted to a more personal focus because I'm reminded that the rank and file of the WEF is made up of seemingly well-intentioned, intelligent, motivated people like Dr. Lathan. I'm sure she sees herself as a good mother by supporting her child's sexual identification. Seeing a dark side to the LGBQTI agenda would be inconceivable to her.

To quote Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the former Prime Minister of Iceland and the first openly LGBT head of state:

“It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.” 

Grand rhetoric as human freedom and human rights are crushed under the jackboot of governmental responses to the scamdemic. Most likely, Dr. Lathan and the former Icelandic Prime Minister fully support current measures and will line up for their vaccinations when they becomes available. 

Let's return to Figure 1 and focus on just one platform: Shaping the Future of Mobility. Autonomous vehicles moving around megacities is the vision. No more private ownership of vehicles, at least not for the hoi-polloi. Travel restrictions of course will apply to people whose social credit scores are not sufficiently high. All such travel will be logged. Movement beyond the city limits will be difficult even for those with high social credit scores. Visiting the countryside will involve the risk of infection by pathogens such as wild strains of bird flu and will require quarantine on return to the urban environment. All of these measures will be designed to preserve human freedom and human rights.

The WEF website goes into some detail on this topic and links lead to articles on various topics such as this one on MaaS, Mobility as a Service:

Mobility as a service (MaaS) is an attractive form of public transportation that offers a variety of benefits. Enticing consumers to abandon their private cars, however, will be tricky.

To read these articles I needed to register which I've done under the name of Bob Builder. While it may be tricky to entice consumers to abandon their private cars, rest assured it will be accomplished by fair means and foul because that is what the vision is. It's part of the agenda.

Whether it be our attitude to sexuality or our attitude to personal mobility, all our attitudes are being shaped so as to undermine our freedom and rights. The world is now full of queer and non-queer people, to use LGTB terminology, and each group must be afforded equal rights and opportunities. Once you accept this dichotomy, you are in the divide and conquer game. One side is pitted against the other. Climate alarmist versus climate skeptic and later car owners versus those who don't own a car. The divisions distract us from the broader agenda that the Global Elite is rolling out. Under the pretext of protecting our rights and freedom, these very rights and freedoms are being eroded.